www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/lucianne-white-2007251.html.
My very talented, up-and-coming journo-friend, Joyce Fegan, asked me would I mind if she wrote an article about me a few months back. Obviously, extremely flattered, I had no problem with her writing it at all. So she banged over a few questions to me, I answered them and she wrote the nicest article I have ever read and to be honest, whilst reading it I thought I was reading about someone else.
She sent it to some of our national papers and unfortunately they wouldn't publish unsolicited work but the wonderful Brendan O'Connor emailed me to say that he would get one of the Sunday Indo Life Magazine journalists to do an article on me. Next thing I knew, Julia Molony was on the phone to me asking when I'd be available for a phone interview.
I did the phone interview with Julia in December standing outside the Pavillion in Swords as it was my nieces birthday - the joys of the mobile world! About 2 minutes into the interview I kind of forgot that it was actually an interview. I was chatting away as if I'd know this girl for years. She just made me feel so comfortable talking about everything. At the end of the phone call, Julia told me that the article would be published on the 10th of January. When I hung up, I went back in to my mum, sister and friend and was both excited and nervous. I was chatting away to this journalist who was going to publish an article about ME (??) in a newspaper that has one of the biggest readerships in Ireland but then I realised that I was talking about some really difficult times in my life. "What angle was Julia going to take from our conversation? How will I come across? Will I be labelled with this issue forever?"....all these questions and more were racing through my head!
In the end, I had to just trust in Julia and wait (very impatiently) for the 10th of January! Eventually, it came around and I saw the article and even though I knew it was going to be there, I was still a bit shocked seeing it (as odd as that may sound!!). I was shaking reading it but once I got to the end (and read it a second time!!) I was delighted. I have to say, Julia wrote such a gorgeous article about me, using everything I had said on the phone that day in such a positive way. I want to say a HUGE "Thank you" to Julia and also to Brendan. I really appreciate it.
If you didn't get to see it, you can check out the article here: http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/lucianne-white-2007251.html The image above is the one that they used and was taken by the AMAZING Peter Buckley of PB photographs. Check out www.pbphotographs.com to check out some of the other pics he took of me - he is a legend!!
A few other things have come up since the article and I'll do another post on those because I will go into more detail about them!
Thanks again to Joyce, Brendan, Julia and of course to Peter Buckley of PB photographs for the picture!!:)
Luc xxx
