Another big day arrives for Rebel star Cleary

Nollaig Cleary leans against the dressing room wall in Caherlag, joking that a full year has passed since a dictaphone was last thrust in her direction.

Not that she has been out of the spotlight in the ensuing 12 months, mind you.

Ms Nollaig Cleary, as she was then, is now Mrs Micheál Ó Cróinín, a picture of the newlyweds on the steps of Timoleague church, flanked by several members of the Cork ladies set-up, appearing on the front page of this paper last December. “I don’t know how it wound up there, and the front page and all,” she grins. “Certainly I wasn’t going around telling newspapers the date of my wedding.”