Going to see the Pope when he came to Ireland in 1979 felt like as much of an obligation to a young Catholic family as going to Sunday Mass.
As a nine-year-old living in a reasonably quiet area of south Belfast, my parents had done their best to insulate me from the horrors of the Troubles.
But I was still well
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