Ireland

‘I would have had friends that go and take drugs and go out and drink….But for me, I was just so focused. I wanted a better life’

11-Sep-2022 01:30:00 | Irish Independent

Consider the choices, the dozens of crossroads Savannah McCarthy reached that shaped this particular destiny. Consider the six-year-old girl from Listowel, growing up in the Travelling community, choosing a football and a patch of grass over the hair straighteners and make-up favoured by her four sisters.