Hello and welcome to another episode of an Irishman abroad with me, Jarlath Regan.

I want to say straight off the top that our chosen charity partner is as always jigsaw.i.

It doesn't matter what age you are.

A pandemic is a hard thing to get through.

I think we can all agree a particularly difficult week this one.

But if you're young, you will need extra help. And that is

where Jigsaw, our chosen charity partner, comes in, aiming to provide young people across Ireland,

across all communities with the mental health skills that they'll need to survive in life,

let alone a pandemic. Please, please visit jigsaw.i.e this week and kick in something, throw in something.

You'll be amazed how far it will go or better still come and support me on my fundraising effort

for jigsaw.com. Every Tuesday I talk to Sanya Sullivan and she coaches me towards running

2,000 kilometres in the space of a year. That's the Irishman running abroad

challenge and you can be part of it. I've gathered 400 runners already to take part, raise

money for Jigsaw and feel better going into 2021. I have to say I always viewed running as a form

of self-abuse but now it very much is part of self-care

for me and my own mental health. If that's something that appeals to you, come on over on a Tuesday.

Sonia and I will chat through why so many people quit, how you can do it right, how you can

avoid injury and all those things. And that's available for free on this feed every Tuesday. Every

Friday, of course, with Marion McKeown with the Irishman in America and that podcast. I'm delighted

to say we'll continue. I thought it would be over now too, given that Joe Biden won the election.

You'd think that that's the end of it. But as we all know, that is not the end of it. And there's

an awful lot more water to go under the bridge there.

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