ONE of the hooded men has told how he still suffers nightmares about the ordeal he suffered 50 years ago.
Francis McGuigan was one of 14 men who were subjected to controversial interrogation techniques when interned without trial.
Mr McGuigan said he was sad that some other hooded men were not alive to hear the Supreme Court judgment.
"I haven't lived a normal life, I have lived with this for the past 50 years. I still have nightmares, I still get afraid to go to bed at night because I am having a bad day," he said.
"I have seen myself hiding in the roof space of my own home. I have been found hiding in wardrobes at home. I have been getting counselling on and off for 40 years.
"It is only in the past six or seven years that I have admitted to myself why I needed counselling. I have actually stopped going because there are times when I came out and I was worse than when I went in."
Mr McGuigan said he was hooded for seven days.
"I finished up with three broken ribs. Everybody talks about the five techniques, there was a sixth one, which was sheer brutality," he said.
"It was just a nightmare. There was this white noise.
"In the interrogation to ask you to spell your name. There was one occasion when I couldn't spell it. I kept making a mistake, but I couldn't spell my own name.
"I thought I was losing my mind."
