 us very shortly but first let's get a news update and say good morning Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you Greg good morning. Care being urged on the roads this morning right across the north west large amounts of surface water on several roads in the region flooding reported in the vicinity of the Polestar and Dry Arch roundabouts in Letter Kenney as well as on the dual carriage way on the way into town also hearing that there is flooding on the Calais side of Newton Cunningham that road impossible. Garthys say there is surface water on all roads in the county increased caution needed in all areas in Derry the Clooney Road is closed between Grey Steel and the city airport roundabout due to flooding lots of water as well on the road between Straban and Derry motorists all over the region as we say urged to take extreme care. A man and woman have been killed in a road crash near Castle Blaney in County Monaghan another person is critical after the collision which involved two cars and a lorry with more detail here's Kleena O'Dwyer. The crash happened when a lorry and two cars collided on the N2 at Mullahanee at around a quarter past six yesterday evening a man and woman in their 60s who were in one of the cars were pronounced dead at the scene a woman in her 60s who was a passenger in the second car was taken to our Lady of Lords Hospital in Drohada to be treated for her injuries which are critical Garthys are appealing for witnesses to come forward any road users who may have camera footage and were traveling on the N2 at Castle Blaney between five past six and half six yesterday evening are asked to contact Garthys. Transport Infrastructure Ireland doesn't always get it right that's according to Councillor Michael McBride who's called on the TII to re-examine the possibility of including a climbing lane on the N56 in the Blue Bank area near Kilmcranon he says while the works carried out on the route have greatly enhanced the road an issue does remain in traffic and Councillor McBride believes action can be taken to remedy that. You know it rips apart there with the Blue Bank for the corners where there's a steep gradient there going up the hill see it all the time I use that road myself nearly every day of the week you see long tailbacks of traffic behind slow vehicles it's actually whenever they get to the top the whole people then are looking to try and pass and there's oncoming traffic and I always think myself that the TII got that wrong I think there should be a climbing lane there on the left hand side and if they can't put on the climbing lane there's loads of space there to put on an area just along the side of the road where slow moving vehicles can pull on. It's widely expected that the Northern Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris will today confirm a fresh Stormont election will take place on December 15th the announcement expected at lunchtime after the midnight deadline passed for the formation of a new Stormont executive the DUP Adamant they will not nominate ministers until their issues with the post-Brexit protocol have been addressed. And the coherent look of Lifford-Stranholder Invisible District says there has been very positive feedback after a pilot retrofitting scheme was carried out in the district Councillor Patrick McGowan says three housing schemes in the Lifford and Castle Finn areas have been provided with retrofitted air-to-water heating and updated insulation as well as home wiring he says there is a potential now for that scheme to be rolled out in other areas of the county. That's something that was piloted here in the Lifford-Stranholder area next year then we'll be looking then to put this Balface-Stranholder Castle Fountain Drunkine just standard round the whole area obviously the rest of the 22 as well will be looking that's the way forward now when you bring something new I'm a new system of heating and that there are challenges and it will take a long time to bring amber ports back we're positive. The worst of the heavy rain appears to be pasts but there will be more rain and showers over the course of the day flooding in many areas as we said in the bullet and please do take care met here and tell us that rain will continue to clear through the morning with sunny spells developing scattered showers will follow this afternoon and evening some of those showers heavy moderate to fresh southwest winds today top temperatures of 13 to 15 degrees Celsius and that's Highland Radio News we're back with news again at 10 o'clock. 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into for the next hour we'll say good morning first to Dr Peter O'Rourke former orthopedic surgeon good morning to you Peter thank you very joining us we also have Richard Loog project manager in transport london good to have you back on the show Richard thanks for having me good morning Greg and last but not least of course senator Lisa Chambers fina full group leader and spokesperson on european and foreign affairs good morning Lisa morning Greg morning everyone i'll start with you first if that's all right Lisa just a quick word on the front page of the Irish Times today there has been a poll carried out to see what the Irish people think of our support of what's happening in Ukraine and our hosting of refugees Ireland and EU must continue to stand by Ukraine even if this means energy shortages was the question 72 agreed with that is that a figure that surprises you you welcome that figure Lisa um i'm not a bit surprised i think the Irish people have been extremely generous and have shown huge solidarity to the people of Ukraine you know thousands of people have opened up their homes many more thousands have volunteered to just help them to get set up and integrate into the communities help their children get into school get people employed so there's been an incredible response when you think that you know we're we're up on i think about 48,000 now in the country i'll accommodate it by the state and more than that then accommodate it overall you know that's um that's a colossal amount of people in the last seven months coming into the country and i think the Irish people have responded in the way that we would have expected you know they've been extremely kind generous and empathetic um and i think there's just a real feeling of sorrow for what they're going through and what they've come from and remember you've got you've got mainly women and children coming here who've left their partners their husbands behind their fathers behind um it's just it's actually hard to imagine what they're going through and then landing into a new country having to start from scratch with nothing um is just um you know it's it's extremely difficult i think the Irish people appreciate that you know we may not be on the front line of this war but there is war in Europe we haven't had this since 1945 i think people realise what's at stake in terms of the bigger picture um and Putin wants us to fracture Putin wants us to start thinking about us versus them and wants us to become you know um in i suppose looking inwards as opposed to outwards and that that hasn't happened and that's been to our um to our great credit uh across all member states i think and that is making it more difficult for Putin to keep his hold and to keep pursuing this illegal um own democratic invasion of Ukraine so and of course there's an awful lot of focus on his strategy within Ukraine understandably because that that is where the war is focused but i mean this is a a strategy that he has to upset the the the global balance to displace people uh to create uh to create you know the type of conversations that are happening in Ireland as it relates to how many refugees are here on that 61% of the same people asked thought there were too many refugees coming to Ireland so he sees uh the relationships between the likes of the United States and China he sees what's happening in North Korea you know as i say the analysis often focuses on what's happening in Ukraine but this is a i would argue this is a a global operation by he to to either unsettle things or tip the balance of power or disrupt or whatever his motivation might be absolutely i mean he you know it was it was planned the timing of cutting off the gas line you know Europe imports 40% of its gas from Russia we're down now to 9% and we haven't been able to uh i suppose you know make up the loss by importing its melt swear so there is a shortage of gas in Europe currently that's why the prices are going through the roof um and it is that's why we're seeing messaging across not just Ireland but every single member state you see messaging asking people to reduce their consumption to to try and use a little bit less energy because we know that there's going to be a challenge on the system so that's what he wants he wants us to start thinking about us versus them and start to think inward uh and to to fracture world relations but that hasn't happened and i think that people see the bigger picture they know what his game is and you know when you think of this time last year we had seven and a half thousand people seeking international protection we're nearly at 50,000 now that's the scale of the increase and every other country in Europe is having the same conversations we're having around energy around housing around uh dealing with you know getting people into schools into employment and integrating people into our communities so those pressures have been felt across the board um and it occurs you know it is a challenge and i think we have to acknowledge people have done a lot to have had had a lot to deal with here in Ireland to deal with that but they've been incredibly generous and i think we can be very proud of our response to this Richard Logue what's your view on on on these figures 72 percent believe Ireland and the EU must continue to stand by Ukraine even if this means energy shortages i'm not sure if it's contradictory but anyway a net result of that is taking in refugees 61 percent believe there are too many too many refugees coming into Ireland i think the issue is is that you know first off we've got to show solidarity with Ukraine and i would actually unpack uh or separate the whole idea of the energy crisis versus the whole issue of Ukrainian refugees um you know we've had a long history of taking people in in this country certainly in recent years and we should show solidarity uh with Ukrainians we have I'm resident in Britain and I don't believe the British have actually done as much as they could have done um but i think the fact is is that you know we're you know you know how best can we support Ukraine and i think given our military history of military neutrality i think it's been able to get you know sort of support for people coming into the country and i think it's disgraceful that people are reduced to sleeping on the floors and Dublin airport i yeah we should be able to do something more than this about it um maybe the British had a difficulty with the the big conversation about closing the borders that's how they got brexit over the line but at the same time open them up and then leaving themselves open maybe to question marks on profiling who's welcoming in in Britain or who's not maybe that question was just too complicated to sort out I think the problem is in Britain there is almost in my view a mass um brexit has become effectively a national taboo they don't want to talk about it it's almost like you know even and it's not just a conservative party it's also the Labour Party who are all saying we're all out here to make brexit work and it's a bit like building a car with square wheels you know no matter what petrol you put in or how much power you put into that engine that car is not going to move very well is it no but you can sit in it and say how great it is um Peter what's your view on those figures well I'm in the first place I think Ireland can do very little other than support Ukraine I mean we have a security council seat and I think Simon Cove me has echoed our Irish views there is to have what people feel about what's going on in Russia apart from that we can all we can do is support the Ukrainian refugees and I think Ireland has you know punched above its ways from regard to that I mean effectively we've taken probably one percent of our population as refugees and it is somewhat irritating that the criticism we receive in our own media for every little glitch that goes on I mean as Lisa said the volume of paid people arriving is totally out of anybody's idea of what's going to happen at the start of this and it's going to harden people's attitudes if all we hear is criticism about you know failure to provide everybody with everything they need immediately and when 46 or 48,000 people arrive in your doorstep in a period of six months trying to actually plan for that is very difficult and there will always be glitches but criticizing people and the media criticizing hotels and everybody else who has provided tremendous support for these people is going to have a negative effect and it will harden people's attitude I don't think 61 percent of people would have thought that there's too many refugees coming into Ireland if there wasn't as much media criticism and even comments from the Ukrainian ambassador which I think was unhelpful last week do you think that I didn't is she possible that she was misinterpreted by the same people that you talk of in that was she not saying I'm not here to defend her was she not saying that you're saying come to Ireland for your refuge but they weren't saying and they have started saying it now that there might be struggles in getting you accommodation is that not really what she was saying and it's been somewhat repackaged to sound ungrateful? Well I don't know it sounded ungrateful when I heard it I mean there's a difference between seeking refuge and safety and being looked after in every aspect of your life and the two things do run hand in hand if you're running from a war for your to save your life and you accept any refuge you can what comes afterwards is getting back to a normal quality of life but the two things do run hand in hand but they're not mutually exclusive. I'll stay with you on this question then you talked about the population of Ireland increasing by about 1% the population of Donegal is increased by around about 3% and we've punched above our weight within a country that's arguably punched above its weight with that in mind people making offers of housing at the moment are being said thanks but no thanks we believe that Donegal has this is what that those charged with placing refugees in Donegal they believe that our services are maxed out that in other words the school system the health system cannot at this time deal with any more Ukrainian refugees you've worked in the health service yourself do you think that's that's a good decision? Well I can only comment on the health side of things we've been under resource for for the 25 years I worked in the health service here and to increase the population by 3% and doing nothing to support health services it's just adding to the problem and it's a problem that's personally I've given up on yeah but can I say with respect can I say with respect you've just really said something for which you've kind of criticized the media for doing and you says the media is highlighting the concerns that some people might have maybe even amplifying them but you've done the exact same thing in saying that you know highlighting failures in the health service we're offering these people refuge from a war-torn country. Yes but the health service hasn't been in crisis for seven six or seven months and the health service I've criticized for years. Oh yes no that's that's for sure yeah constructive criticism has to be said too as well of course just on that point Lisa Chambers I mean it's kind of a local story I'm not sure if you're across it but we've given out no houses here hundreds of people offered homes to refugees the body charged with providing you know placing people in these homes took no offers but yet we still have 5,000 people a bit of an enterprise going on there a lot of it in group accommodation a lot of it a lot of people housed in hotels and what have you not many in houses even though the offers were there and now they've said that placing refugees in Donegal is on hold because of pressures on services as I've mentioned to Mr O'Rourke there as it relates to education and health and other areas do you think that that's that's the right thing to do? I think it's going to have to be looked at I am aware of the story I write about it actually and you know I think our health service is probably under pressure in every part of the country I'd be surprised if the schools in Donegal were completely full because they're not full in Mayo so I'm assuming it's similar enough kind of how many refugees do you have in Mayo? We've got 2,100 we've over 5,000 so okay well maybe maybe there is extra pressure there but we would still have lots of capacity in schools but the health the health service getting access to GPs we found really is the kind of the pinch point because we were already pretty maxed out on that front and a lot of GPs retiring that of older GPs quickly on the western seaboard so it's kind of similar issues between I think all the counties along the west I think we're going to have to look at it if I'm being honest I don't know if this is the actually what has happened but it's probably a lot easier for the department when it's dealing with so much in such a short space of time to do it do have a contract with a hotel or some sort of group to accommodation because you accommodate a bigger group of people in a short space of time and it's probably just easier to do it so I would say that's why we've been known about this for an awful long time there's plenty of time to plan there's plenty of time red cross were charged with it up with engaging with these families this is a lot of goodwill that was put out there and thrown back in people's face I mean this is not something that just happened today you know the local authorities for example were charged was it six nine months ago to identify property and the same the same stuff now this is the solution double the money 800 euro for people to make accommodation available it's the same solution with twice the cost and yet not one house has been allocated to a refugee in Donegal up until about a week or two ago I haven't seen figures from then since so I can't say for certain if anything's happened in the last couple of weeks yeah I don't I don't think there was enough of a focus on housing people in individual homes the last number of months I think they've shifted on that now and that's now part of the the I suppose the updated plan that was discussed on one day and so I think you will see more Ukrainian refugees going into private homes and then that doubling of the money from 400 to 800 to compensate people for the cost of that and the red cross I think you know it's been pretty well documented now at this stage they were very overwhelmed with the numbers that were coming through their offices they really weren't you know just even administratively able to cope with what they had to deal with in terms of actually you know ringing all those individuals and vetting people and checking out the accommodation so that didn't work great at the start but I think you'll see that streamlining now and just just to pick up on a point that that Peter said you know and I think it's really a really fair assessment you know there was a lot of negative media coverage last weekend when we didn't have accommodation for I think about 44 people when you think that we've housed 43,000 people in state accommodation the last number of months you know we had a pinch point at the weekend we were very honest about it as a government to look we're under pressure and every single one of those people have been offered accommodation now so it took us a few days to get that sorted but the pylon and the level of amplification of that one minor problem in the context of what we're dealing with I think was a bit unfair and I think you know there's been a failure in some parts to acknowledge that there are there are public servants literally working around the clock to deal with this I know in every local authority there's a specific task force under the management of the local authority assessing accommodation working with the HSE the Garde the education system so there's a lot there is a lot of fantastic work happening and sometimes the the negative stuff is over amplified in my opinion okay thank you all for now let's take a break we'll be back more from our panel after these messages and don't forget to keep involved in the conversation I'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand live free in 23 with Danlo G a 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that's the bottom line these people can say what they like but we need to house our own first this is nothing whatsoever to do with the war and people know this another one here the majority where is it yeah someone says that in our area there's this phrase fighting aged men that you kind of hear in some circles that there's a lot of fighting aged men coming over from Ukraine and we thought it was women and children but there are of course lots of getouts if you could call it that for for people not to engage in the war depending on your education and what have you but also i mean are we supposed to at least a chambers lastly on this are we supposed to stand at the the port or the airport with a pitchfork saying get back and fight if people don't want to engage in it in a war i mean is that you know i mean i don't know where this separation between men and women and children and fighting aged men as they're referred to came from yeah so that wasn't um it wasn't a decision of of our land and i think that you probably know my answer to that question that no that's not the place for us to be to be entering into and as you said there are many reasons why men uh even though they might be in the age bracket that their government has decided need to stay and fight and for medical reasons or family reasons there are certain exemptions um so if you have a certain amount of children um three or more yeah um so look at there are exemptions and that's really a matter for the Ukrainian government not for us right Richard Loog the people of Northern Ireland and and got help them they're facing into another general election now um i think it's december 15th i don't know if that date's changed it's probably going to cost about six or seven million pounds and you wonder when all the dust settles mid december um firstly how many people might vote but what might change Richard it's an awful logjam in northern Ireland politically there's a bit like shifting the deck chairs and the titanic um i was listening very carefully to um a lot of what the you know the local politicians in the north were saying last night and you know without exception people like Naomi Long and others uh Cara Hunter and the STLP yeah they're basically saying you know there isn't any point in this election i mean certainly um the dup may hope to get a couple of extra seats over shin fame but going for the trends at the moment it's it's unlikely that the arithmetic is probably going to fundamentally change in the back of an election the real issue is is that i think in some respects the British government already rattled they sent out Lord Jonathan Kane who's one of the junior ministers in the northern Ireland office and actually a very influential figure behind the scenes who people really don't know about he was putting up some pretty forceful statements against the prospect of joint authority as an as a potential consequence of the current logjam and certainly um i think to some extent the British government are a little bit rattled which is why they've gone out and made very forceful statements about you know the prospect of joint authority if the talk if the current process fails um i don't think the dup would bother about elections i think they particularly like being in a situation where everybody's practically begging for them to come back in or then them and they get to the point as Naomi Long very forcefully said in the chamber and yesterday um about you know basically making them the villains because they think that'll show up their support and maybe get them out you know get a couple over on their rivals in the tv who they keep looking over the shoulder and so i'm not sure an election is going to solve anything and if anything it'll probably make the divisions even worse i mean that the real heart of the problem and i think as i mentioned earlier on about the whole taboo and british politics is about brexit and really you know we would if the brits hadn't gone for the hard brexit approach that they've gone for we wouldn't be in this position i thought it quite interesting during the week a business representative group in northern island coming out really quite strongly saying look this needs to be sorted now this is having an impact on you know our ability to do business confidence in northern island investment into northern island like i thought that was probably one of the strongest interventions on this because with the politics to be honest with me it's just it's just white noise now because it's they said he said she said you know what i mean it's and i it has with a guess an awful lot of people in the north they're actually quite you know fed up with the whole political um you know flim flam going on up there i think majority of people i was watching the news night last night and the cafe owner in belfast basically saying look you know this is getting in the way of us actually just trying to get on and earn our living and you know the whole thing is toxic and you know in my view unnecessary but i i certainly think that getting the election will probably just again fire up you know the sectarian divisions again and i would i would i'd watch out for the alliance party alliance party might pick up even more votes from the likes of the dup perhaps or even shin fain yeah indeed um and i'd also be watching out i mean certainly um it won't have done shin fain any prop any any issues interestingly enough uh john o doubt the outgoing tran infrastructure minister in the north made a very significant announcement just as he was leaving office uh yesterday afternoon in that he instructed his officials to start seeking funding for feasibility studies for a number of significant rail projects now he said he wasn't going to pre-empt the all island rail review i suspect he has um and basically from our point of view in the northwest the very significant project that he's asking for funding for a feasibility is reopening the line from ported down to dairy which would bring in county tarone back onto the network but very significantly from our point of view and dunny gall actually makes extending the line from dairy to letter kenny that much more viable and that i think is leaving potential long-term legacy for the northwest you know it's gone over the days when you know we kind of regarded the lack of rail and dunny gall is a bit of a national joke and actually you know we can see this is actually a very significant possibility yeah peter aroke you have to feel for the people of northern island of course because with the triggering of this process uh the caretaker ministers are no longer in their office doing the day-to-day stuff you know i mean the people of northern island are facing all the challenges that we all are um you know and an executive in power in position would be able to make decisions that hopefully would in some way um you know ease those pressures but the dup just are refusing to budge well i think northern island has run quite well for the last 10 or 12 years uh with consensus running of the country and uh taking politics out of running of the country and that worked but unfortunately that didn't suit the dup who basically want to bring politics back into the assembly because it ran quite well with sort of consensus and non-partisan agreement and but you know that doesn't suit the political side of things in northern island so i think the election is going to make absolutely no difference things are going to be exactly the same um after the election um you had two diametrically opposed political groups and then you have a section in the middle who leans one way or the other way it's you know it's like american politics when a republican certain republicans were never built for a democrat and vice versa so it's politics rearing its ugly head when fortunately it had slipped into the background for quite a while in northern ireland yeah i would like to be a campaign manager for this one lisa do you know what i mean like uh so soon after the last election you might be just dust off whatever you were saying uh a few months ago uh and and also too i'd really wonder about the the turnout here i think whichever party can motivate people to get out and vote is is it a real uh advantage you know a cold winter's day in the middle of the december same old story you know what do you think yeah i mean you know if you're if you're looking at a time to run an election you probably couldn't find a worse time to have one um people will be angry that they're being asked to go to the polls again so soon after the last election i think you know for for shin fane and the dup in particular they will find it very difficult to go to the doors and justify why they're there um you know i think both will blame the other i think there's blame on both sides as to why the executive and the assembly has not got got back up and running i think it was interesting to hear um a report that one mla was was describing the current situation as awake for power sharing but what could shin fane do if i mean when you say both sides of presuming mean shin fane the dup what could shin fane uh do uh to sort of lift that blame and perhaps uh allow the forming of of a government there well i think what they did directly after the last election where they came out within hours calling for a border poll they pretty much killed off any chance of getting people into a room and working together i think that was um i think that just destroyed any sort of potential goodwill that might have been there and then i think the dup have behaved shamelessly and you know the i they just didn't ever expect that they'd be in the vision where they would have to be second in line to shin fane and they just can't cope with it and i think they're using the northern erlan protocol and the brexit situation as a fig leaf to cover what is just naked political opportunism to try and and not accept the result of the last election and i hope that you know even though the way that it's set up in terms of power sharing in the good friday agreement makes it very difficult for an alternative party to come through the middle the alliance party achieved it despite those challenges in the last occasion and it's quite possible that they will see additional support in this election because you know they have been the adults in the room the last number of months um but yesterday it has to be just so disappointing if you're a business person trying to get on with things and make a living uh and the instability that all of this is creating and you're right Greg it is significant that business representative groups are coming out now it is a shame that they didn't come out before the brexit vote i think there was a lot of silence because nobody wanted to get involved in the politics of it um but you know better late than never and ultimately we wouldn't be here if it were not for the brexit situation but we have no control over that it is what it is um and i think the suggestion now that dublin and london might have a more shared role in terms of governing is a good suggestion and london shouldn't be running scared of that um because we need to find some way of getting things back working um functioning in some shape or form for the citizens and businesses in northern ireland and i don't think the brit the british are quite cool on the idea of a joint authority no and i so that's in the context now of a new leader coming in the unionist element of the Tory party won't like the sounds of that the dup will be putting pressure on so you know they i suppose the political environment there is just not conducive to to i mean and the politics in england isn't functioning very well either so it's just not the type of environment you're going to see reason and logic prevail i think unfortunately stop paying the wages peter maybe they might be quicker to come around the 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money-making racket is it a money-making racket or is it an effective tool to keep our roads safer and to sort of influence people's driving habits peter a rook um what do you think waste of time the haley rays seem to think it is and all this compared to other countries where our fines aren't particularly high i don't think i'll make an awful lot of difference and i don't think the money generator will make any difference to anybody if they put into road safety it would be great um i mean but apart from that it'd be interesting to see if they actually put some fines on cyclists for change rather than just cars oh hold on just a second you don't drop that one at 20 to 10 i'll have to run to 11 o'clock well having been down to delvin recently where i've never seen a bicycle actually stop at the traffic lights the behavior of delivery uh cyclist is appalling and the road safety authority seemed to run an orwellian thing that two wheels good four wheels bad and it's about time they actually dealt with the cyclist as well as just the cars so you're a bit non-plus than about the increasing of fines from 80 to 150 it's really it's not doing much that if we want to sort of keep that downward trend in in serious injuries and deaths on our roads then we have to look at things differently it depends how many how many fines do you get in a year if you're lucky you get none if you're unlucky you might get one it's not going to make anybody change their driving patterns to any degree i think if you uh you know if you have eight points and you're worried about losing your license it's not the fine that's going to upset where you it's the the risk of getting it so you behave because of the points not because of the fines what about then if it was like in some other country which just gets the moment where the fine was linked to your income and that's i think in scant some of the scandinavian countries there was a a case where somebody got a fine of something like 2.3 million because they sold their dot com company and um i don't think that would be particularly fair um but um i don't think the fine in their current levels are a deterrent as such the points are the deterrent because that affects your insurance and your insurance being affected would cost you a lot more than a fine yeah we might come back to the cyclists but richard um fines doubling um you heard from uh mr arook then a lot of people have the same view actually what do you think yeah so the fines i mean look the fines are it's an uncomfortable thing in your pocket but as as peter rightly pointed out i think points and licenses are far more of a deterrent but i would also add um in the north and in britain itself um what they often have for the first time somebody's been given a speed offence is they are given the opportunity to pay a slightly larger fine and attend a speed awareness course now i have to put out my hand and say i have to be i have been on a speed awareness course and luckily i don't have any points in my license and actually i found that a very very um significant piece of information because what they do is they go into certainly the details of things like um speed awareness tailgating which i also think is a very very significant problem and also about effectively reiterating the point that you know if you might drive let's say for argument's sake at 120 kilometers an hour on the road when the limit is 100 or 90 but you actually don't arrive much sooner than you than you do uh because by the time when you factor in you know traffic and all that and that for me was a very valuable um lesson so that's a little bit like bucking priority on a Ryan air flight you know you just stand up so fast everyone else sits down fundamentally the plane takes off at the same time but is it not going to influence new driver's behavior perhaps do you know what i mean like it's easy if you're a little bit older you've been driving for you know 10 15 20 years you're you've got your pattern of driving i don't think Peter O'Rourke he doesn't look like he's got a heavy right foot it's not going to put him up or down but if someone i see the eyebrows going there but if someone is 18 or 19 or 20 just getting on the road does this not is it not positive messaging you know that there's going to be financial penalty and points penalty here not only that but technology is coming up very quick and an awful lot of young drivers certainly here in britain are now being told by their insurance companies to have a black box mounted in their car which monitors their speed and that is instantaneous so if they go over speed limits it's actually is money on their insurance policies and whilst i personally disliked the idea of big brother sitting in my car it may actually end up forcing drivers and especially as technology moves on as we know it's moving very quickly we may end up ultimately in a situation where our cars are being monitored anyway now that for me from a personal freedoms point of view is not a great scenario but it does enforce safe driving behavior and i think that may well be the way that some insurance companies may want to start pushing things regardless of whatever the government or governments want to do i mean Lisa chambers you could argue you know that the fines really aren't working uh when you look at uh when you look at the the fatality trends there has been a fall but there's some peaks as well and it can seem seemingly vary from year to year do we not look at need to look at this differently uh more education schools put it on the school curriculum as i suggested on the program yesterday let's even make the theory test part of one of the exams do you know what i mean like it's not the fines even in the doubling probably aren't going to really they're going to look like we're doing something but they're probably not really going to sadly affect the the terrible loss of life and serious injury on our roads yeah i mean i think in isolation they don't do a whole lot i suppose it's just it's part of the overall response you know the penalty points the fines um and just the messaging even the fact that we're discussing it today will bring people's attention to it it was in the news um you know we haven't actually had an increase in the uh the the rate of fines in i think 20 years so it's a kind of long overdue really um to bring them up to a level that's maybe um what you'd expect uh in this day and age and you know the road fatalities went down during the COVID period but they're back up to pre-COVID levels i think the last figures we had where we've lost 123 people already this year so it's still a problem we've brought them down you know over the years but it's still a significant problem and interestingly um the the minister introduced three new uh fixed penalty charges that'll come into effect next next year and that's for misuse of a disabled driver's permit parking wrongly in an electric charging bay and then hgv's going down a road they're not supposed to go down so there's three new fines that'll come into effect next year to acknowledge that I suppose motoring has changed and we now have these additional things to take into account so it's not going to do anything major in and of itself but it's an important message and as I said the fines haven't been updated in some 20 years I think so it's probably just due an update really on the way to work today um we come across two people fully dressed in black and it's still dark no lights no nothing and you saw the weather this morning unbelievable stuff we heard also concerns about the same issue in the millford area yesterday and you heard Peter O'Rourke there referencing uh the cyclists behavior and then we can bring into that I suppose now to electric scooters and what have you do we need to really look at uh this in a in a broader scope and start bringing cyclists you know maybe even pedestrians uh and um you know electric bike scooter drivers into this whole conversation when I say that should we start finding them definitely I mean if you are a road user that's not just a motorist if you're on a scooter if you're on a bicycle you have to abide by the same rules as people in their cars you don't you're not supposed to run red lights or drive over or cycle over pedestrian crossings and you know the guards obviously you have to catch somebody in the act it's a bit more tricky um but if they catch somebody they should find them they should what about then particularly maybe in cities a number plate system so that a presumed motorist can be caught by way of camera or what have you is it time then for you know each individual bicycle and its cyclist to be identifiable number plates for example oh I don't know if it's worth it to that extent I mean that's that's pretty heavy going for for what we're looking to do I mean I do know that the guard you do find cyclists for breaking red lights if they catch them so it does happen but maybe not to the extent that it should and perhaps an education program around the the dangers of it because unfortunately you can be the best driver in the world but if somebody has done something stupid you can be the person that comes out hurt and there's no amount of legislation or regulation or fines or points that will ever account for some of this tubidity that we see on the roads and you'll always have an element of that but you know walking in the dark in dark clothing without hybis is just daft I mean if you really want to take your life into your hands that's one way to do it thankfully most people don't do those things I see it I see it so often most people don't but you actually only need a couple of people that do Peter Rourke what's your view then on maybe you know is it time to to have bikes registered in like vehicles maybe in in cities or whatever so that they can be held to account the same as a motorist mine well I think there's there's two groups there the electric bikes I think need to be registered the drivers need to be insured and have insurance because certainly being on the continent or walking around the speed that which they travel is unacceptable because an electric bike will pass you or come towards you at a much faster speed than an ordinary bicycle that is just going to pedal park so I think that needs to be regulated I think possibly they do need to have some form of identification on them with regard to other bicycles it would be very difficult but one area where I think it really should have some legislation is these cycling clubs I mean you get them and done a goal at the Saturday afternoon peloton of 20 or 30 cyclists cycling along a country road with a straight white line that you can't get past and cycling three at breast and thinking they own the road and if you look at the road safety authorities advice if you had to give them the two meters clearance that they deserve you'd be driving in the ditch on the other side of the road and the road safety authority really needs to get their act together and I start dealing with cyclists as I said rather than just the four wheeled beast I'm going to have to disparate I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you don't do respectfully just get straight in there listen I'm a cyclist as well as a motorist oh here okay you know well you know I have to do the exercise I know I know and I think two things one is that the guardi do have if we know we know from our rules of the road there are several regulations around cyclists and particularly around lights and particularly around you know cyclists are expected to observe the rules of the road the same way motorists are so there could be more enforcement there should be more enforcement from the guardi on cyclists but at the end of the day a car is far more able to kill a cyclist and a cyclist will be able to damage I mean they can damage cars but you know it won't affect the driver in a way so I think enforcement of the rules of the road by the guardi on cyclists I'm 100% behind I would disagree about insurance for cyclists I think it's a gray area about electric bikes I think if they're capable of doing speeds above 30 kilometers an hour yeah but you know yourself the cyclists that Peter O'Rourke are talking about will often be peddling it at 30 40 kilometers per hour that being said they also probably have insurance to some extent as part of a club so I'm kind of yeah a club will so clubs will have you know or should have public liability insurance for sure but you know we need to have and I welcome the fact that they've put they're installing the greenway up from Derry all the way up to Prigley's point which is where my family of cyclists don't like cycling on greenways though they like to cycle on the roads they don't I like greenways I can't speak about you know the peloton boys I'm you know middle-aged man on a bike and trying to do it safely but if we actually you know a series about cycling you know we need to have safe provision for cyclists on main roads and that does mean you know actually having separate places as they do in Holland and no it's not cheap but I think getting safe you know routes for cyclists is really vital in order to do that and again as I say enforcement by the guards on the existing laws which you know doesn't the eruptus doesn't need to pass any new laws or anything like that you know the laws are already there yeah okay I'll be just for the last few minutes that we have just because obviously with your interest in rail and you referenced that announcement yesterday I believe it was we've talked in the past about the possibility of a rail link between Sligo and Derry through letter Kenny or whatever form that might take and it's always felt like something that's a pipe dream something that may never happen Richard what is your view do you feel we are edging edging closer to that because it is actually another alternative way we've been talking about bicycles and scooters and what have you it is another way to get us out of our cars and back to the future I suppose in very many very many respects so Lisa and I were both at a conference down in tune on Saturday on Saturday regarding not just the western rail corridor but actually in the wider context of redevelopment for the west and we are all aware that young people are emigrating in larger numbers from this country and it's not because of jobs it's entirely around housing now I think that seeing who was there there was a big contingent from Finafall in fact Minister Dara Khaliri made the opening remarks at the meeting and there was a big contingent from the Greens from Sinn Féin from Fina Gail and of course independent TDs like Sean Canney and that was I found it very heartening because you know there's a recognition at this stage that rail development is coming it's a way forward we also as Peter and I were saying in the break we do need to have better roads and I don't see it as road versus rail I see it as both but fundamentally we need to be able to push for rail development incidentally I would I've been asked by my good friend Steve Bradley from into the west to note that there is a meeting in letter Kenny on Tuesday evening at the station house hotel 7 p.m and that's entirely about bringing rail back to Donnie Gull so I would be killed if I wasn't if I didn't mention that well you have done it now Lisa Chambers you know also in the west it's like you would imagine particularly with the makeup of the government and the green influence that we shouldn't have to be fighting for this that it would be seen as a legacy project for a government you know to provide you do two things you would provide good access to the northwest which we've been crying out for and you'd also be doing it in what would be seen as a you know a climate conscious way yet we're constantly having to try and argue and make a case for it and you know whilst it feels like the conversation is a little bit more serious than it has been in the past you know we'd really love to see some some action on the ground I'm sure you'd share it share that view but why is it such a battle to get something that makes an awful lot of sense I wonder yeah I mean it's like it's really frustrating in 2014 when I was elected to the council I was the representative on west on track and that's going back now you know eight years ago and the guys on that organization they were going you know maybe two decades before I ever got there so this is a long time been talked about but the environment has changed the climate agenda has definitely shifted things the conference we attended on saturday was about regional development in the west and the northwest and if you really want to annoy yourself you know for the weekend take a look at a map of rail lines a hundred years ago and look at the map today and we've actually gone backwards it's my screen save for Lisa I'm well look at you'll see then Greg there's almost like a black cloud over the west and northwest when it comes to key infrastructure and it is infuriating so actually when I think it was Richard that said about the the feasibility study being money being announced for that for the port of down dairy link I was guling that as we were talking because that's really interesting we've had the western rail corridor kicked into the all island rail review another review on top of review but we're hopeful that actually following that we might get this over the line and the idea then is to link that along the Atlantic economic corridor right up into letter Kenny and across to dairy so we want to link dairy to Galway yeah we do and I think this would I can't I can't quote it directly and I don't want to miss quote either but there was a recent European study or not a study but they they release it annually where they they talk of the development of each particular area isn't that right Lisa and the west was we've been downgraded haven't we and I'm just thinking in terms of you know foreign direct investment into you know that this does it doesn't really we might not take much heed of it but I'm sure there are groups of individuals that would look at it maybe you can tell us what that that that grading rating was so every year the commission do an assessment of each member state and they look at all of the regions and regional development it's the country specific review and our region the west and northwest has been downgraded a number of years ago to a region in transition so we're still developing according to the European Union as opposed to the other regions in the country which aren't developed so we need positive discrimination we need to get a bit extra of the pie because we are lagging behind and that's why I think Saturday's conference was significant and the announcement that I've just heard about around the port of down dairy link that's significant because all roads don't need to be developed after Dublin you know we need to connect the west because lots of us here all right and the last word to Peter work on this is it roads or rail for you or do you agree with Richard we need to focus on both I don't know I wasn't privy to your conversation in the adverts Peter but I would just love a decent road in Donegal preferably from Leather County to Lifford could I also suggest to Lisa consider legislation on an age limit for men and lycra on bikes the greater good I've never worn lycra maybe something we should try Peter and then make our minds up I don't know okay listen Peter O'Rourke former orthopedic surgeon thank you very much for your time Peter I appreciate it great to have you back on the show take care of yourself the same goes for you senator Lisa chambers thanks for your time again this morning thanks Greg all right enjoy your weekend and last but not least of course Richard Lowe project manager in transport London always 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this is highland radio news good morning it is 10 o'clock donal cavernum at the highland radio news desk a British government minister has confirmed there will be a pre-christmas election in northern lorland after a deadline to restore part-sharing passed without agreement the dup is still blocking the formation of an executive at storm and in protest over the post brexit protocol now the uk environment secretary treza coffee says voters will definitely go to the polls as local parties were unable to break the deadlock clearly there wasn't sufficient agreement to be able to avoid the elections that wasn't in the hands of the government that was in the hands of the parties representing the different communities in northern ireland alliance leader and outgoing justice minister Naomi long says she's embarrassed to be associated with politics at storm and i am ashamed ashamed to be part of this circus yet again we know that elections in northern ireland do not solve problems they deepen the crisis right now there is one issue that is preventing us from restoring the assembly there is one party that is preventing us from restoring the assembly and executive a man and woman have died following a road crash near castle blaney in county monaghan another person is critical after the collision which involved a lorry and two cars with more detail here's clena odwar the crash happened when a lorry and two cars collided on the end to at mulla honey at around a quarter past six yesterday evening a man and woman in their sixties who were in one of the cars were pronounced dead at the scene a woman in her sixties who was a passenger in the second car was taken to our lady of lords hospital in drahada to be treated for her injuries which are critical guard they are appealing for witnesses to come forward any road users who may have camera footage and were traveling on the end to at castle blaney between five past six and half six yesterday evening are asked to contact gar thee the clear look of the lifford stroller municipal district says there has been positive feedback to a pilot retrofitting scheme that was carried out in the district castor patrick mcgaun said three housing schemes in the lifford and castle fin areas were provided with retrofitted air to water heating as well as updated insulation and wiring in a bid to cut energy costs and fossil fuel usage he says following the success there is no potential for the scheme to be rolled out elsewhere that's something that was piloted here in the lifford stroller and next year then we'll be looking into clipless balthase to know our cattle fund drunken just standard round the whole area obviously the rest of the county too as well will be looking that's the way forward now when you bring something new on the new system of heating and that there are challenges and it will take a long time to bring in but ports back were positive continued care is being urged on roads across the northwest this morning after torrential rain earlier so large amounts of surface water on the region's roads flooding was reported in many areas of donnie gall dairy and torrone the rain has eased but gar thee in the piece s and i are both urging high levels of caution saying surface water may still pose a threat in a number of areas the former polish to mary coctin has been elected chair of the donnie gall executive of finna fall she was returned unanimously at the executive's a gm in balib afay last night and transport infrastructure arland doesn't always get it right that's according to councillor michael mcbride he's calling on ti i to reexamine the possibility of a climbing lane on the n 56 in the blue banks area near kill mcranon he says while the works carried out on the route have greatly enhanced the road an issue does remain with traffic in that area and he believes it can be resolved you know rick's the point there where the blue banks for the corners where there's a steep gradient there going up the hill see it all the time i use that road myself near levy day of the week you see long tailbacks of traffic behind slow vehicles it's actually whenever they get to the top the hill people never look into time pass and there's oncoming traffic and i always think to myself that the ti i got that wrong i think there should be a climbing lane there on the left hand side and if i can't put on the climbing lane there's loads of space there to put on an area just along the side of the road for slow moving vehicles to poland well a forecast and after some very heavy downpours this morning rain has begun to clear sunny spells will develop with scattered showers following this afternoon and evening some of those showers will be heavy moderate to fresh southwest winds top temperatures today 13 to 15 degrees celsius and that's highland radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock good morning the average notice is for this friday morning the 28th of october the death has taken place of andio boil clearville high road letter kenny and these remains will repose at his late residence from five o'clock to 10 o'clock this evening and again tomorrow from 11 a.m to 10 p.m with family time please on the morning of the funeral rosary nightly at 9 p.m funeral from his residence at quarter past 12 on sunday afternoon going to the church of the arish martyrs for one o'clock requiem mass which can be viewed on the parish facebook page in term and afterwards in conwall cemetery family fires only please donations in louis desired to the donoghull hospice care of any family member the death has taken place of patrick glenn dromore killie gordon his remains will repose at gibson's funeral home in convoy from six o'clock to 10 o'clock this evening funeral from there tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock for burial in the family plot in convoy presbyterian church house waking funerals strictly private please at the request of the deceased the death has occurred of steven kelly gortlettere sternour remains reposing at his late residence from two o'clock tomorrow afternoon funeral from there on monday morning at half past 10 for requiem mass in the church of maria mackelots to an order at 11 o'clock followed by interment in drumbo cemetery requiem mass will be streamed live on church services dot tv donations in louis flowers if desired directly to the donoghull hospice or care of any family member family time please from 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. daily and on the morning of the funeral the death has taken place of mary dearie tulnary carndona mary's remains are reposing at her late residence funeral from there on sunday morning at quarter past 10 going to sacred heart church carndona for 11 o'clock funeral mass followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard house private please from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. the death has taken place of norma magnum e nay harbour 75 summer hill court stroban formerly of sign mills reposing at her home service in her home tomorrow afternoon at half past 12 with removal at one o'clock for cremation in lakeland's crematorium at three the death has taken place of charlie cullen strand road bun beg guidor remains reposing at his home with rosary at 8 p.m. house private please from 10 at p.m. and on the morning of the funeral funeral mass tomorrow morning in saint mary's church dairy beg at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards to maharigalan cemetery family fires only please donations if desired to the donoghull hospice care of any family member the death has taken place of unamuni nay ledden swilly road bunkrana and formerly of balnamore cantile trim funeral from her late residents this morning at 20 past 10 going to st mary's church cock hill for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to hide and radio dot com and before we move on in the program um just to talk a moment our thoughts and prayers are with the oboil family in letter kenny this morning on the death of their precious dad andy especially his sons joe and shawn his daughters uh marie rita and lucy and his wider family circle andy as many of you out there would know as a former colleague of us here at highland ready he first joined us as a a guard a sergeant on our community uh guard a community slot and then with his work with the donoghull hospice and our radio bingo andy also had a huge involvement in football and these remains were opposed to this late residents today from 5 p.m until 10 p.m and on saturday from 11 a.m to 10 p.m with family time please on the morning of the funeral the funeral is from his residence at 12 15 p.m on sunday going to the church of the irish martyrs for 1 p.m requiem mass in term and afterwards to conwall cemetery letter kenny uh family flower is only pleased donations in lieu of flowers if desired to the donoghull hospice care of any family member and just to let you know that there's a rosary both 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99 a square yard but hurry only while stocks last at florid collin road letter kenny you're very welcome back to the program now they don't know don't go senior football manager paddy car will be joining us in the not too distant future so stay tuned for that any questions get in touch oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand we'll see what we can do my friend's daughter had her phone at school says a listener the phone was confiscated when the parents went to collect the phone after school they were refused and informed that the phone would be kept for a few days is this legal um i don't know if there's law to govern this i don't think a school has any right in law to withhold someone's private property i don't think even necessarily maybe the rules of the school uh they're not enforceable by law so i don't know it doesn't sound legal to me but i as i say my instinct would tell me how could it be a league how could it be legal what right would a individual and they're not a guard they're not a judge they're not a solicitor they're just an individual who happens to be a teacher or a principal what right would they have to retain someone else's private property and there's question marks there over gdpr as well uh if i were a school i would come up with some of the system other than confiscating phones because you're believing yourself open i would say to um a number of actions not least under gdpr rules that someone's private property and contains private information lots of private information uh call us as many and spent on providing new cycle lane from the pole star to dairy arch yet on saturday i spotted one of our two-wheeled friends totally avoiding the new cycle path and instead traveling casually along the dual carriageway holding up traffic can you get great to ask mr or rock what pain is going through as regards the cost of living another listener says again the bonnigy roundabout is flooded the busiest roundabout in donagall the roads engineer over this should be called to task absolutely farcical incompetent shower uh well the showers have rained that the road was incompetent in dealing with it was terrible um there's enough chat about problems in terms of traffic getting in and out of letter kenny uh without um an hour's rain causing gridlock like it did pity leesa chambers and fenofall representatives wouldn't concentrate on providing government instead of being obsessed with shin fane another high greg just shows you how bad fenofall are now when they have taken back mary cocklin after all these years it's a case do they know uh i don't know what that last bit of that says um mary cocklin the former minister will be joining us on the program in before 11 o'clock i believe a caller says i don't think there are enough guards to implement the speeding fines another good man mr or rock in 100 agreement with you i suspect that says it relates to the cycles is it another uh it definitely has nothing to do with safety in this country it's all about money money money for government full stop and the point system is wrong it's designed again to reap money in for the government it's all about money money money but the money the amount of money taken in from fines in the wider scale of things though in the wider scale of finance is tiny really isn't it i mean if it's uh about raking in money they're not very good at it um frightening the number of drivers on phones texting or reading texts when driving the arrogance of it is shocking uh and another good man mr or rock read the cyclists um another the electric scooters in my area are being used on the footpaths is this legal i'm not sure what the legality is at this point i know it's uh being legislated for or there's a few areas of legislation i'm not quite sure now let's see what uh kira thinks on uh fines good morning kira thanks for joining us morning how are you i'm fantastic good to talk to you uh right okay do you think increasing fines is worthwhile or is it maybe targeting particular groups or what's your view in my opinion i don't think fines are fair because they do tend to like student a student go into college could be doing 10 kilometers over the speed limit they might be late then they get matched with 160 euro fines they can't afford they need to look at the penalty points the penalty points is diverse it's for everyone no matter what you're going to get a penalty point and you're going to be annoyed about it so if you get 12 points you could be banned from driving your 250 000 euro Lamborghini or your 2500 euro Ford Fiesta you think it's more equal exactly whereas if you get 160 euro fine i couldn't afford that right now i think i have 80 euro on my bank i'd have to wait and then you're under financial pressure it's not fair to the lower class people and even some middle class people yeah penalty points if you sorry so this is kira sorry this is like to lay on the phone i have only been done for points twice no it's not your fault it's our fault i've only been done for points twice right and it was ages ago it is in gallway and on both occasions i didn't realize the speed limit on the road i wasn't going very fast i think i was doing about 70 but it was a 50 kilometer zone i didn't know and i got six points i think it was 604 i can't remember what it was at the time but it was twice in the one day in the same stretch of road and i think you've a question mark over signage as well so with that it's a fair game yeah the signage around especially on the roads i'd be traveling is a complete joke if you anyone i've spoken to says the speed limit of klar chapel just outside dunigalt town is 80 kilometers there is not one signpost no that's a that is a hundred that's a hundred kira exactly yeah but there's not even a there's not even a hundred kilometer on your way into the gap there is on your way back out but the signage you can dispute that you were speeding if you can prove that there was no sign in your area stating the speed limit you can dispute it then but they need to if they increase the sign people will see the speed limit like it's not fair to be finding someone 160 euro because they don't know what the speed is yeah and another thing that's a little bit unfair if you want to dispute it you have to go to court but i think they tried to discourage you from doing that because i think they double the points or the double the fines don't they so it's not really fair is it so even if you think you have a good case you probably won't go to court for fear that you don't get a fair hearing it's not very fair that actually when you think about it yeah for speeding you get them i think it's three points i'm not sure but i'm pretty sure then when you go to court they add two points on if you if you don't win your case like but it's not it's none of it is fair it's not equal across the board to every if i was speeding i'd just be pissed off i'd be so annoyed whereas if i got the point i would be so much more careful because i know however many more points is going to get my license taken away and even if they did it's 12 points over three years to get your license taken away for six months but if they brought that back a bit if they did six six penalty points in six months it's a weak ban and then if you get eight points in a year it should be a month's ban rather than just putting the pressure on people to pay these fines when they can't pay them the money goes up to like where is the money going it's hard enough to keep a car on the road to kira as well you know with everything between you know the tax the insurance the price of the car maintaining the car of tires it's you know it's not easy to keep the car on the road now yeah for sure definitely yeah even the insurance like i'm on the road three years now my insurance last year was 1800 that's crazy money are you full license kira are you full license i'm full license like yeah i don't know i just i just yeah what was it this year um i this year it was 1800 just a meg just gone i mean just this is a different conversation altogether but i recently got a quote for someone younger than you with no driving experience no no claims bonus and the quote was 1900 so that company i would suggest you go to because i would say you're paying over the odds there kira probably yeah unless you're driving a two-liter petrol or something i don't know yeah no it's 1.6 diesel now you shouldn't be paying that much the the way the system is at the minute it's not equal it's suppressing certain people whereas the penalty point it is effective for everyone do you think someone on what 100k a year is going to care about 160 euro fine of course not there you go they probably have that sitting in the center console of the of the car you've got that much money but i i think it's a i've never heard the suggestion that you've come up with there before and i think it's quite it's it's it's interesting in terms of you know a smaller amount of points that introduces a ban for a shorter period of time like it's a wonder was that ever looked at when they were devising this because it's a more of immediate uh in your face type of a situation and maybe people might even adhere to it a bit more exactly yeah if i was near getting my license removed for a week or a month or six months i like you take it so much more seriously okay kira listen thanks for your time this morning interesting points of view good to hear from you thank you very much all right and save more drink kira keep on to the limit thank you okay bye bye thanks very much indeed that's kira there what do you think of her suggestions 08 660 uh 25 000 uh answer me this where is the money coming from for all this and why was this money not used or got for our own people who are on the streets like this just do not make sense to any person in this country has or can any person answer this for the public where the money comes from uh for 2023 anyway the money is coming from the taxpayer from the extractor from the v from vat from corporation tax from taxes being costed 2.8 billion set aside for 2023 that's where the money is coming from the government will argue that there's a separate housing for all program that they're working on they delivered i think finafoil we're saying yesterday they've already delivered 20 000 new homes this year and hope to increase that for the next so that's the argument you will hear from the government that there's two strands to this there's the housing for all where they are providing new homes to get people off housing waiting list to house the homeless and then of course there's this second channel which is the type of accommodation you could argue that would not be suitable for fixing the homelessness problem in island i.e hotel accommodation you know 12 14 people in a three-bedroom house that is not how you would fix the irish and inverted commas homelessness problem that's what they would say right one of your panelists said there hasn't been a war in europe since 1945 better check up their history before coming out with them kind of statements on live radio i think any party that doesn't go into power sharing the way you should be stopped and if any of us refuse to work does your arm want to go on i don't think so will the ukrainians be given the right to vote because i think a lot of people like me and the people in general will not vote fina fall finnegale the greens again when the people of ireland whatever our nationality is have to be neglected with all the services that have been denied to them i think really what you're talking to there is this notion that some people have out there is that fina fall and finnegale are and the greens are so afraid of losing the election that they are bringing people into ireland to help them win the election now again we're being told to think for ourselves do our research think about it one percent of the population of an increase is not going to tip the balance in your average general election secondly maybe 40 percent of those are not of voting age and and the 60 percent you can't compel them which way they vote i don't think people are coming into this country and going yeah fina fall greens finnegale they don't think it like that they think about the irish people so i understand project fear is in full force to try and scare people but look at think about it logically think about it how could one even two percent of a new population in ireland even if they were given the right to vote and given how many of them are actually adults who could vote and given the fact that you couldn't actually compel them to vote a certain way how could this response for whatever other argument you want to make how could it be an electoral election advantage let me know if you think you have the answer to that one oh wait 60 25 000 as i say you know thinking for ourselves right across the board live free in 2023 with the low ga 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family too so make an appointment with your gp or pharmacist visit hsc.ie forward slash flu for more information from the hsc okay yesterday we heard that a homeowner someone living in a house someone broke into their home and they in the course of a struggle or in the course of defending their property they stabbed the intruder that person died and they were sentenced to 3.5 years raymond what's your views on that yeah good morning great pleasure to speak with you you had a very interesting show yesterday i i'm sort of look at this and this is sort of shameful both beyond shameful you have a 17 year old teenage boy he's a boy he's not a man all right regardless of what people may think and somebody who's 25 years old breaks into his house apparently broke into his bedroom and he's there trying to defend himself he could possibly be murdered in here and um you know and and then he's sentenced by a judge in here to three and a half years for defending himself um you know obviously you obviously disagree with that yeah i totally disagree with it it's like let's put the shoe maybe on a different foot here suppose instead that young man was a young 17 inch girl and a 25 year old man broke into her house broke into her bedroom maybe tried to rape her attacked her maybe tried to murder her with the same judge sentenced her for defending herself with a knife and obviously if she if the person had a knife they were certainly concerned about people breaking into their house and endangering their lives would that same judge have sentenced her to three and a half years i mean i think i think there'd be just total uproar about this and you know like it's a general point in here at least from my lowly you know viewpoint here if you're a judge you're basically come from a certain elite political class you have to belong to a certain group of political parties you know either phenogale phenofoil labor if by chance you're you know you know you're social democrat or you're people before profit or you know god forbid you're shouldn't say you can't be considered for anything it's interesting in the in the judge's remarks because he sort of you know mitigated the sentence to stomach scent he considered a moderate risk sorry i beg your pardon he took into account um that kerry was 17 at the time of the incident showed genuine remorse and did not expect or instigate violence on the night of the instant so with that in mind which is a couple of the points that you've made there he actually took that into consideration in handing down a four and a half year sentence with the last year suspended so what are you supposed to do i wonder if someone if someone breaks into your house and i mean obviously there's panic and everything else involved uh in terms of defending yourself or you're defending your family i mean are you really in a mental space there to consider the consequences that you actually could find yourself locked up and prison is a really really sterile stern penalty that you could find yourself locked up for three four years for defending your home and your family it's no i mean greg like i said before i think this is shameful beyond shameful it it totally discredits the entire so-called judiciary like i mean if you're defending yourself you know you have your partner your children in there a little baby and somebody breaks into your house like you know they're not breaking into your house to give you a christmas present you know and and and this is just you know it it's you know it seems like if you're a judge in ireland you you sort of and maybe i'm being biased but the dpp the dpp tried to do him twice for murder as well you know uh and then eventually he was convicted of uh manslaughter i believe on his arrest he said he said he said he should not have come into my house i was asleep i heard a smash the front window breaking he grabbed my mother he started punching and kicking her i grabbed a knife and i stabbed him with it so he claims that in that moment he was defending uh he was defending his mother now in july he was acquitted of uh powers murder but uh a jury because you talk about judges it was a jury that found him uh guilty of manslaughter it was 12 of his peers the judge has direct the jury and into a large degree in here i mean come on now raven do you don't mean to tell me that if you were if you were a member of a jury that you'd be told by judge what to do they they give instructions to the jury yes but it's up to them but raven it's up yeah of course i of course i understand your point of view there but it was 12 of this man's peers that heard the evidence and it was they now of course it's up to the judge to to hand down sentencing but it was they that found him guilty of of manslaughter you know this was not like the special criminal court where it was a a single individual that made that decision 12 of his peers found him guilty of of manslaughter technically speaking well i mean greg i i'm sort of at a loss for word so please excuse me take your time raven i'm not i don't hope you don't think i'm trying to befuddle you at all raven oh no no no that's not my intention it's just it's the second conversation yeah it then it it discredits the entire judiciary system in here like i i don't understand how the dpp could even think about you know bringing a case against somebody somebody a big man 25 years old and he's a boy breaks in your house he's beating up your mother trying to beat you up maybe he's trying to rape you and he's defending himself well and you know i i simply it's beyond words for me to understand what's going on yeah but in terms of word speaking hypothetically about other instances there's no allegation of along the last part of what you said there but i understand where you're coming from yeah just i just think if most people here and text in i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand if you were in your home with your family and someone came in in the middle of the night they smashed a window and they came in or came in through a door we're not trying to in any way condone or promote violence i hope people don't think that's what i'm doing would you be able to in the heat of that moment say right i'm going to try and control the situation without causing the person who's broken into my house any injury i don't think that's realistic i think in in in a moment it's like fight flight or fear you'll do anything to defend your family greg like like this whole thing's just totally beyond me it's like i don't believe these judges and maybe i'm generalizing here are in touch with with the real world they're in touch with reality i don't believe they've gotten they live sheltered existences and i just don't believe they you know they understand what the real world is all about in here and and you know they live in you know million dollar homes or whatever or euro homes and and you know they they're very sheltered i mean about two years ago there was a a very prominent former irish judge i i i believe the name was furgal gainer well if you know if you're not sure i just don't want to talk about individuals if that's okay reyman because i don't know the person and you're not right there's this first yeah that's fine i understand this person was opposed was appointed to the coast of the war crimes that tribunal about 25 years ago okay about two years ago he sort of issued a gentle but very public warning to the to the people in dublin about the judiciary you know he he said something that and this is apparently some old english term i'm not familiar with it's called deviling the evil with i and g afterwards deviling basically from what i gather means you you come from a certain elite class and you're ruling on the people who are not from your elite class in here and you have no contact or no touch in reality with with the real world in here yeah i get this again though i'll bring you back to the point that it was 12 of his peers randomly selected from society that found him guilty and that being said though the manslaughter is one of those crimes that if you're convicted of there is a huge range in terms of what the judge can convict you can consent to you for it goes from community service right up to life imprisonment so there is a lot of scope within a manslaughter conviction that is afforded the judge okay reyman thanks for your time points well made i think a lot of people will agree with you but we appreciate your time this morning okay back with more shortly live free in 2023 with dunlow ga club winner takes all prize includes 500 euro cash paid every week next year live free in 23.ie pride sponsors of today's show hi marty frill here hope you can join me this and every friday night from eight till 10 p.m with rock and hits on highland radio in association with arena seven wins world kids adventure center at arena seven is a must visit in letter candy with their multi-level soft play area perfect 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prizes to be worth sign up for your chance to win at top oil win.ie okay some of your comments here reyman made the perfect point if it was a woman like he said she would have been let off and lauded a hero for all women the man needs to be released uh people have won their election seat by two votes or more in the past they have of course uh but that's not going to swing an entire election and again there is no guarantee in which free thinking people might vote there is absolutely nothing to suggest that uh people moving here feel they have to thank the government parties with a vote they are dealing with all different uh election representatives on the ground and a lot of the volunteers independent good morning greg just been a bonagy the water's still pouring down from lurgie brak single ring really possible uh barely possible no council or politician there no signs up to be careful no water pumps drain clearing nobody taken ownership of this problem which was evident several times in the past week just embarrassing for our town county and anyone who calls themselves an engineer on our roads panel coming in from paul morning greg i've heard that some ukranians who live to to 400 miles 200 to 400 miles away from the war in ukraine are renting out their homes and coming to arland and their cars and vans because of the free handouts and everything else going their way so not all ukranians are victims of war would you leave arland and go and live somewhere else for a 208 euro weekend free food if you would that's fine but would you would you take your family half of your family and just move to a random country on the other side of europe for 208 euro and a room in a hotel and free food the vladimir putin in his offensive against ukraine has bombed everywhere in ukraine but anyway that's just a fact it's whether that is enough for that people should stay there i don't know it's completely up to you but uh you know this notion that the war is only happening in 15 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elected to the position of chairperson of the executive of finafall in donnie gall and mary coughlin joins us now good morning to you mary thanks for taking the call good morning greg how are you i am good so is this at least in a public sense a return to politics for you well i never left finafall that's the first thing yes what it is is a rejuvenation of the organization um we're looking at what new initiatives we need to do in the context of getting more people to join the party you'll notice that those have been elected have been a mix of men and women younger people and people with experience representing the majority of the cordy camphor areas in the constituency and we're there to support the party the development and the growth of the party encouraging more members in the party and doing an awful lot of hard work now in the preparation of the local election preparing now for conventions and it's our clear aim that we wish to have more representation at local level and equally to support at national level our minister and our senator and to look forward to re-electing two people to this constituency depending of course on the outcome of the deliberations that are taking place as to whether it'll be a county constituency or whether it'll be two three-seaters so your job then to identify at least well i presume charlie mcconnellog will run again with the backing of the party locally i presume one of your big jobs then will be to identify a second candidate probably depending on how the what decision is made in terms of the constituencies or constituency in south donagall identify a candidate probably female well that's most presumptuous of what we're really doing it's kind of based on what you were saying though because you need to find two candidates you've got one you've talked about the gender balance you've got one guy it's just larger keys in the north of the county we're looking at sorry what we're looking at first of all is rejuvenating the organization and preparing for the local elections we will be having conventions as the tisha indicated at the irish recently we will be having our conventions as quickly as and soon as possible and that will have to be done prior to i would assume the summer of this year and we were looking to identify new candidates in the local electorate areas in support of our existing elected representatives because i think it's important to say that we have very good political representatives representing the party at local level and clearly we want to augment and support that representation at local level moving on from that then we will see how we work towards the conventions that will be needed for the all elections and also the selection of candidates but it's not going to be a matter for me or for the executive to select candidates it would be a matter for the party members and i would take this opportunity now if i may to say we are very open to new candidates we are very open to new members and we certainly hope that in the very short period of time we will see people who have an interest and you notice from that executive that has is representative of the organization that they're very enthusiastic and very anxious to get out there and do the hard work and not saying that anyone who is elected is not there to do hard work anyone who puts the name forward should be commended and supported in political life but we feel as a party we can make a difference and that we have the opportunity now over the next short period of time to get new candidates available within the community men and women younger people talented people and people with experience yeah but i mean obviously the safe for instance at a council level there's a certain amount of seats available you know you have a lot of career politicians in those seats uh and and you know finafore can only sort of elect a certain amount of people i'd imagine are some tough decisions going to have to be made in terms of people making way uh for maybe a more diverse perhaps even younger uh finafore representative representation on donagall county council no i don't see that the case there are in the electoral areas some candidates and sitting councillors uh where they have almost capacity representation there are others in my own electoral area where there are greater opportunities for example to have greater representation from the party as we only have one public representative representing finafore at the moment and certainly we'd be targeting those electoral areas where we see the opportunity to regain seats and to augment the team that goes to the doll so we're there to support that decision making process to support the members of the party to support our elected representatives and clearly to look forward to uh opening opportunities for others to put their name forward at political life uh certainly i'd like to see more women elected to the local authority and equally younger people but it's a mix of talent that we have it's a mix of the representation of the constituency and of the county and clearly we have a lot of hard work to do but we are up for that job and we are certainly determined to get as much success as humanly possible and get that support outside of the party then when we do have our candidates put forward and obviously you'd be well aware that uh locally elected representatives finafore representatives have been unhappy with some decisions that uh michael martin has uh made in fact some of them on the record perhaps saying it's it's it's time for him to give someone else a go uh as you sort of take up this important role representing finafore in in donagol i suppose you can look nationally like do you believe say for instance that michael martin is the man to lead uh donagol finafore and finafore as a whole into the next general election well the t-shirt because the t-shirt can be the leader of the party and the party supports them here in the county any issues with regard to leadership are really a matter of internally for the party members and publicly to be spoken about by the people that are elected to do so and i'm not certainly uh going to move into that sphere where i will be making uh an opinion available when in fact it is those who are elected that make that decision the members of the parliamentary party and the members of the group but certainly to say that our job in hand is to look at the constituency to look at local areas where we have capacity and opportunity and to encourage new people to come forward and regardless of what party you are in or none it is hugely important as i'm sure you would agree greg that we have very good representation at local level the local authorities have been stymied in one way in their decision-making process covid has had a huge impact on our people and on our representatives and certainly it's the time to rejuvenate the role of local authorities because at the day at the end of the day that is where the real representation comes from and those many of whom who cut their teeth of one would put it at local level then have the opportunity to put their name forward at national level so that's the work in hand that is what we're trying to do working with all our members working with all our elected representatives to ensure that we have greater voice and greater capacity within the county obviously depending on the makeup of of donny gole come the next general election i mean you are a woman you are based in south donny gole you have form i mean a lot of people would say feta four was looking for someone to run alongside charlie mcconnellode for a nice geographical spread in a one you know a one donny gole constituency would you be the ideal candidate is it something that you would consider or would you rule yourself out of that scenario well greg if you remember the party you could make that decision yourself but really look at what i'm doing is i was asked by people in my local area put my names forward the chair had retired there wasn't a chair for some time there was a hiatus within the organization and i said i was prepared to help to support the party and the party members i am not there to put my name forward of the candidate i'm there i'm there too but you haven't ruled yourself out of either mary which is quite interesting well i'm not you know that old adage i'm neither ruling myself nor i that's always there well i think that's a very very interesting answer but what i'm saying to you is we you know we will move on from supposition and and and rumor what we're doing is we have a work in hand we have good people there we want to encourage more within the party our ogre has been tremendous and i certainly see talent coming and i certainly hope that we will do that and you know we've been chatting for six or seven minutes now mary and the headline is mary cockland eyes return to national politics i'm not saying that you know the way but you know i know i know you're not saying that but you know this is not an opportunity for me to i understand this is not me renouncing myself i don't understand i came on the interview specifically to say that we have a good organization we have rejuvenated ourselves we have a lot of work in hand and we're prepared to do it and we're up for the fight and we have as much of a contribution to make as a party on behalf of the people that only go as anyone else so i think we are up for that battle when the election is called as you know yourself you never know what's going to happen there are issues in the county there are serious issues and we've been very hurt by other issues in the county uh so there's a bit of healing to be done within the county but i certainly feel the finafall has a part to play all right uh former thomas de mary cockland thanks for your time this morning chat to you again thank you good morning take care goodbye live free in 2023 with dunlow ga club winner takes all prize includes 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appealing for information and any dashcam footage that may be available a priest from the diocese of rafoe has been appointed as bishop of ossary taking in county kilkenny and parts of carlo and leash the appointment was made by pope frances and confirmed by the vatican in the past few minutes father nyle call who was 59 is celebrating a special mass at st mary's cathedral in kilkenny this morning at which he is being formally introduced to the diocese the cohere look of the livered sternone or invisible district says there's been positive feedback regarding a pilot retrofitting scheme being carried out in the district councillor patrick mccawn says that three housing schemes in the livered and castle fin areas have been provided with retrofitted air to water heating as well as updated insulation and wearing he says the pilot was a success and it can now be rolled out he believes to further areas of the county and beyond continued care is being urged on roads across the northwest this morning after torrential rain earlier so large amounts of surface water on the region's roads flooding was reported in many areas of dunigol dairy and torrone the road between gravesteel and the airport roundabout in county dairy was closed for a time that has now reopened the situation has eased after the rain stopped earlier this morning but gar thee and the ps and i are both urging high levels of caution saying surface water may still pose a threat in some areas as you've just been hearing on the show with greg former tarnish to mary coughlin has been elected chair of the dunigol executive of finnafall she was returned unanimously at the executives a gm in ballot buffet last night speaking to greg on the program she said her prime reason for taking the position was to rebuild the party across the county she didn't rule out a return to active politics herself but neither would she rule it in and transport infrastructure arland doesn't always get it right that's according to council 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you sorry about that uh now before we introduce michael and fenula to you for the entertainment item for this week that's entertainment uh just to let you know that thanks to our friends at dunlowe gea they've been uh uh bringing the show uh to you this week as our sponsors and they have a fantastic fundraising drive as you would know and we are going to give you the chance now to win some tickets it's win it all 500 quid a week for a year five nights in dubai there's dinner away nights away and there's also accommodation and tickets to the all island football and hurling semifinals you're sorted for the year uh you could win three free tickets if you know the answer to this question and you enter so listen up and then after that it's michael and fenula on today's show with thanks to our sponsors dunlowe gea we're giving two lucky winners the chance to win three tickets each for the live free in 2023 draw this amazing draw has five fantastic prizes including 500 euro into your bank 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adam so more did you see black adam yeah fenula you did okay right well we'll start with you this week because we started uh in the cinema with you last week fenula so black adam this is a dwayne the rock johnson film he's been trying to make this film for a very very long time he finally got it made my word to putting some money into promotion in terms of adverts and billboards and absolutely everything is it any good well i'm starting with my oh that's perfect i thought you said you're starting with me i started with you last week there's more about it to me that's no no equal go on head this is great even when fenula is not here we can all still fight it's wonderful it's just this is technology at its best yeah this is the rock this is uh the new dc superhero movie the character is an anti hero so the idea is that he he says in the movie i'm no hero and we get his backstory and we find dc is batman superman superman not spiderman and batman dosy that's fine um we'll get you there yet myself and fenula we'll get you there yet you're might slightly more committed than fenula i don't think she really cares if i get there or not they'll be told you're my pet project you are my pet project so basically yeah so we get his backstory we find out that he's from made up middle eastern country we find out that he's sort of connected to the shazam hero that we saw a few years ago and we basically get a new group of heroes that we've never seen before the justice society and pierce braznan is one of the car is one of the actors in that particular group so the story plays out in very predictable fashion i have to say uh there's plenty of action and the action is spectacular most of the time but it does become quite repetitive you're constantly seeing the rock who plays this uh this incredibly powerful character a character could rival superman he's that strong he can do pretty much anything you get to see him taking on various actual bad guys and we see that although he says i'm no hero of course he will of course do the right thing when it comes down to it a reluctant hero yes exactly um the rock is the rock he's very charismatic this is uh in terms of box office this is his biggest opening ever this is his biggest film yeah the he was posting it himself last night on social media the numbers are in and so forth but i have to say for me this was a very standard affair it was just middle of the road maybe actually a little bit below maybe a five out of ten um it was just five out of ten is crap you know that don't you well it's it's i didn't really enjoy it i mean i gotta say i didn't really enjoy it i i there was a lot of characters i didn't care about and when you get to the third act of this movie you're it works best if you have an emotional investment in some of these characters i just feel that i just feel that maybe is it possible that marvel is like iphone and dc is android and you're an iphone user and you've gone into a dc uh i can't have forgotten the metaphor for you but anyway i just wonder if you're going in there with too much loyalty and emotional baggage i'm reminded of those larlin hardy moments when stanley would come up with something brilliant oliver would ask him to release us and he would completely fail that is me that is you get me live that's it that's it i think part of it may be that but honestly uh myself and then we're saying this and it'll be you'll hear her thoughts in a moment that the emotional investment that you're expected to have in this movie doesn't materialize because we've only met these characters one thing marvel does very well is it introduces the characters why do you need to know so much about the character in any film in any of us i don't need to know that much about the characters well in any film when you get to the end of a film right forget a superhero movie for them but if we'll say um it's it's it's the it's a man dying he's a he's the leader of a wealthy family or something that and he dies like we saw in knives out or something like that you the movie should make you care to some degree about the guy well in some of the biggest biggest criticisms of stuff i've had is that i didn't feel in any way emotionally invested in any character i'd come back to you finnula some of the criticism of black adam has been that it's a setup movie and we've talked about these films in the past you know where they're the beginning of something and i presume that must be the case with this and that you know it's okay but it is a setup movie for what is to follow uh does that form part of your opinion of it or what is your opinion no i don't have a problem with them being a set up movie because to be honest they all end up being a set up movie like dc you know dc comics have had probably five or six set up batman because they keep trying to set it up into a long-standing franchise and it's only the current one that's actually managed to to hold through hold through for a few of them for them but to me the problem is exactly what michael said you're you're watching this movie the explosions and everything are great and they're fine it's but it's the same as what you've seen in all of them yeah yeah we've seen it but i they kind of went on the premise that you knew the backstory of it and there's a lot of time it's a very long movie like it's about two and a half hours nearly the movies and they put a lot of stuff into it and they kind of drew stuff out and whereas if they had spent that with a bit more character development you'd have actually cared in it because not only is i mean maybe people may know who black adam is there's another character in it that's played by uh and now all i can think of is revington steve rather than his actual name pierce proslin yeah thank you yeah go ahead yeah just because when we were talking about we were talking about revington steve pierce proslin's character in it is one that if michael has read the his comics but then there's like three or four characters in it and you're like they seem to be like even in the comic book world a a lesser characters and you just don't know anything about it it's like they're trying to have a little romance going on one side of it you're like i don't even know why these two characters are in it so do you think this is a post-production problem for no like a storytelling problem i wonder we never know unless we saw the real footage but you i've assumed that it's the way that it ended up being cost that you just don't know now maybe if i've been a massive black adam uh comic book fan but to be honest i've never even heard of this comic book and i don't think i mean michael's quite a comic book fan you don't want to see his collection it's scary fans one word to describe him yeah keep it and even he didn't know an awful lot about it so you kind of wonder you know is it a niche crowd that they've made this for when they're not explain we come to the point now where we judge films on based on the fact that well even michael didn't know the background to it i mean is that even he did not know the inside leg measurements of black adam's i would bow down to when it comes to this comic book seat the man knows his comic book and bay watch and bay watch and bay watch of course yeah um but dc is always kind of a mystery to me i was never a dc reader but i only the only thing of any of those dc stuff i liked was the trilogy of batman films from what's his face all the other batmans are rubbish i don't know that joker film almost the one with what's his face yeah that was quite good yeah all of that whacking phoenix yeah i'm superman yeah i didn't like that either yeah who else is there well the superman one now is the henry cavill guy isn't that isn't he yep he's he's i just never liked superman i never liked superman and there was i was in a family of people that really liked superman and i was just like that must have made it awkward at christmas meals and like people running around with plastic supermen and me go no who else is there so there's batman wonder woman one see there you go again wonder woman although her films are quite good the first one was very good you see it's a weak cast isn't it aquaman yeah aquaman's net yeah yeah right okay so yeah five out of ten from what's his face michael uh what's i have to i tell you i will give it a little bit more than five out of ten if only because at one point they've super close the rocks face oh yeah a regular size body and it it is worth going to cinema just to see how the rock would have looked if he had not become as big as he did when he was in his early days that freaked finula out she talked about that oh my god it was just like it's a bizarre thing it's like he wouldn't be able to cut it as a regular person but you were you were you were really shocked but i think they're not alone i would give it a six six and a half i mean it's something it's a bad movie it's just that it's like fine but i think we can accept that whilst use of gone in and what use of looking for a film i think if people want to go in there and see all the bells and whistles a new sort of superhero anti-hero whatever it might be that's why it's done so well at the box office it's going to tick those boxes yeah it has all the explosions that you're looking for and it's all the kind of um superhero fighting and different things like that if people are aware of the comics or maybe even if they do a little bit of the don't yeah even if they don't run you might go into it fresh into it it's just i think i went into it thinking the rock supposedly spent 15 years trying to get this film made this is his pet project he loved the comic books because he felt that you know that this is a person of color there's not that many superheroes of color in the different this is kind of the what the you know the Wakanda the black you know Black Panther of the DC world from what i can gather from stuff that i've read and in that sense you just i just felt a little bit left out so maybe my expectations were a little bit it does deliver the action it does yeah exactly if you like the rock and you want an action movie then this is a good bet i've yeah exactly and i've not really seen him in a bad film if the truth be told is he's like one of those actors that generally picks good stuff yeah okay listen thanks so much for that so far we're going to be talking about the watcher uh next which is an interesting one because the watcher was slated a little bit by critics i think but the public seemed to like it seemed to enjoy anyone i've spoken to so we'll see if that's the case did you've been watching it no but it has so stay there we'll be right to hear what finula has to say about it in a moment and you can just nod in a great for radio yeah live free in 2023 with Dunlowe GAA club winner takes all prize includes 500 euro cash paid every week next year live free in 23.ie pride sponsors of 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it's your kind implies that it's new york out to kind of like a connecticut type area in the tv program and what they're doing is is a they've moved into this beautiful big house and they're going to do it up and then after a while uh not very long after they're in it a couple of days after they're in it they start receiving anonymous letters and the anonymous letters say initially just that i'm watching you and you've come to the neighborhood and this is what it is eventually it starts listing their children's names then it starts saying you know why are any changes they're making to the house and things like that that it doesn't like and then the tv program then explores who the watcher may actually be and there is an amazing cast in this that's one of the main things about it i have to open up my phone again now because i've already done you have bobby canna valley i think is how you pronounce it and me a farrow it plays one of the neighbors you have jennifer coolidge that's in it yeah i know me Naomi watch who plays um bobby's wife and so it's a really outstanding cast that's in it uh i wasn't overly gone on it though have you watched all eight episodes uh no i'm up as far as five so i haven't gotten to the finale are you wobbling i am wobbling a bit with it now and i'm kind of like going i mean i i rarely don't finish anything so i probably will go back right so what then is what's the problem with it then and by the way if anyone out there has watched the watcher let us know what you thought about it 08 660 25 000 get involved in the conversation so what could go so hard well it's promoted with with this you know it's got this huge cast that kind of thing and it's very and it's very emotional it's a couple of things about it that i do it it's very netflixy it kind of netflix i for me anyways i don't know what's going on i mean they're dragging the arse out of it what does that what they're definitely dragging them they're definitely dragging it ours uh because there's no it's very hard to keep the tension going over seven episodes when there technically isn't a bad guy in the sense that they don't know who the bad guy is it's not like it's somebody that's actually physically assaulting them in any way this is somebody that's just trying to scare you know what i mean that's that's scaring them and you have to it that's a very hard thing to keep going for seven episodes and after a while then when they keep whining and giving out about it you know what i mean kt is five episodes into it and she thinks it's brilliant kevin's this five into it they're all like oh what's gonna happen who could it be but it hasn't it hasn't grabbed you like that no it hasn't grabbed me like that now i did do a little bit of the algorithm and maybe i spoiled it a bit for myself you can't do that i mean hola can we just erase all of finula's review there because you know the outcome so you're disappointed in your finula you know where you know how the story i'll tell you the outcome and then you'll realize they don't ruin it for me yeah because the tg program isn't really like the reality of it do you know what i mean yeah but you know where they're going with it well i mean with this they kind of like they've tried to bring in now a whole um supernatural element oh right okay they're bringing all these different elements i get you now that would put me off right away yeah you know they have um then next minute then the the daughter has a story where she's off with some fella that's too old for her and we're supposed to care about that as well i'm like i can only care about so much and i mean it's fine as a drama it's perfectly fine but would i be considering this as something like as i said i sat down to watch this this kind of like oh this could be something good for people to watch over halloween it has a few scares that's kind of a bit more like a uh i don't want to say well i do i suppose i'm gonna say it but like a smart kind of a drama do you know what i mean that it's more kind of in your head sort of a fright rather than just you know a slasher type of the yeah but to drag that out over seven or eight episodes is a is a big way too long so after five episodes what are you giving it out of ten i i have to say i'd still say only be sitting around the six or so it's just the same as black adam i know it's fine want you know okay fair enough just didn't do for me stay where you are adene mccarter is head of culture with dairy city instraband district council good morning adene thanks for joining us morning thank you very much for having me all very very exciting dairy's internationally acclaimed halloween festival over four nights uh it's is it bigger and better than ever i suppose after an enforced break yeah absolutely this is our this is our first year obviously since uh 2019 we've been on it's been our full program so this year sees the return of our carnival parade sees our all of our you know as you know things kick off here for the festival tonight um from six until nine with the uh awakening the wall city and as those of you who know are familiar with the festival last year we brought it right across the river interesting columns park so it was so successful that we have um we've continued that new uh new layout for for tonight tomorrow night and sunday night and then monday night obviously is the big night here as you know uh well the next three nights are big nights but monday night obviously is the is the culmination of the of the festival with our and our carnival parade everybody would be delighted here is is back at seven o'clock on monday night followed by the fireworks um the world famous fireworks halloween fireworks display here in the city that everybody absolutely loves so we're absolutely thrilled to have the parade back this year it has nearly 700 participants from um community groups right across the northwest and we are thrilled to have it back it's a real highlight um those you know those images go right across the world we work closely with our partners particularly tourism ireland to to send that message right across the world and we're expecting lots of international visitors this weekend um right across the northwest or you know our hotels are full of our restaurants hospitality retail everybody is very excited about this event and as you know this year as we have done as we did last year we have extended our activity so the summit that we're working closely with dunagall county council to deliver some activity in swan park in bunkrana so it's a really exciting few days yeah and so people can just call in it most of the most of the weekend and something will be going on or is it signposted literary or metaphorical how will people sort of find out what to do so dairy halloween.com has all of the details of all of the activity there is a full program um of lots of things to do right across the city and district and as I say right right into dunagall um all of the details are there all of the traffic and travel information obviously the the way from the wall city is from six until nine tonight tomorrow night and sunday night and then fireworks and parade but there is so much stuff on everywhere um all day everywhere and there's a full program that's available on the website and I know um look there's there's a number of copies of the of the program out and about um right across the northwest so yeah um really looking forward to welcoming everybody back here to the city and uh uh you know when we obviously on monday night we'll have activity uh and fireworks in stirban town as well but obviously the city is a big international focus um and we're looking forward to having everybody back this year brilliant and it's great to have all the bells and whistles again lots of pent up uh excitement for it as well which will all be released I'm sure across the region over the weekend brilliant stuff thanks for the heads up on that just give us that website again if people want to plan what they're doing it's dairy halloween dot com lovely stuff thank you so much take care of yourself that is uh a dean there um are you a big halloween person uh fenula because uh we we do know your your your temperament for horror films well you don't have any yeah your tolerance for them sorry funny enough actually I watched you know background watched pretty much all of the final destination films because it's stuck in my head the nicest the last horror I think maybe he's he's went to see one since this is the last horror it's not even a horror that fenula went to see yeah scared the deepers have you grown up at all no no I mean I've got to see a couple of bits with Michael but yes I went to see halloween the new halloween movie which we I'm dying to hear about but he was like when you come and I was like no that's not happening um yeah no I'm still final destination you did not like I mean your time is your time yeah yeah no did it for me my it's quite good it's my age I'm getting too old right so shall we talk about halloween then we can do it yeah again this is another one mixed reviews yes very much expectation for this is part of a trilogy as such yeah exactly this is a trilogy it started in 2018 jimmy lee curtis came back she's the original lori well she's lori she is lori um and as I think I said last year when there was one of these out there's actually multiple timelines because they keep rebooting it so to watch this one you just ignore the other nine in the middle and just it's this is these three are a sequel to the first batman yeah they just keep restart super man yeah they just keep restart spider man yeah wonder woman someone needs to come up with new ideas don't I know someone has to we'll do it we'll do it so basically at this trilogy uh the first one was brilliant I loved it the second one I absolutely hate it I just didn't get it at all and I went along to see the third one last night it's very divisive as you said Greg very divisive and I have to say it doesn't feel like a halloween movie because Michael Myers the antagonist of all the movies isn't really in this he's just a supporting character and the focus of this movie is a character called Cory Cory lives in the same town as Michael Myers the the famous town where all this has happened and he's a bit of an outcast people in the town even though he's basically innocent they blame him for something that happened a few halloween's ago we see all this in the movie so he's an outcast and he's badly treated he's bullied now he's uh probably about 20 21 22 it's an indeterminate age but he's young fella and he gets a lot of grief from the people and we follow his story so there's no action or no want to well because it's halloween why are they trying to be clever and reinvent something yeah well Michael Myers exactly I know that's yes that's the response of quite a lot of people so over the course of this movie not much action in the first hour just a lot of character buildup and Laurie is there and her family is there then Cory's path intersects with Michael Myers in an intriguing manner and then in the second half of the movie you get lots of action and now one of the criticisms is that I mean it's obviously front loaded to the back or back loaded back and I was kind of interested here it mentioned as it relates to a slasher movie because we know that a lot of it's misogynistic violence over the top and yeah I mean this one people being too sort of no I think there's an accuracy in that I mean you can read that into it definitely I think this one leans away from that because it doesn't have the tropes of the slasher movie in the same way that some of the halloween do are all of the friday the 13th in which Jason is going around killing all these teenagers who are just getting it on and that's the meat that's the whole meat and potatoes of that franchise it's clear watching this third movie which I did enjoy much more than last year I wouldn't rave about this one but I did enjoy it it's clear that the creators are taking it very seriously in the same way that the creators of dexter took dexter very seriously at the end of dexter and I would say too seriously considering he's like a pop culture character but they're clearly want to finish their trilogy by taking a very serious look at Michael Myers and a very serious look at the nature of evil in society and I don't know that this is the correct vehicle because you see if I watch a horror film right I want to step out of reality absolutely yeah I don't want to framed in in realistic realistic I'll watch dharma for that if I want yeah you know what I mean but I can see horror is making the same thing over and over again yeah they want to do something fresh horror I agree with you Greg horror is cathartic the horrors of the real world are too horrific to contemplate a lot of the time but if you're watching a straightforward Dracula tracking down you know people in a big haunted castle it's therapeutic to watch that or haunting of hill house which was enormously therapeutic what they've done with this yeah they've brought the real world into it they have the best of intentions it's not for everybody it's not particularly scary to be quite honest and it's not even that bloody although there are some bloody deaths in the last half hour but I did enjoy it because I could recognize they were doing something and it wasn't what I expected to see when I went into the cinema last I'm reading between the lines here have they set up are they setting up another character for future films I can't really answer that with spoiling things yeah but let's let's be honest it all sounds a little bit obvious let's be honest there's the franchise this trilogy sounds like it sounds to me like a passing of the the franchise will continue in one form or another I they've already rebooted it several times I mean this is making money they'll reboot it or start it again because horror is a cheap to make that's why there's so many horrors out there they are cheap to make absolutely um right on to watcher I was watching a few episodes last night now it's not for me says the listener for nula uh michael healy ray and the documentary living with Lucy fabulous soap lifting that comes in from Maeve the stranger 2022 true story on netflix very good film about police trying to catch a cold killer the watcher is okay the stranger that sounds familiar uh let me see is it new right okay uh by the way does you know that Dracula has connections to donnie gall dracula and frankenstein there's a few stories to say brahm stoker's uh stoker's mom hailed from ballish shannon it wouldn't be the first time someone claimed someone famous from ballish shannon lesbeth dixon maternal grandmother of frankenstein author mary shelly also hailed from ballish shannon that comes in from kevin and i love the oldest town in in ireland apparently and just let you know that the car and on a traders association in conjunction within a shown carnival group will be bringing the streets alive with voices of the sea halloween carnival it's on sunday uh from six p.m so if you want to get along to that right okay what are you giving halloween out of ten and it sounds like it's very subjective right it's very subjective yeah it's it's it's i think you're just trying to make funula feel bad for not going to it it's not really a horror and it's seven out of ten do you get the feeling you're just trying to i know he's trying to lull me into a sense that i'll eventually go and then be completely i would it would have been a need to be institutionalized after a no joke but it would have been very interesting to hear your take on it like because it's not a straight up horror film i don't know i find it hard to watch that anyways because i did love the like the original is as old as me nearly you know like when the original came out i was in my teens and you're kind of in your teens early 20s type things when the first ones came out and we were petrified you were petrified and you were wondering what people would argue well who's better is it him is it freddy kruger is it jason you know and you know what the films were they were were nonsense but they were there just i just don't understand why people are trying to get clever with an old horror franchise because it is you know quite literally what it is people are going to that not for the smartness they want the scares they want that they want that petrified feeling that as even as you're leaving the cinema and walking to the car park you're like we're all gonna die we're all okay yeah and how many sort of 18 19 year olds got back from the cinema and 55 year old dud sit in the front room what did you think what do you send us to that for oh they've changed how it's done all right listen we'll be back with more from our guests after these live free in 23 with 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who's our soccer correspondent here at highland radio when we do frame games you're trying to you know you're always trying to make out that they mean something do you know what i mean you know the way they do this could mean that and that could but this is this is everything really in terms of where football is being played what division football is being played next season it all comes down to this game and hopefully another yeah and you know what greg we have been kind of gearing ourselves towards this game for a few weeks now at this stage you've always known that the match against ucd was coming up towards the end of the season and it was always going to be so important and unfortunately perhaps they haven't able to be building enough points ahead of this to make this match kind of uh well you wouldn't say no avoid but you would have hoped they'd have enough points on board at this stage that they wouldn't have needed a major result tonight but unfortunately they're going to tonight knowing that they they have to avoid defeat greg to keep their their very slim hopes of of avoiding the drop away so is this still in finn harps hands uh effectively yes it is and that's really what you want heading into a game you don't want to be having to rely on on results elsewhere that's exactly it they have a good goal average which is a a key factor at this late stage of the season and yes it's in their own hands if they win tonight their back level on points going into the final games of the season harps will be away from home against drahada and ucd will be at home to shamrock rovers now okay they're crown league champions but it's a big ask for ucd to defeat shamrock rovers so yeah two ones a big ask for shamrock rovers uh to get up for a game when the the title's already in the bag but well that yeah sport always throws up these conundrums it does and we know that harps of two games left to play two wins and they'll be they'll be okay you can't look elsewhere you have to look at uh you have to look at where it's at and i mean we can't look ahead but you would fancy them in the promotion relegation playoff would you well it depends who you talked to on that greg um i mean if you talk to olly horgan he would point out that look at the quality that's in that first division waterford and treaty united uh longford and gallway that's the four teams that are in the playoffs it's looking like it's going to be waterford because they have a strong advantage after their first leg but both waterford and treaty were in the fei cup semifinals beat uh premier division opposition along the way so listen you can't take anything for granted on that yeah um aiden cambell's commercial director with finne harps i mean you know a lot said about the twelfth man uh you'd want a game like this to be a home game and you would want an awful lot of people out there roaring uh roaring the team on aiden yes definitely greg i mean um as as jimmy just said it's been a very difficult season and i think we go back to those great scenes at the victory against longford at the end of last year and um you know a lot of people on the pitch just great atmosphere and the fans really played a crucial part um you know if we stay up this year it will be the seventh out of eight year in the premier division so that would be a great achievement and the fans have just been a huge part of that and olly spoke earlier in the week about you know the fact that they keep coming to matches they've been going to away matches really getting behind the team and water you know it really does make a huge huge difference so if we can um you know the players have to do their parts um there can be no excuses we we've played ucd four times and um you know this would be the first time we beat them they've got a good team but um with the fans as you say greg uh get behind the team tonight it would make a huge difference and we need to go out there and we've got the experience and ballsy to win the match look and that's decided on the pitch but i mean you know it is a business and relegation is a big blow because in terms of travel where you have to go uh sponsorship and with the new with we you know things progressing with the new ground and what have you uh this just would be a really really good year they're all good years but this would just be really uh a great year for fin harps to pull off the great escape yeah definitely look you know we we lost at the start of the year um i i think it's in one way it was a tribute to the recruitment from all in the management team that's um you know we lost 13 players at the start of this year so he pretty much had to start almost from scratch um you know we had to to to look everywhere for uh to try and put together a team that could compete this year and it was always going to be really very difficult and we're one of two part time teams in the division so that presents obviously huge challenges so you know i think everyone is realistic about what to expect but um as you say staying in the premier division the profile of the club the recent good news about the stadium and we have actually got our new stadium draws coming to a conclusion after the match tonight and for 20 000 so people can still get tickets for that online so um we've a lot of fun racing ahead and we do have a vision for the club um the academy teams um continue to do well around the 14s around the national final which is um we got two national cups at uh underage last year so there's tremendous work going on but it you know it really would be fantastic if we can just get this result tonight i see that the lads out in front of me are working on the pitch there was a lot of rain last night but the pitch is in good condition so is it going yeah it's there's no subject it's not subject to a uh uh a check of the ground or anything is it it's going ahead nothing like that right now um pitch it pitches grand uh dry night uh it's forecast for tonight so under the lights as you know you know finn park can be a special place so if we can get the atmosphere going there'll be there's a bit of a nervous around Greg obviously you know and a bit of attention but everybody's doing their bets to get ready for tonight with the match night um arrangements so yeah as you say we need the supporters to come get behind us and get us over the line tonight all right aiden goodman thanks for that aiden cambell commercial director commercial director with finn harps um the game is broadcast live on highland radio obviously uh we want as many people as possible to turn up it to the ground but bring your walkman too uh because he can listen to the commentary in the ground uh if you do get along so tell us about the coverage tonight german yeah deckland boil and myself are on commentary uh greg match starts at eight o'clock and you know i was just thinking when i was coming up here um at the harps you see the same familiar faces week in week out that you know the the core supporters always there and among them andy o'boil would have been there tonight poor andy sadly passed away yesterday and and listen on a on a match like this andy would have been there in a seat down below us in the press box he would always come up and say hello what half time too so listen our thoughts are with the o'boil family at the sad time all right okay german listen thank you for that and uh very nice words there as well okay that was the voice there of german doherty soccer correspondent here at highland radio and he'll be bringing you play-by-play action of that really really important game for finn harps tonight at finn pogg eight p.m kickoff against ucd and it is it's a must win really isn't it german that's how you describe it yeah a draw wouldn't be a disaster but we'll take a one okay well let's not prepare for failure shall we okay thank you very much indeed right more from michael and fenula after the break but before we go into the break 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develop with scattered showers following this afternoon and evening some showers will be heavy moderate to fresh southwest winds highest temperatures of 13 to 15 degrees but if you're in gallway apparently it's sunny that's what finne was telling us finne is uh yeah so right what shall we uh finish on both of you have been watching werewolf on disney plus is that worthy of our last uh couple of minutes or shall we switch to something else yeah yeah oh no look at it people like and it's very old-fashioned um black and white uh and shot in a way that they kind of old frankenstein those type of movies would have been done in the past it's only 50 minutes long it's it's kind of a short thing it's it is done by marvel and it is an old comic book that they've researched um so is it a film or like well what would you say what a single they're calling it a special they're not calling it a film because it's only an hour long it's not even an hour long so it's like it's almost like a pilot episode for tv show but it's not it's just an hour long it's like a short movie right finne do you like it yeah i know i have to say i did like it and has a couple of jumps in it and has it you know bits and pieces that just means someone scratches the nose with you and you're like that's true it does um but again what where it lost me was that this is a comic book movie in which it's giving me no background yeah i get you it drops you straight into it and if you're unaware of the characters of it i'm watching this i am enjoying it but i don't know why i'm watching it what is the point of it yeah i know what you mean yeah it's a theme that gets you yeah you're sort of in this thing you're not it's only in the last few seconds that you're kind of figuring out who everybody is and that kind of thing in it so you're that was really my reasoning behind this i know michael had a completely different thing because again this is somewhere that he had watched before in his wheelhouse yeah i love this i mean i give it 10 out of 10 critics embrace this 91 from critics well i've no one critic who hasn't embraced it and her name is finneula rabbit and one of the things that's interesting about this is the director is a guy called michael geochino and he's a composer and he was the guy who did the music for tv shows like alias and lost stay awake greg so he always wanted to be a filmmaker and this is his first time behind the camera that's the interesting thing about it it's fascinating greg uh because i've been a fan of this guy i would have bought the cds i would have loved like alias so they made this for you really they made this for me yeah no one else is just but it was great fun i watched this the night it came out and i am going to watch it again over the weekend of halloween because i just loved it loved it loved it right okay well we're not going to get to the end of the program on that so i'm thinking five out of ten for you finneula ten out of ten for you yes i would give it more than that because it's not that i like it it's beautifully sharp yeah it's beautifully sharp very much in if you like that old you know the old black and white original kind of horror stuff that came up it definitely has that kind of a feel to it there's a you know because it's shot in black and white even with the blood and guts you're not really getting full you know the way it just had that really kind of an old thriller sort of a feel to it so i would give it a bit more now i would be taking giving it about a seven and a half eight i think i i'm sure i'm sure there are people listening that like myself in the 1980s bbc two saturday night at midnight when i was in my teens they had had the the dracula films the frankenstein films the werewolf films i was that that's what i was doing was 12 13 14 and i turned out okay so i mean i mean there's going to be people that will like this film for that reason they'll be like i used to watch those okay someone text in 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attractive it's based on a true story it's about a very ordinary prison warden who finds himself in deaths through kind of a few series of different things and decides that he should fake his own death and so himself and his wife go into this thing they don't tell the rest of the family and they fake his own death people may have seen i mean i if you are somebody who watches the news and things like that you would have seen this came to a very odd conclusion i remember the newspaper headlines on it but not enough that i would you know i don't remember enough i don't want to be talking too much about it because you don't want to give it away for something that that wants to go into it fresh but it was only just like about two or three years ago that the story kind of came to a conclusion it is like it is imagine yourself if you decided to fake your own death this is where you're asked that badly organized yes this is not somebody that that ties to massive you know organizations like you'd see in the movies or whatever that was like you know fake id in them and all this kind of crap this is basically if you know myself michael sat down we could totally get away with this totally you're enjoying it so far and some people have already watched it because i think it aired on itv earlier in the years it was on earlier in the um earlier in the year i think it was on around march or april virgin seems to be getting a lot of stuff that was on utv on march or april and um you know they had like holding the ram norton one which is very good as well and now they have this so they've had a few things that are coming up out the one you enjoyed as well the the bomb expert one but was that tipping point to whatever it was called all right yeah yeah they're they're we virgin are kind of getting them now six months later vanilla i'm gonna have to say enjoy your weekend and a big hello to everyone in go away thank you so much for joining us remotely it's very much appreciated uh have a lovely have a lovely weekend okay take care of yourself michael as always thank you very much for your commitment in always turning up at the studio it's greatly appreciated all right take care of yourself enjoy your weekend look for all you do you've planted to the we do appreciate it all right that's where we have to leave