'Surrogate' gran wins kids hearts with online bedtime stories

Marie Hughes from Galway could not see her grandchildren due to social distancing measures and started to read them online bedtime stories.

A loving gran who can't see her grandchildren because of Covid-19's social distancing has started reading them online bedtime stories - and other kids are fast adopting her as their own surrogate nan.

Maire Hughes from Ahascragh, Galway was missing her grandchildren so much that she asked her daughter Aisling to film her reading the younger ones a bedtime story on her Instagram page, The Irish Horse Life, last Thursday.