RTE star Marty Morrissey has revealed he placed a copy of his book inside his mother’s coffin, along with a note telling her he would see her again someday.
The sports commentator was left devastated last December after his 94-year-old mother Peggy was tragically killed in a car crash near Annagh at Miltown Malbay in Clare.
Marty revealed he put his book, It’s Marty, inside her coffin, along with a picture of him, his mother and his father, Martin, who died 17 years ago. He also placed a letter in her coffin telling her he would see her again someday.
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The 63-year-old said: “After the book was published, she’d come in from Mass, pick it up and go out into the sun lounge.
“One day, I asked had she read it and she said, ‘I’m still reading it’.
“And I said to her, ‘I bet you E100 that you’re only reading the bits about yourself!’ and she burst out laughing.
“I put the book in the coffin with her, together with a photograph of the three of us.
“I wrote her a little letter and said I’d see her again someday,” he told the Rte Guide.
Marty admitted he finds Mondays strange now since his beloved mother’s passing.
“I find Mondays strange now because that was usually my day with mom. She was a social animal and just loved meeting people.
“And I could hear her voice in the last few weeks knowing that these interviews with the Late Late Show and the RTE Guide were coming.”
He said he had “avoided” talking about her because it is too difficult.
“Work is fine. The red light comes on the camera and you do your news report and the match commentary and then you go home.
“But this was different, revealing myself, talking about mom.
“But I could hear her voice in my head, saying ‘Cop on to yourself Marty and just get on with it’.
“So I did and I feel that she’s still with me now.”
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