 Full account terms apply, bed responsibly, 18plusgamblingcare.ie To present the show, but welcome to the entertainment hour with me, Fenula Rabbit. Greg has left me to it, although I've had him here beside me holding my hand because it turns out I am not as confident as I thought I was. And I don't know how to use this desk, even though I technically paid for it. So I want to welcome my guest, very weird to say that. First of all, we have Noel Cunningham. I have a list of all your achievements, but everybody knows who you are. And it's author and TV personality. Oh, just you don't leave it. But in fairness, I keep it. I am so jealous the number of times I've hoped to sit in here with Greg holding my hand. So Fenula, no complaints. Greg is straight over for our cutting of anybody's listening and watching us on there. Thank you, Noel. A million congratulations. What a milestone interrupted by COVID, but here we are. I know it's fantastic. We're so delighted to be able to be back doing it again. You know, with big plans during COVID, it's great to be back and to be able to raise money for some fantastic charities. And as I said, 34 years. It's so amazing that the people have done it. God have supported Highland for a huge length of time and given it the status that it has across the country. So big thank you to all our listeners. So after Noel, then I have again, Maria. Oh, here we go. Maria Rush of Rush Fitness. Letter Kenny and awesome director of the Adams Family Musical. I know we mentioned it 165 million. It may have been mentioned once or twice, Maria, over the course of the last couple of weeks. But having seen it myself last Saturday, it was still not mentioned enough. It was amazing. But I will say our own Dungal Kavana stole the show. Stole the show. I mean, it was the role he was born to play. Even his grunting as lurch was sheer masterpiece. Killian Murphy didn't have a patch on him. And finally, my one time friend and now, you know, Katie's best friend. And this is a definite exaggeration of his abilities. Writer and blogger, Michael Ledger. I think Katie's best friend sounds a little better than writer and blogger. Exactly. You're more known throughout the country as Katie's best friend. Well, thank you all for coming. And as I said, apologies in advance when I talk over you or do put ad breaks in the wrong place, but I have all my bits of paper, so I'm ready to go. So I think the first thing we probably need to talk about in the entertainment is the Oscars. It was an amazing night for Ireland. Not only did we have the great Killian Murphy, but also poor things Irish produced. And it was just fantastic to see it today. Did anybody else watch it or watch bits of it? Well, it's one of those things you can't you can't but, you know, anybody who has anything whatsoever to do in terms of public exposure in whatever field, you're drawn to the Oscars. It is the event of the year in the entertainment world. And despite the fact that Killian Murphy got sort of the screen actor skill, the BAFTA, et cetera, et cetera, that was the coveted one, you know, that's. And, you know, men and women are like men don't necessarily kind of admit to it, but we also want to see the glitz and the glamour and the fun. Oh, my God, I know. Who's wearing what or who's wearing who? It's so ridiculous, isn't it? They're red carpet is so awesome. Absolutely. It's so fabulous. So and a wonderful, wonderful to see. But Killian Murphy, you know, was lovely about him, his utter humility, just a lovely man. I thought it was great. I read somewhere. Somebody asked his dad was Dan and Cork and asked his father, how do you feel about Killian getting the Oscars? And he's like, sure, isn't he just anybody doing a job? He just happens to do his well. And I was like, oh, my God, the level of humility. Clearly he doesn't get it from the ground, as they would say. Just amazing. Like they're just so down to earth and everything about it. And his speech was lovely and very grounded. It was lovely to see him there with his family and his sons and everything was with them. It was amazing. And like you say, no, the glamour is just fantastic. Watching the girl in Portings, Michael Stepin, you know, I never remember. Oh, Emma Stone. Emma Stone happened to get sewn back into her dress after she laughed so hard with Ryan Gosling's Barbie. Oh, yeah. People should definitely check it out if you didn't see bits of it, because they kind of changed it up. I just lost my microphone. They kind of changed it up a bit this year, I thought, with the way they did the announcement that they had other people announcing each person and kind of saying something personal about them. I like that. Does anybody else see that part and like it? I didn't see it, because obviously I was in the theatre last week, but I did, as you said, it's very hard to miss it. It's very hard to... Yeah, the clips are everywhere, yeah. The clips are everywhere. And what I did find from the bits and pieces that I saw was there's a lovely... They're not taking themselves too seriously anymore, which is really quite nice. There was a lovely little interview or conversation between Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, where the two were winding each other up about... Not Emma Stone. What do you call her? From Oppenheimer? I can't remember her name. But the two were... They were joking about the barbie Hyman at the time. Blonde Emily, Emily Blonde. Emily Blonde, yes, yes. And they had them taking a hand at each other in a very respectful, mutual... Yeah, I know, but a real fun kind of way about the whole barbie Oppenheimer thing. This is the professional, Greg. Shhh, I'll not remember. Yeah, that's because they're doing the Fall Guy. They're doing the Fall Guy together. So that's what the connection there is. That'll be the big summer blockbuster for the two of them. I can't wait to see it. I can't wait to see that. Yeah, the trailer looks amazing for that. Right on a lovely crest of a wave at the moment and let them enjoy it. Yes, absolutely. It was very enjoyable, I have to say. And I'm not normally one like, you know, you kind of... Every year you say, I'm never watching that again. And then you get dragged back into it again. And on that note, no harm to mention Claire Keegan, the amazing Irish writer. They've just filmed... Kelly and Murphy has just filmed one of her books that was adapted. And that's just showing up. I think the Berlin Film Festival, that will be in cinema soon. And that's well worth a look because, again, he plays an extraordinary part in that. Yeah, I've seen some things that it has to do with the story of the Magdalen lawn. Yes, it's... I've read the book. I know the story. It's quite harrowing and sad. And it will make for a very good viewing. Things like these, is that it? Yes. Yeah, I have seen some interviews on it now, but I haven't seen any clips yet. But it does look like it's going to be... Again, an outstanding performance by him. But it's a real kind of a mirror up to society. There's a lot of good critics' reports on the book itself. So I can only imagine they'll do a great job with the movie. So what else has anybody been watching over the week? Noel, yourself, have you been watching anything good besides the Oscars? Again, like the Oscars, I'm never going to be drawn in. I refuse to watch it. I will switch off the television. Celebrity Big Brother. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. A toss-up between that and married it for a sight or whatever they call it. You know, sheer utter rubbish. But I have to say, you know, Celebrity Big Brother is a study in behavior and how the most simple things in that sort of bubble can cause such sort of reaction, so many problems, so many rouse, so many emotional breakdowns. And Mr. Louis Walsh does not disappoint. He's actually, he's unbelievable. He's managed in a few days to really upset Jedwurt, Ronan Keating, and I was actually, I didn't quite like what he said. He made the most disparaging remark about Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. So, you know, are you, are you watching it, Guy? No. I want to see what that looks like. Oh, again, I've watched, tell myself every year, no, I'm not going to do it, but his conversations with Sharon Osborn is like beyond the beyonds. And on that note, I have to say, I met Sharon Osborn very briefly in a previous life on TV. It was years ago at a sort of launch for what you call the talent show with Simon Cowell. We went over to London. Oh, the big got talent or one of those. Yeah. But do you know what? I really was impressed. She came across so well in the Big Brother House, a very wise woman. She was very gracious. She was actually a huge surprise for so many. Yeah. And yeah, it's absolutely. What I always find funny, which is why it's good to watch the celebrity one is you assume they go in there thinking, this is what I'm going to do now. You know, I mean, people who are celebrities obviously have a certain amount of strategic thinking about, you know, who their, you know, public persona is compared to their person, you know, in their family, probably tell you they're completely different like them, what, you know, sitting around in their tracks, we watch and tell you, compared to when they are all glitzed up. And in that, I assume they go into it, you know, with set things in their head. This is what I want to promote. This is the way I want to come out on the other side of it. And then Lunacy ensues. And it's like they just suddenly forget that there's a camera. And like, that's the thing when you see Louis and Charm, it's like as if they're sitting over a glass of champagne in a bar somewhere. And they're, and it's like, they were at one point, name dropping while giving out about people who name drop. It's just like, you're just like, they're completely like, it's an amazing thing to watch in that sense. That's why I like the celebrity one more than whatever, because you're just like, this is not the way that person thought that we're going to behave when they signed the contract and said, well, give this a go. It's very good. So that's on Channel 5 or Channel 4 now? No, um, Virgin Media. Yeah, Virgin Media, what? Yeah, it's there. Yeah. Brilliant. All right. Well, I've been told now that I need to go to a break. And the first thing that we're going to do is we've asked a couple of people around the county to send us in some information about what is their favorite, and what their favorite movie was. And the first person we have here is TD Joe McHugh. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. 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We are obviously, as you can tell, by me being on the microphone, we're changing things up here in the station for the day, and we are fundraising for our three fantastic charities, the Irish Wheelchair Association, Donegal Jigsaw and Breast Centre in Northwest, and you can donate via, is that me? You can donate via Highland Radio's webpage and go to our big charity day, click on the link and I donate, or you can even call up into the station and have a cup of tea and drop us in a donation or even just call up and say hello. You're very welcome to come and see us. My phone always rings. It is hilariously funny. Since COVID, which is 2020, I have been doing the entertainment slot here on Highland Radio, and I may not hear from a family member. Every other day, I guarantee between 11 and 12 on a Friday, one of them will call me. Vanilla, always blame the guests. Always say, no, switch off your phone. My phone's never off silent. I know, my biggest light pole. Oh God, that thing never stops. I went to get an NCT, and when I started the NCT, I was on the phone, and when I came off from the NCT, I was still on the phone. It was crazy. Maria, we'll go to yourself, as I said, a fantastic weekend. Great success with the play. If anybody didn't see it, keep an eye out for it next year and get your tickets in early because they do an amazing job in fairness. The group of people that you have, spectacular. But somehow you found time to watch television as well. I don't know how. Well, I'll tell you why, because Caroline rang me last week and I was like, the only thing I've seen for the last six weeks has been the script of the Adams family. I haven't actually seen television. And I had all the greatest of intentions of watching Purr of Things last night. We said we were going to watch it because we've wanted to watch it. I was in bed by half eight, so there's no way. But we did start on Sunday. We started watching the series on Netflix, The Gentleman. So it's a kind of a spin-off from the movie from 2019 by Guy Ritchie. It starred Matthew McConaughey. I think Colin Farrell was in it as well. Hugh Grant was in it. Oh, Hugh Grant was amazing in it. He was, he was fab. Now, I think the first night I put that on during lockdown to watch it, after the first few minutes I was like, this is too violent for me. I'm not in this room of mind. And I left the room, but I have watched it since and really enjoyed it. But the Netflix series is, it's loosely based on it. It's the same idea, but it's not in any way telling the story from it. It's not, you don't have to have watched the movie to enjoy the series. Okay, yep. It just launched there on the 7th of March. I'm on episode five of eight. Now we've watched one every evening this week. Theo James, relatively new cast. I knew a lot of the faces, but didn't know where I knew them from. So it wasn't the case that you were, the only person who I really recognised very quickly was Vinnie Jones, who has a small part in it, but he's brilliant. Theo James plays the Duke Eddie, and then we have Kaya, I'm not sure how her name is said, Scotty Lario. Is it Scotty Lario? You're on your own, I'm afraid. I don't know. She's fab, as an actress, beautiful to look at, really, really plays the part really, really well. So you've got this Lord, who was a UN peacekeeper, who has to go home for his father's funeral and suddenly inherits the estate. And all the problems of an underground drug farm that comes with it. Oh, okay. And he is launched very quickly, and trying to save his family, he's launched very quickly into the murky world of drugs. It's full of eclectic characters, there's a very, they all have dangerous agendas. The humour in it is quite dark and very brutal. It's just exactly what you expect from Guy Ritchie, and I have to say I love his wit. The dialogue in it is so fast paced that there's times where you miss what they've just said. And you know, one of the highlights of it for me is the brother who plays Freddie, it's Daniel Ings, and his character is so manic, you want to reach into the TV and strangle him. But he's so joyous to watch, you know, he's a real, really, really good actor. Guy Ritchie directs some of it himself, I think there's a David Caffrey, or Caffrey directs along with him. It just, it's set in England, it's a whole pile of posh people being really, really critical. And I'm there for that. Yeah, it's the escapism that I needed at the moment, and it is definitely, you know, if you enjoy that kind of humour, it's absolutely one to watch. Looking forward to the last few episodes now. Yeah, because I was hoping it was like the movie, because the movie is amazing, and I'm not really a Guy Ritchie fan, because like you said, some of his stuff is really violent. Yeah, and this is... I wouldn't necessarily my expertise. It's not for the being hearted, there is a lot of violence in this, and some of it's quite controversial as well. One of the episodes, I won't give anything away, but the episode we watched last night lost me a bit, because it went down a very typical cliched stereotype of people. That's as much as I'll say, because I really don't want to ruin it on people. And I actually turned to Emma and said, oh, he's pushing it a bit here now. But then suddenly the story ties back together, and you're like, ah, I get it. And it really is not very good. Just stick with it. Very good, I highly recommend it. I was looking to see it, like I said, I wasn't a big fan of his, and then I watched The Gentleman again. Somebody said to me, oh, forget about the earlier stuff. And I'd say I've seen that two or three times. And it is violent. But the violence is within the storyline. It's not just kind of random violence. Which I think a lot of movie directors now make the mistake of doing it for the sake of it. They put it in for the visuals of it. This is, it's only ever necessary. But it's shocking. There's like these parts where I gasp out loud at it. You know, it's like, oh. Man beside you, it loves violence for the sake of violence. We went to see The Beekeeper there a few years ago. Oh, few weeks ago, yeah. I mean, it was a bloodbath. And to this day, I'm not 100% sure why that guy's not in jail. It was so many people killed in that movie. I think it was just crazy. It was awesome. And Michael, what are you at? What have you been watching? Well, before I say, I was just, I was listening to Noel talking there about celebrity, big brother. And I was thinking, why doesn't Highland lock Greg and Usheen and Lee in here for a weekend? Like, imagine, that would be, that would be something to look at for next year for that. And just put the cameras everywhere. And let's just watch them. I will add that to the suggestion box and see how long it takes them to go lord of them. Only if Michael does it too. Before they, to see how long it takes before they go lord of the fly. I know. Well, you know, exactly. Like, would it be 12 hours? Would it be 18 hours? But I mean, even just watching them interact, even here behind the scenes, I was thinking, I just, as you were chatting, I was thinking, now, there's got to be content in that for a weekend. There's got to be something in that. I know, broadcastable content and content. Oh, well, yeah. They're not always the same thing. You know, you know that more than anybody knows. Some of the things you find yourself involved in. Sometimes it's like, oh, yeah. No, this is not necessary for on air. That would be the license pulse right away. The license pulse right away. And that would only be just day one. You have to be careful with it. So what have I been watching? Yeah, well, I suppose, as I said to you, the message last night, I decided to go outside of my wheelhouse and watch something. Because we were talking about things to do for today. To watch something that I would never normally watch. So Virgin Media. It was a documentary they did about two years ago. And it's on, they must have re-shown it, I think, at the start of the month. And it's about Irish people who are using only fans. And this huge industry that's happening in the country where people, ordinary people, or by and large, very ordinary people, are using the only fans platform to generate x-rated material that your grandmother would not approve of. So this is like a 45 minute thing. It's on the media player. I watched it one of the nights. It was an interesting educational experience because it was to say, definitely not what I normally, would I normally watch. And in terms of it just being a documentary, this was a very light documentary. It's not like one of those three identical strangers or some of these heavy ones. It really was just talking heads, just people giving very superficial explanations for what they're doing. But what was very interesting and what I did find very surprising is just how, by and large, how ordinary and normal these people are. They really are the people who live next door, the people who live in the same estate issue who had found out that there is a lot of money to be made on this particular social media platform where once you're over 18 and once you sign up for that side of it, you can do whatever you like, basically. You can go sort of naughty, middle ground naughty, or really full on. Let's just, and I'm now ignoring Greg Hughes at, I apologize to Maria for drawing her attention to what Craig was doing off camera. I'm very sorry about that. I shouldn't have said anything. I'm going to get the holy water now. On that note, as we all take a, you know, a deep breath, a deep breath. 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So I've lots of different things to do, and we're going to go back to our guests in a few minutes, but the first thing I want to do in this part of the show is to have a chat with one of our radio colleagues from a different station, but always welcome here on Highland Radio, and it is Tommy Marin. Welcome, Tommy. Good morning, Finula, and happy birthday. Oh, thank you very much. It must be yours, it must be in around the same time as well, is it, Tommy? Yeah, I think we were 35 years on air last July. We were the first legal local radio station in the country to go on air. Oh, wow. We're older than you. You can tell, Tommy, I look miles. I look miles younger than Midwest, I'm telling you now. Well, look, we're delighted to have you on air, and it's great to talk to you because you are coming up. I'm told, Tommy, that you are hilarious, and we are all going to be falling out of our seats laughing when you come up to do this show. Well, that's the hope. It's called Matches and Old Flames, and it's our follow-on play from Three Hail Marys, Finula, which was a huge success for us. We toured all over Ireland and, indeed, abroad with Three Hail Marys for almost three years. Then COVID came along, and I decided, you know what? People will really want a good laugh after all of this is over. So I sat down over COVID, and I wrote this play called Matches and Old Flames. So we're bringing it all over the country at the minute. It's been selling out phenomenally well all over the country, and we're coming to Let Her Kenny on Friday the 29th, which is two weeks tonight, and Saturday the 30th, for two nights in on grain on. And all I can say to people is, if you want a bit of light relief and madness and all kinds of plots and subplots, this is the play for you. Well, even just reading the description that I've got here in front of me, Maureen Corcoran decides to find love for two maturing sons who have no interest in marriage. And I absolutely think that in today's climate, with so many people with their grown-up children living at home, there's a lot of mothers and fathers out there who will be able to relate to poor Maureen and would love to see them out the door and married and settled. So I think they'll definitely be going in and really getting a kick out of it. It's true, and you know, this will resonate with a lot of parents out there who maybe have sons and daughters living under their feet at the minute, but it wasn't intentional, I assure you. The plot just came from the head. And so Maureen Corcoran, she's an elderly lady. She lives with her husband, Matt. And Matt spends too much time with his two sons in the pub. And Maureen sits at home, and one day she's browsing through the Ireland zone, and she spots an advertisement in the personal ads column where two mature ladies on the east coast of Ireland, Rose and Daisy Potts, are looking for two men. And she thinks to herself, let's put two and two together here and hopefully we'll get four. But unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. So Maureen takes it upon herself to invite the two ladies down and all hell breaks loose. Let's just put it that way. It's really hilarious. You know, to hear the volume of laughter from the audiences so far has been just so heartwarming because there's so many plots and subplots. There's a missing wife. There's an overdue eternity ring. There's a dodgy sponge cake. There's news of an old flame. There's a tongue twister competition. A lot of rare diseases suddenly appear on the scene. So because the two boys, Pat and Joe, decide to plot a plan whereby they're going to put the two ladies off. But the more they try to put them off, the more the ladies find out they have more in common with the two lads. So it really is a hilarious show. And if people enjoyed, you know, it's the real McCoy. Nobody's talking to me. And three Hail Marys. It's all more of the same. 300 laughs guaranteed. This one is different so far. Finula in that it's set in modern times. All my best plays kind of were set back in the 60s and 70s. This one right up to date. Even Alexa gets a mention or two. But I can promise audiences a really great night of laughter and a complete escapism from all of the trudgery and bad news that's around as day in, day out. Well, I think that's exactly what people need. So thanks very much for coming on with this time. We really appreciate it. And I know that people will start ringing into on green on or checking it out online and book a tickets for the show. As Tommy mentioned there, it's on Friday, the 29th of March and Saturday the 30th at 8 p.m. Tickets on sale. So be sure and get them because you're definitely going to be sorry afterwards that you missed out in a good laugh. And as Tommy said, we all need that now in today's climate. It's nice to be able to just leave your woes at the door and walk in and just have a good time. Well said Finula. Well said Finula. Thank you very much. And just to let listeners know like it is selling really fast at the minute. So on grain on dot com or the box office zero seven four nine one two zero seven seven seven to get your tickets. Enjoy the rest of the birthday. Thank you Tommy. Take care. So that's Tommy Marin's show. It sounds like it's going to be great crack. We definitely have to think about going to see that if we can if we're around because I love the idea of not being able to get the kids out now and have to try and find husbands for them. It's hilarious. Even here it's like without consulting her sons more and invites the ladies to come and expect the talent for themselves. I would imagine if the talent is in quotation marks, it's going to be fairly bit of crack. That's exactly what they're up to. So I think do I have another break or anything? Oh, all right. Because I was going to say well then in the meantime before I get back to the panel then we have two family passes for a clip cinema in Lifford to give away on this hour. And I think the best way to give that away and also someday I'd like to be invited down there. So I'd like to keep in with them. What hotel is our guest Noel Cunningham best associated with? I've only ever driven past it. Somebody has to invite me down there. I know it's beautiful down there and I'm like, I definitely need to wake up some morning down there with the windows open looking out over the beautiful scene. I know. I know. So we've two family passes for the Eclipse cinema in Lifford to give away and the question that you need to text your answers into 08 6, 60, 25,000. Very bad. 08 6, 60, 25,000. I panicked there. I panicked. What hotel is our guest Noel Cunningham best I'm the best associated with here in Donegal, so come in with that and we'll be picking two lucky winners. And thank you. That's great. So, Noel, back around to you again, because I'm being very strategic, definitely doing my line. Anything else that you've been watching, or that you think we should be talking about today? People should look out for. You know, I have all sorts of interesting things that I get involved in. I was fascinated by the recent Ferrari over Kate Middleton and the Royal Family, and Prince William not attending his godfather's funeral service, even though he was on the order of service to do a reading, and it begs the question, at what stage is a private life, and if someone is battling illness or had serious surgery, when does society hold back and say, let them leave them, you know, they need to recuperate, give them space? So that's fascinating. Absolutely. It was a bit crazy, wasn't it? Some of the social media stuff, like they said she wasn't going to be around until Easter, were still a month out there, well, three weeks out from Easter, and like when he missed that order of service, I saw something online where they were trying to claim that she had passed away, and they were afraid to tell people, then there was like a conspiracy theory that like he had bumped her off in some way, and like, I don't know, did he not attend his godfather's funeral because he was, you know, Brookside putting her under the patio? Like it was insane, like, it's just crazy. The world is fascinated by conspiracy, and it's fascinated by the British Royal family in particular. Now, these people have the wherewithal to have the finest PR and advisers, so it wasn't very sensible to issue such a photograph on such a day that was unlikely to get anything other than global coverage because it was mothering Sunday. So there was mistakes made there, but but it's just the power of social media. And no more than that, Michael was talking about what's only only fans. Only fans, only fans. You know, it's extraordinary that Joe soap now I do not have neighbours like Michael. I did nobody does. And Michael made it appear that everybody who's on only fans or whatever are readily available next door. I wish, I wish, you know, but it just goes to show you how anybody can take their clothes off, flexor muscles, do the pose and hey ho, they can charge huge amounts of money and I'm sitting here in Highland. I'm looking at Don and Greg, I attended a joining studio. Young David James is looking most desirable. I don't need to go on only fan, I've got the right piece and Michael, I see you now in a completely different light. Absolutely. And you see the estate I live in in a three different light as well. I mean, like this evening. Why did we go from Kate Middleton to... I know, I definitely lost control. Social media. I definitely lost control. It is. And as you say, they did some crazy things with that photograph. You know, you would have thought they would have been smarter when they were trying to... Or did they do it on purpose? Oh, really? There's nobody puts themself and nobody is out in the public eye who, you know, yes, people make mistakes and I fully understand what you're saying. I haven't really been following it. I've seen glimpses of it. It is intriguing, I have to say. They have the highest level of photographers, of everything else that they have, their PR, their market and everything that goes through offices. How did it happen? Unless it was done to try and divert. So, there we go, I'll throw my top ones in. I'd love to know what's going on, but at the same time, in the scheme of things at the moment, do we really care? I wish her well. Yes, she needs her privacy. It's also the Royal Family. It's part of their job to be... People say that they own them, I think. It's weird things, isn't it? Because as much as we all give out about them, we all pick up the magazine. So many people would say, oh, it's terrible that the UK shouldn't have them and the cost and this and that. And yes, people pick up the paper and do the magazine or they check it out online. I hope she's okay. I mean, obviously, yeah, whatever the poor girl is going through, I mean, you'd think it's her own product. I mean, it must be very... King Charles, I feel sorry for. He waited a long time. He was supposed to be so anti-royal, isn't he? I know. When the then Prince Charles came to Donegal, he was overwhelmingly received with joy and pleasure. And we all purport not to be a bit interested yet. There's a magazine in Ireland with Kate Middleton or Diana the Princess of Wales on the cover. It sells more magazines per head of cap population than any other country in the world. So it's that... We don't care, but we do care because we're sucked into the whole thing. I remember when the queen visited and she came to Cork and she walked around and everybody was like, ah... She was marvelous though. I loved her. She was marvelous, but people were saying online, oh my God, why is she even here? All the things the British have done against Ireland and then all of a sudden their reply was like, all right, she's doing her best. She did her best and you're like, we love them even though we pretend that we don't love them. On the whole, we do. We just are fascinated by them like you say. We love to be looking at them and seeing what's going on. So we are going to go to another break and the one thing that I want to say, as I said, we went out and about, asked a few people what was their favorite movie and this time we're going to hear from Pat the Cope Galaher what his favorite film was. Due to the nature of my work over the years I never had a lot of time to watch films. However, of those that I've watched the one that stands out in my mind and my favorite one would have been The Quiet Man. Filmed in 1952 in Kong on the Galway-Mayo border with great actors and actresses John Wayne as Shant Hornson Maureen O'Hara as Mary Kate Danahur Barry Fitzgerald as Michaeline and Victor McLaglan as Danahur. It was of course a romantic comedy and John Wayne, Shant Hornson came back from Mary Kate to buy the old farm met up with Mary Kate fell in love and eventually married but the actor that I enjoyed was Barry Fitzgerald as Michaeline and the quote that stands out in my mind was and his response was when I drink whiskey I drink whiskey when I drink water I would watch it again and it's very relaxing and it's very riveting irrespective of the number of times that one watches it. 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Not yet but don't rule that out because there's some serious spinning I was going to say cycling but it's spinning actually going on here with all the cycling clubs and the gyms and not forgetting our own staff because we've got a bike here as well and we are at what's the distance on ours I think it's 38 kilometres anyhow we're on track we're on track to make it down to Sleeve League because that's the distance that we've set ourselves so Michelle McKinney Kanna's got caught in Carandona there and he was doing his he reckoned he couldn't get out of Carandona no matter how many miles he did he wasn't getting further not easy to get caught on a spinning bike in traffic in Carandona but he managed it Michelle McKinney is on the bike for us at the moment and I'm going really well and then just beside her is Aura Leisure who Joanne is on the bike at the moment James has just come off and the challenge for those guys is who can get the furtherist in a half an hour and we've a KO fitness and Pilates by Samantha and the health club at the Radisson and also the Finn wheelers and the current leader by the way is Pilates by Samantha with just over 15 yeah just over 15 kilometres 15.3 let Maria know here she's going to need to get the knees pumping when she gets down as far as you yeah absolutely 100% I just update you on the total by the way and this is on iDonate and if anybody wants to donate there just go to our website and there's a link to do that but there's been a very generous donation of 2000 just received on that that's from JMA Ventures not sure where they are but thank you very generous thank you very much and that brings the total to over 7000 it's what's up there if you go in there you'll see a different total but there's also been a money pledge to us here at the shopping centre and it's over in reality it's over 7000 so that's great thank you everybody who's donated there so far online and also donated here we have some lots here and a lot of people very kind come up and donate the money to the three charities here as well and then let's not forget the big auction because there's some great items oh just go back to iDonate by the way and if you go on there there's a chance to win prizes because every hour it's going to be one or two prizes given away and so that's Anne Sweeney Anne Sweeney you've won a 50 year voucher for Lucas restaurant in Latter-Kinney and Anne Toner you get a 50 year old menswear voucher for Watson menswear oh yeah that's fantastic so that's for people who donate online we're just randomly picking people who've donated across the day in order to win a prize every hour which is just more opportunities for people to donate and more opportunities for people to win prizes and that's true for people who have donated already once you have donated during the chance of winning those prizes brilliant our auction we'll just let you know where some of the items are out at the moment that big dinner for eight courtesy of Gary O'Hanlon he'll come out and he'll cook for eight people and he'll provide all the food that's now at four thousand up at four thousand which is brilliant so that's I'm sitting there at four grand if you want to top that I'd stay in the five star will I ask Castle that's at four hundred so that that's for yeah Castle includes a meal and the restaurant and use of the swimming pool and the fitness suite three nights at the Wild Atlanta Camp in Creaselaw that's four fifty by the looks of things I love it anybody who's watching needs to look anybody who's watching us online needs to watch John without his glasses as he's doing his reading I know you're exactly what you did to me when I suddenly had to get glasses long arms sorry now John I cut across you there because we it's only three minutes to 12 so we have to go for the break and I want to round up here but we'll be coming back to you in the next hour with the I forget who's on I feel oh the Nostalgia are geez I actually blanked there and who's the next the Nostalgia are next with Donal so I know they'll be back to you after that so I just want to say first of all is the winners for our tickets to Eclipse Cinema they knew you were associated no the guest your hotel Harvey's Point one of the finer hotels in Donegal and the winners are Mary Mulvaney from letter Kenny and Maggie McDade from Listern I'm sorry I'm saying that wrong now and I apologize if I am but that's the Listern isn't what I say Listern I thought it was a Listern but this is my fault probably so blame me I talk funny it's a that's everybody says from me up here I want to thank my guest thank you so much for coming and being so patient with me I'm sorry if things were a little bit scatty but thank you very much for coming in the inimitable isn't that the word I want Noel Cunningham I bet that is a good word is that not a good word the Oscar connection you know the goodie bag I got a flake a tea bag and a packet of Tato it's all over from Joe Coward you did a marvelous job it's been most enjoyable and I love being with my darling friend Maria who's a joy and a pleasure and as I said I'm going to Michael's house this evening to look at his neighbours exactly to look in the windows we all are neighbours so thank you to Noel thank you to Maria from Rust Business and also to you know kind of my best buddy but big thank you to Greg for helping me out here so please donate if there are worthy causes we've a whole day of different kind of programming all different kind of things for you so please donate and give generously to the fantastic charities and we will talk to you more during the day thank you