Pauline McLynn: My proudest achievement is helping my dad get paid via signed Father Ted memorabilia

My mother says I was the first person in the family to get paid for showing off

Pauline McLynn: I'd like to be remembered as being harmless 

I was born in Sligo but my dad’s job moved to Galway when I was six months old. So, we got into the car — I wasn't driving at the time — and drove to Galway, and that’s where I grew up.

I have two younger brothers, Ian who still lives in Galway, and Philip who is London-based. My dad sold car parts for a living and he drove a van everywhere, so we got lots of great trips in the van. If you were out in the countryside, it was brilliant because the cab of the van was always higher than the hedgerows. So, if there were mushrooms or anything in the fields we'd know and we'd be able to go in collecting them. In the 70s we briefly had a car. That was no good, we couldn't see a thing.