Aideen Walton: ‘I came back in ’94. Dublin was a rough place. We had prints on the walls. They were ripped for the frames. Even my baby buggy was stolen’

Just Saying

Aideen Walton is 63 and lives in Greystones, Co Wicklow, with her husband John Mardirosian. They have two sons, Samuel and Eoin. Aideen is the associate director of the ­Waltons New School of Music, the co-director of Waltons RTÉ Lyric FM Music for Schools ­Competition 2025 and also works as a theatre director. ​

I grew up in Sutton. I’ve six ­siblings. There are three girls and four boys spread over 17 years. I am number five, the last of the girls. When I was 10 there was only three of us in the house because the others were in boarding school. I would have been like the eldest at that stage.​