09: The Secret Life
The Witness: In His Own Words
Jane Gogan
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Struggling with the effects of everything he's gone through, Joey has to leave his family behind and make a new life for himself.
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The Witness is produced by Ian Maleney and executive produced by Nicola Tallant and Jane Gogan. The sound editor is Brendan Jenkinson and the music is composed by Niamh Corcoran. Yellow Path Productions Ltd.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains scenes which are not suitable for children and which some listeners may find distressing. |
| 0:06.0 | This podcast is part of the ACAST Creator Network. |
| 0:11.0 | You have a time limit and the width section of two years, and mine was nearly up. |
| 0:15.0 | I have to sign out and be okay and if I didn't I be left by myself. |
| 0:22.0 | So I said what the I thought I could say in my man, this now you can't. |
| 0:26.0 | They told me I had to go to England. We luck he. |
| 0:30.0 | That was it, basically. I think I had a couple of weeks and I was told I can never see my |
| 0:35.7 | man, never see my family again. I think my boys in my car park, Stephen Green, shopping center, underneath the car park there. |
| 0:45.2 | It's the hardest thing I ever had to do. |
| 0:49.2 | And I had a bum bag, an MP3 player, and I assumed my mob on me, I ordered a trial when I got in a plane to England. |
| 1:00.0 | I was giving PPS number, a set up a social welfare and stuff like that and I got a new name. |
| 1:11.0 | I said I walked to pay my bills and then I just tried to do that. I just didn't last. I still had all them demons, |
| 1:19.2 | still had all them nightmares, still had all the guilt, the the pain the suffering and I just wanted to take get away from all |
| 1:29.0 | and if it wasn't tablet it was drinking I wasn't drinking it was drugs |
| 1:36.4 | I didn't want to remember I didn't want to feel I didn't want to be Joey. I didn't want to be the rock I didn't want to be that cancer I felt like a cancer of the society I didn't want to be |
| 1:45.3 | that person anymore I wanted to be normally I wanted to take it away anything that I could take it away would you us. This is the witness in his own words. |
| 2:07.0 | Episode 9, the secret life. It was so big where I was just strange seeing everything was. It just looked |
| 2:27.8 | so big where I lived. Place looked so big. The city was so big. We were much |
| 2:31.9 | bigger than Dublin, like, the pub are different, |
| 2:36.2 | and the beer was different, I was very shy and timid and they dressed different. |
| 2:49.8 | It was just strange, yeah. Everything was different. I went to college and made friends and but even that was difficult because we had to have the story |
| 2:56.2 | and they'd ask questions and it was always where you from and what you here by yourself and where your family and welcome to no family over here what you do living over here and |
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