Wicklow

It starts today at Johnstown Estate in Meath at around 11 o'clock.

We'll travel to Wicklow, Kildare, Offaly, Westmead, Clare, Limerick, Cork, Kilkenny and everywhere in between from now until Sunday.

And Anna Daly is the ambassador for the Cannonball Run.

She joins me now from Johnstown Estate.

We club, we club.

Wicklow, we've never been to Wicklow.

Have we?

You're a

man.

You left Wicklow because it was so bad.

I'm

I know you're like me and you're both not male men.

You're obviously Wicklow.

You got the chance to go home a few months ago.

It's actually probably better talking now whenever you've experienced because you've done so much outside of just being in Dublin.

Gets your, I don't know, hairs standing up like Spider-Man a little bit.

So it's kind of cool.

It's cool, but when it gets cool, when it gets like snow game, ice game, what's that like? I mean, if you're a Wicklow man, you should be able to deal with that anyway.

I mean,

Jesus, we can't get enough of it, can we? Well, looking forward to hearing all about it.

And yeah, we're preparing for our retreat, which is happening in Anamkara down in Wicklow on Sunday.

So if you're coming along, can't wait to see you.

And if not, we'll have all the news for you next week.

But Wexford,

not too dissimilar to parts of my own county of Wicklow, really does need to see a significant upgrade, particularly when it comes to trains.

And I'm working with Brian Brennan on this and I'm working with Cahill Byrne on this.

And I know one of the big issues that I hear from people is the need for the commuter train that I think is already available in Gorry, but not available in Wexford Town the early morning.

We also need to get the park and ride

facilities and the N11 crucial.

And we also need to look at things like getting the dark down to Wicklow Town will have a positive knock-on effect, I think, on traffic levels on the N11.

I mean, fares will still be a lot cheaper than they were years ago.

I think we're already seeing on our international relations more broadly a very strong approach from the Irish government to bring in our European partners more broadly.

So the UK was participating in meetings in Wicklow that Minister McEntee was also hosting and other third countries because the EU needs to work with our international partners.

So bringing people together is a fundamental with the US.

There's a lot of difficult issues that need to be resolved, but I think that needs to be true discussion, first and foremost, and towards a kind of core interest.

pressure but I'll do it I'll do

me best you know but anyway it was it was due to come in say the event was on Thursday for this client and it was due to land with us on say the Tuesday it was very tight like on the Tuesday I hadn't delivered and they said to me I was on the phone saying to the courier and they said to me come down to Wicklow and get it in Wicklow so this was at like five o'clock that day so I was waiting all day for it to arrive and it wasn't coming down I wasn't coming in I was like oh my god what am I going to do so I drove down on the way to Wicklow to the depot rang them on the way it's the mummy way and they said oh I'm so sorry it's actually in Athlone I said oh my god I said it's depot closed at seven o'clock or eight o'clock so I turned around drove to Athlone got to Athlone and I have an electric car I was sweating because the battery was nearly on zero percent then I got there And then it was closed.

No, sorry, when I got there, he turned around and says to me, no, it's in Finglas.

And I said, no, I said, are you pulling me leg or what? So it was late at this time.