Claire Byrne

And he said, Mario, this who's who of radio are going to be here.

So I said, oh, you know, Pat Kenny, Claire Byrne.

And he said, no, no, no, they're pawns.

It's the media agencies, Mario.

Cam Ross

is how Claire Byrne pronounced it this morning.

And as a Leash native, I defer to her knowledge on the subject.

Well, I will put my hands up and say that that is the safest bet, is to trust Clare Byrne on that one.

Really? Exactly.

Look how Claire Byrne is all relaxed after shaking off the shackles of RTE for News Talk.

Come on.

She messed up her hair a bit and was such a plank all these years, even the tiniest change of lighting- [gasps] ... makes people think she's Charli XCX now.

That is, uh, Patrick O'Donovan, uh, who became ill at a EU meeting in Limerick, uh, earlier in the week.

I suppose before that, though, he did have something to say about colleagues, uh, who he, uh, believed w- were not being loyal in their support of him after a fairly tumultuous, uh, period leading into Tuesday.

Yeah, I mean, certainly Patrick O'Donovan has been in the headlines the past, uh, couple of weeks and the past few months, uh, firstly in terms of his work, but secondly in terms of his, his private health.

Um, so firstly, there w- there was obviously a health scare when he was in Brussels, um, in, in early summer.

He says everyone is thinking of him in the local community and praying for him and noting how he's a resilient person as well, and they think that he can speedily get through this and get back to normal and also, uh, hoping, uh, wi- wishing well for hi- his wife and, uh, three children, uh, as well.

So the community really rallying around Patrick O'Donovan, uh, in these difficult circumstances, and even before, prior to, to taking ill on Tuesday, loo- looking back at the footage, he was, uh, taking a family photograph.

He was perhaps a little late arriving, didn't converse with his colleagues, so clearly he, he, he wa- he was quite q- quite unwell on Tuesday.

But I think there's political consensus that everyone wishes that he, he, he does come back, uh, and back to full health.

Yeah

... there's a violence intervention strategy run by Senator Lynn Rowan, and if you, if your, uh, listeners go and listen to, uh, Akila Sherrill was on with, uh, Claire Byrne on RTE, right? He explains about this program.

See, this has been very successful in the US.

Like I said, it's being rolled out in, uh, in Dublin, and what it does is it takes what they call credible messengers, right? So it's people within the community who have been engaged in criminality-