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Thanks Greg Good morning the appearance of Auntie Ukraine graffiti in Western Eagle has been condemned a pro-Russian symbol has been Spray-painted on a sign in Kilmachrenn in recent days It comes following similar acts of vandalism in letter Kenny last month Country me whole Cole McGill asked book who himself spray-painted over the graffiti has hit out at those responsible Unfortunately, this seems to be graffiti put on road signs symbolism of hate symbolism which I define and many others as Being racist. I thought of taking the initiative and Redeciding the sign so it wouldn't be offensive to the people who are now living in Kilmachrenn Adonigal deputy says comments made by the European Commission president around the Northern Ireland protocol were very strong and helpful Ursula von der Leyen addressed the houses of the Eroctus yesterday to mark 50 years of Arnan's membership of the European Union She's confident a protocol deal can be reached if there is a political will in the UK government Deputy Podger McLaughlin says the people of the north deserve a fully functioning government The challenge is now the British government to engage to do what's right, and then it's down to the DUP To get back into the executive and to make sure that we have a government that represents the people of the north and you know Delivers on the issues of cost of living the health service and the range of other issues that people need to address Searches have been carried out in Sturban as part of the investigation into the attempted murder of two police officers in the town on Thirsty November the 17th last evening detectives from the terrorism Investigation unit conducted a search at a property in the Innisfree Gardens area a number of items were seized and taken away for further forensic examination 1.3 million people will receive their Christmas bonus next week at a cost of more than 300 million euro to the state The Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphries said the payment will be made to pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, widows and lone parents The payment is in addition to a person's normal weekly payment Finally for weather today will be dry with a mix of cloudy periods and sunny spells highest temperatures of 8 or 9 degrees That's all from Highland radio news for now. 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Good morning It's not just that Sammy has lost his home in the conflict It's not just that everyone he's ever loved is gone and he's been forced to walk hundreds of miles alone to find safety And most of all it's not just that Sammy is only seven years old like thousands of children in regions torn apart by conflict Sammy is living in fear and it's not just this Christmas your love can make all the difference Visit trokrat.org or call 1800 408 408 trokrat until love conquers fear The 9 till noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union seasonal loans now available for Christmas Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account and Now it's time for the talk of the Northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland radio and a very good morning to you It is four minutes past nine or three minutes past nine on this Friday the second of December 2022 You're very welcome along to the program The lines are open for you right now to get involved in our conversation With our Friday panel the numbers for you to contact our 08 660 25,000 to WhatsApp and text or give us a call And oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand you can comment on social media as you watch the program go to YouTube Highland radio Ireland or Across our Facebook pages and of course directly on our website to Highland radio dot com right. Let's say good morning To our guests this morning and we say hello first to Deputy Padraig McLaughlin Sheen Fein's Spokesperson on Fisheries our Marine. Good morning, Padraig. Thanks for joining us It's good to have you involved again Claire McDonough is co-director of Le Maison letter Kenny. Good morning to you Claire Good morning, Greg and at last but not least of course Mary T McBride defective blocked campaigner human rights and global development consultant Good morning to you Mary team. Good morning, Greg. Thanks for having me No, it's great for you to accept the invite and we will be speaking of course about that issue a little later on There was quite a significant Protest in Lifford on Monday will sort of maybe decipher what may or should come from that as well What should come from it? We know what may come from it is what's open for discussion I'm starting something a little bit different if that's okay, and I'll stick with you Mary T A new deposit routine a return scheme for plastic bottles and cans was announced during the week The scheme will be operated by non-profit organization return.ie From February 2024 in shops where you buy a drink in a plastic bottle or can that features the return logo You will pay a small deposit on top of the price of the drink And then when you return that empty on damaged container you get your deposit back in full This is not uncommon in other parts of the world Obviously, it's always gonna be slightly more complicated for us and businesses locally because the cross-border element and the return not being on those cans And anyway, we just have to deal with it. It's a it's a levy on living on the border We just aren't fully considered sometimes. I don't think on the face of it What's your view on this one Mary T? I think it's better than nothing. I mean our you know plastics problem is huge But I suppose for me I Would really question are we trying to use a bandaid again to solve a more You know systemic problem and I would like to see as in some countries, you know They're moving towards the outright ban of Plastic the use of plastics and I think in my mind that would be more effective Although I have to say it is positive to see and this I think I think it will be a solution that a lot of people will use You know, it is it's a it's a smart solution I suppose but it's a short-term measure ultimately We should be looking at moving away from plastics altogether. Yeah, yeah I kind of feel sorry though for those who already go to the recycle facilities Religiously, you know and deposit their bottles and their cans or those that do so responsibly in the recycle bins They're probably saying to themselves like we're already doing this and now we're gonna be charged an extra 15 to 25 cent Depending on what we drink our one simple joy in life is gonna cost us more. We're doing this stuff already Yeah, I mean I mean that that is a really important point as well And it's and you know, these sort of it's an example again of a polish policy measure that will hit a lower income Puzzles and again who you know and will struggle to be able to afford that So I do think that that's definitely something that needs to be considered. Maybe, you know The exact rate and could be reviewed but the reality is and you know The environment and climate are are very real and crises that we're all facing and they do require, you know behavioral change at the individual level and But also more importantly again going back to my my earlier point And it's not all on nor should it be all on the individual and we need to start looking at Corporations as well and the government needs to start taking braver action and to cut out You know ban plastics and look for you know alternative and materials Yeah, because we appear to be doing something, but are we really like it looks good and right Claire McDonough? What what do you think? I mean it doesn't involve milk cartons plastic milk? containers coffee cups the cups that you get from your takeaway. It's just cans and bottles Do you are you in favor of it Claire? Well, I think the people it's really going to hit are probably mostly young younger people You know the kids coming out of school and buying, you know a bottle of juice or whatever. I think those are the those are the Probably the most and frequent and single-use purchases of that type of thing Imagine and like my tea says like I'm in favor, but it doesn't go far enough and at the end of the day It's you know, it's the very same as your plastic buy tax when you go to the supermarket And you forget you're penalized for your own stupidity really where you know if you don't remember to bring your bag You wouldn't have to buy a bag. So maybe it's you know, it's one of those policies where Both the idea is coming from the right place, but really, you know, there should be a much longer term a much broader And response or maybe it should be and brought in alongside a complete replacement of plastics and cans and that you know If they were doing it Julie and there was an ease in you know It would be easier to get fully on board, but I accept that yes They have to do something but I do think it's younger people that are going to be hit with this Yeah Well, this is a romantic notion isn't there that we will go out and we'll gather up the cans and the Plastic bottles and we'll go in and get our shopping half price But the reality is is though we're being charged in the first place. So really what is the reward? It's already a tax and there's already a sugar tax and a lot of these drinks and secondly, you know You know, the likes of little Aldi maybe Don's they'll be able to afford the 20 to 40,000 euro for these machines They'll frame it that come to us and get so much off your shopping at your local Smaller retail may not be able to do so. They'll have to work with plastic bands bags and deal with these plastic and Cans and all that kind it's a hassle for them But it's going to be another Advantage is enough for the big multinationals who'll be able to say look We've got this beautiful big machine right at the front door come out and get you weekly shop shop at the same time I think it's if I were a small medium-sized business, and I'm not I would think I would think right This is going to give this is going to give the big boys another advantage Mm-hmm. Oh, I totally agree and I think our approach in this country is also Or to me it always seems it's pepper and more little taxes like more little, you know, put them in under the rug Nobody will see it and I want to it's a completely different sector But to give you a similar Example and it's completely left me now But emerald for example, if you're a small business you pay for electricity to pay to play music You buy the CD or you pay for Spotify you or whatever You you buy the device to play the music on and then you're you're you're charged then for emerald So like for me, you know, there's instead of actually coming up with a proper scheme to support musicians at source Let's just you know charge everybody else a little bit here a little bit there and they're not noticed And it's like death by a hundred cups for us. Let's have a proper policy You know and this is just another example of that sort of like tiny little they're not really notice You know, I'd love to see the pathway of that in real money I'd love to see how it ends up back in the pockets Because you might choose to play all don't like all artists in your shop Let's just say you happen to really how much are they going to be collecting from the likes of It's not very very transparent there not suggesting there's anything on toward going on but really it's Taylor Swift Who is raking in? You know not Callum Keveney, right, okay Patrick McLaughlin, you're the only legislator in this call for now in case one of us might run for politics You never know. We might steal your seat You're safe for it Just might nick it on you come here No, I mean you're looking at this from an opposite opposition position It is probable that you might end up inheriting this this this as well But what's your view in the face of it? Yeah, I very similar to Marie-Tay and Claire, you know My concern is you know, we have carbon tax for example But if you want to operate an electric car in Donegal, it's very difficult and also very very expensive You have carbon tax on your home heating oil If you want to go down the road of retrofit if you're working It's a very very expensive option. You could almost argue unattainable So you're being taxed for something that you cannot choose the alternative. You don't have the alternative path Is that what the just transition is? Is that what a just transition that Is that what that phrase sort of would would would cover? Well, you see you're taxing people's behaviors But people cannot change their behaviors is cannot afford to change their behaviors And that's my concern in rural Ireland particularly And of course, you don't have a public transport Infrastructures you're a young person living in Donegal and you get a job, you know, you're going to have to get a car And it's probably not going to be an electric car. So these are the sort of concerns I have also in terms of plastics and Cardboards and all of this in our blue bins, you know, are they being recycled? Are they being recycled? You know, or are they going to? You know heat to energy plants, you know So these are the things that's you know, we're we're we're we're been asked to change our behavior You were exporting at one point was it 90% of our plastics And metals to China and then that changed it on what was put in in its place after that Yeah, well, I'm not convinced that all of the blue bins that are collected around this country are being recycled I'm not convinced about that And I've never been given evidence that there's any Tracing or any accountability around all of that. So the very people who are, you know, particularly him and Ryan I have to look across at him every week and he annoys me every week And you know, he gives a lecture and he, you know, preaches about salad on the front of the house And you know, I don't see where he meets his responsibilities while he's giving people lectures And that's my frustration and I think when when people see that everybody is meeting their responsibilities And there is a viable alternative, you know, then they will take it And that's we've a lot of work to do. This is serious business that we do need to change Is that not just really a smaller version, though, of people in Ireland sort of saying, well, why should we do anything when America and China don't seem to be doing anything? That's just a Shrunk and Diane version of you saying why should I do anything because aiming Ryan isn't No, no, I believe all of this is necessary Like I do believe we need to move away from petrol and diesel and gas and carbon fuels. Absolutely You know, I do believe we need to look at particularly the option of offshore wind done responsible With the the consultation with fishermen. So they're not impacting fishing grounds I think that type of thing needs to be nominated green hydrogen. We need to embrace all of that But people need to have a pathway, you know an affordable pathway So in other words, it's the carrot rather than the stick that will change all of these behaviors Uh, Mary T just briefly on the on the broader question then, you know, we're still talking about the environment, aren't we even You know that recent major Summit cop, whatever it was 22 27. Sorry cup 27 You know, I mean, obviously the old flew into it in their jets You know, there was cars in the back of the planes There was people there that could easily have done it by zoom But they all talked and talked and they walked away and what really has fundamentally changed We're still talking about this, but we're never we don't seem to be actually making any inroads in into actually doing something Yeah, I mean it just to go back to, you know, the term that you use there greg around just transition. I think You know, what we have is an unjust transition and I absolutely agree with porick, you know that Essentially, if you look at it, so we look at a local level first areas particularly like donnie gall and we You know, we can't move away from fossil fuel dependency in the same way as, you know, people in dubbin or M due to our transport system due to, you know, various factors And a lot of policies are made without considering how they impact on, you know Poor and vulnerable households or areas if we're thinking about, you know, the county And that and cop 27 Was a global version of that So again, you had a lot of hot air or blah, blah, blah as um You just made me swear inside my head. Mary T. That's not But at a global level, you know, I in my work. I work a lot with countries in in africa Are very very badly affected by climate change. I mean, it's it's devastating. There's massive Um Food insecurity. Um, it's compounded by conflict, you know, there you can see the suffering It's a really it's a really really, you know, big crisis dire really, isn't it? If we were to be transported there to see it firsthand and what the future might hold to because it's a worsening situation I think it's a different reality for us, isn't it that we don't many people listening do but I think a lot of people don't truly know the impact the Climate change is actually having on on certain parts of this world Yeah, completely. I mean that just, you know cyclical droughts and floods mean that, you know, people can't even produce their own food anymore You know, there's there's mass starvation. Um, but I suppose the point was I was trying to make with cop 27 It really badly let down. Um those countries again, you know, there was there were a lot of kind of You know, um fluffy statements and that but again, no real commitment and no targets. So Okay, um, well just before a quick break one point to you Claire though, you see Just sometimes it feels that really policy makers when they Look at what they can do they really talk about the majority of people which tend to be in in urban areas So, you know, I think targets in terms of investment in public transport often really mean You know more services in in the major cities and Dublin in particular And then when they talk about sort of spending less money on on roads and what have you that's clearly going to Impact on the likes of us here, uh in the northwest I just wonder if that's just the way it is. Do we have to contend ourselves? If we choose to live in a rural part of Ireland that we are Really not going to be fully considered in all of this Well, that's why we have pork You know, I mean at the end of the day, yes, we may be remote and we may you know We may be that little bit further out um Intellectually for people in Dublin that they don't actually consider You know donnie goll people in terms of the planning, but you know, I do think um Our role as donnie goll people and it doesn't matter if you're in business If you're a teacher if you're a plumber if you're public representative Your job is to uphold your county to defend the place that you love where you want to live We live in a democracy. We live in a beautiful country. I Married to a dub. I would not live in Dublin for love and money. Sorry anybody lives in Dublin. It's a lovely city to visit But I mean, I you know I really do think that we should not be punished But we should not also be of the main set that we are punished all the time either I think it's up to us to you know, put forward very valid arguments Whatever it is if it's transport the environment, whatever about how how donnie goll can respond to the challenges There are all these ways we we have a lot of smart people living here I exactly get what you're saying. And I think we have to talk ourselves up and I do I do understand that but The policies are beyond Some of the stuff we're talking about it's like health policy for example in other words that you know You are going to have to accept It seems a poorer health service if you live in donnie goll the hsc the head of the hsc In this region is clearly said if people want the best of treatment They're going to have to be prepared to travel for it unapologetic in that So there is a sort of a wealth and health tax And for living in the northwest now it seems to be it feels to me like that that's accepted not by us But but by by those that make decisions That's the setup, you know, and but that's the point I make them but when you choose to live in donnie goll You are aware of that, you know, nobody moves to donnie goll like I have a member of staff who's moved um Country actually to come and work with us, but from a different part of the country You know, you know, when you when you come to donnie goll you you have some sense of what it is You know, you're buying into That's not to say we we accept it. That's not to say that it's good enough. Um, but I do think um You know, there's an awful lot of uh, potentially here. There's an awful lot of very smart people And you know, I think part of what's what makes us great is the fact that we do um Face up to the argument, you know, we do make our case and we are, you know, we're very strong opinionated strong Well people and I think that stands too, but it's just the nature of living here. I think when you live Off-centred, that's that's the nature of people's personalities. Anyway, all right. Well park. There are solutions though I mean, we are a stone's throw away from Uh, the fourth biggest city on this island if it is about center of population and all that kind of stuff Do you know what I mean? I know there is the the the northwest city status I mean that's the that's really I think our get-out of this, isn't it that we view the northwest as a whole Whether that has to be uh post border Poland. I don't know but that is it. We are isolated We're isolated though And this is no way to contradict you Claire if we don't consider the massive population Westerone and and in Derry. I mean that's that's our out here, isn't it? Yeah, you're you're a hundred percent right, you know And in fairness to Dunneagol County Council and Derry and Sturban Council. They formed this northwest city region um, you know, I was at an event recently in the It's now called the Atlantic technological university in letter. Kenny where they're working with the etv in Dunneagol with the McGee campus in Derry with the northwest college in Derry So all these third level institutions working together as one one region We have half a million people in this region There's no reason why we can't have all of the health facilities that's people in Dublin or Cork Or Belfast have there might be some Very narrow specialities, you know You know in terms of cancer care, but rare forms of cancer Our rare forms of illness that you would base in Belfast or Dublin, but that's only a small percentage So well infuriates me, you know, you take letter. Kenny hospital, for example You know, we have a diabetes center of excellence We don't have cardiac center of excellence even though we have half a million people in the region Why because they engage back to back so you have the sale to hospital group Which is, you know, Greg is is Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Port Yonklin East Galway and letter Kenny Everyone gets centered in Galway, you know, even though we're right next to Derry every time you say this to them They say, yeah, you know, we're taking that board, but they're not, you know And similarly in the north, it's probably the same Where things get centered in Belfast So there just needs to be a complete radical rethink of the region and a fairness our people in this region are leading the way I just wondered what it actually needs. I know it's sort of a throwaway word I don't know if it needs to be radical. I think it just needs to actually to be Common sense just to say, well, you know what there's four corners to this island Uh, we've got up the northwest. We've got a perfect solution here You know, it might take a little bit of reorganization I don't want to simplify it either, but it's like literally it just feels like there needs to be the will there Because the way he's probably relatively easy for the brains that we have involved here Yeah, in fairness, you're right. It is common sense I mean, and if you look at the, you know, radio therapy unit in Altma Galvan and Derry Which, you know, hundreds of people in Dunny Gaul get treatment there every year Why did that happen because some women in Dunny Gaul said we've had enough And they started to speak out and then thousands of people in Dunny Gaul and in Derry and fairness got behind them And that's why we have that radio therapy unit, which means people don't have to go away Don't have to go to Gaulway in Dublin You know, why do we have to always have it that it's people having to come out and protest for what you're rightly saying? 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I haven't heard the calls from anywhere except from bankers themselves Yeah, you know The thing that concerns me if you look at sort of the financial services industry and banking industry you have Former government politicians who are heading up those lobbies and you know that is a real concern and then when you see You know at a time like this when you know The government have had to intervene in the budget with the cost of living crisis with so many families who are struggling to get by I just defy his words, you know, absolutely. And I looked across at The t-shirt this week and last week You know, and and the challenge came from mary lou and pierce from shin fain In the relation to how can people who get paid half a million feel the need to get more He said with a straight face that this really was effectively your party taking Food out of the mouths of low-paid Workers in the banking industry Yeah, and I I've I've watched you know As the shin fain whip I sit right behind mary lou and I look across as she does at them And I've heard some bizarre exchanges But that was utterly bizarre his attempt to connect bank clerks and the people that we see in our local banks With the people at the very top of that pyramid And you know what they said remember remember they said of you know, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys So we got monkeys in the financial crisis. We got monkeys who destroyed this country Well, I feel like I'm in a time machine because we now we have the construction industry calling for tax breaks for developers It's it's all starting to feel very very familiar Yeah, you know when I say I actually use that phrase, you know, I that that phrase peanuts monkeys I hate that phrase actually I've always hated it but that was the phrase they used in in the banking industry And and we got people who wrecked this country were uttered. I mean we we all went through the Inquiries we we seen the investigative reporting We got right under the bonnet and watched how they ran our banks to remember since the financial crisis We've had the tracker scandal which was 300 million in fines. I think in the last years about 197 million In fines in the last year alone regulatory fines on the banks So they're not exactly doing a great job. They were going to close down all our local banks In an issue on there recently until we intervened and I'm sorry not just in the show Across rural Ireland and fairness point out that so, you know, we had to intervene This is a state-owned bank that was thought they were going to do that So no absolutely not and I think it's it's one that's shocked people around the country to be frank Priority McBride I just think sometimes that people think we're silly, you know, that that's you know, they sell us a A recycling scheme as it's doing us good But in reality we're paying more for it that You know, the argument's also made for some of the top RTE presenters That there are, you know, radio stations and TV stations lining up to to take them away And the same with senior banking executives that if we don't allow them to make multiples of hundreds of thousands of euro in some cases that there's people waiting in the wings to Drag them by the ears out of the country and offer them the sun the moon and the stars Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous. I thought the best headline for me was Reuters yesterday I'd refer to it as a cheeky moment for Pascal Donahue to do this And to be honest though, I don't think it's it's cheeky. I think it's outrageous And I mean and also again this sort of I think it's quite kind of condescending towards the public And again, as you said, Greg, thinking we're stupid to try and spin this as in the interest of customers Of the banking sector. I mean, I don't I'm probably going to get in trouble now But I'm just thinking, you know, if my boss gets like a, you know, salary increase I don't think it's going to have very much impact on my work performance You know, me being at the frontline kind of services. I mean, if they're if that's really genuinely Pascal Donahue's concern to ensure that they can improve products and services in the banking sector, then maybe and I think Sinn Féin did point this out as well And if that is the concern, look at lower level, you know, frontline service worker salaries If that is the case, it was just disingenuous for me at best. Yeah Yeah, and also to it's there's a timing issue here, Mary T and that this is one of Pascal Donahue's last acts as it's almost a part and gift. I'm not saying it is, but it feels like it like the optics of it are really, you know, hard to swallow. And I think it too for businesses, you know, who are having to deal with banks that are having to pay huge charges that make have to make the make decisions about cash and cards and all that type of stuff a scheme just to help them through the winter only just announced that's going to be reasonably hard for people to access. And yes, a lot of the people, you know, the banks that have been responsible for so much pain in this country, the heads of those banks once again are going to be rewarded. It's just like it's I find it so hard to get my head around. I find it hard to articulate. But I don't find it hard to get my head around if I'm being honest. I mean, let's be honest about it. If you look at this record, and in particular the two political main political parties leading the coalition and government, what we've seen is increasingly over the last couple of years, number of years, they've become more emboldened when it comes to serving certain serving and protecting certain interests in this country. And that's the wealthy and the powerful. So to me, this wasn't a shock, you know, and it's really in line with their real kind of approach to policymaking in this country, you know, lift this ridiculous half a million like isn't enough, you know, salary for banking executives. And I just think it's another indication that, you know, we desperately need change in this country. I mean, Claire, it just is unimaginable that with all that's gone on and Podrick referenced the track and mortgage scandal, that's not historic. That was still a problem this year that we would begin now to reward what seems like, whether it's actually what we're doing now, reward that type of behavior, reward people, or at least, you know, the areas in which they work that cost us 45.7 billion as if it's gone. That's not gone. I mean, that's still still being paid back to reward and maybe even to create again, once again, a culture that got us into that bother in the first place. Oh, absolutely. You're 100% right. And I think, you know, if you're, you know, both my team, Podrick, then have spoken about that, you know, the overall policy level. But if you bring it back down to the person in a village in Donegal, whose bank has closed, and they go to the hole in the wall, if there is a hole in the wall, and the bank eats their card for whatever reason, they now have to drive, like I'm thinking of my 70, I'll not say ish mother, whose bank was eaten and mobile, she had to drive to Cardona. You know, a journey she shouldn't have to take at her age. And then she opens the paper yesterday and there's bankers bonuses come back up. As Mary T said, as if half a million is not enough, like what lifestyle do you have at half a million? I would love to know where you would get a wee bonus of 20,000. And if you were on half a million, would 20,000 make any difference? It's just, it's so on the ridiculous. It's actually, it would be funny if it wasn't so offensive to people. And especially considering there is an established link, and it might be opinion, but I think it's provable, that the link between pay and financial performance was what really led to the shoddy practices that got us in. So we actually know, this is, we're historic, we know what happens, right? So we don't, this is not something we have to learn into the future, we know. Go ahead, Podrick, were you going to say something there or just last word? No, no, I think that's Clare and Mary T have covered it. I think that's how people feel on the ground. All right, listen, we're going to move on to our next topic. Now actually, before we do a quick word, what about the government mandating? Clare, I'll start with you on this one, because I want to talk about the defective blocks as well. What about the government plans, if I read it correctly, to mandate that cash would have to be accepted? I think that come out of the, maybe out of the, out of the surprise to those who thought the government was trying to push for a cashless society. But anyway, here we are. They want to compel businesses to accept cash and maybe sort of enshrine cash usage and cash availability. What do you think of that, Clare? Well, actually, I don't, as a business owner, I actually don't have an issue with that. I think we need cash in our society. We need ways to teach our children about the value of money and how to deal with money and how to, you know, how to, how to live in the world and the value of things. It probably depends sector to sector. I get that and I'm a small business and it, you know, my business isn't actually, we don't, you receive a lot of cash because a lot of our customers are online and all of that, and that's fine. But I would never, just from a moral standpoint, I would never refuse to cash from anywhere because, you know, I just think it's a slippery slope. But I do think, I think just the point you made earlier about Pascal's swan song, I would be more, and I know we're going to talk about makeup, but I would be much more impressed by our government if they, if, you know, if we weren't talking about these ridiculous moves like, you know, bankers and bonuses, and they actually got down to brass tacks. Yeah, but Mary T said, worked on the things that actually matter to people, which are things like makeup. I don't want to misquote Mary T, but she said, and she can articulate herself, she already has, is that we always seem to be looking after, or maybe it was you, Claire, we always seem to be looking after the rich and well off. Well, there's two decisions that do, and as you say, left in the wake will be a half cooked scheme that no one can get on. Correct. Right. Well, we'll go to that after the break. Mary T, do you have an opinion on these government plans too? Yeah, I suppose just very quickly. I think what we do need to realise as well is that again, thinking about, well, what would be the impact of not, you know, mandating businesses to accept cash. I think, like, you have to think, think about people who wouldn't have access to a traditional bank account. And unfortunately, that normally does tend to affect certain minority or ethnic groups in a country, including Ireland and people on lower incomes. But I suppose the bigger one for me, and I remember, I think it was, what was it, women's aid who brought this up a few years back, that what people don't realise is that, you know, people who are living in situations of domestic violence or intimate partner violence, you know, they may not have control over their finance, may not have a bank account. And they, you know, are hugely dependent on being able to use cash. So I would be in favour of the mandate, personally. Yeah, I think there's certain things that will happen naturally. Anyway, do you know, as things go on, I think an awful lot of people, despite Claire's best efforts, I've given up to try and use cash to sort of teach children about the responsibility of money that transition away from from that to some extent. Anyway, so I think there'll be a natural sort of fall off in the use of cash, despite those maybe not wanting that to be the case. But anyway, I could be wrong. I've been wrong multiple times before. Right, okay, let's take a break, then we'll be back with more from our guests. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union, offering low rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. For great fuel deals, contact Gortley Sales and Hire, large sacks and trailer loads of logs, also briquettes, coal, kindling and gas with free delivery locally. Contact Gortley Sales and Hire in Letterkenny on 911-262-76. 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People gathered to express their frustration at the lack of movement, the lack of movement in the defective concrete redress scheme, but also suppose the lack of supports in terms of money for emergency accommodation, for temporary fixes and also a lack of will it seems to help people who need to get out of their houses in what is a housing emergency. The houses are simply not habitable and it's well documented the damage to their health, their mental health in the immediate term, but also the long term that can be caused as a result of being forced to live in these really, really unsafe properties. Mary T McBride, I mean you can understand, it's clear to understand why people felt the need to go out and express their frustrations. Yeah, absolutely. I suppose for me the first point I think we all need to realise is that the protest on Monday was very, very different than previous protests. It was really an act of desperation at the moment, rather than the previous protests in Dublin and in different towns in Donegal were very much a campaign strategy at that point I think because we were in a process where people were still hopeful that we could move things forward, but just hearing those homeowners they're harrowing in counts, it's like there's no hope left and it just really was heartbreaking, but will it do anything? Will it move things forward? To be honest, Greg, I'm not confident for a number of reasons. I suppose firstly none of this is new, especially if we break them down into four different groups of homeowners. So those poor families and you mentioned it already, Greg, like Sharon Moss, who I know you've had on your show, she's tried every possible avenue you can imagine. She's written to the minister, she's had them visit her home, she's gone on to local and national media, crying for desperation. She was there on Monday again and they've known about the families like Sharon Moss since at least last year, so why hasn't there been movement? Is it because there seems to be an acceptance within RTE, which is whether people say they watch it or listen to it or not, it is the national broadcaster, there's an acceptance within RTE and seemingly in government that they have done it, that it's done. Let's move on to the next problem because Donegal and the 13 other counties are sorted and if that is the attitude, what hope do we have of changing that? But I think more confusing for protesters on Monday was the fact that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, so the council told protesters outside the council on Monday that with regards to the issue of fast tracking these grants for emergency accommodation and that they were awaiting the green light from the department, meanwhile, I mean you couldn't make it up, on the very same day due to questioning by both Sinn Féin and also Deputy Pringle in the Dall and in the Arachtis Housing Committee, we got contradictory information. Darrowbine Bryan very clearly said that the department is actually waiting on information from the council with regards to the scale of this problem of uninhabitable homes to be able to fast track grants, so it's just unacceptable at this point to have a breakdown in communication when you have people in very dangerous situations, but then Greg this is the other point I wanted to make which is kind of a new development I suppose this week. The fact that the council held a meeting with scheme engineers so this is after the protest earlier this week where the council confirms that it will now accept pirateite and obviously as we know this is on the back of the department's announcement four weeks ago. Why did it take four weeks right to call this meeting with the engineers number one if you're really you know committed to action and secondly and I suppose this is the more worrying thing at that meeting the engineers I understand were told that the council will accept pirateite as long as there can be a proven link between pirateite and sulfate attack on the concrete aggregate but so what does this mean this is effectively the council going back to those homeowners who've already spent thousands on their tests you have to redo those tests you're going to spend thousands again and you still haven't been refunded for you know the tests that you already made and this is the kicker Greg and I really love if you could follow this up with a scheme engineer the kicker is that even if you managed to find those extra thousands and redo your tests good luck finding a lab that has the technical capacity to do those tests because my understanding is the labs that are being used don't have that I mean these types of tests as you know when you've had them on your show as well Dr Lehman from EMPA which is Swiss Federal Laboratories they're the leading experts and they ran those tests and so I highly doubt you know the engineers are going to be able to find labs a logical solution to this would be that the government when they realized which is a long time ago that established some sort of a testing system within this country I mean what stage are we going to stop exporting really really important testing situations I'm not I presume it couldn't be beyond them but if you want to take it seriously you bring it in house and you make sure all this is is covered and you fast track it you say this is an emergency we need to get on this we can't rely on this that none okay I'll come back to you of course Mary T Deputy McLaughlin you know he you know he says he says cancel versus Department of Housing it doesn't matter really it does matter and it's really important but again the victims the people in the middle the people that are getting stuffed piled on top of them on top of them on top of them again are vulnerable homeowners and and you know that's who I want to speak of and represent it's just simply not good enough yeah I was there Monday Greg and Lufferton and Mary T's right it was a protest like I haven't seen before it was people who were desperate I was speaking to Sharon Moss at it and I've been in Sharon Moss's home and it's just disgusting absolutely disgusting that in this country today we ask any human being and a family to stay in a house like that uh that we don't immediately provide alternative emergency accommodation immediately like you know um and of course there's you know who's responsible for that part of sorry to cut across you because who the council has a role in if someone is become homeless or someone homeless they can contact the council and instead the council can provide uh be and be accommodation or whatever right so how come when there's an emergency like this it is not the council's responsibility they don't have to necessarily go and get permission for every other why can the council not say right okay we're we represent the people this is a crisis within this county this is what we're going to do yeah ultimately the minister Daryl Ryan said this now months ago months and months and months ago that to task please task the housing agency uh you know bring in whatever regulation under the law needs to be done we've done very quickly that the housing agency and Dunningall county council to go to the families and we know dozens right now who need to get out of their homes and some already out of their homes by the way were forced out they were able to get alternative accommodation they're paying rent they're paying rents themselves with no financial support I spoke to a woman just last week in that situation been making representations for a sense of so many of our families and then the latest thing was I'm waiting on exact numbers in Dunningall county council what a load of crap you know like Lisa Hone is the chair person of my action group Patti Diver Lisa Hone Murray T they can provide the information about the amount of families need to get out of their homes now I can do it as a public representative in the county so like this is an emergency how many times do we have to say where does the buck stop has the council uh got a free not a free pass but are they getting a pass on this in other words no they're not actually they're they're taking the hits for for Darrell Bryan's failure Darrell Bryan didn't face a protest in Monday yeah but he's the council actively lobbying government or the housing department to say look this is unacceptable this is what we have to do with hurry up do this for us or are they sitting waiting for a letter to come from the housing department well one thing that that I I find really really frustrating in recent weeks is that Dunningall county council has passed a motion to go and meet a cross-party delegation urgently with the minister and what did the minister do he met the chief executive of Dunningall county council in a private meeting that none of us know the outcome of we don't know what questions were asked we don't know what the outcome is all we know is apparently he's looking for extra data but he didn't meet the democratically elected representatives of the people of the county you know a cross-party delegation and I'm not being party political I think councillors on the ground get this of all political parties and none you know that this is a humanitarian crisis in this county and by the way Greg it won't just be for now this is why I want to talk about high quality modular homes we're going to need high quality modular homes built in a money spelled out Movil, Cairndonna, Bunkranna, Muff, Newton Cunningham, Lerner Kenny, Milford, Finn Valley you know they're going to need to be interspersed throughout the county for the foreseeable future the reason why is people do not have alternative accommodation you can't get a house to rent in this county so that needs to be done now without a shadow of a doubt there can be no defence or excuse for not doing it and that means that if you're moving out of your house you'll be and that's a high quality modular perfectly good home for a year or so the next family will move in the next family will move in so and then the housing agency oversees all of that. So why is there no will for that and we are seeing that right and you know don't have to go down the obvious route but you can see why people are getting angry and frustrated and feel even more worthless in this country given the fact that we are responding to other crises and quite rightly so 350 million euro given to hotels and given to beanbies and that's what has to be done that's fine this is not money being taken from the maths of people affected by defective concrete it's about the will right it's about the will why then is there a resistance such a resistance to help these people in the most obvious ways we all know how it can be done. I honestly for the life of me can't understand it I think what it is and I'll offer this up I think that some people in politics get tired of the bulky determined donny goal people standing up to them and they decided that we're passing this legislation we're forcing it through rambling through the door back in July where they were forced into some degree of scrutiny and that's scrutiny anybody to watch that video of that committee that day just watch it watch the entire take your time you know you'll watch a box at Netflix and donny goal take seven or eight hours to watch that committee hearing that day you know I'll never forget it the whole way through from start to finish and you'll get right what's going on with all of this and so what it is and but I'll tell you something now Greg if that is their strategy it's going to fail miserably because people in donny goal are not on their knees they're up and they're saying we demand this is a humanitarian crisis if it happened to people in pork or Kerry we would feel the same or Wexford or Dublin but it's happening in donny goal and we want an urgent response from our government and you know and like I've got into the doll every week and I'll do it every week and in fairness Thomas Bringle and Pierce Doherty you know we would do it every single week until they do what's right and Daryl Bryant is Daryl Bryant is the person who can sort this all out donny goal county council have been tasked I think they've got many things wrong but Daryl Bryant is the person that needs to sort this out urgently urgently yeah Claire it's it's it's just hard to imagine that people are being treated like this it really is like I mean I can't understand it yeah so can I just actually quote the lady we spoke to her name will come to me in a moment made the analogy if this was an earthquake every resource would be thrown at donny goal housing would be built millions upon millions but this is a slow earthquake and it does and that's exactly what it is these houses are falling down slowly becoming uninhabitable and it doesn't seem to matter Claire sorry go ahead there no I was just going to say you're absolutely right everything in this seems to be about timing the lack of timing you know the lack of response the lack of clarity like communication you know when I and you've mentioned other crises there and there have been other tragedies and crises within donny goal and we've seen a huge outpouring and we've seen emergency humanitarian services slip in money provided as the absolutely rightly should be and I think you're right because the mica and the defective blocks has been ongoing but it has it has been around so long now and we are a response and I want to say our response I mean you know everyone's response is statutory and otherwise time is moving on we I can't but I actually cannot believe even that the the people who are in that desperate situation right now where they have to get out and I don't know how many families that is but I can't even comprehend why they even be treated as a group you know if somebody became homeless tomorrow because of a domestic situation they contact the council there is a process why are these people not open to that process that's exactly that's exactly the point I was trying to make and you've made it much much better than I was I just don't understand why you know there is an immediate need there is already a process there for somebody an immediate need it doesn't matter why you know in this sense they need a house it doesn't matter why you need a house they need they need it now so I agree with you I think the response has been horrendously bad right we're going to come back to this of course into the future but for now very strong points and you know what it's difficult to play devil's advocate it does anyone out there believe that this scheme is correctly stalled does anyone out there believe that these families should not uh you know what I mean try and strike balance as much as we can on this program but come on seriously where's the alternative to this I think there's not anyone listening that doesn't realize that this is an absolute disaster for these people uh Deputy Podrum Glockland thank you for your time as always I appreciate it take care of yourself Claire McDonough always enjoy your contributions thank you so much and we'll speak again hopefully and last but not least Mary T. 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last month cancer mehol colm agil arsburg who himself spray painted over the graffiti has hit it at those responsible unfortunately this seems to be graffiti put on road signs symbolism of hate symbolism which i define and many others as being racist i thought of taking the initiative and redesigning the sign so it wouldn't be offensive to the people who are the judges in the regency hotel murder trial will rule this morning on whether a secretly recorded conversation between jerry hutch and jonathan dydle can be aligned into evidence the court hasn't said since tuesday as legal arguments are considered on the admissibility of the contentious piece of evidence that involves 10 hours of recordings between the pair as they drove to northern arland a month after the shooting jerry hutch is on trial for the murder of david burn who was shot dead at the regency hotel in dublin in 2016 a dunigol business owner believes despite the county being viewed on a different level to other parts of 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until 2 p.m and it is an aid of donagall down syndrome so that's something nice for you on sunday afternoon if you're in that area call in to the uh very nicely laid out actually very nice building the caragart parochial hall this sunday between 12 noon and 2 p.m for a coffee morning cup of tea a cup of coffee maybe some buns and you'll be supporting donagall down syndrome so get into that if you can uh the switching on of the christmas lights in convoy will take place this evening at 6 30 p.m everyone welcome so uh it's good to see that a little bit later uh because there's a couple of switching on's that i wanted to get to we wanted to bring hudson and that too but they start at 6 or 5 30 and uh you just can't get back from work on time so it's good to see a 6 30 start time that's for the switching on of the christmas lights in convoy this evening also um i've been asked to mention that uh st bridgets church golem in the parish of kill mcrennan uh their jubilee celebrations are taking place this year uh the 150th anniversary mass is on tonight at 7 p.m the main celebrant is bishop allen mcguckian so if you want to join in those jubilee celebrations uh in the st bridgets church golem in the parish of kill mcrennan of course the 150th anniversary mass is this evening at 7 p.m uh and while i'm at it i'll mention the donnie loop christmas tractor run it's taking place on sunday the 11th of december that is uh sunday week so if you've got a tractor a truck a vintage maybe you want to glam it up for christmas and you want to enter uh well you'd be more than welcome to do so and supporting a really good course of course um registration is at 11 a.m on sunday the 11th the run starts at 12 30 p.m it's starts at the cpi centre in castle fin by the way uh refreshments for all participants indoor craft and visit from santa baking competition and music best drag dog best it's easy for you to say greg best dressed dog competition at quarter past one jimmy and paul from hyland radio will mc but please don't let them uh don't let that put you off uh proceeds will go to the donnie gole hospice and st saphans national school that's the donnie loop christmas tractor run uh on sunday the 11th of december with hyland's own ant and dec uh jimmy and paul mc the events if you want to enter your truck uh your tractor or your vintage well then you do so on the morning 11 a.m all right as i said to you before i've been to a couple of those now and uh i love them uh great fun great atmosphere and the young ones love it and the older ones love it and um it raises money as well within that fantastic right so some of your comments uh did the government make the people in dublin do all those all those tea these tests when there was pyrite in their houses uh very tame sort of protest at lyfford say so this caller in other countries micro affected blocks would have been tossed through the council chamber windows sadly the Irish people have been conditioned to tug their forelocks to their betters i don't think that would achieve anything at this point i understand where you're coming from with people often say look what the French do look at but uh you know i'm not quite sure it would work in this instance but anyway who's to say cash is king no to a cashless controlled society where the elites will have full control well the elite are the ones that are legislating to ensure that uh cash is usable in shops and what have you it's they the elite if we're talking about the government who are going to mandate that cash machines are available um so maybe there's just uh it's not quite as it may have seemed in the past we'll say we'll watch with interest i watched a sail agreed sign go up on a house this week in an estate that has uh mica uh defective concrete really it is is the broader term mica um you know and it was a useful word to sort of get the campaign and the ball rolling and to get attention but it's beyond mica now at this point we know it's uh it's a defective concrete but this caller believes that this is a disgrace that an estate agents or auctioneers or homeowner would sell these homes to unaware buyers when is something going to be done about this um of course do we know the full details that the buyer is unaware and that the house actually has defective concrete i'm delighted to see accepting cash being made compulsory i know where i when i go out if i lift 100 euro and spend it on a night that's my spending if i take my card out i can have 200 euro tapped before i really realize it going cashless was just making people spend more money i don't really don't use cash right and this does not cloud my opinion it just suits me i don't like carrying it because then i'll lose it i've never got this thing that because you're tapping your spending can you know you you lose control of your spending on the contrary i think it's made me even even tighter uh a caller says the frontline workers still not have received their 1000 euro they were promised and there's nothing else to say yeah indeed it's we've raised it twice already this week alone Greg and team i predict i predicted by text to the show before i even started before it even started the cup 27 when the previous 26 were nothing more than a big boys club with the exception of a few females and just no more than a talking shop or even show and how right i was and oh how i hate being rights is married can any of the panel throw any light as to why solid fuel prices haven't come down the same as petrol or diesel there's lots of variables in relation to that the strength of the dollar is problematic how much is being produced is also a problem and demands you know petrol has come down quite significantly diesel not so much they've kind of been decoupled now there's huge demands on diesel and of course they decide how much of it is produced or not so regardless of how much a barrel of oil is there are is other factors seemingly that dictates the cost of these fuels the solid fuel prices a lot of that's environmental taxes isn't it how many pay massive pay rises have our politics politicians had in the past few years didn't hear them protest then in fact three out of five of don't know all tds enjoy millionaire status with the other two not far behind i'm i'm not sure of that i would like to enjoy millionaire status i'm not going to lie to you and this is not in any way to diminish your point it must be lovely the country is being governed by monkeys it's a very sad state of affairs there's a lot of anger on behalf of the people and can i also speak on behalf of monkeys as well who are actually really quite capable intelligent beings simon coveney says northern island protocol deal possible within weeks not months would podreg be hopeful i'm sure he would share i can't speak on this behalf i have no idea what he thinks but at the end of the day it's the british and the europeans that are negotiating it and there seems to be these buzzphrases they're in a tunnel at the moment they found an off ramp and hopefully they'll find a landing zone but it seems to be look at someone like simon coveney does not come out and say that unless he knows they're on the brink of something uh he's not guessing he knows what the story is so if he says something will be sorted before the end of the year you can be assured that the white smoke is indicated such he has an inside track on that bosses greg there's loads of them running but not at the right times i live in moville and work in letter kenya start at nine and finish at five thirty there's no boss that will get me to work on time and get me home the same for terry that is crazy you know what i mean like i think any boss service running from one end to another should try and go along office hours at the very least darrell brine says this listener is changing the law right now to bypass good environmental planning offshore wind will destroy our seas why has the west coast of donogorbin excluded from the list of potential marine protection areas um bishhenolis bish bishhenols or is that a misspelling i don't know i've never seen that word in my life on wind turbine blades are poisonous and cause infertility and cancer to humans and wildlife so i've never heard that before either i've heard it about a lot of things too uh so on our offshore wind turbines are bad news deg degrowth is the answer we cannot keep expanding production i call us this i'm a carer i work with two elderly people and we're having real problems getting their vaccines they aren't mobile to travel to get their vaccines nobody's talking to us and they are passing the book it's not fair they're so worried right if you could get back in touch with us give us an idea of where you are and we will um endeavor to see if we can chase something up presumably with the hsc to try and uh i understand where you're coming from and you're a very good carer by the way as well to to recognize their fear and their want and uh if you get back in touch with us we'll try off air and privately try and work with you to try and come up with a solution uh so if you haven't had a more extensive conversation with caroline please get back in touch and let's get that sorted for you uh and you uh and those people these tactics are used by government to frustrate and demoralize the public the government knows exactly what's needed to fix these houses people need to say outright that they will not vote for these parties and start one of their own and other it's obvious why nothing is being done for defective block homeowners neither the council or the government want to spend the money they're leaving it for Sinn Fein to do but the problem is this and i get what you're saying right but the money's been bodged it's in the budget it's allocated an awful thing happened about five or six weeks ago where someone from somewhere leaked the fact that the 5000 for uh emergency remedial works and the 15 000 for accommodation was about to be announced now i don't know if that was done genuinely or disingenuously right but it gave people some hope it was on the front of one of the papers we mentioned it to uh off the back of that nothing came of it uh another insult injury on it someone leaked it by the way it was reported that's not the reporter's fault uh but who and why did why was that back tracked down good morning Greg could you please mention that there is a bizarre bizarre on in Burtonport community center it's on sunday at three o'clock it's a lovely event to go to uh that comes in from Mary so if you're in uh an around beautiful Burtonport haven't been there for ages uh due another visit or is it ages maybe it's last year i don't know can't say in case i wasn't allowed to be there because of covid that's a joke by the way uh i was there but i'm sure i was allowed i wouldn't break law uh good morning Greg could you please mention that there's a bizarre on in Burtonport community center i say that tongue-in-cheek by the way it's on sunday at three o'clock it's a lovely event to go to get along if you want something to do on uh sunday and worrisky's christmas lights carry keel will be lit up from six o'clock tomorrow donation box at crib and all proceeds going to dunagall dan syndrome that's their chosen beneficiary this year looking forward to getting along to see mary and the crew there myself uh that's worrisky's christmas lights carry keel all lit up ready to go from six o'clock on saturday the third and uh there's a donation box at the crib and also two if you want to uh fast track your letter to santa you can go and post it there as well as enjoying the light spectacle okay let's take a break back with more in the nine till noon show after these the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today highland radio have done it again buy a 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shopping center but today what we're doing is just as an extra special thank you we are given away 3000 euro 1000 on this show 1000 on john show 1000 on david james show to qualify for that though you have to buy your tickets for the car before 11 o'clock today uh you can go on our website by the way um beat the cues highlandradio.com or uh if you want to give us a call oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand we're working through those calls all right that's mariah carry all i want for christmas and we're putting together by the way a lovely show what we hope it will be a lovely show for you on um for the friday before christmas and we'll have loads of different guests and people that contribute regularly to the show on and hopefully some more exciting um announcements as it relates to that day and the lead-up to that as well of course we're going to be in giving of the way mode uh we've a lot going on here um at highland radio so uh we look forward to sharing that all uh with you right let's get to some more of your comments here now um are we talked about the issue of well various issues miscellaneous let's put it like that there uh someone texted on vaping you have to be 18 to vape same as cigarettes can't fathom why they're allowed to vape on bosses and that school you don't have to be 18 do you they're only just introducing the laws now or the only just introduce the laws now in that regard i think card payments should be mandatory as businesses that don't accept card payments as you don't declare it and avoid taxes that's always a theory i'm not quite sure uh you know at the end of the day just revenue and not have access to your bank accounts and all it might be quite hard to hide large uh income from cash maybe i'm being naive it would be convenient to go cashless but impossible if you have school aged children of schools looking for ways to avoid having to send children out most mornings with small amounts of cash uh another show you can't pay by cash for a new driving license there a joke you can't even go in and see a football match uh with cash anymore can you if i can't manage my finances and only uh can only do okay with cash and a restaurant refuses my service then i would encourage my friend circle to boycott such a place that's it indeed but i've like i'm the i thought it was an interesting angle because uh coming from the uh representative group for restaurants because the what i've seen anyways actually um businesses saying that we only are taking cash often it's down to a card machine being down or something but i got the impression a lot of businesses favor cash um right okay another caller says here i was talking to a girl who's in secondary school and she said it's like a game of chicken to see who can get a talk of their vape when the teacher's back is turned uh to the board so they're puffing on their vape uh mid-class i had a power outage this week it was my own fault two people from the esb came out to me and stayed for over three hours in the cold and corn donna they worked so hard and i didn't get the chance to thank them properly uh okay well you've done it now so if you are those esb workers and you help that person out they are very very grateful i was uh watching i don't think it would get anyone in any bother but i thought it was quite nice actually i was watching the teams out washing signs power hosing signs and i presume they've been sent out to wash um road signs um and what have you but i noticed them also cleaning business signs which i thought was very nice wasn't it i didn't have to so they would did the the the poll with the you know capri left wherever right wash that down and then there was a business sign there and they give that a spray as well which i don't think they have to and also too there was a couple of uh defective concrete signs as well and they give them a wee power holes which as i say i don't believe that's part of what they were asked to do but they were doing it anyway so fair play to them they were out washing signs but also washing businesses signs that i saw hi greg my husband starts at 6 30 in the morning and finished whatever time he gets done could be 12 13 14 hours a day or more and the company don't pay shift allowance for those hours that comes in from a listener there in case some may feel a certain amount of sympathy after watching quinn's country documentary hands up how many have paid 100k for a family members wedding cake did that happen i haven't seen it yet i wonder did michael of fenula watch it they're going to be joining us after uh 11 o'clock uh for all things uh entertainment and fun we want you involved in that conversation did you get your spotify wrap anything jump out at you at that the most listened to i i this is what's making me question this whole spotify wrap thing my most listened to artist apparently was ed sheeran now i think some i don't dislike ed sheeran right but i don't like him so much that he'd be my most listened to artist i think something's going on there who was yours mind the door caroline nothing worse than when you walk into a door after switching on of the lights in convoy why not join us in st ninnian's hall for our christmas fair have a a warming cup of teal coffee see the stalls santa arrives at 7 30 everyone welcome all right that's your night and evening sorted in convoy um there is bosses to letter kenny and dairy that gets you in before 9 a.m okay happy to point that out as well uh good morning none of the private ambulance workers have received a thousand euro covid front line payment it's totally unfair as we spent hours on end in the back of the ambulance with covid patients yet we have been overlooked it's on a completely unacceptable and and the on some of the i mean everyone who's received it did they're a bit don't get me wrong but some of those that are um not directly employed by the hsc that still have to receive this one thousand euro which these are people not on fantastic money uh that face all the other challenges that everyone is facing a thousand euro before christmas would be a real big difference maker and there's some real key workers uh who are being forgotten about that are due that one thousand euro they earned it and they still have yet to receive it we'll chase that up again at the start of next week wasn't it lucky that that good counselor just happened to have the matching color of paint to redesign the signs yeah i think that's a reference to the story on the news uh raymond says given the uh defective concrete catastrophe and the lack of specialist health facilities here in donningall perhaps we should start calling out the situation for what it really amounts to donningall phobic let me see right okay let us take a break for a break actually uh coincidentally we'll be back with more on the nine till noon show after these the nine till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans 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sorted okay um i call us as we were chatting to michael mcclafferty yesterday about uh his comments he made publicly about uh an over emphasis on ukrainians at the expense of irish really is effectively what the headline read anyway greg it's the amount it's costing for ukrainians how come this money is available and no money for the irish who are paying uh for all greg stop being so hateful many people are of the same opinion as michael now already on social media it's got to the point where you can't have a discussion or an exchange of views because you get shut down or cancelled or blocked or whatever it is here what we try and do in this program is allow people to have their views tease it out different people with different point of views there's lots of people have a very similar view to michael the one problem with your message is is and i don't want to be preachy but it's a fact it's not that the money is being taken from housing irish and being spent to house ukrainians it's that the government is focused on housing ukrainians but does not share seemingly the same focus on housing homeless here their housing for all plan is not working as it should so it's not that resources are being taken from the irish and inverted commas and being used to support ukrainians it's that the money is being thrown at that problem but you heard the conversation earlier on about a dozen or so probably many more families who need emergency accommodation because their houses are unsafe to live in right it's not that there's no money it's not like oh we can't help them because there's no money it's the will it's someone saying right this is unacceptable we need to fix this and if there were no ukrainians in this country i assure you if there were no ukrainians in this in this country still those people would be in those unsafe homes right laura joins us good morning laura good morning great lovely to speak to you right okay um there's these zeon lights are they called led lights that some cars have yeah what do you think of them yeah oh and they are they're just too bright that's what i think of them because i tell you why driving at night in the countryside which i do quite often the bright lights are on automatic on most of these cars and they just don't they don't run so you're blinded and they're so white i think too a lot of people are driving bigger vehicles suvs and what have you and i think when the lights are higher up in those vehicles i think it's even more of a problem for us sitting in our cars as well i don't know if that's an observation you've made well i haven't observed anything like that but what i noticed that when these cars are approaching me from the distance they go down they the lights okay the lights will dim they go down in a dip and they brighten up again and this is for and our roads are full of dips and it's like and if you there's a line of those cars approaching me it is it really is blinding i just wonder why we need the lights so bright yeah i just don't understand why they need to be so bright i mean the argument would be obviously for the driver of that vehicle it's fine they don't have to worry about it but if you are meeting that traffic then it's a very different situation altogether but but greg a lot of these cars have you can have it on automatic or you can have it on manual and i think most people opt for the automatic and that doesn't it doesn't all be worth to the person coming towards you do you know what i mean but that's just all that i wanted to say and i would just say to those people who have with the newer cars if they could could they could they adjust their their lights to manual so that they you know when you're approaching a car that you can do it yourself yeah and also to a lot of cars a lot of cars will have a little jog wheel where you can actually lower your dips as well do you know what i mean so that would be useful presumably as well because even if they're on dips some they can sometimes the big thing can be quite high yeah yeah absolutely that's a that's a good idea as well but a lot of people i only recently found out myself and my old car i didn't realize it yeah and if it's raining as well it's horrible yes it's even worse it is even worse yeah because it limits what you if you're on a on a country road as you say you know you're worrying about maybe pedestrians or cyclists on your left and you're worried about these cars coming at you it's it's unpleasant it's not nice driving experience yeah okay laura do yours do yours i that's it exactly i forgot about that right so what you're asking is go manual and dip the dips if you can all right laura lovely stuff thank you so very much indeed i appreciate it thank you so much um right back to that issue uh the conversation we were having with michael stop blaming refugees and people fleeing from a crisis in ukraine for the housing crisis of homelessness the government have chosen not to prioritize housing for years disgraceful that a public representative such should have such an attitude to refugees start making better policies for housing for all instead of uh spreading hate greg shutting down the councillor's argument yet uh each day he comes out with statements like we need to have the conversation such mixed messaging hinders people uh i really don't understand like i'm not i appreciate all feedback okay but michael mclafty was given um eight or nine minutes before 11 o'clock to express all of his views i never said he was wrong i put counterviews towards him that's a conversation that's a debate right they're not i'm not sitting here expressing my point of views necessarily right and then to make sure he had enough time to to so that he didn't feel like oh well greg said that and cut me off we took the news and he came back on again and there was a further i don't know how long it was 10 to 12 minutes where uh councillor mclafty was able to express his views i said on a number of occasions that i understood that he is uh representing the views of a lot of people out there i'm not um some highfalutin that lives in it in it i'm a normal person on a normal wage living in donagore as well so i know what people are talking about i have the exact same conversations that everyone does but you have to try and progress the conversation you can't necessarily just have a group of us that think we should be doing everything and everything's grand and then another group that thinks that's a disgrace we shouldn't be doing that we have to come together have a conversation and there's not if you think about it how we've been having the conversation and and letting people have their views on this issue for a long time now and think where else that's happening you know think some of the national shows where someone might say something to what michael said and they're shut down and barriced off the radio i've heard it myself i heard it happen that doesn't happen here we're having a grown-up conversation where we have people with different views having a conversation maybe a meeting of mind maybe opinions changing but respectfully respectfully respecting each other and each other's opinions at the same time how can that be a bad thing i think that's progressive in this day and age i personally think it's a positive thing that people feel that they can come on and express their points of views council i'm a crafty knew he could come on and have his view heard he seemed to change his views somewhat which is fine which is good i don't think it's a weakness or a u-turn i think that's the whole purpose of constructive conversation do we really want to get away from that text 08 660 25 000 if that's what you think michael is 200 right our own citizens are lying on the streets um with no fixed abode can't get social welfare this country is a joke another high grade cancer my crafty is totally right the government is obviously benefiting from the millions the hotels etc are getting to house the ukrainians look at our local council and see who's benefiting there too obviously the government have shares in these hotels we've done enough as a country far more than any country of this size now it's time to look after our own go michael i don't think the government per se are benefiting i think they're uh you know if this situation isn't sorted early next year and we i think we were the first to highlight before a single person moved into a hotel the impact taking these hotels out of commission for tourists would have on the general local economy we were having that conversation on this program i would say at least three months before i heard that spoken about nationally uh so i'm not sure where the government makes uh maybe they look good in europe i don't know i don't think they're making any money per se uh off the back of it uh certainly it's a collective 79 project pilsner 129 and great value on quality street chocolate tubs now two for eight euro 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about at all i don't i how could and that's in the spotify replace the 909 show they don't even talk on it they maybe they're a podcast it's just never the same never be the same nobody should be ever listening to anything that is in thailand radio yeah that's the way isn't that our firmly that's true i've even stopped talking to myself exactly um right okay uh let's start with quinn country uh you haven't seen this michael no i'm aware of it from a lot of comments on social media i'm interested yeah fenula said last night she was watching it have you watched all three episodes yes is it worth watching yes all right because i'm gonna when i get an opportunity watch it and yeah i actually sat down and tell us we don't know fenula well to be honest now i i have to say i kind of walked away from this story back in i i thought i would have said i walked away from it in 2009 but apparently no because it went on and on and there was bits of it that i remembered but there was so much of it that i did like what was going on even as far as 2018 2019 like it starts off in the first step i watched them three in a row and you can easily do that now and it works out to be about an hour and 20 minutes or so per for each of them and but the way when when you watch them all together the first one it kind of gives you a little bit about the rise of quinn and who he was and this kind of thing and the area that he that that it all happened in and what it tries to kind of give you that the look so almost a political context in that region you know what i mean this would have been a border region there wasn't a lot going on there in some ways it was nearly what they would have called back in the 70s as when they used to use the words banded country and that kind of thing for those type of for those type of regions and it really all that meant was nothing about the people that lived there but it was more that it was neither fishing or foul you had the or you see on one side not doing that then and then yeah on the other side of the wall then was the guard e kind of not going up there much and the customs and they couldn't go down road they had to take 15 mile uh yeah detours in order you know just because there was a because the border happened to be in uh in the middle of the direction you were going in and he talks and it's very much focused on quinn in the first one and i have to then that kind of i was like oh Jesus don't tell me that rt have paid quinn to do this documentary like because i mean well or i have if it is rt that has paid for it no we can't mention rt that's the competition i know i hate to do there you go this is their television and i think this is their television though which apparently you know i don't know before you go on can i ask a question because i sort of supposed this already the week having not watched it right yeah i would have i wonder if sort of a netflix had got this would have been a bit more juicy do you know what i mean is it sanitized a little bit because of maybe actually i have to say that's the one thing i will say about it the content will pull you in different directions depending on and i will a hundred percent admit i would be on the negative to the sean quinn saga right from the information that i had going into it but it's actually a really well made documentary okay good really well made there's a sean quinn does a lot of talking they talk to his wife they have clips from different news things that have happened over the years and all the marches that went on and that kind of thing they speak to a load of the neighbors up there particularly those that were very much for him and they speak to the people who are now running the business the new management that are in there running the business in the area and so i actually and then they have a lot of experts as in fentanyl two different kind of journalists around about the place that would have covered it over the years from a financial then from the legal then from do you get understanding as to why he's so popular and popular to the point that you know i mean how many of us would people fight a corner for really really his activities they do was it because he was such a a big employer in the area do you sort of get a sense of where his yeah you do get a feeling of that i have to say though i again because i you know shockingly have an opinion on everything so i had an opinion myself going into this and i never really understood what was going on with that because i i fully understand you know like he he built up massive businesses in that area he kept people and more importantly he kept their children in that area yeah like you know what i mean he brought life back to that area with the amount of work when nothing was going in there when as i said it was considered in some way a bandit country i mean even you hear Alan Dukes as an talk about how violence is easier for people in those areas to get in but it's gone completely insane i mean the last thing which was in 2019 was when some man was kidnapped and assaulted and i mean it's just unbelievable and he was asked directly um because i don't think anyone's had an opportunity to do so before he was asked able to be asked directly and obviously said he hadn't if he had involvement in that now he said he there was no love lost for him in Mr. Lundy but he yes well it's it shows their kind of relationship as well through it because Lundy used to was his protege in many ways and then it goes all the way through and right up to as it finishes then it lets you know that um there was a search warrant issued on Quinn's property earlier this year which again i hadn't really been paying attention to but i i suppose for me it was i always thought it was i always remember one story reading about at the time remember when the court cases came up and everything was coming out and one of the daughters that got married and the wedding was three and a half million or something like that and it was the business that paid for the wedding and then it came out and one of the things that apparently one of the daughter-in-laws was a um i'll never forget she was a receptionist in a business in Dublin while also on like a hundred thousand a year for being a receptionist in a business in Russia and i was we always were like geez that's a commute you know how fair it is now part-time she was an early adapter for remote working she a hundred percent hundred percent apparently there was two jobs one in Russia one in Moscow and what because he businesses all over the world and they're still it's still in some countries it's still being litigated it's still not a hundred percent you know obviously we are all still paying for businesses and we'll be until 2035 i think yeah and and yet still and and even locally because his his lorries would have been you know regularly seen around here as well even locally we'll get people that will be very very strong in defense of him that he's the person that is wronged so with all that in mind did your view in any way change you went into this so haven't switched off from the topic you know a decade ago having your views did your views change throughout the course of the three episodes well you to be honest i can understand a lot of it in the sense that you watching him and hearing him talk about and and in his you know to his credit he does admit to a lot of things that he did which were wrong and were foolish and you know do different things like that and i wasn't expecting that because again not knowing the man personally and only seen bits and that he does come across as being quite arrogant as his public persona and i have to get to where he did you have to kind of understand the you know i mean the entrepreneurship is about you know taking risks it is about taking a gamble it is about doing different things that's how he got to where he was you know i think we all probably know somebody in 2008 that bit up bit up more than they can chew not quite the three and a half billion that he did but you know a lot of a lot of fine and decent people you know just got um in over their heads when everything came to a crash you know they didn't see it coming in that so you can sort of sympathize with them in that but there is a layer of arrogance there and like he cannot see the business as not being his business like he owed two and a half billion to the people of Ireland after they took over Anglo bank and one and a half billion to people in America like investors or whatever from America the sorry it's 2.4 billion here in Ireland and and then 1.5 billion to the Americans the Americans are going to get their money back the Irish people will never see the two billion they may see the four and we will be paying two percent on our insurance until 2035 and he still sits at the kitchen table and goes in a massive massive house and says i just can't believe they actually tried to take quit that they that they took the group i can't believe that the jury we're like buddy i feel bad for you but it was 2.5 billion like obviously they were going to come after you're lucky you have the house so what would yang see people lost their houses people it's like some people lost you know what i mean in 2009 2010 i mean i know some people that couldn't cope with it whatsoever and it was terrible tragedies you know a lot of terrible stuff are people that what you're saying is the people that are no longer here because of the fall out from such no because yeah because they just couldn't cope with the you know with the crime and you know and that's what i'm saying is you're kind of in one side it did give me a little bit more sympathy but then on the other side as he sits there and i go yeah buddy it's hard to you know would he be would he be sort of like a magnet for people who might be anti-establishment to anti-government that's very much how they phrased him in sort of an anti-hero that's how very much how much how he was kind of phrased in this because to be honest with the documentarians they were very kind of straight down the road but probably were quite not were generous to him in the sense that he you know gave spent a lot of time talking and doing a lot of bits and pieces so they probably and he was very much phrased that that's how he was seen that that's the kind that oh and it was very much oh you know when he came up to Dublin i was like like he lives in Kerala it's not that far from Dublin like but when he came up to Dublin and oh they didn't know what to do with this lad from the country and they this lad from the country and you're kind you know at some point you're kind of like and then he constantly talks about himself in the third person which is enough really i thought that would be it that's enough for me i don't care about the anything else they're very hard on Sean Quinn can't believe they took the Quinn group from Sean Quinn coming from Sean Quinn you're kind of like abadi all things consider what what do you give a problem i have to say it's definitely worth the watch yeah and i think no matter what side you fall on it's definitely worth the watch but and i would say again no matter what side you're falling on it's going to bring you closer if not to the other side then at least the middle on it because it's a lot of information well that i personally didn't have because i don't think anybody like we kind of picked it up by well i would assume but i think also too with the involvement of Quinn in it it gives them a little bit more latitude to bring other bits of information into it because once they can ask him a question directly about something it kind of widens the parameters of what they can talk about and what allegations they can if he's got an opportunity to it's very and it is an entertaining documentary it's a well done document you'll find the time flies through and it doesn't feel like it's that length whatsoever there's a lot of just really there's a lot of stuff happening all right okay things went a bit crazy down there that's uh quinn's country which is available on the quinn country sorry which is available on the rte player now i'm sure they'll broadcast it and it's also on like sky you can download it all together yeah and it's unusual for sky to take the rt stuff on their actual documentary channel or no it's on you can just because rt is one of their channels it's very unusual for them to actually have the programs that rt make that you can download and watch you can watch it through sky watch it through your player and i'm sure they're going to repeat it because it's really getting a lot of press it's getting a lot of attention so well it's making headlines and you don't often get that okay um michael i'm probably going to watch it yeah i'm going to watch it as well um there's a lot of interest on twitter and it's interesting to see the reactions to it pretty much in line with what fenilla was saying but it does seem to be something people don't think it was going to be the hot hot topic on twitter but it wasn't quite a maybe and obviously it all depends on who you follow and who you're interact with but it didn't have as much traction on that platform that i was expecting it to yeah but as i say i might not be exposed to the people that are talking about it plus twitter is very much an echo chamber it can be a little bit you know yeah when you think about it like the percentage of people a lot of people in this country yeah it's not as and it's mostly professional journalists prepare for the people and then well there's different cohorts of journalists on it because there's journalists like me right then who try and give information to the people but then i am pond food or or fish food for nationalist journalists who just see us me other regional journalists as a source of information right oh yeah yeah yeah so then what you find yourself going is that 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tell us what you're doing for fun how you're entertaining yourself this weather five days at memorial is on apple yes it's on apple and again together with blackbird which is another apple show it's really prestige top tier drama again it's an also true story also based on a book um i'm a book you really don't waste any of those holes do you um i'm going to ignore you so basically uh it's a true story it's uh hurricane katrina and it's yeah it's new orleans and again uh i seem to be drawn to shows like trim a about this era and stuff that happened uh in 2005 when hurricane katrina hit the city and then in the aftermath there was widespread flooding and there was rioting and basically the city was kind of abandoned by the government uh local government and national government a lot of people uh feel very bad about that and have felt very bad about that for decades and there's a lot of investigations this story which is absolutely unbelievable i'm five episodes into the eight episodes a hospital was cut off for five days in the middle of this first five episodes i've seen each one focusing on a different day and then three days three episodes then focus on the aftermath and the investigation this is grueling television it's hard to watch there's not much light here this no there's not much light in this at all none zero zilch vira famiga a lot of people will know from the conjuring movies amongst other things julie and emory who i want to marry when i grow up i adore that woman she's on boss she's on handmade's tail she was on better calls all she just can't do a wrong move and she is superb in this the episode i watched episode five during the week she was incredible she had a she had the pivotal scene at the end of it basically you're watching the same thing over and over again but it gets increasingly distressing to watch uh early on the electricity is cut off the food is destroyed in the basement they get like 15 feet of water they have to move upstairs in the hospital they're completely cut off um it's the the storm was over it became really warm and really humid it's a nightmarish scenario and it is on many levels it's horrific it's horrific to see how quickly everything fell apart in a 21st century hospital that within 24 between 48 72 hours they were literally they had no way to monitor people look after so in right so once the storm was cleared okay i mean this is a hospital within a stage within a a metropolitan huge huge yeah so why was like this why was everything not that scrambled immediately airlift people away to the thousands of other hospitals around the place absolutely agree there these are the questions that people have been asking for years and the investigations for whatever reason the government was slow to respond they didn't take things seriously in New Orleans the corporation that owned the hospital and within that building there was actually two the corporation was kind of sitting back ignoring phone calls and emails we focus on one guy in corporate headquarters i think they're in texas somewhere he was trying to respond but his bosses were saying no leave that the national guard will take care of it so and from the point is made up early on that there's no profit for the corporation in doing anything and sending helicopters in in those first 48 hours that's a money losing proposition and in america in particular whatever about the rest of the world it's all about the bottom line if you're running a hospital it's all about profit profit profit if your hospital is flooded and people need to be getting out you don't pay what might be a shocking attitude in this country it's it's it's accepted as the norm then in the united states what's the the is the demographic of the state a factor in any of this um it yes is the short answer i think it's a complex question but yes uh there is a great feeling that possibly the bush administration didn't respond as quickly as they could have because these were undesirable people they tended to be poorer people they tended to be black communities that were affected and that's predominantly the makeup of the city and that's something that does come up occasionally in this it came up much more in trimmé when i was watching that show the hbo show from years ago but i'll tell you and this is something that struck with me in episode five and it does get surreal and it gets increasingly surreal for days they were stuck for days some helicopters went coast guard ignored them at certain times they were desperately trying to get patients out then there was a switch the police arrived in on the fifth day i had to look this up because i couldn't believe it was true and i ended up getting into a conversation with a guy on twitter who knows the story better than me when the police arrived they began to accuse was still 2000 people in the hospital at that stage because they had taken the people in the community they told people they were trespassing they told people they had to get out of that building by five o'clock that day they gave them four hours to get out they prepared and they were prepared to drag people away a woman dragged away from her dying mother in a hospital bed and that's where things got really ugly because doctors were in a position where they had to discuss euthanasia because they were being forced by the police of new orleans to leave the building by five o'clock that day and if anybody couldn't be moved they were being left to their own devices and 45 people died and that's where the rest of the investigation is going to come and what i found really disturbing and upsetting watching this their night was that these doctors and nurses were quite euphemistic about they weren't using the word euthanasia they were talking about making people comfortable doing what's necessary i'm familiar language oh yeah so the people at the top and i don't think there's any bad people in that hospital from what i can gather but they were making bad decisions but they were sort of leaving it over to their underlings to make the decision nothing was being made perfectly crystal clear so people were walking out of meetings going am i supposed to do what i think i'm supposed to do it's incredible television it's well worth watching i wouldn't say it was easy to watch because you know how true it is but if you want to watch something that's an important story and the performance is again juliana emory i hope she gets every award going in award season same with vira famiga cherry jones cherry jones from i missed that it's normally the kiss of death for an actor if you if you suggest cherry jones who was the president on 24 for one of the later seasons she's the hospital administrator robert pine isn't it anyone who grew up like myself watching chips captain gutrayer whose chris pines father great to see ron the man looks the same as he did as he did on chips back in the 70s he's the elder statesman of the hospital he's got a heart of gold so there's there's moments where they have to push him aside so he doesn't really know what's what's happening it's difficult to watch i don't think i'm gonna watch it from what you've said it's it's hard yeah it's a bit like there was a show with the uh i don't know it was about covid it was uh not the boris johnson one but i think the is it american one no no british i'll remember it in a moment uh but i just i just don't think i'm gonna be i'm watching the two of these back but i'm gonna be enjoying the fact that it's had such an impact on you but i just don't think it's getting nothing but amazing reviews oh yeah people keep telling me oh you need to watch you need to watch it yeah i'm watching it i'm blackbird back to back and i'm one episode left of blackbird blackbird is also hard watching it's so dark so i watched the two of them back to back on a wednesday then i went to the kitchen and sit in silence and try and figure out how i'm gonna get that out of my head further because they're heavy viewing but they're good good viewing is that your type of program for nula would you be i watched try me when it came out and i found it very hard to watch it was i in the sense that it was amazingly done and made and everything yeah but it's very difficult to watch because as as michael said from the try me one i'm assuming it's the same in this you know these people weren't bad people and fairness to them when they were talking about euthanize me it was in some ways the best medical decision given the circumstances that everybody found themselves it's still in it is horrendous to even think to think that would exactly it's just like to actually think that in a modern country in a modern world that that would even be something that would ever have to and it's worth saying i think somebody got arrested for it as well oh i think yeah that's where the show is heading yeah there was court cases and stuff one of the cases i mean i because i had to just google one of the real but when somebody goes in for a relatively simple procedure these are not long-term care patients but somebody goes in procedure katrina happens they can't move for a few days and that person didn't make it into the hospital and that's horrific all right co that is five days at memorial memorial hospital obviously yes and it's available for you on apple which many of you who persist with the iphone might get for free as part of any package someone wants to know the chosen there's only eight episodes on netflix where else are they being aired you've got a wee thing that you can find that out i can find that out just watch and tell me yeah exactly so what we'll do is we'll find that out for you during the break keep your contacts coming in to us good morning to ursula watching this morning as well and good morning kathleen and marie and all of you who've said hello there i didn't get to all of you but thank you so much for watching and your involvement okay in the next 29 minutes one of you who has entered the draw to win a brand new 30 000 euro nissan duke car is that still on show down in the shopping center it is yeah yeah it looks amazing it is on show in the middle of the shopping center so whether you're down there doing your shopping you love it so they're great at that point because they're so shiny the the the tires are still do you know that yeah yeah oh yeah no it does like the lights are just bouncing off it yeah it's it's it looks amazing yeah it looks fantastic all right okay so we're gonna give one of you who entered that a thousand euro the trombola is loaded and ready to go the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today whatever you want this christmas you'll find joy for all at boots we've amazing deals and exclusive star gifts including better than half price on soap and glory and sd loader and with more 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hotel reception and also at the door all right lots of excitement coming up for you here on highland ready it's all it is for you really that's why we do it's not for our own entertainment coming up to christmas we've got some exciting things to announce and some great giveaways and of course we're going to be giving away a car and today we're going to be giving away a thousand euro but um before we get back to looking at what we're looking at um as I say we're throwing everything at it it's christmas aren't we it's going to be good fun yeah no well that's the plan anyway so we've alluded things to announce in the coming weeks of different competitions at the moment now the um home for christmas competition is closed and we're just working out uh the winners of that and then we have the um coloring competition which is running we've got uh love it love it love it we'll talk about that before the end i know i've asked santi for new crayons and everything it's very exciting and so we've got that we've got that going on we have the car draw that's happening as well and we have a lot of stuff that we have planned oh monday night sessions i'm gonna feel i promise jimmy and paul that we give it a mention monday night sessions are holding their live christmas show on the 19th of december in blake's bar and it's open to the public recorded live or actually been broadcast live broadcast live yeah broadcast live with live music i think they've got about 10 acts i don't know brilliant yeah awesome acts um so that's happening on the 19th of december so um anybody that wants to come down to that that'll be um open to the public as well 100 yeah i'm hoping to be around exactly there's not many things like that where you get multiple artists and it's live for radio and stuff it'll be good for you go michael 19th yeah i i love the way it go what am i doing it i'm i'm free every day between now and christmas stop attending otherwise i feel like i might be on stage that night yeah actually might i've seen you rehearse i won't be there there's no room for truth on on on the 9 to 11 she'll stop being honest it's our ninth and literally twenty nine twelve um want to say happy birthday to jeffie who's lifting to the show this morning and also to some other comments my sister lived in new orleans and lost her home in hurricane kentrina so it goes to show how yeah you know close this is five days at memorial says to call it it's a slow burner a harrowing story a slow burner is a good way to put a janet's he's harrowing i might i just i just i kind of know in my heart i think you'd enjoy it but i don't know if it's christmas feeling all right i'm too christmasy at the moment i don't know what you mean which is terrible if lindsay lochan was in it well you have watched that film yet have you i'm gonna you said i hear good things about it though three weeks i hear good things about it not from fenula not from fenula from lindsay lochan into freddy prince jr there's another guy that's after doing a christmas movie for netflix and he should have stayed at home right have you seen it i heard it was good you both uh no the theater we went to we had a good time at the oh yeah talk to us about that we did this is all things on stage on tally on big screen we're all over the place this was opera wasn't yes we but actually we went to the theater twice twice we got once together in separately once the first time i forgot to pick him up yes sorry you went to the theater scheduled with him yes went on your own yeah i forgot to pick him up i i did not notice and i i know she didn't i thought he was going to be there i confused the matters by sending a text message which said see you at my house at seven thirty by including seven thirty at my house i immediately caused fenula to think he's meeting me at the theater at eight yeah she was off the trail then completely it's like two minutes stage i'm like we're literally literally two minutes day checks back in my kitchen did you just stay at home in a huff or make your own way pride i took my mug of tea threw it against the kitchen wall must clean that up when i get home anyways so we had yes so we've so we've been to the cinema a lot separately and together but last um saturday night we went to see um an opera my first ever opera i was nervous going in because i really felt oh god this is going to do because i have tried the modern dance and to be honest i people love it but it's not for me but not while watching the opera you didn't um so i know i was nervous to go into the opera uh to see whether or not i would like it and we went to see don cut the scale the scale and uh it was done by the person sorry is this so ignorant no is this an individual performing or is this good no that's a good question no it's a story it's a play it's a play it's a several cast people it's no yeah that's a fair question are they all operas operating or are you singing they are okay and there's no no real speaking in it there's not a lot of speaking in it it's nearly all to even when they're talking they're singing nearly so that's why i was like oh i don't know um i managed le mes but i wasn't sure if i was going to manage this but actually we went it was done by the national opera um theater and they're touring now this is what they're trying to do and i would say it's because in the uk and things like that there's been a massive reduction in the government spend on the likes of opera and things like that and it's all about the fact of whether or not it's actually for the general public and that's where i would have to say that's what the buildup is i actually really enjoyed it it was very light sorry are you classing yourself amongst the general public yes well i would have always i would have i always kind of too busy to even pick up a friend she could have sent one of her people to do it i was at work i left work and went straight to the opera and no it went straight to the other show but this one was we we went to this and um i i have to say this one we saw together yeah i really enjoyed it and i was amazed that i enjoyed it because i have to say i always kind of taught opera was you know it's nearly always in italian it's a little bit too high brown i didn't think you know oh when i sit there through it all and actually was really enjoyable hugely enjoyable yeah it was very kind of light and airy and the story is easy to track and follow even yeah it was and they had ser titles which is the text of the entire story is projected onto screen or shown on two large screens like my worst nightmare and you can read it uh this is my ignorance this is no reflection on the performance but it's definitely work when my old thing about this is this one is over now because they only came down for one show and the reason why we want that i'm brought to to bring it up was because they're coming back again and they're going to be back with 2t con passive on 2t on april me yeah i'm 2t there you go uh it and this is going to be one that people will actually know some of the music from because some of the music from that has actually become kind of popularized see i like pavarotti yeah oh i saw him in concert once i've sat and watched his concerts on you know i do like it and i like other it's just the combination and rea betelie is just absolutely you see weirdly gregg might enjoy you might enjoy it too well you see this is this is a funny one but the days of me rejecting something as if oh i'm never doing that they're over so you know what i mean i would be whilst i'll say it sounds like my worst nightmare you might i i am so open to go yeah and have my views changed yeah i'm kind of at that stage of my life now that's what i kind of wanted to say to people was go and see you know keep an eye out for this they haven't got the exact dates but they're touring may june and letter kenny is on their list of touring because we checked at the theater to see when they come back i definitely think it's something people go and see and see how you think about it and particularly that'll be an easy one because as i said some of the music people will even recognize it and don't sort of say it's not for me because like now i will say one thing michael had read up about it beforehand and he had given me kind of a rough synopsis synopsis of what it was about and that did make it easier then because even though you know because it's very hard to be reading and even the even when they're reading it's not line for line it's more kind of giving you this is what it is and then six lines later it's still the same line up you know what i mean it's like oh the argument began or yeah she was mad you know and and so it's not like word for word that they translate it's just to kind of keep you in the whole feeling of it but the singing was absolutely stunning i cannot mention one of the one of the gentlemen in it is from um northern ireland yeah was amazing he's brilliant and i was like well there you go there's not there's a thing that you don't think when you're he was interviewed in the program as well there was like a five or six page interview with him which was really about how he got into that kind of thing but it's not something that you kind of automatically think of become an opera singer the one of the main characters in it then as well was a a gentleman from i think the congo originally or something like that but he had only just he studied engineering in school and had an interest in singing and suddenly did an opera and you're like he was amazing amazing and so it's just it's really worth going to see and it's on um then uh it's on as i said may june and then the one that we went separately i'll pull your mic down for this one like you know if you aren't needed he will he will he went to see that was uh the the better kenny musical and drama society have calendar girls on at the moment and there's two more nights left tonight and tomorrow and um they did a great job but fabulous yeah not mad about the show but as in the actual show that wasn't written by them if you know what i mean it's not really um i don't know the film you mean the film was also made into a musical okay so what it is is there's a bit of talking and then there's all these songs kind of dropped into it but they're not very like it's a rewriting and the original stage play has been gary barlow did all the songs for this and they've basically taken the same story but kind of it's yeah it's it's i normally love everything that gary barlow does i don't like these ones the women that are in it and the gentlemen that are in it are absolutely they are amazing yeah the talent that's in this part of the world is absolutely fantastic the loads of people were falling about themselves laughing are the crows not particularly in my team but they were the crowd the audience were falling about themselves the women are unbelievably brave and if anybody knows the story of calendar girls they'll realize that it's about these women who decide to do a a tasteful nude calendar in order to raise funds for a cancer society in the uk because one of them has lost their husband to cancer and the women on the stage here in letter kenny are equally as brave we will leave it at that it's well worth going to see you were so great might be old enough to be allowed to see something like this yeah it's it's definitely well now holland you make sure you don't promise it's not to differ no at this point no no no it's okay it's a very it's very tasty you don't have to say it's still i mean these are just regular women like you know fair that's what i mean is in fair place of them they're clearly having a lot they're clearly having a lot of fun up there like they clearly are like it's tonight and tomorrow is it tomorrow night and yeah the last two shows are tonight and tomorrow i would if people are interested but i would nearly be sure they're both sold out at the stage but i let don't take that as red if you really you know but i'm sure the box office cancellation but it has it's like i mean it was the night the night that i eventually did get to see us he said slowly looking across the microphone there was i think i was i was i think i saw like 10 empty seats in front of me like you know i was i was sitting in the back row i didn't have a proper seat with a few things that i've noticed booking i'm not saying it's the case there is that you book a seat right and there's one seat in between in one row and one in another do you know what i mean yeah that happened yeah and there must be a natural amount that they sacrifice because there's very few people are going to go last minute on their own to something i think i'm not saying you know i just noticed that in the forum and and stuff that there are little people book a seat and you can't say squeeze up there so i'd say there's one left somewhere in the middle there's a natural sort of loss i was in the back row watching i just want to remind people the draw is coming up very very shortly we delayed it slightly to make sure everyone uh that wanted to be involved was involved so please bear with us we'll be pulling out a ticket for a thousand euro very very shortly stay right where you are i beg your pardon no i was going to say i was looking i could see a seat like a random seat and i was thinking to myself who's waiting in their kitchen for finula even as i sit here is it possible you say there were 10 at your seats is it possible that 10 friends let down 10 other possible yeah it's possible you're stretching it to call us friends i mean i'm kind of close as you can possibly i've never said we're friends what kind of person and again i say i muddied the water by clearly saying seven thirty at my house you've made that point i mean it's too ambiguous we can cut that clip for you your ringtone listen thanks very much just to let you know by the way that yesterday we launched our 12 days of christmas uh and we are back today just click on the deal of your choice on highlandradio.com you'll see it as soon as you land on the website there all the information you need to have heard of the offer will be there our second uh deal of the 12 is from the silver tassie hotel and spa they're offering an amazing afternoon tea followed by their winter essence spa package for two for 20950 to book simply call the spa and 07491 uh 26251 there's other contact details and uh you can find all of that information out right now on our website highlandradio.com just click the 12 deals of uh christmas all right back with more including that draw for thousand euro after these the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering my cu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union hello dream inspector 50 grand got it wait 10 winners of 50 grand each every 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also a thousand on jive time with david so all of you who entered up until now uh unless you called in after i said that we were pausing it for today's draw just to make sure everyone knows exactly where we're at these are all in this uh this trombola which is um right there right okay i've by the way i've watched vanilla rotate it are you going to risk a live on air rotation because it is quite heavy to rotate my trombola right go for it i'm obsessed with this trombola okay although the weight of it now is getting a little bit much yep that's because of the quality materials in it i'm sure right okay so uh for those of you watching across our socials youtube highland radio island of course and on our facebook pages and on our website highland radio dot com for those of you are not fenula is about to open the trombola she's going to look away from the hole she's going to place her hand inside and she's reaching and she's arms are just about long enough just about and a number is coming out i'm not a large woman and it's on this camera over here to your left it is five eight nine one five eight nine one just so katie i thought she can see it all right so five eight nine one you have just won one thousand pounds we're retaining the ticket for now just to let we cross-reference it with names and stuff and then it will be going back in the draw drum the trombola and you could then go on to win uh one sorry a 30 000 euro nissan juke car which is available for you to view if you're in letter kenny in the letter kenny shopping center so it's all very exciting so someone's about to be a thousand euro better off yeah and they go back into the draw for the next two draws of the thousand euros on jones and david's and then obviously the big it's shown still obsessed with the possibility that one person is going to win all three thousand euros and i know he is he does he thinks that can happen it was a pains to point and don't forget you i i nearly i nearly sat down and i know but i nearly sat down and did the maths for him to show him how it works but actually i would say what is so amazing about this is like i had a lady on the phone yesterday and she was buying her tickets and for christmas presents and different things like that and lists enough all the people and i was thinking gosh she's great she's buying all these tickets and um she won she was one of the two and a half thousand winners in our last draw that we had and she was talking about how great it was just to be able to sit back and have that nice little the cushion in the bank and she was okay what you could spend on that kind of thing so it's lovely it's great coming up to christmas that we'd have three winners three people that could win a thousand and then be back in again great coming up to this weekend people will be able to do some christmas shopping all right um have either if you've seen or is it across your radar a cocaine bear oh yeah a caller wants to hear your review when it comes out so a caller has literally made a request you have to watch it trailer is amazing the trailer i love elizabeth banks anyway having said that i didn't watch charlie's angels because i just didn't think it would work for me but the trailer for cocaine bear which is based on a true story believe it or believe it not looks amazing and it is really odd as final screen performance um really yeah from and again loving him in black black bird yeah he's really really good in that he's so well cast in that but the short answer is the trailer i watched it a couple of times i thought it was amazing and i can't wait to see it it's up there with um violent night as one of those cookies series or a film pod migran's it's a movie and it's a comedy based on a true story like it's it's it's a heightened reality kind of thing about a bear that gets into a cocaine uh that's the cocaine ship and that's thrown from a plane so the bear is the principal character the bear is the principal character and goes on and go on his trip with a murder we go on his trip with him we go on his his crazy cocaine induced trip which is a murder i actually thought it was a joke yeah the more he explains the more it feels to me like a joke yeah i'm trying to play with it and it's it's uh i'm totally watching it it's carry rossel the lead from felicity and the lead from the americans she's the lead she's the lead yeah i did i genuinely thought it was kind of a you know when they put up those spoof kind of trailers on some people american shows sorry sorry no it's not you it's me i thought it was about five past 11 um unbearable weight of massive talent nicholas cage you've got him down as nick cage so obviously your relationship with him was significantly uh we're best friends we're best friends uh we're about okay well i have to say i watched this movie a little while ago it's been on amazon for uh for a while now in my to watch yeah it's and i was kind of like oh god and you know nicholas cage kind of came up and he came down and then he had a few kind of personal issues that came up and then he started being in i mean literally everything that was ever put on any kind of a film he was in and it and you're kind of like oh god it went through that bruce willis just absolute robert's period being absolutely anything and what is an a-lister though well everybody knows his name and that's the whole thing that's what made him an a-lister i think rather than the shows and he has well he has stellar performances too well but you kind of tend to forget because in the last 10 years he hasn't really done as much as he had done in the you know he's done more b stuff a lot of b stuff that i would consider b stuff but this is i have to say i highly recommend it i really enjoyed it nicholas cage plays nicholas cage he's invited he's he's offered a million dollars to go to a very rich guy's birthday party and while they're then they're uh all these things into one in which they're trying to write uh the guy whose birthday it is wants to write a movie with nicholas cage then there's a whole benefit i want to hear so much but wait a second because i can announce that the winner of one thousand euro is henry mcgloughlin from malin number 581 5891 congratulations henry henry wasn't able to come on with us his phone was ringing out it's probably busy but henry mcgloughlin from malin has won a thousand euro now the lines are open again if you want to be in with a chance to win that car of course but also the thousand euro and john breslin show and david james's show please uh get on those phone lines out get on the website primarily it's a quick and easy process for you highland radio dot com folks i have to say goodbye i kind of feel like i put you off in your prime finula but you understand it wouldn't be the first time of course listen thank you sadly my prime was a while ago what five past eleven ten past eleven you were really flying a little to the quinn review your right quarter past eleven was your prime about when she sent that text to you saying she'd be there at seven o'clock have a lovely weekend everyone stay tuned john breslin's come up around the northwest the nine till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkenny