Marty Whelan: I am renowned for a thing called bouncebackability

'If you find yourself in a situation where you lose your job, you lose a gig, you have to find another one, you have to be able to come back'

Irish radio and television personality Marty Whelan has teamed up with Specsavers to turn up the volume on hearing loss.

I’m from Killester, Co Dublin. I am an only child, but I grew up surrounded by friends, which was brilliant and had lovely parents. I was very lucky, I had a very nice childhood. I wasn’t really great at sports, but being into music worked out for me in the end.

Before she had me, my mum Lily worked in a shop called Cassidy’s in George’s Street, and my dad worked in Clerys, so they were steeped in good clothes. As a result, I’ve always had to keep myself neat and clean over the years — they instilled it in me.