Anthony (Tony) Duignan is a RAF veteran who worked in the former West Berlin during the 1970s. Before joining the Royal Air Force in January of 1963, Tony lived in West Belfast, where his early literary talents were encouraged and inspired by his English teacher, Seamus Heaney the Nobel Prize laureate. 

After retiring on medical grounds from a thirty-year service in 1991, Tony was employed as a Senior Manager in the NHS. Mobility problems led to his leaving the NHS and working from home. He established a successful Health & Safety and Risk Management business which included lecturing at universities and colleges. 

From an early age Tony has always enjoyed sports, beginning with traditional Gaelic sports. He played football for many years and then, when becoming too slow, he retired and became a referee, poacher turned gamekeeper. Tony was also an accomplished ten-pin bowler. Other sports included table tennis, rugby and cricket, He was a qualified glider pilot and instructor, a pursuit sadly cut short by later mobility issues. Today, when reasonably fit, he enjoys golf. 

Tony has always had a passion for classical music and opera despite not being able to read music nor play an instrument. 

Following the maxim, ‘love is lovelier the second time around,’ he married Janet in 1995. He has two children from his first marriage, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The couple live with their cat Molly in France, the picturesque Dordogne, enjoying the gastronomic delights of the region.