From 'Bogside loudmouth' to campaigner, the 80-year-old speaks to Red Lines about 60 years of activism.
Veteran campaigner Eamonn McCann has spent most of the last 60 years embedded in political activism - but when it comes to one of the biggest debates facing Northern Ireland, the border poll, he has little interest.
It's an intervention that may well cause irritation in some quarters, but that's unlikely to worry a man who has a well-deserved reputation for speaking his mind.Eamonn McCann believes the manner of his departure from Queens University clearly left a mark The authorities refused to allow him to take his final exams because of what he has previously referred to as an "incident of alcoholic rascality".
He was there on that fateful day when 13 people were shot dead by British paratroopers and his recollections are vivid."I didn't realise at the time that as I saw people jerking and falling as they ran up Rossville Street...that what was happening was that they were being killed. It just didn't occur to me."He attended almost every day of the Saville Inquiry, which looked into the events of Bloody Sunday, in person.
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