This much I know: Denis Cotter, Café Paradiso owner

I’m a rationalist with frequent bouts of spirituality.

I don’t know exactly when I became a vegetarian. It was a combination of the influence of an ex-girlfriend and it being very fashionable in the early 80’s, with Morrissey and the whole left wing thing. It fitted my ethics and morality.

I had a lovely childhood growing up in Macroom but I wasn’t into cooking at all.