Philip Boucher Hayes

Should the Midlands have a national park, Chesmond?

Do we not have a national park with raised bog?

Plenty with blanket bogs, obviously, on either side of the country.

Can you reconcile that, though, with needing to reach 51% reduction of our emissions through renewable energy, through wind farms in sparsely populated, in human terms, places like this?

And you think that they would have sufficient quantum of land there?

That it absolutely is.

Jesmond Harding, author of the magnificent Irish Butterfly Book.

On the Countrywide Butterfly Conservation Team this week, Dave Gibson watered flowers in hot weather to increase nectar release.

Emily McAvoy watered the soil to create dissolved minerals for butterflies to drink.

Sheila O'Callaghan cut nettles in June to create regrowth for breeding species in August.

And Philip Outcher-Hayes left the garden shed window open in September so the butterflies have somewhere to overwinter.

Morning all.

See you next week.

It was, Dave.

I remember where I was.

That was the year just by chance that I was starting out in journalism.

I was doing work experience in East Coast Radio out in Bray on that day, the 26th of June, 1996.

I was sent out to do Vox Pops that afternoon with a tape recorder and break the news to some people who hadn't heard it and get the reactions of various people that Veronica Guerin had been shot dead.

And I would find over the following years that I would find myself in the courtrooms, in the special criminal court and elsewhere, following on the Garda investigation, the follow-up to what happened.

Because what happened on that day really shocked everybody.