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Alicia Mc Hugh: ‘growing flowers helped quiet my mind’

After Alicia McHugh gave birth to her son Andrew, who was stillborn, planting and growing gave the Donegal woman the strength to keep going by creating her ‘higgledy-piggledy’ flower farm.

FEATURES 29 April 2026

Alicia Mc Hugh: ‘growing flowers helped quiet my mind’

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