What a Difference a Day Makes with Róisín Maher: I nearly died... but it drove me to find my voice

From a shocking car accident eight years ago came the realisation of her one precious life — and a four-day music festival that celebrates women performers. Co-founder of Finding a Voice Róisín Maher talks to Helen O’Callaghan

Róisín Maher, co-founder of Finding a Voice festival at her home in Courtmacsherry, County Cork. Picture: David Creedon

It was a Sunday lunchtime, February 2017, a beautiful day, the sun shining. I was driving from West Cork to the city to look at a piano I was going to buy. 

My 10-year-old daughter was going to come but at the last moment didn’t.