100 Quotes by Adrian Dunbar

When you are younger and more radical, the police seem like the enemy.

Ted Hastings is the guy you would hope would be part of the police. He's got his problems, but is relentless in the pursuit of the truth.

Belfast is great.

There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that it was definitely not a good friend. I haven't had a drink now for many years.

I love going back to Northern Ireland.

People sometimes forget that alcohol is a chemical. It can change how you think. It was making me into a glass-half-empty person.

We lived in this ghetto during the worst excesses of the Seventies. When the tartan gangs came to wreck our estate, we had to defend it. We were barricaded in with diggers and earth-movers. It wasn't a case of joining the Republican cause, or the IRA - we were fighting for our very existence.

But it needs to be understood that alcoholism is a disease not a lifestyle choice.

Portadown was the most marginalized of all the Nationalist communities in the North. Suddenly we were living in a town where, if you were Catholic, you literally couldn't walk up the street without getting into some kind of conflict.