'I needed to find out who Zoë Rocha was without being defined by the family' – The TV producer on family ties and forging her own path
Zoë Rocha’s first memory is of being in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, at five years of age with her grandparents, Michael and Kathleen Doolan. On a walk by the river, the child leaned over to have a better look. Her beret tumbled in. Panic ensued. “I managed to fish it out eventually,” she remembers. “I don’t know why that stays with me, but I’ve never forgotten that day.” An amateur psychologist might, perhaps, speculate as to the significance of a lost hat to the child of two fashion designers, John Rocha and Eily Doolan. Rocha was born in Dublin’s Mount Carmel hospital on Fe...
Source: independent.ie
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