 But late here, Lee, you're all right. Take your time. You'll be great. Okay. Have a good show. You too, Lee. You sound a bit better today. I am. I just didn't really talk yesterday. Just so the boys, I was like, I was whispering to the boys. Daddy's not shouting for a change. See you tomorrow for Friday, show Lee. It's a minute past nine. It's the nine till noon show. Let's get a news update. Good morning, Michaela Clark. Thanks, great. Good morning. New signs have been erected at Rothmullen Beach, following a dramatic rescue there last weekend, where a crelacy of the lives of three Guards after they got into difficulty in the water. The new signs warn of no swimming within 30 meters off the slipway. The Kehirlock of the latter Kenny Milford Municipal District has confirmed that an assessment of Rothmullen Pier is also to be carried out and a meeting with lifeguards scheduled. He says it's in part of people hate the warnings in place. People, it's not just fully aware of the maybe the ruptures and the currents along the pier there. So I'm delighted that the signs have been erected now to make people more aware. There's actually one sign that's going to be throughout every morning there along the pier. So it'll be in the view of the people as they go down there to make them aware to the swim within the flags. The finance minister says recession is a risk as the growth of the economy begins to slow. However Pascal Donahue says it's difficult to forecast at the moment and will depend on the performance of the global economy in the next year. CSO figures published last week showed GDP grew by over 6% in the first three months of the year down from the 10.8% originally estimated. Minister Donahue says he wouldn't rule out the risk of a recession due to the fall in growth. So if I look at where we are with our growth forecasts and the performance in the economy at the moment, all of those would point to a significantly lower level of growth with the risks that have occurred rather than a recession. However a recession is a risk. 194 houses have been built, bought or acquired by Dunninggall County Council in the past two years. The council says it is currently reviewing processes in relation to progressing future acquisitions given the uncertainty around effective blocks. Donna Marie Doherty has more. In response to a question from councillor Jerry McMonagall, the local authority confirmed that 172 social homes have been returned in St. Johnston, Lederkenny, Newton Cunningham, Folkara, Dunninggall Town, Bunkranna and Dunfanahe, as well as two SI homes. 22 properties were acquired under the House Acquisition Programme in 2020 in Lederkenny, Bunkranna, Ballet Buffet, St. Norler, Dunninggall Town, Burtonport, Moff, Lifford, St. Johnston, Folkara and Carragart. The council says it is currently reviewing processes in relation to processing future acquisitions given the uncertainty around effective blocks. We don't always know who's at risk from COVID-19 and other viruses, but we do know how to protect them. Keep hands clean and wear a mask. Let fresh air in, get vaccinated and stay at home if you are unwell. From the HSC. For us all. And now it's time for the talk of the North West, the 9th and new show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. It is four minutes past nine each Thursday to the 21st of July 2022. How are you keeping? I hope you are very well indeed. Stick with us for the next three hours. Hopefully we'll keep you informed and entertained and get involved. Of course, WhatsApps and texts, those lines open to you right now. 086625,000. If you're listening or watching outside the Republic, 0035386625,000. Tell us what's going on where you are. If you want to give us a call, you can do so on 0749125,000. We'd be delighted to take your call. And emails, comments at HighlandRadio.com. And don't forget, by the way, if it's easier for you to send a voice message to us, feel free to do that too on WhatsApp. To that number, as I mentioned, 086625,000. We're here for you across the Northwest and across the world online for you to listen. But if you want to watch the program and engage with it that way, we'll get on to our website. That's HighlandRadio.com. You can watch in browser. You should see the link there. Or go straight to our YouTube channel, Highland Radio Island, or join us on Facebook, whichever way we just want you engaged and involved and taking part. Let's start with the papers this morning. We'll go to the back page of the Donegal News, because as was expected, the Declan Boner has stepped down as Donegal Manager. And we're hoping to have Declan Boner on the program in the last hour of the show. So stay tuned for that to hear from him himself, the reasons behind his decision. And also we'll be getting some reaction to from the county board. And hopefully we'll hear from some pundits too. So we'll be right across that story for you in every hour of this program, dipping in and out of it. But the Donegal Senior footballers will have a new banister next year after Declan Boner stepped down from the role last evening. Boner addressed club delegates at a county committee meeting and confirmed that he'll not be continuing in the position. The Narossa club man informed the players and the backroom team of his decision on Monday. Boner took on the senior reigns in 2017 and led Donegal to Ulster titles in 2018 and 2019, however, for the last two more provincial deciders and weren't able to make the dent they desired nationally. Okay, so we're going to hear from those within GEA at your all within GEA. I suppose the supporters and fans as well. What do you think of that decision? And I suppose who would you like to see take over next? And we have to be somewhat realistic, don't we? And that we can't just who do you think who might be available? Would you like to see as the next manager? And what would you like from them? Get your comments and questions too as well if you wish into 08 660 25,000 or call 07 491 25,000. Also by the way before move on to let you know we're back in the garden in the last hour of the show today as well. So any gardening questions will have a nice rush. I know when we have our guests on when Paul's with us, but get them into us early and I can guarantee you then I'll get you an answer as well. Okay, right, but let's stick with news that your car on Tribune six years after a local community group took over the lighthouse at Fanadhead as a tourism project. They've now set out plans to build a new visitor's experience center at an estimated cost of 3.5 million. The design plans have been created by Vincent Hannon Architects Galway and the outline of the project reflects the flow of the landscape and blending into nautical environmental surrounding the lighthouse and it's pictured on the front. It's low profile. It looks low profile seems to have a green or grassy roof and quite a contoured roof at that. It looks like a wonderful building, big glass front on it. You can read more and see images of it on the front of the Chicano Tribune today. The Donegal Democrat wake up call defibrillator awareness issue after near-death experience at Nerosa. Trevor Melly, a member of Nerosa GA Club pictured in his home in Letcher Macaward yesterday with his wife Louise and their daughter Erin, the full story on the front of and inside the paper today. Let's see what's making the headlines in the Finn Valley voice out now for you. Four Masters Chief Morris McGeehan of Fintown. The offer from the Irish Rugby Football Union was a golden opportunity. He took it right away. He and his team could set up the IRFU rugby centre delivered high quality nutritious meals to all players and staff including the Ireland's men's and women's senior squads, the Ireland under 20 squad and the men's and women's sevens squads at all full-time residents at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Blanchardstown. So you can read the background to his involvement there in that paper today. A picture dominating the front of the dairy news today and why not? Over 7,000 people paraded through Dairy City Centre on Tuesday last in the Foil Cup parade. Over 450 teams from as far away as Finland and America are taking part in the youth soccer tournament being staged for the first time since 2019 due to the pandemic of course and it's a cracking picture. Loads and loads of people, great flags and all that kind of stuff as well. Right let's go to the nationals now, the Irish Times. Rising emissions will demand deeper cuts, says the EPA. We're going to be talking a little bit about climate change later on in the programme. If you view on it, get it into us now. You know if you think it's all a load of nonsense, your views are welcome too. I'd love a bit of substance to it though so we can put it to our experts. Why would you believe that? Why do you think that's the case? But let's read what the EPA are saying. Green house gas emissions continued to increase last year meaning deeper cuts will lead to be made in the coming years to reach legally binding targets the government will be told today. And as I said yesterday on the programme, I understand where we're going with this and know what we have to do stuff but we are facing into a winter where we're actually ramping up oil and gas used to generate electricity right across Europe and the report will show that that has been one of the biggest contributing factors to the increase. It's not you in your house per se. Agriculture hasn't necessarily skyrocketed. It's the state's generation of electricity that seems to be triggering the increases and yet it's going to come back to us potentially in our pockets and our lifestyles and how we live our lives to sort this problem out. There's a lot in there. We'll tease it out later but there seems to be an awful lot of contradictions in this. As I say, a report from the Environmental Protection Agency published today finds that instead of coming down, Ireland's emissions continued to rise by 4.7% last year rebounding to above the 2019 pre-COVID levels. The EPA warns that this will need immediate deeper cuts to emissions to stay within the legal limits. We're going to hear a little later on what we're talking about in this country is sticking in or incentivising homeowners to put EV charging points in their houses. It looks good but at the end of the day is it going to make any material difference in the short period of time we apparently have to the problems? I would say no. Something more meaningful seems to be needed. The news comes amid internal government wrangles over the level of greenhouse gas reductions that should be borne by each sector in the coming years while the government has adopted far-reaching targets and in the dull has enshrined them in law. There is not yet a clear plan for how they are to be achieved sector by sector, which in itself is something of an embarrassment, I would suggest. The government has already approved a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for the agricultural sector of 22 to 30%, but ministers must now decide on an exact level. But as I say, we'll read through some of the increases here. The EPA warns that 23.5% of the 2021-2025 carbon budget has already been used up requiring an 8.4% average annual emissions reduction from 2022 to 2025 to stay within budget, but that's unachievable. That would be a 12% swing, which we're nowhere near. We'll have to see what the story is with the rising interest rates today and what impact it will have on people's mortgages. I think we are currently at the moment playing historically low mortgages. It should be said at this point that a lot of experts believe that these insurance increases or interest rate increases might peak at 2.35%, which would still be, 2.5%, which still would be historically low. With all the rises that are being proposed, we would still be left with historically low interest rates. Maybe that might take the edge of the shocking headline here and of era for cheaper mortgages as interest rates are set to rise. The ECB is likely to confirm a 0.25 percentage point increase followed by a rise of twice that in September. The start of a cycle of interest rate rises could see homeowners with tracker or variable mortgages ultimately being hit with higher payments of up to 1,080 euro a year. When the higher costs from the ECB increases of servicing tracker or variable mortgages are added to rises in the cost of energy, motor fuel and food, some families will be facing a hit of close to 4,000 a year in their budget. So it's going to be bad, but potentially at the worst case scenario, mortgage interest rate hikes could impact in terms of 25% of increases of the 100% total. There are growing fears that the first in a series of ECB interest rate rises in 11 years could uparland and the rest of the European Union could put them into recession. And I hear now Pascal Donner who is talking about recession and we've been talking about not trying to talk it up, but you know the reality of the lives that we're living at the moment. It feels and I've said it before that at the moment there is a recession within a growing economy here. I think a lot of people out and about will know that I'm not sure what the feeling is amongst the tourism industry is the tourist spend down at the moment. I suspect it might well be and I think coming into Christmas people are going to be holding on to their money more. But Leo for Adcast sat opposite me in the studio a couple of months ago and I says, look, we're heading to a recession, aren't we? And he says, no, he doesn't think so. But now we've got Pascal Donner who's saying, so I get the impression that we are potentially in the lasting of a dying wasp in that the government are trying to talk up the economy to some extent. So as people don't shut down immediately because what happens in a recession, obviously those with limited resources, they become even more limited and they can't afford to spend like they might have in the past. But those perhaps who retain some disposable income, they don't spend it, they stay in, they don't buy things, they don't buy cars, they don't buy houses. And you know, consumer spending is a big part of an economy. And if that slows down, you go into a recession. So I think, and I could be completely wrong, unless they are completely wrong, or some combination of both that we are, they know we're going into a recession, but they're trying to talk up the economy to get as much into the coffers as possible before we actually are in a recession, if that makes sense. I just think there's a bit of massaging of consumer confidence going on here. The Irish Farmers Journal, the average sheep or suckler farmer could be paid €61,000 by the shout-in over the next five years in the next organic farming scheme. Farmers who decide to go organic will receive a lump, some sweetener of €2,000, hopefully organic sweetener, in year one, in addition to a payment per hectare. As revealed by the Irish Farmers Journal last month, increased organic farming scheme payment rates will come into effect from January. Right, okay. Facebook got a significant slap on the wrist. They are a publisher, I suppose, and have to be responsible for what's put on their platform. Is this what happened here in the Irish Daily Mail? Nora Kearn's parents have settled a high court action over disturbing and offensive Facebook posts by a retired solicitor. A series of allegations were made on the social media platform after the French Irish schoolgirl went missing in a Malaysian jungle resort during a family holiday and continued after her body was found. Nora, 15, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort near Kuala Lumpur in August 2019, and you'll remember the very sad story. The teenager's family believed that she was abducted. She was born with a disorder which affects brain development, and her family have said she would not have wondered off on her own. Sebastian and Maeve Coran had initiated proceedings against Facebook and retired solicitor Anne Brennan over post she'd made on the platform. Mr and Mrs Coran were in court in Dublin yesterday to hear lawyers for Facebook trading as meta confirm that both actions have been settled, and we know social media seems to be a place where people feel they can say absolutely anything, and it's from people from all different points of view. Those who feel a bit rebellious or those who feel righteous both able to abuse that platform seemingly in equal measure. Irish Daily Mirror, Meeho Martin's not for going, he is not for shifting. He shrugged off a possible heave within Finafole insisting he's very clear about his position. It comes as a group of 29 TDs and senators met without government ministers and without the knowledge of Mr Martin to discuss the future of the party and fears the electorate is unaware of the party's identity. The T-shock said in Tokyo, yesterday I think my focus has to be on the key issues facing the Irish people, and I remain very focused. Sounds very, and this is the only comparison I'm making here, it sounds very much like what Boris Johnson was talking about when people were trying to get him out, he was talking about how no my job is to look after the country and its people. It's almost a direct quote from some of the stuff he was saying, but he went on to say, I don't think the Irish people would take to people naval gazing or internal analysis when very serious issues have to be dealt with. And so my entire energy and focus is on the cost of living package and the budget right up to the end of September. I always worry when, worry, you know what I mean, but I think when you happen to respond like that, you are aware that's the serious efforts on the way to get you out. I think that would be my assessment there. So talking about what the government might be doing to try and reduce our emissions in the sun today, homeowners will be able to get a grant to put an electric vehicle charging point at their house. Okay, that's already happening, isn't it? What's new here? Well, even if you don't have any EV, an electric vehicle effectively, the new move is part of a plan to increase numbers of electric vehicles in Irish roads. The zero emission vehicles, Ireland's strategy also includes a three month free trial of electric cars for businesses to encourage them to switch their fleet to electric. And I saw an article recently which showed how environmentally unfriendly the manufacturing of electric cars are or is they are zero emission, but how you get that vehicle out onto the road and into your possession is not environmentally friendly at all. And they do contribute to some extent to the problems. But listen, that's one of those things say nothing because once you actually have the electric car, it's zero emission. All right. Among the measures is an apartment charging grant to make it easier for those living in multi unit dwellings to charge an EV. The scheme will cover 80% of the cost of a charging point. The current home charging grant will also be extended to apply to all homeowners regardless of what level of cars they own, which is good. Lots and lots of people have, particularly the EVs. And to some extent, you know, electric cars, their usage is growing. So that's good news, isn't it? If it comes to pass, it's a belief you want to see it job. But listen, we'll keep our fingers crossed for that one. The Irish Daily Star today, Netflix, the Netflix boss reckons streamers will call off traditional TV within a decade. Let I counter that by saying I suspect other streamers might kill off Netflix within a decade as well, because its numbers are shrinking. Reed Hastings made the bold prediction despite the streaming service losing a million subs, mostly due to the cost of living crisis, and then bumping up their prices. I think their last price increase was the last raw for a lot of people. I don't think it's necessarily the cost of living crisis. I think they said, look, hold on, yeah, you know, we were with you through lockdown. There was some good programming, but your programming's gone a bit crap. And we're canceling our subscription because you're looking for more money off us. But anyway, he believes that we'll not be watching effectively scheduled TV anymore, everything will be on demand. And listen, if you've got young people in your house or if they're listening, how many of them outside of perhaps sport sit down and watch a program on the telly when broadcast just decide when you should watch it, very few, very few indeed. And there's very little TV, I'd watch that scheduled TV, unless it's background stuff, do you know the ways to come some programs on in the background? Everything I would watch Bar the Shouting, Bar Live Sport would be on demand really, I think to some extent. 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Clubs have been given until August 15th to nominate candidates for the role of senior football team manager. Brendan Deveney, GEA pundit and presenter of the DL debate joins us on the program now. Brendan, thanks so much for taking your time out this morning. It's good to see you. No problem, good to see you too, Greg. Right, no surprise in the timing of this decision and perhaps the timing was right. Yeah, I think so. Maybe some people thought we should have came up a clicker. You know, just the manner in which we lost our last game, and I suppose the way we lost the Ulster final, it just seemed like maybe a change was right, because maybe he looked at a bit of rebuilding. It has to be done within Donegal, and with Declan having the one extra year, he thought maybe it is time for a change here in the freshen up. Yeah, and how would you review Declan Bonner's tenure? I mean, obviously it was back to back Ulster wins and lost out in a couple of provincial finals. Some frustration maybe with some of the tactics where some key players were being played. But overall, many, many counties would be very happy with what Mr. Bonner delivered. I suppose the start of it, you see it ignited maybe possibilities. A lot of people had to send us all there and potential contenders. You know, very first league game, you know, you go back the way to Kerry and it was 2-18, 2-14, and this was after the Rory Gellar, the press and negative error in Donegal, where it was really, really negative football, and we didn't seem to be going anywhere. I know that was just a league game, but you were like, Donegal is going to open up an attack now, and there was variations of that in the first couple of seasons in particular, and there was a super eighth game against Kerry in Crow Park, which was 1-19 each. And it was something we haven't seen in Donegal in a long time, but the last couple of seasons, and I know it's difficult to put a marker on, particularly the Covid seasons here, because there were strains in the knockout last year game to Rome. You know, it's hardly kind of quantified that, and even obviously it's Rome going all the way in there. It was a strange season, but certainly this season, there was a huge push to one Ulster, and it started so well against Armaa. I thought Donegal performed really, really well in that game. You know, they played OK against Cavan in that semi-final, but it was an Ulster final. I think the manner in which we lost the game, the tactics would be employed. I think that really started to cause a bit of an issue with people asking where we go and what's happening, because we really played the game on Derry's terms, and we're right on that progressive negative tactic, which a lot of people, if you lose, if you want a game and want a final, I think a team like Derry can stomach that because they're a new team coming up, but for a team like Ulster's been around, it's not good enough, I think, to play that way. And I think the way we lost in the Armaa, being well-beat, put a lot of questions and marks out there. So for Declan's tenure, listen, brilliantly, playing four Ulster finals, he won two of them. The problem was, they were in the first couple of years, and we were so close in the super rates with Ulster Turon in 2018 and May 0 and 2019 games, any of those games would have really put us on a different level. We just seemed to come up short in them, but when you value the Declan, Greg, you value the Declan, the squad he's had there, the players that he's had. At times, we've had the heights. He's tried to freshen up his backroom team at times. We've the likes of Carly C, Paul McGonagall, and that in there, the start, and then Roger Kaman and Paddy Campbell this year. So he has tried everything he can to, I think, to freshen it and to come up with the goods, but as I say this year, I suppose I'll say the manner in which we lost that Ulster final, in particular, stuck with a lot of Derry Goffins. All right, before we talk about who might replace him, and I think maybe this question depends on which candidates we might be talking about, that we have no candidates as such at this point. Are the players there? You've talked in the past about how our club teams are playing, and maybe that's feeding into how the county squad's playing, or maybe how the county squad's playing is feeding in how the club teams are playing. But if you're coming in and you're saying, right, these are the tools I've got to work with, this is the level expectation. This is the level of success that's been there even in the last five years. But I also know that I am going to be absolutely hammered, particularly on anonymous social media, if we start playing in any way negative. So there's a lot of pressure comes with the job. So when you look at the tools that you have, a couple that with the pressure that would come, and what you believe you'd be able to achieve is managing Donegal an attractive prospect at the moment. In other words, will people be queuing up to manage the county team? Yeah, I'd say certainly not. Greg, and geographically where we're at, it can be difficult at times to get someone from a certain area, because you've got to look at, and particularly if you look at how Booner went for Rodgford, Rodgford had all-earned final experience. And where do you get people to get, you know, we had to go all the way, he lives in Castle Reed to pull a guy up to bring a guy in like that there. So it's difficult around, before we get to the players that are possible, this is out there, but if it's not within the county, it's difficult to get without, and you look at Monahan of No Boss at the minute, Mayo of No Boss, there came all within our geographical area. So these managers, it used to be years ago, Greg, you know, if you were a decent club manager, you were in with the shout of getting the county job, if you were an ex-player, it almost was enough. I think now it's not just about the manager, it's the entire team he's going to bring, you know, it's so huge now around the coach you're going to bring, the S&C, the setups, the medical, everything that's involved in that there, it's like you're almost, you're managing the team, you're almost managing your management team around it. So someone has the ability to do that. Right, there's not many people out there like that, that'll really progress the team. So I think as quick as some people were quick to get rid of or want the boner, go where you were sent, what's your options out there? You know, Declan was doing the best he had with what he had, you know, and there's not that many people out there to take over. Well, let's talk about some of them. I mean, obviously, Jim McGuinness is going to be made. His name's going to be mentioned, but he would, I presume, come with, he would come with very high standards or demands in terms of funding for the back team and what have you. Also, could he balance his punditry work where, you know, he's out there front and centre, but he doesn't necessarily have to pick a team and take all the hastily, he's got his article going. You know, could he balance all that? At the same time, he might look at the players available and say, really, my reputation there is pretty solid as Donegal manager. Can I come and enhance that? Or would I end up going backwards in terms of sort of, you know, how people might remember me? I mean, would Jim McGuinness even take it on with what I've said, or maybe some of it's true, some of it's not? I don't know. What do you think? Yeah, that's very hard. Listen, I was speaking of a dollar and semi-final down there and he's obviously been coaching me there, he's so underage and I think he's put his lot into the soccer world, let's call it in terms of where he's been at. For him to go back to GA would be huge. Now, I know you mentioned punditry, but the punditry I think probably is, it could be a financial thing, let's be honest, Sky in that article, not to be good money. Why wouldn't you do it for a play? He's earned the right to do it, but certainly he couldn't do both. You know, he can't be doing both. He maybe could do an article, he definitely couldn't be doing the punditry work while Donegal would be in the title, while he'd be in the championship. So whether he's interested or not, as you said, he might look at the squad and think, you know, what's in this for me in terms of his reputation? You know, obviously Rory Cabinett won the championship between Unions this year in X player 2012. You know, Carolee, he was involved with Declan Bonner and highly regarded on the dressing room. The lad says he was his first class. He's obviously taken over our whole structure of coaching and Donegal. That's a big job that he has. So whether he's a possible, you know, like Simon McGee and Leo McLean again from that 2012 team were involved and Gary Duffley's under 20s this year. So those are the type of people that are within the county. What about what about Michael Murphy? He could follow a similar pattern to Declan. I think if he did do this, he'd be following, you know, I think Declan retired around about the same time, went into management pretty quickly. He probably already is quite influential in the setup. Maybe he thinks that, you know, have I got my legs anymore? Maybe it's my turn to try and balance an important job in the local IT or the local. Are you retiring Michael Murphy? No, you've said this to me before. I am creating potential, you know, propositions. Listen, there's no doubt, there's no doubt Michael Murphy is going to coach and manage Donegal. That is without a shadow of a doubt because he is hard and soul Donegal. There's no way that's not going to happen. Whether that's time or not, no, I wouldn't say so, Greg. And listen, just the way things ended and the fact that he's captain in the middle of all that, I think for him to come on fresh, it would be better if there was a break between him playing and doing all that there before he comes back. And I think there's no doubt in here, a fantastic fella to have managed Donegal. Whether that's the wee bit soon. I mean, if you're asked him to be part player manager, I don't think they have to be far too much in the current game. I still think he wants to play. So I think that, but that's something for down the road. But certainly it's something, I think for Donegal supporters that somebody look forward in terms of having someone of his stature that will eventually take Donegal. Neve Connells, Martin Regans, another name that's been linked to it. So far, I think we've talked about people from within the county. And it was interesting last night to hear Declan say that he believes, you know, I don't want to misquote him, but his preference would be, because he is, of course, a Donegal man through and through, his preference would be a manager from within the county. Would you share that preference? And would you also throw the likes of Martin Regans name in the hat there? Yeah, Martin Regans has done fantastically well with Neve Connell. You know, people might talk about the tactics that they play is that very, very counter-attack type football, which I think we need to get out of a small bit. Greg, I mean, we're coming out of it, and that's why it was a bit disappointing. We seem to drop back in there a lot. And people might say that's just the nature of the game. But if you look at the quick counter attacks, the likes of the Kerry Dublin game there, you know, they were dropping players in, but the speed of the conversion and up the pitch was totally different to what you'd see in the likes of the terrible Ulster final. And also, I think balancing that up as a thing, but there's no issue going outside of the county. Of course, people would prefer a player inside the county, but that doesn't really matter very much. What matters is that the team are happy and coached well, and they get the best of them. So the only person outside from E-Malloch and Roark, of course, he's with Wadi Graham there and there. And, you know, he is the guy's progressed. Everybody, everywhere he's went, club or county, you know, even in his time with Monaghan there. So every player that's played under him, they've known him. But the best for him, you know, spoke to so many from club teams and county teams. So he's the one guy outside that I would be gone after if I didn't have the suitable candidate on here. Right, okay. And as you said, there's vacancies elsewhere. So, you know, a lot of these people, you're going to have to court them, I suppose, to some extent, though, there can be some advantage. There's a three-person panel being put together by the county board there. So listen, just like you mentioned, Regan there, I mean, it's only all clubs can nominate people if they want. But this three-person panel is going to liaise with these people and hopefully get us the best man or woman. Yeah. Would you like a role in the backroom team? Greg, you know I'm a bit bad. Well, you know, you've already got me retiring, so I might as well elevate you to management, you know. What are you doing in the backroom team? I think it's a bit soon for you. I think it's a bit soon for you. But soon, but soon. No, Greg, let's see. Can we be careful what you say? Because McHugh mentioned in passing on a clip about two months ago that, you know, he wouldn't mind managing the team. Do you know what I mean? It was a spontaneous response. And now he's linked with it today, but Mark McHugh's got no interest in this job, has he? Well, you would think at this point if you had him would have taken it. I was working in sport 20 years ago, and I can't remember who was gone or who wasn't gone. And the first time associated with it always was Mark McHugh. Yeah, well, listen, we tried as a team at one stage. We kind of put it out there when we did the manager when I was playing, because a bit like you're on with the Michael Murphy, you know, Martin had such a reputation. Obviously he took Cavenday and Ulster in 1997 as well. So, you know, you had that thing where it was off. At that time, if he didn't take it, I can't see him taking it. Now, of course, it's some Mark McHugh. He's doing coaching, he's involved in Romano Miners. Don't he got ladies now as well? He's on the other hand, I think that would be interested in something that could potentially at some stage. I think it's almost the backroom team is going to be really quite interesting in the makeup of that. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's not the whole team. On whom ever it's stewardship it might be. The whole team, Greg, and particularly the coach, obviously, you know, and the S&C coaches as well, if you're talking about getting to that next level, which is obviously we'd love to get our Ulster title back first, but not making a semi-final, I suppose, was the big thing that would have annoyed Declan in his time there. But the physical approach to get that, and you hear the stories about our neighbours in Derry, and the training they're doing, this part of worries me about because it just seems so OTT in terms of the basically training every day and weekends away and coaching camps. That's what seems to be required to compete. Yep, yep. Especially when expectations are, expectations now are beyond the provincial title. So, you know, if you want to play with the big boys, you have to train like the big boys and girls. All right, Brendan, listen, thanks for your time this morning. I know you're busy, so I appreciate you taking the time out of your morning, all right? Take care of yourself, chat Monday, all right? Bye-bye. That's Brendan Deveney there. What do you think? 08.6? 60, 25,000. There's only one man for the job, says this listener. That's Martin McHugh. Now is the time for him to step up to the plate. What do you think? I'm angry at this statement of genuine fans. We're all fans. Costs can make it difficult for families to now travel. We don't have to travel to Kerry to prove that. Well, I'm going to be hopefully speaking to, I'm hopefully going to be speaking to Declan Bonner later on in the program. And I suspect that when they talk about genuine fans, he's not talking about you. He's talking about people, probably anonymous, that are abusive towards him and the team in general, mostly on social media. Now, I could be wrong and I'll ask him the question, but I don't think Declan Bonner is given out to people who are struggling and can't travel to the games. I suspect he's talking about people who often anonymously, often anonymously, are very, very, very nasty and detract from what everyone's trying to do. But as I say, I'll get clarity for you later on. It's not a new manager. Donagall need it. It's a new life in the team. The likes of Michael Murphy and others have served their time. Donagall needs new blood. These guys' times are up full stop. Well, listen, Michael Murphy is one of the best players in the country and still is. Okay, maybe some might say he's played a little bit out of position and we didn't get the best out of him, but he's incredibly good player, very influential, probably has a long playing career ahead of him. If you're writing him off, I don't know who you think's going to be coming in to replace him. Boris Johnson will be available soon to be the new manager that comes in from Eileen Ingrid or Eileen. Get a cup of tea and sit down. The blood must be rushing to your head. Boris Johnson? Listen, love it. Thanks very much for that. Back with our next guest in a moment. Hi, John. How are you doing? Haven't seen you in a while. Have you been all right? Haven't been feeling great, to be honest. I've just been so busy, I haven't had time to get it checked out. I drop into the pharmacy any time I'm feeling a little under the weather. They know their stuff, they give great advice. And they have a consultation and we need a private chat. Thanks, Mary. I never thought of that. Your local community pharmacy. Always here for you. Brought to you by the Irish Pharmacy Union. Armaculla Jewelers in Letterkenny are synonymous with fine jewelry, quality watches and gift wear. 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Plus, commentant Jeff Curran talks about his journey in the Army Equitation School and breeder Kate Jarvie recalls her life with horses. All this and lots more in The Irish Field, Dublin Horseshoe Magazine, in shops now or ordered directly from thearishfield.ie. Summer garden clearance at Homeland. Madrid, Leon or Monaco patio planters buy one, get one free. Outback says their four burner barbecue have price only 199 euro. Ice bucket with Bluetooth speaker, 29 euro, 99, save 20 euro. Shop our full range of offers in store and online at homeland.ie whilst stocks last. Okay, let's talk about our manners on the road or sometimes maybe a lack thereof. Sean, good morning to you. Morning Greg. How are you getting on? I'm good. Okay, right. You messaged us in talking about people's driving behavior. Well, I posted on Facebook actually. Oh yeah, I see that. And I was out in town yesterday and then coming up to a roundabout at the postal roundabout. I just noticed that somebody coming around the right about was excessively growing their horn. And because somebody had pulled out in front, not in front of them, now that the guy who pulled out was actually about 10 yards away from them. But he felt the need to blow the horn anyway. And I was just thinking, well, what's the point? Because this guy's already gone and you're blowing it. Somebody doesn't know what you're blowing at. And it just seemed to me, it's a sort of case of get out of my way. Get out of my way. Here I come. I think too, maybe it's an awful lot about the driver, Sean, because you know. Yes. Well, I was thinking, what I was thinking was the driver, the driver saying to the other guy, you know, you idiot you. Whereas this guy is a beefy idiot. Yeah. And I just think, you know, if you're that stressed out behind the wheel, you know, maybe just need to, and I think you said it in your post here, I see you just maybe need to take a breath. Yeah. But people get the inclination to blow the horn when there's no real need for it, no purpose. Yeah. For example, I mean, people, I have to admit it was tempting myself to use the horn yesterday, but I was sitting in the line of traffic. What's that? Same here. I didn't, but I was driving along the road and someone decided to stop in the middle of the road and look out at the sea and jammed, I had to jam my brakes on right behind them and they pulled off. But I took your advice. I took a deep breath and counted to one and I didn't touch the horn, Sean. Tell us your situation. I was in the line of traffic in Larrakenny. And there was quite a bit of traffic on the main street and I was moving slowly and I was late for an appointment. And this van was stopped in front of me and I couldn't see past it, so I didn't know how many cars were in front of him. But anyway, in the meantime, while I was stopped there, the pedestrian come up and of course, as people do, they went over and started talking to the van driver. And that was okay. But then it went on and on and on and on and I was thinking, are there any cars in front of this van at all? And I was tempted to blow the horn except my horn doesn't work properly. And if I hit the horn gently, it doesn't toot at all. But if I hit it hard, there's a really big long toot and people are going to think I'm really noisy or something. So I thought, better not to do that. As it turned out, the word traffic in front of them anyway, so how would it look, stupid? And you would have given a big long toot? Yes. A completely inappropriate long toot at that? But people do blow the horn in traffic and there's a huge line of traffic and people feel inclined to blow the horn. What are the things going to happen? The cars in front aren't going to magically disappear just because they've blown their horn. Yeah. It's a lack of awareness now. What do people say on your post, Sean? Do people go, Sean, you know what I mean? I like to blow me toot or like to toot me horn, sorry. No, no, no. Most people agree to say, I see this all the time. Now, the thing about it is I actually looked on the internet afterwards because it became interesting. There's a lot of posts about people blowing their horns. The thing about it in Ireland is somebody said and replied to the post that they've noticed this a lot more recently. Now, I was reading it about there's different, apparently blowing your horn and different signals. You know yourself, people blow the horn to say hello. Yes. And often people pass you and when I'm walking the dog, people pass and toot the horn and say hello to me. And most of them I don't know who they are because by the time I've sort of looked I've gone. Not saying they shouldn't do it. But another people sort of sometimes toot the horn to say thanks if you let them out. But you can tell, but you can almost tell by the sound that the way they use the horn, what's wrong with them. There's a language, there's a language to horns like in terms of, you know, a toot toot, that's nice. Yeah, yeah. But the problem is you can't communicate properly with your horn because even if you try and say hello toot, you're giving them the long toot. No. Right, okay. I'm afraid not, no. Okay. That's why I have to use the slicer instead. Yeah. But the part that I was reading up and it's very interesting if you read the one to Google and read, it's very interesting because apparently in Cairo, for example, when people buy new cars, they don't, they change the horn immediately because they like a different tone on their horn. And car companies when they're selling cars to the Chinese they have to put different horns in the car because the Chinese won't buy them, what the horns do we have? Well, I bib, if I'm changing my car, you bib the horn and sometimes you think, you know, sometimes it can quite sound bassy, other times it's like very tooty. Yeah. I wonder does it affect, but obviously it does affect people's parts and of course because they change their horns elsewhere. Right, Sean. So your advice is can't one, you don't even have to count to 10, take your breath, leave your hand off the horn. Yeah. Is that it? Yeah. All right. Good stuff. Listen, thanks for your time this morning, Sean. Don't use it unless you have to. But what if I want to say hello to you when you're out walking your dog? Oh, yeah, I can do that. Right. Okay. Fair enough. But that's not aggressive. Exactly. It's an aggressive use of the horn. Well, I often think Greg, you know, like, I often think, you know, like phones, we can change your ring tone. I think in cars, they should have a horn where you can change your tone. So does each have a nice one. That sort of sounds nice to people rather than sort of just no noise pollution, you know. Yeah. So it could be like, Hi, huh? Would be like, Yeah. I'll move over, darling. Go on. Anyway, come here. I'll let you back to repair your car horn. I'm away. Good luck. Thanks. So great. Thanks. All right. We'll be back with our next guest after these. Sabrina Rob here from Donegal Hearing Clinic. If you're struggling to hear everyday conversations or find it difficult to understand people in a crowded room, you may have hearing loss. Problems like these are common and we're used to helping people resolve them. We offer hearing assessments and we'll discuss your options. You can call us on 074-91-88470 or visit donegalhearingclinic.ie. Life sounds brilliant with Donegal Hearing Clinic, letter Kenny and Bonkrana. This is a notice for all tractor and agri-plant owners. Minimize your downtime when you need tires and call Donegal Tires Donegal Tire. 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That's three days hire on any equipment or machinery for the price of one. So there's no excuses to get that job done this weekend. Book airy to avoid disappointment by calling Watson Hire in Etter Kenney on 911-6777. Okay, you're very welcome back. Right, not one Irish city was classified as having good air quality according to an EU watchdog. Dublin Court, Limerick-Waldford were ranked fair in the 2021 2020 European Environment Agency report. The report which looks at levels of dust and smoke found Dublin was the best in Ireland and ranked 35th among all European cities recorded. Now we also have another report from the EPA that shows that unfortunately our negative impact on the environment is, well, it's increasing rather than getting any better. And we'd already arranged to speak to Professor John Sweeney who's a climate change scientist at Maneuth University. So it all ties in very well. Good morning to you, Professor. Thanks for joining us. Good morning, Greg. Do you know the one thing I've noticed and it continues and I was looking at some of the articles in the paper today. We're still talking about what needs to be done and we're edging ever closer to the targets. We're failing on our annual targets and still and even at the highest level in government we're talking about what can be done, what should be done rather than actually doing anything. What do you think is going on there, John? I think it's a human failing that we all are very much more willing to talk the talk than walk the walk. And I think in the area of climate we've certainly seen that over decades now in Ireland. I think for many people it's a topic that they don't think brings home to themselves the urgency. They think it's something that affects Africa and Asia and not really Ireland. But I think the events of this week have certainly catalyzed thinking in many areas on this topic. We've seen a record, for example, that has stood for 137 years going in terms of the highest temperature. And all around the world this summer we've seen a whole litany of major extreme events occurring, be it in China where 86 cities are still under heat stress. Japan where extremes have been breached. India where extremes have been breached. And more recently in Europe where we've seen that the temperatures in Portugal which have been more akin to death balance. So I think the message is beginning to get home to people now especially after this week. But something that affects the rest of the world is now coming home to Roost here in Ireland. And maybe we are beginning to see that we have to start walking the walk now as well as talking the talk. But there's still enormous obstacles which are being put in the face of this. How do we know for sure, Professor, that the events that we've seen this year are as a result of climate change and aren't infrequent weather events that history shows that are there? I think that's what a lot of people might want to know. Yeah, and I think if you were asking me that question five years ago I would have given you the very conservative answer that all climate people do which is to say we can't attribute climate change to a single event as a causative factor because we've seen those kinds of events in the past. But there has been a fairly major scientific breakthrough now in climate science in the last few years where in the past and especially when I was modelling climate years ago you ran one climate model and you maybe took a day to get that done and maybe even exported out of the country to get it run. Today because of advances in science we can now run the same model not once but maybe a hundred or even a thousand times. And that gives us the capability now of running our climate models with pre-industrial levels of greenhouse gases for maybe 500 times and then running them again with greenhouse gases at present levels for 500 times and asking the computer how often do we get an extreme event like we've seen in Europe this summer occurring now as opposed to the past? And the figures that come up are really astonishing. We find that the probability of a heat event like we had this summer is 10 to 100 times more likely as a consequence of what we've done to the atmosphere. So the evidence is now overwhelming that we are now driving these extreme events and they're not simply natural events which would occur otherwise. And you know the people particularly maybe in southern England and eastern England if this becomes a regular event you know how they construct roads how they construct houses how many people would use say for instance you know climate control within the house and what have you you know it's not just an increase in temperatures and it's not just damage the environment but the entire infrastructure of a country would have to change presumably. They would indeed and you know that a lot of the infrastructure was based on calculations of past climate so for example in 1970 it was estimated that passing 40 degrees centigrade as a maximum was a one in 1000 year event. Today it's estimated that it's a one in 86 year event. So we have to adapt very quickly infrastructure. We have to think for example about architecture. Building glass fronted buildings may not make a lot of sense for office blocks in the future. We have to learn from what we've seen in Mediterranean countries as to how they cope with stone built buildings with smaller windows with shutters and things like that. But going beyond that of course we have to look at adapting in terms of flood control especially in Ireland where that's going to be our major problem. We have to look at adapting agriculture. We have to look at adapting power supplies especially because they are very temperature sensitive. So there's a whole range of societal changes involved and therefore adapting to climate change is a major issue and it's one which people will resist in the initial stages because of the complexity of it but it's one which if we want to remain a competitive country in the future we're going to have to do. And in the south of England which you mentioned there the temperature of the hottest summer day has been increasing by one degree every decade since 1960s. So today the hottest summer's day there is six degrees warmer than the hottest summer day would be in the 1960s and that gives you an indication of the trend we're on and how we do need to adapt our infrastructure quickly. All right there's lots of people including people with a lot of influence people present programs like these that would say sure what are you on about climate change? Look out your window it's pouring rain in 16 degrees there's no climate change you know and they deny it that way but you say we're not climate change is not going to affect this country like it might southeast England. Well a lot of people make a very mistaken I suppose mixing up of weather and climate it's 11 degrees in Donegal this morning that doesn't mean to say you're cooling down from last week it means that you're looking at very short term events and with climate we're looking at a trend which is well established from millions of records not just from a short snippet of a few days or a few weeks so you know looking at your window doesn't give you a feeling for what's going on what does give you a feeling is the trend for extreme events the number of flood events the number of heat waves and yes in Donegal we will you will find that you know you missed a lot of that Spanish plume last week it passed to the south by and large so you didn't get the heat wave that was affecting much of the rest of Ireland and much of southern England but that's not to say it won't happen in the future as it moves even further north with more climate change so you do have to be ready and you do have to be adapted for that as well. Yeah we've had this text in a few times from different people can you ask the professor how come 50 years ago the tar was melting on our roads every summer? Yeah that was weather it wasn't every summer I think people often have a rather misguided perception of the past we all remember the very hot days of our youth we think that the sunshine never stopped when we were growing up we don't remember the wet miserable days we spent looking out at the rain for day upon day upon day so yes you can't argue with thermometers and you know if you argue with the record for malin head for example you'll see the temperature changes that have occurred the sea temperature in malin head is now half degree warmer than it was 30 years ago the air temperature is almost a degree warmer so you know looking back on individual events individual weather events in the past is really just a denial of what's going on today. Okay professor listen I'd love to speak to you again when we have more time but for now thank you so very much You're welcome. Okay that was professor John Sweeney the climate change scientist at Maneuth University your text 08 660 25000 give us a call and 07 491 25000 lots of you messaging in and we'll be getting to those as this morning wears on but we're going to take a break now for the news and obituary notices stay with us and we'll be right back on this program This is Highland Radio News It's 10 o'clock Donald Kavanaugh at the Highland Radio News Desk New signs have been erected at Rathmunan beach following a dramatic rescue there last weekend Rory Creely saved the lives of three girls after they got into difficulty in the water the new signs worn of no swimming within 30 meters of the slipway the Kohiruk of letter Kenny Milford Ignisable District has confirmed an assessment of Rathmunan pier is also to be carried out and meeting scheduled with lifeguards Councillor Donald Kelly says it's imperative that people heed the warnings that are in place people that's not just fully aware of the maybe the reptiles and the currents along the pier there so and the legend that the signs have been erected now they make people more aware there's actually one sign that's going to be brought every morning there along the pier so it'll be dead in the view of the people as they go down there they make them aware to um they swarm within the flags 194 houses have been built, bought or acquired by Donegal County Council in the past two years the council says it's currently reviewing processes in relation to progressing future acquisitions given the uncertainty around defective blocks with more here's Donna Marie Doherty in response to a question from councillor Jerry McMonagall the local authority confirmed that 172 social homes have been returned in St Johnson, Letter Kenny, Newton Cunningham, Fulcara, Donegal Town, Bunkranah and Dunfanahi as well as two SI homes 22 properties were acquired under the House Acquisition Programme in 2020 in Letter Kenny, Bunkranah, Ballet Buffet, St. Orler, Donegal Town, Burton Port, Muff, Lifford, St. Johnston, Fulcara and Cary Gert the council says it is currently reviewing processes in relation to processing future acquisitions given the uncertainty around defective blocks the junior transport minister says the introduction of a cabin package transfer corridor between Donegal Airport and Dublin Airport has been a huge success since last month passengers flying from Donegal and then transferring onto another flight in Dublin no longer have to go through security in Dublin and they can go straight from the plane to the next gate Minister Hildegard Nocten says this is an indication of the importance of Donegal Airport as a strategic regional hub This new policy was introduced on the 8th of June which saw almost 700 passengers traveling from Donegal Airport benefiting from this new service This route between Donegal and Dublin is of critical importance to our strategic region connectivity and it's one that I and government is committed to safeguarding for the travelling public so this is a very positive step forward and I think something that is going to improve the passenger experience particularly those passengers traveling from the Donegal region Almost two thirds of Irish construction companies are struggling to recruit skilled workers Research conducted by Autodesk Construction Cloud found that the industry in the northwest was impacted as many employees returned to their home countries during the pandemic and that resulted in staff shortages when construction began again Brian Roach, the construction sales lead says companies are still struggling to fill vacant roles During Covid a lot of people you know particularly in the north and northwest a lot of people had to return to their home countries right you know they were over here on extended kind of periods of time when they were working as project managers and you know engineers and you know once once Covid shut all the sites down a lot of them they just had no choice but to return home so I think that alone left employers under a lot of pressure once the sites actually started to open up Ukraine's ambassador to Ireland will open this year's Begill summer school later today in Glenties Larissa Horasko will be one of a number of speakers at the Gathering which runs until Sunday The event is back in person this year at the Highlands Hotel The theme for the 2022 summer school is the destruction of Ukraine and its people the fallout for mankind And people are being invited to have their say on a major redesign of the market square in letter Kenny plans for letter Kenny 2040 re-imagined market square will see the area completely reformed into an in area with enhanced capacity for civic events and social purpose for people of all abilities and get it Clark is more Plans include the demolition and removal of the existing public realm environment of market square including the existing bandstand and adjoining embankment at rear steps, walls, trees, shrubbery and planting The project will then move to constructing a new public realm environment which we'll see a new shared surface two public plazas including a water feature new public seating lighting street furniture and cycle stands installed public art inclusive of letter Kenny 2040 brand logo and historical heritage and place related information will be put in place also while the existing rabble children sculpture will be relocated pedestrian civic spaces in the area will be enhanced by the removal of existing car parking loading bays and taxi ranks from within market square the closing date for submissions and observations to the proposed development is 4 30 p.m. on Monday September the 5th Well the forecast unmet air intelligence day mainly drive this morning with a few light showers quite cloudy though with limited sunny spells top temperatures today 15 to 17 degrees Celsius in mostly light northerly or variable breezes and that silent radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock good morning the obituary notice says for this Thursday morning July the 21st the death has taken place of Albert Lynch 93 Blaise Leigh and Derry funeral from his home on Saturday morning at 25 past 11 for 12 o'clock requering mass in the church of the Immaculate Conception Collet and term it afterwards in all scenes cemetery muting cunning him the mass can be viewed live via the church webcam family flowers only placed donations in the flowers of wish to Alzheimer's Society Seven Oaks Derry the death has occurred of Geraldine McLaughlin Ney Sweeney Clyde Bond Road Nock Nicarag Galway and formerly Fally Liffon at County Dunnegall her remains were proposed at her home in Galway on Sunday evening from 5 until 8 o'clock removal from there on Monday morning going to St John the Apostle Church Nock Nicarag to arrive for requering mass at 11 o'clock full by private cremation requering mass can be viewed on churchtv.ie family flowers only placed donations if desired to Galway Hospice the death has taken place of PJ McDade Maharanol Isle of Doe his remains are reposing at his late residence funeral leaving from there tomorrow afternoon a quarter past two going to St Mary's Church Club Manay for requering mass at 3 o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only placed donations if desired to Beech Hill Manor care of any family member or combscape funeral directors house private police from 11 p.m. to 10 a.m. funeral mass can be viewed live on church services.tv the death has taken place of Mary McCafferty Nae Kilday 304 Bally Coleman Estates Sturban and formerly of Newton Cunningham her remains are reposing at her home funeral from there to more morning a quarter past nine for requering mass in St Mary's Church Melmite at 10 o'clock and herment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations and lay of flowers placed to Marie Curie care of quickly funeral directors the requering mass can be viewed live by the parish webcam the death has occurred of Fintan Houston 11 Hillview Grove Lismonahan Eletter Kenny funeral from there this morning going to St. Junien's Cathedral for 11 o'clock requering mass which can be viewed on church services.tv all by commotion and Lakeland's crematorium cabin family time please before the funeral family flowers only please donations of wish to medical rehab letter Kenny University hospital care Pascal Blake funeral director the death has taken place of Liam Lynch Brickfield Court Derry funeral leaving his daughter Muriam's home six leaning gardens this morning at 20 past 10 going to St. Junien's Cathedral for requering mass at 11 o'clock with internment afterwards in St. Mary's Cemetery Artmore and the death has taken place of Sarah Kelly Nick Gallagher lower knock full of Ghidor originally from Mean Lara Gortahawk funeral mass this morning at 11 o'clock with internment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on Cure Naughty funeral directors Facebook page family flowers only please donations and leave to Donegal cancer flights and services Blake is private to family friends and neighbours for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to HighlandRidio.com okay welcome back to the second hour of the program good morning if you are just joining us so later on we're going to be in the garden with Paul so if you have any questions for him get in touch with us if you can right now 08 660 25000 you know the crack you'll talk about anything you'll be able to answer any few questions big pots plants they're the same thing are they lawns trees bushes all the usual stuff that's coming up after 11 also Declan Boner will be joining us after 11 as well so stay tuned for that amongst other things this caller says I'm not condoning ignorant drivers but some of the driving in this town is unbelievable people just tutoring about with nothing to do on that no particular hurry whilst the rest of us have work to get done nothing wrong with blowing the horn sir some people out in the road need waking up every now and again okay that's a horn blower there yes you tend to accelerate into or out of a roundabout and don't indicate properly if at all it's on page 4 of the wee booklet what sits idly in the glove box they even have a picture that comes in from Dez thanks Dez hey but you see there was an instant recently where I was pulling out of a junction and it's kind of a difficult to see junction I was edging my way out as carefully as I could and I hadn't really done anything wrong but another car was coming up past me in a 50 mile an hour zone 50 kilometer per hour zone and they were doing a minimum of 80 I would know that because you could you could tell and they were blowing the horn at me for edging out but if they would have been doing 50 it would have been fine or even less than 50 it's a limit not a target so sometimes people blow the horn at you when they themselves need to look at their own driving behaviour right why not look for a sensible female manager who would bring a new perspective to the game and maybe cut out the unnecessary thuggery that we see in a lot of gaelic games these days another we need to go after high quality manager that's been in all irelands before would love to see Jim McGinnis or Jim Gavin take the role but the county board need to press hard to get these high profile managers what about the kill car manager says another caller James Moore and is the man to get Donagall going again him and rochford would be a great team okay that's some of your suggestions coming in there right okay we've eaten more to get to but I'll put them in particular piles so I'm not jumping from climate change to Donagall managers to beeping your horn let's take a break for the bingo numbers it is jackpot day so it's not too late for you to go out and buy your book now if you wish to in your local retailer it's five euro for the week it is one euro per 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as i presume we want to pay tribute to declin for what he's given to the county he owes us nothing absolutely um i i i think um it's been well riced over the last 24 hours and he's been a very good farewell by county committee last night um he was appointed five years ago by county committee and uh he walked out to do all this uh his head held high last night um he first read it that he that he didn't really know the final issue but um i think he's giving it his his first shot he's giving it a good shot um people appreciate that and the lead gea people to like the county will know that um he served a huge apprenticeship uh from from 2009 and coming through with under 16 17 21 teams minor team about a minor team to allow and final in 2014 right through to senior and um would he would have liked to run a couple of other ones for tight guys and might be bought to clean for them but they bought to clean and um he's definitely has um left things in a very good state in the county um and it's time for him to walk to walk away and um and he can do that i think with price you talked about real gea fans there in your comments he referenced genuine uh gea fans um so presumably no coincidence both of you made that distinction what is to you a real gea fan versus a non real gea fan well i i think that um when you look at the structure of the gea and try to control and and we can only look at it in our own county we have 40 units 40 clubs throughout the county and everybody's um striving to have a quite a lot of talk about and what is the gea all about it's about introducing young people to and young teams activities which is a huge huge um emphasis within a kind of area and uh not that that's that from under six years old compared to and years ago when it was under 12 so we've got a lot of kids coming in around the six right sweet to other level and then that's a female and and and and and then you've got a holding community you know and and and and and we are intertwined and intermingled through and our facilities are our our infrastructure facilities have been upgraded on a ongoing basis not that that's a great pride to our communities great pride to be involved in the club area it's great pride to see development in on and uh kids being taken away from so many of these other magnets that they like they like to grow up and given them a spoken background and and a community um introduction and a part of where your club club is so we have a family say a family say a family of four traveled to clonus uh to to watch donnie gall they're not necessarily involved with their local club uh and maybe they're not happy with how the team uh played and the express that they're not real fans then is that what you're saying no i didn't say that well that's what i'm trying to get to that well so i've just thought there are people that are involved in that and you asked me about where the reason that there are people involved in here and i answered that there um there's that there are other people then that would only go to club matches and then there are other people that are not involved in clubs around their own area that would only follow the country to so there's a mixture there's a mixture of everything there are people away i'm living outside of the country that there's all these people that are living in other countries and make their homes away from them as well but still support them as well and would you miss your country now so that's another area on another uh match to the league but the majority are to the proper structure of the club area and then you've got the negative people that are out there that are as if you social media as a way of just getting stuff off the chest and sort of their experts and everything except get them down with it and then you know and you have to accept the mix and society you know and you've got to manage it best and you've got to understand this and i appreciate positivity in my life and positive misery around me and i appreciate positive people and their constructive people and negative people and and winners and and you can't do much about those there's a lot of them out there but the vast majority of people that support anything in life we look at at a balanced view of where it is and the second border walks away last night from the position of same five years in charge of the biggest dog sporting organization named in in the country yes and it's done a good job the majority of people who say yeah okay make your slight it's like more thought there if you could maybe i don't know if it's the line or if the receiver if you just move it's just slightly closer to your mouth it's just slightly more fold and all people will be interested in what you have to say make and so okay that's perfect thanks make so now in terms of appointing a a new manager you are going to assemble or have assembled a three person team and clubs can nominate what is the process there do the the panel select from the nominations or do they take that on board and maybe even pursue their own candidates and then come up with some sort of a final decision how does the process work make well the process works if we're given but we go to the clubs which we did do last night that we met let the clubs last night in dept or spoke to the club once he left the room i i outlined to the to the delegates representing the clubs that were the after meeting that we would take nominations from themselves if there's somebody living in any particular catchment area throughout the country it's interesting and for coming forward from interview to feel that they're capable of doing the job and would be interested in the job and they can get their club to nominate them now the three person committee that will be selected to do the interview and will be will be people that be high-part skin for people not knowledgeable in sports science former management um whatever whatever the terms and conditions of skills that are required will definitely be included in that interview panel they then will have the choice of deciding who they would recommend to back to the credit committee for appointment and the reasons why they selected that person um and um you know the a lot of names been been um equity around the county but uh when you come down to talking and and approaching these people that not all might be interested um so they've got the opportunity to um to to democratically come forward now and and go and get an interview if there's somebody at terms of wishes that to happen so we're doing it in a democratic unfair as far away as we can yeah we're seeing how other other teams are doing it and how we're doing it as well but you know we kind of need deep pockets in this day and age to compete at the the top level and you know prospective candidates might come back and say well yeah i'd be interested but this is what i need you know from from the county board like do we have the resources to attract the the the the the most ambitious of of of candidates you know that might want to sort of uh adopt even more so some of the the training techniques the nutrition and everything else that goes along with this elite sport now like will the county board do you think have to dig a little bit deeper well we'll have to see the candidates that are that are interested in applying uh number one um we will also have to see what what we can sustain um financially um within the structure of of of of we are going with the budget so um we will be reporting back to our own county committee we just can't go out there and like make a crazy financial commitment that maybe isn't sustainable so no we we use a lot of sensible approach to it and Mick we heard from from uh Declan yesterday i think he indicated he'd prefer to see the next manager from within the county can you as chair express a few in that regard i would with with our respect to anybody that has uh come into demigod in the last number of years from other counties um my own wish would be that we we should be sustainable within our county right through from bottom to top that's not always possible um that the people that that maybe uh are not available uh you know people that don't come forward uh for indeed a specific area that we might not have the proper quality in and let's remember the most important fundamental thing where the parents have been used like you know they're used to the to the uh the structure of the doubt with professional and even with an amateur sport that the professional in their preparations and they expect a certain level you know of of of expertise and skinny people around them and 50 people are not available in demigod and sometimes you have to go outside the county and that's that's what we might have been afraid to do but i would like to of course would like to see uh of following a structure where we can develop and educate people right through from where we are at the moment they've been in uh started two years ago building an uh an academy within the county that's an academy in another one teaching our younger players how to play the game with a level we want to play but also the coaches coming forward the medical background what we need the sports science people the certain conditions people are not on the social of the community for the future and are on the social of the building and we go back to a level that we want them to be at that's what that's what we have to do balancing that right is not always easy no we have to try to do it and do you see the role of the new team coming in uh headed by the manager as sort of continuing the the the journey started by Declan bono or do you believe maybe the county team uh is we're going into a a period of of rebuilding you know maybe rebuild and reorganizing in other words the fans need to manage their expectations as well um well i think that's a very good point Greg i think that sometimes in in in general the fans expect maybe more from the team than what the team can deliver and it could be fair to the team that they're trying their best to win every day to go out and it's not always possible and we also have to play to a certain style to the best of their strengths and that's been very voiced by previous managers not just Declan Bono and um and i'm not talking normally but the style of playing that that was all a play that was always pleased with the player and that is certainly being voiced and it won't work out to the uh to the voice that that has come out over the last number of years i suppose that that there has been too much uh not only playing it's just been too much defensive play but um you know there's not enough a lot a lot wrong with uh getting who knows the thing is it's been really, really important to play and when you lose and get a point to play it i can be very pushed i think for everybody involved um and i i think that people you know you have to bring in a new manager and however you want to play um a different type of type of football is is uh restricting him to what he might want to be so but again he's got to get the balance right and i think that if we get him to get to senior team to play one particular way and they're on the ridge might be playing a different way so i think there's a connection with our academy that they're on the ridge team has to come from right from the bottom three but the spelling that we're playing in the county is very important that we get that staying common way through from underage to the senior level and so depending on what you're doing now then you have to put the challenge ahead don't get everybody involved i don't know how to ask this question sensitively and you can just disregard it if you think i'm talking nonsense but you know obviously between working here and previously done at north west radio it seems historically there can be camps within the gea you know of influence influential people and you know they can be happy with a manager or they can be unhappy with a manager and even from the get go sometimes there can be a little bit of back channeling or or sniping and i'm not talking necessarily about fans i'm on about maybe people who've got strong involvements in the games or had in the past do you recognize that that is a thing and would you like to see us maybe try and unite as a county at all levels behind whomever might take her take over this job going forward i think if i'm being honest which i will be there are always people that are sniping in the background and for different reasons and i i think that you have to be above that and you have to accept that it's there and no more than negativity you've got to accept that there's a certain amount of it there and you must manage that but you must be above us on that planet affect you and you must concentrate on the job that you take involved with a set of administration level manager managing teams or playing on the field and the majority of the supporters and you know appreciate the work that's going on appreciate the efforts that players and managers put in and appreciate following them we go on in bad times as well as the good times and um there are bad times the good times and the good times are good and the bad times are bad and that's simply too easy words to understand and i think that i go back to the first point that i made that this is a part this is about bringing forward you know from under sixes right through to senior levels and i'm getting the green and gold and the gold strikes flying again and um it's a great opportunity for a new manager to come in now to bring his own stamp to us i don't think we should be telling a new manager how to run this approach he would be told very very quickly by everybody involved in this play that's clear and everybody that's connected and there's no problems even on himself and he's got things going right or he's not he's not got things going right so um that that's what he's got he's got to be a bold uh you know checking criticism something like that he's got a hundred constructive criticism of the others uh the clap from the back and um you know the it's a huge you know it's probably the biggest sport in the other country going to go on and obviously going to go on senior property so it's important that the we've got the right person it's important that the right person come forward and all the compromises that have to be according to the aspect of being put in to the proper process will have to be put in and we will have to handle the things that are in the interview in the confining decisions of appointments so um i think that's a very very important to restore pride into it all and to really entusiasm back into it because it's going to go again and that's what we're going to try to achieve yeah i mean we want to see all the flags out if we're in an Ulster final now it's almost like well the flags don't come out or in a a semi or something very finely make um what's the time frame on this like um when do we have to have a manager appointed uh manager appointed uh and when would you like to see a manager appointed well if i maybe start answer the first part first our first next group out of the game is meant to be January or next year and um so our pre-season normally starts in there and um again the beginning of October when we'll be putting fellas um in the squad um uh in maybe in the end of September beginning of October into strength conditioning programs so they come back in training on on the field in a group um probably in November and beginning of November middle of November uh whenever whenever our data's all right i think we've uh lost me i'm not sure if that line is going to return for us uh no it's not unfortunately sorry about that but i don't think we can get that question off there rather than i don't make it like everyone's very busy this morning uh some of your comments michael murph your maxi corrin either of those two would be ideal candidates for the job of donagall manager another caller said one man uh donagall ga need now to get to back to big time is mickey heart uh what interesting uh that would be an interesting proposition the first time i've seen his name associated uh with the job with all the speculation and stuff that i've been reading hi greg sure yourself would make a great donagall manager i think what they're suggesting there is that be by me asking uh questions that in some way i think i'm qualified uh no of course i'm not uh right we are a family of four and attended every donagall match except the one in clonus cost is a big factor at the moment and four p.m kickoff a bit too late may i add i have tickets from the donagall match that will cancel due to covid and was not uh and was unable to get a refund okay uh let us take a break we'll come back uh we'll come back with uh more of your uh comments too on uh sean was on talking about his uh his uh well 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sponsored by mckennas central boncran and service station drawn quickly's point okay um frankie joins us on the program now good morning to you uh sorry frankie good morning good morning right now um you've mentioned you've mentioned your qualifications here we're talking about climate change um you studied archaeology and dendro chronology yeah well i i can tell you i'm no by no means no leading expert and i i did study a diploma in archaeology and through that course i took an interest in dendro chronology which is the study of uh tree rings you know when they they got tree yeah the bog like bog they can you know place them a half and walk out by the rings you know what kind of the weather was back and searching a time if you i'm trying to dumb it dumb it down you know what i mean yeah captures the various rings captures some elements of that year and we can read from that timeline it yeah yeah now the only the only thing that they can't tell you if i say if there was a downturn and growth whether it was a drought or a deluge you know whether it was too much water or too much some they can't tell you that but they can't tell you the downturn and growth but this has happened many times through their studies there's a fellow professor there and queens university bill fast mike bailey i think isn't it and he wrote you know he's really the the daddy of dendro chronology and like i remember reading a bit about how that he wrote and you know during through the years different times when the earth has gone through serious downturn and growth and things like that now even i'll try and be brief here but even while i live in boncana i live about say 50 meters from the beach so there's a fan on there loading and when my house is built right you'll go down so if you're out with your spade you go down and you dig with your spade about say i fought 18 inches down that's all and then you'll come on sand like the beach just like beach sand you're and if you keep on going down there was other houses spoke around about and i remember there was a jcb and begging and for some reason they'd be going down whatever they were putting on a tank or something and below the sand was peep which is another set so my point is the tide has been on and out and on and out you know a few times already and the only scientists that seem to be entertained by the national media are those who well you know say we're causing us this has never been seen before this is you know am i making sense no i get you frankie but the thing is is the the the scientific view is so overwhelming right there's always going to be people with a difference of view but they are tracking currently you know the changes to this planet using trends since industrialization in other words when we started having our impact of course we've cut down many many trees we've we there's not there's no need for cows in this country other than to to to rare them for milk and food they're not they're not you know they're not natural to this country they look at the temperatures in the water over the last hundred years they look at the average temperatures in different part of the world they look at the unusual weather events that are happening with the frequency that they're happening now nothing like the record book show was happening last century and and i suppose when they jumble all that together the only conclusion can be that we as a as a human race all of us are contributing to the deterioration of it just the exact same way if we lived in the house and neither of us cleaned or whatever that the house would fall into deterioration i mean that's what they're saying but you'll do you believe they're wrong frankie well well i i believe and given both sides of the story you see and there numerous scientists i'll give you one example you know the organization green peace you know you're familiar with green peace i'm just yes yes hello sorry i thought it was a rhetorical question yes of course i am yep sorry sorry right i'll just finish what i'm going to say here um the the founder of green peace a fellow called patrick murr he's even calling out the thing and and saying that they're pushing one side of this thing they're not telling the full picture even the likes of what he called the guy who's on every sunday on the bbc the guy does the nature programs you know his voice david iber that's the guy even him he says what he he has a contact of them that they're photoshopping images on that thing but one more we think because i better get back i just want to ask if any scientist there's something that people seem to be forgetting god doesn't come into the picture and i am not the best uh the person to be speaking home religion but take for instance our lady she appeared in fatima back in 1917 and she appeared every month from the 13th day of every month for a few months right and she the regals or the youngsters after the people aren't believing us could you give us a sign you know and she says if you come here in october the 13th i'll give them a sign well the people turned up in their tens of thousands and she produced the thing that's known as the miracle of the sun where the sun danced about that the there was torrential rain everyone was drenched next thing the sun come out and within seconds everyone was bone dry and it danced about in the sky but like after stuff people are they don't want to know about this let's try and explain that yeah are they saying that that being said that yeah but that being said yeah i would never try and disprove that because that's what people believe and and if they want to believe that and that's up to them and people who go out of the way to disprove that tens of thousands of people no i'm not i'm genuinely not trying to and as i say i wouldn't have much time for people that were trying to just disprove that happening but i mean if if we're bringing god into it right you know what god has created here right and how he wanted this world to be there's no doubt that man is destroying this planet you know by destroying each other by creating an environment that the creatures that god created are becoming extinct at rapid numbers like i mean i could go with you along in that one but then when it would get to the point whereby well is climate change a thing that's when you you might you might pull back i'm not putting words in your mouth and say well it's not really if you listen to other voices in other words like you can't do you disagree sorry that we were given a gift if you believe in god we were given a gift right as as perhaps god wanted to be intended and particularly in the last couple of hundred years we've done everything we can to destroy it all right but what's all this wee business you know what i mean it's the royal wee but you know what i'm on about no no but that's that's that's industry the big billionaires made the world the way it is everyone using oil and everybody using and now in the system they want to control everybody you know i'll be quite honest with you like to be optimistic and all that there but there's a part of me island was the first world of the god and the great creation and all that there and it's the first nation in the world to actually remove the right to life by a vote you know all the countries that are by the government that are the people in island voted like oh what chance have we uh you know what i mean where yeah when it starts getting and we could go back over that again but of course then it's the right right a woman's right and her right to life and her right to choose and i get that frankie but you know we could go back and forward and that but one final point i'll ask of you and i know you're busy okay everyone is and i'll keep saying that this morning but i appreciate it if what what what are we listening to what do we need to hear from other sciences scientists in other words frankie are you of the view that climate change isn't a thing that these are natural changes that in other words this planet will be here for future generations that it will also sort itself out do you believe there is no role within man as the scientists that we had on earlier saying to try and protect this earth you think this earth there's nothing going on there's nothing going wrong that this is just cyclical or cyclical or whatever that word is is that what you if that's what is that what you want to hear from the other scientists no what what i'm i'll tell you that this is my opinion of mine it wouldn't matter tomorrow morning if everybody stopped switched off their cars and that the planet is going to go through its cycle whatever and if there's been damage done by us somewhere along the way then the damage is done it's going to go through scientists cracking repair in the planet now it goes back to the thing they think they want to exclude the maker of the planet cut that demands and control you know but sure but we're not doing god's work in what we're doing to this planet i mean we're destroyed you know we we are what we're doing and you saw the how how some we how quick we saw how when everyone was in lockdown uh that you know emissions went down and had a positive impact and all that there like what i can't i if we're bringing god into it and you are surely what we're doing is is in no way the will of god it couldn't be because he created this thing and even even if we take our we've we've literally got rid of all of the net and all of the natural trees here wolves bears nothing could ever be we as humans why did you put trees on our land for us to cut down not to make wood just to burn and put up not to make wooden houses because we don't you know what i'm on about like so if you're talking about god surely we should be talking about well let's return our land to the to what god probably intended yeah well i mean there was one single message i don't know if you look i i'd be fascinated with these operations through the world and what she told the various people that are leading are leading what she told various people while she was speaking to them and the one message she would say about this is common and that is common and bishops will lead the flock astray she didn't want to mention climate change but what what she did say was do you know i know how you can reverse all this say the roger every day and we're still you know we can't seem to get one more viewpoint just see on science um we saw what happened during a perfect example do you know during the covid pandemic and all any doctor any scientist who questioned the thing found themselves out of the job now the same thing happens in climate science if you're not playing the game you will suddenly find yourself out of a job or you won't get funding etc etc you know all these things though are interlinked really frankly the things that you've mentioned because really what you know and it's fine and it's your point of view but you you maybe you subscribe to the the great reset and the the the agenda 2030 2040 that really uh the covid climate change you know uh um the right to life all of that you probably do you believe and i'm not it's it's fine if you do i'm not it's not an accusation but you probably believe that in some way it's all interlinked maybe even the removal of of cash that that all of this is part of yeah for sure yeah okay what do you see of course i do that yeah yeah and that's fine i'm not questioning that but it's you see it's it's part of it and a lot of people subscribe to it it's part of it a different a different way of thinking and i i understand that and i respect it frankly it's your point of view and i appreciate your time this morning all right do you feel do you see is there anything you want to add by the way i don't want you to feel i'm cutting you off is that if there's something that you want to add just as you go like not not not not really but like the family there's another thing the the farmers in holland and now it's germany et cetera et cetera actually hasn't reported on at all the things been going on for five weeks that the farmers have been forced to bring in these you know cut their cut their cow numbers move off the land plant their land and miss that and the other you know let it go wild and the same thing's happening here look at no one's getting no one's getting the news of heart no one's getting the news of heart you listen people are on twitter people are on facebook people are on telegram i mean you know like yeah i think frankie i've got you there like i i don't i think people often say well rt's not covering it who cares if rt you cover it i haven't watched rt in in 10 years i don't know what they're covering or what but there's a whole but there's a there's a whole generation who get the news from my feet not under probably not under 30 well fair enough all right frankie anyway good to talk to you thanks for your time take care of 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quinn chair of the dromore holster flaw good morning to you hugh thanks for joining us thank you very much how are you keeping not too bad it's very exciting isn't it um looking forward to the uh event some sure yeah well the flaw started last weekend 17th to the 21st it's the 21st okay i thought this was like next week i i was off a week and i've lost a week right so how's it been going so it's been going very well so we started on sunday night what's the top some of the top musicians in the islands of which you could say the hidden cahill hidden steven hidden and came out out and then monday night with an irish night and last night with a kelly bands of ulster night and all night all those nights were all wiped houses so we're building up really to the conclusion of events aren't we when does it end the sunday the 24th so this weekend then is the culmination as things weekend yeah tonight with a huge concert tonight ulster coltas orchestra it's a suite of music composed by michael rooney and it's on tonight in the sports hall and some more and they're expecting five six hundred people brilliant that'll be a huge night yeah what else is happening and tomorrow evening is the opening parade vintage car car and tractor parade and barns marching barns and then we have a gig rig on the street we have the blackwater kelly barn playing and we have also the whistle and donkeys brilliant act joe gibson's also with us uh who's going to be playing guitar for us joe um tell us about uh the the the feel of this event you know for those who attend some of these events that are coming up coming what's some of the highlights for you yeah so as a huge suggestion is saying there that um yeah there's lots of events happening but one of the things i would like to point out is that dremors are a lovely small town and one of the benefits like on legality kenny it's quite easy to cut off the streets so they're actually going to cut off all the streets and tickle with the town so if you want that festive summer atmosphere or music all over i would highly recommend really family friendly to really found because you're going to have i mean you know shawna you know about that you know you're coming in and the young ones are playing and and coltas is really about everyone's playing and joining and not just the professionals even though we have tons of professionals playing at the ulster flower and fantastic concerts but during the day you'll see kids playing with but that's what it's all about exactly it's one of those sports genres sport genres music have been talked about duckling bone all day it's one of those music genres are that they work very well together don't they you know people with experience and a love of music want to share it and they get a great buzz from seeing young people picking up their instruments for the first time and working together yeah of the culture you know it's a wonderful tradition uh Hugh um have you had your highlight so far this year or what are you looking forward to oh the highlight of the flower is that when you're yeah well the highlight or maybe you're too busy to enjoy that could be a thing haven't had a minute all week but my highlight of the flower is always music on the street yeah and we we put a big effort into have music sessions on the street as Joe says we can close off the street and we can i remember we had the Ulster flower back in 2014 and 15 and we had musicians in the very middle of the street and surrounded by people thousands of people in 2014 and 15 at the Ulster flower so it's a great success all right so um talking about some of the events coming up here um friday the 22nd saturday the 23rd and sunday the 24th focusing on the competitions uh i presume the entrance are selected at this point yeah they've all come through from the county flowers in Ulster all right and it's good to see ready Ulster broadcasting live from the event as well it's good to see the back end it's nice to get that the blackwater kaley band uh home coming from them as all island champions as well they're playing on saturday and raid walls has a cd launch and there's music and everything all right so what am i missing here anything joe that you need to re-emphasize or i don't think you're really missing but i can't emphasize enough i mean you have nine counties in Ulster and they're all coming together and all especially like the best that have competed in the county levels they're all going to arrive this weekend they're going to compete but they're not going to just go home they're going to stay find this spot in the street and play so if you're dawson about this weekend you're looking for something really interesting to watch and go and see i would highly recommend it and you're planning a park and you just land up will be clear where you can park and then you just walk into the the town it's a very accessible town once you get yourself settled on the outskirts just get on hoof it in and just find yourself a wee corner to be well worth it all right hu anything you want to add before we get some music no i just want to welcome everybody to the flower this weekend i hope to see thousands of people there and they'll be all made welcome and i think people particularly maybe families you know also or individuals that you know maybe running out of things to do this is something that's uh will really while away the weekend for them all welcome exactly no it's clear it sounds uh it's a really friendly place anywhere i've been there before right okay so we're going to hear some music now you heard from joe he's speaking as well but he's going to be on the guitar majella mccarron on the accordion shona mcgarries on the fiddle she's the youth representative and that kind of ties into what we were talking about at the this is a multi-generational thing as well uh and what are you playing joe what are we playing shona we're playing two jigs uh one is subtle the pony and the other one is my darling asleep right we'll take it away when have you so ready guys fantastic stuff all together and that's just a sample of what people can enjoy in dromore uh things happening from this evening right through to sunday gigs in bars gigs out in the street as you've heard there uh if people want to find out all we've been talking about you know maybe they want to plan when they visit uh dromore if they can't stay there all weekend can you can they find out information online or where can you get that Ulster Coltas website UlsterColtas.ie it's all on the website and you get it all there fantastic stuff c-o-m-h-i-l-t-i-s c-o-m-h-i-l-t-i-s Coltas right okay and come here what about I know tourists will plan to come but what about the ones that just happen on it because you know we forget sometimes that people coming here want to sense the culture and you know the real uh campsites are a lot of campsites there's a complete island of campsites excellent okay brilliant stuff all right thank you all four of you it's been loving how lovely having you in studio you heard from Hugh Quinn the chair of the Dromore Ulster Flair Joe Gibson on guitar there of course and you heard from Shona McGarion-Fiddle and also Majella McCarran on accordion and we thank all four of you for coming in it's really appreciated thank you and enjoy the rest of the uh rest of the weekend thank you very much okay it is uh two minutes past 11 it's time for news update and we say good morning now to Michaela Clark thanks Greg good morning the foreign affairs minister is holding talks with storm and parties in Belfast today Simon Coveney is meeting the UUP Shun Fian at the SDLP and Alliance but not the DUP because its leader Jeffrey Donaldson is in London the party is still boycotting power sharing over the northern Ireland protocol which is now a step closer to being partially dismantled by Westminster a clinical doctor says the consequences of leaving people without home help services can be very serious over 1.8 million hours of home help will be lost out on this year staff shortages in the HSC has led to a shortfall in the service in 2022 additional signs have been erected at Rathmollen Beach following a dramatic rescue there last weekend Rury cruelly saved the lives of three girls after they got into difficulty in the water the new signs warn of no swimming within 30 meters off the slipway a denigal deputy says the suspension of visa-free travel is another bad move by government last week the government announced that it is to temporarily require refugees traveling to Ireland from safe European countries to hold visas Swamp Park will officially reopen today a 2.3 million year restoration project has been completed after the popular immunity was extensively damaged by floods in august 2017 the junior transport minister says the introduction of a cabin baggage transfer corridor between denigal airport and Dublin airport has been a huge success since last month passengers 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former senior football team manager the men's manager deckland boner thanks very much for joining us deckland this morning i really appreciate it we all appreciate it yeah no problem right okay so how much thought has went into this how long we're thinking about it and how tough a decision was it for you listen that's probably been on the mind over the last 12 months to be quite honest you know it's been a difficult it's a demanding job number one so basically if i go back i've been involved with the underage system from 2012 so it's 10 years right through from 16s to 17s and minus 21 and then five years with seniors so it's been 10 years non-stop and you know probably right in the middle of that there at senior level yet you had the covid and the pandemic and that was a difficult period so you know what i felt yeah i was going to do one more year and um you know ultimately i would have like to uh went out on a higher note by wanting also this year but it wasn't to be and there's an ultimately at that sport and sometimes you know as managers you don't go out you don't get out on a high two off that's for sure do you think people underestimate the level of commitment to job like this requires those i'm not sure i mean really you know yeah i think so listen to that it's a full time job uh Greg to be quite honest i've been very fortunate that i had a full support of my family and that time would have suffered and also you know my work uh i work for a wine company for the last 20, 25, 26 years some later wine you know they were supportive and only for that it's very very demanding and uh i think 24 seven because there's not a minute of every day that goes by because you're dealing with a lot of people you're dealing with uh the players number one the most important people are the players uh you're pretty odd players in the squad you're dealing with management the 20 of a management you know you're dealing with the county board you're dealing with media a lot of stuff that goes on on a daily basis but listen it's something that i knew when i went into that uh it was going to be the man but i just enjoyed every minute of it uh working with a great bunch of people and uh yeah lots of great times uh things have changed over uh the years though uh even maybe more you know with the advent of social media uh and i don't know if that's what you're referencing in in your comment last night talking about you know genuine fans i suspect it was um has that made a job like this more more difficult maybe not for you but i presume those around you have access to this trash that be written on social media constructive criticism and hard working fans i presume you don't mind them having their say but some of it can be really nasty you know and personal uh is that something listen it's most let me start by saying of course we have some brilliant supporters and dunningall absolutely and i know a lot of people i've been involved in dunningall football now since going back to 1980 when i played county minors at 15 year old and you know i've been involved i think over 30 odd years and um in all capacities what what what dunningall football playing and and i've been very very fortunate quite honest uh greg i've been you know in a privileged position to manage and play for dunningall at all levels and you know that's a privileged position to be in and uh yeah things have changed from the last time i was man of no doubt about that there but again i was well aware coming into the job that uh what goes on out there as i said we have brilliant brilliant supporters and dunningall where i got brilliant support from all the clubs but yeah i don't get involved in the social media end of it but i do naturally enough i have a family i have um uh young adults that that are involved and you know that comes back so listen it's there it's not nice but uh and it's something probably needs to be looked at and maybe taken control of and uh i know just mentioned at the county committee meeting this night after i after i left but listen it wouldn't have been part of my decision to finish up that's for sure i mean obviously you have access to everything about the team the players you know what where they're at in terms of their form their fitness whatever and and you have to look at the opposition you send a team out there and you will only send a team out there to play a certain way that you think will give the team the best chance of winning i presume that's what uh management is uh there was a bit of frustration among some fans uh to dunningall style of play what do you say to that what can you give us an insight into that that maybe that we don't know uh definitely that i presume it's not just as simple as playing as you know a group of fans might want can you give us a bit of an insight into into sort of decision making and and why decisions would be made you don't have to go into great detail but i think it'd be an interesting insight daklan yeah there's a couple of games this year that you know we got criticized for it and listen if you look back over the five-year tenure we won also in 2018 2019 and that's probably you know in those years uh we played really good attack and football i think if you go back in the records i think we scored i think the highest score at the nolster final in the game and that was in the 2019 final uh against calvin i think it was 226 we ended up like the highest scores and and the champ's football that season uh you know within that there you have a look at you know we had players of the caliber in terms of our defensive uh caliber of lexicon paddy mcgrath uh neil mcgee neil mcgee was playing at the time well at that stage you'd thank mcglenn yet abney thompson leo mcglenn you'd all those defenders that were really really good defenders and but with a lot of young attack and uh talent and we used that down through the year we lost those guys we haven't probably really replaced those quality defenders so we have to you know if one thing's going at one end you have to watch and how you defend at the other end that's probably the balance that we get it right but probably the fact that we've lost and also finalists you would say maybe we didn't get it right but if i would was to go into nolster final tomorrow playing against deri and i haven't watched um deri play against her own and monad and really played him off the park would kind of attack and football then we had to watch and match and murder what they had what they were doing gal we've done it in the 70s down and the only difference was when gal we got ahead of very they really uh dropped at home and got the scores at the right time we didn't do that we were two points over 10 months ago and that's probably the biggest disappointment is that we didn't kick down and get scores at that stage you go on to one of the match so listen that's as much really as i can say about it you know yeah i get that and just talk about finally and we'll finish on positive stuff talking about the criticism is there just criticism come from any quarters not just for you but for the next manager whoever that might be that is particularly annoying or distracting maybe you know those within the game i don't know i kind of put it to mcmigra earlier on that sometimes there can can be camps in this county and that maybe we all need to be pulling in in the one direction behind a manager is there anything to that is that a particular annoyance when you're trying to get a team prepared for big games yeah yeah i mean there's plenty of people out there that have all the answers when when the when the games are over and that including probably ex players you know now is the time there's opportunity there now for those guys who feel that they know and they have all the answers to go and take on the job it's a huge job but also it's a job that i said myself that you know i wasn't probably positioned to be in that over the years i think it's a really brilliant job to get into for somebody there now that as i say the guys walking in and media some of them in local media that have answers and let's go out there now let's put your name forward and that going back to the social media end of it Greg listen yeah as i said it has to be it has to be dealt with in a way i think maybe even at county committee level because it's people within clubs within this county that uh criticisms coming out i know some of them are unnamed in terms of one of the way so i don't actually know how social media works that well but i know people say yeah they're nameless some of them but some people do have their names on they're coming from clubs within this within this county but you know as i say for me leaving after five years what the group that our players they've been have to say thank you to all those involved players and managers they give huge huge commitment huge effort uh over over the five years as i said yeah we had our good days and also we had our disappointments in that you know as i say that is sport yeah and there's been a huge outpouring of love and gratitude towards you it's been coming in to us here Declan across social media on various posts i'm sure you're getting it personal the general messages thanks for everything that you've done uh yo the county nothing uh and as i say maybe it'd be nicer sometimes if a lot of this praise uh comes while you're actually the manager but there's there's tons of it out there uh today and i think i think yeah i think it's like everything else you know i was saying when i finished up playing that hobby and you know 10 years after i finished playing i was probably about i was ten times the pair i was when i was actually playing and you probably more more gratitude when it's all over but you know i'll just go back and briefly on our story when it took on the job forced him the first meeting i had with the players and you know people probably don't see that side of it uh i would have been very very close with Pat Shoblin and Pat Shoblin uh would have been part of my background doing under 21 level and i had him at the first management meeting even though i knew he was over well and Pat was the goalkeeping coach and i was going in to meet the players for the first time it was in the sandhouse in ross now in october 2017 and just as i was coming in the meeting was arranged like for two o'clock that afternoon um i got the word that Pat had passed away and you know it was a difficult meeting i didn't let the players know or anything like that but i had to go through that meeting so that was a very forced meeting with those senior players when i went in so that was a difficult start to the rain you know but uh you know i did this christie and the and the boys are doing well but you know i felt he was always looking down on us all right that's a lovely thing and very very finally Declan i think you expressed last night that you would like to see the manager from within the county i hope not misquoting you i mean you're a fan as much as the manager is there someone or or or two people or three that you would like to say you know what have a crack at it maybe the time is right for you now let's never love you know what did then he got posted i'm just that you know i'd be passionate about always have been uh you know and i would love to see someone within the i think they are a number of individuals that are capable of going in there and i'm not going to name don't you know i would love that right i would love that i would love them to put their names forward and you know as i said as i said last night the media and the county committee i'll go back supporting the team and that's going to be you know hopefully 2023 there's a great group of players there you know those guys really work hard and they're passionate about playing football for dunny and listen i'm looking forward to just stand back and watch the side links now and 2023 and under the future right i know you're very busy anyway and you're going to continue to be busy but hopefully you're slightly less busy and unable to enjoy the life because you've given so much of your life over the last number of years to to dunny goal so thank you deckland and the very best of luck with everything in the future no problem thank you great take care that's deckland bono there the former manager of the dunny goal team loading at ballet brit and they're all best friends tip and bookies favorite are quick out the gates oh no each way bankers been pulled up and dad's advice takes a fall as new binoculars comes into focus it's anyone's race down the home straight it looks like a photo finishes on the cards selfie absorb was close but best friends tip nips are at the post for our most comprehensive go away races coverage pick up your go away punter racing supplement for y'all next week with the irish independent up close and independent the jive time show is coming live 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marriage and another for a couple just starting the very first day today if you need any tips what you can contact with tom and agnes they're doing it right it seems and also uh just uh an announcement there's a you lost in the creasel area have you seen a you yo um get in touch with us and we'll get you in touch with its owner all right let's take some gene pitney okay uh there he is that's uh gene pitney there right let's get on to some of your comments here uh seen as so many if you took the time to text in today uh the cows are very valuable in this country less cows is less meat and milk and this will lead to more cost to the country big knock on effects it's also useful to get the kids out when they go back to school to go to the farm they're farming families who rely on the selling of calves to cover their back to school costs by the way i'm a huge supporter and advocate of the farming industry what i was saying was and if that's in reference to that um frankie was referencing you know um god's will and what have you and i'm just saying that you know we we introduced an animal and it's a very valuable animal and valuable to us that you know and we've made other changes that uh maybe that's all will uh how are the co2 levels measured in farms my husband is a farmer and has never been asked to monitor or record any data interesting how do they determine i understand they probably can um in the atmosphere determine what methane emits from the front or back of a cow versus uh and other source i think that's how they conclude that uh the blame on agriculture has increased significantly in recent years greg of course some reductions should be made to help the situation but it won't be the big uh cow farms nothing will be said to them it'll be the small suckler herd or the cow dairy herd that will be pinned take the family farm that's the weight is and has always been yeah indeed i i think you're right there i think it is a move to you know consolidate have maybe a smaller number of big farmers and get rid of uh the small farmer the same ways they try and get rid of the the the small turf cutter they tried that failed so far climate is a change since the beginning of time we just adapt ever here if the ice age etc just get on with life when are we going to realize that man can't control this world there is a higher power out there so we just get on with life but it's is it not our we are controlling the earth because it's not what we are doing that's accelerating the demise of the the planet um good morning greg what people fail to understand is there shouldn't be any ice at the poles the ice has been melting since the end of the ice age i'm living by the coast all my lives and i've seen no sea rise they say greg my four-year-old car just failed the nct for number plates that is the plates were on the car when i bought it brand new from the garage i'm fuming it's a money making disgrace nothing wrong with my car mechanically 20k only done lily that's a like what's wrong with them are they the what did they say was wrong with your plates um because that's it's and it's not just the cost it's your time to how do you put a cost on your time uh dj on facebook says greg why do you always bring it back to conspiracies i never mentioned conspiracies by the way uh it's a it's a way of thinking i'm not saying it's a conspiracy it's up to people if they if that's what they think um i was just saying that it's not in frankie's instance i was only pointing out and i gave him plenty of time to respond and i didn't try and i wasn't trying anything on it's part of a it's his view is part of a wider way of thinking you can call it conspiracy if you wish dji i never called it conspiracy uh that's just there is a growing or albeit i don't know what size it is of people that believe that it's part of a of a wider agenda how else do you reference that i never used the word conspiracy i'm afraid or if i did i apologize i don't recall using it wasn't my intention uh hi greg i'll get windows clean grass cut and other wee jobs about the house don and i pay in cash i just hope our politicians start showing action instead of taking talking and that let our society go cashless as we lose our independence well uh pierce daugherty is touted by many as being the next minister for finance and he says that it's his view that it is that the the central bank sees cash is a very valuable uh commodity and one which it which is to protect and let's say he is uh the next hope isn't he is the finance minister uh we are a family of four and attended every donagore match i think i've read that one actually sorry um would it be a good idea to scrap the backdoor system in the gea and instead play the games over two legs home and away says the caller and what about anthony mulloy he took the minors to wall island semis that's another view there uh greg please ask your earlier guest how did the ozone hole heal itself we were slowly supposed to be burned to a cinder by now i'm in the last semester of my life at this stage and as a child to remember many hot summer is an equally several very cold winters the earth has its own change in cycles uh the way to tackle it is to pull the greedy reckless countries to task and stop over production of unnecessary cheap products and weapons the science suggests and the models are there that some this is happening to the earth um so really if you disbelieve that you have to disbelieve the science and those that are um promoting it but then of course as we heard from others on the program today there are other scientists with different views how come in britain they're installing charging points in all public street lightings in all towns and villages and cities while in ireland once again it isn't to the public people cannot afford their electricity bills as it is at the minute this is not going to help the lack of infrastructure when it comes to electric cars once again a sticking plaster by the government shame on the green party and this is in reference to the plans for uh heavily discounted charging points at all houses uh i just feel you know i mean it's not all going to be are we sure that we're not going to be switching to hydrogen cars like do they need charging i don't think so like are we investing all this money in electric cars which you know are quite damaging to the environment to produce uh somewhat say uh reports have suggested this summer are we putting all our eggs in that basket is there another wave coming it's it may be the electric car like the the mini-disc player you know um people went from cd's some got the mini-disc player but others just went straight onto mp3's uh maybe hydrogen is the mp3 of the um of the uh motor industry she uh sheamus mckelvey would be a brilliant uh donagall manager his love of donagall and ga is extraordinary he's a great manager as that session mckelvey beg your pardon um if you're sir in a hurry to leave leave earlier from work that's as it relates to bibbinghorns it slipped into my uh gea comments uh thanks deklin for your service to donagall have a well-deserved retirement and other thank you deklin for all the great efforts and years from 1992 it's been great uh we appreciate that as well uh morning greg are fully support frankie's point of view thank you very much for that uh we are being hit with carbon tax after carbon tax for just trying to live normal lives how much pollution does every one of these missiles give off that are being fired in ukraine day and night plus all the others fired by the usa in their wars around the world the ozone layers a good example without human intervention the ozone would not have broken we also had to make an effort to aim to repair it you can't dispute facts the data is there the problem is evident the natural recurrence to keep the planet going is not enough the earth is heating up four times faster we're causing it the world will always replenish itself 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impact on our greenery our wildlife pretty much because it was so short-lived it didn't really have much of an effect on us sort of prolonged periods of prolonged periods of hot weather very hot weather tends to slow down growth in a big way and put a lot of pressure on plants but not like i said it was short-lived hopefully we'll get another wee a wee shot of it too before the summer i don't know well it is only mid-july and being optimistic here yes but we have all of august and we can often have a nice couple of weeks in september absolutely usually the kids go back to school the summer starts in perfect good weather and then out from under us exactly what else could you ask for roll on september for a heat wave um but still uh there is some rainfall i think we touched on this last time uh the rainfall is not going to hit everything so you have to make sure you're watering don't you pretty much this time of year especially because um even a breeze at the moment can be very drying so it's a good idea to keep an eye in the water if it is raining outside like in the eaves of the house sometimes it isn't actually the plants aren't getting sufficient water yeah so it's a good idea to keep your keep your routine going of check at least checking them every day or so yeah we see them out and about water buds uh i don't know how widely they kind of were adapted you know what i mean it's not much to it you cut off your dam pipe and stick it in and you gather the natural water and you can use that do we see much of that now yes they're actually they're more and more of that happening all right so there is um actually a lot of people even ourselves down there the poly tunnels we would harvest the water if the roof's there and we use more so the water but some of the big cubes you see yeah tanks that but they can be very effective like you can fill a thousand liters very quickly yeah and you know we're talking about the little things we can do right absolutely and the regular is actually better for plants that are probably less chemicals natural water well i was had a glass of water here and it tastes like a swimming pool right you know i mean i don't know what it's doing to me but would you put it on your plants well i don't know how tap water can uh taste like a swimming pool anyway okay um so we hope we do get some good weather we can come back with more advice on that uh but the you know the temperatures can be high in certain places and direct sunlight you know it can get very warm very very quickly so is there anything we can be doing to you know either protect our plants and trees or to ensure we retain as much moisture as possible yeah pretty much key to that is to sort of stop an evaporation out of the ground sort of the dew in that at night time so a good idea to stop the evaporation is to put a mulch in your plants such as that like you see people using bark there even grass clippings but the sort of thin layer say two inch layer around your plant and actually any water it's in the ground stops evap the sun evaporating yeah i mean it's logical but you don't do it a lot of people don't do but it makes perfect sense because the ground can still breathe and what have you but it's just not getting the excesses of the weather um when's the right time to warm water sorry right time to water ideally early morning late at night as I think if you generally if you water during the sort of peak heat of the day water first of all you lose a lot of water being evaporated yeah and second of all actually if it's the leaves sometimes you can actually get magnifying glass on it and intensifies the sunlight so we can actually scorch your plants interesting actually uh right the temptation obviously is always uh for either looks wise or for handiness is when you get the lawnmower out to just cut it down to the bare bones yes absolutely people actually want to be out in the good weather so the fine jobs that are outside such as cutting the grass but at a time of hot weather that's actually a good idea to leave the grass wee bit longer sort of the books will tell you ideally about three inches because that the grass cover almost casts a shadow over the the root of the plant and does that present the sort prevent as much as possible sort of the whiting out of the grass pretty much that's why on golf courses on the fairways and all you might see in prolonged hot weather they'll go all white potentially because I mean with the best will in the world with watering did not get the natural protection of the longer grass exactly I so it's just once again is the roots are just being more exposed to the to the effects of this on basically right okay so we don't want to put little magnifying glasses on the plant so if you're going to water during the day say you're out in the morning or evening uh don't water the plants directly no don't water them if in case of emergency even me on garden last day the heat was sort of fairly intense in the strawberry plants actually looked things so I actually did water them during the day and by doing that if you just water the actual soil around them right so in terms of watering and feeding we know when a good time to water is when it's possible in terms of feed or fertilizer uh do we have to be conscious of that when the right time to do that is pretty much the likes of the feeding there it's during a sort of period of hot weather it's not a good idea to feed your grass even fertilize lawns that because cause the plants under stress the roots aren't performing as they should they're just sort of in survival mode so the best thing to do is leave it until the weather gets a bit cooler to add your fertilizer because the grass will be doing well chewed and it'll absorb more than nutrients from the fertilizer and I presume it's possible even with regular watering because of the prolonged dry weather and water evaporating you need to make sure that your pots and baskets are sodden with water really or correctly watered you know what I mean that you're not just darkening the top of the soil yeah pretty much the ideal thing for a hanging basket would be actually doing pouring water until you see it run like the model yeah because once there are any drainage in the pot it will regulate you're really rubbing it in for that mother and daughter last time you run weren't you yes hi all right and feed plants all around your garden pretty much feed them by a nose once the weather's a bit cooler it's actually a good idea because they're because they should be actively growing at this time the more the more you put in the more you're going to get out yeah okay Paul some things attacked my pansies what can I do to save the rest of them right someone's attacked the pansies probably say the green fly or more lightly slugs and snails so basically get a treatment for such thing if you start to be fairly vigilant you should be able to see any of the sort of trail of the snails around it or actually evidence of green fly so probably get the appropriate treatment for them right every year when it comes to jam making season I always wish I had planted raspberries I tried a few times but to no success where when is the best time to plant fruit trees and berries uh fruit trees once again stuff like apple trees that you can plant anytime of year because they're in a pot um the likes of fruit bushes such as your black currants gooseberries raspberries they're November late November to have bits and patrick says ideal time are you brought up a jar of jam I did you made yourself yes me and the kids are out on the friday night there how do you oh that's only right okay he doesn't have to ferment or anything no no no no it'll keep for about a year in the jar right so well but not pretty much so you get a big pot get a big pot um we have a water and sugar sugar that's about the height of it chuck the fruit in chuck the fruit in uh I actually made it I strained it because the kids don't like the seeds in the jam basically so I'm a big kid myself chuck chuck the fruit in then uh sort of summer for 20 minutes yeah then strain it ideally I think he strained overnight but who's time for that yeah and it has that sort of instant richness straight away does it yeah pretty much is very sorry generally the juice comes out of the berries to be very sorry so but then put it back into the pot the juice back into the pot with an equal amount of sugar and boil away then and there's right so the sifting process was to get rid of the seeds but you you put the liquid back in then again okay exactly but no the um a lot of people making jammed with black currant jammed they would leave the seeds in that and they're like the flavor is better but yeah like I say it was texture for young ones that that can be funny on it okay right so um you can make your own jam just plant your berries and what have you in November I mean it's not practical to buy that stuff and make it that's not really what it's all about you buy your own jar of jam you want to you want to be growing your own fruit to be honest for economically speaking you'd be cheaper buying jam but I suppose it's getting the kids interested in food and seeing where the food comes from basically it's a brilliant thing I think that's jam on toast for the rest of their lives pretty much could you ask Paul what kind of soil do we need to put a large hydrangea into a pot yes hydrangea they're like um acid loving plants which means you use your ericaceous compost you can get in most garden centers there it's just lime-free compost but it works generally better with the hydrangeas and the chameleons and all that lovely stuff I have a beautiful rose in the garden which I've had for a long time but every year it's eaten with green fly I've sprayed it several times but there is something is there something I can put on the root to stop the green fly uh pretty much there's not much you can put on the root to see this is nature you know yeah the green fly sees a lovely rose plant and it goes right that's dinner that's how i'm going to feed me family or whatever it is you know like i'm not saying you shouldn't interfere in that but that's the battle yeah you know nature has evolved and is clever yeah pretty much been sort of man was always good at manipulating nature too so if you get um get garlic cloves and boil them just boil them for say 15 to 20 months and then let it cool and use the water then from that okay that puts a sort of a garlic eat into your right so the green fly tend to leave it alone so okay but if you're going to use the same saucepan to make jam give it a good wash out possibly yes uh my garden has suddenly started showing brown patches all over the garden i'm not sure why it's happening but i did use feed and weed on about uh on about three years ago but it had fully regrown so it's not going to be the the weed and feed the feed and weed would have passed through absolutely six weeks generally that is yeah so what's causing the brown patches more than likely a leather jacket we sort of mentioned them every every couple of weeks if you know what i mean but they're the most common cause because they're the chemical treatments used to be used have been all banned so um generally the best thing to do that is sort of dig out a sod like a bit of foot square and turn it over just a bit an inch deep yeah you should see if you see that we sort of gray brown worm is that dead is the grass dead when it's brown generally i definitely they've eaten off the roots if that is the problem there can be a few other fungal infections but the leather jacket so you'd expect to dig out the square turn it over and there they are you should see three or four and we fellas yeah okay um and what can you do about that there are more chemical sprays now there are various ways of removing them more organically such as encouraging them to the surface how to be using the hose or carpet or something and let the birds sort of remove them yeah but it's labor intensive absolutely uh could you ask why you can't do something about ivy it's killing lots of trees is this about ivy that's growing out in our trees out in our forests and stuff is that what they're talking about quite possibly a lot of like right here just this prime thing for ivy to grow basically so it does engulf a lot of trees and it does sort of hold the trees back to an extent but then other people would argue that ivy is one of the main sources of pollen for pollen eating insects so and it's sort of a natural environment the ivy is natural so and does the ivy choke the trees it can do over time yeah what happens a deciduous tree lose the leaves to allow the one to pass out in the winter and if it's a big coat ivy that doesn't lose the leaves it leaves them more inclined towards blowing over so it's it's natural predator almost yeah okay I have a purple like heather which suddenly started growing in my garden should I dig it out or leave it there um pretty much I'd always think if it looks good I would leave it to an extent but if you think they're thinking of it sort of invasive or something maybe that's what they're worried about quite possibly you're sort of native heather can be a bit invasive or right there um once again if you want to actually dig it out and retain it for as a pot plant generally if you move sort of november but if you like the look of it pretty much it will not do anything say let it be yeah pretty much can you advise on a small to medium sized magnolia for an area of the garden that receives afternoon and evening sun please yeah your magnolias they would like actually they like a good bit of sun so they would do um variety for sort of small medium varieties through generally the old foal girders name sort of so you have susan would be actually a good one sort of medium sized one and jean would be a slightly bigger one so it would be or you have another one so medium one would be a stella stella heather that's quite a good one all right okay I have a young apple tree that the leaves of brown spots on looks like it's struggling to survive any suggestions how to treat it uh yeah generally I'd say that's some sort of fungal infection that's actually attacking us so what does sort of for some fungal infections actually if you want to sort of go more organic with people actually spray semi-skim milk on them can actually help to control it a bit but otherwise sort of bring a couple of leaves into your garden center it could probably kneel down what actually yeah i get you something to do probably similar problem here my rose bush comes out in black dots every single year yes uh black spot is generally the thing pretty much every rose around gets a certain degree of it if you know a minute it can be quite milder it can be quite severe generally a better a better fed rose more need um nourished rose stands up to it better okay but you can get chemical fungal sites as well to control it but it might be that the soil around those roses that might need rejuvenating if they've been there for quite some time there maybe there's need a help along in terms of nutrients and stuff yeah pretty much what about your chicken poo uh chicken was pretty good for it all right so what do you got um just need to get the chicken poo mentioned in there yeah absolutely uh i have a climatus uh which is growing up the back of the house and is around 29 foot high made up of three plants it's been in situ for over 10 years with no issues however this year the purple flowers which are in abundance have what can only be described as a mold on the white powdery substance the plant does grow up past the gas central heating flu but it's never been affected before could you advise of a solution please say Ann Marie yes um it sounds to me like mildew would be the problem there that sort of moldy white white moldy sort of stuff on us uh once again shouldn't be sort of what is it sorry what is a clematis uh the climber the climb up thing you see oh right that's that's why it's 29 foot high is it an ivy it's not not uh it's sort of its own genus of plants there be hundreds of varieties right okay so is it climbing on the house i'll be climbing the house i generally you have to use some sort of trellis or wire to hold understood right sorry i was just fascinated by so you think it could be a mold you would say the most likely thing um probably it's coming from this year been so sort of mild and damp would you hose it off you could hose it off all right but once again that could be another job for your semi-skimmed milk yeah the the only problem that there would be that the milk guys if you're doing something 29 feet high it's a lot of good smell after i feel like i feel like i've gone into some different universe but you're talking about how how you can spray semi-skimmed milk but if it's a solution you might have to right okay um but i suppose maybe you could target it could be targeted exactly or you can get more sort of chemical things i mean but unfortunately there's a climber like that in the house can become a habitat for like the birds and stuff like that yeah so maybe you wouldn't want to be gonna have to harsh with chemicals so is that unless it's treated is that just permanent or will that sort of go through the winter and maybe not come back next year once again it's sort of a in an area or year sort of more sunshine sunshine is actually for modules stuff that got there sunshine would actually be an actual sort of killer to it right so maybe a tree for the backs grown or something and there's possibly somebody else but it's just um it may rectify itself but it's probably if it's become more widespread it should be treated right okay a few more here uh the problem i have is i sold a new lawn two years ago but have had problems with the neighbor's cattle coming in on the lawn they don't have a gate as a result there's a lot of holes in the lawn which would be what would be the best way to mend this i've been told to fill the holes with topsoil in spring and add grass seed what i did personally is i treated them like massive pitch marks right and got a got the um the pitch fork in underneath them and brought them up that way now probably not ideal but i got away with it what is the right way to do it the right way probably it depends how deep there if you know what i mean but as a case of generally the best way then would we just fill them up with soil yeah get a few with bars of soil and mix it with sand and just add in the grass mix in with sand is probably the key thing pretty much i because it sort of you can use as an actual drainage yeah and another important thing would be if you had cows on your lawn like that as people tend to panic and want to chase them on that but it's very important especially wet weather not to panic them not to panic them let them walk out because would you suggest spraying them with um semi-skimmed milk getting given their own back yeah i know you're right if you try and hurt them out they panic and they will do exactly much more damage a cow walking makes a lot of difference to a cow rolling basically all right i have three high synth bulbs in a pot that i got as a present they seem to have bolted and are dropping in full bloom what can i do yeah hyacinths can be sort of once again the very dramatic one of the dew flower but the flower goes off them quite quickly so i'd say probably the season for them has just passed at this stage so be next year again you'll get the benefit these rose buds don't even look like rose buds and don't open this the second year if it's happening to most of the buds but not all and only to one bush none of my others i have the rose in a large very tall pot i have others planted in the same way but it is only this road which a rose which is affected the buds form but don't grow and the surrounding leaves look like they are eaten yes sounds to me like quite possibly greenfly might be a thing because actually the end of the rose bud is where the greenfly will attack first generally so um just take a look at them see if you see any evidence of greenfly the other thing is maybe the rose actually could do a good cutting back maybe now come the autumn time and maybe rejuvenate itself for next year all right i'm going to try and get these last couple in i've a fully grown very mature hedge which suddenly started going brown in the middle like a section of it was dying i'm wondering should i pull it out in case it infects the rest of the hedge or should i leave it alone it's very unusual looking yes it can happen unfortunately in mature hedges that parts of it just do decide to die um probably the best thing to do would be take a few pictures and take a few local garden centers at them sort of because it may be a case of it maybe some sort of external fact like even somebody might have spilled oil or something like that near it that might have affected that way that wouldn't spread to the rest or it could be actually a disease setting that maybe it would be better removed so generally take a few pictures to your local garden you wouldn't want someone taking cuttings to a local garden center would you in case it's infectious or pretty and depends on sort of thing generally the the main thing is actually your japanese not we do that yeah but they'll have seen you so visually you'll be able to make exactly but pictures generally work fairly well right your last one then we're moving and want to take some bulbs with us how long do I need to wait before digging them up do we need to put them in pots I know if you dig them up before the stalk dies they will go soft and unusual unusable yes pretty much the ideal time depending on the depending on the bulb and what time of year they've sort of they emerge at basically once they die off and die back into the ground as a prime time you move them so the only thing is you may have to mark where they are whenever they are on the flower actually so you know where to go to find them again whenever they've died back into the ground all right Paul listen we rattle through them there thank you very much indeed great as always uh Paul McLaughlin of Balakdur garden centre just off the mountain top here thank you very much for joining us we really appreciate your time we're back with more after the messages who still hasn't managed to get the barbecue out well better late than ever because at Lidl we've got sizzling deals like four Irish beef quarter pounders for two twenty nine twenty percent off barbecue accessories and super savers lettuce and corn on the cob just forty nine cent each no excuses now get grilling Lidl more for you at Cherrymore kitchens and bedrooms we are now operating out of one new state-of-the-art showroom in Dunnigaltown and we invite you to visit our new five thousand square foot 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demonstration farm next Tuesday get full details inside this week's Irish farmers journal on sale now okay you're very welcome back to the program just a couple of minutes to go I have a jet ski which I use with responsibility at all times this week while out in the sea I needed to use the toilet and pulled into Rathmullen I was in the area for about five minutes I was approached and I told I was told I couldn't pull in I explained I was just using the toilet but they insisted that I couldn't stay even five minutes but they also couldn't tell me whereas a jet skier I could pull in and use the public toilet not all beaches of toilet facilities does anyone know where I can go um I who told you though I mean no one owns the sea do they I presume if you you came in at a slow pace who can tell you not to use the sea I don't think anyone owns it do they do you have anyone on the sea I don't think so I can understand maybe in some areas where there's bathers that jet skis you know are discouraged but I mean if you're coming in at a low rate of knots the same as a boat presumably I can't see why or who could tell you not to I'm going to mention this one tomorrow about it's about Deers dumped in Barnasmore Gap and there's some pictures beautiful animals but they're obviously dead but someone's dumped them there I'll come back to that did we post those images on on the socials they're quite horrific really aren't they so we probably won't I'll explain it to you I'll explain it to you tomorrow because we don't have time today right thank you so much to all of you who listened to the program who took part in the show those of you who