Family Flowers Only with Andrea Gilligan
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Hey everybody, I am in studios in Dublin today and I am joined with the ultimate professional across from me, one of my favourite radio presenters, Andrea Gilligan. You're very welcome. Thank you very much. That is a fabulous, a lovely introduction. Thank you very much. I am very privileged to have you here today. I asked you, I suppose we've chatted. Yeah, you've been on the show. I've been on the show. You've been on Lunchtime Live a few times with us. Talking about different things in relation to grief. Yeah. And somehow, well not somehow, I suppose when we're talking about grief, obviously I have my own experience of it.
Yeah.
During the throes of those conversations, I had mentioned, you know, once or twice about my dad and my dad passing away. And then you then very kindly invited me to join the podcast. Yeah, so I really wanted to get you on, as I said, because I and that's part of the reason why I really admired that show, because you talk about grief and you're not afraid to bring it up and debate it and discuss it. And I know from my community, people really wanted spoken about it. One of the days I was on, we were chatting about leave from work. And people just loved to hear it being spoke about. So that's why I really like what you're doing. So you have your own story with the loss. So you lost your dad, Gerry. But as I always do on this podcast, which is so important, because sometimes we just talk about what happened.
But there's a person behind that. So will you tell me about growing up? What was your dad like? What was dad like? Um... Well, I'd say, oh God, right, he was a huge figure in my life. Like, we would have been extremely close. I was the eldest child. There's only myself and my younger sister, so. Oh, is that all? Very small family, yeah. And we both would be extremely, extremely close with him, would have had great relationships with him. So he was a vet, so I would have spent an awful lot of my childhood, my kind of very young childhood, going out and about these are kind of my earliest memories like kind of going out and about and doing calls with him so he was always working okay um he had a small he had a practice in in south dunny gall uh like a large animal big practice and obviously in a rural area so he would have worked an awful lot like he would have been a an exceptionally hard worker like i would have always even known that as a child that he was probably a workaholic because he was kind of
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