Larry Donnelly

And I wonder about this, is if Mary Lou McDonald does go at some stage.

might we be looking at a fracture, I suppose, within Sinn Féin, in the sense that you have people like Daugherty and Cotty, who I would say represent one wing of the party, but perhaps on the other side, you have people like Owen O'Brien and Lynne Boylan, who represent a younger, more progressive... And you have Social Democrats eating their lunch on one side, and the Independent on the other side.

Of your marginal earnings.

I think Lucinda's point about lower and middle income people being excessively taxed on their income is unassailable.

But what compounds the unjustness of it is they don't see return for their investment.

They pay taxes.

They don't feel like they're getting banked for their buck in return.

And that goes back to the points that were made earlier.

Larry Donnelly is with us.

Lecturer-in-law at the University of Galway and a bit of a golf nut.

So Larry, will you be paying €500 a day to go and support?

Who would you support?

The United States of America or Team Europe in the Ryder Cup?

Rich jobs, basically.

OK, how many people per day will be able to go to the actual competition days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday?

And how many of those tickets are going to be exclusively reserved in the sale this Friday for Irish residents?

I suspect a lot of them might be bought up by corporate interests.

And I suspect a lot of people will end up going to the Ryder Cup on the basis of a company deciding it wants to bring various clients.

That tends to be what happened.

Or could it be that that will be on separate hospitality packages, which will cost an awful lot more than 500 euro a day?