Noel Cunningham
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224 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
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Well, I am so delighted to be here and I do not want to be that curmudgeonly old uncle who wags the finger and tells the children to stop drinking and start behaving themselves.
I want people to embrace summer, embrace our beautiful weather, have a barbecue, enjoy it.
And a few maybe little tips along the way as to how to overcome some of those hurdles we face as recovering alcoholics, because it's not easy.
Yeah, you know, it's one of those things, it's very hard to pinpoint when you cross that line, when you suddenly go from being a person who enjoys a drink to a person who has a real problem.
And I suppose my problem began very early in life because part of my own insecurity was,
probably some bullying, my own situation sort of in rural Ireland being gay.
There were so many combinations of things going on that alcohol became a friend from when I was very young because it gave me that I didn't have that little bit of confidence to just face the world and try to, in some way...
get through the day, get through the time that lay ahead and hope that somehow or other things would get better.
It turns and I honestly, as I said, I can't pinpoint where I did that turn from having a job
a nice place to live, my car, all of those things that we kind of take for granted when you're working hard and doing quite well, to a point where I lost my job, my home, my car.
I was rummaging around, you know, in my sitting room, seeing if some coins went down the back of the cushions, that I could go out and buy some more wine.
And it's very hard, as I say, to pinpoint when that change took place.
It was...
In my case, honestly, a gradual thing from when I was very young, of that I'm sure.
absolutely because one thing people like me can't avoid is the fact that we are who we are and from an early stage we are sort of picked out as being different you know in whatever way you want to kind of uh put a label on that you know even back in the 50s and 60s somehow or other you stood out from the crowd who went playing ga at weekends who were involved
and encouraged to play, who were encouraged to take up farming, who were encouraged to be one of the boys.
But you were isolated somewhat.
You were left on the fringes of that because you were different.
And nowhere like rural Ireland in those days to hammer that home, even though
It was hard to put a name on it.
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