Episode 1 – McGregor Retires
– That fella, Conor O’Leary, is going to retire.
– No, no, that’s not him. Conor O’Leary’s the fella with the airplanes.
– I heard he’s going off to Iceland for a bath.
– Sure can’t he have a bath at home?
– Jaysus no. They’re special ones with volcano water and seaweed.
– Probably has them fecking scented candles an’ all. Since that pound shop opened my wan has the house destroyed with ‘em.
– Hang on now, Conor O’Brien is the man.
– No no no, Conor O’Brien is the horse trainer, sure wasn’t I down at the place he has below in Tipperary.
– Well. What’s his name so?
– Conor McGuigan
– Ah that’s the man, so it is. The Notorious Cyclone isn’t that him?
– ‘Tis, that’s him. I stayed up one night to watch the fight with Jose Carreras. Waste of time it was. I bent down to get my glasses and ‘twas all over when I had them on.
– What happened?
– I don’t know, McGuigan was straddling the cage waving at the crowd, I couldn’t make head nor tail of it so off I went to bed.
– Is that what twittering is?
– No, no, Twittering is sending messages on the line.
– Oh, sure of course it is.
– A fine cut of a fella.
– Oh he is.
– C’mere
– Wha?
– ‘Tis your round.
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