Determined to live happily ever after

Emma O’Riordan was raped by her father and bravely waived her right to anonymity to name him. She speaks ahead of her wedding today to Niamh Nolan.

TODAY Emma O’Riordan will walk down the aisle on the arm of her mother Helen and her stepfather Michael. The 25-year-old from Cork hopes the bridal march will mark a return to “normality” just eight weeks after seeing her own father jailed for 10 years for raping her.

Emma O’Riordan’s story touched the nation when she waived her right to anonymity outside the Central Criminal Court in May and named her 45-year-old father Patrick O’Riordan as a rapist.