 are having a gala ball tonight, so I'm emceeing at that. Well done, no but a bum on yourself. Yeah, but it'll be a bit of a crack, you know. Hopefully you get a nap before. Ah, well, I don't know if that's going to happen today, but anyway, sure, all's good. All right, see you, Lee. Have a great weekend. Chat to you Monday morning. OK, it is the 9th of the noon show. Our Friday panel will be joining us very shortly, running through some of the biggest stories of the day in the week. But first, let's get a news update and it's over to Donald Kavana. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. The joint UK-EU body overseeing Brexit meets today to ratify the legal changes brought about by the Windsor Framework. EC Vice President Mara Sefkovic will meet with the Northern Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and the UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverley in London as part of that EU-UK joint committee. The DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson says he's not a quitter and won't give up in his campaign for an improved deal. However, Sinn Féin's vice president, Michelle O'Neill, says the DUP is effectively punishing the people of Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State needs to be very focused on these issues. I know that all the sectors are making noise, but this is politics. This is where we should be. You're elected to take these policy decisions. So I encourage the DUP to join with the rest of us and actually try to tackle these issues, to take them head on. Otherwise, the publicers continue to be punished by their actions. People who immigrated from Ireland and those who belong to minority groups are the target of a New Garthy recruitment campaign from this morning. Major efforts are underway to recruit 1,000 New Garthy and have them trained up by the end of the year. The team of the campaign is that it can be a tough job, but it's a job worth doing. New measures to help those applying include early advice on the fitness test, a buddy system, earlier vetting, and online engagement with candidates. At Donegal, Deputy Meanwhile is warning that politicising policing is not the way forward. Deputy Thomas Pringle was speaking as the second stage of the Policing Security and Community Safety Bill 2023 came before the Dáil. He believes there needs to be more oversight and accountability. Deputy Pringle says this bill is a step backwards rather than forwards. We know the following numerous scandals, key oversight and governance functions were moved from the Minister to the Policing Authority. However, this legislation looks to move these to a board that will be internal to engardish Keoghana. This is even less independent than before these scandals, and it reflects the government's intention to re-politicise policing. We had seen, particularly in my own county in Donegal, investigations that took place there where the only concern of the state and the bodies was to ensure that the perception only stayed in Donegal, that these things all happened up there, but we knew that they were all happening across the board. A Donegal-based senator is calling for a national debate on the provision of facilities for children with disabilities in all playgrounds and parks across the country. Senator Eileen Flynn, a member of the Rockless Disability Matters Committee, told the Shannad there are some excellent facilities in Dublin, but that needs to be replicated elsewhere in the country. I live in Roarlard and Denadra in County Donegal, and we have a lovely playground, and it's well-invested, and, you know, the council has done a good job with it. Unfortunately, there's no play, space, or even a swing for a disabled child or a child who is artistic, and it's a conversation that I think we all need to be having. Whether forecasted will be windy with fresh to strong and gusty south-west winds today, outbreaks of sherry rain with heavy falls at times, brief brighter periods as well, a chance of some hail or lightning in heavy downpours, top temperatures today nine or 10 degrees Celsius, and that's Helen Williams News. We're back with news again at 10 o'clock. The National Lottery Good Causes Awards celebrate the amazing work done in communities all over Ireland. We're now inviting entries for the 2023 Awards, so if you've received National Lottery funding in the last five years, tell us all about the wonderful work you do, and don't be modest. There's 100,000 Euro in prizes on the night, and the food's not too shabby either. Closing date for entries is March 31st. You'll find out how to enter at lottery.ie, The National Lottery. Support responsibly. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. Four minutes past nine, Friday the 24th of March, and you're very welcome along to the last show of the week. Plenty coming up between now and 12 to keep you informed and entertained, so hopefully you'll stick around. And for the next hour, we're gonna be joined by our Friday panel. We're gonna go through some of the big stories that have been making the headlines overnight and throughout the course of the week. We want you involved in the Compensation of Course, 086-6025-thousand. WhatsApp's and text that number, 086-6025-thousand. Give us a call on 07491-25-thousand, and don't forget you can watch the show as you can every day live by going on to Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, on your smart device, your big screen TV, your Firestick, however you want to engage with us, and feel free to get involved and say hello there. Right, okay, let's say hello then to our Friday panel. Firstly, great to welcome back onto the show P.R.O. of Friends of Retina University Hospital. Paddy Rooney, good morning Paddy. Good morning Greg. Good to have you with us. Sheamus McDade, Manager and Director of McDade's Football Special. How are you getting on? Good to see you again, Sheamus. Good Greg, good morning. And last but not least, we have Michael McClaffery, Independent Councillor here in County Donegal. Good morning to you, Michael. Thanks for joining us today. Good morning Greg, good morning Paddy. Right, okay, now the big story of this week and it has rumbled on for the last number of weeks and we'll do so into next week and that is the end of the no-fault eviction ban. The government survived a vote on it. They managed to buy, stroke secure, the support of enough independence and then won it comfortably, of course. But if you saw that eight or nine swing the other direction, it would have been much closer. But on paper it seemed quite wide. They're gonna face a vote of no confidence. The government, that is, I think next week brought through by Labour. Yesterday Paddy, I'll start with you, that's all right, yesterday. You know, we spoke to a lady who has got an eviction notice, is facing eviction now. The landlord wants to do something else with the house, family of four, parents, two children, one local house, eight other families into it. So this isn't an urban problem. It's a small Irish town. At the same time, we also got contact from a landlord, an accidental landlord, you could say. And they are being taxed out of it. It's not a nice environment for them to operate and they're thinking of exiting. So that's a rental property out of the market. I mean, is there a solution to this that would have been fair to all parties involved as far as you can see? Well, I was, we're 23 years into this century, Greg. And I knew this topic was going to come up today. So I had a look, the title of minister housing in a ministerial portfolio has been in existence for the last 22 years. Either as a piece may lad on in the form of, you know, minister for the environment, local government and housing or minister for the environment and housing or there's been a junior minister. And I think it's been after the 2011 government from then onwards that there was a fault portfolio giving over to a minister for housing around the cabinet table. Now, that's a good part of 10 years that we've had a very clear focus and a 20 year years with some form of a focus, but can anybody say with any honesty, Greg, that whatever the government have been doing over the last 10 years or the last 12 years is working because it's clearly hasn't. And the worrying thing about, I suppose, about all of this is that the best way to predict the future, Greg, is to have a look at the past. And if what we have the government has done over the last 10 years hasn't worked and hasn't worked spectacularly, poorly, I think thing August very poorly. My son and his girlfriend were in visit America in the tail end of last year and they visited friends in California. And they were staying in a town or a city called San Jose, you may have heard it. And one of the things was the friends that they were staying with in a very small apartment that cost $4,000 a month for that. As a result of that, there was very high levels of homelessness in San Jose. And the unfortunate thing about it was that it was very, very visible. We have homelessness in Donegal but it's not as visible as it is in Dublin, but in San Jose, it was not unusual to see people sleeping in tents, sleeping on park benches and sleeping in doorways. But he said that the really sad thing about what he said was that in one way, while it was highly visible in many other ways, it was completely invisible. That those people walking by people, it was actually an accepted norm that because of the availability of property and because some people weren't able to provide for themselves, well, that was life. You're not going to agree with me, Greg, that we've already accepted that it's okay to wait 14 hours in an ED department up and down the country to get a service. We've already accepted in this country that it's okay to wait five years for a hip operation. Why would we not slowly but surely morph into a situation where we're going to accept this? We shouldn't, but we will because in two weeks' time, Greg, we're going to be talking about something else. But Paddy, and I know exactly what you're talking about and you're right, and that's the way things move forward, but I suppose when you have the leader of the government saying that what we are about to do will lead to more homelessness, when we have multiple many, many, many vacant properties, and it is accepted then, obviously, because if you've got the leader of a government that can say we are about to make a decision that will lead to more homelessness, it's inevitable, that is an acceptance. It's the acceptance at the very, very top. I know that's not quite the acceptance you're talking about, but... No, I get your point. What the government are trying to do and have been consistently doing over the last 10 to 15 years is that they want the market to solve this problem and the market can't solve it. Any interventions that the government have been taking in the market over the last 10 years, most of it has been on the demand side. And what I'm talking about here is that there is a generous grants to people who are forced-to-end house buyers. The problem with that, though, is that you're bringing more people into the market and you're driving the price up. The HAP scheme for people that are renting means that more people can rent, driving up the price of rent. You have the shared equity scheme. You know, I can get a mortgage of 280,000. The government will take 80,000 equity in my house. Hey, press, do I get an outfit for a house for 360? All of those measures are driving up the price of either rental properties or sale properties. For the simple reason is the problem is with supply, not with demand. And I can see that. I know what the government is trying to do here, but I've looked at a lot of current affairs programs on the national broadcasters the last few days, but no government representative is saying where their research or where their ideas are coming from that ending the eviction order will mean that more properties are coming on the market. Where is the evidence? The funny thing is that you should say that because I couldn't understand why that wasn't being questioned because I was listening to an interview yesterday. Was it Pippa Hackett was on the national radio and she was saying it's not really our decision. We've received advice. We've been told that this is the right way. Who is telling them that? Who is advising them of that? I'll come back to you, of course. Seamus McDade, you know, like the solutions are there, unpalatable for some. We heard yesterday from independent Thomas Pringle. It was simple. Tax the people out of the Airbnb market at 50, 60% tax, give massive tax breaks to those in the rental, long-term rentals. So rather than them paying 50 odd percent for long-term rents, bring it down to maybe a 5% or no percent. And then at the same time tax the people who are using these properties for Airbnb out of it so that it's not worth it for them. That would be a, it's bound to make more rental properties available. So the solutions are there. Why aren't the government, why aren't the government Seamus acting on them? Yeah, it's very difficult to kind of understand, Craig. And I think that, you know, any solution, like the solutions that you've, that Deputy Pringle put forward there, there's logic behind them and I can see why they would be worth trialing. And the government seemed to be just continuing to do the same thing over and over again and not get, obviously getting the same results. So it's a real lack of leadership from the government to try and try a different strategy to see, can we get it out? Because I mean, Patrick has said it very well there. It is, they have a thought that the market would fix this problem. And ultimately the market won't fix the problem because if I'm a property developer, high property prices are what I want. So keeping the property market high, not oversupplying the market is exactly what I would like to do because that would keep the prices high. So the market's never going to really fix this problem. The government needs to intervene and they are choosing to just sort of nibble around the edges of this problem and not really get into it. So yeah, the concept of maybe we take, maybe we do something drastic like that, like overtax Airbnb's or give a large- As of today, there are, and just flicking through them. These are regular houses. They're your two, three bedroom bungalows and what have you. There are 695 beautiful properties available for you to book in Airbnb tonight. These aren't rooms in someone's houses. These are individual properties. This is in Donegal, 694. And yet in one small time, in one small time. We do live in an area that is heavily dependent on tourism and to have tourism, you're going to need places for the tourists to stay. So I don't think we can sort of vilify Airbnb in the under term, in the short term. Yes, but I'm not vilifying them. But I'm looking here at a small townhouse that I don't know how many tourists are going to be in these houses this evening. As I say, all regular bungalows that like lots of us live in. I mean, obviously there's a few sort of wooden buildings, but these are the housing stock. They are regular houses. These aren't apartments overlooking Downing's Bay. Do you know what I mean? These are regular houses in every corner of the county. Well, I guess what I would say too is sort of why is the person who owns that house? Why are they thinking they're financially better off to Airbnb? The government have not also said, well, let's give tax breaks to small landlords to encourage them to stay in this market. I mean, the eviction ban, you can probably look, I would look at it similar to how we'd look at lockdowns. The idea behind it being a temporary measure to try and come up with a longer term solution. The government have brought in this and done absolutely nothing in the same ways they did with the lockdowns. They've done absolutely nothing to fix it. So therefore, the only thing they can do is keep the eviction ban in place longer term because they are choosing for whatever reason to not try and solve this crisis. Michael McClaffery, what do you think? Look, Greg, I think at the moment, just alluding to what the two speakers are saying there, the whole situation, the government has to come out here and lead me example here. The example's not been led here at the moment. We're clearly in a horrible, terrible situation for so many people at the moment. God knows what's going to happen now when April comes around, when all these cases start to come forward and eviction people and so on. Like, we can talk and talk about it all the day and put all our solutions forward as the two speakers have there and the panel there, what they think should be going forward. But I feel myself, unless the government of the day, the leaders of the day, unless they're going to come out right and what proper solutions, we're just going to talk with the same thing this time next year. Only thing this time next year is going to be hell of a lot worse. Yeah, but that being said, the important of conversation is the general population get to have their say and hopefully eventually the government has to hear that. I mean, we are heading towards a general election. This is probably one of the biggest issues an election will be fought on. So we can't sit in our hands and not talk about it. We have to talk about it. And also to, you know, we all have to have our views on it, Michael. What is your view? What do you believe a reasonable solution to this crisis would be in your own counting? I would say a reasonable solution would be, first of all, like you're saying there. And most of the time, neither we sit in our hands and don't talk about it. But what I am saying is the government of the day are not listening to us. We see this in many aspects. We email ministers, we email offices and different things. Some of them get back when it's out. Some of them don't get back at all. And there's no getting away from this situation now. This last whatever is now 10 years or longer now, since the whole situation arrived here at the making and the zones since we all come to the forefront. They're not helping like those people down in a zone like any of these other places now that have make it as well as the people that are going to end up on evictions that go forward. They need to get houses for one reason or another. And that is not going forward. And it's not helpful when we're trying to get answers off to people in power and they are not going out then giving answers for it. I think we self they're just kicking the can down the road, right? Hoping that they're going to push us off for another while. I know, but I recognize you were observing the problem. And I think lots of people can see that too. But, you know, you are elected representative in the local authority. Do you believe the local authority is a role? If you do, what do you believe that role is? For example, I believe the local authority's role is taking a strong stance in matters and holding these people accountable and where possible. As we've asked for different times get these ministers if they get them into the room and Lyford or elsewhere and say what's going on? Why can they not do things or so on? Like, going up to the Doyle and Dublin, such where I wasn't able to get the last of the make-up protesters up, there doesn't seem to be anything out of it like. And this is the thing, the point I'm saying here is great, the leaders in Dublin are something not listening to us. They may come out early and shake hands with you and talk to you for five minutes, whatever, pass themselves away again. But once you go in the bus or in the car down the road again, it's bye-bye. And that's the next time we get into the issue of races again or the next protest or whatever the case may be. And it's a sad state of affairs Paddy, when I sort of started going down the Airbnb route and taxation and what have you, I'm not sure if you were shaking your head or nodding, or I mean, like, there is another thing going on here in that people own these houses. This is private property at the same time too and how comfortable is the general population with the government's, some would say, overreach in this area between short-term and long-term rentals. But do you believe something like tax breaks for long-term renting, heavy taxation for Airbnb, is a solution to at least free up some of those 695 houses in Donegal, for example? Well, now you're getting to the knob of it, Greg, because the constitution of this country protects private ownership of property. I'm sitting in my own private house here and I can do whatever I like with it. And the government are constantly putting forward this mantra about the fact that, you know, private ownership is guaranteed in the constitution and there's only so far they can do. Michael is after saying there about the government that is not listening. Well, actually, I would disagree with that. The government is listening, but they're listening to different people. God only knows what's going on behind the scenes in relation to how public policy is made. Remember, property developers and landlords are well-represented in Doleirn. And those two groups, I suspect, are well able to purchase high-powered lobbyists. And quite often, these are former politicians who know what doors to knock on and what buttons to press and so on. Whereas people on low incomes can't afford to do that. So there's a completely unequal balance here. I mean, there's a lot of things I find upsetting about this. I'm not avoiding a bit about the tax and all that because I don't know the ramifications of all of that. But the whole way that the jet and I of the Labour Party made a good comment, was it yesterday and it's all about the fact that the government, they knew that they were going to be short. So they had to go to the rural independent TDS. And he wants a list of all the goodies that the government gave out to those five rural TDS in order to vote for them. Now, the official stance from the government is there was nothing given. But I can see Dennis Knopton was like a rooster in full bloom on the TV, very proud of himself, what he had got for Scotland to vote. And the real horrible thing on top of horrible about this is some of the stuff that the government have actually conceded. And there's division now within the government over this. And this is about the fact that elderly people who are living in their home who find themselves in residential care that they can rent their property and the money will not be charged towards the fair deals team. Now, Age Action Ireland representative from that organization was on the news last night and she put forward a very, very strong case why that should not be done because it would encourage the premature admission of elderly people into residential care. And the fact that family's been families and that there may be issue about elder abuse or financial abuse. Coercions. Is that money now, a thousand a week, thousand a month, sorry, is 12,000 a year. Let's go into the elderly person's estate. And hey, Presto, it's the family members who are going to get that. And that seems to me like really, really dangerous policy without it was decided on in five minutes and it just, it's really performant. Really is worrying. And what you mentioned about the buying the independence I wanna talk about that separately after a break but I wanna put it to you, Seamus, if that's all right because you kind of took the worm as it relates to taxation and taxing people out of Airbnb and tax incentives for rental. In other words, trying to coerce people to do with what the government wants with their private property. Like how far is it down the line then, Seamus, if we do go down that road that you're living in your house, let's just say it was a five bedroom house, your family have flown the nest and it's just you and your partner. And the government says, right, we're gonna put a tax on you because there's three or four bedrooms that aren't being used all the while. Do you know what I mean? It's not a huge leap necessarily to go down that route. So in other words, is your own private home actually your own private home anymore? Well, truthfully, Greg, in a normal functioning housing society, you should be leaving that house anyway because in other societies where there's full stock of housing, a family would be empty esters and then that older couple would then move to a smaller apartment and that house would become available for a young couple. That's how it works in a normal situation. It's the supply issue here. And I think that I'm not sure that long-term I wouldn't support having tax on Airbnb, but we're in a crisis and nobody in government is suggesting any radical solutions for a temporary problem, which is what the high tax on Airbnb or high tax breaks or even a suspension of the draconian planning laws we have here. So we can all the local authorities can say all they want. Oh, well, this is a central power problem, but there is very, there is very difficult processes to go through to apply for planning permission. None of that is changing. And I don't really see anybody in opposition proposing anything that will radically change this problem either. So this problem will be fixed whenever the supply matches the demand, which may take 10 years, may take 20 years, but without doing anything radical. It might take longer than though because our population is growing and there's lots of people that are coming to this country that will want to stay here. So we are actually, what's happening is, is that the demand is going to be far outstripping the supply for a long time to come unless there are, we deliver housing in a quicker, different type of way. And there's no other, you know, unless they're hoping that enough people emigrate that this empty. No, but I mean, you know what? The concept that we couldn't build, you know, we have a target of 30,000 houses a year that we can't even hit. But if we could get one year of 70,000 houses, we might have cleared a lot of the backlog of this. I would like somebody in government or in opposition to say, here's my plan to build a massive number of houses to get us out of this crisis. Nobody is really tackling that. We need a massive supply of housing here. And it's not, it's a very simple crisis to fix, just build more houses. All right, Paddy, do you want to come back in there before Mike comes? I did, I wanted to say two things with that. One is that Laura can serve a lecturer in housing in the DIT in Dublin set last year, that there's actually, if you look at all the vacant properties, and he's not even talking about derelict properties, but the vacant properties, and he's really talking about Dublin and the environs, but I think you can apply this logic around the country, that if you look at all the vacant properties and all the properties where there might be a single person living in a four or five bedroom house. No, no, you're there. Sorry, that was just a, yes I can. That was just a little bit of a glitch, but keep going. Oh, there, sorry, I thought it was down. That there's actually, so with all the properties that are vacant, and with all of the people, you know, single people living in four and five bedrooms house, there is actually enough property there. There is actually enough accommodation there for everybody, if you wanted to look at that way. And the second point is that the government are making the claims about all the houses that they're going to build. Here in O'Donnell, the junior minister, said on TV last night that they were going to build 30,000 houses this year. The problem with that though, it is that there's no point saying that a building houses in letter Kenny and Tralee are going to fix the housing problem in Dublin because the houses have to be accommodation has to be put where the need is greatest. I mean, I'm after reading an article in the Irish Independent this morning where there was an application by a property developer for 1200 units, not far from the airport in Dublin, and a board planada turned it down. I mean, Dublin, the planning department in Dublin County Council and board planada are tossing down planning applications in Dublin at a rate of knots. How are we ever going to achieve this when we have that? Maybe that's the right thing to do. We don't want to go back to a situation where we have 1960s ballet firmas all over again and stuff like that. But trying to get something done and available in the right place where it needs to be is really, really difficult. And Michael McCleffordy, just before the break, I suppose we see that here in Donegal because, you know, you need the right houses in the right place. And even on such a small scale here, we have the last set of figures I looked at. I think it was for 2019 or 2020. One third of social housing being offered is refused. Yeah, Greg, you're right. There's no getting away from it. That is a problem. There's an issue, all right, for the people that are choosing not to take the house from us off of them. That's a matter for the people in question themselves. I suppose it's going forward. Is there a problem we have here in this country? Well, is it a matter for the people? Should people be allowed to refuse property like that and stay on the housing waiting list? Just because it might not be in the right place or it might not have storage for a motorbike or there's lots of... And I mean, of course, then there are the reasons why people don't want to move their children from one school to another. But in the housing crisis, should someone be able to refuse a house from Donegal County Council and remain in situ on the housing waiting list? Well, Greg, I stand by my point. It doesn't matter for themselves, to be honest. It is their choice because we don't know what their circumstances are. For example, you could have a person, a single person. You could have a mother or a child with some children. She may not be able to drive her circumstances. There could be difficulties with schools. You don't know. It's all very well seen. No, put them off the list. No, I never said that. I'm just saying we are in an absolute crisis here and such a high level of refusals of social housing. For whatever reason, I presume you're on a housing waiting list if you're desperate for housing. Well, the point, yeah. You are, Greg. Yes, of course you are. But the point I'm saying is, even if a person does refuse a house for whatever reason, and look, I come back to think, he enters down to circumstances. And some of these circumstances can be very sensitive as well without putting into details. As any councillor knows or anybody involved in public life knows the ending. But the thing is as well, if I refuse a house break, it's not the end of the world because there's 10 more waiting on that house anyway. All right, okay. So I suppose in a way, whether... I suppose in a way, it's a bit like a Rubik's Cube as such. It is always revolving, but the house is never lost. The house somebody gets the house because unfortunately, there's that great in Eden, Donegal. The house is never lost. And I suppose back to the point that the owners made the early as well with building houses. We have a real problem in this county, in many counties and the whole country as such. Our young people, our young skilled people, they're all heading away. So even if somebody did come up with an idea tomorrow morning, go over and build so many thousand houses, we may or may not have the skills for what they have to do in the workforce. And if you hear us say just, and then we'll take a break. I mean, part of the problem too is in talking about bringing vacant properties back into use. You know, a lot of these properties, like the government have set regulations and standards to which houses must be brought up to, right? And I mean, I think a lot of these vacant houses that are being counted, and we say, right, let's bring them up to scratch. Probably aren't financially viable or incredibly expensive to do so because of the rigorous standards in terms of energy saving and all that type of stuff that they have to be brought up to. Could that be part of the, is that a major problem with part of the solution shameless, for example? I think we need to probably like really try and be very clear on what the definition of a vacant property is because there's a few, I mean, if you drove around Remelton, there was plenty of derelict buildings, but they're not vacant as such. So there's no real chance that they could be brought back into use without substantiating them. Like there's a shed next to, there's a shed close to where I live that has an air code. Is that classed as a vacant property, I wonder? Yeah, that's what I would wonder too because I actually can't say that I know of many vacant properties. I don't think I know any vacant properties. And the vast majority in our county have vacant properties. But the 700 vacant properties in Airbnb tonight and Seamus. Well, Airbnb is, well, and there will be others that are holiday homes, but again, we're, and I would, we are a county that relies on our tourism. So we're going to need holiday homes and Airbnb as well. However, I do accept that we are in a crisis and a crisis calls for certain actions and that may be a short-term solution to the problem. But yeah, I would, a lot of, I hear figures for vacant properties all the time that I wonder, are they, where the metric of that is. Yeah. All right, then listen, thank you very much indeed. That's the voice there of Seamus McDade. He's the MD at McDade's Football Special. We're hearing from independent councillor Michael McClofty and Paddy Rooney, PRO of Friends of Letterkenny University Hospital. More from them and your views as well, wherever you're listening to today, coming into us after these. The Ninetown News Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. He's back. Come on! Maria Rosenstock is back live on stage in 2023. What a lovely surprise. Gift Grubb Live 23, the brand-new show. Give us the gory details. What's it all? Come on by. Friday 30th of June, Mount Aragile Letterkenny. Can't wait to hear this, Dennis. This should be interesting, right? Tickets from 39 Euro on sale now. From venue box office and Ticketmaster. Additional charges may apply. The brand-new show. Gift Grubb Live 23. Bring it on! How you going to see Mario? Mr. Blue Sky, tell us why. The Euro Millions Jackbutt is an estimated 65 million Euro. Play responsibly, in-store, in-app or at lottery.ie. The National Lottery. It could be you. Letterkenny Medics is a new private clinic open on the Port Road, Letterkenny. Dr. Muhammad El-Priya and Dr. Ripu Singh are offering daily appointments from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days per week with services including full cardiac screening, weight loss and health check-ups, minor injuries, minor surgical procedures, joint injections and chronic pain management with full medical consultations up to 30 minutes. To book your appointment, go to letterkennymedics.ie. Letterkenny Medics, we listen if you want to talk. Ready for a change or upgrade? Thanks, Siat. With our wide range of award-winning, see it SUV, including the bold crossover Arona, the family-favorite Atteca, or the spacious seven-seater Tarako. All vehicles come with great offers on finance and PCP options. Book a test drive today by calling DMG Motors on 074 97 21 396 or visit dmgmotors.ie. Choose your new 231 Siat with confidence with a visit to DMG Motors Clairode Donegal Town. Highland radio, time checks with Expressway. Travel Route 32, from Letterkenny to Dublin. Expressway, bringing you the time at... OK, the time is 9.34. Just a quick one on the vote yesterday. We'll start with you, Michael, if that's all right. I mean, if you were an independent TD, would you be bored? Could you, if you got, say, for instance, Dunfany Medical Centre fast-tracked to build, would that be enough for you to back the government on a vote on ending no-fault evictions? Well, Greg, first of all, it would be a sad state of affairs if that's the hardest way of, to be quite honest... But that's what's happening. That's what's happening. This is what these independents do. I know that, but not all of us do. I'll go back to the point again. It would be a sad state of affairs that has happened up. Yep, go ahead. We're hearing you loud and clear. It's a sad state of affairs what has happened. Obviously, what the independents over the last few days, because clearly, they're not really independent at all when they're so easily bought. And secondly, then, the health centre's a stance on Dunfany. We're nowhere further forward with that at the moment. No, I know. It was just an example. I mean, like, if you were in government... No, I know that, Greg. I know that. But if they said, lock back us on this and we'll make sure, you know, the diggers are on site in six months, could you say no to that? I would say no to it, Greg, yes, because I couldn't say yes to one thing, much in all that I wanted, much in all the people in Dunfany wanted, but I couldn't say yes to something just basically if you like to get it back, I can't get it. And on the other hand, then, so many thousands, more people suffering, I couldn't. I couldn't let myself do that. It wouldn't allow me, Greg, to be quite honest with you. What about you, Seamus? Could you do it or do you think at the very least, us as the taxpayers, and we're often reminded when the government's spending that we are the taxpayers, that we should know what deals were done to secure votes, what deals will have to be done next week as well, by the way, and how much is it costing us? Yeah, well, it should definitely be public knowledge what deals are done. I think to be fair, if you vote independent, you are probably voting with local issues sort of right at the core. So I think if you're an independent voter and your independent TD goes and does a deal that gets something good for your constituency, you're probably happy enough with that. And I think independent TDs, that's coming to their bread and butter, that's what they do, they give their support around in return for things for their constituency. And I don't have a problem with it except for that it's not public knowledge. I mean, it's ridiculous that it wouldn't be public, that it's not public knowledge, but I don't have an actual problem with them doing that. Paddy? I mean, at a certain point in time. No, continue your point. Go ahead. Sorry to interrupt you, Greg. At a certain point in time, that's, you know, I mean, in all levels of power, I mean, that's what the DUP tried to do with the Brexit vote. They tried to say, we have some votes here, we'll give it if you give us a good deal. Going way back to Home Rule, the Irish Parliamentary Party tried to use it. I mean, this is the balance of power. If independents hold the balance of power, this is what they do. Yeah, but that's, I mean, do we not need to move away from that type of politics though? Like that acceptance is depressing. Well, not if you're, like your suggestion you said, not if the locality, not if that's what it takes for, I mean, again, it's crazy that that's what it would maybe take for some of these TDs to get things in their constituencies. And we need maybe some sort of decentralized government that that wouldn't, that they wouldn't be able to do all these deals. But at the current climate that we, current system that we live in, this is a good way for independents to manipulate the system. Well, okay. Well, yeah, it is, because it works, I suppose. Whether you like it or not, Paddy. Well, I don't like it, Greg. And I think it's an awful way to do business because when people are elected to doll-air, but they're to work on the public interest and not on the local interest, I can see why they would. The first time that this ever became a big issue, I suppose, was when Tony Gregory was, you know, he announced the deal that he got for inner city development from Charley Hawley to get his nomination for Taoiseach. And we had, you know, Jared Cunningham's book about the Morris Tribunal and how the thumping for the Harry Blaney Bridge come around, Mark McSharry about Charley service, Sligo, the Guard of the Station and Step aside and so on and so forth. But putting a Guard of the Station and Step aside, perhaps we would like the Guard of the Station in Milford to be retained. What good is the Guard of the Station and Step aside to us? I mean, there's no equity or fairness in all of that. And all of that is just about sort of the government, you know, trying to maintain power. That's just no way at all to run a government as far as I can see. I mean, if Mark McSharry's vote was very important for the government and the vote of confidence, Sligo gets Charley services, never can he because they don't have an independent in that position, don't get it. I mean, that's just no way to run a country or run a health service as far as I can see. And at the very least... I can ask you why they're doing it, Greg. Yeah, and also to the reason why it's not made public is because that would pull back the curtain and we would see it all. We accept it because it happens behind closed doors. But if we were to be told what is being agreed and how much it's being costed, and to what extent, like, say, for instance, a project gets bumped up the list, people in other areas that are bumped down the list have a right to know that that happened and for what reason. And I think that the public should be demanding it. Yeah, just to make the point here, the two Hailey Ray brothers both voted on opposite sides yesterday, as far as I know. Michael Hailey Ray voted against the abolition of the ban and Danny Hailey Ray voted for it. Danny was one of the five TDS that voted for it. Now, what do you think went on there? Do you think that he didn't do the popular thing and vote against the ban? He got something for it, but it's not out there in the public arena and that's no way to do a public administration as far as I can see. Right, so, but, Seamus, you still see some merit in it. I mean, if it delivers for the local region, I think we have Michael and Paddy kind of in the same space. I mean, and simply because it is in our area, like the likes of Thomas Pringle did decline to back government for a bit of, you know, a bit of good news for his region. Yeah, and he subscribes to the same view that Paddy does that he's elected to represent the country, not his constituency. I think I don't think I misquoted him in that. Yeah, and I'm not saying you should definitely accept the deal. Like you have to go with your conscience, but the system is set up in a certain way right now and they are using the system. I don't think the system should be set up like this, but it is set up like this and I don't really have a problem because it's one of them things. Everybody loves to give out a bit to Healy Ray's giving it, but if Danny got all TDS we're getting it, we'd be quite happy. So when it's not happening, when it's happening in your constituency, you're quite happy with it. When it happens in your constituency, you give out a bit. Right, OK. EU leaders agreed last night to jointly purchase one million artillery shells and send them to Ukraine over the next year. As T-Shot Leo Veradkar warned that appeasement has failed and Putin will stop where we stop him. That's the words from Leo Veradkar. But then senior officials have said, however, that Ireland would not contribute to military aid to Ukraine and the agreed conclusions of the EU leaders at the Brussels summit specified that the decision to send artillery shells was without prejudice to the specific character and of the security and defence policies of certain member states. Can we ride two horses like that? You've got, I mean, Leo Veradkar effectively saying, on our behalf now, when he speaks, whether people like it or not, whether you voted for him or not, he says, appeasement has failed, Putin will stop where we stop him. Are you happy enough with that kind of language on your behalf being, get spoken, Michael? Now, 100% not, Greg. Leo Veradkar should not have, but that point across the people of Ireland's behalf, because it's not that long, it's only a couple of weeks ago or more, where I believe Leo Veradkar said, I do believe this thought, that Ireland was going to help and help the situation, all right, but there's more kind of medical ways and stuff like that, sending stuff like that. That's the way they were going to help on, but I don't see now why the U-Tur and their sending going to support now, but we're not, you see, we're not going to support that, right? But we are training soldiers to fight on the ground, let's not forget that, we're sending people to train them, but you believe, do you believe that? We are supporting, Greg, yes, we are supporting, and I tell you why we're supporting. Once these F-16s and fighter jets and mines and everything else and tanks of the day, all these various names that we never had to tell of before are landing a ship to Ukraine at the front, some of them are there and more are coming. Once that all starts, and once America gets involved, and America will get involved, Britain will get involved, France will get involved, all other countries will get involved. And the moment America gets involved, Greg, we will not be neutral, because no doubt again, Ireland will have to go backing up again, then as such, let it be political support, whatever the case may be. Our Irish government cannot shut silent and just sit back and say, okay, boys, terrible what's going on, that's not going to happen, we all know that, and it's not good for ourselves either, and it's definitely not good when our leaders are speaking on behalf of the people of Ireland without any consultation. Nobody wants this wire, no more than the poor Ukrainians as well, they're stuck in the middle of it. And indeed the Russians as well, on the other side that have been forced into it, and both sides now forced into the front line. It's a holy mess, just that this all does, no more than these other countries as well, this added for years and years to no resolve. And I don't think the way this is going either, this is just heading down to another, what would you say, a Vietnam or something like it, along the same lines again. Paddy appeasement has failed and Putin will stop where we stop him. Are you comfortable with Leo Faradkar's language on your behalf? Look, everybody, we need to wise up here, where there is a proxy world war been fought here. Are people watching about what Iran and- Well, it's a year since we had that conversation and that's what, as it was called on this item and it was yourself and myself that talked about that. It is, and it's actually, it is, you're correct. And it's actually getting worse if people are following because Arch enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran have signed a deal or signed an agreement to let bygones be bygones. And China is the honest broker that that brokered that deal. China is now going to be, is going to accept the new pipelines being oil lines from Russia to China and China is going to give Russia military equipment in exchange for that. So the, the idea is going to be up all the time. We had in the second world war, for instance, the Ireland was de facto neutral, but in practice, they weren't neutral. And David Valera, who was a bishop at the time, was happy enough to turn the blind eye to it. I mean, we were using down the West Coast, all the weather stations and observation posts and all that. We're giving the Americans and the British military, what's the word, intel on, on sea and air traffic movement and also on climate change because Eisenhower, when he decided to pop the ships across the English Channel on the 6th of June, 1944, remember it was the, the weather station in Black Salt Bay in Mayo. It was the last thing that they spoke to it before he pressed the button to give the go. So we were officially neutral there, but we weren't in practice neutral. No, of course not. We have to use that. If there was any Germans or anything happened, they were, they were arrested. Not to mention the British Americans, they were all handed back. Yeah, and we had the car. We weren't neutral then either. No, we had the car door. We had the car door for the bombers, leaving Anas Gillan heading out to Crossfiner Camp. We, during that horrible invasion of Iraq, Shannon was available to them. So to that point then. And to make the point that, I mean, this gets more clear about, for instance, of war or whatever they call from Iraq that we're going to Quantanamo Bay. Some of those airplanes, a lot of them went through a Shannon airport. So the point I'm making here is this is not new, right? We are officially neutral, but in practice we are involved at a low level so far. I mean, the size of this country, we can't do anything to really change materially anyway. But there will come a point of time here that we're going to have to stick our colors to some ass. Either with, you know, we're either with Western democracy and we're with the European Union and with the Americans or with the Russians. It's going to get very black and white here because Leo Voradkar, I have to say, is right. If, for instance, Vladimir Putin gets his way in Ukraine, Poland are very, very worried that they're going to be next. They're wrapping up their military as we speak and preparing for that day. You know that. Yeah, and shame is too. The problem is, it's not in anyone's interest for this war to end anytime soon. You know, the world's boundaries are being redrawn. This is all working, I think, very well for the Chinese as well and it's probably no surprise to see that recent visit. And almost also to see Putin's subservient to the Chinese leader. The Americans obviously would have their motivations to the British as well. This is going to drag on in all the while. Thousands of people dying over what? Like, I mean, there's thousands of people dying over a destroyed city. The city is destroyed. But where does this all end? Seamus, do you think? Like, I mean, it's incredibly worrying. I mean, we get used to it, but if you allow yourself to think about actually what's going on for a moment and how this is what's happening on a worldwide scale, this is going to take quite some time to figure out. It's an incredibly complex situation. I would say, Greg, the one group of people who definitely want this war to end quickly is the poor Ukrainians and the 6 million Ukrainians who've had to leave their home country because a foreign army has decided to invade there. You know, I think that Patrick sums it up very well there, that, you know, Irish neutrality is a cod and it's just a cloak to not invest in our defence forces. But at the same time, Michael also made a very good point in that we are officially in neutralation and our teacher has now just decided that he's going to fund artillery shells. So he needs to take that back to the people to say, do we not want to be in neutral anymore? Do we want to be on this side? I would support that strategy, but he can't just decide mid-government cycle that we're now going to fund these things. In terms of where this whole war ends, it's very, very complex. I mean, there's an awful lot going on here and I don't know where it ends, but as I say, your only sympathy should be with the poor people of these cities that have been raised to the ground by a foreign army. And these poor people who we have all over the country who do not want to be in Ireland because they want to be in the Ukraine but can't be there because Vladimir Putin has decided he's going to invade there. Michael, do you want to last word on this before a quick break? I think both speakers were right there. I just established an affairs. Look, at the end of the day, people are making a fortune out of this. The military crowd and ammunition and everything else. And unfortunately, people on both sides are suffering. They've killed innocent people, young people, middle-aged, everything for a fact, like for people to gain power. And it's just a world-ready game that's causing the war. So maybe I'm quite naive, but I thought countries like ours that are neutral or purportedly neutral used that position by way of becoming a peacemaker, especially when we have this much-heralded piece that was reached on this island. But that's am I being naive and stupid on that? I wouldn't say that you are a great either way, but I would say as my own personal point of view, of what was March 2002, when the first fighter jet from Erie landed in Shannon Airport, we lost our neutrality that day, to be honest, which in my personal point of view, because once they land there to refuel, we're aiding in the Vietnam War, whether we like it or not. Erie's people may not be particularly out fighting it, but we're still aiding in Vietnam, helping those planes get fueled and refueled. So I think we've lost at that time and just to remind people as well, we don't need to remind you, but we had the Russian ships here, mine was around this time last year, up around Dublin or off the Erie's coast, sorry. So what were they doing there? What were they in up? Who knows where the sub-bringer about? We need to be very, very careful. We're a small island here. We need to be very careful what's been all here, what's been said and what's not been said, but our leadership, I just feel it's ready to go. All right, back with more, a final wrap up from our guests after these. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com. The night till noon show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions. Visit LetterKennyCU.ie. Highland Radio wants to send you on the holiday of a lifetime. We're the best in thousands euro. Plus five grand spending money. Get your tickets now at HighlandRadio.com. Answer the question and start packing. Start packing. Draw takes place Thursday, 6th of April on the night till noon show. Start planning your ultimate getaway only on Highland Radio. Keep your car or van running smoothly with the service at Hagerty's Ford in Letter Kenny. Not only will it minimize the risk of a major repair expense, but it will be logged in your vehicle's service handbook and help its resale value. Hagerty's also offer everything from new and free owned car sales to parts and body repairs in their approved body shop. Book a service online this month and save 30 euro when you use the code Ford30. You're always in good hands at Hagerty's Ford at Karnamuga Letter Kenny, see Hagerty's.com. At ESB Networks, we're connecting Ireland to a clean electric future. And as part of the national smart metering program, we're now installing smart electricity meters in your area. Your new smart meter will reduce the need for estimated bills, help you to manage your electricity usage more efficiently and enable you to access smart electricity products and services. We'll contact you before your meter is installed. Find out more at ESBnetworks.ie slash smart meter. Are you still struggling with slow and unreliable broadband? Imagine is connecting thousands of homes to high-speed broadband in your area right now. So why wait? With Imagine rated excellent by Trust Pilot, you'll soon be working from home with ease, streaming your favorite shows and sports uninterrupted. Join the thousands of connected homes and businesses today at Imagine.ie. To serve as subject to availability, terms and conditions apply. The nine-till-noon show with Letter Kenny Credit Union. Simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from Letter Kenny Credit Union. Call us on 074 910 2126 or apply online via our app or in office today. Are you tired of waiting for treatment or surgery? Did you know you can receive immediate treatment across the border under the new N.I. Planned Health Care Scheme at potentially no cost? Done it all patients, they're still being treated. Do you think it's a good idea to go to the hospital and get a medical check-up? I think it's a good idea to go to the hospital and get a medical check-up. I think it's a good idea to go to the hospital and get a medical check-up. I think it's a good idea to go to the hospital and get a medical check-up. The patients are still being treated with us at Kingsbridge Private Hospital North West Post-Brexit. The process is easy and our dedicated team will help guide you through it. So why wait? Contact us today to find out how you can skip the waiting lists and receive treatment in Northern Ireland. Visit kingsbridgeprivatehospital.com because life matters. Keep out the cold, cold, cold! And ring Fleming for the full range of garage doors, agri doors, insulated doors, milking parlour doors. Fleming, 91, 48, 234. In partnership with Hot Press Magazine, Irish Music Month is all about recognising the value of Irish music to everyone in this country and across the world. Help us celebrate Irish Music Month as we play more Irish music than ever before. Promote bands and artists and provide a 100,000 euro fund for artists to perform on independent radio stations across the country. This is independent Irish radio supporting Irish Music. This is Irish Music Month, supported by Hot Press, IBI and the BAI Sound and Fish and Fund. Highland Radio Weather updates with Ireland West Airport. From March 26th, Erlingus will operate a daily service to London Heathrow, providing on-road connections to any plus destinations worldwide. Ireland West Airport, don't just take off, take it easy. OK, let's have a look at the weather forecaster for this morning and I can tell you that. Today we'll be windy with fresh to strong and gusty south-west wind up, breaks of showery rain and heavy falls at times and brief brighter periods, chance of hail or lightning in heavy downpours, highest temperatures of 9 to 10 degrees. In the last couple of minutes, Seamus, should we put in the clocks forward this weekend or should we stop meddling with that malarkey? I never really understand the argument either way, honest. Like, it's kind of like... It's pure indifference. ...how is this still a thing and also why should it not still be a thing, so I never really guess why people get so worked up with it. Paddy, what do you think? Should we put the clocks forward, put them back, leave them where they're at? No, put them forward and leave them forward. Yeah. The reason why it was put in place was because of, I think, children's school, agricultural, that kind of stuff, not relevant anymore. Put them forward and leave them be. Go on, that's it. I'm on team, Paddy, on this one. What do you think, Michael? OK, I'm OK either way, to be honest with you. Oh, come on, get off the fence. I'm OK. It doesn't matter to me whether it's forward or back, I'm not going to say anything, I'm just going to leave it with you, I'm just going to leave it with you. We're up and we're up and leaving it with you. Michael is waiting for a deal to decide which side he's going to go for. Yeah, exactly. OK. Well, Miss and Michael, thanks for your very valuable hour this morning, anyway. I can't give you that back, but we do appreciate your time. Thank you very much indeed. It's been good to have you on the programme. Paddy, as always, thank you very much indeed. Have a lovely weekend, please. Last but not least, of course, Seamus McDade. Have a good one, Seamus. Thanks for joining in and thanks for your views. Thanks very much. Appreciate it. Thanks, Greg. All right. Take care of yourself. That's Paddy Rooney, Seamus McDade, Michael McClaffrey. That was our Friday panel. We're running through some of the old big stories of the day. Lots of you texting in, by the way. Plenty of interested in some of the topics we've been discussing. We'll get to them and so much more besides after we take a break for the news and obituary notices. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union. Digital loans now available. Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. Eight Century Cinemas, 86th birthday on the 26th of March. To celebrate all cinema tickets all day will be five euros each. Tickets go on sale from Tuesday the 21st of March at Century Complex and online at CenturyCinemas.ie. Visit Century Cinemas on Sunday the 26th of March to avail of this exciting offer. Terms and conditions apply. It's spring, outdoor painting season. Foy and company are the largest stockists in the Northwest of all the best quality exterior paints. Best for the exterior of your home, fencing, sheds, or garden furniture. Boys qualified in store paint consultants are on hand to help you pick the right paint for the finish you want and the right colour to suit your home. Top names include the Fleetwood Weatherclad Exterior Collection, Dulux Weather Shield and colour trend to name but a few. Call into the paint department at Foy and Company, Bally Buffet or Letter Kenny. There's a big freeze on the way and it's good news for anyone thinking about changing their home energy because Caller are putting their prices on ice with a two-year price freeze when you switch to Caller LPG. A cleaner alternative to oil, Caller Gas is ideal for cooking, hot water and heating your home. So switch today at CallerGas.ie and very soon the only thing feeling the chill will be your bill. Terms and conditions apply. Not long till our trip to Ards and North Dine. I can't wait to dust off the golf clubs. Or maybe I get some r and r in the spa. We could book in some paddle board. Or maybe kayaking this time? The kids would love that. There's loads of great options for dinner and drinks. The main question is, what do we do first? Create moments to remember. Find great value breaks at visitardsandnorthdine.com slash offers. Good evening everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, the time has finally come. Highland Radio's long-awaited concert featuring Daniel O'Donnell and special guests will take place on Tuesday the 28th of March in the Mount Arigal Hotel at Erkenny. All you need is your previously issued ticket or a copy of your online booking confirmation for entry. Doors will open at 7 p.m. on the night and we're so looking forward to seeing you there. Please contact Highland Radio with any inquiries on 074 9125000. Air online and on the Highland Radio app. This is Highland Radio News. Good morning, it's 10 o'clock. Donald Kavanaugh at the Highland Radio News Desk. The joint UK EU body overseeing Brexit meets today to ratify the legal changes brought about by the Windsor Framework. EC Vice President Marius Savkovich will meet with the Northern Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and the UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in London as part of that EU-UK joint committee. DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson says he's not a quitter and won't give up in his campaign for an improved deal. Well, she and VICE President Michelle O'Neill says the DUP is punishing the people of Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State needs to be very focused on these issues. I know that all the sectors are making noise, but this is politics, this is where we should be. You're elected to take these policy decisions, so I encourage the DUP to join with the rest of us and actually try to tackle these issues, to take them head on. Otherwise, the public continue to be punished by their actions. Meanwhile, the Northern Secretary is warning of tough economic decisions ahead and Chris Heaton-Harris says those decisions should be made by local politicians at Stormont rather than be imposed by Westminster. I do not want to be in a position where I have to set a budget. There are going to be some tough decisions to be taken and they should be taken by locally elected, democratically elected people, for the people they represent. Two people arrested last night in relation to the Kerry Babies cold case remain in Garthard custody this morning. The newborn baby, who was named John, was found with multiple stab wounds on White Strand Beach in Cahir Syveen almost 40 years ago. An extensive investigation has been ongoing into the murder since 2018 by Garthee in the Kerry Division that led to the arrest of a man in his 60s and a woman in her 50s in Munster last night. They're being held at Garthard stations in Listal and Castle Island. Sunday Times columnist Brenda Power says DNA profiling has led to a breakthrough in the case. When they exhumed the baby and got DNA samples they then approached a small but significant cohort of I think largely women to give DNA samples. So if there was a small but significant cohort almost 40 years on you'd have to ask, how did this group of people escape proper scrutiny if we are on the right track? A Donegal deputy has warned that parasitising policing is not the way forward. Deputy Thomas Pringle was speaking as the second stage of the policing, security and community safety bill 2023 came before the DAW last evening. He believes there needs to be more oversight and accountability. Deputy Pringle fears the current bill represents a step backwards rather than forwards. We know that following numerous scandals key oversight and governance functions were moved from the minister to the policing authority. However this legislation looks to move these to a board that will be internal and this is even less independent than before these scandals and it reflects the government's intention to re-politicise policing. We've seen and particularly in my own county in Donegal investigations that took place there where the only concern of the state and the bodies was to ensure that the perception only stayed in Donegal that these things all happened up there but we knew that they were all happening across the board. People who immigrated from Ireland and those who belong to minority groups are among the targets of a new morning. Major efforts are underway to recruit a thousand new Guardee and have them trained up by the end of the year. The theme of the campaign is it can be a tough job but it's a job worth doing. New measures to help those applying include early advice on the fitness test, a buddy system, earlier vetting and online engagement with candidates. A Donegal senator is calling for a national debate on the provision of facilities for children with disabilities in all playgrounds and parks across the country. Jane Flynn who sits on the Rockless Disability Matters Committee told the Shannard there are some excellent facilities in Dublin but that needs to be replicated in rural areas. I live in Royal Ireland, in Ardra in County Donegal and we have a lovely playground and it's well invested and you know the council has done a good job with it and unfortunately there's no play space or even a swing for disabled child or a child who is an autistic and it's a conversation that I think we all need to be having. And the Irish Cancer Society's biggest fundraiser is back in full bloom this year with the aim of raising 4 million euro. Daffodil Day first launched in 1988 it's now responsible for raising around 20% of the charity's income volunteers are out in force across the country. Avril Par is chief executive of the Irish Cancer Society she says there is increased demand for many of its services. The cost of living crisis and delayed cancer diagnosis mean that more people than ever need our help this year. We really want to be there for everyone who needs us with our free nursing services our counselling our financial advice service our free transport. Well the forecast I met here in Telus today will be windy with fresh to strong and gusty south west winds brief lighter periods as well a chance of some hail or lightning in heavy downpours later today top temperatures of 9 or 10 degrees celsius and that's highland radio news. We're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock this morning but for now from the news team have a very good morning. The obituary notices for this Friday morning the 24th of March the death has taken place at the cemetery Campbell Moss Road, Cardona funeral arrangements will be confirmed later the death has occurred of Anne Mead the diamond livered reposing at her late residence from 5 o'clock until 8 o'clock this evening and again tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. followed by removal to St Patrick's Church Merluck arriving at 5.30 funeral mass on Sunday morning at 11 followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery family fires only pleased the nations in lieu of desire to a charity of your choice care of Kennedy undertakers the death has taken place of Sheila Kelly, Ney Boner Solly Hull England formerly of Leffen Burtonport funeral arrangements will be confirmed later the death has taken place of Margaret Middlin, Ney McNulty Fintan remains are reposing at her late residence Requiem mass today at 12 noon in St Cullum Kills Chapel Fintown with burial afterwards in the adjoining churchyard family time please before the funeral and the death has occurred of Noreen McHugh, Lacanel Ardra funeral from McCabe's funeral premises this morning at 22.11 going to the church of the Holy Family Ardra for funeral mass at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery McCabe's funeral premises is private please before the funeral for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to Highlandvideo.com please go to Highlandvideo.com please go to Highlandvideo.com please go to Highlandvideo.com please go to Highlandvideo.com please go to Highlandvideo.com please go to Highlandvideo.com and it's early on in the competition what you could win today is a 1000 Euro voucher to use and only celebrity cruise bookings with Atlantic travel plus a 1000 Euro in cold hard cash you will also automatically of course still be in the draw for that 10,000 Euro travel voucher and 5,000 Euro cash which will be given away at the start of April so get on to the website Highlandvideo.com get your tickets it could be you winning in a little over an hour and a half and you'll be in both draws that's the important element of it and as I say because we're early in this competition chances really really good to win that 1000 Euro voucher for a cruise and 1000 Euro in cold hard cash alright I just wanted to give you a good heads up on that if it's something that you want to get involved with right let's read some of your comments as we head towards our next item on the program this is for me the most important part of the program it's what you think out there wherever you're listening to us or watching us this morning Leo Veradkar is overstepping his mandate saying and doing what he does history repeating itself war is futile the innocent sufferer and die wise up Highland try and get in and broker a peace to save lives where's the so called green brigade not worried about the pollution caused by bombs war planes and all weapons of war we're leading the world to mass destruction God help us all they say Leo Veradkar said yesterday we will stop Putin neutral I'm disgusted we are proud to be neutral and we don't want our children dying in a war that's not ours to fight what do you see I mean that's the concern isn't it that this is a step towards a European army effectively that would fight another caller says if America gets involved we'll be involved as Shannon airport is their stopover and listen I mean the Americans are up to the oxters in this war they are fighting Russia in Ukraine now they are not on fighting it with their service people the service men and women they are fighting it with their weapons and they're fighting it with their money war America is involved in this war but I do understand what you're saying in terms of Shannon stopover if they start moving troops another caller says this is why we voted no on the Lisbon treaty we're being forced into becoming a target the Irish people don't want this that's why they won't give us a referendum on the issue they know what the people think already so they are ignoring us and I mean like let's just hypothesize right what is say for instance Russia is using Ukraine to secure Ukraine as a launchpad for something and you know no one is taking Ukraine on in Ukraine you know could the same happen in Ireland could it happen in Ireland theoretically speaking I mean obviously there's the membership of different different associations and what have you but theoretically it would be a good launchpad wouldn't it another caller says it's NATO war and they started it if President Trump was still in power there would not be any of this nonsense going on I'm not quite sure about that Vladimir Putin's his own person he has a plan and he's had a plan for quite some time and the West has had their plan to try and stop his plan and so on and so forth and yet here we are another caller says why doesn't Ireland keep out of this war to lose small sorry I beg your pardon why doesn't Ireland keep out of this war too small a country to be getting involved only drawing to ourselves onto housing 90% of TVs are landlords and that's why there is no interest in changing anything in the system it's not 90% I think it's around about 35 out of the 168 9 odd so it's not 90% it's a significant proportion but it's less than I think what about what would it be about 18 15% but then and many of them might be renters as well a caller says I have a three bedroom I have a three bedroomed house in the Fentane area which I offered to the council and they told me no one was looking for accommodation in that area surely if you're in need of a home it shouldn't matter where it is it's an interesting one I know other people that have offered the council accommodation very little seems to come of it and yet we're being told we're in this desperate dire situation doesn't make sense to me another caller says Leo needs to close his mouth we're not at war we don't want to be at war if Leo wants to go fight let him go another I love how all we seem to hear now is the normalization of taking property off people will hear all of these big landlords hoarding property and charging massive rents but we must remember the majority small family homes etc people will think they're dealing with corrupt landlords but really it's the small man when you are elected you represent the entire country not just the area you are in says this listener TDs are supposed to be looking after the entire country and not just their self interests another it appears this government is not answerable to anyone some of the decisions they have made are just not acceptable but they know there is no accountability another taxing a spare room in your home if you rent it out what next bring on an election the country's in for some shake up I'm just saying that could be next at the moment you get tax breaks for renting your room who's to say you won't get punished for having spare rooms you know that if you if there is that level of reach into how you can control the property market through controlling private property that could that could ever be ruled out I don't think you could ever be ruled out I call it says any short-term solution the government ever came comes up with will never be short-term sadly this is all very convenient housing disaster just in time for the housing referendum hoping to delimit the right to private property see this is what I don't understand right I understood I don't believe this is actually an opposition this whole thing about I must take it out about a referendum on the right to private property because unless I'm very much mistaken this was a proposal from an opposition a small opposition party yet it's been framed as a government move now unless something has changed drastically since I read up on this it's being spread around the internet as a government proposal but my understanding is I think it might have been people before profit they're actually proposing this but I'll check that out but anyway look at there's already a great deal of government involvement in private property anyway maybe you're talking about the principal private residence but I'll read this text in full and then I'll get some clarification on who is proposing and the likelihood of our referendum a call says any short-term solution the government ever comes up with will never be short-term sadly this is all very convenient housing disaster just in time for the housing referendum hoping to delimit the right to private property just think about it housing shortage huge rental prices massive influx of people the perfect storm on the housing policy is suited property developers and not the small business person building local or even the stopping local councils the local council stopping people building on local property another can anyone answer if the government as the government stated the motion on extending the eviction ban had no standing as it was only emotion why then did they have to buy independence well presumably how it might look if if it was a defeat for government on such a matter um on a opposition on an opposition proposal because the vote eventually was on a government amended motion wasn't it morning Greg why don't the council start buying up properties in Donegal Donagall town have a lot of potential development opportunities in the towns itself I think that's what the government want them to do where are they going to get the money are they funded to do it do they have the staff why and also to what does that do for the property market what is the price of this price is skyrocketing do they stay as they are or do they drop I don't know why is no one talking about the derelict houses a property tax on these derelict houses there are five within walking distance from my house says a listener it shouldn't make a difference if someone refuses a house if it doesn't suit them someone else will take it I don't see the harm okay and that's the point Michael McClaffrey was making I respect that how would overtaxing Airbnb help our tourism that is the biggest employer in Donegal and homes as their only income as a disabled person unable to work I'm hoping to rent to tourists I don't want to long-term rent as I would have all sorts of problems Greg when you elect 27 TDs who are landlords do expect them to want to reduce their income when they can do what they are doing preserving high rents and now being able to make human beings real children babies older people in the most vulnerable live on the streets another the only solution is the government needs to start even if it's prefab homes but councils won't allow planning for lots of them local authority building on government land is the only way but it takes profit away from developers and reduces house prices and rents which affects the government's buddies and on they come they continue to come in thank you very much for it really appreciated 08 6 60 25 thousand what's what's apps and texts to that number right okay there is a new book out from a leading psychotherapist Stella O'Malley and it is entitled what your teen is trying to tell you I think was times that anyone with children might ask themselves that question that's if they speak at all but that in and of itself may be an indication of something any questions about your teens that we could help you with Stella's going to be joining us after the break the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio it's time for NCBI bingo on Highland Radio it's Friday the 24th of March you're playing on the yellow sheet the reference number is s20 it's game number 12 the numbers are 40 41 48 71 68 90 51 39 44 and finally 13 phone your claim to 9104833 before 8 tonight leaving your name contact number and the name of the shop where you purchased your book and we'll call you back the next working day get all your NCBI bingo information at HighlandRadio.com if you're getting married the in-house design team at Bisprint can get all your wedding stationery and sign-in needs customized to your requirements just visit weddinginbites.ie or call Bisprint at Port Road Letter Kenny on 9 1 7 9 5 Hi, Paddy here at Shane Connolly Cars in Donegal Town are you looking to upgrade your car? With Shane Connolly Cars you'll find mix and models for every budget great finance options and may also accept trade-ins at ShaneConnollyCars.com or call on to us at Shane Connolly Cars from London Road, Donegal Town No hidden fees or transaction charges Letter Kenny Credit Union 9 1 0 2 1 2 7 Highland Radio time checks with Expressway travel route 32 from Letter Kenny to Dublin Expressway bringing you the time at 22 just about to turn 23 minutes past 10 now on to the show is the author of what your teen is trying to tell you it's Stella O'Malley and she is a leading medical therapist thanks so much for joining us Stella great to have you on the program thank you and it's an interesting book because I think the overwhelming majority of parents and guardians grandparents aunts and uncles whomever who might have a role in the raising of a child unless they hit the teenage years might often ask themselves what is that teen trying to tell you and sometimes they maybe are telling you by not saying anything at all it's a tough old age and I suppose it can be tough to deal with two and to do the right thing yeah I think it's very hard to be a teenager these days an awful lot of childhood is very magical and it's very pleasant and you know children are told their dreams will come true and you know if they just try hard enough they'll win and then they reach adolescence and they get a kind of a very sharp shock of reality when they realize actually it's much harder than that life is very difficult and it's often unfair and you can try very hard and still lose and so I think that dawning of realization hits them very hard is it more difficult now than before because you know we're all talking about what we should be telling our teenagers what we shouldn't be telling them how we should be guiding them or not letting them decide what they want to be I welcomed when I was a young person you know a hand on my shoulder advising me where I need to go or should go and the realities of life and the pitfalls of life it seems now the policy is that just let them at it let them be what they want to be let them feel what they want to feel but it's not really working giving recent statistics in terms of mental health and what have you are we sure as a society we are we are giving them the right we're raising them and allowing them to mature in the right sort of space as a society I don't think we're doing very well with adolescents at the moment there's an awful lot of mental health problems and they do need guidance they do need the kind of the wise words and they're not getting them there's been an awful lot of disempowerment of parents and there's been an awful lot of impact from social media and it's as a result an awful lot of teenagers feel anxious and not sure of themselves and I don't think we're getting it right I do think we need to get kind of have more authority now I'm not saying be strict disciplinarians but certainly there's it feels a bit chaotic as if they're leading the way and they're very unsure of themselves even though they seem cocky they're very unsure of themselves it's very scary and burdensome thing to be told you're in charge when you're a teenager and it also is very dependent on which teenager you're talking of you know and what their behaviour and how they speak really is reflecting what's going on within them yeah they say about a third of teenagers like sale through about a third have choppy enough times but ultimately they're okay and about a third have a really really rough time and you know most mental health issues emerge first during adolescence so some of those are going to be very serious problems like just going early on I mean there was a story recently and I'm not I'm not a shock truck by the way he might not be familiar with the show but just so that's not really my style right but there was a recent high profile case of course and this is about much younger than teenage years but it sets I think it might set a tone for the rest of someone's life that we had a high profile politician and his partner recently had a child they didn't assign it agenda they gave it a gender neutral name with the view that it will discover as it matures what it wants to be it doesn't want to be I've found it quite insulting as a man and maybe some as a woman this is the only part of it whereby having assigned gender is a disadvantage I personally don't believe that's the case I think everyone's entitled to feel what they want to feel but I don't want to get into a space where actually it's it's hold you back because you happen to be a born and identified from birth as a male but anyway be that as it may would you ever concern as a psychotherapist putting that much pressure or weight on a child to sort of even find out something as fundamental as that through the journey of life from a young age I mean if we're starting that with babies and toddlers and it kind of seemingly now continues into teenage years it just sounds to me like it puts an awful lot of pressure on a child that simply does not know I think you're right I think we've moved from being child-centred to child-led and I think that's actually a very heavy burden on a child's shoulders you know one of the kind of great gifts of childhood and adolescence is the freedom not to have these burdens on you that the adults are in charge and the adults are making decisions for example where we live what school we go to and the child and the teenager they might have input certainly you can listen to what they're saying but the idea that they are actually making the definitive decision is too much of a burden on their shoulders it weighs heavily and like most kids will take it and they'll say oh yeah I'll have this I love being in charge but are immature so they think they think it's great but sure that's the entire concept of being a child just because you want to be in charge doesn't mean you get to be in charge and the adults should be shouldering the responsibility of leading the way and offering guidance and I agree with you I think you can be anything as a boy and you can be anything as a girl and I don't think you need to change anything about that other than society maybe needs to free us up so that you know boys could wear dresses or whatever that we don't need to play around with pronouns to do that we have the freedom to live as we wish I'm thinking of the women's six nations team lining up this weekend or Katie Taylor is going right so you know I was disadvantaged right from the get go do you know what I mean I'm not having to go with that everyone's entitled to do what they want to do I'm not in any way encroaching on in that okay but there's a normalization or at least an attempt to normalize certain stuff my only interest in it doesn't matter for me anymore is children and I just want to make sure that whatever we are doing is best for children of all ages up until the age of 17 or 18 that we are tooling and equipping them for half the awful realities of life wrecking ball when you go to third level or even into big school do you know what I mean and I just don't it just feels like a space where it's supposed to be about protecting and nurturing children but it seems we're moving away from that we're relinquishing that responsibility almost yeah under a cloak of I'm just listening to the child but you know the freedom of being a child is the freedom to be able to make mistakes and for the adults to step in for the more serious kind of you know decisions because the funny thing the whole thing I'm holding a book here which we're going to talk about now which is educating big hairy adults right on how to look after the teenagers and yet there are some subscribing saying that children should be able to do it all themselves you know what I mean yet we need this book we need this book for the adults for the grown-ups you know what I mean so let's get to the book uh uh Stella because it is it is a it's a tough one you know what I mean dealing with teenagers and I find you know I find like I'm being influenced by stuff now so I want to help I want to be disciplined you know I'd want to be disciplined with teenagers but I'm so afraid now to say the wrong thing in case it damages in their mental health and then I feel like I need to keep checking the bedroom door to make sure everything's in there like I think we've been all we're full of fear and disempowerment now as adults that we might be doing them harm or they might harm themselves if we do or say the wrong thing that's so strict does this book help us with working all that out yeah I actually talk specifically about that exact point in the book which is that an awful lot of parents feel frozen in the face of their child or their teenagers mental distress because there's been such heavy messages about mental health that once the teenagers in distress parents are afraid they can fold like paper they're afraid to hold authority because they're like they'll have mental health issues and that's a very unfortunate byproduct of the mental health kind of industry that has left parents kind of disempowered and afraid to upset their kid when actually you know between you know 10 and 20 children are pushing boundaries and parents are holding boundaries that's what should be happening there should be a lot of conflict because they're pushing against them they're holding the authority and if we're afraid of our children's tears and we're afraid of our children's distress we're not going to give them the authority that they need now I know this is complicated because I know obviously mental health is a huge issue I'm a psychotherapist I'm very very interested in well-being but I think it's a very unfortunate new development that so many parents are afraid of upsetting their kid you know how do we for example parents that I work with might say how do I hold this line without having a fight and I'm like oh no you're going to have a fight there's going to be many fights and they're slightly horrified by that because they think they'll be able to do without a fight and I'm like I'm not convinced you will now it doesn't have to be a rip-roar and brawl but there will be you know roll dies, slam doors as there has been for thousands of years with teens in the wild you'll see a tiger cub at some point snap at the mother and it will have to be reprimanded for it and then you know what I mean there's a lot of this we're born with it's within us it's not just humans it's animals right so I think I mean the book starts off chapter one understanding the teenage minds they're half adult half charred why are the irrational what's going on in their head that introduces us really to a better understanding of because we can forget can't we and we can look back with rose tinted glasses what it's like to be a teenager how the mind is developing what's happening there and then you move on to connecting and communicating with your team which is again some people really really struggle with that it can be difficult because some parents want to be the children's best friends you know and I'm not really quite sure that works very well because then when it comes to saying you can't do this you can't do that it's all very complicated so I think going through those processes there maybe can find help you find the right balance through those two chapters yeah I think you know if a child is lucky enough to have parents that they are the only those parents those two parents are the only two parents in the world of that child it's a very very special relationship you can have a thousand friends you can only really have two parents and so it's really really important that it's treasured and appreciated for its special role and that special role is to give long term guidance and to give authority but yeah that first chapter talks about the kind of if you're aware of the biology or the neuroscience of the teenage brain you realise they're literally playing with half a deck compared to adults their brain isn't fully formed and it won't be fully formed until they're in their kind of early 20s so it's like a kind of a snow globe it's all full of chaos and it's you know and it will settle but it hasn't settled and some parts of the brain of the teenage brain like the emotional part is very overdeveloped and the why is reasonable genuine it's actually neuroscience isn't yet developed so their ability to be wise and reasonable is not there they don't have it yet and they will have it it'll come but right now they're filled with emotion and certainty and we adults need to just accept that that is who they are it's almost like we accept the toddlers have to go through developmental tasks like learning how to ride a bike or you know tie the laces whatever they're doing then in teenage years they also have developmental tasks such as learning how to cope with distress learning how to manage difficult relationships learning how to regulate the emotions all those tasks need to be kind of tackled and also kind of overcome to become a fully functioning adult and it takes some time and I think we forget that they have developmental milestones just like a child it's just a more complicated one so I go through that in the book yeah and dealing with the common issues of course like anxiety obsession with technology body confidence too I think how do you best support and how do you articulate that support you know these are these are I think every child's going to every teenager is going to come across some of those issues through their teenage years and we're empowered then presumably to best support and help them and understand them yeah I think never before has there been so much emphasis on looks and teenagers have kind of always been in vain because their bodies are changing so fast and you know the hormones are coming in but these days the emphasis on looks is just phenomenal and you know all the pictures all the selfies all the kind of various different aspects of their looks it's really really a difficult challenge for teenagers to navigate constant emphasis on your looks and pictures and things like that what I think is also an interesting one here is because this is almost like the flip side doesn't my teen want to grow up and I kind of got a little chuckle when I read that because some teenagers want their dreading starting 17 or 18 and presumably that forms part of this too this chapter it is it's a real issue it's more of an issue than it has been before usually teenagers do want to grow up when I say usually in previous generations teenagers want to grow up because they'd get more freedom there was very definite benefits to growing up and an awful lot of teenagers these days they don't want to grow up they want to remain childlike growing up feels full of admin full of burdens and not really much fun and so we we adults we kind of owe it to children to sell adult to adult to them so that they do want to grow up because it's a terrible thing that there's there's a kind of concept called failure to launch where there's an awful lot of people in their 20s they haven't moved out of their child at home they're still in their childhood bed and they're not interested in growing up they're not interested in getting a job and their parents their hearts are scalded they don't know what to do about these kids so it is it's a very serious issue this is the first generation of children that can't expect to have as much wealth as their parents and they don't expect to have houses as as kind of as wealthy as their parents it's a huge new development that has never happened before because every other generation until now presumed that they would do better than their parents they didn't always but they presumed that they would and this generation don't think that and that's strange just in relation to the book like I don't want to frame it incorrectly and you correct me if I'm wrong of course I don't see this as a book that someone necessarily might read between you know in the last week of someone in their 12th year and then put it on eBay right the way it seems to be set up to me is that the various issues are covered in as many or as few new words that are required so in other words if a parent has this on a bookshelf and they're concerned that you know someone's spending too much time in front of the mirror on a phone or are they anxious or are they just feeling anxious do they have anxiety or are they in an anxious moment that you can jump to that section and just feeling a bit empowered with some words that maybe actually just affirm what you're already feeling yeah the idea of the book you've got it right is to dip in and dip out as the issues now you could read it true if you were so inclined but there would be certainly written so that you can dip into the specific issues that's on your mind about your teenager because I think parents do feel disempowered and they'll feel more settled when they read something okay okay I've got this I can handle this I don't have to charge off to the professionals it's just a few words around any given topic to give a kind of psychological understanding of what might be going on for the teenager and as I say I might be coming across as enthusiastic it's just it kind of appeals to me in that I think we have a really important role in helping and guiding our teenagers and we shouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed or whatever out of doing that you know there are times in my life when I remember going to my mother and just for a really brief chat and I needed what she had to say to me to make me feel better do you know what I mean I couldn't have done it I couldn't have felt like I could do it on my own yet modern thinking would probably be for her to say to me look son whatever do you know what I mean it's a weird kind of cloak where they're saying basically to the kids and teenagers you've got this and the teenagers are like you kind of would like some words of guidance well I've got it if tiktok is what life is if tiktok's my parents I've got it yeah of course I do but I mean if the real world it's not that isn't way it is so I don't got it because you're not born with this knowledge you're not born with this decision making power you're not born to understand the various things that can happen through you know the ages of 9, 10, 11 12, 13 I call it as my daughter's been diagnosed with non-epileptic attack disorder pseudo seizures finding it so difficult to cope with is there any advice on this that you could give how this parent might be able to deal with the young person yeah I think that young person could be helped in many different ways certainly there could be kind of a lot of help around anxiety with that child I think she would benefit from maybe going to therapy but certainly and I don't charge off to therapy every teenager but that's quite serious what that kid is confronting there's a brilliant book and it's not my book but it's about exactly those seizures called it's all in your mind it's by Susanna Sullivan an amazing book I really recommend that parent not only buys my book but buys that one then we can get both of the discount hey why not I really appreciate your time this morning obviously because it's such a complex matter we can only brush across it but I hope people get a feel for what we're talking about the book is what your teen is trying to tell you it's by Stella O'Malley as I say you could really I think maybe definitely read chapters one or two and then you can dip in and out as the inevitable problems arise no one's got a teenager through their teenage years without issues there's just no doubt about that and it's normal it's part of our development you know it is we can't avoid it we have to deal with this and as well say for instance a teenager has lost a grandparent that they're very close to that's really difficult it can be the first sort of sense of bereavement and what have you things like that are covered in the book as well because we can feel really what do we do what do we say right okay listen I really appreciate your time this morning I've enjoyed talking to you and continued success thank you very much for your time thank you very much have a lovely day okay that is leading psychotherapist Stella O'Malley any views on anything we were talking about there 08 660 25000 08 660 25000 that's your whatsapps and texts or give us a call at 07 491 25000 watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the 9 till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low rate holiday loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today the top line annual spring sale is now on high quality hardware tools and outdoor products for your home or garden projects visit your local top line store for great products at great prices shop our spring sale for one week only top line here to help happy to advise are you ready to experience something extraordinary cultural gems in Croatia ancient temples in Asia art in Italy anything and everything is possible with travel department pick a destination and a date and we'll take care of everything flights, accommodation, excursions expert local guides and all that planning guided group tours to dream destinations book today at traveldepartment.com I've shown to operate it for over 25 years travel department let's see more buying or moving home can be a strange mixture of excitement and stress so the last thing you need is worrying about conveyancing time to call McElhenny and associates they'll move that property transaction along swiftly make sure everything's in order and prevent any nasty surprises residential commercial leasing delivery transfer call today on 0749175989 or find us online we'll do the paperwork you do the wallpaper McElhenny and associates solicitors turn order how can we help Clarence gift of beauty promotion is now on McElhenny's purchase two or more Clarence products want to be a moisturiser or serum and receive a choice of four free beauty treats and a gorgeous beauty bag available until March 25th when stocks last gift may vary Sheridan security now introducing zero wire smart alarm systems zero wire zero mess and a real peace of mind with a simple press of a button your alarm can be set or on set or download the free app and control it from your phone call us today on 074912 6025 and get your alarm from 299 euro and protect what you value most with Sheridan security systems at Centra this week we have great offers like Centra Feshart extra lean steak mince 330 gram only 3 euro Kittensoft Toilet Tissue Family Pack 16 rolls only 10 euro and in our Italian wine sale Castel Mondo Rapazzo and Il Capo Lovaro Apacimento 10 euro and in our Italian wine sale Castel Mondo Rapazzo and Il Capo Lovaro and Il Capo Lovaro Apacimento 10 euro each smart choices choose Centra Centra live every day enjoy cold sensibly right price tiles and wood flooring are 25 years old and to celebrate we're offering up to 70% off across all tiles wood flooring and bathware and each week 25 lucky customers will win their order for free that's right for free right price tiles and wood flooring up to 70% off birthday sale thanks for your time thanks for your time you're a great service in the four star Clayton Hotel Belfast and your standing ticket to the outdoor event contact us today on 074 9125,000 to see Tom Jones at Ormobark Belfast Friday 16th of June Highland Radio with Ireland West Lanzarote is back check out our new summer flights Okay, let's have a look at that weather forecast for you. Actually, I just have to bring it up for you I really should have it printed up for me and sitting in front of me. Shouldn't I with a cute card saying now Greg? Anyway, today will be windy with fresh to strong Augustic Southwest wind outbreaks of sherry rain with heavy falls at times and brief brighter periods chance of hail a lightning in heavy downpours highest temperatures of nine or ten degrees now We were talking earlier on about housing and I brought up the issue of the last its last group of stats I saw that one third of Social homes that have been offered are refused now. This is not Me saying this I'm quoting the statistics, but in the past to have been counsellors They've been interviewed on this program and in newspapers that have stated that there should be checks and balances in place that if someone were to refuse a house a certain amount of time that such and such It would have happened. So this is an issue that's been debated in the chamber of the council I heard from Michael McCleffordy and many agreeing with him that the house isn't disappearing because someone refuses it It's still there. Someone will get it. So there's no harm in it. Sinead joins us now. Sinead where within all of that Do you sit in relation to the provision and providing an offering of social housing? Well, thanks for asking me on first, but yeah, I would pretty much agree with Michael I don't you know, the houses are there the houses are not going, you know, if someone refuses a social housing house then Someone else will take that house. I Was I just wouldn't want to be in a space where we are Taking people off of social housing less than perhaps the people who need it the most And I was given the example of well, look, what if that's a single parents? What if that's a single parent with children who their entire support network is In that particular area And they have no access to cars or you know, I've transported The only thing is we do have access to the reasons as to why people refuse social housing and You know that is that's the obvious, you know I don't think anyone would want anyone to have to uproop and lose that structure But sometimes people refuse houses because they've got a motorbike and there's nowhere to put it so and again That's probably another in extreme example. So I want to avoid that and put it to you like this shanaid Yeah, should we then separate those out that refuse it for very real reasons like you've just outlined Compared to someone who refuses it for reasons that perhaps might seem unreasonable Then would that help to make it a fairer system then because it might that person you talk of might get a house quicker Well, how are we gonna police that though Greg who's gonna police that who's gonna have the staff to police that who's gonna be paying for That policing of that do it doesn't does for instance something all kind of council doesn't do they have the ability to do that So if we're gonna separate reasons as to why Someone refuses house, you know, and I know what's gonna happen is that you know If you're allowed to refuse a house for a particular reason everybody's gonna say it's for that reason So that's not that's not gonna work. The solution to this is to build social housing I've been saying it through a lot of us have been saying it for years and years and years and Unfortunately, we've had Fingale and been a fallen power And it hasn't been happening. So that's what the that's what it is. They need to build social housing They need to build social housing in areas where they're needed And that's gonna be the solution to this nobody's gonna be able to please that Nobody yeah, but I mean if you're on the waiting list you're desperate for housing We're in a housing crisis, you know, we've got full far more people that need houses than houses that are available Do all those rules that you say still apply in this situation? What rules do you like? In terms of you know, it's okay to refuse a house And what have you do you know what to mean like we are desperate here And then of course because people may be being fussy as some might describe it We've got people that are out of this scheme all together because they're on really quite low rages And maybe if people weren't as fussy the scheme could be widened out I'm only saying this to tease out the conversation should I don't hope and being clear But you know you are everything with everything that's ongoing Can we afford to be picky? Even if it is maybe moving another five miles away from your your sister or your auntie or your mother Or your dad or your uncle do you know what I mean or even moving the children to another school? You know in a crisis in a crisis. Is that excuse enough? I look and you know, I've seen some of the reasons You know that people have given and my own personal opinion on that is like that's not you know That's not reasonable, right? But if we try to implement a system where people are being refused for and you're only allowed to refuse for certain reasons and look There are many examples of good reasons as to why people should be allowed to where they have to stay in their own area The example I gave earlier on one of that woman and I know it's not just women But it's primarily women suffering from domestic abuse. They've got an abusive partner They've left them they need to be within five minutes of their family. They need that for their sense of security They need to be safe. So if we're gonna have a system where people are after a certain cut-off point That's it. You're not allowed to are we gonna say that those those people and you know Should be living terrified and fear all the time or you know, is that what we're saying? Yeah, I Just don't see how it's workable You make a very strong point today and I'm really close to the complexity of of the problem that we have You know and I don't think anyone would want anyone to be placed in danger or to feel in danger as you've outlined I don't think anyone would all right She says you say would you just leave more houses in the right place? I suppose thanks for your time today more houses and More portable houses as well. Yeah to get their act together. That does not seem to be a donagall solution That's a choice. That's a choice. Okay. I won't say that you know, it is workable Thank you. I take care of yourself. I appreciate it Hi Greg totally agree with most of you listeners Leo Varadkar is no right in making decisions in supporting the war in Ukraine against the wishes of the Majority of the Irish people, but we don't know if it's against the wishes of the majority of Irish people We have not been consulted on this by the way That's your view and then Leo Varadkar's expressing his view now The problem is is that the listener that sent this in is not the leader of the government But anyway reading on like what I'm saying is is we I don't like to presume that the majority of the Irish people Opposed what Leo Varadkar said either because I don't think that helps us I'll read the comment in full. Hi Greg totally agree with most of your listeners Leo Varadkar is no right in making decisions in supporting the war in Ukraine against the wishes of the majority of the Irish people We are a neutral small country They should be working towards peace look what America and Britain did in Iraq Lied and totally destroyed that country and gave rise to ISIS and the loss of thousands of innocent people and children's lives NATO and America need to start talking peace for everyone's sake. They would say though that if they do not pin back Putin where he's at that the world as we know it could change So that's what their argument is a caller says it's great that the only DUP members publicly opposing the Windsor framework Framework are the ones that carry on getting big money as MPs if storming falls Remind me of union bosses calling strike action why they still get full pay and the workers get nothing when on strike Another caller says the only way to sort out any crisis in Ireland is for the people to stand together and demand an action Immediately a child can see the current government as no confidence They're running the country into the ground because they know Sinn Fein are going to be elected next time round So they're putting the country into red So the next party elected can't do anything stand together peacefully protest and get the current government out again Let me just point out to if you don't mind that if even in the opinion polls The current government has 45% of the vote As things are so and no one should presume that there's going to be a complete wipeout in the next general election because those Percentages actually also don't necessarily Relate to to seat so it's just important for absolute balance here that the current government enjoys 45% support ish there or thereabouts if you throw in the independence day you could probably push it towards 4546 I don't have the exact stats But anyway, I think sometimes we presume that no one supports the government that what the government is everything They're doing is wrong. That's not the case lots of people as they say almost half the population actually really when you look at it support this current Coalition So we should that shouldn't be ignored and nothing should be presumed either I don't think the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions visit letter Kenny see you Trinity College Dublin has been inspiring Generations for over 400 years with a reputation for excellence in education research and innovation We offer a wide range of postgraduate programs at Masters Diploma and certificate level join us at our postgraduate virtual open evening on Tuesday the 28th of March from 5 p.m. To 7 p.m. Meet our world-leading academics students and admission teams and be inspired to take the next step in your career register your interest at tcd.ie I'm Lorraine Keane and I hate feeling tired and hormonal yet That's exactly how I felt when my Perry menopause started in my late 30s for nutritional support I chose iris supplement clean marine menemen why because menemen contains omega 3 vitamin D and also vitamin B6 Which contributes to the regulation of hormonal activity and helps reduce tiredness all in just two capsules a day Ask for menemen at health stores and pharmacies or learn more at clean marine.ie. I'm glad I did For day-to-day health care needs generations have trusted the experienced staff at McGee's chemist letter Kenny From coughs and coals to aches and pains from vitamin supplements to first aid essentials McGee's have what you need when you need it with a full prescription service available daily McGee's chemist Main Street letter Kenny for health care help and advice you can always trust We at Highland radio love Irish music and we want to show our support Throughout Irish music month this March in partnership with hot press magazine We're asking you to support the Irish musicians artists and bands who make every party every drive home and every day Magic that's right to celebrate Irish music month on Highland radio We're asking you to support Irish artists and musicians by buying Irish albums Irish tickets Irish t-shirts and Irish music merch Irish musicians have shown that they are right up there with the best in the world So let's support them by buying Irish proudly supported by Highland radio hot press Ibi and the BAI signed and vision With all the stories that matter across the Northwest it's Greg Hughes on the 9 to noon show on Highland radio. Yes indeed and we're with you for another hour, but before that let's get a news update and it's over to Donald Kavanaugh Thank you Greg. Good morning detectives from the PSN IS tourism investigation unit are conducting a search in the letter Kenny Road area of Derry as part of an ongoing investigation into new IRA activity They say the plan search has been conducted with support from local police and officers from the tactical support group Please say they continue to use all tools at their disposal to reduce the threat posed by violent distant Republicans And they're urging anyone with information or concerns to contact them Hickwell has published reports on three nursing homes in Donegal this morning with a number of non-compliances noted the reports noted All residents were happy in the three centers However, six non-compliances were noted in both Brindley Manor and Harbour Lights nursing homes while one non-compliance was noted at the Lakehouse nursing home a Donegal deputy is warning that politicized Policing is not the way forward deputy Thomas Pringle was speaking on the second stage of the policing security and community safety bill 2023 it came before the doll last night He said there needs to be more oversight and accountability. He fears under the new bill. There'll actually be less after 30 years an investigation into the disappearance of Annie McCarrick has been upgraded to a full murder inquiry and Staying with cold cases two people arrested last night in relation to the Kerry babies case Remain in guard the custody this morning the newborn baby named John was found with multiple stab wounds on White Strand Beach in Carras, I mean almost 40 years ago an intense of investigation has been ongoing into the murder since 2018 by guard the in the Kerry division and On guard the shape on a has launched a recruitment campaign to add 1,000 new members this year the association of guard the Surgeons and inspectors recently said this campaign would be difficult It's warned that being a guard the now is different to how it was in the past saying policing has become overly bureaucratic the headlines back with headlines again at 12 noon All right, Donald. Thank you very much indeed Michael and funerals are on the way next We're good mates. Yeah, look, I'm always there for him 100% It's too thick and thin and sure he likes having me around Anytime he's going out. I'll get the show, you know and someday I'll probably kill him Smoking isn't the friend you think it is quit for 28 days and start taking back control Find out how at quit.ie or free phone one eight hundred two or one two or three from the HSE It is time for that Entertainment and a little later on by the way We will be giving one of you one thousand euro in cash And also a 1000 euro voucher to use on any celebrity cruise Booking that draws going to take place around about quarter to 12 You've got about 27 minutes to buy your tickets and as I say this is early in the competition So you've really good chances if you enter in winning this morning's prize and don't forget to That's only a bonus the real draw Let me put it like that. It's ten thousand euro travel voucher to use as you wish wherever you want. It could be numerous Short-haul type holidays. It could be one big one You'll have access to that plus five thousand euro spending money Although as I said yesterday that for me would be a new bathroom and I'll just have the ten thousand euro voucher It's all an association with Atlantic travel But if you want to be with a really good chance of winning that one thousand euro cash today and a thousand euro voucher to use on any Celebrity cruise bookings with Atlantic travel Go on to the website Highland radio dot-com and buy your tickets the most you'll pay is ten euro So if you can afford that away you go But you can get better value if you want to group in with other people six for fifty or buy them for other People six for fifty. They're cheaper still if you buy ten four eighty now if it's fully safe Secure and quick on the website But if you want to buy your ticket in person call in to us here at Highland radio Or if you want to call us an old seven four nine one twenty five thousand we will hook you up But you've got to 26 minutes now to be in the one thousand euro cash draw and also that one thousand euro voucher to use on any Celebrity cruise bookings. All right, that's one ticket wins both vanilla, isn't it? Yes, absolutely. Yep. No one ticket wins both so it's an exciting Mike's are all crooked and whatever, but anyway, it's fine. It doesn't matter. Yeah, and your your logo's pointed the wrong way and All that kind of stuff it feels like ages since we've sat down together We haven't even talked about what we would do with the draw and usually by now we've uh, you know Well, I was more and about this wait I know what I'm just saying the draw has been on for a few weeks. Like that's how long Friday was good Friday Was Bad as each other Started watching Ted lasso right on the beginning. Yeah, well, I'm hard to gonna start at the end of work Well, I wasn't sure you had seen season Well, I listened to everything you say I know what you've watched and what you don't watch And I recall I recall throughout the call conversations about this from use and I've heard it from others that you know You don't have to know anything about football To watch it. Yeah, right. I think knowing something about football and watching it's a distinct disadvantage But I know it's not a documentary. I Haven't laughed once yet and I'm halfway through season two now. I've sort of got a You know it's into myself, but I have not laughed. Well, is there something wrong with me for no, no Yes, I mean something other than the obvious I mean, I don't really want to break it to your loved ones, but you may be dead inside You may be a sociopath, but you know With the Ted lasso, I mean I have that I mean you love it love it love it. Oh my god, I've seen it Numerous times. I don't tell you how often I've seen it I I've thrown on all the time if I just want to watch something. There's two or three of them And I consider my they're kind of like the way Pride and Prejudice is that book you go to it's like that little TV thing That you go to just to get the warm and fuzzies from because but when you say laugh out loud I don't know how often I laughed, you know out loud to myself in the house But but it does give you the warm and fuzzies Do you not feel an affection or you know a connection to the characters plus I yeah But this never it has still not been explained really this far in as to why Why he is doing what he's doing, right? Why he was hired. I mean obviously was hired to destroy the club Right. Yeah established very early on but what he's doing to sort of Influence how the team progresses or not in any way shape or form. I was to say maybe I'm it's not a football show, right? It's not a football show and then this constant pointing at the constant obvious differences Between words that are used in America versus here phrases that are used well That's just for the joke for America Yeah, but it's it's it's multiple times. Oh, yeah, the little metaphors, too. That's what they're called I am not saying I'm not enjoying it, right, but I was just expand expecting something That I would just install as one of my go-tos or one of my favorite shows But is that one of those situations where people not just yourself, but people fall into a thing where the expectations they have are Unreachable you can't possibly it's like the last episode of loss the last episode of game of thrones the last episode of I don't know if you are I Kept through and I'm gonna go back to it. Don't get me wrong The buildings for instance, which is Yeah, I know but it's it's this is a completely different kind of show. I mean, yes I don't know if it is. I don't think it is. No, I don't think they're very similar All right, well, I think it's been completely different. You know, I mean one is really One is a longer time. You know, one is a much longer title. I mean Words one has lots of murders. One does not know because murders in the building is you know There's there's like nearly a story arc as in there's a particular thing that's happening over the course of this Ted Lasso was kind of set up everyone as soon as it started then everybody knew it was gonna be three series That's what it was announced. It was a three-story. So you knew it was a three-story arc, but it's there's not really a particular story as such The people do you know what I mean is in there's no, you know, if you Murder's in the building murders in the building is it starts off. Yes, obviously There's a murder in the building. There's a murder in the building and then the whole the whole episode then is about what did that The people The journey that these that the different characters are no, there's the the the potential Religation promotion of a football team, which is really only the background. There is the that's more again That's just what the journey does the intrigue of the former owner of the club trying to get in and out of the club As it might be this Ted Lasso's Relationship with his wife. There is the chair of the football club Her her her difficulty in finding Only murderers is about those people like give the father daughter relationship with his The father son relationship and it's all about relationships of the people. No, no it is but I think in Ted lasso there's There's there's no kind of overarching sort of a thing It's really about the journey that the characters are on in this process. There's no There's no such thing like as in Whether or not like to be honest with you I watch the first series wondering what they'd be relegated. Yeah, I don't think about any of that kind Of stuff because to me the football it this could be said anywhere It just happens to be set in football. I would say because my character predates Ted You may as well is the point of the show overall not that you were saying he does nothing to affect change Isn't it about bill? Yeah, he builds teamwork The point is yeah, he breaks down the barriers between each one of the players So by the end of the first season and by the end of the second season, they're functioning as a team That's the change. That's the crucial reason that Ted lasso is there. Yeah, they all they weren't working together I don't know what's the cliche and you've seen that in every sports movie, but that's what it's about I mean at one point Roy Kent comes in and has a big conversation with him and he's Very upset about something and he goes it hurt my feeling and I'm sorry. That's funny If you know the right character I don't think your expectations could have been any higher for season three Yes, and I know people who started watching it nightly so that they finished the end of season two Season three so Going into it. Is it everything that you wanted me? Every is it as good as you were expecting I Find it as good as I was expecting because it's still it's it's a little bit darker and a little bit sad You know whereas it was more on a high note and it there's only two so far and there will be I think it's 13 or something In this series so and and they are almost an hour long each They run anywhere between that's the crazy thing about it is there's no set runtime for this show you can watch one That's 40 minutes you got watch one. That's 52 minutes three minutes, but it's I Do find the emotional side of it as in I am drawing into it You do feel that to me when I'm watching it I nearly feel the emotions of the people that are in it because I feel connected to them And I just think that's what I love about it is the characters are so well kind of To my mind sort of fleshed out as in they're not you know, they're they're not one-dimensional You know, you kind of think you know everything about them a kind of I think that's what Ricky Jarvis kind of achieved with the office It's similar in that kind of now whether you like the humor of it or not people were Heavily invested in will they won't they relation the emotion that's it And the friendships between the two guys in the office and that kind of thing I think it's very much like that It's very it's the same as well if you watch like parks and recreation Similar type of thing you kind of got totally involved in The people which is what I like about it. So it's a little bit darker because of again I'm not it's difficult to talk about it Oh So there's a lot of different kind of threads sort of hanging now that if this is and they haven't actually said now Of course, then it's done so well if they're going to stretch it out I personally hope they don't because they've always said 13 40 50 odd But it gives them plenty of latitude to yeah, that's I'm saying much as I love this show I do hope that they end it. Yes in this year Exactly because you mentioned last and I start getting Because I'm still not over And I love the ending of loss. Oh my god About the ending of lost They came in and just did time travel because I don't know. We can't one of the things admitted They didn't have an ending one of the endings of not know what you said is true But beyond that it was good and 10 years the ending of loss when I find about people who don't like the ending of losses when you asked them about it They don't understand it like at the end of loss. They got off the island. That's how it ended I totally understand it. They got off the island the plane took off jack died They got off the island my problem with the ending of last days is that they took a TV show They ran it for 10 years They kept us Charts people had like there was it was one of the first TV shows where there was like an internet chat rooms about it Not the show that's the people no But if you had an unrealistic expectation And in the end they decided to end it the exact same way everybody There's a very good reason why I will never clap when a plane lands right Because the basic expectation The when I get on that plane the basic expectation is is that the person at the front is capable of landing the plane Okay, and in watching a TV show my basic expectation is that it has a Ending right. Yes, that is some way does my commitment over many many years and the storyline and the actors Justice yes lost did not do that in your opinion and I did not cloud in the opinion of anybody. No, not necessarily Oh, absolutely. We're not in the pin pinion of my clothes. No, definitely We're writing him off at this point. That's just crazy. So what would you give the ending of lost out of 10? Oh? Like something I watched 15 years ago you only review it now That's currently watching Probably a solid eight like the last season was probably yeah, it's pretty solid Yeah, all right, so you're I mean at the end of the day they got I mean there's a spoiler But they the plane took off jack lost his life to do that, but he saved the people He took on the responsibility of saving those people remember the amount of time We would try and figure out what the noises and beeps and all and they never actually didn't have a plan for it I ever got caught up in that yeah, but we did yeah, but then weren't you the food 99 no They said that the like Damon and love said Used to get mad in break and bad right not break. Yeah break in bed. No No, where they're trying to get out of prison. What's that? I used to get mad where by you would spend two episodes really invested in them digging a hole Yes, right and then at the start of the third episode Fill it in and then it would move on something there was no payoff for it I found that really frustrating and that was just a couple of episodes They teased the beeps or whatever it was or the numbers or what they made the numbers were big one yet, right for ever And we were all so invested in it and then they admitted that they really hadn't concluded what they meant or whatever They never tied that that's not fair. No It'd be like as if you're watching a horror movie and there's noises in the house And then it turns out that the people have mice, you know So you're like two hours into this movie every time there's a noise or a bump you jump And then it suddenly turns out that the exterminator shows up at the end and kills all the mice and job done Okay, yes the defense counsel now you have the final say before the jury retires to consider its verdict on the jury I would say if you watched lost and were invested in the characters and the character arcs Not that nonsense that you're chatting about it was a very satisfied against you and you're Kevin from Dunlop says I'd like to mention the sad passing of Lance Reddick who passed away a week today Patrick's day a better day I know the name might not mean much to some which I think it's a really good observation here But the face is very much and the voice he was a familiar figure when you saw him You were guaranteed a good show although he was only in lost for a while He may have made it better, but we'll never know now as far as you know His last appearance will be in John Wick 4 the 3r files the three hours flies in that comes in from Kevin in Dunlop and A lot of the great shows that you know, he was in only 60 years of age as well Loved him in everything. He was kind of the same in everything, but that was okay with me No problem. Yeah, no, I think people should just go just Google his picture because you'll hear the name and you'll be here People talking about I mean like what's that all about and then you'll see him. He was the huge big tall Black man. I mean he looked like he was on every show. He was on enemies. He looked like he could have been He gave the impression on everything that he was a big tall So he tended to play like a tarterian figures and that kind of thing and his voice was fantastic as well John Wick. He was in John Wick. He was in Bosch. He was in the wire. He was in fringe He did appear in a few episodes of lost He was a he was still on a voiceover work game work and stuff like that And he is very much beloved in the gamer community for me It's Bosch because he was certainly over some seasons of Bosch He was as much the lead because Irving Irving was as much the primary character in some of those seasons particularly when his son Was killed and he he launched an off-book investigation to find out Vulnerability in there as well. Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, what's the in the Baltimore TV? The wire the wire not the one prior to that that was like homicide homicide that pray I think he was in it. I think he was in the end of that. Oh, okay Let me see what else was he in I was in so much fringe is another one like I was in one of the lads I share with he's he obsessively rewatches fringe every couple years loves it. I am shocked and he He's you know, he was he was you know got it like it's like that's one of those people Like as Greg said, he's only 60 years old for a man whose name if somebody said to me Oh, the name passed away as soon as this picture popped up on any of the social media feeds I did take a minute to go. Oh God. Yeah, I really enjoyed his work. Yeah He was in brilliance of what a body of work. He has incredible behind us to say 60 years of age is way way too young Right, we are gonna take a break at nine minute warning now folks If you want to be with the chance to win a thousand euro in cash and a thousand euro voucher with for an Atlantic Atlantic holidays cruise You need to buy your tickets in the next nine minutes Oh, you can do on our website Highland radio calm will be loading the trombola literally as you Book your tickets. You can get one for a tenner and then you can get them discounted as you buy Six for 50 10 for 80. Okay, and you can put them in different names Your own name whatever it might be if you're intending to enter the 10,000 euro holiday prize plus 5,000 euro cash draw Get in in the next nine minutes because you get effectively what would be a free entry in to win a thousand euro in cash Thousand euro holiday voucher. It's early in the competition. The odds are good Get in right now if you can if you need to call us you need to be very quick Can't guarantee by the way in case there is a rush on the phones, but we'll try our best 07491 5,000 the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland radio The 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit Union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter Kenny credit Union Call us on 0749102126 or apply online via our app or in office today There's nothing like a full Irish from done stores Rashers two packs for four euro sausages eight for one euro Beautiful bread toasted and topped with quality butter Farm fresh eggs just one euro forty for half dozen Done stores has everything you need for the perfect full Irish plus with our five of 25 grocery vouchers You can save even more done stores always better value terms and conditions apply voucher can be used next since your grocery shop of 25 year old or more over time it's natural for your hearing not to be as clear as it once was The good news is advances in hearing aid technology may offer different solutions Sabrina Rob here from Donegal Hearing Clinic We provide peace of mind with hearing issues that affect people of all ages Contact us for a consultation at Donegal Hearing Clinic on 07491 88470 or visit donegalhearingclinic.ie Life sounds brilliant with Donegal Hearing Clinic letter Kenny and Bunkrana Stop Highland Radio are going to Scotland from Monday the 1st of May to Thursday the 4th of May with the very best of music And we would love for you to join us stay in at the four-star Crown Plaza Hotel in Glasgow We are bringing with us some of the biggest country stars including myself David James Declan Ernie and Robert Mazzell to name a few you will enjoy luxury travel to Glasgow three nights dinner bed and breakfast with Music and entertainment each evening join us on the Highland fling to Glasgow this May for only 575 euro per person to book call Highland radio today on 07491 25,000 early booking is advisable single supplement applies Highland radio time checks with Expressway travel route 32 from letter Kenny to Dublin Expressway bringing you the time at All right the time is 24 minutes past 11 o'clock says I watched cocaine bear last week fun film right from the start Not want to watch with the kids and I think in your review of it Michael you suggested saying by the way if you've got any Comments on anything you've watched or you're going to watch or you want to know what anyone thinks let us know Oh wait six six to 25,000 I found it a strange situation in that cocaine bear is just a low to medium budget Low to medium budget film that ended up being debated on calling shows and chat shows and one person saying it's terrible What they did that bear before they were told it was all computer graphics and stuff It's just a cheap horror film a slasher film. It's nothing more nothing less Michael I mean you can't go in with high expectations. No Absolutely, yeah, it's it's sharknado. Yeah, yeah, probably a bit above that, but yeah, you're in the right They're in the right thing. Oh, no, you're absolutely 100% correct. No, it is what it is. It's it's sort of a mid-budget It's not meant to be high art But it's it's when those movies are done. Well, and I like those kind of movies if they're done Well, and rarely have I seen them done as well as this one there can be a lot of fun So it's this is one of those done Well, and you're just there to see the gore and see what weird things they can do and especially effects are amazing The bear looks amazing the bear looks real, but it's not a real bear because it's like rolling around on the ground You know hi hi. Yeah, basically. It's hi there Um, we haven't we haven't got to that level of training of animals yet Hopefully we never will but there's a long line of these movies. I always referenced 1970 is with your phrase ology Piranha the 1978 version with Heather Menzies, which is similar so much fun I didn't dangle my water feet in the water off the beer and moll in the soul for a long time after watching them And Heather Menzies is in that and I had a crush on her from the Logan's Run TV series and so forth I rewatched a couple years ago, and it's still hilarious. Those things are funny like they're funny You're not meant to and cook him bears great fun, but yeah, you don't bring the kids We have God creatures starring Emily Watson and Paul mescal opening in cinemas tonight the film Of course was shot in Donegal It'll be on release in Century cinemas letter Kenny and a clip cinemas in Lifford and Bondor and described as a powerful drama Set in a windswept fishing village a mother's torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong A lie she tells for him Rips apart their family in close-knit community in what's described as a tense sweetly emotional epic Shane Crowley is the screenwriter. He joins us now Shane. Good morning to you and Congratulations on getting everything in the bag and able to look forward to now Opening the doors for the public to see this work Yeah, absolutely cheers Gregman Probably not one for the kids either necessarily but yeah, I know a very proud moment to bring it to Irish audiences for sure man Yeah, tell us about I mean I gave a brief outline of the story and it's compacted But in your own words, is that the story for you or how would you describe it Shane? Yeah, for sure. I guess it's kind of like this I guess we all know the prodigal son tale about, you know, the song coming back into his parents house and stuff like that So I guess there's a certain amount of that to it about this kind of guy Who an Irish guy who went to Australia and walked for a number of years He left the family home and then he comes back into it And I guess the film gives you the sense of you know, it may be like why he left and you know The kind of problems that might have come beforehand It's just kind of like about this kind of family of oyster farmers And like he kind of had the sense of failure leave and then coming back into it He comes back with all this old baggage like that He's unaware like the community has moved on without him And it's mostly about his relationship with his mother and the mother's perspective of him So the delight and the joy that she feels in his you know, like Renewed presence in our home kind of like this kind of classic Irish Mammy But yeah, he comes back and he's unaware probably of the changing times and the nature of change or relationships And he commits an act of sexual violence Against like an old friend That he doesn't question and when he's pursued in court by His victim the mother lies from and the community kind of shelter and protect him And it just kind of tracks how and why that happens and why the mother makes her decision to do that And then like the poisoning awareness of What her son has done and like the lie that she's told and the kind of out this sense of denied justice that the victim Has you know experienced like the re-victimization of her so so something that we were interested in exploring Storytellers because obviously I think in every small community in Ireland or you know Everywhere in the like like it's quite a global and universal thing I would say that there's just you know these privileges that men were given for a long time for long times And yeah about these kind of small communities closing ranks around rapists So I mean obviously you're tackling a very serious issue and have a story to tell in relation to that But you have a story to tell as well Okay, that has a beginning a middle and an end but also obviously then you're writing about relationships and and I'm just curious as a writer Where does all of that rank? Do you know what I mean? Because a lot of most people thankfully who will watch it, right? Will not be able to or will have not have experienced the actual storyline itself But they will perhaps be able to recognize emotions that they've felt in relationships or didn't feel in relationships and want for so How do you balance all those elements? What's the most important thing for you? For the audience member to get from it It's a yeah, listen. It's a good question. I Like I guess we want to challenge people to like feel Aileen's joy as our son's coming home After being so long away and to understand that feeling Maybe like can be kind of uncomfortable because it informs the decision that these she then makes to protect her son and You know, I guess like having talked to people who watch the film like they have said that they can initially understand what she's done But then it's like, I mean, that's exactly the point that we're trying to challenge is like Like it's not morally right to make that decision to protect the people you love most when they've done wrong, you know So it's just like yeah instances where the people you loved have done very challenging things and what Have you done in similar circumstances? Do you know what I mean? I mean that might well what might you do? I get you Shane Pardon my ignorant Shane and just in the filmmaking process, right? So you you you write and and deliver the screenplay then in terms of Where how a film is shot or on set and You know then post production and pardon me if I'm not using the correct terminology like What's your involvement beyond sort of saying right there is the finished screenplay? Generally speaking or what's your preference even maybe if it's individual? Well, this is my first. This is my first ever feature screenplay Obviously the directors and the producers had made other at the producer Fola had made other films But I guess we all walked very closely together on the script and on the story for a number of years Myself from Fola came up with a story and I wrote the script So then we came up with that in 2013 and Wrote it for eight years until it got like it didn't go into production until 2021 and usually the case is that the writer would not be on set unless they're the directors themselves, but Ship with the directors Like we're great buddies now That they wanted me there just in case like there was any questions or They just I know today created a very much like a family environment because I had been in rehearsals and it had you know Got exposed to the relationships and you know with Emily and Paul and Ashley and Tony and Dicklin, so yeah, it was just it felt quite natural for me to be on set I don't think I did I didn't answer any great questions or providing any massive insights But it was I mean it was amazing to be in and around the action and stuff like that because it opened my eyes to the You know the actual teamwork that it takes to make a film like this. It's not the Genesis of any one or two people, but yeah, it's like it takes a village to make a film I think yeah, and finally Shane, you know when a book reader when someone reads a book They visualize the characters a tribute accents and mannerisms and what have you I presume through the writing process that happens as well how close to What you imagined in the writing of this is the finished product and it doesn't have to be exactly the same There's no right or wrong answers that if you know what I mean, I'm just curious as a For someone who's written the work and how it ends up how aligned are the two Pretty line man. Yeah, and Very much aligned. I think now to be honest with you. It's two years since I wrote anything on the script And I've watched the film now a number of times So it's like the film is now ingrained in my brain and in my in my kind of thinking So I have no separation between the two and I think that's a great feeling to have to be honest with you because if you'd any Preciousness or about it, you know, it might it might be the best experience. No, that sounds like success. Yeah Pardon that sounds like success. That sounds like a good Amazing success and listen just before I you know, you probably you know, you caught me off for anything I just want to give a shout out to the people in teal in Kill cat and then they're dry and kill you big to kind of welcomed us with open arms during the shoes and just to tell Them all that was the most amazing time And yeah, we love hopefully they get to see the film and to see their kind of beautiful past the world represents I'm screen. Yeah indeed And there's a very important element to that as well The amount of eyes that will be able to see that and it really does have an impact in terms of visitor numbers And what have you on a personal level Shayna? Congratulations to you. It's a wonderful achievement and We just wish you continued success and hey bring your films back to Donegall all the time You're more than welcome of course as you know Thank you going to our legends. Take care. Bye. Bye. All right. That is Shane Crowley who's a screenwriter his film God Creatures stars Emily Watson and the man of the moment It feels like Paul mescal it's opening in cinemas tonight Friday the 24th of March It was shot in Donegall, of course You heard Shane give a shout out to the particular areas It'll be on release in century cinemas letter Kenny and eclipse cinemas in Lyford and Bondor and and We shall say yeah, are you going to go and see that either of two year? The luck of that must be unbelievable that if you know an Irish maid Irish written film And then the Paul mescal gets that break from after from after life I don't know after son after son and You know that so many people who may not have gone to see this but now that he's in it You don't mean with that extra thing It's fantastic for them. They will Attract many tourists because of course, it's also a heavily taxpayer funded film cocaine bear Will it attract? visitors To where was it filled with clothes? Oh, yeah down in the world. I could I was lost It was none, but are they promoting it as no, but we funded it, right? We paid for that movie. Yeah, now I'm really upset about that movie any film that's made here. No, I know Cocaine bear was made here. Yes. Yes They came here to they came here to use the woods Board Was it our cocaine did they use our cocaine just to really rub salt in the wound or to Don't think so. I don't think it actually probably would have actually been real cocaine We have paused the lines on our competition right now Obviously if there's anything that needs to be processed in the next couple of minutes We're not gonna leave anyone high and dry, but the lines are officially just paused for seven minutes, okay? Until such time as we make a draw Let's see is the trombola there it is look at it all in shot amazing, okay? We'll be back with a more chat, of course and that draw If you want to watch it live by the way to make sure there's no shenanigans. Who's doing the draw me, right? Okay, I want now. This is all done very legit. We've always do legit But keep your hands out so we can see them and put them in and that you know just okay Yeah, it's like really it's a very important role that you have and it's your trombola and all that I love my trouble. You've never been to that. I know I'm very quiet information Watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at Highland radio calm The 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union digital loans now available Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account New stock just arrived at mehens of Raffaul ladies were by diesel and random rave Including body warmers hoodies tops and jeans both good cut and slim fit in the menswear department Check out the new range of chinos and blazers with polo shirts and shirts up to 5 XL at mehens of Raffaul Also stocking tough stuff workwear. It's a Wednesday the hump of the week You've been really good So why not treat yourself by stopping off at Kelly's diner with loads of parking you can take a seat and get served in a Friendly relaxed atmosphere and all-day breakfast some lunch maybe just a sandwich the menu is packed with tasty favorites Brighten up your week with a stop off at the award-winning Kelly's diner mountain top letter Kenny Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity? Randox Chorinda are hosting a careers open day on Saturday 8th of April from 9 30 a.m. Until 12 30 p.m. End on low Dunnegall come in and see the facility discuss job Opportunities directly with staff and begin with a chance to win an Easter basket apply for rules at Randox comm Not sure where to start with your smart meter Sign up to a home electric plus smart meter price plan from Electric Ireland to see how much energy or appliances are actually using Track your usage monthly daily or even hourly and get tips and advice on how to use less It's a smart start to controlling your energy usage to sign up search Electric Ireland home electric plus smart meter and online account required Features available after four months tees and sees apply see electric Ireland. I Don't miss the clan re hotels country weekend Friday 24th to Sunday 26th of March featuring Jimmy Buckley Robert Brazil Kieran Rosney, Amy Jackson, Olivia Douglas, Brian Kerrigan and Mick Flavin They had the door 20 euro Friday and Saturday and 10 euro on Sunday afternoon overnight packages available call the clan re hotel on 9 1 2 4 3 6 9 right welcome back We probably need a team of medics on standby for these draw If these draws of the events of last few moments are anything to talk to you can never trust It's like a dog really can never trust a trombola because they could snap When I get a bruise you're gonna be very upset that you were mocking blame the trombola not me Come here dance trance family resource center are holding a fundraising concert It's an aid of the cancelling service Duck tree and friend jam band will be performing on Friday the 14th of April in the Highlands Hotel in Glenty's ticket available on the night or Yeah on the night of there's a telephone number here if you need it doors open at 7 30 p.m Tickets just 10 euro Deal harps are holding a night in memory of Martin Duffy in Maggie's tavern st. Johnston That's on Saturday the 22nd of April. It's a ticket only function Thanks for all the support and all proceeds will go to the Kevin belt repatriation trust So happy to mention that if there are two tickets still available by the way Just get back in touch with me and let me know so I can let listeners know if it helps right, okay Four minutes. Shall I maybe Get the quarter to add break out of the way and then come back and we can do the draw and then that clears the decks on the place Okay, I'll tell you what we'll do is we'll take this break a little bit earlier if you're waiting on the draw Stay right where you are We're gonna be making that draw very very shortly if you want to watch it Of course go on to our website Highland radio comm click watch live or go on to our social media YouTube Highland Radio Ireland or our Facebook pages or indeed on Twitter the winner of a thousand euro and a 1,000 euro Atlantic travel voucher for a cruise is coming up very shortly The 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40,000 to 600,000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter Kenny credit union 9102127 new trainers from your favorite brands of Brian McCormick sports Brooks asics on running and hoca new hoca Clifton 9 has a wider toe box and it's softer giving you that hoca Spongy feeling making your run more responsive step into our safe size experience have your feet measured and update your gait analysis Brian McCormick sports Main Street letter Kenny look the part play the part on Bmc sports.ie Check out these special offers at Simpson's supermarket letter Kenny. There's Neil's soda bread flour 3 kg 2 euro Cheerio 700 gram 2 euro. There's two pack of McVitie's digestives 2 euro There's Coke 2 pack 3 liter 4 euro and Jan teal toilet roll 24 back only 6 euro 50 plus lots of grid offers in store for Easter While they're check out Peggy's kitchen coffee for great food tea and coffee only two minutes from letter Kenny hospital Simpson's supermarket for great value every day Evolved clothing Superstore two floors of men's essential styles and fashions in casual wear street wear Formal wear and suiting plus over 200 styles of footwear evolved clothing letter Kenny retail park or online at evolved clothing dot com Banking can make you feel a bit So why not switch to a provider that helps you take control of your finances The on post money current account lets you see exactly what's going on with your money and gives you control with the tap of a button Switch with the on post money app or pop into one of our 900 plus post offices. You don't even need to make an appointment Take back power over your money today On post is authorized by the Minister for Finance provide payment services and is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland in the provision of such services Highland radio weather updates with Ireland West Airport thinking of a sun holiday this summer with the family flight to Alicante Malaga Faro, Lanzarote, New York and Milan with Ryanair Ireland West Airport. Don't just take off. Take it easy Now today will be windy with fresh to strong and gusty So that Southwest winds outbreaks of sherry rain with heavy falls at times and brief brighter periods chances of hail or lightning in heavy downpours highest temperatures of 9 to 10 degrees right, so it is Time we have a fantastic holiday to give away Holiday package to give away all my details have been put in this box, right we are We are asking you have you bought your tickets for the Highland radio mega draw this Easter You could win a 10,000 euro travel voucher with 5,000 euro spending money It's an association with Atlantic travel the lucky winner can choose anywhere in the world to travel Either one big blowout or multiple trips. It's your choice your 10,000 euro will take care of you Whenever and wherever you wish to travel and you've got 5,000 euro cash spending money But that's your money to do with what you wish as well, right? We've just paused very briefly our ticket sales just for a minute or two because we're now about to Do the draw for a thousand euro cash plus A thousand euro voucher to use on any celebrity cruise bookings now cruising has become all the rage now Maybe it had a reputation in the past. I don't know but I know people Of all different types that are cruisers and apparently once you go, that's it You're stuck with it for life. You love it and all you talk about is cruising Yeah, if you've been on one yet No, I'm looking at one now for next year because it was this year But I couldn't do the dates because it happened to be in May when we're supposed to be in Glasgow birthday No, it is no May is my full birthday for work at November. It's my November's my half Celebrates two birthdays. You're eight and a half now. Yeah, okay. I love it You should always treat yourself. It's a way in which to be nice to Before me yeah, you should never do that. I do so I'm looking at a screw a cruise for an extra and I love that about you all I Love that about this. This is my favorite one of all the draws And I always find it so funny when people are kind of like, oh really what would you do with ten thousand euro voucher? I'm like, let me list the way Listen, what because you don't have to spend all yourself as well I would do is right and I was in in with Atlantic travel actually by the way A day or two ago because haven't been anywhere for a god knows how long I Would do Multiple holidays. Yeah, personally speaking that would be where I would get it for me I'm not really interested in the lap land or the Disney world. Maybe I might be in a company spin at the moment I'm not yes, you know, let's be Singapore for two weeks or what? It's just it's not for me, right? I would be doing probably I think you could probably get depending on what time of the year You go good six or seven little breaks out of that. You know, I mean, oh my god Yeah, you could at least yeah, you know what I mean And it depends on whether you you know full board half board and all that Razzamataz, so this really kind of sorts out your holidays for quite a period of time So I do it in chunks little chunks is what that's it And if you family members you can also say either give them a gift Well, I mean if you wanted to take some of the money for you could sell them some of the voucher You can do all kinds of things with it. It opens up. That's what you might do, which you wouldn't even dream of doing, okay? Oh, I think I do the one big one I'm at that but I'm at that point in my life where as they say I've never chicken our child So it's fine and I what I've always dreamed about doing is like doing a month You know the way I always think oh, that's what you do is just go somewhere like Like do I'd love to do Japan I'd love to do Kind of East, you know, I've never really been anywhere in the eastern part of the world Yeah, all of that sort of thing and that you sort of like hop around and do a few bits I've always wanted to do the South Island in New Zealand, which The North is the North is fabulous and it's supposed to be the crappy end of New Zealand So I'm like if the North is that fabulous I can't even the South is you can actually go down one side and see all the cities I've said this before then at the bottom you can go out on a small cruise and see the fjords and they've all this You know and because it's obviously freezing cold down with that and there's icebergs all that crack And then you come up the other side then and you go through the Malibu region Yeah, which is where they don't make a bad wine or cider sounds fantastic. You need cash for that What would you do Michael neither? Can I just ask either chicken or child Frula? You're both chicken child in my eyes. I'd probably do something very TV-oriented I'd love to go to Vancouver where they filmed the Highlander TV series Do you see it? I mean, that would be wonderful. Yeah, I'd love to visit the sites of that Toronto, I'd love to go back to Toronto this time to see where they filmed other TV shows Paris they filmed Highlander there particular places I would visit that I'm now more so but yes TV generated stuff TV I didn't realize the nerd and you was all encompassing Thought it was just little but it's literally you thought it was just on a Friday between 11 and 12 now actually I carry it Psychopathies Because I think you would fly economy Stay in really really cheap, but yes functional accommodation with a backpack I don't think we ever carry a hard case We would be on the exact same holiday, but I would be in first class and then he would I would be texting each other Well, I'm in the five-star hotel of the road. He'd be in the hostel. I mean the host But we would have a great time on all this together. We would just never actually be he wouldn't massive top Okay, right, let's do this. Okay, it is draw time everybody. It's all very very exciting the draw drum is there it's been It has been rotated quite a bit already, but do you want to do it? Okay for those of you listening, it's amazing it is beautiful. Yeah, she's hugging it Okay, it is love Let's see if we can So Michael is digging his hands in he's looking away is Excellent stuff and he's pulling a single one out Right, and he's going to present it to this camera here if you want to This one here. Yeah, if you want to there look rotate it to its readable 07 to 0 the winning ticket is 07 to 0. We'll leave that one out for a bit You can take your seats now. We'll put that back in once we identify the winner. So Ticket not yet. We'll keep it out just to verify if that's okay So someone the winner the holder of that ticket has just won a thousand euro in cash Which you can spend this weekend if you want and a thousand euro voucher to use on a celebrity cruise booking which if a cruise is not on your horizon, you can sell that I mean I'm sure you can transfer the thing with the celebrity cruises Which people should look up and see is that they actually do a lot of short-haul one three day ones Yeah, so it's something that you've never done before you it's a way in which kind of dipping your toe into the cruising World because I'm always like that you see some of them and they're fabulous, but they're like 15 days and you're like Oh, God, could I spend 15 doing anything with that number? Are you trying to put out the winner? Okay? No, I just said one's having a chat out there and I was wondering I'm sure they are okay, but the thing with seven is you get check them out and see they're actually like the short They're a lot of them are the short-haul ones and that thousand euros would actually get you the whole cruise It will get one person to the whole cruise. That's the kind of way that they work, you know To me I always think of them as being nearly like the teaser cruises I think dip your toe in the water see whether or not this is something that you like if you've if it's something You've always wanted to try just for the experience They're well worth checking them out and thank you to Atlantic travel for coming out with this It's not something I've done before calling and There's no point guessing you go in and you speak to professionals and they know what the crack is Do you know what I mean? That's that's the I know and people sometimes think oh well I'll just book the flights or whatever and you don't need to go to a travel agent But you forget the travel agent can put the whole package together for you in a way that you're hassle-free and God forbid anything goes wrong with the flights not coming back or that the accommodation isn't up to scratch You're not on your own. You have that backup and support. You have the insurance that comes from the travel agents being there, you know I I think it's a it's a resource that we've nearly kind of forgotten about the importance of it for a lot of people And it's good as you say it's calling and see the kind of packages and value that that you can get from them For sure and that expertise and experience that takes the guesswork out of a lot of it. All right, so We are waiting to see if we can get the winner on the phone If not, we'll announce it very shortly the number was zero seven two zero zero seven two zero It seems that every time I pull it take it out. Uh, the word carrot is mentioned I don't Feel like we had a couple of winners from that area and we've had winners from all over the place as well though But I just do you want to guess where they're from? I'm not saying let's play a game I'm useless to guess and win it for because I have a time I'm here 10 years and I still keep here in new town Let's okay. It's amazing to me Everyone's right. You answer the phone and talk to somebody right. Okay. Uh, good morning Patrick. How are you getting on? Good, how are you grand doing good? I'm doing good. Uh, so do you know why I'm calling you? Uh Good idea. Did you buy a ticket? I did last uh monday. Yeah, I bought uh 10 tickets. Yeah, right. Well I've stolen lee gooch is clapping because you have won 1000 euro in cash and a 1000 euro Voucher for a cruise with atlantic travel. Congratulations patrick badl All right, so You're gonna go and have a look at these cruises, aren't you because I don't have you been on a cruise before Yeah, a few years back. Yeah, that was too, uh Up there. Yeah, really? Oh, well, so you just go back to atlantic travel again and see what else Brilliant and also Exactly and also that 1000 euro. That's for you. That's for your your pocket and you can do with All right, congratulations, uh patrick. Well done to you I'm telling you tell the atlantic people. I'll see them shortly And your ticket now by the way 0720 is about to go back into our draw drum, right? That's gonna actually happen on camera server and can see it happening. So, uh, you may well Win the big one as well. But congratulations for now. Have a lovely weekend Take care. Bye bye patrick. Okay patrick badly Uh in bong krana 0720 was his number He won you could hear the the happiness in his voice and I think there was someone else in the car with him as well He has been on a cruise before But through atlantic travel there you go and he's gonna go back to atlantic travel and have a look again that's a friend I It's amazing to me all the people have been on cruises. You know, it's one of those things you kind of have in your head Oh, I'd love to try it. Do you know what I love about our draws? And I've just said it before and it's not to take away from anyone else's is because uh, this is why We broadcast into the northwest here, right? It's not like a facebook one that You know people are buying tickets all over the world or what have you and invariably Although not exclusively can people can buy tickets from wherever they'd like But it's someone that crazy connection that patrick's already booked to something through atlantic travel Do you know what I mean? I love that. Yeah, I love that side of things the lines by the way are now Open for you once again So if you want to purchase your tickets for the 10,000 euro voucher and the 5,000 euro cash The website is accepting of course your ticket purchases again And if you want to give us a call all seven four nine one 25,000 Perfect I just wanted to give a mention out as well to people because we're still getting calls from people who I don't seem to realize that the daniel o'Donnell concert that was postponed From the 18th march 2020 is now happening on tuesday in the monteregal hotel doors open at seven o'clock And if anybody has tickets from the 2020 we didn't redo the tickets because it just would have been crazy to try and get Um them out to the to the individuals. So just bring your old tickets come to the door That's what we're accepting is coming in and if anybody has any problems with their tickets or anything like that Bring proof of purchase and that will and we'll be able to work around it But contact us if there's any issues and Just let people know if you know anybody that had them back in the day remind them again. All right, okay, uh, michael Thank you very much for hanging and I always enjoy your company, especially when you're a bit edgy like your word today I like that Thank you very much indeed. All right. Have a wonderful weekend everybody stay safe and have fun if you can We're back with you monday morning at nine Have a wonderful weekend. I said that already didn't I thanks to donna marie Doherty who researched and produced the program caroline ore, of course Who's always working on it, but she's working on a show we're doing next week Which I'll tell you more about on monday john bressons next the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union offering low rate holiday loans with