 I cleaned the coffee cup and I went to the toilet and wash my hands because you but you know to wash your hands okay see I just want to give you a wee bit of space you must be you must have to dash off to you and do you have a few things on the plate okay well I won't tell you okay at the top on me and jacking on ready to go boom boom bye bye we shall delay you any further enjoy the rest of your Monday okay nine till noon show coming up let's get a news update first of course though and it's over to Michaela Clark thanks Greg good morning investigations are underway into an alleged sexual assault of a resident with an intellectual disability at a nursing home in Donegal it's understood the woman was assaulted by another resident at the private nursing home on May the 15th however the incident was not reported to your family until two days later Gardi have confirmed they are investigating and say no further information is available at this time Donegal Deputy Thomas Pringle says the aim of the Brandon report which detailed incidents of sexual abuse at Arnaugrenia court stern order was to ensure measures were put in place to mitigate against such assaults he says those responsible for the woman being placed in the facility must be held to account Brandon was supposed to bring an end to this kind of carry on and it was supposed to show that things had changed and the HD were supposed to make the changes that had happened but we've seen that the HD even refused to publish the Brandon report and refused to play actually act in relation to it and that's where we've end up with this situation unfortunately I do hope that the Gardi would give us a follow-up investigation and look to see who actually put the patient there as well as to the day we'll have some probability in relation to what happens a special meeting of Donegal County Council is being held today members will consider whether to publish the County Donegal Development Plan or to make amendments a decision on publishing the draft document was deferred at the end of last month after councillors from the Letter County Mills for Municipal District asked that more time be given to consider elements of the plan relating to the MD area members of the Glendies Municipal District at the last plenary meeting of Donegal County Council also put forward a proposal calling for a change in policy to allow planning along the N56 meanwhile concerns continue also to be raised around the residential Zondland tax the government is facing criticism as it gets ready to discuss Irish neutrality a consultative forms at this week President Michael D Higgins has accused it of a drift in its foreign policy and says Ireland must avoid burying itself in other people's agendas he's been interviewed by the business post ahead of the forms in Dublin at Cork and Galway Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon is backing the president's stance the Irish state has for since their foundation being neutral but we've never been indifferent I think the president captured those sentiments quite well yesterday and I think he's speaking very much on behalf of the Irish people four out of five Irish people a value air position of neutrality they want to see it protected so there has been some rhetoric coming from particular viewpoints in politics I don't think are reflected of the Irish people. Finally for weather dry with some sunny spells this morning a charge develop in the afternoon and evening highest temperatures of 18 to 22 degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning on post we believe in giving you more power over how you bank that's why AIB and Bank of Ireland customers can now lodge and withdraw money at any of our 900 post offices across Ireland six days a week that's right your bank is in your post office for personal and business banking alike meaning you can bank wherever you live or work visit your local post office or on post dot com slash everyday banking on post your money for your world allied Irish banks PLC and Bank of Ireland are regulated by the central bank of Ireland the county's number one talk show the 90 noon show on highland radio and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 90 noon show with Greg Hughes on highland radio and it is a very good Monday morning to you it's four minutes past nine on this 19th of June 2023 to Monday did I say that you're very welcome along to another edition of the 90 noon show how was your weekend what do you want to talk about we've loads coming up on this show we're going to be struggling to get it all in but we want your views your opinions your experiences 08 660 25000 08 660 25000 I expect we will get some feedback on the weekend's events as it relates to the Donegal International rally I do know because we've already had some content contact from people that this conversation is raising its head again as it relates to noise and interference versus the reward and the benefits you know to me now think we're always going to have that conversation but already people looking to have it today 08 660 25000 as I said but seem to be a really successful event in a sporting sense and we'll be speaking hopefully to the winners of the Donegal International rally the overall winners a little later on in the program that and as you can imagine so much more besides let's look at the front of the newspaper as the dairy people Donegal news this morning it was a very busy weekend for ungodly Shia Khan with close to 70 arrests made up to yesterday evening as thousands of visitors flocked to the county for the 51st Donegal International rally a significant policing plan including air support and additional guard of resources from the northwestern region and national new units were rolled out over the weekend there were over 60 arrests on Friday and on Saturday and the breakdown of those arrests are I can tell you as follows now there was many thousands of people in so proportionately not a lot of problems really proportionately is what I'm saying but then some might say well if there were more guards there'd be more arrests Friday night there were 10 public order arrests 6 road traffic arrests and 2 general crime arrests 18 in total on Saturday night 20 public order arrests for for road traffic offences 11 for intoxicated driving on Saturday night alone 11 people done for drink driving 1 general crime 3 assaults on Saturday night 3 drugs arrests 42 in total so over the course of Friday and Saturday night 60 arrests there the dairy news following the publication of a new report by the Northern Ireland Public Services ombudsman it was revealed 99% of GP respondents in the western trust considered that trust waiting lists communication with their practices not effective it was also found that if a patient is referred to the western trust it's likely that they'll receive an acknowledgement and the first waiting list correspondence they are correspondence they are likely to receive is a booking appointment letter approximately 6 weeks prior to an expected appointment on to the nationals now and you could be in for a bill shock around 130,000 households are set to be hit with electricity and gas bill shocks as they're coming to the end of discount deals consumers face huge increases in the bills because the high discounts they were receiving have now been withdrawn the warning comes as leading energy expert Paul Dean of University College Cork said consumers could see small price cuts of between 10 and 20% in autumn I would say that's quite significant Paul with all due respect but I appreciate your expertise in that area but you know give me 20% of my electricity bill this winter and I would say that's reasonably significant I'd love to see more but you know what I mean he said it takes between 7 and 11 months for lower wholesale energy costs to wash through the system wholesale energy costs have come down significantly this will lead to cuts of between 10 and 20% for consumers later this year however energy costs have more than doubled in the last two years with the average home paying around 200,000 a year for electricity energy suppliers stopped offering big discounts to attract switchers when wholesale gas and electricity prices started to shoot up and I noticed that myself because it came to the end of my first year with a company that I'd switched to and when on switcher websites did my own research and unfortunately there was no savings to be made in fact the company that I was with was the cheapest which was quite frustrating the Irish Times Tarnished to meet with Martin has defended the government's plan to neutrality debates and said it would be a fundamental mistake to shy away from examining Ireland's defence policy what do you think about this we're going to get to the president's suggestions and conversation on this to begin with my first question would be we're not shying away from examining Ireland's defence policy we're shying away from doing it by way of a citizens council why aren't we doing it that way where it's a hundred odd people from across society that would be more reflective of people's views instead they're doing it through a series of sort of town hall type meetings where they decide who is the chairperson they decide who are the guests they do to some extent decide who attends I was looking through the guest list of speakers at some of these important in inverted commas conversations about on neutrality a lot of military people in there I don't see obviously now I'm open to correction I don't see anyone who would be anti-war or pro-neutrality that is campaigned in that regard so if these are debates you know let's get all views in there but I would have thought we established the citizens assembly to discuss such matters now I know some issues with that format itself but at least it is as we're told a representation of the Irish people we have not asked what we have not asked for debates on our neutrality so we're not shying away from it a debate has been created in a certain way you couldn't call a debate and people are expressing their concern so I think we have to be careful with how this is being framed to us well claims by President Michael D Higgins that Ireland is experiencing a dangerous drift in foreign policy of course of concern at the highest levels of government further comments by the President about Louise Richardson the chair of the forthcoming consultative forum have also caused controversy with finna Gale TD and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan accusing Mr Higgins of engaging in an unnecessary and gratuitous attack which was uncalled for the president referred to Professor Richardson as a person with a very large DBE of the British Empire which is perhaps a little bit harsh because I my understanding is she received that for her work in medicine but that being said she has expressed views in the past on the likes of US foreign policy and other types of military or foreign policy military action type of stuff so if that's your chair I don't know the Irish academic who was previously vice chancellor of the University of Oxford is now president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York a 4.7 billion euro philanthropic foundation so as I say you know we have a format there that could work that through as I say we're not asking for this conversation I think most people are sort of saying you know we know where we're at we're kind of happy where we're at I don't know I don't want to either be guilty of trying to steer the conversation myself but anyway what do you think the president's inserting himself in this conversation many would say there was previous conversations he could have had a few words about but anyway he's decided this is the one for him and the government don't seem too happy we're going to be talking about that a little later on in the program by the way he was speaking to the business post and we're going to be speaking to a journalist from that paper later on to tease out his conversations more but I'm mentioning it now because this story as well and it's not this one specifically but around it but I'm sure we'll come on to this because you might remember that it's probably three or four months ago when first when medical medicine shortages first started happened maybe it's longer and we spoke to a number of chemists local chemists Tom Murray amongst them who said that pharmacists need to be given the power to be able to effectively and on paraphrasing you know if a prescription comes in it's not available but they through their experience and knowledge know of an alternative to be able to give that alternative to the patient and it speeds the whole thing up frees up GPs makes an awful lot of sense and as I say you first heard those calls on this program months and months and months ago but it's the front of the Irish Daily Mail today politicians urgently need to give pharmacists the power to swap patients medicine to cope with the medicine shortage crisis pharmacist Sheena Mitchell said chemists are being forced to tell the truth and we know that there is more that we could do as a country the situation is so acute common drugs such as low dose aspirin which are used to prevent heart attacks and strokes are currently out of stock so to say you heard that story here on this show four months ago it's the front of the papers today the Irish Daily Mirror has an important analysis of the level of crime against women and girls and we read that the number of women and girls killed in Ireland has almost doubled in a year they've established that 13 females were victim of homicides in 2022 that's an increase of 6 from the year before representing an increase of 85% and with half of 2023 still to come already six women have suffered violent death this year if that grim trend continues there are likely to be more than 10 women killed in 2023 an Irish mirror analysis of all femicides as they're called although I for some reason that word doesn't have the impact I believe it should have but analysis of all the femicides show there have been 38 since the start of 2019 in 2019 there were six victims that was the same total as 2020 but there's a serious issue of violence against women in this country be it domestic abuse figures which we are seeing serious assault serious injury and murder and the reality is it is perpetrated almost exclusively by men it's an interesting two page article there that's well worth a read the mystery surrounding the death of Noah Donahoe deepened after it emerged crucial information was withheld from the dead boys mother this is the Irish Daily Star today and this is just a a horrific story if you know all of this other stuff wasn't going on around it in terms of information the investigation I have to be careful with what I say because there's consequences for your words when you're on the radio but anyway the latest development reads as follow a video has emerged of Noah 14 riding his bike after he snuck out of his Belfast home at 3 30 a.m. on the day he disappeared before returning almost 35 minutes later after an unexplained and secret trip it's now emerged he left his apartment on Fitzroy Avenue in south Belfast in pouring rain and was wearing a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops and carrying headphones but when he returned at 5 past 4 he was captured on CCTV soaking wet and without the headphones and his flip flops but the video which was taken just 14 hours before his disappearance was only revealed to lawyers working for his mother Donald Donahue over two years after her son's tragic disappearance of June 21st 2020 now why would that be the case I have no idea it just is really not what you might expect Donald McIntyre who is heading up an independent investigation into the case with a team of crime experts they're now seeking crowdfunding in order to complete their work which will be broadcast in a film after the inquest so that's really quite a strange development there and finally on a more upbeat note of course one of you out there and I would love to speak to you is well over 6 million euro better off there were two lucky punters who are now multimillionaires after sharing the biggest lotto jackpot of 2023 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nursing the following day right we're going to tease this out with a little bit more information and an opinion from Deputy Thomas Pringle this is just a horrendous for the victim and for their family Thomas morning Greg yeah it's shocking really particularly when you look at it in light of the Brandon report and the Brandon and how the HSC didn't deal with the Brandon case over the years to see there's something else that could happen at this stage now and what's supposedly there's a lot more attention in donningall and the way to actually deal with these cases has supposedly been highlighted to staff in that and you'd have to ask questions as to HSC management as to actually what is going on because I mean it's shocking and it must be horrific for people family members of loved ones who are in care in donningall to be wondering what the situation is in relation to their own loved one at the moment and that's that's not fair and that's the way we should expect a lot better as to how people can be treated we might have naively thought that with everything that we've learned through the Brandon report and other cases that you know everything would be done correctly or everything would be done as it might be expected but it we've learned that it took two days after this assault before the woman's family was told about the alleged assault and a report was filed with the HSC safeguarding and protection team and I don't know the exact circumstances but I'd imagine that that compounds the situation in that presumably her family would have wanted to have been there to support this person immediately that would just be my initial reaction to it for a time to pass like this is just beggars believe to me it's horrific and you know clearly they knew something was going on and they knew something was wrong so they didn't report it and they didn't let the family know there was left to suffer on their own for those two days and that's just a beggars belief Greg at this stage that this would be allowed to happen look and no matter what system you have mistakes can be made and something out there but we don't know that this is what happened and we see that they actually it appears that there hasn't been an attempt even to respond properly to the situation and that's the worrying thing about it and thankfully well hopefully this incident will be investigated and investigated fully and maybe then the HSE will learn some lessons out of it because in reality through the whole brand and stuff the HSE only modus operandi was to cover it up and to make sure that the state went quietly away and we've seen how that's worked now when we see this incident happening in the future and I mean obviously the default answer and maybe that's just the way it is but investigations on going into this matter no information is available at this time you know you know it kind of is a little bit frustrating because then what can what can be done right now to sort of say right this is happening now how can we make sure it doesn't happen again because that statement and I get I get it because this is a crime that needs to be investigated and alleged crime but it kind of draws a line on the rip for now yeah but I mean I understand we understand the reasons they're saying they want to give information away in relation to it but they could actually say that a crime has happened and that something has happened and that they're actually investigating it because they're given very little information and sadly I think the hope is that maybe it'll be forgotten a bit and you know in six months time when they've said nothing for six months maybe people forget to ask it or raise about it again and then a family left to deal with the circumstances and deal with the case on their own at that stage and I mean we have to be and make sure that the HSE know that the HSE works for us they are working for the people of Ireland supposedly so they have an obligation to actually work on behalf of those people and protect people and make sure that the things are done properly and look from time to time things aren't done right and that there should be a manner of as well to come out and say look we got it wrong they're changing and we'll make sure that things change but what we get is a complete cover-up and an ongoing cover-up and actually the cover-up becomes more important than the actual HSE itself and that's just not on and that's the analysis it's wrong and we have to make sure that that doesn't continue on Now separately this is turned out exactly as I expected to in fact it might have been in the conversation with you but I knew what was happening behind I can't say it right but maybe I don't know if you could use the old privilege or something to say it I don't know if there's something there but it was very clear in and around the time of the Brandon report you would know where people are still working and where they're not still working and there was a period of time there always seems to be a period of time where things happen and then we get to the point where we are now the Sunday Independent revealed at the weekend that no HSE staff will face disciplinary action for failing to stop an intellectually impaired resident from sexually abusing 18 vulnerable residents over the 13 years and here is it the HSE told the Sunday Independent that the individuals who held key management roles and who had responsibility for disability services during the relevant period either no longer worked for the HSE or have since passed away and as I say none of that comes as a surprise to me I don't know if it comes as any any surprise to you sadly it doesn't and it shows the shortfalls in the whole procedure in relation to Brandon and that too because somebody no longer works for the HSE and they've moved on surely then there still can be some action taken those people are still pension holders of the HSE we're still paying their pensions it's not a question of just choose is he making somebody responsible I mean unless people are viewed as held responsible we can be sure that the one thing that we can be sure of is that these cases will continue and it has been shown in this particular case as well and that's the sad part about it and there has to be there has to be some an element of people being seen to be the proposals being seen to be concluded and somebody being seen to be said you have done this wrong and that's the outcome for it I don't see how we can ever get accountability in any organisation where you can work for that organisation you can be alleged to have perhaps failed in some of your duties and then there is a period of time which you can say oops this might not go very well for me I'm going to go and start doing something else somewhere else and then that's the end of it I mean how would that do anything other than breed an environment whereby there is no accountability because there is evidently none because you can just you know step away I'm not saying that happened in this case I don't know the ins and outs have to be careful but let's just presume that was the case yeah and that is the problem because then it leads to an overall case of that there is no accountability and the fact that it should be accountable and it should be made sure that they actually when if they fail to do their job then if they fail to protect people who are very vulnerable that there has to be an outcome and it's not for gratuitous making an outcome and making somebody pay for it it's for making sure that people act properly and act in the future it's not for a head and a stick it's for a trust of transparency, accountability paying for blood here but it's a very unsatisfactory conclusion to this situation yeah and that's the problem and what that does is it serves the people who are taking up that position afterwards that there's going to be no comeback and there's going to be no kickback in relation to so basically what we can do is we can do the job, keep our heads down keep it on going and if anything goes wrong we can walk off into a sunset and that'll be okay and do you know who I feel ultimately sorry for ultimately I mean it's the victims and their families but the good staff of the HSC those who may have raised concerns, those who knew what was going on those that tried to kick it up the chain that have listened to this probably listened to this broadcast now and you know they're going right so that's how it works, can you imagine how you would feel working in that environment and some of them I'm sure perhaps maybe potentially their careers didn't go exactly the way they wanted them to because they raised concerns yeah that's right Greg and I know some people are considering even their future within the HSC and I've seen that things are never going to change and that's the reality of the situation and so they're wondering why they should continue on and why keep banging their head against the wall and you know and these are people that are would be very worthwhile to the organization and very beneficial to the Irish people to have and post and have in position but they're getting completely frustrated and fed up with the situation and would feel more comfortable and walking away than trying to continue on and that's wrong and that's the system we need to get beyond that and we need to get beyond it and we need to get beyond it for the families of people and for the residents themselves and for the wider community so that everybody knows that their best interest is going to be looked after OK, thanks for your time this morning I really do appreciate it, that's independent Deputy Thomas Pringle there if you want to have your say right before I take a break quite a bit of contact coming in as it relates to the weekend we'll go to this email from Peter from Letterkenny and the headline that was the weekend from help and I'll read on here how did it come to pass the quiet considerate peace loving Letterkenny became the centre of lawlessness littering and such incredible noise and why is it encouraged and tolerated I'd love to see a survey taken on support for the Donegal rally in Letterkenny itself I'd also love to see an explanation from the DCC Guardian read their inability to keep law and order over the weekend honestly, it feels like the town's been visited by an abusive relative and it's too frail and meek to stand up for itself the treatment of Letterkenny and its environs and people by the supporters and entourage of the rally this weekend was nothing less than a disgrace I've nothing against the rally itself other than its reliance on fossil fuels and its carbon footprint and the huge increase in roadkill let them have their fun too but I don't see how hosting the rally in a residential centre is in our interests and at a spend of an average 280 euro per visitor 20 million and 70k people there seem better far more sustainable ways of bringing far more desirable tourists to Donegal how about that survey Highland Radio I mean if the truth be told surveys on radio stations or whatever they're not scientific because you just get a certain group of people that are really passionate about something one way or other and they're more likely to message in and I would kind of feel like I say that before but we could throw it open and it could be like 75-24 but it might not actually be really reflective of it so let's tease it out by way of conversation I'm not saying we won't do it I'll just email in to from another listener about anti-social behaviour Greg I'm a local resident of Salah Grain what my wife and I witnessed over the weekend since Thursday evening all day and night is an absolute disgrace from members of the public who came to the county for the Donegal International Rally we live in the vicinity of the Eau Relatia Centre and had to endure hundreds of people acting with total disrespect to the residents of the area the following were observed 1. Throwing of glass bottles purposely on our property smashing the glass over the drive on numerous occasions 2. Males entering the garden and urinating 3. Knocking on our door at 5am frightening for my family 4. Stealing our garden property and throwing it over the hedge 5. Noise pollution roaring and shouting obscenities beeping excessively revving of cars at all hours of the night resulting in no sleep for my children 6. Cars dangerously driving at speed and erratically around sharp bends 7. Drivers driving with car doors open and passengers hanging dangerously out of the cars pick up drops with large groups in the open back 8. The campsite, located adjacent to a Donal Park is not fit for purpose and needs to relocate 9. The road from Old Dons to a Donal Park is too dangerous and with the speed in cars and hundreds of people walking on the road due to poor footpath or no footpath at all 9. The street lights This is an unsafe location in my opinion 10. Garda presence was non-existent of the whole weekend considering the large volume of people moving between these two locations I didn't see one Garda patrol this route on foot and I deemed this unacceptable We, the residents of the town have been let down once again I'm sure others felt exactly the same in that we felt that we were prisoners in our own home and couldn't leave the house due to feeling unsafe I welcomed the attraction from around the world that the city brings to our beautiful county but in recent years this antisocial behaviour seems to be getting out of control by this cohort of car enthusiasts Charlie though on Facebook says Good morning all, letter Kenny back to normal lots of cash circulating over the weekend and it is good for business Ok, let's see I want to stay on track here just for a second now those two are on something separate. 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Owen Gallagher is president of Young Finagale what do you think do you welcome the president do you welcome the president inserting himself into this debate Owen good morning to you good morning Greg so look I suppose there's two points here in terms of where I think the president is wrong in its remarks and the first I suppose is in that it diminishes the integrity of the office of the president I mean the president is there to safeguard the constitution and not to trample on it I know there was some suggestions yesterday that he knows the boundaries but unfortunately he has absolutely no respect for it and I think the second point then is on the content of what he's saying which I'm not sure people have really thought about you know this was not just a simple expression of support for neutrality but it was something a lot more cynical it was a lot more your skeptic it was a lot more anti-Ukrain and it was potentially even pro-Russian you know I mean you're reading quite you know deeply into that but let's take it just to finish at that point Greg I mean we now have a situation where you know there are two heads of state in Europe that have called into question support Ukraine for Ukraine Michael D. Higgins and the far right authoritarian Hungarian president Victor Orbán I mean is this the company we were doing to be keeping Yeah I think that's a bit of a stretch but look it's your view and that's fine Oh and why why not who's calling for this debate on our neutrality Well I think to to call it merely a debate on neutrality is a bit simplistic I mean it's a discussion on the future of our defense forums and I mean the president said of this that you know the forum is made up of and I quote admiral's the generals the air force the rest of it so you know like we have a situation now where the commander in chief of the defense forces is suggesting that senior military leadership could not be involved in discussing the future of defense forces I mean what he like polls should be discussed in this instead of the experts you know we haven't but maybe maybe we could have poets we could have dentists we could have journalists we could have we could have people who are unemployed we have citizens assemblies surely that is the forum for us to discuss something like this instead we bypass that some might argue because the government might not like the outcome of that and it could be quite definitive and instead we move to a manufactured debate that I don't see any representation from people who are anti-war for example or are actively campaigning for neutrality so we have this forum generated bypassing one that's been established already the citizens assembly and it is quite heavily loaded with people of with a military background you know military you know what military means don't you it's like armies that fight yeah well I mean that's that's a fair point and you're entitled to hold it but I mean I suppose the presidents comments have called into question I mean whether he wants to have a discussion on it at all which I don't think is wise I mean the other point to know with the commander in chief again who said he doesn't want to invest in our defence forces but he does want absolutist neutrality I mean it's not how he defends to defend the country like maybe he could explain that we continue to rely on the UK yeah but you don't seriously yeah but Owen you don't seriously you don't seriously think that we'll ever allocate enough of our GDP to put up any reasonable defence from you know a foreign state here I mean we will never have the capability to defend ourselves look at Ukraine a huge army and they knew what was coming and they had years to prepare they'd been wiped out in a day if it wasn't for western intervention so I mean I think that is a worthwhile conversation to have should we really be wasting money on tokenistic defence that would offer really no defence at all well I think these are exactly the type of conversations that we need to be having but the president doesn't want us to be having the conversations at all and you know I mean if the president wanted to be making these remarks perhaps he should have stayed in Dall Air and not come to the office of the president I mean you can't clap your cake and eat it Greg I mean this is the classic populist thing I mean his attitude on these types of things is he doesn't need to respect the institutions and can you say whatever he wants because he won an election and you know this to me sounds an awful lot like Boris Johnson's recent attitude to parliamentary scrutiny where you know he thought he could trample on the institutions and arms just because he won a big election victory so you believe then the president should have no view on this whatsoever he's entitled to his view but I think he needs to be respectful of the of the office of the president and you know he needs to be cognisant of that do you think the government needs to be respectful of the views of the public absolutely so do you believe there's the opportunity for the public to weigh in on discussion and there's four public consultations I don't think there's any up here we're in the north west here I've never seen I've never been I wouldn't even know how to get a ticket I don't know who the panel is well I do know the panel has got to research that but I mean this is not the public having to say this is three or four meetings with a hand-picked panel to discuss really serious issues but issues really that the government haven't been polled as to whether they want the conversation to be had at all do you get where I'm coming from Owen? No I think Owen has I've lost Owen he was quite firm in his criticism of Michael D Higgins and what do you think do you agree that's Owen Galher, president of Young Finnegale Owen I appreciate your time coming on there but our link broke down but as I say I think most of the points that you wanted to make have been made there another I totally agree with the president I feel like our neutrality is being sold out to big business involved in war we do not have the resources or a reason to get involved with NATO another it's very important for the people of Ireland to keep close scrutiny on politicians that seem to promote NATO the Brown envelope extends further than local government they say right okay and more here good morning Greg a great performance by Donegal on Saturday evening none none this handling the ball to each other around midfield like the last few years Michael Murphy was wasted should have been in full forward and well done to the ladies too yeah indeed we'll be talking to that about and we'll be talking about that too Brendan Davani he's back with us after 11 o'clock previewing the deal debate podcast and get involved in that conversation too actually it's really quite interesting and I don't know if it's exciting or disappointing I'm not really 100% sure that in the prelim quarter finals it's Donegal versus Tyrone so it's a renewal of old rivalries but perhaps rivalries that are all too familiar I don't know right a few more on the rally here I was in letter Kenny on Saturday it took me an hour and a half to drive from Clenery to Mississippi I couldn't understand what was happening along the road it was a disgrace I didn't see one guard in the area young men drifting on the road spectators in the middle of it watching and cheering them on I couldn't believe it I'm not dissing the rally as a spectator myself however surely more needs to be done for those who are causing chaos in the town and again I think it's really important that there's two things happen to here there was a really well run well marshaled well competed event that's the Donegal International rally and then there is individuals in the car scene that come up to Donegal and I think it's the majority of them that around letter Kenny that never see a stage really you know they're not going to be up in High Glen or out in Fannard or down around Donegal town they're in letter Kenny for the weekend showing off their cars it is a car meet really I believe this is the way I would define it there's a car meet that goes on and it's one of the biggest in the country there's a car meet that goes on in the same county as the Donegal International rally and that is the connection and I would be confident actually by the way if the Donegal International rally ceased and we hope it doesn't but if it did cease I believe that you would see this car rally effectively this car meet and I think it's so well established now at this point that it would happen anyway irregardless of whether the rally happened or not is that controversial what do you think 08 660 25000 but I think there are two separate things happening at the same time here and I think it's important that we I believe it is but I don't if you want to come on and say otherwise that we separate that at some point as I say I think there's a huge car meet that takes place in Donegal town at the same time on the same weekend as the Donegal International rally listener says rally noise pollution was the worst effort in letter Kenny would love to know about rally noise pollution there was no reason why the rally cars had to return to letter Kenny for service which added to traffic chaos over the weekend Greg some will be happy in letter Kenny about the amount of money they made this weekend with high prices but for the rest of us Joe soaps this weekend was absolutely disgraceful 90% of the people coming to the town of savages and I don't say that lightly the behavior had a lot to say had a lot to be desired that meant to have a traffic plan for the only plan I seen was a four by five foot female garter standing at Gallagher's sorry I'm mixing things up here the only police plan I saw was a guard standing at Gallagher's hotel if an instant did happen what was the guard going to do the rally should be stopped from next year on us citizens in this town should not be subjected to this lawlessness free for all as I say stop the rally I still think you're going to the country's biggest car meets in letter Kenny I think it's just established on the calendar now at this point the nine tone in show with letter Kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter Kenny credit union call us on zero seven four nine one zero two one two six reply online via our app or in office today your cat probably loves all the typical cat activities heading out for a drive getting their nails done walking the red carpet keep them living their best life with gain elite cat food 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aware talk to me about about the cloud and business and its importance and I suppose that leads in then to the findings of this survey yeah ultimately you know what businesses are thinking about doing all the next time is investing in cloud and cloud is you know the large cloud data centers that are based around well-known names like Google, Amazon and Microsoft where your data is hosted in secure data centers across the world and it's accessible twenty four seven and those data centers then and those services come with a lot of innovative capability that businesses want to take advantage of over the next couple of years and it seems that that Irish respondents are even more keen than the sort of global average yeah three quarters of the businesses we surveyed in Ireland are nearly three quarters really looked at cloud as a catalyst for innovation whereby not only could they buy services from the cloud to road test or prototype or innovate but also they could try services in a low cost way when you think about the big advantage of cloud compared to legacy IT where you had to buy equipment and install it in your premises really now you can access that technology and capability over an internet browser you know do some research and development road test or prototype your ideas and then a very low cost way if you need to then take it back down until you're ready to progress it to the next stage and that's for the real flexibility in cloud as a real advantage especially the small businesses as well yeah and Ireland again in particular with a close eye on the developments in artificial intelligence and how that can be utilized for their businesses yeah and when you look into that little bit more detail companies are using that a very creative way as an example a lot of companies are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to screen out what we call the noise and cyber security so companies large companies get a lot of cyber security alerts every day for threats and updates and potential attacks and where artificial intelligence plays a key role is it's able to screen out those thousands of interactions and then bring the really important ones to human cyber threat associates so to somebody in the cyber cyber centre they can say yeah this is a real threat and these are not and that's where artificial intelligence with the power of cloud is able to really multiply that like no other system can really yeah and this is not necessarily at this point and and there are sort of really quite worrying predictions for the future this is not necessarily about replacing humans at this time but it's making their work more efficient because they're actually probably only dealing with situations or threats that have been filtered out that are probably meaningful rather than time wasters yeah and not only that but there's a lot of rudimentary tasks in IT and in other businesses finance and accounting life sciences that the cloud and artificial intelligence can do on behalf of the user but secondly as well you know building a cloud environment and moving into cloud technology takes a whole different set of skills as well so we're going to need a new type of graduate there's lots of job opportunities in cloud and in hyperscalers for graduates and experienced professionals so while some roles and tasks will get automated on one side there will be a brand new family of jobs coming up on the other side as well and this is where we're going I mean any people now who are considering courses or have an interest in this I mean this is the time now to if you can are interested to tailor education because the opportunities will be there you know this is not like beta max versus VHS we know where we know where we're going we do and technology as well you know sometimes you get these what we call megatrans and you know cloud is definitely one of these as you say we know where we're going it is the technology of now and it's going to only grow in the future because what companies are saying is that it's more important for me to invest in my people to make sure that they use their time to the best and let the computers do the rest so that you know that automation cloud cyber security those tools and technologies for the future are no regrets investment for people in their careers yeah and I mean obviously in certain industries there's always different ways of working but is there a sense that we're in a period now where there is a you know almost like a internal combustion engine to electric type of a shift in how work is doing I'm trying to sort of put it into ways that I can better understand but you know there's always innovation but is this are we seeing a real shift now over the next in the past number of years but over the next couple of years yeah because of the way you describe it in terms of like people don't worry for their electricity comes from anymore they switch on the light and the light comes on IT is sort of going down that road and with the large providers providing this always on access this ubiquitous or common approach and common tool set to use an IT so that you'll see that approach in businesses coming where IT before you know historically was a large specialism and you know you had to be very invested in how it worked and how it was designed you know businesses now don't need to worry about that and because it's provided that source by the large providers and then customized by companies like us but it also allows them to focus on what's important to their business and that shift we're also seeing now is what we call vertical cloud integration so this is where you get clouds with the power of everything in the cloud but also with some features and functions that are applicable to your business whether that be logistics and supply chain life sciences healthcare finance so you get the cloud but you also get some things that you're used to seeing in your business and in your industry and again that's a really important component for people that are just new into the cloud or new into that approach and just in the last minute tell us Tata consultancy services role in all of this where does your company sit? Yeah well we're really an enabler for those companies who want to go on a journey to the cloud so you know while the large hyperscalers and the large cloud providers will give you data center and all the technology we're the glue that puts that together for you in terms of applying consultancy design maintenance and support so we'll help you design it build it deploy it and then run it for the long term and we've lots of experience in doing that a lot across a range of industries of our many many years and of course I mean often you know I'm thinking that you've mentioned big companies there and what have you but presumably small medium firms can benefit from this as well this is not just for the big boys and you know that's the great advantage because you know you can start small you can learn really fast and then you can grow at your own pace so you know if you're a one to two user micro business or a small business and you're based in the co-lab down at the ATU and you want to get mobilized in the cloud you can do that with one, two, three or four or five users but if you're lucky enough to grow and you're lucky enough to accelerate your business and you go to 10, 20, 100 users the cloud can grow with you and companies like us can help you do that as well so that's really important. All right listen thanks for your time it's going to be of interest to those who get it thanks so much that's Gerard Grant Director of Strategic Initiatives for TCS in Ireland 08 660 25,000 WhatsApps and texts so call 07 491 25,000 we are going to take a break for the news stay right where you are we'll be back with more stuff over the next two hours and a bit but Mikael is on the way with the news and obituary notices you other half Crawford tiles and more castle fin summer offers now on 10% off everything for the month of June wall and floor tiles all sizes from small to extra large wood flooring in stock over 60 bathrooms on display tile and bathwork clearance available outside late night opening on Thursday till 8 closed Saturdays Crawford tiles and more castle fin live on air online and on the Highland Radio this is Highland Radio News Good morning I'm Mikela Clark with the news at 10 o'clock Investigations are underway into an alleged sexual assault of a resident with an intellectual disability at a nursing home in Donegal It's understood the woman was assaulted by another resident at the private nursing home on May the 15th however the incident was not reported to your family until two days later Gardi have confirmed they are investigating and say no further information is available at this time Donegal Deputy Thomas Pringle says the aim of the Brandon report which detailed incidents of sexual abuse at Arnaugrenia Courts to Norlar was to ensure measures were put in place to mitigate against such assaults he says those responsible for the woman being placed in the facility must be held to account Gardi has been praising those who complied and co-operated with them over the past few months and they have been saying that they have been trying to make the change that has happened but we have seen that they have even refused to publish the Brandon report and refused to actually act in relation to it and that is where we have ended up with this situation unfortunately I do hope that the Gardi would give this a follow-up investigation Gardi complied and co-operated with them over Raleigh weekend Huge Crides flocked to Donegal for the annual event with a major policing operation in place for the duration between Friday and Sunday over 80 arrests were made for a range of offences including public order offences intoxicated driving assault and drug offences no major incidents have been reported Inspector Sheamus McGonagall says given the volume of people in the locality over the past three days it was a positive weekend the vast majority of people who attended the Raleigh events over the weekend behaved excellent there was no great issues with them as ever there is one percent of miscreants who do cause some bother but again a lot of them were dealt with and thankfully we had no serious incidents there was no serious traffic accidents there was no very serious assaults in the town so overall taking account of the huge numbers we really can't complain and again reiterated our thanks to the vast majority of people who behaved so well the president has come close to crossing the line with comments on neutrality according to a Fina Falls Senator Michael D. Higgins said the government was playing with fire through the consultative forums on security which started this week he said there is a danger drift when it comes to the long held policy on neutrality Fina Falls Senator Aaron McGreehin is one of those to criticize the president you know what if the next president decides to criticize some sort of social policy and go back on you know same sex couples to marriage or surrogacy legislation that was coming down the line or immigration laws just because a lot of people agree with the president on this issue doesn't mean he has a right to weigh in on a debate about it a special meeting of Dunnegal County still is being held today it's to consider the County Dunnegal Development Plan Shauna Regan has more members will consider whether to publish the County Dunnegal Development Plan or to make amendments a decision on publishing the draft document was deferred at the end of last month after councillors from the letter Kenny Milford Municipal District ask that more time be given to consider elements of the plan relating to the MD area members of the Glenties Municipal District at the last plenary meeting of Dunnegal County Council also put forward a proposal calling for a change in policy to allow planning along the N56 concerns continue to also be raised in the potential zoned land tax and letter Kenny is to host it's first ever Pride Festival this summer letter Kenny Pride Festival will take place on August the 19th to celebrate the LGBTQ plus community a day filled with festivities colour music and self-expression is planned one of the organisers keely biary says it's an opportunity to celebrate how Ireland has evolved I just think that it's time where a big town in Dunnegal we have a huge community here that I think it's time we will give them a place to come together and to meet but also for the wider community to come together and celebrate them and how far we've come and all this time Whether or not I dry with some 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location and availability speeds may vary based on analysis by speed test intelligence data q3 to q4 2022 watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at hylandradio.com all right loads coming in on the rally I'll get to those in a moment but some on the president's comments good morning Gregory the defense of our country no one except the US and the UK are the only countries we need to worry about they are the only countries that would be worrying over our country Russia may well threaten the internet cables from Europe to the US but these also run through international waters the destruction of the Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic were caused by the US as was the blowing up of the bridge in Crimea so who should we really be worried about invading Ireland and there are difference of opinions as it relates to who's responsible for those two instances but that's your opinion thank you I agree with the presidency stands up for the country to remain neutral it's about time we stood up for ourselves he's speaking on behalf of the majority of us I'm an elderly woman I and I get scared at the thought of war which I know so many of us do I don't want my sons grandsons nephews to have to fight for our country why are political parties given out to the president for wanting to remain neutral am I missing something here and I would be of the firm view that we need to do anything we can to avoid any war the one thing we don't really think I think here you know when we hear of tanks being sent here and there and everywhere and what have you is currently at the moment there is an incredible incredible loss of life of young people primarily young people in Ukrainian young people and Russian young people both groups compelled to fight there is conscription they don't have a choice so it's not like you know it might be presented in a way to say that you know we'll do anything for our flag you know take me to the front line I'm sure there are people like that as well but people are obliged to join the army to train and to go into the front line and fight and hundreds upon hundreds are dying every day every day and really the thing about it is is that if the truth be told it's probably it's probably to get to a stalemate whereby there will be discussions because Russia is not going to take over the Ukraine at this point Ukraine aren't going to push Russia out of Ukraine so it's a case of exhausting resources both military and human resources to the point whereby both sides negotiate and the amount of lives that will be lost between now and then is just absolutely horrendous you couldn't allow yourself to think about it because it's hundreds upon hundreds of people every single day and as I say they are people sons nephews grandsons not all doing it by choice they're conscripted into the army and sent into fight never to return the truth is is that a lot of these people from both sides sent to the front line there's no hope of them ever returning they'll go and if they can take one or two with them all be well it's all about ratios isn't it you kill five to one or three to two well that's it really there are lots and lots of people are going to die and as I say my feeling is is that it's only really just to grind out a position whereby they have to negotiate it's really quite depressing isn't it I agree with president higgins on the preservation of our neutrality listening to the young finnegale lad is typical of an attitude that anyone speaking true common sense is lambasted I want to preserve the future here for our young people I don't want my grandchildren dying on foreign soil what for someone has to call this government to heal let me hold Martin go off to the war seeing as he is so eager to end Ireland's neutrality let him and his likes head out to the front in Ukraine to fight Paul's talking nonsense we this Irish people do not want to be any part of any wars full stop another leaf of president alone the war mongers are out in force I'm switching off the finnegale finnefoil are allowed to insult them last one on this filling up this forum with yes men and women and army industrials industrialists is an attempt to torpedo us into the undemocratic EU and NATO war machine no one on it represents me or most Irish people another disgusting mistake by finnegale finnefoil in the greens they believe but there has been you could argue and you could argue against it as well there has been a momentum here you know I've talked about this in the past how we name referendum or whatever you know what I mean there's a way in which you you soften us up in the public really we can be really quite easily influenced right well done to everyone involved in the Donegal international rally this weekend to the great work done by the guarder and emergency services well done to the organisers and competitors for another fantastic weekend we have a fantastic event that brings extra employment and money into a county that needs it so badly long may the rally continue another it's only a handful of people who actually most of them live outside letter Kenny the benefit from the rally there's no point in complaining about it anyway because nothing will happen every year the majority of letter Kenny residents do their shopping on a Thursday and don't go near the town until Monday when the rally is over no other town anywhere in the world would put up with that with what goes on at the Donegal international rally every year in letter Kenny I mean I would say for instance the local residents of Croke Park would argue something different do you know what I mean that this is why they try and limit the amount of concerts to five because it's everything we see here it's noisiness it's people going into gardens it's people biddling up against walls it's disruption in terms of moving in and out of their homes so I take your wider point but I mean you would only have to go and live around Croke Park to see what it can be like good morning Greg I would like to say a massive thanks to Highland Radio for the coverage they done over every item of sport over the whole weekend continued success thank you so much hi Greg the Donegal rally over the south of Donegal on Friday was like a world rally day is that good I presume so loved the rally weekend great to see so many about our lovely town I'm a woman over 50 and live in letter Kenny residents near O'Donnell Park should take that up with St. Unions and maybe they should share some of the profits they got with the people who live there are even offered to fund them to go away for the weekend if they prefer another open the car parks let them park up display their cars then they aren't blocking the roads driving round charge them an entrance free it will cover the tidy up and the rubbish another another letter Kenny was booming banging zooming but one thing that was relatively beneficial was that the diffing was accommodated in a controlled safer environment on the outskirts of the town and when a lot of traditional tourist accommodation is more lucratively used in another way well then the influx of rally visitors they have to camp somewhere left Sliger one Friday at half two and didn't get home to kill McCren until 855 there was an accident we've got a motorcyclist at the city but can't put all the blame on that you indeed and and that person's got to make a full recovery that was a at the totally old round about which is is more done in go town than I hear but I take your point yep indeed I know someone trying to get to work in Abbots they left Bali Shannon at 6 and got there at something like quarter to 8 not too bad but that's a long way from Sliger to kill McCren and who profits from the rally certainly not the suffering residents well businesses do I mean I imagine you know shops hold lots of stuff and takeaways and pubs and hotels and coffee shops I'm sure they all did really well petrol stations how come you always stand up for the rally is that me no I don't stand up for the rally at all I in anything I do is try and look at look at all different sides and see that there's not as much in this life as we'd like to believe that if I say something on right and another person is wrong it's not really we we can both believe we are right and somewhere in between lies the truth I just believe if you right into my comments as it relates to if you talk to my comments as it relates to there I think there is two events that are ongoing in the county that's that's all I'm saying rally supporters and rally cars can have no respect for the National Park it only benefits business and the rest of us are tortured it's a disgrace and now we'll have the boy racers driving dangerously across for the next month 12 years ago in my home and my neighbour called the guards to which they said the noise was excessive and I need to stop beside the point I know however if you could down down go down town during the weekend the noise was which I believe extremely excessive with young ones holding their foot to the ground waiting for the engines to practically explode and the guards they didn't do nothing it makes make that make sense I can't make it make sense but the guard like the guards have to please it and have to make sure they don't let anyone in or they arrest everyone for every marginal infraction which is completely impossible so I presume there's a balance that has to be struck that you discourage you know very serious assaults drink driving drug driving excessive drunkenness on the streets that's all the cards could do what could they can't lift every car can they again I'm going to be given out for being too soft here I'm just trying to cover all bases do you get me and anyone who knows me knows that I'm just trying to be as far as I can the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on Highland radio it's time for NCBI bingo on Highland radio it's Monday the 19th of June you're playing on the 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The 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40,000 to 600,000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter Kenny credit union 9102 127 right a public participation event for remote and flood relief scheme will take place this coming Wednesday in Remelton Town Hall to drop in event running from four to five members of the project team from the council the office of public works and consultants are hosting the event to talk more a little bit about this would join now by Lorraine Arkbuckle who's executive engineer with Donegal County Council hi Lorraine hi Greg thanks for having me on it's great to have you on in the program so I suppose really there's a number of elements to this event on Wednesday and maybe we can talk through one of the first parts of the program really what is the flood risk to Remelton from not just river flooding of course but but tidal flooding and it's not only just now because I suppose we have to prepare what might be coming into the future yeah that's exactly right and I guess these flood relief schemes are very much becoming climate action schemes if you like because we are having to give a lot of consideration as to increase sea level in the river. So yes, you're right climate changes a big consideration so we have done a lot of analysis up to this point in terms of hydraulic modeling and tidal surveys and looking at the sea levels and lock swells and also the flow in the river Lennon and what that would look like for a 200 year return period flood event and indeed a mid-range future scenario so a lot of work is the flood risk that we would have seen in the flood risk management plans a few years ago and now we're at the stage where we have a clearer picture of what that flood risk looks like for Remelton and we'd like to talk to the public about it and discuss next steps. Yeah indeed and of course the public will have an option to have their opinion on this but this is incredibly technical right and it cries a leap of faith as well to sort of believe that this is the direction which we're going but we we presume that we are so I mean in terms of what the public can influence here I suppose might be a better way of phrasing it in reality what is that? Remelton is a very heritage rich town and there are a lot of environmental sensitivities with the river Lennon being a special area of conservation. There are also quite a few projects ongoing in the area at the moment so our key aim is to develop a flood relief scheme that yes is economically acceptable to the public purse but is also environmentally and socially acceptable so what we would like to talk about in Wednesday evening is what would flood defence look like in an around shore road in the key area what would be acceptable to people are the aesthetics of that area and the tourism value and something that needs to be carefully considered and develop in the scheme and what would defences look like or are we looking more at enhancing the resilience of the properties and sales raising floor levels flood gates that type of thing so that the heritage of the area is preserved but flood defence and flood resilience is also provided and we don't want to do anything in the area of remelton that the people living there aren't happy with and that's why we would like to talk to people in the early stages of design and development this week. Yeah it's really quite interesting because it is a case of you know going into the future with your eyes wide open here in that there's an inevitability we can try and stop it here or we can try and stop it there or we can try and stop it there but one way or other we are going to have to deal with this. That's right and flood risk has been identified as one of the key elements of climate change in the northwest area and one of the key risks that we're facing into the future increased sea level and increased river flow so when we're investing in such infrastructure at this moment in time it does make sense to look to the future and ensure that the scheme is as resilient as possible to climate change so that we don't have to keep coming back and adapting existing infrastructure to cope with increased flood risk. Yeah and also there's a reality here in that really we're talking about laying the ground work for the future for our sons and daughters and their grandchildren and beyond. Absolutely so it is a case of measure twice cut once and getting this right as early as possible so that we are leaving a sustainable flood relief scheme in the area and indeed the other towns in Donegal so that they are doing what they're supposed to do now but also under the future and we really do need to consider the environment and public realm and leaving behind an amenity if you like that serves the community beyond just flood risk. Okay that drop-in event runs from 4pm to 8pm it's in the Remelton Town Hall this coming Wednesday the full team will be there reps from Donegal County Council the Office of Public Works consultants Byrne Luby they're hosting the event okay so you hope to have a good attendance and people can drop in when it suits them between four and eight you know we'll be there to talk to anyone that would like to come in and anyone that has an interest in the area we'd encourage you to come along at any time between four o'clock and eight o'clock and we'd be delighted to meet everyone. All right I hope you get a good turnout thank you very much indeed that's Lorraine Arkbuckle executive engineer with Donegal County Council. In Australia for five years says this listener soon we'll be returning to Donegal with my Australian partner hearing the sort of things associated with the rally is disappointing and in my opinion not a good representation of Donegal or the kind of people we want to attract even rural towns here in Australia have good public services with spotless public spaces I fear she won't last long in Donegal I would say otherwise and I hope you both come back and I think she'll love it here I mean let's say for instance what my experience of the rally was isn't you know I don't live in Ladder Kenney I wasn't in Ladder Kenney I wouldn't have been in Ladder Kenney anyway so we were up in the Downings area we were able to walk up watch a few of the rally cars go past the road was closed for five or six hours then it was lifted immediately you'd never knew you'd never known the rally was there and that was it the local bars and restaurants were busy for a couple of days there was no agro very little bap bap bapping except for the rally cars themselves and then you could go from there and explore a beautiful part of the world with your partner that's the reality for an awful lot of people of what the rally was now if you live in Ladder Kenney or in the heart of Ladder Kenney or you needed to go into Ladder Kenney you've got thousands one thousands of young people from all over the country and even further afield driving into that one town for those three days Donegal town would have had a bit of an overflow and Balaba Faist and all have probably got something of a lift but it was concentrated in Ladder Kenney and all around there you could have just gone around outside of that gone around your daily business seeing what this beautiful county has to offer so I don't think even those three days yes a nightmare for someone in Ladder Kenney by the text we're getting but I don't think it's a poor reflection on Donegal as a whole if you don't mind me saying so so come on home she's going to love it those awful businesses sorry those come back to that one hi Greg what happened here at the weekend would not be tolerated in any other town definitely not Northern Ireland every car would have been lifted police would have been out in four shops in towns were dead so don't know where the money was spent apple green very busy Donegal has a bad reputation for this behavior now indeed we do I'll take I'll I can see that 100 percent we have a bad reputation you only have to go on to social media to see them these business people made money during the rally we definitely need to get rid of them sure we can all go on the dole who needs jobs really who do these people think provides us with work the Guardi failed to maintain law and order at the rally a disgraced noise from Diffing Yard awful all day not suitable for an urban area says another it it isn't but it means it's being done in one space and not up and down every back road in the county again this is the compromise and it's up to you people to decide whether you want this or not to Guardi standing at McGatigan's hotel with their arms folded on the street drinking modified cars banging people couldn't get to church no law and order letter Kenny people had to leave their homes and stay with relatives morning Greg climate change was forgotten about over the rally weekend government need to kill rallying before they kill cows more here there's a big issue at hand here with regards the rally where is the RSA in all this it sends out the entirely wrong message to young men who think they can drive just like Drally drivers we've worked so hard on assuring safe driving yet this weekend makes a complete mockery of this accidents happen and arrests every single year during this exact weekend why is this allowed is it just for financial gain for the county I cannot understand it says a listener Greg your point on separation is correct in 2021 when there was no international rally due to covid there was a significant amount of people present in letter Kenny that weekend who took part in dangerous driving and public order offences another we spectated ourselves all weekend at the actual rally these other fools never go to the stages and they give the rally a bad rep increased guard of presence or even bring in a few members of the defense forces on patrol the misbehaving would soon stop them that comes in from Ian like I don't know how many guards you would need to completely please completely satisfactory you know 20 how many people how many people are up here 20,000 visitors into the county and not all of them rally fans so I don't know how many you would actually need but anyway maybe it's time I just let you will have your say and I've not thrown my opinion in there I'm just trying to moderate the conversation if they'd moderate the debate so everyone gets a fair view do you know what I mean right some reaction to Owen who was on with us from a listener after these watch the show 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parliamentary assistant as well uh on the program a little earlier on he was uh well all guns blazing uh towards president michael d higgins for his intervention in uh the neutrality debate shanae do you are listening what uh is your view hi greg um yeah i i just didn't understand why he was on the radio to begin with but because look for me uh i thought it was a really important intervention by um michael d especially when this is as it appears to be this cynical calculated manufactured air quotes debate um and it's and it's been manufactured by the government um in order to try and railroad us and to drop an order neutrality which the vast majority of irish people don't want to do yeah do you think we're they are on the pressure from uh europe that they've they're being encouraged uh in a certain direction yeah i think so look it's the same as normal uh the finna gall and finna gall they go to europe and they want to be the best little boys and girls in the class so uh they will do everything they that is asked of them um to try and bring us into line and you know this uh EU army um is has been of great concern to to many of us for a very long time um now i don't know about you uh i certainly know from and i know but i can guess none of us want our sons and daughters to become cannon fodder at the best of some arm hair chair general in europe or or the us um just to just to make up the numbers and literally become cannon fodder for that for some foreign war i definitely don't want my son or daughter to be called up for that uh i know there's no such thing as conscription but listen you just never know i mean there was no conscription in england until the world war then there was conscription do you know what you mean so our neutrality is really important i think it's really important to the vast majority of people and i very much welcome michael d for expressing the views of the people that is what our president should be doing and someone would say he should have done it in the past too but like if we're going to have a debate on our neutrality at the starting point i think should be is to get a sense of the mood of the public uh i personally feel that the majority of people might actually want our neutrality better enshrined so that it can't be uh so there can't be any ambiguity in terms of maybe you know who the leaders of this country the positions they take on certain issues or certain comments that they make like i think if they really wanted a debate on neutrality you get a sense of what the public want this is framed to see well what can we do to improve in terms of buying boats or buying this or buying cargo planes or whatever no hold on you second let's actually have maybe the public would prefer the army to be properly paid then we could do exactly what i was going to say right you know what i mean so this is this is this is like saying you want to talk about black right now i say well let's have a debate on whites you know that's not really exactly exactly and look as i said from the outset this is clearly and i think most people like people aren't stupid people can see that they where this is coming from you can see that this is a manufactured as i said air quotes debate people are not stupid they can see that this is exactly what they're trying to do pay our soldiers a decent wage it would fit them better to do that look after our women of honor and sort that that element out before we start going into this whole realm of okay now we really need to join NATO and an EU army um again get the basics right you know what i mean and even at that i will be completely and i would agree with you and that i think that we would want as a as a majority we would want our neutrality strengthened not eroded um but yeah it's just it's just crazy and this consultative forum uh is just crazy even tom clonin writes with senator tom clonin who is absolutely for by the way us trying to join natal his comments this morning uh is that some of the high profile anti neutrality speakers are given several slots also given to uk think tanks part funded by the uk foreign and commonwealth office not a properly balanced lineup no call for papers to be submitted and it's by invite only now if this is supposed to be a consult consultation with the people firstly there's four of them one in cork one in gallway two in doubles right as you said earlier there's none up here so nobody's asking us our opinion nobody's asking anybody anywhere and other than those four centers their opinion and they're not even asking their opinion they brought a need this lineup which is by invite only and there's no invitation for anybody else to to present their views to this lineup of speakers now i don't know the exact names of the night is it's on the government website it is yeah but i mean look there's no there's no anti war no very obvious pro neutrality people on this but it is on the gov website if you can dig through that minefield no pun intended but i just don't understand how the right way for us to move forward with anything that we decided to do is to to to have four events with the ham ham picked panel right and then have limited access to it and you can say yeah it's been streamed right but anyway i i don't think that would be any way i don't think that's actually really a very effective start and point for any conversation because instantly there's an instant public distrust it doesn't make sense if what you want to achieve is to convince the public of a certain way of thinking fear is going to come out very soon i mean obviously the one way everyone argues nowadays is with fear as to some extent we've done it ourselves shane we don't want our grandchildren or our children sent out to be canon fodder to some extent you know you're engaged in it i've engaged in it in the past so i'm not saying i'm innocent in that regard but project fear is going to go into full swing with this one really really shortly i've seen some of it already but that's the next yeah that's the next line of attack i think and if you've been watching it for as long as some of us have you this has been coming down the tracks for a very long time um so yeah the project fear oh my goodness there's russians and they're going to attack our lines and there's russians off our coast and um you know using cynically using the war in ukraine i think which is awful um to try and drive us into a position that we don't want to be in as a people we do not want to be now ask me do i think we need better defenses absolutely we do we need to be resourced they need to be fully resourced our people need to be resourced that are in the defense forces we need to have the equipment they need to have the equipment in order to do that like i heard one person argue this says well we need what part of this forum is is that we need to understand why we have three or four vessels um that are tied up at the moment because there's no staff for them well i can save them an awful lot of hassle because i actually went on one of these vessels and asked someone who's very high up in the navy what the story was and the bottom line was is this it's a training ground people come in get trained and then go and work in the private sector because the money is so crap to work in the army and what they say then is that uh boats are tied up for services they're not tied up for to be serviced at all they've been tied up because there is no staff to uh to safely man them because the wages are so terrible people are going to work for private companies so i can save four meetings right there if what you're worried about is why we can't staff our ships you know it's really easy so yeah no and exactly that like you know it's it's it's not intended to be a debate Greg it's not intended to be a hearing of um people's concerns or people's actual views on the ground that's not the intention of this consultation they know it we know it and it's about whether or not they are actually how far they're going to go to try and drive this through and that's what's concerned of me um i mean i tried to sign up by the way for that last night for the go away one uh and i was doing my best uh to get on and it was page error not found um so that was up until about 11 o'clock last night first thing this morning six o'clock this morning i went on it reached you through to an event bright um website uh it run to the app uh where you can join a waiting list there is no tickets it's not a consultation period it's not a consult for the forum it is a talking shop with a purpose in mind okay that's it the agenda has been set listen maybe uh people will be surprised as to what is to come but um the flag has been waved to see all right thanks shanaida appreciate your time this morning texture says shame on you comparing donagall to residents of crook park this rally is country countywide you're a disgrace as usual you stand up for the money and not the people affected uh that's not really the case at all because 80 of the comments i've read out here are um as it relates to people's concerns that my um someone mentioned in the text that uh what people have to put up in letter kenny uh have to to put up with the letter kenny wouldn't happen anywhere else in the world and i simply made uh the uh comparison that i would say some residents of crook park would certainly be able to empath empathize or sympathize okay so if that makes me a disgrace well then uh so be it i'm a woman in her 70s from inishona my husband and i were visiting relatives in glinty so we had to wait in traffic for quite some time greg i didn't mind in the slightest in fact my husband and i were in the car reminiscing about our younger days and laughing looking at the younger crowd simply having fun i get that some people hate the madness it brings but it's one weekend let them live and have fun i only care that they got home safe we were all young ones that had memories of being free and having unlimited fun sitting in that traffic brought a smile to my face i know not many will agree with me but a different perspective for you today indeed thank you if you were living in the larger black area at the weekend you would think differently greg about the rally it was a living hell as to say and unfortunately the the way debate and conversation and even trying to strike a balance has become in this day and age in that if you don't agree if you try and put a counterpoint just for the sake of the conversation you're deemed to be against people that's really not what's going on here um i wouldn't have gone into letter kenny for all the tea in china uh let me put it to you like that um and i certainly wouldn't like to live here and there's plenty of people in this building that live in letter kenny and they had a nightmare weekend so i get it right okay as to say but i'm just trying to keep the debate open for everyone good morning greg the rally was great but i was at diffing and what i saw was kids as young as 10 or 11 diffing cars would you mind telling me how this is allowed where are the guards at these events uh i presume it's private property i don't know uh is there a robust system i'll come back to that in a second could the rally not be rotated this would give residents a break in a shown was used before for example it would also share revenue generated to other areas and this year the people of south donagore got a sense of uh if they have to go about their business how every day life can be disrupted uh by it uh back to our last conversation here before a break i agree with the president arland should remain neutral that comes in from john greg the president is right and for the finnegale spokesperson it is typical for their response if you don't agree agree with the narrative you are deemed right wing or a putin supporter uh another how can it be safe for our ukrainian families to return to ukraine during summer now for holidays i personally know families i wholeheartedly welcome them here but why can't they stay in safe parts all year if they can in the summer months another war is a waste waste of mostly men's lives as fodder waste of civilians lives waste of cto co2 and resources the kids uh help to feed house and medicate those most in need in our world war is the epitome of capitalism production for the sake of it warmongering forum needs to be stopped arland does not want her neutrality disintegrated by stealth or unrepresentative on democratic warmongering forums good morning greg there was a peace deal negotiated in march last year but boris flew out and told solenski he wasn't allowed have peace he had to bleed the russians as much as he can we need this government out all they want his war isn't it amazing if the president said we should have abortion up to the moment of birth and men can be women the government would be applauding him the president is right for once good on him another if government signs us into wars without the irish people having a vote then i hope leo simon michael uh me hall and sons are the first on the front line well i wouldn't wish that on their sons but i take your point uh government don't like the president telling the truth he knows more than the whole of lot of them put together so in terms of that topic certainly the vast majority of you um if not all of you actually supporting the president in his remarks the night old news show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today as a professional you want your van to be as efficient as you efficient with time and efficient with space the new reno kangoo van e-tech 100 electric is made for you with up to 300 kilometers of range fast charging is standard and 3.9 cubic meters of loading capacity new reno kangoo van e-tech 100 electric from 96 euros per week for those who never stop 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more than happy to come on and talk to us about the traffic and disruption i mean overall do you think the benefits before we get into that you believe the benefits of hosting the rally outweigh the negatives do you yeah oh yeah definitely like i'm myself i'm 28 so i'm young um so to me like i've been like my other half he beats the island man um so we've also go to car car shows and stuff so i can see it's 50 50 when things can work and things can't work especially traffic and stuff so um not 100 50 50 especially for business i've worked in sister fairs for a couple of years as well uh during the rally so you know we can i can see the goods and the bags you know from different points of views for from being in traffic and from working in businesses as well all right so okay so do you kind of would you show the view that there are two things going on here there is the rally itself and then there is the this sort of car meets that coincides with the rally do you think it's kind of like that yeah well exactly so for myself like like we were going to watch the rally and it's great and all the rest but then when it comes to like traffic so you are going to get a lot of people from down the country to go and see the rally but the problem is well i personally see so we're from convoy um on Friday evening we travel to letter kenny now as far as we got was my stage garage and top of lorrie brak so we turned my double estate in and then to ran and we got stuck in traffic there which our car unfortunately it's a lot of people you might laugh at me but a lot of people might know this and my other half always give out to me if you're sitting in traffic and it's really warm turn the car engine off um because you can blow the engine or just put the heat up um so for us and that way we ended up not getting out to see the rally but i think the problem is in the town um as car parks being closed you know the way we you know we were down an apple green on was a saturday or sunday and the mountain cars parked up and they were closing and getting the cars in and out and stuff now which was quite as kind of dangerous for people maybe coming into letter kenny the road you know even on a normal day in apple green you know you have to kind of be careful passing there's a lot of cars might just call out you don't fight and stuff but i think if the town worked together um and i've said that there's so many people this weekend if the town worked together and i'm going to just use them the storage car park and add as an example if we had all the stalls lined up around in the car park let the people come in and like ourselves we i like to go into car shows and just look at the cars see how people have done them up like a lot of people can't understand that and the way i see it is why do you go out and cut your grass and make your garden look nice why do you get up in the morning and dress nice and put on your makeup or do your hair you know people that are into cars are exactly the same they just want to make our car look nice respectable looks different you know so a lot of young people uh nadia they don't really drink or or smoke or anything because they put so much of their resources time and energy into the car itself that's everything to them exactly and you know as myself like i'm involved in some i don't mean in a bad way but some people may be listening might know me i've been highly involved with football all the time in my life i've played in quarantine at a level only for one year at minor level i've been involved in horses and you know in every sport it doesn't matter there's going to be good and there's going to be bad you know so like and i can tell you i'm not going to start going into three other details but i can tell you and g a there's people that smoke and take drugs and they're drinking this and that and you know it's the same in every sport and you're going to get that through the rally as well you know if i be down if you do and be down if you don't kind of situation you know for the people of letter kenny too you know is there an argument nadia for moving say for instance restricting traffic in in letter kenny and moving this element out of town and then you could have all of that stuff that you talk of uh the town could go on about its business and the rally could rally your way uh and i don't know if we'd be having conversations like this into the future if we did that yeah well i think just as i said like with the organization if i like and i feel sorry for yourself for you the same conversation you're in you're out about the same crack um with traffic and stuff and people complaining but i do believe like as i said there's going to be a certain amount of people make a noise and unfortunately can't stop that um but i do believe if they organize more you know places for people to park say pk max and stuff you know and let them park up show their cars off have security that they're knocking out there's going to be one or two there's going to definitely stuff um which sometimes can be quite dangerous where i've seen videos in the past nothing done at all but in other places say the likes of klarny and stuff where people maybe been injured and stuff because they're doing silly things but like like organize these places and then use people you know people maybe uh who are maybe doing community service and stuff let them pick up the rubbish and you know get people to help out get everyone to help you know what i mean um you know yes i think the thing is is though like there's there's large groups of people nutty and you talked and honestly about living outside of letter kenny and your great your greatest inconvenience wasn't you weren't able to get into it to enjoy the rally that you love so much but there is quite a big residential population in letter kenny and you know they've got kids that can't sleep at night there's old people's homes do you know what i mean like it is oh yeah 100% oh massively like i have two kids myself he's from probably here himself in the background here i've a one year old and i have a four year old coming now um you know we've had them now don't get me wrong we've been i live in convoy and you wouldn't believe it down our road back road um we've had noise we can actually hear them going uh from ball the fake letter kenny we live quite close to that main road and we could hear them um but uh as i say you know there's pick the island man things we have that um motorsport every year you know the residents give up like i'm not telling people to do this but my express like you know i'm trying to express that people give up their homes to let people move go in and enjoy enjoy it you know they go away for the weekend and i know loads people my own age that hate their ally so they go away in a holiday you know and maybe rent the house could pay for that holiday too exactly i'm even to help with rent and stuff yourself sure we all know the price of cost of everything you know but like you know so you're saying just to to to round it up then you're saying the rally itself really well organized but you think that the local authorities the guard d uh should work together to open up the car parks make make that more accommodating make leave places for bins and stalls you think that it can be managed with the right will that's your view yeah perfectly exactly because like we've been to um i don't know if anyone ever heard of it maybe a lot of people might never um it's an event called dub shed it's called uh it's in the icon center over the bar tomorrow she'll be in um it's been one once a year it's car show for german cars and i'm telling you it was the most amazing thing ever like you know they had stalls they had the cars there was so much bins like we were at the mount area the blue yesterday and fair play to the mount area goes you know outside when the cars were coming up in the ramp there was bins in different locations and the amount of people that used the bins we were doing an apple green on saturday and the rubbish was horrendous but there was only one way small bin outside the shop so you know where are you going to put where are they going to put the rubbish if there's not the one you know one way bin you know if they had people maybe donating bins and say i don't know what places and other kind of skip hires and stuff you know maybe half price for the people of the shops and stuff to put through the rubbish in town stuff you know for the people that are watching and stuff you know um i just thank myself just as someone that goes in and i enjoy even watching the people going around as wild crack um working and even like working in lifestyle sports and stuff um we've had one year i was working lifestyle sports and that's cretter kim and i had no shirt um a shirt was all wrapped he bought it on the gall top he wouldn't take that on the gall top bar so he leant over the counter to see on screw the tie but we just have to laugh at them things you know as that person nice to hear in the text but he says we're all young ones i'm still young and it's just a bit of crack it's a bit of fun i totally understand the noise level like at my v kids just soaring their ears like and you know as i say i think you're getting it from both sides what's your dream car and adi or maybe you haven't i'd love an x5 could you get two could you get two baby seats in the back of that you could couldn't you that's a big you'd get it you'd get it if himself was missing a seven-seater if i could if we only have two now if i get a more i would well that's another debate we could bring you on after an evidence of that all right now give yourself a break four and one my word you have your sucker for punishment if you want more i'm only joking there they're an absolute blessing nadi it's been nice speaking to you thanks so much and take care of yourself no it's our pleasure nadia okay bye bye that's another person's opinion there sounds like a lovely person i'm sure many out there know nadia ask that caller why she doesn't buy a field make it into a car park for people like her not up to businesses to open their car parks for her another all businesses need the revenue the rally brings in surely they can put up with it for three days though did laugh at only two drugs arrests hi greg uh they say thousands of people were in donagall for the rally but what about the thousands of people who stayed away from going to donagall because of the rally interesting point greg in 2021 there was no rally the car still scenes still arrived though and last one hi greg we had to get an ambulance for my little boy on saturday night when we reached apple green the traffic was at a standstill we couldn't get through when we got closer to the port bridge the bystanders young boys on the pavement began running up in front of cars and got the cars to move out of the way i just want to say a massive thank you to them and also the emergency services they did a great job too from a very grateful mom and hope everything's okay now and uh on they come more and more of your messages coming in later on we're going to be speaking to a lady whose house was struck by lightning i haven't seen thunder and lightning storms like i did yesterday for a long time prolonged unbelievable all right we'll be talking about that and so much more besides in the last hour check first on this week's deal debate we look back at a pack weekend of championship football our senior ladies footballers take on waterford and lyford and in the final group game of the new all-iron series our senior men blame monaghan and oma i have interviews from both camps as well as the views of monaghan legend desi moan top j corresponded deckland boghe and also be talking with galway star she was it's the deal debate this monday just have a seven p.m. news and podcasted on hydramedial.com the deal debate with sister sarah's letter kenny serving 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abot forward slash donnie gole watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com okay brendan divin is going to be joining us i think the rally overall winners are going to be joining us as well that and so much more besides but first let's get a news update at 11 o'clock and it's over to mikaela clock thanks great good morning the hsc says it is aware of an alleged sexual assault of a resident with an intellectual disability at a nursing home in donnie gole it's understood the woman was assaulted by another resident at the private nursing home on may the 15th however the incident was not reported to your family until two days later gardi have confirmed that they are investigating gardi meanwhile have been praising those who complied and cooperated with them over donnie gole rally weekend huge crimes flocked to the county for the annual event with a major policing operation in place for the duration between friday and sunday over eight year arrests were made for a range of offenses including public order offenses intoxicated driving assault and drug offenses no major incidents have been reported strike action has been temporarily suspended by retained firefighters to a life for talks negotiations between sip two and the local government management service have just gotten underway at the labor court if today's talks feel to achieve a resolute achieve a resolution sip two says the all-eyed strike will go ahead tomorrow as planned a special meeting of donnie gole county council will be held today members will consider whether to publish the county donnie gole development plan or to make amendments works are to be carried out to resolve low water pressure issues in part of east donnie gole ish garen has confirmed that a survey carried out in canaderry claw and bali buffet and surrounding areas identified a number of valves that required replacement those works are now set to be carried out in the coming months and letter kenny is to host its first ever pride festival this summer letter kenny pride festival will take place on august the 19th to celebrate the lgbtq plus community one of the organisers keely byry says it's an opportunity to celebrate how arnand has evolved and those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update at 12 noon okay now thank you very much indeed okay back with more in the nine till noon show after this really short break the national brown bread baking competition sponsored by aldi in conjunction with the npa and ica is back this year's winner will pocket 15 000 euro and get to sell their prize loaf and aldi stores for a whole year the champion will be announced at the national plowing championships in rathanisca county leash visit aldi.ie forward slash brown dash bread dash competition for details not trying to buddy you up but we know you can do it aldi every day amazing i live in bell of a faint strunaller and the noise of the weekend was crazy at stages i didn't know the difference in the thunderstorm and the noise of cars it's all so unnecessary and i'm a big rally fan another greg just tuned in you need to split the two events here the rally is not the same as the car cruises which are the bulk of the noise and the crowds in the town another it's one weekend get over it i wouldn't look at the rallies if it was passing the front door of the house but let them enjoy the weekend regardless of what people say the rally does bring finances into the county just ask the people letting out their houses or rooms or indeed the local gea club some people just look for the negative in everything and i know there is noise and rubbish but try to be positive if you can thank you barry another the rally is not worth having the only people who make money are the pubs and dozens of chip vans who clear off afterwards and don't pay a penny in rates or taxes i live in finn valley and it seems that some stages of the rally were held here modified cars traveling up to 120 kilometers per hour in 60 zones i did not see one guard during the whole weekend modified cars are not insured and i would request that you ask the sergeant tomorrow how many cars were seized for being modded and therefore not insured now if you notify your insurance company uh then your insurance they would be insured i imagine uh anyway ordinary lower biding people avoid letterkenny during the rally so don't tell me the rally generates millions what about the money lost by the shoppers my daughter works in letterkenny it's normally a 25 minute journey at the weekend it took almost two hours the rally attracts too many of the wrong type who have no regard for the decent people have done it all the guardie did not appear to be interested in keeping the race in its place it's downhill spiral which in my opinion will destroy our reputation as a holiday resort another i can't get over all the people giving out about the rally i was in letterkenny on saturday not for the rally but to shop and all i saw was young people in their cars having a bit of fun they were all in great form and i'm over 60 let the young people have fun live uh fun because life is too short another there are two separate events happening the rally in a modified cowboy race or meet up all the problems around letterkenny are related to the latter and it's completely unfair to the rally organisers organisations to be blamed for all now i'm trying to not blame but i'm getting a bit of hassle for that saying i'm pro business and pro that and i'm not and i'm not sensitive either and i want you to express any views that you have and also as well this is your platform so the lines are open right now for you if you if you are really for it or really against it come on the radio and discuss it i'm not here to argue with regular listeners either by the way your views are very much respected and air it and platformed here 07491 25 000 don't feel you don't don't be frustrated by something you hear when you can come on yourself and get your point of view across it's one weekend greg put up with it no fatalities or serious injuries and all went pretty well that for me is the priority to be honest with you that and i said it on friday that we're not waking up on monday to a tragedy one group of people who don't get half enough praise of a rally weekend is james name and russell and the team from glennard plant seen firsthand the absolute disgusting state the main street is every night and they have it all cleaned up before all businesses open in the morning well done to them right okay and still they come in and we're going to have to keep reading them out over the next hour because because there's so many of you wanting to get involved in the conversation brendan good morning to you good morning greg good stuff listen to some of the commentary on the weekend like the dynamic between you and martin actually it's it's interesting i just fallen in for the big guy i've seen listen it was brilliant game to bet i was only thinking greg the last one i did was i only did one previous in my life numbers were our common game and listen i didn't really enjoy it but then the game was so pure it was only then i was telling karen and donnie yesterday he was talking about that it was obviously an exciting game it was end-to-end so it took me a while to get into it but i yeah i really enjoyed it i mean brilliant to be there and brilliant for doing all football give me such a a lift this team is the turnaround has just been magical you know fair play the lads the shift they put in the management it was such a brilliant day such a great balls out the supporters out in the pits in healy park after all the players were in top form and greg so where we were like you know five six seven weeks ago to where we're at now it's it's phenomenal the turnaround yeah what i thought was interesting and there's so much more besides and there's great success for the ladies too and we'll get through that and i'll have to bluff it because i don't have any idea what you've got coming up in the program but i think i can guess what kind of stood out for me in that donnie gold game and is to say i am an armchair fan never claimed to be otherwise was there was a wobble right i think it really came after uh the substitution in the second half when mc burry came on but there was a wobble that normally go oh boy here we go but there was a resilience there to weather that and that was one of the things that stood out a little bit for me as an expert am i on to anything there yeah i i think greg if you think back to the dairy game when a lot of people didn't give us much of a chance uh in that match you know we played a good half against clear we obviously lost to down so people saying where clear dairy were at they were just completely outplayed that wasn't the case and when when the wobble came against dairy when dairy got the goal we responded in that game and we never ever stopped playing and there's some kind of fortitude is really come under lads that but that wasn't there during the league and i suppose when things go bad they can go very bad and there was so many injuries and things happening and obviously the manager stepping down and et cetera et cetera he had all this bad news and donnie gold so the managed to turn that round now why that didn't happen i suppose in the six-week block leading into down i'm not too sure because this is a completely different team now and i think just from last year we don't want to keep harping on about michael murphy now but certainly the way our mud field and our experienced players and our central players had to kind of start to dictate for donnie gold that took such a while to bet on but now the along with them and all the young players and literally like you could mention everybody in the team but really the young players come on even the likes of uh kern and mccolligan and east boys and and young dory come in the last day the shift that they put in as young lads and then the absolute up and down the pitch ability of you know own bams phenomenon and particularly i think daryl boil and jimmy brennan i don't want to pick players out but i think the where they went they in terms of what they did for the team you know they they stepped up to another level and i think that on the back of listen i could name the whole team it was absolutely phenomenal out there i we talk about what's changed and i come back to that conversation you had with patrick rippurity um and also to every time he speaks publicly he he uses an opportunity and i don't know if the leadership's coming from him or what have you but even speaking after the game yesterday he was very pointed in his remarks even though we paid some of the game and ran around uh and what have you but he still had the presence of thought to talk about the some people decided to walk away from donnie gall and fair play to them but the people that are left and i'm paraphrasing him here want to play for donnie gall uh and they're they're proud to pay for now i don't know if that was i don't know if he was making a point there as well either i don't know it's michael murphy asked him the question but i presume he wasn't talking to him he wasn't talking about michael but anyway i just thought it was really important that he said or what he came across is important that the people that are there the squad are incredibly proud and they want to do uh as well as they can and they're kind of like saying you know f the begrudgers if you know what i mean they've always had confidence they've got the league behind them and they know what they want to do is there something to that i yeah i think it's patty's nature listen you know being a bit of a few uh words of spoons after that ross common thing we had them out in the pitch uh just about that under view now i said to him patty it turned my stomach to ask you about that and he was on a bit negativity in that night was the party sometimes you cannot but tell the truth you know what what you see and what you get i says listen i'm completely enthused by this i mean you would have heard of them a commentary here i'm a ficking huge donnie gall fan i'm mad to see the boys do well but that doesn't mean that when things are going bad then and you have to be somewhere critical in that you know so you probably have to understand the two sides of that but certainly patty's nature he has quite bullish about that i like it i like it you know and i think too i think you played an important role in that conversation because as you say you were respectful you clearly didn't want to go down that line but you know what if it lights a fire if it if it you know what i mean if it's tightens this then using the neck hey whatever it takes but you weren't disrespectful but you know if if if part of proving you wrong is the motivation hey let's we'll take that a happy day you say listen he did say a few years to the press the last night there and uh some of them are about taking a back but i said like his blood's up now he's just come on us as a soldier he's probably mad to be more involved in the action he's probably firing off i says listen that's just a bit of spirit yeah i love it i wasn't anyway worried and anyways you know we we we all love football but sometimes i suppose it can be hard to understand the criticism but listen you have to be real as well at times going with as i said to patty listen to listen to the deal debate listen i'm i'm always pausing did he say listen and anyway come here another thing too he said he hadn't time ah come here patrick he probably listens to the 9th lune show hi patrick i'm one of your biggest fans but i'll say one thing those fellas uh and particularly the young fellas and it's the same with the women we'll talk about them in a second they go on to that pitch to play a sport that they love they have feelings to they feel all of the criticism i'm not too worried about the feelings of journalists no harm be it my feelings are anyone else's suck it up lads and lassies it's all part of the game but those boys and girls have to put up with an awful lot of personal criticism that their family's here as well so and they're not somewhat anonymous either or a byline so you know what we'll as long as we get to where we're going we'll all be all right yeah that's and greg totally agree there's a there's a balance there but certainly for people like me you said a lot of time for patrick you know when he first burst the scene i used to text away at him and you know try and give him a bit of encouragement and advice and all that so now you're in a different kind of place where you're you're judging football in some way but it's always from from as much as a positive angle as we can it's just things in that time particularly here bros golly greg where i couldn't grasp anything the worst part yeah listen as you said don't go off completely turn this in their head we've done to this group no one was giving them a chance of whether it was going to be darey or monon one or two so the fact that don't he goes been able to produce a performance against monon to that going five points up in the game against a monon said you know completely destroyed to ron in the second half should have beat darey but monon weren't like lost her weren't they they were like there was periods watching that game and i was thinking if there were a top four team in there we would have struggled 100 and seemed to but can i just go back to one other thing that patrick my birdie said as well if you don't mind and then we'll move on because you talk about context and again this is why i think he's a very clever guy don't know him at all but he did give context he says look in that game i think it was against darey we were we were without 10 players so if you're writing about it there's the context now you did say that and all you have said that this is not you versus patrick and not suggesting that for a second but he he did give context he says well like what i heard from him and i could be wrong is you know what if you're going to criticize us at least criticize us in the context that what team could be down 10 players that started against darey in a previous game and be at the same level i i i i that's what came from his comments to me anyway yeah yeah i don't really think they need to say that because we've been saying that so much that verdict all in terms of everything that's happened and that the players that were tired and the players were injured no county could deal with that but that's why i'm so amazed and so proud of the boys somehow the management and the lads have now dealt with that in terms of the back competing the big thing we've gone on the championship Greg was we could be even compete and i think in that darey game even though we lost i was i was in top form after because i thought we were in that game and you know you're talking about the likes of Michael Langan they got injured the game before if he was even in the mix you thought maybe we could have taken darey so when Andy Monahan you're thinking right we matched up the darey Monahan seeming a similar kind of level would they just have enough for us maybe he's a game entered the latter stages maybe they would open us up that didn't happen we bossed the game so i mean it was absolutely phenomenal from our guys and massive massive respect i'm like i can't wait now for the for the quarter final what do you think of that yeah what do you think it's torn at home i mean do you salivate the thought of that or would you like to have seen i mean it's well rehearsed this this match there is home advantage there i mean are you happy with that or is there another name you'd like to have seen pop out well listen you're never going to shy away from any great that's number one um the whole championship was turned on his head at the weekend by this nearly all underdogs wanting so all the teams that were supposed to be in three and most people were saying that was us as well ended up in two but then the teams that they thought were potential early contenders they've ended up in three the likes of tarone and mayo and size to get so everything's great now after the way we played against monon there's no reason at all listen a few years after they said to me after the down game you're going to end up playing tarone and a knockout quarter final and i said right we're in trouble that's all changed now we're back now at a level we can say we're going to go and beat tarone and that's what these lads and and i say even in party in the management the whole background team have done so listen we're at home rig darby it's going to be a packed house and don't think all people now can get out and really get behind this team because they've they've been in some shift this last couple of weeks to get back on track yeah indeed all right uh talking about turnarounds great win for the women this is me again don't go g a from from all this stuff was we were speaking makes it was a right off wasn't it it was a right off what's happened i mean it's brilliant they've been phenomenal i mean maxi kerlin them all the girls have stepped the way they've all slowly come back i mean jerley mcgloughan there's no word of this she's in there the weekend come on so so don't go and almost back up the full compliment the big waterford very important to win your your home games they've won they've beaten waterford now at home they're in a great position now to go on and and try themselves to get into a quarter final uh craig so listen the the donny goll g a is has pepped up of course all horlers get right into nickie raggard final unfortunately just coming up short and that's so uh fantastic listen even phagos McGee out there the chairman absolutely buzzing and heli park after the game you know how to board everybody's with so much pressure there was this huge lift and the teams now have given us this lift so we have to go home uh what more can we want to be honest there they're the days that you live for in football it's going to be an unbelievable occasion all right what else is on the show so you're going to be right across uh those two two uh and looking forward as well all of that action what else is coming up desi moan's going to be on the show he's going to be uh crying and it's a super desi former monaghan legend great fella he's going to be come on to give us a perspective on on his lads as he said we're not up to the mark uh against our boys we'll see his views and that diggy boat's going to round up the whole old irons series first he's a top j corresponded and she and walsh current golby star and and uh one of the best forwards in the country he actually is coming on for give us a few words on where he's at this season and uh where golby are at because of course our my boys turned him over to weekend so she and walsh is on the show as well that's all coming up this evening we'll have reaction from of course the management's uh uh the the ladies and the donny go camp as well that's all all up in the hayland radio dot com if you want to tune in and see that so we'll be reviewing all that this evening uh great right you're really digging into the contacts but well done good man and you go uh and he's actually in the back seat with a gun to you had talked about the website listen yeah you're a real you're a real company man now aren't you oh yeah i'll get a pay i'll get a pay raise and very good can we i'm gonna talk about your recent trip as well in a separate format thanks for that brendan take care of yourself brendan de many there the deal debate there uh supported by sister sarah's the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter kenny credit union call us 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with expressway travel route 32 from letter kennedy doblin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time us the time's 21 minutes past 11 and our monday focus it's going to be a brief one today because we've so much to get through but we're joined in studio by pamela reed from the kiln mcranon froiga club good morning to you pamela thanks so much for coming in good morning right okay on saturday the 24th of june you're holding a fund raising disco in the mulroy woods hotel in milford this is gonna be kind of good fun isn't it 80s and 90s with dj bosco what's it all for so basically we have a back when the schools closed for covid the day the schools closed there was myself and three other ladies and mothers should i add i decided to set up a youth club in kiln mcranon so we were challenged with covid first of all but we managed to keep it get it up and running and last year myself and two other leaders went and got trained for leadership of life program so basically we rolled out that program and we are delighted to say that 11 of our students managed to get accepted into minnes to do module two so they've completed module one with ourselves down in kiln mcranon and now they will be traveling to minnes now in um the end of july great did you expect it to from those initial conversations and meetings to develop quite into what it has not whatsoever i didn't think so in a good way in a good way so basically the cost of getting the kids to minnes is like 300 per child so it's over 3000 we're looking for and obviously we can't well just the times that are done you know to go and ask families to pay that kind of money is a lot so we've come up with a plan of having an 80s 90s disco and well well i'll call it the mulford and for a small railway no i know i know exactly so this is part of a fundraising to fund these scholarships are they or what would you basically yeah so basically it's a leadership for life and when they complete it which there's about there's three modules in total they will get their certificates out of galway university at the end of it so it will help towards you know entering college if that's what they wish to do and you guide me on this okay but with the age group they're 15 to 18 is this is alongside the studies that they're currently doing or is this giving options to people who maybe don't fit in as well as others do into the school system which i didn't by the way so i can say that with i can say that with confidence um so this is this is alongside of their day-to-day school work um this is an extracurricular activity which i suppose that there's a lot of kids out there that are into gaa and football and rugby and you know have a lot of sporting the children that are with us are maybe just not so sporty um don't get me wrong some do play um so i don't know what you're on about yeah but you know the passion the real passion may lie elsewhere exactly and it's just to help those children that are with us to just develop their skills and their interests and we do a lot of different things on club nights like making pizzas um you know the older ones tend to relax the younger ones are full of energy and kicking the ball about and stuff you know but it is it is a good outlet for them outside of the school that don't have the sports um so i haven't come up with the idea of the at least 90s disco i just wanted to put it out there that we like would love everybody to come along and support it yeah indeed now just one more thing on these young people as well it's not just an investment in them either because you know hopefully they they they live and settle in the Kilmachrenan area uh they will be tooled up hopefully to benefit their peers or the community or what have you it's it's it's there's a benefit there as well beyond their personal benefit presumably absolutely what we hope anyway yeah absolutely so the module one has them coming up with their plans for the community and they will link with smart villages now um for module three so basically they'll go now to Menace and they'll learn how to do research and stuff and then they'll come back and they'll do module three within the community and roll out hopefully develop their ideas um some of them one in particular has they want they want to do a fundraiser to get Christmas lights for Kilmachrenan and then get the community out to help put them up for Christmas that's just a simple but but a fresh set of eyes fresh enthusiasm yeah you know it's brilliant yeah so the program enables young people to identify their strengths develop a leadership vision understand their leadership style explore the challenges and difficulties of leadership and so on apply methods of conflict resolution uh complete a project as you've outlined there in one instance it's something that greatly benefits the community and brings joy to so many other people right so um use our fundraising to send these young people on to these courses so 80s 90s discos uh i'm a bit young for this uh i didn't laugh not only did you laugh but you almost fell out of your chair uh all right 90s then all right the 90s yes i remember the 90s uh but career you've got DJ DJ Bosco uh there's a couple of um sort of throwback discos that have been happening around the area usually successful because people are nostalgic and they still want to go out and listen to the music then like i would love to see clubs cater uh the way it is now it's like if you're over 21 you're on the scrap people most uh it'd be great to have an environment where people of all different ages can go and enjoy the same music absolutely you know what i mean but anyway that's just uh that's just uh my opinion right so talk to me about the night what's planned so basically um on the night well we have a link for event bright um where you can buy your tickets online um and then the doors will be opening at 10 o'clock john will be there blasting out the tunes all being well and we have had a few inquiries about food are they going to do their chicken and chip box so i have to speak to malry woods about that which i'm sure there'll be no problem whatsoever and i do believe there has been a few areas where they've organized their own bus to get there and back so buy the tickets and support them but go oh go surely go we want to fill the house and just just sorry i want to say one thing as well um in supporting these young people uh 11 of these young people they've already passed their level one in the leadership for live program so they've already done their bit of commitment to show that they're in for it so this is about supporting them on to uh level two and three so it's not just we're not dragging them off the street here these are young people that already have the interest so you get a great night out boogieing to 80s and 90s having a snack box chicken and chips we call it a snack box it's up to you uh and just having fun getting dressed up i think a lot of people get dressed up for these don't they in the era people have the message they asked me um is it is it i would dress up and i says it's absolutely optional just i know i can see you in a yarn headband or something absolutely and the leg wears purple tights and the fishnail tights but that's the kind of fun people can have yeah exactly you know because you're not going to look out of place absolutely not so uh and you can have a lot of fun and people have great great memories as well uh it's going to be the full works it's a fundraising disco in the mall roe woods hotel in milford it's 80s and 90s with dj bosco and when is it on actually i'm i'm looking for here saturday the 24th this coming saturday so it's all very exciting yeah okay how do people book tickets to get along so we have a link on facebook um if they go what do you search is it kill mcranan frog kill mcranan frog it should bring it up um it's on my page hope maybe we could share it to the howling radio of course we will yeah no doubt um so there's a link there and the tickets are 15 year old which it's simple just to put on the details it's a vent bright link and uh yeah bigger from there yeah and in this day man's that cheap with the young ones paying 30 quid into it i know i'm not going is that too much in job i was like going a bit much problem i was like no no no no but it's gonna be good fun you can see it's in the spirit of that and do get dressed up and get your tickets and as i say reward the efforts of these young people already and uh the likes of pamela reed and the kill mcranan frog a club in uh giving these uh 11 people a further leg up because the whole area is going to benefit from it and you'd expect people to come from far and wide saturday night what time does it kick off at 10 o'clock is there a slow set well will there be a chance will there be a chance for romance and hasn't been asked for but he's no husband and wife we're asking for is who was asked it actually was oh we're gonna see renewed vows and stuff aren't we right okay it's gonna be good fun anyway you can see it's gonna be good fun all right okay and come here uh it's amazing so there was no uh youth frog a club until you's got together with such on recently no frog a club in the locality i think there is one a letter can i yeah but it's great it exactly it has has all the backing that you know and support is there when as and when needed you know so they're very good was this right okay uh listen pamela the best that i hope it's packed as i say it's great if people buy tickets but it's one of those ones go as well do you know what i mean it goes well and have a bit of crack with it uh because he can tell it's gonna be good fun and we still haven't got chicken and chips confirmed but pamela seems somewhat optimistic she's rushing down to the fancy dress now to get a purple tights and fishnets and headband all right okay and also we can confirm it's incredibly likely that uh there'll be a slow set a chance for romance but leave as the principal at uh the school said leave enough space there for the holy spirit don't get don't get too close all right okay we're going to link that on our facebook pamela it's on uh kill mcrennan frog a club it's on pamela reeds as well it's just 15 euro to support these 11 young people and have a great night of 80s and 90s nostalgia with dj bosco in the mall roi woods hotel is there any walk-up opportunity or is it all ticket only preferably ticket only okay you want to know the numbers let us know on friday because we do need to we do need to okay let us know on friday if you want okay and i will announce it's uh if which is that good yeah all right pamela reed listen thank you so very much indeed thank you we really appreciate your time in here and we'll be back talking about the rally in fact we're going to be talking about uh to the rally winners after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland 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days um yeah probably the last day just trying to stay out of bother um i would say and did you see uh i mean there was just a downpour in the afternoon were you in before that or did you were you in that as well we were we're in the mix it so it was um obviously some stages was dry some stages of wear that was just trying to uh yeah stuck on the my lip up we managed there and for the layperson what does that mean like in terms of tire selection and what have you i mean what did you go out on and what problems could that have presented down the road yeah could have yeah could have we could have run into different problems obviously the wrong tire on but yeah i think we managed okay with the tire um i don't think they would have been the right tire to be on um but yeah we managed it all right we we saw a slick you know but oh we're happy and i mean uh you were on on track to win uh last year you're doing very well at the very uh least you went out on on day three did you expect to sort of bounce back and and write that wrong i suppose you could say not wrong on your behalf these things happen the next year i mean that must be particularly satisfying yeah exactly i probably make that this one a bit sweeter so it does and uh yeah lifts a wee bit of a like a like a monkey off a shoulder obviously from last year so no we were delighted this year yeah we're delighted and although you had a bit of time to spare you know anything can happen that you could that can disappear very very quickly can't it yeah definitely can i found out that the hard way last year so that we are in the lead and yeah doesn't it can go all go wrong very quickly yeah how was it uh what what did you think of um the the donagall town balle shannon element of of the rally day one brilliant to be honest i enjoyed the stages they were quite different than what they usually are um quite bumpy and quite narrow but yeah it was a good and it was nice we changed um obviously from the usual and yeah takes takes uh takes a letter can ever day which is a we changed yeah exactly what's your favorite stages if you don't want me asking probably knock out a fan of the two great stages there are two classics so no we had good runs over them too should we're happy they're the staples uh what was it like for you know on board um i suppose it was cam inside in the car i'm like a normally is but i'm the last few days all right seemed like it would never end because we were hearing rattles and bangs over the car that we haven't heard before but uh yeah it was great to get over to line down it was a bit of unfinished business after last year but yeah it was great it was uh it was an awesome feeling yeah i would say so brilliant achievement and callum um you have donagall connections as well don't you yeah i do i have cousins and don't fan of his we're doing stuff so yeah that's uh yeah and your dad also a rally driver he did yeah my shimmers he rallied back in the day too so yeah i've been coming to this rally since there was there was no height falling home as well so yeah that's uh that's the one special one to get brilliant stuff oshin kelly i had a sport too was all over it all weekend and i should mention kevin gallers with us as well we'll speak to you in a second kevin if that's all right uh but put into context this this victory for uh callum and null well it's huge for their their careers greg so it is um we all know what donagall means uh rallying wise it's it's the big one it's the one that everybody wants to win people would actually take one in the championship um or one in donagall over one in the championship it's it's that huge within the sort of rallying circles and kellum's name is now alongside some of the the great irish drivers that they look at birdie fisher like andrew nesbitt manas kelly kellum divine stuck in with all these names now and the trophy and his name and his name is going to be on it and there was a car actually crossed the ramp yesterday and we were talking about forehand uh a noble adam which as a car would have been used for by younger drivers and juniors and that exact car crossed the ramp yesterday it's it's been driven by a guy from from bundoren but kellum started out in that car with a dream of i want to get to donagall and and i want i want to finish donagall yeah um and now look how many years ago was that kellum yeah 2016 or so 2016 that's where he was and now we're here in 2023 and this man's the top rally driver in the country at the minute because he's he's won donagall and and knoll of course coming a long way from kerry the whole way up to donagall and that means so much to him as well but uh these guys have won three in the bounce in the championship now greg they're the form they're the form team so they are and it's it's a fantastic victory for kellum because he's so much history with the event through his dad he was here as a cob standing in fields watching his father shimus uh drive round and various different pieces of machinery and to have the scenes that we had yesterday down in port sallan again uh was fantastic because the whole team was there the family was all there the tears were dripping kellum as as they jumped out of the car it's all it's all part of it so it was great it means it means so much and there's one thing about the victory is it's a kellum and knoll's one is a very welcomed victory in and donagall it's it's one that the fans will will will really have an attachment to young man's game now you might send a few older guys into retirement myself and shimus megetig and we're we're talking about it yesterday in the car but if you look at some of the guys there like deckland boil uh gareth mackiel former winners even gary jennings and rory who had a top 10 finish trying to stay in the tails of these young boys um like the likes of kellum and and josh moffin and josh unfortunately had that off yesterday and faned which handed kellum a big lean it was just a matter of him getting the car home and then to have the british rally three timbrish rally champion mad edwards here as well um was was it was if i remember correctly too and i'm sure it's the same uh kellum um i think last year's winners were would have weren't happy that you went off if you know what i mean like you want to beat the guys yeah everyone finishing the finishing line every other i remember in that correctly aren't they there's no glory in it like that someone crashes off even if they've a good league because you want to beat the best actually on the tower don't you oh they do they do but like for kellum who last year went out in the first day we were all wondering from a media point of view and fans were going what is kellum divine going to do now he's leading the rally there's like four just under five seconds on a on a sunday uh josh moffin's going to have the tail up because he put in good times to chunks out on saturday and on the sunday morning used to see andrew nesbitt always do this used to see the grits that he'd all do it let's make a statement on high glen who's going to come out of high glen and uh we were talking about killing and on the pace notes and i read the prediction kellum divine comes out of this he's going to one done a go it took seven seconds out of the man that was chasing him down in one stage it took 13 seconds out of him too so the the mentality from him at that stage on a sunday morning telling the rest of them i i'm going to take his on here and i'm going to one this thing it's up to you now to catch me i won't get too deep but i mean there is a big psychological element to this isn't there as andrew nesbitt was classed that sort of stuff like he pulled it off yesterday fair play to kellum he pulled it off yesterday yeah i mean listen you can do the best you can do kellum uh null uh will do the best he can do there's so many variables to get the car around to keep the car on the road like so much has to go right along with the skill and dedication to to win an event like this doesn't there over the over the three days yeah exactly there's so there's so many things that have to go right look look i have a great team of guys around me too like they have to they have to be on sorry a damn great team sorry there's a great team of guys around me too we're keeping the car going you know all weekend and like there's so many things that have to go right just as you say tire choice car rolling faultlessly and everything and then obviously yeah he just did it all right also with us is kevin gallagher retain the two-wheel crown with ryan morris navigator uh darian t90 gt are kevin congratulations on on uh on your weekend thank you what was it like for you um not with a great weekend we uh we sort of pushed hard from the start and um just kept kept the pressure on the whole way so we're we're happy we had a good i suppose comfortable lead sort of midday saturday so we just kind of kept the pressure on and look with no dramas no hassle of the car it was just a nice clean weekend yeah it's nice when it goes like that isn't it is how did you find the the the new stages down south and obviously the old standards um the new stages are actually they're quite nice stages um didn't quite suit the car because the car is a bit wider than some of the other cars at the rear end but um the first stage especially didn't suit us but actually i was kind of done with the game plan that if we came out sort of 20 seconds down i would have been happy but when we came out leading friday evening i was delighted brilliant stuff and you kind of have a double hat on too because your company is involved in engines for your competitors what talk to us about that i will basically have a company kgp engineering and we uh we both basically uh engines and a lot of rally engines so look we probably had over 40 engines doing the rally as well so look you've kind of your your uh company hat on and you're you know out for the weekends crack as well like so no it was it's good looking with good results like most of the i think the top four or maybe five in the national all have my engines that's all it's a double win for you all right uh you have one of them calum do you oh i don't we uh we we we were on different engines in my class but of course well if i was oshin kelly i'd have known that but i'm not uh right obviously okay good stuff right well done um kevin what's next for you uh calm um now season wise career wise i mean what what are the targets for you yeah obviously we go back now the tarmac championship as oshin says we won the last three three events now in the championship and i think now we moved into lead now ahead of josh so yeah the next events for us cork i think so yeah we'll get ready for that and uh yeah hopefully we can push on with the championship in there and where does donningall stand in in the rank of of uh rallies that you want to win that's that's the pinnacle that's that's the one that's the one that's the other thing as uh you'll take this over anything yeah honest all right osh um a word from you if that's all right i mean uh it's great that um everything passed off with that incident um and congratulations demon and his team uh the coc and they put on a they put on a big effort and it was a very successful rally and uh fair play to them that they ran it as best they could and they got through it with with with no hiccups and there was a there was a large number of of crews actually finished in the ramp yesterday greg and uh listen the finishing donningall means as much to the guy that was 90th on the road and even coming fifth in his class whatever it was that means just as much to to him as what won and donningall those to the callum divine but now fair play to the guys in studio here because uh the effort that they put in at the weekend was was tremendous and fully deserving of of their success yeah indeed and well done to you oshian as well not that we like to back pass our own backs but well done there's a lot in it too uh you we enjoyed we enjoyed following these boys well why do you mount so much in advance i don't give out i don't know all you do is cry well done to donningall yeah i know okay listen um continued success um callum thanks so much for calling in really do appreciate it the morning after it's all different now isn't it everyone's fresh well i'm fresh these boys aren't i went home last night i don't know which i drops and uh a sweet you're using because i could do with someone sometimes all right callum divine co-driver noel or sullivan winners of the donningall international rally continue success and safety to you and as well kevin thank you so much for calling on congratulations uh retaining uh the two uh wheel crown with ryan moore as navigator never easy retaining it's always uh it's it's it's a nice thing odd as yeah definitely um look we we can close a few times to that three in a row or three in total no that's three in a row next three in a row next year i let it one other year and crashed and noel actually sat with me in 2018 with any second so would it uh that year so can i become close well it's all i mean noel's obviously the secret here isn't it all right gents thanks very much callum uh noel and kevin really appreciate you's calling in and uh thanks very much joshine as well and thanks to your team for keeping those of us who couldn't get uh around the various stages right across all the action i mentioned christ and i did chris shamus as well 40 years he won it this year this is the 40th uh anniversary which is quite anniversary quite a remarkable achievement it is and he behaved himself all weekend more like a chauffeur for this is a no spin zone it was the president been driving around in the helen radio car that's what it was at the weekend so all right but at 40 years we're gonna go that they wanted so great memories for sure remarkable achievement all right we'll be back 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get a quality bed or mattress come visit them today and wake up feeling rested and refreshed restx beds mountaintop letter kenny okay now we have the end of the thanks again to the the the lads for calling up we've got shameless in for a picture as well just different generations isn't it shameless one at 40 years ago calum and null one at this year and that 40 40 year gap bridged with a photograph that'll be up on our social media very shortly fair play to the guys all right hi greg rally supporters stayed in holiday house besides me you would not know that we're there out early in the morning in late night and they were great congratulations to calum divine and no low son of an on achieving their lifelong ambitions though the life is not that long do you know there comes a point and i don't mean this patronizing in full of praise where do you know you would aspire to do something like maybe be a rally driver or a footballer or something and then you interview the guys that are at the top and they're so young and young and talented but anyway congratulations to calum divine and no low son of an on achieving their lifelong ambition calum is an absolute gentleman and always gives freely of his time to the rally followers even in the heat of the battle congratulations to the don't go motor club on a fantastic and safe event and indeed and i would say particularly with the young people because young guys and girls look up to the guys they're they're absolute heroes and it's lovely that they give access there greg compliments to the owners of a house we stood outside to watch the rally they brought out tea buns and chocolate they could not do enough their hospitality was second to none a spectator from calarney who acknowledges this saying it was unbelievable that comes in from john john great hopefully you had a great time and that is the kind of hospitality you can enjoy up here of course hi greg i was in letter kenny on thursday friday and saturday and not a lot of guards on the road only sunday and they were standing smoking and chatting to each other i don't like things people being categorized like that were they really but anyway listen i appreciate it but let me i read it anyway okay to each other the rally brings out revenue to letter kenny economy without it a lot of business would not survive yes there is some antisocial behavior and uh there are some bad people and don't know how to use the bin but i'm sure it's a small price to pay as long as everyone is safe thanks greg and that's the thing we got through monday and we're talking about all the competitors and and we shouldn't underestimate either the the nervousness for the competitors families as well because it's a dangerous sport and we've had our all too um shocking and sad reminders of that so when we get all of the rally crews home and safe we get all the spectators home and safe and hopefully now all the people that came up to different events get home and safe that's a big a big tick for me as well people driving around all day and night for the rally have cars those can hold things like rubbish while they drive at two kilometers towards a bin two hours later no need to drop it on the ground there's no need for anyone to litter at any time is there uh go anywhere in europe and you'll find bins everywhere in my town they took away bins and have replaced them have not replaced them it's not just the rally that causes the traffic problems in letter kenny in this country we blame everything on the people who come to enjoy these events instead of looking at primary cause bins there seems to be a policy that bins attract rubbish attract rubbish and they're taken out of places that to me is uh that to me is an admittance that you're not going to clean them really you're not going to empty them so you don't have the resources to empty them so what do you do you uh you don't put them there in the first place crazy wait till all the cars go electric uh some noise piece can you imagine both of that's going to happen anytime soon tell the begrudgerers to get over it was a great weekend there are traffic jams in letter kenny every day that's a point there is isn't there it's not like it's all free flowing traffic outside a rally weekend and other all the shops not all the shops but some shops they suggest put up prices for beer for rally weekend would they do that i don't know maybe there's extra costs seems a little unfair if that's what was happening and and i just want to give you a perspective into how busy this show can be here we've got pages and pages and pages of comments and i think sometimes when i don't get to a common people think we edit them we don't we read them all unless there's something defamatory in there of course uh but i read the ones that are critical of the program i generally don't read the ones that are appraising of it but that's just to give the balance where we are uh i'm going to go through some comments on different things now just as we head up towards the news at 12 we are all well on our way to becoming part of NATO the refugees coming into arland are the new front line for the this EU army the government know the irish aren't going to allow their boys and men to be allowed to become cannon fodder it would be political annihilation nobody would support such a thing i don't go with you on that one but i appreciate your comment four handpicked panels of pro-war professionals this is a major gaffe by the government i hope uh would we hear all this negativity after the northwest 200 no we wouldn't all they want is for the young people to spend their money all we can closing carparks which is blocking the streets letter kenny not very welcoming a caller says they were stuck at the man around about to try and get up to the hospital and was stuck in traffic for two hours missed visiting hours guards standing on the road arms folded what was the point in the guards being there if they weren't going to do anything about the traffic another opening up the carparks a good idea but who's going to clean up afterwards a caller a caller's front garden was littered with her hanging baskets broken and destroyed in letter kenny this is the side of the rally that is an absolute disgrace and it's the same every year with nothing being done about it another we live on the main road between bridge end and farm and what we had to listen to all weekend was a disgrace the noise of cars at all hours of the day and night their driving and speeding was a total disgrace and again the criticism of the guard e not a guard to be seen thank god it's over they say I was just listening to the news and it seems that a fina fall td was complaining about me Michael D having an opinion on irish neutrality what's the point in having a president if he can't have an opinion maybe it's time to get rid of the president and fina fall for that matter because this government is going to get Ireland in a whole heap of trouble we know now what the ukraine people are suffering with the war we had three day of noise and baking ukraine has this banging for the last year and it's more dangerous so we've nothing to complain about at all says a listener another did the closure of half of the business parks add to the traffic issues I thought it was very unwelcoming to our visitors to see many closed off why not do like the car park in mcdonalds and fence it off so you could only park and not do any uh dipping another half of the issue at the weekend is the town simply couldn't take the volume of traffic that's the council issue we don't forward plan our roads any other town would warmly welcome this massive crowd for three days and last one because it's the only one we have time for the rally is 72 hours come on people we cry about young people here was a large group of boys and girls who were very proud of their cars and spend a lot of money on them where is the harm considering the large crowds I think the volume who were misbehaving was very very uh minimal or some might say the detection was minimal but again uh you know it depends on what side of the argument you come down on I want to thank Caroline all who researched and produced the program uh Neve Shields working hard on the show as well stay tuned John Breslin is coming up around the northwest for me great shoes for me great shoes have a great day chat to you tomorrow it is 12 noon time for a news update and it's good afternoon to mckayla clark thanks great good afternoon the hsc says it is aware of an ongoing investigation