What a Difference a Day Makes: How a childhood injury stayed with me for a lifetime

Award-winning chef and author Brian McDermott tells Helen O’Callaghan how a traumatic injury sustained when he was 10 was a force for addressing a health issue much later in life. And how he is only now acknowledging that the childhood injury was a massive deal for him – a process of re-connection that he describes as grounding and confidence-building. 

Award-winning chef Brian McDermott will share easy and delicious recipes at the Dunnes Stores Chef’s Live Theatre on Saturday and Sunday at the PTSB Ideal Home Show.

I was 10, it was harvest season on our potato farm in Inishowen. My father was fixing a piece of machinery that had broken down. It was sitting on a block in the yard to keep it level while he investigated it.

There was mischief in me — I was kicking away at this stone block, wanting to knock it.