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I Grieved That It Was Over., mentioned Nicky and G
Topic Started: Apr 24 2007, 01:00 PM (141 Views)
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MIRIAM Ahern has admitted that she believed her marriage to Bertie was going to last a lifetime.

In a frank interview, the Taoiseach's estranged wife has recalled how devastated she was by the breakdown of their union.

Mrs Ahern lifted the lid, not only on her marriage, but also on raising their children and her devastating split from Bertie. And she told how she vividly remembered meeting Patrick Bartholomew Ahern or the 'long haired weird one', as she described him.

'He had long hair,' she said, adding: 'He had what do you call them?

Sideburns, as well. It was the 70s. Everyone did. It was his Elvis-y look.' Notwithstanding his unorthodox looks, Miriam Kelly, then a 21-year-old AIB bank official, and rising political star Bertie tied the knot on his 24th birthday, September 12, 1975.

They would go on to have two daughters, Georgina and Cecelia. Georgina's own marriage to Westlife's Nicky Byrne resulted in twins, Rocco and Jay, who were born last Friday.

In her interview with the Sunday Independent's Life magazine, given shortly before their birth, Miriam described how she was looking forward to their arrival.

'I'm getting more and more excited as the date grows nearer,' she said.

'I can't wait to be a grandmother.' But, as has been well documented, Miriam and Bertie's relationship would not have such a happy ending.

They separated in 1992, and although they have stayed close friends for the sake of the children, the break-up was far from easy for Miriam.

'When the marriage ended I grieved that it was over, because obviously I thought that it was going to last a lifetime,' she said.

It was a difficult time, made harder because it was played out in the public eye, and because Miriam did not know anyone else who had gone through the same thing.

But, with the help of her close friends, she dealt with it.

'I don't really want to go into the past a lot of time has gone by. I have lovely memories of my marriage, but I don't really want to go back and revisit it,' she said.

But she added: 'I learned from the situation. I think there are certain situations in life if you don't learn from them, then it's a waste of time having been in the situation. And I think when you're in a relationship and it doesn't work, there isn't only bad in that relationship. You have to take the good out of it as well.' Yesterday's article included a claim from the interviewer that, as it was her 'first major interview', Miriam 'can hardly be accused of the black arts of spinning her own story'.

But observers couldn't help but note that it seemed rather more than a coincidence that it appeared as her husband prepares for the toughest election of his 30-year parliamentary career.

In the interview, Miriam also spoke of her pride in her two 'lovely natured' children, whom she encouraged to develop their own thoughts.

'I never had any problems with them. They were both very different personalities. You could also see that in their reaction to things, and their interests,' she mused.

She said she loved reading Cecelia's manuscripts for her bestselling books, and added that her daughter's latest novel will be completely different again from anything which has gone before.

'I think Cecelia always loved her writing,' she said. 'She loved handwriting from an early age. She has a nice, neat hand, and she was very good at that from the start. I remember that, in her secondary school years, I enjoyed reading her essays.

'Some were amusing and some were serious. But she had a really good turn of phrase. I enjoy reading them.' I f Cecelia had written her mother's life story, she would have to include the happy ending Miriam's new love she has found with restaurateur Terry McCoy.

She has been a regular on the Dublin social circuit with the ponytailed owner of the award-winning Skerries restaurant The Red Bank.

It had taken her more than a decade to begin a new relationship after her split with Bertie, but she said, simply, that the time was right.

'I just needed the right person.

And you know, that just happens when it happens,' she explained, shyly.

'We met through a golfing society.

I knew Terry and his late wife Margaret for many years. Margaret sadly died a few years ago. So it wasn't like bumping into him. I had known him.

'I'm very happy. That's nice, isn't it,' she smiled.

source Gitta@ http://www.nishakimabry.de.vu/
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