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Jacqui Hurley: "I grew up in a very happy household where we would have been outside a lot in our house in Australia." Photograph: RTÉ How agreeable are you?
I’m actually fairly agreeable, to be honest. I’m pretty chilled. I’m not big on confrontation. I tend to chat things through with people. What’s your middle name and what do you think of it?
Oh God, I hate it. My middle name is Ita. And when I was younger it involved lots of nicknames like Chiquita banana, Jacqui the biscuit, lots of those things. It consistently followed me around. It’s not a middle name you’d describe as being “blessed with”.
I was called after an auntie. It was just one of those names that was attached to you but you definitely would not have chosen for yourself. Where is your favourite place in Ireland?
Probably Ballybunion in Kerry . It’s our happy place as a family. We’ve been going there for a number of years. We spend the summer down there usually, at least a month. It’s just very relaxed. We literally do very little. We just rent a house. Our cousins are down there with us. We walk the beach every day. There’s loads of surfing, loads of having the craic, and really happy memories are always in that place.
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