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SECRET FAMILY
SHOCK a year in Australia
CIRCLE OF FORGET
SHAME! WILL&KATE EXCLUSIVE! THE PHOTOS CLAIRE NEVER WANTED THE PUBLIC TO SEE
MCSHAWMICKS SET TO BE “WEDDING OF THE CENTURY”
SHE CAME, SHE SAW,
SHE CONQUERED And none of us have been the same ever since.
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first met Claire when I started working at Drury Communications in Ireland – she was my first real Irish friend! I could never get over how someone so small could possibly get away with eating crisps and Coca Cola for breakfast every morning and still have their figure and all their teeth! Claire once took me on tour of Northern Ireland and we had a ball! Though at the time, I think the black cab tour through Belfast was one of the scariest things she’d done in her life and she spent the entire time freaking out
(though secretly, I think she LOVED the drama) I think the fact we both have such big families gave us an immediate connection, and our families were lucky enough to get to meet one another last year and got on fabulously. Claire is like a sister to me, my family absolutely adore her and consider themselves to be her ‘Australian’ family - Dad called Claire ‘Tiffany’ (god knows why, I think he deliberately chose a bogan name as a bit of a joke) and christened her his forth child
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From the moment we met Claire we loved her. Her great sense of humour, beautiful smile, her gorgeous Irish accent and her unique gift to tell a story - some of the many things that endear her to us. Claire’s australian mother and father remember with fondness claire’s keen sense of humour and fun whenever she visited shepparton or we caught up in melbourne. Her appreciation of the 10 rules of life (rule 1- never fly air garuda) her tales of her time working in a union office and her alter-ego “tiffany” all helped to ensure that her next visit was awaited with much eagerness and anticipation.
“Alter-ego Tiffany” We were delighted when andy and her were able to visit ud while we were in paris. We very much look forward to sharing a “bit of craic” with her and andy at their wedding. Love, maryanne and greg pullen. Xx
New Year’s Eve 2006 was a momentous day: I picked Claire up on the airport (whisking her away immediately ‘evil’ ex boyfriend Andy, I think that could have been the last time they saw one another whilst in Australia!) and we headed out to a party in St Kilda at a friend’s bar. I met my husband Sam that night, Claire in tow, and life has never been the same ever since! Claire kissed one of Sammy’s friends (Dan) that night, and over the course of the next 12 months she kissed another 7 of his mates!!!! Very funny times – she was a man magnate! (You could always do a question for the bride around this – how many of Sam Graham’s friends did you pash whilst living in Australia?!) All of Sammy’s friends adored Claire and gave her the nickname of ‘Irish Princess’
“IRISH PRINCESS”
Claire lived in the most horrendous house in South Yarra. It had no heating, was supposedly haunted, and the front hall was decorated was an enormously offensive painted tiger Looking back at these photos, I remember how much fun we had together, Claire was an immediate hit here and everyone fell in love with her vivacious personality, quick wit and ready smile. But she means so much more to me than that. She has always been such a wonderful and caring friend to me, and always understood exactly what I’m thinking and where I’m coming from. She is not only lots of fun, but has a beautiful soul and I miss her very much. Claire deserves every happiness in life and I am so happy that she’s found such a wonderful man in Andy. I wish them both a marriage filled with an incredible amount of love, joy, understanding and happiness.
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I met Claire when we both moved to Orlagh Grove. We were about ten at the time so that’s roughly 21 years of friendship! Myself, Claire Jen and Sue have been through thick and thin together, no pun intended! Claire has always treated me like one of the sisters, and is the best friend anyone could have. She’s glamorous and gorgeous and we are all lucky to have Claire in our lives. We have brilliant memories of growing up together and we’ve had more nights out and hangovers than I care to remember!! Some of those memories are best not printed!! We all love Andy and I know they are the perfect match and will be so happy together. Happy hen party Chip!! I love you loads! Gill xx
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JANE’S STORY Sparks Really Do Fly: I met Claire back in First Medical Days and am proud to say that I think I witnessed the first spark that flew between the Claire and Andy - I was sitting beside Andy when he first clocked eyes on beautiful Claire as she was going for an interview. She was all prim, proper and looking stunning and Andy’s jaw hit the floor when she walked into the office. I don’t think I ever understood the expression ‘sparks flying’ until that day. And then, not so long later I was placed between the two of them at a work event (the Keith Duffy Ball) and I spent the whole night feeling like I was sitting in the middle of a blind date. These two seriously hit if off from the start and it was so lovely to have been o have been caught in the crossfire of their
growing lust while trying to carry out day-to-day duties in FMC! Needless to say Clarie got the job and brought a lot of sunshine, fun, giggles and more than a few wine-fuelled nights into our lives in Baggot Lane. Big Bags Rock: Claire also introduced me to the world of ‘big handbags’. This might not sound like a big deal, but I am pretty sure it was a defining moment in my life. I’d been trapsing around for 20-odd years with mini-hangbags full of mini-things and Claire presented me with a gift of my first big bag (a cast off of one of her own). I believe I have caused myself many a shoulder and back injury from what I now chose to carry in my big handbag but I’ve never looked back. But I don’t have bingo wings, and I’m pretty sure I owe that to Claire.
Claire-Bear the Care Bear: Another particularly vivid memory I have of Claire is the day I phoned the office on the way to work when I’d just broken up with my boyfriend of 5 years the night before - it was a pretty traumatic morning and when I reached the office door I couldn’t go in and by the time I phoned Claire I was having a full blown blubbering panic attack - sobs, snorts, not finishing sentences - we’ve all been there - you know what it sounds like! Always one to respond to a crisis well Claire hung up on me (which made me cry a little more at first) but then appeared by my side on the street ( I was hiding behind a tree contemplating using leaves to mop the tears). She had literally dropped everything she was doing in the office and ran off to find me. About 30mins into our second cup of coffee she managed to calm me down and then thought to call the office to tell them where she was. A true friend!!
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hey are the girls who know Claire best, now in a series of secret interviews Heat can exclusively reveal the “real” Claire as remembered by her three younger sisters.
S ’ E T A K STORY Apparently Claire absolutely doted on me when I was a baby. And then when I was only a few months old, I pulled an absolutely huge chunk of her hair out with my bare hands.
Claire being one of the kids in a production of ‘the railway children’. That play seemed to go on for about a 5 years if I remember correctly. And for some reason it involved Claire repeatedly blurting ‘WHY DOES SHE LOOK SOOO SADD???’ in a pompous high pitched English accent whilst wandering around the house. We assumed she was practicing a line in the play. If not, we may have seriously neglected her mental health. Claire being outstanding at accents and imitating voices (and still is!). Nothing would warm the cockles of the heart more than listening to Claire take on the humorous accents of those
“NEVER LET AN ANGRY SISTER BRUSH YOUR HAIR”
that surrounded us as we grew up. No names being mentioned! I have lots of memories of me pissing Claire off. Yes, sadly it was I who was endowed with the gift of annoying the shit out of siblings in a way many can only dream of. Mostly through borrowing things without asking and then loosing them. There was a big incident with a missing scarf at one point. YES it was me. YES I denied it. But we’re grown ups now so I can’t get in trouble right? Right? Claire being a great one for delivering ‘guidance talks’ when and where they were required. The big one being the revelation that Santa was infact, Mam and Dad and not some mythical Obese Swede who gave toys to Kids if they were ‘good’. I felt privileged to be entrusted with such a huge nugget of information, and kindly informed all my classmates the following day. I’m still known as the Grinch in some circles. Claire doing her big sister duties without fail. -Doing my hair and makeup and letting me borrow clothes for big outings into the big bad world. I was always the envy of my friends having a personal stylist in the family. Which brings back another bit of advice I wish to pass on, ‘never let an angry sister brush your hair’. But what I remember the most from sharing a childhood with Claire is that no matter what clothes I had stolen from her, what names I had called her or what fights I had created; Claire was ALWAYS ALWAYS there for me when it really mattered. When I needed a friend most, she was there, at my side. Taking my side. That’s what I remember most about growing up with Claire.
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ANNA’S STORY We used to go shopping in a centre which had one of those random cosmetic sellers floating in the main thoroughfare between the shops. This particular girl was trying to promote dead sea mineral products to cleanse, tone and moisturise your skin. She was also super keen on giving demos to illustrate just how effective the products were. We nicknamed her ‘dead sea girl’ which was later just shortened to ‘dead girl’ and avoided her like the plague as she was so uber excited to take off our make up in public.
I was once with claire and andy annd we had decided to open a bottle of bubbly (as you do). Claire was kind of struggling to open the bottle when suddenly the cork popped out and hit her in the mouth. She had a look of pure horror on her face and looked to andy and said ‘are my teeth still there?!’. I hope to hear these words repeated again when shes about 80....
Over the years we have used each other as lab rats for experiments. I used to download and listen to hours of comedy while Claire was sleeping to see if it would make her any funnier. In return she once used me to disprove the theory that ‘theres no such thing as a free lunch’ and we spent the day in town trying to blag as much free munch as possible.
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EVE’S STORY There was the time she lost her mobile phone at the staff bbq (two weeks after she started working at MPH) .... to everyones amazement a slightly twated Claire approached the CEO (quite a large man) to enquire if he could help find her phone! I could only look on and think this is what Nam was like! .. She later found the phone in the toilet... Oh and there was the time she was told to go on a manual handling course which is an 2 hour in-house course, but our Claire was having a coffee when the announcement was made to go back to work unless you work at the bedside with patients... 5 hours had passed and still no sign of Claire at the office so the manager had sent me out to find Claire... in that instant she rocks in to the office telling us how interesting it was! Apparently she had only copped something was up when she was sliding off a banana board onto an evacuation tray!
SHE COULD HAVE MARRIED A MILLIONAIRE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK IN GRANNYS Heat can exclusively reveal Claire’s childhood obsession. In an interview with Claire’s cousin Nikki Cash, she reveals ... I do remember when we were kids we were Obsessed with new kids on the block. We used to pretend in granny’s that Jordan was my boyfriend and Joey was hers and we met them at the beach and they wanted to buy us ice lollys....we asked for ice pops or something cheap and they said ‘no it’s ok you can have magnums or cornettos’ cos they were so rich and we were like ‘wow......they definitely love us’ !!!!! Sad but true.
At one time we all thought that she might have ended up a millionaires wife as Paddy Clarke (our local millionaire) took a fancy to her at a party at Tony’s house. Unfortunately his blue tank top and green cordoroys put her off. She ended up hiding in the garage with Uncle Graham having a fag and throwing back the wine, returning 30 mins later to find Paddy still in hot pursuit. I think she was really glad to get back to Corlatt that night.
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THE YOUNG ARTIST One day in Boden Park myself and Claire were colouring up in her bedroom. We then had the inspired idea to start drawing on the walls! Our subject was bums.... then one of us took it a step further and did a willy! Needless to say we were both killed!!!! A source close to Claire reveals a story from her childhood. My friend and I were sleeping at your house Claire was about four she came into the room early morning. She had on a little dress and tights to match We were telling her how great she looked so with the confidence up she decided to give us a twirl .Well you should have seen the back of her head her hair was like a matted mass rats tails sticking out in all directions and the back of her dress was shoved down the back of her tights. It was such a contrast to her front image that we took in to a fit of laughing and we couldn’t stop. Poor Claire slinked out of the room and tore the dress off,and I said to my friend its too bad she can’t tear her head off while she is at it .We were laughing so much I could not go and comfort her. She never spoke or looked at us the rest of the day. Stupid I know but it was really funny at the time. -Cruel Aunt Bernie!
CLAIRE MURPHY Claire and I did swimming lessons up in Cheeverstown. There was a family discount available so our mums had the brainwave of pretending we were sisters! So before she was ever Claire Shaw, she was Claire Murphy!! Unfortunately Claire had great trouble remembering this... no matter how many times we practised in the car, when the instructor called Claire Murphy there would be a long, awkward silence!!!!
about 13 or 14 and were such a cute couple, holding hands, stealing a quick kiss here and there... The innocence was shattered one night when Uncle Ber (The Kiddie’s Pal) offered to get them a few condoms!!! We were speechless! She really was that innocent once ;)
WILD IN KERRY Dingle didn’t know what hit it the summer when we started going to the Hillgrove! When the bouncer asked Claire what age she was, I couldn’t believe it when she told him she was 16 (her real age). She then realised what she had said and told him she was “only buzzing” with him!! He let us in no problem! Later that night we were getting the bus back to Ballyferriter and someone vomited on me... I will never forget the look on Dad’s face when he found me and Claire in the bathroom trying to wash the sick out of my hair at 5am! Hahaha!!!
YOUNG LOVE The annual trips to Kerry were lots of fun, especially the year Claire and my cousin Luke started going out. They were
REVEAL SECRETS!
MY HOW YOU’VE GROWN Our first daughter Claire has brought us many delights. We were proud to bring her to the little Church at Dartry where Fr La baptised the little angel, (Image 1) but it was long before there were signs that she had a little demon side too (Image 2 ) as. she took to smoking rather early.
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There is no doubt about her caring loving forgiving side was evident from an early age. (Image 3) Her little sister Kate as well minded despite the fact Kate pulled great lumps out of Claire’s hair. Alas she tried to corrupt her little sister Anna by introducing her to the demon drink. (Image 4) Poor Aoife was told of the joys of eating out and as a result she hardly ever cooks at home. (Image 5)
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There were also signs that she liked to be the centre of attention. The feisty lively part was evident to all in her loving family. .
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There was and is no disputing that she was a Daddy’s girl. She could wind him round her little finger and get what she wanted. Oh it must have been for a holiday to rest her weary brain, to broaden her mind and to practice for her Leaving Cert French don’t you know! She was very sociable out going and liked to dress up meet friends and party plus plus
Here she is the lovely girl in the garden with her sisters …… but look what’s this I think she is trying to teach them how to gamble at poker!!!! Later she becomes mature wiser calmer and is more reflective and dreaming of her future but still travelling socializing and having a great time but now sharing it with the man she will marry Andy
It has been a great journey and adventure for us to be the proud parents of this beautiful, lively, sociable, kind, generous, sensitive and feisty woman!!!!.
“There was and is no disputing that she was a Daddy’s girl”
A N E E B S A H T “I GREAT JOURNEY ” E R U T N E V D A & AN -PROUD PARENTS
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THE REPUTATION First of all I want to say that it is an absolute pleasure to be welcoming Claire into our family. She is one of the kindest people I have ever met and Andrew is a lucky guy!! She is one of the funniest people I have ever met, she can make anyone laugh in any situation. Her impressions are hilarious, if you’ve seen her do the impression of Nalini’s X doing his pose for muscle man competition you’ll know what I mean.
“skinless person dance” Her skinless person dance has me in stitches every time I see it. that one is definitely coming out at the wedding! Everything she says has me in stitches.
! E V I S U L C EX Claire got accusted by a group of gays whilst hailing a cab once, all she could do is clutch her pearls whilst they danced around here (lord of the flies like) chanting ‘whos wants a cab, she wants a cab, who wants a cab, she wants a cab’ We were stood on the street near the Village after a night on the booze when Claire looking very elegant and wearing pearls went to hail a taxi. Before we knew it she was being circled by these young camp as you like knacker gays chanting ‘who wants a cab, she wants a cab, whos wants a cab, she wants a cab’ whilst circleing her and pointing. This was about 10 years ago, when our experience of the gay community was well non existant really and I think Claire found the whole experience a bit scarey (in a dramatic kinda way)..... so funny though.
Eurinka Vodka - we all went to a BBQ in Helens and drank this nasty russian vodka, cut to 8 hours later, no memory and no recolection of us all leaving the house going to town and coming back again. Was thinking maybe this could be an ad for Eurinka as her FB status the next day was Eurinka Vodka, turning people blind since 1889.
“TURNING PEOPLE BLIND SINCE 1889�
TGI Fridays - we pissed ourselves laughing over a warning that the sunday topped with nuts, may contain nuts.......it may have been the 6 pints of stella that made it funny, but the family at the table next to us still found it appropriate to move their children away from us.
could after our politics exam, to which we replied, we dont do politics.....turns out we did........actually with your mum thre maybe this might not be the best story to tell.
Our PR Politics exam - or the fact we forgot we had one. We were leaving the exam hall and asking everyone did they want to go to the pub when someone said that we
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