If You Ever Go Across the sea to Ireland

Published: Aug. 6, 2021, 7:32 p.m.

b'First we find out what-s on Don\'s mind with #Olympic Games #ClimateChange #Liverpool #Heritage and #Music...This week\'s "there and back in a day" features Northern Ireland......as explained in previous programmes these were travelogues made with Radio Merseyside\'s Monty Lister where we would travel to various places for one day...he would do the commentary and I would handle the sound.....so this one starts out at Liverpool Airport in the early hours of the morning and we land in Belfast where we are shown around the city before boarding a coach which takes us across country to the Mountains of Mourn \\nwhere we stopped off for lunch and had a look around the area.....on the way there the coach driver pointed out some boats coming into the harbour and explained they were bringing back a cargo of eels for the local fishmonger trade....someone on the coach asked if we could see some eels.....the driver nods his head and takes a left off the carriageway and down this country road which was narrower that the coach....stops at a farm and goes and asks this chap if he could show his passengers some eels....the chap comes on to the coach with a huge box of LIVE eels all jumping about with him \\ntrying to keep them in the box....certainly livened up the day....only in Ireland.'