Elaine Crowley on overcoming depression, and life without Emma Hannigan

Growing up in the quirkily named Newtwopothouse near Mallow, a young Elaine Crowley dreamed of one day becoming an actor and filmmaker. A stint of work experience with Cork-based broadcaster Patricia Messinger switched her focus.

“I had no notion of it,” she says of a broadcasting career. “I did film and broadcasting because I wanted to actually work in film and be an actor and maybe then a director.