Seventeen years growing up in Ireland, then 25 years working, travelling and living all over the world: I have dreamed about moving home. Yet at last we can take control of our own lives and not drift from country to country as the wind of jobs take us. “You left for a reason”; “You can’t make a go of it in Ireland”; the voices were relentless. A move back home to Ireland has been one of the hardest things we have ever done, it still is. We came to Ireland with no house, no school, no job - just a vision to be home.

Source: The Irish Times December 30, 2018 07:30 UTC