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Because, Rebecca, I'm 80, as I said.
We went out in the 80s.
And I was personally the one that started it.
concerned parents against drugs in Finglas.
Because I had three sons of an age, 13 and 14, that weren't getting involved.
I don't mean were involved, but the temptation was there.
So we had to do something.
The police cannot walk around anywhere like that anymore.
You know, you have to get up, get out.
Not everyone is doing that, Alan.
Yeah, so again, going back to my point I said earlier, like go out to Ballymun, seeing this Christmas morning, and there's gangs of them flying up and down the road on swamplers.
Like to me, if you're going to let your child on a swampler,
that kind of says a lot about how much you care about your kids.
It was brand new, it was.
Well, again, as I said, it started for us when we moved in, we all had babies.
you know, obviously two or three children.
So they were all little babies and then they grew up and we had more children and they were all out in this playing and all this carrying on.
But as they got older, that's when we'd say in our day now, in the 80s, it started with drinking.
But then it went from the drinking in the fields, like the out in the fields drinking.