Kilbane acknowledged that the situation might have placed an extra strain on marriage. “Probably. It was three years ago that Laura and I split up. We never really had the chance to take stock of things. Our priority was Elsie. The message we were given was ‘just love her, she’s your child’. You have so many different thoughts. It’s like a grieving process for the child you always envisaged you’d have. Where is your child going to be in five, 10, 15 years? It’s very different. Elsie’s going to have all these things but perhaps they may happen at a later stage.