Hello, I am Niamh Brennan and this is Same Table, Different Century, where a grandparent and a grandchild sit at one microphone and ask each other the things they have never dared to ask. This first episode takes us to a kitchen in Castletownbere in West Cork. Donal is seventy-nine. He went to sea at fourteen and skippered his own boat for fifty years. His granddaughter Aoife is a marine biologist who studies the very fish he once caught, and the two of them have argued about quotas every Christmas for a decade. Today they do it properly. Donal asks whether she thinks he was part of the problem. Aoife asks whether he was ever afraid out there. The answers surprised them both. Then we walk down to the pier. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.