“My time with Cork Simon was formative. And when I say formative, I mean informing, inspirational…believing in people, believing there’s more we can do and there’s more we ought to be doing.

I was growing and we were growing. I was contributing something in a context of a community of people including the residents.

In that sense, John Street or Anderson Quay, or any of the houses is what it is because of the staff, the volunteers, the residents; that’s the community of people and whatever I’ve done or contributed, my story, is in the context of that – community.”