This much I know: Niall O’Dowd

Ronald Reagan once said ‘Home is where they have to take you in’ — I like that idea.

Although I live in New York, I still return ‘home’ to Dublin and Drogheda, where my family now mostly live.

I tell young people all the time not to plan their lives down to the last detail — let it unfold. I left for the States in 1978, but I never consciously emigrated. One year just led to the next.