Alison Curtis: If I took a different fork in the road I think I might have been a hairdresser

My twin sister was over here for three months working from my house — it was the first time we lived together since we were teenagers so we had some sibling moments

Alison has recently joined her local GAA club, St Vincent's, as part of Sports Direct's Gaelic4Mothers&Others programme. Picture: 
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I’m from Canada and was on my way to do a master’s degree in Glasgow when I got into radio in Dublin. I was with Today Fm for about three months before I got onto the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show and then each year would go by and I’d stay on and my work permit would be renewed. I ended up being on that show for 10 years. Then in 2002 I met my husband, so I never made it to Glasgow.

I actually studied anthropology at the University of Toronto but the moment I started working in radio, even as a producer behind the scenes, I just loved the creativity. I love the immediacy and how you can connect with listeners right away and the intimacy of it all.