Mark Moriarty: The day you start telling yourself you’re great is the day you can retire

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Mark Moriarty: "I like to think I am good in times of crisis."

I grew up in Blackrock, County Dublin with my younger sister, Laura, and my parents, Tom and Monica. Another lady, Frances, lived across the road from us and was like our second family. We used to spend the days there while my parents were at work.

My dad can't boil an egg, god bless him. My mum is a great cook but my interest in cooking came from the time I spent in Ventry, County Kerry, where my father is from. Every weekend, week off, holidays, summers, were spent down there. I had a big interest in fishing. The natural progression from that I suppose was to learn how to cook all the stuff that we were landing every morning.