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I am sure its one and the same Rashers although I started to look for Martin Cahill and then I realised I was actually looking for Brendan Gleeson lol
I knew Martin Cahill's sister At one time she lived closeby and I was never aware of her being his sister as Cahill is quite a common name. She is was at that time a really nice person and if she is still around I am sure she still is.
Just as the Dunnes were the Crumlin Gang and then he came along with his gang they all seem quite tame by todays standards, The gangs out in Dublin today are much more ruthless. I know the Dunnes and Martn Cahill had a great degree of ruthlessness also but somehow not as much as todays gangs that carry guns and kill people randomly.
When I was growing up in the fifties I can't ever recall a Crumlin gang. When you think about it Crumlin then was lawful. I wonder was it the wealth that suddenly came in the sixties and seventies that started the problems. Wealth and drugs and the money to afford them. I still visit Crumlin now and then The house we once lived in is now longer anything like the house I knew, Although Daughters and sons of the original neighbours are still living in the houses their parents once occupied. I think the buzz I remember is gone.
On the Avenue I lived on We were all like one big family and although there were mild arguments neighbours would soon make up. I remember as a child going to homes to see people who had died, I was always terrified of doing this, but with a gang of friends we would mount the stairs hanging on to each other for dear life,
We would look at the corpse in the bed, Usually with a white sheet drawn up to the neck, They always looked very frightening,
I often wonder why the neighbours allowed us in and let us go upstairs We would be tipping each other and giggling nervously and sometimes we would be awake all night after it. Times were so different then,
I knew Martin Cahill's sister At one time she lived closeby and I was never aware of her being his sister as Cahill is quite a common name. She is was at that time a really nice person and if she is still around I am sure she still is.
Just as the Dunnes were the Crumlin Gang and then he came along with his gang they all seem quite tame by todays standards, The gangs out in Dublin today are much more ruthless. I know the Dunnes and Martn Cahill had a great degree of ruthlessness also but somehow not as much as todays gangs that carry guns and kill people randomly.
When I was growing up in the fifties I can't ever recall a Crumlin gang. When you think about it Crumlin then was lawful. I wonder was it the wealth that suddenly came in the sixties and seventies that started the problems. Wealth and drugs and the money to afford them. I still visit Crumlin now and then The house we once lived in is now longer anything like the house I knew, Although Daughters and sons of the original neighbours are still living in the houses their parents once occupied. I think the buzz I remember is gone.
On the Avenue I lived on We were all like one big family and although there were mild arguments neighbours would soon make up. I remember as a child going to homes to see people who had died, I was always terrified of doing this, but with a gang of friends we would mount the stairs hanging on to each other for dear life,
We would look at the corpse in the bed, Usually with a white sheet drawn up to the neck, They always looked very frightening,
I often wonder why the neighbours allowed us in and let us go upstairs We would be tipping each other and giggling nervously and sometimes we would be awake all night after it. Times were so different then,
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