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I'm gonna introduce them in the moment, but I just want you involved in the conversation as well The whatsapp text line open for you right now 08 660 25,000 08 660 25,000 or you can call 07 4 9 1 25,000 okay, let's welcome our guests on to the program will say good morning first to Arnie McGinley chief Central Executive Committee representative for the primary school teachers in Donegal and leach from good morning to you Thank you so much for joining us Morning Greg. It's great. It's great to have you back Susan me in fina for Ogre campaigns and events director. Good morning, Susan It's great to have you back on as it is Declan meen Good morning to you Declan. Good morning, Greg I'm a little confused because someone's described you as an independent deputy on the sheet of paper in front of me I thought has there been a development overnight that I missed a lot's happening in politics at the moment So nothing would surprise me at this stage But no still not an independent deputy or deputy for any party at this point, okay, right? Just some news this morning. We knew about this yesterday morning She in fairness to table a motion of no confidence in the government next week Party leader Mary Lou McDonald has confirmed the move this morning after a meeting of her TDs The party's agricultural spokesperson Matt Carthy who we just heard from says there They will debate the motion during the private members time in the doll next week So I ask you Declan first. Is it a waste of time or perhaps the hope in the pressure may come on independence and others in their Constituencies to vote against this government. What's your read of it? I think we're probably going to see a lot more of these motions of no confidence in the government and Being brought forward by the opposition and I guess it's it's good to remember that it is the job of the opposition to hold government to account and it is I suppose a prerogative of the opposition to be Opportunistic about when they bring motions of no confidence They've seen obviously that the government has officially lost its majority and with Joe McHugh resound the finigale whip And I don't see how this could be construed as a waste of time. And I think that when we see other Time being allocated to things such as the outer space treaties as opposed to make a redress scheme properly And I think that actually holding government to account through a motion of no confidence is Absolutely not a waste of time I think as well that as said we'll see a lot more of these as we go into the autumn and winter once we return after summer recess and Because pressure will mount on the government as a cost of living crisis worsens. Unfortunately Do you see it achieving anything? Do you think you know if it's framed in the debate as a almost like a referendum on the mica Controversy that pressure might come on the likes of Joe McHugh And others I mean I'm not picking on Joe But obviously Joe's local here and he's been a part of the news cycle this last couple of weeks like do you think that's how they'll try and frame it? Yeah, I think absolutely that is how they'll frame us that also frame us In a way that it puts pressure on the other rural independent TDs who the government feel that they can rely on to prop up their numbers And I think it should put pressure on Joe McHugh And I think it should put pressure on those independent rural TDs Ultimately all of not Joe McHugh is not running for reelection But for the independent rural TDs who are weak soft supporters of the government when it suits them And I think it should put them under pressure because they will have to face the electorate again And have to answer why they were supporting this government and as things go on and cost of living crisis worsens Susan your party leader says effectively bring it on he welcomes this opportunity to prove the government's healthy working majority Or be there's not an actual majority there Yeah, I think I think the view he's taken on it is it's an opportunity for us as a party and a government to to highlight the the work that's been done in the last two years and the This the different policies that have been pushed forward and the The way that the country has dealt with the different issues in the past couple of months And do you think that record is is good enough? It's worthy of surviving and no confidence vote Yeah, I do I don't like I personally don't think that and the motion will pass And But I mean it leaves it open for debate It leaves leaves it open for questioning to see you know as Declan has said the more rural Independence, I think a lot will lie with them and their opinions You'd be aware, of course I think it's 29 back bench Fina followers met in the last couple of days some quite strong language was used at the Some of those meetings Yeah, but you know, it's obviously off the back of I Mean the then I think Dara O'Brien said these aren't rebels They just you know They just want to meet and and and and maybe try and influence the direction of the party But do you get a sense? Do you think there is a bit of? Disquiet say the least on the back benches and and amongst Fina fall supporters Like yourself on the ground or are they satisfied with what Fina fall is doing how they're doing it and how Mihal Martin is steering that ship You know, I think it was very made very clear that this what it wasn't Anything to do with me on Martin himself I think it was more the direction of the party and I think As you said there's a lot of strong language used and and I don't I don't approve of that use of language, but I think it wasn't too bad It's how everyone speaks when they're not when they can't trust the when they can trust the friends not to leak it everywhere Isn't it? Yeah, but like yeah, but I think the point that was trying to be made was that we need to look at our party stand alone forget what everybody else is doing and just look at the internal party structures I think that was more the the point of the meeting to just analyze the direction of the party and What where we see the party going? Yeah And also to a lot of people weren't happy or some of them weren't happy at that meeting with how Fina fall is on the receiving end of you know Fina girl particularly in the shattered that you know, Fina gala trying to make gains off the back of their best friends in government Fina fall it Yeah, I read that myself and you know part of me thought We can that that is politics. You can give as good as you get there's nothing stopping the Fina fall backbenchers or the Fina fall senators giving as good as they get Okay, I'm on you. What do you think on you McGinley? I'll phrase the question again is supposed and then you can go wherever you want with it Do you think she and Fina right to table this motion of no confidence? Do you think it will achieve anything? Is it a waste of Time in the final few hours before the big summer holidays? I don't think it's a waste of time great to be honest I think as Declan said there It's important that they are saying to be holding government to account that is their role as opposition But I also don't expect the government to go down because of it. I do think the government will will survive this vote and I mean at the end today looks shrimp in our intending to continue to grow their to grow their support on the ground And I think they're they're doing that And there is from listening to people in the in the local community here Even you know, there is a discontent there with me hill marking from Fina fall supporters But there's also a discontent of Leo but from been gale supporters And I am probably expecting an election within the year I don't think this government's going to want to last the whole duration to be honest. Um, but again, she and Fina holding the government to account And that's what they're that's what they were to do whenever and I know it's very different Very different when you're standing on the sidelines to shout if you don't have to play the ball But I do think that they are growing support hugely and there's going to be a big change even in Donegal at the next general election Yeah, we'll talk a bit about that But I wonder too when TDs look at which way they vote do they look at The prospects of reelection, you know, they could be chucking away two weeks of two years of wages here You know, I mean, I don't think it's always necessarily on policy and for the right reasons that people might be inclined to vote You know, if you know you're going to lose your seat Are you really going to do that in inverted commas the right thing if you believe it to be the case and effectively Concede your wages for the next couple of years On you do you think they would think like that Well to be fair Joe McHugh stood by stood by the people of Donegal during the week and he voted against the government Um, yeah, no, he's not seeking election, but at the same time he voted with his conscience Um, we've seen what our minister has done and he voted with the government Clearly he's not concerned about his seat Because I don't think he'd voted the way he did if he was uh, if he was worried about his seat Yeah, okay Um, Joe McHugh obviously has a couple of pensions and what have you to to fall back on as well too Which I suppose does soften might soften the blow somewhat um There's been some criticism of shin fane's part of McLaughlin over some of the comments he made on this program Yesterday as it relates to how the government is handling the defective blocks crisis now Unfortunately, national media don't seem to be able to get the words highland radio out of their mouth But anyway, I'll do it for them. Uh, let's just have a quick listen to to what he had to say It occurred to me on money occasion and has been said to me that the government's Complained we're complaining about having to spend billions to Help their own people and utter distress whose lives have collapsed buildings collapse and uh around them Uh in donny gall in the western they were complaining And the same government were almost boasting uh to the world about spending billions Unrightly and rightly to help out. That's our place in the world. We help out refugees every country does that around the world But they were complaining doing the same for their own people and I think that stayed on a lot of minds and hearts And it goes to the core of what's wrong with the approach of this government That their own people are in distress and they don't have the same urgency and passion for them Now in and out of that, uh, I thought it was clarified quite well that the sense was that it was government policy That is causing potential division division, which the government accepts is actually going to grow because they've a raw report on their uh death to suggest just that Uh, but I'll put it to you first, uh, Declan. I mean, do you believe he's right and wrong or right or wrong? And do you think such comments are ill advised or or so division like some have claimed? they do I would never accuse park McLaughlin of trying to sow division And I think that if there was any kind of Uh repercussion that that arose from that would certainly be accidental Um, I think that park's probably giving voice to a sentiment that does exist out there. Um, I do think that um in reality um, your listeners and the people of dunagall are Smart enough to realize that it is government policy that has created this situation and not The fault of anyone who's coming into this country. Um under a protection order from ukraine who's fleeing war um, I think that the central kind of Message to focus on there with park park's comments actually is around the fact that Government have been complaining about spending this money the department of housing officials We know have been so reluctant to spend this money To help irish people but crucially to help people on the western seaboard to help people in the northwest Because we're not in dublin. We're not Down the south of the country. We're in the forgotten northwest. We're in the forgotten county And that's actually the the essential kind of point. I hone in on there We know that this government has little regard for the people of this part of the country Um, and it underlines even more how disgraceful it is that one of our own tds Voted with the government and it'll be interesting to see how one of our own senators will vote next week okay, um What do you think um, uh, susan, do you think those uh comments are ill advised divisive um, I mean The word that strikes me in that is complaining i'm not like To me as a human being i don't know how somebody could complain that they that public Excenture is going to go towards building the homes of These people i mean it it is um an unprecedented multi-billion-year-old state and prevention I don't i don't know if the word complaining was the right word to use there We do have to put it into and i don't understand like i'm defending anyone but there was a period Not so long ago whereby Government ministers were coming out in force saying that this is taxpayers money and we have to be responsible for taxpayers money And we have to be able to make Sure that were where the taxpayers money is going and in the days after that There was an awful lot of division sown between those affected by make mica and those sympathetic to them and those saying Hold on your second. We shouldn't be spending our money You know what i mean? So there have been divisive comments in the past. So i i wonder maybe I wouldn't agree with that. I mean like Look after your neighbor and that's what like i wish people do so i don't think Well me personally and i don't there's nobody that i know that would have any issue with their Their taxes going towards helping these these poor people that it's completely out of their control It's not their fault that their homes are falling down and there does have to be um sympathy towards these people and We have to do as a nation we have to do something to try and help them. Yeah, ania. What what do you think of those comments? Yes, Greg I feel that part was just pointing out that the government policy is failing to care for the people with mica Those who effectively will be homeless And it may have been an awkward comparison that he had certainly but i think his intention wasn't to cause division Um, I've probably got to know him over the media really over the last number of years And i have to say he's been a quick campaigner. It's very interesting I again it may have been an awkward comparison he made but i don't feel that was That was his intention. Yeah, to some extent. I led led led led that in Um, if the truth be told um, ania Just on as as it relates to how we talk about things then because I think we have to be careful here as well Because I think everybody knows people that Are incredibly sympathetic to what's happening in ukraine fully supportive of that but do feel That hold on your second, you know, we've been waiting on this or we can't get that boss place or this that and the other We have to do we have to find a A Way of having that conversation to the fore rather than happening in the background You know and and building into something completely different other people weaponizing that as a as some sort of a anti refugee sentiment rather than having a platform where people feel they can express themselves But not be accused Of of being anti anything else I think it's very important that that that space is there for people We do have to be able to to stand up and and say what we believe But I do also think that the people of Ireland have been hugely welcoming to the to the ukranians and rightly so Nobody would want to be in the situation that they are into absolutely no fault of their own But I do think it's important that that space is there that people can openly say what they what how they feel about things without as you say been been criticised for it Declan your view I think one of the Biggest pieces of information most relevant pieces of information in relation to the accommodation of Ukrainian people in Ireland that isn't really in The public domain. I'm not I don't really understand why Is that the funding for the vast majority of this actually comes from the european solidarity fund? So it's european union money that doesn't actually come from taxpayers money directly Through irish revenue and through department expenditure at at a at a national level It's money that's been given by the european union because they have realised Their failures previously around not adequately Supplying countries with funding to take refugees in the other thing is that it's very much in the eu's interest to finance The accommodation of refugees from ukraine specifically across the european union So that it doesn't put pressure on other european union members and cause further jolt to the writing countries like poland So there's a whole political Ideology behind this which wasn't present for other refugee crises previously And there's a number of factors that feed into that we're all aware of But the the funding for this actually comes directly from the european union as opposed to from irish revenue Why is that not communicated better? For example, I presume it might be in the government's interest to actually make To make that quite clear because if I have read it, but i've read that as a conspiracy Oh, not my conspiracy is probably doing someone's point of view into service But i've read it as you're not going to believe who's paying for this Yeah, I mean, I guess One part of that maybe or one reason for it is that you know For example, if someone is listening to this and thinking the european union are happy to pay for that Why can't we get the european union to pay for x y and z? And that is very much up to the government to campaign for those things to lobby for those things To have the european union to step in to pay for other things So I guess that that would be one of the the main Reasons that the government aren't putting that out there as much as they should be Okay, that was the voice there and is the voice of dekla and mehan We're also going to be speaking more to susan mehan and arnie mcginley after we take this break Donegal the part-time level 8 honours degree in business is delivered through a mix of online and face-to-face lectures email exec ed business at lyit.ie That's ex ec ed business at lyit.ie or call 911 86 206 Did you know that last year p8 has supported more than 600 families who had lost a loved one to suicide Or that we have p8's centers across ireland providing almost 1 000 hours of cancelling every week Or that we are now hiring additional therapists to meet the growing demand for help p8's services are completely free of charge If you would like to know more about our life saving work or how you can join the p8 team go to p8.ie p8 ending suicide beginning hope This weekend the northwest donegal vintage club will host their vintage show at their new location of keldon van he With classic and vintage cars tractors other vehicles and agricultural implements craft and artisan displays all welcome There's also a fun fair t-tent and tridder stalls tridders must call 087 236 924 On sunday, there's music with alex enshaunade rack huma clain and john james Enjoy a great day for all the family this saturday and sunday had killed on fanny Your specialty is quality tiles bathroom suites and wooden floors Who is the best range of tiles and donegal proper ties The best wood flooring proper ties the best bathroom suites proper proper ties five day bathroom refits proper ties And who's been tampering with my questions? 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Mr. Radkar had admitted that in april 2019 He said sent a copy of a doctor's pay deal between the state and the Irish medical organization to Dr. O'Toole Dr. O'Toole was head of the rival organization the national association of general practitioners at the time Right, uh, susan mehan Meal martin will be handing over the reins at the end of this year to uh, leo foradkar Uh, do you think that's the right move? Are you happy enough with that? Or do you think maybe there's enough? Out there in terms of what he's admitted to albeit, uh It not being criminal according to the dpp Like do you believe you're handing over to a safe pair of hands? Well, I mean as as a party we went in we went into this the members voted on it and um, we put our we put our trust in that that And that it would be safe coalition to go into um, the gpp has like has Proven his innocence, I guess. Um, but to me there's been many. Um There's been a lot of stuff in the media Recently and there's been a lot of question marks hanging over his head about his I suppose his integrity I'm gonna need you to roll in more behind leo on this one because deklin the non you're on the way So do you do you think he should? Do you think he should uh become uh t-shock again in december? I suppose it's it's what it's what was agreed. Um I don't I suppose we don't really have a choice. Okay, right You did your best. Thanks susan deklin, what do you think? I'll mute for me deklin. Please. Thank you Uh, I think that that's a very interesting perspective there from an ogre finnafall representative Um, maybe speaks larger to some of the attitudes that might exist. Um in finnagill's coalition partner and finnafall Look, I think that do I think that leo should take over to be honest I couldn't care less who takes over or doesn't take over as part of this government Um, I think that whatever happens the policies will be the same and we'll have the same failings Around housing around education around health and around defective blocks. Um, so It is a stormy teacup sort of territory Um, I think that the uneasiness that finnafall backbenchers are having of late Um is also maybe around this issue around leo wracker We know that there was a lot of consternation that was raised previously. Um The fact that they have had a serious meeting there this week earlier this week Raising concerns that they have I think that we have quite an unstable government. Um, and I think that Regardless of who takes over or doesn't come december time We'll have the exact same policies and the only way that we'll have any change is with a general election And a new government before I bring side, uh, onion in susan It do you get a sense that maybe Your association with finna gala at this point is is damaging for the party. Is there a mood on the ground? Uh to sort of try and maybe reestablish finnafall's identity and get back to Uh, perhaps what it vultures and it's you know, it's supporters on the ground expect from it Yeah, absolutely. I think um, I think we were left with after the last general election We weren't left with very many options. Um, and I don't think it was something that anybody was overly enthusiastic about going into and coalition with finna gala like it When I say it wasn't or it was one of our last resorts. Um But I do think there is um as the backbenchers had Said during the week that there's a lot. Um Of work to be done. So at the time At the time finnafall recognized the country needs a government It stepped up into the play up to the plate and formed the coalition in the best interests of of the country. But now Uh, you know now a couple of years on maybe that Leads to be looked at again. Is that kind of I think that's clearly what you've said, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely I mean nobody like ideally situation in any country is that One party um runs the country. Um, that that's the ideal situation But I don't think much in all as we would like to see that. I don't think we're going to be in a position To do that anytime soon And and just one more point before I go to ania Meal martin has said in the last couple of days that he's going to lead finnafall Into the next election. I think maybe if there was if there were going to be any changes You know, you'd want a decent lead in time. Um, I don't know. Maybe even that might have been what sparked This this meeting of backbenchers Would you would you be happy with me or martin to lead finnafall into the next election? You know all that's involved in the campaign and the debates and and what have you we're bearing in mind at that point You know, obviously finna gale, uh, if it ran its full time would have one or two years in in in government What's your feelings about the leadership of the party? Yeah, no, I think our leadership is strong at the minute. I think me how martin's since getting into government he has As if I need to since he's took up his role as t-shirt. I think he's proved himself Um, I think he's done a fantastic job and my opinion always is one person doesn't make a party We're a party of a membership or a party of a parliamentary party Um, it's a team effort. I don't think it should boil down to the responsibility of one person Um, but I'm very satisfied with um, me and martin's leadership at the moment Okay, uh, right, uh, onion onion McKinley. Um, what is your views on, uh, leal veracar taking over as the leader of the country again Um as the dpp's decision Uh enough for you to say that yes, he's the right man for the job He's a safe pair of hands and someone and so forth To be honest, I think he will be t-shirt again because I don't think me how martin would have the backbone to tell him that he can't I don't think that Ben of all should have gone into a coalition with fenigale Um, I think it should have been a national government that should have included fin It should have included shin fin. I think that may have um pause shin fin a little bit In their tracks. I think the fin have fallen fenigale are being tied with the same brush They've been seen as two of a kind I do have to wonder if the fenigale tds actually want leo as There as the t-shirt I would question that Um, he is still being referred to as leaky leo even though the dpp has cleared him of that Um At the minute it's a bit like moving deck chairs on the titanic I think it's a sinking ship and I think the government are going to be held accountable to the next general election And they'll be judged on their record Um, I read actually in a Sunday independent poll Uh, that the public have more confidence in the queen than they have in an Irish leader Which is telling about the quality of Irish leadership the Irish public The Irish public um You said that you think that we might have a general election before 2023 is out. What would trigger it? Um, well again, the government are losing their numbers and I think um If they call to a vote and they vote with their conscience rather than with the government or vote with Um, just because they're in government. I think that they need to learn to vote with their conscience I think that will trigger it will trigger a vote or again the more the more votes the shin fain are getting and if the shin fain can Call in the independence then I think that will trigger an election as well Would that mean shin fain would have to do a deal with the rural independence in advance of a vote similar to what they have right now because my understanding is uh On a couple of votes that a few of their demands had to be Met to ensure their support. Is that part of politics or would you prefer if a new government Tried to do it without that sort of, you know, I'm not saying it's backhanded, but those sort of side deals Well, I suppose what we'd prefer and what might happen might not be the might not be the same but Um, I do see an election being triggered. I don't I don't think this is going to last full term at all And I can see it within within a year Susan, what do you think? Do you think that this uh, government will go full term? Or do you think do you agree with Anya that uh, either by way of a no confidence motion or maybe a controversy or something that We could see an election in 2023 Well, given the fact that we're what two two and a half years in now at the minute and there's already Calls of no confidence. Um, like I don't agree with but um, I can't see it. I mean we The reins are being handed over in um in december and we take it from there, but I'd be doubtful that it would Because it's a tough one, isn't it really because of the arrangement between fina fall and finnegale finnegale sort of have the The leadership leading into the next election Uh, you've already heard we've already heard from some fina fall members that you know finnegale members elected members aren't afraid to have a dig at them And fina fall could find themselves in a position that if they try and hit back That they're not fulfilling their end of the bargain or that they're being you know Backstabbing or underhanded like it is setting up quite well for the next couple of years to favor finnegale much more than it might Fina fall it'll be interesting to see how your party handles it because you you do want to be a gaining momentum in the lead up to an election I presume Yeah, absolutely, and I think On a number of occasions. I've seen on social media and in the media that um finnegale is rolling behind Fina fall policy and I suppose for want of a better word taking a bit of glory for things that fina fall have pushed through And there's no reason we can't we can't do the same. Um, I mean if you think of went the way leo faradkar Uh, the way he came out on the turf issue Um, and also the way he came out on some of the budgetary measures, you know before they'd actually been Been finalized, you know what I mean? It did make him look pretty good And and the leader even though, you know, meal martin effectively is the leader Yeah, well, I mean there's like we don't know what's down the road. There's nothing stopping me how martin coming out and role reversal him calling leo out on um On different policies and stuff like that. I don't think he will and I think that's why you have back benchers meeting on the qt Um, I don't know I I think me holds very straight to the point and I think I think he will Call him out. He has like recently in the doll like he's actually surprised me like he's got very good to call mary leo out What are you laughing at that come I just think that we're talking about the t-shirt of the country and it's kind of like Oh, yeah, he's gotten a bit better at that and a bit better at this I think that the problem that finnafall have and you ask Greg what might trigger an early election? The finnafall back benchers basically is what might trigger an early election The poll numbers regarding finnafall or what might trigger an early election They're floundering around 15 to 17 percent down from 22 percent in the general election I think that that's what we the issue that we're faced with here for the stability of this government Um, I think the other issue is that me ho marten is um However, people perceive him. What is the alternative? I mean finnafall have very few talented tds In order to go call hands. They're ready to go. He's ready to go Yeah, ready to go Come in susan, of course. Don't be so polite. I don't think that's a very fair comment saying that finnafall don't doesn't have Um talented tds. Give us a couple of names as potential leaders susan. I don't think I'm putting you on the spot You're bound to have considered this Leaders are finnafall. Yeah, that would be that if same me who might decide to To pack it in tomorrow. Who could be a maybe one or two names? I mean jim will call hens there. Um Matthew will go ask there There's numerous like there's plenty there that have the choice of we have to fall back on if It was a thing but I don't think we're in a position to even be looking at that at the moment I don't believe you never mentioned charlie mcconnellogue Well charlie's there as well. Absolutely. Like there's no there's no reason why not but I mean I don't think we're in a visit. I don't like understand why we're exactly talking about this. I don't think um me ho marten Is anywhere near ready to leave as leader? Yeah, okay? Well, listen, we'll move on then so poor aiming ryan's not getting a look in here No one's mentioned him at all. What what's going on there? Anyone want to jump in? No Everyone's switched to mute. Okay. Uh, thank you very much for that. 08 660 25,000 That's the whatsapp and text number 08 660 25,000 A caller says there's no difference who's in power There are few hard years ahead and shin fame won't change it either. Uh, just a question on that. I mean Uh, on yet what would have I mean I presume an opposition party wouldn't want to say really Do we need an election now because we're taking over at a very difficult time? Is that how politics works on you? Could you imagine that type of scenario that yeah three years ago might have been okay? But now Everything that everyone's feeling we're going to be expected to fix because we promised we can We can't because that's not how things work. Uh, and and now we're we're uh, we're not on the ditch We're on the field and it's not quite uh, how we said it was going to be I don't see that happening great to be honest I think shin fame have been gearing for government for quite some time and over the last number of years They've gained a huge amount of ground Um, I think they're ready for a government. Um Whether the country is ready for them to be in government or not is another one And whether they will make the changes that they promised is another big question. Um, but I can't see them Just saying no, we're not ready for government Um, Declan the caller says me home martin said there was three billion euro being taken from the covid fund to assist Uh, uh, Ukrainian refugees someone's saying that's a lot as to what you were saying that the EU are funding this Yeah, and a lot of the money in the covid fund comes from the european union solidarity fund Okay. Well, that's that then. All right Um charity must begin at home. We've let our own people down Well, charity can begin at home and be at home at the same time as helping other people too. Uh, they're not, uh, mutually exclusive Right. Okay. Listen. I better take a break. We're gonna have more from our guests in just a couple of minutes. Stay right where you are If you've got great photos sitting on your phone or in the cloud Why not visit niggies.ie and see the range of creative options available Get larger seven by five prints for the same price as a standard six by fours with 100 prints for just 12 euro Or select from the great range of photo gifts like mouse and placemats phone covers jigsaws and clocks Click and collect or have them delivered. 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Do you think it's advisable and The general consensus is that Fiona fall might be the big losers in such a move Yeah, I mean obviously Um, it's it's quite vague at the minute that they've said that they're going to run candidates like Excuse me. We're not sure how many candidates they're going to run. They just want to run in micro affected areas um My only like concern would be as in We know that they'd be very strong on housing, but we've seen no policy We don't know their stance on health on education agriculture and fisheries Like I think it's all quite vague at the minute what I suppose the way I see it is I'm a very big advocate for Every vote counts and if somebody runs and whether they get 10 votes or they get 10 000 votes It's going to affect somebody. So I mean, um, yeah, I think it's a quite it's quite hard at the moment to make it kind of informed Decision or decision or opinion Yeah, I got you on you again. What do you think? Do you think that they make a grip will have um a political impact? Especially in donny gall um because of the likes of joe mccune charny mcconnell because they're already under pressure um It could well be three chimp in seats and I can make a seat and an independent Because of the mental pain that is being caused Um by this issue for those mica families. I do think that they'll elect a candidate in donny gall and they'll go to councillors first Um, it's embarrassing to see how the government parties have treated the people and the mica families will have their say on They'll cast their votes at the next elections at local and general election Um, as I said, it'll be interesting and declin actually said it earlier on as well where nyle blaney stands next week Will he wear the donny gall jersey or will he vote because he's uh in a fall senator? um He was quite different. I think he was uh in some of the contribution I saw from him uh during the brief housing committee exchange He is on the issue of say for instance Foundations, you know, he seemed to have been going I don't want to misrepresent anyone here But from what I heard he was he seemed to be suggesting that you know, let's wait and see with the foundations That that's not necessarily something that needs to be introduced in this legislation right now If i'm wrong i'm i'm very happy to correct that but that's what I heard um, so As I say with that in mind it will be interesting to see the the way he votes Declan What do you I'm going to have to ask you first and foremost and I think I do this every time you're on Because people text in and saying well well as Declan decided what he's doing now I don't know if that's because they're you're incredibly popular or what the story is there I mean, have you had any conversations with anyone or that you're prepared to to divulge as it relates to running for a party in the next General election as to say people text in every time that you're on Wanting to find out and it would be remiss of me not to ask you and it's up to you of course whether you reply or not Well, I've had conversations with different people have been approached by different people But I can categorically say that party politics, whether it is my action group or whether it's one of the main established parties Does not interest me and I believe in the strength of independent representation and the importance of that Um, so that's a categorical answer for you Well, I'll not ask it again now, but that but that but that does mean that you would Look at your options in terms of maybe contesting the election as an independent a national election Well, I I think we have a local election to get through first potentially And I would certainly be looking towards that first If a general election were to come up in the meantime, I think that might be a bit carried before the horse But it's certainly considered but No firm decisions on it. Absolutely not. Yeah, I think that's pretty shrewd I'm not sure how well people do when they try and jump the the Local politics. I don't think it works often very very well What do you think the ramifications will be of a mica action group candidate? Um, and do you think it's the right move and what do you think the fallout from that could be? Declan And I think shall we presume it's it would be an initial and based candidate I think at this point we could probably presume that's the case We think so. Yeah. Um, I think that the ramifications will be very significant I think it's a very interesting move by the mica action group. Um, I think that It is extremely understandable Um, I'm a mica affected homeowner myself. My house has to be demolished at some point. Um, we're looking to access The scheme. Do we want to access scheme? Who knows? Um, I'm also the chairperson of the community center, which is uh affected by mica So I understand the issues and I'm affected by them personally I live in a community that a lot of my neighbors are affected by it as well. Um, I think the ramifications of a mica party Um will have a lot a significant Impact on on a general election absolutely I do also think that they it could potentially with the right candidates have a significant impact on the local elections, too Um, it'll be very interesting to see how it pans out. I think that What Susan has said is correct in terms of What are the issues uh beyond defective blocks? The policies around Listen, uh, was it a former deputy gilday. It's thomas gilday, isn't it? Uh, yeah Um, he was elected on the the mmds issue single, uh single Issue, uh, he didn't really contribute much to the doll But I think he he achieved what he set out to do So we're not against, you know, electing single issue candidates here in this county So maybe they don't need a portfolio and need to start getting into other areas of politics Yeah, and I think really to be honest greg it's going to depend on the timing of the election Um, if the election is sooner rather than later, I think a mica candidate will do very very well I think as time goes on, um, I'm not sure how much potency the issue is going to have And the reason for that is that unfortunately the government have pursued a policy of divide and conquer with mica affected homeowners The haves and the have nots and people who previously were on the streets are now going to access schemes that are, you know That they have the ability to access And this may not be as much of a live issue for them Or as much of an issue that would sway them towards voting for a single issue candidate as opposed to another candidate Who is very strong on mica, but also on other issues as well And and susan, are you confident that they fully intend to run a candidate or possibly was it You know a tactic in the run up to a vote to try and further persuade Charlie mcconnellog in other words to say look at you can you can you can back us and probably get elected The next time or not back us and you don't stand a chance now I'm not saying that's the case, but I wonder are they do you think do you feel the fully intent on on running a candidate or was it Perhaps, you know, uh, like chess, uh, they tried to get Charlie mcconnellog into checkmate Yeah, no, I would no I would imagine that they will um, they're in a very strong position to draw on a candidate. Um So no, I don't think it was tactical. I do think neither time enough the announcement Was probably tactical, but I do fully believe that they they are going to run somebody Okay, listen. Thank you very much for that. Um, Anya, um, I'll go to you first Obviously, um shin fain is the opposition or one as part of the operation opposition put through a number of proposals as it relates to eating Uh, the the the the burden on parents and guardians with back to school measures the government have announced their own so far I think it's an extra hundred euro Uh back to school allowance and also Free school bus places now, I still haven't been able to ascertain whether this is all children or just children that use bus or bus air and services I I actually haven't been able to get any clarification on that Um, do you think the government has gone far enough particularly given the fact that they might be able to go a little bit further in in the budget towards the end of september I don't believe that the hundred euro increase, um, is enough to be honest One of the four parts of the ion tools budget campaign for budget 2023 was actually looking for an increase in capitation which would mean less needed less need for Parents contributions the ion to are looking for a 20% uplift in that In that capitation grant because before the pandemic and of course now with the cost of living crisis Schools were already struggling to make basic expenditure um But they there's a survey done by the cpsma the catholic primary schools management association And they found the schools independently raised 46 million euro to keep their doors open last year. Absolutely astronomical Primary schools receive a capitation grant of one euro per pupil per school day and second level schools get almost double that amount um It shows the different studies the oacd study which we look at very much in terms of our free budget Costings and showed that Ireland spends an average 20% less per student at primary level than other developed countries do So the ion to are calling for a significant increase in the school capitation The better fund schools and reduce the burden on parents who already have to give additional financial support Now you'd hope I mean obviously that figure you mentioned as it relates to you know, um, the parents and guardians contribution That's not a big I presume you'd want the government to go beyond that but it's not a huge, uh, a bridge to gap Well, captain, sorry What we that what we've estimated that from september to december next year because obviously when it comes to schools the The effect of the budget only kicks in in september From september to december next year that's 6.9 million euro Which is actually a drop in the ocean for an education budget very very a very small amount Over the course of the year over a full year it could be 20 million but from next year's budget It's actually only 6.9 million which is very small. Um, you know, my schools were very aware that everybody's Builds are increasing but obviously those bills are increasing in schools as well So we are asking that the government would take them on board the ion shows play Increase that capitation to ease the burden on parents In the time of historic inflation especially. Yeah, um, dachlan, would you concur? absolutely, I think that There are a lot of issues that need to be resolved and can be resolved Um through budgetary measures. Um, I think one of the big issues around the back to school allowance Um, not only is has it not been increased by enough But also the the income threshold needs to be increased so that more families can access that payment Um, we know the people are feeling the squeeze big time and it's summertime And that's only going to get worse as we go into the autumn and winter So I think that's one of the key measures that they need to look at is increasing the income threshold And I think that is something in fairness to the government. They are probably going to look at as part of the budget Susan Yeah, no, just agree with dachlan Um, when I was you know, I was doing my reading and whatever on the topic And I that that was the one thing that I did take away from it that the thresholds could be um Could be reviewed and I think um I don't think it stretches far enough for Work and families. Um, I think it could stretch a little bit further Susan, uh, thanks for coming back on again. It's been loving to have it lovely having you on Thank you very much indeed. Have a lovely weekend. Enjoy the weather next week if you can that's susan mehan there Uh, dachlan mehan, uh, as always a pleasure to have you on. Thanks for your time today. Thank you very much Take care of yourself. Have a lovely weekend and on you last but not least. Thank you So much. I really appreciate your time as always Thank you. All right. Take care of yourself, right That was uh our friday panel 08 6 60 25 000 whatsapp some text that number or give us a call and 07 4 9 1 25 000 Do you know how green skills can benefit you as an employer? 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Just content clock donal kavna at the highland radio news desk a community worker in the milford area says He is interested in becoming involved in politics But not with one of the established parties deklin mehan manager of the milford and district resource center is a regular Commentator and he was speaking on this morning's nine to noon show He did recently meet with punished leo varatka while he was in the county That's led to speculation that deklin mehan may be targeted by finaguel as a future candidate Well this morning. He told greg hughes that while he is interested in politics He is more interested in independent representation. I've had conversations with different people have been approached by different people but I can Categorically say that party politics whether it is mike action group or whether it's one of the main established parties Does not interest me and I believe in the strength of independent representation and the importance of that We have a local election to get through first potentially And I would certainly be looking towards that first if a general election were to come up in the meantime That might be a bit cared before the horse. Um, but it's certainly considered but uh, no firm decisions on it Absolutely not Well, it was confirmed this morning that chin fein will table a motion of no confidence in the government next week The party confirmed the move shortly before half past eight They've challenged independence not to support the current government which lost its technical majority After dunigal to the jomeq resigned the finaguel whip and voted against the new defective bloc's scheme this week chin fein's agriculture spokesperson matt carthy is dismissing suggestions that this is effectively a waste of time We have a responsibility I would argue an obligation to hold government to account and to challenge a government that is failing The government have been in office for two years as I say if you look at all of the big All of the areas on which people need government to act and act decisively and act in In a way that actually delivers for them government have been failing Over 5200 people have been waiting over five years for hospital treatment According to freedom of information figures there awaiting outpatient inpatient and day case appointments Goa University Hospital the worst affected with nearly 800 people waiting over five years Some of those would be from dunigal will dunigal gp kiron al-fari says while five years is an inordinately long time Lengthy waiting lists are becoming the norm the norm for us for many services Expecting people to wait over a year and you're warning them of that And unfortunately then as gps We're trying to deal with them on a day to day in a week by week basis to try and maybe manage their symptoms Making frequent calls writing repeated letters to try and get people access to the service that we feel the need The number of individuals and organizations being targeted by the criminal assets bureau in dunigal has fallen substantially The bureau's latest annual report shows 28 targets in dunigal at the end of last year Was down from 48 at the end of 2020 a drop of almost 42 percent The figures show cab is investigating almost 1,800 targets nationally including 27 individuals or crime gangs not resident in ireland Facebook and instagram could be shut down in europe as ireland's data protection commission plans to follow through on an order to stop them Transferring data to america parent company meta has repeatedly threatened to cut off the sites claiming transferring european data To the u.s. Is vital for its operations european authorities have ongoing privacy concerns about the storage of citizens information in the u.s Because of surveillance programs there the irish independence tech editor adrian weckler said the irish data protection commissioner helen dixon Is very much taking the lead on this issue She has sent her draft decision to other european data regulators, which she's obliged to do Under european law they will come back within 30 days with their comments in any objections and then basically data transfers Using facebook and instagram Will in theory be banned from the european union to the u.s And the transport minister has been challenged over recent cancellations on the dunigal town to dublin boss route w tamas wringle told minister aimin ryan that cancellations wouldn't be allowed to happen To that extent anywhere else in the country and just one day an incredible six services between dublin and dunigal were cancelled I've been contacted by people who have missed important appointments people who have missed work and people who have missed flights due to this This is completely unacceptable and frankly it would not be allowed to happen anywhere else So why has it been allowed to happen in dunigal? The dunigal dublin service is already struggling to meet demand With every single boss jam packed when just one service is cancelled It creates an incredible backlog of people waiting to travel when as many as six are cancelled It causes total mayhem Yeah, dr. Pringle if you could forward me the details of specific examples you have I mean a lot of organizations are in real difficulty with coming out of covet or a recent wave in covet But I'd happily follow up and look to see why in dunigal what happened and report back to you Well forecast and met here and tell us there'll be patches of mist in places this morning It'll be mainly dry for the rest of the day with a fair amount of cloud and some sunny breaks However patchy drizzle possible in places as well particularly in coastal areas top temperatures 16 or 17 degrees celsius with moderate Westerly breezes and that's highland radio news. We're back with news again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team. 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Oh wait six 60 25 000 or call don marie and old seven four nine one 25 000 a little later on We'll be joined in studio by michael leddie and fenula rabbit where we will Be bringing you uh, we'll just be chatting all things entertainment We want you involved in that conversation as well So uh, if you've been to the cinema watched anything on tele or doing anything on to the theater, whatever you might do Anything that will lift our spirits. I want to know what you're going to do For the following week because it seems our weather is going to improve We're not going to necessarily get what they're getting in the southeast But the weather forecast is very favourable. Uh, so tell us what you're going to be doing We're also going to be talking about a show coming up and on green on we hear about a group of Musicians sailing into donnie gall for a tour and also we'll look forward to the weather With our friends at carlo weather To see what the week has in store for us specifically here in the northwest because you know what we can do We can tend to see a national weather forecast and attribute it to us And then that weather doesn't quite arrive and then we all fall out with each other All right, let's get to some of your comments here. Why doesn't the mica Group approach the president and ask him not to sign the bill Okay, that's uh, I don't think it works. Uh, it is the reason why I think shin fain should approach declamine about becoming a candidate for the next election I think declin categorically now at this stage has said he will not be uh involved in party politics Be it finna gale finna fall shin fain or indeed The mica action group they're a political party. They're forming. He has an interest in politics, but it's through uh independence Uh vilification and cynical of our current government is an easy opt-out What about support and sensible suggestions for reform bring them to us as well by the way? Um It's very important that if you Believe the government is doing well or if you are happy with what they're doing Or if you think things could be tweaked or changed or anything like that there now That's whether you're a party supporter or floating voter or an elected representative Okay, because say for instance in our conversation yesterday um, we we extended invites to Uh government reps to come on and and enter the discussion as it relates to the outcome of that bill in the door today We had an old graffina fall member on the party to try and Strike as much balance. This is not a pile on here by the way So if you're listening, uh, and you want to say hold on i'm sick and tired of what people are saying This is what's happened in this country over the last couple of years. This is where it's been delivered Please the lines are open for you as well. Oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand That's to call or text a whatsapp. Oh eight six sixty 25,000 i would very much welcome that because it makes my Job easier in in terms of trying to strike a balance So if you feel that certain parties or people aren't getting a fair crack of the whip or they need defending or whatever Get in touch with us, please This caller says finna gale finna fall never did much for donna gall after Partition also never put candidates in the six To represent the nationalist people when they had and have that mandate They let the unionists take over the electorate also We are crying out for a way railway system and the a5 To the capital hopefully shin fane get a majority in the next election Another caller says we have two parties running our wee county charlie was told To tell the line or else why would another party want the job now a lot of big unpopular decisions to be made? That's a really good point. You know, i'm not a shin fane supporter says this listener But what podred mcgloughlin said yesterday is completely spot on and exactly what is on the mind of all ordinary people It's not divisive It's time we called a spade a spade and stopped beating about the bush with political correctness And i don't think those comments stray beyond that There is a slight problem As well just and and i'm part of the media i think um, but the media have a responsibility to um The media have a responsibility to report stuff accurately as much as it's possible as well Because the comments made on the program yesterday were uh, it was a social democrat politician I think in doblin that didn't i don't know if they heard it or not But they gave their interpretation of his comments and then it was picked up by the independent and rte And they never came to us or me looking for the source of the information You know where they could play it out and or a journalist could listen to it and say i wonder is there a story here The story was the fact that one politician didn't like what another said And i just think you know, it does no harm to make a couple of calls. We pretty much i think Always make calls before we cover a story to try and give people a fair reply or whatever And i think really that should happen on a national scale and i think the uh, the people Regardless of who you support or what your feelings are deserve that This caller says it's harder on charlotte mccunlough if he voted against it He'd lose the party whip Then he couldn't bring anything to the county He'd also lose his position as a minister and maybe he feels that he is a job to do for Farmers and fishers. Uh, so that could have been part of his motivation as well A caller says there's a cap of 420 euro five hundred euro for building a house. This would surely do the job But you see it's the four hundred and twenty thousand euro is the absolute maximum But out of that there's fees that come out of that And lots of all the stuff that come come come out of that as well So, uh, you're left with much much less than the four hundred and twenty thousand euro for Building your property and indeed if some people go into the scheme at the lowest level They would still find themselves as it stands having to come up with 10 20 30 40 000 euro all the maths have been done Very few people can access that scheme As it is and replace their house without having to and often people can't find an awful lot of money themselves Patrick says we've all heard what happened in the door on wednesday night Especially the disdain shown to the mica victims by the gallway tent party for this campaign Has only fallen short by a couple of tds not doing the right thing And so the mica teams should keep pushing forward with one of the most disciplined and dignified campaigns This banana republic as they described it has ever seen Why don't why don't I don't know we don't oh, sorry. We don't need two conservative Irish parties anymore. Sorry my mistake Um, does it really matter who leads when everyone knows it's the civil servants who call the shots? Um, we heard from independent deputy thomas pringle who says that often government parties use that as an excuse They are the democratic elected people and if they have a will then there is a way Charlie won't be tdf the next election. I feel so betrayed believes a caller I feel like the people of this country are treated like second-class citizens says another The t-shirt is there to show the Irish people support to the Ukraine. 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Nice to be with you Yeah, great to have you again before we get to some questions and indeed maybe to give listeners an opportunity to send any last Minute questions in there might have We learned during the week that a man who claimed he suffered severe injuries when a motorbike ran over him during an Off-road race has had his case dismissed at the High Court John Hurley was competing in the motocross race in a field at Port Arlington leash when he says a bike hit Hit at a bend and he was knocked off But as he lay on the track another motorbike ran over him Mr. Hurley who blacked out suffered fractures to his pelvis and spent several weeks in hospital afterwards a month's on crutches Miss justice may marry rose Guarati said there was no question of dishonesty in the way the case was presented She had sympathy but said nothing had been proven in terms of negligence. Did this case catch your eye at all and why? Yeah, well it did in that It's unusual It's one of these cases which highlights what there's an old Latin maxim in the law. It's called valenti non-fit in duria reg and not to bore your listeners what that basically means if you Agree to take a risk and you suffer or sustain an injury or damage as a result of it You can't therefore claim off another party. So in this particular instance, you have a motocross Now in like in any interpretation, it's a highly highly dangerous sport And these are motorbikes that are taking part in a race It's in a field. They're high powered and in this the circumstance of this were quite unusual in that unfortunately John Hurley was a guy in his 40s He was going into a bend and there was a collision with another motor cyclist Which again is quite, you know foreseeable But the the guys coming behind him then one of them ran over Mr Hurley who was on the ground and he had fairly very significant pelvis injuries and he was weeks in hospital And you'd have to say you would have to have every simply for him So then he takes an action against the race organizers He pledges that there wasn't adequate marshalling at the bend That they didn't do a proper risk assessment That that if they had had done that that they would have seen that there was a danger Involved in this in that particular bend and a marshall could have highlighted it That wasn't accepted by the judges happen to say there was two expert witnesses give testimony in this case And one of them made the point a very telling point that even if there was a marshall at that bend The accident would have happened anyway because they the two the two motorbikes collided and then The unfortunate Mr. Hurley who is on the ground if you can picture it There's more bikes coming behind at speed and one of them goes over him now. Who is who is at fault? Can can the organizer be held to account for that? But it ran for two days in the high court The judge let him down very likely as in you know, she did have every sympathy for him But the one point that I keep emphasizing with all these types of actions You have to be able to establish negligence You have to be able to prove that there's some fault some active commission or omission on the part of the other party Just this just didn't stand up and the judge in this case Preferred the testimony of one of the expert witnesses and adopted the old maxim as I said If if you actually volunteer to take a risk in a highly dangerous sport and you're injured and you know those risks You take the consequences. You can't therefore come and point the finger at the organizer if they're doing their best It's not a perfect word The onus is on them to take all reasonable steps in this case. I'm actually on that bend According to the expert wouldn't have made any difference and I actually would have to probably agree But where is the bar in where you see in a case being thrown out understood But where is the bar in terms of highly dangerous because we do see successful cases in soft play areas, uh, you know playgrounds play parks all of these There is a risk involved goal cart and do you know what I mean? There's always a risk involved so I mean obviously there has to be a level of negligence proven there Does this change anything do you think do you think does this set a precedent because as you say highly Some people might argue motocross is one of the safest sports in the world You know like the you might hear from boxer boxing fans or rugby fans Do you know what I mean? So where is that bar and could this have any consequences for any future claims? It has consequences for anybody participating in such sports In taking an action against co-competitors and the organizations who promote the actual sport Unless they can really show that they have been They haven't elected the responsibilities in the proper marshalling of the event this particular case that didn't happen So it will send some shockwaves To many litigants who may be considering similar types of actions remember We have one of the most successful international rallies here every year and that gives causes gives cause for many accidents Actually, but as far as being able to make a claim in negligence It's very it's very very difficult in these type of circumstances You pay your money you take your risk and and you take the consequences Yeah, okay a quick word of the two of you don't mind because we've talked about in this in the past Giselae Maxwell This week formally appealed her conviction And 20 year prison sentence for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underaged girls For more than a decade the socialites notice of appeal was filed nine days After she was sentenced by US circuit judge Allison Nathan in Manhattan Should we have just expected this of course or is there anything of note there that jumps out at you? Well Elaine Maxwell is I think now 60 in around 60 years of age Epstein was around mid 60s. I think when he decided to take his own exit in 2019 While waiting trial on sex crimes and He didn't he didn't face the consequences of that Um, the point I think that the lawyers were hoping On on appeal and they're actually trying to make the point in the case proper when it when it came before the court that If this was a very high profile trial and that Elaine Maxwell was being pursued because Epstein had evaded justice Um, and they're still hanging their hopes on that to maybe get a reduction in the sentence Horace 60 coming out at 80 most of the rest of her life I have to say though that the the prosecution were looking for 55 years while the defense were looking for somewhere in the region of a category from 5 to 10 years Um, I was not at all surprised with the 20 I hadn't actually marked up as it looked like Like that judge Allison Nathan would go down that middle of the road route What I'd be hopeful of the appeal guarded. Maybe maybe five years may possibly taken off it But um, other than that, um, she's spent most of the rest of her days. I think uh incarcerated I presume she has information that might be useful in uh investigating matters further surrounding Her former partner Would that be being pursued? Are you do you think she will see how this appeal goes perhaps before? Trying to to maybe do a deal to get some liberty back for what remains of her life Um, well, I suppose whenever that would be sentence if on a sentence to 20 years Your first the first option you look at is an appeal You're going to have plenty of time to prepare it. No, she has really gotten nothing to lose here An appeal of course the kind of the have the right to up the sentence I don't think that that will happen. I think that she has to take her chances And bring and try to bring it back maybe advance the argument a little bit more That this was really to get her to get somebody for epstein's crimes But she was a co-conspiracer. She's a trafficker. She was held She was convicted out of four of the five counts. So it's very very serious described as a heinous and predatory crime Um, it won't the sentence. I don't believe will be reduced an awful lot and I wouldn't be hopeful at all I have an actual appeal. I like her winning an appeal at all Okay, um, we're going to get to your questions right now. Sheamus if you don't mind holding We're going to take a really short break and we'll be right back At Michael Murphy sports and leisure. 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That's the inference in it. Um, I'm not sure what they are We don't have a lot of information on that Um, I don't see it as being ideal at all Um, I don't see it as being maybe in the best interest of the child in which any family law proceedings have to be Interpreted That's that's the emphasis a court would put on any rulings it ever makes The welfare of the child is always parliament if you're in a situation where a parent is Recording a handover as I think it's described here a handover situation Um, I don't think that um, log is well for for the parties and I would have serious misgivings about it Um, why I'm not sure as to why they would want to have it admitted in evidence They don't indicate that at all. Um, what I would say is this that um, these these type um of intrusions under GDPR um, I take it very seriously that um, only back last month or so and minister McIntyre Is proposing to introduce facial recognition technology for GARD which hasn't even hit the statute books as yet, but um to ID and track potential potential criminals in certain circumstances so that they would have facial recognition That's already been tried. I have to say in the uk and it hasn't been terribly successful It's been about 85 percent or 80 percent plus and have found that the identities Were were actually in were erroneous. So Um, and also they are very qualified that such technology would only be used when there's a threat to national security or threat to life or um in child abduction Scenarios that type of so and that's not even on the criminal statute book as yet So the caller now Referring to it in the family law scenario situation We need a lot more more detail of it. I don't see How it could assist or how it could be relevant and The interest of the child I would have some misgivings about that And this is not obviously a legal opinion, but it sounds to me like this could actually be, you know, used against the person You know, this is the type of behavior. This is what I had to endure whatever it might be I just I just think it might be quite easy to argue Even if it is legally permissible might be easy to argue against the person Obtaining the footage just to clarify on that a call us as I thought that in relation to recording If one party consented which can be yourself or a friend then everything was above board Yeah, but this is a situation where there's not there's obviously there's no inference of any party consenting here This is this is a situation as it's described where One is going to use this footage or attempting to use footage In some manner to gain some advantage in a court of law And I said I've serious misgivings about that I'll just stay on in the same issue here just for our next question My partner keeps missing the time they are meant to see our child and then tries to arrange new ones at the last minute Which I can't accommodate. I'm worried that if I go to court, this could reflect badly on me Could it Difficult to see that Greg if it's if the fault lies on the other party I think that family law That phrase even law I always I've had issues with it And family law cases coming to trial in court settings Firstly in relation to any family law matter And as I've said many times Courts will try to do the best for the family and to do the best for the children And they will act in the best interest of the children only and it is it is in that scenario That parties have to set aside their own views on each other And set aside any agendas that might have And act responsibly in the best interest of the child and that obviously Include situations such as access and times etc And really if there's breaches of that you can go into court And you can have them specifically set by the court in my opinion There has to be flexibility in these situations and it comes back to this point again The flexibility is in the best interest of the child and obviously a child should have access to to For a balanced upbringing to both parents if that if that can if that can be done reasonably and practically Okay, I'm not sure this is a legal question But I'll ask anyway and it's one actually what I'll try and do if you can't answer it Seamus is trying to find an answer over the weekend for the assistant But they're a long-term partnered not married They want to know what supports they can seek out their partner passed away suddenly and we're very sorry to hear that They have no children and they were renting a house together The caller feels very lost and struggling both emotionally and financially Are there any supports that they're entitled to? We have been together for years Yeah, well, I mean I'd have to direct that to the Department of Social Welfare and Family Affairs And they would certainly be able to assist them. I what I would say is this that They didn't enter a civil partnership and they don't have a civil partnership registered And that could come against them in this scenario. I'm just flagging that up If they though if the person was able to prove they cohabitated for a certain amount of time and ensured their life entirely Is there any way that there could be a qualification there for the widow's grant? I wonder no, well, there there could be A quality there could be an entitlement under the cohabitation legislation back a decade plus ago for a claim by the partner To a share in the deceased state that could it could give rise to that as far as welfare legislation Is concerned if they are not Registered as as partners and having a civil partnership registered I'm just flagging it that that could give rise to a difficulty The Department of Social Welfare and Family Affairs would certainly be able to clarify that for them Of course, you have every sympathy for them But that's the whole idea of having registration of a civil partnership But only the cohabitation Legislation if you're talking about a claim on the estate there could be something in that and it would certainly be worth Further investigating Okay, this is another kind of an interesting question because it's not legal really in the full sense of the word Somebody I know is driving without tax and insurance Can you please tell me what the repercussions could be because I can't seem to get through to this person the danger And they're at the wit's end in trying to make the point Well, it is legal in that driving that I've taxed and insurance is illegal Um, and that is a criminal offence on the road traffic legislation and has been since God's being was a child So, um, if they continue as where they're at On the road, uh, yeah, they're they're running the gauntlet When when caught and brought before the courts, uh, which probably may be inevitable if they continue with it The sanctions will be imposed and the sanctions can can be quite quite Heavy in that there'll be likely a disqualification period and depending on whether it's a first or second offence And they they that will determine the time that that would be Imposed for and also there'll be a heavy fine. So they're doing it very much at their own risk it is illegal and Get taxed and get insured And if they were to come to the attention of the guarantee as a result of a road traffic collision Or knocking someone over or whatever it might be I presume the sanctions could be greater Well, absolutely, of course and if there's an element of dangerous driving again That would be taken into consideration and they you know, it could even have far worse repercussions And you know, you could be you could be looking at a situation where there's an incarceration pending as a result It just depends on what happens But simplicity are being if they're caught and the guarantee of certain powers that have powers even to seize the vehicle So, I mean It beggars belief that they should be out there flying the face of the law in that manner All right, what's the situation regards tax payments, etc when leaving land or a house to a family member? Um, well, they are governed by what's called a capital acquisitions tax. Um, c at Greg covers both gift and inheritances and In those type of scenarios Depending on the relationship that you have to the donor if it's a gift Or to the person that you are inheriting the property from if it's in a state Uh, it depends on the relationship So for example at the moment the thresholds are set and then after you go above the thresholds you pay the tax So to to give you the example If you're a directly any descendant or son or daughter There's a threshold set at the moment for c at for gift or inheritance at three hundred and thirty five thousand Thereafter you're paying thirty three percent on the inheritance and there may be certain exemptions Yeah, there could be agriculture and reliefs, etc to be taken into into consideration But on the face of it the threshold three thirty five now if we go if we go once removed from that And let's say you're inheriting from a sibling or other or sister or from a uncle or an aunt And the threshold drastically drops to just less than 10 of that to In or around subject to correction 32 and a half thousand for for a sibling or a nephew or niece Then if it's a stranger and somebody is generous enough to give you a gift of 20 say a thousand and Or an inherit or leaves you that in the way, but you're not related to the metal The threshold then is only 16 odd 16,250 So you'd be paying in that example I've given you you'd be paying 33 percent tax On 3,750 And thereafter as you go above it. So there are the thresholds It depends where you come in where where you fit and what relationship you have to either the donor Or the person from whom you are lucky enough to be inheriting lovely stuff Thanks as always and I would go through that from time to time, but we get lots of questions on it Let's stick with that one selling a site. What kind of tax do Does one need to pay to revenue? So someone's selling some land and they want to know what the tax That's where yeah, and I have to I'm seeing this now straight up. I'm not a tax consultant So I'm not I'm not proffer myself to be one and I think that people when they're in these situations They are well advised sometimes to obtain some tax advice from an accountant or a tax expert However, the law on it would is this capital gains tax That's that's another heading of taxation if you're selling a property such as a site as this caller is And haven't said what they're selling it for but the point is It's the value at which they bought it at that's that's of interest So I would have to know what the bought it at and then what they are now securing for it And the differential in between could give rise to a tax of 33 It'd be entitled to offset against that any expenses that had let's say they developed the site the put a road into it And the resurfaced it in somewhere and they upgraded the land Well, they would all be deductible and then whatever your net gain is would be taxable And that if it seemed to be if you're lucky enough that there is a gain it'd be taxable of 33 percent All right, very fine. I will take some advice. Yeah, exactly Finally, could you ask for an explanation of the rule of lapse in relation to wills and estates? Is that a simple one? Well, there is As far as rule of lapse there in my view there is always a beneficiary or a party entitled if there is not And with regard to inheritances and this has come up from time to time Then the state actually step into the shoes Of what would be a beneficiary? So in other words, if you if you can't ascertain who the next of kin is if there are no next of kin at all Well, the ultimate successor is the republic of Ireland Okay. Shameless enjoy your weekend. Thanks for your time as always. Shameless gone off McLaughlin gone on company remount and letter Kenny and online Shameless Yes. Yeah, we're still online Greg at gone.ie or doneigallslisters.ie and a big shout out here We're on the banks of the sunny Lenin for the weekend festival So anybody that's out and about in a loose end get themselves down to the get themselves down to the Lenin Who are you looking forward to seeing Shameless? Well, I think you know, there's only one real big band coming and that you know who they are And I was living next door to her once Take care. Thank you very much. Indeed. 08 660 25,000 is a whatsapp number 08 660 25,000 Or give us a call and 07 491 24 25,000 and don't forget you can email as well You can email the program on Comments at highlandradio.com. Should we come back after the break with a piece of music living next door to us? 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Uh whilst we have time and you took the great effort to get them into us It's very much appreciated. Greg I'll come back to that one on a second Another caller asks does anyone know the proper price of coal? I've been hearing different prices. My call went up 15 euro bag But another person's went up six euro. How can the difference be so big? I can't get over the price increase and variations. Well, I'm don't buy a lot of coal Um, I used to when it was less expensive pick up the small bag at the filling station I know a lot of people think might think that's not maybe the most cost effective way of doing it I don't know but that's what I used to do So I don't know most people buy the bigger bags, don't they? Is there different grades of coal? Um, obviously there's different types of coal Anyone out there? I know someone out there has put the time in and been investigating the coal situation because it's such a huge cost Uh that we're going to see um increase especially heading into the winter unless something drastically changes And listen to Vladimir Putin yesterday. He said to the west You think you can beat us on the battlefield? Well, bring it on. He said yesterday that and it could have been just sabre rattling He said that the their action in Ukraine hasn't even started yet that the special military operation as they describe it is just the start Right anyway, but back to coal anyone understand what the situation with coal is Is there different coal from different areas going up different prices? I've heard 50 euro a bag. That's the way it's heading. Is that right across the board? Okay Uh, right. To call it says we have politicians tied to reality That's what the country needs not yes men and women who don't follow through a government's is business So a business mind is needed. They believe Greg what I can't understand is the people put this government into power Why can't the people not have a vote of no confidence in this government and get them out of power? Every government should be changed at the end of their term and replaced by another party This way every party will be kept on their toes. Of course. You only have to look at how Power has been distributed over the last hundred years to see that that's uh, not really the case I got a scam text from the hsc. There was a link. You could click it said there was a two-year-old charge for antigen tests With the rising cases. It's very easy to get caught. Please don't uh on pass to uh Obviously neither the hsc nor on pass to sending these messages out These are scammers that are exploiting our trust perhaps of the hsc Uh, or on post uh, or we're waiting on a parcel or antigen tests, whatever it might be You know, the url is always a really good indication. Firstly, the hsc will never seek any money from you via text Uh, and also the on past it normally is like on past dash charges dash Dot co or something, you know, it's it's not a Legitimate link and just delete avoid if possible Uh, greg my husband and I both got text messages from the hsc yesterday telling us what you are second booster and to book It an appointment. We have already got it two months ago. They're supposed to be 50 not boosted 50 not boosted But if this sort of thing is happening, is that a true figure? Thank you a very good point If they're so wide of the mark in your house, how accurate is the percentage of those who've been? Second boosted. That's a good question Another caller says the very tragic micro vote this week means that donagall needs to think about a future as an autonomous republic Totally independent of Dublin when you destroy hope you need to take a few giant steps outside your comfort zone and then take action Yeah, I don't know how we would fund that Uh, and I understand where that comment is coming from, but we are a very small population in this county 166,000 And if you think of uh, all of the tax we could muster from everyone in this county It probably wouldn't be enough to maintain our roads let alone invest in a hospital That really is there to cater for I mean relatively small amount of people if you take out those who use sligo in the south of the county And so on and so forth. 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This is highland radio We're gonna relax and talk all things entertainment for the next hour Uh, so stay right where you are get involved in the conversation But first let's get a news update and it's good morning to emma ryan Thanks, Greg. Good morning a community worker in the mulford area has said he is interested in becoming involved in politics But not with an established party Declan mayhin manager of the mulford and district resort center is a regular commentator and was speaking on this morning's nintel nun show He recently met with tannis de leo veracke leading to speculation that he may be targeted by finn gale as a candidate to replace Outgoing deputy joe mcquee however, he told greg hues that while he has spoken to several people He sees himself as an independent Shanfane has denied claims that it's wasting the dial's time by tabling a motion of no confidence in the government next week Party leader mary lew mcdonald says the government has lost its parliamentary majority And has failed to tackle the cost of living and housing crises The minister for transport has been challenged over recent cancellations on the donogall town to dublin bus route Donogall deputy thomas pringle told the dial the cancellations have become far too frequent He says this level of disruption wouldn't be tolerated anywhere else in the country The number of individuals and organizations being targeted by the criminal assets bureau in donogall has fallen substantially The bureau's latest annual report shows 28 targets in donogall at the end of last year down from 48 at the end of 2020 That's a drop of almost 42 percent The government's considering banning the seal of turf online Draft proposals on restricting the selling of turf will be brought by the green party leader eamon ryan next week One of the plan measures would see a ban on ads being placed on websites social media and a newspaper And finally a new code of conduct to help campers enjoy their visit to donogall this summer While at the same time protecting the county has been launched today The new code asks visitors to plan ahead and to be mindful of their surroundings as they travel through the county The full report is available on our website at highlandvideo.com That's all for now. We'll be back with news again at 12 noon Okay, Emma. Thank you very much indeed Can I get two specials, please one sourdough and caesar salad and by the way on 12 weeks pregnant We don't always know who's at risk from covet 19 and other viruses, but we do know how to protect them Keep hands clean and wear a mask Let fresh air in get vaccinated and stay at home if you are unwell from the hsc for us all And a very good morning to michael leddie. Hi, michael. Hello, greg hugh great to have you on michael working first time I feel like I'm making progress and also Finula rabbit. Hi finula. Hi. How are you? How was your weeks? Great. Good very good. And now we've a little bit of warmth and everything We can see a lot of me Is there any houses to rent locally in case anyone wants to They want my mr. Joe and I apologize in advance to my neighbors now come here Yeah, except Tuesday might be a bit rain and Tuesday, but it's looking good for the rest of this week Okay, so we'll see how we get on with that Um, I see both of you mentioning the cinema, but different films as something happened With your friends We were we were the same film, but I also was down in golly. So I had all my nephews and nieces So I went to see it. So you went to see uh minions Yes, I went to see any good That's a long pause. Yeah. No, uh, because it's a hard one to do It wasn't as good as the ones in the past I think you've kind of seen it now even the kids did enjoy it But it didn't have That same kind of laugh out loud that they had with some of the earlier stuff You know when they're tripping over themselves because it is only so much you can do with non-speaking Short little yellow things. They don't speak at all. Well, they kind of speak They kind of speak gobbledygook and they speak a little bit and every once in a while then they throw in the odd word In any language, you know, welcome to the presentation It's a team already But it was it was very nice down the smaller ones really enjoyed it because they wouldn't have known it as much But as it kind of got a bit older that had seen some of the other ones. Yeah, and um Because obviously you've not just the minions in this but the but grew and all that kind of thing It's not and not half as good as the second. Was there any young ones in minion suits causing havoc at your cinema? No, that's uh, was it you? Um, that's your view of it. What did the young ones with you think of it? The younger they were the more they liked it You know, I had like a five six five and six year olds and then I had uh, two eight year olds and a 10 year old Why would you do that to yourself? Oh, I love going to the cinema to see All the popcorn and stuff. Oh me. I would have made sure they had the money with them. No. Oh god. No, yeah No, I love Teach people early that if you want to have fun, you're gonna have to contribute And the five year olds In the friends game you're a moniker who are the fun is organized Organize your fun. I know This particular five year old is already going to take over the world. It's kind of a bit scary So I'm not sure about her before. Yeah, we put your hands on her for cash But um, no, I the the younger ones really enjoyed it. And if you're going to go and see it I'd say aim it towards the younger ones there's uh As they got older they've kind of seen it before it's very much a repetitive of Of what was in the other movies and there's not that much even with this has even been a less of a story of it So, uh, it was kind of just so let's give us the the the will ignore your opinion With respect with respect. Uh, give us the young ones ratings out of 10 Oh, I'd say the littlest ones probably thought it was like about an eight Brilliant and it kind of went down then from there. But there's enough there to get Entertain adults as well if they're doing that. Yeah, that's kind of where they let like let down with some of the others There was you know the way a lot of these and that's why I always like to grab a load of kids and I'd say I'm always doing it Uh, I I'm kind of like the pie. You'd be a very popular sister Uh, I'm one sort of the pied piper when it comes to come to the cinema. I like to I love the cinnamon I like to ring the kids But uh, they've they've come out more excited about about other ones in the past as I said is because I've seen him before but Okay, minions to the rise of room That is finna's rating. Um, she's non-plussed but the young ones with her eight out of 10 Going downwards and I presume eight out of 10 from the youngest age groups going up. Isn't isn't that it? Yeah eight out of 10 Yeah downwards as they get older. All right, okay Now we were talking a little bit about the good weather and hopefully if you're lucky enough to do something nice Let us know what you're doing over the next week if we do get this good weather That they're forecasting for us, perhaps won't be just quite as fantastic in the north versus it might be in the southeast But I want to know what you're doing. You know, we're heading into the weekend. Let's be happy as much as we can I'll wait 60 60 25 000 or call 07 4 9 1 25 000 you have not seen the minions yet and I suspect you won't no So let's go to Thor then. Yes. Um, now Where are we in terms of standalone Thor films? This is brand new. This is a brand new It's the fourth of the Thor movies and it's the eighth time that Chris Hemsworth has played Thor when you count all the avengers movies Um, it's I suppose a direct sequel to Ragnarok, which was the first really really funny one of the Thor movies And it's this. Oh, yeah, it's an absolutely great film I don't think it suffers for some people by comparison to the fact that it came to a movie that was so different And therefore because it's the same again. It can't be different because it's it's a really almost a remake of that one I love this long list of things. I liked christian bale as the villain Loved his performance and loved the villain himself. He was well set up With the marvel villains. They're often quite sympathetic in their origin story and they've done that again here So you can understand why he's doing what he does and he does it very well This is a visual movie. There's a big black and white sequence in the middle of it that I love There's a big city of the gods in the middle that looks amazing. It really does look breathtaking The fight scenes look amazing The bad guy has these villains that are like spiders that come out of shadow and it just looks really cool Um, it's a very funny movie. Chris Hemsworth is funny again Some of the jokes in this are the exact same joke that were in Ragnarok so like Matt Damon is back again doing exactly what he did the last time very environmentally friendly though. They're recycling recycling Yeah recycling so again, you do see some of the same jokes. There are a couple of new jokes as well And they most of them hit the mark. I think they're fine. It's funny Jane Foster who was in the first couple of movies that character returns. I liked her story arc I thought it was very good. I wasn't expecting it. I didn't know where it was going to go I liked what they did with it and there's only a couple things. I wouldn't have liked that much I thought tessa Thompson who's in westworld She's in the movie a lot But her character unlike Ragnarok doesn't really have much of an arc You know, she's there, but there's no reason to have her there And the hub of this is the love story between Thor and Jane and I just wasn't feeling it It's not the most important thing about a superhero movie, obviously But it's not a romance that I was very deeply invested in do we see any other Characters that people might know from this world. No, it's the short answer. No, it's very Oh, sorry, the Guardians galaxy pop. Thank you for Lula. That was I was testing you for Lula to see if you were paying attention Yeah, sorry. The Guardians of the galaxy pop up at the start of this movie They're not part of the main story though So it's basically picking up Thor where he was with the Guardians and then he sort of says It's a Jew to them. So do you need them because I think I caught some of that film. He's Up in the spaceship with them or something Yes, so do you need to see that To to move on to this film not necessarily I I I mean you need to know the marvel universe and you probably would have seen those movies I mean most people have but this is a quite a self-contained story I mean it sets up the villain first And then you meet these guys if you didn't really know who the Guardians were I don't think it'd be I don't think you'd suffer too much. You The basics are given to you. This is the villain. This guy is the hero. He's a bit goofy This is his ex-girlfriend. He's getting together with his ex and it's a bit awkward You could go in blind, but I think there's a very small percentage of people going in not knowing these details Just you Greg if you've seen this yes, we went to we saw together. You are a big fan. I know I actually Passed out a little bit with excitement just thinking about this movie. You were in the last couple of months It's just been adorable. She was so cute. I don't know what I I think I I I I aim too high for Oh, no Tor Ragnarok is probably the greatest comic book movie that's ever been made particularly in this big series I mean it would hundred percent ranked type of the I think this is the 27th movie out of there was a We were discussing this How many movies there's been of sit down and write them down? But this is like the 27 28th movie out of all of the you know from the beginning of this And Tor Ragnarok is so good. And I'm not gonna You're better at me pronouncing the director's name. What's his own title a tiki? Yeah, I can never say it And he just brought something unbelievable. We don't really know if he can say either He's just saying he just says it with such confidence I know it does sound right. He knows Yeah, it does sound right completely. Don't pull at that thread Because everything will unravel that I say every week if you start that kind of thing It does sound right when he says it And I just feel I'm totally in the wrong with it But he did what he did Tor Ragnarok and then he's doing this as well And he's just uh, he just did such an amazing job of it because it just really walked the line perfectly For bringing in the kind of am self depreciation and the humor and that kind of thing. It's just This I felt He leaned a little bit too much into the Into the comedy. Yeah, and it kind of lost something in the in the way like Michael's saying You sort of lost something in the love story and I think that that was part of it Because it just got so much into the trying to be funny that he sort of lost the different things Now it's in that it's it's not that it's not funny. It's just I think for me I just had it built up in my expectations was so high. Yeah, I'm definitely going to go and see it again I definitely enjoyed the story of it or whatever But after seeing it the first time it wouldn't be in my top five of the 28 movies or whatever that you've seen But it is good. It does bring the story forward. It opened up Um a lot of new things then in the end because you know with the comic book movies you get your two Kind of usually hints of what might be coming down the way and that was interesting. There is even before the end credits There's big changes for the franchise. Yeah, there's a huge change of different things that are coming along There will be another Thor for them and it'll be very different. Oh god. Yeah, and there's a there's a new Villain slash hero about to come into the mc universe that sort of pops up and use known from comics I do yeah, you know me. Yeah, but he only appears at the very very very very end But it's so cool and the casting is we were both Again, I was like, I'm not sure how I feel about this movie and then it came up. Oh, no. I like it now It was that good of a kind of a look into the future. It's very good I highly recommend people go and see it. It's definitely a cinema movie because that is what they do The sound the visual The whole thing about it is uh the characters in it have all the kind of uh good You know one liners and that kind of thing that you've come to like and love And I think I I think I just chopped myself in the foot by being a little bit too excited about it And I would say to people. Yeah, don't expect the same impact as regular rock because regular rock came out of nowhere You know, we hadn't seen a comedic Thor movie now we have a second comedic Thor movie So not do you think though though when you introduce comedy then the comedy has to be good It sounds to me like Either the jokes aren't funny. That's the problem. Oh, they're rehashed. No, it's not that. It's just that there's The way For me, there was just too much of it. Okay, and they just took instead of and you know, to me is in the the kind of Comic book story and that sort of thing. It's supposed to be the 60 percent of it Then out of then you have the 20 percent is kind of the over top fighting and all that kind of stuff That's going on with it and then there'd be about 20 percent That's kind of the way the ragnarok started to work down whereas in this he seemed to have leaned way too much Into the comedy The one liner thing and and the love story ended up being more about a love story between Thor and his hammer than it did between, you know, there was little little things like that That was very well done, a metaphor in that story I know, yeah, but that was in the first episode, but no, that was very funny. They really did that for you No, no, it was it was and that's what I'm saying. It was absolutely nothing wrong with it in the sense that it's a really good movie I think this probably is your big post whatever we've all been through movie As well as the the one that went before it and just your Yeah, I just this is the difficult second album. It's the sequel imagine Like it's it is a sequel to a film It's like the start of a new it's the middle of a trilogy that I think this director will do And I think that's the thing. It's it's just like it's like rocky two It's like rambo too. It's like all these things were aliens Which of course was the one that circumvented it by me and probably better Although that's an argument It's it's I just think if you can clear your mind of ragnarok, you'll enjoy this more That's my advice telling me I'm going to see it, you know, and I think it's All right. Okay. Well, listen, it's it's it's a thumbs up. It's two thumbs up I think the only thing it didn't match maybe is your expectations I do think I sort of set myself up for a fall, which people you know, very excited. Yeah, you were like you were Oh god. Oh, you were you were very excited. I actually I literally was Feeling faint. I every time I thought about your marks out of 10 I give it a solid nine. It's got 69 percent on rotten tomatoes two out of three critics like us I think and I I would put it just behind I still think dr. Strange and spider-man are the best of the two of the recent six films So I'd probably put it at number three in the new i haven't seen that 69 my job Yeah, it's a head of second view wings and stuff. Oh, I will like see it as well. Yeah I'm I'm it's a head of eternals. It's a head of shine. Oh god. Yeah It's it's it's usually getting about three stars at the moment from what I can see in the reviews And that's probably where I would put it And so I'd be putting it around a seven or so It is three stars is eight. Is it no six out of ten Eight three it'd be six three. Yeah, three out of five would be six out of ten. That's where I would kind of line with it as well Six out of ten is bad Are you sure you don't want to it's very sure you don't want to push it up to seven point five Because I'm I'm hearing seven point five, but you're saying six I know And you were laughing if under any circumstances that it makes any difference to the viewing people out there And if it would stop them or not stop them Make them go and see it. I will say seven point five It is it is uh, no, it's very good. You de and plus you definitely need to see it anyway Very good. It's not six He's not I agree. He's right And I'm not like I don't want to tell you what's good. Then it was good So in other words, you're not going to move the six so you'll move the I'm just trying to be nice about it Like I just I just didn't come out of it like I you know I've walked out of certain movies marvel movies over the years and different things like uh Couple of the iron man's different things like that and you're just like, oh my god I enjoyed all the iron man's yeah, and you just want and you're just like, oh my god That was just really all right. So yeah, and I just didn't walk out of this I kind of walked out a bit more sort of feeling that little did you see the minions before or after this Oh before See, I think there could be something going on there. No, no, no, no before is that I saw the minions at the weekend They only saw this yesterday. Yeah, we saw it. We were there for the first. I'm gonna go and see you again Yeah, I'm gonna see that of course. I want to say a quick hello to amry macklehenny We're finally coming to the car and Donna for the first time in three years I spoke to you Greg in the summer of 2020 when we had to cancel our visit due to covid I remember that amry Who would have thought at that time it'd be another two years before we could holiday in in Ishawn And I seem to recall amry if i'm of the correct that you have a very very close connection to the place It might have been a last minute cancellation as well, but I spoke to a lot of people at that time But I think I think i'm right, but listen, it's great to have you back back home again Right, it is the 9 till noon show It's that's entertainment with michael and finula loads more to come on the program after we take this break Irish sun doesn't really count Right, look, we all deserve a bit of sun skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland So whether you're at home or abroad protect your skin by following these sun smart steps Slip into long loose clothes slap on the sunscreen slap on a sun hat seek shade Yeah, even on the cloudy days. 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You are the founder of donagall music trails and A session and a sales event session and sale event coming up. Tell us a little bit about it Yes, it's a little collaboration that I have with a friend of mine who I actually met when I was doing gigs and At the Celtic connections in Glasgow just before covid and someone put him in contact with me because he does something similar around the coast of scotland and He decided that he would do a trip to donagall and just with myself And himself we've just organized next week that he's touring around donagall and going to different spots and we'll be doing music sessions and Taking in the local scenery and culture and all of that. So how many musicians are there? Where are they from and did they actually sale here? They did they sailed into wrath mullin Just two days ago and they're just um, they're having they're exploring donagall now on foot at the moment So they're all from scotland. They're all musicians. So there's about 18 on board And uh, yeah next week then they'll be starting the the sale And will they be performing or like is it a busman's holiday so to speak or are they just here as tourists? They are just here as tourists. They're all musicians. Um, but they're not professional musicians by any means They're just um a few people who love to play music. There's a few now that don't have any Uh musical experience and they're just there to you know, say a few songs or just enjoy the tour Exactly musicians very rarely stay quiet for too long Absolutely. Yes any excuse for a bit of noise. I think and they're in the right place for that All right, we're we're the they're in rithual at the moment head into downings then on monday and then what's happening? Yes on monday. We're in downings and uh, there'll be workshops. We're going to do musical workshops every day We have the likes of ready witty and minus sunny and a few other Musicians that are going to do workshops with them during the week. Um, and then we'll have sessions with local musicians afterwards and then I am doing part of the tour uh around Melmore head and to the murder hole beach just that sunset and prosecco tour on monday evening in downings and Tuesday then we head to torey island and it's pretty much the same schedule We'll do a bit of uh workshops and um sessions then later on uh, wednesday in our moor island and be an earnings plumber on wednesday and then um, Thursday we come back To marrote and we're going to go to in ish boffin for the evening So, uh, and then torey island obviously will be another hotel there for a session That's on tuesday as well. So yeah a good lineup and anybody who wants to join is more than welcome to lovely stuff Well done. Uh, they're gonna have a great time and it's good to uh, that they get access to some of our best musicians and venues Yes, they're getting the full treatment there. Well done. Diane. Thank you You're very welcome. Thank you very much chat to you. Uh, right. Okay. That was diane there Right. So you were talking about murder in the alps, uh, michael This is one of those ones that um, you flagged it and I went to start it and I think there's just too much going on Too much going on in the house and I'm just gonna have to revisit Revis at another step. I would say yeah, I mean, I'm shall I avoid it? No, I loved it I mean, and I'm I'm not it's you guys have got me into these documentary these true crime documentaries It's your fault But I these three episodes that channel four put out about two weeks ago. They're on all four now You can watch them. I watched them this week all of them. Um, it's an absolute It's a very well documentary that goes without saying I mean, there's a template there and they all kind of have the same sort of uh, feel to them But it's a fascinating story. I mean, it was so many details. I didn't realize It's that incident that happened 10 years ago a family from england of iraqi extraction We're on holiday and they were killed in the alps in a very remote spot And a cyclist was also Shot and killed as well and two young girls managed to escape And it's unsolved to this day and by all accounts will probably always remain unsolved But when you delve into the details of it and what this documentary does is The main people involved are the english detective who came onto the story eight months late And he did his best to shape the investigation, but he was coming very late into it The french prosecutor who did shape the investigation You have a daily mirror journalist who looks exactly like what you would imagine a daily mirror journalist would look like I can so imagine that guy. We wished on this one And the brother of the murdered man who was a suspect for a while He speaks a lot in as well a few other people as well as talking heads. There's some reconstruction But the story is fascinating. I mean Nobody knows who was targeted the man himself Worked for a satellite company The french maintained that he could be a spy and that you know It was a professional hit and so forth and that the passports were taken from the family's caravan But then a couple years later They found the passports in a jacket pocket that they had overlooked which made which truly so how much of this Are they actually discussing useful information and how much of it are they just sort of relying on You know people on the internet speculating and presuming that there has to be a massive story behind Every event even yes something as tragic as this the first two episodes are the speculation part of it Which I think it's fair to say the french investigation is heavily criticized in this documentary and heavily criticized by the english policeman And it's mostly speculation and drawing Worries some conclusions from some of the facts The third episode is the best because that's where the english detective really comes into the story And he puts forward his theory and his theory involved the fact that the cyclist Was the target not the family And he is able to use physical evidence and a lot of other Very common sense type deductions that I really liked and I think that's one of the reasons I'm starting to like these documentaries I like detectives. I mean, that's no surprise. I grew up. But I like this guy's mind I like the way he works and we get to see him At the crime scene he revisits it and he actually talks through things and you can see the wheels going round And I love that. It's like the fictionalized Manhunt series that I love with martin clunes And I like this idea of detectives that really do spend hours and hours doing Undlamorous work, but they're digging to get to the truth and you see a lot of that in the third episode I think channel five made a similar Documentary with a similar approach as it relates to the Madeline McCann disappearance. Ah, okay. We're a similar approach A detective kind of discredited the main suspect Just using a bit of common sense yet still open to But one more thing I would say before we move is that there could be the cyclist It could be the husband but the wife story is fascinating the woman who was in the car who was murdered that day By all accounts a very quiet very shy lady Who it turns out was lead led for many years a completely different life in america under a completely different name and was married Had a completely different personality On the day that she died in the french abs her husband her former husband in america also died And there was big question marks over how how he died All right, that sounds far more Interesting that element of the investigation. Okay, that is murder in the Alps It's available for you on the call for app Which if you have a smart tv or amazon fire stick or their google offering it should be actually I don't think it's on the google offering It's there for you anyway You can cast it if you've got a chrome cast and we've talked a good before about how that's actually a really good app Just wondering if any of you out there have watched Girl in the picture which just recently was released on netflix. It just appeared for lula I haven't seen it. I'll be honest with you. I what I watched the first 15 minutes and I had to pause Six times and I thought you know what no i'm gonna come back to this because a documentary you do kind of really need to To focus a bit and it's an unusual documentary in the sense that it's an it's a movie documentary one hour and 27 minutes Yeah, which is unusual for no and that's exactly it just popped up on mine as well And i've been reading before it came up and i was looking forward to reading to watching it But then when it came up as one thing I was like, oh, I don't know how to have the terms sit down and watch it yet So it's my plan for the weekend. Yeah, it's an interesting story It's a again similar type of thing person found dead On the side of the on the side of the road and Then it's like the investigation into who this person is there's a photo then of a little girl in it And they that's what intrigues people and starts looking down deep into it. It looks like it's very interesting It's getting some really good reviews. So We might get a chance over the weekend. We should all say agree to watch it now You never do that and then next Friday. I'm in fairness. None of this will have done that It's normally me that hasn't And then it's I feel really It's normally the both of you and I've slogged through it. Right. No, I mean for a lot of people Steve Martin obviously he's a big Hollywood star But the prop might feel he's disappeared to some extent, you know If they haven't seen him in the what we see the pro not pro films, but Yeah, you're a clue. So it's a clue. So yeah, and all the stuff and the man with two brains and all you know I mean, he was huge. I I'm the only one. I think liked his pink panther films, but I did like I did like them But he's into the second series of a show on disney Only murders in the building season two He's in it. Martin short Selena Gomez You're watching this. Yeah. No I 100 time I watched it the last time when it came out. There's only about eight Episodes of it half hour episodes. Um, I think now that I think about it I might be wrong there. It might be 10 But there it's you know me. I'm always looking for my half hour thing. This could definitely be it Except that it's not uh All far It's just it's not funny. It's not You know that you go into this serious issue Yeah, that's the whole thing is I went in to watch this because I was like martin short steve It's sorry steve martin martin short. You're like, oh, this is going to be funny That's what those guys are kind of in my world. Anyways, I'm most known for steve martin wrote this He co-wrote it with another person It's an idea that he'd been kind of kicking around for ages And it was supposed to be about just like some old guys living in the building And then all of a sudden then obviously when they went to it They wanted to bring in a younger element and they dropped Selena Gomez into it Now it does have some little comic things in it, but actually it's quite a straight program Which is very unusual, but I think it's again. It's like the thing I was watching last week It's the premise that's kind of funny rather than Uh, it which is the same thing as the 10 that I was watching. It's not funny in itself It's more the premise. This is about this. Um arcadia is this beautiful building in new york Um, if anybody if you've ever been to new york, you've seen loads of them You know the way it's the big old old buildings that we had There's like a doorman on the gate before you go into the foyer in order to go up to the building And there uh, all of a sudden Last series was that this young man got murdered in the building These three are all kind of loners living within the building with their own previous stories But the one thing that they found that they have in common is that they listen to podcasts And they decide that they will do a podcast on this murder that's happened in their own building And that's what the first step series was about and it went all the way through that whole thing. So it's very You're learning more about them. You're learning more about the actual murder and what's happening in the and the different people in their lives and that And now the second series has set up and it is Very much like the first and yet it's still absolutely enjoyable. It's really good There's just something really nice, but the the murder always kind of keeps you sort of intrigued. They have unbelievable Um guest stars that kind of pop up into it. Tina Fey pops up She's a rival podcaster and that she's one of the people that they're trying to get their story out ahead of In last year's series anybody that had seen it sting popped up turned out He had the penthouse and for a while he was briefly the main suspect in this murder So it's just all these different people and a sting winner sting. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah Yeah, sting lives upstairs. So it's kind of confusing is because you've got the high profile sort of uh cameos You've got the actors that are in there It feels like a lot of stuff. Obviously. Yeah, but it is it's not it's not a comedy that misses the mark It's literally set out as a drama. Yeah, it's That's a bit of comedy. That's what it is really it's more just They're kind of in their sort of ineptitude as in in what they're trying to do because obviously they've no idea what they're doing And everyone can make a podcast Anybody can make this is the whole thing anybody And basically what it is is you've got one guy who was an actor back in the day And now he's old and the show is over and that kind of thing That's the character that steve martin plays martin shore plays a guy who used to be like a Broadway producer So everything is kind of over the top and then selenia gulmes is kind of one is like a disgruntled Not quite a teenager but to me she's got very millennial kind of an idea that she's In her early 20s, but still has that teenage kind of a feel about her You don't still cranky and grumpy and that kind of thing And she's probably the only the one that brings the comedy to it because she's very sarcastic and that you know And sort of what she says But the the whole thing about it is is that it's just it's not supposed to be Funny as such it's more just the premise and situations. They find them in Plus disney's got some fantastic shows on now at the moment anyways. I think it's a really good platform Yeah, people some people don't go near it because they think it's for kids or they think that it's only for Do you how do you find the menu system on a comic book? Oh, yeah, that can be a bit to dig a bit. Yeah, you have to dig a bit And it's not there it doesn't I don't I don't find it push your stuff for me that that I like And then it feels like if you just switch down you go wow, this is just full of old bruce willis films And you know three out of tenors or if you like, you know the the comic book films Yeah sorted there you have to really sort of route into it to find I think anyway Well, no because it doesn't seem to have like a netflix algorithm So it's not popping up you may like because you watched you know that kind of way Like i'm watching a sci-fi series the orville which has moved from fox onto disney now. Thanks for the god because it is awesome Awesome. It's on like it's fourth. Is this the fourth third season third season. Yeah It's been on there like six years because there's Yeah, so I've changed that but it finally it was on fox and then when fox collapsed it We thought it was the end but it's on this now But like after that watching a sci-fi thing that's sort of loosely based on star track It then said oh you may like only murders in the building There's absolutely no connection. Have you only got two shows? But if you go into it there's star there's a different You know you have to kind of go into the different boxes that are on the top and you'll find there's a lot of good Stuff and when you think about it. They've did tom and pan me at tom and pan me tommy and pamp. They've they've done the The pistols About the sex pistols a lot of quite good shows. Yeah, they have a lot of good stuff that's on it But you do have to kind of Give it a bit of date watching house on it again from the beginning. It's imagines 10 years since house finished Love that joe. Love it. Love it. Love it. Right. Um, what would you give only murders in the building season two on disney? I have to say amazingly enough. I would have given it about an eight or nine last year really enjoyed it And I would give it an eight or nine this year as well Which is a you know, you would think that type of a thing if they're doing the exact same thing again how You know, it's unusual for for a premise to be able to be repeated Yes, it'll be equally as entertaining and yet this is completely and how um It's half hour episodes. How many Um at the half hour it drops It this it's this is week two and what it does is it drops two to start and then it's one per week every Tuesday Brilliant. Okay, brilliant stuff all together. I'm gonna take a quick break Then we're gonna have a quick chat with uh or a chat with uh neil delamere He is coming to on green on very very soon. 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I listened to your laugh out there, which I thought was it I was hoping was a tribute to me was the celebrity celebrity mastermind ad and I actually happened to do that on monday So it is not a quite very busy That is a strange quiz. Yeah, I actually did weirdly I wanted to do red hero donald You know, they asked you watch your special subject Yes, and I want the red hero donald because I did a documentary on red hero donald I also thought well, it's really interesting story and You know, maybe there might not might not be too many sources, you know So you can get in and marry your field And but they went for viking sets. I did vikings and on monday and it was great crack very intimidating now Very intimidating sitting in the black chair, but uh Not quite as intimidating as dancing with the stars because you you've a bit more You've a bit more control over over things when you're when you've kind of stood it first So yeah, that whole setup was originally borrowed from sort of interrogation techniques, wasn't it? Yeah, it was yeah, the star view asked me questions and it was a dog barking at me And then it asked me to do it in reverse. I think that was uh in the lives of others, wasn't it? But it was it was great fun And the vikings tv show was your specialized subject, was it? No, no the vikings like an idiot crack. I picked 300 years What's gonna say Can you tell us how you get on as a aired yet? It hasn't aired yet. No, it's just it's just done the last one that so uh, it could air on november or december. So Did you make a show of yourself? Okay, let me rephrase it. Do you think I'd mention it to you if I made a show because that's all I gotta say All right. Well done. Well done. Okay. Um, and you between mastermind Countdown you're on counter. What's that like as a sort of you know live in studio? Um a studio experience Yeah, I got to just do like my main fair color murray. He was doing the stand in for um, I think 17 or 18 weeks. Oh, I mean that's the time he is literally He is literally everywhere color murray at the moment like you switch up Yeah, he's on in the afternoon Then he's up all night or on in the evening and then he's doing football somewhere else I mean there must be two or three of him Yeah, he's actually like Saddam Hussein. There's about 47 color murray He's spent a double or or he's like river dance. There's five touring color murray at any one time And he's gonna make it a fortune for the central color murray And he was doing it because Ann Robin to stop down and we're good mates We've done that today radio together in five live and he said you want to do dictionary corner nice dictionary corner is Proper bucket list off, you know, I used to watch it when my man when I was coming home from school So I absolutely did. Yeah, I'd love to do that and um Susie Dent has been on for 30 years and looks the exact same. It was remarkable. She she I think I think people know this like if you know, you're sitting there and you're as First in dictionary corner and your job is to kind of come up with words Maybe the contestants don't get and sometimes you do and then sometimes you stare at the letters and you're just like Jesus There's nothing here And there was a point I looked at and there was nothing there and Susie Dent has telling somebody this Susie Dent will like give you a word, you know, if you're stuck and she said uh, just say etalon And I was like, what? She's etalon. It's like the physics term. I was like, no one is going to believe that I Know the word etalon and I can't define it either But I also thought she said etalon, which is the answer for aeroplanes. I was like, what? What is she talking about? What's she using as a father here? I have no idea And she just gave me then a different word that people I can't remember the word was that people would actually Believe you might get but I said Yeah, I'd be like I've got five I've got five four letter words for you Which wouldn't really cut it yet. I think you know the the nighttime version of countdown was the best thing ever happened to her as well Because we you know, we got to learn so much more about her Do you know what I mean a more of a personality in her or a sense of humor? I think that did her no end of good Yeah, she's she's a really lovely human and she's I mean you can tell that she's very interested in what she's doing She entertains Idiots like me talking to her about hiberno English and how we speak English versus how they speak English and And certain words that we use that they don't use and You can see that sort of enthusiasm for her job comes across on tv I always think audiences tv and live are very intuitive and they know if you're following it in And she wouldn't have lasted this long if she wasn't both knowledgeable and enthused about the subject Right your show is in on green on it's coming up in on green on it's been well received by the critics I don't know of you are interested in what the critics have to say is the audience that maybe you Are more in Interested in impressing but tell us about the show on july 14th in on green on neil Yeah, I did on green on in February and I turned to February and it was the first First full house I think in two and a half or three years They were staying there because of cove. So it was just it was just lovely to be back And we said why not we do it again? And it's about kind of what's gone on in the last year It's it's some of it's about a little bit about cove because it's the elephant in the room But then I did as I said I did dance with the stars Which is just such a bizarre experience. So we'll talk about that. I don't know if you've ever been fake tan the craig Have you Yeah, can I take the fifth on that one? I actually I will be honest with you. I haven't been fake tanned, but I bought moisturizer dove moisturizer about eight years ago And I didn't realize it had a hint of tan in it Uh, and then one day at work. Someone finally said, you know that fake tan smudged all over your head I'd been using it for about three or four weeks and no one had said anything and I hadn't really noticed Uh, so that's my only experience That's my only experience with fake tan I'm looking much more healthy You're looking very have you been have you been abroad somewhere? You look fantastic It wasn't that much of a lucky So I've got a picture of you now in a booth in your tighty whitey's getting spray tan. Yeah, is that it? Yeah, it gets weirder than that So they did that for the photographs and then one of the one of the shows I was like I got to go to a show in limerick and they said well We have to fake tan. Yeah, and I said I don't time and I said, okay My only only my top half is kind of on show just do the top and they went all right So the fake can't have of me Basically, I was completely brown to the waist up and completely white from the waist I look like cigarette. I look like 20 wrenches and edges. That's what I look like And I was fully convinced I was going to have an accent on the way to the guy on the way to the game And I'd be cheering them from them and so would the other people and then the emergency services never be able to put me back together Because to be like well those legs Don't go with those arms anyway. That's I don't know what's going on on there. There's several different people in the car There's such a bizarre experiences In that show that you have to kind of embrace and the blitz and the sequins and the And the castles and everything else like that's gonna feature on the show And I'll also talk about them the end of it is I did I did fittest families as well so myself and um She made glinons the tv presenter and growing it from the growing your gal enough from the legal issues on it as well And uh, and the happy pair We're on it So, I mean if you can't get 10 minutes out of doing celebrity fittest families with a happy pair He shouldn't really be doing this So they will certainly be fairly heavily mentioned towards the end of the show as well Brilliant okay as you say february was a sell-out and it's good now that uh Performance like yourself need a booking gigs whereby It's not people carrying over tickets from cancelled gigs because of covid because we know people weren't turning up and Uh, I don't know that I'm sure maybe that didn't affect you but for others It was a bit of a pain now We're getting genuine full houses again if people want to get a ticket as I say february is a sell-out This will sell out but getting quick get on to the box office at on green on neil Welcome back to donna gole when you do come back and thanks so much for joining us today It's been an absolute pleasure. 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Yeah, what about westworld series for wow or nay? You're a westward are you in i am finishing season three tonight We'll come back to you and then i'm starting season four then probably sunday night So i'm very excited even though it's not as good as it was in season one All right amazon heavily pushing the terminal list Uh it starts chris pratt. Yes Collar giving it six out of ten. Yeah, I was very enthused about this And then I read a lot of very negative reviews and my enthusiasm evaporated and that that's six out of ten Which we know from fenula could mean good or bad or very good or we don't know But that's what it's been getting across across the way. Yeah, it's I chris pratt always seems to be going into these um Action hero kind of things and i'm not a hundred percent sure he can pull it off He's he's very good at comedy. He's very good I mean He's in garden to the galaxy and it may be his most perfect role because he's funny There's a little bit of action in it, but it's you know, it's not like a moth Well bird character where you can sort of switch around and weave it. Yeah Yeah, it's that kind of a thing in that he's not he doesn't necessarily have very strong acting chops, which mark will work for me And the the terminal seems to be like kind of a jack right jack Ryan type of thing That's why I was interested and I was like but then I read the reviews and they were like But six out of ten for my listeners. That's pretty solid when you look at fenula six out of ten from earlier Yeah, I know it's it's all over the yeah, it's good. It's watchful. There you go Okay What do you guys think of the revival of 80s rock music asks a caller songs like metallica's master of puppets racing up the charts Due to eddie months and solo at the end of stranger things or the use of multiple guns and roses songs in thaw Love thunder or my kind of music. I think it's fantastic the bands. I love are being opened up to a whole new audience Absolutely music is yeah music spans generations if it's platformed and yeah I think the idea of people now discovering kit bush For the first time and by that's fantastic great I would say filmmakers tv series makers might be struggling now to sort of get music You know, I mean outside of ed sheer and in a dell and a you know a few others And this people will criticize me because they'll say well, that's because of your lack of musical knowledge But I'm not about maybe mainstream stuff Yeah, I just maybe there's a catalog there that it's easier to dip in And get music from compared to what's out there now at the moment possibly also I think when you take well-known artists I think you're bringing there's a there's a attachment when you attach And the guardians of the galaxy's movies did this very well. He attached songs that were Very popular to a certain generation and then you bring that sensibility and a most attachment to the film So it that works. I think probably for stranger things and it's working for All of these things even maverick like, you know, the way maverick starts off with the Not the berlin song the other song danger zone Yeah, and it starts off with that and you're kind of just even you can just feel it wash over in the cinema And you're suddenly kind of transported back and I think that's probably the thing but I look at I Will never forget the day because I had to put her out of the house for half an hour When my daughter came to me and was like really impressed by britney's new song Can't get no satisfaction and I was like, okay, leave. All right. Yeah, okay So I do like to think that they are finally learning where this original stuff came from And and where the you know Like as a lot of stuff is repeated and mixed in through even now when you listen to new stuff You can hear bits and pieces of other older songs Or you know back in the 80s was the greatest Well, you see that I think that's why I kind of back out of conversations on music because I Feel like maybe I'm I'm actually have now become my father if you know what I mean But I think I listen to a lot of new music and there's lots of different stuff in my playlists You know and people might be quite surprised. I just think there's a there's a gap there You know like Even in the 90s and early northeast, you know, there was a lot of different artists producing different types of music Some of it was electric. Some of it was just you know But a lot of it was like real music. But then again, I watched a lot of Gassenbury and there was a lot of Really good modern music, you know live music and maybe it's just not getting platformed or maybe it's not what's charting And it is my ignorance. You know, maybe it is there and it's but it's just not for me because I'm not of that generation But I think it's also when you think about it when we were younger The access to music was so different Because like you could turn over like, I mean, you know, you come in at home and you'd have Well, if your mother wasn't home, you'd have MTV on and you'd just leave it on So then you heard music that wasn't necessarily what you were interested in But that suddenly you engaged with and I used to video with I'm sure lots of Yeah, oh my god, you know, press play and play record at the same time Yeah, I did as well and MTV and then MTV too for the years because it was more rockier and that That really pulled me in for a few years and I discovered I think maybe I knew placebo before But there was there was a lot of things that I really got into because of that. Yes, and I was quite happy to sit there I remember someone I knew was heading over to London and I wanted to get them meet them to get me an album, which Wasn't available. I couldn't get it in letter Kenny. I was in Derrick. I get it I was down in Dublin couldn't get it and I can't remember which one it was But they got it for me when they were over in London and they come back with that and that was like I was given I said I said that when dad my dad went to London. I told him I wanted level 42 Oh, I was so excited and he arrived home with ub 40. He remembered there was another And I have to say I have a real affection for ub 40 ever says it because I was like, oh well I only had three albums or whatever. So you put them on and you played them all the time But it's like I just think I don't know where kids young kids where younger people are getting Access to music that's outside what they're already interested in because even when you go into You know spot a fire different things like that, which is apparently where all these kids are going now Everything is the same, you know, the way you go into the playlist See I kind of contradicted myself because like our inference these 16 is you'll listen to anything from the 80s to drill To hip-hop to you know, so I think I think maybe we see the playlist, but they're digging deeper into it And discovering stuff and we're just on the periphery. I don't know Right. I don't think You know what I didn't want to use the old word But I think I know I'm admitting of that's why I don't want to talk That's why I've come to talk about it because it's kind of you know, it's a reality check Oh god. Yeah, it definitely is. I mean, well, I always say sometimes when I think of my age I mean think what when my parents were my age now What did I think of them? Yeah, and you try to put yourself where where was I when my mother was I think that's a good but I like you start pulling that I was playing a song in the car, right? A song in the car that I like from time gone by and you can see them I did it on snapchat, but they tried to not let on, you know, then you're coming out of the bathroom a day later Yes, victory listen enjoy the weekend. Hopefully the weather is pleasant If you want to see more of finuta than you normally do get up. Where's your address again? I Have a great weekend. We'll see you all next next Friday all be well all be well. Yeah, and that's where we have to leave it To all of you listening. Thank you so much