Book Review
Book Review: A heartfelt and painfully bleak account of life with paedophile Davy Tweed
Amanda Brown, Tweed’s stepdaughter, has written an important and intelligent book about her tormentor
Davy Tweed was an Irish rugby international, a DUP councillor and above all a proud Orangeman. When tensions arose over loyalists marching through nationalist areas of Drumcree in the late 1990s, he joined a picket outside the town’s Catholic church. As a priest walked past him to say Mass, the six-foot-six, 20-stone second row forward shouted, “here comes a paedophile!”
According to Amanda Brown’s intensely powerful but painfully bleak memoir, having a sick sense of ...
