I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.
Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.
Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.
You're not going to be able to deliver jobs locally unless you sort out the nation's problems, and that's why the big and difficult decisions about Ireland's economy have been so crucial and so difficult for people to have to accept and have to deal with, but the reality is the people gave this government an unprecedented mandate.
I love to go to Ireland just to relax.
Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.
I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.