Early Life
Gregg was born in 1957 and raised in a Protestant family from the Tigers Bay area of North Belfast. Gregg stated his father, a quiet man, had trust in the police and army but joined the loyalist vigilante groups set up around the start of The Troubles to protect Protestant areas from attack by republicans. His own earliest memory of the Troubles was the Civil Rights marches in Londonderry, something which Gregg and his family were strongly opposed to.
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