Jul 17, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
Felix Healy joins *What About You?* for a great conversation. Arguably one of the greatest footballers to come out of Derry, Felix reflects on a remarkable career at both domestic and international…
Felix HealyGuest
Richard MooreHost
like a lot of big families at that stage, me and my mother and father, when they were married, lived in me granny's house.
my paternal grannies in Wilton Street, but I was actually born in Linewood Street in my other grannies, my mother's mother, because my mother wanted, I think she was living in Wilton Street with my dad at the time, but I think she wanted me born, I think because I was the first born, she wanted me born in Linewood Street.
So she let on she was going up to her mother, knowing that she was going to have me that night, And then for the first number of years we were staying in my uncle's house, my auntie's house.
But we eventually got our new house, New Bulls in Lonemoor Road, which is sort of overlooking the Brandywild football pitch.
You know, the usual old sob story, as people would say, that nobody had anything.
You know, people always talk about the old days, you could leave your door open.
Obviously my sort of looking at my first time sort of looking at our Our bed, front bedroom and the mirror overlooked one of the goals at the Brandywil, the Shootgrounds Ends and sort of, one of my first memories is looking over and wondering why the people, you know, they changed jerseys at half time, you know, as a Wayne, sort of six years of age, not realising that they changed ends, you know, and that's one of the memories.
right? When I was playing in England at Port Vale, Port Vale's part of Stoke, and the first time I ever went to see a Manchester United play, it was like being back in the Troubles, because the hooliganism at the time was rife, and the Manchester United supporters came to Stoke and literally took over the place.
like a lot of big families at that stage, me and my mother and father, when they were married, lived in me granny's house.
my paternal grannies in Wilton Street, but I was actually born in Linewood Street in my other grannies, my mother's mother, because my mother wanted, I think she was living in Wilton Street with my dad at the time, but I think she wanted me born, I think because I was the first born, she wanted me born in Linewood Street.
So she let on she was going up to her mother, knowing that she was going to have me that night, And then for the first number of years we were staying in my uncle's house, my auntie's house.
But we eventually got our new house, New Bulls in Lonemoor Road, which is sort of overlooking the Brandywild football pitch.
You know, the usual old sob story, as people would say, that nobody had anything.
You know, people always talk about the old days, you could leave your door open.
Obviously my sort of looking at my first time sort of looking at our Our bed, front bedroom and the mirror overlooked one of the goals at the Brandywil, the Shootgrounds Ends and sort of, one of my first memories is looking over and wondering why the people, you know, they changed jerseys at half time, you know, as a Wayne, sort of six years of age, not realising that they changed ends, you know, and that's one of the memories.
right? When I was playing in England at Port Vale, Port Vale's part of Stoke, and the first time I ever went to see a Manchester United play, it was like being back in the Troubles, because the hooliganism at the time was rife, and the Manchester United supporters came to Stoke and literally took over the place.
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