Steaks and Stout - Principal Scientist Department of Mathematics Statistics and Epidemiology Stephen Duffy

Born in Dublin's city centre in the 1960's, Tommy Costelloe was the seventh child in a brood of thirteen. A truant, a troublemaker, nothing in his young life ever marked him as one destined for fame and glory. Until he discovered his voice. Poised on the edge of greatness, the world lay at his feet and a bright and glittering showbiz career beckoned. However, falling in love and a bottle of aspirin put paid to all his dreams. Marched up the aisle at gunpoint, Tommy is forced to abandon his dreams and finds himself working as a butcher's apprentice. Follow Tommy as he stumbles through life, from fame and fortune to rack and ruin. From love and lust to dirty nappies and despair. Steaks and Stout is his hilarious tale.