Dundrum, Dublin

So I wasn't fascinated by soil at that point.

And I ended up then working on, I actually ended up working on an organic farm, Airfield Estate in Dundrum.

So it's kind of a, it's open to the public.

So it's, you know, I'd say what Brian's doing is on a much larger scale, but it got my eyes open to it a good bit.

Thus ends one of the most interesting murder trials of recent years, and one which has excited extraordinary public interest.

Edward Francis Allen Bull was committed indefinitely to the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum.

During his time there, he received regular monthly visitors from friends and supporters who took pity on his situation and brought him fruit, groceries, books and records.

For some, Edward was not a ruthless killer, but a young man who had been pushed to the edge of sanity by his domineering mother.

Surely enough time, they thought, to snap out of a moment of madness.

One of his most frequent visitors was Dorothy McArdle, secretary and biographer Eamon de Valera.

Edward believed that that through the influence of his friend a presidential pardon would soon be forthcoming but this proved to be a figment of his imagination and he would spend the next 14 years in the central mental hospital he had however enjoyed many privileges during his time there owing to his verdict of guilt by insanity edward had been allowed to benefit from his mother's estate and he lived in the relative comfort of a private room compared to some of the other inmates of dundrum Throughout his time in Dundrum, Edward corresponded with his old school friend, Richard Cobb, and on his release from hospital, the two friends met in Paris, where, according to Cobb, Edward finally made a full admission of his guilt and apparently showed no sign of remorse.

Describing the events of that miserable evening in February so many years earlier, he told his friend how he asked his mother for the £60 to fund his trip to Egypt.

But then when they subsequently transferred him, it was like the message got lost in translation and one prison didn't necessarily realize what background he had.

And he actually had been transferred from the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum, it was Dundrum at the time, to Mountjoy.

And just the idea, you know, the report kind of says like, you know, there was no regard to his ongoing need for psychiatric care and treatment and why these things happen.

You know, you do wonder.