Star sign: Cancer Favourite restaurant anywhere: St John's, Fahan, Co Donegal

Desert island book: Any Seamus Heaney collection

Person you would most like to spend Easter with: Mr Cadbury

Person you would least like to share your Easter egg with: Homer Simpson

Your most annoying habit: Spending too long on the phone

Your most pleasing aspect: Sense of humour

Most useful classroom cliche: You sure? Final answer?

Where will you be for the last New Year's Eve of the 20th century: On my ear!

Most embarrassing incident of 1999: Having my weight checked

Favourite beverage: Red wine

Recurring nightmare: Failure in the peace process

Most enjoyable daydream: Retirement - on full salary!

Favourite TV programme: The Simpsons

Marks out of ten for Michel Martin: 8, with potential for more by congress

Dream car: BMW 850

Your pet: My car when it hasn't broken down

Who puts out the bins in your house: Whoever remembers

Staff room memory: A spirit duplicator that never seemed to work properly

Teen pin-up (whose poster was on your bedroom wall?): Olivia Newton-John

Classroom clobber, what do you wear to impress your students: Black skin-tight leather trousers

Your favourite feature this Year? Feargal Quinn

So, you don't read. Why not? The Irish Times

Did you read the interview with Gerry Adams in Playboy: Yes - and there was more to it than arms!

Favourite Shakespearean villain: Falstaff

Favourite exercise: Getting in and out of the car

Dream holiday: America

Who cleans the wok? The first to stir!

If you weren't a teacher, what would you be? A lawyer

Computers - are you a nerd or a numbskull? I take chips with every byte!

In 20 words, what's wrong with school league tables? In a word, they're unreliable

Would you ban smoking in the staff room? Only if an alternative area was designated

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies are all very well, what about something fresher for the kids? Monica's story