In 2008, Celine Cawley was killed in her home in Howth in County Dublin. Just over a year later, her husband was convicted of her manslaughter and sent to prison.
Their sixteen-year-old daughter Georgia was an only child and effectively lost both of her parents. That sixteen-year-old girl is now thirty years old and this is her story.
Though Georgia has had a lot of loss in her life, the constant in her life has been animals – horses and dogs. There are two very special horses in her life – Bella and Arthur, her ‘heart and soul horses’ as she calls them. Georgia first rode Bella the day before her mother died and this makes her all the more special to her. Bella has been by Georgia’s side through the darkest days.
Last summer Georgia had been running a stables in Rush in north county Dublin – offering therapeutic riding to children and young people who have additional needs. She had thirteen horses in the fields that she was renting. She also has a group of young women and girls who work and volunteer at the stables. The stables are an open and welcoming place to people who are neuro-divergent, who have disabilities and to people who just love having horses in their lives.
In July 2023, Georgia got bad news – the landlord told her that he needed his land back and she would have to leave. So began months of worry and stress as she tried to find a new place to home her horses and her business.
In this documentary we hear Georgia’s journey – not just of the last year as she tries to solve her problem – but how horses have helped her through trauma and healing to a place where she can be happy.
Available as a podcast, wherever you get your podcasts.
Narrated by Chloe Grogan Browne and Nicoline Greer
Produced by Nicoline Greer. Sound by Gar Duffy
