 number of housing developments to get off the ground. Councillor Patrick McGowan claims a number of developments in the pipeline in Strunorder area but minor issues are resulting in delays. He believes there needs to be a joint-up approach in order to get projects over the line. I've asked several months ago and I'm asking again for all the services in the council to come together as a team, plan on roads, housing to come together and sort out to me what should be a minor enough issue. The land is zoned, it's been zoned for years, it's just linking up the service. It's a very, very small length of a footpath that I'm talking about. It's actually a very minor detail and a greater picture of things and it should have been sorted out and I'm asking to expedite it. And now to weather, rain will clear northwards during the morning and it will become drier for a time with patches of drivel, drizzle, mild and highest temperatures of 12 to 13 degrees and a moderate to fresh southerly breeze. That's all for now, I will be back again with the news at 10 o'clock and until then, good morning. Hi, Adam Harris here from as I am, Ireland's National Autism Charity. Sunday 2nd of April is World Autism Day and we're asking you to put on your walking shoes and join us for our Same Chance Walk for Autism in Belmont Domain in Greystones. The Same Chance Walk is a great way to show your support by helping to raise much-needed funds for our work with autistic children, families and adults. We all deserve the same chance in life but autistic people face barriers that others don't. Please help us to remove these barriers. Join us on the 2nd of April. Sign up today at asiam.ie. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you, it is three minutes past nine, just turning four minutes past nine. On this Monday morning it's the 20th of March 2023, another St Patrick's Day behind us, another Mother's Day behind us. Hope you had a lovely weekend and hopefully you were able to get out and about and enjoy the festivities or festivities where they stayed dry for the most part. I think, didn't it? Certainly in the parts of the county. I observed and if you're a mom, I hope you were treated like a queen yesterday and thinking on those two as well. It's a tough whole day, isn't it? If you've lost your mom, Mother's Day, because they mean so much to us and that mixed emotions, isn't there? There's the joy of moms and new moms enjoying that experience and then a time for reflection on the fact that your own mom's not there. So it's always a mixed bag of emotions, Mother's, Father's Day and days like that, aren't they? But anyway, hopefully you're all OK and you all got through the weekend and we're back for another week. And it's a busy one as always. 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But of course, you can comment on our socials as well as Michael has already. Good morning, Michael. Thanks for the nice wishes. Right, let's look at the papers this morning. Lots of sport, as you can imagine. What a mixed bag of sport. It was depending on what you were interested in. Donagall, the inevitable for me yesterday, anyway, against my old disappointing, wasn't it? What next? And then you've got that old Jim McGinnis story rumbling in the background and what have you. It's a tough old time for now. Anyway, things might change heading into the summer. Brendan Devaney, of course, is joining us to preview his deal debate podcast and we'll let run a few things past him, too, as well. If you've any comments, 086 or questions, sorry, 086, 60, 25,000. But if you're a rugby fan, wow. Six Nations, Grand Slam, double the seniors, of course, the regular team and the under 20s. So not only are things really good now and what an achievement it is for a country of our size to be the best in the world and the best, consistently good, but the best and then to have a new crop of young players coming through. It bodes well for the future, too. It really is remarkable when you think such a significant sport for us to be so good at it. So I think lots of people may be although I was going to say lots of people went into that game yesterday thinking, oh, boy, you know, they're going to ruin this for us, aren't they? We're going to ruin that part. But I think there was a more confidence this time that a lot of people didn't have that niggling doubt in the back of the mind. But brilliant performance, brilliant weekend of sport, too. And it's depending what soccer team you support, a mixed or bag. Finn Harp's got their first win of the season. I think great things are happening there, you know, a bit of consistency this year, picking up the first win on the road, I believe, and just the right people seem to be behind that club at the moment and huge support from fans in terms of ticket sales on the day and season tickets for the future seems to be bright there as well. All right, back to news anyway. The Dairy People, Donegal News this morning, a senior IFA official in Donegal says a potato shortage and job losses could be on the way unless there's an urgent intervention to help the farming sector. Farmers met in Dublin recently to discuss ways to keep the industry afloat. But with land, rental, fertilizer, fuel and storage costs at an all time high, fears are mounting that many potato growers could be forced out of business. Donegal Logue is Donegal's IFA potato chairman and said farmers will have big decisions to make in the coming months. If you've been insight into that, tell you a potato farmer on the fence. Let us know. I'll wait 60, 25,000. The Dairy News this morning, the register of properties affected by defective concrete products and blocks established by Dairy City and Straban District Council should not be restricted to the minerals, mica, pyrite and pyrite, according to a member of Donegal County Council. Councillor Frank Marbury, himself an affected homeowner, said it was vital Dairy City and Straban District Council's definition be widened to include all deteriorate materials and all reactive sulfide minerals. Let's turn our attention to the nationals now and this eviction ban story. I think this is going to be a big problem for the government. It already is, but a lot of people are going to have to make a decision in a couple of votes in the Dall in the coming weeks. We'll read on here in the Irish Times. Sinn Fein is considering another motion of another motion on the eviction ban before it expires at the end of the month as the opposition seeks to maximise pressure on the government. The Dalls already set to debate a Sinn Fein motion on extending the ban this week, which now looks to be the first in a attritional series of votes, which will test the government's majority and resolve under sustained criticism. It will test to really how independent independence are. You know, I think a lot of people would vote independent with the view that sometimes they'll support the government, sometimes that they won't, but they'll hold the government to account. They're an independent voice, not aligned to politics, but some independence, not all. Some independence are not. They can be, I was going to say bought because that has, but that has connotations they might they might be bought, if you know what I mean, investment in the area or what have you and support the government. But this is one of those issues where those resolves will be tested. I can just see the government wobbling on this, realising that they may well lose this vote and saying we're going to reverse that decision for six months and spend the next six months ramping up all other plans. I just don't see how I don't see how they can get through the Dall on this one, to be honest with you. Yesterday, the Labour Party said it would put down a motion of no confidence in government before the end of the month. If it did not change course, Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson Owen O'Brien said it had a slot in private members time on Tuesday week and was considering all options for that with a decision to be made later this week. Sinn Féin would really need to win one of those, though, because they keep failing and it doesn't seem to get the the the the the attraction that maybe they might hope. Focus will also now shift independent TDS, especially those who usually support the government. The regional group, including TDS, who regularly vote with the government, such as Kildare, Stath, Cattlebury and Tipperary's Michael Larry, is assessing its options. There is a lot of independence undecided as to how they'll vote and what they'll do and we'll make a decision after we finalised our amendment, Mr. Larry said. But how can independence vote in favour of the government, for example, if members of the government will not be voting with the government? And that is exactly the case because Green Party's Nessa Huron, Nessa Huron, Horrigan, I've always struggled to pronounce her name. My apologies. I'll get it correct by the time I read through this article because it would come to me. She says she is going to vote with Sinn Féin on the eviction ban. Tougher sanctions loom for Green Party rebel Nessa Hurrigan, who has said she will vote against the government in a Sinn Féin motion on extending the eviction ban. This is despite her previous comments that voting with an opposition motion would not actually reverse the end of the eviction ban. Green Party TDs and senators will meet tonight to consider the Sinn Féin motion, which will be voted on in the door tomorrow. There have been suggestions. Ms. Hurrigan could see tougher sanctions from the parties as it will be the third time she's voted against the government. Last week, Sinn Féin approached all independent and opposition TDs on the vote. It's understood no contact was made with Ms. Hurrigan. OK, so she has to say she's got a bit of a history there. I mean, if you're consistently voting against your party, maybe it's time to consider a new party, I would suggest. Right, let's see. I've took two papers in together there now. I don't know how I've pulled that one off. Right, that goes there and that goes there. On to the son now, the son newspaper and some 56 million euro worth of illegal coal and other fuel is being smuggled into Ireland each year. And the cost of living crisis is heating up demand for dodgy energy for the dodgy energy. New solid fuel merchants, Ireland, is calling for additional enforcement measures to crack down on cowboy dealers. But a lot of people here, a lot of people here just driving over the border and filling the boot or a trailer with coal and coming back the way. I'm not are they smuggling? I don't know what they're doing. SFMI said the smuggled solid fuels are being sold online via social media and door to door. Smugglers are increasingly bringing solid fuels such as coal across the border from Northern Ireland where VAT is charged at a lower rate and there is no carbon tax in place. It's had an estimated 100,000 tonnes of coal with a retail value of 56 million euro were being smuggled, resulting in a total loss of VAT and carbon tax of 16.2 million to the Irish person. I don't want to be too predictable in this, right? But it's very handy if you live around most parts of this county to nip across the border. And a lot of the premises are very well laid out. It's almost like getting the McDonald's, picking up coal, getting that coal and bringing it in. And then people say, well, it's the wrong thing to do. Of course, it's the wrong thing to do for people in terms of coal suppliers that have to adhere to very stringent laws in this country. Of course, I have great sympathy for them. But again, if you were minded to not do it because of the environment, you might think, well, it goes back to our conversation on Friday about Eamon Ryan flying around the world in business class in a jet. And you might say, well, stuff it. Why should I not just nip across the border and get some coal? Now, as I say, I do understand that that has an impact on businesses in the Republic of Ireland who have to adhere to certain rules and regulations, very stringent ones. But if it's only the government you're worried about, you would go, you know what, I'm going to do it because they're doing it, so why shouldn't I? I'm not condoning or condemning, by the way. I'm just laying it out as the way we would talk if we weren't on the radio. You know, we'd just have a frank conversation, wouldn't we? And that's what we like to do here. The Irish Star this morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the occupied port city of Mariupol over the weekend, state news agencies reported. The visits came days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes. The trip to Mariupol was the first trip for the president to the Ukraine territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September. Mariupol became a symbol of defiance after outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian forces held out in a steel mill there for nearly three months before Moscow finally took control of it. And may they surrender, and they were due to be tried and probably executed, but they escaped that because of a prisoner swap deal. But this comes, there's a lot of awful luck going on in the world at the moment in terms of what's happening in Russia. And I wouldn't say, it's not easy not to be worried about it because let's start with what's happening. There is a war between, and we talked about this proxy war. I didn't really hear that phrase used much before we used it on this program a couple of months after this war started between Russia and the West. Now we've got President Xi of China going over to visit Vladimir Putin in Russia, which is pretty important, I think. They have their own issues with America, particularly over Toban and what have you. You've got Vladimir Putin looking to build allies, a new world order kind of, between he, the Chinese, some South African countries, South American countries, you know, really quite significant groups of people. And then there's this war of attrition that's going on that has led to a shortage of firepower really effectively. Europe is running out of weapons to supply Ukraine and they're having to bring in special measures to try and up the manufacturing of them. It's the West's position really that seems to be weakening here. So hopefully maybe the Chinese president can talk some sense into all of them because we don't need this escalating any further than it already is. It's horrific what's happening at the moment in terms of the loss of life and for what. Finally, you've got to hand it to Elon Musk. He knows how to get publicity and he knows who to poke in order to get it because Twitter has started auto-replying to media queries with a poo emoji. You might be familiar with that emoji. It's got eyes and a mouth, but it is, to all intents and purposes, a pile of poo. Owner Elon Musk announced the new strategy in a tweet yesterday morning after a Times of London journalist complained this was the response she had received. To a question, Musk did not explain the reasoning behind the bizarre stance. The Irish government here last year criticised Twitter's treatment of Irish employees after 140 Dublin-based staff were made redundant. But Elon Musk is in a war with mainstream media. He's of that an opinion. And this is perfect, right? Because the media sends press releases to Twitter, probably trying to get some on-the-record response to a critical story of Twitter that they might have and in return, they send to poo. And they don't ignore it. They write about it. They say, oh, this is disgraceful. Elon Musk, this is how he treats us. And it's a double-win for Elon Musk because then people who have a distrust and a dislike of the mainstream media go, well, fair play to you, Elon. So it's a win-win. It's a two-finger salute to the press, and then he gets to stick up another two fingers as they cry about their treatment. You got to hand it to him. He does know how to market, all right? And he's forcing those that dislike him to give him further publicity. That's how you do it, folks. All right, let's take a break. Our first guest on the show is coming up just around the corner. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra Mountaintop Letterkenny, the 2022 Seastore National Off-Licence of the Year. The Ninetown News Show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. I've lost my car keys. Lost my car once in a multi-story. Lost my patience. 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Available until March 25th. One gift per customer, while stocks last. Gift may vary. Highland Radio, time checks with Expressway. Travel route 32 from Lettacenny to Dublin. Expressway, bringing you the time at... All right, 19 minutes past nine. Now, just to let you know if you're on the roads this morning that there is a collision at Drum Keen involving a couple of vehicles. I'm not really quite sure as to how severe or not it is. We hope it's not serious, of course. It's a very distressing thing to be involved in or to see. But anyway, there is a collision at Drum Keen. There's tailbacks in both directions, so approach that area with caution. So if you're just heading up Largy Brack now or just coming in, turning left there at Kilvoss Junction, just be aware that as you approach Drum Keen, traffic will be backed up. And as they say, we'll keep you updated as to the details of that. I'm not sure how serious or not it is at the moment, but we do know it is causing tailbacks, so please be careful. Right, now, two separate investigations are underway after a video was passed to Garda showing a motorist using a car to maim and kill wild deer. The attack was carried out by a man shouting with a distinct West of Ireland accent, it's reported. But the location of the attack has not been identified. Now, Garda in the National Parks and Wildlife Service are both investigating under Operation Bambi, which set up 10 years ago to protect Irish deer herds. Damien Hannigan is press officer with the Irish Deer Commission and he joins us now. Good morning to you, how are you keeping Damien? Good morning Greg, I'm very good, thank you. I haven't seen this video, I'm not gonna lie, it's not the type of video I'd watch. I'm not sure if you had Damien, but if you have or even if you haven't, I'm sure you heard of its content. What exactly was going on? Yeah, first of all, the Irish Deer Commission, we would condemn this video, it's cruel and barbaric and I think it's something we've never seen, thankfully, before in Ireland. But if I can paint the picture, maybe for your listeners, in terms of the video shows, an individual on their own, driving down a narrow country roads from the clock on the vehicle, we can see it's 3.15 a.m. in the morning and in the distance, you can see a number of deer and by what he says in the video, he then accelerates towards the deer and we can see there are five fellow deer and a female deer with some juvenile deer as well. So I suppose deer Greg, initially when they see vehicle lights, the strong lights can dazzle the deer, so initially the deer are startled and then they start to run because the deer are a flight animal, they run from danger. But as this individual accelerates towards the deer and they desperately try to escape away from, but unfortunately he catches up with them and initially he effectively runs over one of the female deer and then he moves on further to run over a second. So a very disturbing video and something we've never seen before. It's horrific for anyone to be capable of that, isn't it? It is, it just begs in terms of why an individual would do something like this. It's really, again, I said the video is very graphic and that's something I'd wish anyone to see, but it's from what the person is saying during the video, you could draw a conclusion that this issue, this person has some issues there in terms of why would someone normally want to kill deer in that distressing manner and possibly causing damage to their own vehicle at the same time. Well, it seems quite a large vehicle, it must have caused some damage to their own vehicle as well, so it's just a beggar's belief, really. Do we have any information since this story went to press us to where this may have happened or is it just maybe the West of Ireland? Yeah, I think it's really that great at the moment in the sense that we can see certain things from the video, for example, fallow deer at particular times of the year, the colour of their core changes. So to the trend, when you look at this video, you can see it happened during the winter months. So initially, we were made aware of this video in July 2022, and it's only come to media attention now, but at the time, you know, as I said, that the colour of the core on the fallow deer would tell us that it was actually during the winter months. So we don't have an exact date and there have been suggestions that it took place on the West Coast of Ireland, but again, there's no evidence to suggest that. And, you know, we very much appeal to anyone that would have information about it. It's reported to the local gather station of the National Parks and Wildlife Service Conservation Ranger. I mean, obviously, there's been lots of conversations about deer and deer numbers, but I don't even want to go down that route in case it comes across that in some way, I'm trying to justify this kind of action and I certainly wouldn't want to come across like that. Yeah, absolutely. Look, I think you have said, you know, and your listeners, and Donnie Gaule, obviously will be aware of traffic accidents on the road involving deer and so on. And I think there should be no, you know, conclusions drawn or parallels drawn in regards to this. This is just an individual setting out to inflict, you know, cruelty on what is, you know, a protected species, a largest land mammal, you know, an important part of our natural heritage, you know. So I don't think there should be any parallels drawn in regards to deer management. And as you mentioned, it's, you know, deer management has had been a very topical issue, particularly in recent months, you know, we've heard on a regular basis, you know, comments from various sectors in regards to deer numbers. And, you know, I suppose deer management in itself, you know, is obviously a necessary activity, but deer management is very much about selective culling regards to animal welfare and so on. So I don't think we can draw any comparisons. Yeah, indeed. And I hope whoever's responsible for this is found, because it is a horrific thing to do to another living thing. So I might just park that and talk more generally about where we are at in terms of the work of the Irish Deer Commission, because one of your key objectives is to develop a sustainable and achievable deer management policy. We're not at that point yet. Where, what concerns does your commission have, as I say, completely separate now to that last piece, but just whilst we are on the conversation, what currently is the Irish Deer Commission calling on in terms of the management of our deer population? Yeah, I think it's a very good question, Greg. And I think just in regards to deer management and how we manage deer numbers, it's really crucial that the decisions that we make around deer management are well-founded, scientific-based and not simply arbitrary, these are the kinds of type of comments that we might see from politicians or other sectors in regards to their wilder. Their comments may be well-intended in regards to accidents on the road or deer numbers. The data that we receive from the National Parks and Wildlife Service each year, so hunters are required to make an annual declaration stating the number of deer, the county, the species, and so on. And from that data, we know in 2022, over 55,000 deer were culled in Ireland in the 12-month period up to February 28th. So that's a record deer cull. It's an increase of over 20% on the previous record session, 2019, pre-pandemic. So we know already in Ireland, a substantial amount of deer are being culled. And even in County Donegal, we can see that the cull, the most recent cull figure shows that 1,890 deer were culled in County Donegal and predominantly red deer. And that's an increase of 43% over the previous record for the county. And is that... I don't know how to... Can you phrase it when you're talking about so many animals being shot? Is that the right thing? Is that positive from the deer commission's perspective? Are we doing it correctly humanely in a right way to sustain a deer population but at the same time, too, to protect as much as we can landowners and road users? Yeah, look, I think it's... I think the management of wildlife is all is an emotive topic, you know, but I think in the absence of a natural predator, it does fall in man to manage deer numbers at sustainable levels. Because while deer are enacted in the countryside, you know, and very much something to behold when seeing when the numbers become unsustainable, they can have negative consequences for farming, forestry, and the wider ecosystem. So it does fall in man to manage the numbers. I suppose from an Irish context, we don't know how many deer that we have in Ireland because we've never undertaken a census. So as to the fact that are we calling too many and not enough for, you know, it's really unknown at this stage. So there is a process currently on the way in regards to national consultation has just come... completed in recent weeks in regards to getting the views of distant stakeholders in regards to deer management. I mean, there's a couple of things, though, like... The things that confuses me about this and I won't hold you much longer to aim in is, we don't really know... We don't know the deer population in this country. I don't think there's ever been a census or any proper assessment of that. And then also, we don't know how many deer outside of the numbers that you have were illegally killed. So I think unless we kind of get a grasp of all of that, how can you properly manage something unless you have all the numbers? Absolutely. And I think just realistically, and it's a very good point, Greg, that you make, is that 55,000 doesn't include, if I say a bigger part, in the vast number of deer that have been illegally killed or even those involved in road traffic accidents on roads. But I think in regards to, you know, the certain anecdotal evidence that we would see on the ground in regards to our members of a managing deer around the country, and what that would point to is, in terms of the anecdotal evidence, not anyway scientific, but it would point to is that with specific areas of the country where deer are a problem. So if you take, for example, the County of Wicklow over one third of the entire national call takes place in the County of Wicklow. If we include the counties of Wicklow, Water, Trapari, Kerry, Clark, and Donegal, that accounts for 75% of the national call. So that suggests to us that, you know, deer are more present in these counties than maybe in other counties. And then even within those counties, there will be areas where deer are managed at sustainable level, because we've over 6,500 licensed deer hunters in Ireland who undertake a very important role in terms of managing deer numbers. But, you know, so within those counties, the vast majority of areas are sustained, but it's the areas that are not managed at adequate levels as we do need to support. That's it, and it's not simply how many of them are, it's how we, I mean, there are studies that show they have a really strong positive impact on biodiversity, but only if they're managed in a certain way, not merely by limiting their numbers or not limiting their numbers or by fencing them, fencing areas off or not fencing them off. But I believe Charlie McConaughey's Minister of Agriculture launched a survey in this regard, so hopefully that pulls in proper information. So, you know, we don't really have to be speculating, you know, we can make decisions based on facts and figures. Absolutely. And I just, I just mentioned earlier on, Greg, is that the decisions that we make must be well-founded. They must be scientific based. They can't be simply arbitrary. These are the pan's comments. And, you know, we would very much see deer as eco-engineers in the countryside when the numbers are at sustainable levels. And as you mentioned, there is evidence to show deer do benefit the countryside, including woodlands, when the numbers are sustainable, but it's when they become unsustainable that's where the issues and the conflicts happen. And it's really getting our handle around the numbers and densities of deer that we have in specific areas. I think it would take a lifetime if there's something we try to do at a national level because counting deer is quite difficult because of the type of terrain and habitat that they frequent. So it's really about identifying what are the potential conflict areas and then applying a scientific, evidence-based approach to that and sort of saying, okay, science does tell us this rather than an actual sector group or a politician with respect to the politicians is that telling us that we have a problem and, you know, is that those kind of while well-intended those comments are often very much... We want to based on science not lobbying in opinion. You know, I mean, that's it, I think. Listen, Damien's been lovely to chat and to you. Thanks for that. I appreciate your time. Damien Hannigan, who is press officer with the Irish Deer Commission. Greg, our state-of-the-art multi-million primary care center in our areas causing a lot of stress to patients trying to get an appointment. Some people have to make 22 to 32 phone calls before they get an answer and some don't get an answer. They have to present themselves to the center. Could you please find out what's going on? Now, if we've held the name of the center just for now as we make inquiries because any named business individual has to have a right of reply, of course. Greg, as a small business owner, is there anyone else out there in the same situation as me? I'm basically facing financial closure. Business is good, but simply not good enough to continue to cover the energy costs I'm facing. If I increase my prices, people will simply go, I'll swear, so I'll face closure anyway. I can no longer continue to put my savings into staying open what's happening to this country. Well, look at what... I mean, it's worrying if you feel you have to pump savings into a business. That business is failing and it's sucking your resources. I mean, I would try increasing your prices and trust your customers. Maybe I think people understand, explain I'm having to increase my prices because of so-and-so, but maybe the increases is so much that you couldn't enjoy the support of your customers. It's a horrible situation that you're in and I'm really sorry that you are in that situation because obviously that leads to stress and anxiety and sleepless nights. And I hope you find a pathway to either exit the business and retain some of your savings or to maybe adjust your prices and continue to survive until things improve. Does anyone have or use DCI fuel cards? I've been with them a number of years. I got an email yesterday to say, as from the 13th of January, 2024, my weekly rates will be 147 plus VAT, which makes it 181 per litre. It's currently 163... No, that must be 13th of... Couldn't be 13th of January, 2024. I don't know. Maybe do they have a set price? Do they buy in advance? I don't know. But anyway, it's currently 163 at the pump. So where is the advantage in having one of these cards at those rates? I don't understand how that works, to be honest with you. I don't know how any... Are you sure it was a legitimate email? How could a business set fuel rates at 13th of January, 2024? Maybe that's how that business works. I'm not sure. I'm sorry. Someone out there knows the answer to that. What is the benefit in paying over the odds for diesel? I don't see any, really. We were talking last week, too, about the need for a burial ground, a new burial site for people of all denominations and none. And off the back of that, I'll call a text us to say, he'd like to be buried on his own private ground. Is there any law against it or what's the procedure? Now, there was high-profile cases in this county in the past of people that wished to do that. I am not really quite sure. Wouldn't it be nice if you could be buried in a field that you have under a tree that you liked or something along those lines, but presumably it's not allowed, is it? Anyone know what the situation is by law now? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Can you be buried on your own private ground? I presume you can get some sort of assert to do it, can you? 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Overnight packages available call the Clanbury Hotel on 9124 369. Now, just in relation to that road traffic collision at Drum Keen, a two-vehicle road traffic collision was on the end of 13 at Drum Keen, as I mentioned, it happened at 8.30 this morning. Traffic is moving a little bit more freely now. There were traffic delays, but thankfully, no injuries were reported. So, obviously, a stressful time for those involved, but thankfully, no injuries being reported by unguarded shiokana. Now, alarms being expressed at the failure of the Department of Health to engage in consultation over the planned rollout of publicly funded IVF. The National Infertility Service Information Group says it's causing immense stress for men and women who are planning to start a family. The provision of free IVF was confirmed in the budget last year and is due to start in September. Now, Katrina Fitzpatrick is of the National Infertility Service Information Group. This is worrying. I mean, if you are going to be introducing legislations just around the corner, you need to be consulting and engaging and giving information to those that are best placed to sort of have a positive input. And that would be a group like yours, Katrina. There's been little or no interaction, has there? Good morning, Greg, and thanks for taking the time to discuss this topic. That's true. We were really pleased that public funding for IVF was announced in the budget last year, where the only country in Europe that doesn't provide any funding for fertility services were a complete outlier in that regard. Pretty much every other country in Europe, and particularly those that we would benchmark ourselves against, would provide this funding and this service for people. The WHO defines infertility as a disease. So for any other disease in this country, you would go to your hospital, your GP, your local provider of a service, and you will get treatment. And that's not the case for people facing fertility issues in Ireland. So we're a total outlier in that regard. In fairness, it's in the program for government and there have been a lot of commitments from government in relation to rectifying this. And 10 million euros was announced as part of the budget last year to kick off in September. And while that's really welcome, fertility is a really complex area, and we're the only charity that actually provides services. So we provide a helpline, web chat, and support meetings. We've been involved in this area for 25 years. So we have a wealth of knowledge in relation to what patients are going through, what issues people face. And we really want to part of the consultation with the Department of Health. What we really don't want to happen is, next August, we're told, we'll come in and here's what we're going to do. And there's something that's 95% kind of baked at that stage that we're expected to endorse. And we don't... And the best in Europe, which is Belgium, the worst in Europe, which just behind us is Armenia. Like, who are we looking at in relation to this? Because 10 million euros is a really small amount of money when it comes to something like this. So it's not going to be floodgates open, doors open to everybody. There will, we know, be some restrictions. And also, as everybody knows, like, when you're trying to get pregnant or through a pregnancy, like, it doesn't stop on December 31st. So we don't know where the funding goes for next year or what the plan for next year is, but it's completely impractical to look at this as just for three months. So we need you part of the discussion for 2024 now as well. But of course, I presume there are people then who are perhaps starting this journey on the journey, planning to wait and to see what is to come. The lack of information is worrying because this is not, you know, this is something that requires a great deal of investment from people in terms of emotional energy and time and what have you like. This is kind of, I would expect we should know some stuff now. Do we know anything about how this will operate? How many people will be able to avail of the service? Things like that, Katrina? We don't know any of that practical information and two really important points to make there. Like, you're 100% right. Yes, it's a huge investment from people emotionally and mentally, but also like, economically, it's around 6,000 euros for a cycle of IVF. And what we are starting to get in emails and requests from people that we didn't really get up to now was to talk about, you know, the cost of living crisis is easing into my savings, into my income. Now we're wondering, will we put off our treatment? And the huge issue, and like, I'm not a medic, but any person involved in this in a medical site will tell you it's time when it comes to fertility is absolutely crucial. It's the number one thing, don't waste time, don't put it off. So all we can do is say to people, no, we have no information as to whether you would qualify or not, go back to your medical professional, don't spend any more time, you know, waiting on something that we have no information on, get your advice through medical professionals. But, you know, it's really difficult for people who are looking at this thinking, but in six months' time, would I have qualified and taking a chance? Like, taking a chance and starting a family is a really serious thing to take a chance on. And it needs to be looked at best. And like, other countries put in limitations like, you know, what age you are, do you have other children? Sometimes they look at people's BMI and it also, they look at things like, are you entitled to a cycle or is it for a pregnancy? You could tell maybe a number of failed cycles, but would you be, you know, are they going to count it by cycles of our pregnancies? And some countries, you know, only allowed couples, some countries, you know, single people. So we need to have these discussions with the department, you know, to kind of see what are they looking at. And we need to give them our experience in this. And there's other groups, I mean, there's ruling groups like LGBT Ireland and the Quality for Children. Lots of other groups need to be part of this discussion, but it can't be done in a kind of a silo in an office that you take 10 million and you set it up, you know, whatever way. There needs to be a realistic practical discussion with groups like ourselves to tell them our experience on the ground and to get a sense of what they are looking at for this year, but also for the following years, it's completely impractical that we don't even look at it in a three-month silo anyway. But do you get the impression that they are still fully committed to September? We have been told for the year and we haven't been told any different. And I think the more we get out there and talk about it and the more shows like yourself, which we really appreciate, talk about it as well, the more it holds them to account for that. You see, the thing that would concern me is that this should be really positive. You know, they should be publishing information on this all the while, spinning it left, right and center, because it's not often you can announce something new and that would be warmly received when you're in politics and in health. The silence is deafening on it from the HSC government. I agree with you. It's a bit of a tricky one for government because this is going to have to be provided through private clinics. There's nowhere in the public system that provides IVF treatment. There are six fertility hogs that have been recently set up. One isn't open yet. I mean, there's nowhere near Donegal. Your nearest is, you just go to Galway or Dublin. They all have very small amounts of staff on them, but they don't actually provide treatment. They kind of provide information and, you know, kind of blood tests and that type of thing. But I think the government find it kind of difficult to be paying money to private clinics to provide a service. So that might be a little bit tricky for them to follow, but it's the only way of doing this. If we were to try and set up... They don't mind paying private hospitals in Northern Ireland. They don't mind playing private hospitals in Spain either. But I understand exactly where you're coming from, that it's how the message is delivered and how it's received. I get that. And you're quite right. And thanks for pointing out the long distance. And I think there was one lady in particular who walked to Dublin to highlight the added stress and difficulty there is in someone in our part of the world here in the Northwest in accessing these treatments. It's a post-cold lottery like it shouldn't be like that. No, completely. But then you're only other options to go private. And I think it really shouldn't be the case. People who face fertility issues and there's quite a spread between male, female and both partners, it's completely through no fault of their own. And it's something that they can realise quite late at night and suddenly realise that they're facing huge bills. And like we're a great country for talking about not getting pregnant, but we don't really talk about if you want to have a family, how you start to put those building blocks in place. And actually the NHS run a really good information campaign around being aware of your fertility. And they run it for people age 20 upwards, that if you know you want to have a family someday, these are the things you need to be aware of. And that's something that we could be doing now, talking to people about their awareness around their fertility, because there's actually a huge lack of awareness around it and people are always really surprised when they can't get pregnant through something that they didn't know existed within them. OK, well listen, thanks for helping us to raise the issue and we'll watch on with interest to see where this goes. But as I say, it doesn't make any sense to me for them not to be engaging with established groups like yours with a wealth of information and knowledge in this area. Katrina, thanks for your time. Great. Can I just say before I go, that when you run an information campaign and we do run support groups, we'll tweet Highland Radio and the details of our next campaign or our next meeting, so that anybody listening who is going through this journey can attend the meeting there online. We also have a live web chat and we have a headline and we'll tweet those details to you this morning. And we'll share those out. Thank you very much indeed. Katrina Fitzpatrick of the National Infertility Service Information Group. We had a contact from this listener who says, I'm a 67-year-old woman and I have a feeling I have high blood pressure. So after much pressure from my family, I called my GP last week to get an appointment to have it checked. Imagine my shock to be told the next available appointment for the doctor was the 3rd of April. If I wanted to see the nurse, it would be the 29th of March. Then the HCC are doing a campaign to say, try all other routes before going to the ED. It's no wonder so many are in ED. There is no other route to be seen. So this is a text we got in Thursday. I think it's just I didn't get to it on Thursday. They were told that the next appointment to see their local GP, the 1st of April, the 3rd of April, I beg your pardon. And they wanted to see a nurse the 29th of March. So I don't know, are they being triaged? And they're saying, well, you know, blood pressure is not as important as everything else that we have to look at. I don't know. But it's horrendous worry because the lady has decided that she needs to get slucked at, but she has to work a couple of weeks in order to do so. Don't know what's going on there. All right, so we'll be back after the break with more. 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Luna was found in Derry in Ballyon at Contra Park on Wednesday night and she had been buried alive. We've had a witness come forward who observed these two fellas who repeatedly beat Luna over the head with a curb stone. They continue to use the curb stone to hold Luna into a shallow grave, approximately about a foot deep. And they used the curb stone to hold her in there while they covered her over with dirt. And then they left Luna in the hole with rocks over her head and stones where Luna couldn't wrestle her way back up out through this hole. I mean, again, this is similar to a story we were talking about earlier. It's horrendous that anyone would be capable of doing this. This is not a heat of the moment thing and that would be no defense. I don't see, they don't get me wrong, Vivian, but this is a sustained mistreatment of this poor dog. And anyone capable of that, you'd have to worry what else they might be capable of. Yes, yes, the dogs in that area was, he has been arrested now, but other dogs in that area would not have been safe. He did have three other dogs also in his care as well that were taken away by animal welfare in the place on Thursday night. So this is a man who has put several dogs through abuse. It hasn't been Luna. Luna's abuse also didn't just start on Wednesday night either. You know, Luna was so thin, Luna had been starved and deprived of food for, I would say, quite a few months. We've had photos sent to ourselves of Luna back in October where Luna was skin and bones then. So this has been abuse that has been going on for months and months with Luna. And because of course this case will be before the courts or speak generally, it's very important, is it not that anyone that is found guilty and it's proven that they have been cruel to animals like this, that the sentence are of a nature that the actors is strong deterrent. Yes, yes, the sentence for this abuse needs to cut the crime as well, for what Luna has been through. It has been a barbaric attack on Luna and it's something that needs to become down heavy upon a fellow and to send out a message to other people that this will not be tolerated, that the sentence needs to fit and be suited to what they have put Luna through. It has been a barbaric attack. It has been traumatic on Luna, what she's been through. For the other dogs, it was also in its possession as well. There's been months of abuse going on with them too and this really, really needs to become down heavy upon. Yeah, more generally speaking, a few agencies reporting an increase in the number of animals being abandoned, attributing it to the cost of living crisis. Maybe they were animals that were taken on during lockdowns or what have you as well. Is this something you're seeing, something you're concerned about Vivian? There is a lot more animals now because of the cost of living. Yeah, certainly and with a lot of people now going back into the office as well, we are finding a lot of dogs coming through the rescue center now that people don't have the time for anymore because they did through lockdown and they were working from home and everyone is back in the office again now so that time isn't as freely there anymore to give dogs what they need. So yeah, we're finding it's a lot of young dogs now under the age of three that are coming into our care and it's certainly likely is to do with the height of sales over lockdown. Right, okay. Right, well, this has to go through the courts and we can perhaps speak afterwards again but we can't do anything that might offer anyone a defence. So at this point, Vivian, Kelly and we have to point out as well, very sadly, Luna was put to sleep. She was released off of the awful life that she had to endure and as I say, sorry for upsetting people but we have to talk about these things so they're called out and people spot things that they reported and it's not allowed to happen. Vivian, thanks for your time. You're welcome, thanks, Greg. Vivian and Kelly, who is of a pet FBI rescue. 086625,000 WhatsApps and texts that number. Keep us busy, coming in already but I want more, I want more of your opinions, okay. Would you like to win 1,000 euro cash on Friday for a tenner? Be all right, wouldn't it? 10 euro for 1,000 euro cash. What about if we chucked in a 1,000 euro Atlantic travel voucher for celebrity cruise booking? That'd be 2,000, that wouldn't be bad, would it, for a tenner? Right, well that's what's up for grabs this week if you go and buy your tickets in our Win a Holiday of Lifetime with Highland Radio Draw but that's not all you see because what you win on Friday is a bonus. 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Gaudi attended a two vehicle road traffic collision that occurred on the N13 Indramcute Crank Queen it happened approximately at 8.30am this morning it is reported that there were no injuries sustained and that enquiries are ongoing at this moment in time CAM is being urged after the European financial markets failed to act positively to the rescue of credits with bank banking shares have fallen sharply despite the multi-billion euro intervention by the Swiss government yesterday which saw rival UBS take over the struggling lender the world's five largest banks including the European Central Bank have agreed to provide extra funding to shore up the financial system but it's failed to ally fears however Sunday Times business editor Brian Kerry says that while banks may be in trouble it's not a repeat of the global banking collapse in the late 2000s maybe not the same thing as what happened in the 2008 where you had like this massive systemic problem with subprime loans which leaked into the entire banking system we've had this period of very loose monetary policy where we're very low or near zero interest rates and then there's very sharp and violent change to tight monetary policy and that obviously is having massive implications Road safety experts attached to the Donegal Road Design Office are examining a junction in the middle of Kilmackrennan this follows a number of collisions in recent years one of which was recently the subject of several social media posts the issue was raised at a meeting of letter Kenny Milford Municipal District this week by councillors Michael McBride and John O'Donnell both of whom said the junction is particularly problematic with cars coming from the Trenta direction the road intersects at the end 56 just past St Columbus Church before going on to Milford councillor McBride said at the very least there needs to be a flashing warning light of lights close to the church most people have seen recently the footage on Facebook of an accident that took place there where a car came from the Trenta side from the Chapel Care Park didn't stop, had another car this is the fourth time to my knowledge that that has happened maybe in the last eight or ten years get new signage up there in my opinion that's flashing signage stop signs on the road into that junction because the signage is there, it's clearly not working a car was detected travelling at 137 kilometres per hour in a 100 kilometre per hour zone by the Bonkranna Roads Policing Unit the incident occurred on the end 13 over the bank holiday weekend a fixed charge penalty notice will be issued to the driver as well as 160 euro fine and three penalty points Guardia are urging road users to slow down in order to help save lives Irish people are among the biggest cocaine users in the world according to a new UN report the global study found one in every 40 people here reported using cocaine in the previous year Ifa Cairns reports the study carried out by the UN Office 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death has occurred of Celine Kelly, Fox Hall, Glenn Swilley funeral mass tomorrow in St. Colomba's church, Glenn Swilley with burial afterwards in Kilfeek Cemetery house strictly private and family flowers only please the death has occurred of Michael Connolly, Chapel Road, Dunlowe his remains will be in McGlynn's funeral home from 4 p.m. this evening with Rosary at 9 p.m. reposing at his home tomorrow from 11 a.m. with Rosary at 9 p.m. funeral on Wednesday at 11 a.m. in St. Crohn's church, Dunlowe with burial afterwards in Mahary Cemetery house private please from 11 p.m. until 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral the death has taken place of Margaret MacDonald, Ney Quinn 14 Delaney Crescent Straban and formerly of Drum Quinn reposing at her home today from 12 noon funeral leaving her home tomorrow at 9 20 a.m. for requeer mass in St. Mary's church, Melmont at 10 a.m. and term it afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in lieu of flowers please to Marie Curie care of Quigley funeral directors house private please to family close friends and neighbors family time please from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. the requeer mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has occurred of Brian McDermott Admiral Stranorla remains are opposing at his late residence funeral leaving from their tomorrow at 10 30 a.m. for requeer mass in the church of Mary Immaculate Stranorla at 11 a.m. in term and afterwards in Drumbo Cemetery family time please from 10 p.m. until 12 p.m. and on the morning of the funeral please donations in lieu of flowers if so desired directly to the Donegal Hospice or care of any family member the requeer mass will be streamed live via the parish webcam the death has occurred of Rita Dorday seven knockout a drive, Bunkrana Rita's remains will be reposing at her home family time please from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. removal tomorrow morning at 10 30 a.m. going to Lakeland's crematorium cabin for cremation at 2 p.m. House is private on the morning of the funeral cremation is for family only family flowers only please donations in lieu of desired to incite Inish Owen care of any family member or Murphy funeral directors the death has taken place of Rose Worsky 32 Dr. McGinley road letter Kenny remains are opposing at the residence of her son Robert and Anne Worsky our drum and remelton funeral mass tomorrow at 11 a.m. in St. Union's Cathedral letter Kenny with burial afterwards in New Lakes Cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot TV the death has taken place of Owen McLaughlin Clunta clunman I remains are opposing at his late residence funeral from their tomorrow at 10 20 a.m. going to St. Mary's Church clunman I for 11 a.m. rakeway a mass burial is afterwards in the adjoining cemetery House private please from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. family flowers only please donations in lieu of desired to Irish lung fibrosis association care of any family member or comsky funeral directors funeral mass can be viewed live on church 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valid 16th of February to the 26th of March terms apply OK you're very welcome back to the 9 till noon show good morning if you have just joined us it's good to have you on board for another week and thanks so much for calling and texting and let's get to some of those I think you need planning permission for a grave OK is it hard to get it I wonder I appreciate your feedback by the way another listener says my wife has broken ribs every time she goes over one of those and almost ramps she's in agony surely people being rushed to hospital in severe pain also feel these huge ramps in letter Kenny recently we had relatives with us from Dublin and they said there are no ramps that bad in Dublin please make these ramps less severe no doubt they're not healthy for our cause either OK I think I might know the ones that you're talking of hi Greg I was watching the Donegal match yesterday a lot of players not good enough how did they get selected for the county players should be asked to try out not selected just because they play for a big club I and a lot of other people could name players who never get the opportunity to play for their county keep up the good work Eddie Mack thanks Eddie I particularly given the nature of our sport it's amateur status and that you know the players live amongst us personally not a massive fan of getting down to sort of personal criticism of them but maybe it's a work in progress have you faith that this is the first tentative steps of a successful season for Donegal I mean a lot of people a lot of people that know much more than I do feel Donegal will struggle struggle in division two and they see what's going around them going on around them and other teams flying I'm not sure how optimistic many might be about the summer ahead Greg I had a member of my family at now dark at the weekend they wouldn't accept card payment it had to be cash does anyone know why this is as we had to go down to the town and get cash from the ATM so we've put a question in again because it's naming in an organization we have to give them a right to reply before we name them I don't know was the card machine broken or do the only accept cash it's interesting because a lot of people wouldn't be walking around with cash on them a caller says I've got two houses which I rent out I did this as a business an investment for my family in retirement if it's not making money you have to sell and the only people to blame are the government I pay 52% tax on everything I earn even the tenancy board makes me register at 90 euro a year it used to be I had to register once I have two very good tenants interest rates have increased on the mortgages and those houses but I have had to take the hit on the increase I can't pass it on because I know the families can't pay more in my eyes the only people forcing me to sell is the government now I I get what you're saying and this is and I really appreciate you texting in but it is an investment okay now you know there are other ways you can invest your money is it fair to expect whomever is renting your house to cover your full investment because I mean obviously you know in a pension and anything you have to contribute and I'm sure you did but maybe this is just a period can you hold tight to see how things go into the future or do you see it you know the death now for this type of business and it is a business and I suppose it's like any business as this listener says if it's not working you get out and that causes its own problems all right listen thanks for the input I get it I understand exactly what you're saying you'd prefer to maintain your investment your business as you call it you prefer to retain your two talents who it seems you have a good relationship with but because you're being taxed so high 52% in some countries the only play eight or nine percent I don't know why the rent I don't know why the take is so high in this country it's just not worth it and this person this 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much for joining us hi yeah good morning it's great to have you with us right now aim for health artificial intelligent approaches to addressing mental health inequalities in Ireland there's a public engagement taking place on the 23rd of March we'll talk about that in a moment but i'm fascinated by the the whole concept can you explain it to us a little bit yeah so the aim for health project in is focusing on a data set that was collected in 2008 it's funded north and south and work done by trinity Ulster in the department of agriculture and they lifted data on 5000 participants across Ireland everything from cognitive function life and health style and some brain scans bone scans etc and what we're doing now is trying to use that data and to interdisciplinary project so we're using people from computing we have some experts from nutrition and we have some experts from geographical information systems who are trying to analyze this data and what we're particularly looking at is the impacts of sort of nutrition lifestyle and genetic and particularly socioeconomic factors as well on mental health in older adults so we're really trying to learn a lot more about mental health and try and improve some of the policies around it and also alleviate some of the fears and put support on where's needed so we're trying to learn as much about this by incorporating these really new novel techniques to see what we can learn from that existing data set yeah and can you give an example as to how some of these techniques get us to where we want to be yeah so if you think about it the ml that we're using under artificial intelligence is analyzing this data it's looking for patterns in it and inside that we also have experts here and socioeconomic data so we're looking at well are the patterns that we learn about people in certain counties are they different to people and patterns that we learn in other countries so we might find that certain services in one county is working on where they're not available and others that's having a direct impact in particular where you have different deprivations across those it's key sort of risk factors around mental health so things we're looking at at the minute is we're finding in particular on this one of the things that's coming up as an indicator is when people left school or when did they first leave education also some measurements around cognitive function and a particular measure that they use is time to get up and go so how long does it take somebody to be able to get up from their chair to a standing position so it's key indicators like that but we're looking for patterns around those key indicators so we can learn a bit more about what impacts do they have on the mental health of the person and have we found I mean even sort of in an exploratory way we found any patterns in that regard because I suppose you know obviously it's very individual and there are different triggers and different reasons but we are actually really all the same so presumably there are a set of circumstances you know and that's the catch-all for your diet or your background or whatever it might be that would make certain people more inclined to suffer from poor mental health so an earlier project we did find some we were looking particularly at cognitive function which was the earlier part of the funding project and we did find in that more to do with predictors so what we were able to do was show some predictors the GPs who were doing the cognitive scores or with patients with mental health we were able to show them sort of key predictors that were more informative when it came to cognitive decline and that would be a quicker indicator for them of when they needed to do a cognitive assessment this one frame for health we're just starting in September so we have two RAs currently looking at patterns in the data and we're a bit early in the stages of identifying robust patterns so hopefully by the end of this project and the end of next year we will have a lot more patterns to share what we're doing with the PPI event at the minute is just to get people to have their input into the project what are their key concerns where are the gaps in the services and just to allay show them what we're planning to do and how they can have input into it as a as public engagement yeah and and pardon my ignorance but uh is that it's a greater challenge finding patterns in terms of mental health it might be easier in terms of heart disease and bone disease because the you know more controllable factors yeah well what we might find is what we're hoping to find because we have got lots of data there which we've got their new nutrition lifestyle and we put all of their medicines we'll be able to find out if there are underlying conditions that are more linked to mental health so you might find that people on certain medications um feel more isolated because they're they're restricted because of elderly or they can't leave the house as well or they can't communicate or they may have a hearing impairment so all of those indicators could have a contribution to mental health and what we're trying to do by using artificial intelligence is look at those patterns and see where those links are and also to try and dismay any concerns people have and where we can show that there's not a pattern and there's not a linkage so that you can alleviate those concerns as well so we're looking for patterns that tell us something and we're looking to show that patterns may not exist for people who already think there is a linkage yeah i'm getting exactly what you're saying and what you're trying to achieve but it is complex and you know very so in terms of the public engagement event who do you want to or expect to come along because this is this is high level stuff intellectually do you know what i mean and people might think well i i'm not really getting a full grasp what we're talking about why should i attend so maybe for that cohort which would include me i'm not going to lie maybe you could talk to us a little bit about who you're inviting along yeah so great we're looking for patients and public engagement here so it could be people from charities it can be cares of people with mental health it cannot be people who have had a history of mental health and have concerns that it may impact them so this we're not looking for scientists we're not looking for experts we're looking for the public to come along and we're going to keep it very much in layman's terms we're going to explain what we've learned to get from the data and what we hope to learn in the future but it's very much anybody that is a patient of mental health or a public member concerned about mental health it's that region that we're trying to reach out to both in the northwest including dunny golland area all over that region so anybody that can come along please do so and we'll not blow you science but we will share with you what we've learned to do it and we will share with you how we're going to keep you engaged and by using what you're telling us you want us to find out and then how we'll keep you followed up with that and what we do find out with the project okay so when and where and do people just roll up on the day or do you have to pre-register yeah well it we're very much open to people who want to turn up on the day but I can provide a mobile number if we are a phone number people want to register in advance just to give us an indication of numbers because we are providing light refreshments and so it's going to happen in the u3a foil and that's the pascal mcdonald house in the grand ship park in dairy and if people are interested we'd very much welcome if you could let us know when 028 701 23516 and anyone who's interested please do you think about coming along and sharing that with us and that starts at 10 o'clock on the 23rd of March in the morning okay it is the morning isn't of course okay it is fascinating I look forward to hearing more of that further down the line thank you very much for your time professor I really do appreciate it take care okay that was professor Michaela black who is professor of AI at University Ulster say that hopefully it's tweak the interests of some out there reading them just before we came on air that ex-premier league star charlie austin's wife now if you don't know charlie austin you're certainly not going to know his wife but anyway she sparked an intense debate online after claiming her daughter had punched her bully in the face and was praising her for it bianca austin has sparked as I mentioned well according to the 35 year old her 16 year old daughter had been teased by one particular girl for weeks and because the school hadn't done anything she'd taken action bianca whose husband plays in league two for swindon tan tweeted after weeks of being bullied by the same girl numerous phone calls to the school and nothing changing today when being called names my daughter finally punched the bully in the face proud mom she said the tweet which was posted on March 13th has since gone viral and has been seen by over two million people um so uh some people said we all have our breaking points and can only be pushed so far does she feel better now she's still up for herself bianca replied no but she's hoping the girl will leave her alone now and other said good for her clearly the school wasn't doing anything about it uh for it still uh to be happening now you know I mean I think people of a certain generation would you'd have been raised to stand up to your bullies wouldn't you and maybe hit them a dig uh does that work in this day and age what do you think do you back her do you think the daughter was right do you think mom was right to praise the daughter 08 660 25000 08 660 25000 or call 07491 25000 uh bernard galleher owner of cbm signs joins us on the program now good morning to you bernard how are you keeping this morning good morning greg how are you getting on good good good i'm sure you'd be much better off uh if someone hadn't lifted your trailer talk to us about the trailer where it was parked and what happened uh thanks greg um we're missing a sign today it was parked at the underground railroad there out in hermon at the junction um i don't mind not last again Paris again the weekend before between thursday night and friday night um i thought i would have turned up with that i might have just been a bit of anvilsom or a bit of a boys just boys good boys but that hasn't appeared anywhere since so i'm just putting out a call to see if anybody's found it or knows where it is what do you suspect happened do you think someone's just told it and dumped it somewhere or i mean it's it's it is a trailer but i think for it to be used as a it's effectively a flatbed if you take the signage off is it that's not even a flatbed because the centre of it's hollow so it's not really any good for us into there so i was hoping somebody just told it away and it was going to be found later on down the road or some direction but it hasn't appeared yeah it's valuable for you if you had to replace it but it's of no value to anyone else because by the time they fitted it out they would be able to buy another trailer not really no it's not it's not valuable to anybody else that's why i thought i would have turned up and i said i asked if i could put out a call i thought i would have turned up on the week later it hasn't so i was saying just put out a call and they're offering a small wire if anybody knows where it is they're can come across it there's a small cash right so there's two things people took for them to look out for it's a triangular sign on the back of the single wheelbase trailer it looks like and that sign is still the sign that was on it when it was stolen pro ampak is it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean there's older signs probably under that was probably for term and jay and that's what they'll be used during the summer mostly for notices for term and jay good luck to the gearers the successful gearers team will have and other teams under 21s and all throughout the year so there could be any term and jay signs appear and places outside of terminate like race suspicions or anybody sees anything they got there might be a clue to where it is but the alternative is is that it's a trailer with no floor in it and nothing on the top of it and it could just be lying somewhere and people might think it's it's waste or it's been dumped or it's abandoned in any form you want to hear about where it is and get it back i presume yeah all of these want to hear where it is i don't really want to get into how it arrived there or how it got there as long as i get it back i'm happy enough um as i said as long as we get get it returned and it has been spotted potentially on the back of a car possibly a silver car heading towards valkyra well had who had a horn parish and contacted me to say they thought they seen it they weren't looking for it at the time so they said they weren't paying attention to it they thought it wasn't for care on the friday on the friday uh been told by a silver car so it could be down that direction general direction but again it wasn't paying attention at the time but they thought it caught as a because again there's not a lot of these being transported around the place that's not something you see too often so it should actually just download all right so again um it's it's just a signage on at the moment is pro amp pack it's nothing to do with that company by the way that's just the signage at the moment but the sign sits up triangulately on the back of the trailer uh what length is the trailer sorry that's an eight before trailer it's only a way one eight eight by four so it's either in its current form with that signage on it pro amp pack or uh a gea fundraising signage or the signage has been kicked off or something and it's sitting there with no sides in it and no base eight by uh four trailer someone out there seen it that elsewhere it is it's just a case of them picking up the phone and letting us know and as you say there's a small reward there uh although it's not a bad reward i'll take it if i knew where it was no what are you saying the greg i'll give i might go out after work and see if i can go for a day and i okay well listen um as i say you just want to back now at this stage so someone out there i know someone's seen it or knows where it is it's just a case of if they pick up the phone it may have been being towed by a silver car heading towards falcar at this point burn it you want it back uh the investigation can be up to other people i presume you just want it back at this point yeah i just want it back it appears and i say the road appears somewhere in gary park or some of that's grand um as i say i don't really care how it got there i'll do so i want it back so i'm not too concerned about how it got there just want it back at this stage right let's see what happens all right thanks very much burn it that's the burn it got her owner of cbm signs have you seen the sign as i say eight by four trailer it's got like a triangular sign on the back for pro ampak but that could come off obviously it's nothing to do with that company i should say um and it could be a gea fundraiser that's on it or whatever it might be or the alternative is is that the signage has been taken off it and then it's just the base of a trailer really it's just the bones of it with um the axel attached it does have a floor it doesn't have the uh it doesn't have the floor and it doesn't have the what do you call the things on the side you know yourself right oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand letters so let's get back there that back to bernard let's prove the power of radio everyone talks about the power of facebook let's get it back on the radio uh the government won't invest in ivf because they are anti-family but pro lgbt and trans supporters will you see the two things aren't separate really because those who are in the business of promoting ivf are promoting are in the business as you heard of making such services where applicable to members of the communities that you mentioned uh but being pro uh lgbt plus it's not be i don't think you have to be anti-family do you um but that's your opinion and thank you very much for the text uh the government has already committed 10 million to it though and they are committed to it apparently uh so i don't know i want to mention the irish rinks indoor bowls team they won the world championships in wales at the weekend which is a remarkable achievement you know and perhaps for many went quite under the radar but uh we have the world champions in the irish rinks indoor bowls um the finals were in wales eddie corin daniel o'cain michael gallagher and john quinn bringing home the silverware if you're not home already safe home lads and well done brilliant achievement to be top of your class in any sport fair play to you should we play a couple requests too while we're here i want to say happy birthday and happy 40th 40th anniversary to martin warsky that's coming in from your wife dirger his two daughters and a son did you get married on your birthday that's lovely isn't it 40 years married the wonderful dirger and uh it's your birthday as well double celebrations in the household happy birthday martin and good wishes of course coming in from your wife dirger your two sons uh sorry your two daughters and son and i want to say happy birthday now to ruby crumblish in term a nine today happy birthday ruby have a great day love you mommy daddy mary and james hopefully there's a cake there this evening that'd be nice wouldn't it it's a lovely thing to have in a house right okay let us take a break watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show 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charles for more search toyota relax toyota built for a better world terms and conditions apply all right you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show we're going to focus a bit in sport now uh because we have two eminent guests to talk to us about it uh ge8 most specifically of course we have our sports editor asheen kelly in studio with us good morning to you asheen good morning greg it's good to have you with us and also uh brendan devaney presenter of the dl debate he has uh we've brought him forward a wee bit to be part of this conversation we're going to be talking about what's coming up on the dl debate as well but listen all anyone wanted to talk about yesterday after they'd finished talking about rugby was uh the situation with donnie gall and the feeling i got uh was that people are prepared to have patience and see where we go and all that kind of stuff uh osheen but particularly those who attended the game they didn't see much hope you know and people need hope uh do you get that you do need a bit of hope greg all right and unfortunately we're staring relegation in the face uh effectively has slapped us in the face yeah it sort of did yeah and uh we're going down and that's the reality of it like it needs a um a rare set of results for donnie gall to stay up it's not going to happen and it's inevitable that we're going to go to division two but if we go back to where we were at the start of the league campaign there was always that sort of fear there that that donnie gall could be relegated this year and they were been tapped as one of maybe the two sides that were going to go to go down so it's not that it's a it's a major surprise and it's not the end all and be all remember dublin were relegated last year so they were as well and they're coming straight back up now to division one and they had a decent enough run on the championship last year so if you if you do get beat if you do get relegated it's not the be all and end up but it's not ideal preparation for the championship and there's sometimes it's the manner of the defeats rather than the defeats themselves yeah the second half we were poor once we conceded that goal and got a speed of speed when the goal went down early in the second half donnie gall were deflated they couldn't they couldn't find the energy or the enthusiasm to try and to try and get back into it and it was a very very flat afternoon in balbufe we were we were hoping that there would be a positive spin on things because we all know what's going on off the field in relation to carles in the head of the academy jim mcginnis coming out last week as well there's all this negativity around donnie gall football and going into the match yesterday i think it was unfair on the current management team and the players that the people in the terraces and on the stand instead of talking about let's get behind the team here they were talking about jim mcginnis and carles that's not their fault because no it's not their fault that story that story was released into the media by jim mcginnis okay so you know what i mean obviously it's going to be a big talking point the following on from a poor league performance jim is a very intelligent man he probably would have known what was going to happen and and and the conversations that we had out there now i just want to be clear i'm not right the death of the obituary notice here for donnie gall gia or the team either but listen we have to have the conversation it's a down day so we're feeling down and the supporters the supporters are hurting with everything's going on and they're disappointed that donnie gall's been relegated to to division two but um with the shift and the change of losing the likes of of michael morphe you've no michael morphe uh you've no sheen o'donnell didn't come back uh who was one of donnie gall's best players in the championship last year and then you compound that with injuries to the likes of excuse me ryan mcqueen and patrick and patrick mcberdy donnie gall have struggled and so they have done it donnie gall have but that shows a lack of depth yeah yeah it's we're going into i don't like using this transition period or anything to that because we've still got a big core the squad that's that's been there for for the last couple of years and yes you're they're bringing in players but it's it is what it is we don't we sort of don't have that strength and depth that that we used to have through that through that golden golden error and it's about unearthed sort of players now so does to bring donnie gall in the future and work with the core we have we've seen there has been bright patches kieran thompson kept us on us yesterday he came back for what his first start of the league um so he did but once again once that goal went on the latter part of the first half and the start of the second half days that seems to be the the common factor in the league and how things have panned out with donnie gall brendan devaney um well what's your reaction to it and i mean obviously you know we have to reflect as i said to ash there we have to reflect the conversations and the feelings people are having out there we can't put a you know unless it's required a big rosy picture on it and say look at these players will come back and the championship and what's your taking at all listen you're touching on a lot of it there ashians right um you know there definitely was i suppose when the management was announced listen when people heard of carol asian worry cabinets potentially with with jim again this in the background there was a there was a lot there was a lot of excitement i suppose by by that and um this and the guys for different reasons stepped back from that and then there was this void of who kind of wanted the job because a lot of people looked at the squad and was like right there's going to be there's going to be maybe some tough times ahead we certainly weren't a team was knocking on the door of an all-irland tilt you know even though we've been up about it and all stirring that the shortcomings have been there for a few seasons and then when some of our top players started step away and as ashins had relegated and different people decided not to get involved the right was on the wall for what was going to be a tough league and don't forget i suppose you know the three points we got i mean it was a last minute winner against kerry which was fair enough patrick me birdie got that and then gallway had the chance to beat us and in the dog park with the last minute free did you should have converted so we could be sitting with zero points and going down uh you know with with a with a real tough uh end of the league but i mean the fighting chance is there but it's not realistic to be honest we're going down and i think it's right for this team to go down you seen the gap you stood i mean that was a do or die game for dunny gall against mayo and we weren't at the races at all so the gap is there at the minute you're better off going down and rebuilding and this and plenty of our neighbours have done that at the minute the best two teams in austere you you would argue maybe as is our man derry i mean derry have been down as low as four our man as low as three in the last 10 years and and have rebuilt and come back up and sometimes that's just a pattern of things we have good young players coming through but until some of them have have faced maybe tough times and have had to grow as players and become the leaders in the team we certainly don't have that core of a team that kind of knows itself now and knows where it's at in terms of personnel or tactically i might argue and if you look at how derry are shutting down teams and how they're playing the game i mean as much as we we talk about a lot by asking and even yourself greg about how we need to play there's only one way donny gall need to play now and that's to play rigid and play defense type first and play counter attack and then we're not seeing anything like how we need to play so from all areas from from management the tactics the personnel this is this is uh where donny gall is at but let's listen this is where we need to be do you see the uh let's say you're making a a you know a five-piece jigsaw puzzle right do you see the five pieces sitting in front of you to be arranged in a way that donny gall with the current crop of players with the current management can achieve what we all want them to achieve now of course we as fans have to manage our expectations but you know do you believe the tools are there to create a decent donny gall side i'm not saying that's decent to the moment but you know that question what does decent mean greg i mean can we want holster no not a chance uh will we come up with a division two next year that's skeptical because i have an argument you obviously you put you're putting derri armat to roam at the top holster monahan next now people took donny gall and behind it and argue the cabin coming up for division three with love at halted donny gall do you potentially could why can't we want holster brandon we're why can't we want holster we're on a decent side of the of the draw so we are if we can get over down uh and in the opening round and we can improve on some of the things some of the the small aspects that we've seen of of the league donny gall can find themselves in an holster final and anything can happen in that day would you take it would you take a wager on that i should no you know me brandon i'm not a betting man i have never been one i'm not going to start being one so i'm not but but what i'm saying is brandon just just uh you said that we were not going to want holster but you don't know because we're actually on a good side of the draw and if something can be found that this team can click in the manner that we know that they can that's not that's not too far away like what i'm saying is ocean if if we're going to win holster for a start we're we're at least fifth and i would argue that cavern actually i've done we all play cavern next week there is no by no means a foregone clues they're on the way up blushing and they're playing football and one is there's a bit of balls about them at the minute it's doing my glim for us what i'm saying is if you go to you know one holster and we're ranked maybe fifth potentially sixth that's a big big ask no matter what because brandon are you playing mind games with us are you trying to make us feel that we have no chance even winning holster again take an awesome side argument you're still going to potentially beat our man and the problem is when you get into an holster final then you're still going to have to beat a two-owner a darey or somebody but i'm saying is listen in in tough times we have to learn but this team is going to have a tough provide before they come back so talks of of of holsters this year not i take away off the mark in terms of if we made a final it would be amazing all right well give me the ocean give us the give us the argument then for reaching a final or even winning holster well as we know and i think it happened on holster final day greg so we can if we could get there yes it's going to be a difficult route we're going to be in the side of the draw we have to beat our ma but that's very much as our mobby just last year in the championship so they did listen it's championship football and anything can happen and all you need the difference in one one like yesterday if we got that one that didn't look never looked like con from the carry win then listen i think we got a wee bit lucky the carry game to be honest greg we got a bit lucky we like the carry we know did not come to balbuffa we haven't seen the carry this year and and um at all in the league we haven't seen the way that they all are and champions can play and it took a spectacular score from patrick birdie right at the end of the boys had to dig deep and and they performed very very well that day and then there's the counter argument that maybe it was a a carry team that was still trying to find their feet this year since they had we hadn't really played we haven't we haven't we've seen patches i don't want to be too doom and gloom yes the supporters are disappointed but getting to the holster championship and you overcome down in the first round you're going to get a huge lift of that so yeah and they're going to go in matches as underdogs there won't be the expectation that there's always this expectation around around donnie golff let me ask you let me ask you this right and i'll i'll put it to brendan as well that's all well and good right if you are confident right you've got the management team and i'm not criticising the management team but just as i say i want to reflect the conversations that i'm not there if you've got the management team that can say right lads we're underdogs we are going to overcome this let's prove them wrong but also you've got the leaders on the pitch that do that that's when the going gets tough right that they can regroup and not drop the heads and and and some might feel give in like are those well that's where the players need to come and they need to ask themselves that question do are they going to be a leader on the pitch like they need to step up you can you can talk about management's um and we have this management in place that are that are trying to change things and and have inherited a group of players and are trying to to bring other players like kealan mccolligan and and through the system so they are but if you want leaders on the pitch it's not the management the side of the pitch is going to is going to lead needs to be the players and we have to sort of unearth a few of them so we do um because to be honest yesterday afternoon um there wasn't any after that after that goal went through there was nobody really there to sort of rally the troops yep brendan do do we have the do we have the tools in in our students optimistic and i like it optimistic outlook do we actually have the equipment to pull that off me you know she's playing good cup bad cup here listen when it comes you don't go playing in the austere listen we're supporting don't go we love them i'm just giving an overview of where i think we're at and then where the rest of the country where see we're at and it's all right to be kind of saying right we could still go in potentially this potentially that i mean we're going to a game yesterday where it potentially we could still stay up and we're absolutely annihilated again and you know defensively people have talked about defense and conceding 117 is bad but only score nine points i mean this disaster is in the do or die type game now the challenges to dunny go between injuries and suspensions have been absolutely massive and i take all that on board i'm just saying that in the austere you know if we if we managed to make a final it'd be absolutely amazing the bigger fear for me is the group stages of the all Ireland in the beginning but we could actually compete in them because you're looking at a male team where it's absolutely marauding over the top of history so for us to be able to compete Greg it's going to take a very tactical setup of a team which i haven't seen so far that's what i'm asking and that's what i'm asking what i'm saying is we need to revert to a different type of game a one which i can play about all the time i get that but Greg when you're back to the wall there's no there's certain ways you have to play and i think this dunny go team are going to have to play a very tactical game go down the austere and get into the group stages just to compete for me just to compete against the bigger teams so maybe the need we have to have a technical advantage that might outweigh a physical disadvantage to put it in simple terms and you're concerned that that technical finesse may not be there or just you haven't seen it yet haven't seen it yet Greg listen it's again you don't want to be on the management it's it's been a league that's been tough Greg they came in they had late i mean male for example Greg had nine challenge games played before the league even started i would say they maybe had maybe upwards of 20 training sessions before dunny go we're even got together so so to kind of put us against me oh yesterday is a bit unfair there seems to be a lot of unfairness on dunny go going through this league but that's a tough league that's where it is but you and i she are both good cop on on you know our expectations it's just i think really on you're just maybe a bit more optimistic when you have to be optimistic as the most great day but listen it is it is it is disappointing um and and look into the future yes you do you have have a concern but we're going into a stage where we're dunny go need to they sort of need to regroup great uh so and a lot of what brendan's saying is is correct so it is but dunny go they need to regroup um that may take a lot longer than we then we were hoping that it would and we sort of knew that they were going to have to do it but this period is going to take a lot longer than than what we expected at the very start but you're on a big expect expectations um do you need to go now brendan are you right for five minutes i'm i'm actually yeah i have to have to explain now they don't have to explain you better plug us d l debate there before he goes thanks uh come here listen there's going to be more conversation on the program who do you have you've got interviews with mickey mccann paddy car rory gala her i've i got the right one this week do it because you can yeah he's indeed my man g a reporter sports editor with the iconic media group frank craig is there former male star on rte pundit john kasey lots of different heads that are going to have great views on all of this so we really appreciate your time this morning good luck with everything and chat to you after seven p.m tonight appreciate great and it's podcast then all right stay where you are john uh come in on the conversation there good morning john our sheen's with us brendan's left what's your view right we just rose up the match yesterday and uh there's some terrible comments coming from the reporter there yesterday but i think it's real fair well then we're going to start like you know brendan will be tacky here but usually he's playing well and put to an order to carry out the tactics you know it's really hard them young boys to come on there and play if you gave them that pressure we always put them under yes he was gone real like you know you want uh you think going down rebuilding coming back up that that's actually a positive thing certainly has to happen yeah yeah all right uh and and what we've got the players of the religious well do you believe just on that job because we had a few texts earlier where people said that you know there's good players out there that never get a shot at it like are you happy that we it's it's a good player that there would get the shot but the rather this is too perfect on the one of like you know you know we have put the right to hold it really break out your football now really oh it's a huge commitment there's no doubt about that and we appreciate every every inch of effort all right john thanks for that and that's the difficult one um osheen in when we sort of reflect on it because as i said earlier on in the program you know we know the pressure on these players and and even in their own hometowns and all that kind of stuff we know the sacrifices they have to make uh we know that it's for the love of the game really but then at the same time you've got people yesterday handing over 18 euro i'm not ready for it you've got people yesterday handing over 18 euro and traveling great distances and parked the car and walking in and all and you know they want to feel that they've got a right to sort of say hello and you this is our team as well and we want to have our say don't go supporters like to have their say greg so that you're across the board and that's the trying to find a good balance in that because these players are putting their life in hold it's easy for the supporters to be critical it's easy for somebody to come on here in your program and be critical of a of a dunagall performance but well the commitment that though that group has made to the cause of the group and to the cause of of dunagall football is unquestionable because they've basically just parked their lives that that is the level of being an under county fulper as of the minute and you touched on about these good players in the county and john had the point there's an abundance of good players in the county but not all of them want not all of them can actually stick to being at a standard of an under under county fulper and to top five yeah you you like you need to have you need to be of a strong character and mentally it needs to you need to have it as well because it is psychologically right okay you've got a man actually there that is trying to win over the the the uh you respect of players and all that kind of stuff but at the same time though you've got a man that owes nothing to dunagall gee and jim again is the timing of his podcast where he talks about how he never got a call back the team that potentially would have been there to help out you know if you're a player thinking well it's just strange timing accidental I'm sure when you know we needed a big result in a huge game with everything else else is going on behind the scenes the timing could have been better I think for that information to come into the public domain because the question was asked on this show and I'm sure other shows you know would you be interested has anyone reached out to you you know I said to himself he was offered the manager's job uh but he couldn't he couldn't commit to being the manager of dunagall and he said as well he was only he was only hanging around until until the summertime we we all know that jim's direction is very much in the soccer and the football world uh sodas and that's where his endgame wants to be and he reached out and he wanted to to help to help dunagall then he became part of a of a background team and that didn't materialize for one reason or another so he was never that hasn't actually been been brought out into the to the public domain as yet where jim was gonna be part of like a consultant type background person along with carol lacy and then it was going to be be headed up by by rory kevna so this was all confirmed to the manager have been it seems to be rory kevna but we like it's we're now we're now going off the back of what what jim mcginnis has said about this proposed management team but that fell away for some reason or another that isn't in the public domain and we don't know but his consultancy let me put it like that would only have been available into the summer anyway until the summer anyway but then their county season is going to finish before yeah i get that it's only gonna it's going to finish before the summer now if jim mcginnis reached out and say the current management and he was brought in to to take an odd session or like what he's done with down we understand and done with other counties over over this last last couple of years why was that not talked about well that's and i was this should party car every manager would want that exactly that's my point not every manager would want it so um but no the timing of it wasn't great off the back of what was going on with with the situation with carlesi and the head of academy um and and how the the academy basically was a mess Greg let's be honest about it don't go football is was a mess with with what went on now again there's reasons for that too that isn't in in the public domain and you try to be as balanced as as you can but it's hugely disappointing that you have people of the stature of carlesi of of jim mcginnis rory kevna these boys you want them involved in donnie goll football look what they done for donnie goll football look what they achieved amazing like it's been fantastic what they've done and you want them involved in donnie goll football going forward in the future it's not going to happen now in the immediate term um like carlesi's resignation has been accepted by the clubs and he's he's not coming back to the academy we understand the county board representative who met him exhausted all avenues and trying to get him back but unfortunately it's not it's not going to happen so everybody has to move on now try move on where we're at try to move on for the betterment of donnie goll football but you would love to see carlesi jim mcginnis rory kevna all like you've got him and mcgee who would be a regular contributor here volvo leo mclin they're all iron and wonders as well that's the caliber of person that the type of person that you want involved in the structures and donnie goll football going forward but but but also some might say well if organiser like they seemingly almost did if you want you know you can't mess around the edges get together a team and put yourself forward to manage it because it was a job that no one seemed to want everyone seemed to want to have that was the dream no one wanted to actually uh seemingly we heard the rumors at the time right okay you heard the rumors at the time that was the dream ticket that everybody wanted but again for a reason that is unknown seems to be to jim mcginnis and to tell us as well because it's not out there in the public domain that didn't happen and we're now at a crossroads where listen we need to move on i guess you will have to move on as well osheen thanks so much for being part of the conversation important you are you watch so many of the games and have a a great insight to it we really appreciate your 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the show he's back with us good morning mark morning Greg right we're being told it's not the same we're being told that the main banks are well resourced they're going to be well protected but yet here we are we are seeing some of the medium smaller sized banks going to the wall and people with a financial interest in this by way of shares and what have you are rattled are you rattled yeah i'm i'm not rattled and i'm not particularly um surprised actually um as as interest rates rise um that turns up the pressure on the whole financial system um we've had kind of 15 years where everybody's got used ourselves as consumers but also the banks to a low interest rate environment as the pressure has turned up with higher interest rates then a few things have started to go pop and um the big question that's kind of spooking the markets is whether this is just the system blowing off steam or whether the whole thing is about to go kaboom um and i think really the both of the cases that that triggered um these issues um silicon valley bank in the us and credit swiss um the the big swiss multinational bank did have some unique circumstances behind them and i think it is important to remember that but the thing that's making everybody nervous is um those interest rates being so high it is definitely putting the whole financial system under pressure i mean banks was a basket case uh you know losing billions every single year this was people keep saying now this was inevitable but it was inevitable why was something not done before now if it was so obvious uh that there was a bit of sort of you know recklessness at that bank you know it's sort of maybe the lack of oversight and regulation of banks that did cause uh to await is this just the one we're hearing about now and more to follow yeah i mean banks are the reason we end up talking about banks all the time is because banks banks are weird um effectively their business model is is really fragile um you know they don't hold as much deposits as they loan out that's the way banking works they they put more out in loans than they actually hold in deposits if everybody goes and get tries to get their money out of the bank you can't get your money you know we this isn't new this this was in mary poppins it was in it's a wonderful life bank runs you know aren't aren't a new thing and credit swiss had the least confidence because as you say greg there'd been a series of scandals and what's really happened is the combination of the higher interest rate environment which already had markets spooked um was coupled with um the Saudi national bank who's the biggest backer of credit swiss um actually said it wasn't increasing its stake in credit swiss and that was enough with the backdrop of of the history of scandals and also the worries in the market um to trigger a price collapse in um credit swiss so they've been snapped up by by ubs for for only three three billion and that's a bank that holds over a trillion in in assets which is a sign of the nervousness that's out there right now but as i say credit swiss really there was a series of scandals and i think that makes it quite unique and i think that's why it's perhaps different um than than than other banks all right now part of this is additional tier one debt right there's 17 18 billion euro of that people are being burnt in that regard right and there's others banks that trade in that now i don't know the ins and outs of it but that seems to be to me the thing that might be rumbling on the water under the water that might make investors nervous uh you know what i mean because whilst the news is is yes the the bank's been taken over and we're sure there are people being burnt here big time yeah so on both sides of the equation right so if you take the the case of credit swiss the bondholders um have been burnt and and that's caused a lot of nervousness in the market um from bondholders who hold bonds in other banks and they're asking themselves the question over the weekend whether that's going to happen to me if you take the silicon valley bank scenario that was depositors who who got nervous and the situation there was um silicon valley bank were kind of having to call on their cash to fund tech companies that um were were calling down on cash because they couldn't get funding because of higher interest rates again um and that um meant that they had to sell their bonds and that meant that there was a big write down and then depositors went hang on why why did they take such a big right down so there must be a reason so in both scenarios what spooking people effectively is that that maybe they're going to lose their money because something nasty is going to happen but i would say in both scenarios silicon valley bank um the um the us regulations were repealed uh only i think it was three or four years ago under the trump government for what they call small banks so small banks are under 250 billion dollars us so they're big in an irish context but these are the regional banks um and to be honest in in my view if that if that regulation hadn't been repealed and that regulation exists in our banks for example we we are subject to stress stress testing and a lot of other things the situation in silicon valley bank wouldn't have happened so that was a trump deregulation that created this unique scenario in silicon valley bank in credit swiss we've already talked about that how that was a unique case and you've talked to about the impact of rising interest rates the in europe we've plowed ahead again with a further increase and i think they did uh similarly uh in the us not so long ago every action has a reaction there are those who are saying that to to fight the inflation that raising interest rates is not the way forward so we're being told the reason as to why interest rates are going up we are seeing at the moment still inflation increasing okay yet we are seeing then the negative impact these high interest rates are having not only in the banking sector but other areas of industry so then why are the officials in the united states and ours in europe here continuing with this policy of raising interest rates when it's not seemingly yet having the result of lowering inflation but it is creating this this uncertainty and and threat to banks for example yeah it's a great question greg and to be honest it's it's because it's the only leader that they've got i mean really um over the history of controlling inflation which has been generally successful since inflation was tamed back in the 80s um then central banks have used this lever very successfully if if you flip the question and say well if interest rates aren't going to control inflation then we really um would be entering unknown territory and i think that's why central banks are persisting so they're basically saying it's not happened yet but if we get to the right level of interest rates we will tame inflation and that is let's let's be clear that is really fundamental for a successful economy so it's a really important prize and i think the calculation that central banks are making they know they're going to blow up some things in the banking system by by by hiking interest rates so far and so fast but they're hoping that they can go around stick sticking plasters on those things as they as they blow and and and and limit the the the damage and then still keep raising interest rates so they can bring inflation yeah but that being said i think the the the the scenario we are in surely then in terms of the global financial situation is is that we have the pressure pot and there's pressure in it and we're releasing bits of that pressure but we still don't know we can't say with absolute certainty that the lid ain't going to blow off because it seems no one has actual control over this and there's an awful lot of people perhaps with vested interests in countries and nations and influences that that would have a great interest in the lid blowing off yeah we the truth is Greg nobody can say the the the lid won't blow off um what we can say with a great deal of certainty is that there is so there is a lot more regulation a lot more the amount of capital that the banks hold has changed um significantly and plus i think it is important to say to your listeners you know the bank guarantee scheme is in place you know these are things that weren't in place back in 2008 so regulation um capital um guarantees um bank guarantees all these things have been put into place but it's all not enough to convince the markets though that's the thing you see yeah i i agree with that and that's what's the we read flag for me because money people are very motivated to look after the money and they're not getting clearly the assurances that they need yeah there's a huge amount of fear and i'll go back to that a comment i made earlier on banking is a fragile business model we do need it otherwise you know for liquidity and for the whole economy to work but fundamentally um banks loan up loan out more than they have in the deposits in any other area of the economy um that wouldn't be a valid business plan which is the irony of it being a bank um but that is the reality of the banking system so it does it does spook people when when we near to the limits and that's where we are uh quick word on mortgage interest rates and what have you you know i feel so sorry for some people who's are with companies their loans were sold from under them effectively and and and there's no fixed rate options for them they could be in uh defective concrete affected homes and some people are messaging us paying eight nine percent interest uh and i just want to acknowledge that some people are in very specific sets of circumstances but more generally speaking are we in a period of shall we shan't we fix rates if the options are there or what where are we at in terms of all of that mark because we haven't spoken for a while yeah so it's still i would really encourage people um so basically if inflation stays high then interest rates are going to stay high for a long time so i think the latest developments um really make um those people are maybe on the edge of thinking about fixing hoping that things might come back down i think it makes it unlikely that interest rates are going to come down these latest developments that we've just been talking about and i guess that the the chink of light is the fixed rates still are quite competitive i do not think that's going to last for what's out there mark yeah so you can fix around 3.2 3.3 and you know the average tracker now is at 4.65 so um you know and the average verbal rate is is is we've already seen verbal rates start to rise AIB last week increase their verbal rates to the first of the banks to increase their verbal rates so really if you can fix i would encourage you to fix i would make one comment Greg about what we call kind of mortgage prisoners or or or vulture funds funds they're 85 000 people with with um close funds or or vulture funds um we have been doing some work with them at moneyshoper and there are actually more people who can fix perhaps than they think some people think that there are no options there are a couple of options for those people who are out of arrears so um even if you are in that situation are they in and around the 3.2 mark though uh mark yes so mark and it all depends on the bank's affordability test unfortunately um can you imagine that with this you talk about the the the the the the strangeness of the banking system surely it would be in a bank's interest to give a person who maybe has cash flow issues the best possible deal for them to meet the repayments rather than leave them at the uh whim of the markets and end up having a mortgage that they can't afford to pay and then the bank has to go through the process of repossession where is the logic there yeah i think it's different it's different for different cases and i i think there are three broad groups um that there are within the um the the vulture funds so there are the people who are currently in in in arrears and yeah there isn't really any options for them because no other lenders will take them there are the people at the top of the scale who actually because they've heard vulture funds and mortgage prisoners we are finding there's quite a lot of people who actually can switch to what we call an open market lender and think they can't and i i am trying to get the message out and a number of us are the actually do check out whether you have an option and then there's a group of people in the middle who currently won't pass the affordability test so they're not in arrears but let's say maybe their income has been reduced they may have got divorced circumstances have changed and they can't pass the affordability tests and i do think there is a case for um lenders and government to lock a back group um to see to your exactly to your point Greg to see if things can be done because because it doesn't seem to make any sense no because you cap rents people into arrears yeah you cap rents right for for all the reasons we're outlined to keep them under a roof you know why not for for mortgage holders why should they be disadvantaged just two very final ones if you don't mind the tracker mortgages i was always of the impression that the tracker mortgage was that you paid the you paid the interest rates that's uh the ecb rate uh correct me if i'm wrong in that and then a few people text in that they were on tracker mortgages but their their rate was set like 1.8 or something like that above the base rates right and then they were having difficulties fixing because they were into this tracker so there are different trackers are the trackers with a premium let me put it like that there and can anyone on the tracker you know if they're not in arrears or whatever fix their mortgage with the i'm not on a sort of the main lenders if you know what i mean because the couple of contacts i had with people with from main irish banks let me not that there's many left but you know what i mean great question so um trackers actually track they all have a margin so they're all higher than the ecb rate so the best trackers the the lowest margin trackers are 0.5 so um but they do go up to 2.5 actually um i think i have come across the odd one that's plus three so then you basically take the three and a half and you add let's say 0.5 and then you're paying four so that's somebody on a 0.5 percent tracker the average tracker in irelander actually is a plus 1.15 so the average person on a tracker is actually paying 4.65 so how things have changed yeah yeah and it's now 4.65 to your second question greg everyone if they pass the affordability tests every tracker customers should be able to fix right okay and that should be they should be dependent on the bank they might be able to avail of a fixed lower than their current tracker rate then yeah so there's there's there's there's two things that i say to um track and mortgage customers right now number one ask for your mortgage offer letter from your bank that'll tell you what rates you can fix on um and then number two talk to a mortgage broker to see if you'd be better off switching and actually fixing with another lender because on average um it's it's 10650 euros cheaper over your mortgage term if you switch and fix you typically find the big banks have the least attractive rates and there are some newer banks and lenders who are offering better fixed rates so um yeah so get your offer letter check out what you can get and then talk to a broker that would be my advice all right and you can go on to the internet and type in money sherpa.com and uh mark and his team there might be able to help you thanks mark thanks greg all right appreciate your time as always take care of yourself 08 660 25 000 whatsapps and 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rolling machinery to plant the potato and the fertilizer as as you've likely heard through from last year to now like fertilizer has more less double the flock travel now retailers sometimes see the potatoes as a lost leader you know they're they're not you know we don't see a great increase to the consumer i don't think generally speaking so that must mean that it is the likes of yourself and others in the production train or chain that are having to absorb these increases there's no extra cash there for you to make it worthwhile yes that's correct uh like you have every other line of food that basically through inflation has reduced between 16 and maybe 18 and sometimes maybe as high as 20 and you have the the the potato itself has only really has taken a rise of between 1 to 1.4 percent so i don't really think that's overly fair um because like if you know if we don't get a fair reflection on like price return you know there's going to be a mass exodus of farmers out of the industry you know as i say uh great so who needs to intervene here i mean it's probably late in the day for the retailers to all of a sudden grow a conscience and say all right okay well we need to give you guys more they probably have other options from uh other suppliers or importation or what have you i mean is this something that requires an intervention or commentary at least from from minister charlie mcconnellogue for example what can happen in the short window that we have to ensure the likes of yourself and others stay in the potato growing industry yeah like no the department of agriculture charlie mcconnellogue himself like needs to speed up the the the process of getting the food on linzman and the possession so he can look at this and really intervene and say like enough's enough like the potato grower needs a fair a fair price for his product like you know like ireland is renowned for growing the potatoes and like especially doneigaw like with some maybe some of the best potato growers in the country and doneigaw so we do um and like and do we really want to be important a food source that can be so easily grown on this country so like it's a bigger belief that that the potato man can't or a woman can't get a fair return for all their hard work you know yeah and we're already seeing some of the big players in the potato growing market exiting this year is setting their intent in that regard potentially with more to follow unless things improve drastically quickly yeah no potato growers like could be they've been forced out of business no so they are and and if something isn't done very quickly like you're going to have a really exodus like what happened on the vegetable end as last block of years where uh supermarkets and prepackers and all that there uh hasn't hasn't given a fair return for a fair return of margin for the hard work that goes on the storage costs like storage costs is the really big one uh and like do we want a really mass exodus and also to the amount of labor that is tied up you know all that there a lot of them people to be out of jobs and you know looking elsewhere like or if there is anything out there so we have in relation to you know rising input costs and uh scarcities right we have seen staples like butter milk flour pasta you know those types of food stuff particularly the latter two that I mentioned there uh going up in price and presumably that was so producers uh were compensated for their increased costs why has the increase been so small for potatoes what's going on that the potato farmer their plight's not being recognized then do you have any insight into that for us donald I I can't really answer that uh no I don't know what really goes on behind the door three packers and on the retailers there's no point in me saying well I don't have any insight into that um it just seems to be they just think they're just going to stay there and just keep growing and just keep getting battered from color to post you know like I don't know what what could be done that's the case where I say as I was literally looking to sit down and have uh uh a meeting with the bank retailers to see if there can be a fair share of the price go back plus uh the only problem is is the I I I yeah I get you but the only problem is is I think a lot of the retailers see the the humble potato as that last leader as that product that gets people in through the door and then they can make their money back elsewhere you know on different products which doesn't bode well for uh the grower but look at we'll track this story thanks donald for giving us an insight into it we see where it goes from here that's that all great all right good man all right thank you yeah go ahead all right donald thanks very much donald loge there who's the chair of the donald all i have phase potato committee also a potato grower himself watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nintel noon show is brought to 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with someone who's sort of bought into that so and now that just be my my that could just be my small circle we don't talk much about it but is it something that happens on mass that people make those purchasing decisions i think it's things that it it's it happens um for a period of time and then it's stopped it happens at pivotal times i think the around 2014 when the last well prior to may that was prior to may 21 that was the largest incursion in gas and there was 260 people killed i think that um brought people out and wanted to do something and there was like a 46 percent uh reduction in the um in the the financial finances that went to israel around that time so that was really good but it's keeping up that momentum is the important and life goes on for everybody and people forget it's not always highlighted what's going on in palestine all the time the media isn't particularly good um and people have their own issues going on so it's it's that's why i'm regularly and a group of us are regularly in bunkrana to raise awareness about what's going on well i think people do people kind of tend to do you know we'll think how they're told like say for instance you know what's happening uh in in what israel is responsible for right you could equate that to maybe what uh is happening in eastern europe at the moment uh and we are throwing all the resources of the west to ensure that bad people are held to account all right and yet we've got this ongoing situation uh in in uh israel and what they are doing but israel seems to be a friend of the west and then it must be okay israel good russia bad for example and people just go along with that narrative seemingly yes and there's a certain amount of truth in that and i supposed you know we we believe what we're told um and also because of the kind of things that happened happened in by israel against palestine in the people it's in such an insidious way that you kind of think and it's incredulous so you kind of really don't believe it because it's a democratic because i quit democratic country so how can this be happening um and also unfortunately the palestinian people only have a few olive trees they there is no great fuel or or oil or anything there so to be cynical about it you know there isn't much skin in the game for the west but israel has an awful it just is talks to it's the hypocrisy of the west though is it not really that we are so vexed about an awful thing awful thing uh that's happening in eastern europe yet something uh that that might sort of impact us if we took a different stance on uh we kind of turn a blind eye to it what's happening what israel are responsible for like it's hypocrisy isn't it well and the media don't call it out either let's let's you know they don't call it out they don't yes no it is it is it is hypocrisy but the world is full of hypocrisy in every at every level and we just have to keep uh banging the table about it i think that's the reason why i and others are you know after may 21 which was the last kind of um incursion and we all came out there was 20 there's 200 and you know there was a certain amount of 29 people killed at that stage um in the incursion gas that we came out we had the banners we did all that and then at that point i thought this is ridiculous because we'd be putting the banners away again until the next time and people forget they get on with their own lives and there's so many things happening for people um all of the time that we are kind of we're kept very busy in our head around other issues you know so um we now keep up um a regular stance so that we keep that up and we do get back support for that i'm certainly not trying to discourage you it's just again i just want to talk of the irony of the situation in that we had the very dangerous move i i think over the last couple of days where uh putin was charged with war crimes um because of his his abuse of children uh not well it's it was an abuse of children sorry it was his uh the claims that he abducted uh ukrainian children bring them to russia there's terrible crimes inflicted against palestinian children by israeli forces and arms of the israeli state and you know it reads and i'm reading something it reads like what's terrible that's going on isn't it you know what i mean and it is but yet we as the west if i can say that i don't know if that's even the right phrase theology we'll just get on with it then we'll just look at it and go that's terrible isn't it yet at the same time everyone's reacting to this move to to uh to to try flatter me or putin for similar crimes really yeah yeah you know and i don't want to give up i don't want to discourage you and i don't want to give up in the world no it's a it's epoxy in a full world to live in when you see what's acceptable because they're your friends versus what's acceptable because they're deemed as your enemy exactly and i think we need to make the comparisons and it's also gives us an opportunity to make that comparison and say what has been done you know because it's we can't we cannot give up on it so we can say right so at the moment people are encouraged we're encouraging people to get on to me hell martin and you know to bring to the international as our foreign minister for foreign affairs to bring to the international community to look at the the the uh the laws that are being broken on a consistent base also we don't have that independence you see because we have to tell the european party line well we do we will we tend to anyway we don't seem to have that independence well as part of the eu one of the things that happened in 2018 was that there was a law brought in to um boycott the goods from the israeli settlements which are illegal okay and it got through to the point and then they said no we can't do this because we can't stand unilaterally again we're in the eu so then there was a citizens initiative which is just just finished it has just been put in into europe where a million people sign signatures to say right the eu now as there as a block um you must stop you know we are asking you to sanction the the importation of goods from the illegal settlements so we just have to keep finding ways around this you know because we can't let these people down either um and that is the problem that it's going on for 50 years and they know they're very aware that nobody cares um but they are always delighted to see people especially irish people because they they feel that we have a deeper understanding in palestine in november yes what did you say what was it like what is life like in palestine well um i came into jerusalem uh first of all both both jerusalem and and then i was in hebron and i was in different parts of of the west bank after that and i mean hebron and um jerusalem are both conservative um cities they're not like tell of eve which is much more secular so you're immediately in jerusalem hit by um you know the aesthetic jewish community as everybody is in you know the black suits the children even the babies they're all in wrinklets all that kind of thing it's a very regulated um kind of of the city and and the enormity of the military presence is the other thing very young men and women doing their military service and if they weren't doing there they would have been you know it's something they have to do or else they're they're imprisoned they're no joys about that these same young people are sent then into the west bank so then i went down to hebron and again it's another conservative area so there's no alcohol there's i was told to you know dress very conservatively etc but there's a much more relaxed kind of vibe when you when you cross the border it reminded me of like 30 40 years ago here you only put on your safety belt when you're going across into the north so when you're taking a taxi because it's all kind of large taxis um from when you're going back out in out of hebron there's a large clunk click when you get to the border you know out of the outskirts of the of the town so it's a much more relaxed place it's very very busy people are very friendly etc but there is the there's an an enclave all around there of settlement of illegal settlements so people there cannot walk into difference into particular streets in hebron um if they unless they have an international passport um like i did so the some of the people i with couldn't actually walk down some of the streets because they would be seen as a risk to the to the people who lived in the illegal settlements there's a huge amount of um army control and there's problems with permits for people trying to get from there there's a lot of the people live in hebron or in betel hem that work in jerusalem because the money is better um but there's 101 different types of permits you need to cross that border and one morning i was on the bus from betel hem going into jerusalem and um i noted there was you know it was eight o'clock in the morning bus and there was an older woman got onto the bus and then a few stops later her friend or it seemed to be her friend got on and they were chatting and i remember thinking god that's very typical of two women and there was another group of people there was a nun and several other people and then there was people here at the back beside me there was a young woman behind me and we came into the checkpoint then and everybody just got off the bus and we were pulled over to the side and the woman behind me said don't get off the bus just get your passport ready and i watched the and i said god how long will we be here and she said well we could be here all day we could be here in an hour it just depends on on the guys in the army but it looks as if we're lucky today because they're coming over so they came over they passed the queue of people outside they got on the bus they took the passports or they took the documents off the people at the front and they looked two or three times at the older woman so i thought she was an older woman and then they came and took mine but they put her off the bus so um i that mine was fine of course and i said well where's that one we're in the middle of nowhere as far as i could see so i said where's that woman going to go and she said well she'd probably have to go and try and get into at another at another you know at another checkpoint but you might get in so that's a daily recurrence the people outside were checked they all got back into the bus and life and dawn is normal no one passed anywhere about the fact that that one was put off the bus in the middle of nowhere because her permit was now you only get four permits a year now so if you want to bring your children to the zoo you they're not going because there might be someone in hospital that you have to see first so it's a freedom of movement which is completely denied do you think sometimes it's hard to those that might be inclined to be most um likely to campaign maybe for people being wronged for the likes of people in Palestine have difficulty with it sometimes in terms of their questionable human rights record their treatment of women what women are allowed or not allowed to do attitudes towards the LGBT community do you think that sort of gives people a crisis of conscience and that if maybe the Palestinians wanted to garner more support maybe they could treat people better themselves or give people more respect more rights in 2023 i think the Palestinians are well aware of that situation and it's not again it's not all Palestinians i under various by region i understand yeah i mean hama you know if you're in Gaza i would certainly wouldn't like to be a woman right in Gaza but and they're very concerned they are concerned but they know that they're on under your Jordanian laws and that has to change so those things are there and and those things are happening all the time and there's plenty of even though we don't see women out um publicly um when we see the television there are plenty of very strong women's groups in Palestine again i'm not saying that to try and to it's not a gotcha or anything it's just i actually genuinely wonder uh if that's part of the reason as to why no i don't think so because you can't um you know i think the thing that's holding people back in here in dunny gall i mean because i'm i'm we are standing in in on the street in in bunkrana since may 21 and normally we would in you normally get a group of people who would join a group like like ours the new usual suspects people who are aware of things of that um in in show particularly because of mica those same people are involved in that struggle because that's devastating families in and you know in in dunny gall and they can't see outside the four walls so it is it's different thing different things prohibit people from joining up but they don't necessarily have to join a group to be powerful they can look into their basket and say right is there anything here from the dead sea because that is occupied territory yeah they can see if there's anything from if look at those test go avocados they don't have to join a group like ours they can do that or they can um get onto the site from the irish president solidarity campaign and make that sign their name off that email to me hall martin to do something in europe um or alternative and certainly and that that that is a that is a morally okay protest is it because i presume there are farmers and people people like you and me who are producing things in israel for example we might not agree with the government okay uh we probably disagree with them but we're trying to feed our families we're trying to pay our mortgages and we're trying to get through this very tough thing called life uh and we are having people boycotting our product which is impacting us and our families who we have to feed and care for the israeli government they're interested us where their their economy is supported not by avocados right we're not really just damaging the normal people who might not agree with the regime in this protest or these types of protests when really they're more interested in arms and technology and microchips and other things really stuff that we can't have any impact on all we're doing is hitting the poor unfortunate that have to live under that regime because they might not have any other options okay so first of all the um the boycott is is it is it is mainly focused and the you know and the act that's trying to go through that we're trying to push through europe now at the moment on the illegal this the the produce that's coming out from the illegal settlements okay from the occupied territories so it is not initially it is not you endorse the israeli why you don't buy anything from israel no yeah that's what i'm saying you know what alternatives you know when it comes down to what alternatives do you have um you you know you can't take on and i'm not um advocating any kind of violence because that hasn't got unfortunate no i understand exactly we can't take on the biggest army in the world it's not a good strategy this is you know the boycotting is a strategy of you know it's a tactic in a load of other strategies a lot of things have to happen had to happen inside that you see the thing what i don't understand is is why people have to take these actions because you pressure your leaders you would hope that these issues are raised in your the the houses of power be it the doll or in france or in germany or wherever it might be and you have politicians that might speak out of the eu commission and some do but not very many do well that's not happening do you know what i mean it's it's it's it's sad really that it has to come to this because there seems to be just within the the system that there is between the media and the politics and all of that and how intertwined that is and they all eat from the same table political we can have no faith that politically unless it becomes fashionable to do so that politically really anything already moves on to try and and pressure is real will actually happen in a big meaningful way well i think there's a couple of things happening at the moment i think to go back to what we were saying about ukraine because of the sanctions that are trying to impose to crane and because of a massive international response to that we can then use that as a power base to say look we take the high moral ground here what is happening with palestine okay and the other thing that has just slipped out of my head completely now and that i was going to say is yes is the there's really there's new israeli government which is deeply fascist at the moment and are nearly creating their own their own problems because israeli people themselves are out marching now they do not want the new policies that they're bringing in maybe the timing might be right for more progress if that's your will if that's what you want okay so apartheid week runs from the 21st of march until the 28th of march so it's upcoming what in the final minute that we have what do you want to tell people about um i want to ask people first look in their their baskets contact the their tds in relation to the international approach and also on the 30th of march in the dunigal intercultural platform there is a film and a q&a where we're trying to set up a northwest irish palestine solidarity campaign group and i would urge everybody to come along to see that it'll be very interesting night it's at seven o'clock thanks for your insight by the way okay and talking through all that with us it's greatly appreciated thank you very much for the opportunity fair play for being committed to your cause as you say with the regular pop-ups and what have you that you do all right take care right we'll be back with the weather after these messages the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now 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first day it'll be bright the evening to 751 won't that be nice uh for most of us i think anyway the weather rain will clear northwards during the morning so it's done that now clear become drier for a time with patches of drizzle however further outbreaks of rain will develop during the afternoon and evening don't you know continuing mild 12 or 13 degrees and a moderate to fresh southerly breeze a couple of comments before we wrap things up we'll say goodbye to you and don't forget of course uh any comments i don't get through today we carry through to tomorrow and we can continue the conversation then uh but let me get to some now i was at the game this is the donnelly wall mail game yesterday and the supporters had to stand an hour and a half waiting on the gates to open the game itself was terrible the rain didn't help in the end i was just waiting on the pain of the game to be over uh unfortunately says it called a brendon deveney is 100 correct another i personally think they picked the wrong manager and his argument in the back room isn't helping uh it's wild sorry the argument in the back room it's nothing to do with the manager it's wild that jim and them did not get a chance to help uh in the back room team another brendon is right i'll even go as far as saying donnelly won't win another ulster for the next three years uh under the current setup another no mention of the only applicant for the senior job shone paul barrett who has won ulster championships at every underage level why was he not considered the county board need to explain themselves it's disgraceful what's happening believes another caller another i expect whoever texts your show that the donnelly players aren't good enough played senior into county football and he's not just an armchair supporter i get what you're saying and no one's this is not a pylon or a massive criticism but if you like if you travel for an hour and a half to go and see that game as you do from some parts you pay 18 euro uh you know you can't pay in cash either and then you have to drive home maybe get something to eat it's a full day out you know i think people have a right to have a point of view okay we're not involved as i say in or going to be involved in a you know major criticisms of individuals and stuff but people have to be able to vent a little bit don't they i mean they're doing it amongst themselves it'd be silly if we didn't give them the opportunity to to do so on this show your show their show right that's the show over show uh we have to leave it now uh we'll be back tomorrow morning at nine don't forget we'll catch up on all those comments as well so your time wasn't wasted we'll continue the convo tomorrow stay tuned john breson's around the northwest but for me gregg hughes caroline oar who researched and produced an onion who works on the show with us as well on your swingy have a lovely day and as i say chat to you tomorrow morning at nine