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Welcome along to the final forlum podcast. The show goes on thankfully and hopefully you are well.

I'm your host Emmish Kennedy alongside a man who is one of the most popular jockeys to have ever

graced the weighing rooms in Ireland and indeed in the UK, now retired nine times Irish champion jockey the great and powerful

Pat Smullen welcome back to the show Pat.

Thanks Emmett good good to be on a strange time to say the least so I'll ask you the same

question that I've asked

everybody else how are you and how are you keeping with the lockdown?

Yeah I'm doing well and no different than everybody else pretty much isolated away at home and trying to abide by the rules and

here to all the instructions that have been given by the government and hopefully we can get through this quicker

sooner rather than later but it's a difficult time for everybody you know so and we're not different.

Are the kids managing okay? Yeah look we're not different. Are the kids managing okay?

Yeah, look, we're fortunate enough that we live on a farm, so at least we have a little bit of

room to get out and occupy ourselves and they have their ponies and you know so there's a

Try to keep some bit of a mixture between their homework and and a bit of fun as well but you know it's beginning to get a little bit boring now for

them to be honest but as I said thankfully we're out in the countryside so it's it helps to amuse them and you know I just

said to have a family in you know in in an isolated area in in in urban Dublin or wherever it may be you know so

it's there's things that we have to be thankful for yeah and for those of you

who are in that situation

thoughts are with you I hope you're well and it's amazing because I remember being

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