Rex Ryan

I don't know... I don't know...

I don't know why, but it seemed to never be a factor.

Now, I grew up in a family where there were a lot of interesting cats coming through, you know?

So things that some people might consider outrageous were not.

And I think, I hope, I was raised to have understanding and also to not judge people

by what other people tell you, specifically the media.

I was really aware and not being involved, I was surprised how much it was on my mind and it affected me.

I thought it was a tragedy and I thought it was outrageous.

It was at a time in my life, Niall, I suppose, for the crime world audience, they won't know maybe a lot of them, but I run a theatre and I'm a writer and an actor and a director, mostly in the theatre.

So I'd been working in the theatre at that point for about six, seven years.

I'd staged a lot of plays, acted all over here in Dublin, Ireland and Europe.

And I'd written and created a lot of things.

And I had my own theatre at that point that I was working on.

So I was in a point personally where I wanted to, as a writer, try and tell stories that actually got real people into the theatre, not just theatre folks.

So I was working on Dublin stories, just happened to be at that time.

I was working on, I had a lot of mates from East Wall growing up and Sheriff Street.

And I brought them into Clontarf and they ran riot.

But I had a strange mix of growing up between being with the poshest, richest people in St.

Michael's College.

And then I had my mates in East Wall and Sheriff Street and Fairview and all those places where we'd hang around on the weekends.