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Baba was born deep down inside the earth where she saw beauty and horror, magic and love. When she really opened her eyes all she could see was music.
This music, her song, this is her truth should you wish to inhale.
17/02/2026
Truth & Everything Before…
I was so honoured to be asked by to contribute to his new publication, Intervals: Short Stories From Between The Notes Of The Irish Music Scene.
It’s a beautiful new long-form project about contemporary Irish music, written by the people who make it, promote it, host it, analyse it, and live it. It’s written from the heart, with no punches pulled.
I’ve been lucky enough to read the other stories already, and I can honestly say it’s incredibly inspiring to hear from my peers across the Irish music scene. I’m very proud to be part of it.
Thank you for giving me the space to tell mine.
If you’d like to support this beautiful new publication, the link is in my bio 💗
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Happy birthday, baby boy 💔 3 today!
Never not missed, never not loved.
Apollo, our magic star man in the sky✨
I had planned to make a 2025 ‘highlights’ reel but honestly, I’m wrecked 😂 So instead, please enjoy this little video I found on my phone from when I played the Ruby Sessions last January.
It’s not perfect & that is very much the energy I’m bringing into 2026 🩷
2025 was an incredible year in so many ways. Finishing and releasing an album and then sharing it with the world was beyond anything I imagined. But alongside that came postnatal anxiety, a full-time day job, and being a full-time mama. I definitely pushed myself too hard and ended up burning out, so the last few months have been about slowing down, finding my feet again, and letting my nervous system settle.
So 2026 for me is the year of slow and steady.
Less hustle, more balance.
And honestly, thank you to my family, friends, and everyone who listens to my music, comes to shows, sends messages, and offers encouragement.
You carried me through this year more than you know x
HAPPY NEW YEAR BI***ES!
#2026
🌸Baby Loss Awareness 🌸
I wrote this song after my first miscarriage, ten years ago. Little did I know I’d go on to have three more, the last being a late miscarriage, our baby boy, Apollo.
Today is Baby Loss Remembrance Day, a day that honours all the babies who couldn’t stay. 💔
After bringing my baby girl safely into the world, I realised that while she’s the greatest healer, her presence also makes Apollo’s absence all the more apparent. I think about him most days. His ashes and little shrine are still in our room, and I talk to him often, asking for guidance.
I created this live piece in 2021 to help families, even in the smallest way, keep their losses alive. I asked people to send me the names of the babies they’d lost, because they deserve to be seen, spoken, and remembered.
If you’d like to add your babies name too, please do in the comments, It’s so important to remember that it wasn’t your fault. There was nothing you could have done. It just wasn’t their time, but we can still honour our babies who couldn’t stay. 🩷
Tonight, I’ll light a candle for Apollo, and hold you all in my heart.
As always, thank you for sharing your baby angels with me, it’s such an honour. 🤍
A whole year of Sad Party 🌸
I wrote it during lockdown, when everyone seemed to be thriving but I’m not sure any of us really were.
Since then, it’s taken on new meanings for me: a quiet reflection on the masks we wear, and the small lies we tell when we say “I’m grand.”
It feels apt that it was released on World Mental Health Day.
Having had my fair share of twists and turns with mental health, and having recently been diagnosed with postnatal depression and anxiety, the best advice I can give is: talk.
To family, to friends, to your GP, to a counsellor, to your dog.
It’s the hardest, but best step you can take, it loses all its power once you do.
Well, that’s been my experience anyway. 🌸
P.S. Sad Party is song number 2 on my album TRUTH. Have a listen 💗
05/10/2025
National Breastfeeding Week 🩷
If you’d told me a week after Minnie was born that I’d still be breastfeeding 19 months later, I would’ve told you you were absolutely batsh*t crazy 😂
The first few weeks were the most painful, horrific and crushing weeks of my life. I felt so useless that my baby wasn’t feeding properly, that I couldn’t give her the nutrition she needed. I was triple feeding (b***y feeding, pumping and topping up with formula), in and out of hospital with mastitis, and just a shell of myself. It was a really lonely time.
But for some bizarre reason, I kept going. At 10 weeks, I attended the Holles Street breastfeeding support group and met an angel midwife called Ruby. She completely changed our feeding journey. She listened, encouraged, and was the first person to tell me that I could do it, if I wanted to. Twice a week for three weeks, she sat with me and helped rebuild my confidence and we haven’t looked back since.
I still don’t think there’s enough support for women and breastfeeding. That old trope; it’s the most natural thing in the world, everyone should be able to do it, is so damaging. Not everyone can or wants to do it, and that’s completely okay. It’s really fu***ng hard, and it can be brutal on your mental health. Too often, you’re dismissed from hospital and left to your own devices.
I love breastfeeding, but we still get very little sleep, and I’ll look to wind down in the next few months. Looking back, I probably should have given up for my own mental health but I figured that Minnie might be our only baby, given our journey, and that kept me going.
As always, I’m in awe of women those breastfeeding or not. We are all just trying our best 💗
18/09/2025
I’m so grateful for the love after my chat on the Mother podcast with the brilliant & It was so refreshing to sit and talk honestly about motherhood, music, miscarriage, postnatal anxiety and grief. Since it went out I’ve had so many DMs from women who’ve had miscarriages, who haven’t told anyone or don’t know where to turn. It blows my mind that women feel still feel like they have to carry shame & guilt around this 💔
I’m not a medical professional, but I will always make time to listen and share from my own experience, so send me a message anytime if you are in need 🌸
Being Apollo & Minnie’s mama is the greatest thing I’ve ever done and I’m so grateful everyday.
Pod here if anyone wants to listen - http://bit.ly/3I3aMEY
So much love again to everyone X
09/09/2025
Dreamy Lisbon 🌸 I love this place so much I named a song on my album after it 💗
Swipe for the coolest baby in town!
06/09/2025
Happy Anniversary, Daraface! 9 years married and almost 17 together somehow. We’ve endured more than most in our short/long years — it hasn’t always been easy, but we keep working hard and trying our best.
Back in Lisbon, one of our favourite places, this time with Minnie in tow. How lucky we are.
Here’s to 90 more 🩷
01/09/2025
Lots of new followers have arrived over the past few weeks (hi 👋), which is very lovely considering I’ve been MIA for much longer than I ever intended. So I thought I’d reintroduce myself & more importantly, my debut album Truth 🌸
I’m a singer, songwriter, mama, partner, and friend. I’m kind, open, anxious, and a little chaotic. Three months ago I released Truth, an album I am incredibly proud of, even if it took my brain a little while to come to terms with the mammoth task myself & undertook.
Four years in the making… long days, late nights, miscarriages, births, broken hearts, Kilfenora, Lisbon, LA, Dublin — Truth had it all.
When it came out, I burned out. I couldn’t give it the treatment it deserved. But after some rest, I’m back — and over the next month I’m going to revisit the album and introduce it properly again. It deserves that.
If you haven’t listened yet, please do (link in bio). And if you have, maybe give it another spin. Thank you for being so patient with me — I almost feel like I might be able to write some new songs soon 👀
Please enjoy some videos & photos from the album archive that I’d forgotten about. What a bloody time 😻
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