Ray D'Arcy

Anyway, we went to see a Steve Coogan movie in a cinema and we were the only people in the cinema.

Mad we were, mad.

Now you have to remember I was in my late 40s.

So it's different.

It's different.

So there, distraction, more distraction there.

I was going to talk to you about Michael Jackson.

There's another documentary on at the moment on the BBC.

We watched the first one and there's a few more of them coming.

And we would have watched that back in 2019, Leaving Neverland.

And of course, the biopic is in the cinemas now.

And I doubt very much, I doubt very much that they go into the gory detail of his relationship with children.

But I read a piece by Ed Power yesterday about Michael Jackson's concert in Porky Queve in 1988, July 1988.

And he's talking about the fact that Michael Jackson stayed in Jury's Hotel in Cork.

And he mentions in passing that Sam Smith and Eamon Dunphy, Sam Smith, journalist, broadcaster, Eamon Dunphy, journalist, broadcaster, football pundit, Millwall player, you know, that they were staying in the same hotel.

And they had seen this young boy, James Safechuck,

Coming into the hotel area on that day, he was shepherded up to a hotel room and a Do Not Disturb sign was put on his door.

They came in after the concert and they were having a couple of jars in the residence lounge.

And they got talking about this 10-year-old and they worried about him.

And they wrote a note which they gave to the hotel porter.