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Media: John Murray Interview With Averil Power

The_Conductor · 2013-07-27 07:54:54

Senator Averil Power was born in 1978, and her parents told her when she was 8 or 9 that she was adopted.. and then it was never mentioned again. She grew up in a small council house in Shankill, with her mum Jennifer and Dad Paul. She remembers initially being shocked.. but then it kind of made sense. She had always felt…

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Senator Averil Power was born in 1978, and her parents told her when she was 8 or 9 that she was adopted.. and then it was never mentioned again. She grew up in a small council house in Shankill, with her mum Jennifer and Dad Paul. She remembers initially being shocked.. but then it kind of made sense. She had always felt very different from the rest of her family.

Averil tells the story of the whole process of finding and meeting her birth mother and how it has changed her whole life.

John Murray's morning programme on RTE Radio one, yesterday morning, contained a very comprehensive interview with Senator Averil Power. Its well worth listening too.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-john-murray-show/

Choose 'Friday the 26th July'
The adoption clip is hyper linked into the RTE player both on the right hand side of the screen, and you can also scroll down and open it directly.

I'm not linking directly to it, as RTE have obfuscated their links with several pages of Javascript, and I just don't have the time to try figure what on earth its purpose is. Use the above link to get into the John Murray Show podcasts- and its in yesterdays batch.

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