 housing agency by rental properties from private landlords. Councilor Noel Jordan says the processing of the scheme by the local authority is too slow. All the wild termination notice dates are fast approaching for many. The council says they are committed to roll it out as quickly as possible. However, Councilor Jordan says people are at their wits end. I've spoken to a number of constituents where the landlord has pushed that date out maybe by a month saying but we need to have news by then or else you're out and you know I think it's very unfair and then people know you know I would have been hoping to get about the response and I'm just hugely annoyed that this process has been dragged out and dragged out and it wasn't thought through. The Ukrainian ambassador is in Donningold today. Larisa Gorasko will officially open an art exhibition at Ingrin and Theatre this afternoon. The exhibition will feature a range of works by more than 20 artists from Ukraine here now living in Ireland reflecting the creative process of painters who are adjusting and acclimatizing to life here against the backdrop of war and displacement. Guardian Donningold meanwhile are urging motorists to save lives this bank holiday weekend by slowing down. It's after two drivers were caught speeding by the Bunkrana roads policing unit this week. The motorists were detected traveling in excess of the 100 kilometer per hour speed limit near Birch. Guardian also say they will be on the lookout for people driving while holding their mobile phone at this weekend. The Guard of Roads Policing division has issued a safety appeal for the bank holiday. In partnership with the Roads Safety Authority they're asking for special care towards vulnerable road users. Assistant Commissioner for Roads Policing Paula Hillman says mobile phone use while driving is illegal. We can issue fixed charge notices for mobile phone use this year alone in the first four months of this year we've issued over 4,600 tickets so yes having your your phone in your hand using your mobile phone when driving can be given a fixed charge notice and that's one of the the life-server fences that's one of the offenses that we're we will be targeting the target in this weekend. More roadworks are set to commence in latter Kenny next week. Essential road maintenance will be carried out on the end 13 Jill carriageway between the dry arch and Manor Cunningham roundabout from June the 7th to 9th. Donningold County Council is advising motorists that linklosures will be in operation until I extra time for journeys for whether I a largely sunny day today though some Clyde will build at times with highest temperatures of 19 to 22 degrees that's all from Highland radio news for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning 50 and 3 money off vouchers every week on the app so follow the 1 2 3 and save money at super value the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland radio and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland radio and a very good morning to you it's approaching four minutes past nine on this Friday the 2nd of June 2023 and you're very welcome along to another edition of the 9 till noon show and it's your Friday dose today and we have our Friday panel coming up for you right now well very shortly I'll introduce them to you in a moment we are also taking your legal questions with shameless after 10 and Michael and Fanuda are in with us after 11 that and so much more besides get involved in the chat 08 660 25,000 your WhatsApps and texts to that number or give us a call on 07 491 25,000 just a reminder for you that you can watch our program across your social media and on our website Highland radio Ireland on YouTube and Facebook Highland hub Highland radio news and sport we're on Twitter too and you can click live on the Highland radio dot com website okay let's introduce our panel we'll say good morning first if that's okay to author and journalist Kathy Donahy good morning Kathy hi Greg lovely to see you on the screen yes and it's great to have you on this part of the program it's a guest great to have you with us Declan Meehan is a community campaigner good morning to you Declan good morning Greg how are you keeping great thank you a long time since I've spoken to you but I know it's good to have you back thank you very much hopefully you've plenty of opinion and debate in reserve you've been able to build it up and it's just pent up and ready to release okay and also in studio with us we have Joe Sweeney who is the Donegal chair of the IFA good morning to you Joe thanks for joining us good morning Greg yeah how's life in the chair at the Irish Farmers Association have been like so far it's busy just busy challenging challenging yeah all right okay well listen we'll get to some farming matters as the morning wears on before we get into the topics that we were going to discuss I just picked up the newspapers and couldn't help but notice the amount of coverage of the ongoing Philip Schofield situation just wondering I don't know if you've been following it Kathy is it anything that's engaging you or we're not going to get into the internet because a lot of it's just all speculation and opinion but I mean the papers are loving it so the public must be loving that story too yeah I have been very interested in it you know I used to watch this morning I still dip in and out of it and I I actually think that's what what's happening now is is a witch hunt for Philip Schofield I think he has said as much as you can say I think the tide has turned and the guy is broken you know he's absolutely broken and he's lost so much yes he had an affair yes it was unwise but what do people want now and I think the scrambling around over this night the guy needs to be left alone you know I feel really strongly about that the other parallel that I see really strongly in this is um you know do you remember the Jennifer Aniston Steve Kralsch the morning show you know do you remember the the sort of the fallout when you know the big the big presenter sort of fell from grace I'm not comparing the two but there is a sort of a you know the drama sort of around all of this is is sort of similar I just feel that the guy is broken and he said he's sorry he's done an unwise thing with that in mind though I mean he did do two interviews yesterday he did one interview with the Sun newspaper one with the BBC I mean if he wanted this to go away or maybe he believes that in some way draws a line under it I mean do you understand him going going out with those interviews yeah I mean he's a very immediate savvy operator but I think this this puts so much of people's wrongdoing into the shade I mean we're really focused on the fodder and the feeding frenzy around this when I'm not saying you know I mean I've read it as well it's there but you know there are so many issues there are so many people you know when you think about wrongdoing when you think about Boris Johnson's carrying on at the height of the COVID crisis and Phillip Schofield you know is what we're still talking about and what's making headlines sometimes I feel I feel really angry about that and the news cycle and I've been involved in news for 30 years and this is something that that actually annoys me sometimes you know that you know we need to get a grip to you know Declan have you been following it at all or have an overview I haven't been following it that closely to be honest and I haven't really ever watched this morning obviously I'm familiar with the characters on it and look at it it's one of those situations where as Kathy says you know what more do people want from Phillip Schofield and this I think there has been a little bit of attention put on ITV and executives as to what they knew and whether there was a proper investigation and all of that but I mean other than that I'm unaware it does strike me though as well that you know there was an absolute witch hunt for Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby and during the Queen's funeral and around the skipping yeah something turned in terms of the media decided right we're going to get our claws in here for some reason or other for some reason and whether that they knew what was going on behind the scenes or if it's just that typical thing of you know two very much loved presenters very successful I think if there was a super injunction I think that's because if you sort of think of when Ant and Deck I think it was Ant and had had his issues and it was quite a sympathetic coverage of it and you know it was sort of let's slide to some extent I just think if there is and it's not been fully confirmed yet though it's been denied but still some suggest that there was an injunction to keep the lid on this because Holly Willoughby came she didn't know this I knew this I thought this was general knowledge because someone asked me around about the time of that Queen thing you know and I knew the entire story I don't know how I knew it to be honest with you but I did know it and I think obviously it was being suppressed and maybe the the the red top said okay well if that's the way you want to play the game well we'll take you down by hook or by crook Kathy would this story have been any different and as I say we'll move on shortly would this story have been any different if the younger person in question was a woman I think it probably would have been a lot different actually Greg you know I think we still have very much inequality around these issues I do think something about the coverage though you know the red tops in in Britain they it's like a punch in jury show you know they lift you up they elevate you Phillips Gofield was you know like a saint and all of a sudden the fall from grace it's like he fell into the Piranha pit you know and and and that's it's actually very distasteful when you see it in action Holly Willoughby is you know they're out of here trying to protect their prize asset at all costs she's finished as well if the truth be told yeah it's it's it's very difficult to know how she survives this you know it really is but I think that you know the punch in jury show that we've seen it's just really it's it's quite unseemly really around the whole thing Joe did you follow this at all no not really um but it's just it's the same story um you're you're just you're elevated and then you're chopped down you're chopped down yeah I'd love to build you up and take you down the doll's been told it'll be impossible for a single person on a medium wage in Donegal to buy a house in the county uh Thomas Pringle uh made that claim based on recent CSO figures which showed Donegal still as the lowest income in the state he sat down with some mortgage calculator programs started looking at estate agents to see what could be bought and the bottom line is is that you know uh on the average the medium wage in this county a single person perhaps could at a stretch get a mortgage for 80 odd thousand and what kind of a property uh might you get for that I mean it's what what's your view on this uh Joe it's it's kind of depressing presumably for younger people maybe that's why they're they're leaving in the numbers that they are um it is um probably there was a lot of schemes that the government has brought in like the the the buy to let and um them sort of schemes for for for sort of helping people to buy homes but um probably one of the better schemes that I think they have introduced just lately is the the vacant home and the derelict property scheme because um there is homes um scattered all over the countryside uh and towns and um there's there they're allowing a 50 000 euro grant for it um if it's derelict it's worth another 20 I'd love to see the uptake on that though and and and and sort of what kind of properties uh in terms of numbers are being delivered on that scheme because there's been a lot of schemes and uh listen I don't want it to fail but you know it'll be interesting to see a year two years on what it's actually delivering well it's probably because there's the the the planning thing is is easier to get because the houses there already and there's probably no development charges and then there's uh the 30 000 euro um upgrades from sustainable energy so it would be it would be worth a lot for for that sort of property for even people to move back they can't get planning in rural areas yeah they could end up further down the line being carers for elderly parents and that sort of stuff so it would be it would be again there uh Declan what's your view um again I respect what Joe's saying I just don't know if a lot of maybe 28 year olds um are sort of maybe looking at a acquiring in a property or having a property that they could start availing of of this type of of scheme but as I say that the proof of the puddle will be in the eating uh but but just to the to the wider point and to that specific point if you wish you know um it is probably you know you need hope in this life and I just wonder if young people when they see the money they can earn and see what the prospects are are we going to be able to hold on to them I think any hope that um young people have uh about securing their own home um probably comes in the form of hoping for a change of government to be honest um this government um these political parties have been in power for a very long time they've presided over a housing crisis which has become a housing disaster and it's only present the figures are constantly getting worse not better and we have over 12,300 people who are homeless and yet we have according to the census which obviously we got a data dump again uh this week you know you have nearly 170,000 vacant homes and apartments across the state so government policy across all of this area is failing uh homelessness is increasing it's becoming more difficult and more expensive to get on the property ladder if you're not on the property ladder or have no prospect of doing that it's actually very difficult even to rent and I think you know we need to look at the reality of the situation where you know you would expect census figures and we know anecdotally and we know people who are in their 20s 30s and even 40s who are living at home with their parents because they can't afford to rent or to buy um so I mean there's just no two ways about it I mean we we talk about this and we talk about this and we talk about this but it doesn't seem like government or ever listening because at the end of the day the government that we have and the governments that we have had over the past number of years and decades have become ideologically opposed to building social housing which would be a huge pressure valve on the property market across the state if proper social housing was being invested in we've privatised that area what we've done is we've given out the housing assistance payment which is go straight into landlord's pockets instead to the tune of over a hundred million a year and and previously that hundred million a year would be invested into housing stock which would be an asset for the state which would be an amenity for the people but that's not done anymore it does kind of remind you a little bit of the the national treatment purchase fund which is putting money into private hospitals that probably should be going into public hospitals but you're not being a bit hard on the government there they're saying they're building records but i have to do something Declan so you don't give me a break i mean i mean i have to try and balance that to some extent here record levels of balances right but the reality is we have record high homelessness we have extremely expensive rental market and a property market and you know there's an awful lot of number of schemes that have been brought in some of them have been announced and then re-announced as new measures which have very low uptick and have very little effect and i mean there was a website started one time where the public was supposed to go around and take pictures of derelict houses and send them into the council you know that's the type of stuff we hear over and over again it'll be interesting too in terms of the census because we haven't got the actual figures but we've got some figures we have a slowing birth rate in in in donagol we've got a lower than elsewhere increase in population but we are seeing really quite a significant increase in the amount of people in households which would probably suggest that you know children are moving back home or staying longer in the in the home. Kathy is it realistic for us to be able to change it now to the point whereby people can realistically aspire to to build or own their own property as a single person you know in their in their 20s or 30s i mean if those are those bygone days that are behind us or could policy be changed to bring them back again do you think? I think you use the word hope there Greg and i think we have to hope that the things will get better first thing i would say on this is that we we do census surveys you know these these are done to show us to give us a roadmap for the future you know to say that the government or previous governments did not know you know population trends to say that they can't see what's common is not the truth because they know that our population you know they know what's common you know what areas are growing in population and they can see what what needs to be built in terms of skills in terms of health provision in terms of housing you know and we haven't we haven't cracked this nut at all we haven't anywhere close you know we've got a huge budget surplus i think we've got something like next year i think it's going to be like ten billion you know what what are we going to do with that money all these questions have been asked now surely the most pressing issue in this country facing anyone today is housing for young people if you've got children coming up you know you want to think that they will be able to in their lives afford their own home the other elephant in this room that we have to mention especially when it comes to johnny goll as micro you know we have got i think um pardon dotlin pardon dotlin this week called it the perfect storm and that's what we have come in i know like neighbors of mine i can see there's houses being demolished this week you know where are people going to go when these houses but what i don't understand is why they don't dig into the three hundred and eighty odd million that was returned over the last three years to the department of housing underspend and spend it on i don't understand why there's this resistance to provide you know prefabricated homes in parts of donna goll i don't understand it they're about to open some down in cork the money is there the money is in excess it is actually really quite a simple solution but i don't understand kathy what the resistance to do that is it's literally i i don't know what's going on in terms of the defective concrete the civil service elected politicians and that relationship that seems to be trying to frustrate what's happening here in donna goll that's how it feels i'm not sure if it's the case but for me it can be the only explanation that there is there are solutions there that deliver great pr and what have you be really good news for the minister i'd say if he could announce 50 uh you know prefabricated houses or what have you but they're not doing it and i don't understand why not kathy i think there's a huge disconnect between um you know what mega campaigners want and what the government is offering sometimes it seems like we're tantalizingly close to a solution and then but it seems more sinister than that you know but it seems like sometimes it's it's absolutely heartbreaking and i have stood in the kitchen of of of families you know and looked at their you know at the house crumbling and it's absolutely devastating and i think it is you know it's it's this is for all this not just the families with with mica you know this is a legacy issue for everybody in donna goll you know we need to raise all boats here and this issue needs to be this money needs to sort out this problem for these families this cannot continue it is an absolute human rights disaster in this county and and you know what housing for everybody cannot be sorted until we grasp this net like this done and joe sweeney you know if we are moving away from the home ownership model like you might see in different parts of the world the government then needs to or whoever it is we need to have a frank and honest conversation about that then because that means we need to start delivering different types of housing kathy talked about planning for the future so we can't have a situation where someone reached retirement age in 30 or 40 years and they're still renting you know we need to have different types of accommodation which we don't have at the moment you know so if we are moving away from that then governments need to be honest about that let's have that conversation and then talk about the different types of housing requirements that will be required in generations to come joe yeah and i think that's that's going to go on for generations because i don't see i don't see any solution uh anytime soon this is going to change um because like we have the we have the maker we have the the immigration we have people living in um what do you call them can't even think of the name no that's all right direct provision direct provision yeah go ahead and my headphones could add or add a jump in there for some reason but go ahead the direct provision there's people there for 10 years yeah living direct provision so like there has to be a change but how it's going to i'm not sure yeah and also too uh kathy we have this funny not funny situation but this situation too whereby you know at what stage do you kind of get rid of the kids and that sounds like a terrible thing to say okay but they're living at home uh probably to whatever might get married or find a partner whatever move out they might choose to have kids and then grannies and granddads are becoming the free free free child minding service then with what stage do we get to enjoy our retirement i think it's not related but you know what i mean it's like no it is but i think there is there is another sort of inherent in quality in this as well in that if you are not a a couple or a family people talk about now this this um this this bank of mom and dad you know that that's that's that's sort of helping a lot of people but if you're if you're not in a position you know as many most people are not they're thinking about you know their retirement and thinking how you know how are we going to cope with retirement if you don't have a pension plan or you know as many people don't like if you don't have you know if you're not able you know to give your kids that leg up then there's another layer of inequality there as well and many families cannot do that you know so you know yeah i mean lots of people wouldn't have a problem with their kids coming home but it's like yeah you know we've got this we've got them this far we've got them rare we've put them through school maybe college you know you have to hope i mean your idea when you have your your children is that you know you give them their own wings to fly and you give them you know the strong wits that they can come home to but you know it's it's not forever you want to see them progress it must be heartbreaking for families who watch you know their children sort of in the spare room still you know wondering am i ever going to get on and actually their dreams being quashed before their very eyes i mean that's kind of its own and in a way it does inhibit probably the not not natural but you know the way you you start dating and stuff you know maybe it's with us you know bring it back to your parents house i don't know lots of single people actually that's one thing that i'd never considered in the census right it's in the 30s uh in in donningall i think in dublin it's around about 50% deck and did that come as a surprise to you the amount of single people they are fair play to them like yeah i'm not sure if it's surprising or not but i never thought about it you see so if you had asked me to guess then i would have to have think thought about it but i was like well all right now we know now we know there's lots of single people out there yeah i think though as well like when you're talking about you know people having to live at home that obviously impacts potential for dating and romance um but i i think just on like to kind of i suppose come back to something that kathy was saying there as well you know we're talking specifically about you know kind of single person in donningall ever afford to buy a home in the county and and you know make a defective blocks defective concrete you know that has a huge huge impact on the housing market i mean you would see 1980s two beds and three beds now going for much much more money and then previously because they're worth much much more money because there's more certainty over the fact that they don't have defective blocks and houses that were built during the boom i'm sitting in my house in a room that when the rain comes in a particular direction the water comes in due to defective blocks so like you know this is something that is so widespread across the whole county and it's not been addressed the scheme that's coming up won't address it entertainment and then two you have people don't you deckland who have bought houses unknowns them that they had mica you have had people who got the houses tested with certain levels of mica that don't qualify them for the scheme but that it disqualifies them really from from having a property of any value like there's so many nuances and this net is so wide isn't it deckland because i think it's easy you know one house structurally falling to bits government should support to fix that that's kind of easy to get the head around as disastrous as it is but this is very very complex and nuanced and there's so many other people sitting at home wondering well nothing really covers me what am i going to do yeah and it's very difficult it's very frustrating for people and you know this has been going on for years the new scheme doesn't really guarantee a lot of people and any certainty and we know that it's far from a hundred percent redress scheme and when this is opened i mean i saw an example and the last day where someone who had a rebuild of 350 000 would be eligible for 65 000 of that cost themselves under an alleged 100 scheme so yeah there are so many different parts to this and one of the things that you know i think that needs to be done is this needs to be treated as a natural disaster similar to a natural disaster where there is a massive massive campaign to have workforce brought in to just rebuild the houses that need to be rebuilt the only problem is isn't a natural disaster yeah of course it is but the only thing is and the problem is is that for that you need a national buying and the majority of the population because of narrative that's been put out there believe that dunagall sorted so in other words even now if you start protesting it's like well what are you protesting about darrow brine was asked an RT you know dunagall sorted what next he says yeah it is this is what's next so i get you and another element to this too is to break it down to the human side of things and it's all human uh joe sweeney don't get me wrong but you know it's like parents we talk about those children that that are at home i want to say children you know adults adult children and they say you know dad mom you know what shall i do you know i'm still here i'm frustrated i'm starting to feel a bit depressed or whatever and we've got parents have to say well why don't you go to australia or why don't you go to dupai or you know breaking their own hearts to try and you know offer a future for their children that is where we're at and those are the conversations that are happening kitchen tables in dunagall that is devastating because i can't imagine being able to have that conversation with my children and that's the only way i can sort of relate to it yeah it is devastating the amount of young people that have left the county even since since the beginning of the year like every parish so like you have you have parishes now that they even can't even put together a football team or whatever because of the immigration they're going on and their and their hunters every every every i mean hundreds of years ago or not that long ago uh we would have had parents that were down at i don't know those different places where the boats departed to get on to the the ferries to america and parents would have said goodbye to their children probably no one they'd never see them again because they were heading off on the boat uh for to make a better life and they they were saying goodbye and happy for them maybe that they had a future but no one they would never probably never see them again that's happening at Dublin airport now i mean they might see them once once a year or once every other year or whatever but there are parents saying goodbye to young people and that's probably really the last you know long-term interaction they will have with them i mean that's what's happening i mean that's the real human impact to to tell everything that everything that's going on and yet we're such a wealthy country with such a surplus and this is happening yeah so the the leave and and by the time they come back they've they don't know them because they sort of they've grown up they've changed they've moved into relationships of whatever so like they've lost out in so much in life um the only thing that's keeping them supposed making it easier is the technology and well but that's you know you know i know what you're saying but uh but it's it's not easy like do you have a view on that Kathy just before we take a break and move on to it yeah i i i read this morning that um you know people thought the remote working was going to you know change everything i think we have to be careful here there is a real opportunity you know to allow for property centralization you know there is there is still time you know to take advantage of this and to allow the regions to really benefit from that and it would be a shame to see that you know we we saw huge changes during COVID-19 during the pandemic lots of us learned how to work in different ways it would be it would be a shame to see that rolled out rolled back and that the government wouldn't take advantage of something that we saw was possible that could really really benefit areas like donnie gold 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i mean my concern and i expressed it with with deputy pringle and as a just to be clear again i have no skin in the game here was that you know it's a bit of an overreach trying to get the public who have properties for a number of reasons maybe inheritance or an investment to what would effectively be fix all the problems that you've laid at the government's doorstep over you know successive governments to fix the housing problem what do you think should be done in that regard would you be in favor of taxing people out of airbnb's no no i wouldn't and i think that we need a combination of both i mean the tourism and hospitality industry in dunningall is an incredibly important one and i think that there is value in privately rented houses for short-term lets across the county particularly in the context we find ourselves where an awful lot of hotel accommodation is otherwise occupied but i do think and i think that the way we address the problem is that more social housing is built which takes people who are seeking social housing out of the private market and there is no one measure that will fix all i do think as well the planning regimes around short-term lets need to be enforced better and whereby you know we're not constantly building holiday accommodation and that there is a priority given to to building accommodation for people to purchase and but also people to live in long term whether that's but his argument is in the in a housing crisis you do have to do emergency things and and we need to discourage short-term lets and encourage long term letting but that's not something you're in favor of taxing heavy taxation really it's to get people out of the airbnb market now no it's not it's not something that i think is is is and the right thing to do because i think that the the hospitality and tourism industry in dunningall is very dependent on those and there has to be a coexistence between the two and while it's absolutely not ideal that that is the case where we have over a thousand short-term lets and through airbnb's in dunningall and very very few long-term lets available on sites like daft.ie and that that has to be addressed at a different level and that is just building houses for long-term lets building social housing for people who need that housing uh joe swede what's your view well i would i would agree with filip because uh with the deckland i'm deckland sorry no problem you don't have the access to the screen i have yeah go ahead um i know i would agree because um i think the the the quick solution is to to put on a on a tax and it's everything seems to be taxed um to sort a problem uh that's not still not getting sorted um there's a lot of value and in short-term rent for the local economy um so i know i would totally disagree with that all together and would any of that be concerns about maybe an overreach from government into people's private property does that bother is it more that you think people should be able to make an income that way or do you have any concerns that it would be you know more government control over people's you know well it's probably there's both um it's it's it's government controlled is is one but there's other people then sort of there it's it's a it's an income they're depending on it it might be the only income to have really um short-term letting and stuff so no uh have a totally disagree with it and i wonder too is a wee bit of an elephant in the room also that landlord the word landlords almost become a dirty word now and and people would relate to programs like this is that they they're trying to get out of that market in other words the way it's set up they used to perhaps uh make properties available for long-term lets but they couldn't deal with the hassle and the admin and the red tape and that this is the this is a much easier option to do i think really that is something i would focus more on there uh uh because why did a lot of the mexit long-term rents in the first place well um probably the exit because there wasn't it wasn't financially it wasn't financially lucrative enough for them um and probably more more hassle than what it was worth so um they probably got out and the short-term lets easier kathy what's your views on this well you know i don't think we have like a landlord culture in in dunnigol in the same way as we do in in dublin in the big towns and cities i do think that people who are renting out on air bb these are short-term let's i mean let's face it they're not really renting it in the month of november december are they you know they've got a few short months you know people want to come to dunnigol we do want people to come to dunnigol we do want people to come and visit here there's boost to local economy we could see people shopping in local businesses you know taking trips taking boat trips go into water parks doing all the things that we want people to come and see our beautiful county so you know to put people out of air bbs where they're going to go where you know there's not enough try and get a hotel room um in the peak of summer okay but here's where here's where i try and play devil's advocate thing then that benefits the few right but will you those same houses that you talk of are lying empty perhaps from september through to april again and there are people lying on the streets in sofas on sofas the the the group of of young people that we talk of older young people that are still living at home whilst you know i think the last sense is it was 10 or 11 empty houses in dunnigol i mean you know that maybe when someone looks at that that's why they say well that's an inequality there yeah i get that and you know you know in this country we have not wanted to intervene in the market in this way and we definitely we need to get radical i just don't know that this is the way to go i agree with detlin that social and affordable housing is the way to go the government scheme that um joe mentioned earlier on you know about derelict houses and we have you know apartments above shops and apartments you know on main streets we if we're going to get really radical we need to look at how we live in this country you know years ago people did live above the shop they did you know they did live in different ways the model that we have in how we live is broken we need to be completely radical and open to new ways of living and bringing and breathing life back into our towns and cities that means better public transport that means better facilities that means lots of change it is flexible but we do have to have some blue sky thinking here things cannot be done in the same way anymore and that i i don't know that i mean some people i know who have air babies and i have no skin in the game in this in any shape or form but they will say you know it's taken over it's you know it's washing its face this is not you know this is not something that's you know but just on that fixer opera scheme greg 50 000 to fix up an old house won't go anywhere i priced a kitchen to build onto a house so you can imagine it they're building a kitchen at the back of the house they were interested in it and to build it alone not finished only to build and plaster 12 foot by 10 foot 47 000 euro is how much it was to add on a kitchen to the to the back of a house deklan you wanted to come back in there i seem to have got the impression oh yeah well just to say kind of on the airbnb thing i mean the vast majority of airbnb's in dunigol are family owned whereby their holiday homes or inherited homes or whatever um that you know someone is inherited from their their parent or the grandparent where they used to live and they're used for personal use throughout the year and then their airbnb dot partially so highly taxing the airbnb side of things would not necessarily free up those homes because people would just maybe not put them up on airbnb for the weeks that they're not using them and and they would just remain vacant i think that where the focus needs to be is up and down every single main street in every town and village in the county in the country you know in millford there's a 50% vacancy rate on main streets i mean that's that's a huge number of face from all the highest vacancy now it is commercial but i'm sure it's convertible it's the highest consistently that i mean we do have the space in the areas that kathy was talking of don't we sorry deklan to jump in for me it's not it's not the airbnb things because they are owned by people and used by people and there's a side hustle maybe to earn a bit of money and to keep those going but it is the vacant properties where we need to focus on and taxing them highly would be a really good idea to force people to either sell them or develop them all right okay listen i do have to catch up on one more break here well it's not one more there's two say nothing we'll be back in a couple of minutes watch the show 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see what's going on would you blame them another listen this is passing the government problem onto the people drawing the real problem away once again from the true problem which is the government's one what a selfish thing to suggest i don't have a second home but if i did i think i would be entitled to do with it as i please banks surveyors turn these vacant houses down for least we think happened to a girl i know had a good job and the deposits okay but not benefiting the needs of the people and protecting companies the government are in breach of the constitution and cannot be allowed to continue in their job surely there is legal channels we can pursue to get change Greg i have no time for philip scofield but ames homes is coming across as a seriously bitter man with his own agenda i don't think he's doing himself any favors i agree with joe and the initiative to bring derelict buildings back to use it would give a facelift to the whole country save our heritage and vastly improve our housing situation another here couldn't agree more with deklin houses being built all over northern island more social houses being built in sign mills than the whole of donny goll government and councillor completely failing people in the country that comes in from martin and i did notice that driving to dublin a couple of times you see activity you see building activity and then you cross the border into the republic and then nothing so there has to be something to that doesn't directly i mean you know it is it's anecdotal because you see it but there's activity in the six counties and then it just absolutely yeah i mean you drive anywhere through the north and you know it's it's plain to see that there is activity going on and they don't have a government exactly yeah but i mean the councils have i suppose more foresight than maybe our councils or our government or department of housing in terms of meeting the needs around social housing they also have one housing agency for the whole of northern ireland which i think actually helps in terms of them deliver but i mean the point still stands that there's very little activity on this side of the border in donny goll and somewhere that has no government and isn't as wealthy in terms of tax returns or anything like that as we are in in the south and is able to produce the level of social housing so it is possible and it's just the government policy is failing us a decision on a possible scheme to reduce the national dairy herds will be made over the next few months minister for agriculture charlotte mcconnellogue has said to someone else the total number of dairy cows in ireland may need to be reduced by up to 65 000 a year over the next three years if the farming sector is to reach its climate targets this according to an internal discussion paper drawn up by the department of agriculture now figures contained in an internal department of agricultural paper show the dairy farmers that dairy farmers may have to be paid up to 600 million to coal cows if the countries to meet its climate change targets so the focus back on you guys again you're just destroying the world seemingly if you were to read a lot of the the press coverage what is it farming is what percentage of our output 17 or is it higher than that 27 maybe maybe 17 it's not it's not that high because if we if we if we worked on tons the transport industry would have co2 emissions of about 121 million tons per year and residential and industry would somewhere around 65 where farming is 5 million so like all right it's easy they're the easy they're the low the low fruit on the tree to pick it's it's it's easy to pick it but like they're taking they're taking the the carbon from the the cattle and the the suckler herd but they're not taking into consideration then the grass that's grown on the farm the trees the hedgerows whatever so like it's all it's just seems to be one way what does it mean for for the farming industry 200 thousand dairy cows are taken out of the the the system well the dairy has has really expanded over the last well yes we're encouraged to actually by previous governments you were told get more cows get more milk yeah and then just sort of overnight whoa hold on it's like they took away quotas and whatever and encouraged now it's overnight hold on we have two money we need to roll back the the dairy farmers at the minute actually need to to to rent more land to stay still because um there's the they're they're tell me why they're doing that why are they a bit of a buying up not buying up or renting more land what's the logic there the lot is it less cows per land then is that right okay it's the ratio yeah it's nitrates so to stay in it yeah they're actually just leasing land to to build their they're holding yeah just yeah just to keep the same number okay so um the the nitrates have come from from 250 to 220 so they need more land for that so then that's putting more pressure on the the suckler farm the sheep farm and in particular the grain farm well how for how i can't get a sense of this a farm was if they're paid to get out and well rewarded are they happy to get out um some of them but the other side of it is we still need food so we could throw the baby out for the bath water um so yes for some it will be it will be but not for all because we still need food um and will they get paid i don't think i don't know it'll it's all to be seen it's like a lot of it's talk but i mean policy is working isn't it because the one area uh the one of a couple of areas that we saw a reduction in employment uh in the country with full employment was an agriculture and fishing yeah uh but we have a case where we have we're looking at urbanization where if we if we go back 150 years ago 80 percent of the population lived in rural areas 20 percent was an urban uh by 2050 it's going to be a total reverse we're going to have 80 living in in in towns and and cities and villages and 20 but do you get the feeling that maybe the plan is that we're one big data center rather than one big farm on this island well like the the same amount of food is but is is still being produced on farms but if you go back years ago there were smaller farms and there was there was someone on every one now it's the farms are being consolidated just to get to the nitty gritties our farm is going to resist uh the plans by government or are they waiting to see the color of the money a lot of them is going to resist it but like is the ifa on mass going to resist this oh yeah because like we still have to produce food we still need farms so like we still we still have to we still have a population to feed yeah we it does seem to be we're in changing times kathy in terms of you know the the place that those who make decisions see farming in our future i think i think change is common for sure greg and and the one thing that always strikes me and i am no expert on farming i've totally had to defer to joe on this one but well he had to go with the philips goldfield topic so you're gonna have to you're gonna have to have to go you're gonna have to have to go farming yeah i'll do my best greg um and and i know this from talking to farmers and and and recent years i've i've been going to a few marts that's been one of my assignments going and talk to farmers get the lie of the land you know see what's going on and farmers in dunigal what what they've said to me is you know we the money's the waters is these figures on calling the national herd of 200 000 and the dairy farmers you know dairy farmers are at the upper end of farming you know what what we have in dunigal is small holdings farmers with sheep and and and you know suckler cattle but we don't have these these big farms um what strikes me always when i talk to farmers in dunigal is they'll tell you that they don't see a future for their children and they don't see they couldn't be doing it if they weren't doing another job so that they're sort of doing a bit of this and a bit of that but they're also farming as well so it seems to me do we want to have farming at the centre of you know life in rural areas that we have that connection with the land but we're paying but but the plan seems to be and and Joe knows more than this of course but we're paying fishermen to tie up their boats and not fish and we're paying farmers to to get rid of their their animals and to plant trees you know and and we're losing generations of people going into those entries so it's death it seems to me death by a thousand cuts Declan what do you think yeah i think this look the figure i heard last night was that agriculture was responsible for around 38 percent of emissions i think you're right but like the figure varies i'm sure depending on what way you want to spin it or count it there's no doubt that something has to be done and i think you know from from reading into this the IFA are willing to bring their members along to cooperate with governments to get there but the goalposts keep changing for farmers i mean we talk about the milk quote has been increased production being ramped up now they've been told that needs to be decreased with the cull is it any wonder that farmers don't have any trust in successive governments to deliver meaningful kind of reform that addresses climate change all right so there is a real skepticism there but i i think that the farming community and the small family farmer is an incredibly important part of Irish rural life and there has to be proper engagement there and consultation to see in what ways they can address it through innovation and technology but also through things like changing and adapting fertilizers feeds for cows all that sort of stuff there's a lot of potential there also around solar power i mean there's barns and sheds the length and breadth of the county in the country that aren't being used there's a 16 billion surplus if the government is serious about bringing farmers along with them and addressing climate change and addressing emissions targets then there's a lot of money there that can be spent on utilizing those buildings to micro-generate yeah i thought there's a major solar farm proposed that actually was refused planning down the country but anyway Declan me thank you so very much as always if i was a farmer with like 20 cows and i'm listening to the news about not one car parking space available in an airport in Ireland i'd be going hold on your second here am i doing all the heavy lifting but anyway be that as it may kathie it's been lovely having you on you will come back won't you well of course anytime thank you so much thank you so very much indeed and last but not not not least uh joe sweeney thank you so much for your time thanks great good stuff hope you enjoyed it and you'll come back yeah good sorry fair play joe sweeney there i'll thank the guests once again and get to your comments 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tenant in situ scheme seriously otherwise people will end up homeless in a bit limit damage caused by the eviction ban being lifted government promoted the initiative which would allow the housing agency buy rental properties from private landlords councillor jordan says the processing of the scheme by the local authority is too slow while at the same time terminational estates are fast approaching from many the council says they're committed to rolling it out as quickly as possible but councillor jordan says it must be quicker i've spoken to a number of constituents where the landlord has pushed that date out maybe by a month is saying but we need to have news by then or else you're out and you know i think it's very unfair and then people know you know i would have been hoping to get a better response than that i'm just hugely annoyed that this process has been dragged out and dragged out and it wasn't thought through 239 private houses were acquired by donigol county council between 2016 and 2021 it's led to concern that there is a lack of appetite from the local authority to engage in that process councillor terry crossen says a large number of property owners have expressed interest in selling their homes to the council but nothing's come to fruition councillor crossen believes communication is lacking between homeowners and the council i had a house that became available in kill a a very good quality four bedroom house and there is a very high demand for four bedroom houses this lady went out of her way and had her house actually cast it for mica made that information all available to the donigol county council yet the degree of communication between the council and her was practically zero the ukrainian ambassador to ireland is in donigol today larissa garrasco will officially open an art exhibition at on griddon theater this afternoon the exhibition features works by more than 20 artists from ukraine now living in ireland reflecting the creative process of painters who are adjusting and acclimatizing to life here against the backdrop of war and displacement. Gordy and donigol are urging motorists to save lives this bank holiday began by slowing down it's after two drivers were caught speeding by the bunkrana roads policing unit this week the motorists were detected traveling in excess of the 100 kilometer speed limit near burt. Gordy say they'll be on the lookout for people driving while holding their mobile phones this weekend the roads policing division has issued a safety appeal for the bank holiday in partnership with the road safety authority they're urging people to show special care toward vulnerable road users the assistant commissioner for roads policing paula hillman says mobile phone use in particular will be targeted we can issue uh fixed charge notices for mobile phone use this year alone in the first four months of this year we've issued over 4600 tickets so yes having your uh your phone in your hand using your mobile phone when driving can be given a fixed charge notice and that's one of the the life-server offenses that's one of the offenses that we're we will be targeting targeting this weekend people are being urged to take measures over the holiday weekend to prevent getting sunburn and risking skin cancer the irish cancer society says adhering to their sun smart code is the best way to prevent burning it includes wearing a hat using high factor sunscreen and covering up with clothes director of advocacy and external affairs rachel morrow says skin cancer is the most common cancer in ireland 13 000 new cases are diagnosed every year there's around 13 000 skin cancers diagnosed every year in ireland and around nine in 10 of them are preventable because they're caused by uv rays from the sun and we know that this weekend the uv index will be quite high so it's one of the most common cancers in ireland and there are things that we can all do to reduce our risk of skin cancer more road workers are set to commence in letter kelly next week essential maintenance has been carried out on the n-13 dual carriageway between the dry arch and manner conning come around about the works will last from june 7th to 9th that's wednesday to friday of next week donnie goll county council is advising motorists lane closures will be in operation they should allow extra time for journeys and shin fain believes that irish unity is getting closer it's reacting to a new ugov poll showing 43 of british people wouldn't be bothered if northern ireland left the uk 40 want northern ireland to remain part of the uk 34 believe it should join the republic south donnie goll debbie martin kenney says irish unity isn't all that far away they're very little information or history taught in england around any of that but at the same time you know i think the poll reflects you know the general trend that we see everywhere that irish unity is is a happening thing it's something that's moving and we're getting closer to that every day and while this poll is interesting of course the people of britain will have no say in the matter well the forecast largely sunny today some cloud building at times in life easterly or variable breezes top temperatures 19 to 22 degrees celsius tonight dry with mostly clear skies some localized fog will develop lowest overnight temperatures 5 to 10 tomorrow 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mass at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in comal cemetery family flowers only donations if wished to the dunigal hospice care of pascal blake funeral director family time on the morning of the funeral please funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv and the death has occurred of leanne marie stibleton in greensboro north carolina usa formally kill cuney port new county dunigal her remains will repose at her family home in kill cuney today from two o'clock until nine o'clock funeral from there to more morning at half past 10 to st comal's church kill cuney for 11 o'clock requery and mass with burial afterwards in the old abbey cemetery dunigal town family flowers only please donations and live desire to the kevin bell repatriation fund care of any family member leanne's funeral mass can be viewed live on chauvin's funeral home facebook page for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com the national 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texting in as well really thanks so much for it and never ceases to amaze me or make me feel glad to be on the program that so many of you take part in it so let's get to some of those comments here too many people coming in getting free accommodation doesn't help looking for their free house there's a big difference between looking into bucking into an airbnb for a few days holiday with all your supplies in the car and spending several months or years in an isolated cottage in donagall with no job no income and no public transport deputy pringle represents an area where there are lots of airbnbs he should be careful about his public utterances it could be costly at election time interesting actually when you talk about the location of many of those properties yeah because i think it would be very useful and i said this to caroline our fair at the other day that you really need to order them and i think actually said it on air you'd need to order them to see how many of them because you throw a figure there people do how many of them are actually suitable long-term pieces of accommodation with with decent infrastructure that would sustain permanent living the epa report finds arland will miss its climate targets for 2030 does anyone outside the green party care um i do because they're gonna tax us more into compliance my god a witch hunt on philip skullfield is she for real put the same situation into a male female context and it would be a very different story i was trying to figure that one out um how it would be approached if it were a female now i'm not really quite sure if it would work worse or better for him i can't imagine it or how the coverage might be there's certain elements to that story i think the fact that he he knew him from a very young age i've now he absolutely denies grooming the young person that there's a few elements of it that'd be a bit icky for me but what it when we talk about witch hunt though and i'm i'm not speaking on behalf of kathie like what is acceptable or unacceptable like if an individual is handed to the point whereby say they take their own life that's happened in the past would you go well would you go oh maybe we're going to a little bit too far there or well some people even think that's okay now that's a terrible thing for me to say but i'm like it's to have the conversation like what when we talk about witch hunt is like when do you get enough uh from someone for something they've done uh and the witch hunt would suggest that you you grind them to the point of of of no longer existing effectively uh so i think that's really you know how far can you or should you go with that uh how can the woman on the panel say it's a witch huntary philips goldfield he lied and conned everyone for years and admitted he lied himself indeed it's interesting when you look at the age gap of people many big stars married much younger people elvis and priscilla slain dion and her husband yeah well elvis um priscilla was 15 14 was it there are many others as well slain dion and her husband not really quite familiar with that again i would have a particular difficulty with it if you knew the person when they were um a child to if you saw them mature into an adult and still went out with them that but that's that's just me greg you discuss this topic every other day but it's all falling on deaf ears in doblin the government don't give a damn about the people especially the people of donnie gall rtds come on your show and say this and say that but nothing ever comes of it it's a total and utter disaster and the government sending back millions of unused money you should never see the likes of this in any part of the world it's high time for a revelation or a revolution in this country it's gone beyond time we need to consider food security will our beef be imported from central america rainforest sasks andria much maybe poland other countries um i just wonder is that you know that we aren't a producer we're consumers that the plan i don't know hi greg the quick of the irish people wake up to this nonsense government and get them whipped out the better it's coming to a station island you'd need four wages coming into the house every week to keep going good morning greg i'll say it again um is what we produce in emissions which is nothing zero zero nine these people have seriously lost their minds and the farmers know it yet some are going along with it because it's basically free money for them i do not want my tax money going to farmers to call cows most of these cows wouldn't be worth half what they would be rewarded with changes coming because like your panel farmers sit on their hands and take it another has any study been done to ascertain how much carbon could be removed from the atmosphere by the transport industry by having an effective transnational railway system it would seem like a no brainer how many bosses leave letter kenny every day for doblin probably ten or more a train would eliminate the need for many of these journeys the end but for some reason you would love to see the green party go hold on a second there's a massive gap in the northwest let's provide a train the i don't have the figures to hand but the short haul flights aircraft flights for an example actually contribute not a great deal to carbon emissions long haul flights certainly but there's other areas of society that are far more that are far more damaging but also was interested to learn during the week did you know that pig fat is in huge demand as a supplement to air fuel that they're less toxic fuel they need dead animals to create it and that's going to potentially cause a shortage on that product or i'm not talking about your baking and sausages here but i didn't know that air fuel that the less toxic stuff contains animals did you know that i must get the article and read it i was flabbergasted by it nothing should really surprise us at this stage should it but anyway be that as it may i was like what they're using pigs they're using pigs in um aircraft fuel just curious is anyone lost a bird of prey at 8 50 a.m today i saw a bird of prey flying in the northeasterly to southwestern direction over the karagort to downings road there was a strap with a bubble hanging from its legs now clearly that's someone's bird i'm trying to think what kind of is there any sanctuaries up there or anything but anyway maybe it was going out for a fly but it shouldn't still have its dangly bit should it so a person saw i presume it was a big bird was it anyway it was a bird of prey flying this morning over karagort to downings there was a strap with a bubble hanging from its legs that's a mystery want to get to the bottom of that 0 8 6 60 25 000 0 8 6 60 25 000 or crawl 0 7 4 9 1 25 000 lots of text still coming you talked about when we're talking about housing you know and a lot of the conversation about uh government uh or the civil service or whomever is responsible 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with a vote by the senate on thursday so it's going to be much more clear i'd imagine in france going forward as to you know what is uh an opinion or what's real and and what is uh trying to uh influence and coerce the public often for payment yeah yeah no i just i just caught my eye as as being an interesting development that in in europe in relation to this whole area of influencers social media and personalities that are earning now quite lucrative livings out of it for example in france alone they're talking about 150 000 influencers and you know some might have very modest type of followers but then some could have subscribers of millions and obviously and that is a source of good revenue for them and now in france they're sort of saying well let's see is this in the same playing pitches as the other media platforms their tv's radio broadcasting etc um and the competition side of it the the revenue side of it the undeclared advertising is switched or cramped they're really clamping down on now the scene there's an allegation that uh this is widespread what i was thought was quite interesting is if you run the parallel when we bring it home how are we doing in this area in ireland this i think is setting a new standard in the european scene i think they'll have a bit of a difficulty strikes me if a lot of these influencers are not in france how they're how they're going to actually access them with a view to enforcement and to policing this like like the type of fines that they're talking about 300 000 or they're about a few two years imprisonment it's fairly heavy it's fairly heavy penalties um but if the influencers are not within that jurisdiction um and obviously you know the power of the power of social media now and that's a that's a that's an easy get out get around um well then how far will the tentacles spread in order to to enforce it but i think they're they're going the the right way about it you're probably going to have to see more of a european consensus and other countries coming on board and doing something similar uh to get everybody on if you pardon the pun the same platform up for this going forward yeah but it does it does need looking at because they have a lot of power and even in this country alone there was a report there at the very i think it was the beginning of the year maybe the back end of last year where some 48 influencers were paid something around 300 k by board fault you know so you know it it is big money um and uh there are obviously people making money out of it and we're self-regulated here under the advertising board uh and we're governed by supposedly the consumer protection act and that was back in 2007 and that people might say it's a little bit outdated for policing this at the moment now i don't mind people getting paid by the council for an example as part of a love donning all campaign to sort of speak to their uh to to their masses although some of the figures and stats uh are are very heavily massaged but anyway be that as it may and i don't really mind shameless if you went on your instagram and started you know sopping a can of fanta and going oh this fanta is delicious look how young it makes me look right but i'm delighted to see them tightening rules on things like uh cosmetic surgery uh tobacco um bitcoin uh sports and lottery do you know what i mean i'd love to see us crack down a bit more on that here as well because they're not looking to influence you or me it is younger more impressionable people and i don't mind the product placement as much uh but this type of stuff i'd be i'm glad to see they're actually prohibiting the promotion of that because that would be easier to police shameless well yeah you know it's a fair point it is a fair point um and they are they are identifying lines that they cannot actually air at all which i would concur in that and certainly agree that that's that's a good way to move forward it's it is positive but when you when you just just in passing mention the fanta the point about the fanta is this that if that comes to pass and by the way i just don't run an instagram i'll cut to the minute but anyway but if that did come to pass and i was lucky enough to be in that position i would have to i to refer to everybody have to make it obvious that this is an advertisement for fanta and and that is where they're falling in this country even alone at the last cent the commission the competition commission and done some research in this and this is fairly fresh but this they found that up 48 percent of these advertisements were not properly labeled at all so even though i'm getting a little bit from fanta for doing that if i'm not promoting that and letting people know by the way not i don't have to say that but this is an ad or i'm in partnership with fanta fanta or promoting this i'm getting paid for it by the way so that you know i'm getting paid for it that's where i have the difficulty here yeah and i think that that is very very gray and and that's where this this area can certainly be tightened up on because there's very little like if you're up to 50 percent of the fund it's not properly labeled at all well you know that's in my mind anyway just in my opinion that's that is misleading yeah certainly could be because it's much darker and that's where there's not the French are the French are sort of looking into this with a view to clamping down on it i certainly love to see people making a living and once they pay their make their returns on it etc etc but people have to know the purpose of of the influence and and what they're actually selling yep and as i say i've no sour grapes but we are very heavily restricted in on this platform as to what you can talk about and like i can't bring someone in here for example who talks to the dead or something like that there do you know what to mean or or offers curers or things like that you know like the that's quite specific but there 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click on bmcsports dot ie for your free delivery we're in conversation with shameless gun of mcglotten gun and company in letter kenny remelton and online and shameless this question comes in sometimes when you're on often when you're not as well and it's about neighbors animals i'll read the text to you as it was sent into us any idea what i can do about neighbors dogs that bark all day long non-stop one neighbor now has four dogs they also wonder about into everyone's gardens we live in a rural area i don't know how to go about saying it to them as i don't want to fall out but it's beyond a joke at this stage so not only are the dogs noisy and numerous but they're also wondering around the neighborhood as well what can be done in that situation it is very difficult and not uncommon and i fully appreciate the dilemma they raise it with the neighbor that can fall out very hard to make up and they're both going to be there hopefully for many years to come but sometimes that's the only way of dealing with these issues if you want to go another route and then you're talking about bringing in a third party you could consider getting legal representation and would i recommend that i don't think it's necessary at this stage but certainly where you have mentioned about dogs coming on to other people's property and barking etc that could constitute a nuisance certainly looks on the face of it it could be certainly an allegation of trespass so those are particularly there's two legal avenues there that you could bring up and go along and get some advice on and take it down a route which would probably polarize the parties forever more amen and so just keep that in keep that in mind there has been and under the auspice of the the various different departments which which are responsible for the local authorities the department of agriculture etc etc there are there is a proposal to have a a number of more dog wardens appointed in the various different county towns from the various different county councils and throughout the country in general now that has not yet come to pass but it is essential in my opinion absolutely essential and when when there is enough personnel to police it well then at least you will have a proper protocol with the complaint and an intermediary or third party then may may be able to go along and talk to the neighbour and and see what can be done about this but rest assured there is an obligation on any owner of a dog to keep them and maintain them within their own property and if they are straying on to other people's property and doing damage well then the penny will drop and the individual will be held or can be held to account and that that can be expensive and it can go down the legal route yeah but as you say the introduce maybe the dog warden approach might might be the way to go as a sort of a third party intermediary but again it will be difficult and there's no nice way of doing it and the direct approach it might be the first well you see they're trying most satisfactory yeah they're trying to avoid that and we do generally in life try and avoid confrontation but it is a rural area here so if they do go down the legal route the person who owns the dog is going to have a very fair idea who brought this up and they may end up being a confrontation down the line anyway so perhaps they're going to have to have that first difficult conversation now I mean if there's a concern about the welfare of the animals if they're barking all day I presume they could make a call to the ISPCA but that would obviously you wouldn't want to do that mischievously if you had a concern about the welfare of the animals that could be an option it man again it's the introduction but you're probably already answered this point yourself in that they will know immediately that this has come from the next door neighbor they may not be easy enough to surmise that or to conclude that so it's the same result and sometimes unfortunately you can't avoid some type of confrontation now it may be a situation where they would like to have a third party that could go along and have a sort of friendly chat and to divorce it slightly and say well look we don't want to fall out about this but this is the issue arising and can we do something about it and try that somewhat softly softly in the first instance but if it does if it does not work and it is interfering with their peaceful enjoyment of their home in that situation they have their rights and that's what the law is there for and if one's dog is straying onto another's property well that just cannot continue and unfortunately confrontation sometimes cannot be avoided but they can be dealt with in a mature manner that the parties should not have to end up falling out about it if it goes down the legal route and you end up in maybe a district court of that and you're seeking orders and maybe even seeking damages well then that could sour relations forever more irreparably indeed a farmer planted around two acres of land on our road and now our road is a danger with roaming deer every night and I'm not sure there's anything legally can be done about that it's unfortunate but yeah there I think there's a certain period during the year where there are calls of the national deer herd I can't say it's already on it but if you check out the different wildlife act and the appropriate in their own setting again people can they can be a complete hazard and there has been proposals to bring in more stricter type of legislation in relation to them and where they are actually on the roadside and causing in some cases very serious accidents but the difficulty is again in enforcement at the moment there is a national strategy for calling that seems to me to be about the height of it and that can and should be taken should be taken a lot further and they haven't indicated whether the farmer actually owns the deer or what the situation is with them what they have as we all probably know and especially in this lovely county they have a tendency to roam for hundreds of miles yeah a family member owns sorry a family member owes this quarter money they sent a solicitor's letter four months ago after seven years chasing it since but since he's not been able to get it back his brother replied to the letter stating he wasn't going to pay the money back the money was used for property on a farm so what can this other brother do about it so sorry one brother lent another brother money seven years ago they chased them up with a solicitor's letter four months ago the money was used to for property on to purchase property on a farm now the brother who received the money says in a letter that he's not going to pay that money back where can they go from there yeah well it's a situation obviously that has already started on a legal route so all I can do is advise in general terms for in such matters if it's a situation where it's a debt if it was a loan and someone gives another party a loan the first advice I would give is to get some form acknowledgement of that and to work out what what is the repayment schedule and the timescale for it but and also perhaps whether there's interest applicable to it and to to fine-tune it somewhat and that is properly recorded and therefore it can be followed up on if you have a simple situation where one gives another some money and a period of time passes and in this case in in in debt cases there is a period for the statute of limitations of six years if you go beyond that and you have taken no steps in having security judgment within that period then you could be met with a defence that the case that the claim for the death of statute bar so you want to be you have to be always careful in relation to pursuing debt matters that you come in in that period so that's something that is worth flagging but in relation to loans it should be documented and if you're getting no responsible then you have to go to the next stage and take legal proceedings and it'll be up to the other party then to decide how they want to meet those proceedings and whoever's dealing with the matter where the caller should be able to advise them my driving license allows me to drive on any public road if I have a moped or a tractor license I'm not allowed to drive on a motorway under what statute is that prohibited in other words under what statute would I be prosecuted if I drove a tractor or a moped on a motorway well I think you're going to have to delve into the road traffic legislation there are the pieces that wrote from the road traffic act from 1961 up to the current day I don't know many different acts there are but there are numerous in the extreme they want to also I think check the position with regard to the set and their license as to whether in fact they have an actual it's covered on their license for driving now and I'm assuming that they do have and I think then maybe an inquiry with the with the local guardie have they been stopped then you'll have to then consult your own legal advisor as to where you go with that if someone's should issue against you remember this though and I think it's always very pertinent people sometimes think that just because an allegation is made they accept it if they wait and then see if their summons the legislation will be outlined and in detail in the actual prosecution someone that if they're ever served with they will receive and at that point it is a matter for them to engage their lawyer to go into court and it has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt so although an allegation or a claim is made it doesn't have to be accepted by the individual they have their rights the constitutional rights to stand around and to defend any claim that's made against them our 30 year old house is affected by defective concrete under normal circumstances it would be worth around 200 000 euro however if and when it's rebuilt under the redress scheme the valuation will go up substantially bringing our only child into significant inheritance tax as we have other asses surely this isn't just um it's a it's an interesting it's an interesting question because the caller would seem to be getting the benefit of a new abode obviously a serious upgrade that if it's 30 years on would all probably mod cons and a good b or rating and naturally the value will have appreciated so the knock-on effect is likely that if it brings it beyond the threshold so is at the moment for a child or son or daughter direct linear descendant is 335 000 or thereabouts for inheritance tax if it's above that after expenses are taken out and the the difference will be taxable at 33 percent now they seem to be making the point that when they would prefer to have the new house on one hand and they prefer to have the old one for the tax reason for the tax benefit which but we're into it a little bit of your cake and eat it yes i get you but there i think maybe the motivation for the question is shameless and not contradicting you is is that this is another penalization on their child through no fault of their own in other words they're saying well maybe the the the in other words that yes it's not therefore the house is falling down so i'm sorry i can't agree you can't buy it okay i know i can't buy that i mean um they're they're getting an appreciated asset um the other was referenced at being 30 years 30 years old um they're now going to have hopefully hopefully a state of the art modern home maybe worth significantly more and if it does attract some tax on that well well so so be it that that that'd be my view i don't think you can have it everywhere right two questions left i think i have time for if i leave a site to my niece or nephew in my will what implications does that have on them in terms of tax yeah well at niece or nephew in relation to capital acquisitions tax and that's the bracket that you're under and that's the same for a gift or an inheritance so it depends then on the value of the site at the moment that threshold is set um at 32 and a half thousand euro in valuation so if the value of the site is exceeds that then there would be taxed at the rate of 33 percent on the amount above it between that and the valuation so for example just for example as you said if if the site was valued at 50 000 well then there would be seen to be a differential of probably 17 and a half and that's 17 and a half you know maybe some expenses out will be taxed at 33 percent so that'll be the tax implication there the first 32 and a half will be tax free if the if the site is worth less than 32 and a half there's no way she wanted to talk and there wouldn't be a tax liability arising on and the same would apply if the uncle or aunt wants to gift the nephew or the niece the site it would be the same same threshold because it's the same it's the same tax bracket and it's capital taxation all right and uh Greg please ask Seamus I was selling a house I got a bill in for 8 000 euro from my solicitor for the work that they did paperwork they described it as but the sale has fallen through do I still have to pay the solicitor the 8 000 euro what's the story well it's entirely a matter between yourself and the and the party providing the service and the account that I'm sure is fully documented and the fact that the sale has fallen true is on the face of it's probably no fault provider party and if it's the third party who is buying it's pulling it out so be it maybe maybe there was title matters to be updated in order to get the property marketable from the part from the purpose of selling it and putting it on the open market and hence there's a hence there's an account or payable it's an entirely and the contractual contract position between the provider of the service and the caller but if you're saying that just because the sale if if the account was only conditional upon a sale well that's different because that in the sale did not materialize and therefore the account wouldn't be payable until a sale would but if the account is not in any way conditional well and as I would believe it's unlikely to be well then I would see it as still if they're if they're the account is during the work is done the people kind of find very finally that the bin would still have to be people very finally have a sort of interesting view towards listeners like you would never get a call in saying that you know I had an old car at the house and I paid a mechanic to put a new engine in and then I'll put it on don deal and the person came to look at it and then didn't decide to buy it they will still have to pay the mechanic to who put the engine in you would never see that question but listeners the legal profession today is it because people view them sort of as part of the whole process or part of the same like a bank or something rather than a third party yeah it's a it's a fair it's a fair comment I put it down to the slings and arrows of this profession really people maybe in a situation where there's work to be done in order to get like for example if you were selling a property that was coming through in a state just given an example off the top well there'd be a lot of work to be done regarding the administration of the estate before the property would be passed on to the individual who was then going to sell it and that would certainly incur costs and those costs would then be payable now the individual might say but I was left that property I shouldn't have to pay any cost but in order to get it to that stage where they can sell it and get a significant benefit out of it there are costs going to be important and those and those have to be paid to this but I think a lot of people see solicitors as a hurdle to overcome rather than a third party to protect their interests you know what I mean I think it's almost there must be that kind of an attitude out there well I don't know I think that the legal profession is renowned for doing an awful lot of pro bono work I think most practices do and there's a lot of man hours cut in right across the board and right across this country by solicitors doing that type of work for which there's never a euro raised and I'm quite familiar with it okay Seamus Gunn of McLaughlin Gunn we'll do a whip around for you Seamus Gunn of McLaughlin Gunn and company letter Kenny in Remelton and also online Seamus I hope so Greg yeah don't go to solicitors.ie or just keep the country gun.ie have a lovely weekend Seamus take care of yourself okay back with more after the break Tesco Club Guard gives you the power to lower prices for an amazing bank holiday weekend like Tesco Farford Tomahawk beef steak was 28 euro 35 now 18 euro 99 per kilo Coca-Cola cans 25 was 18 euro now 10 euro and for the adults Biro Moretti 330 mil 12 pack was 22 euro now 14 euro 50 lower the cost of your shop with your Tesco Club Guard or app the 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retention will be based on whether what you're looking to retain complies with planning regulations uh philips goldfield is a bit exposed as another very nice person he thought he owned that this morning show was untouchable but now he's gone and he's not only brought down himself but he's getting a good kicking while he's down like what was done to caroline frack when will the green party propose to fund a connection between the two railways in donningall from refo to fintan maybe it might stop at letter kenyal ballot buffet on the way and another i thought that local food production within our own country was more environmentally friendly for the world as a whole rather than destroying our rainforests and shipping loads across the world creating more pollution surely arland by itself cannot keep the whole world green no but we can do our bit and that's what every country is expected to do uh but the contradictions and hypocrisies are abound and i think that's what's hindering uh the transition brendan divanese ambassador with plan.ie and secondly secondary to that in this instance he's presenter of the dl debate but we're not talking about sport we're not going to talk about ga i might ask him i don't know what i'm going to do but anyway we're starting our focus on his ambassadorship with plan.ie because you've uh you've sprinkled the crumbs over the last while brendan about you heading to toga in africa but it's full steam ahead now you're heading away uh sometime in the not too distant future so just for those who don't listen on a friday or don't listen on a monday but tend to listen on a friday um talk to us about the work of of plan and your involvement with them yeah yeah the ambassador now sounds kind of important greg i don't know does it sound that well i just try and help out as much as i can yeah but listen i'll be doing that but i'll work for them uh greg now for about four or five years just just helping sponsor kids sponsor kids myself and i'm i tried things with them like fast-a-day sponsor a child and look at it we waste to save the 22 euro in a month because i don't really like asking people for money because if you're like me and like most people at the end of the month the wages are gone so i was looking at we waste uh maybe you'll have to wash the cars for example here you don't maybe save 14 euro you'll get the wards at 22 so just make me small sacrifices to sponsor a child you get packs back and uh you you see them grow up then you make sure that they're they're safe for the they've got you know food date education keeping me girls at a early childhood marriage the horrors of fgm and that and all those types of things they go into communities as well greg so they don't just try and take a child and make sure they're okay they go into the whole community and then everybody sponsors the children and that so the charity ball that yourself came along the day they're previous we sponsored 21 kids on that night as well uh so that's kind of led under this so great before we get to this talk a little bit more about so like the the the the children you sponsored and for how long you've been sponsored them do they give you updates on how they are the well-being their education so in other words you quite literally see in that process and as you say you you make uh you curtail certain things to to afford this right so and i've seen you do it in social media where you'll you'll fast for the day or if you mentioned you in the the family washing cars just try and save a few quid but you consistently get to see how their life is unfolding so in a way then do you do you form a some sort of an emotional attachment because you're invested in this other child on the other end of the the earth and you're seeing what you're uh relatively small but important contribution is making yeah and just like greg i know listen we see it all the time people are getting a tough enough but compared to their life you know that's toughness on another level so if we can help out a small but i have the pictures up in the office upstairs that greg and i would show them to the wee boys as we're growing up and when we're watching the car i tell them why we're doing it you know trying to give them some semblance of you know the amount of things we have around us that is just and seem normal not only for things that bloody running water and sanitation things we just think are normal for a lot of people in the wordly aren't i mean there's eight million people in toga and i'm going to you know half of them are below the poverty line you know still predominantly agriculture out there in that so it's a really tough place to be but for years there like a lot of people in Ireland we now are some of the best people in the world and come through contributing obviously and helping you know pet per head around the world in that so i was given the different charities but and of course they're all doing great work right but i didn't really know the kind of outcome whereas i know now say with the three kids i sponsored the 21 kids from that night their their information all comes back to me so i've given them out to my friends maybe nieces and nephews now they all write to the kids now all the correspondence goes back to me so just like you're saying like i'm constantly getting letters and we update so you get pictures and that so you can now and then send up something they'd be coloring books and paying something simple but it can be personal but you know what and you mentioned a really great thing what a great life education tool for for as a parent you know and it because it's not sort of shocking them into the awful realities of the world you do it in such a way as they they have a empathy for other children that aren't perhaps as as lucky as they are but they also then have an appreciation of what they have around them and i think you know that's a really important thing as part of nurturing and rearing children that sometimes we can be guilty of forgetting yeah yeah i listen to the way words going things is getting easier and easier you know and listen don't get me wrong there's another side that in terms of like devices and media and all that which is putting more pressure on kids but in terms of those simple wee things in life a lot of them are laid out for the kids the education for example is one of the big ones going to mean if you look at wee girls around the world they are most most less likely to be educated than the wee boys and they're most you know they're danger of things that get each other married to that so plan actually do target little girls more because they're more a danger in many ways so being able to really let relay that back to your wee boys isn't growing up of course they're not going to take that much heat of it but it's a nice thing in the back no it's it's there though it's it's it's it's take a mind yeah it's a system that we get from maybe about say three to four years old right up into their uh uh 16 70 right so we actually only have about three minutes left so talk to us about the actual trip to toga uh we're going to be able to track you are you looking for people maybe to support you in that work because uh uh so just tell us uh what uh what what's happening and where the public interaction is there or or information for them yeah well thanks to carol wickham from plans coming great because she's sort of everything out i didn't realize there was much stuff to do bees and farms and oh my god but anyway she's put all that together brannis and donnell uh who does a lot of streaming and video work you know brannis he's coming with us to document the trip so the trip only come about really great because of the generosity of cairn brogan assistive shares and terry mcnuffin them out there at the hotel and uh my friend cairn keegan in new york because obviously he owns a fifth in in mad bar out there obviously greg i don't want to get anything away from the charity i'm here to help the charity so when this all came up uh we needed some bikers and and fairplay the the guys they stepped on phenomenal boys to have a new corner so they've made the whole trip happening like so we're going to document it i'm going to meet some of the kids that we sponsor and brannis is going to uh video the whole trip on that and um she'll she'll have some content there and we could share it when we come back there's we've been talking to a few people you know between media and radio and uh tv and um you know obviously charity ball then the year now it'll be nice to have footage and listen to plan people tell you Greg that this will change your life it's why are they in visages supposed to you're actually out there on the ground so i'm not sure what exactly they expect but um listen i'm excited i think it's going to be emotional you know because it's uh it is a direct connection between these people who you've become invested in their lives so you get to see you know you know what i mean it's gonna be it's gonna be a roller coaster i think yeah i think i know i don't know after i suppose last year they tried to do me like my emotions are still very rocky because um i you know they're up and down because life's so busy i don't get to think that much i'm trying not to take on board it and i'm thinking when i see these wee ones because Greg for years and then well this all came about you know you see these ads on tv and everything i can't like bypass them there's just something like we're all different and you know it's just the way i am i'm looking at that thinking how can i can help out of you but how can i do something so this has been building me for years so i suppose you're going to see them in that i'm not sure how that's going to be for me you know at this image of it being you know very very humbling nice thing to do but i'm just i'm wondering about keeping the emotions in check all right but um listen i'm i'm looking forward to it Greg as i said it should be a good experience and even from the last post that i did on social media there i got three people contacted me direct from from friends of mine saying give me the number i'm going to sign up so they didn't get me here Greg as they create awareness for plan for more people to sign up and one one one wee person at a time we can help out people who need it you know all right brilliant stuff Bren we'll chat to you before you head off but thanks for the update brendan deveney there um and you can go to plan.ie and sponsor a child if you wish as well she cuts in for the wing oh that's superb she scored a world-class win fera fera uh oh cabry buns or dairy milk oh gosh sorry uh hmm don't dream about a world-class win enter to win one meet a world-class footballer and win an epic holiday worth 8k only with cabry tees and sees apply visit worldclass.cabriefc.com time is ticking on the sizzling summer sale at easy living furniture with absolutely 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regulated by the central bank of ireland in the provision of such services four minutes past 11 on this friday the second of the june and it's time for that entertainment with our regular guests of michael lelly good morning to you michael how are you getting on good morning very well and uh fenula rabbit who's uh fully embracing the blended working practices uh joining us i don't know where from possibly home i don't know hi fenula hi no i'm down in uh sunday goldway how's the weather oh beautiful now i have to say it's actually really really hot down here now how's the family i'm everyone okay are you going to hold that phone for an hour no i'm trying to get my i'm trying to connect up to my mummy's lap my mummy's wi-fi and it's not working my arm would be just absolutely hanging off me after a while okay before we get into it uh neither if you've started the last uh series of succession yet no no right okay uh it's been spoiled for me there's something happens midway through the last series and uh it was spoiled everywhere i'm not sure if you're familiar with it as well it's kind of a bit depressing but maybe it's not a big enough spoiler to discourage one from watching it fenula you're waiting for it all to air before you watch is that correct yeah i wanted to kind of do big binge on it because everybody keeps talking about it and uh i know it's got i know even the ending has gotten some rave reviews from people that love it but the internet has made it very difficult it's the same way with them this week was the last episode of ted lasso and it was very very hard to stay away from everything once it came out at like 12 o'clock midnight on tuesday because it was you know was available then on apple and you just had to kind of like avoid the internet until you've got a chance to sit down and watch it yourself it's a it's a pity people don't think about that i know sometimes they give out these spoiled something that's already 20 years old but if it's not even 24 hours people should at least have the decent need to stay off for 24 hours i know i i still haven't forgiven michael for ruining episode three season two of baywatch uh two or three weeks ago i haven't watched it yet you know um so we'll avoid going back now that's the one where those kids went swimming near the pier yes i remember it and people ran along the beach in cosies um so did you finish ted i don't have a list from you but i presume you finished ted lasso you were one of its biggest uh fans i think because you've watched it you know you go back to it and and you know when you're looking for a bit of uh light entertainment i may be this i may be the saddest person that you know and not only did i go back do i go back to it so we have a contender here but go on i know i'm glad i'm not sitting beside of me totally be nudging me and i watched it i watched it two or three times all of it and even this time with the final series i it was out on a wednesday and in my my wednesday treat to myself was that i would sit down and watch the previous episode again and then watch the new episode so i've actually seen this series twice as well in that sense and i absolutely loved it uh the ending was exactly what you expected to be it was schmaltzy it was you know all feeling good all that kind of stuff in it a lot of uh things tied up nicely in a bow which is exactly the way the kind of show would progress through so i really loved it i'd be interested to see what other people think because it wasn't a hundred percent where you thought it was going to you know in your head where you might have thought stuff was going to land but um it did have a nice kind of a feeling a nice sort of an end to it and it definitely left itself open through the possibility of there being and spin-offs so that's one of the things that you see an awful lot of talk about will there be a spin-off from it they'd always said that this was a three three season arc but is it possible that there's another could you see the spin-off being him an american a different sport or elements of the english side being remade or i think it's elements of the cat there's a particular cast members and particular um characters within it that you know generated such strong feeling from the from the viewers yeah i think there's a potential there to actually do a spin-off from it within not with him at all because he said that he's done with it and fairness they were right to end it on the three because this one wasn't as good as the previous ones now whether that was have to do with the fact that we already kind of knew the story you know you sort of had the feel for when you're in three like had they gone to four i think they would have destroyed the whole um sentiment about the ted lasso series but it was very um like i say the first one was 15 out of 10 second one was 12 out of 10 and this one was 10 out of 10 that's a great review and michael you're gonna have to excuse me i've so much to remember uh we're doing a show like this and the entertainment stuff i kind of can't focus as much on that i don't remember have you watched head lasso oh i'm a huge fan yes you are a huge fan i wouldn't expect you to remember that god no um i mean you barely remember my name for week two weeks so i mean come on i know you're under pressure i don't because mine instinctively i want to call you a swear word that's the problem that's it yeah well we do that off here so yeah i'm a huge fan of ted lasso i really do think it's one of the best shows to come on on in the last uh five to ten years i haven't seen this season yet nothing to do with ted lasso more to do with the fact that at this time of year i watch less and less tv so i will get around to it very much looking forward to it i've successfully avoided all spoilers i was quite nervous there when fenuda started chatting about it because i've avoided all reviews and comments it's very good she's very good she's very good but um it is a brilliant show i'm really enthused again now that i've heard fenuda's review i mean 10 hour 10 is not bad it's not a bad review as these things go but it's a wonderful show and as we said before it's great it's it's sort of a non cynical sort of look at you know he's a very sincerely nice person yeah but i it's that part of it that annoys me that's schmaltzy unlike you gregg i don't hate people so i don't mind i don't mind i just you just don't like that uh well it's very sincerely like i get it okay but no you have to see when when people rave about a show which many have right yes you go into with your expectations you do of course that's only here and it's it's the expectations that gets in the way gets in the way rather than yeah it's been a good show of course yeah your expectations are high and then that does raise the bar but i suppose it's a strong alternative to all the other stuff that's churned out nowadays between sole poppers and films and everything else and the dna of scrubs is in there because as i've said many times before um the the person who did scrubs is one of the people who shaped ted lasso scrubs was another show that was very sincerely nice and had you know characters and it worked you know heartfeltly without being i i wouldn't i wouldn't say it was schmaltzy i mean i've seen schmaltz that i think it's just sincerely tender and and hard-warming you know and and ted having his own flaws makes him all the more human and believable yeah because because i've been conditioned to sit in front of the tv at eight o'clock um between sole poppers and what have you i found myself watching britain's got talent this week some of it i don't know if either of you saw it i hope definitely not definitely not because the whole both of you in too high a regard to put you through that but firstly uh firstly i would say britain doesn't have talent anymore because they're important acts from all over the world right they're scouting it's clear they're scouting um and it's terrible like i found myself returning to watch it on consecutive nights because it was so bad to see could it plumb it the depths any further and it hasn't disappointed me on consecutive nights absolutely terrible is it musical acts is it novelty acts is it it's it's a lot of it's a lot of kids a lot of singing um a lot of judges saying stuff that is completely irrelevant to what's going on terrible acts and they're going oh my god that was amazing it's a semi-final so they're pressing buzzers uh even though they don't really do anything and then they won't vote they're there to vote and then they won't vote and they leave it up to the public it's really just bizarre it's crap it's terrible but is it getting the ratings i don't know i would say it's i'd say it's tanking but anyway anyone out there watching that i have watched it 08 6 60 25 000 08 6 60 25 000 or call us an 07 491 uh 25 000 right okay let me see we kind of started off with familiar i think because of the ted lasso um the both of you went to see the little mermaid you know what i might do is take a break so i don't want them stacking up and we'll come back and we'll dump we'll dive into we'll dive into the death accidental we'll dive into the little mermaid because both of you were planning that all morning you were planning that i think fenula can attest that she's just texted me the words the little mermaid isn't that right fenula i can be pretty honest on that i know okay back out it's all going swimmingly i'll be back with more the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio disney's the lion king in dublin more to be seen than has ever been seen join highland radio on our trip on thursday 26th of october 2023 to see the award winning lion king the musical brought to you by disney theatrical productions your trip includes luxury transfers overnight stay at the four star city north hotel dublin on a bed and breakfast basis and your ticket to the show all this 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finula's got two hands free now right finula we can hear you a little bit better as well so the little mermaid is this live action is this graphics what is it well the little mermaid is live action so i've been doing this over the last couple of years kind of changing things over to live action and i two mixed results would be my opinion on it for some of the other stuff that they've done they they're talking about doing a Cinderella one now and they've done Cinderella kind of lots of different sort of form and they did beauty in the beast which was the exact same thing which is my all-time favorite uh it's in my top five movies of all time and uh wasn't crazy about the live action one but we were very fortunate to be invited to the eclipse cinema we're celebrating as i mentioned last year that last week their first anniversary of their um which i obviously now a great ad for eclipse i can't remember the name the royal room the actual room that it seems but it it's absolutely beautiful don't know in really kind of an old style i would say sort of a 50 60s kind of a style would you mind because that's kind of a look that sort of goes in with all the movie posters and all that kind of thing yes they're the royal room it's just really beautiful yeah and i had the doctor knew not to know poster or the old cast of blanky posters all of it there's a great love of cinema and a great love of the heritage cinema in the room and chatting to the people who run this the place um it's obvious from from chatting with them as well they really do love cinema not just new cinema but classic cinema as well uh it was a great night i mean i mean it was pizza yeah so i mean i'm happy you know feed me and i'm very happy um i know it's a new thing that they're doing they're trying to make cinema an experience so that you can actually go and you can have like food brought to your table brought to your table order your food go in and like halfway through the movie they'll drop in your pizza to you you can also have a glass of wine or um you know along with your meal if that's what you'd like so it's all very uh beautifully done now we went and we didn't know what the movie was going to be and all of a sudden we sat down and what was it but very exciting for me the little mermaid a whole new experience for michael levy because he had never seen if you believe it i'm going to ring child like he had never seen a disney movie i am stunned shocked and actually appalled um so this is the start of it now for him he's well into them he's going to be watching them all now um now for myself i absolutely thought it was lovely it was just beautiful it was actually really well done the colors and everything were fabulous javier varden played um fighting and he just had a really presence about him even though technically he was supposed to be floating in water the whole time that we saw him uh you had the classic parts of it which was like you know the crab and the flounder the fish your mermaid eric the prince was out and about he even added a song and gave him a little song and everything bird the young girl that they discovered as far as i'm aware she wasn't really in anything before she came to this movie and the play is ariel is just amazing in it her facial expressions and everything if anybody knows the story of ariel it's the mermaid that wants to become a human being and in doing so she encounters ursula the sea witch and she has to make a bargain with her and part of that bargain is that she uh loses her voice so there's an awful lot of facial expressions and everything that you need for it and i thought she was really fantastic in it now and i was talking and the whole way through to watching it and i was like this is young girls and like eight to fourteen are just going to love this movie me yeah like everything your internet's not fantastic there finula but uh michael like everything though uh this has uh entered the culture wars and id mb if after id mb if have to changed id mb if have to changed how they the review system uh blogs being written about that it's uh washing over history this is a show that's had a production that's had issues in the past with the race of people that have played the lead role and all that i mean do we even want to get into that uh but as i say you know it's like everything now uh everything particularly it seems kids movies uh gets dragged into what seems to be culture wars absolutely there's a disproportionate reaction you know there's a small vocal angry minority small minority um that has very strong views about these things and as you said it's often things that they maybe saw as kids and they feel an ownership over the material and then they react with incredibly negative comments online when uh like a lead character may be cast uh in a different race and this did definitely uh dogged the early days of production of this when um bailey hallie bailey was announced there was just a ridiculous response online and you're right it does kind of taint the production to some degree but it's worth remembering like it is it's just the problem with social media and this problem with the internet it's not it's not who's right it's who's loud loudest and who will repeat their views the most you know yeah but but fenula i mean there are people who say that this is set in a period of history in this film where slavery was an issue and that it's not referenced at all in other words history has been washed of that uh and that this is an opportunity to educate younger people about the realities of life again i don't want to get dragged into this because he's had a lovely evening but i don't want to ignore what's happening around us as well too can you see how it's been dragged into the culture wars or the world wars and all that stuff i have seen else been dragged into the you know it was dragged in first about race that area had to be a particular race and had to look a particular way and to be honest they're kind of through the kitchen sink at it because it turns out that every it has every race under the sun in it now and they're also related to each other in lots of different ways and it's all uh you know there's no kind of discussion about anybody being from anywhere else but i do find it unusual when people say that it's set in a period i mean it's not really set any period it says boats going back and forth and across i mean i suppose you can assume that it's pre-air travel and it's pretty you know but if there's no reference in it that it says to the particular point of time where there's no you know there's no association that that's the thing in it people are you know they don't have cars and that kind of thing but beyond that there's no specific i i think that that the comes a point on certain issues and not all where adults arguing and mud slinging over issues that affect children need to wonder what example they're setting and what damage they are doing to children in the name of protecting children now as i say there are different issues and different scales and i get that right but at what point is it doing children a disservice fully grown adults constantly squabbling over some very important things but a lot of trivial stuff you know where are actually the kids in this debate yeah i well i agree like if they were doing something if disney would and disney's had a lot of historical issues when it comes to race and things like that so i understand people have a concept about it you know and then you know whether or not they're in the middle of a big round there would round the santas down in florida and all that kind of stuff so you don't know whether they've gone to the other extreme now back and forth but you know in the past if you really want to take the whole historical take for disney you probably wouldn't let your kids watch kids disney because they did some very dodgy stuff in the 50s and 60s with the graduate and it doesn't cartoon form but these ones that they're doing now i think kind of steer away i mean that's like saying like oh beauty and the beast well oh my god that's very offensive to beasts that we are bringing things into it yeah i think you have to take some of the wonder out of it they're not making a documentary no but you see the thing i can imagine yeah but in america somewhere probably primarily in america because it's so divided you've got young kids that say to their moms or dads or guardians or whatever can we go and see the little memory this weekend and they're probably sat down and told in in details from an ideological political point of view as to why they can't to protect them so rather than let them go and just see a film and come out like we did the the care bear movies or whatever they're being you know they're having all of this this is stuff layers on them in in in the guise of protecting them and everything about protecting their innocence it's just you know adults need to grow up yeah i definitely think so and i think kids can see it because kids don't even notice what you don't mean you know none of the kids are going on saying oh god in the cartoon Ariel is white and had bright orange hair i mean technically in the cartoon are we saying Ariel is is irish like her hair is completely orange like if it is she's actually being offensive to irish people you're like this is you know this is the whole thing of it like yeah and i don't think the kids are seeing that they're seeing like as i said i was down here and my niece went to a birthday party with all of her friends and she uh loved it at one point when uh there was one little point in it and they got also one of the girls in her group got so excited that they stood up and applauded they were so into it that it was oh my god it was finally you know the part was finally happening and all this it's it's i think you can start take it's not like as if they were trying to make anything that was session a specific historical time it's not that it was like if they were trying to do if disney were going to do a movie that was set during the civil war in america or session that time period if you then you want to try and be as historical and give at least some insight into you know i mean in no way could you be given the the terribleness of racism into these things it's first of all kids as well you have to kind of bring how do you in any constructive way bring slavery into that story um sorry now whilst we started this conversation because it was an experience that you's went through and we'll part the controversial side of it for a second i was trying to sort out some technical stuff and i did you explain what you actually did the night itself uh because as i was oh yeah no it was brilliant i know we were talking about it there was fantastic i mean i definitely recommend the people go down and to the clips and see it and you know we get very kind of late yourself and now the century cinema is such a wonderful cinema as well that's right beside us and that are getting but for other people that are never busy that also is doing it that also is doing a bit of heavy lifting for you i can't believe you've actually become a real true letter kenny person oh my god hold on a second can't stop the press we all don't live in letter kenny some of us live closer to the beautiful eclipse in the ream bundoren but there you go but i've been to both but i've but but i've been to both i didn't even know that they were connected i didn't know they were those they were connected until they were at the end of the century the famous clownies i joke but listen hey come here out we were looking now you know the more of these facilities oh yeah i mean yeah absolutely and i think you really need to be supporting of them that's the main thing is winning half the opportunity and if you can't afford it at all you really should be going and don't even say it about the eclipses for me i normally wouldn't think to be going there because you have such a fine cinema in there but it actually is and you think to yourself oh it's a bit away but actually it's no length at all just to get to the car and it's well worth it for the experience of just seeing the way the the cinema that they've done they've built an amazing building but this new particular cinema that they have is a real experience i'm not definitely going back they do pancakes bacon and oh yeah full menu like there's a proper yeah yeah i totally want to be watching transfer while looking yes yes i call it says the final season of jack ryan is coming on the 30th of june it's on prime video the trailer looks good on youtube will be sad when it's finished one of the best shows in recent times so i'm about three episodes into season two there's three at the moment the fourth is the last fourth is the last year they announced that before three huge pan yeah although you were kind of like first brilliant second good ish was the third better or whatever you kind of do listen yeah i know but it's only on certain you do listen yeah you're right yeah first was absolutely brilliant second was very good and i thought the third was lacking but i'm delighted to see that the fourth is only six episodes because i think that was part of the problem for season three was the pacing so i think it's probably going to go out in the high i hope because i'm the high i wish it was continuing i wish that they had kept going as with the way they did with bosh amazon had some great shows like goliath is another one i wish they had kept going past season four but some of these are four and done and john krasinski possibly going to be busy doing marvel films in the years to come hopefully fingers crossed so maybe that's why he can't do anymore jack ryan all right kevin's on i'm only halfway through poker face but if colombo ever had a daughter aptly named charlie kehl maybe a contender has anyone seen succession finale yet the father was right about them but no spoilers here except that i read some of the one-liners were borrowed from his previous show pop show i see that it was also the finale of barry which i haven't seen yet but must uh what be worth a watch if henry winkler won his second emmy 40 years after his first win from playing the fun fun i only watched the first series of that i found it a bit uh i don't know it just wasn't my cup of tea but it has gotten some fantastic things that the lead actor in it is like from snl and that kind of thing you would see them in this afternight live and different things like that it's very drawn very straight face it's very kind of droll humor that's uh that's kind of throughout it and it's quite dark hey michael you never guess what i saw an arty eager in the week yellestone fenula rabbits oh i was close she's done um well you're not an arty you were an arty the news work yeah was i i saw you i saw a clip on twitter of something anyway were you not were you not down in dublin i was in dublin i didn't think i was on arty though i was but yes nobody were down in dublin with the chamber commerce yeah we were uh in the dog which is always a good visit i have to say again you know anybody gets up up there to have a look but we went up to have a chat with their uh local representatives do they have pizza do you get free pizza do they have pancakes i'm feeling very done in god person now that's why i'm being very like done in god totally embraced it all right next week is the look just to give myself a plug anybody want to come to their president's lunch in the chamber it's on in the radison next friday come and meet at mary lou possibly the next leader of this country according to the the poll is at the moment anyways yeah it's interesting okay that's on the ninth and there's still a few tickets available for to come and enjoy the good stuff is going to be there as well yes indeed i'll tell you between that and award ceremonies my calendar is full if i had a two day if i had a if i had a two day calendar yeah the awards last uh sunday night uh i just bought and i've set it off air i'll say i've set it on air i was flabbergasted the team did an amazing show there was a huge turnout brilliant businesses i loved the representation from all over the place uh i loved how it was all different types of people i loved the glamour and the style and the buzz and marty field was brilliant and uh and like as i say you know i wasn't involved in it so i'm not blowing my own trumpet i had no involvement whatsoever i went there as a as a as a guest in inverted commas if you know what i mean and i have to say it was awesome wasn't it funnula oh yeah no this the the team at the station did an amazing job and it's well as with everything that that our team does they always give it 110 percent but it was just fantastic but it was just amazing to see so many small to medium businesses because really that's what they were you know a lot of them were like family i mean the the shamrock bar that won pub of the year and it was fantastic i actually happened to be getting my photograph taken with them at the when they went into the room with their award and like the four generations of their family now have been in that club and they had three of those generations were there for the collection of the it was lovely it was lovely because i actually i was announcing that one and i remember it and it was it felt like something special and as you know family botchers uh uh alterations and repairs uh you know obviously then the the the the chemists and all that it was just there was just a lovely field to it and i actually genuinely more ready looking forward to next year we'll try and sneak you in i'll tuck you in in underneath my three piece uh uh michael we'll get you in all right okay i couldn't bring him i was i was going to bring him and then john wouldn't give me any tickets no it was so bad uh you know he was pretty tight on those now which i wasn't you know i mean i wasn't happy about it i thought he was a wee bit tight you know but anyway it was such was the demand it was you had to be credit to the man terrible as well because the room the room was laid out beautiful you went into the world something big is about to happen here okay right we're going to take a quick break stay away you off say that again fenula it was easier to get nine horn tickets than it was to get tickets to yeah well he's announced the third date so it'll probably be a little bit easier but i understand it's just an analogy i like i'm right across all popular culture all right we'll be back with more from my ken fenula after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the world is getting a little more more but maybe more could mean something else more means more proactive green energy solutions more means more wind turbines and more recycling more means more biodiversity and more energy 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Celtic media festival is katrina logan good morning katrina thanks for joining us hi how are you i'm doing great it's great to have you with us okay so talk to us about the busy program that's coming up over the two six seven eight three days yeah so we're so excited to be in donnie gall the festival itself moves location every year and so this is the first time we've been back on the island of ireland since 2016 so being a native myself i'm absolutely delighted to be bringing the festival home and we have three days of media industry events about three or three to four hundred media industry professionals from the uk ireland and wider europe america coming across to have conference sessions awards parties and hopefully we'll be able to showcase donnie gall as a great space for media and hopefully location filming and things like that as well so we're really excited to come over yeah and that ties on with a push on at the moment isn't there to sort of you know get people back involved in the industry back to donnie gall that we're you know that that that we have that we've become a more attractive even more attractive place to generate content absolutely it's it's becoming more and more accessible and it's great to see the flights from Glasgow to donnie gall coming back this summer because there's a huge amount of crossover in terms of filming as well between scotland and ireland and we really want to see that pushed a little more i don't think people realize how easy it is to get to donnie gall from places like dublin and we're actually flying people up from dublin and they can't believe the the uh sorry excuse me they can't believe the um speed and the shortness of the of the flight and stuff so and we're really excited to bring that up to see a lot of more content content makers and coming up and to donnie gall i know of a few companies that have opened recently up there and people coming home from um london and glasgo and setting up their companies there and it's really great to see that filming um happening up there and expanding you know yeah and what would you say that the focus of this event is an awful lot of it seems to be on in terms of content creation being individuals or or or or companies uh how you can um i suppose you know with the westward in the world if you if you want to create something and be incredibly popular it probably has to go beyond the boundaries of ireland to some extent too to a global audience sure so kind of a couple of things we concentrate on and every year indigenous Celtic languages are something that we really focused on the festival was started 45 years ago and because there was a lack of indigenous language broadcasters in the uk and in ireland and you know we can see the success of these broadcasters now the success of uncalling cue and getting nominated for oscars and and pushing that forward and content creation is huge and the story will always transcend the language and as we as we saw with uncalling cue an incredible film um beyond that what's really important for irish makers and as well kind of across the nations and regions Celtic nations and regions is international co-production gone are the days where a broadcaster will step in or even a distributor will step in and say we will pay you this much for your whole film or your whole tv show it's about generating that money from other places and international co-productions um are something that is um becoming more and more popular and and hopefully will continue and it means that you're getting creators from different spaces um working together and it's been shown to be hugely successful and also in terms of the the output you can you can see it really in production values often um in that regard and finally uh in terms of public attendance what's the situation there is this industry only do you have to register do you have to pay what's the story there uh finally Katrina sure so it is an industry a primary and industry only festival but we have one session that we'd like to invite the public to um free of charge if they email us we'll make sure that we get them um a seat if we can um obviously seats permitting if they email info at Celticmediafestival.co.uk next session is um Miriam McCallahan will be interviewing the makers the producer and director of on Colleen Cuen about um you know the Oscar success how they made the film obviously it's the most um successful Irish language film of all time um it's been you know um described as the perfect film by Rolling Stone magazine um and the makers will be with us um and Miriam McCallahan will be interviewing them so if people would like to attend that free of charge they just need to email us at info at Celticmediafestival.co.uk and capacity permitting will hopefully get them a pass for that okay thanks very much indeed I appreciate that that's Katrina Logan director of the Celtic media festival I have to put a filter on do you know that sometimes we host a lot of things here in Donegal in the northwest and they're fantastic uh but sometimes things have to be hosted in Dublin or elsewhere for us to get invites to things if you know what I mean I don't know I I'm not getting into that but I just uh you know as the biggest media organization here in the northwest but anyway be that as may I wish them all the success in the world Katrina Logan there okay uh Narvik yes that's your wake up yes before I mention Narvik can I just go back to that text message and I have to say that brand new show poker face that's on sky I so endorse that text oh come on it's on your list go straight to that yeah sorry didn't say no the reason I put that it's just it's brand new and I really want to point people towards it I I love this show I agree with that text uh it's just what is it then refuse yeah I will review it so basically uh Natasha I give up to a challenge Natasha Leon right who has done shows like orange is the new black and Russian doll and Ryan Johnson he's the guy who makes those uh Daniel Craig movies the the glass onion what was what you had another name for that something on your island on your island or something like that yeah and that knives out so they've gotten together she's a co-creator on this and she's the star of this and it's basically very much it a deliberate attempt to do a show like Colombo do a show like Rockford Files so Kevin was on the button oh on the button 100 percent and they've said that and there's a great interview out there with Natasha Leon just casually name dropping all these 70s detective shows the fugitive is another big influence on it um so it's a really smart and again if you've seen knives out if you've seen the Daniel Craig movies you know it's going to be smart it's a very smart weekly who done it very much in the style of the classic detective shows that really aren't being done anymore yeah that's why they decide to do them Natasha Leon uh we find out I'm going to leave out some of the details but all you need to know really is that she was a very successful poker player and she has been banned from every casino in America because she could always spot a lie she could always tell it's almost like it's almost like a premise or great premise and that's the only thing you have to accept and is it is it played straight is it so it's basically it's it's it's as straight as Rockford Files or Colombo was I mean they're humorous she will be moving from town to town in the series driving around and as she arrives in each town there's a murder very much a murder she rose or all those shows and all it needs and you just have to accept the premise she's maybe in the in the in the local news agent and somebody's talking about something and they're like oh John you know somebody who's just won the lottery and everyone's celebrating the money and they say something like yeah John next door he always did the lottery but he never did any luck yeah and then she'll she'll do that thing in the camera moving and she knows they're lying about her superpower it's almost her intuition intuition okay and then she just she just becomes this annoying person who is digging and digging and digging it's not in her business but she knows something's not right and she'll just keep turning things over until she gets them and what's beautiful about this show is and this is why it deserves all the praise it gets and all the comparisons it gets to Colombo it's every bit is clever I mean I've seen most of the first season it's every bit as clever as Colombo was there are some really lovely clues and some really lovely gotchas and that was the big thing about Colombo I'm a huge Colombo fan four episodes from the end of a complete rewatch of Colombo at the moment and that's the thing Peter Falk always talked about the difficulty they had getting great clues at the start the one clue that would tell Colombo what happened and the gotcha at the end where he's face to face with this this evil radio host called Greg and he said but Greg we know that that wasn't a live broadcast because and then he'll have the bit of evidence and it's always really clever and they do it this show does that do you know the funny thing this is though um it's catching someone in a lie effectively and you know one of my favorite shows just for dipping in and out of is the first 48 I've described it before it's from the 99 call 99 call to the conclusion and it's all no talking heads is all on but it's a lot of that in real detective work because you what they do in the interviewing process is they they get someone on a story that their story is is right and they don't challenge them at that point but then they challenge that story with the facts and it gets to a point and you often see it where they cut they have to admit because you know it's so it is really art imitation imitating life have you seen poker face at all uh Villanuella I actually downloaded to watch it to review it because Michael has talked about it before to me and so highly and then I kind of got distracted by another show that just started on sky and so they have a couple of new shows coming up so I kind of got distracted by the White House plumbers which right well we'll talk about that after the break then so what are you given poker face out of 10 at this point solid 9 out of 10 it's great and how many episodes are available there are 10 oh available there I think over here you have about three episodes in I think the third one is probably tonight it might be yeah okay three of 10 at the moment is all available I don't know are they uh they all stream I know they're broadcasting them on the weekend yeah right episodically weekly okay back in a sec we'll have a look forward to the weather for the next seven to ten days after these two get your career moving with an apprenticeship with 65 options from certificate to phd level the pace of change is accelerating generation 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dot ie for the best cost less alan on riley from carlo weather good morning to you alan good morning greg how are we doing fantastic alan so what's the story then what's the crystal ball tastes slightly more it's slightly more technically advanced than the crystal ball but you know what i'm saying what what what have we got for the weekend and into next week well the weather is stuck the high pressure is stuck out to the north west of us so it's keeping all that wind and rain and everything else away from us the really the worst of it is going to be a bit of cloud that's as bad as things are going to get us some clouds but there will be lots of sunshine lots of sunny spells dry lovely weekend theme into next week the only difference really is that northeasterly breeze i mean yesterday i was looking malin head was about 14 degrees and just if you came inland even you know towards dairy it was 19 degrees and further inland in dunny god was 21 degrees so if you're heading to the uh to the coast it will certainly be cooler especially on the north coast so maybe maybe head west instead of north if you're in dunny god and you're looking for a beach and is there any break in the weather on the horizon not really no not for the next week um beyond that there's low pressure out to the south west that's bringing all the thunderstorms and rain to everybody heading under sunny holidays in spain and ikely and france um and that's going to try and disrupt us but it doesn't look like that high pressure is going to give in too easily so no real rain in the next 10 days um you might get the odd tiny little shower possibly in the next maybe in the seven to 10 day range but at the moment it looks like high pressure is really going to dominate so no sign of any rain in the reliable time frame and just very finally obviously the wind if the wind is changing direction is that likely to see it warm up on the east coast and us to see slightly more cloudier conditions over the next week or or what is that what what are the the models telling you yeah very little change in the wind direction for the next seven days really um it could change after that but that's a little bit uncertain but we're kind of stuck in a an eastern or at least we win so um that doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon which uh isn't keeping uh doubling people too happy but sure they get enough of everything else down there allen mia you won't lose any sleep over that can we you enjoy banging those ice cream cones into yourself and have a lovely weekend thank you thanks for your time allen take care of yourself cheers great all right bye bye allen our raleigh carlo weather there i don't know it's kind of strange that we're getting this long spell of good weather um right okay the show uh that you were going to talk about sorry finula um to save me opening the phone again yeah no the show is called the white house plumbers so i went in sat down i was all ready to watch poker face it's only this popped up poker face just let's do it's also available you can download the whole lot on sky and the same thing with this white house plumbers it's on week by week but you can also download the whole lot in it so there's five episodes of it um the stars of it are woody harrison and justin throw two actors which i like but you don't really see them in stuff and the woody harrison tends to pick oddly quirky stuff now um so i was like very and i actually had seen them being interviewed on an american talk show so i was very curious about it the white house plumbers is obviously not about plumbers what it is is in 1971 everybody might know about the watergate and there was two uh one cia agent hunt was his name and the second guy then was gordon geely he's an fbi guy and the two of them ended up getting together in order to plug the leaks that nixon's government assumed was happening and in that's why they call themselves the plumbers because they plugged the leaks and in doing so they um actually managed to bring down nixon and it's when you watch this show it is first of all it's beautifully second track it's very kind of 70s real kind of a gritty look about it everybody's got the long hair and they're chewing and it's all misogyny and smacking them secretary on the backside not that as she walks past and all that kind of stuff it's very it's very much said in the time but um and and i love the very start because the very first thing that says is that this is a true story no names have been changed to protect people because everybody's in jail and it goes from there but i have to say if either of those gentlemen are alive today they would not be happy with their portrayal because they do not come back come across as the smartest bunch of people some of the stuff that they do is just like insane but also it's in a stark encounter so it's interesting so you've got one type of which is in if you're watching this is just some crazy ass drama where they're just like literally like they they want to break into a place so in order to kind of keep it quiet and when the first episodes they they end up they can't find what they're looking for so they accidentally ransacked the place so then they pretend that it was drug dealers that did it by throwing drugs all around the room and it's like who what drug dealer breaks into an office and then so these drugs by spraying no room with them so it's all that crazy kind of stuff but then on the back of it then you also have the historical context that it's set in and the fact that like i never realized that they made five or six attempts at breakings and you know as part of the watergate thing before they finally really knocked it out in the park there's a lot of other periphery characters whose names people be familiar with if they have an interest in that particular time in era and sounds brilliant so uh what would you give it out of ten for nula well i've i'm too into it now so far and i have to say i'm i am really enjoying it i look forward to that too i think yeah it is it is it is good now passing is as usual you know doesn't move his lips when he talks tarot is you know this wonderfully enthusiastic really wants to get ahead in life doesn't realize that he may actually be a nazi because he was right a german who played him hitler's um speeches in order for him to have more confidence when you when you set out to do all right brilliant stuff okay that sounds good trading places channel four in a couple of minutes michael oh uh this was all this was all a few weeks ago yeah funny you mentioned g gordon liddy because g gordon liddy of the watergate scandal became an actor and he was in lots of movies and tv shows he was on a a show called 18 wheels of justice a syndicated action show of the 1990s love gregg's face as i say that it was about a trucker of course who fought crime but g gordon liddy was asked and offered to roll in trading places the eddie murphy dan arkwright film he turned it down so they ended up casting someone else but they liddy had a book out about watergate so they gave the character that book to read on the train and you're like why is he reading joy g gordon liddy's book yeah this is on channel for a couple weeks ago i chew it out down to 20 seconds now it was it's a classic film that in my opinion is holds up perfectly and is every bit as funny i hadn't seen it before you're seeing it's okay brilliant oh it's so good worth a watch okay and beveley hill's cops down there too so we're in a bit of a eddie murphy yeah because he's because number four is cullin okay come here uh we'll maybe talk about that as as a preview to it finola rabbit thank you very much indeed have a lovely weekend best wishes to all the family down there uh michael eddy thank you as always we really do appreciate you coming up and being part of our team here it's great okay thanks very much michael that's where we have to leave it on the program today and for the week have a lovely wonderful weekend please go out and enjoy the weather if you can but please if you're out in the water be extra extra safe around the boats and paddling and all that kind of stuff because we're all going to rush to the beach as i say if we're lucky enough to have access to it and it's just that one slight lapse in concentration can lead to disaster so be extra careful and please don't block the piers for the emergency services if you can or access to them have a lovely uh have a lovely weekend we'll chat next week thanks to carol and all who researched and produced and leave of course working flat out the show john bresen is next