Colin Tobin

It's his own decision, but I'm very happy that he's in college, that someone in the family has gone to college.

I suppose I'm not too proud of the fact to admit that my CAO forms are probably still in the same place in my mother's house as the day I received them.

I never opened them.

I never filled them in.

So I suppose back then I was kind of, I was working from a very young age.

As I said, like I was always, I was always ambitious.

I kind of, I always had a friend group

considerably older than myself.

Just kind of getting sidetracked here.

My brother is three years older.

So I suppose when he was three and I was just born, a friend of ours to this day, two twins, Barry and David Hayes, they were walking down past my mother's house on Granabraha Road and they saw my brother playing in the garage.

I was a baby probably in the pram at the time and we struck up a lifelong friendship.

The two lads are three years older than my brother, which would make them six years older than me.

So I always had an older friend group

And I suppose where that led me as I'm 11 and 12 years of age, they're kind of 17, 18, getting part time jobs, you know, working in factories, working in bars and restaurants.

And I was jealous that we were hanging around together and I had no walking around cash.

So like from a very young age, I always tried to work part time.

I'll admit, actually, I suppose in hindsight, no, it was, you know, quite silly at times, quite dangerous.

I mean, I remember I annoyed my mother for months when I was like 11 and 12 years of age.

I kept on saying kind of quite smartly.