Hello there. It is a very sad day. Pat Smullen, the former champion jockey and Irish sporting legend, has passed away at the age of 43 if you didn't already know.

Pat had suffered for a long time with pancreatic cancer.

When you say suffer, it's the wrong word because Pat was a champion, a consummate

professional, an absolute gentleman of the highest order, and he didn't suffer, and as as he explains here he didn't regard it that way

and in that way he remained a champion even after he retired because he took everything

that life threw at him and he did everything he could with it including a year ago this unbelievable

legends race that he organized at the cur which raised 2.5 million euros for cancer trials and

research that's just who this man was and that's why you're seeing this outpouring for him because he was more

than just a jockey. He's a father of course and my thoughts are with Francis and his three

kids, Hannah, Patty and Sarah. It's a very, very tough one. It's always tough, but all I said to my brother last night was that

Pat Smullen would want us all to live our best lives and to smile and remember him. And that's

the whole reason for putting back out this episode, for the crack we had across this hour and the way

he spoke about his life, his career, his love of the game, his love of it all. I want to preserve

the memory of Pat Smullen and maybe introduce him and his strength to a few more people who might have

missed it when it first came out. So rest in peace, Pat and enjoy this episode of an Irishman

abroad with Pat Smullen. That's the small talk. Now let's go down to business.

Now, your programme, what's de big idea?

Well, they're going to know the Irish much better.

We've now got to know how largely their mind works.

I moved over here, and immediately I had to up my game.

I could not have done the job I did for quite a number of years in Ireland.

I had to go in there in my living in England.

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