Katriona O'Sullivan
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2,100 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Katriona O'Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Her man wore an apron.
They had a chess board on the coffee table.
They had a study room.
Annette could choose to be good much easier than me.
Like I had an empty belly, a traumatized brain.
I had a family who didn't know anything really about education and didn't value it.
And I was being compared to her.
If I could have chose to be like Annette, oh God, I would have been.
And so like failing my maths was because sometimes the darkness that we have inside of us is,
is so hard to escape from and it's sometimes easier to live in that darkness and I failed my GCSEs despite the fact that Mr Pickering fought so hard for me.
It's one of the things that I really regret is that he never got to see
the longer term outcome because he passed away when I got into Trinity.
For those who don't know my story, why don't you know?
But for those who don't know, I grew up in a heroin addicted home.
I had a baby at 15, was homeless, left school, no qualifications, had these great teachers and eventually got into Trinity College.
And I'm a professor now in Maynooth University and I'm amazing.
That's a quick synopsis.
But Mr. Pickering,
When I got into Trinity and the day I got in, when I got the letter, I went to the phone box to ring him six years later because I wanted him to know.
I'm going to cry, actually.
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