I live in Dalkey and share a house with my friend Zoe.

When I get out of bed, I go down to the shops and get all the papers; that's my big indulgence on a Sunday. I love to read every single newspaper and all the magazines. I'll read the business section but sports not so much, I have to admit . . .that section goes straight in the bin.

I'll get some food and cook up a nice breakfast and pretty much lounge around a lot of the day, reading. It could be a classic fry but if I'm feeling adventurous, it will be eggs Benedict, which is my favourite Sunday food.

Then I'll go for a walk. I walk a lot by the sea but the weather has been so desperate lately that hasn't happened. I like going for nice long rambles and if I've been out the night before I need that to cure the head a little. But that's definitely a 'weekend off ' scenario. I'll meet up with a few friends to walk the pier then it's back to Dalkey, sometimes to Finnegan's in Dalkey for a few early drinks and maybe a bite to eat.

I frequently go into town because a good few of my friends live there and we go to the Harbourmaster in the IFSC and have their legendary chicken wings. It's a bit of a tradition that's been going on for about six years.

We call it family Sunday lunch. There are six or seven of us and we get together and sit at the same table in the Harbourmaster, order masses of food and sit and have the chat.

After that, it's pretty much home and it's very, very relaxed. In the summertime I'm addicted to Big Brother so that has to get factored . . . I think either Liam or Carol are going to win.

I relish my Sundays, absolutely adore them . . . and I love the chilled-out vibe. I don't get the back-toschool/going-to-work fear thing that a lot of people get.

I'm lucky because Ken [the other half of the business partnership, Boylan and Balfe] and I are working for ourselves and we really enjoy what we do.

Basically, I have one weekend off a month on average, so very many Saturdays and Sundays we'll be teaching courses and we teach our basic one-day course at the weekend.

It's quite hectic at the moment so we take a day off whenever we can manage . . . it might be a Monday or a Wednesday or something like that, and we can't take the same day off. But the beauty of it is that we don't have to go to an office every day from nine to five.

We could be doing shoots, we could be teaching or working with individual clients. We're always out meeting people and I think that we don't get as tired or jaded as some people might, when they're office based.

Every single week, I open my diary on Monday and what's planned is totally different to the week I just had.

In conversation with Claire O'Mahony