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But basically...

They were at home and we were either, we were in Dublin, maybe coming home for weekends.

When his chemo started, he would be down for a couple of days and then you were home.

And then, but that was every couple, you know, you were no sooner home and kind of settled than you were away again.

And that's what was very hard on them, that they were there kind of.

Abandoned by us, sort of, but we're very fortunate that we had support of family and friends.

They were only young as well.

The boys would have, I think Dara was about 13, so Dara would have been aware of the situation.

Aaron was aware that when he transferred from Letterkenny, we told him that there was a lump in his head and that it was growing and the doctors in Dublin hopefully would be able to fix it for him.

He was aware, of course he was sick, there was one evening, both of us, he was in the bed beside me and he was playing with his DS and

There was actually an episode of ER on the television and he said to me, he says, Mum, he says, I have cancer, don't I?

And I thought, where do I go here?

And he says, yes, I says, I do.

Am I going to die?

And I just said, I says, Erin, I don't know.

I says, you're on medication.

I says, some medication works, some medication doesn't work.

So I says, I can't answer that question for sure for you.

And he just turned back over and carried on with his DS and that was it.

And