I was born in East Belfast in 1969 during the time when rubber bullets was a more common sight on the roads and pavements than dogshit. I dont have much of a real history of Belfast because my family and I moved away before I started primary school. We didnt move far, just 10 miles or so to Co Down, where I spent the remainder of my childhood growing up in a housing estate, which for many was just an over-spill from Belfast. From a young age my father had great aspirations for me to join the Royal Navy so from the word go my destiny was set in stone.