Anthony Stokes is facing a stretch of time in prison when we meet and is superficially philosophical about that.‘It’s not going to break me, going in there,’ he says - and by the time we reach this question of the criminal system catching up with him, he has casually related the kind of details that give cause to imagine no environment would hold any fear for him. Acquaintances with the paraphernalia of IRA paramilitaries as a child. The uncompromising figures who would approach him in , where he was a star for , asking if his adoptive father, a Real IRA man, might furnish them with weapons. fans offering him out of his car to fight in central Glasgow. Stokes obliging them on one occasion.Yet there’s something about him which tells you that the prospect of going behind bars is not quite the breeze he claims. And sure enough, the appointed day on which he says he will return from Dublin to Glasgow, where after jumping bail, comes and goes. So does the next appointed day. And the next. Until, finally, last month, he took a ferry from Dublin and presented himself at a police station, where he was held in the cells.
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