What school did you go to? Did you enjoy it?
I went to St Joseph's College, Ballinasloe in Co. Galway. It was alright.

How did you do at school?
I was kind of average, I was lazy. I did enough to get by. I wasn't interested in doing any more than that.

What has happened since school and before R.T.E.?
When I left school, I went to journalism school at D.I.T. I did a journalist course and after that I became a Journalist. I also went to England to work.

Who is/was your favourite interviewee?
Arnold Schwarzenegger!

Did you interview him?
Yeah, for all of 30 secs. [Laughs]

What was he like?
He was a big meaty guy; I asked him what his favourite Irish food was? He said it was his mother's apple strudle in Austria.

Who was your most difficult interviewee?
Ah...... Ronny Drew - because he was a cranky old bollocks. He was on Gondolas once and he started saying, "This is the lowest common denominator - bloody Jesus- what am I doing on this show?" (In a Ronny Drew voice). This is a guy who wrote "Seven Drunken Nights" as his biggest hit.