Star sign: LeoFavourite restaurant anywhere: Paddy Burke's in Clarinbridge, Co Galway

Desert island book: ASTI school stewards handbook

Person you would most like to spend Easter with: My current partner

Person you would least like to share your Easter egg with: I don't like Easter eggs

Your most annoying habit: Looking at my watch

Your most pleasing aspect: Tact

Most useful classroom cliche: Listen Lads, ye can relax in the summer

Where will you be for the last New Year's Eve of the 20th century: Ennis

Most embarrassing incident of 1999: Breaking my glasses and having to improvise with sellotape at CEC

Favourite beverage: Guinness

Recurring nightmare: Losing the presidential chain of office

Most enjoyable daydream: The Minister announcing 15:1 appointment ratio from September 99

Favourite TV programme: Inspector Morse

Marks out of 10 for Micheal Martin: Five

Dream car: Jaguar

Your pet: NoneP}Who puts out the bins in your house?: Whoever remembers to

Staff room memory: Too many to mention

Teen pin-up (whose poster was on your bedroom wall?): Che Guevara

Classroom clobber, what do you wear to impress your students: Manchester United scarf

Your favourite feature this Year? What?

So, you don't read, why not? No particular reason

Did you read the interview with Gerry Adams in Playboy: No

Favourite Shakespearean villain: Shylock

Favourite exercise: Walking

Dream holiday: A visit to China

Who cleans the wok? Rota system

If you weren't a teacher, what would you be? Minister for Education

Computers - are you a nerd or a numbskull? Somewhere between - nerd-skull

In 20 words, what's wrong with school league tables? Education is about more than exam. League tables also ignore situations where completing second level is an achievement in itself for example.

Would you ban smoking in the staff room? Yes

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies are all very well, what about something fresher for the kids? Roddy Doyle or Pat McCabe?