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Article: EVEN AS A CHILD ADI CARED FOR KIDS LESS FORTUNATE; The woman who wants to `mother' Ireland.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1997
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Twin traits distinguish presidential hopeful Adi Roche - her selflessness and her mothering instinct.
The first led her to put aside having family of her own but paradoxically led to the second, "adopting" the huge extended family of children blighted by the world's worst nuclear disaster.
And, some would say, that was all preparation for her next "mothering" ambition - to tuck every man, woman and child in Ireland under her caring wing.
Now the Angel of Chernobyl is chasing the jewel in the crown of Irish politics.
Yesterday she was ...