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So they got as far as 75 this year, which was a big celebration as well.

But there's always been so much activity, as I said, when the hall opened first, it was the big dance bands, the Ernie Barbers, and it was orchestras there, it was ten-piece orchestras, and there was a singer who was, I'm trying to think of her name now, but she was a vocalist with the... with RT radio, you know, and so these bands must have cost a lot to actually bring at the time and had to travel from all over the country to Corifin.

I mean, we have social dancing at the present time and we can only afford to have one- and two-man bands, whereas these were big orchestras at the time coming to Corifin in the late 40s, early 50s.

And it tells you what a lure the hall was there.

And then Philip's father brought forward a Liverpool jersey and a can of Carlsberg and a beautiful bouquet of lilies were taken to the altar for Kim.

Now, you mentioned Bishop Cullinan gave a powerful address from the altar, but I believe before that, parish priest Father Gerry Chestnut, who has done an awful lot of media interviews, I've certainly heard him on RT radio, for example, in the days after this tragedy, he also said a few words.

Yeah, that's right.

So he paid tribute to the family.

But what's

interesting, I think, there, Oliver, is that RTE Radio had a monopoly and it was the only station, but it was the only channel.

So RTE Radio Aaron was trying to do everything for everyone, speak a bit of Irish, talk to young people, talk about news, current affairs, agriculture, etc., Whereas every other country in Europe, even in the world, had two and three and four channels or stations at this stage.

Competition.

So people think that 2FM, when it came on air in 1979, was the first, was the second channel.

So I'm aware of the irony of me saying this.

But I want you to listen to this story this morning on Morning Ireland, RTE Radio.

It's a story concerning Irish fishermen and constraints on Irish fishermen because of Ireland's membership of the European Union.

This isn't saying this, but it's absolutely true.

... last to the party if they show up at all

... to corroborate your point, I was driving the other morning, and I had RTE Radio on for who knows what reason, but [laughs] I had RTE on, and their coverage of the riots in France is, quite frankly, unbelievable.

If you, if the only news you got about what's going on in France was from RTE, you would assume that there were students just sort of picketing around the country, unhappy about sort of conditions in schools, and that's it.

That's the only picture you would have.

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I've done one of her courses online.

You will have seen her on either, like, Ireland AM or listened to her on RTÉ Radio.

She is a mine of information about money, and kind of explaining it, talking about it in really clear language so that you don't get bamboozled by it or f- frightened of it.

Because if you haven't grown up kind of in a household where finances were talked about openly, I think the [laughs] adult world of finances can be a little tricky and a little frightening, to be honest.