Brendan O'Connor

Hello.

Zara, Love Island is back for the summer.

People will know you from movies like Detroit and Bridge End.

We've a bit of local interest as well.

They're essentially computers now, are they?

But you have written.

that's, of course, Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns, who's very much the woman of the moment in the papers today.

It's been very well received.

It's a very raw and honest memoir called The Make Believe.

So she's saying her party will not enter a formal left wing alliance ahead of the election.

And you have some story to tell.

It's about a time in your life where I think kind of in parallel, you became very ill and you got involved in, I suppose, what we could roughly call a wellness magic cult.

It'll be a vote left, transfer left kind of soft request.

Yeah.

He got the result?

Party officers are also starting work on even stronger deal breakers for government negotiations three years ahead of the general election.

Can we go back a bit first, Hannah?

So people might remember you, as I say, as Cassie on the TV show Skins.

So I'm

That sounds to me like they're not gagging to get into government, but they are because Holly Cairn says the party will be vying for a turn in a rotating Taoiseach agreement.