“I think maybe now there’s more realisation, it’s almost like a death really. Whereas back then it was just, you pick yourself up and you get on with it. I think that’s what we did”.Having to go to work that night was “very hard. To go on and do a comedy show. My wife was very upset. I was upset as well. You were building towards it, and you were expecting, and it doesn’t happen. And, suddenly, it’s all over.
Pat spent a lot of Faye’s early life away from his daughter due to travelling commitments with work. “I think it really hit me when I went to America on tour with Jon [Kenny]. Faye was about one and she was nearly two when I came back. And she didn’t recognise me in the airport. She got a fright when I came over to her and I got very upset. Myself and Caroline then said, that’s it, no more extensive touring.
The couple’s third child was son Lughaidh and Pat noticed the difference in rearing boys and girls from quite early on. “There’s no question of it, as the saying goes ‘the girls wreck your head, the boys wreck the house’. Never was there a truer thing ever. The girls are as cute, they would wrap you around their finger when they were only two, three, four and five.
All my kids are quite strong. I don’t think any of them ever felt that there was a stigma attached to anything they were doing “You get along with life, your mother’s not there, but you just get on with life. You’ve no choice. There’s a big gang in the house, 11 siblings, and you just get on with things . And it’s only then, a moment like that happens, you begin to realise ‘hang on, I’m a bit different to everybody else in the room here’ . . . and you begin to think about it”
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