Amy Huberman: ‘I couldn’t even imagine sitting down to write after my dad died’

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Amy Huberman shot by Nina Val on location at The College Suite, The College Green Hotel, Dublin. Styling: Corina Gaffey Make-up: Christine Lucignano Hair: David Cashman

When we speak, it’s the final countdown to Christmas and from inside her house, Amy Huberman is responding to a man out in the garden, who is signalling some vague message to her, possibly involving a Christmas tree?

The man in question is the actor’s husband, rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll, apparently in the act of taking out the bins. “Oh my God, is he telling me to turn the Christmas tree lights on or off? I can’t be dealing with him,” Huberman says between giggles, adding that when it came to gesturing, “it was this kind of ’tree!’, ‘on!’”