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Parts of Belfast
Terrorists are probably in a major lot of cities in the UK, but at least in Belfast we know were they reside. Being a medical student, we get shoved to the parts of the city where the GP's practices have bars on every window and we see the medical problems which you wouldn't find in your normal GP practice.

Some memories of my time in these parts include walking alone to my practice on the Falls road (main Republican area) and seeing the PSNI (police here) speeding down the road to pick up an escaped prisoner; walking to a patient's house in the loyalist area of Windsor and going into a corner shop failing to notice the shops name, "Simply the Best" implying it was owned by the UDA. Me with my name Nevan (a protestant with an Irish name) and my female friend who had an Irish name quickly made our leave and finally getting countless abuse from making our way to the main hospital in Belfast, the Royal Victoria Hospital, from lovely chav fellows (spides as we refer to them). If I go one way, I get it from lads in Celtic tops and if I go the other I get it from lads in Rangers tops. Beautiful.

Fortunately, I have never had the shit kicked out of me and hopefully never will.
(Sun 1st Nov 2009, 13:13, More)