Malahide

Mm

... on Monday, Tuesday, in Tullamore, and I was at the Sinn Féin one on Wednesday in Malahide.

So at this stage, Hugh, I'm, I'm, I'm all thought out, I think.

Right.

You'll always meet people in the airport.

and this family came up to me I think they're from Malahide you know and they're going we really love your stuff and the son is like 14 Milo loves it Milo's like I'm clon guys Milo's like 14 really honestly clon guys fair play Milo and and I says I was going back to London I said where are you guys going yeah we're going to get to Marbella we need some we need some have you seen the weather we need some and Milo's on Milo's on his midterms and stuff like that and then he goes by the way how do you come up with these characters no I was like you just sort of you just look around and see can you pick up and stuff but he says big fan and then they had a laugh I know yeah people just don't yeah which is good as well but honest to God like Like, my audience has changed so much.

Yeah.

And we were doing...

You have to have respect for the players to play the game.

Listen to Mal there talking, playing until he was 40 for Malahide.

Did

you know that? I had no

idea.

I knew he played for Malahide, yeah.

Because there was that video going around of him trying to coach Lionel out in Malahide as a player.

Injuries is definitely, from a playing point of view, off the back of that your body can't quite do what you want it to do, so comes great frustration.

To play as high as I did was, you know, just, it was an extra, it was an extra thing.

I finished playing rugby, I played with Malahide when I was 40.

And I really loved that.

You know, I played, geez, I must have played about 10, like I went down, played against Carlo, played against Longford, down in Goree, playing 80 minutes with lads who were 20.

Well, they're

having their thinking today in Malahide.

So they're about 500 yards from my house.

They're all in there now.

And in fact, I've had a week of, more than a week of thinking at this stage because I was in Galway for Labour.

last week from where I spoke to you and I was at the Fianna Fáil one on Monday Tuesday in Tullamore and I was at Sinn Féin one on Wednesday in Malahide so at this stage Hugh I'm all thought out I think.

A couple of things, though, struck me.

I have a piece in tomorrow's paper, but I actually probably go up online later today, which struck me about it.

I'm thought out, Alan, at this stage.

There's so much thinking over the last week of it in Galway with Labour, last week in Tullamore with Fianna Fáil, in Malahide with Sinn Féin as well.

And the thing that kind of, like, for all the thinking that they're talking about, the thing that kind of struck me is the lack of new ideas, really, from any party.

I mean, Labour threw out there this idea that everyone who, is getting child benefit, would get a food voucher worth 100 euro a month through the winter months.