Diarmuid Gavin
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389 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Diarmuid Gavin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's the dark chocolate, but Bournemouth is a place.
So there's a river born and they were a Quaker family and they wanted to create not only a factory, but a place for people, their workers and other people to live in a good environment, in a green environment, in a kind of pastoral environment.
And that became their modus operandi.
So the kind of factory in the garden in Coolock wasn't unusual.
Very many.
Yes, Conor and myself, I think we were, he was five, I was six.
Our birthdays were on the same day a year apart and there was an accident when we were going to school and...
We lost Conor.
Yeah.
So that was that was very tough.
And I suppose changed the dynamics of the family and very challenging to live with.
But my parents had four other children, including a newborn.
So they had no choice but to get on and persevere.
But yeah, very difficult.
I have very kind of definite memories, but for many years I kind of laboured under the idea that I was a terrible big brother who got him into trouble all the time.
And then I had an aunt in Billericay in Essex who told me years later, oh no, he was a devil.
Now, I'm sure there were two devils in it, but, you know, that's a challenge.
It's an awful thing for anybody who has been through it.
I didn't like to talk about it for kind of a long time.
Especially as he did live, he lived for his five years and I didn't think he should be defined by the way he passed because he wouldn't let that, nor would anybody else who kind of passed.
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