DJ’s attempt to forge friendship with two Marys
BOBBY tried to encourage his ex, Mary Glasheen and his new girlfriend, Mary Lowry, to be friends.
The two Marys had been in each other’s company several times before, including an occasion in the Times Hotel when they seemed to have got off on the wrong foot. Bobby was out with his new girlfriend that night when he took to the floor with his ex. Afterwards, Mary Lowry passed a comment that she knew Mary Glasheen was present because she heard her laughing. Mary Glasheen thought it a bit of a bitchy comment. She was aware that she had a loud laugh but felt that Mary was cutting at her.
Just before Christmas 2010, Bobby moved out of the house he was renting in Cashel to a new house in Boherlahane. Michelle helped her father to decorate and furnish his new home, and Mary Glasheen bought him a mirror as a house-warming gift.
Bobby wanted the women in his life to get on, so in an effort to forge some sort of friendship between them, he organised a night out shortly after he moved into the new house. He was DJing in Fox’s and rang Mary Glasheen to ask her to come along, that Mary Lowry was going and it would be good fun. When Mary Glasheen said no, he told her that Mary Lowry wanted her to go, so she went.
Bobby picked up Mary Glasheen at her house in Tipperary town before going to collect the other Mary in Fawnagowan.
The two women sat side-by-side in the pub that night as Bobby entertained the local crowd, and after he was finished, himself and the two Marys went back to his house for a few drinks. Mary Glasheen ended up sleeping on the sofa while Bobby and Mary slept upstairs.
On one occasion, shortly after Quirke reported
Mary to social services, alleging she wasn’t caring for her children, Mary Lowry ended up crying about it in the ladies’ toilets during a night out social dancing. Bobby, concerned about her, sent a friend in to comfort her.