After moving five times, Dubliner Carole Marmion and her family have settled in Naas for good, because they find the quality of life is better there, writes SANDRA O'CONNELL
DUBLINER Carole Marmion, originally from Mount Merrion, moved to Kildare in 1997 with her husband Philip.
They have moved house five times since then, including brief sorties across the border to Wicklow and in Dublin. The moves out only confirmed one thing, “We know now we’d never live anywhere but Kildare”, says Carole.
“At one stage we moved to Kilmacud in Dublin but we raced out after just six months. Everybody just seemed to get up at the crack of dawn, drop their kids to crèches and go to work. I wasn’t working and the place was deserted all day. We moved back to Naas because we found the quality of life is better here. People seem to talk to each other more,” she says.
Her three children, Matthew (14) Siobhan (13) and Aislinn (10), love Kildare too.“The kids have everything here, sports, music and the GAA, which they have been involved with since they were six. Naas also has a terrific Scout troop,” says Marmion, who lives on the Dublin Road, about as close to the capital as she wants to get these days.
“We are four minutes’ walk into the centre of Naas or I can walk five minutes the other way and be on the canal where you can walk through the countryside for miles. It’s gorgeous.”
There is just one tiny fly in her Kildare-living ointment. “Unfortunately Superquinn has closed down in the town, which I loved. It was a real meeting place. I know the country’s biggest Tesco has just opened but I must really have turned into a country bumpkin, because I find it too big.”
