Ben Tonra

Yeah, well, I have to say all this PTSD, all it does to me is reinforce my determination not to get onto a floating Petri dish.

That's it.

Absolutely.

Never keen on them in the first place, but this absolutely puts the nail in the head.

I mean, the thing I liked about Maeve's article was that she was going into the detail in terms of the Irish passengers and what capacity Ireland had to actually assist those passengers.

So now we have, through the Defence Forces, this jet that we're going to go off and bring them home, and they're going to be quarantined for 45 days, and that's brilliant.

But the pit of my stomach is just in a knot.

remembering what we went through with COVID and you can't not be concerned about it.

And the thing that reinforces that then is Luke O'Neill's piece in the Sunday Independent where I think the second last line, he says something, there's nothing to be concerned about, at least not yet.

And that, I mean, that just opens up a Pandora's box as far as I'm concerned.

100%, 100%.

And the Chinese have formed here.

I mean, they had a similar very big operation in the UK, which was busted not too recently.

And members of parliament there have been implicated there.

So it's no surprise that it's happening here.

I mean, I take your point about the camcorder not being exactly central to Irish national security.

But, you know, she's in meetings.

She's talking to people.

She will be hearing things that the Chinese might be very interested in.

And remember, too, the Chinese opened their own little police station here in Dublin not too long back until they were rumbled and had to close it down.