Louise Kennedy: 'There were multiple bomb attacks on our family pub, one in 73 and one in 74'

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I grew up in a small town on the edge of Belfast where my father had a pub. We belonged to a fairly small Catholic community that made up about 10%.

When I was 12, my family left the North and moved to the south. There were multiple bomb attacks on our family pub, one in ‘73 and one in ‘74.