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I took early retirement from my job to look after my grandchildren and now I consider Northern Ireland is my home. We hope to build a strong Indian Community in Northern by helping and supporting the local people to whom we are truly grateful for…

My life really has changed since I lost my daughter, Sima, in July 27th of 1999, who was very close to me. She was not only my daughter but my constant friend, support and sometimes I feel as if she was my Guardian Angel to me. She protected me and…

Most of my values come from my own family and upbringing. Parents are the best teacher for their kids. I believe in honesty, truthfulness, integrity, caring for each other. I believe in a good upbringing which helps towards a good relationship and…

I am proud of myself whatever I have achieved in my life in spite of lots of difficulties at the early stage of my married life both in India and U.K. Brining up children and looking after a family in a foreign country wasn't easy for me, specially…

All of us boys wanted to be priests, not for any religious motive but because the local priest was such a significant person.I remember one priest, Dr Marron, in retrospect a nasty piece of work. In announcing once that the Christmas collection…

We were absolutely certain that all 'non Catholics' were damned, that Jews were thugs and that atheists were the scum of all the scums.We said prayers in the way a machine gun dispenses rounds of ammunition and as altar boys we gave out the Latin…

The biggest item on the agenda for us growing up in the 1940s and 1950s was religion, not so much the love of God and certainly not the love of our neighbour but the avoidance of Hell. In first class (8 year olds) Fr Hearn came in one day to enquire…