What Lonergan will miss most about the ‘Joy’ is the craic

ODD as it sounds, what John Lonergan will miss most about Mountjoy is the craic.

The prison may have a reputation as a Dickensian lock-up for miserable miscreants scarred by drug addiction and deprivation, but Lonergan says the place was never short of a joke.

“I’ll miss the interaction with people – the staff and the prisoners – and the craic and humour that you’d have,” he says.