Tiernan missed his tail as a professional player

Tommy Tiernan told Ray D & # 39; s Arcy on RTÉ Radio 1 Thursday that he could have played professional billiards "if I had more support from my dad".

The actor and Derry Girls star was in the studio to discuss his new live DVD, Under the influenceand told the host that he had played American billiards during his teenage years at Navan – "a fantastic city for billiards".

Tiernan said that when he was returning home after a show, he often relaxed watching the pool.

"Sometimes you go home in the car of a show in Mullingar, terribly sad," he admitted.

"You'd do … it's a long drive back from Mullingar and all the good energy you've left and you'd be a bit broken by the time you crawl into the front door two hours later." later. "

"Fit for the bed," says D & # 39; Arcy.

"You would not be fit in bed, Ray," Tiernan replied. "You would be fit for mbad. But of course, who would say mbad at two o'clock in the morning at someone's ?! No, you would be able to have a drink and I might have registered an IPA pool of their sports [sic]. They show the World Championships on this subject. "

"Bring back to your Navan time," proposed the host.

"Yes, and I fantasize," continued Tiernan. "I could have played professional billiards if my dad supported me more! I could have really done it!"

"I remember reading a book called In search of Bobby Fischer, he says. "It was the Americans 'search for the next big chess player after Bobby Fischer in the' 70s, because that meant a lot to them.

"And the kid did not get along very well at school and the teachers gave it to him and his own father came into the clbadroom …" He burst out of the door and said: "Mon son is better at chess than you will always be at no matter what in your life! Leave him alone!

"And I can not tell you the number of hours, Ray, the number the afternoon that I spent in Navan with my eye on the door, waiting for Kevin Tiernan to go there." 39; opens [and say] "My son is a better billiard player than you will ever be!" Never arrived, Ray. Never happened. "

Listen to the interview in its entirety here.