Barbara Scully

And my mother drove this tiny little Fiat 500 little bubble car.

And the two of us used to get into that and go Finglas, Parnell Square.

I remember all these very exotic places.

Sally Noggin to go and see your man, Cairo Daherty and his Dazzle Band.

And I was 13.

And these were in licensed premises where I should not have been at night, you know, because Anne, she was buying me baby shams.

So like all my friends, I remember going to school afterwards and my friends would say, you were where last night with your mother?

Like what?

When I started to work, I worked in the travel business.

We went away on holidays together at least once and often twice a year, just the two of us.

And we always had the best to crack.

She was...

She was a great friend.

She was great crack.

She was sound as a pound.

She wasn't one for kind of sitting you down and overtly giving you advice or anything like that.

But she was always there and I could always count on her.

And I became an unmarried mother in 1987.

And she was amazing.

How old were you?