 The session was held in Belfast to discuss the fallout from a high court judgement which ruled that two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined for making an arrest at a Troubles Commemoration event in 2021. Mr Burn arrived with other senior officers at midday yesterday but it was after 7pm before he emerged from the meeting. DUP, MLA and Policing Board rep Trevor Clark once again called for the Chief Constable's resignation. I've made my position before today and my position hasn't changed. I've been at this meeting with the understanding that our view is that the Chief Constable should resign. Unfortunately I've heard nothing today that would change my opinion on that. UUP leader Doug Beady is the latest politician to also call for him to step down. It's now costing more to fill up your tank. Since midnight the excise on motor fuel increased adding around 7 cent to a leader of petrol and 5 cent to diesel. Sinn Fein energy spokesperson Darren Work says the measure to ease the cost of living crisis shouldn't be changed right now. This will have a very significant impact on motorists and it comes at a time of record fuel prices, electricity prices, gas, food, rent crisis. We're in the middle of a cost of living crisis at a time when people do not have alternatives in terms of public transport. When those options aren't there for people this is a punitive measure. Meanwhile the hospitality sector is to meet the finance minister next week to discuss the rise in VAT. It went up from 9 per cent to 13 and a half per cent at midnight for restaurants, hotels and hairdressers. It means Ireland will now have the third highest hospitality VAT rate in Europe. The second of the funerals following last week's crash in Clonmel will take place today. Four young people died in the collision on leaving Sir Results Night. Barry White has more. The funeral of 24-year-old Luke McSweeney and his 18-year-old sister Grace will take place in St Peter and St Paul's Church in Clonmel at half past 11 this morning. The siblings died in a collision along with Nicole Murphy and Zoe Coffey on leaving Sir Night. Luke McSweeney had been giving his sister and her two friends a lift. They were going out to celebrate their leaving Sir exam results. The funeral of Nicole Murphy took place yesterday, while the funeral of Zoe Coffey will take place tomorrow. And to weather a mix of cloud and sunny spells along with heavy snow-living showers bringing the possibility of spot flooding, highest temperatures of 18 or 19 degrees in a light northeasterly or variable breeze. That's all for now. I'll be back with the next news update at 10 o'clock. In the meantime, you can keep up to date with local breaking news on our website HighlandRadio.com. Until then, good morning. It's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. It's just about to turn four minutes past nine on this Friday, the 1st of September 2023. How you all doing? I do hope you're very well and hopefully you're with us now for the next three hours in this show throughout the day on Highland Radio, of course. Lots coming up in the program as you heard. We've that's entertainment between 11 and 12, including 10,000 euro being given away to one of our lucky listeners. But the first hour is dominated by our Friday panel. We want you involved in the conversation just before we introduce them to you. WhatsApp, some text to 086625,000. If you're listening outside the Republic, 0035386625,000 or give us a call on 0749125,000 and a reminder for you that you can watch the program live on our YouTube channel, Highland Radio, Ireland on your smart TV, your forestic laptop, tablet or mobile phone. We're on Facebook as well and indeed on Twitter. Okay, so all that side of the way. Let's say good morning to our guests. Welcome back Professor Pat O'Connor, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Emeritus University of Limerick. How are you keeping? Hello, Greg. Hope you can hear me. Loud and clear. Have more faith. Have more faith, Pat. You just never know. I know, I know. But listen, we're here. Reverend Mark Lochridge, pastor of New Life Fellowship and the Reformed Presbyterian Church. Good morning to you, Mark. Good morning, Greg. Thanks for having me back on. No, it's our pleasure. And last but certainly not least, delighted to welcome on to the show for the first time. Claire Rohn and presenter of Up and Running Business Show on Ocean FM and Columnist as well with a slug of Weekender and just general contributor and opinionated person, Claire. I don't know, how would you frame yourself? Well, there you go, an opinionated person. Yeah, I think it is a compliment, isn't it? I hope it is. Come here, Claire. I'll start with you. You know, we're waking up this morning to a concrete levy. We're waking up to more expensive petrol and diesel. We're waking up to more expensive groceries in generally the cost of living because of inflation. There's something else that's gone up today. Yes, VAT on hospitality and in restaurants and what have you. There's three of those that are in the gift of the government. Of course, inflation is inflation, but it's a peculiar move or is it to be introducing these increases in our everyday expenses during a cost of living crisis? Can you make sense of the decision? No, I really can't. And that's the honest truth. I think we might start seeing some more positivity coming near the election. I think the budget may be a little bit of a giveaway budget, but they're going to be looking for votes. They're going to be knocking on our doors. And as you see, Greg, probably as much, if not more than me, people are really, they really are cut to the pin of their collars if that's the correct expression. September for families is a really, really difficult month because you have to get all the children back to school. And that in itself caused huge problems at the beginning or the middle of August from people who are buying. So even more added on to that. The friend who told me recently that her mortgage has gone up 400 euro a month and her shopping has gone up 400 euro a month and both she and her husband had taken a cut during COVID and still haven't had their salaries recompensed. So, you know, there's a 16 billion surplus, we're supposed to be loaded with money. And yet the person out on the street doesn't seem to be feeling the effects of that. Are these moves to try and address inflation internally then? Because you know, the bottom line is, is how do you deal with inflation? You make it more difficult for people to live. You know, that's that's and the interest mortgage interest rates probably aren't going to have the effect. Because I think it's about 60 63% of the Irish population with a mortgage have fixed rates. So if you're trying to suppress inflation, maybe mortgage rates increases aren't the best way to do it. Like if that's what they're trying to do, I think people would appreciate being told that's what they're trying to do. Instead of framing it that, you know, the petrol and diesel has to go up because it's locked in. It's only locked in like I locked in coming to work today, but I could have stayed on in bed as well. And I was actually shocked that they increased the the VAT for the hospitality and for the hairdressers. I thought now normally, you know, you'd hear on every radio station and you'd see in all the papers the objections to it, but I can't believe that it actually happened. And now one thing that I did see recently that I thought I was impressed with was the increase in the bank levy to say the banks that were handling all the distressed funds, they should be paying more. How much that will contribute, I don't know, but everything is worth getting. And I don't know is this their way of handling inflation? Is there a clever way of doing everything? But what I do know, Greg, and you know it too, is that people are suffering and that's not good. And I think restaurants, you know, we know we hear it all the time. Restaurants have been suffering in the Northwest because of the lack of beds and people aren't coming to stay in Donegal and Sligo and Litrum as much as they were. And now with the battery going up, I think there'll be a lot of doors closing. And I think that's more people under pressure. Yeah, because even a restaurateur sat opposite main and he is also a consumer as well as a service provider. There comes a point when a main course is too much or a starter is too much or the cost of lunch is too much. And you start going out, if you do go out regularly once or once or twice a month, you start going out on a Christmas or not on Christmas, but on a birthday or anniversary. Professor Pat O'Connor, can you see and again, I would love, although it might not be possible for someone to say yes, it's a great move. But can you see any logic to that going up for the cost of getting your hair cut going up something to eat staying in a hotel, filling your car with petrol or diesel, building a house if you're buying concrete for crying out loud. First time buyers are faced with extra bills. It's unbelievable stuff. But anyway, Pat, what do you think? I think that yes, there's a huge problem. I suppose I do feel that the hoteliers have kind of spoilt it for a lot of people that it means that the actual cost of how getting overnight stay in Dublin like you don't want to own the bed, you just want to sleep in it. I mean, really, it has gone beyond a joke. And there seems to be no way of actually curtailing that. I'm sick of listening to the reps for the hoteliers coming out and saying, well, on average and other than on special occasions, et cetera, et cetera. But to be honest, every weekend in Dublin can be portrayed as a special occasion. So and you have to remember the doid is sitting in Dublin. So obviously, some people are having to do don't have their own accommodation. Some of the TDs are acutely aware of the hoteliers greed. But I think in a way like doing things like increasing it on the price of diesel and petrol, this is completely mad and unintelligible, this business that the petrol and diesel was bought ahead. Like the funny thing is that the prices seem able to rise at a fixed time very fast, but they can never seem to fall quite so quickly. And it doesn't make sense. Equally, like the hairdressers, jeepers, I thought, I mean, already, like women pay, we pay an extortionate amount to get our hair cut, not a mind to get anything else done. And for many people, not for me, this is kind of a really important event in the week. So increasing that, I mean, in a way, it's putting pressure on a very, very small luxury. Do you feel particularly sympathetic towards restaurants? Because, you know, I mean, obviously, we know our hotels here and people will have won off stories about weekend rates. But generally speaking, I think there's better value to be had across the Northwest in hotels. But there is definitely some gouge and that's been going on in the cities. I kind of feel sorry for restaurants. And I think maybe they could have done more to try and decouple them from the accommodation that because that that as you quite rightly pointed out, this is to punish the big hotels in Dublin. And you've got restaurants and calves around the Northwest, who you can still get a, you know, a breakfast for 950. It's punishing them. It's terrible. Well, you see the difficulty with the Northwest is getting there. And that's the petrol and diesel problem, you know, that it is the cost of traveling there. But I am surprised that the restaurants haven't tried to decouple. I suppose what is also partly the Airbnb issue and the lack of enforcement of that has played into the whole frustration with accommodation. But they I mean, the restaurants seem to have made no attempt to decouple. The problem is they and it's not a problem, but perhaps the realities they seem to be represented by one person on Twitter, who's on news talk now and again. And Adrian Commons is the gentleman's name. And I'm sure he's trying his darn just don't get me wrong, but it is not a powerful enough lobby to have the one voice because what happens is is then shows don't book him because all we had him on a Monday and we can't have him on Thursday. You know what I mean? It just it's not if I were given the marketing advice, it's not the best approach. And that's not a criticism of him. It's just in terms of getting the message out there. Mark Lockridge, Reverend Mark Lockridge, can you say any logic to any of the announcements today? No, I think logic seems to be in some way sadly lacking. You know, we have this cost of living crisis. We have the timing seems poor in terms of the cost of living crisis in terms of people going back to school and the sheer burden on families. But then you add in, we have a housing crisis. And we have people coming to university in towns where there isn't accommodation for them. We've got so many people who've been contacting me at various times in the last year to find accommodation in not even not even simply in Donegal, but people from the continent coming to study here for looking for accommodation in in limerick or cork. And then we're putting a levy that's going to impact the building of new accommodation instead of making it easier. We're making the whole thing harder to provide accommodation to provide housing. It is hard to get your head around unless it's the Oh, look, look at all these terrible taxes. And then as as Claire said, Oh, look how kind we are when it comes to election time. See what we've done. See what we've given you. That's if they're banking on our short term memory. Yeah, but I don't think I don't think the electorate can swallow that anymore. I don't think I think I think there's a far more of awareness. But Mark, just in a reference to what Claire said about this rainy day fund, 16 billion and counting. Okay, I mean, we've we heard what what's happening on incomes at the moment, mental health services for young people. We know what's happening in our hospitals. We know what's happening with ungodly sheikana and so on and so forth. Like, if this is not a rainy day, whereby we we spend the money that we have in a targeted way to try and improve the lives of people to try and lift more people out of poverty and children out of poverty, if it's not bad now, like you do wonder, is it World War three that holding on to this money for or or or what is it now? Sinn Fein may well be in power in the next government and may very well decide that that's the right way to go and to sustain it for reasons I don't understand. So I'm not saying this is necessarily a fina for fina gel thing, but the other the party in power with the greens, the parties in power with the greens. So like you do wonder what what are we holding on to this money for mark if it's not to help people right now. I think there is something profoundly immoral in having money set aside and not not using it over over the centuries. That's sort of been the the ideal that those who had were to help those who have not and if the government has and they have particularly when they have because people have given through taxes and so on. It is their moral obligation and responsibility to to provide care for the nation. And yes, if this isn't or any day, what is I mean? Yeah, of course, this is multidational tax and all that kind of stuff, but it's the people of Ireland that are working in these companies that are making them powerful and powerful and successful. Now, of course, some of it's just passes through here, but clear. I'll put the same question to you and it's not. It's a genuine question that I'd ask off there. It's not loaded in any way other than than it is predisposed to being loaded. What are we waiting for? What are we? We are still writing down our debt to some extent still. We've increased in that regard. But what is this pot of cash for? Like, can we any of us imagine us having, you know, 100 grand in the bank and our children in the house starving and unclothed? You know, I think that if you were to get a politician on, they will come up with some long, convoluted, hard to understand reason why this can't be used for the ordinary public. And there has been great speculation in the media, and I'm sure you've covered it on your own show a lot about what they should do with the 16 billion, including putting a track out to Dublin Airport and Dublin and all these wonderful plans that don't include the Northwest that I ever hear about, except on your show, maybe. I think the government have a problem. And I think you could be very right. I think there could be a situation where we find ourselves with a new party in power next after the next election, because people are sick to the back teeth. And as you said earlier, the big problem here is communication. Greg, if somebody came out and explained to us and that we didn't have to have this conversation and told us, right, this is the money, and this is what we are doing with it. In simple, clear language, we wouldn't have the people as upset or as disappointed as they are. The government are losing people's trust. And it's not, it's not good. All right, before we take a break, Pat, I just want to put it to you, both Claire and Mark referenced, you know, maybe giveaway budgets, but we have surveys and we have the sense of the people on shows like this. The public would prefer money invested in improving services rather than an extra 1000 euro in your back pocket or 2000 euro in back. That is the will of the people. So I don't know unless that's what they're going to give away in a budget, they really don't have their finger on the on the poll side suggests, Pat. Yes, absolutely. I suppose there has always been the historical kind of economic argument that soft money should be spent on ongoing expenditure, that it should be spent on infrastructural projects, right. And we get a little bit of that on the media, but not really spelled out. But mostly what the government seems to me are doing are giving a series of individual explanations. So CAMS, for example, is explained, we can't get the people. The Guardi is explained by we can't get the people, a series of individual explanations. But what irritates me is that, you know, the reason we can't get the people is because the working conditions and the salaries aren't good enough. And I suppose what I also think is very ironical that there is no question of anybody at the top being sacked because they can't get the people. The only person that appears that anyone is willing to give the push to is Vera Powell, you know, hello. The whole thing is just, you know, it's almost coming. But do you know what you talk about infrastructural, you know, like, they talk of, and I get that. So you spend, you don't want really to lock in into the long term, a short term money, i.e. this windfall money from, but let's not talk about infrastructure then as bricks and mortar. Let's talk about infrastructure of building a proper health service and then discover how we fund it from general taxation to future. Build a proper mental health service. Let's call that infrastructure and not worry about roads. Exactly. But that has never, I have never managed to get agreement on that point. And it is just a coincidence that most of the infrastructure that we should be building around people, health, mental health, childcare, education, all of those involve predominantly female staff. So I, you know, I kind of think, well, isn't that a coincidence? Whereas building golf courses, cars, you know, ah, that's jobs for very important jobs for men. But childcare, oh, no, that's, you know, we've been promised a Scandinavian childcare model for God 15 years, right? And your opinion on childcare is backed up by a study this week, which shows that women primarily who are the carers still, and it's not always the case, but primarily are, are not able to go to work. They're literally stuck in the house because they cannot get, because of childcare, because of the crisis in childcare. Okay, listen, we could go on on that subject forever. Claire Ronan, thank you so much. Professor Paddle Connor, Reverend Mark Lockridge, more from our guests after this quick break. Looking for the best daycation ever? Well, you're in luck. We teamed up with Fulcher Ireland and asked the public what their favorite daycation activities are in Slago, and they didn't disappoint. Call and text that there is such amazing history on display at Drumcliff Church. It's well worth the day out. Betty said she loved her day with the sheepdogs at Atlantic Sheepdogs. 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I mean, it should it. And if it should, when should gender identity be taught in schools, going through the new curriculum there, there's quite a bit on it. In fifth and sixth class in national school, is that to early? Is that the right time to start talking about these things? Well, I'm going to, I mean, it seems to me that I'm going to take a side angle on this. It seems to me the underlying problem is othering to college, do you know what I mean? That we look at people, children look at people, but adults particularly look at people and focus on their differences, right? Whether those are gender or color or race or ethnicity or disability or whatever. And in a way, this causes a lot of problems reflected in bullying, isolation, marginalization, mental health. And so I think that one of the key things that should be being done and is being done in some schools, but not in all, that the things that should be done is focusing on diluting this otherness, right? So for example, in the case of gender, I'm aware of the fact that some schools don't do this, but a lot of schools still line up the boys against the girls and effectively reinforce a binary construction of gender. And from that comes ideas about who is best, who is superior, but also embedded in it is a very rigid construction of what it is to be a boy and what it is to be a girl. So boys don't wear pink, boys like tech trucks, boys play football, boys, girls don't do X, Y, and Z. There's greater latitude for girls ironically, but not in terms of often, in terms of once you come to sixth, whatever, in terms of who's best, right? So my approach would be much more lateral in the sense of really toughening up on school curricula and school policies on bullying and enforcing them and deconstructing the whole what it is to be a boy girl and stopping the practice of actually reinforcing a binary construction, i.e. that these are the boys and these are the girls and they are two ends of a spectrum. Yeah, but that's sort of trying to make us all the same. Everyone's different, but your identity is individual and people want to be seen as for who they are. And it's easier, suppose if you're in the majority to sort of say, right, look, we're all kind of the same, so we're not really talking, but that doesn't give a person their identity. Well, I mean, you're saying exactly the point I'm making, but more long windedly, that your identity is individual, right? Whereas in fact, we've got locked into the idea that, you know, that gender is a key marker. And in fact, one of the things that is ironic about the whole trans debate is that they're reinforcing binaries. They're reinforcing basically the distinction between male and female. I think that is not helpful. And actually focusing on all the things like we don't think, you know, just because you're told, you know, here's the taller your fat or your old or your gray hair, your red hair or whatever that from this comes all sorts of things. These are all part of our identity. But in a way, you know, it's an individual thing. Yes, but we have actually turned it into a collective thing. So that sort of means then, so that would mean to and I'll bring our other guests in, of course, in a moment to that means sort of really an end to women's campaigning for equality, for an example. Or that kind of brings to an end people of colors, because, you know, the starting point would be look at we're all the same calm down everyone. So how do people then how do we then encourage more women to get into STEM subjects in the environment that you described, because that would be No, well, actually, I mean, one of the key things about actually changing the position of women in society is that men must take that burden. And part of the problem that we have made so little advance over such, well, it seems to me relatively, like during my lifetime, yes, we have made advances, but we could have done much better if men had actually, you know, focused on their daughters and their wives, their mothers, their lovers, I don't care who but it actually taken the the issue the burden equally, we would have made a lot more progress on property. Okay, it's done a little more. Right. I'm going to ask you the original question if that's okay, Claire, because I mean, and you can talk to Professor O'Connor's points if you so wish, but just to the specific question, like, do you believe gender identity should be taught in schools? And at what age do you believe that should start Claire? I do believe actually I've been thinking about this that gender identity should be taught in schools simply because it's a professional teaching the children as such. I think I would say 16, but I do realise that I'm not being realistic in that it probably should be about 12 or 13 when they hit puberty. I always worry that, you know, I have five children now they're all grown up now, but I would be very concerned about a child attending a school who has questions about their gender, who may not feel the same as everybody else. And at least if there was a professional person coming in and talking to them about a topic, even if it's only one child in the whole school, that it normalises it for a start, and also it might answer some of their questions. But just in relation to that Claire, as I can to point, you talked about it maybe being one in the school, but this is, as you say, just as people are hitting puberty, do we not have to make sure, and I'm not sure we are doing so, and I don't have a position on this. I just, children, they're well-being would be my priority. Do we not have to make sure that we aren't throwing a spanner in the works for children who are maybe already struggling for identity, you know, the way we have different hormones that peaking guys and girls at that time, that we're sort of saying that, you know, a lot of stages that we all went through to say, ah, well, that actually could be you being this. So in our efforts to sort of, as we must protect that one child, do we not need to maybe make sure that we're not creating problems for a greater number of children? And I'm not saying we would, but I'm just wondering, has that been properly analyzed before we take this really quite significantly in teaching this in fifth and sixth classes? What's your view on that? Like, honestly, Greg, you know, I don't remember anyone I knew growing up being, having difficulties with identifying with their gender. I mean, it wasn't spoken about. When boys, when boys go through puberty, and just to be clear, many boys grow breasts temporarily. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's just just as an example, just to try and sort of put a line under the point I was trying to make. I don't want to go. Actually, that's a very good way of putting it forward. And because of that, it is a good idea to have a professional person to come in and speak in a classroom. Now, I remember myself 450,000 years ago. And we were allowed right on a little piece of paper, our questions that went into a box, and it was all anonymously done. And I actually distinctly remember being surprised at the level of questions and the things that people really needed the answer to. If I was to be honest, having rare to five children, I was probably lax in this department. I didn't know. And I think that not only should the children be educated, but their parents should be educated and the teachers, particularly the teachers, should be really well educated. I spoke to a teacher about this quite recently. And she has, she literally had to sit down and study the pronouns, the nouns, all the different ways of addressing her pupils so she didn't make a mistake. Because we've seen about what's happened when trouble hits at a school store. Yeah, of course. We'll come back to this as more to tease Anne on it, but an initial sort of input from you, Reverend Mark Lockridge. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, Greg. Many ways I agree with what you're saying. My great concern is the welfare for all of us, the welfare of the children. When should, when and should gender identity be taught in schools? I think I've got three issues here. One is I think it's based on a flawed premise. Professor O'Connor said that gender is seen as a key marker. And I think this is, I think she was stating it in a negative way. And I agree with her, if that's the case. I think whenever we teach people that their identity is found in a single thing, identity is found in their gender, their gender, their identity is found in their sexuality. That is an awful narrowing of the rich, beautiful complexity of what it is to be a human being. And it's cruel and it's diminishing. So that's my first problem with it as a concept. My second problem is that not only is it based on the wrong premise, but it's also damaging. And you alluded to this when you said that this is a time of turmoil for young people. And what we're doing is introducing at this moment a set of, a set of, a set of thoughts that we're introducing them into a confused environment. We know from studies that our sense of sexuality and our sense of gender moves around in this period of time. And so to tell people that they're to get their identity from that is to tell them to try and find their identity in something unstable. It's like telling them that the young one they're spinning round about. But Mark, I just want to be clear. What I'm trying to do in that, I'm not stating an opinion here. I'm trying to create, I'm trying to sort of imagine what people listening in the cars or at work or at home might be putting through here. But the fundamental of this, the fundamental basis of this and if people go, and I, everyone should go through this curriculum from the start to the finish and watch the support videos as well. Because you know, lots of people comment on this stuff, but they don't actually look at the core material. And that drives me crazy. One of the support videos for this, because I did go through it all, believe it or not. One of the key support, the basis of this is that, and there's a case study of a three year old and it is accepted that a three year old knows their gender. And there's one case of a boy who says, mommy, I'm a boy on the outside and I'm a girl on the inside. Now, it's, it's, it could be reversed because I'm going off memory here. So it is not, so we don't, that is the basis of the decision making process to say that right, we need to start talking about this to five and fifth and sixth classes, just to put a bit further context into it. So you don't accept that, then you will I think what we need to do is we need to deal with things at a biological and a physiological level. Yes. But there is an idea, an ideological level that's going on here. I think it's profoundly untested, untried, and the results are only beginning to trickle in. And what we found is that those who have followed this ideology through and acted on it are now coming back and saying, actually, why did nobody ever ask me about all these other underlying issues in my life that led me to, to take these decisions? And rather than, in a sense, there being some sort of, whenever, whenever something becomes raised like this and popularizing this, if I remember correctly, the stats for gender dysphoria, actual gender dysphoria are one in 30,000. That's small. And yet, and that's not to minimize the anguish that people go through. But there are statistics from the United States that shows as I think it's 35% of students class themselves in the LGBT plus. But I also have to be very conscious Mark and Claire and Pat and jump in as you see fit here that if I were a trans person listened to this conversation now, I might feel that I am being scrubbed out that I'm not being wrecked up from Claire, particularly or perhaps, but I'm not let me finish the proposition for us that I'm not I'm being it says if I do not exist that I am I am the result of some sort of of mental health issue that wasn't picked up that I don't exist that I am not me that I'm not who I am that God did not create me like I believe he did if they have a faith for an example. I think we have to be really carefully in our language as well. Whilst we do this and ensure we move forward best that we don't casually. Yeah, indeed. Let me come to that. Let me come to that Greg. If I may, what I'd be wanting to say to and I do have friends who are transgender. And what I would be wanting to say to anybody is, you see, I don't regard people as human doings as simply the result of their identity coming from what they do. I see people as human beings made by God. So I'd be wanting to say to him, listen, my my dear, dear, dear friend, you are a work of art. You are made by God. You have meaning and value and dignity that comes from God. And so I will honor you and I will respect you and I will love you and I will care for you. But let me encourage you to see your body as a gift from God to be to be explored and to be accepted as a gift. And why is it that we always want to instead of we say, say, this is what I think therefore I must change my body. Why don't we why don't we ever say, this is my body, maybe I need to reconsider how I'm thinking and feeling in this yet we live in a world. So you're asking people, you're asking someone to deny you're asking someone effectively to almost take it as a penance from God, it sounds like and to deny who they believe to the very core that they are and leap into faith and live their life as somebody else as they might see it. We have made we have made you see from from Freud onwards, somebody put it well, they said psychology or sorry, the self has been psychologized and psychology has been sexualized. And we have accepted that I want to challenge that whole framework and say that it's not a healthy framework to grow up in. And so what you've just articulated is what people think. And yet, I don't think it's profoundly helpful to think that I want to help them step outside that you want to come in on that Claire maybe you look pleased or Pat sorry Pat go ahead. Sorry, go ahead Claire. No, no, go on, go on, go on, you go on. But I suppose, I mean, I don't want to I want to come back that the question what does it mean to be a boy? What does it mean to be a girl? And I mean, in a way, it varies by cross culturally. So for example, in Western society in Ireland, we think there still is a view that girls aren't good at maths. God, in India, in Portugal, like it is one of the taken for granted that girls are good at maths. So I mean, it's the same girls and boys, but the question. So you're three year old, what does it may well be? You know, what does it mean to say I'm a girl on the inside? Is it because of the I mean, even the clothes we wear like the turn of the century, boys up to a certain age wore dresses. You've seen. Yeah, but it's down to who you feel you are to your very core. You see, I think some people seem to be associating one's gender with the clothes that they wear, or who they're intimate with. But are they know what they're interested in? You woke up this morning, you woke up this morning and you knew you were woman, you didn't necessarily do womanly things, but you knew you were a woman. Claire, do you want to ask the question? What does it mean? And how does what you feel? It's who you are. Claire, I would think in past that my thoughts on it are. I'm just thinking of this as a mother. I have a child and my child is confused about their gender. It's gender identity. And as Greg said, a three year old child who said, Mummy, I'm a boy on the outside and a girl on the inside. God made that child. You can't say. But can we accept that, Claire? I know where you're coming from. And to be honest with you, listening to this, this video that's put up with this documentation, there was 11 cases, and these were the examples, and it was so it's proven. And the conclusion was from the lady who I should remember the name of, but it don't. But the proven off the back of that testimony of that child, I think it was stated and I must get the clip. So it's proven that by the time you get to national school, you have a sense of your identity or if you're trapped in the wrong body. Now, you kind of have to accept that that's the case then to sort of say, right, let's start teaching this in national school. I would say a lot of people wouldn't accept that's the situation, Claire. They wouldn't accept that there is a three year old that a three year old. I don't know. It's very difficult. I think that I go ahead, Claire. No, I was just going to say, I honestly haven't experienced this with anyone I'm close to. The only I did interview a 14 year old one day and he told me that he was gender neutral. And when I questioned him, and I have to be honest and say that it was because of my ignorance. I wasn't quite sure how to handle a situation at 14. He did say to me, well, I've had no sexual experience. This is just me. I think I'm gender neutral. And then when I continued to question him, he had seen on social media what gender neutrality was. I left that day feeling uncomfortable because I wasn't sure if he was or if he wasn't or had he seen something on social media and thought that it is related to him. And I think Claire and Mark wants to come in, but then we have to throw it. I think this talks to what we have to make sure is that we get this right. And I think I want to be guided and I want to know what the right thing to do is. Claire, it sounds to me very much like you do as well. And I'm sure I think Mark's quite locked in in his view and Pat can outline hers. Because I want to make sure that the children are cared for. Go ahead, Mark. My view isn't locked in in terms of, you know, in terms of, well, look, accept my view or take the high road. It's because I think the whole premise of the thing is is dangerous and harmful and restricting and narrowing and confusing and untested. And as we're watching the results coming in, yes, or a three year old can think that in this Professor O'Connor points out what has led them to consider what a boy is and what a girl is. And, you know, and then there's the 14 year old and the impact of social media. And, you know, whenever we're teenagers, we're confused about everything. And I mean, that was like I was a teenager deeply confused about a lot of things and not knowing who it was and wanting to find out. And I'm just glad that this element of greater confusion wasn't thrown into the mix for me. Yeah, because when we are teenagers, we again, I would like to and I'm definitely going to make sure and if there's anyone who wants to advocate in a different way, please come on and we'll have a very respectful conversation where you can explain where where we might not be wrong or not. But as again, we're all back to my childhood. And this is why I need education. You kind of join gangs and groups and mods and teds and, and, you know, goths and all that kind of stuff because you wanted to belong to, you know, you wanted to belong to something. Maybe this is much more deeper than that and I have a severe lack of understanding which I'm really, really open to be educated, educated on. Pat, do you want the last 30 seconds before we cut to a break? I mean, in a way, I want a world where if you're a boy and you're interested in sewing and frilly dresses, no problem. I want a world where if you want to hang around with girls and you're a boy, no problem. If you're a girl and you want to play football, like 20 years ago, 30 years ago, that was seen as, oh my God, you had an identity problem. You joined the boys. If you want to climb trees, go to Antarctica, no problem. You know, in a way, I want a world where there's a more relaxed attitude and it's not effectively, we're not locking people into what I regard as 1950s versions of femininity and masculinity. Because it is a big, big step for this to become part of the curriculum. Like we are taking a huge step. And we said in a previous conversation that a lot of this was formulated really when the country's actually changed a little bit. I think it went very, you know, very far through and we're seeing what's happening in sports and different things where there's a bit of a pulling back and stuff. But this was all formulated really when, you know, we went further than we're going now. But anyway, it's going to be taught to fifth and sixth class. It's not horrendous commentary or information. And maybe our saddles need to give our young people a little bit of credit as to what information they already know. And this actually just, you know, makes it make sense for them. We have to be careful with that too, don't we? I mean, we're all talking historically here from our own experiences. But I know my, my kids have got friends that are all different types of people. Let me put it like that there. And to them, they're all equal. Which is great. And this is what we want. Exactly. Okay. Back with more shortly. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com. The 90 Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union, with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions. Visit letterkennycu.ie. HiddenHearing.ie or call 1850 21 44 88. HiddenHearing. Life is worth hearing. On this week's Business Matters, we'll be replaying an interview with the co-owner of Donegal Bees and then Colin Kill, Thomas Ellis, that was first aired back in January. So join me, Curie Donald, for Business Matters on Sunday evening after the six o'clock news. The Business Matters podcast is also available to download at HighlandRadio.com. 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It's a toffee, isn't it? And I think particularly on social media, you can sort of see if you slightly step out one way or other. You know, there's a pile on because and everyone's afraid to talk about it as a result because you can be called all sorts of names, depending on how someone interprets your comments. I don't think that's healthy. We have to be able to talk, Claire, don't we? No one here has any interest in denying anyone or offending anyone. And I think we're all open to sort of learning because we are all learning a bit, Claire, aren't we? Well, we are. And I mean, you know, we're also learning as parents and we're learning as aunts and uncles and broadcasters. And all these sort of topics are it's Ireland has changed. And you alluded to this earlier, Greg, and you're right. I mean, I think what I see as Ireland has changed. People are much more open. And if I was a mother of a child who was struggling with their gender identity, I would be worried sick. And, you know, it's great that these conversations are being had and that people might feel so alone, because it must be very difficult to have this in your family and try and deal with it in the best way and not say the wrong thing or not upset them. You know, there'd be a huge education. Now, actually, as you said earlier, I would like to learn more about this. And because particularly with the pronouns and the nouns and, you know, how to behave properly and use the right language. But I think it must be very difficult. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Lots and lots of people, Professor Pat O'Connor, have decided not to pay their TV license. Archie's done an absolute fortune. There's a 50 million hole that's probably going to have to be plugged in the budget. We were talking about rainy day funds and access for the general population. I suppose, listen, we have an announcement to the autumn schedule today. And probably doesn't help that the show's like, you know, people traveling to Turkey to examine people getting their teeth whitened and all that kind of crack in the amount of money that might cost. Well, what do you think the reaction will be to the public when when the government opens the purse to the tune of probably 50 odd million to support RTE, Professor? Well, I suppose I mean, I do think that it is annoying. The whole thing has been very annoying. But in a way, like the annoyance well goes back to I do remember when Pat Kenny was paid 970,000, right? Anyone else remember? Can you imagine? Right? Yeah, nobody saw. Jerry Ryan was on it too, I think in a few others. It's amazing. Anyway, so I mean, but in a way, I have paid my TV, I did delay for a week, right? And then I paid my own TV license because I thought, well, in a way, if they do change the rules, surely they'd give me credit for that, you know, you can't just pay your, you know, in a way like saying, you know, one way protest, you can sort of expect things to be applied retrospectively, you know, I basically didn't do X because I knew the government were going to change the rules next week. You know, that doesn't hold that kind of thinking is illogical, basically and unacceptable. So the current rule is that I do think it, you know, I did understand that and it was very in a way, good and bad of the judge who said who let off all these people from the penalties that they should have got for not paying their TV license because he said with all this carry on, he, you know, he was doing a minimal reinforcement. So, but I don't, you see, in a way, I think that that is a very healthy kind of to see the institutions protesting against. Did you pay your TV license through Gritted Teeth? Yeah, but I mean, in a way, of course, and I mean, I do think that the whole again, the business, the whole thing has been really badly handled. I was horrified that so little attention was paid to Deloitte's role, the internal auditors, also paid by the taxpayer, right, who eventually woke up in 2022, but seemed to be asleep at the wheel, 2017 to 2019. I also maintain the eroptus media committee have got a free pass on this as well. We actually pay their wages to keep an eye on this stuff. We don't have terribly long, only two, three minutes. So a minute and a half each, Claire, you know, you work extensively in the independent media, you know, exactly the role it plays and what have you. Do you begrudge the license fee to RTE and do you welcome the bailout that's due from government to the tune of 50 odd million? Well, that's a really big question. I paid my TV license, first of all, because I was too scared not to pay it. And I also don't want to end up on Sligo Court and on the front of the Sligo champion. And I know the weekend or might let me off. But anyway, I did pay my TV license. And did I pay it through great teeth? Good question. No, I didn't because when anything happens, we turn to the news and RTE. Yes, you're right. Some of the programming isn't the most exciting thing on the planet. And so a lot of reruns. I don't think people are going to be too happy, Greg, when they see what's going to have to be paid to keep RTE going. And I think and I do contribute to a lot of programs on RTE for which you are very badly paid. And a lot of work goes into some of the contributions that are done. And I'm delighted to do it. But there is a massive gap between what the ordinary staff are being paid and what their talent as they call it, as you know, yourself, the talent is the presenter. And that is not fair. And they need such a shaking. Now this Kevin Bankers looks like he's going to do it. But can I just say one thing? I thought that taking Ryan Tuberty in front of the PAC of him being questioned for seven hours over and over again of leading questions going to his agent, Noel Kelly, as which what did you sell in Cadbury's and all that sort of thing. There's some of it very unsavory, I think some of the questions. It was horrible to watch. Horrible. All for a bit of grandstanding goes on. And I'd love to tease that out with you a little more, but we don't have time. Reverend Lockridge, 50 mil going out of the budget to RTE it seems. It could be up to 100, could be less than 25. But anyway, in other words, what the bottom line is is if you don't pay your license, you're going to pay the money anyway, it's just going to come out of general taxation. Yeah, it seems that way. And I think I was talking to a guy who works a lot with the media in the UK, and he was surprised at how much in the sense in Ireland, the media not broad brushing it completely, but by and large, the national media back the government's agenda and don't question stuff. And I think that's deeply unhealthy for a country. I think there should be a lot more questioning goes on a lot more hard questions asked. And if you do that, you don't get access. You see, that's the problem. You know, but the people need to learn that you've been put into power, and that they have to answer questions. That's the way it is. And fair play for you. And asking questions and go on ahead. Reverend Mark Lockridge, thanks very much. Great to have you on the show as well. It's been a pleasure. Claire, you might come back. Did you enjoy it enough as to come back? Most certainly did. It's been a pleasure. You thought the pay was bad and RTE. Come here. Claire, we'll chat again. Thank you so very much. 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What about the other huge issues affecting our youth like homelessness, unsurpassed youth mental health and suicide rates, massive student debts and emigration of our young talent all far down the list of government priorities compared to LGBT issues seems this country is on a fast track to self afflicted ruin when we discuss all of those issues far more than we do the LGBT issue on this program. Children don't need this teaching creating more confusion into their tender lives and I'm horrified that this is going to be taught again please make sure though of the language that's going to be used before you're horrified particularly in national schools it's good to have all the info what is happening to school ethos and freedom of religious teaching in this country it's being annihilated our constitutional rights are being ignored denied and discredited by unproven ideologies and other I think there's too much emphasis on gender identity in primary schools I think it puts doubts in pupils minds okay that's a selection of the views there we'll get back to more of those as the morning wears on but we're joined on the program now by Seamus Gunn of McLaughlin Gunn and Co company letter Kenny and Remelton good morning Seamus great to see you nice to see you Greg are things brilliant all the better for having you on the show before we get into questions I've kind of lost track of the legal woes of President Donald Trump what what what's your take on what's going on at the moment yeah it's difficult to keep up with it I think what's quite fascinating though Greg from watching it and that just observing a time CNN that Donald Trump whether we like it or not seems to be the only news in the USA and for his for maybe going forward and his plans for another term he's keeping Joe Biden very much in the background and the the message well it's certainly on orthodox like he's facing multiple charges I think they they come the commute of some comes about 91 in multiple different states over the last four months one nearly every month and that has all been very well ventilated but what I find just fascinating by it is the way that he has monopolized the media the way in which it's been portrayed he is going and turning up to face these charges in presidential cavalcade and he certainly has galvanized his own support now whether that's going to be enough to ultimately get him over the line in November 12 months well that's yet to be played out and I have my doubts about it and and against that then I think that while he's facing all these walls he is still going to be in the public domain for that entire period and he is going to be the only show in town does that damage Biden maybe it's hard to say but will it get Trump over the line and it's absolutely essential because the walls that he's facing on the legal front are to such an extent that if they don't well the future could be fairly bleak so if there's an awful lot at stake but I think if you're if you were looking as an outsider you would like to see somebody new and maybe fresh coming on the scene and and if the Republicans were looking at this maybe that's the avenue they should be taking that when Trump has has galvanized his support if he could see his way to then step in the side and bring it on a younger candidate and handling that type of support over to them that they could then garner some of the middle ground that he's not going to garner because of all his his legal bones and I just don't think I just don't think he's a thinker I can't see if that could happen yeah you you would still see the republicans a little bit of chance but stairs the way it is Biden v trump I think that I just don't think that Trump can win it because the middle ground won't be there I don't know I mean even in terms of PR and communication even the mugshot to use the mugshot as a as an electioneering tool very clearly you know staring at the camera in the way that he did I just don't see him having the character to use his platform to bring someone else through I don't think he cares about the republicans I think it's uh uh Donald Trump and that's it but that will all all play out as a person of the law though yeah just on the mugshot big Greg it's interesting you mentioned it because back to the point that I raised initially that that uh raised millions for his for his supporters and into what we call the the election kitty so I mean it it worked from that point of view now I don't like it and you know I have great reservations about as you would have and the manner in which it is used certainly but from his point of view it's all part of the same agenda so it is and it is playing out and to some degree where we don't like it and we have serious reservations about the future if this was to continue it it is bringing him nearer the mark where he's getting towards the 50 but that's the middle ground that he has to then he has to get some support from and this type of activity I don't think we'll do that and and I agree with you that he's not likely to be looking for some younger but but if you if you're thinking about a next republican premier or president of the country that's the only avenue at that I think that's the only game in town but on the other side of that if we flip the coin and we look at at Biden and he hasn't brought on like there was there was a succession plan I thought for Kamala Harris I thought exactly thought that was it which seems to be just gone into the ether completely and seemed a very worthy candidate and I thought the plan was that after he'd done it but she would become more prominent and maybe facing into this term as their candidate that doesn't seem to have happened either so I think in America there might be if we really go back in history and you look back in the early 60s when you're seeing a very young JFK being elected the youngest ever at a time Americans need something fresh think of Clinton when he came in think of Obama when he came in so we're nearly at that stage now given that these two guys have served their terms they both have a bit of baggage obviously Trump has a has an awful lot and Biden there'll be a big case about the economy and all the rest of it and so there'll be a big play out there and and the it's just getting a bit closer and I don't like the manner which has been done but it's certainly the sides are coming closer just before we move on just to a question as a person I think it's very different in this country as they are compared to the United States was a person of law I mean you can't dispute can you that the courts are being politicized they're being used to try and damage Trump it's I don't think it's working and we don't see the same sort of scrutiny on the other side of the house does that concern you that something as as important as the courts the law through judiciary are being used as political tools yeah well I think we once touched on this before and like one of them I think that they're all it's all very serious it matters that he that he is now facing but I think that the one that that for me is the one that I don't think there's any political emphasis or influence on at all is they they they for concentration to the Washington conspiracy because there have been hundreds already prosecuted in relation to that and I don't think that that is politically motivated at all I think that you've seen or you've heard this week even just hot of the press this morning I think one of the leaders of the proud boys got 17 years in respect of that so that charge against him was not politically motivated so I don't think you can say that's the political system using that against Donald Trump the question is that he incited he conspired that he contributed to what happened that that particular day in January 6 21 and also and don't lose sight of this that five people either lost their lives then or just subsequently to them as a result of that so I don't I don't see that as being anything what's anything to do with with politics at all I think that you have to have to face face the law and face the charges that are there and that hundreds of others have faced and said there's been sentences of 17 18 years they've candid down so far and the prosecutors were even disappointed with that because we're looking for 33 years party politics okay I bought a house with a half acre piece of land behind it which is one and three half acres on a site one of the other owners has placed an electric wire to an outhouse on the his side but this wire is running along my hedge it's a dangerous low-lying wire with high voltage I've been on to guard either ESB in the council all who say it's not their responsibility so whose responsibility is it and how do we go about getting it removed as the owner says he has no intention of removing it well I was going to suggest firstly the first port of call is some discourse and if that is not working well then he's probably going to have to go down the legal route and get in touch with his legal advisors to see where he stands the first step I would see on is really to get a full survey done to determine exactly the location as to which property it's on if it is definitely on this owner's property and then is it creating what we could call a hazard and that may give rise to an action in trespass it could also give rise to a title action if there's some dispute as to how long it has been there whether the other person who's been using it has some right to it by way of an easement or otherwise usually overhanging wires are the responsibility of the ESB while those around one's house and in one's house are the owner's responsibility but I think a full survey and then armed with that it sounds to me like there's going to be not much alternative but to start the process rolling and it looks like if it can be as assessed as a hazard there could be health and safety issues in it and then you're talking maybe about a circuit court action and that would not be an expensive route to have to go down so it's one that I think would be sent would be sensible at this juncture to look at that look at the cost implications that are involved and maybe get back to some discourse with the neighbour because remember once this it does if it does degenerate into litigation that polarises people forever more amen and they still probably have to live next door to each other it is a civil matter it's a civil matter yes okay yes it would be a civil civil matter I would anticipate maybe a type of an action and trespass in in the circuit court and maybe a titled action it could look for if it was creating excessive risk to people that are around the area to his family members he could be talking about looking for an injunction but if that hasn't happened yet and it's been there a number of years I don't maybe I don't really see that on the agenda a few years ago my mother and father died they both had the will all done early and we all knew where we stood my mother died first then a few years later my father died but what we didn't know until one year after my father had passed away is that one of the family had taken him to a solicitor and the will was rewritten can anything be done about this we asked all other solicitors but no one wants to take us on well I mean they're going to need legal representation there's an allegation being made there that an individual has been brought along and arrangements being made but I would have to say that if a will has been executed it would be usual if there was any doubt at all about the capacity of the individual for the person taking the instructions to get a doctor's certificate that they had capacity so that's usually the first premise you would work on if if you're taking instructions so be careful about what you say and what what you think is the situation if it cannot stand up in the court of law the point about people taking the matter on that's entirely up up to themselves as to whom to engage or whether people are prepared to act in such circumstances or take such an action but they are talking about a challenge to a will and it seems to me that the the implication from the way the letter or the way the query has been phrased is that it's on the basis of the testamentary capacity of the individual who made the arrangements in the first place they do say they took them to a law office and so I would from the outset be saying well it's likely that if they took them to see firm of solicitors who who deal in this day in day out that if there was any doubt about the individual's capacity that should be checked out beforehand and the appropriate certificate obtained from the doctor and then proceed with the instructions if it's a case where the individuals are disappointed that one of the parents laterally changed their arrangements that's life unfortunately and that has that that if that's if that's all there is to it they could spend an awful lot of money going through litigation with not a very good result so they want to have solid grounds to go on in the first instance. Shameless what can be done in a case where the solicitor of a person selling a property is simply not moving the transaction along at all I am the purchaser the case is taking over a year and there doesn't seem to be any good reason. Well that's a matter between the representation that the vendor will have and the purchaser will have so the purchaser has maybe let's assume they've signed a contract they haven't said that by the way so if there isn't a contract signed there's nothing binding at the moment and the matter could be rescinded and not proceed at all so so they haven't indicated I'm assuming that maybe if there is a contract there could be an issue there can be an issue with maps there could be an issue with title there could be an issue with charges mortgages all types of matters can arise and have to be dealt with before the sale is closed but it is one that is for dialogue between the representatives of each of the parties I'm not going to make a call as to what or why there is a delay of 12 months but their solicitor should be in a position I would expect to be able to explain to them what the issues are arising at present this is on the assumption that there is already a contract and if there is no contract well at this stage they don't have any real footing in the matter because you need to legally binding contract before then you're proceeding with what's called requisitions on title and that's where issues can arise and sometimes do and can give rise to a delay but it should be it should be easily enough explained as to what the position is so it's really not it's really up to the caller to contact their representation they have no privity with the person that's selling it or their representation so their own solicitor should be in a position to access that information for them all right what's the story if you want to leave your farm to a trust fund so that it cannot be later sold yeah gosh well the story is first of all I would get some I think it would be well well advised to get some advice from a firm of accountants and maybe it would be worth thinking about a firm that deal particularly in trust but will I would expect the tax implications for the for the setting up of the trust in the first instance and then it could then be tax implications going forward depending on what the settler wants to do in respect of the trust the point though that the make which at the very outset is that the it seems that they want to restrict in some way of what happens to their property in the future and that would cause me a little bit of concern because that can't be done for an indefinite period of time otherwise it offends against a very old and ancient rule called the rule of perpetuities which means that you can't make a settlement or set up a trust beyond the lives of the parties that are living plus 21 years so that is sort of in order to restrict people trying to put a hold on property and land way into the future forever more amen that was introduced or maybe about the 17th or 18th century subject to correction but it still stands in common law and you'd want to be careful and alert to that if they're considering that and I would also strongly recommend some 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documentation themselves maybe it's something we could link so people know what's going on a caller says that we need to try and be more open-minded of people who are going through feelings of being in the wrong body how can we speak from a place of knowledge without ever having experienced this indeed exactly and that also requires more analysis and an understanding to make sure these people are seen they're respected and they're supported this topic is too confusing for young children let children be children why not teach this to parents classes in the schools before it's unleashed on innocent children as i say the the terminology is is is pretty vague it's like the majority of people are you know will feel that they are a boy or a girl but some people may not feel that and they're advised then in fifth and sixth class to speak to a teacher or an adult it doesn't go into any specific detail in national school a caller says um Greg what is your independence why in this world should a three-year-old know about gender it's ridiculous Greg where is your independence again it beggars believe i'm trying to bring all of the information that's out there and all of the information that is being used to formulate this i haven't adopted in a position i am literally trying to have more of an actual conversation about what is being taught because people are people think stuff that's being taught is not being taught at all and and stuff that's not being taught is being taught and then of course there's the reasons as to the the psychological and scientific reasons that are being used to make these decisions how in God's name from that can you question my independence when as far as i'm aware i'm the only person uh that i've heard in the media actually talking about the curriculum and where it's going so that everyone knows what they're talking about and can have an informed view but i appreciate your criticism i accept what you have to say right okay now um the hsc has issued a letter uh which reads as follows i can't read it all i'm writing to you in respect of the in a shone donagall children's disability network team and its service to your child or children over the last 12 months the children's disability network team has been experiencing significant challenges in terms of recruitment and vacancies in the shone area despite actively engaging with human resources and having the their full support we've been unable to recruit additional staff to fill these existing vacancies at this time unfortunately these difficulties have become further compounded with additional vacancies and leave over the last few months as a result the cdnt will have no physiotherapist social worker social care worker in post cum uh august 31st in addition the cdnt are experiencing significant challenges in respect of speech therapy occupation therapy and psychology services in response we have to prioritize only those children with the highest degree of complexity for the each of these therapies now they say they appreciate that this is very concerning to you as parents but it is a very difficult situation for parents it goes beyond that i want to say good morning first to katrina katrina i mean this letter coming out what is the what is your situation and what are the implications of this for you and your family hi greg um listen the letter is the letter they stated what issues they have my job now is right i am one of the lucky ones greg i have my diagnosis for my wee boy there is mommies out there that start in this journey that don't have a diagnosis i started my journey two years ago today ben started school on wednesday and like it's hard it's a hard journey it's i'm not saying it's not hard it is hard but once you get into these services they are amazing like you you just it's like like i have written down here right ben is ben that is the end all ben is ben ben will never be defined by autism it's a word my child is so much more than that word when we got in we started speech ben doesn't talk i'm his voice and i will always be his voice until he gets his voice like um there's so much support when you get in you get the support but what i'm saying now is there is families out there that is not going to be able to avail of this support when there's no staff so my question greg is who who's going to sort this what can be done when is it going to happen because the longer this goes on greg the longer these families are going to have no help and what i have in front of me which is uh uh unbelievable katriona is the exact same letter but instead of the in a shown donagall children's disability network team it's the east donagall children's disability network team now i'm not sure if other areas and maybe we'll find out as we go through it's the exact it's the exact same uh exact same letter so this is well i mean there are some slight slight adjustments but this is obviously now a county-wide issue yeah so boncran i have a seat of the earth facility up there they are amazing but you need to get in so my question is who's going to help us what can be done when's it going to happen because two years i we were telling them we got ben diagnosis and we got ben diagnosis in april now you see that that's the timescale that's the timescale now that's what's good that's what the people there to help that's what staff there to help that's what they're there to do these people that are starting their journey or maybe are in the journey do not have this like you need a diagnosis before you can attend school to get extra help you need a diagnosis to get the financial system but to get the help like i i had never not worked great from i was 11 until i moved i'm only shown three years three years past and it was my first time not having a job and i always loved my work but katrina had to realise work's changing ben is now my children and my work and i do my work to the highest standard always have always will and you say that the that this isn't necessarily about thinking of different ways to recruit people you say that this is about the state of the country the cost of living crisis the amount of pay um you you're saying right enough is enough you see we are in an absolute i don't think a lot of people realise but in certain areas of society many areas we are in an absolute crisis with uh with with uh particularly how we are treating and looking after and caring for our our children and this is a very particular area of that this is a crisis it's it's like greg i would have kept in contact with a lot of my friends and family in sulcara right i have a friend that has two skilled children that have just qualified in occupational therapy and uh speech and language they are qualified but what's keeping them here the cost of living is too high they can't buy a house they like it's it's you get the skills but then boom there's another thing blocking like you know not everybody has that financial okay you know to you know what i mean like stay there stay there katrani if you don't mind i want to bring in a person who received that letter uh pretty much the exact same letter but in respect to the east donagall children's disability network team and it seems that the actual teams are not the issue here it's the amount of people that they have because they're uh seemingly doing the best that they can michelle um what what does this mean to you um i mean you're saying an email to us that you're heartbroken so and i'm so sorry that you're going through this i really really am what's your situation michelle and and and what does it mean this letter coming to you um i had a little girl fiat two years ago when she was born with down syndrome so initially it was a total shock but after that then like we early intervention team came in but we may have never ever seen a speech therapist which supposedly meant to see from around eight months for to help with eating and you know movement of the mice and all um we've never seen an OT and we did have physio up to about a month ago and that's all gone and so as a parent now i have to actually train myself and speech therapy physiotherapy and they do send webinars but to parents like that's not help we need one to one and i do sometimes i feel like crying but i just don't feel that the support right there for no we listen all of us i know i know there is like i was gonna say there and it could go on but all of us want our best for our children michelle uh but time is of the essence too and the right interventions at the right time the other children in similar situations are getting them elsewhere but just simply because you live in donagall or east donagall your your child is not getting the help they need and it's you can't do nothing uh or anything other than what we're doing now it is heartbreaking it's so so frustrating because you feel like you're letting your children down but you're not but i know what you're saying yeah but like earlier intervention is key for our kids too if they don't get it early like you know they're not going to walk they're not going to talk you know we can do so much as a at a home but we need the support we need the one-to-one help and the guidance and all the other support that comes with that you know it's just like and i've only been in this situation for two years i have friends and family out there with autism self apology multiple other issues and they are lost as well and it's it's not fair it isn't really not fair because we really need that early intervention because we want our kids to be the best that they can be the intervention is key a key early intervention is key and i cannot hide it that's any higher the earlier it's picked up the earlier you get the help the more you're going to get out of it like there's courses once you and there's courses they've facilitated that helps you there's the Hammond program there's the Ernie Bird program these are there to help and it's it's like Greg like i've i've done i've i'm still on my journey and i'll be on my journey until i don't know when but early intervention is key getting that help early is key the longer the you delay the more delay you're going to be faced with yeah i get you but michelle like is this are we edging towards the new norm then i mean like parents are really busy we know all of the stresses that we have in this country at the moment i mean can parents and guardians and caregivers really take on these professional roles of ot and and speech therapy through webinars and and and if they get away with it i just wonder is this going to be the new norm by the way this is all your job now here's the webinars it's crazy michelle that's so crazy because like these people have like been doing this for years and years like speech therapy is not something you can pick up over a webinar or or physiotherapy and you need to be shown and guided you can't like you need physical hands on the child's body to help you know what way to move it to help you know like it's nothing you can't do over a webinar and the 12 months they're saying this this uh has been going on for the last 12 months in my world this has been going on for two years and people that i've talked to it's been going on for previous to this they've actually never got speech therapy before this so it's not a new thing either it's not the last 12 months like this has been going on for years and we don't have years this is what's up with me i don't have years for therapy early intervention is key and i want her to be able to talk when she goes to play school in a year's time well that's my help my plan my hope but that's all on me now with no training do you know what i mean i i i i was you're saying am i able to do that i'll try my best but it's not as good as a professional i presume of course but i'm sure we aren't i mean we have our limits as well as to what we can deal with in life as to what we can actually cope with as well i mean all of us have breaking points do you know that's a huge a huge responsibility to be placing uh on someone's shoulders uh kathie's with us as well you're affected by the the letter sent from from initial and there's something coming through kathie from from you and everyone who's affected by this and it's it's it's cry for help it's desperation and nothing in terms of weakness but we all want what's best for our children but when you get a letter like that to say i'm afraid nothing we can do like we have to try and you know it's a desperate situation kathie and good morning to you hi Greg good morning to you too um yeah we are desperate at this stage Greg it's it's awful it's it's sad for our kids you know um any parent wants the best start for their child that's all we want um and some kids need help with that and my little boy really he's three he he needs help for that um so we need all the help we can get but it's just the staff are not there to help us um Rayleigh's three and he's not talking he has he's low sorry Greg it is upsetting um Rayleigh's three he's not talking yet now he has loads of words is making good progress but we need speech therapy to get Rayleigh talking and we're looking at minimum two years that would make Rayleigh five you know i want Rayleigh to talk that's all i want for Rayleigh Rayleigh's such a happy boy um but i want him to be able to talk to me so we need to switch therapy at least Greg you know we need help somebody needs to help and you know kathie this is now this is now where the most benefit and progress will be made and you want to be able to send him you want to be able to speak with him but you also want him to send send him into school where he's as close to uh the level with with speech and what have you as everybody else that's what you want for your young person but you're being told nothing for at least two years and i think we all know yeah that nothing's going to be there in two years because they're still dealing with backlogs from covid so you know vague the time the timeline is so vague we we don't know will we get it in two years um it's an awful long wait you know if he can go private that's great but not every family can go private for for these therapies great all right well let's talk about this let's get that 16 billion that we're saving for a rainy day let's pay for the private let's let's i know it's not a solution right and i know we do that in the acute healthcare setting and it's not ideal but this is really important time is the essence can the government then not start financing and availing of private services if that's what it takes as i say we should be investing in public services don't get me wrong but this is desperate times and we've pulled out desperate measures in the past something needs to be done kathy because you michelle uh and katrina's situation is slightly different but she knows more than anyone the importance of this you're only the voice of thousands of people across the north west today yeah i'm sure greg yeah i'm sure there's plenty and you know in our shoes there's a lot of us needing help you know somebody out there has to be able to do something the politicians the councillors you know we're begging greg at the stage we are begging for help for our kids we really are might okay well i don't know if there's i mean this is maybe this is the start of something i know in the background you're already uh you're already contacting councillors and tds this is part of it going public but something else has to happen next i don't want this to be friday morning you know about half ten and then that's it we have to come back to this next week we have to try and and put questions and we're going to make representations to the minister's responsible we i don't want use to think that this is the end of it now because you support us today we have to organise and do something that gets some sort of a resolution to this yeah i have to change for help all right okay kathy thanks michelle did you want to add something no i just want to say thanks for your time and hopefully we'll we'll get there we'll come back to this though this is just this is just the first this is just the first of our engagements we're going to have to figure something out because there's no way people can live their lives like that and there is no way our beautiful children uh and and and and with all their uh differences that some are treated different to the other and we certainly can't have a postcode lotty on the lottery on these types of services for people in katrina and you're right from the get go recognise that you are a step ahead here but that gives you a the perfect position to talk about how important these services are and whatever it takes to get them to the people that need them we need to be doing that katrina yeah 100 great and the way i'm going to explain that's right a mommy is like a kettle boiling on a fire or a stove the mommy will whistle the mommy will sing and by jesus she will sing but you remember you always add the water on the kettle is boiling to keep that steam going keep that singing keep it going because if you don't refill the water mommies will boil dry and that's this is that's great this is the point we're getting out there you you may have a chain maybe you the child that's speaking maybe you the child that's not walking it's about keep going fake fake and don't take no for an answer within reason i know they're under pressure and when you get in there when you get into these services they will help you and they'll always help you like i class some some girls up in bunkland as my friends now because they helped me when nobody else could or would okay and they helped all right i'm a different back there so like just keep singing keep going and like greg you never stop fighting for your child you never keep going and you'll do anything for them as well katrina thanks for your time michelle as i say stay in contact with us keep us updated as to how things are moving if it i don't know if you're organizing a picnic or anything like that let us know of course and and and we'll let people know if they want to get on board with that kathy same to you um i i that's great thanks for listening i know this is the last thing that he's want to do but it's part of uh well we have to do something we can't just do nothing and i know he's aren't doing nothing but i know the last thing you want to do is be on the radio talking about it hopefully the right people are listening hopefully this is seen as the crisis that it is and whatever it takes something is done thank you all three of you the 90 new 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 mr blue sky tell us why the euro millions jackpot is an estimated 105 million euro clear responsibly in store in app or at lottery dot ie the 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oakfest and oakfield park refoe on saturday ninth and sunday the 10th of september two days of great music including susie quattro the bay city rulers boys life and anore the oakfield park dot com all right thanks to you all for texting in i can safely this is from angela uh formally of i care uh she says i can safely or maybe this isn't her it's written underneath it i can safely say it is the whole text is her angela says i can safely say in the 23 years i care has been up and running hsc services have dissipated and the journey is so much harder for families it's so destroying to hear that families just can't get the support they need things are definitely going backwards it is high time that politicians started taking decisions to help people we've a very poor political class who seem to over be overruled by a powerful civil service answerable to nobody interested only in box ticking rather than in helping people and definitely not interested in problem fixing and i said there's a bit of a air cold lottery to this tereza on facebook hi greg i just want to say if a granddaughter who is autistic she lives in wexford and the help she gets is unbelievable she was diagnosed at two and is now talking and in mainstream school albeit with an sna she is after school activities not only for her but for her older siblings as well she has weekend breaks and so much help it really is a post cold lottery in my heart goes out to those parents who can't get help uh that's in from tereza thanks tereza for your kind comments lack of early intervention planning and processes are key to so many terrible issues in arlington health mental health addiction abuse worth along the problem persists the more lifetime psychological problems persist god help the mothers and fathers going through this crisis caused by ineffective government at all levels another we aim for an inclusive society neglecting to provide early intervention is going to isolate our children from society and increase their need for health and support in future and the key word there is our children because those ladies children's are all of our children and we should be treating them all equally and giving them all uh equal opportunity and i think it's a collective responsibility for all of us to view it like that and not just have these mothers in this case um in a desperate desperate situation doing anything uh to make their lives better for their children and to give their children who are perfectly capable of uh of so much to give them the opportunity to to be that person that they can be yes greg and you conclude uh our young people who are being evicted by landlords so they can get 800 euro tax free from uh the government our students can't find places this year either and all down to the government lifting the ban on evictions would love if you could ask a politician why are they doing this to our young people the mental stress they have is at a dangerous level they believe that if they don't do it the problem will get worse uh parents aren't qualified i've done all the webinars available we received a letter saying there is no one or no ot available it is ridiculous and other families are having to pay uh to access these basic services privately and it's hugely costly and i don't think public money going into the private services is the future but something needs to be done in the interim whilst the review how to uh hire people um and so on it goes we are going to return to that on monday okay i guarantee you that uh if not monday tuesday when i'm back it depends i don't know what caroline has lined up for monday but certainly early next week we're going to return to that story and we're going to put a contact into uh the politicians to see what they have to say and we're going to contact the relevant uh arms of uh the state who are responsible for that to see if they can go beyond that letter or what measures are being taken to try and address those issues so we're 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of 150 percent on the same time period last year ps and i are seeking information regarding the whereabouts of a missing monaghan man known to travel to dairy 23 year old null mackin is described as being six foot tall of simply slim build but with brown hair and eyes and a pale complexion anyone with information is asked to contact police a photo of null is available on our website hide and radio dot com and finally cathleen furgus and jocelyn are among the storms which could hit ireland this winter met erin along with their colleagues in the netherlands and uk have confirmed the names chosen for next season storms this year many are named in honor of scientists including creaseless cathleen k mc nulty held one of the mothers of pewter programming that's all for now we'll be back with news headlines at 12 o'clock in the meantime you can keep up to date with local breaking news on our website hide and radio dot com until then good morning uh no greg or donna marine there i take it no 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it was on virgin okay it's very good it's only got six out of ten across id mb and uh rotten tomatoes but it's really good that's a great show is it never already been done though do you remember there was the one that we watched that we weren't that mad about the girl the woman was again had a daughter they were in the cafe they were sitting in a cafe and then somebody attacks them and then they set in america uh is it a single person's name is it that show i think so i remember and then james have kind of been on the run there's a whole thing about whether or not she was as it may be i c i you make a good point but this is this is done this is done very well there's some really interesting relationships and storylines and it's good i thought it was really get some of the seven episodes but it's a great character isn't it and and what i liked is he went uh they're not gonna you know there's a plot hole and they filled it straight away with the next question which i thought was great and also in the first series there's a you wrote this in the first series no the first episode of the series to there's no drone footage so if he did but they do scramble for a gun which is uh something i might like to scramble yeah in the first yes yes right anyway so do they have any scenes where ever one person is in focus and the person to decide them is no but there's plenty of drones in it anyway um oh that's good to know because i have to say i just assumed i'd seen it you know what i mean is in i it's a very good show really good strong characters interesting little relationships that are in there and watched over two nights thought it was great i you know there's so much trash on the there is no guys it's not top tier but it's certainly but it does its job it does its job it does it well and it kind of sets up for a new new series i'm not sure if they're they're going to do it right okay so tomorrow is international cinema day or national cinema day is it international national be that as it may nationally uh cinemas are offering seats for four euros no matter what the film is what the seats are whatever our local cinemas of course are involved in that we were talking to mark from century cinema yesterday about this um right sound of freedom finally have you ever heard of this great sound of freedom is a film that use of watching i want to hear you talk about it but i want to set it up a little bit because it's a little bit weird uh i was thought right there's an awful lot of talk about this film so i went on the internet see what everyone was talking about and it's a film where people are saying it's a great film that haven't watched it this is a fantastic film i can't wait to see it okay um now you're going to tell us what it's really about but what i didn't realize is is that it's like this is not to say anyone in our land is of this view but people who support maga and uh who believe child exploitation child trafficking is being covered up and not talked about they need to see this film there's a presumption that anyone who doesn't see the film is not aware of the awful problem of child trafficking and child abuse and as if they don't care because they haven't seen this film now that was the online discourse which i thought right okay unbelievable but what about the film itself or even talking to that conversation for nula rabbit first well they're kind of too for me they're two separate things because i went in to watch this movie waiting for what stirred the controversy and to be honest nothing in the movie stirs the controversy that you see online and it seems to be that not the characters in the in the movie but the actual real-life personalities of both the um the person that's portrayed the the real-life person that's portrayed and the and also the actor that portrays him seems to have interfered with the and with the movie itself and with people's perception of the movie itself but to the benefit of the movie so this is a small independent movie it costs about 14 and a half million which you know to you and i sounds like a lot of money but in movie terms is basically your child's you know nothing uh uh pocket money yeah it's very little money there has been in the first kind of week or so that it was out or over the first weekend it made like 100 million so it's creating massive backs up box office thing but it's also creating an awful lot of backlash as well with it because there's two different things that are going on with it one is that um there is what the the money that came together for this was crowdsourced now that's happening with a lot of independent movies but in this they're kind of saying that the reason why that happened is is there was roadblocks roadblocks from hollywood hollywood is involved this is the the premise of it hollywood is so involved and entrenched and complicit in the abuse of children and children trafficking that they would never ever ever talk about this story and that finally took this brave independently crowd forced film uh crowd funded film to shine a light on this as if everybody else is oblivious to it that's what i don't get well that's because when you watch the movie and then at the end of the movie there is a little thing comes up in the corner and it says hang on for a special message hold on for a special message so you know we're big comic book people we love it but we love a good teaser at the end of the movie and i was like what the heck are they gonna tease in this movie and uh you come on and jim kavizi which i'm probably mispronouncing his name he comes on and he proceeds to tell you that um unless you donate money to the production company in order to give out free tickets to allow people who can't afford to see this movie you're basically not uh interested in stopping uh you're complicit complicit yeah you're you're just you don't care about all these millions and millions and millions of child sex traffickers and if it wasn't for this movie nobody would know anything about it and through watching this movie we are together stopping this awful thing that is to begin with though because i mean everybody's aware of this stuff everybody's opposed to it everyone would assume so of course well it does it all it goes with that same but i'm forced to say it because the position is if you don't support it or you don't watch it or you don't like it then in some way you're a groomer or something you know what i mean it's almost in that space that seems to be the that seems to be the discussion around the movie you know what i mean is that now the other thing is is that and we were googling it on the way home like where's the money going so they made a hundred million in the first weekend and the people who donated their crowdsourced the funding um i don't know how that whether that's called an investment or donation or whatever it is apparently they've gotten their money back that's the way that it is when you invest in these things but then after that then where's all the money going i think they're up to 185 now aren't they 185 million now yeah but we wouldn't ask that question of any other film no but this question but this movie is saying to you that by going and buying your ticket by supporting this movie buy like you i when you go to this movie and it's happened in american i'm sure it's happened here as well and don't know the connection with the cinemas but you can actually buy tickets for other people so that if i wanted to go and see this movie and i didn't have the price of a cinema ticket i can just rock up to the cinema and take a free free spot so and it encourages you to do to donate towards that which basically is to the production company in order to stop like the way he sort of phrases it is that is in order to stop but does this does this then okay so taking away sort of the polarization although it's not we're all united in this do you think this in any way the more people that might see it finula and we're going to come to you specifically on this as well that that it might actually do you think people might be woken up to this and motivated to put pressure on politicians to say we need to be taken this issue more seriously maybe it's it's they're trying to they're trying to address an apathy amongst the general population to me okay look at you have the controversy and then you have the movie the movie itself i uh can we not do the movie yet just oh yeah well that stick with the controversy then to me it sort of falls into one thing with the other because to me i didn't really get it that's not really what i got from the story it but i do think obviously people will be talking about it it is the movie that you will be talking about yes you're kind of walking out because yes we are all aware of it but when you're watching it on a screen and that kind of thing where it does kind of bring it into conversation so it does bring it more to the fore of a conversation does it in any way sort of tell you or say to you oh god i should be contacting you know the world health forward federation or whoever i don't even know who you should be and sort of putting pressure on are there organizations that you can you know join and sign up like a um i don't know you know nato or any of those kind of things where they're working hard on it or unicef or anything like that it doesn't give you any of that kind of information um i would have thought i'm not i have no skin in the game here i haven't seen i would have thought though that if you wanted as many people to see this as possible is that you publish it for free on youtube that's exactly yeah yeah but anyway to tune to the we'll get to the proper film review because a lot of people it's around six six seven out of ten for a lot of critics right yeah so what what do you uh what do you want to talk to michael do you want to talk about the did it did it move you in the film itself just taking the film as a film right and forgetting the controversy for a second it to me is a very average thriller it felt like a tv movie or i would even go so far as to say it felt like i said this to you i said to finnell outside it's like a tv pilot it felt like the first case that this character would take on where he tracks down a specific missing pair of children and you almost feel i almost felt like oh i might check it out again next thursday night and see what the next case is like see if it's any better so it feels like a procedural in the sense that it feels like he's not having a case and with that all that that implies and it's not that big it's not that exciting it's way too long for what it is it's two hours and ten minutes for a story like i say about a lot of movies that's that's like 19 minutes is the max you would need to tell this story it's not an action movie there's really no action in it until near the end and even then that's very realistic type of action it's not it's not it's not mission impossible it's not all that kind of you know but it's a dull slow moving it's largely based on true incidents it's largely based on a true story it's heavily fictionalized but that to me isn't any great red flag because every film you see that's based on a true story when you look it up you'll see it's heavily fictionalized and that's just to make a story better so certain things are accentuated and made more exciting but there's a lot of truth in this movie tim ballard is a real person and he did do quite a lot of the things that are depicted in this movie not quite as dramatically and not quite as succinctly and the other characters there's a character called vampiro you know just randomly that's a real person it was it was a real guy so i mean obviously we've been receiving quite a lot of communications over the last couple of months saying why aren't you reviewing this why is if in some way we might be trying to suppress use when i'm watching the first time now i want to go and get a proper review from finula but do you understand why some people might feel that this film is being buried for a reason i think there is a narrative around it and i mean jim keviesel himself the lead and people connected with the film have endorsed a narrative which leads people to believe that a movie like this is going to be buried by the hollywood won't make this yeah yeah and there's a lot of cases you can put against that and pro that one of the things i would say and i think it's great for me to say this because i've often said the the subject matter of this film right the idea that it's groundbreaking i find that i have been a fan of a show that's been offered 23 seasons called law and order special victims unit at least once a season sometimes twice a season they will go into this exact specific subject matter and for my money they will do it better much stronger and much more of one of the thing about this film last night is i wasn't emotionally connected i wasn't i wasn't and i am prime as a film yeah but i could get i could watch a law and order episode and have done it which would have the similar thing and i'd be quite misty eyed at the end i'd be like oh can Olivia get those kids out but i wasn't feeling this last night so sorry for interrupting your folk no just as a film then uh how would you what was your experience yeah i agree my first well it was it was about half an hour too long but i said so is indiana jones so you know they seem to be set on this time frame now with movies and they it just i suppose the other the thing is you go into it waiting for what's the big controversial moment and then that doesn't happen and it's very plodding then because you're just constantly waiting there's a lot of it as as mike says it kind of makes you feel you know at one point he's arresting a guy and then kind of like five minutes later there he's taken the guy he's arrested into his confidence and your man is committing more crimes on his behalf to get him further down the road with this and you're like i'm sorry this guy that arrests you five minutes later you're like oh yeah no you totally only arrested me because you're stuck in this job i trust you yeah i trust you and all this kind of thing i'm definitely going to procure a small child for you they like it's very and some of the procurement and and stuff with the kids now there was some of the audience weren't happy with that it was clearly some of the language was actually being used in front of these child actors yeah there was a few bits of that that you just kind of felt i don't know if if they were going to do it we'd nearly kind of say they should have gone further with it or knock on there at all the way they kind of left it kind of hanging in in in strange places sometimes where it's sort of left you feeling i thought it was quite sanitized sometimes i mean you did see a lot of children crying you know i see a lot of tears straight in faces and you see them being shouted at and bullied a lot but it's not salacious or sleazy you don't they don't go there i think really the way this is being marketing is is that you need to watch this and if you don't watch it then there's something up with you yes and then for a lot of people it's simply a film when they'll judge it uh because what's going to happen in about five years this is going to pop up an ITV4 and people will watch it and won't know any of the marketing that's gone along with it and it'll be viewed in a completely different way so just in terms of it then as a film before we take a break because we have a big business to do yes what would you give it out of ten for nola yeah i probably would agree with the critics i have to say just even just look at it as a film it's fine you know what i mean you'll sit there you want it's too long same ways it would say as i said about other movies but you know jim kevysale or whatever very very pronounced his name he's very earnest if anybody's ever seen him in anything you know he talks like that when he's speaking so it's all very he means it deeply he's very yes everything he everything that happens if he means he constantly has a tear in his eye as he's going to oh yeah he's moved and touched by all of the well this is what said at the end of the film should we listen just to a little bit i can't play at all because of time yes freedom is one of those films that can legitimately change this world so we want to ignite a fire in audiences and open their eyes to the dark reality of millions of children that need our help let's make this film a historic event and the start the end of child trafficking theaters across this country are already selling out pre-order your tickets today and you can send the message yeah so you can say i think i'm not sure if that's the exact thing that's played out at the end of the film that's an exact and you think that is very uh you know worthy but nowhere can you figure out is in how watching this movie is actually yes yeah you know there's no there's no list of foundations or organizations even jim ballard the one that's character he might have a distrust of the established there's no list given yes i don't know but there's no even their own even the organization that jim ballard run isn't listed as in you can do yeah and he's now left that group under under very i've only found this out this morning he's no longer associated with the group he set up that's so six six out of ten six out of ten from me as well i mean and what i give out of six you know i'm like saying it's fine yeah it's fine yeah it's not yeah the same with me i'm saying like it's there's nothing wrong with watching i probably would have preferred to watch it at home and and on your tv even though it's a tv movie don't watch it on your he actually says it yeah oh no you need to be watching this is a cinema where you've no distractions and you can fully contemplate the horror that is but there's just it kind of reminds you a little bit of taken you know that kind of way and it sort of reaches that point where i don't know all right that's fascinating honest refuses to say i i i suspect neither of the three of us are fully invested in the actual real divisional sort of ideology their side of all of this other than what we've probably come across because it's a very it seems very american-oriented but i know that's interesting that is finally the sound of freedom it's in century cinemas and elsewhere as well and it will be very well attended and it will speak to a big audience but some people might and you can't deny that like oppenheimer it's a talking point film yeah you know whether you agree or disagree it's something to go to the cinema and then maybe go to the pub and chat about afterwards or you know and like that's one of the facts that comes out and it is that apparently there's more people what about i meet you in the pub afterwards i'm on but one of the points comes out and is like i said apparently there's more people in slavery now than there was when slavery was actually legal yeah i know what you're saying which is an astronomical figure and i suppose in one sense the the movie is correct in saying maybe we should be sitting down and saying why don't we off the tip of our tongue know the name of an organization but there are thousands and thousands of women and men effectively slaves in this country right now working in the labor they are working in labor as well i mean this is not over there no it's here it's a huge issue here in this vicinity where we are there's people working very horrible jobs that they don't want to okay back with more after these the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter kenny credit union call us on zero seven four nine one zero two one two six or apply 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without a doubt craig it's a you say it's hard to beat live music and kind of any form and format that it comes in and i suppose over the years go fanny jazz and blues it's kind of um i suppose it nearly exceeds the terms of what i have the name itself now because they get all sorts of music at it really um you know jazz blues rock is very prevalent as well and it's a real crowd pleaser as well but there's kind of a scope for everything in it as well so there's i suppose all in all there's probably nearly 70 gigs over the over the four days and ashlyn how is it set out across the town so um i suppose craig there's nine venues and um it's spread out over the course of the weekend so there's music essentially happening um all day every day um it starts on uh thursday evening at five p.m and it runs right through until uh monday and the last gig is nine p.m and i suppose over the the middle of the weekend there in particular um as i said there's daytime gigs right through all venues and it's um you know it's it's absolutely fantastic because you can walk to all the venues um and it's you know a brilliant um answer to the village now at the seventh year yes ashlyn it comes just a doesn't it the you know the end of the season now we hope the season's extended ever closer to to halloween but you know the big uh the big numbers are fading somewhat now this just comes at a a really good time as a boost for the area and the surrounding areas as well because people will stay in the locality uh for uh just at the right time i think oh absolutely um i think this is a huge for tourism and the area and as you rightly said the surrounding areas because people just don't come to dunfani for this festival they stay in creasla downings valkyra um and you know so the surrounding areas are getting a spin off from this as well which is absolutely fantastic um the for you know extending the season as you said is so vitally important because um it would have typically here in dunfani he'd been a huge drop off at the end of the summer months so something like this um is keeping the crowds coming to the area which we're absolutely delighted about now aimin we have uh some of the best people in the genres living and operating in and around the northwest and of course then you can uh welcome and host uh people then from further afield so there's a fantastic array of artists performing all of these gigs over the year over the four days yeah yeah absolutely uh Greg you're right there's the best of all the local talent that we have here in dunnegoa and there's plenty of that to i mean that's a great basis to get the thing going we have international we have national acts coming across we have some bands from cork doubling coming from everywhere but we've got a few artists as well coming from overseas this year which has always been the case since the festival more less got going porter mclister's coming in from nashville for it uh um mr castle is he's originally from venezuela so he's uh touring here as well um and there's even the likes of the frank carry blues band are bringing a a real deal of blues harmonica player from chicago who's coming to join them and he's just he's just a friend of theirs he said they were playing anyway so he's coming to join so i think the lure of the festival maybe is helping to attract the few bigger names for us as well which we're very grateful for yeah fantastic it's really establishing itself and it's not going to cost people an absolute fortune to go and enjoy the the cream of the crop here is it ashlyn no absolutely not um as i would say it's one of the only live music festivals that is a free event there's one ticketed event throughout the course of the weekend but everything else is absolutely free of charge so i think that's a huge selling point for the area as well and for the festival itself and it's not just the music obviously the music is critical it's the buzz of something like this that it brings with it as well like it's it's uh that's what's going to be in and around don fanahe from the seventh the tenth there's going to be some brilliant music there's going to be a cracking buzz as well absolutely and it's you know it's there's a spin off there for um the rest of the businesses within the area as well it's not just you know the the music venues themselves um it's drawing that crowd to the area again and as you said the buzz and it's absolutely fantastic and it always is and if the weather holds up of course it's even better again right well it is going to hold up how i'm confident it is well i hope so anyway good work great good man uh aim and um you know i mean if i think it's me i just turn up and sort of uh happens uh happenstance uh different gigs and what have you but people aficionados too are going to want to plan uh what to go and see and what to watch so is there a program available or a place people can go to find out what's on where yeah well the way it is Greg we go with the the nature of the free event we have a full program of events that we're it's one of the few things we we charge for which is just two euros for a program and that goes towards supporting the event as i said there's almost 70 free concerts here so it's one thing so um we are putting out some information on all the bands on our social media as the time goes on but uh really we're asking if people could support us with just a couple of euros to buy a program when they get here that'll really detail all the venues the times the artists and everything out there and it makes for a good souvenir as well that's it we've lost the art of keepsakes and souvenirs and lovely thing to have in two euro you're not uh and do you know what i didn't say as part of my question that all the events were free bar the one of course because i i couldn't believe it but you have confirmed it in the answer yourself so it's amazing and i hope you have a fantastic a few days and hopefully we'll get to go up ourselves and have a look around and listen to some brilliant music it is the jaz and blues festival don fanahe it's running from the 7th to the 10th of september uh amen mcfaden ashlyn arnold both of you thank you so very much indeed for your time thanks so much i hope to get up there i really do if i can get planning permission uh right we'll be back with more after this break and not only more 10 000 euro more watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter candy credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account dump stores double savers gives you new ways to shrink your bill saving the aisles and fresh ingredients for delicious teriyaki salmon bowls step one pick up a two pack of salmon darns just four euro step two marinate then sear in a hot pan step three steam your broccoli and cut a 69 cent avocado step four serve 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already had three um four lucky winners now after two thousand five hundred euro and now it's the big one it's uh great the winners have been spread across the county as well which is always good um it's good to see that it's uh diverse through our listenership in the area um you're very lucky this ten thousand because uh my cousin's husband is trying to get me to go on a cruise to south america which coincidentally would be in or around that kind of money i don't know what way it you can't do things to make money for yourself so you can go on cruises it is a competition for all this is and we give the money but i was tempted no you can't i was tempted to think that Mary McGilligini from um from i was trying to find where would be a remote area you would know when you you'd be joanna rabbit from gaul with what's a really remote remote area in dunny gaul where nobody would know that Mary McGilla McGilligini doesn't actually live there and hasn't actually won the money right okay i really want to see south america grand is not fair well you're gonna have to get a credit union loan like the rest of us right uh we are going to be using this camera so if you want to position yourself as such so finula now is going to her uh she's cleaning off the trombola if you don't mind okay and it has been heavily rotated and uh all right yeah ready to go we're watching you uh we yeah on screw and then i broke it i managed to do that this morning with that instant i know she was actually have to undo undo the screw slightly yes that's it okay now open her up and finula now is looking away and placing the hand in someone is on the verge of winning 10 000 euro and the winner is the number let me see uh 2773 2773 if you want to edge a little bit closer so everyone can pick that up uh 2773 that number is associated with the name and that person i was going to say you can put it back in there but that's the last of the draws uh that person whoever it might be 2773 is just about to win or has just won 10 000 uh euro are you all right there oh yeah you seem to be shifting too far away well i wanted to exactly exactly i positioned this camera over here so i didn't have to move right so uh what i'm not gonna ask you you're gonna buy a comic or some crap like that there i know i know nothing i would buy a comic yeah what i do the first edition spider well i would donate to the sin finula to south america fund oh everybody should donate to it it'd be awesome it's part of my how to be a tyrant is why i'm watching those programs and you're not finished watching that is that an over leader i have finished them yeah they're both very educational i know this is all how i can start my fundraising you would uh you would go on this cruise that's just oh yeah i'm a big believer in that money that falls into your lap should be blown yeah i suppose i'm very much here but two of the four winners of the two and a half grand so far at least two and a half the two that i've i've been privy to that i've heard one had just come back on holidays and one this morning's was actually currently on holiday but it is a popular time to go on holiday don't get me wrong but it was just an interesting uh aside so we'll see if we can get the winner on as i say it's not part of the competition you don't have to come on and answer after three rings or anything that money is yours now but it would be lovely to share the love with you uh oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand if you want to call us if we can't get through to you right so get to some comments uh and then we'll take a break uh ferris bueller's day off with donagall man matthew brudwick as uh it's a classic eighties film tonight strangely enough after midnight and film four ferris bueller's day off is a comedy of my youth and there's a handful i thought it was amazing i wanted to steal my parents car i thought it was okay to do so uh i didn't but you know didn't think that you could put the car in reverse and the odometer would go backwards i know it's awesome erin car you know what i think erin carter is going to be i think erin carter is going to be a water cooler show that lots of people enjoy and they tell other people about it a listener says erin carter was excellent i thought great characters and twists looking forward to series two hopefully grows on you as it goes on i'll give it eight out of ten it does grow on you the lead character is she's endearing the something about her she's got a daughter who they've got a really interesting relationship the daughter's a brilliant actress she's got a neighbor who has a really sort of complex and uh funny and interesting and sort of almost real but lovely relationship her husband it feels very real you know what i mean it's a good good show i don't want to overstay to either uh another caller says i'm watching who is there in carter excellent program uh eilish in ealing see you on sunday hi eilish eilish e i l i s h eilish because eilish would be a isl no e i is i e i oh mcdonnell anyway eilish i look forward to seeing you in ealing as well because we're broadcasting live from the irish vintage uh show uh why do i never get invited to these things michael and i could totally go out there into the show and you need to do what other people do invite themselves um hi shone i didn't see you there shone sorry i genuinely didn't see you there by quince as i should mention shone quince coming with us too as well oh a very valuable use of his time um i was broadcasting live from 12 noon to 2 p.m here no it's always a good event exactly and as i say there's so many people from our part of the world over there it's always amazing when you go over there you see so many uh meet so many dunny gold people but then you meet dunny gold people everywhere of course it's kind of one of the things that came up even after when you don't want to yeah a little sneaky trip away you know i don't know what you do we do mine is all about board right uh yeah i know you always meet them everywhere shall we announce our winner the person is not available to speak to us but that's fine as i say it's not pot where am i here now one second i had a song lined up it's disappeared how though i still haven't fully worked out that new system anyway it doesn't matter noreen macaferty lovely bought her ticket for another macaferty and they're from killie lasten in letter kenny it's number darah thank you uh darah macaferty killie lasten letter kenny ticket number 2773 congratulations to darah macaferty uh whose name was on the ticket that ticket was bought by noreen macaferty so earlier on we had another ticket by bought by a person going to someone close to them darah macaferty has just won 10 000 euro we'll still try and see if they'll come on before the end of the show but i'll say you don't have to that money is there now and uh we'll get it to you so just to recap again ticket number 2773 was purchased by noreen macaferty and that ticket was bought for darah macaferty killie lasten letter kenny who now has 10 000 euro feels amazing doesn't it i know it's fantastic okay brilliant stuff and that's it that's the end of the mega summer cash draw giveaway uh we gave the money away on the first day of autumn presumed it's a coincidence we don't really have that level of complexity enough to do that that we i like the idea that we do though yeah totally before you could spin it so that you did you were like well we set out to do this well i'll tell you what i was thinking more about back to school when we edit this okay when we edit this we'll pretend because i'd like because i'd like later because i'd like okay now as well before i take a break i'm inviting you to join john and our team at homeland agri increase lab it's the open day today and the weather is lovely for as well it's really still and as the day progresses it's only going to get brighter uh it's running from 10 a.m so it's underway now and it's running 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lovely and the uh the sunny spells are coming down here so it's uh it's lovely it's big news for that festival we'll talk about it because there's a lot of people be traveling down the one thing you can't predict with a big outdoor event is the weather are they going to get lucky we have a risk of some very heavy showers today um they're going to be localized they're going to be very heavy so if we can miss those we're going to be okay but there is a risk of a heavy shower today but then once we get into the weekend it's looking great really for all parts of the country now Donegal might see a little bit more cloud maybe than some other areas um a little bit of patchy low cloud maybe drizzle um possible in the northwest but generally i think it's going to be a good weekend temperatures getting up to 21 22 maybe even 23 degrees by sunday so it's yeah for festival goers here it's going to be a cracking weekend but right across the country it's going to be a great weekend and then as we head into uh next week that little ridge of high pressure back to school weather looks like it's going to stay with us monday tuesday wednesday possibly some showers moving up tuesday friday but i think we might even stay dry especially in the northwest for right into friday and believe it or not even getting up to 25 degrees in Donegal um by probably maybe wednesday so are you sure that you're not what are you are you drinking down there or what are you on something what do you mean 25 degrees in Donegal you're honest to god yeah it's going to get up to 23 24 might even touch 25 degrees we have storm franklin a hurricane franklin the tank actually it's tearing up some high pressure uh to give us that back to school weather that everybody talked about it's becoming a real thing i think and can we who are you looking forward to seeing uh alan yeah to be honest with you it's it's kind of one of those things where i go to the smaller stages and find loads of different things billy eilish on the main stage probably have to catch a bit of that to be fair and it'll be a lovely evening here it might be nine degrees in the 10 so i might have to put on the woolly hat to keep you warm i have no sympathy for you get out enjoy yourself alan thanks so much lovely to see you take care of yourself alan all righty uh of carloweather live there at electric picnic um will you a huge concert goer um fenula did you do fast did you do the festival scene watch uh no to be honest they were kind of after my time anyways i have a little a couple of family members now that are heading down there's another one of my cousins is a guard and he's working down he's working down there i'm like oh god because the people you've seen live of the who's who like i mean it's all the greats all yeah no we always we had to take the we we missed uh the walrus of love he came and then and we wouldn't go and see him because he passed away if we didn't go and see him because it was on in vicar street on valentine's day and then he passed away shortly after it so he said we'd never miss anybody again so yeah i've seen uh barbara strizer and and uh pavaratti you've seen wittney houston wittney houston um who else have you seen elton john i've seen elton john two or three times yeah um george michael selene d allen saw george michael once yeah madonna see what i'm saying you know what i mean you first of all this is time jones no awesome no i honestly i honestly started going to take that 11 times yeah it's never because we've set her off now i know well it pulls me on to the thing because the new take that means all right who's the best oh i i absolutely oh it depends no doesn't who's the best i know it actually does because you see lots of different things like i don't see bob dylan and bob went see bob dylan and bob dylan was great you know he's a uh he's bob dylan and you're sitting there but it was like four songs in before we worked out who on stage was bob dylan because he wasn't even turn that's a you problem he wasn't even facing the stage um but went to see you know went to barbara strison was amazing could you spot her on the stage can we ask a question is barbara strison alive yes yes see i have this awful thing and i mean this with no disrespect that sometimes when the celebrity passing is announced it's like a it's like a double emotion because initially it's like oh they're alive and then oh no i just found out they're dead yes yeah do you know what i mean yeah i know i know you haven't hear from them in a while so long uh kevin from dunlow before i forget international simmer and cinema days on saturday for just four euros the last chance for bob and heimer watch bobby afterwards it'll soothe the brain i saw camp theater last week thoroughly enjoyed it hadn't realized it was written by the bears molly gordon and her childhood friends they had something similar when growing up in clips of them when younger still savoring the bear if you get past the seven fishes and family richie finds his purpose in next episode forks and throw in some tate two not bad regarding sand of freedom corrie fieldman or Feldman mentioned something similar and probably winestein two that a long time ago on the lls as he was a child star in hollywood kevin and dunlow yeah you've got mel Gibson threatening to blow the whistle and all that and that kind of right okay right we've done that so we've done signs of freedom yes so we stick with cinema because it's cinema day sure um did you both go to see teenage minton we did teenage mutant ninja turtle another incarnation of it yes it's the seventh one in the franchise but it's a reboot it's a fresh start the problem is though it's turtles it is turtles i had never seen any movies the world's moved on is never i have never seen any movies i had never seen the movies i saw the trailer the trailer looked good someday we should take this show to leach them just to find out what was going on yeah and i was wasn't i excited wasn't i excited i was like we gotta see this so i really wanted to see this and i was not disappointed it's a very funny animated movie and the style of the animation it's a sort of a it's a rough human sort of style and it looks great it's different yeah it's a very comic book yeah okay yeah it's very different yeah so they're not going for the smoothers not treat you know the real world no yeah no no it's all it's a it's a cartoon it very much looks like a comic book sometimes brought to life this movie has been embraced critics have embraced it it's got 90 something from critics it's got 90 something from audiences here 97 from critics 91 from audiences you have set rogan so it's a set rogan movie he's the guy behind it he's set rogan is the he's the guy who's he's the he's he's high he's he talks about it quite well there is not one film where he doesn't make a joke about drug use yes does this film conclude without any reference to drug use i think there is yeah because it's quite yeah it stands out the way he normally yeah not normally my rudolf is john seen a ice cube is brilliant in this jackie chan is really good in this great voice cast it looks amazing and i found it hilarious that was my review and you had never seen one before i had never seen one before so it was all new to me she's seen many so she was able to tell me she was able to tell me what the film got wrong it was like a total in a half show she you've obviously seen a couple of them as well i mean there's been so many preparations of it like between the tv programs and the movies and the whole thing and i've probably seen them all at one point i think i've seen all the movies um i look at it's very nicely done i do think the the way that the the drawing is the boss coming here it reminds me and obviously i don't know enough about it but it's that more kind of a japan looking style of the cartooning you know what i mean it's not as i do say that they're not anthropomorphizing them kind of making them more human these other things they're more bringing the humans into the cartoons the only thing i will say about it is is that it's the exact same story right you know what i mean so you've you've seen this like this is something if you have watched it over the years now kids coming along probably haven't seen it and me teenage meeting into turtles that sort of fall into one side i don't you know i know my 11 year old nephew would have known about them but i doubt the four-year-old does you know so i think it's probably going to bring a whole new generation back into the fold again and it's got the and the thing about this movie too is that the producers of this movie it's part of the deal the movie is in the cinema but they've also been confirmed in greenlit for a two season tv show so this look i mean not the same voice cast but this show now will lead to a tv series yeah it'll be an interesting movie to go with it because it it you know in the past it's always been very kind of jokey and funny you know there's always been that there's much less of that in this slightly darker edge to it and now not in any way that you wouldn't know what you mean i know exactly but just in comparison to the previous one you know the big monster is quite you know dark right so what would you give it out of ten i'd give it a good old eight because i laughed and i was i was like i want to see more all things considered with all the caveats finula what would you give this film out of oh i definitely give it a seven or an eight like it's far it's it they did a good job of it it's really good it will bring new people into it it's just as i said you're kind of watching it going i've seen this movie before yeah thank you so very much indeed to michael and finula lady and all of you who listen to the show congratulations again to our ten thousand euro and uh thank you to all of you who took part in that wonderful competition over the last number of weeks please tune 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