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Chapter 1: Why is the Taoiseach opening a brewery controversial?
I don't want to be given out, but does the Taoiseach really need to open a brewery? Really, in this day and age, when we know what we do about the harmful effects of alcohol and the effects that alcohol consumption and addiction has on people and families all over the country, do we really need our Taoiseach to open up a brewery? Ask yourself that question. And when you're pondering that,
Ponder does Morning Ireland need to give five minutes over to the man from Diageo talking about the new brewery. It strikes me as something from a different age, something from a less enlightened time. It'd be like, you know, somebody opening up a cigarette factory. Like if somebody, if the Taoiseach was opening up a cigarette factory, you would go ballistic, would you not?
Well, we know things now about alcohol that we didn't know back in the day. And the same could be said of smoking. We didn't know the full story of smoking. And everybody smoked and it was seen as glamourous and all that sort of thing. And then we found out and we changed our behaviour. Well, that's what should be happening with alcohol, but it isn't.
And the Taoiseach's going down to Kildare to open up the new facility.
Chapter 2: What recent victory did Roscommon achieve?
You see, they call it a facility. They don't call it a brewery. It's a new facility. And, yeah, it is providing employment to 50 people. 50 people, that's how many it's employing. Because it's completely automated. Well, not completely, but it's nearly all automated. Anyway, I'm not giving out. I'm not giving out. Glorious scenes from Roscommon.
The Rossies won the Connacht Championship, beating Galway in a very dramatic and exciting Connacht final. And our friend, well, he's everybody's friend, Paddy Joe Bourke, we spoke to him a number of times over the years. He's one of Roscommon's biggest fans. He's a former barber. We spoke to him first during COVID when he was telling us how to cut your own hair.
Chapter 3: Who is Paddy Joe Bourke and why is he significant?
You see, they're the sort of conversations that are important that you probably don't get enough of. on national radio anymore. But Paddy Joe Burke came on and talked us through how to cut your own hair. That was essential during COVID. We'll talk about the hantavirus in a moment and how they're desperately trying to make a story out of that.
Although three people have died, there isn't a big story there. It isn't going to be a pandemic. It's not as infectious in any way, shape or form as much as COVID was. But yet the journalists want to make a story out of it because it's a slow news month. You have wars, OK, but you can only talk so much about wars. And then what do you talk about then? You have two hours to fill.
Anyhow, Paddy Joe Bourke. He was ecstatic last evening, last night, yesterday evening, when he spoke to Marty Morrissey about the big victory. He was surrounded by Roscommon fans.
Chapter 4: What awards did the show 'Adolescence' win recently?
And Marty said, well, put it into words there, Paddy, put it into words for us.
Marty, you're very welcome to Midtown Roscommon, centre of the universe, home to the Connacht champions tonight. What a fantastic performance by the lads. What a fantastic achievement. Connacht Final is rare and it's special and it's unique. One of the great sporting occasions west of the River Shannon. Galway, when the wind sticks up. What a goal by Damien Comer. What a goal to put them six up.
That stage, I was saying, we need the next score. Martin, not alone did we get the next score, but we got every score from there to the end. And that's why Sam Ogg is in town tonight.
Sam Moore. Sam Moore Maguire. Isn't that great?
Chapter 5: How does Stephen Graham prepare for his roles?
Paddy Joe. Chris O'Dowd, famously, the actor, he played in goals, I think, for the minors. The minors have won the Connacht, as have the under-20s. But he played in goals for Roscommon back in the day. And I see he's playing the part of Neil O'Dowd. Niall O'Dowd, Neil O'Dowd. The other guy who has the publication in America in a dramatisation of the peace process.
So Chris O'Dowd plays Neil O'Dowd, Niall O'Dowd. I just thought I'd throw that in. The other big win over the weekend wasn't a sporting one. It was for adolescents and nobody was surprised. It took four BAFTAs at the BAFTA Awards. And that's a record because no programme, one programme, has won that many awards ever.
So I wanted for best actor, Stephen Graham, best supporting actor, Owen Cooper, best supporting actress, Christine Tamarco, and it won best drama, best mini-drama. And I love Stephen Graham.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of the super shoe in running?
He's just a driven, compassionate, humane, lovely human being and he was so delighted to have won now he's won Golden Globes and he's won Emmys but he's been nominated for a BAFTA eight times and this is the first time he won and he was delighted he was he was he was delighted with himself as delighted as Paddy Joe Burke was at Roscommon's win yesterday um And he put in the hard work.
He co-wrote Adolescence. He was a main part of it being made. He wasn't just an actor in it. He drove it on, did Stephen Graham. I remember interviewing him and he was talking to me about getting into character. And he said the first thing he gets in any character is the walk. He has a different walk for each character. So once he has the walk, then he's in character. It's interesting.
Anyway, also at the BAFTAs last night, Mary Berry got the big lifetime achievement thingamajig. She's 91. Mary Berry is 91.
Chapter 7: How do marketing strategies impact running shoe sales?
Her from the Great British Bake Off. And I remember I was talking to you on Friday about David Attenborough and the fact that they did some research on who was the most respected, popular broadcaster in the United Kingdom. He came out on top. And I think Mary Berry was second. She's 91. And she said, I'm really bowled over by this accolade.
I'm a cook, I'm a teacher, so I feel very honoured to be given BAFTA's highest award. And she was looking very glamorous last night at the BAFTAs. It was interesting, the Gaza Doctors Under Attack documentary won an award.
Now, I don't know if you remember that story, but the documentary was commissioned originally by the BBC and then they shelved it because they thought that it broke their impartiality rules. It was later aired by Channel 4 and it won the Current Affairs BAFTA last night. And during his speech on stage, executive producer Ben De Pere
referred to the fact that the BBC airs the ceremony on delay, you see, and he said, and this is a quote, finally, just a question for the BBC, given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the BAFTA screening later tonight? And of course, they couldn't after he said that and they didn't.
Chapter 8: What mistakes can happen in printing and how do they affect branding?
So that was broadcast. So the BBC, fair juice to them, they took it in the neck and they accepted the criticism on their own channel. which is always a good sign that they're bigger than that, if you know what I mean. You have to have a confidence to be able to do that. Oftentimes, pettiness takes over. I've seen it so many times in my career, pettiness. And big organisations can be very petty.
Oh, yes, they can. Just because they're big doesn't mean they can't be petty. Also at the BAFTAs last night were three of the cast of Rivals. It's back for a second series on Disney+. And I'm reading some of the reviews this morning and it's as good, if not better, than the first. And Aidan Turner and Victoria Smurfett, two Irish actors, are back doing what they do.
And I'm reading, pardon me, not least Aidan Turner as densely moustached broadcast hunk Declan O'Hara. His expression in the shower as wife Maude, Victoria Smurfett, does what she was doing. Think a badger slowly realising he's left a vest of curry in the oven. Now, there's a metaphor for you. Think about you're slowly realising he's left a Vesta curry in the oven. We'll live long in the memory.
Anyway, I can't wait to see that scene. Do you know what a Vesta curry is? My dad used to travel abroad. He was in the army, you see, and he'd be in places like Cyprus and Lebanon. So he developed a taste for exotic foods, particularly curries. And, you know, there was nine of us. We weren't that well off. So you're never making a curry from scratch. But Vesta curries...
You'd get them in a box down the local shop and they'd have two sachets, one with dried beef in it and the other with the rice in it. So you just add boiling water, I think, to the sachet with the beef in it and then you did whatever you did with the rice. And it was enough for two. Nobody else in the family was interested in eating Vesta curry Bar me.
So it was myself and my dad had the beef Vesta curries. Instant curry, as it was. And then because he'd been abroad and he'd seen how they presented their curries, he did this amazing thing. Well, I thought it was amazing at the time. I was 10, 11, 12. So he'd lay out the rice on the table, or sorry, on the plate. And then he'd use the spoon to make a little well in the middle.
And then he'd put the curry into the well in the middle, right? And then around the plate, outside the rice, he'd put a slice of tomato, slice of banana, slice of tomato, slice of banana, slice of tomato, slice of... It looked amazing. It looked so exotic in Campion Crescent in Kildare. And I loved it.
Now, I don't know if I'd still love Vesta curries, but they're mentioned there in a review of Rivals 2. I don't know if they feature. Because it was around that time, wasn't it? It's the 80s stuff, isn't it? Yeah. So that's the bath that's there last night. Joe Humphreys, the philosophical correspondent in the Irish Times, is writing about the super shoe today.
And Sebastian Saue and much has been talked about the Adizero Adidas Pro Evo 3 trainers, which would cost you 500 euro. They're Adidas, yes. And this is a thing. They're obviously using this to break into a very lucrative market, obviously. Did you hear that over a million people have applied to enter the London Marathon 2027? Over a million people. Running is big business.
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