My Childhood with Dáithí Ó Sé: I never shut up as a child — look how all that talking stands to me now

The TV presenter reflects on his childhood and how, instead of becoming a teacher, he ventured into a career in front of the cameras

Dáithí Ó Sé: 'School back then wasn’t what it is today: We were afraid of our teachers.' Photo: Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD

TELEVISION presenter Dáithí Ó Sé shows me one of the three photos he has in his office. It’s of him as a three-year-old on his grandfather’s knee.

“The three photos in my office are: Rita and me on our wedding day; me and a schoolfriend called Adrian Begley at the Dingle Races two years before he died; and this one with my father’s father, Dainín Dan,” Ó Sé says.