Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
asked if she understood why she was arrested. She said, I do, but I don't understand how it involves me. When the documentation was put to her, where are these kids and all that, she said, there's obviously a mix-up. Anything I've submitted is above board. And I did nothing wrong. I followed the guidelines. I filled out the forms perfectly.
And when specifically asked, where are these kids that you're meant to have had, she replied, I'm not discussing my babies with two strangers. LAUGHTER
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It kind of seems like just... You know what's in it is hot water and honey because I'm afraid I'm about to lose my voice. Okay. And I'm on the Late Late Show.
Are you?
I didn't actually know that. And it wouldn't help sitting there. No.
Sounding like Bonnie Tyler.
Have you taken my glasses?
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Chapter 2: Should cyclists be demonized as lawbreakers?
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I think so. Well, it had been going well. And then obviously with the Bomber Cabinet podcast, that's gone, like it's helped things as well. But like, yeah, it's gone. It's better than expected in terms of numbers at the moment. So fingers crossed that continues. But yeah, it seems to be going well. Obviously, we had a busy few months over Christmas.
I thought Niall was, you know, out yourself here. He was double jobbing and we were concerned about him at some points. No, you weren't. I wasn't really. I don't. I was concerned about how much I was going to have to listen to him moaning about how tired he was. It was a selfish concern. But now it's been going well so far.
Yeah. Well, we had a little chat this morning and we thought that we'd bring a few stories together that are maybe not as serious as some of the stuff that has been on the last... Between... people being attacked, firebombed, you know, arson attacks in their homes.
And the deaths of children. And of course, we had one of them before the courts this week, Mason O'Connell. We're going to come back to that. We will, we will. But I mean, and obviously then the murder of Tyke Farrell.
the murder suicide last week as well it's been horrendous stuff you know so we thought what we'll do is we'll park those for the moment and we'll lighten the mood a little bit with a couple of stories that caught our eye the first being in regards to poor cyclists and of course I am a cyclist so I'm going to defend us cyclists there so go tell us what happened
Oh, well, so basically there was a collision involving a motorcyclist in 2020 and this cyclist was awarded, I think it was 50,000 euro in damages. He did suffer a brain injury now as a result of it.
But essentially it was appealed and the circuit court judge, James O'Donoghue, this week reduced it by 80% and says that basically, although the incident obviously happened and he was injured, that he... was culpable in certain aspects in that, you know, he was, I don't think he had a helmet on, he was wearing dark clothing and... He had no light, of course, which would be... Right.
That's very specified and so he reduced it from 50,000 by 80%, so significantly reduced... But so that's normal enough as these things happen in a courts. But it was what he said, I suppose, that pushed him into the very front of all the newspapers and all the radio shows where he said, cyclists have become, what is it? Become a nightmare in Dublin.
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Chapter 3: How do societal views on cyclists and joggers differ?
And they went to America, didn't they, to publicise it too?
They do have their own social media, but I wonder without the actual, you know, him being on RTE News and talked about here and etc., How long would he suffer the cold? Or would he try and do something else that would garner the publicity? It's all this kind of like feeding frenzy, isn't it? It is. That we're at the table with.
It is. But I suppose, I think he might still be there. And I think it's just an unusual circumstance. I don't think it's... Totally a cynic. You can't say it's a cynical act on his behalf. But I mean, it's obviously people are entitled as well to school, they're entitled to let people go. And I think he's, you know, he's in with certain people.
In Mount Joy, you will be kept with certain types of prisoners. They don't mix everybody with everybody. But I think... He is a strong-willed person. So people, look, a lot of people say in the prison system, if you keep out of trouble and don't get yourself in trouble, you can't exist in there. You will generally be left alone, you know.
Talk about getting yourself into trouble. There's been quite a few drug mules caught in Dublin airport of late with quite an amount of cannabis in their actual luggage that they're carrying through the airport. I mean, it seems so hard to believe that nowadays that is still a way to import. But there was one particular guy recently who I think sort of took the biscuit and maybe
deserves a moniker of being one of the stupidest criminals that has come before our courts. He's an American guy and he flew into Dublin with, he's certainly accused of flying into Dublin with 280,000 euro worth of cannabis in his luggage. Now, he reported the bag missing and was arrested when he returned to collect it. So what would you do?
Well, you see... Maybe he was worried about what would happen if the...
He's before the Dublin District Court at the moment. He's been granted bail, but that's so far as the case has been heard. Now, he's a man called Ulysses Mendez. He's 30 and he is from California. He's not alone, though, because only the other week as well, somebody was caught with 400,000 euro worth of cannabis in their luggage. And there's been a couple of other cases before the court's
A day ago, an actual fact from when we're speaking today, there was a man in his 20s caught with 15 kilos of the drug in a suitcase.
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