Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland

This week I sit down with Althea Griffin who shares her deeply moving story of losing both of her parents at a very young age. By just 15 she had already faced unimaginable grief carrying the weight o...

14 Sep 20251h 27min

This week on Family Flowers Only, I’ve partnered with the Road Safety Authority to highlight the dangers of drink driving.My guest is Laura Hynes who shares her heartbreaking story of being in a car c...

7 Sep 20251h 17min

This week I sit down with Abaigéal Warfield who shares her moving story of love and loss from a very young age. Abaigéal never knew her father growing up but when she reconnected with him at 16 they b...

31 Aug 20251h 23min

This week, I sit down with PJ Haverty, who shares his powerful story of being born in the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam in the 1950s. PJ’s mother was sent there after becoming pregnant out of wedlock, ...

24 Aug 20251h 24min

This week on Family Flowers Only , I sit down with Helen Groarke . Helen speaks so openly about the devastating loss of her mum Ada to COPD, a woman she described as her best friend. Just two weeks la...

17 Aug 20251h 17min

This week, I sit down with 17-year-old Niamh Ruane a remarkable young woman whose wisdom and honesty left me in awe. At just 15, Niamh lost her dad to pancreatic cancer, nine months after his diagnosi...

10 Aug 20251h 26min

This week, I sat down with Dermot Joyce , who shared the deeply moving story of loosing his wife Audrey to cancer. Dermot speaks so honestly about walking the cancer journey by her side, the fear, the...

3 Aug 20251h 16min

This week, I sat down with Chris O’Connor , who shared the heartbreaking loss of his dad, James O'Connor who died while attempting to summit Mount Kilimanjaro on the morning of his 40th birthday. Ch...

20 Juli 20251h 2min