 And lovely day. Well it really is a lovely day here. The moment the sun has come out and we're in a lovely location at the campus in Veracembe for ATU or here for their information day. So if you're CAO results or maybe you got you know you didn't get the offer that you wanted or even if you did and you are coming here there's still plenty of questions I'm sure that you have and they will all be answered if you're here today and if you're interested in postgraduate or part-time opportunities at the university. Again questions been answered here today or something about accommodation or all the facilities or and all the opportunities. Whatever questions that you have today until four o'clock is the time to get them answered in person as if you like because I know so much can be done online or over the phone if you want to chat to somebody then all the staff are here today for that. Now let us focus on something else for a moment because back in March of this year Falkshire Ireland unveiled 10 new and updated viewing points along Mulroy Drive. Mulroy Drive is a looped route off the Wild Atlantic Way. It's sort of an offshoot of the Wild Atlantic Way and the whole idea is to encourage visitors to explore more and to stay longer in the Mulroy Bay area and the loop is sort of Milford, Kerry Keele, Ross Nekill, Render Kerry Garton and Cranford and the viewing points what they do is they bring local stories in life sort of local stories to life if you like and just maximize the opportunity from those vantage points but there's just more to the area than just the vantage points. It's a 38 kilometre route and to coincide with the launch the Mulroy Drive Tourist and Development Group together with the Irish Centre over in Philadelphia organizes Superdraw and the winners were Emma Robinson and Jason Kaminsky and the prize fantastic prize because the prize was they got flights here with their Lingus they arrived at Donegal Airport on Sunday they have Carr Hire they have a stay in the Harveys Point Hotel they got to visit Sleeve League walk around Lauske and then on Wednesday they moved to Rossapenna staying at the hotel there and there's plans for Fanad Lighthouse and kayaking at some I think that they've done and others maybe that they have yet to do but I'm delighted anyhow that in our mobile studio here we're joined by Jason and also the chairman of the Mulroy Drive Tourist Development Group Paddy Loog you're both welcome to our studio good afternoon Jason let me start with you how has it been? It's been amazing it was a once-in-a-lifetime trip that we had you been to Ireland before we'd never been to Ireland right I don't know anybody that's been Ireland Emma has a couple of friends that have been Ireland and rave about it right and one of her friends is a member of the Irish Center in Philadelphia which is how we ended up buying tickets for the for the Superdraw great and when you find out that you had one I'm sure all sorts of things were through your head the first thing was we thought it was a fake email all right by email right well so you're here it's very real yeah so once we once we realized that we actually did win the trip it was just crazy we just could not stop telling people that we're going to Ireland and we won this trip and it was just unbelievable that it was us out of everybody that you know purchased tickets and whatnot how did we win this trip somebody had to win it so how has it been since you since you got here you've had a you've had a busy itinerary by the looks of things we have we've you know we spent some time at Harby's Point which was a beautiful hotel great food we've enjoyed the hardest part for me was getting used to driving of course yeah I had to have an automatic because I've never driven a manual so that took a little while and now driving on the left side of the road does take a while to get used to understand it does makes left turns a lot easier though for sure but it's been it's been great it's the island is beautiful the area is beautiful the people are just so friendly it's crazy you don't I'm not used to that much friend that's not here well there's there's a lot of Irish people who go over to America and depending maybe on what what part you're in or is rural or urban do it say that you know Americans are very friendly as well so well to people that come and visit not yeah okay maybe maybe that's it yeah but you've you've also seen so much some of you know some great sites you've you've you've been helped with your itinerary so so that helps rather than come in here and kind of you know wonder where we go today sort of thing yeah what we we uh one of the good things was when we were at Harby's Point we were talking to some of the people that worked there too and they were giving us ideas of where you're coming how I'm sure helped yes he did he's an amazing so it's so much energy he has yes um and you know Patty and um the folks here really giving us ideas of where to go but even just not that just stopping anywhere we as we said we were up at fan at lighthouse and we stopped at the fan at lighthouse bar and restaurant on the side of the road to have lunch and the woman there was extremely helpful she's like oh if you want to go to the arch let me show you pictures and we're like all right we're going there next great and so it's just then see the arches and then we went and saw the arches so we've seen um you know sleeve league uh got lost going there and saw a wool mill factory so that was entertaining too um we've been to donicle castle and donicle town spent a lot of time in there took the the boat uh boat trip around the bay that was great um we did um murder hole beach this morning brilliant i was gorgeous yeah the weather was nice there was nobody had been on the beach yet this morning so you walked out and it was just there were no footprints it was crazy that's that's pretty common not just there but the other beaches as well yeah you know the one thing is you know when you you know gps is telling us it takes you know 30 minutes to go from one place to another that doesn't take an account how many times you want to stop and just take pictures and look out the window everything the landscaping is just beautiful well all the itinerary from from what you want it's suggested it's not like you have to do it so therefore you make your own time exactly yeah that's great um uh patty it's been a big success um the draw the anyone that was raised from the draw go they're redeveloping the area center in philadelphia is that it that's correct yeah yeah well i've um been happy out there and a lot of relations and uh our friend barny boys would be would have been chairman in it and he was grand marshal in the last for the second last philadelphia he's from bonlun just or mali moor outside malport so it's strong connections to the philadelphia center okay and they were doing renovations so my brother kevin was out there and he was at a function out there and they have some great functions great for every people going there and pleased to reconnect with absolutely you know among themselves so the money went to that but it's worked out well and that uh in a way you know uh you're you're helping them but they're also helping you and that they're spreading the word through the draw through the tickets you know i mean you know jason's here chatting about it chatting about it now for instance as well as having been here well as i said to you back in march it seems like yesterday but it's nearly six months ago now um like the idea was to reconnect with the people that haven't been to ellen now for nearly three years like you know and they were going to maybe miami or other place we wanted to get them back let them know donnie gall is open for business yeah i would have liked to have taken in maybe someplace in an issue but there just wasn't enough time and it shows a beautiful peninsula but we were took in donnie gall in the airport and our own mulroy drive area you know but uh we only had a week we were very lucky that we had two people that are so enthusiastic about it energy to burn and wanted to see as much of it and as i say we couldn't have a better investor yeah but he hadn't a clue who's going to win so we could have wanted to come here and just sit back in a spout all day we were just so lucky because like they may not you know as you say they just wanted to see everything and anything they're up early in the morning they were traveling to the end of the night to make sure they see as much as they can and um good so we were very lucky in the photographs just i can't even tell you how many photographs it takes a half an hour just to scroll through them that's good that's good uh patty it's it's it's been a great start to the initiative because you know uh when i first heard about it i was thinking okay well what is this entail and then you see the map and then we're down chatting to you and it all doesn't make perfect sense because you know about the wild atlantic way and this is an offshoot that really it deserves to have a light shone on it and just uh going through the part of adjacent itinerary and uh also the places that we mentioned there it's it's important that you know people who might be on the wild atlantic way are aware of it whether they come or not it's up to them but just let them know about it yeah well when the wet atlantic way was drawn up um like it's a massive success for tourism in ireland and the west of ireland on but when we discovered we were just left out of it we worked very hard to maybe get it changed at the time it was done but that was never going to happen but they promised us when the whole thing was developed that we would be made a sub route and they were good to the fancy and it was good to the word and Joan Crawford worked very hard for it and all the people at fancy ireland and that was what happened when you were with us in march and it was sort of to celebrate that being done uh and being added that's a sub route to the wild atlantic way that we come up with this idea of something different maybe to to give it a boost that uh which we were we're very happy with would would fall child and support this now and do a similar draw maybe next year in new york or something you're you need to talk to Joan Crawford that's not that's not my idea but the idea has been floated out now so at least we've made we will make good connections with the Philadelphia people now that they have this to work on and show the different this man has done amazing we couldn't have a better ambassador and a better is everything is we'll put together probably a portfolio of photos and maybe we videos and send them out to america we're also lucky that um when the american ambassador was coming to rosa penna and lunch didn't value this down to lunch to we explained the draw to her in a very nice woman way and she was amazed at this idea of of uh us taking people from falladale you know but uh so it all worked out very well well uh jason's party has said you've there's so much more to do i think all i mean you've missed out on a huge chunk any show but next time you're back we'll make sure that you see any shown in the meantime you're here in let it came out for two nights yes so um they're staying at the radisson correct all right and there's still a few more things to do there's a possibly a planned trip to glen ve castle possibly yes and maybe some kayaking there's kayaking we saw um when we were at the donagall castle they had brochure for you know things to do in donagall for 2022 and we that's where we saw like murder hole in their murder hole beach and there was hell's hole up in i can't remember where that one is located um my more gap is okay my more gap as well oh yeah oh yeah so we still have you know so much we want to do and there's only two days left so we're gonna have to pick it and then decide what we're gonna do the next time we go and you're gonna have to come back we're gonna have to come back okay patty if anybody is interested or they've got friends or relatives coming over um just to get their hands on the map or just to find out a wee bit more about the the route where's the good place to go online yeah well well we have our own website www.molroydrive all the information of this trip was just posted last week and the broadcast for press release so it's www.molroydrive.com and that's the map then is on that as well and you can download it and uh but the maps are i have put the maps into nearly all the local hotels around here yeah um i can tell you i was just counting last night i think we've 16 hotels would you believe it here so tourism is a strong understating this part it only got and and that's in the but i can't even i believe it yeah and uh well worldwide drive uh most definitely now a part of the the offerings and the maps widely available or your own website isn't jason i thanks for taking a bit of time out of your itinerary to come in i don't see me he's nice here but there's there's there's there's better to be had elsewhere so enjoy the rest of your stay i really appreciate it patty thank you as well thank you john for having this enemy hear that