Rory O'Connor

That is what he is fronting up.

So he is not getting any of the taxpayers money and he's not getting any of the ticket sales.

Right.

So it's important to kind of clarify that because there are a lot of competing factors.

We're opening a bypass.

Anybody who's ever driven to Kerry from Dublin will know that that bypass has been needed for a long, long time.

Now, the end justifies the means.

But there's something a little bit pathetic about the fact that it took the Ryder Cup for us to deliver this bypass through there.

So there's a lot of different things sort of bubbling up under the surface there.

But I can understand people's frustrations.

The thing I'd throw into the mix, and it won't come as any consolation to people who either couldn't get tickets or decided that they were too expensive, is that the Ryder Cup was one of the great televised sport events.

It is unimpeachably brilliant.

The format is incredible.

And it is one of the worst to take in in the flesh.

It's very, very hard to be in the right place at the right time.

And it's very hard not to be crowded out.

On the two, on Friday and Saturday, there's only four matches on the course at any given time.

And there will be 55,000 people in a dare manner.

trying to get a gawk at that and i know from bet page on the sunday when the singles are going on and there's there's matches on 12 holes the only real way to take in what's going on is to go somewhere with the television i spent most of the single sunday in the media tent because otherwise you just don't get a sense of what's going on so look it's one of those things that people will say like the only thing that it's lacking from a kind of a

You know, a sparkle point of view is the Tiger Woods captaincy, which would have happened had he not had his recent car accident.