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We are here, as I say, for the next couple of hours. We've got loads of great guests for you to meet. We've got musical guests. We've got the charities we're joining so they're benefiting from. This packy boner will be joining us, and the list goes on and on and on. And very shortly, Tiny Vaughan's going to be joining us. He's the organizer, Brendan Tiny Vaughan. Now, if you want to watch the program, we are streaming live across our website, highlandradio.com. You can go on to our website and watch the program and see our guests. There's a lot of noise here, so hopefully you'll be able to hear us okay, but it is buzzing. There's going to be about 10 or 12,000 people here a little later on, and they're starting to fill in. For those of you who are watching our social media as well, you will see on screen the stage where the artists are going to be performing a little later on, and they're doing their warm-ups. So hopefully, you can hear me okay. By the way, we want you to be involved in the program. You can WhatsApp and text 0866025000, 0866025000, or give us a call on 0749125000. And Caroline's actually at base, taking your calls again today, and we can access your WhatsApps and what have you. If you want to say hello, we'll play a request to whatever it is. Right, Brendan Vaughan joins us now. Brendan, thank you very much for joining us here in Highland Radio, and good morning to you. Good morning. Well, good afternoon, in fact. You can tilt that up to you a little bit. All right, so it is good to have you on the program, and it's good that this day has finally arrived. It's been really two or three years in the making, hasn't it, Danny? It has, I mean, everybody's very disappointed that there was no vintage day here for the last two years. But now we're finally here, and the support we get here in London is incredible, you know. I'll give you an example. I mean, Martin Flanley, the family just celebrated 50 years at a different county meal. This isn't an inequality. This is an A&H day in London, and Flanley's over here celebrating 50 years, which is a remarkable achievement. And I just phoned him, and 45 gallons on the white diesel hands down to fill all the generators, and even I got Paul McDonald's fan filled as well. And you kind of have, I wouldn't say it's a love-hate relationship, but I think when your number comes up on the really successful people in Dunnley Golden elsewhere, they will always answer it, but they know you're looking for something. Oh Christ, I mean, someone don't want to answer the floor at all, but I, in general, we've got a great response here, you know. You've got Kevin Tifty, who sponsored Highland Radio, and Declan Alco and a way down to pick up a guitar that Nathan Carter forgot, you know, the band forgot. Imagine, what do you call it, talking to going to hang a door and they don't take the tools with you? I know, I know. But I mean, we're here to help. Don't be too hard on him. He hasn't started singing yet. You can talk about that tomorrow. But I mean, the incredible help we get here, you know, I mean, I asked Keith Mallow from one Charles for two generators, and they were here within an hour. You know, that's, see, unless you get, take all the boxes, or one cog machine, you just can't do this to you, simple as that. So it is one day, it's been a long time coming, maybe 10, 12,000, who's to say how many might turn up? Everyone from Donegal seems to be here because I bumped into so many people from Donegal over the last, the last day or so. And also there's a huge population of people from all of our end, of course. Of course. Particularly Donegal, North Donegal, like we were last night and saw a lot of people who have made new lives for themselves here, be it temporarily or permanently young people, middle aged people, older people. That's correct. And I mean, I just, there's another thing I'm thinking of doing now, a lot of people interested would do the tractor on from London to Donegal, and the amount of people that are mad to do it next April. You know, that's the support you get from any shown and Donegal. I couldn't praise any shown people enough. Is also about raising money for charity. The Peace Hospice, Watford, dementia concern, Ealing, Southern Helping Hands, which provides assistance to adults with learning and physical disabilities. Wernwood Scrubs Pony Club. It's equine therapy for children with special needs or physical disabilities. And it's... All four excellent challenges. To be able to support them. And I'll be doing an auction here. I'm no professional hero. I'll be up there golden on the stage. But we're going to make a good donation to as well to the funeral cost of Tom O'Halloran who's tragically killed down at Greenford Station, which is just down the road from what you know. Yeah, okay. Right, so, what's going on here today? And I'll let you go, because you've got a lot of things to do. You've got a stage behind you there. That's where the main acts are going to be lining up. Around David James, Nathan Carter and others. That's right. It starts about one. There's another stage down the field a bit. That's Trad, Irish dancing. Yes. There's a fun fair. There's a lot of machinery that's arrived over the last couple hours. I went out to Waxham there, Jerry's Cross there, and I met Mickey Moss from Ajaian and Tony McGovern, who owns a bit of land. And, hey, the amount of stuff that was there I couldn't believe it. I don't know why Facebook live, but it's unbelievable how much stuff's here today. You know, all Irish men that come here to support this. And they were the only Royal County Council, Gary Martin and Pachy Bonner, all the way from KJU. Money's a time, man. How much battles on the field play. We keep trying to refute this. I've never heard Pachy mention these battles once. I always wonder about them, you know what? Because I would be a bit stutter than them. Right, come here. If I get stuck, I might come back to you. But for now, thanks, Tiny. Thank you very much. And thanks to Highland Radio and all the Donegal people that support us and the wider Irish community that come here. And the folk village behind you there, and Peter Colombo, that got them over here. It's unbelievable. And Margaret Rose will be on now in a wee minute, you know, playing the fiddle or whatever. We've got a producer now here. Who needs Donna Marie? You've got Tiny bottom. Listen, I'll welcome him. Thanks very much, Jeff Brennan. We'll chat to you soon. Are you going to talk to Pachy now? Yes, we are going to talk to Pachy Brennan. Go on, you're a bit stuttered. I don't believe a word he was saying about him being the best. So who got about you then? I think one of us was said off. Of course the best. Next thing you know, we're talking about all the cats for Ireland. Yes, absolutely. Come here. You really enjoy being involved in stuff like this Pachy, don't you? I know you were here the last time we were here a couple of years ago. I know you were down at the Legends Tour as well. And you use your profile and your time to talk about the positives of Donegal, don't you? Of course. And listen, I've been away from home for 44 years, living in Glasgow. And I've been asked by the Donegal County Council and Gary Martin in particular to come and be part of all of these events. And I love it because you're meeting people, you're meeting Donegal people, you're meeting people who have been away like myself, who still have got that love for home, get home whenever they can. And they miss it, but when they're away, they're supporting Donegal. I hope we have here today. It's going to be an incredible day as Brendan, of course, has already mentioned all the people that's going to come. So for me, it's a positive, reaching out to Donegal, they ask around the world, not just here in London, but in Glasgow and going to America and so on. And I can see that love that they have for home and that. And what I've also sort of been blown away with is just from my involvement with Donegal County Council over the last number of years, is what they're actually doing at home. Donegal is still Donegal. We all remember Donegal as it was, but it's moved on to a completely different level now and what they're doing is incredible. And wherever there are deficits, we have to talk about that too, right? But what I think we're getting better at now is promoting our positives. And rather than just talking, getting things sorted. I mean, in terms of the infrastructure, there are a lot of things that need to be improved, but we have better broadband access. It's not terrible. We're starting to get that message out there, that Gulf event, Paul McGinley sort of what he has done over the last while as well. And as I mentioned earlier, you were involved in that. You know, real positive stuff that the tourists want to hear that it's good that we're getting out there. Yeah, and the experience of people coming now, whether you're coming on holiday, whether you're coming, moving back home, whether Donegal County Council is there to actually help you. But I think now is a real positive. I was home in the summer for four or five weeks. My daughter got married there. We had about 120 people that kept from Glasgow. And I can tell you, they partied, but they really, really loved coming over there. A lot of them had Donegal connection, but some of them actually had never been to Donegal before. But they go away with that sort of almost vision of positivity that probably will last with them for the rest of their lives. And you know, you go there with plan A, which is not the good weather. But if you get the good weather in this plan B, then you certainly will come for the rest of your life. Well, as I said, perhaps we have everything. If you look at the German tours or the French tours getting off the bus in Donegal Town in the summer, they've got their wet gear on. They live there that are walking around in denial in our t-shirts sometimes. Yeah, but listen, it doesn't matter of what. Even if it's bad weather, you're still going to have a huge experience. And I think it's about the people too. Yes, you talked about infrastructure and all that. But I've seen huge improvements in that. You know, the broadband, people talk about Donegal being remote. It's probably one of the fastest broadband, fiber broadband you can get. So businesses moving back, people moving back to work remotely. I wouldn't call it remotely, but working maybe in an area where they can get a balance of life. All these things that are hugely important to people's lives now. I think the COVID thing has learned us a lot that we can actually do it. Before people said, no, we can't do that. But now they realize that they can do it. And there's loads and loads of examples of people working there, working for companies who are multi-national companies all over the world, but are working in Donegal and enjoying their life balance. And that is a huge positive for Donegal. You can go down the road, you can go for a walk, you can go on the beach, you can walk for four or five miles where I come from. And then you have almost a fresh mind to carry on with your life. And that's it. And you can bring up your family in that environment too. So all of those things are really, really positive. To help promote and get out there because people need to realize it. Yeah, for sure. Just a couple of things before I let you go to about the diaspora element of it too. I think it's important and we talked a little bit offered that it's a two-way street. Like we've come over here and I've been speaking to people from our country and I know it's an old Ireland event and it's nice to come over and chat to them and celebrate that. And what they do is they help and support young people who are over here studying or whatever. Sometimes you have to go outside of Ireland and they seem to have sort of lost a little bit at home at times. Yeah, I think when I went away there was people there in Glasgow that I made contact Irish people who have done well for themselves. But also they always have this sort of thing about helping our locals when they go away. You know, maybe we don't do that at home at times. We can almost give out about people. But when you go away you become very clannish. You want to help our young people, our people who are going. And our young people now are every part of the world. But they're also now going away for different types of work. They're not going away just for type of work. They're going away and they're building their careers in companies. They're on boards and they're willing to bring that back into Donegal also. And I think those are big, big positive messages. And that's what I notice anyway when I'm working around the world talking to people from the Donegal background. So it's really, really positive. And our young people are that's our future. I know, yeah. And in fairness, I was watching the Late Late Show. I don't watch it very often. I'm not sure you're probably busy. But Michael Flatley gets a lot of stick. Michael Flatley. But he's some really strong and positive words along the lines of what you're saying there. Finally, you've pulled on a Donegal jersey. It's not maybe what, unless people are watching at home. It's not the traditional. It's a new jersey that's been designed. Donegal County Cancer involved. It's not in your face. It's got Donegal branding. It's Ireland's DNA. What do you think of it? It's nice. I like it. It's lovely actually. And we're just talking to Gary's wife actually coming out. She wants to maybe do one with a bit of pink in it for the gender balance. And we'll do that. But I think the logo is really special. And it's a logo and a brand that they want to promote. So from that perspective, I'm quite happy to wear anything Donegal. It almost gives you a bit of pride and passion when you have something on there. Yeah, exactly. And I actually got one. I've been campaigning to get one of these times. I had a double XL though. You'll be probably extra small. No, I'm extra small across the chest. I'm extra small across the tank. Come here, Paki. Thanks so much for joining us. Pleasure. And listen, I hope everybody's got a fantastic... The weather's good. Isn't it? Tiny's here organizing everything. That's Brendan, of course. And the people's coming now. So it's brilliant. How did you get on with the legends, by the way? I enjoyed it. I ended up wanting it for... It was a runoff. I played with Paul and I played with Nick Jobden, the other pro and two people from England. And we had a wonderful day. I really, really enjoyed myself. It was like a Stuttgart day for me. You remember Stuttgart when we beat England 1-0? It was one of those days. Everything went right. Absolutely right. And ended up one of the things which was a big, big surprise. And I represented Critch Island. That was more important. Well, listen, congratulations. It's always a pleasure to have you on Highland Radio. And I keep doing the brilliant work that you do. Thank you very much. Thank you. That is Paki Bohn of there. We're broadcasting live for the London Radio. We're here in London, as you can imagine. We are on the grounds of the Chicano Gales GEA Football Club. We've got loads of people for you to meet over the course of the next however long is left of our two hours. Just to remind you, of course, you can listen to the program as you are, hopefully, listening to the program. But if you want to watch the show and see our guests and get a sense of the atmosphere as the crowds build up, well, then you can hop onto our website there or go straight to YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland, or on our Facebook pages. And you know what as well? You can watch that later if you like. It will be there online for you to watch or listen back to whenever you want. Okay. It's not the 9-10 noon show. I don't know how to hand to an handbrake if I'm not on between 9 and 12. It's the Sunday afternoon show. So we call it that. It's live from London and we'll be back with more after we take this commercial break. Stay where you are. I can't stop thinking about them. I keep rereading their old texts. Brian, Brian, this has got to stop. It's been months and they send those alerts to everyone. You know that, right? Look, your bank is leaving. Would you got to get back out there? Listen to me. Any bank would be lucky to have you, especially Bank of Ireland. Really? Yeah, they've even put together a simple step-by-step guide to move on banks and have a dedicated team on hand to help. Even an independent bank can be a new beginning to start finding your new banking partner. Search Bank of Ireland big move begin. Bank of Ireland is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Okay, you're very welcome back to the program. I want to say a big hello to Brendan McCarry boys from Chrysler and living in Maidenhead and Justice, Justice and family also want to wish Barry all a happy 50th birthday. He's listening back to us. You can do so right now on 0860 25000. They're coming directly to us here in London. We'll give us a call on 07491 25000 and we will get to that too as well. Righty O. Now, we are joined on the program by Margaret Rose Cunningham, manager of the Glen Column Kill Folk Village. Good morning to you. Tell us about the work that you're doing out there. Well, I've been working for 55 hours open this year and it's a Thatch College Village, a Seaside Thatch College Village. We've come back to the 1700s and it was built by a great priest called Father James McDowell to help stem some immigration from the area and save a lot of the lovely cultural items and customs of the area. And you've set up next door to us here. You're often told to tell us what you have on display here for the wonderful people of London and those that have come to visit today. It's a very tactile stand. You can actually take part if you want. You can make a St Bridges Cross or I'm Spinning Will and we've got some small frames. People can weave or they can knit and they can learn about Glen Column Kill and Donegal as well. We're delighted to be back here again. This is our fifth year here and Glen Column Zalo. Two of us will be delighted to matches. And it's a lovely atmosphere. I don't know, it's particularly nice this year. I was very lucky to be here for the last one and the crowds are just coming in now. The music and all hasn't really started yet but there's a lovely buzz, isn't there? There is an amazing buzz and I found that life in general even visitors we have also. The Folk Village people are so happy to meet each other. They're so happy to chat but the atmosphere here today is absolutely amazing. I've got a lot of people around here. You've got a good one for yourself, Greg. Well I know that's not true because I was under quite a lot of pressure to join plus and I actually did resist. We were lucky enough to visit a couple of the bars. We skipped between two of them and it was lovely atmospheres but it was just like being in Donegal which is great but you know all the people from the county and further afield in Ireland, all into these areas where DJ Tubsy was in and James was in another bar and we're in London and you've got all these localised performing to Irish people and obviously locals in inverted commas. David James was amazing last night. We actually recorded a video at the Folk Village two weeks ago on Glencombe Kill and we'll be coming out in October. It's quite spirited, Jim fell, it's so talented but we might feel so welcome here among the whole community. It's just great. So talk to me just finally in case you didn't mention at the beginning in terms of visiting the Glencombe Kill Folk Village. Is it a summer thing? Is it all year round? Is it open to guests? Sell it? Well, we actually open mostly from Easter until the end of October but we had a very exciting year this year. Lee Mason made a movie in Glencombe Kill and his set was in the Folk Village and we actually got to open early, like we got to open from March on because of that. So whether we come out next year and it's quite an exciting thing. It's a kind of non-stop shop. They can eat beautiful traditional food there. They can swim, they can get a gaiter to a self-gaiter. It's in ten different languages as well. So I'm really excited to be back up in one of my games too. Okay, Arthur, then meeting the lovely people and you're a beautiful stand next to us. What are you looking forward to about today? Well, definitely, kind of selling to the girl and it's nice to bring a bit of home over and make people feel that we haven't forgotten about them. We're the lucky ones getting to live them to the girl and it's nice to share that and you get great feedback. And this is a little bit by the by. The last time we were here, it was brilliant but I think it's actually been set up a little bit better this time around. It's wonderful. Everything seems more compact. Well, right here, beside you, beside the man's stage, we can see the VIP tent. We're trying to catch a couple of tickets in there later and the trucks and the cars, everything is just amazing. Everybody's looking really well too, aren't they? They're big goggles. Listen, thank you so very much. It's been lovely having you on the programme. All right, thank you so much indeed. 086, 60, 25,000 WhatsApps and texts, keep them coming in to us and what we're doing for those of you who want a visual experience on this Sunday afternoon, we're streaming live on our website as well, highlandradio.com and also on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland and across our Facebook pages. Very shortly, we have some live music for you. All right, it's that. Get your requests and all coming in to us, but we'll be right back. 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