Turas Siar 388 - Riocard Ó Bruadair as an Mullach Rua, beannacht Dé lena anam, faoi agallamh ag Máirtín Mac Donnchadha, RnaG. Craoladh an píosa seo ar an 17ú Meán Fómhair 2004.

Agus as sin amach ansin.

And from then on..

Chuirfeadh sé síos cúpla bliain dom é as sin amach thosaigh mé féin dá íoc.

It would take a few years off me; from then on I myself started to pay it.

Níor stop mé riamh ina dhiaidh sin, lean mé dó go deimhin, agus tá mé ag tabhairt baochas do Dhia ar an méid maitheas atá déanta agam, an dtuigeann tú, thart insa gceantar.

I never stopped after that, I really continued, and I am giving thanks to God for the amount of good I have done, you know, around the area..

Éamon Ó Cuív anois, an créatúr.

Éamon Ó Cuív now, the creature..

Thosaigh sé ar an mbóthar, tá a fhios agat.

He started on the road, you know..

thiar ar an Eachléim agus tá siad dhá dhéanamh síos.

out in Eachléim and they are making two down..

Agus anois?

And now?

Le tamall.

For a while..

Sábháil, déarfainn.

Save, I’d say..

Anois an gcreidfeadh sé gur cheart dom bhí sé le

Now would he believe that I should have been with him.

Tá sé a' glaoch orm anois.

He is calling me now.

Glaoch orm anois ní chreidfeadh sibh ón domhan é ach sin é an chaoi ar tharla sé bhí ráite ag roicéad roimh ré liom go raibh tá an tAire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta le glaoch air am áirithe agus nuair a chuimhnigh Rocard air féin le linn an agallamh bhreathnaigh sé ar an gclog mar a chuala sibh ansin agus an t-óiméad a bhreathnaigh sé ar an gclog nár thosaigh an fón ag bualadh déarfaidh sibh gur ag aisteoireacht a bhí muid ach níorbh ea d'fhreagair do Rocard an fón agus níorbh é Éamonn Éamon Ó Cuív a bhí ann mar a tharla ach fear mór le rá eile nach gcuirfidh muid aon ainm anois air rinne Rocard a ghnóthaí leis agus ansin chuaigh muid ar ais chun cainte diarr mé ar Ricard breathnú siar agus inseacht dhom céard é an rud is mó a chuir ríméad air as na hoibrithe ar fad a raibh baint aige leo sa gceantar.

Call me now, you wouldn’t believe it from the world but that’s how it happened. Rocard had told me beforehand that the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs was to call him at a certain time, and when Rocard remembered it himself during the interview, he looked at the clock as you heard then, and the moment he looked at the clock, didn’t the phone start ringing. You’d say we were acting, but we weren’t. Rocard answered the phone and it wasn’t Éamon Ó Cuív as it happened, but another well-known man whose name we won’t mention now. Rocard did his business with him and then we went back to talking. I asked Ricard to look back and tell me what was the thing that gave him the most joy out of all the work he was involved in in the area.

Tá bród agam an lá a fuair mé an t-uisce déanta do na daoiní insa gceantar.

I am proud of the day I got the water made for the people in the area.

Daoiní bochta, an créatúr, a theastaíonn uathu go crua, an dtuigeann tú, an t-uisce a bheith glan acu.

Poor people, the creature, who badly need, you understand, to have clean water..

Ach go deimhin is bocht an rud é.

But indeed it is a poor thing..