'I’d get sick if I had to listen to him as well': Louis Walsh on Boyzone's farewell tour

As Louis Walsh prepares for the final of Ireland’s Got Talent and another Westlife tour, he talks to Pat Fitzpatrick about plastic surgery, celebrity spats – and why he won’t be having children, ever.

"I hate f**king kids,” Louis Walsh whispers to me as a mother and four children arrive into our quiet corner of the Intercontinental Hotel in Ballsbridge. A few minutes of low-level kid noise later he uses a slightly louder voice to say he wishes they’d shut up. A few minutes after that he snaps “shut up” in a voice that must have carried to their table.