you too Greg. Alright thank you very much Lee it is the night till noon show our Friday panel joining us very shortly but let's get a news update say good morning now to Michaela Clark. Thanks Greg good morning the cost of rebuilding a house in the northwest has increased by 26% in the past year according to latest figures from the Society of Chartered Surveys of Arlington rebuilt an average size three bed semi-detached property in the region will now cost 201,000 55,000 euro from last year the SCSI however says the latest figures do not relate to mica effective properties it says the cost differences are down to the redress scheme being based on pre-2007 regulations and standards and that it is not taken to account replacing foundations and cost inflation Michael Doherty PR of the mica action group says costings in the defective concrete block scheme must be revisited we shouldn't be messing about with pre-2007 15 year old specifications on a brand new house at a time when the energy costs never were higher at a time when Europe and the rest of the world are saying what can we do to build our homes in a way that has the lowest possible carbon footprint and yet we have a government here and the department here in the department of housing hell bent and keeping us back in the stone ages keeping us back at the most expensive forms of heating. French students looking to study in Ireland should be extra vigilant not to get scammed when looking for somewhere to stay that's according to the French Embassy in Ireland which says an acute shortage of accommodation has led to scammers taking advantage of struggling students it's also warned there's a severe shortage of housing here nationwide and rents are now more expensive than powers even for shared properties a note on the embassy website also lists a number of information sources for prospective renters including the residential tenancies board and various social media groups Donegal County Council has published what it's describing as an ambitious and creative regeneration strategy and action plan for Dunlop Tynes Centre. The council says it is a regeneration focused roadmap of key priorities and actions for the sustainable regeneration of the area to 2040 and beyond. The strategy has been widely welcomed but Councillor Marie Tres Gallagher says the council must now commit to having full-time staff deployed to work on developing concrete plans to ensure the strategy's goals are realised. It is transformative for the town however we have to get into the detail what we're looking at here is a new town park the regeneration of the main street of Dunlop and also connecting the bay walk to the river walk here in Dunlop we have to put the resources in place now to get it from a strategy into a document that's going for planning we need to get part eight planning and then we have to go for regeneration funding. Weather and I Clydey with Scattered Charge today mostly clearing to good sunny spells highest temperatures of 14 to 17 degrees that's all from Highland Radio news for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then good morning. In Ireland we love our sport but whatever the game there are things we'd all love to change. 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Hello and a very good morning to you it is four minutes past nine on this Friday the 16th of September 2022 and you're very welcome along to the 9 till noon show I'll be introducing our Friday panel to you very shortly we'll be running through some of the bigger issues making the headlines today and this week we want you involved in that conversation as well of course 08 660 25000 WhatsApps and texts to that number if you want to watch proceedings get to our website highlandradio.com and you can see our guests and the show there same could be said for YouTube Highland Radio Ireland and across our Facebook pages feel free to comment in those spaces as well all right let's say good morning to our panel now good morning first to Dr Kiran Alfari who's a GP of course good morning Kiran how are you keeping I'm doing good it's good to have you with us uh professor Pat O'Connor professor of sociology and social policy at Limerick University good morning professor and you're a bit low there Pat unfortunately I'm sure you'll be able to resolve that for us and also Aiman McGee uh former Intercanti footballer columnist as well good morning Aiman how are you keeping Marty Gregg has a farm not too bad not too bad I'll stay with you Aiman because the T-shock has indicated that he's open to the possibility of former T-shock Bertie Hearn being readmitted to the Fina Fall party many in Fina Fall believe his return should come ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement next year given his role in brokering it in 2012 the Mahon Tribunal found that Bertie Hearn while not just corrupt had received money from developers and the tribunal disbelieved his explanations of those payments Fina Fall proposed to expel politicians censored by the tribunal but Hearn resigned from the party prior to the expulsion motion being moved so uh I don't you don't strike me as a Fina Fall voter I'm open to correction on that one Aiman McGee back in the day back in the day Greg I would have been all right yeah you have to do with your dad what your dad voted for now so yeah do you think that's changed a bit now oh 100 percent it's changed 100 percent now um it's gone completely people are actually uh having independent thoughts now and you know they have their own opinions and you don't definitely have to be fired from a Fina Fall voter now yeah all right okay so what do you think uh or maybe you don't care I actually do care actually do care and we should all care in terms of you know the fact that Bertie Hearn is muted for a comeback because that's the reason why politicians continue to let us down because we make it so easy for them you know Bertie Hearn has never once seen contrite or you know put his hands up and said he's done wrong and you know an educated monkey would know would know that Bertie Hearn has been in the wrong and he's dodged and he's danced around the whole thing and um we've got to make our standards really really high for politicians when you look across the Atlantic and you see you know some of the nonsense and even when you look across the water in terms of Britain um and you see some of the nonsense um that's that goes on there um and that's that's because the standards haven't been said high and you know the level of debate and the the issues that are being raised um and we we've that's that's why Bertie should go nowhere near a Fina Fall or serious about anything in terms of getting back into a strong position in the countries that shouldn't even entertain the thought um Bertie Hearn I'm sure and you know he comes across as good guy you know a man that you sit and have a wee pint with and you know enjoy the crack but in terms of our politician in terms of the standards we want to get to um I wouldn't so so do you think with that in mind then and I suppose with people being more uh thinking more individually and what have you that it would be Fina Fall would be shooting themselves in the foot that they wouldn't be reading the room well that it would reflect bad on the party then to be seen to welcome Bertie Hearn back into the fold I would think that I would like to hope that's the case in terms of you know the if he was put out to you know an vote that the voters would respond but we've seen in the history that that's not necessarily the case um and it shows a kind of thing we've talked it off a lot I've listened you know to the show you show there a few weeks and there's a disconnect you know this word disconnect from from the politicians to to us on on the ground and that seems to be a case of that there and listen we'll we'll throw Bertie we'll we'll try and get Bertie because he was touted there I think was it a few years ago um you know we need to get Bertie back and the response wasn't great so put him in hiding now for another while and then this comes out again um and it's it's just shows you that there is a disconnect there you know we could talk all about it and they just continually show it yeah all right Professor Connor hopefully I can hear you now is this any better no but I'll tell you what I might do I might kick you out and then bring you back in and we'll see if it improves how's that okay thank you it's just you sound just a little distance um I'll put the question to you whilst we wait for Pat O'Connor to rejoin us uh Kieran what what's your views yeah I suppose to me there's a little bit of a relevance to a disgraced former politician being brought back into a political party and in one way it shows that Finafall are focusing on on the past and and history and instead of focusing on what the people want politicians to focus on our policy and issues and government and I think it really does show a disconnect between the party and maybe what they think people want and a lot of people on the ground actually want and as Eamon has said politics has totally changed in this country now from you know back in 10 20 years ago people followed their the parents along a political party line people now want to choose political party based on their values and their policies and what they want to do and if this is the best that Finafall can offer I suppose there's no reason that they're liking them in the polls but if you want to recognize the contribution someone like Bertie Hearn made to the peace process uh and I don't mean this as as any sort of an attack on on Finafall you're bringing back in when you're at your lowest air don't you I mean I can't imagine Finafall's support dropping much lower than it is now in the in the mid-teen so if you are going to bring him back in well now's the time to do it isn't it rather than sort of you know in government start of a new term riding high in the polls because the damage would be much greater than true but I suppose for the the common person out there I think he does very little relevance whether Bertie Hearn is in Finafall party or outside the Finafall party uh what he's done and the findings of the Manhattan Tribunal is still there uh people's judgment is still there and I don't think that was changed tonight you know obviously if there's going to be commemorations of the good Friday agreement you can't be part of that whether he's within or outside the party and I don't think it would really make much for difference to politics in Ireland or to uh the voters out there all right Pat can you hear me now or can I hear you no you're you go ahead can you hear me I can you're very very faint there if you could just pump up your uh pump up your output if that's okay on on your mic for some reason it's lower no unfortunately Pat that's just uh unfortunately that's just not going to to to work um uh for us uh we'll put you out and bring you back in again and try one more time um normally we never have a problem with uh uh with Pat's connection um just disconnect that that Ayman mentioned there it's issue after issue um Kieran and also Ayman talked about we'll bring Ayman back in on the conversation to about accountability and you know looking west to america or looking east to to britain do we just really have to accept that there is there's not much of a accountability in politics anywhere really I mean we expect it but I don't think the politicians have caught up with our expectations I think like when you do compare us to other countries and you look at politics in america and in the UK I think in some ways we've got quite a high standard of politics here in this country at the moment and we've got a pretty robust opposition party which are holding our government to account in our government you know we've seen with recent controversies regarding Robert Troy although you know I suppose it's frustrating for us watching this thing's drag on for a week or two uh there does seem to be the only thing just with just with just with the Robert Troy thing the only consequence for for him uh was the full support of his party and the party leader let's not forget three days ago they did a walk around a housing project and mr Troy was shoulder to shoulder with with uh me home Martin and he resigned his his junior ministry that was the only uh that's the only sanction that that he incurred other than that it's just business as usual I suppose yeah the real sanction will come to the people at the next election and the people will have to decide whether they think he's worthy to be in politics or not so at the end of the day the power lies with us the voters and it's important that we look at our standard and look at our politicians and make sure that the people that we're voting in are people that hold a high standard and make sure that they run the list a lot this way we want so at the end of the day it's up to us yeah but we don't vote like that because we vote in a local level you know and people can say what they like about Robert Troy but he's probably you know held in very very high regard locally and he'll probably sail through Ayman he will he will be more more than likely that he will in terms of you know the end of the day we we we choose who we want to represent us and you know and I would argue that we don't necessarily always get it right if you look to the the people of Taperary I'm not sure what electoral region but you know Michael Lowry seems to cruise in all the time you know and we all know the Crackler Lowry so I would argue that we don't always get it right in terms of locally we probably you know probably have to take a look at ourselves we had a a counsellor on an RTE program you know pretty prominent on it and he went top the poll like so I think you know locally we would have to have a look at our look at it ourselves in terms of you know what what kind of politicians what kind of politics politics do we do we want and who do we want to represent us all right okay we'll be back with much more from our guests and hopefully Professor Pat O'Connor because I'm chomping at the bit here what she's got to say about this 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completely agree that it shows a total disregard for um what could only be seen as possible financial corruption and taking the electorate for fools really yes indeed though that was not found uh against mr Ahern in the Mahon tribunal that being said okay i think can we recognize uh Bertie Ahern's important role in brokering the good friday agreement and has you know do we not have a system whereby you can be rehabilitated you know has he not served enough punishment um for whatever was found against him in the tribunal i mean is that not a good message for young people as well that you serve your time and you can come back absolutely but i agree with Ahern on this that he has never apologized to all these ridiculous explanations as to why a minister for finance would have money in his wardrobe horses um you know etc etc like it was ridiculous and if he had come out and said yes he made you know even the cliche an error of judgement right if he showed any recognition that he had behaved inappropriately and it had if also possible made some uh gestures in the direction of um either um revenue basically on doing the harm either to financial or at a social level then yes no problem but he has never given any indication that he saw what he did as wrong and that is the key problem but Finn and for it doesn't seem to get that do you know they see it as kind of um you know time has passed yeah but can i say i think they see i think individually they do get it pat because i've noticed politicians and and to some extent i can't i can only presume the motivation say for instance for minister charlie mcconnellogh yesterday they don't they're not saying they're against it okay but at the same time they're also not saying except for senator nal blaney a lot of them aren't saying yes he should be welcome back into the party in other words they're open to it but they don't maybe necessarily want to be directly associated with saying we should do it well possibly but certainly this feeling you know that he's a sinner and we need to be you know every saint is a sinner and every sinner is a saint all this kind of language that i just heard on the news before i came up i mean in a way it is based on the assumption that you recognize what you've done as wrong and there's no evidence that either Bertie hern or anybody else seems to do that now i completely agree with you he has played a very important role in northern Ireland and i see no problem in recognizing that but actually um uh plotting the issue uh um you know his what he has done should be recognized but equally the fact that he has not admitted that he made any that there was any well that these lunatic tales that these were really you know not credible that that there has been no indication if you want to take him Catholic in terms of you know recognition of wrong and how can how can he uh be readmitted if Bertie you know doesn't get that at some level and i mean if the Nobel Peace Prize isn't enough recognition for him what what what is i'm sure i'm sure yeah you know i i would challenge sorry great i would challenge you in terms of you know the the tribunal didn't definitively find against him but i would say to any young person that possibly wouldn't been around is to even google them the man tribunal and you know the fines and and what but just in relation to that amen from a from a legal perspective the tribunal did not find him corrupt now we can we can go into the internet yes but i would say to any young person there to yeah no and i get i get where you're coming from but i would say to read read that and you know the inconsistencies and and what not and illegally or whatever they didn't but i know i know what you're getting and yeah there's a lot in there a lot a lot in there in terms of uh anyway uh right okay listen this is an obvious one that i have to bring in here but it the problem with this also is very obvious in that uh you know i'm contacted personally by people often older people who are literally scared stiffless scared stiff to switch on the lights or to plug in a heater because of the cost of electricity and they fear it's going to get worse and worse and worse and it is going to get worse and worse and worse so i have to mention the fact that this morning profits were announced at the esb and they've grown 50 percent in the six months to the end of june the reports published by the company this morning show profits for the financial period excluding exceptional items amounted to 248.8 million which was up from 167.4 million during the same period last year the group uh recorded revenues of almost 3.7 billion which are up from almost 2.2 billion the year before um i'll start with you uh kieran if that's all right uh you know people struggling people actually in full fuel poverty and those who will end up in fuel poverty to hear poverty to hear these type of profits being announced uh it is just insult to real injury uh kieran it does it seems disgusting to see the people that are obviously charging us more for our energy making more profit it just seems unbelievable really and you know we hear that the prices are going up because it's costing them more how is it that they're making more profit um you know i heard on the radio this morning some explanation that their generation arm is separate to their supply arms so that they can't intermingle the two issues but to me that doesn't add up and you know that was a soft if we're talking about the same interview it's such a soft interview it was like well what about you know this situation user making a fortune people can't afford power i'll win podcast Europe blah blah blah we're very happy with these results you know that deserves far greater scrutiny and i think the public deserve farther far greater scrutiny from the head of the esp as to how this can be and how this can be justified to talk about investing in what renewable energies whereby it's it's it's electricity production with incredibly low input costs and they're guaranteed the same price per kilowatt uh because it's it's it's um it is it's coupled with the price people pay for oil and gas generated electricity that deserves a half an hour interview of great scrutiny not some sort of oh well moving on to the next question yeah this is money that should be in people's pockets not in the company's pockets and you know as you said people are really struggling under the point of struggle more over the winter months and uh we have to find some mechanism to make sure that these companies aren't making more profits based on the misery and the struggling of people out there uh obviously there's a difficulty with certain companies and we've seen in the last month two companies leave the irish market so uh i suppose there's ins and outs there that might be difficult but at the end of the day when you can see a company increasing the profit so much that's just wrong and we saw yesterday patagonia in america showing a little bit of a social conscience and uh you know a company giving away a lot of money and he spoke about the need for a change in how big companies uh get richer and people get richer and other people get poorer and and this comes back to i suppose our how we organize our society and how we make sure that the rich don't get richer and the poor get poorer but that's unfortunately in a crisis a financial crisis that's precisely what happens the rich get richer and the poor get poorer um and professor o'connor you know at the end of the day um there has to be a better explanation of this stuff because that what's going to happen now is and i've said it before in the program but the borrowing our money off us we're borrowing our money off us to to pay down some of our bills right which maintains the profits of the likes of the ESP but we have to pay it back and our children have to pay it back at much higher rates over time and it actually insulates their profits because they can charge whatever they like and we know a new range of price increases are coming in in the week after the budget which will cancel out the money the government's taking off us to give back to us um and and we were promised that the privatization of electricity would mean because it was it wasn't as profitable back then it would mean more competition and cheaper electricity but now we have companies making record profits and we're paying record prices for electricity i mean unravel all of that for me well i can't it makes no sense i mean it was captured by a cartoon in the times which showed the lunacy of the whole thing you know the government is giving us a certain amount so we can pay our ESP bills but we basically then it's a circle repeat repeat except the customer loses out all the time completely agree with you on the soft interview and it just isn't good enough it makes no sense i'm afraid i can offer no life apart from fury i mean it's worthy of our freedom of information as to what was agreed before that interview in my opinion i think we're at that point now whereby we need to know if there was an agreement between rte and the head of the ESP as to what questions would be asked and if those questions would be pursued in terms of what answers were given a man you me everyone on this call and i'm sure everyone listening to this now all of a sudden we're so acutely aware of every single electrical item in the house whether we want to or not because we're fearful of how much of our limited incomes in many cases are going to be eaten up by you know rising costs and at the same time we have a company a half-year profits of 250 million euro yeah i'll be honest but you know it makes no sense in terms of the the economics you know i can offer no great insight into terms of how that i just can't get my head around it the fact that you know we're being conscious of how many times we're going to use the electric shower how many times we're going to put on the kettle what lights we're going to leave on and then the company that's supplying this is making is making record profits so i'm struggling to to connect it to connect the dots there now and it just the only thing i you know it's just a moral in turn in my view and it just um you know we should be making a lot more noise about it in terms and i think that's what we'll see come you know when when these bills are creeping in again and you know people start looking around an interview last week about a woman and she's seen is use a business woman and she just seen her bell and she just started crying um and that's the reality of it like luckily we're we're in a fortunate enough position you know we'll be conscious of it you know the there'll be sacrifice that we made but overall we'll hopefully come out the other side of it but there's other people that won't in terms of their businesses and there's you know there's there's people residents that will you know have to put on an extra pair of clothes for the winter because they just can't put on that oil or you know they can't put on the the electric heater or whatever and that that for me is just not acceptable and i think we'll see that come the winter months and possibly the other side next year in terms of people will be on the streets and if it keeps going on the level of rage you know starts to come to the surface you know i i think we might see something similar to the to the to the water charges and the way to diffuse that is you know to give a tough interview for our team to say what's the story here not to be giving them a soft touch like like you touched on ask him even just a simple question is it morally okay for you to come on and announce these type of profits when there are people that are are are sitting with no power to date you know what i mean is it morally right you know what i mean but just even something simple like that so he would have to directly answer if he believed that is the case and if he doesn't believe it's morally right well then what are you going to do about it if you believe it is morally right well then explain how it can be morally right but it's just you know maybe there's nuances here maybe it's not a black and white white issue you know that in terms of the whole energy model and the economics of it like that explain that then yeah and explain that then say this is the reason for it this is the reason we're able to announce profits and try and diffuse that because there's so much simmering beneath the surface here in terms of the whole societal thing and the and the the the money I should come coming up to this one turn see what really worries me Dr. Kiran Alfari is that amongst all of the noise of of of what's been said on the radio what we're saying here there are people listening to this program today and it's not two or three people but even maybe of a particular generation okay who would be so fearful because maybe they're on a on a state pension okay and they're seeing the costs go up that they will sit in a cold house all day that they actually will sit in a cold house in fact I think my father if he was still with us now if I went over to his house this morning I'd say most of the power would be off and the heating would be off and maybe there wouldn't be a maybe it wouldn't be completely logical I'm not you know what you are but he probably would because he would be so fearful of a bill of two grand landing right because that's the fear that's out there and I think there are hundreds if not thousands of people of all age groups don't get me wrong but particularly you know older vulnerable people that will be sitting in the dark with no heat on today because they're so afraid of of what is to come I think that's a real fear and you know there is a lot of coverage about this people are hearing about these businesses with their massive bills and people are afraid and something I hear my work every day the worries and the stresses and the anxieties that people have and I have noticed over the last number of months that the financial worries is crept in more and more as a concern for people and an underlying worry that people have and as you say older people on fixed incomes fixed pensions they are going to worry and they're the people that you'd have to worry you're going to be sitting at home in the cold in the dark and you know there's a long winter ahead and it is a concern for everybody and in some ways you know the more we talk about it the more we add fear into people's lives which in some way is isn't good but we also have to make people aware of it so that there is as much energy conservation out there as there can be so that people don't get these big bills maybe there is a responsibility then on the likes of this program because when we talk about average bills right they talk about average bills could hit 6000 well maybe we need to make sure that we're having a more nuanced conversation where we talk about well what is you know the potential bill for a you know a two bedroom bungalow versus a you know a four bedroom larger house and that's something maybe we can work on yeah I think maybe differentiating a little bit between different types of energy because obviously we've seen the massive increases in electricity rates recently but there has been a fall over the last month or two in petrol and oil prices so you know obviously here in all most people keep their homes using either solid fuel or oil as opposed to electricity and gas so those nuances need to be as well considered and conveyed to people as well. Yeah and the fear might also be that if they decide to use tariff they could be arrested for that go ahead Pat. But also I mean we have to think in terms of the budget and the government's initiative in basically taxing excess profits but that needs to be one of the possible planks that people can agitate around. Yeah and in terms of how much that would would would draw in I mean we can't tax shells profits because they're an international company they don't pay their tax here but I think it would if we could see the likes of the ESB or others but then they'll talk about the fact that they've invested 532 million euro in infrastructure and if you they can't do that if you so and they've paid the government 1.2 billion over the last three years you know yourself it'll get it all get figures will be thrown about Pat and it'll never happen. Well but in a way we can see the profits we can see in the case of the ESB that there is a case for basically leveraging off this profits this is a critical moment the government needs to take what action it can on local issues. All right stay right where you are we are in the company of Professor Pat O'Connor Dr Kieran Alfari and also Aiman McGee more from our guests and your calls and comments after these. The Ninetyl 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. New this weekend home store and more all clothes errors are half price but better hurry because when all the half price clothes errors are gone they're gone. Also all mattress toppers and all stools and chairs are still half price but when all the half price mattress toppers and all the half price stools and chairs are gone they're definitely gone. 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I think so I wouldn't care what party it was it myself personally if it's for charity. ESB's a semi-state owned it's the government that should be taking the flag for this day's the caller wholesale markets dictate the price of electricity the ESB can't help that they therefore make more money off their wind farms when natural gas prices are high if you want them to make less profits then you have to change how the wholesale markets operate perhaps by adding a price cap to renewable generators that comes in from Ben. I'd like to see a published list of the shareholders of the power companies how many of our politicians have vested interest in them in fact actually later on today I was thinking of going through the declaration of interests to see how many might be. Is there any groups formed that we can go out to protest my bill has gone up dramatically and other dons has been turning off most of their lights to save on fuel it's so dark we'll need torches to do the shopping well I suppose they're doing the responsible thing. I mean there is an opportunity if people want to get out in the streets on on the 24th down in Dublin Amon do you think people will be motivated are we at the point where enough people will go down and protest in Dublin I mean I think rather foolishly but understandably there's this sort of satellite protests taking place around the country which will mean the Dublin protest will be probably what 10 15 000 if the lucky maybe double that I don't know but still 30 40 000 would not be enough to influence the government do you think maybe this march on the 24th is a missed opportunity or maybe too soon? I think and that's my own personal opinion I think maybe it's a bit a bit too soon I think you know there has to be a bit more organization and if you look at the make-up protests before it and look at the the water protests before it you know that that that took a while to get gone and you know once they organized and once they got together and started to draw the big crowds and become more you know rather than scattered become more internalized and that's that's what that's when they started making a head's turn and you know I think we'll we'll get to that point. Yeah Pat O'Connor I mean it kind of looks a wee bit like people before profit protest coming up on the 24th loads of other groups claiming it as well I just think that it had a lot of potential but I just think it's going to be a damp squib I'm open like I may well be very wrong but that's how it's feeling to me. No I think it's too early basically people's bills haven't started to come in we still aren't really into the winter people still are just getting back to a routine after the summer it's just too early. Okay um Kieran. Yeah I I suppose as everybody said that nobody feels like it's going to make a significant difference and you know the the energy price increases and electricity are starting in October for most companies so it's going to be another month or two before people really see the impact of those and really feel I suppose the anger that they're going to feel when they see their bills go up. Yeah O'Connor says I think Fianna Fawley's lining Bertie a hurry up for president that comes in from Kathleen and Bert I think that ship has sailed Kieran can you envisage a scenario where he is president of Ireland? I can't see it I think even this discussion here today shows that he's a long long way away from that and you know a presidential election is a popularity contest and I think there's no doubt about it but he doesn't have that level of popularity. What do you think Pat though if he were to go in front of the people and I mean even Amon says he seems like a nice guy to quite he could potentially be a nice guy to go for a pipe with you know maybe if it was on a public vote? No I don't think so I think well some people at least have broken up to the fact that nice guys to go for a pint with aren't always entirely useful as basically you know political figures they can be a little bit problematic and I'm obviously thinking of our near neighbor and Mr. Boris there and so nice guy to go for a pint with Grant but I think there is the thing of all aren't really they haven't understood the issue and back to this they think he delivered on Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is really key yes it is it's his ticket to the park but this is as the others have said they're out of touch and Finafall vote has been falling so there aren't that many people who are going to kind of just because he's on the ticket are going to vote for him anyway. There's a lot of good people in Finafall in terms of the talent wise for his politicians and they don't need to be going back to the tried and tested and they always listen and invest in a bit of that talent that's within the party. I think it's possible that Mihal Martin is kind of trying to hit Mihal Martin is also a nice man and I do think he's honest and decent and he's trying to in a way he was the person who pushed Bertie to to walk the plank way back and so he's trying to tidy up things in a humane way before he steps down and all that is understandable. I mean there is a strategy all of this is being discussed around about now because there are people with influence in the party that believe now is the right time to discuss it this is not this hasn't come out of like a bolt out of the blue. Yes but I do think that Mihal Martin is trying to you know do the good thing the nice thing is he sees it sort out the past and at a personal level show he has no animosity to Bertie even though he did push him out recognize his contribution to the north but this is at a personal level the key issue is public trust and that's I think where they haven't got it. Yeah okay um a recent study showed now I'm not I'm not sure how wide-ranging it was or how much it even might vary from five years ago seven out of ten young people would consider emigration. I'll stay with you Pat on this one I mean I don't know how many if you asked you know when there wasn't a housing crisis or whatever how many would say that I think a lot of young people have an ambition ambition to emigrate whether they feel they're compelled to I think might have been a better question do you feel you'd have to emigrate I think that might be more reflective of the the environment that we're living in but but but do you think we are in a cycle again already of young people looking at their options and they see a better life for themselves outside of Ireland are we going to lose another generation to emigration? Well this is the National Youth Council study and I saw it I looked it up and I got a bit of information and it is 18 to 24 year olds and it is true of course they were coming out of court and Thornton said they weren't as happy as they were six months ago well in a way that's very understandable one and two reported for financial health. Now what was also very interesting was that the actual National Youth Council report made no in its recommendations it made no reference to approving the mental health services but I suppose I think of course this is I have feelings this is back to the 1980s which I remember and last out turn out the light but I want to kind of I do think that the situation as regards accommodation and students is appalling but I want to kind of take a step back and say there are two underlying issues I think beneath this and this current study and this current issue and one of them is around higher education and the second one is around the feeling that young people are not feeling valued in our society and in the case of higher education and I do think that the extension the way apprenticeships are being now included in the CAO is positive but an awful lot of young people are going to higher education who really shouldn't be going right they're not really interested in ideas they're going because it's the cool thing to do etc etc they are monumentally unhappy there we know that from levels of mental illness drug abuse alcoholism a part of female students being raped this is not a good scene a huge level of non attendance at lectures even for covert which is kind of one of the unspated problems that higher education institutions don't like coming out and saying so really a lot of people young people are going to higher education and are monumentally unhappy right there and really this is part of the problem so what what why is it there then exactly pressure and their parents want them to do better than the parents did etc etc the second issue and I'm going to make a radical suggestion as to what can help on the second issue second issue is the young people feel they're not valued and in a way they're quite right they spend four years getting an undergraduate degree even if they get a further even if they spent a further three five years getting a phd for example roughly half of them are on contracts in less than 12 months like in a way getting out of the yellow pack jobs is really hard it was always hard it's even harder and so in a way it seems to me and this is now a totally radical idea but I wonder whether if when young people graduated as part of their condition of going to higher education they have to agree that they give two or three years to basically be part of the institutional structure society so if they're doing medicine the two or three years in the medical service if they're doing social work in social work in teaching wherever right and they're paid but they it gives the mistake and it might actually help to shake up what I see as the very arthritic structures but that was floated previously when we're talking about retention and what have you and a lot of people thought well their education's been subsidized you know that they they need to pay it back you're framing it slightly different but the outcome would be the same but it didn't get any traction previously I wonder would it now let me bring someone bring the others in and we can come back to you Pat Eamon Eamon McGee as I say I don't know in ordinary circumstances whatever that is how many young people would consider emigration I think you know how many feel they would need to to to emigrate or how many would want to I remember it was a minister a Donagall minister at the time when we were talking about emigration at the last recession says well young people want to travel anyway that you know it's nothing to do with what's happening in the country but anyway Eamon what's your views you know I'm always from a personal perspective I've traveled and I haven't traveled as much as I'd like but you know there's there's no place in terms of you America in the Middle East or whatever Europe there's no place like home so I'm always going to go on the side that you know Ireland is a great place to be and sometimes when we are given out a bit stuff in terms of politics prices there's it's good to give out of it but let's not paint a picture that this is a you know a banana republic or anything of this sort like this is a great country to live when when you when you go around when you go around and look around the world it's a great great place to be and I know I think we should be there's a drive on now for remote workers to come to to come to Donagall and you know that that's a good thing now so when I see something like this I think there's there's a bit of the grass as I was greener for the for the young people and you know it's it's at the same time it's not a black and white issue there's people you know in terms of the nurses in terms of you know doctors or whatever that are generally seem to be better off in another country because the system has failed them so much here in terms of the hse and so there you can't just look at it like young people put them into one category there's different categories within within them within them young people and some cases they are better off and some cases they're just saying you know the grass is greener on the other side maybe the media too I think the media is an awful lot of a role to play in this in set and sort of a I just think maybe we all need to sort of I think social media more so than the media in terms of social media the the the black and whiteness of social media where Ireland is just this archaea country and that the system is just ready to follow pattern heaven or a cape yeah okay yes yes yes and you know you get the PR side and then the government saying that's a great place and you know we're sitting somewhere in the middle we have to strive to be better and we have to strive to make our politics better and the system is better but it's it's it's not as bad as you know something if you read through Twitter or Facebook about this some of the some of the nonsense but that's been that's been said and the tiniest little in situations are amplified massively on on so on social media people latch onto something now I'm not referencing the make real problems that we have in terms of housing and student accommodation I'm gonna like other little things like division and all that kind of stuff Kiran Afari what's your view yeah I think as him and said the grass is always greener for for lots of people and it doesn't always work out that way obviously it is an issue in certain professions they can get a better quality life less stress for working conditions overseas but in terms of accommodation and issues like that you know obviously in Dublin and the big cities that's far more of an issue and how we can attract more in your young people to to come to the region to stay in Dunnegal to live in Dunnegal you know we've got a vibrant town here like any but if you look at restaurants and coffee shops in some ways limited options and very few new places opening up and more and more places closing down so it's obviously not easy for those businesses to get going here and that then makes us the place probably less attractive for young people to stay and enjoy themselves yeah the other thing is is and you know I was in London recently and I was lucky enough to go to a few other places where there's huge Irish populations and they talk they hang around with Irish people they get involved in Irish activities be it GEA even if they're not interested in football or whatever I mean some are and some are great don't get me wrong they even secure plots of land to plow and farm especially those that maybe have got children over the wherever they are and are finding it difficult to return home you know if you want to hear about Ireland and how great it is often Pat you have to go and speak to communities of Irish elsewhere that really really all they want to do is come home and live at home just like Ayman has said yes well I mean I spent 10 years in London so I do know the two sides but I suppose I mean I also really wonder if you look at students mostly they don't even stay on their campus areas for weekends they go home you know to their parents house for the weekends right so they can't partly this may be financial but also it is emotional and that makes me wonder about the extent to which this seven out of ten considering moving abroad to what extent is this just a kind of a pipe dream do you know realistically they're not going to be able to come home actually and one question on that Ayman I just wonder I don't have to go anyone right but I wonder how equipped more recent generations are actually to relocate to another country you also parents can be sort of accused maybe of money cuddling and you know still feeding them I get you I get you I just wonder go on I'm not saying I just wonder you're saying what I'm thinking now in terms of the privilege generation yeah I just wonder are they equipped to actually deal with going into the big bad world on their own and cooking for themselves you know I think we're very we're very the more I see this next generation the more impressed you know that when you surface now you're a good cup the surface thing and I would agree to 100% but the more you know when you interact with these young people they are kind of they're they're switched on and they're a lot more when I was 20 you know you could hardly tie your shoelaces but I get into some handling and and I see this new generation I think they're going to be better than than than we than we ever will and you know we've we've got to just give give them a chance now so do you agree Pat well I'm just wondering the acid question is are they still bringing up their washing for their mother to do at the weekend right and are they still filling up but you know some of us some of us some of us would still be doing that nothing girls I don't want to take on whites do you know what I mean oh my god this is Neanderthal I mean the girls are generally more competent but that's for me the defining question you know and are they turn filling up their bags with home-cooked food from the fridge right they are yeah it's a lot of them are yeah I mean it's all not viable in terms of if you're going to be living in you know Warsaw all right Kieran last same thing to you I mean what do you think uh I suppose on the serious side of it it does show that there's a level of unhappiness out there amongst young people and a level of fear and if you look at the reason behind it accommodation and cost living where the main thing's mentioned and I suppose that it goes yeah and a lot of young people are to grow up fast through a pandemic remote learning not associated with their friends straight into college then a housing crisis then you know so yeah indeed listen um Dr Kieran Alfari thank you so much for your time I really appreciate it great to have you back on the show thank you all right take care of yourself uh professor Pat O'Connor thank you so much lovely to see you again see you soon thank you uh and Amy McGee any views finally very briefly next dunagall manager I was nearly out the door there before he asked um no I I don't know I think we just could we have a scenario where we have a pundit managing the dunagall team and a former manager being a pundit opiling on the pundit managing the dunagall team could we have that scenario um you probably could you probably could no but uh I don't I don't think the the two of them next if you're going to be involved with the dunagall management you've got to be cut the ties with any media lads um and close up shop now but no I think we just got to trust the process what we are seeing now and you know plenty people were shouting for change last last summer and you know it's a very hard it's a very hard job it's big boots to fill it's a big responsibility so you know these people shouting for change should this is a learning process for them that there's not necessarily you know you've got to uh realize what what what you're asking for here so uh no I trust the lads are involved in the process and they'll they'll they'll get the answer right and you know there's plenty of good people in dunagall jay and plenty uh just get trying to get them involved now I mean obviously it's about teams now in management but is there an individual you'd like to see at the helm or to sort of finally have a go at it there's a lot of individuals that I that I would love to see and you know I'm not going to necessarily start naming them here now it's not fair in them but they're some of them just aren't at the stage in their lives where they can't commit you know with jobs with family and that they're some of them you know are involved in other other parts and other projects so to say and you know that's that that's this we would love this ideal world where certain individuals get involved but it's sometimes it just doesn't work out and and I think you know just got to go back to it there's good people involved in dunagall county board and you know 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disgusting revelation that esv made operating profits of 357 million euro in the first six months of the year counselor jack Murray says in the months ahead people will be forced to choose between heating their homes and eating due to high energy costs he says the sensible and moral thing for the government to do would be to cap energy prices counselor Murray says ordinary people need to be protected reassure people reassure businesses that they'll be able to open the doors to be able to survive the winter and it shouldn't be our money is heading into the obscene coffers of some of the wealthiest people in the world that that's just morally wrong to me and i think it is sensible and appropriate and proper that we put a cap in place and protect those ordinary people who are so worried right now the chair of the doors spending watchdog says he's hugely concerned that the cost of building the natural children's hospital has already topped a billion euro it was originally estimated at 800 million but the public accounts committee has been told three quarters of the construction budget has already been spent that's despite another 18 months to go on the project at St James's hospital in Dublin the chair of the public accounts committee is deputy brian stanley we're now going over to one billion mark uh and here we are you know two and a half three years left to go i'm hugely concerned about it it's one that the public accounts committee have tried to keep a handle on uh we have called in the to board the hospital we have called in the hsc and the department on it we will be continuing with that the cost of rebuilding a house in the northwest has increased by 26 in the past year according to latest figures from the society of chartered surveyors of Ireland to rebuild an average sized three-bed semi-detached property in the region will now cost 201 000 that's up 55 000 on last year the ssc si the scsi however says the latest figures do not relate to mica affected properties it says the cost differences are down to the redress scheme being based on pre 2007 regulations and standards and the scheme does not take that into account replacing foundations and cost inflation michael doherty the peer of the mica action group says costings in the defective block concrete scheme must now be revisited we shouldn't be messing about with pre 2007 15 year old specifications on a brand new house at a time when the energy costs never were higher at a time when europe and the rest of the world are saying what can we do to build our homes in a way that has the lowest possible carbon footprint and yet we have a government here and the department here in the department of housing hell bent and keeping us back in the stone ages keeping us back at the most expensive forms of heating and donnie god county council has published what it's describing as an ambitious and creative regeneration strategy and action plan for dunlow town centre the council says it's regeneration focused roadmap of key priorities and actions for the sustainable regeneration of the area to 2040 and beyond the strategy has been widely welcomed but local councillor marie trace gallagher says the council must now commit to having full-time staff deployed to work on developing concrete plans to ensure that the strategy's goals are realised that is transformative for the town however we have to get into the detail what we're looking at here is a new town park the regeneration of the main street of dunlow and also connecting the bay walk to the river walk here in dunlow we have to put the resources in place now to get it from a strategy into a document that's going for planning we need to get part eight planning and then we have to go for regeneration funding cloudy with scattered showers today they're mostly clear to good sunny spells in the afternoon just a chance of a few further light showers developing over the course of the afternoon top temperatures today 14 to 17 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humes uh the usa r-slaver mp and trimbo negotiate the good friday agreement uh berty carried on with it believes that caller uh fena fall has stuck in a rut and aren't able to use their imagination to see what the possibilities are to benefit the whole country believes another uh we need renewable resources we in dunnegull have the infrastructure for to produce electricity from wind farms and hydro energy as well um you'd imagine would be something we could look at another caller says windfall tax on profits is of little benefit if the energy supplier can recoup it all back by increasing prices this might explain why a poll uh a poll art week a poll last week showed people opted for a price cap pensioners are allowed so many free units increasing this allowance would alleviate fears yep and a few people suggesting that free units would be a more targeted approach for those who may be afraid to switch on uh the electricity how do you know if there are any bosses being organized to go from letter kenny to the protest in dublin that's a little element of of of this that i'm just not seeing as much as i'm just not seeing as much as uh in previous uh protests like what is the situation as it relates to bosses being organized are there any let us know we'll pass that uh information on if people don't create upro about berty her and rejoining fena fall after the corruption um of the past not necessarily he because the mahan tribunal didn't find him corrupt directly um i really don't know what to say about us another good morning greg with regards to berty's punishment i'm sure many of your listeners would love to have the pension that berty got as punishment i just remember at the time and i think it's when he sort of uh got the reputation of teff long tea shock i remember people that i would have spoken to at the time and maybe they were slightly older than i were uh were still very sympathetic to berty her and even as he was being expelled from although we chose to leave fena fall people still were defendant very defended uh defending of him i don't know if that's your recollection or maybe that's still what you believe or maybe it was a different time i don't know but i do recall at the time that people even with everything that was being exposed that there was a lot of people that i would have had conversations with that were quite uh you know leave the man alone he's done a lot of good um he without sin cast the first on that type of thing now i'm not sure if attitudes have changed but i do recall that clearly at the time another listener says i can't believe that fena fall would even consider taking berty her and into the party i'm more disappointed that it was a donnie gall member who mooted the proposal berty's contribution to the peace process was nothing more than he happened to be tea shock at the time the work of john human gerry adams appears to be airbrushed into the background as a fena fall voter i um couldn't stomach the return of a man who was found to be less than truthful by the man inquiry miho martin is driving the fena fall boss over the cliff he'll not survive the crash though i believe miho martin's achieved everything he could hope to have achieved in politics at this point certainly internally in this country would you not agree uh it's terrible to see how about the housing crisis is you can build a house here you can't build a house here if you're Irish it disgrace that it's becoming a global conversation uh and what are they referencing there the news that the french embassy has advised its citizens thinking of relocating to Ireland to reconsider due to irish housing crisis things must be bad says this caller when the european it's european wide news they're also stating that dublin is more expensive than paris but dublin is a very popular place as well there's an awful lot of um big employers in dublin google apple tiktok so on and so forth the data centers what have you it doesn't surprise me that dublin is more expensive it's a small town uh compared to a lot of cities and there is an awful lot of industry and an awful lot of people uh from around the country living and working in dublin and from outside the country and then they locate our national stadium there which is you know chaotic when there's something on but also you know some of the um learning institutions with the higher reputations uh that attract international students so i'm not really surprised dublin's more expensive than paris because it hasn't grown the infrastructure hasn't grown with its popularity and uh the fact that the french now know it's really expensive in this housing crisis doesn't pop me up or down because we have to live it uh it's really sickening to hear the profits that the esb have made and people struggling to pay their bills says a caller another we need to cut back on politicians and their wages during this winter well i think you know that uh politicians have just got a six and a half thousand or in line sorry for six and a half thousand euro pay rise and there's actually going to be more politicians so uh what you're suggesting the opposite will be true uh another could they not give units of electricity rather than money that would save prices going up after the discount is given all right um the government is pushing e-cars it's no wonder prices are going up it's the green policies that are driving up the prices says prices says another caller but you see the thing about it is that and i know people that the the green party is going to be a lightning rod for these issues but even if the greens aren't there now unless you've got a radically uh sort of different thinking government maybe sort of more center right kind of a thing the green party policies now are generally the policies of the main parties do you know i i don't i mean the greens will take a lot of credit and perhaps justifiably for accelerating the rollout of what you're seeing now but i think you know the days of a budget day a green policy being mentioned and the camera panning to aim and ryan um you know all parties are pushing the same thing really uh nowadays i think okay we have so much to come on the program i think there's been a breakthrough in the clan mani boss issue okay we're going to be speaking to a parent to get some clarity on that but finally finally after uh days and days of of of upset and anger is it possible uh that finally there has been a breakthrough stay tuned we have news on that and so much more besides for the next hour and 45 it's time for mcbi bingo on highland radio it's friday the 16th of september you're playing on the yellow sheet the reference number is s5 it's game number 37 the numbers are 11 8 57 40 61 10 43 34 20 and finally 41 phone your claim to 9104833 before eight tonight leaving your name contact number and the name of the shop where you purchased your book and we'll call you back the next working day get all your ncbi bingo 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concerned about are the 13 people who died and the 83 people seriously injured on our roads in august that's 13 people who are no longer with their friends or family and 83 people whose lives may be changed forever help us stop such needless loss of life and injury i'm asking drivers to slow down and never ever drink or drug drive visit or say dot ie okay now um a parent samantha joined us a few days ago and is back on the line with us we've been talking about a situation in clon mani whereby students who are entitled to a seat on a bus are being left on the side of the road on a daily basis each morning seven eight nine ten of them and also concerns that some are being left at the end of the school day back at the school because all the seats are taken for the return journey samantha have we had something of a breakthrough and good morning to you good morning greg um we have we have seemed to have good news um this morning there has been a money bus put on um which is taking 15 kids to caradona um that's alleviates the problem of 30 kids is such getting on at the corner cash bus stop so it has the comes down one road it takes the 10 kids down that road and connects five at that stop so it only allows them that there's going to be another 15 on the caradona bus um which is great um as parents were delighted there's no rush in the morning this morning was so much more um safer um for everybody and now i know this bus at the moment i think is only a temporary job until the tender is granted but um it's definitely going in the right direction and we're hoping that it stays as it is at the moment because it's solving a lot of problems yeah because it never made any sense that a bus would come eventually to carry those who didn't get on the first bus this as it is hopefully now going forward we know the students are going to be there get the bus there get them off that dangerous junction and relieve alleviate all this stress and pressure in the morning is the same mini bus do we know or we'll have to wait and see going to be at the school to make sure there's no one left behind in the evenings he is going to be there to take the 15 kids that he took in he's going to take them home it allows them that you know that we're going to go to us then um can take the others there is a few spare seats now sitting on that bus because obviously because there's kids not in today but that there is plenty room now today um and going forward this should be adequate space um for any kids as they say that nobody should be left behind i mean common common sensors prevail but my word it took some fight didn't it it did it sounds awful um and that's what we just want to thank yourselves Greg and Highland Radio for giving us the platform to voice our concerns we ridder what's in and we have as you say to have thankfully a good outcome at the minute um so we are as you say we're grateful for all your help no listen we're just to to open the the the platform for people like yourselves wanted to speak out and I just wonder if uh and if minister mcconnellogues office did intervene yesterday uh because he did say he was hoping to get a solution if that's the case let us know and we'll let the people know yeah i'm not sure now who intervened yesterday but the two politicians that I would like to thank is um both mcdermott and podrick mclockland who has worked from the very beginning was us as parents in clamani and they seem to have done every bit of the legwork um on a political scale for us and I would definitely like to thank them and we'd also like to thank there's three both the operators who have stepped in and have worked for us as well mclockland who's taken the overflow mcconnellogues who I'm sure are stressed to the health and mcdade the mcran as well who had to take the overflow as well that have um who has really pulled out to to help all the kids and at the end of the day it was the kids that we were you know trying to help yeah because it was particularly yesterday listened to that that student left behind just imagine how that person might feel but also you know the kids being on the ones on the side of the road as the bus pulled off and the stress and anxiety that creates you know we as adults we've we've learned to deal with stuff over over the time some of us deal with stuff better than others but these are young people and life strange enough or has been strange enough for the last few years without that sense of of being abandoned almost not that they're abandoned but you know what I mean so that's good all right yeah it was very difficult to deal with for both the parents and the kids and as you say thankfully we do seem to be on the other side of it brilliant okay let us know if there's any change heading into next week but hopefully that's the last now we have to talk about that because of a positive outcome Samantha well done to you and all the parents who have been batting for your children as as always thanks for um yeah thanks for coming on thanks Megan Greg thank you bye bye okay that is however it was resolved that is seemingly resolved isn't that good news uh right a caller says I'm a student nurse me home Martin literally voted against paying student nurses I don't understand how I'm expected to qualify and work in a profession where my work conditions are crumbling and that is the problem it's not just about pay or compelling people to work in the health service it's having a working environment that is attractive you know retention is a problem uh let alone recruitment the grass is greener there's no grass here anymore believes a caller young people just exist here from a mother who's uh young had to emigrate to have any chance um yeah everyone's situation is different I mean there's some you know big employers out there hiring at the moment on on really good terms that I couldn't have even dreamt of I think I was my first job at I don't want to say what age it was but it wasn't school leaving age anyway my first job was uh I think 55 euro a week and I had to give my mother 30 of it or something on those lines I mean there's people now with a leaving start you can go in and earn really really good money and certainly employers and they're actually hiring at the moment but I suppose maybe if you have particular career path or ambitions that you have to follow maybe you do feel you have to go and I'm not suggesting for a second I just think there is some greenery here is is what I'm trying to get at um to the comment from Professor Pat you cannot restrict a person's freedom after graduation you're putting a Band-Aid of the problem which is what our government has successfully failed in their duty to provide jobs where the pay is representative of living costs and conditions I think conditions are a big a big part of it as well good morning Greg young people are tech savvy that's about it they can't fry or boil an egg well I'll fry you an egg but I can't guarantee if I boil you an egg that I won't give you salmonella but okay I'm not a young I'm not a young person by the way you're pretending to be can we get clarification read the block of apartments in Balabafe and what is happening with them above super value um obviously any accommodation that comes on stream now there is going to be speculation as to whether it's going to be made available for to service the housing waiting list or to house Ukrainian refugees I mean you see in bunk beds going in all manner of places now it's really really strange it was on the news I think there was some clarity got on that I'll check with the newsroom to find out what the final uh not the final but what the working situation is as it relates to those apartments there re-electricity a caller says he's living in his home with only his wife children have left the home yet bills are going up and up what about getting the meters calibrated to see if people are being charged extra yeah indeed I got I 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now because we're talking about the lack of tie-ups for boats and leisure craft to people to help us understand this problem and what needs to be done joe bucannon manager of conways bar joe good morning to you good morning great right okay so paint a picture for those who may not be aware about remelton about the key there the tying up of boats maybe even a bit about the history compared to where we're at now or is it about the future potential for the future you tell us the story joe well remelton as people know are built on the banks of the river lennon and went a beautiful river a beautiful setting for for any town to have a river flowing through it and a tidal water so when the tide comes in it makes it more beautiful and down through the years that has been a big issue with boats coming up the up the estuary from the folly estuary up up the lennon estuary and to the key side now we over the years we have had a lot of boats coming up from the bon crana and the thong the tie-ups down there and they enjoy the the pleasure boats coming up the joy of the motor boat motor boats and then years gone by shelling boats used to come up there they've expressed their concern to me because when they come to town they come maybe eight maybe ten boats at a time and when they come on to town they go around the restaurants they go around the chups and the bars and they spend a few hours in town and then they go with the seal back down or motor motor boats back down there the estuary again I mean it looks lovely it creates a bit of a balls presumably but and the problem too is is that those that still come up or doing so with a with a poorer infrastructure if the infrastructure was better you probably would see more boats what do you joe oh well they have told me that the lack of time points there at the key side is like non-existent nearly and they have to tie both together to to to to be profitable and make sure making sure yeah okay the lines are they have more time points yeah there's more time points along the key they would be more boats come up all right well they seem to be mostly tying their boat to jerry's boat jerry mcglough from the boat on a good morning to you good morning right talk to me about the experience right where do you launch your boat um and and is yours a motor boat and talk to me about where you launch it and about the journey up to remelton what's it like well we we keep our boat in a former enough and when we go up the river we're going to get we're going to get the river on a big tide on a four meter plus tide so we're we're limited to the time we're up there for start we have an hour and a half before high water and an hour and a half after high water so when we go up like last saturday night uh there was a bit 17 boats going up the river wow and when we go up there's only two places really tidy and actually one of the one of the my boat my boat probably one of the biggest boats so i go on the the the wall first and then the last saturday night there was nine boats tied off me so i mean the people in the very last boat were walking across nine boats to get on shore yeah and there's a syphilis here over alone you know so and there's a lot of young kids come up on the boats as well you know so as a person the ninth boat the ninth boat tied to yours really because of the lack of a jetty or a pier people clamoring across the boats to then get on to the onto the bank yes yes and there's a lot of young kids come up along with us you know and and elderly people as well and it's it is very awkward the last week i was actually tied to a lamppost which is actually a memorial lamppost there's a memorial plaque for somebody today and you feel awful tendate you know i know what you're saying yeah yeah and by the way just before we talk about before we talk about the tie-ups and stuff you talked about how your access is restricted and yours sounds like a bigger boat jerry is has that river been dredged in the past due to an argument for it or is it just the way it is and we work with what we've got well be honest to see if i've had a bad river wasn't in a town like in england there'd be there'd be there'd be a wall across the gates on to keep the tie down yeah and there'd be ponds on both sides of the river and it puts people with god knows if you were to buy an apartment that we're looking at you're talking millions you know yeah but it would be a significant development and jerry how long does it take for you to steam up from fawn to tie up in remelton we think we take our time going up because it is very shallow and it parts and it takes us about 45 minutes to go you know but there's a whole situation going up because the channel isn't marked ever and you're you're you have to stay we have plotters a plotter which is the same as a a sad nap in a car so we have to stay in the river we can't go out of the river at all you know yeah you have to just make sure that you follow the date there were 17 18 boats up there yeah the last saturday night and sunday there were 16 17 boats up there it's beautiful beautiful time yeah and and what a way to what a way to arrive into a visit yeah on last saturday night i had actually five american people on my boat and they thought it was just they thought it was one of the experience they had in their lives you know yeah so joe from your perspective as one of someone who's interested in the local area but also of course uh that understands the business element of it i mean this is this is already uh obviously from from jerry's experience it's beautiful but this is great potential we should be encouraging not discouraging people from visiting remelton this way that's exactly right yes yes those guys have been coming up to remelton for years and years i remember i myself as a young lad uh watching the sailing boats coming up and they and the in the early seven days and all that and that that's that's history in remelton that that should be that should be achieved it should be kept there and those guys they enjoy coming up and they enjoy the the journey of so and it's creating revenue in the town so for the lack for the lack of a few time rings i mean this facility should be should be up and running and shouldn't be there and these people from coming up right so we made representations to the council on this issue and it seems good news but i want uh both jerry and your joe's reaction to this uh the council say that this has been raised previously by boat owners they say that tying rings will be provided now within the next two weeks they also confirm that the council are currently submitting an application for funding to the department of agriculture food and the marine and let's not forget of course charlie mcconnellogh is head of that department which hopefully would mean it would be looked at even more favorably but anyway it's under the brexit adjustment local authority marine infrastructure scheme and it's to refurbish this area to better accommodate this increased demand and the refurbishment marks will include new steps decking railings and safety equipment so in the first instance jerry new rings will be provided in the next fortnight and also an application is being drawn up to improve facilities even further jerry what's your reaction to that news that's brilliant that's actually brilliant that's all we're looking for you know just somewhere safe that we can tie up the boat stay and it means uh like if our sector rings up there the boat wouldn't have to be nine nine boats out you know and it's brilliant news that's great news uh same to you joe what do you think that's a step in the right direction oh that's wonderful that's that's great news you know that the key site is going to be developed and brought back to where it should be for for locals and tourists and for the boat in eternity brilliant so this month new rings and then plans then for uh under this specific scheme which i would be quite optimistic they'd be successful in uh better accommodation for increased demand new steps deckings railings and safety equipment so your hopefully jerry next year or the year after your boat won't effectively be the jetty anymore well we'll be up a few times more this year as well great okay well we'll be looking forward to seeing them let us know if these rings appear or not jerry and we can chase it up happy sailing take care of yourself thank you very much all right okay thank you very much indeed and joe bucannon conways bar anything what's on this weekend for anyone in the area or visiting joe if you're just the nice pints in the cave meet a fault or anything that you want to plug joe while you're on the the music as normal on saturday and music on sunday and again we have the regular bluegrass session every wednesday night come around winter wow how's i'd say that's hugely popular is it the bluegrass session that's very very popular very popular yesterday we like people people coming from all over the county to it that does not surprise me okay so bluegrass on a wednesday and this music every saturday and sunday this week yeah yeah yeah all right good man hopefully you have a good winter joe take care of yourself that's joe bucannon manager of conways bike would be remiss of me to have a business on and not allow it to have a plug wouldn't it uh a gentleman from remelton called big camp bill Campbell living in the us who won a Nobel peace prize for the development of a vaccine for river blindness would you be able to discuss this well we've spoken to bill on many's an occasion uh in fact uh we had an interview with him last year if you search the website it's there um the i've interviewed him myself i know kathryn formerly of this parish she interviewed him last year as well um and we were speaking to him too in the context of there was talk at the time two of his vaccine or his vaccine that he developed maybe having some positive consequences for uh 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essential delighted to actually be able to welcome on to the show that entrepreneur and journalist harry mccann harry good morning to you hey greg are you i'm doing fantastic uh what about yourself yeah not too bad not too bad come here do you enjoy um doing talks like this yeah no i do i think that they're great opportunities especially when they're in different parts of the country as well so a lot of this stuff tends to be very dublin focused or even cork focused at times but it's nice to to get around the country and do it in places where i suppose it's good to get messages out and give opportunities where it's not necessarily always given yeah and and obviously for younger people particularly you're relatable because you are one of them uh tell us uh what how you're what you talk about i mean obviously people would know you from uh your first business kid tech which is uh hugely successful is it really maybe filling in the gaps as to how someone can have ideas and ambitions and make them become a reality yeah absolutely i suppose it's trying to discuss at age isn't necessarily a barrier for these things um that's usually a huge point of push that a lot of younger people in particular feel that they have to wait until they're in their like 20s or 30s or older to i suppose start a career or to work towards something they're they're interested and passionate in but i suppose the big points i suppose i'll be making on wednesday is that you don't necessarily have to wait that you can take this opportunity now you can use the time in school in transition year is often a great time because you've got a little bit of extra and free time available when you're not working towards exams and then also obviously because of europe direct and it's trying to highlight i suppose the benefits and the advantages of being a young european as well so trying to highlight the opportunities out there to go and explore europe and take part in different initiatives and programs and which are widely available now for the european year of youth yeah and how important is the european year of of youth and and those opportunities that are available to people in europe is it essential or is it just another string to the bone i think it's i think it's really important so the european year of youth is was designated this year based on i suppose how hardly impacted young people were by covid-19 so a lot of young people would have missed out on a lot of opportunities they would have suffered a lot of mental health points of view and this year is kind of focusing on i suppose recognizing the challenges facing young people and trying to put them in the spotlight so like i come back to this that quite regularly which is that 25 percent of the european population is made up of those under the age of 30 but only five percent of uh parliamentarians in europe are actually under the age of 30 so we're usually missed or underrepresented um across europe so what this is is kind of saying look it's giving young people a voice but it's also making them aware of the huge wide array of opportunities that are out there to go and and just discover europe whether it be from erasmus plus or whether it be through the um the voluntary core it there's there's so many opportunities out there and it's trying to highlight those so that young people can take advantage of of being a european citizen yeah as well as being a successful entrepreneur they're very successful you're also an advisor to the european union and the irish government how was that connection made did you approach them and were you pushing an open door did you feel that you know someone had to be in their ear or did they recognize you know your skill set and tap into that how did that relationship form yeah so that relationship form quite early on i i suppose it would have been in my transition year fifth year in school at the time and would have contributed a lot to the junior server form as a part of my my work with the djlu council and then it would have kind of expanded into things like i i said on the government data protection form for the department of the t-shock and that was highlighting concerns around data protection which is obviously a huge topic now um and then with the european union it would have been around things like online safety um so the european year um or sorry for the uh campaign that they held for say for internet for a year i would have been an ambassador with that for the commission so i suppose it's it's varied in opportunities but there's always been an open door there um and and still even even this week i spoke at the annual parliamentary symposium um i was invited by the count corridor to come and speak about i suppose representing young voices in our society so it's still a huge um topic of conversation the government are very much open to listening and that's important because it's it's so necessary now more than ever before what i tried to do on this program and it's not always easy is not talk about young people do you know do we not talk to older people about young people to talk to them so whether it was uh through covid or it was to do with the exams or youth issues you know i don't want to sit here and talk to two politicians in the fifties about young people i want to speak to them right um but it's not always easy uh do you think more young people need to find their voice and make themselves available to shows like this and say stop speaking about me speak to me yeah absolutely 100% and i think look young people do have a part to play as well and i'm always advocating for it i've spent a lot of of my time on 23 and 24 on monday so i've spent the last eight or nine years trying to to push that message across that you know while i'm one voice i can't represent all young people you know there's too many of us from diverse backgrounds with different challenges and different issues and everyone needs to to use their platform which they have now thanks to social media and thanks to the the media being so open generally to speak up and speak out about what the challenges they're facing because as you said you can't have two 50 year old grey hair politicians on speaking about the challenges facing young people they need to be people on the ground who understand the challenges and might have solutions for those problems yeah because what some of the biggest issues at the moment are say for instance a big controversy at the moment nationally about a teacher refusing to reference a child by the chosen pronouns or a young person by the chosen pronouns or sort of you know what and how is taught in schools as it relates to you know sex education and who's having the conversation you know what i mean i mean i'm sure young people are but on a national level who's having the conversation it should be where are the young people in this conversation yeah i know it's a great point i think like when you look at the the challenge at the moment is that when you look at all of the government ministers as i said across europe only five percent of parliamentarians are only the age of 30 a lot of government ministers now are older i know rodrick or gorman the minister for children is actually a little bit younger than most but still there needs to be a little bit at the table to challenge to challenge politicians and i suppose stand up for these issues like you made the point about that the um the pronouns that's a huge issue at the moment so is young people deciding to leave you know we've been exodus of youth at the moment so i think it was seven and ten in a report this week from the national council around youth council of irland said that they were planning on leaving because they felt there was better opportunities elsewhere so you know young people are going or are going to be leaving the country because they feel that they're underrepresented and and don't have a voice but i suppose young people have a responsibility to use their voice and then politicians have a responsibility to make sure they're listening and valuing those opinions so i think it's a bit of both sides i mean i can't see another middle-aged man with no children screaming into a phone about youth issues i don't you know i want to hear i want to hear young people's voices on this but anyway people will have an opportunity to hear your voice and your views uh europe direct letter kenny based in the central library it's hosting award-winning entrepreneur and journalist harry mccann uh it's wednesday the 21st of september at 2 p.m it is free but booking is essential uh to book this event you can email eu direct at donagalllibrary.ie and we have numbers here as well the events funded as supported by the european commission harry listen i'd love to get a longer chat with you at some point if you'd be open to that um and happy birthday for monday the big two four you're happy now you're still an age where you can fit 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16th of september 2022 good morning to you michael eddy good writer and blocker great to have you with us it's great to be here is always good good morning to you what a lovely morning it is great it is isn't it and we're heading into a nice weekend it seems finula rabbit good morning to you good morning great to have you with us so call her in quickly saying uh greg best gig of the year was believe it or not hey ho let's go raffo oakfest donnie gall with dairy punk rock legends the undertones great sounds great party atmosphere great weather a1 excellent sorry you missed it greg indeed and it was on my list of things to do because i wanted to bring the boys up to it but obviously it coincided with the garthbrook show which finula you enjoyed did you oh absolutely love the garthbrooks he was to be honest he was everything he needed to be it would have been a hundred percent for me if trisha yearwood had sang one more song because she was amazing but she sang a song on friday you know besides the one that she sang and she sang a full shot song on friday now i'm angry with garthbrooks and it has lowered in my estimation a strongly worded letter will be sent to him um but in fairness if you went there to see garthbrooks he could not have given more if you're a fan yeah he could not have given more but i do agree with you the ego boost that he was given by these five days was phenomenal i mean i'd say they'll have the level job getting that light on a plane i know he's like and my word he let you know where he was enjoying it didn't he oh my oh he's like a big puppy yeah one of my sisters has said she saw him being interviewed and he was talking about how um he's just not cool and no matter you know he'd be quite liberal and he's you know uh into an awful lot of uh different campaigns that he tries to help out on and he's like you know there's just sometimes you're just not cool and he's like you know somebody like dolly parton regardless of what anybody says people there's an element of cool to her and he's like he just can't do it and to be honest as he stepped out from from in front of the smoke machine and walked on the stage you're like yeah this guy can't pull off the energy was amazing i mean you know i don't want to bring age into it but he had to get himself up to a level of fitness to pull that off because that was a huge stage and he ran every inch of it and you know when he sang every bit of it you know it's not like sometimes with artists there's backing singers that pick up the vocals do you know what i mean he never took a break yeah he did the whole lot himself he never like his band took more breaks than he did yeah in fairness to him now he did put on uh he did put on a show and if you went to it uh you met my cousin was with us and then she was going back on the plane to london she said she was another father and son sitting beside her they'd been to all three nights and they were flying back this weekend to go to the nights as well and there's definitely FOMO now because everyone's looking for tickets for tonight and tomorrow yeah so uh and also just staying with that side of things and maybe in in the similar genre uh luke combs yes his tickets went on sale this morning at nine yeah belfast sold out at a minute past nine yeah i mean he is another big artist maybe for a new generation but uh you know american country he seems very similar and reminds me of the garth brooks of the 90s as in he's one of these people that's doing a crossover for um for a lot of you know i mean i would never have listened to country per se down in goy but suddenly garth brooks popped up on the scene and it was like oh bejeanie and i think luke combs is doing bejeanie strong strong emotions there from fenula well you know it got a bejeanie out of her but um just picture it the 1990s i know but already there's people on facebook saying any luke combs tickets available i don't think that's the next november or october or november november 2023 right okay um did you just let all the garth brooks emotion wash over you slid past me yeah other than people i know such as yourselves that are going and friends of mine are going this weekend as well no i let it wash let it go by me let it go by me all right okay uh any other gigs you've been at oh eight six 60 20 yeah exactly it's on cool now you're like garth brooks you just can't pull off i can't pull off the cool was he not cool garth brooks oh god no it was like well he was very and i like him but it was it was three hours of dad dancing i mean it was awesome dad dancing and it was extremely enjoyable and i mean he was just like a big puppy yeah he just seemed to be soaking up the love like yeah because sometimes people sing songs with emotion but he just sings songs with joy i mean there was one song the when he came back for the the acoustic set that he does uh that someone had to sign up and he sang this song looking at them and smiling at them uh i do yeah it was like it was brilliant it was brilliant but it was intense yeah he's he just reminded me the whole time when you saw it every time the camera went to his face and i mean it's very uh videoed because there's going to be some sort of a documentary on the other side because there's other amazon branding his music's exclusively on amazon so yeah and also uh it was pointed out that the band he everyone all wearing the same outfits for all five shows so it's not that they're short of a few bob but they can take elements of different shows and blend it together for continuity yeah oh i didn't realize that but it just the whole thing of it was like every time it went to his went to him you know when you're sitting enjoying it and going yeah well i'm sitting there going right wonder why they're doing this and i love that fly camera thing though yeah it's very distracting looks around it it's really cool and but no he looked like a big puppy every time the thing went from just this kind of like daft grin on his face that he just seemed to be just soaking up the adoration i mean it's an amazing thing and i mean in fairness to him like has he had an album out since then no it just was unreal it is a stadium tour and the way i would look at it is this is there's not another country that he could sell out five stadiums but there's also not another artist that could sell out five stadiums here you know what i mean he couldn't it's it's a relation he couldn't do that anywhere else but here i don't think uh and no i don't i don't think so either i want to say amount of it like i mean i know obviously some of the stadiums in the us are probably bigger you know twice the size of crow park i don't know you know what i mean is anything 80 odd thousand and there was probably more than 80 thousand but yeah he couldn't do that anywhere else and i don't think there's another artist could do it yeah no i know he does apparently sell out because it turns out that um out of all the rabbit women the youngest is a closet guard brooks man we didn't realize it she's out now as they say she showed up in boots she showed up in boots t-shirt cowboy hat the whole lot we were all looking at her going didn't we all who knew um but yeah she tells me partly he sells out all over the place but i don't think he could have done what he did in doubling it was and what he has done it's just i mean is there if anyone out there oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand i mean who could out there let's say do three crook parks is there an artist out there that you think could feel well luke holmes maybe actually when you see how popular he is but he didn't he only did he's only done like what's the millennium sorry the belfast what's that's that only has like 12 or something but he sold out in a minute i know but it doesn't mean they know in advance yeah they know in advance what they would do maybe he could do one crook park but he couldn't do three no i don't think he could i mean even in doubling his doubling show is only in the point like right if they thought he'd any chance particularly now when country music is at its