 That's going to be brilliant. All right. OK, listen, Lee, have a great weekend. It is the 9 till noon show here on Highland Radio. Our Friday panel are going to join us very shortly and so much more besides, of course. But at the top of the hour, it's time for a news update. Good morning, Donald Kavanaugh. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. 23 million euros to be spent in Donegal under the HSE's capital plan for 2022. Minister Charlie McConnelog says the plan will enable the HSE to progress important projects in the county over the course of the coming months. With more, here's beginner Clark. The 23 million euro to be spent in Donegal under the HSE's latest capital plan includes initial works for a number of projects announced earlier this week, including new community hospitals in Lettra, Kenny and Bali, Shannon, and improvements to existing facilities in Sternorder, Bunkrana, Cardona, Remelton, Fulcara and Dunlowe. The provision of an ambulance base at St. Joseph's Hospital in Sternorder is also included, as is a new intellectual disability and a day services facility at the Cleary Centre, Donegal Town, the Newton-Cunningham Primary Care Centre and the provision of four family beds at the Donegal Hospice, which will be self-funded. Works are also included at Lettra, Kenny University Hospital, including new accommodation for the physiotherapy and occupational therapy departments. Works at the acute mental health unit, lab extensions and the extension of the existing hematology and oncology day units. Advocacy Group, as I am, has criticised new plans for special education centres, which they say would lead to autistic children being segregated from their peers. Yesterday, leaked government plans revealed proposals to establish special facilities for children with intellectual disabilities who cannot secure a school place. Education Minister with responsibility for special education to see for Mannegan says the proposal is in an early stage and consultations with stakeholders, including the as I am group, haven't yet begun, but the proposal, as she says, remains an option. Well, the CEO of as I am is Adam Harris. Every single summer, we find ourselves in the exact same position around this. And at some stage, you have to ask, how do we break the cycle? Why every summer is there a shortage of places? And we believe that there's simply not enough joint up thinking and planning throughout the academic year to prevent that. And, you know, the reality is, even in the last number of weeks, we've struggled to get a clear picture from the NCCO department about how many children we're actually dealing with. The HSE chief executive says the health service is prepared if there's to be an outbreak of monkeypox here. Global cases of the rare virus have risen sharply in recent weeks. The first case on the island of Ireland was confirmed yesterday, north of the border. And the delegation of fishing industry representatives and politicians from fishing communities is traveling to Brussels to make the case for Ireland's fishing fleet to be allocated. What they say would be a fairer share of the fish in Irish waters. The visits being hosted by Asian Feynman Lands Northwest MEP Chris McManus, he says the sector has been in a difficult situation for decades and that's been exacerbated by Brexit. As Chris McManus told Helen Radio News, the delegation will be putting forward practical suggestions to improve the situation. So they were meeting key politicians who are on the fisheries committee, but also key commission officials who are the ones who ultimately make quite a lot of decisions around the fishing industry and their needs. 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We want your views as well, of course. 086625,000, your WhatsApps and texts, if you're listening outside the Republic, 0035386625,000, or you can give us a call right now on 07491 25,000. Right, we'll crack straight on because there's quite a bit to get through. We'll say good morning first to Chancellor Martin McDermott, Lasker Heerlock, of Donegal County Council, Afina Falrep as well. Good morning, Martin. Morning, Greg. It's good to have you with us. And also MEP Luke Ming Flanagan, an independent MEP for Midlands and Northwest. Luke, thanks for joining us. Good morning to you. Thanks for inviting me on, Greg. That's good to have you back. And last but not least, of course, Elaine Berg, editor of SiliconRepublic.com. Good morning, Elaine. Morning, thanks for having me back. That's great to have you. We know you're the tech savvy one. Anyway, because your voice is the clearest. So if you can disseminate any information to our other guests, particularly Martin. OK, right. OK, on to some of these news stories then. Tuesday, shooting at a Texas elementary school, which has left at least 19 children and two adults dead, marked another instance of a uniquely American tragedy. The shooting's the latest entry in the long history of gun violence in the United States. Before Tuesday, there'd been at least 39 shootings in K-12 schools, colleges, and universities in 2022, resulting in at least 10 deaths and 51 injuries. While proposals to overhaul gun laws, such as a ban on assault-style weapons or high-capacity magazines, are in discussion, so to speak, they face very steep odds at the federal level and with any progress set to be extremely slow. I mean, Elaine, Berg, I'll start with you. It is, you know, we say words and we kind of throw them into everyday language, like unimaginable, hard to comprehend. But what happened in Texas, how things must have unfolded, the impact that these young lives taken and the impact on families and the community, it really is just unimaginable. I can't, I physically can't get my head around it. It's unimaginable to us, certainly. But unfortunately, it's actually become part of school life in America. I mean, they do school shooter drills the same way we would be familiar with children doing fire drills in primary school education and even kindergarten education, it's K through 12. And that's what's unfortunate about this. It's actually become a normalised part of their life instead of actively working out this problem. They're having these children do drills to prepare for the inevitability that this could happen at any time. Yeah. Luke, I see a lot of the conversation at the moment now is about, you know, how the shooter gained access whether he was challenged at the door. And I mean, it feels to me like just a distraction. They want, particularly in America, a lot of people seemingly to talk about anything other than, you know, people, particularly young people, having access to guns that are only designed to kill on a mass scale. So already the conversation maybe that should be, is already being convoluted and there's distraction and what have you. Yeah. Well, look, I said it's very hard to find a short-term fixed situation like this. Obviously you can never fix the lives of those children that have been taken at a ridiculously young age. You're never, ever going to be able to fix that. But in the short term, to me, it seems really obvious. And this is what I find bizarre about American society and the way they're thinking over there that you wouldn't immediately impose a ban on AK-47s and having them widely available. And as the last speaker said, the idea that this has kind of become normalized and you work out ways how you keep the children safe by having better locks on doors, arming more people. To me, that just seems totally ridiculous. I watched 25 children head off to Rusky yesterday. My seven-year-old daughter had been one of them on a bus to basically to go kayaking and to jump off rafts. And you couldn't both think when you looked at the bus that it was the equivalent to someone blowing up that bus. I've had a small bit of experience of that fear myself, a little bit of it when I lived in Brussels because when I first got there, only a few months after I got there, there was explosions at a couple of the stations. There were people killed down the road from my house. The local Twitter account for Excel said, turn off the lights at the front of your building because the shooter is still at large. And then the following week when we brought our children to school, we were greeted at the gate with policemen carrying machine guns and revolvers for the following six months. So I have to say, coming back here to nice, safe Ireland, you really realize in many ways, there's a lot of problems in our society which will really realize how damn lucky we are to live in such a peaceful place, relatively speaking. And I just pity parents who have to worry about this and have to think about this. But on a simple level, they need to stop selling AK of 47s. And I think they need to start looking at how America is structured and how they need to move away from this dog-eat-dog style of society where you're not entitled to any maternity leave or any paternity leave. You're not entitled to any holidays. And let's be honest, to me, that's not a very civil way to live. And there was a time when people from Ireland would pine to go to the US. It sounds to me like my worst nightmare that I have to live there with my children, but that nightmare is gonna have to be solved. And they need to start it by banning those weapons immediately. Otherwise, it's just gonna keep happening. And before I bring Martin in, Elaine, you know, it's the young people, it's the children that walked out of school in protest saying, look, something needs to be done. You mentioned the fact that, you know, gun drills, you know, shooter on campus drills are commonplace. And yet the gun lobby holding their annual conference in Texas in the next couple of days, a couple of musicians have pulled out, but it'll be the same rhetoric, the same absolute defense of this right to hold a gun to the point where there seems to be no wiggle room at all, even, you know, background checks, even if it's only shotguns available, such havoc perhaps couldn't have been rigged. Yeah, I mean, this frankly isn't the first time this has happened. And every time there will be calls for more legislation on guns in the US, there will be all of this heartbreak and the horror that we've seen involved in television through these shootings and nothing will happen. I mean, the NRA has immense lobbying power in the US and Obama specifically called out the NRA's lobbying after the Sandy Hook shootings. And legislation has struggled to come into effect since that, I think that one was in about 2013 or something like that. At the moment, as far as I know, the House of Congress has gotten so far with the bill, but it's expected now to be shut down in the Senate. And so they're just, they're constantly having the same discussion and nothing is changing. And I just can't imagine the heartbreak of the people in the US who, the sheer number of people in the US who've been affected by mass shootings who are seeing this just play out the same way every time. Yeah, and only a few days earlier, 10 other people wiped out in a massacre in a shop. Councillor McDermott, you'll please. Yeah, Greg, it's devastating for those families. It's hard to believe that, you know, children and people in your turn 18, you can walk on and buy whatever gun you want in a shop and a street everywhere that you can go. But you can't buy booze. No, you're 21 and it's amazing, you know, when you think about it, that that's the life that people are living. And I think, you know, that they've been talking about it in America now for a number of years and they still don't seem to ever want to move away from that. And, you know, it's something, even as you say, how hypocritical it is today to have a conference in Texas on guns after what has happened and ex-presidents attending that conference. You know, it's just unbelievable that that is happening in any country. And, but, you know, they really do need to make the call. And I think that that's going to be very, very difficult to get that through any of the houses, especially the Senate. I know that the bowlers went through the House of Congress. The Senate doesn't seem to, doesn't seem to be going to pass that. And it's mind-boggling to think that that these people don't do this and do it right away. Luke, you mentioned, I'm sorry, Martin mentioned lobbying. I mean, lobbying in politics is not unusual. I mean, you know, we can see the impacts of it, the gun lobby, because we can see this tragedy, how it unfolds, but there's tragedy happening all around us, perhaps being influenced by lobbyists. We've seen recently at the climate summit in Britain, the amount of representatives from like the oil industry and elsewhere that were attendant at that. And then we learned locally that eight government TDs and senators recently received VIP treatment at a hospitality tent hosted by a gambling body at Pontchastand Racecourse, a meal and a free bar all day for them. It comes ahead of a forthcoming law to regulate gambling firms. And we're told ironically with what I've just said that these types of sort of lobbying events, though it's not a lobbying event, could be banned as part of that legislation. Does all this lobbying and the interaction between big business and politics, does it stink to high heavens or is that just the way it is, Luke? Well, I hear about a lot of lobbying going on in Brussels, but I have to say my office is rather quiet when it comes to lobbying. They probably look at my voting record when it comes to a more transparent tax system and having a proper corporate tax level. So I don't see much of them myself, but I think I would go along with Tony Ben's philosophy. I think he had the best saying on it that politicians should become signposts and not weather vans, and in particularly not weather vans that go in the direction of what way the lobbyists blow them. And I think people need to be strong on that. And in particular, when it comes to the gambling industry, while obviously you can't ban gambling because that would just cause more problems, it's got to be more heavily regulated because it's causing untold misery. People spending billions of euros work on it. And the idea that TDs or legislatures will be gone off on some sort of a jolly with these people. Well, to me, it's beyond comprehension. And really, do you need to ban it? Okay, you need to ban it, but surely people should have the cop on not to get engaged in that sort of stuff in the first place because it's quite obviously what's happening. There's no such thing as a free lunch and if someone's giving you a lunch for free, they're looking for something in return. Yeah, I mean, Councillor McDermott, some of your party colleagues and others still going into tents at Race Grants in 2022, still knowing that it was the gambling industry that was hosting it and knowing that a vote is going to be coming up in the not too distant future on new gambling regulations. We're not learning anything in this country, are we? No, I don't think that should be happening. But I actually don't know a lot about that. I just heard that last night in the media. But certainly, there shouldn't be, if you're making a vote on something, you should be a situation where if people want to come on to a public forum and make their point, that's fair enough. And when all public representatives are there and they can make their point on both sides for a yes or for a no, whatever it may be. But to just be going to one side when there's a vote in place, I don't think that certainly shouldn't be happening. Yeah, I guess as I say, what worries me is they can set up the tent. They can set up the free bar and they can pull out the two course meal. But you would have thought when the invite lands on an elected politician's desk that they look at it and go, right, okay, this has to do with gambling, isn't it? I might actually say no to this. I might do something else because at the very least it could look bad. But at least eight of them thought that, no, that's all right. Sure, it won't influence me. I can get free booze, free food. I mean, like what's going on? Yeah, I mean, that's the question and I suppose, look, I mean, that's for those individuals to answer. I mean, we can't answer that for them as to why they did that or why they went there. But I certainly don't think it's the right policy when you're legislating and making rules that you're going to take one side over another. I think you have to take the facts and look at what's the best for the general public. And that's where it should be coming from. Elaine Burke, go ahead and look, sorry for bringing Elaine in. Yeah, and likewise, you have a situation where you have people working in politics and then they jump straight across into business. We have a situation where we had an MEP from Ireland who worked on the ECON Committee for Years in the European Parliament. And then straight after they finished up as an MEP, they're now out there representing Irish banking, even though on the ECON Committee in the European Parliament, we play a part in regulating such banks and making sure those regulations are watertight. But I mean, if people can go from being on the committee one week to representing the banking industry the next week, how can people be anything other than sceptical about that? Well, of course, with the former head of the RSA, did we not then who went over to sort of represent insurance companies as well as they were going through quite a lot of criticism. But it happens all the time. We see it all the time. Elaine, I mean, you know, as I say, sorry to keep repeating myself, but you would think politicians at this stage would know better than to accept such an invite. Yeah, I mean, I'm really shocked. I mean, regardless of trying to examine the moral position of each one of these individuals. I mean, really, this is about bad optics. Like, how did no one even think that? Like whether they are going to be influenced or not, they should have realized that if before it gets out that I was at this event prior to this vote, this isn't going to look great for me. And the excuse of being ambushed by a party isn't really going to fly. But like lobbying does happen. And it does happen out in the open a lot as well. And it does happen even with scheduled events. I mean, currently in the sector that I cover, MEPs are meeting with big tech in the U.S. because of the legislation that's coming down the line here in the EU, they want to speak to some of the big tech bodies over in the U.S. about that. And some of those discussions might lead to changes in the final drafts of those legislations. So I'm happier when that stuff is happening out in the open and you can see that there's a documented proof of these events happening. But I think what really riles people up is that like these kind of closed door parties and stuff like that that they might feel like they're going to get away with it. You're not at this day and age, not with social media and not with the amount of people around that can clock you. But do you think when you say that it riles people up, do you think it does anymore? Do you think the public is capable of being shocked? You know, and I think maybe people's acceptance of that this is thus the way things have run off and that's shown at the time of an election with a low turnout. I think a lot of people go, sure. Why would I vote for that? They might vote for a person. But you know, I just get a sense that people have, at this point, their faith in the system is so broken that they just disengage. I don't think they get riled up. I think people do act like, you know, the public has short attention spans these days and that means short memories. But I don't specifically think that's true when it comes to politics because if you're looking at a public who maybe only a small percentage are actively civically engaged, some of them will only get news about you when you're in the headlines and if you're in the headlines for the wrong reasons and you're on their ballot sheet when it comes up, they will remember that. And that might be the only thing that they remember about you because they haven't heard about any of the positive things that you're doing in your community. So they do have to tread carefully because at the end of the day, news will get out and that could be the only news about you that comes up. It could be the only thing that comes up when someone searches for you on Google because you didn't make headlines for anything else and you will make headlines for the missteps. Greg, I think I would have said for years and rather frustrating that people weren't reacting to it but I can remember a time when Fina Gail and Fina Fallen, you talk about the system, they were the system, they ran the country for decades on end where they were as a combined total in opinion polls of over 80%. Now they can't even make a combined total of 45%. So I think people are reacting to it and they see other political parties as having potential not to repeat that. I don't know are people definite about that but I think people are willing to give an alternative a chance because they have seen for years whether that be whatever particular issue you look at now seems to be in crisis. I think people are reacting to that whether they'll get the results they think they will by voting in another way time will only turn. Do you think what's your view Mark do you think people are put off or as Luke says you know if they see it off on one side and they're happy enough with another they could be motivated to quite and vote. Yeah I think the world will be motivated to vote I think over the years things have changed drastically and you know the voting culture has changed in this country people now tend to vote very much for the person maybe more so than the party when they tend to vote and look at what people are doing in their local community or in their local area and I think that's changing it's changed significantly in the last 10-20 years you know and I think that's going to change more as time goes on and as the younger generations come up and they're not as you know maybe party affiliated as what the older generation was and I think that's something that's changing the politics. Okay you're listening to the voice there of Councillor Martin McDermott we also have as a guest Elaine Burke editor of Silicon Republic and MEP Luke Ming Flanagan and we'll be back with more from our guests and your comments after these. 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freedom of your children to be safe and to me this is where you know I obviously live in a completely different headspace I don't know where to begin by even saying that should be a debate but apparently it's a debate like I'm waiting for the next argument to be maybe we should train 10 year olds how to use guns so they can fight back you know if you google yeah but you know if you google that someone who has been elected in America will have stated that at some point that maybe one gun savvy student should carry a gun I'm sure it's been said I'm sure I've almost I've read it somewhere I mean it's not it sounds bizarre but I just know someone has said it you can be sure of it Elaine well actually something that's quite interesting is that mass shootings which is defined as I think more than four people impacted in the shooting have gone up and up over the last number of years and a recent survey of American people on whether they would support an all-out ban on guns the support for that is going down and that's because people are terrified and they're getting guns to protect themselves from the potential of mass shooting so because the US has been so ineffectual in effectively legislating against guns and taking even the first initial steps of limiting the high-powered rifles that are getting into the hands of these people very easily they've gotten themselves into a situation where there's an entire culture of fear and it's built around guns that they have to try and unpick now they've created a much worse situation of this and they haven't even taken the initial steps to get themselves out of it one thing I found very ironic and when I was in the dawn I got in a little bit of trouble for it because the idea that somehow the US were the peacekeepers of the world and how, okay, in black situations at times in the north but they come over and they talk to us about peace I think maybe it's a time that other governments went over to the United States and talked to them about peace and teach them about peace because to me a country where people that are going around shooting each other willy-nilly mass shootings every second week to me I just find it strange that not then and tell everyone else in the world how to be peaceful it might explain why there's so much trouble in the world when they're the peacekeepers and the gun manufacturers and suppliers and also too before we bring Martin in here at the end of the day too though someone has to be in a mindset to use a weapon like that to go into a school and to look into these young people's eyes and pull the trigger and they have no fear of the consequences and then watching the coverage I'm using I'm not using this language myself but I was watching some of the coverage and I mentioned it on the show on Wednesday I think whereby the news channels pull up the shootings almost like it and to someone in a certain mindset it might even look like a leaderboard do you know what I mean like these that you know that many people were killed and list them down like okay the weapon allows someone to go in and do that but they have to be in a mindset to be capable of something like that and I wonder is that conversation happening over there and if not should it happen on a more serious basis it speaks to that whole aspect that like this situation is surely out of control out of control barely even covers it at this point because like I said there's people living in fear and sometimes people are getting shot just because someone felt threatened not even because they planned something in advance or anything like that but then there is a culture and like a lot of online culture has been pulled into this debate as well it seems to be specifically young men and resorting to violence we're still finding out more about what's happened in Texas but the buffalo shooting just about 10 days ago and certainly the perpetrator there had revealed some of their plans online before they went out and took action on them so there's a lot of question here about I mean why are we creating these kind of people like where are they coming from and it's not that's not exclusive to the US I mean there is a heightened fear now among LGBTQ people in Ireland because of the rising instance of attacks here and I've heard of teenagers being attacked by other teenagers simply because of who they are and I mean I grew up in a world where that wasn't really happening and it seems to be something that's surging up now and I don't understand why either but we need to get to the root cause of these things such as the word we live in now that people actively in the moments after that attack used it to actually falsely claim various members of the LGBTQ community were responsible for it and they themselves have been left in threat finally on this issue Mark unless something else comes up before we move on our children are exposed to this as well they you know unfortunately that's the way it is they hear it in the car you know they talk about it in school you know and a lot of parents in Ireland today obviously nothing like what the families in America are experiencing but are having to have conversations with their children and explain what's happening where it happened why it happened why it might be different here yes it's certainly the topic of conversation even in my own house with my own girls at school you know that was what they were talking about among their friends that's what they were talking about and you know it's difficult for children to even get that onto their heads and I think the big problem Greg is that you know these mass shootings the more of them that happens the more of them will happen because it is making other people and putting things into other people's minds and people that are living with issues and are living on a knife edge and that are in a very bad place it is making them see well this is done and you know as you said the leaderboard who can hit the most that's an extremely dangerous place to be and it's an extremely dangerous situation for the country to be in but I still can't for the life of me understand and as Luca said how can these people keep on going and not do something about it and it's just mind bogging that the country is going to keep on going we're just so entrenched though I think sometimes our views on certain things can be so aligned politically that you know you can't appeal to someone's senses or you can't appeal to their heart or empathy because their views along political lines are such that if this would not soften a view nothing will I don't think we're seeing that more around the world I don't think it's uniquely American anymore absolutely absolutely that that should be the way but you're right we are probably seeing more of that around the world because Luca what I'm seeing is people who for some reason took a big interest in this country to American politics okay you know all pining and having their views on gun ownership in America because they feel some allegiance or kinship with certain political figures in America it really is quite bizarre when a lot of these people were so removed from it it has no real impact on us but because we some people have certain political views then instantly they will jump to the defense of gun ownership in the United States and them living in you know Falkara well look we're so immersed in American culture I notice with the peers of my children they speak with a slightly American twang at this stage and the reason I say that is because my children three weeks ago when we come from the heart of Roscommon we were asked in Brussels a couple of weeks ago were my children from the United States of America and I said no they're not and while you may think that we all talk with the Bagara accent it might have moved on from that but it's undeniable we consume so much of US culture that we slowly but surely become them and I always remember this statement that we're becoming closer to Boston than Berlin and to be quite honest I would prefer to stick with the philosophy of cheap housing in Berlin than very expensive housing in Boston etc and a proper social welfare system and I said it earlier and I'll say it again if you live in a society where when you have a baby you're told you're on your own at the most difficult period in your life and when you live in a society where you don't have enough money for healthcare you have to do a fundraiser on Facebook so that you won't die you put people in a ridiculously desperate situation and you boil that part up and this is what you end up with as far as I'm concerned and that's why I wouldn't aspire to an American lifestyle where it's the survival of the fittest because under that system the fittest survive but the weakest get crushed we've all someone in our family who would be weak in that sense and they're being crushed and I couldn't go along with that so keep away from that type of 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example twice that in London more expensive than Germany hotel prices particularly in Dublin are through the roof locally those within the industry except running costs are increasing we know one hotel in letter Kenny their electricity bill for March was 23,000 above what it was March last year so there are increased costs that will have to be passed on but they are claiming locally we heard from a local hotel here that though there are those in parts of the country that are price gouging so I mean can the government does the government need to intervene and why are we inclined to do this to ourselves March and we're just out of we're just out of an awful situation where the industry was completely on its knees and there are certainly those within it now that's our are prepared to shoot the golden goose or the goose that lays the golden egg yeah it's it's certainly a major problem and it's it's a problem that that is happening all over the country at the minute the price of hotels is absolutely out of control it's something that that for the company I work for actually a market that we would do every week we would we would have guys down the country and especially around Dublin and it's impossible now number one to get hotels and to get accommodation and whether it's hotels or been breakfast it's impossible to get any accommodation the accommodation that you do get and a double room twin room that would normally being sold for 120 or 130 euros is now 330 if you're lucky you're getting it for 330 and it's just becoming a situation where you know someone somewhere is going to have to pay for that now of course you know we through the government and rightly so supported a lot of these businesses when they were unable to open through lockdown at great expense and we'll be paying for that for a very long time you know does that not give the government some license and maybe have to some extent to call these people in and justify justify what is going on it's not all supply and demand I mean that is part of it but you can book you can go and try and book a hotel room for Bruce Springsteen next year and you'll see what happens when there's a big event on you know what I mean it's it's demonstrable what's happening do you think then you know they because of the assistance they got they need to play a bit fairer because certainly I'll just say one thing like I think a lot of people if they're traveling to Ireland they'll they'll price Dublin thinking that's Ireland I think everyone's doing you might do that if you go into Portugal you'll check what the prices are in fire on believe that's the same north and south east and west you know less experienced travelers like myself you know so it has an impact on us as well as the capital obviously Martin yeah and it's going to have a massive impact on tourism for the future especially because you know like we're just coming back from a pandemic we're just coming back from you know having very little tourists coming up to the country especially from America and from Europe and from you know overseas that now either coming into a country where the price has just gone out of control and you're not going to get those people to come back and that that's a very serious situation to work with nationalism and you know I think it's time that that would certainly that these industries have to be spoken to and see how that can work but there's also a problem there Greg that you know the cost for a lot of these hotels is escalating with the prices you set of electricity if it turns and all the other things I think the customer will expect will accept that being factored in then they'll make their own decision on their finances it's it's it's the exploitation that seems out that people find hard to swallow and to be fair to here in our county here in Donegal you know you don't see it you don't find it as bad and that the the cost and the hotels is not the level that they are you know Dublin and Dublin and not just Dublin but once you go down the south to Cork carry that side is a country anywhere but here and that's the way you feel at times when it's been sold that it's been sold in the same manner from a national perspective that it's anywhere but here but that certainly is extremely extremely high the hotel rooms and all those areas what do you think of the situation as I say you know I mean we accept we have to accept that costs are increasing you know and even if they have to pay staff better to retain those staff and treat them better okay those who can afford it can make that decision but what's your view about what seemingly is you know tourists being ripped off in certain parts of this country do you think that is the case by the way I don't want to meet to presume it's the case when I meet people traveling that they increasingly in the last number of years like this isn't a new issue and last number of years when I meet people traveling they will say oh yeah I'd love to go to Dublin but way too expensive because I know myself from traveling that there's way better options than traveling in Ireland and it's not just Dublin but I mean I'd love to see more of Ireland but it costs a fortune to see it and even to just travel to other parts of Ireland is made immensely there is very good well listen we can get your boss up here Ross common as well I know there's been a big push on to increase tourism in Ross common particularly last year I'm not sure if it's carrying on to this year you know you'll save the money when you're here with the beautiful experience Elaine and the cheaper costs just got a bus I use public transport all the time I find it really really difficult in Ireland I've traveled across Europe I've traveled all over the place and I will constantly find trains and buses that will take me anywhere and at a reasonable price if I want to get to Cork to Sligo in Ireland I had to go via Dublin like for the best route and for a better price and that won't take me all day and have to travel through the night and that kind of thing so I mean we're not very well connected as a country either like it's not just the hotels it's kind of everything about traveling in Ireland is quite difficult and expensive that's what I found personally as a traveler and that's what other travelers from other countries have told me as well so I understand where this is coming from but you get the situation where hotel prices are high and they are high across the board and again not just in Dublin that will create space for a company a disruptor like Airbnb to come in and encourage people to let their homes and available living spaces on Airbnb because even a competitive price against the hotels will be a great moneymaker for these people and it's we're in the middle of a housing crisis like I'm really letting that happen as well 70 74 times more houses available on Airbnb to rent in Donegal than there are those open to you know the rental market more generally but but Luke just from your perspective and you can take a European angle on a whichever angle you choose for that matter you know when we talk we compare Dublin to London to Frankfurt to Madrid we see we're four times four times that of Madrid in terms of car hire that's just one expense three times that of Frankfurt twice of London you know and I presume all of these countries are facing similar challenges because of the global situation are we are we ripping people off here do you think well all I know is I rent two bedroom apartments in Brussels in whatever I think all the areas are nice in Brussels but in a particular area of Brussels it wouldn't be the cheapest area it wouldn't be the most expensive area and I rented with a colleague 1,050 euros per month the equivalent apartment in Dublin and I've done a bit of a survey on this is the closest I could get was 3,200 euros per month but there's a one massive difference between Belgium and Ireland and Ireland and many other places Belgium hasn't with wide open outstretched arms welcomed vultures and investment funds to compete with people who were buying their houses the same as we had incentives to buy property in Roscommon about 15 years ago and myself and my neighbours and my wife I took a piece with all of these people and it's why the houses are still actually worth less now than what we actually paid for them so what we have created is a situation whereby before anyone ever decides to go out to work they have to look at what are my bills going to be and one of those bills and a massive bill is going to be how much will I have to pay to rent my property and in Ireland you are looking at a higher bill in cities and many places even in Roscommon at this stage than anywhere else so you're going to have to demand higher wages and that trickles through to your end costs and the bottom line and that does drive prices up likewise we have a situation whereby and look you can say wind turbines are good or they're bad but we have constructed an energy system in this country that it's everywhere it's all around us but no matter how much of it that we have it has not made our energy costs cheaper because we don't own any of it and we have no control over it so before you go out to work you have to decide well how much will I need to cover my costs which now means I'll have to pay more for my heat then I do in Brussels as well pay more for my water I go out I buy a bottle of water in Brussels 80 cents in a small shop 180 250 in Ireland so people it isn't that people are being greedy it's that they need enough to cover their costs and in Ireland you need more to cover your costs yeah but I'm I get I know exactly what you're saying and right but just and I think it's actually even probably more interesting because it affects more of us that the road you went down but one of the things we are reliant on though is visitors into this country okay yes and and there are those within the industry that are you know exploiting that or at least that's the way that without without you shouting without you're going to get that in every industry but people are smart in industry no more than what the lady talking about a lane sorry it mentioned that someone went fine if there is a cheaper way to do it someone will find a cheaper way to do it but still it is massively expensive no matter what way ago but but we did make a decision here and I would agree with this decision but inevitably it's going to lead to an increase in costs and that we made the decision to take in many many many refugees from Ukraine and I'm glad we did I rent a house myself in Castle Reed for a family to try and help them out but that inevitably will mean that it will drive up the costs and that will affect tourism but we knew that when we did it so I think the government needs put up their hands and say this is a price we will have to pay this is a price we are prepared to pay because they made that decision because inevitably if there's two people looking for an apple as opposed to no one looking to buy an apple the price of the apple is going to go up but of course there are people exploiting that and this we need to deal with that through our tax system because if people are exploiting it they're making massive profits and those massive profits should be taxed and people like myself should be taxed more as well because we get paid too much well I mean it's not a tax but I can give you my i-band number if you want to share the love there's no problem in that regard I can relieve you of some of that burden of overpayment if you wish Martin McDermott you're at the cold face though in terms of the more general point as it relates to you know the 70 odd more Airbnb available versus long-term rent and your local representative you're getting contacted by an awful lot of people Luke mentioned the pressures that are going to increase because of of you know you are welcoming in the Ukrainians and I think the government in the wrong report it's confirmed the inevitable that there is going to come a point where people who've been living here for longer are going to say you know they're they're angry not anger but they're upset towards houses being made available to Ukraine school boss places and all that kind of stuff it's it's going to come up it's going to raise its head more and more and there's a lot to deal with over the course of the next year on a local level yeah absolutely Greg and there's a lot going on and there's a lot of Ukrainians and my own parish in Malin there's there's about 80 that has moved into Malin Malin between Malin village and just slightly outside Malin and some to accommodation in Malin head as well you know and there's more that will be there will be coming to other parts of Ukraine and other areas and the community the general community has has worked extremely well with them and put great resources in place to to both the Garda and the local clubs and the the the local link plays a vital part in that as well for for getting them about from area to area but there's certainly you know a lot of accommodation that will be taken up and there's a lot of there's a number of of air being bees now that are that are taken up by bringing your Koreans in and housing them during this crisis but that is going to have a knock-on effect then again to the amount of people that we can bring into the county and actions tourism over the summer and again that is another reason why as opposed to the price of things are going up but you know the housing crisis here that we have to deal with and there's going to be lots of issues as everyone knows over the next year to 10 years problem in relation to the amount of houses that we need the issues that we're going to have with people having to leave their own homes and going up to for the Micah situation yeah that is well encouraging people to move back home to work remotely and I think the government really recently announced 400,000 euro for Donogol County Council to bring rural properties abandoned properties and towns and villages I mean they'd give more to that to two contractors to finish two houses as part of other schemes that's announced I mean that's that money's not worth it's not near enough and there's so there's so many houses out there I mean I went to someone recently that was doing you know sort of a survey and parts here of any show and the amount of houses that were vacant and like there were certain parts of the show here that the number of houses were about 400 and there was 160 and one reason though holiday homes or holiday homes yeah I've come back to you I want to bring Elaine in here Elaine. Yeah I think like the points that Martin's raised in there these existed before Russia ever invaded Ukraine and I'm really wary of this argument that's arising that's scapegoating this Ukraine crisis and making that the very convenient excuse the government has for all of its failings to have been taking place over the last number of years that's first of all a dangerous route to go down it's going to create divisiveness among our communities when we should be welcoming these people and supporting them because they are going through a crisis that we have luckily not had to endure and the fact is I mean even Roderick O'Gorman is blaming the end of the provision is not going to happen because of the Ukraine crisis but that was promised years ago so this crisis just arose. But we do that don't we? Paul Reed's claiming over 75s waiting 30 hours for access to ED because of COVID I mean that's what this is about and we're in full of homeless people for years now it's not just that refugees have come and taken these spots this homelessness crisis this housing crisis all of these problems existed long before Putin made any moves on Ukraine and I really don't accept that as an excuse for these failings. I just want to be clear I'm not making that as an excuse absolutely not making that as an excuse there's been no one or no area that has welcomed or has done as much for the Ukrainians and our own here in the show and we're certainly not making that as an excuse but it's a reality as well that you know there are a vast amount of people coming up we have to deal with that but it's absolutely no excuse in relation to the housing there's a major major issue in relation to housing and the lack of housing the lack of social housing and that has been absolutely over the last 20 years multiplied and hasn't been dealt with and now we're in that position but sorry you know just to make the point Greg that you know we're absolutely making no excuse for that and as I say that no area has welcomed the Ukrainians as much as an issue has. Alain did you want to come back there? No I did want to say like I'm not saying that is saying that I'm just I'm seeing that a lot in the media now politicians coming out and conveniently blaming this Ukraine Christ on everything business people are blaming out on everything it's being blamed for the rising cost of living which was happening before Putin invaded Ukraine. Yeah and it's happening in other countries that are not accepting any Ukrainians at all as well Luke. Yeah and look the simple reality is I would welcome not just refugees from Ukraine I welcome refugees anyone who needs help but if you make a decision to put refugees in hotels which I would agree with that inevitably means and there was there was a serious struggle anyways it inevitably means those rooms won't be available for tourists and that that's that is a fact I don't think that's a bad thing though I think it's more important to help someone fleeing from war than it is for people to have affordable holidays in the same ways I would think it was more important that people got places to stay when they fled Ireland during the famine to go to Boston than it was for someone going on some sort of a little holiday from New York to Boston at the time. I know but it gets it. And I would say tough holidays are great and people need holidays but if it's a choice between that and catering for someone as a refugee they're refugee every single time because that's the most important thing that we can do and I would support that but to say there's going to be as much space available at the same time is just to be in denial okay you can tell the truth and at the same time not to be scapegoating the government could have done more in advance they knew what was coming and we can criticise them for that all right. Luke ming Flanagan thank you very much for your time this Friday morning I appreciate it good to have you on the program thank you take care of yourself thank you very much indeed Councillor Martin McDermott have a good one thank you very much for joining us again thank you great thank you Ian all right Tulane listen thank you very much for your time this morning it's very much appreciated and hopefully we'll see you again thanks Mel thanks Greg all right take care of yourself thank you that is Elaine Burke editor of Silicon Republic Councillor Martin McDermott and MEP Luke ming Flanagan back with the weather and news after these The 9 till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today breaking gardening news our correspondent Petunia at Alcorn's Garden Center I am surrounded by an array of spectacular summer bedding these beauties are moving fast with last year's prices held 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warning letters were sent to children for neglecting their children's education meaning over 20 school days were missed now we know for an awful lot of reasons why they those days might have been missed but anyway td denis nocton he says these parents should be docked social welfare if they're on social welfare do you support this right so head over to our instagram and facebook stories and twitter to have your say on that which is today's daily poll will announce the outcome for you a little later on some of your comments look lack of a male or female role model in families is epidemic and is contributing to the alienation in society especially when parental alienation is being announced this is allowed this is life long of course sometimes dad's moms can't get access to the children often too they simply don't want it i was in two different premises in milford last week i ordered a gordon's gin no mixture in what no mixer in one place it was 380 the other premises was 590 disgraceful not even 590 in temple bar another of the hotels were at 800 euro for the dates of the bruce springsteen concert for anyone needing a hotel in dublin for a hospital stay if you bring proof of appointment to megette against hotel in dublin they will lower your price also too it is important that people and we've said this before and we've proven it with surveys don't just take the prices on the likes of booking dot com they don't have access to all of a hotel's room they have an access to some of them and you know sometimes you can get better value even late in the day by contacting the hotel directly in fact more often than not you will get better value i think we use the likes of these websites to sort of check because it's handy you can check lots of places at once but they don't have access to the whole hotel the hotel owners do ring reception you'll often save money cancelor michael mcclafferty was on to comment we seem to be going down the same route of the Celtic tiger years ago people are setting a price and getting it this isn't just hotels it's trades people as well i don't know where it's going to end everything is going up and the wages aren't the thing about the scale the trades people is that you know there's huge demand on their time um there's huge demand on their time and they're facing increased costs of materials diesel petrol and they have to pass it on as well and they're a skilled set of people and that they're in great demand and they can you know go to other parts of the country and earn an awful lot more than they are here but choose not to but they have to price what the market will pay i suppose i booked the five star marion hotel in dublin for july the night of the west live concert got it for 423 people sorry for 400 can you imagine that be a squeeze i got it for 423 euro for two people through bucking dot com is that good value um i suppose it is it's a good hotel isn't it greg arland was always a ripoff it's not just this year there are hotels in this country and i don't see how they justify the prices they charge they justify it through bookings though don't they i mean they're not going to sit there if they're not selling the rooms like you can't get a room in dublin a lot of the time now so you know they will find someone who has the money to pay uh two nights bed and breakfast in gollway was quoted 895 and 950 that's just for two people sharing a twin room it's ludicrous no wonder people are going abroad they can't afford to stay at home uh ted cruise he says the school wasn't fortified because he's in their pocket that's why pierce morgan was shipped out of the usa when he had larry king show he taunted the n r ray and uh bit off more than he could chew his his rating figures went through the floor as well though uh in fairness but i'll take your point the gollway tent is back and it was in punters stan one td said nothing to see here and i'm not squealing uh there were no rules but they can make one to suit them pull no punches with the punters i call it believes it's a mental health problem that needs addressing in america regarding gun shootings i've lived there for many years with my family children were born there yes but the there are there are going to be safe for instance you know and and everything can't be blamed on mental health just because someone does something that you believe that they have to uh have a mental health problem it doesn't actually mean that that is uh that is uh what's going on okay and a lot of people who function um as best as they can and you wouldn't know it uh might have a mental health problem in inverted commas and they they go about their everyday life raring their children working and everything so we have to be careful with the language there but i presume in all the parts of the world there are people in an equal mind space but they do not have access as soon as they turn turn 18 to automatic weapons you know what is the function you don't go hunting bears with an automatic weapon do you don't shoot tin cans or or pheasants with uh an ak-47 there's only one function for them and that is to kill a lot of things at the one time and unfortunately it's humans so we're equipping people in certain parts of the world with equipment that they can do this with and yet there are people in the same headspace potentially in other parts of the world that couldn't do this because they don't have access to those weapons but this caller says every film today you see is packed action packed and filled with gun violence it's making an impression on young minds they are seeing it all the time who is to blame really right okay it is the 9 till noon show here in highland radio thank you so much for all of your comments i want to mention a couple of things by the way just before the bingo numbers and let's start with this i'll have it here a coffee morning is taking place in aid of our ukrainian friends it's in the mall and hall tomorrow between 11 a.m 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cancel martin harley is of the vintners federation of arland is their donnie gall spokesperson and owner of cheers bar in ballet buffet and you are amongst many martin struggling to get staff how bad is it out there yeah it's it's very difficult greg um right okay i tell you what we might do we might return to you on a phone line at martin because i think martin's experiencing some uh technical difficulties there so stay with us so we'll get martin's view in a moment uh we were talking yesterday about a dog owner who wanted to go out and about in donnie gall they um they went to murder hole i believe it was there's a new path there there's a sign up saying no dogs even on leads and then they went to i think it was fan of lighthouse and they were uh not necessarily welcome everywhere there with their dog and of course we're seeing dogs being banned in certain parts of blue flag beaches and what have you so that opened up the the conversation to you out there again and some of you messaged in redogs this caller says people should always keep them on leads at sleeve league dogs off leads of scared sheep causing sheep to jump off the cliff they don't generally die immediately but have to painfully starve to death as they can't be rescued and also cliff edges are dangerous for dogs too and over holiday couple who had their dog off a lead at st john's point the dog slipped and was lost to them forever and naturally they were heartbroken having to go home without their beloved dogs tryner arson has no problem with dogs roaming free never more than six people on the beach it's just gorgeous white strand of fun it is also great for letting your dog run freely right okay we'll come back to those comments we're going to go back to martin harley there martin you were saying um i was asking you sorry and you were about to answer how bad is it out there in terms of getting in recruiting staff and retaining them great difficult to the moment greg for we talked um as members has altered the county within all the hospitality sector not just bars restaurants hotels um skilled people especially like chefs are very shortage out there for for listed that for food offerings and what i see as well as a lot of businesses that would have opened seven days are only opening four or five days now because they can only get enough staff for one shift they haven't got enough staff to cover the whole week so they're they're only open four or five days which will affect the the tourist industry during the summer because there'll be less places for eating houses and all that there so it's that's going to knock on effects for for the whole sector and you hope that people when they come this year that we hope they will come back again next year but but if we don't have the proper experience that may may be detrimental to the industry going forward as well yeah because um and there's a fantastic relationship there of course between say for instance students or younger people they can make a few euro working in the local bar or restaurant and it's good for them arguably and it's good for their employers as well but that doesn't fill the void presumably of the the skilled staff that you also need on the floor or behind the jump and that's where where you're missing out as well as you've been mentioning yeah that's where you're missing out as well and it is a good opportunity for as I always say for students to come and work and bars and restaurants because what it means is which most students do now when they go for a year away after they finish school or college and they have the skills to go and get work somewhere because they have the skills for the hospital the sector whether they go to america or australia or elsewhere and it's always a great advantage to them that that they can walk in somewhere and have work and and I would always encourage young people to try and get a few a few days a week and try and learn the skills and they'll obviously have it under their belt in a way even if they never use it again it's always good to have yeah it's a great way to socially interact also a problem I think we have is that you know I remember in the past maybe around you know the turn of the century around the turn of the century whereby we had an awful lot of people from other parts of Europe working in Ireland I don't see a huge influx in that regard because there's a few things going on firstly the cost of living secondly they've got nowhere to live I do know some some businesses do provide accommodation but not on the scale that's probably required so we can't really necessarily look to other parts of Europe to try and fill these voids because I would say a lot of them would say you know by the time I go over there I'm away from home and the wages that are available do I even have somewhere to stay so that we can't fill the void that way or the vacuum that way you know that's another issue as well and I think with what should be rolled out quicker is giving work visas to people come into the country that that have left other countries and I think that because of as you said are going on in their countries and I think we should try and encourage to get these people that they a lot of those people come into the country they want to work and they're not allowed to work someone because of restrictions on that there but I think we should be encouraging and make getting them more accessible for them because it's given them more pride and living in this country as well and they're not coming here because they want our system they want they want to make a life for themselves and I think that's something that we need to be we need to be urgent do we have the infrastructure to to accommodate that though as I say because the basic one housing oh that is the basic that is a big issue at the moment and I know myself that for I don't know whatever chance you have in the west of Ireland if you're living in the east of Ireland you're definitely any accommodation you're looking at 2000 per month so it's a massive firm it's a big there's a big a lot of work ahead also to you know people might go out there and you'll argue you already are not used specifically but the industry you know if you pay people better maybe try four day weeks or whatever maybe you might retain staff and there's always going to be something to that but I do think and I think retailers suffering the same problem as well that we are seeing other industries other job opportunities other people hiring people maybe with better pay maybe with better conditions like I think there's a huge amount of people that you had access to pre-covid that have used that opportunity to reskill or change directions in their lives I don't even know if you you know put an extra two or three euro or four euro per hour on the you know on the wage whether you would be able to attract them back I think those those skills have been lost to the industry a lot of those skills have been lost because and let's be honest about it it's on sociable hours a lot of it is on sociable hours and which I probably must admit myself when when the eight o'clock closing came in it probably was great for people who are working in the sector all their lives like myself it's been in it for over 30 years that you were you were home by nine half nine at night which was was fantastic instead of one or half one or half one in the morning so and it does it doesn't it's weekends it's um it's weekend work it's Easter as Christmas as patty's day it's bank holidays and that's who you're not selling it to me Martin no I'm not going to hang up the mic now I understand that Greg but I'm only just I know that what there is but the only the great thing about it is I know a lot of people that have worked in the industry that love it and there's a great way of it's a great life I would recommend it to anyone because it's great for people for building their their their personality and their confidence and all that there and it's a good it's a good environment and um but it's just the challenge of as I say there's so many now people the factories and people can work from home and from from other jobs so this has taken people away that I know people that are in the industry for over 30 years that have left during the COVID because they they've seen other ways of um of other jobs that they could work from home with and and they've re-skilled as you say and they're doing those jobs now and it's going to be very hard to track people back but we have to try and and upskill the people that we have as well and probably that's something that the Buntners are doing was trying to get um the course to Griffith College there for our bar managers and all that there so that's better something that the Buntners are working on to upscale people and give them more more skills and give them more qualifications as well. Adrian Cummins who's represents um represents restaurants he posted on social media when one suggests that we get 150,000 people off the unemployment list the left has a panning attack he said there are 150,000 citizens in this country claiming unemployment assistance when there are thousands of jobs available across the state time for a national conversation would you have any sympathy for his point of view that there are people sitting at home collecting unemployment assistance 150,000 of them and you know a third of those would satisfy the needs of of your industry is it too and I don't concur and I don't even like reading it out but as I say he's the head of an association is it too advantageous for some to stay at home and receive social welfare then then take up the offer of a job in a bar restaurant or hotel well she's it's not it's not um as I say we're looking at a skilled industry as well it's not it doesn't suit everyone this industry doesn't suit everyone the same way that a building site doesn't suit every young fella or vice versa so it's probably I think probably having Cummins come out of that comment probably had a pure frustration from from what he's getting from his members and but I don't think that means at the end of the day people coming into this industry need certain skills as well like it's not just going to a bar now anymore and you serve drinks you have to be able to be a barista you have to be able to make cocktails you have to be able to deal with with people so it's not it's not everybody that well and with everything you're saying it that all roads lead into one direction as well too that do we need to do more to push the industry but I think there are some moves in this regard but you can always do more to people school leavers or or those who will be leaving school to see this as a viable career path but for everything that you've outlined you'd wonder how it's it is going to be a hard sell it is going to be a hard sell great and so see that's that's how frustrating it is and I can see how you've been comments is frustrated and I know as well from from our own new paul clancy our new head of the country's federation of Ireland who lives in dunneagol by the way which is great for for dunneagol hopefully going forward and uh this is the challenge um what we need to look at well because of students that that are working that that it doesn't affect their their suzi grants as well I think that's something that we can be looking at that their the money they get from their part time work during the summer it doesn't affect the suzi grants that will be important as well Greg I think but the industry too though has to look at you know as I said earlier on uh four day weeks shifts maybe that's working evenings might suit some people working days might suit and another maybe you know knowing that you could have two weekends off a month maybe that's already there I don't think it's there right across the board but it's going to take that kind of a flexibility from the employer to so people can go right okay I can give up two weekends and the odd bank holiday but I want my life as well yeah now that's that's a that is the conversation and probably we had the the VFA all Ireland conference was on and told them more there a few weeks ago and that was a conversation that we were having around the group meetings that we have to be looking at that and that's and I'm fairness I agree with that totally people have to have a life as well you just can't spend your whole life working every weekend and every one every bank holiday or so so we have to look at all that we as an industry have to work on that as well and we have to but but the thing is the big problem is Greg we're back to square one again people don't have enough staff even for one for they only got enough staff for one shift not even for two shifts Greg yeah if you can but obviously it's a chicken and egg if the egg being the better working conditions that you know that the chicken could follow but you know what I mean I get what but this is an immediate problem as well you know I mean what we're talking about here is pray maybe something that we could get to 23 24 we're heading into a summer season you can see already there's a lot of people about and they accept expect a certain level of service and places to be open and food to be being served but if we can't do that that does damage the product the product that the you know Ireland Inc yeah that's that's that's what I started off talking about Greg was that we worry that people coming this year will they come back again if they're not getting the proper if they're not getting the proper product that they expected to get all right listen thanks for your time as always that's man Martin Harley there he owns Cheers Bar in Balaba Fay also the Donegal spokesperson for the Vintners Federation of Ireland what's your views 08 660 25,000 a reminder for you by the way you can continue to watch the program if you never have before on our website highlandradio.com you'll see the link there watch it in your browser this caller says i'm a business owner and i'm in the same situation it's only a matter of time before everything goes pear shaped these people can't rely on the doll forever nobody has been able to leave the country so everyone is still here and they just don't want to work it's going to make the country go bust but you can't compelled people can you into work if they don't want to do that work can you is that what we're saying another caller says it's not a skills issue it's a way she should there's another thing too with that conversation just that i think when we get two sections of society pitched against each other we are doing the likes of you know the powers that bees work you know if people in employment are having to go up people who are receiving unemployment assistance okay and say well if you if you came and worked for us we wouldn't have that problem that plays right into the decision makers hands because we're arguing amongst themselves and they're sitting back going no one saying it's our fault you know we just have to be careful not to allow ourselves to be turned on each other i think because i don't think it gets us anywhere my advice is if you're on the doll stay on it i'm self-employed and i'm not entitled to any assistance medical cards or the fuel allowance it's very hard i think if more support was given to those who are working we would not be in this mess another it's not a skills issue it's a wages issue they say and last for now greg there should be apprenticeships that young people can learn these skills i agree i've worked in that industry i enjoyed it ultimately it was uh you know it was not for me but i did two or three years in it and i loved the social element of it and the crack and stuff um but then it wasn't for me and maybe that's what a lot of people have realized over uh the the lockdowns and what have you that that type of work wasn't for them they saw another way another way to live their lives as i say there are lots of jobs out there a lot of people struggling to to fill these jobs by the way you can contact us as well if you are struggling to fill a job um and you can advertise in our job spot by the way call us on 07491 25 000 that might help you fill those spaces the 9 till noon show with letterkenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letterkenny credit union 9102127 ab plant exports group are currently buying all types of excavators loading shovels and backhoes for export from three tonne to 70 tonne contact ab plant exports group today and you will receive the very best price across ireland north and south for more information contact ab plant exports group on 0873 77996 the euro millions jackpot is a guaranteed 17 million euro clear responsibly in store in app or at lottery dot ie the national 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your view brian well i have no objections to anybody getting uh unemployment assistance yeah my bad advice to them would be stay on it don't uh don't attempt to work because you will get no thanks for it you know i'm self employed i'm not entitled to a medical card because i'm self employed i'm not entitled to the retrofit scheme for the house uh because uh i'm not getting free fuel allowance i'm not entitled to uh get my house repaired with mica because it's a second home i made an effort to build another house to have a small business to encourage tourists here so i'm not entitled to anything because i'm self employed so everything's secured against you enjoy your dull unemployment waste you're having it don't be in any hurry to to say no that's my yeah well bod also that's accepting things all the way they are um the powers that be need to look at the situation brian because if you're there self employed trying to do your bit trying to keep a roof over your head as i mentioned i'm sorry to hear that you for property with mica you know we don't want a situation where people feel like yourself feel like you just put your hands up and accept it you know what i mean it shouldn't be the way it is well so if you could adopt or you pay for everything and the very very wealthy people you know have got medical cards and that's okay i have no objection to that just one central to work yeah and i know you don't begrudge anyone anything i can tell that from from your tone brian but you know it's clearly that you're frustrated in the situation you find yourself and it shouldn't feel like that well yeah people who are unemployed or you know are a lot better off you know yeah uh everything that's going in time to it and that's okay i have no objections it's good to see them getting it but if you try if you try to work uh everything is against you so i mean it's work is business starting out again i was starting out again you wouldn't think i would just just be on the door you know all right okay listen brian thanks for that okay listen all right take care of yourself do you agree with brian i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand all i hear is businesses can't get staff my son's eighteen he's put his cv in all businesses shops bar hotels in our town and a couple of times and he's never got a call back right well listen do you want to work together on this if you want to say what area you're in we can put the call out there and put you in connection with businesses you know sometimes the person responsible for going through the cvs is not necessarily good at their job so if you're eighteen year olds looking for work if you want to tell us what area is in we can put the call out and try and connect in with someone in that area if that would help you it's great if he wants to work maybe we can help get it back in contact with us if without obviously giving any names or personal details out on there let's see if we can connect that young person with an employer in that area i'm more than happy to try and facilitate that a caller said they should legalize cannabis as it would mean young people would not have to go to dealers to buy it some dealers will tempt them into trying different stuff and get them addicted making the future them future customers so legalize it to cut out the dealers uh we were talking to geno kelly the deputy on this issue yesterday he said fair play to deputy kenny talking sense it's long past time cannabis was decriminalized let's get real cannabis is prevalent all over arland and every layer of society and all age groups is time for arland to grow up and embrace the reality of today's societal habits and recreations right tour booked in from france for a tour around donnie gall there is a busload everything has been booked in for months in advance the bus company you organized received a call to say the accommodation has been cancelled on saturday night to accommodate refugees the people are here and now have 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with alliance young drivers insurance will have you on the road in no time say 15 when you buy online at alliance dot ie you write it we under write it alliance alliance plc is regulated by the central bank of ireland standard acceptance criteria policy conditions and a minimum premium apply leo mo brian thank you for holding good morning to you morning greg nice to chat to you again now we heard from a listener yesterday noticed a lot of dead crabs washed up on the beach he walks the northeast coasts and he said that he's done a bit of research on the internet there seems to be a similar problem in scotland he says it's gotten worse as the weeks have worn on so leo you're the man with the uh with the answer give it to me i don't know what the answer is but you'll get crab moltin possibly crab will start to come on the moltin now you have different specimens so crab come on you have a spider crab yes which are like uh it's only a king crab but we are used to best or every side of it it would be uh a sort of vessel species of the larger crab leg then you get a swimmer crab a small wee brown crab like crab he's like a movie brown you'll get him along the sandy beach all right or appears that's he you often see him on on the side of a pier or rock in rock call that a glass part and crab would he come by the way sorry leo sorry would you eat that crab no okay no it'll be we call it we swimmer crab okay you would get ham coming in the same year a lot of our shellfish here with molt or lobster when we say molt what does molt mean they shed their shell they shed their shell right uh they shed their shell to grow they can't grow with them they shed the hard shell what to do is they molt out to their to follow their shell they'll go into a crevice or they'll go into the sand and they'll molt uh they'll take the shell the shell and shed the full body the shell shell after them yes and then they'll stay there onto the molt but when they're at that stage depends where they are where they are last year in cherry a large a large amount of crab or by a big volume a spider crab molted what if we call the swell or the swell was up in the shore the shore got up they were too weak to swim out because they're very weak and that's very vulnerable and they're washed ashore but if they come in near the shore when the when they are at that stage they will go up we i've seen it for years as a child uncle death and around even if we were your man jude was talking about yeah around there you'll get them up along the tide the tide the high water tide mark where they'll come in and pardon me that's not rare like yeah okay what does the crab look like without its shell on it'd be jelly it'd just be soft it'd just be soft on him he's just being neat and what he'll do then what he'll do is he'll start this that'll come with a skin and it'll harden and harden on the shell he'd be very vulnerable at that point wouldn't he to predators they would keep their head down that's that's correct he'd be very vulnerable to all the predators seagulls and then you get what the anglers would look for other wood fishing cod or something like that around england would look for peeler crab soft crab they actually one sort of young boys would have done the shell and tangler in england use them as bait yeah use them for a bit but when our fishermen aren't seeing you know crabs lobsters dead in in cages or nothing there's nothing going on there this is just the environment at the wrong time for the crab just an environment that's just which but we have here just to me we've got the may horrors the one up but that hasn't been big to big shore up this year right but there has been outside one I've called half on that earlier on that's the activity scene but that's where the tide's just coming spring is now but you like to see a lot and now we'll spin tides again all right okay if I fall it right around the beach right around up along the river if it locks that along that you'll see that you'll see maybe possibly green crab just a glass parking crab will do the same too right and I suppose it is nature because there's birds I presume that it's like a banquet for them with these crabs washed up I that's that's more that's what it tells us nature's maybe take that course there's no pollution around in the ground yeah it depends on the specimen crabs you see make it's a bit of a brown crab you want to give maybe so brown crabs the the the sort of dark greeny crabs they're what did you call them glass crabs uh glass partons glass parton right so that's one crab that we see regularly on our coasts the brown crab the brown crab what will come on that's what come on you we get here in the lock here in the foiling yeah you'll get them coming onto the shore you'll come on maybe from May June on now you'll see them coming on they'll start shopping the smaller the juvenile of crab they'll leave the shore they'll come on they'll move the way but you'll get hard crabbing them too but they'll move to the summer what size would they grow to uh Liam sorry what size would they grow to the brown crab oh the brown crab will move me up to I just tell you maybe a kilo wow less than a kilo or around a kilo less than a kilo which or whatever I've never seen one of those I've lived on the coast all my life and I've never seen a crab of that size I've only ever seen them maybe you know the box are all bigger the buck crab the heat crab will grow bigger than the she sometimes you get the she's very big too right that would all different sizes there is a level of scale to the size of crab you can catch do we harvest uh catch and sell crabs or is it mostly lobster that's common here that's mostly what crab fishing the whole Colby does uh fish the brown crab fishing the last part in the do fish them here uh I established a fishery way back in the 90s in the river and the go to France they can go for a wealth bit or they can go for cosmetics to go for cosmetics yes they go for cosmetics what like what did they make I was a base cream for something up there they go for uh they go for uh things for uh like gas stocks for ships and seafoods and all that um there's a few boys now they've started now fishing them on the river right here uh they'll be fine well there's fish in here all year in the river well due to different stages but mostly this time of year now the the more there's more there's more stock of them the other one they're buried down on the the on the salt or on the thing yeah the one there but now coming this time of year they're encouraged students to come on but you all get you get I think there's four or five different species of crab we would have there along from green castle up there from brown spider velvet uh green crab there's a few others there's another one it's like a small spider village brown with tougher species of crabs here and if you were to eat one of them which is the nicest all the brown crab yeah okay the spider crab the legs the claws the big claws would be nice to be sweet like yeah sweet but uh from now on they could come on and spawn and do them as small the spiders you know the boys fish them now for basically the wolf bit yeah I get you there is a market just a little later on a year a small market for them but they're they're seen about a base of they've got very basic on the shore this last wide uh no commandant major now they're very they're very basic on the shore so in terms of uh recreational angling now you know those are the kayaks what the weather say for whatever or the small boats you know what's what's good to catch uh catch uh you know near enough to land is it Pollock mackerel flatfish uh well mackerel's not really on here yet there's normally litter litter around on a shown coast maybe the Kelly Beggs and the way that way the mackerel Pollock uh Pollock Pollock would be sort of the main one now at the moment white Pollock and black Pollock uh they're slow yet they're not those channels from anglers you know they're not they're not gonna come even on the wreckfish you know they're slow yet right the wreck fish and the guaf eat and make they'll be they're spelled with uh san idland all and now there's plenty of san idland right okay the san idland comes on there when you see the and do Pollock show like mackerel do they do do they or no the pollock will be more even more homely like you have stayed to the beach where mackerel migrate yeah the move the move where the pollock goes up there you can nearly put the rod down there the line down on them where mackerel keep moving all the time you have to shift that for them because there must be the blood on them they have to keep moving you could be there pushing mackerel and you actually come up to mackerel like saying they'll go on again the move they don't they don't start up out like yeah chasing sprat and stuff as well presumably all right they're chasing hunting sprat and stuff as well presumably yeah yeah you'll actually get a lot of your mammals now i'm now moving out along the shore you'll see a lot of the tourists up there you'll see likely the amazing restaurant you know up along now on here right up now you'll get the sprat coming in and get off the wheels and you'll have the dolphins falling falling the falling the feed will be mainly sprat feed and you'll have the dolphins then falling the mackerel and you following the dolphins we're falling at the the the whales have a surface close to your boats when you're out there are they that do they behave in that way you get the vascular like stubborn swallowing he just doesn't bother the vascular shark he'll come now with the warm weather the dolphins you'll get them but they don't the one we really opt to say the boat you see them jumping and what's the biggest basking shark you've seen because they're huge oh maybe the size of the boat maybe a 26 foot boat maybe the whole size of it massive and you have to get out of his way in other words he's not going to shift out of your way no i rarely he likely knows he knows the sound if you're he likely knows the sound of the boat coming he knows to get out of it but he just goes along with my thumb feeding on yeah that's all he does is like he's just a big harmless gene like that's what he has and you they will come to the surface though i mean obviously they have to be feeding last time a year now the feeding coming on blankton you'll see them and maybe see there you see them up here now feeding off they're just vacuum cleaners of the sea really aren't they they're just they're just astonishing the amount the size of of the reeds what they eat individually compared to the size of them it's fascinating leo listen thanks for your time sorry you wondered off though we're on about crabs and then i'm sort of answering all the questions i had in my head or asking them sorry no well i have seen that as a child like and we're seeing that for rare times you would see more than others i wouldn't be i wouldn't be concerned of pollution and the algae bloom that's not about yet you need hot still conditions no the algae bloom will be on upgrade the algae bloom is on it'll be on different areas now we'd have a get on they receive this thing here we'd flash prawns now you come up to me you would have the algae bloom would come off the seabed right the algae bloom your net so go black what wow okay while that's happening your prawns will stay in the burrows they go into we hold your burrows and you will get less prawns onto that move off we call it the down there to killer or have to call it black water yeah but it's an algae bloom that comes off the team is the light and the oxygen that went to the ground that sets off this algae bloom and you would actually see it in the water like you see it if you can play black or whatever all right but you're next level black with it unbelievable once ever once i've come now you'd be getting better prawns and we'll be prior to that until the spring of the year but with your prawns your mindset here prawns will change to well you begin two thirds good prawns they'll change to a smaller prawn where we keep a full prawn we'll take the tail off and now you would have to take the tail off them but it's an algae bloom it happens happens as common as like the leaves when off the trees every year right Liam listen thanks for that appreciate it stay safe Liam will brown there he's a fisherman and uh covering a lot of stuff there all right back after these with the weather the 90 noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost letter Kenny credit union 9102127 show gala her entertainments present rock and roll legends show wadi wadi at clamory hotel letter Kenny thursday 9th of june tickets on sale now from hotel reception ticket master dot i e and Joe gal her entertainments show wadi wadi live at clamory hotel letter Kenny thursday 9th of june 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because i always give out about not liking abba but i wound up yeah so yeah and did you see any reviews from that uh abba show it's not they're not holograms uh but they built this arena for them and they're abba tar's like abba tar's on stage and the first show was last night they turned up themselves which is very very rare and looking at the reviews from people at it and even the most hardened of critics said that after a while they thought they were watching abba and this is this is the future we're gonna see this yeah i don't know you know abba could theoretically be playing in multiple countries all at the same time no you know i just am i really considering it's not that i don't think that they probably did a good job but and let's face it i don't i mean some of the best nights out you'd have is with abba tribute bands to wind you know two lads in a guitar doing abba it'll get you on the dance floor but considering the price of tickets are we really gonna spend i mean if we are we need to start talking to ourselves how much for the tickets but to the tickets we're like a hundred and something euros is that not standard not very springsteen is going to be charging 140 years springsteens are 70 something for the standing right okay believe you me i will and centre but at least when you go to see bruce springsteen you will physically be bruce springsteen for now i think why would you sit at home and watch it on tv but because you've got the apparently this is what they're saying you've got the live band there you've got the backing singers and after a while it's so immersive that you think you know abba in the prime are there up on stage you get the full show they do the casual talking in between uh in between songs i think benny's it plays the piano he was joking his avatar was joking with the crowd played the opening few bars to east enders and it's hugely interactive and the audience effectively felt that they were at abba i don't know i'm not convinced i don't know it does seem a little bit like some of those black mirror or twilight zone episodes where it all goes horribly wrong at the end that is only just a preview of what's to come black mirror anyway isn't it that's that's all like sure i you've yet to be convinced but there are critics like for them at the garden and all that went in there going they thought they were just going to go and watch sort of a video of something or other and they said that they felt that it was like being at a concert a really concert yeah so it's i i mean i suppose when you think of it in that way then is that going to mean that in 50 years time people will be going to abba concerts you know what i mean well this can run forever yeah i mean like as in like that this is you know you could have a live Beatles concert now you could have a live you know what i mean the footage is probably there somewhere that they can put stuff together but they say that really ideally in this they've developed this technology they say ideally you want the person to be alive because they put so many sensors on yeah they model them yeah yeah when they do it yeah i'll see i mean you'll take what you can get if you think it's the Beatles but that's what i'm saying technically like that's what they can do but i mean for every single person they say that's what that's the future you know we'll see and don't you know soon it'll be live whereby you know a big artist will be performing in america and the same concert with an avatar will be happening simultaneously in in venues and cities around the place that's a really good idea yeah you know i don't know i just i'm i'm still looking forward to seeing bruce brings in like you cannot bearish if you can't absolutely resist progress a caller says is it really him maybe like is it really him is it him up there a caller says bruce brings steen stand in tickets are 140 euro so one if half a year's ago and you might get into it no bruce but as you say he is there it's in the east street pound there i've been wanting to see or is he oh that is the question is he there uh the passing of ray leata was announced yesterday that was a shocker only in his 70s and still out in the Caribbean he was actually in his 70s i was in his 60s he was late 60s 69 i think and he was working away i was filming uh he was out filming making a film out there and passed away peacefully in his sleep it seems um and he kept he kept relevant right throughout his career didn't he i mean obviously there's a couple of roles that will associate with him but uh there's other films was it um well here we go i'm doing it anyway uh there's i need a tv like tv works on copland he was in copland he was excellent in that but he wasn't leading it but he was good in it um but uh it is a shocker like it's just yeah it's just one of those people that you think is going to be around but anyway he has uh gone on to his eternal reward right okay let's focus on the flight attendant first with you michael because i'm intrigued by this i watched and enjoyed the first series of the flight attendant and then realized i if i'm going to continue with this i'm going to have to do a full recap because i have no idea what happened no idea what happened the flight attendant first series uh based on the book was brilliant and it was one of the highlights for me i remember enjoying it loved it loved it but like a lot of the shows that i've talked about in recent weeks including russian doll and undone and a couple of others i didn't necessarily see how it could do a second series so now that i've watched the first episode it came back last night they've really reinvented the series in a big way because they had to because for those that remember the show not greg for those that remember the show the main character um she was at the scene of a murder yes as well as coming back to me now yeah as well as solving the murder yes and constantly flashing back to the murder in her own head and reliving it and talking with the dead man she was also working through some very serious issues that she had in her own life by the end of the series she it sounds a bit trite to say that she had resolved all her issues but certainly she was in a good place and you wouldn't think there was more story so what they've done with the show is um they've reinvented it and it's now at the end was yeah because at the end of it at the end of the first series and this is no spoilers no it's not i know what you're gonna say was she co-opted into yeah it was like well you could you could have a future so was it not perfectly set up for her it was set up but it set up to be a completely different show in in the sense that she doesn't have her issues really anymore although and that provided a lot of the comedy as well she does have issues and kelly grokow is so funny and it's a star vehicle for her but as we move into season two cassie is in a much better place because she's i don't want to that would be a spoiler but she has resolved a lot of the issues that she had but as it she's moving into a new stage in her life where she's still a flight attendant but she now works for the cia and that's not a spoiler that was kind of set up at season one and sort of it's not a big part of the season one story but cassie being cassie is she's basically she's told by her handler you're just supposed to look at these people get some basic details do not engage these people do not follow these people what are the two things that cassie does engage and follows yes and of course by the end but the midpoint of this first episode i guess no spoiler someone has died she was there she shouldn't have been there it's out in public whatever so she lies about it but of course you can't really lie to the cia and you're not going to get away with it so by the end of the first episode she's in all sorts of trouble it's a different show but it has so many of the dna there the dna is there my only issue with it is and and they do a thing which i think is a little clumsy and that's just me being picky there's a point when she hits her head quite she falls or something happens she falls and then she's sort of back in that imaginary world that she was in and sees one it's like they contrived a way to put her into that thing again and i don't know do they need to do that but this time the person she's talking to is another version of herself so that's a spin on it but i would give this a thumbs up i would give the first episode about eight out of ten because it was fun i like this main character um i wasn't overly invested in the story but obviously we got to figure out over the next eight or ten episodes who who killed the guy and what's going on and it's going to be fun and i'm going to stick with it and i would like i think we were like that after the first episode as well because remember we were saying it was very much the way it was shot that you'd like the way it was shot because it's shot with like two and three cameras yes on the you know you're seeing very 24 you get to see like six and i remember saying it was a little bit erratic in the first kept all that in the very first episode of the first series but i really enjoyed it i actually had a set to download uh because it only just dropped last night on um sky atlantic after 12 o'clock so it was way too late way past my bed you didn't see any of it then yet no i've had set for the weekend it's down on my list of things to look out for people to catch up in it because actually what they've done is they've dropped the season two but you can actually watch it straight through so it's only eight episodes in each um in each season they're just uh just under an hour and they're it's definitely well worth the watch i'm looking forward to the second one like as you say kaley koo koo who's name i can't say uh it's not going to help you i know the big bang terry she's great uh she is awesome in it she really is she really is so good in it and and they wondered how good an actress is she from the big bang terry or the few things you've seen her in she's got the acu chops yeah she really does and they brought back her best friend the lawyer and they brought back the boyfriend they brought back some of the characters so they've come to be she's now living in la but they've come to visit her coincidentally at the same time as all this is happening but it's you want them back because so what are you giving the series two out of ten the first episode definitely in eight and i'll probably get better as i get more invested in the story eights hyphen it is yeah you watch the first one i loved i loved the first one i just thought it was really good and i found i wasn't sure about it in the beginning i remember after the first one yeah but then you just you kind of got invested in her because even though uh she was sort of so flawed as well as big but aren't we all it's relatable the thing it was just like it was a crazy and yet you were like yeah i could totally see how this particular i loved in this first episode last night where she's following the guy she's been told not to follow and she's wearing a bright red dress she stands out in the crowd and i was laughing it's obviously the point and i'm like she's terrible at this and so heart's good you mentioned it or i missed it is this available now all at once or weekly sorry oh it's all at once and you can start back at the first episode of the first series yeah and you should because the first series is as we were talking actually the important bits were coming back to me so i know i don't require a uh watch through but it's great isn't it the first season was great yeah it was really entertaining because it was unlike there was nothing else quite like that first season okay and if you watch pieces of her it's on netflix no yes did you yeah we talked about it yeah that's why i'm asking it is for me to me because i watched the first couple episodes yesterday and i enjoyed it right yeah so very good tonic she is but i wanted to sort of get an idea of what the plot was even though i knew what it was i just wanted to see what the plot description was so i um googled it as you do come up with id mb or amd b and rotten tomatoes really low ratings i i thought we were talking about that i think back at the time because some were some listener was watching it and i had watched a couple of them at that time i remember now yes it's very um is it good the whole way through because the first two episodes are really perfectly fine i yeah but that's kind of what you'd end up saying about it it's perfectly fine right okay i when i kind of i don't know those bits of it and you were like this could have been yeah it's where it's going sounds you know the way you're kind of like but then it kind of got a little bit predictable in in some ways right okay by the end of the the end of the whole that i was like i i did not enjoy it you know it's not a glowing yeah but it wasn't that's the kind of thing that it was 20% i'm what two of eight is what 20% 25% in it so i might as well stick it out now yeah i mean she's very good in it just kind of a few you know that's the kind of thing it is you you would like it you know what i mean you're never going to come away from it and say oh my god that was awesome but you're definitely going to give it like a six or seven you know that's right yeah and you're going to go yeah you're sitting around looking for something to watch it's worth watching yeah but what was put me off is a lot of people were saying the first two or three episodes were good then there's a bit of a switch and pace or something and they felt let down i think is that what you were saying i can't know i well i found it was in the beginning you see this is the thing you're kind of trying to figure out what's going on but it's one of those things where you can't you you fairly figure it out kind of by about four right you know that sort of say by four i'll be on six going what's going on here i was five four five you a good idea what's going on so but that's the thing so then and that's that and that's why you kind of end up in the end of it sort of fit no no it was grand okay you know but well you wouldn't have a huge hunger for a season two no it wouldn't there wouldn't be anything kind of wow about it that it's hard to make you think oh wow all right well we're going to come back with effectively what would be season eight i think of uh bosh i know um michael's a big fan you're a big fan of the books and the series it's sort of not i don't know reloaded i'll let you explain it after we take this quick break the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union is your bank leaving town letter kenny credit union is now offering my cu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features with no appointment necessary to open your account on this week's 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describe things as cool you're not qualified to use that word do i know to me they're cool well what i did was i had because i don't know i was watching michael connelly i went completely michael connelly so michael connelly the author wrote both the lincoln lawyer and botch so that's the connection here yeah so it's the same they're a shared universe greg and you know the shared universe yeah of course eventually they will bring the multiverse into it and they won't really they don't actually really live in the same space do they yes yeah they meet up that's not a we're not joking oh no right okay well if anybody's read the book they will i won't ruin it in case it happens and either show that there's some sort of crossover but if anybody knows has read any of the books they'll know that there's actually crossover books so the lincoln lawyer film is this connected no yes the lincoln lawyer film was one of the first of michael connelly's books that's a great film by the way if anyone if one looking for a film for the weekend matthew mcconnelly yeah it's it's actually a really good film this uh the the series that they've done um is similar ish to the book and the film the story of it is you know it's all about some rich guy with more money than sense and being accused of of a crime and he comes into it and he takes over so it's it it's like a slightly similar team too but it is different it is different the basic story is different then or should i say the arcing story is different in it um it's over 10 episodes they've made a few changes with it it's all set in la he's this lawyer he's had his own problems and now he's kind of coming back to the law and he finds himself with this massive big celebrity public case on it and meanwhile he's also trying to you know help somebody that he feels was wrongfully convicted as well and all this kind of thing going down through he's also his own relationships and all that sort of stuff comes into it as well to be honest i did watch the whole lot of it again it was fine but if i was seeing to somebody oh you really should check out michael connelly's stuff or whatever if it's the lincoln lawyer i would tell you go back and watch the movie right the movie i thought was much better you haven't watched any of the series no i haven't seen the lincoln lawyer yet but it's very much of interest to me because bosh is still my favorite show on tv yeah and can i ask you finula and i know you're you you would separate this out but you can be loyal sometimes to books and they're authors i mean if i go in watching the lincoln lawyer on netflix and i haven't received read the book or i'm not familiar with the author well my expectations be any different to you also like i wonder is that in some way and if you haven't seen the movie in that kind of thing i mean in fairness mattie mcconnelly is a little bit kind of iconic in sort of the way he speaks in the way he does so then when you when you put somebody else into a role that in your head i found myself thinking more about that yeah in this the the leading man in it that that plays mickey haller the lincoln lawyer yeah he um he is supposed to be the son of this the of this once very famous uh lawyer in in la and now he's kind of trudging his way through it um anybody who's read the books anybody who saw the original movie would know that about it but then what they've done now in this is he is of mexican descent which i have to say it took me a little while to kind of get my head around it purely because it wasn't anything that was in the books within the original movie so it is possible that that has kind of taken away from me admit the there's a girl that plays his daughter in it i think she might be 25 right i'm not really sure it's going why is she 25 when she's supposed to be playing like a 14 or 15 year old okay so you're kind of like going oh she's been cast wrong like in other words in the program she's still a teen yeah she's a she's a she's like 14 15 yeah she's not yet 16 in the in the in the thing and yes i would definitely say the actress is 25 so there's a few little bits like that in it um you're one uh knave camber isn't that her name she's been the screams she's in a party five only really oh yeah party five loved it uh she's dreams she's the only thing she's been in she's the only one in it really that you'd have seen that you it's well for me anyways that i instantly recognize you know that had some level of star recognition in it but i like maybe if you went into it without any preconceptions i think it's an interesting story it is it is there is a lot of stuff happening in it it moves along there's a lot of different there was just a few things like a lot of the casting and stuff like that didn't work for me yeah but as you say maybe it's because i have previous stuff in my head yeah okay the lincoln lawyer is a good easy watch um one you can watch and leave and watch something else in between yeah that's probably but that isn't again not a glowing endorsement maybe i'm looking for the next big series and and these ones yeah necessarily yet you know well that they mean like the there's a good chance the flight attendant could be the net could be the i well the first series was yeah so the second one could hit you as well i mean i watched the other thing i watched in the micro comedy was the bosh legacy which is they i didn't think it was going to come to amazon so i was very disappointed i enjoyed bosh because i said i've read all the books still reading them because he's still he's still writing them um so i really enjoyed the books and i enjoyed the series i thought they really did a good job okay so let's talk about bosh because i want to set this up in my head right because i'm sure we've had this conversation yeah uh bosh ran for seven series on amazon yes now i'm sure it was michael not you for noona because you wouldn't make this mistake that you said that disney or something were taking it up or it was a reboot or something like that there but it turns out bosh legacy is on amazon yeah and it's it's the strangest one because they kind of gave it up and i don't we were under the impression that and both like and i heard about that it was going to one of these new streaming platforms that i think they're showing it on amazon over here but in the state sits on it was imbt i am i am dbtv well it's gone it's changed to free v they changed it to free v and it's now amazon free v so the difference for america is that they previously had to have an amazon subscription to see bosh but but bosh legacy is free yeah people with ads with ads with ads yeah but i am db over here the she is gone it bombed it really it bombed so right okay so that over here explains you're carrying it yeah so what they did and what they seem to have done with it was anybody again who's watching bosh is one of these characters he's this hard bit there's an alcoholic his wife's left him he's got family troubles well actually he's not an alcoholic no no no his wife his wife did leave but they need to leave more yeah they got back together they were on a friendly terms yeah in that way he's not he's more one of these guys you know like uh he everybody else is only doing it for the paycheck yeah he's got a mission he chews up the scenery though yeah i mean he does it so well i've always loved tight as well over in other shows back we do this to you love him love him to be honest now when i really like the box and when you see a minute he exactly what he does is exactly the characters in the box right in the sense like he's very uh you know everybody counts or nobody counts and he's the only one and everybody's wrong and anybody that breaks the law is totally wrong but he can break the law because he is working towards a greater good one of those you know one of those very defensive of him isn't it i love the character so if you're looking for actually just a good cop show to watch that there's plenty of it right you know one episode an evening going to bed or something because we watched maybe less tv in the summer bosh is there and bosh is excellent i enjoyed the first five now the only thing it says is that don't jump into legacy you are better off if you've watched at least some of the original series for the characters well for the characters but also there seems to be like even when it starts on the first episode it spends two or three minutes going previously on bosh okay so it's kind of so it's effectively season eight of bosh really i mean except for the fact that as i said he was a police officer he's been 25 years in the in the police he's always been the one that they've all been gunning for because it's not his fault he's just there with a mission you know the kind of way you should do the previously on i really should do the previously on um and he's uh but now he's left them he walked out and he is a private detective but there's a few there's a one story that his daughter is still in it uh money chandler the lawyer she's fabulous and but hey the everybody else kind of just drops in and out so occasionally you see some of the other characters that showed up that were technically friends of his although he doesn't really have friends he's a lone wolf and uh she really is looking for an oration she wants that job so bad at it i think i'd like it previously on bosh imagine and once you like it paid that guy that did big brother he got loads of money oh once your once your voice is associated with something yeah yeah it's totally to go into retirement just walking around going previously on yeah i get the feeling that someone doesn't want to be here like she's either talking about packing a cb or retirement so it's either my cb is going to be handed around at my funeral for people that's exactly because you're proud of it and it's been okay i've done this is what i did this is what i did with the x amount of years here's my listing i'm going to get through one episode of this without you talking about your exit strategy i don't have an exit strategy in particular for life but let's face it it's gonna happen at some point i like to be prepared clearly stay around as a hologram but i did look at so how far into boss legacy are you oh oh i went cracked okay i told you i didn't really enjoy you enjoyed it then there's 10 episodes and i got eight into it nearly in a row wow and then i realized you know what we all do the last i'm still waiting for the last two to drop and i'm like i totally wanted to know so it's obviously brilliant it's it well it's it's three arms it's done exactly in the same way as they did boss but that there's little changes and stuff like that and i really enjoyed boss yeah and i just i do like a police kind of procedural and that kind of thing great tv to be honest in that sense this the stories are always really good in this there's always two or three sub stories going on he never does it's worth pointing out it's not just michael connelly i mean i don't know about legacy but i presume it's the same creative people one of the the key creative forces behind boss is one of the guys who did the wire you know i mean there's there's a true line there of really top tier intelligent crime drama and that's of you know two seasons one coming to sky atlantic soon as well i just noticed from the wire people from the wire people as well mark higgins is watching us on facebook market good morning to you and everyone else watching with us as well and you can watch on our website now highland radio dot com uh lincoln lawyer excellent with one that emoji now i'm not sure what that is that's okay okay yeah better than okay oh yeah uh and and margaret's referencing the series there drop us a line if you're watching what you're watching i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand right okay um so boss legacy big thumbs up again it's one of those shows does come up on this item now and again boss because you know it's a good show yeah right let's go to the cinema yes on kanian quinn yes uh this is the irish film the irish language film that's getting rave reviews uh not just here in ireland but anywhere it's screening and it's a multi award-winning film i went along to see it on tuesday i'm one of the lads from the d&d group dunce and dragons group he was his idea and we loved us we we completely yeah we loved it it's like somebody tells you it's like greg greg you are standing in a courtyard there's a door to your left and a door to your right you can hear a growling coming from the door to your right which door do you want to walk remember the dungeons and dragons game and i played it on the very first console which i think was it might have been a cartridge i don't think it was the commodore 64 it might have been the first sega but um there used to be a part of the game where you'd get to and it was like a turning wheel going up a tower and the wind was blowing and you had to stay against the wind but i think it was a fault with the cartridge it used to crash on that every single time so you never never got past it so i'm still stuck on the trauma stay where you are because i want to talk more about uh not dungeons and dragons but i just want to i don't want to hold bobby here because we could go on for a wee bit on that one uh bobby cunningham good morning to you bobby how are you getting on good morning greg and thank you so much for having me it's lovely to speak to you and you're speaking to us from a beautiful kill car and a lovely evening coming up on june 5th tell us a bit about it yes indeed greg just uh over the years there's so many people in our communities you know that deserve a little recognition for all the work that they do throughout the years and of course of course in the last number of years there some people have retired or moved on and and uh without acknowledgement of what what they've done over the years yeah the likes of andrew daherty our postman here he came here for six weeks way back and he ended up being here 40 years and kill car will do that to you though it catches you doesn't it yeah and then of course we had we had father eddie our parish priest that was here between the area at land column kill car he can ourselves here in kill car he was here for 35 years and now he's on he's moved on to let your mic award and it was just uh the other day there you mentioned a classical music concert in litter mic award on the fourth of june and i was just thinking if he goes to that and then comes to the blue heaven on the fifth of june for a country night that will test his musical preferences yes but exactly uh but listen it i think this is a brilliant thing to do it's called let's celebrate and thank knoll cullingham who you haven't mentioned donna gall person of the year currently as well andy daherty as you have local postman father eddie gallagher and it's a celebration of them it's in the blue haven kill car fifth of june music and dancing with red alert tickets only a tenor e as well and proceeds go to a charity which will be chosen by the three gentlemen in question this doesn't happen too often and i think it's something bobby we should see more of well i think so uh you know especially for you know there's certain people that that deserve a little recognition for what they do over the years and communities you know and i mean this is really just an acknowledgement of for these few people now i didn't mention knoll of course knoll uh 2019 that that we proposed knoll for donna gall person of the year and he's been the donna gall person of the year ever since he has been he has been but he's a great ambassador i must say he's a great ambassador for the county and and so yeah we're having that night in in the in the blue heaven and we have to thank terns and his team there for the facilities and that but now we don't have abba or brisk brinkstein you're talking about the red alert though it's the same thing we have red alert and they're a brilliant band so we just hope when everybody comes along and has a good night conversation a bit of a dance and a bit of fun i think it's going to be a packed brilliant night you know bobby not just from uh local people in kill car but for for the surrounding areas too because it's going to be fun you know you can you can be sure of that uh between the three guests but particularly know like it's going to be a fun night as well well exactly exactly greg that's that's what we're certainly hoping for a big crowd there's no doubt about that and yes of course it'll be a fun night with noel and full and full swing you know yeah okay brilliant stuff bobby we'll mention a little closer time to remind people how do they get tickets it starts at 8 p.m and by the way in uh celebrating these gentlemen you're also supporting charities of their choice is it i don't know would there be tickets available on the night i'm not sure how large the venue is or do people need to maybe make sure that you have a ticket in advance what's the best situation there bobby i know well it gets on on the door it's a big venue and there loads of tickets on the door greg so no then you needn't have any worries are you a bit of a singer yourself bobby would you i'm afraid if i start to sing i would clear the place well you can we can put you on just before closing noel can do the warm-up for you and you can bang out some bruce springsteen or something yeah oh well but uh yeah we're hoping we're hoping for a good night we're hoping you know it's gonna be a brilliant night it's gonna be a brilliant night okay it is put it in your diary the fifth of june it's the bank holiday weekend music and dancing with red alert and you know what'll end up being there it's actually quite uh a few tourists are gonna hear there's a night on you know and they're gonna go to it and we'll wonder what will they make of it yeah well we're certainly hoping so yeah of course like can you imagine just randomly if you're visiting from america somewhere and you happen to be in there in that part of the world and you end up in there it'd be a brilliant experience okay listen thanks bobby best of luck with everything great thank you great to chat to you it's our pleasure get your tickets or go down there on the night okay we're gonna be speaking about that film uh with uh michael and flula but we do have to catch up on this quick break the line till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost letter kenny credit union nine one oh two one two seven love what you do and you'll never walk a day in your life says elmester brennan that's why our bakers make such great tasty bread from our bagel bakers to our bakehouse craft bakers and our be good bakers i like a more traditional baker myself says i well to see our family pan bakers still bake our famous sluice pan 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bank of ireland big move begin bank of ireland is regulated by the central bank of ireland okay okay so we were going to before we uh it was lovely to chat to bobby before we were joined by bobby uh and kill cars love you but kill car is is i know i say this but it is really lovely part of the world the people are great all around there is part of my favorite places uh on kyleen kuhn tell us about this film uh the the critics absolutely love it the audience love it we were speaking to the producer last week yeah two weeks i heard that yeah you weren't here yeah but i heard it yeah it's really the week it is but you loved it as well tell us i loved it um it's got a hundred percent on rotten tomatoes it just means every critic as you say international international and i think this is going to be big because i i just think it's going to be a big film over the next 12 months it's going i hope it has real traction and does very well it's already garnered a lot of awards there was one festival here in irish when i forget it it beat belfast in every category except one i think script was the only one it's a magnificent film and it's it feels it falls right into my wheelhouse in that jokey way that we say it's a movie where nothing happens and nobody says anything and those movies can often be really really wonderful this but there's obviously enough in this because it's not a niche it's got broad appeal so it's got broad appeal yeah it's more than maybe your it's more to it than maybe your explanation would suggest oh yeah of course yeah it's a really profound and deep film and the story is that in 1990 in 1980 he's in everything in everything in 1981 storyline um and it's a large family there's a new baby on the way there's a quiet girl which is the name of the movie and she is kind of a bit more difficult than the other kids she does her own thing and we see her at school and stuff so the parents for the summer in the months leading up to the birth of the new baby they send her off to family to relatives down the country and the story is that summer summer of 1981 where she's staying with um they're described as an older couple um and down the country cousins of the main and that's really it and it's just the change that comes over that girl over the summer and the change that comes over the house all is not as it seems in the house where she goes yes yes there is a there is a wee thing uh of what might have happened in the house before she came and that comes up etc and in terms of the plot there's nothing very surprising in this you'll probably know in the first 10 minutes a lot of what happens but it's the beauty of the way the story is told it's the way it's filmed the way it's performed um and it will get you the ending will stay with you for a long time gets you in the feels it gets you in the feels and in and i one of the things i've seen on twitter a lot of people saying and it was true in our cinema in the cinema here locally when the movie was over everybody just sat there sat there nobody got up and there was a good crowd there on Tuesday evening but people just sat there and that's what i see um the director is on twitter he's liking all the comments he's responding to people about the film but that's the thing i've seen a lot everyone says yeah when this movie was over everybody was no it's not black and white but what they've done is they've they've shot it in the four three aspect ratio so it looks like a tv episode it looks like an episode glen roe from 1981 it's got that so it's a real box on the screen and it's such a wise choice it really it evokes 1981 perfectly and the characters are watching tv so you see them watching quicksilver and you see them watching old tv shows and you hear them listen to the the wireless you hear them listen to the the match you know it's just it the look and feel of this movie is perfect it's stay where you are stay where you are because as we do on a friday we get a weather forecast um from our friends at carloweather uh alan orreilly joins us now alan how are you getting on good morning to you good morning great right our expectations and in fairness you flagged this with us last week our expectations for this weekend are high they're not going to be disappointed what's the the weather for the northwest uh today saturday and sunday yeah well it it is going to be a settled spell of weather so we have high pressure over us um there will certainly be some some sunny spells but i'm afraid while mani in the north west might be looking at social media and seeing people like me in carol post and clear blue skies and getting the barbecue out it is going to be cloudier and it is going to be cooler in the northwest so that northerly breeze is going to keep temperatures probably back to 14 or 15 degrees possibly getting up to 16 degrees um probably the best temperatures maybe on sunday um for a time with the early sunshine but look it is going to be a nice weekend in the northwest it's just not going to be as warm and as sunny as as some other parts of the country but quite dry if you're in directs if you happen to get direct sunlight it'll feel warm but presumably out of the sunlight that wind will make it feel a wee bit well chilly but colder yeah exactly it will it will feel that bit cooler in the breeze especially near the coast um but as you say when you get the sunshine and there will be good sunny spells at times it will feel pleasant even though it's only going to maybe 14 or 15 degrees in the sunshine that will feel pleasant and and sunday morning does look absolutely lovely with the best of the sunshine probably early on sunday so it is going to be a nice weekend why does cloud tend to sit over the northwest more so than it might elsewhere is it being burnt off is it the geography what's the situation it's generally because we see the high pressure coming up from the south and it doesn't make it as far really so so the outer bands like the railway then a bit like the many things i think you could say in the northwest to be fair to you but yeah it's just a high pressure isn't quite brilliant right in over us so that's that's unfortunately why you will see a bit more cloud next week looking a bit uncertain it was anyway any more certainty is what we can expect through the week it's a very interesting setup from a weather forecast and point of view but that doesn't help people trying to make a forecast and make plans because there's still a lot of uncertainty it does look like it's going to turn more unsettled with more showers unfortunately and cooler and so temperatures struggling to get above maybe 12 13 degrees on the first couple of days of the week generally not too wet monday tuesday and maybe wednesday but there is a risk of some heavier rain coming in later in the week but huge uncertainty and i'm getting an awful lot of messages about the bank haul the weekend and it's really 50 50 at the moment greg and unfortunately it's very hard to call it there's a chance of high pressure coming up again but we could also see low pressure near boys so it's a really mixed bag in the forecast and at the moment i'm afraid all right enjoy the beautiful sunny weather in carlo allen thanks very much for your time as always cheers greg all right take care allen or riley there of carlo whether you can check him out on social media right okay so uh you're giving um you're giving this film a huge thumbs up because one of those that's going to stay with you by the sound it's will stay with me and i i look forward to seeing again if not in the cinema then on tv when it shows up i would heartily recommend it to everyone you would have to have a heart of stone not to be affected by this film right well over to you finula i haven't seen it yet i'm looking for finula has a big heart by the way it's all i don't it's all a knife yes i don't know but i haven't seen jeff but i'm looking forward to but i'm glad it's getting such good reviews because one of the things we talked about after you had spoken to producer was the fact that it is an irish language film and that you'd like to see that one of the platforms would take it up as well so that we would why wouldn't there be people in korea watching an irish language film in the same way as we watch korean language films or german language or polish or anything like that and and if it's getting that well received it's in with a very good in a way it actually makes it more consumable yes you know uh with it being subtitled you know i agree yeah okay there's not a huge amount of dialogue in it like there isn't it's it's a it isn't a film that's dialogue heavy yeah i just yeah exactly i'm going to say the same thing like you are making me feel like i don't want to see this and i don't know how that's happened because but i'm thinking i ain't going to see a square box with no noise and they're watching tv and listening to the radio why would i want to go and see that because your heart will go out to that wee girl you're also now i know once it's over i have to sit in the cinema for about five minutes taking it all in or i'll look like a heartless twat Greg he's got up as soon as the credit's done yeah you know he's standing up at the wrong time okay right no i mess uh okay that's in cinemas right now either of you looking forward to top gone i think it started last night we're currently and we're currently had a row about it because we're debating this debating turn around when i the last time we were sitting around we said oh i we saw the trailer came up and i was like oh my god i loved the original tough guy and it was just one of those movies when it came out that it was kind of like of of its time you know the way it's i think and it appealed to you know everyone oh well i mean you're a boys watch the girls what everybody could be talking about it because you had like all of the fighter things but then you had the love story and mech bikes and the whole thing and a bit of singing and the romance it was just it just had absolutely everything and at the time as well it was when everybody thought tom cruise was awesome i know people can be a little bit we all thought he was six foot two then as well it turns out he was i know it turns out shockingly he was not but in this he just uh so i'm really looking forward to this now next week i mean there are a few things that kind of upset me about it like he could come back into his original role but uh the kelly mcgillis kelly mcgillis was apparently too old to come back as his girlfriend and you're like that it's just typical but it's it's it's one of those films that the again the circumstances it's exceeded as people feel it's exceeded the original the debate is that you're not interested in it never saw the original never saw the original me didn't i didn't not interested at all can you be of a certain and not and it's got worn out videos of hameler anderson running around the beach in baywatch that's true the original soundtrack that's never watched top gun never watched top gun never liked tom cruise back then didn't like that i always thought it was a faking like risky business i didn't i saw that how was it like i saw that and that turned me off them they were all they were awesome no i can come here no i think this is actually quite interesting that if you actually go and watch it right yes it'll be a really interesting review if i'm not comparing it to if you chose to just go and see them just saying yeah because i was a little bit like that with sandra bullock i didn't like her in anything i saw gravity and now all of a sudden i'm like watching her and oh my god and i like her in everything except gravity i like her in everything i think gravity is a general movie it's a brilliant film who the hell throws what's his name out the door no it's a storyline person yeah it would have made more sense if she had thrown oh my god yeah that would have made sense she could have been a small window to she survives without oxygen she's the physics in the science of it it's a standard bullock she can do anything i don't care no i love her in everything except gravity listen thank you both very much all right pleasure to have you back in i really appreciate it oh wait six sorry just for people with the text line you don't need to text at the moment i've got the results of a survey the survey lines are closed so i'm going to get to that stay where you are i'm going to do that just as we come back for the weather forecast but finula and michael thank you so much thank you have a great weekend see you next friday the key is portage donnie gall's best-selling car for 2022 if you're thinking about making the move to kia or to upgrade your current kia make sure to call in today to i motors letter kenny or malin with a seven-year warranty as standard driving a kia makes sense the latest edition of the northwest derby between finharps 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