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Love Peace And Robbery
By Liam Heylin
Gary is thirty-five and he has to be home for 9. Darren is twenty-one and he can’t show his face after 10.30. Then there’s the course to go to and the booze to be kept off and the cocaine not to be shoved up your nose and the promises to be kept to the wife, to the parole board, to the kids you’re hardly allowed to see and most crucially to yourself – that you’ll never, ever go back to your bad old ways which lead straight as a newly built motorway to the gates of Cork Prison.
Liam Heylin’s dark new comedy, a Post Office thriller on a Honda 50, is inspired by interviews with a group of men struggling to break the cycle of petty crime and imprisonment. It is a funny, touching portrait of the human face of the underworld.
His characters may be ‘dangerous to know’ but they’re also shrewd, witty survivors of a lifetime of self-abuse, still trying to go straight, sort of. They want to be good fathers, loving husbands, upright citizens, except, well the young fella has to have €380 for the school trip to Old Trafford on Saturday week and there’s a handy sub-post office just a few miles outa town … an sure what exactly are we waitin’ for?
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