200% Irish

I was born in a place called Woodlawn in the Bronx - a very Irish populated town - in 2002. My dad is from Bologna in Italy and my mum is from Coolock in Dublin.

My mum emigrated in 1986 as a teenager and worked as a nanny in a Jewish family's home in Long Island. All four of her siblings went abroad. She met my father while inter-railing, but he was living in Italy, so she moved there in 1992, w…