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- ↑ "What a Complete Aisling: The story of a very particular type of Irish girl". The Irish Times .
- ↑ "What a Complete Aisling: The story of a very particular type of Irish girl". The Irish Times .
- ↑ "Author Sarah Breen on How Living with Friends Helped Invent the Iconic Character of Aisling". 20 December 2018.
- ↑ "Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen".
- ↑ "My Make-Up and Me".
- ↑ https://www.theimposterproject.com/interview/sarah-breen
- ↑ "Ireland's teens mourn as Kiss magazine announces it's to close".
- ↑ "OMG! Aisling's back for a fourth book and she's jetting off to the biggest smoke yet". 29 July 2021.
- ↑ "Emer McLysaght".