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‘There was always a lot of laughter in our house’

“My parents grew up in Irish villages a couple of miles apart, though, funnily enough, they met in a pub in Camden, North London. We have a huge family and every summer when my sisters and I were young, we would drive to Ireland for a holiday. The ferry alone

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