Simone has spent lockdown in her adopted home of London with her partner Eoin McLoughlin and their daughter Valentine. But in conversation with high-end fashion destination site Browns, she says she has been yearning for the west of Ireland.After 12 years of London living, Ireland is still her ‘I listen to a lot of Irish music’ ‘motherland’, she admitted.‘My partner is an Irishman and we’re both very connected to home: the people, the landscape, the attitude,’ she told the Browns website.