Dalkey

I'm sor- he's way more South County Dublin.

He's from Dalkey.

[laughs]

Excuse me.

Are you from Dalkey?

Yeah.

He's from, he's from the belly of the beast.

I thought you were, like, Knocklyon or something.

stuff you definitely saw that during the crash so I think we're going to talk about all that

but I do think it's connected bringing it back to politics I think like there's a lot of people in Ireland who are doing really really well you talk about the difference from going from Kimmage to Inchacore go from Dalkey to Fairview you know There are parts of Dublin, Ireland, the coastal areas in particular, that are extremely well-privileged, who are completely living in a bubble.

And the reality is there's sufficient numbers of people in Ireland doing well enough to keep successive governments in place who acknowledge that there's a problem that needs to be done on housing, acknowledge the homelessness issue, acknowledge the addiction issue, but not enough of a concern because fundamentally their voter base is not pushing them in that direction.

So yeah, I think a lot of this gets back to another enduring mish of Irish politics and society, which is that there's no class.

So I got the gear back on a Tuesday night.

I got the bus from Dalkey into town.

Then I got the bus from town out to Parnell Park and I just turned up for training.

And the selectors that night all saw this blow coming in.

Peter Cullen points out that, and I quote here, that in...

In the early 1840s, the Atmospheric Railway, as it was known, which was the extension of what is now the Dart Line from Dun Laoghaire out to Dawkey, was built.

It didn't require any level crossings because they built the line nine feet below the road.

And it was begun in December, I think, of 1841 and was completed about 18 months later.

And he, he rang me one Monday to say, "Did you see the news last night?" I said, "I did." "Did you see the boat in trouble in, in, in the middle of Dublin, Dublin Bay?" "Yeah." "That was your boat," he said.

And I said, "How, how did my boat get into the middle of Dublin Bay?" Well, he said, "I sold it to a fella in Howth, and he was going, heading across to, uh, Dalkey.

And, uh, a wave hit the boat from the back, came in over the back of it and completely flooded it."

Oh, wow.

I never heard people talking like that." And there are loads who are going, uh-

No, 'cause you're from Dalkey.

[laughs] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But anyway.

And when he closed the flaps the roar was shut off like a train going into a tunnel.

That night at Dalkey the train had roared like that and then, when it went into the tunnel, the roar stopped.

He closed his eyes and the train went on, roaring and then stopping, roaring again, stopping.

It was nice to hear it roar and stop and then roar out of the tunnel again and then stop.