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18th September 2019
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"I met Mary Robinson last year and I was delighted. Everyone was saying 'Oh my god, you're meeting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle' and, not that I couldn't care less, but that was of less importance to me than meeting the rugby players who were on the guest list – I'm big into the sport. "I didn't know that Mary Robinson was going to be there and I spotted her and said I'd love to go over and say hello. I was talking to Simon Coveney and he said: 'Would you believe I met her inside and she said she wanted to meet you?' I was like: 'What? Really? She wants to meet me?' It was a fangirl thing! "I was so delighted to meet her. I think she was a great President, and now she's doing some fantastic work. She's really, really nice and she's great fun actually. You see these people and you put them up on a pedestal and then you meet them and they're actually lovely."
You can join Vicky Phelan for live talks, supported by Her, about her remarkable story in Cork and Limerick this month. Tickets are €20 and include a copy of Overcoming.
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