Grace O'Connor

People started calling.

At the age of eight, he understood.

Oh, I mean, so two people came to my front door.

Julie, who's over an amazing service, Novus and Limerick.

And another guy, Morris Crowe, who's a counsellor, psychotherapist, I think.

I remember opening the door thinking, how do you even know where I live?

And they come in.

And I just started firing questions at him.

So this couple of hours on, my mam had called, my sisters, people were, I was just, I'm in a daze.

Chris brings James out to play the PlayStation and I look at him and he starts laughing.

And I remember saying to him, I think I'm going to have to tell him again.

Am I going to have to?

Like, because we're just walking around like zombies and he was like,

explaining, you know, how a child's mind and it shuts down like it doesn't let it in.

And how they process it tiny bits by bit.

His dad, oh my God, was just his best friend.

He was, my husband was the biggest child ever.

When we go to barbecues at his sister's house or events, me and his sisters and brothers and husbands and wives, we'd sit around and we'd chat.

James would be off playing soccer with all his nieces and nephews.

I was looking through a few bits last night knowing that I was coming here today and I wrote down so much from the early days because your memory goes.