The train is brilliant - the Enterprise is a great service. You can't drive from Dundalk unless you leave at half six in the morning. Drogheda is the worst place, though it has what they call a by-pass. The Balbriggan by-pass is great, then all of a sudden the traffic stops. From Blake's Cross to the airport, it's crowded. It's fine as far as Whitehall and then it stops again. I used to cut across Phibsboro, and once I got to Constitution Hill there was no traffic all the way to the South Circular Road where I work.

I would say to people, for £36 a week you can get a train and bus ticket - you can hop on a train, then hop on a bus in Dublin. The one pass covers both. It's a seven-day pass, so if I feel like shopping in Dublin at the weekend, I can do it. The thing is, you arrive totally stress-free. Dundalk station had no coffee shop and no buffet car on the early train, but one has just opened and now you can get a newspaper, not a bother. The 8 a.m. train doesn't get in till nine o'clock, so it doesn't suit me. Quite a lot who work in the Financial Services Centre get that one, but I catch the 10 to seven.

In an interview with Kate McMorrow