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2005 Suicide bombers kill 52, injure hundreds in London mass transit attacks
13:55
JOERADIO: You've come across the hidden Oireland?
CALLER 1: Lost, Joe. They're lost.
I'm a census enumerator. I went to lots of flats. Getting people to open doors is a difficult job. You go in, there's a table with four legs. Nothing around making it homey. I met many old men in bedsits. Fear in opening the door to me. Starving for contact and conversation. I think we've lost the plot in society. We're efficient. We're convenient. But there's nowhere for people to meet, except morning Mass. Walking to mass together to make sure each other is alright. Leafy suburb of Dublin. Beautiful homes converted into flats. Lovely people. Difficult lives.
CALLER 2: Flats I've seen like student flats fifteen years ago. Cleanliness not good. Mushrooms in the shower. Thought it had to be gone in this day and age. Doorbells don't even work. Don't even know what flat number they have in these converted homes. Sad because they won't get out of the rut they're in because rents are so high.
Corporation flats. Beautifully kept by the women. The men are neglected. Their flats are desperately dirty. Mould. Damp. Rusty filthy places. Beds that don't look like the linen has been changed. Not judging these people. Why don't we have a service for people to call on 85 year-olds to change their bed linen? To talk. To them?
JOERADIO: Stay with me. I want to talk to a postman after the break.
JIM (postman): Good after noon. I concur. Domestic violence. The most striking thing is the loneliness of the old people.
JOERADIO: Ah, your line is gone. Brian?
BRIAN: I'd like to vouch for everything the other two callers have said. Drove down a lane for a mile, walked a quarter mile to get to a house, knocked on the door. "Ah come in. I'm just making the tay." No electricity, no drainage, no running water. And the person is happy as Larry.
14:13
JIM (call back): There's a whole world of hurt and pain out here, Joe. As postmen we see it all. Screaming and roaring and fists flying. Rows in cars. Door opens. Pushed out on the street. Widespread.
14:16
BRIAN: It's presented as a 'happy-happy' society. The media and gubberment. We run around on our holidays and everything. It isn't like that.
14:18
JOERADIO: Fear. Loneliness. Poverty.
CALLER 2: And pride. Their greatest obstacle in life.
14:23
BRIAN: I think the postmen could do more.
JIM: If there was any way we could, we would.
14:27
(An actual lonely person rings in) LONELY: My main fear is dying alone and not being found. I'm 56. I've left a key with the neighbour. I feel completely isolated. A social friend of mine was found dead after a week. Same conditions.
14:31
CALLER 3: Nobody in Dublin makes eye contact. Nobody knows their neighbours. It's like London six years ago.
14:33
JOERADIO: Does it cheer you up when people look you in the eye?
LONELY: Oh yeah. That's the way life is. Used to be.
14:40
(An urchin dials) URCHIN: Me sister's in a ruh. Everywhere you look nobody will take social welfare cheques. The two of us had a hard life.
JOERADIO: Whatcha mean? What happened? Tellus.
URCHIN: Puh in a home. That's where it all started.
14:42
JOERADIO: You can hear the depression. The sickness in her voice. Nobody out there to help her. I can't even help her and I'm doing me nothing best.
14:44
URCHIN: I've been fighting the Corporation for years. Even I don't have energy for them anymore.
JOERADIO: You've spoken with great sensitivity.
URCHIN: It's all very well saying that Joe, but what's gonna happen?
JOE: I know. Nothin'.
23:53
With your host Drry-annnd Turgideeeeee!
JOERADIO: You've come across the hidden Oireland?
CALLER 1: Lost, Joe. They're lost.
I'm a census enumerator. I went to lots of flats. Getting people to open doors is a difficult job. You go in, there's a table with four legs. Nothing around making it homey. I met many old men in bedsits. Fear in opening the door to me. Starving for contact and conversation. I think we've lost the plot in society. We're efficient. We're convenient. But there's nowhere for people to meet, except morning Mass. Walking to mass together to make sure each other is alright. Leafy suburb of Dublin. Beautiful homes converted into flats. Lovely people. Difficult lives.
CALLER 2: Flats I've seen like student flats fifteen years ago. Cleanliness not good. Mushrooms in the shower. Thought it had to be gone in this day and age. Doorbells don't even work. Don't even know what flat number they have in these converted homes. Sad because they won't get out of the rut they're in because rents are so high.
Corporation flats. Beautifully kept by the women. The men are neglected. Their flats are desperately dirty. Mould. Damp. Rusty filthy places. Beds that don't look like the linen has been changed. Not judging these people. Why don't we have a service for people to call on 85 year-olds to change their bed linen? To talk. To them?
JOERADIO: Stay with me. I want to talk to a postman after the break.
JIM (postman): Good after noon. I concur. Domestic violence. The most striking thing is the loneliness of the old people.
JOERADIO: Ah, your line is gone. Brian?
BRIAN: I'd like to vouch for everything the other two callers have said. Drove down a lane for a mile, walked a quarter mile to get to a house, knocked on the door. "Ah come in. I'm just making the tay." No electricity, no drainage, no running water. And the person is happy as Larry.
14:13
JIM (call back): There's a whole world of hurt and pain out here, Joe. As postmen we see it all. Screaming and roaring and fists flying. Rows in cars. Door opens. Pushed out on the street. Widespread.
14:16
BRIAN: It's presented as a 'happy-happy' society. The media and gubberment. We run around on our holidays and everything. It isn't like that.
14:18
JOERADIO: Fear. Loneliness. Poverty.
CALLER 2: And pride. Their greatest obstacle in life.
14:23
BRIAN: I think the postmen could do more.
JIM: If there was any way we could, we would.
14:27
(An actual lonely person rings in) LONELY: My main fear is dying alone and not being found. I'm 56. I've left a key with the neighbour. I feel completely isolated. A social friend of mine was found dead after a week. Same conditions.
14:31
CALLER 3: Nobody in Dublin makes eye contact. Nobody knows their neighbours. It's like London six years ago.
14:33
JOERADIO: Does it cheer you up when people look you in the eye?
LONELY: Oh yeah. That's the way life is. Used to be.
14:40
(An urchin dials) URCHIN: Me sister's in a ruh. Everywhere you look nobody will take social welfare cheques. The two of us had a hard life.
JOERADIO: Whatcha mean? What happened? Tellus.
URCHIN: Puh in a home. That's where it all started.
14:42
JOERADIO: You can hear the depression. The sickness in her voice. Nobody out there to help her. I can't even help her and I'm doing me nothing best.
14:44
URCHIN: I've been fighting the Corporation for years. Even I don't have energy for them anymore.
JOERADIO: You've spoken with great sensitivity.
URCHIN: It's all very well saying that Joe, but what's gonna happen?
JOE: I know. Nothin'.
23:53
With your host Drry-annnd Turgideeeeee!
