Sunday morning for a lot of Irish people is like their relationship with their cousins.
When they were younger, they used to see them all the time but now they hardly know what they look like!
Hello Sunday Morning actually got on to me about a year ago telling me what they were.
I guess they heard me do a joke or two in Australia about being a non drinker.
As a non drinker, night clubs have to finish at like two thirty because of licensing laws
why don't they stop serving drink at one am but keep them open till four
im a non drinker ill dance till four
A lot of lips service at the moment about what we are going to do about our drinking, but very little actual action.
i thought i'll like to finish the series with at least one thing that says
heres the thing i was talking to a
health specialist liver guy in Beaumont hospital
and he was saying we don't have the Pioneers anymore i was thinking yeah a
modern version of the Pioneers would be great
most places when you hear the word pioneer they think of somebody
who has accomplished an amazing feat
like got to the top of Everest or went across the United States at a time of turmoil or went
to Antarctica where as in Ireland a pioneer is someone that doesn't drink
if you don't drink you need a pin for that fair play to ya
So this is Ian and Tricia from Spunout.ie
which is a great website you tell me what exactly is spunout.ie
so we are an online website for young people
who are between the ages of sixteen to twenty five we are essentially an online guide to life
if something they are not sure about they can come on
generally somebody else has written about it already
just want to say thank you to spunout.ie because im moving to china in two days
spunout.ie are going to help us with hello sunday morning
i called you guys really to look for a favour to be honest because
i'm going to be in china and
hello sunday morning has been launched and the twitter page is up
and we got one hundred followers today actually when i put it out there
but im not going to be around to keep it going and i felt
it would be a bit
ignorant of me to launch something and not have the support
so basically im asking you guys for a major favour
we're launching hello sunday morning which is a website that
already exists in Australia this guy in Australia started it
it's just a place for people who just want to have a think about their relationship with alcohol
it encourages you to take a break if anyone in this room wants to
change their relationship with alcohol you just go on hello sunday morning
you make a commitment for a period of time
and then you blog about it and it's not a big thing theres no rules
to be honest there's very little to it, other then a place where you can go to
not feel isolated because when we talk to people who say they don't drink
they say they feel social isolation just because your saying hello to sunday
morning doesn't mean you have to say goodbye to saturday night
what i like about this site
the website it actually doesn't do much it's literally just a
community of people who say yeah im motivated to
take a look at my drinking or motivated to change my life style a little bit and im going
to talk about my experiences and people are going to engage with that which is really
just a way for people to find out what they can do it doesn't turn
around and say heres
twenty things that make this really easy
its like a place for people to say its a journey worth
having and here is the journey
i think young people
want something different but they don't know how to go about that or
they don't think it's socially acceptable to do that so like
to say to somebody rather go out on a saturday night your going to organise something for
sunday morning like surfing or whatever
is probably not socially accepable where as if there is a movement started
it will gain legs it will be something that will not be cool but it won't be something you're derided for either.
ladies and gentlemen i now launch hello sunday morning.org/ireland