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What were you like as a girl growing up in Clonmel, Co Tipperary?
I was very quiet and a real introvert. I spent a lot of time outside running around in the field beside my house. I loved looking at the ruins of an old church and castle nearby. I was always singing.
Choose three words that best describe you.
Sensitive, a dreamer and spiritual.
You are a singer and a songwriter. How did that happen if there was no music in your family?
My mam sent me to piano lessons from the age of seven. I had done ballet the year before and I had to choose between the two. I stayed with the piano right through my teenage years. I only started to enjoy it when I quit the lessons and started to play on my own. But it gave me the foundations of music and discipline. Also, Sister Bernadette Sweeney was the principal of my primary school. She is an extraordinary, musical person. We sang through the whole day as part of our routine.