School Daze: ‘I fancied every boy in school,’ says Laura O’Mahony

I went to Scoil Oilibhéir in Ballyvolane, Cork, for primary school. My dad was in fact the vice principal there, so any time I ever got remotely close to doing something that would get me in trouble, he would miraculously appear. It was a huge school. In Junior Infants there were 44 children in my class and I remember the teacher looking around and saying “Jesus, you’re everywhere.”

I was outgoing as a child but I was quite suspicious. I was both outgoing and shy at the same time, so I’d suss somebody out and take a while to decide whether I liked them or not. If I liked them then I was all over them like a rash.