The efforts made by prison staff to try to rehabilitate prisoners is astonishing. One concrete effort to which I point is the play that takes place every year in Mountjoy. When that play started many years ago the authorities could not get prisoners to audition. They had to bring in actors from outside the prison, but now the prisoners nearly fight mano a mano to get a part. Last year was the first time that I ever saw the first names and surnames of all the characters and of all those who made the sets recorded in the programme. That was because they were all very proud of what they had managed to achieve. For some of them, it was the first concrete achievement for which they got great applause in their lives. One of the most moving sights I saw there was on the night of the main show when the prisoners' families came to see the play and following it I saw children rushing up to their fathers. Last year I saw two children, who had come over from England with their mothers especially for the play, rush up to their fathers and look at them with admiration in a way they probably had never looked at them previously.