When your child is looking up at you and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.

Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at the end of it? But it's like, why not me? That's just life. It's tough. There's a lot more problems in the world. There are a lot of people who would wish to God they had my problem instead of having a sick child.