Ryan Tubridy

What happened after school?

And your mum, you mentioned, was a midwife.

If you're going to have a black sheep, send them up to the skies.

What did the wild year look like?

Well, I mean, I wasn't there, but I know what you're talking about, yeah.

Yeah.

And what they wanted.

I want to talk about books again briefly because it's not necessarily a category, but when you were a teenager and you were reading Judy Blume,

And I think Judy Blume will give us a sort of an entree into the world you are currently inhabiting because she wasn't afraid to talk about the body.

And the young female body, if you like, for teenagers reading that.

And even I was a teenage boy.

I was a young fellow.

I was reading that.

Didn't quite understand it because she was talking about girls and stuff like that.

and obviously I didn't understand the girls, and I went to an all-boys school, and it was Catholic Ireland, and it was the 80s and 90s, and we knew nothing about anything, especially when it came to the bodies, which is why I'm so happy to talk to you today.

And why, talk to me a bit about Judy Blume.

So you were getting a look inside the door.

Yes, around the world.

Your book that brought you joy or made you laugh is also very pertinent to where you are today.

So you're going to go for Adam Kay's book.