Grace O'Connor

Yeah.

So I'm from Limerick.

I grew up in an area called Myrath.

It was really loads of people, absolutely great childhood, everyone out the front, everyone's front door open kind of a vibe.

And I suppose as I was getting older, I had two older sisters as well.

My dad left when I was one.

He had an affair with my mam's friend, our neighbour, and that was kind of really all I knew, you know, growing up.

So she was parenting the three of us by herself.

Absolutely amazing.

And that's what we'd done.

We moved to an area I didn't call Kennedy Park.

And I lived there for a couple of years around, I think I was 15 or 16.

And I met my older two kids' dad around that age.

He was from Newport and we were just young and in love.

And I got pregnant.

or young, I was 18 I think when I got pregnant, 19 having him.

I moved out to Newport for a while, lived there and history repeated itself.

He actually had an affair with one of my friends and I was then pregnant with my lovely daughter Lily and had my son Christopher at the time.

Yeah.

You know what I have learned, Brenda, is it's funny because when you go up with a narrative of this is what men will do, that's what I believed was going to happen and that's what happened.