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He turned 38 two weeks ago.

He made 374 Premier League appearances, 22 goals, 26 assists, 56 games in the Ayrshire City Premier Division as well at Sligo Rovers.

Stint at Blackpool.

Stint at Blackpool as well.

absolutely.

And just happened to be really good at football, which unfortunately not all of us are able to go and do.

So I think that, the perseverance that he's been through his whole career as well, going over from Sligo over to England, wasn't a kid when he went over, he was a little bit older than maybe some of the other guys who've gone and been real successes over there.

obviously went out on loan something I always remember him talking about was when he was in training and he always had to make sure that he was running more and he was as physical as all the other lads that were over there because they were just so far ahead of him as far as the technical side of things goes and he was acknowledging that and kind of said to himself well if I can't be as good at football as them right now I need to at least make sure that I'm doing more in every other aspect of the game as I can and he did that and even as you mentioned the really bad injury he got and against Wales that time and coming back from that and since then too really it's not been smooth for him on the injury front too he's been in and out an awful lot it hasn't been simple but I think if this is to be the end and as you say who's to know if it will be although those comments would lead you to believe that it is I think he can hold himself hold his head very high as far as not being involved in the most successful era of Irish football but still coming out with a lot of credit and being regarded by a lot of people who have lived through very successful periods for Irish football and they still look at him and go do you know what he's in with the others he's in with the guys who came before he's in with the guys who got to knock out stages of major tournaments and despite the fact he didn't go and do that he's still kind of led by example and I think that's another thing too when you talk about the leadership and all that sort of stuff And the knock-on of that is hopefully something that other players will have picked up on.

escaping everything I am on dnd as the kids say once this podcast is finished so yeah I'm excited excited I love a bit of a bit of a winter holiday

Yeah I'm very very jealous back here in Sligo it has been absolutely horrendous rain and wind for the last couple of days and having not lived in Sligo in a good I want to say like 12 years now I've become very accustomed to Dublin where people get overexcited about like a little breeze whereas here I was like okay this is actually what they mean when they say there's a storm.

Scarlett you were cooking up a bit of a storm on the pitch last week as well? Oh, there's the point.

We actually came up with that on the fly.

And I was like, I relate to you, my little man.

I am in a similar boat here.

I wish I was at the lady and falling asleep rather than sitting at my couch in Sligo.

But yeah, that was very, very frustrating.

So Ireland as a colonial territory and a participant in the British Empire.

So, for example, Westport House, which was the seat of the Earls of Sligo, has a lot of interpretation now on their ownership of Ireland.

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out to you this week on the beach with the Gardaí from the Sligo Leitrim Division.

Garda, John Morgan is with us of the Community Policing Unit with the Gardaí in Drumshambo and County Leitrim.

John, you're welcome.

Thanks for joining us.

We're going back a couple of weeks to start off.

There was an assault in a Sligo hotel that you're looking for information on.

Yes, indeed.

Our first appeal is in relation to an assault that took place on Sunday the 11th of October 2026 at the Riverside Hotel in Sligo.

So there were eight officers transferred to the Donegal units.

There were seven officers transferred to the units in Sligo and Leitrim.

And proportionally, that's going to have a significant impact because just in Sligo Leitrim alone, that represents almost a 50% increase in the number of officers available within traffic units.

There's another class coming out of Temple Moor, and the plan is for that class to also allow further transfers to other road policing units nationwide.

Now, obviously, the number of road deaths is a very unacceptable figure, going the wrong way in terms of the number of fatalities on our roads.

escaping everything I am on dnd as the kids say once this podcast is finished so yeah I'm excited excited I love a bit of a bit of a winter holiday

Yeah I'm very very jealous back here in Sligo it has been absolutely horrendous rain and wind for the last couple of days and having not lived in Sligo in a good I want to say like 12 years now I've become very accustomed to Dublin where people get overexcited about like a little breeze whereas here I was like okay this is actually what they mean when they say there's a storm.

Scarlett you were cooking up a bit of a storm on the pitch last week as well? Oh, there's the point.

We actually came up with that on the fly.

And I was like, I relate to you, my little man.

I am in a similar boat here.

I wish I was at the lady and falling asleep rather than sitting at my couch in Sligo.

But yeah, that was very, very frustrating.

Of course, Carla Strand will be heading to Castle Bar to play Davids on the 7th of November and then it's going to be two weeks later for Hedford.

They'll have a home fixture against Owen Moore-Gales from Sligo in Tum Stadium in what will be a Connacht Junior semi-final.

Hedford could go a long way in the Junior, Brian.

Yeah, absolutely.

So we have Karen Casey.

We have Brie Jean from Sligo, incredible harpist.

Ethna Ní Chachan, or Ní Cé, who actually has, she's living in Kilkenny now and she's teaching Shanno singing.

And Claire Sands in the round for the concert for the whole night.