Eamonn Holmes on how North Belfast is the ‘fabric of his life’ –

Eamonn Holmes heard how North Belfast is his “fabric of his life” and how Northern Ireland is a “huge people, people”.

The TV presenter spoke to Belfast Live while introducing the new care district mobile unit in North Belfast over the weekend, changing the way health and wellness services are delivered across the region.

He explained how powerful the people of North Belfast were and how they came from New Jersey “blessed with such a knack for socializing”.

Eamonn said Kewhill is his “favorite place on earth” and when he looks at it, he knows he’s back home.

He told Belfast Live, “People always say to me… ‘You’re here’ and I’m here. My mother lives across the street. It’s the fabric of my life.”

“All my brothers live here, my brother lives a mile and a half from here, all my family, my cousins, we are close.

“I always come back, so it doesn’t feel weird, where you think I should be. Believe me, I wouldn’t work in England if I could find a job of this caliber here.

“I would never have been there. My mom called me a few weeks ago and said, ‘I couldn’t sleep tonight.'”

He said: I could not sleep, I have this question in my head, why, why?

“I said: Why, I what?” And she said, “Why did you move to England?”

“None of my other children felt the need to leave,” he said. He said, “If I had stayed, you could have been that little boy of Paul Clark.”

Eamonn added how important the community is on the north side of Belfast.

“People of North Belfast, what happens is you develop skin, face things, develop inner strength, realize what you have. Community is so important, it always has been.

“You don’t have to be bound by your community, you don’t have to always stay there, change or go, but you are clearly under the great influence of your community.

“I am not one of those people who deny my focus, deny who I am or where I come from. The 62-year-old added.

Eamonn, who launched the mobile division of the new help district on Saturday, said he “couldn’t get involved.”

“I see. All the people there know my brothers and know my dad, and it always happens to me. My dad passed away at the age of 31 and everyone remembers him.

“I feel too strong to do this for everyone. What else do you want to do? They shouldn’t contact anyone else,” he added.

The announcer added how he “stands above politics”.

“Always with Northern Ireland, no matter what your religion, no matter where you come from, I’ll be there to represent the people of Northern Ireland. I think I’m above politics, and that’s fine. People don’t think of me as a religion or another. They ain’t. I’m just Eamonn, Eamonn from Belfast.

“There are very few things in life that I am sure of…but I know I am a Belfast man. I feel very strongly that I am a Belfast man, and that is what it means.”

Since Northern Ireland does not have a CEO at the moment, the father of four said that “difficult decisions have to be made”.

“I think there are a few things we need to develop.

“There are some things we have to get used to. I think we need a reference point to bring people together.

We need a non-political leader.

“We want someone who goes beyond politics,” Eamonn explained.

He added, “In memory of the Troubles, looking back, you just don’t want it anymore.

“We are all so happy and cheerful and full of cracks, but you know there can be scars underneath all of this. But one thing I’m really sure of is that we workers in Northern Ireland have a lot more in common than we do.”

Eamonn also spoke about the stresses of his work and how his proudest achievement could remain relevant.

“You’re under constant pressure, I didn’t complain too much, but just say it’s hard. You just have to be ahead of the game, he looks like an athlete.

“I am a gentleman, in the sense that I am always there to help people, to give advice to people, to always teach people, he never threatened me. But then again, this is my Belfast, I learned from my father.”

Eamonn added how naive he was about the television industry as a teenager.

“At the age of 19, I quit my UTV job and said it wasn’t enough [money].

“They fired me, most of them yelled at me and said, ‘There’s been no one sitting in that chair who hasn’t said goodbye to working here on Ulster TV, let alone 19, well, who do you think you are?’ “?

“I went in and the secretary said to me, ‘Why didn’t you find a job?’ Working here I’m told I’m no fool, so have fun, I say.

He said: This is no one, this is a day. It was a salary of £10,000 a year. How special it was.

“It must be said that I took a step back and got back to work. I didn’t even think you could earn 44.44 a day.

“Sometimes the more you work, the luckier you are, but above all you need luck. I am very grateful for the excellent education and parent stability,” said Eamonn.

The presenter also talked about the current suicide rates in the region.

“The suicide rate is terrible, my sister-in-law committed suicide 2 years ago which is a very big thing that hurts our family a lot, it caused a lot of pain.

Eamonn explained: “You just want to look up and say, ‘Why North Belfast? “

The Belfast man became serious for the first time last year when his eldest son Declan became the father of a girl.

“I never wanted to be [a grandfather]I never had the desire to be, never thought I was old enough, but suddenly I’m getting old.

“I’m so happy for my son. It made me think about how quickly everything vanished, he’s 33 and I was his age when he was. He loves Emilia so much and it’s great to see him.” Eamonn said.

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