“Some mornings I wake up and think I’ll train horses, other days I think I’ll take Pat Keane’s job”
How do you manage to control your weight to do the job?
“I got the winter vomiting bug in the middle of December and lost 6lbs, and I haven’t put it back on, so I’ve been 9-12 ever since. I started watching my weight when I was in school. I was worried I was getting heavy, but when I was 18 or 19 I went to the Blackrock Clinic to a dietician called Mary McCreery and she put me on a diet. I told her I wanted to lose 6lbs — I was 10-4 at the time. I could have a bowl of cereal with skimmed milk for breakfast and a glass of sweetened orange juice. I’d go to school then and at break time I could have a can of diet, whatever — a sandwich with Connacht Gold Butter, one slice of meat and some salad on brown bread. I could have a Mueller Light yoghurt when I came home from school, four ounces of raw meat, two potatoes and veg for dinner. That was it. I did it from when I was 18 until the time I was 22 and my weight levelled off at 10-2.”
