Belmullet

Yeah, four years of age.

So the fact that I do actually have memories of that day, like at this point, they're very, [laughs] very blurry, but I think it's the pictures I look back on now that we have at home, and it was such a, a special occasion because my nan and grandad were Belmullet in Mayo.

Wow.

So we always grew up around Mayo flags, Mayo jerseys.

The silly season of August is over.

We have from the latest episode covering the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District.

And that's quite an intriguing one.

They don't particularly get on very well.

Of course, we aired them last week here.

We were... disgusted that PJ Hesham wasn't nominated for bus driver of the year and our strength and nutrition in coach Evan Regan best left foot in Mayo of course he could have so easily have been an all star so look there's an awful lot I'm nearly too angry to talk about it TJ

but just to touch on something there briefly you did totally and completely and utterly rule out Belmullet from reaching the final stages of the All-Ireland Senior Men's Mayo Division Championship

and that's what they like in Belmullet they love being totally ruled out of it They love nothing more than slapping up a podcast up in the dressing room and just putting the world against them.

And I think we have to ask the most important question.

Is the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District awash with money?

Well that appears to be the case Aidan and I'm sure the councillors themselves would be frightened to hear that considering the meeting I've just logged off from which was of course from the Westport Bell Mullet September MD meeting and thanks to the figures obtained by Fine Gael's Peter Flynn he asked the local authority for the top 100 rate payers in the county to exclude Irish Water, ESB and the telecoms Over 50% of the rate payers of County Mayo are in that Westport-Belmullet Municipal District.

Really quite remarkable.

And to be fair to Peter Flynn, he gave kudos to his colleague, Councillor Gerry Coyle, who has been for quite some time banging on about the amount of money raised in ERIS in terms of rates from the energy infrastructure.

temper starting to flow and fray and it could all boil over here unless Cormac Riley gets his head out of his ass he gives Mayo a little bit of a extra yardage here and we're going to kick it right into a dangerous area where Kerry are pressing us with that man Keith Higgins he's had a wonderful game I know the man he's been marking has scored about three six but to me it's been a wonderful game as Ricky Feeney looks to thread one down the line Mickey Conway tired legs for Mayo now tired legs for tired legs and limp cocks, I would say, at this stage of the game, as Fat Larry re-enters the fold with a little bit of apple tart.

We'd like to, I suppose, pay reference to the fact that I was in O'Donoghue's Bakery in Belmullet today, folks.

This is not a sponsored advertisement at all, but I did pick up a little bit of apple tart and a little crumble.

Fat Larry is munching away on that now as it were and we have a little bit left for him to bring home to Bridie that's if myself and himself don't end up bunking in with each other in one of those little motels or one of those sort of I understand there's lovely all male saunas down in Limerick here I got a text from a couple of my friends asking if I would head down there tonight the Mayo fans are tentatively excited they're on tenterhooks, I suppose, is all you could say.

Indeed, yes.

I managed to just find the mute button on my microphone there, but I did manage to put it back on again as Krusty Barrett is coming on here.

A man who in no doubt has baked a couple of apple tarts in his day down there in the in the Belmullet area.

Hard to believe, TJ, that this man would be left on the bench until this stage of the game.

I'm going to let you tell what just happened.

But my cousins were celebrating your victory in Belmullet and the bar owner Shattered the bar.

And of course, those photos quickly found their way to Australia.

But anyway, I am thrilled to meet you.

And it was nearly like there was a pent up tension.

There was a pent-up tension just with everyone within the county, but particularly with our supporters and our diaspora.

You mentioned your mum was from Belmullet.

All over the world, it was just the most amazing event and one that I'm very privileged to be involved with.

I just thought if you're conceding the amount of goals they're conceding, you're always giving the opposition a chance.

But a fair play to Belmullet.

They've been really consistent.

Remember, it's not that long ago they were in the county final, but most of this bunch.

I went to appeal it...

I drove to Belmullet... to meet a Polish national who was hired as a consultant by the rates authority to tell me, look, this is the law.

There's nothing we can do with square footage.

It should be on your profit margin.

Of course, we had that offshore earthquake on June 6th.

I'm sure you remember, Fat Larry, a magnitude four earthquake which struck offshore west of Belmullet, shaking counties such as Mayo, Galway, Sligo.

And it was the second largest recorded tremor in the history of the region.

Yes, I remember as well it did.