Dunsink

I know Hamilton's kind of people think the musical, but we had a chance to call Broome Bridge...

the Hamilton stop, because what Hamilton in 1843, he was kind of like Einstein, he was living in Dunsink, no, I'm teasing, but he was the Irish observator and president of the Royal Irish Academy, and he had a eureka moment for solving something called quaternions, and it came to him as he was out walking, and he scratched it on the bridge, in Broome Bridge.

And Quaternion's about 3D rotational space.

So all, when your iPad flicks back up and finds itself back the right way, that's Quaternion.

It's a beautiful song, Vincent's Starry, Starry Night.

Speaking of Starry, Starry Nights, we're going to say hello now to Terence Flanagan at his home in Dublin 15 because Terry was out last week at Dunsink Observatory learning how to photograph the moon and the stars.

Terence, you were at Dunsink.

I was indeed, Derek.

It's not too far from here.

So what do you do when you're waiting around? Well, I tell you what I often do.

I try and take photographs of the night sky, particularly the moon, but with awful results.

Anyway, when I was up in Dunsink, I met Anthony Lynch.

I mean, does we

need a Lewis line to Dunsink if we're going to develop that here? huge area that should be developed that we can maybe have what is it 30 or 40,000 homes there so I agree with that I am a little nervous about the cost and do we have the population density I mean is it 20 or 30,000 an hour each way do we have the population density to justify that it's also it's one line it's not going to be transformative it just isn't going to be transformative but if you

don't have it

Yeah, look, I can see the argument.

It's good to see Fingal County Council.

I know there's been a lot of publicity about Dunsink.

It's a major land bank.

It's 90% owned publicly.

See, he was a deeply committed man.

While it had its beginnings in Dunsink in Pennsylvania, America, I went to Michigan where there was a big community at that time founded by Ralph Martin who would be best known of the lay leaders of the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church.

Ralph Martin went on to be appointed by Pope Benedict the 16th, December 2017, as a counsellor to the Pontifical Council for promoting new evangelisation, much required in the Catholic Church today.

And we're still working through that, my friends.

Now, here for his regular spot is Sam Troughton, the editor from The Enquirer, here to talk about the, uh, council plans for a new town in Dunsink and how the old landfill is gonna fit in there.

Sam, good morning.

Good morning, Sam.

Oh.

[laughs]

So I don't know if you know the area, but, uh, this is like the Dun- Dunsink land.

It's kinda west of Finglas.

It's within the-