Denis Bradley has told BBC News NI that his experiences in the Bogside in the 1970s shaped his life.
The former vice chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, Denis Bradley, has told BBC News NI that his experiences as a priest in the Bogside in Londonderry in the early 1970s shaped his outlook in later life.
Mr Bradley, who later went on to become a film-maker and to co-chair the Consultative Group on the Past alongside Lord Eames, reflected at length on the challenges he faced on the streets of Derry five decades ago. "Within the parish that I worked... there were four or five deaths within a very short period of time. Two of them happened to be IRA men. One of them happened to be a man who I had got to know a bit and was really beginning to like... a beautiful man who was shot by a trigger-happy British soldier who was probably nervous about where he'd been left.
"The young man who was shot by the IRA was an informer. All of that happened within a couple of hundred yards... within the parish.""I still cry when I talk about it.... It moulds me. It makes me who I am.... You don't put it in a box and put it away, otherwise that just becomes a sickness."
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