On his visit to clairvoyant Doire O’Sullivan Brian McCann heard of a surprising, though down-to-earth, coincidence...
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“My father owned land in Northern Island near the town of Ballymena,” said Doire, pronounced ‘Derry’. “Before I was born, the houses for the Gibraltar evacuees were built on that land; one of the evacuees was a little boy called Abie Massias — and he turned out to be my landlord when I moved to Gibraltar in November and rented a unit in his ICC.” As I said, that was pure coincidence; Doire came to Gibraltar because she felt strongly drawn to it, not knowing that Mr Massias was here or that he had lived on her father’s land during the war. The place itself was called Glens of Antrim, and from her very earliest years Doire was trained in clairvoyancy by her father, who initiated her into the mysteries of what is called The Druid Path, a set of ancient mystic practices. As a result, Doire became a popular clairvoyant and psychic medium, with her own shops in Northern Ireland as well as appearing regularly on the radio in Ulster and the Republic of Ireland. One memorable case involved a woman who was seeking consolation as doctors had just given her three months to live. Doire looked at the aura that surrounded the woman and told her, “there is nothing wrong with you — go back to the doctors and ask them to check.” The woman returned to the hospital, where the shocked staff found that they had mixed up her results with those of another patient, and there was indeed nothing wrong with her. Doire also helped the Belfast police with some cases, and after just two months in Gibraltar has become much sought-after as word spread about her abilities. “But to reach that stage,” she told me as we sat in her small office just inside the ICC, “you have to undergo between 15 and 22 years of study; even though I’m a natural clairvoyant, there is still so much to learn.” Doire’s learning process began with travels in Africa, where she studied herbalism with the Zulus, and then shamanism in Malawi. This was followed by some years in China learning to become a practitioner in reiki — an oriental technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. And after around two decades of travel and study, she returned to Ireland 10 years ago to open her first shop. My interview with her was interrupted several times by people coming in to ask for appointments for readings, her popularity quite amazing for someone who only opened
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