Fionnuala Jones: 'When I started I was taking the mick out of influencers — now I am one'

The Flop Culture host, Six O'Clock show presenter and sustainability influencer chats to Aoife Barry

Fionnuala Jones pictured at The Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. Picture: Alison Miles /OSM PHOTO

When Cobh native Fionnuala Jones was growing up, she had her eye on many exciting future careers. Maybe she’d be an artist, or a guide dog trainer, or a pop star, or a writer.

“I wrote a book in third class, and was so confident that it was going to be adapted into a film that I wrote a song to go on the soundtrack to it,” she laughs as she chats to the Irish Examiner from her living room in Dublin. “Everyone needs to have that confidence.”