Moya Brennan, RIP

Moya Brennan (Máire Ní Bhraonáin) was laid to rest in Donegal this week. Her beautiful voice enthralled the world. She had spoken often of her deep faith and her profound regret after an abortion at a young age, saying it "really had a profound affect on me and left me feeling really, really empty on the inside".

Ar dheis lámh Dé go raibh a hanam uasal. Comhbhrón ó chroí lena clann uilig. 

In an article printed in Reality Magazine (June 2004), Moya spoke about her life and her regret. 

“Throughout all those years, I appeared, to the outside eye, a happy, party-loving woman. Yet in all that time I didn’t like myself very much. I drank too much, did drugs, and when I was young had an abortion. That really had a profound affect on me and left me feeling really, really empty on the inside. I had got married, and my marriage broke up. I felt I had failed and my self-image went to pieces. Everything was crumbling. I was losing my voice because I was smoking too much.

“Things came to a head at the peak of my fame as a singer when I had a miscarriage. After that happened, I finally decided the time had come for me to sort out my life once and for all.”

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Source: https://www.catholicireland.net/finding-light-after-darkness/