 is Jody Messina and I'm all right now remember they're back in June we says to you go on do us a bit of a favor go on get your old dancing shoes out from underneath the stairs and go and shine them up and go and do a wee bit of jiving for us remember the jive for June this is our third year that we've done it all in the aid of the Donegal Hospice and it's a thing that was the brainchild of a lovely lady sitting in front of us called Isabel Isabel how are you I'm good David thank you for having me on great to have you back in the studio yeah and three years ago whenever you came to us with this idea we said sure this would be class let's jump on board and the first year we raised a 55,000 euros for the Donegal Hospice which was amazing and then last year sort of surpassed our expectations with a hundred and twenty one thousand very shortly on the program you are going to reveal this year's total but the people of the Northwest have really got behind this haven't they yeah they have David and thanks to yourselves I think it's very fitting because it's your show you know the jive time show and it's so fitting that it's played on that show and as I say they don't have to they don't have to do their jive at that time they can do it whenever they want like you and your mom did it at nighttime wasn't it and put it on and that so I think they're a wee bit shy some people are doing brilliant jives and they're sending them in but then other people are doing brilliant jives and they're not sending them on and that's not even about the jiving it's even about Irish dancing or anything else that they want to do some children did trampolines you know there was back sales there was everything they couldn't dance they did something so it was brilliant you know I was sort of all around the the country in the month of June out gigging started summer festivals and stuff and no matter where we went people would always mention the jive for June even further afield away from Donegal and people just said that it was such a great thing to be involved in and a good laugh as well as well which is of course it's very important and the main thing is those donations were coming in yeah yeah that anybody's that's used or raised will be used for the patients the care of the patients after County Donegal I have reached out to other hospices to give them the idea but it hasn't worked for them I don't know Donegal's the jive is a bit of a special county isn't it it is so anyway thanks to everybody who took part thanks to yourselves and thanks to everybody that donated well we're thrilled to be part of it and there's a few people watching online who are just waiting for you to open that brown envelope that you've got in front of you and so am I because you've asked me to keep it anonymous or sorry I asked you to keep it from me I didn't want to know until we went on air so the amount raised for jive for June 2023 whoa was 185,000 euros is about that is absolutely amazing so up an extra 64,000 on last year 185,000 euros all raised by one little idea that we had yeah and we put it together and now here we are 185,000 I'm speechless that's perfect it's perfect David and like we had 88,000 when it closed when I closed it last year and it went up to one to one so there will be there will be other monies coming in so we'll give we'll keep in contact and give a final you know yeah and I just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone across the northwest and further afield who did take part in our jive for June this year whether you donated whether you done a jive whether you done both it doesn't matter thank you very very much because Isabel this money goes a long long way yeah it actually does yeah towards service users and Donegal Hospice is such an important part of our community and it's done so much and it's brought so much comfort to families here in the northwest in times of need so well done thank you Isabel we're going to be back next year are we we are sure why wouldn't we be we'll see what Finula has to say but no we'll be back right Isabel here's the terms and conditions you have to do a jive even me next year all right that's okay that's all right all right David