It hasn't since we had children. The girls . . . Siofra and Freya . . . are two and four so you'd think we might have got used to it by now.

Sunday is when Fiona, my partner, gets her lie-in so I'm up early with the kids. I try to get them to watch Jimmy Hill's Sunday Supplement . . .

that's a football programme for the uninitiated . . . but it usually ends up being reruns of Scooby Doo. I'm not sure how many more I can take. I might get to read the sports sections while the TV is on. At around 11 I start to raise my voice to alert Fiona that her time is running out.

The deal is that she's down by half-past, not a minute later.

We live in Newcastle, Co Wicklow, and when the weather's good we head for the beach or to Powerscourt or Glendalough for a walk.

We might manage a pint in Lynam's in Laragh on the way home. Sometimes we'll invite other people with kids over for a meal in the hope that theirs will entertain ours while we drink wine.

My day job is playing an Irish priest in a BBC Scotland soap, River City.

We shoot in Glasgow for 30 weeks a year. I don't bother reading the scripts any more. I know my own lines and I seem to be able to use my instinct to figure out what's going on story-wise.

It can get confusing though, especially if we're doublebanking, which is when they have two crews working at the same time shooting different episodes and I might be moving between the two. If I've an early call on Monday then I'll have to head back on Sunday evening. I hate missing the girls' bedtime; I really don't like being away when they're so small. I find it hard to relax if I don't know that they're settled and asleep.

I'd rather be working in Ireland but it's a steady job and it pays the bills. You have to be prepared to travel where the work is.

If I don't have to head back until Monday, we put the girls to bed . . . Fiona's better at it than I am . . . and drink wine in front of the TV. We never go to pubs any more. There's usually a bit of musical beds during the night; you never really know who you're going to wake up with.

I'm on a break from River City at the moment and rehearsing The Stuff of Myth.

We were in the Project for a few weeks earlier this year and we're transferring to Andrew's Lane on 20 April.

It's a re-telling of Orpheus and Euridice done as a Monty Python-type musical.

The writer is Roger Gregg, who's an American living in Ireland. Roger, Morgan Jones and I have had a radio troupe . . . The Crazy Dog Audio Theatre Project . . . for about the last 12 years and The Stuff of Myth is our first stage show.

I play a rock star. I like the change from the priesthood!