Boreen

So that was really tough, like that week witnessing her saying goodbye to people, people she'd known for 50 years, whatever.

or else going for a drive and one of the last drive we did we ended up going up a road I'd never been on before between the Cailchill and Borland Valleys and it was really bumpy crappy Boreen and we happened to drive past the spot where she used to pull over and go night fishing and it was a lovely moment like and I remember just placing my hand on her hand and just thanking her and yeah and she was yeah we didn't say a word for the rest of the trip back in the car wow didn't we

I'm so glad that you got to do that with her

No, absolutely.

One frustrating aspect of driving around this country, particularly for those transport professionals, is the loss of coverage when trying to traverse on a strange and out-of-the-way road.

We've all been in a situation where you need to be using your maps to try and find a house down a Boreen, and this technology could make it so that you're not left in the lurch when the network drops out.

Three Ireland are coming on board to help boost the network capacity of this project to make it easier to stay connected to the internet while driving.

Three are teaming up with Vantage Towers to establish more communications units along the roads on the eastern coast.

And we were reading by candlelight, as you'd have to do in a camp.

And about one o'clock I heard the noise of a motor coming down the sandy Boreen leading down to the South Strand.

And I said to Mick Cremon, there's a car coming down.

And we got up, went out, and it was Sean McCarthy, who at that time got dressed and was president of the G.E. and Paddy O'Keefe general secretary.

It would be scary to hear at night time.

When you're coming home the road through the Boreen and if you had a few large bottles of Guinness on board and you saw this, you know...

So it was definitely a big banshee with a comb.

All the owls are with me since they're two weeks old.

I'm an active, energetic, nervous kind of person, so covering the ground suits me the best.

So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna turn around, I'm gonna go back, and I'm gonna head to some of the coastal wind-stunted sycamores in along the Boreens and the gardens that go out to the tip of this peninsula.

Before I go back, there's a big old fire pit burnt out in the dune system here.

It's sad because these are people who clearly took benefit from nature and yet in return they leave it with a big burnt puck mark in the dunes wood and left their plastic and their cans around here.

And you can imagine in a remote rural area, it's really, really important that GPs, that patients can access their medications.

And if they don't have a car, for example, and they're living 10 miles out of a Boreen, you know, and they can't get to a pharmacy and now they can't even get to a dispensing GP, it's a huge problem.

So dispensing GPs need to be supported.

They need to be better supported and looked after and reimbursed appropriately so that they can continue on that

And so, again, it's all about making communities active.

So, you know, there may be a really beautiful river or path or old Boreen or anything, Mass Road, even grown over in the community.

And it's about working with the community to restore that and create an opportunity for people to get outdoors and into nature.

and to just, you know, to walk and to be active.