John Griffin

We've had a long connection to Ireland over that time period.

including the R&D centre you mentioned in Athlones, and that's been there now 50 years this year.

I'm very proud of our involvement and our investment in Ireland.

We hope to continue it.

That's 1,500 people.

A lot of them will be engineers.

What do they do?

Well, they develop the software that we're now going to deploy onto the network.

So these are apps you mentioned, and the systems and the software underneath them are developed in Athlones.

Yeah, it's very early yet in that.

We are working on it, but it's very early.

It won't come for another five to eight years.

That's a very good question that all the engineers are trying to figure out at the moment.

It'll be about connecting devices, again, more devices into the network and everything getting a connection.

But that we won't see for quite a while.

AI is part of the deal we've done with Vodafone.

So our apps are based on AI.

They're using what we call business to business AI.

So they use intelligence within the networks.

They learn as they go and they provide better conditions and better signals out to the consumers and the enterprises that use the networks.