[2][3] Later that year McMullan joined the IRA's youth wing Fianna Éireann:[2] In my teens I was arrested maybe 20 times.
The Brits, probably bored out of their skulls, used to drive down the Glen Road every day as schools were getting out.
[2] In 1975 he acquired the nickname "Teapot" after the top of his ear was shot off during an attack on a British Army patrol.
[2][3] At his trial in September 1976 he was convicted after forty minutes having refused to recognise the Diplock court; he received a life sentence and was sent to HM Prison Maze.
[4][6] As McMullan refused to wear a prison uniform he was not entitled to a monthly visit, and did not see his family until December 1979.
Your eyes are bulging because you're locked in a cell 24 hours a day, you have matted hair, you're filthy, you look like a deranged maniac.
[13][14] McMullan has since worked as a political education officer for Coiste na n-Iarchimí, an umbrella organisation for Republican ex-prisoners groups, and, as of March 2007, he was working as a special advisor to Sinn Féin's Minister for Education Caitríona Ruane.