Ainle Ó Cairealláin

And we do our little bit, whatever we can with our own skills and abilities.

And

kind of things that inspire us and then you do it for as long as you can and you pass it on to the next group.

I was for sure.

Like next year, the podcast is going to be going for 10 years.

The first episode was in 2017.

It hasn't been consistent, but it has always been there.

And we're putting a big effort into it now.

But if we're talking about growing up, like I remember growing up in the offices of LA, the newspaper.

And back then, everything was so sort of analog.

Like you're in there, they were cutting out the articles, cutting out the photographs, putting them down on a piece of paper and putting it all together, like using a scalpel and a print stick and then photocopying it and then sending it off to the printer and then getting it printed and then delivering it to the people who were around Belfast by bicycle and sending it out in the post to the people who had subscriptions, which is ultimately kind of what kept the newspaper going for so long.

And looking back at it now and speaking to my dad and other people who were involved in that project and the other projects that they were involved in also, they all came out of necessity.

There was a gap there.

There was a community that was being underserved, a community that...

wasn't able to depend on anyone to come in from the outside to provide what they needed.

So they took the initiative and they set it up for themselves.

Like, they set it up themselves for the community that they were a part of.

And in terms of, like, the podcast and the other stuff that I'm involved in, that's the essence of it, really.

When I think about...

the podcast I mean I started the podcast primarily because I was just so curious to sit down with people and talk to them people who are doing interesting things yeah and a lot of the initial episodes are just my mates that I invited that I wanted to sit down with and like do this basically because exactly you know like it's not very often you get as we know not very often you get to sit down with someone for an hour and just talk to them about things that they're doing it's true we've been friends for years and when was the last time we talked for a whole hour