‘AFTER HORROR OF NICE I WANTED TO COME HOME’
A BLACKWATER mother of three who has been living in Cannes for the past few years said she was completely shocked at the horror attack in neighbouring Nice in which 84 people were killed in the murderous Bastille Day rampage.
Cora Moran, pictured above, from Blackwater, the daughter of Josie Moran, said her kneejerk reaction was to return to the safety of her family home in Wexford following the massacre in Nice, where she lived before moving to Cannes.
‘It was at the forefront of my mind, it has been since the first attack in Paris. Financially it wouldn’t make any sense, but it was my first thought,’ Cora told the Enniscorthy Guardian.
A COUNTY Wexford mother of three who has been living in Cannes for the past few years, said she was completely shocked at the horror attack in neighbouring Nice in which 84 people were killed in the murderous Bastille Day rampage.
Cora Moran, from Blackwater, the daughter of Josie Moran, said her kneejerk reaction was to return to the safety of her family home in Wexford following the massacre in Nice, where she lived before moving to Cannes.
‘It was at the forefront of my mind, it has been since the first attack in Paris. Financially it wouldn’t make any sense, but it was my first thought,’ said Cora, whose brother Richard owns the Bean n’ Berry cafe in Wexford town.
Cora said she had a lot of friends in Nice and was concerned that some may have been caught up in the attack on the Boulervard des Anglais in which a terror attacker killed and maimed men, women and children as drove his 20-tonne truck at them as they left the Bastille Day celebrations.
‘It was very stressful,’ said Cora, ‘ but luckily only one of my friends was there and he had the sense to run when he saw the van coming.’
Cora, a former student at the Loreto in Wexford, lived in Dublin before moving to Paris, Nice and now Cannes, where she lives in a nearby village with husband Nicholas and their three children, Charles, aged five, Josette, aged three and seven-month-old Caoimhe.
She said found life in France unnerving followng the spate of terror attacks, with the increased security everywhere, from schools to supermarkets creating a ‘grim feeling’ and while the terror Paris attacks in November were savage and awful events in themselves, the Nice massacre was much more personal.
Cora said a next door neighbour of hers in the village of Cannes le Bocca had already had four cancellations from people who had booked holidays in her villa. She said that because of the fear of an attack her husband was working under extremely tight security at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, which added to stress levels.
Cora, who last visited Wexford in APril for Caoimhe’s Christening said she will be back in her home county next month, not because of the threat of terrorism, but because it’s just too hot in Cannes in August, but ‘we’ll have to get through the stress of the airport security first’.