GUEST - so... I was attacked in a snooker club while thatcher was in power...
and of course it would be just as silly for me to say she was directly responsible for that...???
Besides which, she had an alibi placing her elsewhere that particular night...😜

Also GUEST.. As for the safety of people in the vicinity of folk clubs from the 1970s onwards,
is there a pattern emerging...???

were you carrying a bodhran...!!!???


Ok.. seriously

I don't know how much victim support has changed in the near 30 years since I was involved..
back then it worked for some 'victims' and not for others..

but if Northerner feels like giving them a call for an informal chat...

What I learned from being a volunteer in a 'rough' city centre
back when I was a skinny long haired student looking type
was to try to always appear confidently as if I had every right to be on that street.

No looking lost, hesitant, or openly thumbing through A-Z street maps..