But I, I felt it, both sides illustrated perhaps why they're at this stage of the competition, because we saw some quality hurling thrown in there.

Ah, there is quality hurling.

I think you can have all the tactics you want, but when it comes to a battle like that in the second half, especially, tactics go out the window.

It's about man on man.

And in fairness to Conor Everett, like everyone is probably saying it's a free here, free there.

But he let it run, and like look, there's frees probably both sides.

I know Thomastown probably feel aggrieved there.

The Shamrocks' performance levels don't seem to have changed that much, and in contrast to previous seasons where you sort of reach your prime in the latter stages.

But I, I felt it, both sides illustrated perhaps why they're at this stage of the competition, because we saw some quality hurling thrown in there.

There is quality hurling.

I think you can have all the tactics you want, but when it comes to a battle like that in the second half especially, tactics go out the window.

It's about man and man.

And in fairness to Conor Everett, like everyone is probably saying it's a free here, free there, but he let it run.

And, like, look, there's frees probably both sides.

I know Thomastown probably feel aggrieved there, but, but he let it run.

The Shamrocks' performance levels don't seem to have changed that much, and in contrast to previous seasons where you sort of reach your prime in the latter stages.

It was probably a little bit dour for a long period, but you don't care now you're in a county final.

Yeah.

It's one of these games.

Uh, semifinals, it's a local derby.

It's, um, it's gonna be close.

Um, the rain came down.

It was just a dogfight.

They weren't even born, Mark.

That's what AI does when you're really, really working with it.

When I first started working with it, I suppose that's probably a year ago now, I thought anybody that uses AI to write is a fraud.

And now I would suggest to you that anybody who doesn't use AI to write, not the original stuff, but the editing, the analytics, the research, is a fool.

And that didn't take long.

And so from between then and now, I just discover something new about it and its capabilities and its flaws and what it's best used for.

And my first recognition was prior to the work that I'm doing now, I spent a few decades in the recruiting space.

I was the owner-operator of a couple of different IT staffing companies.

into men.

I want to know about your business briefly and what sparked your idea to be a divorce coach?

Yeah, it's a big question.

I'll give you an abridged, hopefully, version.

I spent three decades, maybe closer to 35 years, as the owner-operator of a couple of different information technology staffing companies.

I spent my life helping people improve themselves professionally.

the way that I did that, you know, relationship based high touch.

Um, it was also a personal development approach as well.

doing this work, how has your relationship with risk changed as it's grown?

Barry Hill, we'll then analyze that for me.

Yeah, uh, Barry, I suppose we're very happy to get the two points.

Um, we put up a good score.

There'll be areas that we'll be obviously mindful that we could work on.

Um, I think we conceded 120-something or 120, so it's an area.

But look, the ground, the way it is, the dry, uh, injuries.

Tell Eoin are on a good bit of momentum.

Ah.

Did that cause you problems?

Yeah, it's a forwards game, Barry, to be honest, because it just moves so quick.

Injuries rise.

If they have any knock at all, you'd see that they're struggling.

You can see limping.

It was great.

We got Adrian back today and we got 40 minutes into him, which was great.

It's not that easy.

Mm

... is having to terminate someone.

But I never did it, uh, disrespectfully.

I never, I never took anyone's dignity or attempted to take anyone's dignity.

It, it was always, "Hey, the way that I do things is not the only way to do things, but it's the way I do things, and you don't seem to be aligned with the way I'm doing things.

And I think that's probably in both of our best interests if we move on, because I, I don't wanna force you to do things the way I'm doing them just because it's the way I do them.

And I think that you might find another opportunity in another environment where you could flourish doing things a little bit different that was more aligned with the way that you think and your values." So that's, you know, that's a very candid thing to say to someone.But I'm not telling somebody what they wanna hear, I'm telling somebody what I think they need to hear.

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