Ryan Tubridy

But yeah, it's funny sometimes when we go out and I'm on, she's the secret weapon because they go, yeah, he's fine.

We expected that.

But what the hell is this?

She will see the goodness in, you know,

It's tough.

I often say sometimes, you know, you know, you marry Larry David, Claire, like you're in trouble here.

It's like I can be quite misanthropic when I want to be, you know, but she'll say, no, no.

But anyway, sorry.

Look, I mean, I come from a very political family and this politics is coursing through my veins.

There's no doubt about it as it happens.

My grandfather was a TD in Galway in the 1920s.

On my dad's side.

On my mother's side, my uncle was a minister for foreign affairs and signed the Good Friday Agreement, as it turns out.

And his son, Barry, is an MEP now for Dublin.

And I have another cousin who's in politics.

So it's all coursing through the veins for sure.

I'm fascinated by politics and the political system.

I watched the strikes recently.

and the protests.

And funny enough, I found myself thinking, having quite a lot of sympathy for the strikers.