News Summary

• The Ireland I grew up in felt very grey; it didn't feel like there was a lot of colour.
• Flamboyance was frowned upon and anybody that did anything creative was called a Fancy Dan.
• I was always keen to go where the colour and the action was.
• In 2013, it felt like a house party where the person whose house it is shows up in the livingroom wearing their pyjamas.
• We were going: we’re expected to leave now, if we want to be in the creative arts?
• I just found that bewildering.
• I went away with that sense of, I wish I didn’t have to go.