I usually get up at around nine and head out for a walk with Cherry, our golden retriever. She's a trained guide dog but she was too frisky for the job so she came to us instead. We usually go along by the sea in Sandycove and to Bulloch harbour in Dalkey or to Dun Laoghaire pier. If the tide's in she likes to go for a swim in the old baths, the problem is trying to get her out. We stay out for about an hour and a half if the weather's fine. I pick up the papers on the way back.

The rest of the family . . .we have three children: Mathew (nearly 15), Eva (11) and Julia (9) . . . will be up when we get back and we'll have brunch together around eleven. Jenny cooks and I do the clear up. I'm a terrible cook. I listen to the radio . . . business programmes or Lyric FM usually . . . and the kids watch TV. Eva and Julia are both in the Otters swimming club and there are often galas on Sunday so I might find myself driving them off to compete.

We drop into the Dun Laoghaire market at some point during the day. We're not very committed in the religious sense but sometimes we drop in to mass in Dalkey or the Church of Ireland in Glenageary. The girls like the singing. As long as the kids lead a broadly Christian life Jenny and I aren't too bothered about the denomination.

Sadly for me the football season has just about come to an end so I'll have to find something else to occupy myself with on Sunday afternoons. I love watching sport on TV. Football is my favourite but I could watch anything really . . . golf, tennis, GAA. I like to get a bit of fresh air too and do some work in the garden. I might drop into one of the local garden centres like Mackeys or Harry Byrne's and pick up a few new plants. Jenny and the girls usually play some tennis.

Most Sundays I head off to meet my brother Peter for a pint in Finnegan's in Dalkey. I have to get back by 7.30 or 8.00 or else the dog will have got my dinner. This time of year we like to barbecue in the garden. We have a bottle of wine and wind down. We might watch a movie together. We stick to lighthearted stuff because the girls don't like anything too violent or gory. I'm usually in bed by around ten or 10.30, finishing off the papers before I turn the light out.