DFB DUBLIN FIRE BRIGADE FF & POET GERARD DEVINE

The Kitchen Table is officially International! Today I had the honor to chop it up with DUBLIN FIRE BRIGADE Active Firefighter and Poet, GERARD DEVINE. FF Devine was born and raised in Dublin Ireland and has over 20 years on the DFB. Gerard has 10 years in Station 5, 3 years in the control room and split the remaining time in station 4 and station 12. He is also a full paramedic which is required by DFB for all firefighters. Not only is FF Devine a fireman he is an award winning poet.  After overcoming the learning disorder dyslexia, he has gone on to write many poems which one of them entitled “The Hurley Maker” was read in front of 80,000 people and is going into the GALIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION GAA, museum. Another entitled “The Firefighters Call” is being used in brigades for ceremonies and funerals all across Ireland and hopefully soon to be international. Most recently his poetry has been picked up by 2 STACKS IRISH WHISKEY company, who share his poems by engraving them on their bottles. 
Noted: A large percentage of what Gerard receives from his poetry is donated to the Fire Brigade Charity OSCARS KIDS, which treats children with terminal cancer. FF Devine is also very involved in the GAA as were his parents.  It is my honor to welcome to the Kitchen Table, all the way from Dublin Ireland, GERARD DEVINE.
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Chapters:
00:00 intro
03:00 small talk
04:20 early life
12:20 ff influences and the process
17:15 hurling
20:14 coming to America & galic football
24:50 DFB & ambulance 
28:00 poetry time 
31:00 “ Self Belief”
33:30 dyslexia 
36:00 1st poetry performance 
45:00 first fire
49:00 comparing departments and operations 
51:30 DFB history
53:00 great Dublin whiskey fire
57:00 “The Great Dublin Whiskey Fire”
1:01:00 e bikes
1:04:10 pipe band
1:07:23 culture and Irish craic 
1:12:30 poetry and more
1:19:50 fire prevention and Dublin water supply
1:23:33 the Dublin stardust fire
1:28:00 “The Firefighters Call”
1:40:20 picture time
1:52:30 final advice
1:56:00 outro
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/gerard...
https://oscarskids.ie/
https://www.gaa.ie/the-gaa/about...
https://twostackswhiskey.com/
https://www.instagram.com/dubfir...
https://www.gerarddevinepoetry.c.