Alison Comyn: "I've never been more at ease with myself"

AT THE age of 14, Alison Comyn cycled every day to Bettystown beach during to summer to work in a newsagents, “pulling ice creams so I could have my own money”.

It’s this work ethic that has fuelled her varied career, working as an air hostess, TV presenter and print journalist along the way. “I just like to fulfil the potential that’s within me. I think it’s an awful waste of your life not to find out what you are good at and hopefully to be able to do that and be happy doing that,” she says.

Born with ink in her blood — her father Pat Comyn was a high-profile journalist — she speaks in complete sentences, building a vivid picture of a busy life, jam-packed with family and work commitments.