Name: Anne Dunphy.

Title: Marketing director, Musgrave SuperValu Centra.

School: St John's Birr and UCD.

Marital status: Very happily married.

Children: Small people we love because they reflect all that's good about ourselves but haven't acquired all that's not so good.

Home: Enniskerry in Wicklow. A whole life away from airports, boardrooms and industrial parks off the Long Mile Road.

Most important life event: Birth of my two sons, Ronan and Scott.

Biggest business break: The day I joined Musgraves.

Biggest business mistake: By not telling you what my second biggest mistake was, I'm not making my biggest one.

Time of getting up: My rising hours are definitely monastic.

Time of finishing work: A woman's work is never done.

Favourite breakfast: A cup of tea and a cigarette but I haven't indulged since January 7th.

Form of exercise: Infrequent visits to the gym, golf course and tennis club.

Holidays: Variety is the key. . . but Kerry features more than anywhere else.

Favourite TV programme: Unashamedly. . . Coronation Street.

Favourite radio programme: The Sunday Show, Radio 1.

Car you drive: Audi A6.

Commuting time: 40 minutes in the morning but more than an hour in the evening.

Favourite airline: Aer Lingus.

The worst thing about travel: Walking from the check-in desk to the boarding gate.

Favourite bank: You don't really expect me to answer that?

Favourite tipple: Bottle of Budweiser.

Favourite pub: It used to be Kiely's in Donnybrook but then they went and revamped it like all the others.

Favourite restaurant: The Tree of Idleness, especially if I'm hungry.

How do you spend your free time: What free time?

What person do you most admire: It's a dead heat between hubby George and Mo Mowlam. They both plan it, say it and do it.

Dying words: "It's been 40 years. . . please give me a cigarette!"