Mairéad Ronan

Now, if I could play a song for you today, it would be this.

But for copyright and legal reasons, we can't play a song.

But I would love to play This Must Be the Place, Naive Melody by Talking Heads for you today.

Oh, I love it so much with its one minute introduction and then its beautiful, catchy tune and great lyrics.

David Byrne.

He's performing in St Anne's in Rahini this weekend.

Is he one of the coolest men in the world, David Byrne?

I think I'm going to go just to be cool adjacent.

I'm going to stand in the park.

Don't care if it's raining.

And I'm just going to soak up some of the coolness.

I was never cool.

Never cool.

Wanted to be cool.

Tried to be cool.

You know, with the clothes and the music.

I was the first guy in Kildare with a

what did I call them a parka jacket because I was a mod because I wanted to be cool nah I looked at the cool people and go how do you do that how are you cool and then I realised that I think you're born cool you're born with a cool gene G-E-N-E and not I suppose you wear cool genes as well so in my early 20s I decided there was there was no point there was no give up the ghost stop trying to be cool you're never going to be cool

And just look on and admire the coolness in other people.

So that's why I decided, luckily, early in life.