Helen Kilmartin grew up in Westmeath, the daughter of a vet and nurse. “She helped him run the practice because back then, once you got married, you couldn’t work in the 60s,” says Kilmartin. Her father had a saying that stuck with her: “He very much would say, ‘Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.’” A philosophy Kilmartin says she has lived by since.  She didn’t take too well to boarding school, and had no interest in university. What she wanted was fashion. So, she took a job in a fashion store, and it was there she met…

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