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So within hospital wards, you have patients two, three, four at a time on a trolley, on a corridor in a hospital ward waiting for a hospital bed.

And if you say compared to Limerick, 108 people today, that's the equivalent of four inpatient wards that are on trolleys waiting for a hospital bed.

And it's just completely unacceptable.

So what's causing this? What's causing it? I mean, is it

The NTA has not been buying new diesel buses in recent years.

Now, we have received, Cork has received around 50 second-hand buses from Limerick since 2020.

It's been charging... because Limerick has charging infrastructure in place but Cork doesn't.

A temporary depot has had to be built in Cork to allow space for electric chargers to be installed in the main depot, a project which has seen many delays.

The other two main reasons for buses not running were staffing And this is followed closely by traffic.

Some might be familiar, many might be familiar with Glensdale Abbey.

It's one of Ireland's best known private schools.

It's in County Limerick.

They have three weeks, as I mentioned, to go into Jackman Park.

So that's going to be a big one against the Limerick District League.

So that'll be the table topper because the Limerick District League beat the Desmond one by four goals to two in their game as well.

So that'll be a neat real asset test of them on the ball just to see can they step up now and actually maybe top the group.

yeah like and even like as you're saying going back to the game there like when you do go down to 10 men it's it's very hard to kind of to like maybe change formation tighten up shop maybe to make a couple of chances so like i know they got the rub of the green at the end but even going through the team there like looking at the back four you've jamie you've Jamie Roach from Avenue you've Johnson Makumu from Avenue you've you have like you've Newmarket wing back you've a bridge wing back so like three different clubs in your back four and for them to work together for like for the entire game like to throw your club aside and to play for your county so listen hats off to them brilliant and I seen Scott Kirkland captain the team as well from the bridge so listen he'll be absolutely fantastic like I won't say over the moon with that as well but it's an honour and it's a privilege as well to captain your own county too so listen hats off to them and he obviously deserved it and he's probably a great player just like on the pitch for Bridge throughout the years so like as you said bringing on the Newmarket boys there and even the fellow up top from Shannon we spoke about him last week I think he got a hat trick so like yeah so to bring on the three boys to tighten up the ship and to see it out it's great and sometimes when the other teams miss like sitters in the last few minutes it just like you feel like you just got over the line and you'd be delighted so as you said three more weeks to work with the lads the lads will gel better together but Like, not saying it would have been hard, but if they went away with a 2-1 loss, then there'd be, I won't say trouble in camp, but you know, Leds would be giving out and he should have been playing and he should have been playing.

And like we're not going to say, Clare Soccer's in like a fantastic place, but it's always great to win.

They're 1-0 up.

And as you said, if they... they're playing down in Limerick in a couple of weeks as Wallace said he knows well about it so it'd be great if they can get out of there with a draw or a win and top in a group then who would have thought it so listen fair play to them and as I said again This was taken very last minute.

But from listening to your shortwave radio, Donald Theddemore, to working at Ballygreen, what path did you take then?

Yeah, I did actually go to the Marine Radio School in Limerick.

And the Marine Radio School in Limerick was situated in Henry Street, where the new Garda Barracks is situated.

So I was there for maybe about two and a half years.

So I left there in May 1968, and I went as a trainee radio officer for six months.

Mike's father was one of the first radio officers at the new facility in 1936.

Mike was also working on the days that staff at Ballygreen faced their two greatest challenges, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 over the Atlantic Ocean in 1985, and the unprecedented events of September 11, 2001 in the United States.

Mike graduated from the Marine Radio School in Limerick and, like many of his colleagues, his career as a radio officer began at sea.

We know they've been doing these kind of festivals up and down the country.

You know, they've had great feedback in Calicilty and Rathkeel and Limerick and every place else they've worked.

And as I say, we've worked with them ourselves in the past, so we know they're high quality apps.

So we're really looking forward to it.

Yeah, they really are.

I haven't seen the ones in Limerick many times.

It's going to be quite a spectacle, I'd expect, tomorrow evening.

And it finishes at the Holy Family School.

Correct, yeah, Premier Junior.

So they'll go ahead and play the winners from Limerick.

I'm not sure if that's played yet.

But yeah, so yeah, they are going ahead and represent the county and of course get promoted up to intermediate for next year as well.

That's a significant number,

too, trying to get back.

Yeah, trying to get back midweek from Dublin, from Limerick, from wherever.

Like, you know, lads will do it, but it's hard to factor in.

I love the pearls

This performance on the 7th of November, is this the, I'm presuming this isn't a one off movies and musicals, but Candlelight, do you perform it elsewhere around in Limerick or in the regions?

Exactly.

So this would be the second performance.

So my own dad grew up on that island as a boy and then he became a river pilot himself.

So he used to take the large ship up the Shannon Estuary to Foynes and to Limerick and O'Hanesh.

So I've always believed that it's a special island.

I don't think and actually I know that there isn't an island like Scattery on the west coast of Ireland because of the wealth of sites that's on it.