Iarla Ó Lionáird: 'I feel like I'm groping around in the dark a lot of the time'

'I've always embraced the challenges but that is not to say that there aren’t times when there's a lot of hand-wringing'

Iarla Ó Lionáird: "People have predispositions but a lot of the time, life extinguishes that part of them — for many reasons." Picture: Rich Gilligan

I grew up in the Gaeltacht of Ballyvourney. My mother and father are still hale and hearty, thank God. They had 12 children, would you believe?

It was noisy. At one point, there were 17 people living in that house.