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Kirstie McCrum

I was a real-life Derry Girl and it's astonishingly accurate

The smash-hit comedy Derry Girls is back tonight (Tuesday) for its third and final series. It's been a massive success, and a surprising one in many ways.

After all, Northern Ireland is a country with a population of fewer than two million people. And a very small proportion of those were schoolgirls in the mid to late 1990s.

In truth, there are universal themes in the programme - teenage awkwardness, embarrassing families and hormonal clashes with the opposite sex. But for me, relating to the girls of Our Lady Immaculate College is easy, as I was pretty much one of them.

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