is in care, and people would think that if somebody is in care of Toosled, that at least they'd be where they

were at night time.

Well, you see, it depends.

First of all, there's a huge problem about accommodation and a bigger problem about the recruitment of staff willing to do this work.

Because, you know, for the average wage plus a premium...

You don't want to get a broken nose or a broken arm or whatever.

And that's the reality.

They changed their view.

And the general assu- assumption was that, you know, with these questions over his own financial probity, that he couldn't win, but, but he did

didIf a majority of the Irish people concludes that it's in their best interests to vote in a particular way, little matters like Mr. Ahern's personal financial accounting will not st- stand in their way is my conclusion, uh, at the end of all of that.

It is almost beyond belief that, you know, the Taoiseach in early morning, when the dew is still on the grass, heads for Áras an Uachtaráin and goes into hiding, uh, to call a general election, and all these questions are flying around, and the Irish people decide not to pay too much attention, uh, to it, uh, was remarkable.

I remember knocking on a house near the courthouse in Tallaght, and a guy came out just in from work.

He was a ganger, I think it would be, on a building site.

And he said, "Well, you'll get my vote, Paddy," he said, "but I don't think you're going to win." And I said, "W- why is that?" "Well," he said, "you know the site I'm on," naming the site.

There were 600 workers on it.

And should Sinn Féin be part of that platform?

You were born in County Mayo and grew up in Ballandine near the Galway border.

Yeah, if you kicked a football over the stream, it went into County Galway, typical rural, small farming area.

Were your people small farmers? They were.

I was born a mile as the crow flies from where Michael Davitt founded the Land League.

If I ever got into the Taoiseach's office, I would have replaced those pictures with the picture of Michael Davitt, a true hero of mine.

Yeah, it was a small farming area where immigration was not a rite of passage, but a way of life.

Everywhere there was immigration.

Is that Chicago in 1967,