John Pridmore, the former London gangster will be speaking in St Joseph’s Church, Springhill, Glanmire on the 17th of February as part of a Parish Mission running from Monday 17 to Friday 21. Evening sessions run Monday to Friday at 7.30pm.

John just finished a tour reaching more than 7,000 young people in schools and prisons and has recently returned from Chicago, and Florida after speaking at international conferences there. Forty-nine-year-old Pridmore served two prison sentences himself in his teens and went on to become a feared enforcer in the London underworld.