Mary Coughlan: 'I made many people's lives hell'

Mary Coughlan is Irish musical royalty and, like many of the best jazz and blues singers, her life has been a catalogue of pain, abuse and addiction, most of it centred on her familyIn the kitchen of her uncompleted new house in Bray, about half an hour outside Dublin, Mary Coughlan is making coffee. She explains that she moved in just seven weeks ago, and though there is much renovation work to do, she is relieved to be out of her former house, the one she shared with her second husband and the...

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