Colin Tobin

And I found one in Ballyvalen and I went up to visit the site numerous times and I couldn't, I was blown away like how many cars were passing the door on a daily basis.

And it was like two minutes from Murphy's Rock and very, very, very busy area.

And on paper, it should have worked.

On paper, it really should have worked.

So I went down the road with Musgraves.

We put a shop in there.

What I didn't know, and I should have done more research, what I didn't know is that five or six shops were there in the past, well-run shops, and they had failed.

And because, now the shop is still there, but the man is no longer alive, Deccy, a fantastic local-run shop, Deccy had the support of the locals, the way I do in Granabraha.

They weren't coming to me, they were going to Deccy, and rightly so too.

And that convenience store, we borrowed €120,000 from the bank, borrowed it, Brenda, I didn't have the money back then, borrowed it.

And we were about 11 months in and we were just losing money hand over fist and went up there once on the night with my partner at the time, Gavin Manning, and looked at the till and feck all there, like couldn't pay the bills the next day.

We were kind of laughing.

He says, life's too short.

Like we loved the bear.

We were in the bear.

Life's too short.

Let's pull the plug.

All right, but you do know we owe 120 grand.

Yeah, look, it's better than coming up here every evening losing money.

Might as well pull the plug now.