Rex Ryan

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.

So that sort of stuck with me for the longest time.

And then fast forward to around that time, I was trying to write plays about my old mates.

That's what I wanted.

And I was working on that.

And that would have taken in Summer Hill and places like this.

Then the feud happened and I thought, how can this happen in Dublin?

And then it was even more resonant with me because it was happening to people that I had known or known of.

back in the day not being friends with but I'd been I'd seen these people so you know we were chatting a little bit about Goodfellas earlier we all watch Goodfellas Breaking Bad we love The Godfather and that it took the longest time but that feud rammed home to me that when a bullet goes through your head that's real and it's not sexy and it's a tragedy and that that's what touched me and that was the impetus to to find Gerard

and start the process of trying to tell the story, that story.

Yeah.

I went about some investigating about how to get on to him.

Obviously, very difficult when someone's in prison.