 Glen Ernie and where is the party and the man himself is still with me in the studio and Declan I've been really enjoying our chat so far today It's it's great to catch up with you after the last couple of years You haven't been you've been on the phone line, but it's not the same. It's not the same as being in in the studio and The lovely hospitality. I have to say this here today and cheese chicken All sorts of stuff we were talking about, you know the nerdy beat that's been in that's been resident in the dance halls for years We've been chatting about your hugely successful concert tour that you're actually out and embarking on at the moment But you've also had this great ability to not reinvent yourself But keep Declan Ernie's name very relevant and you know in recent times You found yourself in a stadium playing with the two Johnny's pants in a field and all sorts and I think that's amazing Well, it was it it just came about and I couldn't believe that you know But and I said to Johnny smacks is one of the Johnny's he says to me I says should these young people won't know he says that it will know you he says because they were they were all Six or seven years of age when you were High in the charts in the very in the 90s with all your songs and the mothers were making the dinners and they were listening to The Johnny Barry's below and Kilkenny and they were listening to Paul Claffey's and the Pio McCann's here He says this and they're the audience is out there tonight sure as soon as they came out It was it was fantastic. Like there was a huge reaction and yeah A great acceptance and then stop the world took off then and away went brilliant, and I'm sure maybe You said that was a relationship that you weren't really conscious of I wasn't conscious of it at all I didn't think that it existed and that's a lovely thing for you. It is it's it's it's it's you know When you go home that night after you it's it's a it's a great sort of a consolation of exactly where the whole thing Had led to and I touched on your concert or it's out there at the moment It's out there. Yeah, we'll be coming to Oma and the school Later on in April there so and a great show if you guessed we do have the great John McNichol John is a great Entertainer I have to say we we got off on the ball the other night there was for the first night of it And lovely entertainer and a gentleman to boot for sure now Declan There's a lot of people that want to say hello to you here and read through them A big hello to Prince who's tuned in from Dubai and also to Lee Doyle once I say a big hello to you Mary Joe Bonner says a great entertainer is Declan Ernie. I can't wait for the 19th and we'll talk about that shortly And also Brydie O'Leary one of your biggest fans the old stalwart. There's no doubt about it Brydie If I if I this money funds is Brydie Elvis wouldn't be You do have a great great core Of wonderful people the likes of Brydie who follow you Yeah, we had a lot of great loyal fans that stuck with us for the 30 odd years that were still on the road and they're they're still there and I never left it You know, we we built up a great rapport with them and just accidentally I suppose in a way We didn't go out to porpoise they do that or whatever, but it just happens It either happens or it doesn't happen that day But they've also stuck with you because the product that you're delivering them to to them on the stage Is something that they absolutely love and something that you've been able to keep at a huge level for so long So that's a huge credit to you as well Well, I suppose it comes across through your you know your songs and your your music comes across You know it's your own personality pushed out through the speaker through the song and that's the way it is Yeah, no just before we wrap it up. There's two ladies in castle blingy that we gotta say outlaying areas Thank hello to they're working hard or hardly working today. That's Sarah and Liz and you sisters in castle Blaine's sisters in castle Blaine. I can tell you if we don't mention them on the program today I had there be no tear cheesecake for me in castle Blaine ever again. No, they're they're they're great. They're two of me I suppose my best friends in the webby They they really they give out to me. They praise me. They don't praise me too much now to tell you the truth But they give out to me and to keep me in line and and to help the help out enough Everything I do so where would you be without I wouldn't be without the money for it. That's been Now Declan you're nipping down to the ingrain in theater tonight a great show It's going to be down there with Mike Denver and I think Brendan shines on the bill as well tonight Brendan is on the on the show and Mike a very popular man and You know, I've been I'm delighted that he offered me to come and do a guest spot on the show And it'd be lovely to do a guest spots as well. Yes I'm different people's shows. I've done them with Derek and with with Mike and various other people And it's you know, it's just lovely to come in and be part of their night You know, you just it's not all about it's not all about yourself either Do you know that's the way you always seen it and we do have a lovely community in our industry For that type of thing and Mary Jo mentioned that you are a great entertainer, which I couldn't agree more with And she says that you can't wait until the 19th of March You are going to be knocking by to make a guest appearance at the Highland radio birthday bash And we're going to have the great legend there Brendan Quinn is on it and Patrick Feeney Which is a no better man to sing those those lovely gospel songs. He sings fantastic And of course the queen herself Margo. Yes here. I just fell a call David David David James I think that's a typo So listen, that's going to be a great great night We're very much looking forward to it and you always put on such a great show You always left the atmosphere for that 20 25 minutes that you're on stage Well, it's great and it's lovely to be here today and to say hello to everybody In your jurisdiction that you broadcast I know you go over to Derry and all around about an interterron and and down into slag Tell me they'll be listening to you and as we say in Castle Blaney and everywhere It's all over the world. So it's lovely to be here and continue success to you and in your own career as well Just as a man to man here I wish you the very very best of good luck David because you're A man that's putting your your your penny where your pound is and and You're a great show a senior show on Mullingyard with Michael It was clips of it there on facebook and very very good and a great entertainer and a man to support David James. Thank you very much