Kells

And George Williams is an antiques restoration specialist.

He's also a historian and he hails from Kells in County Mead.

So welcome one and all.

Owen, we'll start with you maybe.

The Irish Independent reports that Housing Minister James Brown is in a budget battle to increase the Help to Buy tax refund for first-time buyers to €50,000.

The Times property section has an article about a 99-year-old man, Barney Daly, who is selling the house in Kells, County Meath, that he has lived in for seven decades.

The Independent reports that the number of people aged 100 or older in Japan has surpassed a record 100,000. cute is the word for the red panda cub pictured on the front page of the times one of two a male and a female born in june at photo wildlife park the photograph by michael o'sullivan has him or her peeping out of a round hole the independent has the same photograph but on an inside page The examiner has a different picture by the same man.

The paper says that the park is inviting visitors to help choose names for the cubs and, as they say, be in with a chance to win one of two annual passes.

And I have a very, a good friend, John Olihan.

And John is an actor and he's from Kells in County Meath.

And he said he used to go down to Eamon Carr's house.

Eamon played drums with Horslip.

Beautiful harmonising, and Trina would play the harpist's chord, which was unusual.

And they originally came from the Gaeltacht, and they were settled, I think, in Kells in County Mead in the Gaeltacht area.

And it was from their father they learnt the music, and they were Irish-speaking family at home, and they were kind of unique in their harmonisation at the time.

And I've always loved their music.