""I remember one particular night at three o'clock in the morning and she was having a really, really difficult night. The rain was lashing; we were in a storm. And I said 'Right, come on, let's walk to Seapoint' and she said 'We can't walk to Seapoint in the rain'. And I said 'Yes we can' and we did. And we sat at 3:00 in the morning, me and Anne and a guy who'd obviously taken quite a lot of something and just looked out at the sea for an hour and then walked back. That was that time to distract.""
""My beautiful wife Anne passed yesterday morning after living with cancer for six years. She was an amazing, brave woman who lived life to the very end. Her smile will never be forgotten.""
""I thought the first thing I was going to do after Anne passed was sell the bed. The bed, not the house, the bed. Because we had this super king-sized bed and we had it so long the kids grew up in it as well, you know. And I said, 'I can't get""
Muireann O'Connell will release a new episode each month of a six-part podcast series. O'Connell presents Ireland AM alongside Tommy Bowe and Alan Hughes and will interview guests about their experiences of losing loved ones. The hosting site was sold to the Irish Times in 2024 after being established by siblings Jay and Dymphna Coleman from Dundalk, Co Louth. The first episode features broadcaster Colm Hayes reflecting on the death of his wife Anne Laird-Caffrey following a six-year battle with breast cancer. Hayes recounts difficult nights, walking to Seapoint to distract, an Instagram tribute, and an evolving relationship with grief.
Read at Irish Independent
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