
Disorganised Crime
From the moment his mother went into labour with him - on a transatlantic flight - Alan Croghan''s life was chaotic. As a young boy in north Dublin, he drank, took drugs and rarely attended school. What he loved best was stealing cars, driving them around, and swapping parts with his fellow thieves. By the age of sixteen he had accumulated thirty-five criminal convictions - and yet he''d never bee...
From the moment his mother went into labour with him - on a transatlantic flight - Alan Croghan''s life was chaotic. As a young boy in north Dublin, he drank, took drugs and rarely attended school. What he loved best was stealing cars, driving them around, and swapping parts with his fellow thieves. By the age of sixteen he had accumulated thirty-five criminal convictions - and yet he''d never bee...