Me on the radio?! Who'd thunk it?

'23 is getting off to a good start. '22 was okay - we're at the stage now where we can drop the 20 now - but its second half was much better and that was thanks to the Social Prescribing service. Things do look a lot better for me now and I'm getting ready to face new challenges. 

If you'll recall from reading my last post, one of the new challenges I faced was publicly speaking at the Healthy Communities launch. I was so nervous that day but I didn't shy away like I normally do. They say we humans are either fighters or fighters, and I was always the latter. Well, this one time I was a fighter.

Also, I would have certainly backed out of something like this before. On Wednesday 11th, myself and another user of the Social Prescribing service, Darius, were interviewed for the RTE Radio 1 show 'CountryWide'. Here are some photos from that day:

Left to right:
Eamonn, Darius, myself and reporter, Della

Left to right:
Deirdre, Darius, myself and reporter, Della


Della, the reporter, had asked me questions about what the service had done for me and I told her about all my accomplishments. That because of it I had been shortlisted for the award at the Wexford Literary Arts Festival and that I had some plays I'd written performed at the Wexford Arts Centre. I also told her that I would like to make a short film and, hopefully, I'll be able to do that someday.

I was getting messages of congratulations from my family. A friend of mine said I was 'dominating the media', well all I can say is for that to happen, I'd have to be on TV and then, set up a popular YouTube channel. Maybe one where I play video games and make snarky comments.

Listening to it, my real Dublin-ness came out because I said 'y'know' a lot. Here's the link to the audio clip:

Social Prescribing Segment

And just for funsies, count how many times I said 'y'know'. Oh, and I bought an air fryer that day.

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