 Morning from 10am, we'll talk to you then. Up next, our very own Daddy Bear. That sounds so wrong actually. It sounds great. Sign it better in my head. Okay, listen, thank you very much. Keep it in your head, it's fine, I'll help you there. Alright, thanks very much, Roy. Enjoy your weekend. It is the 9 till noon show. I hope that's not a new nickname, but anyway, look if it works. It is the 9 till noon show. It's time for the news headlines. Good morning to Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. Fresh efforts are being made today to break the impasse, preventing the restoration of power-sharing government in Northern Ireland. Thyshuk Meehol-Martin travels to Belfast for more talks with political and business leaders. The Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, meanwhile, will have discussions on the margins of a Council of Europe meeting in Turin with the British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss. She's proposed unilateral legislative changes to the Northern Ireland protocol. The Sinn Fein president says she believes there could be a United Ireland within 10 years. They became the largest party in the Assembly at the recent election and is poised to nominate Michelle O'Neill as First Minister if and when power-sharing is restored. When Mary Lou MacDonald says it raises the issue of a border pole and the Dublin and London governments need to prepare. Without a shadow of a doubt, I believe that we will see constitutional change in the course probably of the next decade, of that there is no doubt. And we need to prepare for that. And the appetite for change across Ireland would really lift your heart. A group representing hotel owners estimates there are 9,000 job vacancies in the sector. The Irish Hotels Federation is encouraging people to consider a career in hospitality as Folger Ireland looks to attract new staff to the tourism industry. Almost 25% of people employed in the sector in 2019 worked in hotels and guest houses. The president of the Irish Hotels Federation, Denise Campbell, says there are jobs available right across the country from Donegal to Cork. In 2019, tourism would have employed 270,000 people and we would say about maybe 65,000 people were directly employed in hotels and guest houses throughout Ireland. And we would say now that that figure is probably back up after the pandemic to about 55,000, 56,000 people. So, vacancies are probably about 9,000 approximately in hotels and guest houses throughout Ireland. A Donegal deputy is criticising the government over the disproportionate impact that carbon tax increases and the rising cost of fuel are having on people in Donegal. W. Pollock McLaughlin raised the issue in The Dall earlier this week during a debate on providing a just transition to combat the climate crisis. He says people in Donegal have few alternatives to driving cars and using home heating oil and there's very little being done to allow them access to a just transition. Despite home heating oil increasing by 130%, leaving a huge impact on families in our county and indeed across the west of Ireland, not one single cent of help was provided by government. Then let's look at people who have to work and study in Donegal. The public transport system there is not fit for purpose, under-resourced for years, not designed to connect workers to their workplaces. So you have to have a car. So you lecture people in rural Ireland about their responsibilities but you never meet your own. Quite a lot of rain around this morning but it'll brighten up in the afternoon with sunny spells. Still some blustery showers and the odd heavy downpour about. Shars will ease later though many areas will have a dry and bright end to the day. Top temperatures in the afternoon, 13 or 14 degrees Celsius, moderate to fresh, southerly winds. They'll veer westerly, gusty at times. And that's Helen Redion News. We're back with news again at 10 o'clock. Can we get these and a packet of these? Here we go again. Cleaning out the sweet side. Wasn't like that in my day. Oh, those bars are good though. No, sticking to the new plan. Please. Remember we'll be all agreed. We're cutting down in junk like crisps, chocolate and biscuits, even me. At 12 p.m. on Saturday, Jerry started putting fewer treats in the trolley. Let's go easy on the treats. Start with smaller ones less often to keep your family healthy. Find more ways to start at megastart.ie. Brought to you by Safe Food, the HSE and Healthy Ireland. The Ninetal Noon Show with letter Kenny Credit Union. Now offering myCU current account and debit mastercard, bringing full banking features, delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Ninetal Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, good morning. It is Friday the 20th of May, four minutes past nine. You're very welcome along to today's edition of The Ninetal Noon Show. And we hope you'll stay with us for the next three hours. You're going to enjoy the next hour because we have our Friday panel in reviewing the week in Newsmax. We'll get straight into it. Introduce them to you. John McIntyre, editor of the Chicano Tribune newspaper. Good morning, John. Morning, Greg. How are you keeping? I'm keeping well. Fantastic. Sure are you. I am. Keeping all right. Good side out anyway. Maria Walsh, Finnegale, MEP for Midlands Northwest. Lovely to have you back on the program. Maria, how are you? Oh, Maria, sorry. How are you? Good, good morning. Do we refer to as Greg or your new, your new and ice name? Whatever you're comfortable in, Maria. I'm perfectly happy with both. And also, Simon Glespie-Barster. Good morning to you, Simon. Good morning, Greg. John, Maria, how are you keeping well? It's great to have you with us as well. Yeah, it's good. I think it's your first time with us on this item, isn't it? It is my inaugural Friday panel, folks. So go easy on me for the first one, okay? We're go easy on everyone here. That's why we get such lovely names. Right, okay. We'll start with the story that's kind of dominating all of our lives. We've a lot to get through on it. But we know now, diesel prices again, edging above 2 euro a litre, inflation at 7%. The cost of living is getting beyond the reach of more people every day, I think. And we're going to see mortgage costs increase in the coming months, and then renters are also facing their own challenges. It feels like something of a perfect storm. I'll ask you first if that's okay. Maria, what's our expectations of government in this? Their line is that we can only mitigate to some extent what's going on, but this is a global situation, and everyone's going to feel the pinch. But this at the same time, as public sector talks are already starting in the media and due to get underway. What do you think the government can do? What do you think they should do? And what's within their gift, I suppose? Absolutely. And I think there's a number of factors at play that we're all fully aware of in terms of the Ukraine and Russian war and the impact that has coming out of a pandemic that we've all experienced and the pinch that has. I mean, to your news brief, just now 9,000 jobs opened in the tourism sector and how we're going to support businesses as they're coming through their own hard months. From the government perspective, listening to Minister McGrath to start here this morning, there is a fine balance between the public purse and making sure people are not left out. I do see more funding needed in terms of, particularly in rural communities, in terms of that fuel supports and an increase in the fuel allowance. I certainly would welcome that. We're calling for more infrastructure in counties like Donegal, but that takes time. And ultimately, I think we have to be very, very careful that narratives like turf or changing the way people have been living their lives for generations need to be very mitigated because it is a worrying time for all. But I also welcome on the positive side the learns that we've had from the pandemic in the increase in teleworking and remote working, in particularly like counties in Donegal and the West beyond the Shannon, that certainly helps alleviate some transport costs and the pressures of going to and fro. And I think it would only benefit small towns and rural areas like we have in Midlands, Northwest. Yeah. What do you think of the prospect as the finance department and government try and work out a budget as we head towards the end of the year with what happened with the two green reps and the government majority being so slim? I think we're going to be seeing a return if it ever went away of auction politics. Those with influence, those with support going into the offices saying, right, now it's time to pay up if you want my support. Yeah. Well, I do think we have two very, very strong leaders in terms of Pascal and Michael in balancing the public person and the way we spend it. I can't see the type of politics coming to the fore. I mean, we have, as a Finnavale member, we have a very good track record in terms of balancing those books. But there will be pressure. I can't foresee any sort of, I know there's whispers of an election being called. I can't foresee that because the three parties that we have in question, I can speak on behalf of the Finnavale party at least, believe that we're here to lead the country now in the midst of a war, in the midst of a pandemic and all the pressures that we have and calling on different type of elections now is just not helping anybody and certainly not moving and protecting families the way they need to be protected. Right, John McIntyre, touching on that, I suppose that the auction politics, I personally say it's inevitable because if you've got some sort of an influence, you're going to try and leverage that for your county and there's a few independents that I'm sure are planning to do that, but also to more generally speaking, you know, the government happened to balance everything with this cost of living crisis current and seemingly going to get worse. We don't have any real idea of where we're going at this point as far as the auction politics is concerned. It's one of the most dismal negative scenes economically that we have seen probably in 40 years because inflation could very well and very soon hit 10% and despite the government's slim majority, I don't think it's the right time for an election. I think it'll be utter crazy at this point because at this point Pascal Donahue is already beginning to frame budget 2023 and he'll be looking for cuts here, there and everywhere across the public service. They're always going to be the first ones to be hit as if they caused the problem which they never do. This recession is very different to previous ones in that it's not of the government's making. Is that a slip or are you feel certain we are going into a recession? Just offering an analysis around for what I'm reading and studying. We're going into an assessment surely because once you get this inflationary spiral and then that is followed and is now happening already. Interest rates are starting to rise and they're going to rise substantially in the third quarter of the year and by year's end we will not have any real idea at this point where we're going to be. We're not too sure what the minister is going to be projecting. He'll be looking at it. He's a pretty experienced man. He's a very calm man but there's a situation there that's probably beyond them in that we're dependent on events on the global stage outside of Ireland and at the end of the day we have done quite well so far to keep things under control. The hard work is all going to be done because I mean governments, spokesmen and Maria you'll be aware of this. They've put two billion into curtailing the extensive cost that we're all going to be hit with. Now that is probably going to run out sometime soon. Can you imagine what that's going to do to a liter of diesel or a liter of petrol? Can you imagine what that's going to do to foods on the shelves and the supermarkets? I mean already we're beginning to see here and there a scarcity of certain foods. Is that going to get much worse in the autumn as they're going to be rationing? We don't know because a lot's going to depend on the war. We see there on the news last night hundreds of thousands of supplies held up from Ukraine in Green. Now we hadn't factored that in they are producing crops but they can't get it out of the country because that whole area around Mariupol is where they were exported from by ship. We heard the start warnings from the U.N. I believe it was that we could be facing into food shortages. That's going to affect some countries worse than others. The Russians are saying we're not going to release this food, which effectively is what it is. Whilst there are international sanctions, I can't see unless that forms some part of a settled agreement. I can't or an agreement. I can't see that situation being resolved, John, especially in particular in some would be for countries that would rely very poorer countries that are going to feel the impact of that. Maria, did you want to say something there? Yeah, I just wanted to come in to your point. I mean we will have countries particularly in Africa that will enter into a famine like we've never experienced before. You wouldn't even see it in the history books. If the war doesn't resolve itself, Putin and his army are bombing wheat reserves and farms and farm machinery right now. Where that comes into for not just on an international scale in terms of humanity, we will also see an increase in migration naturally because people have to flee because of the famine. We'll also have that with climate as we see that influx in our climate right across the world. That only compounds to what people are experiencing in Ireland and across Europe and the world. To John's point, it is a very worrying time and the problem is you cannot foresee the end here because we don't have a real book for the way Putin is playing this war. Yeah, and there's a bigger thing going on here because the West, including we heard from that really significant announcement from the United States, they believe the future of Russia and where it's at and its influence is based on how successful or not they are in Ukraine. So I think they're looking at longer picture to defeat Russia in that scenario because if they don't, where does it go next? We've seen just astonishing how quickly something in a particular area can have such a global impact. Simon, I want to bring you back in on anything that you've picked up on in there. I suppose you'd be aware as well as we all are about the cost of living and where it's going. John's prediction there, which I tend to agree with. Leo Veradkar last week on the program, not so much. Maybe the situation getting worse as the situation continues as it does in Ukraine. Yeah, very good. Look, there's a few things arising from that that I picked up on. The first is whether or not it's the right time for an election is a different question to whether or not there's an appetite for change out there and an appetite for an election. In the past, we've seen sometimes that when there's a government in situ, we come up against a crisis. People are happy for somebody just to steer the ship and to keep going. But I think this time it's a little bit different. And I think the opinion polls are reflecting that. I think there's a real appetite for change that hasn't really gone away from the last election. In fact, it's grown. So whether or not it's the right time is a different question. If we look at the shape of the parties at the moment and how they're looking, I mean, should Fener come off the crest of a wave in terms of a momentous result in the six counties? From speaking of grass roots, and maybe Maria will disagree with me on this, but from speaking with a lot of grass roots in the Gale members, Greg here in the county, I think they're they're at a stage where they're they're hanging on for Leo to get back into power when Swap comes and he becomes Taoiseach again. But there's also a silent acceptance, I think that a few years in opposition wouldn't be a bad thing. But I think if we look at Finafoil and how they're looking, I think an election would is a little bit more tempting for Finafoil and so far as that it would allow them to refresh their leadership, which is a question that's been playing on a lot of Finafoil members minds for a long time. So I suppose the question as well in terms of an election is what's it going to take? I know we have a small majority now in terms of the government majority in the Gale, but we've been through so many crises. I just wonder though, I just wonder though, you know, when when when things are uniquely internal, you know, I think the argument for election or change of administration is stronger. This is a situation though, where the government can look at external factors, what we're dealing with, we're dealing with we're having to make changes because of the global situation with the climate and you only have to see what's happening in India and Australia. Now Australia is almost being deemed much of it uninsurable and uninhabitable. And of course, what's happening in India there, people can't even work the heat is such, then we have what's going on in Ukraine outside of the government's control and the ripples of that the global trends in terms of the economy. It's not unique to Ireland and everything is sort of starting to feel like it did for me anyway around about 207 to await. So maybe as things and Boris Johnson's probably benefiting from this in Britain, as things worsen everywhere, does it take the pressure off a national government? I wonder. Well, I mean, again, yeah, absolutely, there are international factors of play here, and I don't think anybody's denying that. But people are really worried about are the things that aren't in control and the government's control domestically from who I'm speaking with. I give you two examples, people I think are afraid. The fact that we're in May, we're at a cost of living crisis and people's budgets are really being squeezed. And they know that there's no help coming until October. It's a real worry for people. The second thing it says, take something like the housing crisis. I mean, international factors haven't really factored into the housing crisis. I mean, that's something of our own making for years and years and years. And I'm a renter, Greg, I rent in Guido here and I'm very lucky to have a very good landlord. I rented in Dublin. My wife and I before that, we've paid the extortion of rents. We're still paying the extortion of rents. And I have plenty of friends and family members in Dublin who would love to move home. But the shortage of houses in Donegal is a huge factor. And I don't know if you spoke about this during the week. I think I heard it on Highland at some stage that there were 23 houses available for rent in the entire county at some point this week. I mean, that's a shocking statistic. Did you see how many did you see how many were available in Airbnb though? Are they 67 times more houses available in Donegal on Airbnb than are available for rent? So that's exactly what I'm saying. There are things within the government's control domestically that could have a real impact on people when it comes to the cost of living crisis. So yes, there are international factors, but it's a little bit more nuanced than that. And I don't think people are buying the line that we can't do anything. Okay, I want to bring John back in here. But Maria, you know, I know you were up recently in Donegal. It's always good to have you up here at a Finnegal party meeting. And I think it was the same time Leo Fradko was here. And I don't expect you to real feel any secrets, but it's not going to stop me from asking the question. You know, what was, as much as you want to say or prepare to say, what was the mood amongst members here? Because one, people I chat to, they are sort of at the stage saying, well, you know what? And I think Leo Fradko was prepared to lead Finnegal into opposition at the start of the last election, after the last election, sorry. Do you get a sense that people say, right, well, you know what, maybe it is time to let someone else have a go. Let's see what it's like when you're not on the sidelines and you're out in the field of play. Whether that's the right or wrong way to feel, is that what your party rank and file a feeling of wonder? No, I mean, to Simon's point, you know, there is excitement that, you know, Taunashsa will step into the Taoiseach role and Leo will take lead once again. That's an exciting time, particularly as the country is somewhat opening up from the pandemic, a sideline of all the serious issues we're discussing here. But I was in Valley Shannon last Saturday, meeting with businesses and people in the town as well as, to your point up in that or Kenny and Milford the week prior with Taunashsa. You know, there was an option to go into opposition. But ultimately, when opposition was not stepping into the role of government, and we're coming into a pandemic, and someone had to lead the country, then I for sure was was one of those parliamentary party members that were most outspoken about us going into government. Nobody gets into, and you've heard Leo say this several times before, nobody gets into politics to stand on the sidelines. And if they do, well, they're not representing in my belief, they're not representing their constituents as best as they could in their community. So absolutely would opposition perhaps be a comfortable place to be after a number of years in government, perhaps, but that's not the best for the country. And Fenugil certainly doesn't do politics that way. And it could never really be an ambition to be in opposition. It wouldn't make sense. Well, we do have a number of deputies, I think, that would be would happily sit in opposition and and stand. Maybe you need new deputies, if that's the, if that is the attitude, that's that's where every vote and every voice gets counted in every election. John McAteer and also on this issue. And as I say, I don't want to be all doom and gloom about where we're at, because we seem to be going from one crisis to the next. But unfortunately, this is the world we are living in. The conversations we are having now, John, you know, it means that maybe someone might decide, we're not going out this weekend, we'll hold on to that money in case the starter goes in the car or to change the front tires in the car, we'll not take that advert out on the radio station, or we won't buy that newspaper, or we might not drink as much coffee. And you know, that this sort of discretionary spend, even those with money start getting to tighten the purse strings as well. You know, that's the effect we can start feeling as well, low clean, from a business perspective, I presume, if people are cautious and nervous about the future. Exactly. But I mean, that demand, as Simon referred to there, about a need for change hasn't gone away. But it has been overtaken by people's own personal situations in their household budgets and in their race to try and keep up with repayments and all that goes into that there. Many people have the benefit of being able to work from home. I use that word very sparingly because in many ways, it's not a benefit from working from home, because even though the government says they're losing out heavily, the reality is that people are entitled to work from home. It's cost money to work from home. There's no point in saying it's not. The heat is going to be on, the electricity is going to be on. You're using up broadband space and you're doing all of these things. But away from all that there, we're just in a very precarious position within our economy, something that's going to be very difficult to manage over the next 12 months. Whether we'll have an election in that time, presumably, if things go downhill, there'll be a huge call for an election. And again, it's going to end up much like the last time there was demand for change. There should have been change. But at the end of the day, and Maria, you can come back on this if you want to. It'll happen the next time again, there will be a conspiracy between Fianna Foyle and Finnegale to keep Sinn Féin out of power at all costs because this is the last thing they want. And that is the bottom line. Politics is very, very cynical. And when you see the procrastination around Leo Veratke insisting that the day needed to go back to the back fences to rebuild their organization, what happened to that? I mean, that was a year last February. He was totally adamant that they needed to go back for a period of sort of rebuilding. It didn't happen. Where are they now? I know Leo Veratke was here in Donegal two weeks ago. A very good AGM in Lyra Kenney. But how many young people had you there, Marie? Just to come in on that, I mean, just from your first point, absolutely, Leo had made commentary about going into opposition after the last election and the results of this. But if opposition members are not stepping up to the fore, John, then where does that lead the country? We have examples of storming in there. If Sinn Féin and other opposition members don't want to come in and lead the country, then we're hands are tied in terms of leading that country then. And to your point on younger people, we actually had a number of younger people in the room. We do have to rebuild a base in terms of young Finnogeal, absolutely. But there's members like myself who didn't work in party politics who are coming into politics more and more now, particularly women and minority community members that are looking at Finnogeal and looking at leaders like Leo Veratke and Simon Covey in terms of leading any government, whether it be this one. And I don't foresee a call for a general election. I do not foresee that. And if it is, it's coming from opposition and we could be ended up back where we were in 2020, where they didn't want to step in in the first place. Well, you started it, Simon. Do you think there's an appetite? Do you think there is? Finally, before we take our first break and move on to the next subject, is there an appetite amongst the public for an election? I would have thought, to be honest with you, if it was really being driven by the public, we'd see more people in an organised way out on the streets or in a more organised way on social media or whatever it mean. Obviously, people have the views and what have you. But I don't think there's a really organic grassroots drive for change in this country at this time, like you might see in another country, or maybe I'm wrong, reading the room wrong. I think there's an appetite for change, Greg. But I think it's more a case that if there was an election called, I don't think people are adverse to the idea. There's been times in the past where talking about an election was met with, oh, Jesus, we don't want to go back there. Stay off my doorstep. I don't want to see your leaflets. But I don't think that's there. I think if there was an election called, I think the public would be offered. I think you would see a turnout. I don't think people are adverse to the idea put it that way. Yeah, but let's not forget it, though, in the throes of an election campaign, even as we stand now, the Greens, Finnegale and Finafall, the current government parties, still have more support than Sinn Fein does, for an example. So even if there were an election called, I don't think we could presume its outcome. Yeah, absolutely. And look, I think sometimes when you're in this political pundit world, it could sometimes you can be listening to the same voices coming from all corners, and sometimes you miss what's actually happening in the public. But yeah, I don't think the outcome could be exactly the same as it was the last time. And it'd be very interesting to see how the bigger parties, could they ignore that appetite for change that the electorate demanded for change and the appetite that the electorate showed the last time? Could they ignore it for a second time around? And would the public stand for it a second time around? I think they're really interesting questions. Just finally, John, a quick analysis from you before this break. Do you think there has been any organization or building in the opposition? Because that's what they were talking about before the election. We want a certain type of government. That's what would an alternative government and all of parts that it's made up of. I wonder, has there been any building in the opposition benches of a potential coalition there if you get where I'm coming from? I don't think particularly there has. I actually don't see it there. I'd be concerned about the Green Party's future after the election because they're literally on the margins of being excluded from opinion polls at around 2%. I think when we start having the debate about what's happening where we're at, I think that there is a core vote there for the Greens, even if some of the policies are unpalatable for so many. Of course there's a core vote, but you know when you have consistent opinion polls putting them under 3%, they're at a very, very low ebb. They've handed some difficult ministries. Eamon Ryan is on continuous pressure in his own role and there's Maria Maitreville who did it earlier on to the torf cutting. That has been handled extremely badly. The Green Party finds it difficult to go along with, I mean they're not the traditional type of party. They're just more an organic organisation that has a green agenda and they build from the bottom up on that. They've been doing that for the past 50 years and they don't contribute to the kind of tribal politics that we have in Ireland and maybe that's their downfall. I mean I don't see them getting a seat in Donegal in the near future. No and I don't think they would expect them either, but there are certain areas particularly where you have lots of public transport where it's much cheaper to use and other things and maybe where your landscape is not blighted with windmills and turbines and stuff that they would continue to have a certain level of support. So much of their policy doesn't talk to rural Ireland about carpooling and stuff like that in public transport. I mean there's parts of rural Ireland you could be standing out for the next year waiting for a bus to come by, but by the time you saw it you'd have forgotten where you wanted to go. The Green Party organisation is of its time, it's just there promoting and developing the Green Party global agenda. It's not entirely political in the sense that they're phenopholar, phenogel and their own things likewise and they're not given space to develop that. Okay just on that one quick question. These adverts I will get to but I just want to ask one question from you just in terms of politics generally speaking. There was a time that as soon as green stuff was mentioned during a budget speech it would have the camera pan straight to the Green Party. Are the Green Party being squeezed now because there's a broad general acceptance that we have to move towards renewables, we have to look at what we can do to prolong the life of this planet. I mean effectively can the Greens claim to be the Green Party now or are they going to be squeezed out through this election or next election, not just here but maybe more broadly speaking? If you look across European elections, I mean they're now in coalition government in Germany, so you see gains in other EU countries and Germany is predominantly a car manufacturing country or at least it was in its prime, so you see gains. I do believe and I seen it in 2019 local elections and no doubt we'll see it in 2024. To your point Greg there is seats for that particular party in more urban areas and as a younger voter is coming through and then we're seeing the impact that our climate is having I think we're going to see a different style of politics come through. But I do agree, I mean you look at the likes of our deputy Richard Bruton, you know we have a number of Senators Ashing Dolan, even Barry Sweeney in Bally Shannon who does phenomenal work in terms of biodiversity and environmental issues, so you do see a more broad consensus and understanding where we need to go in a Finnavale base too. I can't speak on behalf of Finnavale. You mentioned to the young votes, what's going to be very interesting with elections and this is why they're- And we're all young here Greg, sorry I didn't say like an age. But young votes is that you know obviously Sinn Féin are trying to take a position as it relates to carbon taxes and what have you at the moment and yet the Greens are going to be you know talking to young people in the future of the planet because maybe they get it more than others do and parties like Sinn Féin then as it comes to election you know are going to have to say well which whoresome are going to ride here. And that's when we're in midterm of a government we don't get into those nuances that can swing swing votes and things in different directions. Well I mean the greatest example I can give is my own lived experience. You know I could, I see living from the west of Ireland, from a farming background, the impact our climate and biodiversity has on areas like us, you see it across Europe too. But for me it's one thing having a greenwashing message and it's another thing having it as John had said in the manifesto and it's your organic movement. It's another thing being able to pay for the transition period from A to B and that for me is where Finnavale sits and as always delivered on that message or certainly work towards it that yes we see our climate responsibilities and our biodiversity needs, yes we see the impact the likes of the war is having but we also need to get people from A to B and that transition isn't incredibly important and the public purse has to be able to pay for it and I hope voters think of that when the next election happens. Well you're talking, you swear it was tomorrow. Well okay listen Maria thank you very much indeed back with more from our guests after these. The 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union. 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whatever the occasion or mccullough jewellers making moments magical for generations okay thanks for holding uh maryland mcdonnell say she believes there could be a united island within 10 years shin fame became the largest party in northern ireland at the recent election and is poised to nominate michelle o'neill as first minister if and when power sharing is restored from within finnegale ranks we have deputy neil richmond talking about the fact that really you know we need to be looking at where we're at and i think the tarnished has also made some remarks in that regard in other words maybe this is a direction we are heading in uh simon glasby uh do you think that's where we're where we're heading that we could within the next decade be having a vote or maybe a more meaningful discussion on united ireland whatever about a vote greg i think brexit has definitely speeded up the entire process in terms of constitutional change and it's incredible that we're sitting on the airways discussing the united ireland i remember uh i come from a republican background both my mother and my father's family would have been republicans and although we discussed the united ireland in the house when i was growing up it was never something i heard in the national airways let alone finnegale deputies or any other uh deputies discussing it on a national level talking about constitutional change and the prospects of having a vote it's incredible to see how quickly that has come to pass and how quickly the entire conversation has turned around i think if we look at the brexit analysis and a lot of people compare the border pole to what brexit the brexit built i think what we learned from from brexit is that there's a need to prepare there's a need to have a a long mature debate about something before you jump in two feet first and i think the preparations need to start for that right now i don't think it's enough to call for a border pole in the next 10 years and have the debate start six months beforehand we need to really look at the constitution we need to look at exactly what a united ireland would look like and i think it's uh people say that it's you know that it's it's it's risky or that it shouldn't be called for at this stage that you know we're we're prone the the card amongst the pigeons but i think i think it's irresponsible not to be discussed on it i think we're at a stage where it's inevitable at some stage that the question is going to to raise its head well on that point need to be prepared on that point um i think you know we're based here in the northwest most of us are sorry based in the northwest and we have a pretty fair idea perhaps how it might go here we have a pretty good idea i think how it might go in northern ireland but this would be a 32 county vote and you anyone who chats to someone in dublin they believe done like all's part of of the north northern ireland or you know this is a detach there and that's dublin you can go further south i don't know what it's like in across all counties in this country but you know i mean what would the appetite be like for uh engaging in a vote across all of ireland and you know once the argument actually begins and we start talking about what cost it might be how it might impact taking over all this infrastructure whatever it might be all the ins and outs it's not there's no guarantee that across the 32 counties that this is a vote that would pass i mean i think i'm not sure if a lot of people presume that but i certainly wouldn't i'll stay with you on that one simon yeah i i would indeed agree there would be a lot of hard work to be put in to ensure that people understand what i believe and the benefits of united ireland and what many people of my political persuasion and background would think of the benefits of united ireland that's a long conversation and it's a thick it's a conversation based on facts and figures as well i mean it goes back to well how is this going to impact me if i'm sitting in cork or carry or water for down south of the county where i don't really have any day-to-day issues with the border how is it going to affect me if we bring six counties and add them into 26 but it has to be much more than that i think we need to see you know this is about a complete change in how as an island we operate it's not a it's not a 32 county nationalist you know tricolours and and you know it's not that type of of of united ireland we have a sizable unionist population who identify as british and we also need to not only talk about cork and carry how it would pass in the south but we need to ensure that the conversation is respectful and if we bring those people along for sure and we can't base it on this conversation being purely green green and orange because this is a very diverse county but even conversations like you know how many people in northern ireland are employed in public jobs i mean is that would that be sustainable in it in a in a 32 cat something something as simple as that um maria walsh i'll bring it back to you you know dan you're from further down the country you know i mean have people do people talk about uh and when you're based in double whatever you are you travel an awful lot you're for broad constituency you know like our people do you think broadly wanting the conversations it's something of interest to them or is it like six things down the pecking order and they really probably are non-plussed yeah to simon's point i think it is a conversation that's happening more and more at the dinner table as well with friends both online and offline and and to his point i think it's incredibly important that we are sensitive to it given i think i think brexit has taught us all a lot and and all ages in particular i think the fact that it is where it is years on and there's still no end in sight there is immense benefits to a united island from a business perspective from an EU funding perspective also but peace is the priority we have support for it but as simon said you know we had an amazing citizen dialogue for big questions in this country and therefore something similar has to be done if not more in the sense of town halls in every community across the 32 counties and all voices have to come in together and we need strong facilitators to ensure that both voices and all voices are included we also have generations that like my own that we're only growing up and have moved to this country as the troubles were ended but that we have to learn from our history in order for not to repeat it in our future but i was a part of an event run by Ireland's Future in Philadelphia in March and something similar actually the exact same event that Deputy Neil Richmond spoke in in Westminster earlier this weekend and there's an appetite within our diaspora to have the conversation but again regardless of whether you're a unionist republican or you are that white and trying to figure out where where you sit on the spectrum of it there has to be a dignified conversation and peace has to remain and if all voices are not at the table then we're going to have the repeated effects of what Brexit has left us and I think one of the things and maybe it shows how things have changed or Ireland has changed and I'm open to correction on this I think one of the pretexts of a border poll is the the likelihood of it passing uh a united island being formed and I just think that that's not really the framework that what you're saying and what Simon's saying fits into but anyway uh John McAteer of the Treconal Tribune its editor uh and chief pontificator John we were getting on too well I just had to have one little go come here uh what do you think of all of this what do you think of all of this we're getting to realize probably since about six months ago that the main political party saying it's not the right time to discuss it that is no longer acceptable so there is progress in that respect because the public is driving that let it be a town hall meetings let it be on Zoom meetings a uh Peter Fowler and Finnegeal have been putting this on the lawn thank you because saying this is not the right time to have a debate on a united Ireland first of all the debates is as long overdue given us that is 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement and I mean within the failure to upgrade the Good Friday Agreement even be it in in how the the the the spoils are shared at Stormont the Good Friday Agreement is almost now redundant because it has not moved on it was always going to be a template that will require an awful lot of work but there is a huge conversation to be had around the united island I would say 10 years from when the debate starts we're going to have something or needs something very very close to a citizens assembly we're going to have to explore all the issues that might be on the table as Simon said it's about more than a united Ireland is it going to be a federal solution ah how are the unions going to be protected in Northern Ireland how are we going to be protected in Donegal as a very remote region because that area west of the band has always seen itself as the poor relation from the east of the band there's all of those major headline issues that would take years and years to reconcile and you'd have to go into this with such an open mind that there's no guarantee that this is going to be accepted like if it's rejected it's going to be rejected for a lifetime and that is going to be the honest to goodness reality of it but until we get that conversation and then a hundred years after partition 101 years after partition we're way way behind the curve in doing these things because we just don't have the dynamics in politics to do it oh we are yeah can i just add to i don't think it's about the dynamics and politics it is and i know but i do hear your point on on a on a governmental bodies like Finafall and Finnavale not wanting to but also politically it is incredibly sensitive time considering we had a storm and assembly out of out of commission for three years prior to prior to this so i think there's a number of intricate details and and pointing the fingers the larger governments may be comfortable for some but that's certainly not going to get us to the balanced voice that that one needs and if we're taking if we're taking the quick shots then then we we also have to understand that impacts the conversation but that's always going to be part of the cotton thrust of it Maria though in reality isn't it because it's but there's a price to that it's always the like we have to depend on the bigger parties that's Finafall and Finnavale on the side of the border to make those decisions no matter in which we want it unless our parties are prepared to take that on board and run with it and they fail so far Maria and that's i mean that's the truth of the matter yeah okay um right okay but i mean simon the truth is is we're having conversations now where this is a likely the probability let's just say theoretically you know we have a situation whereby shengfei and the government north and south uh i presume that might accelerate it now and omie hall martin and his chariot arland project which i think he probably sees as one of his legacy policies he would say that he's cracking on uh cracking on with an awful lot of what we're talking about right now the the groundwork uh but you know when you were having those conversations with your mom and dad simon uh was there a sense that this actually could happen whereby we're in that position now where there is a sense that that this could actually happen look i think it's accelerated uh i think that's the the bottom line it's come a lot faster than any of us would have anticipated uh and you know for somebody who who had aspired to unite it out and obviously that's exciting for me but it also has to come with this with a huge sense of responsibility in terms of that conversation and i couldn't agree more with what john said there greg in terms of i think the public have gone ahead of the major parties here in the south and i think they're driving the conversation um and it's it's based because based on from a donny gall perspective as well it's something that people silently agreed with a lot of the time of people are starting to talk about it and starting to think about well how would united Ireland actually affect my day-to-day life in donny gall being in terms of health care being in terms of access to education uh and jobs you know also um listen it's a very exciting time in terms of a conversation but it's a huge it's a huge responsibility at the same time and we need to be very very sensitive about reproach okay a huge issue uh we've talked about it a lot this week but i want to dedicate the last part of this program it seems inevitable now that we in letter county university hospital that is to lose potentially life-saving angiogram services while a 750 000 euro piece of equipment lies virtually unused the people of donny gall raised money for the cath lab which we were told would be used by the consultant cardiologist to diagnose and treat patients with organic heart disease it's lying pretty much unused the hsc says experts are looking at options uh but there seems to be a general view that the writing is on the wall for these services locally uh maria why should our our code determine our life expectancy uh because listening to the hsc the the moon music seems to be that if you live in donny gall and you want certain services you're going to have to prepare to travel and that's just the way it is and quite simply and quite quite clearly i don't i don't agree with the sentiment from from from the hsc and the fact that um regardless of where you live in in a country like garland um a part of the european union that you would have to um run the risk of of of further uh further pain for for you and your family by by traveling um you know looking at statistics i see an increase of about a million a million three people over the age of 65 by 2040 that's by 23 percent of our population by 2040 so a significant increase across across our island i don't believe travel times is sufficient i do see the benefit of having clusters in major cities but i see immense impact in our primary care centres that are not utilised in my opinion to date um you look at the likes of tuba curry and sligo actually have a very good in valley mode i should say have a very good primary care centre that needs to be replicated across the country so that a there's prevention and not just reaction and if there is reactive care required that we can move that individual as quickly as possible um and if there's consultants in certain major cities but i mean letter candy is a major major city uh in in our in in our country and therefore should not be should not be ignored and declined so i'm very outspoken in terms of hsc and i think that was it that was it that was a let down for the people of johnny gall and in the midlands northwest as a whole yeah okay uh job market here obviously you're right across this story you've got your sources uh you know uh in in within it uh what do you think uh i i i just wonder is this going to be the issue that actually gets people onto the streets i don't know i'm going to set one record straight here in 2007 letter candy hospital got a cardiac surgeon and dr santa steve an excellent man he didn't have the tools to do the job there was a very dynamic friends of the hospital movement there was a very dynamic management and the set out to to produce a business plan to raise 750 000 for a cardiac cath lab that could be used for other interventional purposes including radiology and the need to include in colorectal colorectal examinations uh we're being done at this service by senior health officials referring to it as a as a radiology cath cath catheterization lab that was never the case it was never the purpose to raise it uh to raise that kind of money like there was no demand from the radiology services to raise that money so let's get our facts straight here uh to tony camman and everybody else this case was made in 2009 and 2010 and now here we are almost 10 years later uh tony camman saying that he has a two panel expert group looking at it a long past the time it was looked at before it was ever started i mean were we led astray by by the powers that be uh have you ever heard a minister a hse official let it be sealed let it be the management of letter candy you know how university hospital refer to the fact that we raised a colossal figure of 750 000 for a cardiac cath lab because that's exactly what we did but this is a dead language of official gum that stretches to three words uh uh commissioning and sanctioning and approval those are just the dead language but dr canavan not dr canavan mr canavan seems pretty clear in his language that you know if it's determined that certain services even if they can be provided in the likes of letter candy university hospital if they can't be provided to the same standard in the likes of gallway unapologetic you have to travel to gallway that's just the way service provision is going to be we can't accept that that's yeah dr canaman must also remember that for the last 11 years and next one service has been delivered to the people here in this casement area for letter candy hospital out of the back of a truck and i mean here we have what this this huge cath lab uh semen's made a piece of equipment uh lying there virtually idle from the point of view of dr david being able to use or being allowed to use because he he's he's not been given the technician to do so i feel that that's the shame and this is disgrace there is a meeting of the western health forum on next Tuesday it's going to be raised there again but the politicians need to get more animated in trying to resolve this and trying to do something about and to clear up the air because this is doing a disservice what official uh officialdom in the hse is doing is that they're casting us in a very very bad light by saying that this money was for a radiology interventional uh service it was not and that that's that's the fact because i covered hundreds of presentation nights where money was raised uh from beach parties to all kinds of head shaves or body shaves and everything else the word radiology was never mentioned once and as i said the business case was made and accepted and that that had to reassure the friends of the hospital it's a bit of a reasonable compromise that yeah no yeah yeah this this is fairly typical of what officialdom does and this is why the the health the health service the hse isn't isn't anything okay a total basket case right last minute to you on this one please um semen yeah look can i be honest with you Greg this scares the living daylights out of me yeah as somebody who's moved back to west on y'all we're already an hour away from medicinney i have five hours from gallewin you know i'm four and a half hours from the hospitals in dublin and it absolutely scares the daylights out of me that you know if something's wrong god forbid if somebody or a family member is ill they're going to have to travel this length of time over and over again and it's it's not right i mean 35 times one man i was speaking to yesterday's been up and down to to go away 35 times can you imagine i'd well believe it and there's a there's a local gentleman here i fly up and down to court quite a lot and i'm very lucky to have karik finna airport here and before covid there was a local man here who was receiving very standard cancer treatment and he was on the flight for me every single monday morning and not only that great but the days that the flight didn't go for stormy weather whatever it was i saw that man and his wife got on to a bus in guidore here at half past four in the morning to make a five hour journey to receive his treatment to turn around at six o'clock and get a five hour journey back down again but that gentleman has since passed away but it's it's absolutely scandalous that we're at that point where we're talking about people working from home talking about regenerating rural ireland but yeah we are absolutely you know we're so far behind in terms of where our health service should be in this county and sorry great just last point on this it's a funding issue from my perspective i think it's very very clear that it's a funding issue i mean i think in 2019 the figures were that there were over 24 000 inpatients treated the medic kenny hospital that year that's six highest in the entire state but in terms of budget allocations we're 13th or 14th in terms of number of consultants number 12th in terms of nurses and midwives simon that's the hard facts and figures i meant to come to this i meant to come to this topic a little bit earlier than i did my apologies you'll be back with us will you simon hopefully this is you're not a one-trick pony you'll come back home with us again you will okay excellent i look forward to it brilliant simon uh marie it's always great to have you on the program thanks very much for your time as well take care of yourself and john last but certainly not least uh strong comments very concise and informed as always john and that's why people love hearing you on highland radio thanks so very much i knew greg thank you take care of yourself have a lovely weekend john okay thank you to all of our guests thank you for getting involved in the conversation apologies we're going to be going to news about a minute and a half late we'll be back after the news and obituary notices with more the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie at mcgeese.ie you can create gallery quality art on canvas from 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kumihol martin is traveling to belfast for more talks with political and business leaders foreign affairs minister simon coveney meanwhile is having discussions on the margins of a council of europe meeting in churin with the british foreign secretary lis tross when maryland mcdonald says she believes there could be a united ireland within 10 years shin fame became the largest party in northern ireland at the recent assembly election and in its poised to nominate michelle o'neill as first minister if and when power sharing is restored well maryland mcdonald the party president says it raises the issue of a border poll she says the government's in dublin and london should be preparing without a shadow of a doubt i believe that we will see constitutional change in the course probably of the next decade of that there is no doubt and we need to prepare for that and the appetite for change across ireland would really lift your heart a midlands northwest mep says the rise in remote working can help alleviate some of the pressures being imposed on people in donigol and other west and northwestern counties maria walsh says it'll help cut back on transport costs and other work associated expenses however she told greg on today's nine to noon show that extra supports are needed to offset the increases in fuel costs i do see more funding needed particularly in rural communities in terms of that fuel supports and an increase in the fuel allowance i certainly would welcome that but i also welcome on the positive side the learns that we've had from the pandemic and in the increase in teleworking and remote working in donigol and and the west that certainly helps alleviate some transport costs and and the pressures of going to and fro and i and i think it would only benefit small towns and rural areas like we have in midlands northwest a group representing hotel owners estimates there are nine thousand job vacancies in the sector the arish hotels federation is encouraging people to consider a career in hospitality as folger arland looks to attract new staff to the tourism sector almost 25 of people employed in tourism in 2019 worked in hotels and guest houses the president of the arish hotels federation denise campbell says there are jobs available in all parts of the country from donigol to cork in 2019 tourism would have employed 270 000 people and we would say about maybe 65 000 people were directly employed in hotels and guest houses throughout arland and we would say now that that figure is probably back up after the pandemic to about 55 56 000 people so we vacancies are probably about 9 000 approximately in hotels and guest houses throughout arland donigol county council is hoping for a large turnout at next week's public consultation event to discuss key plans for the future of bunkrana and its environs a number of topics up for discussion as daniel brennan now reports the public consultation event gets underway in bunkrana on monday and it's set to cover not only a review of the current county development plan but also a number of other important proposals for the local area a review of the bunkrana local area plan will be undertaken as well as a consultation on a variation to the wind energy policy framework however the public will also be consulted for their views and the draft preliminary design of the proposed new bunkrana leisure center that will be on display at the consultation event the consultation will also cover the details of the repairing bunkrana regeneration project that has been set out the public consultation event takes place at the inisown gateway hotel on monday with an informal drop-in information event from 3 p.m until 7 before formal presentations of the plans begin at 7 o'clock well forecast ann midair and tells us after some heavy rain across the region this morning the rain will ease as we get into the afternoon there will still be some scattered showers some of the showers blustery and in places quite heavy with westerly winds and the temperature is hitting 13 to 15 degrees celsius this afternoon the situation will brighten further as the afternoon goes on with many places seeing a dry and bright end to the day however the winds will be picking up again as we go into tonight and that's island radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock the abitur notices for this friday morning the 20th of may the death has taken place of mary hannon main street moville her remains will repose at her home this afternoon from four o'clock until eight o'clock with the house private thereafter removal tomorrow morning at 22 11 for mass at 11 o'clock in st pi's the 10th church moville with burial afterwards in balibrak cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on moville parish dot com the death has occurred of brady grant five clonkoo park boncran and late of middle illy's bali megan boncran her remains are opposing at her home funeral from there on sunday morning at 10 past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in st mary's church cock hill with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 11 p.m. to 10 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv the death has occurred of margaret o brian donnie gall road baliba fey her remains will repose at mccool's chapel of rest baliba fey today and tomorrow with visiting from 7 p.m. until rosary at 9 p.m. funeral from there on sunday morning at 25 to 11 for requiem mass in the church of mary macklitz to an order at 11 o'clock followed by interment in drumbo cemetery requiem mass can be viewed on church services dot tv the death has to come place of eddie mccaffrey 52 leglands road garavolian drum quinn his remains are reposing at his late residence funeral from there tomorrow afternoon for three o'clock requiem mass in st patrick's church langfield drum quinn followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of sheamus mccarron finney dirk convoy his remains are opposing at his nephew fergus kelly's residence at gortlettra baliba fey funeral from there tomorrow afternoon at quarter past two for funeral mass at three o'clock in st mary's church convoy followed by burial in the family plot in the old cemetery the death has to come place of anthony doherty umgal malin head his remains are opposing at his late residence in our dungal malin head funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past nine to st mary's church lag for requiem mass at 10 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. the death has taken place of pat oliver maharanapan convoy funeral from his residence this afternoon at half past one for funeral service at two o'clock in st ninnian's parish church convoy followed by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard house strictly private please family fars only pat's funeral service will be streamed live on the craigsmedia facebook page page the death has taken place of woody mccolligan garrison ishkeheen muff his remains are opposing at his residence finnual from there tomorrow morning at half past 10 going to st patrick's church ishkeheen for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has occurred of joseph joe keeney 23 fair green hill long lane letter kenny his remains are opposing at st june's cathedral letter kenny requiem mass this morning at 11 o'clock followed by cremation in lakeland's crematorium in cavern mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family fars only please donations in lew if desired to hill crest house residents comfort fund or medical to lu h care of pascal blake funeral director the death has taken place of bernie henderson naye roleston 55 st colin's drive stroban reposing at quickly's funeral home this evening from half past five with removal at half past six to st mary's church melmont requiem mass tomorrow morning at 10 followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery requiem mass can be viewed live at melmont parish dot com the death has taken place of patrick packey lindsay 460 crohan heights livered and formerly of balance rate funeral from his home this morning at quarter past 11 for requiem mass in st patrick's church merlock at 12 noon in term and afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in louis flares please to the dunigal hospice care of quickly funeral directors requiem mass can be viewed live at clonley parish dot com and the death has occurred of anmel rine naye ballantine gordon quickly refoe funeral from kelly's funeral home oakfield refoe this morning at 22 11 going to st unan's church refoe for 11 o'clock requiem mass burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery mass can be viewed on mcn media dot tv for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com okay you're very welcome along to the second hour of this friday's nine till noon show was a lovely event in jackson's hotel last night organized organized by the council but it was a national event recognizing volunteers who stepped up to the plate they're they're working in their communities long before covenan will afterwards i'm sure but those that stepped up to the plate here in dunigal and a portal was open for people to nominate those who had worked in volunteering and i think it's a testament to our county that i believe outside of the capital dublin which has a massive population that donnie gall had the second highest number of nominations i believe in a a couple hundred of them gathered and gathered in jackson's hotel last night to be commended and honored for their work it was great to chat to people as well great to be out about it was good to bump into john wilkie hiya john if you're listening joanne and elizabeth too who do fantastic work in their community all the time particularly with young people and two people who are clearly good crack themselves and lovely to bump into the glenti's first responders as well who were doing some recent fundraising for a new dfib but are a lovely bunch of people as well those and all the others i was chatting to it was great to see them and well done and a lovely recognition and there was more invited than could attend so fair play to all of them as well okay uh some of your comments here the whole world is falling apart it kicked off with covid and the lack of materials due to closures sent prices soaring and put in the final nail in the coffin when we look at the big so-called leaders around the world there isn't a man amongst them you could trust to come up with any answers to the problems these problems are going to be around for some time and it will change our way of life big time it will we've been through a tough period we're going through another tough period and the best thing we can do is stick together and support each other and people of a certain age will know they've been through all of this before multiple recessions cold war hopefully as we always do we'll find a way out i don't think life is ever going to be great for everyone because there's always people left behind but we could strive towards that at least fena fall councillors can't be neutral on pre-legislative scrutiny on the new michael legislation they are the glue that keep the grassroots loyal and so keep their tds in power to keep me home martin and government if you voted for a fena fall councillor in the last election it's time for you to have your say i just wonder i'm getting some soundings and i could be wrong if the demands for pre-legislative scrutiny i understand there's been some meetings going on if they are going to be as strongly pushed as they had been we'll see if there's any developments in that regard three conditions for united ireland says the texture all end in x demographics politics and economics the latter is the most important and will win the day one way or another the other two are just emotional aspirations i tend to think you might be on to something there thanks for texting we had reason to go to hospital in doblin during the week we had to leave at 3 30 a.m arrived home at 7 p.m that evening you know and there's people having to do that you know with uh with people it's difficult to and that you've got services there like the bomb blitz ambulance that that makes it tolerable for some uh but for many others it's just really really difficult the thought i know lots of people simply don't drive into cities because they don't like driving into cities yet they find they're forced to and then you know even down to where do you park and all that kind of stuff it's tough hi i'm in shock i applied for a renewal of my passport online on the 15th of this month and i received my passport today it's one of those simple online uh returnarounds uh much of it's automated it seems and that's good news 195 000 other people many with holiday plans many who've had their applications in for months are waiting and there's a lot of disappointed families families that are going to be disappointed uh unfortunately i would like to say that i was on the trip to see andre rio in dublin last weekend i really enjoyed it chris ashmore was a great leader he was so helpful and was always there when you needed him thanks to cahill our driver who bust us around so safely i can't wait for the next trip lovely feedback thank you another caller the donagall county council has widened the road at old town letter kenny by creed smith adding a much needed footpath it might be worth looking at the esb poll that was left in place on the new road for motorists to hit with their car uh yeah maybe there are probably teams that will be have to come in to move them can you see the garden police in parts of the north can we afford the free health service there asks another caller hi greg wethanorth uh not a hope in hell with the people from the north uh want to united arland thank you uh because there are other options as well you know and we've seen um you know a growth in the alliance support it's been happening for quite some time it's been shown in the polls this time what do those people in northern arland think for example another caller says that united arland is a conversation now taking place with friends at dinner parties how detached are your guests from day to day reality from ordinary lives i think both maria uh and john uh referenced that said that the conversation is ongoing it was me uh proposed that on a 32 count basis and it was only for the purpose of conversation i have no real knowledge how uh bigger conversation is it on the wider platform and they answered saying people are having that conversation and i think it was uh uh yeah it was definitely said as well too that the public are having the conversation ahead of the political party so i appreciate your comment but i'm not sure it's fair criticism another caller says i cannot see anything other than united arland working everything else has been tried tested and failed at this stage the power sharing mess has failed to gain are we going to have to tolerate more years of violence and conflict the division has to end we will need massive support from europe dublin and london to make united arland work but this caller believes it has to be done another well i don't think the people of northern arland would want it as the health service is free in the north no matter what your status is where uh here it is means tested exactly you know that this and these are the conversations that when you get down to the nitty gritty of a vote start happening hi greg could you ask john what he thinks about donagall european car rally moving the service to letter kenny for the entire weekend the impact on traffic and businesses that this will have a little late in me getting my hands on that to ask that of john but i think that's probably a topic that will be returning to uh in its own right we'll take another couple more before we get your bingo numbers the parties try to keep shin fane out every td should be made independent to abolish party politics everyone has an independent vote and everyone gets re-elected on the public's choice then you have a party who learned to work for the good of arland party politics divides people we need fresh uh and new politics another after the last election the people did not want this government make up the fact is people are lying in the long grass waiting to inflict revenge on this lazy government they had uh done nothing they've done nothing on high taxation housing and health they've turned their backs on the irish people believes a listener there uh finnegale in opposition they'll be lucky if they get 10 seats next time round finnegale many of them listen to this program have a core support finneville have a court support i'm not sure there are parties of a size that could be wiped out or maybe i'm wrong it's a conversation another call us there's one more government td to vote against their own party and there will most definitely uh be an election neil richmond uh richard would be better leader of finnegale me thinks another of course we're going to have a massive recession and it will be more difficult to get out of this one as the government's has sold all our assets but they won't care there'll be an opposition well actually most of the current government ministers will be enjoying their big pensions as they have little chance of getting elected again and some know this and are already announcing the retirement like rats getting off a sinking ship to use a metaphor uh yeah we're going to see a lot of that you know a lot of uh we've seen one uh locally i wouldn't be surprised if we saw another um and there will be more around the country that uh will have perhaps achieve what they feel they can achieve within party politics and are young and have ambition and have plenty of mula and uh we'll say who 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250 000 euro this is according to some price comparison websites right we're joined on the on this topic now by mark cohen founder of money sherpa good to have you back with us mark thanks for joining us yeah morning Greg right so um the way it's that now is is that you're even hearing people uh who are on you know uh tracker mortgages wondering now is it time for me to switch or to lock in sorry to a higher interest rate um but people could find themselves if they lock in for a long time down really quite significant amounts of money if the if they read the trends wrong yeah i mean it is a difficult question um for for everybody um and you mentioned there in your intro Greg that we have been living in quite um odd times um financially if you look back when interest rates have been um on the floor and and banks have been able to get money effectively free from european central banks and i think we've all got very very used to that um over the last 10 or 15 years um but the situation has um changed quite dramatically um with inflation rates um as we all know we can feel the pain of that in our pockets um spiraling out of control so essentially what that means is um inflation happens when um there's too much money um floating around in the system so central banks want to take money out by making it more expensive um for people to get credit and they do that by raising interest rates um and i think essentially what we're seeing here is a normalization so the european central bank is expected to raise interest rates um in july um and that means um and a big knock on in terms of mortgages and it's the first time we've really seen this for 15 years so so it is a real change in in what we've kind of got used to it's it's to use that horrible phrase we thought we forgot it is kind of this might be the new normal yeah the thing is is though you know there's such a variation amongst irish mortgage holders in what rate they're paying at the moment like you have the trackers then you've got some that might be sitting with the likes of uh you know ulster bank on a four plus others that might be on three and you know others that might be maybe switched recently on two point one or whatever it might be i'm picking numbers out of the air just for example mark you know so really the options for all of those people are kind of different i would imagine so it sometimes it's hard to see the woods for the trees and and we don't know enough to make the right decision is there some general advice across those bands that i i've uh given for example yeah so um and it is general and and the thing that we always say is you know get specific advice but but to give people an idea so they can kind of think about it themselves i mean essentially there's i think about it that there's three big groups so um you know about 60 of people in island have a mortgage and and that breaks down but half of those about 30 of people in island have a tracker um and for that group um the days of of them going i'm on a tracker i don't have to worry about any of this mortgage talk that's that's gone now actually what's a tracker at the moment mark yeah so it's a typical tracker and there are different ones so a tracker just for those people who don't know um tracks the european central base um rate the european central base rate is currently zero percent typically um most trackers are around one percent above um that rate so today um a lot of people are paying between one and two percent if they're on a tracker mortgage which is an unbelievably low rate for for for a mortgage historically um the second group um on variable rate mortgages and and they're about 15 percent so there's about 150 000 people who are on on a variable rate mortgage they're paying a lot more they're paying about on average according to the central bank of island they're paying about 3.5 percent right now um and to them um there's some urgent action required um that they need to look really whether they need to fix their rate right now and then finally and just on that though just sorry uh because where you can fix your rate presumably depends on where the interest rate is struck in europe so someone say for instance on 3.5 at the moment and i'll get back to a similar question retracker mortgages where realistically could they fix the rate right now um if they're currently paying 3.5 percent on a variable yeah so there are rates available um all the way down to 1.95 percent um so you could on an average mortgage so the average outstanding mortgages is 200 000 actually um the average most people have left is 15 so it years so if i talk in averages it might help people get some real numbers around this to your point Greg it is it is quite difficult so so variable rates as I say are at 3.5 that means the average mortgage repayment in island right now and it'll be skewed by Dublin but but but let's just take the average national numbers is 1400 so every one percent is about 100 euro roughly um per month on your mortgage so if you're on a 3.5 percent variable if you switch down to a 2 percent then you're going to be saving about 150 quid a month so it's substantial if you over 15 years um you know that is you the better your position presumably in terms of you obviously would have to have a decent credit rating but you're low into value ratio the better that is presumably the more attractive you are uh and and you're better chance of getting a a better rate 100 percent so the 1.95 by the way is is for the better LTVs if you go up to kind of a higher LTVs um it goes up to in around 2.4 but you're still saving um 100 euros a month but the only thing you want upsets me about it and I mean this genuinely I just don't say here we are in a game and we're talking and those that perhaps would need the benefits of saving most are probably those least likely to be able to avail from them and it's just the way society set up it's out of your control uh of of course but you know those who maybe could have struggled a little bit maybe dropped a couple of payments here or there uh that could really benefit from saving that a couple of hundred a month are the ones that are going to you know not be really looked at favorably by some of the companies I would encourage people to look though um especially if they talk to a broker so um what brokers can typically do if you have missed the odd repayment you have gotten into trouble it's not it's not one strike and you're out there are certain lenders who won't take your business but there are still lenders that will take your business so for that group because you're 100 right Greg because it's exactly the group that's the most hard pressed um I'd encourage them to talk to a broker who can match them with a lender who's most likely to lend to them all right now we talked about the tracker let's actually finish up with the tracker customers by the way because you talked about what they're paying at the moment uh there is the possibility that interest rates could could go up uh you know into the the mid four percent's okay uh in the not too distant future so they're going right now is now the time to come off this you know what was the what everyone wanted the tracker mortgage and switched to a fixed rate you know is is it too soon is now the time because it's possible that these rates might go up to two two point one two point five percent and who say they could stick at that or even maybe come down the way some experts are suggesting that it's not certain it's not guaranteed that the the direction of traffic will be upwards uh for the foreseeable yeah no I mean and this is what makes it so so tricky so just to give you a kind of a sense of the of the numbers Greg so most analysts expect um central bank will go up to 1.5 in stages over the next year or so so the lenders will obviously pass that on so you're looking at those mortgage rates of for variable rate customers first going from 3.5 to 5 percent if those analysts are right so that's an extra 150 quid on your monthly repayments so that's why I said earlier for the verbal rate group I would really be looking at fixing talk to a broker at this point have a conversation about your particular case but to your point and I don't want to scare your listeners here but there is no reason that rates won't go a lot higher than that and we've been living in quite unusual times in the late 90s for example I'm old enough to remember that time well rate rate percent that's 4.5 percent higher than now that's 450 euros for that typical customer a month more on their mortgage repayments and if you're on a verbal then that potentially could happen I mean my take is that's that's a little bit too extreme but I do think actually which it would be wise for people to plan about what would happen if they ended up paying you know 350 on a typical mortgage more I think ask yourself that question and if that causes you a problem and I think you'd be very lucky if it didn't cause you a problem then you should be considering fixing so this is where it comes back to your point about the tracker so a tracker mortgage today at 1% or 2% that could end up going to 4.5% and you're paying 450 more and at that point really you would have been better off fixing at the 2.65% and I to answer your question Greg I don't think it's quite at the point where tracker mortgage customers should definitely go out and fix but I definitely start to think about it I start to listen when people talk about interest rates and if the general consensus is that interest rates are going to continue to rise and nobody's got a crystal ball then I think it could very well be at the point and you have to factor in you have to factor in can I afford it if it goes to 4.5% do I take the risk at fixing it in the twos but I know I can afford that you know and if if you take a hit well at least you have the certainty you know I mean we don't have the money to be gambling and and you know there's a certain element of gamble to this then that you were mentioning a third cohort of people yeah so that sorry that is the customers who are on a fix rate today okay brilliant right so now then there is another group right because I presumed when you talk about fixing some of that's with your current lender you know I presume we don't have to switch to you don't have to switch to lock in an interest rate now there are many of us who are with is it KBC and Ulster Bank presumably they're not offering they're not offering people fixed rates as they exit the market maybe they are I don't know so for those customers do they have to they have to switch anyway unless they passed off to whoever they are passed off to what are their options what should they do yeah so the first thing to say with Ulster Bank for example do you you can you they'll be old they're actually going to be owned by an author banks case um uh permanent tsp but um you could still fix with them now the one thing that I would say to people is you can fix with your current bank and it is easier and especially if you're trapped by some sort of credit issue it can often be easier because the bank can potentially look at your credit more generously however the typical banks that people are with surprise surprise aren't the cheapest so that 2.65 rate you won't get anywhere near that if you um if you fix with your current lender so I would encourage people to actually talk to a broker who will be able to work out because some of these rates Greg are only available um via the brokers so talk to a broker and see what the switching option is rather than just going to your current bank because you're probably going to end up paying on average people end up paying 100 to 150 more um if they're with one of what we call the Irish what we used to call the Irish pillar banks yeah and I suppose it's the same it is really kind of the same with your electricity and all the services in terms of switching and saving all that kind of stuff so I mean are you signing on dated so they like to see yourselves at money sherpa and others um in the switching game like you're inundated are you able to handle the demand that's out there like are people facing delays if the contact switchers and that'd be perfectly understandable because with everything that's going on plus banks leaving you know obviously I can imagine I can imagine what's the story in that regard yeah I mean you you're completely correct by the way I mean there's a huge rush right now there's a lot of people fixing and there's also a lot of people switching away from KPC and and also bank and it's all happening at the same time so that's one of the reasons I would encourage people to move early um there's two reasons I think why um there's a little bit of urgency on this one you want to be I think there will be even more people when the rates actually do tick up um but right now we've already got a backlog across the market with the lenders of three months and um it's there's not that 2.65 fixed rate which is for 20 or 30 years um and that rate as you said Greg which I think is the exact exact point it's actually more important to cap the potential cost of things going up than it is to save potentially on future um going down because it's almost like you take out an insurance policy when you fix your rate for 20 or 30 years you can't pay more and that means you're securing your home and you know like renters would love that certainty that you would you know if they think right I'm not gonna ever buy they would go wow you mean tell me that I know what my rent will be for 20 or 30 years like they would jump at the jump at the chance that that's a great way to put it Greg I mean that certainty is worth more than even the financial side um and I and those 20 or 30 year rates only came to the market in the last year I think um I know put it this way I know the advisors in my office this week all filed their applications for those rates so I would encourage you know your listeners to to maybe look into it um I mean if they do want to um if they do want to find out more than they can just google money sure per best mortgage rate if I find more information if I approach someone like you guys what do I need because this is not like switch in electricity whereby you need my i-band you need my customer number and you need a reading from from the side of my house uh you know mortgages are complex by the very nature the way they've been designed so like what does someone need to have in order before they they ring the likes of your company yeah well it depends on on the company but to be honest to have the first conversation see how much you say um and certainly with us you don't need anything we don't ask for any paperwork we just set up a video call and we have the conversation because that's the first question are you actually going to save how much you're going to save now once you've established that then um you actually need to prove a proof of address proof of id and proof this is the big one of your capacity to to repay which is all about your bank statements and your salary search and the other thing that people should consider um is there is upfront cost on this so typically brokers like ours ourselves are free to use but you will need a solicitor and they're not free to use um and you will need a valuation of your home um now typically the solicitor and the value where um together that that comes in about um 1400 all in so even though you are going to be saving every month to get there and to switch your mortgage you're going to have to budget for about 1400 but that is if your motivation is purely financial your other motivation could be the certainty and then that's less of a factor yeah right okay uh you know i think people are going to do it at the moment even how you described it as simple as it might be it might be a little bit complicated until people start seeing the interest rates go up and then it will become you know how we are all of a sudden things become clearer because uh the the pressure's put on us uh listen um thank you as always uh mark for uh your input your advice and it is one of those people have to make their own decision have to make sure they're doing their own research as well but we appreciate your uh your your professional insight thank you so very much mark thanks great all right take care of yourself oh wait actually before you go mark sorry one question because it might be quite time sensitive for the listener they've got three years left on their mortgage they want to know should they fix it or sit in a flexible rate they're paying 600 pa 600 euro per month that includes the insurance on it so they're already at a really low base three years to go on the mortgage it's hardly worth their uh it's hardly worth their time switching particularly given the potential percentage increases in their costs yeah and the other thing to bear in mind is that still have to pay that solicit of fee so if you're right at the tail end of your mortgage you're probably fortunate um but it's mostly the average is 15 years to run so they're probably it's more the people who are looking at you're looking at anything more than 10 years left on your mortgage then then then that then told to a broker yeah good stuff listen thanks very much for your time as i say i really do uh appreciate it right so 08 660 25 000 what's apps and texts the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union 9102 127 quick write this number down 91 48 234 Fleming doors you know industrial doors garage doors agri doors insulated doors milking parlour doors Fleming 91 48 234 sportswear for women a brimelocomic sports and leisure in fresh new colors and styles nike pro tees and vests with matching shorts and 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passport office yesterday and was informed that they the passport office couldn't contact the verifying garada as no answer due to the barracks being unmanned told the person that if they could not contact the said garada application would be dismissed and would have to reapply fortunately this individual contact the approving garada who had to give his personal number for passport office to contact him which is quite unfair to the garada as he was off duty yeah and there was to make things worse they contacted one of the individuals waiting for first time passport needed to send birth certificate and after david to which the person already had done stapled to the application yeah at 20 to 6 yesterday evening that the person received an email so no chance of getting talking to anybody as time the government started to assess the problem as i'm only highlighting this problem on behalf of a few individuals no i get that i get that and to be honest until recently paul i wasn't aware that um the passport office contacted the likes of peace commissioners and garady i did not realize that they had to make contact with them to process the application if they are struggling to get through to a particular garada that obviously is something out of our hands so we're sitting at home thinking right things are progressing well and there is another thing holding it up that's completely out of our control and there's no there's very little communication and no means to actually contact them no the the kind of like as i stated uh greg a lot of small localities the barks are not man 24 hours and the calls have been diverted to main garad the station yeah and the message has not been relayed yep so in other words if someone rings a garada in kili bags uh and it gets sent to uh the bali shallon district office will they even be able to uh you know do they pass that message on to that other guard it's an interesting point something i wasn't aware of paul oh yes well uh they don't pass it on and after they do pass it on well the the passport office is closed and there's nobody answering now one of those individuals eventually got through this morning greg yeah to the passport office this was the person in relation to affidavit and bursary now they wanted our to send on an affidavit and bursary which are stated that she already did now which means that she at her expense has to go and get a new bursary to terminate has to go to the officer of the courts to get another affidavit and they told her that she has to write our our name on the back of the the bursary now this does not state on any of the applications that this has to be done well i also was told actually paul and i don't want to confuse people further that that information actually has to be written on the front of the bursary because there are people who wrote it on the back and there are being uh those bursary have been sent back to them saying it has to be on the front but if you write on the front of the birth third that birth third then is only good for that one process and after that it's spoiled for for everything else it's too complicated paul and there's too much messing going on and 195,000 people including those who you speak on behalf of are being frustrated yes like as i'm speaking like one of the individuals is waiting eight weeks and when she when the passport office contacted her earlier on this week told her that everything was processing properly and then to get an email yesterday evening to state about daffidavit and the birth search now apparently it seems one doesn't know what the other is doing yeah okay all right listen paul thanks for highlighting that with us it's food for thought and something we can also put to the post office the passport office if we can manage to get a spokesperson thank you paul oh thank you thank you thank you well done have a good weekend have you got a similar experience i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand i know there's an awful lot 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westerly they'll be gusty for you at times 08 660 25000 that is our text line call 07 491 25000 we're heading towards that news very shortly but i think i have time just for a couple of comments and hi greg um you don't know if you do requests but before 11 30 today would you please play a nice song for matthew old donald clon money and claire bradley clon money who get married today love from matthew's uncle paul and auntie sally and paul's fiance eileen see you later we just won't get a song in today but look the request is there and there'll be plenty of music and crack later on i'm sure uh there are people who cannot get mortgages because the rent uh they are paying us so high they actually would be at better off with the mortgage instead of paying rent which some people see as uh dead money last one before the news delighted to hear debate on highland radio about first time passports for minors my friend went to spain yesterday leaving their six month baby at home despite the application for a passport sent in march it's ridiculous and your speaker addressed some of the problems involved yeah indeed lots of people out there not uh in in the same boat okay uh we are going to be easing ourselves into the weekend putting away the serious stuff uh talking more frivolous nonsense some might see it but uh be that as it may it's going to be the entertainment item coming up for you shortly but it's eleven o'clock which means it's time for a news update good morning donald thank you greg good morning fresh efforts are being made today to break the impasse preventing the restoration of power sharing government in the north minister simon coveney is meeting with british foreign secretary list trust on the margins of a council of europe meeting in churin while the t-shirt is in belfast he's having discussions there with political and business leaders midlands northwest m e p says the rise in remote working can help alleviate some of the pressures being imposed on people indonesia gall and other western counties rio watch says it'll help cut back on transport costs and other work associated expenses whoever she told greg on today's nine to the new show that extra supports are still needed to offset the increases in the cost of fuel and the a a said this morning government excise reliefs on motor fuel are on the verge of being wiped out prices for premium diesel have gone above two euro once again despite cuts in excise duty gar thee say the rising cost of fuel could lead to an increased level of theft into the summer don't go county council has opened the public consultation on the letter kenny 2040 regeneration strategy it sets out detailed design concepts for 11 regeneration sites and initiatives across letter kenny town center this is the third and final phase of consultation it runs until june 6th with an event at dilin's hotel on tuesday week made 31st at which people can view the design concepts they can also be viewed at letter kenny 2040.com a group representing hotel owners estimates there are 9 000 job vacancies in the center right across the country from donnie goll to cork the arwich hotel federation is urging people to consider a career in hospitality as folger arland looks to attract new staff into the tourism sector and a leading environmentalist says arland should consider embracing nuclear power john gibbons has argued nuclear power is clean safe and always on and he believes it may be an answer to replacing fossil fuels the environmental journalist says safety fears are very often overplayed and there the headlines were back with headlines again at 12 noon thank you so much donal and we'll be back with more on the night on noon show including our friday panel which today consists of michael leddie writer and blogger and emma costlow great to have emma on actually she has emma talks tv so for once we'll have someone on who knows what they're talking about that's all coming up for you in a couple of 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hard to be hawaii five oh though isn't it i mean it is pretty iconic um i mean it's past my generation how many theme tunes good you dance to are you could dance to that one i mean i'd say there's quite a few that you could dance to i mean i arguably i would say out of the soaps in particular i would say standards like east and the start of east anders is uh like me trying to you know when i'm leaving the pub but you have to go downstairs that's kind of yeah exactly yeah east anders had a vocal version do you oh yeah they did yeah yeah anyone can oh yeah let's do it you know uh yeah so east anders is the best soap hopper theme tune interesting what about like glenn roe oh i'll be honest i haven't heard it good that's another dig at my age yeah i can't that's the second dig in my age the glenn roe theme tune for a generation of us means do your homework because bedtime's coming it's sunday night it's having that homework that you mean putting off all weekend you gotta get it done in the next you said that a couple of times that's really it's haunted me it's it's like i feel like this is a therapy session greg and i need to tell you okay get the theme tune the theme tune did glenn roe that's what it means to me right okay okay well listen east anders is all right we'll listen to that in the background too i don't know all right i think it's gonna be hard to beat hawaii five oh 18 uh 18 oh that's a good one or magnum there you go magnum yes but do you notice what we're doing here and again you're showing your age we're talking about a certain area area yeah of uh we're talking about a certain area of um well here's the serious point tv modern american tv shows the last 20 years they don't have an opening theme anymore one second yeah see where you're coming from yeah yeah all right the reason i was saying it uh uh emma which made me think about this is you might have heard some conversation about school writers those that are writing the theme tunes to shows at the moment they're not happy with this uh thing now that we're all doing on netflix and streaming channels where you skip the intro and they put all this time and thought into creating a theme tune and then we're skipping through it you know uh can you see where they're coming from i can i mean i'm quite particular when it comes to my shows some of them i'll skip especially if they're very very long i'm like i can't i can't be bothered i'll just skip through it but there are certain ones like down to nabby for example i never skip it i play the whole way through even though it's quite it's quite a long one but yeah no i can't i can't skip it so there's some ones that i'm very loyal to but then there's others where it's just it's not necessary to listen to them i feel like if they if they're not catchy then what's the point it has to be catchy i watch even the closing themes i always oh no i can't no i always do no no no no no skip right thing it's the next episode no is this down to nabby here it's just it's just nice it's just comforting and it gets you into the this spirit of it okay which is yeah which is the point of a good open theme yeah the whole point of the theme is to get you into the zone of that show agreed and that's what by not doing it anymore american network shows they lose that because it sets the tone yeah for if you're watching a sitcom like family ties back in the day it set the tone dexter was a great on intro yeah because it it was sort of murdery but you he was only making breakfast and the music was cool and it was great yeah i i i get i agree with you but then there have been some fantastic shows with no theme tune that's great can you just think of one you can't by the sound of what did 24 of a theme no yeah it had that that's sort of the start yeah it didn't have a theme did not have a theme tune essential and then you have the closing theme was awesome and they used it occasionally when jack would go into action you know that's quite true yeah it's sean calligree i think is the guy so it did have a theme tune just didn't play it at the start exactly there's a few shows like that yeah well they're just indisperse it's right but then again i think programs like succession which has a wonderful theme tune that that really sets up that show yeah so it's up to us the audience stop giving out just because you're not winning an emmy or an Oscar for the staircase i won't say no the music it's very long it's a cool it's a cool it's cool and it's amazing but i was watching it yesterday and i was like oh for god's sake like it's nearly two minutes long this is the new sky Atlantic show emma yes right okay now i'm uh i've kind of followed the documentary stuff right so and i've watched it all and i felt like i was an aficiado and all this uh and it kind of has put me off ish from watching a dramatization of course yeah tell me why i'm wrong i mean hmm okay there's an argument here because i watched the staircase documentary so i think it was actually one of the first things i watched on netflix and i so i've seen the first three episodes of the staircase and there's a bit in the second episode that kind of hints at something that happens later on and because i've seen the documentary i know what it is so the surprise is lost on me the reveal is lost on me i still enjoy it though i think it's i think it's still worthwhile i think emma a lot of people and i'm not amongst them um read books and then the sort of tv yeah well i would do the same yeah and people get over that so yeah it's the same it's the same thing yeah it's possible um i haven't seen the documentary i've came close to watching it a couple times been on my radar on this non-existent list but so i can now watch the dramatization completely fresh oh so yeah you don't know anything no i don't have a clue i'm jealous i'm actually jealous i was like i don't know who to believe in this and i'm loving it yeah um emma do you think it does the story justice because you know i think that kind of be if especially if it's one of your first shows that you watched or ever and you really love the staircase documentary and you know i think everyone has three or four films they recommend yeah you recommend documentaries in there so you can get a sense of ownership do you feel they're doing the story justice even though maybe some of the twists and turns are a little bit small for you no i think they do and definitely in terms of so in case anyone who doesn't know about it um it's based on the true story of kathleen peterson who was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in 2001 and her husband michael was accused of her murder he's always claimed that he's innocent he didn't do it um but this kind of really focuses like the documentary is very much about michael peterson it's based on like his trial they gave exclusive access all that stuff um whereas this kind of gives a bit of an insight into kathleen and what she was like like follows her a couple of months before her death so you get to see her interactions with the kids what she was like with michael um her business like her like personal side of things so i feel like it really opens up into her life which i think the documentary missed and most documentaries don't they are then they rarely focus on the victim it's almost whether or not you have sympathy for the alleged perpetrator yes exactly i suppose it's simply what they can have access to i mean if somebody has passed away and there's no film footage it limits maybe what they can do whereas in the dramatization they get someone in like tony collett who's fantastic yeah and she brings such life so they have the opportunity to do it she feels like a real person yeah yeah exactly and not just a name or a story mechanism or something yeah right so that's the first couple of episodes then we're starting to get into presumably the nitty gritties of the situation are you enjoying that element of it yeah i i've watched up as far as so i think this trial is justified to begin obviously i've seen the documentary so i know how the trial works out but it's interesting the way they've done this because there's three timelines as i say they follow it a couple of months before her death then they followed the whole trial and then there's a third timeline which if you've seen the documentary you'll kind of have an inkling of what that is it's that like 2017 2018 but if you don't know what happens then you're kind of you're watching it i'm i'm not gonna the only thing is it's like this one there's in the documentary there's kind of and i don't know what they're going to show in the drama but in the documentary and i think the the latest stage of it there's one pivotal moment yes with a live mic right yes that and i'm not saying who it's on or what it's about or whatever i just if they hang the whole series on that it's kind of feel like a massive spoiler the whole way through no but i feel i feel like they have done injustice in the sense that like i think it's quite hard because the documentary was so popular like there was at one point everyone was talking about it do you know i mean you couldn't like it was like a watercolor moment everyone was talking about it it was hard to escape it so i feel like it was a risk doing this dramatization and when i first heard about it i was skeptical i was like do we need this do we really need this and i've started neither i've started watching i'm like no it's actually it's a good thing i mean obviously like i said the fact that i know some of the twists and turns kind of ruins it a little bit because there's no element of surprise but like i think it's still enjoyable all right well now that it's a brilliant perspective from you Michael because you're watching it but you don't know the story yeah if i stay away from Emma i won't have it spoiled i was going to say i think one of the reasons for watching it even if you have seen the documentary this cast is amazing oh yeah like Tony Collette uh Colin Firth other like park i didn't know Parker Posey was in this i love Parker Posey she's brilliant always loved her and everything Tim Gunny is so so many great character actors uh Rosemary DeWitt the cast is amazing and they're bringing so much to every scene like even when it moves away from the main character Michael you're seeing top class talent bringing these other characters to life yeah so i feel like as a television dramatization it stands on its own but i think you're in the perfect position because i love something that's based on real life but you might know bits and parts bits and pieces with the story but it's such a treat for you because you get something with a clearly uh it's well written great cast you know it's real life so you can do a bit of research exactly what have you uh but yet things that happen you go right yeah and because it's true you're like crazy improbable things can happen like all the events happening on the day of 9 11 and you wouldn't as a fiction writer do that no but because it happened that way it's it's fresh and i finished i only watched the first episode and i watched it last night i went it was over i was like i don't know who to believe i don't know where this is gonna go it's gonna stay that way okay cool and um amma is it all available at once uh or are they releasing episodes weekend so it's weekly it's weekly on skyatlantic let me check it's Thursdays yeah okay and do we know how many series episodes yes eight episodes there's five right currently oh really okay so i'm planned to actually catch up over the weekend i'm not yeah i'm gonna make the effort do you know in fairness that's not like you michael no it's not like you so it must have the hope must be oh it's a very strong hook yeah i did enjoy it more than i expected to because i was like oh is this gonna be for the people who already know the story yeah but it's not clearly you're pleasantly surprised and to some extent those who don't know the story might enjoy a little bit more so someone who has not watched the documentary what would you give it out of ten so far first episode to me was a solid eight and i made an improve i was really hooked and i really thought it was good and amma cost those someone whose expectations might have been higher because they sort of knew the story in the documentary what are you giving it out i would i would still give in an eight i yeah yeah i would still so that's the case so uh well now i'm going to watch it like i am definitely gonna watch it i'm just gonna wait till it's all out um and then binge it and and you know i don't know what your memory is like amma but i am confident like we've already heard one reference from you that i didn't even remember at all so even though i claim to know stuff it's clear i don't well that's the thing i because i was quite intrigued my memory of it was a bit dodgy i couldn't remember all the bits of the documentary so i did do google and i read like an article of like a you know brief summary and then things came back to me then i was like oh i forgot that happened and oh i forgot that twist you could have watched the drama and let that unfold on the time well no i could have but then i was impatient so exactly and so much facade it's so hard to it's so hard to avoid doing that all right that is the staircase on sky atlantic i think the tv event uh of the week for many people out there was deri girls we want your views on deri girls i'll wait 60 25 000 or make your comments on social media what did you think of it did it live it to your expectations did it exceed your expectations um i know emma's watched that uh and we'll get her views and uh michael hasn't so he'll just bluff and nod and probably tell us probably tell us another program one of the actress has been in that'll get him through the segment and everything everything will be okay i can't disagree as how we roll all 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company of michael eddy and emma costell right so dairy girls before we talk about sort of the program itself what i thought was really interesting the commentary coming from britain in particular about how this this program presented and helped people understand the good friday agreement than all of their years in schools in britain that they go oh that's what it was about that's what it was for that's now we don't want to get bogged down in the in the politics of it so if you want to comment on that that's fine emma but generally speaking did it exceed match oh more than exceeded but just on that point i have friends in england who texted me after the show and they were like that's the most i've ever learned about the good friday agreement excuse me they don't learn about that in their schools which i think is horrible considering you know everything like the links between our countries the fact that they don't know about it is horrific and the fact that they have to like rely on a sitcom to get that history to get the information it's shocking but you know what sometimes that's what it takes emma why was derry girls so successful why did you love it so much i presume i think you did you wrote it on the list you're not gonna come on highland right after the first time and say you know what these are all round derry girls was rubbish i think it's down to the writing i think lisa meaghey has done an amazing job i think whatever accolade we can give her she should get it like the fact that she can balance comedy and heartfelt moments so well so beautifully so flawlessly like it's just incredible the cast is amazing the comedy like you know i've the fact that i've grown up in the border i can see so many of like my family members and people in my local area in these characters you know like uncle column for example we all have that relative where you see their name on the phone you're like no i'm on no i did that yesterday like it's your turn to answer the phone do you know what i mean like it's just it's our life it's our life on screen and i feel like we don't get to see that very often you know but good comedy good writing means that you can write and i think we discussed this before michael you can write about what you know and what's relevant and specific to an area but if you do it right it's universal it's universal exactly agreed yeah of course absolutely and i think it has traveled very well hasn't it it's it's incredible like i think that the fact that um netflix picked it up has massively helped them as well you know rich is a whole new audience yeah so it's the characters and it is the writing you talked about um you talked about how the characters are relatable because of of where you're upbringing as well but in terms of the the subject matter i wouldn't ask nor presume your aim age am i but i'm 23 a lot of the stuff a lot of the stuff i'm not recognizing i'm gonna cry now no a lot of stuff that uh it's it's based in a certain time okay then naturally it's before your time yeah did you find that element of interesting the time it was staged in because i think there's another generation that lived through the stuff that they're talking about and they go right you got that spot on do you get where i'm coming from no i do um there's one line that the character grande joe says to erin at one point because she's bringing up her like concerns about the agreement she doesn't know if she's gonna vote yes and she says what if we vote yes and it doesn't work and he says to her well what if it does what if the killing stops what if it becomes a ghost story that you'll tell your kids one day and that line really hit me because i was like oh my god that's what it is to me it's a ghost story you know what just that i haven't watched any of it yet and i will i'm not one of those that says i'll i've never watched that and be kind of uh that scene was amazingly shot and framed it was it was really really it fitted the dialogue yeah the way it was shot no it's just like that line really really hit me because my mom's from dairy um the majority of my family's from northern Ireland so you know i've heard so many stories growing up about the troubles and like i'll see archive footage i'll study it in school and it doesn't feel real like i can't sometimes i can't comprehend that that stuff happened half an hour away from where i live like it's just it's astounding and so to see it on screen to see it be dramatized in the way that dairy girls has done it it's just i think it's so so important how rare is it michael for something to be so seemingly university university love that from the beginning to the end of its run uh you know what i find interesting is even its biggest fans i don't see a massive clamor for it to continue you know what i mean there's an acceptance of the story no it's just like i fully agree no yeah and that that's i'm not saying it's unique nothing's unique but that's very special it is very special and you're right about the way it started i remember the night it started because i was in rehearsals for the play i was doing and there was several people were on about getting home early because there was this show starting that they'd heard was going to be good there was a level of expectation before the first episode aired and i well remember people saying you know as the weeks went by it's better and better it's getting better and better so it hit the ground running it was received with open arms from the start and so many people it's one of those shows it's like it's like the way people always talk about yellow stone you remember they used to talk about messaging about it i know so many people that talk about dairy girls and i i don't think i've ever met anyone who said oh i don't like it yeah and it started off with oh they've named a place that we know yeah no the first episode mentions boncrant i'm like that's where i'm going to do my driving test in a couple of weeks like it's not yeah then it went it went before beyond that then the sort of that novelty of the name checks went and then it was like right well that's what it was like for me that's exactly what it was like that's what my family's like yeah it's a real testimony to the writing you pointed out normal people had a sort of a marmite thing there were people who loved it and there were people who didn't love it but everyone was talking about it yeah so it this is different you know that's what i'm saying it's like everybody was talking about normal people everybody watched it but sometimes people were like that's i you know but dairy girls it's like the people who don't like it i've not met them so it is it hit that same level of pop culture um omnipresence but it didn't have anyone that was like i don't buy this is it the best show of that genre you've watched ever i'd say it's up there i would say yeah definitely i mean i think it's going to be one of those comedies that will be around for a long long time like i've already rewatched season one and season two countless times every time there's something like if there's a quiet night on tv my mom will say come here put dairy girls on it's your go to you know i mean like it's my go to yeah it's a comfort show and i think you can kind of do that more with comedy than you can other kind of shows as well because you can you can background it as well and still enjoy it if if that's your mood all right me and you uh michael at some point are going to have to jump on the bandwagon we are yeah i'm a cold that you haven't done already whatever a little respect emma had for me i could see it going in her eyes do you know i think there's sort of a psychology to it perhaps to emma i think if you don't if you don't watch it straight away do you know the first episode goes and there's a huge everything it's brilliant and then the second right and you feel like you're behind the car it gets longer and longer and then everyone thinks it's so great that you go oh god you know i don't want to do it if it's that great yeah and then it's like i want to be different i want to be the person that doesn't watch it well that mentality that's kind of more of the the lord of the ring stuff but i get exactly what you're saying but no it's just then you wait till it dies down and then you stick it on and yeah later dumps love hate was a bit like that you know lots of people kept saying you have to watch love hate the fact and then you just watch it in your own yeah that's going to happen with me and derriere and something eventually like i'm not no i will like this summer at some point we were saying there's like 18 episodes now that's a nice run it's very short could be something i could watch i think it's cool to say you never watched the sopranos i'm not sure it's cool to say you never watched derriere girls especially where we live yeah well you're hitting me you know how important it is to me to be cool greg so you're right that's that's push me over the edge i was just literally uh like the carrot and the stick absolutely of course you're constantly trying to get close to the stick yet you haven't worked out why it keeps getting it doesn't get any closer people i go twice as fast strange yes every time you speed up the character what's that about further away right okay so that's derriere girls need i ask uh presume it's full marks it's perfect is it perfect no doubt no doubt uh margaret higgins derriere girls absolutely fantastic on uh on facebook as well and so say lots of people right here um okay we're going to be talking about we're going to get a look forward to the weather for you by the way before the top of the hour to see how the weekend is looking and see what the forecast is for next week and heading towards the end of next week uh we have carl o weather on with us giving you that information and coming up after the break we're going to be speaking to oliver calum stay right where you 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callan kicks callans kicks live to on green on letter kenny on the 28th of may the tickets are on sale but i have a strong feeling you're going to have to get in really really quick if you don't know miss oliver good morning to you thanks for joining us good morning to you greg how is the form the form is the crack is mighty in the form is good uh listen it's great to have you on the show it's great to have you up in the northwest it's been a while it has i mean this was supposed to be first tour in five years it's now become seven years for reasons uh we won't revisit as everyone knows and actually part of the reason for doing these kind of chats with radio stations around the country is also to remind people who bought tickets way way back in christmas 2019 uh to get them out of the drawer and show up to the show on saturday week in letter kenny yeah um i i've said this before on this program so i'm not blowing smoke so to speak uh but i think some of the uh some of the best political analysis uh in this country and how politics work and maybe you know how some of the pr works comes from your program and not necessarily the nighttime shows that we see on on on tv is that something that you you go out of your way to do to achieve is that something with your uh particularly your radio show that you're proud of i mean yeah that's that's kind of the goal you know i trained as a journalist i was a journalist earlier in my career and i always say now basically i'm doing still doing journalism just through the medium of comedy well i kind of see uh what i do it is like revising people it's like revision lessons for scandal to know your your your kind of constantly remind people of you know this thing happened because we can't keep too too much stuff in our heads about politics and we forget who shafted who and and why they shafted them and why that scandal happened and what was the result of it and so that's kind of what we do i mean i was even noticing there was a site serve inquiry that's finished that has just been issuing its draft report and that started 10 years ago and it's all about you know a right off of a hundred and something million you know the figures make no sense when they go away well if you think that's bad wait till you hear the uh wait till you hear about the investigation into into planning in into planning in donnie gall i mean well donnie gall is no stranger to scandal i was going to say like the cost of the of this inquiry is like way beyond what the initial loss of the taxpayer was you're going to go which is the bigger scandal and the fact that the inquiry was held in secret and there's now just reporting stuff we already knew 10 years ago and this is the solution to scandals that we have so and as you'll discover up in in donnie gall i mean a lot of people in dublin i i think probably assume all that mica thing must be well over by now because you know there was a hubbub a couple of months ago and everybody in politics said they're all the right things and and everyone just parks it then and it doesn't become a national story for a while and everyone just assumes it's over a bit like the housing crisis which is just perfectly normal now i was confined to cities and now is literally in every county i'm from monaghan and i know people i know people my age with their with their kids are worried about well you know that's that's that's the prospects of them owning a home gone and it just becomes so normal isn't it so trying to find comedy in that is is the important thing and comedy is doing very well since the covid restrictions ended and people are coming out more and more to see comedy shows and it is reminiscent of the crash time when people raced out pretty much the only thing that we're spending money on at the time is coming out to comedy shows to which is good because there's never a guarantee on that because people's you know people can change in the behavior just it before we talk about what's coming up in the show just in relation to you know what people would be familiar with your tv work of course and the radio show and we talked about you know your your commentary and what is going on and what has going on is there a balance of importance to you between you know the quality of the impersonation versus the sort of content of the script i mean totally i almost write off the idea of doing the voice in the first place that's kind of the easy job and then you have to get them to say something as well i mean i always try to for the fun sometimes not everything i do is entirely you know comes with a very important political point i mean there's marty maricy there's no deep dark satire to be but i think with marty maricy is like i don't know who i know do i know marty maricy or i do do i know callans uh i'll have a callans marty maricy do you know it's like i don't know which one is one are they one and the same is one real is which one is real i don't know i always found marty the hardest voice to do because i was listening to him going there's a character i really should do and i would give us a bit of light to all the darkness of of political satire and i just heard him one day on the radio and he just happened to say claire because i know that marty was kind of he grew up in in um new jersey and he was about seven or possibly even as late as 11 by the time he came to claire and he went to college in cork so there's kind of a little american twang in among the claire i mean he'd say where it's like anywhere which is pure claire but he'll say claire and of course he's just talking that very american sort of style i love speaking and there's a sort of a little bit of a smirk in his face it makes him look like he's a ladies man i'm just like no one's ever suggested that marty maricy has gone around the country because when he spoke to him he had to point out that he doesn't drink uh he doesn't really party too much like that's what is going on is his national tour telling people but then i think he's planning uh marty's parties around the country yeah no absolutely marty i'm marty and i liked party was a catchphrase that i thought was too dumb for television and the director james cotter and when i was you know when you dress up in these characters sometimes you come up with a whole new script that you weren't planning because you're walking around the set of a tv show dressed as marty marcy and i just said i'm marty and i like to party and i just thought it was too dumb and the director insisted no he'd do it and that just became the catchphrase and i never thought it was really catching on until when that series went out which was 2014 yeah i was doing my shopping as you tend to do in entertainment at 10 o'clock at night and at dons and dumb them and two people i didn't even see them first all i heard was just someone roaring at me i'm marty and i like to party it's funny too though how it influences a couple of recent examples like when uh denis waterman passed away recently everyone was going on about uh he likes to sing the theme tune he likes to write the theme tune you know what i mean this was i believe that was mostly from little britain i think was it denis norman uh he had that catchphrase and why not never said it in his life but because of the that those doing the impressions which is where this is the answer the long way of answering your earlier question which is you know the impression versus script is that you kind of have to sneak in these things because like when you're doing me hall martin you're you're you're portraying a real person but in a fictional way you know i have to make i have to create this character of what they might sound like behind closed doors you know when fradka and me hall are speaking to each other and you you kind of draw from you know me hall sounds like a very kind of prudent and very pedantic sort of a man and i throw in this sort of thing because he speaks a little bit fast when he gets a little cock see i throw in the thing which he never does which is going forward in terms of because he says in terms of quite a bit but i've kind of you know inserted in part of his he sounds like he's kind of diggling a little bit and was also that that that thing they said about me great that i would make a decision when i was minister of commissioning reports into reports and and discerning and being very very cautious whereas of course leo is very easy to do uh because his public and private are quite pronounced because i don't mind saying problematic things about the homeless this outland of public anyway uh so i'm just you know i'm a totem baseball's ledge bag and i'm glad that brexit on the northern island protocol is back because that was the only thing that made me look and sound confident is when i'm compared to barris johnson who looks like a badly trimmed muck mop poking poking out of the a pile of nylon suits left on the floor of a charity shop by the way i'm looking forward to going to dunny gall's been my favorite part of slag out for years we still have people up there i think we do i know he's gone he's leaving yeah yeah that makes sense okay but again they're pulling out of dunny gall just just want to announce that on the radio okay come here the difference between the content of you that's pretty by the way oliver the difference between the content of the original ticket holders versus now is huge and yeah i suppose you've got people like luconeal that will be featuring uh who's become sort of a staple that might not have been in the original show perhaps luconeal is you see like when he talks about you know he's very happy and everything's very positive you see and he throws in the stuff like you see and we're going gangbusters now at the vaccines you see oil and radio up in dunny gall yeah of course there was a bit of vaccine going out there but we're kind of by county bases we're very excited and he goes really excited sometimes when he's talking about things and i'm doing the book which i can't even say it on the radio because it involves a swear word you see but uh i even forgot what i was talking about at the beginning but i am here available to do every show till the end of time forever and ever and ever brilliant stuff and i have to say too i think some of the your content in callon's cakes was as it relates to the press conferences uh from nefit and how they were run and you know we had no access you know obviously it was only a small group of people and and how journalists interacted with them and i know it was satire but like all good satire you know it was hitting a couple of home runs too uh what was what was the blowback like that in small Dublin you're bumping into these people all the time well that's what's a good thing about the the the upside to lockdown if there was any uh was that you didn't really bump into anyone when you're going around there was which actually made it quite difficult to do comedy and i had some bit of sympathy for politicians because obviously the only way anyone knows anything that's happening in politics is when they are like out and about and some of them do i remember a td telling me once that to gauge the the feelings on the ground they would often just push an empty shopping trolley around the local supermarket for about an hour pretending to shop and then just leave it there and walk out again because people would obviously come up and talk about what's what's annoying them and so on so they missed all of that and as a result we missed out on all the gossip that's happening within politicians and um we've returned to this kind of you know this strange gulf but um yeah it's kind of it's an odd it's a very odd political world we're still in and um you know we're blessed with people like Paddy Cullivan who you work with of course and yourself who deliver uh you know uh really important information i think sometimes but through the means of comedy and do it in such a great way and uh people are going to meet all uh the favorites uh mary lou's there michael d higgins always a brilliant interviewer your birdie her and fantastic as well darmit bannon's a great character i'd imagine and it's all intertwined through a through uh through the show through restoring it all makes sense so people are going to have a a great night pierce to hearty is he going to make an appearance because well well we we do think on actions but uh yeah absolutely you know i think it's very pertinent and dunigal that uh you get the kind of hard clipped accent and because he says things like that i'll appreciate that people don't understand comes totally from dunigal irish which is only for us only for us okay and by the way it's the um madame president here in fame wonderful to be on the show love the purple background and everything and shin fame are preparing for government not me obviously because you know i'm too busy on tiktok doing the macarena but we have the nerdy dirties like pierce and oh no brain doing health housing and the other people deleting our internet history all the important things in shin fame we're taking over but more importantly greg britney is finally free all right chucking our pensions right oliver callan oliver callan callan's kicks live in on green on uh letter kenny saturday 28th you stand in for ryan and an rt1 is that just enough for you in terms of the real uh serious stuff i know he shows not particularly serious as such uh oliver or you know do you like having the foot in both camps uh do you feel the journalists journalism strings pulling at you what's the story i think i i'm a really good fit for the show i like the show i'm a fan of it anyway and um i think i'm a good fit because i like the variety is a spice of life and uh i obviously will concentrate on what i do best which i think is is the comedy and the voices but it's nice to dip your toe in there and it's quite like it's what you guys do is very tough day in day out i like doing it a week on week here there and i'm kind of relieved at the end of it going wow that's kind of exhausting because it is like as one of the producers in there call it like a gigantic whatsapp group because you have this responsibility with listeners and holding in their hands through difficult mornings especially when you're sandwiched between current affairs shows on either side of you because people are recovering from one belt of bad news and you're trying to hold their hand on their way to what's coming and i think comedy is like that the comedy show is you know coming out to learn and process things about the world but you're going home with a bit of hope you know like comedy is all about look at us all here together we're able to process this and things are going to ultimately be fine because we're able to laugh at most things in the world okay all of us and keep up the great work thanks so much for joining us i appreciate your time all right take care of yourself thank you very much indeed all of our callan there callan kicks live on green on letter kenny saturday the 28th of may tickets are on sale i believe he was due to be there before those tickets are still valid all right more from emma and more from michael after the break and we'll have a look at the week's weather for you too the night on noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letter kennycu.ie at cherrymore kitchens and bedrooms we are now operating out of one new state of the art showroom in dunning all town and we invite you to visit our new 5000 square foot dunning all town showroom to discover the latest eye catching designs remember at cherrymore you're dealing directly with a manufacturer which means high quality kitchens at factory prices start planning your dream kitchen or bedroom by calling cherry more on zero seven four nine seven two 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you i am doing good i'm doing good right i didn't mind this week i don't mind a bit of rain as long as the sunshine in between the showers and as long as it's kind of warm uh if that's my expectations are they going to be met for the next wee while well the good news is there's some sunny spells arriving on the southwest coast of dunny gall now just coming in off the atlantic so that wet morning is going to improve some good sunny spells for a later this afternoon and this evening and showers dying out but you could still catch one or two the weekend though unfortunately it's it's not going to be too sunny there's going to be a lot of crowd cloud around for the weekend the winds will ease back a little bit but still breezy temperature's not too bad probably 16 maybe 17 degrees of a high and there will be some sunny spells but you're going to want to keep that brawley or the raincoat close by because there is going to be showers this weekend both saturday and sunday all right what does next week hold for us as much as we can determine alan at this stage yeah unfortunately the big thing is it's going to feel cooler it's going to drop back temperatures won't probably get above 13 or 14 degrees in dunny gall so it's going to feel a quite a bit cooler for the areas next week and it's going to be showery it's going to be sunny spells and it's going to be showers so a lot of farmers at the moment looking to cut some silage it's going to be hard to find a two or three day window that's going to be dry unfortunately so a continuation the only thing is the weather models the latest ones have given a little hint that high pressure might just try and build towards the end of the coming week into next weekend it's a bit far out yet and it's going to build from the south so you know the northwest it's going to be maybe just on the border but a little bit of a good Friday feeling from the weather models we might start seeing improvement get in here's hoping you know we'd like to see a lot of people maybe you know low 20s you don't have to go too far to where the temperatures are in the 40s way too hot for me that's what they're seeing in parts of Spain at the moment yeah and increasingly temperatures are going above 39 degrees yesterday and they're expected to go above 40 up to 42 degrees in parts of Andalusia in Spain and very unusual to get that kind of 40 degrees temperatures in May some records from May and that intense heat is also coming up into south of France so if you are heading away then you do you do want to prepare for some very warm days now it will start to ease off into the next week but also a lot of Saharan dust being blown up in the skies as well so those yellow skies so yeah I I'm like you I'd much rather low 20s than 40s for sure yeah now if people want to track you uh website social media where's the best place to keep in tops with you Alan yeah Instagram Twitter and Facebook I'm always updating there just search Carlo whether and you'll find my posts thanks so much enjoy the rest of the day enjoy your weekend thanks so much thanks Greg okay thank you bang up to date there with the weather forecast not just for today but into next week right uh okay sorry about all that conversation ever you know it's a busy show it sure is very busy uh can we add to the axe yeah uh stranger things back on Netflix I watched the first two series of this kind of zoned after that did I make a mistake I think you did um I'm currently rewatching it so for people you don't know the fourth series is about to drop next Friday and they're doing quite a unique thing on Netflix they've done it with a couple of other shows but they haven't done this with stranger things before they're dropping it in two volumes so the first volume is going to be dropped next Friday and then the second volume is going to be released on the first of July do we know if that's a strategy or is it production because of I think it's a I think it's a mix of things I think probably to keep the hype going and then also they were massively delayed because of COVID and they've also said that this season is almost twice the length of any other season so the episodes are going to be like each episode is going to be like a film you know an hour and a half long so obviously that's going to take up quite a lot of people's time so they're probably making it easier for the audience to drop it in two halves excited about it very excited is this the last series do we know uh second last so the fifth series will be its last one right okay and good story progression it switches it up a bit why sticking with um well it's quite a hard show to summer so I'm not even going to bother to attempt it but if you like thrillers if you like sci-fi I'm personally I'm not a big sci-fi person but this show I make an exception for like it's the characters everything's brilliant the music the 80s music is honoring so yeah yeah I wouldn't know 80s music of course you wouldn't it'll be nice it'll be nice to get an introduction to that genre why are you looking at me when you talk about the 1980s Greg you're looking directly at me very to back me up to say you're right of course how would you know about the 80s I wouldn't know about the 80s either I actually really don't by the way I'm just 23 also so I just I feel like that's of course don't ask your age come here uh did you ever get into this I did not like the first series I'm sorry okay I think I'm in the same boat with my friend didn't like it I just thought uh some of the the horror elements and some of the stuff that was I was very contrived I remember a scene where there was the girl climbing into evident danger going through a tree I watched that episode the other night I was like don't do that that's the really stupid thing to do and I never really recovered I thought the cast were very good but I was like I finished season one and I was like that's it okay fair enough but you know what sometimes I think it's it's the bravest thing to do uh obviously relatively speaking is to just pull the pin and something you're not enjoying yeah and there's no point in watching something you don't like I gave it a whirl and I think you did a full series yeah I think you give it a fair crack yeah that's a fair shot so even I couldn't see why people loved it I could see why it was working from a lot of people the performance was very good the kids are great the nostalgia element and the fact that it's doing homage is to so many 80s movies so I can see why it's working and the way it's shot you can see the similarities yeah why it's a success I just find some of the characters a wee bit annoying as well oh okay that's it they might find you annoying too Greg you don't know who knows maybe they're on a radio station somewhere in America saying the same thing Star Trek Prodigy on Children's Channel Nickelodeon yeah Nickelodeon show um it's a Star Trek show is it still a Children's Channel it is yeah yeah um this is a half hour animated Star Trek series it's brand new they've been showing it for a while but they're looping back to episode one on Monday I've been watching this show um the fact that it's a kids show it doesn't matter like one of the reviews I was reading through about it here um from somebody called Alex Madey um Prodigy is a rip roaring adventure that will keep adults engaged and make kids think yeah kids shows which are evidently that yeah and then there is the majority of shows that are they'll work for both old they'll work yeah exactly for it yeah exactly so this can be an entry level show for a kid or a teenager who's never seen Star Trek and doesn't know about it but if you've grown up with Star Trek like many of us have then you'll enjoy this as well it's a computer animation it's not 2D animation like Star Trek Lower Decks which is done like Family Guy or Simpsons this is done like the Ice Age movies you know it's computer animation yeah and it's a serial and it's basically about a group of youngsters who are on a sort of a prison world and they managed to find a Federation Starship and they they hijack it and they escape they're all a group of kids different races they're coming together which is very much the ethos of ethos of Star Trek and for me as a huge fan of Star Trek Voyager one of the coolest things about this show is that there's a hologram of Captain Catherine Janeway and Kate Mulgrew has returned so she's doing the voice of her character do you just sometimes you watch it as a Star Trek fan do you watch this and go oh this is we've waited on animation they could have used this storyline for live live action yeah I've taught that not so much about prodigy because I'm only three episodes into it but the half-hour comedy show Star Trek Lower Decks which is so really good sometimes I've often thought why can't we have a live action episode where this happens because this is like there'll be a creature overrunning the entire ship and you're like this would work as a drama so I do yeah sometimes think that right I don't know if you're familiar with Finula's granny but Finula's granny is what she will and will not watch shows with yeah uh conversation with friends we don't have an awful lot of time on this yeah I think this is not a granny one have we seen it yet it's naughty then is that it's it's just bad I mean the well the episodes I've seen haven't been well the second one was a bit so I might have you have to be careful now because people got all what actually is her bar yeah I think I mean if you've seen normal people then I'd say it's generally along the same lines personally I'm not a fan of this right um yeah I'm not a fan of it I love this is what you have to do put stuff on the list that you don't like go ahead and take notes take notes Michael you see the thing is I loved normal people love the book and I kind of assumed they're obviously going to make an adaptation of Sally Renee's first book and that's exactly what they've done I haven't read the book so I don't know where it's going to go personally I'm not going to find out I'm not going to finish it up on it yeah I just here's the thing it's beautiful it's shot beautifully it's just very slow the characters are not likeable okay and there's one of the characters Nick played by Joe Alwyn who happens to be Taylor Swift's boyfriend which is mentioned in every single that he does um he's English and his accent terrible is not good okay listen theme choose Dallas people love Dallas flying doctors uh country file uh the full guy see we're in a genre here the persuaders yes love the that hasn't the prairie friends which is iconic night rider you love the office you say pretty little liars the fresh prince Bella I don't know oh no I would say that's quite iconic safe it is but I don't like it safe by the belt hill straight blues airwolf brilliant shows well MacGyver um and which ones I haven't mentioned uh we are going to go with uh where is it here which who's going to win the goodie bag um let me see here only for some horses um oh that's quite nice I'm not going to go with that I'm going to go with Cagney and Lacey oh yeah okay I don't know who sent it in but I'm just picking it as random so we're going to get a goodie bag out to that person Emma listen thank you so much brilliant you have to come back it's been great I would love to um that's fantastic Emma thank you Emma castlow Emma talks tv working people check you out because you clearly love what you talk about uh that's my website Emma talks tv dot com and I'm also on Twitter but the same handle pretty well done actually I don't want to sound patronizing because you're younger than me but you know is she I don't think she mentioned that only four or five just one writer and blogger I'm not even gonna let you mention where people can see your scheduled posts um excellent you're back with us Friday Emma you'll be back with us again I'm sure and 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