Galway Advertiser

Yeah.

In fact, I wrote an article for the Connick Tribune or the Galway Advertiser about 10 years ago, you know, talking about the important links, you know, to, you know, Galway and Maine.

Because the Galway Advertiser is also set all over the other cities of Maine, Bangor, Maine, and, you know, Biddeford, Lewiston, Bath.

Yeah, it would definitely be a good thing to twin.

And then, of course, the John Ford, the whole John Ford angle kept it going, too.

Mm-hmm

... your, your Cork man or whatever it might be, the Galway Advertiser, the local commu- the community healthcare facility, the funding for the local school.

That's where you make your play, and having lost education, uh, and also lost health, and now this has really, uh, put the, the i- ire amongst some Fianna Fáil backbench TDs.

Back when the country was falling down with money, before it all went wrong in the late 2000s, uh, there was a, a particular way that Fianna Fáil used to handle the sports grants, where a local TD would bring up a group, and they would meet in a Dublin hotel and kind of be held for an hour or so, and then the TD would walk in with the relevant minister who, who had all the, the money and the purse strings.

Coming to you from the Rakhine Woods in Athenry.

Delighted to welcome David Connors from the Galway Advertiser to us this week with Niall.

And David, you're welcome back.

Thanks a million, Sean.

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