David Duffy

But they've also said in an email to us numerous times that they have no intention of allowing a circus or a funfair to tender for a Millennium Park.

Even though we are protected by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage, they say they have no intention.

When we reached out to them again last year after years of applying and bearing in mind that they have loads of events on the Millennium Park every year, they have an ice rink there for three months every year on the same footprint as what we would use.

But when we eventually got a Zoom meeting with them last year, Clare, and it was the most hostile meeting I've ever had in my life.

Now, my daughter-in-law was in on the meeting and she cried afterwards.

We were virtually told that the first line was, you are not getting Millennium Park.

I'm telling you, I'm not giving it to you.

How dare you ask what was the procedure and going into it and was told there was none.

Of course.

Well, that's exactly the situation we're actually even in here today.

We're setting up in a farmer's field that is five miles from Cookstown and five miles from Dungannon.

So obviously there is no public transport.

And that's why we need grounds in Dublin where there's a big

populations that don't actually have access to live entertainment, but do have access to public transport and parking.

And what happens is that, I mean, rightly or wrongly, we feel that we still have an obligation to come to smaller towns because we

That's what we've been doing all our lives.

But we can't sustain our expenses going to the smaller towns without getting the bigger cities that will allow us to come and will subsidise us coming to these smaller towns where we make minimal profit, Clare.

Yes, and they've made it even harder this year because not alone, obviously, you have to apply for work permits and visas.

And, you know, there is seven types of work permit.

So obviously they understand that one fit doesn't fit all.