An Irishman Abroad: Coming Home

James is founder of ANewDawninIreland.com - a resource for returning emigrants or those coming to Ireland for the first time. A New Dawn in Ireland is the first blended online and offline training/coaching programme to inspire and help people create their ideal life in Ireland. There are few people better positioned to talk about making your comeback to Ireland than James. After his own journey home from Sydney he made helping others do the same his business. Here he talks to Jarlath about what he’s learned about the most difficult trip of all. Entries are now open for the incredible “Come Home” Competition from Currencyfair.com and Irishman Abroad Podcasts. One lucky listener will win a €30,000 relocation package to help towards the cost of moving back to Ireland. To enter now visit currencyfair.com/comehome today.

Billy Hedderman journey back is unlike any story you will hear. His journey is so unlikely and so miraculous, it will give you hope to believe that you can do whatever is in front of you, no matter how difficult it may seem. Billy is a former Irish special forces army officer who left home for Australia in 2014. Like most pale white Irish boys down under, he was loving his new life and rinsing every day of every possible experience available. Just three months into his stay a freak accident left lying on a beach paralysed from the neck down fully sure his life as he knew it was done. And yet somehow, through sheer determination, grit and will power he dragged himself back from the brink. His return, his comeback to full health and mobility is a real life Rocky story and makes the perfect second episode of this new podcast series, “An Irishman Abroad: Coming Home”. You can read the full story of Billy Hedderman and his remarkable recovery in his book “Unbowed” published by Mercier Press. Entries are now open for the incredible “Come Home” Competition from Currencyfair.com and Irishman Abroad Podcasts. One lucky listener will win a €30,000 relocation package to help towards the cost of moving back to Ireland. To enter now visit currencyfair.com/comehome today.

In this first episode, Jarlath is joined by Irish Times journalist Jennifer O'Connell to discuss her lifestyle with her family in Silicon Valley in California and the jaw-dropping work that herself and her husband put in to keep their family in the most affluent suburb in America. Jennifer explains the decision to move home and the vastly different life that her family are now living in Ireland. Jarlath also announces the very exciting news of Currency Fair's competition in which €30,000 can be won to help a very lucky winner move home to Ireland. For more information visit https://www.currencyfair.com/comehome