1) What do you remember about the place you grew up?
Newmarket was a boy s paradise when I was growing up. Hurling and football in the Fair Field and the Convent Lawn, Cowboys and Indians in the laurels, behind the Demense wall, fishing the Dallow, hunting the countryside with terriers, and of course, The Casino Cinema at night. Heaven!
2) Which invention from your lifetime are you most amazed by?
I used to be most amazed by television, but now it is the computer/internet, in all its manifestations.
3) What are the most important lessons you ve learned in your life?
This is a hard one. I have tried, not always successfully, to stick to Shakespeare s advice. To thine own self be true .