Poolbeg

And he told stories about growing up, you know, his childhood on a farm.

his childhood on a farm in County Kerry in the 1960s and stories about his family and one particular misadventure I think it was his very first one where he told a story about going skinny dipping in Poolbeg I think it was But the story we're going to share is one of the very last stories that he shared with us because sadly, Donal passed away in 2024.

So the story we're going to share, I think it's one that kind of really captures his personality too.

This is Donal O'Leary.

We don't have any special protected areas in the area.

As we come slightly further in on the export cable, which is going to go into Poolbeg, there is some SACs around.

So we've obviously had to be very conscious and take into account those protections, make sure that we minimise the impact as far as possible.

And that's what we've done through the planning process, the pre-engagement and then the planning application itself.

We were successful in Ores in 2023, which was great.

Looking between 75 and 60 turbines.

Let's say connection three circuits back into Poolbeg.

So right near the demand centre, that's where Airgrid wanted us to connect into.

And we also delivered the Lewis light rail system first 20 odd years ago.

Then we had Lewis cross city about 10 years ago, and we're now actively progressing other Lewis lines out to Finglas in Cork and also further lines to Lucan and Poolbeg at the moment.

It's funny, I'm always taken back to when I was going to college and I won't give away the game here at my age, but it's a bit a while back, but you used to have to get the bus in Lough Reagh.

The bus then would take about two and a half hours and then it stopped in Kinygad for about another 20 minutes.