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Oct 14, 2026
Peter CinnamondHOST
Like, it's interesting you talk about the Boxing Day conversation, and I think that's gonna come up time and time again on this podcast o- over the next while.
Peter CinnamondHOST
And that is, is it still as big a deal? But we all think of Linfield, Glentoran, and of course there's big crowds at North Belfast, uh, Mid Ulster if either team are, are in the top flight or both of them are.
Peter CinnamondHOST
I mean, that, that's usually a big attendance.
Peter CinnamondHOST
Is it so big that you couldn't claw back through any more fans across the, the piste? Maybe.
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Peter CinnamondHOST
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Peter CinnamondHOST
I mean, is the Battle of Midway o- one of the moments of the, of the podcast recently? I think it is.
Ross WelshGUEST
But most Googled term in Mid Ulster over last week I believe.
Ross WelshGUEST
[laughs]
Mirela FyfeHOST
And that is the concern of Hugh McCloy, brought to the inquiry today.
Mirela FyfeHOST
Hugh is a father from Mid Ulster whose young child was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2023.
Mirela FyfeHOST
His family's experience has given him a very personal understanding of what it means to search for answers about health and exposure.
Mirela FyfeHOST
He has been careful not to attribute those cancers to the proposed mine or its exploration activities.
Hugh McCloySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I'm not saying that the proposed delirium mine or the expiration caused those cancers.
Hugh McCloySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But in the same hand, if something caused those cancers, there's not enough data to rule it out, along with other things.
Hugh McCloySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I'm saying our experience here in Mid Ulster should teach everyone a lesson, including the commissioners, about collecting evidence when you have the chance.
Hugh McCloySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Because when families ask questions, we don't have the data is a very different answer from we have investigated and ruled that out.
David McCannHOST
There we go.
David McCannHOST
And we had, and we also should say about southern perspectives, just Tim, we did have Leo Varadkar up at Mid Ulster District Council, and he was making comments about how Northern Nationalists were left behind by the southern political establishment, so that, so that view-
Tim CairnsPANELIST
Yeah
David McCannHOST
... doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't go, it doesn't just go one way.
Richard RamseyHOST
And we've got the likes of the FLA and what was a pretty buoyant summer for some sort of sectors and we'll wait to see how that feeds through.
Jim FitzpatrickHOST
Yeah, and when we look at the sectors, I mean, sometimes you do get a different picture between, you know, what... we're used to, say, as consumers, what we interact with, and then what is actually driving the economy when you perhaps get out of the city and get into kind of like the likes of Mid Ulster where those engineering firms might be, have a totally different focus in the global market, which is doing well.
Jim FitzpatrickHOST
So we're seeing production figures doing well, manufacturing doing well.
Jim FitzpatrickHOST
And it's some of that when we look at, you're talking about communications and kind of software and even the hardware behind software.
Matthew CooganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, I just think they're raking up old ground and dragging it through, and, like, the, the young people coming up now doesn't want to see any of this, you know?
Cathal MoloneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, Cathal Moloney, MP from Mid Ulster.
Cathal MoloneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, my thoughts are that we're now here on the Garvaghy Road, which is now day five or six.
Cathal MoloneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm not sure anymore because it's been such a long time.
Eddie PattersonGUEST
A fantastic time.
Eddie PattersonGUEST
And I think it was, um, probably the only season I think that the, the, um, all the, the County Down teams or Mid Ulster were invited into the County Antrim Shield.
Johnny McMurrayHOST
Right.
Eddie PattersonGUEST
And we beat Ballymena in the final.
Eddie PattersonGUEST
You know, Linfield, Glentoran, Cliftonville, Crusaders.
Eddie PattersonGUEST
Um, and, and Portadown all were invited in at that time, and it was, uh, it was great.
Eddie PattersonGUEST
We, uh, Newry, we won a few Mid Ulster cups as well.
Eddie PattersonGUEST
Uh, and then to win those kind of thing, you've beaten top teams again-
Lydia O'KaneHOST
We've been seeing the tensions at Drumcree, and I just wanted to ask you, from your experience, how can church leaders be mediators or be indeed a constructive voice in these situations?
Donal McKeownGUEST
I think the role of church leaders in political crisis like this is very much to have conversations going on between themselves, leaders particularly in the, in the sort of Armagh area, Mid Ulster area.
Donal McKeownGUEST
Conversations at personal level to see what they can do together.
Donal McKeownGUEST
And that's one of the great strengths certainly of the Church in, in Derry, that long before my time with Bishop Daly, Edward Daly, and James Mahaffey, the Church of Ireland, they were way ahead of their time in the sense of doing projects, doing public work together, of speaking clearly into the situation in, in, in Derry.
Richard SullivanGUEST
Marty challenged that and said, well, hang on a second, you know, there's more to this than meets the eye.
Richard SullivanGUEST
It's not just about God and Ulster and the tricolour and all that.
Richard SullivanGUEST
So he went under the skin of people.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
And his career showed that this was happening on both sides of the divide, both in republicanism and loyalism.
Billy WrightSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And these past few years have been a living hell to me.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
What evolved there in terms of his coverage of Billy Wright?
Richard SullivanGUEST
Well, Billy Wright was, as you know, a notorious figure in Mid Ulster.
Richard SullivanGUEST
He was the brigadier of the UVF in Mid Ulster, which Marty grew up in or lived in Lurgan.
Thomas777GUEST
And once, interestingly, at the end of Operation Banner, if you allow, again, the... parallel analogy or comparative analysis.
Thomas777GUEST
Once the British security forces and special branch were able to develop intel, particularly within Belfast, but also within Mid Ulster, although not to the same degree, and identifying Republican cadres They began targeting them in a very effective capacity.
Thomas777GUEST
That was instrumental in bringing the IRA to the table, okay? And the infrastructure, the cadre infrastructure of the National Liberation Front was being irreparably damaged by the Phoenix program.
Thomas777GUEST
And to be clear, the Phoenix program, it wasn't born of foolishness and conceptual illiteracy of the sort that's Endemic today where some random guy is branded a terrorist and and then, you know, U.S. SWAT forces kick in his door and shoot him in the face or some some religious leader in Iran is randomly declared to be the final boss of of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
ThomasGUEST
And once, interestingly, at the end of Operation Banner, if you allow, again... parallel analogy, or comparative analysis.
ThomasGUEST
Once the British security forces and special branch were able to develop intel, particularly within Belfast, but also within Mid Ulster, although not to the same degree, in identifying Republican cadres, they began targeting them in a very effective capacity.
ThomasGUEST
That was instrumental in bringing the IRA to the table, okay? And the infrastructure, the cadre infrastructure of the National Liberation Front was being irreparably damaged by the Phoenix program.
ThomasGUEST
And to be clear, the Phoenix program, it wasn't born of foolishness and conceptual illiteracy of the sort that's endemic today where some random guy is branded a terrorist and then U.S. SWAT forces kick in his door and shoot him in the face or some religious leader in Iran is randomly declared to be the final boss of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and then some IDF drone murders him and there's a Greek chorus of idiots who love Trump declaring that Iran has been vanquished because the final boss is dead.
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