Hello, what is the crack? Welcome to episode number 86 of The Blind by Podcast. How are you

getting on? Are you having a lovely charming week? I certainly am. I'm writing my

bollocks off. Book deadline is coming up pretty soon and I'm writing furiously

several thousand words a day and several thousand words that I'm happy with. So I'm

very pleased with how the book is going. I'm happy to report. Very pleased. I'll go

and well. The new book will be out on October and it's going to be another collection of

short stories just like the first book, The Gospel, The Carding, The Blind by. Don't know

what second book is going to be called. Having a clue, not even in that discussion yet. My only

priority is to deliver the first draft of that fucking book within the next week and I reckon

I'm going to do it. So anyway, thank you for the lovely responses to last week's podcast,

which was called crack. It was a cultural history of Irish faction fighting. It was a nice little

historical heart-take type of podcast. If you're new to the podcast, go back to some earlier episodes,

maybe start at the very start. I try not to have each podcast kind of too relevant as to what's

happening right now. I always mentioned a little bit at the start that's chronologically relevant,

we'll say, but other than that, you can dip into any podcast you like and it doesn't matter whether

it's a year old or whatever. So this week, what I'd like to, based on, and we just had our

European and local elections there in Ireland. I'm relatively happy with the results because

we have a trained emerging called the Green Wave, where basically the Green Party of Ireland

and politicians who have climate action as something they want to tackle, people appear to be

voting these people in. Now, regarding the Green Party of Ireland,

historically, they tend to talk to talk and not necessarily walk the walk, unfortunately.

So let's hope that the Green representatives that have been elected will go forward into

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