Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Keir Starmer in Paris, cold case breakthrough and Gary Lineker to leave Match of the Day

Keir Starmer will be the first UK Prime Minister to join Armistice Day commemorations in France since Winston Churchill in 1944. 

UK correspondent Enda Brady tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the British leader was there to get private time with Macron in order to discuss Trump’s re-election. 

Meanwhile, cold case detectives in Ireland have made a breakthrough in the notorious case of a young woman who had been missing for 21 years. 

And, BBC’s top sports presenter Gary Lineker will leave Match of the Day after 25 years. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here the what about restaurant? I think you understood that.
Thank you, Meghan fourteen away from seven into Brady UK
corresponding with us.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Now, Hey, Inda, hello Heather, great to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
So about the rugby Oh here we go. So, I mean,
what happened.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Look, we've taken a collective decision in Ireland to others
be the best team in the world for three years
and then in the fourth year of the cycle we
go and actually win something.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
So that's the opposite of how you normally play, which
is that you play you play really poorly in the
off years. No, you play really well in the off
years and poorly in the ond years. So you've switched
the technic. You're going to win the rugby World Cap,
are you.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well? Look, look we need to get past quarter finals.
But no, fair play, fair play to your guys, Absolutely brilliant.
But then we move on. We move on. As I
said to your dear producer Laura, just now we're not
the history channel.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
With the news channel up. Hey listen, why did Stama
go to Paris Famas this day?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
So this was pointed out as a big deal, you know,
British Prime Minister being in France for the first time
for Armstace Day since Winston Churchill. Would you believe nineteen
forty four he stood with Charlotte Degaul eighty years ago.
But you know, instantly you can say Keir Starmer was
not there for history. He was not there for Armistice Day.

(01:25):
He was there to get some private time at Macron,
to sit down behind closed doors and say, right, what
are we going to do about Trump? That's what yesterday
was all about. So Starmer spent the entire day in
Paris and they will have talked about how to deal
with Trump. What's coming in January? Are trade tariffs coming
our way in Europe? And obviously the UK is now

(01:46):
not part of the European Union and that is a
big worry. If Trump starts kind of knocking trade tariffs
around Europe, it's a problem for everyone. And also the
war in Ukraine. What's he going to do there? Is
he going to continue his support? So Starmer and Macron
have a very good relationship. Starmer was working privately behind
the scenes before he got elected. He actually got an

(02:08):
audience in Paris prior to you know, when he was
leader of the opposition. So make no mistake He is
a serious man, and Trump is going to be a
serious issue for Europe as he is for everywhere else.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, you know, we were just talking about Donald Trump
just a few minutes ago, actually, And the thing about
Donald Trump is he's a guy who makes deals, right,
So you've got to bring something to the table. So
Stamer's basically what if a Stamer wants he has to
bring something in order to trade for that, doesn't he.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Absolutely he's a transactional politician. And you know he even
wrote the book The Art of the Deal. Well, unfortunately,
the main thing Trump wanted out with the UK was
a state visit with Queen Elizabeth. He's had that, she's gone,
and you just wonder what else this country has to
offer him.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Is he not interested in Charles?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I don't think he is. I think look what they'll
do is they'll offer him another state visit, and they're
already making plans to have him speak in Parliament. And
I think privately, behind the scenes, what they're working on
is his ego. How come you know we can say
you can say that, you know, he's already said that
he was Queen Elizabeth the Second's favorite president ever. Apparently
she told him that directly. You know, we can absolutely

(03:15):
I was her favorite president ever. She told me to
my face, you can totally believe, you know, these conversations
that one person isn't around to this dispute. I think.
I think what we'll do is say to him that,
you know, come and speak in Parliament. It's amazing Italy,
you be the most beautiful president ever. But in the meantime,
please don't put any tart of some British goods going

(03:35):
to America.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, jeez, I'll tell you what. It's quite a thing
to invite him to speak there just for his ego,
isn't it. Tell me about this breakthrough in the in
the cold case.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
In Ireland, so a young woman, Jojo Dollard, twenty one
years of age, exactly twenty nine years ago, the weekend
just gone, she vanished. She had been socializing in Dublin
and she missed the bus and she had decided to
hitchhike all the way back down to rural county kick Kenny.
Now the last interaction she had with anyone. She had

(04:07):
run a family friend from a telephone box a coinbox
at the time, and she was hitchhiking, and she said
don't worry. Don't worry. Someone's pulled in. I've got a lift.
She was never seen again. Now at the weekend police
put out an appeal and it was all about her
last movements and the fact that she had a Sony Walkman,
a white and green Sony Walkman with her and it

(04:30):
was to mark the anniversary. Well out of nowhere they
have now made an arrest. A man in his fifties
has been arrested on suspicion of murder and it is
an extraordinary development. This is a case that Ireland has
pretty much been obsessed with what happened Jojo Dollard. He
in custody, A man is being questioned. Let's see what happens.

(04:50):
But God help her family twenty nine years of not
knowing what happened, Jojo Jez.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I'll tell you what in the Thank you very much, Matt,
really appreciate this. Into Brady, we'll talk to you in
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