My grandparents farmed in Querrin, Co. Clare, where my mother Eileen Counihan was born in 1921. It was the place that I loved most as a child and now I live there full-time.

Born in Limerick; I became a Dentist in the late 1970s, when the only option at that time was emigration.

I moved to the lovely county of Hampshire in England and spent my whole professional career in the same practice for over 35 years.

I have four lovely amazing children all of whom think and feel they are Irish as we spent every Summer in Ireland and exposed them to all international Irish sport.