Name: Tom Walsh.

Title: Director general, Health and Safety Authority.

Marital Status: Married.

Children: Four.

Home: Dundrum, Dublin.

Most important life event: Coming to Dublin.

Biggest business break: Getting this job.

Biggest business mistake: Taking it without the resources to do it.

Time of getting up: 7.30 a.m.

Time of finishing work: 6 p.m.

Favourite breakfast: Kippers with brown bread.

Form of exercise: Walking fast.

Holidays: Flying south.

Favourite TV programme: The news.

Favourite radio programme: The Ronan Collins Show.

Car: BMW 318i.

Commuting time: 40 minutes each way.

Favourite airline: Aer Lingus.

Worst thing about travel: Not enough of it.

Favourite bank: Bank of Ireland.

Favourite tipple: Kilkenny.

Favourite pub: Ashtons, Clonskeagh.

Favourite restaurant: The Ship, Dunmore East.

How do you spend your free time: Playing double bass, gardening, reading.

Person you most admire: My wife, Elsie.

Dying words: I enjoyed that.