Former conman Pat Sheedy talks about his gambling addiction which lead him to prison
Pat Sheedy remembers placing his first bet, for 10p, at age 12. His father had sent his son down to a bookies in their native Limerick to make the bet, which wasn’t an unusual occurrence in the 1980s.
Within a couple of years, 14-year-old Sheedy was making “the odd bet here and there”. But it was a bet he made the following year that marked the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and a conman who would amass close to 100 criminal convictions.