What a difference a day makes: DJ Fionnuala Moran on meeting fiancé Rebel Phoenix

"There was no playing cool, no subtlety… but if someone has already said ‘marry me’, you know you don’t have to play it too cool."

Fionnuala Moran and fiancé Aaron Hartigan . Photograph Moya Nolan

It was a gorgeous sunny summer’s day, in July 2018. 

I’d been meeting up with pals, we’d been away for one of the girls’ birthdays and were having reunion drinks. We were at a gig – Mango X MathMan performing – in The Sound House on [Eden] Quay.