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I was born and reared there. I spent the first 18 years of my life in that place, in a lovely little housing estate called Dunclug. I still have the scars on my knuckles to prove it :-( . The protestant / catholic thing was rife, the weekends entertainment seemed to be meeting up in some of the local parks and trying to kill someone else from another school. The heroin problem was just starting to rear it's head when we left, a few old schoolmates have since died from OD's and more have picked up all sorts of nasties from needles as well.

The council I remember well, the trial Sunday openings and the subsequent picketing of the businesses that tried to open by Paisley's cronies, stood outside preaching fire and brimstone tainted hate outside their doors. Also the whole of the the main shopping street, church street was owned by them as well, working for them was a nightmare, unless you were in the 'clique' and in the habit of going to church 3-4 times a week you were going nowhere, I can safely say I have never met a more vicious, nasty, vindictive set of people than those good living 'Christians' in my whole life.

I've moved out of there 15 years now and I've never set foot in the place since. Hateful, hateful, nasty little narrow-minded place. I've since moved to Belfast and I can safely say that it's been a move up in the world.
(uk_viper stopped lurking on, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 22:02, Reply)