Personal Life
Dempsey is a huge fan of David Bowie and met him in 2003. His favourite song is "Heroes" by Bowie. Dempsey's biggest thrill was interviewing Bruce Springsteen in Berlin, whilst his tour manager looked on, horrified that he had obtained the interview without her consent.
Dempsey's favourite television shows include The Panel, Love is the Drug and Prime Time Investigates; he also loves Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's shows and watches Curb Your Enthusiasm on TG4. His preferred radio shows are The Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM, Liveline with Joe Duffy on RTÉ Radio 1, and Seán Moncrieff on Newstalk. His favourite restaurant is The Unicorn but he also likes Shanahan's on St Stephen's Green and Casa Pasta in Howth, Dublin. He has been going to Portugal every year since 1990.
Dempsey is a founding member of the RTÉ Sports Club and the Wednesday Club. He achieved a birdie in Sutton Golf Club in 2004. He supports Chelsea F.C., receiving a team kit with Ian Hutchinson's number 10 on the back as a 10th birthday present. He admires Denis O'Brien, because "he's restless and always seems to be making a clever move". He said his best business decision was moving to Today FM.
Dempsey lives in Sutton, in north County Dublin. He is married to Ger and has three children - Shane, Evan 17 and Aislinn. Evan, is a member of the band The Kapitals who have played the Oxegen Festival twice.
Read more about this topic: Ian Dempsey
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)