‘I never have a full night’s sleep before singing at a funeral - it’s someone’s last goodbye’

Olivia O'Hanlon who is a wedding and funeral singer at her local church, St Brigid's Catholic Church, Ballysadare. Photograph: James ConnollyOne of my earliest memories is standing in the kitchen at my granny’s, and you’d do a song. My sister and I would sing with my uncle at family weddings. I was in the choir in the Mercy in Sligo too.

I had worked really hard and did all my exams at the bank. The kids were in creche and when you are running and racing, and the guilt of working and all that – when the opportunity came up to leave the bank, I was thinking God, what will I do? You lose yourself when your career is gone. The only thing I could do was sing.Model boat making: ‘It takes you to a different world.

Music can make you cry and get upset, and that’s one thing you don’t want is tears and make-up being destroyed. You can pick up the tempo from when the couple are signing the register. Happy Together by the Turtles or Forever and Ever by Randy Travis is coming back, which I love. Five years ago, it was Hey Ho by the Lumineers.

May, June, July, August and September are the months people get married, and bank holiday weekends are the busiest. Thursdays are big because a lot of hotels are doing offers. Last year, it was a lot of Mondays.

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