John Sweetman
speaker
14,352 appearances
33 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5d ago
John Sweetman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Although Annie and Anne had always been perfectly content on their own, John's arrival was a welcome one.
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He drove them to mass, helped with jobs around the house, and tackled the kind of tasks Annie could never quite get around to.
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Fixing shelves, hanging wallpaper, and carrying out odd repairs.
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As the relationship settled into routine, Annie gradually relaxed the rules.
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John was allowed to stay the night, just so long as Anne remained in her own room, without John.
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By the second year of their relationship, he had been given his own key to the front door.
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For the first time since Anne was a little girl, a man had become part of their daily lives, sleeping under the same roof and sharing the routines that had long belonged only to her and her mother.
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By the summer of 1988, Anne had passed her leaving cert and started to think seriously about what came next.
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Unsure of the career she wanted, she enrolled on a secretarial course while picking up extra money through part-time jobs in a local shop and waitressing at weddings.
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More and more, she spoke about America.
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Like many young Irish people of her generation, she dreamed of getting a green card and trying her luck abroad.
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For the first time, the future she imagined stretched far beyond the familiar streets of Ballybuffet and Stranallar.
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As Anne's horizons widened, subtle changes began to appear in her relationship with John Gallagher.
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Anne loved music and dancing and could spend hours in her bedroom listening to records.
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Everything from The Cure to Kylie Minogue.
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In July 1988, John travelled to Cork for a Michael Jackson concert with a group of friends that included several other girls.
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Anne was hurt by the decision.
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She felt there was one set of rules for him and another for her.
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She knew that if the roles had been reversed and she had announced plans to travel away with a group of male friends, John would almost certainly have been furious.
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The couple argued about it.
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