Mary Coughlan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, still criticising myself like that, you know, but yeah.
Put the hands in the pockets and close the eyes and gone.
Siobhan McHugh and what's his name?
He passed away last year.
Shea Healy set up this thing called Sounds Promising and you had to send in a cassette of yourself singing two songs and we got picked.
We came up to RTE, to this big studio in RTE and Gae Burn was walking by when they were mixing it and he said, who's that?
And I said, it's a mother of three from Galway.
And he said, can I pinch her for the Late Late Show?
The whole business has been life-changing for me.
I mean, I left Galway with the three kids.
I had left my husband, Denny, my first husband, and...
with the three kids under six.
I put them into the car, a few plastic bags of clothes and came up to Dublin.
I'm glad I did it though because I wrote a song a few years ago called In Another World, What Would I Have Done?