Louise Cooney: 'There is so much more to people than just what you see online'

'I would like to be remembered as somebody who stayed true to themselves and was very hard-working'

'The life lesson I would like to pass on is to just go for it.'

I grew up in Limerick. Both of my parents are from Tipperary, and I have two sisters and a brother, but I suppose my brother came along a little bit later, he’s eight years younger than me. So, it was me and my two sisters growing up and I remember us playing all the time.

We were in Tipperary every weekend. My granny and grandad had a farm, so we were up there, collecting the chickens’ eggs and feeding the calves and all that kind of stuff. We used to love it and my granny would feed us endless amounts of toast so that was always good.