Cork actor Darragh Shannon: 'My most shameful moment is when I turned down a hug from Lily-Rose Depp'

My claim to fame is that my uncle Tim is responsible for writing The Langer Song which was number one in the charts back in 2004.

Darragh Shannon

I grew up in Douglas in Cork. Acting wouldn’t have been at all on my radar as a young child — subconsciously, maybe — I was quite a clown when I was with my family. My mother used to always say ‘you have something chaotic in you that would be amazing for stage’. 

Through absolute shyness, I put that on the back foot and put all my imagination into football and soccer. It wasn’t cool to be an actor or to be in drama classes or anything.