Terry Fairfield

Well, I think he started off in the Ardoyne.

He then moved to the New Lodge or Antrim Road area, which is also a Republican nationalist area.

And, you know, way before he joins the UVF in the 90s, he actually joins the IRA, which

which is something that we didn't know and I had never heard, I don't think anybody knew about.

But in our interview last week, he casually mentioned that, you know, when he, in the 1970s, he joined the RA, as he called it.

And he said, like, everybody his age, you know, boys, you know, young men, late teens, early 20s, which he would have been, everybody joined the IRA.

So he was on the fringes of things.

He wasn't involved in, you know, shootings and murders and that kind of thing.

He was still a member.

He was still a member.

He was a member.

He was involved in the IRA and he got to know, he was there at a time when a very famous IRA man, Kevin Mulgrew, was in the same unit as him.

And Mulgrew, they would go on to become the North Belfast leader of the IRA.

Him and Mulgrew hated each other.

And he says Mulgrew absolutely hated him and broke his finger on one occasion.

Now Terry's a big lad and he was into boxing.

And Terry took a hurl, as he says, a hurling stick and beat this guy Mulgrew with it and thought that was his death warrant.

He was going to get shot, but he didn't.

He left him alone.

Anyway, he fled England.