Friday 8 May 2015

'Behind The Mask' by Dr. Patrick Treacy



'The journey begins with my childhood years growing up in a small rural village in Garrison, Co Fermanagh, then weaves its way from the war-torn streets of bombed-out Belfast to the town of Al Halabja where I was captured by Saddam Hussein’s army near, while working as a doctor in Iraq. In the early pages, Northern Ireland lies in chaos and an ever spiraling ethno-political conflict, which almost took his life. It is an exhilarating story of smuggling cars to Turkey to finance my college studies and having to get a piece cut out of my leg to survive a HIV needle stick injury from a Dublin heroin addict in the days before there was any treatment for AIDS. It is a story of how, I got to know Michael Jackson as a friend witnessing the personal agonies he suffered during the treatment of his vitiligo and watching him cry as he took off his wig and showed me his scarred scalp and how he promised to look after the children of the world if anything ever happened to him'

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