 See, that's Neil and Closer. Can I just say, before we pass you over to Greg this morning, Dominic Sharkey from Dunlop, the very best in his junior cert today from Martin and all the staff at the bridge in and Dunlop and to everybody that's doing their junior cert and leaving cert. Best of luck today, guys. Fingers crossed for everyone. Yes, and they've all done the hard work. Yeah, but it'd be great now to get the first day over. Do you know, you can't get... But it's funny, leaving cert is funny because, you know, and it's understandable at this time of your life, you think it's the most important thing ever. And just as you get older, the less important it becomes. Yeah, yeah. But sure. Yeah. Good luck, Lee. Thank you. Long times to do that, yours. No, I'm kind of thinking back to my leaving cert. Oh, I went back to repeat maths and stuff because I failed it the first time and stuff. But yeah, but sure, good luck to everybody. Exactly. Well, you've got Lee rooting for you and you've got me rooting for you. All right, thanks, Lee. Take care of yourself. See you tomorrow. It's the 9-10 noon show now here on Highland Radio. And with the news update at 9 o'clock, good morning, Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning with the number of students sitting the leaving cert, applied leaving cert, and junior cert exams has increased by 6% compared to the last time a full set of exams was run in 2019, more than 131,000 students starting their exams across the country this morning, leaving cert candidates with COVID-19 or symptoms of COVID-19 will have access to a deferred sitting of the exam later this year. The Taoiseach will address the European Parliament this morning. The address marks 50 years since Ireland decided to join the then EEC. It comes after an appeal to Boris Johnson to pull back from acting unilaterally over the Northern Ireland protocol. Miehol Martin says everyone should go back to the table. Well, the British government's been accused of diplomatic vandalism by a Finafall MEP. Boris Johnson's cabinet has now set to propose new legislation that would allow future ministers override the Northern Ireland protocol. Barry Andrews doesn't expect that the legislation will get the green light. These are the positions that have been taken. I think the UK may have played their hand very poorly here because it's clear that Tory MPs that voted against Boris Johnson are talking now about a vote strike and the first area in which they're going to be uncooperative with the whips is on this bill, so it doesn't look likely that it's going to get through. The government plans to give people free vouchers to use remote working hubs, a number of which have been developed in Donegal. Last month, Donegal County Council announced a scheme to provide free hub access to people holidaying in the county that need to connect with their work for a time. Minister Heather Humphries will today unveil a plan as part of increased measures to allow people work in their communities rather than commute to offices in bigger towns and cities. There will also be further investment in remote working hubs across the country to support hybrid working. Independent TD and former communications minister Dennis Nocton believes this is very important progress. I think anything that can see the maximum use of these new connected hubs around the country I think is very positive. I think there's an opportunity there for employers particularly employers based in maybe urban centres where there's pressure on office accommodation to look and see and facilitate staff moving to some of these remote working hubs. More than 4,000 volunteers across Ireland are taking part in World Ocean Day today. Marine litter is the theme. It's become a global problem. The Charities Clean Coast and National Spring Clean have joined forces to organise more than 230 beach cleanups across the country. 12 of those happening in Donegal. More details on our website HighlandRadio.com. Coastal communities manager Sinead McCoy is urging people to be mindful particularly when it comes to their consumption of plastic. It is a very good and happy story that we have so much community spirit but it's it's also very sad that we have to have so many community groups out and that they have work to do on the coastline. It is an issue the amount of plastic that we are consuming it's pretty evident when we're out cleaning beaches. We're really asking people to be conscious of what plastic they're consuming and single use plastic. Breathing today with chars are longer spells of rain a possibility of some isolated thunderstorms as well. After noon temperatures 15 to 17 degrees Celsius with moderate to fresh and gusty westerly winds that'll be strong at times along coasts. Tonight mostly dry and clear for a time some isolated chars overnight temperatures 8 to 10 degrees Celsius again moderate west or southwest to breezes and that's Highland Radio news we're back with news again at 10 o'clock. And now a modern masterpiece the new italian stack from McDonald's to 100% Irish beef burgers with mozzarella, crispy onions, lettuce, a rich tomato sauce and a cheese sauce all in a tomato and herb style bun. And next in the collection the crispy chicken italiano with tomato, mozzarella, red onion, lettuce and a basil pesto style sauce. Bellissimo. Holiday from home with the McDonald's summer menu available until the 26th of July from 11 a.m. subject to availability. And now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, good morning. You're very welcome along to another edition of the 9 to noon shows. It just turns five past nine on this Wednesday the 8th of June. How are you? I hope you're all very well indeed and enjoyed the weekend. It's a long time ago but I was off yesterday so I didn't get a chance to say it whether it was lovely wasn't it but not so this week but anyway be there as it may. We are here to entertain you for the next three hours get involved with the conversation. WhatsApp 08 660 25,000 you text that number two or give us a call an 07 491 25,000 I mentioned this last week. There are more problems over the weekend about the bus service from Dublin to Donegal more cancellations since we last spoke about it and it seems to be a pretty short notice and putting people up and down of course leaving them stuck in Dublin or unable to travel between Donegal and Latter Kenny or Ballet Buffet and Latter Kenny for example and on it goes we've no alternatives and it's very it's getting more difficult to run a car as we'll read and hear about a little later on in the program 08 660 25,000 us to say that's the WhatsApp protects number. If you want to give us a call Donalmarie and Caroline taking your calls this morning an 07 491 25,000 emails get them into us comments at highlandradio.com if you prefer to watch the program as that more and more if you do every day then you can hop on to our website highland radio.com watching browser there or head on over straight to our social media either way we just want you to be part of the program whichever way you choose to do so let's start with a look at the papers today as we do every day Finn Valley Voice Finn Valley gambling counseling service from July a new support service to assist people dealing with harmful gambling will begin at the Finn Valley Family Resource Centre Stranola from July the just launched national problem gambling support service is a collaboration between gambling awareness trust and the family resource centre national forum which will see 20 family resource centres across the country provide professional and confidential counseling services to those experiencing harmful gambling and their families and more people do than we might imagine you know anytime we talk about gambling on this program people always texting thanks for speaking about this people don't realise how widespread problem gambling is and you know the lack of supports for the gambler but also those living with them and every time it's the same we discuss it regularly that issue comes up in the program people go you know we need to talk more about this the lines are always open for you by the way to raise any issues be it something like that or anything else let's look at the English times now and leading Michael redress campaigner Paddy Diver he's returned to the 100% redress no less campaign the popular car and on a man stepped away from the campaign in March citing a number of reasons for his departure including clashes with a donnellygold county councillor however mr Diver announced his decision to return to help reinvigorate the campaign over concerns about the lack of pre-legislative scrutiny for the proposed enhanced effective concrete block scheme supposedly coming before cabinet on June 28 we are not going to fall for government tricks warned the talismanic redress campaigner and it seems the only show in town now for campaigners is pre-legislative scrutiny and you can understand why there is a lack of trust there by the way because let's not forget the 9010 scheme as it was unfolded and promised and we had so many conversations on this program and I had my reservations about it right from the very get go because I was always of the opinion where is someone going to get 10% how would that include everyone anyway it was much worse than that because it was much much the margins were nowhere near 9010 6040 so you don't want that to happen again and how do you make sure that doesn't happen and how do you make sure every eye is dotted and teased crossed pre-legislative scrutiny and you know we've been waiting for this for years now if it means waiting another couple of months to get it right I think most people would be in favor of that particularly given the fact that nothing really is doing with the scheme at the moment so you know what are you delaying because you know that effectively the the current scheme is on hold it's stock seemingly and so what's the delay there's no so in other words what's the harm and a little further delay to make sure it's gotten right at this time the Donagall post one of the region's most famous indoor family holiday attractions will finally create that much needed splash visit for visitors and locals on friday june 24th at noon after a hiatus that stretches back to 2019 i'm talking about water world in bundorn it's been forced to close over the past two years because of the covid 19 lockdowns and winter storm damage it'll bring a much needed wanted sorry smile back to many children as it will to their parents guardians and families okay onto the nationals now maybe you are one of those with uh austral bank or one of the other banks in the market you're trying to switch but you're finding great delays maybe many of you chose to stay with the likes of the austral bank and just transition over to the next lender but anyway more than a half a million people who are being forced to look for a new bank these are current and savings accounts i presume have been given conflicting information about how to switch accounts the central bank and the bank's lobby group the banking and payments federation island are odds about how the process for switching current accounts works now this is in the realm of i bet you can't believe this it is actually true this has been in in the offering for quite some time and we have the central bank and the banking and payments federation of island disagreeing as to how you switch a current account or your your banking hands remarkable stuff isn't it this is prompted accusations that the banks are deliberately undermining the current account switching code in a bid to restrict competition in the market it comes as more than 500 000 customers of departing austral bank and kbc bank island are being forced to close their current accounts amid a scramble to find new providers the representative body for banks has been accused by donagall td pierce daugherty of failing to understand just how the switching code works and deliberately trying to ensure it does not work and there's many of you going to be caught up in that onto the Irish times now and uh worrying news that young adults are drinking less but their cocaine use is increasing significantly especially among young women a report from the health research board warns now we i've said on this program before one of my concerns with the increasing if you increase the price of alcohol is that it's going to push children younger people sorry it's going to push them towards drugs because they're easy got no one's looking for your idea and um you know no one's really uh as i say checking what you're at are they really you know they're handy god if you know what i mean that's what i'm saying so this is and i say that not as an argument to uh not as an argument to do away with minimum unit price alcohol but you have to do these things at the same time so you have to say right if we do this we're probably going to and i'm not this is only my opinion it's not the article's opinion you know i'll get to the article in a second but if we're going to start make it more expensive to get booze especially with the cost of everything that's going up what are younger people going to do potentially experiment with drugs which are readily available and people are there to spy them so you need to sort of treat both things at the same time now it's interesting an interesting study has come out of scotland as it relates to uh minimum price uh my pricing of alcohol and again i'm not opposed to it uh it doesn't really i probably don't drink enough that it matters to me to be honest with you but um it hasn't really made a big impact in those with drink problems drinking um that's uh the study and the scottish government has said they're going to look at this new study to see where to go to next so you know there's no point making it a minimum unit pricing if it's not stopping people who are using it dangerously using it dangerously but as i say i'm not opposed to it i'm just throwing everything out there and i'm sure we'll talk about it more in the future but anyway illegal drug use including cannabis use is also on the rise among young women despite falling among their male peers while drunkenness is greater among school girls than school boys drawing on arland and european data sets the report an alcohol and other drug use finds the number of young people presenting for problem cocaine use increased by 171 between 2011 and 2019 from 254 cases to 688 published today it says the age at which young people had their first drink increased from 15.6 years in 2002 to 16.6 years in 2019 however almost two thirds 64 percent of 15 to 24 year olds were hazardous drinking uh and more than a third 38 percent had an alcohol use disorder okay so as i say there's a multi a multitude of problems there that all need addressing as much as possible at the same time right the irish daily mail uh tells us do you remember the the the shock and awe uh at the the price of petrol going up and diesel going up and then the government saying oh we have to do something and and and uh intervening in in a way that's been gobbled up completely now as we all predicted didn't we and i were looking at petrol at 220 per litre uh and i don't know if there's a level of acceptance or if we're battle worn or what the story is but i mean if you were told last year that you'd be paying 220 per litre of petrol uh you know you would have said another chance well here we are families are being urged to cut down on driving as petrol prices of soar to a record high of more than 2.20 per litre green party tds and consumer experts say that reducing car journeys might be the only way to combat increasing costs now the thing annoys me about this is is that we often don't make journeys for the fun of it you know a lot of it is we have to get young ones to school or training or get ourselves to and from work or whatever it might be or go and care for someone you know i don't know how much of us are just driving around willy nilly for the crack and we can cut out on those journeys but it's a rural urban thing because they're probably not really speaking to urban drivers because you know they've got uh many options cycling is probably achievable public transport the lewis wherever they are trains you know there's much more options for those people for us not so much well the society of the irish motor industry yesterday urged people to take um sports equipment and unnecessarily heavy items out of cars to lighten the load the simi also advised people not to take unnecessary trips and to make sure car tires are pumped to stay at maximum fuel efficiency petrol prices are now more than 30 higher than a year ago while diesel is more than 40 higher despite an excise duty reduction in march this year 20 cent per litre for petrol and 15 cent per litre for diesel one station in sliga was charging two 27 per litre for petrol yesterday and there's great variance in terms of the prices now we understand that it can depend on when certain places get deliveries in and what have you but i presume fundamentally it's the same fuel from the same suppliers and we're seeing differences of 20 25 30 cent per litre the irish daily star tells us that apple will have to change the connector on iphone sold in europe by 2024 kind of feel this is a stupid conversation at this point now because i think more and more people are moving to wireless charging and this was a debate that was had 10 years ago and was probably best left 10 years ago i really don't think the e you well maybe i'm wrong okay and i'm often wrong but the e you maybe should be worrying about other things than phone charger cables they're widely available now you can get them absolutely anywhere and as i say a lot of people are going down the wireless charging route now but anyway here we are i've read stories like this is to say from 10 years ago when it really mattered at that point you had the big usb and usb b you'd usb c then you'd the iphone charger and others as well now there's pretty much two isn't there this usb c in the iphone charger it's not really that big an issue is it anyway the political intervention sorry it comes as after e you countries and lawmakers agreed yesterday to a single mobile charging port for mobile phones tablets and cameras in the world's first the political intervention which the european commission said would make life easier for your consumers and save the money came after companies failed to reach a common solution look at when you get your phone now it's like they're trolling us you get a cable that's three meters long i mean what's the first thing people do anyways they're going by a new a new cable isn't it a longer one and you can easily go beside each other in a shop a usb c or an iphone charger i don't unless i'm missing something if i'm missing something here please let me know why this is so important uh brussels has been pushing for single mobile phone charging points for more than a decade prompted uh by complaints from my phone and android users about having to switch to different chargers for the devices again as i say if anyone out there can tell me what the problem is now at this point in our lives that requires political intervention on that issue i'm all ears uh right me or martin has wounded barris johnson to steady the ship and pull back from acting unilaterally uh on the northern island protocol this is in the sun uh the british government is set to introduce a bill that will allow future ministers to override the brexit deal it would let them emphasize the uk's internal market uh over the eu single market the move comes as under pressure uk prime minister barris johnson saw off a tori rebellion by the skin of his teeth on monday leaving him just 32 votes from oblivion and this is uh the i this is what the irish son's saying but the the english son or the british son is coming out in absolute full support of uh barris johnson to the point that they're actually rewriting the facts in their support of barris johnson and yet in a paper that claims to be the irish son it's like he got through by the skin of his teeth all from the same paper effectively just produced in two different countries anyway it's going to be interesting to see how those 140 odd mps that voted against barris johnson will vote on those issues because they're going to try and make his life difficult uh finally if you are hoping to go and see katie taylor fight in croke park this year i'm sorry to dash those hopes because the rematch with amanda serrano in front of 80 000 fans at croke park will not go ahead this year i'm not surprised by this i'm not fully know the reasons why firstly uh serrano is already a world champion secondly she's not katie taylor's weight she came up in weight to fight katie taylor uh so you know she had to go with it she made history what's the point in doing and all of her gain from her she can fight at her own weight uh and probably enjoy a much more successful career rather than coming over here and sort of being fodder for katie taylor to show off in front of 80 000 fans i'd love to have seen it personally but i can see why she hasn't the time spoke to eddie herron said the patrickan who uh the brave fighter beat in april does not fancy the clash this autumn he added they don't want that fight unfortunately they don't really want to go to arland so they just don't want to take on katie taylor at that weight all right that's a run through what's uh making the news uh we'll make our own 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500 meters from needle on the kerry keel road see facebook or call 911-535-79 foyer and company are offering amazing discounts on a great selection of display sofas with up to 50 percent off a range of two seater three seater and corner sofas in a choice of colors and styles if you're getting a new sweeter furniture don't miss the big display sofa clear and sale on now while stocks last at foyer and company in letter kenny and valley buffet and online at foyes dot ie okay you're very welcome back to the program i'm joined on it now by uh dav colman partner at colman legal good morning to you dav thanks for joining us today morning right okay now defective blocks arland group are leading a high court action on behalf of donagall homeowners with property damaged by the deteriorous product such as mica and we're speaking to you because uh there's a launch of a public information campaign across the county and we'll get to that so excuse me how what is the relationship with this with this action um and sort of the campaign for 100 redress if there's any uh dav like why do we need this type of action when there's already quite a lot of people involved in pressuring the government to return these houses to their former state yeah that's a good question and i think that they're not entirely separate but they're not entirely joined together and by that i mean that from uh the homeowners and property owners and doggos point of view that what what what has happened is that their rights have been infringed and whereas the the various groups who are campaigning for a grant and now an increased grant i think that's welcome it's laudable it's the right thing to do but whichever way uh you look at us there's going to be an actual shortfall between what people lost and the grants that people will receive and this action is essentially to vindicate the rights of the homeowners and donnie gall who will suffer as a result of this shortfall who is this action against it's against three defendants there's the quarry in question donnie gall can't cancel and the national standards authority of ireland the nsa i and um it's not a class action we don't do class actions here but you've got like 200 odd uh property owners signed up how does that work from a legal perspective and we don't you're right we don't have a strict class action law in ireland however there are rules established to allow for multi-party actions to be taken with pathfinder cases our lead cases taken on behalf of those people who may have suffered a different loss but essentially have the same cause of action and in this case it's the blocks and the aggregates that is within their homes does the your representation obviously at the moment some might feel if they're outside uh the the current scheme or what the scheme that's been worked on i'm thinking of people you know with agricultural buildings holiday homes second homes that don't qualify um are those the type of people that are that are signing up or is it those maybe with houses that are far above the the cap that's been placed on this scheme or who is there an average clientele of yours yeah it's all of the above how how we intend to work it is that we're taking lead cases on behalf of the different category of property owner such as a holiday home a homeowner such as somebody who has multiple less commercial property as you say agricultural property so what what we're doing in effect is we're widening the net to include all people whose rights have been infringed not just one particular type and that extends of course into northern Ireland also and if you were successful and sorry to jump the gun and we'll go back a little bit but there's just a couple of obvious questions i want to get out of my head while we can um who pays do you know i mean at the moment there is a scheme that's been worked on i'm not trying to conflate them by the way it's just the way i can formulate the question in my head whereby obviously it's the states with with its resources that will will come up with this money uh if you and your clients are successful are those that you are claiming against are they resourced well enough to to fix the problems and at the scale they are um if things would fall into your favour that depends on the actual defendant themselves um you know we can't speak to the aquarium question as to what resources or insurance they have but i think it's safe to assume that the should we be successful the value of the cases will far exceed the assets of the quarry in question the second defendant is dunagore county council we understand that they have carry insurance for this and we don't know the extent of that insurance but we do believe that ultimately should dunagore county council be proven liable or indeed the third defendant the nsa i that the states will in effect have to pick up the tab for this yeah and of course i presume all those parties will will will say that they don't feel they are liable in the way that you might feel they are so how is this in terms how is this progressing so you're talking about some lead cases i mean when are they going to be before the courts for example we we've already issued and served in the case of the first lead plaintiff uh william and grogna doherty i think uh they they have certainly uh stepped up here on behalf of the home owners and provided a lead uh we we are in the process of drafting the proceedings for the further lead cases and over you know the next couple of months they they will in fact issue their writs but alongside that and parallel to us the non-lead plaintiffs the ordinary homeowners who don't wish to be lead plaintiffs uh we've commenced issuing writs on their behalf and we'll do so on a weekly basis from here on and it's Greg it's important that for those people who have a problem with their house who don't wish to be lead plaintiffs that they understand that time is running against them that it has been in the public domain in donnie gall since about 2017 that it's well known that there are problems and although people may not have their homes tested the the absence of a test may not protect them from a claim that they delayed too long in bringing their case now of course such a claim will be fought but surely a battle is best avoided than fought and it can be done so at this point now while there is time do these cases if successful set present for everyone so say for instance you had one case uh sorry to use sort of like american tv language it might be completely inappropriate but you know i'm drawing my best here but say for instance one of these late cases is successful does that mean every case then has to be fought separately and i'm thinking then too for instance say if someone did access the scheme and there were a shortfall would that qualify them for anything or open a pathway for them to try and make up that shortfall if that makes sense yeah the two parts to the question that the first part is that the reason a lead place was chosen is to narrow the issues so it will be agreed with the defendants what are the problems and if this case is tried and heard are we all going to be bound by the result because the courts otherwise would have to deal with the hundreds of thousands of cases over the same reasoning and it's in everyone's interests that in fact we do voluntarily narrow the issues and normally that's done by agreeing a series of questions that when answered will will uh i suppose guide and bind the plaintiffs in in the non-lead cases so that that's how that's how that works and the second part of the question is the uh the cost of the case to in respect of what are people suing for if they have a grant and the only thing will be clean and we encourage people to partake in any grant situation that's finally agreed that we the only thing we'll be looking for in their behalf is their difference between the shoes they stood in before a deleterious block was laid on their house that they bought one with one and what grant is available and i think that it's common now common knowledge that whatever the grant situation is it's not going to fully compensate people for what they've lost as a result of this has this ever been done before in ireland successfully in the republic of ireland in this type of action yeah this type of action whereby then the court found and compensated an individual and that that created a pathway for others like can you give me an example yeah i can there was a case it's called the solid world bond case where 160 people who invested in the bond that went went south and it was probably an appropriate so so inappropriately sold and as a result of that we opened our case and the defendants settled with all and similarly the michael shine case it was an abuse case in the northeast of ireland and once again a group action was taken and commonly and commonly settled so yes there there are precedents for being done it's quite a regular occurrence although maybe not too regular but there are precedents all right people don't have to pay legal fees to join the case and they don't have to pay experts fees so i'm not trying to probe into your business you know what's in it you know what's in it for your company why are you involved in this well well first of all i was approached to get involved in the case because of our firm's expertise in multi-party actions second of all i understand that people will be you know concerned about legal fees and what they're getting into and the only fee that we will be charging is upon success where there is a difference between the grants which there are no fees applicable and the ultimate award our settlement award given to any homeowner and there will be a small fee based on that and of course the work that's put into it how long do you anticipate this process to take let's just take the first high profile lead case for example i mean how long do you think realistically it might be before we find out from a judge what the outcome of a case is i would say normally these cases take between 24 and 36 months two to three years now there will be case management here Greg so that that that you know with people will be tied into deadlines and the court won't suffer excuses from either side includes including ourselves can someone be engaged in the redress scheme and this process at the same time oh we'd encourage it absolutely because we're only looking for the difference and you know everybody wants to get on with that they don't want to be held up they they hope they're going to get the best result possible and we we know it anybody who's trying to do that on their behalf we think it's the right course of action however it's people's rights we're trying to vindicate here i was thinking to vindicate if i bought a property today and it turned out to have mica i didn't get a test in advance do i have a case well not mica but any of the you know the the deteriorate deleterious materials and well you know it depends on the day you bought it if you bought it today i think Greg that you might want to test your property before you yeah there's a certain amount of common sense in all this and unfortunately we have people back in the 2016 2017 who did get surveyors reports and they they didn't recommend testing and that is problematic yeah um but in terms of like if i don't qualify for the scheme for for other reasons like the examples i've gave i have given uh could i still say you know like i gave the example there for instance of an agricultural building are you representing those people as well or do you have to okay yes as part of the lead plaintiff there are different segments so there are rental homes there holiday homes commercial properties agricultural properties social uh not social housing but social places such as community holds all of these fall within a different category and we will be taking a case on behalf of each category okay well there's an event on in the initial gateway hotel in boncran on June 15th and 16th and if this is uh something that you would be interested in getting involved in is it a turn up on the day or by appointment or what's the situation Dave and it's i suppose there are a lot of people contacting us to come and we but we've allocated 200 appointments now if people have a difficulty in making an appointment through access to internet for whatever reason please come along we do have people there we will talk to you and we will hopefully give you some comfort in relation to the process yeah but you can't promise the moon and the stars either nor would you what are you telling people what are you saying about the likelihood of this you know how are you managing expectations what's the language you're using yeah okay um i first became involved in this case last august and it is only in the last month that we have now issued our proceedings and in the meantime what we've done is we have researched our topic we have thought we've been very very careful as to what information we have sought and relied upon and it has taken us that many months to issue and serve a rich uh we are finalizing what's known as a statement of claim now which sets out the claim in great detail and if we did not believe that on the balance of probabilities that we will win our case we wouldn't have brought it not a chance so we're not going with uber confidence Greg not at all i mean the state will rise to meet this challenge i have no doubt however the facts are the facts and although it's not appropriate to fight a case on air it is appropriate to tell people that we believe on the balance of probabilities which is the test in court that we will win and that's why we're here and obviously this is a finally Dave this is an incredibly expensive process um who picks up the bill uh in the event of of a lead case failing for example and you know obviously presumably having to pick up costs for both themselves and uh whomever they're taking the case against i mean i presume that could be a real real uh you know could be a sizable amount of money we're talking about here who would who would pick up those those um the lead plaintiffs whom have been brave enough and good enough to stand up on behalf of the community it should there be a downside uh this case has been funded on a not-for-profit basis and their downside costs should they arise uh which of course we'll be fighting uh but should they arise and it's you know people have to understand that that they may arise that uh they will be met by the not-for-profit group okay and very finally just to explain i probably should have asked this from the beginning uh why at this point sort of continue to sign people up um and you know they might have you know yourself the emotions involved in uh owning one of these properties why not wait to see the outcome of a lead case and then say right this is what we've achieved we can do the same for you you know we could have hundreds of people here you know that it could be huge successful for them but they could find themselves disappointed as well so the question just to shorten it why not just go move forward with these lead cases and they say right look what we've done come to the initial gateway hotel and sign up but why are you signing people continuing to sign people up now because of time uh we're afraid that a defendant may raise the issue of time and try and bar people from proceeding with their cases and the only way to to avoid that fight and it's a fight that we can't guarantee we win Arden's uh is to issue rits now on behalf of each individual there's no cost to entry for this it protects people and allows them the security of being able to rely on a result should it be successful rather than wondering can we get in even though we did nothing for all those years so it's actually a de-stress to join okay because as time goes on Greg that window will close right well 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fuels for arland is and who they represent so fuels for island is the industry body for the companies that are involved in the importation refining distribution and marketing of liquid fuels so petrol diesel for transport also biofuels that are put into those and kerosene for home heat we also do maritime and aviation fuels right okay so you have a good line on what is happening here i mean we're seeing fuel prices go up everywhere uh you know um britain a scene record prices uh mainland europe uh in in america too i think and they're more reliant not more reliant but they've got gas guzzlers over there and they're really feeling the pinch with uh petrol prices going up and up and up so we're heading over two euro per liter of petrol and it's up around two seventeen two twenty two twenty four twenty five in some places is there an upper is there a ceiling here do you think kevin anybody who tried to try to predict oil prices at the best of times is is kind of a fool because uh if if anyone's had that capacity we wouldn't need to be talking to one another this morning great would be very wealthy fellas but look the situation is oil prices are always very very heavily influenced by sort of global geopolitics and the situation in ukraine is the horrendous tragedy there has certainly had an impact we've seen that over the last three months and it's continuing and then you had the the um announcement of formal sanctions from the EU a couple of weeks ago now we here in ireland had a very low level of dependence on russian oil prior to the invasion we've taken ourselves uh out of that supply chain as far as we possibly can at this point other countries didn't move as quickly so they are now scrambling to get access to fuel from other countries that we have been doing already so that means that we're competing with them that's put an extra burden on to on to oil prices and then a couple of other things have happened that are you know less obvious one is that wholesale diesel prices in particular diesel is what most of us are using for transport wholesale diesel prices have been calculated based on a global average uh over many many years but that average was skewed because of the people who were prepared to buy russian oil getting a discount that was changed this week so there's now two indexes one for russian oil and one for everything else and that has put a price hike up the other thing is a bit of a strange one it's one of those economic anomalies but every year at the time of the american memorial day holiday fuel prices or gasoline price in particular on a global level spike and that's because americans drive massive distances during that period so i think um it was the american automobile association that said last week 40 million americans drove more than 80 kilometers so that every year has a spike in that week so that has also combined presumably to china relaxing some of their restrictions as well that's going to see the mass movement of more people at the same time as the other factors you've talked about that has to play into this presumably as well that's right and then you have kind of the the um the interesting situation where the opec countries could increase their production to kind of soften the blow of this but i think the opec countries are seeing as being quite happy to see america and europe struggling a little bit and who are the opec countries so they tend to be the the the the middle east those those those uh the the arabic countries that are that are strong um producers of crude oil yeah okay so have we what will be as far as you can uh uh as far as you can speculate we haven't really either i presume felt the consequences of europe's plans to greatly reduce uh the importation of uh particularly by by by c of uh russian oil and that we start that start to take effect and that really comes into effect by the end of this year is that going to have a knock-on effect on petrol pump prices diesel pump prices i mean that is a large part of what what has led to the increase in the last few weeks the last couple of weeks since that announcement and it was also the direction of travel was very clear even before the announcement so that meant that companies were trying to look for alternative sources those companies in central europe and and eastern europe that were heavily relied upon russia so they're now competing with the people that we've been buying from already to try and get access though so that impact is already being felt i wouldn't think that that would dramatically increase but it will continue and and and that's the problem the other thing we have to say great as well is that you know if if if your listeners in donningall are going in and are paying two euro ten today for a liter of diesel then despite the fact that there was an excise duty cut back in march the government is collecting ten cent more on that liter of diesel than they were in june of 2021 they'll be collecting about 90 cent in tax on that two euro ten that people around donningall are paying today and we think that needs to change i would have thought i would have thought in a crisis like this at the very least they would kind of cap the take in other words so this the extractor wouldn't be down uh because you know you mean that wouldn't be realistic but if they kept their the take that would uh that but would would that possibly does it suit the government though that one that maybe we are changing how we use our vehicles and cutting out unnecessarily journeys and not carrying around a bag of coal in the boot for no reason like it's Fort Knox would they be concerned that if they keep the price on the two euro liter that we'll just you know drive out is there an issue with supply for example if they genuinely believe that then perhaps that might be the motivation well let's look at look at the facts for decades not just in this country it's not a particular political point for decades uh fossil fuel prices have been increased by various different taxes levies excise all those sorts of things and we're being told that that is to disincentivise people from using fossil fuels and to encourage them to use alternatives and yet uh has never ever ever been shown to to decrease demand in fact at the time now of record high prices we have tremendously high demand for products and the truth of it is as you said I think in your intro to the program people don't buy fuel for the crack you know it's not a discretionary spend when I fill my car it's like I can get to work like go to meetings it's like I can go and visit my mother down in Corkac you know that's that's what people are using their cars for for businesses is to get their products to market that's what people are using fuel for and and government have been laboring under this I believe willful blindness that this that high prices in some way drive uh decreased in demand what it actually does is drive tax returns it's a stealth tax it's nothing more but yeah well it's it's not stealth because we think it's the one of those taxes we're all aware for but I understand you're used to the phrase that being said you know we can have a go at the government it's easy done everyone does it quite regularly now but we are also seeing and it's hard to understand the old companies making record profits okay so we need to we need to you need to describe what we mean by oil companies because if you're thinking about the shells the bps the global majors yes they are but that doesn't mean that the local no no I get that no I get that yeah I get that but I mean let's let's go with the big guys I struggle to understand maybe you have the the inside track like how uh how can they be recording record profits um at a time when we're paying record prices well I mean I don't represent those companies understood frankly I wouldn't like to right now uh because I think that is a that is a very difficult position to to be put out to defend I wouldn't try and defend it I think that they need to take a share of the responsibility here they need to and the traders in particular the the global oil traders who are making money on this but what I can say from from my own member's perspective is that fuel retailers tend not to put a percentage mark upon their fuel what they normally do is they they have their their cent value increase on wholesale prices you know their profit margin and it's very very low I think I may have said it to you before Greg on a previous time that we've chatted but if you go in and spend 70 euro in diesel and I follow behind you and I spend 250 on a cappuccino they'll make more on the cappuccino than they did on the diesel yeah but you know that's that's the economics of our business and Kevin on the back of that last conversation I've taken on board what you said by the way in terms of you know when a delivery comes in and when it's purchased and how the price can fluctuate and I get that and I have a better understanding of that now but I have sort of kept an eye on two or three stations you know over a longer period of time I don't know how big the tanks are how often they're filled but there are cases whereby you might have a 12 cent and up to 22 cent per litre difference consistently between three stations say for instance South Donegal, Mid Donegal you know heading towards the north of the county now when people see that on a consistent basis they think well these stations are you know they're they're they're they're taking an extra 20 cent per litre out of our pocket at a very difficult time we're not saying that doesn't happen are we well I'll answer that specific question in a moment but just to just to roll back one little bit about half of the time that I do media interviews I'm accused of of the industry being involved in in price fixing because everybody's price is the same and then the other half I have people with somebody how can they be so wildly different 100% and I get that because Anna to be honest with you I think the price fixing questions maybe somewhat historic whereby people might remember a few years ago that if you went into a town with four or five stations there'd be a one or two cent variance you know and I and I get that I understand that maybe that question at this point is a little bit redundant so on to the second one but I get it but but the I think a 20 cent difference in in a in a similar location would be very very in a county within a county say for example not in a not in a in a town but within a county okay so there's a couple of elements there so one is that you will have different operating costs for individual four courts so and I recognize you're talking about Donagull but if you're talking about you know the middle of Dublin city central Galway city central wherever against a rural location the other one would be the motorway service stations they have much higher operating costs so they tend to be more expensive I can't answer a specific question about that 20 your 20 cent in a difference on a litre seems huge to me I in fact I don't think I could ever recall having heard of that big a difference for I'm not disputing it but I'd have to look into why that could like could be the case in a particular example yeah okay um but you're you're you're content that your members you know they it's for some it's it's not a lost leader or such but you know it's part of their overall offering proof presumably a lot of them hope that you fill up and whilst you're paying you grab something from the deli for an awful lot of those people it is a it is a footfall driver to get people into the shop to buy a breakfast roll buy a paper buy a bottle of lucasade or whatever you're going to buy and that's where they make most of their profit and look the other thing about fuel is it's a high volume product so yes while the margin on one litre is very low people don't buy one litre they buy 20 litres they buy 60 litres you know and so you know it's it's not I'm not you know playing the poor mouth here at all you know but it is it is important to say that there isn't that massive margin that people have a huge discretion as to what they're charging and the other thing about it is as you were able to do you can drive around stations and it's the only business where the price you pay is up in big illuminated letters outside this the store and if you don't like that price you can go keep on going down the road until you find somewhere that you do like so that I mean competition in this industry is exceptionally tight and that's one of the drivers of it yeah so I don't want to draw you on where you think prices might go but you know we are seeing predictions that inflation will top out at around eight and a half percent I think that's quite optimistic I don't know much about things but the direction of traffic seems very different than it is now and one of the drivers of that is the likes of petrol diesel and what have you I mean do you allow yourself to think where petrol and diesel prices might go this year without government intervention like could we look at 250 litre look anything could happen equally it could come down quickly if Opec were to to to increase production tomorrow that would have a massive impact on reducing I would you know I don't have insight and even if I had I wouldn't be able to discuss it anyway it's just not there what I will say though is that you're right about that inflationary pressure because everything that is on the supermarket shelves in Lyford this afternoon was brought there on a truck that's powered by diesel so fuel prices haven't have a disproportionate impact on inflation and therefore it's really important that government starts looking at how they can manage the price of fuel going forward right okay I rounded up to 20 cent the difference of spot is because I took notes but maybe you know 16 17 18 e type cent but I suppose on an issue as important as this the specifics really matters so just to to make that clear Kevin listen thanks for your time again this morning I appreciate you making yourself available to us I really do thank you no problem all right take care of yourself Kevin McPartland their CEO of fuels for Ireland perhaps no satisfactory answers in there I know speaking to people because I'm just out about like everyone is with the same dilemmas the same problems the same decisions that happen to be made about life and how we live it and there is a sense that you know are we having the hand taken a coal the price of coal do you know there's an irony here and this is completely anecdotal the price of coal has gone absolutely through the roof you all know that out there anything that use coal but I'm not sure if I'm right in saying but there seems to be more turf being cut this year than I have seen in previous years you know when you drive from past bogs and your glance and you know the way you do ironically is the price of coal increasing the cutting of the product that they were trying to stop us using it all at all have you noticed that is there anything to that 08 6 60 25,000 08 6 6 25,000 or call 07 491 25,000 right I'll talk up to the break before the news here there was an 80 euro difference for 1000 litres for tractor diesel between two different filling stations so do shop around it's important yep I was in Don Fannahy over the weekend and while it might be great to see it buzzing where is the order cars and camper vans parked on foot paths it was very off putting well look the bottom line is is it's not just that area there are a number of areas around our beautiful county that it can be a bit of a free-for-all in terms of parking in some areas and maybe some efforts are being made to try and reduce that in others not so much a corner says are these sanctions really going to stop the war it is just making the Irish people suffer more than anything else I don't really think so I think Vladimir Putin has the resources to grind this out for a very long time and he has support from other countries that might offer assistance like China for example if he needs it I don't I personally don't think so I mean I would love to see it all end but giving weapons might be the might be the best way to help whether that's the right thing to do or not the sanctions I think it's we are paying the price for that hi Greg can you ask him why when the barrel of oil was $150 it was only 120 a liter now it's 125 a barrel it's 220 a liter plus the profits are going through the roof if it scarcity surely profits wouldn't be rising that's more complex the price relationship between a barrel of oil and what we're paying and how quick it goes up and down it they don't follow exactly the same track we've all been frustrated by that listen thank you for your company for a very busy hour stay right where you are we're going to be back with more for you after the news 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part in the case can still participate in whatever redress scheme is announced later this month the only thing will be clean and we encourage people to partake in any grant situation that's finally agreed the only thing we'll be looking for on their behalf is their difference between the shoes they stood in before a deleterious block was laid on their house that they bought one with one and what grant is available and i think that it's common now common knowledge that whatever the grand situation is it's not going to fully compensate people for what they've lost as a result of this the british government has been accused of diplomatic vandalism by afina fall map boris johnson's cabinet is said to propose new legislation that will allow future ministers override the northern ireland protocol however barry andrews believes that after boris johnson's narrow victory in a leadership confidence vote earlier this week the legislation may not get the green light these are the positions that have been taken i think the uk may it may have played their hand very poorly here because it's clear that tory mp's that voted against bars johnson are talking now about a vote strike and the first area in which they're going to be uh on cooperative with the whips is on this bill so it doesn't look likely that it's going to get through i mean well they should meet on martin has been addressing the european parliament on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of ireland's announcement that it would join the then eec he told the european parliament this morning that ireland favors uk's admission to the eu he also said in strazburg that he believes all sides should go back to the negotiating table when it comes to the protocol and they should do the sensible and pragmatic thing levies on taxes on fuel should be eliminated or substantially reduced on a temporary basis according to a south dunigaltady it's after the society of the Irish motor industry issued advice to motorists on how to reduce spending on petrol avoiding unnecessary trips and removing heavy items from the car to lighten the load are among the tips with deputy mark mack sherry says the government should be doing more to cut taxes but what we're talking is it is window dressing in terms of what really needs to be done in terms of a tangible effort by government we seem to be able to find money everywhere when it comes to impressing our international contemporaries let's focus on seeing if we can provide resources to look after our own people on this occasion the government plans to give people free vouchers to use remote working hubs a number of which have been developed in dunigalt last month dunigalt county council announced a scheme to provide free hub access to people holidaying in the county that need to connect with their work for a time minister heather humphries will unveil the plan later today as part of increased measures to allow people work in their communities rather than commuting to offices in bigger towns and cities there'll also be further investment in remote working hubs across the country to support more hybrid working independent td denis nocton is a former communications minister he believes this is a very important initiative i think anything that can see the maximum use of these new connected hubs around the country i think is very positive i think there's an opportunity there for employers particularly employers based in maybe urban centers where there's pressure on office accommodation to look and see and facilitate staff moving to some of these remote working hubs whether forecast breezy with chars or longer spells of rain today with some isolated thunderstorms top temperatures 15 to 17 degrees celsius moderate to fresh and gusty westerly winds stronger times along coasts it'll become mostly dry and clear for a time tonight with some isolated chars lowest temperatures 8 to 10 degrees celsius in a moderate west or southwest breeze becoming light 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rich people on russia is ourselves cost spiraling out of control and people struggling big time sanctions doing putin no harm as he's not going to stop till he gets what he wants out of ukraine so we can't keep suffering either and you know there is a change in some people stance on this of course you would know for the french and the italians are keen for a solution to be found that doesn't embarrass putin that might force them into other action which really effectively probably means some concession of russian advances to russia ukraine already saying and they're losing you know a hundred young men primarily and women per day in this war four or five hundred others injured and maimed that the toll is huge and maybe someone has the answer to this and i'm not trying to be controversial or but i'm genuinely uh we're playing ukraine tonight arlands playing ukraine tonight and i'm just curious as to what the situation is as to um the ukrainian footballers are they exempt from having to be involved in the defensive because obviously there's a lot of their school friends and peers that are out there literally in the trenches i mean are they exempt from from fighting in this war what is the situation if they go can they travel into ukraine and then out of ukraine like do they have a special pass because they play international sport i know usik their world champion at the start of it he was in full military gear in one of the cities that we could have been keyed alongside um the former heavyweight champion uh and i thought right he's given up his boxing career to fight with his fellow countrymen and he's out of he's out of i think he's out of ukraine he's training anyway him and antony joshua are going to be fighting soon so what is the the the rules that the sport exempt these people from having to to fight with their uh fellow men what is the situation there or i mean are they obviously very proud but they can't go back in and visit family because they wouldn't be allowed back out again because there is a ban on people you leave in ukraine um it's a curious one i wonder what the situation is uh 08 6 60 25 thousand if you've gotten insight into that as i say i'm not trying to root out of controversy it's something i'm genuinely curious about um Greg i went to buy the rally program yesterday it was 12 euro the last time uh the rally was on in 2019 it's 20 euro this year sorry it was 12 euro previously now it's 20 euro they believe it's a ripoff i didn't buy it i hope the rally committee are happy with this eight-year-old hike it's the local people that buy them the young boys that do the diffing won't be buying the rally program shame on us donagall rally committee well obviously in the interest of fairness we go on to the uh uh the rally committee to get a response to them they say they are keeping costs for those doing it down and they found people watching agreed it was a free sport and had no issue in paying uh this way this amount okay so that's their response there this caller went for a walk in bonkranagh yesterday and was very surprised at the state of the public toilets i can't begin to explain but i'm clean and disgusting they were it was coming up to lunchtime so not the end of the day stuff i just feel the tidied towns do such a fantastic job of keeping the town but the toilets really let the place down who's responsible for cleaning the public toilets is it the council uh ultimately that's who is responsible for to clean it but when areas are busy lots of people use the toilets and you know there's obviously is there not some sort of a deficit in individual responsibility here or maybe these toilets aren't fit to take uh all that uh is put upon them i don't know the ins and outs of it but it's already in uh the year in the summer and already we're getting some concerns about our public amenities right i'll get to more of your comments and so much more besides on this wednesday's edition of the nine till noon 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is this being established and is there a particular reason that these locations were chosen give us the a bit of the background to this announcement well the service that was launched last week is a national problem gambling support service it's a collaboration with the national forum a family resource center and it will see 20 family resource centers all across the country provide a confidential affordable counseling service for those affected by harmful gambling yeah and i think harmful gambling is uh one of the the most troublesome they're all troublesome of course addictions in this country particularly so in that there's a lot of it and a lot of it goes on to the radar and as i said earlier on in the program pan as soon as we start talking about this i think it's particularly partners and family members go well well thankfully you're talking about this because it is a big problem well that's it i mean the minute report which was published last year estimated there to be 55,000 problem gamblers in ireland and it echoed international research on how for every person identified with a gambling disorder at least six people are directly affected so these people are like you said the partners parents siblings children and friends and like the addiction itself they're mostly unseen and they're under supported and it's across generations too young people we saw stats recently about the amount of young people starting gambling and it becoming a problem for them and it's right through all age categories that's it yeah i mean the stats would tell us that it doesn't um i mean look at mostly um you know in in the recorded stats and what we get back from the services that that we provide funding to young men um you know are the major cohorts really um but it really spans right across the ages um you know we're also finding that there is an increase in women gambling um so we're really hoping now because of our family resource centers located in so many communities across the country both rural and urban that people will reach out and look for support and you know it's there it's available um it's going to be affordable and maybe if it's you know if you're worried about your partner your child um you know somebody that you care about and you just want to talk to somebody about how you approach and how you open that conversation you can get in touch with your family resource center and talk to the therapist there yeah and it's i think maybe historically did we have this view that maybe a gambling problem was uh a fella in the bookies betting on horses and gambling his wages now obviously it could be you can bet on throw-ins on football games it could be the lotto it could be scratch cards it could be gaming machines it could be bingo there's online or offline there are so many presumably so many different forms of of harmful gambling well that's it i mean it's um the landscape in gambling has changed so much over the years um particularly in the last say five to ten years where you know the online platforms have really gained traction um you know uh during covid with the lockdown people who maybe used to use their local vet and shop um you know they transferred their accounts to online um so that saw a huge rise in people gambling online and as you know then like the the online platforms don't close you can gamble 24 hours a day now i mean it's very possible that the people that need these services the most other are the least resourced because of a gambling problem may mean they have little or no money um why is there a charge for this service and if and what is the charge well it will vary from a family resource center to family resource center but what i can tell you is um they mostly operate on it like uh they have a fees policy um can you tell me what that is please come yeah so basically it means that um people are charged based on their ability to pay um but really what's important for people to know is that nobody will be turned away from any of these services based on an inability to pay so one of the charges likely to be it's not a secret you know if somebody is is working and you know has an income and has an ability to pay maybe 20 euros would be the fee to see the counselor um but you know generally per session is that yes but generally if that's not possible for a person they might just ask for a donation how's the gambling awareness trust funded uh pam is it all from sort of users uh we're funded by the the online and retail betting sector in ireland right so you're funded by you're funded by effectively bookies and then you charge people to use the service well look it's it's easy to be cynical about i'm sorry i didn't hope i didn't sound cynical i was asking i was just asking the question it's just a strange relationship that gambling awareness trust is is funded by betting companies and yet you still have to charge the victims of these companies to access the services it's not cynicism sorry it's just just trying to work out the relationship well we are funded through a social responsibility fund that um that comes through the Irish bookmakers association so it's a completely voluntary fund for the um for the gambling operators to um contribute to and do you exhaust that fund every year pam sorry do you exhaust that fund every year um well the first year like we're only three years really in operation yeah the first year we opened a call for um expressions of interest to see what um organizations were available out there to provide services um so you know we selected very carefully selected organizations that we felt you know had a track record and more in a position to provide professional services um then of course we had to sustain those services from we saw after the first year that they were doing well and they were you know meeting the needs out there yeah and so we were waiting on the the maneuver port to kind of identify the gaps um to show us where we need to target our funding so that's what we do um every year you know we look to see where we can meet the gaps and this was uh one of the reasons that we collaborated with the national forum of family resource centers because we know that there was a scarcity of services in the community yeah and presumably the the the the those that part fund there's there's no influence and this is about if people have a gambling problem stopping gambling oh look it's very important that that message gets out i mean we're an independent charity the the gambling industry have absolutely no influence over our work they you know they provide this fund and we use this fund to as i said you know identify where the gaps are and to make sure that people out there who need help get help all right how do you engage with the services at the fin valley resource center or the forge family resource center how do people get in contact or book a slot or what's the story well if you log on to our website gamblingcare.ie all of the services all of the services in the family resource centers are listed by county and you will be able to log into whatever county you're in and you'll see the details of the family resource center and all of the contact details will be there so it's just a matter of making a phone call um to that service and um arranging an appointment with the therapist and at what uh at what point do you have to discuss your ability to pay and who is that conversation had with that conversation like that's that's going to happen between the family resource center and the person seeking help you know that's that's kind of really outside of our remit um each family resource center has their own um operating system you know and would you worry that might discourage people obviously you know yourself for rural community everyone know what's going on that it's tough enough maybe to come forward to seek help with an issue like this but then to have to sort of have a conversation about not being able to afford it do you would you have any concerns that might discourage people from engaging with I would hope not I mean um the family resource centers offer that kind of discretion and anonymity you could be going to a family resource center for anything you know um and look if if somebody feels that they they know the staff and you know they're worried about um you know confidentiality like maybe you could look at a family resource center close by in the next county yeah I get you know they're they're all open um like that it's not going to be you know um you're not in our target area or you know you're not in our catchment area but you'd have to go to to the service in your area okay Pam give us give us the website again just so people can get more information gamblingcare.ie gamblingcare.ie okay Pam thanks for your time this morning I appreciate it thanks all right take care Pam Bergen there who's uh executive director of the gambling awareness trust and now a modern 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very shortly but why not speak to the person behind it or one of those people behind it harry from hudson taylor good morning harry thanks so much for spending the time to chat to us today morning how are you i'm good how are you keeping what's it feel like your album recently released i presume a lot of work into it what's the emotions when it's finally out there for your fans to listen to this is our third our third album and yeah i'm personally and i think i can speak for my brother on this one as well we're really proud of this album and it just came out of i don't know i really in a sense because it was all finished only last year in october which is quite a short while ago in terms of releasing schedules usually from the past three albums you'd you'd you'd write and record it over the space of maybe two or three years just because of our hectic touring schedule that we had obviously this one came in the midst of the pandemic so we had a little bit of time to actually just get it done and it was written and recorded within four months and then now it's out less than a year after it was finished you know is this the future it's great maybe yeah maybe all right tell us a bit about about the album uh obviously loyal fans won't be disappointed but uh what did you try and achieve with this album musically so um yeah when we when we kind of got approached by our record label to say that they wanted to make this new album with us uh we just wanted to be a bit more strict about how we wanted to do it so we said we want to work with this person um we'll have it done at this time and the person we work with is guy called Luke Petashnik who's a fantastic friend of ours producer and friend of ours and an engineer called Dom Monk who engineered a film album called by by the band Big Thief which we really liked the sound of and so yeah there was the tech that's the sort of technical side of it and then I guess like uh we songwriting thing we weren't doing this thing of trying to like chase you know a single like we have to chase and you know it was like no let's just make something that we were really happy about and as a result of it we got some songs that we're really really proud of and um yeah it's back to basics in some ways um six six songs out of the 12 were recorded entirely live and that surprised me it's the first time we've ever done that even though we're pretty confident in how we sound live you know uh and yeah just like even just the opening track on it entirely live uh also just the way they were written as well like me me and Alfie wrote most of the songs ourselves uh even even though we weren't together we wrote them over zoom wrote them over uh yeah the first song we played them together was in the studio which was gas uh whereas all the other albums you know it's like you get the chance to play them live road test them a little bit um I don't want to say by the way I don't know if you can hear the background noise here but I'm staying in an Airbnb and there's a an air series school or a kindergarten right there so that's two stars that's right that's just two stars right off the bat now but thankfully with modern microphones they seem to be able to filter out so much back noise we can't hear a thing just talked about the attitude to this album where did you get that not that that piece with it or the confidence if you know what I mean that you you seem to be able to sort of take the pressure off and do it your way as you say not chase that single there where where is that is that because it's your third album is it because maybe a bit of a re-evaluation or confidence in what you can do well where does that brain space come from um yeah maybe I mean the last one I don't know if you just know the story probably not but like essentially the second album which tends to be a tough one for people for you know understandably because you're trying to follow up something that you had worked on for many many years our second album actually became a number one in Ireland and uh we didn't get to tour it because it came out in February 2020 and it's like we've kind of built you know two albums back to back with two different record labels and they both were like right we need to get you a number one at home in Ireland and it was like you had to really kind of put in a lot of effort to make that happen you know and so this one I don't know maybe that was part of it was like don't we need to get a number one it's like we already have that little accolade which is a lovely thing it's amazing like it's a cool thing to say forever more on my wikipedia page on the band's wikipedia page it's the number one album in Ireland that's class you know but like yeah it's just like I don't know we want to just make some art that we're really happy about and uh it's a conversation between us as brothers it's a conversation about mental health a state of the world and you know it's just sort of thoughts and feelings about all that stuff which is really honestly really enjoyed making it so yeah people would know your background of the band is it started off uh uh Boskin uh in Dublin uh and then you know it it skyrocketed from there now you're back to ruin a game which is great you're getting to go out and play uh this album and you're going to be up here locally in the northwest uh in Sandinows in Jerry in Derry sorry on the 11th of June um I'm presuming we still have getting out in front of in front of your audience I mean that's yeah so I think the Sandinows date's been rescheduled um I'm not too sure exactly when it is but that'll be updated soon no bother and we'll let this listen we'll let this listen I'll tell us about Bunkrana go ahead we're playing in Bunkrana on the 3rd of July though um yeah and if it's not too much of a stretch I guess we're playing in Belfast this Friday as well so yeah there'll be the the touring schedule at the moment it's not as busy as we would like to be honest we we kind of cancelled shows after rescheduling them twice um during the pandemic a lot of people just held on to their shows and kept rescheduling them which is a smarter move to be fair but at the time we didn't know what we were just had people being annoyed and well that could work that could work one or two ways I'm hearing quite a bit of people particularly if they bought tickets and the tickets were valid for rescheduled shows that a lot of those people for different reasons aren't turning up so you know I think particularly with uh particularly with comedians they're sort of seeing the halls not quite as busy you know cancelling reissuing tickets and then you know people are able to go probably is the right way to do it yeah the only problem for us is that because of the cancelling is that the venues then have a like they have an onus to give all of all of the spaces to people who were rescheduled so you're all like on a waiting list for getting into venues as an artist and there's also so much on right now it's like impossible to this is like I'm sure you as a radio station probably already are advertising so many different events on all the time and it's it's a lot for people you know and I respect that massively and we've been happy with the numbers we're getting out of shows and it's just lovely to to be back doing what we love to do doing what we're what we're what we're good at doing you know doing our favorite thing playing to live audiences yeah but you've also enjoyed quite a bit of airplay and irish radio perhaps you know you could always have uh it could always have more but particularly you meet myself more recently has enjoyed a lot of airplay and irish radio have you have you on that conversation it's like a perpetual conversation now about the level of support from sort of irish radio stations play listing uh you know irish music is it is it something you from a view on a man is to say you don't do too bad but so many others brilliant musicians as you know yourself find it hard to get onto these playlists I really I really think it's a massively important thing for irish radio stations to be playing irish music that's just yeah every time that radio station launches a new like fully irish thing I think that's the best thing ever it's just so needed because look all these international artists like they're they're amazing but like they take up so much of the space on the most of the playlist and it's lovely to support such we have such a high quality like such a high level of quality music coming out of Ireland and not just like you know it's like every type like hip hop pop folk rock you know everything literally everything and it's it's it's amazing it's a we obviously have a hair to job it but we also love some really good new music and it deserves to be heard yeah and I think you're writing with this individual events but I mean sometimes that's almost like a pat on the head to the industry I think if it were far more integrated whereby you've been a situation you go well you don't need to do a specific you know irish weekend or irish day because irish music is played and music coming out of Ireland because irish music the sound of it now is is international because it's all different you know people with different backgrounds creating music in in in Ireland so listen there's a wealth of stuff there you'd be people would be mad not to to dip into it just one other thing like I'm not I love music and listen to music but I'm not a huge music fan but what I do notice there's an awful lot of very similar sounding music back in maybe my heyday a lot of you know guitar driven music you know music with a band it's just it just doesn't seem to be there anymore is it not there or is it not getting the airplay does it feed into that previous conversation we were having there harry oh yeah it's not maybe getting a radio play but it's certainly exploding on on different streaming services like i found i found so many new bands and i continue to find new bands all the time through through algorithmically generally so we have to do our own research that's the that's the solution here it is and maybe i don't know what what it is really but it's there is good music out there that's the thing and like even myself like all everything on the radio can be sometimes a bit just homogenized and and and too much there's too much auto tune or there's too much you know you know little synthy noises and not enough guitar you know which i love i also love it like absolutely love i love a good pop banger don't get me wrong but it's like a bit of mixed but would be nice wouldn't it listen harry i'm going to let you enjoy the rest of your break where are you anyway what i don't need an air cold what county yen i'm currently in this moment i'm in dublin my my sister my sister had a baby who was normally whose house i'd stay in and uh so i can't stay there so i'm in an airbnb you might be godfather yet that sounds like such a sacrifice you deserve it all right listen come here enjoy it thanks very much uh we look forward to seeing you up in boncran and when you reschedule that dairy date we're going to play one of your tracks now great to chat to you harry all the best all right good man good man bye bye thank you very much okay that's harry from hudson taylor and here they are for your entertainment that is hudson taylor there and searching for answers it's from their new album and uh they'll be in boncran at the start of july if you want to hear them perform live as you heard from harry there much of their album was recorded live greg your song at 10 30 could it be dedicated to all the students who are doing their exams today that comes in from paul of course paul and lots of people around the building here as well have young ones that have just gone through exams are all going into them so we uh we understand it's a stressful time i think maybe more because young ones can take things in their stride sometimes it's more stressful for the parents and guardians morning greg can you wish the students at more roy college all the best today with the start of the exams from all the parents association that comes in from tolly the chair of that group no problem tolly can you say happy birthday to jerald bates and convoy from your daughter laura and grandson aron can you please play a request for an amazing man called roi mooney from bird who celebrated his birthday today he is loved beyond words thanks from his daughter adelle what a lovely request for you roi and marge callahan in grove hall remelton happy birthday marge it's from your ever-loving husband mickey right we're back with our next guest in just two minutes save on dog food this june at arlands largest pet retailer maxi zoo get pedigree 12 kilo dog food for just 24 99 that's up to 22 percent off find your local maxi zoo store at maxi zoo dot ie maxi zoo there for you and your pet always joe gallagher 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toilets were in a bit of a state have you a few on this yes well i i'm living in boncran at 46 years great and i'm part of our volunteer organization in boncran and we do a lot of work and i clean that particular area around that toilet a clean ladies day in the shorefront right over the castle bridge and i wouldn't even have my dog under that toilet grid so it's that bad it really is bad now um there's a price there's a woman there comes and opens them toilets and cleans them toilets now i'm not sure and saying this but i'm not going to mention no names but i'm not sure where she's actually been an employee you've done it all kind of council she never wears the you know we're not going into the personalities of it but it's the council's responsibility to clean these toilets rather we're not talk about the individuals you're saying they're not meeting that the reason why the reason why i'm going down this lane greg is to let the people know that don't it all kind of council is absolutely no interest in them toilets and maintaining them i sent you young photographs of um a hand dryer um off the sink and all out the silicone we blew mold on it the the hand dryer has rusted it's actually rusted um i would stick my nose on the odd time and there's no toilet roll half the time um it's just really has an absolute disgrace in a busy area jared is it possible you know when you get big rush of people as soon as the weather is decent and lots of people are going in and out in and out in and out is it possible to keep toilets like that clean that is greg okay i was in nestwood yesterday and dairy nestwoods lovely woods they lovely toilets spotless toilets okay spotless toilets with a man up there um from dairy city council cleaning them modern toilets greg modern toilets a when i'm we're boggling a detergent and washed around and flushed it all out and was spotless by the conversation that we can with someone uh talking about the work the likes of you do out cleaning places up uh often when everyone else is you know not around early in the morning late at night whatever it might be and i think you do amazing stuff do you feel a bit let down that you do what you do voluntarily and then local authorities perhaps don't keep up their end of the bog and so to speak yeah well when it comes to things like that greg um we've we have now i have to congratulate the environment section um pierce my glory and brain dial okay i want to name them because they really do go beyond to help uncannotity towns now they do the shorefront but i'm i'm down to our local councillors here greg there are the people that are elected to um get at the council to have these services up to scratch and pay in a local property tax to have a toilet whenever i want to go down to the shore now maybe a child gets caught short or there's an elderly person and they have to go to the toilet they wouldn't go in there greg with a lovely big swans park opens yeah also i would there a toilet on it no there's no also to right i think the our attitude to toilets is something like that there are convenience and the one thing i've learned uh doing this program is is that toilets are essential for an awful lot of people uh that they need a toilet due to a medical condition or whatever it might be these aren't a luxury these are an essential space that should be well maintained so people can go in without feeling they're going to walk out with something uh you know so it's not just a luxury to have a toilet it's it's a demand we should have proper clean toilets yeah that toilet is not fud for purpose now greg if the health board was again and swabbed that toilet i was hit to see what they'd find it's not fud for purpose like and you'll talk to a councillor and they'll tell you all we're regenerating this whole shorefront now i went that talk in the gateway last week or two weeks ago and they're talking to a lovely lady down there and she says this will not be happening for another two or three years pretend they go through procurement and all these different procedures and planning permission and actually getting the funding the funding is not actually secure yet for doing up the shorefront this is only funding for consultants and but it is significant and i do take your point but it's six years greg aye but the wheels are turning but i understand what you're saying we can't uh use future developments as an excuse to not fix immediate problems is and and i know you love a councillor now coming on or somebody from the council coming on and saying that this is all we're doing up this whole shorefront this is all going to be done it needs to be done next week greg this toilet's been like this for years it floods it floods at times so it does the water backs up and the floor is covered in water and then you've got an electric hand blower on there and you're standing on a wet floor yep that does not sound shocking it should be locked up greg the woman's 100 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coming up as you can imagine but we're going to be speaking to a guidance councillor talking about brian mooney a regular guest in the show talking about some advice and tips to ease exam stress i'm sure as i said earlier on it's a stressful time for parents and guardians as it can be for young ones because they're quite calm sometimes so if you need any advice any questions as it relates to what best to do or whatever i'll let you generate some questions as well get them into us now 08 660 25000 so we're going to be talking about advice and tips to ease exam stress but as i say i want to answer questions that you might have right i'll tell you if you don't mind we've ran over a little bit i'm going to take one final break before the news at 11 o'clock and that means we're right up to date and i won't have to interrupt brian for a break so stay with us we'll be back with the news headlines at 11 after these messages new summer footwear at brian mccormick sports and leisure new balance 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signed up as plaintiffs in a high court case being taken by the defective blocks arden group six of those are lead plaintiffs who take the main cases represented by colman legal next week colman legal would be in bunkrana hosting appointments with affected homeowners who may wish to join the case managing partners Dave colman spoke to greg on today's 9 to noon show he says people taking part in the case can still participate in whatever address scheme is announced later this month you can hear Dave colman on our website highlandradio.com also contact details as to how to arrange appointments while they're taking those meetings next week in bunkrana the t-shirt says unilateral action by the uk to amend the northern arden protocol would be deeply damaging boros johnson is to propose new legislation that would give ministers powers to change it by regulation if passed it could overturn many parts of the agreement including allowing goods to enter northern arden from britain without checks speaking in the european parliament mehole martin said these proposed changes to the protocol would be a historic low point in relations levees and taxes on fuel should be eliminated or substantially reduced on a temporary basis according to a sultanic altady it's after the society of the irish motor industry issued advice to motorists on how to reduce spending on petrol avoiding unnecessary trips and removing heavy items from the car to lighten the load are among the tips what mark mcshary says the government should be taking more action on reducing taxes the number of students sitting the leaving cert applied leaving certain junior cert exams has increased by six percent compared to 2019 the last time a full set of exams was run more than 131 000 began their exams across the country this morning leaving cert candidates with kovat 19 or symptoms of kovat 19 will have access to a deferred sitting of the exam later in the summer a man in his 40s has died after a crash in county dairy it happened on the ochrum road in maharifelt shortly after half past eight last evening it involved a tractor and a motorbike the man who was on the motorbike was taken to hospital but died of his injuries later police are appealing for witnesses to come forward and parents in some parts of the country are having to wait until 2024 before they can secure a child care place for their babies a survey of creches across the country has found that some in dublin wexford mead and sligo don't have spaces available for two years with only child care facilities in seven out of 26 counties saying they could offer a place this year one provider in mayo has 180 names on its waiting list another in litrum has a hundred and fifteen five and we're back with headlands again at 12 noon thank you very much donal right delighted to welcome on to the program guidance counsellor and education columnist with the irish times brian mooney brian listen thank you so much for holding on for us there i really appreciate it good morning to you good morning to you right it's the culmination i suppose of a lot of study a lot of memory and trying to learn stuff and what's your experience tell us about our young people and those are an old age group start their exams today it's it's always going to feel like a one of those big life events for them isn't it it is it's been huge i mean 25 percent of those who started the leaving set this morning didn't take the junior cert because they didn't and they didn't sit transition year so for them it's the first time they've ever sat a formal exam for the junior cert students it's for them it's a big deal they're all in class now they're all in exam centres now and hopefully they're all still there they're they're they're doing english paper one in in the leaving sir case in english in the junior cert case so you know once they get past this they they should settle down you know from today on you know they'll come home probably all full of excitement particularly the junior cert ones and but you know it's not a time for post mortems it's a time for okay this is a three-week marathon for the leaving certs junior certs they would probably be finished by the end of next week but the leaving certs they're going right to the end of June and it's all about pacing themselves it's all from a parent's perspective it's all about being that listening voice no post mortems there's no need to go back over papers i mean i've given advice over the last few days as to how to manage the paper how to manage the exam but once that's done there's no point you know all you can all you can influence is the next paper up and given that it's over three and a half weeks for a lot of the students you know it pacing is everything nutrition diet good rest you know studying but not into the middle of the night just do your sessions you know in other words steady pace over the next three years yeah because to do your best and i would say for most students the hard work has been done you have to make sure now that your body is fit to access all the information you had as you talked about their eating properly getting out for a walk sleeping stepping away from the books yeah absolutely i mean you know before each exam you can obviously students cannot obviously prepare but once we get past i mean this afternoon the leaving certs it's home economics and you know there will be very small numbers tomorrow morning it's engineering again small numbers english paper two then you know tomorrow afternoon so you know effectively for the leaving cert point of view it becomes quite paced out so it's a question of you know what's up next do the study get the notes in shape make sure that you're prepared know the structure of your exam have a plan for their timing etc and then just go and do it and you know stay healthy and yes do creative do you know fun things over the next couple of weeks you don't want to run yourself into the ground but be careful you don't want to end up in a hospital ward you know because obviously if you're not in a position to turn up for any paper that's a disaster now minister joe mcqueen when he was minister for education did introduce the scheme to enable parents or students where there was a bereavement of their family to take three days out which is wonderful and those exams will take place in july if somebody was unfortunate to be in that situation obviously if covid it becomes a factor i think there's an eight-day gap but you know other than that just stay safe and stress too stress is normal but we are there's different types of stress and anxieties this that can be labeled as such which you might feel on a regular basis and the triggers for it but it's perfectly normal to be stressed and up to high dough uh leading into exams it's if you're not if you're not there's something wrong like you know what i mean if you're going into your leaving cert to your junior cert and you're not feeling that adrenaline rush if you're not feeling that sense of anxiety it's like any of us you know what i mean i'm sure you in the morning come on on the show have that sense of anticipation every time just before you start and then get into it you know it gives you energy and if you didn't have that you'd probably stop doing it because that's sort of part of the yeah exactly so what you're saying what you're saying is yes you know use that productively to drive yourself but if it starts getting overwhelming for you i use a simple exercise with students often when they come into me when they have that level of anxiety i just say put your two feet in the ground you know sit up straight you know close your eyes deep breath into the nose fill the lungs then slowly let it out focus on the breathing slow it down as much as possible and keep that going for three or four minutes yes if the thoughts are still pouring into your head just let them pass through come back and focus on the breathing and 99 times out of 100 when you ask somebody after four or five minutes of that they're totally calmed down in other words you realize that you have a steering wheel this is not a car hurtling out of control in which you can't control you have a steering wheel you have a brake and i often find that you know a simple breathing exercise like that can be the steering wheel or brake that enables you to take control of that and to manage it for your own benefit yeah is the more choices on the papers advantageous to all or does it require extra planning or what change what impact does that have on students it depends on how you use the paper and for instance you know people who leave the exam area because they're finished it's a disaster i often say to students and parents obviously can advise students about this i often say when you get the paper read the the whole paper immediately because and make sure you're reading what's on the page and not what your hope is coming up sometimes people see a word and they say oh that's my question the way they go but they don't actually get the question correct answer what's asked on the paper secondly go to the back of your answer book and start sketching out in rough work absolute rough work you know the structure of section a section b section c whatever it is and go through all of the questions don't just do the first one go through them all because what happens is you then do that for about 10 minutes and then you're looking at and go okay where am i going to start go back to the question you're going to start with and your brain is actively involved in all of the other scanning it's like meeting somebody whose name you can't remember 20 minutes later you walk down the road bang the name comes into your head you don't want that to happen with some point about an exam in you know once you've left the center so if you if you front load it all then while you're answering the first question you've chosen all the other information is scanning they're like a you know kind of an air traffic and controller scanner and you know it's popping into your head you're going back you're writing down that key point you know and your rough work and when it's finished and as you know you know as any good journalists when you reread your own material you suddenly see other points that you'd forgotten and then you can correct that so long as you've left a bit of space and once you've left a bit of space you can fill in that point at the end of the day that extra time therefore can be useful because you're using every available minute and at the end of the day it gives you a better result this thing about you know when i'm finished now i can go it's a disaster because ultimately you're going to miss that maybe those five or ten points you might just need at the end of the day to get the course you're looking for yeah don't leave early is there a balance to be struck between trying to make people relax and saying look at in the longer scale of things in 10 years time you'll not even remember how you did but at the same time not sending them in with uh being apathetic to it if you know what i mean this you have to find somewhere in between do you yeah you do you have to say look do the best you can whatever it is a student may want to do or an aspiration they may have for a career or a particular sector i can assure you there is a way into virtually everything you know no matter where you're starting for students who don't make the ceo point score there's a whole further education sector and minister harris is increasing the number of places that within discussions with the universities that are going to be made available from further education so you can be 200 points short to your course do a further education course for one year at level five in that area and then walk straight in the year after obviously there are opportunities you know outside of the ceo there are opportunities you know in northern island for people in johnny gall and in the north west there are opportunities in european universities by virtue of our membership at the u there are more irish students now go to the netherlands than go to england and wells combined so effectively and you know there's full opportunities there because we're all fellow members of the u and they don't ever ask for points they don't they've never heard of points so long as you get your two h5s and four passes in most courses in european universities and all thought through english of course then obviously you can go straight in so you know there is an opportunity for everybody who has a career aspiration to find a way forward it's just a question do your best now and let's see what your options are and how do we talk to our students about it you know we don't want to compound any stress okay so we want to be there and supportive is it just let them speak if they want to speak just leave it out today after the exam this morning how did it go for you you know and listen to what they say and say okay what's up next okay any plans for the afternoon day would you like him would you like a sandwich daddy daddy dad you know questions questions open ended questions rather than tell me what you wrote for that answer it's not me rewrite it now yeah exactly rewrite it and show me what you did yeah all right and if they did leave this early one early don't say brian says you shouldn't left early just try and make sure the available all all of the time i mean it should be an exciting time it's there it's like stepping into the next stage of the life here and as you say there's never been more options we now have you know equal status on websites to courses versus you know apprenticeships you know i think we're starting to get it right brian we are and the thing is at the end of the day every leaving search student will wake up the day after the last paper and they'll have this weird feeling because since they've been four years of age everything was predetermined you finished an exam you're going back in september suddenly you wake up and oh my god there's nothing you know i'm not going back to school i've finished the leave insert what comes now that's the time to actually finalize that ceo choice and say okay everything else is out of the way i have a few days now to get myself my head sorted what do i really want to do you've maybe done all the information stuff in your head what now is the time to go to the gush and saying what is going to motivate me to go and engage with a course an apprenticeship or something next winter when it gets really nasty weather and get out of bed every morning where is that in me what's what's that driving factor and when students finish the leaving search particularly they will find that maybe they would see life very differently because for the first time in their life they're outside the education system there's no there's no roadmap it's up to you after that and you know what i'd love to see and i don't know if you'd agree i'm not going to get involved in it i haven't for for quite some time i don't recall when i did fair play to a student that gets a fantastic result but let's not make it a new story and let's the media not stand outside school saying what did you get you know like it's individual some people will have good days others will have bad i don't think it's a headline news story that someone got how many of rays is a is a maximum of full points hopefully the the change in how we've done the exam we move past that because the media does not need to be you know amplifying certain situations and making other people potentially feel bad about themselves yeah maths and english are at the core of what effectively is the second level system around the world and there are young people for whom maths and english is not the thing and they will struggle and they will get through that even certain the majors pass it and get you know six or seven ordinary level g's or the equivalent of that now and effectively that's a huge achievement for them and they will go on and they may run companies and they may employ all the accountants who got 600 points themselves you know what i mean and fair dues to them and well done and now it's time to move on yeah all right brian listen it's time for us to move on thank you so much for your patience today greatly appreciated bye bye yeah indeed you know i just don't i think we're we're past the point now where we say things like treating people as uh you know using words like unskilled i've never done it i've never done it never will i hope everyone stops doing it not that i'm setting any i'm not trying to set any rules please don't think i'm doing that but also this thing like it's fantastic if one person gets super results i don't think it's something that you know if you elevate them above other people everyone's success is individual to them and i just think it puts pressure on unnecessarily i think it's something we do that's done i haven't done it for if i have it's a long time ago and i think it's just something we need to not do because what's the point in it anymore there's so many other options and so many different ways of doing things okay okay uh it is time for a break we have kirin odonal coming in talking business news a little later that and so much more besides stay right where you are when it comes to your oral care you should have confidence in the tools you use oral be the number one brand recommended by dentists worldwide the electric toothbrushes remove up to 100 more plaque compared to a manual brush switch to an oral be electric toothbrush today and get that dentist clean feeling at home available in dun stores and your local pharmacy while stocks last oral be brush like a pro any show in credit union has recently launched cultivate an agricultural loan at only 6.55 percent apr 6.75 call any of their four offices for more information or to make an 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we had all of this organized and then obviously we couldn't go through with it so it's great to be able to back do events now and i think everybody is ready just for a fantastic night out which hopefully is what it's going to be how did you get involved in this line of work emma so i suppose ever since i was a baby i've literally been interested in fashion since that and i wouldn't have gone down the traditional route in terms of college in terms of studying fashion or anything like that i studied english and spanish and n u i go away and then in my first year of college and that summer i started in river island so started in retail and it literally just had sort of spiraled from there and a lot of different positions sort of within retail and then moved on to a personal shopper in debonyms and how does that work personal shopping what's that yeah so the well whenever we were in debonyms people would have made an appointment and it literally could be that you're looking for something for any kind of an event and i think it's one of those things though people kind of think that maybe it's only for celebrities or it's only for the rich and famous but it's not like that at all you know i have people that would come to me even just maybe looking for an item for a night out or it could be just a christening or just maybe that they're feeling stuck so rather than dragging around a disinterested partner or trying to do a video call would that make that you trust their opinion on what they couldn't come with you that day you're a person that says no this would suit you yes exactly so i work virtually and then i work in person as well because i would have a lot of clients that would be um down the country and i would have had clients but you've honed away of doing it that it's effective i presume exactly well i would hope so anyway yeah in terms of the remoteness okay yeah exactly so and for personal shopping then what did you do next um so with that then i then went on to set up my social media marketing business so i've two completely separate businesses um the personal shopping and then the um social media training side of it as well so i'm the social media tutor with it i'm called etb and then i also have my own private one to one yeah clients as well so there's a great variety do you see yourself as an influencer i would have moved away try to move away anyway from the influencers is that because it kind of became a toxic not for you but that space yeah well yeah for me anyway it was more so that i wanted to establish myself with my businesses right okay no and saying that obviously i started off with a very small little blog one night in my bedroom and that's where all the opportunities came for me was from my blog so you know a lot of what i have achieved now wouldn't have come hadn't I mean for my blog um but the influencer industry i mean is huge you know it really really is there's a lot of people that are doing fantastic in that industry um you know there's a lot of people making a lot of money in that industry as well you know so it really is well may is it a lot of people i think that might be the problem in that it is you know on the widest scale of things maybe it's not that many like and you know maybe you need to bounce off another platform before you get into that position and i just think a lot of people might aspire to be that and it's difficult i mean you obviously do organically to some extent with your blog i did yeah but it's not easy to do that is it no it's not it's really really not i think i suppose i started off maybe six or seven years ago when it wasn't as popular maybe and i know a lot of people kind of thought what is this what's a log what is she doing uh but thankfully i had a lot of support locally where a lot of people i suppose supported the page and shared it and everything like that but i think it's really really important if you are looking to step into that industry that you find something that sets you apart from other people because it is quite saturated and you know i suppose if you find that one little thing that sets you apart from everybody else that's what's going to keep people on your account and on your platforms and it will help grow your following obviously as well and how long or how long has it been since you felt right this is a business now i have a business here and and reorganizing your time to be able to focus on different elements of that yeah well i suppose actually within the first couple of weeks i had you know seven six seven years ago i had businesses businesses that had approached me i'm looking to work with me which to me was just so exciting because obviously it was such a risk to do what i had done but i would say probably within the last three to four years three to four years i put a lot of work into i suppose establishing establishing the two businesses and there was a lot of training and everything involved in that but i think once you have a passion for something you don't mind putting in the work and that passion as you said was evident right from the very beginning you were just waiting for instagram to be invented and whatever else it might be exactly i started off on facebook facebook was actually the main platform and i wouldn't go near instagram i needed it i just i did not like it at all but you just have to roll with the times and and still to and and now you have to say well you know do we need a space on tiktok or whatever might work for any particular individual i think what happens is is that you know us parents and grandparents follow of people onto social media and then they migrate to another one and and on it goes like yeah exactly well tiktok obviously is huge and i suppose that would be the newest platform that has come around and definitely you know it's there to be used in the in the correct way and i know a lot of people that have got a lot of benefit i think you used a very really important word that correct yeah because spamming social media yeah is counterintuitive it's counterproductive exactly i know it's kind of can go from one extreme to the next maybe we're you aren't posting at all and then you might maybe post an overload so it's kind of finding that balance you know everybody's going to be different in terms of maybe what they're comfortable with and what their audience reacts to so it's kind of finding what works for you and yeah and i mean there is a balance and that's where people like yourself have the expertise because there's a like people don't mind being pushed an ad if they're also getting useful content all that ad is content in and of itself isn't it that's the kind of balances we're talking about are we yeah absolutely so you want to be providing as much value obviously as possible to people and i always say even to clients and everything like that i suppose on the social media and that people will buy from you when they know like and trust you and one of the best ways to do that is through your posts on social media yeah okay how many of these is this one of your first live events or if you've done many before pardon my ignorance no this is this is the first big event so this is there's no pressure i know and it feels like it's about two years in the making now because of the initial cancellation i know and there's a lot of people looking forward to it and a lot of people really really excited for it so yeah it hopefully should be good we've got a lot of the organizing done at this stage now so it's just a case of everybody turning up on the night and enjoying themselves and i have i'm around the county today with a lot of our pop-up shops doing little videos with them just to help promote them and in terms of what they're going to be doing on the night and what they'll have to offer and everything so and is it primarily targeted at women or are we seeing a change in the the the makeup of the audience of these types of events yeah no absolutely i mean it's it's open to all genders absolutely you know it's not just specifically for women i'd say i'll probably find out on the night i'd say the i suppose the ratio probably will be higher in terms of women than it will be to men but yeah no absolutely obviously everybody is is welcome and it should yeah and what's your approach in terms of how you how you present clothes because i've spoken to different people some like the sort of maybe that it's even not uncomfortable saying it but you know a model uh i think others would find maybe people with you know shapes and sizes that we all are more relatable because they know what an item of clothing might look on them what's your stance on that well i'm actually so proud of the model lineup that we do have so we're working with catwalk modeling agency in gallway so a lot of the girls are coming from gallway and jubilant and then we also have our very own um Joanna Boyle who is located here in dunny gall as well so it was really really important to me that we had a variety of heights shapes and sizes you know because no no two people are the same and it would be a very boring world if we all wear the same so there's literally going to be models ranging from five foot three to five foot nine five for ten and size ten to size eighteen you know so there really is going to be something for everybody we have our saxophone player that will be playing throughout the fashion showcase because i just i didn't want to be talking over the clothes i kind of just wanted them to be the main focus and then we'll have a segment then where it's called an ask the stylist segment so i will have we'll say somebody one of the models five foot three size eight to ten and then one of the other models maybe five foot nine five or ten size 16 18 both wearing the same thing so you know you can say that style is it's just all about what you make it you know there's i don't believe in putting people into boxes or categories and telling them what they can and can't wear no they don't want to be either sorry i mean you're you're listening to people absolutely if you're comfortable in something and if you like it wear it yeah okay you know and um are there still places available yes we still have tickets available we have a few left online um so that would be on eventmaster.ie and then the clanry hotel also have a few tickets available there as well and what do you search at eventmaster or is it just location how does that work and then if you type into the location letter kenny yeah um i think maybe there's two pretty it's okay excellent stuff so do you be excited or nervous going into this now i will breathe two weeks away i will breathe when it's over no i'm i'm so excited to put faces two names and i think the fact that everybody else is so excited obviously makes me so excited to because it would be i suppose worse if if there was nobody talking about it and nobody looking forward to it so and you've allison and clauda on your team now yes oh my god the pressure's off a wee bit at the individual pressure isn't yeah like i couldn't have i couldn't have organized everything without them it's just a there's a monstrosity of work that has to be involved you know with running an event this size but we're nearly there we're we're nearly there which is good it sounds like it's going to be great fun yeah looking forward to it yeah okay right listen brilliant stuff for emma people just remind people how they can get more information there or what's your socials and all that kind of stuff yeah so my socials so it's emma murray's stylist and then the social media marketing is elm social media and with the tickets in the clanry hotel or eventmaster.ie and you can type in letter candy to the location and that will come up brilliant fantastic it's going to be fantastic thanks emma thank you so much great great to have you in that's emma murray personal stylist and so much more of course and 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get into the nitty gritties of the business news and we're talking about a new initiative launch to counter the impact of brexit another one yes greg details of the brexit blue economy enterprise development scheme have just been released the scheme is aimed at businesses within the blue economy sector directly impacted by brexit so it's being described as an excellent opportunity for innovative entrepreneurial businesses to seek funding across three key priority areas and those areas being capital investment mentoring and upskilling all right okay um plenty of banking at aib they're doing okay perhaps sweeping up those leaving other yeah the customers have got to go somewhere greg as you say aib has recorded the largest number of account openings in a single week as customers of the two departing banks seek a new institution during the last week of may around 11 000 customers customers opened an account with aib that's up 122 compared to the same week last year this brings to 61 the increase in account openings in the year to date and so far this year customers have opened around 6 160 000 accounts with aib and that's compared to 99 000 in 2021 i'd be interested to see how the likes of boi does if they release their figures in comparison so i'm sure look all the banks are going to get a bounce so i'm sure they're they're experiencing a bounce as well all right the council's back looking for people interested in providing accommodation for those in caravans and those that camp and what have you yeah just an update on an ongoing scheme greg doneigall county council has opened a second call for the caravan camping campervan and motorhome grand scheme targeting voluntary or community-based groups so this grand scheme will be open until wednesday during the 29th and will focus on supporting new and additional overnight facilities and locations currently underserved in the county yeah all right uh letter canny chamber has a new survey at what's it saying yeah the chamber is conducting a second business sentiment survey of 2022 and that is in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the challenges that local businesses are facing the chamber says the survey will help it build a picture of the economic landscape and they are stressed that all information will be anonymized treated with the strictest confidence and will never be shared with a third party yeah i just get a sense of where we're going here and in that obviously because of of the presence of multinationals in this country our economy continues to grow and it seems that will be the case because the likes of pharmaceutical tech you know may well continue to do okay but i just get a sense that we're going to have within industries a recession inside an economy that's growing you know as people nervously hold on to their money or what have you it's getting you know people everyone i think is actually thinking about do i need to make that journey because it's so expensive and i just wonder if the the the the overline figure might show that the country is really doing well but many of us most of us perhaps living in sort of effectively what is a recession uh or at least it's acting like we are well i suppose i think you can't but escape what's going on around you greg i mean the headlines every day it's very much people haven't i suppose tightened their belt for one of a different phrase and i suppose people have just been more mindful now about their money and they're going to be budgeting more yeah i mean when you go and put in petrol or diesel and 50 you're nearly afraid to lock up the seat with this car sometimes yeah i mean the needle barely moves you know it's i mean even filling a five-liter tank for a lomo or a strimmer yeah you know you're up on 12 13 you know what i mean like these are all purchases you have to say well hold on you can i you know add that to everything else kind of keep going but anyway i don't know that's just my take on how we see it how i think it's it's gonna go but i hope i'm wrong because obviously i want to be optimistic and would hate if we are in that space okay uh lastly in terms of news pandemics impact on innovation revealed what's the story here one and seven companies halted innovation projects in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that is according to the latest figures from the central statistics office total innovation expenditure by companies was 7.4 billion in 2020 which was an increase of 36 percent on the 2018 figure of 5.5 billion so large enterprises of more than 250 employees reported the highest rate of innovation due to the pandemic so it was sort of up and down yeah in terms of interest well some gained others suffered you know right great reaction to your podcast last week i think people really in enjoy that care in both you know on air and on the social so well done with that talk to me about what's coming up this week yes on this week's business matters greg i am joined by dunagall etb's tarah maguire and Sabrina robb who is the owner of dunagall hearing tarah maguire is dunagall etb's further education and training services course recruitment officer and she has this advice for anyone considering setting up for any of the new dunagall etb courses that are currently on offer there's lots of really great opportunities there's lots of things happening further education and training there really is something for everyone and whether you're learning digital skills for the first time whether you're unemployed maybe a student that's sitting to leave and start this June or perhaps you're returning to the workforce after a period of time you know maybe very ben absent because you've been caring for somebody for example or you might just be taking your career in a whole new direction we have something for everyone so i really encourage people i suppose to pick up the phone come and chat to us call into one of our training centers we've 18 of them across the county and get familiar i suppose with our websites and our social media platforms you know we have great visibility on um facebook for example instagram twitter linkedin youtube you name it there's so many different ways you can get in touch with us and as i said come and walk into one of the centers we're always happy to help and we love engaging and speaking with people in the community so that would be the main thing i would say to people all right lots in that interview i presume that's just the tip of the iceberg kieran yeah well there's so many courses on offer i think it's about 120 uh tara mentioned and i suppose falling on from your conversation with the career guidance uh and the view you had earlier Greg i suppose you know it's just an example there are so many more offerings and so many paths open to people in terms of what career or job uh that they want to pursue and don't go letb as very helpful and very accommodating in that regard yeah there's pretty much a pathway to most anything that you want to do regardless of what happens off of that fairest the agency is great they are responding to the needs and you know we are getting away and i know you were you were quite passionate about your your views on the leaving shirt and a lot of whole summer reviews i think we are getting away from the traditional mindset of leaving shirt and the way it was viewed has taken a long time but and i do think that look i'm thinking too much it was i was always perceived as a sort of a memory test yeah but you know people have have so many other skills that may not be on earth or may not be tapped into it but once they come out of the environment they will find their pathway and there are so many agencies to help and don't go letb is one of those yeah for sure and it might not be when you're 18 or 19 correct you might think you're on your path and then at 25 30 yeah and the mature student all there after 23 or 24 and so many people have gone down that route as well excellent i just like the direction we're moving in in in terms of people's education and how we view and i think particularly with the shortage in certain areas people are having to sort of reevaluate what they perceived as being important and not important areas of employment and i do think that the pandemic has actually helped fast-tracked how we view things and how we view things for the better now yeah all right it's exciting i think it's as much it might not save the way i think it's exciting times for all students over the next wee while okay so um right the second interviews with uh sabrina robb tell us about this yeah sabrina robb is a hearing aid audiologist and owner of dunagall hearing clinic she's a graduate of queen market university in edinburgh and a member of the aoe society of hearing audiologists having worked in hearing healthcare for 12 years she decided to set up her own practice just five months ago and this club sabrina explains that the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 impacted on her plans to establish her own business i had plans i suppose i had started putting things in place yet absolutely i had been speaking to um some of the manufacturers and some of the equipment suppliers and different things like that and i had things in place and then um it was one of those ones where i suppose you were trying you were kind of trying to pick a time not knowing what was going to happen and feeling like right you know this will be the right time but then we went on to a second wave and then this will be the right time we went on to a third wave and so um i suppose it just got to the point where i just had to make that jump because we didn't know where we were going with covid and thankfully the timing actually worked out quite well and covid seemed to settle down just around the time i opened yeah that's sabrina robb and at what point in your education did you decide i want to be an audiologist you know it's an interesting line of work yeah it was it was uh i asked her if she wasn't what do what you're doing now uh what would you ask for student and she said she wanted to be a vet so it was either veterinary or audiology so they are all right uh a dog's loss is our game our ears came right okay full interviews with tara and sabrina available now in the podcast curing yeah um available on spot i kind of normally do this bit don't i should like should we stick with what you don't realize you go into patterns until you actually go outside until you stop them no so all right so if you want to hear the full interviews with tara maguire and sabrina robb they're available now on our website highland radio dot com go into the playback section there or the on demand section and also you can catch up on spotify and itunes but some people like to listen to scheduled radio in fact i say perhaps the majority of people still love to tune in at a given time on their favorite radio station how did they do so kiran yeah sunday evening break after six o'clock news all right never want anyone if anyone and probably it is everyone wants to get in contact with you about the show or any of the items featured on it how did they do so yeah just drop me an email please greg buzzersmatters at highlandradio.com oh kiddo we look forward to chatting to you next wednesday around about this time kiran thanks as always for calling in giving us the news and setting up your podcast for us it's greatly appreciated good morning thanks all right back with more on the program as we take this break joe gallagher entertainments present rock and roll legends show wadi wadi at clanry hotel letter kenny thursday ninth of june tickets on sale now from hotel reception ticketmaster.ie and joe gallagher entertainments show wadi wadi live at clanry hotel letter kenny thursday ninth of june we're all faced with things going up these days but you'll still find amazing value every single day at aldi and you could save over 70 euro on your big family shop when compared to one of 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lunch with full table service or if you work in town line up pre-order and have your lunch waiting great food and service seven days a week at dylan's hotel letter kenny with live music every friday and saturday night visit dylan's hyphen hotel.ie it's where you live it's where you relax it's where you make memories treat your home to a visit to coonies home interiors we have everything in store to help recreate your home choose for extensive range of suites tables beds mattresses and home furnishings for every room coonies home interiors letter kenny style and perfection at incredible value lots of you messaging in about public convenience is uh you know we have our blue flag beaches and we talk about their importance and yes that's fine uh and and access and parking and you know where it seems often we let ourselves down the basic where people go to the bathroom uh and we're getting more in on that listen it's uh june 8th today we've got time to get this right for the summer season and let's not leave locals or uh tourists or visitors leaving an area with a bitter taste in their mouth because we couldn't get one thing right and that's a clean uh usable toilet facility any uh comments on that 08 660 25 000 07 49 125 000 to give us a call right okay um joe is on with us now joe listen great to have you on the show good morning to you good morning correct uh you have uh you're calling ready for a complete ban of parking on the main street letter kenny yeah i just banged in the night convenience i i get the mangan's bus up um i'm going to call up from mr chippy up to where the old quarters and you're literally sitting there 20 minutes with a lady turning on the off because if people park and i say the post office and with them people parking and i told them so i basically i'm in the elderly disabled i have to literally get off the bus there and walk towards iceland and i'm usually up at iceland before actually the bus can actually get up there so i just with a double you know whatever the parking you know i don't think it should be any parking at all there's plenty of car parks behind the post office and there's plenty you know parks are behind iceland it's just holding all the traffic yeah it'd be interesting to know i wonder how many drive down letter kenny main street looking for a parking spot that they'll never get they drive slow maybe then try and reverse in and it holds everything up i wonder what the actual impact parking on on on letter kenny has on the flow of traffic but it has a major flaw on the bus you know because there's a lot of you know people on disability like myself and to get up to iceland and you know you're literally you know you literally sit in the damn lights for like 15 minutes or so before you can actually get through the cars parking and waiting to get a parking slot and to say the post office yeah instead of parking behind the post office yeah or even you know the way you cannot i mean there's no point fixing one problem and creating another i mean could a solution be a proper parking decent parking accessible parking on the outskirts of of letter kenny main street i don't know where that might go and regular buses that literally just do circles uh circles maybe two of them constantly hop on hop off hop on hop off i mean it'd be interesting to see how something like that might work would the football be there for them i don't know though yeah but it's actually like a parking facility at the back of the post office creek where cars can park yeah some of those can be quite fiddly to get in and out of though in and of themselves yeah but it's just holding all the buses for myself like all right but you think that for for your service that you used to be fully effective cars should be off the main street all together yeah you know bond the cars up on the main street and just have the taxi ranks yeah you know you know so that's all that's all right joe oh listen listen and it's good to hear it we'll see what others think thanks joe good man thanks a lot Joakim you too joe have a lovely day what do you think i'll wait 60 25 000 has that been looked at examined uh i mean we've talked in the past about different ways of parking maybe parking only on one side of letter kenny main street even maybe parking in at an angle so people just drive in but how would you back out and it's uh complicated or maybe it's fine the way it is what do you think i'll wait 60 25 000 i think it'll be a presumed likes of the letter kenny chamber in the past has pulled businesses to see what they think because obviously at the moment the majority of those occupying the main street are businesses jared was on to us about the situation as it relates to the public toilets in boncran he painted a picture really that i didn't want to think too much about it wasn't a pleasant one but uh call us saying jared you're 100 right 100 agree them toilets are an orci an orci an i saw greg but i do think people to blame as well whoever thinks that someone will come in and clean up the state some people are leaving these toilets and in my opinion an animal greg that's what you would think left it totally disgusting but for things like that i'm not talking about these toilets in particular you have to make sure that there's toilet paper there you have to make sure that if they need emptying they're emptied you have to make sure that people go in regularly to check there isn't blockages i mean if one person goes in and blocks the toilets uh and then other people continue to use it because there's no choice you can't blame everyone in society you know so you need them to be checked on regularly if there is a blockage or something that needs doing or toilet paper replenished then you know that's what you do that's the upkeep and maintenance i just think sometimes we don't put facilities in in places because we don't fancy the hassle of maintaining them afterwards okay uh we're talking to sharon now hi sharon hi greg good afternoon how are you i'm doing great right you and your daughter were out yesterday tell us about what you were doing where you were at and what you experienced yeah um we were over at the play park in bonkhana there greg and she was playing away and then she said she needed to use the facility so we popped down and um on pwn entrant it was just the most unsanitary place i've ever been in um it's just was really diabolical state that we found it in um she um rightly so she refused she was like no i'm not mom i'm not going in there it's really really bad um it was just it was falsely there was no toilet paper um other ladies then had come on greg as well and they were saying they just turned and left them and back out again and it's just you know the play park is really really busy particularly during the summer period and you know you expect like you know clean facilities and you know as you say the simple things like toilet paper and you know and just the cleanliness it really was like a health hazard there yesterday to be honest greg you know yeah and i feel for those that didn't have a choice Sharon do you know people that probably had to grin and bear it because they had no choice exactly and especially with young kids you know my daughter's particularly young as well you know and she had a hold on luckily i don't love too far away but she had a hold on and as you say you know there's elderly people there there's people that use that walkway um you know it's a really busy place and it's just it's really substandard at the moment and it's letting the time down and do you think is it easy to tell from the glance Sharon do you think it's that we aren't responsible and we go in and make a mess and not worry about who comes behind us or is it they're not being you know checked on every now and again we're not looking for someone to stand at the front door but someone to go in you know two or three times a day or twice a day and say right what needs doing here that would fix a lot of this stuff we're talking about wouldn't it definitely would i do you think Greg that you know there is no really routine checks you know um i don't really see anybody ever in there you know cleaning it um a lot of the time it's locked um i suppose you can understand that you know there's teenagers and stuff around too you know but like um as you say it definitely needs more routine cleaning for sure and it's a it's a shame Sharon because people listening might think that we're giving out but all of the conversation today has been positive except for the one thing that's letting it down we heard Jared talking about how he's around cleaning very proud of the place loves it the toilets let them down uh all they're saying the same thing you know let's not let's not shoot ourselves in the foot here by getting the really simple thing wrong just all we need is a relatively clean maintained toilet exactly and especially now you know Swan Park has been updated and it's absolutely beautiful yeah which brings a lot of tourists to the town um and i mean those are the only main facilities on that route you know and that's you know it really was beyond like it was a real health hazard there yesterday i would not you know i wouldn't even encounter like even using it at all you know yeah it'd be nice if someone said right you know what this is our responsibility we're gonna we're gonna try harder sometimes it's hard to find out who ultimately is responsible i think Jared mentioned the councillors earlier they might say well we've raised this at the local meeting and we've got received this assurance and you know i think the public now over the last while we're just tired of that type of response what we want really is someone to take responsibility and to tell us how they're going to best ensure it doesn't happen again we're not interested in excuses are we Sharon no definitely not Greg you know as you say coming on the summer season now you know um it should be you know it should be at least clean Greg and at least have proper you know have the like the hand dryers not hardly working you know there's only cold water um there is there's no toilet roll at all there's toilet paper anything like that available and in terms of the we won't get into much detail but i'm gonna press you a little bit on it yeah when we say it's an unhealthy sort of unsanitary type environment are we talking full toilets stuff on floors i mean what what like everywhere the toilets were on set for purpose um i say i'm not wanting too much details very good lunchtime but it was really really disgustingly bad um just the floor just was just disgusting the toilets were unusable and it's just doors are all broken it's just it's just really substandard uh yeah really not acceptable yeah if i was a local rep the first thing i would uh be asking is the council to tell me what is the cleaning regime how often did they cleaned uh you know are there any inspections that's the first question i would ask to ascertain where that would be the first point then you we could say right what are we not doing here what could we do more of all right listen we talk about the economy we talk about the benefit of tourists we can't bring them in here or even for us locally with all the taxes we pay Sharon we the basics going to the toilet going to potty i almost said going to the toilet going to the toilet it's the most basic thing anyway i hope you and your daughter had a lovely day all in that i'm sure you did all right best wishes to all take care Sharon thanks so much oh eight six sixty uh twenty five thousand just some comments to finish up here uh and i don't want to be on uh bon crana by the way um because it's beautiful and we've we've talked an awful lot positively about the area with the developments ongoing and all that it has going for it we're just highlighting our listeners are i'm not it's our listeners who have opinions on this they're just highlighting that this seems to be the one thing we need to be getting right everyone's talking about it's amazing swan park fully opened and it's all positive but the toilets are letting the thing down hello greg toilets at gnar and port new blue flag beach excellent and accessible to all for relaxing stress-free day out all right good to hear why no public toilets in kili bags it's a disgrace with all the cruise ships coming in you'd think it'd be a priority i've been there a few times now and they are badly needed i so seriously no toilets in kili bags uh on the subject of bon crana i cannot emphasize enough how about the public toilets were yesterday but i feel the public need to take responsibility for it yes but onto that earlier example i'm not contradicting you but if one person goes in and blocks that toilet uh what what happens then you know it doesn't take a lot of people for things to turn messy all right