Christopher Ewart-Biggs

But it's all getting very tense.

And into this fray comes a man called Christopher Ewart-Biggs.

He becomes the new British ambassador to Ireland.

Mm-hmm.

[laughs] It's, how would, how are you supposed to see things that haven't happened before? I mean, there's no precedent for it.

I think that's a fair argument.

[laughs] But they, they told Hugh Biggs, no one's ever tried to blow up a car in Ireland before, so rest assured.

But the, uh, he, he's, uh, he's having trouble ingratiating himself in Irish society.