From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony

You hear sounds of Dublin city centre - plus commentary by Paul O’Mahony as he walks the streets.

You hear Paul O’Mahony talking about a time when everything seemed to be going quite nicely. Until he got a surprise invitation to do something quite nerve racking

You hear Paul O’Mahony very upset. He was caught speeding. A big fine & three points on his licence

You hear Paul O’Mahony talking about how he was pissed off by the way the day began. You also hear him talking about why it’s getting better and better. Paul loves Dublin.

You hear Paul O’Mahony feeling the effects of interviewing & editing. It’s taken more out of him than he realised

You hear Paul O’Mahony talking about the highlight of his Saturday.

You hear Paul O’Mahony falling asleep on Saturday morning - after a day away playing golf. An experience to remember.

You hear Paul O’Mahony asking listeners if they would like to go to a an unusual meeting. A meeting at which you hadn’t a clue what role you were to play until you got to the meeting. Paul went to that type of meeting yesterday. He’d like to know how are you would feel about that.

You hear Paul O’Mahony talking about a talk he gave yesterday. The talk was about John Bourke. John was one of the best Irish golfers ever. You hear what Larry thought of the speech and what he thought Paul could do to improve it. Larry’s opinion and recommendations were given at the May meeting of Toastmasters4Golf.

You hear Paul O’Mahony hardly able to believe the rumour that the US government is contemplating imposing a tariff on the importation of the views of Pope Leo. Surely it’s a joke.

You hear Paul O’Mahony making coffee in an energetic manner. In kitchen, with a SAGE machine.

You hear Paul O’Mahony out walking with his dog on Sunday morning. Before the hailstones. Pol pleased that the blockades are being lifted. The oil refinery can go back to work. Oil depots are open again.

You hear Paul O’Mahony waxing lyrically about transcription provided by Voice Record Pro app. “I almost forgot what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to tell you the story of what's happened to an app on which I use, almost every day, called voice record pro, sometimes called voice record pro seven. Something wonderful has happened. Out of the blue, I had no idea it was coming. Transcription comes. And it's fast, fast, fast. You can record your audio. Press the transcription, and it'll be there in seconds. Now, for years I've been using this app. And for years, the transcription's been no good. Okay, all transcriptions are inaccurate. But it takes forever, takes forever, up until what, 3 days ago or something like that? I tell you, there isn't a better app on which to record audio, and if there is in your opinion, something superb, something that you rate out of this world, please mention it. Please send me some kind of information about it. I would really like that because I'm fully prepared to give another app a go. Absolutely, fully prepared to download another app, try it out, give it a fair chance. But this is coming to you via voice record pro and I might even transcribe it and put it in the notes that go along with this podcast episode, which I'll put up on audioboom back to the studio.”

You hear Paul O’Mahony reporting on the latest situation “Hello and welcome to my kitchen, where I've been doing research. As far as I found out, the UK government is doing nothing significant to reduce the cost of fuel or diesel to compensate or support the businesses that are dependent on these. That means farmers, truck drivers and private bus drivers. There seems to be general societal peace, no roadblockages, no long queues outside petrol stations - nor fuel shortages. According to what I've been able to find out, via Internet, BBC News app, and artificial intelligence, all's well in UK. All is not well in Ireland. Big meeting this afternoon between government and 2 or 3 representative organisations. Probably, some spokespersons from those blocking roads will be at the meeting - if they were members of the Irish Farmers Association or Road Hauliers I had conversation this morning about how much it would cost the government to peg or reduce the price of fuel down to €1.90 per litre for diesel, and €1.60 for petrol. (Diesel is currently €2.10, petrol €1.95) - but few can get fuel because protesters are blocking roads. One person said the government can't do that because it would cost a billion a week (or 1 billion a month). I went to sources, 2 artificial sources, DeepSeek sink & ChatGPT. According to Deep Seek, it would cost the Exchequer €80-120 million for 3 months. Chat GPT said it would cost 300 million per year for petrol, for all diesel €275m - €575m per year. Both went into detail on how they did their calculations. Chat GPT is estimating what the cost would be to the annual exchequer. The answer it comes up with is roughly €39m per year. Correction: Including excise duty, cost would be between €80 - 90m a year. ChatGPT is now offering information on a 25% reduction across the board. It says that overall - when you include transport, farming, and home heating, you're talking nearly €2 billion a year. Divide by 52 to to estimate how much revenue the government will lose per week. How much less investment is available for roads, hospitals, schools, social welfare, et cetera. Ireland has a massive stash of money in some kind of escrow account which has been collected Google, Apple foreign direct investment. There’s no doubt the money is there. However the consequences of releasing money from that fund, we call the Rainy Day Fund, is beyond me to calculate. Here's the news update. There's a big meeting this afternoon, and goodness knows what will be the outcome of it” in relation to the protests, Road blockages, and fuel shortage in Ireland at 1 pm on 10th of April 2026.

You hear Paul O’Mahony introducing the clash between protesters and the Irish government. Roads blocked. Oil refinery blocked …

You hear Paul O’Mahony practising a tall tale. A tall tale is a short story which may or may not be true. The best tales leave the audience wondering “ could this possibly be true?” Paul is going to tell this tale to an audience of Toastmasters today.

You hear Paul O’Mahony getting ‘’back to normal” after recent life. The problem Paul faces is that he end up with war.

You hear Paul O’Mahony on a bicycle for the first time in 19 years. Is it possible that Paul will take up cycling again? Surely Paul won’t continue to be irritated by Greenways?

You here Paul O’Mahony on his way back from the funeral of Nick Chambers.