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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan

Fadó, fadó, when I was a toddler sent to a place that I considered a prison but my parents called creche, we got a hot meal served to us in the middle of the day. It usually consisted of cold, lumpy mashed potato with some red tomato sauce and spaghetti thrown in posing as an additional vegetable.

Invariably, I did not eat that muck and thus my renegade school career began by being held back as a three-year-old until I ate the lumpy mash. I never did.