 Labour Party is now planning a no-confidence motion in the government. Property owners have welcomed the defeat of Sinn Féin's original motion, but opposition politicians say the country is now facing a social disaster. President Joe Biden's impending visit to Ireland could provide a renewed impetus for the return of the Stormont institutions. That's the hope of the Minister for European Affairs, who's travelling with Tisha Gliobradker, to a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels today. The Windsor framework is on the topic for discussion, along with migration, energy and Ukraine. Senator Peter Burke is hopeful that US and EU support will see the return of the executive at Stormont. Yeah, I think it's a very sensitive time, but also I know President Biden is obviously coming to Ireland, all going well, and I think if you look back in the history of Northern Ireland, the US have been a key interlocutor over the last few decades. So hopefully that would provide a renewed impetus to try and get all parties to come together and try and get the executive back up and running in Northern Ireland because we know the citizens of Northern Ireland have voted for an executive. The operators of Dublin Airport have been given the go-ahead to charge people for dropping off and collecting passengers on board planola has upheld a decision to allow it to proceed. After a councillor raised concerns, it was a money grabbing decision. Dublin Airport authorities say at present there are no plans to introduce the charges. And a petition has been launched to ban super trawlers from fishing in waters off the Irish coast. Sinn Féin's spokesperson on fisheries and the marine, Donny Gull, W. Pothick McLaughlin says enough is enough to all the largest super trawlers in the world were seen fishing off the Donny Gull coast in the past week. W. McLaughlin says the government simply isn't taking this seriously enough. Our governments have never really criticised this practice. They're impotent when it comes to even boarding these vessels, holding these vessels to account. When you think about how Irish fishermen are treated, how they're, as they would describe it, harassed and harranged by the authorities here, yet you have absolute monster vessels, like small cities out at sea, where there's no accountability. So you don't even get that. Never mind banning them. So our government really need to change tack. And they need to campaign for the banning, same as what happened in Australia. Sunny spells and scattered showers today. Some of the showers heavier prolonged a chance of some isolated thunderstorms later. Top temperatures 11 or 12 degrees Celsius. Fresh and gusty southerly winds breeze each night with showers, lowest overnight temperatures four to five. That's Island Radio News, back with news in full at 10 o'clock. You guess who's coming to McDonald's Happy Meal? I'll give you some clues. There's a buzzing honey lover, a little birdie with a big voice, and a dragon with a rainbow tummy. It's time to find out who is behind the mask. That's rice. The masked singer has arrived in McDonald's Happy Meal. Don't forget, you can enjoy some delicious apple slices and grapes too. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. Until the 2nd of May, from 11am, includes one preselected toy or book. The Masked Singer range comprises toys only, while stocks last. The county's number one talk show, The 9 Till Noon Show, on Island Radio. And now, it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The 9 Till Noon Show, with Greg Hughes on Island Radio. Hello, good morning. It's three minutes past nine on this Thursday, the 23rd of March. We do hope you're very well indeed, and you welcome along to another edition of The 9 Till Noon Show, where we hope to keep you right up to date with all the big stories and issues affecting our region and our nation. And we even venture across the world at times too. We want you involved in the conversation, 08, 6, 60, 25,000. After we have a look through some of the newspapers, we'll be discussing the surprise departure, I think, for many of Paddy Carr's, the Donegal Senior Football Team Manager. What do you think? What's your views on it all? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. I mean, there is absolutely no doubt, is there, that Donegal Football at the moment is in a sticky wicked, so to speak, in many areas. We're going to be going through that with guests, but as I say, I want your views to 08, 6, 60, 25,000. WhatsApp's in text. Now, give us a call to an 07, 491, 25,000, or email commets at highlandradio.com. And we've got so much else as well, by the way, to talk about. There's a protest outside Gale School in Okaaha Maestra this morning. We hope to go down to that. We're going to be talking about these super vessels off the coast. I don't want to say too much more. We've got so much for you, but sometimes things overrun and we can't get to everything. And that's the problem with menus, isn't it? But anyway, stay with us. You will be entertained and informed. Right, the Chicano Tribune. The Irish Red Cross funding for Chrysler has now reached more than 1.84 million so far. 650,000 euro has been paid out in expenses incurred as a result of the tragedy on October 7th. Donations have been made from more than 6,000 sources, including corporate donations of 1.296 million, community donations of 110,000, along with postal, web, telephone and bank donations of 486.6 million. The first phase of the fund is now closing with phase two scheduled to commence shortly. The Red Cross will facilitate a third public meeting in Chrysler after Easter. And hopefully it's not too difficult for those affected by that tragedy. Many affected by it from outside Chrysler to attend that venue. The Donagall Democrat this morning, the man accused of murdering Jasmine Monagall, told a psychiatrist he bought the mother of two a car for Christmas, but later set fire to it after she would not agree to her reconciliation. Richard Burke told Dr. Anthony Kearns, an now retired forensic psychiatrist, and who formerly worked at the Central Mental Hospital, that he had never held down a job and experienced a period of... Where is it here? On page two, it's just not on page two there. But it's further on in the paper, I am sure. Right, on to the Donagall News now. And record tide caused four-lane flooding. A record high tide has been blamed for topping or toppling flood defences along the four-lane road into Letter Kenney, a section of the busy thoroughfare was under water yesterday morning, following several hours of rain and high winds. The Office of Public Works has confirmed that Tuesday night's weather caused the swillie to rise to its highest level since records began in 2006. The surge was a key factor in an existing flood protection bond being breached with further high tides forecast until Monday. Fox contractors, the firm behind the four-lane scheme, spent much of Wednesday trying to head off a repeat of disruption. Last month, Donagall County Council said that while the overall project is well advanced, flood protection measures have been subject to significant delay. They will not now be completed until autumn. On to the dairy news now. And John McCourt, the tireless dairy advocate for victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse has welcomed new campaign around the issue. John spoke to Dairy News following the executive offices launch this week of a campaign aimed at raising awareness regarding the support services and redress available in the dairy area. Let's go to the nationals now. We'll start with the Irish times. And the government will be forced to regroup for two high stakes door votes on the eviction ban next week as the opposition seeks to maintain the pressure over the controversial decision to allow it to expire. The coalition prevailed by 83 votes to 68 in a government counter motion to a Sinn Fein motion to extend the ban to the end of January. But the margin was buttressed by support from independence after the government accommodated a range of demands made before the vote. And those demands I would love to see, and I would love to see how much they're costing us, the taxpayer. To me, that's really critical to how politics works in this country going forward. If, and I don't know what the list of demands for the independence were, but some of them are bound to not have anything to do with housing or this specific issue of housing, the government has met their demands and won their support, but at what cost and at what cost to us and what are we paying for? I hope I'm not the only person that thinks that going forward that we need a new way of doing politics and that that kind of information should be on the public record. What did the independence demand? What were they given? And how much of the taxpayers money is it going to cost? Because let's not forget, we were reminded as we had the debates about the enhanced and inverted commas redress scheme, we were reminded at that point that the repair of these houses was out of the taxpayers pocket. Well, let's not be hypocrites now. If you had to open up the checkpoint to get the independence on side, it's our money, it's taxpayers money. How much did you spend and what's it being spent on? Oh wait, 60, 25,000. If you agree or disagree on that, I just, I have no time for that way of doing business any longer. It would put you off voting altogether. The Department of Tourism confirmed that changes to legislation to restrict tenancies. Well, we'll come to that in a different paper anyway, because I've figured that one out. I just wanted to reference the fact that the government won that vote. Labour and our tabling are no confidence motion in the government for next week. I'm not sure what difference it makes, but anyway, yeah, this is the front of the Irish Independent. The government plans to free up an additional 12,000 rental properties. Well, it's been hitting out of those plans with a fresh blow. As the EU last night delayed plans for a new Airbnb register until the end of the year, the government had initially hoped to have laws underpinning the register enacted by the end of this month with the register set up soon after. Last December, the cabinet agreed plans for the new register in the expectation of clamping down on short-term lets and freeing up more properties for longer-term rental. The European Commission brought forward its proposals for a common registration system for short-term retails across Europe. Last December, the government admitted or submitted its bill to the Commission for Consideration. As a result, a standstill period kicked in, meaning the proposed Irish law could not be enacted. It's amazing, actually, really, when you think about it. And I can understand the reason why. I'm not saying I necessarily agree or disagree. I'm not fully formed in my opinion on that. But it's amazing, actually, how much power the state already has on people's private property, isn't it? It's really, really quite remarkable whether you own it outright and want to, it's your principal private residence and you want to rent some of it out or a part of it, although I think you might be exempt from the register in that regard, but I'll have to double-check that. Or if you have a second house or you're inherited a house or however you might choose to rent it, there is an awful lot of oversight and laws in relation to that, right? The Irish Daily Mail tells us that GEA legend, D.J. Carey, is one of 83 AIB customers who had more than a million euro each written off their debts, it's been confirmed. Now you know yourself, lots of you out there, I've dealt with lending institutions myself in trying to get some sort of a write-down to settle a debt that simply couldn't be paid, just being honest with you. And Pittons was, if anything, nothing or very little, was written down. And I'm sure there's lots of you out there who've struggled in the past or are currently struggling and you find that the lending institutions aren't very willing to do business with you. Not AIB, if you're a certain type of customer, it seems 83 of their customers had more than a million each written off debts, written off, just in other words, forget about it, you don't know it anymore. Correspondents sent to the Arctis Committee on Finance shows that a total of 3.5 billion has been written off by the bank since 2015. The latest disclosure follows AIB's appearance before the committee, where it was asked to answer questions on multimillion-euro debt write-downs. TDs had demanded to know what preferential treatment the bank had given to their customers after details of Mr. Carey's massive debt write-off emerged. Finaful TD, John McGinnis, chair of the committee, told the Irish Daily Mail that there needs to be clarification as to why these people received such huge deals with the bank's drip-feeding information but not providing the full picture. Let's go to the Irish Farmers Journal now and Succlar Farmers received a big boost this week with a higher than expected Succlar Carbon Efficiency Program payment and the delivery of a 28 million beef environmental efficiency programme within weeks. The two schemes combined will amount to at least 200 euro a Succlar cow and a surprise move for the SCEP payment rate of 150 euro a cow has been hiked from 10 cows to 22 cows in the herd. All right, there you go. Good news, if you're a farmer or a certain type of farmer, I presume it seems to be good news. This story rumbles on as it relates to Barbie Kardashian. It's covered in all the paper state in the Irish Star today. Prisoner Barbie Kardashian is on a strict solitary confinement regime and will never, we're told, be allowed to mix with the rest of the female prison population. The 21 year old was last week jailed for four and a half years for threatening to rape, torture and murder her mother. Her imprisonment has now sparked a political debate about whether or not she should be housed in a female prison. However, sources say amid the debate, Kardashian is being held on an entirely separate landing to the general prisoner population in Limerick prison locked up for 21 hours a day and will never be allowed to mix with them. Kardashian was born male, I should point out. Nonetheless, it's claimed Kardashian, who is legally recognized female, has some prison officers in fear after allegedly making threats behind bars. Meanwhile, in a statement to the newspaper, the Irish Prison Service confirmed it's currently reevaluating how transgender prisoners are dealt with and is preparing a report on the matter. Sources have confirmed that Kardashian is on a landing of Limerick prison that is completely separated from the rest of the female prison population because there are fears for women's safety in there. Right, okay, let us go now to the Irish son and hearted Irish parents, as they're described here, have received a boost with young children set to finally get all their school books for free. Minister for Education Norma Foley announced a scheme that will see almost 100 euro allocated per pupil in primary and special schools. The 50 million euro initiative will cover the cost of all school books, workbooks and copy books, easing the pressure on parents who often fork out hundreds each year on school essentials. So, unless there's something I'm missing in that, that does seem like good news. Anything that lightens the load in terms of education for our children has to be welcomed, doesn't it? And finally, the government has been slammed over its decision to reduce grants for electric vehicles. What do you think about this? Consumers buying an EV can get a subsidy of up to 5,000 euro, but this will fall now to 3,500 from July 1st. Now, I mean, there are a few ways to look at this in that firstly, there are electric vehicles now that compete in terms of cost to internal combustion engine vehicles. The second hand market, there's a few more electric vehicles coming to it that are more of, maybe potentially more affordable for some. I think an awful lot of electric cars at this point, though are so expensive that it really is those with quite considerable resources that are buying them. And I'm not sure 1,500 euro is gonna discourage them from doing so. Also, ironically, those that perhaps can best afford them probably can best afford to run them and they are running them at far reduced costs to someone who can only afford an 08 diesel car with high tax, high insurance, poor engine efficiency, but can't afford to upgrade. There has to be a way of doing this in a more nuanced way that it helps people with the transition if they want to. And it's the people that probably need that help that would benefit most from it all around. But Tom Spencer of irishevs.com said, this is recklessly irresponsible and premature and comes just days after the latest IPCC report reiterated the need for urgent and drastic action on the climate crisis. Now, that being said, the government says they're redirecting that money to the charging infrastructure. I'm kind of feeling embarrassed talking about that because I've been talking about improvements to the charging infrastructure on this program for five years and very little inroads seem to be made in that regard. So this is the latest commitment to improve the charging infrastructure. Anyway, 08,625,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number. Give us a call if you wish to on 07491 25,000. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra Mountaintop Laddercanny, the Seastore National Large Four Court of the Year for 2022. Wake up, wake up. 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In a statement, he says his decision follows a discussion with some senior members of the panel. He was only appointed in October. Donegal will almost certainly be relegated, as we know, from Division Two of the Alliance Football League. And his departure scene is just the latest crisis in Donegal Football. We know tonight, a special county committee meeting is planned to address the ongoing academy issues, and that's off the back of Carl Lacey, resigning as Head of Academy Development in February. A host of coaches joining him in his stepping down. Right, we are joined by two guests to discuss this, and we want your views wherever you are listening to us as well today. Arshene Kelly, Sports Editor, good morning, Arshene. Good morning, Greg. And Brendan Daveney, presenter of the DL Debate, former Intercantue Football course. How are you getting on? Hi, Greg, I had to do an interview this morning at half seven, which I didn't really want to do. I opened up by calling the broadcaster, Greg. Well, I don't mind that. That was just one of the ones where I was an autopilot for you, so I had to recover quickly from that moment. That's the early stuff, you know. All right, it's good to have you with us then. So I'll start with you, Brendan. What does Paddy mean when he says he made the decision following a discussion with some senior members of the panel? That sentence jumped out at me. You could read it a couple of ways. Did he have a meeting? Did he have a conversation with them about what they thought of his stewardship and where they might be going in the future? Or is he saying he had a meeting with them to inform them of his decision out of respect? I don't know which one it is. I mean, if you read between the lines, Greg, it looks like the team decided themselves that they wanted Paddy to step down, and it was probably more honourable that it came out in that quote. I think it's quite sad, you know, when you look at the human side of this and you look at Paddy and his quote saying, I want nothing but the best for Donegal football, and that will never change. You know, that would bring it to your story. At the end of the day, this man has played for Donegal. You know, he comes from Donegal originally. He lives in Meath now, but listen, his heart was in the right place. But I think his appointment way back in October, which came after a long process, Greg raised a lot of eyebrows, and when I talked to my friends in Meath, they were quite surprised by this, seeing as he hadn't even coached at club level in many years, maybe up to 10 years. So his appointment coming in was a strange one, and the county board then put together basically himself and Aiden O'Rourke, and then Paddy Bradley followed after. Now, when you looked at the three CVs and the experience of the guys, you thought, right, something could be put together here. But then after that, as I say, amazing amount of hopes and barriers and injuries and retirements and coming late into the thing. So we got off on a terrible footing. Yeah, so you've given all the reasons as to why he should have been given more space. In other words, anyone coming in faced with all of those challenges would have struggled to stay up in a very competitive division once. What do you think you've said are the reasons as to why this seems premature unless there's something else going on? Well, it's your mark on the ground, but you've got to remember how much football. Football is gala football and it's coaching and it's set up, it's moving on a bit like technology. It's just jumping meteororic every couple of seasons. It's going up and up. Now, if you've a bunch of lads, we're used to a very, very professional setup which kept turning at Donegal. And then from the experience lads from McGuinness's time, you know, through the Rory gala, through the deck and border and the setup, were they questioning the setup and how it was being run? And obviously there were issues in the background that only internally the players on the hook. So they must have felt unhappy. Now, let's be honest, the performances in the pitch, can you blame Paddy Carr for the way Donegal played against Mayo? I mean, we basically threw you on the toilet and do your day. Yeah, but if you don't have the dressing room, that's what happens. Yeah, but listen to your play for Donegal. Listen, pride in the jersey and pride in your own performance as a footballer and as a group of players. You can't hang everything on the manager. You know, that's unfair. Now, if Donegal had lost that game by a couple of points and we were too defensive or too forward attacking left too many spaces, you might say, right, the management have got it wrong here. They're not setting it up. But we were walloped. We were played off the park in every aspect of the game. And you can't really blame Paddy Carr because the players now deciding that that change needs to come. And the fact that Greg, that obviously... But you are... I mean, you've got friends in the game, of course, and you have your opinions. Are you of the view, is it an informed view that the players had a role in this? Certainly. Yes. My feeling would be it was definitely the players who decided this. I mean, I've seen, you know... Paddy, fair play to Paddy for stepping up when no-one else seems to want to. You feel sorry for Paddy because he was sort of hiding to nothing, Greg. Let's be honest about it with everything we've done. And I think what... like, grenade that Jim McGinnis threw in last week, sort of didn't... But I wanted to ask you about that. Sort of... I feel didn't help matters either within the group of players and obviously with Paddy himself and his management team. He did say after the game that the... what was going on off the field wasn't having an impact on it. But let's be honest about it, Greg, it more than likely did. And there was a huge pressure on this group and when Jim McGinnis came out with what he said yesterday and that's going to be addressed as well, apparently tonight at this meeting, that what Jim said. How much was that undermining the current management that was in place there? Well, if you've got players, let's just say hypothetically, are wobbling or saying, look, this is not how we used to do things or things have moved on a little bit. And a couple of days before that, you've got this dream team with Jim McGinnis mentioned that's quite a carrot to be dangling when everyone's mood is pretty low already off the back of a series of very poor performances. I mean, that timing of that can't be ignored. It can't be ignored, Greg, and it's had an impact. So it had an eye-feel anyway on both of those incidents and even Brian McEnough, the man that's pulled Donagall out of problems loads of times calling this morning as well that Jim McGinnis should be approached now to see if he's going to go on. Donagall, that's not going to happen in the immediate future because Jim obviously has other plans outside of Gaelic Games and we've got Edna Rook and Paddy Bradley who's taking charge of the game this week, but we don't know if they're actually going to be taking charge after this week's game because it hasn't been mentioned in the very short statement that was updated by Donagall GAA. But everything that's happening, Greg, the timing of it has had an impact and had a bearing bit in the Keralisi situation and the perception that's out there now about the county board, albeit what Jim McGinnis was said about the management and where we are now here this morning that Paddy Carr is no longer manager and Paddy Carr is a gentleman and I feel sorry for him, but there was always this feeling sitting with supporters that if things start to go wrong he's going to hide into nothing. So that was very much the case. The timing, though, with all that considered, there's still a game to go in the league. We still have one game to go. I'm not that far away from the opening of the championship. Four weeks without a manager? I didn't hear, we get a lot of text in here, I read a lot of social media, I didn't hear any campaign or any big drive for Paddy to leave the position. There was nothing asked, you're right on that because there was so much talk going on about everything else. Was it a surprise that Donagall are in the position that they were getting relegated to Division II? It's not seen as a major surprise given the big shift that was there, how much losing, I know we keep going back to it, but losing Michael Murphy was a huge blow. Shane O'Donnell didn't come back, then you couple in the injuries, your new captain, Patrick McBertie, he was set to miss the league. Ryan McHugh is not 100%, he hasn't come back. So there's four big players that you're missing already. So to get as far as where we're at, it's not a major surprise that Donagall is relegated to Division II. It's a major surprise that Paddy Kjar has resigned one game out from finishing the league campaign. If he wasn't happy with how he was performing as a manager and for the betterment of Donagall football, he was making the decision, why didn't he not wait to the end of the league? But then you've got a very, very short period of time to come champion. It's also possible that in this day and age, especially if you've been out of the game for a bit of a lot of respect, that maybe you're not familiar with the level of scrutiny that you're under, that every move you make is watched, every word you say is quoted. You know, Declan Bonner talked about this, about the pressure, the social media pressure for an example. It's a thankless task being a manager of a... I've even been a manager of a club team now, Greg, sort of because you're put out there and you're leaving yourself open to all sorts of criticism. So, yeah, whether it's right or whether it's wrong, and it does have an effect of managers. Managers don't hang around for long times anymore so they don't, Greg. There's nobody like the Brian McEnuff or the Mickey Harts anymore because there's this pressure away from trying to get your team performing in the field but also having to deal with a lot of criticism. During their tenure, they say they're not affected by it, but when they go step away from the job, they will admit that it does have an effect. And whoever comes in next, whether they like to gym again, this is why the PR thing is so important is because they will come in and I could almost write the script for them and they will say, we're coming in at a time where things are very, very tough. It's a rebuilding process. We've lost some big players. We've got some brilliant talent but we have to bring in some new players. We're going to build from home here. We want to tell the fans your expectations, manage your expectations. This is a three-year process. You know what I mean? They will come in with the PR to give them the space and we will give them the space. At the end of the day, Greg, you want the best people in the position to lead Donegal GA forward. Is Jim McGinnis the best man to lead Donegal GA forward over the next couple of years? Given what he has achieved, we would like to think that. We would love to see Jim in, but at the same time, Jim's got all the commitments in the soccer world. Will we reach out or will the county board make that call that Jim says he never got? Will that call come over the next couple of days? I don't know. We'll be interested to see what the county board are going to say tonight on what Jim McGinnis said last week, because that is going to be addressed at the meeting. And it's back to Carl Lacey. You want the best people in the right positions to take Donegal GA forward. Now, there was issues with Carl and the county board. We are not privy to what those... But we'll talk about that in a second. But the point is you want the best people. Carl Lacey is the top man at what he does. And you would want people like Carl Lacey and you would want people like Jim McGinnis in these important seats to take Donegal GA forward. Right, Brendan. You know, if it's not Jim, if it is Jim, who would work with this county board? And I don't... You know, I'm not... I'm not making a judgment call on the county board, right? Because I don't know the ins and outs of it, because they don't really... They're not speaking to the media much, and haven't historically, and I think any organization that in any way limits the media's ability to question them and hold to them account, there's always going to be problems. I suspect, as I say, I'm not a GEA man. I suspect we're starting to live in those problems right now because the brilliant, often brilliant journalists who would be able to put in the checks and balances haven't had that access to do so. And I hope that's something, if there's any reform that comes from this. But let me ask you, Brendan, who would want to, with everything that's going on at the moment, forget about the players on the pitch, forget about, you know, access to whatever, who would want to work under the current Donegal County Board? Do you mean Donegal Manager now? Yes. Who would want to take that job? The Donegal job is easier to take now than what it was five months ago, Greg, because you're at such a low ebb. You're going to division two. God knows what happens to the champion. We would like to get a good championship run. Me and Brendan were doing a good cup, bad cup, and Monday, we were on about Donegal not winning Ulster titles, and can they do it. But Donegal's at a low point, and probably one of the lowest points in the history of the association in the county. So somebody to command... That's not just on the pitch. It's not on the pitch. But you asked about a manager coming in, it's actually easier now for a manager to come in and take the job, given where Donegal are, from where it was five months ago when Paddy Carr took the job. Do you agree, Brendan? Doesn't agree. The manager coming in, it's not that big of a deal that they're working with the County Board. If you have a manager and a coach and a team, all they need from the County Board is backup in terms of what he wants to do logistically or take a team away for a training camp or something like that. He doesn't really need to do anything with the County Board as long as he's doing his job on the pitch and it's seen that players are progressing and they're happy, which obviously wasn't at this point. But I mean, who wants to take the job? There's no queue to take it, Greg, at the time. As you mentioned there, there was a look that Cabinet and Lacey would come in. Jim then was talking about coming in the background and this thing about Jim coming in, Jim had an article out, not that long ago, saying he was committed to soccer and that was it. How his role would come in for Donny Gall then? I mean, he still is saying he's committed to playing soccer. So I think at the minute, what choices have we got? They're not huge. There was no queue of people who wanted this job. So I think that's the bigger picture here. And Austin saying, of course the boys is in charge for the Russ Common Game. As far as I see it, the County Board are going to ask them to stay on for the rest of the championship and the season coming in. And that's how it's going to look and how it's going to shape up. I can't really see that changing. Now, what's happening tonight? What is this meeting about? And why is it closed to that meeting? Well, it's going to be done on camera. The closed meetings, Greg. That's sort of been a thing of Donny Gall GA over the last number of years where the media's not been allowed in. It happens as well in Donny Gall County Council. But the clubs are going to have the opportunity to ask the County Board of the agenda of the Care Lacey Resignation and the Academy. And what took place and what's going to be next. But obviously with what has went on with Paddy Care, I'm sure that's going to be raised as well. That's a really, really difficult situation for Donny Gall GA. They're at a very, very low point, probably the lowest ever. And I don't think that this is a battle that the County Board is going to won, Greg, because there's so much negativity that is out there at the moment and there has been for the past six to seven weeks. What's the cause of that? What has led to all of this negativity? We'll call it spade of spade, to be honest. The County Board haven't helped themselves. And that's exactly what I said. And you both disagreed with me. Who would want to come in and engage with everything that's going on? You would say, well, I'm not really sure about how everything's going. The negativity was out there in the narrative. The narrative that was there through the media was all about Carl Lacey and his resignation and how badly Carl Lacey was treated and how can Donny Gall through Carl Lacey and Jim McGinnis like the way that they did. We need these people in here. Carl resigned. We didn't hear anything for four or five weeks from the County Board. At the time, they should have said, okay, we're looking at Carl's resignation and there's a process there that we are going to have to go through before we make any further statement. The statement then came and it was a lengthy statement and really all they said was that they accepted Carl's resignation and they were moving on. They also held their hands up in it that in some issues of governance they got it wrong and they're going to move it forward under direction, of course, obviously from Croke Park. So yes, there has been issues between Carl and the County Board, but we've been hearing all about the issues that Carl has, but we haven't been hearing about the issues from the County Board. But that's their choice. That's their choice. This is where the County Board have probably let themselves down in this situation and it's added to all the negativity that's been directed towards that. But the gales of the County, the supporters of the County, the clubs, and even all the players that are involved in Donegal GAA, they're all on the side where they are bombarding the County Board and there's this negativity here and Donegal are not in a good state. Even Declan Bonner has said this morning, former players, Declan Bonner calling for reform within the County Board. And how they move forward. They may never have said it. He's called for a vote of no confidence. So what will happen to it? The County Board need to change their system. They need to change the way they do things. They have to learn from what has taken place here. Everybody involved in this has to learn. The full country is watching what's going on in Donegal GAA. But we have the internal problems and we have to make sure, for an example, okay, there has to be open conversations, open access for all journalists. So you cannot, I'm not saying this is what's happening, right? But you can't give the perception that you're trying to control what's being written, what's being broadcast by whether or not someone has access to a press conference, someone has access to a board meeting or someone has access to a football ground. No organization in 2023 with social media in every way can operate, right, whereby you try and influence the narrative. Some might say that's what's going on. But Brendan... But you said they were trying to influence the narrative by saying nothing at all. No, no, I'm on about... Because they didn't, and this circumstance... I understand I'm outside the game, right? And to some extent, you get a bit of clarity with that, right? I'm on about in terms of having meetings where some press are there, some press aren't there. Some press releases some don't, OK? And everyone's probably been on either side of that down through the years. I don't think that's healthy in any organization. Of course there's not. Right, of course there's not. Brendan... You asked the point about what's going to happen at this meeting. The clubs now have an opportunity to delve into this even more and try and to seek more clarity on what took place. They have that opportunity tonight at the special committee meeting. The press release, that I hope that everybody got this week, Greg, had said on the agenda will be the Academy. And then they followed that up with another one after some media asked again and they wouldn't let them and that it would be around media articles and other statements made over the course of the last week and relations. So you would expect the County Board to address these and they will give I suppose reasons for things I've said. Is there inaccuracies in it? I don't know. We'll find out tonight. According to them, is there inaccuracies? But the clubs now have an opportunity from the floor to really delve into this. To really try and find answers plus at the same time try to find a way forward for Donegal GAA because at the minute we have to look at the bigger circle of GAA in the county. And what's the best way for that to move forward? Will there be some big decisions made tonight? And the best interest of Donegal GAA? Well, I hope clubs have, you know, there's a lot of people standing on the side of the pictures and I know a lot of the press people themselves within the clubs send information on. But, you know, a lot of the media and press are always there for them. So I hope they have their back to some extent as well. But Brendan, you've spoken in the past about the difficulty for the County Board to speak out. And I just want to give you an opportunity just to reiterate that and see if you still stand by that view. Yeah, listen, Greg, there's a very deep, deep story this one. And I think by delving into it more, it could create more problems. And I think that's one of the reasons that the County Board has stayed quiet on it. And as for closed sessions, the County Board's all around the country. They could open in closed sessions. It's their right to do that. You know, when no people complain about it, they want to be in it, that's fair enough. It's still their call to do that. I just think, Greg, to put all these issues together is a bit ridiculous. I mean, we heard it in the Sunday game the last night. We saw Gavinus Merkin, you know, talking about Braindrains and a ridiculous synopsis of the situation. Something he hadn't a clue what he was talking about and shouldn't have been talking about it. You know, throwing Michael Murphy into the Braindrain, throwing the Academy into the same conversation as our team getting relegated. So we're on the 14, 15 and 16-year-old Academy falling apart. It has nothing to do with our team getting relegated. So let's put them two things apart. And the fact that the team's getting relegated now and Paddy Carr, that's somehow something to do with the county board. I mean, they did elect, they did put them in the position. And now people have changed. We have a different chairman in there. I mean, things is always changing. We have different people in different roles. So this is fluid as well. So I mean, the fact of putting these things all in together is a bit ridiculous. And that is coming from outside. That is the nationwide... So you're saying, Brendan, and again, I fully respect that you know, you've forgotten more about this this morning than I know. Just generally speaking, you're saying that the senior role of manager is completely insulated from the conveyor belt of talent or what else is happening within a county. It's completely insulated from it. So if you have a situation where an important development area of the game is in chaos, are you saying that has no impact on any of the senior players or management? Paddy Carr steps into Donegal job in October. So the fact that we have an academy with under 14, 15 year sectionals, has that anything to do with that? That's what I'm asking you. It doesn't... Of course it hasn't. If Paddy Carr plans to stay in the job for 10 years and has a 10 year plan, then fair enough, or a 5 year plan, even if you're 16, he might see some of them guys. That's completely irrelevant to what he's doing. He has a job to do for that senior team. So that's what I'm saying, I get the minute the outside and you have people taking shots at us putting this all into one basket and all Donegal is Donegal is. As if we somehow let go of Michael Murphy and as if we somehow let go of Jim McGinnis and that this is not the tale at all. Carol Lacey is a one player that has been let go and that was a mess, a complete mess. And if anything's going to be answered tonight and I was talking to you about this, this needs to be parked. Carol Lacey's not coming back, right? So this thing now of hanging, what's this, what's that, we do have to learn, but the bigger picture is now it's been advertised next week for the new academy guide to come in. Persons of people, whoever it is, get the academy up and running, get things done. Ian Rourke and Patti Bradley, you have a job to do, which is get our team tactically smart which we haven't been, a team that's hard to break down and a team can score more up front. Right, does that then, so we're up there with the lowest scores of the country, right? So we have a big job to do, four weeks to do it, so let's start to get on the front. So if people are taking shots now, people are taking shots at this and that and grumbling, right? If you're really interested in Donegal football, what good is that? What good is all this crap that's coming around and around? At the end of the day, the players know they've underperformed. It's a time now to clear the air, get our academy back up and running, get Donegal ready to go on the championship that we can compete. That is the job that has to be done. So just before bringing Ausheen back in, you're saying that there are no contributing circumstances that might require some change. You're saying, if we accept that Carl's not coming back, we park that and we get a new team to look after the academy, then that's it. We can forget about it and move forward. There aren't infrastructural or historical ways of doing things that could in the future create a similar problem again. You're saying that parking it, getting someone else in, that's it, that'll do it. Problem solved. It's interesting you asked that, Greg. The very thing that I think made the academy fall apart is that we hadn't got our structures structurally in place. Right? And the new guys that came in asked for that. So if anything, the structures will be right. And then other things we've thrown at us, we've thrown at us again and we'll back this on the game, was that the high-performance nature of Carl Lacey and the setup couldn't be understood by the people who was involved and it charged them and the executive. Now, one of the people that's involved in that is probably the most highly qualified person in sports performance in the country. Never mind the Donegal that's been involved in this situation. So they say that people involved aren't able to take on board what's happening. It's absolutely ridiculous. And as I said, the people who wanted to write things in place is where this thing did fall apart because up until that point our academy wasn't part of the overall system of the county board and there didn't seem to be the right checks and balances in place around contracts and who the coaches were and the right feedback. Now that has been thrown completely back on our executive by Carl Lacey and the academy by saying it was the other way around so we're in this who's right and who's wrong scenario. At this point, we need to move forward make sure that everything is in place for our academy make sure everybody knows their jobs and structures get these coaches back on board and let's get our underage looked after again and then we can look to our senior team and the championship. That's all we can do now. Everything else great trying to blame people for this and that at this point. There's actually no there's no relevance to it other than learning and moving on. I agree with Brendan. Yes, we need to move forward and we need to move forward quickly. But at the same time, this is not this is not going going to go away given the magnitude of the negativity that's out there amongst the Donegal support at the moment. So Brendan's idea of parking it and moving forward and let's go without Carl Lacey. The County Board, yes, they've already started those steps because they met him several times. The chairman met him several times, asked him to come back pleading with him to come back and he didn't they couldn't find that common ground that Carl Lacey could come back into his role. Whatever the common ground is again, we don't know but I don't think it's going to be as clear caught as right. Let's move forward because this is always this is always going to be hanging there. So it is this cloud over the Academy what took place with Carl Lacey what took place with Jim McGinnis. It's very, very difficult to move forward in a clear cut fashion that Brendan is talking about there. Brendan. Like I mean are you just are you incredibly clearly incredibly incredibly loyal to the sport incredibly passionate and I don't think any of us like external criticism is there any possible to use somewhat blinded you know in terms of the Jim McGinnis story in terms of of the Academy situation in terms of criticism of how certain sections of the media and press are being treated in terms of you know other elements of it you know I mean I have someone from within the sport at the moment I don't speak publicly but once an independent body to come in and do an audit of certain aspects of the GEA and once governance on how the well-being of volunteers is dealt with do you know what I mean there are numerous concerns that people are expressing now but you don't believe there's anything in there that needs to be looked at that we it's not just a case of fixing one problem and moving forward do we have to make sure that there isn't sort of you know a different way that we need to do things listen obviously none of us want to dismiss but are you telling me those people that are GEA people that are that are giving up their time and volunteering and going right to the top of our association that they don't want our guys to progress you know these people aren't here for the right reasons why else would they be in there what happens with street talk is great that the county border often demonized and listen I was like that when I was playing and I was like always anti them and it seemed like there was a massive disconnect but you meet guys at games and you see guys and listen they're in there trying to help and do their best now has this been a mess do they have to straighten it out yes they do but I mean there's nothing else we can do great but learn from what we did and pick things up and go on I mean it's the young guys now from our academy that need our help and need to be coached and taken in as soon as possible everyone wants that that's the first time we actually mentioned the players of the academy in this piece Craig there's 300 of them now I know the under 16 team is back and they don't have a manager yet but at least they're back in the pitch and we're talking about the future of Donegal and what we need to do to move forward those 300 young players are actually the future of the county how many of them have we lost over the last number of months to soccer and to rugby and to other sports because I've been with with their GAA path I was speaking to one parent recently and his son joined the academy as COVID had he was starting out in his development then they get back in and then there's this saga that there's no football and that young person has become disillusioned now with playing Gaelic football and has moved away and that's what I'm saying that's the first time you mention these young players so it is and all of this and that's what a lot of this boils down to where are we going with that group of young players and the next one you want the best you want the best for them and they're going to be the future in the last minute we have a minute or two what do you think happens at this meeting tonight what is the nature of the meeting what's the outcome of the meeting well it depends what the clubs are it's going to be around questions Greg and how awkward this is and how much the county board need to have a plan in place straight away they need to have structures and they need to have show what they're going to do for the academy first and foremost the county manager thinks out their hands really this is all about cleaning up the mess and moving forward and I just say the clubs before they start firing out you know take the top four for example in Dutty Gall you've had a hundred plus players how many of them are representing Dutty Gall the weekend there what was it three four players are coming out of our club scene so we're club scene the top teams the way our club championship has been played and the tactics of our teams are not producing football as they are for this side so I'd say the clubs we need to start producing more players don't be leaving it all the academy start playing a brand of football that actually encourages players to be players that can go on and represent their county that's a big problem for me in this all right Arshen what do you expect from tonight it's an unknown Greg it really is an unknown I think the county board are going to defend themselves that well they have to defend themselves in some sort of way given the hammering that they've taken over the last six to seven weeks and the fact that they haven't shown any sort of clarity on any of the issues that they had with what has taken place over the last number of weeks so I expect them to come out and be a wee bit more clear with some of the issues but what's the reaction going to be if the clubs so how far through are the clubs with this situation what's going to be next what are they going to call for from the floor what questions are they going to ask it comes down to if their demands go beyond that we are going to have a new team in place we're going to redouble our efforts we're going to finance it we're going to fund it the future's bright blah blah blah the future is going to be bright for them is that going to be this is the unknown this is the unknown we don't know what the clubs are going to come with some might say that that's not going to be good enough for the clubs given the amount of negativity that's out there and the perception of how this is panned out and where we're actually at at the moment but there needs to be some sort of direction of the future and where Donegal GA needs to go and what changes need to be made Greg for that to happen and it is it's a sad situation for Donegal we were speaking to one man yesterday he's been involved with GA for a very very long time and the situation had him sick to the stomach as to what's going on because he has never seen Donegal in such in such a bad place and with the rest of the country looking on to see how this yeah but Brendan your contention is we're not in a bad place we get a new manager in we start the rebrand we get a new team on the economy and everything's rosy yeah listen that's your that's your it is football it is football it is football and also football you probably know the word i don't want to get too to me i'm just saying i'm at the side of fairness here from the more i get engrossed in situations and more in the GA and talking to people there's flip sides to absolutely the situation i'm trying to balance it up and that's why I'm saying there are clubs coming there tonight we've got to be we're all Donegal here and the whole of Nino you're trying to pull So it's time for us to pull together as a group and even the clubs and the county board this trash out the province tonight But this get a resolution and let's move forward Brendan. That's why we invite you on that's a passion No, that's that's the exact reason why listen Brendan. Thanks very much indeed. Have a lovely day. Thank you for your time I appreciate it. Okay, Brandon Arshine as I say, you know, it's incredibly passionate I hear what he's saying. Yeah, but unfortunately and I've learned the hard way through life that life is not like that and it's very hard to Yeah, we'll just have to see how it goes. How do we find out what happens this evening? Well, we're not gonna find out look through the local press for somebody sitting at the media because because they're not gonna They may release something later, we don't know as yet You're gonna hear it second hand from clubs. Yeah, of course Yeah, if from the floor, right there they have real concerns or whatever or they say something I don't understand then how The County ball can do the PR on that because the clubs might feel that review their views haven't been properly represented or whatever That's the important role. I believe the press play you see. Yeah, anyway, but thank you very much Josh Ian and this and I think we all hope to have all this behind us for a long, you know in the Hopefully hopefully that's at some stage soon. It will be Thank you very much. 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Welcome along to the 9 till noon show Welcome back if you're with us for the last hour a really interesting conversation I think with our sports editor here, Oshin Kelly and Brendan Devaney very passionate as always From Brendan and as always there are going to be people that agree or disagree But always best to have the conversation and the chats out in front I think and that's what we try and do in this program and we're going to be doing more of that the next hour So we're going to be talking about last night's vote on the housing Crisis it affects Everywhere, you know that anyway and a large number of people have eviction notices in the Northwest region hanging over them We're going to be talking about that I want to get through a couple of comments and then a quick break. Hi Greg I feel the paddock card didn't get a chance or a fair crack of the whip here I think he was used as escape goat to whatever is going on behind the scenes I've attended every match so far this season and the last two games looked like the players were told or refused to Play on the pitch for him. Now the players would never be complicit in that But this is the view of a supporter you understand It's such a shame to see more male supporters than donning all supporters in Balabha fair last Sunday Hi Greg paddock card did the right thing to step down Honourable thing to step down as manager of the donning all team now the donning all County board should do the honorable thing and resign on block Because they caused this fiasco We don't have to go to Dublin or Mar or Derry for a manager when you have people like Rory Kavana Carl Lacey Jim McGinnis Martin McEwan Martin Regan in this County shame on the County board this caller says After a Dublin GEA was relegated into division two last year and their manager was asked to stay on to build the team up I don't understand why Paddy has resigned. I feel there's more to it than the public are aware of look at we touched on that in our conversation with Brendan there Caller believes an overhaul of the County boards badly needed before donning all football can progress But it was interesting to get Brendan's view as to how Matters are separate Another caller says I don't I doubt Jim McGinnis will be the next donning all manager as much as people want that to happen Including me Regardless of what Jim said in his recent Irish Times podcast, which let's be honest was the final catalyst in Paddy car leaving I imagine Jim's default line will be that he continues to focus on soccer But Jim McGinnis has a legacy and almost unrivaled legacy's manager of donning all he will look at what's there What's available what players are coming through? Before making any decision surely he would only take that job if he felt genuinely Winely take it properly now not consultant but take the job if he thought that he could deliver success So that also presumably forms part of the decision-making process a caller says I feel sorry for Paddy car made escape Goat of the County board. They believe they have to go says another caller What a load of nonsense four players out doesn't constitute relegation Four players out. Okay. I get you. I think we were also unlucky with harsh refs this season Which didn't help the team out were we more harsh than other teams though that? Caller says get Paul McGonagall back another Paddy car had to resign with one game in the league left Why not wait until the end of the league? Greg why we're not hearing from the County board who actually run the whole show the silence from them is deafening and only encourages rumour and speculation A caller says would like to say thank you and all the best to Paddy car for your proud donning all managed unfortunate It didn't work out. I think the country bought. Sorry. I think the County board needs to resign What County board would let 40 coaches in the experience of Carl Lacey leave? This is what a listener saying by the way if that happened within a job Major questions would need to be answered. Unfortunately at this stage We need management that already knows the setup sad to see whatever Jim McGinnis built being destroyed Did we ever see the day that we'd see oh, okay, that's completely different here Let me see if there's any more on the sport here I'll get them all out of the way before we get to Before we get to other matters. Yeah, okay, that's up today on the sports quest comments They're continuing to come in. 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We had that big controversy about The vote in the door last night, but I want to speak first with deputy part of McLaughlin He's the Sinn Féin spokesperson on fisheries in the marine about a marine matter parry. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us Good morning, Greg. I'm sorry to hold you after ten obviously with the the the conversation on the on what's happening Donegall g8 ran over a little bit. I appreciate your patience Right. What is the situation that allows for these small cities effectively these super trawlers to fish off our waters? Under what license and and and are they doing so? Yes, it's it's actually which is quite shocking. Really. It's legal. It's under the common fisheries policy and What happens in money member states as they are allocated a quota of a particular species that say mackerel or blue whiting in In the Irish exclusive economic zone So basically for your listeners benefits from the zero to six mile around our coast That is exclusively for Irish boats from the six to twelve is a mix of Irish and some European boats and then from the 12 mile limit to 200 mile limit That's all under the control of the common fisheries policy and you can have both small round Europe allocated quota so what happens with these huge corporations in this case one Dutch corporation They own A huge fleet of vessels, but they own the two largest super trawlers in the world And they were out fishing in those waters legally with quota from a range of different countries and in some countries they They basically allocate its Corporations pretty much and it can be exchanged between countries. It's perfectly legal and it's totally wrong, Greg Right, so let's just say and we'll talk about The impact and an awesome what have you but just in terms of if there were a factory on land, okay? We would be able to inspect it ensure best practice make sure it's not damaging either any other species if it was a chicken factory, right? We wouldn't want it killing pigs, you know stuff like that. They're basic stuff like how do we ensure? How these vessels operate out there in terms of the damage to fish than allowed to catch to the today Did they just truck them out or their marine life, you know supplementary Damage that they cause do they and how do we how are they policed? You see this is a why I do believe a ban is essential in Australia They banned some of the largest super trawlers in their waters They've been banned now from for years from fishing in Australian waters The difficulty is if you look at the sea fishes protection authority the SFPA And indeed the Navy were told that They can't board these vessels and if the weather gets too bad It's all there for they cannot do their job to make sure that these vessels are catching what they say they've caught The other issue is for just a year ago one of these vessels the Margueris Had been responsible for a hundred thousand dead fish in the Bay of Biscay Basically, they were discarding fish that weren't of economic value. There's also concerns about catching Dolphins and other marine life and these massive massive nets I think that you could fit fits a a number of jumbo jets into the size of these they're literally just hoovering up Massive they're completely indiscriminate aren't they they're completely indiscriminate. Yeah, it's it's really damaging to the ecosystem Like when you read the common fisheries policy and like every fisherman listening today and fishing communities know That you know it is full of lofty language But ultimately they're allowing big corporations with massive vessels to take up fish That should be available to boat some killi bags Burton poured green castle and so on and would it be more tolerable if The the the allocations that these people are legally fishing with if they were on normal sized vessels Do you know what I mean? And obviously there's an industry nets are generally indiscriminate, okay? But it wouldn't be on such a scale It'd be easier managed like do the presence of these super trawlers In particular cause a problem, you know, maybe we can fight for our fair share down the line But in terms of how we do the fishing and the general impact on the the the the the general life of the sea Would that be reason enough to ban these super trawlers even if eight smaller ships took their place if that makes sense Yeah, because the this what happens with the size of these nets is they're literally taken up the entire School of fish all sizes and you know, it's really damaging to the sustainability of the stock now They argue that's that's not the case, but I absolutely do not accept that I think that when you have trawlers of this size, you know, it's not sustainable fishing To me what you need, I mean, for example, the the biggest vessel in the Irish fleet as I understand it today Is about half the size of one of these super trawlers. I think that's an acceptable size So there's a balance of things we need to do. We need to protect a six mile for the inshore Efficient fleet and I very much agree with that smaller boats in the inshore And then we need to make sure that's the mid-sized vessels get a fair share Irish vessels get a fair share of the fish And that that's the ultimate issue because right now Greg as we speak the Irish government are overseeing the decommission of dozens of Irish fishing vessels That's about 500 more jobs lost In Irish fishing communities including in Donegal While we're looking out at a small city Hoovering up fish it just it's I just want us to be completely Open and frank with listeners as well though I mean, this is not necessarily Something a Sinn Féin government could reverse. This is a Europe-wide problem Okay, and you might find yourself if you're an outspoken marine spokesperson saying look at it's it's very very bad What's going on? I'm making strong representatives in Europe But I'm being frustrated at every turn and then come back really with the same deal that Charlie McConnel lands back And in reality that is the truth here, isn't it? Yeah, but you see you have to first of all say that it's wrong and the problem is I've never seen the government Say that this is wrong an Irish government And you know indeed Irish government actually funded Super trawlers being built in Ireland in the past in the recent past It is wrong and like so you have to start from the premise that you agree It's wrong and then you campaign you seek to build alliances now Yes, it has to be changed at European level It has to be agreed with other European member states But at least try at least go and and and say that it's wrong say it out loud And that's and that's my problem is so as I say I've commenced a petition There have been petitions in the past on super trawlers in Ireland. I've commenced another one just to try and put another focus Are you supposed to the Green Party aren't saying anything about this because look let's pot decide How the the quotas are divided up? Right, I maybe they have sorry and I don't want to do any members of the Green Party to serve if they have But this is something aiming Ryan should be standing up opposite you and going, you know what? I have to agree with you here. This is not a very environmentally All humane way for that matter of catching fish like they are they went in there I thought really to sort of be the you know to the be the check and balance on the government on on matters like this I mean, there is a very strong environmental argument against these super trawlers in our waters Why are we not hearing more from the Greens on this? Yeah, I think I mean it's even when you look at forestry policy like this whole area is a policy that the Greens are sort of hitting miss on um, I mean, I think most people would agree that we need to you know, um fish sustainably We need to protect. It's a precious stock. I don't know any fishermen That's I speak to in in dunny gall Or across irelands that doesn't agree with that, you know that you that you have to have science You have to fish sustainably you have to try and make sure that future generations can do that So no, I haven't heard the Green Party of a surface on this issue and you know Like pairs of government who have not stated that super trawlers should be it should be an art should not be in our waters Like we've had we we had off the dunny gall coast We had the two largest super trawlers in the world and their sister ship the helen Mary All three vessels are owned by the same dutch corporation and they're literally Just hoovering up wealth that really should belong to in a significant way to the Irish people These types of farming practices would never be allowed on land No, no, why why should they be allowed in our waters? I mean, you know if you just if common sense were to prevail you would not permit this on land for a myriad of reasons Why should it be allowed in the water as many people might ask? Yeah, and you know I like every year I was just looking back at Greg and I mean Maybe for the last eight nine ten years every year. There's reports of these vessels and every year I or other Prevision fame spokespersons and fisheries have have spoken out about this But I mean we need our government to agree that it's wrong that this this goes against I mean, I mean, you know if you talk to any fisherman in dunny gall They'll tell you no matter what size of their vessel the sea fisheries protection authority And they would say are being harassing them Chasing them around Looking at paperwork inspecting their landings this Unbelievable oversight of irish fishermen way beyond any of our country There's more oversight for a fella going out to catch a few crabs in a pond than there is a 500 foot supertroll. I mean that's That's that's just that the way it is right. Okay. I just want to get a word with you too If that's okay, we have invited government representatives that some will never speak to us again It seems in this county others are unavailable. That's up to them that There was a vote last night On the uh eviction ban. It's going ahead seemingly at the end of april It will inevitably lead and the government have conceded this it will inevitably lead to an increase in homelessness It will lead to an increasing homelessness Here in our region as well Um, what was what what what was shin fame proposing? well We believe that the the ban like I mean the supposed first thing I want to say is in dunny gall You just cannot find somewhere to rent, you know The matter of you're a single person or a family is extremely difficult to find somewhere to rent And I contacted dunny gall county council last week and in terms of emergency accommodation It's extremely limited. I mean so if you present that you're being asked to move from your house And you can't find anywhere to rent. I don't know what the hell you're going to do Like I just don't know what families are going to do So what we proposed in that emergency was to extend The eviction ban Up to next january, but not just do that because we need to do a lot more We need to be looking at uh, if there's a situation now where a landlord has given a notice to their tenants That's we want to sell this house, uh, which is absolutely legitimate In normal circumstances that that's that's okay Then the council should look about purchasing that property. It's a call a tenant in situ It's another complication with so much Public money Going in to compete in the property market, which effectively is what would happen the council will get first dibs on on property This every action has a reaction though. There's a there's a consequence to everything that you do Well, I think the the the tenant and situ Uh, the government say they support that they agree with that, but they're not actioning it There's no there's no sense of urgency. Like if you talk to dunny gall county council the housing department I don't believe they have the resources To to respond to what is an emergency in dunny gall and greg we're not even thrown into effective blocks for god's sake Yeah, okay, so it's deferred. We've a perfect storm in dunny gall. So it's deferred. Let's just say you were successful It's put back to the end of the year, right? What do you do in the interim that would have any material impact on on it because you know you Even if you introduce that one measure that you gave in this example, how many people actually would end up with secure accommodation In the short period that we're talking of so what would your party have done that would actually with the breathing space that would have been there Prevented an increase in homelessness Yeah, that's just one measure of the tenant that sits you the other measure which is critical as vacant properties There's about 8 000 vacant properties and not including holy homes now 8 000 vacant properties I would say any listener. I'm one of them who lives in a housing estate There'll be at least one vacant property in your housing estate money and money instances So we need dunny gall county council to be properly now urgently resourced With officers who can go out and turn around those vacant properties With the same type of attitude that you had with the COVID emergency You see we can't get the council to turn around one of their own houses in years Not one that they have to buy or require or one that's derelict I'm on a bad a house where a tenant moves out And the same people that you talk of know they're in the same housing estate and that house sits there empty for years People see that ovens and cookers and everything being brought out and then nothing You know, we can't even how could we trust not in trust? Sorry is the word I wanted to use How could we entrust the system that we have now to do what you want when we can't turn around perfectly good houses i.e Tidy them up a little bit and just get someone off the the housing way to listen into them So you know you're heading on something which is absolutely crucial that we have to see out loud There's no sense of urgency to what is a crisis and like You know, we've had a housing emergency now Uh, you know for a number of years, but the defective blocks on top of it and donny gall when I talk to donny gall county council I do not believe they're being provided with the resources with the staff that reflects the scale of the emergency Absolutely, okay, so what you're what you're describing is legitimate, greg But it has to change like it has to change now tomorrow To address the scale of the crisis that we have. All right deputy thomas pringles with us as well Thanks very much for your time thomas. I do appreciate it. You voted against the government uh yesterday, I mean Would you have voted with shin fame To oppose the government or you believe that party actually has a plan that might work Well, I think that there's two things. First of all, you have to oppose the government because whatever the government are doing Certainly isn't working And there's no they have no intention of doing anything that that is likely to work or possible to work Anyway, so I think the first thing has to be done is that the government has to be rejected on that point of view Um, and then something they're putting forward putting forward proposals that may that may work At least they're putting their proposals coming forward from them And that would make it try and make a difference to people's lives and that's what's important The reality is that if you know fall fangale and the green button the green party don't care And I there's no it has to explain to be seen Well, if they don't care nooth it neither do a big batch of independence What is your view on their votes effectively being? Well, I don't know. I've read somewhere them being described as being bored as an independent Politician, how does that make you feel? Well, this independent is no it's not for sale. No, I did to completely distinguish you from them But go on ahead thomas. Yeah, well, that's that's reality. I think I think they were completely short-sighted I think they were Ridiculous and you know, and they're trying to dress up the fact that they got some sort of contestions from the government as they can Their their consciousness for doing for doing what I think was wrong And the reality of the situation is that even even if the independence had avoided against the government the government still had the numbers and a way to survive the vote And you know, so the government the government won I think by 14 or 15 votes last night And so, you know, so they still would have had a majority of eight or nine regardless of the independence which makes it there just as an even stranger as far as I can see And that you know and and the reality is that the government should be doing stuff and should care But they don't and that's you know, that's the bottom line with it. Like I mean, no matter what anybody says Uh, you know the government representatives in the county are nice people They they're from people you chat in that street But the reality is that the parties they represent As doing this and the parties they represent will make more people homeless Well, they were invited on this program to climb to come and just one word on the independence Uh, deputy mclaughlin, do you know what they would have been given? What happens in that scenario? What are they given and how much does it cost and why is that information not public? That's a very good question. Uh, Greg like a lot of those independence, you know are In my opinion finigalers, uh, and maybe one or two of them fina followers That's the gene pool they come from they're very very close to government When you watch questions and me and thomas are sitting on all these questions Earlier on the show we reminded right in terms of the defective concrete crisis that this is taxpayers money And we have to be very careful how that's spent It's I want to know and maybe it'll put an end to this type of politics What they were promised and how much the cost to the exchequer is to deliver on those promises Because those are votes that are being purchased And we have to get away from that type of politics. We need to know What they got and how much it cost and that surely is a matter of public interest Well, the government the government won't say that's Greg at all But we will see you over the next common once announcements that'll take place and we can we can put two and two together Yeah, but we shouldn't have to do that. We don't I don't want to live I don't want to engage politically ie vote in that system anymore. I don't want to it's it's it's horrendous More doubtful. I'm thinking well now come here. I'm going to talk about my voting Behaviors, but is that something you I get I know and I understand exactly what you're saying by the way I do But definitely we're talking is that something that you could commit that your party will not be engaged in buying the support of independence? If you are in government and you need their support. Yeah, I mean if they have a great Projects and constituencies you should be upfront about that. I mean, you know, there were deals done and done you go all in the past This is about people not going homeless like this is about people right? I don't mind if they got some if they got some amendments as it relates to housing or something right I get that but if this is about a cat lab in a hospital somewhere or something right, which is very important Don't get me wrong But that's the side hustle on a on a hit situation that's going to lead to thousands more people being homeless That's not that that is not democratic or I don't know what it is, but it's it has to stop that practice surely Yeah, well, I mean the the difficulty though is there's people who get elected in In some of these constituencies as TDs, but they're actually finnegale like some of them were former finnegale TDs Some of them ran for finnegale for election And they still are finnegale TDs me and Thomas see it. I mean the questions they ask it's embarrassing like it's almost like a government TD Asking the question they've clearly lined it up the answer the minister gives that's a very good question I know you're working very hard not issuing your constituency. You know, it's just a scam And I mean first deputy Pringle at the time of a government formation You would be asked if you haven't been but you have been in the past. I'm sure have you got A wish list that perhaps could persuade you to support This government or this formation of a government. That's what happens Yeah, that's that's what happens and very invariably the government or the perspective government couldn't live with what I want from them and because it is about actually making the government responsive to All citizens in the country and that benefits your citizens in Dunnegal the same as it would anywhere else The governments don't want to do that and they see independence as being a cheap buy And in reality a lot of the stuff that's independent and look for the stuff that's going to be delivered And you're basically you're only speeding it up rather than actually Delivering something different or something new and that's not what I believe the politics should be about I believe politics should be about raising everybody's votes So is that then when when everybody's raised up then your own constituency is raised up as well All right, do you have 10 minutes war or do do either of you need to go? Okay? Thank you so much. I really appreciate it because I want to bring karina into the conversation Karina are you there? Karina? It's great here. Hi. Hi. Good to have you with us. No problem there Thank you very much for joining us You are one of uh, almost 90 people who have been served eviction Notices between July and September of 2022. What's your situation and what reality is now facing you karina and your family? So we move back up from Westmead. I'm originally from Dunnegal after about six months of searching for a house Um, when a private landlord reached out to me and said you can have my house On the promise of 24 months Uh, we moved the whole way up. I've got two little kids We've got change jobs Got our childcare got our places in crash and everything Um, only to wake up there on the 5th of March saying you've got your three months notice to be out of the house So we've only been in the house three months And we've been served the three months, um eviction now And really sweet. There's no houses anywhere available. We have been searching and searching and searching and there's just nothing Nothing available was the reason given to you karina as to why you were being thrown out of the house His own family issues He needed to move back into the property I presume other than the rent you've paid also you Sort of made efforts to make the house your own if you know what I mean. I presume that happened, did it? Yeah, so we have put about 500 euros painted into the house. We fixed oil tanks dolls Had boiler services like just to upkeep the house in general because it wasn't in the best condition when we first moved in But we didn't mind when we were promised a long-term home But now not even you know 12 15 weeks into being at the house. We've been asked to move out and that's just got wrenching It's just Oh now you have no protection. Uh, there's no fault on you, but now you've got no protection. What next for you and your family? We have been trying to get on to the social house and I've never been on it trying to get on to social housing We have been contacting as many people as I can possibly think of I've contacted me hub column Um, I've contacted every auctioneer that I can think of around locally my ex landlords that I've had Everyone I can think of I have been reaching out facebook marketplace Um done deal everywhere that I can think just to try get a house and there's been not there's only been There's only been one snap The house that is there. I'm up against eight other families within that small area that I live And we're not talking about Dublin here or the suburbs of cork or something. We're talking about this is donnie gall here You're up against eight other families now. What happens the day after your uh eviction is served that you leave Where do you go? What do you do? We don't have anywhere I mean that's a very difficult way to live your life, isn't it? Yeah, the anxieties and the stresses It's not being fun now over the past two three weeks All right, uh karina, um I'm thanks for helping us explain the reality for people and I hope you get sorted really soon I really do for particularly for you and your partner, but particularly the children who are settling into their Their care and what have you all right, uh karina. Is there anything you want to add? By the way, sorry, I shouldn't presume that you've finished. Is there something that you want to say yourself No, it's just that there's such a large volume of houses that are sitting empty But a lot of landlords are just Airbnb in them or they're just not having them at all advertised like We've drove every back row that we could think of around locally and the amount of houses that are sitting vacant And in good condition, but they're just not advertised. We don't know who owns them Are they Airbnb? They're just Nobody's willing to put it on the market for people that are in my situation where You know, we can't afford to get we don't make enough money to get a mortgage, but we make Too much money to get help socially to try to get a house. It's just we're stuck between a rock and a hard stone We just don't know where to go or You know what to do next. All right, karina. Listen, I hope you get sorted. Thank you for that Um, we are in the company as well still with independent deputy. Thomas Pringle shin fame Deputy Patrick McLaughlin Thomas that is that I mean Karina's is is the reality that she's stuck between that rock and the hard place There's one house up for grabs in the small local area eight other families Competing with it and sure it might even come down to who you know or who you don't know at that point It's a desperate situation for one young family and that's one of Probably five thousand in the same boat this morning Yeah, it's shocking Greg and and I mean I see it every week in the office at home as well You're talking to people and this and it's so frustrating That's absolutely nothing you can do for them Because this crazy situation that we have where the government has set a maximum limit Of income limit that people can get on the housing list So people like Karina and that there and I meet people like that every week They they're they're working trying to make a living They can't get on the house and that's because they're earning too much and they'll never ever get a mortgage because they're not earning enough To get a mortgage and buy a house and yet you look around on it all and there's houses sitting on airbnb that are not available Yeah, but Thomas, how do you balance right? You know, how do you I'll tell you I would I would balance it I would put a 50% tax on airbnb then come straight away and I would make it I would make permanent let tax free and let landlords then Make the property available for a permanent let they would pay no tax on the income and that's and that's a and that would be permanent Let but if they want to stay in airbnb let them stay in airbnb But I would tax the hotel them because this is an emergency and this is a crisis And I see people coming in like like Karina every week They're in a desperate situation and there's nothing you can say to them You have a jet you can walk take 10 steps from my office and you can pass three and four But definitely McLachlan, how do you balance people's right to property ownership and to do with it? What they wish but then also the the clear housing needs that we have I mean Thomas is very clear what he do tax the amount of airbnb incentivize them into long-term rents It's it's a simple enough prospect Yeah, I think if we if we if we step back um If you look over the last 10 years finnegale have been in part Obviously from 2011 through to now, but if you if you go from from that period of 2011 for 10 years We built Around 500 houses in one year Back in the early 2000s. We built more in one year than we built in 11 years We stopped building social housing We pushed everybody into private rental who were in social housing Thomas's point just for listeners because it's so important that Karina came on your show today because I don't think people Who aren't in this situation just get how serious it is like if you if you earn as a family now not a person If you earn more than 30,000 euro, you can't get on you're not on the social housing list You're on your own you right and if and and rents right now it can be anything over It can be over Over a thousand euro and norftonegall for sure for a typical three or four better It's the same down sir. It's the same in ballashan and 13-14 hundred a month You know, it's it's doubled like literally rent has doubled in a number of years So those families who aren't on the social housing list are paying crazy Rent and there's nowhere to be got because we've put everybody because we weren't building council houses Yeah, but we everybody was I hate to say we are where we are right and of course here in donagall as well We've got people if they're lucky enough to get on a scheme Or perhaps even they aren't also in the housing market trying to get out of their Collapsing principal private residence. So there's an acute problem here even beyond that So for the purpose of it and I'll let you go after this we are actually where we are now, right? So what do we do? In in in the next because this has to something has to be done in the next Three months and six months not we can't be looking at 10 and 15 and 20 years. Yes, that has to be there But we've an immediate problem now Karina and the 90 odd others and many many more the couch surfers all of those That that we there's Hunters of them in this county. What do we do in the short term and I'll bring that to thomas and then we'll wrap it up after you park Yeah, well as I said, right there are 88 families We know there are 88 families right now that have an eviction notice. They these are people who've done nothing wrong They've paid their rent. They've looked after the place they're in there. They're no fault Evictions as they're called right. So those people are facing that now I I believe that if donagall county council of the government are serious That you work with the local authority And you urgently go after the vacant properties that are out there and and you look at properties where you can Purchase them in situ. So if a landlord says So do you trust do you trust the local authority to administer the uh, micro e-dress scheme? Well, I don't think that donagall county council should be dealing with the effect Yeah, but it should be dealing with that part of that reason probably is because you don't think they have the resources Maybe or or no, no, I believe that I believe the housing agency should be dealing with the effect of blocks And it should be 100 redress like it was I know I get that I was just curious if you Shouldn't deal with it at all Right, okay, but you would trust the council and you believe they should be empowered more I don't know how much actual available properties out there for them to take over There's already a thousand vacant properties in donagall and a very big chunk of them are properties that could be turned around quickly With the right mentality. I see it my own My own community. I see it all over donagall. Thomas in the last 30 seconds Then what do you do in the in the immediate term because this is an immediate problem And we've been it's actually so immediate now it's the end of next month. That's I mean we've brought four Continue the eviction ban so that nobody be affected into homelessness at any stage I would make sure that um air bnb would be taxed like I said already the tax to make it tax and tax free for For uh long-term lets to make sure that they're available if the landowners want to land Probably don't want to stay in air bnb. Good luck to them. They're fair enough. They can but they pay the tax for it I would also then ensure that the legislation has to be as I just heard this morning There's a legislation has to be passed to allow this tenant and such a scheme to take place That's going to put back six or eight months at least before that legislation plays So the eviction ban has to stay in place to make that happen and then I would say I would say to All the local authorities get out and do it That's the reality of the Thomas Pringle. Thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate it And the same to to deputy park McLaughlin as we say we invited government representatives on to join the conversation Not available or don't want to back after these the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland radio It's time for mcbi bingo on Highland radio. 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I wasn't familiar with that caveat in that I Are we on about this the same grant that I'm thinking of the one that's been pushed quite a lot as of late? I didn't think you even had to live in it Um, or maybe that was if you owned it at a certain time I'd have to just go through that that doesn't seem right. That means you're not getting the money then to To bring another house into use A caller says it's very silly to say we can bar super trawlers Our trawlers could also be barred from fishing in other areas. Deputy McGartin does not know anything about fisheries Um, I think really what they were I think really what he was saying and I'm certainly not a spokesperson is is that uh, you don't you you Make it illegal as Australia has done for these types of trawlers to scoop up all that that they scoop up They discarded a hundred thousand healthy fish dead Um off the south of spain not so long ago that the we could have a conversation maybe about the the allocation of a quota down the line But immediately there are more environmentally friendly ways of fishing these fish with smaller vessels. I think that's what he was saying Yes, Greg, you're a hundred percent right. I passed two council houses on my daily walk lying empty for six months or more Really good-looking houses the mind boggles if we can't be doing that How can we sort of put in some sort of a plan to uh How can we put in some sort of a plan for the for the local authority to go around and scoop up? derelict properties and and bring them to market House in bonk rana bought by the council at least 10 years ago was fully renovated and has lain empty since shocking They say it is sound shocking And other those who voted last night in favour should be hanging their heads in shame this morning The icing on the cake that the government do not have the people of Ireland's best interest at heart They don't care about those who are already struggling absolutely shocking And although does anyone know where the money's going exactly for creaselies? They're a breakdown. I'm not really quite sure And I don't think they've decided what they're doing with the rest of it yet in full. Um, and I'm not sure really that's I don't know. I don't know is the answer I call us I think I think there should be a similar scheme introduced us to last year where people were paid to take in refugees It might alleviate the housing crisis I mean they are talking about Making the rent a room you can rent out party a house to someone and it not affect social welfare payments Etc. Things like that. I think that's part of what they're planning sounds kind of like what you're talking about I'm not really sure though when it came down to it. How many people actually are sharing their property with refugees There was a similar initiative off the back of the situation in Syria A lot of people offered their properties, but either there was foot dragging in Connecting people that need them to the properties or people change their minds and pulled out A caller says I think what is more frightening is the hold the EU has over Ireland look at what happened with the air bnb's We should leave believes that caller there Did we ever see uh, did we ever see the day that we'd see finafall and finnegale vote to evict people and make them homeless? Not surprised at the greens as they run a different planet That's what that caller says, but there are those out there who the people voted last night and the eviction ban Who actually were out? protesting and marching To bring an end to homelessness. That's the kind of political world we live in now Can't believe this government making thousands of our people homeless They had six months to plan for this that girl's right So many houses empty and boarded up in every town in every county in Ireland and not all boarded up either There's a lot of houses that are Seemingly just ready to go for the rental market Greg the excuse that landlord used family issues is the oldest trick in the book There is a rental house next to us and I know the landlord has used this excuse to pop people out and then raise the price It's a disgrace. He threw a beautiful young family out from Egypt just to increase rent that caller believes The county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on Highland radio Okay, another interesting hour on the way for you, but uh at 11 o'clock Let's get a news update now from donal Kavanaugh. Thank you. Greg. Good morning woman facing eviction within the next three months I've told the nine till noon show today that there is one house in the area of donnie gall in which she lives available for rent And there are eight families trying to secure it. Meanwhile, donnie gall to be thomas springell has criticized Independence who supported the government in last evening stall vote to scrap the eviction ban at the end of this month The delay in creating a register of short-term holiday let properties is a huge headache for government The EU has delayed a coalition application to review the rules Which had been intended to free up around 12,000 homes for long-term rental the bill was introduced last year But it has to get EU approval because it would represent a substantial change in the law US president Joe Biden's impending visit to Ireland could provide a renewed impetus for the return of the storm And executive that's the hope of the minister for european affairs Who's traveling with tisha glee of raucar to a meeting of EU leaders in brussels today The Windsor framework is among the items up for discussion along with migration energy and ukraine A petition has been launched to ban super trawlers from fishing in waters off the irish coast Sinn Féin spokesperson on the marine deputy potter mclochlan says enough is enough two of the largest super trawlers in the world We're seeing fishing off the donnie gall coast in the past week Disabled people face much worse outcomes than non-disabled people in employment education and social engagement But experts say supports like personal assistance can help tackle that gap and iraq this committee will hear today that inadequate Supports are preventing many disabled people from living full and independent lives And one in 10 people say the promised increases to the state pension are not enough money to entice them to work for longer Research shows women are less inclined to stay in the workforce than men changes to the state pension system Were announced by the government last september. They'll come into effect from january They're the headlines back with headlines again. That's well nude. All right donal. 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Thank you, it's good to have you with us You are part of the indian community in letter kenny and we're speaking ahead of social inclusion week 2023 Which runs from this saturday until saturday the first of april and an exciting Diverse array of events are planned charmila. That's correct. Yeah, so we are The dunny gall county council is launching this event on saturday And the indian community center is hosting it And because of that we wanted to celebrate it make it like a holy event Which is holy is a festival of colors, which we celebrate in india It's like the beginning of spring is a bigger just spray of colors. That's what we are trying to show so The social inclusion week is all about creating a fair and inclusive society And that it is about ensuring that everyone has an opportunity to be part of this community wherever they are I mean to be together in in Let it Kenny So anyway, it's it's about celebrating our culture and making everybody else part of it It's it's just about fun and come and join us We we've been here for so long and we want all the irish people who have been so good to us welcoming their warmth We want them to come and see what this festival is about You talked about where we want to get to in other words a fully inclusive society. That's correct How far on that road? In our part of the world here. Do you think we are? Well, we are getting there slowly because you see now the kids who go to school They have people from different nationalities different parts of the world coming to let it Kenny So I think we need to Understand each other's culture because this is what it's all about, you know, because we need to understand what their food habits are What their festivals are What kind of clothes they wear So if we make each other aware of it, I think that'll be a better society But I think it's also it's learning isn't it's learning. It's learning You the more, you know about Other parts of the world the other cultures agree other races the more random the person you become isn't that the whole argument with travel that you travel to broaden your Absolutely, I agree. It's all about celebrating diversity inclusion integration. It's all you know, I think We've been here for a long time and now we have got people from more different Parts of the world coming to let it Kenny like the show that we are going to have on 25th it's it's going to be just Launch and it's going to be a colorful event. It's for families to come and enjoy Hopefully the weather will be good and we're going to have this throwing of colors outside It'll be good But I would encourage everybody to come it'll be Indian music There'll be Indian dance there We want people to join in and just be part of this fun, you know And and we're going to talk about the the positives of social inclusion which but weak But I just want to touch on a couple of issues With you like do you understand or sympathize with people that fear that Ireland is changing that Irish people are being displaced by people from other parts of the world that Ireland should be for the Irish like When you hear or read comments like that, what what is it? What emotion do you? Feel now you'll hear a long time unsettled and raising families and maybe it's water off a duck's back to you, right? But when you do you understand their Fears do you think they can be reasoned with Maybe attending some of these events might help but I just want to know what someone like you feels Yeah, I think personally. I have had no issues being here. You know, I've had very good experience I've got very good friends. I've never had but I understand where they're coming from and the fear not being sure But I think it's it's about educating each other You know, I think we need to understand that this is not what they are all about. They are not here to just Take from you guys. They're here to give as well. You know, they want to be part of the whole society and that I mean everybody has a place we have a thing to play on the A role to play on this planet and I think It it would be nice to have people from different backgrounds to be together You know and that only will work when you get to know somebody like my kids when they were small when they went to school They were the only Indian kids in the whole school them as well. Yeah It was tough for them because but at the same time they were telling people They were all the other students were excited about, you know, why were they wearing these colorful clothes? What kind of food they were we see if we if we if we put In a four-year-olds a group of four-year-olds from all different backgrounds in the kresh. Yeah They will all play with each other. They they might even in innocence ask why are you different to me? Right, but there's something happens from that point of innocence In our lives. Yeah, I don't know what it is Is it who puts it in our minds or what have you that then we start to see differences We start to agree be suspicious. We start to be fearful Yeah, it's societal. It's not nature. It's nurture because nature has all of these children seeing each other as as equal and an innocent Innocent curiosities about each other True true and you see the children don't see color like, you know that the other person is colored or anything like that They just play don't they don't even need Language to talk to each other like even if they speak different languages. They still play together They can communicate. Yeah, I mean my blocks So that's important. I think and that's why I said when children are if they become part of this event right from when they were kids I wouldn't say tolerant, but they understand. Oh, she comes from India that person comes from Bangladesh or Afghanistan Iran it we have So many people from different cultures who are going to be performing on that last day And we're going to talk about that and I want to ask one more question because by coincidence yesterday There was a set of figures released that shows that the instances of of of Race crimes race related crimes has increased now You've said this is not something that you've experienced and you you've got your friends group and what have you But I'm sure you do hear of now what I want to know Also as a society, right? Can we continue to move forward sometimes? I think we're stalling or going back in terms of living together integration inclusion I'm just very curious as to where you see and it's not just darland Everything that's happening here is happening in america and france in germany and sweden in england and scotland It's you know what I mean. We think we're individual, but we're not right. So in terms of us improving Relations and inclusion and all of that buzzwords, you know yourself Can we continue to progress or do you feel we're going through a period of stagnation or indeed People starting to get abused that they never got in the past look There is two three different parts of different kinds of people are there, you know, there's good people And bad people, but I think there is more good than bad So these have these instances happen everywhere like it's it happens in india within north india south india We have differences, but I think we need to coexist. We need to be this is a fraction a small thing happen It's like blown up and it's like but it happens everywhere It is so true because you know I've spoken to members of the african community who've come in in the past and yeah That they have this they encounter people that believe that everyone from africa is just from one country Absolutely, and yet there's you know, so many different idiosyncrasies and rivalries and disagreements and cultural clashes within countries let alone within a continent So anyway, right. Okay. Listen. I just wanted to put those to you. Well, because I learned by You know asking questions. I would ask if we weren't on the radio, right? So then the week What talk to me now about the week, that's what we'll focus on completely So whatever you want to get across now Show show me that it's all up to you It's it's the first day is the day that we are involved and the 25th Okay, so the 25th is the launch ceremony. So we're going to have some speeches from the council don't go to council and then We might have just tea coffee and we might we have a put a group together to have some dancers Some of the Indian women have decided to do a group dance which will be fun and we want people to join in Hopefully the weather is good and we can do all this outside the green and theater and it'll be brilliant I would I want I encourage everybody to bring their grandkids kids Everybody should come and enjoy this because there's going to be color supplied by the council And they'll thrown on each other. Well, they won't in other words. What what we're saying here is There may be some color around the place. So wear clothes on Saturday from 1 30 that you don't mind maybe having to put through in the wash because there will be some color Yeah, yeah, definitely. We have different colors. We'll have Indian music We'll have I think there's a calf the person who is doing face painting or something So we could have all that. Hopefully the weather is good and we'll do all this outside. Otherwise You'll have to go with plan B That is the launch of the social inclusion week and it's the festival of color That's an on green on theater letter Kenny from 1 30 p.m. I think a lovely way to spend your Saturday afternoon Absolutely before that at 9 30 there's stuff going on all over the place There's a free 5k fun run a walk and a jog. That's at the vestry at st. Connell's hospital Now in petticoat, they've got the launch of the petticoat community orchard. That's at 2 p.m. So it's all over Donegall. It's not just based never Kenny and I suggest People interested get a hold of this brochure. Yeah, we'll go on to the website Because then on Sunday, let play family event Donegall spots sports partnership with the lead partner It's at the burning Mclynchie town park. It's a free family play day in the park. So that's on Sunday and on it goes we would be here all day if we went through every other item But anything in particular charmilla you want to mention or pick out on the first of april We are going to have they're going to have a diversity show That's at three o'clock in the green on theater and again. It's a free event Encourage everybody to come we have people from afghanistan turkey I think philippines we have four indian performances Three different dances one will be Solo singer with him. He's going to play an instrument as well So it'll be really nice colorful And it'll be an amazing show of talents from people from different parts of the world Yeah, I think it's a real opportunity a lot of these events before that between 12 and 4 in Ashton kill car There is again This is some way from redder Kenny But just to highlight the fact that things are happening all over the place as a cultural awareness celebration Perhaps something a whole family could go to as well. Then it's a free event. Yeah. Okay. And as I say The stuff happening everywhere. Yeah throughout the week and hopefully they'll get hold of this brochure somewhere I'd like to thank christina. You know, she's the one who brought me on from the Donegal county council. She's the one who is working with us to do this And I think it's a brilliant. It's going to be a brilliant week And I think 25th and first I would definitely recommend people to come Yeah, and it's a great opportunity too for people to get their nice clothes out to get the instruments out A chance to perform be it through song or poems as well. Yeah, okay. Well, shall we let enjoy the week Hopefully the weather plays ball with us and and doesn't but as you say this all we always have to have a plan Play don't we and there is a plan base. So is there any Food or drink or anything in letter today? We might Yes, we might have some sample dishes. Yes, because uh, when it's when you mention India, it's all about food And vibrancy colorful clothes. So we can't let as well as that too and again sometimes, you know It's there. There are so many different foods within India Absolutely within few miles east west Different spices different textures different flavors different meats. It's Like we say every few miles the food and the water changes. Like, you know, with the same Ingredients they make different stuff. The basics. So yeah, so it is it's it's amazing. So we'll try our best Okay, Charmille. It's been lovely having you on. Hopefully we see you again That's our Mila Kamat who's part of the Indian community here in Latter County and was previewing social inclusion week 2023 Runs from saturday the 25th of March the event that Charmille is particularly interested in of course is the festival of color event in letter Kenny at on green on this saturday at 130 p.m. And also then there's the diversity Showcase saturday the first of april at 3 p.m. Yeah, so I just have one mantra to say before I go It's called Vasudeva Kutumakam, which means that the world is one family Okay, that's what we believe in and that's what we want for For the whole globe and on that positive note. We'll take your break. Thank you. 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Thank god, but it's a good But higher than the practice pitch Very good. And how unusual is it Lawrence for it to be flooded? Well, probably 2017 the time of the bad flood was the last time and then probably about 2011 It's only two times. I remember it as badly And you're kind of in a catch 22 because presumably if you're putting a bond there and the water still gets over it You're left with the you're left with the water on the pitch. So do you just have to work with nature on this one? Is there anything you can do to prevent it? Yeah, you're probably 100 right if you put up an embankment and keep the water on Whereas it I was away yesterday morning that's half eighth make a bit in the embankment and making the way yet Yeah, exactly. It's been through it. Yeah, and The pitches are quite a bit of sand in them there as well. They're good good good draining pitches Are the brilliant engineers done by William Coyne about two so's and that's dimensions about two so's in 11 So they've they've been well they've been well tested by from the sky and from the from the ground as well Um and in terms of I supposed to from your perspective when you're looking at Uh, even something like the wind direction can determine how bad a flooding event is or not Ah, definitely was the one was sort of pushing the water up all the time making wasn't getting back out at all I think was the same the whole up the west coast just reading the bit on it like this The tide was pushing up all the estuaries and wasn't getting out anywhere Uh, but such is the drainage the pitch should be usable again, uh early next week I was we hope to be on it Monday. I'm not so bad at all. All right. Well done We have 20 teams turn them like it's a normal person Fixed an awful lot of gifts, but it's simply bounce back all of it. Really? Well, um, now you are the groundsman So I think you have to take a bit of credit there Lawrence Good man. Sometimes that The clubhouse thing was only about six inches from the clubhouse Okay And do you fear that these kind of weather events are going to become more frequent because we talked about the last one being 2017 I wonder when the last one before that was for example Well, we're probably 2011. I think was the last one we had this partner So it's about every five or six years then so all right. Yeah, listen Lawrence. Keep up the great work. Thanks for giving us the update. I appreciate it Little boy at all. Thank you. Take care. That's Lawrence Hagerty there the groundsman for Bonkranai G. A. Club Uh, I want to mention to you that the there's a ukrainian pop-up cafe taking place Uh to malinhead community center It's on friday march 24th runs from 12 noon to 2 p.m We invite you to come along and sample some ukrainian cuisine Enjoy a coffee and a selection of savory and sweet treats no booking is required. Just turn up That's a pop-up cafe malinhead community center The cafe there and it's tomorrow between 12 noon and 2 p.m. Thank you for waiting till we came off there We do appreciate The timing there right there is now Um quite a few comments coming in in terms of the roads on what have you And just to let you know that the poll this is what your comments Sorry The poll star roundabout needs traffic lights believes a listener If you're coming out of the port road at closing time between five and six You'll be held up for ages because traffic coming from the algae direction controls the roundabout as long as there's traffic from that Direction all of the traffic must wait or take a risk and push out into the flow Another caller says hi my daughter comes from slug on a friday She started to get a later bus home as the bus could lose an hour trying to get in and back out of letter Kenny her final stop is dairy right Another wider roundabouts need to be planted with trees and plants. Why not? Do you need to see what's happening across it? Or maybe you do? I don't know It's to make things look beautiful often. They are the gateways to towns. Maybe that's the reason The portal road in livered believes a caller says a caller is a disgrace with broken surfaces It's been this way for over a year. I know people who've the windscreen is broken because of loose stones That's the portal road in livered. Do you agree another the back road from strunaller to welch town is in a very bad state with potholes About halfway also a very bad stretch of potholes at mill hill at mill area near to bonnie loge's bridge heading for the main Bof ballet buffet to glenty's road take care says a listener there a fellow road user of yours All right. Okay. Now. I've just seen an image Which is a shocker it is a house and it surrounds under water lauren. Is this your property? Good morning to you All right. Good morning, great. Right. What happened to you? Um, we're on the shore road here The apartment on the shore road and it's the lobby that was flooded um Now I haven't been able to get on my apartment for the last two days now because the lift isn't working Because it was flooded as well And there's a lot of water in there. Is that water still in there as we speak? The water is down now. Um, but the water's gone down now, but I can't do the stairs you see I have to use the elevator So you're trapped. So I've been Yeah, I'm up on my top floor and trapped Oh my word And has this happened before I don't know how long have you been in this property? Um, we've been in nearly a year. Um, no never Never been a problem until recently Until the last two days now that I know there was a high tide yesterday morning and the road was all flooded But this morning when I got up and I looked out the window The the entrance to the door hit was all flooded and the water was coming up through the sewers Now there's no water on the road So that The water can't be held reliable like it's in the tide wise and I think so it was coming up through the sewers And there was toilet roll everywhere. There was That was all the sewage Well, that's horrendous, isn't it and as I say you until such time as the lift is operable your stock Yeah, I'm stuck And have and sorry, maybe you mentioned it, but just till I ask you one more time What are you being told from the counselors to what is or can be done? Um, the council hasn't got back to me about anything. I have sent emails. I have I And nobody has got back to me. They don't know what They basically said on the phone. They don't know who's going to be held responsible for us because it's either uh, Irish water and then they're saying it's something else. So And you're okay for supplies and stuff Lauren. Do you do you need us to try and I'm fine. I'm fine that way, you know, but like I'll have appointments and things No, I know that I know that it's very very serious Yeah, okay, um and sewage in the lobby too that needs cleaning up as a matter of urgency as well Yeah Right, okay Listen, we'll make contact with the local authority see what they have to say obviously from your perspective the stairs Are aren't useful. You need the elevator to work I know they were here yesterday the console men were here yesterday in the left sandbags But they left them over in the corner, but there was like See this morning like they would have been needed Like the water the sewage was coming up So it had nothing to do like the sandbags couldn't save anything Your neighbor's car was at the entrance and it was destroyed. It's full water damage as well and There were sparks coming from the plugs down stairs and everything it was It was just terrible It's scary and and you don't want this to happen again either I mean obviously the sooner what's happened is cleaned up, but you don't want this to become a regular occurrence I'm sure so whatever needs to be done to prevent it needs to be done. Uh, Lauren Yeah Okay. Well, listen, uh, hopefully it gets sorted as I will get onto the local authority see what they have to say But thank you very much for joining us Thank you very all right. Take care, Lauren And if you need anything go if we can offer any further assistance, uh, please let us know Uh onto housing here Uh, balaba fae and strunaller has over 100 vacant houses some needing minor renovation A lot of those properties are owned by the same people. Why are they not taxed on these properties also? There's there's a couple of huge commercial premises in That area and you know, you'll hear every year that Balaba fae strunaller has the highest Level of vacant commercial property in the country Proportionate right I don't understand why and I presume some of these really really large buildings contribute to that In really ideal locations with services and what have you why are some of these buildings not taken over And turned into flats and apartments because there are some really big buildings Uh that you could imagine would go a long way to fixing fixing or sorry addressing some of the housing problems Greg there's 30 new houses built for the counselling car and done and I'm lying for over a year I don't understand not familiar with them. That sounds like an awful lot of housing That's not being availed of Another here Greg. I'm totally fed up of landlords being made out to be villains all the time I am a landlord I own one house That we lived in before we bought our family home. I've rented out my house for many years It's a very well cared for house that we maintain to a very high standard and of great pride in The system those totally against us our rent is much lower than the average went We have had some very good tenants, but we've had some very bad tenants too Who left us with the cost of repairing a lot of damage that they did others who failed to pay the rent and left And left us with a huge electricity bill These costs were all on us. We have let our house out to tenants on hap too, but we were tortured by the council They did inspections and the amount of work we had to do for them was unreal electrical certs Burr certs etc and made us send in photos of really minor things even though our house was of exceptional high standard in comparison to other rental properties We pay our taxes every year on the rent We are registered with the rtb who now make us pay an annual registration fee It's no wonder people are exiting the market. We too are strongly considering selling ours too So this is part of the kind of argument the government makes that they have to do something for landlords now They could do one thing Quickly reduce the amount of tax that they have to pay on their rental incomes I'm sure that would be welcomed by this listener and would help to Softened some of the costs associating with rent, but these are people with a house. They are renting it They're landlords, which for some reason has become a dirty word and they're saying The way things are now were also thinking of selling up and if they sell up, that's another House that has gone from the rental property market Greg someone mentioned a comment on the idea of introducing legislation to force financial institutions and corporate bodies Intending to sell off their mortgage books or residential property portfolios to vulture funds to offer these properties Firstly to the tenants and following that to the local authorities before any other party can purchase their mortgages books or portfolios To make it clear I did not state that ordinary individuals with a second home or holiday home should be included in that legislation The idea would be to ensure that homeowners and tenants And failing that local authorities would be offered the property at the same discounted price vulture funds receive Vulture funds are paying between 30 to 40 of the property values And then using various means to evict tenants and homeowners Private individuals sale of their property should remain in the same as normal The legislative legislation should only apply the proposed legislation from the listener to financial institutions and corporate bodies Selling off mortgage books or residential property portfolios. So that's the comment in full So hopefully you feel that your view now there has been fully and well Represented a quarter says did you see the ai images of trump getting arrested seen them on tick tock and completely fell for it It's frightening. I've been trying to talk about artificial artificial intelligence on this program now for Months and months and months if not longer than that Because it is it's huge. It's going to change an awful lot of things I still don't think the department of education is taking the threat of AI in other words, you can go on to an AI website now It will write you a very well worded punctuated Grammatically correct essay Okay, and you can ask it to do it in the style of m&m or words worth and it will do that to a very high standard Um, and I'd be worried about the impact that might have an education in that's that's an extreme example But in other areas as well Google now are going to be be introducing AI integration into their email the workspace and what have you Microsoft are already in this space as well And also what it's capable of doing in terms of image editing and that's what this quarter is referencing There are websites you can go to and you can type in I've seen it done. I'm not sure if it's an exact example of what this is talking about You could talk about show me an image of donald trump or create an image of donald trump being arrested outside The white house for an example now it will go and it will source different images and it will Create this image some of them are excellent. Some of them are hit and miss, you know but we are on the brink of Great change in that regard and there are genuine concerns now genuine concerns people involved in technology that AI is becoming such now artificial official intelligence is becoming such now That we are closer than we ever have been to AI making decisions, you know I'm not talking quite terminator stuff But in that space we really also keep your ears and eyes open to it because it's a big technological advance I imagine it's going to be the biggest technological advance of this generation And that is the development introduction and who knows where of artificial intelligence Watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com The night till noon show is brought to you by letter candy credit union digital loans now available Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transfer directly to your current account New football boots for the season ahead at bryan recormick sports classic triple black boots in soft ground adidas predator accuracy with improved texture across the strike zone in classic soft ground Soul unit try the classic puma king top sg with a sleek soft leather in classic six stud for extra grip Get back to training with all your essentials shorts socks gum shield and kit bag bryan recormick sports main street larry kenny Click bmcsports.ie Don't miss the clanry hotel's country weekend friday 24th to sunday 26th of march featuring jimmy buckley Robert miss l kieran rosney a min jackson olivia douglas brian kerrigan and mcflavin head the door 20 euro friday and saturday And 10 euro on sunday afternoon overnight packages available call the clanry hotel on nine one two four three six nine Raymond swinney here from ben swinney ironix to let you know about a grit tumble drier that will save you time and energy The blumberer git kidgy drier has a selection of sensor programs that allows you to decide exactly how dry you like your laundry And smart technologies to help you reduce your energy costs It also comes with an amazing seven-year parts and labor warranty call in to us and save for yourself at ben swinney ironix Port road letter kenny or in the shopping center Super value makes saving money as easy as one two three one We match aldi on the products you love two great special offers like super value fresh irish sirloin steak now half price Santorita 120 cabernet sovno now eight euro and three money off vouchers every week on the app So follow the one two three and save money at super value. Enjoy our call responsibly. Hi much of us are here The marchy party is coming to dunny gold to the clanry hotel in that of kenny on friday march 31st It's a party like you've never experienced before Joining me will be dunny gold's latest sensational group on or david james of real to dance Also performing will be eurovision winners paul howington the charlie mcgilligan the stunning irish dance group koija and many more Win flights holidays and hampers tickets available at the canry hotel book now and join us for the marchy party All right, sarah monahan is a consent project manager with the double and rape crisis center. Good morning to you sarah Good morning. Thanks for having me. It's good to have you with us there We're speaking in the context of your center in partnership with the department of justice and community foundation Ireland introducing the country's first ever national consent campaign. What is the aim of this campaign? Yes, so yesterday we launched we consent, which is a new national long-term campaign And its aim is to inform and educate and engage with all members of the society about consent So so then our recent research we we learned that 70 percent of people in ireland believe that we have a problem with consent Additionally one in three people told us that they were just too embarrassed to talk about sex at all So we are here to support people to learn more about consent I don't understand it a little bit better So that we're all feel better equipped to open up those really important conversations with people in our lives And this is not a criticism It's just a question as I was just reading through this yesterday the the hashtag or the The actual campaign is called we consent. Would that not have been better? As do we consent question mark so as that the actual campaign itself poses a question and starts a conversation rather than a presumed position, which as many people will read it as It seems counterintuitive to me So it was really interesting when we were and developing this campaign and we worked, you know across And a huge amount of different audiences We have a broad and advisory group for the campaign as well as several and survivor groups and feeding in on it and members of the general public as well through focus groups and what everybody unanimously was very interested in was a shift from a kind of the older model of consent which is very much a Given guess and it's about one person being the pursuer and asking the question and the other person kind of acting more as the The gatekeeper of of consent and giving an answer and what people really wanted to see was actually consent being based as equal parties Reaching an agreement and so that it is Not one person seeking permission from the other and permission being granted, but rather it is a continual Equal back and forth between both parties. Um, and in particular actually men were very supportive of that kind of idea of of this idea of that we consent we consent together It's something that we do together rather than something that you get off another person because often, you know We would see men taking on that role because we've I suppose can kind of toss that way culturally that men are either in the role of pursuer And it's their job to initiate and to be asking the question and that women play a much more passive role And it seems through all of our conversations that people are ready to to move move on from that All right, so what does that what does that mean then? What does that look like that are you saying guys take a step back or women are more assertive in Broaching the issue like what what does the alternative look like? Yes, I think that that is very much and down to to to every individual relationship and the framework and the dynamic that Exists there already individually individually counter even And that's what we are saying is that consent has to be to the forefront of that framework Everyone will know themselves best how they operate with their partner. You know, that is not we're not going to be You know coming coming to people's houses to to to monitor that but rather we want to Increase understanding for people that it is a continual checking in and that checking in might be Verbal it might be non-verbal, you know, it might be about body language But it is keeping to the forefront at all times that you are ensuring in one way or another that the other Party is Culturable is happy is is is engaging in a Enthusiastic way that feels safe and that that's Always to the forefront of your mind. So you're always thinking about the other person that you're with and you're communicating openly and frequently and honestly about what you like and what you don't like and that these conversations should be taking place Before sex, you know during sex after sex that there's much more conversation happening about what you want to do What you don't want to do what you like, you know And that's everybody then has much more to work with that It's not as much as of a puzzle which it is a bit now where we just don't talk about it And you're you're often a little bit in the dark as to what your partner might want Eighty four percent of participants in the survey stated that there's a need for age appropriate sex education in schools Do you think that cohort the majority? Overwhelming majority need to be more vocal need to speak out because we're hearing For the most part, I think from the 16 percent or even maybe a smaller percentage of that 16 who are You know are very hard in their line and are very vocal in their opinion Yeah, and I think you know from any of the parents that we deal with them when we have a lot of of interaction with parents And they wanted the age appropriate Education brought in for their children But we do respect this with the right of of of individual parents on that and it isn't only about what happens in The classroom and that's very much what we're thinking with this campaign This is about cultural education as well in addition to that traditional education It's about what happens when Children go home when you know how how consent is talked about in that age appropriate way how they talk about boundaries How they talk about bodies so the kids all the way up have some understanding I mean it can be as simple as you know at our launch fund yesterday We talked about teaching children that if not if everyone isn't enjoying the game then maybe we should play a different game you know that it's just Instilling in in children this understanding of looking out for each other and being kind to each other And what we haven't had I suppose in addition to not having a huge amount in traditional education system We really haven't had a lot in the cultural education And way of having to talk more about this a lot of people will try and frame Will will frame sexual sexual education sex education and it's their view by the way I'm not saying there but that it's like almost educating children what to do It's green lighting them what they want to do my concern though is that I think children need to Know if they're being exploited they need to know what's happening in a certain situation Now you could have a and I'm not talking about necessarily very young children But you could have a 13 year old girl or boy who finds themselves in a situation whereby Sexual activities expected they might come from something of a social A a sheltered background And they may not have the knowledge actually to consent in the negative in other words to not consent Sorry, is really what I'm trying to say That's where I see the role of education protecting children to know That what's right and what's wrong with someone around them Whether you know if an adult that's not their mom or dad asked them to keep a secret Stuff like that there that I see if it's done right that is protecting children and young people Now I know this all of this information is not based on children by the way And I'm just honing honing on that for a moment But that's what I see the role of education as protecting children if it's done correctly But that can only be done with plenty of consultation with parents. I think Yeah, and you know we've launched a new a new website as part of the campaign and it's that we We have a huge amount of resources on there for different cohorts and and One of the biggest sections is for parents about how to talk about consent and about Boundaries and and and and and as you say to give Both parents and children language so that if anything Which should not be happening is happening that they they know how to Articulate this they've had a conversation already with their parents about they know they can go to their parents Or to someone else a trusted person To tell them about it and All of that again, it does come back to more communication more openness so that it isn't Felt by a child or a young person of any kind as a A taboo that they just shouldn't mention shouldn't tell anyone that they know they can talk about this and they have some language to do So so we have a lot of resources there. It was to support parents to have that One thing that's not discussed too much either really is is that people now are waiting Quite late in life to have their first child And and and you know then they can be you know, it's quite normal to be well into your 40s as a child hits 8 9 10 11 12 13 You know what? I mean and and things were very very different In the 80s or the late 70s of the early 90s like really really Difficult and you know, we replaced really quite common words now with replacement words in in the homes that we were rared in Do you know what I mean? So it is tough to be Apparent when you're from two or three generations ago and you have to try and Guide your child through a very very different world Oh, absolutely. I I agree with you there and I suppose it's why we are targeting this campaign at absolutely everybody because We all have a role to play so like that it could be that you are a parent from a different generation You now nearly need to to learn a whole new you know vocabulary You need to learn an ability to talk about this when it is something that feels so embarrassing and so shame-filled And there was so much silence about previously or you may be you know an aunt or An uncle or you may be you know talking to your friends. You may be talking to your colleagues You may be talking to your own partner really no matter who you are This is relevant for you either either either as someone who has a direct role to play in the Sexual interactions and and relationships that they're having or a more indirect role And then we all have an all with an indirect role to play in terms of the way we talk about sex and consent and And relationships the way we maybe make jokes or post in WhatsApp groups or make comments about other people Make comments about cases in the media Because all of that is what shaped the world and the community around us So even if people feel all this isn't really for me, you know, I've been married for a long time I would say we all have something to learn, you know learning isn't something that stops at any stage Which we all need to learn for all our whole lives Yeah, and I thought there's a couple of things here a couple of interesting points from uh If this can also be Consent is quite complex because if you consent to protected sex and then learn afterwards it was on protected sex That's not consent No, no And in fact that is a crime. Yeah So that mean that and then the mother says and this is as it relates to Mature relationships. I've seen it happen with my friend. Uh, she thought Sex was to show love and didn't want to be a bad girlfriend. So She by this but what the frustrate is is she was It didn't she was she was consenting but wasn't consented because she wanted to if that makes sense Yeah, no, it absolutely makes sense and and it is something I think that is is it's quite common and quite unspoken and isn't often not talked about openly that Because we have had so little conversation and so little, you know openness and education about this It is highly variable what you might have normalized for yourself and your your your own interactions and your own relationships and we certainly find that people minimize and excuse and Find ways to to put up with things to live with things When really then they they they know that it doesn't actually feel right and and I suppose on to that If we have a broader conversation about consent Then maybe that person's partner would be more understanding that The person that would might be doing something that they don't feel like doing just then but they feel that They have to uh, you know, and that's why every and I presume that's why though It's about we all must consent. 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We are continuing our coverage of the Freezing of a number of school projects our focus yesterday was Skull was the gale skull the kaha maestra Of course just for those who don't know the school was open 24 odd years ago five or six prefab students have been in them Since day dot Great progress had been made in the last with little while in terms of providing a new school building It was ready to go Contractor ready to go and all of that Waiting on a letter of commencement, but it appears that this could be one of those projects that's held up because of Department of Education spending and what have you but this one doesn't really Is not in the same grouping as a lot of the other ones and the tender expires very shortly Deirdre Ogara is a member of the parents association Deirdre, thanks for rejoining us. Yes, we're out in a peaceful protest this morning at 10 a.m Well attended. I'm sure lots of people toot in the horn who could not back this campaign Yeah, that's correct. I'm Greg. We've got a great Great response here this morning. We're back now again at the school For 12 o'clock just for another hour. So we have rte here with us at the minute Um, and we've had a lot of radio stations getting in contact with us. Um, we have news talk We have yourselves the ocean fm radio Miguel doctor. So it's great to get the coverage Yes, but unfortunately we have had No words from norma now. We have done our best. We have Contacts are in every way that you could imagine Um, we have sent emails. We have sent tweets on her facebook account on our instagram account Now unfortunately, she has started deleting our comments that we have put up last night on our instagram account um So I don't know what's going on there And just to be clear these are very these are very polite comments that are highlighting a desperate situation here This is she's not deleting abuse. She's deleting comments where people are saying, please Listen to what we're saying. This doesn't make sense This could put this project back at least eight months and we need the school now We've been waiting for an awful long time and that's really the importance of people banding together and campaigning because The media eventually can't ignore it any longer and i'm delighted they're all turning up today So no word to in the positive or the negative. It's radio silence from the department of education Yes, that is correct now We have issued invites to her to come to the school while she isn't only gone next week So we are just hoping she will accept it now. We are obviously our time will be up at that stage So we are hoping maybe before tonight. We might get some correspondence from her Yeah, and I think we with all respect to a lot of the other projects some are going to be in a similar situation But I think it's a particularly unique situation in terms of readiness and timing with this gale skull Yes, that is correct And like bearing in mind, we don't have a building our prefabs are 20 of 24 years on site here But they were second hand when we got them. So like they are getting pretty rough like there's one in particular There's a hole in the floor Some of the windows doesn't close on us, you know, so we really do need this and we need it now Not later Right, I don't know. I hope something good is going to happen today. I really do Deirdre Maybe common sense will prevail, right? You're out already. You're going to stay out 12 o'clock go down and support them By the way, particularly if you're in the Donegal town area, I think particularly if there's cameras there It it will really really help this campaign if you can spare a few moments between 12 And one or however it lasts because the more people are there the harder it will be To ignore Deirdre. Thank you for your time That was great. Thanks so much. Thank you. You know Deirdre Ogara Member of the parents association there of gale school Nakaha and maestro and I say it's good to see the other media Taking note of that situation and if they did a week ago I think When we were talking about it here as well, and I don't mean that in any way to blow a trumpet I don't mean it like that But the media Works for the people not the department of education not the government not the opposition the media works for the people in my view I'm not dictating to any local media. They've been great. Don't get me wrong But what I'm saying is is that those are the type of things that we need to be getting behind a week out not on the day Of the because it all of a sudden becomes a sexy story then because it's just 24 hours to save the school. Do you know? whereas If this has all happened last week, I think That have been a far better chance of success But I don't know I feel something in my in my water in relation to that one and I just hope there's a positive outcome to it Um Now Something must be done about glentes to the Ardraa road flooded before there's a serious accident told counselling guardies several times Bring that up to thomas pringles office. I know you did mention thomas in that In that message, but bring it up to his office as well I would suggest the slab road in burt is bad around them corners. It would wreck a car Say it's a caller All right, that's where we have to leave it on the show today It's been a busy one a couple of subjects really dominating things But we have to give the time over where it's necessary. Hope you enjoyed it. Hope you were Thank you Sorry, should I say for listening to the program watching it? However, you got involved. Thanks to Donna Marie Daugherty and Arnie Sweeney who researched and produced we're back with you tomorrow morning with the friday panel from nine lots to talk about again Stay tuned for john breslin