Alan Barrett
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502 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard yesterday
Alan Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he stayed in Ireland after his schoolboy career.
He played with Bohemians for a while, then went on to Shamrock Rovers.
There's a great success with Shamrock Rovers, and obviously they've been the star performers.
But the notion that it is, Pico will be running out tomorrow night.
You should also say, and I should have looked up his name, but the St.
Patrick's Athletic goalkeeper is in the Ghana squad.
He was called up very, very late in the day.
But Pico is actually on the team.
No, that's absolutely true.
I mean, AI, its impact on the global economy is kind of unusual at the moment because we have to remember there's a phenomenal amount of money being invested in AI at the moment.
So when we hear things like, in spite of a lot of the economic troubles, that the world economy is actually showing a great degree of resilience, one of the reasons it's showing resilience is that you have this phenomenal amount of investment going on there.
And a lot of that's in data centres.
Exactly.
So there's a huge amount going on there.
But at the same time, that's the sort of, you know, the positive impetus.
The concerning side, as Alison has just been talking about then, is the extent to which there's this potential for job destruction.
Now, Ireland, just to add to the vulnerability of the sense of unease around this.
I mean, I've talked to my colleagues in the Institute doing work on it.
And we could end up in Ireland with the following situation.
I mean, if you think about the sort of the world economy generally.
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