 I don't know how long ago, but it was great, but you'd have a good blast, you know. Micaela's going tonight. She is. She says she doesn't really want to go. She's just going because of the way she wants to go. Yeah, but that's nonsense. Yeah, oh, she's doing the new thing. Is that Dermacandia? Ah, kinda. Don't believe her. She's more of a take that kind of a girl. Oh, she's a Dermacandia. Yeah, Dermacandia all the way. Oh, yeah. If you can get to see him, of course. Do you want to tell that story, Micaela? I've already done it. She's done something in New York to see Dermacandia, and he wasn't... All right, good luck, Lee. Have a good weekend. Have a good show. All right, take care of yourself. All right, it is now the Ninety-Moon Show, and we have our Friday panel assembled. They're going to be chatting to us very shortly. But at nine o'clock, let's get a news update, and we say good morning to Micaela Clark. Thanks, Gray. Good morning. The tricolor over government buildings in Dublin is flying at half-mast this morning as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth. A book of condolences will be opened at the British Embassy in Ballsbridge so people can pay their respects. The 96-year-old monarch died yesterday at Balmoral. The new king, Charles III, will travel to London later and is due to hold his first audience with British Prime Minister Liz Tross. Tishog Meeho Martin says the Queen's visit to Ireland in 2011 was a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations. By making that visit and by the speeches that were made, visiting the Garden of Remembrance, the different locations that Queen Elizabeth II visited, all of that, I think, cemented the peace and more or less signaled to the British people and to the Irish people that we're now entering a different phase, a more mature phase in our relationship. There's renewed calls for the planning service to be reinstated at Cardona Public Services Centre. The planning section was centralised to Lifford in recent years. However, the Inneshow Municipal District continually receives the highest number of planning applications in Donegal. Something local Councillor Martin Farm believes warrants a full-time planning service to be based in the peninsula. He says with the micro-redress scheme coming down the line, assistance being available locally for affected homeowners is imperative. We've got a serious problem here in Inneshow with Mika and obviously there's going to be more and more planning applications coming in and a field that would be vitally important that the planning section, in my opinion, should be reinstated. Instead of services being taken out, we should be adding to them. At Donegal County Council believes the local authority should be working with residents and farmers to ensure waterways are clear. It comes after much damage was caused in parts of the county by flash flooding last weekend. Councillor Albert Doherty says everyone has a rule to play to help mitigate against flooding. We've had some excessive quantity of rain where we had untold damage done to our road infrastructure. The amount of debris that was washed down and the amount of damage, danger and interruption of cattle and farming for the local people, it means we all have a role to play from the river right up to its source. Whether or not I rather climb in and damp this morning with Pachi Rhee and Andrizzel clearing highest temperatures today of 18 to 20 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio. News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. At Lloyds Pharmacy this winter, we know how to help give your family big protection against the cold and flu and make big savings with our amazing buy one get one half price offer on selected vitamins and supplements. Shop and save online, in store or using our app. Lloyds Pharmacy, say hello to the people that know. Terms and conditions apply. A 9 till noon show with Letter Kenny Credit Union. Now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost. Letter Kenny Credit Union 9102127. The county's number one talk show. The 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest. The 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. It is just turned four minutes past nine on this Friday the 9th of September, 2022. And you're very welcome along to the 9 till noon show for another Friday. Lots coming up in the program a little later on. We will have Seamus gone in answering your legal questions after 10 o'clock. So if you have any questions for Seamus, get in touch right now 08 660 25000 or call 07 491 25000. Those are the same numbers and contacts. If you want to get involved in the conversation we'll be having with our Friday panel over the next hour. And a little later on between 11 and 12, Michael and Finula will be in studio with us as well, of course. So let's say hello to that panel that I mentioned. We'll say good morning first to Katie, Tirol McCafferty, community campaigner. Good morning, Katie. How are you keeping? Good morning, Greg. It's great to have you with us. Councillor Jimmy Kavanaugh, Phenigale councillor and also a member of the National County Municipal District. Good morning to you, Jimmy. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, Greg. And good morning. And last but not least, Pat McCart, former editor of The Dairy Journal and a podcaster. Good morning, Pat. Good to have you on the show again. Good morning, Greg. Thanks for joining us. OK, we've a lot to get through in this hour and we'll be talking later on in the hour and on the programme to some other guests as well as it relates to the news that's dominating every single newspaper, British or Irish and many internationals. Also, newspapers, newspapers I mentioned, of course, but TV and radio, British TV is sort of the terrestrial channels. It's just the one topic and that is the passing of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II who died yesterday at the age of 66. Katie, I'll start with you as I introduced you first. A huge outpouring of grief and loss and what have you across Britain and elsewhere, it seems, this morning and all of yesterday and will be for the foreseeable future, it seems. Yeah, obviously, with the accent you can tell. It was a very strange day yesterday. I was already mung in the loss of a family member and then the Queen died and it affected me in a way I didn't expect in the sense that it was definitely an end of an era for most of us in Britain. It's all we've ever known, these Queen Elizabeth II. I'm not a monarchist, a royalist by any stretch of the imagination. You know, I'm a Republican at heart but I think we all know that she was a very reluctant Queen and her father was actually a very reluctant King and she felt that it was her sense of duty to step up to the plate and for that I think a lot of people admire her. She was 96 and still working. I think it was an awful shame that she had to be dragged out of a sick bed to perform her last duty, really. I mean, she did look quite frail the other day. I can understand the outpouring of grief. I don't think you necessarily have to be a monarchist. To just respect the woman for the job that she performed. Yeah, so when the British press talk of, you know, people feel like they've lost a member of the family, that she was the steady voice and I've heard one commentator say history stopped yesterday. Is that accurate, do you think, as to the general sense of what the British public is feeling? Yeah, I think because she was a stable figure. You know, she didn't really have a say in anything. It's more of a figurehead, we know that. But I think if you even look during the Covid crisis, she showed more leadership than the Prime Minister and his ministers actually. You know, when she buried Prince Philip, she showed more of a steady end really. And I think, and she has kept her hands out of the politics side of it, which, whether King Charles the First will be able to do that. But sometimes keeping your hands out of the side of the politics is going with whatever the government of the day says, you know what I mean? For example, obviously in terms of, you know, being fully behind Brexit or not fully behind, but, you know, announcing it in the way you do. I'm not sure that means that you're keeping out of politics as such. If you just go with whatever the government of the time, sort of the direction of traffic they're going in. But I take the point that you're making. I'm not disputing it as such. But, you know, maybe sometimes people might look to someone in that position and seek a little bit of intervention on different political matters. I think a lot of people in Ireland feel the same way about Michael D. Higgins. You know what I mean? In the sense that... Well, not politicians in the media. They don't like him saying anything. But I take your point. But yeah, I can understand the outpouring of Greece in the UK. As I say, I'm not a monarchist. I'm a Republican at heart. But I do understand it. And at the end of the day, she's a mother. She's a grandmother. And she's a great-grandmother. And I would feel sorry for anyone losing a family member like that. Pat, and I said she was 66, of course. She was, of course, 96. Pat McCart, your reflections. The thing is, Greg, she came to power the year I was born. So that's a long time ago. And as Katie said there, she's the constant, I'd say, for a lot of British people. The thing I thought about her... You know, the royalty, if this thing is probably soft power, they're not directly involved in the political fray. But the Queen could set a tone and she could talk to prime ministers and put ideas into their head. And give you an example of what I'm talking about. Greg, she came over to Ireland and she didn't actually say anything. But the one thing she said was, I wish things had been done differently or not at all. And with that one sentence, I think she sort of absolutely improved almost 100% the relationship. And the way Britain was viewed by a lot of people on the island of Ireland. And I think her visit, if you noticed on 2011, the first day she was actually quite nervous and very restrained. By the third day you could see she had totally relaxed. And I think her visit to Ireland was an outstanding success. So in the sense that she sort of made amends or didn't quite apologize, but basically said, look, I wish things had been done differently. So I think she had a big, big role and sort of amending fences between Ireland and Britain. And that's considerable power. What do you think about it? Do you think some of us who might take a more casual approach to sort of the politics of things and the diplomacy element of things perhaps don't realize fully the significance of that 2011 visit, which of course, Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O'Neill and many others have been very quick to reference that that was significant in the wider scale of things or the wider scheme of things? Well, Sinn Fein misjudged it the first time they didn't show up on 2011, but Martin McGinnis sort of afterwards met the Queen and like that was seriously significant. So I think these things, put it like this, Greg, I think the Queen has done probably more for British Irish relationships and a lot of the Prime Ministers. Well, I don't know if we're getting around to any other subject, but considering the last Prime Minister was a complete disaster and this one could be another one. We're not going to stay too long on this because we'll be discussing it later as well. Jimmy Kavanaugh, what's your views? Yeah, very similar sentiments to what's already being expressed by Kitty and Pat, Greg. I mean, she was a remarkable woman. 70 years of service and the job they got is incredible. And what Pat has referenced about the 2011 visit to Ireland, that's what really stands out in my mind and I think it did have a very huge impact. He referenced the speech there as well and those three words were very, very well crafted speech. But I think the Garden of Remembrance and the Lane of the Wreath too was the 1960 leaders was a very, very important moment. And also the visit to Croke Park. They were so symbolic and so powerfully symbolic. And so it was a very, very healing thing, I think that was in 2011. And she deserves great credit for that. And that's important too. I think the people know that she and the she had that big time, you know, that she didn't, you know, other people were involved obviously, but she was very, very keen to do it. And, you know, the Croke Park visit was actually initiated by on the Queen's side, which was very, very important. But, you know, she had that very, very strong sense of duty. She has been an incredible servant to the British people regardless of what you think of monarchy or anything else. Katie, sorry, Jiri, I thought you were finished there. Katie, is this the conversation, maybe it's not to be had now in Britain, but is this sort of maybe the beginning of the end of the monarchy? It's been through many stages. The 60s and 70s were a low point, bounced back a bit. Obviously the death of Princess Diana, it came back, bounced back a bit, but we have this awful controversy really of her son having accusations made against him, settling, being protected. We had recent visits from members of the British royal family to Commonwealth countries, where it seemed completely and utterly outdated. I just wonder how many were holding the fire until Queen Elizabeth had passed away before maybe talking about the future of the monarchy as it is. Yeah, it will certainly, I think, be a very peering down of the royal family. I think the civil list will get very, very small. Because even the optics of it, okay, there is a massive cost of living crisis in about 10 or 11 days. All the pomp and ceremony and all of the carriages and the gold and the crowns is going to be whipped out. And I'm just thinking if I were a British person wondering how I'm going to pay my electricity and gas bills and I'm looking at all of this thinking really, is this 2023? I just think a penny might drop around about then. Yeah, and I don't think, there's two things. I think that Charles is not going to be a popular king. So I really don't think he's going to be popular. And I do think that a lot of people felt very much loyal to Elizabeth, but not the royal family, in a sense, a word. Yes, it could be. We could see a very, very peered down royal family. I don't think we're going to go to a republic yet. I think it could be very similar to the way the Dutch front happens. The king and queen in the Netherlands have a very, very peered back role. I think it's Sweden as well with those European royals. So I think it will be very much a peering back. And as I say, I think a lot of people felt a sense of loyalty to Queen Elizabeth, but will not to the rest of them. Yeah, and the same question to you, Pap, but with an extra element to this, in that it was hard to avoid the coverage yesterday. I didn't see anyone as far as I could determine onto the age of 50 actually making any comment or being a contributor through any of the coverage that I was flicking in and out of. And I wonder, is that maybe also a little bit telling? Yeah, I think you're sitting now and facing into massive bubbles, and you're going to see the gold quench, and you're going to see, I think there's one diamond. It's the biggest diamond in the world. 450 million, yeah. Taken without permission from India. Yeah, from South Africa, wasn't it? South Africa, I beg your pardon, yeah. Yeah, and you sort of go, so, and I think Katie's right to a large degree. Charles and that Camilla saga, Diana, was the below princess, and he's blooded as copy book. And Andrew has really messed up, and the Queen's children, there was a certain arrogance. Andrew was pretty widely disliked before on for his arrogance and his sort of dismissal of people. So I think Katie's got a point. Charles will have to walk a very, very fine line in the years ahead. By the way, Perney's the oldest ever person to ascend a throne at 73 years of age. I just wonder how that line he walks, how does he make himself relevant? What do you do? Do you step back? Do you reform without being made reform? I just don't, I just wonder, it's going to be a very tricky path. Yeah, and he's had a habit in the past of saying things that are regarded as political. And apparently the sort of rule is the royal family should be above politics. I feel to see how Charles will keep his mouth shut. Jimmy, do you see much of the future for a royal family, at least in its form for Britain? Craig, what I would say is it certainly can't see anybody of the same caliber in line. They will have the same impact. So yeah, I think it's certainly going to be a tricky time for them. But you know, on the economics of it, I think you know what you're saying about all the pomp and act that we'll see now over the next number of days and the expense of all that, that's one side of it. But the royal family also generate enough love and come with their royal weddings and so on, you know. So that's a two-sided coin. I'm not sure about that though, Jimmy. I think that's spin. Yeah, I think that's spin. And I also think a lot of... I don't know either, Craig, but there is two sides to that. You know, so I don't know. There's certainly nobody of her caliber in Britain there in line to get, you know, she was very, I think she was a very pragmatic person. I don't think any of the rest of them come along or are certainly not as good as her. All right, okay. We shall see. That is the voice there of Jimmy Kavanaugh. You're also listening to Katie Tiro McCafferty and Pat McCart. 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Talk to our academic and support staff and how you can study with us in ATU Donegal this September. It's not too late to choose ATU Donegal. The future is here. For more information, visit lyit.ie. No, many, many students and their parents have been left without, have been left in an awful situation because of what seems to be a complete mess up of the school. We're not a complete mess up. That's not fair. A significant mess up of the school transport scheme, of course. Minister Norma Foley, she announced free school transport for students, which meant that it could save families five, 600 euro. But what's happened was is the system and the service is oversubscribed. Those who are eligible for a seat under the old criteria still waiting on buses to be provided to allow extra capacity. Students who for many years travel to school with concessionary tickets, i.e. they got a seat if there were seats available after those who were eligible got their seats. They seem to be the ones that are really, really missing out. Now Education Minister Norma Foley, she's been invited back again in front of the Dall Education Committee after she declined an initial invitation to address the school transport chaos. I mean firstly, the Minister for Education refusing Jimmy Kavanaugh an invite to discuss this issue in front of an Arctis Committee is somewhat unusual, but I'm sure you're being contacted by a lot of parents. It is a mess for quite a few people out there today. Craig, that's an absolute mess and there's nothing that I've got more for culture work than this particular issue. And listen, there's 45,000 additional applications as a result of this decision. Surely somebody somewhere could have predicted what was going to happen here. You know, and if you're going to attract that number of additional applications, you've got to have the resources in place to deal with it and we don't have. That's the simple of that. If we can give you an example, Craig, we're going to do much detail, but I had a lady this week, she's not from Donny Gall, she's from another part of Ireland, but she's living here now a long number of years and her kids have been in the system a long number of years. She's a widow here and she's the breadwinner in the family. Okay. And like she now has been told, she can't get a private bus either because there's none that go the route that she needs. So she's absolutely stuck and she's basically sent me that to get her kids to school and get them home, she's either going to have to use taxes but she's going to have to give up her work because she doesn't have the support system that maybe a lot of us might have with the family and so on. But even if she had the opposite of a private bus and we've been speaking to parents affected by this, they go from firstly, last year, a hundred euro, right, if you had to pay in some cases, to paying one thousand one hundred euro. So this decision by Norma Foley is costing hard-pressed families and we're all hard-pressed at the moment an extra thousand euro. Yeah, it's loaded as a free transport system. But what can you do? What can I mean, you're a member of the government, right? So you can't sort of ride two horses here. What can you do? What can Joe McHugh do? What can Charlie McConnel do to get these children, boss places? Because we outside of government can see what's wrong and can criticize the government. You're inside it. So we want to see action from you, not sympathy. Right. Well, great. That's fine, great. But let's face it, like, I'm not the Minister for Transport, or, you know, councillors are pretty limited in what we can do. We can pass it up the line and that should be done. I've written to several different people in the party this week about this and I've called it out the same way that I've called it out to you and I've told them that I'm completely unhappy about it and I've told them that it's an absolute mess. Now, but I can't, I can't, you know, go to bus there and say, listen, put this woman's kids on a bus. I can't do that. You know, I can certainly ring them and make representations and I've done all that. But that's, I'm only giving you one example. I have several, Greg, you know, and there's also, you mentioned the cost, which is obviously the main thing, but also people have been forced on to private buses and it's very stressful for kids that suddenly they're not on the same bus with their friends that they have been for the first couple of years and they start now schooling their different bus and it's a change for them. There's all these things. And plus the notice that people will give them, this was landed on people in many cases in the last week. Also, not to mention, we are in an energy crisis and this is forcing more cars on to the road. I mean, you couldn't make it up really. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and you know, it just was not thought through. Greg, it's all I can say about it. What do you think about the minister's refusal to be accountable to speak to the Ructus Committee? No, what I think is true. I mean, she seems to have gone to ground, I think that's wrong. Yeah, I mean, this is so urgent and so important, but Greg, I am very limited in what I can do, let's be honest. Understood, okay. You know, I'm a county councillor, but I can push up the line. I've done that. I've spoken with the department. I've spoken, I've sent people to Joe on that as well. But you know, it's just, I definitely wouldn't come in here and try and defend this in any way because it's indefensible. Katie, Tyrell McCafferty, what's your view? Norma does and disappears and makes announcements before talking to the, you know, the key. I'll just, as she did during the COVID crisis, you know. Well, can I say not to, I thought she was actually quite out there on COVID, to be honest with you. But maybe I'm misreading it. I thought she was pretty vocal around about that time. I don't recall her being quite as muted as she is now. Maybe I'm... If you remember, she made announcements before talking to the stakeholders. Oh no, yes, certainly. She has an habit of that. Sorry, yes, I understand what you're saying. Yeah, and she did that and she's done that again. And she's put the cart before the horse. You know, you need to make sure that, you know, literally the buses and the bus drivers to do this. Don't get me wrong. I think that school transport should be free. I think it's far more environmentally friendly. And as you've said, we're in an energy crisis. To alleviate the pressure, some people may have been very grateful about a bus because of the literal diesel money it was going to cost them to take... See, well, I don't understand Katie. I don't understand that. Well, Sarah and I go, well, you know, we can't do this and we can't do that and we have to stick to the criteria. And the criteria means that hundreds of concessionary ticket holders are missing out. Yet it's not that long ago that buses were falling from the sky. New routes were being created, quite rightly so, to accommodate different communities moving into different areas. You know, and now all of a sudden it's like, oh no, we have to tighten the strings. We have to follow the rules. We have to use the same criteria. You know, it's really very, very unfair that people are being treated differently in this country. Yeah, oh, absolutely. And the thing is, one of the things they could have done is maybe offered the transport grant to various people. That may have taken off the pressure. What I have to say, though, Greg, is I'm really pleased that this is being highlighted. But can I just say, especially when these parents have been going through this for years... I get that, yeah. I do understand that. ...for years and it's never been highlighted. And now it's affecting everyone. It is. And I don't get me wrong. But I have discussed that many times on this program, but I understand where you're coming from. Yeah, I do understand it, indeed. And I'm glad it's being highlighted. I'm really glad. And I think, you know, in the short term, one of the reasons that people may have felt under pressure is actually physically the diesel or the petrol they were putting in their car to take their kids off of those people. If you can take your kids to school, maybe offer them the transport grant. Yeah. For, you know, but let's... Why not offer free training for people to become bus drivers if they're on the dole queue? I mean, if they're saying it's the shortage of bus drivers and buses, you know, think about things. Is it though? I mean, like any private bus operators out there, if you got the call from Boss Aaron, you know, I mean, a lot of bus companies would tender for many routes and they might get one or two routes, right? But you can't tender for a route unless you have a bus and a driver, right? So, I mean, is there any private bus companies out there that can just put paid to this claim that it's because there aren't buses or bus drivers? Are you there? Are you ready to go if you got the call from Boss Aaron? And the money was right. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. There's two things going on here for me, Pat. Firstly, obviously, it's this... That no one saw this coming and it's the most obvious thing that the whole thing would be oversubscribed. I can't buy that, but also secondly, the fact that the minister won't go into and the rockers committee and discuss this either is troublesome for me. What's your view, Pat? Greg, you know, I'm going to come at this slightly different. People keep wondering why Sinn Féin are going up on the polls all the time. And I don't think it's any particular love of Sinn Féin. I think it's one of the problems are the problems is that people have become very fed up with this government. Like housing, the queues for housing. Jimmy knows more about this than I do. There's about three or 4,000 people on a waiting list for housing in Donegal. Go right across the country. Health, there's a million people waiting hospital appointments right, left and center. This mess up on the buses, I think any shown has been particularly badly affected. The Ukrainian people have come here and they're now getting or having problems finding accommodation. What is it? Oh, is there 150 people left on the streets overnight in Dublin? Yeah. Just one. And it's always the system's to blame. And here we are at a suggestion. We have more civil servants than ever. We never seem to be able to predict what's coming down the line. Well, let me make a prediction now. I'm going to make a prediction now. I would not be surprised in the very near future if at least one major hotel is offered for Ukrainians to accommodate refugees over. I wouldn't be surprised if it's two, but I certainly really, really wouldn't be surprised if it's one very, very shortly. In other words, an awful lot of money, multimillion euro contract is going to be given to one or two of these hotels very, very soon to fix the problems as it relates to housing refugees that you've just mentioned. And if it's good for business, if it's good for the local area, whatever, that's fine. But when we start talking then about getting seats for children with concessionary tickets or other types of tickets, all of a sudden the rulebook comes out and it's block after block after block. Now, if you're an affected parent or guardian, you know what emotions that's going to evoke. You know how angry you are going to be, not only with the government, but also maybe with other groups of people that seemingly are getting different treatment. So I'm just trying to, I'm trying to say the quiet part loud here and get the actual conversation out rather than people having it and also not having it here. And that's what's really, I think, getting at people, Pat, an annoying people. That a solution will be found to the problems we have in Donegal in terms of housing refugees. And yet we're going to have to campaign like nothing else just to get bus seats for kids that were told that we're getting free bus seats. Well, as Jimmy said, this was totally predictable, the bus thing. And I think it totally was. And like how you can mess these sort of things up. Like it was so obvious there was going to be a more demand than they can currently cater for. And you're dead, right, Greg? What happens when people see somebody else getting something that they're not, getting that bridge resentment and that causes problems? That's always been the case. But I thought really sort of annoys me is these things are so predictable, but the get out clause for every minister and every civil servant source, you know, that's the system, it was the systemic fault. That day, you know, we should have more, like I think it's just a noise I yell out of people. It shows in... I mean, the problem, Jimmy, is that it just seems to maybe either convince people of the government's incompetence or reinforces their view because we all knew this was going to happen, Jimmy. You know what I mean? And rather than sort of try and address it, we have ministers going into hiding. And, you know, as you as a... You know, you're a local councillor and you represent people and it doesn't matter what party you're a member of, but you are also a member of Finagel and then you hear sort of, you know, Sinn Fein priming the sun, the moon and the stars and they're going up the polls and your party's going down in the polls and you must look on, you know, I know primarily you're worried about, you know, people and getting people to school, but you must look on and go, you know, what's the leadership of my party and what's the leadership of this government doing? They're literally handing power over to the opposition. Greg, go back to the school, go to that fourth thing again. The system, I meant to make this point, the system isn't transparent either. You know, there's things like if you pay if you pay and you pay in time, then the next thing is if you pay and but you pay late, you know, how does anybody know who paid in time and who paid late, you know? And that to me is those sort of things. That's so frustrating for parents. So I think that whole thing needs to be revamped and re-locked out. It's just unfair. But this is like a decision that was probably made thinking this will play out really well. And, you know, it was an awfully bad decision. I don't think that it's a reflection of everybody in government or everything in government. You know, there's a lot of good things happen to government too. Yeah. But I mean, when you're in power, certainly at the time as well, you know, you're going to get the whack for everything and that seems to be happening. And, you know, Sinn Féin are waiting high in the polls, but the polls are the polls and the election is a different thing. So, you know, let's see. But this is a very, very bad decision. Katie, the problem I think also maybe is that the majority of people out there, particularly in urban areas, they will have got their free transport and they'll be delighted because they're saving €500. A lot of students in rural areas also, and their parents are probably a wee bit tuned out of this conversation because it's not relevant to them. But there is quite a cohort, particularly in rural areas, and we are, you know, they're going to be the minority in that situation. And maybe the minister and the government are aware of that, that the majority of people are going to be really quite happy with this. And the noisy country folk will quiet down in a while and it will all blow over. I often say that. If they simply would have said, we're given free transport to everyone that had it last year and everyone else can apply and we'll see what we can do around those applications. Because, I mean, if people didn't need free transport for years, you know, why did they suddenly need it now? Where did this €45,000 people come from? So, I think they should have done something simpler again. We'll give it to all the people that are in the system already and then we'll look at all the other applications and see what we can do around that. Yeah, Katie, sorry. There's no management of it at all. You were going to come in now, Katie. Yeah, I actually think you've got a really valid point there. It's the, you know, the squeaky wheel gets the oil or whatever the saying is, you know, and in urban concentrations, yeah, then there are more people, but in fact, it's probably the people in rural Ireland that need this more than anything else. And I understand what Jimmy's saying about why do all these people now need free transport. A lot of them actually do because that €20, €30 that your parents are putting in diesel in the car is really needed at the moment. Maybe more people are working from home too and they did the school runs on the way to work and now the government's encouraged them to work remotely and they are working remotely and now, well, you know, it's, the children need buses. I mean, I don't think there's anything sinister going on here. It's just people's lives have changed, the country's changed and 45,000 people out of a population, a school population of over a million is nothing. It should have been accounted for. I mean, to be honest, Greg, I'm probably in the reverse in that we add free transport because of the diagnosis that my son has. But for the last two years, I've taken him to school because if I can control infection sites because COVID is still about then that's what I do because he's immunocompromised. So I have actually chosen to take my, take my child to school during COVID. I got paid to do that. Now I don't, you know, so that's what I'm saying. 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Apparently, as I was speaking to you earlier this week, apparently herself and Simon Coveney had a serious... Roy, I think it was in Turin earlier this year. She seems to be beholden to this ERG group, this extreme right-wing anti-European group. So, Greg, I don't see any great hope and she has appointed two guys who are former chairpersons of the ERG group to the Northern Ireland office. The main guy whose name escapes me right now, double barrel guy. You know, his track record hasn't been great either. So, you know, someone I... Maybe sometimes these people are, you know, the old one, they govern... Are they sort of election-ear and prose and govern and poetry? Well, these guys, maybe now they're in office, they might have to be more pragmatic. We had a chance to say this in old Blaney earlier this week yesterday, actually. He was proposing that maybe she'll be keen to get this over the line, that it could be a win. She could... An early win. It could maybe help with the relationships with the United States. I thought that was a little bit optimistic, though. Well, well-informed point of view. Don't get me wrong. Do you think she has an interest in that? Is that one of her priorities? Could that be an early win for her? Yeah, well, that'd be one thing. Greg, she has one hell of a nun tray. She's only two days in the job and the queen days. So, there's a big thing that she's got to deal with. The last thing she needs is a trade war with Europe. And the third thing is, during his time in office, Boris Johnson only had one meeting with Joe Biden. But Biden is very, very pro Irish and he made it clear on numerous occasions that he was not happy with what Boris was doing. So, I would think a Liz Truss might want a clean sheet. So, that's the optimistic thing. But, Greg, if you're asking me on her track record so far, I don't think so. I just don't think she can sell backing down in any way, shape or form to the EU as a win. See you in here. And I just don't see how she gets it over the line without that. Jimmy Kavanaugh, quick view from you. Great. It's very, very hard to know what to make of it. As Pat said, you wouldn't be, based on the personalities, you wouldn't be optimistic. And double-barred guy as a house is the second part of that, I think. It's really made an early impact, doesn't it? I haven't had a notion what his name is. I know he's a referee. That's about the height of it. I know he was, I know three of three other people ahead of him didn't want the job outside of that. The one thing about Liz Truss is like, the one thing that she seems to be consistently good at is changing her mind. You know, I was just listening to her speech about the Queen last night. Back in the day, she was anti-monarchy. A monarchy. She was anti-Brexit. One of those pro-Brexit people. How do you predict what somebody like that's going to do? I think that's out of our control to an extent. But listen, we need a UK government that's actually serious about negotiating around protocol and negotiating with Europe. Okay. And we haven't done that for a while. But Greg, listen, you wouldn't be confident, but the point would make us, that we have to keep doing what we're doing. Which is doing nothing. No, no, we have to keep your head. It's the same in Coventry. It has been very strong and very good. We've worked well with Europe and that. And we need to keep doing that. We can only control what we do ourselves. That's the policy, yeah. Jimmy Kavanaugh, listen, thanks for your time this morning. Always a pleasure to have you on the programme, Councillor Jimmy Kavanaugh. Katie, what do you think? Are you in any way optimistic? No. And that's why we have to leave it. Unless there's anything else you have to add, Katie, because we're going to bring another couple of guests in. I would share your view. I'm not in any way optimistic at all. I can't trust someone. I can't trust stuff that comes out of people's mouths. She was a Lib Dem. Now she's a Tory. She was an anti-monarchist. Now she was flailing over the Queen. And I think that she's been put in place by an extreme right-wing group in the Tory party, and no. And she's a Tory, so I don't trust them anyway. All right, Katie, Tyrell, McCafferty, thank you so very much for your time this morning. Pat McCart, always a pleasure to have you on and to hear your views. Thank you so much for your time this week. Morning, Greg. Thank you. Take care of yourself. Thank you very much indeed. And we're joined now on the programme by the right-referent Andrew Forrester, who's the Bishop for the Diocese of Derry Ann Rafoe and reflecting on the passing of Queen Elizabeth. Good morning and thank you for your time today. Your reflections on yesterday's news. And I think quite early on, it seemed somewhat inevitable that that news was to follow late in the evening, Reverend. It was. Good morning, Greg. And thanks for having me on this morning. I suppose like a lot of people, I heard the news sort of around lunchtime that things weren't sounding good and the family were on the way to Balmoral and so on. And there did seem sort of an inevitability, but yet at half six, whenever the announcement came, there was that, I suppose, everybody felt a real sense of sadness and shock. And there is a sadness at the passing of somebody who, whether we're from Northern Ireland or Republic of Ireland, wherever we are across the world, has been such a recognisable figure and such a well-known figure. And that loss impacts each of us, but I suppose the way I want to look at it, I'm very sad at the passing of such a remarkable person, but yet filled with thankfulness as well for a life of service, a life of devotion, a life of faith. And a life that in many ways pointed us to beyond ourselves, to realise that there is a better way than to realise that to be a neighbour, to be a friend, to be a human being calls us to a nobler way of living. And I think that Queen Elizabeth did that throughout her long and varied life. And there is going to be a broader sense of loss, I think particularly in Britain, in that for most people, I imagine it's for most people, Queen Elizabeth has been there either in the foreground or the background of their lives, you know what I mean, ever present really. I mean, it's really quite remarkable when you think, 75 years in that position. Yeah, it is remarkable. And you know, the vast, vast majority of people who live in the world really, she's been the only monarch in the United Kingdom over that time. And for those who were her subjects in the United Kingdom, the vast majority again, that's all they have known. And there's a word that's come through over the last day, the constant, and she has been this sort of constant in an ever-changing world, has helped people navigate some of the changes that we've had to live through in this world as well. Stay with me, I think it's 71 years, not 75 as a reference. We're also joined also by Mary Hart, broadcaster and journalist. And Mary, perhaps not surprisingly, we've had a number of texts in saying, you know, why are you talking about this issue? Queen Elizabeth was the Queen of Britain, not the Queen of Ireland. We don't have a royal family. Tell us why maybe that person and those people aren't looking at the wider picture that Queen Elizabeth was actually really quite important to quite a number of people on this island. She was, and she is and probably will remain always for those of us that grew up with her. I mean, even for myself as a child, I was fascinated by a princess and then that she became a queen. And I do remember having books with photographs and perhaps that's just because of where I lived and other issues. I mean, this was my own way of looking at this and I know some of your guests had mentioned that it was older people that were commenting on the radio. And of course I belong to that generation but yesterday when the news came through on the television, you know, my 30-year-old daughter whose I reached through and through was very sad. And she, like many of her generation, have seen the Queen as being a very strong woman who was a young girl who was, you know, I suppose put into a position very young and held that position extremely well and carried out her duties extremely well and was a strong woman. And that's what young people are seeing in the Queen. So it's not just the older generation that are looking at her. My, I suppose, my answer to your first question now is that what people are looking at the connection between Ireland and her visit to Ireland but that connection with Ireland came out of a very courageous step that she took by handing across going to Belgium in 1998 and actually agreeing to be part of the opening of the Ireland of Ireland peace park to remember the Irish soldiers she died. Can I add just in case you choose not to? Your father was incredibly integral in that and a very strong argument we made that the seeds were planted that day that led to the 2011 visit. But I'll let you continue. I just want everyone to be aware of your father's role in that. Yeah, because this was something that was not government. It was not official. There was no protocol. So it was that bit easier. My father was indeed the driving force behind having the peace park and the island of Ireland as a memorial to the Irish of all of Ireland. And most people will not know this story, but my father at the time told me, look, we're trying to have President Macalese to open the park. But we also need to have the Queen because for it to be an all Ireland, you know, I suppose events or ceremony. And I do know that President Macalese felt it was too early for her to acknowledge British soldiers or soldiers that died for the in the British Army. But when the word came back that Queen Elizabeth was very anxious to take part, then Mary Macalese said, well, we'll do it. So really it was the Queen who instigated that. That was the very first time that the two heads of state ever had met, you know, of the Irish Republic and the British Monarch. And the seeds were sown that day. And, you know, my late father, you know, when he met the Queen that day, and she said, oh, so you're responsible for this. He said to her, I would like to encourage you, if you ever receive an official invitation to come to Ireland, please accept it because you'll be warmly welcomed. And it was 13 years later when she did that. And she did mention at her speech in Dublin Castle that the first time that she had met was in Flanders in Belgium. So that was when the seed was sown and that was the important step that was taken in Anglo-Irish relations. Because remember, 1998 is very different from today. You know, there were still British Army posts along the border. There were still the IRA had not surrendered their weapons. So you still didn't have the Good Friday Agreement. It was just about being signed. So, you know, the situation was still very tense and very difficult to include anything to do with Britain and indeed to do with the British Army. So it was a bold, courageous step for her to take at that time. Bishop Forrester in some ways did history stop yesterday in that really it's very hard to imagine the British monarchy the same way. Of course, it can't be because Queen Elizabeth is no longer its head. But you just wonder, I'm not here to tease out the future of it, but it's more as a reference to how ever present she was. And, you know, the roller coaster and the amount of huge events through history that she was the Queen of England. How will people who held her in such high regard and who are fond of the monarchy, how will they, what will their life be like going forward? I wonder if you understand the convoluted question. Yeah, I do indeed, Greg. And I think one of the things, you know, you've touched on there is the longevity of her life. And, you know, to be 96 is a remarkable age to reach into somebody to still be performing some of her duties even up to a couple of days ago is remarkable. So the change is a remarkable and incredible thing. And I suppose in not just the UK, but across Europe at the moment, there is a lot of change. There's been a change of prime minister in the UK. We're sitting in, we're looking at this cost of living crisis where we're with a war in Europe. You know, things are in flux and change and so on. And in one way, this adds to that change. Now, monarchy, of course, is an institution of continuity. And I suppose one of the things that really struck me yesterday was watching the news at half six when the news came through. And the statement that said the Queen died peacefully in Balmoral this afternoon, the King. And straight away, the King is referenced. And I suppose monarchy is about that continuity. My goodness, what a hard act for the King to follow. But yet he has had that long, long preparation. Exactly, yeah. The long start of the throne ever. And, you know, I do ensure everyone, whether we're monarchists or not, feels for him today because he's not only having to take on the mantle of sovereign of the United Kingdom, but he's also mourning the loss of a much-loved mother. And, you know, I'm now the head of a family. And I'm sure all of us, you know, feel for him personally and for his family at this time of loss, too. Bishop, thanks for your time this morning and thanks, Seth, for always being so welcoming of our invitations. It's really appreciated. The Bishop for the Diocese of Darian Raffo, the right reverend Andrew Forster. Have a nice day. Thank you very much indeed. And, Mary Hart, as always, thank you for your contribution. I really appreciate your time. Take care of yourself as well. Okay, 08, 6, 60, 25,000. That's the WhatsApp and text number. You've been keeping it busy. You've been keeping us busy on the phones. I want to get to all of your comments. They're coming in thick and fast in their dozens. 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And even up until the last few days was receiving her latest Prime Minister, Liz Truss. And that's just an extraordinary level of duty and dedication. Well, Concert Jimmy Kavanaugh has described her visit to Ireland in 2011 as significant. Speaking on today's night on Nun's show, Concert Kavanaugh says the Queen's duty to her people was remarkable. It was a very, very healing thing, I think that was in 2011. And she deserves big credit for that. And that's important to her. I think the people know that she, and that she did that big time, you know that she was very, very keen to do it. She had that very, very strong sense of duty. She has been an incredible servant to the British people, regardless of what you think of monarchy or anything else. EU energy ministers are meeting to discuss Europe's growing energy crisis. The emergency summit in Brussels was called to consider ways of reducing electricity use during peak hours and compensating people struggling with their bills. The European Commission is also asking them to discuss making energy providers share their excess profits with national governments. Environment Minister Eamon Ryan says EU member states need to come together. I think it's in our interest for this to be great. I don't think it needs unanimity today. We're not looking for every country to do the exact same measure, but I think it will give ourselves at home a greater strength in the measures we do want to take as part of the response as a part of protecting our people through a very difficult time. The families of the two teenagers who died after getting into difficulty at Loch Ena in County Derry have expressed their appreciation for the kindness, love, support and prayers received. 16-year-olds Reven Simon and Joseph Sebastian passed away on Monday, August 29th and were laid to rest at a joint funeral last Friday. Donna-Marie Doherty has more. 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He says with the micro redress scheme coming down the line, assistance being available locally for affected homeowners is imperative. We talk about mica and we've got a serious problem here in Inneshow with mica and obviously there's going to be more and more planning applications coming in and a field that would be vitally important that the planning section in my opinion should be reinstated and put back into your public service centre again. I'm very adamant that that should happen. Instead of services being taken out we should be adding to them. Whether or not I rather Clidy and Dante this morning with Patu, Rain and Drizzle clearing. Rain and Drizzle will largely clear during the afternoon to allow some sunny spells develop highest temperatures of 18 to 20 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock. Until then, good morning. The obituary notice is for this Friday morning, September the 9th. The death has taken place of John McDavitt, knocker Stollert Bombay originally from Fentine. His remains are opposing Atroities funeral home Derry Bague this afternoon from three o'clock until quarter to seven. Removal afterwards to St. Mary's Church Derry Bague for seven o'clock to repose overnight. Pionamas in St. Mary's Church Derry Bague to more morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in Fentine Cemetery. The funeral mass can be viewed live on Kearnorte funeral director's Facebook page. Family flowers only donations in lieu to medical for Letter Kenney University Hospital. The death has taken place of Sarah Ann Ceddie McDowell of Drone Quigley's Point. A funeral service will take place today at 12 noon in Greenbank Presbyterian Church at Quigley's Point followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery. Family flowers only donations of wish-tunnely of flowers to Nazareth High's nursing home Fawn County, Doney Gull. The death has occurred of Lena Boyle, the gate at the Diamond Dunlow. Her remains are opposing at her own home this afternoon from two o'clock with Rosary at nine o'clock. Pionamas to more morning at 11 o'clock in the star of the St. Church Annegrie with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. And the death has occurred in Southampton, England of Charlie Doherty formerly of 10 Cockhill Road, Bunkranna. Funeral leaving his former residence in Bunkranna this morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock recreation mass in St. Mary's Church Cockhill with burial afterwards in the adjoining graveyard. For more details including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals please go to HighlandRadio.com So let's run through some of your messages just to remind you once again that Seamus Gunn will be joining us in a few minutes with to answer your legal questions. So get them into us right now. Also if you're on your way or en route to Gareth Brooks his first concert is tonight. Maybe you're on a bus or in a car and it's safe to do so send us a voice message sing us a Gareth Brooks song whatever WhatsApp your voice messages to 08-660-25000 if we get a few in we'll play them out a little later on. So you know yourself send in a voice message if you are on your way to Gareth Brooks or if you're not it doesn't matter that's a option that is always there for you just to let you know that as a mark of respect to Queen Elizabeth the RNLI bucket collection in letter Kenny Shopping Centre will not go ahead. Morning Greg I heard Councillor Jimmy Kavanaugh say there was nothing he could do about the school bus situation so what is the point in having and paying these counsellors when they cannot seem to help the people thank you. He would say I presume whether it satisfies you or not that he helps in that he makes contacts on behalf of people. Theresa May brought Johnston and the Brexiteers into government to make them responsible for realistic negotiations it didn't work trust seems to be trying the same tactic it doesn't look as though it will work for her either. Another caller says the current government are living off positive headlines like free school buses but have no intention of implementing it. Good morning wonder if any of you know if dairy shops or businesses are closed today due to the Queen's death that comes in from Celine. I don't think so I haven't heard any announcements in that regard. Parent of a child in national school says that the Irish children in the class are all being made to sit next to a Ukrainian child the problem is that Irish children are now being disrupted and find it hard to keep up in class because they are having to help the child next to them understand what's going on in the class. The problem has been put on the shoulders of the children who've rarely gone through a hard enough time through covid with their education this is leading to resentment towards the Ukrainian children. Right okay I'm surprised at that. I mean it's very early it's very early in the school year and maybe all children are different but I would have thought young children in national school would not really feel disrupted or have resentment towards Ukrainian children. I mean children don't have those views really do there unless maybe they've had them put into them. I would have thought it's just a little bit different in class. Morning Greg I was wondering if you could shed any details on what the weather will be like in Dublin for this evening. Many thanks. We'll get a weather forecast for you on that of course. I looked at what it's going to be like for me and apparently it's going to be okay. That's tomorrow night. Looking for somebody I'll come to do that separate that's separate from comments. Hi Greg Rebos tickets we have found out there were 50 applications for tickets on my son's route yet they put on a bus with 35 seats. That leaves 15 students pushed into the hands of the private companies at a cost per head return 1,100 euro when the fee last year was 350. As you have mentioned the green element also this is another example of a complete incompetence at the highest level shambles very hard to make an argument against them. You know really really is put on more bosses if you are going to offer free transport to children put on more bosses if you're not capable of figuring out that you're going to need more bosses find a different job and I don't mean that harshly. It's not anti any particular party of government but if you can't figure out that you make school bus transport free and if you can't figure out that more children are going to access that more parents are when you're encouraging families to work from home you know people are living lives in a different way so more seats might be required on buses if you can't work out the fact that we want to get cars off the road and get people on buses where we can if you can't figure all that and then you hide when you have to answer those questions I would respectfully suggest you need to find another job the same as any of us any of you listening out there if you were incompetent in your work you'd be expected to find another job wouldn't you or you'd be sacked that's the way it works you can't just hide from it you know if the boss here has an issue with me I can't run into the back office and lock the door and say I'm not speaking you know I'd have to go and have that meeting the same way as you know if the education minister is invited to speak to an Arctus committee on this issue cross-party Arctus committee including members from government of course and she runs off whilst all this we live the reality of the mess then you shouldn't be in that job should you and I'm not calling for heads or a head and a sticker nothing like that I'm just saying that's basically it isn't it isn't that the way life works for the rest of us why shouldn't it work for people in positions of power I would suggest our national debt needs paid off we need to look after our debt as a mortgage which needs paying that's not as big an issue and I know people talk about it being on our children and grandchildren's shoulders but we've been paying off debt from our grandparents for years as well the thing that makes me laugh is that this giveaway budget that's you know that's going to be making our lives better they're literally lending us our money to make to make things easier for us and at the same time pay it to electric companies gas companies that are already making a fortune so they're taking our money right this is the plan this is what they've done in England too we're going to do it differently they take our money because it's our money they lend it to us and the reason they're lending it to us is because we pay it back through our taxes and that money goes to these gas and electricity companies which are making an actual absolute fortune and we pay an interest on it so they take our money give it to us right and then we have to pay it back with interest and that money goes to electricity companies and that is how this budget's going to be yet it's going to be a budget to help people right because our money it's been lent to us and being paid to these companies who are making an absolute fortune this by people who've already just got a six and a half pay grand themselves it's a funny old world doesn't it really is okay let's take a break and we'll be back with more after 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surrounding secondary school teacher enok burg he's remaining in mount joy prison for at least another week this after refusing to give an undertaking that he would obey a high court order now a lot of people believe he's in court because he refuses to refer to a student as they that has led us to this position but that's not why he is in mount joy shameless no no quite definitely not greg this is basically because he will not purge his contempt of an order which is in place which is an injunction to prevent him from attending the school which he is persisting and insisting on doing in fact actually i understand from the reports sitting in an empty classroom up to again early in the week so it was inevitable that they would have to come back into court and seek to have him brought in and incarcerated for as a result of his contempt and there he would rest until he purges his contempt he can do that at any time the judgment that very clear during the week but the school have been very have been very clear in pointing out that there was a disciplinary process that is ongoing and and i think it's worth emphasizing this that a court would be very reluctant to to actually step in and oversee that it will let that process take place that is that is considered to be a fair process and whenever he signs up under his terms of contract i'm assuming as well that that's part and parcel of it he suspended it on full pay and the reason for that was that there was an incident and it was in public and i think that it was at a school event whereby he challenged the principal about the use of the pronoun there in referring to one of the students so in that context the school principal thought well it's it's high risk that there could be a situation arising in a classroom and she brought it to the attention of the board of management and they thought it was best to recommend the suspension on full pay until there was a disciplinary process was gone through and a decision made as to how they went forward with it in the meantime rather than rather than exceed to that which was their their decision he decided to return back to school and attend the school so i think it's inevitable that they would again apply to the high court he was in for two days early on the week in Mount Joy where he was being held because of the contempt and now during the week it's put back he's being returned for another seven days as i said he could go back at any time if he if he agrees to purchase the contempt but he is saying that this are his religious beliefs but this is what and that he holds these and he's entitled to them and he has a constitutional right to hold them but he seems to be this is what i don't get and i'm not sure if he's using this as an opportunity to to you know get the publicity that he thinks this issue deserves but he seems to be yeah and that is a very good point but what we are now infringing on though is it child's rights privacy yes i do but the school has been identified yes and it's quite it's in the public domain and has been and will be again there's a question about is that the right case for it because you know there is a there is it is a very sensitive issue there is an individual going through a very very sensitive time in their life and this is bringing a highlight to it that i consider inappropriate yes of course and i understand that but he and his supporters perhaps might say that this highlights the fact that that child you know might need might need counseling or something along those lines you see that's what you the argument of here but i just want to focus on the arguments taking place in the court you see to me he seems to be making the argument that the disciplinary hearing was designed for in other words he talks of why he doesn't want to refer to the this person as they and how he feels that his beliefs are being infringed upon that's not what the high court order is about the high court order is about him not turning up to school or approach in the principle so he's making what some might see very valid arguments if you share his views but they're not relevant to why he's in court they're relevant to why he's why a disciplinary hearing is taking place does that make sense no it makes perfect sense the one point that that it leads to is this that that argument that he's making should have been made in the correct forum the disciplinary process has not concluded it has only started there will be a disciplinary hearing and those arguments that is the place for him to make those arguments in that environment and in that forum and and that's in the first instance secondly if he had a difficulty about being suspended in the first instance with pay he could have challenged that he could have gone to the high court by way of seeking a judicial review seeing the process the initial process by which it was considered was unfair and it was infringing on his constitutional rights he didn't do that either he didn't challenge the order earlier when there was an injunction against him and he was he went to prison for two days so those were two processes he could have done you're making the point that he is he's leapfrogged forward and is trying to make these arguments in the high court the judge was very very clear in Wednesday of this week it was Justice Barrett I believe and stated that this was not about transgenderism at all this case this case was about an injunction that was in place and that this individual was in contempt of court and the only remedy for that was to have him incarcerated until such time as he would purge his contempt now where he goes next we will be watching and waiting to see next week but that's that's where it's at and any attempt to highlight the constitutionality of his beliefs in the court at the moment is not is not relevant actually to the proceedings that are actually before the court it is very relevant in relation to the forum which is the disciplinary process and the hearing that has yet to take place and if he held back and waited on that and made his argument there this may not even be in the public domain at all well I mean of course and that talks some motivation and that may be that may be preferable for all concern yeah because in fairness to him in not in fairness to him but recognizing that in terms of having this debate and people discussing it and where they're at there are people that have been roaming the country with mobile phones and shouting into loud haylers for two or three years and they have not achieved what he has managed to achieve in a week now I'm not saying that's right or wrong but if his motivation was to get publicity he's done more than many that have went before him yes he has done but is that is that correct in the context of this type of of this type of case well people will have to review as you see and given the sensitivity of what's going on in in in another young person's life at the moment that's that's the question and I think that the media should stand back and look at that as well yep I take your point and also too we don't know if say for instance a new student had arrived into school and he wasn't sure of their birth gender what kind of a stand might he take on on on that issue you know if any because I'm sure that situation is the the principle thought that thought that in the in the school of circumstances where he had stated his personal views on transgenderism that that obviously could give rise to serious concerns going forward and of course he's a long time campaigner how that would impinge on on on other students in a similar situation and he's been a long-time campaigner on issues like this and others as well I'm sure most people are aware so from a legal perspective right say for instance he doesn't mind man joy and he refuses to comply with the court order does that run its course could this go on indefinitely what what I would think is that yeah that's a it's very interesting part you're basically saying when he could he sit in mind joy and he said that he would be quite prepared to do so and he mentioned a hundred years at one state if it took if he was asked the same question every day for over a hundred years he'd give the same reply that he wouldn't use he wasn't prepared to use the their pronoun so and and and dealing with your point usually what would happen in a situation is like in this if he continues to refuse he the judge could decide in that instance I'm given you X amount of months in jail for your contempt okay because you refused to purge his contempt so and and he's quite prepared to do that time so then as time as that time expires he's entitled obviously to be to his freedom now if he goes out and goes back into the classroom again and still is in defiance of the injunction which is at the which is what it's all about in the first instance he is then in contempt again for a second time and he can then be brought back to court again and the same process can can be advanced by the by the state they can't ignore it if he's in contempt of a court order and that will continue who knows how that will play out but that is the process so so he could he could be sentenced for the for his initial contempt he could do that time to get back out and if he repeats he could be brought back before the court for a second time or a third time yeah a new reference this and maybe finish on this point because to be honest with you adults adult right but you know young people they're young people and they're different to us and you know maybe they're not conditioned for abuse or people talking about them or whatever we don't know the impact they might have on them you know there is a young person here who is the focus of all of this and who might be exposed to many many adults online going enox a hero and I just wonder it saddens me just that we've gone we can be so hard in our views now that we've gone to some extent where we we no longer think of the human impact on this for other people as well well yeah I mean that's was really what I thought of initially regardless of the injunction and the legal technicalities of it when you pair it when you pair it down there is a vulnerable individual in a making a very very real decisions in their lifetime it's extremely sensitive and it should be treated with great respect and if that is the way they want to go so be it they have their constitution and rights too and perhaps he should observe them and I speak to young people and we're not sort of straying into the bait about it but I speak to young people teenagers you know be it in my family or friends and family and what have you and they've got friends that use different pronouns and it doesn't bother them they don't care all they care about is that their friend is happy you know they don't think of the the religious implications or the social implicate all they care about is that their friend is happy yeah and they are so they are beyond that they're nearly and there are some many probably non-binary as it were some non-gender and so be it everybody has the same rights everybody's the same rights under the constitution and everybody's rights should be protected and will be under the constitution all right Sheamus fascinating as always we'll be back with more in fact your questions to Sheamus after the break Newtrius Wienling Crunch Offer directly supported by the Arrivo Fodder Support Fund is now available at your local homeland store by 10 bags of Newtrius Wienling Crunch ATP get one free the Newtrius Beef ATP Pack enhances animal performance through maximising room and efficiency teas and seas apply contact your local homeland or farm commercial specialist today visit Newtrius.ie for full product details want unbeatable value from Sky? here's the deal get Sky broadband for just 29 euro a month plus SkyQ for only 10 euro a month super fast super reliable broadband 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limit is 100 kilometres per hour clocked at 123 kilometres per hour maneuver completed safety with no danger or inconvenience to any other drivers so it sounds like maybe the car they were overtaking was doing 80 90 I'm not sure if that's a slow driver they stuck the foot down and peaked the key to the question is is it in order for someone to take the law into their own hands and to be beyond the law and to consider that in these circumstances I am justified in carrying out this action it's irrelevant that there's no car common that it's not a dangerous maneuver that there's no one at risk or obvious risk the speed limit on that particular road at that point is as you stated 100 k it's it is that it is there for a reason it's not a motorway so it's 100 k and that's the maximum usually if you're not on a motorway and if it's been assessed as being an appropriate speed that is safe for users so the individual here decides about look at everything's kosher here that car is doing 80 you think maybe or so it's safe for me to pass it and we go to 123 and maybe clock at that if you consider that it is in order in those circumstances for one to make a decision to consider that they're bigger than the law and there's it's no harm to anybody so be it but the law is there for a reason it has to be observed and statistically and this hasn't been a brilliant year I know but statistically road deaths are have come well back so that compared to what they were a decade ago and that's that is that is a fact so they I think now there's no one they're hindrance to everybody you know no one likes them the possibility of getting a ticket you can it can easily happen it can be even accidental what I what I don't agree with is this though if you're talking about trying to criticize it so I would say to the individual my answer that is no that's the speed limit you have to stick within it and if you're above it so be it in in those circumstances but but where I have a criticism of the system is as it were is where you have limits of maybe 60 or thereabouts and you have speed traps nearly late for people which is like shooting fish in a barrel that you could be coming across and you're not aware of it or immediately aware of it in the smaller zones and it can be inadvertently over over and I think there's a bit of there is there is an argument we made that that's somewhat unfair because in a lot of cases you might be able to be even know what the speed limit is usually in the 100s it's very clear because most motors will know if you're not on a motorway it doesn't go beyond a hundred so in dealing with that but there are situations where you can make an argument what you know it people reference it all the time like you know that that that's it's like just you're coming you're coming into a 60 zone but you don't really know it and you're above maybe 65 or something like that and suddenly you're clocked at that and you get a ticket certainly an argument for it but in the in the round and considering the purpose of it it has been effective and the limits have saved lives okay just separate to that and I don't want to get caught up on on special cases but um say for instance if you're going up Largie Brack out of letter Kenny there is a temporary spice speed limit there for the school yes certain hours yes it's partially obscured at the moment by branches for some reason yeah also if you're climbing if you're climbing that hill and there's two lorries in the slow lane the climbing lane you may not see that and you may not either know when school's on or off or when that light should be on or off I mean you would have a strong argument if you can't see that sign to say well I did not know that a temporary speed limit of 60 kilometers was in situ like I don't know why that sign is not put in a place where Moltres has a fair chance of seeing it yeah that's a that's a point could be made to both the authorities local authority and maybe the guard eat Greg I mean it is the point that I'm making that this is the situation where you have inadvertently actually exceeded the limit and technically broken the law remember this though everybody has the right to contest any prosecution and you are innocent of proven guilty yeah so in that situation you have an argument put up so you do not pay the fine the fixed penalty charge and you await and you receive the summons and you go to court and you outline that point to the judge and then it'll be a decision we'll have to be taken on it what the good that could come out of that is it will highlight the difficulty for road users and there could be at least a recommendation that it become a little bit more a little bit more visible but but at the at the point that you are referring to and where the location it's there for a purpose it's near a school etc etc and I can see the reason and the rationale behind that but it should be more visible but I think that we're at Edom for a change on this point in that you can inadvertently actually exceed it and another situation that can arise too if you have an emergency for example you have to get home for something something has happened and this does happen you might have to get to a hospital in an emergency situation and you exceed the limit and you put up that in exceptional circumstances then if you go along and explain that I think you'll get a very reasonable hearing I think there was a recent case of a person who was was transporting COVID tests or something along those lines and had their the punishment reduced Seamus how long can an insurance company hold on your claim or conviction and keep using this to raise the price both house and car well no want to check with a different insurance companies may have different policies on that if they're referencing the no claims bonus step back it's usually over a period of five years so you gradually get back to where you were pre-accident after the five year period that would that's just a rule of thumb where you have your no claims bonus has been suspended and the point that the caller I think is sort of inferring and which is actually a very is a good one and might be more for the insurance on this man is where you can't get a quote or you can't move insurance company if you have if you've been in unfortunately saying an accident this year or last year and your insurance is up for renewal and you want to get quoted elsewhere it's my understanding that it'll prove very difficult if may or not impossible to get a quote when there's a claim outstanding or pending against you not something that never rested easy with me all right if someone puts in a planning appeal to onboard planala now I I'd imagine it might be an objection maybe but they've never actually signed the document they've just typed their name is it legal well it depends on the attitude board can all it would take to that does it invalidated my view would be that it should bear the signature of the objector that would be I think something that would be considered normal if on board planala we're looking at it they may just return it and ask them to have it have it signed having to fix their signature to it and then and then relodge it whether or not if it's if it's time sensitive which a lot of these are and then we could consider a valid a valid appeal that is is a trickier question and one that it would be a matter for board planala to deal with on the face of it though you'd be aware of the objection and the question is would that stop the clock if it's time sensitive and balance I think it should be signed all right now I know some companies if there are drive-offs of fuel that that can be ducked from staffs pay so a caller wants to know if that happens is that legal and a second part to the question can you be arrested for not paying for your fuel I think I can hazard a guess on the second one because it's theft effectively but I'll so firstly can the staff member be charged because of their in inverted commas incompetence for the drive-off and also the legality or sorry the illegality of driving off well I think it would be harsh to charge the member of staff but it happens it was in attendance I think it would be harsh firstly in dealing with the legality or otherwise or whether it's justified I think that this is where the nitty gritty of terms and conditions of their terms of employment are important because if they have signed up to that and that is a condition of their employment that if it's on your watch and this pump is X down you're going to be responsible for it and they're they're prepared to take that on board and sign up to it I think in that situation they're on notice of it and it could it could be enforceable but I don't consider it fair it's very poor relations their CCTV footage in all four courts I believe and the matter could be investigated maybe differently and find out the cause of it it might have been a situation where it was extremely busy and the member of staff might not be to blame at all so there could be a lot of gray areas there and I wouldn't be I would be disinclined to be penalizing the member of staff now going to the next going to the trickier the trickier point that you're asking about if you leave the four court and you haven't paid on the face of it you're right in saying it's theft but let's let's try to argue it and say what for larceny you have to permanently intend to deprive the owner now if you or I are on the four court and we get distracted we're on our phone and we drive off and you haven't paid and it might come to your attention later on and you intend to go back you never intended to deprive the owner permanently of the cost of the petrol so there there is a defense that you would be raising or I would be considering raising if that was the case now so the difficulty on the face of it yes the different there is a difficulty and would be a difficulty in the proving of it and that would depend entirely entirely on the circumstances and maybe how long a period of time it was later etc so I wouldn't think it's just entirely clear cut I think that there are a couple of avenues that that you could go down with a view to with a view to raising a defense and maybe throwing some doubt and as it is a criminal offense it would have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and I think what happens it's a high enough threshold yeah I think what happens in a lot of cases is that Guardia contacted with a number plate the Guardi phoned the vehicle owner and at that point presumed but it's like oh I'm so sorry I forgot I'll get the money to them straight away all they denied or they say it wasn't them and then it sort of starts taking on a different it's not a different context yeah and you see in practical terms that's the matter dealt with then the fuel is paid for the retailer is happy and that's you know it's not clogging up court time as such because that argument would could be raised that well they just inadvertently they were distracted and overlooked it and left the forecourt but they once was brought their attention they immediately remedied the situation and I don't think you would reach the threshold of beyond a doubt in that type of circumstance all right last one's a little bit complicated it's about court ordered access the listener wants to know what can we do about children who don't want to don't want to see their father effectively even though it's court ordered access the children say the father speaks badly about the mother and it makes them uncomfortable and they're upset and that's why they don't want to spend the time that's been mandated with their father what happens in that situation in any family law proceedings in the family law division all decisions are taken always in the best interest of the child not the parents regardless of what relationship they have I think it's acknowledged that the child is best to have access to both parents and that's sensible and should be accommodated where at all possible and where practical yes you're saying this is a complex matter it doesn't have to indicate the age of the children if there's access in place it would be a matter if it's not suiting or not working out then it would be a matter for one of the parties to go back into court and outline that to the judge the judge considering it may even interview the children to see how the matter could be dealt with going forward they're raising they're raising a point about the way and manner in which one is addressing the other parent that would seem to me to be something that could be solved maybe if it was approached maturely by all parties so I would like to think that it should not deprive access that it could maybe and it might take the case take the form of maybe having the children involved to some degree to outline their concerns to the judge and then move the matter on from there with some type of curtailment or recommendations anyway that that might suit all concern but in the best interest of the child they are paramount and that's what the court will always love to and that alone All right Seamus listen as always thank you so very much for your time and we'll carry questions over Seamus gone of McGloin gone and company letter Kenny and Remelton and also now Seamus obviously people can find out more information about your services online yes Greg yeah donigallslisters.ie or just simply gone.ie nice one GUNN all right listen thank you very much indeed Daddy Seamus gone there okie doke let's take a quick break we'll be back with more after these the county's number one talk show The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio The Nine Till Noon Show with letter Kenny Credit Union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost letter Kenny Credit Union 9102127 Get a free pair of 1000 mile socks with every pair of men's and women's running shoes at Michael Murphy Sports and 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towards eight o'clock 15 degrees still a low probability of rain winds around six kilometers and for the end of the show no rain no chance of rain at all at all winds nowhere to be seen and it should be a nice sunny sunset okay so if you're traveling down to Gareth Brooks today you're going to get good weather for those of us traveling down tomorrow the weather's looking pretty good too okay which is the one thing you can't predict when you don't when you run events in September like even big concert organizers you know or sports events organizers really when you head into September they stop planning stuff outdoors in Britain certainly anyway because you just you just don't know what the weather holds Aquila says I just want to say how disgusted I am of all the wicked comments on Facebook and the death of Queen Elizabeth these Irish people should be shamed of themselves yes indeed but they're small in number and I noticed particularly bars and stuff seemed to go out of the way to revel in her passing I think there's a cavalcade through dairy and people have their rights and their views but you know in the case of someone's death um I just don't think it's really appropriate that teacher is in the right it's like forcing somebody to call an apple and orange the censorship of free speech will lead to the censorship of free free fort but what if he wants to call the kids go in and call the kids efforts you know that's his free speech isn't it or if he wants to call them seas you know maybe he just wants to call people of a certain gender that word because he believes that to be the case I'm not saying for a second he does but where and what about the firstly we don't have free speech in this country just to be very clear we have freedom of speech which is not the same but also the person's rights you know we and we in exercising our rights it doesn't you know necessarily give us the right to compromise someone else's right by him referencing someone they and this is just for the sake of conversation it's not a censorship of free thought because he can think whatever he likes he can call them in his head whatever he wants it's just that they prefer to be called a certain thing no more if I go into school and I was called Gregory and I said to the teacher well you know I'd prefer to be called Greg please they might say well your name on your birth search Gregory and we're going to call you Gregory and that's just the way it is and I go well I'd prefer to be called Greg it's what makes me feel more comfortable would someone take a stand on such an issue either it's complex but there you go I mean yet we have to think of the rights of other people as well don't we not just the us like I've got really really strong views on certain things but I can't go necessarily around enforcing them on other people and making them feel bad and maybe you know they've got constitutional rights that I'm encroaching on as well okay let's take a break it's a complex 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even cancelling theatre in britain that's going ahead i don't understand how all that works to be honest with you um but football matches have been cancelled today but they're cracking on with theatre i don't understand the ins and outs but all um i don't really mind either one way or other okay it is the nine o'clock noon show michael and finula will be taking their seats shortly we're going to be talking about all things entertainment but crackiness into the weekend lifting the spirits hopefully somewhat uh but let's get a news update at 11 o'clock and welcome back on to the show mikaela clark thanks great good morning pockingham palace has announced a period of morning for the british royal family will be observed from now until seven days after the queen's funeral people have been paying their respects outside the british embassy in dublin this morning after her passing at balmoral yesterday afternoon details of the funeral haven't yet been given but king charles is expected to discuss the details later after arriving in london from balmoral the bishop of dairy and reform meanwhile says queen elizabeth was exemplary in showing that there is a better way bishop andrew forster says she demonstrated how being a neighbor and a friend led people to live a nobler way of life denigal county cancer jimmy kavna meanwhile has described queen elizabeth's visit to arland in 2011 as significant he says her duty to her people was remarkable the funeral mass is taking place of three young people who died in their home in dublin last sunday 18-year-old lisa kash and her eight-year-old twin siblings chelsea and christy collie tragically lost their lives at their home in ross vd avenue in tala they're being led to rest at bohar nabrina cemetery following the mass at st aidan's church brookfield EU energy ministers are meeting to discuss europe's growing energy crisis the emergency summit in brosles was called to consider ways of reducing electricity use during peak ire's and compensating people struggling with their bills the families of the two teenagers who died after getting into difficult day at log in and county dairy have expressed their appreciation for the kindness love support and prayers received 16-year-olds riven simon and joseph sebastian passed away on monday august the 29th and were laid to rest at a joint funeral last friday denigal county cancer has hit i does many health care workers still await their 1000 euro pandemic bonus it's nice seven months on from the government denying the payment as recognition for frontline workers during the pandemic it's emerged also that a tender process has commenced for a third party contractor to assist with the payment process for private health care employees and met iron is warning of the potential for spot flooding in the coming days a stala shell a rainfall warning has been issued for the entire country it will come into your force at 2 a.m on sunday and remain in place until 12 12 a.m monday those 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9 1 25 000 michael good morning good morning gregg how are you getting on i'm good can i be heard last week we had loads of fun we had loads of fun yes but i had to admit during the week because i had the same problem there's a little pgm button on the desk that i hadn't pressed yeah i know all about them so when i pfeld it i know phase listen or something i could hear you but when i put the fader up i couldn't but i hadn't pressed the button so it was entirely entirely my fault totally understood every word of that yeah okay consciously you were just erasing yeah you were trying to black me out you're trying to do it on us see how i brought it back tomorrow i am cancelling you i don't like your views right 08 660 25 000 get involved in the conversation or leave your messages on social media um lots of you watching across our youtube facebook channels and directly on our website highland radio dot com for nula you know i've noticed there's a lot of entertainment items popping up on different radio stations now i know in fairness we've started trying i feel this this could be my retirement it's gonna be my retirement plan that i will just go to all 38 radio stations across the country we're gonna franchise that thank you and give my views what happens this is and i am conscious of this but we have to try and appeal to everyone is there's quite a lot of regular listeners that would listen for the first two hours and i go you know i might do the washing up there's lots of other people there's lots of other people that go actually you know what i've probably listened to that so as i say it's just trying to it's trying to that's a play we've said that people turn off when they hear my voice no it's not that's just saying we are all different and we all like different things i'll only cry during the ad break um for nula you have the queen's death here and i suppose it has to be the britain's queen's death i suppose has to be included in that you know it was really quite remarkable um because it was clear and i had been told and i think everyone knew anyway that uh queen lisbeth has passed away early afternoon and that the announcement will be made about six o'clock once the the family had arrived as it turned out the announcement was going about six twenty four and it did that thing and i i seem to have some recollection of something my childhood i can't remember what the story was where everything goes black across all the terrestrial tunnels and then you know we break into programming now with this special announcement in terms of a tv spectacle and not in any way to hopefully be unsympathetic very very rare oh it was it was it definitely was one of those kind of uh moon landingy type of things that people would be sort of saying you're watching anything because i was actually checking the channels just to see um what what they were doing and checking like some of the american news channels and different things like that because i was like god i wonder how far has this gotten cnn had literally dug up whatever two english people they could find in the building because it was hilarious they'd very little to say and along with um oh i can't think it was the white heart guy what's the journalist no no no no no you see it um oh he does he does the new years and he does all that kind of stuff he comes from a very posh family anderson cooper that's it yeah he was they pulled him out and they had two or three people there and all this kind of stuff and they did the whole megan mackerel and all that crack and they just was talking to themselves like it was that's hilarious what i thought about it was one obviously anybody who's listened knows when um when philip died i went on a documentary binge yeah because his life was so interesting uh the queen's a little bit less so but still it's an amazing thing i think even if you don't uh consider yourself a supporter of hers or a royalist it like her lifetime spanned an awful lot of human development when you think about it like 96 97 years like enough from the day that she was born to the day that she died so much has happened in the world and so much that she was involved in in little ways that you might not have realized you know uh i was listening to the thing last night now and she had sent when they were sending messages on some of the first spaceships that went up uh uh went out into outer space she had notes written that was put into them at the time i also didn't help if you had her kind of cash you she didn't need too much help but and then she was i didn't realize as well for people that like sport she was the one that presented the famous 66 english world cup team with the cup at the time that she was so there's lots of things that happened along the way the uh so i do find the documentaries really interesting no end of it and of course um all the networks had they have their packages ready like they have the full swiss of it that's what i wanted to talk about they even enhanced they've even pro you know like the her coronation or different other things they've even all gone to the bother of already having had all that video enhanced oh did you restore it oh that's exactly and that's the the programs were already made and i think nothing was on the bbc that's what i couldn't understand well last night if anybody was watching the bbc from as you say about six twenty past six the the two channels went to the bbc news so bbc one bbc two all their programming was just gone and i kept flicking back and forth even though i was watching other stuff myself that i recorded and it was the exact same thing and all they did was they did from the news studio they had the presenter there and the different people coming in and out and they were talking about it they've got 11 days to fill now i know but he got the poor man used every word and every adjective he could think of i mean that guy needs to go he needs to six months holiday after i haven't gotten to channel four having to go into that you know and uh but but if channel four went straight into but can i tell you why i was going to say that you see because channel four do not have the newsroom resources i know but you had to have extra packaging but john snow as you say what like you know very famous presenter everybody's kind of knows his voice when you hear it he does their news and that kind of thing for the channel four he had a two hour documentary ready to go in which he totally spoke about her in the past tense yeah so like they had sat down and went yeah we've got to put every time he spoke about her is how she had been what her legacy would be what her thoughts were but they have them pre-prepared already yeah that's what i mean i couldn't believe the bbc didn't have a lot of stuff pre-prepared all his stuff would be prepared it sounds an awful thing to say no but it's practically it is yeah but i couldn't believe i couldn't believe that the bbc had i think they chose not to show it yet no i think they went full on rolling news because they were still there like i mean i'm fairness this poor guy like this was at 20 past six that he started the last time i flicked over was about 10 o'clock and the poor man was still there i was like uh pesh did anybody get him a cup of tea it was insane i think they panicked me because they put the black banner up too early that was in mid-afternoon a couple of their journalists tweeted the announcement around that they've been called to them and um obviously then people were turning up in black suits and one person changed his tie you know they were kind of like they knew what they knew they couldn't say anything but so you're just going to be binging on documentaries well it's 10 days now until the funeral um so yeah i'd be binging on quite a bit of documentaries and stuff and the funeral is going to be the first state funeral since Winston Churchill in the 60s which obviously i was not born then so and even his was apparently in state funeral but muted so i uh i love a good shindig so i'm just gonna i really want to see what happens with the coronation well the coronation won't be for a year really yes it takes so it well now they haven't set the date for it but hers took a year and apparently you go into a period of mourning so it may not be until early in the new year you know might be a little bit early do you understand them cancelling football matches and all that kind of stuff well i suppose the thing about it is is that it you know it's not something that we've probably had here well i don't have any memory of it but i'm sure if we lost some or when the likes of just it pops into your head but you think somebody like devalera or something like that when he passed away i mean when you think about it that's what you have to kind of think about like this is an iconic i think the thing about the queen is is uh like her or not like her whether you feel that you know it's a waste of money even for British people if they feel it's a waste of money or they are fur it's still like it's still something that has had a major impact on their lives to the point like that now they have to sit down they're gonna have to change all the money all their passports which are all the money and have to be changed now into his face all their passports have to be changed what about the knighthood she gave people are they gone no no they go they the honors go through but all the the practical time that everybody's passports will have to change everybody now you don't it'll be when you change your passport you'll suddenly get it with with charles it because it's her signature isn't it i think that's on it the money is all her that'll all change over over the next year or two whatever i don't know how long it takes them but that'll all change over now to charles the you know we found for newness special i actually really think we should dance but it's just it's really interesting like to me i'm just like it's as it as just a whole it is it's it's something in that uh it'll never happen again like it's happening because i'll never be someone that has that longevity yeah there's very few people alive now in britain that will ever have a queen again because of the way yeah it passes down the yeah the lineage and stuff which in itself is a bit old-fashioned perhaps yeah so you know i can understand it's incredibly huge and and um historic but i just wonder this is the thing and and and i say maybe it's not the time to ask the question but i just wonder is the tv coverage have they got the mood of the nation right does that make sense yes it does yeah i agree with you yeah because again most of my news intake last night it was late last evening was on twitter i didn't go near the tv i'd seen in the afternoon then i was away then i was back in the house and yeah the mood it's it's i think yeah there's a there's a disconnect between maybe what ordinary people are thinking i think there is yeah just again i didn't spend a lot of time but going down through through the chair please well all i say i like you gotta start showing your authority i don't disagree that a lot that that people are split on the idea of the royal family that's a hundred percent like the numbers weren't massive outside buckingham palace this this is what i'm saying like when they went to when she had her um uh whatever was golden jubilee or whatever the jubilee thing there was more people in that's whatever that square is called that they all hang out and um then there was an v-e day like that is like and no matter what anybody says what does it doesn't matter whether it's good or bad it just senses the you know what i mean that's up to people there's still popularity there like that's a massive concert wasn't there but it was all throughout the whole thing right i think it was her last one and like this one i don't think so you see all the kids out you see everybody well the queen is different to the others i think what the thing that's going to happen with this now is if the if the will the royal family last isn't is the question now in her lifetime it was never going to go you see i think a lot of people a lot of people have been holding back i think there's a lot of countries in the commonwealth that want to move on but they had had a very strong fondness for her for her sense of honor judy but i think maybe that pomp and ceremony i think that'll be becoming a little bit different i also feel that maybe some people might have been keeping the powder dry on say for instance other controversies and what have you surrounding the family and i just yeah that'll yeah that'll change that's i mean i think out of construction of the monarchy yeah in its current form really quite quickly a hundred percent she had i could see it happen i wouldn't i wouldn't have thought that quickly but yeah i can see it happen because you have a lot of respect with throughout the play so i mean all the world leaders that came out just introduced the canadian leader look at him so he was probably crying i was like he's known her since he was a child apparently so like apparently she was very well thought of and i mean even when she came here to ireland in fairness when she came to ireland and she was kind of down in cork and up in guinnesses it was amazing to me the amount of people that were going ah bless her she's very good isn't she she's great like and she just had that kind of a give off that i think to the majority of ireish people a lot of people listening to this program um took a taking big interest in the royal family they're not royalists but particularly the princess deanna situation they they they do like it you know what happens this is sometimes those who are very very very against it you hear that a lot and you think that's representative i think the majority of people i don't get it myself because i don't like class systems i don't like monarchy i don't like any of that so yeah and i don't like light lower middle and you don't go to hairdresser and flick through hello i don't that's just about i do they say to me what are you doing here i totally flick through i've been banned because you're just there to flick through hello i just turned up to read hello you just get the free magazine and leave but i think a lot of people here i know with interest um i think so i just i think it is it's going to be one of those things that a lot of people will have on i have a bargain order from a number of hairdressers stealing their hello it's just one of those things i think we don't look at it i don't look at them as being the rulers or anything like that i know the people see that so that's not the way i just kind of picture them as more than you do our own president do you know i also recognize that she's my commander-in-chief and a lot of things have happened on this island and some people feeling very very personally a hundred percent absolutely i respect that uh and i understand that but i think for the majority of people and i think particularly further south you go um they will watch on at least with interest uh if not care yeah and yeah and i just think she as you say is one of those story absolutely right yeah yeah that's what i mean it's going to be one of those things is no more it's very quickly as was proven on the bbc they exhausted how kind of long you can talk about it oh they had a huge conversation about her dress her hats and her shoes and her hand oh i missed her dresses and i was like seriously you did not plan this speaking of hats apparently uh the star uh the the the the the personal the thing that impressed most of all in blackbird oh i knew there was a segue were hats oh the hats were amazing so we're going to talk about that hats and we might dip back into that conversation of course as the morning wears on after this break the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages 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michael and finula right okay um oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand whatsapps and text to that number oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand before we go back to our guests we are going to be joined in fact we are joined now by ken sweeney show biz editor with the irish son he was at garth brooks press conference yesterday joins us now good morning ken good morning to you how are you i'm all right have you bounced back from the spectacular that is a press conference featuring garth brooks well you know even before garth turned up he gave us all three t-shirts there was an announcement made that there were three t-shirts for all the media and that got a cheer the guy hadn't even turned up at that stage and he's already kind of won us over so listen guy comes into the room you know garth you know anyone else would have a load of flunkies press people people saying you know all over and garth none of that comes into the room straight over it's like i mean it was like a one-man show and we got we got a one-man show for an hour and i'm glad i'm talking to someone on highland radio because there was a lot of people from Ulster there and there's a lot of tickets going north you know in the northern part of the country you know in dunny gall and in the north and he's got a huge um you know he's got a huge audience up there and a lot of the people who turned up were asking him they had different stories one reporter turned up her parents had met at a garth gig in 1997 and she'd been uh you know she'd been um she was born the following march what can i say you know do your maths uh they had a good night let's put it like that and he has he there's something infectious engaging about him you know you know yourself uh ken he did the the the ring arounds of the stations um earlier this year i think and he's very personable he makes sure he knows your name he speaks to you like you've known him for ages uh you know in that regard he is a class act and it's not unlike our own daniel o'donnell and other really really successful artists i think the audience have to make a a connection and any young artists that are looking to break through i think they can look at people like garth and daniel and others and say you know what maybe that's just the the little jenice aqua that gets you over the line yeah i'm glad you said daniel o'donnell because i've had a few dealings with daniel over the years and he's exactly the same you know i dealt with him when he was doing strictly daniel o'donnell and i really liked him any free t-shirts no free t-shirt from daniel mcella but my god they popped into clary's the famous department store in dublin before closed down a few years ago and like the place just went bananas for them they love them but yes daniel and garth the same they both have that personable thing where they really know how to work the room and i really liked you know the previous press conference garth had done a reporter which would you know ask a question and say that they'd been to his concert you know 10 10 15 years before with their parents and garth would inquire first thing he'd say is is your mom stroke dad still with us are they coming i mean just absolutely brilliant and he's doing lots of that yesterday and i mean something you know being from a popular paper i'm the showbiz editor with the son i wanted to ask him about 2014 and you know how he felt about it did he was did he retain any bitterness and uh it was something that i used to word adversaries because of course it did get to that there was the head of dublin city council who wouldn't give him the you know the permission for five gigs and then he wouldn't do you know garth didn't want to leave anyone out he pulled the gigs and he came back later on at the press conference and garth leaned in he kind of rattled my notebook and he said you said earlier about adversaries well he just wanted to say he kind of added to the point so first of all remembered who'd asked the question brilliant stuff also i think it's just a huge thing garth and arland i think too another thing ken you know people tried to make a bit of a hoohar about him not having an opening act that was batted away by our listeners anyway they're saying look that doesn't matter stop being negative you know the the there's a positivity coming with this guy with these concerts and even if we try and look for a little bit of negativity it doesn't seem to be there and that's welcome particularly in this day and age especially it's one in eleven or twelve of us are going along to see him so i feel tomorrow i'm going tomorrow night i feel like i'm going to be getting into a hotel bed that hasn't been made you know someone else has already been in it so i'm going to try and avoid any pictures or anything i want to be to be fresh for me tomorrow uh but people going tonight gates open at five uh it's all very well organized in terms of where you go in and all that type of stuff the show starts at seven thirty and of course yeah get in on time you don't want to miss the start of this it's going to be big it's said they've said no early queuing at this gates open at five o'clock and i just think it's like you remember the garth brooks has gone around america he's playing stadiums it's so well organized and so well well-attuned everyone's going to have a good time i was just laughing there because you know erinrod erin have put on a lot of trains at midnight you know that thing the song about took the train at midnight wherever that is that's some american power band from the 80s or 90s i mean literally that's what it means erinrod erin have put on midnight trains going to cork and all sorts of places going to be a lot of fun on the streets but he was quite um ken did you have to make a trend did you have to mention trains to people in donning all ken because aeroplanes buses whatever no one's got on a midnight train to nowhere i've got a listen i've got a book here about trains and i know what they did what's the book between the last the last train the train leaving departed or whatever and i know i know what was done to train and i'm a sweeney so listen i never turned down a call from dunny gull but i think what was done to trains and also it was more to do with partition and stuff like that it's one of my pet subjects but what i will say is um you know i think there'll be radio stations in doble and i think one of them is actually playing garth hits um after the show you know they're playing them as people go home on the road so kind of take the thing in you know he was saying which struck me he said he wants to make it a great show for the punters in the in the arena but he also wants to make it a great show for the people outside crow park and there's a lot of um bridge building going on you know at the earlier conference during the week Peter McCann at the head of the stadium director was saying that he tanked dubbing city council you know on keegan the head you know and for making this thing possible so i mean as a reporter i'm kind of scratching my head because all the things that they said couldn't happen in 2014 five concerts what has happened this year and yet everyone's kind of cool with it so there's some sort of miracle talks that positivity no matter what people trying to track this going on so so he starts at seven thirty the show's about four hours i think it's being videoed over the course of the five nights for a special the stage has been set up particularly for crook park this there is definitely something to this for him at the end of something a closure it's his last stadium gigs i think there's a significance here that we know he's going to be putting in way more than a hundred percent on this yeah absolutely you know he's talking about the fact that uh arland has always had a special relationship he's had a special relationship with arland the records took off here i revealed in the arches sunday's week well you know reminded people ian demsey gave away a cow a live cow in the early 90s when he was launching garth i think there was a problem i'm sure you guys were doing it country music it was a problem getting it on pop radio in arland so he had a bit of a struggle i think garth's management and his record company in arland they kind of got involved with the gaa you know i there's a great documentary on virgin media next week called they're coming home i'm in it talking about garth and the record company found they were selling a lot of a lot of tapes a lot of cassettes of garth brooks in arland and they realized that it was guys in tractors who were it was called the tractor factor they were buying garth cassettes on cassette it was called the tractor factor so he ties into this uh gaa thing you know i mean i i write a lot about dancing with the stars for you know for a living i i'm there every week and garth connects up to the same middle arland type thing and is there's something else there's something extra there's what what came through the door yesterday was a much slimmer man straight away but also just a homely incredibly good manners incredibly warm you know and you're getting that and there's a connection to the fans i read an interview of billy connelly a few years ago and he said you know what what's happened is i found my fans and my found my fans found me and he's been playing billy connelly's been on the road ever since and it's been like that for garth brilliant ken listen i could chat to your day thanks for your time you're going which night are all nights or no nights i'm going tonight yeah we're putting on my wax jacket i hope garth says even if there's no rain there's no i've scrutinized the weather forecast there's no rain for the concert that's good news well listen that i appreciate that from you i would say to you you could be a look at your man the me go the second night because garth admitted yesterday with jaws are dropping that the first night could be rogui that he didn't know how it would go but he thought by the second or the third night the thing would be better so so you know you might i'll get him in the swing of things yeah it might be in the swing of the sound the way it goes i mean it might just be more relaxed but there's an awful lot you know um you know there's an awful lot depending on tonight these five gigs and you know the reason that these gigs are happening is it's going to bring a huge amount of money into the capital from lots of great people from dunny girl coming down by by by steam train or by boat or by cars by you know they'll be hitching they'll be going all sorts of ways everyone will be some of them will probably ride in our name uh in demses cow who's to say uh thanks ken all right take care bye bye good to have you on the show i really appreciate it okay finula you're going tomorrow night as well yes absolutely what started off as a huge crowd is now down to myself and Ursula see this is why this is why people don't understand why there's so many tickets uh floating around there's four hundred and ten thousand tickets about five percent are going to be people that you booked tickets for the now i've let you down uh you know when five percent of four hundred thousands huge so i know luke combs is coming in september and i'm like no not buying anybody yourself i think one for me that's it uh so it's you and Ursula well sure you have a good time oh god it's going to be great i saw him the last time he came and uh it was absolutely fantastic and i'm hoping that he doesn't have the support because uh he's going to i'm hoping his missus is going to be with them oh he she is here she is here because this is their oh no but i meant on stage oh no he's already kind of dropped that um i love to he's conscious that some fans will go to all five concerts and that he's going to try and mix it up a bit over the five nights that concerns me a little bit i just hope that you know people who go hear the songs that they've went for you know we can all go for a wee when you know here's the song off my new album you can just see the aisles fill up everybody runs i don't look at i'm just really i really enjoyed his last concert and uh when he was there you remember he used to be that was the time when he was young he used to swing out no no i don't go in for any of that kind of crap i don't think but i don't see his music as necessarily just being country anyway it's dress it's like i think it's one of those things that just goes across no like luco you know like lucombe's is the new kind of garth brooks now you know what i mean i'm gonna i'm going to wear a check shirt oh awesome i hope to bump into you we got you i'm sure you will uh because our land is an incredibly small space uh and katie's down tomorrow night as well i believe yes as well i think she's going as well yeah okay half a done the goal is going um we got you watching documentaries i 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every expectation i had in fact i would say to you greg have you got plans for the weekend cancel those plans and go to the cinema twice this is a really bad really inept wonderfully entertaining two hours not even two hours it's quite it's it's it's short yeah um and it delivers everything you would want um the lack of story the lack of story why am i going to watch it because it's entertaining to see something that's bad anyone who's a fan i've often mentioned this mystery science theater 3000 there's huge entertainment value from bad films when myself if anyone saw this last week we were chatting to two ladies immediately afterwards for about five ten minutes and they obviously they didn't like the movie but they enjoyed it they were able to chat about it we can chat about this film you can chat about the scene where he's walking through the hotel and the whole thing takes place in a hotel it's like the least globetrotting spy movie ever it's in his house though isn't it's it's yeah it's so it's in his house flashbacks are to his house and stuff like that the setup right so such as there is such as there is setup in this but as he walks through the hotel and members of staff approach him he takes off one hat and they immediately hand him the next hat that's going from the morning hat the afternoon hat and he puts it on in a suave sophisticated way and then walks i've been trying to get my two house mids to get on board because i have like six or seven baseball caps and i reckon that when i come down the stairs in the morning or mid morning they should be meeting me with a change over hat but it just they can't this is literally a skit waiting to be recorded it is totally so what is this film this is a film about a guy who's one of those reluctant heroes you know how john wick or nobody the hero has a past and he doesn't want to get sucked into the world of whatever he's a free man i'm i he's out this is trying to be like that one last job he did that one last job but this hero is so disinterested basically he runs a hotel bad guys show up they've got a chip and the chip has stuff on it that's going to kill millions of people and his entourage are repeatedly saying to him victor we got to do something about this and he always says eh be all right he does doesn't he he's like nah let them do their thing he does that for like he never got accent he doesn't care which is his accent thing i know and then one of his onto now his entourage are all meant to be ex espionage people right from years ago from like 10 plus years ago and they're meant to be the best of the best but immediately one of them goes into a room gets caught and gets killed like you're like they're the worst and the other thing i loved about this film is there's a woman and she's not just a woman she's the woman from his past and is she lit in certain ways now well i don't know about that but she's certainly meant to be like from those days those espionage days and she was also one of the best she was one of the best back in the day now she's in her late 20s at most maybe 30 32 she doesn't need to be lit back in the day she was a 12 year old she was in school there's no young in the world of espionage when apparently she was the best of the best if you're talking about the fact that the actress is too young for the part come on yeah there must be worse oh yeah i mean that happens in loads of things like anyone who saw ghost rider will remember that nicolas cage and eve amendez were meant to be in school together and there's like 20 because the flashbacks they're too high he was he was the principal and she was a baby you know they were in high school together and then when you see them grown up they're like wait a second he's 24 years older than her but it's a bit like that but yeah this is a movie that has no set up no story no structure the actresses i would say now we discreetly but i think the actresses are all very beautiful women who can't act none of them can act the lead actress has some credits starting off as a Michael flatly act better than you'd think better than you think but he won't be when he probably won't win an oscar for that right okay so the two women uh that used to chatting to did they enjoy it they enjoyed chatting about it afterwards i think and i know them so no no they said they were like some ego enjoy it but you're not necessarily enjoying it for the movie like you're enjoying it because it has every single thing in it that you expect a Michael flatly movie to be in it i mean in fairness i did leave it with a mild eye strain from rolling my eyes and saying jesus wept so many times there were so many times that i looked that's why you enjoyed it i loved more than once do you remember i kept looking at you in the day i was like all i can see is the white of her eyes because the pupils were in the back of her head i was like the women are i mean now i take all the women are dancers you know the way you can see when they sit yes the way they stand it's kind of their toes go out a little bit they've definitely they're all like that's where he met these people was in some kind of you know through the dancing rather than through the acting yes terrible and in fairness to them there is they have no nothing in the script to do no only sit there and and be attractive and you know there's a point where they take their clothes off at different points yeah the lads are all so remember i said to you i remember the last year the thing like you have him and Patrick Berg and all these guys who are of an age and they're surrounded by these women and i was like this is a group of guys hanging out with their granddaughters and it's a really family moment there it's like i don't think that's the angle they're going for is the card game full of tense tension and it's it's full of tension if you've ever seen like a frank sinatra movie you know the way like he he grew up watching those films you see i have a problem here because i watched him on the late late show and besides the arabic era and mial Irish mother and all this kind of stuff she says to the right like audience says um you you know i'll tell you about the irish mother and then he went actually maybe a lot of views have the irish mother and it was all very but that being said there was actually quite a strong message in what he had to say in the late late show right because he was saying and he was saying correctly that people always tell you you can't do what you want to do and he wanted to make this film and he there's no bones about it he doesn't care if people like it or not fair enough he wanted to make this film and he made the film and people told him river dance would never work and people told him laws of the dance would never work and he related this to children don't be afraid of criticism so i'm not afraid of criticism and if you and then he took a flute out i don't know but anyway that's not a euphemism that joke was already done on on the late late show and i don't watch the late late show ever but i tuned in to see you know because it was for the same reasons you guys went to the cinema but i came away from that and i said that can make their dreams come true but yes but he worked very hard he did he came from a background where his parents went over worked in construction he worked in construction but he had a dream as a young person and he made that dream a reality okay oh look you have to admire me in a sense of like we were saying so that's why i like the fact that your review is kind of it was terrible but we enjoyed yeah but that's i would say yes i but i would say there's an element of ego i don't take away from any of that but i think i think i wish if he had done all that he did and made this film but you've gone in a writer you cannot you cannot you cannot you cannot decide you want to make a film finance the film star in the film produce the film cast the film and then have a sense of modesty no no no no no i'm not good yeah yeah yeah look at it it's it's but it's definitely worth it's definitely worth going to see it yeah i definitely think people should go and see it i mean it we're just looking at it cost about three and a half million to make which is a very small budget yeah it doesn't seem to they've made uh almost two million now already does he dance and do no why would someone mislead me like that no because i think when i was after we went we were looking down through some of the reviews because some of them are hilarious so smartly written you're just like all this guys but do you not get the impression that some of those reviews were written before the oh hundred percent no what there was you know elements of it two turns actually the only ones that you could after as i said we were sitting in the car afterwards because couldn't stop talking about we talked about and reading the windows steamed up and they were and they're reading this reading through the different reviews and see you know and the way people phrase things that we had seen in it which is very you know who's seen the movie by the referee if they reference the hat change over if they reference the scene where the young beautiful dancer offers herself to him in the room and then in a very cool way he just kind of puts a dressing gown on her and sends her on her way and you're like you're like oh he's so cool so how do you mark this out of 10 one but i love it loving it one oh yeah i know you'd have to the the thing about it is that like it's it's just everything in her five or six out of ten fun zone here i think but that's exactly where it were at least could you understand the plot of that was better than even for me that was not difficult but what it was amazing about it was like you're just the whole way through it's never you know what i mean like halfway through he's out on like this you know tropical island and suddenly you know surprise surprise the irish priest shows up you're like just it it hits every single thing you needed to hit and then it's set up for the sequel and apparently he's in pre-production for the sequel and you're just like going i mean i do i admire his neck shall we say i mean we laugh like you laugh oh yeah there is there's definitely not necessarily where they thought you were going no and he is actually not that bad as we were saying afterwards if he showed up as a person that was running a bar in a james bond movie i had two scenes you would totally believe it'd be okay with it like he's actually not that bad there's a couple of guys in it who have been acting for a long time which one he spent on acting classes well he's stay right where you are don't go anywhere i want to say uh you ponder your mark out of 10 i want to say good morning to victoria boyd who's farm family rep with the donagall ifa hiya victoria i don't suppose you've seen michael flatley's blackbird yet have you no unfortunately not right is it on the list it is on the list i would think right let's talk and walk um this is an event taking place on sunday the 11th of september to three p.m it's at ards forest park which is easily accessible uh if you go through creasel on the road to don fanahe all the signposts are there all the entrances are there and i'm sure it'll be signposted and what a place to have a walk uh talk to me about uh i presume it's open to everyone but a particular focus on farm families victoria yes it is open to everyone greg um because although the um irish farmers association are one of the main um stakeholders in this it's also um culture mental health ireland um sea change d l d c are also involved so it really is open for everyone um and like you said we're meeting in ards um forest park um we're meeting at the car park at three p.m and um thanks to bill vaughn in the mental health island he's been just fantastic he has organized nature walks um which will explore biodiversity in the area um and the main aim of the walk is to help people understand the habitats around them um and to enhance any future walks that they might have in nature um so it's also you know it's a time where um members in farming communities but also in our wider donningall community can come together and just have you know a bit of um social interaction um and make the most of this good weather that we're ha you know that yeah and maybe to make a bit of time for themselves to do something like that because you know when you sort of live and work in the same space which a lot of farm families do it maybe can be hard to manage your time even if this was just an opportunity to put down the tools for a couple of hours and go out and enjoy um the the the great outdoors in a different context it'd be worth it for that reason alone i'm sure definitely and um like i said you know there's a social element in a way because farming particularly over the last few years has become very lonely um you know covid has affected um the farming industry you know the farming industry and agriculture industry um in so many ways but one of the main things is the um exclusion from you know some bit of social activity and um i don't know what it's like in everyone else's house but um in our farmhouse sunday is a family day um and we get a bit more time with the daddy on on sunday so it's great you know to um bring the kids as well um you know they hopefully will have great weather and there'll be some refreshments and it's a completely free event so you know young and old are really encouraged to um attend if they can load up the car with the family of all generations because there's walks for all different types of people uh and i think it's going to be a lovely um a lovely calming because it's a beautiful setting anywhere and i think it's going to be a lovely event for everyone so it's an easy family friendly walk suitable for all ages including buggies refreshments will be served after the walk gather at the car 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in yes you know black bird this is a commercial success i i think it's all track rates of commercial success but i would say so i mean it's running well yeah well it it looks to be making so far it's made 1.8 million i don't know if that's enough that's what i could just that we can that's only the first week out it'll make it's marlin as well presumably yeah that's just really kind of google what it made but look the thing what is is that it's you're go with the crowd of friends and you go and see it early and then have your night out and there's your whole conversation done because it is a conversation go on a first date you'll definitely end up having something to talk about afterwards is there an excuse to bring your granny bring your granny it's got the granny okay it's got everything in it there's nothing to appreciate him pulling the road back on the absolutely yes there's a there's nothing in it it comes up to the line but it doesn't pass the line it's quite old-fashioned i suppose in a sense yeah it is it's awesome yeah dealing sort of a thing you know what i mean it hasn't been a bit of violence in it yeah nothing oh for god's sake look there's one fight scene in the whole film does he win he didn't just win it was win in capital letters greg win in capital letters it's it's one of those ones that if you don't see it you're kind of going to be sorry you'll see it and i'm not sure whether you'd watch it if it comes when it comes on the tv you know that you'll be too distracted when it's on the tv and when you're in a cup of tea and you'll sort of flick the channels you know the whereas when you're in a cinema you're going to be stuck there sitting there watching it and that's when you're going to get a kick out of it yeah get a kick out of it yeah as i said definitely get your eye and there's like five moments where you will turn to the person beside you and be like jesus am i seeing what i'm seeing okay i have to go i'm going to see gareth brooks bye bye thanks michael see you next week finula enjoy gareth i absolutely hopefully might bump into you there but yeah i'm looking forward to it exactly john bressons coming up around the northwest live from the atu and letter kenny stay tuned for that