I’m comfortable dropping the bomb. I quite enjoy being a little bit dangerous

After a few difficult years, Paul Costelloe is back

Paul Costelloe Picture: Clodagh Kilcoyne

CV: Paul Costelloe

Born: June 27, 1945, in Dublin

Family: married to Anne Cooper; seven adult children

Reading: The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkin

Driving: a 1988 Mercedes SEL 500

Favourite film: Deliverance

‘Hi, pleased to meet you – you’ve got great legs!” says Paul Costelloe, unleashing his million-dollar smile in the foyer of Dublin’s Westbury Hotel.

It’s a shockingly inappropriate greeting, but instead of the feminist in me being awoken, ...