David McSavage: As soon as I gave up alcohol, my career started to get better

If my dad was falling down drunk the way I was in front of my kids, I know how insecure it would have made me.

Comic David McSavage. Picture: Mark Condren

MY memory of childhood is long summers jumping off the platform at Blackrock Baths, being in little bicycle gangs, having adventures. It was brilliant.

I have three sisters and one brother. I was a bully. My father had his favourites but he obviously wouldn’t admit it. That was okay; I felt my mother really loved me.