 was protruding and he was experiencing significant blood loss. They managed to stem the bleeding and transfer him to hospital. The medical team said had life-saving treatment not been administered, the 19-year-old would not have survived. 2,000 people are living in large mental health institutions despite pledges in the 1980s to close congregated settings. The Inspector of Mental Health Services finds some residents are sharing rooms, toilets and dining facilities. The Mental Health Commission is warning the HSE it will take action and deregister public mental health centres if compliance with regulations is not improved. Commission Chief Executive John Farley says there needs to be a move away from institutionalising mental health patients. For example 2,000 people enjoying mental health difficulties are still in congregated settings, are semi-congregated settings in the community. We've 900 inpatients in 28 long-stay units. What the Inspector is saying is we need to continue to progress the policy, the state policy is to get those people out of these units and into smaller homes in the community. There's calls for the motorised transport grant to be reinstated. The scheme which provided funding for people with disabilities who needed to buy a car or adopt an existing one was scrapped 10 years ago with plans for a review to be carried out. However that has yet to come to fruition. Councillor Martin McDermott says there is a serious need for the grants to be made available to people in Donegal due to the lack of infrastructure in the county. We don't have the infrastructure, we don't have the transport that sounds like golly or Dublin or cork or that type of them, type of various limerick. We'd have infrastructure, we'd have transport that allows these people to get out and about and allows people with disabilities to get out and about and we don't have that because everywhere you go and run Donegal here and Donegal you have to get transport to get there so it would be vitally important for them, vitally important for their families as well because it allows them to go to places. Surveying works for the National Broadband Plan are continuing in Donegal. Surveying works in the current Donegal area have now been completed with over 2900 premises set to benefit from high-speed connectivity. 128 million euros to be invested in Donegal under the National Broadband Plan. In the county there are approximately 33,000 premises in the intervention area which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses and schools. Finally from where they're staying dry across most areas today with spells of sunshine highest, temperature of 18 to 22 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. You're at the counter in your local shop, birthday card in one hand, a pack of those teeny tiny candles in the other. Now for a present, only to look up and see the display of scratch cards. Talk about the best present ever if they win big. Birthday or no birthday, with millions in cash prizes to be won instantly, next time you're in store, ask for any all cash scratch cards. The National Lottery, it could be them. Gift responsibly. 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, very good morning to you, just approaching four minutes past nine on this Friday the 9th of June 2023. You're very welcome along to another 9 till noon show and it's a busy one as always, lots to squeeze in. But we're going to kick off the first hour with our Friday panel, I'll introduce them to you in just a moment, but just to invite you to get involved in the conversation as well and to have your say. The WhatsApp and text line is now open, it's 0860 25000, truth be told it never closes. You can also give us a call on 07491 at 25000, 07491 25000 and we welcome your emails via comments at highlandradio.com. And if you want to interact with us on social media, of course you can watch the program on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland, across our Facebook pages, that is Highland Hub, Highland News and Sport. We're on Twitter as well. And also watch live on our website. Okay, let's say good morning to Professor Pat O'Connor, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy Emeritus at University of Limerick. Good to have you with us again. Good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. Great to have you on board as always and Senator Lisa Chambers, Leader of the Shannon and Spokesperson on European and Foreign Affairs with Fina for Lisa. Great to see you again. Good morning to you. Morning, Greg. And we have a third guest who'll be joining us shortly. So we'll introduce them just as soon as we get them connected. A quick one here. Me, who Martin's insisted he'll be leading Fina Fall into the next general election. The thornster was responding to suggestions. He may seek to become the state's next EU commissioner when the position becomes vacant in mid 2024. Speculation around Mr Martin's future is also seen him linked to a potential tilt at the presidency of Ireland, but he reaffirmed his pledge to lead Fina Fall into the next general election as he faced media questions on a visit to Belfast on Wednesday. I've been asked about different positions and so on. I'm leading the party into the next general election. Good news, Lisa. Yeah, good on him. He's fairly put that to bed. There's a lot of speculation about the commissioner role for next year. And as he said, a tilt to the presidency, but you know, the best person to answer that question is the man himself and he was asked directly and he has said he's leading us into the next election. So until, you know, he says otherwise, that's the position. And I'm very happy with that. I think he's an asset to the party. And I think, you know, in his time as Taoiseach during the pandemic, I think a lot of people said he did a good job, even even non Fina Fall people. And I think he's been doing a good role as thornster as well. So I'm happy to hear that. And it's up to himself when he wants to move forward. And do you think that would be the general sense within the party? I mean, you're always going to get clusters of counselors or some, you know, renegade back benchers that might have a different view. But do you think that's the sort of the consensus within Fina Fall? I do. I think the consensus within Fina Fall, excuse me, the consensus in the party would be that really it's a matter for himself when he wants to step aside and wants to move on to something else. And obviously, there's a lot of chatter in the party about those rumours about the commissioner role for next year and the presidency, but the view would be broadly not everybody, but the vast majority would be that he's done a good job. And people are quite happy with them at the helm as leader. You'd forgive him, though, for moving on if he wished to, wouldn't you? I mean, he's climbed as high as you can, I suppose, in Irish politics. I presume he always had an aspiration to lead the country. He's done that now. You know, his name will be forever etched in history, and people have different interpretations of that, of course. There's not much really for him to achieve. He could be flogging a dead horse trying to form the next government. You know, I mean, as I say, riding off into the sunset for a new commissioner's job. I think if I were his advisor, I might suggest he do so. Well, you know, it's obviously being a commissioner is a huge job, and it will be amazing to do it, I'm sure. But you know, don't underestimate me on Martin's love of public life and his commitment to the job. I've not encountered anybody in my time in politics with the work ethic and the commitment to the role. You know, it's rare you come across somebody that it's their life. It's what they do. So don't underestimate that element of it. But look, as I said, you know, you can't stay anywhere forever. He's going to go at some point. But it's a matter for himself when he goes and the vast majority of the party are quite happy to have him as leader for as long as he wants to be there. And finally, before I bring Pat in, I think the timing of this, you know, we aren't that far away from an election. It would be quite disruptive to feel a fall, I suppose, if he were to change his mind now. So I presume we can presume that he has actually made as much as anyone can in the moment a firm decision on this. It's not something you'd be playing with because it would be quite damaging if he decided then between now and the next election to move on, I think. Lisa? Yeah, sorry. Sorry, Greg. Well, the next election is the European elections and the local elections. So I think we can fairly take it that that's that set. And, you know, the all elections, if the government runs the full term, it's got another two years to go. It's a long, long time in politics, you know, so. But as I said, it's up to the man himself to decide when he's ready to move forward and move on to something else. And I've no doubt he'll have plenty of opportunities in the next chapter of his life whenever that comes along. All right, Pat O'Connor, good morning to you again. What's your view on all this? Well, I think he has to say he's going to go on otherwise he becomes a lame duck. I do think that the results of the election would be critical in making his in him making his decision. I have no inside track. I've been following all my thoughts, but obviously, I think if the if in the fall or do very well at the next elections, he may well think well, if there's a possibility of forming a government, my money would be continuing. However, on the other hand, if it seems likely, Sinn Fein are going to be the dominant party, I think he'll bow out. But as I say, I have no inside track on this. That's providing, of course, Sinn Fein can maintain their momentum that they appear to have. Pat, as Lisa pointed out, it's potentially two years to the next general election. An awful lot can happen in that time. Oh, absolutely. And I do notice that Mary Lou McDonald has been downplaying elements that might be problematic for a middle class constituency, i.e. United Ireland, although anybody, everybody knows that's really an important objective of Sinn Fein. So I do think Sinn Fein have been playing a very clever game. So I guess, you know, I'm not a betting woman, but if I were, my money would be on Sinn Fein, and hence the implications of that for me, all of our continuance in power. But in the meantime, he has to say, until the very last moment that, yes, he's staying because otherwise, you know, power leaks away and he becomes a lean dog. At what point do you think Pat, the public will start questioning Sinn Fein? You know about how can you fix everything that you've committed to fixing? How are you actually going to fund it? What might be the timeline for delivering everything that you've promised that you might be able to deliver? Do you know what I mean? I think there's a presumption at this point that you, but there is surely going to become a point, not maybe for people that have always voted Sinn Fein, but those that are sort of considering it as an option whereby people are going to want a little bit more information on this stuff. And I respect that someone Sinn Fein might say that's out there, but you know, you can't promise that you have to at some point say, well, exactly how are you going to deliver this on the moon and the stars? Well, in a way, I think you see there's a kind of a fantasy element. People are acutely aware of housing, of health, education, the problems, particularly in housing and health. So they want to believe there's a fantasy element. They want to believe that everything will be okay. So I think that probably Sinn Fein will sail under the fantasy until perhaps six months before the election and then tough questions may begin to be asked. But I think in the meantime, people are so tired, frustrated, angry, upset that in a way the only, and they can't see a solution like to things like housing and health. And so in a way, the only refuge is fantasy. It's going to be okay. Somehow we're going to magically solve the problem. Somebody is going to solve the problem. And I think that is facilitating Sinn Fein's right. And I think they will cruise under that hotel. I estimate six months before the general election. I could be wrong. I could also be interested and see what turnout might be in that. Do people believe politics can fix all of the problems that you talk of? Please to say Dr Andrea Redmond, artist and community development worker has joined us now. Good morning to you, Andrea. Great to have you on board today. Thank you, Greg. It's great to be here. We were just having a conversation here, and we're going to move on after we hear from you. Mihal Mon is insisting he's staying on to lead Fina Fall into the next general election. As Lisa Chambers pointed out, that could be two years away. But for now, that's his decision. Were you surprised to learn that? Happy? I don't know what? No. To be perfectly honest, I think would we miss him? I hate to be cheeky and facetious, but I'm sure he's looking longingly down the road to the day when he can be on the golf course, possibly playing doubles with Leo in a galaxy far, far away. Because really, what difference has he made on the goal? And this government now, I think they can see the writings on the wall. I think we're discussing skin pain and what can they do to change things? Could they make it any worse than it already is? I mean, the situation is just dire. When we have, for example, a woman at the millet who's fighting, dying of cervical cancer, fighting in court, have we learned nothing? We have people who are homeless here in Donegal, housing situation. Can things be any worse? There's a sea change coming and I'm hoping to see fresh faces, including skin pain, a lot more independence from Donegal, and hopefully it may be a brighter future. And do you believe that a brighter future will be delivered after the next general election? It couldn't be any worse. I mean, look at the situation that we're in. We're inviting refugees to this country to live in tents. This country is being fined by the UN for its treatment of refugees. Recently, there's just a story there of a man, an elderly man from awfully, who's been living in his car for the last four weeks. Is there no humanity in this government? And it just seems that they have forgotten the people in the West. They've forgotten the people in Donegal. And, you know, whatever happened, whatever sea change, whatever face replaces me, Hall or Leo, the impact to Donegal will be minimal. It'll be the Mandarins and Dublin who make these decisions. You know, the Micah crisis, where else, you know, could that have happened? They've literally left Donegal in the cold. Now, I have to say that the local councillors, and Blanties especially, across all parties have been excellent and very supportive. But I just think Dublin is just a place on to itself. And it just does not hear all right. Just I guess you just before the break and to move on just for a bit of a counterbalance to that. I mean, the one thing we have to recognize as well is that if you look at the polls and you combine Pheonophore, Phinegal and the Greens, even at this point, you know, things aren't looking too bad for them. Approval ratings for the leaders are so-so. So in other words, there's no guarantees that these parties are going to be wiped out after the next general election. But, Senator Chambers, we don't invite you on to defend the government, but obviously you're a member of Pheonophore. What do you think of that assessment, Dr Redmond's assessment of the country, that things couldn't get any worse? Maybe it doesn't tell, I can understand how people might feel that, especially here in the Northwest, but perhaps it doesn't tell the full story either. I would, I mean, I respect her views and she's entitled to her opinions, of course. And I would disagree with that. I live in the West of Ireland as well. I'm living in Mayo and, you know, I think we have very similar challenges to Donegal and, you know, the West and Northwest region. But some of the positives about the country at the minute, we have the best performing economy in the European Union. We have the best life expectancy in the European Union. We were ranked fourth in the world in terms of best place to live. So there's lots of really good things about Ireland and lots of really good things about how our country is working and is being run. I'm not suggesting there aren't challenges. Of course there aren't. Housing is the obvious one. But as a country where, you know, when you compare us to other countries, we're doing really, really well in lots of aspects. And if you look at healthcare, for example, we've just recently gotten a commitment from this government to build a brand new regional cancer centre for the West and Northwest that we'll be looking after Donegal patients and Mayo patients. We've been looking for this for more than a decade and we've just gotten that commitment two weeks ago. So, you know, there's lots of good things happening. I'm not saying there aren't challenges. Of course there are. And I think, you know, when you talk about polling, yes, support for the government is holding. There was polling done as well on the issue of housing. Did people believe that a change of government would fix the housing crisis? You know, and people didn't buy into that. So, you know, I think people understand that the housing situation, it's going to be a long-term issue for us to deal with. And my view is that the plan that's currently in place is turning the Titanic. But we've had a decade of under supply that we're trying to catch up on. And that's proving a big challenge. Because on top of that, we've had 100,000 Ukrainian and international protection refugees come in in the space of 12 months, which is, it's just an astronomical number. Like, it's so far beyond what we would have been dealing with previously. We had maybe 3,000 coming in. So that challenge for our country and every country is feeling this. This is not just Ireland. You know, 100,000 people in 12 months, it's just an extraordinary number of people to try and deal with on top of a housing challenge that was already there. So overall, I think dealing with refugees, and I know there again, there's been some people that haven't had accommodation when they've come in. But the vast majority have been accommodated. And we can be proud of ourselves for doing, I think, a very good job in just extraordinary difficult circumstances. Yeah, Pat, the more people I speak to in areas such as housing, education and health, and it's mostly off the records, the frustration with the permanent government or elements of the civil service, is a party that calls that out and challenges to change that. Perhaps things might resonate more with the public because I think the public can, and we heard Andrea reference that as well. I think the public are sort of starting to see you know, who is making a lot of the decisions, who's holding things up, where the frustrations lie. Like in terms of investment into education, you know, in the Northwest, I think it's 100 year up ahead, less per student. You know, we've no professors north of a Dublin Galway line. Things like that, that aren't government decisions, the civil service decisions are elements of that. And more and more you dig into it, you see that that's the case. So I think a party that highlights that and challenges that Pat might do very well. Well, that's possible. I mean, in a way, I suppose the difficulty is once a government, once a party is in government, and they start basically calling out the civil service, they may find it difficult to get cooperation at the civil service. And most parties are aware of that. I suppose the scandal that has brought this to a lot of people's minds is Robert Watt, the Secretary General in the Department of Health, who appears to be indifferent to his minister and indifferent to any other opinions. In the case of education, I mean, the technologically, I don't know what people in Donegal think about the development of the technological universities, and whether they see that as a plus or a minus, which was driven by the higher education authority, which will, and they always see there's an OECD report, which will actually change the positions within the technological universities, so that there will be professors if those recommendations are accepted. But I do think that there should be more accountability of civil servants, those, particularly at Secretary General level, who make decisions that those decisions should, they should be accountable for them, and that who is making them should be clear. So I suppose what is interesting is that though that in some departments, the ministers seem to be able to utilize their permanent secretariat more effectively than in other departments. So there are issues surrounding those relationships, but the discord and disunity seems most obvious in the Department of Health. And I do think payment salary to Robert Watt was absolutely, the whole thing was really, the fact that his payment, how he was selected, the whole scenario was very, very, very strange. I think really just with the way the whole defective concrete redress thing is playing out too. I think a lot of people sort of see that in housing as well. But I take your point that was the voice there of Professor Pat O'Connor. We're also in the company of Senator Lisa Chambers and Dr. Andrea Redmond, and we'll hear more from all of our guests after this quick break. Give me strength. In a new original series. I call anybody Lummi. They're older. Choc of the Century. And none the wiser. Lummi May. The Full Monty. Streaming June 14th exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required. Kiznesties apply. 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And perhaps it's just because I have sons that are of that age now and I see them the hours that they're working and the fact that they have been earning the lower whilst working the same job beside others that are getting a higher rate, I find it a little unfair. So I do have kind of skin in the game on this one. But let's see what our guests think. Dr Andrea Redmond, what say you agree? I agree totally. It's discriminatory. And I think, you know, when you have the unions unite are behind the motion. You have social justice Ireland. The Children's Rights Alliance are behind it. I think in this day and age, young people are out. They're paying car loans. They're saving for university. I think it's very unfair. I myself and I think a lot of us work to put ourselves through university. And, you know, the struggle of studies and part time work and then to be paid, you know, a lower minimum wage. Also young people in apprenticeships are paid scantily. Young people who to or on job seekers are paid less than adults. I think it's time that, you know, there was fair and there was equality and pay. So you can't see any argument for retaining these minimum wage structures as they stand? Well, some of the arguments still throw that it will impact small businesses and that. And a lot of the work that young people do, you know, our jobs at older people really, you know, may not want. And when, you know, what they're saying to is, you know, the young people that they're learning like an apprentice are learning, but they're actually carrying out a day's work and deserve the day's pay. And when you have people like the unions backing this these this motion and such strong organizations and voices in Ireland, I can't see why there would be a big issue. Is there something of a separation here in that say, for instance, someone was doing a welding apprenticeship that they might require extra time and an oversight and maybe there's an argument for them receiving a little less for that because they're not up to maybe the skill set of those working there compared to maybe someone in retail or hospitality that there's a shorter lead into, you know, to them being upskilled to the same level as of others there. I mean, there are separate arguments for those two areas. Do you think Andrea? I think it can be looked at. I think certainly that, you know, the case by case, but they are from when I hear from people who whose children are on apprenticeships that their rate of pay is dire, and it's very difficult for them, you know, and yes, maybe they're learning, but they are also working and contributing to the employer. All right. What do you think, Professor Pat O'Connor? Well, I think, I mean, clearly discrimination on the grounds of age or gender or anything else is problematic. It's wrong. End of right. So basically deciding that people 17, 18, 19 and 20 on the basis of their age should be paid less is it's actually illegal. It's wrong. Right. I do think the case can be made that if people have less experience or less skills, then on that basis, yes, you can decide to pay them less. So in a way, it's up to the industry to indicate what are the skills which are needed and why, how is it or whether those who are 17, 18, 19, 20 lack those skills. And if they do then, okay, fair enough, they're paid less. But the idea, I mean, we had discrimination on the grounds of, you know, married women could be paid. We've had compulsory mandatory retirement, which is wrong. Again, it's on the basis of age. And we still have an equal pay gap. But it seems Irish society can't get its head around the idea that discrimination means basically not paying people on the basis of their ability to do the job, but on the basis of some other characteristic. And that's surprising that people have only woken up to that now in the case you do. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Lisa Chambers, what do you think? Yeah, I will certainly support the principle of equal pay for equal work. And I think that's what it should come down to. So probably on the same page as you, Greg, around, I think apprenticeships are, it's well recognized that, you know, you, you're not fully qualified yet. You're not fully skilled in a particular job. You require supervision, oversight, and you're learning a trade. So I fully, I've no difficulty with somebody not getting the full wage and those circumstances. You know, say, if you go to college to qualify as a nurse or any other profession, you don't get paid the full wage or anything in the first, in the first instance. So that I don't have an issue with that personally. But I do have an issue with if somebody's working as a waitress, which is what I did for a decade when I was going through college and school and all the rest of it or bar work. And there's an argument maybe for the first six months when you're learning the ropes, because you're, you are that bit slower and you're still needs to be watched and minded a bit. But after that, I don't think there's a, if you're, if you start waitressing as I did when I was 16, I don't see how you could be on a reduced wage for four years. Because you're, you're well able at that stage. So I think that this definitely merits consideration, it will get pushed back to the business community. If we're honest about it, we know this, there will be a strong lobby from that, that perspective, I would have some sympathy for the smaller coffee shops and pubs that have a small limited staff and their, you know, their margins wouldn't be the same as the bigger guys. So it'll just need to be worked through on that basis. But I do think, yeah, I look at certainly when I, when I listen to comments around, you know, the gender pay gap as well, it's hard to argue, I would always argue that women get paid less because they do. And we know that it's 14% of a pay gap for women and men in this country that, you know, we shouldn't have an age gap as well. So once it's equal work and you're fully qualified and fully trained, you should be getting the same wages. Yeah. And I mean, I would sympathize with the small businesses that you reference, but they can't necessarily survive off the back of young people and exploiting them because they will favor employing young people because it's cheaper. And that will obviously then there are older people that don't get employed and they're discriminated against in a way as well. Would you agree, Andrea? Yeah, that's actually the argument the United is making that employers are employing low-paid young people over the backs of maybe older workers and so they're being excluded. So that's that's the argument that exactly that United is making at the moment. Yeah. Okay. And do you see change in this regard? I mean, there's a couple of other European countries have got rid of it. Pat, I mean, obviously there'll be some resistance, but is there an inevitability about this? I think once the fact that it is named now, there is an inevitability. And really, like it is unpickable to say that if you run a business, you must run a taking into account all your costs. And if you can't run it profitably, then you're out of business. I'm sorry. There's no, it is untenable to think you can break the law because you want your business to survive, you know? I mean, anybody, for example, if you suggested really business owners should be free to deal and stolen goods so that they could be viable businesses, people would say, no, of course not. So in a way like the viability of business is the owner's problem. It can't be done in the business. It can't be basically maintained if they break the law. Yeah. And in front of Thalisa, you didn't suggest that. I think you said you would appreciate the pressure would put these businesses on it. You didn't say to justify its retention just to be clear. Just to be clear. And obviously, that business are not breaking the law currently because that is perfectly legal to pay those reduced rates because that is what's been set in policy by the state. So that businesses are not breaking the law currently. And I suppose they've set up their staffing structure in their business on the basis that that is the going rate. So you just need to give businesses a bit of time to adjust to changes like that because it will be a significant change. And I don't think that's insurmountable. And certainly, I would agree that, you know, I think I think businesses will probably look at this and say, yeah, look, I think they can see the change is going to come. And we'll just make make those changes. Yeah, because you have 18 year olds working two, you know, one or two years in a place. And then there's other people just because they're older coming in instantly on, you know, a couple three year old higher than them. And it must be very demoralising and not a great way to sort of start your working life, Andrea. No, no, it's not. And it's discriminatory. And I having lived in Canada, I, there's not an equal. Is this done elsewhere? I don't think so. I mean, you know, minimum wage was minimum wage, whether you were 16 or you were 35. I think there are sliding scales elsewhere. But there are a couple of sort of our, our neighbours that have got rid of it more recently. Andrew, if I'm correct, I don't have that data just in front of me. But I don't think it's unprecedented. I don't think we're outliers or at least we weren't in the past. I call this as a matter of profound change. The Irish people should have their say there should be a referendum on mass immigration. Can Ireland say no? What do you think about that, Lisa? I mean, I'm not sure really about the wording of the question. But what we did learn is that 75% of the population, and it's an old survey now, so we won't stay long on it, had concerns about the level of immigration or how immigration was being handled, doesn't say, I think how a question is phrased is incredibly important in these matters. But be that as it may. There are a lot of people that have their concerns now. Does this government or another government have to address that? Or do they have to sort of say, right, we understand that that's how you feel. But this is what we have to do. I wouldn't support a referendum on immigration. I think that would be very divisive and, you know, referendum in this country is reserved for constitutional change where we want to change our constitution. But dealing with the question that was asked, you know, there's a lot of concern around immigration. I would have some of those concerns myself. It's putting pressure on services and on our country. You know, and then we obviously have a moral and legal obligation to take people in and particularly international protection. If somebody puts a foot on Irish soil, you have an international legal obligation to process them. It's the same for every country. But we opted into that, though, Lisa, didn't we? We did opt into that. It's not something we're bound by. It's something we chose to partake in. Well, yeah, but I mean, most, most first world countries will be in the same. Yeah, so I don't think we want to step away from that. But, you know, we are looking, I mean, you probably saw the story yesterday where the memo to cabinet to actually pay a financial contribution to the EU as opposed to taking in 350 international protection applicants. So we were availing of that voluntary solidarity mechanism that was agreed at the EU last year. So we are trying to stem the flow and reduce the numbers coming in. It is leveling off to a certain extent. I think most of the refugees coming in the last year are from Ukraine, which is understandable. And God love them. I think what they're going through is just horrific. But many of those people will want to go home as soon as they can as well. And there will be a rebuilding effort in Ukraine. So we just hope that the war will come to an end sooner rather than later. But it's going to be an ongoing challenge, Greg. We need to be honest about it as a country, whether it's war in Ukraine or whether it's Syria, whether it's climate migration, migration is going to be a massive challenge for the European Union, for the world in the coming decades because of those those issues. So we are going to have to have, I think, more of an open and honest conversation as the country as to how we want to deal with this. Yeah, and maybe ask ourselves actually what we're doing at the moment. How is it, how is it affecting us as an individual because I think we and this is not to take one side or other. But we seem to have an awful lot of conversation about what could happen or what but what actually is is happening. How has how has people's lives changed as a result of this action that we're taking? Do you know what we it seems and I mean even messages coming in like look what happened in France yesterday. This is in relation to the Syrian refugee, the awful attack on on children over in France, but people are sort of saying well that's what we'll get. Do you know what I mean? I don't buy into that. I mean, there are look at there are bad people everywhere. And you know, it's not surprising that if you have a huge number of people coming in that you might get one, you know, or two, I mean, that's just that's just the human, the human beings, you know, there's always going to be a bad egg everywhere. But that's overall, I think people coming in are decent, they're fleeing war, they're fleeing horrible situations. And we're doing our best as a country to be welcoming and sympathetic and to look after people because I thought we were a country of immigrants ourselves not that long ago. And we know we know the pain of having to leave your homeland to go elsewhere because you don't have any other choice. So we get that as a country, we get we really get that. But I think overall, when you think about, say between 2017 and 2019, we took in roughly three and a half international protection people right over two years. We took in the same number in less than half a year this year. That's the scale of the increase. So when you take that into account and what we've been dealing with, overall, I think the impact has been minimized as much as possible. But of course, you're going to see it, you're going to feel it because the numbers are huge. But we're not alone in that every country in Europe is dealing with this. And some more than others, I think those countries bordering Ukraine, Poland, for example, have taken in 10 times more than we have. So we're not alone. But a lot of the same conversations are happening in Poland that are happening here as well. We had the Polish ambassador on not that long ago that sort of recognized that. Pat has to say, we'll move on shortly. But just referencing that poll, obviously, the majority of people had concerns as to why the question was asked of them. Does the government have to heed that and say, right? Or maybe they are in terms of this 1.5 million we're paying to relieve us of our responsibility of almost 400 people. But what's your view? I mean, I certainly wouldn't be in favor of a referendum. I do think that it has highlighted the infrastructure deficits which existed before all these situations emerge. And what is interesting to me is that we have had 10,000 homeless from pre-COVID, pre-war, pre-all of those things. And the interesting thing is that the government has galvanized itself to deal with the influx of Ukrainians, particularly, in a way which it has not done for the, for example, 10,000 homeless, including 2,000 children, for quite a substantial number of years. So I think, in a way, that has, a lot of people have noted that. And it has raised questions. Well, can I put it to you just for the point of argument? I mean, they would say, the government would say that there is a bed for everyone that is homeless, right? So it's not ideal accommodation, but neither is that for refugees. And that I think we also have to recognize, Pat, that it's a countrywide problem, but the majority of homelessness is in and around Dublin. And that there are, and I've mentioned this on the show before, but there are other challenges or the services that might be required to assist people back into, you know, living in a home, there could be addiction issues or whatever it might be. Do you know, I mean, can we directly compare 10,000 Ukrainians fleeing Ireland, fleeing to on and from a war with 10,000 homeless people that can be on the streets for many, many different reasons and require many different services? No, of course, we can't equate them. But it is interesting that, for example, the grants to do up old houses, which was an obvious thing for anyone walking around town, right? You could see how so many. Waterford is an exemplar, and yet you need only in terms of local authority action on this issue, but you need only walk around Waterford to see there are a huge number of buildings which are in need of refurbishment, which could be very satisfactory homes. So, yes, obviously the situations are different. But the key point I'm making is that the energy to tackle this problem, which it has been, you know, we have actually put our mind to homelessness. Now, I think there are, in some ways, I cannot understand why we cannot go for timber homes, which are built, which are basically the tip, the, it was programmed and basically in one of the others Scotland manufactured in a factory and assembled in three days on site. Now, if they can withstand the gales and temperatures in basically the very north of the islands of Scotland, they could certainly be okay here. So, in a way, I still feel we have some solutions that we are not considering because it doesn't suit, for example, the building industry. So, we've had a more lateral approach, because we haven't enough. And I get to your point, and I get to your point, and I'm trying to play devil's advocate here, but you know, when people can't get modular homes because of defective concrete, that's a West, it's frustrating when we can't sort of say, let's build a modular home village for the homeless somewhere, but we can deliver thousands upon thousands of units of housing, effectively, or accommodation for thousands. I think by the end of this year and the next year, down the Southwest, you know, I mean, people go, well, why? Well, that doesn't make sense. And I think maybe even if that was communicated better, it might be more tolerable for people, there could be an understanding of what's going on. But I think we've adopted, for example, pushing people into hotels has been, as we now recognise, was yet again a convenient solution. It hasn't really, in terms of the tourist industry on the West Coast, it has been a known goal. But that in a way, and I still don't think we have fully mobilised the general public, like at the beginning, the basically facilitating people who had homes to offer, it was a joke. I have another bugbear on that because I know many, many people who offered their homes, they were declined, they were accepted. No one was moved to them and hotels, half the hotel accommodation in this county has taken up. And I just simply don't understand that, because it would be much cheaper. And you know, I've seen people with food hanging out of their windows of hotels to keep it cool. They could be in some of these houses living at something of a normal life. But it was a convenient solution, convenient for the hoteliers, convenient for the government. I mean, why do we keep going for what looked like handy solutions, which facilitate short-term benefits for whether it's the hoteliers, the building industry, etc., and don't mobilise basically the ordinary public, which in turn would help in terms of, you know, if people have, get to know Ukrainians or international asylum seekers or whatever, it greatly reduces hostility because people think, well, it's, you know, X or Y, and it detoxifies the whole thing. In a way, this has been an ongoing government in terms of the creation of this problem. I'd love to see the integration plan going forward as well, because I think that's going to be a critical part of the future of this country that we don't have groups of different individuals living in different areas. I mean, any successful rapid change in a population is achieved with understanding of each other and integration not having sections of towns that become specific to one or other group of people. Would you agree, Andrea? Absolutely. I mean, in our experience and don't hurry, we had, but 35 Ukrainians come a year ago, unexpectedly. One of the things to a lot of the resourcing and a lot of support has come from community and voluntary sector, who have been kind of caught on the hoof, and I know we have as a committee and had to seek fundings to support families and not then try to run classes and with the support of ETB in that, but there just didn't seem to be forward planning. And I would agree with a lot of what Pat has had to say, you know, where do we go from here? How do we integrate these families? And it may be quite a decade before the Ukraine will be able to fit enough to take some families back with rebuilding and things like that. But at the minute, you know, the Ukrainians have contributed to our village. They've kept the school open. They are out working in the men's shed to build things for the community and integration and getting the community to meet with these refugees. As has been said, the Irish have been refugees for centuries and it's time. Is it easier to have that level of integration with people fleeing Ukraine because we also need to make sure that that happens too with international protection applicants that are granted residency here as well? 100%. But it's the mechanism to do that because, I mean, a lot of non-Ukrainians are put in centers, maybe isolated from the community, where in our case, you know, they were a small village with very little infrastructure. So, you know, we were kind of just thrown in together. And we had to find our own way, which we have. And they've been a wonderful asset to our community. 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I mean, obviously, working on a program like this and much of it covering rural Ireland, it doesn't come as a surprise. And as I said on the show yesterday, I think we, through COVID, we all got a taste of isolation and loneliness. And perhaps we shouldn't forget that as we try and move forward. But we need to do all we can. Andrea, don't we to try and relieve that? It shouldn't be beyond us. No. And again, my discussion before, but with the Ukrainians, you know, a lot of the supports are provided by the community voluntary sector. And again, our funding, a lot of it is competitive. We have to apply for it. So in the case of Doherty, you know, you do see incidents of rural isolation, the real way of life changing. I mean, we've lost the post office, which was a huge social outlet for people to meet. The health center is gone. The guard is station is gone. We were going to lose our shop only for the sake the Ukrainians came that that was the school was going to close. So there's been huge changes in ructions in rural Ireland and cuts to infrastructure transportation. For example, we have an aging population. We have young people, we had like six young people had left the area to go to Australia. So, you know, we're an aging community. What we have tried to do is set up things like men shed, which was very successful. We had a heritage group that met on a regular basis, looked at all photographs to try and engage loneliness affects mental health as well, and which can affect physical health. So you have issues of stroke, stroke, and the impact is there. It's one of the hardest group to reach is men. And we have been trying our our darkness to try and engage with the local men. But my call would be more of a recognition to what local people on the ground are doing and supporting them. Yeah. And Lisa, I think there's a lot of stuff out there. We can always do more. It's about connecting the people with it, you know, and that came through in a couple and a lot of the texts yesterday, people were very keen to get involved in stuff. But it's actually signposting them to it and getting them connected to it. And if there's a role for local link to play in getting them to it, maybe that we could look at that. But I mean, I think this is very fixable, Lisa, if we if we coordinate it correctly. Yeah, like it has to be. And it's really sad to read that. And but also not surprising. I mean, I live in a rural part of the country as well and grew up in the countryside. And our way of life has changed a huge amount in a very short space of time. You know, life used to evolve around mass and going to church and the local pub. And those things aren't as I suppose people aren't going there as much. And the, you know, the rural problem is in decline as well. So when you take away those kind of hubs of activity, where do people go to and it's I understand it, it's more affecting men than women. That's not surprising in other ways as well. Women are maybe better at staying in touch with friends and connecting and maybe getting involved in local groups. So I think we need some sort of a task force to look at this to try and identify, you know, how can we get people out and about to give direction to local communities here are some tried and tested methods that you can use because community groups will do this for themselves. But it's about kind of identifying how do we go by addressing this? We know the answer to that. Yes. Exactly. And I see age action coming out with an initiative, but you have to sort of be engaged already with age action to sort of benefit from it. Now they're looking to expand that it's not going to be wrong. But yeah, exactly. And unfortunately, just a minute to you, Pat. Yeah. Well, you need resources to basically be maintaining relationships, whether those are with the community or with friends. And the difficulty is that often those resources are not available. It is one of the most successful initiatives has been Men's Sheds, which is providing a context for actually traditional versions of masculinity. Women have solved this problem, for example, many middle-aged and older women seed swimming. It's free, right? And walking, but it's impossible in the country to walk safely on all roads. But walking is also free. So in a way, the key element of creating venues, areas, facilities, which are free. And by the way, on average, the reports, which I'm looking at, it says on average, more likely to be lonely. So you can't just forget that young people are also, they highlight, very likely to be lonely. And of course, if you're basically living at home, your mates have gone to Australia, whatever. You have no facilities for young people to go anywhere unless you have a tent of living on your own. You may end up taking a taxi. That's 30 euro each way before you start having a night out. Sorry, it's resources. Okay, Pat, thank you so very much indeed, Professor Pat O'Connor. Lovely to have you on the programme. Senator Lisa Chambers, have a lovely weekend. Thanks for your time today. Thanks, Greg. And last but certainly not least, Dr Andrea Redmond, artist and community developer, developer worker. Hopefully you'll rejoin us. You will, Andrea. I would love to. Thank you very much, Greg. Fantastic. Have a lovely weekend. Take care. All right. Thanks for all your comments coming in. We'll get to some of those after we take a break for the news and obituary notices. Charge into summer with Tui. Choose from a beach cruise or city break or Mexico flying direct from Dublin. Holiday sorted. Tui. Live happy. Free delivery. 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It'll be the Mandarins and Dublin who will make these decisions. The Micah crisis, where else could that have happened? They've literally left Donegal in the cold. Two Donegal Guardi have been hailed for saving the life of a teenager in county life. Doctors said, had life-saving treatment not been administered by the two members of Ngardis Siakona, the teenager would not have survived. Their quick thinking, calm and measured response as a team has been praised. Keith Shaqonli has more. On Friday last, Garda Roshino Donegal and Garda Rose McGlynn were on patrol along the M1 at Charleville when they were waved down by a panicked couple. It emerged their son had sustained a serious injury to his arm. However, his parents had got a flat tire en route to hospital. Both Guardi quickly realized that Tabish's bone was protruding and he was experiencing significant blood loss. They took his mother's jacket and his dad's trouser belt to make a tourniquet to stem the bleeding. His condition however was deteriorating quickly and an ambulance was still some distance away. While Garda McGlynn carefully moved him to the Garda vehicle, Garda O'Donnell performed traffic management duties. During the journey to hospital, Tabish was falling in and out of consciousness and his arm was turning pale. Upon arrival to hospital he was immediately seen by medics. They noted that had life-saving treatment not been administered and a tourniquet applied, the 19-year-old would not have survived. The HSE is being warned that mental health centres will be taken off the register of approved facilities unless compliance with regulations improves. The inspector of Mental Health Services has fined 2,000 people are living in large mental health institutions despite policies as far back as the 1980s to close them. The Mental Health Commission says there's been improvement in mental health services in Ireland but issues remain around the condition of some mental health service buildings, individual care planning, risk management and staffing. Commission Chief Executive John Farley says poorly performing centres face not being re-registered. We can't continuously allow them to provide services that aren't fit for purpose, particularly the buildings. So what it means is that they need to make sure they're in compliance. I need a capital plan, a strategic plan showing that the state is going to put money into these buildings and make sure these buildings are fit for purpose. There's calls for the motorised transport grant to be reinstated. The scheme which provided funding for people with disabilities who needed to buy a car or adopt an existing one was scrapped 10 years ago with plans for a review to be carried out. However, that has yet to come at two-free-ish in. Councillor Martin McDermott says there's a serious need for the grants to be made available to people in Donegal due to the lack of infrastructure in the county. We don't have the infrastructure, we don't have the transport that towns like Galway or Dublin or Cork or that type of them, type of various limerick would have infrastructure, would have transport that allows these people to get out and about and allows people with disabilities to get out and about and we don't have that because everywhere you go in the rural Donegal here in Donegal you have to get transport to get there. So it would be vitally important for them, people are vitally important for their families as well because it allows them to go to places. 55% of farmers have been the victim of a burglary with some thefts carried out by roaming gangs of criminals. A new study carried out by TU Dublin and the IFA heard from victims of crime within the farming community. 60% of farmers say they'd like to see a dedicated garden unit set up to deal with farm theft and rural crime. Rural independent TD Mati McGrath says it has become a major problem. It goes in kind of troughs and slides and areas get very bad doing then maybe does activity with local types of groups alongside the GRD and they move off for roving bands of criminals are causing damage trespass and indeed many many serious burglaries and intimidation. Whether or not staying dry across most areas today with spells of sunshine highest temperatures of 18 to 22 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. Be be sure you know the says for this Friday morning June the 9th. 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Puno from there today to the Church of the Irish Martyrs, Bally-Rey and Letter Kenne for one o'clock recreation mass which can be viewed online at the parish YouTube channel followed by burial in the family plot in Commonwealth Cemetery. Family time please before the funeral today. Family flowers only please, donations and leave a wish to Hillcrest High's Residence Comfort Fund, Carav Pascal-Ballek, Funeral Director. For more details including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals, please go to hynandradio.com. Welcome back to the programme. Thanks so much for being with us this Friday morning and thanks again to our panel and all of you who contributed throughout. Let's get to some of those messages shall we and then we'll take a break for the bingo numbers. Good morning Greg, 10 years ago, 10 years that woman said surely if they're able to go back home for a holiday they can go back to stay. Why are we allowing our government to abuse our money with negligent spending 30 million a week Greg of our money not your money as you always claimed, I never always claimed that. In the first reaction there was money from Europe that was re-diverted to that and on this programme on numerous occasions we I can't think of the figure off the top of my head it was stated that accommodating refugees and international asylum applicants was budgeted for and it was included in the budget and that was stated very clearly on this programme. One followed the other there was money diverted initially and then that changed and that was as I say highlighted on this show. Morning call of spade of spade the vast majority of these migrants are here for the benefit system we have here there are wars going on for years and years and not a word about housing migrants or refugees sick to the back teeth of it we as a country have not got the capacity to deal with anymore look at our own people suffering with all the poor services we have it's a disgrace now we have been taking in asylum seekers for every year for as long as I can recall that woman is completely wrong she may be the only one happy about 50 Ukrainians put in a geltacht village as she doesn't speak Irish it's bizarre is there is no health centre post office or any facility for anyone in the village is she standing for election no as far as I'm aware there's a huge problem in this country under the finna gelfina for leadership people want to vote shin fame to give them an opportunity to change it because nothing is happening at the moment yeah indeed I think there's a there certainly is a sentiment out there good morning Greg it was 75 percent of the population since the start you know it was only a minority of people we were told by Lisa and her gang Lisa doesn't want a referendum because the gravy chain of refugees would stop not a good look for our EU public government and Lisa knows this it's time for an election who are you going to elect by the way because there is no major opposition party proposing any change to the to the system we have at the moment they're not backing or proposing a referendum which would be constitutional change so who would you be voting for in the next election then in that case does Lisa think that those arriving here who've been refused asylum elsewhere should be deported because that is what is happening nothing to do either the for the Ukrainians by the way I think if you land on the soil regardless of where you come from or how you got here you have to be considered for asylum Greg as someone who works in social welfare I can assure you the public many of the Ukrainian population are actually returning home it's the other nations who are coming here and staying Greg I've asked this question of several people and no one can answer it how can someone here claiming asylum go back to their own country on holiday and return here to accommodation if they're actually claiming asylum I don't believe they can Ukrainians aren't here they're not here in terms of in the same way as asylum seekers are so if you're talking about Ukrainian people it's different for them I'm not sure someone can leave a direct provision center or accommodation and fly back to say Syria for an example and return if that's happening let me know more details Greg Irish people don't want these unvetted males look what happened in France yesterday I mean but I get what you're saying but people seem to ignore what's happening in the courts in this country every day of the week and what's happened here historically but this is a I'm not here to push any particular agenda just to facilitate the conversation there was never a mention of the job losses at Maui and Fannad but when you look at how many jobs that were created from Cara Crease like Cara got Downing's Milford Fannad, Kerry Kill, Glen Vaughan, Ruth Mullen, Ruth Melton it looks like our politicians have gone to sleep well we covered the job losses on Maui on this this show at the time the staff were informed I haven't heard anything since actually there is no way the TDs wages are justifiable the period of government is too long governing is too long it should be no longer than three years to keep them on their toes but so what are you that the way we do elections at the moment is stifling that we go in cycles of five years that we need to approach housing in a much more long format or health or the big issues and budgets as well you know the fact that we'll have an inverted common commas give away budget before an election you know was that really a fantastic way of working look where we're at reducing that further I'm not sure how that might impact it I was in a bus last week having had to pay for my trip at 65 on a widow's pension my only income I can't get free travel but entire families not Irish natives some only a fraction of my age with little and no English were flashing their travel passes now why couldn't you is it because you didn't book in advance let me know if the country is doing so well according to leases chambers why are we paying USC etc you know there are groups calling for increased taxes that when an economy is strong like ours is supposed to be that we don't feel it I think I becker amongst those that are saying people should be taxed more right now hi Greg can you discuss Stephen donnelly announcing the creation of six hubs to alleviate pressure on the ed not one anywhere north of Galway if so we are definitely being left out and forgotten about ask the government rep to explain this if it's true thank you I just got that now it's 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progression initiative so uh good morning joe can you give us an idea as to how we uh arrived at this point good morning greg and thanks very much for having us on to talk about this great initiative so it's it's an initiative that's stretched back to last year and it's been funded by international fund for erdon and it's involved sort of intensive throughout the year um residentials and zoom calls with a school in portedown called portedown college and the idea behind it is just to bring young people from both sides of the border from different backgrounds together and to find a common understanding on issues that are common to all and um to empower them to present those issues and to lobby politicians and try to affect some kind of change even on a very basic level so um we've been privileged to be part of it and it's been you know we didn't know what to expect when we when we got involved at the start of the year but it's been a real journey we're all in the journey continues now in monday and we're really looking forward to the launch that's kind of sort of I suppose an end product the youth manifesto where they will present their three key issues that they've decided that um appeals to them all and something that they're all passionate about and that they want to want to advocate for ternan lynch is a fifth year politics and society student at loretto community school in milford ternan have you enjoyed this process um thank you so much for having me of course um this project has been an absolute fantastic experience it has been honestly the opportunity of a lifetime to be able to have my voice heard and to be listened to and just to overall be appreciated by society in general in both sides of the border we both on both sides of the border we both fail as if there is many issues that we have that are common and yet uncommon at the same time um did that surprise you which surprised you more the issues that you had in common with uh students in our ma or the issues that were different I think the issues that we had in common especially for youth voice and mental health we believe that mental health mainly has no borders and is an international problem overall it's it's a horrible problem and in terms of youth voice we feel that on our side of the border it's great we have have made many um advantages in contrast to northern Ireland on the other side of the border so we feel like an all island approach to youth voice probably be the better option towards a better society for Ireland and when we talk about that the youth voice in the republic if a phrase it like that um you said we've made great advances is that like in issues such as students voices being heard in terms of conversations about the leaving circle or junior circle for that matter or uh you know student representatives having input into as I say department of education matters is that the type of stuff we're talking about or or or maybe explain that a little bit more to me I think in terms of education we haven't really put our manifesto towards it from my own personal experience on a student council and on dunagore youth council we have made massive strides and we have made massive successes as I only started my journey on dunagore youth council we have made many advances and on my student council we made many progress as well in our own school community and in terms of the leaving circle and the junior circle I feel like we haven't really prioritized it on our manifesto but that's something that we could open up with our manifesto as well I feel like although we are focusing on three topics we can expand this and we can make a bigger manifesto and a more successful manifesto right for politicians overall just to listen to us so what are the three headline topics our three headline toppings are social deprivation mental health and body image and youth participation okay I believe chloe martins with us as well chloe are you there no I don't think that's actually chloe at all it could just be someone else completely random hopefully chloe might be able to join us before the end of this item so joe talk to us about this this document and this manifesto and how it will be launched on the 12th joe yeah go ahead yes go ahead yeah you can hear me okay um yeah no it's just come together in the last couple of weeks really you know it was the early stages we're just sort of getting to know you and trying to break down initial hesitations and break down a bit barriers that might be there from the outset and so on so um they've the kind of the the way they did it I thought it was it's very much come from the students up like the whereas teachers were just there to kind of facilitate and the with the great facilitators and politics and action who coordinate this so they're the they're the organization based in Belfast that bring young people together from cross community areas and get them to work on issues that can empower their voices and so on so um it started with just a brainstorm where the they literally let them fire out anything that came to their head or anything they were passionate about and nothing was off the table which I liked about this initiative it wasn't one of these any of things where that's all hug and dance kind of initiatives it was whatever you want to get off your chest say it there's a safe space and don't be don't be afraid if you might you might offend other people as long as it's not deliberate and that you're able to back up your opinions with with evidence in fact so everything was put in the table and then they did a type of a thing called a preferendum where the students then basically voted for their top three the three votes and it was kind of like a bit like pure STD I suppose but transfers and all that and we narrowed it down to three to three topics and we took it from there and like as as Tiernan says a lot of those issues I suppose in hindsight like it was obvious that they would kind of come up because they don't recognize borders like you know mental health as a problem throughout the island and deep throughout the world and as I suppose deprivation and there are there's a lot of similarities I was surprised by the similarities probably maybe more so than the younger generation but like there's deprivation there and like Donegal I would say is one of the most deprived parts of the republic if you if you want to use that term and in the north ported down would have areas of severe deprivation as well and the north as a whole would be one of the more deprived parts of the of the UK so we had that in common although there are differences there a bit more urban they're better linked up with infrastructure and Belfast and so on when it comes to get access into our level but with that and then the youth voice I think they were very impressed with the level of youth voice that we have here sometimes we're critical of it but you know it was an eye opener to see from the airport but on that turn and you know it's great to have the voice but you have to you have to be heard at the same time do you know what I mean and I'm not saying that doesn't happen here but it's important and hopefully some of those invited guests will hear what the young people are saying and take those views on on board we don't just want lip service presumably you want to sort of say right well can you come back to me in a time frame you know and acknowledge what we've brought to you and maybe even give us some indication as how you go on to action on it I think with some politicians the idea of just taking a box of just listening to young people and then just putting us aside it'll probably be a huge problem I feel like politicians will have to listen to us and they and I feel like like from a watchdog perspective of our society they will begin to look society will begin to look by seeing our manifesto I think this manifesto could go even further it can go to a national perspective it can go huge a thing is just a matter of putting the hard work in now with our launch I think this is probably step one towards it going even bigger and probably becoming more successful I think in Northern Ireland with the assembly not running it could easily get back up and running again with youth boys probably participating more and putting pressure on them to work together I understand the unionists and nationalists would have differences but the government do need to come together but no more so than it's surprising and not surprising no more so that we've seen through this process that the issues facing people in the republic are very similar to those in the north it doesn't really matter from which church you were born into or none for that matter and Northern Ireland is becoming more diverse all the while the problems and the concerns are the same really you know when you strip away all the other stuff really to realize this to be honest it was just we didn't when we first met them we didn't realize how similar the problems were and from my own perspective I thought that Northern Ireland and the public of Ireland problems were probably quite different because two separate countries but from actually meeting these people and overall enjoying the project and getting into the project once we've really got into it we actually realized that this island has more or less the exact same problems and I feel like we need to walk into each other's shoes as as north and south and really understand how we can deal with these problems and tackle them correctly yeah and I think most a lot of people and it depends on generations and ages would realize that the in reality when you live up here you've more in common with people in Northern Ireland than you might with people in Dublin Cork and Kerry it's just just the way it is we're Chloe is with us now I believe Chloe Martin also a fifth year politics and society student at Loretto Community School Milford good afternoon Chloe good morning Chloe sorry I couldn't get into the meeting there no problem we've been talking about the whole process and and how you've arrived at this manifesto which is to be launched but also through the process to learning more about students in a different part of the world forming friendships I presume it's been quite enlightening and an opportunity for growth for all involved Chloe yeah definitely has been I mean you never really realize how similar we are because we come from such different cultures but like we're literally across the border and they live 30 minutes away from that or can I like and you really realize through the project how important all the same issues are to all of us and I mean we we were speaking about at United Ireland for a long time and with them and we realized that that wasn't the main issue for us and what we really cared about was issues that affected all of us together Joe is there is there something that I'll come back to you in a sec Chloe Joe is there something here too in that has this sort of maybe given us an insight into younger people's understanding of the politics on this island what the north is what the republic is what the relationship is what the future might be you know because I do note in in in some of the language that there's this sense that there's a there's a great difference there but I actually wouldn't see that difference to get where I'm coming from and that's not a criticism or patronizing but I think actually you know I'd be really interested in a in a this is kind of separate to some extent a nationwide conversation amongst young people about you know this island the north and the south and its future because I think it could be quite enlightening Joe yeah definitely Greg I think like young people are the future and there I've said it before but like young people are miles ahead of the politicians but they're also ahead of of ourselves and and the older generation I think maybe they've heard stories of the troubles from the past from older generation passed down and then they might have preconceptions some of them but most of them don't don't have those that same baggage or preconceptions of you know the other or anything like that and from what I've learned from it is like symbolism and things like that flag waving doesn't really matter to young people it's the issues it's issues on the ground that really matter to them your identity maybe is not primarily a flag or a religion no definitely not and I mean they're they're much more they're growing up in a much more diverse society than than than we would have as well so I think that they're more comfortable with people expressing whatever identity they want to express and it's just not it's just not an issue or a deal and the real issues are things like mental health are you know access to third level access to you know services and so on and that's that's the issues that really that they want to talk about and that's what gets them passionate the the surprising thing from at all you know the Ireland debate when it came up I thought I was sitting back thinking oh god it could this could kick off or get hot and heavy but it was far from it it was actually quite quite mouldy you know quite quite muted and it was other other issues more modern topical issues that got got them got them firing you know so I think that's I think that's a good thing too and I think you know I think other things fall into place when you sit when you get people working together and you get people realising that they have a lot more in common than divide them yeah just in terms of education here in the northwest funding per student 100 year or less than other parts of the country as I mentioned earlier on the show we've got no professors north of a Dublin Galway line we have lower access to education here less people in Donegal in the northwest as a whole go on to college and then of course that has a knock-on effect in terms of job creation it's all inter intertwined and then of course you throw in you throw in access by road or train or plane or whatever you can see why we are we're not just saying we've forgotten we can demonstrate that we are Chloe finally what are you speaking about on or do you have to speak on on Monday and what what are you going to be talking about yeah so I'm speaking about social deprivation and drug abuse so basically we're speaking about what solutions we can come to so kind of having Garrett spring tighter loss down on the grooming and things like a one inside gangs and drug dealers it is the huge issue at the minute and we even see it in our own towns and then as well I was part of the youth participation group as well same as turning and we're going to be speaking about getting a something like a Donegal youth council up and running in the north yeah exactly yeah because it is and I've spoke to many youth counselors over the years and it really I think is a great platform for them and there is a sense that they listen to which I think is important here and are you speaking on anything specifically as well yourself I'm speaking on the solutions of the youth participation for example what Chloe said I would like to have a structure that but we have in the south of a youth council in northern Ireland and in the future from my own personal belief in the youth participation group we did have a divide in this but we agree well most of us tend to agree of course that at all I would approach is the best solution for a youth voice or youth participation for example 26 counties are weaker than 32 and the same six counties are weaker than 32 32 counties are the strongest together and if we can get the northern Ireland assembly and the Oroctus or the whatever it's called again forgot that they'll work together yeah and listen to us I think that we have a stronger chance of making change and that'd be really interesting to see what kind of resistance or encouragement there would be for a youth council in the north given the way that politics is a little bit different there and what the youth the makeup of the youth council might be and what their priorities might be it could perhaps put certain public representatives in an awkward position but maybe that's that's what we need okay right is it open to the public on Monday Joe it's in the Morroy Woods hotel and it's from 12 noon to 2 p.m it's the crossboard youth manifesto launch Pareto for progression is it open to the public and other invited guests yes yes it is indeed Greg and the more the merrier we have the the function room there and the Morroy Woods book for it so we'd be delighted to have as many people there that can make it what we know Monday is not an ideal day but if if anyone they're listening it's a good idea it's any other one yeah I suppose that's great yeah you're never gonna get a day degree in every little great day but no yeah if as many people as possible it'd be great just to give them no they put a lot of effort into this and the young people deserve deserve a good kind of I suppose it's the finale really for this year anyway and we're looking at getting funding for it again to kind of really build up the momentum next year but it'd be fantastic to get a good turnout and give them the send off they deserve we'd be going up to pour it down the following day then and doing the same thing up there in their local community center okay so brilliant it's great to see a sense of something has been achieved and pride in that and I actually want to see it followed through on from the students Joe thanks very much indeed keep up the great work Joe McBride teacher of politics and society Tierna what do you want to do with your qualifications do you know yet um I would like to study in Queens um on the youth manifesto project we had the opportunity to travel to Queen's University for the 20th anniversary of the Friday agreement and all my life my heart was set on studying in Dublin I always want to go to Dublin it was just a thing in our family but the moment that I saw Queen's University was just life changed it was like home yeah great to see the passion all right well done to you Joe well done to you Tiernan that's Tiernan Lynch who's a fifth year political politics and science student at Loretto as is Chloe what do you would you hope to do with your life post school what's your interests um I hope to study English and politics and society in either Galway or Queens and I hope to go on to teach them then well done okay well we wish you every success take care Chloe well done to you and Tiernan all the others involved in it have a lovely day okay we'll be back with more shortly watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com this is national food waste recycling week so here's a reminder to always separate waste food remember both cooked and raw food as well as compostable packaging go in the food 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right Councillor Michael McBride joins us on the program now councillor good morning to you good morning mate right Michael you have a proposal before the next letter Kenny Milford Municipal District meeting which should make for an interesting vote and it reads as follows that the letter Kenny municipal area proposed a vote of no confidence in housing minister Dara O'Brien so is it obvious as to why you've brought this motion forward I'm just to give you a bit of history on our table and table that the vote to no confidence in the minister Dara O'Brien for next Tuesday's letter Kenny Milford municipal meeting and the reason I'm doing that is that I tabled the motion about eight months ago asking the minister to meet us to discuss all the outstanding issues with Michael at that time we received a prompt response to say that just to acknowledge the receipt of our letter at the time I kind of thought to myself this is urgent so I asked at that meeting that we would write back to the minister again highlight an urgency of the situation and we promptly received another response to say that they were they've handed it over to lady and the minister's department and that they would get back to us when they could find the calendar date so we find ourselves now eight months on and we have had absolutely no more correspondence with the minister and as far as I'm concerned it's from serious issues here you know to deal with particularly around the whole maker situation well you were one of you were one of the first I think to propose modular homes as a solution to this and it was then eventually well it was ruled out effectively as not a solution why is that though because we are seeing now the state has ordered 700 units of Ukrainian refugees for Ukrainian refugees modular houses fair play you know people need a roof over their head now they're struggling to find sites to put them on but they're due to be all up and running beautiful looking things by December so as anyone ever explained as to why for instance modular homes is not a solution for Donagol why not order 700 for Ukrainians if that's what's required no harm to that and 250 cited in letter Kenny and in a shown for people who can no longer live in their house safely people that have been shafted by the system that didn't properly make sure their houses were built correctly is as ever has an explanation ever been given to you as to why that's not a good enough option for the people of Donagol so I'm Greg I agree with you 100% and what you're saying I'm an elected representative put there by the people to represent them and I've been asking questions about making now for a long long time and I just feel like I've been stone walled and I've been kept completely out of the process and I'm not happy about it and that's the reason I'm taking this motion and when I turn up the heat on the minister's best I possibly can that's the only opportunity that that I have designed voice my opinion and I'm been everywhere I go every day I've been approached by people who are affected by maker and they're really distressed there's a lot of issues out there but I think that you know the modular homes is the one that we have to look at because people are going to have to move out of their houses I think the government are expecting people to move in with their brothers sisters parents and so on so forth but we have a lot of people that was a suggestion from Senator Nile Blaney I believe yeah and we have a lot of people now living in Donagol who have migrated to our county they don't have any relations they've come here to work in the public service to work in hospitals to work in our multinational companies and we're delighted to have them they're you know they're integrated into your community and these people don't have any shape it evolves you know so we need to get on but what I would also think I think what I would what we should also recognize is and we've spoken to experts in this regard as we head into another winter as well there are people living in houses that are unsafe and you know yes you could theoretically live in them for another winter but in doing so because there's no alternative people are being exposed to the dangers of black mold dampness other conditions that are affecting their health and their children's health and affecting their children's health in such a way that it might actually affect their health into adult life we don't really have a figure on that but there is no options for those people they're stuck in those houses you know I mean obviously people need to move out if their house is being rebuilt or if it is you know physically about falling on them but I would love to know how many people are out there that really need to move out of their houses for health reasons but they can't because there's no alternative and surely if we built a ordered another 250 300 400 modular homes I would imagine there's an awful lot of people would avail of them because it's currently unsafe and financially impossible for them to face into another autumn and winter in their broken houses I agree one hundred percent there are people living in conditions that just you would hardly imagine people with straps around the table to their houses people with acros and shite holding up bison slabs you know I know from speaking to people who've had Micah in their homes that you know the cracks are getting so big that they're making their way into the house plus the mold problems that you talk about the list just goes on and on now what I'm concerned about at this point in time Greg is the unfinished housing estate that we hadn't done at all which were a legacy of the Celtic Tiger there was hundreds of them in this county and 17 you know 16 or 17 years later now and still haven't been dealt with through this process going on now the problem is with Micah we don't have the time as I'm saying Micah but we're talking about all the delirious materials and you know we're not going to get on to all that all the time but we'll just refer to it as the Micah homes but you know the people who are living in these homes they don't have that in the time on their side and there are two things that we've got that alternative housing when they're out of their own homes and we have to look as well how many people have they got to rebuild the houses that are there I think that's the massive problem. Yeah but if we have a plan for the houses let's then worry about who's going to build them do you know what I mean like approve 500 houses and then let's start scratching our heads and about who's to build them do you know I would like to see the plans announced and funded very finally in just 30 seconds if you don't mind this puts presumably this motion puts government politicians on a sticky wicket here I mean that you're not that's not a motivation here is it to put pressure on to put pressure on Finnegale Finafall councillors to vote no confidence in a government minister. I would acknowledge that it probably will be very difficult for the other councillors but somebody has to speak up for the people that are suffering will make in their houses and you know what we have to remember as all the councillors agreed that we wanted to have a meeting to discuss all these problems for the minister he's absolutely stonewalled us he hasn't included us and the discussions and I certainly haven't been invited to any forum okay that I was able to put the views forward so Greg I you know as much as it could be sticky wicket for some of them but I mean at the end of the day we're elected by Donegal people to represent the people of Donegal okay the people in Donegal have been left down by government time and time again maker and you know and we also have these issues you know with taxes going on to concrete and the prices are up and there's a lot of other issues as well for us and we'll tease them out again and we have in the past okay Michael listen sorry to rush 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price on dozens of mouthwatering meal days save up to 32 percent on the camille lap or a camille dot ie for a delicious takeaway delivery for sit and tie naked camille riverside retail park on the Neil T Blaney road letter Kenny okay you're very welcome back to the program Colin Grace he's UK sales manager with Logan air thank you very much for calling into us Greg absolute pleasure and I see you're called bribes obviously looking for a soft interview well indeed we have our famous tonics caramel wafers I'm afraid to buy me out it's gonna involve flights well you get these free on board so not a problem yeah right um talk to us about the services out of the north that west that's uh Logan are currently provided absolutely well Greg we've been flying out of city of jerry for quite a number of years and we actually operate the um what they call the the PSO route the um public sector um obligation route from from city of jerry to London uh we recently were re awarded the the contract on that and uh even more recently as in at the start of May uh we moved our services from Stansted into London how did that go down because for some people and it really depends on what suits you best it can be very subjective right but you you get access to the views of all the passengers absolutely and not just individuals that that lived close to the other airport over there this is it is this is offered offers better connections what have you how has it been received this switch yeah well the the connectivity with London um is you know second to none in terms of all of the London airports um when you know the vast majority of passengers that we had flying to and from Stansted we're going into London vast majority a couple for maybe Cambridge but you know 99 plus we're into London and uh what used to be the case you had two trains an hour it would take maybe 56 57 minutes into Liverpool Street and what we've we're now looking at is three flights a day from city of Derry into London Heathrow and the connections to get into London you can actually get to Liverpool Street now uh if it was east London you're heading to in 40 minutes when the the new Elizabeth flying what's capacity like i mean i maybe you don't want to divulge actual figures for operational purposes i don't know uh but are you pleased with with the the capacity of on the planes well yeah capacity um we we've actually increased um we used to just do pick three flights maybe on a thirst in a Friday um and now that's year round including the winter months that we're looking at two on a Saturday two on a Sunday um so absolutely both the frequency and capacity has been has been up yet and in terms of a connection to Dublin uh that that comes up time and time again uh indeed it was there before we'd love to see it again it would be presumably another PSO route uh is that something that the airline would be open to we what would it take for it to happen as opposed well there there's two parts to that um the the easy bit um would be saying that absolutely we'd be interested in that sort of connectivity uh and opportunities um to be presented without question of doubt the harder bit is the um political decisions and the financial backing etc for it um with being a cross-border operation um but it would certainly absolutely we have the blueprint absolutely um and i think previously where it did miss out is you wouldn't have had the onwards connectivity opportunity uh whereas you know for example um with Luganar with our partner carriers um which actually includes Erlingus but the likes of Emirates, Qatar, Etihad um but 16 different airlines and we can give you that opportunity off a through ticket through bag checks um you know which is currently in place via Heathrow around the world um but certainly that would be be something very interested in absolutely um right what what else is on offer for summer obviously Glasgow's back well our Glasgow services um or well to start with for our dairy to Glasgow uh is going up to a daily service from the summer um but what we're absolutely delighted about um and as a real marker being post-COVID restrictions again is that the the Donegal Carrack Finn service will be resuming direct Luganar to Glasgow as and from the 1st of July Saturday and Sunday and then we've only recently I think within the past week or so um been able to announce because of response to demand an additional third weekly service on a Wednesday um so we're really thrilled that that's back and some people again and it can be very uh subjective are saying the flights you know if you wanted to go for a weekend away or if you're going to watch a football match you know what a lot of the demand would be here is that the flight times maybe don't make a great deal of sense in that regard you know so you couldn't go on a Friday evening back in a Sunday evening or Friday evening back Saturday evening so when you look to schedule them what are what are the considerations is how many bombs will be on the seats or is it access to the airports or slots or what's going on it's a huge mixture of factors that will come into that so you've you've got your aircraft uh based on whether it's in Glasgow or Derry or wherever and you have to build your schedule from that with your your strongest routes and then adding to it now the the Carrack Finn um service is operated from a flight from Glasgow so it'll be doing other services um to the likes of Stornoway to Islay and maybe up to Orkney so it's it's quite an operation to try and fit that in ideally you know certainly would we had everybody would you know probably opt in love for that best time on a whether there's a Thursday night or a Friday afternoon or whatever and coming back on a Sunday um but where you lose one way you might gain and another so it's it's quite an operation to try and get that right and you satisfy the demand right across the piece but for now is that the schedule or is it something that you're looking at currently that is will be the schedule through the summer period where we've got a Saturday afternoon and Sunday service going over to to Glasgow from Carrack Finn and then the Wednesday one is a mid-morning service on that but then you know as I said we've got those options out of City of Derry as well and that's the daily service which is actually probably more more useful for certain people depending on where you're living of course absolutely um and also too we often uh when we think of aeroplanes we think of us getting on them and flying elsewhere uh but there's often people that are flying in on them you know and that's how the access either Derry or or or Dunningall it's inbound travel that are going to hang around for a week and then then return home absolutely and uh as much as it's great for connectivity for the northwest from Dunningall from Derry you know to get to London to get around the world you know the flip side of that is you know the world can now come into City of Derry via Heathrow on Luganur and with our connections with British Airways and Rosanne United Airlines and people like that um changing at Heathrow and straight into City of Derry when it came over from the airport yesterday I think was about 40 minutes 45 minutes and that was at peak traffic times in the evening so you know really good connectivity there do you think a lot of people understand get it right that you can say you're planning to go somewhere around the world that you can start your flight journey in in Derry because most of the people I know they're worried about how to park in Dublin and they're getting a flight out of Dublin right uh now I don't know maybe they do look at it and the cost is prohibitive I don't know you can inform me on that but it's it's get maybe this is why we're having conversations like this it's getting the message across that you can start your flight journey so to speak from Derry uh to the rest of the world you don't have to worry about a three or four hour drive to Dublin what have you absolutely and and this is you a brand new game changer really since we started operating just about a month now and where you can check in um your your baggage allowance will be the same as your international long haul whether you're flying on Emirates or you know say for example one for other partner airlines Ethiopian airlines that have great connections throughout Africa down to South Africa um you'll get your three check bags your boarding pass um the hallway and a throw and beyond and if there's any issues with uh weather or any sort of disruption the passenger is fully protected and will be re-accommodated in the event of anything like that happening all right what's the biggest challenge facing aviation is it getting uh you know the green conversation is it about getting more efficient planes uh more efficient fuel uh I I think we nearly were in a period whereby people were stopping to using using planes because the conscience was getting the better of them and then I think we had lockdown and then people said stuff at lives for living you know so I'm not sure people are making a moral choice anymore because we can't park at certain airports because so many people are flying but is that one of the greatest challenges to try and uh to try and make planes more fuel efficient now short haul actually it's not a big deal really as far as my understanding is it's the long haul flights really in terms of aviation there's a problem but the certainly the demand as you quite rightly identified post-covid has come back you know in in leaps and bounds very very strongly um after safety you know our our number one focus um is very much looking at the environmental impact and Loganair were actually the first UK airline to implement a compulsory levy on each ticket couple of pounds per ticket that's reinvested into um green energy and environmental projects globally surplus from that is then uh re-employed into the local markets um you know it might be a golf club or something that's putting in solar panelling uh it's kind of offsetting really more offsetting but you know those are only the initial steps um what roles who will never have electric planes well I was just about to say we've already started trial flights up in Orkney in the inter-island services in Orkney working with likes of Rolls Royce, Cranfield University where we're trialing electric pords aircraft but we we feel that the larger that's maybe fine up to maybe your 18 28 seaters um but bigger than that it'll probably be sustainable aviation fuels or using pigs don't like sustainable aviation fuels anyway we're too close to 11 to get into that yeah but but but yeah I think the the airlines recognize they've absolutely and Greg just what I should say as well um because it was first ever UK airline this week we're from Loganair we had our first all-electric turnaround now what that means is all the ground services the ground power um what used to be diesel tractors pushing back and we were the first airline to have a full electric turnaround so very finally if someone wants to say right maybe I can fly from Derry to Dubai absolutely but what website did they go on to well with our partner carriers either either um you would speak to your local travel agent and we've got two excellent agents here in in letter Kenny um local travel agent or if you're looking at the likes of the British Airways website the Emirates website um they will be able to automatically integrate in your starting you go to your starting point would be Derry and then you can see from absolutely for Dubai for Mauritius wherever okay right okay don't be put my ideas in my head all right uh Colin Grace the UK sales manager with Loganair thanks for calling up and thanks for the treats as well uh we'll take a break which means the news is going to be two minutes late but stay right where you are thank you the Inneshawn vintage weekend kicks 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latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 mcayla thank you very much indeed okay uh we'll be taking a very short break then it's back with that's entertainment love a space to call your own live in the better built surroundings of a glenn v home love having a sense of place live for shaping it from the get-go love green spaces and the joy of outdoors live where lower environmental impact is a way of life in a home built more sustainably for comfort quality and for people putting down roots just like you love where you live community inspired and shaped by you and glenn v home of the new i have a sub in today it's kind of my own manager of the balar um the bala theater finnard is too busy with other things seemingly which is great because that means you get to come in connor great good morning great accept our invite and of course the old reliable emphasis on the word old michael uh and reliable actually michael leddie a writer and also a blogger hello greg limited renowned thank you very cool the honesty in that intro is searing cruel wasn't it it's cool he's in a zingy mood oh definitely uh yep end of the week two day week that's a nice one isn't it um right okay come here michael what have you been watching novik on netflix is back on the agenda yes we didn't get around to it last week yeah this is a brand new film on uh netflix i watched it last week last last third tonight um it's a true story from world war two which is one of the things that drew me to it and it's sort of below the radar um i don't think a lot of people know about it yet although it's getting a lot of critical acclaim it's a norwegian film so it's one of those films where the original dialogue is uh norwegian and obviously you can watch it with subtitles as i did or you can watch it dubbed which i did not it's a true story from world war two and it's a very famous which is now i suppose largely forgotten but at the time it was very famous it was a town in norway that was the location of hitler's first defeat uh both the nazi forces and the allied forces uh england etc were very interested in this town because it was key towards um ship production and it was a key town the rest of the country the rest of norway capitulated as soon as nazi forces showed up and indeed uh on the night of their arrival in narvik the general or colonel or whoever was in charge handed over their weapon and did a very formal surrender on the street but the sergeant uh they they were supposed to report back report back to the barracks but the sergeant uh instead took his platoon uh out of the town into the mountains and decided they were not going to surrender and the towns people joined in that as well and they fought a resistance through the spring of that year so this is a true story and what the makers of this very good film have done is they have created a fictionalized family to put at the center of it so they can tell the story that way the husband is the soldier the wife works in the hotel the story is divided between the two of them and so we get to see what happens to him and the platoon we get to see what happens to her because she has to work with the nazis they take over the hotel she works there she's not the manager s but her and the manager s are both featured in some of the kitchen staff and they get to know some of the nazis and they have a sort of an uneasy um friendship with them almost you know I mean obviously they're not friends but like the Streisner factor or something different yeah yeah I know yeah yeah I know the thing you're um Stockholm is it the Stockholm effect that was the one yeah that's the thing yeah it's kind of like me and you Greg it's kind of like what I don't like being corrected so so um I thought this was an excellent excellent movie it is heavy sounds of it is quite heavy it delivers on the action which you would expect of a world war two picture I mean there is a sequence where you know the sequence we've all seen in world war two movies or war movies where they have to blow up the bridge now you're right about the effect before the before the train comes and they're climbing they're climbing up and it was really thrilling and there's a sequence at the end where they have to storm the gun and they do all that stuff but it also looks at the moral implications of what the woman has to do and how she survives in the town I was surprised to see that in it but I had no problem with that it was a little heavier than I was expecting from what I thought might be a you know an action movie it delivers the action but it is thought provoking I definitely feel that if there had been anyone in the room but sadly I was sitting there on my own watching this but if there had been anyone there I think we could have had a discussion you would chat about is it not just a wee bit you know could you not just watch the news no and I don't mean that you know like no to just to see the horrors of the world well I mean it's a historical piece I mean it's worth telling the story and I think it's very timely because of things that are happening in all parts of the world but specifically Ukraine that's what I mean yeah well I mean it's it's a fictionalized but it's a fictionalized version of a true story but it resonates because of what is in the news I think it's worth watching because it does provide entertainment value yeah but it's thought provoking as well as giving action I would heartily recommend this I thoroughly enjoyed it it delivered what I wanted but it delivered a little bit more than what I wanted I didn't quite didn't realize it would be quite that thought provoking great performances great action sequences and it was a story I didn't know anything about I didn't know that this was a turn is this a big deal come on ignore where you said mate yeah it's not a big deal are they what's our reputation like making big films yeah looking at the IMDB for the people involved in this they have scant amount of credits so I'm inclined to agree with you yeah there it seems to be without reading into that specifically it does seem to be a big deal certainly for these people like the lead actress has something like four credits you know the director you know they only have a few things so I would imagine it's one of those things where you know Netflix has gotten it's where Netflix's books have gone to something good critics have embraced the movie critics have said it deserves all the praise that last year's all quiet on the western front it's this year's version of that almost in the sense that it deserves that critical acclaim and yeah it's something unusual in the sense that it comes from Norway and if nothing else there's snow on the ground in every scene and you don't see that in most world war two pictures it's something different you know I mean they're out in the cold tickles your fancy camera and people tend to in your house watch foreign language films they end up speaking that language don't they if I remember correctly I'm I kind of war films have always been a turn off for me to I kind of wasn't going to be that direct it's just it's like oh um because it's like oh it's there's always sort of a preachy goody baddy element to it and um it's like I know this happened I kind of I can watch history documentaries and stuff and if I you know I read a history book um so I've kind of like anything that glorifies even a battle or something to me doesn't rest easy with me I don't know that's what you're all talking about but even like one person to roic actions or a particular village I can't find my stop myself my mind going back to a what started this what was the motivation who benefited from it do you know what I mean the bigger picture cloud I mean I remember I think save and thrive around was my final turn off for war films yeah but every war film I watch I think you know they're nearly should be at the top of the screen these like four fat men moving chess pieces around the board and facing no consequences whatsoever will they send all the lads out to do you know and it just no it just it actually it annoys me too much I would love to see us have more awareness of what's going on at the moment yes yeah you know what I mean drop serious on it but I mean like yeah if you see what's happening in eastern Ukraine yeah young lads and some women in effectively and it's a horrible phrase me grinders like just literally being sent in like the ones over the top in the first world war in other words we are living through it as we speak if you know what I'm on about like and I understand how it's it but you know there are thousands upon thousands of young people sent literally into a meat grinder they're sent to their death there's no way they're conscripted on both sides which I don't think an awful lot of people realize that there's even some talk of people who've left the area being rounded up in different countries to go back and do their thing and as I say I don't want to be serious on it but I find myself in that mine space which switches me off the these types of don't you just know you know there's groups of a film executive sitting around going hey war is selling right now let's make a load of war movies you know and just that kind of cynical low and I think so is happy I think I think there's an element there I think if you open the door on that then you say we can't do war pictures because there's war on the world we can't do crime pictures because you are you're also saying you can't do a story of where a husband abuses his wife no you are you are you're opening the door on that because a crime because a crime is you're saying you can't fictionalize what's happening no I'm saying you can you have just not going to watch it and enjoy it yes but then some people might now want to see a misogynistic kind of story where a husband beats up his wife correct you would have to have some rich man pulling the strings making the husband abuse his wife and getting away scot free but that's if you're and then a whole group of people profiteering on it and then maybe that's the aspect of the war that you're finding objectionable but if you're saying there's the killing as well yeah but there's but it clouds it to the point where I can't I wouldn't enjoy it I love a one of my favorite shows I've said it before it's the first 48 it's horrendous it starts with a murder every episode right and it's true yeah but these are the individual actions of people and then you could talk about you could probably talk about what's happening in society that force causes this to happen in the gun culture in America of course you could yes but it's just the particular things about war how they're messaged how they're covered in various news channels that it all is so murky that I just wouldn't enjoy that type of film but I don't think I'm not saying this shouldn't be made yeah Pearl Harbor band of brothers yes I think it's a specific viewpoint I mean it is a very specific viewpoint I see where you're coming from but at the same time I think if nothing else we fiction can be cathartic I mean you could look at these things I mean you can take that you can read that from the material but then you can also read should we not look at the battle of good versus evil which happens today but yeah but should you not find who's good and evil well if people are if people are in a town and an occupied force takes the town I don't think it's that it's an individual battle within the why yeah it's about our housewife who basically it's Rupert Murdoch isn't it that's who defines who's good and evil very heavy guys it is but anyway listen you're giving it full marks Connor's not going to watch it I read on Cally and Cune celebrating winning two gongs at the Celtic media festival in Donegal which is great won the spirit of the festival and talked for single drama awards at this year's event at Unclochenlea it already scoped a nomination for an Oscar earlier this year and won eight iftas in 2022 was this just the darling of of of irish film industry or did it deserve all these accolades deserved I haven't seen it deserved yeah deserved it no I haven't it's you know it's there it's the list it's the next thing that I have to watch when I finish watching what I'm watching I never finish watching what I'm watching I have about five or six programs that are always on the list yeah uh but something will come out and go ahead of it so they're potentially to the point where I've oh when you're finally around about to sit down and watch it you get a phone call you have to go something yes I watched the bling ring on on it was made into a film um seven or eight years ago uh it's a documentary on Netflix interested any listeners who've watched it 08 660 25000 it's about teenagers that started robbing celebrity houses in hollywood um and how they came to do it and the people involved have got good access to it and conflicting stories and all that kind of stuff it's another one of those kind of talking head ones but there's a bit of reconstruction it's not bad but again can you hear the interviewer the producers sitting there asking questions off mike and i'm like oh don't do this to us but anyway uh i wonder like our our producer is outside but he has a question he's gonna lean on the window the camera just have a mic plugged into the camera and go uh you know but anyway uh if anyone watched that let us know and i watched an absolutely terrible film on amazon last night i'm not even gonna talk about it oh please please it's called shattered um and it was trying to be a cross between like fatal attraction basic instinct misery and it's just so cliche miserable you might actually enjoy it because it's so corny and cliche if you don't embrace that embrace yeah because you like your b films oh i do you know what i mean oh yeah cheesiest in sometimes you want to wear it doesn't tax you yeah there's no surprises i knew this was coming it's like one of the characters um when they turn bad all of a sudden their head tilts to one side there's a smile and they start speaking like this and i'm thinking right is this a joke no it's not i already love it i think it's called shattered but anyway it was uh it's passed an hour and a half but i wish i had passed it another way shall we take a quick break and then we'll talk about the celebration of father ted coming up at the baller we're in the company of michael leddie writer and blogger kind of my own manager at the baller theater and you at home at work wherever get involved in the conversation give us a call and oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand or text whatsapp oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand more from the gents in just a moment the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio i have the right to make the decisions that matter to me decisions about my money my property where 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coming in from paddy and all the crew in uh dairy watch the swarm on sky the animals of the sea fight back against humanity enjoyed it up until the end set up for second season haven't seen or heard anything about that okay uh let me see hi i'm sending an email in the hope that you might very kindly advertise that the clon centering glenn finn is hosting a quiz in aid of the donningall gallway cancer boss service it's tonight at 9 p.m we're a charity and uh we know how important it is to keep and help local services so if you're interested in the quiz tonight at nine o'clock in the clon centre no it's not in the clon centre isn't yeah the clon centre and glenn finn is hosting it is there it's hosting a quiz in aid of the gallway uh donningall gallway cancer boss service a listener says um hi greg can you please ask connor when is the baller going to start putting on more family children shows uh if we want to see children shows we often have to go to on green on uh the aline stirban or the r down in a skill and it's such a pity when there's such a nice theatre in our own uh town love the show thanks okay uh so fun you should mention that because uh on this sunday at 3 p.m we are hosting auditions for our uh summer youth musical we used to do a summer youth musical every year but this is actually it's the first one since since 2019 so it's the first one in four years thanks to covid so anybody that is aged uh 13 plus so 13 to about 18 19 if you're interested either lead parts chorus parts if you want to help out backstage auditions are three o'clock this sunday and the musical itself will run in the first week of august all right so it's a small enough window it's going to be intense yeah yeah it is an intense rehearsal period but it's great you could have up to like 60 70 teenagers from the local community i mean this is our summer you know your three four days a week rehearsing brilliant there's a live band with it you're rehearsing with them as well um so do you know do we want to know which musical it is at this point uh yes it's a it's a new musical that we've written ourselves oh cool now it's using existing 50s and 60s music yeah but the actual uh the book uh the script is brand new we've written ourselves excellent so that's sunday you just roll that's this sunday just roll up at three o'clock okay uh we also have coming in as part of the ergal art festival in july uh show i'm really looking forward to call the amazing bubble man and uh look up the promo video for the amazing bubble man on youtube and you will see it's amazing he is a bubble man you know but it is amazing it does what it says on the channel exactly it's the wrong seal title yeah okay right now also coming up uh celebrations of father ted in the baller what's this about well what's this about but how does the structure of it yeah if that's that's tonight it's hosted by joe rooney who played father demo in uh you know he was the sort of the the other novice priest that came and led do go the street so uh you know there's um joe first and foremost he's he's one of ireland's longest and most revered stand-up comics i mean he was back in the old international bar days and arguably there wouldn't be a stand-up scene in our individual so i mean joe on his own is worth our money you know but then they do all sorts of things like there's a lovely girls competition uh there's a there's a dancing priests competition so there's lots of audience interaction uh i'm sure there's going to be a my lovely horse singing along and i'd be very disappointed if it didn't end with a all rise for the national anthem and play ghost town so it's a sort of a you know an interactive nostalgia manic father tread how did father ted uh do you think managed to i mean there's lots of shows of popularity at their time and then they cease uh but this has maintained it's the references still the lovely girls and the you know what i mean what what is it i because the only thing i can think a little bit like it's a wee bit like faulty towers but i think father ted even more so yeah i think the humor was so off the wall that it has this timeless quality to it because i already remember watching bits of father ted and never getting it and going i don't see what people see in this and i actually remember i was in a friend's house one night and i remember the line and then everything clicked and it was a do you go said something about the pope and take us the pope is god's representative on earth and do you go goes you think you'd be taller and after that all the absurd humor just clicked and made sense for me but i think it's because of the absurdity of the humor it's not rooted in anything really topical and it just gives it this timeless quality is it a show that oh yeah i'm actually i'm actually on the cusp of starting another rewatch and lined it up kind of and i only finished a rewatch a couple years ago i think the thing about ted is and i agree with everything that's been said before but i think it's very rewatchable i think and that's where it also stands up there with faulty towers which i also rewatched and finished recently it stands off i mean there's good shows that that you know they're funny you know like a lot of american sitcoms i'm a fan of them but they're not you don't immediately want to go back five 10 15 years later and rewatch the parks and rec was a great show great show but i'm not given i'm not driven to rewatch any of the episodes there's some shows that's really pay when you rewatch them ted is one of those you go back and revisit it five 10 years later you'll just see stuff and it'll seem fresh you think dairy girls will have the same longevity i don't know i haven't seen that one yet at all so i don't know no just one night i mean obviously it was big but it won't just happen it was it was big i think dairy girls is more of a timer of place and um it's that's not a criticism no no no no it's hugely popular uh and i just wonder in 10 years down the line will it resonate the way it did my my hunch is no yeah okay uh celebrations of father ted in the baller tonight tickets available tickets available yet at the box office you can seven four nine one three one eight four oh and you can turn up on the night you can turn up on the right brilliant capacity there all right okay uh let us go now to star trek lower decks on amazon yes so this i'm coming to the end of the second season of this is running out of things to do star treks about now this is lower decks so we're not in yeah it's basically well it's it's the lord it's the people who don't get to go on the exciting missions right so they are running out of yeah it's a half hour comedy series oh okay yes and it's an animated show very much in the style of the great future rama or um um oh it's an animated show yeah it's an animation it's there's three star trek animated shows one from the 70s and two that are currently in production the two that are in production at the moment are brilliant one of them is a serious drama and this one is just a flat-out comedy but what makes it and it's on amazon what makes it interesting is it it still adheres loosely but it adheres to the rules of star trek it fits into the timelines it doesn't deviate things too much from what could happen in a live action episode and what's very exciting about it at the moment is the two leads on this are actually crossing over into star trek strange new worlds which is about to come back for season two but it's going to be their live action versions the real actors are going to appear in the episode they're not going to have cartoons walk on the screen but they are going to have some of the episode animated well they are actually are yeah are they losing the run of themselves though i mean this is an absolutely exhausting franchise no no it's because you can have star trek holodeck yeah i would say critics and fans have embraced this and strange new worlds it's more creative and more exciting than star trek has been in years because some of the shows they had like discovery and the early seasons of the card war are terrible but they seem to have found their mojo the bottom line for lord x is the three seasons are up i've seen two of the three seasons it's very funny it's really funny and it works on it's not so much whether you care about the star trek elements but you can watch it because the main guy is this insecure character who's striving for promotion he cares too much about everything that happens around him and cares about the nittlest things his best mate she is she doesn't care about anything they're a great partnership you know that's a lot of these comedies whether it's red dwarf whether it's ten it does look as cliche as doesn't it yeah but it's like buddy cop movie yes but it's like it works i know what you didn't but it's splendid from the force and you got 48 hours to clear your name um but it works because they're they're polar opposites but they are best friends and it's very funny and it brings in a lot of like there's they have that a character called badgey on the holodeck who was based on do you remember that annoying paper clip that used to appear on microsoft years ago can i help you so badgey is voiced by one of the guys from 30 rocks but he's so much deranged so he pops up on the holodeck and the safety protocols are off and he's he's like helping you but he's like let me teach you a lesson and they basically have an episode where badgey is trying to kill them so if you like the idea of the paper clip that used to annoy you in microsoft products 25 years ago coming after you to kill you then this type of star trek humor would work it's a brilliant show it gets better every season if you like future amma love future amma watched voyager or something will watch this yes will it be a certain type of star trek fan no i think it's again it's it's already coming back for its fourth season this year it has been embraced like it has the volkens won't like it the volkens won't like it um it has been embraced no i mean it has i think broadly speaking star trek fans are probably more accepting than star wars fans who hate everything like i mean star i will they do i i i know i i know people a whole name check them on here who'll say to me michael do you watch star wars and i'll say i don't really and then they'll talk for 20 minutes about what's wrong with all the start wars movies your life is like the conflict between uh star trek star wars android apple it is uh you know those universes thing images with the superheroes in them the you know marvel i have taught him well he almost can say marvel in dc he knows they exist he doesn't quite love it i do i love it yeah i love it but anyway to answer your question yeah i think no fans will embrace it and if you're not even not into star wars or star trek sorry but if you loved i mean i i'm sure everybody loved future amma future amma was brilliant band bender so do you think star trek watchers are republican democrats you know what might be really therapeutic for you it's just start supporting the football team or something oh that tribalism oh wow yeah i could do that actually i think he'd end up being really violent to getting banned from i'd be one of the ultras yeah but anyway it's a good show it's on amazon it's worth watching and it's going to be cool in a couple of weeks this summer because you're going to get to see i mean that's an unusual thing the cartoon versions the same actors and luckily the the animated characters are drawn to look they were always drawn to look a bit like the actors i think disney did that as well don't they disney do that as well so and the timeline is is star trek lower decks goes boldly go where boldly goes where no star trek has gone before yes yeah that's what yeah yeah and it all started many years ago on the original next generation there was an episode of next generation back in the early 90s which put the focus on four guest characters who were like sitting in the canteen as it weren't in forward just saying about oh i wonder what they're doing down on the planet well anyway better go and clean the clean the you know the conference room so there was always this idea and people fans were like well why don't we focus on those characters the ones who don't get to do anything exciting and don't know like they know there's a ship outside attacking us but we're like who's who's attacking us no one tells them so this guy it is kind of interesting it's funny well yeah i think maybe if it was if it was live action i'd probably be more interested yeah well you don't watch well look here's the question right no i watched i watched love voyager and the no but do you watch any of the look are you do did you watch future ama no it's yeah i went through a spell where it it all the simpsons was on at seven o'clock in the evening and i just watched it you know what i mean i there was no appointment there but i might have been eating my microwave dinner as it came i shared a house money a guy called jerry lovely guy down in court now he uh that was his routine he got in before seven you know what ruins the drama and simpsons for me nothing tv does family guy oh funny guys it was so edgy right yeah very different when they're i found that even though there was some clever jokes in there i found the likes of future ama and the simpsons sanitized on land yeah yeah i just thought it was so on point so mature so pushing the barriers that we but you know what i mean saying stuff you couldn't say to go back to home we're having a round with mr burns or something it just felt like i was i know what you're saying but i still of course yeah totally but i still think if nothing else bender bender is one of the great comedy like the episode where they open like i always i quote the somebody but where they open the the door and there's like a baby and and like lila is like it looks like a baby and bender is like i'll kill it it's sick it's just there was so much in family guy that you could not have got away with loud action yeah yeah it could only have worked as a carrot town uh yeah exactly the chicken fights which never made it was worth spectacular remember when they used to get when you get into the random fights and they'd go on for like 10 minutes yeah they'd run around and never explained it somatic jokes point or something yeah so good do they still make the simpsons they do okay it's in season um 149 million and 30 yeah something like that right okay uh ron hill rallying in association with the letter kenny community child care facility rebuilding fund presents a pre dunagall international rally event it's this sunday the 11th of june at st unan's gea pitch in letter kenny among the panel will be callum divine gary jennings david bogey kevin eaves and more rally cars will be on display from 5 p.m with free ice cream and face painting 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telly has been watched but i'm reminded uh me of greg and his mankini maybe it's too much sun but it's something you can't forget and it's 29 celsius next week kevin from donal well kevin i might actually just roll the straps of the mankini down uh so uh that's something for you to think of great thanks for that image thanks a lot for that image well i don't want two strap lines so i'll just i'll just just really pretty much have the budgie smuggler in the straps hanging down it's not small it's far away right thanks i can't i i can't get that image out of my own head that's worrying is you're a weekend ruined right trem trem trem me yeah it's um like you know i never watch that that's current and i'm always watching this all stuff and you know i love the wire so trem is made by david simon after he made the wire i think it's 2010 was season one uh and it's set in new orleans post katrina and it's brilliant for a start i'm really i'm only halfway through season one at the moment i absolutely love it it's got similar to the wire it's got all these personal really engaging stories of these characters but it's all kind of woven into a broader tapestry about post katrina new orleans trem a was you know it's down the lower ninth ward where a lot of the projects were and you have this whole thing of there's certain political slash business influencers that want to use this to get all the poor people out of that because it's actually prime tourist real estate so they want to replace the projects with don't waste a good crisis sort of a thing exactly exactly and the shock doctrine the only client sort of thing and and what it also has as well it's almost like when he was making this simon was kind of afraid that the new orleans that he knew or loved would be lost so it's a real homage to i mean if you like new orleans jazz it is full of it and also that kind of carnival culture and it's almost like you know and the godfather the godfather was so long but it was bits of it where it wasn't moving the story along but it was recreating to give you the feel and there's a real feeling of this about it that you actually really go my god new orleans was great and you really appreciate the whole the the the music jazz asm elements the carnival elements and you'll see there's a lot of familiar faces if you're a warrior fan that that crop up wendell pierce who played bunk in the wire he's a kind of trombonist jazz trombonist was basically living from gig to gig and when did this go into production i'm not getting on the spot train was about 2005 2006 he was on to it really quite quickly after that then yeah i think this was commissioned in about 2008 and the pilot was made in 2009 but was actually broadcasted 2010 and then so the first season then went out in 2010 but i mean it's got everything if you're familiar with David's time and it's got everything that you'd expect with the brilliant characters there's also kind of a overarching kind of social commentary all mixed up into this just absolutely lovingly recreated all of new orleans jazz and new orleans carnival it feels real then does it because that's the thing about the wire it didn't feel like a documentary don't get me wrong but it didn't feel like a traditional tv program either no and again that did it presented or scripted it felt very like there's a camera just capturing what these people are saying yes continue that kind of it it does because again what he's done is he has a brought in new orleans writers uh new orleans newspaper people uh just a character in a play by john goodman who is based on uh an actual new orleans vlogger basically he gets on to youtube and rants about how the bush administration have uh just deserted new orleans and rants quite profanely and he's walking down the street and people are starting to go yes or you're home he's like he's already talking to about three people you know um even the every every every every episode there's a few recurring musicians who are actual new orleans musicians and i've no doubt that another uh another element of making this was to make sure these people survives and you know get them back up to where they were run for four seasons four seasons 36 episodes so it's you know by today's standards it's not a marathon it sounds like one of those shows that you gone oh my i've stumbled on something here and i've got four series to enjoy this unfold yeah because i vaguely remember probably about 10 years ago a friend of mine recommended me because they knew i liked david simon also the music could be right up my street and it was always kind of in the back of me head and i was one of these things i never got around to watching and actually what happened i think the last time i was in here i was saying that i was going to re-watch the warrior but i was a kind of afraid to in case it wasn't as good as i remember you said yeah i watched it and it was even better right and then i went right i'm watching tremmy now yeah have you seen tremmy one of my all-time favorite shows superb i superb superb superb i think recommended this i think way way probably way way back years ago yeah it was it did run four seasons i finished it off i i can say it's quite heavy going it's heavy but it's worth it's not a negative no no no just just setting up for it gets better i mean i think i i think two season two is better than one three is better i think it ends brilliantly it's a her i absolutely endorse everything you've said it's so worth watching i really look for it yeah so it's in for a treat yeah it gets and they get bring in some of my favorite characters haven't even appeared yet for you like oh yeah but they're brilliant i love kim dickens and that she's the chef yes i love her arc i think it's an amazing so what is this don't like i like to break it down in simple terms is it about people's lives in general very much they're very much it's a bunch of people yeah i mean i'll try and put it differently but the same way it's a bunch of people who just share the city but they don't know each other which is fascinating and you're always like oh but that guy doesn't know her and she doesn't you know there's a lawyer and there's some people there's a married couple of so you get to jump around and you see so the main character in the show is the city it's like it's like it's that there's no common denominator beyond that and they just happen to character populate yes exactly and you get this flavor of you know you get different i think but you get really invested in their own personal stories as well i mean the chef uh deeply indebted in the restaurant fantastic chef and she's trying to keep the restaurant going you have the trombone player who obviously you know the gigs have dried up and he's he's literally hand on mouth from gig to gig you have a barrel owner whose brother was arrested just before Katrina and now is completely lost and missing in the system uh you have the john goodman character who's the vlogger you have another guy he was in the world he played lester freeman in the world and he's a new orleans indian chief and he's determined that they will be back for the car so you have all these different stories and i think the the word that keeps coming into my head is and and it's obviously what it had to be because of the serious subject matter and it was almost live although you know a few years later authenticity like they all have to be authentic and of it yes in the same way it has that with the word yeah it kind of it prides itself and but he felt like you were in bolty born didn't you i mean you kind of felt like you knew it yeah yeah and also as i say in in this case so baltimore it was that kind of right edgy gritty authenticity and you have that here as well but you also have this as i say almost like he was he was afraid it was going to vanish you have this loving homage to the authenticity of the the new orleans music scene you know how it's all intertwined isn't it yeah and there's there's there's kind of there's there's a feeling of love off this that didn't necessarily get off the wire you know and you're right i think one thing about there is so much music is kind of said but it's it's like when when when artists are playing they get the scene it's not like there's dialogue over it the camera just moves over and you get to see an entire performance you spend maybe five minutes with an artist again you totally so and it does that every episode yeah and you're like you're completely immersed in this world you're like and you as somebody who's never been to new orleans but after four years you're like oh i get it why it's so important you can really taste the gumball it's quite you get it i have a friend let me ask you because kona hasn't seen it yet um and then we have to take a very quick break would you be interested in a fifth series now catching up on the characters if that's doable what an idea yeah in what new orleans in what new orleans actually become because they fit into this i'm going to tweet david that's such an idea wow that's like when we did that seven up 14 up 20 remember did a movie that's a really brilliant idea i would of course be on board with it yeah okay right listen i've actually finally said something that's interesting that was uh from connor's vault uh it's creme i suspect that you might have to dig around on the internet time this it's not is it currently streaming i think yeah and i know you've access to a hb o library you know it's a hb o box edit okay happy days right there you go creme t r e m e uh and often you can open it up and actually just add it to your watch list in case you might forget what we're talking about both uh connor and michael connor halfway through season one michael haven't consumed all of it both rated extremely highly do you want to take the next step in your career at atlantic technological university we can help you choose from over 350 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from the south however we're going to lose that northeast debris which will warm up the north coast nicely so it's going to turn warm and humid winds are going to go suddenly but we're also going to get some more unstable air with showers now the showers are really hard to forecast going to be very hit and miss um i know some areas crying out for rain and others won't want it for the spoil of the weekend it'll probably work out to the ones that want to don't get it and the ones that don't want to get it because it is hard to forecast the showers but temperatures increasing and becoming very humid especially at night time as well temperatures not dropping below maybe 13 or 14 degrees at night there will be sunny spells and especially on sunday but also those local and possibly even tundry showers so it's not kind of as the kind of weather you like because it's going to go from you know very warm and sticky to a shower and back to warm and sticky again but watch out for the showers next week it's going to be warm and getting warmer temperatures getting up to 25 26 degrees by the middle of the week um but still a risk of showers so unsettled but warm and humid is the general consensus pleasant but not unbroken sunshine no unfortunately the blue skies are going to leave us um and it's going to become kind of it's funny we're going to lose the blue skies but it's going to get warmer so we're going to have cloud but much more warmer warm air and that nice sea breeze that many of us that don't like that he's loved last two weeks is going to leave us as well all right okay uh cheers to that Alan thank you very much indeed have a lovely day that's Alan O'Reilly there Karlo whether you can follow him on social media and get all the maps and charts and predictions and what have you and the good thing I like about it it's not uh Dublin focused like some other weather forecasts can be anything nice planned for the weekend Connor it'll think we've anything time to dig into anything unless you want to go really quickly on Sweeney Todd is that coming up this weekend no no I've seen it right okay we can come back to that come back so was it good yeah thumbs up I enjoyed it any sunday three o'clock uh auditions for the youth musical and celebration of Father Ted tonight at eight the musical at three and uh no I think that's about my weekend that's all right what about you my god that's a herlophone yeah that's what's a monster hurl okay cool I had no plans whatsoever but then I met Finula on the way in here and she informed me that I'm going to see transformers in the cinema so that's my 3d I don't know what Finula was what would your preference be I yeah okay 3d 3d it's supposed to be good in 3d because they slide out the screen and stuff a spoiler yeah well all right thanks so much uh Conomalon we really appreciate you coming up for the chief manager of the baller theatre Michael leddie writer and blogger thanks for all of you for uh being involved in the 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