Patrick Geoghegan
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I'm delighted they're having the weather.
Oh, beautiful.
Okay, irelandgames.ie forward slash venues.
You'll get directly to the venues details of that.
You might travel for hours just to see him for 20 minutes.
But if you want generally to know about the Special Olympics, it's simply specialolympics.ie.
Henry McKean, thank you very much.
And when the guys come back then for some R&R back to Kiev or Lvov or wherever they are, they don't adjust readily to the normality that still can be enjoyed in those cities.
There's a bang from a building site or whatever.
And they're wondering why everyone is not running for cover because it is the sound of war.
Wedding dresses and makeup in Mosul.
Extraordinary.
I mean, it shows the, I suppose, the strength of the human spirit to carry on and the lust for normality, for everything to be the way it used to be.
And largely destroyed.
And sometimes where most of life goes on normally, I'm thinking of Gaon and the chapter you have on LGBTQI plus love in that particular place where, I mean, any such behavior is regarded as completely abnormal, illegal, against the law of man and God.
Now, there are two stories about child armies, I suppose.
Boko Haram, who famously abducted young women, schoolgirls, in their hundreds.
And then the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, which I'd kind of forgotten about.
Boko Haram, still writ large, I suppose, but the Lord's Resistance Army.
And trying to rehabilitate the kids who lost their way in that process.