“It’s a wonderful life. I have been given an amazing life – apart from all the shit.” At the end of this episode of Experience, Mary Coughlan laughs as she says this. She has led an extraordinary life and our conversation touched on all the aspects that made it amazing and also most of the shit. When we met she had just returned from a gig in Cork where she noticed once again the effect her music has on people. Her voice affected her too. There was a time when it scared her, as she wanted to avoid where she…