What have they said?

Ishcairn, going between Fingal County Council and Ishcairn, and one scene it was Fingal County Council's issue.

The other saying it was Ishka Aarons.

Eventually, after all our hard work, petitions that we had signed with hundreds of petitions for signatures, Ishka Aarons, thank goodness, have at last agreed to have contractors in to seal the manhole chambers and fill them with concrete.

So that would be get rid of the smell in Malhudderd for once and for all.

See, it was a decommissioned main.

that was diverted eastwards from Church Road, but it was decommissioned, but it wasn't sealed.

When will that happen, Ellen? It's a

You don't know, yes.

Anyway, Liam, I've got another one, so I better, uh, chat to you about what I came on to talk about.

Um, like you said, yeah, we're gonna have a great picnic, a family fun day, next Sunday, the 30th of August, between 2:00 and 5:00, on Auburn Avenue, Green and Castleknock, and the whole event is to bring the partnership of the parishes of St Markus, Porterstown, St Thomas's, Loreto Lodge, and Our Lady Mother of the Church.

So there's three churches now under the one partnership, all, um, led by Father Damian McMease, and he's the parish priest.

But we've worked really hard with our great team, working really hard on driving this pure fun picnic.

It's a free event.

Um, Blanchardstown Brass Band are coming.

Yes.

golf card.

Okay.

and you get a little stamp for each of the challenges that you complete.

You know, if you complete them, you get a stamp.

So there's golf kind of chipping, and there's fishing, Nerf guns, water pistols, tug-of-war, water balloons, penalty shots, basketball shots, skipping, good old-fashioned skipping.

Believe kids can't skip today.

Yeah, that's true.

I

Has that evolved much over the years, Ellen, do you know?

It's getting worse.

You know what's happening? It's just, shocking if every speech and language therapist every educational psychologist every ot um all of what we need in in these teams and if they were able to even study and and get their expertise as you know to perfect the profession and make sure that there was enough of them.

I mean, at the moment, do you know how difficult it is to be a child psychologist? I mean, the whole system is against it.

If every one of them who qualified in Ireland this year was able to live in Ireland and work in Ireland, would be some help.

But actually, what's happened is so many of them, as we know, with an added housing crisis, have to leave the country.

They can't afford to live in Ireland anymore.

If there's a demand for them, they put them on.

You had heard of it.

Yeah, I had.

But I hadn't paid attention to it.

I wasn't sure what was wrong with me.

Like 20 years ago, four children, like when I went to the doctor, they said, oh, you're tired because you've got so much work to do.

You're working, you've got four children.

Right.

Oh,