This week’s guest on Grief Encounters has been an extremely familiar face on Irish television for nearly 2 decades. Nuala Carey joined Sasha and Venetia in studio to speak about her incredibly beautiful relationship with her father Maurice who passed away in November 2018. With a huge amount of bravery and compassion, Nuala has been using her platform as a way to exercise the conversation around grief, undoubtedly helping a huge amount of people up and down the length of the country.

Nuala’s father Maurice was a proud Corkoinian, and this was a hugely important part of his fabric. During his sickness Nuala did a huge amount of work to try and care for her father, but she considers her own involvement as an absolute given. “You have to be practical, this situation was not going to go on for two years, it was not even going to go on for one year, there was months in it. I didn’t care if I was stressed or busy, this was just something that we all had to give a push for, and have to give it 150%. For his sake and ours”

Nuala’s account of her time spent with her father was extremely special, and it gives a huge insight into what an empathetic and caring daughter she is. She believed that trying to live in the present was imperative for her dad’s morale when he was struggling with the illness. After a lot of time spent in St Vincent’s Hospital, Maurice was transferred to spend his last couple of days in Blackrock Hospice before slipping away extremely peacefully. Nuala was a genuinely terrific guest on this week’s podcast and her love and compassion is so evident in every second of her conversation with Sasha and Venetia. 

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