""So, we came in the door, and there used to be a table out here, and I could hardly speak, I was so nervous about telling them, and I said 'I have something to tell you, I'm expecting'. When she was in her twenties, Niamh met musician Paul Megahey, who would eventually become her husband and the father of her two sons.""
""Now, we weren't married and that's why this was a bit of a problem, and honestly it was a bit shocking for them, but it was of its time... it was a big thing. "Growing up it was the worst... it was tough. It was the big fear of your mother if you have daughters. God, I will never forget it. I can still see myself sitting there.""
""This is kinda where everything happened really, that changed the whole trajectory of my life really," she says of that house she first moved into at the age of 23 and where she returned to after winning the Eurovision in Millstreet. Niamh now lives with her family in Paul's native Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, and describes how in 2018 she got a shocking phone call from her eldest son while she was on stage in Cork."
Niamh Kavanagh returned to the Glasnevin family home where pivotal personal moments occurred, including an unexpected pregnancy in her twenties and the social shock of being unmarried. The house holds many memorable stories and marked the place she first lived at 23 and later returned to after winning Eurovision in 1997 with "In Your Eyes," a victory that altered her life's trajectory. She now lives in Carrickfergus with her family. In 2018 her husband, Paul Megahey, suffered a stroke; she received the call while on stage and subsequently learned about strokes while supporting his recovery and reassuring him it would be okay.
Read at Irish Independent
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