‘I cried the whole way home after leaving him in the nursing home’ – actor Una Crawford O’Brien on the toll of her husband’s dementia

Fair City star tells Barry Egan about the emotional impact of realising her husband, fellow actor Bryan Murray, needed the care of others when his Alzheimer’s deteriorated

Living the Long Goodbye

On the wall of her Rathgar kitchen are a series of pictures of a baby. It is Sorcha, Una Crawford O’Brien’s late child.

It was her birthday on March 15. She would have been 36 this month.