 business, Mulrines confirmed they have acquired part of the former Herdman's mill site in Cyan Mills. Recruitment is set to begin in the near future, which will result in a significant number of new positions. It's part of Phase 1 of ambitious plans by Mulrines to expand their capacity by establishing a manufacturing plant in the village. Mulrines chairman Peter Mulrine says they selected Cyan Mills for this expansion as it is a suitable location for their investment. Well this type of thing happens, it really puts question marks. Gardy are continuing to investigate if there was a homophobic motive behind the murders of two men in Sligo Town. 58-year-old Michael Sney and 42-year-old Aidan Moffitt were found dead in their homes earlier this week. Mr Moffitt's body was mutilated and the other victim also had a very violent death. Gardy are also examining if there is a link to a third attack in the town last Friday where a man sustained serious eye injuries. Chin Fan's justice and a quality spokesperson Martin Kenny is a TD for Sligo. He says it's deeply disappointing if the murders were homophobic related. Well this type of thing happens, it really puts question marks as to how far forward we have moved. I certainly will be of the view that this is a very isolated incident, that it's not something that is common, thank God. But at the same time it does make very clear to us that we have a situation where there are a tiny minority of people who would behave in the most terrible way toward difference and that is wrong. Simon Coveney is today visiting the scenes of some of the atrocities in the war in Ukraine. The Foreign Affairs Minister is in Kiev where he'll hold talks with senior Ukrainian politicians. He'll visit Butcher where the bodies of civilians, some with their hands tied behind their backs, were found in recent weeks. Minister Coveney says he's privileged to be there. We're focusing on what Ireland can do in terms of political support, military support, support in the UN Security Council, support of the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute war crimes where and when they've taken place. So there's a lot to do in one day and it's a privilege to be here. And there's calls for a renewed focus on Bunkrana Leisure Centre. The town and surrounding area has been without the facility for many years now with a campaign to reopen the immunity ongoing. Plans to get the centre back up and running include a planned public consultation. Cahir Love, Donegal County Council, Councillor Jack Murray says many other important projects in the town have progressed recently and it's time that the Leisure Centre move forward too. I propose that that formality is dealt with, that we get out there, we get talking to the public, we show the design that we have in place and I'm delighted that it's been sold now. It's been extremely exciting. I look forward to seeing that. I hope that it will be extremely exciting but the most important thing is that we progress, we move forward, we deal with whatever needs to be dealt with and we get diggers on the ground as quickly as is humanly possible. A dull and damp day today with scattered outbreaks of rain and drizzle, highest temperatures of 12 or 13 degrees. We're back with more 10. Until then, good morning. I like ancient oak forest green though the tones of Creekside fern really complement our vision for the bathroom. But we've got a bit of a wild card, rustic pine needle which is a bit edgier. EBS understands how important these decisions are in your new home. So come talk to us about our green mortgage if your home is BEOR rated B3 or higher. Find out more at EBS.ie. Lender criteria terms and conditions apply. Information correct 24th of the second 2022. Valid BEOR certificate of B3 or higher required. EBS DAC is regulated by the Centre Bank of Ireland. 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. Four minutes past nine on this Thursday, the 14th of April. You're very welcome along to the 9 to noon show. It is a Thursday but we're off air tomorrow as it's Good Friday. So we've moved proceedings forward. Later on between 11 and 12, Michael and Fidel will be joining us to talk all things entertainment and maybe give you some ideas what to do, what to watch over the Easter period. We want you involved in that as well. But we kick off this morning with a review of the week in news. And we welcome our guests. Now we say good morning first to Finnegal, Councillor Martin Harley. Good morning to you, Martin. Thanks for joining us today. Good morning, Greg. It's good to have you with us. Anya McGinley is INTO Central Executive Committee representative for Donegal Leachman. Good morning, Anya. Good morning, Greg. It's about great to be back. Yeah, great to have you with us again. Good morning, Susan. Me and Chair of the Donegal O'Graphy and the Fallen National Events and Campaign Manager, Susan. Good morning to you. Morning, Greg. Thanks for having me. And I think we're welcoming you on to the site for the first time. Yes. So good to have you with us. All right. We want you to get involved with the conversation at Worker at Homer in the car or wherever you are and when it's safe to do so. Of course, you can WhatsApp and text 0862025000 or call 0749125000. And if you want to watch the programme, you can go to our website, highlandradio.com, watch and browse there at the link. Or go straight to YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland or on Facebook, Highland Radio. Now, as we've heard in the news, a guard investigating the murders of Michael Snee and Aiden Moffatt in Sligo Town this week. A belief to be examining the online dating history of a suspect in custody. A man in his 20s was arrested yesterday morning on suspicion of murder. Although two separate murder investigations are underway, there is a strong line of inquiry that they are linked. And Guardi are also investigating if there was a homophobic motive behind these two murders. There was at least one other attack on an individual in the area. And we've seen attacks seemingly homophobicly motivated in other parts of the country too. Anya McGinley, this is shocking altogether for everyone, but I think particularly for those in the LGBTQ community. It is indeed, Greg, shocking news to have found one person in this form, but then of course then the second murder. And then as you said there, the possibility of a third attack, related to it as well. It's absolutely shocking and I suppose during the pandemic, a lot of people resorted to online dating as a way of meeting people because we weren't allowed to be out and about in places where people usually socialise weren't open. It really is just tragic and it's a sad sign if that's the way people are going now with regards to the LGBT community. They have a right to be happy as much as everybody else does. But unfortunately, it seems to be not at this level, but in terms of language, verbal assaults in the street and physical assaults, as I say, not at this level. An increase, at least it's being reported as such, are we becoming a less tolerant society? I mean it's a real big problem. I'm really disappointed to see as of yet. And if there are any organised out there, please let me know. Of vigils being, say for instance, organised in Donegal. Firstly, to honour these two gentlemen, but also to show that this is not acceptable. We're all the same with another recent murder, of course, where that did happen, but it doesn't seem to be happening on the same scale for these murders. We need to, as a society, send the message that this is completely unacceptable and maybe this could be a catalyst for us to, I don't know, to have a broader conversation. Well definitely, thanks so Greg. And as you said, I know there's been a vigil organised for Sligo but I certainly haven't heard one in Donegal yet. But this absolutely has to stop. It's crazy. And I mean in fairness, the LGBT plus community are becoming more vocal on issues and like you so. And I think this is a very sad state of affairs and this is on the rise in our country. Yeah, what's your view, Susan, at me? I mean obviously we're all deeply shocked and saddened but more broadly speaking as to what we've been talking about so far. Yeah, I think it's shocking. I think not alone as a county but as a whole nation we've made so much progress over the last five to ten years. There's been more awareness about LGBTQ and although I feel like in the last fortnight alone we've gone back five years and I think we need to rein this back in and there needs to be more awareness and something has to be done about it. Yeah and it's the tone of conversation though just for me that I've noticed over the last two, three, four years I don't know, I presume there's always been intolerant people out there but the space is there where people feel that they can say really quite horrific things that has to contribute to sort of harnessing a situation whereby somehow someone might feel that this is acceptable behaviour clearly it's not but do you understand the question? I do but I think that comes down to each individual I think if somebody hears somebody saying something that's completely inappropriate or homophobic or whatever the case may be they need to be called out, they need to be stopped and said that's not acceptable, this is, that could be an aunt, an uncle, a cousin, like I think it just, it needs to be called out and even sanctions put in place for people that speak derogatory of them like that. Yeah, what's your view, Martin, Martin Harley? Yeah, I think it's, my heart goes out to the family and stuff, the Mavis family and Michael Sneese family and what they've gone through and it's, I think there's really happening on the head there is to say that that maybe people need to be called out when because it still goes on, that's not brush on the cap but it's still, we still hear it and at times in the workplace and the society and it hasn't, we have come a long way as Arnie and Sirs have said but we still have a lot to learn and we still have a lot to teach the people of the country as to how to these people deserve the same rights as everyone else I think it's happened all the time and it's happened at different events and sad even, we talk with these two people but sad is the country we are at the moment because four people have been murdered over the last 48 hours in Ireland and it seems to be that we just, we look at the article and we move on to the next article, it's not except we don't see it, it seems to be a common feature of the country at the moment and it's very sad, very sad on the different circles that life is treated so lightly that's the way you could look at it, very lightly so that's just, that's my view on it I feel Greg it's It just put me in mind, it didn't put me in mind of but you know, like when the awful murder of Ashley and Murphy took place, you know political parties, organised vigils they got involved in that, it wasn't just women that spoke out, we spoke out as the United Community you know, I don't think we can leave this up to the LGBTQ community, this is something that requires a response from everyone regardless of who they are in any way, shape or form but I'm not really seeing that unfortunately Yeah I know what you're saying on Ashley and Murphy's murder that was the whole country was outraged and I know what you're saying now is that there hasn't been the same and I think maybe that's just, is that possibly a sign of what I'm trying to get at Greg is that we may have come a long way but there's still a long way to go as to how we treat different types of people in society that we may say everybody's equal but when it comes down to it the way it happens is questionable Ananya in bringing Ashley and Murphy's name into it I don't do it with any disrespect whatsoever but do you understand the point I'm trying to make that that was a unified national response and I think it was you referenced a vigil taking place or being organized in Sligo but it's being organized by the LGTB community you know, I just think this requires a broader more you know, right across the country response but it just doesn't seem to be quite there as it should in my view, just in my view I would agree with you Greg and I think it shows I suppose that the country maybe I suppose the other panelists have said the same thing you know that we aren't as open to the LGBT plus community as we should be I know from an INTO perspective we promote the different families they have loved campaign every year again to promote the idea of LGBT because certainly we've got families in every school from the LGBT plus community and I think that it needs to be promote, it needs to be recognized there's different families out there and do you know on that I think you know often we say if we're talking about other issues we need to do more education in schools I think in terms of this issue there's great work being done in schools it's just somewhere down the line that it's being undone I mean we don't have to go too far back to look at the language that was used and the terminology that was used outside Leo Veradkar's home and videoed and people thought that's okay to put on the internet you know what we're saying is okay you can say that, you can video it and you can publish it Yeah I agree with you again Greg and I mean I suppose that's the idea of social media that people do think that they can post as they wish there's less guidelines there for social media use and thankfully that is changing as well but I suppose I think between the Ashley Murphy case as well that was a young teacher that was out for a run she was doing no harm I'm not saying that these two gentlemen who were murdered in Sligo were doing any harm the motive seems to have been LGBTQ related I suppose that's what the guard they are looking at at the moment but I mean at the same time it is still a racist attack and it shouldn't be happening and definitely the proper sanctions Yeah for sure and no more obviously we always have to do our best to protect ourselves but no more than going out for a run there's no blame associated with that using an app there's no blame associated in that it is always the perpetrator that is to blame OK that's the voice there of Arnie McGinley we're also hearing from Susan Meen and Councillor Martin Harley we'll be talking on our next topic and returning to that by the way keep your calls comments coming in I'll wait 60, 25,000 but first we take this 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Leo Veradkar told his parliamentary party that the plans were being paused and then we heard from Pascal Donahue this morning that says well we haven't even discussed this at government level I mean a bit of a swipe if you ask me at the green party but I don't think that was picked up on but that seems clear what he was doing to me right okay so we'll start with you Susan Meehan I mean we can understand everyone I think hopefully can understand why there would be a pushback on this you know we'll talk about a just transition you know a lot of people rely on turf a lot of people by the way not the small amount that some would claim a lot of people rely on turf for heating, for cooking a cultural element to this I mean the Greens must have known there would be a big pushback in rural Ireland at least to these kind of proposals what do you think Susan yeah like I think firstly Greg the timing of this announcement it was horrendous like whether we like it or not we're in an energy crisis at the moment so I think it was almost a bit of scare mongering for say older people there's a lot of questions around it like how is this going to be policed don't get me wrong I completely understand where the Greens are coming from that like in regards to the environmental issues but where does the people that rely on this turf like the older generations that a neighbour might cut it for them and niece or an F you might cut the turf for them and they're relying on this where does it go from there I'm I'm not quite sure was that even thought I was just in relation to the policing and people make this point look we for two years most of the country stayed in their door in their house you know they didn't go two kilometres or five kilometres beyond their house they wore masks even in their cars even when they weren't expected to do so you know obviously the guards were enforcing this but you are going to get a guard to tell you to do a lot of this stuff but you did it people were compliant and that's what happens isn't it when laws are introduced yes some people will carry on cutting and selling and passing on turf but I think the majority because we're a compliant nation just goes along with it and therein lies the success for the decision makers yeah and I do agree to some extent but there is going to be houses and families that rely on this supply of turf and there was no alternative put in place I heard in the week that there was no there was no retrofitting grants available there was no renewable fuels come on stream to supplement this so I think I think Barry Cowan is almost suggesting a transition to a phase in out of turf which I think is far more agreeable it gives people the opportunity to get alternative fuels organised renewable fuels see I think there is a meeting with him and Ryan this week too to try and come to some agreement that this is like we all agree that this has to be done at some point but in what way it's going to be done I think that needs to be looked at again this points to me councillor Martin Harley it's more pure communication amongst the government partners you've got the greens perhaps jumping the gun in stating their intentions before those intentions were taken to government and now you've got Leo Faradkar maybe you could say give a name and Ryan a bit of a public dressing down in stating that these plans were being paused and once again we're in the middle being treated like we don't have an opinion and we don't really matter yeah it was just the timing of all this well we should be used they're introducing a carbon tax at the moment to discourage us from using fuel get the price of fuel has gone through the roof so we should be well conditioned to the timing problems at the moment I would say oh no yeah because when you look at it's about 1200-1300 for a thousand litres of oil it would have been 400 about two years ago and then we're told I suppose the west or east of the the people don't really don't see this as an issue this is probably a west of Ireland issue where a lot of people have been cutting turf and using it as one of their fuels maybe so I know I spent my youth many three years in the bog cutting turf as well so I know all about it but the sewer backs out of it not that but it's part of our culture and it's people are struggling at the moment with household bulbs will they reckon that heating of a house could cost next to a thousand euro this year so there's nothing there's some things being put in place at the minute but nothing that will counteract that thousand euro that people are going to be doing and I think that there are benefits long term for health benefits for fossil fuels to come out of the system but we have to we have to do it in a strategic way that people are opportunities we talk about retrofit grants coming in now but they're not there's only been two companies in there that have been allowed to tender for this work but listen I think I hear retrofit grants and it sounds like gobbledygook to me but I can't afford can't afford our contribution to it it's pie in the sky and then you speak to people within the industry and they say look at pumping your walls and your ceilings with insulation in and of itself has no material impact really on fuel bills it goes out through your windows, out through your doors you have to do the whole house if you're going to do it and the amount of houses that need to be done and the amount of people available to do it is really impractical exactly that's what I'm saying there's not enough contractors out there to do all the work and I was looking at at least some of you said the least of all the things that need to be done there's some like 15 different things that you need to do in your house to bring your house up to a B1 rating and that's this is going to take years to do so we have to coincide with that we have to look at the ruling out of that and do it all together that at all comes together you're saying that and it sounds good but that's not the direction of movement with the government of course this seems like a little bit of a a spot between Leo Varadkar and Eamon Ryan but yet they persist with the carbon fuel increases they are going to persist at some point whether it's September or not with the banning of turf and we have no viable alternatives to the exact same you could say of trying to push us on to public transport where is it there's no disrespect to those involved in providing our network in Donegal unless it goes past your front door or somewhere close to it it doesn't really exist well yes we as a elected councillor I have to put pressure on on TDS senators to ensure that this doesn't happen in September that this has worked and that's what we have to do it's not a case of jumping up and down against the rain particularly that there we have to do it in a constructive way as I was saying over the next number of years with retrofit and the cutting out of all the different the fossil fuels of our society so we have to be constructive in it and that's the way I feel about it okay Anya McGinley INTO Central Executive Committee representative for Donegal Leacham I mean we should be used to it and this is not a political comment but it's not intended as such I have no political allegiance anywhere but we should be used to this level of you know different messaging coming from government where the last to know were the first to be leaked to you know what do you think of this whole debacle and where it needs to go from here I think what the panellists have said there is right that a gradual change is necessary rather than an outright ban with the dates set in sight because I think really what the straw that broke the camel's back with all of this was telling people that they won't be able to gift it to their friends and neighbors and I wish people are known for helping their friends and neighbors and they're proud of that and I think it's part of who we are as a nation we're aware of a huge climate crisis but the timing of this is horrendous with the fact that the costs are soaring at the minute and it is hard to agree with it whenever other countries aren't following suit I mean we're taking in turf here from Lafayette at the moment sorry from Lafayette just it's unbelievable and I understand the backlash against the Green Party because it just beggars belief to be honest we don't have a sustainable renewable source of energy here in Ireland and we're looking to move away from a sustainable source of fuel this is going to hit older people and rural Ireland yet again and what it's sort of it just seems to way we operate here is that something is thrown out you let the public argue over it east versus west rural versus urban you let the dust settle and then you make your decisions that's what it feels like to me like I would be interesting to know who actually really leaked this in the way it was leaked and what was their motivation for doing so was it the Greens I don't know was it was it other members of the government or the political parties trying to damage them who knows but whatever way it's also again being treated with the disrespect absolutely yeah I mean it seems like I think it would be more beneficial to put the feelers out to see what would people think about it and maybe make a suggested date but not to say this is coming into law on the 1st September that it will be illegal to cut turf and be illegal to sell turf and be legal to gift it to your friends and neighbours put the feelers out there and maybe do a do a bit of a survey certainly not the way it's been handled for minutes ridiculous yeah but there is almost a pattern to on programs like this I think and I'll put this one to you Martin because you're an elected representative of a government party is that we all agree often are on the same page you know as it relates to some of these government policies you know councillors even back bench TDs maybe ministers have to hold the line but we're always sort of going on are that you couldn't do this or that's wrong no one defends it and yet on and on it rolls it's really quite peculiar and we're going to be talking about the Tony Hoolhain scandal as well people you know people that we when we discuss that everyone this is terrible it's an absolute shock but yet it continues and there's no accountability what is wrong with Irish politics and it's disconnect seemingly with pretty much everyone except permanent government and ministers I suppose you talked there about Hoolhain these things was it matter who's in government I suppose there's always somebody there that's trying to get a leg up and get further ahead and have it damaged some other parties and we feel that's a benefit to the EU that goes on every country we see that all the time because let's not forget too Leo Veracar the official line this came from and it's not official at all was he told parliamentary party members at a meeting which is supposed to be confidential but he must have said it in knowing that it would be leaked like why not issue a press release and say that it is our view that this should be paused even that decision Leo Veracar should have spoken to the people rather than knowingly tell a group of his backbenchers that would leak it to the media I suppose at a time maybe during interviews for different things what they may what the original topic may have been this may come into the mix and he's asked a question and he says that it comes out with an answer and I'm sure that's all all party leaders and all all deputies and anybody let's say it's up there anybody that wants to maybe think that they have a chance of getting to leader of the party they all take their own views at different times did you hear Pasco Donohue this morning did you I didn't hear it I was just I thought the tone of his remarks were quite interesting this and thank you very much for all of you stay right where you are right a compliant nation says a call of turf smuggling will put pay to that there is a car before the horse plan when are people to get 50 to 75k to retrofit their houses listen I don't say this if it's something that we should necessarily be proud of but what if we're told to jump generally speaking we say how high Greg I would like you to ask your panel how does the government think it's okay to stop the sale of turf in September but it's okay for the government to buy it in from Germany thanks union and on your reference that the people's land the people's turf says another caller Greg this morning early on news talk minister Eamon Ryan said there is no pause that comes in from Mary yes of course but the official line as official as the leak is coming out of the Finnegale Parliamentary Party meeting is that it is paused and Pasco Donohue effectively said that himself on another radio station this morning good morning Greg no one really ours is going to pay a blind bit of notice to this turf floor the people are power on this one we shall see right okay we'll be back with more from our panel and more of your comments after we take these messages right so it's rain resistant oh yes um sun resistant when their son dirt resistant you better how about more rain resistant yeah well this is our land Santex if it's outside we've got it covered Santex exterior paint available from your local home value hardware stores nationwide celebrate the long weekend with top oil and the year of free fuel there's more than 55,000 euro in prizes to be won sign up for your chance to win at topoilwin.ie are you thinking of making the switch to electric come visit us in iMotors Donegal's SAI EV dealer of the year 2022 we will answer any questions and help you make the switch with our award winning lineup of Kia EVs available now come visit us at iMotors in letter Kenny and Mallon are you passionate about customer service then concentrics wants to hear from you 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it all we don't export any of that and then we actually have to import more gas to supplement supplies Greg you're right as far as retrofitting your house is concerned most of us can't afford it there's normally a small change in relation to the overall costs of course we can't they say it's around about 18-20 grand but sure it's more than that and most of us can't put our hands to that minister on virgin media last night said turf burning creates so much carbon when it's burned as it's very wet fact turf is dried before burning they want it gone as there's no vat on it okay that's someone who doesn't understand the minister who doesn't understand how turf is stored and used then hi Greg it's time the government is wiped out it's coming to a stage in Ireland there's going to be it's time the Irish people wake up they are like sheep they take everything this government brings into law thank you listen to the conversation about turf I'm wondering what kind of country we are living in we're taking in thousands of Ukrainian refugees which I fully support but I have an 86 year old uncle who can't afford to fill his tank with oil but I'm not allowed to give him a bag of turf am I supposed to not give him turf we need an even playing field I really again and I fully respect your point of view I think your point stands up absolutely without referencing us helping Ukrainians leaving a terrible situation in the short term I think your point doesn't even need that it's made perfectly I don't think the two things are interconnected but that's just my opinion right okay an external expert will be appointed by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to carry out a review into the process around the planned appointment of Dr Tony Hulhan as a professor in Trinity College it comes after the minister received and considered a report on the matter from his department secretary general Robert Wad who surprised concluded who concluded that Robert Wad had done no wrong in the whole process I mean Anja McGinney will start with you if that's okay I mean are we ever going to learn it's just one thing after another and over and over again it's nothing at this point nothing surprises me at all I've been the same panel at the same idea as yourself there Greg it just seems like another example of the tail wag in the dog you know there's people in civil servants up high that literally are not held accountable for the decisions that are made they seem to have more power than those that we elect to represent us there does need to be a light shone on the workings at higher levels within the departments and the state quangos because our politicians are held accountable by the public but their state officials don't seem to be held accountable for anything it's a case of spend money hand over fist and no accountability is required and I think we do need to give more power really to our aructus reps and for them then to hold their senior officials in the department to account and the politicians need to regain power over their department because I don't think really that the aructus committees are strong enough either to be honest I think bureaucracy has just gone mad it's completely clear at this point isn't it really that at local level obviously it's the executive that really runs the council you can see sometimes the respect with which councillors motions are treated that would underline that and at national level really if I'm looking for decisions you look at the permanent government don't you I mean that's the civil servants those are these are the people that are making these big decisions like the fact that no one thought that this could blow back on the on the health minister that no one thought that it shows a complete misunderstanding or disengagement with with the reality of Ireland today absolutely those figures believe to be honest this is happening yet again and I just think it really is a sad state of affairs that as you said yourself the politicians are the ones that take the flag for it but the decisions are made by the civil servants that are there long term Martin you must feel the frustration as an elected rep really with very very little power and that seems now clearly the same situation at a national level well not really I mean the councillors used to have much more power than they had now and the councillor used to have much more influence than it does now a lot of that's been taken away from councillors and a lot of the the decision making the powers Irish water and many more examples have been taken from the council so it hasn't always been the case it's just been getting worse lately more recently has it not been watered down a lot Greg over the last even since I'm only 12 years the amount of power is going to be taken away from councillors they're really only the only decision that you really have at the end of the day is the budget and that's probably one that the executive don't want to deal with because it's a tough decision and that's been realistic about it and it's the same with the national budgets Tony Hurleham I mean Tony Hurleham is a big last polly to Trinity College that's less about Tony Hurleham but in his own lunchtime it was Tony Hurleham that contacted Trinity College saying you know let's talk about what I could do for you he can go to the private sector now that's fine let him go brilliant fantastic let the private sector pay him that's great and I'm sure there's other hugely talented people maybe even the odd woman that could come in and take his position and much does the government pay to Trinity College every year so part of the wages of Trinity College are paid for by the state as well so it's was it the him next situation so it's what at the end of the day there'll be a lot of people like you take it we talk about the elected reps at the present time when you see what's going on at a local council level who would put their name forward at their local politics when we can't even get a meeting finished only after a bit three or four attempts so that's the same for people like Tony Hurleham going to the private sector he can do his weeks work and go home let me make a prediction I said on last week's programme in two or three days that he would step away and he would outline exactly the reasons why here's another one for you before the year is out he will be back in a position within the Department of Health or with Trinity or some other university sector he will end up before the year is out back working either in some research form or other in the likes of a Trinity or Department of Health well that's very possible right because the time off and everything else that will go with it will probably outweigh the pressures of the private sector so as I know myself in business it's nothing very handy but in the private sector so it's there's no guarantees for the following year yeah Susan you know maybe people wonder why there's such low turnouts at general elections or council elections really and this is the kind of mess that causes that because people really they go out and vote because you know Martin's a nice fella or whomever it might be I don't think people are being voted in now really because anyone believes they'll affect any change I could be wrong but I mean these are the type of stories that mean the next general election will probably have a turn out of less than 50% Yeah I know I absolutely agree I think in terms of local elections as you say it's there people are voting for the person but when it comes to a general election it is scandals like this that and I get like we were in the situation a couple of months ago with Catherine Spone like it's over and over again it's the same thing like I just me personally I can't understand how there isn't a transparent process of appointments within the civil service especially at that level I think there was no from what I've read there was no ministerial involvement and to me that just battles me I don't know how an appointment like this big could go through that Stephen Donnelly wasn't aware of but I think it's very important to remember too though that Stephen Donnelly even though he only found about this two weeks ago he went on to National Radio to make a very strong case as to why this is a good idea while we the Irish people should be grateful for Tony Hulhan moving from his position to Trinity so whilst he might not have been involved in the decision making and might have heard about it late he liked the idea because he went on National Radio to sell it but part of me agrees as in I think Tony Hulhan would have been a great advantage to Irish people that if he was in that position How do we know? How do we know? We don't even know what his role was we don't even know what head up research for dealing with future pandemics doing what? Who with? Do you know what I mean? We presume we presume that it would have been good but at over 2 million over 10 years how do we know that it wouldn't be blocking future people coming through that would be even better at research? I think we need to sort of break that mindset that we need to hold on to him Maybe we do but open it up to a competition and let's see if he's the best qualified Absolutely and I think Trinity did come out and say that it wasn't up to any individual to appoint anybody that Trinity themselves wanted to run an interview process like any other position would be advertised for so I think this does come down to the department and I think there needs to be in terms of Robert Watt and Martin Fraser I think the questions need to be answered and they are going in front of the Eroctus I think towards the end of the month and there needs to be as we said as Anja said there needs to be accountability But you know in your heart of heart Susan don't you that there won't be any accountability that it will be talked around in circles and there won't be any and I don't think anyone listening to this program expects there to be any accountability because we don't have really a record of that No possibly not like I mean it's the same thing over and over again they're called for their Eroctus and nothing happens but I think that's where we need to make the changes I think it might only take one case that somebody does get the P45 somebody does takes I suppose a accountability for their actions and that might break the narrative then that people might stop to think before they make appointments or they say something that they shouldn't be saying Yeah I get you Anja do you have any optimism that that might happen that might be the case I think what Susan is describing is the direction that we need to be going in but nothing really suggests that we are I think part of the the golf gauge when everyone came out and said they were found not to have broken any laws we really mistreated them so that you can almost wipe that from history but where Susan wants us to go is there any possibility be it at all levels of Irish society where the civil service is involved not all of them by the way because they're brilliant civil servants that sounds terrible but I think people know who we're talking about here is there any hope that what Susan wants could ever happen on you in your view to change for that to happen but certainly they do need to be held accountable I mean if you think of a normal workplace where somebody working somebody working there decides to appoint somebody else to a position of authority and doesn't put it through the management it'd be removed from office it's as simple as that and I think this is what's going to take but yeah it's going to be a massive move to actually make it actually happen we're talking about time and time again and no changes to happen but I think it's not okay to just assume that and I think we actually have to see change but we have to see people daring enough to make that change as well okay and just before we take the break and in fairness you know when I'm talking about councillors having very little influence I kind of talked about the public face of it you know council meetings the motions and all that kind of stuff but in fairness the likes of Councillor Martin Harley and many many others in fairness Martin and I always try and be as fair as possible an awful lot of your council work is done not in the newspapers it's dealing with constituents on the ground and I do recognise that you do get a fair bit done at that level just to be absolutely fair I was really referencing the whole council meeting engagement with the executive side of things No I understand probably Greg I know where you're coming from I know you've attended many of the council meetings and the motions are there God I miss them Do you not see my name in the zoom calls now just up in the top there You don't even put on the picture anymore I do I do watch I still actually do watch quite a few of them but yeah I see the I get the frustration from councillors as well so you know what I mean No no no it's like I was I was in the old town this night at 10 o'clock I was thinking for people to sign help and I love that part of and I don't get too excited if you know yourself I don't really put too many motions into the council because for that simple reason you might get a headline in the paper but that's all to me that's all a lot of the motions are about just skipping the headline in the paper but that's not what I went into politics for I went into politics to try and help people and try to help the community and that's what I intend to do as long as I'm there and as long as people want me to be there Well you'll be judged on that at the next election that's where rare at all counts doesn't it listen thank you for that we'll be back with more from our panel you've just heard from Finnegale councillor Martin Harley Susan Mehan Chair of Donegal O'Graphina Fall and National Events and Campaign Manager is joining us for the first time on the Friday panel on a Thursday and also great to have Arne McGinn the INTO Central 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your view Well I suppose first of all Greg I have to speak on a personal capacity here because INTO don't have a policy on it our national anthem is taught in primary schools and it is used by many and I suppose some more regularly than others I think we definitely should be proud of our national anthem and it shouldn't be used to symbolise politics but rather our culture and identity like I know in American schools they sing the anthem every morning and they raise their flag every day and I suppose in Ireland you know it's done more regularly in primary schools maybe at the scenery of the rising but probably less so now maybe due to an overloaded curriculum and also because less schools gather together in the mornings as a whole school since the pandemic because we're trying to keep people apart I mean during the pandemic Greg schools weren't allowed to sing even outdoors and so recently that band has been lifted and we are allowed to sing indoors again and look at this up to every board of management to run their school as they see fit they know what works and what doesn't work but I think as well we need to be mindful of the role that schools play and schools teach the history of Ireland as part of the curriculum as well as SPHG and civic history and the schools are micro cousins in the locality of indeed the wider state and as I said I and you all don't have a policy on this our policy is guided by Congress every year and ours is actually going to begin on Monday down in Calarney in the INEC right are you going down I am a DDF Executive I was expecting you to go down I look forward to that of course Susan what do you think I mean some of it maybe because we can't get together and we can't sing and we don't have the time but I think a lot of it maybe is down to you know how we view our history or a bit of shame in celebrating things like our national anthem I don't know and of course you know there's whatever might happen on the island of Ireland into the future and a border maybe that would change the conversation even more so again but what do you think as it relates to should we be embracing it or should we be using it more should it be more you know promoted more in our schools on a more uniform I think Susan yeah absolutely I mean I'm a teacher myself and I always like to promote it I think it's instilling in children of who we are it's part of our culture the same way as learning our gaelic learning our football our gaelic football and our hurling I think it's part of who we are and I think we need to for generations to come in the children today you know they're used to singing it at football matches or you know different things like that but I think it's important that they know the history behind it as well and they sometimes I feel like they sing the words but they don't understand the translation so I think that it's important to teach that as well yeah what do you think Martin briefly yeah well I suppose when you watched Ukraine and you see them singing their anthem out their windows and on the streets and they said he's been gone for the same time it showed you the pride that they have in their country as well we have to treat with respect I used to find it strange because at the end of the night and dances the nice anthem was always played and I used to think to myself people maybe in a intoxicated state it wasn't the amount of rouse I saw at that time was unbelievable it was just when it all kicked off it all kicked off and I'll say when you look at probably our sports and you see they go along the teams and they see who's singing the national anthem and you might be lucky if you get two out of eleven or four out of fifteen whatever sport it is that knows the nice anthem it's supposed to be the granny rule so a lot of them weren't even born in the country so that probably is a difference as well right well then finally could you sing it I'm not going to put you on by the way I'm not for a second going to exit but like could you get your way through it would you say Martin out of difficulty Susan what about you I'm sure you can because you're teaching it in school as well as Anya I'm sure you could as well yeah okay which is not we use it both working teaching so that's kind of indicative I don't think Greg so yes but those around you don't like you going anywhere near it is what I what I've heard we could have a game actually to guess what your song is my way I don't know what would your what is your karaoke go to karaoke so just say it come on your number one no that goes on for ten minutes and that's where I love to keep that's just torture listen come here thanks if we ever do a charity concert we'll get you up singing American by take up half the night though cancel Martin Harley thank you very much for joining it's great to have you with us thank you okay Susan thank you you'll come back it wasn't that too awful an experience no not too bad Greg not too bad alright listen great to speak to you and see you and thank you very much for joining us and last but not least Anya good luck with the conference next week of course it's a busy busy week I was at one of them I think it was in Donegal town probably 15 16 years ago now at this stage but anyway it thank you for joining us and good luck next week of course as well alright take care of yourself right okay that was our Friday panel on a Thursday we'll be back with more on the program actually do you know what before we do ding dong this is your final call and this is your final call because we are going to make the draw for our big holiday draw at 11 30 on this program it's 10,000 euro to spend on your holiday of a lifetime that means you can jet off to do the whole thing route 66 Florida everything I keep saying America because I've travelled much so I know what nowhere else I've never been there or you could go back and go back and forwards to Turkey five times get a bit of work done on your teeth or whatever it might be I don't know so it's up to you it's 10,000 of a holiday voucher to use as you wish and also on top of that we're going to give you 5,000 euro it's labeled as spending money but as I said yesterday we've got a new bathroom use it for that don't you know you don't have to let on it's your 5,000 euro in cash so we've a 10,000 euro holiday voucher 5,000 euro in cash the draw for which is going to be made at 11 30 now if you want to enter you can up until 11 o'clock and you have as much chance of winning by buying your ticket now as you had of winning if you bought it three weeks ago and I want you to obviously only buy tickets if you have a bit of spare cash and you want a bit of fun alright tickets are one for a tenner but if you want to gift them to family or friends Easter gifts or whatever it might be you can get 6 for 50 or 10 for 80 right now if you want to go on to our website HighlandRadio.com you can buy your tickets there but I'm very conscious of the fact that some people maybe have a distrust of doing online transactions or don't have access to the internet or whatever it might be so if you want to ring us now to be involved in the competition and it literally is a case that you buy your ticket the number is put into the draw drum as I see it happening you can call us right now an 07491 25,000 to buy your ticket and go straight into the draw so if you want to buy a ticket either go online but if you prefer you can call us right now we've got a team taking your calls on 07491 25,000 and me and Finula and Michael and the whole radio station look forward to giving someone that that prize of a lifetime at around about 1130 so if you want to enter and you can enter again on it quickly because the lines close the portal closes at 11 o'clock right it is 10 o'clock which means we take a break for the news and obituary notes is rejoin us thereafter Line on air online and on the Highland Radio app this is Highland Radio News Thanks Greg good morning Garthy are continuing to investigate if there was a homophobic motive behind the murders of two men in Sligo time 58 year old Michael Sney and 42 year old Aiden Moffat were found dead in their homes earlier this week Mr Moffat's body was mutilated and the other victim also had a very violent death Garthy are also examining if there is a link to a third attack in the town last Friday where a man sustained serious eye injuries The Taunash jelly over ad care has appealed to anyone with information that they have about possible homophobic attacks to pass it on to the Garthy The LGBT community is very worried about what this represents and would of course encourage anyone to pass on any information they have to the Garthy even if they don't think it's particularly relevant to pass it on but it is kind of scary Ireland is a welcoming country for gay and there's been bisexual transgender people in the main it is a safe country in which to be a gay person but I think a lot of us had hope that we'd seen this kind of attacks behind us A jobs boost is on the way to West Tyrone after Donnie Gall based fruit juice business Mull Rines confirmed they have acquired part of the former Herdman's mill site in Sion Mills Recruitment is set to begin in the near future which will result in a significant number of new positions It's part of phase one of ambitious plans by Mull Rines to expand their capacity by establishing a manufacturing plant in the village Sion Mills has grown MLA Daniel McCrossen says it's hugely positive for the area This is a hugely welcome boost not just because of this significant investment by Mull Rines which is a fantastic company that employs a huge amount of local people from the wider Sion Mills and Sturban area but also because it addresses a historical issue on a site in the Sion Mills area that has been derelict for over 20 years this is a really good news story all round and I am very very certain there is much to be done Simon Kovni is today visiting the scenes of some of the atrocities of the war in Ukraine The foreign affairs minister is in Kiev where he'll hold talks with senior Ukrainian politicians He'll visit Butcher where the bodies of civilians some with their hands tied behind their backs were found in recent weeks Minister Kovni says he's privileged to be there We're focusing on what Ireland can do in terms of political support military support support of the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute war crimes where and when they've taken place so there's a lot to do in one day and it's a privilege to be here The health minister is appointing an external expert to review Dr Tony Hulahin's plans to conment to Trinity College Stephen Donnelly says there are lessons to be learned from the controversy The outgoing chief medical officer abandoned the role following a backlash over his 87,000 euro salary which would have been paid by the state A report by the secretary general of the department of health Robin Watt was published last night in which he defended his role in the appointment but Sinn Fein's health spokesperson David Cullinan says the external review is needed So the first thing that needs to happen is that the review process is put in place that a person is appointed to oversee that review obviously that person has to be given the terms of reference and I think there has to be a time frame attached to all of that so we need to establish the facts very, very quickly I think an external review is needed because I'm not satisfied with the report which has been presented to government by the head of the department The environment minister is denying he's at odds with the thonus jet over a ban on the sale of turf The Fina Gale leader said last night that the ban due to come into force in September will be paused because of the current energy crisis Lee Overadker told his parliamentary party meeting that telling those who cut turf that they now can't was like telling the French they couldn't drink wine However, Iman Ryan says he'll work with his government colleagues to find a solution but the measure won't be paused No, there's not a pause. Listen, that was a comment to Fina Gale parliamentary party meeting which is not a public meeting I think we could obsess about who said what in parliamentary party meetings We will work together to make sure the regulations work There's a renewed focus on Bunkrana ledger centre The town and surrounding area has been without a facility for many years now with a campaign to reopen the meanity on going Plans to get the centre back up and running include a planned public consultation Kehella of Donnygold County Council Councillor Jack Murray says many other important projects in the town have progressed recently and it's time that the ledger centre move forward to I propose that that formality that we get out there, we get talking to the public, we show the design that we have in place and I'm delighted that it's been sold now, it's been extremely exciting. I look forward to seeing that. I hope that it will be extremely exciting but the most important thing is that we progress, we move forward, we deal with whatever needs to be dealt with and we get diggers on the ground as quickly as is humanly possible. Whether now, a dull and damp day today with scattered outbreaks of rain and drizzle, highest temperatures of 12 or 13 degrees. That's it for now, we're back with the headlines for you at 11 o'clock, until then, good morning. The obituary notices for Thursday morning, the 14th of April. The death has taken place of Ben McFadden, Ards, Chrysler. His remains will be posed at his late residence from six o'clock this evening. Funeral mass on Easter Sunday at one o'clock in St Michael's Church, Chrysler, with burial afterwards in Doe Cemetery. The mass can be viewed live on mcnmedia.tv. Family time from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral. Family flowers only please, donations if desired to Chrysler Community Association care of any family member or James Harkin Funeral Director. The death has taken place of Eamon Jordan, Thor, Crawley and formerly of Condirma. His remains will be posed at his home in Thor from three o'clock this afternoon. House of private to family and close friends. Funeral service in St Patrick's Church, Meenahouil, Crawley at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning with interment afterwards in Mahara Gallon Cemetery, Ghidor. The funeral service can be viewed live on Cairn Rorty Funeral Director's Facebook page. The death has taken place of William Gallagher, late of 18 Lismore Park, Sion Mills. Reposing at Quigley's funeral home today from 7 p.m. with removal at 8 p.m. to St Trace's Church, Sion Mills. Funeral service tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Donations in Leua Flowers Pleased to Trocra, care of Quigley Funeral Director's. The funeral service can be viewed live via the parish webcam. The death has taken place of Rebecca Jane Spratt, knee Russell, 20 Oakland's Park letter Kenny. Rebecca's remains are reposing at the eternalite chapel of rest, Mountaintop letter Kenny. Removal from there this evening at half past five to Conwall Parish Church to repose overnight. Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Rebecca will take place tomorrow morning at half past 11 followed by burial in Gortley Cemetery. Family flowers only, donations to the Irish Heart Foundation or Conwall Parish Church care of any family member. The funeral service can be viewed on Charlie McClafferty Funeral Director's Facebook page. The death has occurred of Eamon Cavanaugh, Nocala, Ludden Bunkranna. His remains are reposing at his late residence. Removal from there tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 to St Mary's Church Cockhill for service at 11 o'clock followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. Family time please from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. Donations may be given to Bunkranna Community Hospital care of any family member or Murphy Funeral Director's. The death has taken place of Cahill Dunne, Dunne-Emer Park, Dundrum, Dublin and formerly Balahedurg letter Kenny. Cahill's remains will be reposing at the family home in Balahedurg letter Kenny today from 2 until 8 o'clock and tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Rosary both evenings at 8 p.m. with house private two family afterwards please. Funeral from there at quarter past 11 on Saturday morning going to St Unan's Cathedral letter Kenny for 12 noon funeral liturgy which can be viewed live on ChurchServices.tv. Interment afterwards in Cornwall Cemetery house private on the morning of the funeral please. The death has occurred of Mary Frances Boyle, Winnie, Upper Belchurch, Kinkashle. Her remains will be reposing in McGlynn's funeral home today from 4 o'clock with removal at 6 o'clock going to St Mary's Church Kinkashle where she will repose overnight. Service tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in Belchurch Cemetery. The death has taken place of Beth Casey, 54 Towncastle Roads, Durban reposing at her brother Huey's home, 52 Towncastle Roads, Durban. Funeral leaving her brother's home tomorrow at 20 past 9 for funeral service in St Joseph's Church Glen Morning at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. The death has occurred of John McElhaney, Liscule, Castle Finn. His remains are reposing at his home this morning from 11 a.m. If funeral leaving his home tomorrow morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock service in St Patrick's Church Crossroads Kelly Gordon interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard. The service will be streamed live via St Patrick's Church Crossroads Kelly Gordon Facebook page. And the death has taken place of Anne Bradley, knee Turkish, 290 Bominie, Letter Kenny. Anne's remains are reposing at her late home. Funeral from there at quarter past one this afternoon going to St Union's Cathedral, Letter Kenny for funeral liturgy at 2 o'clock which can be viewed live on ChurchServices.tv Interment afterwards in Cornwall Cemetery. Family time please on the morning of the funeral. For more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to HighlandRadio.com. All right you're very welcome back to the second hour of the 9th till noon show. It is the Thursday but it's got a Friday feel to it. Michael and Fnull will be joining us a little later on and also we'll be doing the draw for the holiday that's all between 11 and 12. In between now and then that we've got some important topics to discuss with you will be continuing our coverage of the awful events in Sligo and we'll be getting an update on some seemingly positive news as it relates to the landing of fish at Killy bags. You would have known if you've listened to this program we've given extensive coverage that fish boats full of fish were being turned away from Killy bags because of a difference or a dispute I suppose you could call it over how these fish are landed. There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel which is good news for the industry. It's very good news for seasonal workers hopefully and it's good news for processors and other people involved in the fishing industry. The wider Killy bags and South Donegal economy there seems to be a break in that story so we'll bring that to you as well. But to some of your comments before we take a break for the bingo number is if the politicians have power if the politicians have no power I presume you mean what's their purpose apart from taking wages and expenses answers on a postcard I'll be the wee bit facetious I understand your question. Hello Greg my sister was due to start chemo today after having surgery for breast cancer before Christmas on Wednesday she was told that her appointment in the local hospital was cancelled and that she would now be put on a waiting list. Can you ask our local and national politicians who are living in some kind of bubble if they intend making people at the hospital accountable for this situation. Okay that sounds absolutely awful maybe it's something we could get some more information from you on and cover it in a bit more detail when we return next week perhaps because that's no one should have to go through that and there must be more to it so we'll chase that up if you want us to. Does the panel know what that it was Robert Watts department that sanctioned Dr Tony Hooligan's role and then he was asked to look into it it's a conflict of interest. Yeah we all fully aware that was referenced of course and it was referenced and now there is an external inquiry into that but it's just the way the system works. Ireland needs to leave the EU as soon as we do we will get rid of the green party we need to realise that Ireland are hardly a dot on the global spam get rid of the EU and back to the country that Ireland can be. I think people as I said on the program yesterday and just remember how politics works here that the green party will will probably continue with the same level of support after the next general election and let's just say that the opinion polls pan out about who can form the next government. Sinn Fein's on around about 33% but Fina Fall and Fina Gale combined are on 44% you're chucking another three or four percent with the greens and I know it doesn't precisely work like this because the percentages don't necessarily work out as into seats then a few independents and there you are the government is back this current government is back. Sinn Fein if they do as well as they do and they want to get into power they have to get into bed with someone I don't think a minority government would work here and I can't see them getting a majority so who do they go to who could they align themselves with the the the betting money might be Fina Fall Sinn Fein working together who's to say maybe even the greens might be in there I don't know so I don't think people think that after the next general election everything is going to change drastically and parties will be wiped out that's simply not how in my view how politics works and certainly it's not how it works in this country. Wait till you see after the next general election the makeup and what people will have to do and the compromises they'll have to make to form a government and then obviously they will argue that it was done in the best interests of getting a stable government because Ireland's in difficult times and needs blah blah blah blah blah. This coalition is a bunch of clans controlled by Europe and when we have a small group like the greens making silly decisions the world is laughing at us I would say the world probably applause the greens trying to ban turf that's probably what the problem is. Ashley Murphy's death was absolute hysteria at the time every killing is despicable please stop saying one life is more relevant than another no matter what the gender. I think you missed the point here the reason and I think it's quite justified the reason there was shock at Ashley Murphy's death was that it was someone who was out running in the middle of the day in a public area and their life was wiped out they were taken and it caused great anger and it highlighted what an awful lot of women feel don't forget the broader conversation at the time that a lot of women feel threatened in public they don't walk alone they don't walk at night they walk in groups there is a fear that something could happen most women have had some sort of intimidation on the street that is why there was such a reaction then and I think it was justified no more so than that the murder of these men highlights what an awful lot of people in the LGTBQ community feel on a daily basis this is what many in that community was waiting to happen it's happened before so I think it's on all of us to unite regardless to support people and say as a society we say enough is enough this cannot happen but again I take your point and I appreciate your comment in Ireland one of every four people aren't born here I lived in England for over 20 years and the British national anthem was never sung people seem to hold on to their own national anthem if they are born outside of Ireland it's not about the national anthem I mean I can't I mean I know you lived in Britain there but I mean to almost to a fault the British are very patriotic I don't think you could ever say that they're not because they are and if you meet them on holidays they're very quick to let you know and and within their own confines as well so I don't think that's I don't think that's an accurate comparison but listen if anyone else agrees or disagrees it doesn't really matter I'm just bouncing it off to create conversation 08 660 25 000 your whatsapps and texts are called 07 491 25 000 it is jackpot day today who's to say between the jackpot and the holiday we could be given over over 20 000 euro 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readily available what seems to be in my view there is certainly a more of an enthusiasm to put in place a solution that works for everyone why do you think they've not changed their position as such but that's more open to conversation then why do you think that is well no doubt about it over the last two weeks it's on the top five news items around the country it's the main news item in dunny gall for the last nine to ten days they're not insulated from public opinion and media pressure uh i think we've shamed ourselves in the eyes of the europeans when we saw vessels that are wishing to offload fish into kili begs having to travel to dairy and then the fish travel overrolled back into kili begs and we're all working within the the same rulebook within europe so look at no one's immune from pressure and i think the pressure and the reality is that this is not going away and also that the the issue of stake here is an issue of fairness and equality and i think that has successfully been articulated through the various media outlets and debates that we have engaged in no i mean this come down to in layman's terms uh blue whiting in particular being landed in kili begs and so that it can maintain quality for the human food chain it's carried in water and there was some dispute as to uh you know taking the water out uh and then weighing the fish put sure if you to do that then the fish could be reduced to to fish meal and then there was a who har as to uh you know well who owns the equipment on the period that would allow it to be weighed in the water and so on and so forth so what is the solution is about the ownership of this this weighing uh this weighing equipment because i'm sure that e you were looking on going hold on yeah we put in these laws right but we didn't expect you to sort of not try and find a way for them to work for you and to achieve the objective i think what the EU said to our linders hold on it was you who suggested to us that this is the rules we put in place you go and explain yourself and find solutions because i think it's very significant the constraints we found ourselves under as an EU member are self-inflicted because it is ourselves that drafted them and recommended them to europe that being said it's going to revert back to a scenario you must understand that up to the 6th of march everything worked perfectly and we were working within the same interim control plan as we are presently and a decision was taken on the 7th of march to change how we interpret that so we need to get back to a position uh pre the 6th of march and that is as you correctly said it will revert around the ownership of the pier side weighing system how systems can be put in place that protect the quality of fish while accurately weighing fish as the requirement under the CFP so that is the the space that we're currently in we were previously in that space multiple times between march and now but on this occasion the culture of uh rejecting everything as i see it isn't in the sfpa and there's a whole new openness there to coactively engage and look at while they're while they're independent i wouldn't be surprised if if someone had to whisper in their ear but anyway i would say multiple people have and i just say they're not insulated from public opinion you can only work against public opinion for so far in the end the public world triumph right so what let's talk timeframes then because what we need uh in in terms of what is put in place something permanent we don't want to revisit this again we have to get this right the first time and something that's you know long term and ticks all all the boxes for everyone because the sfpa do have a job to do at the end of the day so uh when do you hope that what sounds like paperwork is done that means that we can put this to bed for the time being at the very very least it's critical that we look at this in two regards one the immediate and then secondly the long term solution in terms of and you're right the timetable is critical here we need to have a solution in place realistically within the next fortnight otherwise the credibility of this entire process falls on itself so the immediate is to put a solution in terms of the interim control plan in place operational within two weeks and thereafter we have a second body of work to do because the new control plan wasn't initially supposed to be adopted by the first of may i would think there will be an extension sought for that interim term and that will be pushed later into the year so we need to work on the text and the options available under the control plan and that would be probably another two to three months period so there's two processes one to solve the immediate problem that's in kelly bags we all saw the artwork into that and secondly put in place a permanent solution that will guarantee the operation of kelly bags and other ports around ireland for the next five to ten year good stuff because uh those lorries lorries going from terry to kelly bags is an awful lot of bags of turf it's an awful lot of bags you see there's no joint up thinking here do you know what i mean if we probably burnt the equivalent in carbon footprint of the equivalent of a thousand houses burning turf for a month and you're going to be banned to do that but yet within the regulations that we're over interpreted the other is allowed to so there's no joint up thinking there's no logic here and there has been consistently no logic in this whole debacle and it should have been solved before it became an issue and a crisis i just hope at some point at some point and this uh i know you wouldn't you wouldn't have been listening earlier but it feeds into an awful lot of what we talk about on this program seemingly is is that at some point we begin to learn that we realize that we we a mess is made and then we have to tidy it up and it often happens happens publicly and it's often quite embarrassing i just wish we could get more proactive and prevent these things happening in the first place so we're not constantly firefighting issues but i witnessed all through my life both political and now as a representative body when an issue comes up everyone doubles down fights it hopes that it goes away and the one constant that is in any campaign be it mica or be it this in relation to fish unless you get public opinion on your side and unless you get a proactive media campaign the the arms of the states or the various agencies of the state their first policy is to tramp you into the ground rather than listen to your concern and until we change that culture in Ireland and genuinely listen and proactively engage in the various problems that arise on a daily or weekly basis we're going over the culture in Ireland is completely wrong okay listen thank you very much for your time this morning let's make a question some of those that have been commenting on it the the media advice the much must 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sensibly it's my denvering concert with guests philomena begley ray lineman brandon shine at the millennium forum dairy on saturday april 23rd tickets at the theater box office that's my denvering concert at the millennium forum with philomena begley ray lineman brandon shine on saturday april 23rd okay we're joined on the program now by um pamela oh haygan pamela thanks for taking the call today no problem how are you keeping yourself at the moment sorry how are you keeping um i'm still in hospital at the moment right okay i was in dildo in yester for a cardiac mra um and i am sorry somebody just walked in there and do you need to speak to them no no no okay no problem they can wait sorry that's okay um i so i was in dildo for a cardiac mra yesterday um i went in the results of that um i was on my back actually with ambulance maybe 10 months and over i blacks out in the bed and i was actually choking on my food um and i just give people the background you are a young mother of two um your youngest is eight months and i believe you have a five year old as well is that correct yeah that's correct and where we daughter has autism she's been with my mum for the past eight months because i'm not in a position to unfortunately take care of her uh tell us about your heart condition and when you became aware of it or when it became so problematic for your pamela um so i thought since i was five um i went on diagnosed um until i was 18 and i had a procedure then in 2000 which corrected this um for 15 years um i would be in fine until i had my second baby eight months ago um and eight months after delivery i took um an episode of the sbc so it's just like a really rapid heartbeat um really irregular um i don't know what to say after that it sort of just kind of got progressively worse as i went home like they sent me home um they they didn't pick up on us they sent me home and i started having more episodes and the episodes started getting more severe to the point where i was black and out and and it took them six months to believe me like i was fighting and fighting and saying like this is happening um but with your history with your history you would have thought it would have been very easy to join the dots but you would imagine that whenever someone's not had it in 15 years and they're telling me look i'm having it again you know with the history that they would sort of say look we need to investigate this um that just wasn't done um it was sort of put down to anxiety and stuff like that um and i was down to therapist and things and so anyway i thought and i thought to try and um get hered and i actually had to go to the point of getting my own ecg machine um on amazon where i could record and then whenever i started recording my episode um by myself and going to a and e then that's when i was finally lucky day in december that you were able to show them the ecg readout which indicated obviously this was not anxiety there was a there was a physical or electronical electric uh issue with your heart so like you've been hospitalized for quite some time now but i'm also you know obviously you're you're concerned about your own health and you know your own mental health i presume as well but pamela also uh your ability to parent your time with your newborn child well like my ability to parent is like it's non-existent um my partner has lost his job because he's not caring for eight month old um and caring for me um my little daughter who's got autism um you know because of her recondition like she doesn't see me very much because i'm literally i'm bad every single day um whatever i do so well i'm off to go to my mom's to see her she pushes me away because she doesn't sorry i'm just coming in i don't know what that listen um that's i don't remember who i am so um okay pamela i understand i understand this i don't it's really suffocating um anyway um they did an operation and always because they've seen the sbt again on my monitor and um i had blacked out in light on bunkrana that day um and the doctor and everything was there with the defa when we were written on the ambulance um because they actually didn't know what the rhythm was they were kind of thinking that it was between the sbt year of ventricular attack priority and ventricular attack priority is very dangerous um basically your heart can just go into a flat line at any point um and that would have to shock you um so i got to letter canna and i stayed in cpu then for um a period of time until they transferred an indulgence in my operation um i got that done on the 21st of december um and i remember as soon as i woke up from the operation i remember ringing my mother and i said it didn't work and she said one evening it didn't work because they tell you it was unsuccessful and i was like no they didn't tell me that i just i just feel like exactly the same i just know something's wrong um so anyways i came home and i was just in bed from december until like the end of march um and i kept having these episodes where i was blacking out um i could feel the heart going again i was doing recordings um they were querying again bt they didn't exactly know what their resume was um they then um finally brought me back to Dublin whenever i had a blackout and stopped breathing um and they done a second operation and that's my third and total um and whenever they went in that time i asked them if they popped me to sleep because you know normally have to be awake for that procedure and it's quite um scary you know you're awake you can feel everything and and um sorry people keep coming in here that's all right well listen what we might do is fast forward if that's all right pamela because uh your your best hope of of of getting healthy again getting back to what you want to do is treatment in uh london um have your doctor said that this treatment will fix it or is that independent research you've don't know what's the situation um so basically the doctors here i'm really doing very much form aid they have they went and um two days after militia the truck moved back we done a second operation they thought that they were going to look for vt and sbt they couldn't induce either of those arrhythmias um but what they found is three new ones that we never knew that i had so they found right atrial flutter left atrial flutter and a sub um and all those um arrhythmias are kind of for people in their fifties sixties and like above so for me to have one would be kind of unusual for me to have three along with another two um is like unheard of um the professor in Dublin was quite surprised um he kind of said to me you know i've been doing this 25 years i've never really seen this he says like every single chamber of your heart the electricals are off and they're firing from all different chambers um i asked him did he fix everything whenever he was on the operation he says that he couldn't because he does do that he would i would have needed a pacemaker okay um so i've come back to latter can i've been here since the first of april um and the doctor should basically say in that six one of the arrhythmias that i have at the clinic it's going to take at least three more of the operations that i've already had and it's going to be 14 weeks recovery between each one so you're looking at like over another year of being in bed being sick okay so the surgery in london the the the specialists in terms of obviously testing and treating it's it's a cost of 45 000 pounds now as you've already outlined clearly that's that's that's beyond you and you know you're at that you're you're at the point now whereby you're asking the public to help you and that's why we wanted to speak to you so yeah if people have heard your story and they have a little to give a lot of people giving a little could get you there how do they go about supporting you pamela so on my facebook page there's a ghost on the page up um my mom is doing some buckets and things up as well to collect in sharks um there's some lovely people that have reached out that have beauty salons and different things that are doing competitions doing raffles um people are doing hampers um but the ghost on my page is kind of probably the one thing that's going to get it kicked off because we could get that shared and you know get the word out there then i think that that would probably bring things up pretty quickly all right pamela well people can go on search your facebook pamela oh hey again and they'll find it there listen we wish you um we wish you well and hopefully you get sorted and get back to do what you want to do which is being at a hospital and being with your children and your partner in family um and listen i know it's difficult because you're in hospital and people are coming in now but you did great and thanks very much for speaking to us all right thanks very much for helping me i really appreciate it no no and i hope you get well 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modern southerly winds right now just to welcome on to our next guest welcome on next guest onto the program deklin mehan manager of milford district resource center and community worker thank you very much for joining us and i'm sorry to be speaking to you uh in this context under these circumstances because what happened to these two gentlemen uh in sligo um absolutely horrific um it's unbelievable really their names are of course aid and moffat and also michael uh sni it's it's just beyond words isn't it uh deklin it is yeah and thanks for having me on to to talk about this greg i think that um it's very important that this is spoken about i think that in some of the media coverage that we've heard um you know they're avoiding the actual conversation around the fact that these were gay men um and that these attacks are being investigated and very clearly uh homophobically and motivated and so it's the crimes are brutal that the reality that we find ourselves in this week um is something that's quite shocking to to us all and i think that you know the important thing as i say is that we're having conversations around this because we need to raise awareness that though these attacks are on the extreme end of the spectrum homophobic and transphobic attacks um and microaggressions are taking place every day of the week so presumably a lot of people uh in these communities it could be words that are used towards them it could be things shouted in the street it could be attack uh just because you walk out of the george what you know what i mean if you were to if you were to catalog all of them at all levels uh you know we would see a completely different picture rather than this utopia that may be a lot of people feel that we live in yeah i think that's correct and i think that i think irish people have over recent years taken great pride in the progress that's been made here in particular to um people from the lgbtq plus community um since the marriage equality referendum in 2015 but the marriage equality referendum in 2015 wasn't a silver bullet that fixed all discrimination and prejudice against lgbt people and you know in the wake of the death of asha murphy earlier this year we all had conversations and were raising awareness of the importance of challenging behavior and language that was misogynistic and sexist because we know that it creates a culture that can lead to violence against women and it is the same with regards to lgbtq but just on that point and quite rightly so because it it fed into a broader conversation and that's why uh because women had experienced at different levels you know this type of behavior on the streets obviously that was the most extreme and there was a what i'm confused by uh is that in terms of the response community leaders who do a great job politicians were tripping over themselves to be at the front in organizing vigils following that awful awful tragedy and rightly so it feels to me um that's it's being left to the lgbtq community to to spearhead and organize uh vigils is there something there is there something we should be reading into that do you think um to be honest greg i think that there is something there and i think that it is not as popular to to get on board with this to commemorate or to visualize someone um who has been brutally murdered in these circumstances and it the what these gentlemen were put through is horrendous what their families are having to hear from garty and unfortunately reading the papers i don't know i think there should be an investigation into whoever leaked uh whoever leaked the crime scenes to the press person and because that information might maybe it's a means to end maybe we need to see the horror of it i don't know i haven't worked that out in my head yet uh at deckland but anyway sorry continue with your point i i just think that there is something in it where we don't see as much of an outcry from people across um society on this particular issue um even in news coverage you know the fact that the um soundbite that's been carried is the tarnish leo veradka soundbite as opposed to the t-shirt making a comment on it because leo veradka is a gay man himself i think that there absolutely is something in it and i think that we need to um move beyond the circumstances of it in the sense that this is a very ordinary circumstance that people find themselves may i also i'd definitely if you don't mind because i want to make sure i get your views on this stuff that's running around in my head i understand why the garty will will come if they come up very very quickly talking about uh using apps right okay now the only person responsible for this is whomever is the perpetrator in the other case that we mentioned it wasn't don't walk out in the middle of the day on your own okay clearly because that wouldn't be i understand there has to be a space where we talk about how people meet each other and and and have to be safe and all that but that's been latched on by certain elements to say well sure what do you expect you know you report yourself do you get where i'm coming from and that's just is not what we should be talking about here Greg i think you've hit the nail on the head in terms of answering your previous question as well um when we talk about the circumstance of how these people met and came into contact with one another that's why they're aren't vigils and that's why they're aren't people from across society because there's an inherent judgment in some sections about how this has come about dating apps are absolutely normal for people of all ages of all sexual orientations and it's it is you know the number one way that people are meeting nowadays particularly more so than ever post-covid and i think that there is an element of victim blaming in this particular set of circumstances and it's not good enough and i you know if the circumstances were different if the gender of the people involved were different if the sexual orientation was different i don't think that there would be as much judgment so i think we have to be careful in terms of how we make differences there the most important thing that i think that we need to talk about today i'm going forward in the aftermath of these attacks is the importance of challenging homophobic and transphobic language and behavior wherever we see it in the same way that we've had those huge conversations about challenging misogyny and sexism all of these things are linked and all of these things have negative outcomes for people who are experiencing violence but in some cases they trigger and rightly so emergency reviews of legislation a broad response what do we need to do fast fast tracking of laws it we have to be equal we have to be equally shocked and disgusted and reactive this this is the most brutal thing and in terms of the apps it is possible that the person responsible is in custody we don't know that has to play its course so maybe that conversation could have waited for a week yeah i mean like yeah absolutely and again i think that you know i think for some elements of of society we've been living in a bubble since 2015 because we thought that the marriage equality referendum is kind of the be all an end all and and the pinnacle of of of achieving LGBT rights and equality in the country but there is some work still yet to be done and there's still a lot more inclusion that needs to take place um and as i say you know there are young people out there today um young LGBT people across the northwest um who have lost their sense of security lost their entitlement to a sense of safety because this has not just happened you know this is an attack that you would read about taking place abroad somewhere this is not something that we expect to happen in areas in 2022 and this people will be particularly difficult for young people to get their heads around exactly yeah one of the more normalized sense of being gay or being trans being by in Ireland in the 21st century and also there's people listening that that will feel they have to push back on this that it's not about that that this obviously is mental illness it's not homophobia this is obviously this that it's not bad you have to challenge ourselves and like i think this could be your son or your daughter could come and tell you that they are LGBTQ it could be your uncle it could be your father that is too afraid to say that you know that is their sexuality you know no one is you can't insulate yourself and all the world's gone crazy you know what's going on that's not the way it is because it you know people have to even if they have to some disagreements you have to accept that it is completely wrong for these type of things to happen and you can't be explained or excused away we have to deal with it that's exactly it and i i think we have to have the conversation around us i think that when we say you know you know there was so many conversations after the ash and murphy murder as well where people were pushing back on the fact that this was misogynistic or sexist attack and you know not men saying this this happens to me or this happened to me or i can't feel safe what's the point it doesn't matter that that doesn't achieve anything it's the what about re conversations are not useful in any of these scenarios we have to take things at face value about why these things are happening and we have to challenge the culture and the situation that allows them to take place and that again as i say there are people out there today across the northwest who have lost their sense of security lost their entitlement to a sense of safety because of what's happened and we need to restore that and we need to make a resounding signal and that these people our community lgbt people are very welcome and that they're entitled to their safety in our communities okay a lady in boncran has organized a vigil in memory of michael and aid and it will take place at 2 p.m at the amazing grace part of the shorefront in boncran tomorrow that's at 2 p.m if anyone else is organizing anything getting touched with us and we'll make sure to publicize that deckland in the last 20 seconds anything you want to add just to say you know our thoughts and adones is obviously are with the moffat and the sneeze families you know and also that this is is on the extreme end of the spectrum but that there are other attacks that are taking place all the time this has hopefully brought that delight a bit more for people and we'll encourage them to go out and challenge language and behaviors that allow this to become possible okay thank you very much indeed for that okay that was deckland meeting there you're tuned to the night till noon show here in highland radio coming up in the next hour michael and fenuler are in with us on a thursday and also we're going to be giving you a 15 000 euro holiday prize package all that but first 11 o'clock let's catch up with the news and it's over to kathryn gaffney thanks greg good morning it's understood a man being questioned about the murders of two men in slaggo town is set to be charged in connection with their debts the man was detained in the early hours of wednesday morning after the discovery of the body of 58-year-old michael snay the remains of 42-year-old aiden moffat were found on monday a jobs boost is on the way to west huron after donnie gall based fruit juice business mull rinds confirmed they have acquired part of the former herdman's mill site in syon mills recruitment is set to begin in the near future which will result in a significant number of new positions the thonus just says plans to ban the sale of turf are not paused because they haven't even been agreed environment minister aamon ryan insisted this morning that the measures proposed to come into effect on the first of september will go ahead leo varadkar says he hasn't even seen the draft regulations and he doesn't believe the tradition to sell or distribute turf by those who cut their own bogs should be made illegal the health minister is appointing an external expert to review dr tony hurlin's planned succumb to trinity college steven donley says there are lessons to be learned from the controversy a number of homes are currently without water and in a show in repairs to the burst water main may cause supply disruptions to bali liffen isle of doe and surrounding areas the works are scheduled to take place until two p.m. this afternoon and preparatory work is underway for improvements to non-county island roads for this year two million euro in funding has been allocated for the project tenders have been issued and are expected back in the coming weeks that's it for now we're back with a further update for you at 12 noon kathryn thank you very much indeed and um i have to announce to you that the lines for a holiday competition are now closed no longer will you have to 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of work i think uh and i think it was uh you made an interesting comment fenula last week about the jimmy savill documentary on netflix that if you only watched the first episode you know you'd think wow what a guy right obviously if you had no knowledge of of everything else that went on but yeah in the second episode it really is hammered home yeah what he was responsible for and how he was enabled and facilitated to do what he did your overview of the the documentary and you've seen it as well haven't you i did yeah what yeah um it was not as grueling and we're saying this a little bit off air which i know you don't like but we're saying it's not as grueling as i thought it would be the first hour and a half as you've said is very much aimed at the global market so it's a people who may never know the story or some of us who didn't really know his whole background i didn't realize he was so intertwined with the royal family right fair love you know i didn't realize and he is yeah i didn't realize he was so effectively an advisor almost to the likes of the royal family because charles did turn to him looking for advice you're absolutely right and then he did up a a sort of a guidebook for the royal family how to deal with moments of crisis in the country so he was held in great esteem and when you watch the first hour and a half it's almost like it's a very typical biography of a quirky eccentric but beloved celebrity there are a few hints of a darker underbelly but that first documentary could pass as you said for a standard bio the second one which is an hour and a half it really just rips open the dark underbelly um one of the people that jimmy targeted a woman called sam sam brown she gets a lot of screen time she's fantastic on air i mean if you needed to bring one of these people and put them out i think she's the best one to that you could imagine because she really takes you inside the mindset of not only herself as an adult today but as the 11 year old child that was with jimmy savill and that he as i say targeted for his his pedophile urges she talks about that also in this which i enjoyed more the second one you got the guy as in mary and jones and i i'm a sucker for the journalist as hero trope so you get to see how this guy kept picking away for decades for in the 90s and the 90s he was very much isolated in terms of what he could do and i think it really looks at that very well and shows what he was doing very well and i enjoyed the last time in terms of that i mean you had really quite important journalists putting their hands on saying that we didn't carry that story we ignored that yeah we were told not do that and they didn't do it and there's not i mean in terms of what he was doing to people there's not sort of like a a hierarchy of of evil there because it's all so evil but i think it's the fact that he positioned himself you know and a lot of these uh these people do they're clever that was what he did himself yeah he was clever to ensure that he could do what he wanted to do it was so deceitful it was a lifelong dedicated yeah to putting himself into a position both physically and in the public eye and amongst the police and politicians and the media so that he could continue doing it and you know even down to the police not telling all of those victims yes that they weren't alone yeah years before it came to the public eye and before it was prosecuted and pursued as you're saying there was another case where there was was a three individuals but in each case as you said the police opted not to tell each woman and there was anyone else and they thought she was isolated i'm an outlier this fellow who's going to believe me or who's going to believe me did you get to watch the second part of this no i haven't to be honest i've kind of been avoiding it but i will watch it now therefore because i just was like oh it's heavy but it's it's not so it's not so heavy in that you know and i can kind of be quite affected by stuff i was and they get the point across but it's not you know it's not quite as um it doesn't in a way that you can well what i didn't want to see yeah what i didn't want and what i dreaded going into it but i thought it was going to be okay with that it would almost sensationalize it i always think sometimes some of the graphic details for the sake of graphic details are not worth watching it's not for me and for a lot of us and that's an editorial decision they say right we need to shock and awe yeah so they didn't do that as i say you have one of these ladies and she speaks magnificently she gets a lot of screen time she comes across as a lovely person but it's the way she expresses herself and she is quite explicit in terms of what was happening when she was 11 years old but it still is it's done in such a way that you feel right they had to lay bare but it's not salacious that's the exact way you put it yeah right okay you say the shock and awe wasn't the thing i know i think it's just one of those stories isn't it because i mean i just always like jimmy savill was so big that i mean i wrote to him you know the way he's in back in the day like and we people didn't even really have bbc you know what i mean there was no such thing as sky we were getting it off somebody else that had it off somebody else you kind of put your dad on the roof and told him keep moving keep moving till he got something but he was so synonymous with everything that you know even over here kids were writing to him and asking him for you know and asking him for stuff and just some of and to me it was as i was saying mike even the level of kind of uh blinkering that was going on even if they didn't know the specifics of how bad it was there was a lot of dodgy behavior like having kids to you know charities and hospitals that he was working with you know no matter how good he was or how much money he raised there were red flags massive red flags like people for whatever reason yeah they just seemed to be kind of blinkered and they just went on one thing and you're kind of like even if he you know even if he hadn't actually been abusing these people it was still completely inappropriate the kind of access that he was that they were technically giving to somebody off the street who had no qualifications i mean this was pre background checks and it is disturbing how easily he could walk into as you say a hospital environment and just be let run free yeah and that to me that's so that's what kind of but i will watch it now because that does i think i know there's an ongoing conversation about what children are taught in school right but it is important that we get right that children are educated to know if someone like this is doing wrong things yeah yeah i think i know i want to get into that broader conversation now but i think it's all different stuff but you know there are people who didn't know what he was doing was wrong no i know but sure look at that's a whole conversation isn't it about lots of different things when you think about some of the me too some of that like stuff we're still learning is anybody who's my age and older has all been in situations that nowadays would be unbelievable you know will be completely unacceptable but back in the 70s and 80s wasn't considered as bad no but i think the most important thing with this is that you have to teach kids if you in any way feel uncomfortable if you in any way feel that this doesn't make you feel good then you need to have a conversation with somebody else you're gonna make another point there michael just before we move on yeah before we move on one thing i was really surprised on and i remember the case and i remember the bbc aspect and the news night and the cover what i didn't realize was how deeply religious he was and they cover that really well in the second one and they asked questions about was because he said it himself a few times in interviews he felt as if all his charitable endeavors and he raised millions upon millions for good causes was it was his attempt to redress the imbalance and the way he put it himself and this is how calculated it was he thought that if the credit column was bigger than the debit column yeah well then that he would be okay if you're okay in heaven and that's how he had to believe that in his own head that was shocking i i didn't realize i thought wow i think he exploited religion to justify his actions justify his actions yeah and i think a lot of people do that and religion is blamed but the person abuses absolutely yeah that makes a sense that makes no sense yeah as you say it's been able to reason it out in their mind that this is why such a thing can happen okay right okay that is jimmy savall the documentary it's on netflix it is listen we're not saying for a second it's not a tough watch it is but i think it's just important it's a it's a it's a good watch if that makes sense it's hard when it's with 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unfold that the penny dropped with me oh wow because i really don't step away from a film often thinking that's a good film and it was it's all the knives on uh amazon when you used to review stuff uh watch it again listen someone says to any good movies on netflix this week and i've seen the top ten use an email address and sign up for a free month with amazon or disney plus you know fill your boots over easter yeah and uh apple as well sky and apple are giving a free three month trial as well and they because everybody should see coda it's very easy to answer amazon by the way so you know you don't have you sign up for your month and as there's email you'd say your your trials about text buyer and delete it or continue depending on it's not it's not it's not illegal it's literally what trials are for yeah but fill your boots over easter uh netflix i don't know they're after increasing the price now and i have to say i'm a little bit kind of they'd want to be thrown a few good things at it in the next while yeah but there's only a lot of stuff at it and they've padded it out with foreign language stuff which is grand but it's just a lot of stuff or reading a lot of stuff yeah yeah well then there's only so much that you want that you're going to want to watch just that obviously i know there's uh people are all over the world so there's people from all those languages living in of course yeah exactly which is great but i think it's it won't be mass appeal everywhere yeah yeah as in a natural thing a speaker yeah there's only so much you know what i mean you're not going to watch something like that every night of the week you kind of watch something good comes you'll do the run whatever you might do a movie may you be uh okay um right uh the dairy girls channel for a lot of uh anticipation of this are you a fan of the series generally speaking yes i to be honest i avoided it when the first series came out because i don't normally like irish comedy and i was kind of oh god this is going to be a little bit ott and you know that kind of and then i thought it was going to be a little bit like the uh mrs brown boy no the boy in betweeners in betweeners yeah so i thought it was going to be a combination of between the in-betweeners and mrs brown boy just only in betweeners i watched a couple episodes there the other day i think we've moved on to the point whereby even i it is very crude it's very i don't know if that's because we're aging well because i i i do i do you know what i mean ask you you need one of your boys to watch it and see what what they think because i think i'm always concerned is it that i'm aging that's making it you know what i mean but i remember watching her first time around and i thought now i'm thinking my word anyway sorry no it doesn't do and that's what i it doesn't do for me at all it never did but i was going with the dairy girls then so i kind of avoided and then there was so much talk about i said i got all right i'll sit down i better watch it and see what it's like and i have to say i just found it charming it's set in a lovely time like i was saying last week i really like the time period because it's very me is in it with 80s and that kind of thing you're very much in the kind of with the music and all that sort of stuff that goes around i like the way they've kind of handled the the troubles in it when certain incidents is that they bring into it it's really just on the tv like last night now on the episode they had mo molans first visit coming over and you can see the mothers all sitting around the tv i i always knew a woman was going to start this out type thing you know so they've just really integrated it as in it's it's like the background to their lives which shocking and all is all the stuff that happened over there for a lot of people it was the background to their you know they were still living you know sounds like a comedy version of reeling in the years crossed with google box no there's very little i know it's not like that at all description i know that one that was that's like a five second scene was i'd say i sat down and watched it only the first one is up it's going to be a weekly thing and it was hilarious is Liam Neeson though not losing a little bit of his credibility so we a bit like uh uh ed sheer and he'll turn up anywhere oh he's so good in this though yeah i mean cameos are always good he was brilliant in ted yeah i to be honest yeah it's only and i've liked him in so much stuff it just i can't be doing with the taken because i just want to smack the daughter in the back of the head and go for god's sake just stay at home and so it just had a noise view when they pick a trophy like that they just go the whole way like she's always getting into trouble yes but obviously they had to rewrite it to make new films but i do generally take your point you're not jumping in here and there he goes i've not seen it yet i'm doing it i'm doing it i'm one of them yeah it just was so funny the nun is back sister michael is back she's so droll the first episode is they're all waiting there's they're about to start their final year their a levels in school but they're waiting to get their gcsc results so they head to the the the side whether or not they might try and break into the school in order to get the results all the girls are equally as crazy as they were in the past it it's just uh i said leibnizan is in it and kevin mackalier is in it and he's coming to letter kenny uh if anybody is a big fan of his he's gonna actually be in on green on this month i think it is there may or may not be tickets left but uh it's just non-committal i don't know i don't know it was only just that he was on it i mean i was watching i was like oh i must remember i saw him on the brooch of green life and we know we know and this is know you well enough and at this stage if it came on and they'd missed it the spark had gone and it was crap we wouldn't say it oh yeah no they definitely have that and like this is the final series they're only going to be doing this third series and this is it completely finished and they started off on a brilliant note it was just so like i mean at one point the the girls are i don't know the girls are arrested and they're being interviewed by the ps and i and they're like how many oh we're all going to end up this is we're going to be like the barring ham six it's all happening now because they've they've been they reckon they've been falsely accused and next minute they're interviewing the guy from the ps and i how many catholic uh officers are there and the two guys look at each other and two three if you include the jewish guy you know the way it's just some really kind of funny stuff that goes on in it okay full marks it's very simple but i'm gonna put this down to wedding brain i see is it cake from netflix on the list now i mean i'm not why should i watch it so no it's not yeah but so this is like is it a telephone or is it a cake is it a microphone or is it a cake i have to say when i started i started watching this with my nephews these i started watching this with my nephews who are very young and i have to say that is where you really knock the crack is to sit much with your kids because it's very obviously there's no language there's no nothing there's nothing rude and what they're making in the cake but basically that's the basic thing is you get like hen party cakes then they get like no hen party cakes they get like uh six cakes one of the guys from s and l is the host he's the only kind of a bit part of it one of the guys from s and l is the host the six cakes comes out all these bakers have to decide which is they're standing back maybe about 20 30 feet away from it and they have to decide is it cake 20 or 30 feet yeah and they have to decide is it cake or is it real i am telling you it is shocking like i've seen these reels on on the social media whereby you know i don't know if they came before or after it but okay listen i'll try an episode michael what is this i'm trying to understand someone makes a cake right you have to guess it or it may not be a cake the question is is it a cake this is this you're making is this april first what's going on here i'm telling you i'm saying it's kind of range she's got wedding no no it's kind of addictive because like i said i sat down and watched it with my neck that's not a tv show i don't believe either of you we've done a few things like you know they've done the bacon engineers the bacon engineers and that kind of thing where they were making all different kind of boats and stuff and trying to make them float you can do you know any of those cakes there's loads of those kind of shows on on net we have reached the end of television i think it's the number one show on netflix it's number one in america that's a problem oh but if you watch it though we've run out of ideas even at the end i'm telling you even at the end right so then if you go through because what happens is is that two or three people have to pick is it a cake is it not a cake then they have to make something themselves and then there's three celebrities bit dodging out to call some of them celebrities but there's three people who maybe they're well known in america come out and then they decide in amongst with the baker they decide from the non-professional bakers is it a cake or is it not a cake and then if you don't feel i'm going to get through to that you win ten thousand dollars all right right and then actual ten thousand dollars okay because that's it exactly if you get through to that you win ten thousand dollars and then they bring around a thing which is like a bag of money no okay no and i have out of five times three times i've gotten it wrong right so it is so you keep a note are you using microsoft excel to track your watching of this you will totally have an excel spreadsheet by the end of this show right it's so good i'm like what am i going to do for my nephew's birthday now after this baking baking a suitcase i swear to god you should see them they do handbags one woman decided it was going to do a shoe like a runner and i was like oh god that's really hard laces and all it was unbelievable even had dug it out a bit so that when you looked at it with the camera angle it actually looked like it was the i feel like i didn't take my medication this morning and i'm i'm not i swear to god try it everybody should watch at least one of them it's so much fun and you will definitely find yourself sitting with your family should we watch one should we commit to watch one i'll commit to watch one i committed to watching the bridge just in a couple weeks ago i still haven't done it but i'm gonna do it it's different no but i said i would watch one just to scum about it on the radio just 25 minutes and i guarantee you watch one by the time you're at the end of it you and your family will be sitting around going it's definitely number five definitely number five at the moment i'm just trying to find things that capture attention long enough to change an api yeah okay it's got lots of bright colors and everything and lots of chatting because it's just turning into a wrestling match every time i don't have that issue with the two lads i'm sharing a house with but i'll suggest it and see what happens and the show not the changing the nappy that's what i suggest the show the show we are going to be drawing out the number for our competition now after this break stay right where you are it is the 15 000 effectively 15 000 euro massive holiday let's call my denvering concert with guests philomena begley ray linem and brendan shine at the millennium forum dairy on saturday april 23rd tickets at the theater box office that's mike denvering concert at the millennium forum with philomena begley ray linem and brendan shine on saturday april 23rd celebrate easter at your local cost cutter 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back to the program and we are joined in studio by shawn quinn had a sales as well here and also finula it looks a little bit like michael's just morphed into something else that's not the case very quickly changed here okie docus the end of another competition here another big big giveaway and thanks to everyone who has taken part we're going to be crowning a winner very very shortly already we have a person who's going to be winging their way to turkey for two for a beautiful holiday we've got two lovely listeners each with a thousand euro already maybe spend who's to say that's completely up to them and very very shortly someone's going to be winning a ten thousand euro holiday voucher for as i said earlier on the trip of a lifetime somewhere or perhaps even maybe to go back and forwards from turkey or albafir or wherever they want to go and five thousand euro cash we've labeled it spending money could be a new bathroom whatever they want to do that that's it shawn's not going to call around and look for receipts as long as i don't have to do the fitting of the bathroom would be okay but try getting a tyler that's another story but anyway they're all so busy okay i shouldn't spend this money on something uh as sensible as a bathroom i'm just saying it's practical though i know but you have to go in there every day i know what this money is should be spent on something completely lula that's what i just take i like that's what i like about i mean like you mean like cakes that could be real objects seriously watch the trailer i defy anybody to watch the trailer and not watch the episode but yes 100 percent the cake cakes that look like uh foreign islands and stuff like that okay right and no because this is what it is you think about all the different places that you can go it's just so amazing i was actually looking at something on tv the other day like the galapagos and i was like this is the kind of tank money now that you could use to go to something like the galapagos you know one of those things that you've heard about you've read about it you've heard about it you've read about it you've seen it on tv and you're just like that would be amazing those people that are adventurous they might think to themselves i've always wanted to do that trek do you remember there was a crowd here from dirty gold that went up was it the Antarctic that they went to they were going up there like this is the kind of thing i think you should do with that kind of money is just go crazy yeah i think so and i think that's why i think that's why the voucher element of it is good because it kind of force us to sort of go right well what should we do or what could we do right okay so what's the format how are we going to do this then well we're going to do the draw we're going to do the draw now and then and shawn will go through all the different details with you then while we are hopefully going to get the person who wins it online brilliant so if you're listening now you can also watch the draw by the way go to our website highlandradio.com and you can watch it you just click the link watch the show live it's in it's in browser there or you can go on to our youtube page highland radio arlander on facebook highland radio and you can watch now as shawn rotates this item so if you're in the competition uh you probably know your numbers it's the same as a raffle really people will know the numbers because they're given the numbers yep people should have received them by email right so what we shall do is with our back facing me all right with our back facing me yep okay now dig deep dig deep and wait a second please what's the number the number is 0874 0874 okay if that is your ticket you are a winner take your seats again yeah i know that's a level ticket and i like it that somebody that was in must be in very early on right 0874 and that is really what we were talking about earlier on it just depends you know you could be early could be late could be in the middle everyone's got an equal chance of winning absolutely all right so we're going to get the guys uh to um put that number to the appropriate name we'll give them a call and see uh see if we can get them on air it'd be fantastic if we could but um it's not like other oh yeah so i don't insist on it but we want to share in your good news don't we yeah no absolutely and i know we want to thank our um partners yeah so the details of Atlantic travel so uh the the lucky winner of 0874 uh we'll go to Atlantic travel the the voucher will be sitting there and they can start to choose where where they go when they go and how often they go it's entirely up to themselves and avoid phone calls from family who will now be ringing them all over the bank this is really this is really insightful here because my idea of the holiday of a lifetime is i take as many as my family i can on the holiday of yours is like go away it's my time i want to go on that cruise in japan do you remember that cruise in japan that everybody got covid at the beginning that sounded like an oh they had an awesome holiday before they got sick that sounded amazing they went to like all over that east asia and that looked amazing i think if i if i want it right i would want um i'd want sort of two or three experiences from it do you know what i mean i think that's the way i'd go i don't want it all jammed into two weeks and do you know when you come off holiday in like five days later you forget you're ever away because it comes a distant memory yeah i'd want to have a series of things to look forward to so that would be my approach i'd be the exact same i have four holidays all in the sunshine i'm never good at being sensible i would end up blowing it totally you'd take your nephews and nieces you see you try no i'm not no i would normally take them if i was going to portugal or spain or something like that because particularly portugal is great for kids i would take all my nephews and nieces and somebody else to babysit them but i but i definitely the last one quickly but that's the important the kids of the lucky ones uh no but on this now if i was like i mean you know i love my family but two weeks stuck on a boat with them just that you know herein lies a netflix documentary like you know i mean that does not trouble on board exactly the names it writes itself um so no definitely but i would yeah that's where i would like to go is there's just so many places you'd like to go the world is so big i remember my aunt went to russia in the 80s and we were always so jealous we were like what an amazing time to go to russia that's what you want to do go places that you've just that was before that was kind of before the mcdonald's announcements and all that absolutely it was completely before and before they fully opened it up that allowed in um even non-national businesses as they would felt at the time it was when russia was the ussr and i was always like oh why would this she didn't bring any of us big meanie yeah okay well sure um okay that's kind of holiday you want so uh we are reaching out now to uh the winner hopefully they will be able to come on uh because it's such a wonderful thing to be able to share isn't it again thanks to everyone who took part and we'll get rid of that trombola would we because not get rid rid canula sorry i mean remove it from the studio that would really upset our pride and joy it's really heavy yeah it's very heavy radio okay i have to go home now and put all the num all the tickets back into numeric lorder okay we are going now to ticket number 0874 to manakoningum to jackie mcgloughlin jackie you have won a 10 000 euro holiday voucher and 5 000 euro spending money congratulations to you yes you are the winner your ticket was just drawn and you are going wherever you want to go brilliant stuff so when did you enter jackie huh when did you enter all good two weeks ago i entered the business competition okay and we've been asking throughout the whole of this what would you do with the the winning ticket so you've got a 10 000 euro holiday voucher so you can go wherever you like once a multiple times 5 000 euro in cash i've been pushing spending on a bathroom but uh i don't know what you're going to do with it where might you go what might you do jackie i know it's just putting you on the spot well i might go and see me some in canada oh wow he's been there since the lockdown and we haven't seen him well that has to happen yes fantastic now it's just in case i have a new dream yes you are going i can say jackie you are going to canada well done congratulations oh my god thank you wherever else i mean you're going to use up all the 10 000 in canada where else are you all about new york we have to go to new york wow i love it well you can go meet caroline karen i said she'd go to mayo you might bump into her down there if you've a few bob left oh my god i don't ask the question all the time but it's always one that interests me are you generally lucky jackie if you won in the past or is this your first big win this is my first big one okay well listen it sounds like it couldn't have happened to a nicer person and it's great uh it's great to hear the excitement in your voice you go into canada to see the family then you go into new york and wherever the you know what you like because you've got a 10 000 euro holiday voucher at your disposal and also just to make it clear you've won 5000 euro cash that is yours as well 5000 cash too oh my god all right well done jackie thank you so much and let me ask i mean it might not be uh just answer the right uh the the right answer what's your favorite radio station it's you it's high on radio of course oh thank you very much jackie it is listen come here oh my god thank you so much enjoy it well done to you okay thank you so much bye well done that's jackie mclaughlin rye manna conningham ticket number 0874 she's going to canada she's going to new york she's got 5000 euro to spend and wherever else she might want to go i love it i was thinking canada as well that was on mine last week yeah but i love the fact that she hasn't seen her son in ages i know it's going to be reunited through this whole process yeah that's beautiful i know because there's so many people in the last couple of years haven't been able to travel or and then financially it can be you know flights are getting dear and dear and that kind of thing so that's fantastic but because it's 10 grand you pick you go when the prices are cheaper you know what i mean because if it was flights that's the prize but because it's a holiday virtue you can pick and choose and go on certain dates and whenever it suits you and take him around take him to new york with him i think she's going to go to new york in christ christmas time i got that sense from her oh okay then that's where the 5000 might be left that's right well done jackie woman after me on her all right i mentioned once again shown because we can't do these type of things without our partnerships and working with local business and that's really what what it's all about is working with and supporting local businesses through sales or through promotions like this so maybe give them another quick mention there shown yeah so it's atlantic travel and they've been a great partner on the journey some way holidays were involved with the turkey holiday as well was which came from atlantic and the good thing about it is that we chose them because they're expertise in the marketplace if they want to go on holidays pick and choose they're here they're there to help them as well on the journey so it's it's been a whirlwind six weeks but it's been brilliant and i'm delighted for jackie i hope she enjoys our holidays and and and and maybe do up the bathroom if she's a couple of phone left no way i just get a little a little obsessions i don't know what it is is all right listen come here uh thanks yawn yeah stay right where you are fenula because we've got to drag a little bit more blood out of that stone because we're still talking entertainment michael's going to rejoin us in a couple of moments and again jackie mcgloughlin in rye manna conningham congratulations ticket number 0874 she is the winner we also had two winners of 1000 euro each and we also had a lovely lady as well who her and her partner i believe were looking forward to jetting off in september i think it was wasn't it to turkey with hotel flights and everything so it's been a wonderful experience a wonderful thing to be a part of and thank you so much to all of you for taking part if the medical experts get it wrong everything changes from misdiagnosis or delay diagnosis to surgical injury or even poor treatment all have physical emotional and financial consequences we're here to help so if your treatment didn't go according to plan speak to our experienced medical negligence team at macklehenny and 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today a dull and damp day with scattered outbreaks of rain and drizzle highest temperatures of 12 or 13 degrees in moderate southerly winds though i don't think it's really rained up here yet so it depends where you are right okay how do we match that excitement michael and finula uh well we we can't really we just know i know i was just trying to think what if i watched that was that exciting now well the cake thing had you were very excited i watched i'm telling you everybody wants a trailer of is it cake finula's been showing the trailer around in the break and it looks spectacular so upload big sky resin alien which one let's go and upload i think um amazon amazon show yeah this is the show that's in its second season uh there's three things of note about this from my point of view number one it's from greg daniels he's the guy who developed the office for american tv he was one of the guys behind parks and rec and he's the guy behind space force which i detested that don't detested that she liked it no i didn't watch episode three so he's the guy behind this half hour show on amazon which is in its second season number two um it is a show that is very similar to the good place which was also the guy the other guy who did parks and rec the good place was about the afterlife this show was about the afterlife but in greg daniels version it's about a digital afterlife this is set about uh 2033 it's the year it's set the world is very different five or six big corporations offer clients who have enough money a digital afterlife so when you die you're digitized and you get sent to a digital version of heaven which theoretically will run forever as long as they have power to keep the servers going they'll you'll always be there and so the show is a sci-fi show it's a science fiction show that has really gone into detail comedy yeah the company yeah it's a detailed show but it sounds like a really good idea if they did it as a drama yeah it's a comedy drama kind of is the way it works so it's very detailed and daniels has spent a lot of time putting together this world um and making it a credible world in terms of the practicalities of how to do this and why it would happen and it looks at the haves and have nots because only people with enough funding can do this so it's it's a commentary on a lot of what's happening in the world today and the third thing about health care as well yes it could be health care as much as anything else absolutely agree and the third thing about it is this is basically a rom-com coupled with a murder mystery the hero of the show is this guy played by robbie amell and i know him from he was a supporting actor on arrow for several seasons and he was the lead on a show years ago called the tomorrow people he's a very charming very handsome leading man and they send that up a lot in this show because his character is quite vain about his hair and his mouth looks and stuff like that it's his story and he is the one who is digitized even though he's only in his mid 20s and he is in the afterlife and the version of the afterlife that he's been uploaded into by his overbearing girlfriend and her family is it's perpetually a beautiful hotel in new england so it's perpetually autumn the leaves are beautiful there's mountains and your every need is catered to in this hotel etc and he has an angel who is a lady called norah who's just sitting in a call center in new york and she's the person he's dealing with and the show is the raw it's the romance that builds between the two of them as they get to know each other and it's obvious to us that he's not meant to be with the the girlfriend because she's terrible we love hating her she's obnoxious brilliantly played by this actress but we can see there's great chemistry between the other two and as the show goes on we realize that the hero of the show was murdered so norah so it's a murder mystery as she tries to figure out who killed him and why also we watched the two of them falling together coming together and the thing about it is and i'm up to episode seven of season one and there are two seasons so far if his girlfriend falls out with him she can stop paying the mill and he'll be deleted so it's quite a dark comedy because he's like he wants to be honest with his girlfriend but he's like he says it himself in episode seven episode seven was the best one actually so far if he if he breaks her heart she'd just turn him off and she says it herself she actually says about turning him off until she kind of lives her life a bit more than turns him back on in a few years she's a horrible woman again it's like it's kind of whilst it's in that particular world you could probably make comparisons in the real world of course yeah so yeah it's smart i would give it like a seven or an eight it is funny it's it's there's so much science fiction detail into it i wonder sometimes do they need as much because they really have gotten to the details of how this would work is it a comedy drama or drama comedy that's a great question comedy drama because the the underlying themes are very serious right okay and and you'll be amused by what happens drama comedy so it's primarily a drama oh i would say the second word is the primary thing we had this discussion before yeah we didn't get this really the first it's firstly a drama and then a comedy i know i would say it's a comedy drama meaning it's a drama but it's a certain type of drama there for a comedy drama as opposed to romantic drama i think you're talking okay honestly nonsense he may be grammatically correctly i'm using grammar now that he's using facts i totally agree with you but i don't know i might be you agree with greg but mic is right i didn't say you were correct so it's a type of drama but it's an amusing drama and i like it even though it's the guy from space force because i see him as the guy from the office more than anything else yeah it's a good show it's a good show and it's two seasons in and i'm only a seven episodes to season one but i do recommend it okay it's not hilarious i mean you're not laughing really out loud but you are so in a karaoke bar then right karaoke yeah say karaoke bar would you say it's the focus there and karaoke or it being a bar grammatically it's a type of bar so bar is the focus no no no no i never asked what type which is it primarily no i think it's i i do think grammatically is right think about it that was a terrible fall not that was a fall terrible yeah that's not what we were asking is a drama comedy drama as opposed it's descriptive oh wait six six to five thousand come on people yeah tell them i'm right tell greg i'm right the uh yeah is that the adverb before the verb is the terrible fall and then isn't it the people wonder why i left school at 14 i'm serious the pro now before the nine that's what it is okay right what seven or eight out of 10 we were so uplifted with the documentary daniel at 60 fantastic uh family that is the one that it must have been maybe reared recently it was a good show it was very good but it was out a little while ago i didn't see it on again some of the footage from our uh from from our radio station from this program as well uh on that um yeah there's actually and i was meant to say it as well i didn't have it on my list but there's a movie on in the cinema now which apparently is very bloody and violent so don't go if you don't like that but it was shot here in dunygol okay uh the northman is supposed to be the uh uh hamlet it's kind of done like in a hamlet interesting if you recognize dunygol in it you know yeah sometimes things are shot but there could be shot in a certain way to look somewhere yeah it's kind of like a new version of the original story of where shakespeare supposedly got the hamlet story from how much was star was actually filmed here though i mean how much of the film it was it was being serious and not being funny it was the it was the mark hamlet stuff wasn't it was that it was that was it i don't i didn't watch i thought it was both ends of the mark hamlet wasn't it wasn't it what it was it was mark hamlet on the island so that was maybe about all in all between the two movies it was probably about ended up being about 10 15 about 15 minutes and you can recognize the geography well skellig you can definitely recognize i didn't recognize as much when they did malon but maybe you did i don't know i didn't die there in fairness i knew that is less distinctive than skellig because skellig is an island yes you know you know what it yes exactly and where they were the where they were physically you knew you knew you know you could see it right someone was talking about they've watched all the top 10 movies on netflix maybe they haven't watched the bubble so we'll talk about your bubble the bubble on netflix oh it's not right Michael needs to do more this is put turkeys on his list yeah i well i put it on there because other people might like it i i was really looking forward to it because there's actually quite a stellar cast in it and uh jude apatow's wife who's god forgive me i can't think of her name i always just think of her as jude apatow's wife i saw the reviews for this were bad in it there's loads of different and there's lots of different second actor you know people who you'd have seen in lots of stuff character actors character actors yeah so but there is quite a few big names and it's very i really like the concept of it because it's very now in the sense of this was a crowd of people they they have a long running uh movie franchise uh one of the actresses left the franchise she's after doing a complete turkey of a movie so now they've decided she's now decided that maybe she wasn't too good for the franchise after all and she's uh more she's gonna go back and do one happens during covid so they're in total lockdown so like it starts off with them going to the hotel and they have to do their two weeks quarantine everybody on their own in their own hotel room and you can see them slowly going insane just being by themselves for two weeks and then they're out for two days and then it turns out that somebody who handed them a cup of coffee actually got covid so they're back in for two you know so it's very kind of stuff like that in it i wanted to see this it sounds like a good premise but the reviews but the reviews are one review try as they might nobody can get this clunker off the ground the film is burdened with two specific hollywood insider jokes that only those who have lived and worked in the entertainment industry would appreciate it another the bubble puts its own budget on full display throughout yet rarely makes that a target of its satire it's just so yeah i mean they're in this amazing sumptuous hotel like you don't need five star hotel that they're in they're making and then they're making um to make this movie and in the movie there's like guys walking around in leotards covered in tennis balls you're like okay you know so i but that's how they make the marvel move yeah the tennis balls or how the yeah that's how maybe michael is of a you know a higher level of entertainment than i am i like that being a dramatur i mean it's watchable but i would only really be given in about a five yeah that's not selling it stuff yeah it just didn't do well as a dramatur it'd be interesting to get your view on it well just if they said there's a lot of insider jokes maybe i just didn't get them you'd get the hollywood insider jokes i mean you watch enough stuff and you watch enough behind the scenes stuff i think you know you you get them like you just need to watch enough behind the scenes michael listen enjoy easter thank you very much you too and we'll see you next friday god willing oh well finula enjoy your uh east oh by the way my next friday is my birthday so i am we're totally gonna go i used to hide this i used to hide this kind of information about i'm too old next friday i will jump out of a cake for you greg and greg will sit there going now is that a cake will it be like will it be like uh uh under siege like that all good reference reference get the reference baywatch baywatch star in that bye bye everyone have a lovely weekend we'll chat