Zoe Holohan

So we agreed to meet one afternoon for coffee.

I guess you could say what began as a coffee date turned into lunch, turned into sitting there until the cafe closed at around six or seven in the afternoon evening.

And we were getting on so well that we just extended the date.

We toddled off to a local bar

and decided to have a bite to eat and a few drinks there.

And immediately we just hit it off.

I kind of thought to myself, right, finally, that that doozy date run has ended.

Beyond the physical attraction, there were aspects to his personality that immediately I found attractive.

He was world-wise.

He was deeply respectful, gentlemanly.

He had a bit of a spirit of adventure about him.

He liked to travel.

But if I were going to describe him now, as I got to know him, I think the essence of Brian was he was a truly kind man.

He spent an awful lot of his spare time working in charities.

There's a service in Ireland called Blood Bikes.

Brian loved his motorbikes.

And Blood Bikes basically is a free of charge service where certain bikers travel all across the country with emergency medical supplies.

Sometimes it could be a heart transplant, a lung, it could be bloods.

And he would do this just because he wanted to help people.

I worked in advertising and sales and newspapers.