Just because you've lived one life doesn't mean you have to perpetuate it in the next generation. Just because you have been brutalised doesn't mean you have to brutalise. You don't have to give in, but sometimes you have to have the balls to change things."

Her whole philosophy, she says is make the best of things - don't give in and don't give up.

"I want that on my epitaph," she laughs
Irish Times