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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Appearances
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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It was not the disagreement itself that stood out, but Anne's response.
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Friends and family had rarely seen her challenge John before.
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Now she did, and once she began, something shifted.
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Anne was no longer the 14-year-old girl who had fallen for him three and a half years earlier.
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People noticed that she was becoming more independent, more confident, and increasingly excited by possibilities that lay beyond Donegal.
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When she spoke about the future, John was not always part of the picture.
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Those around them noticed the change.
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