An interview with architect and TV presenter Dermot Bannon

WITH RTE’s Room to Improve programme due to air its ninth series in January 2016, its star Dermot Bannon has become a household name.

But he’s also a hard man to get hold of when you want a talk about where he is now — almost 10 years on from the show’s inception — thanks to a busy schedule of filming over four to five months of the year, running a successful private architectural practice and confessing to a few outstanding jobs at home.

Currently he’s filming series nine and ten of the popular show together, a development necessitated by some larger and consequently more long-term projects, that can’t be completed during a single series.