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I never thought I would live to say this, but hello Dublin.

And what a lovely, lovely city and bunch of people we've got, thank you.

Now, have you ever seen the film Airplane?

I have, Ian.

You know when the pilot says,

I guess we picked the wrong week to give up smoking.

I guess we picked the right week to come to Dublin, didn't we?

Who would have thought it?

Just last Sunday, actually,

we were doing an interview with Miriam O'Callaghan on RTE, and she said...

Get us.

To us.

Yeah.

She said to us, so what do you think you're going to be talking about?

And I, it was a good interview, but I was slightly sort of a little bit struggling at that point about, you know, how much were we going to talk about UK politics, what are we going

to talk about in terms of Ireland? Well, thank you very much for everything that you have provided

us to talk about, both together and with our fabulous guest who we'll be bringing on in a moment.

We will indeed.

Now, we like to understand our audience here.

So we're going to ask you a few questions.

Now, unfortunately, we can't see if you put your hand up,

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