Every single one. I have to, it's work.

Back home I spread them all out on the table and read them standing up.

I'm always looking for ideas, and to get a sense of what's happening. Often there'll be coverage of issues that have come up on Liveline during the week. I like to see the reaction that the show has provoked, and I'm also looking for topics and issues that the show should be reacting to.

I have the radio on while I'm flicking through the papers. I like What If? with Diarmuid Ferriter and after that I flick between Marian Finucane and Sam Smyth. I don't really listen to the radio, it's more monitoring. I need to know what's in and out, up and down, on or off. It's a question of being aware of the mood, of what people are saying and thinking.

We have three children - they're triplets aged 11. I take the boys, Sean and Ronan, to rugby training.

They play for Clontarf under 11s. Ellen goes to Sea Scouts on the Bull Wall - she's very enthusiastic about that. When I've dropped them all home I'd go over and see my mother in Ballyfermot for a chat and a potter around. My wife June cooks a late lunch; it's usually a traditional roast.

Before Christmas, I started going to St Patrick's Cathedral for Evensong in the afternoon.

Last week there were extracts from the Messiah and it was quite beautiful. I think it might be my new year's resolution to keep it up. The kids liked it too and every parent knows that it's very difficult to get them to go to mass, so anything that holds their attention is a good thing. I've tried taking them to a different church every week - the Pro-Cathedral, St Patrick's, Gardiner Street, the Clontarf churches. The variety certainly helps - a different building, different people to look at.

The kids love movies so we'd often go to the cinema on Sunday in the late afternoon. My favourite cinema is the Omniplex in Santry although we go to the UCI in Coolock too.

Last week I took the boys to Déjà Vu - I could have sworn I'd seen it already.

The week before we went to Flag of Our Fathers. The censor got it wrong on that one. It's a 15A but it was the most graphic violence I'd ever seen in the cinema, completely unsuitable for children. I was upset and annoyed about that. Why should it be okay for kids to see horrific decapitations and suicides and not to be able to go to Borat and have a laugh? It doesn't make sense to me.

Sunday's a quiet evening.

We're all preparing for Monday. I'd have a glass of wine or a whiskey and maybe a plate of pasta. I never watch television unless I'm on, which is about once a year. I might play a game of Scrabble with the kids before they go to bed. The radio's always on in the background.