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UTV, yes. I was very fortunate to get a job in UTV because I didn’t have an O-Level or A-Level to my name. And especially blessed because of working in the film library which is a very very busy wee office. It was a very busy place and you saw all these stars coming in, no make-up on and you got a bit of a shock, first thing in the morning. 

At it’s best, it was catholic, protestant, catholic, protestant, catholic, protestant. Nobody gave a toss about anybody’s religion. And that was the first thing you were told when you went in. Nobody gives a toss whether you’re catholic, protestant, high church of Peru or anything else. It was a lovely atmosphere. 

It wasn’t easy. Obviously because I had to cover people who had been murdered and left in a hedge, for instance. It wasn’t an easy story to cover.  

And then they brought the film back. In those days it was all shot on film and it had to be edited, so you wouldn’t have seen all the horrors that they saw. I was coming in to the office and the phones were flying off their hooks. They just found these poor poor souls. I thought then “No matter what they’ve done, or what they did do or what they didn’t do. They didn’t deserve that kind of mess”. When the cameramen, cameraman came back and the sound recordist, their faces were white as a sheet. It was getting harder, I thought it was getting harder. 

 And then the next thing you know, UTV had paid some of us off, including myself. I was heartbroken about that. It was sad. But I got my flat in here in Filor Court. I came to live in here to torture everybody.