How did your childhood experience influence your attitude to money?
There wasnât a lot of money around growing up, but you donât notice that as a kid.
There were kids in our school who were poorer but there werenât kids who were richer, so we just thought that we were all right.
My dad was a postman, my mum was a nursery nurse, so there was income and we just thought we were doing OK. We couldâve done with a few more LPs and a few more clothes and shoes but apart from that we were fine.
There is no word for purple in Tuareg. They are now showing the film purple rain in Niger where Tuareg is spoken and its now called " rain the colour of blue with a little red in it"
Sir Nicholas Winton organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport. In this from the BBC Programme âThatâs Lifeâ aired in 1988, he is sitting in the audience unawares that he is surrounded by a group of those survivors.
That when Laois won their only hurling All Ireland (sometime back around the 1910âs) they basically became a professional team for the month leading up to the final.
All the players were replaced in their jobs by temporary workers so the lads could do nothing but hurling training for a month solid.
Correct. Thats what we were hoping to do with Colm Begley, Ross Munnelly and John O Loughlin being a trial version but Dublin beat us to it with Paddy Andrews, Bernard Brogan, Paul Casey, Stephen Cluxton, Jonny Cooper, Bryan Cullen, Paul Flynn, Declan Lally,Kevin Nolan, Eoghan OâGara, TomĂĄs Quinn, Shane Ryan etc.