sentences:  In 1972, he went into a church to stop some vandals and got caught up in an explosion in Donaghadee—an experience that took him years to overcome.As an author, nearly all of Waddell's stories are inspired by events or places in his life at the foot of the Mourne Mountains.As he humorously claimed, "I've been blown up, buried alive and had cancer as an adult, and survived all these experiences, so I'm a very lucky man."