I LIVE in Tulla, Co Clare with my wife Erica, a vet who owns Ceithre Cos, a local large and small animal mixed practice. Our daughter Aoibhinn is in her second year in NUIG so we are empty nesters.

My parents moved from just outside Shannon to Tulla in 1976, after we sold our previous farm to Shannon Development. Dad bought two farms and the house from the late Jim White of show jumping fame, so there was a great tradition of horses here before us. Now Erica has ended up owning Jim White’s practice and living in his former house.