County Meath

And one of the stories of the championship, I think, is the performances of Andrew Tormey.

I mean, 10, 12 years ago, he was a regular in the Mii team.

But since then, he's picked up injuries.

He looked like he was finished as a player at the top club level.

And yet, it's nearly the classic chicken and egg scenario.

We know... carbon obligations etc etc Mead has identified the nine settlements and they're called decarbonisation zones the measurements that were taken for each of the nine transport is up there if not the first it's the second highest cause so the no-brainer and the less stressful route for anybody and we are a commuter county but big efforts are being made to attract in employers into the county until that balance you know the net outflow and inflow and I would see a lot of people say on the later buses a lot of people travelling out from town to Merksharpen Dome there at Dunboyne at Pace people are coming out on the later buses and they're getting they're doing the night shift and they're there for the so the knock on effect and then that has a health impact on people too your adrenaline is raised you're under pressure you're in that flight mode How do I get an alternative? I've, you know, an excellent suggestion, Liz, who works with me, came up with the suggestion before, having a QR code at the bus stop and having a QR code on the bus.

Which is

live.

Why is there no East

Mead?

But what's the point in having a West Mead

if it's not in Mead?

North Cork.

Like what about the west of Mead?

I'd actually love if Cork had North Cork and North Cork was its own thing.

That would be pretty cool.

They're looking for a change, I think, still.

But I think at the moment we're going to get Dundery and the Marys on Monday night, which will be probably a special on We Are Mead and Mixler for that one.

So it's brilliant.

It's brilliant.

And we'll also be looking ahead to all of those semifinals.

We will have your senior championship quarterfinals and relegations preview coming out this week.

We'll have the intermediate, the Mead Farm Intermediate Football Championship quarterfinal and relegations preview.

looking ahead to those games as well and in the Junior 8 we'll be looking ahead to the quarter finals and the relegation playoffs as well and then with the Cool Right Junior B we'll be looking straight at semi-finals and I can see the smile on Davey Rissman's face already

Thanks for watching! Welcome along to another episode of Talk Good Game, the Mead Chronicle Sports Podcast with myself, Tom Dannen, and as always, Jimmy Dayden and Ferdel Lynch.

How are we getting on, lads? Are we well? Good, Tom.

Yeah, how are you? Good.

But what do we think of the comments that she's made, lads, over the last week? What do we think of the fallout from it? Ferd, I know you're doing a bit of work on it at the minute, so...

Yeah, interesting.

I'm just off the phone with the Mead County Board Chairman, Jason Plunkett.

Anybody that knows Jason when he was elected as chairman three years ago, is it now? I'm not sure how long ago it is.

One of the first interviews I did with him after then, he was strong on integration, strong on bringing the three associations together.

And so what we need in this country is we need to make sure that we provide alternatives for people to get out of carbon fuels, first of all.

So in other words, I'm the chair of the Mead on Track campaign.

We've been trying to get a rail line into Mead since the middle 1990s.

even if the government managed to push through their promises, it's not going to come until 2036.

There's 60,000 to 80,000 people in Meads that would give their right arm to get out of their car and get into a train to travel to Dublin every day.

They don't have an alternative in terms of public transport, so they're forced to pay these hikes in carbon taxes.

And in terms of buses, many people simply don't have a bus alternative.

Her passion for fitness and for helping people to build their confidence is, it's just absolutely infectious.

She has people knocking her door down to join her legendary classes in the Mead area, people traveling 40 minutes to go to her classes and more.

Very soon, she will have an online platform and so it will be available for anyone to join in.

In this episode, we talk about everything from confidence to self-belief to strength to fitness for all ages and abilities.

This guy's Irish.

He's from Mead.

He's got that fucking dumb Mead accent.

I

think she's Scottish or something.