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We're streaming live right now on our website HighlandRadio.com or in fact you can go straight to YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland or across our Facebook pages. We've loads of guests and live music and these will feature us later on in the program but we are going to introduce now our Friday panel to discuss some of the big stories of the week and as I say we want you to have your say as well. It's business as usual in that regard. Okay so let's say say good morning first to Anya McGinley, central executive member of the INTO. Good morning Anya, can you hear me? I can indeed Greg, good morning. Always good when the technology works. Michael, Michael Markey, head of Donegal ATU business faculty. Good morning to you Michael. Morning Greg, great to be here. Yeah it's great to have you with us and last but not least, Councillor Liam Blaney, Finafoul. Can you hear Locke of Donegal County Council? Good morning to you Liam. Can you hear me Liam? Okay we'll come back to Liam in a moment. Right okay we'll start with you if that's okay Anya. We heard yesterday that Finafoul are in favour of not increasing the back to work allowance. At least some of their party members are Finafoul and the Greens are in favour of it. The argument being from some within Finagal that there are plenty of jobs out there and that you know if you increase it by 15 year old but whatever all by whatever measure that it might actually discourage people from seeking out those jobs. Do you think there's some merit to that thinking? To be honest Greg I think the larger issue at stake here is everyday goods and services as we know are rising for all people and those on lower incomes are are not immune to that. You know people are used burdened fuels that are costing more now and I think realistically people will go hungry if the issue isn't resolved. Those in the squeezed middle are the ones being pushed more to the to the to the bread line at the moment and I think you know they're not entitled to medical cards and I think more people maybe would be in work if the healthcare could be provided for those at work. Their earnings are seen as too high. It shouldn't be a case that people are better off by not going to work. The government needs to support those on lower incomes better. People are genuinely struggling including those on social welfare and I know from my own work on the executive of INTO that the squeezed middle as I say are being pushed more towards the bread line they're finding it difficult to take ends meet and while rent is cheaper of course in Donegal and Leitrim than it is in Dublin people are really really genuinely struggling and I know teachers who have taken on additional work over the summer additional teaching duties to support children in but special needs and to support those in need but certainly to actually help to take ends meet. The government needs to support workers and it needs to make a big effort to sort this issue out. Yeah okay I'll come back to you Councillor Blaney can you hear me now can you? Yeah you have to unmute there Liam. Hello Liam. That's okay it's not your first reveal but it's early so we'll let you away with it. Liam don't you laugh Michael you're one of the worst for unmuting or not muting but I'll come to you in a moment. Liam what do you do you think of some of the the soundings within Finnegell it seems to be at odds with what your party's thinking but you know that they don't want to discourage those who can work to go out and work by increasing the back to work allowance. Liam that's to you. Yeah what's the cost of late love and increase to watch Greg I do believe that they as well as everybody else and as I just touched the the middle the squeeze middle income earners but the lower income earners and the people on social welfare the cost of them is increased for them as well and I think we need to try and lift all all boats and I do believe that the 15 year old increase has been talked about I don't think it is out of the way but I do believe as well as them being looked after that the the other sectors we have talked about definitely is looking after it well. Is there enough money to go around because coming out of the same pot is potential pay increases for the likes of teachers and nurses and other groups it seems? Yeah there's a lot of there's a lot of money that come out of that one part and we talk about five billion, we talk about eight billion being available extra spend this year on the budget but the time everybody takes their share of it I don't think it's going to be much to spread right to everybody but I do believe that we still need to look after those that's worse off and hopefully they will see to that on this budget. Yeah what do you think Michael, Mark, you head of Donegal ATU Business Faculty? You're unmuted. I mean I haven't got myself there Greg, you had me, you had me. So I think in the one hand I mean there's always that question about striking the balance economically about you know what those social welfare payments are for our employment and that comes up from time to time and in the current timeline that we're in in terms of you know the inflation the cost of living and all that and all that there I really think you have to give the increases and I think you have to look at how you look after people who need most and you know I just looked at the Irish Times this morning said welfare claims review needs to 400 million savings and you know so I think if we do have you know good processes in place that are checking because people are saying you know maybe you're abusing the system or maybe there's work for you there and you're not looking to get it well you know there's an example this morning that the system seems to be running well or seems to be checking that thing so I think for people out there today they really need help and support and we're heading into a heavy winter and you know we're in we have a war in Europe between Ukraine and Russia and you know the playbook from Russia is it's a more humongous game where they're looking to see how they'll extract maximum impact in terms of fuel costs to the richer European countries and to see if they can get them to bend or break and that's going to come in October and November time yeah and I think Arne you touched on it and we can expand on it a little bit I suppose you know you have to have a system set up though whereby it pays to work you know because if you are on back to work allowance maybe you might have access to a medical card maybe back to school allowance you know and you added all up you would be down going back to work I mean that's something that has to be yeah and it's the biggest inflation in 40 years okay so you know this so that's the context of everything I've seen inflation rates like this year in 40 years so people need support and you know the people who need most need to get that support yeah you'd agree on you so it definitely would as I said I know teachers in my own district who have had to take on additional duties just try and make ends meet over the summer holidays it's a huge a huge issue and the government really have to step up to the blade instead of playing kites which they seem to be doing at the moment yeah I think you can get to talks one one minister I don't know if she was joking or not said that she would need to be an octopus to have enough hands although octopus don't have hands to as far as I'm aware to fly all the kites but I suppose teachers are sort of battling on two fronts aren't they because they would benefit from any measures that the government might introduce you know through taxes and what have you but also obviously there is the the the paying negotiations which are somewhat stalled at the moment they're stalled at the moment but I've heard one of the ministers was on talking about talking again about facts and figures but yet and all the talks haven't resumed so I think it'd be more beneficial rather than than on the media to put airwaves out there they're actually just recommence the talks and speak with those involved in the talks I'm not involved with the talks I'm on the executive and I'll be reported to at each of the executive meetings but I think it's more important to actually get stuck back into the talks and try and resolve the issue yeah it is quite interesting how much of the negotiations and the pressures that seems to happen on the media isn't it or in the media when really it should happen around a table face to face I mean obviously the public and the wider population want to know what's going on but it's always such a struggle to get to where we're going to end up anyway it is yeah and I mean understandably so when when my members here they've been discussed in the media they contact me and ask me what's going on why haven't they received an update but they haven't received enough because there is nothing to update them on at the moment as I say I just rather that they would recommence the talks and try to resolve the issue rather than like heights in the media all right a caller says while 15 euro sands a good increase for social welfare it wouldn't even buy a bag of coal in the winter coal has doubled an early tripled in price not to mention petrol home heating oil cost of food etc 15 euro won't go far but I suppose Liam and it applies to most of us the reality is is and the government have said this they're not going to be able to introduce enough across the board to you know we are going to struggle many of us sorry are going to have to struggle because we can only be helped so much or or you know a lot of people would struggle even to get a pay increase but the cost of living is going up and we can all see it Liam we are going to struggle for the next while it seems definitely without a doubt Greg and that 15 euro would like to see that their their proposals increase a bit a lot more but as you said there's nothing we don't want to do around but the 15 euro plus the other measures I suppose we take on this budget hopefully all together will help to add a lot more in the 15 euro to the social welfare income but you know about a whole alone oil as you said that make us out of think they're ready we'll work on the winter time they're going to be huge extra costs that we don't see at the minute on everybody and that's going to be tough on a lot of families that's now struggling through the winter unless it might change us yeah and of course the knock-on effect of that is consumer spending so even those with some disposable income tend to hoard it for fear of you know what might be to come and I'm sure businesses can already see it Michael that's that's how you start heading towards recession isn't it where even if there is some money in the economy people hold on to it for fear of what's to come and next thing you know companies have to start letting people go we hope we're not going in that direction but Michael do you fear we are yeah I mean I think Greg one of my last interviews he gave is president of the chamber of commerce last year people asked me what was my hopes for the future one of them once I said that inflation wouldn't take off and become embedded you know so we are facing significant risks on that there but there's different types of inflation different causes for it you know so we have supply chain inflation which is really less supply of goods you know so demand is static but there's less supply some of that's common because of the pandemic and the aftershock of that effect there with different economies then like global economies like the states like Britain and like Europe then and and America is very successfully they've demand side inflation their demand is increasing all the time there but I think what we're also seeing as well that other very large global economy is the Asian the China economy is that they're beginning to slow down to what you're beginning to notice at the moment is the demand for oil is beginning to lower slightly from where it was so you can see the the pressure coming down there a little bit but we still have supply chain problems but I was looking there recently in the last week or so in the states and they have a supply chain pressure index which is looking at I think somewhere around a 40 drop in pressure coming into the pipeline so that affects you know like the cost of materials maybe building materials stuff like that might start start to drop but in Ireland itself then we have inflation that's really fuel driven inflation that's coming into labor markets then in different areas from the pandemic we've seen how it affected the tourism sector and there was other particular sectors as well so it's a very very difficult space very difficult space from decision making our central bank at the European Central Bank looks like it's going to increase the interest rate by at least another half percent they're sounding bullish about it this morning and you know when we look to the UK and the states particularly the states they're jumping up their interest rates quite quickly and rapidly they probably put the brakes on the growth there to pool inflation but inflation listen inflation robs your pockets that's it there and the people who have lower incomes are impacted most yeah that's your affected most by income that yeah exactly just a reference to the the mortgage interest rates homeowners facing even greater financial squeeze this autumn as the European Central Bank has signaled that it will raise interest rates yet again next month this second rate rise in September could mean an additional 1,640 euro a year in repayments for some 300,000 tracker mortgage customers when the July increase is also taken into account for a long time on you the tracker mortgage was the you know it was the the the the mortgage that you wanted to be on but unfortunately for those on tracker mortgages and those on variable rates depending on whether the banks absorb or pass on these increases you know this is a worrying time and I suppose too a lot of people wondering when to fix because we don't know when this might top out it all adds to uncertainty on you you know especially as your your money is squeezed squeezed squeezed as we've already been discussing absolutely Greg you've hit the nail in the head there and I mean an extra 1640 euro a year is a huge amount of money for people to try and find when their daily goods and services are increasing as well it's absolute it's a very frightening case for people to be in at the moment and this issue isn't going away anytime soon and as I say this is where the the public service pay talks need to go back into into negotiation here because this is costing people as as the crisis goes on the the cost of living is increasing rapidly that was the voice there of Arnie 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canceling and planning before we go on to the next issue just a quick word about events like this uh in uh our county and um of course later on uh we have the mooneys they're going to be playing live for us moray's going to be live for us here today but she's in concert later on this evening and it's looking like drying up for that and of course nathan carter who will join us later on the show as well uh he'll be performing live on the the dannings gea pitch a big boost for uh regions like this uh liam especially as opposed as we edge towards the end of the summer as a big boost for the county but especially for us the most northern part of the county the uh on the shore of the dannings peninsula and um it's great to have a large tournament like this here for the second year and our own on parts of the last year there was no spectators allowed but this year uh the council has gone all out gone all out and the cases themselves has gone all out and uh has the place looking to mend us down there and i think it has been always the amount of work that they have done over the last number of years and the amount of tourist golfers that they uh are now coming to this area fluffing this area all would like would like to see them come on larger numbers uh to the great lengths golf course that we have right runner course but especially to the one on dannings here with this tournament taking place and uh i figure it's great to see it and it's a boost to the local area and as i said that the council has been acknowledged for the huge effort uh that they have put into this as well and ensuring and helping paul mcginley foundation to have a week of festival events and they did the local area and you can see the benefit of that yourself down there great yeah well not precisely where i'm sitting but when i walk around i'm in a wee bit of an an alleyway here uh some comments from our listeners here the squeezed middle has more dense to pay on a left in the same position as lower income citizens another caller says laughable having a conversation about giving people a 15 euro payment who are on 208 euro per week another listener says the old age pensioners would need to go up 20 euro for it to be any good and i'm a widow i'm 63 i live on my own i get 208 euros a week that is all i get and with all the bills on you and with everything that has to be met and you know i suppose maybe to be at the end of your working life and hopefully at hopefully at a point where you can enjoy good health and you know enjoy hopefully another 20 30 whatever years it might be tough to make ends meet covering all the usual bills on 208 euro a week and even add 15 on to that and you know it's still a struggle yeah it absolutely is 100 percent um my own parents have to survive on a on the pension so i know what i know what it's like and i know what they're talking about their everyday their everyday bills it's a extremely difficult situation and i know i suppose what we try to do with the union is whenever there is an increase for our for our teachers that our retired teachers also could benefit from that because certainly these are this is costing people in their profits every single day and michael you know having to survive on a you know relatively small state pension it's nothing new i mean obviously it's in focus now because you're having to make that amount of money go even further effectively but but it's still it's not an awful lot of money is it oh i mean and the cost has just shut up i mean that's it i mean the driving a car your weekly shop and your fuel to heat your house different things like that there the cost has just gone up and and it affects people incrementally but obviously the lowest income are have the largest impact from inflation and that's not what we're standing when we talk about the squeezed middle lighter you know for example if we see people there and maybe kids going to college we talk about the rental market at the moment if you two kids going to college which is a really strong likelihood in terms of maybe they're two years apart or something like that there then they could be facing costs of 150 to 200 300 a month extra poor poor child in terms of the rental costs you know so everybody everywhere is feeling the thing and we talked about we talked about you know maybe people receiving social welfare and what would what it would end it could end up costing them going back to work the same could be said of of the squeezed middle on you you reference teachers who do extra work to ends make ends meet many though might not do that because it might push them over a threshold where they might not be able to say qualify for a Susie grant or or other things you know the system is set up strangely isn't it so it doesn't actually reward you saying right you know what i'm going to do this that and the other to put myself in this or that position yeah 100% and i know actually teachers who did do the summer provision over the last number of years who've actually said now that they can't afford to do it and because like that whenever they pay their taxes and that out of it it actually pushes them out of the boundary to be able to qualify for grants Liam you know you're in politics do you think the system is set up really to you know look after those with a few bob i was tired of getting rid of what you're doing with it first of all but you know i want to go back to to you talk about the pensioners and i suppose it's not it's not just pensions it's social welfare sufferings of the people that's living alone on social welfare you know if you have couples or more living in the house they can share the the electricity bills the cost of making bills the run with the car bills but when you have one person on their own trying to do all that on a couple of 100 euro a week that's very very tight and i do believe that they should be looked after a week or even better than people that's not living alone because the death and error still down in the way things have gone this last while they find it very very difficult it was difficult not for them but they find it very very difficult and they're not paid now when it was until winter then people that that are living alone is going to be on the huge pressure and huge stress trying to and make ends meet week by week and i think that they should be looked after and given bigger increases hmm why does that money come from though Liam tax the rich more tax some of these companies more that are making an absolute fortune off our backs you know we are seeing the richer get richer we're seeing oil companies providers you know then further further down the line who provide us the electricity making record profits probably laughing at us because we're sitting here talking about someone trying to survive on 208 euro per week whilst they're rubbing their hands together even the government is making more money in this crisis through bigger takes on on on inflated fuel prices i agree with 100% Greg i don't disagree one thing you said there but we have a second balance and that balance needs to be we don't drive them people that you're talking about out of the country and we then with no tax take from them i'm not well not qualified to say if we're we should stop before we should start and i'm at what degree we should be taxing them all but i do believe and agree with you 100% there's a lot of people getting away what seems like a lot of money and the rest of us as as um still going along and as you say people laugh at maybe people there in 200 euro a week whenever they're earning thousands a week and uh michael is it is it's populist to talk about taxing the wealthy more to tax businesses more i suppose with your business hat on um you know for with your role i just think people might feel the country's a little bit fairer if it's more equitable more equal well uh more equal is is a really great goal to go after um for for any government for any society um and i i think you know it's complicated um you've got to get the balance right um you know i think about 20% of uh income tax contributors and about 70% of the total income tax in Ireland so we have a progressive tax system i.e more year and the more you pay but it's about how you get that balance correctly like so you know if you love the things like say our lower tax bank and you know that this has been flagged on other countries it's much higher level i think it's around 36 000 in Ireland you know well one of that figure was 50 000 and two people working together then it was 100 000 before they got into the higher tax bank and things to look at you know at what point do you actually start paying tax at you know i i think the figure is 30% of people um in terms of incomes uh don't pay tax um but then you can you know counter that percent well that's because they're in low paid jobs you want everyone to be in better paid jobs better quality of life etc etc but do you think the corporate area um in terms of you know our tax take there when you when you look at that about 50% of our corporate tax take probably comes from about 10 uh supernova global companies you know that's what it comes from at the end of the day we do see moved in terms of international tax rates in that they're looking to say look people have super low corporate tax rates anymore and that the the the the flow should be 15 percent if we start to move closer to that there from our 12 and a half then that provides some scope for us to increase the tax take from the corporates some suggestions there as well about you know employers contributions and fear aside um you know the counter to that there in it it makes the cost of employing staff more expensive um we've got to strike a balance but uh you know that that point that you're making there more generally about you know the the rich get richer and you know what we see what's going on globally and you know i think that the the capitalists or the markets approach um it needs to be refined and improved and uh there needs to be a better way of getting a better distribution working for people a caller says uh this the susie grant limits needs to be raised it's impossible to try and send children to college and you can just imagine the anxiety a family you're feeling when they have a child who wants to go on to third level and they look at the figures and it is simply not possible and then of course if it is possible then you have to start trying to find accommodation a caller says time to introduce a windfall tax for energy companies that are making grotesque profits off the back of ordinary people other countries are doing it but when i put that question to leo for adcari humdenhard about a little bit rock the head side to side but you know the big companies don't pay tax here but that has to where there's a will there's a way i'd imagine um and i don't think i'd i i don't think it would be 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harrison who is the ceo of the legends tour to learn a little bit more about this competition uh we hope to hear live from reynie weenie she is playing a concert this evening and not far from here on dalings gea pitch uh john kasey uh is hosting this event so we're going to be chatting to him nathan carter who's in concert on saturday night he'll also be joining us and a whole host of uh other interesting guests joining us either live in studio or via video link don't forget you can watch the program on our website highland radio dot com or on youtube highland radio arland or across our facebook pages okay um now this is not much as much talking or going back again over um the the news we were talking about during the week but i think it really has sort of opened up a conversation um and perhaps a healthy conversation that should be had out in the open rather than um you know not uh you would know at this stage i'd imagine that pro russian graffiti appeared on the roads of donningall this week it upset members of the ukrainian community but i suppose liam and your comments stirred uh quite a bit of reaction um the question being in context is the justification for it independent thomas pringle believe there is we heard from uh the likes of dekkel and me who says it's not it instills fear into the ukrainian community but the conversation uh broadened out you've had a couple of days to reflect on this what you've used now as a clear look of the council liam or as an individual actually i don't even know why i put your title in it just as an individual yes a mule of views on it uh first of all as i said that the last day of the week the conversation is if you haven't been delighted with the conversation as as took off the way it has but there is there is some anger out there uh and some and some quarters especially with their areas where there seem to be a lot more um the ukrainians and refugees and science seekers come into than others and they're talking about um low accommodation for students when we come back into the into the academic year again now in september they're talking about no housing for young people uh that is not on the ladder to be able to start building a house and and they're looking for for for uh social housing and there's no there's no places available for them to be able to avail of the housing assistance payment the hat payment and then we have the young people that's looking to uh build a house of their own and what the way costs is we're affording every day um the price of a house escaped out of reach of a lot of a lot of young people are they all the one issue uh liam are the all the one issue like how many refugees are living in houses that would be suitable or acceptable to you know first-time buyers for example i mean we we have to make sure too that we're not sort of conflating two issues there is a crossover for sure in terms of student accommodation but i just wonder in terms of how and you know yourself what's happening lots of people going into the one house or living in a hotel room that's not the same as the property crisis in arland is it now the property crisis talking about is that the houses are available to these young people and they're saying that they get no help from the government that isn't some some of the towns where they're where they think the balance is uh maybe different to other towns and well there seem to be quite a few uh coming into it and um then look we have to look at them um we had people of our own not too many years ago we're going over to um england and america and we know the way they were treated there and the way we felt about them at the start when they started to move over there and thankfully they've got accepted and we have to move on with the times as well and it's coming around the other way now we're accepting people of this country well we can't shake a tree yeah we can't shake a house tree effectively to to create houses so are you of the opinion now that we need to look at whether or not we can accept more people in at this time well i think we should be looking at striking a balance in different places and that's the first thing that's to be done because i've said already there's certain areas seems to be getting quite large influx and other areas are not and that is the area where they're starting to create a bit of anger from some of the people there that are under pressure that are under stress like like our young people like our students and the students would love to have a hotel room they will stay and let it get in whenever they come back to to the atu um you know that's what's causing and let's just break down the breakdown here let's break down the student accommodation situation half of it around about half of it i believe is owned by or run by the uh you know the third levels that is being released back again for students the other half in the private sector something like 2700 rooms is not because they and the government is paying people so they actually have uh they have a big influence on this and they signed contracts with these accommodation providers that extended beyond you know the the start of the the new term so the government has a role to play in here but no one seems to be questioned i'm in relation to that that half of the accommodation is still uh unavailable um certainly at this point i think there's frustration and i think there's upset i think it's going to turn into anger Anya what's your view on this it's a very difficult one but it is a conversation we have to have out front and center because it's everyone's talking about it it is Greg and it's one that seems to become more vocalized over the last number of weeks maybe even months i mean i empathize completely with the Ukrainian people and while we are unsure who is responsible for the graffiti and like the purpose of it was it some kind of a sick prank or was it someone wanting to vent at the government either way it is totally distasteful for the Ukrainian people we can't forget that these people came here to Ireland to seek refuge while their countries torn apart through no fault of their own they came here to seek a safe heaven i can only imagine the torment that they are seeing in their heads from what they what they saw before they left their country and then to be able to be coming into the town where they live to see pro-russian graffiti it must be an absolute living nightmare for them and i get completely that there is frustration out there i get the different levels of bureaucracy around this situation i wish people are disgruntled there certainly are a number of them they're not disgruntled i don't think with the ukrainians but i think they're disgruntled with the government because there's a huge waiting list for housing and olia mentioned it there there's waiting lists for benefits but getting all the work put in place very quickly for the ukrainian people i wish people are waiting for hospital lists to get into hospitals and stuff anything like that there has been put in place very quickly for the for the ukrainians but again that's the different levels of bureaucracy that's in the country here the aid is completely justifiable for the ukrainians but it does show the ineptitude of the government that there are many people including students that's been mentioned they're now again waiting for accommodation it just seems to be a lack of forward planning again from the government we don't have the infrastructure here but yet the resources are needed in communities to accommodate the ukrainians and our own people in a meaningful way bureaucracy could deal with it in a speedy way for the ukrainians but it couldn't deal with it for our own people what about schools what's the concerns in schools because we've had lots of contacts from parents whose children are already in oversized classrooms they don't know or haven't been informed by schools whether or not ukrainian children will be in those classrooms obviously they have nothing against these young children because of all they are the the innocent victims of this but there are concerns what it might mean to learning some of them might be coming in with very little english for example is their guidance from the department of education on how that all is going to be handled because you know whilst people are worried and concerned for these ukrainian children obviously you know and we all know if anyone says anything about your child how defensive we get they are obviously very concerned about what this might mean for their child's education have you or your member set any insight into what is going to happen in schools how all that is going to be dealt with what kind of numbers we may be talking about to be honest the guidelines we had very loose guidelines from the department when this whole issue came to the fore initially there are railed teams in place within each county there's a railed worker which is supposed to work together with all the different areas education obviously is one of them but to be honest i think that system isn't working properly i know schools in the geltut who have been who have now got ukrainian children in them that is not the best place for those ukrainian children these principles of the school have already said it the parents of the ukrainian children don't want the children educated through irish which is totally understandable as you said the very little english little own trying to learn to irish but yet and all there are smaller schools that would be absolutely delighted to have them you know the the system really isn't working together even though that was what was proposed at the outset and there's no there seems to be no plan like we are bluffing it at the moment in terms of what happens when we try and take back student accommodation what happens if a hotel why a hotel wouldn't want to extend its contract i don't know but what happens you know when that happens what happens in the classroom you know this is probably a minimum another year or so or whatever and we don't know what the flow of if hopefully there's some resolution to the situation in ukraine we don't know what the flow might be back and at what speed in the other direction like we can't be bluffing this and plugging holes and playing whack-a-mole but there doesn't seem to be a plan on you there really doesn't seem to be a plan that is the issue greg and that we hear anecdotally of you know children coming from one school they'll be moved then on to another area or else they'll come back to the ukraine there's there's no plan we don't know how many children to expect to come into our school we don't know how we don't know if there's very little even time lapse between the rail to teams consult saying to a school you're getting x y or z number of children and them arriving so there's very little time even for the schools to prepare for them to be there and as you say there could be over 30 children in the class as it is and then you're adding these children into the mix and there's one hour per child per week of english language support allowed it's ridiculous michael margie i think you know even for those who are angry and frustrated and they may be in the majority now i don't think this is anything personal against ukrainian people and i think ania made that point right at the beginning of her contribution um but it might feel like that i think some people are conflicted i know people who are working in the community to make ukrainians welcome but share all the frustrations of what we've been talking about and as ania put very well there uh but you get confused where do you direct this frustration is it towards the new faces or is it towards government i don't know what's your take on all of it yeah uh firstly i'd have to say just in principle a civic respect and dignity you know um and ania outlined it there we you know that very emotive to put those logos up around the place and last week i was at a water safety class in mount charles it was a fabulous week i noticed there was a couple of young child to the right of me i thought they were speaking ukrainian i took the chance i just said are you from ukraine they had a level of english there we tried to be friendly to them and asked them where they were from and then said you know well we hope things improve blah blah blah and they were breaking down in tears uh in their faces talking to us you know uh you know like one day we'd like us we're all we're all sitting at home watching sky sports and the next minute you're up and out maybe you got away with a car and a bootload of stuff or maybe you got away with nothing and what you had in your bags you know so i i do think there is huge pressures there and i do think that there is you know some elements of and you know from the commercial aspects are making extra profits i do think in terms of the public's then there's definitely extra costs affecting parts of our society and extra pressures and stresses and i do think that you know our our concerns and our frustrations need to be directed to really where the planning needs to be happening and the planning needs to get ahead of these issues that's the key thing it's a timing thing that's there for example you know we talk about the accommodation the student accommodation you know inevitably bringing that amount of people into our system that needs to be housed where we already have housing challenges as it is the first thing you be thinking about or one of the things you be thinking about is you know come the end of august time september students go back to college extra costs in terms of the rental costs the the student grants needed to increase i think also to i think also to families affected by micah deserve a great deal of respect because they could be the ones screaming from the rooftops because of how they might feel and how they've been treated uh but i i don't know what the motivations are but they're not speaking out but they would be well they are but you understand where i'm coming from they could be really really angry but they're showing great dignity and i think an understanding but their level of frustration must be through the roof councillor planey it's inevitable as inevitable as the focus at the start of the pandemic and we said it on this program as inevitable the focus will end up being on what was happening in our nursing homes that's the way it turned out it is inevitable that there's going to be a big expose on what's happening in some of these houses across dunagore and across the country in terms of dozens in some cases of refugees being placed in two three bedroomed houses that are designed to accommodate one single family it is only a matter of time but i suspect that's going to be one of the big controversies i don't know when it's going to happen but i can guarantee it's going to be happening would you agree Liam i agree um my experience that there's a bit of a disaster and some of these places in the short term and i hope this doesn't come to progression but there's a lot of people and she said doesn't some cases been put into anti-premises and i know i did read somewhere what he was supposed to have been out to inspect all these premises but are they going out to inspect hotels that everybody knows that they're in and that is possibly doing it as they're supposed to be doing they're near to it i know and then we hear of other places then where there's uh as many bulk bases you get jammed into rooms and people put into them are they ones that's gone under the radar that they won't know about and they won't be able to check on them but you know if someone serious does happen for example a fire and some of these premises and there's more people than they're supposed to be on the covered insurance ways um what happens to the people that's trying to get out of them and there be no fire escapes or things like that um i think that people are looking at the very short term so they're looking at the bigger picture yeah and uh hopefully it won't happen but if it does it's going to be serious consequences that is my concern unfortunately i share that with you uh Liam Blaney thank you very much indeed for joining us i appreciate your time this morning that is Liam Blaney there's here lock of donagall canty council um michael margay head of donagall atu business faculty it's always great to have you on the program michael chat to you again soon and at last but certainly not least uh it is ania mcginley central executive member of the i nto thanks so much for your time this morning take care of yourself 08 6 60 25 000 that is the whatsapp and uh text line 08 6 60 25 000 some of your messages coming in here my home insurance has increased over 500 euro i had it for 45 years and no claims it's a blow to me as an oap and 15 euro will not cover it i don't know what 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facebook live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news a donnie gall company has benefited from a 750 000 euro investment and is set to create 24 new jobs 3d issue a technology company specializing in content experience tools for the development of digital publications has received major investment from further vc and the western development commission the company which is based in letter kenny is using the funding to add 24 jobs by the end of 2023 and expand into new and existing markets the 24 rules will be in design software development and sales and marketing and most of the rules will be based in donnie gall donnie gall teachers have been forced to take on extra teaching duties over the summer to help cope with the rising cost of living that's according to central executive committee representative for donnie gall and leacham with the i n t o onya beginley who's called for the government to resume the pay sector talks miss mcginley says teachers are struggling to make ends meet and something needs to be done to rectify this people are really really genuinely struggling and i know teachers who have taken on additional work over the summer additional teaching duties to support children in but special needs and support those in need but certainly to actually help to make ends meet the government needs to support workers and it needs to make a big effort to sort this issue out it's absolutely it's a very frightening case for people to be in at the moment and this issue isn't going away anytime soon as i say this is where the the public service pay talks need to go back into into negotiation here because this is costing people as as the crisis goes on the the cost of living is increasing rapidly 38 children in the donnie gall health care area have been waiting over a year to access fatal mental health care figures released to new news talk reveals that over 500 children have been waiting over a year for the child and adolescent mental health service with more here's donna marie dordy 38 children in the donnie gall health care area have been waiting over a year to access vital mental health care in total 417 children are on the waiting list for the child and adolescent mental health services in ch01 which covers donnie gall the fourth highest figure in the country the service provides treatment for young people with moderate to severe difficulties the figures provided to news talk revealed 206 of those children have been waiting less than 12 weeks while 98 have been waiting up to 26 weeks 57 patients have been waiting over 26 weeks but less than 39 weeks while 18 have been waiting between 39 and 52 weeks plan and permission has been granted for donnie gall's first columbarium at ard fry ray a columbarium for the interment of ashes will be erected at ard war a capuchin fry ray creasla with more tom diglis reports donnie gall county council has granted planning permission for the erection of an external columbarium at ard's fry ray planning permission was applied for by brother philip baxter and was recently approved meaning that people who wish to be cremated can have their ashes interred in the grounds at the fry ray the application details the erection of an external columbarium with a natural stone and smooth concrete render envelope housing bronze plated columbarium niches the suggested location for the facilities behind the community cemetery in ards the application followed discussions between the ards community and a turnham columbarium a belfast-based company which specializes in building columbaria major work on the water supply in fulcara is set to be carried out at the end of the month irish water crews will replace more than 300 meters of old water mains along the old town road which will significantly reduce burst and give locals a more reliable water supply when works are completed by october to accommodate the works as a section of the old town road will be closed for two weeks with more here's irish water crews will arrive in falcara at the end of the month to replace over 300 meters of old pipes irish water's networks regional lead declin cawley says the utility is prioritizing leakage reduction works in the areas that need it most he added that removing old pipes from the public water network in falcara will have major benefits for the supply in the area and will also reduce the amount of treated drinking water lost underground to facilitate the safe delivery of the project a section of the old town road will be closed for two weeks from monday august 29th to friday september 16th traffic will be diverted but local and emergency access will be accommodated at all times irish water says customers may experience some short-term interruptions to their water supply but the project team will ensure that customers are given a minimum 48 hours notice prior to any planned interruption too well or no today we'll bring a mix of cloud and some good spells of sunshine but showers too some of which will be heavy highest temperatures of 15 to 17 degrees that's all for now we'll be back with a news update again at 11 o'clock but until then good morning oh battery notices for friday morning august 19th the death has taken place of sally miggy knee ball maher a gallon dairy bag formally of anagri her remains her oppose at rorty's funeral home dairy bag today from 4 p.m to 8 p.m and tomorrow from 11 a.m to 12 45 p.m removal afterwards to st mary's church dairy bag for funeral mass at 1 p.m with interment afterwards in maher a gallon cemetery rosary tonight at 8 p.m the funeral mass can be viewed live on cairn rorty funeral director's facebook page the death has occurred of knoll mc fadden gortley letterkenny knoll's remains will be reposing at his late residence from 12 noon today funeral from there tomorrow for 11 a.m mass in the church of the irish martyrs letterkenny fall by burial in new lake cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on the church of the irish martyrs facebook page those who would like to leave a personal message of condolence can do so on charlie mclaffery funeral director's facebook page the death has occurred of mary mclaughlin knee divanny 261 re mohe manor conningham house is strictly private to family and extended family at the request of the deceased funeral from her late home on sunday morning at 10 20 a.m going to st columbus church tramaul for 12 noon rickory mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only donations in lieu if desired to the sma father's care of any family member or kelly's funeral directors the death has taken place of jean key millbrick alton apace balabafay funeral leaving her home tomorrow for service in st john's parish church killed to vogue at 2 p.m with interment afterwards insta norther parish churchyard house private pleas with family and neighbors welcome and the death has taken place of george brennan 70 cooney road colmore dairy funeral from his home tomorrow 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sure you do the costs facing taxi drivers and they're kind of limited i supposed to some extent and watch they can charge uh greg if costs have risen by a necessary minimum then profits shouldn't rise yet they do mainly due to gouging by the people who have government backing talking about a windfall tax and these profits is only justifying those prices uh reduced costs by government order and our what we're going to do too you see and this is there is going to be money given away in this budget once off payments of fuel or whatever it might be cost of living payments that money is going directly that money we got for the electricity went directly to the very companies that people feel are gouging them that are making most profits so not we're almost endorsing it some might feel no not only are we not sort of trying to come up with some different solution nationalization or whatever it might be we are actually taking your taxpayers money we all pay tax and paying that directly to the energy companies who are making record profits at this time you literally could not make it up but that is the plan that's the plan and everyone's yeah we're going to get some cost of living assistance yet we're going to be bolstering the electricity gas fuel companies profits greg uh first it's not the ukrainian's fault i think we all accept that uh in terms of the people that that that have fled here but this caller says it's government policy bringing in a large number of refugees when we have no space film that will build resentment when it should not happen government at fault and people as usual will suffer more of your comments on that and different issues there's money somewhere why can't a new hospital be built in letter kenny there's not enough beds to go around why are the sick being encouraged to be going to spain we should be able to rely on our own health care system this is not a reflection of the staff in lu h they're excellent well the problem is is and this is quite a simplistic way of putting it you could build a roof over the entire of donnie gall and call it a hospital but if you don't have the staff you don't have the beds the beds in and of themselves a couple of grand you could put a million beds in in a hospital it's recruitment of the staff to run the facility that's where the issue is and there are job vacancies at letter kenny university hospital which can't be filled that is not to defend or contradict what you're saying it's just to add to the conversation anyone who went to america or britain didn't get any social welfare or houses i know i had family members who went to both countries i think we all were uh those people or no of them yesterday i counted councillors at the time for the public to speak is a public consultation we don't need permission to voice our opinions yeah i understand where you're coming from many women today say it's a call i don't have a pension or any form of income in their own name because irish dracronian legislation left them no option but to stay at home and care for family and aging parents that is true and it's it's it's historic but it's not because people are truly living are living through that right now uh let me see where are we here now hi greg i have a spare room i was thinking about renting it out to student accommodation who do i can't who do i contact uh thank you well you can advertise it yourself um or you can contact the students union if you go to the atu students union website you can rent your room out and don't forget you can earn up to 14 000 euro tax free by renting a room out to a student and you're not their new mama your daddy uh you just provide them the room and then they have to look after everything themselves if you have a different arrangement with them that's up to you but 14 000 euro you can earn in rent tax free um by housing a student and doing a fantastic job in the process rightio let us take a break and uh we'll be back afterwards with loads more 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Irish legends golf tour presented by the McGinley foundation it's at the rosa penna hotel and golf resort in downings and i am delighted to say and welcome into studio right now our next guest who is phil harrison chief executive officer of the legends tour phil good morning to you thanks for joining us yeah good morning thank you very much for inviting me yeah you have a fantastic setup here obviously you had a great canvas to work with but you really get that sort of big golf tournament feeling with the way you set it up but that's important isn't to give fans that yeah it is i mean we're very lucky rosa penna is um well it's a world-class golf course the players love it um it's a great test so i think uh and paul mcginley who um he's loved in donny gol he loves donny gol and um he's put on a great show here and the golf course i must say um he was good last year but it's just fantastic this year and of course there's fans this year too because it's part of it you know a lot of these players that they've played in front of huge numbers before it's part of the game isn't it for them oh it's massive i mean you know they play better in front of people used to it and um it creates atmosphere and um i think it's nice that we've got legends of the game um people can relate to what they've achieved radical players and major winners and it's nice for the spectators to actually see them close up playing yeah i mean you have an extensive career behind you in terms of your time on the european tour i think you're one of the first pga club players weren't you back then but early on did you did you clearly you must have noticed the importance of sort of getting the business right as well as the the the sport and end of it yeah i think you obviously um the players they want to play golf on world-class venues and um it's about um especially in seniors golf continuing their careers it's some of them it's like uh they start at 50 and they feel it's a new career if you like which is which is a bit unique in sport um but my role really is to create a sound business environment that we can drive sponsorship and um playing opportunities and look at new initiatives really to um you know create interest in in at all i think sometimes two golfers are somewhat lucky providing they can retain their health and you could say the same of maybe dodge players and snooker players and other sports where there is a sort of a seniors element to it because we know with our own sport here with gea and in soccer players often when they hang up their boots they don't know what to do you know what i mean so i think golfers and and those other sports that have a senior element to it probably can't themselves lucky to be able to continue competitively to do what they love oh absolutely i mean the players they keep themselves as fit as they possibly can and they continue to work hard practicing they maybe can't practice it as much as they used to do their body doesn't allow them to do that but they've still got that skill set there they might not hit the ball quite as far even though new equipment helps with that um but their short game their um course management their skill set is is there and they're playing against people who are similar age is similar kind of um you know physically um so but it's still very very competitive but i think even a lot of these players when they're they were in their prime and this is in no way disrespectful i hope the game is advanced in terms of you know the young players coming through now the power that they have i think even a lot of the players that were at their peak 15 20 years ago would be standing on the t-box behind your mackle royes and and what have you i'm going well where's that ball gone well absolutely i mean the if you look at it now when i first started playing you go on the golf course with a uh a can of coke and a mars bar if you got hungry or thirsty now they've got four bananas and water and nutrition bars and they're in the gym warming up before they play and um have a check to the sports psychologist before they do some psychologist and in the gym afterwards and um you know their nutrition is is really important we'll be having steak and chips and a couple of pints at night so it's changed dramatically in a way was it a little bit more fun phil it was a lot of fun actually but um that was maybe one of the problems i think sometimes you can see the players that like uh themselves on a friday night they do fantastic round one round two make the cut then saturday things go a little bit aright i just wonder sometimes what's going on there well in the clubhouse on the friday evening i had a spell when i was playing where um one of my friends said to me phil you seem to play great first two rounds but what happens on the saturday and i thought actually yeah that's the point i was so relieved to make the cut you'd have a couple of pints and next thing you're not quite as sharp on the saturday yeah okay so talk to me about the legends tour um and it it is unique because there's amateur players here there's that celebrity element of it you've you've designed it in such a way that the celebrities the personalities it's really competitive there's something for them to play for as well and i think you have to sort of you have to create that don't you because it has to it has to be for my element but everyone has to take it seriously too at the same time well yeah i mean the people whether it's amateur golf as celebrities a lot of our celebrities are sports people yeah and they're they're uh they're very competitive so what we've tried to do we had you know a model where we'd have two programs and then the pros would play on their own for three days where now we have we have a program we have a celebrity series program but the celebrities are playing for qualifying for a grand final in the seychelles at the end of the year so it's competitive they're trying to get there because they're also playing for a hundred thousand pounds prize money for their charities that's created a lot of interest in that series but in the tour itself so we're getting a bigger social media reach and um the legends tour is growing because of that which helps sponsorship and i think the amateur participation in the tournament has gone down really well because there's one thing playing with a legend player in the pro am this is another experience playing with them when they're competing in the tournament and um that's gone down very well because you're giving people the opportunity to get that tournament feeling yeah you know with with scratch players with pros with people that have won many tournaments with a with a Paul McGinley or whoever it might be i mean that is uh you know and that's you know a lot of people would aspire to play with their favorite footballers or aspire to play snooker against you know Stephen Hendry in his heyday or Ronnie on Sullivan you you give people that opportunity which is is i'm not sure there's another example of it really i don't think there is especially with the handicap system as well the handicap system allows you to do that which is fantastic with golf you know i can be playing on scratch play 18 handicap players whose handicap properly we can have a really close game which is a bit unique you couldn't do that in tennis or whatever but i think to play for the amateur golfers to be playing right next to them on the fairways with them watching them chip and put watching how they're managing their score um one it's got to be a great experience but two it's got to help them with their game as well um what could you what would you expect to shoot around here at 71 at the moment 71 sorry par here um what what now would you be happy with shooting around here if you to stand up in the first team well i mean with links golf i played here on wednesday is these the excuses first or yeah what i'm saying i played on wednesday it was a beautiful day how the breath of wind and um i just arrived and i played and i shot i think i shot one over par which i was quite pleased with yeah and um but that was flat calm beautiful quite warm then you get a 30 mile an hour wind and you get a bit of rain and you get the tension you get a scorecard in your hand and all of a sudden the circumstances change yeah i think if i shot uh i still play pretty well i've played a lot of golf i think if i shot five or six over par uh i would be very happy in the conditions and you see tough golf you see tough golf of course yeah but golfers want that challenge don't they i mean sometimes you hear about you know some of the you know some of the majors they don't like maybe why the golf uh the course is set up where it's a bit unfair but at the same time you don't want it too easy players want this challenge absolutely i think um especially links golf you expect it and and i think you know the players away comes here there's a wind blowing it's a bit damp uh brilliant because i've i've really level par today is going to be a great score and pros like that because they're feeling any conditions they can shoot level par but sometimes if people shooting five or six under par it's really about your putting in and so on but the the the ground staff who've set the course up if they have people hitting par today they're going to be delighted because they might think that's job done yeah yeah from from their perspective what is the the future in terms of um you know you have the schedule for this year but a lot of people might be wondering you know is this tournament going to come back to this part of the world next year what is the situation with that when is that sort of uh that all drawn up and what are the deciding factors like is one hosted in Ireland every year can there be numerous what way does that work well schedule wise um it's we're kind of still recovering from yeah we had 11 tons last year we'll have 18 this year but we've got we reckon we'll have 25 tons next year and we're traveling to uh Africa we're going to Asia you know we're becoming a global tour which is great as far as um island will always be an island legends tour um we tend to um I mean this is such an amazing venue be almost lovely to have it here all the time however the venue give give a lot up to to host our event so I think and it's nice to travel around having to see all the people to get the opportunity to have that experience we're talking to other venues at the moment doubling and and what have you and um but hopefully we can keep Paul hosting it because he's done an amazing job and um but we'll definitely in Ireland uh and we'll be announcing soon where that will be we're in talks with people at the moment yeah but in terms of the golf side of it that sorted the business side of it you've referenced sponsors on a number of occasions and you can reach a different market as well sometimes to to different golf tournaments so that's all going well for the for the tour yeah it is um again it was difficult but now the enthusiasm is coming back even though you know corporately it's not not easy at the moment no um however I think the engagement that we have the assets that we have for uh companies entertaining their clients is a bit unique and um and we've got a lot of companies that want to partner with the legends tour uh which and that's growing so I think it's it's work in progress but I think we've made um in the last 12 months we've made massive strides and I mean I mean obviously this tournament's more aligned with you know um the PGA and what have you uh what do you think of the emergence of of live golf and I don't necessarily mean you know who's backing it and that side of things it's causing division uh obviously as any change might um but there's a lot of fans out there maybe looking for different products so what's your view on I mean I don't know if I blame the players because you know they're looking for different opportunities but what do you think it means for the for the game of golf well I think you know they've they've kind of thrown an anger in it into golf and um you know the established tours like the pga tour dp world tour um I think they're on the back foot a bit because they think well you know where's this tour going I think at first you thought well you might come along play eight events whatever but it seems more than that now you're looking at you know full schedule next year 14 events a lot of the players they were signing up were players coming to the towards the end of the career and um you can understand with those players the reasons why financially and they're not going to win majors anymore schedules as well they're schedules they want to do they want to play less golf but be playing for more money and um you know whether you you for it against it you can understand their decisions now the players that are rumored now to be joining Cameron Smith and so on it's a bit of a game changer problem problem for the pga yeah so I think it's a problem and you know whether you like the politics and whether you like or don't like it is probably more accurate I think really at some stage and I think sooner rather later all these people are going to have to get round a table and say how do we sort this out for for the good of the game and so this all this money coming into a sport needs to be you know channeled through all the tours and grassroots golf and whatever and then you're rather being at war with each other I think they should really be talking to each other and it's not going to go away it's not like you can't ignore it you can't put it in the corner and pretend it's it's simply not there and you know in a way I've seen some slight subtle changes in some of the tv coverage and the attitudes and the graphics coming from the likes of the Sky Sports and the American broadcasters so already you can see it's kind of putting it up to them a little bit in terms of their their coverage and you can't resist change can you well it's a bit like what we're doing you know if we just stuck with our original business business model I don't think we would have been playing 24 events next year and I think you've got to change in a business if you stand still you go backwards that's my view and I think sometimes it's 54 holes right shotgun start is it right it doesn't suit everybody but it might bring a new audience into golf that might not have watched it before find it fun and what what have you so I don't knock that side of it at all but I just I just worry about golfing bodies the the game itself all the negativity and I don't really like that that's going on in a game that's full of integrity it's it's never sponsors want to get involved in golf and have them because of the type of game it is and the way people play it and I think you know legends of the game uh been riding cup stars whatever now made a decision but then you know rightly or wrongly it being isolated from toes of playing for years and see people like Phil Mickelson booed and harassed just what I don't like it's you know it's like no that's not you know it's not it's not good in any sport but it's particularly not golf I mean he's a lot of people's favorite you know is the way he plays his big flop shots being left handed his smile and then next thing you know he makes a decision and the politics get involved and I don't mean the Saturday Western politics I'm on about the golf politics get involved it's like you can't ignore it and I think you're spot on Phil listen Phil it's been an absolute pleasure having you in and interest and get your views on everything and continue success with what's left to run here by the way don't forget folks you can still come down and sample everything we've been talking about here there are concessions under 16s are free it's a 15 euro donation currently I believe that goes into the McGinley foundation which is ring fence for spending through the foundation in this local area as well the wider northwest area and you get to sample everything we've been talking about even if you've never been to a golf tournament this is very open and welcoming well organized good parking get along and also see people hit a ball properly listen Phil thanks so much for your time it's an absolute pleasure thank you all right it's been great having you in so much that's Phil Harris and a very busy man he's chief executive of the legends tour former european tour player four decades on the tour was it so not far off it yeah that's about right yeah well impressive stuff all right we'll be back with more on the program but we'll take now a quick commercial the 9 till noon show with letterkenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letterkenny credit union 9102 127 whoa did you see that she just unfolded her samsung galaxy z flip four i didn't 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morning to you good morning great thank you what does this mean to you know the the rosa pennah hotel and golf resort i mean it's a huge vote of confidence in the facilities and everything you have to offer here yes it's fantastic from our point of view to be able to host a professional golf tournament the legends tour obviously is a branch of the dp world tour the european tour and it's their senior circuit it's just great to be able to have them here at rosa pennah for a week in august of course it too it gets the your product out there well known um you know nationally uh locally and nationally but it gets uh the the golf course it gets your facilities mentioned on a huge scale doesn't it yeah i mean we have three golf courses here now greg so our sin patrick's course that opened last year's got an awful lot of press some really sandy hills down through the years so old tom morris uh while it's the original golf course here it might not have got the same press in the last number of years so it's great that we can elevate it to the stage that the other golf courses are on because we get a lot of people coming and staying three four five nights and playing around in all three links so it shows kind of the quality and strength and depth of golf here at rosa pennah yeah there's not many places can offer you know three different rounds of golf over three nights yeah very different golf courses and obviously our neighbors port salin we uh we sent a lot of people that come and stay in our hotel and go across and play port salin for a day as well and similarly down to critch island we recently did a promotion with eric andres lang where we all went to critch island and played there after having played sin patrick's in the morning so i mean dunny golf's really a great county for golf there's so much so many different golf courses here and so much to do you come for a week and play different links golf course every day and not get bored uh it was recognized by phil there though that's you know there's a lot of efforts uh and great reward of course but in hosting an event like this from your perspective and your your members perspective as well there um you know there has to be a bit of accommodation i presume yeah yeah yeah we have some some yeah some of our members have been well a lot of our members have been a great support this week um our chief marshal is a guy brendan roach and he's just done erosion work in the last everybody thinks it happens kind of the week before in the week off but the planning that goes into this event happens you know almost a year in advance in the months leading up to it there's an awful lot of work goes on and and she and swin air starter both guys have put in a huge amount of work and a big thanks to all our members who volunteered because without them this event just wouldn't wouldn't happen yeah and you've done it two uh years in a row now obviously and we've referenced this a number of times the difference now being that you have to accommodate spectators but it's well laid out for it isn't yeah very different atmosphere the sheer spectators and obviously peter adams key and brannigan and and simon and the team have done an excellent job with the entire production here in the staging area the tented village and the the food outlets and the the tent it's all absolutely terrific and it's great to see people it's great to stand in the clubhouse and look down what we know locally as the valley the back down and see the spectators and see the crowds i went out yesterday and watched paul meganley finishing and people were there that have no great interest in golf and people that you know have a great interest in golf and everybody was just enjoying the atmosphere it's a decent finish too wasn't it three or four burleys in a row very good yeah four burleys in the last six holes i think and it brought him right back into contention in the tournament so as i said yesterday paul could play that back down on autopilot he knows it so well yeah exactly that's where the bit of local experience local knowledge in terms of looking forward john i mean is it the ambition or maybe even there's some irons in the fire to host different events you know in this part of the world because the infrastructure is here that's been that's been proven we've course balalef and hosted the arish open they're not so long ago you have to think long into the future with this type of stuff but what are the aspirations there i wonder yeah i mean definitely obviously there's a three golf courses now there's a lot of different options as to what you could host here and gary martin and sara and the entire team at dunnegall county council have been hugely supportive of this event and i know they're very supportive of the arish open in balalefin and when you have a very tourism focused county council like that then there's definitely opportunities moving into the future for what we could have here in rassapenna and in the wider dunnegall region you know keeping dunnegall it's just reminding people off dunnegall and lynx golf people will see it they'll have seen it in balalefin they'll have seen it here this week and they'll have read bits and pieces about our new golf course in patricks and it's just reminding them that the quality that we have here in dunnegall is really unsurpassed in the country and there's just just great opportunity for what can happen here yeah and kind of like what we have to do uh what we have to do as well um you know you know a lot of it is is on word of mouth on reputation isn't it you know um sometimes we don't get the backing that maybe we deserve up here from a culture art and a bold culture perspective you know it has to be on the product the product has to be quality and and the word has to spread and a lot of the success has to be organic as well doesn't it john yeah definitely i mean it's it's just people seeing that that same thing over and over again that's that's kind of the way we look at it people hear about rassapenna and they've read about rassapenna and they've read about st patrick's golf course they've read now about the old tomorrows lynx course they see that sunday hills is the high ranking and when they see something three four five times you know in different magazines and youtube channels etc etc and then their friends have been here they kind of repeat or the referral business that they get from people that have been here and experienced it it's whenever you kind of hear the same name cropping up again and again that people eventually come here and i'm a firm believer of when we get people who've done it go they'll come back when they come and they see it i think we've seen it during covid people came from cork waterford and southern counties and they really seen something that they couldn't believe and they'll come back down through the years so it's uh silver lining yeah and so you place here because there's so many different types of tourists um over the summer with different interests somewhat happy all right john continued success thanks for hosting us here today and thanks for chatting to me this morning i really appreciate it thank you great all right take care of yourself that's john casey director of the rassapenna hotel and golf resort of course the irish legends golf tour taking place at the moment on the old tomorrows lynx at this facility here all right we'll be back with more our next guest in fact the 90 new show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low-rape car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today attention pet owners do you ever wonder what is the best food for your dog organic grain free or dry and wet food mixed don't ask just anyone ask maxi zoo we'll find exactly the right nutrition for your pet let us advise you in your local store find yours at maxi zoo.ie maxi zoo ireland's largest pet retailer Nutrace lamb feed offer 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morning greg yeah how things i am good i'm good i've just uh was overlooking at where the stage has been set up where thousands of people will be out in force on saturday evening the weather forecast not looking too bad are you looking forward to the gig nathan i am yeah yeah we're very lucky this year we've done quite a number of festivals over the last couple of months and the the weather has actually held out for us so we're we're hoping for the best tomorrow i've actually just checked the forecast it's given it dry so uh fingers crossed we'll be uh we'll be saying a few prayers to make sure it's a good enough day you know but i know we're very excited uh i don't get to play in downing all that often um i suppose we were in clomb mani only a couple of weeks ago but uh that was a rare occasion that we were in the only goal so delighted to be a part of this massive festival and um you know it's it's promising to be a a really special event yeah and you're gonna have a mixture of local people people from the county and of course uh a great deal of holiday makers uh around the downings area which i think we're able to secure secure quite a few tickets so it's going to be a great atmosphere it's you and uh the six piece band as well yeah myself and the band uh we're delighted i suppose after the last couple of years to be getting to do all these gigs again um and i think people seem to be enjoying the music more than ever we're all very appreciative of just being able to be out and to have a bit of a dance and enjoy ourselves and uh and make the most of it but downings is a lovely part of the world now i've got a good few friends up there and um this will be uh i think four or five years since we we got up to downing last so yeah as i say it promises to be a special event and we're looking forward to putting on a really good show and hopefully people come out and enjoy themselves yeah what's the difference for you and the band maybe it's just sound nothing else or maybe his atmosphere what's the difference between playing an indoor gig and you've played you know some of the biggest the biggest venue uh indoor venue in this country versus an outdoor type gig um well to be honest it's all down to the crowd um we've played some really big gigs we've been fortunate to play some really big gigs and they've been good but then you've played some tiny little venues or some little small outdoor festival and it's been amazing so it really depends on the crowd if they're into it on the on the day or on the night then it makes the gig uh we generally try and do the same same thing every night go out and make sure people have a good time and enjoy themselves and sing songs that they will recognize and know and of course some originals as well but you know that the idea is to entertain people and that's what we try and do yeah and if it ain't broke don't fix it people know your music of course but the concert it's a full mix of country irish the standards ballads pop in there as well of course so there's something for everyone as you say Nathan yeah definitely uh and i suppose you know we're lucky enough that generally a lot of the gigs it's a very mixed age group it's right up until granny's and granny's grandad so you know it makes for a great a great family atmosphere and i have no doubt that in downing tomorrow evening it's going to be that as well a lot of a lot of different age groups and as i say we're just we're just very excited to be back we're we're obviously in the middle of festival season at the minute and then later this year we go back into concerts we're playing the millennium form actually which is probably the closest to the donny all folk um on the night of december but apart from that we're really busy thank god and it's great to see a lot of the bands around the country now getting back out and people enjoying music once again yeah excellent stuff we're going to hear kega brandy as we run up to 11 o'clock tell us about this track yeah this is my latest single um it's actually an old folk song that uh i i discovered from uh a group called high kings and there's a lot of other folk acts recorded through the years as a ballad and i took it in the studio and we we changed it about and made it up tempo and um as i say it's our latest single we recorded a video for it a couple of weeks ago at the flaggo festival on the street um and that's up on youtube and on my facebook page as well if anyone wants to check it out but as i say it's the latest single and it's called kega brandy but here's the important bit only if you sign up to an electric island smart meter plan our personalized usage insights will help you make the most of your electricity so if you'd like to find out the perfect time to put on a wash or see how your bill's looking on any day of the month search electric island smart meter plans and find out the best plan for your home smart meter required t's and c's apply new this week in home 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collision that occurred on st oliver plunkett road at approximately 455 a.m this morning one male in his 60s was taken to letter kenny university hospital for injuries which are believed to be serious the road remains closed and investigations are ongoing detectives from dairy who investigate in a firearms incident in gallia last summer have today arrested a 60 year old man under the terrorism act he has been taken to the serious crime suite at musgrave police station for questioning the arrest is part of an investigation by criminal investigation branch into the incident in fern park in the city on august 20th last year during which a number of shots were fired into the air donnie gall teachers have been forced to take on extra teaching duties over the summer to help cope with the rising costs of living that's according to central executive committee representative for donnie gall and later on with the iantio onia mcginley who's called for the government to resume public pay sector talks miss mcginley says teachers are struggling to make ends meet and something needs to be done to rectify this a donnie gall company has benefited from an investment worth 750 000 euro and is set to create 24 new jobs 3d a shoot based in letter kenny as a technology company specializing in content experience tools for the development of digital publications the company is using the funding to add 24 new jobs by the end of 2023 and to expand into new and existing markets 33 children in the donnie gall healthcare area have been waiting over a year to access vital mental health care figures released to news talk revealed that over 500 children have been waiting over a year for that children for the children and adolescent mental health service the fall report on this is available on our website at highlandradio.com and finally plan permission has been granted for donnie gall's first columbarium at arge friary the columbarium for the internment of ashes will be erected at the arge moira capuchin friary increase that's all for now we'll be back with a news update again at 12 o'clock but until then good morning okay amas okay amas thank you very much we'll be back with more after the break now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your credit union in your 20s you hit a fork in the road one way is predictable the office job the salon the other is the road less traveled with the irish army where after basic training you can qualify in a trade learn computer skills serve overseas learn the life skills any employer will look for when you move on if that's the road for you the irish army is recruiting young men and women right now so visit military and be more in the irish defense forces it's time for that entertainment is a bit different today because we've lots to pack in but i couldn't do without our right hand man um michael leddie good morning michael good morning great god you're loud one second now how are you getting on is that better there's nothing to do with you i'll adjust it here i am in beautiful dannings you're in a basement in letter kenny and we'll have we'll have people right along it's where you feel at home stay where you are last call here now on our competition if you want to be in in your final chance to win two tickets to see christy moore live in concert in september and a 400 euro voucher for the great northern hotel listen to this tell me the year all these three things it's a a sport stroke news story a clip from a film and a song the beautiful thing with a heavy weight when you make him shoot his best shot and you know he's not hitting you well my name is jim and most people call me jim everybody was all right there you have it so we'll leave the lines open for about 10 minutes uh text your answer your name and where you're from to 08 660 25 000 whatsapp or text we'll draw out the winner of that before the end of the program could you hear that michael no you couldn't hear you can speak i'm speaking to you no no no it's radio okay so you shake you shaking your head it does not cut it i'm afraid uh come here uh we've got people coming studio and all that kind of stuff you don't mind you'll stay where right where you are and enjoy it with us um but first um just give us two minutes caroline better call soul i started watching the last series of this and it's very moorish you finished it off because the last episode was released um best show you've ever seen i think yeah best show i've ever seen and i can say that because it was the best last episode and it's one of those shows where when you know the end of the story and you know how they're going to end it and they really crafted a great ending peter gould particularly who wrote the last episode interviews with him online one in particular i was reading during the week he really crafted a powerful ending emotional ending universal acclaim times of london saying it's the best thing it's ever been can i ask you a question in relation to that how much do we know from from breaking bad uh because i'm watching it and i'm not quite sure of the timelines here because i don't i don't store information very very well now i can recognize some characters and stuff so at what time are we caught up with the breaking bad timeline how far into the season are you about episode six okay right um by the time you get to episode nine what we're seeing there is what what's happening now is um we are seeing the underground sort of um laboratory being constructed that's that's kind of where i'm at at the moment you're exactly yes that's a good way to put it yeah we're in the early days of of what Gus Fring built um and the empire that he built using that underground lab by the time you get to episode nine eight and nine are very much concurrent with breaking bad and that'll be really really really evident in what you're watching yeah i think where people can read between the lines yes thanks for that what's interesting about the show and the reason it's getting a lot of acclaim um is that the final five episodes then uh take place after breaking bad and that's quite a brave thing for a tv show to do like it completely reinvents itself into five well it kind of blends does it not blends or inevitably it tells you what happens next to some extent not maybe with all the characters that you want i don't know and i don't want it to be spoiled but it progresses the story beyond where the story ended so in a way it's going to satisfy breaking bad fans as well i imagine yes absolutely well said um i would say against that spoiler the final five episodes of this series are also the conclusion to breaking bad in a major major way because they take place about a year after a year and a half two years after breaking bad again again for those i don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't watched breaking bad but doing i should remember do we know what happened to sol good man in the breaking bad timeline yeah well in breaking bad yeah i can answer that yeah that's years ago like the last thing you would have seen on breaking bad is that sol left town in a mad hurry and in breaking in in better called sol all the black and white scenes where he's this guy gene tacky event he went to see the fella that sells vacuum cleaners did he yes exactly Robert Foster yes that guy who sells vacuum cleaners that was the get out of town that's your get out of jail free card you phone that guy so um yeah Greg if you ever want to get out of town you just phone up and ask for a vacuum cleaner and just be outside can't can't afford the 75 euro call-out charge let alone a complete new identity so yeah we see yes a couple of years after the events of breaking bad uh sol is now living as a guy called gene tacky vic and he is working in a he basically it's like a fast food kind of thing it's whatever so you've seen that on better called sol over the years there's always been a little black and white scene in every season and what they're doing then yeah i don't know what to say anymore but yeah they tie it all up right okay so um you obviously think it's amazing i thought it was amazing i sat up to watch it so i i was up till six o'clock in the morning watching it live um i couldn't wait to see it i loved it i think it's the best i mean it puts game of thrones lost uh Friday night lights all the really great endings um it really puts them to shame it's a fantastic even better call even breaking bad which i always thought was a great ending this is a better ending because one of the reviewers for i think it's rolling stone i don't know hollywood reporter apologies she said in a in a sort of a round table they had breaking bad was a dark fantasy but better called sol is a tragedy and that's why it's bigger and better it's a tragic tragic story and you know what you're saying you've seen what's happened to jimmy anyone who's watched it over the over the first few seasons he's there is a decent guy in there but he's it's tragic what happens to jimmy just tragic right okay stay where you are uh michael much more to come from you of course over the uh next hour we are broadcasting live of course here from the irish legends golf tour it's presented by the mcginley foundation at the russia pennah hotel and golf resort and it's been backed significantly by uh donagall canty cancel and supported by it gary gary martin is director of economic development emergency services and information systems with donagall canty cancel gary thanks so much for coming in and joining us in our obu unit how are you keeping keeping good greg keeping good thank you nice atmosphere around here isn't there this sort of it's it's a real pro setup as you would expect but unless you see yourself you don't really know what to expect you know it's been a great week here in downing since monday as you know and as you as you sort of covered uh paul mcginley got the freedom of the county here on monday a fantastic event really proud day for paul and his family and that kick started a fantastic week that the council is very very very happy to uh to support uh with the program and the celebrity program on the tuesday and then obviously leading into the main legends event itself starting yesterday and uh just talking to a few of the the gays in the clubhouse earlier i mean everyone who comes to downing isn't indeed anyone who comes to donagall to play golf is absolutely blown away by the product that we have here yeah and you can go to any corner of the county north south east west in the middle we have all types of parkland courses links courses and not one links courses similar to the next it really is and i think that's really what paul mcginley's arm about when he talks about the the product you know and to get it uh to get that kind of endorsement from someone who's operated at the highest level of the sport you can't you can't pay for that really you know no it's one of the reasons why the council has been involved i suppose in supporting a number of the major golf tournaments and and the county from the irish open that we had in bali lyphon a number of years back to the irish legends here in rosa penna last year and this year we realize we have a fantastic product it's comparable if not better than any other particularly in the links area than any other area in the world and once we get people here and they see the fantastic courses as you say ranging from the south of the county more of outside donagall town to to bali lyphon up in the north port sallan rosa penna here nyarn and port new the fantastic nine-hole course out at critch and indeed as you say the parkland courses that we have in letter candy and balb fails to northern other courses like green castle to cara places like that i mean you know we have such an offering uh someone can come here for two weeks of a holiday and play a different course pretty much every day and what we're trying to do i suppose is to use that comparative advantage that we have in donagall to sell that very very very strong product and to i suppose develop donagall as a fantastic destination for golf and where we where we are here today in rosa penna uh what what the cases have done here now with the third course the simpatrick course which came in i think it was number 55 in the world as soon as it opened as a fantastic testament to the vision and the commitment that they have brought over the last number of years to this fantastic resort i think daisy chains many people who are lucky enough to travel go somewhere because someone else recommends it you know there is nothing uh that will convince someone to do something unless they get if they get a recommendation so this is not just about golf golf golf it is about golf in this event but in terms of the message of donagall you know a golfer might come here and go back to wherever they may be from and say oh by the way if you're interested in the sea kayaking do you like hill walking because you won't believe what's there and all the other offerings that we have you know so it's golf in this context but the ripple effect goes far beyond that and it's hard to say well what will this mean in a year two three four five six years it doesn't work like that it's sort of like you have to get it out there and then down the line history will show what benefits you reap yes it's like building the brand as you know we developed a new brand image for donagall the dna image that that we launched last year and i suppose what we're trying to do i suppose is to develop i suppose that that sense of vibrancy and forward-looking vision that we have in the county um we just launched a new clothing range there just over the last did you bring anything with you i don't have one actually literally i've said twice on the radio i was wondering i was wondering why you were working topless but i i i'll try to get i'll try to get you something i think i something in the we have a camera we have a camera here i can assure anyone i'm not only there is gary topless for that matter but he's not out in shops now and available gary all jokes aside it is it's exactly it's available through three different shops in the county all sports in donagall town michael hennies and balba face from norther and through michael morphe's sports and other kenyan indeed better better than that is available online as well and as most part of it it's not it's not that the council's onto clothing ranges but it's about getting that brand message across what someone has to do with what we're trying to do in donagall so it's a new vibrant image and it reflects i suppose the fact that in the council we're trying to to drive forward the different areas of comparative advantage that we have you know through the different business sectors the economic sectors and the very strong vibrant tourism sector that we have here which you know which was linchpund in many areas by the golf product and as you say people when they come to an area it's not just about the golf it's about the wider experiences the wider hospitalities is a bit visiting some of our new distilleries visiting somewhere for fantastic clothing products and so on and so forth and really it's about what are the different levers that we can pull to try to drive the economy of the county so and this is another one of them yeah now um the uh to to sort of coincide with this follow on from this of course there is a festival taking place it's hosted by the council it's part of this legends tournament it's an association to the McGindy foundation it's on the grounds of an adana gea pitch tonight the moonies are headlining the donagall festival of golf this evening on the pitch as i mentioned are there any tickets available for anything over the course of the next two days there are there are tickets still available for the moonies for this evening and indeed i think probably if people probably can still walk up this evening and we'll try to facilitate them as they come in this evening um they just one issue in relation to this evening there's a little bit of high one here actually this afternoon and the setup of the actual tent is probably going to be delayed a little bit so the the warm-up act that we had in advance of the moonies is probably going to be curtailed so not so the moonies so is this an indoor or outdoor experience well it's outdoor but the the actual uh the entertainers themselves are operating within a marquee structure and obviously when you put up a marquee and all of the different accoutrements it acts a little bit like a tent so people from around here are looking at going what what wind that's barely a breath but of course there's health and safety and everything else there is that that dreaded h&s word that we all have to live by now so we want to make sure that it's safe both the entertainers and indeed for the people that are coming to visit it but no we we're confident that we'll be good to go with the moonies at around 6 p.m. this evening and if there are any changes to that we'll be putting it out on there yeah well we'll make sure it's like people now unfortunately for for the event tomorrow evening uh for Nathan Carter uh he's he's fully subscribed to that it's that's all you're gonna say it wasn't going ahead there it's fun no no no the forecast is good for tomorrow and uh we're looking forward to to to having a really really really good day on the on the grounds of Downey's GA and I just like to acknowledge I suppose because these things don't happen without having huge community and pot and huge community support we've been working I suppose with the different um contributors to this event not just this year but also last year as well despite the fact that last year we couldn't go with a publicly attended event because of COVID but it was really really good and there's been fantastic community spirit from the tidy towns groups here from Downey's GA and all of the other local groups that have so generously given of their time and human resources and and and put to make the event what it actually is and and realistically look we as a council you can't achieve anything without the buy-in of the local population I just want to acknowledge and thank everybody for their really I suppose really generous and put to us and to this festival over the last few years and we're really looking forward to this evening and tomorrow all right uh call it once now is Nathan Carter a concert or a dance uh well it is it's a concert it's a you can dance there's no seats it's it's on a pitch um not sure a half forward might appreciate too much driving in the week or two uh but anyway I'm only messing no but it's it's whatever people want it to be it's an outdoor stand-up concert but I'm sure there's going to be people dancing there always are at these things think clon mani but just instead of tar and concrete that you're going to be on a on a pitch but because we'll be by the sea these pitches are incredibly resilient sound based and great drainage and even the car parks around this setup here it has been raining but that's right it just goes straight into the ground it's amazing I fully expect people to to be dancing to Nathan Carter otherwise he's not doing his job if they're not if they're not doing that I fully expect them to be doing that and just you're right I mean these these uh I suppose marine based pitches are very very resilient with the sand base but again you know we we would ask everyone who comes to the pitch to respect it and to make sure that we leave it in the same way as we find it there's no point then are you saying Gary to be clear there's no point chance in your arm tomorrow evening I mean you can walk up and you should be accommodated for the moonies tonight but there's no point chance in your arm tomorrow there won't be any late available free tick not the late available tickets as far as you can know what we did and this was based upon I suppose the whole principle of it being a community festival the tickets for for the event tonight and I did tomorrow night were made available free of charge and that was based upon it being a community festival you want family to be able to come and enjoy it unfortunately as a result of that as soon as we released tickets they were basically snapped up like a shot particularly for Nathan Carter so no I certainly wouldn't be advising people to come tonight tomorrow night because I don't think there will be any capacity for walk-ins tomorrow night at all okay and and and you have to be careful in what you do and don't announce in that regard because you've no idea of numbers and a thousand people turn up and that creates its own problem so I think people will understand that fully yeah all right um it's nice to be doing something like this isn't it towards the end of the summer but the whole idea too as well and I know the council are working on this it's to sort of bridge between the end of summer and and the likes of halloween and from chatting to people in the industry that's that seems to be happening to some extent yeah look it's I think there's been a pent-up demand over the last few years given the fact that we've all been cooped up as a result of COVID and restricted and what we can do and where we can go and I think people are so happy to be out and about and to be able to I suppose talk to each other normally and to dance and to sing and to enjoy the fantastic environment that we have here in Dunnegal it's it's really really super some people will have visitors home at this time of the year and it's great to be able to showcase Dunnegal to those guys as well and against the backdrop of such a fantastic golfing event and you know we can't take these things for granted there was a lot of hard work going on to you know to bring in the the legends event here to two downings and again it'll be remiss not to as we'll thank Paul again in particular for his huge support for everything that we do in Dunnegal and for his endorsement of everything that we do and for his driving I suppose through this foundation the event being here this year listen to this hi Greg we're traveling down to Dunneg's this evening for the weekend it's all wedding anniversary you're sure there's no tickets available for Nathan Carter it's emotional I think that question was addressed to you Greg so I mean how can I possibly respond well I've got two right okay well listen we'll see what we can do maybe someone out there can't make it and we'll see if we can hook you all right but there's no promises because we simply can't promise that all right Gary listen thanks for your time this morning I appreciate it as always you stayed up for the weekend not necessarily overnight but you're going to stay around for the festivities I'll be around for the festivities this evening I'm traveling back to Dunnegal town this evening and I'll be back up again tomorrow for the for the conclusion of the golf and indeed the Nathan Carter concert all right Gary thanks very much for your time as always appreciate it greatly all right take care of yourself Gary Martin their director of economic development emergency services and information systems with Dunnegal County Council thanks Gary Michael are you a Nathan Carter fan are you no I wouldn't say a fan okay well we're joined on the program now by Nathan Carter Nathan how many joking he was on with us earlier he was on with us earlier but you enjoy a good night out and you always get a good night out yeah and yeah but I'm I knew you'd say something like Greg you mean that you know I'm a smart art I know the cards you know I would never say something mean like that I say I know the cards you play Greg I know the card all right do you know what year our spec savers competition was I wonder Michael no oh you couldn't hear it that's right now okay yeah I haven't figured that part of the technology yet yet right let's have a listen here and break it down for our listeners if we can I wish you could hear the beautiful thing with a heavy weight when you make him shoot his best shot and you know he's not hitting you all right the lines are called my name is Jim and most people call me Jim all right it was 1974 so you have kung fu fighting there by Carl something's beeping in my ear what's going on is that you I don't know what's beeping there all right so we had Carl there kung fu fighting can't remember second name we also had a clip from Blazing Saddles was in there as well and also Muhammad Ali was you heard some audio from him that was following the rumble in the jungle I believe it is so that is it we'll announce a winner of that competition after the break and then we'll announce the overall winner in other words we'll put a name in the hat after the break and then there's five 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got rid of it now marydeny winnie good morning to you how are you keeping fine thank you all right good and join the air summer the wind is blowing blowing outside well we've had every we've had every um we've had every condition here today wind rain and now it's glorious sunshine it's sunny it's sunny here now as well but i see another front coming in so you wouldn't know what would happen it's just whether it opens or blows over we don't know um we're well used to it are you looking forward to tonight uh mirade i am this evening actually it's between five and eight o'clock and uh really looking forward to going to dannings it's a good excuse to go down that side of the country again and see everyone and uh yeah the family don't really play as a unit very often so it's nice to get together and be able to bicker at each other yeah of course that's that's all the fun of playing with your family um in terms of the the gigs that you do do you often do outdoor gigs or festivals and stuff marydeny oh i do in well in other countries because the weather is guaranteed we don't care we just do it so it's it's kind of always a gamble here in ireland but it's always nice when it does work out you know but uh we played very recently at an outdoor event in valley keith amphitheater down in county carlo county kilkenny and um honest to god the rain and the wind with it's mad it's totally total lunacy lunacy to try and do outdoor events in ireland but we don't often let it put us off though you know i mean we saw recent recent festivals outdoor festivals people find a way they get their plastic jackets on and their umbrellas out and dance under the umbrellas or whatever it might be you know we know what to expect and uh we have to we have to go out and if we want to enjoy stuff if it's an outdoor field to it i mean you don't come to ireland for the weather if you come to ireland to enjoy yourself and actually we all have the all weather gear anyway so we may as well use it when we can to go out and enjoy ourselves but yeah hopefully it'll be a really nice evening and we'll play our hearts out and hopefully people will come and say hello because we haven't been down that side of the country in a long way i was going to say um and it's another part of the gill thought when was the last time you're up here playing can you remember oh it's about two years ago or three years ago not that long ago stage was before covid though yeah okay excellent stuff now um i'm looking at the weather forecast here for when you're on and it's a localized weather forecast you know and there's not a pic of rain being forecast in this area in fact it in fact uh sun with clouds similar to what we have now uh and it's specific to this area and i'm right beside where you're going to be performing so it's all fingers crossed lovely and everyone should come out and say hello and please come up and say hello to us because we'll have our new album and we will be playing loads of stuff from that yeah i can't well hopefully i have one thing to do in the afternoon and everything happens at once it's been one of those weeks but i hope to get back i hope to get back in time to either catch the false set or at least uh that the second half of it i'm really looking forward to it because i talked to you quite regularly and i feel very blessed to have been able to do so but i want to see you up on the stage in action and you with your uh your family uh as well uh marae it'll be fun if nothing else right this uh laugh this i love your attitude uh this uh you're going to do a little bit of music for us over zoom it's not going to be perfect but just to just to get get it out and have a listen and and we'll try a minute or two and see how it sounds it's not going to be representative of your amazing talent and what people can look forward to tonight but just a little sample of it marae just use your imagination everyone it's actually sounded fantastic it's amazing they've really come on with this sort of um sort of video and audio connection it's that sounded absolutely brilliant listen the best look tonight i hope as i say i hope i just can make it back in time to hear it i really really want to it's been lovely speaking to you uh and just to remind people and this is the important bit there are still a few tickets available so you can get along and see uh the the moonies live tonight with raid uh as well and the rest of the family so uh have a great concert thanks for having me take care of yourself it's all pleasure thank you so very much indeed marae knee weenie there uh and she just give us a wee sample of what you can hear tonight but you're going to get the full amplified experience down on the dun of gaa pitch michael yes sir you can't play any instruments i've asked you this before i think yeah no i'm not my father though was a fiddle player so i grew up so you can appreciate uh the skills played at kaley's and stuff that he was always playing in the 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available in your local spec savers store if you're concerned about your hearing you can book a free hearing test using your prsi entitlements and spec savers hearing will arrange a hearing aid uniquely tailored for you they have all the detail right of course we have lots to get through and we have about 23 minutes to get to it because we're going to give you a long range weather forecast as well but i want to speak now to patty doffy from uh lifford uh good morning to you patty thank you so much for joining us great to have you on the show great to see you morning great good to be here um we'd like this week that jerry me paxman has announced he's stepping down as host of university challenge after 28 years um i don't believe it's 20 i i i think i can actually remember the speculation as who was to take over from it was magnus before him wasn't it uh a bamburgast sorry bamburgast yeah i i seem to remember the the the spec because at that time it used to be like who's going to be the new presenter of this or who's going to be the new presenter of countdown i don't think really people care about this stuff as much as they once used to um bod's 28 years a great great service and you've worked you've worked on this program haven't you i did indeed yes i started actually i worked in the 10 years ago as when i started and uh yeah it was a tremendous experience i mean i have i always loved watching the show and uh just to be honored to to work on it to help make it happen uh was was something else you know i mean i've always been interested in quizzes i mean it's kind of i have my uh my old school principal gabriel gordon about the last national school to thank uh primarily for that um you know we did credit union quizzes and everything from whenever i was very young so the idea you know that you do that kind of competition and then you know a set of relative the short amount of time later um you know to be working on you know university challenge was was something else and i suppose it's interesting because i mean jeremy you know when i worked there i worked at you know the famous granada studios for the first year or so and then we moved over to media city and uh and the final thing was ever recorded in granada it wasn't coronation streets or anything i got it was a university challenge and so they wound in a television uh and they showed a program from 1994 when we left and it was genuinely kind of gasped because jeremy looked like a different creature entirely it was you know and his voice he sounded like you know like one of those raf captains from from war films and his and his hair was jet black and he suddenly had like like sort of charles the second kind of hair you know sort of really curly and sort of really thick and yeah it was like it was like something from a different planet so it is amazing to think that it has been 28 years but so it is really truly end of the end of the nearer stuff so how does that work from from from you in terms of question writing you're giving a topic and then you're asked to solve a certain amount of questions on it is that how it works no sorry university i'm thinking do you know what for since the start of this interview i've been thinking of master mind this is of course this is of course university challenge sorry and that that's where i was getting mixed up here in my mind it's been a long morning in fairness i've also done some stuff from masterminds but you see i knew i've done my research so that's absolutely fair but how do you strike the difficulty level of questions for university challenge like who how does that work because i you don't want it too easy you don't want it impossible and with all questions i think it's easier with a weakest link or who or uh you know the chase for example i think that might be a bit easier but you have to strike i think a particular level of difficulty with with with writing questions for the likes of the university challenge yeah and it requires quite a lot of i suppose latent shade uh and the sort of a new approach to writing as well so that the ones that i did were the picture and the music questions so they are done separately all the rest of them are done by people that you never actually see in the studio it's kind of uh we're kind of pioneers and they're working from bottom front when it comes really to because a lot of the people with right questions for university challenge don't actually uh come in and we never have seen them really but so we were essentially sort of you know classic television researchers so we would do okay go and you know coordinate pictures with you know a set of a gallery or whatever and then similarly you need to hear the music so that required like an extra level um so we would do that we'd also go on on tour and audition the students and then we'd look after the one we got to the studio but in terms of in terms of how we do them so obviously because of the public service agreement and because it's it's quite a relatively hybrid show uh you know you would have to sit up balance your you know so there'd be classical music and there'd be pop music and you'd kind of have to think of those differently and then the same way you'd have to think of uh you know sort of movie posters and you know fine art and you'd sort of have to think of those differently so in terms of the the higher ground stuff it's sometimes it's easy to um you know you can group them it's because then the thing about it is that you have to have a set of four so they have to be sort of they all kind of have to hang together in an incredible way so you know you could have something on say you know you could have sort of four composers they're all german for example or you know they could have four uh the blue the white the moon or something like that i did one early on in my year i did a chain of composers that hated each other uh and so i said about i went through you know so like the first one was tchaikovsky and then it went into your first bonus uh you know who is this german composer tchaikovsky hated the side of him kind of thing and so and i had a quote about it about it and so then that was Brahmsman Brahms hated Beethoven so you know say you try to it's fun to play around with it in that regard yeah but uh the pop music stuff i think there's always the fullest to do because that basically the mission for pop music was what is the silliest thing that i can get on to university challenge and effectively get away with it because so it's it and it's just i mean and i don't say that in a flippant way no i know what you mean you have to have a bit of fun with it too well yeah because so well but it's it's a good way of sort of being creative with it as well so for example the challenge i set myself by remembering the start of one season was can i get david hasselhoff into a university challenge question and justify it and so i was thinking what is like the university child challenge angle into that and i was thinking well and as as luck i would have it it was going to be broadcast this episode in 2014 and i go 2014 that's 25 years since the Berlin wall came down and david hasselhoff has always claimed credit for bringing the Berlin wall down to the song looking for freedom so then i started then i was able to then i was after this is that then it was like you know i'm mixing word events and very silly pop music and so and i remember when it came up for the starter and this is when you're gonna hear a piece of pop in the music for 10 points named the the artist and the guy buzzed in and it said it with a look of genuine confusion on his face he goes is that david hasselhoff he couldn't believe that we were asking it either yeah so yeah so it's it was it was a you know i absolutely the word working on the show it was it was very fun it was very creative it's a genuine family from start to finish and are you working on any shows currently if you've gone in a different direction yeah so i am in so actually after i left university challenge i went into documentary okay right instead of i kind of fell fell into that so i ended up working on a series called inside obama's white house with the norma percy who was sort of an action is the this is it research your thing then is that the common denominator here or you just move from question writing to documentaries i suppose they i suppose they occupied the same part of my brain was i'm just i'm interested in how things work i'm interested in finding things out i always had a big interest in american politics in particular and so i suppose yes at a way that my brain works i suppose yeah works well for pulling out pieces of information that are interesting for different things so now actually i work in development now which is to say like i don't work on any one particular show but i'm in the sort of in the research and development stage i was trying to get things exciting so you're right okay yeah exactly listen paddock's been brilliant speaking to you and tying in with with jerry me's decision and you know you discover something new every day so it's been lovely thanks so very much for joining us thanks very much take care of yourself that's paddy doffy you would have enjoyed the baywatch reference there of course michael you're going you're going to help me now i've got the winners of the the five daily winners of the competition anyone watching on our stream might be able to see this so i'm asking you there are pieces of paper i can't see who's in it if i if you choose my left or right hand please left hand okay my left hand now if you choose my right or left hand please left hand right you're going left hand again and i open it up to tell you that wednesday's winner patrick keys from green castle patrick you have one two tickets to go and see christy moore uh in september and a 400 euro voucher for the great northern hotel well done to you uh patrick keys and thanks to spec savers 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sunny spells a spell of rain then heavy rain will move in later tonight now the good news is for the north west that will mainly clear southeast early in the morning it'll be followed by cloud for a time but then some nice sunny spells on saturday afternoon and saturday evening but very breezy temperatures only probably around 16 or 70 degrees a cloudy start on sunday and it looks like the north west may well escape most of the rain on sunday which is good news as well but a cloudy day and winds much lighter and temperatures up to 18 degrees the week ahead then looks a bit like a mixed bag and there will be some sunny spells but there will also be some showers at times sunday night we'll see a few showers and again on monday night but generally overall it doesn't look too bad and there is some some encouraging signs that we might see some back to school weather with high pressure trying to build in for the end of the month yeah and indeed fairness to if alan he's been flagging in the fact that we could see and improve weather towards the end of the month for some time now and he was right about the first spell so Michael fingers crossed we'll get the last bit of weather i call it says when asking is it a concert or a dance it's for someone who needs to sit we're wondering is there any seats available aha i get you is there a seating area available i am sure it'll be fully accessible i'd hope it is so i can try and find that out for you i don't know how i'd get that information for you as we're going off air now but i would hope that people of all abilities are going to be fully accommodate accommodated there right where the core dogs sing crawl dog sing in the cinema you went to see this yes buddy of mine good best friend wanted to go and see that and i think it might be fair to describe this as a chick flick i think it's definitely a movie that the ladies are enjoying more than the gents critics have not responded to this movie at all 34% on rock tomatoes 96% from the audience and i was on letterboxed i read through the reviews and quite a lot of reviews from ladies saying things like it's great to go to the cinema and sit there and not a single man in the cinema some men are not really responding to this but i love when the critics are so out of tune with the audience i really don't know why i derive some sort of pleasure from them there's a yeah you do actually yeah you yeah you definitely do i'm siding with the critics though on this one okay i wasn't impressed with it the story is good it's a woman who uh was abandoned as a child um she grew up outside of town you're in kind of the southern united states she lives in the swamp and she's accused of a murder at the start of the film so while she's on trial you see a flashback to her very tough upbringing or her we're not upbringing i suppose childhood because there was no one there to bring her up so it's a flashback story and it's uh daisy edgard jones who everybody will know of course from normal people a couple of years ago and anyone who watches the war the world show with gabriel bern will know her as well a great cast in this the lawyer david strathern and sterling nacer jr a lot of actors that i really really like on this eric laden who you and i both know from um bosh he's the reporter on bosh pops up every season on bosh he's the prosecutor on this he's very good but the performances are good the story is good my problem with this movie was that it's i felt the script was overwritten it's one of those films greg where um every character says everything they feel i feel happy i feel sad i feel abandoned there's a huge amount of dialogue i shouldn't compare it to uncolling cune the quiet girl but i did and i found that in that film which i think is a magnificent film still the best film i've seen this year and it's an irish film now in contention for the oscars which is very exciting it's been shortlisted hasn't it's going forward is it okay going forward or whatever it's been shorted for for the international but that's a movie where the characters don't say what they're feeling there's very little dialogue the valley language in that film and a film in general i think um another one is that leaps to mind is the new predator film pray where there's a minimal amount of dialogue i think that just works far better and i wish to gosh somebody had taken the script far where the craw dad sing and just put a viral through i would say 90 percent of the dialogue could be far better off without it characters just saying every single thing they feel there's no ambiguity in this at all that bugged the heck out of me but the story is very good the performances are good i just think there's a far better film to be made from this it was a book that came out a novel that came out i think four years ago yes and it was a huge i think 15 million copies sold Reese Witherspoon put it on her book club book list thing whatever i was reading this last night i certainly didn't know about this i know for lula read the book and i wasn't impressed at all so um i'd be interested to see what she makes of the enjoying the gulf there i have the that's the 10th tea you're seeing instead of my face there i think it's just a improvement just a way i didn't i didn't want to say i was an improvement over it's a way to get a sports coverage for you there you go yes in case you took it the wrong way they're they're driving those balls into a massive headwind um i don't envy them at all at all anyway look you can look at me again now right so what are you going to give it out of 10 then i'd give it a five or a six to me it was just a typical cricket cricket critic then you can't you don't you've you don't you've no connection with the audience audiences love it audiences love it absolutely love it and the lady i was with she really enjoyed it she enjoyed it far more than i did so i mean yeah the audience is loving this and it was a decent crowd there last night as well i think it's a psychology to this you know because you don't want words you don't want to hear what how people feel right you don't want to hear how people feel yet a woman appreciates that more or it seems they do they want to hear how people feel i think that tells us an awful lot about the male species uh than it's intended yeah possibly i mean and certainly i think a part of the reason i think women respond to this without any doubt is that the woman's point of view in this she's a woman who is living on the outskirts she's judged by the community they don't know why farmers don't know my god how you cannot be accessed my bad i've just accidentally pressed a wrong button it was all going so well and i pressed a wrong button you couldn't hear it sorry uh right okay so yeah yeah right okay that's fine um we've covered that five or six out of ten yes for me so what next pray on disney plus pray on disney plus is the new predator movie i watched this a couple weeks ago this has been regarded as a major classic 92 percent from critics on rotten tomatoes 79 percent from the audience thumbs up from everybody i'm a fan of the predator franchise anyway but this one is a really clever take on the predator movies as i say it's the fifth one in the franchise it takes the story back a couple hundred years you're dealing with a native American community in um the 17 was it 1760 or something and it's a young woman an actress called amber mid thunder who was on roswell the roswell tv show and she was on a couple other things like legion she's the lead in this very busy actress over the last ever since she was a child actually she's been an actress that busy actress so she's the lead in this not a lot of dialogue if you know the predator movies you know kind of want to expect she's a young warrior she does not yet have the respect of her peers which makes her the sort of hero that we can all get behind because she's trying to prove herself they don't because she's so young and she hasn't done her first big hunt yet they don't really listen to her but her instincts aren't right of course she's the heroine in the movie it's a good action movie one of the things i loved about this that people have said is it's not it doesn't stay it's welcome it's just an hour and a half it gets it's set pieces are all fantastic it's really smart it's a smart ending it's a good action movie and you really really will get behind her and you really will care about her as you as you said as i say her community doesn't believe in her yet because she's an unproven and there's a whole thing in it about you know the women should just be staying behind and cooking they shouldn't be going out hunting so you do get behind her early on i loved it loved this film add a 10 nine pray on this in applause okay by the way just answer that earlier texture we had we were on to the organizers of the concert those with disabilities at both shows will be accommodated just to remind you that you can go and see the moonies tonight live on dannings gea pitch and nathan carter unfortunately it's sold out but there is some walk-up availability for the moonies this evening don't forget to stay tuned if you're interested in golf because throughout the course of today and tomorrow osheen kelly and the team shone providing plenty of footage on our social medias as well osheen giving you regular updates live here that's going to continue right up until the close of play tomorrow for those of you who have an interest in that stay tuned for that we're back out and about to gain on monday we are heading to beautiful sunny malin heads we're going all the way to the tip of arland looking forward to that we'll tell you more about that on monday michael leddie you have a very good weekend please and you too take care of yourself chat to you next week it's been great having you as part of the team as always okay that is where we have to leave it on the program my thanks to caroline or who produced on site donna marie the hearty who worked back at base and donal cavern who kept us on the air we appreciate it and thanks to you who listened to the program if you watch the show however you interacted with us all week it's really really appreciated we're back with you on monday we're out on the road up at malin head if you're about there come and say hello full access and have a great weekend will you stay tuned we have john bradson around the northwest coming up after 12 he's going to be giving one of you out there who went at our bumper cash draw he's going to be giving one of you two and a half thousand euro but for now it's good afternoon to emmerine with the news thanks great good afternoon a man has been taken to hospital for on a one-vehicle collision in letter kenny gardia attended the incident of a single vehicle road traffic collision that occurred on the cent oliver plunkett road at approximate 455 this morning