Jenny Friel
speaker
2,970 appearances
27 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Jenny Friel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I suppose maybe Clodagh Hall's situation was a little bit difficult in that we know from Jacqueline Connolly's book and interviews that she's given is that she would have said that he was incredibly controlling.
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And, you know, it had a detrimental effect on her relationship with her sister because of that.
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She gives an example of like when that she was going to be a bridesmaid for their wedding.
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He insisted on going bridesmaid shopping with them.
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There was also a very insular relationship in that
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it became apparent to her that everything she confided in her and her sister, she then passed on to Alan.
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And then when Jacqueline would have confronted or would have asked her about this, she said, well, yes, I do tell my husband everything.
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And to the point where she was showing all of the texts that she was receiving from Jacqueline to Alan as well.
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So perhaps a little different, perhaps the flags were a little redder in that context.
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But to the outside world, and certainly this was part of the problem, the press coverage afterwards that Jacqueline and her mum Mary would have, you know, would have taken issue with, is that people did talk about Alan Haw as if he was a fine pillar of the community.
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He was clearly quite close to the local priest there as well.
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The local priest was one of the few people to speak out in his, I suppose, in honour of him saying what a good man he was and that this was a not really shocking event.
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But you spoke to Sarah Benson, the head of Women's Aid, about this.
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She said to you that she believes that there shouldn't be any attempt to try and rationally explain why someone would do this.
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And because she, and I'll quote from your piece here, we keep having these never again moments.
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And in that year, in 2016, we'd not had any violent deaths and we were holding our breaths.
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And then this catastrophic event took place in Cavan.
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There was a huge fallout from that place, including a lot of scrutiny about how the press covered the cases and how we think about them.
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our instinctive urge is to try and explain the violent act of an individual.
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But she did say that there has been a lot of positive change in terms of how the press tends to approach these cases now.
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