Mrs. Kavanagh continued. “Johnny was furious to leave Dublin and the city life behind him, but I knew I had to come back here. I wanted my son to grow up in the same place his father had. To be around the kind of goodness that just naturally seemed to ooze from his grandmother. I wanted to nourish those roots.” Smiling, she added, “That’s why we stayed in Cork, and because my son grew into the man he is today, I know I made the right decision.”
