Beginner's pluck with Maria Hoey

Maria Hoey left school at 16 and took an office job in Swords, Co Dublin.

Beginner's pluck with Maria Hoey

“I always hated school. I took my Leaving Certificate myself, in 1979.”

She married at 20, had a daughter at 21, but two years later she left the marriage, taking her daughter with her.

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