Mary Coughlan
speaker
275 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Mary Coughlan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He has Parkinson's now and he's very, he's not great at the minute.
But he said, it seems every time I had a child, I dropped a tone.
Changed a bit, yeah.
And it's deep now and I can feel it when I'm singing.
like a vibration and not like I'm not a hippie.
I used to be a hippie, but I can actually feel, you know, it's weird.
No, I mean, I wrote most of the last two albums myself, which is great.
I never had the confidence to write before.
I've written a couple, but the last album is called Repeat Rewind.
And when I stopped drinking all those years ago, I couldn't sleep at night.
Mm hmm.
And I used to count sheep and I couldn't ever see the sheep or see, you know, didn't really make sense to me.
So one night I decided, I started thinking about Chantella and all of the people who lived on Ash Road.
And I would start at the bottom, then at Dooley's and I'd go all the way up to the top.
Named them all in your mind.
And then I started Mulvane's this side and go all the way down that side and name all the kids in all the houses.
And then I'd wake up in the morning.
So I wrote the song.
It's about Chantella.
It's about the nun, Sister Pius, that I was madly in love with.
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