Nick Garbutt

Nick Garbutt is a former editor of the Irish News and deputy editor of the Belfast Telegraph and is today a media advisor and commentator. He is currently researching the history of the Suffolk/ Lenadoon interface in west Belfast. He is chair of Opportunity Youth in Northern Ireland and organised an international conference earlier this year examining the impacts of austerity on young people, post-conflict, and the dangers that poses to peace.

There is no such thing as ‘bad blood’

I’ve never met either of my parents and I don’t know my father’s name. She was a Catholic from over the border he was a Protestant from Belfast and they chose to give me up for adoption in Manchester rather than face the respective wrath of their families.

By Nick Garbutt

/ 19 Dec 2012