Catherine Bailey

Well, we met in Limerick and I had just finished my master's.

So I had a mutual friend from college, actually, who invited me to an opening of a restaurant just around the corner from Lyric FM.

And unbeknownst to me, I had been aware of Sean, but I didn't really know of him, really.

And when we went into the restaurant, I was introduced to Sean straight away and we just hit it off like a house on fire.

We had so much in common.

He was attentive.

He was warm.

He was magical.

He was a magical man, a beautiful, warm, kind individual and a beautiful soul.

We built a huge life together, a lovely, wonderful life together.

We had an awful lot in common.

We both loved the arts, music, you name it.

I had also done actor training and so had Sean.

So we could talk at length about all those areas.

And we felt like kindred spirits, that feeling you have when you feel you've met your soulmate.

We had that and

Then just lovely, just lovely existence, lovely, simple life, the simple everyday.

And then the children came along and it was, we were just very happy in our simplicity, you know, very ordinary people.

It was beyond traumatic.

It was very, very, very distressing.