Profile:
Born: March 3 1977 in Swords, near Dublin, Ireland.
Star sign: Pisces.
Parents: Dad Gerry was a lorry driver and mum Marie, who died of breast cancer in 1998, was a hairdresser. After her death Ronan set up the Marie Keating Cancer Awareness Trust.
Education: First in Dublin, then in Dunshaughlin in County Meath.
Previous jobs: Working in a shoe shop, helping out at his mum's hairdressers and working with his dad on the trucks.
Lives: In a six-bedroom house in County Kildare, Ireland which he shares with his wife and son, four dogs and two horses.
Love life: After dating for only two months he wed Irish model Yvonne Coonely on the Caribbean island of Nevis on April 30 1998. On March 15 1999 Ronan became a proud father to little Jack
