Alan Croghan: The organised crimes of a disorganised criminal

Alan Croghan was a violent addict. But now he’s made amends, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

ALAN Croghan has always had a problem with social conformity. “I never went to school,” says the 45-year-old Dubliner. “I just didn’t like it. I remember going to prefabs and I remember jamming my heels into the lip of the door; my ma standing behind me, trying to push me in and the teacher trying to drag me through the door.

“That’s my first memory of school. I don’t know if it was to do with authority, or whether it was to do with being confined, but I just wanted to run wild.”