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I'm Ronan. I'm Keith. And I'm routine. And pancake juices has just passed us there. It has. It has.
I'm getting a load of people together to build the world's biggest pancake. We have all the hands we need. We're just looking for a tosser.
Are you freaky? Are you free?
I suppose when you're grown up you ought to be a number of different things. And if you look at my life to date, I mean, I've been anything from...
I've worked as a gardener, parkkeeper, I've worked in banks, I've worked in newspapers. In the last ten years or so, I've gravitated towards wanting to be in radio.
I always had a love for radio, even when I was a kid. I always did. I remember when I was sick from school. I'd specifically wake up to listen to Gay Brown and embarrassing all of that.
I used to love his radio program and all that. So I always had a passion for it, but it was actually getting round to, I suppose, have the balls to go and try and do it.
And there was a major catalyst in my life that actually changed my whole perspective and my outlook on what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go.
And it eventually led me to work in radio. I was at a place where I wasn't happy in the job that I was doing, even though I was earning a lot of money.
When Cormac passed away, things went particularly bad, so I decided that I really needed to change my life drastically, or I'd be in serious trouble myself.
So when my friend lost his life, I had a major rethink. And in the space of, I suppose, after four or five months after his death, I had left the bank, I had applied for college, I was accepted.
And that following September, I was in college. When people look at it, they say, oh, fair play to you. It was a huge thing that you did and all that.
I didn't really see it as that. I didn't feel that it was difficult.
And then I used to go around the park, cut the grass, and one of those, you know, they'd sit on the moors and chat to all the wine ills, and everything was great.
And I remember one of my tasks one day was to paint the paddling pool for the kids. It was a really hot sunny day. It gets really warm in London.
And the sun was very strong. I'd paint the paddling pool white. I was in the paddling pool for maybe four hours painting. It didn't take a break.
The day of the pool, couldn't see a thing. Blind!
When I was in Liberties College, there was a lecturer in there, Sam Lyons, and he was involved with a project in the Digital Hope.
The Digital Hope was an enterprise that was set up by the government to encourage industries such as e-based industries or tech-based industries to move down here.
And at that point, I think there was a niche found that they wanted to set up a community radio station.
The radio station was set up. He was looking for people to work on it. And myself and Keith had had a talk.
We said, yeah, you know, it could be something that would be good.
I was in college, in the Liberties College, and I met Ron Gilligan. And what happened then when I met Rob, was Rob was in the college too.
And when we met Roshan, it wasn't until we had actually started here, and she was a friend of Rob's, so she came along. She helped us out on the show as well.
I presented my research with Keith and Rob.
Well, joining college, probably almost three years ago, or two and a half years ago, was the same class as Ron.
Then last year, we were put in a group together in competition with three other people in our class, and we just put together a show which took the format of the Leading Breakfast Show.
I can imagine Ron was probably going to get a show of his own. I think he's very good on the radio, and he's got good comment time.
I think he's got the ability.
When I finished college, I went straight into the job. I mean, I don't work for the national broadcaster.
It's been a huge change, and if you think about it now, when I broadcast with that job, on one of the programs that I do, an average of, I think it's 250,000 people will be listening to it.
So to go from working in a bank, processing tax returns for people and stuff like that, to broadcasting, that's a huge change.
It's been a huge change, and a change for the better.
