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Sean Davey's Gulliver, a choral symphony, is what we've been talking about this evening, and thanks for taking the time to come in and talk to us on Arena.

Arena on RTE Radio One.

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I said, I'll have to listen to RT Radio 1 and find out what was going on.

So apparently it was a Google Cloud outage on yesterday, disrupting Revolut and several other businesses.

It wasn't just Revolut.

This year it's 40 years of the RTE short story competition in honour of Frances McManus and tonight the 2026 shortlist gets underway on RTE Radio 1.

10 stories chosen by Jan Carson, Tristan Rosenstock and Angela Flannery from almost 2,500 entries.

Here's a little taste of the first one.

We are back tomorrow night from seven.

As usual on Arena, John Creedon is up after the news.

Arena on RTE Radio 1 and RTE Listen.

And she was really helpful in the early stages of getting this to, you know, a treatment that was really strong that we could go to the BBC with and kind of be confident that you know, they wouldn't want to miss out on doing this with us.

And then also it was, it became in my head more clearly a investigative, sorry, a long form series, 10 parts when I got Cass involved because I just knew how good Ciarán Cassidy was at at editing documentaries, like his ability to kind of tell stories has, you know, his radio documentaries and RT Radio 1 were phenomenal.

They were world class, you know.

And I think he's like one of the best documentary, audio documentary makers to ever come out of Ireland.

But the BBC was perfect for us because he's also...

Gibney was really connected to British swimming.

Really, you know, he was really linked to major figures that we uncovered as the podcast went on, like Charlie Wilson and Hammy Smith and these kind of major figures that were in UK swimming that were... you know helped Gibney out but Gibney also had that archive you know there was an archive of Gibney not only in RTE but also like on BBC Northern Ireland that meets up there and so you know really how the doors that the BBC open for you and you know the kind of attitude people in Ireland have which I still think exists to hearing that okay this is on the BBC as opposed to an Irish media for better or worse you know it opens up doors and then I think that was a really helpful thing to us to kind of get interest and for survivors actually to come forward or people who told the story in their minds who told the story and was really difficult for them to do that, to convince them to do it again, that was one of the ways of doing it, you know.

So I thought the BBC was kind of perfect for us.

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Good evening, listener.

I'm not going to lie.

20 county finals took place with comprehensive coverage on RTE Radio and online.

The man who anchored the ship here at Radio 1 was Damien O'Meara and he's here in studio.

How are you, Damien? How are you doing, Brendan? How are you? Your voice is so familiar.

Now you know why I have a face for radio.