The UCC graduate who worked in Ford's accounts department on a salary of £10 per week

Donncha Ó Dúlaing, widely known for his hugely popular radio shows Three-O-One, Highways and Byways and Fáilte Isteach, remembers his time in the accounts department at Henry Ford & Son.

As a student at UCC in the late 1950’s, I had to earn my fees and my keep and often got a bus across the city without a breakfast.

After I obtained a BA hons in Irish and English there, my Professor, B.G. McCarthy, urged me to do a masters, as I had spent many years as Auditor of the English Literature Society.