Morning, Adonis. First Premier League press conference at the start of a new season and new era. How excited are you? Obviously excited. I think it's a new competition for me. We've been working hard during press season to get ready for this moment. First weeks, probably first three weeks until the market ends will be a little bit strange at the preparation. We are not completely sure about the players that we will place even. But overall, I'm really excited to play tomorrow and try to give our best to beat West Ham. You've had a busy 24 hours. Two new signings into the football club. First of all, we'll talk about Max Arons from Norwich City, very experienced right back for only 23 years old. He won the England Euro Under 21 tournament in the summer. How impressive has he been already and what will he bring to the side? As you said, I think for his age, he has already a good bunch of Premier League games. I think he has been playing in this level. He has international experience. He has been playing this summer with national teams. And I think he will help us straight away, even if he's young. He's not as young as some of the signings we've made. He has the experience and he will help us for sure. And Alex Scott, I know, injured at the moment, so you haven't had the opportunity to train with him or work with him, but 20 million pound signing. He was one of the most exciting players in the EFL last season. What will he bring and when can we expect to see him outside on the vitality pitch? Yes, it's a great signing for the club. I think he's a great kid also. The first impression when we talk to him are really nice. Unfortunately, he will be out for the start of the season, probably for a couple of months. And he will have to take these weeks to settle in, to know more about the team, to know more about the teammates and to prepare and help us further in the season. But I think it's a player with his age, with the season he had, past season in the championship that can help us a lot. And the big question the fans will be asking now, you've had a really good summer so far, lots of new faces. How many more would you like to bring in and what positions? Probably the area we need to reinforce is the midfielder. It's something that we've been talking about during the summer and still, we have time on the market and that's the area where the club is focusing right now. Up next, obviously West Ham, your first game in the Premier League, up against one of the most experienced Premier League managers in David Moyes. What do you know about his teams, his set-up, the players? How much research have you had to do personally to try and understand what they'll do and prepare a Bournemouth side to try and pick up three points? No, obviously David is a very, very good coach. He has been really successful, past season they won an European championship. He also coached there in Spain so I knew him before. But overall, they are a really solid team, they have quite a lot of options, they can go more direct, they have very good wingers, they are really good in set pieces. I think we have to be really focused, not to make mistakes because they are the kind of team that, if you make one mistake, they score the first goal and then it's very difficult to play against their result. With all the signings you've made so far in this summer and the fact that you've inherited the squad as well, do you know in your own mind right now you're starting 11 for the game or are you still undecided on potentially some of the players? I mostly know, starting 11, probably I'm waiting for the last training in some position, so the feeling I have, also I have to talk to the players, we have some players that we have to make sure they are ready to start or probably they can only help us in the second half. But in my mind, obviously I know what I have here. And just finally, what can the Bournemouth fans expect tomorrow? You've mentioned sort of, you know, a lot of attacking football, exciting styles, organised chaos going forward, you know, all those sort of things that you said over pre-season, is that going to be the remit for tomorrow? I think we have to keep improving the team, same line we did in pre-season. I think we want to be in control of the game, we'll try, obviously we have an opponent in front that they will try the same, but I would like to play as much as we can in their half, to attack as much as we can, to lower the number of chances we have to defend. And let's see tomorrow if we are able to do these things. Thank you, good luck. Hi, Ando, can we just clarify who's definitely not going to be available tomorrow? Adam Smith has had an injury, I know it's a long list, unfortunately. Yes, it's a long list, unfortunately it's a long, long list. Who are the headlines who definitely won't be available tomorrow? For sure, the ones that have been injured. Last games in pre-season, talking about Adam Smith, Lloyd Kelly, Daph, Fredericks, Alex Scott, if you can include him. And then we have some cases that we are going to wait until today's training to take the decision, but we have some players that we are not sure if we could put them in tomorrow's game. How challenging has that been for you that when you came into the job you knew the squad you had and some additions and the longer pre-season has gone on, you've had to keep moving your plans around and now you're having to, in English we say, put some square pegs in round holes, maybe. How difficult has that been for you when you have a master plan and you have to keep changing it? Yes, obviously when injuries appear, the coaches, we have to adapt things, we have to change things, we have to try players in different positions. I think we did the other day against Lorien, we put Jadon as a right back, I think he did pretty well, he played pretty well. We played with Marcos number six for some minutes, we've been doing this during the pre-season, it's the moment where we can try different things. And especially these three first games will be a little bit like this because players are coming and going, new signings are arriving, some injuries are happening and it's a moment where we have to perform well and we have to adapt quickly to these different situations. I think the general mood of the fan base is very excited for what you and the players are going to bring to the season. Do you also urge a little bit of patience at the moment because of all the things you've just spoken about? We'll try to perform from day one. Obviously, there is a job to do, but there is a job to do for all the teams. It's not probably the perfect picture tomorrow because we have injuries, we'll have other players arriving also, but it will be the same for West Ham, it will be the same for even the big clubs because the market is still open and changes will happen. What do you feel the expectation level rises with every new signing? It always happens in all the clubs and it's a good thing, I think. I think it's good that people want to see the team, we hope we can give them a good game tomorrow, we hope to get a good result, but I want to go in the way that we've been working last weeks and that's what we're going to try tomorrow. West Ham without Declan Rice, how different a proposition do you expect them to be without him? Although they may be making signings as we speak now, but West Ham without Rice, how different a team? They signed a very good player in his position, coming from Ajax, Alvarez, he's a player that gives them a good solid player and it adapts very well to their way of play, also probably they will have other signings for tomorrow, most probably, but overall the idea is that it has been the same, I think it's a very tough team, set pieces, transitions are very good, they have wingers, they have different options up front with their number nine and we have to take care about the mistakes we make in the build-up because they go especially with Bowen, with Munrama, I don't know who will play, but players that in two seconds you make the mistakes and they are almost there, set pieces will be huge for us, defensive and offensive, I think we've been working this week to prevent these things, knowing that they are a really powerful team, they have very good stats from past season and if they signed War Prouse, I don't know if they're going to sign him official, but it's another step in that direction, so we have to be really focused on these details. Final one from me, I wanted to ask about you personally, because your family, you have young children, friends back in Spain, how much are they excited about watching the Premier League, watching you, have they set up their TVs, got everything ready, will any of them be here? Yes, I think they've done all their homework, they are trying to set up who is the one, who is with the right in Spain to watch all the games and I try to keep them out of the football side, also I think I'm lucky because my wife doesn't watch even our games, she knows that if we win we will lose, but she's not very into the football side and I think it's better like this.


So last week was fun, something totally different. I watched a video from Mariah Elizabeth about painting a denim jacket and it looked so fun and so cool and so cute. I have a feeling I've also seen that on TikTok. You remember the note in Jersey Shore? Like some girl like cross-stitched that on like a pair of jeans. Like I'm really into it. You guys all know that I am very not good at art. You're artistically gifted. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not gifted, my brain doesn't do it. What? Now you're gifted. This is probably gonna be a struggle for me, but I don't care. We got these jean jackets second hand for what? Like 20 bucks? 15 and then 20. Great times. You could have your new favorite forever jean jacket. The potential is there. Potential is there. Or you could have a jean jacket that looks like garbage and you still wear it out of guilt for paying $20 for it. Anyways, I know what I'm putting on mine. I already have an idea. What is it? Do you have any idea? No, I wanna know your idea, then I'm gonna make mine. Can you tell me yours first? Maybe the roses or a lightning bolt. Ooh, nice. I'm gonna paint a seahorse. Okay.  Hold on. Thank you. I need to look at a picture of a seahorse. Look how cute and rainbow colored he is. And I think that that would be a cool jacket. So. I like having no significance to what I'm making. That's why I'm gonna make a rose but the stem is a lightning bolt. Okay, that's gonna be awesome. I've decided. So I think we're gonna sketch it out first. Yeah. You ever do this as a kid in school? I could never do that. What about this? I could never do that. Hold on, I can do it better. I'm on camera now. Hold on one sec, I'm on camera. Hold on one sec. Rolling and action. Hold on, rolling, rolling and rolling. You have to really commit. Rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling. That was the first try. This is not showing up. My denim is too dark. Do you want to trade pants? No, I think I need like a light thing. Maybe a paint marker. So we're gonna be pro YouTubers and have two camera angles, aren't we? Well, they're not gonna be able to see what I'm painting from there, so. Oh, hold that thought. This, the left side of this is for your paint and then the right side is for your lunch. So you can't really see in my sketch because it's darker denim. It's there, I promise. My sketch is done. I think I'm gonna paint the speech bubble first because it's white, right? Do we have a white or is it what you're just using? All I have is vanilla. All right, that works. Oh. What? Oh no. What's oh no? I'm gonna have to do two layers here. I saw in another YouTube video that if you do a layer of white first and then a layer of color, then it'll show up better. So you have your work cut out. Was it too late for that? No. I'm going to take as much vanilla and just cake it on this jacket. I feel like I'm gonna be able to see my pen through here. This is fun already. Is it? Yeah. I love the way this cake is cut. I'm gonna need literally all the vanilla, I think. It's like somebody vomited on my jacket. I'm just gonna... What are you just gonna do? I'm gonna just go straight from the source here. We just need a lot of vanilla. Well, I'm sorry you're struggling because things are going pretty great for me over here. Don't worry, I'll get you later. I've always wanted to actually paint on my own clothes on purpose, you know? Cause I've done it on accident many, many times. Oh, we are pouring. So this dries pretty fast, right? Dry in 15 minutes, band-aim called it. Do you want to come see the art, baby? She's so artistic. Hi. Hi. All right, I'm gonna look at this picture of the seahorse and see what colors I like. See this look? She just birthed on my drawing. I'm sure if you guys Google seahorse like me, you'll see the picture I'm using as inspiration. Is that just the first Google image that popped up? Not the first, but maybe like the fourth. Dude, do you think little fish put saddles on seahorses and ride them? That is a very Julian outline you got going. You like it? Yeah, it's actually cool. It kind of looks like a rose cloud with a lightning storm. I need to wait for this to dry and then I'm gonna start chucking the paint on here.  Julian, absolutely not. So what is a seahorse's best sense? I don't know the answer to that.  Is this dry yet? Julian, calm down. Oh my gosh, look how pretty her palette is. Look at this palette you guys. Oh my God. I'm gonna sit here. Okay, how's it going sitting there? Good. I'm gonna have to go over this with another coat of everything I think. He's like stripes, he's so cute.  That's cute. You're rearranging his anatomy. I just got my jacket from outside. And it's almost dried, but it's good enough for me. But the red is already showing up 10 times better. All right, I just think so far this is such a fun and easy process. It's a little easier to blend together with other colors when it's wet.  I love how colorful yours is. Thanks.  Very much in my wheelhouse of colors. I'm still trying to figure out what my seahorse should be saying because I thought maybe he should say it's seahorse time. Like that'd be cool. No, just literally write Will Smith. Do I want a jacket that says Will Smith on it? I'll tell you one thing. I don't not want a jacket that says Will Smith on it, so. I like how forgiving this is. Like I feel like I keep making a lot of mistakes and it like looks fine. It's actually probably the most relaxed that I've been while I've been painting. Cause I'm not good at painting and he usually stresses me out, but I'm not stressed right now. You're doing really good, baby. Oh, that looks so good, Julie. Yours looks dope.  He is a rainbow fish. My hair got caught in part of my paint and got in my painting or my jacket. It could be like a little pink poop. Okay, I'm doing it again.  No, it's not a seahorse poop. You definitely have to do a lot of coats of paint in order for it to like really stand out. Correct. Where's the first place you're gonna wear your jacket? To the aquarium. I feel like it's a perfect jacket to wear to an aquarium. I think I'm gonna let mine dry for a little bit and then I'm gonna go in with my fine brush and add some cute little details. Yeah, I did this. That is so cool, Julian. I did the same thing except I didn't let it dry at all. I'm legit letting mine dry. Okay. Actually, the details are kind of helping me because the little lines are like showing which way the leaves are going. So it makes it look less like a red blob and more like a rose. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Thanks for having us at your TED Talk. I have to put my hair in a scrunchie so it doesn't get in this pink and get on the bottom of my jacket because that's what it was doing.  Should I give him a smile? Is he happy? Yeah, he's really happy. Give him a smile. Because he's about to say, it's seahorse time. It's seahorse time, y'all. I don't know where his mouth is. Where that mouth? I think it's down here. Oh. Oh, it does translate, it looks cute. I think I'm done, by the way. I'm almost done. I just have to write it's seahorse time. But do you like my seahorse? I love it. I love it. It's so cute. It's so colorful and bright and wonderful. Should I give him some eyelashes or like some eyebrows? The dots you gave him were awesome. Capital S, seahorse time? I don't do capitals, but it's your art, so. Exclamation point? Yeah, definitely an exclamation point because you want it to be loud and proud and so no one makes a mistake about what the hell time it is. Yaa! It's seahorse time. Y'all, it's seahorse time. Let's hold them up. Wait, mine's gotta dry like one second. Cheers, y'all, seahorse time, y'all. Julie, and yours came out so cool. I really like yours. Do you think this fits me? I didn't try it on. Julie, that's so cool. You like it? Yeah, it came out amazing.  Yo, join my Etsy if you follow my Etsy. The first 500 followers get nothing. You have white chairs. This was so fun. I feel like this is the first time that I've made a piece of art that I actually feel good about and am proud of. Usually I feel like I struggle and I stress and I'm just worried the whole time, but I really just, I let it go and I feel like this is a good representation of what's in my heart, you know?  I really put it all out there. You poured your emotion in the form of acrylic paint onto this jacket and now it is, it's a thing of beauty. If I were to see a person wearing a jacket with a seahorse on it that says it's seahorse time, it makes me feel something. This is a real thing. The problem is that most art doesn't make me feel anything. So just. This makes me feel something. If no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something. I feel like it is seahorse time. It is seahorse time. Can we show the main cam? I wanna show them. Okay, so we'll do a little fashion show to end this thing.  So fun.  And I feel like if I was a kid and my mom let me paint my own clothes, like I just feel like I would have such a good time. Like this is the first time I've really enjoyed myself painting and felt zero stress. That makes me so happy. Painting is fun. Let's see what you got. Guess what time it is. What time is it? It's seahorse time. Dude, it looks so good. You like it? Yeah. Is it seahorse time? Yeah, it's seahorse time. It looks so fun. Thank you. This literally looks like something you would buy. No, no, I made. You made me. I made. You made me. This by far honestly is one of my favorite crafts I've ever done because I feel like it could be as crafty or as arty as you want it to be. It's cost effective. It's not an expensive craft and you take used clothing or whatever you have. And what a great way to make an old denim jacket. A new seahorse time one. I feel like it's the kind of item of clothing that when you put on, you're gonna have a good day. Exactly. Because I put vibes into it. There's hella vibes in this thing right here. There was no vibes in this jacket. It just had jean jacket vibes and now it has seahorse vibes. That's so cool. Yeah, it really makes me feel really happy. I love it. It's definitely my style of art. I didn't know I had a style of art.  It's seahorse art. It's seahorse. Make sure you subscribe to my seahorse Etsy where I make only seahorse art. And nothing's for sale. And nothing's for sale. Whoa. Julian. It looks so awesome. You like it? Are you excited? I'm pretty pumped. I don't know what I was going for but it feels pretty metal. It definitely looks super metal. It's all like metal? So metal. Julie, it looks so good. This was a lot of fun. Do you like it? I really like it, yeah. Like it? I had a lot of fun. And now we get to wear that. Great design, great application, wonderful detail, just absolutely beautiful Julian. The seahorse time. The seahorse time. Yeah. Even though it's not that artistic, I feel very accomplished and I'm super excited to have a piece of clothing that is just so fun now. I feel like that's my problem. I need more clothes that match the inside. You know? I do know. You know? I know. I'm fine. The seahorse time. This is my favorite jacket. Me too. Thank you. It's seahorse time. Now that I'm extra cool, make sure you subscribe to my channel and put it on every Wednesdays, last Thursday. Have you seen my jacket? Yeah, I haven't seen it yet. That thing is dope. Yeah. What time is it? It's seahorse time. The seahorse time, PM. I'll see you guys next week. I hope this inspired you to do some fun painting on some denim or whatever you got because this is 10 out of 10. Easy, fun, if it doesn't stress me out, that means you're gonna be just fine, so you can do it. I believe in you. It's seahorse time. What time is it? Oh, it's seahorse time. It's seahorse time.


further down the line so so we're happy so far with the draws going very well and I have to you know this man here beside me Ollie the president like he does I know he won't like me saying but he does deserve special mention because the amount the tickets he's selling is phenomenal and his uh his video with John Watson went down a treat there and social media so you know Ollie's up for a laugh all the time but the work he does is phenomenal at the club we're you know we're just lucky to have him yeah I'm not sure it's going to get any Oscars but got plenty of likes and shares and isn't that what it's all about and that's what I was referencing the fun element of it too Ollie you know what I mean it's that's part of it now that's how you have to do these things don't you you know you entertain people and get your message across and it's another way of getting it out there and you got that you know that anyway I'm preaching to the converted talk talk to them about the draw tickets are 20 Euro each but three for 50 so they've been obviously you know it's not an insignificant purchase but they've been targeted there so people you know want to support the club and be with the chance of winning a great prize hopefully most people might be able to to stretch to that yeah well the tickets are one for 20 or three for 50 Greg and you can buy them online too there now but I have to say the the tickets are absolutely flying we have limited the tickets to 8000 and I have to say what say we're at the minute we're nearly halfway through them oh really wow which is our major success and we're on a bit maybe have to keep going the way they are we might pull it they're all forward you know and got people enjoy go again before go again before they reach the deadline yeah okay yeah because if you sell out the tickets and actually that's really quite an important element to this because people know that their chances of winning are greatly improved if it's a fixed a fixed amount so there's no point dilly-dally and if you if you get the tickets in get them sold why not go early yeah that's that's that's that's one of the main things we're going to do and I'm just to demand that everybody is ringing up for them and I was just chatting they followed us doing the online sales for this morning they says it's that's since we're on highly radio it's getting a big love to you so well now you're committed to two weeks on this show so if you sell out 8000 you're still here you can you can walk with something else but you're not getting any money back no that's great we'll stand by that one all right so the tickets are as you've talked about you're going out selling them and there's you know they're popping up where people can buy them but also setunionsgeadraw.com you can get your tickets there as well get allocated your tickets and no problem there yeah yeah there's different locations around the town we can go and buy them you can buy them and get a Kenny to lay around there you can buy them and Max Mays you buy them with tokens and then you can liberty travel sell them there and then if any club member is carrying them you can get them or else online right okay so it's limited to 8000 tickets half already sold the prices there's 10 of them a new Hyundai Kona i30 n-line a trip to Lapland worth five grand which would be lovely coming up to Christmas the tracked lawnmowers they say a lot of us want one of them but not everyone can get the two and half grand together so that'd be a nice one a thousand litres of home heating all is a great price too family break worth a thousand euro that's at the magnificent group hotels furniture worth a grand as well thanks to classic blinds and interiors a 500 voucher for kernels and also for Sweeney's spa a fuel voucher 500 euro for Tobens and a slide robe wardrobe valued at 1200 euro i literally could do something with all of them i don't know about you guys but they're good prices isn't it well i won't make the same mistake Greg is the last time i was on the draw so i won't be putting my name on any tickets there again remind us the young for the pulled out my ticket for the gar for the gareth brooks two tickets for gareth brooks that are christmas draw but i i put them back in so i know a young lady from our draw i want them so i hope she had a good night at the weekend did you go to gareth brooks i did not my wife wasn't impressed then she said i wish we had a gone because everyone was chatting about it but you're always with these draws especially the live ones you're always waiting for something it's like you know i've seen it so often someone working in the building wins something or other do you know what i mean it's just the the look of the draw but it throws stuff up have you anything planned Ollie for how you're going to do the live draw now the expectations are going to be high or are you going to play it straight no but we're just going to say we'll just run the draw from the clubhouse Greg when the when it's done and we'll keep John away that night because he draws already again but Jason do you don't want yeah i was going to say oh the other John you don't want him chasing your hand and it went right down lawnmower you know i'll give John a break now for a while the two jobs in fact anyone named john stay away from the film is that okay but uh just Greg i just like to give a special mention to every club member have ruled and i had to be so unbelievable to make the working effort they're putting in and i'd like to thank the past club members too for we wouldn't be here that i do these draws without them you know all the people who've worked behind the scenes in the club and a special thanks to you to me i know um it does a lot of work too for me as me one brother kehal like kehal harvey like he's my detectives that he sells to you just and of course there's a big date coming up with centenaries not too far away really in real terms is it 1930 that's right Greg yeah no it's not a million miles away yet you know it's all about having everything i mean you hopefully you'll have it finish long before then but do you know what i mean it's it's quite impressive you know close on a hundred years on that the club is still there club doing well on and off the pitch and and you know looking to get even better and to be even you know a more important part of the community than it already is like it's impressive i think that's amazing really when you think about it that that's the beauty of the GA yeah yeah it's amazing Greg and you know the thing about letter Kenny is like my father was a blow on Ollie's father was a blow on you know so you know we're and letter Kenny is a lot of blow ones and we have to make them feel welcome you know that that's because i think there's a compliment in there somewhere absolutely you know you know so you know it's for the people that have come to the town for work and that and we have to make them feel welcome and they are welcome and St Junans is an open door and anyone that's listening to this now that has children or even if you're still can play but like we have four adult teams and the ladies are there the hurlers are there the Komogi teams there so there's something for everyone and even if you don't want to play and you want to get involved with Irish language and the score side of things and all that there you know there's always something for someone Greg and i can bring people together and people that have are new to the town and have moved in that they can feed part of the community and i kind of joke but the the point you make is a strong one it's not a new thing being an open and welcoming club the history is there exactly as you can as you can attest to yourself all right brilliant okay you've been good enough to give us a few tickets to give away here so we're going to give two away and the question is when was St Junans GAA established when was the club established is it a 1930 or b 2010 so you know it's not one of them anyway we're trying to keep it as easy as possible but sometimes i think these can be a bit easy but anyway when was St Junans GAA club established now text a or b followed by your name and where you're from to 08 660 25 000 or whatsapp now if you don't use mobiles you can call us too we'll sort you out but we have two tickets so one of you or two of you will win a ticket each thanks to ollie and john who brought them with them so uh to be in with the chance to win one of these tickets to win one of those great prizes text the answer to this question when was St Junans GAA established a 1930 b 2010 your answer a will be to 08 660 25 000 and we'll keep the lines open for another 12 minutes then make the draw right so you like all not all jokes aside but in all seriousness ollie if people want to be in this draw with the fixed amount of tickets the 8 000 you don't want to dilly dally because they will go you've already done half the tickets bother shouting so if someone wants to be with the chance of winning one of these prizes get online or get into some of those stores you mentioned there yeah people need to you know like tickets are free and if they see any club member contact them or any of them shops that are mentioned or go online is the hand this thing yeah you know and what's exciting john is is that you can see you can see the target here can't you because you've got that funding that is we're uh granted you can see this draws going in the right way you've got the plans so it's lovely that it looks like you know you're going to get that second pitch you're going to get the floodlights and it's exciting time it's a great it's great greg and uh the only problem for me and ollie is now will be too old to enjoy it but it's not about us it's about the young children coming behind us and and the players that we have at the minute that's what's all about he's he's he's he's he's he's got to go and he stole it they're king of the world what's this wee business oh no ollie was on the 16b was it ollie on the 14 on the 14 county meddle though i think do you still have it still have it i i have one of them too i don't know mine's under 16 actually what happened to you you packed it in it i pulled a hammer at greg and really didn't cost too much to get fixed i think it's his hand there you can joke about it now but i'd say it was gutting at the time was it it was i you know at that age in your you know you're starting to taste the success of it all right uh listen guys thanks very much for that uh just remind us of the website i'll say that stunasgadraw.com ollie remind people where they can get them in person a lot of people want to deal in cash and stuff as well you can or buy presents for people as well it's always a good option it'd be a lovely thing to get and they're really well presented too by the way if you buy them physically are they sent out if you buy them online or yeah you buy you buy them on the week you have senior to copy and look they're really nicely put together i think that's one isn't it is yeah yeah okay and it has all the prizes listed there so it's a nice thing you've done it right so ollie remind us where people can get them outside of the online offering as well you can buy them and get a kenny two liar you can buy them and max mayis topans and uh your brother my brother i kernens and that's a lot of club members have them you know the club members have them everyone's bought into this i think that's associated with saint unions all right listen great stuff goes well don thank you very much for uh giving us a couple of tickets support the show as well and hopefully now uh you have the eight thousand sold out sooner rather than later because when the tickets gone ollie you're suggesting that you might even bring the draw forward yeah that's that's a brand very great brilliant stuff all right thanks so much keep up the fantastic work and uh john just um you mentioned about you know uh people being welcomed into the club and all the various things uh that it has to offer is what's the one point of contact do you know what i mean that people can get more this information a lot of people would just give us a message through facebook greg you know maybe something we have to look at to maybe set something up but mostly through facebook but if they have children if they have young children say between the age of three or four up until ten they can come out in a sunday morning at ten a.m to the sunday morning academy to get their children involved and then if there's any older people or you know adult players or people that move to the town they want to get involved with the club just send us a message on facebook and someone to get back to them with details greg and as you say the message is uh you're more than welcome absolutely which is a lovely message okay listen guys well done with the draw already it's a success but it is obviously going to sell out at some point and people need to get their tickets quick if they want to be a part of it because the prizes are brilliant and again fair play to the those that have sponsored or worked with the club to make those prizes available because they are really really impressive from one to ten but for now ollie harvey president of the club an organizer of the draw and john harn chair of the club both of you thanks so much for joining us in studio really appreciate it okay back with more after we take this break the nine till noon show with sydunans g a club development draw 40 000 euro and prizes first prize a hyundae konokyar plus nine other grit prizes tickets now available online at sydunansgadraw.com or any club member tourism businesses have a brand new mark of employer excellence driven by the employee's voice the employer excellence program recognizes employers who consistently create better workplaces for their employees attract and retain top talent shine the spotlight on 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you use what's up but most texts are free now i think with various packages if you don't text i want you involved as well call us 07491 25 000 we'll make sure donna mario emma or they'll make sure that your name goes into the hat right let's get an update on the situation in milford you might recall we spoke about this uh some time ago uh and people have been um well i'll tell you i'll get uh councillor lian plain you can hear like uh to explain to us lian good morning to you good morning greg right so people were really under the cost with this stench around milford weren't they describe what it was like it was disgusting it was terrible you know it's that's day and age no we should either have to live our work on the kind of conditions that was there for a while well thankfully um through the good work of yourself when you're she'll through the um response from the people of milford ringing on dowry's letter um that things have improved there and this last week or 10 days that the smell has has gone after a lot of good work done by the the workers at the at the cold front there with the cold face offered and um by every one of themselves well i think they're the versus um substantially on the on the plant and uh hopefully a snow guarantee but hopefully it will remedy the situation and won't have to put up and the people of milford won't have to put up what they've put up the last number of months brilliant so um to yourself of course and on all the reps who who uh highlighted this um so for now anyway it seems the problem has been resolved and we'll just keep an eye out dependent on whether it's very wet weather or dry weather to see what the the long-term situation is well we have to say yes both the last couple months has been fairly dry and um we'll see now when when the wet weather comes again but I think it did work better in the wet weather than in the dry weather right so hopefully that'll continue and uh that the people have no longer we'll have not a couple of that but they did have to go up those last couple months no longer all right well we'll take the winds when we can get them good news Liam all right thanks Greg and also as you say the actual people when they're given the resources and the time and the instruction they got out and they got it done and you mentioned that yourself too but fair play to them those work out fairness you have to uh fairness you know would have to be have to thank the local people on malford as well and the workers they're at the cold face you know and they have to work on that and even the people that works in milford having to work on conditions of course completely wrong and they shouldn't have to do it and hopefully that'll be the end brilliant all right we'll leave it at that I don't know you've uh meetings and what have you thanks very much Liam take care bye bye that's the carelock of the council there councillor Liam Blaney that's good news isn't it the situation in milford has been resolved and well done to all of you listening in the milford area who individually contacted Irish water uh because I get the impression it got to the point where it simply could not be ignored you know petitions are grand where you know you get 20 people to sign but that uh and also too there's other avenues um where people make complaints about odors and stuff like safe for instance through the guards uh and often all of those complaints come under one complaint number all right so it's important that when we have a problem like that we all individually uh make all complaints known and then those complaints have to be given individual references as far as I'm aware and we hope that's the case and you know maybe that's proven to be the case but petitions are grand and going through one avenue like safe for instance and goddess you can't add that's fine too but often then it ends up just being one complaint even though multiple people are very upset but anyway be that as it may we got there 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uh by anthea latia who joins us on the program now anthea thank you so much for joining us hi great thanks for having me uh right okay so talk to me about this investigation um what what is its focus is it the use of pesticides by local authorities i don't want to to misframe it if you know what i mean so as the person behind this work could you do that for me of course so um yes this is about pesticide use by local authorities in ireland so we were interested in finding out what types of pesticides are used by all the different local authorities how much and how much is spent because this information isn't publicly available so very little is known about it we wanted to put this out there and consider the the background and the concerns as well around chemical pesticide use okay and before we talk about its use and the potential dangers of it what interests me is uh the three that don't use it do we know like we're not able to get information from three of them or do they have they taken a decision not to use it i know it sounds a strange to focus on the on the three but one of the three local authorities that aren't using these type of chemicals do we know the reason why so the ones that are in general they're they're pretty much all using all using it except um we did not have a response from kerry county council and uh west needs county council sent us only a partial reply so we can't say um and um we then have two councils that are only using them for invasive species and and that would be Dublin city council and cork city council so in general they're being used and then when it comes to loud they're not currently being used but um that doesn't mean that they're not going to be okay so we can't really look to a particular county for a groundbreaking approach that we could all follow right okay so talk to us about the type of chemicals and don't go counter-cancelor among those still using these chemicals talk to us about the the the chemicals and and why this was worthy of investigation anthea sure so um we looked into these chemicals which are in pesticides and that would include weed killers so herbicides for example a popular brand name roundup would be an example that's really really widely used um it's important because it's actually quite a controversial chemical it um is actually called glyphosate and it has been linked to um risk of developing cancer so um they're concerned both for human health and for the environment when using these chemicals um several countries have banned their use so france belgium luxembourg netherlands danmark and sweden have all banned pesticide use in public areas and so many of the experts we spoke to were actually calling for a ban um from an offer for ireland to ban them as well um so it's particularly relevant when it comes to i suppose upcoming legislation as well because there is currently a review at a new level to see whether glyphosate will be banned and we expect to have a decision in um june next year um there's also a proposal to ban pesticide use in public areas from the european commission so there's actually a lot of activity from the the law side so it's the it's kind of interesting to see where ireland is at in that sense and we spend quite a lot uh on using these chemicals too you have figures for counted on the goal yes we do so um we found out that um dunigol is spending about 8500 euro a year on average um on pesticides and this is looking at the years from 2019 to 2021 so um for all councils we asked them for all available records and this is what dunigol was able to give us um the last known year um glyphosate was used in 2021 that's based on the records they returned to us um we also were able to determine that they're definitely using chemical herbicides and the products used include round-up pistols and other organic ones as well called the cotton gold for example the brand name so um yeah we don't really know whether alternatives are being used in dunigol because they didn't respond to that um to that question uh but several councils in ireland are definitely considering and using alternatives because there are alternatives to be to be pesticides yeah i mean like we would be i think us as individuals would be very careful uh how we use these around our property because if you read the back of one of these cartons you know you'd wonder why you've got it in your hand at all not that long ago i saw someone walking down not far from where i'm sitting right now effectively in a house mass suit it looked like spraying footpaths and along the footpath and the sides of footpaths and i remember thinking to myself at that time you know no one knows this is happening what about dogs uh or pets or toddlers that might be walking along and touching this grass i didn't see any signage up or anything like that and i'm not gonna lie to you and say it really it worried me because i i presumed they wouldn't be spraying anything that could be damaging to humans like that with no warning absolutely it is it's very concerning and a lot of the the sources we spoke to said that and the fact that there are no signs in place often well i've never seen a sign in place when it comes to local authorities but um it takes a few days off and for um the grass to become yellow when certain spraying space turns the grass yellow so we've probably all seen the yellow grass um at the sides of the road but that does take a few days so it is possible that people are walking on freshly sprayed um grassy verges for example and that of course includes you know vulnerable groups like children and pets so that was one of the concerns really strongly expressed by the people we spoke to yeah and we've used phrases like they're planning to or considering or you know looking into use of alternatives what is the the resistance and i'm sorry if i missed it if you mentioned it in previous comments is it that these types of products are cheaper is it someone's maybe not thinking outside the box and saying or a contract's being signed or you know what what is the what's seemingly resistance to to move away from using these dangerous chemicals that have been banned in other countries in public spaces what is the the delay as far as you could determine there are concerns yes when it comes to the cost of some alternatives so um some of the foam machines for example can be quite costly uh they can use um a lot of water some of them use palm oil or at least used to use palm oil so um the councils are kind of still considering them and they're also concerned about resources so several councils mentioned that if they were to use alternatives they would have to be used more frequently that would put um extreme on resources and that there needs to be sort of a combination of alternatives in the future and the sort of uh in in their approach but um those will be kind of the main concerns that came up but are they thinking outside the box because obviously you know using these products it's a blunt instrument and i do note in your in your report you know Dublin where an alternative has been used people are welcoming the fact that uh you know other uh plants or other bits of nature that ordinarily wouldn't be there are there now do you know what i mean so there are more than the advantages of human health absolutely and um several councils and several sections of councils are are moving completely away from using chemical herbicides and um we know that um there is a growing awareness and um the councils themselves mentioned this that there's a change in public awareness when it comes to these chemicals so i don't know i think it's just a matter of time and you know what it's funny anthea because you know we do regular gardening slots as most radio stations do and most people aren't asking you know what weed killer can i use they're asking for alternatives so i think you know the local authorities are actually behind the public on this one i think you know individuals are thinking uh you know they're they're thinking more environmentally and and public health wise than than some of our local authorities you're obviously a science right and you write about a lot of different things when compiling this report and going through it did it shock you did anything surprise you if you know what i mean because you've seen a lot uh anything take you are back well i suppose um the fact that we're we're kind of still lagging behind us both compared to other countries in an island when it comes to banning pesticide use in public areas and and an environmentally sensitive areas um and i think a lot of work is also done by um residents associations and you know privately as well hotels and golf courses so there seems to still be a lot to be done and in terms of changing how we do things and sort of are i suppose once you start seeing these things you can't unsee them as well so if i look outside and i see a sprayed area now now i notice this so i think it's about noticing this and just keeping keeping track of this and doing what we can all right and say thanks for your time this morning i really appreciate it and if people want to find this investigation um the journal dot i obviously regularly updating uh so where on the website could people find your investigation so and if people want to go to noteworthy.ie it'll be there um on twitter as well and social media noteworthy and the journal dot i you'll definitely find it there good stuff all right thank you very much for your time i appreciate it greatly thank you very much take care bye bye that is freelance science writer anthea lasia who is responsible for that investigative piece that's available on noteworthy dot i e um donagall kind of cancel the estimated annual spend including contractor spend in recent years yearly average of 80 500 euro so over the time period of 2019 to 2021 at least 241 000 euro was spent during this time and we know the health risks uh the health risks and the risks the environment and we know pesticides is linked to cancer uh as far as we can determine not we don't want to make out i have anything to do this this is all anthea's work um these dangerous chemicals are being sprayed in in public areas and as i say i can't say for any certainty what was in this person's container that they were spraying on this main footpath right okay but i mean we can presume we can't rule out the fact that it was a dangerous pesticide because uh it's being sprayed in public areas it would make you think you know when you go out with your your toddler or your pet or whatever it might be and you don't know if someone's because there's no signs as far as i can determine you don't know if this dangerous chemical has just been sprayed in that area and you know they're in playing with the grass and touching their face or your dog's chewing the grass or licking it or cogging its leg or whatever it might be uh i think we should stop spraying this stuff in public areas i don't know what the consequences of that might be but that stuff is uh it's it's worrying i'm worried about it and i'm worried about it anyway i'm not easily worried really all right back with more shortly cutting through the spin the 9 till noon show on highland radio would you like to win a Hyundai Kona car well that's the first prize in the St Yunan's GA club development draw who are sponsors of this week's 9 till noon show there's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at St Yunan's GA draw dot com or any club member the Johnny Doherty Festival of Irish music and dancing our draw Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th of September three days of Kelly's dance workshops pub sessions and concerts featuring Zoe Conway and John McIntyre on Friday in the Beehive carries the ladies on Saturday in the GA clubhouse and Dermot Byrne Breed Harper and Stevie Cooney on Sunday in the Beehive for more details see johnnydohertyfestival.com gear up 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gall's gaa history you could say what were you doing 30 years ago today maybe you were parking the car or sitting having a pint or maybe even in the ground perhaps ahead of the all island final 1992 the 20th of september 30 years ago today uh was when history was made three decades on really quite a significant day what are your memories of that day probably should have asked you a little earlier on but uh as i say for some people it will probably actually be the sporting highlight of their lives if you were lucky enough to be there or even if you were listening on the radio or watching on tv historic times okay we chatted to uh much more importantly i suppose ellen doherty yesterday you might remember ellen's story ellen is living in a house that is devastated by defective concrete blocks built by her and her husband very sadly ellen's husband no longer with her he passed away in 2019 and ellen had that contest with or contend with but also herself was very sick in gallway with uh covid back home thankfully but her home falling to bits and ellen was onto us yesterday about her chimney stack literally fearful of going to sleep for fear this chimney might come through ellen good morning to you again um thanks for rejoining us i hope you're okay it was a tough call yesterday for for you for me and and for the people listening so i really appreciate you being so honest and and sort of helping people who don't really still get it the devastating impacts of this horrible defective block scandal good morning ellen right okay so uh i i hope did you get any comfort from the reaction from people to to what you've been going through ellen has it helped you yes definitely okay now what happened after the phone call well later in the afternoon uh a young man came to my street and i don't think he wants to be named but he said he would take down the chimney and rebuild it he's got man working for him he didn't know who he is but i can't believe how good the people are so many people formed me and and i just can't believe how good people are as it lifted your spirits a bit ellen oh yes definitely okay so you're feeling a bit better today than you did yesterday definitely i am okay that's good and and people were ringing in offering to to help to try and you know even support your financially to fix the wall at the back i'm not sure if that's a realistic uh option for you at the moment because i know you're very keen to get that done but it seems that thanks to this young man's generosity and he is people with him as well that they're gonna make you feel a bit more safer in your home uh anyway going forward uh he said as of take two weeks or time on his man um and as for the back wall i don't know what's going to happen we have to but i'm hopeful good okay there's a wee bit more light at the end of the tunnel then for you is there yeah definitely very good and ellen i'm going to ask the question directly to people that make these decisions i don't know if it will be tomorrow or when it will be i want to know exactly and i want a minister to explain to me exactly ellen how you as a lady in your mid 60s as you said yesterday unable to borrow any money i want to know from them exactly how you're going to be able to fix your home under this new scheme and i'll not be happy until i get an answer that question either ellen because if you can't get your house fixed well then i think the scheme's a load of crap uh well um my qs i'm not going to name him but he said to me that because i have three walls around the house and another one the front i would need to borrow 150 000 on top of 420 000 to leave what's known as a boulder finished i even don't know what a boulder finish means no i mean that's that's hopeless i mean there's no way uh i mean even if you could have access to that money um you i mean why should you have to borrow 150 000 year old to get your house back to the way it was because he said that the three retaining walls actually he said there are four retaining walls and it should that would take a vast summer money to do mm-hmm and then though he's only going to do the outside leaf of the house and i would have to borrow 150 000 to do that unbelievable would you have even before that wall fell oh sorry i don't mean to talk to you go on ellen it's you i want to listen to even before that wall fell and i was worried sick about where was i going to find that kind of money i got you and i'm not on my own i mean everybody who has a uh every house owner who has a make a reddled house will have to find extra money ellen if you know if the option love them if the option had been there for you to um take the maximum grants available but build a smaller house which meant you wouldn't have to have worried about borrowing money would you have considered that option yes but you know uh you need some information for that and that's 3000 euro yeah i know i would love your grant money yeah okay um ellen we've loads more questions which we're going to ask uh ask the powers that be uh for answers i'm glad and it's a little thing in the wider scale of things but i'm glad that that young lad and his team are going to come and sort that chimney out for you i know that was a great worry for you and maybe that might make the winter a little bit more tolerable for you and hopefully we can keep the pressure on to get this scheme to be a workable scheme for people like you and and the majority of other people but ellen thanks for coming back on and just sharing that we bit of good news in that whole story with us i really appreciate it all right great thank you very much no no god bless you thanks very much indeed i really appreciate it okay right so a bit of a positive news there between that and and milford you know it's encouraging that something's getting done okay the lines are closed by the way of course on our competition for two tickets for the two tickets for the state units g a club develop and draw exciting times at that club with the funding they have from the state and also hopefully the success of this draw they're going to be able to provide a brand new pitch floodlet floodlet as well which is exciting isn't it um but we have steven mcgloughlin from calhame and letter kenny steven you are the winner of a ticket into that draw you correctly answered 9 30 1930 so i'm obsessed with money 9 30 1930 cahle grand boncran you are also a winner of a ticket as well so well done to the two you have another couple to give away we're going to give them away over the course of maybe friday and friday i think i was told uh so stay tuned for us on friday we'll give you another chance in the meantime if you want to get a ticket you could go to st unisga draw.com where you can win potentially uh that high on die but there's trip to lapman worth five grand ride on lawn mowers fuel vouchers and everything um but steven mcgloughlin you've got a ticket cattle grant you've got a ticket we'll get those tickets out to you uh but if you want to get yours because it's a limited number they've sold over half the tickets now at this stage and the draw is due to take place in the first of november but they're going to pull it forward when the tickets sell out so if you want to get involved get involved now st unisga draw.com thanks to olly and john uh for calling in and well done to you uh to you're in the draw why doesn't the bank give her the money the government pulled the banks out before so why don't they do the same for the government now and help these people affected by mica well why don't the government put the pressure on the banks to do it the banks can sit back right collecting their big paychecks and the we the the taxpayer and the uh through the government will fix their we will restore their assets to their former value what a deal that is can you imagine being bailed out to the tune of billions 12 13 years ago and now you've lent money on defective buildings and you're going to get you're going to get bailed out again because that's what's happening the taxpayer is bailing out again these people the government should make sure they can get a claw back off the bank or the banks should do the right thing why should these institutions always have to be compelled to do the right thing uh right let me see here i have that done and i have that done all right uh thanks to here greg a lot of young people have left arland because the jobs that they are qualified uh are not readily available here in arland you could say that some of them have been driven away by their parents all through his school days all we johnny here's his college college college so the leaving circle comes along and we johnny gets excellent results off he goes to college of his choice a great expense to mommy and daddy that is basically him gone when he finishes colleges with his degree he finds that somewhere abroad is the only place he can get the job he was qualified for fast forward 10 years we johnny's living and working in the usa or australia and the parents are sitting at home wondering why they only see him maybe once a year if they lucky if they're lucky if he had got a less qualified job here in arland they'd seem regularly i wonder how many parents in later life regret pushing their young people so hard during their school days all right and on that note that's where we have to leave it thank you to everyone who took part in the program thanks to uh donna marie and emma who researched and produced the show we are back with you tomorrow morning at nine o'clock