Chapter 9: Holiday From Heroin

I’d had enough and rang home saying I was ready to go away. I went home and rang coolmine which was a well established drug treatment facility and arranged an assessment I was to go the following day, this particular place was in Portarlington and was a behaviour modification programme, I went down with a […]

Scene 8: Free me Willy

The next 6 months things declined rapidly went from successfully working and claiming the dole to just claiming the dole and robbing newly built houses , Dave was quiet a good stroker and he came to me and said “ listen harry there’s new estate gone up beside knockmore school and with your plumbing skills […]

Chapter 7: The Tax Dodger

Now I was in Bolton street at the time studying to be a plumber and the teacher start talking about taxes and pay slips , I was puzzled as I in the two years I’ve never got any or heard about taxes , I got paid in cash in the toilet in Molloys pub . […]

Chapter 6: A Fool in School

The time came for my leaving cert and after getting suspended 5 times that year I end up getting expelled, between taking ecstasy and alcohol, coke, LSD, tablets and hash the mentality of an drug user is as long as you’re not a heroin addict everything else is acceptable, now I had a promise of […]

Chapter 5 The Seed of Destruction

After 2 years of raving drinking, taking” E “, and partying every week, all the while trying to do my leaving cert but finding it all the more difficult. Was around this time I was introduce to heroin, H, smack, brown or gear…..the most deadly drug in Dublin brought into Fatima in the 80,s and […]

Scene 4: My First Love

Finally the inevitable happened the police raided the rave and shut the place down I was devastated. We needed a new home to party in so we went into the Harp nightclub on O Connell St to check it out. Wasn’t my cup of tea full of blokes looking more like woman and music was […]

Chapter 3 Raving in Town

I need to tell you about my oldest mate Barry, he’s blond blue eyed and as cocky as Ali but one funny fucker. Our tractors met on the muck hills of tallaght and immediately a lifelong friendship and competition was born. From soccer to tennis and golf we played everything like we were on TV […]

Chapter 2: Caravan of love

So the time finally came for our first foreign holiday!! Pwllheli a caravan park in North Wales happy days and were getting the boat. Harry couldn’t make as he had important pressing issues to deal with in the pub, but we went with my uncle Jonnies family. We all loved Jonny he was a character […]

Scene – Crash Harry

Well this is my story; ill begin on a Friday night at about 11 o clock I think I was about 12 at the time. We were lying in bed slagging each other , me and Steo in the bunk beds and Keith in the single bed caused he was the oldest and referred to […]

Green Veg or Cream Cake?

  I heard so much about you before that we met,I was warned and talked to make sure I was set.I’m going be honest I was curious of your reputation,Like a balloon my desire it grew with inflation.I wanted to meet you when no one was aroundI was nervous and excited cause I thought u […]