Mary Kennedy

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362 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Jul

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Brendan O'Connor · Mary Kennedy - “I’m at an age now where I don’t care what people think of me” · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

And I would love to know what it would have been like to have had an adult relationship with him because he was a gorgeous man, great fun and great community person.

But, you know, a great dad.

I was.

I was teaching English in France and just going off with my flatmate on a holiday to Spain for the Easter holidays.

And I got a phone call from my uncle who lived next door because my mother and her sister lived next door to each other.

They got married and bought houses side by side.

And he said, you're going to have to come home because your dad has had a turn.

Now, he was actually deaf.

dead by that stage, Brendan.

He had a sudden heart attack on the golf course and that was it.

And I... But I don't know.

I was 21 and I just didn't believe it.

I just felt that he'd had a turn.

But it's funny because I had to leave very early in the morning.

We were living in Wren in Brittany and I was...

carting my suitcase up to the train station to get to Paris to get a flight.

And a couple stopped and they were English tourists.

It was six o'clock in the morning and they said, can we help you?

And they brought me to the train station.

I explained to them.

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