Ballybofey

Going and gone.

He's playing in the Donegal Football Final in Ballybofey this Sunday, but he's on the way to Collingwood.

Two-year deal, 20 years of age.

Obviously, um, you know, made his debut for Donegal at, um, 17.

I'm between both of them.

Uh, it's Cavan, Monaghan, but I'm in Ballybofey.

I'm stuck right in the-

Yeah, well, see, they, they see you as a, a Dublin blow in.

You know? Like, and it, it's...

And not only that, like, other people from different, different nationalities especially.

Like, I'll never forget one of them coming down and saying something to me, and I turned around and I says, "Uh, you, you want to eat." I says, "Sure you eat, ye's are on." That's what I said to them, 'cause she looked at me, and she was running me down, like, 'cause I was from Ballybofey, and I had a tattoo on me arm.

Now, Niall, I'll have a bit of craic.

Thanks for having me on, Martin.

So I suppose, yeah, look at, uh, the Williamson Farm, they're, they're, uh, milking about 200 cows there just outside Ballybofey, a spring calving system, be a family operation.

There's the father and, and then the three sons, uh, Ian, Glen, and Alan.

I suppose, look, it's probably a farm that's, uh, heavier as such compared to probably what a lot of listeners are used to, you know, and put a lot of work and investment into, into the land, I'd say, over the years, or, or they said it themselves, you know, in terms of drainage to get, I suppose, a solid platform, a base of, of, of ground that's there now that probably allows them to farm it the way they are today.

Obviously, a couple of, uh, things on the road this morning.

If you're coming from, uh, the Ballybofey direction into Letterkenny, please be conscious of that road closure.

Uh, an incident, uh, occurred at the top of Lurgan Brae yesterday.

There are diversions in place and alternative routes for HGVs.

What it was like growing up for him, how he found himself drawn to the priesthood, the travel, the teaching, the running, uh, and everything in between, and what's life, uh, gonna be like for him post-retirement.

Uh, so that's, um, all coming up on the Greg Hughes Podcast tomorrow morning from eleven AM.

Now, let's look forward to an event taking place in Ballybofey on Saturday, the tenth of October.

That's the day after tomorrow.

The McAteer brothers from, um, yeah, from Donegal town, wasn't it?

From Ballybofey.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jesus.

Used to be a great place to go, wasn't it, Ballybofey, years ago?

And Pa- Pat Mclaney's the, the manager, ably assisted by Shane Mclaney.

Mm.

So, uh, we did play three games in Ulster.

Tyrone, yeah, it was a draw in Ballybofey, and we beat them in the replay, tight game.

We were playing Kerry in the semifinal in Ballyhaunis.

And, you know, among the suits, shall we say, in the front of the bus, you know, county minor and, yeah.