Meeting Room is a recent and powerful documentary concerning the Concerned Parents Against Drugs movement, looking at those who stood up to drug dealers in the inner-city in the early 1980s. The film includes interviews with the late Tony Gregory, John ‘Whacker’ Humphries, Bernie Howard, Mick Rafferty, Padraig Yeates, Chris McCarthy and Fr Jim Smyth. This is a very important historical documentary which deserves a larger audience.
Christy Moore also features in the documentary, performing his song in honour of ‘Whacker’ Humphries.
Whacker Humphries took the dealers on
And he fought them tooth and nail
A squad of well armed soldiers brought him to the Portlaoise Jail
He tried to protect his children, found guilty of a crime
One man gets a pension, another man gets time
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RIP Whacker