 Manchester, Glasgow, the Algarve, Mallorca, Verona and Lourdes. Visit CityofDerryAirPort.com The Highland Radio Birthday Bash featuring Margot and special guests. Tickets are 30 euro each and are now available at Highland Radio. The Montreal Hotel letter Kenny, Alexander's Ballet Buffet, Simpson's Bar, Cardona and the Coupe Don Lowe. For further information call the station on 9125000 or check out the outlet at HighlandRadio.com Fancy a free glass of Prosecco while admiring one of Donegal's best views? Join us on our first wedding fair at the Waters Edge Rathmullen on Saturday the 23rd of March from 11am to 3pm. We will be joining forces with ultimate touches and other vendors to showcase the Waters Edge Rathmullen as your dream wedding reception. With free entry and great prizes to be won, it's a day out not to be missed. Right now B&Q club members get 10% off everything in store and online. Not a member? Join today? Save today. Sign up in store or at DIY.ie. Offer ends Tuesday. You can't do it. Exclusions and terms and conditions apply. See DIY.ie Sometimes it's just bad luck, but sometimes it's negligence. From minor bumps to life changing injury, every accident has a story. Time to call Mackleheny & Associates. They'll assess the situation, advise on solutions and lead the way if any litigation is to follow. From motor accidents and workplace accidents to slips, trips and falls, call today on 074 917 5989 or find us online. Let's get you started on the road to recovery. Mackleheny & Associates solicitors turn order. How can we help? In contentious business, a solicitor may not calculate fees or other charges as a percentage or proportion of any award or settlement. It's Highland Radio's big birthday charity day and we're supporting the Irish Wheelchair Association. Every donation counts. That's a great facility to have in the area. People are very friendly and they're doing the centre there. I know that. I wouldn't be without it. It changed my life around completely. So we have three day centres. One in Larro Kenne, Mallon and Carragart. There is also a school of motoring with the Irish Wheelchair Association and assisted living services which provide PAs. To donate, go to highlandradio.com or check out our social channels. It's not just that Sarah can't rely on the reins to come this year. It's not just that the only water left could cost her her life. It's not just that she has seen all her crops destroyed and she is struggling to feed her little boy. Like thousands of parents living in regions devastated by drought, Sarah is living in fear and it's not just. This linch or help can make all the difference. Visit trochre.org or call 1-800-408-408. Trochre, together for a just world. OK Highland Radio, it is 9 o'clock and well just gone 9 o'clock actually. So time to get the news headlines now from Donna Marie Doherty. Thanks John, good morning. Guardi and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road traffic collision on the R245 between the Thorn Road and the Golf Course Road junction. The Letterkenny to Remelton Road is closed as a result and diversions are in place. No further information is available at this time. A number of warranted searches took place in Letterkenny yesterday afternoon. These were on a number of premises on Canal Road and led to the seizure of a small quantity of cannabis and drug paraphernalia. Guardi said in a statement that investigations continue. Donegal County Council is looking at its options for taking over College Park off the Glencar Road in Letterkenny. But issues with the sewage pumping station there means there's regular overflow of raw sewage and that's delaying the process. In order for the council to take over the estate, Ishka Erin will have to take responsibility for the station and that has not happened yet. In the meantime the council will regularly check the sewage pumping station tanks. Meanwhile landlords are facing difficulties with getting their septic tanks renewed as a policy technicality. The care look of Glenties Municipal District Councillor Michael McClaffery raised the issue in a meeting saying that when a septic tank fails an inspection it should then qualify for an upgrade or that is only if the tank is located on the permanent residence of the owner. Councillor McClaffery says this excludes rented properties and is causing issues. Stormans First Minister says the US needs to act as a peacemaker in the Middle East the same way it did in Northern Ireland's troubles. Old Michelle O'Neill and First Deputy Minister Lyttle Penigale are both meeting business and political leaders in the US this week to mark St Patrick's Day. And finally a meeting of Glenties Municipal District has heard that Tory Island is in need of a fire engine. Councillor John Hemish O'Farre says when Donegal County Council updates a fire engine elsewhere in the county the pre-existent engine should be assigned to the island. He says there's simply a greater need now that there's more people in the area. We're live from Highland Radio News. We'll be back again at 10 o'clock. It is indeed Highland Radio on a different day. Thanks to Paul and Jimmy and Arnie and Donald and everybody else and Pat Gollher. We don't have that sort of illustrious line up for this hour but we're still punching above our weight thanks to Paul and Jimmy for a breakfast show with a difference for sure. And Greg will be along but not for another hour because the day that's in it our charity day. It's me John Breslin for the next hour and I'm joined by a couple of guests and there might even be a third fingers crossed but in the studio for a chat today a stock on traffic. That's the etiquette traffic for you, that happens. Patty Brown from the Viking Dippers and Paul Gollher, a comedian extraordinaire they're with me in the studio. Guys thanks for coming in. Thanks for having us and good morning. Alright so I hope you two know what's going on because I know very little. Between the three of us John, we'll have to wing it. Okay it's going to be a seat of the pan sir. No day there. Alright that's reassuring. Anyhow it's a day of fundraising and we're spinning down in the shopping centre as you heard there with Sean and that's just going to be on going all day and we'll be linking in and out and I'm doing some links from down there as well and it's supporting three charities, it's Jigsaw, Donny Gull, it's Breastcare Northwest and it's the Irish Wheelchair Association and also there's a big auction that we'll get to that shortly because there's an older Greg and Lee are going to be on from 11 with the details of that auction and doing some of it live as well. Fantastic. It's all happening, yeah right. How are you guys doing? Doing good, I will speak for myself first. Patty I see some of the stuff you do because I follow you on Instagram Porick not so much you so fill me in. Right at the minute. Are you on Instagram? I'm somewhere on there but I'm not very good at the old self-promotion stuff. I suppose the most recent thing I was in the LMDG production of The Alternative a couple of weeks ago and on Grinon. So you were, I was like that. Yeah, you recognized me now. Yes, you were. I was one of the reporters so I was actually in the auditorium to do some box pops which people didn't realize it was all pre-planned. But it worked out great because it was all part of the show. Oh yeah. And then the setup was a BBC Dublin. Yeah, so I suppose the premise of the show was about an alternative version of Ireland. There was a referendum happening on whether Ireland should leave the UK and this was the night of the last debate between the Prime Minister and so on. So my part then was box popping people on their opinions. Then the original production that was all pre-recorded but Cairn Kelly the director was like, no I want you in the room because I think it'll be really interesting and it really was. It was? Because people didn't realize the people I was asking were planned. Now after about the third one they realized but it was very funny to watch people. Some people I think would have been happy enough to take a question and you could see other people starting to turn and trying not to catch my eye just to see. It was a great experience. It worked out great because everything was on stage, well the stage and screen. So all the focus was up there and then all of a sudden it switched and it was like live questions from the audience. And this was live and you were there and you were putting out the questions to the people and initially you're 100% right. Initially people were thinking, they're going to come to me and ask a question. It was great like that thing of live theatre. People were, everybody in the audience was part of the show then. They just didn't realize how much a part of the show they might be or not. But it was really, and even one of the writers was there on the Saturday night and he thought that was among, like, carried me a lot of fantastic changes to it. It was a great show and everybody involved did a great job. But he was like, oh, I really like that because you could feel the energy change in the room because like that people are thinking, oh no, is he coming to me next? I don't know what I want. I didn't realize there was a referendum happening. There was one then that was getting, you know, all excited and just wouldn't take no for an answer and he had to be shuffled out. Oh yes, yes, at the very least. It added, it all added. Oh yeah, and that one, funny, the actor Pat that played that part, what he was saying on the Saturday night where the other questions were happening, the lady beside him can say, oh, he's very good, isn't he going really well? He goes, I think I might ask a question. And she said, oh, you should. And then she didn't realize obviously he was part of the party. He got up and started ranting. We kind of wanted to go in and see what her reaction was, you know. Because then he didn't get up and he started ranting and then the bouncers had to throw him out, you know. So she was going, what's going on here? So she had caused the whole thing. But it was great. And that thing of just using the space in there, kind of keeping the audience guessing about because people really, I suppose, didn't know what was coming next when those kind of things were happening. And it was just nice to be part of. Initially I was like, oh, the video thing, that'll be handy enough. We'll go someday and video it and it'll be done. But then to be in the room, it was great to actually be part of that. Yeah, I didn't know. I thought that was all part of the original. I didn't know that Kieran had made those changes. No, there was a few other things too. But I mean, it all worked really well. And as I say, one of the writers was there on Saturday and he was blown away. And it had only been on, it had been one run before and they won the competition with Foshamble. But he was like, that's as good as any professional production. It's only amateur in name. The effort that everybody puts in is professional. But isn't that the way with so many local productions? I was down at the Adams family last week and that was as close to professional as you'll get as well. It's gone that far now. It's the same, I would even say, with like Gaelic footballers. It's only amateur in name. If people really care about it and you can see the effort they're putting in and when you go to a show like that, then you appreciate it even more because you can think, well, I know how much it takes to get it to that level and the time everyone's putting in. And beyond this now, what anything lined up you can tell us about? Are you open to offers? Well, yeah, our babysitters. If anyone wants to babysit, then I can go into your gigs or give my wife a night off as well. But I had that thing of, sure, nobody wants to hear me go out and do stand-up about my kids and I'm like, well, there's a number of very high-profile comedians and that's their whole act. So you never know. Maybe we'll find it by the time in the schedule and we'll get back to that too. OK, OK. Patti, what about you? I see now and again on Instagram, you know, some of the stuff you're up to, the well-swimming. Yes. And also, you keep busy and put up the odd video. Do they all get something in the post or something? Oh, yeah, we do a bit of unboxing. We do a bit of everything, do a bit of dipping. I was actually dipping there with Porek there on Sunday. We had a great dip, didn't we, Porek? Well, I wasn't in the water. I have to say, I wasn't brave enough to get in the water, but it was there. It was a great experience. And Porek now, not only a comedian and actor now, I'm after finding out. Well, but you know yourself, we're just, you know, but a part-time messer on there and a bit of crack. So, you know, keeps, you know, these days, you know, you need to do a thing to keep people happy, you know. But a big following. I mean, I never really, you know, focus on it too much. But some, like, I look and I see there's nearly 10,000 people there. And you don't think of what you're putting up, you know. If you're thinking it too much, you would kind of hold back, I think. But if you were, someone said to me, well, imagine you were standing in a room and there was 100 people in front of you. You know, there'll be a lot of people. You'd be kind of, you know, there. So, you know, nearly 10,000, I suppose. And, you know... It's a bit like when people are thinking about advertising here. Sometimes I say to them, well, listen. Tell you what, it's the equivalent of giving, you know, all iron and final day at Crow Park. And you have the microphone for 30 seconds. How's that? So, you know, then the penny drops. And no more than, you know, what 10,000 followers or friends would look like. It's great and 10,000. Yeah, I mean, like for someone who just goes into the sea and cooks a bit of eggs in the morning. You know, that's a lot of people. So, but, you know, I try to use the platform for, you know, just a bit of charity, like yourselves here, you know. You're sort of doing a great thing. And just for good, really, you know, just try to do my best on it. So, no ambitions to do a part on it and move into acting. Well, acting proper is acting of sorts when you're doing a video like that. And is you... Yeah, you can. Like, I try to actually just be myself as much as possible. Like, it's full transparency. Like, if I'm out having a night out, you know, you'll see me dressed up and I'm nice. But you'll also see me the next day when I'm hanging like a week's washing, you know. And I think that's kind of the appeal to keep people watching. They know it's not, you know, how fakery and messing about. But if you ever need someone, a waterboy or anything, that's one of your gigs. You can let me know, Park. Does it say, like, because you're yourself in your videos, then when people meet you, they know what they're getting. I know a guy who had decent enough success playing a character in those kind of videos. And then when they would go out, people would be expecting to meet the character. And it wasn't the case. I think it annoyed him a bit because it was like, because I think the character maybe started off making fun of people, but then the people he made fun of were like, oh, that's, he's one of us. But the big players must get that all the time. You know, really the household names, because when they're out, people just say what identify them with their character, which is grand if you're a, you're a comedy actor or something. Yeah. You know, if you're, if you're well known for, you know, playing Hannibal Lecter. No. Okay. He can go front in the queues. All right. So, but I know you don't, you don't experience any of that just yet, do you? Not really. No, it's, um, it's, it is funny, like, say if you're in a play and then people spot you maybe a week later somewhere in the building. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I haven't played too many bad guys in plays yet, but who knows what's coming up. Yeah, because their first instinct will be, you know, as you were in the play or whatever it was. Yeah. And then they'll treat you as such until they move beyond it. Okay, then, um, time to take a short break and, uh, we'll be, we'll be right back because we've got, uh, uh, Corey Gulliver and, uh, Paddy Brown in studio and, uh, some more info on exactly what is happening today coming up. Today's show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union. Digital loans now available. Apply online via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. It's time to transform your smile with the help of Blue Poppy Dental, Letter Kenny and Donegal Town. Their expert team offer orthodontics, teeth whitening, implants and composite bonding all in-house. Start your journey by calling 074-97-40404 or easily book your appointment online at a time that suits you through their user-friendly patient portal available anytime, anywhere at bluepoppedental.com. Blue Poppy Dental and Orthodontics, Letter Kenny and Donegal Town. Get vouchers available. On Business Matters this week, my guest is Libby Carton co-founder and co-owner of independent craft beer company Kinneger Brewing. So join me, Chris Ashmore, after the 6 o'clock news on Sunday. Business Matters in association with the Faculty of Business at ATU Donegal. For a career in financial governance, consider the Level 9 MA in governance and IT in financial services. Call 911-86-206 or email donald.hanigan at atu.ie today. Planning your big day? Book with Evolve clothing. Letter Kenny retail park. Private wedding room, expert advice and tailored fits for the groom, groom's men and page boy. Great value awaits. Visit us today. For all your training needs, Northwest Forest Services, Training Department, Bully Buffet offer a wide range of training courses from training bodies such as MPTC City Engills, QQ Islandra and ABA International. They also now do quad courses in line with the new guidelines and regulations for all quad users. If you have a group, they can come to you. For a full list of training courses and availability, contact Northwest Forest Service Bully Buffet on 074-9132033. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com. Highland Radio. Your voice, your station. And we're back. And through until 10 o'clock is me, John Breslin. And at the moment with two guests and possibly a third, but we'll see. And Colonel was stuck on traffic. So it must be a lot heavier out there then. What's that? A new round of eyes? That's absolutely right. Now there's, there's a part of our day today is an auction. A big part of our day is an auction. Just to run through some of the items that will be available for auction will be as opposed to just yet. But I imagine you can stick in a bid there. I know that Greg and Lee are going to do a lot of this live from 11. But just to let you know that if you do want to bid on some of these items, listen up lads. As we heard during the week, this came in early. It was Gary O'Hanlon, the chef. And he's going to cook a dinner for eight people. Wow. Yeah, yourself and seven. There's already a couple really, but I think it's like 2,000 or something. If he needs anyone to do the eggs, tell him you can make it. You're good at the eggs? Oh, geez, aye. Poached eggs. Egg connoisseur. You were very quick with the poached eggs. They're the hardest to make. You do the... The vortex? Do you do the vortex? Of course, the vinegar or the vortex? No, I don't bother with vinegar. A bit of salt. But you do the wheeze. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good one. Did you ever bother with the... Or back in the day, you know the wee plastic thing and just cracked the egg into it and then took the lid off it and there it was. You want to see my shopping list and wish I have every gadget, every gadget going trying to make these eggs, but actually Chef Kieran Sweeney down there at the Old Glen Bar, he gave me a message and he says, cop yourself on Paddy will you? And just make it the old fashioned way. So I took that advice now and I'm going well, so... There you go. Yeah, this is the best, I think. Okay, so anyhow, Gary is going to come out to somebody's house and cook dinner for it and provide the food as well. So it'll be the finest food before he even starts cooking. Then there's an overnight stay in the Salislaw-esque, five-star luxury and that includes a meal in the restaurant and complimentary use of the swimming pool and the fitness suite. That'll be great. That would be amazing. Yeah. And at the Wild Atlantic Camp, there's three nights stay there staying in their new luxury chalets and then enjoying everything that Chris Scott and Fanny area has to offer. So that's brilliant. A fall week in a four bedroom villa in Spain. That'd be alright too, wouldn't it? That'd be the one. Yeah, that'd be the one. Yeah, right. And this is with a private pool. It's in the resort of... Quesadilla. Is that how it's pronounced? Or is that how it's pronounced? Quesadilla is the food. Quesadassi. Yeah, it could be Quesadilla. Yeah. Anyhow, it's close to Toro Vieca and Alicante Airport. So it'll be easy to get to. It'll be warmer than doing all that stuff. The signpost will all be spelled correctly. And two nights stay at Harvey's Point as well. Bed and breakfast and dinner as well on one evening in the Lakeside Restaurant. Fantastic. There's 20 ton of decorative stone. So you just need to do something around the house. There's always something to do around the house. There's always something to do around the house. Yeah, you'll always find the place anyway. And that's courtesy of GMG Stone Port Road letter Kenny. Sunday lunch for four at Harvey's Point. This is, you know, the famous carvery over there. Oh, yes. So that's for four. And a trip to see Hamilton. This is the Highland trip to see Hamilton in Dublin. It's going to be at the Boardgash Theatre. Have you ever seen Hamilton? Haven't, but I would love to see it. Same as that. No, I haven't, but I would love to see it as well. Because it was just impossible to get tickets for when it was on Broadway and then over the West End. So there's a chance to see it now that it's in Dublin. And the trip includes close return travel and just stay in Dublin. And flights to Glasgow. These are from Donegal Airport. And this route is restarting on the 19th of May. So two return tickets to Glasgow up for grabs. And either he's familiar with Glasgow. I am a bit now, yes. What do I remember of it? All right. That sounds like Glasgow, right? Yeah, yeah. And then Nevin McGuire. Nevin was on with the two boys earlier there and he was outlining what he's added to this because it's dinner for two. And yeah, I think you have to book about a decade in advance to get dinner there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think. In fact, you've got to book years in advance because we've done that. And then, guess what happened? Tells. So I came around and I can't remember if there's something that clashed or something or other. Because it was so far away. We were waiting for it. Literally, it was two years. I was waiting for it to come round. And then it came round. I can't remember what it was, but something came up. So then we had to go right back to the back of the pile again. So this is for two. And he had dinner for two at Nevin McGuire's restaurant in Black Lion. And he's included a signed book, a signed cookery book. Well. You should get one of them. Yeah. It's just a Bible at home. Right. I'm not sure which one of these books he's signing, but I have the just... Is there a section on eggs on it? Yeah. And I'm sure... A couple of pages? I'm sure he suggests doing the twirls. The Vortex, John. The Vortex. Come on now. Get in the link. Get with the program. Anyhow, he's a signed book and a hamper and a set of his signature cookery as well. So that's an amazing price. Thanks to Nevin. And a voucher for Foiz, who, down to yesterday, was doing a show of Foiz with our Kenny and Bali buffet, a 250-year-old voucher to spend there. Fantastic prizes. All up for grabs. Not prizes as such, but items that are available... Yes. ...to spend on. Right. So it's in our auction. And details on our website for that, HighlandRadio.com. Now, a sympathetic state coming up. What are you two fellas going to be doing on Sunday? Do you go to the parade? We have been in other years. This year, I'll just do a very quick plug, because if I'm... The GA Club, my GA Club and Convoy are doing a big breakfast on Sunday morning. Right. So that'll kind of take up the morning to get everybody sort of ready for the rest of their day. Yeah. And then, yeah, we might end up at the parade then at some stage. It's a... Okay. Oh, we have our third guest in the building. There's Colin and Colin. Come on now. You can sit there in the corner and be quiet for a while. For being late, that's just now done. Nothing really important. Just because Connell's entered the room. Convoy, big breakfast on Sunday. In the parish hall in Convoy. And you can buy tickets through our app if anybody wants. But you can pay at the door but in the locality. Is this a done thing on St Patrick's Day? This is the first... I suppose a lot of times, and I'm sure a lot of clubs and organisations, you feel like you're always looking for money, and that's a fun reason. So this is more to get people from the community in and have a morning and there'll be music and dancing and entertainment and everything there as well. So that's the plan for the morning. So I got the plug in. I didn't think I would do it, but there you go. And green eggs. Green eggs, yeah. We're making a party up to do the eggs. Give me a shout. Right. Connell. St Patrick's Day Convoy. He wanted to get the plug in. I'll just do it as well. Oh, listen, never miss an opportunity. I apologize to yourselves and to our listeners. It's okay. You've given the signed letter to Caroline, have you? The signed letter. Total apology. No, it's on the way. Okay, I'll go. Let's see, you know, there used to be the checks and the post. Yeah. Anyhow, good to see you. Come here, my little hat. We're just chatting about St Patrick's Day. What's putting you up to? Are you gigging this weekend? I am gigging tonight and I'm off for a couple of weeks. Oh, nice. I'm down in Cavern. Right. In the Hotel Kilmore in Cavern. Not for the first time. Not for the first time and hopefully not the last. No, I love the place now. I'm a lucky guy. St Patrick's Day, I'm not known. Never works on Patrick's Day. No, it wouldn't be. It wouldn't be a day. It wouldn't be a day. Yeah, I remember years ago when we were playing pubs and that. And you do St Patrick's Night. But everybody was hammered. Yeah. You know. Without that, the whole thing wouldn't work. The only way. The only way. Until a different point. Yeah, well the only way to work and then eventually was that I got hammered. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, no. I just... It's not a night for... Yeah. For my type of entertainment anyway. But no, I love St Patrick's Day. I love the whole. The ethos of it. But I'm more looking forward to tomorrow. Tomorrow? What's all this tomorrow? Rugby. Oh, yeah. Right, yeah. As a sort of... As the wind going out of our sails in the rugby, is it... The good's been taken out of it now. We were beaten by England. We're not going to win the Grand Slam. Yeah. We probably will win the championship, but... Yeah. Do you know that this is the thing? It's an amazing... Yeah, God. We're only going to win the championship. At all. And on our New Year, you take it with both hands. Yeah, yeah. I remember one time being at a match in Glasgow it was a cup final. Celtic played Erdrey. And Celtic won. But you just thought they lost because they didn't beat Rangers. We were in Erdrey, so what? I don't know if there's any Erdrey fans or Rangers fans out there. There's an element of that, yeah, with being beaten by England. Yeah, oh, there is, yeah. It was disappointing, wasn't it? Yeah. Can I tell you a story? Yeah, of course you can. This is a few years ago. This English guy is over at Barba Faye. And he's into a pub. Because the World Cup was on the rugby World Cup. England were playing Fiji. So he was in the pubs packed. And, you know, of course everybody's supporting Fiji. So anyway, England won anyway. And the English man, he understood the bits and pieces, you know. Everybody's supporting Fiji and he's talking to some of the boys. He says, is there no time at all that you would ever support England? And one of the boys says, well, geez, yes. He says, if they're playing to her own. Loyalty, yeah. So the rugby's on to more Scotland. Early in the day, late in the day. The Ireland, I think, is on quarter to five. But there's a match on earlier. Italy on somebody. So you're big into the rugby? Love it. I've been playing rugby well. I've stopped now, but playing rugby since I was ten years of age. Oh, did you? You were young when you played rugby. Well, I was in boarding school. Because for some reason you don't strike me as a rugby player. What do you think? Maybe a forward. Scrum half. Scrum half was always the hand. You were sort of the link between the forwards and the backs. OK. My whole plan was to get rid of the ball the minute I got it. Because every bit was after you. Sounds like a good enough plan. Yeah, well, yeah. OK, then. Connell's joined us. Another short break and we'll be right back. Today's show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union. With monster loans available up to €1,000 for all occasions. Visit letterkennycu.ie At Cooney's Home Interiors, we pride ourselves on offering you the very best in choice, quality and value on all home furnishings. Treat your home with a visit to Cooney's today. And choose from our large range of sweets, tables, beds, not to mention our large selection of home accessories. Our motto is, if you see it, you can buy it and we will deliver it to your door. Cooney's Home Interior's Letter Kenny Retail Park. Style and perfection at incredible value. I've just had the Eclipse Cinema's experience. Wow, they truly have taken a night at the movies to a whole new level. Amazing recliner chairs, director's lounge VIP room, pizza and hot food served to your seat. Have a glass of wine and enjoy the film on the big screen. Try it for yourself at Cooney's Cinema's Lefford Sturban. Where the stars shine brighter. By the way, the pizzas are amazing. You can book your seat anytime at EclipseCinemas.ie. Kia is now making it easier to go green, offering 0% finance on the all new Kia Nero. With an impressive 460 kilometer range on a single charge, the Nero ensures you can go to distance without compromise. Visit EclipseCinemas.ie today and avail of this limited offer. Highland Radio are celebrating another birthday. We are inviting you to join us for our Highland Radio birthday bash on Tuesday the 19th of March in the Mount Eregal Hotel. Joined by the one and only Margo, myself David James plus a special guest Brendan Quinn, Declan Ernie and Patrick Feeney. This is a night not to be missed. Tickets now on sale. Or give us a call on 074 9125,000. We'll see you at the Highland Radio birthday bash. Today's show is brought to you by Letterkenny Credit Union. Simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from Letterkenny Credit Union. Call us on 074 9102126 or apply online via our app or in office today. Foy and company Balli Buffet in Greater Stochis of Interior and Exterior Paint in the Northwest. If you're planning a painting project and need help picking the right colour and brand of paint for your home or commercial premises, call in and ask our qualified paint colour consultants, interior designers and interior stylists. The team at Foy and company Balli Buffet and Letterkenny will be delighted to help. Hi, Patty here at Shea and Conley Cars in Donegal Town. With Shea and Conley Cars, you'll find mixing models for every budget. Great finance options and may also accept readings. Check out sheaandconleycars.com or call into us at Shea and Conley Cars from Donegal Town. Betty Morgan talks about her son. Amy was one of life's givers. When he had a sudden brain hemorrhage and sadly died his organ donation helped two people transform their lives. It's consoled us so often. He's a giver in life and to know he's giver off life. Organ donors save lives. Make today the day you decide to be an organ donor and let your family know your wishes. For more visit hse.ie forward slash organ donation from the HSE. Mary here from McGee's pharmacy to let you know that Longcom have a great beauty gift available this week. Buy two Longcom products, one of them to be skin care and you will get a free and a full sized bifacial eye make up remover, a choice of two travel size creams and more iconic Longcom products. This is available until Saturday the 23rd of March or while stocks last some teas and seeds apply. For any skin care advice you can always talk to Gemma or myself here at McGee's pharmacy on Main Street Letter Kenny. Highland Radio Weather updates with Ireland West Airport. You don't visit Liverpool for the weather but it does provide you with the best weather weather updates. You can also get a ride to Liverpool Daily with Ryanair Ireland West Airport. Don't just take off. Take it easy. Casting throughout the Northwest and across the world online. This is Highland Radio. Yes indeed. And it's our big birthday charity day. Today the 15th of March and as part of that as well, we are having a coffee morning, which we're going to put them on the way in. So all sorts of goodies lined up out there and Finula and Linda are there and they're going to be making teas and coffees. Everybody wants to pop and leave a wee donation. Fill yourself. Feel free. Perfect. Yeah. Can I just say as well just the day ahead because the schedule has been turned on its head. After this it's Greg and Lee for an hour and that's and generous general chit chat and stuff. So that's after this and then from 11 to 12. It's that's entertainment vanilla rabbit here in studio with Maria Rush, Michael Leary and Noel Cunningham and from 12 to one it's going to be Donal hosting a special hour of nostalgia looking back at some of the presenters on Highlands 34 years and Colin you would have remembered. I remember it's open. First day of this year. I wasn't around for the first couple of years but first open it was a lot different than what it is. Oh God! A lot more chaotic from the stories. It was brilliant. It was so exciting because there had been the pirate radios but there had been no such thing as an official local radio. It was just such a buzz. I remember that day. I knew it. Who else can you remember? Who else was here? Sean was here. Packey I think. No, Packey. Oh, Packey Bradley. I'm not sure. I think so. You're asking me. 34 years. If Brendan was here as well. Brendan Maxwell. You know what? The names of the people who are here at the very start and along the way presenters and some of the events and so on. That's with Donal and Canis and Innamurphy and Tommy Rosney all here in studio from 12 o'clock. After one o'clock news Highland Ladies on the loose and that is with Michaela Clark hosting with Sinead Black, Jean Curran, Donham Rita Hardy and Trudy O'Donnell and then the action moves down centre at Half Pass 2 because it's a country jamboree with some unlikely country boys namely Ocean Kelly, Greg Hughes and Brendan Daveney. Country music people. Three of the greatest singers. We've heard Brendan. I've heard Brendan. We just said we heard him. Anyhow, they're going to be they're going to be in the song and they have half two to half three at the shopping centre. David James doing his show down there as well at Half Pass 3 and it's a pay to play and a pay not to play. Get it, get it. That's where the real money will be made. And then Ivan Borland rounding it all off just after the five o'clock news. It's a DJ mash-up himself, Canis Wilson. He was in the earlier. Don't let her on and then he's down in the mash-up. Just busy man. Great work ethic. That's what it is. Great work ethic. Isn't there a statute of limitations and prosecutions isn't there? There is. Certain ones yes. I'm going to land Canis in a two. We were both on Pirate Radio. Yeah, we were in Pirate as well. The three of us were in the same Pirate Radio. You were in Baccarna. Baccarna, yeah. Look at that. I served me time in Pirate Radio as well when we were down in Donegal Town. Oh, right, yeah. We tried to be a pop channel in Donegal Town, just didn't work. There was another one. It was played all Irish country. That was out the road Glen Coe. Oh, that's right, yes. They were going to bomb. And we were trying to do the little pop thing and it wasn't really working that well. But I mean, a DJ mash-up, Canis Boston, Keith Letcher, Marty Freel and Joe Dexall with Ivan. So it's an unusual day but it's a very day and I've been here a good while too, isn't it? Yes, yeah. It's from very near the start as well. And Keith and Canis. So there's, yeah, and Tommy. Like there's, you know, there's not quite a few. I've been to Chicochia, you know, a radio station when the same presenters are there for so long. It can't be that bad. Well, absolutely. No, but you know what I mean. It's like going to a restaurant and the staff's always changing. I think, you know, there's, it mustn't be working. There's a high turnover of staff. You know, you start thinking. Yeah, yeah. Anyhow, back to St. Patrick's Day. So you're not going to be gigging, just going to be enjoying it. Anybody going to parades? Well, seeing the two boys, going to be plugged there for their localities. I must shout out the beautiful Downings and the Kerry Gert and there'll be plenty of music and things going on there in the old Glen Bar and the Downings Bay and all. Frank, my father-in-law and Frank, my other dipper, you never know. They might be making an appearance on the parade down there too. Best of luck to the last. Something lined up. Well, no doubt it'll be colourful. They may make an appearance. They may make an appearance. Speaking of parades, obviously there's plenty of big parades in the States and the one in New York's always on a Saturday. I don't know why. They just have it for the close of Saturday to St Patrick's Day and that's the oldest and the largest St Patrick's Day parade in the world. Goes back to, wait for it, 1762. I'd say there was no such thing as parades here in Ireland back in 1762. It's 1762. But John, they call it patties. They pray it so it doesn't count. Yeah, yeah. I know. Where was the oldest one? That's it, New York. Oh, you're there. I have over a mile to open. To be there. I followed 14 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. So I'm not sure what it looked like back then, but it's colourful now. So, right around the world, there's going to be some parades. I don't know to Dubai. And then there's going to be dying rivers and lakes and all sorts. Usually they don't build up green and... In the eggs screen? In the eggs, obviously, obviously, yeah. But it's a great day for Ireland, and it's embraced in so many corners. Yeah, and embraced so hugely, I mean. But then again, I suppose, we've been everywhere. And we are everywhere. That we're not embedded in. You know, you take Australia. I mean, how many Irish people are in Australia? I don't know. 44 million people have claimed Irish ancestry or are Irish living in America in the United States. I mean, 44 million. Wow. Well, you couldn't blame them with the pint of Guinness now, 7-year-old 50, and the chicken roll he had quid. Yeah, that's right. We were always known for drinking and fighting, but in this case, in America, we have outbred them. No violence, we did it with love. Yeah. I like that, I like that. You know, Tim Patrick was supposed to have driven the snakes out of Ireland, you know that? All right, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he missed, lends their house. That's good. I need to come back. So, no, it's great, because can you think of any other national day? Like, even you mentioned states, they're on Independence Day. And they celebrate it widely in the states by Patrick's Day, it's everywhere. Yeah, and probably the biggest American day would probably be Thanksgiving. It wouldn't fail after St. Patrick's Day, yeah? It does. The world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade is also in the United States, I'll have you know, it's in a place called Hot Springs in Arkansas. And how long do you think it is? I'll tell you, no need to guess. No, I'll tell me, I'll tell you. 98 feet long. I was close to, I was going to say 97. Ah, there you go, there you go. Could we not go for a record here? I'll have to beat them with the shortest. Harry! We'll have all just out the door here. We are just about to get into the... It's going to be eclipsed. And they always have a celebrity gland marshal at that, small noses, it's the likes of Jim Belushi and Bo Derek. I've done the honours in the past. Excellent. Do you want any of us? We can be available. Hot Springs. At a moment's doge. In Arkansas. We can still make it for this year. Where was I... I was reading about... Anyway, listen, the next St. Patrick's Day weekend, the next time the St. Patrick's Day is going to be on a weekend, four years time. We're going to have to wait four years now for it. You take it for granted now when it's coming up this weekend. Fantastic. Four more years. To be at 20-28, says. And a bit of good news on the weather front in that it's supposed to be fairly good on Sunday. Because we've all done this that night in the Hill showers. Yeah. Ah, come on. No, no, I'm studying away at you. Why? I'm just thinking, there's some of the information you're coming out for. I had a complete semi-prepared. I wonder what sort of a home life you have. LAUGHTER Oh, very good. Well, that says it all. So, anyway, the weather forecast is very good. No horizontal rain or headshot. It is a ride of passage, though, to get soaked in St. Patrick's Day. You're not really getting the Irish experience if you don't get that at some point. At least once. Yeah, in your lifetime. You need one hailstones down the back of your head. Yeah, we've all been there, umbrella over the wane, prime enhance, it's one of those things that down the years then you say, do you remember? Remember, we all got soaked. The only thing about it, that hole in hot springs. LAUGHTER But it did rain. But it did rain, you wouldn't get really wet. And then you're standing there getting soaked in your memory and your mum said, the last thing that she said, she came out the door, bring a jacket. And you're like, why don't you get a jacket for a day like that? Yes. Irish weather. Yeah, I know. One more thing, in Ohio, in the United States, because there was talk, and other notes, Guinness are doing a promotion, this is for their 0-0, and they're giving away pints. That's the catch. All right, I suppose you'd have to give away the 0-0s. LAUGHTER Has anybody had a pint of 0-0? I have. Yeah. It used to be quite good. I don't drink, so that's my only experience of Guinness. All right, there you go. What do you think of it? My feeling is, at least if you're drinking alcohol, you're getting the buzz off it. But with no buzz, what's the actual taste? I was saying this to my wife last night, I wish when I was going out, that option was there, because only non-alcoholic, I had those becks, and it was rotten. Becks are a sponsor, we'll lose them now. I remember becks. That was the only option. So you'd be drinking it all night and be wired full of sugar. At least the Guinness is smoother. The worst beer you could take, like no alcohol beer. There was a fellow in Russia who said about non-alcoholic beer. Drinking non-alcoholic beer is like going to bed with a sex-free woman. What is the point? Like watching porn on the radio? LAUGHTER Like a waterproof teabag? Maybe we'll go back to 0-0, will we? LAUGHTER Everything you speak, something comes up. I just sit in the corner again, will I? Oh, yeah, yeah. So, anyhow, that's what Guinness are doing at 0-0. But if you happen to make it to Ohio in the States, they're actually giving away real pints of Guinness. But the catch there is that you have to go to Ohio to get to it. Oh, well. And pints were pricey over at Cheltenham during the week. A pint of Guinness away there was to have them 15th sterling. Do you follow any of these a few bets during the week on Cheltenham? No, no horsies. The only thing I was thinking, I think Sir Alex Ferguson had a couple of winners. So was he and I the fan going to have to claim it because that might be all we get this weekend. We're claiming his horses, I think, just in case. We did have a couple of winners. Is this the horse that we're fighting over? No, I think that one might be long gone. Oh, is it? That's the one that caused the ructions. Yep. So I know nothing about horses. You don't even know a story about horses. You don't even know a story about horses. No, but I put a lot of money into sick animals. I didn't know they were sick when I backed them. Or the fella that bet on a horse in the 330 and it took seven other horses to beat it. Anyhow, so no bets all week. No winners. My horse is still rolling. Because there's two festivals. One will be the Grand National and the other Cheltenham really. A lot of people who don't know anything about horses would have a wee. Yeah, I'd probably, if I remember to do it, I would have a flutter on the Grand National. But I mean, what I know about horses could be written on the back of a postage with a white wise brush. Do you know what I mean? They say, you know horses, if you're betting on horses, you win one day and you lose the next one. Why don't people just bet every other day then? Yes. That's good. They reckon that the horse is the smartest animal as regards racing. Like Cheltenham or the Grand National put 30 horses into a race and millions of people will watch it. You put 30 people into a race, not one horse will turn a horse. Very good. One of the smartest. So what else is happening around about at the minute? This is actually something that is on at the moment and it probably has passed you by a shack than the Gaelicah. Because every so often I'll say we signed it around about or something will pop up on TV or something just to remind us. And you know, I don't know about your Irish, my Irish is terrible and it's just great for my sake, use it. And I'm terrible, hold my hands up, I'm terrible. On the radio all week. Not one Irish word. Does it pass you by as well or just make an effort? This is one of my things. I don't have Irish as such. People probably are aware of Duolingo. I've been trying to learn Irish in Duolingo. It's not going great, but I have a streak of 1,900 days in a row and I haven't missed it. You would think so. I know how to order like a tea and a coffee and things like that, because it gets the more complicated things and the more can you look at that probably missing the wee bit. Tea. I was speaking English. I think it's the thing if you're using, it's finding places to use it. A lot of people probably have more Irish and then they think they have more words and they understand more, but it's having the confidence to use it. Some of it stays with you. My mother was fluent but I don't know none of us ever were. I would throw them out sometimes in conversation and forget that I knew them. Nearly in Tintón, Mardahintón Féin. There they are now. That's where we is. There's no fire like your own fire. There's no fire. He knows. He knows the crack. That's the sort of Joolingo. I learned that a long time ago. My favourite Joolingo is that I would be learning Irish from some other region. If I was going to improve my Irish, I would want Donegal Irish. That is the problem with it too. They have it set up nearly as a standard version but there is no standard version. I did like that, I learned that when I was in national school and then I went off to secondary school in Dublin and one of my teachers for two or three of the years was from Kerry. Really complicated. I was like three different languages. You know, Ma and Mike. Harry, what about you? It's more Joolipo. I've been watching them. It's one of my biggest regrets not learning Irish from Gracie Peoples. She was amazing. I wish I had listened to Gracie because the Irish would be great to have. The problem is that it's inflicted on us. As young people, you have to learn this. You have to learn that. When you get older and you say, I want to learn Spanish or you go and you learn it or you try to learn it. Same with Irish. I know a lot of people in Northern Ireland who are fluent Irish speakers but they did it because they want it. It wasn't... And those people probably could have gone on and learned Spanish in the same way. Everything's inflicted on you when you're that age. You have no choice. You have to learn your sums and we're doing English but we're doing English. There's a lot of stuff too though. When was the last time you used Pythagoras' theorem? How long did it take you to learn it? Could you repeat it now? No. Was that not... Maybe I'm wrong. There's a lot of things that goes down in that piece of paper that doesn't determine who you become or what you turn out to be. They should give up school and have problem solving. Problem solving? Totally. If more of the stuff we were learning at school was relevant to everyday life would make more sense because the theory would be a good example. Seeing someone say that they should teach you how to change a wheel and change a plug, electric plug and compulsory instead of things like... This is one of my pet bugs and you chat with teaching things in school and teaching things that maybe aren't as important or whatever but CPR should be taught at least from secondary school. Yeah. How does if you need one class a week or ten classes a week you only need a few through the year you bring in somebody from HSE, somebody who can do it and tap them up over a course of five years in the final year, the fifth year you will have 60,000 plus people who can do CPR. 60,000 plus. What's that? I don't want to be listening there now. That's the curriculum sorted for next year. OK. The curriculum. Billy, let's see. Let's connect here to we're going to hopefully join the shopping centre if I can and just... OK, well in there at the moment that I can see but hopefully we're going to join them shortly on Zoom. In the meantime, we've come full circle really. We started off poached egg. Poached eggs. Master class. Easy way. The vortex and the vinegar is just the old fast way. I'll come around someday and I'll get you. Because I bought all that. No worries. We'll get it sorted. It'll be your next skit. Speaking of skits, I did say skit. Yes. OK, right. Speaking of which, your videos, I met Paddy down in County State during the week and he was telling me that he does some of the videos with you. And they're huge on YouTube. I mean, massive, like millions. Millions, yeah. And it's just little sketches that you do. Yeah. It blew me away when they started telling me about these figures and I thought that couldn't be right. I told me he put up something. And the following day we had 160,000. There you go. Impressive numbers. Well, I'm impressed myself because again, I don't know what it means. We might be a little higher yet for Paddy's day. OK. Thanks to my young guys. We have to go to the shops now because we have to lead up to news and we're going to catch up with them down there. Listen, happy St. Patrick's Day and happy Christmas a couple of days ahead. Can you do that? Today's Friday. Well, listen, have a great St. Patrick's Day. Thanks for taking me a bit of time out to lend you way to our charity day. Much appreciated. Thank you. Now, let us go to the shop at the end because there's a spin-a-thon on down there. Again, raising money and Sean Quinn is there with the gang. Sean, can you hear me? I can just about breathe here, John. Uh-huh. I'm just literally off the bike. Did the 20 minutes. If you look behind me, there's Canis getting wiped down. Canis is a great job. He's everywhere today. He's what? I wouldn't expect to see anybody else on the bike. Joe Duffy just blown him down there. He's doing a great job. We're flying here. We're up and running. Joe Duffy takes reckons. We just passed Karen Donna from Marlon Head. So we've got a long way to go. But we're getting there, John. Slowly but surely. On the gym bikes, I've got KO Fitness. They're just about to finish their 30 minutes. My God, they can fairly move on it. They're incredible. The speed of them. Put us all to shame. That's what it's all about. The other thing, John, is we got KO Pilates by Samantha. And I want a special thanks to them because they've actually raised over 500 euros for the charities today. So they went above and beyond the call. So fair play to every single one of them in that gym because I know that Samantha went to everybody to see what they donate. So they've, instead of 150, they've actually come over 500 euros. So well done to them. And when I want it, we're going to have a $2,500 fund me page. So we're still obviously to rate a lot of the bike money still to go in there. And thanks also to the shopping centre here in letter Kenny to Brian and all the staff because they've also given us 1500 euros of a donation, which is very kind of them. So that's going to bring us very close to 5000 euros in my counting when we put in the bike money. And that's not the count of the generosity we're getting around us here in the shopping centre. But there's very little, it's a very kind of quiet donation box because there's a lot of notes coming in as opposed to coins. So that's always a good sign job. Silent collection. Yeah. Silent collection is yeah. I remember the parish three years ago saying when the collection box comes around make sure it's nice and silent. So that's happening so far here. So it's great. It's a great buzz. There's people obviously that are encouraging each other to go as fast as they can. We'll call it the pro bikes because that's what they are. The pro bikes, they're so good at it. And the Canonis is going to be Chris Chris Astmore and what time are you on John? One o'clock. I think, we'll hear about it, yes. We're going to need you to do twice as much as us because I'd say we might be slightly behind our target but to try and get to sleeve lead by five o'clock. But we'll keep it at go. I'm looking at Canonis over your shoulder and I'd say Canonis could be there it could be a sleeve lead by lunchtime. What is he's just coming through the main street Karen Donna, didn't say what? It didn't say what? A little bit homesick because obviously he's from Clonmani. I didn't say which clon, which launch time? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Any, right, okay thanks. We'll catch up with you later. Yeah good man John, thanks. Keep donating everybody, keep donating, thank you. And just a reminder that it's idonate.ie and that there's, everybody who donates through the day by the way, there's chance to win some prizes. Local businesses have been very good to us and given us some prizes to give away. So if you donate whatever you donate could be a few Euro, could be a few hundred Euro, then there's a chance to win one of those prizes. Go to idonate.ie, Highland Radio on there or just go to our website, highlandradio.com and you can get the link to donate. Greg and Lee are up next and it's time to take a short break and news headlines coming up.