# "How did I go from playing for Ireland to a prison cell?"

An episode of [Brendan O'Connor](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1495060929), 30 Aug 2026, 36 min.

Audio: https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/c7d3b33c-f943-4afb-8665-b0b200e579f7/0b4f3022-f323-4188-80ec-b2ac0167b3d7/d85b7d40-1c8b-41ae-a64e-b4b600dde145/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=fdac2904-a57e-4b42-8e2f-b2ac0167b3e5

Former Irish and Ulster rugby player, Ryan Caldwell, tells Brendan about his descent, from playing professional rugby into drug addiction and prison. Ryan’s autobiography ‘White Lines’ details this journey and how he rebuilt his life using shamanic wisdom, meditation and plant-based medicine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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