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And it just gives you that boost.

And if you remember way back in episode eight, I of the middle of the pack podcast and i can't believe it's so long ago we had laura fleming on and she was a runner and emergency nurse and we had her on for two episodes one we were just talking about a running journey and second one we were talking about her work as an emergency nurse and particularly she was going to be working at the finish line at the Dublin Marathon and she was there again this year so she gave us this little summary of what it was like this year but again while we're just on the subject of Laura and people that are helping at the Dublin Marathon I just have to give a big shout out to all the volunteers Anyone that was involved at the expo, was involved on the course, handing out the bag drops, the people that are working in the emergency services, the Gardaí, everyone involved in the marathon, a big thank you and a big well done because it wouldn't be the day that it was without all of you people.

And then on top of that, the thousands and thousands of people that lined the street shouted my name, your name, anyone that took part.

all contributed to making it such a wonderful day.

The 33-year-old managed to rise to the top of the Sinaloa cartel, despite being raised in Ireland.

The Sunday World investigation can reveal how Gardai are aware of the huge scale of the cocaine operation and how drugs were smuggled into Ireland through Dublin Port.

They also show how O'Shea Salazar lived a life of luxury in Barcelona with his glamorous girlfriend as he directed the multi-million euro drugs mob.

One of his lieutenants is a criminal, 40s, whose father was a well-known political figure in Kerry.

You're knocking over armored cars to get your little booger sugar action going.

But despite the international scale of the cocaine ring, the Sinaloa cell had deep ties to a small corner of Ireland and used homegrown criminals to smuggle the drug into Dublin.

It is understood that Gardai are aware of the scale and reach of the gang's trafficking operation and its reach into Ireland.

Well, they should be, with all of the work they've been doing lately with their international partners.

If all of us work together, if the agencies involved in road safety work together, we have enhanced education.

We are, as you rightly pointed out at the start of the bulletin, in Garda Síochána are increasing road policing numbers.

So if we work collectively, work together and change that behaviour, Reducing those fatalities and serious injuries is possible.

Can I ask you finally about the proposed installation of breathalyser terminals in pubs? Were you put under pressure by Minister Sean Canney to abandon that plan?

And I think one of the things that we don't have in Ireland is dedicated transport police, which most European countries, most developed countries do at this stage.

Occasionally you'll get Gardaí doing what they call Operation Twin Tracks, where they'll go on the trains and the buses at busy times and they'll kind of like do sweeps and stuff like that.

But most of the time it's left up to people to kind of police it themselves.

So I think even just getting a dedicated transport police and clearly stating the rules and penalising people for it, because if there's no consequences, there's no motivation for people to get better.

And education officials are reviewing the protocols for dealing with email threats following recent frightening incidents where sinister messages warned of mass shootings or bomb attacks at schools.

Now, the Department of Education has sought advice from Gardaí on two separate occasions this year after schools received threatening emails.

Now, the Minister for Education is Hildegard Nocton, and she said, I understand that this type of threat is concerning for school communities.

She said, officials in my department are reviewing the protocols in place to deal with incidents such as this and wider emergency planning measures as a whole.

He said it's frightening for principals, for staff, for parents and kids.

He said boards of management shouldn't be left working it out on the day.

They need clear guidance and proper backup from the department and from the Gardaí.

So that story making the Irish examiner the front pages this morning.

And sometimes it's very hard to see what's been done in the background.

So we're asking the public to keep on confidentially reporting any activity that they see or are aware of, either to local Gardaí or use the Garda confidential line on 1800 666 111.

All information received, Alan, is reviewed.

And people may feel sometimes it's not acted on immediately.

the Garda are putting together a lot of information and that small piece of a jigsaw that a member of the public can identify often leads to people much higher up the ladder getting prosecuted.

So that's, just recapping those for me again, please, Eddie, in case people missed out where the drug seizures were, please.

Now, an appeal for burglary in the Redmond Road area, the Wexford Town area, on the 24th of October, which is literally a couple of days ago.

So Gardaí and Wexford are looking for information in relation to a burglary that occurred in the Redmond Road area in Wexford Town on Saturday the 24th to the 10th at 7.40pm where a man was discovered in a house by the owner and he left on seeing the owner.

And this is some welcome news at a time when, unfortunately, the numbers of people losing their lives on the road have been increasing for several years.

So the paper reports that more Gardaí are being assigned to roads policing duties all over the country.

And even more increases are expected in the months ahead.

And this follows the recent graduation... of 207 New Gordie from Temple Moor.

And we are testing.

So we were testing for drug driving by way of bud sample if Gardaí suspected that someone was intoxicated.

But at a mandatory intoxicant checkpoint, it is literally motorists are randomly tested.

So at those mandatory