Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting.

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  I feel better now at 38 then I did when I was 17. But then, when I was 17 I did have the attitude o

• Dervla Kirwan:

  I will always worry about where my career is going and am I any good.

• Dervla Kirwan:

  I think I've got some actor's form of ADHD. I just can't do the same thing day in, day out.

• Dervla Kirwan:

  I am quite a mercurial person.

• Dervla Kirwan:

  I can be a totally different person from one day to the next, so it is difficult for me to stay in

• Dervla Kirwan:

  I mean, the human race wouldn't continue if anyone told you how hard it is having kids, would it?

• Dervla Kirwan:

  As a chind in Dublin, I can remember having my plate piled high with four or five vegetables - and

• Dervla Kirwan:

  When I was about nine, I was rushed to hospital to have my appendix removed. Like any child, I was

• Dervla Kirwan:

  I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland