Daniel Ennis
speaker
436 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Daniel Ennis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like it brought me to where I am now.
You know, I have a family member that's kind of...
went down the wrong road and were similar in age.
And if it wasn't for that, like football or that football pitch, you know, I don't know where I'd be now, Clare.
You know, I certainly wouldn't be sitting in Dáil Éireann.
So it's, when I speak about sport, like I speak about our sports clubs, our football clubs, like I joined Belvedere Football Club, again, a stone's throw from where I'm living in Fairview Park when I was seven years of age.
And I made some of my best friends I'll ever make in football, like former international key, Tracy.
Me and him were tickest heaves, you know,
whenever anything was going down when you'd see us on the local football pitch.
And that brought me then to playing for a League of Ireland club with Bowles, Shells and Bray.
And if it wasn't for, and I don't understand my parents or other family members that were very, very good to me as well, but if it wasn't for sport and football in particular, like I would have fell to the challenges of the North Inner Sea.
Yeah, there would have been times where, like, it wasn't for, again, a friend of mine, Keith Tracy.
So we were on our same journey.
So Keith lives in Sherry Street and kind of had family members that had went down the wrong road.
And it was around kind of 13 or 14 where, you know, all kids get a bit of a smell for themselves and, you know, they either go one way or another and like...
to some people like going out on a football pitch and getting kicked around and mucked back every Saturday and Sunday is not the most glamorous but I loved it and I love sports so it was around that time where you know you're going through your different friends groups so you have a couple of friends and skills and that's why not only the sports clubs were so important like my local school was so important to me the local youth club there were great kind of safety nets there
And not only the mentors and the youth workers and the teachers and the coaches, but also good people, you know, good kind of friend groups that, you know, it's almost like I look at certain things that happened around our area and I look at like the Vane Diagram of all those kind of wrong things, whether it be crime, addiction.
We look at the feud that happened in our area.
Like I was and so many people from our area were in the middle of that Vane Diagram.
But if it wasn't for sport and those safety nets in the north in our city, like we would have felt the challenge of it.
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