I was born and raised on the Falls Road in West Belfast, a place I am extremely proud to have experienced. I was a fairly awful football player at school, although I did have my moments. I remember nutmegging Paddy Linton and scoring the winner in a kick about in 4th year; still makes me smile, yes! I’ve been following Celtic since I can remember having an interest in football. That was probably around 1987. I was just in time to savour the centenary season and still have my first Celtic scarf from that season. The scarf itself is crap, but it’s the memories that make it valuable. My family could never really afford to bring me across the sea to Celtic Park so it was up to me, when I turned 17, to make my way to paradise. I’ve always tried to get to as many games as I can since then and I made it to my first European away game in 2004 to see big Hartson level at the Nou Camp. Good times.

In 2001 I set off to live in New York. After 3 months in Brooklyn I found myself living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I became a member of the South Florida CSC and sunned myself for 7 months before returning to New York. A week later I was stabbed in Jersey City, but that’s not important. It just proves how hard I am. I spent the next 2 and a half years living in Woodlawn in the north Bronx. I regularly watched the games in the now deceased Rocky Sullivans on Lexington Ave, but I joined up with the Bronx Bhoys when they got going on Katona Ave. I was there for 9/11 and soon after, like a lot of Irish, I left and returned to Ireland. I live just outside Dublin in the seaside town of Balbriggan, where my wife is from. Frank Carson used to be the mayor here, that’s all the interesting facts I can give you about this place.

I got interested in lostbhoys.com after Harper, who was a work colleague of mine, kept torturing me to check out the podcasts. When I eventually did I discovered a good, fun and relaxed approach to the issues, plus none of your uber tim bullshit you come across on a lot of forums. I started writing a weekly blog after the lads put up a few articles I’d written and the experience of having to write something interesting about Celtic every week is of great help to me while I move towards getting my diploma in journalism and fiction writing. I just love talking about Celtic as well. I like the fact that there seem to be no egos among the people on the site.

I am 31 years old and I am married with two beautiful daughters. I have my own Celtic themed room where my wife can get me out of her hair and watch all the cooking shows that Sky Tv has to offer. It’s the basis of our rock solid marriage, we don’t mingle.

Anywhere I’ve gone in the world I’ve always found it vital that I seek out and visit the celtic supporters. Since I’m married with kids now and don’t really go anywhere anymore, I’ve found it comforting to find the friendliest Celtic supporters on the internet. It’s funny how they have an American as there mascot. It’s like some mad science experiment with a bunch of Celtic fans pointing at him and saying ‘Look what we made!’

The irony is that none of are lost anymore. Cue the emotional music.