My Week: Hosting the Rose of Tralee and attending a pre-marriage course

Kerry is a different story. It’s Euro140 for a 6 hour course, e250 for someone to call out to your house and give you a private season that would last 3 hours! A money racket I said to myself, but we had to do it or there would be no big day on the 12th in Dingle!

I put the money part out of my head and went to Tallaght for the course with an open mind. The mind being like a parachute it only works properly when it’s open. I was hoping to get something from it, Stuff to avoid if things get tough or maybe to be enlightened in some way about the opposite sex. There were about twenty couples in the room from all over Ireland, some as old as 45 and others as young as 25.

The guy who gave the course was good and straight shooting, but the whole thing was kinda pointless.

We were going through what turns men off. One of the sentences that came up was this one and we had to fill in the blank. ‘Women can’t stop ... in bed’ to which a woman from Dublin with a great Hill 16 accent shouted ‘farting’ the whole place came down! Thanks be to God for her because she make the day go fast.

I love the real Dub, the Hill 16 Dub. Not afraid to speak their mind. The blank being ‘talking’ by the way. With only an hour to go the fire alarm went off. We all thought it was false but it wasn’t. We all ran out and the there was smoke coming out of the pub part of the hotel.

The course was over. From the 5 hours of the course the only thing I learned was that the Catholic Church doesn’t believe that Adam and Eve existed! They are only a symbol. I was shocked to learn this and I don’t know why.

Anyway we got the cert and the wedding will go ahead! You’d need a holiday after the pre-marriage. I got an early Birthday present from herself, Portugal, here I came. That’s sounds like a title for a play!

*Daithi is one of Ireland's best known TV personalities, known especially for his hosting of the annual Rose of Tralee, Ireland's most watched TV event.

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