The 92-year-old Irishwoman in Pakistan: ‘I would love to come home one last time’

Finally, in 1972, I desperately needed a change and my thoughts turned to Pakistan.

As soon as I arrived in Karachi, I immediately loved just how different everything was. It was a world away from Borrisokane.Karachi was going through troubled times in the 1970s, and there was a military curfew in place. One day there was a knock on my door and there were two army officers standing there to ask whether I would like a curfew pass. For one of the officers and me it was love at first sight. He came back the next day to ask how I was, and the rest is history.

When we returned in 1985 my husband was promoted to the rank of colonel and became the commanding officer of a battalion. He was posted close to the Afghan border, to a place called Parachinar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. When my husband was briefly posted to a garrison in the Punjab, an Irish priest working in the area heard rumours of an Irish woman living close by. He tracked me down and came around to introduce himself. When we started talking you could have knocked me down with a feather. His name was Fr Flynn and he was from none other than Borrisokane!He was younger than me, so we had not known each other back home, but our families were well acquainted.

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