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All right, lads, how often do you change your underpants? It's time to talk. I'm listening to you on the radio at this time of the morning since I'm at least two years old.
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They blocked me from trying to get a refund. It's just appalling.
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The Neil Prenderville Show on Red FM. You couldn't make it up, lads. The voice of Cork. Who does that like?
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A lot of weather-related stuff making the papers this morning. Get involved in the conversation. The Neil Prent of a show with Elevate Credit Union. Like the front of the mail, the inside page of the mail today. Talk about the hosepipe ban.
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From tomorrow all the way to August the 26th. So right across. That's like five weeks, if you like. You should get Aaron.
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I'm just curious as to whether sprinklers are on the go now until this time tomorrow morning, where people try and get in as much as they can, hosing everything down ahead of tomorrow morning. But no substantial rainfall for any time soon, and certainly not over the last three or four weeks, for sure, has led to this order. So you're talking about hose activities in general.
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hose activities in general i say including washing cars watering gardens and filling paddling pools and all sorts of stuff like that i'm assuming that this ban doesn't include watering cans the little humble can i mean you want to be kind to the plants and the shrubs and the flowers you want to be engaging cruelty watching them die so i guess that's okay but it's all the huge amounts of waters in a hose or a sprinkler and things like that but It's interesting. You look at weather-related and heat-related stories. In the UK, they're reporting this morning that they lost over a billion euro, dollar, pardon me, a billion pounds to the economy because of 24 million hours of work being lost because people weren't able to go to work or wouldn't go to work during the heat wave.
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So that's a massive amount of money. It was like over a billion pounds with a loss of 24 million lost hours. And also... feel for those Irish people and Cork people who are over in parts of Spain, because they're bracing themselves for another heatwave, and they're bracing for 47 degrees Celsius, particularly in tourist hotspots, where the tourists are being warned about this. I mean, you talk all you want about the wildfires. Obviously, that's catastrophic. But their third brutal heatwave, because they've already had a wrecking, breaking summer, at 47 degrees, and they figure... Like, their all-time high ever was apparently 47.6.
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Mad heat, isn't it? It must be just a wall of heat, like a furnace when you walk outdoors. But there you have it, all the weather-related ones for you this morning. That tragic story, it's just... And thankfully... I didn't read it in the papers this morning, but I saw it online that Mary McNamara in her 50s was knifed while praying in Waterford on Tuesday morning. Apparently, she's conscious now and thanking and talking. So thank God for that. But a man was before the courts yesterday morning, a fellow by the name of Niall Cummins, a 36-year-old from Tremor.
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He makes the front of the sun this morning with his photograph on the front page. And he's been charged now with possession of a knife and causing pain.
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So he's before the courts. He wasn't represented by a solicitor because we've had ongoing strike over the legal payments issue. So a lot of the time my understanding is that the defendant has conversations with the judge and there's no bail. He didn't seem to want bail when the allegations were read to him in court. He's been remanded in custody and he'll be back again. What we do know is this alleged attack took place as Mary McNamara was saying the rosary just before 10 o'clock mass on Tuesday morning in Tremor County, Waterford.
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So he's been remanded. That makes the front of the sun today. But the row with solicitors then continues with Jim O'Callaghan. He's pretty much been saying, I can't allow a blank cheque to be written by the taxpayer to pay solicitors who are representing people on free legal aid. But their case isn't helped this morning on the front of the mail where they talk about one solicitor who got €31,000 for one day's free legal aid. Now, I don't have the time or, to be honest, the inclination to go into the exact details behind this.
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But certainly the fact that this solicitor will earn €31,000 in criminal legal aid fees... for a single court appearance representing a client charged with 130 money laundering offences. There's a full story in the Mail today where they've seen data saying that he represented a defendant in the money laundering case, 31,200 in one day, because they have to have certificates approved for these different free legal aid payments, and there were 130 different offences.
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So Jim McAllen wants to put a stop to the gallop with regards to, you know, uncontrolled fees for free legal aid. But solicitors are putting back, pushing back. And I always think what happens in cases like this, they tend to meet somewhere in the middle. There are other stories of numbers making the papers this morning. And this is absolutely gruesome.
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And it's out of Tuam where they have now found another 22 child burial sites, which would be skeletal remains. I mean, and it's just absolutely appalling where they're finding these babies. The remains of another 22 found at the site of the mother and baby home in Tuam. So they've found 99 remains of babies now since July of last year. And there probably are many, many more. They're reporting in the mail this morning that 796 babies, less than Bessborough, incidentally, but still a shocking figure.
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So babies and young children who died in the institution, 796 down through the years. But the area in which these 22 remains of babies and small children was an area covered with gravel and it was being used for vehicle access. So it was some kind of a road or a track or whatever the case may be. There was absolutely no surface markers whatsoever to indicate that underneath this vehicle access route were bodies of babies, or at least I should say the remains, the skeleton remains.
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And, you know, the story of Besbra, of course, doesn't go away. I was actually cycling down around the area yesterday. A lot of it is inaccessible when you're on a bike, but my intention is to go back on foot regularly. Just kind of clearer picture as to, you know, the scale of all of this acreage. But the front of the Echo this morning and the inside pages as well, where the Echo spoke to a man by the name of Pat Mulcahy. He's 89 years old now and he's born and reared, lived all his life in Black Rock. And the story of Pat Mulcahy is that he describes seeing children buried in a mass grave in the grounds of Besbra.
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And he said, I thought that they were dolls. Now, a mass grave clearly is very, very alarming. Himself and his pals used to play in the area, by all accounts. And he said there were three, possibly more, small corpses in a state of decay. in a disturbed grave adjacent and not too far from the convent. And on the inside pages of the Echo, then he says, we would play around the area. We'd walk along the railway line adjacent to the property. And as we walked up behind the house, we saw a hole in the ground, rectangular in shape, about six feet by four feet and about four, six feet by four feet, about four feet deep.
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When I looked down into the hole, he said, I could see what to me appeared to be three or possibly more dolls. The heads were visible and the rest of them loosely covered with earth.
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I thought they were dolls because they looked like dolls. They were the same size. He said he and his friends were then chased from the scene by a man and several women. Now, clearly they weren't dolls because, I mean, I have to overly explain this. Nobody buries dolls. These were babies, of course. And, you know, it's just absolutely appalling how insignificant these babies must have been to people. And, you know, And I suppose to a large extent, all of us were somewhat complicit in this because many people knew. But I don't think anybody knew about the deaths. And I don't think apart from people like Mr. Mulcahy and those that came upon the bodies.
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But that's on the front and inside pages of the Echo today. In other news, there are side effects a lot of the time. You read the back of any pharmaceutical product, it'll tell you like dozens and dozens of potential side effects. But the one this morning that makes the sun has a headline on it called Wig Govy. as opposed to wig govy hair loss. Ladies and gentlemen, fat jabs can make you lose hair. Maybe it's a price that many people are happy to pay and maybe others will just dodge it at all and they won't get alopecia. But apparently it's more potential.
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There's more potential in women losing hair because of fat jabs than men, by all accounts, because it affects the mineral deficiencies that hit your hair. And obviously it starts to fall out. But it's interesting that the Some this morning are talking about you'll need a bigger wig, I suppose, if that's what you want to do because of the hair loss. But bald is beautiful anyway. I mean, I'm certainly talking about men in this regard, but it's just one of the side of it. But hair makes the stories in the papers in a lot of different ways. So over in Japan, right, is roasting.
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I don't know if this has happened here. I'd love to know, you know, over the last few weeks, you know, for people who were suited and booted to wear a particular attire in the workplace or dealing with the public, was there any kind of, you know, change in policy that allowed people to come in in summer gear or in shorts, wherever the case may be? Text 0868104106. But over in Japan, female office workers are complaining about hairy men's legs.
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Because apparently the men were being encouraged to wear shorts just to work. But etiquette dictates in Japan that women have to wear tights. And they were still expected to wear tights in the workplace. And I'm assuming, having never worn tights in my life before, that they would be kind of hot tights.
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and sticky to wear in high temperatures where it got above 40 degrees in Japan. So the women are up in arms about this and they feel very strongly about it. But they also feel very strongly about not wanting to see men's hairy legs in the workplace. So I pass it on to you for what it's worth. But relationships are interesting in various different ways. There's a story that makes the English Telegraph this morning where they talk about...
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how to avoid an argument before it kicks off. The problem with arguments, right, is they kick off before you realize it. They're upon you.
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It's not as if you're kind of always going to get a warning. Oh, this is going to turn nasty. This is going to turn rowdy. This is going to kick off. But assuming that you have an opportunity to kind of kill it off. One way of doing it, I don't think this will go down with maybe friends or workmates or whatever. We were chatting with Brenda Dennehy this morning. We sit adjacent to each other and I can't imagine both of us like holding hands. Not that we ever have any arouse or anything like that. We're very, very placid in that regard. But they're saying if you're on the brink of one, touch hands. And how do we know this?
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Because apparently monkeys and chimpanzees do it. Unfortunately, these would be monkeys and chimpanzees that they see in captivity. Like a typical example of that is apes would touch hands and kiss when they know they're about to be fed a bucket of peanuts because they know themselves a bucket of peanuts is coming. There's going to be grief over that because there's going to be fights as to who eats the most of it. So they decide instead instinctively to touch hands and say, OK, let's do this together. We'll get through it. We'll share the buckets of peanuts and we won't fall out and have a row.
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But the Telegraph of the weekend gave different classic contrasting couples, if you like, and how we can accept the differences in our partners and couples. So they catalogue a few of them then. Like you often hear that opposites attract. And then I don't know how true that is. They say opposites attract, but They also claim now, apparently, that, OK, you know, you can have people who do things completely different in a relationship and one person in the relationship could actually encourage the other partner to change their ways.
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So the examples of this, for instance, are the the sober one and the wine o'clocker.
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And that's one typical example of it. Somebody who doesn't drink and the other who can't wait for five o'clock when the sun is over the yardarm and hit the bottles of wine. Then there's the spendthrift and the penny pincher. Now, I like this one in particular because I think you probably would need one of those, both of those in a relationship. Like if you had two spendthrifts in a relationship, you'd be broke. The bills wouldn't be paid. Debt would mount up. Mortgages would be absolute pill and maloo in the home. So you need one of each there. One is mad for spending and the other keeps the control on the budgets or whatever.
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So you kind of need that, right? Then you've got the morning lark and the night owl. It's another example of how maybe relationships can either improve or disimprove because we have different traits. The social butterfly and the cosy homebody. The person who always wants to be out and the other one who never wants to be out. The chiller outer and the gym bunny.
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I don't know if any of those apply to any of your relationships, but I pass them on for what it's worth. And then, I mean, it's the silly season for sure. And we're into the summertime. But I kind of liked stories like that during the summer where you're seeing a lot more kind of filler stuff from all over the world. So I told you the story out of Japan there with the hairy legs. But I just kind of head over then to China where this fella, like they take drink driving very seriously in China. Like you could be sent to jail for six months. You get a massive fine. And I mean, jail, jail behind bars. You get a massive fine.
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You lose your license and everything like that. But this fellow anyway, he wasn't keen to have all of that happen to him. So he faked his own suicide. He staged a bogus funeral.
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All out now just to try and hold on to his driving licence. He even used a fridge to cool his body to fool the coroners. I mean, it's absolutely mad stuff. He then scattered his house with empty medicine bottles to make it look like a suicide attempt. And again, I am not in any way belittling or making less or in any way mocking suicidal ideation. But this is what this fella done. He recruited the help of his mother and his sister. So he spent some time inside in a fridge to cool his body down. And then they took photographs of him inside in a coffin that they bought online.
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And why was he in the refrigerator? To make his body look more like a corpse or the colour of a corpse. It's mad stuff. And then after that, having bought the coffin and everything, took the photographs and published them and sent him off to the court saying, my son is dead. He can't come to court. They buried the empty coffin and he fled across the country to start a new life. All because he didn't want to face a drink driving charge. But anyway, investigators took a closer look at that and they found that the coffin had been purchased before his death.
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Oh, man, you got to get the finer details right and things like that. And they tracked him down and arrested him. So he ultimately did go to jail. So the whole thing was absolutely pointless. We talked a lot recently about things that explode. We all know of dodgy chargers or mobile phones or Indeed, air fryers that aren't cleaned. There's a story from the UK this morning. The tabloids is a fellow fighting for his life after his robot vacuum, his robo vac, exploded in the home and he suffered 75% burns to his body.
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The device just suddenly erupted into flames inside in the house. This is a story out of Australia. The explosion blew out the windows, blackened the walls, The fire then stretched to the kitchen, the living room, the furniture was completely destroyed, the floorboards were charred, debris everywhere. He had a robovac that had a battery leak. And the term for this actually is called thermal runaway. It's when the lithium battery leaks causes toxic smoke followed by flames and an explosion.
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I pass it on for what it's worth. Just be careful out there. And then the crazy things that happen in the workplace that lead to workplace relations committee hearings. I mean, what kind of nonsense would lead to somebody being sacked because she brought in 22 Easter eggs to organize an Easter egg home in a care home? What a fantastic thing to do. So she was sacked. Wasn't having it and took the whole thing then to the complaints department of the company.
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Wasn't listened to. So she escalated it up to our equivalent of the Workplace Relations Commission and she won a payment of €23,000.
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And what was she trying to do? She was just trying to make life a bit more fun, a bit happier and a bit more engaging for the residents to organise an egg hunt. And she just went and bought the Easter eggs. She just couldn't make this stuff up in the world that we live in. And I probably should have mentioned, actually, we're talking about robo this and robo that and robo the other. The papers this morning are giving us possibly the first really serious example of how when bots go rogue.
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And they've been reporting now about the first of its kind cyber attack. This is on OpenAI's, you know, chat GBT equivalent, if you like. Supposedly, it was supposed to be locked in, this AI model, because they were working on it and training it. They put them in a thing called a sandbox when they're, you know, just working on the program. But it got out, apparently, and it attacked other types of AI bots. This is serious stuff because that means that this robo was thinking for itself.
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So imagine what's coming down the track then. I mean, it's certainly the stuff of a robo cyber attack film, isn't it? But we will probably have more hacks, more attacks and more cyber crime when AI goes even more rogue and seriously thinks for itself with criminal intent, right? Anyway, lines are open. Text 0868-104-106. Get on to
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The Neil Prenderville Show.
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Good morning all. Pick up the phone 0818 104 106. You can text 0868 104 106. Back to the phone lines we go. I want to share with you the story of Therese Terry Mayer. who has spent much of her life now in new york but was originally born in besborough in the 1950s she's been very much in the news over the past week here because of many of the besborough stories we've been hearing on air terry good morning good morning thank you very much for taking the call because i know it's been an incredibly busy time for you and it's probably bringing back memories that perhaps that are never far from the front of your mind anyway am i right
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You're absolutely right, yes, and this has just brought them back even more.
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Yeah, well, thank you.
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But the fight is worth it.
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Yeah, yeah, thank you. And that fight, well, we're cautiously optimistic that it will be won. But with that in mind, it's stories like yours that make all of the difference. And I know from reading a little bit about you that you were born in Brisbane in the 1950s. And interestingly for me, you spent the first four years of your life there. Is that right? Yes. Okay. That wasn't all that typical, though, that length of time, was it, for young children to remain that long?
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No, it was not. Not at all. I really don't know the answer as to why. But my brother, not by blood, he was adopted 18 months before me. He was three and a half. So there were some of us that were older. I know there's some that were five or older, but they were fostered out for the most part. I was not. I guess I was lucky, if you want to call it that. At that moment.
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And that little boy that you formed a bond with, am I right then in thinking that that was the little boy who you were with when you were running around the grounds?
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No, it wasn't my brother. No, no, no. I don't remember his name or anything else, but I know we were together. And someday he might this might ring a bell if he ever hears it or if he's still with us, God willing. I'm over here in the States now. I honestly don't know what happened.
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You have been for so much of your life. But historically, we know of 923 Bessborough infants who died soon after birth. Extraordinary. There's only records of 64. The commission said it's highly likely that some of the missing 859 children are buried on the grounds. And you would have proof of at least one incident that you observed.
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Absolutely. Yes. And I've been called a liar making up stories, whatever you want to do it. But you know what? I know what I saw. And I'm not the only one. I just might be the one that has verbalized it. When that commission report came out, I never really said much. To my family or anything else, you tend to keep things quiet. Everybody here knew I was adopted and my husband. But the thing is that once that commission report came out, there's just something that snapped.
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And I said, I can't keep quiet anymore. People need to know really what happened there.
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What do you recall of that event?
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I recall we were out playing. They did let us out of the cages. I say that sarcastically. We went out and got some fresh air in that. And for some reason... Curiosity took a hold of us and we kind of wandered away. We went towards the folly, which of course now the grounds and everything are so overgrown. I guess that's their reasoning to hide things more. We saw people around. There was a nun there. I couldn't tell you who she was. They were digging a hole, which at that point struck us a little odd.
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So of course we stood off to the side and watched it. They didn't realize we were there.
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And we saw them putting...
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something in the ground that looked like a baby we because we had enough babies around us to know what it is and then the nun realized that we were there and she went crazy and started yelling at us why were we there and what were we doing and we shouldn't have been there and on and on and started smacking us and of course we ran and then we asked what what is that what are you doing and And she said, oh, it's just a doll. We didn't know what a doll was, but we didn't know what a baby was because, again, we've seen enough of them there.
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I do know for a fact that it was there. I'm not dreaming it. I'm not making it up. I have nightmares over it. Still to today, we definitely did see it.
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Were you told at all not to tell anybody what you saw?
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Oh, absolutely. You didn't see anything. And we got the living crap beat out of us over it. So and it was go back to where you were. And then we were treated even worse after that because they knew we had seen it. So then the beating and the smacking and the verbal and, you know, continued even more so.
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So what were the verbals like? What was the verbal abuse like?
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Oh, my God. We were the scum of the earth, which many people have quoted me saying that. But we were Satan's spawn.
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We never should have been born. Your mother doesn't love you. That's why she left. We're burdened with you, but we'll do what we have to do until somebody takes you out of here. You're not worth anything.
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You shouldn't even be existing was really basically a lot of it.
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Have you struggled with self-confidence all your life as a consequence?
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Yes. People that know me wouldn't think that, but it's the truth. I'm good at faking it sometimes. You just push yourself forward and you try to do the best you can. You just move forward. And the older I get, the less I care whether people believe me or not. I know that sounds terrible. You know, the truth is the truth.
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Did you struggle with affection and showing affection?
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My kids will even say I'm not the warm, fuzzy type. They know I love them to death. And I do say it more now. But, you know, it was difficult when they were little because it would just be flashbacks. And then you hold yourself back from saying anything. You don't want to say anything that will be demeaning to them or do to them what was done to us.
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You can't help but think for the first four years of your life, you were denied warmth and emotion and affection and hugs and kisses that would come from a birth mother and ideally a dad and... You know, you never get an opportunity to learn that because it's instinctive from birth and you experience it.
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Yeah, you do. And my husband will tell you and actually people that know me, if I'm working on the computer and somebody stands behind me, even him to this day, I make them back up for me because I cannot stand them being that close to me. I don't like people touching my face. It's all just comes from that because you used to just get smacked in the face all the time.
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They stay with you, yeah?
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Absolutely. And anybody that says they don't is really just kidding themselves or they've buried it deep enough and pretend it doesn't exist.
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Do you have nightmares or did you for a period have... Oh, absolutely.
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I still have them. I had one last week. I had done another radio show and... The convention I was at was with Sean Pender, the gentleman who is the national president of the men that has come forward and been a big supporter. Once he talked to me, I've known him, probably had over 600 Irish people there. And a lot of them saw the article that was in the newspaper. And they would come up and talk to me and say they didn't know, which is the problem here.
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People over there are still denying. There's still those that deny and think there was one lady that wrote a comment. I know her baby was buried.
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I don't know all the names of the cemeteries over there. She said, I know where my baby is. This needs to stop. Get on. It's for the living. But you know what? It's the living that needs to remind people this existed, that these babies and these ladies, these women, not only did they matter, but they deserve the dignity of being found.
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Yeah, yeah.
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When I hear people. So it was a little overwhelming. Aside from that, it was a very important convention that we were working on. But people coming over and just can I. But they always asked, can I hug you? And they were probably more upset than me.
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But that night, my husband thought that he was going to have to call the security because I was screaming so much in my sleep. But see, I don't remember that.
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What do you see in your sleep? Is it nuns you see or is it beatings?
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Yeah, I just have big flashbacks. Some of it I don't remember at all. I still to this day have a problem with nuns. When I came over here because I was adopted through Catholic charities, my parents were older. You know, their money exchanged hands. One of the things that you had to do was you had to be raised in Catholic schools. So they put me in kindergarten in a Catholic school. And they always here in the States, they would start with the Pledge of Allegiance. And the nun would walk into the room and I would throw up.
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I lasted a week and a half, less than two weeks, and they have to pull me out. My parents didn't understand. They didn't know. They tried their best.
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Did they come over for you, or did they tell you how?
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My mother did. No, my mother apparently did. She told me how I threw up on her when the plane landed, but she brought over three other girls also.
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Do you have any recollection of your birth mother back at that time, up to the age of four?
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No, no. Well, she wasn't there that long.
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Yeah. Do you ever wonder as to how she must have felt as perhaps a young woman who had to sign you away and leave you behind?
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I have sympathy for her. I did meet her in 1999. I met her at Besbur. At that time, Sister Sardo, which I have difficulty calling her that, was also working as a social worker. And I had gotten very sick and had been in the hospital and I decided I needed to find out.
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information i wasn't looking for her per se i was looking for information if there was something there that maybe could tell me some kind of history or something because i go to a doctor or something and they ask me your health history and i go i don't know i you know and i you know there's thousands of us that say that so i was just looking for that but apparently i broke all records because i was going over to ireland in february so within a month's time i was sitting across the room a table meeting her but she would not admit who i was to anyone i was her sister she would not say who i was she has two daughters and a son and her husband was there but um no she would not it was it was very strange you know i feel for her that she has since passed but I felt for her.
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I look exactly like her and many that I've met over there.
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But did she acknowledge to you that she was your mom?
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Yes.
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But not to the greater public, she wouldn't, is it?
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Nope, not at all. Nope, not at all. And on that day, you know, it was a little overwhelming to say the least because...
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Oh, I missed you. I looked for you. But honestly, to me, that was just false words because I really didn't believe it for what she was saying. But I was giving her the grace of it because she apparently she needed, I guess, that peace. I don't know.
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But did she tell you her story, how old she was and the circumstances?
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No, I know she was 19 because I see that on my birth certificate.
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And would there be on that birth certificate a father? I'm curious.
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Nope.
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And to this day, I still don't. And whenever I asked, she would she would go crazy. I won't talk to you ever again if you ever asked me that question. Never would never say a word about it would get so angry. So am I still searching? Yes, I am. I won't say that I'm not. But it's very hard when you don't know a name to begin with. You do the DNA and all of that. It comes back that I'm 100 percent Irish. I'm not surprised about that.
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But whenever I asked about family, you know, was there any history? Oh, well, you had an uncle up and dingle and you, you know, this, that, but would never give any, never to this day would give any information. I look exactly like her. Like I said, I do. Um, I have longer hair now, but then I had short hair and I have green eyes. She had blue. Um, but other than that, but then she said, well, I'll give you want to walk the grounds. Like that was a wonderful thing to do.
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Um, And, you know, I can show you. And I get my anger came out and I said, what are you talking about? I can show you. I was here over four years.
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Could you now? Could you now show where the spot was, where that baby was buried? Or were you too young?
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I can show you. No, I can show you approximately. And actually, you know, I was questioned. Did you ever, you know, say this formally? Yes, I did. I gave a deposition. And they put them with the council and they pulled up a map. Of course, this is done, you know, over the Internet. And I pointed to the map and said, this is it. This is where it is. Three years ago, I walked the grounds and I walked them with Carmel Cantwell.
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My husband was actually with me. He had been there in 99. So we had seen the grounds, what they looked like in 99. And all I kept saying is, why is everything so overgrown now? Is this a way to hide more?
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It's so overgrown. And, you know, I knew where the farm area was. People have said they suspect in the farm area. But what gets me even... more angry when people say well what do you don't remember where it was in that and how do you know my question to everyone is how do you know where those babies are how can you tell me where they are you show me because you have never done a forensic so to say i don't know is a bunch of crap
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Or BS, as I would like to say. Do you think if you witnessed as a four-year-old the burying of a baby, that it was a lot more commonplace? You just happened to come upon one, and there could be many more.
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I came upon it.
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Absolutely. Yeah, okay.
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Absolutely. In my heart, in my soul, there is. There's no explanation for this. The home was opened from 1922 to 1999. So what is that, 77 years approximately? In that time frame, there was 9,768 mothers that went through those gates and 8,938 children. Mm-hmm.
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We're talking about the 929 babies that we know of that died and 31 women that died. But there's only records of 29. It's still 859 babies that there is no record of. How do you not have a record of this? How can you be so cold and callous? Because we didn't matter. What about all those other acres that those nuns sold? And there's buildings on. What's under them?
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You don't know. You don't know anything of where anybody is. So anybody that stands up and says, oh, they can't be in that area. They can only possibly be in this area. How the hell would you know? Yeah. If you've never found one, you've never even looked. What angers me more and frustrates me more, I'm thousands of miles away. And over here, so many people don't know, but they're learning because I am not quiet at all about this.
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It needs to be known. The more people that know, the more people can say, you have to do the right thing.
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Are you quietly optimistic, though, just finally, with regards to the latest news that perhaps the government and the local council will make an offer to purchase from the developer and then leave it as sacred ground?
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There is always hope. That would be the best thing and the most honorable thing to do. Because, let's face it, you're never going to find everybody on those grounds or wherever they might be.
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But would you wish to be a scan, though, if that were to happen? Because you can digitally scan now with all sorts of technological use.
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Absolutely. Do I trust Mr. Martin? No, I don't. I would like to commend more than anything Holly Carnes.
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I can't say enough thank you to her for being such an advocate and so passionate. for this and all the other ones that are now realizing what has gone on and what the scope of this is. You know, Vesboro is big.
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But there's so many other homes. This was kept so quiet as the typical in many ways of the Irish and other nationalities are.
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Well, if we know that there are bodies because they're recovering them of babies in a septic tank in Tume, you know, there's a good chance that something similar did happen on a grand scale.
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But what did it take? Didn't you learn from that, that now they're breaking up the ground because you paved over it? You didn't want to believe it? Well, lo and behold, it's true. And they keep finding more and more. So now you're just going to do the same in Bessborough, which is a bigger scope of people and children, you know, and for him to turn around and say, we need to do the right thing for all that is concerned. It's important to many here in Ireland and abroad. Of course, it's important.
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And now you're saying, oh, let's do we need to do something seriously. Two years ago, you stood at that commemoration and said, this should be sacred ground. Then you turn around and say, oh, the government can't do anything. I'm sorry. And, you know, over there you have certain laws you can't say with defamation and that. I could probably count on one hand how many so-called survivors there are. Why don't you talk to our group? which are truly proven survivors and supporters and families looking for answers.
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Well, I think that the story is over 770.
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I think that in the last few weeks, particularly, there's been a lot of public outrage and a major push to make this change.
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And as you say, you know, it's all about people power, really. And it's all about voices being heard and stories told. That's why yours is so important, Terry. I want to thank you for taking the time and reliving it again like you have done. This story will run for some time until such time as the population in general get what they want, which is for this site to be left alone.
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We do need to do the right thing. Those babies deserve the dignity of being found and a proper burial, as many as that you can find. And give them the respect and the human right to be honored and know that they mattered. They mattered.
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They count. They were human beings, not something disposable. It needs to be recognized and given them the peace and give those families that are still looking for answers.
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Respect, yeah, yeah.
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Respect.
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Good to chat with you. Thanks for taking the time, Terry. Perhaps we'll talk again in the future. You're very kind. Best wishes to you.
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Yes. Thank you. You can always find me. Thank you. Take care. Bye.
38:04
Morning, all. You hear the news there reporting of these wildfires up around Sleeve-Naman. I'm seeing texts coming in from East Cork this morning. One of them here says, Morning, the wildfire smoke from Sleeve-Naman is now all over East Cork, including the strong smell of burn. You can barely see the horizon with it. Tell anyone with breathing issues to please take caution. Another one then that came in said, hi, just wondering what's happening in East Cork. There's a very strong smell of smoke in the Killa-Dungourney area this morning and a haze of smoke. Or is it the fire on Shlievnaman?
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Please ask around, says Sandra. Well, from what you're saying and from what the other texter is saying, absolutely, it is the fire and the smoke that's travelling east along. So people, be careful. I don't know the cause of it. I didn't really get much more detail apart from we have yet another raging fire, and this time... A wildfire in Schlieff-Namon. Listen, if you're in the area and you want to get in touch, please do so. Text 0868-104-106. Pick up the phone on 0818-104-106 because we'd like to know some more. Talk about knowing some more.
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If you thought that was around as young as 14...
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That are up and about speeding around on e-scooters. An interesting one from the Kinsale notice board, which is directed to the parents of a shaven head boy, aged about 10, who's speeding around Kinsale on an e-scooter without so much as a helmet. 10 years old now, they figure. "'Your child was nearly crushed by my car.' and a car coming in the opposite direction as he zipped across the road in between our cars near the Garda station without so much as a pause or looking both ways.
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Cop onto yourself and stop putting your child and your neighbours at risk by being so incredibly irresponsible and selfish. I'm sick to death of people thinking of nobody but themselves and raising their children to do the same. You have to do better. Now, that's just mad stuff for a 10-year-old. Now, it's tough enough, really, worrying about a 10-year-old who's out and about on a bicycle, but on an e-scooter, which is a powered vehicle. And a 10-year-old who'd have absolutely no clue at all with regards to the rules of the road or the dangers or possibly no control of the e-scooter itself.
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Well, that's just absolutely madness. Don't give up my details, but there's an eight-year-old in our rural area who regularly flies up and down a public road on an e-scooter. No helmet, no protective gear. It's generally frightening to watch this eight-year-old. The speed she travels at.
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makes her an accident waiting to happen. Many of the neighbours are terrified they'll come across her unexpectedly while driving. I mean, she could dart out of anywhere. I honestly can't understand what her parents are thinking. It's not only her own safety that's at risk, it's also putting other road users in an impossible position. Yes, as if you haven't got enough to be doing driving a car without looking out for, you know, eight and 10-year-olds on e-scooters on the main roads with not a clue in their head. I'm a truck driver working around Cork City. If you watch the traffic lights for the cycle lanes of the bridge by the Opera House, you will regularly see people on e-scooters, e-bikes and ordinary bikes breaking the red lights.
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When I'm turning left onto the bridge, anyone who ignores those lights is putting themselves at serious risk of going under my truck and the chance of me not seeing them. It's extremely dangerous. And drivers, then, are left carrying the consequence with regards to their insurance. And also, you're bearing the brunt of it mentally as well.
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Many of those involved have no insurance at all.
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The Garda need to monitor what's happening and then deal with people breaking red lights in the same way as they would with a motorist. Yeah, it's annoying, actually, that that proportion or percentage of cyclists or whatever in the greater community of the two-wheelers that brake lights and feel that they don't apply to it because for the rest of the cyclists, me included, it gives us a bad name when we do stop at red lights and rightly so. Listen, Neil, you were speaking there recently about giving away wonderful summer passes for the Darcy cable car. Just to let you know, there's a cafe on Darcy Island, so people don't necessarily have to bring a picnic.
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It's called the Kill Michael Cottage, serving tea, coffee, cakes, soup, cheese boards and ice cream. They also serve And this is one of the words my entire life that I have struggled with.
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Charcuterie?
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Undoubtedly. Oh, Ymir is actually nodding. I can't believe it. I actually got the pronunciation of something right. Charcuterie, cheese boards and ice cream. It's just a 25 minute walk when you get off the cable car. Thank you. I want to give a big shout out and wish them all the best at Kill Michael Cottage. And then we spoke, of course, with Sean Ryan, the 15 year old. He's actually born in Cork, but lives his entire life in Canada. He was a lovely lad to chat with on air. And he was doing a bit of fishing for mackerel down off the pier in Yall.
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Didn't catch any mackerel, but he caught three bass. So thank you for coming back to me, Sean, and updating me. You're a lovely young fellow. His granddad got in touch. Thank you for being so kind to my grandson, Sean Ryan, and your chat with him on the air. It was lovely to hear the rapport between the two of you. Says Richie Ryan, his granddad. So he's obviously very, very proud of his grandson. And from recent conversations regarding the NCT, here's a fast one for you. Neil, my daughter is a big girl.
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She took her first car, a small Yaris, for the NCT. It failed, as the driver's window wouldn't go up or down. She questioned the tester. What's that got to do with driving safely? He replied, if you crashed, you wouldn't be able to get out of the window. She replied, are you serious? Have you seen me? If I crashed, you'd struggle to get me through the windscreen. Never mind the window. In this Yaris, she said.
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In spite of her sense of humor, though, you would fail an NCT if something like your windows weren't going up and down, for sure you would. And then on relationships and what have you, and this is just observations from people, why is it always women who speak and give advice about relationships, particularly on your program? Why does it always seem to be the man who is blamed for the problems in every relationship? It's a strange reality.
44:07
Well, you can be damn sure that it's not 100% that men are always at fault or involved in the coercive control. That is not the case. Maybe just it's a case that you hear more women because more women are willing to... talk about it or to live their lives experience by telling their stories on the air.
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Or maybe they're just more open and honest with regards to being in a position where they want to talk on air. And please don't give my details, but I was listening to this morning and you never see coercive control until it's too late. Manaw Fassa were amazing when they helped me and identified that my partner's actions were controlling. He controlled everything. He controlled what I ate, what I drank, whether I wore makeup, how I dressed. I lost my friends. We never, ever went out. He could go out, but I never could.
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We should never, ever ignore the first red flags. And this should be a warning. So that's following up on conversations on air yesterday. And by the way, if there's any man who went through exactly what this woman went through, you know, with regards to the actions, controlling of a partner, controlling what you ate, what you drank, whether you wore different types of clothing, whatever the case may be, how you dressed, never being allowed to go out, losing all your friends. If you're male, I absolutely have no problem whatsoever in hearing your story.
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So pick up the phone. Text 0868 104 106. Give us a bell on 0818 104 106.
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Lots to do after 10. Charcuterie. Charcuterie. Meats, cheese, carbs and accents. What's that? What's that about? What's that about? So you're trying to confuse me and I'm just trying to pronounce something properly. Meats, cheese, carbs and accents.
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They say 3-3-3-3. That is the best charcuterie board. So you'd have three meats, three carbs, three cheeses and three accents. So it could be like your fig jam. Accents. Or compliments or whatever. You know, like your pickles or your olives.
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Is that a word? Accents for?
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Accents, yeah, yeah. Like compliments. Yeah, yeah.
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Compliments. And then your three starches or your three carbs or like, you know, your breads, your baguettes.
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How did I even get onto that? Oh, the cafe out in Dorsey Island.
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I love a good charcuterie board.
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Well, it's another word that I knock on the head every time I try. Another one, I don't have time now, but I have one other one for you. And that is, you know, the small little potato croquets or croquets? Which is it?
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Croquet is a game, isn't it?
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Is it croquets then?
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Croquets, croquets.
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Croquets or croquets?
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Croquets.
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Back after 10.
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Be part of the conversation, the Neil Prendival show with Elevate Credit Union. This is a live show, so, you know, we deal with a lot of different topics at any one particular time. And then stories come along, of course, that you weren't anticipating. And maybe we should have been, like this morning. Of course, we're hearing a lot with regards to the firefighters battling Shlievnaman's wildfire. This is the fourth day of the blaze. reading this from the Irish Times this morning, and it's extending. And this is just amazing. In spite of the firefighters resuming the battle day after day, fourth day, they've got ground crews there.
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They're supported by helicopters and all sorts of things like that. And it's a massive fire. Of course, we've heard of other ones across the country with regards to wildfires and gorse fires. But here are the texts coming in to me since earlier this morning. I mentioned Killa getting smoke and the smell of smoke. You know, her Dungourney's another one as you head east along. But hold on a second. Somebody says smell of smoke in the air in Mount Oval. Any idea what's going on in some areas of the city and county? There's a very strong smell of smoke in the Douglas area for the last hour.
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Little Island. People at work there have popped out to say that the smoke is very apparent. Another one. The haze and smell of smoke is all over Carragallion as well. There's loads. Here we are from a texter from Glanmire. Ros Purcell nearly lost her house on Shlievna Monnil. She's got the info up on Facebook. It looks horrific. Morning. We're in Castle Lyons. The smell of smoke the last 30 minutes is very strong.
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It's not something that you kind of notice in passing. People are reporting that it's really strong. We didn't clock it with Shlievnam on until you were talking about it. I can't imagine what it means like living closer to it. Smoke in East Cork. Smoky smell this morning up at the airport. I'm getting loads and loads. In fact, Ema popped out this morning just a couple of seconds ago outside the building. And she says there's a smell out here in Correheen as well. Strong smoke travelling all the way from Tipperary. So it must be very strong. Imagine if it was windier. It would be even worse. But of course, her thoughts are with those who are close to the wildfires and the gorse fires.
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Anyway, regular contributor to this program, Robert Ruho. Robert, good morning.
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So you're out there. What are you experiencing? And this is like, this is around Black Rock, is it?
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Yeah, just in the last, oh, I don't know, I noticed, like, I'm down here in Blackroft, kind of down River Lake, and I noticed the smell, you know, I was going to think, is somebody burning for rubbish or something? Not rubbish, for timber, you know, can we got smell, you know? But I looked up there and kind of saw the haze building in the area.
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Loads of reports coming in from all over.
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So, I mean, it's such a distance to Shlievnaman. Can you imagine how raging the fire must be if this is what we're experiencing in Cork?
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Absolutely, I know. There's a big problem there, Neil, as well. There's actually a big depth of peace on the mountain. And I think what I've heard now is that the actual peace underground is on fire.
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That would be next to impossible to put out then, isn't it? Absolutely. That's like a burning fire, an open fire in a grate. Think about that. It could be coal, it could be peat, whatever the case may be. If that gets old, it becomes more and more of a problem. Whitegate's coming in now, Barry Rowe, people are texting from Mayfield, Ballyvalan, everywhere.
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Yeah, definitely. Anybody know with any respiratory problems, definitely, you know, you need to watch themselves because it's catchy, you know, it's kind of burning, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, I mean, thankfully nobody has been killed or no loss of life or any significant impact. But imagine, I have to say, could you imagine the impact on wildlife? Must be devastating.
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Sad, very sad. Very sad.
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And I hope that the firefighters stay safe, Neil, and, you know, that everyone comes out, it's okay, you know.
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This is bad. This is the fourth day trying to hack it or trying to handle it, trying to get a hold of it. But anyway, listen, appreciate it. Mind yourself. Thanks, Robert, for calling in. Thanks, Neil. Across Haven as well now, I'm seeing. You can even see the haze over the water as well at this stage. People need to call the fire service to investigate and don't just presume that what they read on Facebook, we could have another massive fire. I think that...
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I wouldn't be doing that. I mean, unless you see, like, unless you see another fire that's independent of what's happening on Slievnaman, I think really the fire department and the fire brigade have enough to be doing and dealing with that. It might be worth the call to see if people should take any Actually, you know what? It might be a bad idea with regards to people taking precautionary action, particularly if, for instance, you might have respiratory problems. But an amazing response here in the last 15 minutes from all over the city, suburbs and counties. What should people do who are asthmatic?
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Absolutely, they should be extra vigilant.
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It's very smoky, very hazy. I can see it as far over as far as Carragallion, all coming over, of course, from Tipperary and the wildfire on Schlievenermann. We'll pick up on this and lots more besides after the break. Get involved in the conversation, text 0868-104-106. Just before the break, incidentally, just from yesterday as well, on the different calls regarding, you know...
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the conversation that I had yesterday with somebody who really did dodge a bullet and saw the early warning signs of a geezer who was controlling her in more ways than one, an evil piece of work, and it would have got worse. He was, you know, we're talking about commenting on, he said to her, you're dressed like a hooker. I mean, Seriously, alarm bells straight away. Man telling you what you can and can't wear. And then there were other calls regarding that also. But while you were speaking about the man commenting on his girlfriend's dress, has anyone else experienced women or even members of their own family commenting on what they wear? My partner loves how I dress.
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I'm now in my 40s. I keep fit. And it's usually other women who pass remarks. It's almost as though to expect a woman over 40 to disappear invisibly into the background. But my own brother told me at an event that I needed to start dressing for my age. I don't wear clothes meant for young girls, but I like bodycon dresses because my figure is basically all I have. I've kept it through having children and dealing with ill health. Sometimes it feels like other people expect you to give up and hide once you reach a certain age.
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That's just my opinion. Well, I tell you something, you power on. As you said, you've kept your figure. You worked hard on it. Why not? If you're proud of it, go for it. Text 0868-104-106. Well, stay with the fires on Shlievleman. And it's only 24 hours since I spoke to Victor Schein with regards to the Glen Fire. And, of course, last week we had the Camden-Fortmire area fire. But, Victor, good morning. Second Office of Cork City Fire Service. Good morning to you. Good morning, Neil. How are you? So here, this one is a raging one, like four days on Shlievnaman. And Robert says that there's peat underground that has also caught hold as well.
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And here we have it. You clearly must be able to smell it yourself or possibly even see it.
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I'm getting multiple calls all morning for Crosshaven, Cargilline, Glanmire area. The whole city area is feeling the effects of that fire. Smoke spread can be over many kilometres, obviously, and the deeper season fire, you're going to get more carbonation material. And my sympathies go to the fire crews down there. Exceptionally difficult fires to deal with because it's the same as turf burning. It burns very slow and it gives off a lot of smoke and very difficult to get under control.
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Would they not drop water from the sky? This may sound stupid now, but do they have any kind of equipment to be able to do that?
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There are helicopters with buckets, literally, that can drop water. But the quantity of water that they can drop onto the area, onto the surface area of the ground and the heat again for evaporation, it will have some effect and especially it will be used particularly for protecting property and so on. But again, it's just a long protracted incident with...
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carrying tankers of water to these incidents and try to create fire breaks and so on. It's just one of these very slow fires that it's going to take days to bring under control. And again, like our colleagues in Europe, it can go on for days, if not even weeks.
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Okay, okay. Well, let them continue with their work, as you say yourself. But for the rest of the community then, and literally, you wouldn't believe me, pages and pages of texts from all over, East Cork, the city centre, the north side, the south side, all of the different suburbs. But people just should, if they've got respiratory issues, just take care, is it?
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Absolutely. As I've mentioned before, when you have that smoke, the type environment, the windows, close your windows and so on. And if anybody had the opportunity of going the other side of upwind of the contaminants, it's always the best. But again, if it's possible to stay indoors, close your doors and windows. And if you have cars with appropriate filtration systems, that can filter out a lot of the contaminants as well. So your air conditioning, going through different filtrations in your car, can filter out a lot of that contamination.
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Okay. I think the Glen is on fire again right now. The housing estates are full of smoke, they thought. But of course, that isn't the case. Sure, it's not. It's actually they're smelling the stuff that's coming from Shlievnaman.
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Very possible. We do have crews actively out at the moment, just scouring the area. We have no report of a fire, but we have crews searching just in case there's something that hasn't been reported yet.
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Okay, okay. Well, if there's an update on that, I'll come to it. But can you imagine what it must be like people who are adjacent to the fire in their homes? That must be dreadful for them.
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It is horrendous, like our colleagues in Crosshaven, dealing with people and they're looking at their homes, potentially going to burn. It's a frightening experience. It's a very expensive thing to go wrong when you had furnishings melting and embers going into their property, going onto bed clothing and so on. exceptionally dangerous, and especially, as I said previous, when they're started deliberately, you know, there is no need for that.
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So just finally, you've got enough to be doing. Point well made. But just finally, before I let you go, so let's just park anything that's deliberately set on a blaze or whatever. In the natural scheme of things, and say if this is something that just happened because of what? Like because of the heat? Because of the dryness of the ground? How would something spark from a natural point of view of fire like this?
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Some materials will have an auto-ignition temperature, a temperature that it'll reach and it'll actually light itself. You could also have discarded material like bottles or cans that can reflect light onto a very dry material and cause an increase in heat and reaching its auto-ignition temperature. So you don't always have to put a match to something. There are natural elements that will come into play as well.
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Okay. All right. Thanks for the update, Victor. Appreciate it as always. Victor Schein, second officer with Cork City Fire Service. So, I mean, just literally getting loads and loads of text. Thank you. I love when people get involved in a program and just keep us abreast of things. Smoke thickening now over the mountains and over the castle here in Lismore, causing watery eyes. This is one of our regulars, Eilish, down east along in Lismore. I took pictures from Mogili Greenway earlier. Definitely a very, very, very thick smoke haze. The smell was awful and walking.
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You could feel it in the back of your throat. Hi, I'm in Cove.
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Yeah, they've got it there as well. Everyone stay safe. You know, of course, that Trump wants to charge Canada for the smoke coming from a wildfire and drifting into New York. Yes, he wants to charge them for the cleanup. I must apologize for the smoke and the smell of burning. But was my wife starting cooking again, says Ken. Boom, boom. Light-hearted one there, and we all need a smile from time to time. Maybe Cork City Council should be charging Tipperary. Cork County Council, or at least Tipperary County Council, with the smoke drifting across the border into Cork.
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Now, I understand that there are wags out there and having a bit of a laugh, and that's all right too. Very strong in Watergrass Hill. River stick. I'm asthmatic. Well, take precautions. Don't be outing it. Let this one pass, because you don't want to get an asthmatic attack. Text 0868 104 106 after the break.
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And in other news this morning, somebody's saying that they live up in the Shandon area. What is happening in Shandon? It's an absolute disgrace. Nobody seems to care. My wife and I are both in our 70s. We're now afraid to go out. There's so much drinking on the streets. We often feel just intimidated and targeted. Nobody should have to feel unsafe in their own neighbourhood. Maybe you could discuss this on air. Absolutely. If other people have stories to share of that matter, I've been up around the area and I have to say, unfortunately and sadly, It is a shame that that area up around there, because there's some beautiful businesses and people and homes up there, and it's a very historic part of Cork City, but it's just dilapidated a lot of it, and it's just gone too far at this stage.
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It's just being neglected. And it's all very well, and I have to say, the work that was done on Patrick Street is absolutely fantastic with the flowers and the shrubs and the planter boxes and everything. It looks gorgeous, particularly in the sunshine. And I know that everybody will respect them because they're absolutely beautiful and great work was done. And it looks fantastic. But Shandon, I don't know. Eye off the ball there for way, way too long. It's an historic centre and it should be a thriving area, not just for the tourists that would want to visit it, but for all of us, too.
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We love our city. In fact, other good news this morning, if you have stories to share. an opinion on the situation regarding Upper Island Shandon and that quarter. Do get in touch, text 0868104106. It's great news that City Council now have given a licence to the fifth quarter to use the Rory Gallagher place again. You know that plaza there? They've got themselves a licence and they can go back to what they were doing And it kicks off again with all of the different food trucks. There'll be music there. There'll be live entertainment in the area.
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It's just a beautiful public space. And it all came crashing down there a couple of weeks ago. But I'm delighted to see it come back again from Friday, from tomorrow. And it's good. I mean, it's good. I mean, you have to maybe commend Cork City Council in many different ways that they have the foresight to see that this is a beautiful area and it could be used and it was being used and people were enjoying it. I know there were a couple of objections from businesses adjacent to it were also possibly in the same kind of hospitality game. They might have seen it as being a bit of competition.
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But it's a beautiful area and it should be used. And it kicks off again tomorrow, which is absolutely lovely. I'll have more on that a little later on this morning. But for all other business, get involved. Text 0868-104-106. What a laugh we had yesterday. It was absolutely hysterical, wasn't it? Have a listen. I have more for you. We call them Gomi moments. And people have been great to confess their faux pas of the past.
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And the new friend of the radio show.
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Well, when I was about 12, Neil, I accidentally glued my eye shut with super glue. I wasn't allowed to touch it. So, of course, I went behind my mom's back to use the super glue, which was off limits. The lid was stuck and I was pulling mad at it until it suddenly flew open and splattered all over my eyelashes. How it didn't go into my actual eye is beyond me. I ran down to the bathroom and tried to open my eyes without my mom seeing it, 12 years old. It was stuck for about 10 minutes before I eventually had to call her for help.
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I was kilt, and needless to say, I was never allowed near superglue again. Can't come on air, but it was definitely a go-me moment. Got me thinking reading that text, actually, as to the amount of...
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arrivals at the A&E with crazy stories like that. Imagine that the paramedics and the staff and the A&E and the medics would have some stories to share over the years. But anyway, Andrew, good morning.
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Good morning, Andrew. OK, so this is Lanzarote in June. Who was there?
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My daughter, Rachel, and her father, Colin.
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Right.
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And myself, we were out there in May, early May, early May to June for three weeks. And we were in a... We were in a villa and there was a built-in...
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It's a northern barbecue sort of thing at the gable end of the house, you know?
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Yeah, yeah.
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But it was in the dark.
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So we were in... We went to the pub a bit early and we had a few sherbets and... A few sherbets?
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I love that. A few sherbets. A few chardonnays.
63:43
A few chardonnays, yeah. And then we came back and...
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we decided we'd have a barbecue.
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So I harsed a load of charcoal onto it and got it going.
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And, yeah, we started cooking, you know, the usual barbecue fare. And another few glasses of red soap and whatever.
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Smoking a fig.
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Feeling no pain, like, thinking, oh, you're totally in control.
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Oh, yeah, it's grand. So what happened, like, It was dark there, you know. And of course the other two, just after me, they were watching the television because, you know. But anyway, I decided I'd wear chicken. It was partially cooked. And I said, I put that on. And then I said, no, this is never going to work, you know. So I put more charcoal on. I must remember, it was dark, really dark. So I put more charcoal on the fire. And I said, oh God, that's not going to light.
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So I picked up the accelerant.
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And, you know, you could squeeze it on, you know, like washing up liquid.
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Yes, I do know them, yeah.
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The top was detached. Now, the cork was, or the top was still on it, you know, the way these bottles are still attached now.
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But it was open.
65:05
So instead of putting a little skirt into it, I put a big glug into it, which caused a fireball that blew me across the patio and into the shrubbery...
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I put a big skid mark up the back of my trunk. The back, almost, on the outside.
65:26
Just before that, Colin said to Rachel, she says, We've got to go out there and check on your old man. He blew himself up.
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And then the words out of their mouth, when the big fire boy went past, they could see us around the corner. The whole place lit up. Were you burnt, though?
65:42
Were you scarred?
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I was like, why? So they ran out and we were raised and thought I was after being blown over the fence.
65:52
Good God. They found me inside in the shrubbery.
65:56
Because it said, your text originally said that you actually threw wine on the barbecue.
66:04
No, it's excellent.
66:06
OK, because you put down what you thought was the bottle, picked up my glass of wine by mistake and poured it onto the fire instead.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That wouldn't cause that at all, no. I put down the glass of wine, picked up the accelerant, which was dark, spurted it onto the fire. And so there was a big glug of it, went on to it.
66:26
And did the force of it blow you back?
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blew me back into the shrubbery, crossed the patio and into the shrubbery. They couldn't find me, sir, for a couple of minutes.
66:35
So I'm looking at photographs. You actually, there's photographs of you, actually, in the A&E.
66:41
There is, yes, but that made I didn't go to the A&E. I didn't go the following day either until I saw the blisters and we went then after that to the clinics, which was very good. And, yeah, so I got a kitchen, kitchen paper. My mother always said never wet a bun. So we got kitchen paper, wrapped it around my fingers, tied it up with cello tape, and so we opened another bottle of wine.
67:06
Oh my God, yeah, numbing the pain. But on a serious level, you're one lucky man. Yes. You know, you could have been...
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Yes, absolutely, yeah, haunted.
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And no one inside would have known what had happened. You could be on fire outside, absolutely destroyed.
67:22
Yes, yes, absolutely. Was that a rental? No.
67:26
Yes, yes, it's a villa. We take it every year, you know, and we share the cost.
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Did you do damage to the property?
67:34
No, none. No, none, none, none, none.
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And it's just a bit black.
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My God, you're one lucky man, I can tell you. One lucky man.
67:46
The one thing, the one thing was that there was a bamboo cane used to support the shrub.
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sticking up about two and a half feet. And I landed inches from that. Now that could have done a mischief.
68:01
There's another one here I should be interested. A few years ago, we were having a barbecue. I was inside boiling corn on the cob, on the induction hob. I was walking from the hob to the sink with the pot to drain it. The handle fell off the pot and I got very badly burned. Then I stupidly caught the pot of boiling water out of panic and then got bad burns when the water, boiling, spilled it over my legs and arms. I mean, even reading that sounds painful, doesn't it? that was deadly deadly crazy stuff man alright listen a bit more care and attention and stay away from the sherbets with regards to open flames do you hear me look Mary good morning morning Neil how are you your mother sounds like a real Cork character anyway go ahead yeah yeah I've a sister living in Amsterdam right and we've gone over once or twice with her right and with my mum just to kind of shore the way kind of thing
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So she decided to go on her own. So we were all in a panic. We were thinking, Jesus, like... And my sister said, oh, look, I'll meet her at the airport. She'll be fine, right?
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So mum gets on the plane anyway. And all good, lands, comes down the steps, walks the back of the plane, is standing there for a while. And the way she described it is this big man, huge man, apparently. I was looking up at him now. She was a small woman anyway. He said, are you OK, madam? And she went, I'm waiting for me bag bite.
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And in her accent, right?
69:36
So you can imagine what unfolded. He directed her then to the terminal, of course. Like, you know, it was like she came home at this store and I went, you're joking me now, you didn't do that. But you can just imagine if you did it nowadays.
69:49
And was she prone to many of those kind of moments?
69:52
Yeah, yeah, sure. I was in hospital another time there. I had to have a rib taken from my neck, you know, I had extra ribs. And the one thing I said to her, she came in to visit me, right? And I said, Mom, I said, please. It was the sorest thing I ever had done, right? So, please, I said, do not make me laugh.
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It's the one thing that I'm just asking you, please don't make me laugh, right?
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So, at that time, I'm going back 27 years. Like, you could use the toilet on the ward, right? Right.
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So, mum, I need to go to the toilet there, Mary. I said, I should go in there because I was afraid if she went out, she might get laughed from her life. And so she goes into the toilet anyway. And we're there anyway. And next we see the nurses running in, opening the door.
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And... I'm there going, oh, Jesus Christ. And she pulls the cord. Do you know the cord you have for calling the nurses? She dodges the train. Oh, my God. The hospital goes into Red Alert. What? Our other claim to fame then was evacuating Wilton Shopping Centre. She went down the fire door and set off all the alarms.
71:14
Oh, my God. Sadly, she's passed away. I'd love to have chatted to her directly about that.
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She had a heart of gold, you know. Like, she was going to bingo. She never drank, smoked, drank, you know. And she was going to bingo up to the parochial hall in Gron twice a week. And she'd obviously be buying extra sweets. And, like, she had high blood pressure. And I used to be there to her, Mom, I hope you're not eating all those, you know. And she said, no, Mayor, she said. They're for the women in the Good Shepherds.
71:41
Oh, lovely.
71:42
They got their sweets every week and at Christmas then she'd buy them a box of chocolates.
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Ah, that's lovely.
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So it's like she had a heart of gold, you know, but she was fierce funny altogether. It's a thing she'd come out with, like, you know.
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You have happy memories to remember her by. Camille, can I just ask you about this spare rib? Because the only spare ribs that I ever heard of were inside the Chinese. Oh, I got that joke for years, believe me. Oh, sorry.
72:06
Spare ribs, spare cervical ribs on both sides with the one on the left. I didn't have any pulse in my arm. So they had to take that one. I still have the one on the right.
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That's because of no bother.
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Did they ever tell you why you got extra ribs?
72:20
No, no, no, no. It's just, I don't know. I'm a freak, I suppose.
72:27
Thanks for the laughs, girl. I appreciate it.
72:31
All right, males, no bother. Keep them coming.
72:33
Text 0868104106. This is the story of Mary and her mother and her spare ribs.
72:41
to be part of the conversation. I know it's summertime and to some extent, of course, you get kind of wackier stories across the summer, but we love those too. Chatting there with Mary regarding her extra ribs. You know that people are born with extra bits. Like you'd often hear of somebody that might well have been in text here. Some people are born with extra toes. I knew a fellow who had six toes and one foot. Yeah, you hear that. And also people can be born with an extra finger. A lot of the time it's an extra finger next to your smallest finger. But wouldn't that be a nice one to develop? Anybody born with extra bits.
73:12
Text 0868104106. Just staying actually back. A lot of different topics in the air at the moment, including the smoke from Lishley of Naman, if you forgive me. Rachel, good morning.
73:22
Hi, how are you, Niamh?
73:23
Okay, so everybody has experienced it right across East Cork and into the city and all of the suburbs and what have you, even far west along us here in Corraheen. What are your thoughts on it?
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Yeah, so I'm based in East Cork and just this morning, I suppose, I noticed poor air quality and the smell of smoke. And I was just wondering, you know, is there any kind of alert system for the community and for the public to get awareness on this? And I found that I had to actually contact three different services to get information. I think it just highlights the lack of kind of national community systems, you know, on emergency preparedness or health and safety.
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What do you think should happen in situations like this?
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Well, I know that they are on about a national cell broadcast public warning system. I think of a 15 million euro budget towards that, but I haven't heard much more about that. I'd love to learn.
74:15
How would that work? Would all of us, regardless of whether we sign up for it or not, would get an alert, is it?
74:23
That's my understanding that we would. Yeah, I lived in Canada for quite a long time and that's just standard there. You get a text message on your phone regarding, you know, emergency preparedness, wildfires will be quite common there. And it's just something everybody got on their phone. You know, it's just an alert to tell you what level the air quality is at, what you should do if you're compromised, if you've any respiratory conditions, what you should do. And I feel that kind of avoids any panic in the public. You're very aware of what to do.
74:52
In fact, just as you're talking there, Texture says in Spain, you get alerts all of the time. If there are wildfires in the vicinity, they come through your mobile phone. And that's important. But, you know, in Canada, where does it end, though? If they're doing that, they could be sending you alerts and warnings about all sorts of things. Would they be doing it about collisions on roads, about weather conditions, stuff like that?
75:14
No, it's kind of higher level emergency. So like that, if there is, you know, a missing person, if there is a wildfire, if there's any type of emergency, any preparedness, you know, in weather. And it's quite easy. Like it gives you a text, an alert that tells you the level. And then it does link to other resources if you need. And again, those resources are designed and presented in a way that the general public can understand them. They're very simple. You know, there's different sections you can click on.
75:41
Yeah, I think a communication system like that, considering the technology we have at our fingertips now, is a really great idea. Others are using it, and we should too. Other than that, you're kind of like a bit in the dark as to what's going on, yeah?
75:53
You are, and it just causes panic. And I feel like whoever is doing this cell broadcast, again, it's important to include the public in the development and roll out of that, or people won't even be aware that it's there. And the likelihood of us using it is going to be less...
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Did you ring someone this morning and how did that work out?
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Yeah, so I actually Googled myself to understand what the air quality was. And then when I Googled it, I wasn't sure which was a reputable resource. You know, is this actually what the air quality is in Cork today? So then I got on to, I Googled EPA Regional Inspectorate in Innescara and they were very good. I dealt with Lady Clara there and she said that they'd look into it. So they're the Environmental Protection Agency. Yeah. And they said, in the meantime, contact Cork City Fire.
76:38
Ah, so that's mad, isn't it? That's mad when a simple system of warning and information would fix it on your phone. Come on.
76:45
Yeah, I know. And I ended up actually then getting put to Cork County Fire, who then told me 999 is getting a lot of calls. And to me, you know, it's not a 999 issue for us here in East Cork. It's more just like the safety of those that are, you know, have respiratory conditions. And they said 999 is only place really where I'd get the core information.
77:04
I just Googled Air Quality Index Cork. Air Quality Index Cork. And this is AI. This is how mad AI can be if you take it too seriously. The air quality in Cork is currently good, registering an index of blabbity, blabbity, blah, which is ideal for all normal outdoor activity. Well, come on.
77:23
Yeah. You know, so you just don't know. And like that, if you are, you know, have asthma or any respiratory condition, you don't know if that's actually valid information. You know, what's the evidence supporting that? Should you follow that information? What should you do if there is smoke?
77:39
in your community. So I just think there's issues there, you know, even from a HSC point of view, there should be some health communication for the community on this.
77:47
I agree with you. I agree with you. Here's the other one from AI. Air quality around Shlievnaman, County Tipperary, is currently good and clean. Isn't that mad?
77:59
Yeah.
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Absolutely mad. Good to ideal for outdoor activities at Shlievnaman.
78:05
Now, that's AI for you. Sometimes it's like really, really slow to update stories and it just grabs stuff from wherever. It's not always on the ball. But anyway, pass it on for what it's worth. Cheers, Rachel. Take care. Much obliged.
78:18
Thanks for you.
78:19
I'm still back where Victor Shine. Imagine that. Victor Shine, who knows his stuff like? He's spent his whole life working in the fire department, the fire brigade.
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like if a discarded bottle discarded glass bottle in the middle of say for instance the wilderness or in this case you know up around gorse or vegetation and it's a very very hot day that glass acts as a magnifying glass from the sun and it will spark a fire just to discard a glass bottle things like that I think that's absolutely amazing anyway Breida good morning where are you
78:53
Good morning, Neil. I'm up in Shaniquil, and that's too far from Theatre House, and I can smell smoke and I can see smoke, but I don't know where it's coming from.
79:03
Well, you now know where it's coming from. It's coming all the way from Tipperary, from Shelley of Le Mans Mountain. There's a Garson Wildfire up there and it's raging for days.
79:10
I understand that. I heard that. But, I mean, it is strong, Neil, and I can look around over. I can see over the regional hospital and all of that. And I can smell it. I'm up in the very top of it practically.
79:25
Doesn't it really, really travel though all the same, Brida?
79:28
Yes, it does. Yes, it does. And as you said about boxes and mirrors, keep them away from the window and close your coffin so that it doesn't draw the heat.
79:39
Without a doubt, you're absolutely right. Look out for each other anyway, particularly anybody that might be elderly or might be immunosuppressed or might have respiratory issues. Isn't it true?
79:48
It is. And do you know something, Neil? It can be frightening.
79:52
It can be frightening when you don't know.
79:54
When you don't know. That's why we need a proper alert system. Okay. Thanks, Breda. Mind yourself. Thanks for listening. Take care, Neil. Cheers. I remember, I mean, this is just as a by the way when it comes to the pressure and the intense heat, right? I don't know, was it like five years ago? Did I ever tell this story on the air that like we have a back garden, a small bit of a patio and on it there is a garden table and chairs and the garden table has glass on it, right? Yeah. And there's cameras around the house. And I actually didn't believe my daughter. She actually was sitting there eating and got up one really hot summer's day to walk away to do something.
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And just as she walked away, the glass exploded on the table, on the patio, the garden table. It literally shattered and blew up in the air and flew all over the place. I mean, if she had been sitting at the table, she would have been very, very seriously injured. Honest to God.
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I mean, it's not that I didn't believe her, but I checked the cameras.
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And lo and behold, there it is on the camera. One minute, she's there. Next minute, she moves away. And I'm studying the glass table, just watching it very carefully. And then all of a sudden, boom, whole thing just exploded.
80:59
Clearly, it was from the heat of the sun. So, I mean, the power of it sometimes is just absolutely amazing. Keep them coming. Text 0868-104-106. Pick up the phone on 0818-104-106. And we spoke to someone before who would have fired in the house when a mirror on the window caught fire. So you've got a mirror, say, for instance, that's on a wall, right? And it's facing south on a raging, hot, sunny day. So the mirror is picking up the rays of the sun and then it is relaying those rays potentially onto a sofa or a piece of wood or a table or whatever.
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Boom.
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I think it's amazing, reflecting the power of the power. I mean, that was fantastic when they harnessed it many, many centuries ago and discovered that at the first time. Sadly, that kind of technology that they discovered back there was also used for torture, but that's a story for another day. Text 0868 104 106. Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. Okay, if you can't jump on air, you can always send voice notes. Same text line, but on WhatsApp. 0868 104 106. Go me moment voice notes for you, ladies and gentlemen.
82:04
listening to the lady that had glue in her mouth i got super glue in my eyeball it just like that trying to pierce the glue open and when i did it it flipped back into my eyeball and i had to go to any and my eye was just crying um and the nurse came out and asked me was i okay because only one eye was crying And I said I had super blue in my eye and they cleaned out my eye and I was lucky I didn't lose my eyesight.
82:32
So my grandfather used to have a thing that he used to do for breakfast. He used to put his boiled egg into the kettle and then turn on the kettle so that his tea would be ready at the same time as his egg. Quite clever.
82:47
Who does things like that? This gets worse and worse.
82:51
Hands up. I mean, like I saw texts coming in, not one of them, but a number of them. Let me find one as a typical example. What about all of us women who used to iron our hair? Okay, we had those in yesterday, but also, you know, the hair tongs. There's a few texts that came in with regards to hair tongs where people would put on a shirt or maybe a polio top or whatever, right? And they're wearing the polo top. And then they take the hair straightener and they iron the colors of their shirt while wearing them. I mean, you really are dicing with serious injury and all of those kind of things.
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Back after the break, text 0868-104-106.
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83:38
I put ear drops in my eyes by accident, thinking they were eye drops. It felt like my eyes were burning out of my head. That's just another typical one. Keep them coming.
83:57
Bridgette.
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Hello.
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Are you an online shopper?
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Yes.
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Okay. Are you new to the game?
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No, I'm actually not. I'm not, but I just made a mistake. It's old age.
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Creeping up for you. What happened?
84:16
I thought I ordered six loose bananas from Tesco and the delivery driver arrived with a big blue crate full of bananas. I got 36 because it was six packets of six.
84:32
You thought you were ordering six loose and you ended up with six packets of six.
84:37
Yeah.
84:38
Did you have to take them? You had paid for them.
84:41
Well, he said he would have took them back, but you know what? I froze them. I froze them, and I'm using them for smoothies.
84:48
Can you freeze bananas?
84:49
Yeah, you can. You can either slice them and freeze them, or you can freeze them whole, but you have to peel them, obviously.
84:55
Oh, God, I'd have frozen them with the skins on, tell you what I know. So, did you not even notice it when you saw the bill, when you were doing it online?
85:04
No, I didn't really, because it's good value. I'm not boosting Tesco, but I do find them very good, you know?
85:11
You're going to have a lot of smoothies across the back end of July and into August then.
85:16
Look, I'm never going to live it down with the kids anyhow because they're still hopping it off me. It was only a few weeks ago.
85:22
Oh, well, you know, you should be on alert now and catch them out with something that they're bound to do.
85:26
I shouldn't be left shopping online at all, Neil.
85:29
Very handy though, I'd say, is it?
85:31
Well, it's very handy for me because I have no transport or anything, so I do it handy.
85:37
Forgive me, but I imagine there's a charge for that, is there?
85:41
It's €6 for a slot. You can pick your slots. Some of them are €8, and it's the €3 charge for picking and packing. So it's like €9, and you'd pay that if you had to get a taxi.
85:54
Yeah, well, that's true if you don't have a train. And, you know, I won't keep you in mind, because I don't do that kind of shopping, but do they always have everything when they arrive? Because it would be kind of annoying if there was bits missing, right?
86:05
Well, you can put down if you want a substitution, which is very handy, and...
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With promotions on, like, at Christmas and stuff. When I was doing my shopping at Christmas, I got, like, a load of free little hampers.
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Like, with extra bits in, like, little bags of sweets and bags of chocolate. You know, it was nice. That's nice.
86:27
Well, at least you ordered six packets of loose bananas as opposed to ordering ending up getting six multiplied by nine ply roll toilet rolls coming in, you know?
86:38
Yeah.
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But you'd never know about your toilet roll shortage like back in the day.
86:44
Yeah, I know. I could sell them.
86:46
Okay, well, enjoy the smoothies. Thanks for taking the call, Bridget. Text 0868104106. Sometimes with the collars of my polos, our shirts are curling up. That's what I dislike about polo shirts, the way the collars just start turning up and curling up. But the rest of the shirt could be fine. I use my wife's straightener to flatten the collar down instead of setting up the ironing board and turning on the iron. Fair play to you. Now, all of this started yesterday when a certain individual who now remain nameless ironed a top while wearing the top.
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Thank you also to whomever sent me a photograph of one of the greatest inventions ever. And that is, of course, the steamer for clothes, the clothes steamer, the handheld steamer. And this is one out on Inish Moor on the Aran Islands. Hello from Inish Moor, me and my steamer. £22.99, Homestorm Moor, solve all your problems.
87:41
Be part of the conversation, the Neil Prendival show with Elevate Credit Union. Boy, it's going to be hard to pick winners for our summer family passes because we're getting some cracking calls these days and certainly again this morning. But we do have family tourist passes to give away to wonderful destinations across the county right across the summer. At the moment, I'm doing Dursey Cable Car Family Passes, which will take you out to Dursey Island. I told you all about it yesterday. It's just a beautiful island. That whole area, that peninsula area, the Beirah, is just beyond gorgeous.
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And the cable car journey is just great. In regards to everybody down around there, when you get out there, then you get all of the scenic walking trails and everything else. Just a gorgeous place to be. And I found out yesterday then that, of course, there's a little cafe on the island as well. And when you're on, interestingly, when you're on Dersey, You can even see the Skelligs and all the way up the Wild Atlantic Way. So we have these family passes to get you on the cable car to get you out there. And we'll give those away again just before midday today. Text 0868 104 106. We're talking about the great outdoors and looking after the plants and the shrubs.
88:45
Just a couple of ones in connection to that kind of Not necessarily connected, but slightly related. I remember about 14 years ago, we planted and hung hanging baskets outside our front door. And about a week later, they were stolen. And by stolen, I don't mean they took the hanging baskets. They actually took the flowers out of the basket and left the empty baskets behind. They'd steal the eye out of your head. We had those two pink baskets. Garden chairs yesterday. Big, huge baiters of things robbed from outside in the front garden in a house.
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Like, obviously, you know, there's a bit of work goes into that. Like, you'd have to plan it because, you know, you need a van or something for them, but gone.
89:25
With the news about the upcoming hosepipe ban, Neil, that's tomorrow morning. Is there any chance you'd call out Iska Aaron's complete incompetence and inability to repair and upgrade Ireland's fresh water and wastewater infrastructure? I'm not long back from Alicante, where there hadn't any rain since the beginning of June. None. Yet every single public fountain was running. Sprinklers were watering individual plants, sprinkler systems working for all of the trees. We're an international laughingstock in Ireland with the amount of rainfall we get annually, and yet we can't conserve any of it.
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Hose pipe bans after two weeks of sun and constant boil water notices, while their CEOs receive a 43% increase in salary, putting the salary now to €391,000.
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What can I tell you? I'm never sure to be calling out Iska Aaron because they just seem to be taking forever. They go into an area. It could be on a main road somewhere or an archery road out to a suburb. And they're just, they do work. They go away. They come back again. They go away. And they come back again. And they keep digging up and messing with the same thing. I just don't understand it. But you are right, you know. Actually, can I just ask a question?
90:41
Why is the fountain in the English market not working? Does anybody know it is just a beautiful piece, but it's dry as a bone and it shouldn't be. And if there's work it needs doing on it, which you bring in the experts from city council, get them in, get them to do the job. It's a bit like constantly having issues in the past. Now, thank God it's not going to happen hopefully anymore with the four-faced liar above in Shandon. Why is the fountain in the Englishman? Now, it may well be running today. I don't know, although I doubt it. I was in there a couple of times last week and it's as dry as a bone and it shouldn't be because it's a beautiful piece and should be working properly.
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Anyway, text 0868104106. Let's stay with this because it's mad busy. Helen.
91:22
Hiya. Okay, the things people used to do back in the day, it's kind of related to a gomy moment. But anyway, what was it you used to get up to?
91:29
We used to get the food colourings, now that they're using the cakes, you know, to turn the icing into some colour.
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Food dyeing.
91:37
That would look even better, wouldn't it?
92:04
Yeah, well, you'd kind of probably look like a red Indian or something.
92:08
Like a what?
92:09
Like a red Indian.
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Your face would be all different colours. Food dye.
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Yeah, there was another thing then that was out years ago. It was called sunning.
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Right? It was a dye that you actually put into your hair and the more sun you get, the brighter your hair gets.
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So like my colour hair, like it's kind of browny blonde. So I put it into my hair and my friend, God rest her now, she passed away, but she was foxy. And I mean, she was red foxy.
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And I was walking down the village and next thing I heard a mother screaming in temper, roaring at me. Colette, Colette, get back here.
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And I turned around and it was actually me she was roaring at. My hair was going so red.
92:58
The things you do. We were mad for raiding the cupboards when we were kids, weren't we?
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Oh, God, yeah. And then your mother would go to the cupboard. The next thing you turn around and she'd say, where's my food colouring? I don't know.
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There was other stuff. We were great back then, actually.
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I won't dwell on this, but if you go back, say, maybe you could say this about Generation X. You could certainly say it about the baby boomers. There was no allergies to food. There was no intolerances. There was no talk about gluten. Nothing we ate. We just ate anything.
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Your hair wouldn't even be like your hair. No matter what you put into your hair, it wouldn't even fall out like. We were so, like, I was so Cindy Lauper going to school like a load of us, you know. You'd have... kind of the straight hair and the stud belts and the stud wrists and big funny earrings and if you went out like that now you'd actually I'd say they'd put on a hug me jacket on you
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I'm not so sure about that girl, do you hear me?
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I'm not so sure about that.
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Yeah. Anyway, look after yourself. Great stories. Years ago, I don't know if it's the same anymore, but there used to be lovely things in the kitchen, particularly when, you know, my mother was a great one for baking. So you'd always have sultanas in the cupboard, right? Or raisins. And I used to love raiding those, big fistfuls in them. And then...
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Although the grammar pronunciation will be corrected on this one, I'm sure. Do anybody remember those small little tubs of glacé cherries?
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Glazed cherries, glacé cherries, they were absolutely gorgeous.
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And I would raid those quite regularly as well. I was never actually caught doing any of that, although I'm sure my mother knew that somebody was raiding the raisins and the cherries. Happy days. Text 0868-104-106. Pick up the phone on 0818-104-106. We'll jump in and out of that. Tony, good morning.
94:46
Neil, how are you doing? I'm good, I'm good. We have a lot of stories on the boil. Just jump in on your one.
94:54
You're on the other side.
94:55
few days in the last few weeks about these e-scooters, e-bikes, bicycles, all that, right? I'm a truck driver there and I do a lot of deliveries around Cork City there, right?
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Yeah.
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And when you're going up the key there, we'll say, Patrick's key there and heading on over, you turn left over for the Opera House. There's traffic lights there for the bicycles and the e-scooters and all these guys, right? And I will guarantee you, if you sit there and observe, there are very, very, very few people, albeit those traffic lights. If I break a traffic light in my truck, if they gather you're around, they're going to do me for it. If these guys break them, they're not going to do anything about it.
95:30
Would you often see an e-scooter or a bike or an electric bike stop the traffic lights?
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The type of people you see stop the traffic lights are the people that will be hiring these bikes there around the city, the city bikes, I call them, and maybe ordinary bikes or guys in ordinary bikes, but any of the fellas on these high-powered scooters, e-bikes, all that kind of stuff, There's none of those guys stopped. The other crowd, the food delivery people there.
95:55
Notorious. A lot of them are notorious on the roads.
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They are, yeah, right? So they break every one of them. They break every light. They break everything. They cut across you to do everything, right? Now, there's a law there that states that we must give pedestrian or cyclists 1.5 metres, I think it's up to 30 kilometres an hour, and then 2 metres. We've no problem in doing that, right? Another example, I come in and out the lower road there very regular down Tivoli.
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So if I'm coming out there and there's a guy cycling on my left-hand side, I overtake him, give him the 1.2 metres, whatever, or 1.5, and then I pull back in, and if the traffic starts backing up, look in my mirror, here he's up between me and the kerb. He's like a wasp, you can't get rid of him.
96:40
Yeah, but hold on a second now. We must give them 1.5 metres. Why don't they give us 1.5 metres?
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And even one of the big problems for truck drivers and people in big machines like yours is that you don't always have visibility of them. You've got blind spots, don't you?
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We've got the blind spot there down the left-hand side, right? Now, we can manage a lot of stuff. But as I said, it's very simple.
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These guys, they need to give us 1.5 metres. Stay away from us. As I said, down the lower road...
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the law station must overtake on the right and these guys undertake on the left yeah yeah yeah they're not in a cycle but hang on now to give them their due they're not if they're in a cycle lane it's none of your concern like is it oh cycle lanes are fine but that's what I'm saying you go up the keys in Cork they use the cycle lane on the left I could be turning left over the opera house and they go straight through the red light so if they come in under my truck and I kill them stone dead and it has happened a lot in Dublin I must bear that. And there's only one person that has insurance, and that's me. These guys have nothing.
97:40
Well, you wouldn't want to live with the consequences of injuring a cyclist for killings. Of course you wouldn't.
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You'd never... Of course you wouldn't. So, right, we go to... Supposingly, something like that does happen. It's going to happen.
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CCTV is going to be looked at, dashcams are going to be looked at, and we see this is far profiled.
97:57
Well, it's a wonder we don't hear more of that kind of stuff in Cork, you know? Accidents or injuries.
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So, like, another thing that probably needs to happen is, look, I grew up with trucks, bikes, cars, I grew up with it, right? Motor racing, whatever. I grew up with all that.
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These people are coming out and they know absolutely nothing about a motorised vehicle. Nothing. They don't know anything about a bicycle. There should be something come up in the schools where they're taught the dangers. I'd have no problem in taking my truck into a school and putting an old bicycle on the left-hand side in the blind spot and rolling over it and show people what can exactly happen. The people need to be told and they need to be taught
98:37
Well, there's stories this morning from somebody who observed an eight-year-old on an e-scooter without a clue in the world what they were doing in traffic. And then a 10-year-old down around the Kinsale area.
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Parents, it's irresponsible of a parent to buy an e-scooter for a 10-year-old or an eight-year-old or a 12-year-old or a 14-year-old. It's just reckless to allow them out.
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When I was that age, right? When I was that age, I had all tapped out bicycles and stuff, myself and my friends. We used to be up in down quarries, we used to be inside in forests, we used to be all that, right? We should be dead, right? To be quite honest, we should, right? With the things we've done. We were never near the road.
99:16
Well done. That's the point I was hoping you'd make. You weren't in traffic. We all did that. We made steering cars. We went down hills at 50 miles an hour. We crashed. We caught our knees. We did all sorts of things. God knows we could have broken our necks. But we didn't. And that's all part of the adventure of being a child and youth. And parents kind of got that. But this is a mechanic... Well, it's not mechanically propelled, but it's battery-powered. You're in traffic around cars. This is different.
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This is different, you see. And they... I agree with Simon Harris with what he said yesterday. He said it there where he came out with.
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He said he also wants them taxed and insured as well as everything else.
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100%. It's a motorised vehicle at the end of the day. It is a mechanically propelled vehicle at the end of the day. You won't see a guy on a motorbike breaking those traffic lights because he'll get done. But these fellas can do what they want. Going back to these guys there and doing these food deliveries, right?
100:16
we'll come into the winter now in another few months time and they have no lights on their bike they have no nothing I try to make contact with a few of these companies to make a complaint to them that they need to put some sort of lights on their bikes they have this big box up behind them right we have reflective markings on our truck it's expensive but it's better than any light and All they have to do is get a roll of that for their own safety, put it around the back of their bike, and they don't need any taillights. But again, they're going around blind, they're going around with no taillights, they're going around with no high-vis vest, and they can do what they like.
100:51
And the thing about it is, us as lorry drivers, we're going to have to bear...
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The heartache it is if we roll over them and kill them. It's going to be on our pensions.
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100%.
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That's the point. You have to live with the knowledge of it, you know, that somebody was hurt, even though it wasn't your fault.
101:10
Yeah, the sooner this legislation comes in, the better. My call out there is these guys...
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They want 1.5 metres, they must give 1.5 metres. It's as simple as.
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Okay, thanks for that.
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And the sooner this legislation is brought into law the better.
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Okay, probably late summer or early in the autumn. Cheers. Thanks, Tony. Go safely. Text 0868-104-106.
101:32
Get on to Prenderville.
101:34
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101:42
It's great to jump on the air and chat, but if you can't, you can send a voice note. It's the same text number 0868 104 106, but it's on WhatsApp. Here's some audio from Roz Purcell regarding the fire, self-explanatory, the fire at Sleavnaman.
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The fire department has been here like three days non-stop. They haven't slept. Basically, my parents live at the bottom of the mountain. My sister Rachel lives at the bottom of the mountain, looking up at it. So their house are just like covered in smoke right now, depending on the wind. Whereas my sister and my house, we're like right at the top of the tree line. Then my forest, then there's like Quiltia all around it. And the fires started just above it. Now they've kind of gone right and left of it. And it's very hard when you're up there to get a concept of where the fire is because you're kind of just in smoke. So I've been kind of coming down to the road to see like, where is it?
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You know, like keep an eye on where it is like, because it's kind of scary not knowing what's happening.
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Embers have started to fall around the houses.
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All the locals are up trying to create bigger fire roads with machinery.
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I hope no one ever has to go through this.
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People are bawling, crying, trying to protect their houses.
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There are loads of firefighters, firefighters from all over. They're just down the road at the local school. I'm sure they're dotted around other places and sheave them on.
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They haven't come up to the road here with the houses. There must be a valid reason why they haven't.
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So right now we're just relying on the farmers. They're coming with water and they have Surrey tankers full of water and they're really helping at the moment, which is great. So we're so thankful for them coming up to help.
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That's Ros Parcel who posted that this morning. It's absolutely devastating. And of course, we're getting kind of the secondary consequences of it with regards to smoke and lots of it. And the air quality is down. And that's from the fires in Sleafnaman. Text 0868 104 106. Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. Can I chat with Laura Doyle? I was watching some contributions she was making on Instagram and her Insta post yesterday. And I wanted to get involved in a conversation that we've had over the past couple of days. Laura, good morning.
103:48
Good morning. Hi.
103:50
I'm glad to be here.
103:50
I'm glad to catch up with you. Interestingly, you recently posted with regards to body image. You said when someone sees a person like me and thinks that's disgusting, I believe that that says more about where they are than it does about me. For me, body image is layered and deeply personal. And I was struck by that, actually, because in the past couple of days, we've had two or three different stories. And I know you've been made aware of them with regards to people and body image. One of them had to do with a lucky escape from a partner where he said to her when she wore a beautiful cocktail dress, you look like a hooker.
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And there was another call where a woman was... going out wearing a pair of shorts, where she was told by some other people that she was mutton. She looked like mutton. And then on top of that, then there was another one came in this morning with regards to a woman who's now in her 40s and felt as if she felt that she needed to disappear into the background because people were commenting, including members of her own family, about what she was wearing. you know, that she wasn't wearing age appropriate and she should start dressing for her age.
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Now, your story is an interesting one on a lot of different levels, but you were on, just talk us through that incident on the beach.
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So I was on the beach having a lovely child-free stroll. It was very nice.
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And I was walking along the sea in my bikini and I was kind of getting in and out of the sea, you know, walking a bit, getting into the sea, getting back out.
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and a lady walked by me and she said I love your confidence and I said thank you. She said I wish I could stroll along the beach just wearing a bikini and I said you can.
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So the reason that I suppose it's a bit multi-layered is it comes across as a compliment but underneath it it's a backhanded compliment. Now I received this lady's interaction positively because I felt that from her. I don't feel like there was any malice intended on her behalf. But it's multi-layered because we feel like we have a right to comment on people's bodies or to look at people and make an assumption about perhaps their confidence or Irish I had what they had and this kind of thing.
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So it's a really interesting conversation online.
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And it's really interesting to see people's different perspectives, to see, you know, from people being able to see the kind of diet culture thought process behind it to people absolutely believing 100% it was just a compliment, move on.
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Was it? Do you see that it was a compliment? I love your confidence because it's coded as well as...
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I wouldn't have been seen dead outdoors in a bikini unless I had a perfect body.
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Yeah, yeah. So that is an issue for many women. You know, we think we need to wait on the other side of something before we can do, you know, before we can wear the bikini or wear the shorts or wear the dress or, you know, go swimming or whatever the thing is that we want to do. Yeah.
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So the reason, so what I got from the interaction was when she said, I wish I could.
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So she was seeing something that I was doing.
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So was the follow-up made it acceptable?
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Yes. So what I saw from her was a longing, was, you know, as I said, I didn't receive it with any malice whatsoever.
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And I thought it was interesting that...
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So for me, I had some people in the comments say, you know, if somebody said that to me, it would ruin my day. And I wouldn't have the confidence to do it again. And I agreed in that 100% a few years ago, I would have had the exact same reaction and the exact same experience. It would have taken the wind out of my sails, so to say.
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And how come you're confident now?
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Because I've spent time over the last, Over the last 10 years, really.
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It says here you dismantled your internalised fat phobia.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So internalised fat phobia is something that a lot of people in society have and they're very unaware that they have it. So, you know, if you see somebody and maybe they're in a bigger body to you and you perhaps think that they, you know, shouldn't be wearing that or they shouldn't be eating that You know, all those kind of thoughts that we have, that kind of anti-fat bias.
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But most people are unaware that they have those thoughts.
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Like they see somebody who is large or, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, overweight.
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And they see what they're eating and we judge them. We can't help it. We say, is it any wonder kind of thing?
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Exactly. This is the thing. So, but these are, these are learned and we are conditioned by, you know, society to find that acceptable. So as you said, another lady was saying that she was receiving comments from family, you know, because we, we think that that's okay.
109:34
But just my point on that is just because you moved through the decades doesn't mean that you have to change your sense of style, surely.
109:40
Oh, 100%. 100%. Um, But I know for a lot of women they find it hard to kind of show up as they want to show up with things like ageism, diet culture, wellness culture and even fitness culture as well.
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So once we can kind of start to dismantle, to notice that we have the thoughts and then to challenge them and then we can bring ourselves in alignment so that we can just move through life and move through the world in the way that we want to, you know, and not to be shaken by a comment someone made or, you know, a look or things like that, you know. So it's been a process, but something I would say is worth, it's definitely worth exploring.
110:36
Well, you certainly have been on a very interesting journey, recovering from binge eating, body dysmorphia, orthorexia. You at one stage managed to get down over 100 pounds. It's a huge amount of weight to lose. Did you manage to maintain a lower weight for a period of time?
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So interestingly, when I lost that amount of weight, I was still actively dieting when my body began to regain weight.
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It's a very interesting thing and we're learning a lot more about it now through science and research.
111:23
That's amazing that you could if you were in kind of what they call calorie deficit. How could you put back on weight?
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This is the question. And there's no... Our bodies have so many systems all working together that we don't have as much control over our bodies as we think we have.
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And this is something that I had to do a lot of, for want of a better word, on the job learning as my body was regaining weight. And it was almost unstoppable, quote unquote. I was still doing all the things that I was doing.
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That must have been very disappointing.
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It was an interesting experience because with it came a lot of, you know, shame, self-criticism.
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you know, a fear of going back out into the public. You know, there was a lot for me to unpack with that.
112:26
So, because you said you experienced hatred, discrimination, assumptions, judgment, shame, guilt, and even danger.
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Yeah, yeah. So, to experience all that, and I suppose what happened then was I had a choice of Am I going to try and claw on to this weight loss, which I did for a long time. And then I had to come to the realization that I had to treat my body differently because I was, you know, in the gym five days a week. I couldn't take my fitness tracker off.
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I couldn't meet friends for a coffee and a slice of cake without overthinking it. And that wasn't that wasn't that actually wasn't a healthy place to be in.
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It becomes obsessive, doesn't it?
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Correct. And even though my body, you know, may have appeared better, you know, in inverted commas.
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And so I had a choice of. And what I leaned into was that kind of surrender.
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Surrender. So do you prefer, I don't know if this makes sense, living in a bigger body or the smaller body?
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I prefer living with freedom.
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And I prefer looking after my health in an actual healthy way.
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And wherever my body size falls, my body size falls.
113:56
Are there implications to your health though, if people are carrying too much weight?
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I mean, that's, that's, that's a big question. And again, it comes down to, that's again, also a societal perspective.
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And I can speak for myself. And at the moment, there's no health conditions that I have. And that, but the thing is as well, that that, health doesn't have a moral value and that no matter what our size, people still deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
114:35
You wouldn't say it about somebody having a few pints or a few glasses of wine. You probably even wouldn't say it about somebody smoking a cigarette, the type of things that people think about somebody who's overweight.
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Well, this is the thing and it's the assumptions that people make and I suppose for me when So when I was bigger previously before I lost weight, you know, I had to prove that I wasn't lazy. I had to prove that I, you know, I could, you know, go to the gym and all these things.
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But it was just constantly trying to prove that I was just worthy.
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Worthy, yeah. So do you think that there is a connection between people who are overweight and sometimes quite overweight that the public believe they are lazy people?
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I think that is a public perception.
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Do you think that even from the point of view of a job or a career choice or an interview for a job, that could be the opinion?
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Yes, I do. And I think that's been kind of found in research as well, that people in similar roles, that if somebody is, you know, fits the more ideal standards, you know, they're in a straight size body and that kind of thing, that's they would have a higher salary than somebody who's in a bigger body.
115:54
Can I just want to make a point here? Because in the past number of years, I have spoken with people, you know, and I know of situations where people have been saying, I am happy. Yeah.
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Were they telling the truth when they were telling that story about I was happy and comfortable in my size and it's immature? And then they go on a fat jab?
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I think the desire to be thin is really loud.
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And I think it is very, for want of a better word, it's almost like, almost a sexy thing.
116:52
You know, that we're promised this solution um and i can relate with i haven't been i haven't used a glp1 myself and mainly because i have been through all this you know before when i was dieting previously i absolutely used diet pills and all things like that so i know they're not the same but um the concept is similar um
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No, I just thought it was somewhat hypocritical. Maybe we all, listen, maybe none of us ever tell the truth about how we feel. But it just felt hypocritical to me that then when a jab came along, the people who were, or the amount of people who were saying, I'm happy in my size, took the easy option then to fix it with the jab. And then it ends up with other people thinking, well, you were just too lazy to do it the hard way. Do you know what I mean?
117:45
Yeah, I think in general, there's just too much discourse around people's bodies and what they do.
117:55
If somebody wants to use a GLP-1 for intentional weight loss, they absolutely have the autonomy to do that. And I would still encourage somebody to work on their body image because if you're building a foundation based on size, when that size changes, you know, where does that lead you? And that's something that I can say from lived experience and something that we are also seeing in research from GLP One Use as well.
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So it's, I mean, are those people lying at the time? I mean, who knows?
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Who knows?
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Who knows? But for me, I certainly found that happiness, contentment, joy, inner peace. It just wasn't found in chasing weight loss. Yeah.
118:52
That's a nice place to be, isn't it?
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At peace with what you are and who you are. It can be hard to convey to people or, you know, people might not believe that that's true.
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But I've come to a place where I no longer try to prove that that is true.
119:13
Okay, and so what should the message be then to people who say you look like mutton or you look like a hooker because you might carry too much weight that you shouldn't wear a bikini?
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I think the message is to notice your own assumptions, notice your own thoughts and notice where they come from because they're nothing to do with the other person.
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They're your own internal stories. that you are placing on somebody because something about them makes you feel uncomfortable.
119:47
And in regards to people who may have weight issues, is it a case of just wear the bikini, just wear the shorts, just wear the cocktail dress? Because they may not have the courage to do so.
119:59
Yeah, so I think that, I don't think that messaging is necessarily helpful. There are people who find it empowering 100%.
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But the people who find it empowering usually kind of fit the beauty ideals anyway.
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I don't think it's as simple as, you know, just wear the shorts, just wear the bikini.
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I do think representation matters. And I'm in a place now where I do feel comfortable wearing shorts and I do feel comfortable wearing a bikini. But certainly there was a point in time where, you know, those kind of popular statements, they just...
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almost come across as a bit, almost ignorant because they're not capturing.
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Yeah, because it's a case of if it were that easy, I would.
120:49
Yes, correct. 100%.
120:53
Well, I'd encourage anybody that found your conversation with me interesting or empowering to follow up with you. You're the co-founder of Body Image Ireland, aren't you?
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Yes, so myself and my friend Maggie, we run Body Image Ireland together.
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We have a workshop coming up in October. If people want to check that out, they can. And we have a weekend retreat in the end of January on St. Bridget's weekend.
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you know, come and follow the page and join in the conversation. And yeah.
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Yeah. It's amazing where we're at now. More and more calls and texts and stories from people of issues like this. So you're on Instagram, soulfully Laura. Well done. We'll get people to check you out if they want to follow up. But cheers, Laura. And you've got loads of opportunity over the past few weeks of beautiful sunshine to wear the bikini.
121:42
It's been fantastic. Yeah. Okay.
121:45
All right. All the best for now. Take care.
121:48
Thanks so much. Text 0868 104 106. Your thoughts on that? Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. We are, as a species, very judgmental, even though we fight against it and try not to. I mean, there is a... My wife once told me the story of a man. I can't remember who he is or what his background was, but he would be a very learned man, a very peaceful man, a man who engages in probably quite an amount of inner searching and at peace with many aspects of his life and tries his hardest. But many, many years ago, he said to himself, this could have been 25 years ago.
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I will not... have an ice cream until I spend one day not judging others.
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And 25 years later, even he still hasn't had an ice cream. Back after the break, text 0868104106.
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All right, in other news, of course, the voice notes continue to come in. If you can't jump on air, you can send a voice note. Same number, 0868 104 106, except on WhatsApp to send your voice notes. So let's get another one on the air for more Gomi moments.
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You're on about doing Gomi things down through the years there. Well, this is my story there. I'm going back to maybe the late 80s, early 90s. I was about 12 or 13 living in an old bungalow out in the countryside, rural Cork.
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um no insulation the house freezing cold condensation on the inside the windows you know yourself so i came home anyway after my match uh freezing cold day destroyed and muck whatever else my mother said go up there and have a bath So I went up and I had the bath, and before I went in to have the bath, sorry, I said, you know what, it's freezing cold. I'll do an old head start here now. I'll get out the old underwear and show the old underpants there. I need to heat that up. So I'll put it up on top of the disc lamp, up on top of the locker next to the bed.
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So put it up on top of the lampshade anyway. Nice bit of heat coming off the bulb. I said, that's the job there. It'll be nice and warm for me there in a minute.
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So we then, anyway, had me back, came out, and I said, Jesus, there's a bit of a smell. What's going on, like? So came out, anyway, and into the bedroom, and the underpants was going up in flames up on top of the lampshade. It was actually after falling down from top of the lampshade down on top of the bulb, so burning away.
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Murder came in. Murder. I was killed. Got a few slaps of an old slipper, I'd say.
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But, yeah, yeah.
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that lamp actually there's another little story about that lamp actually about a year couple year and a half later the same lamp the lampshade was changed obviously new lampshade um i went to plug out the lamp one night and the back of the plug came away from the plug so all the wires and the terminals inside the plug were uh live and exposed so i the lamp needed to be plugged out. Like, so I put my hand down anyway to plug it out and the hand hit either a wire or I hit the terminal.
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Well, mother of God, I was blowing about seven feet across the room.
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I was like, uh, Yeah, look, that's probably what happened to me. A lot of people would say that anyway. All right, thanks. Cheers. There you are. Yes, people do.
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Years ago, people used to drape different coloured scarves over lampshades to get a kind of a red effect in the room or a kind of a pink effect in the room, but it's usually red. God only knows the reasons why. But anyway, I was in my nan's house. Actually, talking about things go up in flames. I was in my nan's house and was lighting a candle for her. I couldn't find a lighter, so I got some kitchen roll and tried to light it from the toaster so I could light the candle.
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It blew up in flames, blew the trip switch in the house, blew the old fuse box. I didn't know where the switch was, so I had to call my dad to come and get it. The power was out for hours.
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I had to build up the courage to call him because I knew he would give out. To be honest with you, you're not alone there. A lot of people down through the years would have plugged in the toaster because they might not have had matches or they might not have had a lighter. way back in the day when I smoked there was many a fag I lit off the toaster because there was nothing else you know lucky you didn't burn the nose off your face but anyway talking about items with regards to the kitchen and what have you Eileen's got a confession it's a real confessional over the last couple of days so I was talking about things that we used to rob belonging to our mammy in the kitchen back in the day with the baking you know like for instance the sultanas Eileen and the raisins and the little glazed cherries and stuff what was it with you?
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Yeah, you brought back memories of the cherries. I had forgotten about them, but yeah, I used to love them. But my story was one day we robbed the Angel Delight, you know, the Powder Angel Delight that we used to have on a Sunday over Jenny. My sister and I robbed a packet of that and brought it down to the bedroom and I was eating the powder dry and I almost choked on it and my sister was baiting the back of me.
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Angel's Delight.
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Do you remember that? Do you remember Instant Whip?
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Do you remember that?
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Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And a small little packet of those would feed six people. Do you remember? Oh, yeah. Strawberry flavoured Angel Delight, chocolate oil. And banana.
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Banana flavour. Yeah.
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Around Christmas time, Manny used to buy boxes of biscuits, you know, the USA and whatever, for the neighbours. But my sisters and my brother, we used to open them, take out the top layer, rub the bottom layer, put back in the top layer and seal it back up again. So for years, the neighbours were getting a half boxes of biscuits.
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We never knew. A couple of years ago, I don't drink whiskey or any burning liquor, but I got a bottle of whiskey for Christmas here from someone. I can't remember who it was. And it was, I'd say it was about three quarters full.
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Yeah.
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So somebody had a few.
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Oh, someone had wrapped it. No, no, I don't know what was going on. It was all wrapped up and everything in Christmas wrapper. When I opened it, there it was. It had already been cracked open and somebody had taken a few drams out of it. I don't know.
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A good slog out of it before they wrapped it up.
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But I remember a story on the air a couple of years back, actually. I think it might have been a story that I heard from my extended family where that happened, right? There was a box of afternoon tea in the house and it was all sealed up. And these two handy dockets in the family, a son and a daughter, raided the box of sweets, right? Took out all three or four of the top layer, took three or four out of the bottom layer and all sorts of things like that and re-taped it again, right? Yeah.
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So that was grand until it came time when the mammy wanted to open the box of chocolates over Christmas and found that there was a box of biscuits and found that there was biscuits missing. So she marches down to the local supermarket, causes blue murder because they sold her a box of biscuits with biscuits missing. It was only years later that the true story was told, of course.
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Well, we were the most popular kids in school because we were going into school with bags of fancy biscuits.
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Why?
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Because you were robbing them.
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Because we were robbing the bottom layer and sealing it back up again.
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Oh my God. Orla says, yeah, thanks to Eileen and to Neil, we fought over the cherry in the fruit cocktail. We had to count them. Oh yeah, I used to rub that as well.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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If we were a bit flush and there was cans, remember that, the cans of fruit cocktail.
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Yes, yes, yeah, yeah. Oh my God. And there was only ever one or two cherries.
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Keep them coming, lads. Text 0868 104 106. Thanks a lot. Mind yourself, Aline.
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Thanks, Aline. Bye, bye, bye.
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Take care, take care. Before I love you and leave you, we have wonderful family passes to give away to all sorts of gorgeous tourist attractions right across the summer. We'll open the phone lines now for a couple of them on 0818 104 106.
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Cable car, which will take you over to Dursey Island, is what we're featuring at the moment. You remember Mary, whose late mother had lots of gomy moments. She was a right character, including the fact that she stood at the back of the airplane, got off anyway, went around to the back of the airplane, outside, down to the back of the airplane, and she's standing there waiting for her luggage. She also managed to evacuate Wilton Shopping Centre at one stage. So Mary, in memory of your mother, we've got a wonderful pass for you. Take you across on the cable car to Dursey Island for a wonderful, wonderful day with the family. So enjoy. Our lines will stay open.
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