Wexford

I nearly put him back into the council there again a second ago.

We'll be making the way to the Amber Springs Hotel for the Fine Gael Think-In, which is taking place over the next couple of days here in County Wexford.

Also, we'll be talking to Tom Coleman.

As teenagers head back to school, getting their sleep routine back on track, it can be a challenge.

Can I remind you before we get into our opening item on the programme with Sinn Féin Councillor Aoife Rose O'Brien, our comment line is open to you on 053 914 5222 and you can text or WhatsApp us on 087 37 37 956 and that, as always, is brought to you in association with Doyle's Garage, Courtown and Enniscorthy, the main MG dealers for the county.

Can I first of all thank everybody...

Eimear and the Chief Executive of Wexford County Council Eddie Taff for making us so welcome yesterday at the council offices and this link in now for the hospitality and customer service awards but above all that they gave us an insight into the workings of the various departments and so many positive stories came out perhaps the one that really jumped out is the funding now available for the market house in Gorey I think up to 9 million between Europe and Ireland and it really is something that I'm sure is going to be welcome but there were other issues as well that were brought to our attention And we will follow up on that.

Today, then, is World Suicide Prevention Day, and a new survey is being launched in Wexford to hear directly from under-18s about their mental health and well-being.

And we won't get into this today, but we'll return to Henry's growing suspicion of Hugh de Lacy in future episodes.

FitzAldhelm landed in Wexford in 1176 and accompanying him was a returning Robert FitzSteven and Milo de Cogan.

We haven't heard both of those names for a while, so what have they been up to? Well, according to Gerald of Wales, they had both distinguished themselves in England and France, fighting in the King's Wars.

We'll catch up with Robert and Milo in future episodes, but there was also a third person at Company FitzAldhelm, John de Courcy.

So John de Courcy is an extraordinary figure and we'll start his story properly next week.

For now, just know that he is one of Fitzalthelm's entourage.

Raymond Le Gros led 30 mounted soldiers to personally greet FitzAldhelm in Wexford.

In his writings, Gerald of Wales wants us to believe that FitzAldhelm immediately regarded Raymond and his men with jealousy and decided that the Geraldine's military power is something that needed to be broken up.

And essentially people within that area are then subsequently notified of the impending warning that is likely for that area if there is the likelihood of flooding.

That wasn't forthcoming, certainly not last winter during Storm Chandra, where there was essentially no warnings issued for severe flooding in parts of Dublin and subsequently into Wexford and Wicklow.

And of course, we're touching, as you said, on that three-year anniversary essentially of Middleton in terms of flooding on that occasion, where Storm Babet left one hundred plus millimeters of rainfall falling within a twenty-four-hour period.

By Met Éireann's own definitions, that should have been a status red weather warning.

There are many nations across the world where it's highly, highly subsidised to end the gridlock and to cut emissions and to encourage people to use public transport, be that rail or bus.

And Wexford, of course, as we know, is a county where many people, many people, travel by public transport to get to Dublin to often many people working so the notion that at a time when you're trying to encourage people to do that that you increase fares by 15% is just ludicrous but it's typical of this tone deaf government tone deaf to everything that appears to be happening around the country you know the ordinary PAYE worker at the fuel crisis received nothing When you look at the agricultural sector, certainly fought their corner.

And in fairness, they achieved quite a good return.

And the transport and haulage section received a good return from the fuel protests.

I will certainly be bringing the pressure back on both Minister Canny and indeed Minister Jim O'Callaghan, who promised me on the floor of the Dáil and indeed privately that he was going to have an investigation as to his attack.

situation, particularly in Glenmore and indeed Regnus Bidogue in Carlow, which account for 70% of all the fines issued from static cameras across the country.

70% of all fines issued across the nation came from two cameras and a lot of Wexford people and a lot of people in the South East obviously were impacted by that.

These cameras, as I've said before, are very welcome.

Well, my dad went and I came back from Ireland.

So I was in boarding school in Wexford and I had a particularly bad experience.

I'm not ashamed to admit it now, but have you heard the term like a Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde drinker? but you definitely know one right so do you know the drinker that is like a nice person and then they get hammered and then they turn into like a horrible

person oh yes actually yes now i do yeah she had explained it by by a name yes I've never heard that terminology, but