This much I know: Pat Shortt

I was a fairly outgoing child, I suppose, but a career in comedy was never really on the cards.

I grew up in Thurles in a family of twelve, with four younger than me. Dad was a schoolteacher and mum died when we were kids, so we have one step sister.

Music was always a big part of our lives. I started with traditional music and Irish dancing when I was just a kid, then in my teens I moved on to playing sax in various bands — first around Thurles and then further afield all over the country.