Ballycotton

For-

I noticed they were, uh, a Ballycotton-based, or it says-

Oh, Ballycotton's very famous for fish

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I...

Just the other day in Ballycotton in East Cork.

[bird chirping] So I've been hearing a lot more recently, but I'm gonna save them for another episode.

My plan is to go out and do a live recording of autumn migration in the coming days, because I really enjoyed that format, um, from last week.

[coughs]

And, uh, it's kind of his return to the UK to face or, or to do this last gig, and, uh, they set it that he's leaving from Ballycotton.

It's a town I, I love.

[laughs] So, um-

Brilliant.

[laughs] Flann O'Brien's The Brother, that performance by Eamonn Morrissey.

Now, you've already mentioned Ballycotton, and as it happens, your favorite book and author, The Ballycotton Job by Tom Mahon.

What's that?

It could be people who have been part of the Celtic board in the past, people who have been CEOs of huge companies, bigger companies in many ways than Celtic Football Club.

And we've asked them, about the outcomes of where we are in relation to celtic football club and we'll continue to do that we'll continue to ask these questions i'm going to leave you with a little word from our sponsors so that we can keep everything moving on the way that we always do thank you every single person for tuning in to the 12 30 as always i am currently as you watch this in ireland I'm in Cork and I'm doing a gig with Scott Brown to raise money for local charities in a place called Ballycotton.

So let us know if you're familiar with it in County Cork because it's the first time I'll have been visiting and hopefully I will go back.

It's always an absolute pleasure.

It's after the gig, and we're having a wee chat, and the mood's brilliant, a beautiful night.

And one of the, um, organizers of the event whose venue it is, who's from Ballycotton, is Pierce Flynn.

You may have for- you remember his involvement in the Irish, um, uh, group of fans who came and invested £1 million each in Celtic.

Dermot Desmond was one of them.

And we are going to catch up on everything else Celtic related.

But before we get into it, I was in a little place called Ballycotton in County Cork.

As recently as this morning, I was there.

And here I am.

Yeah, something like that.

February 16th, 2020, jogger Barry McDonald was running his usual route on the coast of Ireland, near the village of Ballycotton.

He'd been forced to take a break the previous day due to the strong winds and heavy rains of windstorm Dennis, but something was different this time.

A hulking 250-foot cargo ship had washed ashore, with no sign of life aboard.

past the Iberian Peninsula and into the Celtic Sea before it was finally caught by Storm Dennis and delivered to the coast of Ireland, somehow avoiding detection on the way.

Or,

in the words of Ballycotton RNLI lifeboat operations manager John Tatton, this is one in a million.

It has come all the way up from the African coast, west of the Spanish coast, west of the English coast and up to the Irish coast.

In Dublin, I'll be travelling up to Dublin to come home, so I might see if you're a Celtic supporter coming along to the Scott Brown Q&A tomorrow.

Ballycotton.

It's in a place called Ballycotton, which is beautiful by all accounts.

So thanks, everybody, for getting involved today.

And as I say, we will have a special tomorrow at 12.30, so tune in then on Celtic State of Mind.