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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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The grandparents of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Kearney left Oghagower, a small village in Mayo, in July of 1925. Robert Kearney and Nora Moran emigrated to Canada and today their grandson is returning to the village. The excitement around Oghagower has been building since the announcement.
There are Canadian flags hanging outside several houses while the village itself is decorated with bunting. At the heart of Oghagower is Scott's, the local shop, post office and pub. Owner, JP Scott, says the excitement surrounding the visit has been growing in the last few days.
It's a huge honour for us Maggie here, it's amazing.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of Mark Carney's visit to Mayo?
Since we heard the story breaking about two years ago that he was going to be the Prime Minister in Canada, you know, and then the news came too that he had relations here, we said this is amazing, maybe this man might come back to our small village at some place, you know, and you're always dreaming about, you know, you've seen JFK back in New Ross way back and Obama.
and Ronnie Regan and then Joe Biden, you know, we said, this is amazing if it happens. You know, and now it's happened, we can't believe it. It's been great. We've been, as you can see, we have the bunting up, we have the flags up. The local community have been involved and backed up by Mayor County Council to get the place tidied up.
Although the place is very tidy anyway, it's because we're involved in the National Tidy Towns competition and we have won numerous honours in that over the last few years. But the build-up has been great and everybody has been so accommodating and local bodies all coming together, you know. We're really delighted like that.
He's, you know, coming to Dublin, but he seems to be heading straight for Westport and O'Haggar, like, you know, and
to think that he'll be walking in the footsteps of his ancestors from that little town and back to the village, you know, here where his ancestors, his grandparents would have come here, would have come into this village, into this shop and post office and done their business and now we're going to have him.
Mr Kearney still has lots of family here. It's hoped he'll meet with his second cousin, Pat Kearney, a man in his 90s, while his second cousin, once removed, Gus Herity, is also hoping to meet with him today.
Oh, it's awful exciting, all together. My brother is really involved in it. He has done a tremendous amount of work, and like the rest of the community as well. Over the last couple of weeks, it's unreal. We're trying to get everything tip-top, everything in shape, you know. It's brilliant. When I was young, I didn't know about it.
I had heard we were cousins of the Morans, but you know, when you're young, you don't take no heed. And it's brilliant to find out. It's only lately we found out the real cousin we are, second cousins once removed, which is brilliant, and we're all excited.
The community centre has been turned into an exhibition for the visit. There are five different sections on show, Oghagower to Canada, the relatives of Nora Moran, maps of Oghagower, UNESCO Global Geoparks, genealogy of the Kearney Moran families.
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Chapter 3: How is the community preparing for Mark Carney's arrival?
On each wall there are boards mounted explaining the history of Mr Kearney's roots in the village. Chairperson of Oghagower Community Council Colette Sheridan explains the work that went into it.
It's exceptional, it turned out really really well. A lot of work went into that I suppose between the community and Harry Hughes and his historical group and a local girl, Lisa McNamara. And we got a professionally mounted yesterday morning from the famous Chris Harper. He's amazing. It's a tale. You walk around and it's the story. Not in a book, but just up a wall.
A picture tells a tale, I suppose. So, yeah, it's fabulous.
Mr Kearney is meeting President Catherine Connolly in Westport this morning before travelling to Hoggower this afternoon. While he's there, he's expected to attend local mass and meet his relations and the community. Cabbage Kitchens is in charge of the food for the day. Owner Redmond has put together a special menu for the occasion.
We've sourced all this amazing local fruit from the area in a very small distance. And what we're just serving is Okagawa cabbage hummus with Sean McGinn pickled vegetables on gluten-free sesame crackers. So Sean McGinn grows local vegetables about four miles away from where the Kearney homestead was originally.
Then we're serving Velvet Cloud Plume Brook Sheep's Cheese, which is from Clare Morris, drizzled with Al Honey on Corn Roux or sourdough crisps. Al Honey, Edward Mannion and his wife there own the land that Mark Carney's grandparents are on, and they're raising bees. So he's going to be putting in his mouth the very honey made from that homestead.
And then we have lovely Ackle Island smoked mackerel pate made by Cabot's Westport on sourdough crispbread with meskin ale pickled apples. So that's local seafood from the bay. People would have eaten it, gone back all the years. And then lastly, we've got a special dish out, which is Carney's cousin rhubarb and strawberry fool.
So that's local rhubarb compote served with a velvet cloud sheep's yogurt and Anthony Printer's Ackle sea salt fudge. So that's an amazing thing. Mark Carney, the Prime Minister's cousin, once removed, is Gus Herity. And he's a great friend of the Cookery School. He grows things locally.
And he's got rhubarbs and he's got two punters of fresh strawberries from his garden, which we've been waiting for the sun to arrive on them. They're just picked today.
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