Peter Whelan

I know if I was a guard, where I'd go, I'd go to the elderly person who's been broken into.

So I can understand they're stretched.

So let's look at the positives.

Aaron, we need more people in the community like Aaron, working with the people.

And by the way, I'm in County Mead and we have our own problems.

And there were shootings out in Drogheda, which is just, I'm between Drogheda, you know, on the borders of Lowd and Mead.

We had shootings and we had criminal warfare between gangs, drug gangs.

It's every pocket of every little community in this country.

And I don't want Ballymun to be pushed in.

I want to give the good side of Ballymun here.

I'm part of that good side of Ballymun.

And I believe strongly and I want to promote Ballymun.

And that's why I'm there passionately.

I'm involved in the Ballymun for Business group.

We're doing a lot of background work that an awful lot of people are not talking about here.

I want to make people... Now, the funds could be... The regeneration funds.

The flats in Ballymun were knocked down in my lifetime.

As a young man, I went with a neighbour of mine in a van.

We used to go around different factories in Dublin.

And his brother lived in the flats in Ballymun.