Cowering in the hedgerow, seven-year-old Stephen Gillen witnessed a trauma that would profoundly affect his life. It was during the height of the Troubles in Belfast in the late 70s, when little Stephen – who’d been born in England but raised in Ireland by an auntie – saw a young man shot right in front of him, calling for his mum while blood bubbled from his dying lips. ‘I stretched my hand out through the gap in the bottom of the fence to try and comfort him,’ recalls Stephen, who’d been out playing when he was caught up in a riot. ‘Over 20 minutes I watched him dying.
And those images just lingered with me, the pain and the horror. I became sullen after that evening. I felt a darkness inside.’ Despite the efforts of his beloved
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