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Darragh Culhane

Darren Clarke candidly speaks about being stuck in bomb scare while working first job during the Troubles

Darren Clarke has candidly spoken out about his brush with death during the troubles.

The 2011 Open champion grew up in Tyrone and spoke about his brush with death in the late 1970s.

Clarke decided that he needed to take up a job himself as he continued to pursue his golf career and on his very first day there was a bomb scare.

The bomb detonated but a warning call was made and all staff and patrons safely evacuated.

Speaking to the PGA Tour champions social media team, Clarke recounted the tale.

He said: "My first job was working in a night club as a bartender and I had just started, it was my third week at this nightclub.

"And I was in early settling up and I was in from six, doors opened at 8.30, 9.15 we got a bomb scare. Everybody out, the whole place cleared.

"And then 9.30 the bomb went off, flattened the whole place. Demolished. Absolutely demolished.

"It could have went off if things transpired if I had been sitting outside through the wall from, I don't know, three or four in the afternoon it could have went off at any stage.

"That was part of growing up in Ireland back in those days"

Clarke was working on the Inn on the Park nightclub in 1986 in Dungannon but thankfully no one was hurt in the IRA orchestrated attack.

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