Alison Spittle: ‘I was kind of like an incel learning how to seduce women’

"I grew up on a council estate and the reality of it is you have to have a job. I was allowed to fart around for a bit because I got very lucky."

Alison Spittle:

My dad was a builder; we moved around a lot. I was born in England and we settled in a place called Ballymore in Westmeath.

I remember watching Beauty and the Beast in the cinema and crying when Gaston died. He’s a bollocks, but he didn’t deserve to fall off a roof. That’s my first memory.