it was right on the edge of south armagh.es who had been in the security forces, for example, many of the protestant families around south armagh, had moved up to markethill due to the threat of violence against theirfamily. so we were this small town, you know, an overwhelmingly protestant town on the very edge of south armagh, and a very republican area. so that, of course, brought challenges. there were an awful lot of threats. there were bomb attacks, mortar attacks, bomb scares, as we would have called them, which was when an alert would have come through, including when i was at the primary school, and we would have been bomb scared out. we would have had to physically had to leave. and, of course, many people shot and injured from the town over the eighties and into the nineties as well. so, yes, it was a very difficult place to grow up in. there was a bomb when you were 11 in your town of markethill. what do you remember of that? again, a very, very significant incident of my childhood. of course, as a child growing u

it was right on the edge of south armagh.families who had been in the security forces, for example, many of the protestant families around south armagh, had moved up to markethill due to the threat of violence against theirfamily. so we were this small town, you know, an overwhelmingly protestant town on the very edge of south armagh, and a very republican area. so that, of course, brought challenges. there were an awful lot of threats. there were bomb attacks, mortar attacks, bomb scares, as we would have called them, which was when an alert would have come through, including when i was at the primary school, and we would have been bomb scared out. we would have had to physically had to leave. and, of course, many people shot and injured from the town over the eighties and into the nineties as well. so, yes, it was a very difficult place to grow up in. there was a bomb when you were 11 in your town of markethill. what do you remember of that? again, a very, very significant incident of my childhood. of course, as a child gro