Name: Michael Maloney.
Title: Director, Gateway 2000 Ireland.
School: Newbridge College.
University: UCG.
Marital status: Single.
Children: None.
Home: Ranelagh.
Most important life event: Having very humble parents who had the foresight to move on in life while at the same time instilling personal values which far surpass any formal education available.
Biggest business break: Being part of the Gateway start-up team for our Asian expansion.
Biggest business mistake: Setting up one of the biggest weekly parties while in UCG in aid of the rugby club and then watching my good friend turn it into a "real business".
Time of getting up: 6.45 a.m.
Time of finishing work: I never think about it having a finish . . .the nature of the beast is that there is no end.
Favourite breakfast: Fresh bread, boiled eggs and piping hot coffee.
Form of exercise: Indoor soccer every Monday night and the gym twice a week.
Holidays: A week golfing in the sun and long weekends fishing salmon on the Moy.
Favourite TV programme:
Only Fools and Horses.
Favourite Radio Programme: Various Today FM programmes and the 2FM breakfast show.
Car you drive: Saab.
Commuting time: 25 minutes.
Favourite airline: Aer Lingus.
The worst thing about travel: Listening to life stories on a sevenhour flight.
Favourite bank: It's difficult to associate these two words together.
Favourite tipple: Guinness.
Favourite pub: Mixey Clarke's in Bahola, Co Mayo. you can turn your pint of Guinness upside down and it does not fall out!
Favourite restaurant: Marios in Ranelagh. excellent food, excellent service and excellent value for money (no relation).
How do you spend your free time: Exercising, golfing, fishing and shooting.
What person do you most admire: Margaret Thatcher. because she had vision and the personal conviction to make deep structural changes to a national psyche, that in the short term was never going to either deliver or make her popular unusual for a politician.
Dying words: If only I had not tried to net my brother's salmon too early . . .
