Ballymun by bicycle
I left Ballymun in 1998, before the billion-euro improvement plan which saw much valuable land released and the community without a shopping centre. In the towns neighbouring Ballymun - Santry, Glasnevin and Finglas - I often cycled on wild goose chases to find some person or place I wasn't sure existed. I hadn't found a gang for protection so I learned to line up my bicycle at an angle and bolt out of the lift through the squat, doorless lobby into the daylight beyond. On m