Dearbhail MacDonald

Noel Thomas could arguably do very well as a general election candidate.

Thank you for your contribution.

But a lot of people do, Dan Mulhall.

Gillian, you're nodding your head in agreement there.

What does managing it well look like?

And Gerard Holland, you sort of spoke to that, that's the community, the constituency that you live in, about people having... And Larkin College, if it's the one I'm thinking of, is just behind our culture.

Yes, it is.

It was a superb initiative, I think, that Colin Murphy highlighted.

But that ability to have better conversations and to listen to people about the concerns that they do have about services, about... We can get ourselves into an awful tizzy catastrophizing.

Yeah, Dan, John Mooney had a piece in the Sunday Times on the death and the global outrage over the death of Eve Sikila.

But one of the things he said in it was that, you know, that people like him exist in every city around the world in another world of drug addiction, poverty and chaos.

And I know that from your time as ambassador in the UK, a lot of the outreach is to the elderly.

It is to Irish people who have fallen bad on their luck.

Yes, that's what I was going to say.

You know, where he sort of came to...

public prominence and capture the public was when he led those young children wasn't it?

The Sock Dems have been in their press releases saying that this is all about a positive campaign.

But do you think the public do want a much, much more positive public conversation at present?

Absolutely untrue.

Dan, not unless your name is Jack Chambers.