Author of 'Survive and Trive': I wasn’t going to give up

Breeda Hurley tells Helen O’Callaghan how enduring childhood poverty encouraged her ‘never-give-up’ attitude.

HIDING in a clump of nettles, hearing her name being called, nine-year-old Breeda Hurley was going nowhere.

It was 1959, her mother had just been hospitalised with TB and the powers-that-be were outside the family’s rural home at Caherleaheen, Tralee, ready to take six children into care.