What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Chilling in the sun.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Gráinne Mhaol.
Which living person do you most admire?
My mother.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Impatience.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Clothes and shoes for any excuse!
What is your favourite journey?
Heading West. Love driving back Connemara.
On what occasion do you lie?
When I’ve eaten all the goodies.
Which living person do you most despise?
I try not to bother wasting time thinking about them.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My husband and girls.
When and where were you happiest?
At the beach here in Spiddal or Spain.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Love to be able to sing.
What is your current state of mind?
Frustration.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Giving birth to my girls.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
Chocolate cake.
What is your most treasured possession?
Photographs – love nostalgia.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Loneliness.
What is your favourite occupation?
Cooking.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Kindness and honesty.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Kindness and honesty.
Who are your favourite writers?
Gail Honeyman, Delia Owens, and many more.
What is your motto?
Live and let live.
Máire Éilís plays Caitríona Ní Loideáin in the TG4 drama Series Ros na Rún which is broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm with an omnibus on Sunday evening at 7.30pm. Now in its 25th season, Máire Éilis has been with Ros na Rún since the first episode was broadcast on TG4 (then Teilifís na Gaeilge ) in 1996.
