Mad Hatter: Richard Boyd Barrett

Who would be the last person you would invite to your birthday party?
Donald Trump.

Who would be the first person you would invite to your birthday party?
My mums.

Favourite saying?
The great only appear great because we are on our knees, let us arise!

Favourite record?
Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come.

Favourite book?
All of Iain Banks’ books, but if I had to pick one, it would be Complicity.

Favourite film?
Spartacus.

Favourite author?
John Le Carré.

Favourite actor / actress?
My mum or my sister.

Favourite musician?
Christy Moore.

Most embarrassing moment of your life?
Putting up my first election poster.

Favourite food/drink/stimulant?
Ethiopian food and a cold beer.

TV programme?
Peaky Blinders.

Favourite TV personality?
Tommy Tiernan.

Favourite item of clothing?
My new terracotta shirt.

Most desirable date?
Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago.

Favourite method of relaxation?
Playing pool.

If you weren’t pursuing your present career, what other career might you have chosen?
English teacher.

Biggest thrill?
Winning the Repeal referendum.

Biggest disappointment?
Derby County’s failure to….

Your concept of heaven?
The Atlantic coast in the west of Ireland.

Your concept of hell?
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in government forever.

What would be your dying words?
I told you was ill.

Greatest ambition?
Socialism.

Period of history you’d most like to have lived in and why?
During the Spartacus slave revolt in ancient Rome before they got defeated.

If you weren’t a human being which animal would you have chosen to be?
Duckbilled platypus.

If you were told that the world was ending tomorrow morning, how would you react/what would you do?
Hide.

Your nominee for the world’s best-dressed person?
My 16-year-old son.

Favourite term of abuse?
Muppet.

Biggest fear?
Apathy.

Humanity’s most useful invention?
Music.

Humanity’s most useless invention?
Borders.