I started DJing for a pirate station when I was 15. I was interested in working as a club DJ but that's very hard to get into, so I decided to try by starting at the pirate station and maybe getting in that way. I called up the station and went down and basically hung around watching for about four months. Then I got my own slot, playing music only, I wasn't allowed talk! But it was really exciting.

After about five months I got a slot which included talking. I put a tape together, sent it in to FM104, they called me in for an interview and two weeks later I had the job.

Every weekday evening I do the traffic slot on Steve K's show; I do MTV news bulletins at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. every evening and I've my own show on Saturday and Sunday. I start the traffic slot at 4.30 p.m., by calling AA Roadwatch. Then, from 4.40 p.m., every 20 minutes until 7 p.m., Steve will call me up for a traffic update. I can be anywhere doing it - I just have to keep getting on and off the phone, checking out traffic updates and talking live to Steve. At first I did think it would be pretty stressful, but I'm so used to talking on air, I settled into it really quickly.

The MTV slots are pre-recorded. There is usually a bit of scripting around snippets from a band or an artist - I've only interviewed a band myself once. That was a boy band, Point Break, which was a completely new experience and great to be doing at my age. On Saturday mornings I get up at about 4.30 a.m. and get into work for about 5.20 a.m. - time for a blast of caffeine! I'd get into the studio about 20 minutes before the show starts at 6 a.m. and get the records ready for about the first hour.

The show is mainly music, a bit of chat and people calling in looking for requests which I'd play for them. I have to play ads and the weather, and make sure I have things timed so the news is bang on the hour - the seven o' clock news at five past seven doesn't go down well.

At first I was really nervous about that, but you get into the swing of it and stop having to cut off records after about 30 seconds! At that time of the day there's just myself, maybe a couple of other DJs and an engineer in the station - the engineer is there in case anything goes wrong. I go straight home after the show and go to bed for the day.

On Saturday nights I DJ between 9.30 and 11.30 p.m. at the Palace, a club on Camden Street in Dublin. There's no point going to bed after that - I just go straight into the station on Sunday mornings, do the show, and go home to bed at that stage. I've loved music since I was four years old and I always knew I wanted to be involved in something to do with it, but I wasn't exactly sure which category.

I hadn't meant to be a radio DJ, I sort of slipped into it - but I love it. I have to stick with a certain play-list for the weekend show. But I think that's actually a good idea: if a DJ got to play her own favourite music for three hours, you'd only appeal to people who had the same taste in music as you did and leave quite a lot of other people out. At the club I play mainly house music. I don't think I prefer the club over the station; I really love doing both of them. The nicest thing about working in the station is the atmosphere. I thought there's be a problem when I started because I'm so young, but they're all really nice people to work with.

I also like the way you get invited to all sorts of things - launches and film premieres, that sort of thing. The bad thing about the job is just the way you're judged by people who don't know you. Sometimes I meet people when I'm out with my friends and they seem to think that because I'm a DJ I'll be full of myself. You do meet DJ's who have completely lost the plot and think they're some kind of god, but to me it's a job and there's no job better than another. I love doing it. I just feel like I'm really lucky to be able to do something I love so much.

In an interview with Jackie Bourke