4feicsake t1_itgrh7t wrote on October 23, 2022 at 3:13 PM Reply to TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis Don't mess with an Irish mammy. Permalink 5
4feicsake t1_itgrh7t wrote
Reply to TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis
Don't mess with an Irish mammy.