Fair City star Sorcha Furlong said she was delighted to see her daughter Stella celebrating her 12th birthday home now that life as pretty much returned to normal again.
"I made such a big deal when she hit double digits two years ago and then her birthday came along and she said ‘I can’t believe covid spoiled my birthday’. Read more: Fair City's Una Crawford O'Brien says the death of her daughter taught her to grasp life and make the most of it "She is really into sports and she said she wants to be a sports journalist. She is really good at art as well.
She said: "Stella knew I was an actor when she was small but she never knew I was on the telly. I brought to the set a couple of times and one day we went up to the office to collect something and she said ‘Oh, so this is where you work?’ She said: "It was a big shock, I didn’t see it coming at all. We got the script the week before filming the scenes and I said ‘Oh no, I don’t want to do that’.
"You can see Ruth gnawing and gnawing at Orla and then she says that about Junior and there is a massive reaction.