Brigit was born in Dublin on 12 August 1975. She is aged 36.6 on Crystal Day
She was born of a rich father and went to a private school. She had her own horse and lived in a large house. She was deeply attached to her mother but as Brigit grew into a beautiful young woman her mother, apparently jealous of the attention she was getting, shut her out of her emotions. To try to win back her mother’s love, Brigit abandoned her real self and sought to become a person her would admire and love. But she failed. Try as she might she could not win back her mother’s love.
This separation had a profound effect upon her. She is now very dependent on what others think of her, and seeks constantly to maintain an image that will attract others. This false image she presents to the world has resulted in a lot of failed relationships when others find out she is not what she seems. However she is very good at hiding her real self and tends to reject people, cutting them out if they get too close in the same way her mother cut her out of her life.
In 1994 she went to Trinity College, Dublin to study media and politics not realising that she was already pregnant by a boy John O’Brien she had met during the summer holiday. Her father forced him to marry her to save face. Catriona was born 21 April 1995. Brigit continued her studies despite having a baby, with the support of her father.
Brigit started doing TV work while still at Trinity and in 2000 she got a job with Irish TV. At work, Brigit is creative and expressive and needs to be respected for her personal vision and ideas. If the respect isn’t there, she can become moody and self-involved. She’s attracted to emotionally intense work or creative jobs. She became a presenter on Irish TV within a year, at the age of 25 their youngest ever presenter. John O’Brien died in 2003 in a horse-riding accident. Sam Fitzpatrick was Catriona’s primary school teacher and she married him knowing he would be a loving and giving father.
Brigit was very popular on TV, met all the top Irish politicians and began to get political ambitions. Early in 2012 when she was 37, with her TV popularity declining, she was invited to be Irish Ambassador to the UN in Geneva. There would be no salary but she is wealthy from her TV work so she gladly accepts.
Sam and Catriona did not go with her. Catriona is in her final year of her school leaving certificate and Sam is teaching.