Trevor Laffan: A lorry-load of laughs with Cork’s king of ball-hopping For mroe than 15 years Trevor Laffan visited Belarus regularly. Here he recalls Pat Mohally on a Chernobyl convoy. His every waking moment was spent devising schemes to wind people up, says Trevor Laffan Trevor Laffan I WROTE a piece in The Echo some time ago about driving a truck to the Chernobyl-affected areas of Belarus and Western Russia. It generated quite a bit of feedback and some wanted to know more about those journeys, and others asked if I had any more anecdotes from that time. So here goes.