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" Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off! "

Deirdre O'Kane

Breakfast

Sunday

School

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Deirdre O'Kane

Head

Good

" I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it. "

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Deirdre O'Kane

Street

Name

" I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time. "

Deirdre O'Kane

Doing

Comedy

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Deirdre O'Kane

You

I Am

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" I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences. "