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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She's a sea turtle and she's going to be flown to Portugal this week before being released back into the Atlantic.
Basically, something had happened to her flippers when she was very small, which is why she was living basically in captivity for so long.
Obviously, turtles have a very long life expectancy.
She is just coming into the point where she would be entering, I suppose, her fertile years, if you want to put it that way.
So the plan is to release her back into the wild so that she can actually start breeding again.
But it's interesting, Kevin Flannery, who is the director of Dingle Ocean World, said that there was actually a fear that this might never happen, that they thought she was so injured and so damaged that she'd never be strong enough again.
So obviously, I'm sure kids and families will be sad to see her go, but it's a nice good news story on a Sunday.
Yeah, so it sounds like, I mean, 20 years in captivity, you'd think your best years are behind you, but it seems not for this particular turtle.
Yes, this is a story in the Mail that basically apparently he's being headhunted to play a key enforcer role, as the Mail puts it, to combat dereliction in Dublin.
As we know, he was famously or infamously one of the most highest paid civil servants within the government.
He kind of has a bit of a reputation of being, I suppose, as the Mail would describe it, a bit of an enforcer, someone who...
cuts through red tape and gets things done.
His tenure in government is coming to an end.
And I think there is some head scratching about the fact that there wasn't another sec gen role in a different department being lined up for him that he could kind of transfer to.
So I think a lot of people would be quite interested to see where there's a vacancy in the Metrolink project as well, if he's interested.
I think if you're in politics, even as a sec gen, you would maybe not want as many headlines around your role as Robert Watt had around his.
So maybe it's less hassle to take the pay cut for certain officials.
Absolutely not.
And before this story, I think you could have fit everything I knew about Irish dancing on the back of a postcard.
I'd never done it, really had never written about it, knew nothing about it at all.
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