 point accommodation. Cancer Maclaffery says this is a reality for many. He's calling on the government to step in. This should not be happening. The government needs to step in here. The government needs to make allowances. It should have kept us open for our students and now just the mayor is going forward. And it's very sad to see to be honest with you that there are some places of now. There is no room at the innermost and I don't see it getting any better. It's only worse to be fair once we head on into the months ahead. Today we'll see the opening of the Shorefront Amenity on Arnmore Island. The development of the recreation outdoor amenity and Ampe Theatre is part of the 4.1 million euro Bertrand Port and Arnmore Harbor to Island Rural Regeneration project. Minister Heather Humphries will officiate the opening. Country me hall call McGill asked book says it's a monumental day for West Onigal. It's amazing. We have a fantastic state of the art play area. We have an open air venue which I would imagine there's not one like it. What spectacular view right on the coast. It's just amazing. We can hold up to about 300 people here. It's just such a fantastic project that's been on the go for a very, very long time. And here we are at the very data for cutting ribbon and opening it officially. Whether or not it's dry today with sunny spells and just a few showers, high as temperature of 18 to 20 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Hello, a very good morning to you. Three minutes past nine on this Friday, the 22nd of July. I do hope you're well and hopefully you're with us for the next three hours in this program and throughout the day of course here on Highland Radio. Our Friday panel is joining us very, very shortly to discuss some of the big topics of the week. We want you to have your say. They'll get involved in the conversation. 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Right, the T-Shark has said AIB should reconsider and reflect on its decision to remove cash facilities at 70 branches around the country. Earlier this week, the bank said 70 of its 170 branches would be turned into cashless outlets as a result of what it claimed is declining demand for these services. In Donegal, Ballet Buffet, Ballet Shannon, Bonkran, Akkar and Donadon, and Kili Beggs are all to go cashless. It'll also see the removal of the ATM services also. Speaking in Asia earlier this week, Mihail Martin said, while he understands that there's a society we are moving towards a more cashless one, many tans need this facility. The opposition has also launched a petition for the decision to be reversed. Lorraine, will AIB change its mind? And I suppose is this the direction of travel that we're going in? And can it or should it be avoided? There's certainly a lot of pressure. There's a lot of narrative and news about this story. I do think we are moving to a more cashless society. I personally couldn't tell you the last time I was in my own bank, but I'm offale with the online technologies. I have the banking app on my phone, so I don't need to go in. But I do understand that it's going to have a huge impact on rural communities, on the pockets of our society who want to use cash. There's still a lot of businesses out there who do want to use cash, and it's really challenging and a lot of times to go and find an ATM. I don't understand whether removing the ATM to be honest. And the beggars believe that they're going to have these AIB outlets with no cash, but with staff, I don't know, given business advice or something like that, I'm not sure. I also, I mean, I know that there's a partnership there with the Anpost and there's a huge investment going on to that. In terms of the Donnie Gull towns, I would say that there's an Anpost in all of those towns, so there is that accessibility. But yeah, I do think this is a sign of the time. But coming from a business perspective, you know, obviously, as you mentioned, businesses, invariably for at least the short to medium term, you'd imagine, will be using cash. Their insurance might limit how much cash they can have on site at any given night. Of course, then they don't want to be traveling great distances with cash. And I don't know if we know whether the likes of your bank, your post office or credit union will have cash drops. So, you know, I think obviously, I'm in the same boat as you. I don't really use cash and I haven't been in a bank in a very, very long time. But for other people, and I think for businesses, for the reasons I outlined there, this is a huge blow, Lorraine. Absolutely, yeah. And obviously, that's one of the things that has been flagged by the government at this stage, that there is a concern. There's a concern that people are going to be traveling with cash and their cars. And obviously, as business owners, they're well known. So people are going to know that they're going to be traveling to do that. I would imagine it's one of the services that Anpost are going to have to provide as a cash drop. The very same as the banks do at the minute. I don't know how they get away with that. Yeah, Grania, what's your view? Grania Hines? Yeah, I agree with Lorraine. And I think for older people who really have supported the banks all their lives, this is a big blow. Because they trust the banks, they go there to their ATMs. And we do do business, older people with the banks, because there's a lot of things that come in forms, etc. And I know majority of us probably are online, as I am myself. I really don't need a bank. But I really can't understand why they're moving the ATMs. And as far as I know, none of the post offices have ATMs. And are they going to have them? And also the size of the post offices in Ireland, they're quite small. I don't know how they could, you know, they're going to be very busy. It's going to be queues. There's no way you can sit down. And I see all these as a problem. And I think the government should delay it at least, at least, and look at it. I mean, I kind of told a porcupine, because I have been in a bank twice, I think, in the last couple of years. But on both occasions, I was actually directed to ATMs inside the bank. One was to lodge a check. And I can't remember what the other reason was for, but I was I didn't engage with the teller. There was a member of staff standing directing me towards the the ATMs. So maybe this has been on the cards for some time. Yeah, it may have been. But I think that the post offices aren't set up for neither are the credit unions. And until that was in place, they shouldn't have stopped the banks. So I don't agree with it. I think it's a big mistake. And if I was in any of these banks, AIB, at the minute, I would move my account. Yeah, but a lot of people have just moved their account from Ulster Bank. Ulster Bank's leaving the market, I'm going to switch over to AIB. And I know a few people personally that are going, Well, I like access to cash and I like access to services. And they even wanted to win branch to open the account, you know, because they want that sort of personal feel. And maybe they're AIB mortgage customers. There's another little point, like when you're getting jobs done in the house, most of us pay cash. I mean, I know it's a bit of a black market thing, I presume. But I don't know how they're going to that means that everything's going to be more expensive. If you want your garden cut or your all these things, your wind is washed. And like it's only a small amount of cash you're giving people, but you do need it. I'm sure they're all paying tax and just like the feel of the paper in the hand, do not attract attention to this economy ground, you stop it. Damien Dyer's editor of the any shown independent newspaper, obviously, you know, you're right across the region, but you'll be getting a strong sense of what the reaction is to the news that Bongkranas AIB branch is to go cashless and the ATM removed. Yeah, Bongkranas and Karen. And Karen Donna, of course. Yeah, Karen as well. So there's Rage, actually, Greg, and then he's shown for that, because as usual, and he's shown is kind of treated. And it's just popped down to letter Kenny. Like people that are in business in Bongkran or in Karen or further north, it's not just a matter of popping down to letter Kenny. This is what we're told when it comes to health. This is what we're told when it comes to everything. So for AIB to withdraw cash services from an area as large as in a shown, and we'll say it again, we'll remind people of it, it's got a population that's larger than County Laterm, which is, of course, getting to keep a cash bank. And it's got a population about the size of County Lanford to deny cash services by AIB in an area as large as that is unconscionable. And there is absolute rage from people, I am with AIB and I am gone. I am leaving. I am to hell with that. And the the one I like to use cash, I don't, I, from a privacy point of view, I like to have cash. I don't need this here tracking me every step of the way. And the banks and the financial institutions know what and where I'm spending my money, the better that they contain those things to me, and the better that they can charge me for the use of my own money. So I prefer and I choose to use cash where possible. And that's been denied to us. And this idea that we're running towards a cashless society and that's progress, it is not. It's the opposite. It's a, it's, it's to save money for the banks and it's to allow them to sell and to send more to us and to charge us more for using our own money. And it is absolutely outrageous from the business community here. There's outrage and from people who like to use it. And we've spoken, you know, I mean, we do have, obviously there's credit union here, the initial credit union, and you do have post office and those, but those aren't really geared up to handle the volume of the banks are set for. And of course, businesses, AIB didn't consult with any of them, obviously. Yeah. And they didn't. And of course, businesses will already know the cost of dealing with cash because they are charged 20 euro per thousand euro to lodge cash. I think it's 24, 25 to change coins into cash. So obviously, the bank wasn't making enough about that. There is a consultation going on about the future of banking in this country, Damien. You know, the timing of this is, I don't know if it's tactical or what have you, it's certainly a two finger salute to the government who they didn't, and they don't have to, but they could have consulted the Minister for Finances. We are the principal stakeholder. So what do you think he's going on here with the AIB? What are they doing? AIB, this investigation into the retail banking sector is ready to report. So they're getting out ahead of that probably, but it looks like it's possible. And I will see if their horns can be pulled in on this. I mean, the Taoiseach's out of the country at the moment in the Middle East or in the Far East. And I mean, he's saying that he's going to meet with AIB next week. And we'll see how that goes. You know, I think there's been such a visceral reaction in the places that are affected by this, which are predominantly rural areas, that it needs to be pulled back. It needs to be drawn back. And, you know, our central bank as well is kind of sitting asleep at the wheel as usual on this too. You know, they've slept through the 2006 Celtic Tiger period and now the banks to go to hell, and now they're sleeping again. You wonder times what that central bank is supposed to be the regulator for us? What is it that it's actually doing? And the timing of it is shocking as well in terms of the Ulster banks exit. So you say, Damien, there you're only one of many that's going to move again. But the thing is, Lorraine, we have a duopoly here. It's not like, you know, I mean, do you have a local bank of Ireland? Because that's the only show in town, Damien. You know, and if they go, everything, everything is on. So it's not like you can, there's five different banks and you can go AIB on that because I'm going to your competitor. There's only two of them. And if they're doing it, they'll all go that way eventually. Like, you know, AIBs probably cast the waters and the other banks predominantly, or what you call a bank of Ireland, as we know, they're probably sitting watching and seeing their action list and seeing if AIB can write it out. If AIB can write it out, well, they certainly will do. You're going to come in there, Gronja. Yeah, if they're doing it for economic reasons, why would the credit union and the post office take it up to do it? You know, it doesn't make sense. Like, I mean, I think it's generally accepted if any bank was coming into Ireland now, we have a population what's similar to the likes of Manchester and a wee bit of the surroundings, you would not have as many banks in that area as we would have here. Any banks starting up here now would never have, you know, branches all over the place. And also, obviously, the likes of the, particularly the post office, they're looking for anything to sustain their future going forward. So I suppose I didn't hear them complaining about it, you know, it's an advantage to them, but I just don't think... But they don't have the staff that are going to be able to handle the amount of... There's a 40 million euro investment going on down past them on the back of us. Yeah, but it should be, it should be already in and everything ready to go before the bank is allowed to. Griny, I said yesterday in the program, I said, you know, the banks just don't reverse their decisions on this. I kind of get a sense maybe the AIB might have to think twice on this one. Do you think they may reverse the decision on this particular one or will they just ride it out? No, I think they will reverse it. Yeah, Lorraine, what do you think? I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure. I think if you go ahead, I mean, they've put a lot on it, but I don't understand why they don't leave ATMs. You know, if they're going to do that exit, it should be a phased exit and I think their timing is shocking. And you talked about your digital. You don't do much cash transactions, Lorraine. Do you get Damien's point? Obviously, we respect and understand it, but do you get Damien's point about the importance of having cash? Because Damien can speak for himself, of course. His view is the same view as many, many, many people listening to this program. No, absolutely. And when I have to get cash for those transactions that Griny was talking about, it is a job of work to go and find an ATM and to find an ATM that's working, to find an ATM that doesn't charge you, to go to an ATM that has cash. You know, we do have local shops here, obviously, that have ATMs, but I mean sometimes throughout a cash. So it is a job of work. I have moved on to the Revolut space, and sometimes it's easy just to Revolut, you know, sharing bills and stuff like that and mails and nights out. But by and large, yes, my card is on my phone. It's all there. Sorry, Damien, I just found it handy to tap. I have no idea keeping track of cash in the disaster. There's a different feeling for tapping and actually handling over old hard cash. Yes, Damien, I find it advantageous that these people know so much about me because I find stuff is tailored towards me and it kind of works for me, if you know what I mean. But that's why I'm fully respecting, you know, exactly everything you're saying. Yeah, they're going to sell, they're going to, you know, they'll be used to sell products and sell ideas here. I suppose that, look, I do have, and somebody actually transferred cash to me. I got a Revolut just last week and someone sent what you called a payment to me over that. The first time I'd ever done Revolut, I haven't sent one out, but I have received one. But I've got kids that are in primary school, like, you know, you're trying, you know, one of the tasks is to try to teach them the value of money. And that has not been hard by ones and zeros on the screen. Like, one of the young folks that went to spend £120 on FIFA bucks there during the past couple of weeks or something before I got a hold of them, like before I managed to get them to stop. And I was trying to explain this because they're just numbers on a screen. Oh, I had one of my boys emptied the account. Yeah, this is what they do. Like, you know, in fairness, this was a long time ago, but mortgage bounced, everything bounced, everything bounced. And in fairness, it was Google, they gave me the money back in the end. Well, I'm trying to use this as a kind of a teaching moment for them. But look, when I send those kids, when the kids are going into the shop or something, it's not a card, I'm hand them, I'm hand them over and tell them to go and buy the ice pop. And they're coming out with the chains and they're looking and they're able to tell me, oh, that that ice pop was dearer than the other, whatever it is. Like, and those are things that they need to learn at that young age as well. And those are things that, you know, will not be done if they if they tap and go. Look, I understand I do have direct app is different things that got set up. And I do use cards from time to time. But the pleasure and the importance of using cash is something that I will be very, very, very slow to give up because it suits me. And if it costs a business or costs a bank to handle cash, guess what? I don't care. It doesn't cost me. All right, Grania, you're not in agreement. The only thing is, is I mean, obviously, you know, like you can also teach the value of money because obviously, you know, for chores, depending on their age or when they actually go out and work and what have you, I mean, you don't necessarily, uh, you know, need, you know, a note and then some change. Lorraine, do you agree with that? I mean, like you can. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, We all do it different ways. There's no right or wrong on this either. It's just what percentage of also doing it, which way probably ends up deciding which way we go. I do think in the teenage world, you'll find the demon, you know, to give them their pocket money and stuff over revelant. They, they, they manage it very well. They realize like when they're tap as empty, it is empty because they've overspent. And interestingly, if they're in places where there's no Wi-Fi, they can't get access to their cash, which is another issue. You know, so sometimes they're like, well, okay, you know, if I have no Wi-Fi, I need hard cash, you know, stick a Wi-Fi around to the back of the phone cover, you know, as a way of emergency. So they do, they, they learn very quickly, especially when it's their own. So it doesn't matter if it's hard cash or like a Revolut card, they know what's on it when they do their online shopping, you know, go on to ASOS or, I don't know, Cheyenne or some of those. And, you know, if the money's not there, they do, they do figured out very, very quickly. Grania, do we over, do we over exaggerate the reliance on, on, on an older person, older generations banks? Because I think an awful lot of old, I know my dad, he liked to deal with cash, but he was, you know, he didn't mind doing the digital side of things either. My mother was the same. And a lot of, I think, you know, certain people might operate in the local post office and credit union, they might be happy with that. Like, do you think that the big thing we need to protect here is services for older people, or is that being exaggerated in any way, in any way? Well, I don't think it's completely exaggerated, but there is a bit of exaggeration because a lot of them will use tap, they like the tap option. But at the same time, there's a large cohort of them who do not use cards, and they get their pension and they portion it out, and they pay their bills. And that's what they've been used to for 60, 70 years, right? So it is a big blow to them. And I don't think the facilities to help them will be in the post offices or in the credit unions, because they don't have the capacity to do it. But if they had, perhaps, you know, if there was help there, and if they were, the premises were suitable, then perhaps, you know, and it should have been gradual, as Lorraine said, a gradual change, not sort of wake up in the morning and say, okay, you know, this is it. I do pity the small businesses because they, obviously every night put their money in the bank. And I think that has been taken away as well, the night saves. So they're going to be hanging around with cash, they're going to be traveling, as Darren said, from initial to letter of credit. And a big thing here, Lorraine too, though, is access to cash to spend. Because if someone is going into Bunkranna or Car and Donna for a weekend or for a night or Donogaltown, and you can't get cash out of the bank, and maybe they're coming from Northern Ireland, you know, and they haven't switched this, that and the other, and then some people give a bad rate in sterling, you know, I think, I think as bad as removing cash services from the banks, removing ATMs, you know, that's completely crazy, isn't it? Yeah, that's, that's the bad I don't understand. You know, I would have thought at the very least, they should have had the ATM outside, the people have access to cash, and they can do their launch months there as well. And, and, you know, a lot of people are used to moving under that space. So, and people want access to their own banks ATM, as opposed to just any random ATM. So I think that's really, Because next thing ATMs stop popping up, and it's like it is out far, and it's 250 to use it three year old, or Northern Ireland, yeah, charge. Yeah. Damien, though, I know you're a cash lover, is the problem here, though, that maybe this is just, this is just a stopgap to the inevitable, or smoothing, completely cashless. Oh, yeah, I mean, I think that's that's it. I mean, the, the, what's it called, the journey seems to be on that way. Although, I mean, I think that there will, and there might finally be a, you know, there might be a bit of a kickback against that. It just won't be a linear thing. And it won't go straightforward. Other countries have tried it enough, kind of, like Sweden and had to kind of pull back a wee bit from it. But, you know, it's more about kind of the fragmentation of society as well. Like, you know, I mean, Maville, this is what happened in Maville. This is how the banks shut down Maville. They started going three days a week, and then they started closing down, and then eventually they took out the ATMs, and they were through all together. And Maville is a far quieter town now for it, because people that were coming into the town previously to carry out their transactions, whether it was coming into large or whatever, all that's been done away with, like it, and all that was transferred over to Cairn or to Montcran or wherever. Now that's going to be transferred away, we're told to Leira County. It is really detrimental to the health of the commercial health and the social health of towns. Like, and I know the population comparison, Greg, with Manchester is right, or generally right, but the size of the country is completely different. Yeah, but they don't look at it like that, you see, because they literally look about profits, and they're still making billions of euro. 600 million last year. Yeah, exactly. They're not doing this because they're short of a few bob either, like, you know, I mean, and this is this is how big business and how different ones, you know, they scrape off these minor costs and scrape off and scrape off so that they can have bigger and larger and larger profits. So it's not, you know, it will help their profit. In terms of businesses, though, to businesses is not want to go cashless. If you're talking about, you know, at the moment, 20 euro for a thousand euro to lodge, and that adds up very quickly with a high cash turnover business, you know, it's not necessarily profit, you know, 25, 24 euro for coins, you know, maybe it's just the way businesses want. I don't understand. I don't understand why businesses don't encourage more contactless pay. They still seem to, many businesses prefer cash, sorry. I'd say they would prefer it, surely, because it will be cheaper for them. I mean, there are okay, there is the occasional shop or the occasional cafe or outlet that, you know, attracts a bit of commentary and a bit of negative commentary very often when they simply don't accept cash. And, you know, people think a very dim view of that as well. Like, I know, you know, if you can't pay cash and turnstiles, this was the case for some matches and so on. Last year, there's a big big kickback against the likes of that, too. But that also came and went. I think, you know, it came and went and I think that's growing you. That's what they know, don't they? We'll hop and puff and then we'll move on to the next thing because our intention span for protest is minute now. There's a lot, there's a lot in terms of the protest, but I do think COVID had a huge impact on cash as well. And, you know, the fact that, you know, it was kind of perceived to be dirty and you're, you know, passing on germs and stuff like that. And I did have a couple of instances when I tried to use cash and I was asked in the shop, have you no tap? Have you no card? So that was a kind of strange one. I do think that it's huge relief to me when I go to even like a weekend cafe, horsebox and they have tap, you know, because you're like, oh great, I don't have to go and pay cash now. So yeah, for me. And I suppose there are always going to be businesses to, and it's a reality, whereby the turnover is such that maybe they don't have to declare everything, whereas they might with digital payments and maybe not so much with cards. I don't know. You know, that's an element there. I'm not criticizing that either. Everyone has their own way struggles. Okay. That's the voices there of Damian Douds, the editor of the Inner Shown Independent Newspaper. Lorraine Thompson, regional director of Donegal Youth Services. And we're also hearing from Grania Hines, member of letter Kenny Active Retirement. Back with more after the break. 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I don't like using the card for my shopping etc. I like cash so now what I'm spending, what I have left, I'm 65 year old, 65 but not that old, not that old at all. The cashless act seems to be going global. Act seems to be all the country's enemies but every conversation we're having here is happening everywhere even the next one we're going to have. The digitalization of these services is killing jobs. There's no benefit to going to a self-service till. It's the same with Revolut. It's killing the Irish economy. Going cashless this is not fair to the public for a number of reasons. Firstly it makes it harder for people to keep track on what they spend although I think if you're already in the if you're using it digitally I'm not quite sure because you get you get daily or weekly updates on your spend and where it's going and how you're spending it but I take your point. Also for children going to school who may need cash for lunch and also for older people who's only outing in the week maybe to go to the bank or the post office everyone will get old eventually and will not be catered for. The thing is is I think they're waiting for those who rely on cash to sort of maybe get old um because anyone in my house going to school they go to anyone in my house going to school they're going to school with their Revolut card and that's what the school prefers and uh so on and so forth and then I get a notification to tell them exactly how much they've spent. Yeah so I do think the track issue is fantastic you know for you know we want to track the children but wait we don't want them to track us isn't that right Damien? Yes. Well they don't call me helicopter dad for nothing right uh teenagers will be taught about pornography as part of the new junior cert syllabus education minister Norma Foley has announced a major revamp of the way sex is set to be taught to children in secondary schools the courses have been modernized with the dangers of pornography the importance of consent and the harm that sharing images online can cause now featuring strongly on the proposed relationship and sexual sexuality education curriculum the national council for curriculum and assessment has completed a review of the way sex is taught in our schools and I've come up with a major overhaul as I say of the RSE the suggestions will now go out for public consultation where parents, teachers, students and other interested parties can have their say it's hoped that the new courses could start to be taught from September of next year. The leader of Aintu is amongst those Paratobe and he's amongst those that's come out against the changes saying that the government should instead concentrate on stopping porn instead of teaching about it and how that could be done it's another topic he said instead of tackling the consumption by children of hardcore pornography at source the government are going allow it to continue and to try to teach young children to navigate their way through well it's impossible to block pornography unfortunately uh if that's what you want right Granja I'll start with you Granja Hines do you think it's important that we are talking about pornography to our younger people and do you think the consultation with parents and teachers will actually help to form this will they have any real say I wonder yeah well I think it's very important that we tackle it because it is a problem in the modern world we can't get away from it and we can't sweep it onto the carpet like we did with other sexual problems in the past so I think it's very very important that it isn't included in the curriculum but it is a very sensitive subject and little minds are very it kind of absorb things different ways so you have to be very careful about it I think the parents I think I haven't read myself what actually the curriculum is going to be and I would like to see that before you know you would pass judgment on it but I think the parents have a right also to see what is going to be taught so that they can cooperate at home and you know say the same thing as the teachers and guide the children very very important that all parents are brought in as a community to the school to discuss it and to say how they can handle the curriculum which the teachers are applying I think it's very important because there's a lot of evidence to show that pornography induces sexual violence and it's coercive behaviour it's you know it's it's it's it's not a nice thing to talk about to your children it's very difficult because you try and give them the impression that sex is very important in a relationship but that the tenderness and love are not you know portrayed by pornography all love island for that matter you see you know I don't I don't watch it no granny I'm not sure if you're a fan no you know that last bit of your comment that you talk about really the program the likes of it's one of the most popular programs amongst young people that aren't watching anything else really if the truth be told it doesn't it doesn't really push those values that you talk of either everything is transactional it it doesn't matter you can and it's also to do with body image a lot in love island which I think I object big time too because it gives the impression you know what you have to look like and I think it's particularly and we've had our own case of sexual pornography causing sexual violence in that recent case in Dublin the quiggle little girl who was murdered so I mean it is a very important thing and it has to be brought out into the open it has to be discussed I'm sure Louis and would but granny the facts are the facts are and this is in I don't we can't ban pornography a lot of young men and young girls right and you know maybe the rages would shock us all the statistics out that would show how young they are when they're if they're not being taught at school if they're not being taught at home they could very easily believe a girl what what a female does in these films could be an expectation of them in reality and the guys how they might treat women in these films if they have no other influence they might believe that that is what you do that is how you do it so we have to whether it's in schools or where it is we have to talk to them about it don't we have to yeah we have to discuss it and it we have to say to them you know that that isn't the behavior that gives them satisfaction or gives them love before I move bring out our other guests on this Grania we're speaking to a guest early in the week and there if there are a few that there's something else going on here or at least we need to explore the fact that this is about you know sexualizing our young people for you know for whatever reason it might be that you know that they're sexualizing them and they're then maybe there are adults that could exploit that I don't want to over paraphrase in case I get it wrong are you confident that that's not about this or this is not about that no I don't think it's about that because I think it's about you know protecting them from that and giving them the what is right and what is wrong what is good and what is bad I mean people don't like to worry about nothing is bad I mean there's a reason for everything and of course we know that our adults watch pornography and I think adults should also be brought into some kind of a forum where they could look at what they're doing and how it's affecting there's a lot of children who are being abused in the home and they are being exposed to pornography actually at the home yeah I think 40 to 50 percent of 16-year-old boys are watching pornography on their mobile phones you know and how often you can't stop it you cannot stop it because they can go to a wi-fi cafe if you you know if you take the wi-fi often there's nothing the platforms that are showing these pornography could perhaps be a little more careful and that maybe something but listen they're not watching it on they're watching it everywhere it's all over Twitter it's all over Reddit it's you know you could get porn hub and whatever other porn sites there are to have age verification it doesn't matter that's you know they're sending it to each other on snapchat it's you know you know that's the I think that's a smokescreen really because we feel like we're doing something but it would stop nothing. Parents would be educated parents also need to be educated you know parents will talk about it they don't know what they have. Damian what do you think for Bringleranan? Hi look I mean obviously when this came out this week obviously the pornography is the one that gets the headlines you know and that's that's kind of you know that's the kind of the salacious aspect of it and people say oh they're going to talk about porn in schools but you know I guess a much wider thing than that and what they're saying is they haven't really settled on the curriculum as I understand it but they're what they're doing is they're opening the consultation on us so people can chat about it and you know there's a lot of issues and obviously you know pornography is the one that's getting all the headlines and that's been the way it's been framed this week but you see this business of you know sharing seeking and then sharing intimate images shall we say. Like these kids my goodness you know they have no notion what they're at like you know and and that's going to be part of it as well but you know it's trying to explain to them about the digital world and how you know a picture taken now and shared in good faith and everything you know that there's that that commons with certain risks and and the sharing of it now is a criminal you know is a criminal offense as well so they need to there's an awful lot of education needed in that whole relationship. Should that be in school though Damien should not not be down to parents who decide what chats they have with their children because you know I don't know I think it was Grania that said you know you could have a very innocent 15 16 year old who's taught all of this stuff at home and is taught a very different way and they're being exposed to this conversation in other words they're getting their educational not all this stuff at school because they're not accessing it. I'd say no I think look I'd say school is the place to do it I think I think there's nothing wrong with that but teachers as well I mean this is a difficulty for teachers I think when they've looked at this in the past you know some teachers are wondering if they're given and what their the curriculum that they're teaching or the the way they're trying to express the topic whether that's appropriate to the age and so on so teachers need to be kind of trained up and empowered to do this as well it's already on the curriculum anyway this is just a what you call that a renewing or a revision or a bringing it up to the 2020s standard like so look you know there's three months of consultations on this you know people will have plenty of chance to talk about it but it is obviously we've all you know everything has kind of zeroed in on the you know the bottom line of pornography like but it's going to be a lot wider than that you know these there's ads on the radio at the moment Greg you know about the you know this control and abusive relationship I've heard of their very powerful radio ad like and you know topics like that are going to be covered in it as well so that people involved in those types of relationships can recognize it for what it is and you know while there is of course you know owning some parents and within family to do that you know we also know that unfortunately quite a lot of abuse happens within families as well and you know that's you know it's generally by someone that's known to them or related to them that that can perpetrate this so you know it's a really strong point that too that we that you know might not change point people's points of view but if it could stop that if people go hold on you what's happening here it's not what's I'm being told is happening. Ah exactly so it's a look obviously you know the porn is the big thing and that's been by headline all week and that's you know that's the way it is that gets people talking about it sells papers. Well I think that's what's angered people who oppose this most I don't think this is a media generated one necessarily Damien I think the likes of Aintu have come out and they've focused on on the pornography. I saw it on that I think it was there to depend the kind of broke it one day during the week and then they weren't to be taught in schools like you know so you know when I kind of I get you I get you I get you. No blog from that like and of course Aintu you know that's exactly what we expect and they're absolutely perfect but I don't think this is kind of like you know some of the other parts of the curriculum like you know there's film review and film appreciation you know when they do it in the English language through the literature side of thing I don't think that's what's envisaged in this like this is to try to explain to them that that pornography is you know it's a representation and not an accurate or a real-life representation really like you know. All right this text Lorraine is along the lines of the conversation we were having earlier in the program good morning Greg my children will not be brought uh taught sorry will not be taught this filth they believe that uh this is about grooming children. Greg I have been on this show many times talking about this very topic I think as Damian says it's regrettable that the media have taken the headline that they have but I'm going to guess it's it's a bit it's a bit selling newspapers um this is this is a revamp of the junior cycle RSE program which is 20 years old young people have told us time and time again it's too little it's too late it's too biological it's not fit for purpose there's been reviews after reviews and I think I think I've been on your show talking about this probably but three years ago Greg at this stage and at that stage there was a mobilization of parents groups I know certainly nationally and locally um around this um I have been campaigning for us to talk about sex more for years with young people um that it should be a drip drip conversation and not a one-off talk that parents need to be supported in this uh process that it should be a partnership between the schools and the parents that we can't leave it on on one side or the other the reality is for a lot of young people they don't really get it in either space the parents are not equipped or they're not comfortable or they didn't get the information themselves they're afraid to say the wrong thing um equally in schools we have known for years that teachers feel awkward they feel they can't move from teaching math one minute to teaching sex at the next even though we know that there are training programs in place for teachers um schools have tried to skip out maybe uh offering like study periods and stuff whenever they should be talking um about sex ed and RSE so we know that's the whole gambit that's there so I think it's very timely um that this is as is common to the fore the reviews have all been done um I'm not sure what this next 12 week period is going to bring to the fore any different than what they already know but I think I think it would be very useful if um say for instance a typical class like this was streamed online or posted on YouTube so that concerned parents could have a look at it to look at how the conversation is happening how it's framed and then have an input so we're not looking down at black and white do you know what I mean so they can say well what is being articulated and how is it being articulated how much focus is on not selling new not sending new images of yourself versus you know what is displayed there won't be less than plans I would imagine this is talking to WHO as well and that's some people's concerns if if parents could see that you are a physical class as it's being taught or how it's taught I think there might be more of a buy-in or I think you should put that into the review as well that's a very good point just to understand it yeah because we're looking at we weren't reading this and it says and then he says he does this to this and that happens you know let us see visually how you speak the words and where the focus and emphasis on and then we can have a proper conversation because the whole conversation we had earlier in the week to be honest here I don't really know what's been said or how it's being said the guest doesn't know but he wanted to make sure it wasn't all that let's just see what it is and how it's done and then let's have a conversation and we need to trust our teachers on this we need to trust our teachers and trust our schools that they are there and the best interests of the children and the young people they are there to educate they are there to help empower them to navigate their way we know that kids have been handed smartphones my goodness from the age of five up they're like maybe three or four clicks away from pornography I think parents need to be acutely aware of this whenever they're putting their head into this space growing your last word sorry go ahead finish your point now once they hand them the phone they need to be prepared to start having those conversations all right growing your last word to you yeah I think it's very important that the parents know what is going to be taught and how it's going to be taught and if it's age appropriate but at the same time this has to be done we cannot parents cannot say look this is sexualizing children it is not it is showing them what is good in relationships not what is bad in relationships they are going to talk about sexting which is a big problem among teenagers and they form an attachment with somebody they try and you know they're asked to send a picture they send it because they think that's going to give them attention and love and that is not what is happening. I'd like to defy even the most protected children are being brought up at some stage very early on to stand in front of America coming out of the bath or shower and go what's that for where does that go why is that there what do I do with that and you know however we we have to make sure they know correctly what to do at some point it has to be done and we have to normalize these conversations that we don't shame them with body image there the body is a beautiful organ and we also have to you know as they say the body is a temple all of that has to be given to the children as well as the negative sides the positive sides sides of sex have to be emphasized as well as the negative sides and it is very scary for a lot of children and of course I've been a next teacher I know if you mentioned anything like that we would go on to the dictionary they will go to the wi-fi you know and they'll want to know what's this all about you know what I mean so you have to be very careful and you have to be there to talk to them it's very important that they can ask questions they feel comfortable about it and that they can ask questions to and the teachers we have to trust the teachers any last comments Damien on this no I mean I think you know the public will only have their opportunity to have their to have an input into this sort of have a say on it and you know people should take that chance like you know but you know what will happen we it'll be or cross all the newspapers on programs like this here and about 12 people from one organization will make submissions I mean that tends to be how it goes but like you know people can make their views on and look at you know there's often a sign of majority that are going you know what this is grand and they don't get too exercised by it and then you know people on either extreme them you know they do get very exercised by it I think it's right that this is done within the schools it's right it has been done anyway and it's right that 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if people try and make their point they go to the absolute extremes to try and drive people to their way of thinking have we lost the ability for a moderate conversation on anything i i yeah i i think we have Greg accident on the topic we're going to come on to now shortly is is uh is social media and how that's used and i think that's been part of it yet i mean the you know what gets clicks and likes like you know i mean and you know the newspapers and the you know the you know the british tabloids for a long time have understood this you know and how they you know how they produced those you know very provocative front pages that they did for so long um and you know that has moved on to the online where everyone has a cut out of them as well but yeah the uh kind of the the not the sensible middle ground like but you know civil conversation you don't have to be you know just because you disagree with me doesn't mean that you're again me like you know you know that's not about teams and then you don't pack a team and back it forever because like you're like some infantile that's always followed asen villa in the premier league and you must follow forever more men like when when facts change when situations change you're allowed to change your mind as well yes board if you you see this is the point if you can if you're corralled into your point of view by fear uh with a backup story and and and if you want to google it you can that limits your moving of position that's what i think that's just the way it is now because if you think that say if you think that if you buy into the fact that this is about sexualizing and grooming children so they can be abused by adults eventually because that's effectively what some people are suggesting right if you go against that or have a different view to that well then you're for it because it's someone told you it's an absolute fact if you dispute that fact well maybe you're one of them it's i suppose that this is it like i mean a lot of a lot of people and i suppose the online world has really done this that has become very black and white when most people that live in the real world know what's you know it's different shades of gray like you know there's a bit of a bit from column a and a bit from column b and and that that is being lost that's civility that ability to have a discussion hear the other point of view take on what good points they they raise about it and and being able to move on and help that inform your own view your own view doesn't have to say fixed forever like you know i mean you are able to change and people who've gone and you know have built profiles for themselves or that they've said and what once i think i think once you write something down and what do you do at the social meter while you do the paper while you do wherever like once you write something down people find it very hard to walk themselves back from that page you know and and i shouldn't be it's alright because you can't have a conversation on social media because if you have a if you put a point of view across believe people believe that that is the point of view that you would die for uh you know an amount of time so i'd say no i'm having a con this is a conversation that's just one view now you come back and you to the point where i do not engage anymore because well i do more on facebook but certainly on twitter because you get a pile on by simply asking a question people presume that you're taking some hard line view on something you get attacked very quickly i've seen that in a lot of commentary it's it's astonishing and it's just like what no i was genuinely was just trying to have a conversation i haven't formed my view fully but i want you to sort of come back to me it's like all right blocked you're blocked uh not me i think that it um it all comes down to learning to listen i think one of the skills i always and no we had that skill grand you would have lost it we've lost it as i speak as i speak over you but you know what you know what i mean no crying yeah yeah i do i'm listening and then that leads to critical thinking and like um it allows people to become thinkers to decide this is why philosophy should be taught in schools i think a lot more philosophy we should go back to that because there are people who can't listen i mean i agree with darin if i argue with somebody they're not my enemy then you know i expect them but there are some people if you disagree with their view then they they put you in a box exactly like you're saying so i'm saying listening and critical thinking should be one of those skills too that are taught to young people and i think they are not being taught they do not listen they they look at social media they form opinions they don't look at all the opinions put them in a box and say okay which one should i agree with or could i agree with or do i not agree with and i think that's the skill that should be taught in the schools as well as i think as Damien said there's a lot of very opinionated people like their own name and they love to put their opinions forward so i mean that's what you're getting so i mean the people maybe in the middle that maybe have better things to do with their lives get on with it and that middle's getting squeezed now yes you know before i think it used to be maybe you know five percent on either end now it's almost like there's thirty percent on either end and what's sixty four hundred forty left in the middle yes i do think though you have to take your time if you're trying to form an opinion on something as Grania said you have to educate yourself you have to have conversations about it and it's not easy to do that online you know so you have to take that time and not just grab the headlines and run with them as we've already said headlines are always controversial and that's what they're designed to be but Damien there's money in how people think though you see so that's it yeah and i mean like you know i actually i i came off twitter i was on twitter for a very long time i'm off at almost two years now and i feel far better for it and i never thought i'd be able to do it to be true to be truthful about it like because and like i wasn't subject to any bullying or harassment on it like you know but you know i i could feel in my buttons being pressed daily by just reading whatever it was and it wasn't tired of me but i was in a i was in this constant heightened heightened state of uh wanting to be saying something harsh or whatever it was like and over over things that were relaxing each other as well everywhere if you disagree right you get the you get everyone to to pile on them and and have a go and it's everywhere it's not and to be honest with you i was listening to a national radio program yesterday and it's happening to a bus company i might not i might disagree with maybe their policy but it's a pile on on mainstream media and it's the exact same thing that's happening on social media so it's right across society it's a change in society yeah it is a change in society brought about actually i watched and if anyone's listening that cares to do so that there's a documentary it's on Netflix as it happens called the social network and when i watched it i deleted twitter as it as the credits rolled as they encouraged me to do because they they do say like that the algorithm is set up in such a way it is designed to get the reaction it's designed to put you in a heightened state it's designed to get you to react because that's what they want and if you're posting something that's racist or homophobic or whatever else you know that feeds the algorithm and that's really all it cares because what what are those entities about what are facebook what is twitter what are the rest about well they're major money making operations and they're doing it from your attention and from from your outrage and they have monetized outrage and they have full mandate i think i to be honest i came up and i didn't think i would last and uh i feel far better for it let's not be dramatic either jamie you did that uh demian dad's editor of the innocent independent newspaper thank you so very much take care of yourself i wish we had more time but time has caught up on us granja heins is always lovely to have you on the program thank you very much have a lovely weekend and last but certainly not least uh lorraine thompson always a pleasure thank you for joining us thanks craig have a good weekend you too take care of yourself back with more after the news in 2018 toyota cut through the confusion completely ceasing production of diesel passenger cars lowering harmful emissions and providing certainty for irish drivers everywhere and kelly's toyota proud to be part of that hybrid electric journey visit kelly's toyota letter kenny or mount charles today to see what makes toyota ireland's best-selling car brand in 2021 and 2022 you'll never take a wrong turn 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after appealing to the bank to reconsider minister charlie mcconnellogue says aib needs to look at its own history really what we need to do as aib to reflect on the support that's been shown to them by the public over many years and indeed to pay more attention to their memory of the support they received a number of years ago at a challenging time for the banking sector to there hasn't been any consultation here with the public this is a really important service and i hope that aib fully reconsider the approach they're taking here and put their customers front and center ronja heins a member of active retirement letter kenny told today's nine till noon show that plans to remove cash and check services from the aib branches is a huge blow for the older generation she doesn't believe that post offices have adequate resources to act as substitutes i really can't understand why they're moving the atms and as far as i know none of the post offices have atms and are they going to have them and also the size of the post offices in ireland they're quite small i don't know how they could you know they're going to be very busy it's going to be queues there's no where you can sit down and i see all these as a problem and i think the government should delay it at least at least and look at it further concerns are being raised over the lack of student accommodation councillor michael mclavarty says the housing crisis is severely impacting for a level students who are unable to secure accommodation in many towns and cities across the country in one case a second year student from donnie gall who stayed in hotels last year may be forced to drop out of their course as they're unable to find somewhere to live councillor mclavarty says this is a reality for many and the government must act the government needs to step in here the government need to make allowances they should have kept this as open for our students and now just a mess going forward and it's very sad to see to be 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you're talking about because piles on pylons against the likes of their nephid and then there's pylons against those who would oppose their views so which which are you on about i presume it might be the latter start a revolution and don't give a child what they want all the time it'll make them better people and god help us we need that uh hi craig just want to bring to your attention the number of beggars around letter kenny as we know they are organized gangs who send out old women etc to beg it saddens me to see good people giving them money when they're probably genuine homeless people who really need their kindness instead it also makes our landlock on carrying of refugees to tourists when we know nothing could be further from the truth yep and there are cases and documented cases of people out begging and then they're rounded up and put into nice cars and i presume that money is given to or shared with whomever is driving the cars i think it's very important that the powers that be determine what's happening and get that sorted because we can't but you can buy someone a coffee or a sandwich and see what the reaction might be parents are too much of a pushover when it comes to their offspring more about their own image is apparent than the child's well being they should not have phones onto the age of 16 and phones in this day and age need to come with a parental guidance snowflake ism is alive and kicking greg uh is it snowflakey though to not give a child a phone till they're 16 uh you're afraid that oh what are they going to have their mind influenced are they going to do this that and the other some would say maybe that's been a bit snowflakey uh what do you say you think um is it really possible now to to raise a child who's going to mainstream school around their peers and looking after their emotional and mental well being is it possible to sort of withhold a mobile phone and and other privileges until they're 16 is that realistic in this day and age text 086625000 and let me know if that's possible greg uh you are saying it just right you're assuming that because you agree with this being taught in schools that anyone who disagree with it is put in a box that's not my intention i just think people need to get all the information know exactly what we're talking about um there are people with moderate views on it that don't want it there are people with extreme views that don't want it uh and we need to have all people's views with the facts uh to uh be considered uh damien should stand for the county council elections no we don't want to lose a good man uh a point i've uh i haven't heard yet in relation to pop up ads even your more innocent children is going to be exposed to porn we need to give them the tools to understand what they're seeing kids are curious and some of those ads could put them in a vulnerable position the one thing i will say is those ads are tailored if you are spotting ads popping up with a pornographic element or gambling element to on your phone the likelihood is they've searched that because uh the ads are driven by cookies so if those types of ads are popping up on a phone it's very very likely uh that that kind of material has been accessed on that device that's just how that stuff works who's going to teach the teachers about sex education i'd say so many of them wouldn't want to give those lessons as well any child that grew up in a farm won't need any kind of class like that they would learn have learned to circle the circle of life already now by the way this with this age court um they're already been talking about talked about sex in schools um i was um at this age group so this is nothing new um it's the birds and the bees chat i remember sitting in school and the teacher was talking about a box and a box and a gift and and all this type of stuff it's just being modernized and uh it is to brief them on um the the the challenges that are around now that weren't around when they were having that conversation with me so this is junior cycle level school children who were already being taught stuff right so this is a review of that i i think we're all clear on that but just in case uh people aren't once porn info and abuse campaigns are based on feminist principles they'll fail as they are based on men blaming when we all know all abuse even rape can and is committed by both genders okay any human behavior must involve moral values and factual information without values respecting genuine love will not add up to well balanced individuals the emotional development and maturity of young people differs so parents need to be involved another i think the revamp of house sex education is taught is great it's just two centuries too late also the teenagers are wiser than we think it's actually night classes for the parents that we need and i do wonder sometimes if parents are really fully aware of uh and i don't think any of us are of what they're talking about what's going on what happens at teenage discos uh what happens you know uh all over the place i think um maybe we do need to to make sure we're fully educated as well i'm sure schools are going to be teaching such education taught in england when my children were there a very normal media blowing out a proportion great talk by guests and by the way our panels are scheduled we try and get as much of a mix as possible our panels are scheduled uh well in advance three four weeks in advance so you don't know what's going to be coming up for discussion in any particular week and it just falls that sometimes they might be like-minded sometimes they could go at each other um the the panels are assembled well in advance so there's no controlling of that by the way and and you have my word on that it's literally as you hear it the panel set up weeks ago and then the topics come up during the week and we try and pick the ones that are people are talking about most as a child of the unsupervised internet era i wish an adult put themselves through the awkward conversation for my sake it would have protected me and helped me avoid scenarios that will stay with me for the rest of my life well i'm sorry to hear that but i do understand where you're coming from but it's hard to have that conversation with the young ones too but we have to find a way another but teachers don't all think the same they think porn is okay and some can see the damage it's done that's why you have a curriculum you see and they have to teach along the lines of that curriculum and that's the whole idea of it it's not at their whim or what they decide it is that laid bare sorry not laid bare but it's laid out for them in black and white for them to follow and that's why you have that that's why the curriculum is being put in place all right good luck if you're playing bingo today it's time for ncbi bingo on highland radio it's friday the 22nd of july you're playing on a yellow coloured sheet the reference 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um oldest family run hotel in ireland i think it as a hotel it closed approximately 25 years ago and we purchased it in 2018 um with the benefit of planning um and design um we we hope to have the project finished for 2021 and covid and any number of other issues impacted us on that um but we are very close to um getting over the line now how big if a revamp is it pat it well it's a it's it's a multimillion euro investment and uh it's been completely taken back to the bare bones um and i think we put about a 12 000 square foot extension on it um so it's a significant change to the original model and um and i hope that when it's completed it will be a major asset to the area yeah and speaking to people down there because we were down there at the waterfront which is a another hotel you're having an interest in there as well um and in terms of employment in terms of attracting people to the area i mean it's huge for the local area and the locals get that too yeah we're now one of the largest employers in that part of the world i think we employ in excess of 120 people now collectively throughout you know our organization um and so yeah it's a big investment in the area and in in the people of that area now what i don't understand is that's toughen off everything you're doing right why then do you do it under the watchful eye of cameras well again how did that happen well um the brennan brothers francis and john obviously they're they're they're very talented and uh have many assets to you know to their to their bow um they uh i believe got wind of the fact that we were developing the sweeney's hotel and with their watchful eye and what they brought to the project um we were very grateful of and and so they had some great ideas and we didn't take them all up but a lot of them we did use and uh we were very grateful for their input right okay you mentioned francis brennan he joins us on the line now you can put your headphones on there pat good morning to you francis hello how are you i'm fantastic great to have you with her with us um in terms of of the scale of this project and the time frame and all the complications of course that came with colvin um how does this rank with all the projects that you've worked on well i i had great her for a long number of years but it's gone twice as great now at least you're holding on to it all the program i am no i am that's true that's true actually very funny um uh maggie our director on the show who pat knows well too she said i i talked to her like back back in the early mayors home she knows she's the best name like this series is that john and you we don't age because we're at the series two and a half years and if if i had black hair at the start and i had gone gray people would think it's who's your man so she said the best thing about it is that we're not aging but no that's not that was only a bye bye bye bye and no it was a very well the things particularly with a very difficult project because it was a big with the biggest project maybe the biggest project we ever did on the show i think from a build point of view and of course itself out of cova's open clothes open clothes staffing construction workers breaks were a problem for ages pat will tell you there and all of those things combined to make it a very difficult opening but the bigger the budget sort of maybe the bigger the ambition uh the more you know uh expensive options that could be there uh i presume there's a lot of doing and throwing oh absolutely and you know the biggest project the more pitfalls there are when you come to doing things and like he was great because he had the construction workers for a lot of the time when they weren't allowed to work there so that was good and uh but you know um the breakers became he'll tell you there has to be in the in the studio that's where the big problem where can they pass uh indeed france is uh a lot of the the substrates that that we we would use for the projects uh you know procurement would become very difficult through throughout the old covid and the brexits had a big impact on you know just obtaining difficult materials and significant um height heights and frances of course you know you want best for the people that you're working with but from a programming making uh maker's perspective you know this makes it all the more interesting for the viewer i mean obviously i have all the sympathy in the world for pat and the team uh but they're getting there they're over the line but it makes for for it makes for a much more uh rich television experience because it all with the it's all the the problems lots of people are facing yeah exactly and actually luckily in in some degree our program is an hour long program this year we have only been on half our program but or two commissioners to be an hour this year so it gave us more time to tell the story and the story is very much business orientated in so far as these are the pitfalls of life when you're trying to open the business and past but not open yet as you know um so past it has a bit to go but it's just the way life is and people like ordinary people watching it on television will get a great learning promise because they'll see exactly what is necessary in business to get going yeah and of course too you know uh you'd be very familiar with the history of sweeney's hotel uh and you know things slip into disrepair and and and aren't used it's a lovely thing to be part of restoring such an important iconic building in such a beautiful part of the world i mean that's something you leave behind you there's an importance to that or a lot of projects have that don't get me wrong but do you get where i'm coming from uh frances oh yeah well it's well you know i i didn't even think of this now so now but we ourselves john and i we bought the land down hotel actually past that his was the second oldest he's right because ours is the oldest family hotel um in ireland it's been going since uh 1846 or whatever it was some way back in the middle of the 1800s and and we bought that hotel out of liquidation uh was in liquidation in in kerry and we bought it out of liquidation and we were stored it and reopened it now we worked in the build situation so we were very lucky but we had two extra rooms which had been storerooms in the hotel and we were turning them into bedrooms and we had to wait we only opened them in the last six weeks and the rest of the hotel opened last July because we couldn't get workers we couldn't get electricians and we couldn't get plumbers because we just weren't available and then when all we got all of them we couldn't get the taps to fit the bath and we couldn't get the proper taps that fit the bath and we had to wait two months for those so listen talk about turmoil and gray hair we share it down here with passion don't you go all right good stuff why should people watch on monday i mean obviously you know there's going to be huge huge figure few figures here in donny gold because we love the local interest but uh tell us why why you're proud of this show in particular well it's a very good show it it showcases the trials and tribulations of opening a business and you'll see everything that's necessary to get a good distance going and all the work that goes into creating menus and we haven't done that yet now but like all of the work that's necessary to get a hotel open you'll see it there on monday night brilliant stuff thank you so much indeed uh frances pat when do you hope to have the hotel opened we'll have it um open at the letter part this year um the court closed for um august and september so we have a date for our licensing at the early parts of uh october and so we'll be open for november yeah and and i mean it's it's uh it's going to be opening at a funny time isn't it because you know i think you know you know much better than i because of your business interests i think already people start to hold on to the money whether or not they uh need to or not you know the the the discretionary spending or the the surplus income are you it's going to be an interesting time to be opening a multimillion euro developed hotel well that's correct but there's many sides to that hotel and i think we've actually got five bars going in there's and a pizzeria and is it five bars yeah artisan bakers um so again there are many facets to to the new development um and well i i try to look at the positive and so the positive is we can have time to uh you know settle into our new shoes so to speak and they're going to be a snug fit to say the least so why this level of investment in this part of the world is to say we already know you've got the waterfront there a huge investment there as well we're up there as i mentioned uh even just the gym itself would rival anything anywhere uh and i know there's more work uh happening more rooms being open like why such a level of investment and why not in in in that part of the world well this again you know hopefully um identifies the diaspora in in a great light my cousin kevin he's based in chicago you know i was based in london um and our our fathers um come from originally from that part of the world um a very small island called leak through island my mother's from burton ports um so it's you know we're coming home you know and and we're trying to give something back you know possibly when our parents left you know the shores they weren't in a position to do to do what we've luckily lucky enough to be doing now yeah and it adds to what already is there an offer it becomes a destination and uh people coming and it's it's right across all different types of people will be able to attract be attracted to both hotels they come with a spend and you market there you market our and more there presumably or you market the rest of the wild atlantic way it's not just the business within the walls of both properties this has a huge impact on the on the on the broader economy we very you know it's our wish and our desire to um make this a destination resort there's so much to offer there you know and one of the greatest assets of that part of the world other people to be frank you you get a very big welcome wherever you go whether it's in somebody's house or into uh you know one of the shops in the main street down low and that whole part west unigall is uh you know iconic in my in my mind yeah and it's obviously there's a business model who you're not throwing money at something but it's it's nice that there's sort of there's a heart element to this and a head element to this as well and the heart seems pretty strong in this project between you and your cousin well that's right you know and for many people it was I think it was quite a shock to actually discover that I had one um but we maybe you're only shown it now is that it yeah yeah I just discovered it last week um so that yeah it's very much done with the heart to be honest Greg and um yeah obviously we're business men but um the you know yeah I've always believed in whatever business I've been in and I've been in many um that if you look after the client the customer uh the money generally will follow but sir that that that has to be the main focus is is looking after the client yeah and staffing as well I mean that you're going to be employing a lot of people presumably in uh uh in in times to come as well we believe that we will be employing around uh hitting the 200 number by the end of next year is that on both that's that's no no that that's uh that's collectively we have a thatch bar restaurant as well in glentes and uh you know construction company and you know bed and breakfast and you know so we're heavily involved in the hospitality industry that place that's the place on the corner in glentes isn't it it is yeah so just opposite the highland hotel yeah beautiful spot as well yeah a huge investment in their scene that's right we opened that last year and again that employs 20 people so um what's next well give me an exclusive yeah yeah well I'm building the golf course what are you going to do next uh in the back garden between these we'll put a putting green possibly all right pitch and pot maybe listen uh it's going to be fascinating I think there could be a part two to this I'm not sure if it's in the in the plans but uh we're going to see it all now as you mentioned the challenges of the pandemic the the panel you still have masks off and on the whole way through the hour I'd say continuity on this one would have been a bit of a challenge absolutely all right okay well we can't wait to see it it's on uh it's at your service of course Francis Brennan's program um he's a hospitality expert and presenter of at your service do you knock heads much not really know we we I felt that we've gone very well you know uh he's a lovely chap as brother John and it was a delight to work with the the whole team all right so at your service is an RTE one this Monday night the 25th of July at 9 35 p.m and it features Sweeney's hotel in Dunlowe and it gives us a behind the scenes look because you know people are passing and they say well what's going on and we're going to get to see that now right from the it's like the TARDIS to be frank yeah it looks like something relatively small from the outside but you know when you go going through the in through the doors then it becomes it opens up into a whole new world excellent okay it's all very exciting there's some opening thank you very much Pat gotta make it take care of yourself that's Pat Boyle there we'll be back with more after the break I'm not the kind of person who wants to sit in a metal box I don't want to slowly die in traffic I want to ride a motorbike and I want to keep riding a motorbike I don't want to suddenly die in traffic I'm not the kind of person who wants to lie in a wooden box biking is a joy don't let it kill you a third of bikers who have 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money at birthdays communions confirmations etc everything you do is going to be taxed and traced closing down rural banks and post offices while encouraging us to use our cars less yeah there's a few ironies ironies in it they uh close banks so you have to travel further to go to a bank but say don't use your car they don't want us living in rural island do they it's societal control by banks they don't deserve to say they help communities why should they have the ability neither right to simply flick a switch and leave people in a problematic situation um it's about time we had a state operated bank like a co-op i kind of think that they see the credit union post office networks as that sort of that german model uh greg i went to the bank during the week asking for some help to transfer money from a current account to a savings account but because i couldn't do it myself online i would have to wait several weeks for someone to help me i don't know what people like me who are not able to do online banking are to do if you have everything in a current account to get scammed as many are we lose everything i'm going to close my account because banks are no longer of any help to me yes and uh it's gonna get more like that i imagine hi greg does not uh does no one remember when holster bank system crashed and people's cards wouldn't work for up to three weeks progress is one thing but this galloping beyond society uh its requirements must be stopped it's not about our requirements it's about they don't want to use cash it's expensive to use cash and uh they don't want it you know you don't have to pay fees if you go to the likes of revolute because they don't deal in cash uh so you don't pay your fees if you want so i mean i just don't think they want to deal in cash uh hi gregory cashless moves by bank being a pensioner i draw my pension in cash each time it arrives in my account from the bank and i'm not able to check my balance each time checking the balance is not possible at the post office from time to time various bodies require a bank statement from me in a cashless situation they will be able to see what i spend my money on this is none of their business and i resent the possibility that they will have this overview of my life it's hard to get a statement from your bank and it's expensive too but i take your point greg my question is what is the option if the internet goes down i got humiliated twice paying for diesel since that i always carry cash and feel i can't do without some cash yeah we've all been in that boat and you go to certain parts of donningall and the cash machines that the tap or card machines can be uh they can be temperamental to say the least hi greg it's older people they like to go to the bank and get cash out people will start lifting the money out of aib thanks greg yeah i i 100 there are older people i think it's just older people there's a lot of people of difficulties with technology or uh nervous of technology of all age groups but i don't think the young ones you see and i think that's what they're banking on no pun intended i think most people under 30 they probably think that we're we're we're we're old codgers having this conversation but there's a lot of people i think 30 to 60 let's use that category who prefer cash and want to deal in cash and that's the way they do it they want to have that engagement with it but there's a lot of them are digital and i think there's a lot of 60 plusers who are also uh digital uh doing digital cashless transactions and stuff as well so i i think it's i think it's across the board you know down to a certain age cohort like i thought my my my oldest boys they have no interesting cash they they understand money they have to work and earn money and they understand how much things cost and they have a value on money but cash they've no value on that and and being followed and tracked by companies they love it they've no interest in that it doesn't bother them in the slightest that is the world in which they've grown up in uh hi greg um the digitalization of these services is killing jobs there's no benefit to going to a self-service i wonder people were you ever one of those that sort of said you know these self-service tills in shops you thought oh my god it's grace they shouldn't be in here i'm never going to use them and then did you start using them and if so why i wondered did our our resistance didn't last very well to that did it because there's more and more of them everywhere hi greg we can't go cashless what about people in abusive relationships they'll always have to have access to cash we can't let this cashless society happen there's going to be cash i think there's always going to be cash pierce already said the central bank is committed to do that you know you can believe that or not uh but we're going to be using cash less and less because less more shops are not going to want it because it costs money and uh there's no banks that's the way we're going the motivation for that whether it's something or other i don't know all charities will suffer exponentially in a cashless society and is an enemy of free will look i get you but a lot of people collecting on the streets now they have tap machines bosskers you might say well what about bosskers a lot of bosskers you tap you sit two euro five euro ten you tap there uh these machines they're like 99 euro and the fees aren't that big on them it's not hard now and i think anyone who's out selling uh gea lotto needs to get one of these wee machines as well not because i want us to go in that way but if they want to have money uh if they want to have money to um if they want to have uh be able to receive the money if we have a savings account how can we get it out when we need it very good question uh i don't agree with it i can't give my grandchildren or great-grandchildren the odd fiver you've no freedom to do as you wish yeah that's a big thing and it's uh maybe that that's a more generational side of it as well uh they might welcome the five euro into the revolute equally but you want to give them the fiver uh can your panel foresee any future when in a cashless society that your money card will only tap for a certain amount of petrol coal food to limit freedom in the name of climate change that's the end goal here well look at uh there may well be fuel rationing um coming up shortly who's to say it's happened in the past it happened in the 70s and 80s whereby per person going up to a garage you're only allowed to put in a certain amount of fuel i don't think they need control of your uh your your bank account to do that uh you know and people can have multiple accounts multiple cards in multiple names uh but that's more difficult but you know i mean if it's about restricting the petrol and coal they can do that now one bag per customer aldean it'll do that now already one item per customer um you know so i don't know if that's the motivation they're already able to do that quite easily but bank of island to get rid of atm's at a kind of shopping center now is two euro something's atm's also this so-called hot potch unwanted government is already dead but if they don't step in here with AIB that will bury them all together if you're waiting for the opposition to interfere in the day-to-day businesses of AIB by the way you're in for a disappointment they aren't going to they might campaign for it and it's easier to do that in opposition than in government but they're not going to get involved in the today day-to-day running of a bank uh as the bank is right now i was thinking of changing to AIB but now i think that the bank don't really care too much about the public consideration all the banks were bailed out but the problem is is we have a dual opera opany so if you want to protest you can only go to bank of island if you want cash cash in branch cash machines associated with your account so you know they have 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hurry this summer sale will not last forever call into our showroom today and availed the fantastic offers our viewer stock at florid dot ii offers only while stocks last okay now we are joined in studio by paul gillespie pr o of the donagall diabetes association paul great to speak to you again thanks for joining us no thanks for inviting me on no no it's good to have you in right okay uh this is a complex one i think for those sort of outside of this world if you know what i mean so we'll do our best to to to get the the big points and the big concerns across so that everyone can sort of get a handle on it a lot of this comes down to condition uh concerns uh about resources for type one diabetes at letter candy university hospital so what kind of services to someone with type one diabetes uh require in their local acute hospital yeah um mainly well one of the has to be a full team uh endocrinologists and a full team of nurses and ideally an amp as well uh letter candy with the volume of patients around donagall actually should we believe should have three full endocrinologist teams um in 2016 the hospital was approved for a second endocrinologist um to be full time to date that post has never been filled so there's something seriously amiss whenever it's taken so long to fill a position which is so badly needed and the witness are they were getting extremely bad during cova there was actually nearly you're supposed to have a review with a with an endocrinologist for type one diabetes maximum every six months later again even before the pandemic was around 18 20 months during the pandemic it went to almost three years right so why is it important so it's back to 20 so why is it important um what happens in that is it about how maybe uh how someone's condition is assessed that the treatment uh is that why i presume it's international best practice that six six months intervals is the is the desired interval period yeah um the unfortunately the complications of type one diabetes are quite serious no you can have loss of eyesight you can have uh ulcer problems you can have circulation problems so it's critical that uh type one diabetes is quite different from type two and that type one diabetes the pancreas just completely stops producing insulin so you're on insulin injection regime or pump therapy um so every six months the need to meet the endocrinologist to review how your hba1c is doing which which can tell how your insulin levels are doing and there's a target and then the endocrinologist advises on whether to increase the insulin reduce the insulin like you can have hypos which are very very serious so it's to keep a good control of the pattern of insulin so it makes uh i mean obviously living with type one diabetes in and of itself you know it's it's a lifelong illness that you have to live with but when you're not getting the proper treatment what is best uh and the the time frame between uh being seen not six months but indeed 20 or that will opposites 24 it must make it must be very anxious my people must be very worried and that surely has to complicate things because they you don't know if your conditioning is getting worse if you're actually getting the treatment that gives you the best outcomes yeah and and i mentioned the eye condition sometimes like if you're not been seen for 20 months by the time you're seen and reviewed um maybe you've been running too high for quite some time so you unfortunately it will affect your eyesight as you start to get older and it'll start younger for type one diabetes so it is critical that uh that the care is in advance but also like you mentioned that it is a chronic life-threatening condition because you know if you don't look after it within 48 hours you can end up uh seriously ill but even though it's a chronic condition you're trying to love what there's no psychology cover in letter candy hospital there's no psychologists to help out with diabetes care um how does diabetes care for patients in donnellygoal compare with other areas of the country well that's always the terrible sticking point they below the Dublin limerick line they have centers of excellence um they have uh plenty of endocrinologists so if you attend uh if you attend anywhere below Dublin limerick line your appointments we believe they're about a year of recall so they're certainly under pressure as well but they're still being seen within a year but whenever they go on they see an endocrinologist the cna and p they see the dietician they see a psychologist all in one appointment that's just not happening it's not a big one this is this is air cold discrimination then oh terribly you know and we welcome the fact that people in the south of the country get uh these services but we we have to ask why are we discriminated against simply because of where we live exactly and like this is this is the model of care that's that's been signed off by government leo varadkar was one of whenever he was minister signed off the one to do with child care and even um the center of excellence there there's serious questions have to be asked of silcha as well because nick there's no centers of excellence uh five throughout the Dublin limerick line uh silcha we're supposed to be more silcha still do not have a center of excellence anywhere in their area and they have no plans we you probably remember a few years ago we were running to Dublin to the meetings with the minister harris then and hsc and silcha were around the table and they're all saying oh yeah we have to get a center of excellence it's the best practice um but whenever we met with sean morphy there a few a few weeks ago and we said to sean how has things developed during the covet lockdown and he says oh no like because uh at one of our last meetings in 2019 with sean he had mentioned that the old outpatients building was could be developed for the center of excellence at this meeting now he has said uh no that building has now been used for somewhere else and they're looking at a 10-year plan of where they can accommodate diabetes but also he says silcha have no plans whatsoever for a center of excellence anywhere in the northwest so if you were prepared to travel then paul uh say for instance to go away and that does fall under the cell the cell chair group we talk of could you be seen more frequently in other words are they trying to encourage patients from donna gole to travel further and if you were prepared to do so would you be seen uh more regularly the two points i'd make there seems to be an issue with resources from silcha in the northwest but there also seems to be an issue with resources from government into the silcha area because even if you if you needed to travel you'd be better to travel to dublin because gull we still don't have a full they don't have a center of excellence but my point is is are they trying to get us to travel in other words uh is this a move to say if you wanted to could you go and be seen more regularly in dublin if you were prepared to understand that travel you can certainly yeah we see that's is that where we're going here really it's a centralization of services serious serious concern yeah and even like when we mentioned with sean morphe well at the dublin meetings with the politicians it was agreed that because of donna gole geographical area that the center of excellence needs to be a shared because um the guideline is for every 300 children there should be two endocrinologists letter kenny has over 150 children which what indicates you know you should have one endocrinologist there's no endocrinologist anywhere in the northwest slaggo since i last spoke to you actually meself and caroline barrett were invited down to slaggo to the opening of a new building so slaggo got a new dedicated diabetes building and at that actually uh donna gole were thanked for all their lobbying to uh to promote diabetes in the northwest um but again there was no mention of even slaggo being a center of excellence which is like what we we were hoping that was going to be their building and then we would get our building and the shared center of excellence would go into both buildings but at the minute that does not on the on the carriage right so in the last couple of minutes you want a meeting with the minister for health what are you going to say to him oh we're going to actually highlight all the different issues that to do with like the fact that the second endocrinologist for adults was never one of the letter kenny recently applied for an a and p which is advanced nurse practitioner uh in diabetes care for adults we have one in pediatric care which is doing the pediatric care actually has advanced greatly but when you move then from pediatrics turn 18 and you move on the adult care it's a cliff age and you get very very pure care then so the a and p is vitally needed as well because adults across donna gole are never offered a pump therapy even though the government fully acknowledges that pump therapy is the gold standard and everyone should be offered it because it can't any help but it's not available to anybody in donna gole if they can either if they want to start on pump therapy they'll have to go to Dublin or Galway or they can go on a long waiting list to slaggo slaggo have now started to develop because they now have a second endocrinologist do you think is it possible that really their plan is to create the services in the centre of excellence in slaggo so if people you know want these services that's where they have to go that that is being seen as the solution for the donna gole problem well you see that is that is their simple solution from a point of view of only one bouldin but i mean from a geographical point on from where donna gole's look you know unfortunately yeah they're not considering that and they're not shy about saying that if you want these services you're probably gonna have to travel that's the problem yeah and that's why it's up to our politicians you know to make sure like minister mcconlough is something that the ministerial has he said anything positive in your direction uh no we've got a reply from him yesterday to say to confirm that we were promised that we were what wasn't promised but it was uh suggested that there was going to be the meeting with the minister now in july and charlie has now told us no it'll be september at the earliest right okay so right so we'll uh we'll have a proper chat with you again ahead of september and then hopefully speak to you after that meeting if we can't track down the minister ourselves to uh in that period of time could i just give you some the good news of the day yes of course you always bring a bit of good news actually well actually there's there's two points of good news well one tends to weave it in that the the other serious problem in letter candy hospital is podiatry the podiatry service uh unfortunately the podiatrists they're i think she's in there in five years she was only ever employed as a junior podiatrist but she was carrying a senior podiatrist role and over the years we have been warning if a senior podiatrist role came up anywhere else she would leave because she's doing the role of a senior unfortunately that has come to pass so now letter candy at the minute have no podiatry cover whatsoever it's actually even last year uh with maternity leave they had no cover and everybody anybody going on to letter candy was actually being sent all the way to gallway which was extended stays down there but the good news is there's now uh letter candy have been told that they're going to appoint two podiatrists so they will always have cover the other bit of good news are those are they advertising those positions or do they have the candidates ready to go i think this the first one they have a candidate they have a candidate they've been offered to okay good but the second one has to be i think it has to be advertised because it's a new post right now the other bit of good news is for type two diabetes in the community is that with slanchia care there's been a great increase now and they call the hub which is now based in letter candy but it's going to be right down the gall that there's quite a few new and peace dieticians and nurses all being appointed to the hub so type two diabetes is getting very good enhancement and care at the minute so we're welcome that right stay in touch with us paul as you always do and we'll um if there's any progress between now and september or anything else we can do let us know but thanks for giving us updates on the way things are at the moment i really appreciate it thank you very much okay thank you that is paul gillespie there who is the pr of the donagall diabetes association 08 660 25 000 that is the whatsapp or text line or give us a call an 07491 25 000 all right michael and fenula are going to be joining us very very shortly for the last hour of the show with other guests as well but it's 11 o'clock so let's get news updates say good morning now to mikaela clark thanks great good morning the agriculture minister says aib needs to reconsider and reverse its decision to convert 70 of its branches to cashless locations cash and check services are to be removed from six branches in donagall minister charny mcconn look says aib need to look at their own history further concerns are being raised over lack of student accommodation counter michael mcloughley says the highs in crisis is severely impacting third level students who are unable to secure accommodation in many times and cities across the country in one case a second-year student from donagall who stayed in hotels last year may be forced to drop out of their course as they are unable to find accommodation almost one in three frontline workers have yet to receive the 1000 euro pandemic bonus by july the eighth figure show over 68 000 had received their payment health minister steven donnie said last month the delay was down to prolonged discussions between parties guardian donnie gall are appealing to motorists to avoid parking in disabled parking bays unless less authorized to do so disabled parking bays they say are limited and if occupied by motorists without a valid permit are denying those most in need a senior executive at tsc in letter kenny says the company wants to establish itself as one of the top it companies in the country speaking on highland radio's business matters podcast strategic initiatives director jared grant said the donnie gall operation will be a key element of that process and the surefront amenity on armore island is being officially open today the development of the recreation outdoor amenity amenity and amphitheater is part of the 4.1 million euro virgin port and armore harbour to island rural regeneration project those other latest headlines will be back with an update again at 12 noon thank you very 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that's this saturday at cool creamery and coffee dock balibuffa okay don't care we welcome into studio now michael leddie who is a writer and blogger and finula rabbit good morning the pair of you morning good morning he's missed me last week and i obviously don't this is no reflection of onlys the safe pair of hands but you know oh terribly it was it was strange it was strange to come in and have the host be nice and respectful to me for the full hour i wasn't used to that at all i was so my haircut when did you do it i did it early this week good what do you think it's nice isn't it nice and fresh well i the first time i saw it i did one it does remind me of those haircuts you remember when there used to be the lice notice and come around let's go you hear him for the summer it's very late in the uh it's very late in the air for it but what should he do is they're probably hard of course it is no he's got uh six weeks of it and you have that luxury which is nice as well i was uh watching i was watching i started watching murder in the building oh all the murders in the building all the murders in the building both of you like that did you i haven't seen it yet no me i was excited it's nice yeah it's just kind of relaxed nice but and the to be honest the one thing i looked for as well is the second series and kind of a third of the way into it now at this point because it's on a week by week and it's still even though it's practically the same thing just they've got a lot of guest stars that are in it there's a lot of like it's it's funny um but it's not ha ha funny it's clever yeah um there is an element of what's going to happen so it keeps you intrigued in it then there is the random sort of um like sting being in it yeah uh and it's good show it's got a good heart to it like it's nice i like it and i love to see the two older actors too you know they like they look fantastic and they're brilliant in the roles they are they're very good in it it's a good show like i think i've got two episodes left of the first series so yeah thank you lily for your disney plus subscription that's all i can say to that so yeah that's all this of other stuff you should be watching on disney that's on disney plus you need it because as we said before disney plus is a bit clunky to to deal with i think you know it's a bit the menus aren't fantastic right both of you went to see uh black cinema sorry black phone in the cinema so i'm going to start with you fenula because you do my wages um tell me tell me about black phone i'm going to start off by telling you you kind of made an error in judgment going to me first because i only went to see this because he made me i sort of dared her i dared her to go and see after she was scarred by of all things final destination was it one i think two or three gonna happen it was one uh did this come in for me and there's no escape it's coming for all of us i know this yeah that was just it stuck with me i'm not over it okay uh but so we went to see so michael will say no come and see this it's supposed to be really good and i think this was a a test of your friendship this yes i pitched it three different weeks it took three weeks to get her there because i know she was on the phone to someone going what the hell i said i had to go to so that's what i do anyway i was there was a lot of trepidation going into this because like i said i have for some reason and i don't know whether it's age or what happened but i've become a big scaredy cat and i used to final destination was a while ago i know i know but that's not even worse it's gotten right and i just i used to watch everything with gore and blood and you know anything that kind of made you scared you and made you jump i used to love all that right the news but then today now definitely but um but then i kind of just got off it but so i was a bit nervous about going to see this and i have to say i was very wrong because this is i i'm not a hundred percent sure what genre you'd actually place this movie into it isn't necessarily something i wouldn't call it a horror i wouldn't call it a thriller and you wouldn't say it's just a drama so but yet it has elements of all of that and well the house and haunted hill we all watch that yes is that like that though i mean it's not horror is it oh well hit that is that's horror because that was that was full on so i'm trying to understand yeah i'm trying to think about comparison here it's well this this microphone and is is basically what it is is i'd say it must be an independent movie first of all because ethan hawkers in it and god knows he does nothing that isn't a little bit left to field and um i wouldn't recognize him in it now i have to say but he is in it and was only when the credits came up that i went oh god yeah that's who that is well you never see his face that's why you never see but in it basically it's this small town small town in america and uh young boys uh kind of looking like they're sort of 12 14 kind of an age in that sort of a bracket are going missing and there's been a series of boys that are going missing and then this one particular boy that we've been following in it goes missing and then it's kind of everything that happens after that with it there's sort of a super not i don't want to give too much away yeah you don't want to give too much away there's sort of a supernatural element to it there's sort of a little bit of um there is some uh small amount of but i would say considering what it is a small amount of violence in it it's not really of so that means it's psychological horror yes yeah there is well you can say that the boy is kind of kept in a basement for a large part of it and it's like waiting to see what's going to happen to him it's the cycle and the door then is left open deliberately and the stairs are going up is it safe to walk the stairs that kind of playing with emotions on it yeah and there is a few times in it there is a few times that that you could kind of feel the hair standing up but it wasn't that it was something that you were seeing it wasn't my life either it was that was a real thing that was the thing jump scares then so this is not jump scare movie there is a couple of times in it but nothing more and but when the jump scares come it you know sometimes if the jump scares and it's like too bloody or it's too I don't really like that anymore now like even I was talking to somebody at the weekend and I was saying you know like a quentin tarantino movie and that kind of thing I watch quentin tarantino movies behind my hands yeah because I'm I love him when he does something like Pulp Fiction when he does you know what I mean something like Reds of our Dogs even though they're violent there's like a story or whatever to but then other times then he does stuff and you're like oh my god these people are just slaughtered you know I think the John Wick franchise moved that on a bit whereby you can have it some that level of violence but it's not as it's just there's a story bloody yeah it's within the story or it's moving the story forward in some way yes I think you it washes over you a bit easier than if it's just constant this doesn't have anything that you would be you know oh god like you know that's a feeling with but I definitely I have to say it's a really enjoyable movie there's some great acting in it it's based on a short story that has been adapted for this there's some there's some great kids in it that young people acting in it and it's very I think it is kind of like nearly a black mirror kind of a small bit of a feel to it there's a little bit of this you know how we kind of opened maybe uh we opened up uh Michael leddie to documentary as this maybe opened your eyes a little bit to different genres of horror that you've avoided since final destination one in the 1990s it was on tv when I watched it that if I saw it the first time it was fine it was in the 2000s it freaked me out it was for comic effect yeah I can't believe I have to explain you ruined the joke for nula you ruined the joke let's just say it wasn't on your new telly so which is two years old now it wasn't on my new telly it definitely did it definitely did now I mean because the story sort of held you with it now there was a lot of things wrong with it you know what I mean it's not that it's not perfect yeah it's not perfect it's not that it's perfection there was a few kind of bits and pieces and you were like and some of it you're kind of like I would like to have known more I would like to have been a little bit more invested but on the whole I kind of sit through it you do get that feeling every once in a while that you can kind of feel the hairs in the back of your neck stand up every once in a while you're kind of going lept you know the couple of inches off your seat it's also which I have to say I didn't realize it's the cinema that it's in the screen that it's in here because we went to see it here in letter candy but I'm sure it's probably another in the clips other places as well it's the one where you can with the recliner seats no yeah there's there's a sweet spot yeah you have to figure out just how far to recline because you could we had this discussion last night at about two minutes past nine o'clock as for who they played with the chair to figure out now with the lack of sleep for obvious reasons whereby I don't get any warning now you know just I can just go go now oh yeah no it is but I'm told I might make some noise when I'm sleeping I don't believe it you just believe it I don't imagine everyone getting their money back in the cinema because Greg was snoring there's a guy in there I never used the s word all right well I yeah I think so what are you giving out of ten then I would give it a strong seven and a half each that's very very very impressive for for all the reasons because we know you right over to you same probably an eight and a half I really enjoyed this it does it mixes genres there's horror elements in it there's thriller elements in it and without giving any spoilers away there's a huge supernatural thing that's not just the ghost there's other stuff going on it's like a fantasy movie it manages to pull everything together the story is strong I think it's just the right length it's pacey there's always something new happening the kids really good at the center of it 13 year old Finney Finn and you really get behind this kid and the game make of course is that there's a in this cellar where he is held there's this disconnected black phone but the phone rings and the previous victims of the serial killer can speak to him and they're able to give him tips as to what's likely to happen next oh you're totally heading in spoiler but that's the name but that's you open it but that's that's what that's what intriguing but that's how the movie gets going that's the start of the movie the cast is good there are scares I thought it did its job breaking it now for me anyway I think actually be a really good date movie or something like that in a movie you know the way we're both people trying to decide what to watch it also it's an excuse to sort of you know grab their hand yes back in the day that's you know what I mean you see how great you see how you're playing oh yeah I was definitely say if you're not normally into this kind of thing this is definitely what or even if you want to put your toe in the in the water of this type of movie this is definitely and because it's the smaller screen it's still it's still on for like the fourth week through the week but book ahead because there's only it's a small it's the smaller I uh watch uh secret window last night with Johnny Deppin and it's oh it sounds similar to this yeah okay um not similar in the storyline but it's it's hard to put the what genre it's in yeah um because it is scary it's not I didn't find it scary but you can see how people go oh you know yeah a wee bit of it terrible for ending to the film but anyway and he sort of knew what was coming the whole way through but it's on Netflix uh no it's not that bad I just that's a few years old isn't it it's like four or five more yeah yeah yeah right okay funny enough you had issues with his partner and drank a lot of whiskey but anyway it was a film right we'll be back with more after this break I'm not the kind of person who wants to sit in a metal box I don't want to slowly die in traffic I want to ride a motorbike and I want to keep riding a motorbike I don't want to suddenly die in traffic I'm not the kind of person who wants to lie in a wooden box biking is a joy don't let it kill you a third of bikers who have died on our roads were speeding so ease off the throttle and keep within the speed limit from the road safety authority on this week's business matters highly be joined by the director of strategic initiatives at tcs and letter 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thought it was a joke if you i don't know if that's fair to say we could all be surprised it could end up being awesome yes yeah so michael flatley is right obviously you wouldn't necessarily cast michael flatley is james bond right so he obviously thought he had no chance that so what do you do well you make your own if you're a billionaire you make your own james bond yeah uh so this has been on the burner for years isn't it it was for it's been made for ages but they've been holding it back yeah i don't know what's going on with it because they have made it has been made at least i mean this isn't even like hold up held back because of covid this has been held back for three years before that my i mean you're assuming somebody went oh god what have i done and you're doing it but as you said it could end up being awesome uh michael flatley plays the debonair james bond type character it had it also stars eric robber it's patrick bergen uh nicole evans and in beaty which we've seen in lots of different things over the the last few years game of thrones and stuff like that so like there's a lot of actors in this yeah but he potentially dug deep to get these people in like oh i i i feel like i thought he might be a throw cash at the problem did you see the trailer no no is it is it everything you well if that's the trailer okay uh and he's i mean i'm totally gonna go and see this yes i have to see this i mean yeah it was on it was that show at uh at one of those film festivals uh and this is one only one person was motivated to review it and gave it 10 out of 10 i suspect i suspect this could be himself but anyway to be honest i was skeptical before i went to see this in monaco but the opening sequence with flatly on a yacht where he disables 12 russian spies dissolved any concerns for the quality of this production jumping between iconic scenery in arland and barbados this thriller is up there with shaw and connery's bests to keep past and present funds happy flatly produces an incredible tap dance sequence where he shoots knives from his shoes from the top of his bar while a ragtime tune plays if you can get the chance to see this film uh then don't let the opportunity pass you by run don't walk to the cinema i feel i feel he threw money at the problem which in fairness if i had his money i would be throwing money at all my problems and making all my dreams come true but yeah i everybody that i know who's mentioned this or who've read out and about it because now and it's having a limited release so it may not even end up being in every cinema so we may end up having to petition the locals i what are you laughing at because michael wants to make cinema i would say i don't think michael would like it to go straight to netflix he would feel i would there's a film that's like i want to put it on the record i actually want this to be brilliant i want 100 percent i want people to have to say you know what actually that was great for i want to walk out of this thinking oh my god i go and see this again yeah i mean times did you see uh doctor change yes i think it's five now there you go i want michael to have seen this at least five times and still be crying as it leaves the cinema but i will get back to you it's not being released till the second september if it turns out that it's not coming to the any of the cinemas in dunny god you will travel we'll we'll get a bus going i may have to use i may have to use the 60 000 daily listeners of island radio to get a petition going i might have to get a petition going or yes hire of us we've got to see this movie somewhere um i just feel it's going to be one of those it's going to be a life experience whether awesome or not yeah the the trailer is it off for me i can't wait to see the trailer now oh i'm going to rush home to see it exactly what you would think someone who once looks suave and sophisticated in a tuxedo and then to sort of look at the camera oh yeah and say something wow it's there for you okay the factory too in the tap dancing just i'm so now i'm not sure if he did or if that's the way they're describing another review there that referenced daniel old donal and i won't read that one out but uh it just it's very positive towards if there is a tap dancing scene very far as uh knives out of his shoes well i'm i'm all in how many knives could you keep in the soul of your shoe that you have how many rockets and bullets you're all your james bond car stop trying to pick your own yeah you're unraveling these things for god's sake no i more try to imagine many arrows does hawk i have in that quick you know at the back yeah come on you can't start a very very good question you can't see and who picks them up whatever kid picks up the arrow and hurts themselves there you know exactly i do i meant more as i was trying to imagine a scene in my head but everybody i know who's heard about this who talks about this uh completely talks about a tongue and cheek and then when you say some are you going to go and see it they're all like hundred percent yes it'll be a big box office hit we were released behind it as irish people anyway stand by for the campaign i'm i think at that point though you might actually be forcibly removed from the building not by us oh i'm totally if it doesn't come up here i'm totally going to start the campaign we need to see this movie and i have a feeling the big screen is only going to make it even better are you going to go and see black bird when it comes becomes available if it's screened locally 08 660 25 000 what's up some text to that number also tell us what else you've been watching did you go and see black phone what did you think what else have you been uh what else have you been uh watching all right i seen these two in the cinema is that used to i see these no it's nothing it's bad i wouldn't okay uh black black what do you think we were doing in the cinema that would be bad probably you were squabbling you were picking up the chair and i was like keep quiet for god's sake the film is starting because i'm always talking you're like but anyway can you relax the person's just saying it might be on about the films let me finish i seen these two each it's not about used to i seen i seen these two in the cinema black phone plays closer to a thriller than a horror yep tell finula it's a blumhouse productions and as always they've delivered another solid original horror film they also don't get out which you were a big fan i don't think he was still too afraid i would i would never go see get out because the trailer alone makes me isn't the next one from jordan peelers nope um paranormal activity was also created by the same full company's black foam so okay so the film i know you haven't watched and it's the same director as the exorcism of was it eminy rose that was a big big oh yeah i watched that one yeah well that's same director it's for like i said i really enjoyed it it's very um the way it's sharp and everything it's kind of got that gritty 70s feel everything about it it's very well the horrors in your faces though uh all right hey is it just me or did anyone else think the new drastic park film was awful i watched a bit of it because it's available on that sky cinema thing and uh i lasted about 20 minutes and switched off it's getting terrible you know it's just donning because i just feel bad about it because i it can i ask a question right if you don't even like it in the cinema you're never gonna watch on tv i was looking at the time i know this doesn't matter it's but this film this new film is about 30 years after the first film yes time order right yes so how did how did dinosaurs grow to such full capacity and then take over the earth in such a short period of time oh because what happened in the first one it well if you remember back in the beginning in the first one you had the the guy had developed them and he had found like in amber and he had created them out of the genetic thing then in the second one then they started uh they kind of went back again because it was a big gap between the first and the second one and it was that somebody had just kept them going on the particular island that they're wrong because they always talked about nuking the island but then they never did then in the third one a guy came along and he wanted to weaponize them yes and then once they weaponize them then he went into the next one then which was the chris prat one and chris prat then was training them and showing how smart they were but they were also had been made more and more aggressive as you're going along so then they were going to be sold then and all of a sudden then they were going to be sold to different countries and different things like that he then released them over the planet he's really he released them into the world well again i wouldn't pull it that thread genuine genuinely impressed how you know the timeline you really do you really do all right that's the most impressive thing i've ever seen you do during this i think so too yeah i used to love Jurassic Park there's love i mean i know but you also have to ask me more about how the the dinosaurs how is it that all of these guys who have been chased and eaten by dinosaurs for so long are still with us not one of them has gray hair i mean fair play if i was almost eaten by a dinosaur you'd imagine you you know people used to get that streak of white hair from the shock of what they've been through like no not in this world no they look awesome um the terminal list is brilliant with chris pine pratt pratt yep they've said pine um the black phone also good hi greg i'd be interested to hear what your panel thinks about the opinion that all good sci-fi dark or otherwise are all really about family and relationships and are often surprisingly topical and deep yes all films kind of are yeah but i think sci-fi lends itself to being topical and deep if it's like star trek is the is the yeah i would uh definitely well the thing we're watching now on disney the i want to say the oracle but it's not the oracle what am i doing orville the orville yeah the orville which you should totally watch now that you're in disney and it is amazing amazing uh the guy that does family guy and all that kind of things that McFarland he's he again kind of like Michael flatley he wanted to be in star trek he wanted to be in star trek and he wasn't getting any jobs that might be where the 100 percent is where the thing ends but he wanted to be in like a star trek kind of an idea he wasn't getting any jobs and so he went and he created his own it's absolutely amazing this new it was on for like two series and then it sort of disappeared it was on fx and if anybody who used to follow fx that now it's back on disney they've started again each of the new episodes are like an hour an hour and 15 million it is unbelievable the topics they're covering yeah incredible it's incredible and how well they're covering it set in a world that is so far but like really topical stuff you know about people's rights about all kind of changing changing gender that's been happening for generations too i can't remember the name of the film we've talked about it before ages ago no it'll come to me anyway listen we're going to take a quick break because then we're going to be talking about how maybe some of our listeners might end up watching tv and then we could be watching them watching tv so you might know what we're going to be talking about Leisureland Red Castle open every day from 12 to 6 fantastic for family day trips excellent value for birthday party packages for a wonderful family experience this weekend check out leisurelandredcastles.ie irish sun doesn't really count right look we all deserve a bit of sun skin cancer is the most common cancer in ireland so whether you're at home or abroad protect your skin by following these sun smart steps slip into long 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clannery hotel with jimmy buckley this sunday new lump sum payment for farmers for more in your farmers journal his paul mooney average suckler and sheep farmer to get 14 000 euros per year in organic switch minister ryan promises more money for farmers who change how they farm we report on the ground from farmer protests in the netherlands in our country living top money saving tips to help you manage your finances and don't miss our tolamore farm open day next tuesday get full details inside this week's irish farmers journal on sale now radio so google box arland is coming back to your screens thanks to virgin media television and they are looking for a cast and we are joined now on the program by miriam smith casting producer at google box goggle box arland i can't believe i'm still saying google box goggle box uh good morning miriam good morning greg you're not the only person saying google box arland we get lots of applications with this but i know i know it's goggle and i correct myself every time but i still say i know box uh so it's are you completely recasting miriam or you're looking for additional uh families lord no no no we have some fabulous families already there greg so what we're trying to do is we're trying to add a couple of new households we do it every year so we have a wonderful bunch of people already there but every year we just like to throw the doors open and see who else is out there and who might be interested in joining the cast so it's we're not rebuilding from the ground up by any stretch of the imagination just a couple of new faces now i mean it has to be cast because you want a variety of people with different interests that people can relate to in different ways so uh what what are the particular gaps sorry to put it so grudely that you're looking yeah no look we're always happy to hear from anybody who's interested in taking part but you're right we do have a particular focus this year and one of the areas we'd love to explore is to chat to older men and i suppose that means anybody kind of from 50 upwards might be someone who hangs out with a few lads to watch the match it might be somebody who's hanging out down in the local men she had a couple of times a week or it might be a family with a granddad or an older dad and so older men that's one that's one category of people that we'd love to try and include this year and we'd also love to hear from families with brothers and sisters because nobody winds you up like your own brothers and sisters nobody knows you so well and we're also hoping to chat to long term couples so people who've put in a few years together and are very comfortable talking about things and giving their true opinions they're not holding back and how much of it is uh and i mean this is so people can feel if they qualify how much of it is is really exactly how you are watching tv and how much of it is it's still natural but a little maybe just turning it up a little bit in terms of you know reaction and banter what you mean in terms of it being produced no i mean from us like you know i sit watching the tv and you know i could i wouldn't be very interesting for most of it but i you know sometimes i'm going to say something that's quite witty are you looking for people that really yeah do you want them completely relaxed watching tv as they always are or a little bit of having it up a little bit having it up is the opposite really of what we're looking for so we're looking for people who are yeah so usually greg you can imagine there are some people who just apply for every tv show that comes along and that's the kind of person that probably won't suit google box so people who are opinionated certainly and well able to chat but you know not it's not a it's not a performance this is the real you sitting in your own house with your own family with your own mug of tea in front of you and giving your true opinion so we really really don't want to go down the road of people who are giving us the performance it wasn't real it's real you want to it have to be real but to be real yeah absolutely so as i said it's like we take the roof off the house and we peek in and what's going on tonight that would be kind of a good way of putting it so people who are mad to get on the telly probably don't work out for google box it's more people who kind of just love telly love to watch it don't necessarily really have a huge passion for being honest but just like the show like the format and think they might give it a whirl this year so we're going to hear from a few people it's your inbox full of people nominating other people and i wouldn't say it's just for shows like this uh i see that goes on an awful lot where people you know whether it's for because they think they'll be good at it or it's for a bit of crack like the majority of people that apply for programs like this is individuals applying for themselves because that's what you want of course or is it others thinking you know well greg or flula would be great for that and yeah nominating them we often find that the nominations don't work out because people will nominate a fella up the road and then when you contact the fella up the road he has no interest and you to be honest people shouldn't be passing on other people's contact numbers it's a waste of time so we always ask people just to to contact us themselves and and when they do contact us it's really important that they tell us who they're going to be sitting on the couch with because you can't do it on your own and you can't do it with the dog so you know you have to have at least one other person who's similarly chatty and has their own opinions it can't be a one-man band with one person doing all the talking has that ever been tried it would actually be quite interesting it has i'll tell you it has been proposed more than once we've had more than one lad or lady who says look at you don't need anybody else i'll do all the talking so it does happen part of me would be interested to see the the demo or the the application but anyway so how do what do you want from people so how do what what do they need to apply and where do they send it yeah so they can send us an email so the first the first step is sending us an email and our company is called kite entertainment as in fly a kite so the email address is casting at kite entertainment dot com you can send us a few lines you just need to tell us your full name in your age tell us whereabouts in the country you're from and then tell us who you're proposing you might do it with so it might be your friends it might be let us know who's in the gang and tell us a little bit about each person if you can it's also great if you can tell us a little bit about what you like to watch and what you don't like to watch because that helps us to get to know you a little bit unfortunately like we as you can imagine we get thousands of emails we can't contact everybody we simply don't have the timer the manpower so if you've sent us an email with a little bit of info that helps us to shortlist people and make those calls so the more you can tell us the better you can jump out in that process I think that's a good little insight you can yeah you absolutely can the more info we have the better able we are to kind of decide okay this is somebody now that we should have a chat with yes we've got some great chatty you know members the clergy in the northwest wouldn't be interested in one of they and a friend applied or something uh okay great stuff thank you so much mariam thank you very lovely to talk to you to mariam smith casting producer at google box uh i think lots of people think they could do it but i think but i do think they are missing a trick with the individual on their own i watch i mean i live alone i watch tv on my own and myself on the television have a lot of conversation because i have a lot of thoughts that i need to get out there that does not surprise me what i'm watching something that does not surprise me so you get the right person on their own it could actually come on northwest do your thing we want to get in behind you it'll be great fun uh eric roberts can't be that bad as he's julia's brother uh i just think sometimes if you can't afford julia oh and you want a name on a poster he's good and is all right i like he is yeah i just i like he's good he's see he's good wouldn't cast him as a lead baddie would you unless your your second name was flatly you've already got michael down eric roberts can't be as bad as as her he's julia's brother although i did see a film on sci-fi last night called mega boa mega boa uh which must have been about a big snake with eric roberts on top uh billing oh no uh and then they say it was something else so maybe it was a maritime um maritime it can mean we'll do the pons i will do the pons i like that i like 25 000 uh greg you'd be great at google box you could say you're 50 to fit the category they're looking for you can tell them that you had some work done and that's why you're so fresh faced for a man of 50 there you go there's a lot to unpack there there is a lot in that keep that to one side thank you for saying i'm luckier than 50 yeah i don't think i would i think it'd be boring sitting there with hand down me that would be the chain i mean i'd have to go get i'd have to go and get a new couch i know i tend to slouch in the one that i have you need to get one that makes you sit up oh terrible i'm not an elvis fan but i love to film elvis so group with a mother uh your own uh uh wonder yeah uh who was a giant fan so i had consumed a lot of his media i just kind of this notion of them calling around to the neighbors do you know what i mean anybody they could find yeah um i'm not a fan of us but i love the film i grew up with my mother who was a great fan so i had consumed a lot of his media content throughout my life and i have to say uh it was excellent so that's a film the early critics didn't like it michael but yeah they kind of came around to us yeah around um the marksman's emotionally weighed story Liam neeson was great and it come out last year the mark i didn't see that one no thing did i i'm gonna guess i'm gonna guess it's about revenge yes probably uh any word on when his stunning all adventures go no idea i would imagine next year sometime by the time they do post on all that i presume through the i don't know but i'm assuming you've got a couple of months of post production you're the actor here well that's my that's my expertise films have you been in now let me count one no but three or four four five yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah a few yeah couple yeah long ones like yeah cinema ones cinema ones just finished watching the undeclared war on more four set in the near future where the uk is under cyber attack from russia shortly after a pandemic and how gchq fend them off pretty topical at the moment thought it was pretty good only six parts in season one you owed to that one for no no i it's as michael's is on my list and i was away when it started yeah but it's getting really good reviews and it is available available on the player i read about that as well before it had started and it was on my radar as well i was like oh that looks like something that would be worth watching so it's good to hear a good review that i really like it and it's strange that they waited until summer to put it out because it's a time when people miss things i don't know why well it's on demand i don't obviously uh no it was on t it was on it was on tv as well yeah it's on demand now yeah but it was on i would have thought they'd get a better reaction they balanced their their live versus their um the the the box set viewing stuff the bbc yeah i this channel they channel four they made and produced this but i wouldn't if i was them i would have held off until like september september oh yeah they're in watching peak peak ratings we assume yeah it's going to be really good reviews all right kevin from dunlough good taffy on board again this week kevin did finula ring for a photo friend uh after seeing black phone uh and then he goes on to say i thought final destination films were comedy horror as i'm looking forward to and also i'm looking forward to the gray man they weren't they were yeah i get where he's coming from already in the screen sense i think they were straight and off but they were they were sort of a i've only seen a couple of them they were clever you know they were they were deliberately contrived sort of way that it was kind of i could see them you know they're back to the background they're quite good to watch and some of the scenarios that play out are quite clever and others are quite predictable i might watch one or two with them tonight you know oh okay i think it's with any of this stuff depends on the headspace you remember i've never seen the first one i need to go back and watch the first films and tv shows where i was in the wrong heads i thought they were terrible i went back and then you know thought they were great yeah yep it does happen it does happen of course right let's take a quick break back with more from michael and finula and we'll get a look forward to the weather forecast for the next week after these with a smart meter you can take full control of your home's electricity usage but here's the important bit only if you sign up to an electric arland smart meter plan our personalized usage insights will help you make the most of your electricity so if you'd like to find out the perfect time to put on a wash or see how your bill's looking on any day of the month search electric arland smart meter plans and find out the best plan for your home smart meter required t's and c's apply experience everything this summer has to offer here at letter canny shopping center with a wide range of shops and services packed with great choice and value for 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store for us alan well some good sweater today for many areas of the northwest and some sunny spells and the rain should hold off until tonight unfortunately the weekend is going to be a showery weekend and very showery weekend with some heavy tony downpours possible tomorrow and especially later tomorrow evening around five six seven o'clock it looks like there's going to be a band of heavy showers but it's really going to be a showery weekend quite breezy at times as well a bit gusty sunday will be similar again with more showers and but there will be some dry spell so there will be opportunity between the showers so it's kind of going to be a look at the weather radar and see where the showers are and try and find a gap in between them temperature is actually quite good up in the northwest for the weekend 2021 degrees but there's going to drop back to temperatures next week but so will the rainfall so some patchy rain on monday possibly but we're very kind of much more dry spell than Tuesday Wednesday Thursday maybe even Friday you couldn't roll out a shower but definitely much less rainfall next week with temperatures back to maybe 15 or 16 importantly and have we seen i mean what would history tell us have we seen the last of of the hot hot weather is it possible we could get sort of like good a week or two good in august maybe even an india summer in september i think it's cold like does history say that we can hold out some optimism i know your forecasting models can't tell us that far ahead alan yeah but it do remember that from a meteorological point of view august is still another month of summer so we still have another whole month of meteorological summer to come so certainly there's still a still a chance of some fine spetal settled and warmer weather so a long-term weather model show a chance towards maybe the mid to end of august so that's something to maybe just to hold in the back pocket as a bit of hope if you're heading on holidays and finally alan the what i've seen as a notice this year particularly seems to be a stubborn cloud do you know what i mean even through those two hottest days the cloud was slow to clear and rolled in very quickly you know even about five or six and as soon as the direct sunlight was gone the temperature dipped dramatically what what's happening there from a meteorological perspective across the northwest where this cloud seems to just sit there when it burns off everywhere else yeah it's to do with the position of the high pressure and unfortunately while in the sunny southeast the high pressure has been quite close in the northwest you've just been on the edge of it and that cloud kind of gets trapped in underneath it and it's just the high pressure hasn't really come up far enough really to give you that that lovely sunshine that makes the nega looks splendid yeah and it looks splendid overcast alan thanks so much indeed alan already of carlo weather you can follow him on twitter and facebook and elsewhere thanks alan good stuff take care yourself have a great weekend okay that's what we're looking at weather wise okay uh michael and of course are still with us here and what do you what what should we talk about there was something oh yeah before we get to more programs uh the head of netflix a lot of people are reveling in the fact that they're losing subscribers left right in the center he thinks that uh scheduled tv you know watching tv and i noticed soap operas are under huge pressure now because their audience is getting older and they're not able to replace that audience with a new audience you know and that's sort of the staple i think of scheduled tv on on on the the terrestrial channels do you think in 10 years time for like it's planned programming finished other than live sports or live events i do think that's the way it's kind of going and that seems to be where people like they like things we're gotten very i feel selfish in that way as in we like it the way we like it and we want to absorb it the way whatever way we want and doesn't matter with anybody else i personally still like the idea of knowing that you're sitting down on a monday or wednesday at nine o'clock and you have to wait that week you know it's a really good show it's worthy of that week wait and that week convert it conversation because i have a tendency to binge whenever if i get into something that it's available so i i do think it is go it is heading in that direction my eldest two boys have never watched television yeah in in the traditional yes never watched television yeah yeah they don't want the answer i don't know if they're normal no i think they are i think they are yeah i would say so that's what it is they're all watching i mean we grew up watching as you say set programs at set times every week and there's now a generation coming up and it's like it's a if you compare it to reading books it's almost like when you buy a novel you can read it anytime you like why would you imagine that you can only read a chapter or two of a novel at nine o'clock every monday that's their mentality it's like no you just it's there the episodes are there you watched them they were reading yeah but you know what i mean yeah so having said that though i mean particularly in america there's still a the audience is dwindling but there's still a sizable audience for the set shows like gray's anatomy is a set time every week for 22 weeks out of the year law and order for 22 weeks out of the year that's still a big thing in america yes the ratings are not what they were 25 or 30 years ago but it hasn't gone away yet i'd be afraid though it's that the reason that we are the last of that audience i don't mean yeah that we are the last of that i mean any listeners out there um do you like are you young people watching tv now you know and obviously you know football's on we watch that and live sport and other live events but i mean are people younger people sitting down and watching tv or they're watching it on demand or watching youtube you know i i don't think my house is particularly unique in that regard but it's just not it's just not a thing it's just never been a it's never been a thing um so i think it's the same with most like even i see my siblings with their kids now and they never think to even just put on for the smaller ones the cartoon channel or just to see what's on it it's like they go straight to netflix straight to disney straight to whatever they're watching and the young ones too as i said with the soap operas they're struggling to put in uh storylines that are relevant to younger people but i i don't think they're doing it in a very good way i think it's younger people would look at it and go oh okay they're trying to talk to us you know what i mean and i think they're they're really struggling in that regard okay um is there anything that either of you particularly want to talk about or should i pick something that you're both watching or the railway children actually might be an interesting one because it's in the cinema the railway children returns is a new film that's in the cinema right and jenny auger is in this and it's a sequel to the railway children from 1970 and she's returning to play the same character and i think that's unusual in that you have a 52 year gap between the first film and the second film the railway children which i watched last night um it's one of those perennial classics i think that everybody probably has seen growing up uh set in 1905 three years ago we were younger yeah we used to be on tv all the time and you see this statement though you see that no two to one you're right okay fair enough okay so three children 1905 uh their father uh is arrested and the family falls on hard times and they go to the yorkshire countryside and they have very low stakes adventures in and around the railway station and it's a really sweet charming film as i kind of test having watched it last night um the british film institute regarded as one of the uh they listed as one of the 100 greatest british films ever made and it's a perennial classic so going back and doing a sequel is pretty brave brave but the fact or foolhardy or foolhardy but and there's very few reviews out there apparently mark herwood has said it's very good but as of this morning and i looked and looked and looked there really is no reviews out there it's brand new it's in the cinema this week i've watched the first one because it's on it's on apple if anybody wants to visit it revisit it or whatever and it's in the cinema the new one as of this week and i think i'm i'm going to see you in the next seven days that's my plan because i think be interesting i love jenny auger from logans ron american werewolf in london so many films okay so you probably have a review of that for us next week that's the plan yeah okay harry wild on rte yeah it's nice to get sort of a terrestrial show in there now yeah no absolutely just when we were talking about surviving of tv i this was kind of in my head to watch because jane seymour is it and i loved her dr when medicine woman she can do no wrong in my eyes she may have ruined that for me but i what actually was very exciting was because i met uh peter claffey who is an ex people who are into ruby would know he's an ex conic ruby player now turned his hand at acting and i met him at the weekend in golly and he is the bad guy in this week's uh harry wild so it was interesting to see how i eat and actually he's not a bad actor at all so well done peter claffey but the the program is kind of um sort of a murder she wrote father brown sister boniface that kind of a feel to it but it's set in dublin so jane seymour plays harry wild she's a professor she's retiring all of a sudden then she her son is a guard she suddenly gets mugged then instead of reporting the uncle he becomes her sidekick in this whole thing there's the guy in the pub that gives them information that doesn't really is helpful all the crimes are interrelated with literature that she's read and taught and all this kind of thing so it's that sort of you know the way is in there's there's movies out there that are like this on hallmark and you know uh uh but they have a whole strand of them they have a whole strand yeah and stuff like that so it's very kind of light it's there on a wednesday it's very easy watch there's a couple of accent issues that i have with well we know that's a bug bearer i know it comes up along the way emir huberman is in it as well and so it's well cast oh there's loads there's some excellent actors in it and it's it's definitely if you're looking for something that's kind of light if you like that kind of light uh that's sort of a light and like i said yeah it's in a weird spot the fact that it's on a wednesday because that's the one thing everybody says it's actually a real sunday even end of the weekend type it sounds like my donlan dawgs harry waltz come here are you excited for the all-arland final uh obviously hailing the goal way uh family up to high dough i'm sure uh family up to high dough if anybody has any tickets i could name people who will buy them for extortion amounts of money they're coming home all the rabbits are coming home from every country in the world that they've landed in in order to say it's very exciting fingers crossed now first time all right we hope for i hope boy win anyway michael leddie thank you so very much great to see you again thank you very much indeed and finula rabid thank you very much as always and we'll see you next week okay that's the program for this week uh thanks to caroline or who researched and produced the program and donna marie who worked on the program particularly on the digital side of things uh we'll be back with you all being well bright and early monday morning at nine stay tuned because john