John Sweetman
speaker
13,785 appearances
32 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 15 Sep
John Sweetman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Her daughter's friends often said it looked like a doll's house.
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Always spic and span, with the rooms decorated by crocheted doilies and little vases.
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The idea of missing Sunday Mass simply wouldn't have occurred to her.
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She took no interest in politics, didn't like to miss watching Sunday night's episode of Glenrow on RTE television, and she occasionally went to bingo at the Isaac Budd Hall in Ballybuffet.
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Most of all, she seemed to live for Anne.
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By the time her daughter reached adulthood, she had been raised not only by her mother, but by an entire community, and her home at the edge of Ballybuffet was often filled with visitors.
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One of their most frequent visitors was Anne's boyfriend, John.
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Anne had fallen for him after meeting him at a local disco three and a half years earlier.
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She was fourteen years old and he was eighteen.
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He lived twenty minutes away in Lifford, just across the county from Ballybuffet, but he already had his driving licence and it wasn't long before he was collecting Anne from school in the evenings.
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Like most teenagers at the time, they spent their free hours at dances and discos in village halls across Donegal or over the border in Oma.
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When they weren't out together, John was usually at the Gillespie house.
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He rarely wanted to spend an evening apart from Anne.
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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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