Mandy Kelly

0818 715 815.

This is LiveLine on RTÉ Radio 1.

So good afternoon, Ciarán.

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to speak with you and your listeners this afternoon.

So it's exactly four years and three months since my two children, Zayn and Kareem, have slept in this room.

Which I'm actually sitting in at the moment.

Yes, I actually work in the room now.

It's the only place that I actually feel that I'm anywhere close to my children.

What happened was during that horrid nightmare from a holiday from hell, my mum, my kid's grandmother, had actually decorated the bedroom in anticipation for my two sons and us coming back as a surprise for the two boys.

Okay, so I've changed absolutely nothing.

The only thing that has changed is that I have my work, working from home kit in it.

All the boys' clothes are obviously still here and their toys and their belongings.

It's just, it's a small and cosy box room, so it is.

Even all the presents, you know, the boys would have got throughout the years as well.

It's

we left Ireland on what was supposed to be just a holiday for two weeks.

We had confirmed return flights back to Ireland two weeks before we even went.

We travelled.

My former partner and our two kids had gone to register Zane, my oldest son, who is now eight, for school, for primary school in the area.

And on that same day, my former partner had actually renewed his Irish visa.