This Much I Know: comedian Sineád Quinlan

'I have never known what I wanted to be. I have been winging it since I was a small child'

Sinead Quinlan

I'm the oldest, I have one brother called Eamonn who is two years younger than me. To be fair, I actually like him. He is twenty-five and really funny. I always tell him that he'd be brilliant at stand-up but he says he'd be terrified.

When I was two, my brother was brought back from the hospital and I had a Baby Born. I thought that he was another doll for me — it didn't occur to me that he was a real baby — so I took him out of the Moses basket to give him a tour of the house. My Mom says that she was on the phone and turned around to see the empty basket and nearly lost her life. She found us outside, where we were in a hole in the hedge — it was my hiding spot.