It may take Aubrey McCarthy, who secured the final Seanad seat in the Trinity College Dublin constituency panel last week, some time to get used to the upper house. After all, he’s more used to spending time in the big house.
The founder of drugs rehabilitation charity Tiglin has frequented prisons over the years to meet inmates with addiction issues and it was on one such visit to Mountjoy’s women’s wing, the Dóchas Centre, that he befriended one of Ireland’s most notorious murderers, the late Catherine Nevin.
After Nevin’s death from cancer in 2018, he revealed how he had struck up an unlikely friendship with the so-called Black Widow while she was serving a life…