I grew up in Raheen in Tallaght. It was a lot of fun. Everyone was a young family, because it was a new housing estate. There was a ubiquitousness of kids. My mum and dad would have been quite theatre-literate. Before I was born, they would have gone to the theatre a lot, and [when I was young], my mum brought me. We saw Blood Brothers in the Olympia, things like that. Being brought to the theatre in Busáras, in the basement – those kinds of experiences were formative.
My parents brought me to drama classes. A lady teaching them said you’d be better off going to a place called Dublin Youth Theatre. I went, and it was really great. They had to take in two kids from every area, so it was as diverse as Dublin could be in the 1990s. I met a lot of people who became future collaborators, like Philip McMahon.
What’s funny about acting is you can often do things that you think are go
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