Noel Cunningham
speaker
224 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Noel Cunningham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because I had limited funds, not because I couldn't afford the flight.
I had limited funds to spend on alcohol.
So I came home from my sister and her husband's funerals and some other family members were involved, their children in that horrific accident.
And then...
When I came back a year later to their first year anniversary, again in the horrors of drink, trying to hide the shake, trying to hide the fact that I looked awful, trying to hide the fact that I wasn't my usual dapper self.
I remember so clearly their daughter calling me aside when we were having a bite of lunch after that Holy Mass and saying to me, Uncle Noel, you need to stop drinking.
And that was horrific.
I mean, that was like a sword into my heart because nobody can tell an addict what to do.
Nobody can put them on the right path apart from cajoling, coaxing, advising, supporting.
But my beloved niece, in one sentence, put me on that road.
And, of course, my late sister, Mary, divine intervention from above.
I always credit her with that.
And that was the start of my journey back to...
A life, as they say in the rooms, the AA rooms, a life you kind of never experience beyond your wildest dreams.
I had basically been unhappy from when I was about 10 or 12 years old.
I didn't know what it was like to smile in a real sense.
I was living a complete lie.
I lied, I cheated, I misled.
There were girls who crossed my path and I hurt them greatly.
And that wasn't the person that I was or that I am.
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