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What if I didn’t have AS?

Over the past few years I have been pondering on what life would have been like for me had I not had AS. One thing that springs to mind is a programme I watched recently on the History Channel, entitled “Britain’s Real Monarch”, first aired on Channel 4 in 2004. The reason I am mentioning […]

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Adulthood

In October 1992, I started third level education. My first vision of starting in university was an opportunity to start on a fresh slate. I could just as easily have still have been in secondary school, repeating the Leaving Cert, had I failed English, which was my weakest subject. I took the higher-level paper in […]

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Adolescence

It was in September 1987 that I started secondary school. In the few months before that, I was hearing stories of some savage things being done to the first-year students, by second-year students. Consequently, I kept thinking to myself what I could do to stop these things from happening to me. It was only about […]

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Childhood

My youngest childhood memory was around August 1978. I was going on four. I was in the farmyard when I saw a gate that was put resting against a wall, and I figured that it should be put up onto the hinges. Now this was quite a heavy gate, but I went to lift it. […]

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