Maeve Madden

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Yes, it is years now.

I think it's probably well over a decade.

That was a very surreal and terrifying moment.

Obviously, very out of the blue.

We just got these alerts on our phone and were then told to shelter.

The hotel that I was in whilst I was there had created kind of like this makeshift bomb shelter, you know, in those big kind of ballrooms that they would have in the basements.

Yeah.

And all we could hear were missiles, you know, being intercepted above us and fighter jets.

So definitely a very terrifying and unsure moment.

I was lucky enough and privileged enough.

to be able to get the second flight out of Dubai and back to our gorgeous green island.

I was never so happy to land in Dublin Airport.

Yes, we have.

We recently bought a home here after, actually we've been, we were house hunting for quite a number of years.

So we've recently bought a home and I'm so, so happy to be back in Ireland.

People think the grass is greener elsewhere, but the grass is greenest in our country.

That's right.

So that's why we were lucky enough to travel and still do.