The Basque nationalists have always looked at Northern Ireland out of the corner of their eye and this week's IRA announcement is bound to have some impact,
They had been arrested and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for raising their glasses in a toast to freedom.
I'm pretty excited about it, it's been a long four years. It's been a big goal of mine to get back to the top and I wanted to prove it to myself I could do it one more time.
This was my goal this year, to give it a big push and go back to the top.
