Daniel McConnell

Anything where there's water in Europe, he says, they basically, they have ships.

He gets into the fact that they own some ports and operate as guests or clients in other ports.

The impact of, you know, disruption around the protests of recent weeks, et cetera.

So a very broad ranging conversation.

But he strikes me as someone who, you know, doesn't get easily phased by the odd wobble here or there.

And as someone who's been there for an awful long time.

Peter, you did the interview.

What was your impression of him?

But it was more interesting because I think you very rightly focused in on the Irish angle of that.

Their footprint in Ireland, you know, it's not just Dublin Port, it's Ross Lair.

It's up the north as well.

And that mix of passenger travel and freight travel, which, you know, and how robust they are in terms of business models.

And I thought it was quite interesting.

He's very open, I think.

I thought refreshingly open.

He came to the table with something to say, I thought, which was really good.

I think listeners will hear and viewers will see this, that he actually came very open to talk about their story.

They have a good story to tell.

Very interesting that they remain a privately owned company.

I thought that was very interesting.