to prevent further lives from being lost and to enhance the social and economic well-being of the northwest region. He says the government must also commit to upgrading the link roads on the Donegal and Monaghan sides of the border. Our motion isn't just about the A5, it is also about the connecting roads on either side of the border in terms of the A5. So the TEMT project, which is going before the Department of Government soon, is really important. That gets the green light in terms of that road from Lefford right into Leather, and also the only other end to the Contributary End in Monaghan. It's important that that is there as well. We can't just have a tool carried between the north and then deep into some standard roads on either side. Wouldn't four people in the Republic believe there will be a United Ireland within the next 10 years, according to a new poll published today? A survey conducted by Amarok Research for the European Movement found half of those surveyed north of the border believe a United Ireland will happen by 2033. It also found support for Ireland's continued membership of the EU stands at 88%, one of the highest approval ratings in the European Union. Amarok Honol of the European Movement in Ireland says perhaps the most surprising finding is that people in the north have greater trust in the EU and Irish government than they do in the UK government. In Northern Ireland, 44% of people trust the EU, 34% of them trusted the Irish government, whilst 22% of them trusted the British government. So regardless of whether people voted remain or leave, 44% of people in Northern Ireland trust the EU versus 22% trusting the British government. The Deputy Chairperson of the Regional Health Forum West says Celta and the HSE's efforts to streamline operations at letter Ken University Hospital must be acknowledged but is stressing it's very much a work in progress. Officials told Councillor Kieran Brogan in reply to questions that a local injury unit is operational in the emergency department at present and it's hoped that can be enhanced with more funding as part of the winter plan. The AISON officers are being appointed, measures are being introduced to help people who are frail and the Pathfinder Initiative is helping keep people out of hospital by treating them in their own homes. Councillor Brogan says the more people that can be kept out of the hospital, the better. We have a huge county in Donegal and everybody doesn't need to be going to the hospital. I think there's a role for everyone and that's from the GPs to the primary care centers right across all primary care to the hospital and then the community hospitals. The Ambulance Service plays a huge role in this as well. Now we have the new Pathfinder project that has been going on for the last number of weeks. Further showers today with some brighter sunny spells developing some low showers persistent and heavy with a slight chance of a thunderstorm becoming breezy again with moderate to fresh westerly winds. Top temperatures today 14 to 16 degrees Celsius and that's Highland Radio News. We're back with news again at 10 o'clock. Both in gardening or going for a new personal best. At Neurofen we know sometimes body pain can stop you in your tracks. Time for the power of new Neurofen long lasting. For body pain relief that lasts up to 12 hours day or night. So you keep doing what you're doing and we'll do the long lasting body pain relief. Up to 12 hours pain relief refers to a two by 300 milligram capsule dose. Neurofen long lasting 300 milligram prolonged release hard capsules contain iron proven for backache and muscular pain and period pain. Always read the label. The county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio and now it's time for the talk of the Northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you four minutes past nine Monday the 3rd of July 2023. We're back for another week with you here on the 9 till noon show. How was your weekend? I hope it was very well indeed. Had a beautiful day yesterday. Father Sean Daherty of course Sean Daherty presented a show here on Highland Radio in the mornings ever popular. Almost 30 years did I mention that yesterday he was ordained as a priest Father Sean Daherty now and that took place in St Eugene's in Derry and as I say very lucky feel very lucky to have been there and it was just an amazing day and an amazing story for Father Sean who will be a guest on this program all being well tomorrow morning. So if you're interested in hearing all about Father Sean's journey then make sure to tune in tomorrow but that's tomorrow we've a whole show to get through today with plenty coming up as well on this program. Let's start with the newspapers and we'll start with the Donegal news which leads with Father Sean's special day. Former Highland Radio presenter Sean Daherty has been ordained a priest at a special ceremony held in St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry. Hundreds of family members, parishioners and friends gathered for Father Sean's special day which was celebrated by the most reverent Dr Donald McKeown Bishop of Derry. Yesterday's celebration came just six years after Father Sean shock announcement to step away from his popular morning program here in Highland Radio to dedicate his life to God. Having been based in Rome since he was ordained a deacon last year it's expected that he'll be based in the Derry diocese now that he's ordained a priest. Father Sean is the first of three due to be ordained a priest in the Derry diocese this year. During the service Bishop Donald McKeown said Father Sean is being ordained at a time when there is so much discussion about the future of the church in Arland and indeed the Bishop made some interesting comments about the church bending to suits I don't want to misquote to me but bending just to suit you know modern ways of life and that the church in doing so would be built on a sandy foundation and what have you which I thought were quite interesting comments. But anyway once again congratulations to Father Sean who'll be on this show tomorrow for his first child I believe as an ordained priest. The Derry News this morning concerns have been raised surrounding the impact a Derry dump is having on local drinking water. Derry City and Straband district council will request Northern Ireland water answer questions about the mobile dump impact on drinking water following recent revelations the issue was raised at the monthly meeting of the council. Last month it was revealed that specialists brought in by Stormont now estimate that there is 1.6 million tons of waste at the dump 40% more than the previous upper estimate and I was chatting to lots of people yesterday and many of them Derry based Tyrone based who've pointed out since the sad closure of BBC Radio foil or partial closure I'm not really quite sure how you might phrase that that they've tuned into us which is great and welcome aboard thank you I've never formally welcomed those of you who switched to this show aboard and we're here for you as well too by the way so if you have any issues or topics that you wish to raise that are particular to your area please feel free to WhatsApp us and text us and call us we're here for you too from the north the number to WhatsApp protects is<PHONE_NUMBER>5000 or if you want to give us a buzz at 003537491 at 25000 but your calls comments and texts are greatly greatly appreciated and as I say I didn't really think as I probably should but I don't want to be dishonest and never really thought about it quite until I was chatting to people yesterday and it was lovely to talk to so many people as well onto the Irish Independent now and it's a it's a it's a one of those stories that's beyond comprehension if you were to allow yourself for a moment to put yourself in the in the position to Irish leaving search students on a post exams holiday in Greece with friends have died in what their school described as a devastating loss Andrew or Donald and Matt Wall former students of St Michael's College in Dublin died on the Greek island of loss at the weekend their former school yesterday confirmed the two deaths saying it was a day of immense sadness the two students are understood to have traveled to loss with friends late last week Mr O'Donnell just 18s understood to have gone missing on Friday his body was later found by a cliff just hours after his death was confirmed yesterday the tragedy was compounded when news emerged of the death of his classmate Mr Wall St Michael's College paid tribute to its two former students and said its thoughts were with the young men's friends who have experienced such a shocking loss over the last 24 hours and obviously what the friends have been through what the families are going through and will continue to go through as I say it's just very hard to even allow yourself to imagine what that must be like thinking on everyone involved there the Irish Times this morning the RTE story even though it didn't reference it early on's on the front of and inside all the papers again today and the Irish Times tells us that Ryan Tuberty is facing the prospect of being questioned in the eructus about the dealings with RTE after a door committee chairman said the broadcaster would be compelled to appear in Lester house if he declines to attend voluntarily as another critical week for RTE looms the government is preparing to give powers to an external reviewer to examine years of national broadcaster's financial records the intervention to be agreed on at today's cabinet meeting comes after the dolls public accounts committee heard claims that RTE had a slush fund for expensive sports and entertainment junkets that money came from the same UK barter account it used to funnel special payments to Mr Tuberty its highest earner for years and higher and it turned out of course as we know now much higher than we even thought the controversy began almost a fortnight ago when it was announced that more than 345,000 euro in hidden payments had been made to Mr Tuberty the former late late show hosted has since widened and concerns has intensified over lax financial controls and RTE and governance failing in its executive and board and of course now the focus is on other presenters and their deals with car manufacturers or car suppliers and those ads being recorded on RTE property without permission and it just rumbles on and on and on and on crisis-ridden RTE this is the Irish Daily Mail crisis-ridden RTE is facing the prospect of having to ask a hostile government for a bailout to pay future tax and PRCY liabilities the broadcaster's woes are set to be exacerbated by the prospect or expected conclusion of a scope investigation by the Department of Social Protection and to claims hundreds of employees were improperly categorized as freelance workers instead of a staff this is your bogus freelance workers they've already paid out 1.2 million but that could grow social protection minister Heather Humphries sought a briefing on the progress of the Root and Branch investigation last week a probe that has been going on since 2020 one source said of the inquiry it is in depth each worker is being interviewed on a case-by-case basis and if RTE are found to have wrongly classified workers they will have to rectify the situation and RTE themselves say they've put millions of your money taxpayers money to one side to cover that eventuality but they might need a bailout from government beyond that. Lidl and Aldi have reduced the cost of their own brand milk by 10 cent marking the second such cut this year as super value confirmed it would implement a similar cut today so anything anytime we see the staples going down it has to be good news doesn't it it comes after Tesco announced price cuts across more than 500 household essentials in the UK during a week where retailers were questioned before a Westminster committee about what they had done to help customers. Nola Connor group managing director of Aldi Ireland said it reviews the market on a daily basis to ensure it will never be beaten on price but I do wonder sometimes who is going to actually cover the cost of that reduction is it going to be amongst suppliers we were already of course under pressure. Shocking statistic in the Irish Daily Mirror almost 1300 children have been put in hospital as a result of dog attacks over the past 10 years details released to the Irish Mirror show what 3149 people had inpatient care with bite injuries between 2013 and 2022 so in total do you find this a shocking figure 3149 people hospitalised with dog bites over the last nine ten years 1300 of them children the freedom of information figures reveal 1300 children as I mentioned were under 17 one of the 144 children badly injured was young schoolboy uh Alexandre uh Mizan who was seriously attacked by a pit bull in an escort he came to Wexford last November the dog ripped off his bottom lip mould each of his cheeks as well as injuring the boy's body and legs the dog was destroyed that evening that's a lot of injuries as a result of dog bites and uh finally in the sun for those of you who are on twitter you might have noticed that it's just not performing at times like it might have twitter users blasted alien mosco Elon musk after he limited them to seeing a thousand tweets a day hashtag twitter down and hashtag rip twitter uh trended after the owner announced the move uh tycoon musk however called saturday's decision a good deed it means unverified users can see only a thousand posts a day a new unverified users 500 uh verified accounts who pay a monthly 12 euro uh get a 10 000 limit form a twitter employee ester crawford uh said hubris plus no pushback customer apathy data equals a great weight to light billions on fire have no clue what that means but anyway it's an interesting move from the king of free speech because it limits uh the reach of it the logic behind it is for anyone's interested is that there are a i tools artificial intelligence tools that scrape data it's called scraping data uh from websites like twitter particularly twitter uh because every interaction a user has with twitter is an interaction whereas on facebook or youtube it's not really quite the same and uh you have these this is the claim anyway you have these organizations that can um they can scrape millions upon millions upon millions of tweets at the same time the the ai then processes what's being talked about uh and sometimes if it's something they don't want talked about they can use that information then to um to to um to try and censor that type of speech so that's the argument whether that's true or not i don't know some say he's just not paying his uh google bills greg why we can't do away with cash for the reasons this is uh coming up time and time again but we heard that the EU's looking to introduce a digital currency and we're being assured it's no threat to cash but others might feel differently greg we can't do away with cash for the reason what if you were in a supermarket buying your messages and the power went off if you did not have cash how would you pay you would not get your messages uh what do you do when you have to keep cash going as simple as that well that's quite true and i've seen an experience where i was in a very busy uh restaurant and bar and uh the power did go out and um no it seemed no one had cash everyone was using card and uh everything kind of grand to a halt because no one could pay for their their food or uh drink all right uh we're going to be joined by our first guest on the show but first we'll must take this quick break the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letterkenny the 2022 seastore national off license of the year the nine till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today want to live a more sustainable lifestyle but not too sure how to start join me don and re doughty every Tuesday at half past 12 for its ours to protect to learn all the tips and tricks ours to protect is funded by commission them on with the television license fee under the partnership between highland radio and 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letter kennedy doblin when you book online and travel for less expressway bringing you the time us okay 18 minutes past nine we're joined on the program now by councillor paul canning good morning paul good morning how are you great good great to chat to you again paul um shall we talk about the resident residential zoned land tax just right a bit from the beginning because i think it's one of those issues even now though we've discussed it a few times it's been in the papers and elsewhere but people might not be fully clear precisely what it is so can we run through that to begin with if that's okay yeah that's okay the the residential zoned land tax as a tax that has been applied to land that have been zoned um that are available for balden basically um the in donnie gall in relation to donnie gall the towns that are that that are the only towns that are zoned are the the main towns which is uh letter kennedy and bonk rana and then we have what they call the seven strategic towns which consists of don lowe balba fae bala shannon regent karen donut donnie gall town and kelly bags so in relation to them those lands would have been zoned at a time by donnie gall kind of council for the betterment of those villages anything outside of them doesn't that they don't have to worry about the residents of zoned land tax so the likes of newton conningham manor conningham kelly all of them they don't have any land that is actually zoned they're in that with the call of settlement framework so they don't have to worry about it's just those nine towns that have to worry about the tax now the tax is going to be to to the tune of about three percent on the value that a property agent gives um so it will be based on that that property now the as you well know in relation to values there will be independent value if you value the property too low for the purpose of of the revenue um the situation was that this came on last year or the start of last year and it was a process the the donnie gall county council had to do a mapping procedure and that mapping procedure had to put in everything that they had zoned on the previous maps and that then was being prepared and sent to revenue revenue will be sending out letters and the post no doubt january february of 2024 asking people for three percent of the value of the property are asked them to get the property valued that's where we're at i think even as we have this conversation uh there will be people will receive those letters in january and february and go what's this all about and we've heard a lot of concern too from people who have farms in in these areas um what is the situation now is it a fated company or is there still an option to have uh your property de-zoned if you intend to farm along into the future and in relation to in relation to boncrona and letter kimmy um i would say that ship was sealed um in relation to the seven strategic towns which we mentioned was done in obal with a balashannon for jane caren uh donnie gall county i beg i would say there's still an opportunity there um we we had a situation um within donnie gall county council where um the the council were requesting that we put an extension an extension of duration on the on the plan we refused we said we need to look at the these towns because there is um landowners in those towns that want their land to be de-zoned so there could be farmers on there that wants to de-zone the land now the situation with that is to do that you have to what they call you have to vary the plan and that takes time and it takes manpower and takes a lot of you know so donnie gall county council are they're going to hold a workshop with us um and the next within the next month to discuss what our options are are you comfortable with all of this though because it really does feel like a land grab i mean even if we were say we were building loads and loads of houses to meet the need that's out there we could maybe be having this conversation but we don't we're seeing housing targets being missed uh we're seeing people opting now is not the time and now what it feels like is is that you know uh it feels like a little bit of a state land grab here of private property how do you uh how do you frame this in your mind yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't be comfortable with it in the smaller towns um no disrespect to the the the seven strategic towns but i feel that they should be given a little bit of a latitude in relation to the rural setting the larger cities and the larger towns i think if you're going to move forward with those towns you have to have some uh incentive for people rather than them to be whole hoarding land in the middle of a large town and the the local want to develop but all of a sudden the the landowner won't sell so there is a balance there um and i i think it's down to the the population of those towns and those surveys um but it's unfortunate that the smaller towns are some of the smaller towns have been caught on the same net that's where that's my honest opinion of it i i i think the revenue will be very difficult to deal with um no doubt and they'll they'll be just coming with with a with a large um the man says a large hammer to to to crack a small knot and just in terms of the people with agricultural land around letter kenny and bonkrana as an example uh and they only intend to use it as agricultural land and therefore it has a certain value is will it be valued as development land which of course then would increase its value and increase the tax liability on it yeah it depends it all depends on the location within the tone of of uh we'll say within the tone of letter kenny as if you are in a prime site in the middle of in the middle of the the tone you will be getting and you will it will be valued um depend on its on its future potential um no the the situation with all of those those tones there are so many different uh zoning within those tones you have what they call residential which is primary residential which is land that houses will be built on what you have done the strategic reserve residential which is land that will be eventually built on but it will not be in the lifetime with this plan which so that's that that has actually been challenged at the moment by by at at a higher level i think that's wrong as well but you've also mixed use and you have opportunity sites that at the principle um and then most for residential um that can still be taxed as well so there's a lot of there's a lot of um tone and thrown um a lot of reports and a lot of our again do be done um before you actually pay anything but what annoys me is that where we have the i mean there's a housing crisis all across this country but where there is particular pressure and i'm thinking areas like cork and doblin we already have major developers with major banks of line land getting exemptions you know it just talks to what's going on in this country that it seems in every facet uh that you look uh you know whereby you're going to get farmers who for the first time are going to be getting or anyone are going to be getting you know these bills for tax yet at the same time those in the know were able to get exemptions in areas like cork go away and doblin where there is the majority of homelessness again it just talks to what's going on it doesn't look right it feels bad and kind of typical of the way this country's run at the moment have you any concerns in that regard you know the the the concerns a lot of concern you know the the problem i have with a lot of the house and and you have mentioned about the the the houses and we're not meeting targets etc the biggest issue i have was there and i'll just touch on it now one of my is if you if you look at and board planala and the courts of the minute there is over this is i don't know if you've never heard this figure but there is over 70 000 70 000 um living units houses apartments whatever tripping with the board being objected to by people cannot that have their concerns but that that that is houses and buildings that have been through the development plan went through the planning process and has been granted and now you have a situation where where you have you have their objective to basically and even even in the the our local towns we have we have developers and planners that have actually granted permission for houses that would see maybe two or three hundred houses both in there kenny houses both in bunkrana even student accommodation both in there again but people are objecting it's going to the board it's tripping on the board in for maybe a year to two years because of the mess that's there so all of us all of us is adding fuel to a fire that that that works normally put out we you know and we're trying and the departments are trying to see if there's other avenues and it's just where we're at at the moment just a question in here i asked you about the possibility for people to you know get an exemption from this and you said something along the lines that unfortunately it seems the ship has sailed what does that mean like what does that mean in real time it means in relation to the the letter kenny in relation to the letter kenny town plan we have that there has been changes made to the the town plan that that are already in motion in relation to to adopt the town plan so letter kenny the the council the members of the letter kenny town area have already done a lot of work in relation to the the town plan and they they have made those changes but of somebody that the landowner has probably been to has spoken to members of the letter kenny um councillors so they probably have their changes already in place um now and the same has happened in bumkranon where the anishoan councillors have met with the plan and says we want to diesel this diesel that and diesel that so all of those things have taken place in the last two months or so so there's a possibility that um a lot of that land has been diesel but that has already passed that the the time for that has passed when when councillors were disowning this land were they doing it of the rona cord or was it off the back of representations made to them no it was back it was the back of the representation made to them and also um it was on the back of agents or architects also putting in there was an opportunity for submissions but what happened then uh Greg is whenever those submissions are made that then goes that goes into the the council um and they make their recommendation but it also goes to the office of the planning regulator and it then goes to the minister um dependent on who says what so a lot of a lot of hopes has to go through before you actually get to your final draft to your final plan oh it sounds incredibly and that's where we're at messy that's where we're at with the with the seven strategic um towns they would we would be supposed to be reviewing them a year before they're up that came in front of us a couple of months back but the fact that we had all this rzlt to deal with we couldn't say no we we can't keep this can down the road for another year because there are concerned landowners there that don't want to pay this residential zone land tax so we want to give them an opportunity to do zone that um so that's why we're having the workshop now and the within the next month to see what options are and how how we can change now i just you know it's not all going to be plain sale because if there is uh landowners or farmers that have uh a field in the middle of one of those villages it's going to be very difficult for them to get that these own because the office of the planning regulator percent well that is of straight strategic importance to the likes of car and donna to the likes of pretend or whatever so we will not be allowing that to happen because if we're going to move forward with us time this is what has to happen so that then that that that's the sort of that's the the the issues and the challenges that we are going to have forward in relation to this land it's i mean taxing people on their own property is is with a view to them forcing them to sell it or forcing them to make it available for uh development even if there's no intention of that i mean it just seems just seems a wee bit of an overreach i mean you i asked you again i mean but generally have the councillors done enough to i mean you are all complying and working with this system it seems not all sorry but at least enough i mean have you's been asleep at the wheel here do you think you've done enough to represent what the views of those you elected might be yeah we're still in the process we're still in the process greg and speaking on behalf of of all of the councils they are getting they are getting representations and they're taking those representations forward but as you well know better than me it's the process the process can be very uh mind boggling and it can also be very time uh you know it's it's one of them it's one of them things that you're you're caught in a right it's a wee bit like whenever it came in front of us um in the december and you had till january you know that that these things appear you know which is wrong by the departments in relation to the time that they give us to to do that again for this is just a general commentary uh if you don't mind finally just on how things work i mean this is incredibly complex uh involving so many different people workshops meetings deadlines and yet it's going to be it's been fast tracked through such a complex thing and money will be able to be taken off general society and they'll start getting letters from revenue next year and you know they'll hit that timeline and then we have other things you know like for instance it's good it's an obvious one but you'll excuse me for saying it things like the defective concrete blocks uh remedial updated scheme whatever anyone wants to call it and it's bogged down and it's slow and it's messy and it's convoluted uh you know it's funny how the wheels can turn so much more quicker when it's about taking money from society uh than they turn when it's about helping people who are under pressure and in dire situations i mean do you get a sense of what i'm saying there yeah i definitely i i i definitely do um and uh in relation to the the the paperwork except you know um we you know and and a number of the counters sort of said like well what's going on here your hand at maybe three or four books uh and maybe a hundred pages in each book and you have to make a decision on something in your hand at these books on the on the thursday and you have to make a decision by the following monday on item that's somewhere in that book um that's unfair um and that's that's that's just how the system works with us all you know and we're getting that with everything you know even like you you have the planning and you have a waste management plan that was put in front of us uh last week there and because of the whole maker situation um the generation will be generating a lot of um a lot of waste will not meet our targets so we can't adopt a plan that certain targets for us these things are coming in front of us every week Greg and that's that's that's one of the that's there's far too much bureaucracy and red tape uh i think involved in the whole um civil servants department council were you told what what the council intends to do with the waste generated by demolitions uh what's what what were what what were looking at us were looking at um our own for solidarity and relation to waste i don't want to get to because it gets too no i get to you just as much as possible relation uh in relation to waste um anybody dealing with waste you need what they call a facility permit which is the facility and also an activity permit which is actually transport the transportation of it um so anybody that is looking at areas that uh they think that they could have a facility there for the for the taken of waste they need to apply for a permit that permit then will go through the rigors of the law and so far as habitat protection water course is it likely to be buried from your in your experiences likely we're we're going to see people applying for licenses and permits to bury uh these blocks and the concrete yeah well that there will be yes um and it will be it will become a commercial entity because uh it'll not be everybody else get a permit because it's the location of where they'll be looking to to actually take the the waste um and that same person will be applying for an activity license because they will need to be able to transport it and they need to be able to transport it in a manner that is in compliance with the waste management plan so it will become a commercial entity for a couple of people you know um and they will but the the facility that they will be bringing the waste to will have to be meeting all of the the the regulations and so far as the protection of the area that they're bringing it to right okay interesting stuff sorry touched on a couple of things there but in a way they're all interconnected Councillor Paul canning thanks for your time this morning 08 6 60 25 000 and again I don't want to come across as anti-establishment because it's not like that but I mean this residential uh zoned land tax it's just banging through it's it's flying through and revenue could start sending out bills and you know you can't avoid the bills from revenue uh really really quickly could it be a case that's such a complex nationwide uh system could be in place before any even partially workable defective uh concrete scheme do you know what I mean it's just crazy how we have how things can move at different paces a caller says it was Mary T Sweeney who alerted us to the rz l t tax and she's not a candidate councillor the elected members had already voted for it without studying the implications and repercussions for many landowners concerned uh what is councillor canning saying about the rz l t in letter kenny and bunkrana and for landowners in donagall I think we covered most of that through the course of the uh interview houses being granted planning in the wrong place is illegal hence objections uh this is a land grab okay they were kind of two separate issues but I understand what you're saying here's an interesting one uh hi Greg good morning I have a friend from down the country who wanted to come up for the rally next year 2024 and prized hotels I know it's rally weekend but this is a joke thanks right now I don't know if this is just one hotel here uh but for three nights over the course of the rally it's a price for three nights for two adults in one hotel uh was 2,697 now that included taxes and fees if you don't mind and the price was knocked down from 2,997 again there's a I must dig into this a little bit more rather than randomly mentioning this but that definitely looks to me like a default 999 per night um booking fee which seems to pop up when you go through booking.com and some other uh outlets when it's really really busy there seems to be some sort of a default 999 but if you wanted to book three nights in this hotel next year it would be 999 euro per night plus a little bit of a discount because he's staying for three nights. Hi Greg my daughter went to the ATM in a local shop took out 80 euro but there was a problem and the money didn't come out that was three months ago now and they're still looking into it this is a disgrace in my opinion any help please okay was it a right an ATM in a shop uh which type of ATM because there are different ATMs of course they're different commercial practices that door's very squeaky isn't it right okay we're gonna take a break and we'll be back with our next guest uh quickly thereafter 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie Dreaming of a getaway this summer there's still time to book with Tui flying from Dublin Cork and Shannon airports summer best enjoyed on holiday Tui live happy new this week at home store and more all outdoor cushions are all half price but better hurry because when all the half price outdoor cushions are gone they're gone also all photo frames all wetsuits and summer toys and all outdoor heating are still all half price but when all 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recently witnessed a boy aged around 13 buying vodka at 3 p.m in the afternoon it was in a big local chain store they weren't questioned absolutely unacceptable needs to be a clamp down and parental attitude is too accepting of kids drinking i think i read that one last week actually we learned towards the end of last week and these figures are always published on a friday evening it seems but there's been a rise in the number of people classified as homeless across the northwest figures published show 20 families with 48 dependent children were in emergency accommodation across the region during the last week in may that six families more than at the end of april with 10 extra children there were 122 adults in emergency accommodation in the northwest at the end of last month 13 more than the previous month of those 562 were in emergency accommodation in donnie gall at null daily is ceo of the northwest simon community and is with us now null thanks very much for joining us today the barnard great thank you for having me and this makes her for very difficult reading because i think the the the numbers the last time they were released were were somewhat steady even at a relatively high level you could say but this shows and i wonder why a significant increase in homelessness in our part of the world here yes i mean you gave all the statistics you're going to see only the only in terms of figures to emphasize the extent of the problems i can add to that as this is the highest number of individuals ever recorded to be homeless in the northwest and it's also the highest number of children in homelessness also to be recorded when we talk about homelessness what are the categories there because there are people that may be on court in these figures but perhaps should yes well well the figures relate to people who are approved for emergency accommodation by the local authorities and people who haven't included in that would be anyone that would be staying with family or friends and the last social housing assessment carried out in november 22 identified just under 800 households in that situation and there are people who may be sleeping in vans and cares and caravans around the region are sleeping with they are not included and also not included as any family in domestic violence refuge yes and also of course there's another group of people who are in unsafe houses who shouldn't be in them but can't move out because because there's no other accommodation available now i'm not sure if you would class them as homeless but it's another group of people who can't get accommodation and aren't living in conditions that perhaps they shouldn't what do you think has led to this this peak now is it the change do you think in government policy is it relates to no fault evictions it's a it's a hard one to answer in that sense because it's um a proven cause and effect as i was very difficult but undoubtedly we've had this significant rise in households the local authorities across the region have done all they can over the last couple of months to to provide people who had no no fault evictions coming online that they would get transferred to housing what does the limit of what they have available there's a limit of resources to to the local authority and again to go back to the point about being eligible for social housing people may be homeless for reasons other than an acute need for housing sometimes the problems may be related to family circumstances outside of housing not everybody is eligible for emergency accommodation to come we we work with people and many of them don't meet the criteria that the local authority have to use to allocate accommodation and if they don't they don't qualify under that criteria to don't meet it at all homelessness is about much more than housing no and i think one of the challenges that we have is that the housing authorities are being asked to deal with situations that they're not equipped to deal with people who are in crisis with mental health people who are family crisis as example for example it may not it may not fit into the criteria that meets the that the local authority has to fulfill so what do we do about that no i mean obviously then we have to change how we are dealing with people because otherwise these people are just going to you know not get the help that they need yes and in fairness the broad principles of what we need to do are well established and they're contained within the government's national strategy for housing for all and they're contained again in the local actions and which we complete it in in january at the regional forum it's gone through the councils now and there are actions to involve to increase the level of coordination to bring in for example too slow more into the situation as the child and family agency that you would expect perhaps at every child that goes into homeless services is the subject of review with too slow but they simply don't see themselves having a function in that area if if the child if the family unit is deemed secure then the child is not deemed to be at risk and too sad again don't have the resources you know we're stretched and everywhere yeah how uh you say that we need new measures to hold people's progression into homelessness and that they're urgently needed yeah talk to us a little bit more about that what are we talking about well i think and everybody agrees that the solution to homelessness is a house and i think perhaps most people think that means a new house but it doesn't have to a lot of the time it can be about helping the family keep the house that they have or the individual to keep the house to have if somebody is going through trauma in the lives it it invariably means that they're chaotic and they don't manage all aspects of their life very well and one of the things that very often gets dropped very quickly is rent payments etc you know and landlords landlords work very hard and are very sympathetic in the main to to people having difficulties and they try to accommodate tenants but they need support they need assistance from the state we have this anomaly for example that anybody who's under homelessness assistance payment they make an individual contribution to the rent and that goes to the HAP offices like our sorry in limerick and then they may also be topping up to rent with the landlord over and above the money that's paid through the HAP system but if the tenants drops their contribution to HAP which may seem the least important payment HAP doesn't tell the landlords that their payment hasn't been maintained and suddenly the landlords gets a notification that the the tenant hasn't paid the contribution for three months so escalates let's cliff that escalation isn't it and the landlord has had no notice at all and they've continued believing they're providing accommodation believing the fulfilled all the requirements of the system and then HAP says sorry we have to we have to end the tenancy and they don't communicate with anyone yeah it's very hard to for me anyway and i i i start to sound like a scratch record though but every issue we talk about seems to end up back to the same point you know we have organizations like the yours in situ we have action plans we have solutions we've the problems identified and and yet we seem to be making no inroads in that regard this at the same time as we talk about full employment as we talk about an ultra rich economy as we talk about writing down national debt putting money away from the future rainy day funds i i'm just struggling to to sit in a seat like this and do a current affairs program when you talked about an anomaly earlier on that then and it's it's glaring here that we are a well resourced country but we are refusing it seems to allocate funds to fix a problem that we generally have a lot of the solutions for of course building new houses yes that's fantastic action plan in that regard but in terms of the basics in in terms of helping people in in terms of stopping the progression into homelessness for an example i mean you've outlined precisely how we could do that but there seems to resistance to do that and then when you hear economics talking about how to suppress inflation we can't be investing too much in new houses we can't be helping too many people that we do need people skinned we need money out of the economy and that is you know which means they're talking about more taxes even though people are hard pressed like it's it's i don't know if it was ever as clear as it is now that it's almost policy to have people in these situations to suppress inflation and then eventually perhaps lead to an interest rates going down yes well i think it's probably more than the um there's a disconnection between policy and reality and we we spend more time managing the expenditure and making sure that it's counted than making sure that it's used well but is that disconnect uh null intentional or accidental because i can't believe that anyone could be so insulated to not know what's going around this country especially if you're in a position of power to try and address it so when you talk of a disconnect is it a purposeful disconnect or is it ignorance my intonation is it just purposeful because it's worrying isn't it there are there are there are many people in this country who are doing quite well and they're the people who vote i mean the reality is there isn't much votes in homelessness and so if you're looking for your target audience for the next election the people who are going to vote for you if you're promising a well-run economy with no wastage in expenditure the people who are voted for you are probably unlikely to be in homeless services there might be more inclined to want to keep the status quo yes i mean you know we all know that in the last election in 2020 the public voted for change but we don't know what change they wanted and how many changes they wanted the end of the day i mean you have if you go back to uh uh the the center problem i mean homeless services are managed by the housing authority for a very good reason because primarily the housing problem but but the housing authority is out and being equipped to respond to homelessness as a national emergency it's it's being dealt with as a housing issue if you take the 170 people that are homeless last last month that's equates to just under 10 of the people who are under social housing needs list and in the northwest and i presume you don't see taking over a hotel in bandone or something and housing these people uh in hotel rooms because those texts are likely to come in you don't see that as a solution to this crisis i take it but first of all i don't take just a hotel with space in bandone i i think that needs to be more complex than that because you can't just lump everybody into the one one facility there is a need for increased emergency accommodation and increased support to get people out of homelessness at the moment the local authorities have one staff member implied by nato simon and and donnie garl working with resettlement and tenancy sustainment and maria has about 20 cases what she's working with at the moment and the other house anyone else that goes into the service that needs support to get out of it and there isn't any staff directly working with them the same for instance the parl provide emergency service and they work with the people who come to them but the majority of people if they're provided with emergency accommodation they won't immediately get support to help them to solve whatever issues to put them into the service and to get them out of it if if you can get into contact with an individual early on identify the problems before they become an inter emergency service that's perfectly my mind um thanks so much for your time this morning i just you see the problem is is that unless something changes will be going over this conversation again when the next set of figures are released and if we're lucky maybe they'll stay similar but it's most likely they'll continue to increase because you're identifying what needs to be on we know there's nothing really in place to sort of do that and it's a it's a horrible situation you find yourself in as someone who's very much interested in eliminating homelessness but no unfortunately that's the frustrating world we currently live in maybe we might be surprised thanks for your time today thank you i take care of yourself okay that's no daily CEO of the northwest simon community if you would wish to have a say on that issue please get in touch with us 08 660 25 000 that's the whatsapp and text number give us a call and 07 491 25 000 and just to remind you that you can watch this show daily um if you're tuning in for the first time on our youtube channel search highland radio arland and you can watch this on your phone tablet um laptop 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and economic well-being of the northwest region he says the government must also commit to upgrading the link roads on the donny gold and monohun sides of the border our motion isn't just about the a5 it is also about the connecting roads on either side of the border in terms of the a5 so the tenti project which is going before the department and government soon is really important that gets the green light in terms of that load from leford right into letter kenny and also the on the other end the contrabordanted monohun it's important that that is there as well we can't just have a tool character in the north and then deep into substandard roads on either side one in four people in the republic believe there will be a united island within the next 10 years that's according to a new poll which has been published today a survey conducted by amorec research for the european movement found half of those surveyed in the north believe a united island will happen by 2023 it also found support for ireland's continued membership of the eu stands at 88 percent that's one of the highest approval ratings in the european union the mellow connell of the european movement in ireland says the most surprising finding is that people in the north have greater trust in the eu than they have in the uk government in northern ireland 44 percent of people trust the eu 34 percent of them trusted the irish government whilst 22 percent of them trusted the british government so regardless of whether people voted remain or leave 44 percent of people in northern ireland trust the eu versus 22 percent trusting the british government the deputy chairperson of the regional health forum west says south of hsc's efforts to streamline operations at letter kenny university hospital must be acknowledged but he's stressing it's very much a work in progress officials told consular kiran brogan in reply to questions that a local injury unit is operational in the emergency department and it's hoped that can be enhanced with extra funding as part of the winter plan liaison officers are being appointed measures are being introduced to help frail people and the pathfinder initiative is helping keep people out of hospital by treating them in their own homes consular brogan says the more people that can be kept out of the hospital the better we have a huge county in dunning all and everybody doesn't need to be going to the hospital i think there's a role for everyone and that's from the gps to the primary care centers right across all primary care to the hospital and then the community hospitals the ambulance service plays a huge role in this as well now we have the new pathfinder project that has been going on for the last number of weeks we'll get a clearer picture this week of how much money the government has for october's budget when the summer economic statement is published the finance and public expenditure ministers will outline what the planned size of the tax and spending package for 2024 will be social justice ireland is urging them to increase social welfare by 25 euro a week and the monthly child benefit by 50 euro collet bennett economic and social analyst with sji says the most vulnerable must be protected child benefit is one of the very few protected welfare payments so what that means is even if michael leary or connor McGregor went insolvent that child benefit payment is not included in any income calculation that is actually protected for the child and so in that way it's it's separate to other universal type things that we've seen for example the universal credit on energy this year and last year it's hoped the bodies of two Dublin teenagers who died on a sixth year holiday in greece over the weekend will be repatriated within the next 48 hours andrew o'Donnell and max wall were both 18 there were students at st michael's college in balls bridge greek police on the island of eos say the boys died in two separate incidents and there's a call to scrap the tv license fee in the wake of the ortee payments scandal it comes as media minister catherine martin prepares to meet the new director general kevin buckhurst and the chair of the ortee board shoenira hallie later this week people before profit td paul murphy is predicting large numbers of angry viewers will refuse to pay the license fee because of the payments controversy he says a new funding model must be found as a matter of urgency i really think the outcome ultimately needs to be to end the reliance on commercial revenue and instead properly publicly fund a public service broadcaster which should not be done through this regressive license fee but instead should be done through general progressive taxation and a specific digital services tax on the big technology companies well the forecast and material tell us there'll be further showers today with some brighter sunny spells developing some of the showers persistent and heavy with a slight chance of a thunderstorm 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nations in louis desired to donnie gall paris church and donnie gall hospice care of any family member house private please before the funeral for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com date for kora lough no liner gordon ox's fear a wrong ogre be it's in a yennech and kina error son martin quidiglash in guinex in a yennef nis eska the teleolish or hsc punk i slosh organ donation ox be it joe new organ in a over kind to all within you oh i'm enough nashir visha slanta cutting through the spin the nine till noon show on highland radio and you're very welcome back to the program good morning if you're just joining us it's great to have you on board here thanks greg for putting the point across and how they can fast track revenue issues against people and slow to rectify issues of the people example is mica pyrite the state is quite a dictator and and it's as i say it's not a gender driven it's just an obvious observation another caller says well whoever owns the deeds of the land can surely decide if they want to zone the land or not that is if the deeds stand for anything anymore you either own the land or you don't you own the land but you're liable for a tax on it if you are in one of these designated areas hi greg how much rubbish did you say in the dairy dump and have they ever had anyone held accountable for this do you know from a dairy listener new to your show since foil closed again sad to hear foil closing but good to have you on board how much rubbish did you say in the dairy dump i didn't say i don't think just go over that again and send it back into me if it's something that i can inquire on your behalf about the donagall county council being referred to includes counselors whom were fully informed in the zoning of land the recent mapping being carried out by the cso for urban boundaries is shocking letter kenny's bigger than dairy city they say greg summed up things very well today the wrong people are hit by this tax based on poorly drafted legislation and our counselors have been asleep at the wheel unfortunately it's just one example of all the problems we have the delay on the still unsatisfactory direct defective block scheme and still without any assurances that the source problem has been addressed i.e. you know proper oversight enforcement of regulations the council paying half a million per acre for land and letter kenny how can private buyers afford a home if we start with the council buying land at this excessive level that's just the views of one person there pit bulls and these types of dogs are becoming the norm to have in homes which i think is wrong it's no coincidence that dangerous dogs are involved in these attacks these dogs are trained for fighting and attacking they can't be rehomed they can turn at any moment now i understand exactly where you're coming from but just to be absolutely clear and in the interest of fairness the article that i read from talked about 1300 children being injured by dogs over the last 10 years and then it went on to quote a case of one child being attacked by a dangerous dog as they've been classified now that doesn't mean all 13 were attacked by those types of dogs either now i'm not i don't know what figure within that figure it was but just to be clear that figure is not it is not it has not been published in the knowledge that it's a certain type of dog or breeds of dogs that are responsible for those injuries does that make sense i just want to make sure that it's very clear congratulations to father shawn best wishes for mary ferry indeed and from us all and as i say i'm sure loads of you will want to pass on your good wishes and what have you in your comments too father shawn darty who will be back on the airwaves of highland radio live tomorrow on this program for a wee chat so make sure to tune in for that you'll be able to watch it of course as well good morning could you please find out why the water is off again in the manna cutting area it's an absolute disgrace every month the water is off let me check what they're saying normally we get a well he don't get a notification but you have to go on twitter and it's the most useless social media platform to post updates on because firstly hardly anyone in this country really uses it and secondly um elon moscow is throttling how it can be used um let me see if there's anything here referencing your area i've got lurgan balamagroty convoy town uh miltown town parks greenfields balibot oak park and mullen and surrounds until three p.m today i'm not sure if that's the one you're referencing there i don't see anything specific to manna cunningham unless i've missed it in his part of some of those tan lands are referenced kerry gave torona dropping yesterday that was saturday wasn't it as one of their pundits said last week when they beat donagall that toron put donagall out of their misery so kerry did the same kind of was glad if that was the type of kerry that turned up that we kind of didn't get past toron if you know what i mean uh the toron kerry game and i think there was a game yesterday i wasn't able to watch the games uh because of course we were in dairy uh but i think it might have been the same for the meo game um and you can correct me if i'm wrong but uh kerry toron it's like they didn't come out for the second half of their game against kerry kerry were just unbelievable i saw one of the best goals i've ever seen uh in a game of football to uh scored by kerry but it's just like toron didn't come out for the second half or kerry were able to elevate their game to a point where it appeared that they didn't um any assessment on that if you're listening in toron or wherever you are we're going to be having a chat with brendan devaney about that and much more besides in about one hour i call it says e scooters there should be consideration for the visually impaired and those who use guide dogs they make virtually no noise and this can cause fright to both the individuals and the guide dogs who can't hear them coming maybe they should have a buzz on them like some electric cars do but i mean if you think of where we're going to be in 10 years time uh traffic noise will be quite low uh because the reality is this more people are moving to hybrid electric vehicles and even a hybrid vehicle quite a lot of the time in an urban area is running off batteries scooters bikes e bikes um we really need to be planning to make sure what we can do to make those spaces usable and friendly to uh hearing impaired but i suppose that applies now anyway but certainly visually impaired good morning highland radio we are in salut in spain i was there once actually it's so long ago though i can't remember what it was like my one recollection of it was is that around the swimming pool it was like being in donagall it just uh there was i don't know there was just a rua jerseys for masters jerseys uh st euston's jerseys it was just like being in donagall but anyway i don't want to detract from this point that this listener is making good morning highland radio we are in salut waiting for a bus back to the airport flying back to dublin and on to boncran a great great week 30 plus every day just listen to your show about rte and so on just we thought 200 cigarettes 60 to 70 euro here depending on your brand in ireland 150 euro plus a liter bottle of vodka in spain 14 euro or 16 in ireland 32 or 33 euro is it any wonder a weed country the size of ireland has so much extra money to spend every year it's time the government reduces taxes and brings ireland in line with the rest of europe it's supposed to be a common market i take your point i can't see just in the two brands that you talk of there in terms of cigarettes because the taxes actually uh and it's not hidden in this regard it's on the cigarettes as a disincentive for people to smoke so i can't see us ever reversing such a public health measure uh and in relation to vodka well half the price in spain again we're seeing a minimum pricing of alcohol it's another area i just can't see the government going back on but wow some difference isn't it your money would go much further but then if you wanted to get into the conversation they would start talking about the minimum wage and you know all that kind of stuff and disposable income anyway any who certainly from a tourism perspective it's hard to uh it's hard to compete with that isn't it all right let's take a break good luck if you are playing the bingo numbers today here they are it's time for ncbi bingo on highland radio it's monday the third of july you're playing on the green sheet the reference number is s11 it's game number 27 the numbers are 80 83 6 73 74 43 72 71 55 and finally 46 phone your claim tonight 10483 before eight tonight leaving your name contact number and the name of the shop where you purchased your book and we'll 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with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union 9102127 okay imagine well i can't imagine i'm guessing there might be a little bit of public enthalpy moving into this whole rte controversy at this point i don't know who's to say we'll see how this week progresses because the scandal is heading into its third week and there's quite a good chance it will continue to rumble on for the foreseeable future senator ronan mollins is an independent senator of course ronan mollins beg your pardon and he joins us on the program now ronan thanks for your time today good morning to you thank you great good morning to you and your listeners now you're bringing through proposals as it relates to the pay structures aren't you at rte what are you proposing yes thanks very well this isn't something that i dreamt up overnight have been so they're concerned for a lot of long time about excessive pay and a kind of a culture of excessive pay among the so-called top talent in rte back 2019 i said that those salaries should be paid to public service pay scales given that most of rte's money is coming effectively from the taxpayer in the form of the license fee so what my broadcasting restriction of salaries act or bill i should say to be debated at second stage in the shanties on wednesday does it basically says that however remuneration is constructed whether it's a direct employment contract or external people with one or more contracts with the broadcaster if it's the public service broadcaster that means tg car or rte then the total remuneration is capped at the level of salary of the minister for communication but that's about 195 000 if you add a td salary to a minister's allowance my legislation would also require them to publish all salaries that exceed a td salary which is 107 000 it makes it an offense to cause inaccurate information to be given about salaries obviously there's a lot of concern about the culture of concealment in at least one case in relation to one contract there at rte and so basically it's a piece of legislation that deals with salary capping or restricting salaries it's about transparency and requiring the publication of salaries and it is about accountability that even if they don't stick to these caps or if there's inaccurate information then there would be criminal offences involved yeah we'll talk about a little bit more about that in a second but two also about the fact as you say you've been discussing this for quite some time now and i don't know what it talks to in terms of of the media we'd have mentioned rte salaries in the past on on shows like this but it took something being exposed for this conversation for everyone to be having it but as i say you and others have been trying to get this onto the agenda it kind of maybe actually talks to the problem we have in this country in that for a lot of those in the political classes and journalism classes particularly in the capital they're in this kind of a bubble and and until there was something that couldn't be ignored everything really was being ignored yes i think that's true we're looking at what we're discovering is i think we continue to be surprised by what we're hearing you know in terms of for example the brand ambassadors around cars you know the uh the the culture of largesse maybe encouraged by the hospitality industry to be whining and dining people and bringing them off to the rugby world cup and all this type of stuff which the public i don't think had any idea was was going on and the point is if you're in the commercial world you know that's fine but this all of this is being indirectly supported by the by the taxpayer contributing the bulk you know you will hear the argument made oh well if we lose you know so-and-so from the station we will lose a certain amount of commercial revenue revenue that might or might not be true in some cases but in fact what we've noticed is in recent years when Pat Kenny went to went news talk and Sean O'Rourke kept the ratings going no problem so did Claire Bourne but that comment that person that you comment that you quote there i believe it was willio Riley if i have his name correctly who's a former senior radio person that kind of talks to the the cultural attitude that they believe that you know that people believe that these people are so important look at the truth is you could put a you could put a washing machine on spin cycle uh on rte radio one between nine and ten and it would register a couple of hundred thousand people having listened to it that's right you're talking about talented people but they're not the only brain surgeons town you're far from it and in fact because it's the taxpayer funded organization it would actually be a much healthier thing the rte while constantly turning over and nurturing new talent and it's not the end of the world then if people that they take up a big package elsewhere we were all very proud of Terry wogan when he went to the bbc back in the day you know that that's actually part of what should be going on i think it's also a you know we see how morale is being hissed within the organization i mean you know i was on morning ireland this morning but i was talking late last night to an own song hero of making that program a success you know a researcher doing their work late into the night those people and most people in the media and in journalism are on very modest salaries compared with what some of these big names have been getting and you mentioned the bubble i think there is an element rte fell for its own propaganda you know it fell in love with its own image you know we're well used for example to be preached at by these celebrity names who you know have been constantly curating the national mood around all sorts of issues again losing touch with their obligations to be the impartial presenters of news and information current affairs and indeed and indeed entertainment so look i'm not into the which ones i'm not i'm not i'm sorry for anybody who's now in the public eye uh but the questions have to be asked and the politicians have to do their work on the committee but they also need to avoid grandstanding you know i wouldn't have been a fan for example of just because that finance guy was in it was in before the last week suddenly taking an interest in his salary you know i thought that was an example of how politicians maybe see i think it really becomes more interesting the performance i think i think that's i think that's a very fair point because if you watched it and i watched all nine and a half hours for my sins there was an awful lot of grandstanding there was people who were asking questions purely for the clip for their social media that clearly did not actually really have a full understanding of the questions they were asking all the answers and even when some really quite telling answers were about were forthcoming they weren't really aware of that and just had their next question lined up and you can always tell that because it's covered by that oh oh that's nice yeah that's handy yeah when that starts you know they don't know what's going on and i mean that with that but we have to call it that right across the board here if we're going to be fair uh so i would agree to it to a great extent with you but also what it exposes is though there is a culture that that that is very deep in in that organization and similar organizations capping salaries in and of itself will not sort that we've seen from an executive board here there's no accountability there's no communication with themselves they're put in those positions and you know that's that they're untouchable from there on out and if they're found to have been done wrong they can just resign and then no more can come from that so how do you and it's a it's a big question i suppose but how do we get rid of that so that you know the good stuff that you talk of have a good place to work in as well yeah well i think of course we have to start with asking the questions and finding out exactly what went on and i said politicians have a role in that uh mentioned the dangers of the grandstanding so i think also what will be important is the is the work to be done by the external appointee now that will kind of come in and maybe just reveal to us precisely what went on once we know what exactly went on in terms of who these deals were with why information was conceived who exactly knew what what other you know surprising you know the perks and where we're involved here you can then identify okay well what do we need to change for the future and it's a i look forward to there being you know and remember that we mustn't allow this to distract us from all the other very serious problems and maybe more serious problems that the country has and you know in terms of the health care system in terms of housing you know we mustn't allow this to become the distractor from other important i agree with what you're saying but we were talking a little earlier on about homelessness here in the northwest which is ahead of this and in terms of importance but we also need to examine if the same people that are making decisions on housing policy or the funding of homeless organizations if it's the same culture because they are all publicly funded you know so i think the rt conversation actually is not separate i think it's part of a wider conversation as to how this country is run and that's the point i tried to make a couple of times last week you know because this is how public funds are being spent this is actually really giving us an insight into how high paid civil servants might actually think not again the very good low you know average paid civil servants that are getting the abuse maybe uh uh uh off the back of all of these controversies but in a way i think this is actually really useful because we can say right if it's happening in this organization maybe we're starting to get an insight as to the detachment from other very highly paid civil servants and the decisions then truth it's they that make for this country yes and and i think what we need to move to then is just a you know a quiet determined but but relentless focused on on reform it will be about a capping salaries i hope and by the way i'm an independent member of the shannot so i have to hope that the government will take this seriously and allow us to run this legislation and give time for us or bring up their own legislation i have no problem with it being amended but it needs to happen now but as you suggested there the limitation on salaries is just part of this there is a culture issue that needs to be addressed that we need a new culture as rt and it is it starts with being responsible to the public about how their money is spent it's it starts with things being visible with there being standards around all that but also maybe a wider reflection on whether rte has been too in love with its own image and it needs to get back to maybe fostering a sense of community in terms instead of just maybe preaching at the public from a privileged celebrity place i know there was a very finely there was issues like this in the bbc and one of the actions they took was decentralised out of london i think rte though there might be cost implications for that could perhaps you know rather than speculate that they might close operations cork i think as i say the bbc had a model where they decentralised out of london because they became aware that they were in this bubble that they were very focused on the capital that everything was through that lens maybe it's something rte could look at maybe they could give more responsibility in programming to the regions i agree with you and i remember saying a few years ago d4 needs to move out of d4 you know and uh well obviously it'll be somebody else now but that will have to to to grasp that metal but i think there's a lot to be said for it there is a there's a symbolism there of the fact that rte has been located right in the heart of establishment ireland it's it's a it's a hell of a land bank i think they sold off somewhere for that some stage um i think that should be certainly one of the issues under consideration greater regionalization but i do think the need to balance out salaries you know there's there's many people i think within the organization who would would take some consolation for the fact that there's going to be standards and not runaways salaries for the very few senator roland molland thank you very much for your time senator roland molland of course an independent and just in relation to if you were reading the newspapers this morning how many of you still do uh the nationals that is uh there was some speculation that they were selling off their cork operations will rte said contrary to speculation rte remains fully committed to its operations in cork uh the suitability of the current building for the full range of rte's operations in cork is being uh assessed which um all right a caller says what about publishing all expenses as well i'm sure that's going to be digged into and another why on earth are we paying a license fee to a corporation that's funded by advertising yeah it's another decent question watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low rate holiday loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today hi paddy here at sheen connelly cars in dunagall town are you looking to upgrade your car with sheen connelly cars you'll find mix and models for every budget great finance options and they also accept freedoms check out sheen connellycars.com or call on to us at sheen connelly cars from london her road dunagall town all 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report which suggests people are more likely to fall for ai generated lies than those made up by a human what's the background to this research lee well basically we're just investigating gpt tree so this is one of the models that's been created by open ai um the crazy chat gpt it shouldn't support them though their models have gotten a bit more advanced um in recent months they're on gpt four by now and one of their goals is to sort of stop models from being able to be abused in this way i suppose but they basically took hundreds of participants showed them tweets that were created by people and tweets that are created by the ai to see if they could tell which ones were fake which ones were ai generated overall they can't the the verdict is it's basically very difficult people to tell the difference between a human generated tweet and an ai generated tweet so that's the main issue big risks for misinformation big risks for ai generated content of people not being able to tell the difference and that there's there's multiple ways that could be abused in the future i think it's ever more um it's never been more important that regardless of what people's political views are that everything is questioned that's the big issue these days i mean again ai as we've discussed for it's it's grown so fast particularly in the last year now chat gpt everybody's talking about ai there's great benefits for this technology but the likes of misinformation is probably one of the biggest threats for most individuals as we use you've ai generated content ai generated tweets ai generated news articles and at first glance these articles and these tweets will look legitimate there's no it's very hard to distinguish a fake article that's created by an ai to a real article when you combine that with the likes of ai generated images which are also becoming very advanced now there's various ways people can abuse this to spread misinformation i've seen examples on twitter how to verify people of an account that claims to be politically motivated low it's a democratic account the us here's an image here's the tweets and then when people look into it there's no background on the person the image might be ai generated so you don't know who you're actually listening to online you don't know what the real motivations are you can see the person behind the screen so i think this is this is somewhat uh somewhat linked depending on which story you believe uh to elon musk's recent decision to limit uh access to tweets the claim being that ai engines were scraping millions upon millions upon millions of tweets and then they were being used a for sort of targeted censorship but presumably for things like this here that's why the tweets are so indiscernible from from human tweets because they are able to the ai is able to gather so much information to target it to the the viewer that's how these systems are made it's just being able to with so much information available ai can then very easily replicate because they have so many examples to go back on so i'd say it's unsurprising that twitter's claiming many ai companies are scraping its data because it is a good treasure trove there is definitely a lot of information there and the end goal of these companies is to just have you know looking at the most non non uh extreme way they just want to make their systems as close to humans as possible because that's makes their ai system more beneficial for people um that's a benefit but then obviously of course if it's abused by the wrong individuals the more advanced the ai is the more similar to human tweets it is the easier it is to actually misuse it for negative purposes so what does this mean do you think which twitter i would say one thing about twitter is also the fact that it is important that ilan musk also has a stake in ai as well he is working his own ai companies but there's multiple motivations there hindering the likes of chat gpt for someone who is also pushing into the ai market there's a benefit there as well in my and ironically there is a there's a former censorship in all of that and he is the the prince of free speech but anyway people don't see that irony but i just wonder if they will leak us where does the future uh where does the future belong then and how people consume digital articles or or social media because we are already if we're we're not there yet going to get to a place whereby it's going to be indiscernible like facebook in a way is different because we are somewhat connected most of the time to the people that we share that space with there's pictures and they're generally in a location close to us and you know what i mean we can see the woods for the trees there but particularly text based social media i think even those who are very extreme in their views or moderate in the views will eventually find the space so convoluted that they might look elsewhere you know i really do wonder where this will leave us in a in a few short years in terms of people consuming that information because no one wants the wall pulled over the rise i would say it's hard to say what the impact is going to be i'd say in the short term there is going to be a negative impact because most people do just look at things at first glance and it's very easy if it's easy to be tricked by an ai system it's easy to be tricked by something that looks like a legitimate news article but isn't and is pushing a certain agenda and people will be swayed that's what's going to happen in the short term unfortunately i would say for the individual the goal has to be everybody has to start taking a closer look at what they read and look into online misinformation is nothing new online it's been used for years now people have spread false information this is just a new tool the ai is a new tool it's being used to spread information and there's ways to tackle it in the future there's regulation that can be used to sort of force these companies like twitter and like facebook to be able to show if something is ai generated but until that's developed it's just unfortunately it just comes down to being aware that's something you're looking at when it's an image of an individual or a piece of content or a new source or a tweet whatever you have to be a bit like can't just take this single source as gospel you need to verify it in a way that's the main way and the thing Lee is and I think this was highlighted finally in this in this research let's forget what's went in the past like you know the covid and all that right okay because I think you know that that will have a more important context going forward in in that it's so the seeds of doubt if you know what to mean what might happen into the future we don't know that if there is a a a global health crisis and you could argue the climate is that for an example but you know that it could have devastating consequences and I think maybe the mistakes that were made through covid actually make that even more likely going forward especially when we have people that can generate so much information that could mislead people one way or other I'd agree I think another problem with that is sort of information overload like you're mentioning a good point there when there's an issue that's being raised and people let's say are on the side and on you know what their view is if things are getting if you're getting bombarded with so much information that you can't trust or verify at all I'd say it will be common for a lot of people to just tune out they don't know what to believe anymore they can't verify anything and maybe they they're not motivated not to actually you know delve in and see what the reality I'm already starting to pull back from spaces like Twitter because I don't really care whether I agree with them or not it's that's the way the message is delivered I just find it oppressive or depressive I don't know what how to describe it and I think I'm kind of normal though most people around me would suggest otherwise but we'll see what we'll see what other people think leads great haven't you and thanks so much take care of yourself oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand is the whatsapp and text have you found yourself changing how you use or view social media as I say I've merged over to I'm back more I find Facebook more I just find it it's more real you know what I mean the people you know who they are you can have real interactions it feels personal they can send you a message you can see who they are you can reply and help or do whatever it might be and and even like a tiktok I feel you can tune that in to whereby it's stuff you're interested in you can tune out of the heavy stuff as I say with Twitter I just find it's like I don't want to be involved in the culture of wars do you know what I mean you find it really quite depressing but what do you think I'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand what's apps and texts I call it says my local GP phone is going to an answering machine it says no doctors are available I'm being diverted to ed but if I go I'll have to pay 100 euro because I can't get a letter of reference from my GP that's a catch 22 I don't know what to say in in that instance maybe one of our good listeners might be able to give us a little bit of advice in Moville there is a beautiful short walk which is not very well highlighted it needs more signs to indicate it's there it also has the Maritime Museum and the Red Castle Centre and there is Wild Ireland indeed this is off the back of our conversation I think yeah on Friday about a lot of those who are landing or disembarking disembarking from from cruise ships going into Derry than maybe going around in a shone Greg the four lanes on the Port Road I don't see the point to the trees in the middle firstly they'll be very difficult to cut and it'll be no time before buses and lorries will be caught on them why can we never do something simply I would hope there are types of trees that won't encroach I don't know I get your point I hear you maybe it's to discourage cars going too close to the and vehicles to go too close to the centre barrier I don't know there must be a certain type of tree you'd think no I don't know rightio we'll be back with more on the Ninetale Noon Show after this short break stay where you are the Ninetale Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today at Manor Motors Opel we're half full type of people which is how we come up with the Opel 5050 finance offer choose from the Opel Crossland Corsa or Mocha select a flexible payment option pair it with three years free servicing and meet your new other half discover more about Opel's 5050 offer at the Opel open road event see manormotors.ie for details balance is provided by way of a consumer higher percentage agreement by Bank of Ireland Finance 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you see is the problem in terms of access you think we have you know great facilities really that you know quite a lot of the public can't really access it seems a shame yeah it's a major problem we have with a number of our beaches we have a lot of tourists a lot of visitors and people older people people with disabilities that want to go down to the beach access the beach we have serious issues at lag we have serious issues at Lennon and Oris as well not a fantastic beach and this is a common occurrence and not just the beaches other beaches as well around around the peninsula and it's something I think that the council as I said our meeting I think the council have to stand up here and and do you know be counted because we we tend to go to do all this work and we find ourselves being bogged down very very heavily with red tape with the OPW with national parks and wildlife with inland fisheries all these different organizations and good organizations yes but we can't get anything done because no one takes any responsibility I think the local authority needs to stand up and do this work and take it and do it and you know not be looking for excuses out of doing work to beaches and one of those excuses might be the fact that we've talked many a time and we were not making any progress as it relates to erosion now could the OPW or other bodies responsible say oh well if we we need to fix the erosion problem before we do access or create an access might cause erosion do you know what I mean I mean these are our local amenities and yet we're being hit with you know guilt tripping that we could actually be damaging them I mean we need to weed that out don't we just talk about look there's a lovely beach how can we get to it we're doing these damage you know it's it's all facilities yeah I mean that's that's the job of the engineers and and and you know I think the engineers are quite happy to do that and the erosion situation we've been talking about for years the OPW are not interested in taking us on we've wrote to them 14 times they still never come to meet us so they clearly don't care and if they clearly don't care I think it's time that we as local authority just stood up done our work and let them come back and tell us we don't something wrong because the OPW are into themselves Martin because it seems that whenever we talk about anything to do with them or something there for responsibility in is that firstly who are they you know are their individuals I'm not asking you to name them it's kind of rhetorical Martin but also why won't they come and meet local representatives we elect you guys right and then you advocate in our behalf by seeking meetings with the likes of the OPW to progress our concerns or have them addressed now with the OPW which is I presume we're paying their wages as well refuse to meet the people we are elected it's time we properly start calling this out it's bloody ridiculous yeah so I totally agree I mean we've we've had this conversation with you before Greg about the OPW in relation to you know Ballyliffen for instance the golf club and Paul and Beach um with the erosion that's that's happening there the erosion that's happening in Lag the erosion that's happening in and Kaldaf you know number of different places the rivers the issues that we're having with the rivers and they're not getting them cleaned and problems at at at bridges and stuff like that and you know I've spoke to you before I've wrote to them on a number of occasions Donegal County councillors wrote to them a number of occasions the chief executive wrote to them they did come to Donegal town about a year and a half year about a year ago to to announce works that was being done there we pressurized them to come during a show at that time and have a conversation with us about the erosion about the rivers and that still didn't happen and you know they seem to make up their own rules they seem to make up their own decisions and no one seems to take any responsibility when it comes to the OPW yeah okay so how do we progress this what do the executives say to you um Martin well the director service and our senior engineer here with um with Emily Schoen has agreed to to go to both sites and have agreed that they will certainly look at making the access available to people I think that's something the council just have to take on board now and do they did give a commitment that they would do that so um hopefully now within the next few weeks we can get a meeting on both sites and and get the engineers to decide what remedial work they can do to make it safe for for pedestrians safe for people and windshields um safe for people older people and that's the most important thing because people I like this proposal let's ask for uh let's let's ask for forgiveness rather than permission yeah well I think it's come to that Greg I think you're not going to get the permission so you know and the organizations that we keep asking don't seem to care about us so I mean if this was in Kerry if there was a beach uh the likes of lag or the likes of pollen or the likes of those in Kerry do you think that this wouldn't be fixed this would be fixed without a question of a doubt and I think the time has come where we just have to do the work get it fixed and worry about the OPW afterwards because I don't think the OPW worry about us yeah all right okay uh Martin any update or if you any insight into um when we might have this enhanced defective concrete scheme in place have you had any communications or anything that any indications yeah well there's been there's been quite a few dates uh most of the stage Greg as you know um and I think you know going back at a number of weeks back when the announcement was to be made um there was concerns serious concerns from from a local authorities perspective um we did meet with the department um as a grouping as a cross-party grouping and they are there are also quite a number of meetings with the officials in Johnny Gull County council and the department officials to try to iron out some of the outstanding issues and some of the I suppose the big issues that the local authority had with with the proposed scheme um a lot of work has been done to be fair in the last two or three weeks to get those uh ironed out and to get some of those things uh moved on uh the scheme was to come out yesterday there was uh you might assume Mike Axelgrubb had uh something up on their web facebook page to say that it was coming out yesterday or sorry Friday but that didn't happen there were some signatures not there so I would assume that it will be out today or tomorrow it's very latest um again there's no confirmation that it's definitely coming out today or tomorrow but uh it's definitely a minute of the minute to come out um with the new regulations and new guidelines for the new schemes there are you know do you think there'll be any surprises in it's any maybe any positive surprises or I don't think so I think it I think it's it's quite people's kind of having fair idea of what's involved on it at this stage it's being battered about with regulations over the last number of months I think there were some concerns in relation to the building addition assessment uh there was concerns that you had to get both planning from a certificate of planning and a certificate that you met the building regulations at the time I raised concerns of that at the time because that was something that I felt was impossible for a lot of homeowners to get a certificate to prove that they met the building and building regulations at the time they've subsequently taken that out they have agreed that that is something that they shouldn't have put on them they're taking that out um the planning permission one the certificate of planning is still something that is there but we had a sort of an argument in relation to that as well that applications that's already with Donegal County Council uh and that are moving towards the house needing to shouldn't have to adhere of that right now because that would mean they would have to go back to them so they've agreed to that as well now so that will allow those to to move forward but there are a lot of other um items that we have to get clarification on and we have to still get the department to clear up um but I suppose the big thing is that people really need this new scheme Greg there's people really need the extra money there's people in the middle of building projects at the moment that just can't sustain the the increase in costs and you know those people need the enhanced scheme to come in so they're able to get the extra money to to finance their houses what do you think will be next Martin last question like what what do you think happens once this is uh published because you know everyone will troll through it and someone will put a figure on on who actually you know what percentage of homeowners might actually be able to sort of you know return their house to what it was uh without having to you know dig really deep in that regard I mean where do you think uh this will go after this if you know what I mean once we've assessed it and what have you yeah well I think that you know the regulations walk about we'll have to see exactly what those regulations can tell what the guidelines can tell um what issues that we're going to have then I mean look there's no question Greg that this is not going to uh you know cover the costs for every bulb that's going to happen out of all the houses they're like that's that's a formality um and costs have increased substantially um it will certainly um you know cover the costs for a number of people but certainly not everyone um we would have liked to see the four hundred and twenty thousand pound uh cap increased uh increased at least the same amount that the sesi figures have increased over the last couple of years which is about 14 percent um we would like to see that happen that that hasn't happened um so certainly people will will still have to particularly people with larger houses will have to um put money to it to to fix their houses so uh you know but again and saying that there's a lot of other people that will um you know be able to fix their house we will be able to remediate the house for the cost that they will get through the scheme and one other quick question Martin what what is the story with the council's housing stock we've seen the images of of you know semi-detached half of it being demolished the other not but I would speak to people out and about all the time who are living in houses that are in a terrible state their their council houses effectively but they've had no contact from the council and no indication as to what's going to happen uh do we know and I'm not putting you on the spot but I know you're across a lot of this and if it's something we need to come back and check that's fine too but what is the story with the council housing stock and people living in in those houses because as I say they don't seem to the ones I talked to and I'm not saying that's all don't seem to be getting the information from the local authorities to what next no and so the information is the big the big question here and people want to know when people deserve to know exactly where they stand and you know with those houses for those people out there homes that's where they live um once the new enhanced scheme is enacted now within the next day or so that then allows the local authority to move forward with their housing stock um there is quite a lot of work done um by a team within the local authority on the council housing stock a lot of those houses have been assessed they have been prioritised there's probably 60 or 70 houses that we would have at the moment that would be you know a priority to get people out of those houses and get those houses remediated because of the state that they're in um that work has already been done we are just waiting um for the department to give the go-ahead to the local authority to do that they said that that uh confirmation would come once the new scheme is enacted once the new regs are enacted and as far as I know that should be in the next day or so so that allows the local authority to move forward with their houses now as well all right listen sorry uh to to move oh well I mean you might have expected it but just in case you had any further insight or update thanks very much indeed Martin that's uh councillor Martin McDermott there 08 660 25 000 whatsapp syntax just let you know that uh you can join Donna Marie Daherty this Tuesday at half past 12 for Ask to Protect it's a feature contained within John Breslin show of course this week uh Donna will be talking Donna Marie will be talking to Danielle Barry from Seal Rescue Ireland about what not to do if you see Seal Pop coming into the popping season Ask to Protect is funded 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dull motion this week calling on the government to honour its commitment to fund 50 of the proposed a five upgrade speaking ahead of the debate donnie gall td and party france spokesperson pierce daugherty said the a five upgrade will prevent further loss of life and enhance the regional economy he says the government must also commit to upgrading the link roads on the donnie gall and monaghan sides of the border new figures show 66 percent of people in northern ireland believe the north is doing worse since the uk left the eu with more people a poll conducted by a morrick research for the european movement found 24 percent belief there'll be a united ireland within the next 10 years that's a drop of seven points the w chair of the regional health forum west says selta and the hsc's efforts to streamline patient movement at letterkenny university hospital must be acknowledged but kirin brogan is stressing it's very much a work in progress selta and the hsc salies and officers are being 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brandon what's the crack good to have you on board yeah yeah nice to be back all right yeah yes where we where we got a week off she was falling in from in there so you did all right didn't they yeah i mean you wouldn't want to mean full time they didn't do too bad listeners like he's on understudy he's getting his start it's nice that you're giving him his start i think yeah and make careful he's not too far away i know it yeah i know um right um donagall versus doblin i think this is the third fourth year in a row in the quarter finals um what do you make of it yeah listen um massive massive games a game that we wouldn't as donagall fans seen common right with the season we had of course relegated and got into championship with not much hope but slowly this team has pulled the gillard the younger ladies have really started to find form of course we got some of more experienced players back and everyone is gelled together and this and me the all-erland champions were put to the sword at the weekend and uh listen it's been a phenomenal turnaround for donagall um i suppose the senior players coming back they weren't just some of the best players donagall there's some of the best players in Ireland and they've just fiddled in so the team had to try and manage well it was a really tough league for them you know them youngers they were heavily beaten in a lot of games it couldn't went either away uh listen talking to maxi a few times he didn't seem to give any away about definitely these players were coming back because if the door was left open maybe it wasn't really decided but slowly as they the experienced ladies have come back and uh and now we're we're right in the mix again we're we're doing knockout football now um and if you want to beat the best you have to beat the best yeah it's going to be in the the 15th or 16th of july now um so listen this is a massive opportunity again for donagall i mean if you can beat me me they're the reigning champions there's no reason why you can't go on and won the competition now i know obviously mag is not going to be looking any further past in the dubs there when the standard bear teams every season but certainly there's nothing to to fear for this donagall team and maybe this the youth now coming through will give donagall that extra extra we've home advantage in that quarter final don't we yeah um i haven't seen where it's actually going to be played no i thought it was a home but anyway we'll see right i haven't seen the actual venue yet i've just seen the the date all right uh yeah you can be right you can be right it is at home i was right once before listen you're doing your due diligence that's uh that's me being on the continent you know come here uh you have maxi coran and also maureen old donal uh obviously maxi's in manager mode uh i think we'll get a really and we'll get a good insight from him don't go wrong but i think you'll be able to tease out a wee bit more where we were where we come from and where we're going with maureen old donal because i mean obviously what she knows she'll bring to the party i listen to your manager again you have to i suppose give the to the party line if you want a better word and that's understandable of course and you can only but then you know you go to an x player there you can get a bit deeper into into the tactics and where they're at and that's when we'll bring us up to speed but listen hats off i mean fair play to them you know in a time everyone thinks was looking really bad and donagall g a for so many reasons you know the horrors of course you know you know made the nicky ragged final our footballers look like it was a right off season they come back now in a way to bad defeat to drone it but in terms of all we've been through they certainly studied the ship and put a wee bit of pride back in donagall and now the ladies are uh on the on the you know a game away from an all-iron semi-final and so so things things always turn right you know you got to stay positive i suppose even in the tough times it could be hard to see that at times you know particularly i think in the men's game there too it was hard to see you know how we were going to you know come out of that group but yet we we ended up coming second and so listen things things will always turn but fair play ladies they're flying the flag now yeah all right maxi and morin on the show this evening now um we had four games over the weekend two were on pay-per-view two were on rte the two good ones i think uh were on the pay-per-view yeah go uh the carry to your own game was um was an interesting one because it was you know it was i mean i think carry went at half went in at halftime three points up it didn't look like to roam we're out of the game but then i don't know i've it was just an amazing second half of football from from carry tactically they seemed to be able to change they played this game very different to the previous game yeah uh and they were able to they just seemed to be able to adjust and change on the hoof and just some amazing players and i kind of felt for to roam i think carry gave them a few points really the truth be told they did a job in them i suppose that's the thing carry you're missing and there's a bit of history between carry and carry and trolling where trolling got about carry there are the aristocrats of the game they were the always the team to beat and they played the game a certain way so you had to ruffle them so i think now what what carry have learned over the years that we can't that we have to turn that on you on you obviously paddy tally northern coach coming down there a lot of emphasis on the tackle and the shape and if you look at the game if you look at the game and look at the doubling game is the way the second half i think doubling had won seven without reply carry maybe had about won five or won sixty a point or something and just blew the other team away and what happens is anyway because they're tactically well set up they can just sit then emboss the game and it's very different to a team you know other teams that are playing counter attack when they break they haven't got disability you know you look at that doubling team and then when they on their bench come on the same with carry when they're breaking into space you're in trouble so if they've learned to sit and tighten they get on the lead both teams played the game some there at halftime there didn't look like there was a lot on it and then he just blew the team away and then they sat and they control the game and it was a real marker weekend for for uh carry and tarone just to say listen we're we're here they're definitely the best two teams in ireland by some way yeah i don't think really we can read anything into where donagol's that given the fact that tarone beat donagol and then carry beat tarone i mean i i'm sure that was a lot of beat our bar yeah i'm sure that was a lot of the conversations we have but there are different games and different scenarios what about the monahan our our mar game 14 points apiece at full time low scoring extra time and then the dreaded penalties to settle our national sport when penalties well i mean there's no point going over that again is there i was pleased to see uh monahan get one over and i'm not gonna lie yeah were you you weren't yeah i i try and stay impartial just i can't stop that come on how about this i don't like either of the ways i listen i have a cousin player for monahan in sporting terms we're talking about monahan ties so i have to i definitely stick with monahan guys listen we were supporting them yes we haven't got a great history we are ma they are down through the years like so but but listen say penalties tough again our math three penalty shootouts in a row like i was just thinking about our ma we're coming down the road in the car there from the boat and i was thinking myself if they don't want them penalty shootouts they were in all iron semi-final last year they're also champions this year and they're in all iron semi-final again now in your football and life like that completely changes everything that those players now those players now break basically with mcganey 10 years now and this that would have been like the culmination of all their work but yet the three things that have basically changed their football and life in many ways comes down to penalty shootouts and listen the same lad missing the two um penalties that's that's a tough thing to hang on him right but i don't think anybody really faults people for like i think you know there was some expert penalties and that by the way you know people keep them they're cool when he corey said after the game the monahan manager we don't practice penalties you know so it just shows you you know sometimes maybe you're better off maybe you're not it's hard and i would always think you should practice yeah someone probably a bit of a soccer back back grand as well down the line it's just when you think of an entire season all the training and all the stuff we don't see that goes into it all the games all the highs and the lows and the heartbreak for it to end on spot kicks yeah now i mean it just does not do those players justice no no it's really hard sharing it and possibly as well i think i think because it is the way it is and it's just here to stay i don't think i'm overly concerned i think i'm out a couple of chances to hit goals and i'll look at what went wrong during during the play i'm probably more tools to beat teams than the monahan do you know but they play social cautious and they play in this real game that will try and beat you by a point and it's such a dangerous game because you see they got up that point the game plan was basically almost worked in terms of that kick brilliant kick arena needs up steps are the man himself Connor McManus who of course had two penalties