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Its July 2014- and Gilligan emerges from behind the open gates of Mosney Open Prison For Drug Dealers And Former TD's.
Awaiting the now 68-year-old drug lord after two decades behind bars is Ireland of 2014.
Smoking has been banned for almost 10 years following the great Pub Wars of 2004- when barmen, punters and Garda fought pitched battles outside hostelries throughout the land.
Drinking alcohol in a public house has also been outlawed- along with cursing and talking to members of the opposite sex to whom you are not legally married. As John Gilligan goes in search of his first pint in 12 years, he can only find bars full of miserable punters, slumped over de-caff Guinness Light underneath big portraits of Mickey "big brother" McDowell.
The trip back into Dublin City Centre is made difficult by ongoing LUAS works and the four mile long collapsed trench that was the Dublin Port Tunnel. But Transport Minister Seamus Brennan Jnr is still vowing to "finish the work his dad started"
Cigarettes may have been outlawed years ago but spamspamspam is now fully legalised- as long as you don't mix it with evil tobacco. A new generation of drug lords have reacted accordingly- and the street value of smuggled Nicorette patches has soared past the EUR60 mark.
Taoiseach Ronan Keating has promised to stamp out the menace of nicotine addiction- just as soon as gardai sort out the ongoing gangland war in Limerick.
As a bemused John Gilligan gazes at the wreckage of the G.P.O- virtually flattened when the Spike fell over for the fourth time- he reflects on an Ireland that has changed, changed utterly. He grabs a passing newsboy and asks the one question that was troubling him most in his years of isolation.........
.............."C'mere kid! Have Liverpool won the League Yet
Awaiting the now 68-year-old drug lord after two decades behind bars is Ireland of 2014.
Smoking has been banned for almost 10 years following the great Pub Wars of 2004- when barmen, punters and Garda fought pitched battles outside hostelries throughout the land.
Drinking alcohol in a public house has also been outlawed- along with cursing and talking to members of the opposite sex to whom you are not legally married. As John Gilligan goes in search of his first pint in 12 years, he can only find bars full of miserable punters, slumped over de-caff Guinness Light underneath big portraits of Mickey "big brother" McDowell.
The trip back into Dublin City Centre is made difficult by ongoing LUAS works and the four mile long collapsed trench that was the Dublin Port Tunnel. But Transport Minister Seamus Brennan Jnr is still vowing to "finish the work his dad started"
Cigarettes may have been outlawed years ago but spamspamspam is now fully legalised- as long as you don't mix it with evil tobacco. A new generation of drug lords have reacted accordingly- and the street value of smuggled Nicorette patches has soared past the EUR60 mark.
Taoiseach Ronan Keating has promised to stamp out the menace of nicotine addiction- just as soon as gardai sort out the ongoing gangland war in Limerick.
As a bemused John Gilligan gazes at the wreckage of the G.P.O- virtually flattened when the Spike fell over for the fourth time- he reflects on an Ireland that has changed, changed utterly. He grabs a passing newsboy and asks the one question that was troubling him most in his years of isolation.........
.............."C'mere kid! Have Liverpool won the League Yet