‘I dropped out of school at 15 and got pregnant at 17 – I was told I’d never amount to anything, but all my children are thriving’

‘I dropped out of school at 15 and got pregnant at 17 – I was told I’d never amount to anything, but all my children are thriving’

Tara O’Rourke Wickham was 15 when she experienced homelessness, and 17 when she had her first pregnancy. Despite the cards being stacked against her, the 41-year-old Kildare woman fought tooth and nail to provide her daughter with all the things she wasn’t afforded growing up.