A friend, to whom I wish I’d been a better friend, died recently.
Dara Quigley was a writer, a merciless observer of Irish society, bright as a button, gorgeous, infuriating – and recovering from drug addiction.
In one of her final pieces, published by the Dublin Inquirer in March, she spoke of her struggles to assert her right to a good life.
“I [have] just about enough strength to hold on to my sense of self, and to think that maybe a better life isn’t just something I deserve but something that I and every other recovering addict has a right to.
“Today I can almost safely say I believe that. And that is one of the unseen struggles of recovery from addiction. A constant battle between what you know is true, a desire to make it out the other side, pitted against a society which views addicts – particularly women addicts – as moral hazards to be contained and controlled.”
Source: Kitty Holland, The Irish Times, 08/05/17
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