Exciting day. And those lines are now once again open. Oh, now is your last chance to hang around. They have a great weekend. You too. Thanks for your help this morning with the cameras. All right, take care of yourself. Thank you. All right, it is the nine till noon show. Our Friday panel has assembled. They'll be joining us very shortly, but at nine o'clock it is time to say good morning for news updates to Emma Ryan. Good morning, Emma. Thanks, Greg. Good morning, detectives are appealing for information following a report of shots fired as a residential premises in the Joyce Court area of Derry last night. Shortly after 10.40pm, police received a report that four masked men had attended a residential address and fired shots at the front door. Tom Douglas reports. Officers attended the property last night and spoke to occupants who reported that four masked men had arrived and fired shots at the front door. Two adults and a young child were present at the time of the incident, but there were no reports of any injuries. Detective Sergeant Ballantyne said inquiries into this incident are ongoing. He appealed to anyone who was in the area at the time and saw any suspicious activity or who may have CCTV footage captured or any other information which could assist to contact police on 101. Education Minister Norma Foley's congratulating over 61,000 students getting their leave and cert results today. In Donegal, there were 2,151 people registered to set the leave and cert exams in June, while a further 99 people were registered to set the leave and cert applied. The results will be issued online through the candidate's self-service portal from 10 o'clock this morning. Students will also be able to receive their results in person through the schools. The first round of CAO offers are expected to be made to students next Thursday. Minister Foley says it's a major milestone for leaving cert students. It's a great achievement for them and I'd like to congratulate them and acknowledge really that the past few years have not been easy for them but this wonderful cohort of students have met every challenge along the way so today is such a significant and happy day for them and I'd like to thank them and to thank their parents and families and indeed the school staff who supported them every step of the way. A joint funeral for two teenagers who died after getting into difficulty at Aenah Law in Derry on Monday evening is taking place today. Reven Simon and Joseph Sebastian both aged 16 were classmates at St Columns College. One of the boys was taken from the water and transferred to Elton Galvin Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The other boy was pronounced dead at the scene after being recovered from the water. The funeral is being held at St Mary's Church, Ardmore Road at 11 o'clock this morning and finally 450 euro a year extra is what is going to cost you if you're an electric Ireland customer. The energy company introduced its third price hike for electricity supplies yesterday. Gas customers will have to fork out more as their annual bill will rise by 500 euro. Dara Cassidy from bonkers.ie has a tip on how to reduce your electricity bill. I mean one of the big things is just to never push hot food into the fridge or the freezer straight away. So if you're doing some batch cooking or if you're cooking for the next day, let the food cool down for about an hour or so. To weather now rather cloudy today with some hazy sunny spells there will be a few showers around during the morning albeit with lots of dry weather overall highest temperatures of 17 to 21 degrees. That's all for now we'll be back with an update again at 10 o'clock but until then good morning. 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All right lots to talk about this morning so let's introduce our guests. So we'll say good morning first to John McAteer editor of the Trochanal Tribune newspaper. Good morning John great to see you again. I'm Greg nice to be here. Thanks for sparing the time this morning and can say the same to to Ema McGinnis, manager of the Donegal Market. Good morning to you Ema. Good morning Greg. And last but certainly not least Barbara O'Cahill, Irish language planning coordinator for letter Kenny. Good morning to you Barbara. You just muted there Barbara so if you could just undo that that's fantastic. It's great to have you on the program Magine White. Nervous time in about 55 minutes for leaving search students and their parents and guardians Barbara would you like to be in that boat again? No, I had four go through that and I have to say my heart really goes out to those kids this morning and particularly you know they're not going to get their offers till Thursday of next week. They've got very little time to get sorted. Accommodation is an absolute disaster. I really feel for the kids and for their parents who are trying to get this sorted out under a lot of time pressure. They've been through the middle haven't they this group of people because of course they lost you know quite a lot of regular teenage life through COVID and then they're straight into sort of this chaos of accommodation and you know inflated grades where they're adjusted but you know what I mean and the struggle for places in the shortened time zone a lot of they've done nothing we've put all this on them. Yeah I think they've had a very tough time. I really do think that you know we've seen over the past couple of years that kids have been under pressure and although this gang have been at school for the past year they've had a lot of catching up to do and even socially and everything social skills interaction everything it has been tough so I hope they take the time today look at what they've got look at what they actually want to do you know and think more widely it does not have to be university there are loads and loads of opportunities out there and they really need to take their time and think about what they want to do and where they want to put their energy. Amir do you envy them? My niece is getting her results this morning and they had their deaths last night so yeah we're waiting hard to hear the results but like that you know there is so many backwards into everything now and even if they don't get their first choice which a lot don't and we've seen that especially over since COVID the places are so limited so there's always another way you know my son's going here and it's you just get there just take maybe an extra year or so and maybe they need that year. Yeah and you know as it's very as you get older you probably you can put things into context and the significance of something and what something actually means in the wider scale of things in your life you know and that comes with age and it comes quite quickly in your 20s but for the 16, 17, 18 year olds this is the culmination of everything but they will come to realise that perhaps maybe it's just not quite as important as it feels at the moment. Well that's like we don't always get exactly what we want but we want to you know we have to just keep trying so you know yeah there's a lot of learning things but of course we wouldn't get there. John McAteer. Yeah 61,000 people doing the exams this morning and I think I hope they've got them done. I think everybody's going to get reasonably good results because there's a that element of failure has been been removed from exams. Exams should appreciate the 61,000 for what they are not for not further achievements in the education field. Some some will have very high marks there's going to be a huge number of people over 500 this year but effectively there will not be real failures as we used to see it as and it was kind of stigmatised young people. Young people just need to be appreciated for what they've achieved so far and it requires them to go further and as the both speakers before me said there are loads and loads of opportunities away from the field of academia, skills, big shortage and all of those things and there's going to be something for everybody if regardless of what results to get. Yeah and in fairness to the current education higher education minister you know when you look at the the the CEO website and you see the placement of other types of courses and internships and all I think finally and credit where it is due you know he and his office have caught up with the fact that we need to also give a space for these options so people know they're there and not see it as some sort of a failure which I think is very welcome. From page yes go ahead John. There was never a better time for opportunities in this country we're at highest allows of employment ever and we're very very low levels of people coming through from qualifying with the skills and that needs to be as Barbara said the emphasis needs to be to a great extent on skills and away from academia although like that is still very very important for the highest achievers. All right many of listeners to the program would have learned yesterday that the price of the electricity is going up again. Electric Holland has over a million customers and gas as well. We have T Shock and Micheal Martin on the front of the paper telling us to cut back on our energy use and I heard a clip in the news there of some fella saying we're going to get through this by not putting hot food in the fridge I've never done that ever but anyway if that's where we're out we're in bother and then of course you know we are facing into this cost of living crisis people already living in it John and then the slap in the face and this is what it feels like a slap in the face with the news that TDs and senators are getting another pay rise 6.5 K to TD some of that backdated to February you know there's always been a group of people that have talked about them and us but now everyone is sort of feeling that I think more John I'll stay with you on this one that those that legislate for us are really living in a bubble completely different to our lives our existences. Well I want to be on up to a hundred eight thousand they're going to get a big lump sum of six and a half thousand off the back of the proposed wage agreement I don't think that can be justified they need to look at that. I think pensioners TDs their pensions and their perks need to be looked at very very seriously because we're right back to where we were before the Catholic Tiger Front things were running away with themselves altogether. Given that the minimum wage in this country today is 10 euro 50 an hour when you have TDs you have 20 effectively they can work 20 years they reached the reach to a maximum of their pensions 20 years and that is measured and that half of that is effectively their pension but that is multiplied by three to give them a lump sum which is a hundred and fifty thousand. I don't know what other country is is delivering those kind of incomes to TDs. I mean after all here we have a group of people who are effectively temporary workers they're only there from one election to the next is there any other group of temporary workers anywhere in the world on a hundred grand a year it's also their salaried income the perks that they get for travel for phones for secretarial services for all of those things. I just read somewhere just last week that the TDs or pensions are probably the highest in Europe the thesis pension of us to be taken out privately by you or me is what would cost two two million euro that's what you'd have to input into it that's what you'd have to input into it and it's a way way beyond the bounds of reality at this point and you know the other scary thing about that is that we're going to have 10 or 12 more of them come the next election and there's going to be a mad rush to become a TD that's one thing that so many people aspire to because the money is big yeah but I'll come back to you on that one jump up Barbara when we with everything that is going on like is it a distraction should we not even be talking about these pay increases or is it very relevant to where we're at now and how we found ourselves in the situation we are in through decisions that have been made you know we are seeing in other countries in Spain in France and elsewhere for example where you know proper interventions have taken place to try and limit as much as is possible the impact on on regular people but we heard yesterday small businesses I mean we are going to hemorrhage small businesses and we can enjoy full employment at the moment but I wonder how long that will be the case but when we start talking about TDs and senator salaries is it an unnecessary distraction or something worthy of conversation Barbara I think it's absolutely worthy of conversation because I think it highlights the fact that there is far too much disparity in this country because between people who are living extremely comfortable lives and people who are struggling to put food on the table and I think we have to have that conversation and often the line gets trotted out about well you know it's just part of the system and these rises happen and we can't really do anything about it and I think we need to call you know stop to that because it increases that sense as John mentioned you know that these people are just living utterly disconnected from the reality of life for the majority of people and I think it is a slap in the face and if you look at businesses you know how are businesses going to get through this winter how if you look at things like cafes some of them have been talking about you know the bills that they have been getting for electricity how are they meant to continue so yeah I think we need to have a very hard look at what can be done I think we need to look at the power companies like the electricity companies what are the profits that they're making because there seem to have been some exorbitant profits made on the back of the rest of us having higher bills so that needs to be looked at we need to look at any sort of evidence where bills and prices of fuel and you know your petrol your diesel are over and above what they actually really need to be and then we need to look at those those pay increases for people who are already living comfortable lives and we'll get through this without any stress at all it seems as part of the budget and I think the rural group of independence or whatever their name is or portion for this part of this the government's plan is to effectively give more money to the energy companies to suppress the bills by giving them more money do you think that's a good strategy we saw it previously you know where everyone alleged was allegedly going to get 200 euro that was paying money directly to these people making record profits do you think that's an appropriate way to ease the burden on the public or something a little bit more you know maybe cost effective and sort of benefiting the taxpayer rather than the energy providers should be employed well I mean what scares me about that one is that they're not gathering this money off trees and handing it to the energy suppliers it's taxpayers money so we may not be paying it in our bill directly as an electricity bill but we'll still be paying it because if they get that money it has to come out of our pocket somewhere so I don't think that's effective I think we really need to do some in-depth analysis as to what the costs are for producing electricity and what the profits are that are being made yes these companies need to make a level of profit in order to survive but I think we really need to look at where those profits are going so that would be my first angle I don't think handing money to the to the energy companies as a way of buffering the rest of us if anything other than the distraction the finance minister enjoyed another soft interview this morning I think it's ever since he pulled a journalist up on the reference in finnegales policy and shoes but it's literally a party political broadcast every time he's on and he talked really what he was referencing is that europe's going to sort this out you know the energy ministers are going to meet and all that type of stuff really effectively shirking the responsibility of actually coming up with a proper solution to this email you know that's when when the public hear that when we hear that we are the public it doesn't fill me with confidence and you know as well email the pressures on you know keeping the lights on in a in a in a business and seeing your electricity prices double and where are we going to end up well just on the whole thing you know what we're talking about just on minister's pay and my view on that would be they are public servants maybe that's something modern the future has to be looked at in separation because as they are only temporary as you say they're not full-time public servants as such and also we looked at the thing last week of them having other roles as being property developers so that I really believe when they do become ministers they should have to give up all these other roles and for the time being that they are in office and they should spend a whole time looking after us now on Minister McGrath and Pascal Donahoe seemingly have and are going to put measures in place in the autumn and I'd like to think that they are working on this and that there is a committee or somebody in place looking at what's going to happen and what people are going to have to face but the reality is when you don't live a particular life every day and you don't have to meet struggles that other people have to meet it's very hard to understand them and I suppose when they're only a few tellers for years they don't have to they don't understand what it's like to get up in the morning it's very hard to what normal people have to do like you know I think family maybe of six children and you know maybe the father's working the mother's not but now trying to get kids to school for bus fare and there's so many simple things and yet every day I see money being spent so foolishly in areas that and maybe not foolishly this is a wrong word but I see money being spent on things that probably could wait like Eamon Ryan got up on the next other day I suppose that's what makes people's blood boil we're heading into this massive crisis but yet he was one of the people that was very helpful in creating this crisis as such you know they implement things and they don't see afterwards what the effects it's going to have on the normal everyday people and you know that's across in my sector in the farm sector in every it's not just not the reality though of like I just think there's probably a radio show in every country in the world at the moment and they're having the same conversations like I mean is there any country whereby there is a government elected they the people feel connected to them they're working for the people they're making the right decisions and everybody's happy I suppose this is the people's fault at the end who do we elect you know you have to be able to connect with the people that you elect and you put into office and they have to have an understanding of people's lives and everyday lives like you know when I was listening last week said they were on the radio program about they were chatting about and property and having property and you know and you are with this salary and it's never enough to 100 days now don't get me wrong they work very very hard you need to work very hard they probably don't do the life of their own and as such when they are in office and and I'm not nothing whatever salary to get but I do think they should concentrate totally on that role when they're in it they shouldn't have any distractions of other jobs or you see the thing is is to I mean if you take all of the wages of TDs and senators right and put it into a big pot and then you couldn't fix any problem in this country with that amount of money it's not significant it's insignificant really in the wider scale of budgeting but it's the message I think is it's it's the standing shoulder to shoulder it's that we are all in this together you know it is that you know at this time not only would it be inappropriate for us to accept this pay rise which is coupled with this pay deal but we actually think that maybe we should take a reduction until such time we are we're through this do you know what I mean so it's not the amount of money yes we don't know of course they'll take it but seconds me about that there Greg is at the Festival Council the other day there they had very strong recommendations to cut all the perks to pensioners in so far as the issue of universal social charge and all this kind of thing is concerned and on the same breath then we see the TDs they are going to argue that they are part of that of the upper echelons that the salary is based on the upper echelons over the grade April 19 or 22 in the public service I don't see how TDs should be attached to any aspect of the public service pay system because they're not they're not they're not part of that because they're here today gone tomorrow and they'll take their money with them there has to be a better way of first of all we have too many TDs it's going to get much bigger I mean the reality is there that if the new commission the Electoral Commission decides to do it in a different way you can have a TD for every 20,000 people in the country rather than every 30,000 you'll be left with 255 TDs in Dalian wouldn't that be amazing well could could we afford that let me pay play devil's advocate here for a moment John inflation is running at 9 percent and TDs will only get a pay increase of 6.5 percent I mean is that fair I mean everything's relative to you many Jesus I don't know the reality here is that we just can't afford TDs at that kind of money and like as a emir is alluding to their you know the Robert Troy Affair and the 11 properties told us and spoke to us in a very different way that there are sort of 77 or 80 TDs politicians have other interests as a group they're the largest group in the rental sector you know I don't think they should be in there at all I think the day that they're becoming TD they should relinquish the emir said the minister should relinquish it I think TDs they can't serve the people if they have interests that they're promoting themselves in in the creation of new bills and new legislation but no six and a half thousand is unrealistic you know the more you have the more you're going to get there's something there's a huge big imbalance in that you know people at the very at the very lower end will hardly notice the 6% that'll have long since disappeared in inflation whereas a TDs never got that increase they would never notice that it was missing I mean how could that be fair Greg really and and and I I trust that they have their I trust that they have their clinics and they hear the representations from people and all that kind of stuff but there has to be an element of when you're in a circle and when you're completely insulated from this stuff I mean I'm thinking back to one politician we've been we've been living the health crisis I'll put this to your Barbara we've been living the health crisis now for years on programs like this parent after parent grandparent after grandparents son and daughter after son-in-law are talking about the awful situation in our hospitals and there was one TD lady probably very well intended but it was she had an experience in the ED and it was almost like a revelation this is unbelievable I can't believe what what's going on here we need to do something about it and that kind of pointed to me that you do get insulated I think you do end up as much as you say I can feel what is a feeling I think when you for so much money and you run with the same type of people in the same boat you know it should not be a shock that the hospitals that there's no seats for people in hospital there's big long waits and that talked to me most about recently and with other examples Barbara about there has to be a detachment how can you not be detached from reality when you don't have to live in it absolutely I mean and I think even during the COVID crisis you know there was this great phrase that we're all in this together and we're all in the same storm and as with that and with you know the current cost of living crisis and the health crisis yes there is a storm but some people are in nice fancy yachts and some people are hanging on to a piece of driftwood and that's the reality so the fact that we're in the same storm really doesn't apply and I think yes there is that danger no haven't said that would you want to be a TD would I want to be a TD no I don't care what the money is um and we do need to be able to have people of quality well I always said never but after that last electricity price increase and that you know you're almost would you sell your soul I don't know I wouldn't but I just I think we have to be careful there that there's something needs to change in the system because yes but no listen how many TDs are there John 168 or something I don't have any press right I don't have any press releases from any individuals or political parties screaming for change um at the moment and I suppose one would argue why would they okay one or two one or two on the left are doing that they're Paul Paul Murphy and uh one or two others okay I'd like to see them stand off I'd like to see them say this is wrong you know a long wait for that to happen you see a long long wait what people are annoyed of again I'm sorry to labor this point Emer but what people are annoyed of and people are texting in here is the the bosses of the electricity companies right are getting bonuses and they're getting rewarded right for what they are doing okay and for the money that they're bringing in for the company and we're asking maybe the likes of our elected representatives to do something about that it's it's unbelievable then in a recession you've got people who are making record profits and extra get earning extra even more money but the people were asking to hold the heads of these companies to her account are in the exact same boat they're in in the midst of getting a big bumper pay rise whilst everyone else is struggling so are they can are they even in a position to call out profiteering electricity companies because they themselves are making even more money as we head into a recession and as half the country's in fuel poverty and this is this is the problem and this is why I suppose you get to the root of it why we're so angry they're the only people that can do it because they they make the legislation they can make it they can break it they can change it they're the only ones we elected them to do that so if they don't do it um there's nothing like we've seen all through COVID like COVID was which we all know what it was for everybody it was torture and heart breaking for a lot of families but an awful lot of people actually made money of it there's all with somebody to make money out of the crisis so um yet I do believe that there should be more politicians crying out at the minute for this to change and they have to put the legislation in place to change this and there's absolutely that's the way it is in Ireland there's nothing else we can do bar that for them to change these companies so until they do that and maybe that's what we need to be and maybe this protest will be a good thing right and talk about that actually we'll talk about that because I'm interested to hear your views on this protest taking place later this month I can't believe it's September but it is uh and and what kind of turnout it might be and what might it achieve will hear more from Emer, Barbara and John and you of course listening wherever you are after the break declutter this summer with cherrymore kitchens and bedrooms inflation beating built-in wardrobe special offer get a two meter long wardrobe with two free mirrors built in for 1099 euro check us out online or book an appointment viewing in our donning all-town showroom today on 07497 25822 cherrymore more 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table and another just for balance every public servant is entitled to pay rise not just tds highlighting them specifically is unfair the inflation rate is over 9% at the moment public servants are getting 6.5% and that's over two years it doesn't even meet the cost of inflation let's not forget every citizen of this country is entitled to be a public representative but very few choose to do it and i'm delighted the public servants are getting a 6.5% increase but we also have to be conscious that the majority of people in donny gall many many of them currently on minimum wage with no prospect of any increase in their wages at all at all so as although 6.5% might not go as far as public servants want it's an awful awful lot more than uh many people who will effectively be taken a pay cut because of inflation will get right so there is this protest taking place uh in dublin on the 24th of september it's a protest for all apparently i'm not sure who specifically is organizing it it comes ahead of the budget barbara i was in conversation yesterday with paddy differ i get the sense the only reason a pro only way a protest like this it would make any difference you'd have to be in the hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets i think the government would be delighted if just like say 30 or 40 or 50 000 people turned out do you think there will be a big turnout barbara and do you think really it can make any difference i'd love to think that it could make a difference i think there's a few issues here one is people putting the diesel money into their car to drive there and the cost of that just the cost of getting to dublin is something that is going to put a lot of people off because they just don't have the spare cash but as you say greg unless there are overwhelming crowds in dublin unless dublin is brought utterly and completely to a halt with the number of people then it's nothing i think we we are really suffering from the fact at the moment that we feel our TDs are not listening to us and it's hard to see how they're going to listen to this i i i'd love to think that it would would shift the perspective but it's hard to see it in all honesty yeah what do you think emir i think if it's done right and if you say if the crowds come out um it's like everything we would have had money rallied to dublin uh in relation to farming issues over the past few years and the successful one for always the ones that were well attended um you know you really have to try and get them sometimes yeah if hope is spoken about unless it's hugely successful um and in that um i hope when they're going to dublin that they have um compiled a list or exactly what they want to see changed and they will not accept nothing else unless it is changed and unfortunately that's the only way you'll ever succeed in changing that and it's almost bullying them right red lines in other words not saying everything is everything is terrible the way you handled covid was terrible we're against that we uh you're saying that there has to be sort of specific almost red lines are targeted uh set of demands oh almost definitely um maybe two or three of the biggest issues for families but that's what it's going to be about and they have to go realistic um demands and not find the sky ones they really have to be taught out and look for that and run with that because you know um if you don't you can go up and you can stand up placards and we can give out and it'll be on the news tonight but if you don't actually ask for that specifically to be changed or legislation to be changed so you just come home again and things go on the next day of the family as they all did and people will go down to that protest not knowing really what provisions there are in the budget i find it uh i i i thought it's the way it is but i just find it remarkable that we have a group of people that we elected and someone said we didn't elect them but you know what i mean through the process right they have our money and they're going to divvy it out and it's almost like a secret we cannot tell you anything ahead of the budget we can't tell you whether you'll be better off uh how much buy in social welfare or we can't tell you how we might help you with your uh energy costs like it is a secret like we're children and we all have to sit and wait until the big day for the announcement it's like waiting on santa you know what i mean um that's how it feels you can actually know we have to probably wait on the public service or civil servants to have to have to have a reasonable notion and then you have this ridiculous situation where uh interviewees or whoever does the interviews can't ask what's in the budget but they have to ask would you be minded to do this and minded to do that uh i almost ripped the radio out of the the front of the car when i hear that nonsense uh bowing to to to those that's the rules again john macatier how many do you think will turn out how many do you think needs to turn out can it have any impact i mean you know yeah of course it has worked we saw what the don't at all make it group has done you mentioned patty diver uh people have to get very energized and i appreciate fully what barbara said there about the cost of phil macarre with peth lord easland going to double for the day many people won't be fit to afford that but they have to get there the age of protest in the last 10 to 12 years has has faded the last big protests we had were about the water charges doubling needs to be packed with at least 250 000 people and when you hear the prediction there this morning on morning ireland that uh come january families will be looking at energy costs of 6000 a year at 6000 that they simply can't afford and they have to take every appropriate measure to to try and bring that home to the government ahead of the budget i just listened to pascal donahue you referenced him there he was so pastoral this morning i thought he was going to break into morning prayer before he finished and he was not answering a single bloody question that he was asked and he has this methodology of being swabbed and smooth and twice ignoring the questions even was he interested in going to work from the european bank and all that kind of thing uh pascal donahue has had a very easy run as months for finance because even during the covert times money was provided there this country is rolling in money we could have had our executive returns uh this year could be well in excess of 100 billion that's a huge money last year we budgeted for just what gross budget was about 88 and a half billion this year it it will be substantially more than that even though there was a deficit last year of seven and a half percent to budget as they did last year there's really going to be a deficit of 1.5 billion there's no reason they can't go and but john if that if that if that money if that money comes from from corporation tax that's where it's at that's and this is a temporary tax really you're not supposed to do any long-term spending on on corporation tax receipts because they could go in the morning is that part of the problem is that is why we allow data centers to drain 15 percent of our entire electricity supply in this country is that why we we we go to bat for apple in europe to try and help them not pay us 15 billion which seemed like a lot of money at one point now it's kind of like it's kind of pathetic what they're doing here uh if we're going to foreign direct investment from america which we're doing by the buckerfield we're going to have to provide the the the infrastructure and that's the electricity for these data centers because you can't have one without the other they've known that for the last 10 years but the reality here is that uh at the end of the day well once this budget comes and goes like all budget days people will be still and their wages will be chasing inflation and the budget will not have served any real purpose that's why we need so many people to get energized to get out there don't sit there thinking there's nothing i can do it like you know we have to depend on the government it's almost as if you're waiting for a handout that should not be like that like that are we expressing the views do you think of the majority of people out there today in that you know we've got people listening to us that are are independent voters they're finna fall voters they're finna gale voters um like do you think finna gale and finna fall voters will take part in this protest like i don't have an allegiance to a party so i don't understand how that works like are people who support uh the government parties at the moment sort of screaming at the radio thinking that we're being biased that we're not being fair you know you can be a member of a parliament doesn't uh a party it doesn't mean that you agree with every decision that's the man like you know i did be i was on a few weeks ago with you with um the minister for agriculture i like i totally disagree with the decisions that were made there um and i still you know uh so no there'll be a lot of finna fall people and finna gale voters that you know would be of the same mindset they're they're just normal people you know you can be a member of a party but you can also be as i said you know um you might be on minimum wage you might be on slightly more um the middle of the road as i do always say the middle of the road um income families and they think it's quite a bit too um so yes a lot of them will evolve that doesn't mean you couldn't nobody's this thing at home this morning could sit there and say that there hasn't a change doesn't have to come it most definitely does and we're living in crazy time you know i do understand for our environment and for our future we have to make certain changes but some people and in some areas but we're been asked to make these changes as in turf and you cost everything and yes in other areas we don't seem to care what's happening in the environment you know i go back to my area and i'll speak about farming just for a minute and if you don't mind but you know in our area we've been asked to basically get rid of animals um to meet numbers and that's all they are and we're not allowed to produce beef or we've been told not to produce beef so we can import beef from another country like you tell me that that's how could anybody not that's sitting in power think that that's okay but why in recent polls show finnegales approval rating amongst the farming communities through the roof i think it was up around 60 or 70 percent how's that then yes it's really we'll we'll we'll see from the next election right okay fair enough i i i get what you're saying um emir a caller says every county um sorry there should be huge protests in every county and save the cost of travel to dublin and get all the media on board reporting it the truth this is though um the way it works you have to go to the seats of power which is in dublin it would have no impact at all um and i would say there would be more resources put into the old st patrick's day parade where they had the odd camera in slago and letter kenny and a couple down south um the only way to do it if if the odd to do it barbara is you have to go en masse to the capital absolutely i mean i think that is the only thing that's going to work i don't think local local protests are going to work at all it has to be an overwhelming amount of people in dublin if this is going to have any impact but you know just picking up on what emir was saying there and i agree so much with it this thing about telling farmers not to produce milk not to produce beef and then almost as if on the slide we bring it in back door from somewhere else but it's like well we're being seen to be doing what is right we're reducing what we're producing here we're reducing the number of animals to reduce you know gases and all the rest of it there's no joint up thinking there's no there's no connection doing with one hand and ripping it apart apart in the other in terms of bringing it in from other countries and the impact of that there's just no joined up thinking and in terms of an energy crisis there is no joined up thinking our politicians have to stop thinking about what is going to look like the right thing to do and what actually is the right thing to do and there can be a big distinction between the pair of those john this well anybody want yeah john this feels like a little bit of history uh because those involve repeating itself those involved in the crash the property crash would have you believe the narratives is there and i've heard it right is that we borrow too much money as consumers it was somewhat our fault and also decisions had to be made because of a global situation so in other words really there's nothing island in and of itself those that run the country could have done now we have a situation whereby on we have pasco donahoe talking about what europe might be able to do but talking about the world having its impact not not what the government can actually but what the world and europe needs to do and then we have me or martin telling us to use less electricity as if it's our fault for boiling the kettle too often okay i'm not saying that's what he's saying but that's how it might feel we're back into this cycle again aren't we where it's it's it's the it's the world's fault and it's our fault you know do we no word of the data centers need to pull back on their electricity usage it's that we need to pull back on our electricity usage one of the proposals is an extra tariff between what is it five and seven or like yeah we can't we can't avoid that because we get up in the middle of the night and do your washing and all that yes but even if we do do that there's no way for us to avoid unless you have a smart meter and your company is actually regulating your electricity in that way even if you do your washing at night there's no way of avoiding the extra charge of of power between seven and nine because essentially our analogy type system couldn't determine that so again that the point i was going to get to you john and sorry for the long-winded question it's again sort of being structured like it's our fault it's europe's fault it's russia's fault but the government can't do anything they're just trying to deal with this impossible situation that's landed on their lap we used to hear that governments who are too long in power became institutionalized i don't think i've ever seen a government they're really in power two years and they're totally institutionalized it is just the government by public relations that's why at the start and leo veracchio is the man that started this they employ the best pr brains in the country to produce the spin that they expect us to buy a it's always a good idea i think they need to look at their hires i'll be honest with you i mean if this is what if this is what the best in the country get you how robert trey and the government dealt with that situation if that's what the the the top pr people get you i think you really need to to have a look at the situation that is part of the spin no matter what bubbles up on the on the can i tell you what the problem is john and sorry to interrupt you yeah the a lot of journalists in doblin and a lot of people working in in for pr gets sucked into the bubble we were talking about at the start of this program i suppose they do but like the government has the most professional pr system and one of the most expensive of any government ever in all the brains and irish journalism are literally working for them and i mean the reality is that they come out with a press release to have a sheet of paper there they're reading off of no matter what question you asked pascal donny is a symptomatic of this i mean he's he's so pastoral that ended his talking to you and every minister takes personal responsibility for everything what exactly does that do what what does steven donny was talking to the media yesterday he took personal responsibility for not registering his property with the with the tenancy board it does mean very very little because we have a three-way government a press board most of them are playing into a particular agenda about reducing the carbon footprint and global warming and all that but that is not working because the people out there who are going to be forced with 42 euro i mean at the moment some people are being quoted for a bag of cold pensioners can't afford that the government must see that and if they don't that's how we need all of those people marching and doubling the country is full of unions and strong union members and this is where they should be but unions have had it quite easy in recent years because there hasn't been any inflation it's only in the past year that this nasty word of inflation that we live with through the 80s you know when you're taking home less than 20 percent of what you're earning because i was one of them when i worked with the HSE in recent years there's been a sort of a coming together of union heads government and the whole process of negotiating wage deals Bertie Hearn was the man that saw the way through negotiating that give them everything they want then we'll take it off them the next week okay you mentioned steven donnelly here just think this is important to mention right because he describes himself as an accidental landlord you know he had also the memory lapse that his party colleague Robert Troy has now the significance of this and you have been talking about this already this hour he called in the doll as an accidental landlord he called in the doll for different tax treatments for accidental landlords it was under his proposals raised from 2014 to 2017 he believed that accidental landlords would be entitled to tax exemptions on their rental incomes so that is a minister who is an accidental landlord who forgot to register his property spending three years at different times lobbying for tax breaks for accidental landlords now Barbara you know i don't think you have to be a cynic to see a problem there there's a massive massive problem with it i also think there needs to be some sort of medical study of memory deficiencies amongst td's and ministers because i mean it's getting ludicrous at this stage but you know eber mentioned it earlier on there are serious conflicts of interest here when you have somebody who is a landlord and they're also lobbying for better deals for landlords there are serious issues there when you look at the crisis for all these students who are going to be looking for accommodation now next week in Dublin and Galway and cork and here in letter Kenny um we really need to clean this up and i think we need to get the tds out of that particular arena i don't think and you know it's it's not on right well talking about your problem your problem there you see is that those Barbara and i agree with everything you see there's the people who are making the rules and the laws and how do you change them i mean i don't take a real sea change to to to bring about any difference do any of you do any of you believe that a chin fed shin fame led government in coalescing with whomever it might be could actually make any difference in two election cycles does anyone believe that that that or we just be directing our anger in a different group of well-paid people yeah these are all on mute joke yeah no i believe a a strong finna finna finna gale a party in government could make an immense chin fame government you mean a strong finna one shin fame led government really yeah i do believe that because they have the talent and have the initiative and they've never been in government in the history of the state for over a hundred years it's almost incredible unbelievable i'm not saying that i want to see them in government uh that's a matter for the public to but i i think they can bring a whole new dimension of thinking and experience into how politics is done first of all and to sort of promote the changes that they want to deliver but do you know but john but bud say for instance in terms of the council and i know it's a different structure but you have the executive that make the decisions and then counselors can sort of have their say in call for this that the other and get motions passed and whether the past or not you know whatever happens is it not somewhat similar will we not be hearing the same stuff that the system is so broke it's going to take a couple of elections to change it so we can start seeing a very well do but like it's worth i think it's worth trying that right okay and like like in my opinion i i felt that we voted for that changed the last time maybe not in strong up words because uh shin fane was the majority party and that was that on the other two parties conspired to keep the mitre fair play to them for pulling up over over ish Barbara you didn't jump in there yeah i'm i'm not convinced because i think shin fane have had a long time we've been able to promise you know chocolate hobnobs on trees because they have been in the position of having to deliver it um so i'm not convinced um even just the way that they vote in terms of some housing stuff on that again there's that disconnect i'm i i don't think there any magical solution now it could be interesting to see possibly maybe a fina fall shin fane coalition where you would have that you know maybe you'd have a bit of a challenge there and you'd have some ideas coming in from shin fane but without giving them full reign on it either i think i think we need to be realistic nobody has a magic wand yeah there's a lot of people grassroots fina fall people that i would talk to that would actually be okay with uh that type of a coalition and aren't sometimes too happy when it's ruled out uh for a majority member of fina fall are you i'm not that it really matters but to ask you then do you think shin fane can change things i don't know but what is your view um i think a lot of the time politics is i could be experts of this but it's kind of like a game as such you know if you're um sitting in the doll and you're a tv you have to vote the party whatever way your party's voting i think that's what needs to change more so than the party because you know at the end of the it doesn't matter what party you're right your vote should change yeah it's quite interesting because on big issues instead of getting 168 views that represent a broad demographic we get five or six lines yeah we get five or six points of view really yeah well that's all you get um and you see anybody that breaks that chain you know you lose your whip or whatever if you're not alive hold against the party so i'd like to see that change more so than um who goes into government and then it should matter you should have if you have whatever amount of tv sitting on the doll their view when the vote on something should be their view it should not be and if you change that system uh then it wouldn't matter what parties you really had in there so um yeah look at shin fan been a fault it really doesn't matter to me i just like i believe that that's where it needs to change more so than who's sitting in government okay that's you uh listen always a pleasure email thanks so much for accepting our invite and coming on the show again i appreciate it greatly have a minute take care of yourself um also uh barbara ukal thank you for your time this morning it's been great having you on the as part of the panel thank you very like it okay slan augus uh john macketeer thank you again uh we had so much more to get through but you saw yourself john how uh the conversation took hold there but thanks for your time and your um your opinions and what have you john thank you as well great all right take care of yourself thank you very much indeed okay that was our friday panel and you've been commenting as well 08 660 25 000 your whatsapps and texts coming in on that number we'll get to uh some of those uh a call assess mcginley coaches go uh down every day a lot of people will be going to the protest with them indeed but you would probably need 10 15 000 from donagall and every county really for it to start having impact i'd imagine maybe seven or eight thousand um if if other parties were in government there'd be a there would be a shambles fix everything in their head that's all that's i think a really valid point of view because people you can promise this on the moon and the stars but can you deliver um isn't emir meginis a member of fina4 therefore part of the problem not the solution will you hurt emir's own comments in relation to that and last before we take the break for the news and then we'll catch up afterwards things will not change until the people realize that only they have 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michaelhannies.com until september 17th while stocks last live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's 10 o'clock donal kavner at the highland radio news task education minister norma foley is congratulating over 61 000 students receiving their leaving cert results this morning in donnie gall there were 2151 people registered to sit the leaving cert exams in june a further 99 were registered to sit the leaving cert applied as of now the results are available online through the candidate self-service portal students are also able to receive the results in person through their schools first round ceo offers are being made on next thursday minister foley says it's a major milestone it's a great achievement for them and i'd like to congratulate them and acknowledge really that the past few years have not been easy for them but this wonderful cohort of students have met every challenge along the way so today is such a significant and happy day for them and i'd like to thank them and to thank their parents and families and indeed the school staff who supported them every step of the way the hsc says while it's mindful of the challenges facing the child and adolescent mental health service it is making progress at the end of june this year there was one young person in donnie gall waiting more than a year for an initial assessment that compares to zero for the same period last year however in total at the end of june there were 118 young people on the donnie gall cams waiting list waiting less than 12 months for an initial assessment this compares to 165 for the same period last year that's a fall of 28 percent across the whole of the community health care calvin donnie gall leitrimona and slago region there was a total of 417 young people awaiting initial assessment at the end of june that compares to 422 for the same period in 2021 the hsc says donnie gall calms continues to deliver and improve upon high quality services despite all the challenges that the service is facing detectives in derriere appealing for information following reports of shots fired at a residential premises in the joys court area of the city last night just after 20 to 11 police received a report that four mastermen had attended a residential address and fired shots at the front door with more here's tom douglas officers attended the property last night and spoke to occupants who reported that four masked men had arrived and fired shots at the front door two adults and a young child were present at the time of the incident but there were no reports of any injuries detective sergeant valentine said inquiries into this incident are ongoing he appealed to anyone who was in the area at the time and saw any suspicious activity or who may have cctv footage captured or any other information which could assist to contact police on 101 the finance minister has hinted planned carbon tax increases could be up for discussion ahead of the budget legislation would suggest the tax would be increased in the upcoming budget but the ongoing energy crisis has raised further questions electric arland yesterday raised its prices for the third time this year with an additional 450 euro added to the average customer's annual bill finance minister don who says all taxes will be up for discussion ahead of the budget letter this month but reiterated he is in favor of carbon tax as a whole what we will do in relation to all taxes which we do every year in the budget is we will assess where we stand with those individual decisions and then make a decision on budget day regarding their future i'm absolutely committed to carbon taxation i believe it's invaluable in funding and helping our country transition to a new and better future with a forecast met here in tell us it'll be rather cloudy today with some hazy sunny spells some showers around this morning lots of dry weather though but in the afternoon showers will become more widespread they'll merge to give longer spells of rain particularly this evening top temperatures today 17 to 21 degrees celsius moderate breezes varying in direction it'll be cloudy and wet overnight with outbreaks of rain heavy at times lowest overnight temperatures 11 to 14 winds moderate to fresh southeast in direction tomorrow morning we'll see rain continue to gradually push northeastwards the afternoon we'll see some sunny spells with rain confined to the north coast top temperatures on saturday a little lower 14 to 17 degrees celsius that's very good news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock good morning obituary notices for friday morning september second the death has taken place of sister jared mcgloughlin sisters of mercy sin catherine's convent balie shannon late of dr muggle termin shannon reposing at st catherine's convent balie shannon tomorrow from 2 p.m until 6 p.m walk through only please removal on sunday morning going to st patrick's church balie shannon for 11 a.m funeral mass with burial afterwards in the abbey cemetery family flowers only inquiries to john mcgee and son's funeral home the death has taken place in connecticut usa of martin gallagher kary kataskan wedore removal to rorty's funeral home dairy bag via factory road today to arrive at 4 30 p.m wake from 4 30 p.m to 8 p.m with rosary at 8 p.m and tomorrow from 3 p.m to 8 p.m with rosary at 8 p.m funeral mass in st mary's church dairy bag on sunday morning at 11 a.m with interment afterwards in maher agallan cemetery funeral mass can be viewed live on cairn rorty funeral director's facebook page family flowers only please donations and lou to the kevin bell repatriation trust care of any family member the death has occurred of pat roan 116 marine drive kelly bags remains reposing at his residence from 12 noon to 10 p.m today and tomorrow removal from his residence on sunday morning at 10 30 a.m to st mary of the visitation church kelly bags for 11 o'clock funeral mass burial afterwards in the local cemetery mass will be streamed live on mcn media dot tv house private on the morning of the funeral please family flowers only please donations and lou if desired to the oncology ward slago university hospital care of any family member or mcburte funeral director's the death has occurred of garvin mcfadden the links c.p.m and faken county love and formerly of raff mullen county dunigall reposing at his home today from 2 o'clock until 8 o'clock removal tomorrow morning at 11 30 a.m to the church of the immaculate conception term and faken arriving for funeral mass at 12 noon which can be viewed live on term and faken parish dot ie burial afterwards in holy cross cemetery sheet land road family flowers only donations if desired to the irish cancer society house private tomorrow morning the death has occurred of marion douglas knee roger lehna trawl sin johnson marion's remains are reposing at her late residence funeral leaving from her late residence tomorrow morning at 10 15 a.m going to st columbus church tomorrow for 11 o'clock recreation mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only donations and lou if desired to the dunigall hospice letter kenny care of any family member or kelly's funeral directors the death has taken place of jimmy collin devlin rey karigart remains reposing at his late residence funeral from there tomorrow morning going to the church of st john the baptist karigart for a regular mass at 11 a.m fall by interment in the adjoining cemetery the death has occurred of pat mehan 39 ashlon letter kenny formerly of kill cloney port new pats remains are reposing at his late residence funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 a.m in the church of the irish martyrs letter kenny funeral mass can be viewed live on the parish facebook page family time from 11 p.m to 9 a.m and on the morning of the funeral family flowers only donations and lou if desired to the irish community rapid response care of any family member or james mcginnis and son's funeral director the death has occurred in birmingham england of divot ewing formerly of the cura killie gordon requiem mass will be celebrated for divot in st patrick's church crossroads killie gordon tomorrow morning at 11 a.m interment of ashes afterwards in the family grave in the adjoining church yard the requiem mass will be streamed live on st patrick's church crossroads killie gordon facebook page and the death has taken place of robbie berkeley town parks convoy reposing at gibson's funeral home convoy today from 6 p.m to 10 p.m funeral from there tomorrow at 12 noon for service in st nillian's parish church convoy at 12 30 p.m with burial afterwards in the family plot in the adjoining church yard for more details including any family health guidelines for wicks and funerals please go to highland radio dot com with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the nine to noon show on highland radio and 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and director of dcu national anti-bullying center joins us on the program now good morning james thanks sir good morning good morning all your listeners um the thing with with an issue like bullying even if we maybe just focus on on schools for a moment uh at james and i'm wondering what your view is on this my experience working on a program like this and dealing with with parents and guardians is is that it can vary greatly from school to school you'll get one school that has an amazing policy um very um you know strict sanctions if bullying happens even outside the school and they're enforced and you know what it does create this atmosphere where people can be themselves uh get a go along with their everyday life and not feel under pressure at school but it's not the same in every school you hear stories of other schools where someone said they were bullied and next thing their life is made even more of a misery and then they end up switched in schools the bully stays on moves on to the next victim is that part of the problem that there's there's nothing uniform here it really varies yeah i think you've described the situation um quite well there and um you know the part of these the issue is that our schools are not uniform they are linked to local communities they're they're populated by different people with different strengths and weaknesses so it is hard to have a uniform approach across the whole system and in Ireland we have about three and a half thousand schools um even just a primary level so so one of the things that the government is trying to do is to bring in a new action plan later on this maybe next month and that they've been working on for the last year to try and give schools the resources and the guidelines to at least achieve a minimum standard in terms of response and also that that variability in response as i said is is often linked to people um having different skill sets and different understandings and different um anxieties around this issue of school bullying so there's a bit of work to be done there in terms of upskilling people and educating teachers and s and a's and other school stuff um it do we need to define more clearly what bullying is um it's been described by some as a serious public health concern i think to others it's a you know you grow up quick it's part of everyday life toughen up a little bit it sets you up for your adult life uh so do we need to really be more clear in our definition of what bullying is in terms of public health yeah absolutely i think what you've described there are two different realities that are often called bullying and they're not the same thing of course we need to develop a resilience so that we can take some of the knocks in life that that come along but those kind of knocks are not bullying that's just part of living and having to deal with you know conflict and the challenges of life bullying on the other hand is is very clearly for me to find as um harm that's caused to an individual by repeated aggressive negative acts and where there's a power difference so um so when we assess whether something is bullying or not they're the qualities that we look for in the experience and i think in the new action plan from the government later later on this year we'll see a reaffirmation of what exactly bullying is and and that will help schools then to tackle that at my time if you were bullied at school at three o'clock or quarters of four dependent on the school you got in the car and there was some respite until nine o'clock the next day you would almost pray that the person who was responsible for it would be off sick because that was a good day right now though now with with the cyber bullying element of this there is no respite for someone who is the victim of bullying and in fact in the school environment it might be one person and two people that hang around with them that could make your life difficult on social media someone can create an account and become far more braver in that space than they might in real life so in other words the pylons come even thicker and heavier in the evening and nighttime we can't sort of address bullying unless we do it across all of those areas including uh you know other spaces for young people you're absolutely right and you know we i don't even like to talk anymore about bullying and cyber bullying because the research that we are doing at DCU certainly shows and i think globally the research would say the same that young people are living their lives online and offline and if something starts offline it will make its way online and vice versa so the majority of bullying experiences that young people have online are actually related to someone they know from school or in their community and they they so it is much harder to deal with it the extent of its negative impact is much broader and wider and it can be harder for the person to escape because as we know online is 24 seven so it requires a response that um that that that is holistic in its approach in terms of looking at the one person's whole life and where they are the spaces they go to the people they relate to and then trying to tackle it within it within that yeah my concern though is that i just think we've we've moved on too far almost to go back i was listening to a national radio program last night or yesterday uh that we fund and i'm not asking you to comment on this but there was a person who had the audacity to speak to the news on that radio station but not on to a calling program on that radio station and because she made that decision for the next two hours she was name-checkered every single turn uh questions were posed that they would like to put to this person but she won't come on with us she won't come on we'll be back on to us she won't come on to us now i don't want to use the bullying word in that regard okay but if i was driving a car with young people listening on right and then i was trying to tell them how to treat people in a school environment and that's how uh people are treated on the the the state-funded national airwaves you know i i just wonder really if we've gone so far that we can't go back yeah i i think you're you're right there is it there's a need for a new form of etiquette for how all of us behave online so and that's across the media across society schools and family life community and and some of some of the kind of media and the way that we behave in media that that that's out there you know can be described sometimes as a pile on our bullying behavior and i think we need to check ourselves as adults what kind of role models are we for children and young people who are coming up to our schools and our families um so so um and it gets very difficult when you get into public discourse and people are public officials and people expect certain things from them but it shouldn't change the way that we behave and the kind of etiquette that we have around communication in the public sphere and we really really conscious about what kind of message and what kind of example we're setting for younger people yeah for sure because it was full of misquotes paraphrasing and i was really really uncomfortable that this is where we're at because you know that would be the criticism of of certain far lefts or far rights whereby you don't agree with someone so you hound them to the point that they have to go away you know there's a similar story where a boss company wouldn't come on a program and their sponsors were mentioned and this is on rt this is on the state broadcast this is not having to go with rt but i'm just saying when we sit down to have a conversation with our children we have to make sure that we aren't ourselves party a party to this type of behavior let me put it to you like this too as well um uh james you know we've been talking about the financial situation earlier on in the first hour of this show and we were talking about the government needs this the government means needs to do that and we're helpless okay this will make sense in a moment i hope in this area right we can call on the government like we're doing now to do more or they're actually doing but a lot of this isn't our hands as people as well this is something that we don't necessarily we need legislation maybe but if we all did our bit maybe we could start making an impact ourselves without always looking to nanny yeah it's it's a bit of both um so what the government can do um through the new action plan and bullying is facilitate us in um how we relate to people and how we cope with and how we tackle and prevent bullying from occurring but ultimately it comes down to interpersonal relationships and and how people abuse their position in that relationship or not but you have to go back to why do why do we're talking about children and young people today and and why would they engage in bullying behavior and you know what we know from our research is that it can sometimes be because of a fear of or lack of understanding for um diversity um i'm uncomfortable with how you look or the way you talk and i'm not used to that so i might act out around that it can be a technological reason they're just they're sloppy and not good at using technology or they're communicating on technology it can be because of a psychological issue um maybe learned behavior from their family home he who shouts loudest gets their way and all of these are reasons why somebody might engage in bullying behavior so at a very local individual interpersonal level that has to be tackled so the government's role is just to create an environment in which it's seen as an important thing to um to to tackle and then maybe give us some guidelines and resources around that okay um and um i've and i kind of reference these conversations regularly when we talk about bullying you know i've spoken to men and women in their 60s and 70s that went through a tough year in national school or at the start of secondary school they remember every incident they and it impacts on them and has their entire life and the people responsible for for the bullying probably don't even remember them from from school but that's that's the way and bullying can affect people and it can have that lifelong impact finally james not just it can have a far-reaching impact on the person who's the target of the bullying behavior but also on their family and on the people who witness are aware of the bullying whose research now show that the people who are bystanders to bullying behavior can have experience negative impacts later on in life nearly in a post-traumatic stress situation so it's the the the impact of a bullying experience is far-reaching in our society and in individual lives thank you so much for your time this morning i really appreciate it take care of yourself that's professor james o higgins norman who's uniscoe uh unesco chair on track tackling bullying in 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i beg your pardon the club wishes him a speedy recovery while thanking the medical personnel who assisted him guardian making inquiries into the incident while ross common g a is investigating the matter okay so i want to make sure that we give this the the level of attention um that it is justified and to help me with that of course you go to someone who knows their stuff brendon the venue presenter of the deal debate and everyone knows his sporting uh background so i suppose from the off this is we'll condemn this outright of course brendon but i just want to get a sense of uh is this a once off really and maybe not a true reflection of what referees has to go through what goes on on the pitch or is this really what happens when we allow sort of an attitude uh towards referees and and and what have you to to fester you know i think that's taboo into incident greg definitely as a well as a very rare which listen if it wasn't you know our games would cease to exist very shocking to hear it very sad to hear it you know you often hear about the the abuse and the stupid calling and the variables that come at refs but thankfully the physical stuff there there has been all physical altercations but at this level this guy had to go to hospital i mean kevin knocking i mean he's going out you know and what must be a hobby and and a past time for him and an under 17 game as well greg you know all those young lads growing up in the young men you know there's there's so much to play here you're like it's such a horrible incident i mean for the fella himself and his family and that as soon as it came out i mean i got reports i got the whatsapp now initially it was saying he was struck and then there's other reports coming out saying that he was poised and he fell the ground and that doesn't add up greg i mean he's on a pop-up pitch he don't get poised and fall the ground the pop-up pitch and end up in hospital so that wee aspect of the of the footage is missing but of course you have witnesses everywhere now you're talking to people from down there greg the fella in question that that's supposed to carried out this assault he goes by a nickname of psycho which uh mightn't help matters a lot i mean i hear he's a real fiery character and um so so this i mean of course it has to take its course the refs have gone and strike and lost common until sunday night uh in in response to this you know greg but it's i suppose it's not really a lost common thing or or like anything that the refs can do it really is an educational thing and it's just a sad answer that they haven't i'm not sure if this is a situation we developed ourselves or inherited it from from uh the english game of soccer but it seems abuse of referees and lines people is part of it it seems to be okay for them to be the the lightning rod for people's anger you know uh now there's a big difference between shouting come on ref uh but also some of the variables i've seen it at an under 12 game the verbal abuse of referee got to the point he actually had to just storm off the pitch and jump straight in the car in a way i think it was under 12 a car remember the exact format so it's at all levels and sometimes it's the parents and sometimes it's the coaches that are involved so what do we do how do we change this culture then it's interesting as you said on that happened on their age max uh great because if it's starting there and the kids are seeing it how is it ever going to stop you know i don't think it's possible that they ever stop it i think as much as we can i mean there's been different things ruled out from the g you know give respect get respect you know i interviewed two of our top refs last year shumis mcgonigal and enda mcfeeley and enda had considered you know quitting because of the constant crap that they listened to and as shumis was saying that night enda is highlighted by our ulster council as one of the best refs in the province you know um is giving ulster club games and that so you know here's somebody in dunnegall then that's that's getting abused from people and he's been regarded as one of our best refs so you know he has decisions to make in the pitch of course people get get upset about that but as you said come back the underage very good has to start there and there has to be i suppose uh it has to be compliant that everybody has given a certain amount of respect and once that line is drawn i think the games have to be stopped at on the raise level in particular they'd be at least better than to the younger people that this isn't acceptable now there was a big survey carried out just recently actually by no break to the ulster university and it's the first one of its kind but they actually surveyed refs about verbal and physical abuse 95 not surprisingly said they did verbal abuse and i would love to know who the five percent was that that wasn't great because you think well they were probably thick skinned or something and they probably thought it's part of the game they might even enjoy it do you know and i don't mean that many but do you know people are different you know yeah i know what you mean right you're not taking a board the person isn't actually maybe shouting at you he's shouting because he he or she is probably frustrated in their own life first and they're taking out a bit of that grievance on a game where the with it with our heart starts racing and they get involved but only three percent of refs said they did some kind of physical abuse which maybe would surprise a lot of people great but you know i think this is the first time we've had figures now they're not that different from the soccer figures from from britain and from the rest of europe they're slightly higher but i think now at least if you're on about plans and if the geys but the plan together i think now if you have figures at least then you have something to work of course yeah but listen the obvious example so i might as well go for it is is rugby do you know what i mean whereby there's there is it's might so we know there's a there seems to be a built-in level of respect there between the players and the ref whether they like them or not i'm not sure that the i haven't been to a live rugby game so i'm not sure how much the crowd get on the back of the referee so we have sports where the same people probably go to them but their interaction and reaction to the referee is very very different you'll also see you know like say for instance to a lesser extent in the likes of boxing where people shout ref but it's not it doesn't get as personal or as targeted and certainly doesn't get as physical in what i've seen so maybe taking rugby is the most obvious comparison what is the difference there why would why is there a different atmosphere in a stadium or around a pitch in a rugby game versus a gea or soccer game yeah the rugby one always comes up Greg and it's it's not a like-for-like comparison simply because i mean soccer is a like-for-like person you see some of the things go on they'll tell you the difference in rugby is most of the files are very clearly defined and most of the time the two teams are away from each other and when a file happens it's fairly straightforward and one team steps back the other team steps and soccer get everybody's undermining them in terms of tackling and where they are in the pitch and plus there's very different i suppose outlooks on what is a foul in geilik and what isn't a foul and and that's why i think rugby people just take the other that wasn't offside or that was a knock on and so their their their files tend not to be as controversial or not to be as as heated in terms of people see things a different way and i think the most likely comparison is as with soccer because of the game there's a same type of thing happening there in terms of how the games are played and as you say there's a similar amount of abuse going on from their reports as well yeah but back to the underage level you know often you'd have a ref who's on the pitch on their own probably like me you know i can't do 100 meters dash in under 10 seconds uh you know so there's an official linesman they're running trying to follow uh maybe they've just done a girls game onto a boys game maybe they're doing over 18s that the next night or whatever but whatever about the young ones they will see what the coaches in the crowd are are doing and saying and and that if we can't get that right i don't think really there's much talk a point skipping on to under 17s you know what i mean if we're not getting the very young ones to have that respect and understanding and to shake hands with the ref at the end of the game i think as you've said it that's really where we need to start then is it yeah yeah i don't get to see the last few championship games i've been at i actually haven't seen much abuse at all going towards refs and that and um i'm hoping that it's that it is changing that but the people are copping on it but we've seen like we spoke to you before about deck and bonus departure and in general a lot of kind of bent that anger out there different things personal stuff yeah it's it's misplaced now the g obviously are always having plans they have a four-year plan at the minute you know and in that there's a big recruitment drive for refs and there's an an aspire side of it for respect but i think these types of reports and these things are all well and good great but they need to be actioned and followed up and i think the g a often have maybe a what like a wish list and the president comes in and we want to do this we want to do that you know where is the meat in this you know and i think that's why i say that report is something now i think we need to work towards work towards but as you said here in that story even you said about a ref leaving and on the right thing i mean that's absolutely scandalous uh for me you know because uh you know no ref no game simple as that and these guys are out but like the players trying to do the right the right job and listen people can get a bit upset about stuff but always think just where you're at even in the crowd right if i see a a grown man shouting the ref or maybe uh throwing out a few uh choice words i always think of the kids around and that's where you're at that's where it has to start and i think that's where what the g a need to do to focus in on that that respect and really have that message guys not just that it's out there on the website or something but actually go in and engage with clubs and make sure that they're on the range and they've just got rid of uh they got rid of taking the knee for example in in uh england uh the premium recently because it was happening every day it was losing every match it was losing its impact the message was being lost uh and and now they're sort of gonna use it only um on certain matches so the message has gotten across there and it reminds me a little bit about some of the the buzzwords that you've uh inspired or the other sort of little things that are being launched here at the end of the day unless it's this action it makes you feel like you're doing something but you know people just hear the words and and move past it and and and nothing changes so all right listen brandon as always thanks for your insight chat to you uh monday take care of yourself all right now bernie good morning to you yes great hi are you i am good now you had a young person tell us the story bernie well i suppose this had evoked a lot of uh sort of memories for me this morning this came up on my news feed and i made a comment about it and then i just happened to put on the radio and i heard that brandon was coming on and you know as somebody that goes to matches nearly every week i have to say as a mom who is my sole aim in this world is to protect the well-being of my child that i brought into the world he may be 21 now but i mean it is sometimes war greg that's all i can describe it i just find it very very difficult as as a mom to watch and um you know he's at maybe maybe senior levels are different it was a club match and you know my my response this morning on facebook was i think there's temporarily temporary and sanity and psychopathic tendencies to people or men who are otherwise decent human beings it's like a red mist now i don't know what you do about that i don't know how we change that as a society it's hard to know about it because i'm sure in the dressing room you know um i'm not talking to the instance involving your son but in the dressing room does the management not build them up and say right we have to go out and take this we have to grab it but you know they're built up and they're built up in the community in the week leading up to the game and i suppose it's it's channeling channel channeling that emotion into you know acceptable aggression and determination but not anger and not anger and violence 100 and and i think at home you know we well i i certainly would teach that to my son he's got a beautiful talent and you know and a lot of the times i suppose that can be the target um for for the incident with with my son it was he was just 20 at the time and um after about eight minutes of the game um i watched to the side it wasn't particularly bad but i suppose you know i have to be honest here and say it as i see it i feel that people or or our boys that um a man that have maybe a wee bit more talented or faster you know it's like well he needs to be taken out yeah you see that at county level yeah no no you see it at county level like that happens so what happened to your son's you're at the game bernie are you i was at the game and you know and i and i go now with trepidation week after week really just for safety so after eight minutes um it looked like maybe a shoulder um the other boy was rolling i suppose you know there's always that sort of antics but my son wasn't rolling and uh i sort of looked down and ran down myself seeing a very white face and um he went to try and stand up and he just couldn't get his feet and he buckled again and fell and um uh you know and i sort of felt like you know maybe a hysterical mother on the sideline but anyway eventually um and like there was no there's no fault here but it was just like like that maybe they didn't realize the severity but anyway what had actually happened was he got you know a shoulder but it went into his chest however that happens but that's what it was told and the shoulder he ended up having fractured punctured lung and he ended up having a regular heart you know his heart was really thrown off with the force of the impact now as i was walking down the sideline a man had said to me please please take your son right away into hospital as it transpired he had been a teacher in Dublin and had seen a similar incident where the young fella had a cardiac arrest and died my son we got him eventually to hospital where he started to cough up blood it was an absolute life changing for me as his mom as you can imagine he was a weekend hospital yeah a weekend hospital and all the bad entails and then these are regularities and his heart and i had gone from not to 90 he's back playing he loves the sport he it took him about maybe five months to you know completely rehabilitate after such an injury and i just said for me there's something so deep within me to just to say stop this nonsense because i had gone as far as i could i went and rang you know everybody that would listen to me about the incident and they were very nice to achieve sorry bernie what we hope to achieve with the calls you know like what would you you felt like doors were being closed in your face but what did you what what did you want to come from your representations i want to eradicate this nonsense that is taken somebody out of the game or like that with a wrath that it doesn't matter at all costs you one there has to be something at a at a fundamental level that we have to start when my boy started it was fun you stood at the sideline i know there was fun there was banter there was rivalry rivalry between different parishes or different clubs oh my god that is gone it's anger it's aggression sometimes i move away from the sideline because of what i hear shouted to ref and shouted to players i don't know it's like it is in san iday i would never want a mom or dad to have to go through what we went through i was so scared but you're still going through it though because you're still wondering on the sideline you know is there lasting a lasting impact from this might it happen again is he particularly vulnerable in that area to a knock i'm sure all of those thoughts constantly go through your head going forward absolutely and i think i hope somebody doesn't know and now target that area where they know where it hurts um you know maybe it's it's i suppose as as human beings people i grew up in a family where five brothers have played football and i'm not saying it was perfect then it was anything but and there was a certain amount of accepted bogery is all you could say but i think we've moved past that we have changed in so many ways to make things better as much as we can regarding sport and when i spoke to the our county board manager i said what would it have taken that day for ron and would have taken him to die for there to be a change to say you know i got the rep report i seen the video and they were saying it's a contact sport if he's going to be in contact you know that's just he was just unfortunate i felt for me and for him i felt it was a bit more than that yeah and with what you're being told what you went through uh what your son went through is just collateral damage in other words you know if you want to play this sport you have to accept it that's likely but you say the intent here the intent here was to take him out of it it wasn't uh two people going in for a ball it wasn't a slip he he i'm guessing yeah he's a star player and what do you do you you get them out of the game early okay uh well i hope you don't target it and yeah yeah you know there's a slight delay 21 years of age there's a slight delay on the line so but we've got through burning did you try and discourage him from playing tell the truth shame the devil yes that's what it was coming to next he's a great athlete and uh you know and i was saying i know what um i know there what brand who was saying about statistics but you know i i'd say a lot goes on recorded in gaelic i can only say that from my mum's stamina the straight line because when you read the report from the match and you say really it is i don't know i don't know i think that was exactly different i mean not to get into too many details but there's matches where they're battered they're blue you know nips and it's just where does that change we bring up our sons as moms and daddies and fathers to do the best there's you know we do it the best we can at home but it has to change but you don't see that if you watch the women's game you don't see that type of you know really really cynical foul as much where the intent is to hurt and remove a player from the game so it is almost uniquely uh in the male game bernie listen continued success for your son and um continued good health for him and for you uh i i'm i'm starting to wonder if you need a medical team around do you want the sideline at this stage bernie no i stay away stay away and breathe deeply all right take care of yourself bye bye lovely to chat to you thank you very much indeed bryan recormick sports and leisure your football specialist multi buy discounts on footballs from mitre adidas and o'neill's training equipment cones bibs water bottle sets you are complete range on bmc sports dot i have your team look the part with some adidas leisurewear new intrada 22 quarter zips with matching bottoms training packs 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from fur hill and stay off work for a week um and another uh greg the difference between rugby and soccer is that there is a great discipline in rugby they're gentle giants but you heard from brendan divany there he's suggesting that it's a different type of a game and there isn't that same game that's his point of view i'm not thoroughly convinced by that but uh as i say that's what brendan uh believes what do you think coming up in the next hour one of you listening who's purchased the ticket is going to win 10 000 euro in cash it's so exciting michael and fenula are going to be with us and loads of other guests as well stay right where you are it's 11 o'clock let's get a news update and say good morning amirain thanks greg good morning at dunigal td says he's been trying to advance a proposal to address the shortage of doctors in the country but the minister for health won't even respond to his emails deputy thomas pringle is urging steven donnelly to consider recruiting doctors 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vienna before but this time we traveled around went to salzberg and saw where mozart was born and more importantly where the sound of music was filmed let's get our let's get our fans research for this oh my god i actually was there spent the rest of the time then just you two big scenes from the sound of music i may have a problem very good well it's great to have you back michael you're glad to have your partner in crime back i'm sure aren't you no it's gone again tap that thing you screw the top of it it was working fine there yeah no no it's very temperamental right okay so also as i did i said already 10 000 euro being given away um a little later on it's very exciting isn't it yeah no it's great we've had a fantastic response to the to the draw competition whatever we want to call it and um it's just been amazing people who really have engaged with it and we've had four wonderful winners from all across the county which has been brilliant winning two and a half thousand each so i hope they've gone out and are spending it on something ridiculous um you know me that's my attitude and money that comes to you like this you should always just spend it on something completely crazy or uh uh just i don't know something you've always dreamed about doing i think you need to treat yourself that's my whole thing so today somebody can treat themselves really well after today's show because they'll have won 10 000 euros which is a fantastic amount of money with kids going back to school and us coming up to christmas and everything um yeah it's just fun it's a great amount of money to keep you going till the end of the year michael speak no that's even worse i don't know what's going on i'll sort you out uh in a second um right okay bring that one over there i can't do with the stress it's been one of those days already what about now no um right okay so i want to talk about michael flatley um his film because i think i can't remember exactly michael i think we wanted it to be better than the critics wanted it to be and you are kind of a critic but finnula you've been running through some of the reviews and the hilarious and and cruel and understandable i suppose yeah i well i have to say this is when that's slightly uh bad devil evil kind of comes out in me because i really want this to be as bad as one would assume it's going to be uh i it just screams this is going to be one of the worst nights in the cinema for ages and i cannot wait to go i cannot wait to go we were just talking about it before we came in and it starts tomorrow i think in uh oh today uh it starts today in uh in century and um if i get through the night without going to see it it'll be american when was the last time when was the last time there was a film like this where people wanted to go to it to see how bad it is and are prepared to go and have that experience could it become a cult classic what do you think michael yes no oh like yeah hold on you what's that like now uh this one here take that one two one two one two now we're in this one here yeah uh yes i'm convinced it'll be a cult classic i also think it'll be a financial hit because everybody wants to see it i can't wait we were chatting about it before we came in to chat to you Greg and uh yeah i i was like sometimes when we want to see a film myself in finnula we're like we go during the week Wednesday Thursday but we're both like will we just go this weekend will we just go tonight will we go tomorrow we want to see it so um and maybe we've seen there more than once yeah and the reviews are hilarious i've read a couple of reviews and they they talk of you know having how they cruel does it matter i mean they are cruel yeah they're completely cruel but i think it seems like he's made himself a target there's a certain element of i suppose pomposity when someone sets themselves up by making a movie where they're the super cool secret agent and you're like yeah but is that not what we all would dream of what i mean it's a little bit like seth you know he wanted to be captain because we made captain because he made he made his own show yeah well yeah he was just lucky that he had a modicum of talent that he was able to put into in that general area or surround yourself lots of talents like seth surrounded himself with x star trek writers and producers michael flatley has gotten a girl who played one of the us o dancers on a captain america that's the truth and i know no disrespect to that lady and her talent but it's she's the leading lady and it's not like i think i think that people will rally against critics and really really enjoy this uh no could it possibly be in an ironic way enjoy it ironically we don't know until we see it which is mainly the key thing is we may see it i may come back here saying that it is the best the best but i bet you both are excited to go and see it yes oh god yeah i can't wait to see it i can't wait i can't wait to see it and i would imagine that there's going to be an awful lot of people going to see it this weekend and whether or not they come out enjoying it or not because how many times have we come out for movies that critics have said and that's you know that they weren't any good or whatever but as i always say it's like when you go to the theater or you go to anything like that you never leave these things with everything being terrible in it you know what i mean they'll always be something there's a stellar cast in this bar michael flatley there is yeah is that is it a myth that at some point he dances and and knives fire out of his shoes has that been confirmed oh spoiler you're going to ruin the film for me reg that could be that but that was one of the things that they were talking about is that i mean it has to oh well one would assume he would have put that in specifically but i want to come in next week and i want people to say we went to see and it was the best crack do you know like how people maybe i've already made this reference while i was concentrating on this mics and stuff yep but do you know how people watch the eurovision and they love the campness of it of course they love the way it's i have this feeling that maybe he has the same type of thing maybe it's an ironic you can like something in an ironic way where you like it but you're aware of its i think that could happen with blackbird look i think my my only concern is is that while we're all liking it in an ironic way michael flatley is going to see that it's made a load of money and he's going to do a sequel and i'm just part of me admires him because like i say i think when you have a look when you have money like i'm saying about the you win the ten thousand you should just do something you really want to do of course don't you know what like in the james bond film he obviously just blow in his where one of the you know like david craig's really good at it do you know where you just have to sort of daniel craig sorry yeah you know where you have to sort of look at the camera and look a certain way yes don't do it seriously don't do it do it again go on into the camera we do into the camera well i'll tell you something great so you know that's not learned i think i think that's what separates you out to be the charismatic character to the gets these i just have a sense that he's going to spend an hour and a half or two hours trying that trying to look the smoldering yeah look but anyway okay yeah so do it does anyone want to run through the basic storyline i i could oh i don't know if i noticed anybody actually really i nothing i really i think he's he's an agent that's agent true love has has been killed or something he's not enough he's had enough he's retired to a sort of a castle blanket type set up a bar but there's a crisis and then he's in a hotel because there's a guest in the hotel who's a baddie yes and they pull him back in they basicall