Ronan talks to Ireland's 2fm Breakfast Crew Rick and Ruth - Day 9 May 24th

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Somebody joining us live on the show this morning is Ronan Keating, how are you?

Good morning again how are you are you alright?

We're grand how are the feet?

I'm doing ok little bit of shin splints in the leg but nothing too severe thank God

What do you do for shin splints?

It's just loads of ice and anti-inflammatories and pain killers and anything else

You make it sound like it's nothing Ronan, shin splints that sounds nasty

It's not nice yeah it's just when the muscle swells up at the shin and cuts off the bone down in the front of the leg, it's pretty severe, it's alright its ok

I love the way you know what it is exactly, you're probably sick of getting pains in your shins by this stage.  For anyone who's wondering why is Ronan Keating talking about his shins it is part of the big walk, tell us again about the walk and where the money is going to Ronan.

In Northern Ireland it's going to Cancer Research UK and in the South it's going to the Marie Keating Foundation. We're walking from the Giants Causeway we started last Monday in Antrim down through to the Old Head in Kinsale County Cork.

And how many miles so far Ronan have you done the counting?

Yeah we've done about 138 I think now so we're a third of the way there now

I see you're like whippet; have you lost a rack of weight on it?

I'm losing a bit but we're eating an awful lot you kind of have to keep your energy up

Yeah you do that's great now listen the forecast isn't good today Ronan so we can send you out a 2fm rain jacket if you like

Thanks very much lovely (laughs)

Have you got your own stash of gear at this stage?

We do, Timberland have been very good to us given us a load of gear. Sponsors are great when we're doing this, all the hotels have donated, the gear the BMW's the cars, it would be very difficult to do it without that sort of help ya know?

You've a big crew around you too coz I've seen you on the news Ronan it was the day it started last week and I'm a bit of a walker I do the old go out for a walk in the evenings sometimes, you always see the women out in the evening walking and they're going at it a rate of knots and their arms are flying and I thought I bet you Ronan walks at a comfortable pace, I saw you on the tele Ronan Keating and the pace you were going at you'd put a sprinter to shame.

Yeah we do 4 mile an hour we do 15 minute miles which is ya know it's a fairly hefty pace, we keep that going all the time up hills and everything we can't break it. From the last walk we know that's the speed we're walking so we've kind of set the schedules at that sort of speed so we're meeting Lord Mayors if you kind of have to be there at that time so we rarely break that pace which is fairly good I guess.

Now going at 4 miles an hour apparently at this rate it would take you just under 6 years to walk around the world

Ah that's not a bad idea

Do you think maybe next year start on that?

You never know that's not a bad one

And we'll see you in 2012

When I hit the Himalayas though I might have a problem

And apparently one of your walks creates enough energy to power a light bulb for two and a half hours

One of my walks?

Yeah apparently one of your daily walks is enough to power a light bulb

I like that that's good

Someone actually went to the trouble of thinking about that and doing all the numbers and putting that stuff together

What's the story at the moment where are you today?

We're walking into Kells today, we're just about 3miles outside of Ardee and we'll be walking into Kells, Kells town today so another 22 today now please God

You say that just off the top of your head just like that ah another 22 miles today, Ah but that's just nothing.

But really it's exciting we're really moving now, we're feel that we're in Kells now and it's pretty much close to the centre of Ireland now and that's a really good buzz to think last Monday we started at the top of Ireland and we're nearly right bang in the centre now it's very exciting

You're going to Tullamore on Thursday which is undoubtedly equally exciting

Absolutely we're looking forward to Tullamore we've family near there as well, it'll be nice to be able to put the feet up and get some home cooked food and all that it'll be nice

So what's the story again Ronan remind us about making donations obviously aside from actually coming up to you when you're doing your walk and saying hey hows it going and they make their donations they can do it by text can't they?

Yeah 57786 is the text number if you text walk05 to 57786 or you can log on mariekeating.com and you can get all the info on there too but come out and support us too please coz when it's raining like this to have a few people outside on the road it's a great buzz for us.

Would you like, ya know the way people run marathons handing out cups of water as they go along would you like any of that?

We've had a few cakes now on the way

Have you? So people in Kells today now is your chance to show Ronan Keating your hospitality and bring out your buns and sandwiches

Bring out your buns (hysterics)…I love it

Ronan do you like butter on your sandwiches are you fussy about mustard or anything like that?

Ah I'll eat anything

Good stuff alright well listen continued good luck with the walk bring out those buns as well (more hysterics)

Bring out your buns, bring out your buns!

It's gonna be the catch phrase for the rest of the walk, we'll talk to you a bit later on during the walk

Brilliant

And we'll catch up with you in a few days

Thanks a million, God bless

See you Ronan

Bye bye