 highest rate since 2016. The latest Daft.ie report says they rose by nearly 12% in the year to March. Donegal saw the second-largest increase in rent in the country to 857 euro, a rise of 22.7% and up 77% from its lowest point. Author of the report, Ronan Lyons, says it's down to a lack of supply. Conditions are very poor at the moment for renters trying to find somewhere to live and of course we can see that in the number of homes available to rent. It's at an all-time low in the series. It goes back over 15 years. There were just 850 properties available to rent on the 1st of May. The average, even in 2019, the average was about three-and-a-half thousand and there's been a collapse in the last 12 months or so. Like a hairlock of the latter, Kenny Milford, Minnesville District has warned that the ongoing dangers around Woodlands school need to be addressed urgently. It comes following reports of a number of near misses with children and passing vehicles. Donegal County Council says there is currently no funding stream available to implement safety measures in the area, but it was agreed a review of the location would be carried out and funding would continue to be sought. Cancer Jimmy Coveness says there's a litany of contributing factors. There's people parking on footpaths, which is forcing kids out to walk on the road. The footpath itself is narrow and that's made worse by carers parking on it at pick-up time and drop-off time. There's entrances and two estates being blocked by people parking their cars. There's a build-up of traffic on the Remelton Road at pick-up time and drop-off time too. It's already a very busy road and there's just dangers there. The chair of Donegal LGBT says it's vital that Ireland's hate crime laws are revised to make people feel safe and supported. A vigil is being held this evening in Latter County to mark a month since the killing of Sligo Man, Aidan Moffatt and Michael Snee. The vigil is also a stand against LGBT-plus-based violence and a call for more appropriate hate crime laws in Ireland. Chair of Donegal LGBT, Shauna Devaney says while welcoming ongoing work says the pressure needs to remain on to ensure adequate legislation is put in place. Although there has been strays being made, we need to make sure that we're very clear and understand that it needs to continue and there needs to be progressive laws continue being developed and adapted. And a burst water mayonnaise causing supply disruptions today in part of Ineshaun. Properties in the Turban, Rockstein and Burnford areas are without water as the utility works to repair the burst. Works are due to be completed by half past four. Whether night generally cloudy today with scattered shards and some sunny intervals, highest temperatures of 12 to 14 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Good morning. 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If that suits you, you can go on to our website right now Highland Radio dot com and watch in your browser there. A busy Thursday for newspapers as it always is, of course, we'll start with the Chicano Tribune. And that's a huge row, bruise over the decision by organizers of the Donegal International Rally to take the service park away from Milford to a new base in letter. Kenny, the public response has been one of anger. Brian Brogan and Amy McGee, if the Donegal Motor Club told the Tribune, a tribune, beg your pardon, that they were left with no option but to leave Milford because an alternative location could not be found for refuelling. This comment has been flatly rejected by John Stuart, manager of the Milford March, the location that has hosted the service parks for the greater part of the life of the rally. Mr. Stuart says, Stuart says the statement does not stand up while Councillor Lee and Blaney figures that the plans to leave Milford were on the cards for a long time. Lee and Blaney has blasted the decision and he's accused rally organizers of being hell-bent on locating everything into letter Kenny and we'll be speaking to Amy and McGee on that issue a little later on in this hour to find out from the horse's mouth why they've made that decision. So stay tuned for that if you have an interest in it, of course. The Donegal Democrat and the Donegal News both share the same story on their front page. The brother of an autistic man who was savagely beaten in a non-provoked attack in Stranola on Tuesday night has appealed for witnesses to come forward and identify the culprits. Athe O'Donnell said he has reported the matter to the Guardi and he's now calling on the community for help. He posted his appeal on Facebook on Tuesday night and you would have heard on the programme yesterday. We had that appeal from on Guardi Shia Khan. They're keen to trace a black car that was involved or thought to be involved or carrying those involved in this attack and the paper quotes that Facebook post there from Mr O'Donnell. A shocking attack on a young autistic man who was out for a walk in Stranola has sparked outrage and anger in the community. This is the Donegal News take. Greg O'Donnell was left with injuries to his nose and lip when he was assaulted while out for a walk in Stranola on Tuesday night at around 8pm. Greg said he was punched three times by a male who then made off in a black car. The incident occurred in Stranola's Main Street and is to be believed there were at least two people in the car. It's so random. 8 o'clock, middle of the day effectively now in terms of daylight, isn't it? Right. Okay. And the Guardi continued their appeal for anyone with any information to contact them, of course. The Dairy News tells us that Dairy Girl, Danielle Collins, has recently celebrated ten years clean of any substances and welcomed her beautiful baby boy Jack into the world. The 36-year-old says it hasn't been an easy road, but to see her life where it is now and her ability to help others, it was worth all the hard work. Ten years ago today, I was in the depth of my addiction, Danielle reflected. I was on my knees and wanted to take my own life like never before. I had been in that place four years earlier with alcohol, but got sober and gained my life back. And you can read her inspiring story on the front of and inside the Dairy News today. More than 50,000 construction workers are urgently needed to fill a black hole in the workforce if the government is to meet targets aimed at tackling the housing crisis. That's the story in the Irish Independent. It's a huge amount of workers needed, and this is only to tackle the housing crisis. And I still think when the national media talk of the housing crisis, they see the defective blocks crisis as something separate. That's going to be one of our big challenges once a decent and acceptable scheme is in place. I think getting people to take on the work, particularly work that is in terms of demolition, it's kind of messy compared to maybe other work. I think there's going to be an awful lot of that in terms of trying to get people to do the work. But an unpublished report has identified a significant lack of electricians, plumbers, painters, bricklayers, and associated tradespeople. These workers will be required to build a promised 33,000 homes a year by 2030, while also meeting the government's retrofitting targets. The report by training agency Solace highlighted major gaps throughout the apprenticeship system, which will need to be filled in the next eight years. This includes a demand for 7,000 electricians, 7,000 compenters, 7,000 plumbers, 3,500 plasterers, 4,500 painters and decorators, and almost 2,000 bricklayers by 2030. So there's a huge hole there that needs to be filled. And at the same time, young people feel a great deal of pressure to go to university, to work in computers, or whatever it might be, or software development, and fantastic. But we've said on this program for years that those that work in skills, you remember the conversation we've had about our skilled workers versus non-skilled and all that crap, we need people, lots of people who do very, very important work in terms of building the country, and they need to be respected and supported through their training or whatever it might be. Okay, The Irish Times says the DUP has been accused by Sinn Fein of holding society to ransom by refusing to say if it will elect a speaker to the Northern Ireland Assembly tomorrow, a measure required to ensure a functioning storm. DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has also insisted his party will not nominate ministers to form a new executive until concerns about the Northern Ireland protocol are resolved. The speaker's appointment requires cross-community backing from unionists and nationalist party in its absence. The institutions are effectively paralysed as no assembly business can take place. Mr Donaldson told the BBC his party needed to make a decision on the issue with the outcome dependent on the actions of the British government this week. Now there's an important conversation happening as we speak between representatives of the British government and the EU as it relates to the Northern Ireland protocol, but the British are putting in place plans to unilaterally remove, at least remove, parts of the protocol. And Europe are now saying that if they do that they're breaking international law and that they will consider trade sanctions, which would be obviously quite devastating for Britain given the sensitive position it is in terms of its economy already. So a lot to play out and it's gone on for weeks and weeks and weeks. You would just hope that as much as is possible concerns are listened to and where they can be addressed, but also there is a democracy, a democratic decision was made by the people of Northern Ireland. Firstly they made a democratic decision to stay in the EU, that was ignored obviously because they were dragged out with Britain. And now 60% of MLAs are for the most part in favour of the protocol, that's a majority and they were elected through democratic means. So I mean at some point the democratic will of the people surely has to be respected, does it not? Obviously you have to have cross community agreement and try and please both sides as best you can, but there is also democracy. It's 2022 here and people have made a democratic decision and you would have thought that needs to be respected. But obviously it's more complex, 08, 660, 25,000 if you have a view from outside the republic it's 003538660, 25,000. Housing supply falls to a record low, this is the Irish Daily Mail today. 20,000 people are chasing few within a thousand homes available to rent nationwide, as supplies now fall into a new record low. The unbelievable scarcity of properties on the market means that many growing families are stuck in unsuitable homes or are struggling to find homes to rent if they have to move location. The squeeze on supplies also leading to rising costs with the average rent of 165 euro a month over the past year to 1,567, an increase of 12%. Now the average rent, 1,567 euro. Now imagine you have a young family and you also have to pay childcare, add that on to that. It wouldn't leave you an awful lot, wouldn't? So you could be earning incredibly good money, right? But by the time you pay your rent and your childcare, what would you be left with? And that's why people who might on the face of it appear to be making good money, they can be struggling too with all the bills that it takes to live in certain circumstances. Now I do wonder though, and I've said it before, spoken to a lot of people who were landlords and had so much mud chocked at them and the lives were made so difficult not by necessarily tenants either by the way, but just by public discourse that they said stuff it is not worth it. I'm getting out. I wonder how much of a factor that's played in the shortages that we see now. The Irish Farmers Journal record prices are being paid for finished cattle in March this week. Farmers selling through the mart ring are attracting a premium of up to 150 euro a head more than those selling direct to the factory. Mark Bid's data shows that at the top end of the market quality you are plus grading. Heavy bullocks are selling for the equivalent of 5.070 cent per kilogram dead weight. Beef cows are also meeting an exceptionally strong trade with the equivalent of 5.30 a kilogram dead weight being paid around the ring. Now on to the tabloids, red tops. So some of traditional broadsheets are in our tabloids as well. Europe drops face masks on planes from Sunday. Now this doesn't tell the full story here. Face masks will not have to be worn in airports and on flights in Europe from Sunday. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said yesterday from next week face masks will no longer be needed to be mandatory in air travel. In all cases broadly aligned with the changing requirements of national authorities across Europe for public transport. Italy, France, Belgium, Bulgaria and other European countries have been relaxing or ending many or all of their measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. A number of US airlines said they would no longer require masks in April after a federal drudge in Florida ruled that the US administration's mask mandate on public transport was unlawful. But that being said, a Ryanair has issued a list of flights to countries where masks must still be worn on the planes. I'll try and dig that out for you. There might be a bit of interest in that. So on the face of it, if you've no pun intended, whilst the mandate has ended, it doesn't mean that you will be able to fly mask free to certain destinations, but we'll dig those destinations out for you a little later on. And talking of travel, Irish holidaymakers are being urged not to book flights until they receive the renewed passports. This is due to a major backlog being dealt with in the passport office as people scramble to get their renewals before the summer holidays. Some people are facing delays of eight weeks. It emerged last week. And even, you know, the delays don't tell the full story because they can tell you that your passport's being processed and give you an estimated issue date. And just when you think that bar is going to fill, they can either seek further information from you, or it can also be reset. So that's not an accurate indication either. Northern Irish Sinn Fein MLA, Jenna Dolan said, her office has been inundated with requests from people who need travel documents and travel documents accelerated. But the problem is, is that a lot of counsellors, a lot of TDs, MLAs wherever they're making representations from, a lot of them are dealing with these queries. And I think a lot of them are saying, look, we can try and push it along for you, but things were in a very different space now in terms of the holdup. And then you'll get some people, by the way, listening who will renew online on a Tuesday and get their passport on a Friday or a Thursday. That's happening as well. But particularly, I think, if you're trying to get a passport for a, if you're trying to get a passport for a baby, or it may be someone's become, has become an adult or it's a child's renewal or whatever it might be, there are particular passport renewals that are still pretty slow. Okay, 08, 660, 25,000, you WhatsApp some texts on that line and your comments and suggestions and whatever. Maybe if you request, by the way, we'll play a bit of music for you at 10.30 as always. You might want to dedicate it to someone, get them into us or give us a call on almost seven, four, nine, one, 25,000. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra, Mountaintop, Letter Kenny. 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Okay, we're going to be talking about home insurance now as it relates to thatched cottages, but just want to mention actually because I've been contacted by a couple of people who, you know, with talk of interest rates rising, a lot of people are trying to maybe fix the rate on the mortgage or maybe you're switching mortgage from Ulster Bank to or KBC, I think they're exiting the market to. And I'm just wondering if any of you out there, particularly if you are affected by the defective block scandal, have you had any issues in terms of fixing a mortgage or switching a mortgage? Because there are thousands of people affected by that. I'm sure many are Ulster Bank KBC customers or many of them might want a little bit of certainty in terms of repayments because there is suggestion, of course, that interest rates are going to increase. So have you had issues with house insurance or fixing interest rates if your home is affected by these defective blocks? But we're talking now about house insurance specifically as it relates to thatched cottages. Rory Stewart, good morning, Rory. Good morning, Greg. How are you? I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. Now, obviously, I mean, I think this year alone, very sadly, we've seen fires at two thatched cottages. You are lucky enough to own one, but not so lucky in terms of getting insurance for it. What's been the problem? Yeah, that's correct, Greg. So I suppose I own a thatch cottage here in Donegal. The first thing I'd say I don't claim to be an expert in thatch or insurance for that matter. And of course, with everything that's going on in general with the housing crisis and refugee crisis and homelessness, I appreciate this is only a small thing in comparison to that. But nonetheless, I believe it's very, very important. With thatch cottages in recent years, there's been a trend where insurance prices have gone up year on year. And indeed, there's some onerous requirements that have been put in place in order to get insurance. While that's been happening, more and more insurance providers have been dropping out of the market. And it's kind of come to a head this year. This is the first year where essentially, we haven't been able to get any sort of home insurance on the house, on the basis that it's thatched. And we have looked long and hard over the last number of months. And as I checked all the regular insurance companies and gone through specialist brokers. But we've come to the opinion that it's now actually impossible to ensure the cottage. I would have thought, say for instance, if I had a thatched cottage and I had a mortgage on it, the mortgage company would expect me to have house insurance. I'm not sure it's a condition of a mortgage. But it's not like something we have choice on here. We have to protect our properties. When you talk about, when you're talking about sort of what they require, can you in other words, you talked about the onerous requirements, okay, what do they require to actually give you a quote, or will they not give you a quote at all? Yeah, so in the past, so for example, from when we bought this cottage, well, it was actually my grandfather bought the cottage in 1964. And in the last, I suppose, five or so years, the cost has gone up 300%. But they now require things like an electric fire alarm, for example, with a kind of built in battery pack as well. And that you would turn off the electricity in the water every time you leave the house, and that you would line the flu of the fireplace. And things to that effect. So it cost significant money, I suppose. And that was fine. We were quite happy to do all that. But as I say, our insurance company last year said this was going to be the last year that they'd provide insurance on that buildings. And after that, we'd have to go elsewhere. And as I say, this year, we've looked high and low. And as far as we can tell, there is actually no insurance provider who will cover that cottage. There's just no one in the Irish market will do it. There is one specialist broker that are still covering that cottages. But what we were told was they have a quota and their quota is built, and they won't be extending their quota. Wow. And what was your premium last year, if you don't mind me asking Rory? So it was 750 euros. Yeah. So it is above perhaps your average, but it's if you could get the quote, it's doable, like oh, yeah, price themselves out of it. Yeah, as I say, I think most people who have a batch cottage in Ireland see themselves as a custodian rather of the, you know, basically what's part of our heritage. And obviously, economically, it makes no sense to have a batch cottage, you know, the roof needs replacing every 10 to 15 years at a cost of 20 to 30,000 euros. So I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that if something isn't done to try and protect the buildings, people will invariably, as we've seen over the years, will basically take the fact. Of course, because the only the only way at this point that you would retain a fact cottage is if you were prepared to roll the dice and felt so passionately about it that you would take all the risk and all the expense. And in reality, who's going to do that? These, they're very rare as is, and they're going to become a thing of the past because there's not enough people that are going to be prepared to take those risks, you know, Rory. Yeah, no, I believe that to be true. And in fact, I have two friends who were trying to buy a batch cottage in Ennis recently. And again, they couldn't on the basis that they couldn't get it insured. And because they couldn't get insured, they couldn't get a mortgage on it. So I suppose what we'll see more and more if this trend continues is that the number of that cartridges will dwindle. And it's already, you know, it's dwindled significantly, particularly since the 50s and 60s, we've seen I suppose a decimation of it. And of course, it is part of our heritage. I think if you go to America and ask people what they think of rural Ireland, you know, one of the primary images that come up with is, you know, the batch cottage and the West of Ireland kind of thing. So yeah, of course. So I mean, this is about heritage. It's about maintaining these buildings. If the private sector won't step up to the plate, then does it fall to the state to come in and offer some sort of indemnity or whatever it might be? Yeah, well, that would be my personal view. Now we've contacted the Department of Heritage and the Department of Housing and, you know, our local politicians and the insurance Ireland and the insurance Ombudsman and indeed the Competition and Consumer Protection Authority and all these people saying, look, we can't we can't get insurance here. What are we to do? But and everybody's been very sympathetic and, you know, I said, yeah, this is terrible. I'm sorry. But, you know, essentially the line is it's a commercial matter for insurance companies. And from a from a insurance company point of view, you know, their houses where essentially the roof is made of tarp wood and hay. So, you know, the roofs are made of kindling, essentially. So, you know, they are higher risk. And I appreciate that. So, you know, from an insurance company point of view, I can see why they're saying, you know, this is too high risk for us. But if the insurance companies all pull out, then I think it falls to the state to protect, you know, the buildings because they are part of our heritage. And then the struggle, obviously, then is going to be even more to get people who are actually going to be in the business of thatching these roofs. You talk about it happen to be done every 10 or 15 years. If there's less buildings, there's going to be less people doing that. You know, you can see the very slippery slope to we get to a point where there's one or two in some sort of a heritage park or other. Well, yes. And that's what I believe where it's going. And of course, at the moment that there, I suppose, a distinction between a traditional thatch and the more modern thatch. But there's only, to my knowledge, about 1300 thatch buildings left. And of course, to sustain an industry of thatchers, they need, you know, a significant amount of houses in order to keep themselves going. Otherwise, they in turn will say, well, there's not a business in this. So there'll be nobody to thatch the houses. And I suppose it's just the, I suppose the multiplicity of issues that are coming into play will naturally drive people away from retaining a thatch property. They'll just say, okay, look, we'll take down the thatch and we'll put tiles on it. Because it's cheaper and easier. So what are you going to do, Rory? Because you know, as you say, there's so many, you know, competing priorities at the moment, you know, no one's going to take this on and champion it in the Dolo challenge, perhaps. So what do you do? Well, our current plan is just to go on without insurance and hope for the best, essentially. And that's the unfortunate reality of it. As I say, we did, we have, I suppose, a complaint in with the insurance ombudsman on the basis of insurance from an insurer environment to at least offer you a renewal. Although, you know, I suspect if that was ever to happen, that's, you know, what tends to happen is the premiums go up exponentially. And so far as they put the premium up to a price that just makes it unaffordable so that, you know, you don't go for it, essentially. But in a way, that maybe a little bit perverse way, that would be progress, though, because then we could sort of progress the story and say, well, yeah, one insurance company is prepared to one insurance company is prepared to quote, but it's 7000 euro. Do you know what I mean? So in a strange way, that would be that would be a bit of process progress. I mean, I think there's an obligation for people if the, you know, all the boxes ticked to be offered a insurance quote for car insurance. And that's done through the officers of the ombudsman, if the industry resists. I wonder, is the same level of obligation there for house insurance? Yeah, like that was my interpretation of it. But our own insurer weren't of that view. Now, as I say, we're kind of, we're carrying on and trying our best, but at the minute we don't have insurance on the house. And that's certainly the way it looks like it's going to stay in the, I suppose three serves the point that tax cottages, if all these kind of hurdles are put in place, really what it's going to do is it's just going to push people away from maintaining them. And, you know, even if it was, you know, that will, you know, encourage people to say, ah, it's too expensive. It's too difficult. And Minister of Housing, Daryl Brine's on the record is saying our build heritage is the signature that each generation has left on our communities. And now it's time to find out, I suppose, if that's just words, fancy full nice words. But if there's actually any intent to preserve and to embrace the build heritage. Yeah, no, I agree. And I suppose we hear an awful of rhetoric that sometimes isn't backed up. But you know, there is elsewhere in the UK and Scotland, there has been situations, particularly in England, where the government have stepped in with significant interventions to protect. And that's made a huge difference with English patch. But the opposite is true actually in Scotland, which would have, I suppose, a similar background to Ireland. They would have had a huge amount of patched buildings, but now, according to their local reports, they only have about 20 historic patch buildings left in Scotland. And I suppose the fear is that Ireland would become Scotland rather than England. But you know, in 20 years time, we might only have 20 or 30, you know, perhaps even sooner. Rory, these things, these things change really quickly, but you know much more than I. Rory, okay, thank you for that. We'll make our inquiries as well. And if we find anything out, but get back to you, thanks for sharing the story with us too. Thank you. Okay, maybe you are the owner of a thatched cottage, though they are rare. Did you manage to secure insurance? And if so, with who? Maybe we can point Rory in the right direction though, judging by his comments, he's done an awful lot of research and perhaps exhausted most of the avenues. I just want to remark that if you are insured in a thatched cottage, you must employ a registered chimney sweep because if there was a fire, you wouldn't be covered. That's no problem. I would say that we're one of the criteria. There's no problem there, perhaps Rory already does. Yesterday, and I can understand the concern, we were contacted by a listener who's the grave of a loved one, all of the stones on the grave have been removed. And instantly, as soon as I heard it, it reminded me of previous stories around this time of year where birds will come and remove. And we've done interviews with people with experts on this, some of it's about digestion and other things. But anyway, I think the general consensus from listeners seems to be that this is not a human that's taken these stones, that it is in fact birds. This caller says it's definitely birds. The same thing happened to our grave, and that was before Christmas. It seems once they start, they keep coming back only until they take all of the stones away. We're also discussing hotel prices, some really interesting comments I was thinking afterwards from Councillor Mee-Hul Nocton, manager of the clan Rhee. Of course, part of the hotel group that has allowed Gallard's hotel in Natterkenney to be rented for the use to house refugees, probably till the end of the year, you know, which is really quite significant for businesses around. But the argument being as well, though, of course, from the hotel's perspective, and when you look at occupancy over the course of the year, it's a good, it makes good business sense as well as doing, you know, your bit to help. So we've been talking generally about the cost of hotels. There's a few bits mixed in here. I booked a hotel in Belfast yesterday for three nights, bed and breakfast, Sunday to Tuesday, €300. So I wonder how you would fare in Donegal at those rates, those nights Sunday to Tuesday. You might get very close to that, if not better it, I think, but we'll see. I was in Poland, a double room with breakfast for three nights in a hotel, €190. That's much, much cheaper. Back to the birds. Yes, Greg, birds are capable of clearing a grave. It happened to my parents' grave a few years ago. Greg, it is the crows. They took all the white, shiny ones of our grave and then started on the black ones. We watched the crows lifting them. We initially thought someone had stolen them. I hope this is in a way bringing a bit of comfort to the person, knowing that it's nature and not, you know, the bad acts of a person. Read the news item about the three in a shown fly tippers who were fined €5,000. If they weren't named and shamed, then why not? If my tail lights don't work, or I'm doing 55 in a 50 area, I'll get my name in the papers. Why not them? I don't know why not. I think, though, that's a pretty tight sanction and might, you know, stop people doing it. I don't know. Lastly, before a break, women in Spain we read today will be able to take up to three days off work each month if they're suffering from period pain. Reform proposals would see Spain becoming the first western country to allow for menstrual leave. However, it's already available to women in Japan, South Korea and Zambia. The changes will also see free sanitary products provided in schools and for women in socially disadvantaged groups. We seem to be making some progress on the latter, but would you be in favour of the menstrual leave where women would be able to take off three days work per month if they're suffering from period pain? If you have a view on that, 08, 6, 60, 25,000. 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Write this number down, 91, 48, 234. Flemming doors, you know. Industrial doors, garage doors, agri doors, insulated doors, milking parlour doors. Flemming, 91, 48, 234. Breaking Gardening News, our correspondent, Petunia, at Alcorn's Garden Centre. I am surrounded by an array of spectacular summer bedding. These beauties are moving fast, with last year's prices held. Wow! I'm amazed by the choice of shrubs, trees, roses and perennials. Ah, Rosemary has just selected a super specimen plant and trendy ceramic pot. Oh, Craig is advising on the many baskets. Bye, from Alcorn's, where value happens every day. Caller says I'm insured with OBS in Dublin, my home is in Donegal, half my house is Thatch and the other half is Slate. It's impossible to get insurance I understand Rory's difficulty there, so someone who empathizes but can't offer any solution. Right, Shauna Deveney is chair of Donegal LGBTQ Plus and joins us on the program now. Good morning, Shauna. Good morning, Craig, how are you? I'm okay. Now we're speaking ahead of a vigil taking place in Letter Kenny this evening, and it's to mark a month since the awful killings of Sligo Men, Aidan Moffat and Michael Snee. Tell us about this vigil and why it's taking place outside of the obvious, Shauna. Yes, so, look, Letter Kenny has yet to mark you know the passing of these two men, and we feel it's necessary maybe to gather some of the community around, maybe just to have a chat with people, see how they're feeling. I mean it's been a month, I think it's very triggering for a lot of people and how they died and maybe how it was dealt with as well, and I think just maybe just to have two minutes silence for the two men and show them that respect that they deserve. I suppose it's also a call for people maybe to come forward and you know show solidarity and show support, and that you know we welcome now these new hate crime laws that hopefully will be enacted now at the end of the summer brought in by Minister Helen Mackenty, but also we really want to just push maybe the agenda that those laws you know come into place, that they're progressive and that they're you know in line and reflective of what's going on in Ireland today. Yeah, well you surprised a vigil wasn't helped Shauna because obviously it is there particularly with the nature of these awful crimes, it's there to you know to mourn the passing of Aiden and Michael or other victims, but also there's a significant element of particularly when it's a particular community that's affected standing with that community you know and saying that we do not believe that this is acceptable and we are so moved by this that we're going to go out and gather and spend time together to show that because you know there was a vigil held in Boncran in Fairness, but I was really surprised not to see a reaction elsewhere because whilst of course someone has been arrested and is going through the court so we can't talk much about that there is the then the broader question that are we living in a society that harbours or encourages or permits people to think the way they think and then carry out these type of actions. Yeah, you've hit the nail in the head there, like they're in terms of a public outcry I suppose you know post through death it wasn't the same I suppose capacity as it was you know and not to compare the cases but with Ashley Murphy you know there's a significant contrast there and your writings and I think Covid the two years that we were knocked out in Covid is probably further perpetuated you know the prejudice and there's a lot of misinformation out there there's not as much education and I think people kind of it maybe it was fostered in an environment where there was more hatred and it's not just towards like our community the LGBT community it's towards other minority communities and we've seen that we've seen an increase in violence and increase of crime and increase of hate speech online and offline on the street and family homes and a space whereby you feel entitled to be able to say not the freedom of speech but something that is insightful or really really hurtful and not only do you feel you have the right to do that but other people will actually join and say you are correct you're speaking the truth fair play to you that wasn't there a couple of years ago it wasn't there no as much or at least as as yeah openly Shauna they will say that like one of the hardest things that both the legislate is speech and free speech but when you legislate for hate speech you need to be very specific and very clear on what hate speech is and I think there may be a lot of misunderstanding or it's not set out as clear maybe in our country at the moment we're getting there but we're a bit slow with it and it you know it needs to come with enhanced penalties and I know that this legislation that will hopefully be enacted now you know will clearly state that an assault or an attack or a murder was motivated by prejudice and that that is marked down and you know when when it does come to prosecution that it's not just assault it's gravy a graveyard assault and I think it falls under the I think there's a couple of things now they're adding to it so it's a graveyard if it's a soft coercion harassment a threat to kill or a cause of serious harm or to criminal criminal damage but also I suppose to disseminate our anxiety introducing material online as well and I think that needs to be dealt with very clearly and we need to put a message out to people and even the receiving individual you know that hate speech is something that should be shut down straight away we do have you know methods of reporting but unfortunately even the staff that we have of those who have reported and those who have not come forward to report are you know they're not reflective of what's going on I mean there is progress in that regard but it's just it seems slow and you know in Ireland we don't actually have freedom of speech we've got freedom of of expression we've we're allowed to freely express our convictions and opinions but that is limited to the interests of public order and morality so it's not just an absolute right to freedom of speech so tell us this evening the format of it what time it starts at and what's going to happen yeah it'll take place at market squared seven thirty this evening we'll have roughly but an hour but it'll be a candlelit vigil I'll be up and speaking and hopefully we can have somebody else up speaking as well from I suppose it's more reflective to have you know a gay man up speaking and not anybody actually wants to get in contact and have a few words to say to mark the one month anniversary then they can feel free to contact us on our Facebook page and my numbers go eight six six zero six thirty seven eight eight nine yeah it's about the community broadly to stand in solidarity as well of course it's totally it's open to everybody now everybody's been affected by you know the murders of these two men and of people that want to come along just for a chat or maybe they want to come up come along and maybe share their experience at the time maybe that they haven't reported an incident that's happened to themselves and they're looking for the right pathway then we can you know suppose help them along along that pathway and give them the appropriate support numbers um and you know the the garden station and then our kennedy have come forward at sergeant aileen gordon and she has shared their numbers so that anybody wants to go I suppose um and and maybe just share what's happened um and if they decide to report it they can report it if they decide not to but they just want to you know get that information to somebody they can do that too um and it'll be done you know in the most I suppose um I suppose you know secretive you know they're not being found out or you know they're not sharing names or anything like that all right shawna thanks for your time this morning all right thank you no problem take care take care thank you very much indeed shawna divani there uh back with our next item after these 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from the west during the late afternoon and evening highest temperatures of 12 to 14 degrees in fresh southwest breezes now there is anger that the rally services um associated with the donagall international car rally uh the service park uh is being moved away from milford to a new base in letter kenny um now we are going to speak with a man mcgee clark of the course of the donagall rally to find out why uh but i also want to find out why uh there's so much uh anger to this and cancer leon blaney joins us to discuss this cancer blaney thanks for your time this morning good morning again greg right okay so tell us why hosting the rally services in milford was so important to the town well first of all i want to say that the donagall rally has celebrated 50 years this year and they've brought on a huge amount of spectators and helped a lot of businesses in the whole county but particularly in the letter kenny to milford area where where the rally had started 50 years ago but in saying that look that's not just today this has started i recall was around three or four years ago where there was an attempt at that stage to remove it to dener kenny from milford and for whatever reason i'm not sure maybe even could have said but for whatever reason they backed out in that eventually and i was on there myself myself was on the shondard issue with that time i think it was but a lot of the a lot of the business number of businesses contacted me about it they heard it uh they heard about it not officially unofficially and there's a lot of talk locally about it um go to move and i honestly didn't believe it until um i tapped some people involved in the rally and uh i realized that that is the risk plan to do this and it's their fiftieth year celebrating the fiftieth year and they're going to have a big night down in downings i think to celebrate that and maybe at the full of launch of the rally but on the fiftieth year they're moving it in the milford area um where it has been for the majority of them 50 years uh the service area has been in milford mark the place that accommodate is very very well as far as i know and you know talking to the manager of the mark that nobody even came to hand us home we're not going there this year to you we're removed from the place you know and the secret is behind the whole thing all right well let's let's get let's get to behind uh some of the decisions uh the decision making processes then a man McGee Clark of the course of the domingo rally a man uh good morning to you good morning before we talk about this year's decision perhaps you could talk explain just to answer cancer blaney directly why a number of years ago was it proposed to move uh this service from milford to letter kenny and why was that decision reversed well we would be we would when it was reversed like um if you go back to that would be 19 would be one of the things we would be looking for a tentative because i'm and years as years go on greg this event has grown and grown and grown and especially this year as well we now are part of a european championship we have moved up to a certain a different level of rally it's not just a national event or some business and it's not an international it's a european event at the moment so we have to go by criteria that they're set down and and how we okay so under what criteria are you moving this service uh from milford to letter kenny just more specifically amen it's to do really what a availability of space and the other thing the most biggest important thing in the whole lot is the refueling zone we have to have an area now to refuel the cars there'll be over 200 cars to be refueled out of service back and that can't be achieved in milford that cannot be achieved in milford now because we did in 2000 we'll go back to 2019 we we had milford and we we looked at it and then we acquired a piece of land beside the milford mart and we spent a substantial amount of money to prepare that so that we could use that no haven't gone back there now we haven't been out in two years but when we go back now that now has become a shopping centre you know that has been developed into a shop so that has gone out of our reach so therefore again did you consult with um i don't know local reps or the local mart manager to see if another appropriate area could be secured i tamped that ground greg on numerous occasions and what what what what we would have required i what i don't know i'm talking to the the manager the martin over the years like he he gave us all he could give us and i and i don't think there was there was a not anywhere else available okay so is it a case that just to be absolutely clear you simply could not do this in milford or is it a case that it's better to do it in latter kenny at at a combination of a lot of things now we would have had a and over the years as well like well looked at different venues like we would have had a place on kerrigat there for years as well as milford as where would you call loads fielding and around that country like now we are not allowed to go there because the parks and wildlife have closed that down you know the spaces become very very scarce but in terms of sort of retaining you talk about it being an international rally yeah it feels really like a letter kenny rally now doesn't it i mean there's an awful lot of people i presume from the milford area that fought very hard to keep this going during the lean years or perhaps when it wasn't going to go ahead at all now of course you know you're saying it's got european status and all roads lead to letter kenny is that fair no it's not uh that what i would be i would totally disagree with you because we are we are bringing we are bringing the event to and we're highlighting all the the basic places are the the scenic areas of of the county and we're highlighting all that and we're bringing it you know um services only as small as only a small part of the event like you know like the whole event has gone so much um uh we can only we can only grow what's the event and what what we need to provide like you know all right stay there uh councillor blaney you've heard that directly from now the the clock of the course the reasons as to why uh the the service park can't be in milford do accept that no i don't accept that why not um well i don't suspect him and a good morning to him and um him and said that they walked to camp that whole area the milford the manager in milford mark who has accommodated for so many years they hadn't even the respect to go and contact them you know how much how much dampen did they do i did to the tamper very much because first of all you made the point that i was a mix uh greg that's not letting any rally it's going to go early secondly that seems to be an attempt by the president chairman because it's something to come on to the chair and he's not on this call Liam so we just have to be not put words or opinions into his mouth if that's okay that's okay but since he became chair of going to go early that's the second attempt now to remove the service station to to let it get it can i just ask on that amen you know like is a conversation happening whereby a group of you sit around a table and some say well we'd need to keep it in milford we can make this work and others are going look it's far better if we have this all located in net or kenny uh because for this reason and that reason like were there differing views on the location of this uh this service area of course there is because at one stage there greg um we were looking at and under the flock that we may have to have moved the service park to gedore because gedore was the only next available place that could accommodate us and then all of a sudden not all of a sudden but um a club member of ours acquitted land were in the let the kenny area and he donated that land to us to use for the event so like you know and and and and i'm very gladful that he did like you know so um there's over 10 acres there and and something that that uh we can we can build on and make it i can a family park and were you then the yeah so okay so there's much more to this than really than the fact that there's nowhere to fuel the cars in milford because you're talking about how this is a bigger area of land it can be better for people to come and visit i mean it's more of an argument really than a box ticking uh to to um because it's a european wide event there's much more to this a commercial element to this as well then there's probably like it was a sort of we're not into the commercial end of what we're into the to providing what we have to do to run the event great like you know we're not i'm not like uh this is not just a we're not in there we provide and we have to do it safely and we have a criteria to follow okay up a text to the box is for so cancel brainy come back there please if that's all right um look i don't accept what i'm saying because there have been contacts at the mark to see if there are capable of handling or not or could the source anywhere else nearby for the for the fuel and station if they say the require there's been attempts absolutely no attempt to try and keep it milford and there's been a this is the second attempt that we know off the time where there's leather kenny and another thing as well as that just can be total good luck you take the saturday and sunday and the relays and leon and downings and and fanat and alcala and taking all the cars the whole way up to leather kenny again and back down again for other states and back up again you know it doesn't make sense and there's going to be total gridlock and leather kenny uh at least the businesses i expect would be glad to see the rally moved out of the town during the day and leather kenny on the saturday and sunday so that the people can come under the shop about the town but i don't see it happening now people's going to find a voice like a plague anybody's not involved or alien and the polls around about there are melting road that whole thing is going to be chock-a-black there's going to be gridlock and i'm predicting that now before before anything happens and i'm warning what may happen up there and when it wasn't milford it was very well patrolled very well controlled and um you know i just do not accept the but i'm gonna say it at all um after we're serious about it there were half the people in the area of course will go and say they don't move to leather kenny and then the group find out there too that instead of the land was deleted that's not what's been said out there but anyhow we can't go into speculation not all we're not going into speculation but um but just on that i mean the land would the land was i mean you're saying the land was the land was donated yeah yeah yes yes i'll protect someone else as well but they will be moving the rest and i i'm quite sure that the people in this area from some of the land i've been talking to will not be as receptive to the rally coming to go because of the actions you mean outside you mean to to the north of don and go outside letter kenny you mean pardon you mean outside letter kenny lian when you say they won't be so well okay in this area all right where they move the service station from and look at me businesses that um it becomes maybe just spread it spreads it spreads the love so yeah okay okay amen this is the final decision there's going to be no no no adjustment on this no well we have we have we have submitted our our regulations and on all and we had our state buses and all that and we have but thinking in like go back i would i would encourage council very to encourage the people like there's a lot of buses and like we have we have lots and lots of people there that's looking for accommodation and accommodation is hard to get in all of the and all of the area at the moment like you know and you should be trying what what they got and trying and get as much of the spectators and the people that entered the businesses and push and hopefully you know make it make it that are you saying milford would effectively be you know satellite accommodation for the letter kenny rally 100 percent okay and and i'm not in the milford area but in the care yard earnings found it the whole the whole thing you know we we i i get and dated with phone calls looking for accommodation and you know people would would would have any place available you know and make it available to the people it's not just that these are genuine yeah and that is just though if the good will that is there for that uh amen i just wonder if this decision and i think councillor blaney's uh suggested this if that good will is still going to be there now that this feels like to a lot of people that it's just going to be a letter kenny based rally running the cars through uh rural parts of donningall and and back to letter kenny where the money's at again no the money's been spent the money's been spent on the whole of the county like you know and we we're like you know uh as well as that we're on on stages on on on the east of the county as well on the friday like you know so you know that that's just it's the whole adjusting thing and we have to work with what so many different bodies all right the guards and one thing another okay listen i appreciate your time this morning we are over for the news just 30 seconds to you leon if you want it uh yes amen says the decisions made what is the secrecy why is so much secrets about why was people not consulted in the area um and especially the mark mulford who has down the years been loyal to the to the to the motor club and let them in there and and he has said himself that he wasn't consulted they could have given a fueling area if he'd have been asked he would know consult consultation at all with him so i'm just with question why is such a secrecy about it my opinion they knew there's going to be so much objection to it and that's why what's the deal was done all right but i was just about asking him in that very finally i mean was this kept under the radar because you knew there'd be a backlash and you wanted it so far down the line in terms of you know having the site visits and all that it couldn't be reversed and in two years time we'll have all forgotten about it no no it's definitely not because we would have we would have looked at and and i was tell i would tell what the what the amount of people like we have over 200 densities great you know that's that like though that is not just you know the whole thing has moved and of course and that's great but i remember it's not that long ago is it we were having conversations about this not going ahead at all because of insurance so we've been through the whole of the county and the people of milford and all the areas of mention have been on this journey with you uh aim and you know what i mean so they've been there when when things were very very dodgy uh you know and and now when things are are looking good again they might feel well everything's going to that again but i take your point uh listen it's not i don't have a particular interest in rally or or or uh i have no vested interest at all just teasing it out and and looking at the comments machine aim and mickey thank you very much okay thank you okay clark of the course of the donagall uh rally and also councillor leigh and blaney there apologies we are three minutes late going to the news uh just wanted to give everyone a an opportunity to uh express all the views in relation to that item uh comments you know the numbers back after the break live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning i'm akilah clark with the news at 10 o'clock a decision to move the donagall rally service park to letter kenny has sparked anger in milford milford mart has for many years been home to the service park councillor leigh and blaney has been critical of the move and what is the 50th anniversary of the rally and says it is not the first time it has been proposed on the nine to nin show a short time ago he was critical of how it was handled on the 50th year they're moving it in the open area um what has been for the majority of them 50 years uh the service area has been in milford mart and the place that accommodated is very very well as far as i know and you know tapping to the to manage the mart that nobody even came to him to tell him we're not going there this year to you we're we're we're removed from the place you know and it's the secret behind the whole thing well aimee megay clark off the course of the donagall rally says they are seeking an alternative venue due to the magnitude the event has grown to as years go on greg this event has grown and grown and grown and especially this year as well we now are part of a european championship we have moved up to a set a different level of rally it's not just a national event it's a business and it's not an international it's a european event at the moment rents are increasing at the highest rate since 2016 the latest staff.ie report says they rose by nearly 12 percent in the year to march donagall saw the second largest increase in rent in the country to 857 euro a rise of 22.7 percent and up 77 percent from its lowest point author of the report ron anion says it's down to a lack of supply conditions are very poor at the moment for for renters trying to find somewhere to live and of course we can see that in the number of homes available to rent it's at an all-time low in the series goes back over 15 years there were just 850 properties available to rent on the first of may the average even in 2019 the average was about three and a half thousand and there's been a collapse in the last 12 months or so. the gear lock off the latter kenny milford municipal district has warned that the ongoing dangers around woodland school need to be addressed urgently it comes following reports of a number of near misses with children and passing vehicles donagall county council says there is currently no funding stream available to implement safety measures in the area but it was agreed a review of the location would be carried out and funding would continue to be sought. council jimmy carveness says there's a litany of contributing factors there's people parking on footpaths which is forcing kids out to walking on the road the footpath itself is narrow and that's made worse by cars parking on it at pickup time and drop off time there's entrances into the states being blocked by people parking their cars there's a build-up of traffic on the remelting road at pickup time and drop off time too it's already a very busy road and there's just dangers there and the chair of dunagall lgbt says it's vital that arnan's hate crime laws are revised to make people feel safe and supported a vigil is being held this evening in latter kenny to mark a month since the killing of slango man aiden moffat and michael snay the vigil is also a stand against lgbt plus base violence and a call for more appropriate hate crime laws in arland chair of dunagall lgbt shawna divaney while welcoming ongoing work says the pressure needs to remain on to ensure adequate legislation is put in place although you know there has been strays being made um we need to make sure that we're very clear understand that it needs to continue and there needs to be progressive laws continue being developed and adapted fly tippers in dunagall have been forced to fork out at nearly 5000 euro dunagall county council successfully obtained three prosecutions under the litter pollution act at a recent sitting of letter kenny district court donna marie dowherty has more the fly tipping incidents occurred in the inish own municipal district and litter wardens provided evidence including photographic evidence of the offence to letter kenny district court on march 22nd the judge in reviewing all of the evidence found in favour of the council and proceeded to convict and fine the sum of 500 euro for each case in order costs of 1142 euro to a total of 4938 euro with five months to pay the council is reminding people that it is illegal to litter or dump waste with the possibility of incurring fines of between 150 euro for an on-the-spot fine and over 4000 euro if convicted in court members of the public have been praised for their reporting of littering or illegal dumping weather night generally cloudy today with scattered shards and some sunny intervals highest temperatures of 12 to 14 degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notice is for this thursday morning may the 12th the death has taken place of charlotte kelly ballet kieran kill mcranon removal from the eternal light chapel of rest mountaintop letter kenny at one o'clock this afternoon going to her home recreation mass on saturday afternoon at half past four in synginons cathedral letter kenny burial afterwards in new lex cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv the death has taken place of mickey duffy karnamati dunfana he his remains are opposing at his late residence funeral mass in st michael's church creaselot two more morning at 11 o'clock followed by burial in dose cemetery mass can be viewed live on mcn media dot tv family time please from 10 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow family flowers only donations if desired the dunning gulf hospice care of any family member or james harkin funeral director the death has occurred of nancy hurl nae baldrick cottageview tommyck bridge end nancy's remains are opposing at her late residence removal tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 to st angus's church birch for recreation mass at 11 o'clock followed by interment in birch cemetery recreation mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family time please from 11 o'clock tonight family flowers only please donations in lay of desire to cancer care west care of any family member or murphy funeral directors the death has occurred of roseanne boil movill and formerly of birch and port her remains are opposing at mcn's funeral home this evening from five o'clock with rosary tonight at eight o'clock removal from there two more morning at half past 10 to st clumbas church acres for recreation mass at 11 o'clock followed by interment afterwards in dunlose cemetery the death has taken place of john call pollard fanid john germans are opposing at his late residence with rosary tonight at nine o'clock house private to family and friends only please recreation mass will be held tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock in st patrick's church balna creek with mariel afterwards in fauna volti graveyard the recreation mass can be viewed live via the st mary's fauna volti and st clumbas mass mind facebook page family flowers only please donations of desire to letter kenny university hospital care of any family member or market here at funeral directors and the death has occurred of tj gibson tolly vinnie refoe and formerly time parks convoy tj is reposing at his late residence tolly vinnie refoe today from four until eight o'clock funeral from his late residence to more morning at half past 10 going to st mary's church convoy for 11 o'clock recreation mass with mariel afterwards in the new cemetery convoy for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio com with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the 90 noon show on the highland radio okay welcome back to the second hour taking rally services from milford sasa caller is an insult to uh the memory of those who fought so hard to get the donningall rally up and running uh another service for the rally in letter kenny puts way too much miles and stress on drivers and rally cars and the designated fuel zone puts more stress on service crew crews and if organizers told the truth the designated fuel zone is more dangerous from experience the fuel fumes in the zone is massive and rally cars can and will backfire and there will be an explosion look there's an awful lot of safety uh employed there but this call says but as long as the letter kenny businesses have all in lk they'll be happy it's going to be one big traffic jam um we are a massive canty and the rally never reaches any other corner but letter kenny and north on the gole what's wrong with other areas and other it's a joke look at the traffic around the town this weekend cars aren't going to have enough fuel in the cars to get back to letter kenny uh leave the europeans at home and give the entries to the loyal irish competitors that support it through thick and thin another can't believe leon blaney's trying to make donningall international rally a political football i'm sure he's got plenty of problems to solve for his people who elected him instead of wasting time on something he's not going to change another amyamagias years of experience in doing things right stand back and let him do his job of course but i hope you understand uh that he will and is uh but people also say for instance in and around the milford area have a right to express their concerns to whether or not they can change things or not and one texture says they're no matter what they say they're not going to change it it's still people have a right uh to say um to say how they feel uh greg amin says people are looking for accommodation for the rally if they're moving everything to letter kenny why would someone want to stay outside the town if everything is going to be centered in letter kenny um the rally was taking place in our area it was too late for us to object by the time we found out fences broken rubbish and beer cans littering the area people urinating in front of our house it's not a sport they believe another people will need a helicopter to get about rally weekend because letter kenny is going to be at a uh standstill um another here how much space is actually needed it was mentioned that there is a business park going into the area uh koala says there is not uh give the strangers entries and leave the locals that keep the other rallies going on reserve another same old story milford was okay over the years but now that it's uh it's a bigger event letter kenny wants it another ostinago competitors don't need this rally any bigger for god's sake stop trying to reinvent the wheel we don't need european outsiders and we've had about four or five messages from people saying that it would be better if some of these spaces went to um local drivers and inverted commas rather than europeans i don't know the ins and outs of course uh on to our comments yesterday about a scam that's going around a lot of people have uh been um relieved of their heart earned cash between 20 and 30 000 pounds uh the story by the way if you weren't listening and you should have been but we understand was that someone on facebook market was advertising a property for rent uh in donny gall and the rent was something like 600 uh pounds per week um a number of people um booked this accommodation it turns out it was located in ben bagg or claimed to be located in bun bagg but it wasn't it was a house from ross nala um and um the advert's still up on facebook market there's a group's been formed of those that have been fraud uh have had the money taken from them by fraud and yet the advert remains this caller though says that if a holiday home is being advertised on facebook prospective customers should ask for the aircode of the property the scammer would not know that uh if using a fake photograph just an idea okay well it could be circumvented but it is another line of security uh greg brexit happened because of working class people's concerns over uncontrolled immigration and since then they've been branded bigots and racist especially by people over here if you're against immigration you are considered uh racist says a caller um i think the i mean it clearly that it's clear that texter you know thinks a little bit different maybe than the mainstream and inverted commas uh but i would argue that very big vested interests used immigration to actually scare people into voting one way or other i know i'm not sure these were genuinely you know held concerns i think those that saw benefits financial benefits business benefits of brexit actually used that issue to try and motivate people to to vote because as it turned out a lot of the people that were afraid of that ended up having to sell their holiday homes in spain and portugal and lanzarote or have to come back and live uh in in britain a certain amount of time of the year um or else they can't uh retain their holiday home in spain or portugal so they didn't vote for that i'm sure uh greg it's the crows taking this white shiny stones of our grave and they started on the black ones okay we had that text earlier thanks for that greg i'm calling from guidore has anyone had any updates about the 100 euro fuel allowance in the area let us know another watch the chance that ukraine will walk away from the eurovision this year the contest will be a political football of course they're going to win there's no there's absolutely no doubt ukraine are going to win the eurovision song contest this year i said it on monday but this caller says the contest will be a political football with every european country biting at the chance to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with ukraine the quality of the song won't matter i can bet that ourland is definitely given the 12 points to ukraine uh yeah but also too it doesn't always play out like that because you remember israel won the eurovision song contest um and um that was a surprise to me because normally it's quite a political event even though it's uh something else so um finland leaders announced decision to apply for natal membership will make things interesting will ourland be next asks a caller um another one says hi greg what's the story with all the audience in the late late show every friday night wearing masks it's become a joke i would sit at home only the city irish thanks i or i don't know i don't watch the program but i did see a clip and i saw everyone was wearing masks um i'm not sure if that's a condition of attending it seems out of touch with what's happening around the country but i don't know right okay i will not delay any further sorry it's just so busy i want to make sure i get to as many of your texts as possible good luck if you are playing the bingo today and here are the numbers and then we'll return afterwards with our next guests it's time for ncbi bingo on highland radio it's thursday the 12th of may jackpot day you're playing for the jackpot prize of 6800 euro on the pink sheet the reference number is 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today on 0749175989 or find us online we'll do the paperwork you do the wallpaper macklehenny and associate solicitors turn order how can we help all right good morning john uh morning greg all right good morning to you right sir your comments on the rally and i just uh didn't know about the red that you're calling tribune last night it's coming late last night and i've seen that no one's actually was on the east but no i can't just say the common sense of because your show every year uh on the monday morning as callers rune leatherkinny giving off stink and they bring all that up there all to leatherkinny no the ideal thing i was to spread out and malford had malford marked as ideal situation and somebody said they got a hard a 10 acre field well malford marked as a hardcore site it's not a field and i can't see and there was a amount of a serious amount of space around malford mark never even was used and you know even the east had an absolute rubbish but there's something something sunny go behind that that's as far as i'm concerned well i mean like we can only go by what aamon said um now you but you are confident that malford is big enough you've you've marshaled at rally's you know the story i'm not sure the rally's sherry and stuff and everybody uh personally i would be a soccer fan but i do like all sports and i like motor sport as well but uh you know i think that's a ridiculous decision plus if you take uh down in malford fallow and some of the best stages is recognized every year on that rally yeah you know and uh i chose very little respect for the people have left the roads we blocked and left them stages to be used i chose no respect whatsoever for them do you think local people will go well if we're not good enough to host uh we're not hold to host the service area then we're not we shouldn't be good enough to host the stages well funny i know i'm about the day and i got two or three phone calls the other day and discussed about it but personally speaking i'll tell you he hasn't had a rally uh the rally's not over yet and it's not wrong and he'll he should be looking very seriously i feel you those stages are now blocked in the malford area i'll tell you because that's what people call that far though john would they really so there's serious anger there's serious anger about that there and i think uh to look at the overall picture and stuff and know and let the kenny mean you tell him to let the kenny the bank holiday monday is nearly impossible and no people cannot ordinary people watching from the side here cannot understand us i mean your show relates to it very good there in a monday morning after the rally the amount of people complaining around that the kenny is absolutely serious great which you know every year it's the same thing but the malford area and a hardcore site and you know malford marty's facility that's done for years and years and the whole area and i think that's that's a serious serious bad decision or no but there's something far as i'm concerned there's something serious more behind it no i'm i wouldn't be happy with and a lot of people's not happy with you know all right john strong points well made appreciate your time this morning you mentioned you were a football fan what team do you support it's not salty that i was going to congratulate you but uh my career my commiserations john all right we'll stick with it it's it's it's stuff all right you had a great manager once it's all right thanks john take a good man all right oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand whatsapps and texts it's okay on twitter i'm it'll jam up better kenny up more than it already is milford is more central for the stages and crews don't forget you can have your say on polls running across our social media channels on this issue we have a twitter poll up at the moment an instagram story poll and a facebook story so we're getting your views everywhere on air and online there was never any obstruction in milford i worked there for years and it wasn't really an issue i don't think it should move i think maybe is this split dependent on where you're from i don't know um we were talking about uh plans um in spain to allow women uh three days off uh per year um to deal with period pain this caller says when i used to get periods they were so painful i could barely walk to the toilet i used to go up to my bed with a hot water bottle uh to my stomach for a bit and then to my back for a bit so i'm very pleased to hear the three day a month off work now it's not proposed for here it's happening in spain and the question was is it something that should be looked at here uh morning just want to ask as a teacher any right to keep a student's phone overnight okay that's an interesting one so it has been confiscated effectively that um i would be i'd have my i'd have concerns about that uh if i were the teacher um it's not something i would want to be involved in anyway greg i'd like to ask anyone wishing to book accommodation to check it out rather than listen to others i'd done that this week and was presently surprised i rang a hotel in dublin and i can get midweek deals not cheap but affordable that comes in from mary and mary that's what we've been trying to sort of uh get across there with that little uh little experiment we did in terms of booking directly uh versus booking dot com on an app versus booking dot com on a computer it's well worth checking out yourself i agree with you greg i wanted to book a hotel in donagore for one night was going to cost me 260 breakfast not included so where was that in what night though you see because i think even yesterday uh it was uh conceded that there's a lot of value between sunday till thursday but in donagore it's a one night town i think the phrase that was used that saturday night it's chock a block that's when prices go up but we're told that between sunday and thursday you can get really good deals uh what say you 08 660 25 000 right we are going to give you a chance to win now two tickets to a show which is taking place in on green on theater and letter kenny on friday night it's uh tommy maran's three hell marys uh it's a rip roaring irish comedy written by tommy maran uh he's the writer of course if it's the real mccoy and nobody's talking to me and is a must see uh you might be on your knees praying but the with these three hell marys you'll definitely be on your knees uh laughing okay so it's uh taking place in on green on tonight there's a few tickets still available by the way if you wish to book you can phone the box office there but we're giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets right now if you can go uh the tax number is 08 660 25 000 just text to whatsapp your name and where you're from if you can go by the way because um there's no point winning the tickets and then not going because it's it's supposed to be a great show and we want people to enjoy it but if you want to go anyway uh ring the box office there and book your tickets for three hell marys we're going to keep the lines open uh just for a couple of minutes uh we are going to take a short break before that a quick cottage a quick cottage a quick comment i have a thatched cottage in in a show and it is insured but 950 euro and all the extra things you have to meet not much incentive to keep it thatched or sorry not much incentive to keep it thatched the government should help i wondered though did you get a renewal for this year and if so uh could you tell us the company maybe we can pass that on to uh rory who we're speaking to earlier uh right but thank you very much for that information okay let's take this quick break we'll be returning with some music the nine till noon show with city of dairy airport pre-brook your airport parking fast track and launch access at cityofdairyairport.com for a stress-free start to your trip COVID-19 can still cause serious illness especially in people at higher risk we 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the diversity of african cultures we're joined in studio now by saweba akmed who is from the donagall intercultural platform good morning to you thank you for calling and nice to see you again good morning great how are you i am good i'm good right so excited about saturday i know a lot of organization has gone into it tell us what people can look forward to africa day is really uh very very fun and it's important day it is marking you know the independence of africa and you can expect you know the food the dance the happiness and also it is like family friendly event and it's really good we're looking forward to it and all free of charge we can't say that about much nowadays sir can we so that's uh that's good yeah yeah okay so we're excited to to have that after in person you know after a long time yeah of course it's it's another it's another event that we weren't able to do for a couple of years yeah we missed the last one yeah yeah of course right so it's focused in the letter kenny rcc and on green on theater and runs between 11 and 6 p.m so uh a lot to pack in in a relatively short amount of time yeah it is you know uh exhibition and also there is children's game and also from from 11 to 6 it is fun and uh for family like uh free and when we talk about uh you know listening to african music tasting african foods i mean africa is a continent of course and there are many the most important thing yes it is not a country it's a continent a continent and there are many different foods different music different cultures within different languages different everything and you know uh it is one of the biggest uh continent as well so sometimes people just confusing it like a country but it's like a continent just like you know saying uh about france germany uk they are all european yeah exactly but they are countries you know so i'm going to discover myself to explore and navigate myself you know exactly because then there could be this it could be this default view that well you know we don't uh in europe if you live in europe you don't know every culture and and every music and everything the same you live in africa you don't know every okay and i think too it's important because i would get a sense particularly if you move from uh if you move from a country in africa to arland or anywhere for that matter that you might feel you lose a little bit of your identity because you are just you know described as being from africa you just you don't lose it you miss it yeah but i'm about not inside yourself but just the the public perception of you of course yes it's really hard and it's a lot of work and we're working on that and it's a great opportunity you know to have the recognition you know to present the culture as it is to discover it all together and it's a great space for diversity and people coming together you know do we know um how big the population of people uh originally from africa is around latrican around donagol like is it a large i'm not too sure about numbers but you know you can they are visible you can see them every step in the town you know you can see them but they are a lot and also at the very beginning you know because of the commonwealth there is a lot of them like generations they are not you know just coming newly oh of course yes yeah of course um that that's uh second third generations yeah of course um right so uh i'll run through some of the things people can look forward to well the the headlines are you can listen to african music um from all different countries of course tastes african foods learn to to groove the african way yeah it is different you know myself from my own experience in my country even the soil is different yes you know buying it and having the beddings and preparing like sometimes covering it and doing a lot of stuff in my country if you just eat a seed and you just drop it it will start growing in my house you know so and it is really like stiff it is uh more solid than the soil i got over here uh it is a little bit different and also uh there is many different countries do it different way but in my country it's just that simple you know personally okay so all events are free of charge and everyone's invited to attend running right through from 11 a.m to 6 p.m the morning events will include exhibitions talks workshops and storytelling sessions the afternoon we'll see a colorful family fun day taking over on green on theater's plaza which is great about the weather isn't it because you know you can organize these things especially uh if they've got an outdoor field to it and they can be washed out but we know the weather it's crazy weather it's always better i mean the last two days there's been every weather hailstones yeah sunshine everything in one day i know but saturday we're assured uh it's not going to be a wash out so at uh on green on theater's plaza from 2 p.m to 6 p.m there's traditional and contemporary dance displays and workshops face painting hair braiding henna tattoos as well as african dj's and live music from the wonderful um adenie allen taylor afro beat orchestra i hope i got the pronunciation correct there so that's fantastic to have those guys a lot more you know uh in real gathering you will see people with their traditional costume i'll be there with my sudanese ladies you know wearing my traditional clothes you know it's nice to get dressed up too isn't it and have a reason to do so of course yeah it's really fun yeah exactly okay um everyone's invited by the way and um as i say it's free i would be really interested in the foods i like to try different flavors different tastes it's a great experience and it's lovely food and it's really different what's your uh home country or the country in which you were born i know you're you're you've been here an awful lot so what would be you know of sudanese meal you know i'm starving here so what would be a nice sudanese meal there is uh some similarity you know oh that's quite boring no no not too much the spices are different yes you know and i have a simple recipe you couldn't imagine it we call it salad and dacqua which is a salad you just put like tomatoes with bean and butter with what sorry bean and butter okay yes and lemon and you just uh a little bit of uh onion and it tastes really good and it's special and it is sudanese yeah you know okay and also the meat and we just prepare it differently just like slow cooking marinating a lot of the marinating yes and slow cooking maybe two three hours of cooking so it's just pure tender sounds to me and also too you can use better cuts of it you can use you know all of all of the animal too because the tougher cuts too uh slow cook them to the end up being really tender okay lovely um so it's just turn up on the day uh so Eva isn't it there's nothing more complicated than that you're just inviting everyone uh if they want to uh experiencing something new or just to get together with other people uh and have fun it's going to be fun and explore you know and discover and navigate you know cultures and yeah okay um and the last one was held a couple of years ago was it how long ago was it since the last one was held more than two years okay and was there a good turnout for that oh my god massive yeah brilliant okay so we won it was in the library at the library yeah okay brilliant stuff all right okay so that's uh Donagall Africa Day uh supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Irish Aid which is important to get that support because you need that little bit of support for everything that uh it is celebrated around the world you know so it's great to have that you know numbers and support in Ireland okay um Donagall Africa Day free entry of course it's based in the letter Kenny RCC and then uh the on green on theater uh from 11 to 6 p.m from 11 a.m to 2 p.m workshops and exhibitions I think this is good to bring the whole family as well you know people from all different ages and not just letter Kenny as well people could come in to letter Kenny yeah everybody's welcome really great fun all right and the real fun starts at 2 p.m I'm sure it's going to be fun between 11 and 2 uh but it is discovery it is awareness you know diversity and prizes listen it sounds like it's going to be great um and I hope you enjoy your day thank you and your dress you've been able to dress up and that's that's the the wonderful thing about it too listen thanks so much great to see you again thank you so much okay how's the work going with the Donagall intercultural platform busy busy busy of course you're always busy you know very very busy and they are doing like unique work we're keeping that up and we'll continue to do with helping people also you know we're working with the refugees and the direct provision and now recently you know the ukrainian also it's a lot of work but we are there for it okay brilliant stuff thank you very much indeed that was uh so 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day may 13th see on granon dot com or call 07 4 9 1 2 0 7 double 7 okay you're welcome back to the program and if you want to see our next guest the author of chop cook yum dear drea dole hop on to our social media actually primarily go to our website highland radio dot com you'll see the link there you can go directly to uh youtube as i mentioned dear drea dole founder of the cool food school and author of chop cook yum quite a bit of tongue twisting going on in there but i think i pulled it off good morning dear drea morning graga thanks very much you're not the first radio presenter to have said that you know yes cool food school and author of chop cook yum okay listen this is the new book that's out now how has there been a time when we are more involved in cooking our own food i wonder dear drea and you know you know actually using the kitchen and not just its microwave is there is there a time when we weren't involved is it i just feels like you know in this era i think everyone sort of wants to try their hand at cooking yes yes i know i suppose over covid um there was a lot of back to the kitchen and but what i found over covid was that most of what people were doing and especially with their kids because that's obviously what i focus on all the time is baking and baking is brilliant and it's a great activity to do with your kids but at the end of the day when your child was off to university or third level or whatever if they go to work they cannot survive on banana bread and chocolate chip cookies so i think there's well there's lots of baking going on i think over over lockdown in particular there was kind of a missed opportunity there to kind of focus more on cooking with our kids when we had a bit more time to do so yeah and it's it's speg ball old pizza isn't it for the first year of college yeah yeah yeah beans a lot of beans on toast as well although if you're if you're a person who can cook in college i think you'll you'll be guaranteed friends for for your couple of years there that's it you're gonna make something while we talk aren't you i am yeah who knew cooking on live radio uh well it's all multi-platform now there's people watching on on our social media on our website keen to see you make banana pancakes yeah so that's just a banana that's just a banana and then you slice some pancake and you slice some banana on it knows it more complex no no no no this is a very simple recipe break um for kids to make um it's in my cookbook it's on just show you there i've called it bestest banana pancakes lovely stuff okay yep it's really simple so a lot of the recipes that i've engaged in the book they're actually very simple because you have to take into account what kids can and can't read for a start and and also what they you know their capabilities and i've done a lot of cooking with kids over lockdown so and this really helped inform the rest of my choice of recipes for the book so for this and i simple is best in my book and again it's going back to that thing about people not having the time to cook and if a recipe's got loads and loads of different ingredients in it it's a bit off-putting for people so um it's nice simple concise recipes are great and so to make banana pancakes uh great we're literally it's a banana and an egg like how simple can you get two lovely gorgeous whole foods and so i go ahead and start making this one yeah go ahead yeah yeah and i'll ask a few questions whilst you do yeah great so with the banana this is one thing i always do at kids because i go into a lot of skills and teach kids um about sewage and about um simple cooking is to get them to listen to the banana so they're all gone why are you talking about but to listen to a banana you simply just open it like that yes didn't make a snap but sometimes they'll make a lovely resounding snap like this one you listen to this yes i know yeah it's talking to me now i'm thinking that this might be a good thing to do uh when the bananas start to go a little bit overripe that children can turn their nose up at them is that a good time to uh think about banana pancakes absolutely yeah yeah you can make these with yeah there's slightly right but obviously the banana pancakes gonna be a little bit sweeter yeah and so just put it on a plate yes top tip and it's much easier to mash the banana on a plate than in a bowl yes so this is so child friendly i mean any child like from about age two up can do this like mash a banana but can i talk to you about this book and clearly you know it is uh targeted at not just children but children to understand and want to prepare healthy foods but you know there's a lot of adults that you know your adult cookbooks they start too far advanced do you know what i mean and i think something like this is great for people uh even grown-ups who want to start uh because you know it is easy to understand there's a there's a there's not a whole lot of uh ingredients in there so it's a great starter book for adults too even though the target audience uh clearly is is younger people does that make sense dear dear yeah it's funny a lot of um people who bought the book have said to me oh my god i can't wait to cook some of the recipes that it's for myself and like recipes are recipes like food is food it like we shouldn't really be distinguishing between food for kids and food for adults food is food and like this thing of you know kids menus in restaurants and all that i'm not a big lover i've come to be quite honest because well you know what it is it's gushans and chips it's sausage and chips it's chicken burger and chips that's often what the child child's menu is it's not a smaller it's not a smaller portion it's not like a child's portion of a Caesar salad or something it's straight to the fryer yeah yeah i know why is not why why can't our kids just eat normal food because our kids are really fussy i was in a place i was in a place and on the children's menu it was soup it was beautiful wholesome soup and we were sitting there and there were five tables each with the child added and each with a full bowl of soup the bread had been the bread was gone but the soup was still there so i think we have a bit of work to do at home before we can expect maybe the restaurant tours to sort of add a little bit more variety in the in the um in the children's section maybe dirger yeah yeah i don't disagree with that great but um i think also i i'd be a big proponent of uh offering food to your kids even if they've refused it because the um statistics kind of say that it takes the child maybe between eight and from seven to fifteen to twenty times to accept a new food yes whereas we as parents give up after three attempts three spoons yeah yeah so i'd say you give them tomatoes today they're going to eat it you give them tomatoes tomorrow they don't eat it you give them tomatoes at very time and they don't eat them so then we give up giving them tomatoes they're like well that's it they don't like them they're never gonna like them um so i know as i'm a parent myself and i know how frustrating it is when your child will eat the food that you've given them but we need to continually offer that food to them um in lots of different ways and i think yeah we've only we've only mashed a banana so far so now we're cracking an egg we're too busy having the chats okay so crack an egg whatever way you want to crack it um i'm just going to crack it with my fork here so really really really simple batter and that's it like what child wouldn't be able to make this so the sorry is it just an egg and banana it is just an egg and a banana right so there's no flour or milk right impressive just an egg and a banana and you twist it up so really really simple i mean of course you can add in flour if you want yeah but this is so simple this is so simple and it takes like that's it and it's really it's a really really good one for um for my mother loves this this is one of my mother's favorite recipes she makes this all the time and so as a really simple lunch and for there we go back to our college students again and really simple cheap lunch for them to make for proteins from the egg and i'm really really tasty and a great way to get eggs into someone as well and a great way to get eggs into somebody as well yeah absolutely um and they're really tasty and you can top them with whatever you want i've a bit of a gorgeous spinach yoghurt here actually yogurt some fruit some cacao nibs which may not be everybody's uh and dirga how does it set does it uh does it um is it like an omelet or how will it how will it take what's the texture yeah it actually does look a little bit like a pancake so i see it now when when it cooks but yeah and you can make i'm going to make them quite small and because they they can kind of they're hard to flip if you make very big ones um so let me get my bottom out of i'm just going to put a spoonful of that onto the pan and then i'll show you when it's ready to flip fantastic so other things uh you can make uh there's wedges in there there's snacks in a hoary there's totally terrific tomato toasties which look absolutely gorgeous uh even if you didn't like them uh dinky apple doughnuts cheesy broccoli oh why did they stop at that one quesadilla quesadilla what is it quesadilla quesadilla that's how posh i am uh and uh you know items of food that that will give an energy boost if that's what you want uh banana sushi as well uh and like it's fun do you know what i mean there's a lot of stuff in there but you've kind of thought a wee bit outside the box your people are going to be discovering new things there dear dream yeah absolutely uh my business is all about making food fun for kids because i think that makes it much more accessible for children than so it's not about sitting down and saying to johnny or mary sit there and eat your broccoli it's not about that it's about and bringing the broccoli away from the table maybe and making broccoli rice with it or with the tomatoes we do i do a whole story around tomatoes and the kids get to squash tomatoes and they get to leave them they get to stick them out so it's it's it's about making them form away from the table as well okay is that banana pancake ready because the line's fading a little bit on us on us and it's uh i just want to see it see what it looks like i'm just going to flip it now of course we're having a flip very well don't you know well i'm presuming you always do it live dear that's no excuse i understand i'm being cheeky i'm being cheeky i'm sorry and where can people get the book uh chop cook yum it's got a very distinctive cover i'll show to the camera here uh for anyone watching back or who's watching us live here at the moment uh is it all the usual uh bookstores uh or what way are you distributing it yeah it's uh it's foolish why you're buying press so it's available at uh i think most bookshops and then it's also available on my website uh the cool food school dot i e okay that's the cool food school dot i e okay we've 15 seconds will it be ready okay i'm ready i'm ready i'm ready there are lots in here and i'm glad you put me under a lot of pressure Greg did not have one to one side so there we go i know they don't look the best no i could eat it no that looks lovely that looks good they're really tasty and really easy to see listen lovely stuff dear driddle thank you so much thank you so much great thanks for being a good sport by the way and doing that that live for us as well i do appreciate that okay take care of yourself bye bye okay that is dear driddle founder of cool food school and author of chop cook young that book it's uh out right now uh and as i say lots of stuff in there i think for grown-ups to start their cooking journey as well as for the younger people okay we're going to be answering your relationship questions with key lead taverner uh and much more 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sunny interludes the spell of more persistent rain will move in from the west during the late afternoon and evening highest temperatures of 12 to 14 degrees in fresh southwest breezes psychotherapist author and coach keely at taverna joins us on the program now great to see you again keely how are you i'm well thank you very much how are you doing how is life treating you well no complaints i am grateful no dramas all right that's the way you want to isn't it keep it like that uh right okay we'll get into straighten some questions and we'll tease out some some conversations we normally do keely if that's all right this caller says myself and partner of seven years have finally decided it's time to move in together i got offered my dream job here in donagall where i speak to you from uh and he is in dublin we've been doing long distance for a year now we're both just finished college and can't refuse the job offers we've decided to put careers first but what point will one of us have to give in an uproot neither of us want to resent the other but we can't do the distance thing forever ones dream jobs down in the capital in dublin their other dream job is uh in the northwest in uh donagall it's a tough one that it is a tough one and actually you will get to a point where you reach across roads and you'll have to make a decision about what you choose to prioritize the reality is yes one can choose to prioritize their career but we also have human needs the human need for love connection and reciprocity so it's not necessarily easy but you know you know also if you're thinking about children biological clocks we also know that for females that's something they have to be far more conscious of than their male counterparts and so that can also be a part that informs decision making so i think i think you've set yourself a timeline that has changed and it may well be in your benefit to think about well if we're making this choice to set another time frame and then revisit that yeah i think the key word that jumped out for me in that last comment there was we because this has to be joined doesn't it because you couldn't have any situation where resentment could set in you know maybe whichever one is is at home with the baby if that comes along their careers and hold the other is traveling all over the place maybe with their job resentment could easily begin to set in it has to be a we decision there doesn't it absolutely checking in with each other making a time frame and for some people if you choose to prioritize your career we know for for women say that can be quite essential you know up until their 33 you know it's up until then by their 30s we need to really have things quite clear being that we have that our biological clocks sometimes that can inform people inform people's decisions but it's to remain open and communicate about those challenges otherwise if you've got one partner bending and the other one is just the daring it's it's not helpful and sometimes people may have to choose to part ways if you know people are adamant that they both want to pursue careers there comes a point where that does compromise the relationship unfortunately yeah because it's not just careers too it's a very different life in the northwest of Ireland versus Dublin as well you know maybe one might more they like the potentially more relaxed lifestyle perhaps arguably a better environment for raising children compared to the city life so it's not just jobs there's an awful lot in there as well I think there's also one of the most important fundamentals for relationships values you know and it's to check whether you and your partner have the same values in terms of moving forward do you want the rural lifestyle do you want the city lifestyle if there's too much conflict on those important values that creates havoc in a relationship yes well there's an interesting storyline on coca melon at the moment I'm not sure if you're familiar with coca melon it's a story for toddlers and there's a city mouse and a country mouse and they try and visit each other but eventually the city mouse settles in the city and the country mouse settles in the country sorry I've hurt my back and I'm making myself laugh um coca melon is making me go crazy do you have any advice on how to communicate to a friend who's consistently putting her boyfriend and boyfriends s is in brackets before her friends it's happened with her past few relationships and each one is the love of her life we'd never want hurt her feelings but it's difficult constantly being put next best I suspect that this person might be part of the social circle when they're single they don't see her when she's in a relationship and then she comes back then when she's single again it seems to be peeing off her friends keely well firstly would be to communicate your frustration to your friend you know have you had that uncomfortable conversation with your friend about what you've began to notice because the reality is you may well feel used I think they want to they're at the point now where judging by the text that they they want to communicate it so it is a difficult conversation is there a tried and tested way to broach it well I think sometimes you break you can brace someone for a conversation that actually you know um I want to have a what I want to have a word let we need to have a conversation why I've began to notice you can be you can brace someone that you want to have that conversation with them but again it depends on that person style if you've got someone who's um defended who's not open who's going to flip things and put it upon you then well that's their truth you have to respond accordingly but before you make any decisions about that relationship give the person the opportunity to be able to become aware become conscious of what they're doing and that then can you know enable them to um Eva make choices do different choices or continue in the same vein but you have a you have a decision to make as to whether that works for you yeah I'm finding myself becoming more jealous I loved how much time I got to spend with my partner during the lockdowns and now that outings are becoming popular again I feel so jealous when they go out with their friends I don't know why this is happening I trust fully my partner am I going mad not necessarily jealousy is um always about a fear of loss but it also may mean that you've become overly dependent on one person for your own activities it would make me curious about your own life things that you do your own friendship circles whether your life is small do you open yourself up to new opportunities potentially you may well have um kind of um want to say piggybacked off of your partner which may well have resulted you having to not think about your own activities and as life's changed you're kind of left on the hard shoulder thinking I wish that was me I wish that was me it actually may well be an opportunity for you to think about well what do you want yourself what are your activities the interests the hobbies that you have that's healthy for relationships it prevents things like a measurement where people's identities become morphed with somebody else's so it can be quite an important turning point and also too presumably Keely our emotions are complex what one emotion that we might feel is love could be more of a possessive emotion it's complicated it can be complicated and that's not necessarily referencing that caller there but more generally speaking yeah absolutely and it's okay you know I mean it's okay to feel insecure it's okay to feel envy it's okay to feel jealous um the the the real the real important aspect is what you actually do about that what do you actually do about that what is going on for your own identity and yes people can dress up love um um think it's love but it's actually possessiveness and you'll know that because you have a sense of wanting to control somebody you may well where the thing is you may not become conscious of it but it's to become aware that you know endeavoring to become aware that they actually there is a desire to control someone which is never a healthy factor for a relationship yeah I mean and in that caller's comment there they say that they trust their partner completely it's them socializing with their friends um it could they maybe try and try and socialize more I don't know they don't say whether they're socializing together at all at all but you know presumably the the person wants to feel involved as well it's because they say there's not a trust issue there yes but it can also be about somebody who whose own identity might be slightly fragile right okay therefore therefore you end up piggybacking off of your partner constantly um um and then you know associating in the circles that are their circles which can cause problems in the long run because it's also about what what about for you it also may mean you put your all your eggs in one basket your identity becomes morphed with somebody else's and then you know the jealousy increases or then you start to you know create havoc when they're going to go out and all of a sudden you know it becomes an argument this might be about your own fears it doesn't stand still does it invariably will faster and it will morph and it will change and it will adapt okay and that and that's to pay attention to uh Greg and Keely I will be married 27 years this year my husband and I are together 30 years we have had a long distance relationship for 28 years and have four children I was lucky enough to be able to stay at home and rare the children it's only since covid that we've spent so much time together that's horses for courses though that's worked for them and and that's what you always say I think Keely to kind of paraphrase it a bit you talk and you if what you want and what your part want of it all matches they didn't say how it's going they didn't say though how it's going that they're spending more time through covid but presumably okay um okay if hoping for children then go to where you have family support it can be difficult without support to raise children in the city that's a comment as it relates to our earlier question again that's another thing that has to be has to be factored in isn't it you know the woman is going to bear the child um if if she were to be in Dublin and our family in the northwest that is another thing that has to be factored in there absolutely because support is vital you know in terms of having children and so they're important factors because of you know the way that you know kind of gets back into the kind of biology of everything you know that females carry the children often carry the majority of the responsibility but also you may have the added adage of who is the breadwinner who earns more money we know that that can also influence is who does stay at home and who does return to work and we know that there are more stay at home dad it's it's a conversation to be really conscious about and to be clear about and like I said that sometimes the relationship sometimes love isn't enough and it may mean that if our values are too different people have to consider whether long term that relationship is going to be can we do that if two people love each other but they just can't sort that out can they walk away it's like a love story keely well people have choices you know and sometimes you know the love may be there but it may not be the right time for those individuals if you've got two people who are dead set on their careers and no no one wants to shift then you're going to hit a brick wall the reality but like I said that's the reality but generally the issue is often females have a biological clock which means that they have to get things clearer and much quick sorted much more quicker and we know that many women carry regrets about you know choosing their career that balance between you know working and motherhood it's is very tricky times in terms of you know what that means having to have two incomes and also to yeah also to that uh that dilemma you talk of there and what can lead to that resentment still in this day and age it's it's something has to be sorted out privately you can't have that conversation publicly or it could be held against you in the workplace or or what have you to that's still where we're at absolutely but we also know you know depending on what people do for careers we also know that motherhood can also be an opportunity where people think about how can I stay at home how can I work in a different way in terms of um you know creating my own income in ways that maybe we wouldn't have thought about before that is actually really viable for people so it's it's a dilemma but it's a choice that people have to have to make at some point because you know biology is against you all right only time for one more out of nowhere my wife my wife left I came home one evening and she was gone it was like something from a film I was frantic for a week uh searching for her mental health never appeared to be an issue so I just couldn't understand what happened now she's back but all my family and friends are saying I shouldn't give her another chance she claimed its mental health and no one else was involved my mom keeps saying be grateful there are no children involved and she's only back to clean out the bank account should I listen to them or should I put trust one more time in my wife well if she's back to clean out your bank account you'll soon work that out because you'll notice the decline in your funds so firstly I would potentially think about getting a professional involved thinking about having that difficult difficult conversations to understand if people have ulterior motives they usually do come to the fore and it's to be conscious of that um do you have joint bank accounts is money separate this is an important conversation to have but also to think about where you are vulnerable if you think that somebody's only out for financial gain it would be about what do you need to put in place if you have joint bank accounts do you need to start to make choices about what you separate because that is also particularly important if you think you're going to be robbed by someone or someone's taking your kindness for weakness it may be uncomfortable but there may be other things that you need to put in place one thing can be seen a couple therapists you know I've been able to assist people in very difficult circumstances to have difficult conversation and actually as a therapist I've raised issues around finances and how things will work out and I think too kitty they would benefit from talking to someone like you I feel because the tone of that text seemed to suggest to me that the the person that the man it seems in this situation uh judging by the phraseology has not really had a satisfactory explanation as to why uh the the woman left to begin with and there's not enough there to sort of silence the the author noises in the room so to speak you know what I mean and I get the impression that they're saying I can't I don't want to talk about it I just wasn't in a good space and that's not enough to move forward speaking to someone like you I think an awful lot would be teased out there absolutely and people can often hide and use mental health as a way to create excuses for poor behavior you know let's be frank about that you know mental health is is very popular it's very you know it's in it's people are becoming much more aware of that sometimes people can be unscrupulous and use that as a way to shut down conversations so it's almost like well then you can't go there because it's my mental health challenges or to camouflage bad decisions that there you go or to disguise ulterior motives and then to stonewall you if you feel stonewalled by somebody if they use for example say well it's a mental health problem that's why I left and then they're not enabling you to be curious or open then that stonewalling in itself is a form of manipulation kelly sorry thank you partner call wants to know do you do that type of mediation I don't know if that's the right word like we're doing now remotely or or do you do it in person or what's the situation yep absolutely I see people remotely we we you know I ask the difficult questions I see individual I'll see a couple first together and then I see a couple separately in order to work out ask questions that maybe I may not want the other partner to be conscious of to kind of get curious about some of the issues that have come up and so yes it's a what it's a it's a to my mind it's it's it's a good opportunity to get into the meat let's say yeah all right listen kelly thank you as always if people want to check out more information on you just remind us of the website kelly you can find me at 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county dunnygall itself um i suppose at the moment um it's important to point out it is only a proposal but the education authority um of northern ireland have proposed that that our school should close as as they would deem it as unsustainable um the policy in the north would be that a rural school should have at least 105 children um with its enrollment in order to be sustainable but but particularly for rural schools that that's sometimes near unimpossible to meet to meet um and that makes fighting to be sustainable all the time difficult it feels like the framework for its closure is is being set in stone and we're just going through a process at the moment we're certainly within that process but it is only a proposal and and ultimately the decision is made by the education minister who sits in the department which would be the body above the education authority okay um so while it doesn't meet the criteria set out i presume the president for strong arguments being made and schools being retained there is hope here damien absolutely there's always hope you know and over the past number of of years the past three years particularly we've we've invested heavily in the school you know we have a stable leadership management through myself in place as principal you know we have a very dedicated staff network and a fantastic group of of parents and families around us and and the improvement and and the positivity around all of that particularly from the parents in the community is showing already that that the numbers are rising you know we as i said we have 44 the minute we're predicting 49 maybe 50 in september and the forward growth going forward um you know hopefully leaving us a capacity within the next three to five years yeah and it's not just this school it's under a set of proposals with i think another 227 primary schools and post primary schools falling below the threshold of minimal pupil numbers now i don't want you to make the argument of course of the department of education damien but are there alternatives close by that could take on the the current crop of not crop the current cohort of pupils as far as facts and figures are presented there there is capacity within the city you know to take on the number of four children i would suppose but you know you'll certainly find from talking to parents that that in the north particularly they made a choice and and the choice is there to pick a school and they made a choice to come here regardless if they're passing five schools or they're passing no schools they still have the right to make that choice or to have that preference well let's speak to one of those parents uh that is sarah hi sarah hi i'm okay you have a child at least one in this school very happy with it i presume this morning ran out of the car and didn't even say bye mommy um he runs on as happy as lauri um whereas i find when i had her in a nursery school um i wasn't that wasn't the same reaction you know not all children thrive in big environments uh by school settings and i can simply say that my daughter is better should say a smaller rural setting um i'm very adamant to keep my daughter uh within the school of belugrae and i will continue to fight among with many other parents that's what it's going to say it's not just you it's a testimony to the school that a lot of parents and of course the staff are are preparing and are trying to get they're supporting it but they're trying to get a broader support for it the school absolutely and the school deserves it the school has been there in the community for over a hundred and fifty years now and not only that um the way that this is being handled at the education afford is absolutely disgraceful so with the parents were actually asked to join us in on monday which everyone has opposed we all had to join them obviously but were opposed to how it's being handled as you know it's robotic there's no empathy there's no sympathy um it's very much for the education afford and my eyes to take a box and it's not actually coming to see our children getting word from our children and at the end of the day also parents the staff and everyone in the community we are the voice for our children and we fight us um the education afford they are going to just go on ahead from what i i'm saying it's almost like they want to close it obviously it is a remark but that's not it's definitely not right um one of the schools one of the very schools um which would be the only other school that i would possibly consider if having to which i don't have which i hope that doesn't come to it's a full capacity for my daughter um they wouldn't actually be able to take her in which would mean i am laying set back they do i say in my school they're caholic or do i say my daughter they're caholic or Protestant school and you know it's northern Ireland 2022 this is ridiculous integrated schools you know close community is the way forward of course and i'll bring damien back in there because you work with two schools in the republic as well damien as well i mean this is where we should be hoping to go and see more of rather than you know uh getting rid of schools and i also wonder just ask you you know do the educational authority in this process uh consider from where you've come and as you've mentioned earlier where you hope the school may be i think that to take your first point about you know we do have a cross community cross cross border relationship with st joseph's national school in rath mullin and air hill national school in remelton and that's now into the sixth year of that partnership and critically you know greg we're one of only 16 schools in the whole of northern ireland involved in a partnership which is cross border and and and do you take that this school out of that partnership and that reduces and can only reduce further and in my opinion the similar to to um serles you know we we are in 2022 it's time that that these types of partnerships were explored and well damien we're spending millions of piece funding to achieve precisely what's already happening here and yet to save money arguably and there's a strong argument gets that i'm sure because of if you factored in convenience and everything we're actually undoing what's happening organically on the ground absolutely and has been as i say we're we're going into our sixth year of that relationship now and and uh we somewhere to rath mullin and air hill would be would be lost without that partnership and i know they would feel the loss if we weren't part of that partnership um but you know your second point based on on are the education authority aware of what we have done and what we are doing they are there they're fully aware you know we have we have submitted a number of of lengthy documents from the board of governors which outline um particularly where we were and and management terms before my appointment came to where we have come now and the progress that we have made and and you know if i give you some numbers for instance in 2019 just before i was appointed we didn't bring any children into our primary one or very first year group um in 2020 we had six plus four across the rest of the school 10 and total 21 we had nine and then we're predicting another nine for 2022 you know there is clear progression there and and enrollment and while it's it is small currently there is no reason why given the appropriate time that we can't come to full enrollment and then be requesting for more space all right either Damian or Sarah if people listening want to make a representation or have their say as part of this consultation period i'll ask you Sarah what do you suggest people do i would suggest that people get behind us um contact the school it's also online for you to do a session form um through um your views it's like a survey and i would ask as many people as possible to spell that out um before our voice is being heard i feel that's going to go on ahead we need to we need to make a stand here we need to ensure that our i mean our children have the right to an education i believe my child has the right to a shared education and that shouldn't ball down day her gondola green school or an orange school it should ball down day an integrated education at the end of the day because this is where we are trying to move okay and last word to you Damian at similar i just back up exactly what Sarah's saying in a way i've seen an outpouring of support from the community and parents over the past certainly overall of my tenure here but it absolutely has has really increased and over the past 10 days and it's great to see that having the community business homes anybody behind us is only going to stand the benefit to keep what we provide in this community you know we have we have a right to remain in this community and and and and we should have the time to prove that that we are a sustainable school going forward thank you very much indeed both of you that was Damian okane principal of belugre national school uh and also uh sarah lee there who is a concerned parent who has a daughter there right uh your views are 86 60 25 000 it's been a busy show today uh with the amount of you texting in we do appreciate it i'll get to uh i hope most of the comments before the end of the show uh we'll be joined by our next guest after a quick break beef prices smash records as live exports soar for more in this week's irish farmers journal his paul mooney march trade and fire is demand for livestock reaches new highs as dairy markets boom we examine the outlook for milk prices tarnish the commits to no cut and cattle numbers and finds for dog attacks and livestock to rise to 5000 euros plus don't miss our new silage series sharing tips for budgeting and improving silage quality on your farm only inside this week's irish farmers journal you cannot afford to miss it dunneagle county council invites you to a 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close mave yeah and it certainly is the feeling the meeting with the education i saw already the other night um it certainly was the feeling and the reason that that decision has been made there was some very compelling arguments uh made to them of why this type of education doesn't exist anywhere else and it's quite unique um i mean reading their website they talk about uh an inclusive and a progressive society um and they talk about an integrated education and i can't see how in 2022 where we're at that we're in a position where one of the few integrated schools that we do have and one of the few rural ones they have that they would even dream of closing up and even as a parent though you have to want your best for your children you've got one child already in the school another will be starting soon that continuance you know that that should have shared ethos between the the two children and sort of you know one following like lots of us uh me and lots of people listening you go to the same school as your siblings you know there's a lot there for for for you uh to want to keep this open absolutely and i've had an experience where my time didn't start in blingery and the reason she didn't start there was no one taking that year that mr okay and referred to and that really was a management issue in that life squarely with the education authority they made some very poor decisions and the school like leadership and now the school and my child and my children are going to suffer because of the decisions that the educational authority had made you should take responsibility for those they've got the right person in the position now and the upward trajectory of numbers will have a full capacity in a very short space of time the community are behind us and the children are safe and secure they're happy they're going up there and the most peaceful environment surrounded by nature and they are excelling my child missed out on so much of her education through covid i was a healthcare worker i didn't get to sit and home school in the way that the other parents did um but aside from that she has now taken math with p4 class because she's excelling there academically and i really feel i wouldn't be doing the school justice i've just talked about academia because it's so much more than that the amount of nurture our kids are getting there is second to none she's taking two of the classes a week along with place everybody get over covid and all those children are flourishing they will not have that opportunity anywhere else all right may listen thank you for that uh katie also a concerned parent hi katie hi how are you doing great uh i know a lot of is to echo what's gone before but the more voices we hear from uh the better um i mean the element too is is that they don't think what's going on here justifies the expense you know that uh this school is not worthy of keeping going not worthy of investment i mean it'd be very easy to feel like that i mean obviously what we're hearing now uh what we're hearing today proves that's simply not the case but that must be katie to some extent how it feels yeah certainly as as the garrison dman says monday night as we know they wouldn't do the face-to-face but throughout the whole consultation they did say it wasn't money-oriented however at the end they did say that's an f pie but everybody needs to get a share of and basically it just seemed that we're not worthy of the crumbs of that pie now like the girls i've had an older child who's went there she's excelled she has went on to grammar school as if you look at the statistics of that school so many of the children did and they've gone on to do absolutely amazing stuff i have a younger child who's currently there and she went to uh was on walking distance at uh playgroup because there was 20 plus in the class she was traumatized daily she cried leaving going down the doors leaving me walking away crying and to this day i can't talk about that school because it traumatizes her to think about it so to me my two children have the best start in life with delivery in the future and they take it away now from a child that's currently in p2 just is going to start that traumatization of moving to another school again and it's made because it's not all just about the education the school is in absolutely in a unique position the staff are absolutely unique and they know the parents they know the children the children knows the very cleaner in the school because they all have that closely rapport and they just are it's like a family and it's like a family to us as parents as well as to those children and to lose it is just going to be absolutely devastating for us all not just the children but us as well no of course and we want the best for our children you talked about the trauma your child went through before and to have to revisit that is unimaginable i'd imagine katie thanks for your time this morning thank you very much 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well if it's not already contact the the police in the north or guardi in the south if you have seen um donal who's just traveling maybe donal if you're listening to obviously your family are concerned they just want to hear you're okay so if you could touch base with home and ease their concerns that would be great okay uh check out an image on my facebook there or as i say it'll be up on the stations one shortly if not already now if you are a parent or not a parent you may um feel alarmed uh from some of the news coverage as it relates to an acute form of hepatitis it is uh affecting children it's sprung up uh recently in a number of countries including uh arland now unfortunately the health services executive has confirmed that a child uh who has been treated for an acute form of hepatitis has uh died now this is incredibly rare as as far as i understand but we have an expert uh that will fill in all of that for us in dr denis macaulay gp and chair of the gp committee with the i uh mo good morning to you uh dr macaulay thanks for taking the call this morning good good morning great uh before we talk about uh these rare cases because i understand we don't really know where it's coming from uh ordinarily um when do we see hepatitis do we see it in children and is it uh does it have as serious outcomes as some as what we're hearing now so let's just talk about hepatitis in inverted commas and a normal situation um hepatitis generally means an infection of your kid of your liver you know what this is in fact of her hepatitis generally caused in children by i think called hepatitis a it's very rare um it's generally to do with the quality of the water uh you'll your listeners will realize when you go on holidays you generally recommend to get a hepatitis a uh vaccine it's just to prevent you getting that so it is very rare um it's a very rare condition in children mainly if there's a hepatitis it's not due to an infection it's due to uh have a a inborn um uh metabolic thing in your your ability to break down products your liver gets inflamed that way so it's great it's very rare hepatitis generally is caused by hepatitis a b and c and a is is from water not the one the children would get but b and c is generally from blood from blood okay so when this is being described uh this uh acute hepatitis of being from unknown origin what does the unknown origin refer to though everything everything you can think of really i think it i think in this case there's probably well over a hundred cases in the european union and in the last number of months was first described in the uk it is it they feel it is an infection so that's that's the first way of narrowing it down quite a lot of the children that have been found mainly in the uk but more so in i think in the netherlands they find this adenovirus now adenovirus is a common virus it's a virus that gives us the common cold so and previous to this they hadn't really seen adenovirus is causing this um infection so it's either that um the adenovirus has mutated we've heard we've heard that one before and it's causing this infection or or it could be because children have not had many infections the last few years that the normal adenovirus is having at this at this proportion is effect on them so we can tell you what we do know about this virus it is very rare it is caused by a virus that is generally in in in actual circulation it is not caused in any way by having covid or having a covid vaccine almost none of the children have an actual covid vaccine is it related in some way to the covid emergency and the lack of public you know lack of transmission of viruses during year i have no idea i think there are more theories than there are answers but i'm listening it's being investigated like are these all will all of these cases be in your like we don't know yet but but there'll be all individual cases there's no spread of this as such person to person whatever is triggering it this is happening individual of each case yeah no i think if you went into a room and it's a bit you know all this from covid if you somebody had an adenovirus they could get you that infection but the chances of it giving you this is extraordinary rare i think the important thing for parents when it happens is that they're given this sort of bank of sort of symptoms that are very common but i think i would sort of say it generally comes if your child has a respiratory infection and gastroenteritis um and they get unwell i think it's not uncommon for everybody to have a runny nose and and diarrhea and vomiting but this the people that have this reaction just don't give just aren't well they get very unwell obviously dehydrated obviously unwell and that they have to go into hospital parents are good at sort of recognizing somebody a child who isn't getting um getting better so it's it isn't that every child with a cold every child with gastroenteritis will go to develop this it's the way that you would recognize it is the child just isn't getting better and it's obviously getting unwell um it's like everything with parenting it's diagnosed with a block test sorry danis i beg your pardon it's like everything parents trust your instincts if if if you believe it to be this is the usual as you say it's incredibly rare um but you just trust your instinct if this looks a little bit more than uh you would expect well that's what the time to contact your GP or now doctor pending on depending on the time i think so i think it it is we do want to i think we have to inform people without worrying them and i think it is a case of it will unfortunately become almost obvious that this is this is um presenting just you just know that the person you know well uh they normally get a cold they get a bit down for a day or two they get better this is this will be different and i think that people will will be able to instinctively recognize okay um right uh so you're saying it's not connected to covid it's not directly connected to a covid infection or a vaccine do you think when we are talking about and maybe this is what dr tonu hooligan might have done when we talk about our overall response to uh you know a pandemic for example that we're going to have to start maybe factoring things out explore if the lack of sort of interaction amongst people may in fact you know a two or three years if it lasts that long might have a other impact on our immune system or something you know when we're looking at this in the round this is the type presumably the type of information that you'll want across certain people's deaths just to make sure that we're doing the right thing oh i i would agree i think unfortunately what always learns every day you you learn and i think that in four or five years time and it'll take that length of time when you look at all the epidemiological sort of uh effects that this had positive and negative it we will have learning processes from us to to realize what really worked well what didn't work well and what are the risks associated with this i think i think ultimately i that's a personal opinion i think that when they look back at our limited extremely well um but there will always be unexpected consequences is this is this the fact that it's due to covid or has this virus just suddenly gone gone gone funny and actually got has mutated we will know that soon and i think yeah it is a theory and i think it'll be time yet it'll be i would say it'll be the end of the year beginning of next year before we can definitely save and we have over the last couple of years had similar things like this uh whereby there were a few cases i can't remember the exact disease uh maybe about 18 months ago a few cases popped up and and and then uh we didn't hear much after that and this could very much be the case as well who was to say dennis uh dr dennis McAuley gp chair of the gp committee with the iml thanks for your time thank you thank you thank you goodbye uh good uh good day to you right so we threw it out in our social media at twitter poll instagram poll do you agree with the donagore rally service station being moved from milford to letter kenny on twitter 40 percent agree with that decision 60 percent disagree whilst on in instagram uh more milford people on instagram who's to say uh 17 percent agree with the decision 83 percent disagree with that decision so we just did a random poll like well it wasn't random because it was selected but you know what i mean we'll do that from time to time now uh it seems letter kenny gets everything except a dump says a texture um and uh good luck to arland in the eurovision no doubt art year 50 50 as they would have to host it regarding their cutbacks i don't know all i know is i'll watch it if i i'm actually not going to get a chance to watch it but if i did i don't want this crappy hilarious in inverted comments uh comma's commentary you know where people take the take the hand at people uh and the videos and the presenters i will find a source it's normally bbc three or something like that where it's just presented and you can watch it without someone talking over everything and trying to be hilarious that was okay back in the day when terry wogan was doing it i think should get uh be done with it now all right uh we'll be back tomorrow