Marie Gleeson

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

And I had an uncle in the army.

I was used to running around fields.

I probably didn't see myself doing a nine to five job realistically.

So the army was the one I wanted.

And unfortunately, my life took a bit of a off the rails moment on a number of different factors that I talk about in the book.

So the trajectory that I was on, I came off, didn't get the army, just missed out.

And then the Navy had only just imagined started taking women in the mid 1990s, which is crazy when you think about it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I suppose eldest daughter would have been, you know, ticking all the boxes, driven, committed, loved being out and about.

So would have done very well at school, done well in sports, done well in, you know, on plays and shows and stuff.

So when I was 16, there was kind of a coordination of different events happened.

So our school had been in a convent for two years, you know, 60 of us.

We all knew each other really well.

The teachers knew us really well.

And then they amalgamated the three schools in the town in Cashel, the Brothers, the Tech and the convent.

So suddenly it was this massive school.