Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.