Ellen Coyne
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622 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Ellen Coyne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can't deny it.
It is, it is definitely without question a sport, but it just has that complexity of being, I guess some people would say like a cultural art form as well.
And I suppose in Ireland, like we've kind of left it alone to its own devices to govern itself for...
over a century in a way that I don't think we would ever tolerate that if the GAA or a similar organisation was kind of left to kind of be solely focused on competition rather than on protecting the culture of the sport as well.
After all the controversies of recent years, do you believe that the contests now are free and fair?
I'll put it to you this way.
People can only go on their own experience.
And I know a lot of people had a very, very positive experience in Irish dancing.
But I wrote a dedication at the start of the book to my son, Adam, and told him that he is... He's an amazing little boy who can do anything in the world, but probably not Irish dancing, based on my experience over the last few years.
I think that it's an incredible sport.
But if it could be... If it could be kept and maintained and made more about...
how incredible and beautiful this sport is and how historically important it is and less about winning the most trophies and the most medals, I would feel a little bit more comfortable letting my own children participate in it, I think.
Alan Coyne, thank you so much.
Good morning, Pat.
It is, but I suppose there's kind of a link with a lot of the stories that you mentioned there, maybe except for Daniel Kinnan.
Like if you were to take the Sindo splash, which, as you mentioned, is talking about how up to 500 Aer Lingus flights could be cut from its routes over the next few weeks, combined with some reporting in the Business Post about how there's some estimations that Europe might only have six weeks left.
of jet fuel left.
Now, obviously, apparently we have a reserve of 70 days worth of jet fuel in Ireland.
But all of that is actually connected to the politics stories that are in the paper today, the fallout from, I don't know, could you call it a heave, a mini heave, or maybe like a kittenish push from some of the Fianna Fáil backbenchers towards their leaders.
Like all of that fallout is basically connected to one political decision that was taken in Washington a number of weeks or months ago.
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