You can't miss me," says Graham McCulloch. "I'll be the scruffy one with the long hair". This cheery declaration sounds decidedly unpromising for a young man who last week won the International Bachelor contest at the Mullingar Festival.
Luckily 26-year-old McCulloch soon redeems himself, ditching the bachelor as bimbo tag in the process, by revealing he is currently working on a PhD in the zoology labs in Trinity College.
What's more, the dimple-cheeked Dubliner is normally based in Botswana where, when not observing the ecology of lanky pink birdlife, he is a safari guide at the famous Jack's Camp.
"Africa is the most romantic place in the whole world," he says sipping his pint of Guinness of which he became extremely fond since he liberated Mullingar Festival sponsor Uncle Arthur of the £1,000 cash prize - the booty also included £1,000 for charity which he is giving to the Multiple Sclerosis Care Centre in Dublin.
"There is nothing better than watching an African sunset, waiting for the stars to come out in the clear sky and listening to the sounds of the bush," he says. The fact that those sounds are roaring lions and hysterical hyenas only adds to the seductive atmosphere apparently.
For the McCulloch brothers who grew up in the slightly less romantic environs of a farm in north Co Dublin, the annual Mullingar bachelorama is a truly family affair. Graham's older brother Rory won the same competition in 1997 and his younger brother was an entrant last year. "They said it was great fun, so I gave it a go," he says.
This time the competition - who included a pretty swoonsome Argentinian computer expert and a handsome van driver from Ulster - was tough but McCulloch reckons his smiley face, curly hair and out of Africa experience swung it. "The other lads were all really pleased for me," he says anxious to dispel any rumours of backstage bachelor bitchiness.
One of the judges was a journalist with Cosmopolitan magazine while RTE radio personality Maxi acted as MC. "She is an amazing woman," he says seriously.
His ideal woman, though, would be dark, with good eyes and clear skin. "African women are gorgeous," he sighs, conjuring up the genetic cocktail which would blend the personality of an Irish woman with the looks of an African woman. "That would be perfect," he says.