 Yeah, it was amazing, wasn't it? It was great. If anybody hasn't checked, go along to Highland or Greg's Facebook page and check it out. It's a lovely piece of music. Brilliant. I've only heard it twice, but I feel like I've heard it a ton of times, if that makes sense. Yeah, no, but it's just really... And the way it was... He came up with the notes for the song, and it was just amazing. The whole concept, exactly. Brilliant. Lovely. And it really is something special. And I know to certainly any of the families that I have contact with, that it means a lot to them, and that's really what's most important. Great. Yeah. OK, listen, I appreciate that, Leigh, and I'm sure Matt will, too, and Denise Rowe, who was excellent on the piano as well. I would love to hear a lovely, big production of that. I know it's nice on a song, but... That's why music is so important, because it's so subjective. Yeah. I like the... The simplicity of it. Exactly. But I hear exactly what you're saying. You're not an orchestra. I know. I can be so emotional, but do you know what it was? I get it. All right. Listen, Leigh, thanks for that. Enjoy your weekend. Have a great one. He's back with you Monday morning. We're going to be joined by our Friday panel very, very shortly as we kick off the 9th of June, so after we get a news update now from Donna Marie Daugherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Ukraine is to become a NATO member after all Allies agreed to the move. NATO Secretary General Jens Stolenberg says once the war ends in Ukraine, Kiev must have the deterrence to prevent new attacks. It comes after Mr. Stolenberg yesterday pledged to continue support to the country during his first visit to Kiev since Russia's invasion just over a year ago. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is due in Donegal Town today for the official opening of the town's new primary care centre. The centre will provide a range of services including podiatry, physiotherapy, dietetics, social work, occupational therapy and x-ray facilities. Mandy Doyle is head of the primary care services in Donegal and she says this will help ensure that people receive services in their own community and in many cases will no longer have to travel to the acute hospitals in letter Kenny or Sligo for treatments or consultations. It's about enabling the patient to have closer access to their care in the heart of their own community and also then reducing the footfall to our acute hospitals. We've come a long way, however we do acknowledge we still have more to do and both Minister Donnelly and ourselves remain very committed to the delivery of that safe, high quality service to our communities across the Donegal region. Half of Allen Plust's fleet will run on alternative fuel sources by 2025. It's part of its plan to live up to its environmental promises. Its sustainability report released today shows it's also on target to achieve a net zero carbon emissions by the year 2030. Three in five doctors were unhappy with their work-life balance during the COVID-19 pandemic. That's according to a new paper published by the Irish Medical Journal which highlights over 70% of doctors were at risk of burnout. The paper notes it is likely the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant negative impact on doctor well-being in Ireland. Dr Brandon O'Shea, a practicing GP in Kildare says doctors suffering from burnout are more likely to make mistakes. It's bad for the staff involved but we also know that tired, exhausted doctors are far more likely to make errors. Errors are more likely to happen and patients suffer as a result of that. Sometimes there are the very obvious errors that a tired, exhausted doctor is significantly more likely to miss something important so that's an obvious thing that people rapidly understand. And now to the weather. Dry and mostly sunny this morning and it will stay that way for the afternoon also but there will be a partial build up of cloud. Highest clouds will range from 13 to 16 degrees with a moderate to fresh northeast breeze. That's all for now. We'll be back again with a news update and the obituary notices at 10 o'clock and until then, good morning. The county's number one talk show The 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest. The 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. It is time to wrap up the talk show. This is the first of the past nine on this Friday the 21st of April, 2023. I do hope you very well indeed and hopefully you're on board for the next three hours for this show and of course throughout the day here on Highland Radio later on. Michael and Fidula we in with us for that entertainment. We have an actor in studio as well or joining us at least. And there's also some live music but to get us a little we're going to have a look at some of the stories making the headlines throughout the week. Let's say good morning to them right now, then. First all of all, we'll say good morning to Maria. What rush fitness instructor with rush fitness and blogger at Maria living out loud. Good morning, great. How are we all good? You're going to be living out loud with us this morning. Making loads of things. Good morning. Good to see you. Good to have you on board, Richard. Thanks for having me again, Greg. It's a it's a real pleasure. Brilliant stuff. And last, but not least, Chancellor Martin Harley. Good morning to you. Councillor Harley. How are you keeping? Not too bad, Greg. Good morning to you. Good morning to Maria and Richard as well. All right. Now we're going to hear the numbers. The number is 9125,000. Now the government's expected or is expecting a surplus this year of 10 billion Euro with a surplus of 16 billion expected next year. Last year, I think there was an 8 billion Euro surplus. The T shocks pledged tax cuts, welfare hikes and infrastructure spending. But Leo Bradshaw said he would also set aside a portion of the windfall corporation taxes and what he called an increase. So what should we actually be doing with this money now? Should we be parking it or should we be spending it in the areas that it's most needed? Shall I start with you, Martin, seeing as you were up on my screen here. What would you like to see the government do with this 26 and 80s what 34 billion over the last three years and into the next? Yeah, well, I feel that I think we need to be spending it. We can't see because apparently we've changed the rules of banking. People have more savings on deposit. People aren't borrowing beyond their means. That's what caused everything we're told in 2008. Yeah, well, we're depending on the taxes from building of houses. So now we're depending on the taxes of corporation tax because so we have to make sure that we are corporation tax moment for operating out of Ireland. Okay, but let's hypothesize, right? Let's say we had what happened in 2008 again, and this is what we're putting the money away to avoid. What would happen in this country do you think by way of a similar situation in 2008? People would start being people would start living in abject poverty. We'd have children that were that couldn't be fed. We'd have children that could be on the brink of collapse. We would have a situation where you couldn't even get an appointment with the GP. That's exactly how we're living now, Martin. Let's spend it now. Yeah, well there is. There's there is a lot of issues there at the minute. Um the fact that we can't see a GPS as part of the fact that we have we help. We're helping out the Ukrainian situation where there's a lot of problems with the year rules. Um and fairness that there is a lot of packages in place this year. There's been, um. That's just in relation to that, by the way, and I'm sorry. I don't I'm not. It's just a conversation, right? Not pulling you up on everything. The greatest concern from GPs at the moment is not having to deal with a grown population. It's a government problem. It's a problem. It's a problem. And there's a lot of resources there to do it. That's what the GPS will tell you as part of the problems going forward. Oh yeah, no, I'm not. Well, that is an issue that we were given GP care now up to the edge of, um, like it's nine and, uh. Free GP care. Um. We have to are big problem at the minute I see where our major problem is. It's a massive massive need for more people to home. Here's a bold move. Let us use some of these billions then to properly pay nurses that might stay and work here and properly pay home helps so that it would seem an attractive job to go into that. You know, I'm trying to use this money to fix the problems that you're highlighting here. Yeah, I agree because what happened at the moment is we have a lot of people that want home help and they want to allow them out of the hospital to home helps in place. So I do agree there that we need to to the home help situation and here in the minute, we need to look at that because we can free up a lot of beds and that's that is part of the problem. I know at the moment three people that want to get home, but they can't get home at the minute because they can't get home because they can't get home outside of the hospital. Right? Is that right? Yes. We are all from whatever party might be saying the same that we're all now supposed to hold our breath for tax cuts welfare hikes and infrastructure spending to be announced in the budget at the end of this year. That's all well and good. What will it mean? Maybe an extra six quid and people's pockets the every week you won't. It won't really make any difference yet all the tax receipts. Where has all the money gone that we're supposedly not able to rely on? A lot of the money at the minute has been given out on different helps during the COVID and during the times of run of the minute. That's pittance. Look, the surplus is what we have left over after what we spend. So the government has 8 billion last year, isn't it? So that means they took in 8 billion less than they spent. More than they spent, yeah. Sorry, more than they spent, okay? Right, so we managed to cover those debts and yet we still have 8 billion left over. So we can't blame, then, can we, that spending? Oh no, we can't blame the spending now. But as I say, you take a country like Norway that is depending totally on the oil. They put so many billion aside each year that when it comes to a time that they don't have any, that oil is not their main income, that the money will be there. I mean, we have an aging population at the minute and we talk about the pension. We don't have enough, we don't have enough money and the budgets to cover pensions going forward because people are living longer. That's all we were going to make people work longer to fix that problem. And now we're not talking about doing that anymore. We're talking about using this money now to fix that problem. But I take your point and we'll come back to it and tease it out a bit more. Maria, Maria, Rush, what would you like to see? What do you think we should be doing? I think what Councillor Martin-Harley said there about putting some money away is not a bad idea. I think we are very quick to jump into the whole idea that we throw money at problems and we'll fix problems. But that's not always going to be the case. But Maria, with respect, that's giving up on us able to do anything correctly then. By spending to try and make people's lives better is seen as just throwing money at a problem that doesn't fix it. Well then, that identifies a significant problem in and of itself then, doesn't it? Massive problems and the biggest issue is that when we throw money at things, we don't know where it goes when it goes into the system and it's not going where it needs to go. It's great to say that we have the lowest corporation tax rate and all these companies are coming, they're bringing business, they're bringing employment. But what I'm saying as an employer happening is that the young people in this country are leaving because they cannot get mortgages, they cannot get what they need to get to stay here. And when you see young teachers, young nurses being pulled into virtual recruitment conferences in Australia and the Middle East, they've been offered packages of up to 70,000 euro with their flights, with their healthcare, with all that. Why would you not? This is the reality of it. Personally, I'm speaking as an employer and as a family member with a lot of cousins who are heading that way at the minute and it's absolutely devastating to our local communities. Yes, of course, when I said at the start about keeping money aside, what I mean there is we still have 224 billion of national debt. Of course, it makes sense in a basic budget level to think about that. We have the National Reserve Fund in case trouble hits, as they say. There was talk during the week about a sovereign fund to address what you said there, Martin, about your pensions and your ageing population. Those things are all common sense, but we also have to put money into our health system, into our education, into all the things that we are facing as people on the ground every day. Friends, family, members here of ours who are working in the health system, they are pulled from pillar to post. I know one woman who was on our week's annual leave last week who worked five days, this is the reality. So the money needs to go into the right parts of the system. Anyone can contact me and correct me if I'm wrong, if I'm reading this wrong. But what I feel like we're seeing at the moment is that, say, for instance, in the area of construction, that you've got a lot of very big companies that saw what was coming down the line, they saw the money that's there and they started turning the tap off. You know how they turn the tap off with the oil? They started turning the tap off because they can't progress with projects because of increased costs and so on and so forth. And then, lo and behold, what we're hearing now is what is it, 150,000 euro per house or per unit that's being given to these people to progress these projects? We're starting to throw this money at the same group of individuals that Martin Harley referenced that the housing boom being the cause of the last recession. And yet, here we are again, they seem to be able to turn off the tap in terms of building and construction and we're going to throw billions at them. And that's how we seem to spend money. That's not going to keep nurses in this country, Maria. No, it's not. And then the whole idea of the housing, everything that I read is about, it's all hypothetical language about initiatives and ambition and plans and schemes and incentives. Where's the actual, show me the plans where this is going to happen and get the people on the ground doing it to make it happen. We can talk about social housing and affordable housing and creating housing and building all we want. Talking's not going to get us where we need to be and having a five-year plan is great if you actually act upon it. But we're very good in this country at having plans about things and talking about talking about plans about talking and actually not doing what we need to do. There's very little building happening in Latter-Kinney. I'm not saying many houses going up. It would be great to see it. It needs to happen. But straight away also, when you read the articles in Irish Independence and the Irish Times, as we're talking about the money going into the construction industry to help to build these houses, we're also already talking about who's going to be allowed to apply for those, who's going to be able to access them, how much money they need to be earning. Let's build them first. Let's get the houses built and then we have somewhere to put people. Yeah, and not to mention too, you talk about all talk and no action, not a single. Is it what they call those houses again, the prefabred houses or whatever you might call them. Their names escaped me. Has been delivered yet, not one. And we've been talking about that for a long time. And also too, I hear ministers use language like commencements. What does commencements mean? There's two or three thousand houses were commenced. What does that mean? Planning permission was applied for? A site's been bought? Does it mean the foundations are in? You know, I don't understand what that means. But anyway, we'll get to that maybe. Richard Logue has been waiting patiently. Richard, thank you so very much, indeed. The phrase yours. Good morning again. Yeah, so looking at that surplus, I agree with Maria and with Martin about setting aside, you know, certainly money for sovereign funds and for as an insurance policy against future recessions. However, the one thing we need to do and Maria touching it very eloquently just there is about a lack of investment. And I would see that a chunk of that money needs to go in investment. Now, the big problem we have right now across the country is that young people are immigrating, not because of jobs. They're immigrating because they can't get housing. And we, the t-shirt stood up in the aisle. I think it was about two weeks ago and said that there was a deficit of around about a quarter of a million homes in Ireland. Now, let's be honest, we're not going to build those in Dublin. Dublin is pretty much full up. We should be looking for a wholesale. Now, I talk about development plan, but a plan with an implementation plan attached to it. So the one thing we're really crying out for on the western half of Ireland is decent infrastructure, adequate housing. And then with that should come, we hope, the investment from employers to bring jobs into the country. Because, you know, it's a bit like the bath with the water running out and you haven't, you know, we don't have enough housing to keep young people in jobs. And the big crisis that we have, Maria mentioned this, and I would notice from my late mother, you know, the big crisis we have is that we don't have enough people to actually maintain the health service as it is. And the reason they're not staying is that they can't afford a property. A hundred years ago, the first, one of the first things that the Irish Free State did on independence, they built a huge programme of social housing and they set up the Ardner Crusher power station to address an energy deficit. And here we are a hundred years later crying out for social housing, needing an energy deficit. And by the way, particularly in Donegal, we need to resolve that Micah issue very, very quickly because I know it's going to cost money, but it needs to be dealt with. And, you know, I always say this, we've got to get that issue properly resolved so everybody gets adequate compensation for getting their houses rebuilt. And that will cost money. Now, we shouldn't just go headlong into tax cuts just because we think there's a general election coming up. I think that's a false economy. And to be honest with you, if we have six euro more in our pockets every month, will it really make a difference? The real issue is that we need to do the investment both on housing to the scale that the state did when the state had far less money than it has now. And that was a hundred years ago. Yeah, but even with the money, Richard, because we then need to change how we think maybe the planning and all that type of stuff, because even with the money, like there has been a really significant underspend in the Department of Housing in two successive years. Money literally has been given back. And the irony of people emigrating, we can't really attract the teachers, the healthcare professionals, or even the people that to work in construction to Ireland if they're not here, because there was nowhere for them to live. Can't afford it. But there isn't even actually rooms for them. Yeah, exactly. And you look on the estate agent sites like Daft IE and look at amount of properties available to rent. The private sector isn't and shouldn't really, we shouldn't be relying on the private sector for affordable housing. The state needs to take the bullbiter horns and essentially build, but not just plant houses in the middle of a random field. Do it properly as a part of a plan with adequate infrastructure and make sure we have proper road and rail networks, obviously, in order to service all of this. We've got to get away from this idea you can plant houses 10 miles away in the middle of nowhere in a field and expect people are going to access services and use them. You've got to do it in a sensible way. And we have very good plans, and Maria mentioned this in the country, but we are absolutely hopeless at implementation. We need to start looking at what needs to change there because let's face it, right? It's not the ministers that implement this stuff. Every time we talk about various problems, it seems to be that we find ourselves coming back to the permanent government, the civil servants that are there because the politicians can promise the sun, the moon, the stars, but they are. Are they not really the people that make the decisions and implement those policies that we talk of? It's like we're having a conversation about the provision of public IVF treatment yesterday, and it's supposed to be coming in in two or three months, and there's nothing in terms of implementation, no knowledge, no nothing. And that's on a 10 million euro spend, not the multiples of billions we're talking about. Now, so we need to find out, do we not, where the blockage is. Clear that blockage? Where is it? The general rule is that government ministers decide policy, civil servants implement that policy, and that needs to be reiterated right across the board. I'm not going to name any names. I think we know who we're talking about. There was an Eruxus committee during the week which kind of showed that issue out loud. But basically, we have to ensure that government ministers make sure that the policy that they decide is actually implemented. The buck stops at the ministers, we elect the ministers, we don't elect the civil servants, but it is the job of the ministers to ensure that their policy is implemented, and they can't keep hiding behind it while I put it to the civil servants and they said no. No, you've decided a policy, you're the minister, we put you in there. Martin, then you'll have the Department of Housing saying, well, we've greenlit the council to do this, that and the other, and I think what three odd houses were delivered by the council last year under quite a wide ranging number of schemes, short-term schemes from government. What is the council's role in this? I mean, you must know at a local level what hold-ups are, where the hold-ups are, I beg your pardon. Yeah, I know at a Donegal County council level that we have this new, we're meeting on Monday regarding the next 24 to 30 development plan, and over the last number of months, we have seen a sonorary area, we have looked at different lands around the towns of the sonorary and Balbofee, that can be looked at that the council can put social housing on. I do agree with Richard there that we do need to move this quicker, it's too slow, it's too slow because I know myself, like if you were elected tomorrow morning and you had a five-year term and you had some idea, the five years could be up before that idea could be dealt with, that's too slow, that's not good enough. We've gone to Northern Ireland, I see how it's just going up very quickly, and I think to myself, how come we can't- Yeah, and that's without a government. We've seen exactly, yeah, but you wonder why, well, there's votes are being, they're being run by London at the minute, and that's the way they seem to, the parties there seem to be happy enough both at the minute because they're not prepared to come around the table and talk most of them. So I think that we need to move on the projects, we need to move the projects quicker, we need to get the planning in place quicker, and we need to look at all the different, I mean, you take us in the sonorary there now, where I am, that we put in a treatment plant that can cover up to 12, to 14,000 houses, which was needed, and there was an investment of about $10 billion there in the last number of years, but at the same time now, we haven't built any houses. Yeah, okay, well, let's not even build them, right? As sure as night follows day next year, Stranall or Balabafe will have the country's highest commercial vacancy rate, it happens every year. What's being done to sort of say, right, that's not changing, we're not going to attract any further businesses, in fact, we're going to go around the town with a road. So who's to say what impact that might have? What do yous do to try and get some of that commercial property then into residential property? If you can't build it, convert it? Yeah, well, suppose it depends on, it depends again, back to the stage of who owns the properties, and are they prepared to go down that road? Maybe people think that the property is worth more than it actually is worth, as well, so that they're looking for rents for commercial use, that is above what is available. You have to ask the question why they are prepared to have a commercial premises lying vacant rather than loan the rent and bring someone in, I mean, that in and of itself is a question. But Maria, I just find it, you see, hopeless, and I don't want to be negative for whatever. And it's not this government, it could be the next government or whatever combination of government policies that might get together whenever. It just seems to be more talk and no action, which really was the crux of your first contribution. It's kind of frustrating because even if you say go to the election ballot box tomorrow, what do you vote for? Who do you vote for for what? I think, yeah, the closer we get to the general election as well, we're going to see more and more promises and great news being spun out. And, you know, it's going to be very, it's going to be a challenge to decipher the difference or figure out the pieces that are genuine and the pieces that are spin for votes. But I mean, going back to what Martin said there as well, and, you know, if there is a drive, the people who are on the ground and the local council are there trying to make a difference when you have planning, planning, planning, and initiatives and schemes, but nothing actually happening. It's very frustrating. And I think the more closer we get to the election, it's almost like the TDs want, they want to be seen to be saving money. How is it that we can spend or underspend 1.2 billion on the housing budget in a housing crisis? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Don't be proud of that. Use that money to actually fix it. Well, you referenced your business, a very successful business. If that, if those type of anomalies were happening financially in any medium sized business or large business, you would change the people at the head of that business. You would say this business is not being run effectively here. Now, I mean, I suppose a business that would be running an underspend, you know, but you get my point, right? It's a mismanagement really of, of really quite significant funds. Like, we don't want to see this money all of a sudden that we're being told we can't spend now, all of a sudden turn up at election time. And this is what I mean. There's, there will always be those promises. You know, we've talked about health, we've talked about housing, we've talked about education. There was a harrowing article in the marriage independent yesterday about sex assault data and the services that we are waiting on and conversations that have been happening since 2019. It's four years ago. Let's get this done. It's four years later. And there are still thousands and thousands and thousands of people waiting for those services. Those aren't services that we can kick down the line any longer. That's another one example of something that just came to my attention this week. If you open any newspaper, you're going to see another thousand issues coming at you. If you speak to 10 different people, there's 10 different issues. So, you know, we will always find things. There are things obviously as a business person as a parent that are going to affect me more than somebody who isn't in this situation. But we have to, as you mentioned, when the person at the top is throwing money into something, but the people that are delegated to manage either able to or aren't willing to put it to where it needs to go, there's a disconnect somewhere. When you've seen your civil servants literally treating ministers with absolute contempt and them on almost 300K a year, I think that really pulls the curtain back some way because that's the glimpse once they were dragged kicking and screaming into an arctus committee. That's the glimpse we get at the attitude. There is also a disconnect and I've said it before between urban and rural, where when most of the decisions have been made by people who are always in one situation, they can't understand, belay the situation of people who aren't in that situation. Richard, is any country getting it right, though, too, though? We do see around the world similar conversations happening all the while. It's almost as if there's a global handbook that everybody follows. I'm not asking you to start naming countries that it is working and don't go near the Nordic countries because it's too easy, but are there any countries that we could look to and say, well, that's how it's done? Well, we often talk about the Nordic countries, don't we, about the good models of what I would consider an excellent sort of social democratic model of government, where you do have countries like Norway who spent their North Sea oil money on a massive sovereign wealth fund, which allowed the country to maintain a high-class health service and use their North Sea oil money pretty wisely. I certainly applaud the fact that the budget surplus is going into a rainy day fund, so to speak, but the issue we've got is the reason so many people died in a potato fund is we were living off potatoes. We're now currently living off corporation tax receipts. The last recession, we were living off stamp duty receipts, so the Irish government needs to look at a model of tax receipts where we actually have a pretty good mix. I know that they're planning to expand the population between now and 2040 to a further three and a half million using Project R2040, but unless we actually invest some of that money on basic infrastructure, not just housing, road infrastructure, rail infrastructure, getting the state ready for investment and also ensuring that we're not delivering and developing everything in Dublin and the East Coast and ignoring the west. We need to actually do this in a really balanced way and we need to actually have a plan of implementation. We can talk fine words, but until we actually have an implementation plan and actually show that we're meeting that, that's where I think we need to take the politics if you like out of things like infrastructure and out of things like almost like the health service as well because I think there is a consensus. Well, how do you do that? How do you take that out of politics then? I would have always already been favour of some sort of a cross-party body that is responsible for important things like health, education and development, but again that is not a model we see elsewhere, is it? No one's going to give over that power if they've managed to find their way into government. It would be a sensible approach, Greg, but obviously the nature of adversarial politics, you know, you always have a government in an opposition and it's the job of the opposition to pinery the government and when that government goes back into opposition then it's their job to pinery the new government. But I almost think that we need to actually have things like the health service and infrastructure as part of an independent commission in a way, but then how do you select the independent commissioners and do you make it cross-party? I'm not sure. And I suppose slant your care to some extent is kind of cross-party, but where's that going? But Martin, I mean you would know at a council level, you know there's not much party politics really goes on at council level, councillors of the same area will work together, the county as a whole will work together where it needs to be. I mean that's the way it is isn't it and we don't see that reflected on a national scale, it is all the shouting back and forwards and listen post-election the heads might change, but it'll all be the same. It'll just be the same thing with different people in different places. Yeah, well I've heard it, Donegal County Council is probably one of the few councils in Ireland that now for nine years now we've had an all-inclusive council where all parties have been in the mix and which has worked well to an extent was the majority of the councillors. So and I understand at a government level that there's a lot of talk goes on and a lot of talk about different issues but I feel that we have to get, we say that the ministers aren't charged, the ministers maybe get 100,000 a year but they're telling several servants who are getting two and 300,000 a year what to do but I don't think that's working and I don't think it has worked for a lot of years and so I think that there has to be a change there. We look at the billions and I know as Richard said there we do need in Donegal to sort the mic issue out but there are a lot of houses for sale in Donegal at the moment and I think the council should be going and spending the money to buy up houses to get our people into houses. And there are houses as well Martin, there's an awful lot of properties in the town centres which are relatively small investment would do them up into good family homes here for people who need them. 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Richard Logo, could we find it really not doing an awful lot other than maybe pushing against, you know, climate change proposals, the green policy, and that type of stuff? Or maybe that's what we need. What do you think? Well, I think the current crop of rural independent TDs have obviously realised that they're actually doing a pretty good job representing the interests of their constituents. If you take the likes of Matty McGrown, the Healey Rays and many others, I mean, they've certainly punched above their weight as independence. Perhaps they've decided now that it's more in their interest to work as a collective group. But they're achieving that in support of the government, though. It's by backing the government that they get their little sweeteners, though, where they wouldn't be forthcoming if they were just a rural party, or perhaps they could still go into government support in the government. I don't know. Don't forget, look at the arithmetic of the current Doyle. I mean, if there was a suddenly withdraw of their support from the government, I think the government would be in an awful lot of trouble, and we'd see a very quick general election. I would think that, you know, they've obviously been working as a technical group inside Doyle, Aaron for some years, and that's generally work, because that's given them pooled speaking rights, which they wouldn't have if they were just standalone independence. So perhaps they've decided they're taking the logical step. You know, and I'm not, this is not my personal view, but I hear an awful lot of people, certainly in Dunningold, who'd be very unhappy with some of the policies of the Greens, particularly around things like turf cutting and all of that. So maybe they feel that they can punch even more above their weight as a formal party than as a kind of a loose group as they are at the moment. Yeah, and I'm not sure any proposals actually necessarily includes them or not. I haven't read that, but it may or may not, Richard, but it would make sense if it were to. What do you think, Councillor Martin Harley of Finnegell, would you like to see a new party representing rural Ireland primarily? Well, I know Michael, Vince Morris has talked about this before. He has championed this on different occasions over the last number of years. See, it's grand champion, a couple of particular issues, but you know, if you go in, if you're elected as a TD, you're expected to work on issues that affect all of the people of all of Ireland. Like no disrespect to the heady race, but the heady race don't really care what happens outside to Kerry. Yeah, but no disrespect. A lot of people feel the current government doesn't care about anything that happens outside of Dublin. But no, well, I don't think that that is correct. No, but why don't you hop on the train down to Dublin and tell them about it? No, but if you were living in Dublin and paying two and a half thousand a month rent to try and live there, I wouldn't... If only a government had the power to build more houses and better infrastructure so that people didn't feel they had to live in Dublin. Yeah, but Dublin is at a full capacity. That's why people are commuting from towns like Tullamore and Kilkenny and to Dublin every day to work because it is under spending two and a half to three hours a day on their cars, which is not good for their family life. And then probably one of the things that happened through the pandemic is this working from home as if you can, if your job allows you to do that, it means that people have more time at home, which is probably one of the good things that came out of the pandemic. But it's not, if you're in a business like Maria or myself, that you have to be on site. That's not much good. I think the majority of people in this county are employed in businesses that they couldn't work remotely. Maybe they're living here outside of their desk job in Dublin, but between fishing and agriculture and hospitality. Go ahead, Denny. It's 5,000 people working in Latter-Kinney and American companies that can work from home two or three years a week now. So after your corporation tax goes higher, you do worry that companies will be there in 10 years time. And that is a worry, matter who is in government, that they decide to stick up the corporation tax. Okay. So yours is a no, you don't think we do. And the corporation tax is going up to at least 15, isn't it? Anyway, Maria, Maria Wushrush, could you see yourself voting for a new party that claims to have rural Ireland at its core? I'm from a farming background. So yeah, absolutely. There was a political party in Ireland in 1938 or 39, as far as I remember, Clan of Talwan. And they were one of the newest parties that were created after the Free State was created. My understanding is that they filtered out in the 60s and it was due to a decline in rural population, which in itself made sense if you look back historically. That is no longer the case. Why should our farmers and our people who live in rural Ireland not be speaking up and getting as much of a platform as everybody else? The, you know, we've had conversations in this county in the last year about the whole idea of the Micah-centred political party. Why not? Why should we not speak up? Why should we not have grips? Now, of course, I do fully understand that if everybody's shouting all the time, how do we come to some agreement? But at the same time, we can't sit back and just say, well, you're not telling with my views, so I'm not going to listen to you because you're not important. We are a country who's, whether we like it or not, we still depend on agriculture for everything. But it's possible this party also might, right, if you go on to go for rural Ireland. Let's just say some of the measures that have been introduced as it relates to climate change affect us mostly. So they, a political party might say, right, we need to actually maintain and grow the national herd in terms of farming. We need to allow people to cut turf in bogs for their own use. We need to cut carbon taxes on cars, right, so people can drive to and from work in rural Ireland. Would you be happy enough voting for them even though that's really a backward step in where we need to get if we are all in the agreement that climate change is actually happening? I mean, that's the reality, but again, it's too polarized, very, very polarized versions of something that has to happen. There has to be an amalgamation. Of course, we all want climate change to be restricted. We all want to do it. We're all doing our best. We're all doing our best, but at the same time, we can't just say, this is my opinion, so you should change what you're doing. And actually, I'm going to correct myself as well, because I mentioned rural Ireland and agriculture as if they're exclusive. They're not, the urban Ireland can't exist without agriculture either, but everything is. And we tend to sometimes do that, don't we? We tend to talk about agriculture and rural Ireland has been one thing that doesn't affect the people themselves. I think that the war in Ukraine was a wake-up call to urbanites as to the importance of what farmers do. Absolutely. And even now, where are all the tomatoes? What's happening here in my shop? This is food not just arriving from space on a spaceship in the morning, no one ever stopped to think about where the food comes from. But there's definitely, I think there's always room for positive voices, no matter what their point is, but I think the danger comes when you feel that your opinion is exclusive and that everybody else is wrong. No, I get that. But then again, you'll see that, and it's funny the timing of these conversations, because I wouldn't say the Irish Farmers Journal did a hit piece on Sinn Féin, but it was an interesting headline in that they stated that farmers are scared stiff of a Sinn Féin government. But I just wonder, Richard, say for instance, you have the established parties there, the current government at the moment, and then you have the opposition, and then you have more parties coming in. Say you did have Mikey candidates, defective concrete candidates, and say you did have rural Ireland. It splits the vote, really. Actually, it could strengthen the hand of the likes of Finnegell and Afina Fall, because they probably would be more united now. I disagree with Greg there, because the beauties of the Irish electoral system is that you do get the scope to get independence, and all others elect to the Doyle area, and here in Britain, there's no hope of that. I mean, Donnie Gull did elect Tom Gildee many years ago on the back of having deflector TVs. So, you know... I believe he spoke once in the door. Well, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, I know, I know, I know, yeah. That was an achievement in itself, but the fact is that the Irish electoral system does allow that. I think it's excellent. It does mean that we have to have coalition governments, which I actually back, and I think it's a good idea. Whilst I personally... Well, I'm not so sure I'd be voting for a party personally with an exclusively rural outlook, but I would think it would be an opportunity to throw them in the mix, to be in the mix in government. And of course, as every politician will tell you, once you actually get into government, you have to do some kind of compromise on your principles in order to get over the wire. But nevertheless, I welcome it. I think, you know, why not? Okay, why not? That's a good enough point. Yeah, indeed. Anyone traveling around Lettercanny over the last while will realise it's an absolute nightmare. I wouldn't like to be conducting business in it. If I was, I would actually be kicking off an absolute stink, because the conversation people are having outside of Lettercanny's don't go near it, really. And that is not good for business, and it's not good for the town. Maybe that feeds into this question, because of course, discussions are always ongoing about the future of public transport, private transport. They continue around Lettercanny and the county and the country as a whole. We're going to get new legislation soon on the use of scooters. And we were talking to a company this week that's going to hope to have scooters that you just drop off on the side of the street and jump on them. So we could see the more extensive use of them. As they say, they talk about town buses for Lettercanny and elsewhere. And then, of course, the ongoing campaign for Northwest Rail Link. So outside of flying cars, where do you see transport in Donegal being in 2030? Martin Harley, do you think we'll still be chugging along in our our diesels or trying to drag a one tonne SUV with a 1.2 petrol engine? Don't see the front point to that. But anyway, it is what it is. Or do you think we will see something of a mini revolution over the next seven or 10 years? Realistically, Greg, I don't think so. If we're lucky enough to be 11 and well in 10 years time, I don't think there'll be massive changes on that on that extent. But we talk away about rail. We need to look at rail. We need to see is it viable? I don't know. I don't know if it's if it's viable or not. Well, it just so happens. I've got an expert in this area called Richard Loog. So I'll ask him, Richard Loog, is it viable? I thought we've already looked at that. I've already so I've already talked extensively about this subject before. But what I would say is that we've been judging rail connections to a far higher standard than we ever do road connections. And the question as to is it viable? My answer to that is it viable not to do it because I see it as an investment. You know, if we're looking to grow the population, in other words, more housing, more jobs, then you need to have the backbone of that infrastructure in place. Does the population of Letterkenny as it stands at the moment support a rail connection? 100%. If you look at the border railway in Scotland linking Edinburgh to Tweedbank and Gallish Shields, those two towns Tweedbank and Gallish Shields, a population smaller than Letterkenny has. So really in the bigger scheme of things, it is. I think we have been unduly conservative in the past about assessing these projects. And I also agree, by the way, not not just about rail, but I also think we need to have a proper dual carriageway connection from Letterkenny down. That means do you think we need to move past the conversation about whether it's viable or not and actually just move into the planning stage because it is the future isn't it? The question has already been answered in that we needed it maybe 20 years ago. And our whole policy of just sitting down and going back to the drawing board every five years is just not working. We need to crack on and do this stuff now. I just wonder if projects like the Twin Tands Bypass will go ahead just with the way things are going at Martin. Would you have those concerns? I know they're locked in and all that type of stuff, but I just wonder. No, I would have no, from meeting with the TII back at the end of November, the end of December last year, there's no issue with that at all. But I think we need councillors like you and others. We need councillors like you and others not to be posing questions about rail, to trust the likes of Richard and others and just actually back it 100% and say, look, we are going to need this in the future, whether it's viable now or not. Do you know what I mean, Rod? I think we as a collective here in the North West need to move past like should we or shouldn't we and just crack on with it. Everywhere else has it and it's working. Why couldn't it work up here? Yeah, well, the only thing I'd be looking at, I look at the numbers that use the rail and other parts of Ireland. And that's why I would think to myself, is it viable? And that was why I mentioned the point. Was it viable? Because I look at the numbers that are using the rail and different parts of Ireland. And so that's okay. We're running out of time and I want to bring Maria back in on this, but I just want you to talk to that. Martin's concerned, I think, at the low level of rail usage elsewhere. And maybe that's an indicator that it might not be successful up here, Richard. I disagree. There's two things that restrict the use of rail at the moment in Ireland as a whole. And that's the lack of services into places. I have a railway map, which you can see on the video, big hole in the Northwest. There's a basically the railway doesn't run very late at night. The last train from Dublin to many locations is at about 530 or 6pm in the evening. So there needs to be a massive expansion. Now we're hopeful that the All Ireland Strategic Rail Review Report will actually underwrite a lot of the things I've been talking about regarding the rail, the future of rail, but basically experience elsewhere shows that if you provide the services as they've done between Darien Belfast and Rundam, you know, late at night, people used them. Okay, right. In the last minute, then, should we focus just on the letter Kenny situation, Maria, because it is a town that you travel into and work in. I mean, it can't continue as is, whether e-scooters or town bosses or complete overhauls required, something has to be done. Wouldn't it be great if we had a bridge over the side? I think you'd need two or three at this stage. But yeah, go on, one will do. I feel like I spend most of my life on the border road at the minute, coming in and out of Newton, to be very honest. And you mentioned the effect on businesses, and I can tell you for a fact, it is effect on businesses. We have lost members who are no longer willing to sit for 40 minutes into letter Kenny and out of letter Kenny to go to the gym. That's, and that's the truth. You know, you talk about planning and future planning. It seems that there's traffic lights just arriving everywhere. It's like decoration at this point. I would hate to be an ambulance driver or a driver of the emergency services in this town at the minute. Every time I see blue lights, I feel, I feel not only for the person that they're going to, but for the people trying to drive through the town. Fully understand that infrastructure is important, that things need to be done. There have been great improvements in the town in the last 10 years. But I think again, we're back to planning. It's 200 years. All the work's going on at the moment doesn't necessarily actually improve the through pot or flow of traffic. Let's not, I mean, that four lanes was hold. I was chatting to a fella. He was late for his wedding in the 70s because the road works on the four lanes. I thought he was a brilliant character. So these things are great and pretty and lovely cyclines, but they're not actually really increasing or improving the flow. Well, there were still four lanes there five years ago, 10 years ago. That there's no difference now, except that's well, there's trees and it's looking lovely. But you know, I don't know. We've talked about planning. We talk about the future rising things over 200 years ago, somebody sat in a meeting in New York and said, here, this is going to get very busy very quick. We better put grids in to make life easy for people. And if they did, the London Underground, correct me if I'm wrong, Richard, was the 1800s as well. A lot of them was built in an open countryside and they developed around it. Yeah. And I travelled to London quite often and I have never had issues. It's a joy. You'd land, you'd turn up. Where am I going? That's how I get there. And just to finish quickly, we had a guy applied for one of our jobs recently from a large country in Europe who couldn't understand when Emmett rang him back to explain that you can't live in Dublin and work in Lederkenny at six o'clock in the morning because it's a three and a half to four hour commute. And for on the map, he was looking at Ireland thinking, my wife has got a job in Dublin. We're moving to Dublin. I'm willing, I'm willing to travel to Lederkenny for my work. He just, he couldn't understand that there would not be infrastructure placed for that to happen. So we're losing out bigger than just what's happening at the town, at the minister. I wish we had another hour. Maria Rush, fitness instructor with Rush Fitness and blogger, Maria Living Out Loud. Where do people go to find Maria Living Out Loud? Instagram all over the place. It's just Facebook. It's the same page as they asked me on blog, Greg. I just renamed it. I like it. I'm unable to write as a mummy. I don't want to share my kids' lives anymore. That's another interview. All right. Listen, thanks very much indeed. Appreciate it. Martin Harley, thank you very much as always for accepting our invite. Great to have you. Thank you, Greg. All right, bye-bye. And last, not least, Richard Lowe. Great to see you again. And hopefully, it's not too long before we have you back on. Troy Gallagher, a great ambassador for Lederkenny who's listening in down in Dublin. He's been doing a lot of stuff down at the Global Irish Forum and promoting Lederkenny Dig Time as well this week. Indeed. Great man. All right, thanks so much indeed. Take care of yourself. The nine-tone in show with Lederkenny Credit Union. Simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from Lederkenny Credit Union. Call us on 074 910 2126 or apply online via our app or in-office today. The Euro Millions Jackpot is an estimated 100 million euros. 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Ireland West Airport. Don't just take off, take it easy. Dry and mostly sunny today. All through the morning and afternoon but there will be a partial build-up of cloud later. Temperature is 13 to 16 degrees. Back with more after the news and obituary notices. Lie on air online and on the Highland Radio app. This is Highland Radio News. Good morning it's 10 o'clock. Donald Kavanaugh at the news desk. Ukraine is to become a NATO member after all allies agreed to the move. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stollenberg says once the war in Ukraine ends, Kyiv must have the deterrence to prevent new attacks. It comes after Mr Stollenberg yesterday pledged continued support for the country during his first visit to Kyiv since Russia's invasion just over a year ago. The doll has been told that inshore fishers in Donegal and other coastal counties must get a greater share of quotas, particularly as they cannot at the moment fish for salmon. Sinn Fein Marine spokesperson W. Podrick McLaughlin told Minister Charlie McDonnell look that they need more access to herring, mackerel and other species, replying Mr McDonnell look said he is striving to be fair and is consulting with the fisheries sector. And right now the allocation of mackerel and herring to the inshore sector is not enough. That's not fair. So it's a public resource and you have a responsibility to make sure that you chair and referee discussions and make sure that what happens and what's left over is fair. And if you want to unite the industry as we all do in Ireland, the best way to do it is to be fair to everybody in the industry. Working together with the industry has been very important and I was all pushing the same boat. On the northwest herring I have recently launched a consultation actually on that to see about reviewing it, particularly with the inshore sector. The Irish Hotels Federation says while the Easter season was a relatively positive one for Donegal, summer bookings still haven't returned to pre-pandemic levels in the county. Local spokesperson Paul Diver says while the domestic market remains strong, the international market still hasn't returned to 2019 levels and as of now bookings are down on what would have been expected before Covid. However, Mr Diver says there is still some positivity, particularly in terms of Donegal's reputation as a value for money destination. When the country was in lockdown and brought a lot of domestic visitors to Donegal but were never here before and a lot of that business is turning into a repeat business so hopefully we'll see them coming back this summer. The feedback that we're getting here in Donegal with the domestic market that we've had over the last couple of years is the value for money that they received and I really feel that there's a huge amount of things to see and do in Donegal and they get good value from money in hotels and restaurants and pubs so that's positive. The cross-border digital project ERNAC says its presence makes the northwest a prime location for disruptive technologies which explore new areas of innovation. The EU-backed initiative which is run by Donegal County Council and Dairy City and Sturban District Council has secured 6.6 million euro in the past six months for the digitisation of public services and SMEs. Program Manager Dr Katrina Strain says there is no other region of Europe with such a comprehensive digital support structure available. So it's going to lead to a whole new range of companies and the existing companies and the region will need to upscale in order to keep up to date and to keep current. That's really important for the region at the moment. As far as I'm aware there's no other organisation in Europe that has attracted this level and type of funding at this stage of the new EU budgeting period so it's really great for this region and it provides an opportunity for the whole region to lead in the whole area of disruptive tech. Changes to Ireland's abortion laws are expected following a major review of current legislation according to the Irish Times the report carried out by Barrister Mario Shea recommended 10 law changes and 60 operational changes. It includes making the three-day waiting period prior to a termination optional and an end to the criminalisation of doctors who carry out an abortion outside circumstances permitted by law. Alana Ryan, Women's Health Coordinator with the Nationals Women's Council says any decisions made need to be grounded in evidence. There are stands of changes which are required. I think it looks like thankfully we are going to see some evidence led legislative reform but this isn't a personal or a political decision. This has to be one which is grounded in the evidence and indeed the new World Health Organization abortion care guidelines which just came out last year. We could find out today if Rishi Sunak the UK Prime Minister will fire his deputy after spending the night considering the findings of a report on his behaviour. Dominic Raab denies allegations of bullying. Rishi Sunak needs to decide whether Mr Raab one of his closest allies has broken ministerial rules. Dave Penman leads the UK's FDA union which represents civil servants. He says the Prime Minister's dithering is unacceptable. He's the first minister of the civil service. He has a responsibility to his civil servants to ensure that they are protected from bullying harassment and that they are treated with respect. This is not treating no civil servants with respect. Well the forecast is dry and mostly sunny this morning. Staying mostly dry and sunny for the afternoon as well but some buildup of cloud top temperatures today 13 to 16 degrees celsius moderate to fresh northeast breezes. It looks set to be largely dry overnight with clear spells minimum temperatures 5 to 8 again a moderate east to northeast breeze expected. Tomorrow Saturday again largely dry but more in the way of cloud some showers possible later in the day top temperatures on tomorrow saturday hitting 11 to 14 degrees in moderate northerly winds and that silent radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team good morning. The obituary notices this Friday morning April 21st. The death has occurred of Patsy Quinn, Cavan Hill, Lifford. His remains will repose at his home today from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m. Funeral leaving there tomorrow morning at 10 30 a.m. for 11 o'clock rakeway and mass in St Patrick's Church Murlock, Lifford followed by Burial and the family plot in the adjoining cemetery. Family time please on the morning of the funeral. The death has taken place of Huey Sweeney the Farragans drum keen. Huey's remains will repose at his late residence today from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. and from 12 noon until 10 p.m. tomorrow with Roseray both evenings at 9 o'clock. Funeral arrangements to be confirmed later. The death has occurred of Johnny Patton, Glebe Hollow, Strenorla, reposing at the home of his son Mark Patton, Mullen and Chos, Ballet Buffet from 2 p.m. today. Funeral leaving there on Sunday at quarter past 10 in the morning for rakeway and mass in the Church of Mary Immaculate Strenorla at 11 a.m. and term it afterwards in drumbo cemetery. Roseray each night at 9 p.m. The rakeway and mass will be streamed live on ChurchServices.tv. The death has occurred of Rachel Connelly, one Ballet Magan, Bunkranna, proposing at her home today from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. and tomorrow from 1 p.m. until 8 o'clock. Wake is strictly private to family and close friends only and is strictly private on the morning of the funeral. Removal on Sunday morning at 10.15 a.m. to St Mary's Church Cock Hill for rakeway and mass at 11 o'clock, followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. Rachel's rakeway and mass can be viewed on ChurchServices.tv. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu if desired to jigsaw Ireland care of any family member or Murphy funeral directors. The death has taken place of Rosalind Clarke, Ney Doherty, 3 Barron Isle Road, Kevin's Fort Sligo, proposing at her home at 3 Barron Isle Road, Kevin's Fort Sligo today from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Mass of the resurrection will be celebrated tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. in St Murdoch's Cathedral, Ballinamaio, which can be viewed live on the parish live stream. Burial afterwards in League Cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu if desired to the Alzheimer's Day Centre or Hammur's Sligo via Philly's funeral directors. The death has taken place of Desi Graham, 130 Lisnefin Park, Straban, proposing at his home today from 12 p.m. funeral leaving his home on Sunday morning at 9 20 a.m. for mass in the Church of the Immaculate Conception Straban at 10 a.m. and term it afterwards in the Straban cemetery. Donations in lieu of flowers please to Marie Curie care of Quigley funeral directors. Family time please from 10 p.m. until 10 a.m. The rake where mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam. The death has taken place of Emer Jane Haggerty, the Swallows Pillar Park, Bunkranna. Emer's remains is reposing at her late residence. Funeral from there tomorrow morning at 10 15 a.m. traveling to St Mary's Church Cock Hill for 11 a.m. rake where mass with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Donations if desired to Donegal Hospice, care of Porter funeral directors, house private from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. The death has taken place of William O'Neill, 7 Drummondie Road, Bern Dennett remains reposing at his home. Funeral leaving his home tomorrow morning at 10 30 a.m. for rake where mass in St Mary's Church Clock Hill at 11 a.m. interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Donations in lieu of flowers please to St Mary's Church Clock Hill Restoration Fund, care of Quigley funeral directors. Family time from 10 p.m. to night please. The death has taken place of Roshin Doherty, Neemakal Hiney, Bally Loskey Road, Cairndonah remains a reposing at her late residence. Funeral from there tomorrow morning at 11 45 a.m. going to the Sacred Heart Church Cairndonah for rake where mass at 12 30 p.m. burial is afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Funeral mass can be viewed live on cairndonahparish.com. The death has taken place of Mary McGinley, her remains are reposing at her late residence. Funeral from there this morning going to the Church of St John the Baptist for rake where mass at 11 a.m. followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. Family time before the funeral this morning. 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case saying this is a test of emergency alerts and new government service in a real emergency followed the instructions visit god that uk for more information this is a test you do not need to take any more action it sounds very apocalyptic but presumably it's in case there's floods in sorry or something and they can target to that particular area or is it uh in a doomsday scenario like we might see in some hollywood film you have been selected well in some ways it is being repurposed because of the ukraine war in the state of the world at the moment but no this has been in existence in countries like canada the netherlands japan and it is of course there for severe flooding or you know emergency alerts for things again to do with generally to do with the weather or whatever else but it could of course be a repurpose for income and missiles now whatever else so again it has been used by governments around and they've tested it and you know i mean there is suspicion of course about any service like this but it really is just the cell towers beaming out to all the phones connected so even if you were roaming you will get the message again but in this case yeah and of course then you will have a group of people saying i'm not signing up for this there's a different motivation there's no choice in this is there it's going to be beamed to your phone whether you want no or not or is there a choice there is a choice you can turn off the emergency alerts if you if you wish again so you can go into settings and go to emergency alerts just type it in your android or iphone and then you can deselect severe warnings and emergency alerts again so you can turn it off for whatever reason now a lot of newspapers have picked up that women who are suffering domestic abuse who might have a second phone that um that they're worried that maybe they'll be caught out again but there's so many scenarios there they well why would someone have a phone near their abusive partner but again so if you're worried about your second phone going off of course you can turn it off then it will not get the message or you put into um flight mode but if you have it on silent and vibrate only it will sound so therefore the only safe ways to turn it off really are put into a mirror you know or play mode if you're worried about someone finding your second phone through this emergency alert yeah indeed of course and there are other reasons why people might have two phones that they don't want to get caught on at uh at either uh we're going to see this in the Republic of Ireland as well i think uh the EU are expecting all countries to have it uh the latest i heard from uh the communications ministries that they're they're working on it and we could see something similar in a year or two in the Republic of Ireland as well you could i mean to me it's a benefit to country again but because in the future a part of the internet could go down again so really it's we don't get severe weather here and of course the floodings that we do get here which destroy homes and everything but that's gradual again we generally get the people out on emergency alert so we don't have as much but now that of course that the world has changed politically again that alerts like this could be very very useful so i can see all countries going to this because it doesn't cost much really and there is no government creep here they're not gathering information again government ministers cabinet ministers their partners their sons they will also get it again it's just to me it's it's best practice in modern era it's not unusual in countries like america is it in terms of um you know where hurricanes are likely or tornadoes are likely they've lived with this for an awful long time and i think it's it's used as well if there's active shooters in the area and i think also to a missing person strictly as it relates to children i think but certainly the first examples i've given it's part for the course in many states in america and other countries as well of course it is indeed and the one you you refer to about the missing kids that's called the amber alert after a young girl amber was kidnapped so nowadays whenever a kid goes missing they try to block all the routes given the time that they were missing and really it has led to captures again so that that's a wonderful system in case we're missing a kidnapped child again but um you wouldn't be concerned about the electromagnetic wave that will sweep across britain and northern arland with all of these phones going off at the same time but i believe they're they're always pinging towers anyway so i don't think this is going to lead to a particular surge is it we're surrounded by electric magnetic literally i'm sitting here you know to have to nor you know to have the country and that's the electric magnetic frequency i've got a 5g phone sitting in front pocket that's that's pretty worrying to be honest with you every time someone texts me but yeah i don't know i can't believe that rubbish about the virus being transmitted through the years again and by the way again your 5g is less dangerous too than your 4g if they're going to turn the 5g's off they've got to turn the 4g's off as well so all right okay can we any views on the the the i mean i've never seen so many celebrities and journalists crying about the loss of a blue tick i know it's not necessarily in the cyber security area but on actually kind of is because i think ilan moskin removing those ticks has made it more difficult for two factor two factor ortho ortho can take to check that uh author i can't say the word authentication two factor authentication though you can use a third party app for it any views on on on his moves and what he's doing there that's fine only a fraction of people actually which really surprised me you know less it was about two percent we're using a two factor authentication but you're right sms authentication is not ideal you know it's better than nothing but of course um there's other ways to authenticate but um the blue tick surprised me look at ilan has surprised me the ship hasn't sunk yet but the one thing you did right from the start i thought didn't make sense was removing the blue tick because we have to have points of reference in her you know pillars of the society as well to be able to see what's going on online especially now in a generative um a generative ai society where things can be fixed so easily so i never got that move i i believe in those other things now i do think it could be a success because there is a lot of features being brought in now that you can get on twitter um but i always thought that was a bad move on his behalf what i don't understand to kevin is is that and who am i to question the richest man in the world but he seems to be very focused on the united states of america i mean there are millions of people in african countries indian con in india elsewhere that simply could not afford the subscription that he talks so so he talks about leveling the playing field and and and sort of taking this privilege from the rich who perhaps could afford to buy one but he's excluding so so many people in countries that probably need that platform to you know fight tyranny or or governments or what have you who simply could not afford the subscription to be able to write longer form messages and to edit them you're right he did try to have you know different pricing throughout the world again you know but i mean it was still a little bit expensive but look at at the end of the day he's a business he's paying large salaries the salaries of engineers now you know there are a hundred thousand plus in an america too and these are incredible wages he has to pay he has to get the lights on some way it's a business look at if there's a better alternative to twitter of course we had mastodon let people move there you know so and again he's charging out for the api so he actually is too he's actually making into a real business um but he's deeper than the vast majority of people and he cares deeply about the truth he really has a chip on the shoulder about truth again and he likes to hear debates so he's doing things which are actually unprecedented but there are still irid like i mean you know he obviously is labeling media as government funding and i have no problem with that actually i think that's a good thing but that being said uh you know he is walking the line tesla very heavily funded by governments not just the english the english the american government but the chinese government his spacex program very much tied into it i don't see any labels above his other companies pointing to the fact that he's receiving all of this funding funding and then in the irony of ironies for me he got away with treating people special and then reintroduced the exact same scheme himself by paying out of his own pocket the likes of william shatner lebron james and and steven king to have blue ticks so he's created the same thing he's just got rid of the thing he didn't want yeah but he's a bit of a show man he just is yeah he's he's a maverick in that sense but um i i did you know and it was a lovely interview to be visited or lately again that people say and you know the southpool of twitter and he asked for examples of everything he was hung he was hung up that was just uh catastrophic it really really was that interview rather bring your a game to an interview with elon musk you know and be able to back up what you say uh he literally was able to give a perfect live example of everything he says about the mainstream media that they say stuff without being able to back it up and it was there evident in that interview and then the bbc cut that part of the interview out which further made the point further made his point he is incredible um in fact um i'm friends with his ex-wife um just in musk yes yeah so i message her from time to time okay well can you get me a blue tick no i'm only joking i don't want one the one thing i do have in common with with elon musk and i only really discovered it recently is uh great concerns about artificial intelligence and where we're going in relation to that i definitely goes into the the realm of cyber security and anyone who has an interest in in technology the speed with which that is developing and it will develop is absolutely unbelievable we are getting emails saying we can write your press releases it's only a matter of time before there are you know ai generated djs on spotify that we'll be able to target audiences in specific areas with local news and local information i mean it's going to change every area of industry really really quickly i think anyway kevin i don't know what you think no the hype has justified in a lot of ways um i i try not to be either you know saying oh no we're years away which some people believe from general ai which is a worry here where a machine replicates humans but there's some latest um what's happening now in a generative ai again with chat gpt and others again is is quite remarkable um again is i mean it's a language model is done but it come back with an amazing answer to few but it's the code aspect that really got a lot of us computer scientists that we didn't who don't work in ai necessarily day-to-day we were shocked where you can draw a picture in an appkin of the way you'd like your app screen to work and just upload it and then it'll give you the template the code which takes coding yeah program is as complex as it actually is it really takes years but this comes back with the code um again which we thought a computer could never do that we we always knew computers can do speech to language translation or other things but to be able to develop code with a high level pronunciation and then say no correct add another button remove that button now can you do this um it's it's it's liver is it's hard to explain to someone non-technical then of course the ai the videos of which are being done now um again credibly ai is superb um my son when he was um 11 was doing this course with disney remotely true zoom this is um this is um 11 years ago and he was about 12 at the time and everyone else in the class was working for pixar and disney in the world 20s and 30s and there were hosie and brazil and everything else but my son was precocious now but he gave it up because he's seen he's seen what was happening with ai he said my job will be nothing because we're taking it would take him days to do two or three seconds of animation yeah and he's seen the right and on the wall and he stopped completely and moved on and he's been right now whereas he's shown me stuff that he can't believe and he understands treaty and animation and um it's just that machine and using creation they created a song using drake and the weekend um and it is a banger if you're into that type of music really remarkable generated their vocals generated the lyrics and the music uh and i saw someone comment and i thought it was quite true don't blame the ai blame the genre if it's if it's that easy to replicate and to create a decent track the genre needs to look at itself you were going to say finally there kevin yeah forget about like is it the end of the world you know really it's hard to know because people love the kassandra complex talking about a couple like there you know the apocalypse and the end of the world and also the god complex and thinking at any g i will take over the world it's easy for them to say but my main worry about it is and this has to change there was a a professor in the united states to chat gbt met someone typed in the chat gbt tell me about any lawsuits against any professors for sexual harassment chat gbt came back with the name of this professor saying he went to candidate to this conference and he was accused of this and this and this and it was a complete lie and there were references to articles and we looked so genuine like a proper article or you know sourced article the references the newspaper articles were met up by chat gbt this guy was libeled forever on the web around the world and it's happened again in another case in australia again so what you have is now for years google and the rest have got away with saying look we're we're only the carriers we're not the media people we're not responsible for people say and we've largely gone ahead with that but in the way that we do with a phone call you could if someone rings you up on the phone and says i'm gonna murder you greg we don't get all annoyed with bt and urcom and say that they're responsible yeah it gets you that's a bit like the internet for news but now once they started also removing articles because it was too left-wing or right white ring because they are left-wing right then they actually became newspapers really media publishers yeah yeah but with chat gbt making up lies like this i i mean there's going to be laws to but the problem is this is a race to the bottom though because every big company even elon moscis just hired in a load of people you've got microsoft doing what they're doing you've got google it's they're rushing it out and a lot of these problems haven't been ironed out and then of course another case in germany a german magazine is being sued by the family of michael schumacher because they published for what reason i don't know a artificial intelligence created interview with michael schumacher and and that's this is where we're at all right kevin it's fascinating as always could do another hour easily uh thank you very much for your time okay take care of yourself and say hello to mrs moscow for us goodbye okay right so do you want to hear the ad that's running uh before we take our own ads the bingo number is coming up right now here's the ad that uh as it relates to this text alert that may affect some of you uh if you have um a british britain 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to be hearing urie zook um beg your pardon urie man zook performing uh he's going to be performing on tuesday night as well but we'll get to urie in a moment he's just 14 years of age but uh supremely talented i'm told first let's say hello to kelly barry one of the organizers of the mouthpiece open mic night good morning to you how are you keeping very good thank you it's good to have you with us okay so talk to me about this uh this concept so um i was actually approached by a lady called svetlana babienka um she had inquired about places to um display artwork as part of an exhibition that the ukrainians were running um birds flying high is the title of the exhibition um her idea was really that it's an exhibition to thank the irish people for welcoming them into the into the community so i took that idea and i approached steven crane and um we discussed maybe create a night that we could display the artwork as well as maybe including some ukrainian musicians and it's just kind of gone from there so this runs in any case and now there is a focus on also bringing in uh our new ukrainian neighbours to perform their arts that's exactly it and um i have to say from the moment the idea went out there we've had a truly warm and welcoming response to the idea we've been inundated with musicians who want to participate with artists and um volunteers in terms of cooking food um we have a number of prizes that are going to be available for raffle on the night which have been donated by local artists and sponsored by amelias in letter kenny irish design and gifts so we've had a seriously lovely response from this you know and and that's what the night really is is kind of embracing the ukrainian people and now how is it set up you're going on Tuesday night into the cottage bar it's a lovely setting right so you take your tables you just sit around and then how does the night unfold from there absolutely well it will be the first um mouthpiece that will be outside this year so there'll be plenty of room and hopefully the weather holds out um as you know the cottage is a beautiful bar and they're always so open to supporting creative people um so you couldn't really get again a more warm and welcoming place to kind of hold this um the exhibition will be starting at four o'clock in the evening and running till about six and we will have a ukrainian dj playing in that time we will have a mix of irish and ukrainian food and then the music will be kicking off at seven o'clock and it will run on through the evening yes i know you i said i wasn't going to ask you questions but i kind of want to just ask how are you um can you talk to us a little bit about the instrument you're going to be playing for us is that no okay that's fine i don't want to put him on the spot there he's focused on playing the music but this is the saxophone isn't that absolutely okay and just so urie can focus on the music he is 14 years of age he'll be forming let it bloom hollyhox bloom it's by a ukrainian composer do you want to play that for us now i'll start the music and you can pick it up from there okay this is urie hold on indeed uh just 14 years of age uh he is uh has just performed let it bloom uh hollyhox bloom so there's something different for unfair play that's not easy to do is it uh no and actually kaley to come up and perform with a backing track and wear headphones and all that kind of stuff so well done you should be very proud um go ahead yeah the evening is always a mix of a different creative talents um poetry you know we've had opera down there before um it's a wonderful evening that's already so well established um and you know congratulations to everyone that's involved and it is the best night in the month genuinely down in the town yeah and so it's variety quite literally it is absolutely and it's all voluntary you know it's all people donating their time and their skills and their talents to to create an evening of of joy and community in the creative arts so i think that's what's really beautiful about this night and now we're inviting the Ukrainians to come and be a part of it yeah fantastic uh and we have a wealth of entertainment and the good thing about uh different people from different backgrounds artists are all learning off each other aren't they and different influences and who's to say that we won't see urie there uh performing with uh i don't know fiddle or something well actually that's the kind of stuff that happens where they uh people meet other creative people and they come together and that i mean we have a couple of acts who are actually playing in two different groups you know so it's a lovely kind of just mix and a chance for people to get to know each other and and they're non creative people like me can just sit there and watch yeah wondering how people are so bloody talented but it's good to see so it runs this the latest one it's every month it's in the cottage bar tuesday the 25th of april at 7 p.m and uh all of the artists will be there how many artists do you generally get to play on any given night i mean we've been in it isn't open mics so really it is i mean there's a the opportunity to get up definitely um and play or do whatever it is that you do on the night generally it's there's a kind of schedule because people do message often and he puts them kind of together in a scheduled system um but it could be up to 10 we have i think close closer to 15 for this event so people again have really wanted to be involved they'll get up and do two or three songs or do sort of 10 to 15 minutes a set and uh is this is the art exhibition separate or part of this so it it will be separate in that it starts at four o'clock but it will it's in the same venue it's in the same venue so it will be part of the same evening you know it'll be available to go and view it will actually be for sales some of the art at the artwork there as well um and did i hear you mentioned prizes yes talk to me about that again so um once again we were sponsored by francis spears of amelias um we have gifts including work by audrey henry fiona harbst carina cain sheeler dweyer chevon montgomery we have light and love and the donnie gold chocolate man you know this is a real hamper of the best of the best artists locally it's like a really good different night actually not terribly different but you know what i mean it will be great we also do have steven himself as um a designer and we'll have prizes from stevens au laire his company um bogan velia visual arts and we have without willow as well who have signed a cd for us so i mean it's going to be a great night for prizes which pays for the evening now usually it's voluntary but we are hoping this one to make it a bit special and give a little bit to everyone okay brilliant stuff katie thank you yuri are you okay now did you enjoy that yes okay and you're performing on tuesday excellent okay well there's a man of few words but immense talents thank you so much thank you so much some say i perhaps speak too much so if i could get somewhere in between me and yuri we might get a perfect person okay listen thank you very much indeed yuri manzuk who is living here now his father still remains in ukraine but is here with his mother and siblings and of course kaley barry one of the organisers of the mouthpiece open night open mic night in letterkenny just to get reminded once again it is on tuesday this coming tuesday it's in the cottage bar the music starts and the performances start at 7 p.m but there is an art exhibition on the same site from 4 p.m so if you're looking for something different to do want to choose the evening uh then why not okay back with more shortly the 9 till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today connect hearing is open for free hearing tests our audiologist is available monday to 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saturday's expected to be another largely dry day might be more cloud though a few possible showers later temperatures again around 11 14 degrees but as i say i'm a bit nervous right okay we were speaking a little earlier on about elon musk and his role in in twitter and what have you but he also has a company called spacex and yesterday he attempted to blast the biggest rocket his starship into orbit it didn't quite work out i suppose from our perspective but i believe from his perspective and the team's perspective an awful lot was learned and a lot was achieved let's see what david more editor of astronomy arland magazine uh thinks about all of this you like to look up at the stars david elon musk wants to go and live on them i think uh but as i say to the casual onlooker it seemed not a success but to them they got a lot of data and they seem quite confident going forward yes it's it's the way space exploration goes but you build this new never launched before giant rockets like the blue touch paper that were in retire that would have been great had it done up into almost into orbit certainly over 200 kilometers above the earth surface and splash down around hawaii actually almost either side of the earth to where it was launched from texas but it wasn't to be a success the important thing was that this monster rocket the biggest one we've ever built with 39 engines in the base of it it's almost seemed ridiculous on paper i did actually launch go i think it was 24 miles about 40 kilometers above the ground which is a great success to launch something that big uh but unfortunately it looks like some of the engines failed and it didn't achieve separation of the next stage which would have led to the starship the piece that we want to carry astronauts to actually go into orbit so a success in some regard and that you know it got 40 kilometers off the ground for a bit of a disappointment didn't achieve its full mission yeah and here's a different uh strategy in that uh relatively low cost build but also that they are fully reusable and that would have been the aim that the actual rocket that got it up as far as it did would return to earth and be able to be reused again as would the ship itself and they seem confident that they're able to go again in another couple of months for what it's worth yep you already said he's planning the next launch within a few months and the scale of this particular project is almost ridiculous it's almost bomb villain-esque most plans to launch several of these per day to get people to mars and something just based off of appeared in public on stage saying that they have going to put one million people on mars by the end of this century now i haven't seen anybody on mars or even in orbit about mars like nobody's even been around the moon in over 50 years so to say something like that will be considered crazy if it weren't for the fact they were the two richest men in the world and they've both got space companies and they are literally putting their money where their mouths is so well we have a major engineering success like this to get it off the ground and you know the early rockets exploded as well now they're bringing in great revenue laundry rockets for his internet constellation of satellites and lots of other customers as well so i'm sure this is the major setback it would have been nice had it worked 100 but it got off the ground they're building more and there's a several of these per day i mean if people know liberty hall the one tallest buildings in dublin the rocket is way over twice the height of that building yeah it's only when you see a person standing beside it that you actually see the scale and a quick one not just i don't know if carol i mentioned this to you but i'm sure quite an interesting and rare um eclipse event i think a lot of people in australia were able to to view it david i presume he kept an eye on that too yes unfortunately not no part of it at all was visible from ireland we have a bit of a tip later this year as partially visible from ireland but there hasn't been a total of tips of the sun on this island since 1724 and won't be another one to the year 2090 so you want to see where you have to travel this was unusual in that the moon just has to be exactly the right distance from the earth to fit perfectly over the sun this area and sometimes it's a bit too far away and the moon doesn't quite cover the sun you get what's called annular eclipse and this one was just on the border of those as called a hybrid eclipse part of it the moon was just close enough to totally cover the sun from other parts in the pacific and indian ocean it wasn't so people gathered northwest australia actually got to see the tilted kits for the very short one at that there's a big one coming actually in mexico next year we've had trips to solar eclipse before people want to come on to mexico and watch our social media we have a travel company organizing the details as we speak now david i have to go but i don't think any conversation with you would be complete if you didn't tell me about the frequency of your magazine and how people can subscribe to it yeah we're always looking for members who are fascinated by this topic beginners we have a monthly magazine called astronomy island that will tell you all about what to see in our skies what people have been seeing uh special members email every week keeps up the date as well and we're trying to promote interest in astronomy so if you can spare about a euro a week on your hobby do join astronomy island all the details are on astronomy dot id and a quick tip this saturday and sunday look at the moon soon as it gets dark in the early evening you'll see the parent venus is near on saturday night and sunday night and in fact we're setting up telescopes in the dublin area on saturday to look at venus and the moon up close in detail so more details on astronomy dot id okay thank you very much 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we do it's called that's entertainment uh it's what michael leddie does it's what fenula rabbit does michael leddie imagine why how are you keeping good to have you in studio with us hello great use arriving like a late package that you've really been waiting for wow what does he want it's vanilla rabbit you know what i want to pay rise cancel that that was a joke i don't want any retold let's just lose it all right no no not return not this time okay uh it's great to have uh you uh both in again it feels like ages since i've sat in with you it's between the jigs uh and the reels how are you keeping michael how are you by the way great i had a great old week watching star trek picard every night i saved up all the episodes so i had a brand new episode every night which is not like heaven because this is heaven for me yeah but you you in the past have sort of gone out of your way to watch them drag things out yeah you know the new series and all you have your thing with your own series so why did you want to binge this one like that um i watched the first couple episodes and it was obvious that it was going to work best benched because it was it's all happening like 24 you know it's all happening immediately after each other so i thought you know what i'm going to sit out six weeks save the last uh seven episodes and watch them over the last week that was the right thing to do it was great fun okay i'm going to start with finula if that's all right with you because uh finula has watched luther the fallen son and i watched it during the week you see uh and i'm going to ask you about the hunt for row motor because did you watch that no that's what i'm waiting to watch i'm going to watch it as a film do you know yes i watch those three hours yep which is the exactly what you've been doing so we'll get to work that way but let's start with luther the fallen son because i went into this not knowing finula what quite to expect and i enjoyed it uh the story were you a luther fan or oh yeah watched it all i like him i thought i always thought he'd make a great james bond i think having watched the fallen son and i mean this with respect that i think it might be too late for him now if you know what i mean i know he plays a different type character well we just oh no i think yeah i think he's past these age why is he mean i think so yeah and daniel craig was you know he was a young chap i just well daniel craig aged into it yeah you know it's wanting to age into it a bit it's another thing to actually um be uh you know of a particular age when you start into it yeah you start off in it because it's less kind of believable or whatever that that's going to less they want to go with a veteran veteran bond i know i'm pushing though i feel like i'm on qvc now what's going on and i'm sorry it's only though it's only those watching that will understand what i'm talking about yeah so sorry we'll get to that probably what feels like it's going to be shamed as plug yes 100 but that's all precedente and the owner of the station hey come here if you can't do it but i have to say i didn't enjoy this as much as i thought i was going to they've uh i really enjoyed luther's who's going on it's very good in uh i didn't really binge it it was one of those ones where you kind of watch the season rather than binge the whole i think it's three seasons that were prior to this and but going into this it's a lot and you're kind of like going oh god you must know somebody else who would give you a hand you know the kind of way it's like so basically what this is is it's kind of there's been a story that's sort of been going through the past it was in the previous one that was on and that kind of thing and then all of a sudden uh there was a criminal that they were after next minute then uh they didn't get him in the last one because if anybody watches luther there's always overarching as well as kind of individual stories that are going on so this was part of an overarching story that was going on earlier on that never really was fully resolved there was always a few threads hanging so what they've done now is they've come back and they've done that and they've done it as a movie i found the movie a little bit long for his kind of like you know i'm the only one i'm the only one that can make this happen but of all of the things that its length wasn't the problem for me the storyline maybe it's very luther-esque it it was it was really far-fetched and then then they're all in the snow in his jacket and uh an exact same outfit he wears all the time yeah and the jacket's like the cape which i thought was really quite interesting and i think at the end of it there's kind of a nod to the james bond speculation i felt if you know what i mean maybe that's uh yeah well it definitely wasn't not too whether or not that this might be a thing that they're going to be doing with luther from now on it's a tv movie right yeah it is it is a tv movie i just found kind of his angst was a little bit too much for me yeah you know like i mean don't give away the movie but in the series it's you're kind of expected in a tv detective series as in you know there's so many tv detective series where the guy is grizzled you know he's got a lot of he's got a difficult past and yet he's the only one out there that you know even in bosh like it's a mission you know it's not a job it's a life you know that kind of life choice crack i love how my voice is changing you know i'm a little bit frightened but okay i know i am very strange he's like is there a moon is there a full moon i'm not even doing it consciously um but those are the kind of things that you have you know they're hard-bitten they've got problems yeah they're still there takes all those it does and he and he does that in the in the series but some think this i think maybe was that the story was that so oh titi that you were kind of like going uh which i believe it's like there's you know there's how many people in the metropolitan police i'm imagining at least 10 or 12 but maybe at least 10 to 20 000 police after and i was like they're dropping like flies given what they do on the job but anyway i take a wider point one of them could give them a hand like is that do you think though they potentially try and get away with that because the story's so outlandish really uh that you know we're not really supposed to try and grant it in reality because it really is it's quite far-fetched and there's some such convenience things that happen to progress the plot and the case and stuff yeah i just think i suppose in the tv shows well you kind of knew all the characters whereas really there's only two characters back which is luther and there's one other character that's boss man that's coming from the thing yeah so i i think that's part of it as well you know there was a couple of characters that came into it and i'm like i've only met these people 30 seconds ago why do i care about the body was really like it's spectacular if you watch it um michael in what the protagonist compels people to do and how he doesn't i can get it yeah but just for all to work out like precisely how he intends and then too contrived to be yeah but is it just escapism are you meant to just let your brain off i think tv movies definitely that's the point i was trying to be okay because then when you think well you know the best minds in in the the met could sort this out but i think they've taken us to a point of fantasy that we're supposed to not i don't know but that's how it feels but that being said i actually enjoyed it and i enjoyed his story within what everything went on if that makes sense so where we pick him up well he is very good and if it continues as a series of movies will you be there for them uh will you watch them yes yeah i would i would definitely give them one more but they really want to pick up on the like a lot of great explosions good fight scenes that kind of stuff and you know what i mean but they definitely need more depth to their you just don't do the gravelly voice again do the gravelly voice they need more depth they need more not going to do what i'm doing they need more depth to the storytelling scenes are a bit poor uh oh there you go i don't yeah but i know what you say he's good his stuff is good he is very good for all the people and it is so listeners what did you think have you watched luther the fallen son we want your reviews your views 08 6 60 25 000 anything else that you're watching it's that time of the year really where unless we're talking about snooker um that's all i'm going to be watching for the next two or three weeks so all east enders which is the price not east enders but coronation street and emerald which is the price i pay to watch snooker to watch to 12 to watch snooker you know what i mean so anyway breathe as it may everything's a currency what would you give it out of town for me i would much if you want to sit down you've never experienced it what's the series go back and watch the series the series is much better i would have given the series like eight and a half not that kind of thing i really enjoyed the series along the way it really was this i kind of saying like you say sort of a tv movie your grand you're sitting down you're looking for something to watch there's a little bit of action in it a little bit of this that sit down and watch it so i'd really only be saying like a six or seven for me that's what it was and you know what i'm interested in this is real proper luther fans what you think if you watched it i am a luther fan i kind of was a little bit disappointed with where it went but then again i come out of it and i i did enjoy but i'm glad i didn't jump in the car and drive for 40 minutes to go and see yeah oh no i wasn't sorry i watched it you know the way there's some things you're like oh god i'm never going to get that time back it wasn't like it's not that it's bad it's just if if you sat down and watched this and didn't know anything about it you'd actually say oh god that's not bad yeah you know what i mean it's more in the comparison to the series and what was there and i think what saved it for me is i liked luther's sort of uh journey through it the character itself because uh everything else that went around it was a little bit uh right okay so that's luther the fall and son is on netflix and if you haven't spotted the netflix will remind you of it on a regular occasion another one i actually watched was the boston strangler i'm interested in that so we might do that one as well not making it all about me uh so the hunt for realm mode realm this is another one of those stories right and we've had a couple of these of late where we watched it and followed it as it happened and now it's become i don't remember this story somebody else was recommending it to me gassel was involved in this yes yeah that's right to the riverbank and you could download fishing poles all this i don't fully remember this story but somebody else was recommending the series to me and i was like july 2010 in newcastle um uh it's july 2010 where realm out gets out of prison okay go back there you go so he uh yeah it's a really grim horrific story that ran for a week in the national papers in the uk and i do remember some of it i remember the showdown which i think most people remember very well so this three part on itv during the week looks at the story realm mode got out of prison he had been threatening his ex-girlfriend who had been trying to move on with her life and two days after getting out of prison he tracked her down and he shot and killed her new partner he shot and injured her and then he went on a crime spree around newcastle uh and he shot and seriously injured another police officer and then he released a letter to the press well he sent it to the press they delivered to the police where he said he was going to get back at all the police who he said had ruined his life now he was in prison for four months having uh hit his own child his nine year old child so badly that he was not a nice character not a nice character said yeah bit of an anti-hero for some people this is the thing so what um i went into this because i love you know the martin clune's manhunt series so i went into this sort of blind thinking it was going to be a procedural like that and it wasn't so i was disappointed by that aspect but i did find myself really compelled to watch this because it's not so much about the police proceed aspects of it the chasing but it's about the victims and it's about the impact that rile moat had on the is that what you wanted though now that is a nice thing right and it's we're looking at it from a different angle and they did the same with dalmer i believe wasn't it was it okay so it was very victim focused victim focused and and and it's real and i have great sympathy for everything his victims went through yes but i actually probably did want to see the police and the pound yeah i agree with you i mean if i'm just i would have given it a higher grade if it had been the police exclusively or even the journalist as a good character journalist in this obviously a real person but instead you get about a third of the time is spent with the suffering of the families and it's done in a respectful way i get it it's not salacious it's not like they don't show the actual murder for instance they cut away you know they're not trying to be that way they're not trying to get viewers by doing that kind of thing but yes they do show the family of the man who died and they show the the woman in hospital who was shot on the night and how she recovered and they also look at the policeman and the effect that had on the various police i wasn't expecting that it's i read the guardian review this morning um not that many reviews out there for this which is surprising but they liked it they give it six out of ten i'd give it more but they did say that it's sad sad viewing because the casting at the start the first half hour is about the couple meeting and because you spend a half hour with them and the casting is really good you can't help but get invested yeah because i would like to see how that story unfolded from the the what we the media might focus on yes and they from my brief reading on it they went out of their way to make sure that they didn't in any way uh glorify yeah they did they did yeah he's in it uh to a lesser degree that i would have expected and you don't get his pov very much at all which is which is fine what's interesting about the story and what you alluded to and which i find quite disturbing and i don't think i knew this from from 2010 almost immediately there was a facebook group and there was a lot of online support for raul moat and a lot of people calling him you legend you're a hero you're taking on the coppers it's great that you're and if my woman did to me what that what his woman did to him oh man i wish i had the strength to go after all this kind of scary scary that some like 30 000 followers on the facebook page before it was and can you imagine if that was now all to be worse yeah agreed i saw that you can multiply that multiply it yeah so that aspect comes up and i thought they dealt with that very well in the story and they the family of the victim seeing this online and coming to terms with the fact that there was widespread support for this guy there's even a scene in a pub where people are having a sing song where they've chained they've put raul moat's name into a song and they're all kind of rousing the support it was yeah um so that's bleak i mean i was chatting about this with my housemates in the kitchen and i was coming downstairs going man i'm watching a really heavy show up there and this is really heavy because you're kind of looking my god it's it's a bleak side of human nature that they would embrace a guy like this and before we get to the conclusion really of your review yes often you know the criticism of program and film makers is that it exploits the victims you know and we talked about that an awful lot here and yet here i am arguing that i would probably like to watch it you know that sort of way but it's what's entertainment and it's what yeah exactly i didn't mean as this was a drama a drama mentory or whatever they call it and yeah where they do the things together but no i mean you were talking about the jeffrey darmer one and that is one thing that came out that a lot of people were saying that it went it went too far in the darmer police and didn't give enough attention you know i might be mixing up with there's been so many there's been a lot of them but the latest one i think that was on and i'm gonna say netflix that might not be it could have been on disney it was on one of the streaming channels probably the better way to phrase it there was a lot of talk on that that they went for the gore they went for you know the way they went for that kind of like they presented that that that was what the victims went through and we often don't realize it so i know but i think it was you know if you're a family member whatever it's like that but so i don't know but i'm looking forward to seeing this like i said it was a family yeah i think i'm slightly less looking forward to it now than i was before um okay you started talking about it and that's why like honest interviews i probably still will watch it but i was looking forward to this because i wanted the police aspect you know the it's like it's like well i don't want to sound insensitive here but it might as well best speak like i would here as a one-off radio yeah you know like say for instance uh the time of the the boston marathon bombings you know what i mean i found that how they tracked them down yes um and how they they they got them into custody that you know what i mean that's from a watching a tv show perspective or watch that and yeah that's how i feel about that sort of the procedure in real life of how they got me feel about the the martin clune show manhunt i mean i've given that 10 that's based on real stories there's that's real stories as well i'm hoping there'll be a third series of that but in that show and it doesn't sound exciting but you do just see him looking at hours and hours of videotape reading through hundreds of files and it's done in a way that's gripping and i read a review of manhunt again during the week because i really missed that show and somebody said it is the best show on tv because unlike the fictional detectives he doesn't use 17th century poetry to solve his crimes he's not an opera fan he's not anyway quirky he's a guy who sits down and looks at videotapes and he keeps at it and keeps at it and that's what Colin Sutton the real man whose memoirs the series is based on did by all accounts so yeah that box wasn't ticked for me so what are you giving it out of 10 then i give this an eight because it was sobering it's intelligent it's well made but it's heavy going three hours like i split it over a couple of nights three hours might be a lot yeah seriously i mean it's heavy going i had to watch luther in two parts there you go so i had to talk about how this has changed man when we first met this one i didn't watch documentaries documentary i was just watching cartoons last week he had a documentary as well and like it's just it's it's beyond the beyond what we've given him greg i know it's a natural it's a natural you couldn't you couldn't enjoy the financial figure on it so there you go it's true exactly there you go right okay come here so so far we've got a six or seven out of ten in luther the fallen sun uh it was it you're not trying to drag someone to the tv to watch it but i think we both recommend watching it if you like that stuff yeah and the hunt for rowl mode on itv something a little bit 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mean i don't mind what's the name of that again obsessed figure out how you manage your viewing history ob s e s s obsessed e s s e d watch blue lights on bbc police drama set in belfast thought it was very good i recommend you watch i heard good things about this i missed it and then i caught the second one or third one in i think it was and i was like i've seen a couple of viewers say that it's way better than you would expect a show like this to be that is actually you know way better than they were expecting going in because it's like just a procedure isn't it it's about cops on the beach cops on the beach like but four rookies that are just like after coming out of whatever is the equivalent of the academy the equivalent of the police yeah the police academy all right kevin's been on to us luther nothing without his jacket cape i'm too late for bond i think we agree there is a superman costume going spare though i'm told by the way did you know that yesterday was national lookalike day oh who would you and tv2 resemble what a brilliant question that is a great question now this is i'm here for the content people we couldn't come up with that that's a great question i know uh i don't know i we have to say who we we are something or who we think but i would like the listeners maybe to get involved but i don't know if my feelings can go with it so but if you want to i only ever get mary harnie oh you always get mary harnie you look like mary harnie the hair was a little bit did you ever use that to your advantage try and get in somewhere how could you i definitely want to have a conversation with you about how i would use that to me and a bit of political history might do you know i'm okay so if you think any of us and i'll put the other two on camera as well have a celebrity lookalike uh please i know i'm embarrassed to get absolutely hammered on this if people can be bothered to take their phones out i'm gonna get hammered on it uh 08 660 25 000 who are our duple dangers reminds me to say he says that dead ringers on apple is on tonight with rachel welse playing twins from a show that originally had cork native and just happens to live in a pink castle as you do jeremy irons from the same name of the film kevin as always thank you uh for that right okay so come here before we move on uh we have uh and the majority of people listening of course won't know what we have uh it is beautiful hard blue bottle shop lk love shopping that are kenny that are kenny tidy towns um caring for our local environment it's a reusable water bottle and it's of really really high quality that's about 15 to 20 quid's worth to me although i don't really buy i don't know but i so but why are we holding this uh we are holding this anybody might have seen it if they don't see i'm seeing it online they might see it in the local papers it was launched a few weeks ago when um the tidy towns that are kenny tidy towns launched their um agenda and and projects for 2023 into 2024 so this is one of the things the chamber commerce always gets behind the tidy towns and one of the things that we've done this year is we have uh produced this water bottle which we are which we are giving away for free and it's just really to try and get people to reuse recycle that kind of thing a lot of people don't like even the plastic bottle water bottles yeah you know the hard plastic bottle water bottles that come out with the best one in the world they do get a wee taste off them well after what i think after what if i i found as well you get a great one maybe for six months or whatever with them and then they don't i'm not dissing them i'm just saying it's my own personal opinion no well this one is part of is the start of a campaign what we're hoping to do is to put actual taps in certain spots around letter kenny so that when people are out walking or even just out and about at their general day that they can fill them up as they're going as they're going so that is the plan as part of a larger campaign so we have a couple of them here and i just want i'm supposed to be drinking out of it but to be honest i had tea instead this morning yeah we'll go with the full-on plug rather than the casual exactly so they are if you want to give away yeah well definitely with uh we we definitely uh will um if you want to uh win one of them we'll give two away yeah yeah just just take if you're interested in it just text your name and where you're from we won't ask a question and they're really high quality and they are available or people might see them at the chamber and you'll see them in a lot of different places where they have left a really high quality like i'm surprised just uh yeah oh i definitely think they could have sold them if they wanted to but they are giving them away yep they're lovely blue color a little black top and they have the lovely hook that you can if you're out walking or if you are you can hook them onto your bag if it's going even for going to work on school different things that's just the instructions that's inside you see caroline put water in mine oh but left the instructions i'm not going to try that i'm not sure you're supposed to drink the instructions i'm assuming not okay but listen that's great i think that's a really really nice initiative and i really like the idea and i think i heard this at a town council meeting quite some time ago of uh access to public water public water access this is what they're hoping to do yeah this is what it is brilliant idea as a pedestrian and who does make sure it takes a while to get it over the line but of course talking about it that's a great sound well you have to make sure because obviously for health and safety and that kind of thing you have to make sure that everything is done fine but this is the start of it and hope well we're hoping that before the end of the year that there'll be at least one kind of i think at the moment and forgive me tony if i'm wrong they're looking at the kind of community center area because you've so many people there going to sports you know doing events different things it's very much part of the circle a lot of people meet there and then do a circle of the town and that kind of thing with a lot of people but not you or me now i see that i go oh michael does loads of walking yeah i clean the windows so i can see them clearly out i drive around and admire them for their for their for their strength and endurance you're giving moral support all right okay so listen just text in your name where you're from and we'll select two of you to win one of these reusable shop lk water bottles of really high quality or if you think i look like a really good celebrity yeah exactly i'm a complimentary celebrity can i just say by the way let them be very clear to add on to what fun we're saying there we are very open to bribes incredibly open to bribes so any complimentary suggestions as to who we might look at also yes believable and complimentary so these are the two that i would definitely get my vote there's no point saying michael looks like gal gado or whoever is wonder woman currently there's not we you know i hear that a lot great it's what you should pick that out yeah uh you look a lot like jennifer garner but i suppose you heard that too i do yes i do indeed okay so as i say any actual text at this point you will win one of these bottles uh we have two uh thanks to el presidente uh two to give away as part of this shop okay um letter kenny tidytown's initiative and i suppose the whole idea of it is is to try as much as we can i think to get our minds in the the reusable space to get the plastic bottles off the streets which uh sit around for forever effectively um they just don't go away right uh more after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available 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describe you as i mean are you comfortable with that were you a comedian before or or or what well i think i was a comedian in prison also um started getting paid for it when i got out of prison would be probably the best way to describe it uh yeah so i was on it i was originally on a program uh from des bishops joy in the hood which he done he went around to all disadvantage the areas uh i say that very loosely and taught people comedy workshops and then they went in in front of their friends in a local community centre a community hall and performed a bit of stand-up so that's really how i got into the stand-up and that was after being released from prison in 2001 yeah what was your i mean you speak quite openly about you know your life before prison uh prison and the purpose of prison really is the ethos of it really is about rehabilitation isn't it you pay your you you do your time for for for your crimes but the whole idea i presume is that you come out a better person for it but maybe society doesn't view prisoners like that no i think there's a completely different view on prisoners i think there's always that stigma and there's always that kind of cliche once a once a prisoner always a prisoner and you know i would be probably the force to say that a lot of prisoners do not get reformed a lot of prisoners come back out of prison with the revolving door syndrome is that they come back out and they very soon with no rehabilitation no skills of how to come back come back in again end up going back into the prison system and i'm sure you've seen people as well that have gone into prison willy for relatively you know for not necessarily very serious crime but leave prison perhaps to go into a life of more serious crime in that you know it doesn't necessarily rehabilitate people it can actually uh tool them off up for a life of more serious crime yeah definitely most definitely i've also seen lads go into prison with no addiction issues come out with addiction issues and with addiction issues comes crying because you need to feed that addiction and one of the ways to feed that addiction if you're not holding down a really good full-time job is to commit crime and when you commit crime criminality you know is is is what does that and with criminality and crime unfortunately prison prison ensues you know and what was your your your experience like i mean obviously we can't go through it all now but i mean your life before prison your time in prison and since you've been released how do you could you summarize that that journey for yourself i mean do you feel you were so society left you with on a path that would end up you being in prison if that is the case how was prison and and your time since i wouldn't go so far as the blame in society for for my problems and my issues were prison i came from a decent enough background regarding my mother and father having jobs excuse me and my father unfortunately like to drink and there was a lot of violence at home and there was a lot of dysfunction which led to childhood trauma on my behalf and when i started taking drugs at a very young age it was a blanket of comfort and it took me away from everything that was going on at home so that was really why i started to take drugs i never had any intentions and grown up and you know pursue in the life to be a full-time drug addict or criminal i had different dreams and different aspirations and probably to be on stage more so and you know performing whether it was acting or whether it was singing or something like that i was always quite a very talented as a young kid well unfortunately the drugs snatched that and took that all away from me and then later on in life i ended up on my drug of choice which would have been heroin and black cocaine and then put me down a really really bad path i ended up in numerous psychiatric hospitals i ended up homeless on the streets i ended up in a lot of prisons and my life just went into complete turmoil from me taking drugs so realistically at the end of the day the drugs were just the short-term solution to a long time and as you've indicated your time in prison could have been the end of you effectively but you've come out the other end what was different for you compared to the other people you'd have seen that that perhaps their life their addiction their mental health declined and then they're released from prison and their life just either ends or goes nowhere what was different for you do you think willy that has seen you come out of prison and move forward with your life well greg i was very fortunate on the last prison sentence that i don't i was released from prison in april 2001 and when i got released from prison in april 2001 i had in prison found the 12 step program which i attended and still do attend and i was very very fortunate that i got an understanding of my addiction i got an understanding of why i took drugs i got an understanding that i could live life without the use of any substance whatsoever and i started attending these meetings and i knew then when i asked for help in the prison which was probably the biggest thing that i'd ever done when i went and asked for the help that the help was there for me and i eventually got myself drug-free and sober and have been for the last 22 years well done yeah and there's not a lot of lads that avail of that there's a lot of lads that are very very fearful of letting go of the drug of choice they're afraid that they can't deal with life and life's terms they can't deal with stuff that has happened to them in the past be it you know physical abuse mental abuse sexual abuse or you know traumatic period in the life and i was ready to kind of face that and and get myself together and recover so so really how much how much of your life has been thankfully a good period of it since not but how much of your life then has was was difficult between what you went through in the family home with your father's drinking then then of course on the pathway with drugs and and the time in prison up until your release so how much of your life does that distressing time take up it's tight isn't it yeah it would be it would be really honestly don't get me wrong i've had periods of time where things were genuine you know genuinely okay in me life are manageable and you know that i wasn't really in the the full realms of of of of active addiction and and living a chaotic life so to speak but i mean for most of my life since since i was a young child up until i eventually got drug free at 29 there's been i've had some sort of issues going on be a family and be a internal stuff that i've had to deal with and just couldn't deal with and the only solution for me was was the you know it's the very me head in the sand with drugs and when i took drugs it just took me away from everything that was going on you know do you think we will get on to the plane a second just whilst i have you do you think then we and you only have to look under an article about someone who's been imprisoned what people think locked them up throw away the this that the others come back you know all the the usual stuff do you think we are do you think we as a general population need to sort of maybe think twice about that that that's you know there's nature and there's nurture and all that type of stuff definitely of course we do listen i'm not saying that prisons you know i'm not saying that prisons are you know a deterrent from crime and i'm not saying that prisons are the solution to everything because you know a statistic show people get out prison and they reoffend i think there needs to be more money put into the rehabilitation of prisoners or things that needs to be more money put into you know resources and rehab and and recovery for people that are dealing with addiction issues and it's it's prison serves its purpose it doesn't matter you know whether you have you know a television in your cell or it doesn't matter whatever prison the prison sentence is that you're taken away from society where you've done damage to some you know to a person or to to a facility or something like that and you're taken away from the people that you love and you're taken away from your freedom and you're locked up so it's you lose your liberty and everything and everything that goes with that it's not it's it's by far a holiday camp because we as we say in the play i mean i don't know any holiday camps that you can go in and that you're locked up at seven o'clock in the evening like you know so the examination you bring it to on green on this coming Tuesday the 25th of april and i don't have it in my notes here and i don't really like notes anyway except for you to tell me rather than me to tell you is it a one is it you is it a group of actors on stage what is the story that you're telling willy no the story basically is it's gary keegan who's one of the members of broken talkers and myself so very very quickly it was meant to be a one-man play which was myself and it wasn't really walking out to the best way that we thought was going to walk out so we got gary to read in and then it is sport that gary was himself a victim of crime in london he was a horrifically moved over there so essentially what the play amalgamated to be was that gary is an ex-victim of crime i myself am an ex-criminal he tells his story about what it was like for him and explains the history of the criminal he would talk about the mental health and and welfare of prisoners in the orish prison system and we also read extracts from people that are actually serving life sentences at the moment in mental prison and amalgamates into this amazing piece of theater the visuals and the audio that's in it as well it will just it will just blow people away it's an amazing piece of theater and we also won a lot of awards we won the the best production award 2020 from the orish times best soundscape awards 2020 the orish times we won the dublin fringe festival 2019 best production and i won best actor at the dublin fringe festival our 700 people yeah some of the some of the reviews superbly slippery piece of theater that's from the stage the orish times no easy escapes in broken talkers sly provocative play again and again says fest the examination pulls the rug out from under you so it's perhaps not everything as you as it may seem this is one of those i think you need to go along and watch as things unfold rather than not try and necessarily set it up so trust the reviews and get along to on green on this tuesday the 25th of april uh willy white uh it's been nice speaking to you thank you for joining us and i'm sure you'll have a full house on on tuesday night for that because as i say these awards aren't handed out like uh like sweets either these are these are top level level awards and great reviews as well great thanks so much and please god you'll come yourself and have a look take care 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it'll all become apparent as i read out their submissions it does it's all right it's not lookalikes you can relax and from balandrate lyford says i would love one please greg thanks no problem and you're getting one and then nyle car and fana he's also getting one but his pitch was interested in water bottle nyle don't over commit we're going to satisfy your passing interest in the water bottle and in fact if they're passing the station i have them here they can just drop into the station if they're passing by the station yet all right collin from accounts rt1 bbc2 is this a co-production no it's an australian comedy not good i might australia oh i like that just segue into that with no with no build up you didn't even realize that's years of watching home on the way well apologies to any australian australian is listening it's a half hour rom-com and i love a good rom-com like that french hookup plan and some of those american shows like flying i love a good rom-com when it's done well this is really good half hour comedy series monday night's rt2 or if you're on the rt player you can just watch all eight episodes i watched off i watched five of the episodes this week and i'll be finishing it off this weekend completely smitten with the show the couple that stars in this show they created it they wrote the episodes and they're married in real life but i don't think it's their story somehow it's amazing um i don't think it's their patrick bramble is uh the guy i watched this because it was recommended to me last week patrick bramble is on a show i love an american show called evil which is a fantastic show about priests fighting demons it's scary you would hate it fenula but he's on that as the husband of the main character i had no idea he was so funny i had no idea he was so good at comedy or that his wife was so funny or so good at comedy um starts off with a great very original meat cute as all these rom-coms have to start he's out driving she's a pedestrian they don't know each other needless to say uh something happens which i won't give out won't spoil it but he ends up uh hitting a cute stray dog it's her fault he maintains she runs back they get into a sort of a squabble about this dog which is injured they take the dog to vet called the vet uh and they get great mileage out of that so they decide they're going to take care of this stray dog after much towing and froing and they just then discover is going to cost 12 000 dollars because the dog has to be put inside a frame so they end up having to mutually take care of this dog and that's the plot that's the what drives the series of this man and this woman who don't know each other don't like each other very much at the start but she owes him six grand because he insists that she pay half and he knows nothing about dogs so he enlists her to kind of help run take care of the dog then she gets kicked out of her house where she's sharing because the landlord doesn't learn to have dogs so the two of them don't really like each other but they're thrust together and it's really very funny and the chemistry i was reading in some of the reviews uh the guardian review talks about this fantastic chemistry usually couples who are together in real life don't have great chemistry on camera i don't think they've chemistry at all on this show yeah i think they're adorable they're fabulous chemistry it's addictive um and whilst the times review said it's addictive viewing i found the show you've seen as well you've watched it i just watched the first two because um i found it on restarting it on bbc bbc on sunday sunday night sunday night and it's also on what was uh last night was tuesday it's also on uh wednesday night it's on wednesday night at eleven fifteen and it is on sunday night act i think it's nine o'clock or something like that audience and critics love it yeah i know it's big yeah and it's done very well i don't know if it's my thing either and for no i think maybe you're the same yeah i mean if you don't like rom-coms if you don't like rom-coms i know i'm fairness i do and you know i'm constantly searching for my half hour my new half hour show there's only an episode of this if you don't come here you're giving it 10 out of 10 i i when i'm only two into it it's fine it's not that i mean i i'm not enjoying it but i wouldn't be raving about it the way people are raving about it that's a double negative something i love it yes there you go double nose yeah um i just think i find her character a little bit adorable see if you don't adorable you don't get on with the character so when all falls to bits yeah well she's scatty and she's like all over the place and she's kind of a bit rude and drinks too much and does this too much they're australian that's the job i know i mean she's also doing your doctor she stays in his house ever bought a prawn on the barbie she stays at his house in an episode no but it's a lot of beer it's a lot of beer like this doesn't give you an idea of the humor she gets she stays the first night she stays in his house she wakes up sort of half sleepwalking goes to the bathroom but she's disorientated she walks into his bedroom opens the drawer in his dresser drawer uses that as the toilet she goes back to bed hasn't the clue he wakes up horrified to find that obviously she's used his drawer well he makes up to see her i see he's her doing it yeah and then she finds out she starts about replacing it it's it's i think it's a serious situation comedy too well it is a sitcom i mean it's like you know red dwarf you know those shows where you take two characters who shouldn't really be hanging out but they're thrust together right okay that's what this is yep all right mixed views on it and so we only have um a minute or two uh and i don't know do you want to do boston's drama well just that it's one to watch i didn't really know anything about it i thought this was old and i didn't realize it brand new because i think it's on disney isn't it yes they're not going to marketing it's a documentary it's really terrible that no anus got it no no it's not a documentary and karen nightley's in it which is very strange and i assumed it was an old movie as well and i was like oh i must have missed karen nightley doing this back in the day but actually it is a brand new movie disney have done it it's another one of these stories where it's kind of a story within a story so most people will have heard something about the boston strangler or at least that word uh those two words put together mean something to people well we don't have any more time we're going to come back to that next week the funny thing is is you see it sort of tries to give credit to journalists and i just think we're kind of not in that space as society at the moment to give credit to journalists i don't know listen i feel really bad to cut across yeah exactly actually no because it is quite interesting because the you know they're all on lifestyle and reviewing vacuum cleaners and stuff and these are exactly but we'll actually maybe start off with that next week because i think a lot of people might be interested in that but for now and all through this whole hour the main thing that happened this is it started off as just a passing comment about let's go out for an indian and now it turns out that both flula and michael are going out for a lovely tomorrow indian meal at a restaurant or i should say a meal at a indian restaurant problem tomorrow night because we're going to um see an opera in the theater highly recommended war war hall i'm going to mispronounce it w-a-r-h-o-l i think or something i'm leaving that team okay well enjoy it enjoy it lovely to hear thank you take care of yourselves thank you so much to all of you who listened to the show throughout the course of the week we're back with you on monday thanks to uh leave who assisted caroline or who researched and produced the show uh and we're 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