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Friday 01 June 2007
"Ten thousand feet in 60 seconds towards the ground. It was the best moment of my life."
Monday 04 June 2007
"I just wished that I could have turned back the clock. I learnt a lesson that night...pride goes before a fall"
Tuesday 05 June 2007
"It was something magical for me. I was complete. I didn't need anything else."
Wednesday 06 June 2007
"The tall ships race for me was a dream come true. I never ever thought I'd be able to participate in it."
Thursday 07 June 2007
"The people who were so helpful and did so much for us. It changed our situation completely from despair to hope."
Friday 08 June 2007
"I nearly dropped. I was completely speechless. The undertaker could not believe it either."
Monday 11 June 2007
"My tears were all dried up and there was a smile on my face... I was really happy. The abiding memory is the kindness of that old woman."
Tuesday 12 June 2007
"It was the high point of a career. I was never going to find anything so magnificent again."
Wednesday 13 June 2007
"This was a real shock. I was sitting in an alien place so far away and I had only 10 pence."
Thursday 14 June 2007
"I felt like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, when she was dancing with Rhett Butler. "
Friday 15 June 2007
"I got as far into the corner as I could, so that people who knew me wouldn't see me."
Monday 18 June 2007
"I suppose that day I lost some innocence, but it would not be very long before every boy and girl in the street knew the difference"
Tuesday 19 June 2007
"I discovered a part of myself inside that was forgotten or maybe hidden."
Wednesday 20 June 2007
"Overall as a golfer and blind person, that was just the most important day of my life"
Thursday 21 June 2007
"I am quite convinced that my guardian angel was watching over me that day."
Friday 22 June 2007
"As soon as I walked in the door I knew that this was 'my house'. There was peace and happiness in it"
Monday 25 June 2007
"We went down, on our bare feet, to the blacksmith's shop to get our hair cut, because he wouldn't charge us anything. We had no money you see"
Tuesday 26 June 2007
"Nobody came to congratulate me. I had won the race and I'd won it well. I was furious."
Wednesday 27 June 2007
"The policeman said 'I've never heard the birds like this in my life. It's a strange evening'."
Thursday 28 June 2007
"It was very very difficult to take in what was happening. At this time I was clinging on to Christine's handbag"
Friday 29 June 2007
"We were getting married in Vegas. Our friends in Belfast, Newry, Dublin, Australia, Germany and Holland were watching on the web-cam"
