Tramore

Done other shows.

Done one down in Tramore.

Done a couple for the DDs.

Shane O'Reilly invited me to the Gap and their show in Norny.

But then he'll go off thinking and go, fuck's sake, you know, I need such and such.

And the next time he meet you, cheers, Kevin, have you got such and such? I have.

It happened down in Tramore.

A dude came in and he bought a jacket.

And also what you solve is a huge manpower problem.

Because you arrive into Tramore Bay in your smuggling cutter with tons of loose bales of tobacco and tea, and you just say, right, you know, where's your receipt? Queue up, take your bale of tobacco and away you go.

You don't need 100 men standing by to unload the ship because the people in the community have done that for you.

And it was the smugglers in Ireland, I think they learned lessons from these big smuggling gangs in England.

And your ships, he goes back to the Viking longships, he calls them, you know, the Ford, the transit van of Viking society, you know.

So, yeah, we just don't get a sense of that anymore.

You're looking out in Tramore Bay today, there's no ships on the sea.

But you have to imagine 100, 200 years ago, big tall ships coming and going.

for his prep.

So he was like, I'm sorry, UK punters, let's be honest, they don't watch bloody Tramore.

They're not watching Tramore on New Year's Day, and he used to win there, so he would show up, and yeah, he was never going to capture it, whereas the DRF, they're all over in their Peaky Blinder gear, they're not wearing socks, they're drinking pints of Guinness, even though they don't know how to drink Guinness, and they're back in winners, and that's probably why there is such an outpouring to Gallup in the shop.

That'd be my thinking anyway, but...

Look, I don't know.

I tend to pick up accents as I go, so apologies if you think I'm Northern Irish by the end of our conversation.

No, actually from Waterford, from Tramore.

And I came to Australia in 2011, so 15 years ago.

I did the backpacking thing, tried to settle in Sydney with an Irish boyfriend at the time.

Hiya, Mark.

So a gang of us were out in Tramore and Rockmines a long, long time ago, and a friend of mine was talking to this lad for ages, and she kept saying, "Oh, he looks really familiar.

I think I know him from somewhere." But she was absolutely hammered, so I wasn't paying much attention to her.

Anyway, she ended up going home with him.

So, uh, I don't know what it is that he actually wants.

Maybe he's just gonna be hanging around Tramore going on the roller coasters and stuff.

I don't know.

Well, I do think as well, like, you can't remove the kind of romanticism of Ireland for many Americans.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tramore.

Yeah, Core Town.

Core Town, any places like that.