Jacqui Hurley: The greatest challenge I have faced in my life is overcoming grief

'Losing my brother was without a doubt the most difficult personal challenge I have had to overcome. I also lost my cousin to Sudden Cardiac Death.'

Jacqui Hurley for This Much I Know. Picture: Kieran Harnett

We’re a very close-knit family. In my own family, there’s my mum, dad, and my sister Triona. My brother Sean died in an accident 10 years ago, which is still hard to believe. As much as people say life goes on, it really does surprise you how quickly it passes. Thankfully in the last 10 years, we’ve had a huge amount of positives to help us all get through it and a lot of that has been down to building my own family with my husband Shane and our two fabulous kids Luke and Lily.

I think I was born to be in this line of work. My mum and dad would say from a very young age I knew exactly what I wanted to do. As a child, I used to walk around with a cardboard cut-out over my face, pretending it was a TV and telling them the news. I was always fascinated by the media and adored sport. To me, this is the dream job and I consider myself lucky to be doing it.