Amy Huberman: 'Even though I knew it was coming, it was a goodbye I was never going to be ready for'

'Perhaps that’s self-preservation for humans; why would we want to pre-empt or begin to understand that grief?'

Amy Huberman: "I was always a positive person, was always partial to some melodrama (cue enjoying a career as an actor), and always loved potential craic."

My early life was wheelies on BMX’s, making dens with my brothers, making mixed tapes for brothers’ friends that never felt the same way, and bunking off school to watch Scott and Charlene get married (this way I could watch it at 1.30 and the repeat at 6.30). It was playing ‘elastics’ out on the road, it was summers trying to survive hypothermia in Rosslare. I’m grateful to my parents for providing a playground for our youth, but I’m grateful for them setting boundaries too.

Really annoyingly, my earliest memory is standing up in my cot and switching the main light in my room on and then peering around the corner to my parents’ room to wait for one of them to get up and come down to me and turn it off. I say annoyingly, but that was for them; I, on the other hand, was having great craic. I’m still partial to a repeat gag.