David Duffy

And I think his legacy is very important.

And as I say, it's important to me, it's important to his grandsons.

And it's the one thing, Clare, that will probably keep us going in these very hard times.

Well, really, Clare, what's going on is like what I don't want to put across is that the circus is dying for the lack of support.

We get huge support from the public.

You know, we are the most well-known and best circus in Ireland.

We're the only circus in Ireland and one of only 18 circuses in Europe that was awarded a big top label, which is like a Michelin star award for circuses, which is done from Brussels where a team comes over

and inspects everything to do with our show.

But our main, I mean, obviously, like everybody else, we're struggling with the diesel prices, with the fuel crisis, and obviously people are having to tighten their belts.

But our biggest problem, by far our biggest problem, Clare, is local authorities.

Local authorities just won't give us grounds.

They won't give us parks.

Now, okay, in fairness, Dublin City Council reached out to us the other day and confirmed that we can have our ground on Clontarf Road for August of this year.

But they also have loads of other parks in Dublin in areas that don't get any live entertainment.

And it's been proven that children's first ever contact with live entertainment has been circuses.

So, like, we're constantly asking them.

I have to actually call out Fingal Council as being the worst.

There seems to be, I mean, nothing short of a discrimination against circuses and funfairs in Fingal.

Okay, so my answer to that is, has the park not been available in the last 10 years that we've been applying every year?

And they say, yes, they have to go by guidelines where you have to tender.