 shed seven talk of the town good morning to you if you just join and wave into the mary thinks i'm waving to her but i'm waving to the camera here good morning everybody talk of the town well the talk of the town is going to be roll call for really 2024 let me get me me yours right and i'm enjoying this year let me flip the cameras over here ash or to the two lovely ladies i'm glad i clean myself up this morning tracy mcbride and mary mcdormit you're most welcome come on a wee bit closer to the microphones there now who will the talk mary i'll thanks mary i was just saying to you this is the first morning i clean myself up because this is we'll be probably doing this on social media which we are now i'm a nice shirt and i was telling mary that i put some mousse in my hair you know to get the curls there and and you know thanks for making the effort and tracy thanks for being here thanks i didn't say about the effort ah tracy we'll start off with tracy tracy nice to be back again this year i can't believe it's a year already isn't it unbelievable unbelievable and we're absolutely delighted that yourself and radio are getting involved again with us this year so come on we have a close to that microphone because you've got lovely sweet tones and we need to hear them um so roll call for 2024 in may yes in may so do you know it kind of has a ring to it but anybody hasn't heard of roll call for really before what's it all about okay so i suppose it's a very simple contact or concept even um and what we're looking for is for schools and when we say schools we're using that as a broader term so we're looking for play schools or creches primary schools secondary schools um or any i suppose any type of organization that has maybe groups of children involved um and what we want to do is get them involved in really for life done it all um and the roll call for really i suppose it's taken in the schools challenge um so we ask schools to take part in a simple challenge and as myself and Mary keeps saying what we are we're really stressing the word simple here um we want schools to do something really simple and um as well as raising awareness we're looking to raise as both some funds for really for life done it all and we ask um children to bring in one euro each for their challenge so keeping it very simple and affordable i remember last year Mary and Tracy we had the most crack it you know we had the teachers on the radio with the boys and girls and it was a big deal because the whole school was listening to it and so we had a wildest crack and they were doing some very simple challenges and you were just saying to me as well Mary that one of them says oh can we just make cup of tea for everybody and biscuits and stuff like that there and that was a challenge on itself but it was like time out and it's all about having a bit of crack and it's not to put extra work on the teachers because teachers are very busy and do you know the enough on their plate you know coming up to wrapping up the end of the year school year and stuff so it's just all about having a bit of crack isn't it yep definitely Lee and 100 we don't want to add to the workload already teachers schools are busy places but it also can be an opportunity to have a bit of fun it's about support supporting those who are on the cancer journey or have been through it it's about the awareness and as Tracy said if you can raise a few euro um along the way and things like the one the one minute challenge so basically like we were chatting about there you know when they're lined up after lunch everybody doing star jumps teachers and all caretaker everybody that'd be tough and the children love it the love of the teachers and the school staff get involved as well and for the one minute last year some of the schools done amazing things they had bluebell walks and they had wee soccer tournaments and you know remember one school and they asked the children and the children wanted a whole day of stuff I wouldn't blame them and you know what the school done then is they tied it in with their active flag and doing the activities for the active flag so sometimes schools can do that and and that's okay as well yeah and we're happy to come out to schools um if they want us out and do photographs and we've some big we've like a big giant one-year-old that the children like to get their photograph with and we put the stuff on facebook and then at the really weekend we use photographs that the schools would give us our wee videos and it's all up on the big screen and the mummies and daddies can come in and see that and you know and it is it's all sort of a light hearted good fun but getting that awareness and support and there at the same time yeah it's a nice wee soft blend to the whole thing absolutely yeah and so if there are any schools or moochers or boys and girls now we'll be flagging it up as the time goes along um how do they find out more information that we'll be talking about it obviously yeah so um I suppose the best way is to go to the really for life donnie goll facebook page um and we will be putting stuff up there today uh for the roll call for really they can also email us and the email address is roll call for really at gmail.com and we can send them more information there um I suppose so I suppose that's the best way to get in contact with us so we had about 22 schools last year didn't we we did 22 schools on air last year 22 schools on and like like you're here now and I have to lay my cards out now we raised over about 10 grand which was nice and we'll talk about the monies now in a wee second but for me do you know having the boys and girls coming on and the moochers were there I loved cornering the moocher and saying moocher and the boys and girls just have to say to me then oh don't forget about the mask are we allowed for the homework can we push that out again today oh well I think we can push that out again today yeah and I think that was really um a great I suppose that was a nice reward for everybody that took part it's a big carrot isn't it it is it is but it was great for everybody that took part I suppose it was just another added bonus for the children as well I can't wait for it it's going to be beginning on May right so just on the monies Mary we raised our over 10 grand last year do you know 10 grand a lot of money which was amazing it really was an amazing amount of money um and lovely the fact that it has come from right throughout the county as well it was a great great spread and we did have play schools on and we had primary schools and we had a couple of secondary schools yeah it was mainly the primary school so we'd like to see secondary schools get up for the crack come on homework faster secondary school that's big stuff it is big stuff that's a big ask isn't it moon sure what about so what's big as well as I think getting on the radio with yourself Lee I should get that opportunity she's here now she's like the captain got the cream and tell us now just on the money set of 10 grand I so what happens to all this money that's raised for you know because people ask what happens all this money because last year's a good bit of money raised what happens where does this all money go yeah what happens last year as I say we raised through our roll call for really with yourself Lee we raised 10,000 that was part of almost 140,000 that was raised basically it's both over the really for life weekend and also it's both with teams doing events in the run up to really for life last year so almost 140,000 raised last year but there was 279,000 spent and that was on direct supports for people in Donegal so that's where the money is going to and it's both it's things like you know as both services that are really valuable and for for cancer patients things like ninth nursing in Donegal which allows people to stay in their own home and there would be a specialised nurses come in and support them at night time and their families and also counselling sessions and so there was 145 counselling sessions last year that were basically paid for by the money that was raised and really for life and it also supports things like the volunteer driver service which brings cancer patients to and from their treatments and also and then on top of all that as well there's a financial support service for families there's a program then also for people that have gone through a cancer journey and then as well research and that's local research that's happening that's great because you when you hear research you think that's in the States but that's the local research local research yeah as well yeah so um that's where the money is spent so roll roll call for really 2024 this is the official Kennewee soft launch for it isn't it absolutely Mary you're smiling away I know you're glad you put on your green top this morning you knew this was going on over social media now Tracy I have one last question for Tracy how do you get your hair so curly Tracy curly water curly water where can I buy it can I buy it in the something like that you're selling you could you imagine all the social friends and you would get the curly water drink the water and your hair turns curly anyway thanks very much for taking time out of your morning to come here now and did you just enjoy the tea that you got he was really amazing Tracy you're a great lad and you're one sip of nothing the curly water ladies Mary McDermott and Tracy McBride I'm looking forward to roll call for really 2024 and it all kicks off on me and we'll be spreading the good news thanks very much for coming in all right thank you again