Bodybuilder..

"I had a mind plagued by the memory of a horrendous happening in early life and turned to bodybuilding to escape a haunting conscience, becoming 'Ireland's Strongest Man' in 1980. A continous cocktail of steroids, other drugs and alcohol was later to leave me in a physical and mental wreck. Life had become so pointless that i tried to end it.

I was in the depths of despair, it was then that God reached into my life and began the shaping and polishing process. The transformation that had taken place within me astounded all who knew me.

I was once recognised as a drug addict and a drunk in my town of Ballymena, but now I am out in the same town "