I HAVE marvellous Sundays here in Killaf**king-loe! I moved here after my stint as artist in residence at University of Limerick when I took a masters there because a bunch of people from the Irish Chamber Orchestra are based here and they said it was a great place to live. And it is. It's just that I didn't think I'd still be here five years later. I do like my weekends here though - it's very quiet.

Actually, I'm not here that often because I spend at least half the year travelling. If I'm not rehearsing or performing then I'll be teaching. I give master classes around the world - basically I go to places that I want to visit and if the students are responsive then I go back.

I've been building up the teaching as an adjunct to the day job for the last four or five years. I go to Russia twice a year, and to Germany, and I still teach the odd class in the University of Limerick.

Last summer I spent five weeks on the road teaching; it was great.

When I was a kid I used to get very frustrated with my parents because they'd never do anything on a Sunday, just lie around snoozing and eating and reading the papers. Of course, that's exactly what I like to do on Sunday now. If I've had a busy week, I spend Sunday on my own and try to have some headspace.

Sunday brunch is my favourite food of all time.

I'm not a great cook but I do a mean breakfast. I have poached eggs, rashers burnt to a crisp and a sesame bagel, maybe watching Rough Science on RT�?. I hate when I'm finished because it means I can't have it for another week. I'm quite disciplined about what I eat - it goes with the territory.

During the day I'll get the overview from the papers while I lie on the couch and then in the evening I'll take the in-depth articles to bed and get into the real nitty gritty. Because I spend most of my week around music and noise I tend to like silence at the weekend - I appreciate not having to listen to anything.

If I'm away teaching, then Sunday tends to be a working day. At the moment I'm in rehearsals for The Bull, for Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, written and directed by Michael Keegan-Dolan, which will run at the Barbican in London for two weeks from 21 February.

The Bull is basically the story of The Tain and I play Fergus The Knee F**ked O'Rourke, who's the lead dancer in an Irish dance show called Celtic Bitch.

The show premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2005 and got an amazing response. It's been reworked a little for the new run.

We're rehearsing in Shorebrook in Longford.

There's a big house and a barn that gets used as a dorm and everyone, all the cast and crew, lives and eats there. It's quite monastic - sometimes I think I'm in rehab.

I'm really enjoying it but it's intense and I escape away on Saturdays at lunchtime and drive home to touch base with my own personal reality, whatever that may be.