Balbriggan

There are lots of places to go for lunch now around the country that have farm cafes and will look after the veggies as well.

You're looking up to be in Balbriggan near one.

I'm going to like a local farm, you know, like I wish there would be a lot more.

I think there could be a lot more.

It's very convenient, but it's convenient until you reach roughly this point now where your journey speed goes from 80 or 90 kilometres an hour to 30 kilometres an hour.

So what do we do? Start again in Balbriggan and run it to Wicklow?

Yeah, I got into a bit of trouble about it yesterday.

I didn't suggest what you just did, what you just suggested.

Yes, there's one in Sodes, Malahide and

Balbriggan.

I've definitely seen Balbriggan for sure.

Yeah, things happening all over the place.

Newbridge House.

In some cases they're showcasing what they already do and are making it available to a wider cohort, a wider member of the public.

And then other people are using it to maybe try out a new project or to launch a project or to sort of do something slightly different, a little bit left field from what they normally do.

So, look, I mean, as I was going to say, from Balbriggan to Ballybuckle and from Hoth to Hunstown, there's going to be something on there for you if you want to, you know.

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We're going to talk about a wonderful gesture that's being made by a publican in Balbriggan to local charities.

Brandon Dempsey is the owner of Dempsey's Bar in the Town and Helen Davis is a fantastic lady who works with Balbriggan Meals on Wheels.

Brandon, Helen, hello, welcome to the show.

Hello, how are you? Hello, how are you?

Well, Brandon, first off, I have to say, I haven't heard anything like this in all my years sitting at this microphone here.

Tell our listeners what you've decided to do, please.

Yeah, so, you know, pretty much at the start of the year, we decided that we were going to give all our profits from the pub back to local charities and clubs here in Balbriggan.

It is Halloween, of course, in a week, but today was the last day of school before the kids break up for the Halloween mid-term.

And Henry McKean sent us this special Halloween kids' talk from Balbriggan in North County, Dublin.

The children from St Malaga's Balbriggan, North County, Dublin are celebrating Halloween and they talk about the origins.

What I love about Halloween is we all get to spend time together and we get to trick-or-treat.

I like trick-or-treating with my friends.

And me to you too.

You are, of course, a talented songwriter from Balbriggan in North County, Dublin, just on our doorstep here.

Well done to you.

You've co-written Ireland's song for this year's Junior Eurovision.

Take care of yourself.

Bye-bye.

That's the wonderful Ben Pine there from Balbriggan.

Talented young man and the co-writer of our Junior Eurovision entry.

And when she was introducing Ayn in LA, she was saying that like, you know, when she was a girl, like a little girl in Bratislava.

that she um you know used to dream of being a star but it seemed like all of the stars came from LA or had to be in LA and that you know she always had this idea that like what if you don't have to be from LA what if there are hot girls everywhere who can be stars basically And I think that that's, you know, a really positive message that like you can be who you want to be, whether you are growing up in Los Angeles and New York or in Balbriggan or wherever else.

And I think, you know, she is someone who has had stardom, pop stardom specifically on in her sights since she was a child.

She taught herself English and.