Tonight’s guest for ‘Back to Mine’ made 140 appearances for Leinster, 62 caps for Ireland, scoring 29 tries in a career that ended in 2007. He’s also a big music fan with a box at the Olympia named in his honour.

Denis Hickie is well known for his interest in music. He says he has recently started playing more vinyl (music to Tom’s ears). However his most recent favourite release is Damon Albarn’s ‘Everyday Robots’.

Hickie picked Brian Jonestown Massacre’s ‘Monkey Puzzle,’ for his first song choice. He caught them at their gig in Dublin in July.

For his second song choice he picked ‘Love is the Drug’ by Roxy Music.

Finally, Hickie chose ‘After Midnight’ by JJ Cale as his final pick of the evening.