The CEO of the Irish Fish Processor and Exporters Association says there's genuine shock and annoyance in the port. After the ship was forced to withdraw due to a rule introduced in recent weeks by the SFPA, which meant that over 1,000 tons of blue-whiteing was unable to be weighed using a pier-signed waste system. Brendan Burns says this is yet again another example of the total disregard for the fishing industry in Ireland. It shows to the latter extent how dysfunctional the management of the entire fishery here in Ireland has become from the competent authority and from a complete lack of interest and disconnect on the part of the government. Here you have a vessel that wished to do business with Ireland and they had to leave port to go to any other European port because there's greater rights and they'll be afforded the courtesies of land and fish in any other port in Europe apart from any port in Ireland. Meanwhile, high energy prices may be the straw that breaks the camel's back for fishermen. That's according to Donegal Deputy Podrick McLaughlin who told the doll that the fishing industry was in the midst of a crisis long before energy price hikes. He pressed the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConnook to follow the lead of France and Spain and intervene. Deputy McLaughlin says the sector is being severely impacted. You know 60 boats forever will decommission you're down to you know 30% of what the fleet used to be above 18 metres it's already an industry in crisis this is going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back what are you going to do. In response Minister Charlie McConnook says he is committed to working with the sector to navigate these uncertain times. We'll continue to lease very closely with them because it's a really important massively important sector particularly for our own county and it's really important that we work with them through this period of time and I'll continue to do that. T-Shog me home Martins giving a pace building talk in Derry this evening despite recent threats from loyalist power militaries. There was a security alert at a similar event in Balfast last Friday attended by Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Kovne. UVF says Irish government ministers aren't welcome in the north due to the Brexit protocol. Entry Leader Panor Tobain says the warnings should be ignored. The level of protest that's been happening on the street in terms of the protocol is nowhere like protests were around for example the Anglo-Irish Agreements. We're not talking about the same times at all. I do believe it's important that the T-Shog remains safe and keeps its security in check but we need to make sure that the Good Friday agreement is fixed and that people can have the bread and butter issues that are affecting them dealt with. Weather now is dry this morning with some bright spells feeling cool at times with highest temperatures of six to eight degrees. That's all from Hynan Radio News for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. Hello good morning four minutes past nine it's Friday the first of April no joke and you're welcome along to another edition of the nine till noon show and it is a Friday so that means it's another busy one. Our Friday panel about to join us a little later on we'll have Michael and Finula in studio and much more besides. Okay let's crack straight on because I think we've a lot to talk about today and we are going to welcome our guests on to the programme now first of all Michael Harrison cyber threat consultant and former guard inspector Michael good morning to you. Good morning Greg how are you? I'm fantastic and it's very good to have you with us we also welcome on to the programme Katie Tyrell McCafferty community campaigner. Good morning Katie. Good morning Greg. Hope you are keeping well and last but not least John McIntyre editor of the Draconal Tribune newspaper. How are you doing John? I'm fine Greg thank you. And thank you for coming on with us again. Right okay we'll start with a big story yesterday and that's the news that a planned meeting with two letter Kenny by the tee shock has been cancelled. Micheal Martin was due to host a launch at the Rattison Blue Hotel organised by the letter Kenny Chamber of Commerce. It was cancelled a protest had been scheduled to take place. The hotel said they did no longer want to host it and the event was cancelled I'm not sure if it's clear yet so maybe John or one of our other guests might know whether it was actually then the tee shocks office that cancelled the visit all together I imagine so but in the statement Christine Reynolds president of letter Kenny Chamber said it is with regret that the event to be hosted by letter Kenny Chamber with on tee shock Micheal Martin will not go ahead as planned after consultation with the department. The chamber they say is extremely disappointed that they will not now have an opportunity to meet with the tee shock in Donegal. Their intention at the event was to emphasise the economic needs of the county and region including Michael Redress the president of the chamber says that they have now missed a perfect opportunity to put the concerns of its members directly to on tee shock. I'll start with you John McIntyre. Your reaction to the decision I mean I think the chamber make a strong point but obviously those involved in the Mikey campaign feel that their voices need to be heard what's your views? Yeah I'm listening to the chamber point and I fully agree with it. Likewise I agree similarly with the demand of the Mikey action group to have a few minutes with on tee shock. The very fact that they pulled out of that as one can only presume is an indication that this has become a very political hot potato that I couldn't see any real reason why he shouldn't meet with them. I couldn't see any reason why they shouldn't be a bit of a demonstration. The fact that should he be there come out and meet them and talk to them because this isn't going to go away now or any time soon. But just so we're clear for what's on the timeline of on the record because there are different views. Michael action group said that they contacted Charlie McIntyre's office seeking a meeting in mid-march and they didn't get any word on it. So they organized this protest and on the same day that evening uh me and Martin's office through Charlie McIntyre I think stated no we are going to meet the Michael action group. Now from Charlie McIntyre's perspective in the interest of fairness as well what he claims happened he said he was asked to organize a meeting in mid-march. He said no problem that's what we'll do. He spent the following couple of weeks according to him trying to secure a meeting in a shone because he said he got a lot of criticism for the meeting the last time being in Latter-Kennie so he was trying to arrange a time to bring the t-shirt to in a shone to meet with reps of the Michael action group and it because of the the the the the agenda wasn't fully finalized it was on that day that he got confirmation of that uh and that was the timeline. So they did have a meeting but the protest was to go ahead was was calling the protest the right thing to do was cancelling the launch the right thing to do from because I think it was a pots and pans protest John. Did the hotel have any other option? I think that I don't think this should do with the hotel actually it's to do with the fact that the t-shirt isn't done at all Michael action group are totally disillusioned. They're left with a deficit of information and if they can't talk to the to the t-shirt in their own constituency then there's something fundamentally wrong here. Michael Martin hasn't come out and explained why he didn't. Charlie McCall and Logus quoted in the Donagall news as being absolutely committed to the meeting. Michael Daherty, the PRO of the the Michael action group, he summed it up quite succinctly when he simply said if the t-shirt had a good was on to Donagall and back out again without meeting them then he could think again and this is where the Michael campaign is now at politicians should not be walking away from uh I presume that if Michael Martin came there he would have been met by the Michael action group had he come out and spoken to them there was no indication that that was going to happen there was absolutely nothing to be afraid of here. I mean Michael people put messages out on social media to come out and make a bit of noise bring bin lids if necessary it's almost back to the days of the civil race in in Northern Ireland all these years ago that people had to dig out bin lids to to make a lot of noise to be heard and I mean if the Michael action group is now fighting after all these of 10 years to be heard by the leader of the country and the supplement very fundamentally flawed with our political system and I believe that to be the case. Okay Katie what is your view I mean the chamber makes the point that this was a rare opportunity to talk about the biggest issue is no doubt the Mike issue but talk about all issues and that may be coming from the chamber maybe coming from the chamber talking about the Mike issue we could have got a good quote from Michael Martin as it relates to his committee but before I ask you I just want to point something out there was a meeting scheduled between the Taoiseach and representatives of the Mike action group and that meeting is going ahead as scheduled on Saturday in in a show and by the way so me or Martin is meeting with the Mike action group in a show on Saturday but to your point sorry to my question Katie how do you what do you think of how things played out? Well it looked like a stick in your head in the sand moment you know I just want these people to go away everyone has the right to protest and the chamber has the right to meet the Taoiseach we are in a unique situation well not unique but three other counties we have the border issue still with Brexit and that's affecting business Michael is affecting business as well so it is a big issue for the business community as well and he should have come up and addressed it it was like it was running away to be honest maybe the protest wouldn't have been as loud if he'd have met those people first you know scheduled the meeting first but no that there's no common sense thinking it you know what I mean so I can't believe that he's done that you know what I mean I mean I thought he might use the COVID excuse but no that's why that's the one that's the one that's the one the Americans use against him it seems but in in relation to though if like I think people know I'm a hundred percent the mic behind the mic campaign as all of us are right but once a meeting had been scheduled and given the sort of rumblings coming from the hotel that you know there are other guests there and this that and the other would it have been better from a PR perspective if the mic action group says look we'll cancel that we'll call off off the protest and spin it in such a way that would work better for them rather than now it feeling like some might say that the Chamber have lost an opportunity to express you know there are concerns about other issues including Micah but there was not like we've seen it we duck he ducked out of that one there's no there's no guarantee that he's going to show up on Saturday Eva do you know what I mean I think that every opportunity these people are trying to speak to their t-shirt about the fact they can't live in their ass anymore do you know what I mean and they're trying and the other thing is the national press would have been there you know and there is still a bit of a misunderstanding outside of Donnie Gaw and maybe Mayo about what Micah is all about you know a lot of people think that the people are trying to build these grand palaces and you know and why do you want your add that people actually don't understand still don't understand what the Micah issue is and it was an opportunity to get national exposure yeah an opportunity also to show that the campaign it remains strong and organized even with Paddy Diver having stepped back so I mean there obviously were a couple of ways this would have worked very positively for the campaign what do you think Michael Harrison I was I was quite surprised and shocked to hear last night Greg that they that the whole thing had been cancelled what you're dealing with here is families whose houses are literally crumbling down around them you have mums and dads that aren't sleeping well at night in their homes because they can hear they can hear the cracks you know they can hear they hear the cracks they can't see way forward at all there there's no light at the end of the tunnel for them they can't even if they try to ring Donnie Gaw come to council and I believe the people on the help desk down there the Micah help desk are very very helpful to the extent that they can be but it's no statutory instrument they have no law they have no legal guidance to guide them on so that they can so that they can advise these distressed homeowners and it's it's I think it was that there were more than entitled to have a protest outside this hotel given the length of time this Micah this Micah nonsense has carried on and it's when you talk to these homeowners when you hear their stories and just think what is the effect this is having on the children there is children growing up and all the here is the mums and dad getting distressed about seeing cracks and they hear these children are hearing the cracks they're hearing this it's it's and hear that this that they hold that the thing was cancelled possibly because of the protest I thought it was absolutely ludicrous I'm really really surprised yeah and it's about communication and messaging again Michael like I mean if I were to T shock I would go right we're heading to the northwest here the biggest issue and the most motivating issue up there is the Micah I would assess right I'm going up there because I need to meet these people again to give them update on what's happening and while I'm there I might hop into I'll hop into Darian for for that commitment and also I will you know and also I will um I'll meet the chamber you know I mean they could have the T shock's office could have spawned this in a way that would have worked very well for them but again they didn't yeah that exactly it is just mishandled and in 2022 with all the media experts and social media gurus that the politicians are entitled to have I can't believe that you know that they have made what looks to me an ordinary person to you know to be a serious error in judgement I'm just quite surprised all right um someone says the facts need to be made clear the hotel cancelled the venue which left the chamber with nowhere to hold it the T shock's office did not play a part in this cancellation where did this come from because in the statement in the statement they say is obviously they were put in a position because the hotel was cancelled but in their own statement they say it's with regret that the event to be hosted by the letter can he chamber with on T shock me home on will not go ahead as planned after consultation with the department so you know I think the reality and think the reality there Greg is that from what I understand the protest meeting was only organized when the when the major group for the major homeowners discovered that that there wasn't going to be a meeting that was only from the protest the meeting came out that that the that the meeting was was it was it was agreed for the reticent now that is where it's been handled very very badly at that point if the teacher was coming to Donegal and his PR gurus there as Michael says had they sort of been thinking outside the box at all that I said look there's going to be protesters here teacher will be very anxious to meet them and talk to them that there there wouldn't have been any noise there would have been a probably a very frank discussion but would be a very peaceful one and I think it's handled very very badly or his officers are handled very very badly perhaps it's wrong to blame the teacher himself but the office of the teacher and those organizing the meetings I mean up here in Donegal we're not we're not going to behave I say of the law the teacher would have got a decent reception because we are dependent on those politicians to resolve this crisis and everybody realized that and then waited for far too long and they needed that opportunity to meet somebody like the teacher yeah and if you're coming up here sorry John if you're coming up here as t-shock the first thing at the front of your mind or at your advice's mind should be Micah and you get out in front of that to like I said during the week and we all might remember like there was a time I think a senior politician coming to the region with such a life issue would try and come up with some good news and sort of use as an opportunity to sort you know spin the message a little bit but that doesn't doesn't seem to be the way we operate anymore John the motto of this new government in 2020 was uh putting people first is this a new way of putting people first I don't think so okay uh we might return to that as texts come in you've just heard the voice there John McAteer editor of the Chair Connell newspaper of course Katie Tyrrell McCafferty community campaigner and also the voice of Michael Harrison cyber threat consultant and retired guarder inspector don't forget if you want to watch this item you can and the rest of the show in every show we broadcast 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calls from those on the front line the INMO emergency department task support task force and others they want some measures reintroduced ranging from work at home to be put back into place but the mandatory wearing of masks in congregated settings and more of an emphasis on social distancing and vaccination and what have you the government have met again yesterday they say look the only thing that would stop the this flow is level five lockdown they say we've reached the peak or are reaching the peak and that introducing masks effectively in and of itself would not have any impact michael harrisons cyber threat consultant and former guard inspector obviously look we're not epidemiologists but we all have a view um obviously the government choosing to listen to tony houlin whilst there are on the other side uh you know many who are working at the front line calling for such measures but what do you think at this stage wearing a mask it is a personal it is a personal decision at this stage you know it is for me anyway when i go into shops and that at the moment or in closed spaces i just i feel safer wearing a mask but no mask on me but from looking at the at the articles and newspapers and online the last week or so about this new Omnicron variant is supposed to be very very contagious and the only mask i was reading that is has would of any effect preventing it would be the k95 or n95 standard and you know they are quite expensive but so it introduced kind of mandatory mask wearing at this stage for you know to to protect people against a variant is you know that's the ordinary mask it doesn't control particularly the ordinary cloth mask you know won't keep the the virus at bay it's it's you know why do it but from just feeling safe myself you know going in around shops going in our closed spaces i just it is kind of at this stage it's you know it's i just like to have it on i like to wear it so so so despite what what likes the item or an author is saying you think that it should remain a personal choice well i haven't seen i haven't seen or i haven't read any any scientific evidence to say that if we start wearing face masks again that the that the variant that the spread of this variant will drop dramatically but we've been told in fairness we've been told for two years that the greatest one of the greatest defenses against the spread of covid was wearing a mask and and we saw the controversy that that created but i mean we've been that's been drilled into us for two years and now it's not the case yeah but that isn't the case with this new variant of omnicar it is supposed to be highly contagious and the the only mask that that would will prevent it spreading is the k95 n95 standards yeah okay you know the you know that's my own personal opinion at this stage uh you know from the research that i can see outside and even the articles you know from the imo they haven't quoted any scientific studies saying listen but it is it is certainly something i feel safe for doing in and on shops i don't i haven't had covid yet i don't want to get it and i'm just trying to keep myself safe well i'm delighted for you but you wouldn't know there are memes going around the internet that says the only people that haven't got covid so far don't have any friends michael i've read that too Greg i've read that but it's just a good one right okay um um and we know you do by the way of course uh katie terrell macaferty uh what what do you think well do i think well i'm three weeks post covid um i wouldn't wish it on anyone maybe apart from vladimir putin um and i'm fully jabbed i'm still suffering with really bad post covid exhaustion as well i would like to see mastery back reintroduced i have to say i understand what michael's saying about the n95 mask but as we we all know and i don't think that that i think the message was tried to be drummed into us actually you wearing a mask doesn't protect you what it does is it stops you from spreading and i think that that's where the issue is um the number of people i know that said god i never had a cold in two years and and and i get in them as well do you know what i mean um i read uh i was told the other day by someone who's got a child in school that out of their whole day of their timetable they had one teacher um and what i don't want to do is i don't want to go back into a full lockdown again and i just think i simply wearing a mask would help um and the other thing about i think the working from one point if your business wasn't affected and you are able to do your job from home i don't see any reason why they should be forced returns to the office because people want to get back into the office and mix with people and mingle with people and and get back to their normal lives uh katie i think really that's yes but that should be a personal choice right okay yeah um i do understand the messaging again i'm sorry to talk about messaging again because i sound like a scratch record but i suppose nothing new there i was listening to a bit of morning island on the way up and a doctor was on the radio and what they were talking along these lines and she said and very eminent i'm sure she said that listen if you get a cold if you have a sore throat and even if you're negative on a antigen test that you should stay at home and i'm thinking you know the the messaging is mixed up enough well how in any real world scenario could many many people ring up their employer and say you know i've got a i've got a sore throat here i heard in the radio that even though my antigen is negative i should stay at home the messaging again has just gone completely to pot yeah i so in our own case um greg it was actually my son that got ill first and and he had now jimmy's um on the autistic spectrum with a learning disability so sometimes i have to interpret what he's saying to me do you know i mean and he said i've got a red throat and he was coughing so i said right let's give him an antigen test we actually did free before he tested positive so i actually think that there is a bit of more of a sort of undetected ibernation period with this omnichrome yeah so i can sort of see that and i don't know if you saw the reports um i read i think i read one in the guardian actually that in London they're saying don't just put in you know if you've got a cough and you're doing antigen testing it's negative don't just put that down to covid because they're seeing a massive rise in tb right okay well that's another one into the mix of course right john mickey teary michael harrison uh in in favor of uh the you know personal choice uh and people couldn't you know make that personal choice uh katie there would like to see masks back uh in on a mandatory basis and you know people being allowed to work from home if the business would allow uh what side do you fall in or is it somewhere in between john well i feel that the restrictions were removed much too early uh i think ironically maybe today been the first of april i think all covid restrictions are now removed so i stand corrected on that but i think now the emergency the emergency legislation elapsed at midnight last night yeah that's right uh i favor wearing covid masks at this point there's too many people we know everybody in our neighborhood who has it we know everybody at work that has it and there's no point in beating around the bush that this has gone away it has done anything but go away and i think the government is looking at this very anxious just from now right up on police to and hoping that that needs to break for two weeks we'll see a break in the in the infection numbers the infection numbers as they now stand are far too high those in hospital are far too high and it's impacting very severely on the best capacity of our hospitals as if things weren't bad enough uh there's no reason that we shouldn't be wearing our masks a there is some sort of a difference emerging there between the political system and this is nothing new between between them and the departments of emergency medicine and as those people at the front line of emergency medicine are seeing that the fallout from this i think the government is reluctant to recognize that the issue is as serious as it is in my mind it is very serious and it's much been made much more serious because people are out in public all the time is there entitled to be but caution has been thrown to the forewinners and until until even mandatory wearing of masks might not be the right term but encouragement to use extreme caution and ensure that if you do go into a public place it's not a big task to wear your mask we're used to it now i know it's a long two years but it's not gone and won't be gone until there's a further break that we can see right we're safe now for the summer michael has your view changed at all i mean i think what is clear a lot of it's based on how we feel individually and our own experience is sort of what kind of forms you know our opinions i don't think i'm speaking on behalf of anyone there but that's the feeling i'm getting i mean has your views changed at all i mean i'm not gonna lie to you i'm probably with you michael more so but listening to john and and katie there do you stand by your view well if you're going to reintroduce mask wearing it i i don't think that will be enough you know for the public i think you're probably have to reintroduce again some form of COVID restrictions and as you said the legislation has has passed and has gone and as we've seen the the legislation itself was was nonsensical to say the least you know what you know when you see what happened down the gallery with the gulfgate trials and that it was it was legislation that was put under statute books so it's completely not really unenforceable and you know for the same if you know for the same same time with the guards the wearing masks i feel and i i do wear one you know when i'm out in public i feel safer i don't know i've never known to be honest how effective or how unaffected they are but as katie says there certainly it certainly does maybe there's probably evidence there just to show that it does prevent the spread of the virus but there stops you getting it or not is another thing but no my view my view would still be the same i do think it's a personal decision at this stage and it's just the i have no idea what the government are trying to do here are they trying to hope for this kind of herd immunity at this stage you know try and get as many people as affected you know and then come next winter but the only thing is is without people are catching it two or three times you know really even the messaging really is is that it reduces the vaccination will reduce symptoms you know rather than it's reducing its spread or what have you it's it's interesting i don't know where we're going with it either because katie i think finally on this to you if the government comados now heading in towards you know post halloween heading in towards winter and start saying you know one of the greatest defences to keep things open is to wear masks that that's whole i think that whole messaging has been lost now and people will go what but you said in March masks made no difference so i think they're sort of laying the groundwork for a difficult very difficult winter for themselves if they then try and say masks are the way to go again heading into winter if you get my point i know i absolutely get your point it's going to be it's you know the further away go the harder it is to reintroduce do you know what i mean and and we are seeing um we are seeing restrictions coming back in in in so in europe we're lifting but if you look towards asia i mean is one sitting or splitting two where if yeah but they've been in fairness they've shot they're shotting shanghai down completely because of 20 000 cases in the whole of march you know we had 20 000 cases in one day i mean that's that's that's you don't want that do you no no no i don't know but i um i can see i know i do think that it was like it did feel like oh boris has got rid of it so we better do it do you know i mean if we're following that idiot please you know right you know john you were going to come in on john finally very finally before the break you're going to come in on that please i was good to see here that the political system and the medical system have always been a variance to some degree or other right throughout the two years and this is now more evident than ever because neph has been a disbanded there's a new there's a new uh emergency team coming in there we don't know when that's going to happen we're in we're in a vacuum at the moment the country's trying to cope with a number of crises at the moment the cost of living inflation and all of these things refugees coming in trying to find houses for them uh how many crises can the government manage at one time through the field that this is probably the lesser one that we can actually ignore at this point i don't believe that is the case well maybe it is because of course a lot of the the the covid recovery fund the covid contingency is having to be diverted to um to house ukrainian so maybe maybe you're onto something there but you see like the reality is here you know it's just government by by by uh the latest crisis you know that's three that's being reactive rather than being proactive and looking ahead to next winter as somebody said there that there are we going to have more jobs are we going to have booster doses most of the booster doses i mean i got a booster dose as far back as last september time that probably has long since gone and no talk anymore of you know tweaking the vaccine for new variants because the variants change so quickly uh we just don't hear hear about that as much as so thank you very much for that so far john john micah tear katie michael harrison the 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term and direct debit required speeds may vary subject to availability fastest 5g network based on analysis by ukla of speed test intelligence data q3 to q4 2021 c3.ie a call excessive the radisson cancelled the t-shox meeting is that not an insult to the leader of the country another if the t-shirt can't get staying in any hotel in ireland without a public micah protest then he no longer will have any hotel in ireland to have a personal holiday break-in hi greg i think it's a shame me whole martin is not getting the opportunity to come to letter candy i'm sure there went a lot of organizing by the letter candy chambering indeed the hotel into this the fact that me whole martin is meeting the micro group later in the week it's actually saturday was enough and let the letter candy meeting go ahead whether we like it or not there is more issues to deal with than micah another there is a symptom of the road to micah redress so this is a symptom of the road to micah redress being full of broken promises by charlie me hall leo joe and co how long do we have to hear them miss that lead and raise hopes another was it the radisson or was it me whole martin that cancelled the event if it was the radisson the letter candy should rethink business it's business strategy well it was listen the hotel can make its decisions for its own reasons okay it's got a lot of people to to look after or for whatever the reasons might have been it was the hotel that cancelled there was no alternative venue there was a conversation between the chamber and the department of the t-shirt according to their own press release a decision was made by the chamber to cancel the event this despite the fact that me hall martin had agreed to meet with members of the micah action group in in a show on saturday a protest goes ahead in dairy this evening by the way nonetheless so that's the lay of the land right okay let's move on to next topic michael you're watching on as we all are to what's happening over in ukraine our reaction to it and the fallout from that obviously our principal concern is what's happening to the the people of ukraine but also obviously so many of them happen to flee their country they're coming here we're talking now about putting up sort of temporary shelters for them by way of tents in quark and dublin of course you know lots and lots of ukranians coming here but then of course there is the impact to on life in terms of the talk of there being rationing of fuel dependent on you know this standoff between europe and vladimir putin as it relates to paying for for fuel in in rubles so the germans are planning for rations it looks like we're going to have to plan for rations so what's your overview of the the current state of play michael i think you're muted there michael are you know you're not actually i don't have the fader up go ahead michael my my fault go ahead and there's definitely a political brink spaceship ongoing at the moment you know between russia and between europe and it's uh listening to a podcast this morning it's the like the amount of money that russia takes in every day you know it gets from fuel and gas every day it really and truly it probably wouldn't even keep the war going so from from a financial point of view if they stop all the exports of their gas and oil it it is going to make life for them extremely difficult but on the other hand it is we are and it doesn't like we get very very little oil and gas from russia but at the same time the germans and the french and the spaniards and the italians in particular they're they are going to be looking for it's going to massively push up 40 percent of gas into the EU comes from from russia i mean like because vladimir putin has had years to prepare for this the EU clearly uh didn't say he has to be apparently he has his watch has built up he has his contingency plans in place he you can see already that the rubel decreased massively on the first few days of the war the the plans that they put in place has reversed that the rubel is now higher than it was at the start of the day they've reversed the stock market collapse they have built up this this massive war chest but how long can this last this was meant to be a very very quick word they were meant to be in and out very very quickly get control of the ukraine that hasn't happened and the the plans hasn't gone well but it's how long how much pain can the ordinary people on the western fringes of europe take with the garras this completely and utterly unnecessary war that that was started in the ukraine and i think we are as ordinary people we are going to be suffering the next few months and you know you read about the articles about the about power cost possible power cost fuel rationing and we're just out of two years of a covid lockdown you're just scratching head you know we're just going from one tragedy to another or one you know just one incident to another it is quite distressing and a lot of people are under stress about this politicians really don't have any answers to give them because they haven't got any themselves they're they're i think they're just trying to deal with it as best they can but it'll be interesting the the next couple of days today in particular we'll see exactly where the energy crisis will go exactly how serious the russians are about they talk about that they were going to set up allow them pay for it in euros into a bank account in russia and then it would be converted into rubles that was a solution that was offered last night but i have no idea but it's just quite distressing for it yeah but we are talking about figuring out a way to do business with a country that is uh that has invaded and is trying to take over um another uh really in a way katie i mean it's clear already we're feeling it already aren't we everyone's what depending on unless you're very rich we're all feeling the impact of this and looking towards the summer and maybe even into winter when we start using our energy uh more again what will be the consequences and the government have said they can't insulate us from this that it is going to hit us hard yeah and i think on top of um fuel poverty which is a is a real big issue for a hell of a lot of people um you know feeling the pinch as such and we could have more increased in fuel you know maybe it's time to buy that bit of bulk you know what i mean um to heat your house it's and and and sanctions uh obviously i'm in favor of trying to punish vladimir putin but it will also punish uh ordinary russians a lot of whom are anti-war as well we know that we've seen the protests on the street um you know obviously uh i have major concerns for the people of ukraine um but i also do have some concerns for those ordinary russians that are anti-war where are those people we know that about 1400 were arrested um you know but on a positive on a positive story from all of this yesterday i spent yesterday afternoon we laid on an afternoon tea up in erigal college for the 19 ukrainian students that are starting on monday it was a lovely day um how are they uh is it clear i mean obviously you speak to some people that have come here they spent some time in poland others came straight from you know besieged areas of ukraine like what was your sense you got from the ones you were engaging with right as to how this has affected them or is affecting them we're really lucky that we have two parents that are russian speakers in in erigal and then we have two uh we have two members of staff up in erigal that second language is russian so um the kids english is really good um and i spoke to one woman and she said would you like to hear my story and i said absolutely she said please excuse my english you know every time you go abroad and you meet someone foreign and they go my english not great their english is better than mine do you know what i mean and uh they say they hate you for a start um she was saying 16 hours on a train like a sardine to get to poland 10 days in poland then moved to germany to settle she said but my second language is english yeah she said i spent a year in england wanted to go to england found 10 families to sponsor her in england but because one of the kids didn't have his passport she said i only had time and i grabbed the id card miss lovely pretty patelle said no so and then they said have you thought about island is english speaking and she said right and she said and then i just got on this bus and ended up in letter and did they say what they hope for the future i mean obviously they want the water air and but they want to i mean the ukrainians have engaged with they want to get back to rebuild their home just as soon as possible they don't want they appreciate the hospitality but they don't want to be here they want to be in their country rebuilding it yeah she said i want to go home she said but i the she said the generosity that she has been shown by island has blown her away yep absolutely blown her away i was at the john i was at the petrol pumps yesterday and i i noted and i've seen it before but i was just thinking you know the the minimum delivery per fuel is you know for your car or something is is five litres at the the pump i was at five litres so for for like if you went to sort of just try and keep your car running the least you could spend at the moment in some places it's two or five in some places my maths isn't fantastic but you heading towards 11 euro the minimum you could spend you know it's not that long ago and i mean this literally it's not that long ago whereby you know you wouldn't have personally me 11 euro on a thursday before you got paid on a friday i mean that is that's how we get forced into these decisions as it relates to fuel versus food isn't it i mean the minimum you can put in your car right now in some places is 11 euro and sometimes you just simply don't have that money you see it's only then that you begin to realise the huge increase that there has in the prices of fuel at the pumps in the last couple of months but we're talking there about sanctions i think one of the biggest fault lines and difficulties for the EU is that member states are not obliged to reveal how much they're cutting back on on russian energy that's especially gas and fuel uh i heard meridian has been challenged very heavily on this by steven sakaran hard talk of the bbc or sometime in yet wednesday morning and she talked over them but didn't provide any answers uh they are talking roughly about cutting back uh entirely within seven years that just doesn't look to be on the cars uh might reference the fact there that the russian ruble has has has bounced back again strongly than ever that is because the fuel is continuing to be bought by germany and by i think it's 400 500 million euro a day uh is is is i read somewhere i think it's probably it could be it could actually look between gas and oil it could be a twice a billion a day before the war broke out and that's a colossal amount of money now that we have made very little progress in getting rid of fossil fuels and this has been brought home to us here that we're still so heavily reliant and one of the other points that meridian has made that once you've been challenged about a the power stations been been being run on on gas and that was completely out of culture with the with the with the global warming environment she simply said that the hydrogen was going to be was the gas would be remained until there were if a maybe 10 years 12 years down the road when there would be hydrogen power so obviously there there are six and seven as to how they're going to handle russia i think they're handling it much worse than we realize because it's up to each member state to decide how much we can afford not to take and i mean if that is the situation then that the war is going to continue indefinitely because if russia was to pull their supplies entirely they would literally shut down most of the european economy especially in germany france belgium holland those countries so i don't think we're that all that consciously aware of the implications because we're not buying stuff directly from russia and germany is 55 percent dependent for for energy now they can't cut out 55 percent if they cut five percent it might be the height of it you know i think within a year they might be hoping to cut it by 25 percent but to cut it entirely within seven years that's like that's that's like finding a totally new source of energy well you can imagine putin sitting there going when they heard that announcement going yeah right michael you know i i think it's generally accepted that ukraine can't win this war on the ground with russia it simply can't because of the the resources and the power that russia has so as we try and find out how this might come to an end it's going to be a negotiated end what concessions do you think would be i mean do you believe that ukraine is going to have to make concessions in the wider context of what's been going on for the last you know 20 years not necessarily talking from you know day one of the war a negotiated settlement with concessions on both sides it's the only way to end this really isn't it that's the problem for the ukrainians but how do you negotiate with somebody that already has has told lies is already is a proven liar and like how many times are they asked prior to the invasion in february where they're going to invade like the the americans the ukrainians themselves they all said that the russia is going to invade us but time after time after time the russia is denied it i'm not contradicting you but it the united states was saying that russia is going to invade invade ukraine the ukraine government at that time actually was saying you're playing it up too much you know this is damaging our economy we're getting no indication that this is imminent now i don't know what was going on in there i'm not contradicting you michael but it's just i just i remember at that time it was quite an interesting sort of week or two where the ukrainians seem to be playing down the threat of an invasion but how do how do you how do you as a ukraine how do you negotiate we you know with somebody that you know that they already have a peace deal regarding the donbas that you know that was agreed in 2014 and it the you know the justification for this war was nonsensical there like there's no country has has the right to invade another country using the rationale the russia used for invading the ukraine it is absolutely completely illegal and how do you negotiate with somebody that is totally not really untrustworthy it's it's uh i honestly think that if this wants to end it will be on on hooten's terms he has to be given an off ramp there doesn't seem to be any visible off ramp for him for him to use at the moment he and i don't think he has any intention of ending this war shortly and he will wait and see exactly how much the ukraines give and if if he thinks that they're going to give something he will look for more and he will look for more and it's it's it's a very very difficult situation i i don't envy anybody that is from that country that lives in this country that's going through the what they're being what they're being put through at the moment these are ordinary people they're just the same as us and their houses their their lives have been destroyed it's very very sad yeah and katie you know and michael mentioned earlier obviously you know the the main people who are the victims of this are those carrying on the ground as the shells fall around them but you know it has been one it does feel like one thing after another it's hard isn't it to sort of stay in a positive place in your head we try our best of course but it's tough isn't it because we're just out of covid and then we're hearing well you're not out of covid and then we we hear what's happening in ukraine and then we're being told that we're facing a very tough god knows how long like it's it whereas you don't emotionally doesn't let us say that's not for a second taken away from the actual nightmare that it is for the people of ukraine and russia actually and even in irelands we went from covid into a week of quite damaging storms you know so we had so we had covid a week of really damaging storms then we then we've gone into a war we've been telling you know we've been told to we've got to tighten our belts and watch our electricity usage because because of an increase in right in prices i myself have noticed the increase in food prices i think you know i could do a decent shot for about 100 euro and now it's 110, 115, 120 edging up yeah i got you all right john last word to you if you want i think until the sanctions are made to bite much much stronger and i think what we're still buying the oil and gas you see i mean that's the biggest sanction isn't it but they've got the upper hand on that they have got the upper hand and Putin sees very clearly first of all he sees the weakness of NATO which has been run down as a military entity for for the past 25 years but the sanctions are not biting strong enough and sanctioning oligarchs and people like that Putin doesn't give two flying fiddles about those people he would assume ignore them is ignoring the please to sit down and negotiate a deal because like at the end of the day it's only through negotiation and probably a very strong third party perhaps the Chinese president coming in there and saying look enough is enough in the meantime we're going to have to bear with it because life is difficult enough for people as you say the trauma of trying to watch that at night people you're best not to watch too much of it because you're adding layer and layer of anxiety on to anxiety that you've been suffering for the past two years and that's leading to depression and we need to get away from that yeah you do have to and even as someone who works and use myself and I've said it here get your information it's good to be right across the information but you have to give yourself a break from it as well sometimes time John there's no way to pleasure thank you so much for joining us thanks Greg all right take care of yourself thank you very much indeed Katie thank you so much indeed as well good to see you yeah thank you very much as you can see I've still kept the office going yeah I say that so it wouldn't be the same if you were indoors but it's hard to get peace isn't it it's hard to get peace to have a conversation for now I know myself thank you so very much indeed thank you Katie and last certainly not least I've actually chalked Michael Harrison out before I got to thank him thank you very much indeed to Michael Harrison okay back with more after these messages your views by the way I want to know what you think of the issues we've been 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disconnect on the part of the government here you have a vessel that wished to do business with Ireland and they had to leave port to go to any other European port because there's greater rights and they'll be afforded the courtesies of land and fish in any other port in Europe apart from any port in Ireland High energy prices may be the straw that breaks the camel's back for fishermen that's according to Donegal Deputy Padraig McLaughlin who told the doll that the fishing industry was in the midst of a crisis long before energy price hikes he pressed Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConnaloog to follow the lead of France and Spain and intervene Deputy McLaughlin says the sector is being severely impacted Apart from a tie-up scheme which is linked to the existing Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund what are you doing for the fishing industry they literally cannot go to sea this impacts of course on food supply this impacts on an industry that has been really really hard hit from Brexit as you know 60 boats forever will decommission you're down to you know 30% of what the fleet used to be above 18 meters it's already an industry in crisis this is going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back what are you going to do in response Minister McConnaloog says he is committed to working with the sector to navigate these uncertain times we'll continue to lease very closely with them because it's a really important massively important sector particularly for our own county and it's really important that we work with them through this period of time and I'll continue to do that the tourism minister says the number of visitors to Ireland this year could be 80% of pre-pandemic levels Minister Catherine Martin says Ireland is looking at having a more positive tourism season pre-pandemic we had 10 million international visitors and the 10 million visitors were worth 9.3 billion to our economy so if we get to that in the summer all the indications were that 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Maccoteer Clough Finn Castle Finn and formerly of Straban Fiona leaving Quigley's Funeral Home this evening at half past five to the Sacred Heart Church Derry Road, Straban Requiem Mass to more morning at 10 o'clock in term and afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery Donations and Lee of Flowers Pleased to ICU Letter Kenney University Hospital care of Quigley Funeral Directors The Requiem Mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam The death has occurred of Brydie Farrell Gordon and Grace Castle Finn Brydie's remains are reposing at Lynch's Funeral Home Removal from there this afternoon at two o'clock to her late home at Gordon and Grace Castle Finn Fiona from her late home to more morning at 20 past 10 for Requiem Mass at 11 o'clock in St Columbus Church Donnie Loop in term and afterwards in the Adjoining Church Jard The death has occurred of Bridgette Rogers Kranna Geig Crawley Her remains are opposing at McLean's Funeral Home Viewing today from 11 o'clock with removal to her late residence at half past seven High Strictly Private to Family Only Fiona massed to more morning at 11 o'clock in Mina Week Chapel with interment afterwards in Mahary Cemetery The death has taken place of Billy Graham Tolly Remelton His remains are reposing at his home Funeral service tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock in Letcher Presbyterian Church burial afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery The death has occurred of Hugh Merlehan 49 Ardnerie Letcher Kenney His remains are reposing at the Eternal Light Chapel Rest Mountaintop Letcher Kenney Fiona massed at the Church of the Irish Martyrs Letcher Kenney this afternoon at one o'clock burial afterwards in Commonwealth Cemetery High Strictly Private Place The Fiona mass can be viewed on the Irish Martyrs Facebook page And the death has taken place of Patrick Duffy Carricketaskan Derry Bag His remains will repose at Rorty's Funeral Home Ghidor from five until half past six this evening Remeval at half past six to St Mary's Church Derry Bag for seven o'clock to repose overnight Fiona massed in St Mary's Church Derry Bag tomorrow at twelve noon with burial afterwards in Mahara Gallon Cemetery The Fiona mass can be viewed live on Cure and Rorty Funeral Director Facebook page and on the parish webcam For more details including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals please go to hynandradio.com with all the stories that matter across the Northwest it's Greg Hughes on the Ninety Noon Show on Highland Radio And a big thank you again to John McIntyre, Katie Tyrrell McCafferty and last but not least Michael Harrison A call that says it's me home Martin showing up in Dunlowe this weekend for their Ogre meeting I don't know I haven't seen his I haven't seen his agenda Greg I work in a fuel shop and the next delivery will cost two euro seven cent and that'll be in the next day or two Yeah indeed okay that's a concern some already up over two euro per litre dependent on where you are Another call that says a tee shot can meet in Derry but not let cannot not letter Kenny what can one say Another our tee shot goes into hiding when in Donegal people are angry with the way they empower run our little country I believe that finafore senior advisors decided against the meeting but they are trying to save face and blame the hotel blame the hotel what they do rather than the alternative i.e. the truth look I mean it's there's a lot of people there's a lot of people within finafore would be very sympathetic of course the majority all of them I would say to what's going on with the Micah people if this had come from the tee shots office I think it would be a very difficult to keep it a secret the bottom line is is that the hotel made a decision that presumably in the interests of the other guests or whatever it might have been to say that they can't host this launch and then the chamber had no alternative but to cancel it in consultation with the tee shots department because they had no alternative venue what in turn does it say if our leader is afraid of his own people another re meal martins no show this really brings home to us what this finafore fina gale government thinks of the Micah crisis this is an issue that should have been sorted if they wanted to shame on them and more here what does your panel think of aim and Ryan wanting people to share heating in their homes is it only me or is this poor man going having serious problems forgive me but some of the things that man comes out with at this serious time it is worrying to say the least okay i didn't hear those comments another caller said I think we are rolling head first into a major recession unfortunately I think COVID will be secondary very quickly the only problem with that is is at the moment and I'm not saying you're wrong is the economy is still forecasted to grow another caller says you cannot compare us to China are people so used to the government trying to control during lockdowns that they want to be told what to do again can they not think for themselves and put a mask on themselves if they want and leave everyone else alone yes that's fine and that's what's happening at the moment and that is okay but that's okay until you need to go into hospital and you can't get in because it's in chaos because of the amount of people with COVID that they're treating I mean that's that's the bottom line you know it's not really about you or I catching COVID being fine and going back to work a week later good morning Greg what does it say when the t-shirt of our country can visit part of can't visit part of the state because it's people of no belief in him and he has to cross the border to a UK region to receive a welcome what in turn does it say about the support that people have in the current government another so ignorant weddings and first communions in the hotel tomorrow and mag expect to be allowed terrorize these people Mike have got their 100% redress plenty of people down the country of houses flooded and no compensation from government well we have that up here too by the way also people fleeing from Ukraine of nothing if this is the ignorance they they're met with it's shameful ashamed to be from Donegal today that comes in from and in letter Kenny look I understand and where you're coming from there was no intention to terrorize me home Martin people are at their wit's end and they wanted to express that by protesting and we still can protest in this country I don't know if it's the geography of the place I don't know maybe the hotel had those guests that would be very sensitive to noise I don't know what the reason is but they made that decision and I do have to say as well of course in fairness a lot of people out there are fina full voters and and not not just for that reason but just to be fair to everyone me home Martin had agreed prior had agreed to meet with the Mike action group in an issue on Saturday and that is going ahead now we can argue people will have different views as to whether or not calling the protest made that meeting happen Charlie McConaughey and his office would tell you that he'd said in mid-March he would secure the meeting but could only get confirmation closer to the time I don't know lots of people out there with different views but the bottom line is is that that meeting is going ahead with the Mike action group on Saturday obviously the letter Kenny lunch Chamber lunch is not going ahead now there was perhaps a way that everything could have happened maybe the protest could have been called off saying look we've got our meeting now it took this protest it took you the people to say that you were going to go out to protest to get this meeting but what there's no point having it now but I don't know we could never have predicted or they could never have predicted then that the hotel would have cancelled the lunch so I don't know it's very difficult everyone will have their own views and opinions and there's a lot of them on it but we are where we are Greg I'm sure any hotel in a shown will host the t-shock another hi Greg Fina for Finnegale and the Green Party I hope to do I hope to go to wiped out next time around they couldn't run a bath so we right I've read that again there's no point going through that okay 08 660 25000 your views I mean of course you have to walk on eggshells because this is a very very serious matter and people have this everyone's view is correct in this one do you ever get one of those things that I think everyone can make a strong can make a strong argument for their point of view is how things unfold as it relates to the t-shocks visit to the region so I don't know if there's a right or a wrong there's just various shades of right and wrong and what's in between all right stay with us back after the bingo numbers it's time for NCBI bingo on Highland radio it's Friday the 1st of April you're playing on the yellow sheet the reference number is s5 it's game number 13 the 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their passports in Balaba Faye actually thank you for winding me yes indeed they did they were a family I believe actually living in the canty or staying it was they weren't holidaying as such and they were returned to them I think it was the work of the Guardian the end that secured their returns that's good news isn't it hi Greg just got a census form last night the ladies delivered asked me how many males females will be here on Sunday night also asked me for my phone number to put it into her phone is this normal I've heard it from a few people another getting your census night and still haven't received my census form I'm living in Remelton anyone with any insight into that is there a number you can call to find out what the situation is in that regard I wonder another caller says they don't care about Donegal they haven't a clue how we live us ordinary people another hi Greg can you get COVID twice straight away it's in the community can you get it I haven't heard that of people get the same strain twice to be honest with you twice in a row a caller says it's as if we learned nothing from the past two years says another nobody is reporting the antitin tests when they are positive that's kind of true I'm gonna knock on the light um maybe I didn't because I didn't realise what what the function or what the purpose of it was the Poulinbon crana is necessary as it is used for the college in Greencastle for sea survival and it's the only one we have on this side of the border the rest are all for leisure okay another hi I'm an employer for the last 34 years just heard about the 10 sick days that's being introduced for employees everything is getting easier for the employees I work about 60 hours a week to keep everything going and it is getting more difficult all the time the employers are forgotten I would not recommend anyone to become an employer right okay please could you mention our walk this Saturday the 2nd of April at 10 a.m leave in the Schliefschnacht centre heading for Schliefschnacht in aid of motor neurone disease and pietta it would be very very much appreciated also a shorter walk leaving 11 a.m for Barnon or the king a smaller hill nearby tea and refreshments available afterwards at the Schliefschnacht centre okay more than happy to do that for you okay we are joined on the programme now by Sheamus Gunn Sheamus good morning to you thanks for joining us morning Greg how are we keeping I'm doing good it's good to have you on the programme okay right yeah indeed listen we were talking earlier on it was mentioned in passing the lapsing of this emergency legislation what what do you think of it I mean would have been better to be kept on the statute books just in case is it easily reintroduced what does it mean from a legal perspective it means it could have profound implications really and that's one of the reasons why I think it is certainly worth referencing it in the context of it has been extended before in a year past the legislation which was brought in at this time of the year in 2020 and it was specifically brought in for the preservation and protection of public health and it was supposed to be in the interest of public health that it would be there to give the minister the powers that were necessary to bring in whatever restrictions needed to curb the COVID-19 spread that makes a lot of sense and people bought into it that was extended a year ago in the lights and we all know all about all the lockdowns we came through and that has continued it was then to expire on the last night the 31st of March and I mean only if so seriously it wonder is it an April school that they couldn't have seen fit to extend it further I'm not saying to use it but that at least it's there that it can be accessed and if there are measures needed that they can then be brought in without having to go back and reintroduce legislation I would have thought and given that I think it was during the week Mike Ryan of the WHO was saying that this COVID-19 remains an acute global emergency and that's what that were his words and that it and that restriction should only be lifted in keeping with the capacity of health systems to deal with the situations in the countries that go along and he was advising a recommended a cautious approach now to me beggar's belief as to why this legislation which is there on the statute book should be allowed to lapse last night what it means in practical terms is this as from last night there are no restrictions on travel to and from Ireland and there can't be any introduced now in practical terms if you're going elsewhere other countries will have them but from the point of view of accessing Ireland leave in Ireland your COVID cert your movement within Ireland that no longer applies with regard to restricting access or movements or regarding any entertainment or any curves that are might be needed the mask wearing as we know was gone from last month and I'm not saying that it's good to move on of course it is but but and this is very well this might just but you could consider this for a second at the start of this week in Shanghai a city of massive million 25 plus million people it's 50% of it is locked down and their cases are three and a half thousand three and a half thousand yeah 20,000 20,000 for the for the for the entirety of March but that being said is there have they lost the public now in in in terms of I mean I if they try and reintroduce stuff in in winter I think they will struggle to be honest with you because the message is coming across that really we don't need any restrictions so they're not going to be able to come back to us in October or September or November and say oh we do need restrictions because everyone will say well she says March there's no point unless it's a full lockdown there's simply no point and I don't think even if they say yes but this is an even more contagious damaging variant I'm not sure they'll get the public buy-in because of the way this has been handled and I'm not saying I'm in favor of that by the way but just discussing it because we're probably going to have to well you know it's followed to say but that the public have bought in so well to date my point is this that it was as easy to keep that as to let it go and to have it there as a safety net or a safeguard in case it is needed it just does not it doesn't seem to me to be sensible given the level of numbers and it's wonderful that they're not being converted to very very serious cases in hospitals and that but the HSE as we all know is creaking beyond its knees and someone said the elastic band is broken and you know with 6000 plus out as a result of the seven-day layoff which may now change that is a situation that is critical and you have to have if you're in government the powers to introduce measures that would be relevant and appropriate and measured to meet the circumstances that the health service finds itself in what you've done here is to me it seems like an own goal you've removed the piece of legislation that would give you that power if you needed it I'm not advocating that it has to be used but I don't see why it should be allowed to laugh and I also would be surprised if there had been any opposition with it being just extended for another six even 12 months but this was all introduced at very short notice it on the book yeah if this was all introduced at very short notice you're not stopping them just reintroducing it again at very short notice if need be because the point that you have already made and you've answered that yourself is that you believe then it'll become a public issue and the public may not buy into it so it may not be brought in just on a whim the next time round you'll recall Greg when it was brought in 2000 and whatever 20 March 2020 we were then we were starting this journey at that stage and public opinion will have shifted but if we had it on still there still in the legislation on the books it could still be activated if needs be and I say I'm not advocating that it should be but I can't see why it was allowed to laugh no neither am I okay some questions actually Mike just actually there's another thing I wanted to get your views on personal injuries guidelines challenges to them begin midweek in the high court what is the importance or consequence of that potentially this is very practical importance for an awful lot of people that will have been involved in situations through no fault of their own and they're advancing a personal injury claim and all the landscape has changed completely since March 2021 when new judicial council guidelines were brought in they were adopted by the judiciary back then and the knock on effect to cut to the chase is that that has had impact on the level of awards of personal injuries general damages respect of people who have been injured in accident or places of work or are on public thoroughfare local authority type cases so it initially it was it was thought that awards would go from down by 40 percent now the case that has opened this week in the high court has been brought by Elena down in county Waterford who went through the personal injury assessment board process at her claim lodged before the new regime kicked in her case was an ankle injury would have had a value in general terms general damages of between 18 and 20 24 25 thousand the PI AB award has come in at 3000 now at beggar's belief that is not even 40 percent of what she could have been anticipating with the new judicial council guidelines but PI AB have come in at that and what that is going to result on in real terms of this Greg and it is worked and the insurer should take note of this the reason the personal injury assessment board was brought in as far back as 2003 was to try to bring down to put some certainty on awards and also to curtail legal costs and respect of pursuing these claims that was the purpose of it what's going to happen now if this remains as is is that these awards are so off-kilter that they don't represent the value of claims that they're going to all be challenged PI AB was actually working all right 70 or 80 percent of the cases were being dealt with at that level and weren't even being advanced to court now what's going to happen and on this case and point which has started now in the High Court and be interested to see how it runs because they're going to say it's unconstitutional that it's based on UK and Northern Ireland and Welsh awards so what's going to happen is that this is going to be a challenge and whether these guidelines will stand up to scrutiny or not we're going to find out but in the meantime these awards are going to be brought through the courts so while the injuries board was brought in to reduce the awards and to curtail costs there's going to be far more legal costs now in court in having to pursue these claims which are in my view most of them going to be rejected in through litigation and through the court so it's defeating itself so it'll be very interesting to watch the case just opened midweek and it's a done Garvin case but it opened in the High Court and a lot is riding on it and a lot is riding on it from the insurance companies at point of view as well all right well we look forward to getting your views on that actually down the line some of your questions if a couple cancel a pre-booked wedding at a venue there would be financial penalties for them refunding a deposit wouldn't suffice as compensation for cancellation actually sorry that's actually a comment I'll come back to that all right my friend is going through a separation and the ex-partner has got an auctioneer to value their jointly owned property at an unbelievable low value in favour of the ex-partner I was wondering is the auctioneer breaking the law and who could this issue be reported to as I thought the law was to be fair to all parties I appreciate your help with this issue yeah well I mean they're asking they're asking a very direct question about whether an auctioneer is breaking the law and I can't see how that arises an auctioneer has given an opinion as to the value of a property in respect of which they have been retained on behalf of one of the parties nothing on toward or nothing unusual about that at all the IPAV that's the auctioneers and valuers the institute is the relevant institute with regard to the regulation of auctioneers and if somebody has an issue with that they could certainly probably contact them and make their inquiry but as the question is phrased and as the party makes it I would suggest that the way of dealing with this is and they're all they're making this inquiry on behalf of a third party I see is that if the property is owned jointly which they're saying it is it's also within the right of the other party to retain evaluation on the property and it would be my view on this particular case if I was approaching it I would likely get the opinion of three valuers yeah I just have a sense and then I would then I would take an average of the tree as being a reasonable view on what the valuation is I would not be proceeding and I don't think it would be well advised to be proceeding on the basis of one valuation I'm a little bit surprised about that but I'm suggesting that the auctioneer is on toward I don't see that yeah I get the feeling that maybe maybe one party is buying the other's half out of the property and they believe that the quite common they believe the auctioneer is being quite favourable to the person who's doing the buying gas but as you say you know it would not be unreasonable to get multiple valuations and take an average oh yeah well on the way around that and that's a good sensible approach to avoid going into the family law division or whatever trying to take an action in the circuit court with the costs that follow on from that so it's a sensible approach but if you're going to approach it don't go on the base as well one party has of course they may want to buy out of the best price nothing on nothing unreasonable about that but if you want to defend your corner I would suggest that you go ahead and you obtain the valuations and I'm saying I'm just suggesting the three because then you can take an average you could take one from each of the parties and another independent one that maybe both parties if you wish they could nominate and then take an average from there and move it on on the basis of of that valuation and see where you go with it to all right maybe the extra cost that could be incurred and then work it out by way of a separation or a type of a separation agreement whereby if it is the case one could buy the other out if a will is made and one child is left out and each other member of the family get a share can the child left out contest that will a grandchild has also been left a share but no other grandchildren were included does that grandchild have more entitlements than the child so start with I suppose sons and daughters one's been left out and then one particular grandchild has been included whilst others have been left out yeah well first of all I think we have to remember at all times it's up to the person making the arrangements to be satisfied with whatever arrangements they put in place and that is their privilege to deal with their estate as they see fit and I think that it's extremely important to keep that in mind because a lot of people naturally and it is human nature can be disappointed with respect to one's making arrangements and how and how an estate is devised and which members of the family are favoured maybe some better than others but you have to respect that the person making the arrangements is entitled to do that the point that the caller is I believe working towards or hinting at is that under the succession act of the it's section one maybe one seven or there about you can challenge if a child has not been provided for properly in the arrangements of a person or deceased in the manner which a prudent parent should have provided now I have to say there's a big qualification on that because my interpretation of that is that that would apply in a situation where somebody a prudent parent may not have provided for a disadvantaged child or an underage child but if you're talking about an adult situation where that does not arise well it may not give rise to any type of claim there's nothing to stop somebody advancing a claim really what they're asking here is would they be entitled as a right to make a claim and to win that case that does not and that definitely does not automatically follow that have to be able to show that there were disadvantage in some way that a prudent parent in the circumstances of making provision for that child would have would have done so and should have done so and make that application to the court they reached to the grandchild know they would not have any more rights but again it's up to the pardon that that the test data or test data to make whatever arrangements to see fit for the grandchild if that's their wish okay lastly then if a couple separated both names are on the mortgage but the site is owned by one person can the property be sold yes it can be sold if it's not sold by agreement Greg they would have to then apply and get an order for sale through the circuit court and they're they're followed through the mortgage which is between them both jointly would be paid off and then maybe depending on what equity was put into it as in what contributions were made by each of them there could be accounts of inquiries and respect of that and the proceeds ultimately divided and I can't make a call as to how they would be divided the interesting point because it says registered in one name but if they both equally contributed to it it could be a situation where it could then after all deaths be split 50 50 but again I'll just go back to what we mentioned earlier in these situations if you can reach agreement it does curtail the cost of the litigation and it also irons out the issues at an earlier stage so there's not as much to litigate and that can have a very good effect on the outcome for the parties because it will reduce the legal bill drastically and the case could move forward on the basis of the at terms of consent being ruled before the circuit court and just on that I mean I always keep that in mind it's obviously a difficult conversation to have or maybe really uncomfortable you know when love is in the air but should couples really be sorting that stuff out in the event of something going wrong well yeah we're going over to we're going USA now Greg I think we're getting near there with some type of a pre-nuptial pre-nuptial agreement is the way to be going there and while there may not be legally binding if a couple do then split up a court could reference such an agreement in relation to how it would divide up the assets in that eventuality so it's not a not a bad plan but the love may go out of the air very quick once it's mooted exactly that's it walk that line Seamus Gunn of McLaughlin, Gunn and co-letter Kenny Remelton obviously offices in both towns if people have a question or query and they want to contact you online as well how did they do so Seamus yes if they go to dunningallslister.ie Greg or gun.ie Super stuff as always thank you very much indeed Seamus Gunn all right it is the Ninetal Noonshow back with more shortly The Ninetal Noonshow brought to you by Kelly's Toyota test drive Toyota's incredible self-charging hybrid range at our showroom Port Road Letter Kenny With the brighter days it's only natural to think about freshening up the paintwork in our homes bringing colour and vibrancy to our living spaces but the important thing isn't just the colours we choose it's the paint Fleece Wood use the highest quality ingredients for a richer 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home like everyone else with the intention of doing it once in our lifetime yet and it's with the passing of time and those who aren't directly affected it might be easy to forget what's happening to people we've heard all the stories on this program and each one a devastating situation for each family it can be easy to forget if you're not directly affected not for those living in these homes they're dealing with it every single day Hi Greg the people that have Micah Micah has have any right to fight for their home and shame on the government that he won't face the Donegal people so maybe it's back to Dublin once again and maybe that is the way things are going to go right can you please play a song for Kieran Doherty Fintan and Emma Lafferty Mallon Road, Karen Donner who get married tomorrow looking forward to seeing you both on Saturday Lover Lane and Paul can you please wish the best mother in the world a happy special birthday Eileen Toland from Lyford have a special day not forgetting Granny Josie too from Barry Denise and family in Athlone and can you wish Kevin McBride a happy birthday he's the big five today happy birthday to you all right that is Blondie there and call me right now moving on and it emerged 60 workers were sent home from Kili Beggs yesterday this after a Danish vessel was unable to land its catch there's outrage as you can imagine at the port after the ship was forced to withdraw due to a rule introduced which resulted in over a thousand tons of blue-whiteing unable to be weighed using a pierside way system this is the first time a boat has left Kili Beggs full of fish will they be back probably not why would you Cormac Burke is chair of the Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance based out of Kili Beggs thanks for taking the call with us this morning Cormac good morning Greg right so I mean what happened here is this a communications issue did the boat not know that they couldn't land in this way or what unfolded as much as you've been able to determine well basically island has a much smaller quarter of blue-whiteing in its own waters than some other nations and that's an argument for another that's a whole hour we could do on that one yeah yeah but yeah so the whole town of Kili Beggs not just processors but all the local service companies they once the Irish fleet have tied up and exhausted their own quarter they rely on Danish and Norwegian vessels bringing blue-whiteing to Kili Beggs which keeps the town going maybe for an extra two months or so after the Irish have finished and blue-whiteing was at one time solely for commercial for fish meal but Ireland along with several other countries developed a human consumption product which has a lot of markets particularly in Africa and for this the vessels don't fully fill their tanks with fish they keep them well flooded maybe 50% water because these fish are easily damaged if they're crushed so this is an important fishery and like I say Danish and Norwegian vessels come to Kili Beggs with their tanks only half full and this fish is carefully handled and processed now in the wisdom the SFVA out of the blue yesterday decided that they would force this vessel to what we would call dry dry land its fish in other words put the fish into bulk containers with only 2% water allowed and then it goes supposedly goes for processing now with this fish which is carefully brought in tanks 50% water all the way to Ireland is then squashed into a tanker with 2% water so can I break this down into terms that I might understand I imagine then this as it's and I presume it's servicing a vital food need in Africa but once this water is drained obviously then the weight begins to destroy the product does it the downward pressure without the the assistance of the buoyancy of water yeah so basically turns to mush and is no good to anyone it could still be used for fish meal because that's animal feed and you know the retention of water is not as important but it destroys it in terms of human I know you're not here to argue the SFPA's point of view and they're probably following rules okay but can you understand can you understand why they made this decision no there's absolutely no I can't even describe this as incompetence because it seems to be the damage that it's going to do to the local industry or has done already it's just it's unbelievable I should point out that originally Ireland had a derogation that allowed for the weighing of fish after transport so in other words you could have much as much water as you want and it would go to the factories and it would be monitored and weighed during the processing and then the SFPA several years ago decided to do no longer and there's a chain of events that kind of led to that as well yeah well and again that's another story there is a flow scales weighing machine on the pier which was cost a lot of money and the industry invested in it and a high court ruling said it was fit for purpose and the SFPA still refused it right so the option of this is right so these people these fishermen fishers they've now they're underway they're on the way to Denmark it's a big industry but it's a small industry too Kili Beggs now is going to have a reputation that you can't land these fish in this manner and Kili Beggs no one's going to power into the port knowing that there's a chance they may not be able to land and that means in terms of processing jobs what is the future there I mean what happens there this is the point I mean from the processor's point of view like Ireland has lost 30% of its raw material through the botched Beggs deal so at least the processors were trying to to substitute this raw material with by bringing foreign vessels here with providing for human assumption and now the SFPA by their actions yesterday have pretty much permanently closed that option if you're there with me I would like to make one point on the SFPA this is the latest action and a long litany of anti-industry steps and this is a body that there's three separate government reports and one EU commission report that have found them to be unfit for purpose and still this government seemed to be afraid of their own civil servants who backed the SFPA 100% Ireland accepting the botched EU quota deals every year that it's graceful Brexit outcome the use of the BAR fund which is intended to compensate fishermen for quotas then come like these it's a common way it feels like to me is you know it's bad enough it's a bad enough trying to to battle the forces outside of outside of Ireland as it relates to the fishing industry but to have to battle from within as well it's a two pronged it's a two pronged situation and it's unsustainable can I ask you directly though are you confident that what was attempted yesterday is not against regulation or was a blind eye turned and it was happening like are you could you stand over the fact that landing these fish in this way is not against the rules if if fish is for human consumption if a particularly blue icing it is understood that you cannot I mean it's throughout Europe it's understood that you cannot dry weigh them I mean and the SFPA like I say I would like to think this is purely incompetence you don't transport milk in a pickup some of this stuff is common sense yeah old canards you know what I'm on about the SFPA knew what they were doing I think I think they were cast out by the fact that the Danish skipper said right that's it I'm going home and they didn't expect that they expected like the Irish boats have to do he's standing over his product or she's standing over their product you know okay Cormac this could have ramifications and we're going to follow it up early next week to see what the situation is is because you know we will ever be able to keep track of the amount of boats that now decide not to go into your killi bags but return or go to a different port it's going to be hard to quantify the impact of 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I am flying it, thank you very much You can just make sure the cables in the top of that are okay for me please Thank you I had a very nice break so I'm feeling very good You weren't here last week? No, I wasn't I was visiting some family After we had such a lovely time in London I stayed on to visit some family so it was great The weather was so nice I know Yes Who needs an engineer when we've got Michael, isn't it? Which is ability to plug I mean, myself and Michael had a wee chat Monday, Tuesday as it relates to the Oscars But obviously as a collective we haven't had the opportunity What do you think of the winners, the losers that those that missed out did they get it right for I mean, we know what the Oscars are they're not going to be talking about Batman, Spider-Man and you know, all that kind of stuff This is the closest they ever came to it though I have to say that to me that's not even talking about the other thing that happened because ugh, more of it What do I want to ask you one question as it relates to you? To me, the side part about that is that we've really missed out on a lot of the amazing stuff that happened for one of the first times in the Oscars Jessica Chastain got a best actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye which again is not really a movie that you would normally see show up in the Oscars but she's actually excellent in it I watched it last week If anybody's ever Tammy Faye Baker she was married to Jim Baker they were charismatic evangelists they increased the TV of you know, religious TV in it and Tammy Faye is a very kind of divisive sort of Well, yeah, kind of divisive but also, you know, she's a little bit damaged there's a lot of different things going on but you wouldn't even recognize Jessica Chastain in it like she so just really throws herself into it I thought she was excellent in it and I was like, oh god she really could get an Oscar but no, she won't get it because the movie wasn't very Oscar movie and then like Michael and I were talking earlier on That's fun, but I know I carry on Yeah, I know, we're breaking rules I don't want interesting conversations in the kitchen I want them on air I'm bringing on air now but just as I was saying like with Coda winning, you know, Best Picture it's such a good movie Oh no, Best Director didn't get Best Picture Coda did, yeah it got Best Screenplay and the director of Power of the Dog Oh god, that's what it is, yeah that's such a good split it was, I mean Power of the Dog was beautifully done and I genuinely thought it was going to end up winning an Oscar because who knew exactly what was going on with it you know, the kind of way it was sort of a bit ethereal whereas Coda is one of the first movies that I could genuinely tell like Michael and I have very different taste in movies and we both loved it and I went back to the list on Coda is Child of Death Adults yeah, yeah and I went back to the list of the last 10 whatever winners and I, you know, other than Green Book I've all kind of, I've seen them and I like them but this is the one where I can honestly say I loved it and they got it right Oh my god and it's just such a good film it's so warm it's, you could sit with your family you could, anybody would watch this I mean obviously one would never condone violence or some might but I won't but you know, that's really the damage that Will Smith did here other than to Chris Rock's face in that, and if you're going to do that why slap it anyway he's got a history of slapping it's taken away from one of the achievements because that's the, that is the time where films get to shine and particularly if this, this year it was sort of more mainstreamy type stuff I think that's really what you're getting at yeah well this, it was actually was stuff it'll be remembered as the Oscars that he did that yes rather than some like you know, I mean Troy Cutzer got the best supporting actor he's the father in Coda he's a deaf actor his speech alone was, oh my god even the trans, even the person translating his signing was nearly in tears listening to it it was just amazing like there was so many really beautiful things in it that just got completely overshadowed and that will never get the limelight that they should get no, exactly you know, all along the way now, and I will never watch King Richard now yeah oh yeah, well that's very good I love King Richard you feel for the other people Alginu Ellis who gives a great performance and they all give great performances and it's an interesting story it's a compelling story and obviously The Sisters it's their life it's their movie of their life they produced it it takes away from all that so listen, we've talked before about Netflix specials about comedy and all that kind of stuff and we won't spend too, too long on this right but if, if one thing came from that whole situation me personally and I don't think I'm particularly woke the idea that you can make jokes purely based on someone's personal appearance this roasting of people I would not be sad to see that gone is that the end of that kind of presentation at these ceremonies that you just cannot make a joke and you can talk about it being a GI joke a GI Jane joke it's not, it made someone who is dealing with something we don't know how it's affecting them it made someone feel like the size of an ant on a really, really huge platform I don't know if it's the end but it certainly it'll make comedians think twice if they're delivering that kind of material I think it will I think that's what we're seeing I think that's been coming on for a couple of years and I think, you know whether that's good, bad in the bigger scheme of things I don't know but certainly I think it's happening and comedians will think twice before they I think they'll go the other way okay, more double down I think so I think they'll double it because I think that no at very little, sorry you're getting very little negative feedback to Chris Rock you know, people are adding on his shows are sold out people are adding on when they're talking about it they are going, of course you have this too there is an issue of a medical condition here but I think that people didn't feel that it was if they didn't feel that it was you know, you can say something about somebody's medical condition or somebody's physical appearance which can be blatantly harsh I think people felt didn't feel that this was that harsh harsh in crossing the line I genuinely thought it was just a dig about her career exactly, but there's a few different things going on here because he has dug about her career before we're very divided now, right? there are those that think we're being too conservative and you know, too politically correct yes that's a very strong voice then there are those that resist that that will champion Chris Rock purely because he appeals more to they think all gloves should be off should be fit to say everything, right? yes then we have those who advocate for people with say a disability or something I'm not saying that I appreciate is and would be hurt by comments by that and then another group of people and it's not as black and white as this who think that you know it wouldn't bother me you know you shouldn't be so easily offended but that doesn't really I think that just that polarizes us more because we have more people using it as an argument to progress their views opinions but it doesn't really so Chris Rock's selling out it doesn't mean everyone's selling out but he might think well someone might say well I'm going to go and see Chris Rock because he says what he thinks and this world's gone crazy and you can't say anything so I'm going to buy a ticket Joe Dapto but I do know Joe Dapto had a great take on this that I didn't think of until after we spoke on Monday Joe Dapto has a piece up I think it was Entertainment Weekly and he said I'm missing the point here G.I. Jane at the time everybody was raving about how powerful magnificent and sexy she was when did comparing anyone to G.I. Jane become an insult he was like what's going on? Well the insult is is that she does not style herself on G.I. Jane she's got alopecia and the way she deals with it is to cut her hair short the real life person yeah that's the thing but you're still comparing like Demi Moore took a role she shaved her head and that was a big story at the time oh a beautiful woman shaving her head huge time yeah people were saying oh but she's a really attractive powerful woman that's that's subjective yes that doesn't talk to how the person who was the bot of that feels but what she herself had but see this is as the week has gone on and I've there's more and more has come out she herself has gone on on social media last year and said I don't care what anybody thinks I'm really proud of how I look if she's saying that and if Chris Rock is aware of that and we still don't know if he knew she had alopecia a friend of his has come forward and said Chris Rock didn't have a clue and it's also come out that that gag was not in the script all his gags were scripted except that was enough the cuff remark well he might be taking it he might be taking it yeah so it wasn't in the script so now you're wondering a did he know she had alopecia and b did he know that she had alopecia and knew that she was fine with people I don't disagree with what you're saying but say someone walks across the front row to their seat okay and they appear drunk okay and a comedian in the moment references that right yeah which happens a lot let's say they're not actually drunk yeah and they've had something to happen they've got a condition yes of course but is that just an innocent victim of ignorance no but I think what you see I think what's I don't disagree with what you're saying they do an awful lot of this roasting and some of it is very much to the line and to the bone and has to be hurtful to the person who's on the other end of it while everybody else is laughing but in this I don't think this is going to be the instance that does what you're doing because I think that if they had reacted in other ways if they had stood up and walked out if they had done something in a much more powerful statement but the fact that he stood up walked 50 yards or whatever it was up smacked a man walked back with what appeared to be a smile on his face and a swagger it was very peculiar and then the shouting afterwards it just came across and it just came across as so that's what's taken away from it I don't disagree with what you're saying and any sympathy you can't stop you can't go up and stop I think that's what's taken away from it and any sympathy for William Smith and for Jada Pinkett Smith it's completely gone it's eroded by their behavior during the week I have no for her her post on social media during the week was for me smug I didn't see it but listen Will Smith in the course of minutes he went from walking in being all full of the joys of spring boyish sitting down laughing at the joke then into complete another anger where he goes up to physically slap someone to cry as if that never happened and be able to switch on boiling bursting out in tears to to claim the Oscar I think you know maybe Will needs to after that whole thing I'm like I don't I don't think I can ever look at him the same again now because now I just his brand is damaged his brand is damaged because now I don't think anything we ever did was real and now I'm looking at all the other people who gave him the standing ovation and going Benedict Cumberbatch why why I just think he'll I'm upset with you he'll use this to rehabilitate himself oh oh you know Chris Rock and Chris Rock and Will Smith will do a you know film together where they're project and it will oh I would never watch I just think it's terrible and I think I mean it's wrong to say but the fact that the matter is in America today in the world that it's in as well the fact that this incident occurred between two people of color yes just impacts even worse for you know all the work that people are doing in order to bring everything together that kind of thing and also you have to ask yourself it just has ripples it was a female comedian a female comedian and that happened it would it would be completely unacceptable and if it were a if it was a white person that slapped obviously then it would be Oh my it would just be context in a whole other level the whole thing is just yeah it's just kind of right just one more piece of news then before we move into the before we move into the reviews Bruce Willis has announced his retirement after receiving an alphasia diagnosis it impacts his cognitive abilities directors who've been working we I think it's on 22 films in the last couple of years and we were do you remember we did we talked about this I said you know he's working flat out and the really low budget movies but some of the directors have reported that it was clear that he was struggling at the time yeah I suppose reflecting on his career not including necessarily the last couple of a couple of years it's sad isn't it very sad it's only 67 years of age it's just not something you expect to hear you don't expect to hear it he's still you know a young man respective to his career you would expect that he would have many years to go you don't want it and it's and it's very shocking it's it's sort of a surprise but not a surprise and a lot of people coming forward saying it was kind of an open secret in Hollywood circles maybe not known publicly it makes a lot of sense in retrospect I see the Razzies who famously go ahead of the Oscars every year and poke fun at bad movies they retracted they had given him awards in the context now we don't know the story but he was doing 12 films a year two yeah and I think they were saying you know the worst Bruce Willis film of the year yeah that had seven nominations in the category worst yeah because you've done so many you know you