 imported into the north of Ireland by Unionist paramilitaries supported by British state agents. Those two weapons were used in other murders. There's just so many elements to this, but the Fullerton family are absolutely vindicated and it's time for the British government to admit now their central role in the conflict in our island. It appears a Green Mountain bike believed to be linked with the death of Ashton Murphy as nice central to guard it inquiries. Amani was arrested yesterday in relation to the 23-year-old's death, has been released and is no longer a suspect. Officers have renewed their appeal for witnesses and for anyone with information in relation to the bike to come forward. Reporter with independent news on media Connor Feehan says the person who killed Ashton is still at large. The 40-year-old man who had been arrested within an hour of Ashton's murder was released and were very specific and wanted to stress that he was no longer a suspect in this case. So what we have is a situation where the person who killed Ashton is still out there and has been out there since this incident. Well, the number of vigils are being held across the country today in memory of the teacher. Among them will be events outside the doll in Dublin and in Tullamore at 4pm. A vigil organised by the Irish music organisation will take place in Oma this evening. Ashton was a member of Trome Bay's The Blackwater Keely Band. The vigil will take place at 6pm in the Don Oula Cultural Heritage Centre. Finally, people who test positive on an antigen test can upload their result to the HSC website from today. Details of their close contacts can also be provided via the portal. However, anyone looking to get a recovery cert will need a PCR or professional antigen test. New close contact rules also mean anyone with a booster and no symptoms and no longer needs to be isolated while the isolation time frame for a vaccinated person who contracts COVID has been cut to seven days. Whether or not any miss will clear this morning and it will be largely dry with isolated patches of drizzle and highest temperatures to day of 6 to 8 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. I'm Lorraine Keane and I hate feeling tired and hormonal, yet that's exactly how I felt when my perimenopause started in my late 30s. For nutritional support, I chose Irish supplement Clean Marine Menemen. Why? Because Menemen contains Amiga 3, Vitamin D and also Vitamin B6, which contributes to the regulation of hormonal activity and helps reduce tiredness, all in just two capsules a day. Ask for Menemen at health stores and pharmacies or learn more at cleanmarine.ie. I'm glad I did. And now, it's time for the top of the northwest, The Ninetown News Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Good morning to you. It's four minutes past nine this Friday the 14th of January and I hope you're well. You're welcome along to another edition of The Ninetown News Show. It's Friday, so our Friday panel will be introduced to you very shortly. People, we of course want your views, your comments to 086625000. 086625000, your WhatsApps or texts to that number. If you want to give us a call and get involved in the conversation, it's 07491 25000. Between 10 and 11, we'll have extensive coverage of that publication as it relates to the murder of any Follerton, that's between 10 and 11 or much of it. And after 11 o'clock, Michael and Finula will be joining us to talk all things entertaining entertainment today. Here, Michaela reference vigils being held around the country to mark the awful murder of Ashleen Murphy. Now, I do know there are at least two organized for Counted Omnigola, the wider northwest region. If you're involved in that and you want me to mention when and where it's happening, get in touch with us and we're more than happy to announce that for you. And I know certainly there's one in our draw on one of the location, but if they're happening anywhere, and it would be helpful to you for us to publicize where they're happening, please get in touch and we'll do that for you 086625000. Right. It is time to welcome on to the program. Our Friday panel will say good morning first to Councillor Paul Canning of Fina Foll. Good morning to you, Paul. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. It's good to have you with us. Declan Jordan, a peace commissioner is also with us. Declan, how are you keeping? Good morning. And thank you for joining us. And Dr. Marie Hainesworth, manager of the Donegal Domestic Violence Services. Dr. Marie, thank you for joining us this morning. And good morning to everyone. I might start with you because, you know, people were shocked enough at the awful brutal murder of a wonderful young person by all accounts, Ashlene Murphy, a school teacher. The 23-year-old was killed on Wednesday afternoon while jogging in broad daylight along the Grand Canal until more county awfully. There was some in an incredible dark situation, some encouragement that perhaps the person responsible had been quickly apprehended. Guardi did arrest a man. He was questioned for a couple of days late last night or late last evening. He was released without charge, no longer a suspect that he was released. The information was relayed by way of a press release and I would have thought that would have been better with a press conference, personally speaking, where Guardi perhaps could have assured those who are very worried that they're very actively investigating it, which I know they are. It just felt a little cold to me that it was done by way of a written press release. I think it certainly would have justified something of an address or a press conference to the media that could have been relayed to the public. But anyway, I want to start with you, as I have Dr. Marie Hainsworth. We've talked so many times about violence against women by men and this is where it all leads to. This is what happens when we don't properly deal with a problem among men. And it's not all men, by the way, so there's no point in getting defensive, but every man has a responsibility. This is ultimately what very tragically can happen. It is indeed, yeah. And it's not all men, but it is, as you said, it's all women who are affected because we don't know which men are out there or the ones that are likely to cause an attack. And I suppose that the experience at the moment, what you're seeing as an outpouring of grief, particularly amongst women, as they kind of grapple with the fact that it does bring up for them a lot of issues that they face every day in terms of having to constantly assess their own safety and the decisions that they make and just the level of stress that women tend to be under generally in terms of managing and monitoring their own environments. And it does raise that issue of equality as a lot of men are aware. They don't have to go through the same process. And I suppose this is a call in terms of, in this moment of grief, to try and, you know, unite men and women around looking at the issue and to actually hear it, to actually have a conversation. What does it mean for women to feel unsafe? And let's not get defensive. Let's not kind of put it on the other or to demonise just individuals and say that it's not a societal problem. Like, where do these people who actually perpetrate very violent acts? Where did they get the messages from that it's okay to do this? And we all have a responsibility around addressing that. So it is an opportunity. I know it's a very traumatic time. And I know a lot of people are going to be just very concerned about their own kind of safety in these situations, because, you know, to the more it could be anywhere, it could be done at all. And also to have to keep in mind, well, firstly, and it was related to me when I shared the news last evening, that instantly there was a fear, the fear was exacerbated again by whoever is responsible for this is out potentially walking the streets. Also, people, primarily women who had previously been the victim of assault or had previously felt intimidated or previously felt unsafe walking down the street. All of those emotions brought back to the fore again. This has a big impact on a lot of people on a lot of different levels, Marie. It does. And it's important as well, I think that we don't, you know, at this point in time, most women who experience an attack, it tends to be somebody that they know. So in terms of demonizing perpetrators and putting them out there as being extreme examples is not helpful at this moment, particularly at this moment, because now we are looking for who the real perpetrator is. And that's somebody that's known to somebody. And we don't make friends with monsters and perpetrators, you know, we make friends with people. So we need, you know, at the moment that people can understand that perpetrators look like ordinary people. They interact like ordinary people. And we need them to be able to connect to this if we're going to be able to assess risk properly. And if people who do know this perpetrator are going to come forward and give evidence. So, you know, there's a whole conversation here around how we need to just really step into that area of talking about violence without trying to alienate people and without trying to, you know, protect ourselves by making out that it's something that only happens to certain people or it only happens by certain people. Declan Jordan, I mean, you know, there is a lot of people out there and you'll see it and we might get the text and that's fine. Everyone's entitled to the point of view that will immediately become defensive that to feel this is an attack on all men, you know, but if this, if one percent of men are capable of this type of action, you know, it's up to the 99 percent of men, is it not, to sort of say, well, you know, we have to discourage or educate or try and stop it. And what that means is that we have women don't fear all men for fear, they don't know which man is the one percent of the men that are capable of doing that. I know it's kind of a convoluted way of putting it, Declan, but that's the type of conversations we need to be having now. Yeah, I think whoever is coming out with them type of comments are quite very now minded at the minute, because at the minute it's so fresh that a young lady has lost her life in such sad circumstances and that's what we should be talking about at the minute. We shouldn't be talking about the other now minded people and I'm not going to really waste my time on it. This is, we're all guilty of it. But with respect, I'm not contradicting you, Declan, but it's that attitude is what allows this to continue. We can't not talk about that because if we don't talk about that, then we're not talking about the space that allows people to justify it or excuse it or to be defensive and not actually talk about it. We're still retaining it. We're back at square one. We were all guilty of, through all our life, that may our sister or partner or cousin or niece that's a female that we don't want them walking alone. And why should we feel like that or why should that female feel like that? They should feel safe to walk anywhere in their towns, their cities or their counties. This has been a problem and I took the stealing fact checks from Marianne McConaugh on the TV recently that 242 women have been killed by men since 1996. We talk about the COVID pandemic, that's a pandemic itself. This is something that needs to be addressed within our justice system, within our policing and that's what you'll be talked about. A woman has lost her life and we need to figure out how we're going to fix this. Of course, it's not all men but I don't think that's a discussion for now. I think it's trying to find a solution to the problem that we have. And I think it overlaps into a lot of different other issues within our system and how we place it. What do you think, Paul Cunning? Yeah, listen, I agree. It's terrible. A young girl getting killed the way she killed her at four o'clock and day and night and all the more. I'm doing what every girl wants to do for a job. And it's very sad that we're at that level. What Marie's had to nail in the head with a lot of her comments and she has an answer better. Better equipped than us to know what is actually going on. The situation, what it is, we seriously need to take a look at ourselves at the structures that we have in place in relation to dealing with domestic violence. And those structures, as much as we say, oh, we're doing this, we're doing that, and we see the news today, I think. Leo Veracruz on a bit, zero tolerance for violence against women. You know, it's all right. The talk's cheap, but from experience, and Marie again, the better the situation we have here and this county and this country is, there is domestic violence against women going on every day of the week. But the problem is the situation that those people find themselves in is they can't get out. They look at avenues, they see themselves, they see that they're in their children involved. And they're in a house that there's mortgages when they move out or where they go elsewhere. We don't have the proper support for those people. And that's where we need to start. You know, we can talk, and it's too bad that it takes the death of a young girl to bring this conversation to the fore again. But it's been waved over a lot of the time. And I would say, again, I'm referring to Marie a lot, but I would say Marie and her network that she has is frustrated with the lack of support that they're getting. Well, Marie, in relation to that, you know, if your resources, your services aren't fully resourced and supported as they should be by government and agencies of the government and others right around the country. Well, then to me, it feels like any commentary is any commentary is welcome, don't get me wrong. But it rings a little bit hollow, because if we recognize this to be the very, very serious problem that it is, resources and supports for the likes of the Donegal Domestic Violence Services and other great agencies that support women in abusive situations, well, money wouldn't be an option. We'd be shaking the same tree we shook for COVID to make sure that everything is done to address this issue. Absolutely. And the other area that we really don't invest in is the whole work that we do with perpetrators and our understanding of violence. Because, you know, what part of the word that we do with victims as well as supporting them is also we're building up a profile and understanding of what behaviors kind of cause violence and what is the escalation pattern so that we know, you know, that which men in society are at risk and therefore mostly with domestic abuse, we know who the victim is as well. But in order to build up that understanding, the government needs to invest more in those programs. There's no perpetrator programs for domestic violence in Donegal. So that's one area they need to invest in. There's very little and lack of housing as the council was suggesting there. You know, so in terms of access routes and escape routes, there's very little. And most of the time, I mean, statistically, most women will experience domestic homicide within a domestic environment. It is very unusual. And we still don't know the situation here whether there was a connection between the perpetrator and the victim. So we're back to square one in terms of that. So it's understandable that there's a heightened sense of fear. But the reality is for most women, the fear of homicide actually comes from within an environment with somebody that they know. Yes, of course. And what happened to Ashley is unimaginable. But we hear stories in this program and other programs all the time that it's common. It can also be just comments on the street. It can be, you know, something that might happen in a club. We've covered extensively in this program that some people, men seem to think it's okay to inject women or to doctor with their drinks, you know, or to touch them inappropriately, as I say, in a public setting or whatever. You know, like obviously what happened to Ashley is just the absolute worst. But there's very few women listening to this program today over the course of their life, I'm sure, that haven't encountered some situation that has made them feel very, very uncomfortable. And perhaps many have just shrugged their shoulders and said, that's just the way it is. I mean, we can't live like that, can we? No. And all men have been exposed to that environment as well. They've witnessed it. They've seen or made comments. They've been involved in making comments. It is a societal issue. It affects everybody. It's not that some people live exposed to that and some don't. All women will give you stories of feeling unsafe, times where they've had to rethink things that they've been really concerned about, whether they'll get out of a situation unharmed. But the other thing is we need to understand the minds of men who do go to this extreme level of violence. Because without that knowledge, we can't make the links back to know what it is that's given them that message that it's okay to be violent. So at the moment, we're speculating in terms of all these things in society causing the violence, but we don't know. We're not prepared to sit down and actually have these hard conversations. And I know it's not for everybody, but there are professionals who work in this area who work in the violence sector, same as myself, where it is their job. We do need to develop a better understanding of how violent men work, what it is that motivates them, where do they get these messages from, so we can actually target that that sector of society then to change those messages. But why do you start then though? Because we need to find a starting point and work on that. Because whilst we're talking about looking at it, not you and I, you know what I mean? One of the statistics you said there was the number of women who've been murdered in homicides in Ireland. Like there's no shortage of homicides occurring that can be reviewed. And at the moment, this country doesn't do domestic homicide reviews. We could learn a lot from that. It's not about blaming agencies and blaming people and saying, well, you knew this was going to happen, so why didn't you stop it? But we do need to sit down as a cross-agency group and look at what caused, what were the factors that led up to this situation. And hopefully, if we can get the perpetrator in Ashley's case, you know, you'll be doing the same thing that there needs to be a review of that homicide in terms of what happened. Why was this perpetrator in the community clearly unsafe? And people knew about it. There has to be a prior history of violence with this person because, you know, homicide is not a first thing. It's not a first crime. So somewhere, somewhere along the line where the family, friends, community guards, other agencies have come across this perpetrator and have had concerns about the level of violence that he's displaying. So why did it get to this point? Why was it allowed to escalate? And the only way we can learn that is by doing reviews, and they have to be systematic, and they have to be supported by government. Okay. A caller says there's a vigil taking place at the Diamond and Corrandona tonight at 8pm in remembrance of Ashlyn Murphy, who was just out for a run. Our draw at the Diamond, there is a vigil taking place at 5pm this evening. The Donegal Women's Center on the 14th of January today. There'll be lighting candles at the center at 4pm. You're invited to join them by placing a candle in the window of your home or business, and they'll be sharing photos with the tag light up for Ashlyn. A major vigil for Ashlyn Murphy's been organised by the Irish Music Organisation. It's taking place in Olma this evening at 6pm. And they'll be, yeah, okay. Right, I'll go through that. There's a few different things in there. I don't want to be, I don't want to be giving out the wrong information. And finally, a caller says, not finally, sorry. Next, I am the father, says this emailer. I'm the father of four young ladies aged 18 to 30. I'm so worried and angry, not only what has happened to Ashlyn, but what's happening in our young women or to our young women. Before this murder, my girls were afraid to go out to bars or nightclubs because of spiking, spiking that involved being jagged involuntary by a needle containing drugs in a social setting. Now, not only have they the fear of going out, you now have this murder on their minds when they go for their daily walk or run. I don't have the answer, but I do think that we're all, we've all got to be more vigilant and community responsible and adopt zero tolerance attitude to any type of talk or actions that might make a girl feel uncomfortable or threatened. And you know, Declan, that's, that's where our role is, you know, the man's role and Paul, you know, that any, any of that type of behavior that might seem like a joke or whatever, maybe that's, you know, daily change into creating a scenario where someone feels something like this is acceptable behavior Declan. Yeah, that as again, what Marie, we're touching what Marie said is to find out, you know, for example, how this person that has murdered, actually, how this person was in the community in the first place, you know, our population as a country is growing every single day. It's not the same as what it was 20 years ago, which is branches off into other things, you know, like there's a lot of addiction in our country now and regards alcohol and drugs and other on other things. And not that that's an excuse, but it has to be taken into account, you know, so there's branches off into everything is just from domestic violence to addiction. And to why this person may have been in the community in the first place, because he's, it's bound to have priors and that rolls into our justice system, into our policing system, as to how we can work together to make this better. I feel like probably our justice system is probably under resourced and our policing systems probably still in the 20th century, unfortunately. And maybe that's something now that if it's taken the death of the unguarded for these people to realize that it's just unfortunate. And I just am lost for words that we're even talking about this today. And hopefully that this is an eye opener for us as a country. Right. Finally, before we take a break and move on, we may come back to this. So, Marie, just to be clear from your perspective, as someone works obviously in the, and manages the domestic, the Donegal domestic violence services, are you saying just so I understand that really we need to focus on the individuals and to find out, you know, to find out why they do this? And do you think, and this is a question, by the way, that it's less important to have a broader conversation, you know, particularly amongst men in society as to their general attitude towards women, is it a bit of both, is it one or other? Or did I make myself clear, Marie? Yeah, no, and it is, it is both. But I think there are two things here. One, as a society, we need to have these conversations. But as a government, we need to focus on the practical aspects that we can work with, you know, because I think sometimes the government tends to fog this off and say, oh, it's a public awareness thing, it has to happen in schools, and we just kind of pay lip service to it. But they also have a responsibility, you know, like Declan was saying there, we do need to look at our legal system. What messages are we given out when we look at sentencing in terms of perpetrators that do come before the courts? Because I see no end of cases where there is no sanction, it appears. For quite serious assaults, sexual assaults, you know, certain domestic violence, breaches of orders, like we have mechanism in place that is supposed to keep women safe. And yet there are no consequences for perpetrators to break them. So what I'm saying is yes, as a society we need to have, but it would be better if we were more informed in that conversation. You know, if we had evidence, if we could actually say, look, this is what perpetrators are telling us, this is why they went to happen. But seeds have to be planted somewhere, surely, like the way a father might speak to a partner in a house in front of young boys, for example, you know, access to pornography, you know, what's acceptable behavior at a school disco. You know, I mean, is that not really also where we need to be looking at? Because obviously this attitude towards women and thinking it's okay to be violent towards women, the seeds are sown somewhere, aren't they? Yeah, and it comes right down to early conversations around equality, around role plays, around gender stereotypes. You know, why do we expect girls to do this, boys to do that? Like, are we reinforcing from quite a very young age that there are different roles, that men have a right to do this, women have a right to do that or not, you know, as the case may be. So all those conversations are important, you know, and even basic conversations around respect, you know, respect for other people, regardless of culture, regardless of gender, regardless of how they want to engage in society, all of those. And a lot of those conversations are going to be happening before a child's even five years of age. So it's okay offloading the responsibility onto schools, but most children have picked up those messaging way before they even get into any school system. So yeah, there's a huge role there, not just for parents, but extended family as well. There's no point one person saying one message, and then they witness and experience something very different. Yeah, okay. Sorry, Murray, thank you very much indeed. That was the voice of Dr. Murray Hainesworth. We're also hearing from Councillor Paul Canning and Peace Commissioner Declan Jordan Moore from them. And you, of course, as you listen and contribute to 08 660 25,000 or 07491 25,000 after this break. 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The solution, another call of beliefs, is greater government investment in resources, safe houses, education, more guard on our streets and tougher sentences for perpetrators. What we don't need are comments from the serial men haters who try to label all men as monsters. I mean, I'll ask all any of the three of you, do you believe that there anyone having this conversation is labelling all men as monsters? I don't get that. Maybe people, that's what they feel. Paul, canning, do you feel that this conversation is a man-hating conversation? I don't get that impression. I think it's recognising that there are some men. Yeah, it wouldn't be great, but in this country we tend to very quickly stigmatise certain things. Because automatically the four of us here this morning and it's only natural it's taken for granted that this act was caused by a man. We don't know that, you know, but it's just the way we think. But there's a rationale as to why we think this way, you know, so it balances itself out. But that's, you know, we already, everybody waking up today is automatically thinking this person is a 40-year-old male, even though that person has been released. But that thought is now in the heads of people, and then they're talking about a mountain bike, so automatically you have the thought of a 40-year-old cyclist. You know, that's how we think, you know, but now there's no intent. Some people are taking it that it is, having an ad direct, and there's no intention by anybody to actually just name everybody in the war, in the warm plain. I mean, I've consumed an awful lot of social media on this, and it really is not the impression I'm getting. Declan Jordan, though, I think, you know, this issue, an incredibly important issue, it's very hard to discuss these issues now, not in what we're doing, but I think generally speaking, because people take such hard-line positions nowadays, you know, every conversation, every discussion where you try in advance, everyone gets defensive, or a particular opinion on an issue is locked in with other opinions on other issues, and we seem to be getting, it feels to me sometimes like we're making less progress in trying to address issues or have conversations than we ever did. Yeah, you're 100% right, Greg, like it's, as I said already, 242 women killed by men since 1996, you know, it's not the other way around. It's actually quite similar to the Black Lives Matter movement, you know, whenever there was people coming out saying white lives mattered, you know, the problem, you know, the house is on fire here on the woman, on the female side, you know, they're there getting attacked by men, the stats say that, and it's not that I'm blaming all men, you know, as a male myself, I'm not, but the stats say different, and it's something that we need to stand up and address quickly, and now, rather than later, because if it happens again, we're going to be stuck in the same place, talking about the same things over and over again. All right, lastly to you, Marie, on this one for now, one text that says, do we know it was a man, and if it is, had he mental health issues, and if he had, then the gender will be irrelevant, the disease is to blame, okay, so that's deflecting, arguably could say that's deflecting it from being a male issue onto something else, and then another says pepper spray and stingers should be the same as America, which as well sort of doesn't address why this might be happening, it's saying it is happening, so here's some defences, because it could happen to you. What is it, is it just part of being humans that we try to sort of maybe look at, look at other things other than what might actually be the problem or where the answer may lay? I think there is an element of that, and I think it's also why you get a lot of defensiveness of it's not all men, you know, there is, it is a hard topic to look at in terms of what we need to study is violence and have conversations around violence, and then I think, you know, if we've got a better understanding of what motivates violence, mental health, you know, it can actually be quite a key factor in terms of looking at risk, it's not about making excuses, but it can actually highlight that if someone has a combination of factors, and I know Declan was mentioning it there, if you've got alcohol addiction, you've got a history of domestic violence, and you've got mental health, gods will refer to this as the toxic trio. But at the same time, there are many people listening to us who would be categorized as having, you know, mental health issues that they're working on, or what have you, and will never ever be violent either, you know, so. And it's about looking at risk, and you need to look at the whole picture in terms of risk, you know, and do we know that the perpetrator was male that's attacked, Ashley? No, we don't, but in all likelihood it's going to be. Well, when this is stated that there was a male, so. Yeah, and we also know, you know, there's going to be an age bracket there, it's not going to be a very old man, and it's not going to be a boy, you know, like we do actually have quite clear parameters at one level of what that perpetrator is likely to be. So, you know, we might criticize the guards for pulling in somebody, but they obviously went with factors that they were looking at, and the actual perpetrator could well be quite similar. Well, that question, I mean, it is not for now, but I can assure anyone this thing, it will happen, because there are those that will feel there's been two days, two days of investigation that has been looking in the wrong direction arguably. As I say, that's maybe not a conversation for now, but I assure you it will happen. Okay, listen, we may return to that issue, but there's other things as well for us to discuss. I'll go to you, Paul Canning, first. You know, the conversation rumbling on about the leaving cert, and it's a very important one. It's a very important one, particularly to the cohort and their families who are sitting the leaving cert. The government seems determined at this point to plow on with the traditional leaving cert, but it is complicated, because if you want to sort of have a hybrid situation, there are many going into this leaving cert that never sat a junior cert, so maybe there's no, you know, somewhat argue, then there's not enough sort of past information to set out predictive grades. Either way, the teenagers, primarily teenagers, not exclusively, don't know what's going on. They're already living in a very stressful world, and this is just compounding it. What would you favor? What's your general commentary, Paul, on what's going on for our leaving cert students? The leaving cert students and their teachers, for example, need to be really, really, really congratulated on how they're actually dealing with this situation, because going back when I was at school, the leaving cert was the be-all and end-all of life. It was what you were aiming to get to, and it was all, it also paved the way for your future life and what direction you were going. Now, that has been all put up in turmoil for a lot of young people and a lot of teachers, because whenever you are doing the leaving cert, it's all, the whole program is on a clock, and whenever that clock changes, whenever they can't attend school, whenever they can't do this, their program for this, that and on, the structures is just totally annihilated on them. It's wiped out, and it's very, very difficult for both the teacher and the student to know where they're going, what's going to be the end result, and there's two years, three years there, where we have a run of students that needs support going forward, because they don't know whether they're coming or going. You have them situations where certain parts of the country doesn't have the broadband that's needed to actually help them study and help them do the work that other students can do sometimes, so there's no balance there, first of all, and I really, really feel sorry for the students and the teachers that are doing their leaving, and also whenever you have the predictive grades, what actually happens there then is the bar moves, the point system automatically moves to a level then that works with the predictive grades, and you'll have people going on to start in third level education, and there might be, they might be out of their out of their level altogether, and there's a year wasted then because the structure, the first year doing their leaving check doesn't pick that up. You're not going to fix everything because you can't create something that addresses every single issue and also appeals to every single student, but I just feel sometimes with a lot of these decisions that are taken, particularly the public health decisions of late, tough decisions and decisions have to be made, that the emotional impact on people is not necessarily factored in. Do you know what I mean? By simply taking a stance to say we're going to press through with the leaving cert no matter what, it might sound like a decisive government stance, but it doesn't account for the great distress and anxieties that GPs are reporting, for example, as mom's, dad's, guardians and caregivers are seeing first hand. Do you know what I mean? I just wonder if our decisions need to have a bit of emotional basis as well. Yeah, well, if you're talking about the teachers, they're different, they're different students, needs a different way of being taught. There are some students, you can throw stuff at, or some people need to be helped a thing, and that's where we're feeling now with this situation, we don't have that one on one between the teacher and the student, and them students are losing out because of that. All right, Declan, what's your view, Declan Jordan? I think students need clarity. First of all, simple as that. I do believe they deserve a choice if it's to be predictive grades or they set an exam. If students cannot attend school to no fault of their own, then I do believe they deserve a choice. Some students excel at classroom based learning, some are fine with what we're doing now, so I don't understand why they're taking advantage of these students that can't go to school. These are young adults at the end of the day, and they are dealing with a very, very outdated leaving cert. It's a work overload with probably too many subjects in the middle of a pandemic, so I feel like they definitely deserve a choice. Because even this month is written off for a lot of students, do you know what I mean? They're sitting in class and they're not being taught. They've missed out in parts of the curriculum late last year that can't be gotten back over again, do you know what I mean? So they are clearly disadvantaged in terms of the system of learning. Regardless of what decision they do make, if we put our opinions aside, a decision six months out from the leaving cert is still not good enough. These students need to know where they stand to get some preparation done. They can't leave them in limbo land like this, and I feel the right choice would be to give them a choice of what they want to do going forward, especially in the middle of a pandemic. Murray, Dr. Murray Hanksworth, what's your view? Yeah, I think the leaving cert is long needed and overhauled in terms of the way that it operates. And if there was a system of continual assessment and more project-based work, it could have adapted to this kind of environment a lot easier than when it's strictly looking at exams. And what does that actually prepare students for afterwards? I mean, my own kids, well, one of them certainly went through that. And once you're in university, it's not really a preparation for that. It's a completely different way of working. So yeah, we're still tied into this. It has to be one or the other. And this is an opportunity to do a hybrid method. I did see one of the teachers unions saying, oh, children will be disadvantaged if it's hybrid. But I mean, you're assuming that children were not disadvantaged when it was all exam-based. They clearly were. So we do need to have a better conversation around how children learn and how they can be assessed. But the whole school system, a lot of it is really being learning answers to questions. Much of it is really just, it's a memory test, a lot of it. And how much of that do we use when we're adults? How many of us are in jobs now, or even studying for things where we are using information we learned at school? A lot of the stuff that we had to learn wrote for exams. Very little of it. Okay. I have a leaving search student who's been off since Christmas holidays as he was a close contact. Google Classrooms, he had only work the odd day for two subjects only. And he's a leaving search. Terrible work not being put up for them onto Google Class. You know, that is part of it as well, you know, that we can talk and talk about every possible cause and solution on violence towards women in society. However, let's not ignore the elephant to the room. No matter what society does, there'll always be bad people walking our streets and other. What are the stats for men attacked and all murdered by men or by women or by unknown? Well, you know, the reality is is the overwhelming majority of murders are carried out by men, whether it's man on man or man on women. So I don't really fully understand that the point to your, the point you're trying to make. I'm concerned at the God of Handling of the Ashling Murphy murder, particularly the information released to the media about the person in custody. They said a woman witnessed the attacker and the arrested man matched that description. They also said he was on bail on violent crime charges. Now, I'm not sure the guard he said this, the media did say this and, you know, highly respected journalists even got to the point where they were discussing whether or not this person was originally from Ireland or not. So I wouldn't put all the blame on the guards here. There were some very serious journalists and I was reading what they had to say and I was really quite surprised they were engaging this in this level of, you know, supposed, you know, not supposed in this but speculation. But the call occurs on to say the information would definitely influence a jury if the subject was charged, the suspect is now released and guard he've eliminated him from the inquiries. The problem is that mud sticks. I think the guard he believed they had their man and were arrested on their laurels and resting on the laurels. We don't know that though. They go on to say a lot of women's murders have gone unsolved. I hope Ashlyn's murder is not added to that list. Guard he should remember the mistakes made in Aberderne and the walk in which Ashlyn was murdered on is actually named after a woman who is has gone missing. Okay, right. It is the Ninetill Noon Show here in Highland ready and more from our guests after this break. 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Okay you're very welcome back to the 9 till noon show now did you know perhaps you did not that perhaps on Saturday night five numbers could win you 19 million euro that's the way it is because they're given away not given away my word they are making sure that the 19 point whatever it is Lotto goes on Saturday but a lot of conversation has been had about the Lotto you know it's been 19 million for a long long time now it will never roll over as often as it has once it reaches the maximum there'll be a maximum then of five draws before it has to be given away. Councillor Paul canning you'll be doing the Lotto I can tell by you you will definitely be doing the Lotto. Well then you've done the Lotto. You've done the Lotto then I hope. Well she has done it you know I hope that I get a fucking percent of it. I'd say 10% you've been lucky. But regarding it not that the whole Lotto fine needs to be reviewed. I think even you know 19 wonners at a million each would be better than one winner at 19 million you know I think it's what it be though because as I said yesterday on the program Paul I know people that won't start playing the Lotto until it gets to four or five or six million one million is not enough for them. Yeah but if you have a chance of 10 winners as to one winner you know that's why it needs to be relocked the whole structures and how it's all done because they're competing now with online gambling and online betting and I would say they're losing that battle. Yeah do you think we need to look at to where the money's going does there need to be more transparency how much is going to good causes how much is going to pension funds you know how much is being spent on advertisement where does the unclaimed winnings money go do we need to to have a full look at this are you happy enough with the way it is. Well we need to have a full look at it because whenever the Lotto gets made first you always see community projects done and it was Lotto finance you don't see that anymore so that needs to come back and play. But they do contribute quite a lot we do contribute a lot quite a lot I mean if you do nine euro you're told that something like three euro and sixty cent goes to good causes but maybe that's part of what they could do to relate that message better. Declan Jordan what do you think do you think the you know a lot of people spend an awful lot of money on the lottery do we need to look at how it's run do we need more information does it really matter will we stop talking about it when someone wins the 19 million really that's what we generally do we just move on don't we. Yeah I think that might be the case again I do wonder you know would this be the case if the government hadn't sold a lot of them in the first place but I kind of what I've seen from the lot I don't know a lot about it but here in Latter-Canary our church lane got funding from it our Traverse project here in Latter-Canary got funding from it so we have received some funding from what I see anyway at a local level from the lottery look it's not something that's going to keep me awake at night when somebody wins the congratulations but it's great to see that there'll be no roll over again and that some people will win some money but I think this won't be spoke about again I think there might be some small changes as to ownership but it'll be sold again and during a few years time it'll be moved on. Will you be doing the lotto? I probably will yeah and what would you spend 19 million euro one Declan? Jesus great I don't know I don't know if me and you've been doing these names or anything like that. Well I can set them up for free anyway the more money you have the more expensive it's more expensive it is potentially but we appreciate your time for free just for fear anyone thinks that you're doing this for anything other than you know helping with the conversation. Dr Marie Haynesworth a particular view on it and the wider scale of things I mean it's a wee bit like hard to dispose isn't it? Yeah well I suppose you know if there are better ways maybe of raising money for society you know like the comic relief stuff you know at least there's no gambling attached to it it's a one-off you're raising funds you can then monitor where the funds go and I suppose it is questionable or you know I mean we've benefited from the national lottery I'm not given out about it and I know lots of other projects that have but yeah there is another component attached to it and you know the more commercial it becomes and the more private are you entering into that realm like I went onto their website you know I don't do the lottery until it reaches 19 million so rich tastes. So but it's very easy to do now online you know one of the things that would put me off is going into the shop and having to buy the tickets. But not whenever it seems to win it online it always seems to the big money seems to have been won in a shop it would discourage me from doing it online and also two people should factor in and this is a buy-the-buy but maybe useful information that on a safe for instance a mortgage application form when you submit your bank account details they do log how much you spend on the lottery there is actually a section on a mortgage application form as it relates to the amount of money goes from your account towards the national lottery which I'm not sure everybody knows no it is it features on their it features on their forms listen Dr Marie Haynesworth thank you and your cat has been put outside or did it go out by itself or are there two of them it was put outside it looks it's sitting there trying to make you feel guilty now I don't think you'll last very long will you before bringing it back to Dr Marie Haynesworth manager of on the gold domestic violence services thank you very much for your time today Declan Jordan peace commissioner if you do win the lot you will come back on won't you I will very of course thank you that's a commitment and Councillor Paul canning of Fianna for as always thank you very much for joining us as well thank you very very much for that Paul canning okay and as I say if there are any video there's a video in Donegal town by the way on the diamond in Donegal town at 630 I've been informed as well if you are hosting something let us know I'm more than happy to let others know as well all right so 08 660 25000 that's the whatsapp outline that's the text line a caller says our culture has changed towards drink driving indoor smoking over the years as can our attitudes towards violence against women with better awareness and education in the medium to long term in the short term a lot can be improved replacing longer sentences and stricter bell conditions funding to refugees public lighting at refugees a beg your pardon public lighting to 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fullerton who was shot dead at his home in boncranne in 1991 were legitimate unjustified mrs marie anderson also found that there was no record that intelligence requests from guard between june 1991 and january 1993 were responded to by or uc special branch in the case of mr fullerton jenny gall deputy podger mcglacklin says the evidence contained in the report is damning if you look at the issue of the two weapons that were used to murder eddie one was reported to stolen from an r uc member an other weapon was probably imported into the north of ireland by unionist paramilitaries supported by british state agents those two weapons were used in other murders there's just so many elements to this but the fullerton family are absolutely vindicated it's time for the british government to admit now their central role in the conflict in our island the police ombudsman of northern ireland mrs marie anderson has identified clues of behaviors in a total of 19 murders and multiple attempted murders in the northwest between 1989 and 1993 one of those is the killing of 33-year-old patrick shanhin from ahi arne and kaiti to ron who was shot dead while traveling to work in castle derrick in 1991 among a number of feelings the granite report find the place field to allow a doctor examine the body of mr shanhin at the scene his brother law martin bogus says for the family that is one of the most disturbing findings my point of view the r uc had total disregard for patrick's life when the officers first arrived at the scene within minutes a doctor arrived and they denied the doctor access to attend to patrick as he lay dying and it wasn't until a second doctor came some maybe an hour later that the police get that doctor access to attend to patrick because it's just shocking you in this day and age think that you know the police just didn't vote inquiries are continuing into the death of ashling murphy with garady shifting their attention to a bicycle believed to be linked to the incident a man who was arrested yesterday and questioned about the fatal attack on the 23-year-old has been eliminated as a suspect ashling's death has brought woman's safety to the fore once again dr mary hainsworth manager of the dunigal domestic violence centre told the nine to noon show that abound's discussion with men and women needs it to be hard this is a call in terms of in this moment of grief to try and you know unite men and women around looking at the issue and to actually hear it i actually have a conversation what does it mean for women to feel unsafe and let's not get defensive let's not kind of put it on the other or to demonize just individuals and say that it's not a societal problem like where do these people who actually perpetrate very violent acts where did they get the messages from that it's okay to do this well vigils are being held across the country today in memory of the teacher among them will be events outside the doll and in tolamore ashling was a member of trombaist the blackwater kealy band and in memory a vigil organized by the irish music organization will take place in umet this evening number vigils have also been organized in dunigal 45 new jobs are being created in dunigal by aldi it's part of a nationwide recruitment drive which will see the recruitment of 600 new store staff in 2022 the rules include store assistants assistant store managers and store manager levels across the county people looking to register a positive antigen test can do so through the hsc website from today the measure is being introduced in order to get a more accurate picture of omicron infection rates as the pcr system has become overwhelmed however pcr or professionally administered antigen test will still be needed by anyone seeking a recovery cert from the hsc meanwhile a booster close contact who doesn't have symptoms no longer needs to isolate from today as part of the new rules it is figures show 1,000 and 11 people in hospital are receiving treatment for the virus and 92 are in icu that a kenny university hospital is dealing with 56 infectious cases of the virus two in icu whether i any myths will clear this morning and it will be a largely dry day with isolated patches of drizzle and highest temperatures of six to eight degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for this friday morning january the 14th the death has taken place of alice simkins the roe green castle alice's remains will repose at the home of her daughter lorna and son-in-law joe mcdermott 19 the lynx green castle from four o'clock this afternoon funeral arrangements should be confirmed later heist is private to family and friends only please the death has taken place of joshua mcpaul maharie dunlow his remains are reposing at his late residence funeral mass tomorrow at 12 noon in synchronic church dunlow with interment afterwards in maharie cemetery heist and funeral are strictly private to family only the death has taken place of nelson wade mcrabb the race court refo his remains are reposing at his late residence wake is private to family and close friends only please funeral leaving from there tomorrow afternoon a quarter past one for two o'clock funeral service in refo presbyterian church followed by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard family flowers only donations and lead to medical three letter kenny university hospital kerr turns mclintock funeral director the death has occurred of Beatrice mcquaid fulcara her remains are reposing at her brother aiden's home in valley conult fulcara rosary at nine o'clock tonight from symphony in church fulcara wake is private to family and friends only please funeral mass tomorrow in symphony in church fulcara at 11 o'clock with burial in near joining cemetery funeral mass and rosary tonight can be viewed live on mcn media donations only a flowered place the 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bit of crack with us 08 660 25 000 your texts and whatsapps to 08 660 25 000 or call 07 491 25 000 now we will very shortly be discussing the police ombudsman of northern ireland's concerns of collusive behavior they've been raised by the family of eddie fulton who was shot dead at his home in bunkralla 1991 we know about those but the difference is the police ombudsman of northern ireland has said those concerns were legitimate and justified we're going to be discussing it's a very detailed and long report covering uh multiples uh multiple instances we'll be discussing that after 10 if you've a view not after 10 but after the next break if you've a view on that 08 660 25 000 a call assess it is the men of society that have no respect for women i can be noted it can be noted an increased number of women coming forward on social media about the abuse they're suffering from their partners not to mention the government in power promising that women who almost lost their lives as a result of something that was no fault of their own yet uh that did not hold up another of those days the woman got killed uh it was terrible but tagging it with a man does not provide any beneficial information each case is to be treated as a standalone murder and identify the real cause of each case then move into the 21st century and use advanced technology to provide intelligence so we can act prospectively uh i think they mean in advance they're talking about a man provides nothing except fear to every man he didn't kill her because he's a man he killed it because of a more in-depth parameter okay but the majority of murders are carried out by men do you not think we it's worth a conversation to find out why that might be the case as opposed to uh it being somewhat equal across genders okay right it is time for us to take a break for the bingo numbers good luck if you're playing today we'll be back with more after these numbers and a quick break stay right where you are it's time for mcbi 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we're joined on the program now by the daughter of councillor eddie follerton amanda follerton thank you so much for your time this morning amanda i really do appreciate it no that's great it's good to get the platform yeah can you tell me what your emotions are this morning um my my emotions are mixed um it's it's been a long time coming this report uh it has indicated what we are complaining that we set out uh that there was collusion on behalf of the security call with regard to the security forces uh with the um uda with a loyalist murder gangs and we have been uh vindicated in in that assertion um it's it's taken a while it's good to have it officially recognized finally but there's an awful lot in there that there needs to be acted upon uh surely because you know this says that uh well obviously i want you to express if that is the case but this recognizes at least some of the concerns you and your family had but those are concerns have to be addressed now don't they yeah it raises it raises there are implications for um still for um the irish state and garda shea kana i mean the idea that a democratically elected political representative was assassinated as a consequence of security force collusion with loyalist paramilitaries raises huge um concerns that need to be addressed now do you mind talking to us a little bit about your father because it you know uh he was an elected representative course and represented people but he's your dad uh you know so that's a very different relationship if you're comfortable talking to us a little bit about your father well yeah i think that my father was widely known and um he was a very popular shin thing kind of counsellor described by many who knew him as a man of the people he was hardworking tenacious passionate kind uh very humane and he worked across political divides and across religious divides he didn't it didn't matter he helped people across the board and the day he was assassinated and on that particular day the community lost a very well loved and well respected political representative and in terms of the manner of his death the fact he was murdered the fact that you had to fight to even get to this point today how much more difficult has that made the grieving process it's a very difficult thing already is it it's um to be perfectly honest when you are fighting a campaign like this uh where doors are closed in in every avenue um i think you have to put your grief on hold and you have to it can be so emotional but you can't let the emotion of it get in the way of of your quest for truth and justice and that's what's happened i mean you may remember my brother albert my late brother albert he spearheaded this campaign and he was the actual person who instigated this particular um investigation way back in 2004 he submitted an application to the ombudsman uh that was approved that was taken up by the ombudsman in 2006 shortly after albert was killed tragically and for me then i had to step in i was asked to step in as the campaign spoke so a person i didn't want the job but it landed with me and it's been with me and my brother eddy now works closely with me on this campaign and we've had a lot of support you see padrick there padrick mclaughlin and the pat fenug consent and we have an amazing legal team supporting us now and here we are i mean this is part of the journey we're on it was our first experience of anything that resembled a real investigation and that was that motivated us to continue okay stay with me please you mentioned deputy park mclaughlin who's uh the shin fame party whip in the republic he joins us on the program now uh padrick thanks for joining us uh park are you good morning good morning good morning great right uh just clear something up for me in my mind if that's okay and maybe it's a question the listeners have is there a difference between uh you know saying there was collusion uh or referencing uh collusive behaviors is there a difference there or or does saying uh admitting there were collusive behaviors does that implicitly suggest they accept there was collusion well the previous ombudsman dr maguire um carried out to the lock and island um investigation that was the massacre uh you know tragically your listeners will recall in the island versus Italy game the world cup in 1994 there were in the pub watching the game and they were massacred um and that ombudsman report uh found collusion um but what happened was that as throughout the years um the truth has been challenged again and again and uh some of those who were formerly in the rc challenge that language so this ombudsman has just been more careful but the report is absolutely damning uh and if you look at the period so it's 1989 to 1993 it's 19 murders and two attempted murders carried out by the northwest uda including the massacres at castle rock uh and gravesty were uh four uh were murdered in ca in castle rock and eight and gravesty and of course um the murders of councillor eddie fulerton councillor bernard o'hagan nor shin fame councillor and a range of our shin fame members um and the wider nationalist community and if you look at this um particular gang in the northwest of the uda they were heavily controlled by british state forces in terms of their agents um if you look at the the weapons that were used for example in the murder of eddie fulerton there was two weapons used one of them was a 38 smith and wesson this was an r u c issued weapon apparently stolen in 1988 from a former r u c officer um this weapon was used in eddie fulerton's murder and five over murders and one attempted murder that's one of the weapons the other weapon was a browning nine millimeter that was um almost definitely uh it part of the importation of arms in south africa that was carried out by ulster resistance um and supported by british agents so both weapons are fairly connected and that weapon the browning nine millimeter was used in the murder of danie cassidy uh in kill ray two so multiple murders the people carrying out this involved there were mass murders and they've never been brought to justice it's harrowing reading it's a damning report uh but it's not isolated as you know greg because you have the lachlan island report you have the pat fenugin report you have the glen an gang responsible for 120 murders the weapons taken in from south african shipments were used in we would say 80 90 murders you know so that's the scale of collusion here it's widespread and um eddie fulerton's family and i'm thinking also of albert today and you know amanda dina you know all the brothers and sisters um of amanda and eddie eddie's brothers and sisters you know they have kept this campaign going over all these years they always said it was british collusion and they're totally vindicated today what do you think needs to happen next i well let's just say from uh the irish uh uh the government uh the garter side of things what needs to happen do you think well the irish states um need to know demands full truth um so the irish government needs to demand full truth from the british state about their role in the conflict it's absolutely incontrovertible at the stage they also need to insist that the british Tory party abandoned their plans to give an amnesty to british state forces now this is not an amnesty in my opinion for the ordinary british soldier this is an amnesty protect those at the very top of the british security apparatus which goes right to ten downing street and they want to stop the truth emerging about what happened in our conflict that that devastated families like a man does um so they need to stand up to the british government demand the full truth and then the final part of it then greg is the storming house agreements there are uh legacy agreements there for families who are victims on all sides to get to the truth uh in a human rights compliant way so there are the challenges that our government and i'll be pursuing them vigorously and of course supporting the ongoing campaign of the fallerton family and other families in our region amanda can i ask you you know you talked about um you know when you're involved in something like this and you were found yourself stepping in uh uh to to sort of be one of the spokespersons for this campaign but you talked also about you know almost having to suspend your grief what point do we need to get where you can sort of you know drop your shoulders a bit and say right we have achieved maybe as much as we can achieve or i've achieved enough or we've achieved enough whereby you know maybe we can start grieving properly or or move on from this you know is there do you see an end point uh in in this campaign for you amanda on a personal level yeah finally uh great i was told to my brother johnny yesterday and it just dawned on me in our conversation about this report i said johnny i i have a strong sense now that there's a light at the end of the tunnel on our journey and it was an overwhelming feeling of relief this was at least a tangible report now that we could work with and work from um and that that's the sense i think for this family for my family just uncovering the truth is what we want we really want to get to the bottom and disclose the circumstances surrounding the um assassination of our very fallen and the aftermath the the fact that we never received a proper meaningful and goddessia kind of investigation is is a huge thing for my family and for the community and um so this is our this is our route to the to the truth and um we just have to see where the truth takes us now yeah okay uh deputy mcdonoughlin too late is it or or is that part of the cause for a full investigation into this or even you know establishing although one can suspect why uh this wasn't properly investigated uh to begin with when we look at eddie fullerton's assassination um it was very clear from the start that the level of intelligence involved was incredible um so the killers uh kidnapped a family uh just outside bunkrana they um used the brand new car uh belonged to that family and a sledgehammer belonged to that family to um assist them in the murder um they they they had a detailed knowledge of the back roads leading from bunkrana to dairy at high speed they're very dangerous roads drive at night at high speed uh and then they they burnt out the car calmore i mean everything about this pointed to a high level of local uh knowledge and assistance and of course um then as the years moved on i think people were shocked in the fullerton family remember that the fullerton family had to investigate this murder in the absence of investigation uh albert god reston turned over every stone uh he could to get to the truth he pursued every possible avenue and only for albert amanda dyna um and the extended family um we wouldn't be where we are it was them that commenced this ombudsman report all of those 19 families of immense um thanks to give to the fullerton family for leading the way uh they haven't just got to the truth of what happened to eddie they've gotten to the truth what happened to so many people across the northwest and that's uh i mean for anyone who lived here through through through the troubles through the worst of it there were instances regular instances and stuff happened like you know garter stations may have been vacated at certain times or you know i don't want to get into the realms of speculation but i think a lot of people who maybe these things happened close to them news stuff was going on that couldn't have really gone on without some level of organizational prior knowledge i'm being purposely vague here but do you understand where i'm coming from yeah i i i do and you know i i mean i don't want to impugn because i i've worked with money goods uh guard guard either am i by the way of course not no of course you're not Greg but but we have to be honest in dunny goal we had the morris tribunal and we had a layer of guard e that were involved in very serious corruption uh and malpractice and the morris tribunal is shocking and damning of the impact it had on people's lives so unfortunately there were a layer of guard e um that's we're around the time of Ellie's murder um and i don't think that was helpful to the investigation at all and we have to be honest about that um uh and and that has to be said amanda i think definitely mclaughlin's going to stay with us as we continue this conversation but finally uh to you is there anything that you think is important to say or anything amanda that you would like to add there isn't really Greg at this point my family welcome this report um we have a lot of unpicking to do we've got to go through it with our legal team and consider the implications for our process um so it's early days it's too early but broadly i would like to say that we do welcome the findings of the report uh i i i would welcome a serious a serious attempt by the ios state to engage with my family and really really do its best now to help us get to the truth okay listen thank you very much for that i really appreciate your time uh this morning that was amanda fulton daughter of uh cancer eddie fulton who was murdered uh in bunkranna in may 1991 we'll be back with more after these the nine till noon show brought to you by kelly's toyota port road letter kenny home of the new pro a city your perfect business partner get fit this new year with inish fitness done low they are open seven days a week and ready to help you with your new year fitness goals see inish fitness donna for timetable prices and membership offers at michael murphy sports and leisure we know a good pair of trainers makes all the difference whether you're running marathons or training for your first 5k we stock all the leading brands including asics brooks and new balance with different styles and features to suit individual running 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us uh a bit about your husband and what happened to him una both children and he was a lot of harassment started and waiting at the house and the last week was in the first of october 1988 for the jockeys weekly health shotgun they were in the house for about three years waiting out in the cold shared up in the attic church the kids that is bed they were sleeping obviously when they came in at five in the morning and they just with mattresses and with the kids out he had been threatened and careful way that he was shot and that they would blame it on the lawyer we always knew that it was collusion and we're very happy now that that has come out that it was collusion and i don't know what to say really no no that's that that's perfectly fine you've outlined it for us uh una so so tell us um from this uh publication yesterday do you feel now you uh jared the family those who have been uh campaigning stating publicly that there was collusion do you feel that you've been fully vindicated now yeah we do like we knew always we have known from day one from jared the shot that there was collusion that there was the state you know was involved and we are quite happy about that report yesterday that we were caught as you know yourself we were anxious and i'm the lead up to this report but now we feel that we can leave on here and you know there'll be other things done it's been justice for jared and of course uh his murder any murder is incredibly shocking but but in particular um one of your four children was in the room at the time so obviously uh you know they were very very young perhaps i'm sure they have no memory of it but still uh it's what could have else have happened but also too as you were dealing with the loss uh you you and your family um suffered harassment afterwards can you tell us a little bit about that yeah the two of my two sons one was eight and one was six and i moved to the house that we were that jared was murdered and then moved up into the village in resharpen and we were tormented with them coming in around the back garden and setting up checkpoints outside the front of the house the kids they were up into school and they would be shouting at them uh what do you just want to be boys and you just go up and they would say i want to be with my daddy because you know what they're like and they would tell us you want to end up in the box with him and just a lot of harassment and that's when i say that i need to get out of here that's when i moved to donagon three years after the murder and in terms of uh the the publication yesterday you as a family or you as an individual i suppose is a fair question do you feel that this you can move on from this now or are uh there there further questions need answer more investigation required what space are you in i wonder una yeah well it's all in the hands of my solicitor and we feel that we'll be able to say there'll be more have to be done you know there's more to be done to get the inquest and all has to be done and we're left it to the inquest and hopefully that will bring the inquest on about clickers all right una listen thanks for your time this morning and i appreciate you speaking to us that's una kasey uh eagan do you believe deputy power mcgloughlin that this will be the catalyst for the likes of of uh una's calls there for an inquiry yeah and your listeners would have heard the devastating impact that this had on the the kasey family and you know they've lived in letter kenny for and don't go for a long time now um when you look at the chapter dealing with with jared's murder uh in this report it's devastating and indeed uh there's over sections of the report that link into jared kasey's i mean essentially they suspected a serving member of the udr um was involved directly because he was not widely known to be a member of the ira so the presumption is that someone had to have made that information available to their own ends yeah i mean it there was a legally held shotgun uh removed from jared kasey's home uh not long before this you know he had been threatened uh by the the state forces uh repeatedly um and he was one of the he's actually the first murder uh that's under the investigation of the ombudsman here um carried out in 1989 uh and if you look at the circumstances around jared kasey's murder they're almost identical to eddie fullerton's um in in the way that it was carried out um indeed it may well be that the person's responsible for jared kasey's murder were also involved in eddie fullerton's murder um the weapon used by the murderers um was imported from south africa it was part of the ulster resistance shipment so the level of collusion here is absolutely shocking the impact it had on their family and um you know the kasey family lived in dunygol for a long time and we're all very familiar with the eddie fullerton case in dunygol but i'm really i'm just pleased that the duna has told her story today uh people in dunygol maybe don't realize that there's another family in our midst who've gone through all of this yeah and there's an awful lot to process and we might speak to duna in a long form or a longer format once everything has been digested down the line um pardon if pardon my if this question it comes from our position of ignorance though but in in relation to finding the people responsible for uh these murders is there information held somewhere uh or or could an investigation realistically get to the bottom of who pulled the trigger for example because you know i i'm not sure that language is being used necessarily by the by the follitans or the casees or maybe i haven't heard it is there any expectation that maybe those responsible could be uh found out and if still alive brought to justice yeah i i stayed up um to the early hours of this morning um reading uh this report it's it's three hundred and thirty six pages um and uh when you go through it it's very clear greg that's that these um murderers um i i believe a number of them were actually British state agents some of them were serving uh members of the British state forces um or agents of the British state forces i think they were given a free reign until we get to grey steel in october um uh infamously halloween of 1993 and that's when obviously the state forces realize these these these people are out of control and you have the arrests um and convictions of five people and one of one of them was convicted of castle rock massacre and grey steel massacre and you know i you know in amongst um those convicted just those five you can be sure they're involved never murders and possibly even eddie follitans so that's what i'm trying to say is that they know the British apparatus state know every single person involved in these 19 murders and some of them were mass murderers and i i hadn't been for the the horror of grey steel i don't think any of them would ever have gone behind but to get to the real answers it would take and i'm not sure if this is likely you know a full admittance of what was going on absolutely and that's why the Irish government really need to step up here i mean how much evidence that they need you have the glen an gang um you know 120 murders uh over many years you have the whole pat fenugin and all the murders around belfast you have lock and islands and and you have now this north ulster the evidence is is overwhelming and the Irish government need to demand that the British state tell the truth tell the full truth about their full role in the conflict and give closure to the families okay well we're talking about the pleats uh police ombudsman of northern Ireland mrs marie anderson she identified collusive uh collusive behaviour in 19 murders and multiple attempted murders in the northwest between 1989 and 1993 now one of those is the killing of 33-year-old patrick shannigan in ahia and in county to her own he was shot dead while traveling to work in castle durg in 1991 and some of the failings uh in the grinich report found that police failed to allow a doctor examine the body of mr shannigan shannigan at the scene his brother-in-law martin joins us on the program martin thanks very much for taking the call this morning how are you keeping okay so um is is it a sense of vindication for for your family for patrick's family again that you knew there was collusion now it's been recognized is that is that where you're at this morning yes uh vindication is uh definitely there's a certain amount of vindication in the ombudsman's report uh as you say uh it lets those who doubted our claims those in the community who doubted our claims over the last 30 years that there was collusive activities from the iUC uh that uh neither is coming from the police ombudsman's office but it confirms that so they can do it no longer and and we shouldn't underestimate uh that that feeling of victims families that there's other information being put out there there's waters being muddied there's question marks you know i mean that has takes an incredible toll doesn't it it takes an incredible toll on families and from our point of view and i must sympathize with uh inner inner family still even waiting on an inquest at least our families had an inquest our family uh had the inquest the local community in a high end form the local uh the castle dirk and a high end justice group we held a public inquiry we invited all to come we took our case patrick's case to europe we won a judgment case in europe in the european court of human rights for the european court real unanimously including the british judge that the british government had failed to uh afford public the right to life in that uh they failed to conduct a proper and prompt murder investigation and they were instructed to do so and address this and that's why the ombudsman's report is included patrick's case yesterday because that was one of the actions that the various government said they would take into uh complying with the british of the european court ruling but mr johnson and co in the house's apartment even yesterday they want to stop all these inquests inquires so like i said we're forcing it then that we've believed this information in this family from morning gather from your interview with her today they haven't even been afforded an inquest okay martin listen thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it correctly okay thank you yeah very much all right take care of yourself thank you very much indeed we were speaking obviously a little earlier to um amanda follerton um can you tell us a little bit from your perspective uh you know eddy follerton his contribution the politician um that he was and we're going to be joined by derma mcgloughlin in fact i'll welcome derma mcgloughlin to the program now uh well he was a surfing member of fee in a fall a canceling bonk run out at the time of of eddy's death if you're if it's all right porig i'll go to derma first and then i'll come to you um i'm sure that day uh that day is is still very uh strong in your memory uh derma yeah very sorry great yeah i very much so because i remember that morning i got my phone call early in the morning it was a tremendous shock you know that i was told that eddy had been murdered and i mean that's simply what had happened the uh eddy eddy was a great character there was no question about that and they were members of the derma council and i had the honor to share with them because it said um like again that's what the local politics sounds different you remember different parties and that but i knew the follerton family for you know from a lifetime you know and while you had different political backgrounds you fee in a fall he should feign of course at the same time and it still happens in fairness particularly in bunkranner i think but but across the canty uh is they're all pulling for the most part in the one direction and working well and closely together that's absolutely right you know and uh there's no question about that i mean in fairness that eddy was pretty committed to bunkranner i'm doing all i have to say that i mean there's no question about that undoubtedly and it was easy to walk with okay it had strong views on some things you know i remember one just i actually was in the chair at the time and eddy was coming going going very strongly on some subject you know and then the way you know when eddy started to start to hear him stopped at times but uh eddy went on well i don't know what i said eddy i got interviewed eddy i don't agree with you he said that's my attitude as well he looked at me you know and then he started smiling you know he said i don't know what you was a great character he was very you know he had a great approach to people and he was concerned and over the years i can remember of one day the um a song there was something meeting on sorts of way down the country somewhere and eddy phoned up and asked me what what it was i go in i said oh he said you're gonna get left with it well this is interesting i don't know the longest time it was done of course and eddy that is the shortest story he ever had because he had a tremendous character to get out when he was very interested in history as i am myself and you know and this course thing to remember going back he had a poor different books and maybe his history wasn't on the way back when he was a great talker and that but very very you know we had to say we had very frank discussions you know and over the whole political time you know and local issues and all that well you know we'll never get anywhere unless we have frank discussions that's that's you know an exchange of views and and that even the possibility that one's views might change it's it doesn't seem very present now but that's how we get places isn't it that's right i mean there's tremendous changes in the whole it must have been a terrible and we talked about it a little bit during it was just been a terrible shock though to get that phone call and in the the days and weeks and months that followed um you know to have someone who you sit with on uh and well known and well respected just um you know murdered in such a fashion it must have had an awful uh it must have took an awful long time to come to terms with such a shocking event i didn't it certainly did not in this to say i got a phone call there to wake me up to my sleep actually it was six o'clock in the morning and it wasn't so much a shock because i wasn't sure whether it was a wake or dreaming at the time i don't mean we're such you know and took time to get to come to terms with that and then of course it's a terrible thing and they like obviously it was then all over the place then but uh i was very sad because like i say it's such a linkable character you know and like you could discuss even we disagreed on something we could have a frank discussion on it and ditto and i mean it's amazing how the things have moved on from that time but it is unfortunate i didn't get the full report now for the didn't get the report yet yes what what they were defending sir but uh i only hoped that they all for the fault of the family because they thought of a hard battle and over the things and they'll be the years since that now and it must be a very difficult time for them okay listen dermit thank you very much for that it's lovely to speak to you by the way dermit i've heard great things about you thank you very much for talking to me dermit mcgloughlin there former fina full council in bunkrana obviously you know uh deputy mcgloughlin a lot of the conversation when we talk about you know the likes of eddie and others it's focused on you know what happened and maybe getting to the truth what have you and sometimes we can forget about the anecdotes and the personality and you know the impact people have made in other people's knives nice to hear that element of mr follerton's character from dermit there yeah and i'd like to really thank dermit for given that tribute daddy dermit himself served the people of bunkrana you know for over 40 years absolute gentleman i had the honor of serving on the council with dermit myself and uh an absolute gentleman and a real passionate person for bunkrana over over the years i think he captured it perfectly there with eddie you know like for me um we moved home uh from from birmingham when i was about 10 years old and um eddie was just a central we were a republican family and eddie was a central part of my life throughout my childhood really kind hearted great crack a great man for a story to sing a song what you hear over the years too so many people talking about particularly young people talking about how he gave them a lift and they had a great conversation no back in the day people would have been thumbing lifts all the time um it's just so many stories i've never heard anybody say a bad word about him you know um and you know you will after somebody's passed away in the times later somebody's but somebody's bound to have something bad to say nobody ever had a bad word about him um we were just blessed blessed to know him just finally and i don't want to politicize this as such but but i mean it is political uh you know if if if the irish government as you've called don't take the action that that that you've sought if in power can shin fame progress this uh in government is it as simple as that that uh you will call for all the things uh you know that you said need to be called of of the british government and so on so forth uh i mean is that a commitment that's being made yeah i think what's been missing um for so many years has been a robust challenge to the british government i mean even if you take you know the irish government the whole issue the double and monah and bombings the failure to provide you know and cooperate with those investigations um you know there's so much evidence uh even if you just limited it to 26 counties of absolute disdain of the british government um for their responsibility and the conflict on this island so i mean i i i do hope now i'd certainly vigorously challenge the t-shock and the government um when the doll resumes uh next week um but there needs to be now you know a robust confrontation demand of the british government that they tell the full truth about their central role uh in the conflict that's what's been missing all these years okay deputy power from glockland thank you very much for joining us back with more in a moment the nine till noon show with kelly's toyota port road letter kenny where you can care for your toyota with a two year service pack from 299 euro enish fitness done low are now offering class only memberships register in person with reception to get access to the convenient enish fitness app for booking and paying for classes beat the cost of brexit and no customs charges do you need a uk address for your limited company or personal use 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radio michael and finula are going to be joining us very shortly by the way as we wind down and ease our way into the weekend but time for some of your comments call us simply say he's thinking of the all the fullerton family today god rest albert right okay where else more comments on different things here as i say just as we head towards the news 11 greg if i won the lottery i'd look after my family and spend it in letter kenny hospice and hospital older people and young people what would you do with the 19 million by the way you know as we move into the next hour we'll see what michael and finula might do with those but honestly if you won 19 million euro what would you do with it and it doesn't have to be given it to other people you can say whatever you would do with it but let us know text 08 660 25 000 if you win the lotto on saturday night what would you do but this caller says it's no longer a national lottery the government sold it for a few quick million yeah indeed all 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be welcomed denigal county cancer eddie flurton was shot dead at his home in boncran in 1991 the police ombudsman mrs marie anderson says concerns of collusive behaviors raised by the flurton family were legitimate and justified well she has identified cliffs of behaviors in a total of 19 murders and multiple attempted murders in the northwest between 1989 and 1993 one of those is the killing of 33-year-old patrick shahnehan from mahiyarn in county to ron he was shot dead while traveling to work in castle derrick in 1991 among a number of feelings the granite report found that police feel to lie a doctor examined the body of mr shahnehan at the scene meanwhile the wife of jared casey who now lives in dunny gall says the police ombudsman's report is vindication for them jared casey was murdered by the uda uff on april 4th 1989 at his home in rishark in the granite report highlighted that despite some evidence a number of people were never arrested or not were let arrested until some time later inquiries are continuing into the death of ashling murphy with gaurdie shifting their attention to a bicycle believed to be linked to the incident a man he was arrested yesterday and questioned about the fatal attack on the 23-year-old has been eliminated as a suspect ashling's death has brought women's safety to the fore once again dr murray hints worth manager of the dunny gall domestic violence center says a balanced discussion with men and women needs to be had well the number of vigils are being held across the country today in memory of the teacher among them will be events outside the doll and in tolamore ashling was a member of trombaist the blackwater keely band in her memory a vigil has been organised by the irish music organisation in oma this evening number of vigils are taking place across dunny gall also people looking to register a positive antigen test can do so through the hsc website from today the measure is being introduced in order to get a more accurate picture of omicron infection rates as the pc or system has become overwhelmed meanwhile a visited close contact who doesn't have symptoms and no longer needs to isolate from today as part of new rules and 45 new jobs are being created in dunny gall by aldi it's part of a nationwide recruitment drive which will see the recruitment of 600 new store staff in 2022 the rules include store assistants assistant store managers and store manager levels across the county those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mikaela thank you very much for that you have one new message hi claire auntie d here i just wanted to say a big thank you for skipping my party we had a great night and everyone was so happy you didn't come now you take care i hope to see you soon bye no one will thank you for turning up to work or anything else when you're sick stay at home and get a test to protect yourself and others from covet 19 from the hic for us all okay it is the 9 till noon show it's friday it's just after 11 o'clock i'm sitting here in the studio on my own so that can mean only one thing that it is uh time for us to discuss entertainment but for me to do so on my own uh because no one is here anyone going to join me no okay here they come oh wait six 60 25 000 oh wait six 60 25 000 is the whatsapp or text number if you want to get involved in the conversation or you can call caroline on 07491 uh 25 000 all right uh better late than never we were talking talking about what the talking is done in here i know the whole idea is that we we discuss it i know what we use chatting if we had a conversation about marvel one more time on air i take all the listeners who just switch off or throw something at the radio so you can have my lovely stuff this was about sander bullock so at least it was we're prepping that's what we're doing we're doing oh good word prepping for what we did we discuss or have any of yous watched i know maybe i discouraged uh you maybe um vanilla last week with my one episode assessment of stay close it's uh i think it's a netflix drama i haven't it is yeah did i discourage you enough that you didn't watch it yeah right well i ended up watching it in two nights and loving it and well it no it was it was it was it was fine it was good it was good right but it was very more moreish you know you find yourself having to watch it and of course it's all there it was fine like that's what everybody keeps saying about us like i had to go back into the game because i watched the first episode and i think i just completely didn't give it a chance but so many people were saying you have to watch you have to watch it so i did i swallowed my pride went back and we ended up watching it all in two evenings okay yeah it's fine i had a beginning and middle in the end it was a decent story all wrapped together quite well and you know it's what it is people are really enjoying it and i did go i did switch on netflix and then i um you had said that you didn't like it right no i kind of put that out there first for fear that you know i know i felt so bad so then i just watched then i just watched other things so there's two new irish movies that were dropped on netflix so i just watched really well tell us about one of them first i don't know oh you haven't got it on the list no no they totally are on the list they're the second one down there a redemption of a room i went totally the reason i was attracted to both of these movies is that um i kind of feeling very happy about our it was feeling very happy about irish productions after hidden assets really lifted me and in this is two of the actors from hidden assets one stars in one and the other stars in the other so i was like oh this is awesome i'm totally gonna watch these the first movie that i watch is called redemptions of a rogue which as i've said before star has one of my favorite irish actors aron monin and he is from the midlands and he does a lot of stuff with druid which is only how i knew him before he was in hidden assets he played the uh kind of straight face to the partner yeah the partner is finished is it yes okay because i think it's actually yeah he's never give that an overall review at the end but anyway we might come back to that so carry on so i was so he's in this redemption of a rogue it's called the second one then is deadly cuts which has the which now of course her name bald what's her name uh the angeline and that's it angeline anabella was thinking i was like that's totally right angeline wins this part of the fun guessing the answers to the it's a quiz it's it's a medical condition in this point you know it's not angeline i don't know i was reading something it might be yet we'll have to check it out angeline ball anyways is in the other one and it's called deadly cuts and there was a lot of talk about that around the double and film festival and that kind of thing so i was sat down and i watched both of them and i have to say why oh dear why were they made or why did you watch just i don't understand sometimes i don't understand and maybe it's me and i'm not smart enough or whatever it is i i don't understand people that produce irish stories like there's a movie that's out tonight now and it's called save the cinema and it's a welch movie and i'm really looking forward to seeing it it's on sky and it's available for free and i was just when i was watching these i was thinking about that film that i'm looking forward to watching i'd say i've seen about two or three films that are based in wales you've got like the pride movie uh the man who went up a hill and came down a mountain you know there's a few of those kind of movies that you watch that are based on stories that happened in wales or whatever and you're like they're always really good yes there's some bad people in it and good people in it but there's always kind of like i don't know they're just like a family feel good kind of thing do you think we always have to be edgy i we seem to be either we have to be edgy as in deadly cuts deadly cuts is about this um hairdressers that's supposedly set in a rough estate in dublin and everybody's aware that it's a rough rough estate and all of a sudden then they're like you know accidentally murdering people and going in then into a hairdressing competition and you're kind of like i i don't know why does it have to be so off the wall and the murders made no sense whatsoever to the whole thing but we do that but we do that with comedy we do comedy right and you would know from being in comedy circles particularly acting circles michael that there is a wealth of comedians out there yes there is who could make very good comedy yeah but and i'm no harm to the people that get their opportunities but it has to be off the wall social mediary based comedy if we try something new you know it has to be zany or has to be so offensive that you know like i why can't we just try making good comedy shows and sort of good drama films if you like or maybe a bit of intrigue if you want to but why does it always have to be so i mean when was the last good straight up irish film made was it the commitments i presume we've done something since then belfast a lot of people yeah i heard that mention yeah i haven't seen it now either but i know i i yeah i don't know it's just like i said as i was watching as i was just thinking you know because this save the cinema is coming up and made me think you know there's so many of those kind of films that i've watched that are from come from other countries whereas i i don't think i even in scotland where they do stuff that like train spotting or whatever that you would feel they kind of do it with more heart and there's cultural there is an actual genuine cultural element to that as well it's just not the cultural generally but you know a subculture almost the deadly cuts movie was could have been a very good movie and it did in no way required people to be killed in it what is this you know what i mean it was just about what's katie coming in with oh tea for who well she gave michael coffee so she's i got a new coffee machine the new car treatment it's the new coffee machine did you enjoy stay closed katie fabulous see look yeah everybody loved it okay everybody loved it come back and talk crumble yeah talk about it and this is the other side of it then so you've got the the deadly cuts again i didn't understand why there was any for anybody to die in it could have been an equally nice kind of movie about group of women and an area trying to better themselves lovely you know we had to have people to talk about redemption for redemption of a rogue then decided that they want it which is the other thing of iris cinema that we do which is the uh michael mcdonough kind of an idea which is kind of you know you watch it and then you spend the next five weeks after it's gone what was it and it went it kind of is something you say about a lot of things though no no this genuinely watch that is so mean it is no i i come straight out of i say i don't know what's going on here i totally knew i wasn't given a chance on this i totally no i totally knew i was going on here i just didn't know why this movie is based on a guy who has arne and marlon plays the lead character love him based on a guy who comes home to some small town in it seems to be cavern in in in the midlands he comes home to some small town because he has decided that his life is no longer worth continuing with so he comes home in order to say goodbye to the father before this happens and the while talking to his elderly sick father the father passes away and all of a sudden the day of the funeral it starts raining and the towns the father has it in his will that he can't be buried on a day that it's raining 40 days and 40 nights later it's still raining the whole town decides that this is a thing from god and it's a type of plague and by this point arne marlon has found a new lease in life and he no longer wants to finish you know the funny thing is is and then it comes back yeah that story about you know probably make a good play coming home yeah father passes away and a period of reflection and maybe changing attitudes reevaluing life or whatever there's probably some value to that the other the bones that are about 40 days and 40 nights of rain he lost me there yeah there's a whole religious thing then there was the guy the guy that owns the town that is suddenly threatening them all you're just i just now i watched it i watched it to the end i would probably give it like i don't know maybe a six six and a half or whatever some of the performances are really good and if that kind of thing but it was more just like as if it was trying it's like as if sometimes we're making these movies that they they need to be smarter than they actually need to be in order to get and then they get too smart yeah okay and you lose kind of the message in it right okay um a caller says ah here it was a bit of crack this is uh deadly cuts Dublin never goes never does well in films but it's great grand escapism and and that's fine but i think you're saying i think you're saying it's a world point why can't we just make a straight up film not that hollywood comes in and it's all diddly idly idly oh or that it has to be so quirky self-consciously edgy yeah just probably between hollywood comes in and we're either standing in the field milking cows or we're at mass yeah and we never do those two things not on the same day not on the same day right a caller says hi greg stay close really enjoyed it but it was a flaw at the end of the film don't read it out as it's a spoiler i don't understand blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but the one thing i would say to that listener is is do not forget that that person had been injected uh with a rehypnox tile drug so they had been incapacitated having been injected in the club a little early wrong it'll probably make sense to them it's not a spoiler because it doesn't make any um has anyone watched house just discovered it's so good Hugh Laurie is perfect as the Holmes like doctor talk just about that because you know what that's really there are big chunks of programs that people have come across and that could very much be one and we have fun them peacock you see is on sky now and a lot of those shows now are coming through on that yeah so that's you see a lot of different new shows like the girls five ever is on but there's a lot of different shows because i'm watching at the moment is uh psych awesome tv program that is back in the nineties and early two thousand they've recently done a reunion movie on to you know they do one every every year yeah they probably think they promise five silver linnings playbook on netflix you've got this listed now i went to watch this last night right but it says uh continue watching and it was just at the credits at the end so then i watched the trailer and i had no recollection of having ever watched it it's ten years old so i don't know what's maybe it's well it's it's somebody sneaking into your house and i don't know i think i think i've started it and fell asleep but you obviously all right i think that's probably is is what happened here i saw this the cinema ten years ago and i see it popped up on netflix about middle of last week so that's why i put it on the list in case anyone misses linings or linings sorry linings okay so and it's um jennifer laurence and uh bradley cooper cooper and it is basically the way i described is when i saw it i said ten years ago it's basically a very old fashioned love story uh with a very quirky worldview and two characters who carry their own baggage their own mental illness illness slash illness issues with them so despite the quirkiness and the fact that it's very they're very unusual characters it's really an old fashioned love story and i was utterly charmed by it when i saw it in the cinema i haven't seen it since ten years ago i just looked back at my review but i would recommend it based on the fact that i remember it has been and i stayed awake all the way to the to the closing credits greg i just remember it's been a charm line on my couch i just remember it's been a charming and surprisingly old fashioned movie because it's just about two people meeting and i say he's got his issues and she's certainly you know they have their issues i have yeah i know i saw my i saw when it came out i think i can't believe it's 2012 that really you know when i find sometimes looking back at my blog a bit depressing because i'm like oh that's like three years ago and then i look and it's yeah because i must have looked back fondly at the 90s you know when it was the 90s our family our parents uh and and siblings or whoever is around us was probably looking back fondly to the 60s yeah so us looking back at the 90s was when we were that age in the 90s the same as the people then were looking back the 60s that scares the living daylights out of me that does to me too yeah it gives me pause for thought well and also my you know your teenage years when you start thinking your parents are uh i'm past that age when i thought they were completely off and now i'm like oh my god i'm so not that i find that very freaky before we go to a break we'll take one more from you so your uh your what did you rate silver learnings silver linings silver linings silver linings i gave it nine or ten at the time just look at my notes i loved it i've got i copied my old review it's got 92 on rodent tomatoes critics embraced it a lot of people would have seen it but it's like house that you mentioned them as you go it's it's probably slipped through the cracks for a lot of people and jennifer laurence and uh bradney cooper they've both got staying power they're still huge stars in fact they're probably bigger both bigger stars now you know they're really quite jennifer laurence they were jiggler i think she was quite very young yes she was very young i don't think she had done the x-men she might have done the first she done the mocking no no they were after them and that kind of thing i think she had only just come out yeah first i liked it now but i didn't like it that much i have to say i i loved it i can see why critics like you know it's a it's one of those movies that again they kind of do you ever watch stuff though do you ever rewatch something in a different emotional space or in a different way i can get a different the whole film is completely different yeah yeah sometimes it goes the both ways it could be that you see this thing that you're like well i don't like it much but i've now got a reason to watch it again because who wrote it who directed or who starred in it and then you're like wow this is really good you know last night i watched mercury rising uh and the last time i watched that was probably seven or eight years ago and just to my already a point on both occasions it was pure crap are you including last all right okay it's terrible it's just a it's just a light popcorny it's just a bit of action isn't it do you know the funny thing is this go on ahead no i'm saying you should have watched the gentleman it's on it's after i've watched that but i've watched that twice now yeah i watched it a time it came out from the cinema yeah and and also recently it was good yeah it was like it's course and it's violent and it's oh yeah absolutely but actually i enjoyed it and i normally don't like it and i would have avoided uh his movies a lot yeah and then the next night yeah this is by pure coincidence that the guy with the beard and the glasses in that you know that sits talk to Hugh Grant through a lot of the film i wasn't familiar with him as an actor at all um and then the next night i watched is it papillion it's it's based in a prison yeah he's in that it's obviously a remake i know the original no it's a remake with the guy that was in the guy that was in i wrote mr robot and all that kind of stuff who i think is incredibly overrated but it's just funny that then i found myself watching the an actor i'd never seen before in two consecutive things yeah it's all right like it's not uh right okay what was his name having a clue okay i mean this night i could sit here i could sit here till never know what i know he had a beard and glasses oh him yeah that's just about as far as i can't even think of the character i must want that could be me back in october with beard and glasses could it be me right what would you do with the 19 million sorry um if you won the lottery uh finula i don't think i'd see you again oh no it's not enough to do no it's not really like i said i come from a really big family so by the time you kind of tell them person what well that's the state number one big family that's an awful lot of goodbyes no i like my family so i come from yeah no i don't 19 million yet soon i remember do you remember when the lotto first hit like 200 and something the european one or whatever and everybody was talking about like what would you do with it and i actually sat down and worked out how i'd have it spent in six months wow really yeah but that's like people that's like people who enter a facebook competition to win a villa in spain uh you know and then start imagining where they'd move the furniture i'd probably move that catch back a bit right i'm not gonna comment you're not gonna come if i won like 19 million i'd be i'd be the opposite of you i'd be like how do i stop my two housemates from finding out i have this money and like i'd be i'd still be like kind of i'd still be like would you turn your back on them it's your turn to get lunch this week you know i wouldn't change the pattern i'd be like no no i got it last friday so maybe totally like the new ad that's out where it's like the village is behind the nobody can see the village they've blocked it off to see that new lotto out for the night the new lotto out you know there was the one where i don't really watch advert some disadvantage here occasionally they show because i don't get a chance to sit and watch no regular telly you skip it i know but yeah they had one where they the guy had won like seven million or whatever and he'd put in a water slide into like the high rise building that he lived in now i say high rise it's probably like six seven stories whatever but it just looked amazing they were coming through the houses and everything and now the new one is what the 19 is like that you whatever it's like two guys talking about how it's 19 on the radio and they said whatever happened to that person in bali that won the 20 million they go oh i don't know how would you ever keep that quiet and suddenly you see this lady and she's walking out of a pub in the middle of nowhere and she knocks on she what looks like a uh uh it's what looks like the mountains and the whole fields but she pushes pulls open a small door and steps into it and they've they've hidden the town behind this wall where there are loads of money i don't think you would i don't think you want to win the lotto uh i don't i think you're very happy i don't i don't think you'd want to win it yeah i not buying a ticket every week probably precludes me ever winning so that being said if i were to buy a ticket every week we're probably have equal chance of winning both of us never okay listen now what would you do with the lotto 08 660 25 000 watts absurd texts did you watch either redemption of a rogue deadly cuts on netflix fenula didn't like them too much silver linings playbook it's been out a bit uh if you've watched that what did you think and we're going to talk about more stuff with michael and fenula after these messages the nine-till-moon show brought to you by kelly's tayota test drive tayota's incredible self-charging hybrid range at our showroom port 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kenny shopping centre bringing you the time at okay very welcome back to the program sorry to interrupt fenula and michael deep in conversation but we do appreciate you taking time to join us we try all right stay where you are because we're going to switch to zoom for a moment because there is a piece of work which is to be performed in on green on theatre in letter kenny from the 26th to the 29th of january and it is called revved it's written and performed by patrick quinn and emily foran is the director we'll start with you patrick good morning to you thank you very much for joining us right tell us about revved what's the story so revved is a story about a young fella from the town called aamon kelly and we meet him on his morning shift working in a petrol station and he's looking back to uh three years previous which was his leaving search year when he went out to the donnie yall rally and we go through his journey of finishing the the leaving start in the morning going through to the pub in the evening and then he goes out touring with his mates around the town around the county crossing over the border into dairy and where he experiences a life changing event so it's great crack and it's really funny yeah and is it tough to perform on a stage with all the action that you've described you have to come up with solutions for that don't you yeah we do it's really interesting trying to create a road trip on stage but that's why i got emily foran here into direct i she's a fantastic director and we've been tackling those that i i challenge i head on and we've come up with some really exciting ideas and ways to get that feeling across to our audiences right so emily uh you know patrick is the writer he is the performer but you are the director you know before you signed up for this did you put down any ground rules you know about who is the final say about how decisions are made because you know it's definitely always me um no i think um i've worked with patrick a couple of times before right briefly and i know patrick such an energetic um generous like fun actor to work with like he's always bouncing about the room full of ideas and he really challenges me as an artist as well so we just have really good crack together and so we've just been able to experiment with like so much in the room and he's just mad he's just a ball of energy so we just always have a really good time when we're in rehearsals so don't you're a salad bonnet yeah i can see tail wagging from here at least i think it's your tail right okay so in terms of the poster actually i love the poster uh for those who haven't seen it this is a print off so it doesn't look as good as it actually does looks fantastic looks like a movie poster that's well done whose idea was that um we collaborate with an incredible photographer called Nathan McGee and the shoot i couldn't go to the shoot but um Nathan and patrick had to go to the middle of nowhere in a field and they got they borrowed someone's car and patrick just went mad on the shoot yeah the car was the car was like an uh um a mark two that's cool and it was a proper old style rally car um it was worth like a load of money like i was barely even allowed to touch the ball yeah go ahead it looks like on the poster you're probably seeing something along the lines of avit you know it looks like avit definitely a lot of you isn't that as well yeah right so we don't want to give anything away right but um is this is this a drama a comedy or how would you describe this uh play so i would describe this as like almost a coming of age action comedy yes it starts off like that and then towards the end it moves into a drama and you realize the the kind of consequences of his actions okay right yeah we're getting into the space we won't talk then about maybe the life-changing event but but we're around about that time the story takes a bit of a turn then is it yeah but halfway through it takes a bit of a turn and then you realize i suppose the the seriousness of the situation get you that we've been yeah how important was it for you emily and you patrick uh for this to feel authentic do you know what it means to say someone who's involved in the scene might go to it and go you know what they've kind of they've got it here this is this is yeah it was it was hugely important so i have um i grew up i just outside letter kenny england sully i've grown up in this culture have always gone to the the rally um during the summers with my dad and everything and we would have uh um so i really wanted to capture that whenever i came back during the first lockdown i wanted to write about home and really tell a real authentic donnie gall story about somebody from who's from here about their experiences yeah i think it's really important for us to like capture an authentic story about here because there's not that many stories written about here especially in the theatre so we just want audiences to come down and see a bit of themselves in this play and just to have a bit of fun because i think we just all need a bit of crack right now it's such a hundred percent but also what's not doesn't happen a lot is writing about uh a scene from within that scene and with knowledge of it rather than someone presuming what goes on what people enjoy what gives the balls or whatever you know what i mean it this that's what sort of talks to my question about authenticity there's not much of this about which uh which makes this very interesting yeah yeah i think um i have connections um in our more islands which is not too far from here as well so even like coming here every summer like i feel really close to like latter county in this whole area so for me well that's when you had an into the city from the island you had to but that i just feel it's so important for people to feel heard and listen to here as well um and just to have a really good night out and just have a laugh i think just we all really need that right now so we just want to offer people that as well yeah and in the theater we've got a two meter social distancing going on so um we have limited capacity seating however it is literally one of the safest places you can go 100 everybody will be wearing their masks the whole time and two meters social distancing and it'll be going on at half six from wednesday until the saturday night 26th the 29th of january and uh yeah half it starts at half six all right uh open to all ages you know what i mean obviously all ages like is it is it yeah there's a baby sitting service either but you know i'd say there's a there's a few curse words and a few slightly edgy jokes and it's so i would say it would be a 15 plus yeah um and do you just want people coming out of this entertained but thinking is it this kind of thing whereby you don't maybe realize that quite an important conversation has been had or an important message has been relayed that it's buried in the fact that you just maybe had a laugh and you enjoyed the experience is that kind of what you're going for yeah it's really important for us for people to enjoy themselves but we also in this play i talk about male mental health and a way of consent as well so it's about having a good time but also continuing that conversation outside of the theater and getting yourself thinking about you know the society around us um but i think in order to do that we need to like have a bit of fun and enjoy ourselves in order to like get these things do not live in two different worlds they coexist it's all intertwined and and there's no point then presenting them in a dramatic way differently because that's not our real lived experience that's not real life is it one of the great things about donnie gall people is we have a phenomenal sense of humour and a real like dry wit and sometimes the the hardest things in life coexist at the same time as like our humour and our comedy so like you know we're always laughing and it's actually through sometimes the the humour that allows us to try and access the kind of the harder parts and realize what's yeah yeah okay and there's other plays like you know some of tommy maron's work uh where he's discussing issues like you know um um dementia and all that kind of stuff he's done through the medium of comedy and it's had some of the the greatest impacts okay so it is revved uh it's written and performed by patrick quinn you're hearing patrick as well as uh it's director emily form uh foreign a beg your pardon it's on in on green on theater letter kenny from the 26th to the 29th of january uh all public health measures will be followed of course and it's an incredibly safe space and you can get onto the box office to book your tickets just i mean is this a is this so uniquely uh donnie gall maybe a couple of other counties go away or something uh that it would only really play well to to audiences up here or or do you think it might travel quite well i actually think that um specificity i creates a more universal field so if you tell the truth about something really specific it can travel the world because people will see that in themselves like if you think of like uh brian frail for example the greatest one of ireland's greatest ever playwrights he wrote about ballet beg a small town in donnie gall and that idea of the small town traveled all across the world brilliant stuff about right here yeah i think patrick's really captured um small town ireland really beautifully and really accurately scarily accurately so um yeah i think anyone who's experienced or lives in a small town anywhere in ireland will get this straight away so all right it's well done the pair of you the best look thank you very much indeed i appreciate it okay take care of yourselves all right obviously uh patrick a student of the game as well too uh being able to make the references that he does that's revved 26th to the 29th of january in on green on theater sounds interesting michael yes it does i know patrick on stage amazing performer he really is like the uh ever ready bunny he's a fantastic he's like that in real life too i bumped into him one of the days during the week very excited about this um he's definitely the guy to pull it off and he's right the more specific you are i always think of on tv one of the best tv shows ever was friday night lights about you know local schools football in texas in america but absolutely universal because the passion of the characters could be passion for rallying could be passion for drama could be passion for anything playing poker didn't matter what it was because being specific can also be universal he's right 100 percent uh hi greg just wondering did any of the panel watch a film called adam and paul it was brilliant it's a dark comedy and i would class it just i want no opinions never heard of it not on my radar at all i wonder who's behind it irish movie i'd say probably because there's a theme of our conversation the irish movie isn't it where one of the one of the two main characters in it and one of them has disabilities i think that's what the adam and paul always and it's about the friendship between the two young people the documentary typhoid mary would have made a fantastic irish film that comes in from caroline hi greg great show if i won the lotto tomorrow night i would share with my family friends poor families the priests and two charities very close to my heart which are the hospice and the oncology day services ward at letter kenny university hospital that sounds like a very decent and nice spread right we're going to get more reviews and opinions on all things entertainment after we take this quick break the new show brought to you by kelly's toyota with over 45 years of experience trust us to help you on your electric journey getting fit just got easier with any fitness done low subscription payments are now available to help spread the cost of your membership 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us here as well have a fantastic day katie uh gregg well done to katie for the refreshments i think that's your team what was it like okay thumbs up thumbs up yeah cup tea did you ever stop as well i had i had coffee all right i was getting coffee when i came in the door i was met with nothing i was like this new coffee machine as everyone um you're taking for granted gregg how has the tv2 found the ending of dexter the ending it should have got maybe then others gotta take notice game of thrones that is right now no i was very content with the ending right were you no right okay i'll tell you why without actually giving the ending away very briefly all right of course uh firstly we we have been conditioned to believe that dexter is some sort of a batman anti hero thing he's not really you know he's an incredibly an incredibly unpleasant character okay and has been responsible for an awful lot of even though we've been convinced uh those that got it deserved he's been responsible for his own self-preservation right let's not forget for an awful lot of innocent people around him having and also to the point where he'd almost even sacrifice his son for his own betterment and he was trying to pass on a code and you know there you go that's as much as i could say that ending and there could be there could be another series two they talked about series two of the new one so in terms of treatment like adults right and not just pandering to what we would like okay personally i think they wrapped it up very very nicely touching me and i'm very content with how it ended good for you i my only issue with the issue with the episode was i thought maybe yeah the final 10 15 minutes were strong i thought the first 45 minutes that got us to that 15 minutes was quite contrived there were things happening characters it was like it was very clear no there's a lot had to be done in that firstly they had to show us directly what kind of a person he is which happened in the prison yes and secondly we've spent eight series of him weasling his way out of things yeah and eventually he comes across someone go no that's not a chance so in other words every single door that we've seen him creep out every other time was slammed by the person that the female but it's not even it's not even that incident that i know you're referring to in general all of the characters had to do a few there was a quite a lot of we know what we want the ending to be so now in the last 45 minutes we sure as heck got to get everyone i i thought it was a bit contrived well i don't think the impact would have been had if it had been drip fed throughout the whole thing because we were talking oh it's a return to form it's fantastic they're da da da you know this is the way it used to be the old show runners on you know all that kind of general stuff right that was what kept us going and then we had the last so i i get you could have been maybe presented better but i think i understand what they were trying to do yeah i can see what they were trying to do yeah you know what i'm on about like this all of us thinking right because even last week we're saying well this could go anywhere in any direction yeah of course and there was so many of the ways they could go i still think it was there it was a lot of things happening in that last episode to make it happen and that i didn't like at all i was like you're really jumping through hoops really jumping through hoops to make certain things happen and i would be in the camp and i've said this on the blog a few times even back when the original one ended i think he is a comic book hero and you kind of it's as if the producers come to the end of a season and think we're doing a socially every decision he made destroyed the life of his son oh yeah his son right and you know what i mean everything he did everyone close to him was robbed from his son for his father's actions and only for his own self-preservation well yeah but primarily so to keep doing what he enjoyed doing what he wanted to do but yeah we all kind of look out for ourselves it's just that he's a bit hyper but it's as if the show was like the showrunners are like we're doing a very socially relevant drama and that's how we should end it but they were never doing a socially relevant drama they were always doing a superhero show really he was just a superhero show i just thought it's a little disconnect from what we've been watching since 2005 you know but even that paled for me beside the contrived nature of that last episode okay just that was and i i just think there's also i think you watch things on a deeper level than i might over analyze i under analyze possibly you know what i mean like it's not a right okay that's that uh jfk destiny betrayed is this uh not this is all of a stone this is on your list is that the one you want to talk about next perhaps vanilla no i don't mind i can talk about it it's on room for a couple so i want you to feel you talking about what you really want to talk about look at it's on it's been on for the last couple of weeks some people may have seen it already it's the only thing it came out over the christmas anybody who um is into the kind of the jfk story has probably seen the movie oliver stone movie jfk that was out back in the day back in the 90s because of that movie and the controversy and the kind of uh well the i suppose the social conversation that that movie started it meant that they're at the time oliver stone ended the movie on saying that they couldn't take the movie any further because there was so many documents from jfk's assassination investigation that were being um withheld for security reasons and they were to be withheld i think it's until 2035 and considering that jfk died in the 60s that is a phenomenal length of time for it to go so what they ended up doing after he did the movie was they had put a committee together to look at every single piece of information and all the documents that are put together and to start declassifying some of it that needed to be declassified now again if you've ever watched the original jfk movie you know that oliver stone has a theory yes and yes his theory comes through he is not one to believe that um it was a lone gunman or any of that kind of crack he's big but in the other side of it he is not one to go off on a crazy completely crazy tangent what i find so interesting about this is obviously i've always had an interest in the kennedys anyways i always found that kind of thing interesting a lot of the conspiracies i've seen all those different kind of movies that come out oliver stone takes a very kind of a proper documentary sort of a look at it and he's showing you the documents as they've been released he's talking to people that have researched it he's talking to x fbi guys x cia guys you know his access and his reach to people who were there at the time one or two of the um kennedys nephews nieces that kind of thing um show up one of bobby's kids and that kind of thing is in it and i just find it's just first of all it's fascinating to me to think that um what was it 1962 or whatever so it's like 60 odd years but on the spectrum of sort of uh conspiracy theories does who who uh shot jfk or why uh with no disrespect to him and his family it's a little bit like tiddlywinks now uh given the scale of conspiracy that we we're often discussing in modern times does it really matter at this point to be honest now and i'm not normally like there's so many conspiracies going around now at the moment you know what i'm saying some very grand ones i tend to walk away from a lot of them yeah in i don't know what it is about this story there's just something about this story that just kind of everything really has that just kind of makes you gravitate to it and i think that's and particularly a lot of irish people feel a connection to it because i don't know they sort of associated jfk and you know when he i know for myself when he came to gallway um no obviously i wasn't there at the time but a lot of family members were in air square when he came and he visited and they've all you know so a lot of people seem to feel that they have like a more personal connection to him above anything plus it's it's historical context is really interesting because you know you have like in all this there's a lot of talk about the cia cia cuba the bay of pigs a lot of that kind of historical stuff and how that in their theory gets tied into this you have a lot of stuff then about the mafia and uh you know bobby kennedy and the kennedy's but is all that actually relevant to this or is that all drawn in to sort of make it you know like this set three degrees or seven degrees of separation or whatever it is you know is it possibly not just the case that someone shot him and that's it actually but now what we're doing is is if you look hard enough you can find a connection between any two things and you can you can build it i mean someone can look at the number plate of a of an ambulance and and and calculate that those those that it has a significance to a global conspiracy i think i i i do in my house mate i think no i do agree there is a lot of that going on but there's something about and maybe it's just me maybe i'm just falling for this one particular conspiracy but i think when you look at it you see there's whatever you would have assumed at the time that when uh this when jonathan kennedy was shot that the investigation would have been extensive and would have been just you know so thorough and so deep the fact that there appears to be so much stuff missing now so much stuff not interconnected so much stuff you know um the fact yes but absence of evidence is not evidence of absolutely agree but they have found but now things have been found in these archives there's people that have been that were interviewed whose interviews are missing but now it's so far down the road there that they've now spoken about it there's lots of different things like that in it now i'm not saying see when you get people land on the moon that will say on the record that they saw aliens you know mm-hmm like what where does it end you know these are all individual people capable of saying anything very true it's framed as if they can only be framed as if they can only be telling the absolute truth from the position of complete honesty and vivid memory but they aren't they're just like us just people yeah like those those people that are shown well i know and i ever underestimate incompetence too things do get a lot i mean that's one thing we know about organizations large organizations things get lost and mislead but this exact conversation is precise to why it's so enjoyable yeah i mean i i don't know i like i i'm sorry do you know who shot jfk uh no but after this i'm leaning towards oliver stone's theory okay there's there's a law and i know i know what you're saying you can if you he has started off with an idea i mean in fairness to oliver stone and you have to take an idea as you're watching this you have to take that into consideration yeah but we've seen the two that the uh the the programs as it relates to that awful tragic brutal murder of sophie toskand the plan theory which is a exactly what that was yeah people can go in with a certain attitude with the documentary and you make it look and you know what you can go i know and you all right well i'll tell you when jfk came out donald bellisario the tv producer the guy behind quantum leap he served in the military with lee harvey oswald and he totally disregarded oliver stone's theory he said that's a load of manure because i served with the man and he did it and he acted alone and he did a two hour quantum leap about it for that reason because he hated the movie and said that's rubbish i knew that guy he did it we all worried about him for years and then he went and shot the president yes but if you were going to set someone up you would obviously find a very a very good subject of quantum leap and then last night it's coming back do you ever watch the movie it's an amazing movie and i never understand why it's not out more it's called arlington road and tim robbins is in it and uh i i'll never think of the next name tim robbins is it and basically what it is kimbay's internet uh oh i can't remember basically what it is is how i'm thinking more holland drive this no no no this is what this is is this is be this is a guy who is like a college professor and uh and it's just suddenly finds out how it ends up how you can be manipulated and it unravels until suddenly you're the lone gunman and it's absolutely i recommend it to anybody watch that over the weekend parallax the parallax view stop saying interesting things just as we're about to take a break you could start at five past eleven it's not but warming up you know right he's a band from speaking before he's coming out 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