Weeshie's Week
50 Questions with Weeshie
by The Kingdom Newspaper
Where were you born?
Mallow. But took the high road for Killarney when three months old.
Who is in your Family?
Joan, Denise, Carol Ann and Kieran
What schools did you attend?
Presentation Convent, Presentation Monastery, St Brendan's College and Killarney Technical School.
What is your occupation?
Retired psychiatric nurse (38 years in St Finans). Now Radio Kerry sports presenter, broadcaster, and journalist.
Who is your best friend?
My Wife Joan.
Earliest childhood memory?
Listening to Michael O Hehir broadcasting the 1953 All Ireland Final on a Bush radio sitting on the side of the street outside McNeill's shop on Lower New St.
Apart from your family, who would be the first person you would invite to your birthday party?
My sister Sheila in Birmingham, now sadly the only remaining member of our family of six. Four boys, two girls.
And the last person you would invite?
No person I would despise that badly.
What car do you drive?
Renault Laguna
International figure you most admire?
Nelson Mandela
National figure you most admire?
Micheal O Muircheartaigh
What national or international personality irritates you?
Nicolas Sarkozy
Who would you like to see as Minister for Finance and why?
One of the many Kerry housewives doing brilliantly surviving on a small income with a large family. Her policy must be. Waste not, want not.
Where was your most memorable holiday?
Cruise around the Caribbean.
Where's your favourite place?
Beauty's Home, Killarney.
Favourite television programme?
Country File, BBC One Sunday
Favourite radio show?
Terrace Talk, Radio Kerry, Mondays 6-8 pm
Dinner party at home or a night in the pub?
A home bird.
Favourite food?
Steak and chips
Your signature dish if cooking?
Rasher and sausage or a couple of boiled duck eggs.
Favourite restaurant?
Anywhere in Killarney is top range but Chapter Forty, New St where I was raised in the fifties and sixties holds very special and fond memories.
Apart from family, who would be your ideal four dinner party guests?
Only Fools and Horses - Del Boy, Rodney, Trigger, Boycie. Would probably choke with laughter.
Wine and cheese, beer and crisps or tea and biscuits?
Tea and Biscuits.
Eggs scrambled, poached, boiled, fried, raw or not at all?
I'd eat then any way they come or even all mixed together.
Hangover cure?
Plenty of water.
Did you support Roy Keane or Mick McCarthy?
Mick McCarthy without hesitation
Do you keep fit?
I walk in the National Park most days.
Favourite sporting moment?
When I played my first game in Croke Park. That was always a boyhood ambition. Just to play there.
Last book you read?
Blood Brothers / Inside The New York Police Department.
Best book you read?
Any of John Grisham's
Last CD you bought?
Tico Mystico/Liam o Connor. A great artist.
Favourite song?
Neil Diamond, Sweet Caroline.
Your one desert island essential?
A good book.
Best film you've seen?
Heat
Favourite actor?
Robert De Nero,
One person you would love to see in concert?
Paul Simon
Do you have a pet?
Had one, a cat called Sash. RIP
Morning person or night owl?
Definitely morning.
Favourite heart-throb or pin-up?
Sandra Bullock.
Tommy Tiernan or Brendan Grace?
Brendan Grace by a country mile
Your proudest moment?
When each of my three children were born.
Coronation Street, Eastenders or Fair City?
I prefer to watch any of my club teams (Killarney Legion) training or playing.
Christmas morning or Mid Summer's Day?
Christmas morning.
Spendthrift or saver?
Easy come, easy go was always my motto.
Are you religious?
I go to Sunday mass and whisper a prayer to the Holy Spirit every day. He's my man.
Are you political?
Always vote for the person not the party is my policy.
Name one thing you think would improve the area in which you live?
It should be compulsory for owners of rented houses to keep their premises and gardens neat and tidy.
What makes you happy?
Health is wealth.
How would you like to be remembered?
As a person who never wronged another.
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