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... all these crazy policies.

Uh, we were asked about sanctuary policies, and he actually said that localities, counties, and cities can't have their own sanctuary policies.

Now, that's crazy.

Anyone that's lived in New York knows that s- knows that the city of New York has been a sanctuary for far too long, and that just shows that he's, he's pandering to a far left group, and that's why he's running with Tish James, and he's donating and supporting and campaigning with people that sponsored bail reform.

Um, these are crazy, crazy policies that are creeping up from the city of New York with Mamdani, and we can't let it go in Putnam County.

We have a, a rogue third-party candidate who's running for the sole purpose to try to siphon away votes, uh, and try to spoil this election.

Tell 'em, tell 'em about your tax cuts.

Republican.

Now, I wanted to...

I just wanna set it up before we actually have him on.

Uh, Diego Rodriguez Ordonez of Brewster, New York, faces multiple charges after he allegedly robbed a Kent convenience store and assaulted a clerk at that point.

And so the, the crime and the sanctuary city-type people are, are allowing this to happen.

And also, we're gonna have Blakeman on later, and they... all these guys talk to each other, and it's very important.

And Trump said with Blakeman in, in the government's mansion, the president declared that within two months you'll go from a high-crime city to almost no crime at all.

Tell me, tell them about your tax cuts.

Can you translate those codes for us?

Sure.

Your 7700 is a little transponder thing.

It doesn't make a radio call, but it does send a signal to the air traffic controllers looking at radar on the ground.

They immediately know the aircraft is in trouble.

If it goes to 7500, there's a whole host of different protocols because that means unlawful interference and or piracy or something has been done wrong with the aircraft, like a hijack.

And they will involve military people as well because there are responses to it.

Who's responsible in that situation?

You're a classic case, of course, of someone who started, I think you were a carpet cleaner or something, weren't you? And then, you know, away you went and started a business and found yourself in a very good position where you built a massive company, made an awful lot of money, but now feel well and truly peed off about the place you live in, the place you used to call home.

It's very sad, Ian.

I think most people in my position, they don't want to leave the UK.

We love our country.

We want to stay here.

But for me personally, I've made a lot of money.

I've sold my business.

The red tape that is involved in running a business is insane.

So is there any technological silver bullet that can solve the aviation emissions problem?

Not in the short term, to be honest, because they're still making aircraft that need liquid fuels, you know? Su-sustainable aviation fuel will bring great benefits when they do get it up and running, and there's a huge effort to make that happen worldwide, not just in the European Union.

But they need government subvention from that point of view.

But, but Anton, can I go back a tiny bit and say, look, Ireland is a unique case, and Dublin in particular.

Because we are an island nation, we can't connect ourselves to the train system, as is the case now in Europe.

Last year, according to the CSO, six point four million tourists came into us, and they spent five point five billion euros.

And to, to cancel aviation tomorrow, which we could do, would remove four percent of the emissions of the world, which is, is, it's not insubstantial from that point of view.

Kevin can I add this is probably an impossible question to answer off the top of your head but where does Katie rank in terms of the best ever Irish boxers

A lot of people would have had Taylor first for, you know, for a very long time.

She's an undisputed champion now three times.

I'd say you could go back to her first one and people already had her cemented as the first.

It's a question I've tried to answer a few times.

It's obviously a difficult one.

I think everybody has the goat as a guy called Jimmy McLaren and Babyface McLaren who fought back in the 20s and 30s.

Yeah, he looked out of shape as well, didn't he?

so kevin how much help do we need externally from other actors

we need a fair bit the the complaint i made many times in many many years ago was the fact that we don't have for example a first time a full-time minister for defense that's not to reflect on the current minister or anybody before that but you can't take security seriously if you don't have a full-time minister for defense like that that's just one thing like that nor do we have a secret service and people say stop banging on about that But you have a filtered system from the Garda Síocháin and the military service and they're both very good like that.

But we don't have what every other country west of Albania has.

And that's the civil run civil service to filter the stuff out and give it to the appropriate ministers and say, this is our assessment of what goes on.

These are the threats.

We don't have that.

We've got the Garda Síochána, whose job is to prosecute people in many cases.

Kevin, what about personnel? Do we have the people to do the

When did you first encounter Katie, Kevin, as a

journalist? Obviously very much aware of her from the beginning, really.

Or certainly once she started going to European and World Championships and winning.

Probably first came across her in 07 or 08, but my first... great memory really of coming across Katie Taylor would be before the she fought in an exhibition fight on the Bernard Dunn versus Ricardo Cordoba card at the what's now known as the three arena the O2 at the time and obviously Brian Peters put together some sort of like a pro-am and so Kenneth Egan was supposed to box on it Ray Moylett did box on it and a couple of other amateurs Paddy Barnes I think But Taylor was fighting against the Canadian champion Caroline Barry and it was broadcast live on RTE as well.

It was probably one of her first times appearing on the national broadcaster and the fight was incredible.

The crowd was electrified.

The atmosphere for the Dunn fight was unlike anything I've ever seen in an Irish ring but it was very much close to it for the Taylor fight.

But also,

When did you first encounter Katie, Kevin, as a

journalist? Obviously very much aware of her from the beginning, really.

Or certainly once she started going to European and World Championships and winning.

Probably first came across her in 07 or 08, but my first... great memory really of coming across Katie Taylor would be before the she fought in an exhibition fight on the Bernard Dunn versus Ricardo Cordoba card at the what's now known as the three arena the O2 at the time and obviously Brian Peters put together some sort of like a pro-am and so Kenneth Egan was supposed to box on it Ray Moylett did box on it and a couple of other amateurs Paddy Barnes I think But Taylor was fighting against the Canadian champion Caroline Barry and it was broadcast live on RTE as well.

It was probably one of her first times appearing on the national broadcaster and the fight was incredible.

The crowd was electrified.

The atmosphere for the Dunn fight was unlike anything I've ever seen in an Irish ring but it was very much close to it for the Taylor fight.

But

Kevin, how will it go tomorrow night? Do you think it'll go the distance and will our girl prevail? Good morning.

Good morning, PJ, and all the listeners.

How are you doing? I would imagine we're teed up for a very successful final fight for Katie Taylor.

Flora Pilly was kind of plucked from obscurity, really, in France.

Now, she comes with an undefeated record, 12-0, and she's 11 years Katie's junior.

But the class they've operated in is totally different, be it in the amateur or the professional category.

And, you know, Taylor is a year out of the ring.

well in latter years Kevin she tends to slug the fight out and win to sheer grit rather than post like you said posting the knockouts but she's still she's still capable of it like give her the right opening and she's in

Is that just shows you the kind of the magnitude of perhaps maybe Ireland's greatest ever sports person?

Ireland's greatest ever sports person.

That's another debate, but definitely her magnitude in Ireland.

Yeah, I mean, like... it's hard to believe that the Olympic games, the first Olympic games that Taylor went to was 14 years ago.

And how big a deal was that? So that's a long, long time in the spotlight.

Like it's been well documented at this stage that it's coming up on 25 years since her first, since the first sanctioned female fight in Ireland, when she took on Alana Audley at the national stadium on Halloween night.

Um, But she started picking up European and world titles very shortly after that, you know, just out of her teens.

She has gotten into some of those slogfests, maybe to her detriment in some of those fights, but at the same time, you want the average supporter to be able to consume this in a way that's understandable and points in boxing is not very understandable from the average sports fan's point of view so in terms of like actually enjoying it I would love to see Katie actually properly get into it but we'll have to wait and see in terms of the results so we're all expecting a Katie win but the question on all our minds is what happens if she loses here Kevin?

Let's

go ahead.

We've we've we've been more accomplished.

I've been more accomplished on tax cutting efforts than any of our neighbors and anyone in our Putnam County, really, in our history.

But the truth is, it's to do that.

You know, people say they're going to do those things.

It's hard.

Tell me about it.

Go ahead.

We've we've we've been more accomplished.

I've been more accomplished on tax cutting efforts than any of our neighbors and anyone in our Putnam County, really, in our history.

But the truth is, it's to do that.

You know, people say they're going to do those things.

It's hard.

You have to stand tall, and in some cases, even against an entrenched establishment and members of your own party.

Tell me about it.

Go ahead.

We've been more accomplished.

I've been more accomplished on tax cutting efforts than any of our neighbors and anyone in our Putnam County, really, in our history.

But the truth is, to do that, you know, a lot of people say they're going to do those things.

It's hard.

You have to stand tall, and in some cases, even against an entrenched establishment and members of your own party.

So we've been very effective, and I think the biggest example is in the first three to six months of me taking office as county executive, we were challenged by the city of New York.

Tell me about it.

Go ahead.

We've we've we've been more accomplished.

I've been more accomplished on tax cutting efforts than any of our neighbors and anyone in our Putnam County, really, in our history.

But the truth is, it's to do that.

You know, people say they're going to do those things.

It's hard.

You have to stand tall.

Tell me about it.

Are we now a bit clearer about what happened last month?

Yes, indeed, Rachel.

Th- this, uh, aircraft type is, uh, obviously very common.

The engine is a thing called the CFM56.

To be specific, it was a 7B26 model of that engine.

And just to put it in context, this is one of the most reliable turbofan, uh, engines of its type in the world.

It's used in 737s, Airbus 320s, some 340s, and an awful lot of military aircraft of the US forces.

Was there any way, then, that this could have been prevented?

Kevin, what is the NTSB saying?

Anton, well, they're saying that it looks like a piece of the fan blade disintegrated, which is what I thought might be the cause.

But it looks as if there might've been some damage done to that by a bird strike, a bird ingestion, but they're still investigating that.

So the aircraft then, uh, you've lost a blade.

The blade disintegrated, punched a hole through the casing and, as we know, then punched a hole through the window, missing the passenger's head and burying itself in the u- upstairs luggage compartment.

He was very lucky in one way because the aircraft was only through 15,000 feet, which is, uh, the level of oxygen, uh, and air is half as dense as it is on the ground, and it was cruising at, climbing at 250 knots or thereabout.

So it wasn't cruising at 30,000 feet and, you know, 500 knots or whatever.

But again, these engines, they, they fire frozen chickens at them to make sure that they can take bird strikes.

Uh, people will look at the score line and feel it was a pretty comprehensive win, but what a battle.

It wasn't a comprehensive win.

Uh, you know, I, I, I suppose y- you've used the right terminology there, in a battle.

The conditions were very, very difficult, and it was nip and tuck for long, long periods.

And we did probably pull away in the last 20 minutes or so, but for 40 minutes of that game, it was a real, real battle.

Um, I suppose the, the one thing that made a difference for us today was, um, I, I told the boys be brave and, uh, play with the shackles off.

And, and we did that because I think we got a number of two pointers, uh, in the first half, and again the second half and, and, and that was the difference in the game today.

What's different about Breaffy this year? What have you tried to do? What have you tried to change maybe to find those, those in- those inches, those percentages?

What was it like for you when you were practising?

Well, I came in 1990 and I had never been in Duncannon before and barely heard of it.

And it took a little while to get used to it and settle in, but I got some good friends.

James and Sarah MacDonald up in Tobinstown, Ramsgrange.

We wouldn't be here only for them.

They took us under their wing and gradually I practised on the main street for a while and then in turret house here behind me for three or four years and then built my own practice and it developed very very well it was very very very busy and uh for the first 14 or 15 years and then care doc came in which made life a little bit easier i had a great colleague in dr john cox over in feathered as well and we worked extremely well together and well always looked out and looked after each other

on

the medical profession, the demands on the health care have grown hugely with preventative medicine, with people being much more conscious of their health, people wanting... naturally to live longer.

Kevin, first of all, explain exactly what this system is, would you?

Yeah, I will indeed, Anton.

Good morning to you.

Um, all of the aircraft, civil and military, come down through the clouds, as you know, and for years and years, they've been doing a thing called, uh, precision approach to a runway using instrument landing systems.

You know, all our aircraft, Aer Lingus or Ryanair, whatever it might be, daily they use this system, and it's worked very well, by day and by night.

And they come down to a particular thing called a minimum decision height, or the decision height decides if the pilots can look ahead from the instrumentation they're using on the instrument landing system, can they see the runway lights by day or by night? And if they don't, and there's a fixed height above the airport at which they must make a decision, they go around and do another circuit or go to a diverted airport if they have to, if they can't see the runway.

This machine, this Falcon Eye Combined Vision System, is an add-on to the navigation system they have.

Is that therefore a problem for a jet that is meant to be getting heads of state sometimes into places, let's say, like Ukraine or nearby, and that is meant to be doing air ambulance services under pressure?

Does that operation, is that a blueprint for how Daniel Kinahan is likely to be returned?

Probably it would be.

I would certainly think it would be.

There's on- only so many ways you can go from Dubai to Dublin in that regard.

But if, if they want to change things, they might change the airports, for example.

Perhaps they'll land a military aircraft in a military airport because we have such good contacts with our friends in the European Union from that point of view.

So they might not land at the islands, as I have suggested, which would be the simple way to do it.

... where will it land, and, and what happens next?

How big an operation would it be for the Air Corps?

Well, it's a dawn-to-dusk operation because, of course, uh, the, the trick is to get as many buckets of water from whatever source it might be, be it a lake or a river or even the sea in some case, depending where they are.

So it's very flexible.

The Bambi bucket the Air Corps uses, it's, uh, 1,225 liters of capacity, just about a metric ton, and as I say, it can take any, any s- and the trick is to get it from that source as quickly as it can to the s- to the s- the, uh, fire location, be it a hotspot or otherwise, and that's done by working out maps in advance and saying, "This is where we want you to go," and you can do the best business by doing targeted drops wherever the fire service wants it.

But it's of a particular kind of flying because a number of things take place.

First of all, the weight of the helicopter gets, you know, instantly very heavy as soon as they lift it, and then as soon as you drop it, the aircraft, uh, gets lighter, you know, by that weight again, so you've got to do it repeatedly, and that has a, um, an effect on the engines and on the rotor blades and on the flying characteristics of the aircraft.

And then of course you have to drop the water exactly where you've agreed to do so, and that itself is an accurate piece of flying required.

I mean, th- th- that, uh, that in and of itself sounds hazardous

And I think that, you know, it is a logical step for the guards to use these, not just to crack down on scramblers and drones, but as probably first eyes on the scene for any situation.

Indeed, this is something of a game changer.

We're all familiar with the Garda air support unit with the fixed wing and two helicopters over the various towns and cities over the last 20 or more years now.

But that was quite an expensive operation and was very limited because, you know, you only had them in certain places.

The Garda Síocháin have invested allegedly now in 21 of these drones.

They're called DJI Mattress 30Ts or DJI Enterprise 2, as far as I can tell.

These are a quadcopter, quite big, but they'd fit in a rucksack if they fold up in the boot of a car or a van or that kind of thing.

Yeah.

Are you surprised by this, by this news, uh, announced today from Aer Lingus?

I'm very surprised and, and, and very unhappy about it in some ways.

It's a strange time to be making these decisions because, of course, it's the middle of the summer season, and they have the ads on television, as you know, on radio, "For 90 years, Aer Lingus," celebrating what they've done over the years.

And it's in the, in contrast to what the low-cost carriers do, which of course is lower the prices to increase the volume of people flying, and they make seven or eight or $10 per person, whatever it might be, and they do have the same strategic requirement to say a route will prove itself within a year or not.

I will agree that the low-cost carriers are ruthless when it comes to pulling flights away, but not like this.

They would never leave it gone for one or two years.

Aer Lingus are gonna stop, uh, flying two A330 wide bodies and four long-haul A320s, as far as I know.

And what will, sorry, what will happen to those aircraft? And is that then, is that less a decision for Aer Lingus, it's more a decision for IAG then?

Yeah.

What happens is, uh, you know, unlike the air shows where they paint sky, words in the sky with, with smoke and that kind of thing, you know, it was the opposite of that because he had to work out a plan, I think, to s- to get the words, "I'm bored," you follow it after the flight is finished by looking at the track on Flightradar.

Most of these tracks we follow now are straight lines, you know, from point A to point B, across the Atlantic, across Ireland to London or whatever.

Maybe a curve or two or a, or a turn or two if they're going to be held in the orbit before landing.

In this case, he did a few orbits, and he obviously got tired and went down and over the Wirral, which is the, uh, you know, part of the terrain over there.

Had a wonderful view, but to do it, it isn't quite as simple as it looks because at 120 knots, he's cruising along in this lovely aircraft.

He's being paid well, he can't be bored, and he works out before he takes off, I think, "How do I spell the word in script, I'm bored?" By, he'd have to go left, right, turn a left, and spell the words in script so it's not, uh, block capitals as such.

The, a- a- actually, before I leave you go, the, the, um, [laughs] you have unexpected, that incident that took place, it was, I think it was on a Ryanair flight, where the window just kind of fell out on the plane.