 30N, up next, here's Greg with the 9 till noon show. Morning Greg. Morning Roi, enjoy your long weekend. I will. I'll try. Okay, all right. It is the 9 till noon show. A Friday panel is about to join us very, very shortly but at nine o'clock it's time for a news update and it's over to Michaela Clark. Thanks Greg, good morning. The Foreign Affairs Minister has described the DUP's collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly as unfortunate and unwelcome. The collapse of the power sharing government was triggered at midnight when the resignation of First Minister Paul Given took effect. It meant the automatic removal of Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill. While individual ministers can continue with their duties, decisions needing executive approval can't go ahead. Minister Simon Covenay says the DUP's actions are premature. What is so regrettable, unfortunately, they would have known that Mara Sefkiewicz and Liz Tross and people like myself and others have said that we have to make progress in the month of February. And unfortunately, two or three weeks before that target date for progress, the DUP have decided to take political action to collapse everything in protest, which is hardly advancing the efforts to achieve landing zones and compromise between all sides. The Micah Redress scheme could be facing further delays. It was already expected to be delayed until September but the tarnished it in the door last evening says he would be extremely surprised if the scheme was not up and running by the end of the year. The around curve was responding to questions from Deputy Rose Conway Walsh and says the legislation which is expected to go through the door and shun it shortly is a priority for government. The PRO of the Micah Action Group however has described the commentary as deeply concerning. It comes as a meeting between Minister Charlie McConnlog and Micah representatives is taking place tonight. Michael Doherty says the level of disorganization within government at this late stage is unbelievable. Usually when things go quiet it's because they're still trying to figure things out and again it's back to who's organisation of what here. You know this is a 2.2 billion euro scheme the biggest ever in the history of the land and yet at this point in time we're having one person that's in charge of it. We have no resources recruited against it and we seem to have no plan for the rollout and I think homeowners are quite entitled to be disgusted at this point in time. More Donegal women are being encouraged. She under the race in the next local elections. Only four women were elected on to Donegal County Council in 2019 equating to an 11 percent representation well below the national average of 25 percent. In the last general election no woman was elected across the five available doll seats in Donegal making the constituency one of 11 in the country without female representation in the doll. Megan Riley training and engagement lead for women for election says their goal ultimately would be to see a 50-50 balance at a national level. If you look at who's in the doll now most of them will have gotten their start in local politics and you know will have then made their way up through ranks to the doll and we still have yet to have a female t-shirt so we're looking all the way up we're looking at the cabinet the lack of female ministers that there have been and we think that this needs to be a real wave of change and I think the will is certainly there so now it's about the action. Whether or not I see stretches in some areas this morning it will be a cold, bright and blustery day with sunny spells and widespread wintery shards with the possibility of hail and thunder highest temperatures of 4 to 6 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. Breakdown Rescue it takes Aviva visit Aviva.ie to say 15% acceptance criteria terms and conditions apply minimum premium of 310 euro 15% discount applies to new policies bought online see Aviva.ie for details car insurance is underwritten by Aviva Insurance Ireland DAC Aviva Direct Ireland Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Then now until noon show with Bluebird Care providing home care services for all ages and done it all visit bluebirdcare.ie and bring care home. And now it's time for the talk of the North West, the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a very good morning to you. It is four minutes past nine on this Friday the 4th of February and you're very welcome along to another edition of the 9 till noon show. Our Friday panel will be joining us very very shortly but we want you involved in the conversation as well if you wish to chime in on any of the topics we are discussing or indeed want to raise your own 08 660 25,000 WhatsApps and texts that number 08 660 25,000 or alternatively call Caroline an 07 491 25,000 you can watch proceedings on our website highlandradio.com you'll see the links there or on YouTube or Facebook just search Highland Radio. Okay let's introduce that panel I teased you with that we start with Mr Peter O'Rourke retired consultant orthopedic surgeon good morning to you Mr O'Rourke how are you? Good morning very well thank you. It's great to see you again. Thank you. And we're also joined by councillor Jimmy Cahierlock of the letter Kenny and Milford Municipal District good morning to you Jimmy thanks for joining us. Jimmy you might be muted there I wonder. In the meantime I'll say hello to Professor Pat O'Connor Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at University of Limerick. Good morning Pat. Good morning. Great to have you with us. We'll just kick off with what was in the news there Stormont plunged into a fresh power sharing crisis last night after First Minister Paul Given announced his resignation and parties in Northern Ireland have called for an early election as the PUP escalates its protest strategy against the Northern Ireland protocol it comes after DUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots ordered his officials to ease seas carrying out agri-food checks at Northern Ireland Poots so obviously Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill she also loses her job and we're back to a situation where there is no no decision makers in power there. I'll start with you Professor O'Connor what do you think of it all? Oh dear it's a mess it's the colloquial version I mean I really wonder why at some stage somebody hasn't linked the salaries to a functioning Stormont because really I mean it's very clear that very little business would be done there seems to be no way to call a quick election and the election was due to be it's due to happen in May and it looks as if things are just going to wander on until then and it really is unacceptable and it does look like a DUP stroke I have to say but in my general point is that really a functioning Stormont needs to be linked to the salaries of the people in it and that might concentrate mines a little. That being said I presume the DUP are you know they're very clearly against any border up the Irish Sea they have concerns about disruption to business if they feel they are not getting or making any progress through regular means maybe they're left with no option to take action like this. Well the DUP have gotten themselves into a very tricky position like they were in favour of Brexit they have been involved in negotiations really and in a way the their position in terms of the border of the Irish Sea fair enough but this is not a surprise you know the border of the Irish Sea and this problem as to in the event of Brexit what was to happen to goods travelling outside the EU parameters borders this has been flagged over and over and over again and really and I suppose I would have a lot more sympathy on it to the fact they voted for Brexit so in a way they knew this was going to be a problem. Peter on Royal Court say you. Well I think we all knew it was inevitable that something like this would happen you have two parties in Northern Ireland so diametrically opposed one who would like to build a wall rather than just have a border and the other would like absolutely nothing so Brexit has just focused their attentions and polarised everything so that one side and the other side are just getting further and further apart and I think it was inevitable there would be some thing happening just like this it was just a case of when rather than if. Yeah but I mean it's not like an election change is anything you know we're not going to see the entry of four you know new parties onto the Northern Ireland political landscape from which you can form you know a power sharing executive it's going to end up being you know the same again isn't it it's all just a waste of time. Well it could be even worse because you might have a situation where Sinn Fein have the majority and the Unionists won't participate at all and I think that's reasonably possible and even if we do have a new election and near distant future I suspect you won't have a power sharing executive for a very long time. Councillor Kavanaugh can you hear me now? Yeah Greg I apologize first of all I was on mute when you had to just hear it. It wouldn't be a Friday between nine and ten if someone didn't on mute. I mean I just wonder what the appetite is Jimmy amongst the people of Northern Ireland to go out and you know relatively cold probably damp weather voting again earlier than they had anticipated is there what firstly what do you think of the moves from the DUP do you have any sympathy for them and B what do you think comes next? Greg listen this is very disappointing I think it's never a good idea to walk off the pitch that's what's happened here they put this deadline of the 31st of January and where that came from I don't know but by walking away there it's never going to be addressed so you know we've seen before in 2017 when things collapsed that took a long long time to get it back together again so I think it's just bad news and you know the protocol is there and has been pointed out that both previous speakers the DUP voted for Brexit and you know it's very hard it's very easy to see all this happening and I see a common Brexit has been a disaster and the thing about this is is the people of Northern Ireland we need stability in Northern Ireland and this definitely causes instability and you know where these voids exist in Northern Ireland you're always very very worried about who's going to fill them and it's just unfair on the people off the North who have suffered so much over such a long period of time and we could do without this people need to get back to the table I think in fairness Simon Coveney has worked very very hard the EU have worked very very hard to try and meet the demands being made about the protocol they've tried to minimise as much as possible the checks on goods moving between the UK and the North and so on and I think progress was being made but as well in the early election as you pointed out break yourself I don't think we'll change anything we'll be back to where we were and maybe worse so it's just very very worrying and it's very very disappointing and I think it was a valuable all right cancer Jimmy Kavanaugh you're also hearing from Dr Peter O'Rourke and Professor Pat O'Connor we're going to get a quick break out of the way and we'll have loads more coming from our guests and you of course listening after these five six two and bring care home need a new part for your Ford car or van when a call to OMS auto parts in Bunkrana with a matter of stock of 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letter kenny shopping center bringing you the time at 914 now the charges against all defendants in the so-called golf gate trial were dismissed yesterday td no greilish's high-profile barrister senator and former justice minister michael madhule appealed to the judge in the gallway court that his kind had no case to answer justice mary fahey concluded there is absolutely no evidence to show he was one of the organizers and uh justice fahey then went on to say really that uh no one did anything wrong and that good people um lost very good jobs that's golf gate line drawn under it uh or is that the case dr peter orork well it it's such it became such a big issue and it costs so many people so much i mean we lost a commissioner uh from memory serves uh which was probably not something that uh was very good for ireland um but i think it's it was probably a political issue more and uh more than anything at the time and you know if one politician attends and another politician doesn't it gives them fire ammunition to fire at each other it certainly blew up and i think we were expecting to try that was going to last for weeks and it's now lasted only a matter of days and it's a pity it went this far the evidence even from the get go seemed a bit sketchy to me uh you know ambiguous was there a politician in the room was there not was it organized was it not were forks your island rules followed or was it government guidelines or right from the get go i i was saying to my love they're not going to get anything out of this at all it's a waste of time and energy but perhaps they had to be seen to be doing something but the whole thing was fairly gray and the guidance was open to so many different interpretations uh but again it was a political football i mean you had politicians attending funerals that they shouldn't and defending that then it was easier to have a go at a golf dinner than it was at a funeral so um you know it was a political football and each party was having to go with each other and that's why it is um i think lasted as long as it didn't went this far um professor pato connor if this didn't go against the law it perhaps went against the spirit of the law with that in mind the likes of phil hogan losing his very whole pro high profile position to for which he would have worked long and hard towards uh dara cleari also springs to mind and others lost out and important jobs do you feel uh well they have been legally vindicated but do you think because of the greater sacrifices everyone else perhaps was making at that time that the outcome their career outcomes are justified well i mean in a way i suppose i was worried by the tone of judges comments that good people lost very good jobs you know in a way either it was it was against the law or it wasn't whether or not the people doing it were good people who lost very good jobs was to me neither here nor there well it wasn't against the law so like do you think phil hogan and dara cleari and others you know they were hard done by i mean well um no i don't really i think the the spirit of the times was that everyone was making was people were making considerable sacrifices and i do think there's such a thing as moral leadership you know um i mean okay i completely accept kieran's point that there were scores being settled dara cleari did behave with dignity um phil hogan left someone that really um there was an element she felt with phil hogan when his peregrinations emerged there was an element of people sour grapes and you know tall puppies were the words that occurred to her and what i do think that there is such a thing as moral leadership i mean in a way politicians because they're in positions of leadership are expected not just to avoid breaking the law they're expected to give leadership and in that if you don't mind me sort of uh because i'm interested like you're talking some of the top names in media were there top names in politics the top names in business out playing golf under the name of you know the the the seats of power in doblin this while people were very much restricted in terms of you know uh attending uh church we did not know that you could perhaps have pulled up a partition up the middle of the church and had twice as many people at a funeral yes i mean it raised issues of cronyism uh the groups that were there between some of whom have never been identified and unhealthy alliances and also insider information and such i mean another example of that insider information was eventually emerged that there wasn't a legal obligation and people over 70 to the quote unquote cocooned dying imprisoned in their homes but most people did not know that and so that eventually emerged after eight or nine weeks that it was not a legal requirement so i think all these nuances uh by those in the insider power this is not on the point of view of actually encouraging a healthy democracy and a healthy acceptance and trust of people in power the good people there are a lot of good people who don't have power yeah and that and talking about not clarifying the laws sometimes to suit that 5k rule i was uh you know at my wit's end trying to clarify that 5k rule and what you couldn't couldn't do you could clearly move beyond 5k from your home uh but yet even on the plinth we would have had michael martin mis representing um the 5k rule uh not dissimilar to the other stuff you're mentioning there cancer jimmy kafner whatever else it just makes it look like you know them which you're part of uh and us you know one rule for you guys one rule for us i know you didn't break any rules but you know where i'm coming from yeah well greg we have a we have a result from the court case yesterday and uh you know good people did lose lose good jobs and people paid a very very heavy price for this uh people open court uh you know phil hogan lost lost to darry calary uh and so on and and people lost a party whoop as well uh for this later and and now we have a result here from the court case and saying saying that basically they did no wrong sounds like you think it sounds like you think we owe them an apology no no no and what i think i think this whole thing is very unfortunate it rumbled on far too long it was very definitely a political football there's no there's no doubt about that and and uh i think as well it had it had an adverse effect with older respect jimmy a lot of us felt very very upset about that we were uh doing nothing there were people and and i've spoken to them uh sisters sisters say in their 60s and 70s who did not see each other for the two three years because they thought that was the right thing to do you know this wasn't this wasn't anger driven by politics this was politics reacting to the anger of the people but but people people did do the thing that you said because it was the right thing to do and it was the right thing to do to protect their own health and protect the health of their families and they were doing it for for their for their own good but equally people looked at that and saw well if those guys can do it we can do it too and what they did was they went and did things that were far worse they went and had house parties with 40 and 50 people at them and spent COVID all over this we had the worst COVID in the country for a long long time here uh Craig you know it would have helped uh it would have helped if we had had testing centers in different parts of the county it would have helped if we didn't put a vaccination center in a school that had to open in september or we provide vaccine options for people in south donagall or west donagall you know it would have been helped if the uh neph it didn't have to be embarrassed into taking an interest uh in in donagall after saying the dogs in the street know what's going on up there you know we were doing our bid uh with respect councillor cavena but we were kind of being somewhat failed I think nationally Craig I know all about doing my bid and and I did it to to a T I lost a brother during COVID and and the family couldn't even go into the church because there are too many others I know all about this but this this here was but you know there was a lot wrong there was a lot wrong in terms of setting a bad example but I think it was blown out of proportion and and I think it was used by all the people for the wrong reasons and and I just I just think it backfired for the people as a whole Pedro I wrote do you think it was a political football what to do about nothing I don't think it's as simple as that um I think nobody was above reproach in COVID I think all of us bent the rules and interpreted certain uh aspects of COVID in a way that suited ourselves and justified it in any way we could and I think uh the greater good might have been served by people like Phil Hogan staying in their role and certainly with the current issues with the protocol in Northern Ireland I think uh the people of Ireland would be far happier if you had Phil Hogan sitting there riding shotgun on that issue rather than someone from Eastern Europe who is doing a good job having said that but if you have the ear of the commissioner will probably be helpful for Ireland and I think possibly the consequences of the event were far worse than the actual reality event I mean I think everybody in the country uh could very few people in the country I think could hold their hand up and said they behaved the or behaved and obeyed the rules completely and I have to include myself in that I mean things like the the 5k rule uh I certainly think having driven around Donegal seen people out on bike bikes etc all over the place so I mean it's an impossible situation where you have you're in so it's such uncharted territory I mean the government did very well in dealing with COVID but I mean nobody had any idea of when the whole thing started how extreme was going to be and the fact that we'd be still dealing with it and coping with it two years later was it a political football finally on this part and there were elements of that but I suppose I really think that it was that it does give a very very very bad example like it it's max of the most this setting of a partition which was open to particular points but the rooms were separate I mean all this is in the worst tradition of you know political fixing and it sits very badly with people I do think that a lot of people will feel hello hello is you know is the system really rigged for those who are good people who have power I think it will leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouth the decision rather than the the actual follows all right arrange your measures aimed at reducing the cost of energy healthcare and education is being considered as part of the government's plan to address the rising cost of living the coalition leaders have asked ministers to draft policy proposals aimed at easing the financial burden sparked by record rates of inflation much of these record rates of inflation are driven by fuel prices and I note that shell has in its last quarter I think or maybe it's over a longer period of time had made its greatest level of profit in its history but anyway this news comes as the european central bank refused yesterday to rule out an interest rate rise this year heaping further pressure on households it is worrying times I'll stay with you on this actually professor professor pato connor it's worrying times for families now and it's not just us you can see what's happening in britain too as it relates to the cost of fuel over there I wonder how much the government can do really you know fiddling around the edges and maybe it'll be more to ease the burden on people I do think there is a huge problem and what this 115 euro of electricity for everyone I think is this is not really helpful and and the fact that some people really need much more some people really don't want 115 and they can't they can't return us it's not possible and it just smacks the kind of a thoughtless gesture and I mean energy is one huge problem so our rents and housing in a way post-covid we are beginning to see health is another issue we're beginning to see some of the really big problems that were obscured by and the panics around in the pandemic and the government needs to do more than 115 euro well in fairness to them they are proposing that that 100 euro energy credit may increase double in fact to 200 the fuel allowance season could be extended a reduction in motor tax that could possibly also happen as well as discussions about reducing the vat rate on energy and food bills with healthier foods fuels targeted so there's a there's a broader range of stuff going on there in fairness to the government they obviously recognize that it's going to be a difficult year for many they seem to be just taping Britain who's offering what 250 pounds although a energy prices there for households are expected to go up by 600 odd you know and in a way like all this list of suggestions it's just ball hopping Vincent Paul were on earlier sort of saying it's basic social security rates need to increase so there is a much more fundamental re-envisioning need equally a lot of people are recognizing the impact of increased prices for diesel and petrol because they're going back to the office now and so in a way this is becoming a much more pressing issue and but it is almost as if the government has learned very little from the pandemic you know there's no I don't feel there's any energy or imagination or real drive this list of things it's just ball hopping Councilor Kavanaugh do you think that's fair a fair assessment that the government's learned nothing they're just ball hopping Jimmy Kavanaugh are you muted yes go ahead Greg this is a problem all over the world now you know we've had a long long period without any inflation and this is this is where we're at now I agree I agree with Pat that we need a more targeted response that you know 100 euro across the board to everyone for energy and so on isn't a solution but we need a targeted people who need who need it most but it's a new reality here I don't think that you can blame the government for when fuel prices and so on rise the cost of everything goes up along with it we've seen all this before and I don't think there's there's there's easy solutions but I think they do need to sit down and put together a proper proper package to support families that really need it yeah what do you think mr. O'Rourke peter O'Rourke there's two aspects to it the first thing is I don't understand why in particular diesel and petrol are going up so much I remember a time when a barrel of oil was something like between 100 around 120 euros and they were 120 dollars and they were worried it was going up to 150 dollars and that fuel would go up to about one pound one euro 50 a liter and suddenly barrels of diesel are still are still only around 80 I think euros yet and the the fuel prices have gone up even further it doesn't make any sense and in regard to the 100 euros I think the government are in a difficult position because and people are suffering and the people with the lower income are suffering most how you actually try and compensate them is very difficult but I think possibly something like an income tax change where people can get an income tax allowance for fuel costs might be an easier way to do it and and then for people who aren't working social welfare benefits might be tailored to to help them but I think giving 100 euros across the board is not proportional and doesn't cover the solve the problem I think an income tax allowance for it might be a way of doing it which would mean that it would be prorated for the amount of fuel you actually use. Of course this has all been you know it was mixed in with the conversation about the income of Paul Reed the latest I checked I don't know it might have gone up since he's on 426 000 euro as head of the HSC Robert Wadd his wage is about to tip over 300 000 euro and you know when people are struggling and they hear about the initiatives being announced by government or being discussed by government Peter and then they see you know the the money that the two top guys in the HSC are on you know it adds insult to entry for them and also to you know people want to know how these types of wages can in any way be justified. Well to be honest it doesn't bother me how much they are and if they do a good job and I think Paul Reed did a pretty good job during COVID and so did Nefert but the health service is a mess and unfortunately I think the people who designed the health service run it and try and improve it get it wrong each single time. I mean I've been working in the health service for more than 35 years and nothing has really improved and the problem is that they make political decisions I mean Slauncher cares an example of that and that is supposedly going to solve all the problems it's just going to make things worse and in particular in a place like Donegal it's going to really make things worse but the difficulty is there's too many people with too many different agendas trying to improve things and how much you paid the senior management doesn't really matter that much it may look bad from an optical point of view but a hundred thousand extra for some and salary isn't going to make a hell of a difference to the overall health budget. Like you talk about you know them doing reasonable jobs here and there like we find out it seems because of a whistleblower comes along or there's an investigation of terrible things that are happening within the HSE you know we don't need people know the type of things we're talking about you like if people were running an organisation correctly yes there are sort of historic problems that are going to take massive reform to fix but the basics right of being the boss of an organisation and having a lines of communications in such a way that these things are being picked up with and dealt with and being made public rather than whistleblowers, concerned staff or investigative journalists having to embarrass the HSE interaction on certain things. Yes I mean these things happen unfortunately it's a lot of it's down to resources and staffing issues I mean in Leverkenny we experience it all the time because you cannot recruit people to work in the hospital and as a result services are stressed I mean our psychiatric service in Leverkenny I know is being stretched for years and recruitment has been impossible so if you have a need for you know 10 people to fill a role and you only have five corners have to be cut to try and you know do as much as you can for as many as you can but that doesn't mean you're providing the service that you should be applying and the service that is needed. But if you just continue to pay two of the top people more money incrementally more money you know where's the motivation for anything to improve why are they even employed if their roles are such that it doesn't matter what they get paid or what they do because things are so bad they're not going to change. Well if you have a good person in post you're more likely to at least maintain what you have and hopefully improve it but I mean you can't blame the senior manager if nobody applies for a job. Yes I mean can you blame anyone in the HSE in management for anything though I mean there is no blame or no accountability so I think actually you can't blame anyone. Well I know who I blame and the biggest disaster in the health service now and was the establishment of the NTPF as far as I'm concerned they put they probably put in excess of a billion euros into the private health sector which has expanded the private health sector as it expands recruits staff that are trained in the public sector which means the public sector can't fulfill its role and has to outsource more to the private sector so if the NTPF hadn't been created and that billion had been used to develop services and hospitals we wouldn't be in the situation we're in and now we have such a strong and vibrant private medical sector which is hiving off as much work as it can from the public sector we will never recover. Right it's a worrying prospect Professor Pat O'Connor just as it relates to the wages of the top people in an organization where there seems to be very little accountability you know you know that as soon as there's a controversy and you get down to who was responsible all of a sudden the answers become very very vague and you know hard to pin down you know between them they're earning close on 800,000 a year plus bonuses 50,000 pension in Paul Reed's case I mean is that fair is it right given the state of the health service? I just think it's not acceptable and I really don't agree at all with a lot of us here and I said firstly in a society the wage disparity between the top and the bottom is related to all sorts of indicators of health and well-being so it does matter right secondly in the for example the CAMS case as in many of the others this simple question as to what was the line management up from that junior consultant is not clear I saw an RTE reporter heard an RTE reporter one reporter who tried really hard to get Paul Reed to answer that question and failed well I'm sorry you know the HSE it seems to me is too busy doing minor paperwork right in terms of for example looking at the leaving search results of testers and has lost the plot in terms of any in any big organization there has to be a line management and even if posts are vacant so for example in the university there's a problem with the lecturer and the head of department doesn't sort it goes to the dean if the dean doesn't sort it it goes to the vice president academic if the vice president academic doesn't sort it goes to the president it's a basic organization and chart and apparently that line management is not clear in the HSE well it's also then it's not clear as it relates to that that case you mentioned are those that were supposed to be are those that were supposed to be you know assessing assisting oversight of that junior doctor are they still in that type of a job that answer is not clear as it relates to the brand and report are people that missed things that shouldn't have been missed are they still in similar roles well we can't say we don't know or yes they are or an investigation is ongoing and that's even one of the lower levels so the question as to the adequacy of what has been in the future everyone already even has agreed there are governance and management issues well i'm sorry the chief executive is ultimately responsible for sorting out governance and management issues and it's much more important than asking people for their leading search results so the second the next point i'd like to make in the department of health what is really extraordinary is the can't give nurses or care assistants increases because it would have not gone effects but there seems to be no problem in giving a secretary general in health a top up now hello will every secretary general why should health be the only one that has a top up for a secretary general surely finance will be next in line so this was quite honestly a cronyistic deal now we saw in the case of the banks you know this year we have to pay them to get the best well we saw how all that in right i think actually what we learned was that the more people were paid the less adequate they were that is always that's always the argument uses the same argument that was used for the wages of staff in rg that if we don't pay them this they'll be head hunted by the bbc and cnn and fox and every other thing i don't know if that ever really comes to pass but interestingly that's in logic doesn't seem to apply in a whole load of other areas like for example we know there's a terrific shortage of nurses but somehow you know if that doesn't the logic of we need to pay them to keep doesn't work i mean i could go on and on we may come back to and give you a chance to i just want to bring cancer jim mccavner in um you know uh do you think it is right uh it's fair that paul reid on 426 000 plus benefits and cars and what have you robert what about to get another pay rise bring him over 300 k as the general secretary and and also paul reid as the the head of the hsc is that is that fair and right in this day and age uh jimmy and craig i think the optics of it are bad let's be honest with that because you know if you take it that that we have a we've avoided of 20 20 billion roughly in the hsc last year and uh you have uh you know that that 294 000 and 358 000 that those top guys are running and that's more than say the head of the nhs who is a population of 67 million and and a budget of 122 million we have population of 5.8 million so it doesn't the optics of it are bad but i i do think there is an argument you know the private sector public sector thing here because you know just looking at uh for example there was a banker in 2019 that earned 16.2 million and there was over 34 people earned over a million so you know depending on the qualifications of these people it can be difficult to get top people and and to the public service and that's a very well paid so okay but if that is the case but jimmy just on that point it's an important point right if that is the case right say that what you're saying is correct at least give us a framework or a metric or p key performing indicators like they would have in the private companies that that we're having to so that we can assess and judge their performance in that job for that money absolutely greg i was just going to go on to say that any bonuses and those sort of wages that they have to be based on performance and they have to be key indicators are around witness and around ed and around all of that i wanted as well just to agree with what what peter said in terms of i was 40 years in the in the health service as well and you know there was a report after the report after the report all of them recommended the same thing pretty much we're down down now to slant care and i haven't seen any of those implemented in my time and you know that they all came as well fell asunder and the same thing seems to be happening with the with slant care we've we've also had far too much you know mixing and matching we went from a regional uh setup to you know with public cfo countries we went from that to a national setup we're coming back to the sort of regional setup again and there's never seem to be a plan that we go with and stick with and stay with and and you know the witness and all this and it's going to be very interesting to see how we are post-covid here and and you know what has that done to the whole system and how many people have uh have must uh be diagnosed and so on so on so we're into a very very interesting time but i i wouldn't be overly worried about about what people are paid if as peter says uh they they earn it and they can justify it do you think okay do you think paul reed and robert what uh justify their salaries at this point do you think they're earning that money well i don't think i don't think that's been shown though okay um finally just on this before quick break um peter aroar sorry to paraphrase you is no i'm not going to i'm asking you could i paraphrase phrase you saying that it's so broken where would we even start fixing it so what's the point worrying about you know this money which is pittance in the overall scale of things because it's such a basket case um you put words into my mouth but i couldn't disagree with any of them yeah okay well yeah okay listen thanks very much uh that is uh 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know that the England have been looking at it maybe we will down the line a quick word from you well don't restrain yourself to time professor pat o'connor professor of sociology and social policy at university limerick is that something worth looking at or are the children I suppose if maybe if they did their homework in school if they did their homework in school they might get a vote from from me on it but what do you think you're muted there professor my what's not my apologies you did it but oh you're not muted oh can I just say I am so so sorry sorry I didn't have I didn't have to fader up and I was being a smart horse and I am so so sorry it's very hard to mute me great no I never want to so continue professor please lots of people try well it's all in vain absolutely I mean in a way the heading of this makes it look dreadful you know more school but when you actually drill down and I read the record the bit in the paper on it and if you think about it like children doing they said art music sport and you think yourself an awful lot of middle-class children do actually these activities after school and in fact I know of schools where some of the teachers actually charge do the sports activities for example and charge the children for these activities and that is fine if you are a middle-class person and have lots of money so in fact what could be going on but I've only got the newspaper report to go on is that these activities are be provided for children particularly in disadvantaged areas whose parents might not be able to afford to provide these activities for children and you could see that the teachers opposition might be related to the fact that a little independent income stream was being effectively you know perhaps cut off although in fact the report said that the overwhelmingly the idea was that they would hire external people to do these activities that it was not that the teachers themselves were being expected to do it so in terms of increasing the cultural or aesthetic or sporting activities for children and disadvantaged areas I think this is a great idea and it needs to be clear that this is not just more school okay and that it is actually helping I mean we all know there's lots of evidence to show that children's social development was impeded by the whole lockdowns they you know particularly if you're in situations where there was no play areas where children were not able to meet outside their own bubble and these bubbles were quite small that children's social development and not to mention the whole disadvantage often the there aren't these opportunities because the parents can't afford them this does look like a possible idea but it also needs to be faced that there is a problem in terms of the reckons what the EU calls the reconciliation of work and family life but on the one hand we expect people to be a hundred percent employees and we also expect people to be a hundred percent mostly mothers okay to call a spade a spade and obviously with increased participation by women in the labor force this is you know it's an impossible situation so something does need now working from home and adjusting flexi time and all those things may help but particularly for disadvantaged children post COVID I think this could be a good idea is it something we should be looking at Jimmy I don't think it's a good idea Greg at all I think that you know the school kids have a long enough day if you take Tony Gall there's a hundred and seventy five primary schools most most of older and rural areas and kids are on the go from half seven in the morning some of them are not home again until five o'clock and you know and and they're waiting for buses out in country lanes and country roads and so on children children need to have time time with their parents and need to have time for sport they need to have time time with one another and we shouldn't meet them in any more to their time I mean we're looking at giving kids a working day the same as an adult who nearly and that's that's not right kids should be allowed to be kids and I don't think that as well that we can overlook the huge effort that went in by teachers during the pandemic I mean some of them were even going door to door looking after kids that haven't broadband and so on they set up lessons they set up videos they did so they did so much and they think it was very undervalued the work that they did there's also the government have set up that the COVID learning and support scheme where extra hours have been given to schools and and schools can allocate those hours based on the specific needs one to one students if they're identified students they're particularly weak and have had and have lost out badly during the COVID time so so I don't think that there's any need for this extra hour there's a lot of skepticism and and and wills among principal teachers and this about this as well and it's interesting to see how this how this pilot how this pilot works well we heard from Pat O'Connor that we could probably then have a debate on on the motivation you know whether it is over losing out in the revenue stream or maybe working longer hours or is it because they think they know their children best and they think it wouldn't necessarily benefit them Peter O'Rourke we've heard two sides with their one for what one against where do you where do you settle I'm old enough to have started school and had to go in on a Saturday morning so and the school week has got shorter and shorter and shorter we now have a half day on a Friday afternoon I'm not sure what it's for I mean I got half days but it was compulsory sport and I think anything that increases the amount of time the kids spend in school and increases their education is has a lot of merit to it Ireland has one of the shorter school years in Europe I mean compared to the UK they get about six or eight weeks holidays our kids get about 12 and certainly in secondary school not as much in primary school and but I think trying to get teachers unions in Ireland to do anything over and above what they're already doing would prove very difficult I think apart from the teachers who are involved in teaching there's so many of them in the door as well so I think trying to force the teachers unions to do anything to increase the hours they work in schools or increase the length of the school day is just going to be get absolutely nowhere fair comment Councillor Kavanaugh and no I don't I don't agree I think teachers are tremendously dedicated they play a huge part in the in the development of children that I say they go they do go above above and beyond all the time we don't see half of what they do and I think that's half the problem we don't we don't appreciate what teachers do and and I just think this is not good for kids it's not good for schools I don't think it'll that will achieve anything to be honest and let's say kids are on the road from half seven in the morning as it is all right yeah all right thank you very much indeed that is where we have to leave your time is caught upon us already I can't believe it but I want to say thank you very much to you Professor Bat Pat O'Connor as always it's a pleasure to have you on the program and I mean that thank you thank you take take care of yourself Councillor Jimmy Kavanaugh to you too thank you very much for joining us it's very much appreciated thank you very much thank you and last but not least uh Peter O'Rourke thank you very much great to see you and hopefully we'll see you again soon thank you thank you all right it is the nine till noon show here on Highland Radio we'll be back with more after this short break the nine till noon show with Bluebird Care providing home care services for all ages and done it all visit bluebirdcare.ie and bring care home which is why this collaboration over oh hello no sorry you're you're breaking up there am I hear me connection troubles if you run a 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true these people's wages are more than the american president how can this be so um another greg you guessed as it didn't bother him how much of a salary the head of the hsc gets a very arrogant comment it certainly bothers the hardworking people of this country keep them coming into us as i say we'll catch up on more of those after the news at 10 o'clock but it is time to break take a break for it stay tuned donal cavern is on the way lie on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news it's 10 o'clock donal cavern at the highland radio news desk the foreign affairs minister has described the dup's decision to resign the position of first minister at storm and as unfortunate and unwelcome paul gibbons resignation took effect at midnight at which point deputy first minister michelle o'neill was also automatically removed from her post the assembly can continue sitting and individual ministers can continue with their duties but decisions needing executive approval can't go ahead and a northern arndt budget cannot now be passed minister simon covney believes the dup's actions are premature what is so regrettable unfortunately they would have known that marcefk which and list trust and people like myself and others have said that we have to make progress in the month of february and unfortunately two or three weeks before that target date for progress the dup have decided to take political action to collapse everything in protest which is hardly advancing the the efforts to to achieve landing zones and compromise between all sides the leader of the alliance party says it's time for the adults in the room to step up and get any remaining legislation at storm and past no me long is rejecting calls for a snap election she says there's still plenty of work to get through the assembly this should be about us acting like mature politicians i'm trying to deliver for the people who elected us i i i feel like in northern arndt we have got obsessed with going to job interviews but when we actually get the job nobody's willing to step up and do it and i don't want to rush straight into the next interview i want to finish the job that i have lethig and thonis to have held talks with groups representing employers and unions on the rising cost of living the government's understood to be examining cutting car tax emergency department charges passport fees and widening the medical card scheme doubling next month's energy credit extending the fuel allowance season and reducing fat on some bills and foods is also being looked at dr shon healy from social justice arland says government should be talking to the most vulnerable no problem with meeting with employers and trade unions but with due respect they should also meet with the community and voluntary pillar which has the main organizations and networks dealing with vulnerable people in there and that the community and voluntary pillar has sought a meeting with the t-shirt and we've got no response to that and i think with due respect to them it's a disgrace to see that they're they're they're prepared to talk to employers and trade unions more dunigal women are being encouraged to enter the race in the next local elections only four women were elected on dunigal county council in 2019 equating to 11 percent representation that's well below the national average of 25 percent in the last general election no woman was elected across the five available doll seats in dunigal making the constituency one of 11 in the country without female representation in doll erin megan riley is training and engagement lead with women for election she says their ultimate goal would be to see a 50 50 balance at national level if you look at who's in the doll now most of them will have gotten their start in local politics and you know will have been made their way up through ranks at the doll and we still have yet to have a female t-shirt so we're looking all the way up we're looking at the cabinet the lack of female ministers that that's that there have been we think that this needs to be a real wave of change and i i think the will is certainly there so now it's about the action the cohere look of that or kenny millford and municipal district believes golf gate was blown out of proportion the golf gate trial ended last evening with the dismissal of charges against the four men accused of organizing the event the judge said independent td noel grilish former fina fall senator donnie casady and two hoteliers complied with regulations the charges arose from an iraq the skull society dinner which was held in the clifton station house hotel during a level three lockdown in august 2020 vinaigrette councillor jimmy cavern had told the lines of the intro today that the incident was used as an example for the wrong reasons there's a lot wrong in terms of setting a bad example but i think it was blown out of proportion and and i think it was used by other people for the wrong reasons i just i just think it backfired for the people as a whole whether forecast icy stretches in some areas this morning it'll be cold bright and blustery with sunny spells and widespread wintry showers a possibility of hail and thunder with maximum afternoon temperatures generally hitting four to six degrees celcius in brisk west to northwest winds showers becoming isolated early tonight with frost forming in some areas temperatures dipping back to between zero and plus four degrees celcius cloud will increase from the west overnight with temperatures rising outbreaks of rain will then develop tomorrow will be a cloudy and wet day with outbreaks of rain maximum temperatures a little bit higher eight to eleven degrees celcius in fresh to strong west or southwest winds that's how then really on news we're back with news headlines again at eleven o'clock good morning the obituary notice is for this friday morning february the fourth the death has taken place of martin boner 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radio dot com with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the nine to noon show on highland radio okay more comments here the first thing we have to cut is politicians wages how many pay increases have they got in the past year asks a listener there hi greg i'm on a carers allowance and i don't get fuel allowance so i will not benefit if it's extended or increased another greg my friend got an extra five euro and social welfare yesterday he got a rent review from his rent going up by one euro and 20 cent it's not much but uh housing organizations send out a rent review form when they get any increase i've sent an email on his behalf to government but they don't care they are weeks where i have to help him with his food because most of his money goes on esb and gas and there are organizations like svp and the letter canny food bank if he was in that area that may also be able to assist but are you saying as soon as social welfare goes up housing organizations then review rent one euro and 20 cent per week multiplied by five five euro isn't it tax and diesel and petrol at 75 percent doesn't help it doesn't but it's a big money grab for the government isn't it greg they are planning to give the money to their mates in the utility companies it's uh taxpayers money why are you always defending this awful government well i wasn't aware that i was uh defending the government um obviously you know the utility companies are rubbing their hands together they're not being asked to make any sacrifice whatsoever uh we are getting a hundred euro often inverted commuter might be two but it's coming out of our pockets as well uh because uh the government are using the tax take uh for for that uh government are a joke fuel going up every day tax tax tax says this caller another greg things look like they're getting worse in britain with rates going up in april as much as 50 percent on bbc news on wednesday it is pretty uh pretty dire over there too greg megawatt wages is just they're in a different world i'll see what you did there thanks for that what are you swaffling about uh engulfgate they broke the law why are these people making excuses for these people there has been ordinary people in court for less the the bottom line is is that might be your view but it's the view of the courts that they did not break the law and that's what we have to go by um you probably would have got from the tone of the conversation what our guests thought uh some had one view others had another uh but they uh challenged the law challenged the the case and they won um so we can't say what they did was breaking the law because it was found in court that they didn't whether you like it or i like it or not uh when the video of this party comes out i hope all involved go including the government oh my god i cannot believe the defense of golf gate my uncle now deceased was a good man who lost his life during covid and his good family had to deal with that alone as we obeyed the guidelines absolute disgrace pat is the only one talking sense um right her deluxe have launched a new color range called cronyism covers up everything all right thank you another caller says in the focus on this good people word uh good people died in hospitals alone with family sat at home in despair there this is nothing but the old boys uh old boys club these golfers showed nothing but litism instead of leadership and what you have to do is ask yourself if you were invited would you have gone and i think most of us would not have especially if you're involved in an area of work where you are uh carrying information telling other people not to do stuff for you then to go out and do the very things yourself that you're interviewing people to scourge other others from doing so you couldn't go to something like that uh so what about the dup don't understand politics party they will not be voted in again people of the north are not silly jeffrey 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power sharing to return to northern island then both the e you and others need to step up to the mark and get rid of this protocol minister fracca culture marine and food minister charlie mcconnell o'neill joins me now they've drawn their lines in the sand but maybe we'll get to that this is this is the last thing anyone needs at this time charlie yeah good morning greg and it certainly is and it's a really disappointing step to see uh and a regressive step at that as well the there is international obligations and all of us now coming out of brexit and there's an international obligation on the british government and on the northern irish government as a result of the the protocol of the northern island protocol which was very hard negotiated with the objective of trying to ensure that the good friday agreement was protected in all of us dimensions and indeed that the the free trade free trade between northern ireland and britain and northern irish republic and the lack of borders could be uh could be maintained and um it was put in place for that reason obviously there's been challenges about it and we none of us wanted any type of checks uh northern ireland and the whole objective of the protocol was to minimize those there has been very very significant engagement between the european commission and the british government and indeed we ourselves very centrally involved in that to try and work through the issues that are there in the protocol and that work continues um but it's really it's really unhelpful now to see this step taken um by uh by by the dup and by the resignation of force minister given last night yesterday and also the proposed step by minister puts directing the stopping of sbs checks it makes the situation much more difficult and it also jeopardizes the the the operation of the of the protocol do you believe it's electioneering i think i think certainly political considerations are very much feeding into it now a part of the part of the consideration obviously in the run-up to the election but but listen it's not something that is helpful and i mean you know we all have responsibilities and government is always very difficult um and you step you mentioned there the term you know stepping up to the mark um we all have to do that every day particularly in government um and you know north northern ireland executive is really needed by the people of northern ireland to manage really important issues for for the public not just the protocol issue but all other issues too and you know right in the last number of days in a few weeks obviously the issue of cost of living and pressures and cost of living are massive for every every country in every government it's something we are considering we'll get to that if you don't mind but i just want to ask you a question about it it's a really important point here because like these issues and pressures are there in northern ireland as well uh those inflation challenges there the hospital challenges there the cova challenge is still there and you need a government for those things and the other reality is here as well that you know it's not so long since the northern ireland executive actually got back up and running it was it's only up and running since january 2020 it was of course a shin fane had brought it down in january 2017 um on the basis that they wouldn't work with ireland faster and it took three years and to january 2020 before everybody went back in with ireland faster and it's still in place and now less just about two years to the day since that the dup now have decided to to to pull it down because of outside pressures and because of the protocol pressures but there is a need for all governments to actually get on with the business and to do the really hard work that people elect them to do and the work in relation to teasing out the protocol issues is ongoing we're going to work to try and resolve them but this is not the way to go about okay just to ask you a question on that i mean obviously the dup have said that it'd be very difficult for them to go back into government with the protocol as is i think there's a general acceptance that there are things that can be changed about the protocol they share power uh or did with shin fane they can see that as well the british though are backing the dup um and obviously you know europe and ireland have uh have a stance on the northern ireland protocol so how does this get resolved or in what forum does it get resolved i mean do we do talks anymore do we convene talks and get you know someone from the e you are in britain northern ireland around the table and thrash this out we don't seem to do that anymore oh well there will continue to be engagement between the e you and the british government in relation to trying to work through the protocol issues this obviously doesn't help things in any way um the step the step that we've seen the last couple of days um back in march 2020 minister putz at that stage uh had um had contributed and discussed uh withdrawing sbs checks on that occasion the uk agriculture secretary george justus had wrote to minister putz uh reminding him of his responsibilities um at that stage we haven't seen that from the british government now but listen it's it's about keeping temperatures as calm as possible it is a really challenging issue i don't think this approach is the right way to go or the helpful way to go but the way we'll resolve it is through the e you continuing to work with the british government in relation to looking at the issues that are there but also ultimately it does fall back to the situation of the international obligations and everyone and international law applying but listen we just have to work our way through to try and deal with the issue that's there now you talked about the cost of living uh i know your party and other government parties that are looking at you know different ways and means to try and ease the burden what can you tell us about what is potentially on the table to try and uh you know ease the burden particularly on those that are being squeezed with every uh price increase you know we're looking at all options obviously we know the measure that has been that is being taken in relation to the 100 euro uh support for each household but we have seen towards the end of last year and coming in particularly the start of this year real continuing uh intensity in relation to inflationary pressures that are putting puts particular problems or challenges uh on families with more with smaller incomes and larger families it's a real real challenge and we're very conscious of that as a government when we framed the government framed the budget back in october the inflationary pressures and the egg projections was was for this year to be around two to two and a half percent it's likely to be near double that and what that then means is that for your average family that's in modest income uh they end up spending a higher proportion of their family income on essential day-to-day things such as uh such as transport such as uh heating and running their home and we're very conscious of that and the government are looking at it as one of our priorities we're looking at it across government it was the t-shirt and the tannish you both have meetings with number of stakeholders yesterday to discuss the issue and it's something we will be we are looking at uh how best to deliver support particularly to those uh for whom this is causing the most financial difficulties yeah but obviously you know shells report and record profits um and we're taking money off people off the the irish people to sort of give to them to ease the burden of of irish people not directly but through uh sort of subsidizing or utility bills the biggest uh biggest pressure on on fuel prices is like the government tax take you know is there not something more sort of long-term and meaningful that can can be done to particularly address the the the fuel costs i think the 95 percent of the fuel cost increase is coming from international price increases and that's 75 percent of the cost of fuel here is tax um and that's that's that's down to the price of uh oil and gas and obviously the the backdrop in relation to the rush you you you create tensions is feeding into that as well um but we're very conscious of that Greg and particularly want to support those families that need it most and that's why at the government level we're looking at a great detail at that at the moment and of course like looking long term as well it re-emphasizes the importance of us going more renewable and more sustainable in terms of our own uh heating and uh energy capacities nationally looking to develop the capacity of wind energy particularly offshore both off the east coast and uh and floating wind energy off well off our west coast we will see a transformation in our economy in the decade or two ahead in relation to the billions of euro of income generation but that can actually mean uh for uh for the country in terms of energy and energy uh uh income from energy but also in terms of moving us away from the dependence on oil and gas and the fluctuations that come around that in terms of price and also real opportunities there as well for west coast for for our own coast and dunny gulf or harbors and dunny gulf or harbors right from golly right down to to cork to create jobs in terms of servicing that industry um but but we're working forward but that's more long term in the short term obviously we're to deal with the immediate pressures and what that means for families all right uh can i just just just can i if i can just uh Greg briefly obviously to just obviously might get yeah well i was gonna ask you i was gonna ask you a question in that if you don't mind that's what i was going to finish up with because you know the timeline keeps slipping um september summer late summer then september now leah for our cars talking about before the end of the year what's going on uh up in dublin what's delaying things yeah well no listen i mean micah is there's lots of working on all of the time on different issues but micah is the biggest issue for the county most important issue for the county and the most important issue for me and it's something the government is moving forward um i didn't hear the tanish's particular comment yesterday but i can be very clear in relation to where we're at as a government in relation to moving it on obviously we had the uh the new scheme and the principles and the details around 100 redress announced at the end of november also the support for accommodation etc as well real significant changes there so that's going to require legislation to be introduced which will be brought into the doll by the end of march of course the big piece and the big part of this as well is the updating of costings to reflect updated inflation that's to happen to the end of february um and then another piece which is emerged i know you discussed it uh last week um um i heard your your your conversation played back with michael dordy from the mic action group and councillor mark mcdermott uh in relation to the challenge around uh the national standards authority work in relation to other substances other mic other other than micah and pirate um such as pirateite and other issues and the minister had a meeting with the national standards authority about it last week as well to to us and to emphasize importance of getting the the standards updated to get a full assessment of that but we are stepping it out as quickly as possibly can the minister is expecting in the next two weeks to be able to bring forward the regulation that will enable the payment for uh those that have had paid for their testing to get that money repaid when will that happen excuse me when will that money be repaid to the people in two weeks time the regulation will be through and that will then enable the council to to to be to to repay that then to the homeowner in relation to the 5000 emergency works monies when will that be made available for for people to draw down and and do essential and that was again the regulation which which will be introduced two weeks will facilitate that as well are you confident the council have a system and the people in place to start administering that money as soon as it becomes available yeah i think the council have have the detail of everyone who who needs that money reimbursed and that will be a relatively straightforward process and a quick process once the regulation but as it relates to the five thousand euro for six and seven thousand euro and many instances for families that are waiting back as well of course that the the key principle behind but so you're saying that so that fight that that there's a there's a fund isn't there for allowed for some margin work are you saying that will be available in a couple of weeks the regulation the regulation will make that it will make that available in two weeks so how long it'll be before members of the public might be able to draw draw that down i would expect immediately after that then working with the council and work with the housing agency where emergency works are required that will then be that will then be available of course the big the fundamental core principle in the scheme which which was agreed the cabinet at the end of November is the hundred percent redress aspect and the fact that the the accurate cost of of building is updated every year and that's to happen at the end of February and that'd be one of the first things to happen to happen now too and of course then though there's many houses there's thankfully some houses already been fixed well through and those that are doing that work will be able to will be able to avail of the updated costings that will come there at the end of February and the objective as well as to keep the scheme moving as well as we possibly can and as smoothly as we possibly can as the transitions from the outgoing scheme to the new to the new and you said on this program about foundations will be included and then it turns out they weren't what happened there was that a miscommunication but no no what I said to you was that foundations will be tested which hadn't been happening before under the new scheme foundations will be tested the working presumption was based on evidence so far that the that the foundations have so far been seen to be okay but that obviously is something that we have to be absolutely sure on and what I also said is if if foundations do need to be changed and and and done away with and replaced that the scheme would have to be updated then to to actually allow for the cost that's going to happen it is yeah that's going to happen that's yeah that's so effectively foundations so effectively foundations will be included in the new scheme yes because they will be the scheme will be updated to account for foundations if the foundation needs to be replaced so and that will that will be the situation that will retain all right and and you know obviously just and I'll let you speak finish with whatever you want to minister in fairness to you okay but in you know I mean obviously we heard a timeline of June for when remote working legislation will be will be in in force you know we were able to give a specific date in that regard why is the the timeline for this scheme so wishy-washy mid summer September before the end of the year why can't we have something definitive because as you know you know that little bit of certainty would ease would ease at least some of the strain and pressure on these families which I know you want to do and listen we do want to bring it forward as quickly as we possibly can obviously the the cabinet decisions were made at the end of November the next step is the legislation and then the scheme flowing from that but there is the steps in between in terms of the the accommodation costs in terms of the the the getting the fees back and getting the the emergency work as well and also the updated costings but the key thing is that we also work to try and make sure that houses the testing continues to happen that houses continue to get fixed that houses continue to work through the process as we move from one scheme to the next but the next step now will be the legislation then the scheme being brought in but we want to try and keep the work going but in the meantime and but the key thing being here Greg that you know and this is something that I've no doubt will go on for 10 years in terms of working a way through fixing every home the key thing being giving every home one of the confidence that their home will be fixed that the full cost of it will be covered and whether whether they're nine for next year or the year after that or over the next few years that whenever it comes to their term they will and can have confidence that they will be able to get on with their lives in the in the knowledge that the full cost of getting their home fixed will be will be catered for and and and paid for and covered by the scheme all right is that the point you wanted to finish on no and just the final point as well obviously from a fisheries point to you Greg is um I'll be announcing funding for Kelly Beggs um later today we'll be spending nine over nine million euro this year in terms of further developing the harbor and continuing the work particularly on the smooth point pure extension there it's really it's the beating heart of our fishing industry not just in Donegal but nationally so that'll be nine million euro which will be spent in Kelly Beggs to to further support the fishing industry as you know that comes on the back of the scheme that I announced um two weeks to go to support our inshore fishers and specific payments of up to 4000 euro in terms of the COVID impact that they have experienced for those smaller boats that work inshores the first time there's ever been a scheme that's actually directly supported their income and also alongside then the very significant smaller pure and harvard funding of 35 million euro which announced two weeks ago so there's real we're really working hard to make the absolute most of our fishing resource and to support the fishers the fishers ready across the county and ready across the country and that nine million euro today will be a real boost to the county too all right minister mcconnellow thank you very much for joining us I appreciate it and he comes on and we challenge him quite hard and stuff so no harm in him getting out the good news from his department there in the interests of fairness so uh it's good news too there's a lot of people down in Kelly Beggs will say well that's brilliant uh and the peers work too all right um let's see time for a break stay where you are the nine till noon show brought to you by 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preparing to embark on a grueling challenge of climbing the highest peak in each of ourlands four provinces all inside 24 hours the big four in 24s a unique challenge that will see the group raise money for little blue heroes we are joined in studio now by don pierson and sharon ward don from st johnson and sharon from malin head both of you thank you very much for coming in and joining us how are you all good great thank you i might ask you to move just a little bit closer as well um if that's okay perfect um right we'll start with you if that's all right uh sharon i mean this is a big undertaking but i suppose it has to be doesn't it you know you have to come up with something big nowadays you really do yeah and uh we're doing it for such a great charity little blue heroes um i'll just give you a little bit a little background on the charity it was set up by two guards who ran it from their kitchen table um now it has grown so much it is run by a group of volunteers made up from the garden community retired members their families and members of the public it's not state funded at all they rely totally fundraise and donations last year they raised 350 000 and every cent of that was given to families with children who are seriously ill in 2021 there was an increase of 60 percent in the number of people who were applying for help what they actually do is they help families from a practical in a practical ways if the children are in hospitals they provide fuel vouchers meal vouchers they help with you know uh taking the children to ireland on a holiday with their their sick children they help at christmas and the children themselves become honorary guards um they have a full ceremony they have a uniform the station visit and there's a body system with local guards in their area and the children just love it they get so much from this relationship yeah and and you know a lot of people will have heard of little blue heroes but a lot might be listening um about the work for the first time but not those who they've worked with they're acutely aware and uh incredibly grateful for uh what and to raise 350 000 euro uh is a massive amount it's a massive amount and it helps the families so much there's 13 little blue heroes in dunagall and we're privileged that seven of them are going to be with us tomorrow for us the children are the heroes they're our heroes this is why we're doing this challenge if we can help them and their families in some small way this is what we want to do every mountain we climb will be worth it all right um and if i could just give a little shout out to the 13 heroes in dunagall there's jack killam kiva jack oan kean wreath ray michael josh mathew osheen anua there are heroes talk to me about the challenge uh don um four peaks in 24 hours i mean even the timing uh is a challenge okay you know not not the actual effort if you know what i'm on about like i mean if you said four peaks in 48 hours i went still that's pretty impressive i think the closer it gets to it the more we study it we're beginning to realize that it came about probably about a year ago we all do our own things we all do our own mad events we're doing different adult things and all the rest we're on the mountains regularly and these discussions happen when you're out there on your own at times but i think it was cahill sent a message last year and the message pretty much read i have a plan and we all kind of went with them 15 seconds i'm in and we didn't is it possible you're on the stages of this that your eyes were bigger than your belly in terms of challenges yeah absolutely i'm just getting and even there's more to read about it but listen we decided we'll take it on with all we're all used to the mountains we're all doing long events we're doing an adventure on adventure events and so and if all are you going to do all four peaks or is there a tag system or what why all all six you're sorry all six you know the six of us the six of us there's myself and Sharon Callan McGuettig and Damon Rogers Fiona McGinley and Paddy Robinson uh there's oh six uh so we're all doing events or the claims in the background we have Sharon's husband Eamon so he's taken on the challenge of basically doing the justice but he's doing all the driving and you finish with the the biggest one last so you can talk me through the the the the four climbs then we start in sleeve Donner which is highest in Ulster I would say our plan is just another plan we're starting at three p.m. in the afternoon and there's a reason we've thought logistically about that and why three p.m. why people are asking why you know starting the morning but we started three p.m. uh that should take about two it'll take us two hours up and down which gives us back into the car park and heading off to uh Lugna Gwinnett in Wicklow so it's about two and a half hour journey to that again that's all down to Eamon we get just a couple pictures back in and sit and go plan to start there about half seven and so it's it's a slightly higher it's 925 meters so there it's uh so it'll take a bit longer it'll take two and a half to three hours up and down which leaves us finishing at 10 o'clock at night so we do our ribble that's being done in June it's getting dark at that stage so we do our longest drive then is across country then to Mayo to Mulrea so we're planning to start there about two thirty in the morning which is dark uh without the the help of the Garda Hiking Club this wouldn't be possible because they're giving us big support on every mountain and they're and they're tying on their associates and the PSNI they have a hiking club too so they're going to help us on Donard and the help of the Reggae but especially on Mulrea because they're going to be they've said that they're going to put six eight ten men up the mountain just standing my head tortures on so we don't have to worry about where we're going so when we get up as we're going coming down it'll be different daily again and that's why we're starting this time and last but not least to Kerry last but not least to Kerry just to eat handy car and tool to finish it's only a kilometer all right so normally we're regular we've kind of all done it but we can do it in about three hours up and down so well that if everything goes according to plan we have five hours to do car and tool because our legs are going to be stiffen our legs are going to be sore so but Sharon you know what you're doing this is a tea as a team okay and you'll stick together but I would say that perhaps with with most of you if not all of you there's a there's a obviously a competitive streak that's going to help to to drive this forward would that be a fair enough assessment absolutely when it comes to our group there's never a bad idea no matter what love to see the website group yes when are we doing it all right very good it's great they're such a positive group and we've been getting so much help and the support even at this early stage has been phenomenal it sounds like it feels like a nice thing to be part of yes yes it's really you know and obviously the the chickens will come home to roost on the day itself but you have a good group of people with you and there's a there's a nice buzz leading up to it absolutely and our families getting them all involved we can't do it without the support of our families right in terms of training how are you doing that I mean you should do your own thing working together well it's a lot of you doing this kind of stuff anyway we're out in the mountains regularly you know and we're doing our own run but we're all doing different events from now on to the summer sharns doing the 3 3 3 cycle race cattle's doing the 555 we're all all of us are going to carry to do the carry ultra we're sharns taking on the challenge of doing the two-day event and the rest of us are only doing the one day there's the mourn wall coming up the seven sisters try and that's all before June that's all no seven sisters i'm going next again to do uh last man standing in ultra running why is that what's that involve you have i think all of it is well you have six and a half kilometers and you've already do six and a half kilometers which is pretty standard anybody could do it but do you have to do it in like a swimsuit or something no it doesn't it doesn't matter if it takes you 30 minutes or 59 minutes as long as you're in the start line the next hour brilliant and like the guy that will want it will probably end up doing maybe about 55 60 hours you know so when i'm going up to help them first 12 hours or so unbelievable um right so tell us how uh the the fundraising mechanism works because that's an important thing it's clearly a great challenge it's great to be involved with but it is a it is very very significant and it's six done ago people doing it for all the right reasons so how can people support you Sharon uh in the fundraising effort because that's the the real motivation here isn't it's to raise money for the little blue heroes absolutely um as I say it's run by volunteers every single cent we um fundraise will be given to the families and it'll be families all over Ireland it'll not be just in Donegal it'll be all over Ireland so we have um our instagram page we have um our facebook and twitter and there's an out donate button on the page so it's the big four in 24 if you go into the page you can donate online and then after the launch we have our launch tomorrow um in arena seven at 11 o'clock and um there will be sponsorship cards as well every one of us will have sponsorship cards so we just asked everybody so if you're related to you or you know you or in any way connected to you you can expect a call absolutely um a lot I mean I think there's a lot of people do what you do uh I think it's like maybe more than we might imagine this challenge though I would say that you know we're not talking millions of people have taken on the big four in 24 I would say in this and actually it takes a bit of searching on google to do that it is a four peak challenge but even there there isn't a lot of where we're actually searching last night or I was searching last night I was searching last night to see if there's a record for it but I couldn't actually give it a rest you said there now but being competitive about but uh I couldn't actually find one so maybe hers will be but there are other people who have done it but but it's taken more than 24 yeah set out to do it in 24 hours but you know so you know and these these people you know they were uh they they knew what they were at so clearly it is tough to get it done and we're under no illusions that it will be hardly hard like well listen uh we'll we'll chat to you again uh closer to the time as well the launch is tomorrow morning it's the big four in 24 it is a unique challenge it's all for the little blue heroes and if you heard from Sharon and from Don as well there they do amazing work with amazing young people last year alone they distributed 350 000 euro to aid children and families in dealing with illness and special treatments which is superb and you can do your bit and support these guys and donate so you go search generally any social media by the way it seems like the big four in 24 yes and you'll find us find yours sorry and the launch tomorrow is that public or what way are you doing that you're going to be there with sponsorship cards we'll be there as Sharon said there's seven little blue heroes coming there we have a few celebrity guests coming we have a few celebrity videos that have been sent to us as support as well and we'll be contacting a lot of our friends it's a full launch tomorrow there's going to be a garden care there there's going to be uh a bit of food and a bit of crack and then thanks Gary and seven as well they have opened up the play area for the little blue heroes that are there tomorrow super so they'll get an hour themselves as well with their families as well all right uh Sharon is an absolute inspiration to all women taking up outdoor endurance sports she's fearless and it's a fantastic charity the group you support in Donegal women must step up and support our trailblazers and I'm sure they do ask Don is he the piercings who love who have the butcher shop in Derry anything can come up on this program yeah yeah you know we are putting Sharon up on a pedestal here as a trailblazer for for you know 70 000 women in Donegal and do you own the butcher shop much more important because as an older person I can't do donations online but I'd like to drop a drop a donation in there for him so that's a you'll probably see an awful lot of people in person with the cars and all that type of stuff but is that how could someone donate if they don't donate online we we have well we have sponsor farms coming out as well we'll have some there tomorrow we'll probably just drop a few sponsors on the 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having a difficult to get them through to mikaela that's my fault come on mikaela come into me uh she's going to make her way into this studio here and then we'll hear from her afterwards uh hi greg tell charlie they just shift tax to green energy hence still high cost totally ignored uh your comments on 75 tax on uh fuel uh and um one more just before we bring mikaela in please ask charlie mcconnellow to get the phone number for the department of agricultural refo and see if he can get them to answer it no farmer can get uh through or get any assistance that's one person's claim right mikaela i'm uh sorry for this give us the news there thanks greg a major public consultation is underway with a view to establishing a solar power renewable energy facility in ghidor iris naghil talked to in conjunction with community development committees and organizations in ghidor are examining the possibility of developing such a facility at ghidor business park the foreign affairs minister has 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the surrounding region had been waiting for more than a year as of november there were almost 4,800 people awaiting eye appointments and cho area one almost 2,200 of him were waiting more than a year the carelock of the letter kenny milford municipal district believes golf gate was blown out of proportion the golf gate trial ended yesterday with the dismissal of charges against the four men accused of organizing the event and the government's examining cutting prescription fees emergency department charges and widening the medical card scheme to combat the rising cost of living ministers have been told by the coalition leaders to come up with a list of proposals in the next fortnight to ease the pressure on households those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mikaela thanks again and we'll be back with more on the show michael and finula after these bluebird care are hiring nurses and carers across dunigol call 91 29562 bluebird care are sponsors 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and there was a wee wee snow shower so that reminded me that there's bad weather there's my dandruff i was looking out the window i was looking out the window to see if it was you sorry about that that's true though greg is always at the window every week looking mournfully for me to arrive over the crest the crest of the hill like a puppy i see the week head popping and go yay right okay both of you have with the exception of finula have belfast on your list i've belfast on my list do you cinema sing to and i went to see two movies cinema sing to and belfast okay well listen belfast is the one that in this building has been a little bit divisive i don't need to bore the listeners once again but i'm going to caroline didn't like it yeah mikaela far too much of an interest in it and she's watched it three times and katharine somewhere in the middle it was okay right finula oh my first oh i've just spent the whole morning uh just giving everybody who would listen all the reasons why i didn't like it you did not like it no i mean it's it's not that it's a terrible movie as i said keep saying people if this movie had been if i had been told that this is a movie that was made by people that were learning how to make films i'd be like awesome it was really well done yeah okay yeah it just didn't have like with all the talk about it and with everything that was going on i thought it was going to be emotional i thought it was going to be you know you were going to really be into it and care about the characters and the whole thing and the whole way through it was a bit kind of there no i mean it was so do you think this is a classic problem when something's talked an awful lot could you park everything you heard in advance and just view it as the you can't it just no it just to me it didn't have a real considering the ken because i always would have known kenneth bernard made it so even if you knew went in with it with that i i don't know is it the kenneth bernard tries to do stuff on a level that none of the rest of us seem to be able to reach like this is supposed to be at least semi-autobiographical you know what i mean i don't know how much of it but that kind of feel that this is what happened with his family they would have left bell that's in around the same time so you'd assume you know it was supposed to have that kind of a feel now in it the boy who's uh i'm assuming again is kind of kenneth bernard figure in it which would be the young boy who's not a bad little actor whatever yeah but like i still wouldn't i've seen much better kid actors you know what i mean he was good like but i mean you you i i don't know it just had the feeling of when you go and see a play by a local theater company and you go and see a play by the exact same play by uh you know the druid or some other but you know some other uh so professional can you see then why some people think it's just amazing yeah yeah oh yeah well yeah because it's an idealized i didn't like it either i did not like it at all but it's an idealized there's a dreamlike quality to it it manages to be like a feel good movie about the start of the troubles and it pushes some emotional buttons with people and i've seen comments on my own page last night from people who were kind of grew up in similar situation and they're like oh yeah i get this and americans love it okay it's an americanized version of growing up in the troubles is that the problem then yeah for me it is definitely again echoing what fenuna said i didn't like this movie i didn't like the characters there's a brilliant review on counterpunch.org by a guy called eric man who's based in los angeles and he really rips it apart and he says if this was in berlin in the 1930s focusing on a smug complacent family who don't really have any problems they're just paying the tax man there's a lot of stuff happening around them and we're somehow supposed to care about these people who aren't invested in what's happening around them and we don't know enough about them you know what i mean like there's this issue with you know first of all i mean i obviously it didn't go up in this well i did in the 70s but i was too young but i mean like in in the 80s when i went to school a lot of people had fathers that worked in the uk or worked in the us worked in different places and came back and forth and it was a thing it's not unusual now it's it's coming round again that's what i've been told but it was a thing like that you'd have a lot of people that only kind of saw the father you know every two months once a month depending on how far away he was working in this you know there's talk about him he's working away and then he can only come back every once in a while and like the mother doesn't want him to be working away and yet she wants him to be very getting money and there's no work in northern Ireland there's a lot and but that's a reality though isn't it i know but there's no like they owe this money to the tax man there's no basis of how why they owe this money there's like a do you need to be fed that though i mean can you not just say right there must be a reason let's watch this there's no depth in these characters you know like his father and mother are living down the road and okay fair enough you know like you don't find out anything about them the father becomes unwell in it and it is very superficial it's a superficial how do they become why do i care that he's unwell you know what i mean you don't really find anything about and i cannot i'm sorry i knew this i cannot cope with it at all karen hind would never be married to judy dench she's way too old for him in this movie and i love judy dench i love judy dench she look at the way karen hind's and judy dench are supposed to be jay v doran's parents judy dench is makeuped up to look like karen hind's his mother the mind jay v doran's mother i just couldn't get over it i was you're watching i mean they're helping her up and downstairs they're doing everything where's karen hind if you know as an actor this is what was being whispered to me during the film last night in the cinema stop they would never be together in a million years they would never be together right something nothing nothing clever was going on then to challenge you to make some sort of a point it was coming from a different side which is kind of more from the protestant side whereas a lot of these belfast movies that i've seen in the past i'm not saying the other is others out there put another a different story forward yeah right okay well this corner says belfast is crap at the film that is it's overdone it reminded me of the commitments typical of how movies are made today you could write the cringe script yourself too much emphasis on small points no imagination in it i wouldn't go next door to see it that's a pretty good review it's harsh it's a pretty good review this is a shocker because i said i thought it was quite divisive but but i'm starting to get to the point now where i'm wondering has anyone else enjoyed except mckayla well i'm i'm hanging all my heart on the fact that mckayla loves it well do i need to i need to go to the back door where is mckayla waiting we need to worry can i get her us off is she prepared to defend herself caroline i don't know oh the film for that matter maybe there's something we're missing i don't know reviewers like it it's got 87 percent on rod nanos the jamie doran is going to be up for an oscar ford and you're kind of like never i i couldn't believe that i'm staggered by that information no okay he until the last kind of 10 minutes of the movie he could have been anybody you know what i mean is and he didn't buy the last 10 minutes i had almost i was so fed up with the characters and some of the silly stuff i can't spoil you're singing there's a song in it though was that just at the end yeah oh god but that wasn't the worst there was a silly bit as well it was the worst i thought that was a high point sorry and i made that genuine i know you know what if you're a jay b doran fan it was a high point yeah but uh yeah no i know the part the part even then michael's talking about there there's different things that happened in his and you were just kind of like it it it was this close to being out of a gauntlet but session belfast right okay and we know you have a problem with that it was just on the cusp of being that and you're like they did not make that so dare i ask what would you give it out of 10 do not say six oh no that's about as much as i would do i mean you can't say six because six is quite good i know what people wouldn't like but some people seem to be enjoying that i mean if somebody said to me will i go and see it i'd be like enough who's on who's on rte maybe but i'd i'd record it so you could fast forward so i would if you're gonna make me give it a lower score then i would probably only give it like a four or five then five we'll go with five five out of six like it's not not watchable it's just it's not yeah cinematography is very good it's about the same but a five it's just this middle it's below below average from me i had always said to you last night six but i thought i would finally sorry to labor this right good then why why what is it the people love that can you see what people loved about it that didn't hit home for you guys yes i think it is that that that dream like thing i think the american market will lap it up the american critics will love it they are love lapping it up and i think anyone who might relate to the subject matter might like it without thinking too much about whether or not they like the characters they might be like i identify with this yeah so i think that's the answer i think that's what it's dedicated through it and after you know for those that left for those that stayed and for those that were lost so i mean you know i don't resonate but it doesn't sound authentic from what user coming from but obviously it was enough well and i fully hold up my hand in that i do not have an emotional attachment in that sense to the subject matter you know what i mean uh growing up where i did and everything understood you know i have a passion if the film is good if a film is good it should make you care i mean it could be living on mars and if it's a good movie you might empathize with a civil war scenario okay and it didn't happen for anyone out there with alternative views 08 660 25 000 uh mary on facebook says hi all i started watching clary's on alibi has your panel watched it it's very good yes clary's on alibi is i actually there's a few things on alibi at the moment that are really good new detective view ones but clary's is one of the oh you have it actually on the list yeah oh yeah it's been there now for a while because it's about four or five weeks in which is fine but basically what it is is it's after silence of the lambs and it is the fbi agent clary's that was the main part of it played by jolly faster if i remember correctly and this is kind of the next stage in her career okay so she if anybody remembers the original science of the lambs when it came out clary's was like a junior just kind of training wheels out she was like a probing agent and they wanted her because they hadn't too many women that were doing that kind of profiling in that if i remember it's so long since i've seen but that was it anyway so then and in this then is that uh the whole uh case uh of uh billy bob i think was not the name of the guy that was in the science of the lambs but the bad guy in that that whole case is over she's trying to move on with her career she's now tainted by it through some people thinking it's great through the press thinking it's thinking that she was amazing through the mother of the girl that was down the well the whole way through silence of the lambs the senator yeah so the senator now is in charge she's in in justice or whatever and she's in charge of putting together this big group uh this specialized group that are going to deal with big issues around the place and she makes sure that clary's has put on this is she good enough is she not and then it's all these different kind of cases i was a bit kind of every episode different case but there's a lot of like scars and stuff coming from the movie that you see coming to a big production because if something's this is probably i haven't really watched enough to even make this judgment but it's almost like you know alibi is where you know the really grainy you know tv oh no alibi has really improved it alibi used to be originally was i i would a hundred percent have said that it was things that were now love it but i can understand why other people might inspector george gently was on it you watched like father brown yeah you watched you know lots of different things then all of a sudden it went through a phase where it was just picking up on american tv that maybe had been dropped so you had a lot of stuff that was coming up on it uh you'd have you'd have things like risoli and aisles cast all these just you know perform anything but they are doing some really good stuff now so the clary sonnet at the moment and which is uh really well done really well produced in american you recognize lots of different actors again not necessarily huge but a lot of actors that you recognize from different shows that show up in it it's uh very well done very short now it's uh you know it is about murdering it doesn't uh it takes the the top end of it i wouldn't be sitting down with your kids to watch it that kind of thing there's another one that was on ragdoll that alibi made themselves it's finished but they're showing it at night it was quite gruesome but it was really well done okay and they make it themselves so they're they're getting into the tv production but staying within their genre which is all this kind of detective well i like that stuff i'm definitely going to check out clary so you can get both kind of stuff it's where i watch hudson and rex so long as all the gambit it's got your life detective to your apparently that are you know you must be like season oh it's only i'm waiting for season four to come out season three okay i mean it now i'm in it to win it right afterlife on netflix michael this is ricky javais's show this is a big talking point it came back for season three recently um speaking of things that are divisive ricky javais is very divisive um i'm watching the show at the moment watching two season two get ready for season three um i liked season one to some degree um but again with season two i'm noticing that he's just repeating what he does and that is javais sets up this scenario where a guy takes pot shots at things that clearly annoy javais so in one episode the guy who's trying to get on with his life after the passing of his wife he goes to like a yoga thing but the yoga guy is just talking rubbish so there's a big point where he stands up and calls him out on it yeah then there's another episode where he kind of has a pop shot at local drama groups because of all that but that's and he has a pop at journalism but he's not know what's good about it because when i it's a long time since i watched the first series but i thought what it was was like a long play format of jokes or observational humor observational stuff yeah little thing i mean is that but he's doing it again i agree like i he's doing now that i'm watching season two i'm like it's almost like i've accidentally pressed play on season one episode three you never got involved emotionally in the side because it's an incredibly emotional program and deals with very absolutely but your focus is on him having to go with amateur dramatics i think the emotions are probably missing from season two right okay if you remember season one it ended with a very climactic cathartic moment so for season two he's moved past that in fact i'm kind of surprised i was surprised at the time that they would go for a season two it was so popular they had to like they had yeah but i wonder is there still is there a story to be told now in season midway point of season two there is the start of a story arc where it's not a spoiler the newspaper might be in danger of getting shut down so that might be what we're supposed to get invested in in season two but i think a lot of the emotional stuff of season one has been resolved it could probably come back to bite him on the design there's season three's out isn't it season two is sort of setting it up it's interesting to look at rotten tomatoes when you look at the reviews from the critics it goes down it starts off like 77 i think 77 and then by the time you get to season three it's like 52 right okay so i think it may have worn out its welcome it's one of those things where if he had stopped at season one we'd all still go but the problem is is netflix have said by the way there is a bucket of money yeah and it doesn't have a bottom go for it go for it two and three and did he have season one two and three laid out in his head or did he just say right people do love it i mean i had a chat with somebody was that a group of people and as you said the people who are touched by it and have watched at the end love this show and love the guy and love his dog and see that that life he's been he is a character for some people that can't do no wrong even though blatantly he's doing wrong you know in other words it's not that good but there's some people so loyal it's very what it stands for and how he speaks yeah well friends why were saying that it would happen that they they felt like you felt season one was excellent season two kind of dropped off of it yeah but there is an emotional thing in it because they think it's more he's got a relationship with his dad and different things like that yes let's come into two but then in season three it's nearly the redemption season so it's kind of when he supposedly and looking at the trailers and stuff he starts looking at his life and his thinking and his is thinking right or wrong and there's that kind of a field to because it's on it's on the final close so it's about that kind of thing because friends of mine have said that they watch it sat down ended up watching it all the way straight through were ball and crime journey so it had that emotion it gets back to that emotional heart that you're talking about that was in one but like maybe that was the case that he was only planning one and then it did kind of suddenly become this so two and three work together maybe it's like what i'm watching is kind of the setup for the key is i think that yeah maybe this is by the time you get to the end of season three if you persist well it will i will the payoff be worth it do you know i mean i'll come back to it in a few weeks if you want but i will stick with it like two out of three anyways always ends up being a thing you know what i mean i think of any trilogy thing you've ever watched in the middle on his own mini chapter syndrome i mean you know even in lord of the range you were like god did i need to do i need that four hours in the middle i like played two the clio the classic thing is for the trilogy those are not like five blades there's not three three three there is a three yeah there's only three oh yeah the classic thing is for fans i don't know that thank you the classic thing is for dr who fans of the old dr who were there were the four parters you had the middle chapter syndrome much as i love dr who classic dr who episode three the middle point of the storylines nothing ever happened it's like a bridge in a song lost in the rubbish why are you remember when you when you're watching uh lost it was like oh 10 years i'm still not over i'm still mad about it lost but oh stop don't get me started and i still get angry it's like that teacher in school that you have a memory of that no matter how long it's been since you're in school you're like oh my god lot i'm scared by it but if you remember watching it it was like this week bang bang bang all these things are happening the next week then you're like oh well sure not never and then you're waiting till next week it's going to be amazing and it was like as if they were kind of doing it that's kind of all messed up now though with the way we can watch stuff all in a row yes i've watched i think your honor or there was what your honor i think it was is i watched it pretty much back to back right and i didn't i couldn't have told you where the bad episodes were of course because it was just a lull in the storyline but someone who was watching it weekly would have gone oh god that was a slow episode or it didn't need to pick up next week that might not continue with it so it depends how you how you consume it too absolutely absolutely correct yeah yeah it's changed our viewing habits have changed how we perceive these things okay so what are you given i'll give it a seven because i'm still above our average show so far yeah it's i think it possibly if there's a good enough payoff it probably can go into the eights yeah absolutely i'd completely yeah and i like i like that main character uh no i haven't seen this yet i haven't seen this a friend's minor all raving about it when i'm not a real i'm sure it's fine i i could do about 15 minutes of him and then i was like did you watch extras i did watch extras but to be honest what i loved about extras was all the other was all the extras yeah it was more everybody else who was in it and the even the way the celebrities oh yeah kind of threw themselves into it and that but um yeah as i was talking about the Clarice there so if anybody's watching that or starts watching it i wasn't mad about it for the first three or four it was good it was watchable but it was kind of like a meh it's gotten really more into her psychological health and stuff like that now i'm about five or six in and actually i'm really enjoying it i'd give it like seven or eight okay that's good um of course i totally agree about belfast the only good thing about it was the van morrisen soundtrack um i think you had to live in belfast all northern arland to appreciate it says another uh did any of you watch the tourist on bbc which ended on sunday night after six weeks that's one i've kind of marked somewhere that's that's the connection there i'm keen to watch the first episode of it right right and it was slow no it's not meant to be a big action thing no is this not he's out in australia or somewhere yeah lost his memory and they're out to kill him somebody's out to get him and he doesn't know why they're out to get him in that kind of hate when that happened i ruined my worst ruins my week i can't do anything where people are lost in the outback in australia i'm still traumatized by wolf creek do you remember that movie years ago too much for me can't do it it's yeah maybe it's set it's set up well i don't know are you going to continue with it i don't i will but jamie doran right like he doesn't speak an awful and i'm not sure he can this is going to be controversial and i might hope we don't bump into him if he's ever done a call if he ever heard what if his agent calls in like last week we had he's he's got one expression right so if he's not speaking it's not really clear what he's feeling yeah yeah i had to describe it maybe yeah the only thing is somebody said to me that the tourist was very good because again i had sort of put it to one side because uh it was too busy watching call the midwife once in a rex call the midwife on a sunday rather than watching the the tourist but um they were saying to me it's his character in it is very similar to the character that he played in the fall which was the main which was the big one that everybody well this the person that drives my my cousin and in london he was the worst thing about the fall though oh yeah we see that most people thought he was one of the best things maybe i'm just not a huge fan of his and it's yeah you know it's like every one of these shows that you watch nothing happens for 55 minutes and then they jam a load of stuff in the last six or seven minutes to make you watch you know like this happen this happen this happen that and keep an eye on that remember that i have been looking forward to it but now i'm not sure no don't because i because there's another one that the other one that i put you off watching finula oh it's 11 which is made very similar to this in that it rushes a load of stuff at the end of episode one it turned out to be really quite good yeah i still have much that every time i go to clicking it i'm like great something else great listen we'll be having for me i'm not going to listen to great because he recommended your honor to me and i'll never going to finish by that i think your honor was 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retire now i'm at my peak isn't that what they say you should do don't don't ruin it don't ruin it don't ruin it just uh we unexpectedly found america's talent show the voice you were saying last friday continues tonight they say it's brilliant hi is the panel watching the tv series sunday night itv one about the bomb squad i find it quite good that's the same people behind line of june is going to use all the same actors so i'm very sarcastic show up on tv three uniquely on the virgin yeah i've seen sarcastic comments on twitter every sunday night about how it lacks tension and people saying things like thank goodness there are ad breaks in this otherwise i wouldn't be able to so i kind of got put off by that to be honest it's that would kind of a lot of those comments i'm concerned if a movie about bomb squad people go in it doesn't have any tension you're like surely that's the whole point yeah the whole point surely is the tense moment but that person liked it so yeah i was looking forward to it i have to say now and normally when something starts on utv it shows up on like one of the virgin channels here or whatever but i haven't found it yet they say i find it good which is not necessarily a massive glowing uh positive sort of maybe a lot of people are comparing it to line of duty and expecting immediately to love it and that's the same people that's doing it and then it's the same actors i mean obviously people are going vigil which was to say i loved vigil i thought vigil was amazing great tense that was tension i don't understand how that hasn't showed up on Netflix yet i keep thinking that should be there by now yeah well sure look at uh we're going to welcome on to the program now um patrick old sullivan from county cork higher patrick how you keeping hello there i'm very well thank you it's good to have you with us right the late late show tonight we'll see six Eurovision hopefuls including patrick along with janet grogan rachel good brendan moore brook scullion and miles graham take to the stage in the hope of representing arland at the upcoming Eurovision song contest in italy this may i use performing live this evening is it we are performing live yeah i woke up this morning and kind of realized i was going to be singing on the late late show it's a great honor in and of itself of course it's amazing yeah i mean it's kind of the the biggest platform there is in arland so i feel very fortunate to even be in this position yeah but you're not uh you know stranger to the big stage either or to tv uh you've been at it since you were 10 yeah it's been a long on time i started doing shows and stuff like that when i was 10 years old and then when i was 17 after the leaving start i went away and did a degree in musical theatre and i've done all sorts different bits in the west end and tours and all that kind of stuff uh since in the last kind of seven or eight years right so how did uh your your song is one like one kiss one promise written by nickie burin uh larre and daniel reilly if the chrono's also involved so that's pretty much you know uh some of the big hitters in the irish music scene over the last 10 or 20 years how does it work are you matched with the song do you source the song yourself are you approached or what way uh did you come to be singing one like one kiss one promise yeah like you say it's a fairly strong caliber of song right there um so i did a singing show on rte it was the first season of it called the last singer standing in the last part of 2021 and nickie burin was the host of that show um and i went on to win that and nickie got to know me through that and got to know my voice and throughout lockdown we've been doing lots of writing sessions with daniel reilly and lark hey and they've been kind of tinkering with this song and he gave me a call after finding said look patrick we've got this song and we think that you could do you could put your own spin on it and it could be a really cool interesting new thing for arland to do for your vision and like when i heard the track i just absolutely bit his hand off i thought it had all the elements that arland needs to kind of get out of this rut that it's finding itself in right how's the winner tonight uh selected do we know yeah so there's three there's three elements to it there's a national jury of irish music industry experts there's an international jury of irish of european music industry experts and then there's also a public vote so all the people at home can can watch and pick their favorite which will be one night which is to promise and they can vote in and select that all right well listen we wish you the the best of success with it it's exciting um and it'll be an interesting program i think big viewership tonight uh and it will be interesting to see who goes through what song selected listen great to talk to you thank you thank you so much for having me all right take care right there's a an international panel there's a national panel and there is an audience panel let's see what our panel thinks of this all right here we go this is just one of the entrance one night one kiss one promise i'm not saying anyone could be swayed by anything right but like i would say nickie burin larke and daniel really know everyone in the irish national music i would assume between the three of them i'd say they've they've fairly gotta covered you know it's gonna be hard to say no but anyway let's have a listen see somewhere here i like it i think it's right so you're sharing lots of yeah yeah and sort of a you too sort of a feel or a guitar what are you on about the beginning is completely the beginning see i'm going to sing too so you too i want to sing too so all of you too is really in my head now um but but yeah no i like it too yeah i don't think it's going to win the Eurovision because i think it's too good good song do you think we're yeah i you could definitely listen to it but Eurovision seems to have gotten a little bit is that the best we haven't heard the other five okay obviously i haven't heard the we have so much talent i just would yeah all i would want and he is a very talented young man and clearly and he's got brilliant backing yep um i just all i want sometime and whoever it might be is that we send something over to the Eurovision that may not necessarily be winning it but represents the best of what we can do and that's for me what's been a lacking bit that the best of what we can do even in this county or this region or the country that's what we should send over whatever it might be i know i suppose the thing about that though in in context of this is there's so many genres and different things and how do you pull that in do you remember like we went down the kind of semi-trad you know as in was it Neve Kavana or one of them she did it you know she did a song there one time and kind of had a trad feel even though it was poppy so is that what you know what we can't win it right we can't win it now because of the way the scoring is done the geography we can't win it so at the very least i don't i'm not saying we have to it has to represent irishness in inverted commas but just has to feel like we're sending the best of what we can do yeah you know like say for instance who's like uh there's a ton of them the guy from our drawer what's his name he's a sketch with the moment or you know like there's so many people that make that songs are better than what we're sending out yeah i know and there was a time when people used to get a real sense of nationalism and huge irishness off it you know you take back i don't think we recovered from river dance um mary says i agree with you all about jamie doran but stick with it it's good the tourist the tourist okay okay okay we're gonna be back with more from my clan fenula after these messages very nurses and carers across dunigal call 91 29562 bluebird care are sponsors of today's show what is it about 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entertaining and everybody was talking about it it's about a spy conman who and the sort of tool timelines uh he was involved with a group of young people in the early noughties i think and spawn a web of deceit uh and then there's another timeline closer to now 20 you know was it like eight episodes 10 episodes it's three or four strangely episode two is half an hour or something i don't know it's peculiar um one's 45 minutes the other's half an hour and then another's an hour and five it's really well done you know again so for some reason the uh producers who are doing the interviews don't use a microphone i don't understand it why not have a microphone if you're asking people a question yeah have a microphone i don't understand why it has to be an off mic question but anyway but it's very good i thought it was very good and it's at such i would imagine there'll be developments in it because um it's right up until now yeah exactly so now that's good but the tinder swindler yeah i was watching the tinder swindler which is uh well one one it kind of really justifies why i tell people i will never go on on dating apps i'm like oh yeah totally this is my this is my case study of why when somebody says you should totally try it as they all do um so the tinder swindler is based on uh an israeli guy that is on tinder and seemed to really be attractive to women from the netherlands because they all seem to be from the netherlands that i could see in it so it's based on obviously it's a documentary it's done over uh as one film it's an hour and fifty minutes um it's an enjoyable watch now i have to say i give it a seven or eight and it's definitely a cautionary tale but halfway through it you're kind of like ah lads so he's so they're on tinder they meet this guy and he's all his photographs of him on private jets and he's on airplanes and he's uh private jets and airplanes are the same thing he's on private jets he's on yachts he's on beaches he's wearing all those pedals he's he's uh he's all designer clothes all this kind of stuff um his profile says that he is the son of a diamond merchant and he makes out that he's from this big diamond family and uh one can see where this is going to end up all these lovely blonde beautiful ladies get very involved in him and it turns out that over the course of the last few years he has swindled over 10 million us dollars out of women across the way these women aren't sane yes but they were drawn to uh i mean obviously he's he's huge but yes but he is but also obviously he's he's portraying a lifestyle that that was the hook that people thought into so in a way if you are that dare i say shallow yeah well the amazing thing about these women is they didn't seem to think that they were in any way yeah but i mean if he had shown if this same guy was sitting in the back of a pig lorry i'm not sure whether they've swiped right but they all did and he was very smart because on the first date he met them he was all lovely and charming and he obviously is a very charming guy he's all lovely and charming and he met them and then he swept them away on a private jet to another country now first of all if you meet a guy on tinder and you get on his private jet to go to another country on your own i mean you're asking to be in clary's you're going to be on alibi but if you open the door and someone walks in once they've walked in you know then your whole oh i know going to work yeah you have them they're hooked then he told them then he had he had security and he told them that he was being that he had enemies because he was in this diamond industry and like one woman had owed 250 000 uh dollars i think in the end is what she owed because she got american express i should watch the puppet master and she didn't have any but she got loans she had nine different loans out watch the mask then because if i foolishly gave you what was in my bank account in the first in the first timeline i don't want to ruin it but in the first that means remarkable what this guy is also capable of get you would not imagine you would not imagine you can see how it works people take the leap and meet them halfway no this is not this is not love based this is just oh no i know that don't be a problem master yeah but like you know that sounds compared to to what this fella did to other people that sounds like it's only a few loans but it sounds really good i'm gonna watch that one i think yeah no it's very interesting to see it's interesting the women are all talking about what how they got caught into it how they were kind of pulled i mean one woman was going out with them for 14 months like so i'm fairness to her wow but like another person then was only going out with them for three or four months and they were moving in together and suddenly she was racking up all this debt uh how you know they got so into believing his stories that the people were after him and oh that's my enemies my enemy now if you come to me and you tell me your enemies are after you i'm out i'm maybe i'm too cynical which is probably maybe so i'm in and say this is why i don't do anything someone's after me give me a tenor but if part of you goes right i need the bus yeah but part of you goes that my life has been pretty mundane and boring and then there's this element of danger excitement that gets the adrenaline rush going you can see clearly how it works might go you know there's enough here for me to hang about that's exactly this is how judy dench got kiran hines on tender she lulled him she said that's how she managed to marry kiran what you'll give that seven or eight yeah i give it a seven or eight and a seven enjoyable and they kind of goes through the whole thing of how the women end up in the situation and then what they do about it when they start realizing what's going on all right scammer payback youtube yeah this is a youtube channel and i know this can i just ask questions sorry when you say youtube is this just something that's on youtube yes or because there is youtube red or something no this is just something that's on youtube yeah and it's got like almost two million subscribers and i've been watching them the last few weeks and i think it's brilliant it's great fun to watch but it's also really educational and you'll learn a lot so basically there's this guy who's screaming him is pierogi and he's based in america and he works in cyber security this is actually his job but what he's been doing for the last couple of years now he's not the only one that does this but i think he's the best he bates scammers and we are in dunigal we're inundated with these phone calls and emails i mean it's ridiculous the number of calls i get on on that denokia the old phone that i get a lot of people in foreign countries i've never been to this guy bates them and he engages them for conversations that run maybe three or four hours we get the highlights on youtube but if you follow him on twitch which is the live streaming thing you see how he wastes their time and a lot of people do this there's another guy who does it as well there's a lot of and there's this website called four four nine four one nine eater which has been around for like 15 20 years but what pierogi does is because he works in cyber security he's able to counter hack a lot of them he's able to hack back stick it to them hack into their webcams he's able to get into their own computers and delete files while they're so he keeps them on the phone spills them full of rubbish and then he's able to actually delete he can he can show us their script the script they're working off oh wow i might check that oh it's fantastic he's able to tell them then and then when he turns the hook on them at the end he's able to maybe turn on their their webcam but if he doesn't do that he's able to tell them what building they're in and what industrial estate or apartment in india he's able to call out things on the street and he's able to freak them out and he has been doing this for years and it's awesome to watch scammer payback scammer payback is the name of the channel you will learn a lot about i mean it's amazing to listen to these things and i've watched about 20 of them in the last couple weeks now the highlights are only maybe 45 minutes long they're not the full four-hour conversations but he does this all night every night when he finishes his work but it's amazing how it is amazing how plausible some of these guys are and you see how people get hooked the target older people the target people who are more vulnerable the target people who are too trusting yeah and they will convince these people and the way that the one of the most famous favorite scams to use is that we're we're from amazon we're giving you a refund of 400 dollars oh we've accidentally given you four thousand dollars you know always 3600 we need you to send it back or we're going to have to call the police yeah and it's fear incredible how they so this guy turns the tables i love this channel scammer payback on youtube so we had belfast in the cinema around five out of ten but more people in this building coming up disagreeing saying they loved it clarris on alibi um it gets better the more you watch it a couple of people enjoying that as well as fenula as ragdolls being repeated on that as well uh the tinder swindler a solid seven or eight out of ten on netflix um i'll be interested in actually uh to hear about palman tommy next week and scammer payback i might watch big thumbs up after live midway through season two yeah we're the jury seven seven yeah i like it but i don't love it all right michael and fenula see you next week thanks for joining us bye thank you the nine till noon show with bluebird care providing home care services for all ages and done it all visit bluebirdcare.ie and bring care home already for next year why not make sure of it with seat trade up to a two two one seat suv 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