 Alright, you watch a bit of telly tonight, will you? Well, I'm hoping you tell me the real name of that film. I need to watch you in your entertainment slot. You know you're watching us. What do you think it's called? Upgrade, is it? Upgrade. 2018 good film. It's very good. Right. But you know you'll watch five minutes and fall asleep. What shall I try my best? Well, I'll watch it over a few weekends. That's the way it works for me. I know quite literally. You're not even joking. Alright, go on. Have a good night. Go on at five minutes this morning and maybe you'll be fit to stay awake this evening. See you, Leigh. Leigh back with you Monday morning. Our Friday panel about to join us running through some of the big stories of the week. Let's get a news update first though and say good morning, Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Guardi have confirmed that investigations are continuing into a report of a woman being approached by a man in the area of Moth Greenway last Saturday. The incident happened at around half past three. Earlier this week concerns were raised by the admin of a local social media page after being inundated by a woman claiming they had been approached by men on the road. South Angle Deputy Mark McSharry expects he will be readmitted to the Fenefall Parliamentary Party next week. In a letter to the party yesterday, he hit out at the fact Fenefall's parliamentary party was told the motion to admit him this week couldn't proceed because an issue had arisen. Deputy McSharry says he's deeply upset and offended at how he was treated this week. He believes he wasn't readmitted because of a complaint from a Fenefall councillor in Sligo. Deputy McSharry resigned the Fenefall whip just over a year ago in a July over Catherine Supone's botched special envoy appointment. The state needs to appeal to holiday home owners to hide the growing number of Ukrainian refugees. That's according to Sinn Féin's Justice Spokesperson, who says a contract needs to be put in place. Ireland has welcomed and hives over 58,000 refugees from Ukraine and other countries so far this year. South Donegal Deputy Martin Kenney says more people will be seeking shelter in the coming months. Well, I think it's clear that the city west is full and that's the reason why it's closing. I think all of this is a reflection of the inaction in government over the past number of months to try and resolve the situation. We also see new waves of Russian attacks across Ukraine, which is obviously displacing more people and more pressure on all countries in Europe, including Ireland, where more refugees will be seeking shelter and refuge. The Buy Donegal campaign returns next month at showcasing the very best of Donegal business and urging people to choose local products and services while Christmas shopping. The initiative runs from November 11th until Christmas Eve, with weekly deals and specials on the dedicated website by donegal.com. Stephen Perry from Donegal County Council's Economic Development Unit says it's becoming an important element of the council's ongoing effort to market and promote local talent. I suppose we've grown from when it started in 2020, initially as Buy Donegal weekend and then it grew into a larger campaign. We see more businesses get involved. We had circa 300 businesses involved last year. While the message of buying local and supporting local business is important, Buy Donegal is about more than that. It's about showcasing the talent, creativity and innovation of Donegal business to a global audience. With an eye breezy and blustery today with widespread shards emerging two longer spells of rain at times, highest temperatures of 13 to 15 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. Ask from Menemen at health stores and pharmacies or learn more at cleanmarine.ie. I'm glad I did. Hello and a very good morning to you. Four minutes past nine on this Friday, the 21st of October, 2022. You're very welcome along to the last show of the week. And it is a busy one for you. We're going to take up the first hour of the show, talking to our panel of guests on some of the bigger stories, making the headlines and some of the issues we've been talking about this week. And after 11, Michael and Finula will be with us for the next week. And after 11, Michael and Finula will be in with us and we've got plenty to keep you informed and entertained in the second hour as well. 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Yeah, we're also, we're gonna be, because we're gonna talk about health as well over the course of this hour, so I'm sure we'll be able to expand on your views there. Simon Glespie is a barrister, he's with us as well. Good morning to you Simon, how are you keeping? Morning Greg, I'm keeping the best, it's Friday, so we can complain, it's another week done and dusted. Live a day in the office. You Monday to Friday boys, huh? Yes, I've been in court all week, so it's been a busy week, the courts are open again after our well-needed vacation in August and September, so we're back in action in court, but today I'm tank fleet in the office doing some paperwork, so it's dressed down Friday for me Greg. Good stuff, and we appreciate you sparing the time with us this morning. Damien Dads, the editor of the initially independent newspapers, will be joining us shortly. One of the most shocking stories that we covered and on the cover to some extent this week was that sexual abuse of under-18s by other children in Donegal, it's being described as a pandemic or epidemic, but it was described as a pandemic. That was the views of the manager of the Donegal Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre. In the past week alone, five 15-year-old girls who were sexually abused by a peer were referred to the centre. Marina Porter, when speaking to us, she said, look, she doesn't want to scare anyone, but she's never seen anything like this and it's something that we really need to start talking about, and we started that conversation this week, I suppose. I'll stay with you if that's all right, Simon. It is very worrying and the one thing too that worried me a little bit, not necessarily in terms of who contacted us, but certainly on certain social media platforms, a sense of denial that this simply could not be happening, even victim blaming of like 12-year-old girls. It's a shocking story, Greg, and I think I listened to Marina's interview there during the week, and it's had national reverberations that have seen this start a national conversation, and it is a pandemic. I mean, more than double the referrals, you're talking five 15-year-old girls referred in the last week, that's simply shocking. It's actually a shivering thought as well to think that what she said about the instance not only involved in one perpetrator, but in some instances involved more than one perpetrator, and that the physical violence element of all this is on the rise as well. So, I mean, when you look at the statistics in Donegal alone, bringing it back somewhat more local, I mean, we're the second highest statistics in terms of referrals from Sattu, or Sattu's the next busiest after Dublin. So, in many ways, Donegal is well down the peck and order in a lot of respects, but in something like this, this is not where you want to be. Yeah, and if you were to break that down per head of population, we would shoot ahead of Dublin by some measure, I'm sure. Absolutely, and it's scary. It's a scary thought. I mean, if you look at the figures from the Guard of the Year, remember, they were released earlier in August this year, in all the number of rapes in the first six months of 2022 has also risen to 23% and that's generalized across the board. And look through conversations that have started to take place in schools, Greg, and in youth clubs, I know many social workers and teachers and parents who are doing fantastic jobs. You know, you have hashtag movements, you have the likes of Twitter or TikTok, I should say, but if you look then at the Dublin rape crisis center report that came out there a few weeks ago, what they said was that 70% of Irish people when they were surveyed believe that we still have a problem with consent. And we do. And when you break that down and you say, well, where do we go with that? What do we do? I mean, there's there's consultation, I think it's just closed on a new junior certificate SPHE cycle program. And I think that's going to come out now in the next few months. But yes, there are greater supports needed. Yes, there are ongoing conversations and education needed in our schools, and in other social settings where young people gather. And that's needed more than ever now because we have greater access among young people to mobile phones, we have greater access to internet, we have greater access to problematic internet pages and problematic internet friends where we could see, you know, incorrect information being spread in terms of what's the perfect body image or, you know, sexual health and relationship advice, as well as access obviously to sites that contain pornographic material. See, just in relation to that. Yeah, before we want to bring in the other guests as well. But just to put it to you, like, you see, we need to get smart to us parents and guardians as well, because we think, right, well, they're not looking at porn websites. So where are they getting this from? But Andrew tape, for example, now I'm not saying that he's encouraging this, but his views as it relates to men versus women, you feed that into someone. And it's going to change their attitude. They're gonna think, well, I can do whatever I want. I am the man. This is the woman. Right. So I just don't think parents might realize that there are people like that on these platforms, such as TikTok, that are influencing young guys, you keep hearing that over and over again, you're eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. And you will start saying, you know what? You know, I'm a man, I'm an old school man. This is the way men are supposed to act. Not this, you know, namby, bamby, other stuff or whatever a phrase might be appropriate. You know, so it's not the obvious places necessarily that our young lads are being educated. It's the places maybe parents and guardians seem to be safe. Absolutely. And look, that's that was the point I was getting to. Okay, so we're talking here, and you can see a lot of people say that this education has to take place in schools. It has to take place for social workers. But really, Greg, his fathers, and his mothers, the old, I think we have an awkward relationship as Irish people with this topic. And we can all remember, perhaps that awkward conversation with a parent, when you get to a certain age where it's kind of skirted around, and it's, it's a quick, a quick burst of the birds and the bees, and it's never spoken about again. The situation now is too serious. We've moved past that. And if we want to really tackle this as a society, I think it has to start in the home. I think that conversation has to become a lot more clear. And it has to become a lot more pertinent. And it has to be a normal thing to talk about because in order to tackle what is obviously a pandemic, as Marina said, we have to get real with it. And we have to start at an individual level with our sons and our daughters to talk about this and to try and instill in them that it's not just as simple as I'm a man and you're a woman. But there's a lot more complicated and intricate things that have to be discussed before embarking on any type of relationship. Yeah, the Donegal Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre, if I'm not mistaken, deal with victims 12 and up. That doesn't mean that there aren't cases of, you know, private, not just girls, but predominantly girls under 12, because I was contacted by a few people who are children who were less than 12 were victims as well. Betty Holmes, this is shocking. And this is going to feed into later in our conversation about funding, because Marina Porter herself in a very senior position says typical Donegal, we're under funded, we can't get the funding and so on. And we'll get to that. But just your your assessment of these shocking statistics, Betty. Oh, great. I was absolutely horrified when I heard Marina on and read the information. It's very worrying. It's very concerning as a mother and a grandmother and an aunt and all the rest of it. I found it quite shocking. I found it really upsetting. And I've given it quite a lot of thought. And I thought, what what has happened? And I remember a few years ago having a wobbly when I went into a certain clothes shop. And I discovered that the clothes that were in sale sale for children, where there were belly tops, they were skimpy clothes. And I had this real panic thing about what in the name of God are we selling what we would perceive to be sort of adult clothes to young children with belly tops, skimpy clothes. What was the message that was been sent out? And yes, parents and aunts and uncles and grannies were buying these for children. So when you see children of five, six, seven, running around in very, very skimply clad clothes, that that's about seven, eight years ago, Greg, I had that wobbly thought. But again, we come back and there was an important point said there, yes, where there's a responsibility on on our education system. But again, awareness has to start at home. And it's a very difficult conversation. And yet, Simon, as you refer to the talk about the birds and the bees was very quickly glanced over. I think that parents have an awful responsibility on them. But again, I come back to the whole thing of access to mobile phones, access to the internet, you know, as parents as guardians, yes, you think you're controlling them, but you don't actually know what what they're doing, what they're accessing. You don't know who they're talking to it. And I think it's quite horrible that we're in a situation now. And particularly when I read about the three 15 year old girls, when I read about the 12 year old, the fact that it's not just one person that there's, you know, several people involved in this and there's an element of violence. But it's really worrying. It's really concerning. It's really upsetting. But we need we need finance and we need support and we need an education system. And we also need to break down the barriers where it's okay to talk and say I'm not happy with this. And but we need to be aware when, you know, it's just have to say it's quite and maybe even switch on the head, you know, we're talking or not what you saw, but maybe the conversation out there is about how we protect girls, right? But we have to protect the perpetrators as well, who obviously they haven't been informed or educated, like say, for instance, if you don't want your children swearing in the house, right, you know, they know all the words and all the big ones, all the four lettered ones and the F's and the C's, but you educate them not to say them in the house if you don't want to, some people don't mind or out in public, right? So surely then we should have the same approach to pornography, we have to accept that they know it's there, they know what goes on, but then we have to teach them the rights and the wrongs. I'm not saying we let them watch it, by the way, just in case anyone thinks that's what I'm saying, but you know they're picking it up or watching or chatting about it somewhere, so we have to protect not just the girls, but the boys who become perpetrators and then their lives effectively, hopefully they can come back from it whatever, but you know it's going to have a huge impact on them as well. Yeah and I think as well, not saying COVID, but again, through the whole COVID thing, maybe there, you know, there wasn't as many opportunities to socialize and whatever, so there was, maybe people took their eye of the ball for a while, Greg, do you know what I mean, because there was other issues or whatever, but I think as parents, as guardians, as grannies and grandas, we need to actually be very clear and keep our eyes wide open and those conversations have to start and they have to start at a very early age, but again, I go back, you know, we need to be mindful, I have lots of granddaughters and all the rest of it, so, you know, how children and young people are dressing now, what's the message that's been sent out, you know, so there's a whole education system to start. Yeah, but we surely, with all due respect, respect Betty, and I mean that, we have to educate our young fellas that it doesn't matter what a girl wears, in other words, they can't go to the beach and because there's a load of girls in bikinis, all of a sudden think it's a free for all. I understand what you're saying. Oh no, no, no, no, no. I would have my concerns as well about appropriate clothing for proper ages, but I think the fellas need to know that certain clothing is certainly not a greenlight or an invitation. Absolutely, totally, I am 100% and maybe I just came across wrong there. Yes, the education has to be across the board, it has to be, but the other side of that, I know we're talking about the age group and whatever at the minute, but also I've just become sort of very tuned in, the amount of, I suppose, adult abuse that was going on and, you know, pornography and all that that happened very recently as well, Greg, so it's nearly, it is a pandemic of a different type, but funding has to be available and parents have to be supported as well and I suppose how to actually have those conversations with their children, both the boys and the girls, so there's a whole support system needed, you know, a wide support system. Yeah, I mean when you've got Marina Porter calling out to Sula directly saying we're under resourced, we need money, we need money to go in and educate the 690-yard students on the books, we need money to support these young people. Damien Dads is with us as well, the editor of the Interchon Independent newspaper, Damien. It's a tough subject and I'm surprised the amount of people that don't want to talk about it, that we want to sort of maybe crack on in blissful ignorance. Yeah, and I think the last time I was on Greg there was, there had been a bit of a storm that he'd come a few days beforehand about the introduction of some sexual education or sex ed in primary school and secondary school at that time and there was a cohort of people who thought it was an appropriate night. You know, as Simon mentioned earlier that the junior cert curriculum has been looked at, it's been revised, it's been opportunity and put into it and so on, and definitely the schools is a place but we can't, as parents, dodge the issue either, like, you know, we're very good at kind of farming this out and saying that somebody else's responsibility, that it's the responsibility of the schools or the responsibility of the government or the responsibility of TUSTA, the responsibility of whoever, the responsibility really with us, you know, lies within each family as well, like in a puncture I'd be made today, but you know, as parents, it behoves us to help our children navigate the world that they're in. Like, and we don't understand a lot of the kind of the internet circles that they're moving in, some of the material that they may be watching, their knowledge and consent and issues of sexual identity, sexual assault, all those things, we may not necessarily fully understand them, but if behoves us to kind of learn about those as well because we have to help the children understand in their teens, in their early teens, as they're going through, they're going through puberty and going through their awakening, that some of the urges and some of the feelings that they have need to be managed as well, as that's what it is to live in a society that, you know, is respectful of everyone in it and, you know, it just really comes back as well, as I said, to the parents. There is probably one thing that strikes me about this, and, you know, for years we've known that sexual assault and rape are vastly underreported. I think that's always been kind of, you know, for the last number of years people have been talking about how, you know, only a small proportion of rapes are ever reported to the guards and then only a tiny proportion of those actually proceed through the courts, like, so there might be, as part of this as well, maybe it's positive, it's hard to say just of this one year and this one set of results coming out when you're all, but it might be that people and they're all guards, I think we're mostly guards anyway in this instance that are coming forward with this, it might be that people now are starting to report the level of sexual assault that has probably maybe always been lingering there under the surface and maybe not fully appreciated and maybe not fully known. So there may be, that may actually be one of the things that's played here, is there more sexual assaults going on than there was 10 years ago, 20 years ago, whatever, that's harder to say because we know that in the past these things weren't fully reported, perhaps the level is the same, it's just that the awareness now. I think the answer to that, Damien, the answer to that often comes back, Damien, well it's a mixture of the two, often when I ask that question that's kind of what you get back. Now I think people may be, we'll move on after the break on to different issues, but I think we look for the obvious things, you know, like say for instance while they're watching porn, but I, like the biggest trend over the last eight or nine months on TikTok for example was the Amber Heard trial, right, whereby Johnny Depp was accused of a lot of stuff, right, and then it became pick-aside, it wasn't really about whether it happened or not, it was like pick-aside, a typical lion woman or a typical angry man, whichever way you want to look at it. I think things like that, kind of a pushback against the Me Too movement, a bit of toxic masculinity that's out there, I think that has as much influence over particularly young boys' minds who look up to people than, you know, actually physically watching a 10-minute porn movie, I don't know, but I just think someone other than me should be looking at that to find out what kind of a passive influence it has on young young boys. Yeah, I mean the culture Greg, you know, I mean all different strands are pulled into and as you say it may not just be as straightforward as watching photography, but it may be the cultural and the taking sides and the likes of that. Look, show trials, which that was like, you know, show trials have been kind of a staple of all media forever. And, you know, the trial there with the two fufflers' wives in Britain last year became a show trial for a different thing as well, like, you know, and that's going to be there and then past it was always reported on in the print media or on the television and the radio and now it's obviously migrated to online as well and people do, that's it, there's kind of a human nature too. On a personal level, when it comes to the likes of that, like, I prefer to see what the outcome is, I don't really engage in awful lot and watch that, I'll be listening to the trial very closely. That's it and I agree neither do I, but it's the billions, the billions upon billions of views that it was given to by young people. What do you think of that, Simon? I think sometimes it's maybe the more passive influence than the direct influence. I completely agree with you and I think, look, I remember in the wake of the Belfast rape trial, I was like everybody and most people in the country, I was on WhatsApp and I took a look at the groups that I was in and I took a look at, particularly, the all lads groups that I've become a fire to offer that, you know, maybe playing football or people you might work with and I looked at the, in the wake of that, I remember looking at the type of content that was being shared among lads and it was that toxic masculinity and it was that, well, we have to take the side of of our male brothers here and there was a, it was actually shocking when I stood back and looked at it and it made me question what kind of groups I was part of and I had to make a decision at that stage to leave some of them and it was the best decision I ever made, but when you look at the likes of the Amber Heard trial and you think of, you know, a lads group and maybe younger lads group, what they have now, what they didn't have years ago when it was show trials in newspapers or radio or television is they have direct access to each other now where they can send each other links, they send memes, they send jokes or perceived jokes and all of that feeds into this so it's, I think the whole issue has become very complicated and as a result as parents and as teachers in our society we need to up our game and we need to match that now because it's not, it's not simply a problem, it's going to go away on its own, we need to be up in our game to rid society of what is a scourge. Betty, do you want a last word on this one? Yeah, I would agree with what Simon's saying there and Damien. Yeah, the access I suppose to various groups, to information and I suppose that whole public thing of, you know, that went on definitely has an influence on, I remember these are young people with developing minds, opinions and again their under considerable pressure is supposed to be part of the group to be, you know, all that and it's just, it's a major, major issue and funding has to be got and it has to be addressed and I still, I do believe it starts at home and it's a very difficult conversation but parents need to be supported so that they can be aware so that they can be tuned in and all the other crises that are going on in their lives but it's scary and yeah, it's one that needs to be addressed ASAP, not just for discussion per action. Yeah, I agree with you, I'm not going to let it go anyway. 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Editor of the show and independent and the face I wasn't expecting for a while to see on the front of all the papers this morning is that of Boris Johnson. Is Damien with us? Damien, are you there? You are. I am. Yeah, no problem. No, that's okay. Obviously, I don't know how you would describe the last 44 days in Britain and many before that, but it seems there's actually a reasonable chance that Boris Johnson could be the next British Prime Minister. Well, I think the word, the honest word to use to describe Britain for the last couple of weeks is hilarious. I mean, I haven't been having belly laughs day in, day out. Actually, at the shenanigans going on there, Boris Johnson coming back would give me another laugh to be honest. Look, it's, yeah, it's incredible. Actually, it's just funny, it's this big peculiarity of the British political system that they have this fixed term parliament act so they can't go to the country, which clearly they need to do. And they're now trying to get another Prime Minister elected. I mean, the last trust is the Prime Minister until whenever she whenever she's replaced. Like, but they're appointed, they're not even elected by a vote of the parliament. Like they're appointed by the king after having been elected by the Conservative Party members. So trust probably never really, she didn't have the support or the confidence of the Conservative Party because she got less votes than, is it Sunak? Is it the other guy? So she got less votes than him. So she never really enjoyed the confidence of the Conservative Party anyway. But then the Conservative Party. She won the party membership vote, but MP in terms of MPs, she was second choice. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. But you see your business is done in the parliament. Like, so you really, that's a bit of a silly way of doing things like in the Conservative Party seems and that is split and there's two or three different factions within it. And again, this is part of the way that British politics is done. They have their first pass the post system. So the Conservative Party is probably two, if not three parties, all shoehorned together into one so that they can have a majority in the parliament. Like, they don't have the system of coalitions and so on that we and other European countries have. So it's really all unraveling on them at great speed. And it's, I mean, it's funny to sit and watch it to be honest because, you know, we don't have an awful lot of skin in the game. We're able to watch this. But it impacts us in fact, like, let's say, for instance, the positive inroads that seem to be in being made on the Northern Ireland protocol. Are we going to go back from that? Are we going to get someone in there that's going to take a harder line, one less likely to negotiate with Europe? I mean, it does directly. And let's not forget too, there's this big gas deal that's been done in Europe. We buy our gas through London. We don't buy our gas through Europe like the rest of Europe. You know, so whatever goes on over there and whatever price fluctuations happen and we export greatly to there, like, that's why I try and keep an eye on it because I think Damien, it does really whether we have quite an impact on us, far more than what might happen in Spain or somewhere else, for example. Yeah, it does. And I suppose you mentioned the Northern Ireland protocol, like, you know, and I mean, but like, you know, that's been a very funny. That's a that's quite a funny thing as well. And like the infantile nature. All right, Damien has broken away there for a second. So I want to bring Simon in on this conversation because, you know, in a way, like the mandate was given to Boris. I can't believe I'm actually proposing this, right? But the mandate where the mandate was given to Boris Johnson by the British people. So in a way, it wasn't they that got him out in a way. Is there some logic to Boris Johnson returning after his hiatus as British Prime Minister to because he I mean, a lot in the party feel that he can save their seat, Simon. Yeah, of course. And it's funny Boris Johnson is currently in the Caribbean. I'm sure he's sitting with a cocktail somewhere. Also belly laughing at all of this and folding back home and thinking to himself, well, look, here's my take to you on all of this. The thing about it is Boris Johnson does have a considerable amount of support, not only within the Conservative Party, but within Little England, if you like, and those who see him as being the person with the actual mandate of the people to get to get things done. If you look at some of the support that come out from last night MP, such as James Dudridge, who was his former private secretary, treated last night to say that it was time for the boss to come home, that some stuff had happened in the office that he had to attend to. So if you look at some of the papers in the UK this morning, what they're saying is that they have no doubt actually that Boris Johnson would get over the threshold that's needed, which I think is 100 MPs on this vote on Monday to throw a hat in the ring and to get to take on Rishi Sunak. And I think it's the Daily Mail that says today that it's this actually their headline is Boris versus Rishi, a fight for the soul of the Tories. So that's where Ratnaud Bourgeois looks like he's making his way back. And I don't think he'll allow his name to even go on the ballot, so to speak, unless he's confident that not only can he get over the 100, but he can get beyond that. Because of course, it was Sunak, was it not, that started the ball rolling on Boris Johnson's demise. So there's a lot of motivation there for him to throw it back to a lot of people. Of course, and Boris is a very shrewd political operator, as much as he has an outward appearance, you know, that he's up for a joke and a laugh and that he's a bit of a laugh and stuff, that man knows exactly what he's doing. And Rishi Sunak I'd say is, I wouldn't say he's altogether happy with the prospect. It looked maybe yesterday when this news broke that it would be Rishi Sunak, of course it came second. I think he had, he lost the actual membership vote by about 20,000 votes, but he actually won the MP's vote, as he said, by about 30 votes. And it looked like it was Rishi versus maybe the leader of the House of Commons at the moment who is Penny Mordont. It looked like that was going to be the challenge and she came third the last time around on the MP vote. But I think he has, Rishi Sunak will be quivering a little bit more at the thought of going up against a political powerhouse that is Boris Johnson. Because I think Boris still has a lot of support within the party, within the Conservative Party. Now, whether or not he has support within the wider public outside of Little England, I'm not 100 per cent sure. I don't know, the public love a victim, don't they? I mean, look at the public support Barthier Hearn was enjoying even as he was being turfed out of office, I don't know. Betty, I mean, what the Tories are managing to do is to make quite a few governments looking incredibly competent who would have thought. Well, I have to say it wouldn't be my area of expertise, but the bits and pieces that I've lifted, listened to you over the 44 days have been, yeah, belly laughs is not the word for it. But I suppose for me, my thoughts were, well, first of all, was it really, was it not sort of like the markets and the stocks and all the rest of it that actually sector rather than the voters, you know, but the impact that it may have on Stormont and the protocol would be a big concern for me because again, we have to look at the relationship between the six counties and the rest of Ireland, you know, it's just, it's hilarious. It's like some sort of comedy show, you know, but for a lady who went in with, I suppose, such an open, she was going to solve the problems of the world and then literally Jeepers made it up. Damien finally on this, I don't want to sort of sound like I'm having a go at the media such because, you know, we're in the media to some extent, but it would be, I've seen British, I've seen British politicians held to standards, held to account by some Irish political journalists and I was wondering, I wonder what kind of country we'd be in now if the same sort of level of scrutiny and standards of British politicians by Irish journalists was done to Irish politicians. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think the big thing that's happened, Greg, is that, you know, this is one of some of the ramifications of Brexit burning. And I don't think they're half held enough to account on that. The Brexit question is almost, and I did see Truss referring to it yesterday briefly, but it's almost overlooked by the British media and yet all the European media and all the media in Ireland too, like you know, we all draw a very clear line between the difficulties that they find themselves in today and their decision to Brexit and the form of Brexit that the Conservative Party sought, demanded, undermined Theresa May in order to bring in Boris Johnson, created the Northern Ireland Protocol, which Boris Johnson's government negotiated, signed off on and did because it was in Britain's interest, maybe not in the North's or the Unionist's interest in the North necessarily, but in Britain's interest. So I don't know. I mean, I think there's, I think the British media has a wee bit of a blind point there, there that fed up talking about Brexit over the last six or seven years that kind of moved on. So these things have nothing to do with it. 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Okay, now a Donegal cancer patient hit out this week at the HSC over the lack of resources at LetterCanny University Hospital to deal with patients' undergoing treatment. Rosina Toner was diagnosed with leukemia in 2021 receiving treatment in Galway in St James Hospital. She says she was shocked when she began her care at LetterCanny University Hospital when she discovered one ward with just 11 beds was commentating a hematology and oncology patients and this was covered in the papers as well. Now, Rosina in her comments very, very clear to point out that she was very well cared for by staff but those staff I think and the patients and the hospital as a whole were being let down by underfunding and, you know, Rosina is in a battle at the moment and took time from that battle to speak out on behalf for other people as well. It wasn't for herself. She was thinking of other patients that are either used in the facilities or will be using them in the future. Betty, I mean to someone like yourself who's campaigned so strongly on this and continues to do so. I mean, in terms of the actual information Rosina was talking of you'd be familiar with that. Now, obviously it's her personal experience and it gives it much more weight but, you know, what did you think of what she had to say? Well, first and foremost I would have to actually congratulate and say extremely well done to Rosina for doing the interview that she'd done and I suppose the press releases it had to be extremely difficult and I take my hand off to her. She's a very strong and powerful lady and I wish her well. But again, I come back and I suppose to break the first thing we should start is because the DACC map from 2017 where we went to all the meetings and we explained where Donnie Gaul was and nobody would listen and if you look the Gaulway Dublin line and we have it all below the Gaulway Dublin line and that makes its own statement and again, Letter Kenny Hospital it's over 13 years now since I first said that in my personal opinion that the powers that be at both regional and national level we're going to make Letter Kenny Hospital the new St. Joseph's and basically a community hospital and all key services are being removed from it and if you listen to what Rosina said yes, the staff are excellent whatever at Letter Kenny University Hospital but there has not been the investment and all we hear is COVID, COVID, COVID these issues existed long, long before COVID there wasn't the same support there wasn't the same investment there wasn't the same recruitment or interest in Letter Kenny and we've seen that we've sat at not meetings they don't answer letters anymore I mean, as you're aware, Greg we have read repeatedly when we had our Zoom meeting with the Minister for Health he had said he would come to Letter Kenny he hasn't done it we have kept the pressure on we have repeatedly invited the head of the National Cancer Control Program the HSE yes they had agreed initially and then COVID numbers were too high and we actually wrote to the Taoise as well because the Taoiseach when he was coming up I'm doing it from memory was at the 3rd of April we asked to meet with him no no nobody has any time and he's done this great reply back to us that was on the 30th of March telling us all these things that we already knew but he didn't answer any of the questions we asked and then we actually replied to him and we pointed out actually Taoiseach you as head of our government are the central coordinator it's the work of the Ministers and their departments respect the Taoiseach can decide that particular matters are of such importance that it is appropriate that they should come onto the protection of the department of the Taoiseach Letter Kenny University Hospital comes onto that as you know and nothing happened for it so do you think part of it is is you used to have you and your group used to have the ear of the powers that be do you think that they are sort of gone look we did really great on COVID COVID's the big crisis we have to deal with all that we did well and now in other words that you are insignificant in the wider scale of things in other words they can get away without responding to you or entertaining you because there's a bigger picture now I mean could it be as cynical as that well I think COVID's been used as an excuse for everything and all these issues existed long before it and I think we're very good at reading documents Greg and again if you even take the whole thing about the angiogram service and I've just looked here you know the whole thing about the new six regional health areas were to be created that document was to be in February and March that review we had written to them we had highlighted that the expertise came up from Ballway looked at the services letter Kenny regarding the cardiac services gave them the okay we turned their words around and their document you know it said that we've taken it all here Greg I have it we've turned everything back on them you know where they're saying in the context of of the cardiac services that it should be based on clinical need rather than geography we have taken the out of their terms of reference and we have showed them the map so you know if you're looking at that how can going to Dublin or Galway if you're in a cardiac situation be you know making your critical needs there is no commitment to letter Kenny University Hospital there's no commitment to the healthcare needs of the people of Donegal and that's a great cross the divide I mean we heard recently about the number of children who are waiting to be seen you know it's no interest why are they all afraid to come to letter Kenny University Hospital why are our ministers why are all these people who we elect and pay big money to afraid to come to Donegal what is the problem you know look at all this Greg and we go back and as you know where we actually went to Brussels because we looked at the Europe we went on the 8th of December 2015 and the European Commission on effective accessible and resilient health system health systems must be accessible this is one of the principal stated in the European Charter which emphasises the importance of transparent criteria and it does not exclude part of the population from receiving healthcare but yet for Donegal we are excluded go back to that I mean really and I said it the investment yes the investment in Galway the investment in Dublin and just to say actually I think it was last Monday morning we actually wrote to Galway University Hospital looking for the update on the number of cancer Donegal cancer patients who've had their surgeries and treatments in Galway for 2021 and 2022 to date and what cancers we also wrote to the Northwest Cancer Center in Altona Galvin looking for those figures because the Taoiseach had referred in his reply in March about the figures at 10 in Altona Galvin were up 50 from the year before you know 253 yes if we have all these patients from Donegal traveling to Galway and Dublin and we know that the patients going to Galway head down the road and they don't always get a bad break you know why is there no investment in letter Kenny good about the hospital okay now Damien Douds editor of the independent newspaper of course you know it's bad for anyone in Donegal but it's quite a journey from parts of Ineshawn just to letter Kenny despite then not to mention then sorry that the onward journeys from there and I think Rosina is from Ineshawn if I'm not mistaken and even talked about the difficulty times of with some of the the consequences of realness of getting to letter Kenny and the discomfort there but Damien like that you speak to the HSC the higher ups they say if you want quality if you want quality medical care in certain areas you're going to have to be prepared to travel that seems to be the message coming from them it is as well as some of that down I mean I hear some of that as well some of it's down to what specialities can be provided like and you know all specialities naturally can't be provided in our county hospital because it doesn't have the population that's there to sustain the doctors and treatment of this at the certain high level we get but as soon as two things are not great first of all is obviously like that I mentioned that there were the clinical media rather than geographies what is what we talk about like you know but you can't ignore the blood and geometry and the geography is what's what's literally killing us and killing our people and that we have two health systems on the island and we can't get to Derry or can't go to Belfast in the same property we have to go to Dublin and Galway and for people who are ill and having to travel half the length of the country to receive specialist treatment is cruel and very very difficult so leaving aside leaving aside that that probably can't be fixed in the way that it needs to be fixed until a later date when there's a fully integrated health system for the whole island the care that's needed at the Derry County Hospital then the care that needs to be provided and what Rosina was telling us during the week about the lack of specialist care within the Derry County Hospital that you're throwing on to a surgical ward even though you need certain a different type of care because you're a cancer patient that that is going on in Derry County is the big thing that probably needs to be addressed in the first instance and that needs to be fixed and Derry County needs to be Derry County General Hospital is a special case and it's a special case because of its geography that leaves it so isolated from the rest of the state so it actually needs a higher level of investment or County also is well enough known as or County also has an older population than a lot of other parts of the country so again and that and that leads to you know see what worries me Damien is is and I don't know if the intent to or not but when they talk about the older population it's almost as if it's a problem right you know it should be it's a positive thing like this is we know where the population is going to be in five or 10 or 15 year times but why is things under pressure well people keep staying alive don't they you know that's how it feels and I don't think I don't I don't think I don't well actually people shouldn't feel that way like you know because for the extended longevity and the extended lifespans that we're all enjoying are like a modern medical miracle and it's a wonderful thing the County has because of because people within the country might great and go away to Dublin go away abroad wherever it is that they go in the younger ages that's what leaves us with relatively speaking an older population it's just we've got a higher proportion of elderly people in some other countries because the mix is the way there's our county which is more the case for investment in health services because we know that as people become older they get mega complications arise but most of these complications aren't insurmountable so do you believe that there's an element of do you believe there's an element of this that we need to accept but that we also should accept expect that there is a a dedicated ward that's properly invested that there's proper seating in but do you think we are going to have to accept then that for the specialist cancer treatments part of that journey is going to be that journey to Dublin and Galway well my understanding of what Greg is is right is that and this was the discussion when Alpha Galvan was with the radiotherapy centre has been set up there they needed about half a million people in their catchment area in order to make that centre viable and the 120,000 people from Donegal North of Donegal town helped make the helped make the kind of the clinical case for Alpha Galvan become the specialist centre for that so it's not like it's really so if a surgeon's only doing 10 operations a year instead of doing the 60 that he needs to do to keep his skills up but he's going to fall behind so we can't have all the special okay well I wouldn't think Simon in on this before in light of that though in light of that you need to have proper care and because Donegal is so distant from these other places I mean there's a special case needs to be made made for letter of chemics that because of its geography and the clinical needs there might even be greater and it needs a higher level of investment and not just the standard level of investment the general hospitals will get in the rest of the country okay so Simon Glespie finally with you then I mean very strong arguments both from both Damien and Betty you couldn't argue against them I don't think so why are our voices then being ignored Simon finally with you because that's the only explanation isn't it yeah I don't know when I completely agree with what what Damien's saying there and Betty obviously I dread to think Greg where we would be as a county without advocates like Betty and her colleagues there and without advocates like people here in Widow who look after the Donegal cancer flights and those type of services voluntarily where would we be without them and I listened to Rosina during the weekend I wish her the very very best with all her treatment she's a very brave lady but isn't it a sad case that you have to come on to the radio when you're going through something like that to tell people what it's like and we've spoken before about this Greg about that journey to Galway that journey to Dublin there's a practical element all of this what happens if you get down to Galway and there isn't a bed or say you get down to Galway there is a bed you get into the bed but the person driving driving you down has to pay now extortionate hotel room prices and we've had that conversation or has to turn around and come back up through to go back down the road again the next day if that is the case then we need to look at how we facilitate people from the northwest or from other rural areas in Ireland to go and receive proper supports in these in these centres of excellence if that's what it's going to take but I completely agree with Damien I think there is a special case that needs to be made for Litterkenny Hospital and I think as a it's not a case of you know we deserve it or we'd like this it's an absolute necessity and all you have to do is listen to Rosina and her heroin story of her travels and what she has to go up against on a daily basis I mean that tells it all Greg Yeah okay and also you can hear more of Rosina's stories in the in a shown independent newspaper Damien Dodd it's editor thank you so much for your time today Yeah Greg can I just Very lastly yeah Yeah DACC campaign very hard and along to have the radiotherapy unit at Litterkenny Hospital and we said why does cross-border always only work one way now the services at Albany Gallup and are excellent and we're good to have them but that should have happened at Litterkenny Hospital you know again Donegal was being discriminated against in the story but the battle will go on and DACC will continue we won't let we won't let them take us down and beat us No I don't add that for a second Political politics Medical politics and managerial politics and we're not sure which is the worst thank you Betty Holmes thank you so much for your time today as always Simon Glespie great to have you back on the show take care of yourself enjoy your weekend My pleasure Okay thanks so 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the news sorry back after the news and obituary notices the nine till noon show is brought to you by Green Shoes at Litterkenny Shopping Centre Market Square in Falkara with a new range of great autumn winter footwear now in stock also online at greenshoes.com live on air online and on the Highland Radio app this is Highland Radio News good morning it's 10 o'clock I'm Emma Ryan the chair of the Donegal Action for Cancer Care says no one has been listening to please for more resources for health care in Donegal since 2017 Betty Holmes says key services continue to be removed from Litterkenny University Hospital effectively turning it into a community hospital the health minister has failed to visit Litterkenny University Hospital despite repeated calls for him to do so Miss Holmes told today's nine till noon show that COVID continues to be used as an excuse in response to concerns being raised Litterkenny Hospital it's over 13 years now since I first said that in my personal opinion that the powers that be at both regional and national level we're going to make Litterkenny Hospital the new St. Joseph's and basically a community hospital and all key services are being removed from it all we hear is COVID, COVID, COVID these issues existed long, long before COVID Garde have confirmed and investigations are continuing into a report of a woman being approached by a man in the area of the Muff Greenway last Saturday the incident happened at around 3 30 p.m. Earlier this week concerns were raised by the admin of a local social media page after being inundated by women claiming they had been approached by the men on the route Sligo Lytrims and South Donegal TD Mark McSharry says he's deeply upset and offended at how he was treated by Fina Foyle this week he believes he wasn't re-admitted to the parliamentary party because of a complaint from a Fina Foyle councillor in Sligo Claire McNamara reports Deputy McSharry resigned the Fina Foyle whip just over a year ago in a row over Catherine Supone's botched special envoy appointment the Sligo man was not re-admitted to the party on Wednesday as planned in a letter to the party yesterday he hit out at the fact Fina Foyle's parliamentary party was told the motion to admit him couldn't proceed because an issue had arisen his letter says some colleagues assumed he was subjected to a criminal investigation such was the cryptic and serious nature of the chief whips comments he says he assumes the issue referred to as a complaint made against him about comments he made in a private WhatsApp group of Fina Foyle representatives in Sligo Deputy McSharry says his remarks can't be seen as bullying as he's entitled to due process he says he should be re-admitted to the parliamentary party next week the state needs to appeal to holiday home owners to house the growing number of Ukrainian refugees that's according to Shin Fien's Justice spokesperson who says a contract needs to be put in place Ireland has welcomed and housed over 58,000 refugees from Ukraine and other countries so far this year South Donegal Deputy Martin Kenney says more people will be seeking shelter in the coming months well I think it's clear the city west is full and that's the reason why it's closing I think all of this is a reflection of the inaction in government over the past number of months to try and resolve the situation we also see new waves of Russian attacks across Ukraine which is obviously displacing more people more pressure on all countries in Europe including Ireland where more refugees will be seeking shelter and refuge the hashtag by Donegal campaign returns next month showcasing the very best of Donegal business and urging people to choose local products and services while Christmas shopping the initiative runs from November 11th up until Christmas Eve with weekly deals and specials on dedicated website by Donegal.com Stephen Perry from Donegal County Council's Economic Development Unit says it's becoming an important element of the council's ongoing effort to market and promote local talent I suppose we've grown from when it started in 2020 initially as by Donegal we can and then it grew into with our campaign we see more businesses get involved we had circa 300 businesses involved last year while the message of buying local and supporting local business is important by Donegal is about more than that it's about showcasing the talent creativity and innovation of Donegal business to a global audience and finally the finance minister says whoever becomes the next British Prime Minister is a matter for the British people but he hopes they can build a close relationship with Ireland Boris Johnson's supporters are backing him to return to the job he left just over six weeks ago Penny Mordant and Rishki Shanak are emerging as front-runners to replace Liz Truss who resigned yesterday it's a more fast-tracked process this time the new Prime Minister will be in office in a week's time at the latest Minister Pascal Donahoe says a choice of the new British Conservative leader has far-reaching consequences obviously we've had very difficult issues in recent years due to Brexit what is happening in the UK reminds me of the value of a who's in office the consequences of political decisions and at times the costs the economic the political stability of the UK really does matter to Ireland and we look forward to being able to engage with the new Prime Minister when that person is elected To well or not breezy and blustery today with widespread showers merging into longer spells of rain at times some dry interludes will occur too highest temperatures of 13 to 15 degrees that's all for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock but until then good morning The obituary notice is for this Friday morning October the 21st the death has occurred of Josephine MacGowley named MacGarregal 551 Ard McHulsternorder remains reposing at Herliate residence this evening from five 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hear Betty on talking so much sense they used to be a set of two books available for parents who find it difficult to talk to the young teenagers one written by boys and one for girls they are called young man and young woman they explain everything about sex and respect etc that comes in from Mary and I understand exactly where you're coming from Mary and you know maybe maybe 20 years ago you had that conversation and that was the only source of information maybe outside of peer pressure from friends or what have you but our young people now are being bombarded by well you know sexual content be it through Instagram TikTok or wherever it might be and then people with very different views perhaps to most parents and they become fans of theirs and these people become their heroes so I don't think it's a one-off chat I think it's I think it's an ideology that has to be counteracted say no what you're watching or what are you watching where are you getting your points of view do you understand this person is this or that or you know really it's a business for them or whatever I think the conversation has to be more tailored to counteract what they're absorbing I don't think simply saying that's what's that that's that and that's what it's for and don't do this and don't do that I just don't know if that's an off anymore there should be talks in schools from the professional bodies like RCC, SATU and the Gargita Race Awareness of Education and Education yes indeed Greg do not forget the toxic misandry man-hating that is evident all over media and social media yes that's you're going to see some of that and then you see intergender hatred as well depending on what people's views are but the problem is and we can talk about that issue of misandry but 99% of the perpetrators of this activity are boys please ensure that education also includes young men ending up on the sex register for life this needs to be the bottom line for them making decisions thank you Kevin Spacey just been found not guilty of sexual assault of another man a case brought about the Me Too movement how many other false allegations have been made due to hysteria or acts of revenge you trust the courts do you to maybe filter them out obviously he was vindicated that actually was the accusation that cost him his role in his major television roles I don't think anyone in this country should be laughing considering our own political circumstances are a joke well indeed I mean you had a very senior minister two days ago resign because she cc'd someone into an official email and used her own personal email account she resigned immediately yet we have documents being circulated around this country by senior politicians and it doesn't seem to matter can you ask the panel if you think it was a lack of social socialization and isolation of the last few years that's triggering this increase in these assaults I think Betty did reference that in her comments girls should be allowed to wear what they like the message is saying girls wearing certain clothes and making this happen our children need protection so do the boys and I don't that wasn't the point that Betty was making I think Betty was talking in the in the context of some of these clothes sexualizing children not as part of the wider conversation that that is triggering any attacks on them she clarified that there's a whole undiscussed area with this problem many people have grew up with sites like Omega which led perpetrators straight to vulnerable children indeed there's a serious problem and a big report in Britain at the moment as it relates to adults abusing children and also what and there's there's interesting statistics on that too which certainly in Ireland deserve more scrutiny as to the demographics of perpetrators and what needs to be done to address all that type of stuff as well but in this instance what we're talking about is peer on peer it's children abusing children but that doesn't in any 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She joins us on the program now Good morning to you How are you keeping Shawna? Morning Greg, how are you? I'm good Did you enjoy the experience? Do you know what it really it was fantastic It was a great learning experience but it was actually a lot of fun more so than anything it was great And I think it was very relatable because your family's typical like all of our families you know the same old stuff that goes on around the dinner table and everything else very relatable Yeah, having to cook a couple of different dinners so everybody would eat it so yeah I think we are sort of pretty well as close to normal as anybody could as close to normal as any of us are if the truth be told Yeah, yeah, yeah Exactly So what did you like were your eyes opened having been on the show like do you is there more awareness across the family about the environment about waste about in other words will this have a lasting impact on yours do you think? Yeah, do you know what I think it's the silly things that we sort of probably knew Greg but didn't realize the difference it would make you know for the simple thing is if you do have a fire on or you heat on instead of using the tumble dryer put your clothes on the clothes horse or you know one of the biggest things was probably like buying cheaper brand electrical products like not that there's anything wrong with them they are cheaper to buy but they're actually quite a lot more expensive to run in the long run you know even checking with your electric provider are you in or out of contract? That is a big one at the moment you know because there's a lot of charges out there I mean you can pay some people are paying 30 cent 37 cent per kilowatt hour depending on what company they're with other people are paying 48 cent per kilowatt hour customers on pre-pay they're paying 37 cent per kilowatt for example but there is a 45 cent per day surcharge on that so really that brings it up to closer to 40 cent you know people really need to dig in as to what they're being charged I've talked about this before how much things are costing a power shower at 37 at 37 cent per kilowatt hour three year old and 33 per hour now if you've got a few people in the house and I know you your young fella was I'm not sure he got in the shower at one point how he was in and out he was in and out in the shower in 30 seconds he was and he actually got pulled up on it because he was he's allowed to show or know with because he loves music but that's where it is like a lot of people have showers now that come off your hot water so if you reduce your shower times you can shower from that instead of using the power shower you know as a mother you'd be given out about having the PlayStation and the TVs left on they actually now don't tell the kids they actually don't use very like nearly nothing when you television your average TV which is about 42 inch LCD TV 0.04 cent to run that for an hour yeah whereas from a parents point of view what we're doing is probably worse than actually what the kids are doing yeah like everybody boils a kettle you forget about it you go back boil your kettle again you know they were actually quite impressed with us with our kettle we have one of the kettles that boils just one cup at a time same here yep you know yeah so Greg they actually use the same as a TV nothing you know simple things like Chloe had to turn off the vampire switches even though they use very little some of the switches that you leave on uses a lot you know and it's an aggregate isn't it because if I were to say all of those switches on a day it's 45 cent a day right you go I'm sure it's 45 cent that's 160 odd euro a year you know which is probably you know not far off a month of electricity do you know so if you sometimes you have to add it up to realise that whilst what might seem pointless you add it up over the course of the year it's a significant amount of money yeah it really does and like that you know different things when you're cooking your dinner like per old eating flowers let me tell you we never ate flowers in the house but even having the likes of some plant-based meals they actually take shorter times to cook than the other meals so they work out cheaper to do and turning down the temperature in your washing machine obviously it's not heating the water you know it's it's the simple things and I have done that and I didn't believe it would work but the clothes are still washed yeah so if you if you your average C rated washing machine if you do a standard 40 degree cotton wash it costs 43 cents now that doesn't sound like an awful lot again but if you do that three or four times a week and then you multiply it up now then you get into your your dryer right because as you say now you're using the clothes hose which is another thing that I've I like to use but the the cost of running a tumble dryer for an hour is 130 right now again you might go watch that's not bad dry your clothes for 130 but you do that and you know yourself you do whites and then you do this and you do that you do that a number of times a week and add it up over the course of the year it's big big money like and it really really adds up to that clothes hose if you don't use your dryer three times in the week I don't mind I tell you what I do is I put them on the clothes horse right when I say me it's not really me but anyway we'll say nothing we put them on the the clothes horse right and then put them in the dryer for five minutes just to give them you know to freshen them up yeah that's that that's it exactly and with having young people around per owned on the sniff test not all clothes have to go on a full wash rinse them you know how long can you wear a pair of jeans before washing them there's someone in the office here said one day right now you sniff them after a day they'd be perfectly fine I'm not asking you to tell me how long you wear your jeans for well you see what people with different views they do and you know what with me through work and stuff with COVID I probably did go over the top and wash and stuff but no like you're only going out you're not actually doing anything dirty so you know if you're only sort of going for a care journey you go and shop and those clothes aren't dirty yeah now a quick rinse I know a lot of people are big into baking and what have you probably have the oven on all the time but the best thing ever came into my house was a air fryer now when I say an air fryer for me anyone thinking of going down that get the air oven now an air oven has three or four stacks so you can put chips so whatever it is then you can put and steaks are beautiful out of it burgers from frozen beautiful out of it but if you get the one way just throw it in the bottom of the tray it the food doesn't cook properly in my opinion but you can run an air fryer for 56 cent an hour you know and you can do chips in 14 minutes you can do steak medium in 12 minutes you know they're really efficient and you're not turning on this big thing now of course you know you have to use your oven for Christmas dinner and all that type of stuff so those are the little changes we can make in the house immediately Shauna but what I want to ask you to then is that did you feel more connected to the bigger picture because you know there might not be a direct saving in some of the stuff we do like walking more I mean there's a saving fuel or car pooling right you still have quite a bit of that did you find yourself thinking more about the environment rather than what I've been talking about what's under the roof and in our pockets yeah do you know we got to go to Dublin for two weeks and met up with the other two families whenever they worked out what the three families done in the course of a week you didn't think you were making a difference on your own but whenever you see a couple of people doing it it actually does make a difference and you know like as we were told Fiona she was the water expert she was saying you know people drive she came down over a lot salt and she thought like it was July it was a beautiful day and she goes people drive to go for a walk why don't people just walk for the walk you know take the bike you know different things like that and if everybody does it it does make a difference did you get a recycle bin yet yes but do you know what actually yes we always had a recycle bin we just got it totally wrong I know I was just it was the honesty of it all the best thing about it they didn't even they didn't even show on TV some of the worst things like we had we had things in the bin definitely shouldn't have been in but no our recycle bin doesn't even go out maybe every six weeks now yeah very good someone says on Facebook here I do my washing at 12 at night now if you're on a night saver you can save money on electricity at night my worry is I wouldn't sleep with the washing machine the dryer or the dishwasher going because I've spoken to too many people involved in fire safety and with young people in the house I just maybe if you had electric car charging overnight but I would not be happy running any of those things overnight I mean I was even to even one of the head of the fire services here and it was his dishwasher had went up in flames and another guy that worked in the fire station I think it was his his washing machine so I'd be I wouldn't be feel I wouldn't feel happy recommending anyone use those appliances overnight Shauna yeah and funny since the program we've actually changed our car at night too an electric car and I normally would charge it your night but for some reason our dog started barking last night and first the first thing I thought was oh my god something so I actually plugged it out and you know what I charged this morning when I was waiting to leave the kids to school so yeah no that's did you go all electric or hybrid no we went all electric and as I got caught on TV saying I actually didn't think it would work I thought I would get stuck in the middle of fan it or whatever but no I can get two and a half days out of the car wow yeah I didn't see I didn't see the episode where that was featured and that's so do you know what right I was disappointed they didn't actually show the car because we were totally we were against it and like I went to leash three weeks ago and for the whole weekend it cost me 25, 49 or something to charge it so in comparison to yeah in comparison to 160 euro a week one other thing too you say buying cheaper brands of food might actually cost more is that what you said or one thing I learned no buying cheaper the electrical appliances I get you yeah okay so whatever rating the hour of what power they run at okay yeah yeah yeah I suppose you know we try and put a financial cost on everything but there's the environmental cost you know what I mean so we think of everything in pounds and pence when people talk of switching to electric cars or whatever they're about what can I save but it maybe we need start looking about you know it's the planet too and your children's and I think the best thing I learned because I thought I had to do all this washing and everything but as Fiona was saying enjoy it like take less time to do these things and actually do it because you enjoy it you know maybe some people do some people are against it but even making small changes like the kids through school you know they've been sort of added in now to science weaken things to do different savings and it is a simple thing yeah but it all adds up it all adds up it's just no doubt about that and I think one thing people need to do is check check a couple of things what their unit rate is with the company that they're with are they actually having their meter checked it can be a disadvantage to have it checked sometimes can they switch because there is savings to be made in the electricity market if people switch they can get cash back discounts and stuff but also let's use less power shorter but I think a lot of us are doing that now anyway I think people are having to do it and I think more because like that we didn't realize just the simple things and it does add up because even with having the electric car our electricity is down because of all the little small things now it's not down 100 euro but over the course of the year it is it is down you know which is great good stuff all right well happy motoring and thanks for your time this morning and well done 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of Ireland yeah I just think I don't know if more information should be put out there in terms of electricity prices because I know it on the front of the Irish Daily Mail today that older people are turning off fridges to save on bills they're not using cookers due to the steep rise in food and energy prices this is a warning from charities and you know maybe there should be more targeted advice as to the charges because as I say some prepay customers if you didn't use any electricity in a month you would lose you know 12 13 year old just on the for the luxury of having a prepay having a prepay meter and then you of course have the standing charges and I think if if the detail as it as it relates to how long runs to power shower a 15 minutes 15 10 minute shower 56 cent you know that's the kind of information I think people need that's on 37 cent per unit your electric heater fan I got caught out in this someone some people might say well you know what I'm not going to use the central heating I'll use a couple of electric heater fans they're 93 cent an hour to run at 37 cent per kilowatt hour you're ironing for an hour 87 cent and that's at 37 your immersion heater the cost per hour one year old 67 cents so if you it takes about two hours to fully heat a tank three euro and 34 cent you know that's the kind of information I think that's more important and then tell us what the standing charges are and why why are electricity companies increasing the standard charges why is there urban and rural rates I think that's information that we deserve to have okay I'm a customer of electric carland says this listener my old contract was a 30% saving it was due for renewal they offered 14% at first but I told them I was getting a better deal elsewhere and they came back with a 26% rate I'm now getting a rate for 32 cent per unit you know I mean that's pretty good in this day and age 30 cent per unit some people as I say are out there paying 47 48 I think we use about 19 is it 19 units per day so you know it might be a little bit more depends on the size it has but it pays to shop around and it costs nothing and nothing happens really for most people your electricity doesn't go off and then you're not without electricity for three days you just switch to another company if you can and away you go right okay now Thomas Gabriel cash he is a nephew isn't he of Johnny cash he's touring Donagall and he's going to be joining us in the last hour of the program as part of the entertainment item and you're going to have an opportunity to go and see him live so let's hear his version of on let's hear his version of long way home and this will be our piece of music for today it's a nice sound isn't it that's Thomas Gabriel cash no sorry I remember just double check his name there it what is that Gabriel what it is Gabriel okay interesting handwriting Donna thank you all right so we'll be chatting to him a little bit later on in the program he's coming to Donagall 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How dare he tell us what we can or cannot buy our kids? But look, we're not trying to be the Grinch here There is a serious world safety concern that we have and it's not just ourselves it's also the Guardian and the medical community as well and this appeal is being fronted you might have even heard the ad on your own station there recently he's been fronted by Keith Sinnott and he's a consultant at the National Spinal Injuries Unit in the Matter Hospital and he's seen firsthand the traumatic injuries that are suffered by people particularly children from mithaps involving quad bikes in particular and also scramblers As you said, in the last five years there's been 88 people seriously injured four people killed on our roads and that's an important message on our roads involving quad bikes and scramblers and about 40% of those figures were children so this is a real problem out there It's an over-representation there is it? No, this doesn't take into account what might happen off-road but there's certainly other representatives in these figures, aren't there? Exactly So you're absolutely correct and right and that was the next point I was going to make these are an underestimate an under-representation of the scale of the problem out there because if they're being used on farms or if they've been used off the public road or if they've been used across fields or wherever they may be used there's added dangers I mean out on the public road I mean children shouldn't have them out on the public road full stop because they're not licensed they're probably not wearing any protection equipment they're not insured and they haven't been critically haven't been trained so it's an offense to have them out on the public road and unfortunately we are seeing incidents involving young children young people with quad bikes and scramblers out on the road and look the dangers are obvious and we're asking parents not to not to gift them as presents but off-road there's a real extra challenge because they're driving on uneven ground the vehicles are unstable enough themselves if there is a mishap on one of these things especially on a quad bike you risk falling on the vehicle landing on top of the rider so they really do pose a serious risk but to some extent in that regard I mean obviously there's a rule an urban element to this and you could have young people and maybe you even have a view on this but young people who work in the land for example and they may have been doing so from a very early age they might be driving tractors legitimately from 16 and on and the work they're doing on quads might be you know just part and parcel of the culture of farming so it's really up to I suppose we're asking parents and guardians to think about it and make them judgment calls I mean we don't need big brother here either at the same time Brian I think that's a fair point Greg yeah I think that's a fair point because these things are designed to be used under supervision you know and you know with people knowing the dangers that they pose and knowing how to use them correctly so you know yes parents need to make a judgment call themselves that if let's say a teenager is using this on the farm and so that they know with it that they have the training that they are wearing the protection equipment and that they know the risks and are aware of the dangers so I think that is a fair comment Greg but the problem we have I think in most cases is that that isn't happening okay that was something like by two specific appeals by Guardi particularly in Inner showing actually the northern part of Donegal we had the local sergeant on making a specific appeal and warning two of the legal consequences obviously we're approaching this from a safety aspect but there is a law enforcement element to this as well and they had obviously seen enough activity on the peninsula's roads that they thought it were they have a specific appeal to urge parents and guardians to know all the consequences both the legal and potential injury and death consequences of young people out on public roads on quads yeah and look we don't always want to be coming on to programs like yourself and Greg and you know waving a big stick in terms of you know the law and the enforcement and the penalties you know in the first instance we want to come out on appeal on the safety aspect of this and the risks that they pose and these are genuine risks that they pose and especially when they're being misused on the public road or not on the public road they do pose a danger to the rider themselves and to others and it's when it's linked to the I suppose the antisocial use of these scramblers and quad bikes is where we really have a problem and there are certain parts of the country where you know local communities are being terrorized almost by the use of these of these vehicles by typically by teenagers and terrifying the local community and you know the Guardi are saying that they will enforce the law when this type of activity happens and rightly 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any of his movies he did the three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri he has done in Bruges seven psychopaths he has a mind in which only a lot of therapy you would imagine could deal with all the films are very good that you just mentioned they are they are oh no they're absolutely excellent but they're always that kind of quirky weird there's like weird violence you know it's the characters are in it are really characterful as when for lack of a better phrase as in you know there's no such thing as just a guy sitting there quietly everybody in it has a thing and this is completely in that frame of mind and I have to say I absolutely love it it was just there's something about it that is like I'm not a Colin Farrell in it is obviously if anybody hasn't seen the trailers or any of the things for it it stars in the main Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleason now out of those two actors if I was ranking them I would put Brendan Gleason miles ahead of Colin Farrell prior to this and I assumed that it was going to be Brendan Gleason who's actually been in not Martin McDonough's but John Martin McDonough which is Martin McDonough's brother who did Calvary and did The Guard and does you know he's also a screenwriter and I assumed it was going to be Brendan Gleason and then Colin Farrell would kind of be the sidekick and actually it turned out to be the other way around and Colin Farrell was excellent in it see he's I mean he in Seven Psychopaths Colin Farrell's loved him in that very very good in that even in things like phone booth he's really quite good but I like him I like him yeah I like him but he's got his own way he's got his own way but you just thought that Gleason's light would shine brighter than Farrell's on this to me they're to me prior to watching this I would have said there was no contest that Gleason is the far better actor the far you know and that's just my own thing I've never really been a Colin Farrell fan he did you know for every one thing that he did good you could name five things that you're like Dear God, why? and he you know there was a few things along the way back in the past but he does seem to be having a research and we were talking about you were saying that yeah I don't know if it's now I suppose he's in his 40s now is he reaching a maturity and what he's picking a maturity in himself or whatever because oftentimes I think in the past he looked like he was going to have this massive career and then it sort of went off the rails and I don't know whether it was his choices as in his career choices or whether it was a lot of personal choices that he'd made in his life or whatever but things just seemed to he never reached that potential that you originally thought he was going to be at if he'd been a bigger star he could have been invited along to the showing this then but he just wasn't clearly it was not a big enough star but he in this he really well I thought he was just amazing in it yeah he was just amazing in it now it was you know he's the only decent looking one on the island which you'd kind of wonder about well besides that gasp not raining it's not really the measure of the talent but I suppose but it was but he was excellent in this and then and it actually quite centered on him rather than his character is more the kind of central character right yeah so the basic story before we get into the story I want to talk about the cinema right so was it you just went and watched this in a full empty cinema yeah right well full empty do you know what I mean cinema was empty yeah where did you sit where's the best seats in the house then anywhere beside for nunna's the best seat okay because you get a running commentary all right okay you get a running commentary I didn't even have to whisper because yeah she didn't Greg she didn't whisper she spoke out loud when I needed it when I felt the need to pass on and if you needed to go for a way to say can you pause it please we have to try that we have to try that if we're lucky enough to go to the net we're lucky enough so but when do you sit in the where do you sit middle middle of the middle in the middle about eye height to the screen yeah yeah okay middle of the middle yeah middle of the middle okay that was it and I was lucky we were on that we actually were treated like royalty we were in the they were lovely yeah they were sound really sound awesome I love that that I made that that's your favorite screen isn't it it is it's your favorite screen going to the cinema was like a completely different experience now than it might have been in the past isn't it I know when you're in those seats definitely then talk to me about the plot of the film do you want to take that one yeah sure it's very straightforward and you can't say a lot without giving it all away but it opens it hits the ground running scene one tells you that there are two guys living on this island and one of them just decides they've been best mates and one just decides well I don't want to be your friend anymore and that's really all you can say about it it's the ramifications of that decision and as Colin Farrell who is as you say for me the protagonist of this story as he reacts questions and tries to fix this new situation this new status quo he talks to his sister about it he talks to the barkeeper he talks that the local guard gets involved the guard's son who is sort of his annoying best mate kind of his new best mate it's kind of like there's a hierarchy of who's smart and who's a bit dumber so it's the reaction of the main character to this sudden thing where the guy says I don't want to be your mate anymore and as you go on into the story you find out why that is and it's quite although this is a comedic movie and a dark movie but it's also quite a profound movie and the critics have embraced it if you look through the reviews as I did last night you'll find it's 10 out of 10 5 star 5 star 10 out of 10 critics are saying that it's dark it's funny but it's profound and it does put up genuinely uncomfortable questions that we could all sit there and ask about ourselves our friends why are we friends with certain people who is well I don't want to say too much again without spoiling it because the trailer gives a heck of a lot of way and I sometimes you think a lot of trailers do yeah you'd be kind of but if you're I think a lot of people want to see this based on the cast based on the script writer based on the pedigree based on the previous I think different people go into films in different ways whereby you know maybe though there's a type of they can watch films over and over again that it's really just how it all unfolds rather than I think you're a little bit like I am Michael you would say well I didn't see that in the trailer and it hasn't happened yet and we're 110 minutes into this and is that going to happen now and how will that really I think most people can switch off and just sit back or recline in fact in some cases I knew things had happened I knew things were coming from the trailer for this like an extreme example would be the new Black Panther I've avoided the trailer because I'll just spend the whole movie waiting for that bit to happen in this film it's not as severe as that because it's not a plot driven story per se it's more a character driven movie it's how these we are counted the story normally that can be a turn off but the way Macdonna makes films it you know we know we can do it very well it does it because I think it works because this is a quirky story and I will warn you if you're tempted to go and see it it's it's it's dark I mean it goes to some dark places and you will still be laughing but there'll also be times where you might gasp and go oh okay like it's this is pretty dark some dark stuff happens but it all works you might gasp and then it goes what yes we are I didn't I didn't get any of the profound that's surprising the profound did you not go over my last night did you not stare out the window and think deep questions no I was like men's friendships are weird that's basically what I thought no I didn't get a lot of the profound out of it because to be honest I don't normally like this type of movie but for some reason Macdonna always manages to do I like my movies things to be wrapped up and Macdonna never wraps stuff up he leaves everything he just kind of pulls a thread and then he leaves the mall hanging there and he that can be frustrating and it's not done the certain way a lot of times for in a lot of times when other people have done stuff but he and his brother both do it in such a way as in you actually still walk away satisfied even though you kind of want to go back to the sequel you know the way you're sort of want to go oh what happened you know they leave you with oh Jesus I wonder what happened next and you kind of can fill in the gaps you know what I mean it's very it won't be for everyone like if you go to IMDB and look at the reviews there and you go down through the reviews this is exactly what you'll see you'll see 10 out of 10 9 out of 10 10 out of 10 all the way down the page then at the bottom of the page 1 out of 10 yeah but that's the one who wanted a certain ending yeah that's exactly what they said this is depressing and it doesn't end I had loads of questions when it was over rubbish that's and that's the taste of 1 out of 20 people but you see I would just forgot I think that's like someone who goes who is anti-violence or something right and then goes and watches a very violent violent movie I know I mean it's gonna go well I don't like it's never going to be his movies it's never going to be a good thing because one because I want to reiterate his movies himself and his brother's movies if you've seen any of them they do not end in the sense of it isn't like that all of a sudden there's the bad guy lying on the ground not gonna babysit you to make you feel bad there's a bad guy lying on the ground dead and then there's the you know the hero suddenly takes the woman into his arms job done yeah these are what they do with these is like it's just like as if they kind of take a snapshot of a moment this is set back in 1923 so it's also has kind of a an old-fashioned need kind of a feel to it as well instead of being up to date you know what I mean there's no such thing as picking up a phone or there's not you know all that kind of stuff is and it's like the way I live and it's based it is based it is based in Ireland it's based it's it's based on the an imaginary because we know you sometimes don't like how Ireland's presented but it does it feel authentic yeah it does well it's it again this is the thing answering questions I know it just does yeah no it does but it does have it does have a small feel because it's said I don't know I think so it's a person but it does have a small bit of you know a baghara kind of a thing about it because it's set in 1923 but the thing about Macdonald's is you actually again another thing that would annoy me in other movies you know what I mean and even the fact that you know the accents are very varied even though they all supposedly never left this island you know it's it never left the island and that kind a lot of that kind of stuff would normally be like oh god that gets on me now but it's the way that he kind of unfolds a story that you're never really sure what direction is going to go in you're never sure or whatever so let's list off some of the films then from the Mcdonald brothers I mean what a catalog of films they have oh yeah it's unbelievable brilliant films The Guard is great that's the brother he's the one with the Beast is also his brother Calvary Calvary is also excellent yeah that's the in Bruges in Bruges is his is Martin Mcdonald Seven Psychopaths Seven Psychopaths is his this guy he also did the if for anybody that likes plays Martin Mcdonalds also wrote The Beauty Queen of Lenin The Cripple of Innish Man and there's the thing oh my god you should total The Cripple of Innish Man is amazing and this is again dark you walk out of it going holy lord some critics said this is this this you could easily adapt this for the stage this is very theater-y in the sense that oh are you totally would make an awesome play of it yeah totally because you get caught I mean it's really although there is a large enough cast it's really these two men and it's just that drive and it's such a simple but profound idea you know I just I just don't want to be your friend anymore he said looking across at Greg I don't want to be your friend anymore and then you're like where because it's like even the characters in it are like it starts off in the beginning and they're like I don't be your friend anymore and even like the guy who's supposed to be the not 100% their character which are always in these things it's like he turns around and he goes um what is he 12 you know like how do you grown men that guy who everyone on that looks down at and you know he's a bit crass and a bit uncultured on more than one occasion he says some of the most profound things in the movie I know so but he's the he's the the one on the island that they looked down on that's the he's it and he's an amazing there's some amazing actors in it that's Barry was killed yes he's he was in the Eternals you know he's he's really good he's really and the lady with the sister Kerry oh I can't think of her last name now I didn't write it down Katona she's really really she's really really good why do we chat to him I don't know why do we talk to him I have to do something I don't watch any I don't get special trips to the cinema I mean what am I supposed to do I have to try and get involved in the conversation I know but you have to I'm telling you I think people my main thing is you definitely need to go and see it even if you're something like me that normally likes things tied up in a bow if you haven't seen a Mark McDonough movie you should definitely and it sounds like a real alternative to the big big step you know the big explosion oh it is oh yeah you know what I'm all about it's actually quite small in that sense but you don't feel short-changed yeah that's what I mean it's literally this tiny island they're walking from one end of the island to the other so you know it was shot in the iron island so it is stunning beautiful absolutely beautifully shot I mean at every turn it's not just the landscape which undoubtedly is beautiful but it's the way he shoots the sun sets the way he shoots the meadows the clearly talent there's a couple of drone shots I kept thinking about it but they are beautiful as long as they're in contact over the field yeah no it is well it just it kind of shows the smallness of it really because like in Konamari you could see your fields that look like from the side the size of this shed big story but you get a perspective of how small it is yeah you know with the little stone walls some of the details as well this is not anyway spoilery but again they talk about things that are happening this is 1923 they talk about what's happening on the mainland and they can hear explosions and gunshots and they talk they talk about that if it's not central to the storyline because obviously you're very you don't want to spoil it no why base it in the 20s why not no well I think it it had to be based back so I don't know why he picked the 20s because I'm not profound enough I miss all those bits but you had to set it really back because otherwise you wouldn't be in a situation where these people aren't going on enough this like these are you know what I mean they've no other kind of like literally what this is is that these people live on this and they've lived their their whole lives these two men you get the impression their whole lives at two o'clock every day one of them calls to the other and they go to the pub I would also say and I think that's the sort of a feeling I think so but leaning into the why it's so profound and why I took a lot of it I think that it's happening while the civil war is happening in Ireland is a key to understanding it is the fact that it's brother against brother does it if that's it this is this male relationship it's a dynamic time I totally see that now that you say but I totally didn't see that yesterday they were standing they were like oh what are they even fighting about over there in the civil war I mean like there's it's like it's a microcosm of the civil war that's how I took it you that's a hundred percent yeah I did not see that when I did that I sat in my kitchen staring out the rain was coming down the window and I was thinking you were being profound deep deep look it it's an interesting one and like I know I was joking there about relationships between men but it actually is an interesting thing and because and even I was watching welcome to Wrexham and I don't know if people have watched it it's on Disney and a lot of people might have avoided because it's about soccer which would no interest to me whatsoever but welcome to Kent Lasso is your favorite show I know but it's not really about soccer that's enough I barely have to watch two minutes of soccer in that whole thing there's a bit more soccer in this but the it's you know it's about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McClennie they bought the this Wrexham football club football club and it goes down through it and every week it's actually very good people should watch it every week it's actually more about the people that live in the area and the supporters and what the club means to them and the different things that so it's actually quite interesting and there's not as much I started off fast forward in the soccer and by the end of it I was actually watching I kind of cared whether they won or lose but the second last episode that they did was talking about male friendships and it was really an interesting one to watch like male friendships is in what makes them have like why men can get so obsessed and into soccer and things like that their friendships of men on the team the friendship of Rob McClennie and Ryan Reynolds and it was actually really interesting and then in context with this you could the two really kind of went together that you know people have and in particularly men it's a it's a more difficult for men of a certain age to find friends and to meet new people and to kind of have like the best friend and all that kind of stuff and that when things happen then within that relationship they may not necessarily be going to talking things out but I think oops there's the lights gone off there you go I think but it's very good yeah I think it's it's interesting yes and I think it's maybe you know what is the basis of friendships and what do they talk about and stuff okay you tune to the 9 till noon show here on Highland Radio loads to come on the program but first 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film the banshee of in a sharing and there was a bit of excitement before the break because all our lights went off it was so fun finula what are you giving the film out of 10 then i i i'm trying to think of things in it that i didn't like in order to not just say 10 yeah and i'm struggling to find something i really enjoyed it like i said this is not something that's going to wrap up in a bow but as somebody that normally likes that don't let that dissuade you from going to see it it's the acting is that even my old favorite my favorite irish actor iran monahan pops up in it so you're really logically you you don't want to give it 10 out of 10 but you almost would have to because yeah because like i i really can't think of anything you know and there's a lot of great great movie for the weekend folks oh my god yeah it's just so good and there's lots of things in it that not that in other movies i'd be saying to you oh well i don't like when they go a bit bigari i don't you know like at one point there's animals in the house you crack like that and they're kind of like yes i'd normally be rolling my eyes but in this it just works it works you know the way they do it i think when i see it the second time and i would like to see it again i'll probably give it 10 out of 10 then for now i'm going to give it nine i do have questions but i can't say on air what it is about it because it's something late in the film i can say to you afterwards and you don't want to see because you're going to see it great you don't want me to spoil it so i i wouldn't even say to you off air i'm not giving those tickets the way i'm just taking them i'm not somebody just getting a mug but i'll give it nine or nine nine and a half ish i have one little quibble it's pretty high i really loved it stay the right way you are i want to welcome on to the program now and hopefully we're connected thomas gabriel good morning thomas morning how are you i am fantastic great to have you on the program earlier on we heard your track long way home beautiful beautiful sound and very clear your bloodline thomas you are the grandson of the legendary johnny crash cash hugely popular in this country as he is worldwide a beautiful track that is thomas well done on it oh thank you he is my uh my grandfather he's uh my mother's father my mother was kathy but yeah thank you for uh i'm glad you could worry you liked a long way home yeah it was it was lovely and people are going to be able to hear you perform you have a series of concerts coming up here in donny gall you are in ashen kill car that's in kill car tonight on the 29th you're in the ballah theater ballah buffet another wonderful venue and then on the 30th uh kuldaf Mcgrories a real great opportunity to to see you for people living in the northwest of arland thomas so why these series of gigs here well you know i've toured ireland before with my band and this time i wanted to come and you know after the the lockdowns and and and being everybody it just seems like an acoustic project was was what i was really what was on my heart you know i wanted to the connection coming back into connecting with with um with everybody even in the states but especially um since i uh i actually had had had quarantined in ireland so i i just felt um i felt very at home here and i wanted to connect in a way that was uh very personal and so we just i just had this uh i wanted to go do uh an acoustic tour so i could we could do some sitting rooms and i like to talk a lot so um i like to talk and and that way we can kind of sit down and do music and and and just kind of uh let that energy flow between us on a personal level yeah it's clear your your sound is very similar to your grandfather johnny um and also to some extent your your your life followed similar similar pathways and and and that is your life experience uh is is a quite a bit of your influence and motivation too for what you do thomas yeah i um you know genetics are uh run strong in this family i not only have i uh lived out a lot of his songs um but also uh we've had similar bouts with addiction and we've we've had uh we've had very uh similar similar lives um i uh you know one of the things about uh being in this family is also with you know i'm i'm a musist musician in my own right and with my own songs but i also uh like to pay uh you know uh tribute with um with bringing my own family songs along i think of it as that you know it's a like it's a family business that i like to continue it's a funny one as an artist it is a funny line to to to walk i presume that is actually a completely accidental musical reference there i assure you might but that was an accident but it no there was no pun intended but it was wonderful if i had intended it because you are as you say you're your own man uh but at the same time you one can't ignore neither do you want to uh your wonderful grandfather yeah and well the thing is you know and i said this the other night and in one of my shows was uh you know when i get when i get there we've already got something in common i miss i miss him the audience misses him and so we already have that in common when we get together you know and so that's one of the things that uh everywhere i've ever gone regardless of of uh whether they they know me or not they they they tend to uh recognize the voice and i guess the and the and obviously the songs so you know it's we've already got that ahead of us we've already got that going for us when i get there and then uh once i introduced my songs and myself to them you know then it's uh something that it's uh then it becomes a new relationship as far as musically and as far as audience to to me yeah and and your grandfather and others in your family and amazing musicians and i think really a testimony to that is i would i i would say arguably mine and i know young people in my life and it's the the go-to johnny cash album for them is the the last one he recorded or the last one that was released at at least the man comes around i think it was called i'm not a music aficionado but i know good music when i hear it if that makes sense uh thomas and um i mean to have that longevity in a career and to be producing amazing music and his own amazing take on music uh almost effectively on on his deathbed and i mean that with no disrespect what an amazing what an amazing talent and what an amazing legacy to have a part in playing continuing yes that's you know i was there um during a lot of the recording of the last of the last tracks and he was very happy with it and right it was on and and you said no disrespect and it's not it's fact it's uh it was on his deathbed pretty much you know it was it was very much at the end and it was something that he was able to to pass no uh feeling very very good about he was and proud it was it was an epic it's an epic album it really is and and that's it's one of my favorites part of that raw vulnerability in the voice i'm sorry no sorry uh there's a slight delay in the line thomas it's part of that sort of raw vulnerability and almost at times weakness but strength at the same time in the voice that makes it so special it makes it so special to me and others in my family as well um thomas so you are playing tonight as i mentioned and this is a real opportunity for people to see um a genuinely a brilliant artist uh close to home uh tonight in asin kill car in a kill car in kill car uh the bala theater balaba found the 29th and also the 30th in kuldaf Mcgrories and this is this is your type of performance is it this is what you want to do thomas you've hinted at it you just want to sit there with your guitar with the audience and have it out with them that's what you could say yeah you know it's one of the beautiful things about the way that we're doing it right right now is the fact that it's it's it's like a visit you know it's like if we were to come into a living room and and and and and be able to just one-on-one talk and have stories and have and discussions even and go over some songs that are that are really uh personal you know it's uh it's not your traditional uh show i love that you know that's what i was looking for brilliant okay listen thank you so much for your uh time um um thomas and we had a real treat and hearing uh your your song a little earlier on and we look forward to having the opportunity to hearing you live thanks for your time this morning really appreciated and tickets are available some tickets are available for those shows too so people should hop on that right uh right away thank you very much take care of yourself and well thank you for having me thank you so much it's been our pleasure and michael and fenu before quick break uh you you can hear you can i don't know that's maybe i had the michael but i don't know how much of that you heard yeah we did all of it you can hear johnny cash absolutely yeah yeah he does yeah he does it's hard to beat johnny it really is agreed okay like his last album was amazing it just was i mean hurt uh so many people have done version of that but his version of one as well and listen the voice isn't perfect but i think to some extent that's what that is part of it that's part of the way it works just beautiful because it's just there right and see some of the images of how those songs were recorded towards the end of his life to just be able to have the drive to conclude that amazing okay uh right now we all have to do is tell us what you're watching give us a recommendation anything like that there you know at this point even just text hello and you'll be with a chance of winning um a great prize today it's two tickets to be used this month for the cinema and also a nine till noon uh mug the eclipse cinema are giving us those tickets for you uh so just comment on anything to do with entertainment or anything at all at this point i want to widen out the pool as wide as possible for you to 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they have a light switch you're kind of like really the light switch uh everything how are she not blown up years ago huh i mean surely even i would know all right you can't see the bomb let me get the light for you oh there's a second uh you're like oh that but actually i found it because it did load the stuff and i didn't give it a great like i was like oh maybe five four five but but when it actually finished i was saying i don't i'm sorry i apologize for anyone hasn't watched it right because i'm going to spoil a bit of it and i don't care there's a part where there's a part where her her brother is in a car right with a bomb and he's in there panicking because there's a timer going down and then she goes oh well the timer is not really real she says i'll be and all she tells people stay quiet don't move the whole way through that's all she shouts and instead of saying side the door and saying to her brother you know everyone would get out because the time is going down she just goes up to have a chat to command oh bang yeah car you know i mean it's so important leaves him on his own which obviously is going to make him do the one thing so anyway and secondly which i will highly recommend and i think i watched it on apple play or watch other one i watched it maybe on youtube there's a couple of different yeah different places i probably watched it and it's called upgrade from 2018 it's kind of sci-fi brilliant great film never heard of it before and stumbled upon it and it was a great show so if you look at some it's a sci-fi thing i could set the future or sort of the future someone might say to stope you know i haven't a clue you know what word means i don't know what that word means but that that's kind of have you got one of those word of the day calendars because that's that's a good one to stope you know i follow i follow dent on on twitter what's the susie dent that's she explains everything did as you go i give that a squarely i see it's on apple so i'll i'll give it a i would definitely i would definitely uh watch that right okay i mean i'm not even going to go near fulcrum crest on dvd i wouldn't be your thing on dvd but you're sitting watching that so you know get out there and everyone's gonna have to borrow yours to watch it no well it was on cbs drama like 10 years ago that's where i i all right time machine or so i was i was taking i was taking more of pushing the nostalgia button where people will be like i am or watching that there you want you give it you've a minute all right and talking lower 10 12 12 years ago fulcrum crest got a rerun on cbs drama every day i wanted michael do michael recorded every single all 227 episodes i recorded them to dvd so i have every episode oh so they're not actually official dvd so no you put you well they're not it's not ours and it's literally he's bootleg it's no i less i give them fulcrum crest on michael's bootleg dvds that is and dvds in practice so the question is i'm sure people remember watching it on cbs drama 10 years in fact it was on zone zone there was zone thriller and then it became cbs drama and i was like you're boring me but anyway it's a really the thing about fulcrum crest greg is by the time it went off the air the producer's joel sternow and and so they're the guys who did 24 so that there's a dna of 24 it's such a a good drama series i'm on season three and i'm sure there are people out there who watched it yeah the lights are it's good is this a halloween thing if you have the lights going out they were definitely being haunted and we're definitely being haunted here yeah is there was there any chains rattling last night in the hall is we're giving out about the cost of the cost of electricity oh yeah that was a very useful that was very old older there's it yeah but they're punishing you know for giving that information you shouldn't be giving that information out electricity gods and now this okay and the rest of them yeah but that was very useful information but um so yeah i'm sure i'm sure there are people are like i remember that used to be on cbs a cbs drama still is i don't have sky now is it still a thing go rid of it because it had a lot of sky shows for man it doesn't have sky it has but you can access them otherwise you can access them through their illegal through their legal app through their legal app i've never seen cbs drama but that's not to say that it's not there because that was a great channel that was a great channel that was a great channel out of all of those it was a load of those kind of shows back in the day like Dallas and fucking crest and and that was the one that was more of a crime drama and that's where you see the impact of 24 there was always like Richard was always fighting the cartel and they were always planting bombs and blowing up limousines so you didn't have that in the other soaps that's why when i was a teenager i watched it because i was like well this is really a crime show and he's sort of an anti-hero okay funula um the letter can a literary festival i mean just show with a little bit of culture on this i know i totally forgot to bring in my thing with me so you don't like the detail no no i do there was loads don't we've we've been mentioning it um on the station all week there is some amazing stuff on all week on in the library all weekend apologies on in the library on in um the denigal museum all down around by the cathedral quarter and it's just i'm definitely going to there's two things that i am definitely taking up one is i love jane austin and on saturday at three o'clock in the museum there is a talk about and i'm not even going to mention it because i can't think of a man's name but obviously jane austin had relatives that lived here that had the big house i know nothing about it after being a big jane austin fan for all of my life never knew that she had denigal and island connections so this is to give you a bit more information on it and they have like the photos and all this kind of thing that they're going to be going through and then for me on sunday i'm going to go to the um another great aught irish author that i absolutely adore um in our house my my grandmother would give you the the book when you turn to certain age which is brendan behan so we all read the borstle boy and that is on in the uh where's that one on that was on the library isn't it yeah is it i don't know where it is okay oh dylan's hotel sorry that's dylan's hotel at one i'm trying to read the thing sorry apologies i'm trying to read the two views on it and you can't get it right i know stay where you are whilst we're one mind that's not necessarily a good way you are it doesn't the fact that we're the same person doesn't make enough better i think we're better i want to say hello to karen connell actress in the bastard son and the devil himself karen congratulations on landing this uh this amazing role and good morning to you good morning and thank you so much uh pretty exciting isn't it yeah it is you went through the whole old old age audition process and uh how was that what was it like and then to to get the call up and then to start filming the show just must be amazing it was wild um i was actually in la doing that um doing the auditions audition as you said um i had to do like i think i think the first the first audition round was about three things and um i felt very confident with her like the the second i got the script i thought it was so well written and i loved her you know i just loved this character so much i was like right i'm gonna like go all out on this and um i spent like just two or three days like i think i had maybe three or four day turnaround and i did nothing but practice things um and put them on camera with um in a studio in la and i sent them off and i felt really good about it you know i just joined a new agency and the agents got back to me and he's like these are really good and i was like yeah they are quite good actually let's see but i felt i felt different about it i felt like very um like i'd done my best and i couldn't do any more and i was able to kind of let it go because i knew i couldn't do like that was like my truest kind of characterization offer yeah and then um i had a i got a call then to say they wanted to have a chat with me so that was quite exciting it was like 3 am la times they were in the uk and uh i had a chat with um the director column about the the character and they gave me a bit more context off the scene because i only had about one one episode to to go off so i had to make up a lot of stuff myself so they sent me another few episodes for me to read to get a bit more context to give me some notes and they asked me to redo the first two he asked me to redo the scenes and then do another one so then i had like three or four days like the same thing to to um redo the scenes and trying to decide whether i should stick with my initial thoughts or change it up but i decided to stick with my initial character over and then um i got to do the 13th which was kind of a scene showing a different faceture and uh sent them off and i think i must have got a call about maybe two weeks later and they were just like you need to get back it's an interesting process karen so how much of your interpretation of this character makes the final uh sort of production if you know what i mean so maybe people may not realize there's that level of influence from the actor themselves yeah it's it's fully my characterization i very early on asked the director if i should read the books because sally green um she's wonderful i've met her a few times and it's it's her character you know and i talk to her a lot about throughout filming like about um about cilia but the the director actually advised me he's like you know do what you're doing you don't need to read the books and pull afterwards like i don't want to influence you we like what you've done with her so just keep doing it so it's completely um my my my kind of um feeling brilliant and there's a bit of rough and tumbling there too isn't it this is uh you have to not just staring staring listfully uh beyond the camera no no she's not a jane austin i was just listening to the lady before me there um she's it there was definitely rough and tumble there was stunt training she's very physical she's a tank so she is and um i had to get a lot stronger for it and learn learn how to fight and then learn how to stunt fight which are kind of two different things like boxing and doing crab mega and doing all of these really cool um sports and activities to try to to try to feel like what it would feel like to be someone who's a very skilled fighter because she is a very skilled fighter she's um there she's she's not afraid of anyone this woman so and it has to be done right i was watching a tv made for tv film and this is no disrespect to the actors involved but action scenes there's so much skill in it has to be done right because it has to look authentic and we congratulations Karen by the way and where your career is going as well it's an amazing thing and you've obviously had Vikings Valhalla in not too long behind you just a quick question you've seen you've seen the first episodes you've seen the process i'd say it's so my eye opener you know when you see the finished product versus having gone through the process uh in the time beforehand it's amazing to the it's an awful lot of skill involved in filmmaking not only just the actors but everyone around them yeah and it's a complete collaboration i mean there's one thing about experiencing what it's like on the day in front of the camera with millions of different departments doing their bit to make it look real and to to help like the audience sit into that world and then when you when you start to see the the finished product after post-production it's a completely different beast as well like the editing and the special effects everything that goes into the music the grading it's um it's actually really humbling like you i'm a tiny cog in a in a huge a huge production you know to make it look the way it looks and it's it's actually just so it's so humbling and so magical to see the finished result and to see myself looking so different and and being somebody that that i that i'm not you know um it's incredible the best in the world like congratulations on it and it's clear your career is only going one direction and that's all um and it's great to we look forward to seeing it's on netflix it's the bastard son and the devil himself uh and uh karen listen thanks so much for spending the time to talk to us this morning it's really appreciated and uh that's great thank you so much for having me i appreciate it thank you take care bye bye the nine till noon show is brought to you by green shoes at letterkenny shopping center market square in felcara with a new range of great autumn winter 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