Former Tanaiste Joan Burton reveals her hands were “bandaged from eating my fingernails away” as she tells of her experience living in a Mother and Baby home.
On Sunday night, viewers will watch as Ms Burton makes a return to the Mother and Baby home with host Brendan Courtney on his RTE One show Keys To My Life. READ MORE: Mrs Brown's Boys star Eilish O'Carroll tells of 'numbness' over the death of abusive first husband “It kind of chimed in to what I’ve been told of Bridie coming in and me standing up in the cot. My hands were bandaged, I’d basically eaten my fingernails away.The former Labour Party leader also relives her tense time in Government during the traumatic Troika years.
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