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Ep 96---
Tommy King grew up in a house with a shop in the front room, where neighbours knocked at eleven at night for a drop of milk. In 1984 he started as an apprentice butcher with Stanley Taylor on £30.30 a week, and on his first morning he had his arm down a pickle barrel, numb to the shoulder. He talks about twenty years behind the counter, Thursday darts nights in Boyle's pubs, and the paintings he started about four years ago.

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Ep 95---
3,207 signatures in four days. That is what a table on The Crescent and an online petition gathered in support of Aldi's plans for the old Candon's site on Patrick Street, while the planning appeal against it waits on a decision. Jane Suffin, who started the petition, and former postmaster Paul Forde sit down with Florence and Carlo, who were on the team with them, to talk about why a supermarket matters so much to a town the size of Boyle, and about who turned up to sign.

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Ep 94---

Andrea Cosgrave set up a travel page to document a family trip to Iceland. The trip never happened. It was the Saint Patrick's weekend that the country shut down, and she was left with an empty account and a folder of older photographs. 
She started posting them anyway. Six years and somewhere past twenty countries later, she talks to Florence about spreadsheets, Thailand, a passport that expired at the check in desk, and why she would rather it was hard in the sunshine.

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Ep 93---
Historian and author Paul Connolly joins Carlo for what turned into a proper local history lesson.
It starts with a ruin across the road from his national school in Mount Talbot, and a teacher named Sonny Cronin who had his pupils naming spring flowers in Latin and Irish decades before anyone used the word biodiversity. It goes on through sixteen years of senior hurling, and the void that opens when the matches stop.
Then there is the day that changed everything. Paul took a day off work, drove to Boyle, walked into King House and introduced himself to Tommy Egan. Three or four hours later he drove back to Galway with a whole book formed in his head.
In this conversation: the night Rockingham burned in 1957 and the local people who saved what furniture they could. Why King House is standing today and Moat Park is not. The Quakers of Frybrook who fed the starving from their own kitchen. Castle Island, the McDermotts, and the castle Yeats never built. Why the gate lodges survived when the mansions did not.
And a question worth sitting with. We are the most photographed generation who ever lived, and we may be the one that leaves the least behind.
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Ep 92---

This week, Carlo chats with Nicola Wynne, who grew up on the Carrick Road and went on to live a life you would struggle to believe.
She spent five and a half years with the United Nations in former Yugoslavia during the war. She was also based in New York on September 11th 2001. She built a 20-year career in real estate in New Jersey. And when she lost her father and her American visa in the same year, she came home to Boyle for three years during COVID that she still calls some of the happiest and most healing of her life.
Nicola lives in Mallorca now, but this conversation is a love letter to Boyle and to what home really means.
Have a listen, and share it on to someone who would appreciate it.

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