After school, Anne studied Communications at DCU, prior to moving to the UK, where she became involved in drama and comedy. After moving back to Dublin, she was co-founder of comedy sensations, The Nualas, with Sue Collins, and she has produced and performed in Funny Girls, as well as various television and radio roles. Anne has just previewed her first full-length solo show at the Capital Comedy Club in Dublin, and she will be performing at JJ Harlow's in Roscommon Town on Friday, 8 December.

Her debut comedy novel, Deadlines and Dickheads, has just been released through O'Brien Press, and she is currently working on her second book. Anne lives in Dublin, and she is in a relationship with Fergal.

Una studied psychology and English in UCD, followed by a diploma in teaching English as a foreign language, after which she lived in Greece for a year, prior to moving to Amsterdam, where she lived for 15 years. While in the Netherlands, Una taught English and studied Fine Art, before returning to live in Dublin in March 2004. She works as a freelance animator and illustrator, as well as teaching English as a foreign language in the Dochas Centre, Mountjoy Women's Prison, and video production in Pathways, a support organisation for ex-prisoners.

Una is in a relationship with Paul, and she lives in Dublin.

Anne on Una I was only 11 months old when Una was born, so it seems like she has always been there in my life. Our brother Kevin was only a year older than me, so we used to fight over who got to play with her. Una was obsessed with ponies, and I was obsessed with painting, and she was a real tomboy, unlike me, but she was very adaptable and used to play girls' games with me and boys' games with Kevin. I don't actually understand sibling rivalry at all, because Una and I never clashed at all as children, and were always really close to Kevin too.

I missed Una very much when she moved to Amsterdam, but we kept in touch the whole time, and always used to go on holidays together. Actually, there was a stage when I was touring a lot in the UK with the Nualas, that I hardly socialised in Dublin at all, because I went over to Amsterdam so often in my free time. Una and I were always really sad when we were saying goodbye at the airport, so I was delighted when she moved back to Dublin. She came to live with me for a year and a half, and she took the little office in my apartment as her bedroom, and we rented an office between us. We had a brilliant time and a great laugh, and I'm a bit messy but Una's very tidy.

The great thing about Una and I is that we have always looked after one another, and helped each other out. We have both had our ups and downs financially, and there were times when I would go to Amsterdam with no money, knowing that Una would look after me. Then, at other times, when I was doing well, I'd be able to make it up to her by bringing her on holidays.

Una is a brilliant sister, and I think we're so lucky to have such a close relationship. She is so talented at her illustration and animation work, and I also admire her for her teaching work, because it can be quite demanding and she really cares about the women she teaches . . . she's wonderful with them, and also with the people she works with in Pathways.

Una has such a brilliant sense of humour, and that's why she gets on so well with everyone. I dedicated my book Deadlines and Dickheads to her, because she was such an amazing help when I was writing it. I used to give her sheets and sheets of it to read the whole time, and I trusted her opinion on it implicitly . . . she has an amazing editorial eye.

Una on Anne Anne and I have always been best friends, even though we were very different as children, because Anne was really girlie and people used to sometimes mistake me for a boy.

She was a real 'mummy's little helper' and was cooking full roast dinners at the age of 10, and putting lino down on the floor by 14. I preferred playing with trains and soldiers, and being out on the farm, helping Daddy with the cows. I remember Anne being really talented at painting, and winning an award at the Texaco Children's Art competition.

When I lived in Amsterdam, Anne came over to visit regularly, and actually went out with a Dutch guy for a while. She was always there for me on the other end of the phone, and would instantly know if something was up when she called. I moved back to Dublin because I had an incredible desire to be back in the same city as Anne and Kevin. I found it very hard initially, because I had been away for so long and I missed my friends, but Anne was a fantastic support. We had great fun together, and I think she's the only person I could ever live with, apart from a partner, although I have to say she's extremely untidy!

Anne has always been a real support to me, and she would drop everything and go off on her bike to find me things I need when I'm doing illustration or collage montage work. She is so loyal and funny, and if ever I'm a bit down, Anne can always make me laugh, although there is a quiet, shy retiring side to her too. She is so multi-talented, and always has been, even apart from the comedy and singing and acting . . . I really think she could have been anything she wanted to be. She has always been writing, ever since she was a child, so I'm delighted that she's written the book, and I think it's fantastic.