Eamonn Holmes Given Detention After The IRA Blew Up His School Bus
By Claire
4 years ago
"Our bus was hijacked on the Antrim road. And this man wearing a balaclava came on and said, 'We are commandeering this bus for the Irish Republican Army.' He started sprinkling petrol everywhere so we get off. And they throw a petrol bomb on to the bus and set it on fire. So we walk the next mile-and-a-half to school."
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"Nowadays in this caring snowflake society they would say, 'Are you OK? We will get a counsellor to speak to you.' And I would be suffering PTSD for the rest of my life. But what did I get? Detention! I got detention for the IRA hijacking my bus. It was my fault basically."
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"We arrived into Liverpool docks and were arrested because my dad didn't have any identification on him. He didn't have a driving licence or anything. Special Branch were standing there and they pulled us aside and they kept my father. I was absolutely terrified, 10 years of age and standing there saying, 'What's happening? You are taking my dad.' We are arrested. We were detainees.
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"Luckily on the same boat was our fantastic GP, Dr Paul McKeown, a man of note. I remember this row he got into saying, 'I have taken the Hippocratic Oath and you doubt my word that this man is who he says he is. How dare you.' He squealed in the face of these two cops so they had to release us."