Background
Aherne was born in Ealing, London into the family of an Irish railway worker and from the age of two, raised in Wythenshawe, Manchester where she attended the Hollies Convent Grammar School in West Didsbury. She then studied drama at Liverpool Polytechnic. Like her brother, Patrick, Aherne suffered from retinoblastoma in childhood, which left her partially sighted in one eye.
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