Pat Kenny

23 living lives, as well as by land as by sea, well more than Mrs. Mate with him.

Now, what's that about?

This was a notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland.

Every time we say this, they'll say, but we are the biggest party, 25%.

And if you, OK, if you add the other two, Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael together, they have a comfortable majority over us,

But we're still the largest party.

Now, the birth of RTE was political, was it not?

Now, the question that is always asked is about the encounter with Queen Elizabeth I. Was it Oscailge or was it in Latin?

There was Todd Andrews, who had run CIE and then was chosen to run RT.

And there's a kind of a circular thing here because Todd Andrews, the man who famously closed so many of Ireland's railways, is Ryan Tuberty's grandfather.

And Gerry Hutch quoted in your paper, if I'm elected, I'll give my TD salary to people in need.

Now, even from the very beginning, Gayburn was a bit of a...

Now, let's go back to a young woman in 1918, while still a student, practising her scales at the open window of the hotel room.

An iconoclast, in a way.

I mean, he cut his broadcasting teeth really in the UK, and it was more freewheeling than we were used to hear.

She was overheard by Emma Carelli, director of the Opera House.

Who are we talking about?

All right, moving on to British politics and obviously the local elections on the island neighbouring us have made all the headlines over there and some headlines here.

And had that succeeded, well, television and radio history might be very different.

Exactly.