Jim is from Glenageary, and has one brother and two sisters. After school, he studied Film and Television Production at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and started his radio career in pirate radio. He lives in Dublin with his girlfriend of six years, Sharon.

Colm and Jim-Jim began copresenting The Strawberry Alarm Clock breakfast show on FM104 in 2000, and they won seven awards at the annual PPI Radio Awards, including Best Breakfast Show and Presenters of the Year in 2005, and Best Comedy in 2006.

The duo have now moved to 2FM, and The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show will be on air there from tomorrow at 7am.

Colm on Jim-Jim I first met Jim when I was Programme Director for FM104, and he was brought in to work as a researcher on the Adrian Kennedy late-night talk show. He used to play really strange funk music in his office, which was a good sign, as I love it too!

We got talking, and I found that he had a very weird sense of humour as well, and we had similar tastes in music and film, and a passion for radio. I was Programme Director at the station and, a year later, we were looking for someone to replace a guy who had left on the breakfast show, which I co-presented for 11 years. I thought that we should try bringing Jim onto the show to see how it went, and it worked out great.

It can be very difficult when you start working on a radio show with someone, because it's not like an office where you can switch off if you don't know someone that well, or you don't like them. When you're on air, you're with that person constantly, and are feeding each other ideas, and you're talking through them to an audience.

With some people, that process is hell at the beginning, but I never found it like that with Jim. There were a couple of awkward silences, and times where we talked over one another, but we quickly developed a genuine rapport and respect.

The show is a very intense creative process, because we put a lot of thought and effort into what we do.

There's a very strong sense of honesty between us, and we've had the odd disagreement or argument about ideas, or things that didn't work, but they get brushed over very quickly.

We've gone abroad to do the show, and some of our best ideas come when we're out of our own environment - sometimes, there is drink involved, and sometimes not.

And Jim takes care of me when I try to pick fights with rugby players.

Jim and I have very different lives, and although we'd go out for a few beers together and to see some bands, most of our socialising is done in work. He lends me a lot of movies, and I never give them back, so I've built up a lovely collection of DVDs.

What I like best about Jim is that he has very sexy ears. Ah no, seriously, he's very down-to-earth and chilled out, and has a great sense of humour.

Neither of us tries to be anything other than who we are on air. Well, sometimes Jim tries to be Prince or James Brown, but most of the time, what you see is what you get with JimJim.

Jim-Jim on Colm Colm was the one who gave me my break really, as I had worked on pirate radio before that, and used to fill in on Adrian's show for holidays - that was so bad that Colm wanted to rescue me from it. He came in to say that they were trying out different people on the show for two weeks at a time, and I would be the first to try out, and I was still there seven years later.

Working with Colm was daunting at first, because it was such a big show and, after a while, we came to realise we had this kind of gel, and it came to a stage where we were both sharing the mike after a while. I know instinctively when he's going to start and stop talking, or when he has nothing and I should jump in, and I can always tell when something funny is going to come from him.

I think one of our main strengths is the chemistry between us, as we have a great laugh on air and the listeners love the banter. We see each other a bit outside work, but we wouldn't live in each other's pockets. The thing is that we talk to each other for at least six or seven hours, five days a week and I probably talk to Colm more than to my own girlfriend some days, because I'm so tired by the time I get home from work. We're both pretty private people, and wouldn't really go around talking about personal matters though.

Colm is one of the good guys, and he always has my best interests at heart.

Right from the very beginning, he's probably looked out for me more than anyone else in the radio business. He's really sharp and quick-witted, and has one of those lightning brains that can connect, just say, a bouncy castle to what's going on politically. He guides me through ideas I might have because, with his management experience, he would be the levelheaded one. Sometimes my ideas might be too far out, so Colm brings me back down to earth.

Some of our best lines happen offair, and we can come on still laughing about something that has just been said too horrible or filthy to broadcast. The worst thing about Colm is that he has had a problem with the taxi drivers in every single city we've been to; he'd be telling them things like he knows the city like the back of his hand, and I always have to give him a nudge to shut up!