Previously married to a man who left her to go to England, she went on to have a relationship with a married man living locally and got pregnant when she was 35. She had every intention of keeping her baby, who would have been a sibling to her other son Joseph, before the authorities suddenly intervened. “A few days before she was due, a local garda and the priest and the doctor took her forcefully away from her house, down to Sean Ross Abbey,” he told RTÉ’s Ray D’Arcy Show. She would spend nearly 30 years wondering what had happened to her infant son who was taken away from her. But a determined Richard managed to track her down to her cottage near Clifden, Co Galway in 1990, much to her shock.