The story of how Jacqueline O’Brien met her future husband is well worth repeating.

“I was staying with a step-sister who was married in Northern Ireland and Waring Willis brought me down to Dublin. I went out to dinner with Waring and Gerry Annesley and Vincent was there - in the Russell – having dinner on his own. The others wanted him to join us but he didn’t want that one bit. Anyway, the others went to bed and I stayed talking to Vincent. He invited me to the Curragh the next day.