Personal Life
"David Charlton" redirects here.Mary Coughlan was married to David Charlton, a Garda who lost a leg in a serious car accident a few years after they were married, until his death from cancer on 2 September 2012. They were married when Coughlan was aged 26, two years after they met – David was working as a Garda on duty at Leinster House at the time. They have two children – one son and one daughter. They live at Frosses, a village just west of Donegal Town. Coughlan is a fluent Irish speaker.
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“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To ‘see the light’ too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)