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Education:

Secondary school: Belvedere College.

UCD: 1965-69 (BA Mus) Hochschule fur Musik, Vienna: 1971-76

Family:

married to Mary Murphy, sexual and relationship therapist.

Children:Hugh, an actor, and Keith an ICT student.

Favourite book:

"I'm currently engrossed in Seamus Heaney's Beowulf