Sunday Independent

So among the people they talk to are Sharley, uh, Bodilow from County Offaly, who searched for months for affordable accommodation and eventually had to commute four to five hours per day because she couldn't find somewhere affordable to live in Dublin, and eventually found a place here in the Midlands, but with a long, long commute.

[paper rustles] Uh, Tommy Fleming was interviewed in the Irish Independent yesterday, or more accurately, the Sunday Independent.

It is six months since those revelations about him leaving his wife, Tina, or she leaving him, depending on who you ask.

They were married for twenty years, and he still insists she knew before tying the knot that he had previously been in love with a man, and he maintains he told her he was bisexual.

She denies this and claims he concealed all of that, and it all came out very acrimoniously in a very long voicemail a few months ago.

But as it happens, Tommy has a new tour coming up.

It's called Encore, and he sat down with Barry Egan of the Sunday Independent to relive some of those experiences, and it's a really detailed look at his childhood, at the loss of his parents, at a car crash that nearly killed him, and the end of his twenty-year marriage as well.

[paper rustles] So Tina's point of view, just for the record, and she sat down with Niamh Horan of the Sunday Indo in May, saying Tommy shouldn't have stolen twenty-four years of her life.

And he is very much part of the story of the magazine.

Other younger listeners will know him as the back page of the Sunday Independent.

But his career in McGill, I think, is his finest journalism.

The work of photographer Derek Spears, a constant presence at protests in Dublin over decades, was vital to McGill too.

Gilmartin refused to tell lies for the former minister although he said he wasn't the worst of them, he had more to come and eventually as the result of Horig Flynn going on the Late Late Show and claiming that it was very expensive to run three houses and he'd never taken up any in planning bribes, that ended his career in politics very shortly afterwards.

So all of these allegations that were being published by us and by others got wind of them as well, including The Independent, Sunday Independent, on a couple of occasions before Gilmartin stopped cooperating with the newspaper.

But These stories were emerging.

The Tribunal now had a whole cast of characters they had to investigate.

who searched for months for affordable accommodation and eventually had to commute four to five hours per day because she couldn't find somewhere affordable to live in Dublin and eventually found a place here in the Midlands, but with a long, long commute.

Tommy Fleming was interviewed in the Irish Independent yesterday, or more accurately the Sunday Independent.

It is six months since those revelations about him leaving his wife Tina, or she leaving him, depending on who you ask.

They were married for 20 years, and he still insists she knew, before tying the knot, that he had previously been in love with a man.

She denies this and claims he concealed all of that, and it all came out very acrimoniously in a very long voicemail a few months ago.

But as it happens, Tommy has a new tour coming up.

It's called Encore, and he sat down with Barry Egan of the Sunday Independent to relive some of those experiences.

And it's a really detailed look at his childhood, at the loss of his parents, at a car crash that nearly killed him, and the end of his 20-year marriage as well.

Yeah.

And Brendan O'Connor actually picked it up, and it was on the front page of the Sunday Independent.

Yeah.

But I suppose that's, that's, that's pretty extreme.