David McCullagh

Marion, good morning to you.

Good morning to you, David.

How are you?

Good, thanks.

... said she hadn't been told about this, um, information, the credible information about Ippolito, and said, "Well, it probably wouldn't have been meaningful." As I say, she'd already...

There was only a summing up when the information came to light.

Um, and then so we come to the question, David, of how credible is it?

Well, by what you're saying, not very.

So that was one area.

But I think more broadly, look, the, the UN has changed fundamentally, uh, David.

I mean, we have a situation where it's quite dysfunctional at the heart of it.

Uh, geopolitically, the tensions are never more than there were previously.

And we should.

But, but-

Because, I mean, if you look at it here, now, David, I mean, we had a concerted call that was heavily-

So you, you, you just don't trust Dáil Éireann.

What's your main issue here? Is it the number of vape shops on main streets, the products they sell, or both?

It's a bit of everything, David.

I mean, uh, I'm chair of the HSE Region Forum, and we've had numerous presentations from public health on the impact of vaping on young people and on the body general.

And the fact that we're seeing so many stores pop up in our city center and our suburbs, a lot of people say to me that they're really concerned at the amount of them.

Because if you're looking at a city like Cork, if you're looking like somewhere like Patrick Street, where we're trying to have a certain type of aesthetic, uh, on the street to encourage people in, that it's not just a, one of your regular high streets that you see all over Europe or, or in the UK, that this is something that's unique to Cork.

Come and see, come and visit us.

But if you have, and let's be honest about it, David, if you have the garish neon-colored lights talking about vaping and e-cigarettes, you know, it's a turn-off for people because it is.

It, it's just off-looking, and everyone who says it to me, I agree with.

Morning, Fionán.

David, morning.

I, I would've thought forty-eight hours ago, you, you would've said, absolutely guaranteed to have another stoppage next Wednesday, get the childcare lined up for the, for the kids and, and prepare for the hospital appointments to be canceled.

Little bit more optimism you'd have to say this morning that maybe you might be heading towards a, a, a, a scenario where, where that'd be called off, but they're not there yet, and you'd have to say it's still advantage trade union movement.