Christine

And even still over here in New York, I'm looking across here, I raise bees, you know, and that was something I brought with me from my family in Ireland.

And that kind of appreciation for nature and the

the natural world.

I think the experts want to squeeze us all into little regulated rural spaces with the electric trams stopping outside your door.

That's fine for a lot of people, but I think you've got to let people kind of follow their own dreams and their own... What about then, because you would have heard then as well, Sean, who we spoke to after Teresa,

Well, there's this great thing called the free market which makes it more expensive to live in some of these places and that, I think if you make people aware of what things cost and you tell people, well, if you build a house there, you're going to have to spend 10 grand on getting the electricity lines brought in or

I'm just plucking a number out of the air.

If you make it clear that there are costs involved, you don't have to subsidise people to go live in these isolated areas.

You've got to make people realise that things have a cost.

And the markets will usually regulate these things.

Yes, there are certain things I certainly feel very strongly about.

The one I would feel very strongly about is Gaelsach's areas.

How do we expect the language to live on if people can't rear their children in the area?

However, my qualification is that I realised listening to people, even though I found it very eloquent, that the image of rural Ireland is sort of like two schools through the fields, as if it was like Alice Taylor.

Well, I find when I go down the back roads of North Kerry now, it's anything but.

You don't know what you're going to meet around the corner in terms of huge cars and Range Rovers and Land Cruisers and whatever.

And they think they're the only, well, not always, but sometimes that they're the only ones on the back road.

So you're pressing yourself up against the hedge in your small car.

You know, so I do have some sympathy for the thing about, you know, making sure that the roads end, though it turned out that was not correct in, I think it was in Bernard's son's case.

So there's, I think, a dislocation in thought about what rural Ireland is now.