 very shortly to discuss the big stories of the day and of the week but first let's get a news update and it's over to Michaela Clark. Thanks Greg, good morning. The driver of Boss Saren's Expressway service has been commanded for his actions as the coach caught fire in letter Kenny last night. All 15 passengers on board were safely evacuated before the bus became engulfed in flames. Boss Saren says the incident was an exceptionally rare occurrence and has confirmed a thorough investigation will be conducted. Hiram was on the bus which was on route to Dublin at the time he told Hyland Radio News that initially they didn't realise the severity of what was happening. In the moment you're not really thinking about anything you know you're just getting people away and getting baggages and getting all that stuff out of there like it took four or five of us to open the baggage doors because the engine had stopped there was people who had important belongings in there and I know belongings don't matter in a crisis situation but we didn't think you know at the time there was going to be a massive explosion there were a few wee bangs but there was nothing Hollywood about it it fuzzled and cracked for a good 20 minutes before it started to become a configuration and then then it really did go up. Attorney-gold deputy has called for further investment into the defective block scandal after the government recorded a state surplus of five billion euro in 2022. Sinn Féin's finance spokesperson Jeppe Peer Stohardy says the figures from the latest fiscal monitor also show that housing minister Dara O'Brien underspent his budget by almost a quarter of a billion euro. Jeppe Peer Stohardy has warned the government to stop penny pinching. These figures today show that there is capacity in the state to deal with this to clear up the legacy of the mistakes during the Celtic Tiger area when Fianna Fwell allowed for no regulation so many families now to one through Christmas and not knowing where their home will be or what type of home there will be in next Christmas because they have houses that are falling around them we need to stop the nonsense that people will still be locked out of this scheme because the government are penny pinching. People in the northwest are being urged to avoid social settings as flu and COVID cases rise. The west and northwest regions are seeing a significant rise in respiratory infections resulting in a severe impact on the health service which is experiencing one of its busiest ever periods. 390 cases of COVID-19 and 348 flu cases were recorded in public health area F which includes Donegal in the week ending December the 31st. Whether now mostly dry this morning but there will be one or two bright spells later isolated shards will develop with highest temperatures of 8 to 10 degrees. That's all from Hine and video news for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. Hello, welcome to the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning it is three minutes past nine on this Friday the 6th of January 2023 you're very welcome along to another edition of the 9 to noon show here on Highland Radio. Sheamus gone will be joining us after 10 o'clock taking your legal questions so if you have a question for Sheamus here are the numbers for you and these are the same numbers for you to get involved in the conversation as we welcome onto the program on Friday panel text some whatsapps to 086625000 086625000 or give us a call on 07491 25,000 emails to comments at highland radio dot com and as you heard just as we came on air you can watch the show and our guests will have the entertainment crew in as well after 11 by going to YouTube Highland Radio Ireland across our facebook pages or indeed on our website just click watch live right let us say good morning to our guests this morning uh chancellor jack moray how are you getting on good morning to you very good great uh good morning to you good to be getting you in loud and clear uh patty rooney good morning to you thank you very much for joining us on the program today yes good morning Greg how are you uh very good indeed and of course uh we scheduled for quite some time to be on this morning but of course we also had you on as a guest uh during the week given the important topic and your background in health and what have you so it's two uh shows uh for one for our listeners i was going to say the word price and then i thought i could get myself into bother here uh you know uh patty rooney of course uh pierrot friends of veterinary university hospital and last but certainly not least professor pat o'connor professor of sociology and social policy at limrick university pat lovely to see you again and a very happy new year to you and happy new year to all of you of course good morning to you pat no i think you're muted or there's a slight connection issue there hopefully you're muted or i'll have to kick you out uh unceremoniously good morning pat no you're out and i'll bring you back in i'll bring you back in again uh right okay um i want to start what will come around to the health issues of course because it's been the the big story that affects all of us in one way or other uh but firstly i want to talk about uh a farmer who flung bags of excrement at two government tds he's defended his actions saying someone uh had to speak up to them uh joseph baldwin 38 of ballionine gourt county go away is now the subject of a guard investigation following his behavior at a public meeting over a planned uh biogas facility in his hometown uh mr baldwin told the Irish independent he was not concerned about the resulting uh frora after uh tds and rabbit and uh kiran cannon spoke of the royal deal at the feces being thrown at them so we'll start with you uh as an elected rep i suppose uh cancer jack moray uh is in any way can you can can this type of action be defended this type of direct action against politicians absolutely no i woke up yesterday morning with a twitter notification and our tweet of interest and was i'm rabbit's tweet and his initial reaction as it was a party account or something i thought this one i guess couldn't possibly happen but i when you see it it's just horrendous for anybody to have to experience it it's it's despicable uh act and in no way because i'm like and i obviously fundamentally disagree with with the politics of both politicians there's ways to argue it there's ways to protest it but that's just horrendous and the likes of those tvs families now they'll be they'll be suffering as much as they are they'll be worried the next time they go they'll probably be eating that their their loved ones are going to be uh subjected to such kind of humiliating kind of an attack it was just absolutely disgraceful and can be condemned uh hard enough i think it's just totally totally wrong do you think this is part of um sort of a wider more vocal opposition to politics you know uh an awful lot of stuff online now uh politicians being challenged in the streets arguing stating they've been felt intimidated as the they walk into the door and whatnot do you think this is just the next sort of evolution of that growing anger and that visible anger uh towards politicians i do you think politics in a way is getting a lot more toxic and attacks on politicians it's almost becoming to be seen as a fair game you know the the lg which is association for local councillors to survey among their members and they said that almost half of of county councillors had considered stepping down or are considering stepping down because the abuse uh the day had received which was very worrying because we should be encouraging people into politics we need we need more people particularly we need to encourage more young people and more women into politics because it's on the represented among those demographics and this type of thing is only going to discourage people that we need from coming forward do we not need then do we not need some sort of an evolution in our politics then in how we see what our councillors do and what they do for us how we see what our TDs do and what they do for us and ministers as well do you know what i mean we're seeing a public attitude change nothing should ever really change driven by people having poo thrown at them but you know maybe the system needs to say right this is not just happening here this is happening globally do we need to change or do something different that people feel will more representative of them because i'm sure as an elected rep yourself um you you know from time to time you will get abused but my word when your parties and government you're going to know all about it then absolutely obviously a lot of the IR is always going to be directed at the ones in power and so i think to myself i haven't experienced that level of abuse certainly not that typical situation but i'm lucky the good people so it's an issue and haven't haven't attacked me in any way shape or form i have gone through for a uh this was widely covered um a year of a typical day during the year as mayor and what people don't really see is politicians sign off for it you expect a certain amount of abolitionists i suppose in the job as you take it on your family don't and people don't fully realize that the toll that it could take on your family to worry that it puts on those people who made me political at all and i get that now i want to bring in the other guests and this is in no way to any way defend all this i just can be no justification what happened but i feel sorry for what these 2d tds went through but look what the public are going through do you know what i mean the pain that they're feeling the heartache they're feeling in terms of the cost of living the terms of the health service everything you know and things only looking more bleak you know what about they might say well what about us why is politics not changing to try and adapt and help them uh you know at the end of the day what happened to annan kiran is terrible but they'll still sleep tonight but i'm not going to be here in the kind of political system i'm not going to say that everybody's being treated well the people are extremely angry head of the community people are very very angry people's houses are falling down and they're fair the people affected by the fact that flocks have been inspirational in the way they've they've held themselves a dignified protestant open they couldn't have made their message any clear by the way they've done it but they did it in a respectful dignified way and i think that should be the example that we follow like this act against annan kiran it's just it's a constant way to behave and like i don't think that's the way you get your point across yeah well i don't even know the point was made in any way or was there articulated no and they weren't actually responsible for this decision either pat o'connor can you hit can you we hear you now no unfortunately pat i can't you're just going to have to re-select a different mic my apologies i will come to you in a moment pat o'connor um patty rooney um it's difficult for politicians uh and even in a way and it wasn't my intention the way i challenged councillor morray there it's difficult for a politician to complain about this for the exact reasons that i outlined there should be a space for them uh to do so but you know i think there's an awful lot of the public might go well you know you think it's bad for you what about us it's it's just a funny old world we're living in at the moment uh patty yeah it's a funny old world but i mean it was a disgraceful um act um greg because i was watching the rt news last night now and rabbit was a cairn cannon was interviewed uh and can and rabbit wasnt but there was a a recording of an interview she must have given to the radio and she was very shaken about the whole thing even to the point where she said that she was actually afraid uh go home she didn't know what to expect uh when she got there um i mean that's the same thing about public servants people that work in the hsc either in uh institutional care out in the community been attacked in there because the general public are so frustrated around access and around all elements of that i mean what this man done to those two public representatives was he actually assaulted them and i hope that they i think the guard you're involved in let's nature take its course there he he did i was reading that piece this morning all right where he said that you know people have to listen and well you know there's one way of making them listen but that's not the way to do it i mean the the ironic thing about this is the decision around the uh reversal of a planning decision by donny goll county council it was taken by on board plan all a cairn cannon and an rabbit had no input of that whatsoever and if we believe about this principle about the separation of powers in the state they have none either so that man is if he wants to fly uh thesis or whatever let him go to dublin to the department to the but there are those that will say there are those that will say that we have never heard of this issue before and again i really don't want to come across as if i'm trying to defend some sort of an action but there are quite a few people out there that you know believe that enough is enough if this is what it takes to get these uh topics discussed on programs like this and others will then uh you know the ends justify the means i don't agree with that for a second but he might feel and those that support him might feel well everyone's talking about it now they wouldn't have if we hadn't done this they yeah sure i mean that's it but that's going to make no uh impact at all i suspect on the on the issue at hand uh in gallway i believe there was some incident uh jack might be able to say something about this outside of mark and kenny uh td's house recently as well uh it was on news last night did he say that he was going to have to move his family uh there was someone that was in lee of radcurt's house in dublin back within the last two years there was uh and i can't remember what the subject was at the time i did but there was people uh what's the word they were uh picketing outside of his house that's the word and all the public representatives and and whatever about a dissatisfaction we have about the actions of the state or about the issues or whatever i really think we're crossing the line here because what we're doing is we are mixing personal and professional here up and putting them into the one pot uh i mean public representatives we need them and we need lots of them we need new ones as local elections coming off uh next year this is where political parties grow their public representatives people who end up in dull air and people who end up government ministers i mean we need them whether we like them or we don't like them we need them and this is a woeful advert and it's a woeful incentive to draw people into the system because you end up then you don't get the best people you get people but you don't get the best people i mean you'd have to ask yourself i asked i would ask myself the same question i mean anyone close to you um paddy would you if they say they were entering politics you know you would you would say to them are you sure that's really what you want to do uh yeah and i would be ringing up dr cliff haley the clinical director of the mental health services non-egal if he's still housed that's what i would be doing uh because i mean i personally wouldn't do it myself i have nothing but the greatest of admiration for jack and all his other colleagues of non-egal county council and wider field because i personally wouldn't do it you know people are always slinging around claims about you know politicians are only in it for the the the money well there are a lot of people in dull air and particularly in the legal and medical profession that could be earning lots and lots and lots and more money uh if they were pursuing their private career rather than a public career so you know i i i don't like to see this and i don't i wouldn't condone it in any shape or form no uh and i hope now it's third time lucky and welcoming pat o'connor on to the program pat thanks so much for your endeavors i really appreciate it thank you greg i hope you can hear me can you i can hear you loud and clear right i know you weren't privy to everything that pat uh sorry uh that jack and paddy were talking about there but you know the thrust of what we're talking about so what's your your take on developments i suppose there's one point i'd like to make i wondered about who was chairing this meeting and why the chair didn't ask these people to leave the room in a way um i think there have to be certain rules about engagement yes everyone is frustrated but there have to be certain kind of limits about what is acceptable in the public area and whoever was chairing it had the responsibility to basically see that those were observed but nobody seems to have mentioned who was chairing it or why they didn't ask those people to leave it and and rabbit has said people who brought in the cow tongue stayed within a couple of fees for i think too though is it slightly more complicated now in that you being refused access to a meeting or you being not given an opportunity to speak is now actually being weaponized that's often being videoed and and for some protesting you know that's the success of it pat well i suppose i don't think it's being excluded from a meeting but that basically being told there are certain rules and unless you basically follow them then you can't remain in the room so that is so it's really rules of engagement so what is is pat than an acceptable um way to progress process protest your disagreement with politics nowadays then unfortunately pat's lines fail we'll bring it back in ask the same question to you jack what do you believe is a a appropriate way then to express your frustration with with politicians and the decisions they make i agree strongly with this protest when necessary strong protests um the sufferers protest if necessary i just think that that crossed the line into intimidation harassment and assault and i don't think that acceptable but i would like to make a point though i love being elected representative i love being a kind of council of people that will say to me just as pat he said are you mad like what what do you put yourself through that for but the only thing jack just just say for instance after the next election when it becomes clear uh when it becomes clear that she and feign can't actually fix the problems at medicana university hospital because they can't right uh because politicians don't really make those decisions and when it becomes apparent that it's going to be slightly more complicated than we thought to fully fund a mica redress scheme and when it becomes clear that really there's only so much in feign or any political party can do to ease the cost of living crises you know things are going to be very different for you at that point i don't want to ask me the challenges across the board that will come from feign government will be faced by feign government but i've been members in feign for for nearly 20 years i've been dedicated in my adult life to that point to get nothing to go from it because i do believe that we are best placed to do it with the policies the best place to make society better for the people that live in and i'm willing to take the challenges that people are going to be angry at us when we're in government and so be it i'll still be a membership feign throughout that because that's the very reason that i joined as a teenager i became involved in political life i do want to make a difference i do want to get to that point and it's difficult as it may be as i say and i encourage more people to get into politics despite these these headlines it's a very rewarding vocation and it's something i'm very very proud to do i love to be a mayor of the country for that year despite its challenges and i would encourage more they'll say more young people more women to come forward it's not as bad as all those headlines come out and it's a very very rewarding job to do yeah i wouldn't like to be a female politician and on social media at the same time uh professor o'connor would you would you recommend anyone close to you to become a politician well i mean in a way i do think that it's the same problem in many areas of life you know bullies triumph and if really we allow bullies to continue to triumph really there's no possibility of a change in any respect so yes i would recommend people to continue to basically try but i think for in politics but i think the system needs to change because really um if it doesn't then people who you know have a lot to offer but who can be personally intimidated i mean and there is the cliche you know that women what are men are afraid of losing face women are afraid of being killed you know that's kind of a cliche and if we organize our public life that basically bullies who happen to be mostly men are the only ones who can control the space then really it's a very poor lookout all right okay listen that was the views there uh the voice of professor pato o'connor we're also hearing from paddy rudy and cancer jack moray and we want your views as well 08 6 60 25 000 i call us there's plenty of condemnation from tds and senators about the throwing of excrement hardly any condemnation from tds and senators on the death of the tragic the tragic death of a young girl who lay in a trolley for 16 hours and also the destruction uh of calarney uh stabbing so i have heard quite a bit uh on both of those issues to be honest with you uh greg the bag of waste being thrown at minister and rabbit is just awful regardless of whose support it's a disgrace on the irish people right uh we'll be back with more in the nine till noon show and more from our guests after these messages 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a million people protested in Dublin 1981 around taxation and the government had a commission of taxation after that and whatever came out of it and we look at back within the last 10 years then the protest around the introduction of water charges i mean that was all mass protest and there was no need to attack anybody or to hurt anybody um so there are ways to do it and there are unacceptable ways to do it uh because once we cross that bridge and we try and you know accidentally rationalize in some way it's put this into a dangerous place like we're on that bridge so that see that's that that is the thing i just i i anticipate stuff like this you know i mean i see much worse than this on social media i'm sure if you poll tvs and politicians they would tell you if they're you know the protests outside people's homes and certain words and stuff being shouted at them and i'm not grouping this farmer in with that don't get me but my point is is that there is the direction of traffic is one way and it's not where people get back step back from this party you know we're going to see more of this it's just a case of of how it's dealt with i think yeah it is i suppose it's it's therein lies some kind of a statement about what's taking place in society you know about respect and how you do business and so on and so forth and what's tolerable and what's what's acceptable and what's not acceptable i mean we're all now in a place where most of us are very well educated in this country and we like to assert our rights but we pay very little attention to the other side of that coin which is our responsibility both to our fellow man and to society in general and you're right that's the drift of travel i'm on social media myself and i watch i see this kind of stuff going on but i don't like the way that it's this going um you know because i don't know where all this is going to end actually yeah pat is this like trying to hold the seat back though are we going to see more of this there's already talk of certain politicians now in this country requiring security and what have you i think that's going to be a norm going forward at certain levels oh i think i mean if that way i don't know i do think that we need to really call a halt um i think asking that all politicians of security it really interferes with the whole political system you know people need to feel they can access their td or their senator or their county councillor i mean that's also one of the things that is worth highlighting is that this man hadn't really identified who was responsible for the problem you know that in a way protest needs to be targeted at the right you know in the right arena the right people and as i understand that this was a decision of on board planolet wasn't a decision of these individual individuals at all but so i think i think really um we need to begin to take seriously the whole question of acceptable public behaviour and rather than like we cannot protect everyone from everyone have police you know is there to be a police presence every in every time you have well with pat pat do you think that this is i would say this is though obviously part of um you know societal attitude in other words you know maybe a lack of respect for the guard and their authority um that you know for some people nurses aren't held to the same regard as others and you know uh they're open to criticism uh and abuse in other areas of society anywhere where you seem to be some sort of an arm or part of the state you know i don't think this is i think we're going to see more of this right across the board i don't think it's just necessarily elected politicians uh and it's to say it's not just in this country it's funny there's a little bit of a lag but everything we're seeing here where we've already seen in other parts of the world it seems that is absolutely true and it is kind of a crudification of of kind of social and political attitudes and and in a way i think at one level it is very good that people are engaged that people care the people have opinions the people are putting pressure on those in power but for that pressure to actually be effective and for society to work it needs to be targeted at those who are making a particular decision and also needs to be within certain limits because otherwise well i suppose not to be too dramatic about it otherwise you have the whole breakdown of society yeah although uh jack finally on this i suspect that you know this farmer might not vote in the next general election um you know a lot of people don't vote what is it you know close and half the population are disengaged really from from elective politics and i think an awful lot of what we're talking about now is an attitude or a movement that's happening you know outside of people that might even vote because they don't see the point what is the point you know what i mean if we're going to make change we're going to have to do it by doing this or doing that or doing the other so you know i'm not sure appealing for appealing to to certain people who have certain views to sort of make your views known at the ballot box or in a certain different way it might fall on deaf ears the right to vote is probably the most powerful way when we have in order to achieve achieve change in the political system but i wouldn't in any way discourage people from protest like that they should be encouraged and you can see the success of protest movements the effective block crisis in donnie gall while it's not over yet it's a love for the forward because of the protest movement like that shows the success of it a number of years ago the 1910 scheme what was there to accept it as a norm and that wasn't going to change i'm told the people called to the streets and may change well just in relation to that in in relation to the tech defective concrete block uh protest you were there uh and you saw the reception charlie mcconnellogue received when he uh got up to speak do you think that's acceptable an acceptable type of of process the protest that he's drowned out by uh booze and and and jeers and and have certain things said uh to him i'm not by the way for a second i'm only asking that question just trying to gauge if where you're at i'm not saying it's right or wrong myself i'm just asking like i mean you i'm trying to get to the bottom of what is actually acceptable in people's views protest there's a stand on the state stand on the eastern stage when that happened that was the opinion that should be able to speak so we could hear uh what he had to say there's no point in and calling for accountability and then not letting the person speak like a but at the same time people are very devoid of anger people are very angry they're very to say but they're very angry it was in lyford too and it was very uncomfortable for every single member of donnie gall country council we saw again the emotional emotion the outpouring of hurt and anger that people uh in fact about the fact that blocks had every one of us we had to take out in the chin i said there was a very uncomfortable day for me and and others you have to accept that was people that we represent are very angry and upset and it's a right to say that and i think that's acceptable but and i think that's that's that's where you to draw the line people can voice it but not and like it's been described close to assault by throwing this this silence at a woman which is on stage all right i don't want to i want to make sure we're playing time to talk to you about the other stuff because people listening will go well you're talking an awful lot about that but what about the real world issues like hospitals and all and that kind of feeds into to all of this and we've spoke about that extensively during the week do you want a last word on this uh uh patty? not really but you're you're right anyway uh a data junkie like me who likes figures and so on and so forth i mean the last general election i think there was something like 800 000 people uh decided not to exercise the franchise which is an incredible movement that would elect two governments on its own uh so jack is very very right there and i think that often gets lost it's a very powerful weapon that a person has is this here their pen their pencil when they go to a polling booth uh and uh you know people should not underestimate that at all as a as an action available to them yep okay thank you very much indeed more from our guests and you at home at work or wherever you are after these watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com if you have magic moments or great memories sitting on your phone or in the cloud have them printed at mcgee's chemist letter kenny get larger seven by five prints for the same as six by fours 35 millimeter and film from disposable cameras also printed and digitalized use the in-store kiosk download the mcgee's photo prints 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concrete blocks issue briefly on on this pattern i'll just bring you in and this you know that showed that the media if the public organize in a certain way politicians the media can't ignore an issue now that is certainly not all for the line yet but it does demonstrate uh the power of the people patty referenced also little earlier on uh the the water protests you know and there have been others so you know the people can't take the power from politicians and indeed the media when when they organize and do so in great numbers pat yes absolutely and i do think that in a way these it's a challenge to the nature of our democracy there it isn't sufficient to say people have the power to vote yes of course they do and it's absolutely critical that people exercise that vote but in a way what we're seeing is that that is not enough and i suppose one of the extraordinary things about our society is that we don't the politicians the structures don't seem to be able to connect with that huge volume of both of energy really because that's what anger is and use that to solve social problems i mean i was really struck watching on the telly the big build was right mobilizing basically a huge number of volunteers for the core team to basically refurbition rebuild six houses in uh in nine days that kind of energy and involvement is almost never captured or is at least not captured enough and in a way that gives it solves the problem it gives people the feeling they can be effective um and it actually is a manifestation of people's of energy being turned in a positive way and if that is not used then it turns negative and sourced and basically turns into disruption and the breakdown so i think there is a bigger challenge here which is really anger in a positive way yeah the health service executives top officials have told hospitals to immediately outline their plans for seven-day working for staff including senior doctors and a bid to ease the overcrowding crisis in emergency units in the letter to hospital group chief executives community health care organizations and clinical directors the hsc's chief operations officer damien mccanion and chief clinical officer dr column henry have told hospital managers to implement seven seven working in hospitals and community services over the next two weeks with immediate effect and we also have the heads of hsc calling around various hospitals which i would say arguably looks good but the last thing i would want uh is higher ups landing uh to where i was working as i was trying to deal with an absolute crisis but anyway be that as it may we spoke extensively on on the program uh this week about this pad uh you know obviously people's real world uh lived experiences the awful things that people have gone through but also with the thanks of the likes of uh paddy uh rooney and and and peter or rorg to try and really get down to the nitty gritties of of where we're at and what truly needs to or can be done to try and prevent this happening again because i sense that this will die down over the next three or four weeks it'll rumble rumble rumble busy during the summer and all that and then it'll come up next winter and it'll all start all over again and it's that sort of cycle that that that maybe i'm trying to discuss behind that more than just reacting to that cycle but but what's your your your views on what we've seen over the last couple of weeks and as we look towards the future pad well i mean the whole thing is completely unacceptable there are underlying problems right which we all know like this happens every year and the issue of bed numbers the fact that we are so outlined with the oacd which is something like 4.2 beds per thousand population we're something like 2.8 i'm not those figures could be slightly out um but in a way this problem is not just now it has been going on for years the fact that our population has increased we have known the population was increasing it's now over five million i remember a time when it was 2.6 million okay so obviously there's also an age in population this is all not rocket science i cannot understand how there isn't basically forward planning happening in the department of health which projects forward like we're being told there's been a thousand extra beds we need to know you know relative to the population relative to the aging population how what you know what is the situation saying we have a thousand extra is we need obviously more given that our population is going up and that it's likely to continue and that it's likely to continue aging i suppose i'm also so that's a fundamental problem secondly what is also very very clear is that this drive to get people out of hospital great but where are they going to go like anybody who knows everybody knows that the home health service is because partly because people it's been contracted out to private organizations who which some of which paid dreadfully and basically the amount of time allocated is being cut down to 30 40 minutes not including travel time etc etc so really we have not really and just to underline that yesterday for example a snapshot but it's i presume it's reflective 25 people well enough to be discharged from letter kenne university hospital but no one to take them home no step down care or beds in the community 35 people waiting for a bed so even just on that one given morning if we could move people through the system then the majority of those waiting for bed would have gotten it i just wonder paddy runny you know i understand the the headlines as it relates to you know pressure on hospitals to do 7 7 working and all that kind of stuff a lot of these staff already under huge huge pressure and and they might feel the narrative is that they're not working hard enough for long enough hours to alleviate this problem we've heard from from patecano they're highlighting one of the the big issues i just i've from a public relations situation i just feel this could be problematic even if it does somewhat alleviate the problems well i was as you pointed out at the beginning that was on your program a couple of days ago and we went through the trials and tribulations of the health the hsc there's no point going over all that ground again but i have to say that it's it's a sorry state of affairs that were in the middle of a firestorm here and we have the minister of health i think he was outside of the doll and he said on camera about that he was going either he was calling on hospital consultants to cooperate with weekend working or whatever that's not actually part of their contract or the terms of of conditions of employment they're rostered to do to work during the weekend to do ward rounds and to do outpatient clinics and all of their time from monday morning to friday evening is accounted for now what he's asking to do he's asking them to cooperate on this i mean they don't have to because it's not actually part of their terms of conditions of employment and if they do do the weekends it means something that they do some scheduled work that they have doing uh doing the week is going to be set aside or does he want them hospital consultants to work seven days a week i mean this is just the height of madness because you must be sick and tired of listening to me now greg about i've been saying this for five years about what hospitals need to do that they need to be turned into seven day institutions and sean murphy sort of went there with you part of the way was it yesterday you know putting forward plans asking consultants to just completely remodel what they're doing because the the the place is under huge pressure that's something that needs to be negotiated and planned and for consultants to be rostered to work because you know there's been a it's not new that there's an issue in hospitals about senior decision making or the people that have the capacity to make senior decisions around the admission and discharge of patients within hospital and seven day a week this is not new this is a 50 year old problem or whatever and you know right so this this will happen i mean i i i i was sort of spoiled everything on on wednesday by saying that you know these viral infections that it's that it's sweeping the country at the moment they'll come and they'll go but elective surge is going to come back here so this is not going to stop uh you know when we're here on a sunny day in may hospitals up and down the country are going to be packed to the rafters uh as well and i mean i think it was your party colleague jack david cullinan the shin fane spokesperson healthy he read it into the record i think it might have been the good part of may last year about the the number of people who are on waiting lists in this country we have a population of five million people and i think there's loose change short of a million people are on some form of a waiting list or other in the hse and we must be a very sick and ill nation that that is going on uh they haven't gone away either they have to come back into the system so the department of health of the hse is asking hospital consultants now or hospital managers to put you know to talk about 70 week working for how long for a fortnight for a month i mean this needs to be going on forever and i'm saying that for the last five years and and i i get a sense that i can pretty much predict what you're listening to at any given time at this stage patty i i did you hear steven mulvaney this morning i know i didn't write okay well i don't i can't predict there was a he's the acting ceo there was no almost a sense of desperation in that he needs every single private bed that is going they've got about 10 of available private beds at the moment and he says if they can give us any beds then there's 1400 still available potentially that would be usable in this scenario and it almost was an appeal to private hospitals please give us these beds there was a sense of of desperation there i mean immediately whatever about 5000 in the long term immediately the hse needs thousands of beds right now unfortunately they only have access to 140 private hospital beds in this country currently well because you see private hospitals are businesses right they're a private hospital like the beacon and dublin is a very different animal than letter candy university hospital they do a different profile at work because they can tell you the profile at work that they're going to be doing on the 27th of september coming up letter candy university hospital can't say that because the the the unpredictable nature of the demand so they have their own work private beds is absolutely no good if you draw a line from dairy down to cork access to private beds and private hospitals is completely useless any hospital to the left of that because there's no meaningful capacity there if you look at the hospitals in dublin from talla in the south up to bowmont in the north of dublin the waiting the the people in their emergency department on trolleys can consume all the private beds that are available in dublin anyway it'll do some good somewhere but it's actually going to do nothing to the overall picture right across the continent okay and i also wonder the closing of of nursing homes that is happening over the last while you know that's obviously going to put affect some places because those are beds that that are no longer available i think he's trying to get some of them reopened i think sorry to cut across you um greg i think the worry and thing about the whole thing is before you actually can solve a problem you need to be able to define what it is in the first place and there was a very interesting exchange took place on primetime last night between um jennifer mcneal jennifer o'card mcneal is it i have got that right and roshan shortle and jennifer mcneal mcneal was making the point about record high levels of spending in health care record high levels of recruitment and everything thrown at it but the the roshan shortle make the point that happy days here it's just that the wrong thing has been done she was the chair of the slantia health care committee so all of this money has been put into the system yeah but still we don't have seven day week working in hospitals like sure i mean it's doing the wrong thing if we can define what the problem is in the first place and then we might have some sense of being able to correct it or address it rather than just throwing money at it 23 billion 23 billion 23 billion for what we have at the moment and and and councillor morian i don't want to be pitching this politically but but um patty rooney mentioned your health spokesperson david kelanan some reports that he's being actually asked to maybe not be quite as vocal um on the health issue because this is going to be on his lab uh in 18 months two years potentially and um you know what i mean there he's going to have to do an awful lot of backtracking uh in relation to in to this i'm not going to ask you to comment directly on that but it kind of talks to the reality of and i kind of put it to you a little earlier on that when you've got someone like patty rooney uh people like peter or roark and others when we talk about like we have to identify the problems almost before we can even start to fix them i hope not incorrectly paraphrasingly there patty you know we have a problem we have a problem and i wouldn't like the job of fixing it i think david kelanan's 100% right coming out and and making the ordinances that he has i think david kelanan is laying himself up to the next minister of health he has to be putting forward that that he has the solution to do that like i'm not going to say it's going to be utopia uh which and i shouldn't think government but he has to be setting out his stall and saying what we would do definitely so he's on the 10th uh right and doing that and i listened to jennifer carlman in last nine prime time myself and what i think was unforgettable is that she almost portrayed the crisis as like a sucker punch by respiratory viruses that didn't see common like we've just been through a pandemic and i think most people would expect that the one positive legacy of that pandemic is that we'd be greater prepared we all knew there was going to be a jewel it even had a name what was it the jewel demic or something we knew we were going to get their double hit and our sp they were at very strong indication so that was so we've had plenty of we were full warned of this and listen i can tell you right now uh and i am not involved in health next winter the winter after and every winter thereafter there's going to be a rush on hospitals because of respiratory illnesses and thankfully we have an aging population and people are staying healthier and living longer but the older the population gets and it seems particularly in this part of the world the more presentations there are with respiratory illness at hospitals so let me predict today every winter for the next 10 years or goes far as 10 years we're going to have this exactly it was inevitable that there's going to be this pressure on the health system in the summer of this year in letter candy hospital had reached full capacity protocol in the summer before the respiratory illnesses of the winter had arisen so it was entirely not just predictable but inevitable this was going to happen so that's where i am at a loss as to the lack of preparation and to be prepared for this this winter and for jennifer carl may be looking on there almost like they were shocked that they didn't know this was going to happen that that's not acceptable people do you do you think your party need to renegotiate then contracts to not have consultants working in the way they are at the moment or other key staff to have them working over weekends working more hours whatever it might be i mean that's part of the solution here you're gonna have to you're gonna have to sort of start a reopening negotiations with people in the health service presumably i mean your party prepared to do that absolutely everything needs to be explored to make sure it's happening the next expertise of body really needs to be taken aboard and implemented to see how to make sure i spoke to a gp this morning and he said that he was quite annoyed that they were said that gp should be doing more more hours and as i was a form of a solution he was saying that point should be ours if they're suggesting they're already bogged down and paperwork already and not able to take on new patients so he felt that it was just that that statement was more just another pack of another pack of contracts that will probably need to be renegotiated so that we actually have more gps working in gps practices more gp nurses uh you're gonna have to look at increasing pay uh and conditions for people working in care in the community uh you have your work cut out pat oh connor mike yeah go on ahead speak about that and then i want to ask you a question go ahead thanks very much well within the parameters of recognizing there are structural problems but what is interesting is that some hospitals are doing better than others in a way it's important to also look at an organizational level so for example in waterford there hasn't been anyone on a trolley for something like two and a half years in limerick i did notice that it was said by one of the medical people in the area that there had been a system whereby everyone was not funneled through um the emergency accident emergency unit at a point in time they could be sent to specific units and the decision and management decision had been made to end that thus exacerbating the bottlenecks so okay there are national issues but there are also institutional issues that some ones are doing better than others and in a way that needs to be there needs to be in the interim some learning on that yeah i saw a local td local government td patty putting up a post on twitter celebrating the fact that uh i thought it was a bit crude to be honest with everything that's going on but celebrating the fact that no one's been in a trolley in waterford for two years what would be happening down there that's different to here i i'm not sure okay the answer to that but i can say this there are 27 i think band three and band four hospitals in the country letter kenny is one of those in band three and uh waterford is one and kill kenny is two and i think that was the hospital that was referenced by jennifer mcneill last night but does it not seem odd then that there's 25 hospitals are doing it wrong and there's one and a half hospitals doing it right i mean i'll get the fact that there's a problem possibly in the management of five or six hospitals or whatever and as somebody who's an avid watcher of the of the bbc news northern ireland news uh have six every evening jack may have the access to this as well i watch it i mean there are eight of these hospitals in northern ireland from alton agelden all the way across to the royal in belfast and daisy hill every one of those are are i mean there are about 20 ambulances outside can i just make one point though to just in case now i want to uh say something in favor of the likes of steven mull valley and uh and the guy's the higher excellence of the of the hsc tony o brian the former uh ceo immediately before um paul reed he gave an interview a very long interview the sunday business post it was a double page spread and he talked about the fact that he was not allowed to run uh or manage the hsc as he wanted to do it and he gave one there was many references but the one i remember was uh port leash general hospital there was a lot of problems clinical issues around their emergency department around their maternity services and around radiology they were all in the in the news over a period of four or five and they had a very high level of local consultants covering the posts there and there are certain things that he wanted to do with it but guess what charlie flanagan the minister of justice happened to be that happened to be his area and he was wagging the finger at tony o brian you can do whatever you like in any hospital around the country but you don't touch that one so the political system at that time they were more concerned about having the hospital opened less so about the quality of care been delivered by that hospital so round and round and round we go here great all right okay listen paddy as always thank you so much for your time and your insight i really appreciate it uh professor pat o'connor and i'll read some sites uh slight technical issues but thank you for your endeavors and it's great to hear you've used as always have a lovely weekend thank you very much apologies i don't know where the gremlins are working overtime but you know what we got there in the end and that's 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donal kavna at the highland radio news desk the driver of the boss airing expressway coach which caught fire at the dry arch around about outside letter kenny last night has been commended for his actions all 15 passengers on board had been safely evacuated before the bus became engulfed in flames boss airing says the incident was an exceptionally rare occurrence it's confirmed a thorough investigation will be conducted kiran was on the bus which had been en route to dublin before the driver turned back because he detected a problem kiran told highland radio news that initially the passengers didn't realize the severity of what was happening and the moment you're not really thinking about anything you know you're just getting people away and getting baggages and getting all that stuff out of there like it took four or five of us to open the baggage doors because the engine had stopped there was people who had important belongings in there and i know belongings don't matter in a crisis situation but we didn't think it you know at the time there was going to be a massive explosion to refuel we bangs but there was nothing hollywood about it it fuzzled and cracked for a good 20 minutes before it started to become a conflagration and then then it really did go up adony called deputy has called for further investment into the defective block scandal after the government recorded a state surplus of five billion euro in 2022 shin vane's finance spokesperson debbie pierce doherty says the figures from the latest fiscal monitor also show housing minister darrow o' brian underspent his budget by almost a quarter of a billion debbie doherty says the government must stop penny pinching these figures today show that there is capacity in the state to deal with this to clear up the legacy of the mistakes during the Celtic tiger area once the NFL allowed for no regulation so many families now the one through christmas not knowing where their home will be or what type of home there will be a next christmas because they have houses that are falling around them we need to stop the nonsense that people will still be locked out of this scheme because the government are penny pinching eight in ten people want the local property tax abolished a survey from taxback.com found people believe it's unfair because it's not measured by income more than a third say they don't believe the money is being spent well in a way that benefits communities just 12% said the tax should not be abolished because the money is needed to improve local amenities the head of the hsc is admitting its winter plan and multi-year plans to deal with overcrowding clearly aren't sufficient public health care providers have been told to move to a seven over seven operating model to deal with the issue that means they've been told to work at full capacity all week but doctors have responded angrily to that call saying they're already completely overstretched hsc chief executive steven mulvani says respiratory illnesses continue to contribute in a major way to the crisis clearly the the winter plan and multi-annual plans that we've been putting place at this stage is not sufficient to do what we see as a clear patient safety risk in front of us so that's partly because the levels of flu in particular are much higher than even our worst most pessimistic modeling so we've an exceptional season with both covid rsv and also flu and unfortunately we haven't yet seen the peak of flu and people in the northwest are being urged to avoid social settings as flu and covid cases rise the west and northwest regions are seeing a significant rise in respiratory infections resulting in a severe impact on the health service which is experiencing one of its busiest ever periods 390 cases of covid-19 and 348 cases of flu were recorded in the public health area including donnie gall in the week ending december 31st with more here's emma ryan public health area f which covers the northwest including donnie gall is asking people to avoid attending social settings such as workplaces schools or child care facilities if they have respiratory symptoms the call comes as covid-19 and flu are widely circulating in the community which means outbreaks are more likely to occur in busy settings including hospitals and long-term care facilities people are being urged to keep up to date with their flu and covid-19 vaccines dr annia macnamara area director of public health area f says healthcare settings are extremely busy due to the unprecedented combination of very high levels of flu covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses in the community she added it is very important to avoid visiting healthcare and long-term residential settings if feeling unwell cloudy with under two bright spells at times in the morning later today isolated chars will develop as cloud thickens from the west strengthening southerly winds as well with a band of more persistent rain and drizzle moving in during the afternoon and evening top temperatures today eight to ten degrees celsius wet and blustery this evening as a band of rain and drizzle becomes more widespread fresh and blustery southerly winds will turn southwesterny as the rain clears to isolated chars later overnight lows temperatures four to seven degrees celsius tomorrow we'll see a mix of sunny spells and scattered chars to start with some cloud one or two isolated chars will develop as the morning goes on before becoming more widespread and persistent in the afternoon the chars may be heavier times with hail possible as well blustery southerly winds stronger times with very strong gusts in coastal areas highest tomorrow seven to nine that's island radio news we're back with news again at 11 o'clock the obituary notice says for this friday morning january the sixth the death house taken place of margaret flaunt named mclaughlin five art column kill letter kenny margaret's remains will repose at her daughter hilda colbert's 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coolman estate striban reposing a quigley's funeral home this evening from five o'clock with removal at six o'clock to st mary's church mount for recreation mass to more morning at 10 o'clock cremation afterwards in leglands crematorium at four o'clock the recreation mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of grace wilkie nay houston dromore letter kenny and formally lecture more drum keen removal from grace's late residence this morning at quarter past 11 going to st. juneans cathedral letter kenny for 12 noon recreation mass which can be viewed live on church services dot tv and term it afterwards to new lex cemetery family flowers only please donations in leo flowers if desired to the society of some vincent appall care of any family member and the death has occurred of margaret mcdade balibo temple clonk county dunningall removal from her late residence this morning at half past 10 for funeral mass in our lady of perpetual sucker glenn finne with interment afterwards in killwurst cemetery glenn finne recreation mass can be viewed on mcnmedia.tv for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highlandradio.com text or whatsapp your view to greg on 086 60 25,000 and you're very welcome back to the second hour of the night lune show good morning if you're just joining us very shortly shame is gone of mcgloughan uh gone and co letter kenny remelton will be joining us answering your legal questions get involved in that conversation by asking your questions to 08 660 25,000 we have a couple of slots if you are quick also michael and fenula will rejoin us for the first that's entertainment of 20 23 looking forward to chatting to the guys as well to see what is keeping them informed and entertained and what have you some of your messages here before we go to the bingo numbers and a break the money paid into the lotto used to go to the health system yet none of our politicians sorry yet one of our politicians sold it off and cycled off into the sunset the ordinary person is getting passed from pillar to post and it's all about who knows who 23 billion euro is pumped into the health service annually though sometimes maybe it's about how that money is spent rather than how much money there actually is the health services problem has been going on forever with the same government but yet we still vote them in we've no one to blame but ourselves the health service needs no more money it's just an endless pit time to start over and chop from the top another our health services riddled with privatization privatization means profit profit means taking our cash out of the system this is the issue they say tell your guests when td senators councillors etc start working for the people and not themselves then people might start to respect them i'd nearly bet all your guests have private health care and will not be affected by the disaster of a health care system we have here lies the biggest problem i see people who don't understand the issues ordinary people face try to sympathize and say they are fixing it one question why do tds and ministers senators etc need to be on such extortionate wages and someone made some comment also too but i i i never have no one in my family's farms and wherever had private health insurance we simply couldn't afford it if we had honest and just fair government the problems would not be there for protests another reportage on enok burk yet thousands of court orders have breached regularly and ignored for the gaudy to say go back to court about it uh well i think shameless gone has some commentary on the enok burk situation um mr burk is has used this whole situation uh as well to get his message out there um so uh he has i presume welcomed the coverage of it of course no one wants to be in prison for a third of the year and he looks like he's facing going potentially facing going back to prison because he continues to well he's not breaching any court order at the moment but he's still attending the school he turned up at the school yesterday but anyway i'll chat to shameless about that afterwards to see where that may go uh but as i say i think part of what he's doing the sacrifice he feels he's making is to uh have the conversation be happening out there i presume uh you can't express your views in ireland it's controlled by state frustration controlled states frustrations are starting to boil over they're crying about a wee bit of cow dung as for jack and the rest of them in all parties they are full of cow dung if td's only gave this much airtime uh to hospitals and nurses i'm not condoning it but sounds like people are tired of bs from well-paid td's greg no type of assault on uh on other people like that talked about is acceptable if one needs to protest put it in writing pen to papers the unacceptable way to express express grievance that's according to mary could you ask cancelor moray have the people living in unhand uninhabitable micro homes being re-homed yet uh and good morning greg lockdown protests were hushed up by the media not once did i hear any media let the people know when and where uh they were happening and there's a whole other story in there of course in terms of uh canoes which i don't uh want to open right now but i i take i i do take your i do take your point uh right okay again thanks to jack moray paddle connor and paddy rooney for their contributions and thanks to all of you for getting involved in the convo as well uh we'll be joined by uh shamus gone after the bingo numbers in a quick break it's time for mcbi bingo on highland radio it's friday the 6th of january your plane on the yellow sheet the reference number is s5 it's game number one the numbers are 9 59 81 86 34 56 58 45 39 and finally 48 phone your claim to 9 1048 double three before eight tonight leave in your name contact number and the name of the shop will you purchase your book and we'll call 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court order no longer applies well it clearly does no longer apply so how does that does that work well yeah it is it is interesting and i'm sure people do wonder but to say that the order is no longer effective is not the situation actually there was an application with the judge on around the 21st of december made a decision that this was one of those very rare cases indeed in which you have mr burk who was incarcerated for upwards of a hundred plus days since september and he had not purged his contempt and the judge took the view that the coercive aspect of that order was not working that and it wasn't going to work because mr burk who is a man certainly has his own beliefs and convictions and is prepared to stand by them had made it clear that he wasn't going to purge his contempt so he beat the system regardless of what your anyone's views are what he did or not the the the sanction was seen not to work in fact i think a comment was made that he was using it to his advantage so he beat that part of the system some might say um that's certainly is a comment would i agree with it uh no i wouldn't um because i think that the longer that he remained incarcerated uh the the more support uh he was likely to garner so i think that the judge in this instance took a sensible approach uh on the basis that that order and and this is very very important and and and quite pertinent to it that that order remains in place and that when he was being released he made it clear to him that the only threat to his liberty was if he was again in breach of that order so that order has not it hasn't been okay but let me ask you then and you have to look down a different route but if that is the case if that's the case he entered wilson's hospital school in west meath yesterday at 8 30 a.m he sat in class until 3 45 he didn't teach anyone the guard he said that they had no hand actor part in this that it was a civil matter and my understanding is is that the school have to go back to court uh to for for another finding against enochberg so if the original order was in place how can he attend the school how can the guard he say they have no role in the matter if it's equally as enforceable as it was pre christmas because they they they at this instance the school will be obliged maybe to take further action themselves the judge has said that the coercive aspect of the order does not seem to have had the impact that he hoped it may have had and would usually have in these type of cases so it is though and the guard are also correct it is a civil matter so there will have to be or likely to be another application to maybe look at alternative sanctions and and this is something that was hinted upon by uh just as a work back on the 21st of december and there are other options open to the court including as again incarceration again but maybe maybe a monetary type penalty might might have more impact in this situation his assets could be looked at as well with a view to maybe attachment so yeah but you see you see this is avenues that the court could still look at if they go heading of the order yes but if they go down that route there is an awful lot of people in this country that would be prepared to dig very very deep by way of a go fund me or whatever to to meet any uh to meet any financial penalty that may be divvied out to him so he could frustrate the system in that regard too yeah yeah well i mean as i've said he's he's a person of his convictions he believe he but he he holds them dearly he's prepared to stand up for them he says that he's entitled to his religious beliefs he's a constitutional right of freedom of expression of his faith and he's going to stand by that and he's going to test that and that is yet to be played out in in the courts even or even earlier this week it might have gone slightly under the radar but he made an application for an injunction to prevent the disciplinary proceedings going ahead which which were scheduled for later this particular month and that's due to come before the court again next week so we're going to be back in there in fact on his application to to stop the proceedings going going ahead on the night and do you think the motivation for that and how can we speak to motivation is that in some way that actually does draw a line underneath it in other words once that hearing is is convened and if it were to find that he was in breach of his contract or whatever and they dismissed him i mean obviously he presumably he could appeal that but at that point then if he's to continue to turn up at the school it would be a very different a different matter so presumably it's in his interest to keep if he wants to keep this momentum going to keep that disciplinary process going with the school well yeah that well that's that's the point that well if he's thinking tactically that is something that may may have occurred to him i wouldn't take that it's really appropriate to be using the courts in that manner i have a view on the the way in which and the sensitivities of this particular case the way in which it was dealt with in the first instance and whether that is in the interest of the school but more particularly is an interest of there there's an individual a child at the center of this as well and whether it's in their interest at all that this should be out in the public forum in the manner which it is and to have avoided that in the first place i think would have been preferable and the case dealt with in a in a different manner within the school within the remit of the wilson's hospital school in west me without it coming to this stage where we're back into court we're in court this week we'll be in the case we'll be back in next week there'll be a disciplinary process which is running and there's also the matter then of how do we deal with the allegation that the court order is not being adhered to and that it's actually being flaunted in that he's turning up it's turning up at school while the whole essence of that injunction was to prevent from attending the school so we have all of this litigation out there going on and certainly it does gain momentum and it's it's in the public domain and obviously and let's not forget the reason and therefore it is commented upon yeah and this all is that that could have been avoided in the first instance and it should have been avoided in handling the matter in a in a different similar but maybe not so much in the public domain and this all stems from the school asked him to refer to a person as they instead of he's so in other words instead of saying he's over there he was asked to say they's over there or they are over there and that is what this is fundamentally all about it's not why he ended up in court he ended up in he ended up in jail sorry because he refused to adhere to an order to stay away from the school while a a disciplinary process was having he wasn't put in jail because he refused to say they he was put in jail because he refused to stay away from the school effectively whilst suspended pending okay it'll be interesting to say see how it plays out there's a lot of interest in it we're going to get to your questions with Seamus gone after these messages the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on Highland radio modern hotels really are an escape from the norm that's why we've left the studio to record this for real live at a show join us or wrap up and go stargazing on the coast pick up some bits at a local market and cozy up in a snug somewhere special wherever you go you can save on every room every night when you click on mauljan at mauljanhotels.com tees and seas apply sam is an expert at splitting a bill if you didn't order a starter you're not paying for a starter but he's not an expert when it comes to electric cars should he go for mild hybrid full hybrid is he ready for fully electric all he really knows is that he wants a pluggy in one 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across both days if you're in the area come along and join us at ironless hotel 100th birthday bash all right you're very welcome back to the program just finally before we get to questions uh um uh shame is shame is gone of mclachan uh gone and co does how things transpired with mr burke and uh the judge's comments as it relates to you know the benefit of of imprisonment does that set a precedent or or anything has that changed anything in regard just just before we we finished i was just going to make that point to you uh reg that this is uh and the judge said at the time it's one of those it has been done before he has said it is rare uh but in exceptional circumstances where uh the um incarceration penalty is not seen to be working um there's a very practical point as well i think that might have been touched on uh was that the cost of this to the taxpayer um was upwards of 100 plus days and that cost was being laid at the taxpayers taxpayers door um and again realistically speaking if we're not getting anywhere except what he what he hinted at or indicated that um this was not this in this particular case the route to go was to um to give him back his freedom and to see how it developed with the order now we now we know how it has developed so the next step is probably up to the school um and see how it plays out but i think you will be uh mentioning it again it'll certainly be it's certainly be in the news next week uh i'll just put this comment to you while you're on rather than reading when you're off air it's interesting how mr gond suggested hitting the pocket might be a means of getting mr burke to tow the so-called line is this indicative of our coercive legal court system hitting the pocket can knock anyone back especially if you are uh if you aren't of limited means yeah well look at it's a it's an observation and we we certainly take it on board as we try to do with all of these but uh it is my view that uh when there is an order in place of the court we live in a democracy uh we can't flaunt those we can't say that they have no impact or effect uh we have a situation here which is very very unusual and extremely rare where as a result of it it has not got the impact or has not uh got the result that it was designed for so then we stand back and we look at where we are but we do not vary the order the order remains in place and it's there to be it's it's it's there to be carried out and to be respected and if you lose that we lose the basis of all our democracy and we're in a very slippery slope at that point in time so i would be of the view that court orders do have to be taken seriously and have to be carried through and enforced now in this particular instance that aspect of it just has not been effective but there are and i'm just point i'm just giving you the scenario of what alternatives there may be and which may be may be a court may look at as other means of enforcing the order not excluding again the incarceration aspect of it but yeah and i think too but at the same time you can't water down the effect of a high court order no and i think too what might be helpful is is that we uh we could be having the exact same conversation i presume uh regardless of who the person was and the reason for uh this this order being put against them it's not about your views are based on the legal element of it not about your views as to what led to all of this i think that's fair enough to say isn't it absolutely no absolutely but as i i'm just emphasizing and it is worth emphasizing that an order has to be carried through and it has to be observed and it has to be enforced and if it's not then we're all in a poor situation all right okay let we'll do a couple of will questions because we don't do them routinely so we might take a few to as we get underway right pierce good morning to your question for shameless hello gregg howdy and i i inherited a bit of ground there back over four years ago in 1988 and that i don't seem to be able to get the deeds for it there is deeds and all for it but every time i go to the solicitor they tell me that they're being that they're in a box or they're ready to be dealt with they're there and is it ross common or down there now and it's going on over four years and i was just wondering what is the setup i have with dean's number now yeah yeah well i think that appears what you should do is you should certainly keep the line of communication open with the the persons and the people that are dealing with it um when the when your reference to ross common that is now the location of the peer the property registration authority you have referenced a dealing number which is also very helpful in that that would mean that there has been a dealing or an application lodged which may infer that that references are is referable to yours i'm not in position to say what it is or isn't but that would be seen to be the relevance of it so you can check out that dealing number you can probably even go online yourself and maybe access it but um i think that if you you inherited it came through likely came through an administration or a probate um and if it's got to the stage where there is a dealing number for your application for registration but then the completion should be certainly in the pipeline so um and in fact that four years has passed i'm not going to comment on that at all because there can be situations where there may be subdivisions of holdings or etc there could be mapping and that can need to such delays and even post-covid etc so i think keep the line of communication open with your representative i think you are certainly getting there uh i wouldn't get overly alarmed about the four years that can happen all right so you're in you're in the system then with that number appears yeah and what does the panel time frame monitor well i think you'd want to check that out with the pra yourself or the people that are or your legal representatives and they could give you certainly should give you some guideline on it um and uh they're quite helpful themselves in the property registration authority uh in relation have you contacted the pra the property registry authority director yourself pierce i have i one time you used to be able to get treated by the phone now you have to do it all online i wouldn't be okay yeah that's the complication you see this is the way we're moving all right uh well maybe there's someone close to you that might be able to just help you out with the online element of it it seems to be the the path to go i hope you get sorted soon pierce thank you for your time greatly appreciated what happens to my estate if i do not make a will which i presume is never advisable but they want to know will it be split evenly with my family the reason i ask a recent family will cost over 5 000 in fees for a pretty small estate and i think they must be trying to avoid maybe they're saying look when i'm gone it's not going to be my problem i'm not spending five grand while i'm alive um no but um it could be spent thereafter on those that come um after the individual if they don't put any um if they don't put any arrangements in place so what happened the question they're asking is what happens well under the 1965 succession act the estate will be divided in accordance with that and if you depend on who the next of kin are um if there is no will two thirds will pass to a spouse if there is a spouse and one third among the children and divided equally and that's your starting point um we haven't got the background as to uh who the next of kin are in this instance but that's the way the estate uh would be divided under the succession act i would always recommend and during the covid period a lot of people were making that sensible decision of putting their arrangements in place because remember this once they're in place you can always read readdress circumstances change nothing's nothing stays the same and at all times events are and people's lives are evolving so they can be reviewed but they're certainly worked certainly worth having a look at the other alternative i have to say is this during one's life if a person makes a decision as to the one to dispose of the property they can do so we have a voluntary transfer during their lifetime to members of their family or to whoms whoever the wish uh taken on board any tax implications that may arise as a result of that so there's a couple of there's a couple of options but i think in the first instance i would put arrangements in place uh interestingly that leads quite nicely onto our next question a caller signed over a plot of land to her son with its own access the caller owns a cottage and when the documents were being drawn up by the solicitor land registry uh the light the right of way to the cottage was included as part of the land signed over who is now responsible for this land and the owner of the land will be responsible for it if it's shared or used by others in such circumstances there could be an arrangement and it would be i think practical to have an arrangement in place for the upkeep and maintenance of it but it would follow to the person who is the registered owner now you could have done there was a couple of different ways you could have done that they could have transferred the property uh with just an easement for a right of way to in respect of the access retaining the ownership of it with the cottage or transferring the ownership of it uh with the plot which seems to be the case here in that instance they're likely to have reserved a right of access to the cottage but i think it's a good idea if there's more than one to uh regarding regarding the use of the access that would share the responsibility and the cost of upkeeping and maintaining it and then there might be another tricky little point about uh to be at least looked at is that of insurance and whether who ensures it but it would again usually fall to the owner to ensure it with their own property okay if the high court gives an order for a person to pay a settlement and the person refuses to pay that what is the punishment can it include jail well um that now is another aspect of court orders that is slightly different from what we touched on earlier on um if there is an order in place and it is uh has not been uh carried carried through or and uh for some reason or other um it hasn't been enforced um and it's for a particular if it's a case where there's a particular sum of money to be paid then you have to go down another route whereby uh you would be applying to have that um some of money well charged against an asset and then maybe seek the sale of that asset going forward in order to realise the capital so there are all actually civil remedies as such there's no default situation in that case because it is a civil claim it's not a criminal matter so there is no we're going back to the contempt situation that's entirely different than the scenario now put forward by this particular caller so there are steps that would have to be taken to enforce it they have to go back to the legal advisors um and there likely is you're looking at another set of maybe proceedings it's called well charging proceedings and hopefully there's an asset and that maybe should have been looked at before uh they went down or embarked upon the route um in litigation in the first instance and maybe i would expect that it would be but uh the door is not closed you have to follow it up and it's likely that you're looking at another set of proceedings or could be uh my child broke his hand early last year eight weeks after the event the fracture was picked up picked up by the physiotherapist his hand was x-rayed twice and missed twice he's now facing surgery which his thought will not fix the fracture as the bones have now parted do we have a case against the HSE and uh if so how would we go about pursuing it yeah well they're indicating a potential a potential claim for medical negligence that that's the way the the question has been phrased um and such um actions um are expensive um and they're not to be taken on lightly i've said that before um however from the caller's point of view um it sounds like a situation that uh obviously uh they are not content with the result um and they're making an allegation that a fracture should have been picked up earlier and if that's the case and the first step i would think is to get a full copy which they're entitled to of all the medical records uh relevant to the procedure from from the time of the first admission to whether it was A&E or the hospital proper um and then take once they have the records uh they'd have to be considered and they'd have to be passed on to an expert probably in this instance you're looking at down the the route of an orthopedic consultant and preferably a hand orthopedic consultant in who specializes in in in such type of diagnosis um and that would be have to be an independently assessed those notes and an opinion obtained that uh was this likely in the circumstances uh to have been missed uh or is it reasonable that it could have been missed and if so that it may not give rise to uh and claim in negligence an act of omission in this case but it didn't pick up on the x-ray uh or it may do if uh an expert maybe it's a radiologist type of question if a similar in similar circumstances met with the same uh background uh if if they would have picked it up it should have been picked up picked up and it has led to complications and that could very well give rise to uh a claim uh and to be put forward and to be evaluated in respect of damages so the first step would be to take up all the records and then probably going to need legal definitely need legal advice at some stage um and would need uh a consultant maybe one outside this jurisdiction so even before you get to the point of actually finding whether or not there was something worth pursuing there's a lot of uh efforts uh there's a little effort right here you're entitled to your medical records and you will you will um to be able to take them up but uh yeah there's a bit of background a bit of a bit of legwork and then you have to consider um such reports and independent reports such as that would not come cheap and there's no point in misleading people in that that they have to be prepared for that uh going forward but in in in such scenarios they certainly are worth looking at all right uh just time for one more if you don't mind uh there are roadworks happening in front of my house i was looking at the land boundaries to see if it was old any compensation for the work when i was looking at this i discovered a huge error according to the plans my neighbour owns half of my driveway and half of my house i flagged the area uh the error sorry and will have to pay 1 500 euro to get it rectified even though the error was not on my side can i dispute or fight this uh well i mean you're going to have to get some legal advice on it uh it is not unusual i have to say in particularly since uh the uh p or a went digital with the land registry maps that there has been discrepancies and it has been quite common in a time to maybe a little bit alarming but um certainly not the situation that cannot cannot be sorted out and rectified uh the first step to taking all of these is to assess the situation assess the problem and uh then move it on from there you're going to need probably a digital land surveyor uh to do up a report and certainly a map and then and there may well be we're needed a deed of rectification and maybe and that's maybe what the person has been quoted on in respect of what will be involved as far as the legalities of it are concerned so as to who is responsible for that we're not really in a position in a position to comment it's certainly worth a remedying um and and the sooner the better um has it anything to do with the local authority again you'd have to look at the registrations you might have to look at previous dealings to see it how it happened in the first instance um is it worth uh parking the plane with somebody else that that's for another day and again it's it's a matter for the individual to take on board as to where they want to go to want to go down that route for the purpose of getting it rectified of course there'll be fees involved nothing's easy is it okay uh but there's always a way there's always a way shameless gone off mcgloughan gone and co uh with officers in letter kenny and uh remelton and a strong online presence as well shameless yes thank you Greg yeah tonygoslisters.ie or simply just gone.ie should get us Greg two ends no no two ends no way no holster all right take care of yourself see you soon thank you very much indeed shameless gone there oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland 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in menswear.com highland radio weather updates with ireland west airport salla nunis the Beatles you can now fly to Liverpool eight times a week with Ryanair this summer ireland west airport don't just take off take it easy all right let's have a look at what the weather forecast has in store for us i actually have to open it because i always forget to do so right okay and i can tell you that i mostly dry but cloudy start but there will be one or two bright spells at times later isolated sharers will develop as cloud thickens from the west ahead of strengthening southerly winds a band of more persistent rain and drizzle will move in during the evening uh the afternoon and evening highest temperatures of eight to ten degrees it's not going to be very pleasant i think it's fair to say i want to say a very happy birthday to Eugene boner he's in carrot mcquigley in red castle who's 90 today Eugene a very happy birthday to you from all of us here at highland radio but especially from susanne and the boys passing on their love to you today uh tony doffy from letter kenny he's our postman i can't believe he's retiring um a familiar face uh that we will not see in his post office uniform at the very least we wish him all the best in his uh retirement whatever he decides to do he's got a bit more time for himself tony thank you for everything over all of the years it's very much appreciated uh thanks greg for reading my comment on air this week the erigal road potholes have been repaired hopefully don't go counter council follow this up with resurfacing workers this is the main route to the west of the county thanks again it's our pleasure before covid in the war in ukraine there was no doctors taking on any more patients the hospitals were full the country was full to bursting and still taking in more and more people what i'm trying to say for the services uh we have there's too many people in this country you improve i mean we have our population is what three million less than um it was a couple of hundred years ago um you know you ramp up services based on the population we can't have a system where i mean there are people would love the world to be depopulated you know there are people uh with quite high profile positions particularly as it relates to the climate and the environment that think there are too many people that believe the world needs to be depopulated uh my view would be you know we're all humans here we all have a shared space on this uh on this planet uh you don't blame each other you improve services don't you uh hi greg great show as usual thank you very much i really appreciate that if government wanted to make a 100 million euro a year they could introduce private irish car plates it raised loads in the uk i propose this to local tds and to scrap vrt money would be used for something good yeah private car plates why not i think a lot of people would like that um you know i i don't know why we we don't have them do they have they have them in other european countries as well i know britain's not part of the EU but do they have private number plates in likes of france germany spain portugal or in other words is that something we can do uh locally here in ireland uh does anyone know if there is mass at 12 in the cathedral today yes their mass times today are 12 noon and 7 pm there was mass at 8 and 10 as well but mass today at 12 noon and 7 pm uh why should a teacher be forced to address a pupil in an abnormal way which is against their religious beliefs when you're calling it abnormal uh it's the word they abnormal i as to say it's not the hill i'd be prepared to die on uh you know i would have to uh i mean people might come in with names x1 or something like that there is that abnormal it might be abnormal would you refuse to call them by that name like it literally is just the fact that he declined to say they instead of he uh or she but they anyway um and you view them as abnormal or that is 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at letter kenny university hospital as a number of patients without a bed at irish hospitals have reached reached a new record high earlier this week there were 56 people on a trolley at letter kenny university hospital that's dropped to 42 today according to latest figures from the ian mo well the head of the hse is admitting its winter plan and multi-year plans to deal with overcrowding clearly aren't sufficient public health care providers have been told to move to a seven over seven operating model to deal with the issue that means they've been told to work at full capacity all week but doctors have responded saying they're already completely stretched identical deputy has called for further investment into the defective block scandal after the government recorded a state surplus of five billion euro in 2022 shin fiends finance spokesperson jeff d pierre story says the figures from the latest fiscal monitor also show that housing minister dara brian underspend his budget by almost a quarter of a billion euro politics is becoming more toxic that's according to councillor jack murray he says attacks on elected representatives has become somewhat acceptable it comes after a bag of excrement was thrown at minister an rabbit and senator kiran canan at a public meeting on wednesday night people in the northwest are being urged to avoid social settings as flu and covid cases rise the west and northwest regions are seeing a significant rise in respiratory infections resulting in a severe impact on the health service an arland annual inflation rate has fallen to its lowest level in eight months euro start estimates the country's annual rate was 8.2 last month compared to nine percent in november those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon idel cashman liver transplant recipient encourages you to talk about organ donation with your family people say it's the gift of life and that's almost become a cliche but it literally is the gift of new life it's just so important for people to talk about organ donation because it's not something i would have given a second thought to before it became my life for information visit hsc.ie forward slash organ donation and start talking about organ donation today from the hsc and it's a very warm welcome and a very happy new year to michael leddie writer and blogger and our own finula rabbit for the first that's entertainment of 2023 good morning michael good morning and happy new year to you and everyone out and clear of course and good morning to you too finula how are you keeping good morning i'm keeping that good happy with us your list a bit like finula i think it's the same with lee gucci asked me this morning uh because i used to give him recommendations of things to watch because we have similar tasting show or a film or something i had nothing i had absolutely nothing he's just kind of devoid of it's a combination of a few things i think once it's the you know post christmas slump which i have to say i find myself finding stuff that i know i've seen and that i know i enjoyed because you kind of just want that little bit of comforts food tv exactly i'm rewatching the whole of modern family and loving it and so that kind of a thing that that you find yourself doing and then it's very early none of the new stuff has started yet but finally the advertising has started to come up i think for new stuff coming in the next few weeks on sky atlantic and a few things like that the new drama so hopefully yes another week or so and either if you even had a look at kaleidoscope that's been released on netflix it's number one in arland at the moment at the beginning of it it suggests to you that everyone's delivered episodes in different orders yes nine episodes there are different colors i think and i think i started watching yellow i don't know if it's saying maybe everyone starts at the same i don't know i think you start with the same i didn't last very long with it to be honest with you i just i just um was it more to do with the mood you were in or the show yeah just yeah just the way it was being put together it just didn't yeah it's an interesting you know it's kind of like that remember the black mirror episode which was randomized yeah you could pick and choose right so it's the same sort of thing except don't as a series i've read about it i've not seen it that's why i'm interested in kind of what you have to say because i haven't made my mind up about whether to bother with it because it seems like is it just a gimmick without a story you know i mean is it just gimmicky that would worry me that i'd be like do i really want to spend like nine hours on something that's just a sort of a how can we all watch the same thing in different order because it tracks the way they do it is is that you it's done that you don't have to watch it all in this in the in a row yeah you could the way that it randomizes i just check well i know because i just checked mine just to see and mine starts black green and yellow is number three right well yellow was number one few okay yeah anyone out there watched it and enjoyed it or otherwise oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand let us let us know i'm just curious if any of you do i just i'm not in the mood for anything so clever right yeah i can i've still got christmas brain yeah it's too early to be checking into something they requires a lot you know cup the darts um and carnation street never do amazing all the people that watch darts it's astonishing what they've done with that sport it truly is it's not so i must actually it's not something i've ever i'd say i've looked at since back in the day when it used to be one they had pints and two then it was like rows of all the people in it were like in rows of picnic tables yeah and they just kept roaring and shouting it's now everyone's encouraged just to go crazy yeah it was on and in a pub i was in a few nights back and i was amazed at how slick and big it had gone i really haven't watched it either in years to give on my facebook not so long ago where uh it was you know how good sportsmanship was at the time i think it was jockey wilson uh one he's a opponent put a cigarette in his mouth you know just before he threw in he took the lighter out and let it for him do you know and it just goes show our life has changed yeah they were on it i said well that's not the point that they were friendly the point was he was standing on and off your national television and the siggy before he threw it yeah i i what what was then considered a sport as they were drinking pints and smoking cigarettes but now the it's very easy i don't think that his skill has got to be a sport surely the skill is the key thing but now the players are i'm not sure if i'd call it a sport but fitness is fitness is important to be able to stay to be able to stay focused i'm not taking dark darks as a sport i'm saying women call everything a sport but but it's just i'm gonna watch it because i'm amazed by the amount of people who are apparently i need to know what is it is it nine sixes or six nines or something like that i need to know i don't know it's like we're supposed to two guys work against each other and they the exact same sport you're really starting already starting from the beginning i'm getting right into it you start they start off at 501 no no i know that i know no but there was something that they had like six shots or something like that there was a competition thing there was one particular leg in the final uh whereby the holy grail is nine darts where you get from 501 and out on a double in nine darts you have this situation whereby both players had two had thrown six perfect darts um then the the player then through eight perfect darts but missed the double and then his opponent came up and threw three perfect darts so you had both of them just on the brink of a nine darts and one of them actually achieving it on the biggest stage in the biggest match yeah it was just a remarkable i i have said it right yeah well you're close yeah it was so bad what you tried to explain and then i tried to explain so i know 501 it's not that it's not that i'm not silly it's six or three darts i got the basic premise of it all right i did you see you know uh jack ryan um new series is back on amazon right this has been out a couple of weeks yeah it came out the 21st or 22nd of december it came out in time for christmas the new third season and the show was commissioned already for a fourth season john krasinski will be doing no more he's leaving after four but yes it's a hit um the third season has got a good response from the critics i started watching it um and i see here checking 81 from critics for season three 78 from the audience on rotten tomatoes so people embracing it to the same four to five uh four to one ratio or four out of five people like it it delivers if you're familiar with the show then definitely it delivers i think i could watch the first two series again comfortably without knowing what's gonna happen yeah it's that kind of show and it's been a few years like it's 2018 since it started so we've had a we've had a gap i can see his face and him being climbing up in an aeroplane yes that sounds about right you also see him he's always in a car driving through a city looking out the window mournfully that's the thing he comes up in office he's always looking very they took my life and made a show out of it yeah i thought he was good i thought oh i think he's great i know i enjoyed it but i generally think i can probably rewatch the first two series he's really good because he brings he's meant the character is meant to be that bookish nerdish type yeah he brings that to us but you also believe that when it comes down to it when a bad guy comes in that he can handle himself and kick ass and get them down while still being a bit of a nerd so i kind of that's the the line he walks the third season you don't need to have seen season one or two it's a clean break he's on a mission it's the usual thing he's got intel but maybe the people higher up the chain don't believe him those fools and maybe he never watched 24 24 yeah and maybe maybe he has to go rogue to get the job done i'm not going to say how far in the first episode just was the first one on wednesday night and i'm going to savor it over the next eight weeks because i always do that fenula gets annoyed when i talk about that yeah but i want to do that comment there was enough in the first episode that you're saying right okay this is going to yes i watched a lot of episode ones this week and i would say this might be one of the top two because it established everything you need to know the sticks who the bad guys are what jack needs to find out and where he is it established everything in one hour and it was great crack and the action was good yeah and i watched over christmas um the onion island is it called onion island i can see i i'm in now i'm in your fenula camp it was fine but it's a bit really yeah you weren't blown away no you weren't blown away from it no i liked it i did like it and i thought it was good and there was a lot of you know and i the thing is i think you need to it's one of these things that don't give up halfway through it i will say that to people because it is things that has a load of threads and it's right on it's not reality no it's fantasy yeah it's very fancy it's not so there's no basis in it's like it's not x-men but it's not no no but it's more in the agate me i don't know it's the agate the christie school of murder not the uh the sweeney or like hill street blues or like gritty line of duty yeah everything every actor everything plays their role oh yeah one third yeah exactly yeah i was actually reading a piece janelle monne was talking about her accent slash accents in a piece i was reading last night and ryan johnson director director was telling her go bigger go bigger just make as big as you want and that i don't i don't think that's for everyone you know oh no maybe not yeah but it certainly has a size twice would i watch it you did i haven't yet seen the second time i want to i want to watch it a second time and most people i know would like to watch the second time or have watched it twice i've only spoken to one person one person and pretty much everyone i know has seen it one person spotted the key clue during it i was able to because the clue is there on screen and he's the only one and he says and i was like did i just see what i just seen and he was like he was like i've spotted it i know i do i do because he wouldn't he wouldn't try and score points i do yeah he would he'd just tell that he was like he saw the thing happen that told him have you wrapped up all your christmas watching finula uh yes oh yes i have to come out the other side that's all that's all done now i don't think there's anything left anyways i think because you're watching some kind of episodic and he's watched every christmas every christmas thing like every christmas well i finished it i think i don't watch the way he does it then i i know no one i mean i can't i can't be two years i'm still up to christmas 1987 at the moment you know what christmas you probably actually have documentary documentation uh evidence for them right okay that's good to hear um right let me see um a caller says i took one of your recommendations to watch yellow stone over christmas it was amazing satel 3am watching it excellent i just started watching it myself and it is actually really good yeah thank god for all the extra channels because tv over christmas was rubbish if a film was on one station it was on every other station uh the next night um the next night a load of rubbish scheduled telly is letting itself down it big time yeah i see a lot of people complaining about that actually yeah i don't know if it's the cost or the fact that the so many have gone to the platforms but i'd say i totally agree with that and not only that but nothing new coming to shed like all these movies that you saw it you know even a thrill you know and there's how many times can you say the rock was on the rock that kind which is a fine film but you know it's who hasn't seen it there was a few newer well i had like stan and olly was on since demon's night and they had um 1917 was on you know some of the more recent show yeah they're good ones but i because i looked down there was there were few and far between i thought it's very clear that the bbc and itv now and uh just don't really apply much to channel four are pumping all of their money into their on-demand platforms you know itvx they're all they're releasing all their new stuff seemingly on that first and the bbc are just absolutely obsessed with their their uh streaming and on-demand stuff much to the detriment of scheduled me schedule another local radio station in this area uh foil that seem to sink that everything is is online or nothing yeah they're definitely as they liked they would phrase it as streamlining their organization but they do seem to be leaving things to one side now and not focusing on the local everything is based on what you get what is popular on the player rather than what's popular from listenership yes yes yeah i which is another reason why don't understand whether maybe that's what they're planning is that they're going to start charging people for the player but we'll see it's amazing although called the midwife was on the christmas special and it was as always awesome brilliant okay is that on your list no i watched it over the it's christmas it's based on christmas it was out on tv on christmas day so unless you have it's done and i'll say yeah christ christmas is that word you can't use that word you can illegally find it somewhere because they're so mean well something don't let download it i'm not sure it's legal anyway i never fully understand that i don't understand so i just call it there is a differentiation they never understand it but you can watch you can't find it yeah okay yeah watch it limited season watch limited series treason on netflix starling charlie cox from marvel's daredevil yes really enjoyed it also watch the good nurse with jessica chastain and eddie redmayne true story and a hiring watch i think we did the good nurse on the show before interested here about treason yeah you haven't seen it though no but i but again i wanted to see what people are thinking about like again because people have been asking me about it friends have said because it's charlie cox yeah and he was in ken as well as daredevil and he's a very very good actor speaking of recommendation speaking of league uch and recommendations he recommended tulsa king silvester slone show uh and a listener saying it's a great show that's from the same guy who does yellowstone nice taylor sherdon he writes every episode i didn't even know where i didn't even know it was on uh here that you could get it anywhere over here i think it's on perma does it it's always yeah over here yeah these guys in a minute guys in a minute get perma i'm excited about that yeah i'm excited but that's his third show now if you don't include the two miniseries because he also does um jeremy renner's show jeremy renner obviously in the news because he had an accident there on new year's day uh with a snow plow but he has a show mayor of what heck is it called mayor of mayor of something eastwick no it's not that show it's it's a different one we'll be back but that's all with with the answer we'll be back actually reviewing things um we don't know jack crime we got the thumbs up big thumbs up thumbs up but you're happy with however well it hits the i mean the show it's interesting as well as they seem to have gone back to the we were talking about their last year about how um we've lost the the bad guy you know in a lot of these things it's all very kind of big yes like you know some country some country where yeah they had their sand in it or some country where you know they're speaking what sounds like a slavic kind of a type language or whatever um whereas in this one it uh season three is it's full on russia you in it's like it's full on even though it's based on a novel that was written many years ago some conflicts never really go away so it just so happens that it's quite amazing given you know that i know there's at least two or three movies that haven't come out because of the fact that there was a ukrainian bad guy or a russian bad guy the thing of the war and that kind of thing so it's it's amazing the answer should always be some level of separation between reality and art yeah i don't know why they would do it i i you know give us a bit of credit surely a bit should be able to tell but the new um the the guys that did the gentleman they had one that was supposed to come out last february and it still hasn't been gentlemen was a great show oh my god it was awesome is that the one with the movie yeah yeah it was so good it was so it was a yeah it was the one with huge not few grand it is yeah with two grand i want to set twice and call him for oh my god i definitely want you to two or three times call him for i'm i hasn't already been a couple in that franchise no no just one and no this isn't even the it's in part of it's not a franchise it's just a standalone movie but if you know what i mean it's a similar type of cast it's not going to be one that you scroll we really need to see that if you watch it you enjoy it isn't it i think yeah i know it's i never think of his name he was married to madonna the english director but he richie gay actually he like as i've said so many times people said to me we should watch it now it's like oh god i'm not a guy richie i wouldn't be into guy richie movies but actually it was phenomenal and it is a guy richie movie and you can tell right more from michael and finula and you uh listening wherever you are or watching the show after these messages great news the house proud group stock disposal sale continues today and all this weekend at the straban store with so much stock still to clear prices have been cut again on furniture for every room the massive stock disposal sale at house proud abercorn square straban don't miss out sale also at oma store payment of the local property tax for 2023 is due by thursday the 12th of january if you haven't yet paid or made arrangements to pay or haven't already filed your lpt return please do so now the easiest way to file and pay is online through my account ross or the lpt portal if you select the annual debit instruction option your payment won't be debited until the 21st of march if you need help or can't go online call revenue on 01 738 3626 our wide range of 2023 scooters are going fast this is the sound of the 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highlights of 2022 was going to see him in crook park he was very good but it's it's it's not divisive it's it is is it yeah oh i think it is is it along our lines no no no no we've got to know well in our house we had to mix with it was one of those girls are saying to me they didn't enjoy it no i don't yeah i i i've tried to watch it six times it's hard to explain but every time i tried to watch it something happened that was distracted you and he's about two foot oh god well in no way in no way should you be watching it when he's in in the same house i'd say to find out the dance because it is it does get a bit i don't worry we weren't cuddled up in the couch it wasn't it wasn't quite like that but anyway it's a destructive force it's uh yeah it's after you like the presence to be felt but the well i just think it's one of those things i'd love to hear from listeners because i know many times over the christmas with friends and with family you'd start talking about different things that you're watching you know the way over the christmas you kind of catch up every three or four days or two days whatever what are you watching what are you doing i had been recommending the band to you finish here because i really liked it and i uh i enjoyed it and uh it ended up with many surreal disagreements about why it was good or why it was bad because it seems to be it's one of those things where people either really didn't like it or really loved it you don't get a lot of people say no no it was fine well in my world i don't get a lot of people say oh no it was fine most of them are like oh god who why why would why did we end up watching that that kind of thing this year do you think this year would be if there was a way of tracking it maybe the year where record in a record way people chose their own viewing over christmas like i'm thinking of that film became available to stream on disney i think it is uh the onion island film glass onion or whatever it's called um and you know i don't because hodson was sick over christmas maybe i was out of touch a little bit but i didn't hear the doctor who he kind of talk or the mrs brand everybody's watching the thing yeah you know what i mean it's yeah to be what people were talking about i just wanted to this year more than ever did people plan their viewing rather than watch the live scheduled stuff i don't know maybe listeners can help with that yeah it's a good question i wonder if the glass onion movie was the one because i know a lot of people because that was a big thing for netflix it was a thing that they bought that they promoted over christmas you know it was um that might be the closest thing to being a water cooler moment where people all kind of watched it over that weekend to talk about it and they didn't see it in the cinema then got access to the the isle of any shearing just the edge shearing movie just the edge shearing movie yeah i just i just think i just think maybe this was a i think so but there was lots of different things out though because i know um and i don't know when it came out i'm to think because it's not really my cup of tea but everybody i knew as well was watching the last bond oh oh yeah it was on tv it was on amazon i actually still haven't seen that yet that's the no time today that's the last one they're no time and i i think i might try that this weekend you know i think that's what i might try that one because i need to finish it off because i've watched all the others yeah watch it yeah in quick succession yeah watch it while they're going to go the other direction with it because i watched that one i was like i think that's actually the only daniel craig one i've ever watched yeah now he's he's excellent he is he is i'm watching the handmaid's handmaid's tail at the minute and i love it yeah that's one of those it's one of those claimed shows i mean it is critically acclaimed is a bit more i tried and i didn't like it but then i'm not a big dystopian oh fine i don't like it i think when i when i get to it i probably will end up loving it it's just i haven't got to it yet for various reasons i'm not seven hundred shows in production i won't be alive when he even tried to start doing that i don't know the musical in the cinema was was great say to the listener what was that one tilde oh okay right about i've seen this winter i'm disappointed with the it was supposed to be coming out on netflix and it was talking about it coming out in netflix over the christmas that it was going to be the christmas thing and then it disappeared and now it's not going to be in netflix until the summer i did find a place to stream it and i have to say i enjoyed it but i really like to tell the story so why would they delay do you think maybe it got caught up fire in the cinemas a bit and they thought maybe that was it with the hall you know kids being off and people looking for things to do with their kids that that was it but there was a lot of talk that it was going to be it was going to be with the glass onion being kind of the adult thing on netflix onion island definitely changed the name and we that matured the musical then was going to be the kids one but now it says sometime in the summer yeah so maybe onion island and ed sheeran island and all those fellows actually are all great so good um okay uh oh wait six six six twenty five thousand great start to the new year with lots of you texting in what you're enjoying what you're not enjoying uh and what you've been watching or what you've gone to see in the cinema a man called otto from tom hanks now he's in that small band of actors that mostly what he does is good and look at this is uh nobody's going to be disappointed if you go to this as a tom hanks uh fan uh it's very much i i put it down on it because not because it's absolutely brilliant or anything it's just a really nice movie and if you kind of want to go it starts in the cinema tonight and if you want to go and watch something it's based on a book a man called of went around the rabbit family sisters at one point everybody had to read of it and it's very kind of a quirky nice little book it's all about this older gentleman and uh you know living in a small area sort of falling out with his neighbors getting cranky and then suddenly new neighbors move into the into the road that they live on and it's you know it's all about how that kind of changes over his wife has passed away and so it's i mean if you if you like things like remember there was a movie st vincent that was out years ago there was uh there's a couple of them that are kind of like in this so just sort of a nice even uh the uh it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood the tom hanks oh yeah this is just one of just really moved into that age bracket now is it whereby he is the can play the i don't know if it's cranky but the old cranky older widow well he definitely is now because sure he isn't if he's not 70 he's close to it really well he must be okay well he was his first tv show buzz and bodies was 82 he was already well into his 20s when he did that i think he might be 70 if he's not he's very close it's close to it has to be definitely honest i mean obviously now he looks great and it's Tom Hanks but he's Tom Hanks is one of those people as you say you just go into a movie and you know it's in good hands i mean he like he was in that in the Elvis movie and it's probably the worst performance i've ever seen of a time but it was still awesome i thought with that feel i thought he was fine actually in that right you didn't find the accent kind of dropped and lifted because i don't know i i was more peeved as someone who's brought up listening to alvis alvis music that there wasn't more of music where it wasn't done cleverly or fading in and out or stuff i just thought there should be more alvis music you know other than that i thought it was i wasn't um i wasn't offended by him at all not offended but you know i didn't know like as i said now i loved alvis uh i thought it was great and he was you're definitely watching but i thought he was and i was like oh that's how good it was and that he was the worst thing in it and you'd normally never know i get it in the context you know i mean i've seen in the bigger thing with it but it's not that he was bad in any way but in the in the in the whole of the movie um but in this it's just it's starting in the cinema now it's like you're looking for something to just kind of go have a little bit of niceness washed over you this is basically that this is going to be the movie for you it just has a really lovely kind of a feel good feel about it and and to me what watching and i was like well this is a nice way now to start the new year um and um whitney houston has her by her latest films in the cinema as well so there's a few different types of films yes right okay so you haven't seen this yet you've read the book though i read the book and i did watch it right okay and well that was another obviously example if you get in a pre-screening what would you give it out of ten uh i really well i really enjoyed it so i definitely would give it like a seven i mean the characters in it are very good in it and it's very now you're not you know this is not your action movie this is not your things happen in every five seconds it's not like a nice mellow it's just that yeah there's it's just a really really nice movie yeah there's a lovely kind of a story to it you're lovely feeling to it and it you just come out the other side of it going that was lovely uh greg don't forget stop in the pints while putting your cigarette on the other side of your mouth after it and spare dart on the left hand they were multi-tasking men back then tense stuff even one of the hosts lost his voice wane model but he's always over egging it anyway somebody had said the dark thuds were akin to brendan gleason's fingers off the door in the banshee of anish anish giren anish i'm just gonna say i'm just gonna call it ed sheeran thanks kevin by the way after watching the premiere of the latest bond on itv how ridiculous the villain was maybe it was because daniel's uh onion show made me cry only another 354 days to christmas i drove to work this morning and the moon was spectacular it was low and you could actually see the different you know the colors and shapes of it but i'm finished with that now the sooner it gets bright your bright morning yeah right in the morning i've seen the moon some nights from the other end and that's been really lovely like i mean it has been amazing another planet from well from being up late not being up early the other side like i'm not up i'm not up at the same time as you unless i'm up yeah okay i agree you've seen it at night it's the same moon by the way in the same cycle right okay thanks very much for that astronomer uh michael leddie just think me staring at the moon and out there somewhere driving to 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we're giving people a bit of one of there's some spaces available if people want to go along is that correct yeah we just decided we've it's naluk naman little women's christmas and uh we just decided as we always do while atlantic women have marked naluk naman since um well i first really heard of it back in 2016 and a lot of the girls from rural you know west northwestern engal it would be a very well known tradition um throughout ireland so we've just marked it with song and reflection and in light of the year that we've had we've had the conversations with father john joe and with father philip and the girls themselves and we just recommend you know what let's just have a paired back evening of reflection gratitude and thanking you know god or each other for the friends and the family that we have and for the apps and friends and family and it's a very paired back and i'm really grateful to all the girls for getting involved and obviously there's a lot of the wild atlantic women who it you know doesn't sit because it's a friday night and they've got gigs but there's old faces and new faces and really excited about it greg to be honest you know yeah and i suppose it's about hope and and the future um as well it's in our chapel tonight at 7 30 p.m uh there's a there's a huge amount of people at it i'm not sure if we can mention them all or if it's fair to pick some out but some amazing talent just looking down through the list here everything every genre all the girls from songwriters to singers young and myself not so young and everything in between and what's new this time as well is like people would have gone to some of our bands before and would have seen a lot of the videos that we did over lockdown so what's really nice is what what has been opened up to us is you know artists that are poets and writers that you know write verses and whatnot in both english and an irish so i'm very excited about it and it's very very paired back in that the congregation that are there or the audience that some of us like to call it are more than welcome to join in and in the songs we've picked very paired back lovely hymns have left the girls with complete you know autonomy of what they want to write what they want what they want to sing what they want to speak about and literally everybody's just bringing a little piece of themselves to the table and hope that whoever's there gets to take a little piece of hope and gratitude home with them after the event i think it's going to be a lovely event it's 7 30 tonight um in ards uh chapel so plenty of space plenty of parking uh and i think people are going to really enjoy it if you can be tonight sounds like a very nice way to spend your friday evening well it's a lovely way and as well as i i'd like to actually thank arts friary father john joe father philip and father alphonse for all the work and paul hegerty in the tea rooms he's opening up the tea rooms late so people can come and go it's not a case that there's you know there's no charge or anything like that it's people can come and light a candle say a few prayers remember their loved ones be with their loved ones and just celebrate nala naman in a new way moving forward into the new year brilliant stuff brie um sounds and i want just saying it does sound like it's going to be a lovely thing because it's a lovely setting and and and obviously with the theme and and the importance of it uh listen thanks so much brie best of luck see you soon it's our pleasure to have you on so if you want to get along to the art chapel 7 30 p.m uh tonight and there's an amazing list of people there uh brie's performing maria mccormick uh an bidi carol wilson and gene corrin uh and on and on hannah uh nick phad gene and so many more okay best of luck with that uh some of your messages coming in keep them coming into us uh watch the first episode of yellowstone prequel 1932 starring harrison ford and heron millen very good as well right yeah does anyone know what that is yeah it's the second mini series this one is going to run for two seasons oh so this is a reincarnate not reincarnation no it's the yellowstone is set kind of in modern times and then what they did was they were it it's it it's all about this big ranch and it's they own like half yeah freaking colorado it's the largest ranch in the continental united states and it's a new series of they've both they've made the ancestors they made two mini series okay which is about so the first one is about how they got the ranch the family got the ranch in the first place and that was 1883 is the name of that one and sam elliott's and that and uh a couple of a couple of country music keith oh yeah um there's a couple of country music artists and that kind of thing uh miley syris's father's in it Billy ray that's who it is i think it's him that's in it there's a couple of country music guys that are in that right but that's 10 episodes the first in that series and that's complete that's complete that's the old one and then the new one that which is just new since this new one now which has just come out last year i just didn't realize i didn't realize it was i know it's so big because this is a program yellowstone that it's fans that are talking about it i think way more than yeah critics or yes the media or whatever it's fans that are agreed to be here because it are tiered the only ones that show that and they showed it like late on a sunday night so it wasn't as if it was like they're nine o'clock thing on a sunday that everybody was sitting down to watch but that's what it so the first one is back in the 1800s and then this one then which is harrison ford and helen marionette is set in the 1923 yeah uh miss the start of your entertainment slots have you all forgiven this one time only it's 11 a.m sharp by the way um collide kaleidoscope is it kyle's kaleidoscope absolutely brilliant watching it has actors from breaking bad queen of the south which is another good show queen of the south i never finished that one you know breaking bad queen of the south just loved it edge of the seat stuff see also and english drama treason treason yes that's a nice yeah carly cox show yeah i love this one uh gene carlo esposito is from yes that's who's in yeah the chicken guy yeah the chicken guy i think that's how he's referred to in the show isn't i love tom hanks on a holiday in alabama i sat on the summer seat that tom hanks sat on in forest gump cool hopefully you have a picture of it because you're not believing you love this after i mean i need evidence i do of course um there's a storyline in east enders where two twelve year olds are having a baby what are your thoughts on this good gosh i don't know i haven't seen it um i haven't seen it either i haven't seen um i find it very hard to take so proper seriously in anything that they do to be honest because a lot of it is so ridiculous what's they've done they've done that before in it if you remember everything's rehashed isn't it but if you remember um was it in carnation street sara louise wasn't that her name gales daughter she had a child and she was like 13 or 13 years old personally my view on it is if anyone's interested in is i understand that they try and maybe uh hold a mirror up to society yeah try and reflect what's happening society i don't think that needs to be forming part of a 7 7 30 so possibly well i don't know what it adds positively to the conversation yeah and what it's all about how these things are done and as you say after doing it at 7 30 in that kind of soap opera slot i mean if this was a drama nine o'clock drama maybe you could see the reason behind it it doesn't without sometimes what it can do though is it can open up a conversation i think 12 is very now and i haven't seen this so i've said i'm not saying how they've dealt with it in east end i can't be doing with the roaring at each other yeah my pub i just give that up but i do think like 12 is a little bit young but i do think that sometimes when it comes up you can open conversations you know i remember like i think though in certain ages what i think it does then you can sort of say well it's happening and for some people say well it's happening well maybe it could happen to me like i i i actually think we need a kind of a broader conversation about how we and what we talk to children about i don't i think yeah evidence to suggest that maybe it's not as productive or as beneficial as we might think it is i just think that's something that's worth checking now and again to make sure we're doing it right it's all kids are different than as well what you can talk to one 12 year old about and what to i compared to another and you also have to factor in that there are people going to sit and watch it and not have a conversation about it because we always pretend that you're watching something that could be something where everyone goes quiet and then just move on to the next show yeah get a bit glamorized on it that's and even unintentionally glamor you see some of these shows that are on mtv and that kind of thing and it's like teen uh you know teen mom and teen this and suddenly they're like famous and they're like everything about their lives then shows up on all these other different things and you're like that's not really telling you what it's like you know to wake up in the middle of the night as you know you've experienced what you're like but you wake up in the middle of the night and and always be the one that has to be getting up yeah like six seven times in the night and not you know people doing it on their own and that kind of thing like there's a lot of of nuances that can never be played out listen there is always adult situations that applies to children right but then you talk about are we then normalizing it so in other words it's not really adult situations that applies to children it's it's just people I just think we need to be really I just think we need to be really careful where we're going and what we're putting on our children you see say for instance say for instance you know one in this affects one in a thousand children right you're having that conversation with a thousand children yeah it's the it's the benefit of avoiding the one are you in some way affecting the 919 I'm not saying that's the case but it's a valid question and I think it's what you need to ask when we come out with supplements in surveys that say that kids as young as 12 are engaged in any kind of sexual activity or lots of different things drugs there's lots of things it's not just this particular issue but lots of issues where they say I'm always curious where are the interviewing these people yeah like if they're interviewing these kids in school like I you know I don't know any kid at 12 that's going to sit there with a group of friends in school and not stick their hand up or write down and go oh my god yeah totally no matter what their level of experience or thing it's like I don't know and also one thing I noticed when the social cover issues they do it by numbers they do it with what you know the average of what happens in life yeah and then they deliver in one way or other the what is the general consensus within medicine within whichever field of that issue and that is the solution or the outcomes or the possibilities which I don't think we should necessarily trust absolutely that maybe that also needs to be they shouldn't be seen as an authority on these things exactly and I'm not personally saying I am or would I just think we have to be careful that in some of our conversations we're not actually damaging the majority to try and highlight maybe something that might affect the minority there might be a better way to approach that rather than having it on at seven o'clock and they've been here but I haven't seen any of it no I haven't you know are they doing something like this just for ratings this is because it's going to be sensational they're competing with Brookside yeah so they're trying to be sensationalized but they saw it's ridiculous yeah I mean they're doing a storyline on on Coronation Street at the moment it's hilarious do you know what I mean how they're handling it it's you know but like you just laugh you just laugh I could highlight the the the floors the plot holes in it but sure what it where would you end you could be here every Friday oh I know it's our team I mean sometimes soaps do do things well it's just and maybe they are doing this well and then it could be as possible the matter I didn't think is what is it a topic that should even be on it I think without seeing it I I don't know but the sign out times have changed you were saying it earlier about the darts but like it's definitely a storyline you would not have seen at 7 30 on any week night you know in couple of decades I don't think you fully determine whether you should see it now yeah but we definitely wouldn't have like so I mean was that you know that would definitely be post watershed that kind of adult material you know yeah well maybe that's the right maybe you speak to adults right and then they can do the parenting of their children rather than the program up to TV to parent kids you know what a wider debate 08 660 25000 uh let me see what we'll pick off the list after that after these messages every year about 2800 people in Ireland get bowel cancer bowel screening helps to reduce your risk of developing it if you're aged 60 to 69 you can register today for a free bowel screen test kit once you've done the test at home return it by free post and we'll test your sample for levels of blood if you need any more tests we'll let you know register today at hse.ie forward slash bowel screen or free phone 1 800 45 45 55 from the hse Dylan's hotel letter candy is the perfect place to celebrate special occasions Dylan's exclusive function rooms cater for up to 120 guests for 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master in titles the bear no okay go ahead yes of course the bear is on disney and the bear caught my eye because it was on several critics end of year lists for last year so i started it last night with episode one and i was absolutely blown away it was a 10 out of 10 fantastic i can totally see why it was the show of the year for many critics american film institute picked it as one of their 10 shows a year as well the bear is a half hour comedy drama right and it's about a chef and it's about a chef who has to go back to take over his family business which is failing and it's a small rundown kitchen cafe and the outskirts of of i suppose new york city what i loved about the first episode was the performance of the lead actor was amazing the show the first episode took a day in the life approach so it was kind of eight hours from him waking up in the early hours and it was all the food prep that went on till they opened they opened at lunch time that's when they opened and it was fast moving it was frantic there was people running around a very small kitchen yelling shouting screaming at each other he was trying to get order he's new he's the new boss and in the middle of all this what really impressed me is they were able to deathly put in all the backstory you need to know all the characterization we know who his cousin is we know there's a rivalry there the cousin felt he should have gotten the control of the family business so he doesn't want to do anything that the hero wants to do we also got some hints about his background this guy is an absolute genius the guy should be one of the top chefs he's on track to be one of the top chefs in the country but he's decided to come home and try and save the family business and it was it grabbed me by the lapels pulled me right in and i i can't wait to watch more it was just i love i'm one of the thing i think yeah just grab um i remember when i watched trimé i'm ignoring you when i watched trimé years ago excellent series about new orleans post katrina my favorite character on that as well was the chef i loved her story and it tracked out over the four seasons so in many ways it's the same sort of thing really she's up against it enjoy on the stage she's she's up against it or he's up against it i'm sorry for anybody who doesn't know that reference i know what he's on about um but the thing about is uh the performance and the visuals and you see random things like in the middle of scenes you see photographs from his childhood it's true and stuff at you the whole time and by the end of it i really cared about the guy and in the final seconds and it's not really a spider but in the final seconds it looked like he was going to capitulate and give in to something that his cousin was forcing him to do put something on the menu he didn't want to do and he was opening these cans and he was going to do it and you're watching it what's he going to do and then in the last second he just takes it he flings it in the bin right it's in it's a motto and i was like yeah i was like it's it's be anything and you're like because he was going to go to cheap with the cousin is like chef stop doing where everybody opens tins the cousin is forcing him the cousin is saying stop doing all the stuff you're doing it do these tins do these tins i will have to watch and he was on a half an hour and he was like he was like and then in the final seconds you're like is he going to give in is he going to give in is it going to be a slow gradual thing but he just grabbed it and he was like right in the bin right in the bin and i was going to cheer i was like yes i want this guy to win no i really want this guy i'm interested to see based on your love to know it's getting great reviews and i people have been recommending it to me for a while yeah one of my brother in laws in particular is mad about it yeah but and also i i'm almost sure this is the whole thing some of the the episodes in it were done in one take right okay oh yes so what they just did was they just did the whole half hour every day for like about three weeks got you the exact same thing and then you're and then they just took whichever day turned out the best and that's what they put up that sounds like yeah there was a lot of long glad i'm sitting in when that there was nothing for the whole episode but yeah there's times where he's just running around and somebody throws something at him from off like he wants bread and he doesn't catch it so he just shuts again and you know well that i just was like no they're just going for it you know they're not like that he just missed it again okay so there's a this work there's a kinetic kinetic slash frenetic aura to the whole thing i felt exhausted when it was over it's been an hour of it being an hour i would have slept in this morning i would have slept in this morning i couldn't handle it if it was an hour it's just i loved it loved it loved it let's watch an episode between nine next friday that's on disney disney lady shattered his lover uh can we do that in a minute i'm a core and then jack from the direct quote you can if you want is it a bodice ripper is it toned down is it i don't know if i hear those three words i think of you know i know i'm not too honest and i went to it to see what they'd actually done with it because this was the uh you know you kind of normally would have a bit of bridgerton and we'd have something like that that would sort of keep you going over the christmas get you get you get the get the fires going in a nice romantic or not lady cheshire's lover i'll tell you that um but no there's not a lot of that in it but i it's a book that's always kind of on the list you know the way it's one of those things you sort of think god i really should read that no yeah no but you could i could ask you and uh now how many episodes of baywatch were ever made and what was your 242 and which is your favorite and you'd be able to answer me probably the one where mitch's mum had Alzheimer's so we don't we don't care if lady shattered his lover's not on your list no but it netflix has redone it as they have to they go back and do it usually i have to say they've done not a bad job of some of their and stuff they've got an empress and a few other things that they've done that are dated around the same time as this i don't know is that i don't like i mean i went to this party because jack o'connell's and it which i do do like him he's in that 1917 and that kind of thing irish actor young irish actor excellent excellent actor this no this is a movie and emma caron if anybody doesn't recognize the name she is the girl that played the young princess diana in the crown no don't do it it's awful her head she head tilts in this as well which drove me cracked in the crown to the left to the right now from out which side there thank you so much michael leddie thank you lovely to have you back great i'd love to start a new year with you and thank you so much uh in equal measure for nula rabid thank you to all of you who listened to the show today and throughout the week thanks to caroline who researched and produced the show and don emory of course working hard on the program we're back with you on monday st