We're welcome to the Delimpot with me, James Delimpot, and I know I always say I'm excited

about this week's special guest, but I really am looking forward to talking to Ashling

O'Locklin.

I was really, do you know what, if I got it wrong or half wrong, it would just completely

crimp my style.

And I do have problems with the Irish names, I think they're really good, I like the way

that they pronounce it in a completely different way from the way that they're spelled.

I don't know if I believe you when you say that you're really excited to have me on,

I've heard you say that before, James.

Do you really, I hope you be with this time.

You better mean it.

Yeah, we have funny names and we're a funny old bunch really, but you know, we have to

make you jump through a few hoops first and that's going to be initiation and that you

said it perfectly.

So well done.

That's good.

I was thinking before, just randomly, before we go into it, I was thinking how dramatically

my view of the world has changed on pretty much everything.

What I used to think, rebellious Irish, they don't understand all the good things that

we gave them and some of them are really anti-ingly, I know you're not, but what are they

winging about?

Don't they realise that they won the lottery in life by having the beneficent British

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