 to company ever actually sorry it's two minutes to nine can I extend it the best ever broadcast talk now again he's playing with these feeders you you're you're a bit of a devil today I can tell that you're in good form today cuz when I was playing that other song there who were that doesn't matter you're out there dancing was I you were dancing if you daddy no no no that was to a different song was it yeah what song was that it's Friday again that one what give it again F sharp minor 7 it's Friday again what's on now you know you know what gone who who's that it's Friday again you played it every day for months you must know yourself no come here so that's it have a goodie you to anything exciting or just the usual stuff usual old stuff gonna try to watch a bit of TV I'm gonna watch you on your recommendation a bit of Richard and you gonna go five minutes into it fall asleep no I'm gonna do my very best to sit up and watch it what's either that are lately I said I would do you know your vision is great and all of that but I'd not be watching the late-late so something to do with the Eurovision yeah they're picking the six finalists and they're you know for the Irish all right to do it a different way I don't know do you know it's nice to support well I don't know I'll see what mood I'm in might watch it yet well yeah I'll probably flick it on for a wee bit and if it hooks me in then we'll watch it shenay shenay skill all right I'm gonna fall bootleg it is the night till noon show on the way but at nine o'clock let's get a news update and it's over to Donna Marie Daugherty thanks Greg good morning a pay increase of just over 10% has been offered to the public sector workers by the government talks have been continuing overnight after they fail to reach an agreement in meetings earlier this month public sector unions had been pushing for pay hikes of 12 and a half percent industry correspondence with the Irish independent Anne-Marie Walsh says negotiations are ongoing this morning they're still in there and they're finalizing the details of these new proposals what I understand is that the officials from Minister Pascal John whose office have offered 10.25% to the country's 385 thousand public servants over two and a half years so this would be an increase of just less than 2% on his previous offer at the talks the media minister believes the RTE board should remain in place for now Catherine Martin says a grand Thornton report into toys show the musical highlights serious feelings in governance oversight and financial management the RTE board acknowledged a significant lapse in oversight with the report into the 2.2 million euro flop showing a significant risk it never would have been break even minister Catherine Martin says she's waiting for government commissioned reports into the RTE saga and says the board will stay for the time being certainly the board didn't ask the key questions and weren't provided with the information and approval was never on an agenda of any meeting and it's never a minute and they've acknowledged now that those questions should have been asked and the project should have been interrogated what I'm saying is that I have confidence in the chair and I have confidence in how the board is working now the economic development section of Donegal County council is being urged to concentrate additional efforts on East Donegal councillor Patrick McGowan says currently there's too much emphasis on the larger population centers in the county at the expense of other areas he's raised concerns that there appears to be no plan or strategy to improve enterprise and tourism opportunities in the Lefford-Strenarder municipal district councillor McGowan says they have repeatedly asked as the collective for a detailed report to outline what's being done in the MD It's nice to know what's going on in the rest of the county and it's very, very important but we like to know where we have 20, 30 staff or more work in that section we want to know what's happening in the area particularly it was Ruffol, Lifford, Balboff, Aigland, Sun, you know basically that's what we've asked for now a couple of times so hopefully that will be forthcoming at the next meeting A 48-year-old man was arrested yesterday in connection with an unnotified parade in Derry it took place on April 10th last year in the Cregan area he's since been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service looking to weather mostly dry today with bright or sunny spells and a few showers highest temperatures of seven or eight degrees and a moderate to fresh and gusty west to southwest wind strong at times near western coasts that's all for now from Hightland radio news back again at 10 o'clock the way you eat a creme egg says everything about you if you eat yours with a teaspoon that means you like things just so you turn up the tv in even numbers you pronounce chorizo chorizo and if you find a shirt you like you buy 10 search creme egg test to find out who you really are Cadbury creme egg how do you eat yours the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on Highland radio and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the nine to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland radio hello a very good morning to you it's approaching four minutes past nine on this friday the 26th of january 2024 you're very welcome along to the last nine till noon show of this week and it's good to have you all listening yeah we have our friday panel joining us who i'll introduce to you in just a moment but i want to invite you on to the show as well you can text whatsapp 086 60 25 000 086 60 25 000 excuse me or give us a call on 07 491 25 000 uh you can also watch the program if you're at home on your big screen your smart tv the youtube app type in highland radio island we are there live uh you can also watch us on your fire stick take us on your mobile devices with youtube and we're also streaming on facebook highland hub highland radio news and sport okay let's say good morning to our guests we'll say hello first to Doreen Sheridan Kennedy former department school principal and community campaigner good morning to you Doreen good morning how are you Greg i'm doing good it's great to have you on the show michael whites the chair of the green party here in donagol hi michael morning Greg great to have you back on the show as is uh michael McLaughlin secretary of the Labour Party in uh donagol potential local election candidate as well good morning to you morning Greg morning Doreen morning michael i take it michael your your your uh going for council are you is that my question yes michael yeah we'll be running some candidates we'll confirm next week who they are okay but you're you're you you want your hat in the ring i my hat will be in the ring yeah good stuff no it's just to be clear it doesn't it doesn't make much difference at this stage but no harm Doreen you're not gonna like make a late pitch for the council are you know no i have special to work in the administration and i'm working with conventions at the moment we're doing very well we're well through our candidate selection and just two more electoral areas to work on now boncran and caron donna we're delighted to see um i suppose both young and more experienced people coming in and it's it's great we're delighted where we're at good mix how many of you in how many stuff you selected across the county now well we have two in the left forward area left and we have uh two in donagol we have one in glantees that want to be added and letter canny we have council to make have now with one to be added so boncran and caron donna next week so um yeah we're we're happy we have five of the electoral areas covered and two more to go and yeah happy with the young people coming in happy with ours we've been selected in mulford there and with likes of jason coming forward you know jason harley down in the south the county so it bodes well for funnigale and um you know i just wish the media would get a hold of that you know because i think they think we're doing nothing and we're not actively um doing anything but no i'm very happy with where we're at what what's the gender breakdown so far like well the no that they're actually we're very short in the ground in relation to women who have actually gone forward and we're not shorting that we've spoken to a lot of women but it's down to what's happening countrywide i'm sure the other gentlemen involved in clinical parties will know as well you know women are still very involved with care needs and families so whether it's young children or whether it's actually your tax or mortgage your tax of a job so the actual full commitment to come into politics is not an easy one you know so um but that means we still and we've been talking about it for years need a reform of how the council is operated you know tighter meeting times more flexible times you know remote access uh looking at what what sort of evening commitments are required and that type of thing i mean if we truly want then it to be inclusive to everyone and there's you know maybe dads also who can't find the time to put their name forwards we need to really reform how the local authority is run to facilitate people then rather than it being a perennial problem or perpetual problem yeah i agree with you there but like we've seen how slow it is for national government to move on issues you know in relation recently to maternity leave and you know two items like that so with a long road to go yet in relation to that there could be more flexibility maybe within the Dunningall County Council or like but it's not easy but your head out there either you know Greg it's all very well for people to to to be um always you know critical of any political party but you know the the people who complain and are online and are giving out are not the people who are actively involved and are not the people who are putting their heads forward it takes a lot for any person young or even setting encounters to go back and again especially in the present climate where there's such um sort of with with digital media when there's such um abuse out there so it's a it's a difficult one you're not exactly joining for the money i don't think the money's great and i don't pay the country it's getting all right you know it's you they are in their money Greg you know i'm not no i'm not suggesting that for a second i mean obviously if it's your full-time job that you're dedicated to uh but a lot of people have other interests and are also county councillors as well i doubt very much if any of them are full-time county councillors and just county councillors well i presume iran swine he's not going to pack up teaching you see no we won't exactly that's my point okay no i'm not getting personal but my point is it's it's a lot of a lot of a lot of people it's on top of the regular income but that's fine i don't begrudge councillors anything just a quick one on that from you michael white just in terms of you know addressing the the issues so that the council is more representative not just men and women but more more representative across the board uh i think as dorian was pointing out there it is going to continue to be difficult to attract potentially women uh into the council given the the current commitment that's required yeah well i think there's there's a fair amount of progress overall across all um say green party representatives from councillors tds and senators we're at around 47 percent female i think like it's pretty good but it is as dorian was saying um there's a number of challenges like i what i would say is that i know a number of councillors in terms of whether it's attractive financially not a number of councillors serve one term and then don't serve again and that's that's an issue it's a challenge for people that do find that workloads too high or for other reasons um the other challenges then around trying to attract people from um non-traditional backgrounds it's just it's going to be that's going to be an ongoing effort you know there's a there's a lot of people listening to this program that won't wouldn't enter their their head in the many years to think of themselves as giving it a shot even though they might be great so that's the thing just to try and encourage people to prime themselves to start thinking about you know is there something i feel strongly about my local area is there something i'm really worried about do i want to try and contribute to to getting it fixed so there's there's loads of work to be done as dorian says but it's definitely getting better and you know i'd be hopeful that in 10 to 20 years we should be getting your party representation word so by the time i'm dead that's pretty pessimistic i mean i know but sir 10 20 years uh michael you know i think it's good it would be good for society if if the council and this is no offense to those that have put themselves forward uh that the more representative of the society the council is i think the better we feel it might function is that for me yes sorry am i not saying people's names well you've got two michaels oh i do right okay yeah so what do you want what's your nickname do you want beardy michael no michael mcgloughlin michael mcgloughlin i've got a beard so i can say that go on michael go ahead is my beard bigger than yours it is yours is significantly bigger um i think um we have an issue generally i mean i find it interesting when i i said that i was letting my name go forward the number of people who have come forward and said why the hell would you do that to yourself um and it's not from it's from a place of genuine concern that you know either friends or acquaintances or whatever and people just sit at the point of i would not get involved in politics if my life depended on it and i was having this conversation with somebody last night and i said well first of all we're a democracy politics is part of being a democracy we need to have people who are willing to go forward so i think it's great that anybody's saying yes um i think that we need to be more representative of of all shades colors and descriptions um as you alluded to i mean i think you know we have a female leader in the labor party and i think you man is a really really if we take just on face value she's a very clever very well educated very capable individual and that's certainly something that i think we want to be seeing in politics regardless of gender or anything else um um but i think that certainly for things to be more representative we need to change the way we look at politics and we need to change the way we interact with politics how we do that is a huge question um it's very easy to be very negative about politics and political parties it's very easy to pick holes in everything and have a go at it but i think that you know we need to start looking at why why we vote why there are different parties what you want from it and and to move from there and to encourage people to get involved with the conversation first on a level that is engaging rather rather than sorry siri has decided that he's to get involved in my conversation so i'm glad that somebody wants to get involved in it at any rate normally it's me got the button into you but this time it's siri uh just briefly before first break and then we'll get on to topic story you you feel finnegala being treated unfairly by the press is that what you're saying yeah i think in recent times i think they feel that we're we're not actively involved and because of the nature of um joe mcquee td moving moving on the issue of maker that we've we've got a lot of criticism but joe mcquee still is a td representing the area for the next year and a half and finnegale is actively involved in and around the country through the woman's network through the branches and the districts and everything else no more than the other two gentlemen and their priorities you know there's a lot going on that you know so do you think finnegale candidates will be standing and at the doorstep sort of relying on finnegales record defending finnegales record do you think that's what they'll be at the doorstep through the the campaign pushing hoping that that wins votes well they will be looking at the the policies of finnegale and they will be taking them with them but a lot of our people are experienced at this but i wouldn't like people to think we haven't got good women in there i mean Heather hogfaces a marvellous representation of the woman within finnegale as indeed is maria waltz or european one of our european um empies and as as marie mcguinnis like who's up there at the top level of european like we're very good women out there but whatever's happened at kind council level we just not seem to be pulling them and invited them in well enough so uh but yeah of course we'll be going out that's what every every organization would be doing is is a marketing meeting and looking to convince the voters number one to come out and vote and number two to get their families to come out and vote we don't want apathy despite the fact that it's a difficult world we live in and that there are a lot of obstacles out there but and we also need to be having that conversation that we're for on the doorsteps in relation to coming out to vote for the referendum that's coming up as well on the 8th of march michael uh white the challenge for you is that um you know like there is an element of support for for the green party but the way you know it's split up across uh various you know election areas is it difficult to get across the line we are in a rural area and a lot of what the green party has to say no matter how well it's articulated feels like it is you know against our way of life that we're having to do the heavy lifting and i'm not saying that's the case and it's not maybe the time now for us to debate that but you know where i'm coming from is it more difficult to uh get the votes out of an a specific area within a bigger area to get across the line as a green party councillor um yeah i mean um just practically the green party tends to pick up more votes in urban areas than it does in rural areas so that's challenges when we look at the map of dunny gall that means your biggest opportunities would be say letter kenny possibly bun crana any other major urban areas that being said like i'm hoping that over the last four years people can see some benefits of what's being done because the green party are in in government but we're always it's you know with the best outcome in the world our percentage will always be but we'll always form a minority party in any potential government if we get that far so that's that's the reality everybody in the dunny gall green party is a volunteer we're all non paid we all realize the the challenge of trying to promote the green party in dunny gall because it's a rural county such as life you know we just have to i strongly believe that what we're trying to do is really important i'm strongly concerned about the impacts climate change we'll have in urban dunny gall and that's why we're doing this we just want to make sure anybody in dunny gall has the opportunity to vote for a green candidate if they have the same concerns that we have all right well shall see thank you very much for that right we'll be back with more from our guests after these is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account cuny's home interior's January sale just got bigger 30 of all beds 20 of all rugs lamps and accessories 20 of all dining room furniture and up to 20 percent of all sofas and sweets all with immediate home delivery but hurry only while stocks last cuny's home interior's 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does not reveal any names several of the board members who were interviewed admitted that more questions should have been asked about the project with five members of that board still in place miss martin concedes that the report highlights series failings in governance oversight financial management and appropriate control procedures in relation to this project 2.2 million euro of taxpayers money down the drain michael mcgloughlin is miss martin writing backing the board for now is that the right move um that's an interesting one isn't it um i mean my knee jerk reaction to that is no they should all go but then um you look further into what she said and the book she wants the board to stay further to be um accountability because once you're gone there is no ability so i think you know from that point of view that's important but i mean the bigger issue here is massive and i mean here's another self-inflicted wound by rte you know and this drip feed of problem after problem after problem with rte is just something incredible i mean but but she talks about retaining them through for accountability but i mean just like sort of asking cows just to hang around the abattoir isn't it i mean why would they yes it no i mean there are massive questions here i mean on a personal level i have a massive question what was rte doing staging a musical on a stage in the first place i've had 20 years experience on the stage and i mean don't put your daughter on the stage is you know springs to mind the money involved in putting a musical on anywhere is phenomenal and and the decision making around that is just incredible so we have to get some form of answers i mean we've seen with the the earlier situation where the chair of the board had disappeared and we had no answers really at all and there needs to be some serious work done on general governance in rte and to make sure that um as a state broadcaster we're getting value for money but i mean at a at a very basic level somebody somewhere should have said how is this value for money for anybody paying their license but i still don't see how all of these people can sort of be in jobs pay jobs whatever i have this level of responsibility uh and be toying with public money here that it doesn't really see that tally behind me here that you see there do you know the hoops i had to jump through to get that unbelievable it was like a six month campaign of me arguing why justifying it pricing it do you know what i'm like i'm not being like i'm not being facetious and we have great management here and don't get me wrong but this is just public money it's been treated like it's it's confetti people with responsibility on a board not doing it's not simply doing their basic function getting anonymity in a process like this and then there's like an argument to retain them so that we can give them a slap and a wrist later once we get another two or three reports what the question the question is you know do we get rid of them throw it all out and learn nothing from the process um or do we really is there lessons that we have to learn this is the most basic the most fundamental stuff was disregarded agreed agreed totally but then how do you how do you go from that as an experience i'm not advocating for the board to stay in anyway no i get i think it should be gone but the question is when do they go okay you know if you throw them out now what do you get out of the process nothing at all uh right i think it's a good question what do you get out of the process anyway yeah i'm not sure but there needs to be some level of accountability somewhere and if you fire them all then i don't think you're going to get anything but well ultimately what is the actual accountability even if they stay on the board they can't get fined can they do they get sacked a public humiliation of flogging uh you know like what is you know what is the act there's no criminal culpability here so what what is the why do you keep them around for accountability uh don't worry what do you think the beggars believe that this happened and i can't believe that i i watched this sort of grow on rte and saw this advertised and there were local people and donnie gall involved in this musical and they were very talented young people but you know it was agreed on the part of rte that went down this road because they saw the toy show as the other toy story thing as something that to me they thought they could make money on but but michael's right uh what were they at trying to to do something that is way out of the realm i'm not sure if they'll door in and this is not to contradict you i'm not sure actually they ever thought they would make money out of it i think really what happened was is someone said you've got we've got the resources i've always wanted to put on a big show i've got this itched to scratch and there's a there's a potless pit of money there like i don't i'm not sure this was ever approached you know with a return for the taxpayer in mind well i don't know if it was the taxpayer but whoever was going to get it i just think it was it was awful and the whole word governance which you emphasized this week or last week in relation to the facilities in the past will center the service has been provided the governance i mean if anything like that happened within a school and a board of management there would be questions asked and there would be much more strict excuse me laws about it by and i'll tell you that i just feel that maybe the minister's a bit too quick to make a response and she should have left it a day or two i just think her response is kind of just a sort of an ad hoc one and that i'm not sure she thought well enough about this i thought the likes of the my authorities in there and people who would be involved in production would have known better and and i i'm just mesmerized and i wonder what's next for rge that would be my main concern what is next well can you imagine a scenario to where this report is put together it's an rge report and it's handed to the minister of media and the minister of media does not know who the one to 26 individuals are they're simply numbers so number three said this and well number five interjected and said that so the media minister it's actually laughable the media minister sitting with a report on her lab right and she simply does not know who the players are and then she's going on the media which is good uh an answering questions with this cloak of anonymity thrown across the key decision makers in rte how is that acceptable well i'm not sure how many members are on this board so they're for five out of that that are still there you wouldn't want to be hanging them out to dry either because you know um there could be legal aspects of this that we need to look at and be very careful about but i'm just wondering what's down the line for rte so we have a situation now if there's problems in the hsc if there's problems in rte if there's problems in the department of social welfare we can never ever ever talk about it because there could be legal ramifications yet nothing ever comes of those legal ramifications it's a do you not know does that frustrate you i do think the last hurdle we had in relation to rte that went to i'm not sure it should have been in the iraq this that it was fought and and it should have been in the courts i felt that we that went down the wrong road in relation to hunting down ryan alberti ryan shuberty and doing various things like that so i'm not sure that that that's the road to be going come in to speak to to to tds who may not be versed and like her minister on the whole issue so i have huge areas of concern about the governance and about what else is going to come out about rte it scares the life out of it but i think also that iraq this committee had a role to play in on our behalf identifying some of this stuff before they did but anyway michael white what's your view um first of all we should have a go go from me the next time you need a television drag this terrible year i've just tried to use a real world example of in a private company i was being i was being trying to be funny there but no you are michael michael white could i just say that was hilarious but not laugh out loud hilarious so please don't be discouraged with your wit and humor go ahead all right well if you'd work with large large organizations as well you'll think that to buy a pack of a4 paper you'd normally have to go through some kind of process yes small amounts are really eyeballed yet some eget and senior management can go off and do some terrible mix of huge expensive mistake so that's not unusual the case of the rte thing it's bizarre from start to finish like what were they thinking as you said did somebody even think they'd make a profit out of this we're going to head off into musical theatre um the governance thing i think it's really weird in the report that they didn't name the individuals the governance is serious if there are cases where people go to jail for financial um irregularities you know with private companies that that does happen in this case it still doesn't seem clear enough to me that somebody's going to get wrapped on the knuckles or there's going to be some kind of outcome from this that will be satisfactory for the public it looks like it's just going to trundle on a bit i think the minister martins corrects that turfing out all of the board right now wouldn't work just from the mechanics if you ever see how long it takes to replace the boards and individuals in the screening process i think she needs to have the people in place at the moment just to keep things taken over so i know i don't think that's a bad decision but it is it's uh if you've been on a board before this is kind of shocking it's surprising that a decision of this amount of money could be made without like apparently there wasn't actually a decision made they had some meetings taking place where three people were invited to others weren't so um the point Dorian's making though was that i would like to see this i'd like to see people brought to account and get this wrapped up as soon as possible because it's a bigger problem which relates to the the point i think we're coming to later on we rely on public broadcasters in Ireland as well as private broadcasters to provide us with information that we can trust the longer this goes on that the greater the distrust is what's so about orty and that's a bad thing well that's it you see that that's is that not the bigger picture because you know i understand all of your saying and and this is not a criticism you at all but it's the old saying when you're explaining you're losing and and if they want to have the public faith back well maybe you do have to make those tough decisions and do have to go that nightmare process of reappointing the board like this week alone nothing against the person uh at all uh but all of Oliver Callanan was uh it is Oliver Callanan isn't he was uh he was he replaces um and he's a popular choice he replaces now Ryan Tiberty in that nine to ten slot but he's on 150k a year not Ryan Tiberty has left RT and he's working three times as much as Oliver Callanan and he's on £90,000 sterling so you know was Oliver Callanan offered 110,000 was he offered 100 was he offered 80 was he offered 90 i mean do you not think Michael McLaughlin and i would hate to dig into people's private and personal lives especially someone who have a bit of respect for in in Oliver um you know is anything actually changing um well yes um i think they've they've brought in the the caps on salaries which is definitely something different to what we wear a year ago um in reference to specific individual salaries um i think isn't there a clause in in Callanan's contract that he can't work for anybody else because lots of these very um high flying presenters tend to do a number of other things as well so Ryan Tiberty i believe he's free to do other things with other broadcasters should that so i think that that comes into play on that one yeah but i mean obviously that's that i mean it's not it's not like golden handcuffs he's got the radio show which happens to be broadcast in rte he's got a sketch show which just happens to be broadcast in rte okay he's not going to be able to do the you know 1000 euro awards speech stuff but uh he's well looked after within rte i think he'll be okay i'm not just using that i'm not saying that that he isn't well played well paid um i think it gets into a broader question about um valuing things and what the value of it should be and we must recognize that you know this is someone who is um well educated trained experienced has done all of those things and whatever is a commensurate level for that i don't know i mean sitting at this side of the the fence yes it sounds like a lot of money um but it's not as much money as what used to be paid so that's going in the right direction okay listen uh thank you for that stay where you are that's the voice there of michael mcgloughlin we also have michael white and doreen charidan uh kennedy back with more after the watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the night until noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letter kenny cu dot ie enter the virgin media playhouse for unbelievable value from ireland's best broadband get 500 meg superfast reliable broadband for just 35 euro a month for 12 months and no activation fee when you act now switch in store or at virgin media dot ie virgin media it's playtime tizensis applies to virgin media dot ie subject to location and availability new customers only 12 month contract 500 meg broadband 70 euro thereafter ireland's best broadband awarded by umlaut see virgin media dot ie forward slash proof attention 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accountability at all why should the board be allowed to stay on uh should be gone no need for them another politics has failed all people of iron and no party can be trusted they say one thing before an election and blatantly disregard what they uh stood for with no regards for the people who uh voted for them especially young people that's why thousands are leaving every month another i've only ever been at one council meeting my life in 2019 everyone should see how the council works or not it was for the very successful first motion in ireland calling upon the government to recognize and address parental alienation 30 councillors had a 31 voted on and passed similar motions in ireland more in the north it was one of the events that influenced the department of Justices Act the poor candidate councillors criticized on social media and powerless in the council where planning is concerned published the Moriarty report uh Michael McLaughlin said that the leader of the Labour Party is well versed and well educated to have an opinion and speak out are they saying you need to be educated to be a good leader some of the best leaders of no formal education i don't think we're referencing formal education uh there's life smart there's books smart there's all different types of uh smarts and i think all of us uh possess uh possess them in one form or other uh if this is the case it is not making it very attractive to become part of politics you don't need to have a good education to be a good leader but as i say i don't think that's quite what you said um yeah not at all it was just i i think that and we witnessed this globally and women leaders get come in for a very difficult time and i think that you know Ivana is someone who is well prepared and who who works very very hard who um ace clever and has the skills necessary to to to to lead very well in life and um you know it's not about formal education at all nor that was that wasn't the reference at the time uh a vote for the green party in donagall is like putting 50 euro on a donkey in the grand national they've ruined the country along with finnegale michael white i'm sure you would say uh it's it's not a donkey it's red rum or something you would argue you put the money you put the money on anybody voted for the green party you can see whether you like it or not the impact a relatively small number of representatives in the dole have had we've had a big influence on policy and i think it's an influence for the better and the country's going to be better for us so we're taking steps to help to i've got one i've got one for you i guess you got one for you too dorin dorin will defend finnegale to the death joe mcquee left the party due to defective concrete but still supported every no confidence vote only hollow words on his part no sorry i just don't agree with that he made a stand in relation to mike and people know that he's still a member of finnegale and a member of the milford electoral area and uh that's his choice the route that he's going at the moment i want to support michael white in relation to the green party there when that new legislation that they announced yesterday in relation to biodiversity and all is just fantastic and hopefully that will come to fruition and i will put that down to the green party and the work that they're promoting within government i think it's very very good and i would congratulate labour on or congratulate the green party in relation to that thanks dorin and things like you know 50 off public transport for younger people and stuff like that so there's lots of good things i think but it's up to people that you know where where where i get one of these buses not that i'm a young person michael where am i going to get one of these buses i can't get one from green castle the letter kenny for example there's more bus streets and what time does what time does that leave that in the morning it leaves uh i think around quarter date well actually earlier than that but i get you get you to help with atu on time so that's all right so very good the international court of justice in the haig is set to give its decision uh today in south africa's case against uh alleged genocide by israel and gaza as the world watches to see whether the judges will order a ceasefire at a two-day hearing this month south africa asked the court to issue provisional measures requiring israel to immediately end its military campaign in gaza which began after the seventh of october taxed by hamas although some would say it predates that uh here in our in the social democrats uh motion calling on the government to support south africa's case against israel under the genocide convention in the international court of justice was defeated then though the government put forward a counter motion it passed 71 votes to 62 uh and the government's motion said it would strongly consider an intervention in the south africa versus israel cases a matter of urgency after uh the court has made its orders on preliminary measures and the filling by south africa of its presentation in the case and following the necessary legal and policy analysis so they adopted a wait-and-see approach that say they may well do so but they're going to wait for the court to decide itself uh i'll stay with you michael whites in europe on my screen this is a complex issue and it's an international issue it's a global issue uh but of course we all have our own individual uh views on it uh i mean do you think the government do you think the government should have backed that motion i mean i can't see any scenario in which they would because it just would they want to wait and see and have their own sort of hand on on their own rudder so to speak but what's your your view on it on the events of the last week and the potentials today well if you want to back up at a higher level 25 000 civilians are being killed in gaza so whatever he wants for that to stop um the particular day cga the international court of justice case in south africa i think what the green party's view is that yeah we do wait and see the uh results in the next few days preliminary results and then we're recommending that we probably want it to go in and back the south african case the reason we want to back the south african case it is because 25 000 civilians have been killed and we want that to stop so what everybody wants there's quite a few things here one is everybody wants that to stop and how do you get israel to stop doing what they're doing the people that have the greatest influence on that are the states um so i think the the acj case is important because it's trying to push that along but that on its own won't won't do it um there's i mean other quite these are just questions as well there's a risk of a much wider regional conflicts what's going on you've got the iranians backing hamas there you've got the iranians also working closely with the russians you've got the hoothies you're back by iran now you're attacking traffic there's a really strong i'd say this is we're at a riskier position now than than we've been since the 1990s but in relation to that if you if you look back at the language that was used in relation to uh in relation to russia that was used by the irish government incredibly strong you know we uh it effectively our it felt a little bit like our position on neutrality shifted us right before our rise and now it's a let's wait and see and we'll see what the story is and we've spoke quite strongly in the past is this not an issue uh of a scale such as you've just outlined with the horrendous loss of life that we have to say you know what and maybe we didn't should in fact to wait for people for profit to put their emotion forward be far far more uh vocal in in our opposition to what's going on because it does feel that we're trying not to we're trying to take a position but also not upset washington or brussels i don't think i don't i don't think that is what was first there's two things the acg there's an acg case in relation to ukraine and i went through the same sequence we waited for a preliminary uh judgment before we stepped in and backed it so that's the timing in this case would be the same the other thing that's different is that the russian attack in ukraine was entirely on provokes there were no ukrainian soldiers in russia the russian just came in and whacked them well i i'm not going to get into the inside but the russians the russians the russians yeah but the russians would claim um and there is documentation of this that there was shelling ongoing shelling uh of of of people in the donbas region and elsewhere i'm not sorry but the point is making gregs that most people wouldn't accept that most people would think the russians acted entirely wrong i think for the first month after october the 7th most people were thinking that's really bad what happened in israel and you can understand they're going to react to but that quickly turned into absolute revulsion and the other thing is because there's a history of this where the israelis have grossly overreacted and punished the palestinian civilians very quickly people were saying here we go again and so that's did you believe just just two questions firstly and this is not on on on your party whatever was this an individual and i'm not trying to paint you into a corner or anything but firstly do you believe do you believe that israel is engaging in genocide my understanding of genocide would be that you're trying to eradicate and attire people and cause that would be i don't think that's what's happening but i do think there's war crimes happening i think that during the week they shot a man waving a white flag but displace them en masse that's also that's also a yeah that i mean that's also a criteria for genocide so if if we believe us as individuals that that's actually what happening then do we not have to call that out at our earliest opportunity we do and i think we're trying to but i mean going back to what we're we're trying to get them to stop killing civilians and that's kind of not the most effective way is it's going through the icj or is there some other way to get that to stop and then that's the question okay uh michael McLaughlin your views please um i think first of all just to consider what the motion before the icj is and it's not that south africa i have to prove that there is genocide happening but there is potential for genocide and if you are stopping water and aid and food getting into an area before you consider the bombing that's going on then there is certainly is you know you're skating very close to the edge here um i agree i think we need to be calling this out i think we need to shift the international conversation and that's not to detract toll from the events of the 7th of october but um where we're witnessing these kind of levels of of civilian death it it's just unacceptable and we can't be we can't be saying that that's okay but should we not be i just wonder if we were an independent country will our position be different but then again we'd probably be reliant on other countries again for security it's just that i think we did have very early on the head of the EU speaking out on all of our behalf uh in complete backing of what israel were doing even as it seemed quite clear what they were trying to achieve we have a situation whereby the israel leadership don't see any future for a palestinian state they've the entire population has been moved you've talked of other things like do we this will be just if we reflect on how this might be viewed in 2030 or 40 years if not sooner right but we can see it right now so why are we hanging around waiting do you not think michael uh michael mclaughlin that we should be taking an international stand here am i being naive um oh i'd never accuse you of being naive great um i think first of all um at the very beginning i think president higgins stood up and said oh hang on a minute you're not talking for us here um and so you know we were very clearly um calling it out at that point um i think we need to realize the the size of ireland in this context also and the impact that we can have um as a small country um we have some soft power with the us that who seem to be deaf at the moment i think um and i think that's a big trouble but yes i mean we need to look at saying what what we believe in and what we we think about this and you know i personally how wouldn't understand why we wouldn't support the um south african but i i can also see the angle from a government perspective in the procedure so you wait two days after this motion you see uh what the icj has to say and then you adopt a position i understand that maybe it is slightly more complex than i would like to than i might present it uh dorine what what's your view i think it's a very complex issue and i'm not sure i'm well enough read on it michael white and and michael mcglotten seemed to be more more up to date with all that but it's like asking me what do i think of the situation in northern ireland while there's no government the bottom line to all this is that the history there is history of years and years of persecution of different you know and how people have been misplaced and and what's going on and and then you have to look to the us and see who's running the government in the us and what's going on there and who who runs the senate and are there a lot of jews in the senate that are deciding what's going on or what kind of it is massive it really is massive and i i i i fear for for what's happening and uh i really um think that michael mcglotten as minister of foreign affairs handled very well in the in in the oil this week and that they're moving at a pace that is right for this country at the moment and uh there is there is quite a there is opportunism too on the opposite benches as well i mean that has to also uh you you know you you can propose a motion in opposition uh where you can pot your opponents in a dam if they do and dam if they don't position as well and and i hope voters and viewers can see through that as well that's no criticism of of any individuals but you know it's not always government good sorry government bad opposition good you could you know you can see what's going on sometimes as well and i think it's really important that the the public sort of sort of see through the rhetoric sometimes yeah i hope so i think it's well even some of the people who spoke in opposition um to the government on the motions this week where we're um criticizing also england in the stance taken by various political parties in england in relation to this you know so as a country we're well up there and i do think we're handling it well and it's going at the pace that it should be going out and i'd like um michael white is referred to uh we've been here before and i i 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grant dot ie mostly dry today with brighter sunny spells and a few showers highest temperatures of seven or eight degrees and a moderate to fresh and gusty west to southwest winds strong at times near western coasts the group which owns the Irish independent is seeking 50 voluntary redundancies from the newspaper its boss says that within 10 years it's most likely not going to be producing a daily physical newspaper as they move to digital the issue is however that people the general population right across the world are reluctant to pay for digital news at a level that is required to make it sustainable so michael white will start with you what is the the future for print journalism and it's funding actually before i get to that does i suppose you can't really speak about it publicly because you get the wrath of every newspaper but do you sleep at night with all the paper that's used and all the ink and all the traveling to get newspapers around the country i would love to know what the environmental impact is i'm not anti-news paper bro newspaper but i just wonder what's do you have have you ever thought about it it's not it's wood pulp so it's kind of it's the camp tends to be less than the very end of impact that is an issue but i mean i think it's going to be less of an issue because it is moving to digital going forward but then that has issues as well but on the on the main point is we need good gross national and local media and it's at risk i think in the uk the the something it's gone from being a 2.5 billion business down to a 200 million business all that money was sucked from the newspapers over to google and facebook um is that an issue it really is like the fact to say highland and news coverage you provide and the debates of local issues that's super important for a bunch of reasons one of them i want from my point of view like a democracy needs an informed population we need to have all people done it all clearly informed about issues that relates to them locally and nationally and if you don't have good newspapers and good coverage that's not going to happen the second thing is that some bad actors are deliberately trying to destroy faith in journalism like an estate steve bannon who was in the trump campaign outright said that's what you're going to try and do is kind of trying to diminish faith in journalism so they could could screw up the message so that hasn't happened yet and we need to make sure it doesn't so that's a big long window thing about why media is important the practical things and what the independence boss is saying is it the issue is the money has gone out of advertising over to them the big online platforms and how do we fix that and i think that everybody's trying to figure that out yeah and and it is actually something that no one has yet been able to figure out which is is concerning i'll come back to you time from its doreen uh what's your view well i suppose i have to say what i do myself and what's important you know i listen to highland i go online should only go all day every day i um i like the idea you know of of of getting the national press online as well i'm not sure i'm happy to be paying the money they're looking for you to join in that you know but i will still be buying my trochanal tribune and my dairy people to digest over the weekend and by saturday i'll have it totally digested you know so that's the kind of generation i think i'm in and that i like the newspaper and i do think and and there are some fantastic journalists out there i think it's very important and it's a career uh but the way i suppose our new journalists are being trained now and it's all to do with digital and marketing and that's very important but sure the word is moving so quick god only knows you know it's no more than books and schoolers and and having tablets for children there's a whole big question out there but you know at the end of the day we want children to be reading books we want people to be reading papers you say i think i think it's the appetite um i i find myself zoning out a little bit after the second paragraph now it's more on on me than others but you know i don't know if i've been so conditioned that you know you you get really the thrust of it uh the color and commentary i kind of zone out for it but i but that's just me personally i just wonder what the appetite for for some of this stuff might actually be michael mcgloughlin uh thanks rick and i just want to echo um both what doring and and michael said there and firstly in terms of the importance of um a reliable uh media and um journalists are the backbone of that and the appetite i'm the wrong person to ask about the appetite because i have a subscription to three different daily um online news oh we found them we found the person well i hope that they're not just relying on me i hope there's at least one other person and uh i delighted in moving on to um the what do you read it on the papers i read it on my ipad and do you read the the news articles or is it more features and columnists that you're interested in i read the whole thing cover to cover why okay brilliant that's the future all right we shall see um there's a big hoohar about how it's all gone to be funded and i have my own views too on the i think the role the media has in terms of making the the public feel that they are actually getting a fully balanced and an open conversation i think that's a challenge for some might be also have the issue i mean they're just again to the reason it's important things like corruption or say one of the biggest in my view one of the greatest pieces of journalism ever was the states of fear documentaries produced you know where that opened up all the scandals we had about insurance or politics or corruption we wouldn't have had that with a good local Irish journalism and that's important that we retain that okay okay i mean even if we look at the impact that the um the documentary or the docu whatever it was on the post office and the post office scandal in the uk that had you see i think that's actually really not a very good argument because the the media possibly in the way should have covered it somewhat ignored it and it actually took a drama yeah to be the catalyst of of change so it was interesting to look into the formulation of that the lady who wrote it it was the journalism behind it and the journalism from the computer weekly or whatever it was and something else that informed okay well you clearly know more about this than me so i'm terminating the conversation i'm joking michael mclaughlin i have to because it's early ten uh michael mclaughlin secretary of the labor party in donagull have a good day take care of yourself michael white as always i it took me till about seven minutes past nine to realize there were two michaels my apologies michael thank you very much for joining us again take care of yourself and last certainly not least 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month public sector unions had been pushing for pay hikes of 12.5 percent industry correspondent with the arish independent anri walch says negotiations are ongoing this morning they're still in there and they're finalising the details of these new proposals what i understand is that the officials from minister pascal jonah whose office have offered 10.25 percent to the country 385 thousand public servants over two and a half years so this would be an increase of just less than two percent on his previous offer at the talks a 63 year old man is due before stirban magistrates court next month following an arrest in the bali koman area yesterday the charges include being concerned in the supply of class b drugs possession of a class b controlled drug and possession of a class b controlled drug with intent to supply the media minister believes the ortee board should remain in place for now catherine martin says a grant thornton report into the toy show the musical highlights serious failings in governance oversight and financial management the ortee board acknowledged a significant lapse in oversight with the report into the 2.2 million euro flop showing a significant risk that it would never break even minister catherine martin says she's waiting for government commissioned reports on the ortee saga and says the board will stay in place for the time being certainly the board didn't ask the key questions and weren't provided with the information and approval was never on an agenda of any meeting and it's never a minute and they've acknowledged now that those questions should have been asked and the project should have been interrogated what i'm saying is that i have confidence in the chair and i have confidence in how the board is working now there's a call for a statutory investigation into government decisions made during the covet pandemic enterleader padel torbin has criticized the state's plans for an evaluation on its response to covet he's describing its no blame approach as politically self-serving tebri torbin says the government's handling of the virus had a negative effect on society the covet crisis in the state was you know without parallel for generations in how it affected society many many people from people in nursing homes you know people in schools people in work housing etc were negatively affected by what happened during covet and we need to have a full investigation of the governments and other decisions that were made to make sure that we don't let this type of crisis happen again a 48 year old man arrested gesturing connection with an unnotified parade in dairy last year has been released without charge the parade took place on april 10th in the cregan area a report is to be sent to the public prosecution service ish garen says customers may experience supply interruptions around green castle today with the areas affected including upper drum aware and croc elms a traffic management plan is in place for the duration of the works they're scheduled to take place until two o'clock this afternoon in southwest donnie gol meanwhile investigations are ongoing into reports of supply disruptions affecting kylkar and surrounding areas 516 homes and businesses are still without power in the county 283 of them in the vicinity of kylkar there are seven outages across the county being dealt with by esp networks including issues in bonkrana movill newton conningham and convoy the arish home builders association has welcomed latest housing completion figures but says many more homes need to be delivered in order to meet demand government figures suggest that completion targets were exceeded by more than three and a half thousand last year 32 695 new homes were delivered the highest number since 2008 the director of the arish home builders association connor o'connell says initiatives introduced to accelerate home building are working it's another indication of the positive momentum just building in relation to housing supply i think it's fair to say that the housing for all supplementary measures that were announced and introduced last april are yielding results now and we are seeing it in commencements and completions and we look forward to building upon that momentum over the next 12 months and delivering more homes for more people with bogus ireland is urging the government to continue to allocate a portion of social housing to those trapped in homelessness the call comes ahead of the release of the department of housing's latest homeless statistics which are to be published later today the last figures published show 13 514 people accessing emergency accommodation that figure is expected to fall today but the director of advocacy at focus ireland mike allen says while any reduction is welcome it's going to take a lot of time to solve the problem now that we can clearly see that they're giving a fair share of social housing to families there are long-term homes and individuals long-term homes when we're clear that it works we believe it should be obviously clear to local authorities and government that it should continue and if that is the case i think we can begin to see a slow decline in homelessness it will take a long time to solve it but it is a solvable problem well the forecast mostly dry today with bright or sunny spells and a few showers cooler than recently at top temperatures today just seven or eight degrees celsius in a moderate to fresh and gusty west of southwest wind strong at times particularly near western coastal areas and that's island radio news we're back with headlines at 11 o'clock check all of today's news on our website head and radio dot com but for now from the news team good morning the obituary notices this friday morning january 26th the death has taken place of ernie bell gal donna manor cunning him remains are opposing at his late residence funeral service at his home tomorrow at 3 p.m followed by burial in refo congregational church graveyard house strictly private and family flowers only please the death has taken place in kirk calday five scotland of elizabeth lily mccrabbe knee hamilton formerly of pluck manor cunning him her remains will arrive at larne harbour tomorrow at 10 a.m to follow on to refo presbyterian church at approximately 12 45 p.m to repose overnight funeral service there on sunday at half past two followed by burial in the family plot in the adjoining graveyard family flowers only donations in lou if desired to refo presbyterian church care of terns mclintock funeral directors the death has taken place of lila crossen knee mcgavigan late of melmont fillers and ballet colman estate straban formerly of lifford reposing at her daughter dorina cathedre's home ate a ballet colman estate today from 12 noon funeral leaving her daughter's home on sunday at 11 45 a.m for mass in st mary's church melmont at half past 12 and term it afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 11 p.m to 11 a.m the rake where mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of cathleen daugherty knee baron 126 race court road ballet urnate remains reposing at her home today from 12 p.m to 10 p.m funeral from there tomorrow at 12 noon for half past 12 rake wean mass in st pridget's church carne hill in term and afterwards in the city cemetery the death has taken place of pat lynch gort leck lindsford paths remains are opposing at his late residence removal from there at quarter past 10 tomorrow morning going to the star of the sea church desert tegney for 11 a.m rake wean mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery everyone welcome today from 11 a.m to 10 p.m house private tomorrow please before the funeral the death has taken place of timothy o'doud 14 nancy's lane strip an funeral is ongoing in the sacred heart church dairy road interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the rake wheel mass can be viewed now live via the parish webcam for family information and more details regarding wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com here are last week's road safety figures over 3000 the number of penalty point notices issued 110 the number of drivers arrested on suspicion of drink or drug driving and two the number of people killed on our roads behind these numbers is a story of lost lives broken families and devastated communities if you can improve just one thing about your driving you can help save lives on our roads from the road safety authority and on guard the chicana and now in rose 2023 best local original news program the voice of the northwest the nine till noon show with greg hughes you're very welcome back to the program nine minutes past 10 good morning if you just after joining us our thanks once again to michael mcgloughlin from labour dorian sherdon kennedy an advocate for finnegale of course and michael white chair of the green party we appreciate their contributions we appreciate um you know we have all different voices of all different backgrounds on on this program and uh people agree and disagree but 99 times out of 100 it's all done very respectfully who appointed the rte board of incompetence the same parties as so many incompetent boards running publicly funded agencies and boards time for them to go and time for the media to go after them for the incompetence and possible corruption in some cases no accountability is the byword of finnegale finna for previously labour and now the greens i'm sick listening to the term says a listener so that it may never happen again it always does in some shape or form as for rte i suppose this can uh is heavier to carry than the can ryan tobury had to carry but sure it can be written off as a bad dead tell dorian that i can't wait for finnegale to canvas at my door my house is crumbling around me can't get on the unfair redress scheme which is nowhere near 100 percent my life is destroyed because of it i really look forward to meeting them yeah it's uh it's gonna be it's gonna be a big big issue there's just absolutely no doubt about it and you know even this week um we heard three personal stories as you know we continue to platform that issue uh here on the show we heard three complete what three different stories all affected by the same uh one in that a person uh there's no there's no leeway in the scheme to accommodate people's uh life you know say for instance a child with a disability or additional needs or what have you another um house crumbling around no alternative accommodation um others then talking about the dangers it poses just living in these houses to people's long-term health and on it goes and uh those voices will continue to be heard on this program until such time as um people feel that um the right decision has been made are the greens still facilitating gold mining in a shown i'm not sure um last time i checked there were licenses and scout and stuff i'm not sure what story is there can you ask michael how we can get to go away for an early hospital appointment no boss if you have an electric car no charge points aimin ryan on your show had no answer maybe in two to three years indeed and you know um the interview with aimin ryan sometimes it is the answers or the non-answers uh that people can take on board and say what does this mean uh if we wait any longer there'll be no one left in gaza we all know the government are afraid to upset america says a listener um it's not just the government though um the annual st patrick's day exodus is taking place uh the government will be over there uh i believe mary lou mcdonnell's traveling over to to meet as well i mean i use in favour of that do you think a stan could be made in that regard uh why is the green representative not jumping up and down about all the explosives and munitions that the israelis are using in their war and the massive effect it's having on climate according to their beliefs if the greens caught you burning some rubbish in a barrel in your garden they'd nearly want to jail you um i think i i get the point that you're making but i think if you particularly in the gaza situation if you were started talking about the environmental of uh my environmental of explosions and munitions whilst 25 000 people most of them um children and uh women not involved in any conflict at all uh you'd be hung drawn and courted for that because you'd be saying oh you're worried about the environment but not the do you know what it means it's not an argument i think can be made uh will oliver callan be able to do his callan kicks now on a friday yep indeed he's continuing with that show now that he's be thrown to the to the firm although he did hold out as he got his other gigs strange that rt were against everyone else doing nixlers as that's what got them into this rt's a bit like hotel california you can check out anytime but you can never be fired thanks kevin uh you can never you never be fired hi greg how could you vote for finnegale or finna full that stood for over a hundred years shouting across at each other after saying each intern has destroyed the country then banded together just to keep another party out where is the morals or even their loyalty to such parties not in a million years would i vote for the green party says listener regarding governance says another perhaps a wake-up call that all public funded services uh be scrutinized often money thrown at services example the hsc education others to supposedly enhance services with a much overspending in various departments while other department staff struggle for the basics like i would one call i'd be very interested in and this is not in any way to suggest impropriety but say for instance you know we as parents guardians are asked to contribute to schools you know uh we have to pay apparently education is free but this is just one thing we have to pay to uh to towards voluntary it's not voluntary but you know what i mean like i would love to see the books what you know what's the outgoing what's the spend where's the money going what's left over what are you sure why do you have to look for money off parents all the time things like that i think we should have more transparency on uh that's an instance about the national biodiversity action plan ask the ngo's like Irish wildlife trust or bird watch arland uh god help us says another if the greens get in again we'll be walking barefoot and using candles in the house if you get their way and if she she ain't finna fall finna gale well we're finished there too not one decent party anymore they let the people down all the time says a listener greg can you ask the green party why they're against the mother and baby redress scheme i wasn't sure that they were i hope that we see pat the cope gal her back in the local elections as he's one of the only candidates who work tirelessly for donagall well he didn't rule it out um he says he would be there if needed i think i call it says many people couldn't afford a tv license many people went to court for 160 euro and someone was taken to prison for that 2.2 million in funding and people who couldn't afford the tv license were expected to pay it it's ridiculous yeah that's it and and it's your pain on the double as well too because the the rte is funded um i'm not exactly sure the exact figures i think it's 148 odd million that they get from the taxpayer direct funding okay so it's taken out of your taxes in any case and then there's 148 odd million that they make from the license fee i believe that's it so really it's actually the public paying on the double nearly 300 million euro for rte now at this point there is um through commission a man there's some license payers money on a very small scale filtering down to stations like this and what have you for specific programings uh but obviously the absolute vast vast vast vast majority of funding for stations like our news talk highland ocean shanon side whatever is it's private uh so almost 300 million euro for the most part is taken from the taxpayer by hook or by crook uh to fund um rte a call us this i hope finna gale get a good beating in the local elections and their colleagues in finna fall well we shall see um finna fall and finna gale two very popular parties very uh high representations on local authorities um i don't just want to be quite the wipeout that people might think it might be as i say there's lots of people out there and often some of the last ones to speak out for for one reason another who support finna fall finna gale and and their policies and what they're doing and their councillors and how they're working for them uh but as i say we don't get as many of those texts in as i would like and the only reason i would like them is that the comments i read out are more representative of of our region uh okay listen thanks so much keep them coming loads to come on the show stay right where you are let's take a break for the bingo the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio it's time for vision arland bingo on highland radio it's friday the 26th of january you're playing on the yellow sheet the reference number is s 20 it's game number four the numbers are 85 48 87 8 21 22 83 30 38 and finally 40 phone you're claimed nine one zero four eight double three before eight tonight leaving your name contact number and the name of the shop where you purchased your book and we'll call you back the next working day get all your vision arland bingo information at highland radio dot com it's the right price tiles and wood flooring half price sale get up to 50 percent of all tiles wood flooring bathware cladding everything's reduced tiles from only 899 per square yard and wood flooring from only 1199 per square yard right price tiles and wood flooring half price january sale ends sunday hi nathan carter here and i'm delighted to say i've just had two installations 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you might need to stick your headphones on sorry i should have mentioned that beforehand okay because you'll want to hear from um kevin kelly national strategic partnership manager with vision arland good morning to you kevin good morning greg and to all your listeners it's great to have you back on the show and also uh danny cahill regional manager in the northwest with vision arland good morning danny good morning greg for everyone can i start with you doing to change ncbi to vision arland i mean obviously there's brand recognition there the signage there's letter heads there's one out it's a big big decision isn't it but anyway what was the catalyst behind it and the purpose for it yeah she says a big big decision i mean we we were founded in 1931 greg so that's 93 years so um i was told probably according to our story 93 years ago there was there was a big decision when we went for that original name and as you say greg we're we're known as ncbi and have been for for most of that time i think the biggest issue was there was well there was two main reasons uh one is people who were being referred to us and and a lot of the the healthcare professionals who refer people to us as well i think for a lot of people there's a very strong connotation with blind and blindness and unfortunately greg as you know that there are there are negative connotations with that um so what we wanted to make sure is that as many people as possible who who require the service and support from us got it um so that making sure that they were they were referred to us in a timely manner and also people themselves um didn't feel that we'll hold on here i know i've been diagnosed with a particular eye condition i know my my sight has has changed quite significantly but i'm not blind i was told very clearly i would never lose all my sight so we work with a whole range of people and i suppose vision island tries to reflect that so we we we are very very busy um uh but we also want to make sure that not only people come to us uh are referred to us but also get get the service when they're required rather than maybe years later when they find out actually we work with people across the whole range of sight loss not just people who are totally blind and of course too the the the word vision has multi meanings vision being you know all all encompassing all encompassing in terms of of sight but also you know a vision for a country um that is you know inclusive and accessible to people with all uh all visual visual abilities yes exactly um and that is it's a positive it's a positive thing um no i'm not going to pretend everybody's happy with it i suppose it takes some adjustment particularly for such an old organization we don't we don't like change and i don't know we don't we don't we don't but i i i think sadly the feedback we've had recently and particularly for people who've been referred to us who probably they might have heard of ncbi they might have heard greg island radios ncbi bingo but we're really sure what it was and what what it entailed and the feedback we've had over the last couple of months since we did rebrand was okay actually i do realize that you actually are a service that i could benefit from and i'll tell other people as well which is exactly why we did it okay uh danny catholic regional manager in the northwest with vision island any reluctance from you in the name change uh no no i've been sorry i beg your pardon that sorry danny that was if that was for kevin i beg your pardon i didn't i didn't wish to introduce you twice uh i'll come back to you though uh kevin kelly national strategy a strategic partnership manager with vision island what was your take on on the name change um so i think uh for context uh to build on what uh danny said as an organization we have been considering changing from ncbi to vision islands where we ended up over the last five years and there's been a lot of consultation and i suppose i went on a personal journey uh myself as well as being an employee i'm totally blind i would have lost my own sight in 2001 so you know the word blind really means something to me and moving to vision island um you know does that reflect you know someone who's totally blind but as i was involved in the conversations and listened to the different perspectives i'm 100 certain that it was the right thing to do because it's more reflective of the clients or service users that use the services of vision island because less than five percent of the people that use the services are totally blind like myself so the 95 percent of people have some level of vision so i think it was the right thing to do we're a couple of months on now as danny says uh the feedback has been overwhelmingly uh uh positive and over time those people who aren't uh maybe um as happy with it will um you know go on the same journey as myself and recognize that perhaps it was the right thing to do yeah and um you say you have have uh you you lost your sight you had sight you lost your sight you've been through the entire journey and now working not only with uh vision island but also in lester house and a member of the arish national blind football development squad so you have a heavy workload uh kevin in the first instance but an important an important job i think you're doing across all the the various um things that you're involved in yeah no one the things that i have achieved uh in my life and in my career to date um are very much uh down to the work of uh ncbi at the time now uh vision island who helped me when i lost my sight in 2001 and for your listeners um information you care for my accent i'm actually from uh donnie gall up there in uh clemani out in um orris and danny was actually my community resource worker uh back in the day i'm sure he'll thank me for uh telling that live on the the radio i'm putting an age on him but like danny and the team in the northwest would have worked with me around providing long cane training independent living skills computer and it skills and all of those things over a sustained period of time allowed me to return back to the community school go to college and do those things that you have achieved so um you know i i represent um you know as someone who has really benefited from the services and i'm a strong advocate for the work of the um organization and we're here today to talk about the uh bingo and the sport of your listeners to highland radio allow us to continue that work because we only receive 70 percent of the funds that are required to run our services from the state or the hsc okay um katie mcgeese with us as well katie i mean this has been a you know a really successful partnership hasn't it between um highland radio formerly ncbi now vision arland yeah i mean like and we're seeing a grow as well which is brilliant and i think actually the brand change will only serve to serve to benefit um the the growth of the bingo as well because i feel like uh if you haven't required the services of the ncbi whether uh uh no matter what uh level of sight um impairment you have you might not how you might not know who they are based on the name ncbi but you certainly will know who you're supporting with the name vision arland and also if um any of our listeners uh require those services kind of newly um or or told of told that they might need them down the line they will know vision arland as a service that they can use um it's very black and white it's very there you know um and out there and yeah absolutely just to give you an idea of how well we did last year um in the year of 2023 we just did shy of a quarter of a million euros in sales um in bingo books which is just under 50 000 books that we sold put that into perspective um nationwide that might not seem like a lot but we're not selling nationwide at the moment we're selling um within the northwest or our listenership um um but we have uh increased our sales to include online sales so we have our bingo books on sale through the outlet which we have discussed at length uh here on the show through various different um for various different things but the bingo books are there and we are seeing that bingo books are being sold um to people in the likes of sly go and other counties where we're not kind we might not necessarily be on air so it's great because i'm hoping now in 2024 we're going to see more growth there on top of our very valuable retailer sales and that will bring it and for me what that boils down to is a huge thank you to the players uh because what this is all about is raising money for uh the national uh raising money for uh kevin don't laugh at me uh this is uh raising money for uh vision arland to do the fantastic work that they do so thanks to each and every one of you out there who buys a bingo book yes there's a bit of fun in in it for you and it's an opportunity for uh you to win a few bob but and i think this is one of the main motivations from our fantastic listeners is that they know that they're supporting a fantastic organization that works with so many people uh locally so a big thank you for supporting this uh great uh initiative um danny um you do an awful lot of work you know um we talked earlier on about i think it was katie that mentioned people that would be contacting the service for the first time you know that's a that's a call that you have to handle with such care and understanding and what have you isn't it and um you're fully equipped to do that but you start then on a journey with the person that reaches out to you yeah i mean as as as it was it was correctly said there let's be honest i mean and that's true for a lot of social and health services you don't really think about any of them until you require them or a member of your family requires them and why would you unless you have some experience in the past and i think it's really important that when people contact us for the first time and for a lot of people as you see greg it's a big big step it's for some people it's a recognition that they actually do need help we find that often people come to us um not particularly early in their journey of sight loss they it may have been one or two years or even longer in some cases that you know they've you know they've been dealing with doctors they've been dealing they've got a diagnosis they're they're trying to trying to do their best um but then when they come to us they actually recognize well firstly that they're not on their own i think people are quite quite quite surprised that i think we we worked with wovers uh i think well over 600 people in the northwest last year um and they realize that actually that that they're actually there are people going through the same thing and that's really important and that's why we have you know we have peer groups as well who come together and then people can join those groups now luckily through technology people can don't actually have to be physically present they can join online but that conversation allows people to and for some cases as well greg to talk about their situation for the first time yeah um we often we often recommend that people come with a family member when they come into our center here in larry kenny or in slaggle um because i think it's really important that firstly the person is supported and and we often hear it could be a spouse it could be a close relative an adult child who say you never you never said any of that before you never discussed this with me you never told me how you felt because i think what's really important as you say greg that that that's handled handled well it's handled is handled sensitively but also it's not just an outpouring of this is how i'm feeling this is what what the issues are these are the issues that i'm struggling with these are the things that i used to be able to do and i've stopped doing or i don't have the confidence to do it's also saying okay let's let's figure out with you what we need to work with you on let's figure out with you what your priorities are what do you want to do what are the issues that that you want to deal with where are the areas of your life that you need to support as kevin mentioned there's there's a whole range of services there's some people will actually take up most of them but not all but they're just taking people at their own pace yeah there's there's tips and tricks there's aids there's technology there's stuff that where would you even begin to research this yourself that you have all that knowledge and information on and kevin i think too everybody's an individual and i always try and as much as possible not to group people in but i presume for most people there is like wow what does this mean for me what will i be able to do effectively is my is my life over and you know i'm presumed a whole range of thoughts and emotions that many people go through like that there and then they can look to someone like you and others within the organization and other people's stories who've pretty much gone on to achieve everything they wanted to and perhaps i would say in some cases achieved things that they may never have achieved if they hadn't got a particular diagnosis i'm not saying everything's rosy in the garden either kevin but but do you take my point and that's i think the benefit of engaging with an organization like vision island absolutely because everyone's story of sight loss is unique in how they feel about it and and it depends on when it happens to you looking at my own example losing it when i was 14 quite suddenly that was a huge transition and myself or my family we didn't know what was next what was going to be possible i had people saying to me ash you're on the plus side you won't have to go to school again you know comments like that what i quickly discovered that wasn't the the case and you are right and and i think it's very important to get across that you know you might want support there could be somebody listening this morning that might be struggling to you know read the newspaper one of the local papers that we have in dunny goll due to their vision impairment but there are aids that are available through the letter kenny office and slide office that can make that possible there's also technology it's rapidly developing there's very few things now that i can't do on a computer or on a phone that a sighted person can't do and that's all due to technology and that's evolved in the 20 odd years at such a rapid pace and yes i can say for absolute certainty if i hadn't lost my sight i wouldn't have represented my country in any sport but i've played for Ireland eight times and organisations like vision Ireland played a key part in my rehabilitative journey and got me up on my feet and supported me through that hugely traumatic life event for myself yeah and there's other stuff advocacy stuff as well parking on footpaths street furniture overhanging branches dog poo and on it goes and vision Ireland is a very important role in in in sparking those conversations as it does a number of times throughout the year as well but we as we as individuals ourselves have to make changes little things even like i used to take i used to do put put text over images until i was pulled up by a regular instance says you know i can't you know my reader can't read that all right didn't realise it haven't done it again since it's just little and that is little things in the wider scale of what we're talking about but it's just thinking a little bit about how we are all different and have different abilities to access stuff right Katie in terms of the bingo then so our listenership is so incredibly generous in supporting vision Ireland it truly is amazing but you know there's something in it for them as well so just remind us of the structure of the bingo there's it's you play five times a week cash prize is being jack parts one absolutely first of all you're so right and i didn't mention that i do apologize but thank you so much to all the regular players and to all the new players that i'm seeing coming on and buying the bingo books it really is appreciated and as you've heard that the money's going to such an exceptional cause but the structure of the bingo we have daily prizes each day starting at 400 euro so each day the bingo prize is 400 euro if it's not one it rolls over to the next day and there's another 200 euro added so say if it's not one a monday at 400 tuesday 600 euro prize and so on so forth um you have till eight o'clock in the evening of the day of that day to claim and just generally speaking how often do the daily prizes roll over um well sometimes it depends some weeks we get winners every day you know like and then other other times we're seeing people win a thousand euro 1200 euro you know so it depends but but very much so we're we're seeing people claim and it accumulates exactly so but what meaning is is it's not like it rolls over into eternity and you can't win people are winning regularly every single week every week and then the jackpot on a thursday the jackpot on a thursday then works similarly to the daily prize in that it starts off at 5000 and it increases by 200 euro each week until it's won so i think at the moment oh lord i think this is kind of basic information you should have come in with what is the jackpot i think the jackpot yesterday was it was seven eight was seven eight all right so and it wasn't one the jackpot was not one yesterday so we are we are rolling off to believe eight thousand for next week so which is that's quite exciting yeah um and like that that goes on and on until it's won so um so yeah like i mean the last jackpot rolled over and over and over for ages but then previous to that we had two winners quite close to one another so i think the last jackpot winner won over 20 grand but then we had two winners that were quite close to each other that won uh i think one won around 6000 or the other one the other one won around seven or eight thousand now the books are available in uh retail outlets right across the region and on our website at uh at um the outlet um danie don't want to be too parochal on these things but you know like people uh you know people do like to know that the money they contribute uh benefits their neighbors and friends and what have you and and whether it's ring fenced and definitely goes into northwest or not you can confirm to that uh but the money is spent here in in the northwest in donagall it is yeah because i think we have as as kevin has said you know we have we have a quite significant shortfall of you know the the the money that it costs to to run the services that we run here in the northwest but obviously nationally uh there is a shortfall so it is crucial it is it is an exceptional i have to say greg it is an exceptional fundraiser and the generosity and the support of listeners to highland radio is is really really quite something and i think i think something else to say as well greg um we last year i just did the figures to do a report for for 2023 we had a 30 increase and people being referred to us that is that is unprecedented now we still think it's a sort of it's a catch up from the covid times you know when a lot of services there's a lot of catch up there still you know and there was a lot of people then who probably had to go through the pandemic with this with them as well too so that's actually really significant that number whichever way you look at it danie listen uh we'll be chatting we'll be chatting again of course uh whenever um it is uh the right time to do so we take your guidance in relation to that thanks so much for explaining the name change and and do you know what in a year it'll it'll all be it'll all be uh just the norm thanks very much indeed take care of yourself and kevin lots of people messaging in um not with an awful lot of words but kevin is great kevin is brilliant uh kevin is this that and the other so i don't know i don't know what what uh what's going on but uh a lot of love for you here today kevin as well with danie but particularly uh for you today kevin i'm sure there's not a negative one than there too greg well i can't find it don't worry about that no listen keep up the great work um and continued success kevin and we'll talk to you again too of course in the not too distant future thanks thanks for your time really appreciate it and katie uh just recap where but no we've found exactly what the public's generosity is is doing and the importance of that and again a big big thank you um people and it's not a club right there's not a there's not a or a regular commitment you can today if you've got a fiver extra you could buy a book for uh next week then you don't have to play or you do play it's completely up to you but sometimes i think these things because oh that's a highland bingo i i i'm not involved in that it's open to everyone whenever you want yes and also it's important to mention that our bingo numbers are read out on air obviously um like four or five times a day but we also have them on our website at highland radio dot com and they're also available on our dedicated bingo line which is 0749104833 it's the same number you use to log your claims but the bingo numbers are there as well so you are available they're sorry they're available throughout the whole day whenever you want whenever you can pick them up good stuff all right thanks very much katie really appreciate you calling in and helping us to uh get the message out there thanks again to kevin kelly danie cahill katie McGee back with 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 candy credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan 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process just before Christmas and over 13 and a half thousand nominations that came in from the from the public which was absolutely phenomenal it blew us away again our customer service was was huge and this is just as big so we're delighted and the great thing is there's a great mix of businesses right across the county and so we've been doing our hard work our due diligence and our judges have been involved and we're the process now we're making the who's going to win and and all will be revealed on the night on the 11th in Jackson's hotel but there's some really interesting categories and some some heavy weights up against each other yeah we look forward to that just in relation to tables or seats or what have you is there any availability for the for the actual night very it's very limited I think it's we're getting to the stage we're almost sold out the girls are working Karina Ananya working very hard on it if we've tickets left we've literally about 10 or 15 left that's it and you know it's we could end up with a waiting list it's it's proven very popular for all these reasons it's going to be a brilliant night everybody coming together it'll be good crack yeah it'll be high energy yeah it'll be a brilliant night so well the last ones were were great fun it has to be said now in terms of the the nominees the short list of the nominees that all came from from the public themselves which was great who said the amount of people getting involved in that is huge and then the judging of course then is independent as well so in other words we have no influence on the outcome thank us as us being highlighted huh thankfully yeah that's what you're gonna say something like question that no no no all right no we don't so talk to us about our external judging panel tourism entertainment sector sponsored by iHeating and cooling no cunning and back on board again and who better to cast an eye over tourism and entertainment yeah and he'll add great value on the night as well Greg but his experience of the industry is fantastic we were delighted he came on board so at this moment in time he is busy actually scrutinising the the entries and the nominations from that in the short list and we will hopefully in due course in the next few days we'll have the results for that um Martin Harley is in the restaurant sector and Martin's actually you know he he he's within the the the industry as well has been for a long time has it been in the bar business so we're delighted to have him on board um and then for the the pub and bar sector we have Kevin Doher uh he's aka the wildlife traveler and finally the hotel sector is Kieran Ohanran he's the former head of the hospitality at atu so all right there's a great in depth there of experience and I'm just delighted it's them that's doing it and I don't have to be involved yeah for sure now in terms of the the categories they are very inclusive and I think this was something as well that was done through the hospital the previous awards the business awards is in that it's a catchall for all different types of businesses whether you are a huge hotel venue um or you have a small coffee doc or something that that you are you know you've equal chance of getting the recognition that that you deserve tourism hugely important in this county not in terms of just revenue employment and etc so let's pick out some of the categories tourism and entertainment sector yeah yeah so we've got the best family venue um and the shortlisted businesses for that are essentially complex eclipse cinemas and oakfield i wouldn't like to i wouldn't like to have to choose between those three amazing businesses but let's face it they have been shortlisted out of a very very competitive category so an amazing achievement nonetheless uh tourism attraction of the year again this is a toffee this is what i could rile about actually but anyway and also i've got sleeve uh league boat trips which is fabulous the crawly de sterly which i went around last year is very very good and then of course infamous fan at lighthouse so that's uh that's a toffee also yeah indeed best pint of Guinness this is an interesting one again i could i don't drink Guinness but there could be a row on this one as well but go on i i'd say you probably have to go and test these so you've got farron's bar you'll you'll do a bit of traveling now as well they actually be able to do this McGuigan's bar and then the courage in letter kenny is what now i know that uh i have one boy who is frequency that on a regular basis and he would swear by the Guinness in there um one other thing too best person by best bar person of the year too and i think um for me uh what makes a pub or what contributes greatly to it is the person behind the jump or the people behind the jump and it's not just necessarily in terms of efficiency or what have you it's actually just their personality as well so i'm really pleased to see uh those people being recognized best fish and chips too in the restaurant sector best burger again huge to compare to i know i know and it's and and i would know most of these businesses and and they're all very deserving of it um so in fish and chips you've got johnny's ranch your fries rest and you've biddy your burns and so it's they're they're they're all very very good um everyone's a winner in that section in my eyes a best hotel breakfast to arnold's hotel clannery hotel harvey's point hotel a wedding venue of the year another huge and competitive one the finalist there villa rose clannery hotel drum halla house so the night is uh the 11th of february jackson's hotel in balaba fae uh kicks off with a drinks reception at six followed by dinner and the award ceremony and as i say for those of you who uh didn't go along to the last one but come to this one it's high-paced it's fast it's energetic it's fun uh and there's no foot dragging it's uh it's good crap from beginning to end and the food and the reception we're going to get at jackson's of course is guaranteed to be great as well yeah i'm sure they're going to they're going to look after us well on the evening we have a few spot prizes on the evening as well which i'll keep a bit of a secret um but it'll be and i suppose i'll be killed if i don't mention this the dress is dress to impress it's not black tie you don't have to wear a black tie but dress to impress on a sunday evening which of your two jackets are you going to wear i'm going to put a new one why don't you put the red one on and sing us a song i'll sing you a song anyway greg all right okay excuse me we are all jokes aside genuine excited for that i can't wait to see everybody there and it's actually going to be uh because with the the dress to impress it allows people to do wear whatever they want and at the last time it was like a fashion show between the jigs and the reels that was just me and you that was just me and you exactly listen looking forward to it thank you very much indeed and uh the next information we actually get are the winners on the night isn't it there's nothing really between now that's us now we're behind the scenes we're working hard on it where where as i said there's very limited tickets left if you're nominated and you haven't returned your call you've received a call please do very quickly because the tickets will be gone all right lovely stuff thanks very much sure and i'll explain to you and the team and all across the the station working in one way or other appreciate your time that's Sean Quinn head of sales right we're going to take a break as we head towards the news at 11 o'clock on this friday's nightly noon show the nightly noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letter kennycu.ie leadership is about driving change that's why we're pleased to introduce the first ever all electric bmw i5 seamlessly blending a mistake of 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greg good morning an agreement has been reached on new public sector pay deals it provides a pay increase of just over 10 percent to two and a half years negotiations continued overnight after government and union representatives failed to reach an agreement in meetings earlier this month donnie gall county council is carrying out a safety assessment in the vicinity of glan ruah and killy lastin heights estates off the windy whole road on the outskirts of letter kenny it follows calls for speed ramps in the area from a number of counselors officials say if safety measures are required they'll they will seek funding to implement them a proposal to suspend the signing of new contracts with hotels to accommodate ukrainian fleeing war is being considered by the government over 100 000 people from ukraine have arrived in arland since russian tanks across the border on february 24th 2022 a 63-year-old man is to appear before stroban magistrates court next month following an arrest in the balikulman area yesterday the charges include being concerned with supply of class b drugs possession of class b controlled drugs and possession of a class b controlled drug with intent to supply ishka erin says customers may experience supply interruptions around green castle with areas affected including upper drum aware and croc elms a traffic management plan will be in place for the duration of the works which are scheduled to take place until two o'clock this afternoon and finally two government commissioned reports into rte are expected by the end of february the media minister says the current board should stay in place for now despite what she described as governance and financial failures around toy show the musical five members of the current rte board were in place at the time of the 2.2 million euro flap that's all for now back again at 12 o'clock thank you very much indeed don marie okay that's entertainment is just around the corner we chill out for the next hour and just chat about things to entertain ourselves general chitchat as well but it just ease off the pedal of more serious stuff okay so stick around for that please here are last week's road safety figures over 3000 the number of penalty point notices issued 110 the number of drivers arrested on suspicion of drink or drug driving and two the number of people killed on our roads behind these numbers is a story of lost lives broken families and devastated communities if you can improve just one thing about your driving you can help save lives on our roads from the road safety authority and on guard the chicana it is that's entertainment and hopefully you'll stick around with us for the next hour we want your views and commentary on stuff you're watching stuff you're listening to reading watching on stage big screen small screen whatever we're in the company this week of a man who finished third in the 2018 letterkenny michael leddie looking like competition it is michael it is michael leddie hi hello greg have you with us it's great to be here and also by dahi ramsey manager of on green on theater letterkenny interesting fact massive pigeon fancier good morning dahi morning greg are you racing pigeons tumblers you have them all where did you find that out you kind of yeah it's spooky like you've been trying to bring a little bit of you've been hacking my phone messages those the real you the real day yeah so exactly we might dig into that a little bit later in the show i don't think we will however dahi thank you very much for sitting in um good morning to how are you keeping i'm very well very well good could be better all gone well at the theater i'd be yeah we've been very busy panto week obviously and uh trad week's going on as well so we yeah so very busy very good great see everyone back good audience participation lots of people out and about oh yeah yeah yeah everyone's back it's great it's great to see it yeah good stuff it's a great to have that facility uh on our on our doorstep more your doorstep than mine but be that as it may michael true detective is back this is going to well so many people talking about and i'm probably not going to watch it for a year or two yes but um you have watched how many episodes now i've watched one of the two episodes and you hadn't last week i had not last week okay so what was your uh what's your views i was really looking forward to this because i was a huge fan of season one the matty mcconaughey woody herson season from 2014 hard to believe it's 10 years but it's 10 years since that first season and this has been a troubled franchise for various reasons season two failed to catch fire with the viewers and critics yeah and there were creative uh changes behind the scenes the original person behind the show is no longer involved although that person did have ideas for season four but then went i was reading up on it this morning and disappeared off and got a contract with uh fox or fx to do a completely different thing so this is a fresh start and um jody foster is the big deal about season four because um you know a very big uh movie star from uh from a few decades past uh a long career i remember her watching her in the in the 1970s half-hour comedy drama called paper moon uh with christopher connelly she took over from tater moneal and christopher connelly took over from ryanoneal and it was a series about a con man driving around the old south in the 1930s with this adorable wave orphan wave and that was that was jody foster and then she went on to do movies or whatever so this is the big thing about you know having her in a tv series and bringing her in for these six episodes it's a shorter season this year i think the day is when sort of a actor doing something like this it being seen as a backward stepper over now oh yeah big time absolutely like take matthew mcconnelly as a perfect example i mean that was somebody it definitely was a big it was a it was a kick for his career in the right direction i mean he said that himself it was a big thing so i was very excited for this and the story gets us uh uh up and running straight away we are in alaska and we're in that time of the year for a mention this last week where it's dark for like months on end the sun does not rise and uh some scientists in uh research facility vanish into the night and jody foster was one of the detectives on the case so what's her baggage her baggage is that she's raising uh a teenager or late teens girl who is not her biological daughter from what i could figure out from the first episode and there's a there's a yeah on her own yeah on her own on her own yeah and she's been a hot shot detective and she's been kind of yeah yes she's in this backwater yes she's kind of being shoved to this place like in the far north uh because there is a town quite near uh well not quite near but you know within within a radius of the research facility and there's a cold case that is going to bear irrelevance to the right i've seen something like this before i presume that's a reference to it is it yes uh yeah there's there's a defined i won't say too much but they find something at the crime scene that makes one person think oh this is like that case five years ago so there's a thing going on there so i was very excited about this and i have to say i uh and the critics have embraced it big time i mean checking my notes here 93 percent on rotten tomatoes that's almost universal acclaim 67 from audiences and i did not enjoy the first episode at all why because the storytelling for me was quite lazy they had a great hook to try and drag it over six episodes i agree uh the first the hook at the start pulled me in and then they stopped talking about the missing scientists they were like whoa can you believe that that happened anyway let's get back to traffic detail and that bugged the hell out of me and i had other issues with regard to the detective and this one now is is probably going to be quite controversial but this is my take on it she arrives at the crime scene and there's like in order to make her seem super smart they've written the other lead male detective as being a doofus which is it is it something you see on everything that's fine in scream but yeah yeah he's like uh well i don't think anything's wrong here they're probably just the whole step are you sure that's not reflective of the police force in elaska elaska oh but you're getting controversial now you'll be getting in the text messages from elaska but her skill set and this is what really bugged me about it early on she looks around and she looks at a sandwich and she says not that may it is on that sandwich that's being like that for 48 hours and then she walks around and she's like oh the washing that wash has been left in that washing machine for at least 48 hours could start to stink so her skill set coming into the crime scene are she's a housewife she's a mother she's a woman it's like she can only solve this case because she doesn't know where you're going with that she can make sandwiches and she could do washing you said she and she went she you see go ahead dahi come on you can i just say i've watched two episodes okay i'm really liking it um so opposite there and i think they're set they said the character that's what they do in a first episode so she's a mother but she's a crack detective that's where i'm seeing that you know and they're just establishing the character what about the the gender roles like dom fella uh uh woman can use housewife background solve crime i'm not i'm not paraphrasing you okay but let's just say that's it do you do you do you recognize that yeah but i mean you know are there any new stories to be told or are there any new setups you know the main kind of it's how well you do it yeah but there's also in this there's a native american or first nations element going on because obviously we're in Alaska there's you know original um the original people there yeah are there so there's that and there's a bit of a supernatural suggestion yeah whether it was mentioned last week yeah whether that continues or not i don't know that bugged me too come on that was there was there was so unsubtle like i mean there was full-on ghosts walking around no that was yeah but where does that end up do you know what i mean where are they going with it yeah i think until you see i think i think to some extent michael and you're perfectly uh equipped to correct me if i'm wrong is that you kind of went into this expecting something and it's not fitting into yes kind of what you hoped it might be yeah rather than watching this completely fresh um sort of it i think so actually this is something a little bit do you think maybe you went in there hoping for just a procedural i think yeah i want a procedural and one thing one of the critics who raved about it i want to ask this today one of the critics i read this morning who raved but it said it's lynchian it's like david lynch made this i didn't like i don't like david lynch or twin peaks but dahi do you think there's a david lynch thing in this i'm a massive david lynch fan see now we're getting down to the critical points here um i don't need everything wrapped up i don't need everything i do you know i like things left to the imagination i like your own interpretation being there i'm not sure it is that lynchian i get what they're saying i guess that they're sort of hanging this supernatural possibility out there that would mean to be an old girl that would i'd steer away from that load for it to be more but it might not be that i know i think it's interesting with the first nations they like to do that because dark winds is a great detective diaries that i'm set on a reservation that i watched in two seasons i'd highly recommend that and they do sort of because of the religion and the spirituality of the first nations people in america they do like to leave those things sort of in there as possibilities as ideas you know it makes no sense i i get that i do i i see that stuff but if we're global audience maybe people might feel that they're being fed that when they're not interesting it but there's boxes to be ticked but maybe it comes back but i see but you see but when when i see audience scores versus critic scores the critics get that and think about that yes appreciate it and want it but what the audience is what the audience wants and i think that's often why we see this discrepancy between but anyway uh so far out of ten for you dahi or anything else you want to add to it sorry because you've watched two episodes i'm probably giving it an eight at the moment okay that's very positive so far yeah um you i think you need to wait and see the second episode four or five at the moment and i'll be honest there's so many other things i may not get two episode two i'll think long and hard about it but so much other stuff okay yeah and that's honest too i watched uh a start of week uh american nightmare and netflix it's a documentary and i like documentaries when they're done very well and this one is done very well i would recommend people watch it's a really interesting story what's it about it is about a the what i would say to anyone who is watching american nightmare is don't even read the two lines that netflix have put up oh i know because if you watch it without that yeah it's in three parts and it all makes sense it's like wow okay you know what i mean now if you do read that and watch it you'll still enjoy it but there's a it's just the weight it's designed not to have those two lines describing it because this reveals at the end of each episode okay but anyway um there's a home invasion in america in 2015 or something like that there um the the fellas in the house he says i was tied up my girlfriend was kidnapped um and they won a ransom and i was had to follow these instructions but from the get go it's very clear that the the police think he's just making all of this okay and it's around about the time gone girl was released as well so the media jump on this and uh i don't want to say anymore about it but it's in three parts it's very easy to consume there's great access to the characters involved and there's people aren't you put off by the the tranche of of documentaries that are just talking heads cheapest documentaries you could ever make but this one is really really quite good it's got access to all the key players interview footage place cam footage you know that kind of stuff so american nightmare if any of you out watch that uh everyone out there watch that let us know what you think oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand hi greg my favorite show on sunday is back trigger point i did i think i watched the first episode of that i thought it was okay no um could you please i just want to say this hi greg just want to say good luck to donagall on sunday hope we see great donagall support get behind jim and the boys love seeing the flags from supporters yes indeed and in terms of who will turn up i'd say they'll be a big crowd because they'd uh five thousand odd for the mechanic cop it is a big game it's cork it's division two and it's live here on highland radio as well i believe it's 145 throwing i'm doing that off the top of my head though right we're in the company of dahi ramsey manager of on green on theater letter kenny michael leddie writer and blogger uh mixed views on true detective what are you watching out there what do you want us to talk about oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand back with more from the guys after these the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today do you need a u k address save hundreds of euros on custom charges shopping online 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on the the holdovers as it was a fantastic watch no doubt will be a festive fave considering it's no days after watching it kevin indon low thanks kevin uh pun central appreciate it thank you very much indeed kevin brilliant indeed all right uh a dean doherty's manager of donagall film office and joins us on the program hi edine hi greg it's a bumper year 2024 isn't it for films with a donagall connection coming to the big screen in this year um and this is the culmination obviously of years of of work behind the scenes getting them here getting them shocked getting them filled and getting them ready for release but great for donagall yeah it's incredible we've had a really good year last year with almost 9.2 million of an investment into the county and local spans and when you add them all it brings us into a whole other level so we've been delighted with the um you know the i suppose the activity and what's been going on um and hopefully we'll see all of them you've been screened this year across various different platforms and thankfully 24 is kicking off well again and it is uh it is amazing success not least down to uh your office but do you think we need to build on this now uh in a more sort of coordinated way um and i'm sure everything is done really professionally don't get me wrong and it's all there but is it is it in a way that it is more attractive or more accessible for people thinking of shooting in this part of the world i think that what has been happening i suppose is that we've kind of been almost sitting in a space where things have been coming to us and we have been chasing work down and i and in recent times um the ecosystem within the county is growing and developing all the time and people are returning to the county and saying you know we should need to do it for ourselves not least in the development of aerical studios um with the team that we're behind the buffet and they're pushing into that space and thankfully that's moving forward at pace and i suppose really what the intention behind that is that that's exactly what we do is that we are in a space so we're able to attract in a different type of product um the same types of products and we're also able to expand the offering into things like commercials and tv dramas and documentaries that we probably and on the x or field that we probably haven't been doing to the extent that we could be um and it's creating that cluster creating an idea that you would have the opportunity to build something meaningful in this county and that you're able to retain talent that you be able to develop that talent and that you're also able to create jobs and great good jobs that are in this space are generally paid about 27 higher and come than the average in Ireland so they're high-end jobs they're really good quality jobs and then in turn that you know is extended into the local economy where people are living here and being able to spend their money here yeah because we can demonstrate that we can demonstrate to suppose individually that we have it all we have the extras when they come up here you know we've got the the equipment that's required we've got the accommodation clearly obviously we've got the scenery we've got the supports in there um and it's just to suppose having that in a so that it's uh it's markedable in that i mean it's all there it's just a case of making sure we maximize the market for it yeah that's absolutely it and i think that it's also by retaining the capability that's in the region i mean and also because it's sporadic and the work is sporadic to a greater elastic extent and we're dependent on servicing the industry at the moment and that's really it's but like a servicing a car we're not building the cars so we want to build it from the centre out if that makes sense and you know really we've been very lucky because the likes of the cry from the sea are four letters of love when you have the likes of you know um some of the talent that has been around that you know you have ampere's bras and putting up at the end of the year last year his best year photographs and that includes one of donnie gall him standing on a beautiful beach in donnie gall and remembering the great time that he had there you know that film tourism piece is hugely important it's dominic cooper doing a piece for us on love donnie gall day where he said his growl on donnie gall ask you like that you know those kind of things you can't sell and that just goes around the world as being you know incredible from a donnie gall perspective yeah for sure we know the value of it from that point of view and you're right we have everything there that's needed but we do need to build that and retain that talent then that is here we want to be able to say to people like you know if you're coming back to donnie gall you can stay here and we legitimately can provide you with enough work to keep you sustained and that's really what we want to try and do so alongside that i suppose is in yeah go ahead adine alongside that what no just building the talent then and allowing young people to have made the decision that they're going to take a chance on this is that then they are as they say they've been learning the skills they're getting the opportunity to do the training in their own county and they're they're getting the opportunity then to work and develop that skill set within the county so that some of the films cry from the sea like can you the five films that are coming out cry from the sea who's involved in that so cry from the sea is um sarah gaden sarah bulger adin kwan and dominick cooper dominick cooper is of abba fame um and adin kwan would have been here before and would have been in um you know the previous film was made here by the same company um a shine of rainbows which really did catapult to donnie gall into a different space i suppose from this perspective um and then in four four letters of love is helene burnham carter pierce brawlsman and gabriel burn um and again they're huge films from our perspective and then we had fiddle gorham which is a lovely film that was made here locally ask eliga and that's bar in the government shawarma kelly um and searshan walk then is currently being shot in ghidor and delighted that we have our online producer on that film eileen rafferty it's amazing that we have somebody now in the county that's in the head of department situation and we also have a huge amount of local talent there's a wonderful fellow there called eric sweeney who's the location manager and eric trained on other films that were in the county under a fella called gordon which really is one of the top locations managers in ireland now he's able to step up into that space and develop that skill set within his own county and those types of things you can't you can't buy that and adean finally i think i've probably uh got more chance of getting your bank you can't details than than any uh firm details on what's coming up because you have to be so secretive but the conveyor belt if i could put it like that there are we are we seeing you know some consistency in inquiries on new projects and what have you i think that one of the things that'll happen this year i mean certainly we have a lot of people as i always say something about there's a couple of things that we're excited about um and as you i've said too many times before greg that's only happening when we're you know standing in line for the breakfast in the morning you know until the trucks are turned down the road it's not happening and it really can be sometimes as you know down to the wire as that um i think that the piece that will help determine uh the success of new projects continuing to be made in the region is section 481 and the regional list and the regional investment and i think that the regions have been pumping above their weight and it's delightful to see desiree you know who's the chief executive of screen ireland acknowledging that and acknowledging the importance of the regions and look i think that's what we want to position ourselves as a player in that space is building the talent is building the skill and being able to compete to the best of all right adene thank you so much indeed adene darty manager of the donagall film office it's really interesting isn't it dahi to sort of hear of the amount of money coming in the multiplier on that money the films that are coming through it's kind of like um for a lot of us it's kind of like a hidden industry up here we hear road closures here and there and stuff but you know what i mean it's absolutely and i mean i know where i live near me um in rath mullen they did one of those films one of the erish language films and friend was telling me he ended up doing the catering on it so you know the economy was getting all that and he was like it's great because it's a quiet time of year you know um so it does it's all those kind of hidden things isn't it i must say i've been so impressed with adene and what she's done with the film office um on limited time and resources and i think it would be fantastic if you know there was more resources and time and i think it could really really scream the success from the hilltops until after the facts yeah yeah because obviously there's you know so many yeah but i think there's a lot of attraction in donagall you know i mean it's interesting that a lot of like the film isn't letter kenny they're not coming to donagall in a sense for maltern ireland are they they're it's that attraction if we're setting something a little bit back so we go out into the regions and things are less yeah you know and that was seen in in the lee and eastern film donagall looked lovely and donagall's actually nice that looked in the film even though it looked lovely but i think laugh at people going uh that you know people questioning the geographical accuracy of it all you know that look yeah it was great you know walking in one village and going into a pub that's in another village and stuff but that's but that's excitement of having the local knowledge yeah exactly i have to say as well i mean adene mentioned the both the bothy there which is the uh film facility the editing facility and during the lockdown when we were doing shows online um we all had to skill up very quickly for that so david from the bothy actually did an online tutorial on video editing for us you know so in that way those skills are there and they're being used for films but also it filters down and i think it's about the talent there's a lot of london based talents and all that have to be over there or wherever it might be to to make a living yeah and the idea being that we could sustain them here uh could you please read out your show the rotary service rescheduled due to adverse weather conditions last weekend the letter kenny rotary club church service for the dedication of ribbons from their christmas tree of remembrance was cancelled well it'll now take place this is the important information it's now going to take place in conwall parish church letter kenny on sunday the 28th of january it's 7 p.m the sergi uh service is for clergy and parishioners from all churches please join us to remember our loved ones and everyone's welcome to stay for some refreshments after the service uh also i've been asked to mention that uh common class gale ardra presents a fish out of water it's a three act comedy by jimmy kirrie it's in the gea clubhouse ardra it's on friday the 26th that's tonight uh saturday the 27th sunday the 28th january 2024 tonight the 8 p.m doors open at 7 30 p.m tickets just 12 euro there's a raffle on uh the night uh and as i say i've said to you this before and i hope it doesn't sound patronizing uh michael but these uh some of these productions all of them i've seen are are brilliant all the amount of effort and oh yeah i mean i'm not asking you to comment on that actual show no no but you're absolutely right no i mean the this is something i've said before and others have said it like the term amateur doesn't refer to the quality of the piece it refers to the fact that these people are giving up their time freely um the amount of talent we have in this part of the world is extraordinary i mean the amount i i completely agree really unfair to call dahi an uh an amateur uh critique but fundamentally that's true but it does you a disservice dahi i have no problem with the word uh amateur means love does yeah that's the root of the word it means love it's passion it's a passion piece isn't it you know so kieran kelly's script that we did dramatis that was part of the script so now i know that i know that but yeah i've seen so many uh shows that uh are not professional doing air quotes here for the radio um but yeah and that they're every bit is good um in many many many cases that is one of the things we identified in the theater early on patrician mcbride our director um who obviously you know comes from a great graph or drama herself that the talent was all here you know where we've been able to help people is on the production side of things yeah you know like nylart technology manager you know has done huge support with all the groups on lighting because he's a lighting specialist so bringing up the understanding and knowledge of that set design you know that's where we've been able to help um and help bring up the standard but in terms of acting and directing you know i think donnie gall's so well served and that's something people would say all right in the country but i do think particularly across the arts in terms of musicians musicians and even in in sport i mean you can extend it out and i don't want to sort of sound like we're blowing our own trumpet but yeah when you think of what we are in terms of population size where we are because we always talk about access and opportunities and stuff yeah but we've got leading people right across the world of sport um musically i mean the the musical talent that there's so many artists and donnie gall that the only thing that's missing is a bit of luck yeah because everything else is there i mean there's amazing singer songwriters that are as good as they just didn't get the yeah whatever it takes to get that yeah in terms of acting and in terms of the viral these days yeah the viral idea it's hard to put it put it into place yeah and that can work and something like that can work for you and then even that sometimes is is not i'm thinking that ellie sherlock is huge she was signed up to she was signed up to and she's still doing really well but she was signed up to ed sheeran's record label and they even did some cross promotion with it and she's doing well uh but even for her it didn't kick her over that line she's still bossking and doubling and doing her doing it that way well you see i've been the example i always give us tanya mccole who's an amazing singer yeah and tanya you could see in the beehive in our draw you could see her on monday nights with uh the lead rate 10 oh yeah you know oh no here obviously that's sorry there's only one thing happens on a monday night sorry in mccole in least three years it was 10 tanya you know yeah and then john prine herdram went well you're amazing come on tour with me and he recognized you know but like if i go to and i have to go to uh on holliday tingland and you're going to pull them as a guy in the corner you're like that's a bit duff isn't it it tends to be the response you go to dunny goal you can see tanya you can see dekla mclaffordy you can see tommy calhoun rory freel you know without willow caron calhoun and cymer mccaffordy like you can see incredible artists in a pulp yeah yeah they are all innovating writing in the next yeah i know exactly the point that you're making in terms of the the guy in the corner and it's not yeah it's not to not to do it's not to put them down yeah but it's just as a bar to elevate oh yeah yeah it's incredible but i see it in soccer too i mean if you look at like some of fin harps fan but fin harps dairy city of loads of dunny goal lads you know lock all have loads loads of the northern teams institute have loads of dunny goal lads and you're like is dairy city not a big population center why is everyone coming from dunny goal populating all the northwest clubs i think i think what we do have in this county as well and this is going off in a tangent a little bit but in terms of from a school level in terms of acting we've got amazing teachers that work with the students in music the musical teachers and a lot of them a lot of the the the brilliant musical artists we have are actually also teaching as well yeah in terms of of athletics you know we have our you know the patsy patsy mcgaughan goal and we aim and harvey down the south and there's others yeah right across it there are fantastic people i think developing i think developing that talent yeah i think i'm a very young age yeah i think we punch above a weight and a lot of it is like we're talking about the amateur professional whatever it's the grass and it is the love for people people are doing it because it's their passion and then once in a while we see the amybeth mcnulty in acting go straight through yeah we're seeing where and bradley do it now and everybody's so proud everybody feels that ownership of these people it's lovely but there was a there was a however it happened and i'm so happy with the more marine bradley thing yeah is a call was made or something was seen or whatever and that initial call for the jules holland gig was on i'm not saying everything that is following would not have happened without that but that's i think a perfect example of just that that thing that thing that happens yeah that i think that's the zeitgeist thing i think it is right place right time we're coming out of the pandemic and everybody's looking for a bit of authenticity everybody's looking and there's marine she just it's an acoustic guitar she has the voice her playing skills are incredible and everybody's like instead of something manufactured instead of something presenters we're so you know we see so much of that now and here was just something incredibly natural as well as i know it is actually kind of it's kind of interesting that the music she plays has been embraced because yeah it's really quite you know different i mean it's it's it's of its time yes and it's coming back in but it's the audience is obviously well it's a hundred years i mean that's not the audience is obviously hungry for it or they're looking for their own great open to open to i don't know what it is yeah it's like we're saturated with the other stuff so much but again if you're living in well i think if you're living here in a place um you know country's always been huge here you know and that's it's all about the human experience and the blues is about the human experience then the you know the thing of everything old is new again it's that things are cyclical things come back and to a particular audience it might be oh this is so fresh to me because they don't have the context of it so yeah that can explain a lot of things but again authenticity i think is a real thing there she's really doing it it's not a you know pastiche or whatever she's just doing the real thing um but i do think that human experience the blues country will always have that i'm very interested see you know if she was a rich kid you know um you look at um what was the film recently um the salt burn you know the rich people if she was coming from very rich background i don't think people would have taken her in that way yeah and i also i think i think the greatest successes we see now is when it is organic to some extent now yeah i say organic obviously you need the right phone call but that that it's something to be discovered something wow look what i and then people get ownership and that helps and all that kind of stuff as well interesting just like you're talking about country being big and the country scene i'm really fascinated to see where that goes next or what comes behind that do you know like we had you know the show bands and then country comes behind that and i'm really interested to see for the musical for the masses what actually is going to come behind country i'm not saying it's a sunset genre right but if you look at where the big guys can gig here and the numbers they can gig too you know i'm really fascinated to see what comes behind that it's already happening it's folk it's it's you know it's vocal folk we see it with honor for example um obviously the high kings were out there before them it is folk you're asking you take someone like derrick ryan he put two folk songs um on his last album like and he's you know he's clued in derrick ryan he knows where it is i know it's not folk but you should throw them into the next generation yeah it is that kind of experience and we saw that in england i remember 10 15 years ago seeing you know the unthanks and people like that from england and saying where's the irish version of this why are we not revisiting our folk experience and again it's about authenticity lankham obviously are massive um and i mean we've tried week on you'll have scullion who are obviously you know on sunday night in the rcc um and we're you know who were pioneers of that and there's a resurgence of interest in scullion there's a resurgence of interest in planxity and also we have you know so that's where i think the numbers are going and i think the success often comes to uh michael when it's multi-generational do you know what i mean oh yeah if you go to an honor concert you will see teens or whatever if you go to whistling donkeys they've gotten a bit now i'm not grouping whistling donkeys in an or yeah but we need a we need a group of acts in different genres that are coming through to fill the pubs and clubs they're probably the middle point towards the mary waller person between those two probably who we again we saw on jules and they're a good time band taking that pokes kind of mantle i guess in some ways you know but i mean if you think of someone like the doppliners they could do the ballads but they could do the thing the mary waller person i'd mentioned to obviously for the c-session uh the seager sessions yes yes great yeah great but again you know filling places around is that that's is this where we're going i'm not saying there weren't any way to say these stuff but i think the roots folk area we are inevitably going to go through some sort of transition oh yeah of course and people will in brit yeah it's exactly what you're saying the idea that yes it there'll always be an audience for for all different genres but then some things get embraced by a much larger audience this is like this thing happens where people embrace it and i suppose yeah that from what you're saying the time is ripe and the the tide is turning yeah i mean i i don't know and maybe somebody else they're telling me but how many people of honour played two in the last year i mean it's serious numbers and they went straight up again the viral moment but again it was just voices but also you there there is there's levels yeah yeah you know when they're at a level um but then again listen i think there's great things i think there's great things happening i think there is a bit of a shift i'm not saying anything's dying your death don't get me wrong but i think there's a sometimes you wonder well what's next that which was the basis of my question and i think we're starting to see yeah what's next and i think that's a thing if something goes in oh yeah i know it's not i know it's in letter kenny this week aren't they um they're massive in sonny mcswine's i think this week in letter kenny um but if something comes into fashion it has to drop a bit you know skinny jeans you know jeans are going back out again things have to go i've seen some big baggy jeans lately i know i know you know what i had the in the early nineties i took mine out last year i had them all you get good money for them now but if you remember they hang over your shoes and they soak up water they weigh about four ton you wonder why young people are walking around their head down they can't actually physically lift it because of the weight you know it's quite something high waist bands yeah baggy jeans anyway i don't know as i said we can talk about anything on this show from uh style advice from dahi yeah fashion fashion it always there for moving into fashion it's time for me to go and get a glass water i think people watching on the camera will be impressed in your colombo jacket will eventually come back into into fashion all right back after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine tone in show with letter kenny credit 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we'll go from left to right what's your name please my name is alice alice o'connor i'm syve syve lovely to have you in i'm sheina sheina great to be great to have you in here as well sheina mcquee is it mcayne mcayne i was told i was told that was huge in irish when i was at national school so i don't know i was told a lot of lies algebra was going to be useful i was told that too and katie calls with us as well katie um use our part of danu young women's choir but it's a four tet quartet quartet yeah quartet uh what name do you go under uh so we are kiltory canola so which means the in irish the singers of the goddess canola who's the goddess of uh ancient music so brilliant yeah okay listen we appreciate you's coming out of school but it's just to really celebrate we're gonna hear from you's performing live as well but um you would abort your barbershop quartet yes that correct so talk to me what distinguishes you from a non-barbershop quartet um so basically barbershop is something that originated in america and is kind of not really a thing in ireland as much but we're hoping to bring it about as much as we can basically it's four-part harmony which consists of tenor which is alice lead which is syve sheina which is bass and i'm the baritone so basically it's just really cool four-part harmony singing together with loads of chords and now my recollection of that would have been like four fellas you know red and white shirts and hats on yeah so user really uh mixing it up a little bit right so you um it was kind of a mix mishmash of different people i think that came up in christmas but ultimately uh you four went to new york to take part in a competition we did so uh the barbershop harmony society held their midwinter convention there in january and so we were lucky enough thankfully uh thanks to douglas caron shout out to you we love you he brought us over to america that was this uh goal from the start whenever the choir started and so we were lucky enough that we got to compete in the quartet competition and what kind of other quartets were there were all different backgrounds different ages uh well we were in the junior quartet competition so it was under 18 um but it was people from all over the world essentially was that intimidating or like does our does our stuff carry here and are we good and no for are we doing it right i know you've full confidence in your training and stuff but you would start a bit of not self-doubt especially because like they would have loads of things going around like they'd have four or five conventions a year and stuff and this was kind of our first big one we went to iabs and that's kind of how we qualified but this would have been our first kind of big one so we kind of we made loads of friends yeah that like it wasn't kind of a standoff it's kind of a rivalry or anything we made so many friends but it's kind of different how much like more opportunities for barbershop there is over there but in those trips you grow as a person you know you come back and something's changed or your prescription or your your aspects have been been brought what did you wear so we have these green dresses because we had to wrap the irish in us whenever we were going to america so the americas went crazy the irish girls are wearing green so you've got all the green dresses um but i suppose it was quite it would have been quite the view isn't it you know four girls over from northwest arid in the green yeah doing this type of music it's impactful like you can't be done even though we were walking out and and we were just being introduced so every kind of quartile gets introduced or whatever and they didn't even get to say our name because they were like and all the way from ireland it stood up it was crazy there was a a study or an article out this week that says um women's irish names the most difficult in the world to pronounce how did you get on how did you get on with that yeah that was fun because we all had like lanyards with their names on them and my name is side brother and i was going to give us some of the attempts um sieve sieve i think they've got did all right with sieve go on serah serah sada sada these are all nice names i want to know you're going to throw in there i mean allison katie you're all right anyway this is fine over here fine right so what we'll do is if you don't mind uh we'll we'll hear you perform yeah really do appreciate it i want to chat a wee bit afterwards just about your experience of getting around to see stuff and all that if that's okay so um this is kail tory canola and you're going to sing show me where the good times are all right can we have a a note for katie can't prepare this time kick the dust up oh who was making what noise but it's a good sign that's a good sign like it really because it's omnidirectional hadn't a clue really but it works technically that's very difficult yes because you're you're all i mean you know it but there's no there's no beat or what have you you have to all be in sync at so many different points over the course of about three or four minutes like we had to practice so much that we like when we first got the song we were all singing coming in different times and like we were off key and you know that kind of thing but there's a collective pressure and an individual pressure not so much yeah for sure but i think because we practice so much and we're together so much that we all just kind of like blend it in together and yeah lock and ring barbershop terms and let me ask um are you feeling any sort of affinity with Maureen Bradley at the moment in that you know young people sort of maybe a genre that's not necessarily associated with your age you know yeah it's not really associated with many people in our land yeah we went to the iabs convention which is the irish association of barbershop singers they had their own convention in calarnate yeah a while ago and it's so much smaller than the other conventions that happen in america because it's just not as widespread in irland yet i just think it's really interesting it's coming over yeah i think it's really interesting that we sort of have in in our part of the world and we were talking about the talents earlier on just you know it uses a collective and and likes Maureen sort of pushing barriers albeit from a different era you know it's not reinventing it or whatever but still listen fantastic stuff thanks so very much indeed what now uh is there a next day to next target or we have so many things coming up so we are none of it's confirmed yet but we're talking about loads of things so there's babs in may which is the british association of barbershop singers that's like the english version of iabs so that's another thing and we get to mic warm at that which basically means that we're not in the competition but we get to like kind of showcase before the competition starts yeah so that's a really cool opportunity we are it's a great honor to yeah we're really lucky that we got to say that because that's something that you have to kind of mic warm in are like the really have to be good so but in terms of the harmonies you know i mean this is transferable to different genres of music as well and what have you and we're seeing that's blowing i mean do you do you even think about that do you think this is something that beyond the sort of barbership quartet that you could take with this because you said it obviously you have to get on quite well because you spend so much time together oh yeah like that's one of the things like you can have a good quartet with people who like tolerate each other and say well but this is literally the production team at ireland radio we could tolerate each other but to actually be to like progress and to get better you have to know the people and love it more to it isn't there's a trust kind of going on with knowing each other so well and it makes all the difference very lucky enough we have that yeah exactly and the experience is you've had new york get a chance to go around new york love it i haven't had that opportunity yet that's something i want to do um but is there are such things a five tet i don't know how we'd no i couldn't even dream of doing all the pitch pipe i exactly i can watch that thing you blow i could do oh is that what it is yeah right okay listen the four you thank you so very much it's great for your schools and users of collective and your families i'm sure are dead proud thank you so much it's been lovely having you in and we look forward to hearing from you again okay that's where we have to leave it thanks to michael thanks to dahi we're gone we're out we're back monday morning at nine have a wonderful day take care of yourself john bresnan's next the night on new show is