The good fight: from bullets to bylines : 45 years face-to-face with terror

In Northern Ireland, the year 1969 is synonymous with chaos.

This was the year when the surging currents of sectarianism and tribalism, that had long animated Northern society, finally spilled out into the open, forever changing life on the streets of Belfast.

Writing now from the comparative safety of retirement, this title is an account of a life spent on the frontline of a gruelling and dehumanising conflict, where the threat of violence was never more than a single misstep away.