Alan Barrett
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389 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Alan Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't have to make decisions like that.
And, you know, I mean, I'd be lying if I said I'm not torn on these.
I think these are terribly, terribly difficult issues.
Hazel, you're a politician.
Indeed.
Well, of course, today, I'm right in saying today is Trump's 80th birthday.
So normally at a point like this... Did you not see the bunting all around the RT as you walked in?
Normally in a thing like this, we'd all be saying, and happy birthday and everything like that.
But I don't know, maybe Cormac wants to say or something like that.
But I think we're all like a little bit shy.
But actually, the particular article that you mentioned, it's not really about Trump as such.
It's more about people having very active lives at the age of 80.
Now, apparently a lot of snoozing and dozing off and stuff like that.
But nevertheless, you know, he is more active, certainly, than a lot of us.
But the article is really about longer lives generally, healthier lives, you know, well into people's 70s and into their 80s.
And this question then, which comes up periodically about whether or not is that actually a good thing for people to keep working later in life?
And is the old notion of sort of retirement, you know, somewhere between the ages of 62 and 67 or 68, is that a good idea?
Now, just by coincidence, earlier on in the week, I was helping, there's a great study in Trinity, the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, where they're tracking 50 people 50 years and older and interviewing them every year and really sort of getting a sense of ageing in Ireland.
I was helping them do the celebration there by participating on a panel.
But some of the research actually I've done with that data, one of the most surprising papers I ever wrote was to look at what happens to people's mental health when they retire.
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