May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Crohn was somewhere I was reticent to go to because I heard so much about us. It's not a famous place most people have never even heard of it.

But a friend of mine, Damien Lawler, comes from there and never stops talking about it.

We all have a special place in our heart for the communities where we grew up, but I used to think Damien took this a

bit far. This is him talking about his childhood.

A very ideally childhood is able to cycle up and down to school,

no safety concerns, no concerns about a heavy traffic or any of that sort of thing.

And you know, you traffic or any that sort of thing and you know you grew up as part of the local community

being involved in community games being involved in the local GA club everybody coming together you know to participate in those things that as a community it seemed like everybody

you know when they were trying to make up a football team they just didn't have enough people without

every lad in each class taking part.

He talks a lot like this.

His pride in his home place is something I've always found hard to get my head around.

Not because Krohn is not worth being proud of. I had just never been there until recently and

always struggled to understand what made it so special. Like here he's talking about the

exceptionalism of people who grew up in rural communities like Krahin.

When I went to school, we would have looked down our nose at maybe the people from the towns,

we could call, you know, townies that they were soft, that if they were, if you were

marking them in the game of game football or soccer that's, you know, the

warrant's going to be tough enough on the field and you could see the

that it came out, you know, came from communities like Cron. You know, they were used to

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