Musician Caroline Corr has said she finds it hard to return back to her hometown since the death of her parents.
The sister of one of Ireland’s most famous families lives in Spain with her three children but says she makes it back to Ireland as much as she can – but not to Dundalk in Co Louth.
Jean Corr died suddenly in 1999 of a rare lung condition at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the UK. She was waiting for a lung transplant at the time of her death. Their father Gerry died in 2015 in the Mater Hospital in Dublin, aged 82.
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Opening up about returning home to Dundalk, Caroline admitted it reminds her too much of the past.
She said on Instagram: "I do miss Ireland, but do you know, it is always in my heart, and it is part of me. You know what they say – you can take the girl out of Ireland but you can’t take Ireland out of the girl.
"So I have that with me and I do return often enough. I have been back to Dundalk, the home of my parents and my childhood. I don’t tend to return so often because I suppose I miss them so much because they are no longer with us, and I don’t really like to walk over the past.
"I like to think of the future and again, also to bring them with me in my heart."
Her sister Andrea previously opened about how the death of their parents took its toll on each one of her siblings.
"There's a real shift when your parents die; you're now the top layer of the family and it makes you aware of your mortality," she said.
"It left me with this overwhelming need to write everything down, so as not to lose our strange family story."
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