The Neil Prendeville Show | Red FM Cork

00:00 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. 00:08 They blocked me from trying to get a refund. It's just appalling. 00:11 The Neil Prenderville Show on Red FM. You couldn't make it up, lads. The voice of Cork. Who does that like? 00:18 Lines are open. Neil Plenn of a show with Elevate Credit Union. Text 0868104106. Pick up the phone on 0818104106. Bear in mind, it's Friday, so it's Free Food Friday. Courtesy of ourselves and Domino's Pizza. Lots of pizza. I'll tell you all about it a little later on, but for now, text who you are and where you're working to 0868104106. There's a bizarre story makes both the examiner and the echo of sheer... wanton waste. And it has to do with the 20 million euro that's been spent by the OPW renting various buildings and offices and stuff like that. 00:58 Over 20 million in the last five years, even though they have 14 buildings laying vacant. I mean, if that was in the private sector, whoever was responsible for that would be lucky to hold on to their job because private businesses would not succeed. They would go under. They'd be bankrupted. Absolutely gone. But in the public sector, it is very different. So they say in the Examiner and the Echo today, and Tommy Gould is like a demon over this, and one serious question is answered, £20 million spent by the OPW renting buildings in Cork in the last five years, even though they own 14 empty buildings in the county of Cork themselves. 01:32 Now, a few examples of that. The highest rent of them all has been paid for Abbey Courthouse on George's Quay, €3.58 million in rent in the last five years, over €3.5 million. 01:44 Bear in mind now, they have all these other buildings that could use, I mean, either sell them or use them, whatever. The Irish Life Building on the South Mall, they're paying 2.98, just under 3 million in rent. They've got offices in Mahan that they're paying 2.14 million. And they got other ones then like a unit number seven in the Elysian where they're paying nearly 2 million. And they got another office on Cove Street, or whatever it is on Cove Street, where they're paying over one and a half million. And another one million plus for the Cork Ibernian House building on the South Mile. 02:18 At the same time, they own 14 billion buildings that are empty, vacant, doing nothing with. Left hand, right hand. It's absolute nonsense and it's just not acceptable. Mother of God, when all of the money that's been wasted could have been put to good use over the decades. Think of what could be done for people. The main story, well, there are two big stories nationally making the papers today because there is obviously a Garda investigation into the death of Glenn Hansardt. And this morning, the Independent says that the Gardaí will speak to people with Hansard, those that were with Glenn Hansard, in his final hours, in the hours before he died, because they're trying to build a timeline regarding the tragedy that led to his death. 02:59 Now, he was found beside his motorbike in the early hours of Wednesday. His death has been treated as a road traffic accident. I think it was half past four in the morning. A file will go to the coroner's court after that. then the coroner's court will do its thing. And then I imagine on Garda Chicana may well take a look at it after. I don't know what will happen then. But certainly RT got a statement from the Wren's Nest pub where Glenn Hansford performed in the hours before his death And they say that Glenn Hansard left the premises after it closed at normal trading, which was half past 11 on Tuesday. 03:35 Now, the Red Tops this morning are saying that he left the pub at closing time and was found by a passerby just before half past four in the morning. 03:45 In the mail this morning, their main headline is the pub saying that there was no lock-in. 03:52 And if you look at that article, they say that he was discovered about a kilometre away, having come off his motorbike at half past four in the morning. And the Wren's Nest have said that there was no lock-in that took place on the night. So there's a bit of a mystery that the Garda-Chicana need to look into, obviously, as to what happened between closing time and half past four that unfortunately led to the death of this lovely, lovely man. incidentally it's it's interesting the wren's nest it's a dublin pub it goes back to 1588 so it's been around a long long time as a public house so that's dominating a lot nationally the other one then is something that broke on on live line yesterday where we've all of these female councillors being sexually harassed by some individual um I won't put names or adjectives on this guy for now because I really don't know anything about him, apart from the fact that he's an absolute menace, whatever he's up to. 04:47 You have 70 women councillors from right across the political spectrum have been getting these anonymous calls from this unidentified man who's claiming to all of them, forgive me at this hour of the morning, he claims to be a paedophile and he wants them to challenge him. I mean, what's the modus operandi? What's the reasoning behind this? I have no idea. But the anti-terror unit now are hunting this fellow down. It's a blocked number. They're wondering in some of the papers this morning, like the mail says, detectives think that he may be using multiple burner phones or SIM cards. And they're checking with phone companies to see if they can track these down. 05:21 I don't know how. I mean, imagine they have ways to track down, you know, burner phones. I don't know. Or check down SIM cards, even if the... if the numbers are private and the numbers blocked. So the councillor is talking yesterday, and I'll speak with a couple of myself this morning, who said that he might even have been using some kind of equipment to distort his voice. So it's understood that threats of rape and sexual assault have been made by this caller. He's mentioning areas where the women themselves live, and they're very angry about this, not understandably so. And in the conversations, he recounts in graphic detail the child sex abuse material that he has seen and downloaded. 06:00 So we live in very scary, worrying times, don't we, when you have stories like this? Because unfortunately, there's another one. Thanks be to God, this fellow Weber is going to jail. I don't think for half long enough, incidentally. He's a convicted paedophile. He's 48 years old from Limerick. He's this individual. And again, apologies for the hour of the morning. It's difficult to even listen to these kind of stories at any time of the day. He said he wanted to kidnap and eat a child. 06:24 I mean, that's psychiatric, isn't it? And I don't mean that in any disrespectful way to people who have mental health issues, but you know what I mean when I say this. I mean, it's absolutely appalling. He was distributing videos and images of children. I won't go into that part of it. The papers do, but I won't. It's just too disgusting. But he pleaded guilty. Not that that makes any difference. He was found guilty anyway. And the papers this morning said he got eight years jailed yesterday. I think that maybe... 06:50 A one should be put in front of that, do you think? And then you have other stories making the papers today with regards to court reports. Ralph Regal in The Independent this morning talks about the teenager, the 17-year-old now who can't be named for legal reasons, the latest person to be found guilty of murdering Barry Daly, the postman and the father of five. And that story out of the greater McCroom area there recently. So he's the third person now to be convicted. in relation to the fatal attack on Mr Daly. And while we can't name the guy, I can't tell you that he will get a mandatory life sentence. 07:22 And the jury came back yesterday with a guilty verdict on that. And you talk about people who are deported from Ireland. Unfortunately, you find that all too often they've been in different countries before Ireland. And this fellow, Sam Ockwooyah, was originally in Scotland where they found him guilty of threatening to murder a university staff threatening to commit terrorist crimes threatening mass murder claiming he'd used biological weapons all sorts of crazy stuff like that so that was in Scotland and then he comes over to Ireland Yeah, how did he get into Ireland? 07:54 I have no idea about that. But he came to the attention of the Gardaí. He's an interesting character because he had terror convictions for threatening all of these things, mass murder and bombing university. So eventually he's been deported on a chartered flight to Nigeria. 08:08 Mind you, part of his defence was that he was a decouplet. Does anybody know what a decouplet is? Well, a decouplet is when there's you and nine others and you're all identical twins. 08:21 Well, you're not twins, actually. You're identical decouplets because they're 10 of you. This is what he was saying. And he said that they had the wrong person. They had the wrong one. 08:31 I mean, it's absolutely bizarre. So he went out anywhere with another six people, charged her out of a flight to Dublin airport on Tuesday morning. He defecated on himself to try and frustrate the deportation process. I mean, it's an appalling story. 08:46 And you've got to wonder, actually, as to why, in the name of God, he was here in the first place. But he claimed to be a decouplet with nine other identical brothers. And he said that they had the wrong brother. 08:56 And it really frustrated the system for quite a long time. And I don't know if you're watching these gone anywhere on this stage. I don't know if you're watching a lot of the online video. It's quite literally because I looked at it and said, that can't be right. That's AI or else it's 10 or 15 or 20 years old. But it can't be happening. But it did. And it happened this week in the Spanish territory of Ceuta. Now, that's a crossing where you can go by ferry from Ceuta over to Morocco or to Tangiers and places like that. But you see thousands of migrants streaming into the small area, having landed in Spain. 09:29 So much so now that there are officials in Spain wishing now for the state to declare a national emergency and to send in the army to restore the frontier and to in some way control the border. There are literally thousands. I mean, it's like it's kind of crowds of people you see coming out of a Premier League soccer match or... 09:51 A rugby international, literally thousands of them within the space of a couple of hours. And, you know, you talk about premiership and stuff like that. UEFA, at least they've got the bottle to say that they're going to boycott all FIFA competitions if this business around selling the World Cup goes ahead. I don't know. Can Infantino have been taken out as, I mean, when I say taken out, I mean, as boss of FIFA competition? Can he be voted out of office with this insane proposal of his? UEFA said that they'll boycott all FIFA competitions if there's a plan to sell World Cup shares. 10:25 It's just absolutely mad. So much so that UEFA have said, if you don't scrap this, we're out. And that, I mean... 10:32 Imagine that if UEFA say that we won't play, that would mean that any team or any country that's associated with UEFA couldn't play. Even if they wanted to play, they would be prevented from doing so. And then in other news this morning, just two quick ones for you. One is, go back to 1977, if you will, please, to the massive disco rage that existed back then, much of it driven, of course, by the film Saturday Night Fever. Now, you know the white suit, It's a three-piece, back when three-piece suits, not quite sure if they're back in vogue now anymore, but three-piece suits were all the rage back then. 11:07 And it's John Travolta's white three-piece suit. The lapels were enormous. It was bought, apparently, for $100 in a New York shop. 11:17 And it was, I think it was crinoline. No, it was a polyester was the fabric of it. Anyway, if you have deep pockets and you're interested in buying it, it will be auctioned. And they figure that it should make in and around €350,000. Now, me looking at that is like me looking into an empty milk bottle because I've never seen... I've never seen Saturday Night Fever. I've never seen Grease. I will get around to it sometimes, but it just never bothered. 11:48 But apparently we all know. Massive. You know, Tony Manero, I think was the name was there. Something to do with winning a disco contest in the film in 77. All to the Bee Gees soundtrack. But anyway, for those that are Bee Gees fans, they figure about 350,000. 12:03 And Des McHale has a new book out. It's called Langers and Lashes, a Compendium of Cork Slang. And I love these compendiums because we need to catalogue and to detail all of the different slang words on Leaside over hundreds of years or else we'll lose them. So Des, in fairness, is the latest person to come out with a lot of them. And I have to say, there are some that I never heard of in my life before. And it's an extensive book. And I get a copy of it, actually, over the weekend or the next few days. Maybe get an opportunity to talk to Des McHale. 12:35 But it's just all to do with slang. For instance, I threw a few out here for you. Maybe, could you tell me if you know what they are? Almost rared. 12:43 Ah, she's almost rared. That's a baby that's born with the weight of at least 10 pounds or more out of the womb. Another one or two for you this morning. Cause of our joy. 12:55 He's the cause of our joy. A firstborn who arrives after many years of waiting. They're lovely. A gaula is kind of the lengthened version of gaul. We all know that. A stupid, dopey, obnoxious person. The iron throat. 13:11 Why would somebody say iron throat? Or more to the point, do you know where the iron throat actually is? Because it was a hospital. It's still there, but I think it's being used for other purposes. It's the eye, ear and throat, known on Leeside as the iron throat. There's another one or two for you here, and there are many. To lob the gob. I think that's back in vogue now. Maybe it never went out. It's an attempt to give the object of your affections a passionate kiss. To lob the gob, ladies and gentlemen. one or two more what's this one here to scuttle to scuttle is to smoke the butts of other people's cigarettes as in go around picking them up off the street oh my god what else have I got for you here now oh up the steps up the steps you'll go Many people have threatened me with sending me up the steps from this radio programme down through the years, I can tell you. 14:08 Well, up the steps, actually, is to appear in court. Up the steps leading to the courthouse in Washington Street in a bit of trouble. He was stepped, is another abbreviation. If you don't cop on, you'll be stepped, is what people would say. The Wilton Hilton, self-explanatory. 14:25 Do I even have to say? I mean... 14:29 It's a bigger Wilton Hilton now than it ever was before. Dost thou know? 14:33 The regional. The regional. 14:38 I was out there yesterday. Standing across the road looking at it. It is just absolutely ginormous. 14:45 Anyway, some of these are great, aren't they? They're just brilliant. 14:48 They are. I never heard up the steps. 14:50 Didn't you? To be stepped. 14:53 You'll be up the steps for that. 14:54 Yeah, or lob the gob has never gone away. That's always there, isn't it? 14:58 Lying in the arms of Murphy's. 15:00 Lying in the arms of Murphy's. Fast asleep having consumed too much stout. 15:04 Oh, right. 15:07 I missed the start of this. I was going down a rabbit hole looking at decouplets around the world. Decouplets, yeah. 15:12 Ten identical brothers. You've got the wrong one. There are none. 15:17 There was a story in South Africa in 2021 already claimed that a South African woman had had ten, but she didn't. 15:24 And the media picked up on it, the BBC picked up on it, but it wasn't true and she hadn't even been pregnant. That's your kind of stuff. 15:28 I don't know where you're mad. I've one more for you here. How bad? 15:33 Yeah. 15:34 How bad is that? How bad? I don't want to explain it. How bad is cool or that's great. 15:40 It's good. Desmond, how bad? You got sacked but you contested it. You went to a tribunal and the tribunal gave you half a million quid. 15:49 How bad? How bad? 15:52 I use that all the time. 15:53 Oh, my God. I love it. OK, more of those, please. Back after the break. Text 0868 104 106. 15:58 Get on to Prenderville. 16:00 Text or WhatsApp Neil now. 0868 104 106. The Neil Prenderville. 16:08 Okay, be part of the conversation, text 0868104106. Listeners might find the following conversations upsetting to some or maybe all, certainly me, and it's this individual, this man, if you could call him that, who's been sexually harassing scores of women councillors right across the country, making restricted telephone number calls, as in blocking his number and amongst them two councillors all over all female incidentally some of them sitting core councillors amongst them Councillor Una McCarthy who joins me by phone Una good morning 16:45 Good morning, Neil, and good morning to your listeners. 16:47 Thank you so much. Now, while it is quite graphic parts of it, a lot of what he describes and what he likes and would wish to do is not suitable for broadcasting. And I think you appreciate that. So I will leave it up to people's imagination as to how dangerous this man potentially is. Can you tell us about the call or calls? 17:07 Yeah, so look, as an elected member of Cork County Council, receiving calls from constituents is a normal part of my role. And last Tuesday evening, the 21st of July, around 7.30pm, I received a call from a withheld number. 17:23 I answered it and the caller was a male and he asked if he was speaking to Una McCarthy. I said he was. He told me his name and asked if I wanted to keep my community safe from people like him. And he proceeded to claim that he was a paedophile. 17:38 And obviously I was taken aback at that stage. So I ended the call, but he continued to call. So I answered a second time and I told him I was a public representative and it seemed that he needed a different type of counsellor, one that would help with his mental state. He disagreed and he said that he wanted to be challenged by me. 17:59 He continued to say inappropriate, disturbing comments of a sexual nature, which obviously I won't repeat on air. But at that point, I ended the call. He continued incessantly calling that evening over 20 times in total until eventually I switched off my phone. 18:16 Yeah, when you talk of the conversation that you did have with him, you said he gave his name. Clearly that name, if it's real, and his real name, that's been given to Angarda Chacon at this stage, right? 18:30 Absolutely. Look, obviously at the time I thought I was the only one receiving a call of this nature and I was a bit unnerved by it. But then I saw on our Fine Gael councillor WhatsApp group that other female councillors had received continuous calls as well. 18:45 So, you know, at that point I contacted the Fine Gael party who were extremely supportive and I reached out to the local Garda in Cargoline and the Sergeant in Cargoline were extremely supportive. And we since discovered that it was, first of all, all Fine Gael female councillors he was contacting. And I believe now it has gone cross-party to all parties and none across the country. 19:17 Yeah, there's a councillor in particular up the country. He was able to tell her that she had three children. She took an initial call. She had 20 missed calls on one day after the initial call and the following day, 30 missed calls. And even up to yesterday, she still continues to get private number missed calls. Yeah. 19:37 Did you challenge him as he asked? Did you say, listen, you need help? Did you say anything to him at all? 19:46 Yeah, like when I said to him that I was a public representative and that he needed a different type of councillor, I said, you obviously need help and there's help out there. But, you know, he disagreed and said, no, I think you need to challenge me as a public representative. You need to be able to keep your community safe. 20:01 Look, he's said various things to various people. He's made claims that he's living in Dublin, he's living in Galway, he's living in Cork. He's given pretty much the same name to most people. 20:13 But, you know, he has details about the councillors. He has our name, you know, when he's speaking. He knows which councillor he's speaking to and the area they're in. I believe he's given addresses as well to some people. 20:24 And are all those details for councillors a matter of public record? Are they accessible? 20:31 Yeah, so look, as public representatives, we are very accessible to the public. Our phone number is public. They have access to our home address. And I suppose, you know, we have to be public facing and that's really important. But we also need the support to help us do that safely. Like TDs and ministers have office staff which can help screen calls. but councillor's job is more isolated and more accessible. And while I don't want to see that changing, I think it's very important that, you know, we stand up to this type of harassment in public service. 21:04 Oh, absolutely. I mean, but what kind of an impression did you get from this person? Do you think he's an individual that needs help or he's just a nuisance, that he's a pest, that he's getting this for kicks? Did he sound to you unhinged or anything? 21:22 Well, he spoke in a very low voice and he spoke in a very calm demeanour. But to be honest, there's a number of different things he could be. I think it's now it's up to the Guardian to decide that. And, you know, it is being investigated at a national level with a special detective unit. 21:38 So I welcome the fact that this has been taken seriously. And I hope that the Guardian actually do trace him and find out exactly what his motives are, whether it's fact or fiction, the things that he's been describing. But all I know is that they're deeply disturbing and very graphic. 21:53 The Mail this morning is reporting that it's understood that threats of rape and sexual assault have also been made, with the calls for mentioning the area where the women live. Has that come up in your WhatsApp group where he has made threats of rape or sexual assault against female councillors? 22:09 Not exactly that detail, but there has been information about him referring to people's children and mentioning young children as well. 22:17 OK, so he goes into and I'm not going to go into the detail, but he recounts in graphic detailed children, child sex abuse material he had seen. I won't say any more than that because it's disgusting. But did he have that kind of a conversation with you? 22:33 Not really, because I suppose I didn't give him the opportunity to do so. But I mean, I received over 30 calls in the last week. I received one at 11.30 last night, for example. So he's still calling. It's incessant at this stage. And, you know, he clearly isn't giving up. And the fact that he's gone from starting off with the Fine Gael councillors and now going across party, you know, he's clearly on a mission here to call as many women as he can in public office. 23:02 Yeah, OK. So you'd like to see an end to this. Absolutely. And the Gardaí Chicana hopefully will do that, right? 23:08 Absolutely. And look, you know, as I said, the Gardaí have been extremely supportive and it has been investigated at a national level. And, you know, the Fine Gael Party have been extremely supportive as well. But I mean, I wouldn't want this to deter anyone from going into public life because I think it's very important that we have good people. 23:26 Yeah, but female councillors get a lot of grief and abuse online. 23:31 Absolutely. Female politicians. 23:34 Yeah, look, I think all public representatives face criticism and sometimes abuse, but what women experience is often different in nature. It's more likely to be personal, gendered or sexual. And this incident is a good example of that because, you know, from what we've been told, it is only female councillors that he is targeting. But at the same time, you know, if anything, it makes me more angry, you know, because I think it's really, really important that we have, you know, a diverse range of people going for local government. And I think it shouldn't deter people from standing for office. 24:07 And we need good people to do so. And I wouldn't like to think that someone like him, an incident like this could prevent someone from doing so in the future. 24:15 Quite said. OK, so if you summed it up, you are angry because of this. Anger is the word. 24:19 Absolutely. Anger is definitely the emotion I'm feeling, yes. 24:22 OK, thanks, Una. Appreciate you taking the call. The Mayor of Tralee is Councillor Angie Bailey. Angie, good morning. 24:28 Good morning, Kieran. How are you? 24:30 It's Neil, actually. What happened with regards to you and the calls? Tell us. 24:34 Very similar now, actually, to Una. And it was only a couple of minutes after Una's first call that he called me. And again, he referred to me by name, by full name, a quiet voice. And getting an unknown number or a call like this is actually quite common because sometimes it may be children who do to their parents' phone to kind of have their number withheld. So it's not very unusual, but again, very similar to what Una said. 25:05 Now I did speak, I suppose my first reaction was kind of that of fear, as in fear of there being truth in what he was saying. 25:16 I'm a paedophile, you need to challenge me. 25:19 Yeah. 25:19 Do you want to keep your neighbourhood safe? 25:22 Yeah, so if there was any truth in that, I felt that there was kind of some onus of responsibility on me first of all, not anger this person and maybe to try and get some information that I then could relay to the guards. 25:36 But it was a relief as well, as said by Una, that I eventually realised that I wasn't the only person receiving these phone calls. And I think as well, it's only post phone call, when you realise how many people he has rang, that you realise how how dedicated he has been to this. And he's very careful. You know, he has the information. He knows who he's speaking to. He knows where the people are. 26:04 He must have all our details printed out and in front of him. So he's quite meticulous. 26:09 Yeah. 26:11 He's working through a list, but why is he calling female councillors? Why not, if he's concerned about, as the fact he says he claims he's a paedophile and that he is a risk to communities, why isn't he calling a mixture of male and female councillor? Why females? 26:27 Well, first of all, I think he's a bully and I think he's trying to intimidate us. Now, I don't think he has been able to Get any female councillor who was actually got into quite an emotional or angry state with him. I think we have all very much managed our emotions and how we dealt with this phone call, which is a real credit to the local councillors we have around the country. 26:51 Did you keep your cool with them? I'm not quite sure I could have done, but did you? 26:55 Yes, I did, because in any crime novel I've read or watching criminal minds on television, you're always told not to get them angry, because if you anger them, then that might result in something happening. And that's the last thing I wanted to do. 27:11 Well, fair play to you, because the disturbing things he was saying, but he'd like to do to children would absolutely drive some people ballistic. 27:19 I think it was in the moment. Do you know that when you're in the moment, you manage it quite well? I have been very angry at him post the phone call. 27:30 And I think I'm just delighted that I was able to manage my emotions during it. I think when you're in a situation... You tend to, you know, go on adrenaline that allows you to get through the situation. So why women? 27:42 Why women then? 27:44 I think he believes he can intimidate us. And then he's discussing children and women, also as mothers, as many of us are. I think that he believes that it would be easier to keep us on the line, probably to get us in a bit of emotional state. And I think that's what this guy wanted for himself. I think a lot of men probably would have hung up the phone and not engaged with him. 28:08 Yeah, and some did, including Una. But he kept calling and calling. And to this day, he continues to call. Another councillor up the country was Saint-Michel Gould. The Sinn Féin councillor in Cork got a number of missed calls from private numbers. She answered it. It was from a guy. It sounded very creepy. It was him, obviously. And she didn't let the conversation continue. She just hung up. But he's calling and calling and calling. It's this harassment, obviously. And he needs to... 28:34 If he's a paedophile and claims that he is a paedophile, he's sick. He's twisted. He needs to be caught. 28:38 Absolutely. 100%. 100%. And I must say that the support we have been given has been fantastic. The Gardaí have been fantastic. But I believe we need stronger regulations around phone calls and being able to access these numbers. Because I think at the moment, even the police can have difficulty in accessing details around phone calls like this. you know, because of GDPR issues and that. You know, I think a lot of the people who go against GDPR are people who, you know, like we have nothing to hide. 29:12 I have nothing to hide. I have said to the police, take my phone, go through it if that can help you in any way. And a lot of the female councillors are like that. So I think phone companies, there's an onus of responsibility on them as well to be able to immediately support the police in their efforts to find this solution. 29:31 Well, anti-terror guard are involved in this at the highest level. 29:35 Absolutely, yeah, which is fantastic to see. But over 70 councillors, it's a nationwide problem. And this guy, if it is only one guy, I mean, he's flat out making phone calls and saying the same thing over and over again. 29:48 And do you pick up on his accent? Has he changed his voice? 29:51 No accent. No, no. And that was what is quite strange. You know, the way you can listen for a lilt or, you know, but this guy, it was an incredibly flat, low voice. and called out my name, you know, as alluded to by other councillors as well. Quite creepy in how he says your name, your full name. You know, so you know straight away that he knows who you are. 30:16 I mean, I know that the job that you do is a public job. But to say the very least, this has got to be alarming and upsetting. You're a strong woman. I know that. I get that. But it's got to be upsetting, though. It's a real invasion of privacy in your space. 30:34 Well, this guy now is definitely in the minority. I've never had issues like this before. You know you get phone calls where people say, give out about politics and stuff. That's all fine. But this guy, I think it's, first of all, it's an invasion of privacy, but also the fact that he is using children to get to us is actually horrifying. And I think that that's what has triggered us and angered us most because, you know, we are in a public role and I love having people speak to me and call me for any matter of things. 31:09 And I really do love being in doing the job I'm doing. But for this guy to come along and to try and threaten us or make us scared or intimidate us. It's just completely uncalled for now. But he is in the minority. 31:24 Oh, without a doubt. I mean, neither of us are criminal psychologists, but I'll bet you he's doing this for kicks. He gets pleasure out of this. This is all part of his twisted psyche, the type of person that he is. It's just part of what he does, you know. Some of it is the viewing of material, obviously, but this is just another string to his bow, I think, and he just needs to be caught. Yeah. 31:47 and possibly listening to radio stations where we're discussing them has added another string to his book. So you never know if you're doing the right thing or the wrong thing by speaking out about it. 31:58 Yeah, no, you're doing the absolute right thing. And many are right across the country, over 70 at this stage. Can I just ask you before you go, Mayor, because you talk about you get calls from all sorts of different people. Sometimes they can be angry about political decisions and what have you. How is it in the online world? It's a question I posed to Una as well. I've spoken to Michelle Gould about it in the past. Is there much grief for female councillors and politicians? 32:21 No, you'll always get comments. You know, if you're out in an event, it's like, oh, the taxpayer's money and stuff like that, or your party is useless. But there has been nothing of a personal nature. I've never had threats of any kind. 32:36 And I think that's a testament to the work that is being done around online safety. You know, like we're being made more aware of of, you know, the type of posts to put up. I never put anything up that's over political because you understand like, you know, people's situations are all different. And if somebody is without a house and without proper health insurance, they're going to be angry at the mainstream parties and you can't really blame them for that. So I think we as well get a lot of advice around what to put up on our social medias and how as well not to engage in anything that might lead to I suppose, intimidating posts or posts where people are going to be easily angered. 33:23 Yeah, nobody calls to the house or anything, no? 33:26 Yeah, no, I also have two big dogs, so maybe that helps. 33:30 Nice deterrent there, absolutely. 33:32 Yeah, a very nice deterrent. 33:35 But I don't know, is that a good thing or a bad thing? You know, if you live in the town and people call and, you know, neighbours, you're a lot more visible. Of course, living rurally, you're not as visible. I mean, I think that it could drive down my driveway and nobody might see them. 33:49 You have to take precautions. Okay. Okay. Appreciate it. Thanks for taking the call, Mayor Tralee, Councillor Angie Bailey and Councillor Una McCarthy. It's just, we live in, I know I've said it a million times, but the world that we live in now is just so, so dangerous. You just don't know what could happen next. And this guy needs to be caught. Without a doubt, he needs to be caught. 34:12 I mean, I would just fail to have any compassion or understanding for somebody who does this. You know, we always hear of different stories as to, you know, why people are like the way they are and that we need to bear in mind psychiatric issues and stuff like that. I, you know, I get that. I'm not I'm not deaf to that. Text 0868 104 106. Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. On a lighter note, the other side of that, I was in town yesterday and I was chatting with different people as you go about and they talk about the accessibility of politicians. I don't know anywhere else in the world where you might see something like this, but there was a chap inside and he says, Gio, Camille, just about 20 minutes ago. 34:46 He was talking about about 20 minutes earlier up inside in town. Michal Martin was doing a bit of shopping. he was on his own and I've told he had shopping bags and everything and he was just doing his thing around the middle of town he might have been into the market or something or whatever he was doing I don't know what was in his bags I know he was shopping and some chap stopped him in the middle of the street I don't know could have been Winthrop Street for I don't know Patrick Street might have been Cook Street I have no idea where it was but there he was chatting away to some fella I was making a point and they were just chatting away and I'd say half the time, Michal will be watching the clock because he's got somewhere else to be. 35:17 But he was standing there chatting away, not a bother in the world. I'm just thinking, where else in the world would you have the Taoiseach of a country inside in the middle of a city chatting with a punter or a Corkonian? No secure. I mean, we've enough security for the ministers. Don't get me wrong. And all the gang that are over from Europe these days. But no security. I mean, I don't think it might happen with Andy Burnham. Perhaps he's that kind of a guy as well. but there'd be fewer enough countries where you see something like that happen, I would have thought. Text 0868 104 106. Back after the break. 35:53 Oh, what a day yesterday with road bowling. Do you ever think anything like that would take off? But great historic nostalgia there. Plenty of road bowling still in West Cork, Neil. If you're listening to yesterday's programme, you know what I'm talking about. There's bowling Sunday morning in Lower Killeens every Sunday morning. There do be massive crowds there. Did you know? Yes, I did. That Bishop Buckley was a great bowl player. He certainly was up there amongst the best. Somebody else is Eamon Bowen is the main man in Cork for the bowels now. Scores and live commentary every week. McBarry Road is over by Bus Connects Works on the south side. But I couldn't see Mick Barry's name on the plaque, says the Baldy. 36:25 Well, if that's the case, they need to fix it. You'd see a load of money being still put down on a score of bowels. Ballinagree hosted the All-Ireland Road Bowling a few weeks ago. I attended and there were huge crowds there, says John and McCroom. You should have seen the bundles of notes. The stake was €40,000 per side. Was that like down to two bowlers with €40,000 on each side? It's still a regular thing in West Cork. They don't close the roads, though, and they're very slow to get out of the way of a car. They'd nearly get in the window to see who's passing. Pure West Cork. 36:55 I like that, though. I hope that never changes. 36:58 Alan in West Cork says, I heard you talking about bowling. It's as big as ever. You should give John Connell from Clonacilty the best. He's in the All-Ireland Bowling Championships this weekend up in County Armagh. and all the Cork lads as well. It really is still alive and well, and I'd love to say thriving. Somebody else says, it's big in New York too. When I was there, they won the championship final in Long Island in road bowling. I imagine that could have well been the Irish that went over and kept the tradition going like lots more besides. 37:30 We're talking to postmen and women yesterday as to whether or not they ever get postcards or letters that are undeliverable because of the address. Lucy says, Malcolm, you spoke to, is a great postman. What a character. You can hear Red FM and Neil blaring from the van when he's delivering the post. Fair play to you as a loyal guy, Malcolm. Hope we're blaring right now. That was lovely memories on the air, Neil, talking about the days when people sent postcards from holidays. I have to say... 37:58 we still do. And it's something that I think we kind of always did, not in a huge scale, just for a bit of fun here and there. I always loved, back in the day, it would be, you'd be getting a postcard from Glenn Gareth. 38:12 Things like that. Or you'd be sending a postcard from Banner or Inch Beach or something like that. Pat Spillane once got a letter from a disgruntled viewer of the Sunday game, simply addressed as Pat the Bollocks Kerry. And it got to him. No problem, says Connie. Pat the Bollocks Kerry. He's one nice guy, Pat Spillane, incidentally. And then the things you would get or the things you'd pay for. There was a fellow in the Vox who was saying... with regards to how much should you give for a wedding, you know, usually you'd give enough cash to cover something like maybe he said two things. 38:45 He said maybe a flat screen television or you might give enough cash to cover the price of a toaster. And I was thinking, wow, I mean, a toaster is €29 unless you're buying one of the Smeg ones. That's €190. 38:57 My aunt has both the Smeg kettle and the Smeg toaster and only has them on her counter for show. When she actually wants a cup of tea or a slice of toast, that comes in the cheap ones and they're put away again. She said that the Smeg kettle and the Smeg toaster are just too good to use. 39:18 That's like the good room that's only used like twice a year, Easter Sunday and maybe at Christmas time. Or when the posh cousins or the posh uncles and aunts arrive, the good room. Or it's like, it's the set of, you know... The dinner service that never gets used. The fine bone china. The Waterford crystal that never gets drank from. Madness. And then, thank you, Desi. He says, back in the day in the nicest toast was the toast done with the toasting fork in front of an open fire. 39:49 One side or two. Ah, yes, indeedy. Back in the day. But now they build houses with no fires at all, lads. Ah, there's loads of texts on many different topics from yesterday, I can tell you. And I love each and every one of them. We'll jump into some more a little later on. The best summer song, which was voted there recently. Thousands of people voted on The Summer of 69 by Brian Adams. Somebody else was suggesting, because I was asking yesterday, could you beat that as a summer song? And the Isley Brothers' Summer Breeze. Oh my God, that is just such a great vote. 40:20 What a great summer song. Well done, Summer Breeze. The best song for me in terms of a feel-good tune is Flowers by Miley Cyrus. Well, I suppose flowers thrive in the summer. You might get away with that. My favourite song of all time, Let's Go Round Again by the Average White Band from the mid-70s, charted again in the 80s. Nice one, Anthony. Absolutely right. But is it a summer song? Maybe so. And Scott McKenzie's San Francisco, you know, wear flowers in your hair. The anthem of the 1960s. Surely that would top the list. No, it doesn't. And it doesn't even get into the top five. 40:51 But there you have it. Keep them coming. Text 0868-104-106. It's Free Food Friday. Again this Friday. Now, let me tell you. It's pizza and its sides, and there's lots of them, courtesy of ourselves and Domino's. So why I'm saying pizza, I'm saying the biggest one you can get out of Domino's, the large ones. Cheese, pepperoni passion, cheeseburger, Texas barbecue, and ultimate hot honey and pepperoni. It would be a great start to the bank holiday weekend for you and your workmates. You've got chicken wings, dozens of them. Boneless bites, dozens of them. Chicken kickers, the same. Chicken tenders, potato wedges, and a selection of dips. 41:24 So all you got to do is text who you are and where you're working. Or indeed, if you've been in a business recently or you got great customer service, tell me about it. Nominate the business that did right by you and text 0868104106. 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I'll open the phone lines later. Have a listen. 42:54 To be absolutely honest with you, that's the toughest one of the week. I hadn't a notion until I was eventually told over it and heard it in conversation. But I remember saying, I would never, ever have thought that. Or indeed, I would never have thought that he was not American. So I'll say no more about it than that. But I'll play it a couple of times between now and midday and then identify who that individual is. Lots of calls and texts on different topics over the last few days. And we spoke at length yesterday. This actually started about people who gave up coffee and gave up I mean, there's caffeine in lots of different products, the energy drinks and the stuff like that, without a doubt. 43:29 But we were talking about coffee and, you know, is life tough enough without coffee? I would say possibly. But then one of the conversations led on to other addictions besides caffeine. And we had a caller on the air yesterday who traveled all the way from from Belfast to get treatment for cocaine and alcohol addiction here in Cork. And a lovely chat, actually, and she was very open and honest about her life. It prompted a text from Graham who says, Fair play to you for talking about addiction in such an open way and not in a judgmental or dismissive way. 44:00 But I would strive never to be that way, Graham, but thank you all the same. I've been through bad times myself with anxiety, addiction, self-harm and all of the dark things that come with that. You quipped after the sports report with Rory this morning that he's just a great guy. And I can tell you that Rory is for sure. He was a great support and encouragement to me when I was in a bad place. 44:25 It doesn't surprise me, Graham. He's that kind of guy. That's the way he rolls. He's just a lovely gentleman. We need to make addiction, anxiety, self-harm and everything else an everyday non-taboo subject. You never know how one of your conversations today on the air as in yesterday's programme could resonate with somebody listening. It might change their life or even perhaps save their life. And the likes of your friend Brenda Dennehy is a great advocate for talking about it and making it more acceptable. So thank you for that, Graham. 44:55 Appreciate you taking the time to text and thanks for listening. I hope you found it empowering. Text 0868 104 106 to another topic from earlier in the week, because I didn't get to everything. And I did a little bit of research when I saw, you know, Martin's text come in there recently on a particular brand of e-scooter. But more on that in a second. But Martin, good morning. 45:16 Morning, Neil. How are you? I'm good. 45:17 Did you first want to pick up on, I was talking about Des McHale's new book on slang, right? Yeah. 45:23 Yeah, I sent in a couple of messages there earlier, yeah. When I heard you say the Wilton Hilton, it reminded me of the Hilton Hotel in Cork City. Do you remember on Coburg Street? 45:32 I do. 45:33 It's still there. 45:34 It's still thriving. When I was in my early 20s and off at home, they used to call it Grab-A-Granny or Fraggle Rock. 45:40 Grab-A-Granny or what? Fraggle Rock. The first one is fairly self-explanatory. 45:44 I don't know where the second one came from. I don't know where Fraggle Rock came from, but it was affectionately known as Grab-A-Granny. No, you know. It was, yeah. 45:52 I don't know. Oh, my God. There's ones I've never heard before in this, actually. 46:01 Another one is breastfeeding their shovels. 46:12 Do you know what that means? 46:15 To be breastfeeding your shovel was to work for a car corporation, workmen on the job, just standing there, leaning on a shovel. 46:22 Leaning on the shovel, yeah. We used to say that when we were young fellows. They'd be wanting to do the job and treat the supervisor and lean on shovels and they'd spend their day talking. 46:31 You know what having notions is? Yeah, he has notions. 46:33 I do, yeah. Notions. I mean, definitely he has notions. 46:37 Like what? My gran used to say notions above the station. 46:42 Above his station is what she meant, I suppose. You'd be in a restaurant and someone would say, sorry, no, do you have bottled water? And you get two, two, another. No, she has bottled water. 46:51 Yeah. She should be in here. She should be in here with a ponny. Did you know what a ponny was? A ponny was, yeah. We get no water, isn't it? It was a tin mug. 47:01 Yeah. Actually, talking about hot subs of tea reminds me another one that he has. Did you ever have a cup of scald? Cup of scald, yeah. My uncle used to say that. Once I can have a quick cup of scald. 47:23 I used to say as well when we were talking, I grew up around Passage but I started out from the north side and they'd say, are you going down along? Are you going up along there? Are you going in along to town? Are you going up along, down along, in along or out along? Outlong, isn't it? In long time, they're going outlong there. 47:40 Are you going down along the village? Yeah, there's loads of them, isn't there? I mean, it's a complete language in itself, right? 47:47 Oh, yeah. We have a sub-culture and a sub-language, of course. There's another one I hadn't ever heard before. And he says, I'm going in for a, well, I don't know how you'd put it, but it ends up as the blonde with the black skirt. Do you know what that is? 48:01 No. Oh, I do, yeah, that's the point. You are good, Martin. I wouldn't have guessed that in a million years. 48:11 What about, were you ever up the steps? Imer never heard that term. 48:16 Was I ever up the steps? Did you ever get stepped? 48:20 No, I haven't heard that one either. It's a particular establishment there on Washington Street known as Cor Courthouse. 48:27 Oh, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. 48:29 And they have quite an extensive array of steps, which means, you know, if you were up, I'll have you up the steps for that one, means I'll have you in court. 48:40 Yeah, I've heard of it, I've forgotten it, and it was up before the course of the land, my own family used to say. 48:48 That's nice too, but I think being stepped is better. Des McHale has a new book out. It's called Langer's Lashes and a Compendium of Cork Slang. 48:55 And they're important, books like that. 49:01 And it's important as well that Beecher's book doesn't go out of print because that's another cracker. So listen to me, you were talking about a Caboo Wolf Warrior scooter, which I then Googled to learn some more about. It is an absolute beast of an e-scooter that is for sale. And indeed, it is for sale in shop locations in Cork. Did you know that? 49:22 I did, yeah. And it's capable of, I think, 40 to 50 miles an hour. 49:27 Well, I have to tell you that there are a couple of different Wolf Warriors. The starting Wolf Warrior has a top speed of 70 kilometers. There is a Wolf Warrior 2 that has a top speed of, I can't believe this... 49:43 It says here, sorry, it says here 80 kilometres. 49:49 And there's a third one then, the Wolf King. 49:52 The GTR, 105 kilometres. 49:56 105 kilometres. And did you know also, Neil, I probably shouldn't be saying this on the radio. There are ways to disable the speed limiters as well. And they put them up on YouTube. 50:05 To go faster than that. 50:07 to go fast go a little bit faster than that I think well I won't say how it's done but there is a way to delimit Have you ever seen one of them on our streets? No I know someone who has the Wolf Warrior But I mean, it's, well, it's supposed to be legislated since May 2024. I think that under-16s can't use them. And, you know, they can't be on footpaths. You can't have mobile phones. 50:31 If he or she has a Wolf Warrior, then the top speed of that Wolf Warrior is 70 kilometers. So when I was hearing texts and stuff from people who said they saw e-scooter traveling in 70, now I know why, right? And the Wolf Warrior, the price is somewhere in and around... Around £2,000, I think. Correct. You're on the ball. £2,100. 50:51 And about £2,700 for the GTR. 50:54 And it goes, yeah, well, if you want to go right up to the Wolf King GTR, they retail for £4,350. Why you wouldn't buy a moped, I have no idea for that kind of money, but they're called off-road e-scooters. So now we know why people see e-scooters travelling around Cork at 70 kilometres an hour. 51:10 Yeah, I mean, they've 10 centimetre right, kind of like pneumatic off-road tyres, you know. These are a beast of a thing. Like, no, having said that, they're very sturdy and very safe at the same time. But in the hands of capable people, if you already have a driver license, I mean, I've been on bikes for years, so I'd probably be well able to handle something like that. But, I mean, giving them to kids is just mental life. 51:31 Yeah, but the advertising and the marketing, including one photograph that I see here, it's one of those manga photographs, you know, where it's not a photograph, it's actually a drawing. 51:42 It's got the Wolf King GT Pro, and they've got somebody maybe about 15 years old up in it, no helmet or anything. One of these Japanese illustrations. So they are being pitched to kids. 51:53 Yeah, well, I was glad you said it this week, but then I think that's helmets now and vests are mandatory. You have to be over 18 and I think they're probably going to introduce insurance eventually. 52:03 Well, the Wolf King will be banned from Irish roads because it will exceed the maximum speed limit. 52:09 Yeah, it's 45 kilometres an hour is the maximum. I think it was 25. 52:13 No, I think e-scooters can only go 20 kilometres an hour. 52:17 Can I go 20 kilometres an hour? Yeah, I know. That's the current legislation. I talk about bringing that up to 45. If people are going to be over 18, then they're going to be wearing helmets. 52:25 No, you'd never get an e-scooter across the line with a top speed, by law, of 45 kilometres an hour. That's mad. 52:34 Yeah, that's fair. To me, if you're only allowed to do 20 kilometres an hour and you can go on bus lanes and cycle lanes, but where there aren't those and you can't go on a footpath, these things are going to be a menace on the road. I mean, they're slower than push bikes. Who's going to want to stay behind someone doing 20 kilometres an hour? Guys are going to take chances of overtaking. 52:51 Yeah, absolutely. And you could say the same about being stuck behind a cyclist or a group of cyclists. But anyway, what we do know is the reason that people are seeing them at 70 kilometres an hour is because they are brands like the Caboo Wolf King GT or the Caboo Warrior and they're freely for sale in Cork and you can also import them online. And up until now, there hasn't been legislation to ban them. 53:15 Yeah, I had a smaller one. I had a Xiaomi. It was only a small one, right? It was only capable of 24, 30 kilometres an hour top speed. But I imported it because, to be honest with you, it's only 60 to 80% of the price to import them, even when you pay the duties and pay the postage. 53:30 I hear you. I hear you. And they'll deliver it to your door. 53:33 All right, my friend. Appreciate it. Thanks for taking the call, Martin. Have a good one. Take care. All the best. 53:37 Good morning. 53:38 Bye-bye. Cheers. Text 0868 104 106. Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. Calls, texts and emails after the break. 53:45 The Neil Prendival Show on Red FM. Conversation that matters. 54:08 in St. Finbar's. We'd love to be fed today. Great staff and all of their life-saving donors. Morning to Rachel and all of the gang. Joan at the Clayton Silver Spring Hotel. For the team, we're looking hard, working hard, looking after the guests. It would be a great start for the weekend for all of us. DC Valletingham Blackpool will share it with Lorna Lashes in the same building and Mary Kate Nails. They'd have a pizza party. The Matter Private would love feeding today morning to Benny and the gang, Deborah O'Leary and her team at Con Shop in Grona Brahe, Rockwell in Clawheen, to everybody at Caulfields Industrial. 54:39 A huge gang of them there. We've been called out for two weeks, so hopefully third time lucky. This is Adrian, Alan, Aaron, Cain, Cain, I should say, Ger, Lenny, Donal, Gordon and Noel. To Energy Solutions, Servicing Solutions in Glanmire, always listening. Mallow Road Motors in the Blarney Business Park. Great customer service. Timmy, Joe, David, Matt, Justin and everybody at SG Solutions in Duke Cline. To the staff at Woody's in Blackpool and Richie at Ballycotton Seafood. Shout out for all the hard workers. We're starving. Give us pizza. 55:10 And then it's our Friday half day here at Wentworth. So we'd love to finish the week and into their long weekend on a high with Free Food Friday, please. Keep those shout-outs coming. Text who you are and where you're working to 0868-104-106. Get involved. If you've never done it before and you're working away with the gang at work, text for the first time this morning. You never know. In the coming weeks, you could well be pulled out on a pizza on the way. Text 0868-104-106. 55:36 Nice weather today. Great weather there for the last few weeks. And of course, you didn't have to be overseas for it. You could be just enjoying the weather here at home or taking a staycation as opposed to a vacation. But we mentioned, I mean, real Yankee words, I know. But I think you know what I mean. We talk about when you go away, whether it's overseas. Years and years and years and years ago, people always send postcards. And we got talking about that earlier on this morning. I still send, well... My wife does it primarily, but we send postcards. So much so, you'd be interested in this, Anne, so much so that my son and my daughter have also now started to send holiday postcards from abroad. 56:12 What about you? 56:15 Hi, Neil. How are you? 56:18 Good. No, that was a postcard that my niece found there about three weeks ago. 56:24 OK, so will you read, how old is it? 56:26 It's 39 years old. 56:28 Get away. Is that right? Okay. And it's... Where's it from? 56:33 It's from Glen Bay, County Kerry. 56:35 From the beach in Ross Bay, Glen Bay, County Kerry. 40 years ago. Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. 56:40 So we went... My son was a year old nearly and my husband, he got a touch of pneumonia. So the doctor told us the only way you're going to clear that is to take him away to the beach. 56:52 So... we decided we'd book a mobile home in Glen Bay and I'm a twin and the eldest of eight. So we took my two sisters, younger sisters with us because they actually sent the postcard. 57:05 So they bought the postcard and sent it because you can see at the end, I hope the cats are doing well and meow. 57:10 Will you read it out? Have you got it there? 57:11 I haven't actually got it with me because my niece has it. I didn't want to take it back because my brother obviously got it. 57:17 And still has it? How come they still have it nearly 40 years in a drawer or something, was it? 57:22 Yeah, you see, when my mother passed away, we all took photographs and bits and pieces. And she must have put it away. 57:29 Okay. Here's what it says. To my mother. Yeah, this came from... Oh, sure. Okay. Hi, all, it says. 57:34 So this came from Glen Bay, 39 years ago. Having a great time. The weather here is all right. We hope to get fine weather. The beach is lovely, but the trip down here was very long. The mobile home is lovely and comfortable. 57:51 Jonathan loves it down here. The village here is lovely. People are very nice too. Bye for now. See you next Saturday, Fiona and Jean. P.S. I hope the cats are all right. Meow, ha ha. 58:06 You see, the whole house was cat lovers. My mother was a big cat lover. They went to the hall. That's to everyone in the house. It was there like... You know what I mean? And that particular week was a scorcher because I remember one of my sisters, she's very fair, she actually got sunburned so bad. 58:22 But they said in the postcard, the weather is all right. 58:26 Yeah, but that was before the sun came out right there. They probably sent it the first day they got there. 58:30 Yeah, and who's... How are Fiona and Jean now, all these years later? 58:37 Fiona and Jean are with their own families now. Fiona is older than Jean. She's one daughter, Sarah. 58:43 And her partner and Jean is married to Stephen and they live in Rossard and they have three children. 58:49 And I have to ask you, I bet you that postcard came about a month after they got back from Glen Bay. 58:54 No, I don't think so at the time. I would say it was probably the following week. 58:59 They're notoriously slow, though, those postcards. 59:01 Yeah, but they weren't that bad that time in Ireland at all. I think it's more when you're abroad. As I do remember, when we went abroad and we started going abroad, then we did a few holidays in Kerry and up to the... My son was... He turned 40 this year. Actually, the gentleman that they're talking about there, he was 40 this year. He was only one years old at the time. Yeah, he was a year old and... It did sort out in the morning, I have to say, his chest was clear and everything. 59:25 Yeah. 59:26 But we actually were back down there last Sunday morning. Would you believe that? We went down and met friends of ours for the weekend in Colorgan and we went over to Glen Bay Beach. 59:36 Did you? 59:37 Over to Ross Bay? Ross Bay. And it was lovely to drive through there and see all the changes and everything. Like, it was absolutely bop bop. 59:43 Yeah, no, Glen Bay Village is absolutely lovely and they're thriving there. It's a great little village there and a great sense of community. 59:48 They've made major improvements, like. 59:50 Yeah. 59:50 But we've been there only a few years over. We've been down for a weekend, but to see it after a long time, it was great. 59:55 But there's a lot of information on that postcard. Usually postcards would have weather lovely, wish you were here, or weather lovely, wish you were beer. Food is great. They were quite short, you know? 60:07 Yeah, they just put the basics down, Fiona and Jean. But they had a great week with us. They were my two younger sisters. They were my babies. There's two for years. 60:16 Do you still send postcards? 60:19 No, I don't. Not anymore. Pity, isn't it? I've got Facebook now. 60:23 Because if you go anywhere, if you go overseas, you see the carousels of postcards still everywhere. 60:29 Still there, yeah. And you still feel like picking them up and buying them. You would, like I have to say. I think it'd be great if I get painted into the places now. 60:39 that's what I do I'll board our favourite spot in the world and I just buy pictures that's what I do I know I know that and it's lovely but I just would think it would be great if you got that tradition going again holiday postcards it is it is lovely wish you were here weather great food is fine see you soon all that kind of caper yeah all that kind of caper anyway that's great listen thanks for sharing that one all those years ago no bother from Glen Bay thanks to you Take care. And Glen Bay still is actually a very good spot for Cork people. Many Cork people have mobile homes down there and homes as well. A lot of Cork people down around the Glen Bay area. 61:11 Keep it coming. Text 0868 104 106. Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. My sister once sent a dirty postcard, a topless woman on a beach to someone in our village back in the day. At the bottom of the postcard, she wrote, P.S. Stop reading this postcard, Mr. Postman, you nosy fecker. 61:29 And he read it. 61:31 I think maybe it would be hard for them not to. I imagine you might find confessions of a postman without naming any of it. Do postmen and women read people's postcards? 61:39 I had to ring Malcolm on this. He's busy listening to the show there in his van. But no, he said absolutely, like back in the day when they were younger and things like that, especially if they were on a night shift, the postcards would be separate to the other ones. And he said, like, you know, a lot of the young fellas, like if there was a... Remember you used to get postcards of nudie... 61:57 Yeah, there were cartoony, nudie, saucy ones. 62:00 Yeah, yeah. So they knew they were kind of fun, so they might read them. But he said, like, if it was a picture of a vineyard, they'd be like, no, you're all right. We won't bother with that one. But he said people overshared an awful lot, like especially young fellas who might be on a, you know, a young fella's holiday or whatever. 62:15 Sharing their conquests. 62:17 Oh, absolutely. I did this with her and met her there and how many I had scored with her and da, da, da. 62:23 It was like reading Mills and Boone. 62:25 Pass away a quiet night in the posting sorting office, I suppose. 62:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's so funny. I often wonder as well, right? And if there's any teachers listening, I'd love to know. Back in the day, or no, still, I think the kids still do it. You would do news in school. So when you're small, you know, today is Monday. It is a sunny day or whatever, you know, you'd have to give your news or what happened over the weekend. But I often thought, probably now because I have smallies, what kind of things do teachers hear? Oh, I'd say everything out of the mouth of babes. Exactly, like what mum and dad were up to. Or what, you know, like I'd say they'd take, oh, hopefully now. 62:59 That's another topic of conversation than confessions of a primary school teacher. 63:03 I bet you there's some great stories. Do share. Do share. Anonymously. 63:09 Text 0868 104 106 on that one. We have some great prizes, actually, for confessions of a primary school teacher. Incidentally, we do have some more of the wonderful passes to give away to holiday locations all over our beautiful county. And one that I'm going to do this morning, and it's going to be very popular and has been already, is Monkey Maze down in Glanmire. Wonderful passes for the kids to go down and have a really great day at Monkey Maze. So all that and lots more besides. By text, anyway, on the nuisance call, on a serious note, these calls, they're a lot worse than nuisance calls, this individual, this pest, whoever he is and the reasons behind it. 63:43 Pa says, even if someone blocks their number from a person they're calling, the phone companies can see the number calling and where they're calling from. Well, that comes as good news. But if it was a burner phone or a burner SIM, what happens then? 63:56 If you go in and buy a SIM now across the counter, which would be a burner phone SIM, you know, where you just get the SIM for... No other reason as to just pay for the SIM to insert it. Do you have to give your details to the phone company or wherever you're buying it? 64:09 Would that be on record? My mother was getting obscene phone calls a few years back. I bought her a referee-style whistle and got her to blow it when the caller was on. No more calls. I guess they just moved on. That creep needs to be taken out of circulation, says Eilish. You describe that guy a few different ways. What if the guy is just evil? He could be listening to the radio chat shows today and getting a buzz out of it. Or he could turn calls into physical attacks. Well, I would call him evil as well. I would call him sinister and evil and a lot more stuff like that. But interestingly, Tom in Bishopstone says, why not ignore all private numbers and take the oxygen out of his fire? 64:48 And there's a lot to be said. And I'm amongst them, actually. I don't answer private calls. I don't answer private number calls. And I know a lot of people who don't either. Now, I know that there's a new system. I think it's on Apple phones. I don't know if it's on Android, where if you don't recognize the number that's calling you, it goes to a kind of an automated system where you have to leave your name And sometimes your reason for your call and then you're put on hold automatically while the person you're calling is told who you are. And then they can decide either to take your call or to reject it. But I wonder, I imagine there are a lot of people out there that don't answer private blocked number calls because there could be no real acceptable reason, to be honest with you, that somebody's number would be blocked in the first place. 65:30 So I only pass that on for what it's worth. Got calls on the way. 65:33 Listen to The Neil Prendiville Show wherever you go. Download the Go Loud app, the new home of Red FM. 65:39 The Neil Prendiville Show on Red FM. 65:42 What a week it was on air with regards to talking about spirits and the afterlife and being brought back from the dead. Lots of different calls on that. One or two stood out. One was a girl who drowned and had no recall except for what happened while she was gone and then brought back to life again, meeting her dad at the end of a very, very bright, comforting white life. like stories like that. It was, it was absolutely amazing. And others then who went as far as going to mediums and, you know, had a, you know, an appearance and conversations with loved ones and families. It's an incredible story. I have to tell you another incredible story on Leeside recently. 66:16 Dr. Gillian Kenny is a historian and writer and she was down in Cork and she gave an evening at Cypress Avenue. And I think there was upwards of maybe 600, perhaps 700 people in there. It completely and utterly sold out. Such was the amount of interest that people have in things like witches and banshees and Irish folklore I had some friends who were at it and they were transfixed for the night there was a question and answer afterwards she's an incredible woman joins me by phone Dr Gillian good morning oh good morning Neil how are you are they the kind of numbers that you get like an absolute sellout you'd have sold out two or three nights I believe in Cork 66:51 I'll be honest, Neil, I'm used to kind of talking about my stuff in small rooms with other academics, so I was amazed at the interest. It's brilliant. It's hard to see. 67:00 And this topic was Banshees. There will be another one on other aspects of Irish life of yesteryear, you know, witchcraft and things like that. Is there an increasing appetite for this? 67:13 Yeah, I do think so. I'm on the internet as well, and I write stuff. 67:20 And there's a huge amount of engagement with it. I gave the talk on banshees in court and I'm back on the 17th to talk about witches. And I've given a few in Dublin. 67:30 And just, they're all sellouts. I mean, there's just crowds of people turning up to hear about it and ask those questions. People are really invested and interested. I guess it's part of just interest in Irish history. 67:41 So the banshee, if you heard the banshee crying or screaming, what would you describe? Is it a cry? Is it a scream? Is it a wail? What did it signify? 67:53 And so it's described in very different ways. But the main thing about the sound, it can be very loud and kind of all encompassing and something that people say a human couldn't make. 68:04 And what you hear it for is to tell you that the family, someone in the family, the Banshee is attached to is about to die. So the Banshee is kind of letting everyone know that there's going to be a death in the community. That's her kind of that's her. Not your death, though. No, no. No, if you hear the banshee, it means that someone else is going to die. You're safe if you hear the banshee. She's not coming for you, so you can relax, you know? 68:36 Okay. Are you on a speakerphone, Gillian, incidentally, I'm wondering? 68:40 No, I've got headphones on. 68:42 Oh, that's the problem. Is there any chance you just pop those out? Because everybody will really want to hear what you're saying and not the best quality line when we're doing that. 68:52 Yes. 68:53 You sorted? 68:55 No, sorry. 68:57 That's better. Oh, that's better. That's better. Okay. All right. So we'll pick up when you say that the sound or the wail or the cry of the banshee is to announce an impending death or that somebody has just died. But is this based in any fact or is it part of Irish folklore and storytelling? 69:17 Well, so there's a couple of kind of origins for the Banshee, we think. One of them might be from a kind of an ancient goddess called the Bive, and she was a war goddess, and she appears washing, kind of sounds terrible, but it's kind of armour and men's innards at in fords of rivers so she's like a foreteller of doom and then there are kind of fairy women that appear in irish literature that attach themselves to notable families and they will weep when someone in the family dies so there's a kind of an inheritance of it but then again folklore takes it and kind of molds it into something else and then of course you have the whole tradition of keeners which are women who would come to funerals and cry when someone died. 70:03 And they would be, you know, women in the family could do it as well. And they have a very distinctive kind of cry. And that was said to be like the banshee as well. 70:10 OK, because that's kind of another topic again, because Keening, or women, a queen, if you like, were very popular. And, you know, they were much sought after way back in the day. But I think the Catholic Church put a stop to that kind of a gallop, didn't they? 70:27 Oh, they did? Yeah, so a woman could earn a decent living as a keener. How did it work? What did they do? So they would come to the house and they would kind of professionally cry. So they would take their hair coverings off They would tear their clothes. They would have a kind of a, it's a kind of women's poetry. They would chant about the dead person and sometimes they used stock phrases and then other women would join in and it could go over days. But it was a kind of a ritual mourning that signified the passing of someone that was kind of an outlet for the community's grief and trauma and so on. 71:05 And then they would go from house to house and do that, the professional ones. 71:08 What would it sound like? Was it like hysterical crying? 71:13 Well, funny enough, we don't really know what it sounds like because the Keener started to die out in the early 20th century and we don't really have a proper recording. We've got snippets. 71:24 Were they paid? 71:25 So it sounds... Yeah, they were paid, yeah. Yeah, some of them could be paid, yeah. They could earn a decent living. So they were professionals. They were very well respected. 71:33 But it was kind of an act, wasn't it? They didn't have any real sorrow for the dead person as such. 71:42 No, well, they would come along and I guess it's like... 71:46 if you paid a poet to write a poem on the death of your of your husband or whatever as often happened in the day as well so it's an it's a role that's sanctioned within the community but also the women of the house could could keen as well it wasn't just paid so they would have a they would have a proper grief and then you know there's some snippets that were done in the early 20th century um and you know it's like a poem that's kind of sung and chanted. So it's an unusual, it's kind of like a song. 72:17 And then also while that was going on, women would be, I mean, sometimes it could get a bit, women could be kind of dropping to the ground and screaming and stuff. It depended on, the death of a child, for example, was very difficult. Oh my gosh. 72:31 would try to wipe it out for the better part of a thousand years. And eventually they kind of succeeded in the late 19th century. 72:37 There's one interesting aspect to that. I know of more people now that wake a loved one at home where they wouldn't necessarily go to a funeral home. So that seems to be coming back, you know, having a home or a family wake at home. I'm not so sure that the keeners would have come back. It's possibly keening is probably still in existence within Muslim communities, though, wouldn't it be? 72:58 I'm not entirely sure. Yeah, I mean, there could be a, I mean, certainly other countries do have, other cultures do have that kind of particular role of particular mourners. 73:08 We had it for women, which was kind of interesting because, of course, Ireland was quite a hidebound society, you know, there's not a lot of roles for women. 73:18 This was a very kind of respected part of the community. You know, a position of some standing you'd send for the keynote. But then that looks into the Banshee because, of course, the Banshee would, you know, scream and wail. And then the community would go, oh, someone's going to die. So all that machinery that kicks in when someone died in rural Ireland, that would then start to kick in. No, we have to get stuff ready. 73:43 It's actually amazing when you navigate through this with women involved in the birth, obviously giving birth, other women, which would be village midwives, attending that birth. You've got the banshee, a woman as well, calling out impending death. And you have the keeners then, women also, all the way along the journey from birth to death, all women. 74:03 Yeah, so women kind of bring you into the world and usher you out of it. And they're at the messier end of kind of human experience. They didn't have much power in the middle bit. But they were kind of allocated that it's a curious state, you know, birth and death, because they're kind of spaces where you have one foot in this world and one foot in the other. Because birth, of course, was always very dangerous for women. There's a strong chance someone could die. So women exerted that kind of, I guess it's a kind of power, kind of, you know. 74:33 intermediaries with the other side to try and get people in and out. You have those figures around us. 74:39 I've spoken on the air over the years with people who say that they have heard the Banshee. Most of the time it's rural, but not necessarily, but never seen. Is there a description? I mean, we hear about the Banshee. Remember the old Pashog that people would have, we were told as children, never pick up a comb on the street because it's the Banshee's comb. She's always combing her hair. 75:02 Yeah, yeah, she is. Yeah. So there are different accounts of her. In most accounts, she's kind of old and small and has really long grey hair. But there are other accounts of her where she's tall and beautiful and with blonde hair. And we think those kind of link back in somehow to this idea I was telling you earlier. of kind of fairy princesses fairy women who contributed to that idea of the Banshee but interestingly in Cork Cork and Kerry are in Banshee lore kind of exceptional because you don't see them down there You hear them, but you don't see them. 75:35 And they are seen elsewhere in Ireland, but that's what's curious. And in terms of the comb, yeah, never pick up stray comb because a banshee could have dropped it. And that's a very common folklore in Dublin. I was brought up and I was told if you see a comb, don't pick up a comb. 75:51 You were told, your dad said that he had an experience with the Banshee. 75:55 Yeah, my dad has a Banshee experience. This was back in the day now. He lived in a part of Dublin that was still quite rural and he was bringing kind of slop out to the pigs and he stopped. An old lady was there combing her hair by the side of the road and knew his name. What? And started chatting to him. Yeah. My dad is a messer, but it's the only one who kind of says, no, that's true. 76:15 No, I'm being serious this time, lads. Yeah. 76:17 Go on, yeah, go on. No, so he was chatting away to her. He said he was really wee, like seven or eight. And his uncle passed by and told him to get a move on. And then he said to his uncle afterwards, who was that woman? And his uncle kind of went, what woman? So he went, what? So that's unusual as well, because the banshee doesn't really speak. She doesn't generally have anything to do with us. She kind of turns up, does her job. And heads off again. She just is a death messenger, as she's called. 76:48 She's a particular type of supernatural entity. So she normally has nothing to do with us except, for example, if we annoy her. So if you pick up her comb, she'll come after you and she'll rattle your house and do all kinds of screaming and shouting until you hand it back out to her. But don't hand it to her with your hands. Hand it to her on a spade or something because she'll attack it and twist it. 77:11 She's not evil per se, though, the Banshee. No, she's not evil. She may look it or scary or wild, but she's not evil. 77:19 No, she's not evil. She doesn't really want to have anything to do with us in that sense. She just does her job. And traditionally, people always used to say, oh, she's only attached to the O's and the Macs, you know, the old Irish families. But it doesn't seem to be particularly true because she's attached herself to kind of Norman families that came in. And the only ones she kind of doesn't seem to have attached herself to are the ones who come in with kind of Cromwell. So she kind of doesn't have, she doesn't seem to do anything after like the late 16th century. she kind of seems to hold off. 77:51 But there's a whole list of Irish families which have reported banshee activity. 77:55 But did they see a beautiful young woman dressed in white or did they see someone who was being described as old, worn and frightening to look at? 78:05 Yeah, it depends where you are as to what you can see in some areas they see. And some people report seeing like a little tiny woman, like a foot tall, wearing red. And that's interesting because red is a colour kind of the fairies aren't particularly keen on. So, yeah, it depends where you are. But most stories, most of them are she's old. Most of them are she has incredibly long hair. She wears herself cloaked and she looks a bit like with her hair down and the black clothes. She looks a bit like human keeners who would bring their hair down and kind of step outside the normal rules of society to express the grief. 78:42 So that's where she kind of... People used to say as well, one of the stories about her is that maybe she was a human keener and that's what happens to them after death. But her name, Banshee, means... Generally, people see it as a fairy woman, but she's not actually a fairy in what we understand to be. She's something slightly different, which is the great kind of research on her was done by a woman called Professor Patricia Lyson. She said she's a death messenger. She stands apart from kind of the rest of the otherworldly entities that we have in ours. 79:16 Because I remember people were saying, people saying, I heard the Banshee, I heard the Banshee, and others were saying that that's just a fox. 79:24 Oh, yeah. Yeah. So at the talk I gave in Cork at my banshee talk, I play a fox, you know, and a fox sound can be a bit spooky, you know. But listen, Neil, you know yourself, look, people in the countryside, you know, in all the folklore, they do say it. They do say, oh, you know, I thought at first it might be a fox. Could it sound something like this, though? 79:59 Well, that's an incredible sound. What do you think? 80:05 Well, it certainly gives the kind of the loudness and what people talk about the all-enveloping nature of it, for sure. 80:13 I wouldn't fancy hearing that late at night, living in a rural cottage in West Cork, for instance. 80:19 No, no, there's no electricity and you've just been sitting around a fire telling those ghost stories and you hear that on your way home. I don't think you'd see me for dust. 80:27 Well, we will see you for dust because you're coming back on witches, I believe. Is that right? 80:31 I am giving a talk on, yeah, on witches. So I'll be doing loads on like types of magic Irish people did and all kinds of interesting, crazy stuff that people seem to want to hear about. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Cork was brilliant, loads of brilliant questions. So, yeah, hopefully people come to that and ask me more. 80:51 So it'll be great. Do you believe in curses and witches and things like that? 80:59 I just study them. I'm interested in what these kind of beliefs tell us about people's changing beliefs and about the society and culture that give rise to them. 81:09 No, because sometimes they were people who really had, you know, an interest in medicine or herbs or alternative ways of cures, but they were deemed to be witches and burnt at the stake, for God's sake. 81:21 Well, in Ireland, we were, yeah, not so much here, but, you know, I mean, yeah, a lot of times this kind of local kind of folk beliefs get caught up, especially in Europe, in the witch trials, and poor people are done to death for it. But, you know, in terms of belief, I say I look at it from an academic standpoint, but I'm telling you now, I'm not going to go into, I'm not going to interfere with the fairy fort, and I'm not going to look at a fairy fort. I steer clear. Why? You're superstitious? Better not to tempt it. 81:52 Better just, you know, I study it and I'm very respectful of the traditions. So I just study it from a distance. And then if people want to have a crack, worth pointing out though, Neil, that in the Irish tradition, you know, cursing is a very kind of valid activity. People can, I'll be talking about cursing as well. 82:09 Putting a curse upon somebody, is it Gillian? 82:12 Yeah, you can curse people. For example, in the 19th century, it was very common because, of course, people were very disenfranchised around during the land wars. Lots of curses were issued, like people may have heard of the widow's curse, and priests would often curse landlords from the pulpit. So it is a part of the Irish tradition, particularly for people who feel disenfranchised. So I'll be talking about that a little bit in August as well. All the different kind of magical things people could use that differentiated Irish. 82:46 People would go to a witch, though, to conjure up a spell or a potion or something, I imagine. Or is that all? 82:52 Yeah, they go to, in Ireland, you'd go to like a wise woman, you know, like a band fatha, or you'd go to like a fairy doctor, you know, because in Ireland, we believed that Not that it was kind of a demonic witchcraft, not that it came from the devil, but that when you were interfered with, it was the fairies or someone had put the evil eye on you, you know, or maybe you'd got involved. We have our own type of witch and it's called a butter witch and our witches are old ladies and they turn into hares. And they suck milk from cattle. 83:27 And they interfere with your dairy. So they can, you know, they can make your churning not work and take goodness from it. So we have a witch you kind of, you know, it's all about your dairy. 83:38 They were mad people back in the day, weren't they, between their witches and their banshees? 83:42 Our witches are not too nanting bad. Our witches are just stealing your dairy gold kind of thing. They're just stealing your butter. Okay. 83:48 I will warn people that Cypress Avenue Monday the 17th of August will sell out quite quickly. It was amazing I'm told because you had all sorts of age groups young and old at your banshee. Was it primarily women or were there an amount of men there? 84:04 Oh, there was an amount of men there as well, yeah. It's a good few questions from the men involved as well. And I'd say it's probably two-thirds women a third men. Certainly it's the one I did in Dublin the other day. I think that's brilliant. I think it's great as well. We should all know about this history, you know. Absolutely. 84:22 Absolutely. Well, continued success with it. Doors open 7 o'clock, Monday the 17th of August at Cypress Avenue. I'll give details in a minute as to how people can pick up tickets, but that will sell out. Great chatting, Gillian. We'll talk again. 84:34 Thanks very much, Neil. Bye. 84:36 Bye. Dr Gillian Kenny is on Leaside, Cyprus Avenue, 17th of August. Her latest talk will be witch hunts in Ireland and witches in general, following on from a wonderful, wonderful visit when she did banshees and Irish folklore. Bring it on. Long may it thrive. And I hope that there's a continuing growth of interest in those kind of Irish topics of folklore and yesteryear. Text 0868 104 106. Back after 11. 85:05 Be part of the conversation, the Neil Prendival Show with Elevate Credit Union. It's a free food Friday for Domino's Pizza and they're based at Blackpool, Douglas, Wilton, Glanmire and Formoy if you fancy pizza or indeed chicken wings, boneless bites, chicken kickers, chinkatana. We've got all of these for you if you win free food Friday today. The wings, the bites, the kickers and the tenders. We've got... Pareto wedges, loads of dips and big, large pizzas. Cheese, pepperoni passion, cheeseburger, Texas barbecue and the ultimate hot honey pepperoni, which sounds quite interesting. So enough to feed 15 of you anyway, and the Red Patrollers will deliver it this lunchtime. 85:40 So where are you working? Who are you working with? Text 0868 104 106. We'll do the next bunch of shout outs in about 10 minutes time. Meanwhile, another summer songs that didn't make the list. Keep those coming. Text 0868 104 106. Seals and Croft's version of Summer Breeze. 85:57 Owen Paul's My Favourite Waste of Time. Well, now, Pa, I understand summer breeze, but how you can get a summer song out of my favourite waste of time? You're a mighty man. The Beach Boys, Surfing USA was another one. My favourite summer song or summer tunes, Roy Ayers, Everybody Loves the Sunshine, says Adam. The best summer song of all time is Mungo Jerry in the Summertime, says Pat Casey. That's very interesting you mentioned that song, actually, because there was something up on... 86:28 One of the platforms in Yall last night that I was reading about a young girl at the age of 12 who was working in Yall where all of the gigs were held. There was a couple of different locations. I don't have the article in front of me here, but he was there working as a 12 year old when the likes of all of the big acts. I think it was something like 53 years ago today or this weekend or something like that, that Mungo Jerry actually played Yall. Mud played Yall the same period of time up the road. 86:57 Big Tom and the Mainliners were playing to thousands of people. But Mungo Jerry certainly played. And I just reminded that when you talk about In the Summertime, but I don't know if you ever listened to the lyrics of In the Summertime. It was a great summer song, but the lyrics were very, very, very suspect, I have to say, particularly with regards to women and girls, where you would say... If her daddy is rich, take her out for a meal. If her daddy is poor, you can do what you feel. I mean, those kind of lyrics just wouldn't cut it anymore. But a nice old tune all the same. Keep them coming. Text 0868-104-106. 87:28 It calls, texts and emails. Just on sending things. Everything is email now or text message or voice note. But I'm wondering how many people still send postcards when they're away on holidays. And if they don't, why not? I know we're heading into August. Maybe I should have been having this conversation in June to encourage more people to send back postcards. Auntie Anne, though, has interesting stories to tell of postcards from all over the world. Anne, good morning. 87:55 Good morning, Neil. 87:56 How are you? I'm good, thanks. Firstly, do you still send them? 88:00 Yeah, I was in New York in Spain there two weeks ago, or three weeks ago, and I sent one to everybody in the audience. Even to the Seafield Holiday Park where I work, I sent it there to one of the girls there that has such additional needs. 88:12 So on any particular holiday, how many would you send? 88:16 I would send 12. 88:19 Maybe eight, sometimes 12 mostly. 88:21 I'm going to ask you, you know, on the back of them, do you say the same thing to everybody? 88:25 It depends on who I'm sending it to. If I'm sending it to my dad and my mum at home, I'm saying they're always with us. They're getting older. It was just too hot this time, but they come everywhere with us. They're actually in y'all now, as we speak, in my mobile home. They're not moving out. They're after moving in. 88:40 They're dead right. Would they send... Did you ever send a postcard from y'all up to Cork City? 88:45 All the time. 88:46 All the time. 88:48 Well, I really said to this here, because I said, weather's fab, having a great time. You'll catch us in the beer garden in France and all this. And my dad is loving the pint of Guinness. But when I was in Urquhart places like that, I said, awesome, fab, we love it here. If any of you win the lot in Cork, why is it out there? We're not coming back because the weather is so good. But now we're in y'all, we're not moving. 89:12 And over the years, was it 12 every time, no matter where you went? 89:17 I'd say, if I'm being honest, about six or eight, but 12 mostly to the seven in my family, like I think brothers and sisters. For decades you've been doing this? Yeah, yeah. 89:30 And does anybody ever send... 89:31 They can all say the same. 89:34 What about people who are listening, Auntie Anne, that you didn't send a postcard to? They're going to have their nose out of joint. 89:39 You know what? I text them. 89:43 And do people send you postcards? 89:45 And just not really, not really, only the one or two. My sisters, like, can't assume that we're doing it for the crack. You know, like I said, they probably said, I'd rather do other things over the same postcards. 89:56 I just think it's a great thing. I don't know why we don't do more of it. 90:00 It's absolutely lovely. You know, when you get that few minutes, you know, part of the day, if you want to find a bit of time on your own and you're just like, this is the news, the waves coming in, find a shade, get a nice cocktail, start writing your postcards. Happy days. 90:14 Would you send, like, what is it? Like, is it a postcard of a photograph of a beach or a medieval building? Or is it a saucy one? 90:21 It would be, it would be lovely photographs of the beach now where I am. And when it was because we were in Spain in Arca, it's stunning. But to the likes of my sisters that I have in the crack, there's a few naughty ones have to come through now, right? 90:34 You know that the postmen and women, the postmen have admitted this morning, they confess that they're reading them. 90:40 I tell you, well, honestly, because my own postman, my mum and dad, they met them and they said, ah, come here. That postcard was brilliant. 90:47 Do you know how you could put a stop to the gallop of the postman next time? You could send a postcard to somebody, listen, I left €2,000 under the mattress up in my house. Here's the key code. Or here's the code to the alarm system. Would you ever go up and get it? 91:03 I love it. I love it. And come here, Neil, you were talking there about banshees and there was a couple of lads there, they were saying, Jesus, all the women are banshees when they start giving out, right? Yeah, there you go. There you go. But guess what? I got sent this this morning, right? 91:20 And women out there, listen to this. If you look at this, woman has man in it, missus has mister in it, female has male in it, she has the he in it. Madden has adaminess. Lazy has a ladiness. Mental illness has meniness. Menstrual cramps has meniness. Mental breakdown has also meniness. Menopause has meniness. Remember? 91:48 I've gone through the ground with depression now after that. What? 91:52 Take it a little longer. This is all just called manslaughter. 91:59 He won't even go there. Men, the root of all evil. 92:03 No, men are brilliant. No, no, I have to say, you work very hard as well as women. You're brilliant. 92:07 Why'd you bring it up? Why'd you bring it up so? 92:09 In fairness, I got that this morning. Can you hear what all the men were giving out about being banshees and women are like banshees? I never said that. Not you, not you. I'm talking about the men up by me up here on the road laughing at their friends. That's what I'm laughing at. 92:25 Send them postcards from your summer holidays and cheer them up, will you? Keep it going anyway. 92:30 You know what? I'll send you one the next time I'm away. 92:33 A saucy one, please. 92:34 I will. Okay, that about it. 92:36 Okay, go on holidays quick. I want a saucy postcard. 92:39 Back out to you all for me now, Neil. Back out to you all for me. 92:41 All right, girl. Have a good one. Take care. Back after the break. Text 0868 104 106. And also, perhaps there's people out there following my conversation with Dr Gillian who's actually heard or seen the Banshee. Do share. Text 0868 104 106. Get on to Prenderville now. 92:57 0818 104 106. The Neil Prenderville. 93:05 Great chatting about road bowling yesterday. Listen to your segment on bowling over the viaduct here with the German at work. Am I right in asking, did you mention Tim Bowen, one of the best bowlers of all time? If so, that was my dad. I certainly did. And you were absolutely right and should be very proud of your dad. He was one of the finest bowlers, bowlers, I should say, of all time. Now, confessions of primary school teachers, please. Anonymously, you don't have to... in any way, shape or form, worry about me giving out any details. The things that children say in class, say, for instance, around circle time, right? 93:37 I'll do those in a few minutes' time. Just before that, though, another batch of shout-outs for our Free Food Friday. Lots and lots of pizza and all sorts of different chicken. You've got 10 minutes now to get your text. 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My mom said, my dad does feck all as usual. 95:20 Another fella, another child in Montessori Circle Time said, Mom and Dad put on my favourite movie and gave me lots of sweets because they needed to clean their room. 95:34 We'll say no more about that one. So, with regards to confessions of a child, maybe Diana's one to share. So, this is news at school, I think. Was it, Diane? 95:45 That's right. Yeah, morning. How are you? 95:47 Good, good. What happened? What was said? 95:51 It was my son, Sam, who is now 20. 95:55 He would have been, I suppose, maybe six or seven. And he wrote in the school news, he said, my mom was in the castle, which is a pub in Glenmire, on Saturday night and was in bed all day sick on Sunday. 96:11 And he, you know, they had to draw a picture as well. And he drew a picture of me lying in the bed. 96:17 Is it true? Yes. 96:18 Yes. 96:20 At least we teach them to tell the truth, right? 96:24 I know, but I didn't think he was going to tell the teacher. 96:27 But they don't know the difference. They don't have any filters like they'll say anything. 96:32 No, no, no, no, no. Oh, I was so embarrassed. But I actually kept the copy with the story in it and I still have it. 96:38 Has he seen it now as a 20 year old? 96:40 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I even reminded him this morning of it. I said, remember that when you shamed me in school? 96:46 Did you not rush down to the school and tell the primary teacher it was all lies? No. 96:50 Not at all, because it was true. It was true. It did happen. 96:54 It's all very well on the Saturday night, but there's payback the next morning, right? 96:58 Oh, completely. Completely. 96:59 I love that. Oh, the shame of it. 97:02 Yeah, exactly. 97:04 All right. More of those, please. Thanks, Diane. Appreciate it. 97:07 Take care. 97:07 Thank you. Text 0868 104 106. Out of the mouth of babes, I suppose, when you think of it. So keep them coming. Text 0868 104 106. Interestingly, on the cost of weddings from earlier in the week, Still a lot came in on that, I can tell you, whether it was the cost of the wedding itself. One particular text during the week was talking about the wedding costing €75,000 for the day. Now, it might be a wedding over a couple of days, but come on, €75,000? 97:34 It's clear to see that many of the people messaging in, giving out about the cost of weddings and being invited are either miserable or unemployed. People should be allowed to enjoy their special day however they want. If any of the misers listening to this show don't want to go to weddings, then don't go. Simple as that, says Jim Murphy. His words of advice. And this is a good one from Marie Donoghlan. She says, I have great admiration for the people who go away to Rome or Spain to get married. The charges are outrageous here. I know a couple who had a huge wedding, the cost of fortune, and they are now separated after two years and they're left with big loans as a consequence of their wedding. 98:14 I think if you're asked to a wedding, other than giving maybe 20 or 40 euro, If they can't afford to give you a meal, after all, they did ask you, then what's it all about? If you were asked out for a meal today, you would not be expected to pay for it, would you? I'd rather get a summons than an invitation to a wedding, says Marie. But if Marie does get an invitation and go, she says if you're asked to a wedding, you should give no more than €20 or €40. 98:40 You should not have to pay or sing for your own supper. Anyway, to the phone lines in a few minutes on that. So pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. But postcards, that's one that seems to have touched a nerve, a happy nerve, I think. Noreen, good morning. Good morning, Neil. Are you a sender or a receiver? I'm mostly a receiver nowadays. Used to be a sender. And this summer, that's slipping away all too fast. Did you get many? 99:06 I got one from earlier on in the year from Uganda where my daughter and her son went on some kind of a gorilla safari thing. 99:15 Wow. I'd say that was fun. Oh, it was amazing. 99:18 According to them, it was amazing. 99:20 Okay. 99:21 And I got a couple more of them. They're just from various places. But I buy them myself from wherever I go and I write the name, the dates of when I'm there. Okay. 99:32 That is a fantastic idea. Now, you've sent me a photograph of a large selection of them on top of your dining room table. Beautiful table, incidentally. 99:38 So where are they all from? 99:41 Oh, no. There's a couple from Mont Blanc in Switzerland, the top of Europe. 99:49 There's one from Coors. 99:50 There's one from Middleton. No disrespect. Why would you have a postcard from Middleton? You would walk there. 99:57 Well, I'll tell you now, I moved house years ago and my daughter and I thought she was funny because we were saying, oh, she's gone out to the sticks, she's miles away. So for fun, she sent me, she said, because even Middleton must seem like a million miles away. 100:13 You sent your postcard to Middleton. So I see one from Corsica at least. 100:19 one from Costco, I was there myself, and the big thing was visiting Napoleon's birthplace, the house, where he was born, such as only a tiny little hovel up the side street, we were laughing. Yeah. 100:34 gorgeous place Corsica is just a gorgeous place though oh it is gorgeous oh my god it is absolutely beautiful and I brought home marmalade homemade marmalade from the place I checked into a hotel in Corsica a few years ago and when they found out we were Irish they nearly went absolutely they nearly had heart attacks with excitement they said wait these are Corsicans right in a Corsican accent they're shouting at me we love the wolf tones we love the wolf tones come out you black and tans in Corsica 101:05 Yeah, well, anywhere you go in Europe and if they find out you're Irish, they love you. 101:09 I know, but you wouldn't expect that, like, condition of the wolf tones in a three-star hotel up a mountain in Corsica. It's a good way of storing where you've been, though, isn't it? Bringing back postcards. 101:22 Oh, yeah. Well, like, you know, if I went to... Well, usually if I'm away somewhere that I'll never be again, you know. I mean, I have some from St. Petersburg that I was in a couple of years ago and that... 101:34 What was that trip like? I don't think we could be seen to be going to Russia now, even though it really is... Oh, no, but this was a few years ago. I know, but what I'm saying to you is it's on my bucket list. I'd love to do Russia by train. 101:46 Well, it was always on mine because I was a great lover of Tolstoy and his stories and that, and Anna Karenina was a favourite. It was all about St. Petersburg and that. But you have to laugh because... On the streets, the streets, it's a bit like Cork. It's divided by the Neve River, N-E-V-E. 102:06 So you have, you know, huge wide boulevards and gorgeous, and the footpaths are very wide. And somebody asked the guide, why was the footpaths? 102:16 When the aristocracy were travelling along, they didn't want to be able to see the peasants, so as far away as possible, keep the peasants. 102:23 Oh, my God. No wonder they had a revolution, huh? 102:26 Oh, they had to have a revolution. But along the street as well, outside the Winter Palace, which would take up, I'd say, the length of Patrick Street itself, they have little huts and they were for centuries. you know, to keep the peasants away from the palace gates and that. But they turned those into public loos and they think that's very funny. 102:46 Yeah, I'd say it was a great trip though, wasn't it? I'd say you really enjoyed it. 102:49 Oh, it was amazing. It was amazing. And in the centre of St Peter's Bulbs, the squares, the statues to Catherine the Great. 102:57 all those historical figures. Amazing. 102:59 I'm delighted you got to see it. I don't know will I ever get there. I wish there was more peace and people could get along with each other. 103:07 You have a pal, though, and you write. Do you write letters? 103:11 Well, we used to write to each other. We met 45 years ago in Dublin, I suppose. And she was a dobe. And the way we introduced each other to each other was I could smell these cigarettes. You know the French cigarettes? Gétain. 103:29 Gétain. Gétain. Sounds sexy. 103:32 And I could go smoking the stinky cigarettes. 103:35 And she popped her head out the door and she kind of went, me, why? In her best double neck. 103:42 And you bonded. 103:44 We bonded. I mean, we're still, today to this day, we're in contact from Facebook. 103:50 Ah, you gave up the writing then, over to Facebook. 103:52 We did, because she said I used to send her epistles. 103:57 I get that impression from you. I'd say you'd be well able in fairness. 104:00 Well able. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 104:02 Listen, thanks for the photograph and thanks for the stories. Mind yourself. Where are you travelling next? Any idea what's planned? 104:10 Not yet. Just back from County Leecham. I was up around County Leecham for a couple of days in Drummerhair and Lissadell House and those places. Lovely area. 104:18 Lovely part of the country. Absolutely. Lovely Leitrim, they call it. Thanks, Noreen. Have a great weekend. Enjoy the bank holiday. Take care. Take care. I don't know, Con, have you ever been to Russia? You've been in a lot of places. 104:31 Con, can you hear me all right? Hello, Neil. How are you doing? 104:33 I've been to Russia. You have? Yes. Top and bottom, the Baltic Sea and up top where that lady is set up in St Petersburg. 104:42 On ships? Yes. 104:44 Yeah, yeah, lots of times. Now, it wouldn't be my favourite part of the world to go to, but look, it was part of the job, you know. 104:51 Yeah, I think it would be a great place to visit, though, Russia. 104:55 Yeah, yeah, I think, yes, I think going up the river as well is sort of, you know, fairly spectacular to look at, you know, and of course going up into the Black Sea as well, as we all know, there with the Ukraine business, but look, yeah, Yeah, it was part of my own journey, you know? 105:12 Yeah. Okay. And talking about that journey, because you're talking about the price of weddings and how much people should bring to a wedding and all those different stories during the week. You say it wasn't for you. What do you mean by that? 105:25 Well, it cost a fiver for me, you know. A fiver? It was a pound a minute, you know. 105:33 What kind of a wedding was that? 105:35 Well, it was very fast. Yeah, a very fast wedding. But, you know, he was just there with the 75,000. I had to sit down and take a paracetamol because that's the deposit of the house gone, you know. 105:48 How long ago were we talking about, though? 105:50 Oh, no, we're talking about a long time ago. I was still, you know, I was... 105:54 young young and foolish but but the other side of it is the Dolly Parton side of it when it gets it gets a bit like a jellyfish it can sting a bit you know the old divorce I mean I don't want to delve in it's private obviously but were you married for long Well, I'm not too sure. I was thinking about that now this morning. I wasn't sure, but I know when I was getting divorced, I had to go and see this Beagle Beagle solicitor. 106:25 And he asked me, he said, when did you get married? I said, it was before Christmas. 106:31 No, it's a shock. 106:34 And are you at home or are you traveling at the moment? 106:37 I'm in Baird Peninsula. 106:39 Okay, maybe that's why you're down west of London. How long were you, so how long, was this here or was it when you were travelling that you were married or what? 106:47 No, I was married in England. 106:49 Okay, okay. 106:50 Yeah, it was, you know, but a lot of people were doing it like that. It wasn't just the fiver, because that was roughly the price at the time, you know, but lots of people were doing it. You know, because, like, I've got to tell you this. 107:05 No, man, it's not great. That's a limited signal where you are. Go on. 107:12 We went to the... Have you lost me? No, it just comes and goes. We'll try again. Go ahead. 107:17 And we went to... Alison had never been to a Catholic ceremony and it was an hour and a half And she asked me, when is it going to be finished? I said, we'll be driving in the dark, maybe. I said, it can be so long, you know. But it was actually, it was about two hours. You know, Father Fiedemal, he was making a bit of a sermon about marriage management. 107:43 And it was, he said, we'd never be doing that if we ever do what she said. 107:50 How long did it last? 107:52 Sorry? How long did it last? 107:54 What, my marriage? 107:55 Yeah. 107:57 I don't know. I think it made over 20 years, I suppose. I'm not sure. 108:01 Well, you gave it a good shot then. 108:04 Actually, listen, of course, you know something. I know somebody lasted two days. 108:10 Was it, I mean, again, I don't mean to pry, but you'd be somewhat nomadic-like. You'd be away a lot. 108:16 There you are now. See, this is the, this is the part, this is your, I'm glad you said that because, you know, To be fair, Neil, the Irish people are a very nomadic race of people anyway, apart from myself. Yeah, look, to be honest, I think my nomadic life was part of my life, you know, and the sense of freedom for me was a very important part of my life. And it's still the same today, you know, even though I'm in a relationship for 19 years now with lovely Alison... 108:45 who follows you on Instagram, by the way, we can put that in. 108:50 And, yeah, and maybe we were booked to go to the White Chapel in Las Vegas, but it didn't happen yet. 108:57 Okay, so that would be kind of a walk-in wedding, isn't it? 109:00 A walk-in and we listen to the King Elvis and then we walk out and we go to the casino or something. 109:10 You know what I mean? 109:11 It's not a great phone line, Con. Listen, I leave it there because it keeps breaking up, but do stay in touch wherever you're traveling. Good morning to Alison as well. Text 0868-104-106. Pick up the phone on 0818-104-106. After the break. 109:24 Get on to Prenderville now. 109:26 0818-104-106. The Neil Prenderville. 109:31 A lot about relationships. It's a funny one. He says, there was a fella on a date night because we're talking about a fella pretending to be a pilot, right? And he was stringing this woman along. He wasn't a pilot at all. So this fella on a date night, Neil, and the girl asks, what do you do for a living? He says, I'm a pilot. She says, oh my God, do you fly a plane? He says, no, my friend digs the turf and I pilot. Boom, boom. And other ones like that then, I suppose, keep them coming. Text 0868 104 106. Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. 110:00 funnily enough, there was a lot on caffeine and things like that. Another one here, lads, my father could talk to, well, we were talking about spirits and mediums and things like that. My grandfather could talk to spirits. They would tell him what clothes size to wear. Turned out he was a medium. 110:14 Oh my God, the old ones are the best, aren't they? Anyway, things kids say to teachers. Lisa, good morning. 110:20 Good morning, Neil. 110:21 How are you? Okay, this is great from parents and family. It's kind of like confessions of a primary school teacher, what the young'uns say at circle time. Go ahead. 110:30 So I was six and I was making my Holy Communion. 110:34 My grandmother, she used to do the Diglum, you know, collect the Diglum money for a lot of neighbours. 110:41 So you have to explain now what the Diglum was. 110:44 The Christmas Manage. Back in the day it was called the Diglum. The Diglum Duncloth is the full title as far as I'm aware. 110:51 You say Diglum, do you? Diglum? 110:53 Yeah, D-I-G-L-U-M, Diglum. 110:55 Okay, because others were calling it a Diglum. So it was never a Diglum, it was a Diglum, was it? 111:00 Diglum. In Farmery, it was a diglum anyway. 111:03 How did it work? 111:05 So every week, the neighbours and friends called to the house, gave my nan their couple of bob, and she would pop it away into the credit union and keep it for them for Christmas. And about a week or two before Christmas, she'd hand it all out and they'd have a nice hefty package for the Christmas season. 111:21 Oh my God. I remember on the air years ago of loads and loads of people on the north side who were caught. I don't want any names mentioned, but some woman ran away with the diglum money. 111:30 Do you remember that? I've heard of it more than once, but I can categorically say it definitely wasn't my grandmother. 111:35 I am certainly not saying that it was. 111:39 Well, somebody did. 111:40 Somebody did. Yeah, more than one, I believe. 111:44 All right, so go ahead. What happened? 111:46 So she used to collect the Digla money and I was making my Holy Communion, as I said. And we had a lovely priest, a parish priest, Kenan O'Connor was his name, and so we'd be chatting to him, you know, in a few weeks, coming up to the communion, asking me, am I looking forward to it and what have you? Have you got your dress and all the rest of it? I do, I said. My nana got it out of the people's Digla money. 112:11 She was dipping into it. So she was dipping into it. 112:15 According to me, she was. 112:17 Was it true, though? 112:19 Not at all, not at all. Her face was just a picture. She was absolutely horrified. But, you know, he was such a nice guy and he knew her well, so he knew that it was definitely not other people's money. 112:30 I think that maybe it wasn't. Your grandmother probably didn't, but there would have been temptation for mothers in hard times when they were short to have a little dip into the diglum. 112:40 Yeah, and there was a fair few bob there. She, you know, she had a lot of people on her books, we'd say, you know. 112:46 So the Diglam then would everybody be putting money on a weekly basis and come Christmas time or the lead up to it, they could take the money out to buy everything they needed. 112:54 Absolutely. It was a great scheme. I know people that still do it. We haven't done it for the longest time. No, my nan passed away a long time ago, but... Yeah, it is very good. You know, you won't miss it every week. 113:05 Yeah, I know. But it was a brilliant idea, but times change. There's a bit of a kind of a Diglam fund now on Revolut where you can do the change roundup thing. Do you do that? 113:15 I don't. It's too easy just to take it out of there. I think if you give the money to somebody, it's out of sight, out of mind. 113:22 Do you not have Revolut, no? No. 113:24 I do have Revolut. Oh, gosh, I do. But it's too easy to dip into, isn't it? 113:27 I tell you what, now, if you have Revolut and you put money into Revolut and you tap with your Revolut, now, set up the roundup of change on it. You can just... Like, say, for instance, it will do... If you buy something, you can... The small change I'm talking about, they'll round it up and they'll round it up once or twice or three times. And I tell you something, in the space of a couple of months, you'd have a handy few hundred euro in there. Like say if something's 190, right? You'll pay for the 190 and then Revolut will take 10 cent. And you can multiply that by two or multiply that by three. 113:59 And it kind of sets up a little bit of a kind of a savings box for you. 114:03 Well, you know what I am doing, actually, is when I return my recycling, the bottles and the machines and what have you, I have a little gift card, you'd say, for all your duns, and I just pop the 10, 15 euro, whatever it might be, onto the card. 114:18 Great idea. 114:19 Same scheme as well that I'm doing. 114:21 You know, it builds up, like, you know. 114:25 It does, absolutely. 114:26 All right. Have a great weekend, Lisa. Thanks for calling. Mind yourself. Take care. Cheers. Don't forget, we've got to pick a winner as well for our great calls this morning. I'd love to give family passes to all sorts of tourist attractions as you head out on your way. Just quickly, though, can I just say this is our last €400 voucher for deluxe bathrooms and tiling solutions. They're down in Little Island. You can visit the showroom or you check them out online, deluxebathrooms.ie. So 400 euro, you can spend it on everyone to refresh the bathroom. And thank you for them every day this week. I'll open the phone lines in a couple of minutes time now, but you need to identify who's singing in the shower, right? 114:57 I should have known that this love would never last. 115:05 All right. Okay. I say no more than that. Identify who that is. A €400 voucher. I mean, Khan was talking about getting married. There was very few added costs to fiver. Mick Mull sent me a lovely link there earlier in the week. He says that his parents got married in 1964 in the Metropole. Full round of drinks and a meal for 30 people. How much? £12.50. Imagine that. 30 people. So this was a meal and a round of drinks. Now, if you equate that up now, it's about, I don't know, what is it, like €300 or €400 in today's money? Boy, think about it, back in 1964. 115:37 All right, if you're heading out and about, just be aware, as you're heading out over the bank holiday weekend, where you go and what you do. Just a quick call from Councillor Jack White, who has sent me a photograph, I believe. Morning, Jack. Is this from Myrtleville Beach? 115:49 Good morning, Neil. Yeah, from Myrtleville Beach, we believe that there was a community toy box there, which had been installed by the community group, and we believe it was deliberately set on fire. 116:00 overnight or in the early hours of the morning. And it smouldered away until early this morning when some swimmers actually got buckets of water from the sea and put it out. But it was within inches of catching hold of a very dry cliff face with vegetation. 116:18 Stop. You're so right. I see the photograph because the signage is destroyed. And if it had just sparked a little, then the vegetation would have gone up. 116:28 the loss of a community toy box like that is so frustrating. What's in the toy box? 116:31 What was in that box, Jack? 116:34 I think there was kind of people which put in toys for kids to play with at the beach and put back afterwards and swap. But as I was going to say, the damage of that is frustrating. But the real threat here is what could have caught hold with the cliff going on fire. And we saw a very similar situation in Camden in Crosshaven two weeks ago. Very similar terrain. And it caught up, you know, really, really quickly from a fire that was deliberately set there by teenagers as well. And it caused a huge, huge amount of damage. And we're just lucky that... The same wasn't the situation here between Myrtleville and Fenris Bay this morning. 117:05 It could have been so different and much more devastating. 117:08 Isn't it an awful thing? Are you sure that was deliberately set on fire, yeah? 117:13 I'm not 100% sure, but I think so. 117:16 But they don't just spontaneously combust, like, do they? 117:19 They don't. And the guards are aware of it. And a couple of people have sent me messages of some suspicious activity there this morning, which I've passed on to the guards as well. So, look, I do believe it was. 117:30 Unfortunately, Liberty fell on fire. Yeah, it's so sad. It's so sad. You know, it gives an example of how serious incidents like this can start and take hold. You know what I mean? 117:40 It does. And we're so lucky we have a phenomenal community in Myrtleville and Crosshaven. We have phenomenal first responders and fire service personnel locally. They get us out of a hole when we need to, but we absolutely don't want them being put in the way of unnecessary trouble like this. I mean, could you imagine the difference of the scene this morning if that cliff face was on fire and homes were under threat? 118:02 Listen, that was a very close shave. I can see that from the photographs. And I suppose just to make people alert as they head out over the bank holiday weekend, to be careful, look after each other and just be careful with regards to leaving no trace and no fires. Isn't that the case? Really and truly. 118:16 That's it, Neil. And look, thank you to you and your producers for giving me the platform just to highlight that this morning, just a parting message to listeners of all ages. Please, please be careful and be considerate of the outdoor environment we can all enjoy together. 118:29 I hear you, man. Well said. Take care. This is Councillor Jack White. Be aware. Last bunch of shout-outs for Free Food Friday. Lots of pizza, lots of chicken, lots of sides, all from Domino's. Everybody at Dasher in Little Island, the McCroom Library, there's Grace and Anna and Mary, Irene, the two Claires of the Briery Gap will be fed as well. That's Anna and everybody in McCroom Town, beautiful town. Second glance charity shop, Border Course Row. The volunteers are around town at the moment collecting for the shop in Paul Street. They're outside BT and outside the GPO. So keep an eye out for the red buckets. They've been out all morning and if they won, they would scoff pizza for sure. 119:01 Everybody at Dr. Marion Surgery in Mallow to John Gray Auto Services in Middle, the oncology staff at the Lee Clinic. The Oncology Award, they'd love a good feed. Joe's Edge, Hair Salon and Blarney, always listening. KGW in Middleton. The problem is winning it. So please, God, today will be the day, they say. And the CUH Acute Stroke Unit, please consider them. This is on behalf of my auntie, who's currently a patient there, and they have really looked after her, says Cara, which is great to hear. Big shout out as well this morning to, as you're near the end of your show, to Sinead Meehan and Patrick McGee, who are getting married tomorrow, August 1st, down in the Kinsale Hotel and Spa. 119:40 Neil, wish them both and their baby daughter, Annie, a fantastic day and a long and happy life together. Christopher, Linda, Claudia, Aisling, Ross and Kyle, I think. I hope I'm pronouncing it right. But anyway, have a great day tomorrow. The weather will be lovely and you're getting married in a beautiful place. Down Kinsale Way. Text 0868 104 106. Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106 and we'll pick up on business on Monday morning. But Anne, good morning. 120:05 Hello, how are you? I think you're actually down in Kinsale, are you? 120:09 I am. 120:10 I am. 120:10 I'm beautiful here today. 120:12 I'd say you had a great summer down there with a beautiful weather, I should say. 120:15 Oh, fantastic. Long may at last. 120:18 Long may at last is right. Let me see if I can give you a good start to the bank holiday weekend with a €400 voucher. Have a listen to this. Tell me if you can tell me who's singing in the shower. 120:37 Any idea? 120:40 I don't know. I think it could be Colin Farrell. 120:44 Why do you say that? This is a country and western star, not an Irish actor. How do you know? 120:49 Yeah, I've heard him singing before. And my daughter said to me, that sounds like Colin Farrell. 120:55 Ah, no, it wasn't. You would also, it's your daughter won the voucher. 121:00 She'll give it to me. 121:01 Is it from a film or something, or what? 121:04 I've seen, I've heard him singing before. 121:08 He's a dab country and western singer anyway, that's for sure. 121:13 So you're telling me I'm right? 121:14 I'm telling you're completely right and you've won a 400 euro voucher. 121:19 Well done, well done. 121:21 Off you go. Spruce up the bathroom with deluxebathrooms.ie or go and see them in the showroom in Little Island. Do you hear me? 121:29 Oh, listen, thanks so much. Just brilliant. 121:32 Thanks for listening. Mind yourself. Take care. 121:35 Thanks a lot. Okay, bye-bye. 121:36 Regards to everybody in Kinsale. Back after the break. Text 0868 104 106. 121:45 Be part of the conversation. 121:48 Text 0868104106. There was a lot with regards to dating and relationships during the week and not all of it kind to men, but particular men actually had to be called out because they were well out of order. But as a kind of a bounce back on that one, would you ever get those clowns of women on the show off constantly complaining about fellas on Tinder? Yeah. It's no wonder they're all single. Red flags they're talking like. Red flags in their 30s and 40-year-old women. Tell them stay away from men if that's the case. We're better off without these oddball women. Don't get me started on their little gossip groups online where they slate and trash every man posted. 122:22 The amount of women cheating on men is just as bad. They're just a disgrace. They love gossip and they love nothing but drama. Well, I certainly have both sides of the fence on that one. I'm always happy to share with those that agree and indeed disagree. In fact, one other one that's of interest to me, because we spoke a lot about caffeine and issues regarding tea addiction and stuff like that. Remember, we were talking about the price of tea, coffee and scones and stuff. This is a bit of a pushback, actually, from somebody in the trade who said, you talk about... tea bags and why it should cost, you know, for instance, maybe four or four fifty for a pot of tea with a tea bag in it. 122:54 But us cafes, we got to look at the overall profit. Some items make a higher profit while others make very little. So interestingly, the example is people generally don't want to pay much more than 11 euro for a full Irish breakfast. But it's packed with meat and other ingredients that are very expensive. So the margin of profit is very, very low on a full Irish, considering what you get on the plate. So we have to make it up in other areas. When people buy a cup of tea, they're not just paying for, as you keep saying, the tea bag. 123:25 They're paying for the cup, the server, the dishwasher, the person operating the dishwasher. the coffee machine, the hot water urn, electricity, rent and all the other running costs involved. So at the end of the day, business owners are trying to earn a fair wage for the hard work, time and effort they put into trying to run our businesses. Also, someone ordering one cup of tea to sit at a table for an hour, that seat could make a business a lot more money than a cup of tea. Don't go out if you don't want to pay. That said, €4 is a lot for tea. We charge €2.50. 123:57 Now that makes an awful lot of sense to me. I see it differently now and I understand the frustration of two people with a pot of tea for an hour where it might have cost them for the two of them six or seven euro. So that's a kind of a wasted table and you can't really kind of put a clock on them and ask them to leave, can you? But you can ask me to leave because I have to leave. Enjoy the bank holiday weekend.