THERE’s a funny clip from a past edition of the Tommy Tiernan Show with Tommy and Ted and Katie Walsh, Tommy asking his guests about their past work lives. Tommy’s youth was quite different to Ted’s!

“The greatest thing my father ever did for me was saying – get out of the house. I spent six years on the dole in Galway. It was the making of me, I had freedom to decide what I wanted to do.” Ted wasn’t too enamoured by someone who “headed out to become employed by the dole.” “But look where I ended up”, says Tommy!