Early Life and Marriage
Foy is a retired dentist from Athy, County Kildare. Born in a private nursing home in the Irish Midlands, and at birth officially registered as a male with the first names Donal Mark. Foy was raised as a male, with five brothers and one sister.
From early childhood Foy was conscious of a feeling of ‘femininity’. This continued throughout boarding school at Clongowes Wood College from 1960 to 1965. Having obtained the Leaving Certificate, Foy started pre-med studies at University College Dublin, but changed to dentistry a year later. Foy graduated with a Bachelors degree in Dental Surgery in 1971, and began to practice as a dentist.
In 1975, when living in Athlone, Foy met Anne Naughton through a music society. Naughton was a secretary from Clara, County Offaly, who was eight years younger. They got engaged, and married at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Horseleap on 28 September 1977. They had two children, one born in 1978, and the other in 1980.
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