Stories don’t come much truer than Peggy’s. We sit down with a woman who grew up fast as the eldest daughter in a family of ten, crossed Dublin’s invisible river from southside to northside, and carried both duty and defiance in the same pair of hands. She takes us from coal cupboards and convent corridors to maxis on the dancefloor, from ledgers at Easons to late nights at the Blind Beggar, where being Irish in the East End during the Troubles could turn a room in an instant.

What stays with you are the contrasts. Peggy is deeply spiritual but clear-eyed about church failings. She’s quick with a laugh yet unflinching as she recounts her brother George’s disappearance and the year-late discovery of his death by suicide. The most haunting scene unfolds on a crowded London platform: a young man rolling up his trouser legs, a city’s numbness, and an aspiring priest who climbs down to hold a stranger’s hand and give last rites—an act that redirects his own life toward service. From that terrible hour, Peggy writes One Hour in Time, a piece that RTE picks up, bringing her back to an unmarked grave and a measure of closure she didn’t expect.

Threaded through is a love story that arrives sideways. Barry shows up with quiet courage—making tea when there are no words and taking two weeks off work to help her mother navigate hospitals, records, and locked doors. Peggy also revisits her complicated bond with her father, choosing forgiveness without forgetting, and the small, comic legends that make a life: graveyard angels, counterfeit coins, and the ironclad vow never to press a man’s shirt again.

If you value memoirs that hold humour and heartbreak in the same breath, this conversation will sit with you. Follow the journey for its honesty; stay for the grace Peggy extends to herself and others. Listen, share with someone who needs its gentleness, and if it moved you, subscribe and leave a review—what moment will you carry with you?

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A tiny estate can hold an entire world. We open up about growing up in the courts—where neighbours watched your back, aunties’ coins bought sovereigns and sweets, and freedom stretched from the green to the last bus home. It’s a fast, funny, and raw tour through the memories that made us: first babysitting gigs at fourteen, silver van shop runs, drama clubs and John Player Toppers, idol crushes and DIY auditions in someone’s kitchen, and the prank that sent a curry to the wrong door and us straight into parental justice.

Our story turns toward summer as we relive Rush: a shack sold to our imaginations as a mansion, surfboards without life vests, caravans, amusements and a mad run for the last bus. We talk about getting found out—how the estate’s quiet intelligence always knew—through handcuff mishaps, eyebrow slits, and a neighbour’s saw that saved the day. The laughs keep coming with ironing-hair disasters, sleepover toothpaste wars, and the snack canon of our youth: Chester slices, meanies, Monster Munch the way it used to be.

Underneath the craic sits the backbone of community. From coddle Saturdays and open nannies’ doors to a fundraiser that raised €25,000 in ten days, we trace how a place with little money built rich lives. We ask what’s been lost to screens and what’s worth protecting: the certainty you’d find a pal between your house and your nanny’s, street parties that ran long, and a freedom held safely by many hands. If you’ve ever missed the sound of your name carried across a court, this conversation brings you home.

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Going forward in a world with new buzz words like fluid situations, the new normal and we remain cautious, a time where so many people are looking for the answers to the big questions. In the Everywhere We Go podcast I am simply asking you to look back, relive past moments from your childhood,  tell your stories, share your memories, perhaps it will lead you to rekindle lost friendships. Growing up in Moatview Courts made me the person I am today, I had the best mates and we have some stories and I wanted to share those stories with you in the hope that you will hear a bit of your own in ours and just maybe you will want to share them with my audience and I. 

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