In her last interview before her death at 90 this week, Kathleen Watkins told the Sunday Independent about the richness of her life with husband Gay Byrne, the ebb and flow of grief, and why she’s prepared for when ‘God calls her’
Gay Byrne and Kathleen Watkins’ family album
First published in September 2024
‘I’m a divil for the early mornings,” Kathleen Watkins says, offering me tea in her home in Ballsbridge. It is something that stayed with her since being taught by the nuns as a child.
