So take us through your article, please.

Yeah, so this was a few weeks ago now, but obviously it's still relevant because not much has been done about it.

This was at a meeting of the Blanchetown Welfolders, Castlenock and Ongar Area Committee.

So there's obviously councillors from the D15 area, councillors from both government and opposition parties saying that a bus link is needed.

So I have contributions from Labour councillor John Walsh, Sinn Féin councillor Angela Donnelly, Solidarity councillor John Bartol and Fianna Fáil councillor Ted Leddy.

Yeah, but the summer wasn't said when.

They didn't say which summer.

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Sorry, if you're studying the foundation of the New South, the George Walsh campaign in 1968 appealed to a lot of union workers and factory workers, people of Irish heritage, so these would be states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, what have you, and even in the Deep South.

And since the 1960s, Republicans have kind of had a lock on the working class Conservative votes.

So, you know, obviously they would have voted for JFK, certainly, but since the 1960s or whatever, in relation to social issues, they voted for the Republicans.

I mean, that's a very loose interpretation of it, but just from my own research and understanding, the Irish vote is kind of, you know, You know, it's kind of related to the working class vote or whatever, and obviously that's the Republicans' kind of strongest voter bloc.

So obviously people of Irish heritage, I mean, obviously there's no real research done into it.

If you were to interview 40 million people, it would take a hell of a long time to figure it out.

What was the makeup of the group as far as you could make out?

Mm-hmm.

And the big issue since then is that, uh, the NTA, uh, the power to transport, have announced that there's going to be an increase in fares.

Obviously, people know this.

Uh, this was our lead story in the last week's print edition as well.

But what's interesting from my perspective is councilors from Fine Gael, uh, and Fianna Fáil have criticized the government for increasing fees.

And most notably, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Fianna Fáil Councilor Dara Baron, called the, uh, proposed hikes tone-deaf.

So I think this is kind of an interesting little dynamic where I, I think Fianna Fáil councils on the ECC aren't happy with the, uh, Fianna Fáil TDs in central government.

Oh, and by the way, we want to, we want you to pay more to be on the buses." So it-

What's the solution?

I think the solution is, you know, as I said, regulation and holding them to a higher standard.

We're seeing this in Spain and France right now.

I believe the UK is about to fall suit as well.

Oh, there needs to be, you know, stricter taxation put on them.

In France, for example, this has kind of been a pet interest of mine, where I graduated from university in 2021 And I did my thesis on the 2019 Australian election and how the world's traditional media played and what the role social media played.

But in the aftermath of that, the French and Spanish governments implemented a tax where Facebook were charged basically 2% of their annual income.

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Your quote there from Gore, we have everything that we need to reduce carbon emissions, everything but political will.

I mean, that's very interesting.

I said that 20 years ago.

I mean, you know, Gore wasn't exactly the most exciting man in the world, it should be said.

I think we'd first have to tell you that as well, but he was ahead of the curve on that as well.

You know, I think we saw this in the last government, of there was a certain amount of will to try to tackle climate change.

In research for this article, I kind of noticed that, you know, for obvious reasons, because the Greens are a government, the government actually had somewhat of an interest in tackling climate change.

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And, uh, all those players that you mentioned, Tommy Conroy, Ryan O'Donoghue, Dara Byrne, Connor Loftus coming on, and he is the grandson of Dr. Mick Loftus, who played in 1951, the last time the All-Ireland went to Mayo.

That's right.

And, and, you know, all of those players you mentioned, and, and so many of them that have, that have gone before as well, and I think that was, that was captured so beautifully in Jack Coyne's speech, which was, was so impressive.

You know, to, to capture the moment as well as he did a- and to reference so many touch points, including the fact that every player that has come before have, have played their part and e- and every group that has tried to win this All-Ireland right through to the 2026 group.

But this group will obviously go down in history now.

A- and to think back to just three months ago, after the defeat to Roscommon, it really was, "Where do we go from here?" was, was the big conversation down in Mayo.

But to see the way that Andy Moran and Colm Boyle and Keith Higgins and Paddy Talley just pulled everyone together, managed to turn things around, and, and managed to, to build momentum and build belief.

And I suppose, why would they, given that Kerry are All-Ireland champions, and brilliant at that? D- did you think they could beat Kerry?

But again, if you look at the whole area of electricity generation, if you go back to Arnold Crusher and all of that, how we started out, and then with the water supply and what we went through with the whole water charges situation, I think there is a drawback to all of that in this kind of statement there is.

And actually, funny, you should mention the water charges because one of the main sources is Paul Murphy.

He said that it is, quote, it's completely unacceptable that Ishka Aaron and the government can't or won't answer these questions when they know for many years that this crisis was approaching.

Instead, the response is to make an offense to ordering people to water their gardens with a potential fine of up to €5,000.

And this is a direct quote from Murphy again.

Ordering people should not be threatened in this way when water is being used in increasing quantities by data centers.

On the contrary, water supplies to dinosaurs must be reduced during the heat wave.

It is, and again, that brings into play the whole farming community as well, who have had to provide their own small storage facilities in order to be able to keep animals satisfied with water intake.

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They're managing a complicated set of brands that are in market.

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They have retail media with a, a good number of their partners, and they have a ton of marketing.

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