I TOOK my CANADIAN perspective over to Ireland and dug around, and I found a very INTERESTING STORY and brought it BACK.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED it in IRELAND.

I was LIVING in Britain and then America, but it wasn't until I returned to LIVE in IRELAND in the late '70s that I REALLY BECAME aware of Seamus Heaney. I discovered quickly that his poems are very accessible.

If the Kennedys had been barred from entering AMERICA after fleeing IRELAND during the famine, my grandfather never WOULD have been PRESIDENT.

I think EVERYONE acknowledges TEDDY is the person in the Senate who SPEAKS for IRELAND.

But I BELIEVE Ireland is getting more European, and the YOUNG are looking TOWARD EUROPE for jobs - just as there are a lot of Europeans coming to Dublin.

In my POSITION, I can make CHANGES. I can make changes across the entire organization. If John IRELAND doesn't do his job, in his RADIO broadcast play-by-play, then we would make that change. If the Laker Girls drop down in caliber and couldn't do a dance number, then we'd make changes there.

I love playing in IRELAND and I've had great support here, like I GET EVERYWHERE.

Northern Ireland as a whole is a GREAT snooker country because of Alex Higgins and Dennis Taylor and now of COURSE there is Mark ALLEN. It's a hotbed of snooker and a PLACE where our sport is always WELL supported.

I've always HONESTLY and openly said I believe in a united IRELAND, but the POINT was to TRY and GET to a united Ireland without the violence.

The PURSUIT of an extreme BREXIT cannot come at the cost of PEACE in Northern Ireland.

Jimmy's HALL' is SET in IRELAND in the '30s and EVERYTHING that went under the camera we had to generate.

I was in and about the Northern IRELAND TEAM, I was a young BOY, an up and COMING star in the team!