He visited Carmel and told her how he’d fallen in love with Maura, and they had a son. It was Christmas 2009 when James decided to try and mend fences with his mother. James hadn’t seen his father Vincent since he was 10, and his relationship with his mother Carmel was so strained, Maura hadn’t even met her. But the couple were about to discover a shocking secret. Two years later, James and Maura welcomed their son Mark into the world.
‘After a week it felt like we’d known each other forever.’ ‘I’d been in relationships before, but I just knew this was different,’ James told the Irish Mail. They experienced an instant attraction that soon grew deeper.
