Sharon Corr: ‘Guys get more interesting looking. Women get past their sell-by date’

Sharon Corr on the double standards of ageing, Dundalk during the Troubles and her considered strategy for dealing with difficult people...

“I have faith in myself. I have faith in my children. I have faith in surviving.” Dress, Rotate, Brown Thomas. Photo: Dave Conachy

Barry Egan

Jean Corr died at the age of 57 in 1999. Her husband, Gerry, was 82 when he died in 2015. Some days Sharon Corr looks in the mirror and sees her father. Other days, it is her mother. She feels them both with her, in her.