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10th June 2022
01:05pm BST

“That day I just cried and cried because it felt like such an ending of an era, it’s been five years of my life.
“I don’t know when I’m going to because I know I’m going to cry a lot, so I’m just waiting, but the response to it was insane and amazing.”
The Galway native added how important it was that writer Lisa McGee had “tackled” the subject of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement at the end of the series as ther is still “a great deal of misunderstanding” in the UK about it.
She said that there are a lot of MPs who have admitted to never reading it and "peace in Northern Ireland is very fragile and precious.'
She also noted that while Derry Girls is a comedy, the way the message was infused showed just how important it was because "it’s real people’s lives in a real day to day".
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