I've gone through over four thousand songs at this stage. I'm really enjoying the challenge.

A couple of Saturday nights a month I do a 60s/70s/80s show in either Larkins in The Curragh or the Castletown Inn in Celbridge and it can be a late night so I try to make up for it with a lie-in on Sunday.

I never cook, so once I pull myself out of the bed I start thinking about where I'm going to go to get my Sunday roast.

There are a few local places that I like . . . I might go back to the Castletown Inn or Green's or The Straffan Court. I bring all the papers with me and settle in for a complete wind down.

If I'm not working on Saturday evening then I try to get in a game of golf on Sunday.

I'm a member in Beech Park and I tend to play there with my father or else in Naas with friends. I'm not very good . . . my handicap's 23 or perhaps a little better . . . but it's fun and relaxing and I can persuade myself that it's a bit of exercise. I might invite myself back home to the family for dinner afterwards.

Quite often I'll head for Liffey Valley or Dundrum with a friend for a movie . . . I like comedies and true stories in the main.

I use Sky Plus to record all the programmes that I miss during the week and catch up with them over the weekend. It's the best invention ever. I like things like The Apprentice . . . real reality I call it . . . Hanging with Hector, Podge and Rodge . . . that kind of thing. And I have to keep up with the soaps for the show. Keeping informed about popular culture is part of the job. Format, presentation and passion are the three ingredients for success in radio. You could say I'm obsessed . . . I've been given a fantastic opportunity and a fantastic team and I'm determined to give it my all. I do lots of little features, snippets from the newspapers, and the station has the best traffic reports in Dublin.

Seventy percent of taxi drivers listen to us and they tend to stay tuned in so we must be doing something right. I'm on air for three hours, from seven until 10 and I need to be up at 4.30 on Monday mornings.

I used to do a late night show so I was accustomed to going to bed late. I haven't really adjusted my body clock yet . . . I probably should go to bed earlier than I do but I have the lights out by 11.30 at the latest.

In conversation with Katy McGuinness