This much I know: Alan Howley, actor

I was a very mouthy kid, the youngest of five and very precocious.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I saw Bryan Murray as the bad guy in Blood Brothers when I was around 10. That show really moved me. Maybe it was egocentric of me but I imagined myself up there on stage like him.

My dad was headmaster in a national school in Finglas. My mother was a nurse and then she raised the five of us. My parents were not directly involved in the arts but they were avid theatre goers.