miles. But we used to set up an all mobile caravan at the cope and Dunleau are in Burton Port. And for the first week, it would be Radio Burton Port. Then on the Sunday night, we would take it, get a heavy tractor, bring it up to the Austin, Austin Park, and we'd be radio Dunleau the second week. It's funny when Greg, when David was doing his radio live broadcast from Dunleau there the other week, I was just saying here in the Wednesday night, God, I said, that brings back memories all the summers I used to do radio Dunleau before David was even taught in his mother and father's eyes. Yeah. Well, you were doing outside broadcasts before they were a thing, really, just for a full week. Sure. I remember, I remember, you know, you were down judging at the Mary Dunleau festival. We used to do a live broadcast from the Mary of Dunleau festival in the priorities. And you know, we did it. It was a man that Dunleau had a CB transmitter and one of the lads used to go into the back of the hall at the Mary Dunleau and he would be broadcasting from CB. I mean, they connected up to one of the lines in the deck and I'd be sitting out in the caravan just out in the car park. And I said, what's the latest? Who's the who's one or we used to do it like that? No, but it was done. It's the same as kind of stuff that's done now. It's just you were using the technology that was available to you at that time. So DCR then DCR was a great radio station. Where was that based and how did you get involved with it? That was based after radio Dunleau closed down. I worked with two brothers from Toronto called the O'Neill's and it was with them for a while. And you could you could do a show back those days. You could have done a show for four or five hours, no problem. Might have been only four DJs, but we just split it up between us. But then one that had stopped for a couple of months Bobby McDade who owned Funland in the Main Street, Bobby arrived out to my house one day and he said Tommy, I was thinking of starting a radio station. Would you be interested? And I said, oh, Bobby, I'd love it. So we started up DCR and it went from 1986 right up to 1989. I actually did the last show on the pirate station in DCR because in 1989, you know, they were going to make the stations legal in 1990. So the last show on all pirate stations had to stop in December 1989. And that time I used to do five shows a week. I used to do eight to have 12 night time and I did a Sunday from 12 to two. What did you feel like doing the last show? Did you got a gig with the next crew yet or did as far as you were concerned, was that maybe going to be your last show on radio? No, well, we had a funny feeling that when Highlander come in or all the legal stations are coming that they would go for DJs who worked on the pirate. Established voices? Established voices because, see, there was another good station up in Bunkran at the time, NWCR. And like some of the lads were up there, like kind of next store used to be with them. And there was Mickey Bradley and the lads used to be them. I remember the day at Finstin Kelly was with us in DCR, Gene Kern was in DCR. And there was a few others who came on. Did you have much interaction with the likes of Glencoe Radio or KTOK or any of those South Donegal based sort of pirates? Not really, not really, not really. But DCR had a great listenership and NWCR would have been the two main pirate station. I know there was another one up in the show on Radio Nort and it was gone as well, but it was great. Like if it hadn't been for, if it hadn't been for the likes of us, the country's singers you hear today, they were getting the airplane RTE. Pascal Mooney as far as you know was the only country show on RTE. Well how many stations were there? There was hundreds of them around the country. Yeah, but how many legal inadvertent common stations? How many? How many legal stations? There wasn't that many of them. Do you know what I mean before? No, RTE. The monotony. It was RTE. It was only because of the pirates that the government decided then to get issue license out to give it to local radio. Because they've seen how popular it was. Yeah, exactly. And the artists of the day recognise that though. You know what I mean? They recognise how important it was. And even to this day, even to this day you will struggle as a country music artist to get your music played on national radio. That's right. It's still to this day really the local community regional stations that are supporting them. Definitely, definitely. There's no doubt about that. I remember when we used to do the pirate stations down and unload. There was a young fella who used to come in to us and at that time he had a vinyl record and I'm not sure where he went since but he signed, he had a song called My Doneg All Shore and Daniel, something, what's this a second name? Is that a no Donald? No, it's not. He could have been a no Donald. He used to come in and I remember Dominic Irwin used to come to us with his first vinyl record. I forget the name of it off the top of my head but there was a lot of those artists, like a lot of the newer lads I'd have had them but the Mick Flavins, the Declanair and he's known them. We would have played all them before more more than the national stations. What was the sense though of when the pirates were closing down? Now a lot of the pirates were ran as good as any radio station were run. I think sometimes, I mean we talked about the early days with CBs and stuff but you know like I think there was two, I think KTOK and RT Radio 2 with only two FM stations in the whole country and one of them being a pirate which was really quite remarkable so they were well resourced and but it's fun. I remember correctly the only reason KTOK was called KTOK was because they got jingles from a station in America called KTOK and they just went with that name because they had all the beds and the jingles ready to go. But anyway what was the feeling and I think the closest I might have to it was when Northwest Radio lost the license and it went to Ocean FM. There was this awful sense of change and people going it'll never be the same again and you can't take away our radio station and we know one love all of these old voices and all that kind of stuff. Was that what it was like as the switch from pirate to sort of legal radio was that people thought it's never going to be the same again we're going to lose something that will never be replaced. Yeah some people would have thought that you were mentioning that station down in Slago because I'm originally from Slago and I remember my brother and my family all used to think when that lost the license and they said who's this Ocean FM. They're not local you know but no I always found Donegal had a great connection with the local radio stations and you know you hate to say it but I had been a kind of a household name back in the 80s. It's amazing those men got rang me there just before Christmas and he said my mother is celebrating her 92nd birthday and I'd love you to come over and present her with a bouquet of flowers but when you come over I don't want you to say who you are. So her name was Mary. She lived over in Nakhon Bally buffet and I went over on Christmas Eve and Michael brought me over and he said now when we go into the house say nothing until I tell you to say something. So I went into the house and the two ladies were there I was supposed to go over two years ago but the COVID stopped at that. So I went over into the house and Mary said their son who's this man Michael and he said I was just a man he brought over to see her and Michael said to me say something and I said I know Mary God I touch it and he said oh it's the country boy from Ireland ready. Fantastic.  Were you we were talking about your career with Highland and beyond that but were you doing any pubs or clubs DJing at the same time as well or? Not really I used to do an odd DJ in the Lime Light and Lenties back but. Wasn't your thing? Not really I would always have kind of done myself as more as a radio presenter. Yeah because you know yourself there's often a cross over there then so then you get the call to come into Highland is that how it went? Well I had gone for an interview first. Right. I had gone for an interview first and then you were eventually called it.  You know there was always that thing at the beginning. You simply don't know do you? You don't know will they take me on or not you know. But it is and what was your show to begin with? It was just all country. Yeah but was it weekend was it? No I was doing four shows. Yeah I remember one time I was asked to go over and do an interview with Slim Whitman was over in Ireland on the tour and he was over in Frankie's in the refo and I was asked what I go over and do an interview with him and I said I would so I'm over three o'clock in the day. He was doing a sound check in the world. Said he'd be doing the sound check from three to four and then I'd get him for an interview. And when he finished his interview he decided he wanted to go for a rest in the hotel and he was staying in the central hotel in Raffaun. I went over after him and I sat in the central from four o'clock until seven before he came down.  I'm not waiting anymore you know if he wants an interview he should be here. But I eventually got him and I got a nice 15 or 20 minutes out of him but sometimes it's great you know when you get the interviews and sometimes doing interviews is like trying to take blood out of a stone and then you get other interviews and it's you don't have to say a word. Yeah they just and and did did you do a lot of I mean you talked about obviously your early interactions with household dames now Daniel O'Donnell etc but was it in Highland where you started doing the interviews because you've interviewed the who's who of country but did that really start with the Highland platform? Yeah well the international ones the American ones mainly from Highland but before that I had done a lot of interviews with the Irish artists. I remember one time I was asked to do an interview with Brian Hall and I knew Brian was a new Brian was a country artist but to be honest which I'd been playing his music but I didn't know a lot about him. So one of the lads at the station brought me out a basic 10 or 15 questions to ask Brian and I started off the interview and I said it delighted to be joined by country legend Brian called her. Brian how you doing? And after that anybody who knows Brian Brian just talks and after that I just threw away the questions and Brian said to me later said we were like two old friends out in the street. It's a lovely compliment to you. It was a lovely compliment you know like I didn't have to ask him a question after that because anytime I was going to ask him we nearly mentioned and we just chatted like we were just chatting on the street you know which is great because as you know yourself the perfect interview is when the interviewee does the talking. Yeah indeed and so some of the names that you've interviewed tell me I mean who's your favourite? So it's an obvious question but who did you go wow I've just done that interview and I've got that one in the bag. Yeah well over the years you know my kind of country would be my kind of country I wouldn't be I'm not into the new American country stuff I'm into more the traditional stuff and the last time I was out in Nashville I got to meet Finn Skill now he was he was a dream and it's such a humble guy I'd been out there the Eagles had been over in Ireland in 2018 in the summer and I was out in Nashville that November and I got to meet him he played with a group out there every month and I called the time jumpers they're all session players and I had arranged to get an interview with him and I got to meet him and the first thing I said to him I said God Vince I was actually doubling there earlier in the year you were great and he was so humble but he was a big name to get the last time he was out I interviewed his wife not him Randy Travis Randy Travis had a stroke about five years ago and he hasn't got his full speech yet but he was launching his book down at the Ernest Hub record shop and himself and his wife Mary was there so I got to interview her but he was there and he was fully aware who I was and that and it was lovely just to meet him and is there someone you talked about not really necessarily being into the new American country but you've interviewed Luke Colmes haven't you I interviewed him I think he's kind of the poster boy of me he's the poster boy he was actually over at country to country a couple of years ago in Dublin and I met him and I had a short interview with him I didn't actually play it on the station no I haven't called called storage well now's the time to dig it out because he's talking about tickets are like eyed teeth talking about his teeth sorry I understand talking of interviews Greg I have one out this Wednesday night on the show he's the guy I met in Nashville two years ago and before I went I never heard of him his name is Verlin Thompson and a friend of mine out in Nashville Irish Bernadette she's from Convoy Bernadette Tinney when I was out I know Bernadette and Bernadette said there's a guy I've lined up for you now to do an interview and his name is Verlin Thompson and I said who Verlin who Verlin Thompson and she said he was Guy Clark's right hand man so she brought me out to a studio and I did the interview with him in the studio just him and me he was sitting with his guitar and I was chatting to him and I just I knew a few of the songs he had wrote but I didn't know him so I started doing the interview with Verlin and I'll tell you that year I had interviewed a few other artists out here as well but that was one of the most best ones I ever did and I'm putting it out now on Wednesday night and he sings three songs in the interview and he that's not a bad one to have in the can is he had been telling me he was narrowing plenty of times with Guy Clark but he'd be the guy who does the picking yes and writes the songs with him class act all right I'd love to get him up to Paul and Jimmy yeah indeed a caller says I was traveling from Sligo to Balaba Faye back in the 70s I picked up a hitchhiker outside Sligo who was carrying a guitar and said he was working in Dunstalls in Letterkenny I often wondered if it was the country boy well I could have been carrying a guitar but I wouldn't have been playing it any time I used to tum down to Sligo at the weekends when I'd be finished work and it was great the amount of people you might get a lift from Letterkenny to Balaba Faye or you might get one from Letterkenny to Dunny Galtown and I always found if you were stuck in one door and you could be there a long time because people wouldn't know you there because people would know you in this side of the country yeah yeah that was my god that was going I met my wife through the radio you know right tell us how that happened back in the old pirate days you know I used to you know how you'd be we used to answer the phone herself at night time and Margo used to ring in Margo and her mother used to ring in requests and you know you hear a voice and you kind of strike up a friendship with them and they said hello how are you where do you live and she said oh I'm going care and we're always looking for Charlie Pride so I arranged to meet her one time and I just met her and they were just you know we're just friends but she used to listen to the radio all the time and just friends and now I'm married to her 36 years best thing came out of working in the radio yeah yeah I have to say I have to say so great to hear Tommy the best show on Highland for Music spent many a night taping Tommy and editing tapes before music because so readily available keep up the good work Tommy so you were their um they were taping taping the stuff you were playing please say hello to Tommy a true country boy and a lovely person from the Flavin fans in Glencar Tommy loved by all his fans is so easy to listen to think it's his lively accent best which is Tommy always another here the country boy some boy for one boy that's coming in from Sergeant Jack Beaty I was over visiting him yesterday I was going to say you and Sergeant Jack taking the internet by storm oh with a stop I met him down at the tractor run on uh Saturday and we had a wee chat and he's he's a great guy and his mum and dad are great people as well and I'm telling you you know he would have had a tough time of it at times you know I know he'd been in and out of hospital but I've never seen a young fella with an attitude like him he's great and he's a big fan of the tumbling paddies as well you know but we won't all that against him he's very good but they're good too you know they're good they're I think they're to be honest with the tumbling paddies and who's the other group I always mix the two of them up I think the scene needed that a little bit would mean Whistlin' Donkeys the Whistlin' Donkeys and do you know I think the likes of it even helps the likes of Nathan and Derek and others yeah that there's just a bit of it's like a bit of adrenaline pushed back into the industry that band that band and that lifts everybody not the listen established artists established art but I think that they needed some fresh faces on the scene yeah does that make sense or does because I I always found Greg and I'm not talking I always found in the Irish country circuit there was a kind of a closed shop there was a certain mount would have got all the airplanes there's some young ones coming on through now like Olivia Douglas and the tumbling paddies now I was talking to the tumbling paddies manager the other day Andrew Cox and he was telling me they sold out over a thousand tickets for cork within half an hour and it's great and it's good to see new actors a lot of you know compared to the early days there was an artist here in letter Kenny and if he had been around today he'd have been a megastar Hugh McLean when he was out there in the early days he was getting the where pickers it was only RTE whereas and at the present time but all the local radio stations he'd been a megastar because Hugh was a fine singer good morning Greg great interview with Tommy I never knew that he drove a tractor but I've got great memories of seeing our way through Death Valley a true gentleman regards Michael Michael Diver I never drove a tractor Michael Michael shared with me we were out in a trip we were out in a trip through Vegas and that and Michael is on the trip and it's down there on Guidore and there's some crack big into Michael, Martin, Murphy Tommy I love your choice of music keep up the great work great to hear Tommy himself and Brendan Maxwell were the only people interviewing young on the country music scene and gave us all a great start in the industry that's from Terry McCafferty and Straban oh Terry is good Terry is good but it's amazing you know the amount of women said the amount of women said to bring me to bed with them every night you're the radio husband honest to god it's funny down through the years though Greg you know you get you know nowadays it's all texts and social media I love the social media like I'm always willing to learn I'm mad I'm mad at a long time but I love social media and like since the locked in hair for newland that bought into social media and it's great I'm always open for new tricks as I said I started off at tapes then it was vinyl then it was CD now it's mp3 and you can do you know the way it is with me you know radio is radio and you have lots of listeners out there who never ring in a request at night because they can't text but they'll be listening and especially older people living out in the country they'd love you and I was blessed the only thing a kind of a voice comes across I didn't have the Donegal accent and it was a different accent maybe that's what worked for me I don't know but I think from people listening to the radio if you just sour yourself rather than trying to put on a voice people see through you if you're what's it like getting over to someone so you know with such a love of the the country music and with a name like the country boy is Nashville the Mecca is that where you feel like you're when I die if when I die if I don't go to heaven I want to go to Nashville I would go back to Nashville I loved it and I've been out a few times now and each time I go out I would go to the reel you know if anybody who's been out in Broadway it's all rock nearly all rock music now but there's certain venues you can go to if you like the reel trad stuff you know because the last time I was out the last two times I was out I was at the CMA awards and I might as well have been at the MTV awards and I call it spade of spade but what's you know I know the music evolves and it goes around but like some of the stuff they're playing now it's not a country it's pop it's pop yeah you you want it to stick to its roots then yeah like there's there's so many different kind of genres in the country have bluegrass americana is very popular and now you have the tradition in music and then now this guy I think I in the CMA awards doing a rap and then they're bringing in these pop stars to do duets with them and like you know I know everybody and maybe it's bringing in see out in national it's the record companies that are controlling the artists a lot of the artists are good country singers but they're not allowed to do it because it's all to bring in the kids but they're probably all looking for the next Taylor Swift or something as well that's it because she this is no one has crossed over more successfully in this world than Taylor Swift if I could set up an interview a half hour interview for you if someone either you have interviewed and you'd love to go back to again or that you never got a chance to interview a live or dead who would you like to sit down with for a half an hour or an hour and talk about their career three names I have on my bucket list yeah Alan Jackson George Tritt or Willie Nelson yeah you know there's a lot of other artists out there as well I have a few I had you know in the coming weeks I'll have a few different ones who people won't know but to me they were really traditional music when I was out in Nashville the last time I met a guy called Larry Cardell he's a singer-songwriter he wrote Highway of Farley Blues for Ricky Skaggs and he wrote numerous songs that were hits for other people and I love talking to people like that they have some stories to tell about their you talk about you know things being modern now I found myself on TikTok I watched a couple of videos I liked a couple of videos where it is songwriters at the piano and they've either written melodies of the written songs like you would probably know who they were but I don't and they sort of go for over a couple of minutes of how they come to write this song never knew they existed but they're responsible for these songs that are just you know ever present but what's great about it too at the moment Greg for young people not just talking into country genre but my daughter now Anita you know Anita she's into she hadn't heard Grace for a lifetime and when she heard Grace and she's been told this stuff no like Irish artist songwriters are all ballads that she wouldn't have heard and she said Daddy what do you think of this? Can I just say I've been playing him for years Hello to Tommy Love is music Molly Russell Hello Tommy Best DJ from Mary McKelvie and Paddy enjoying your interview with Greg Hi again Greg Hello Tommy Tommy the country boy is there any way you could use your magic powers to get the super talented Alan Jackson to come to Ireland to me he's just the best I'm in my fifties now and I've been an adamant country fan since I started high school my pals friends etc all thought I was mad in the head but I don't care it's great to see all the Irish country talent young and old doing so well Keeper Lit there's no show like a Highland Country show Safe Home from Mary Catherine and Andrea I was an electric picnic at the weekend heard a local band someone's son's band absolutely amazing don't know who that is good man Tommy from the Dancing Donkeys he wanders around Killy Bay he never leaves a name it's just the dancing the Dancing Donkeys don't know who he is oh I'm going to stop but you know you're talking about people who are saying there you know country shows them everybody has their favorite country show this thing about you're the best DJ here you're the best DJ it's nice to get a compliment like that but I wouldn't go out and see it on the air like people have their favorites and with me really Greg it's all about the music playing requests and it's all about the music and you know my preference really would be American traditional but I play the Irish country as well because if people are ringing in me at night if to take the time to text in and ask for a song why shouldn't I play it yeah okay you know that's what it's all about you know hi Greg great interview say hello to Tommy from Kathleen McKay Aileen Martin and Grace in Straban you talked about Grace there lovely interview with Tommy I always listening I always listen to him from Marie O'Donnell from Beautiful Caridards it's a great opportunity it's a great gift to be on radio Tommy yeah it's brilliant I believe it is anyway because you get to reach people and it opens the door I would have been a I am particularly believe it or not quite a shy person but we're doing this type of work you sort of get to meet people and people can't say hello to you same as you Greg same as you I'd have been very shy when I used to go to dances when I was younger I would never come on and head on and ask a girl I'd have to come in from behind and mingle I'd be too shy but you know like it's strange to an odd time Linda might put me on an odd time Jordan the day and I find it while strange doing a show Jordan the day because I'd be so used to the night and I'd be coming on and say if he's just joined us tonight or you know you're just a night time boy and as I say I get the buzz in there where you are and it's strange actually sitting over here and you were asking me the questions I know I listen I sat in that seat for Lee Gooch on Friday morning and it's just a strange thing so you don't have all these buttons to great boy for the country boy from Ayman McCann fans Tommy knows who we are hi to Tommy from all the O'Leary's ask Tommy what he thinks of the music of today when no musical instruments nor human voices were harmed in the making there are just a computed generated cacophony listen there's always going to be developments in terms of how music is put together blah blah but good music will always firstly good music will always find its way exactly and it will always take human interaction so the facts may come and go but basically if you're listening to a classic station you know the songs that are going to be on it and you know the songs that drop off after a month like even though I'm all country I listen to all sorts of music the only music I don't like is the synthesized boom boom boom boom that stuff but like anything I could listen to anything from opera to rock to rock and roll any type of music traditional music I love as well and it's just that but I'm just 100% country on it right so you're back on our Wednesday with a special interview as you mentioned Berlin Thompson really looking forward to he was it was the only when I was listening back to what I had recorded when I listened back I realized how how what a nice guy he is you know and what an artist what a guitar pickery is and he actually sang he sings a song I don't think you can learn that Tommy no I think that has to be it's like someone who can make a 147 break at Snooker or throw a nine dart or I think you have to be born with some kind of a gift to be able to be a real picker yeah or being like doing what you and I do it's kind of a it's kind of a gift because down through the years I would never been a script man I'm all off the top of my head and like yourself you know you can just I don't use scripts yeah no but you can carry a show off just like that you know and it's a kind of a gift people say to you but you know usually people say you're embarrassed when they pay a compliment but I don't think we take enough compliments I don't like compliments I know I know usually people would pay compliments when you're dead when you can't get them but somebody said you should tell them when they're alive I says I don't like compliments and I genuinely don't Caroline Orr in my ear I made a little slip on something called a Caroline O'Connor who's a lovely ex-colleague here oh yes Caroline I'm not going to be allowed to forget misnaming my radio wife Caroline Caroline Orr but no you know I'm not I don't like compliments Caroline you know that because you never give me any all right tell me listen it doesn't matter about me it's about you it just wanted to have a chat so you just don't recognise it and we don't sometimes it's amazing we don't recognise people it's amazing sometimes the night time jocks and the day time jocks the only time we need it be at the Christmas parties and it's great you know it's great to have an own chat when you put your own music all right brilliant stuff anything we miss Tommy that you want to mention I think it's I think it's it's it's like anything in life too you have to have good people around you to keep doing what yeah we have a good team up here you know we have a good team up here and okay the boss upstairs Linda you know she's the she's the main woman here you know yeah all right without Linda it would not be possible no all right Tommy listen thanks very much looking forward to you back on there on Wednesday evening that's the country boy the one and only Tommy Rosney and as I say he's back with you on Wednesday and Tommy thanks again for coming in for a quick chat watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com the 9 till noon show in association with fit 20 letter Kenny get fitter and stronger in just 20 minutes train once a week with a personal trainer in a climate controlled gym increase strength at any age visit fit20.ie to book your free session on the smart meter the olive grove pizzeria is now 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Good evening. Good, good, good. Eileen, I might start with you. If that's okay. This is important, isn't it, in terms of evidence gathering, evidence sharing, but also recognizing what's working and what's not working in different parts of the world affected by similar issues? Absolutely, Greg. Yeah, I mean, obviously, Ms Yassin-Paul earned her way to Canada. As we speak, we've been funded by the Catholic team with an Ulster University to travel to Canada to meet with some of the experts that actually attended and came over for the International Conference last year. The research trip is really kind of too pronged. Paul will talk to you about it in a minute, but basically we're looking at the geological science from Paul's point of view, and I'm looking at the societal impact. So we're trying to learn from what happened in Canada, their post-Canadian government took what worked, what didn't work, and really take a lot of the learnings back to see what we can learn from and how we can inform ideally policy from a government perspective. We want to come back and see what can we do to help. I mean, particularly from my point of view, I'm particularly interested in the impact it's had on the commercial properties, for example, for business. And I was meeting with key stakeholders and other researchers who've looked at that in Canada. Paul, how similar is the environment that you're travelling to now that created this crisis as to what we see here? Was it ignorance? Was it bad science? Was it poor oversight? It's probably a mixture of all that, to be honest. I know that one of the reasons why I want to go across is to try and understand how did the Canadian quarry industry approach science when they found out they had an issue, because it seemed to be very different from what's happened here. Because we know that the quarry collaborates quite strongly with Laval University. So they've reached out to the scientific community to try and understand what the problem is. And as a consequence of that, Laval University has been at the forefront of developing fairly high-tech testing in their laboratories to understand the reactivity of aggregates that are used in concrete. So quite interesting going across the spine out to how that process worked. I know that a different continent, different standards, didn't follow the European standard for total software, for example, the one that we've talked about before, EN12620. But they have developed their own regulations. And Professor Ben Waffbornier, you've met before when he came across the conference, sits on the standards committee to develop new standards in Canada. They try and protect citizens who this doesn't happen again. So quite interesting trying to find out how that process worked in terms of oversight and regulatory processes, but also how the operators have reached into the science community to try and help understand what's going on, to try and avoid it happening again. So very interesting parallels in terms of how things have happened between Ireland and international in Canada. And that's why this research is important. Yeah, and it's really I haven't really heard that angle before. I suppose here, if we are to ensure something like this never happens again, how can you do it without the involvement of Grand Zero in terms of, you know, the materials, the practices, things like that? Yeah, yeah, I mean, for example, I mean, when Massachusetts and Connecticut had their problem, obviously they went through the same sort of lobbying process that's happened here in Ireland, but the Senate in America basically asked the United States Geological Survey, they try and do a baseline survey of where piratite is happening in the contiguous states across the United States of America. And they've produced the first map of where piratite is present. The idea there is they try and that can be used by the aggregates industry in the states to try and avoid a nuller scenario happening. You know, what's happened in Connecticut massages where 30,000 homes have been absolutely destroyed by piratite and basement concrete. You know, so there's there's a lot to be learned internationally in terms of best practice. So that's that's that's one of the angles that I'm going to cross. I mean, the other thing is that the Vile University or a research partner in our Geological Survey of Ireland funded research project, and they are now doing tests on concrete blocks, foundation concrete, but also their main role is the testing aggregates that we set across to them. I think we said about a half a tonne aggregates across some different sources in Bonneville, BTS. So I want to go into the laboratory, see how that analysis is going. How were home owners treated? What have we learned so far in that regard? Eileen affected home owners. Were they treated as victims? What kind of supports were they given? Did they have to battle for justice or what do we know? They had to go down the legal risk, and I understand. And again, that's kind of one of the things that we will try to learn and greater detail. Yeah, I mean, but ultimately, when it comes to research, we have to look at how different and how divergent the Canadian government has been to the Irish government in terms of they have absolutely provided funding for research in this area, not just from a scientific point of view, but from across the whole spectrum of society. So that's something that we want to bring back. And again, hopefully influence the approach that the Irish government will take about taking this seriously. I mean, the fact that we have such a knowledge based on this in the Northwest and that we're still struggling to get any research funding outside of the research funding that Paul has been and his team have got. But in terms of society, there's very little research from the government's point of view. And I think it's really we're trying to highlight that the absolute need for doing that as well, as we'll really have to see an impact upon positive change. Yeah, and Paul, finally, it's just I just don't know of the pace of this and the science and the learning that's happening. It can't be ignored any longer. This bizarre situation where we have a super highway of what's going on with the type of stuff you're doing, and then a congested slow lane as to how we are reacting to it as a state. I just don't know how long it can be treated like this. Do you get where I'm coming from?  I just think there's been the whole entire approach to this has been sort of, governments have been sort of dragged along kicking and screaming and really trying to understand what's going on. I think a good start has been made by the Geological Survey of Ireland in terms of that research project that's been funded. Because ultimately, once you have sort of research project as large as the one that we're doing, I mean, it's a half a million euro project, things then can start feeding off from that. Because once you have actual solid data on what actually the cause of this is happening, then you can start asking the other questions about, well, what do we need to do now to start avoiding this? So I would sort of be hopeful that the government funded agencies like the Science Foundation of Ireland would be lobbying and to try and understand what's happening, how we can sort of use the research project that we're doing and all our stuff that we're doing internationally with these things in the biohook. And we use that as a launchpad to try and address all our key questions on the ground in terms of the geology. But as Ellie was saying, there's all our shortfalls in terms of all our knowledge that we need. We're doing joint supervised PhD with the psychology department and Ulster University as well, too, again. Ulster University is leading the way, trying to understand the psychological impact of that. And Dr. Karen Kirby is leading on that research. You're trying to understand the mental health impact. I mean, that's another massive research area. There's another massive research area around what's happening with the business community here. We all know the businesses and public buildings are impacted by this, but there is no research done on that. There's been no research on the impact on this crisis on the housing market. I mean, don't have a housing market that's collapsed because of this. No research again. So all we can sort of hope for a professional researcher is that the stuff that we're doing now can sort of launch new research programme into the future. That's all we can do. Interesting stuff, as always. Hopefully, we might be able to catch up with you after you return. Professor Paul Dunlop of the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Ulster University and Dr. Eileen Daharty Lecture at Ulster University will also both of you safe journeys onwards to Canada. And thank you so much for your time today at the airport. You might be interested in this, listeners, that there's a programme, our prime time of focusing on this. Every little bit helps. It's called the Defective Concrete Crisis. It's prime time tonight, the 5th of September at 9.35 and RTE 1. So it'll be interesting to see how they advance the story there. Now, our competition winner today, Jim McGinnis, was the correct answer, of course. Julia McFadden from Brena.  That's going to be announced for you. That's going to be drawn on Friday. Thank you to Neve Shields and Caroline Orr, researcher and producer on The 9th of the Noon Show. John Bredson's around the North West after the news at 12. For me, Greg Hughes, enjoy the rest of your choose.


تبتّه آدك الأيام فتّى وتنهى الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الانبياء والمرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد هذا إن شاء الله التعالى is our second sit on our فوائد benefits إن شاء الله التعالى as I said before and I'm going to repeat now as well is these are only series of فوائد benefits which I took from books إن شاء الله التعالى and as I said also before that it varies it could be from any topic it could be about ناحو it could be about أصول التفسير it could be قواعد الفقية it could be أصول الفق it could be مصطلح الحديث it could be it could be anything in the شريعة wherever I feel like this is a مسألة which is a benefit إن شاء الله التعالى I will be إذن الله الكريم make it a benefit of that day إن شاء الله التعالى today's فإذا إن شاء الله التعالى is going to be the danger of the one who comments on the Quran or who gives the تفسير of the Quran while he is ignorant of the sunnah of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم here with me I have the كتاب by أبنى عبدالبر جامع بيان العلم وفضلي the second volume داري من الجوزي the dachkek of أبنى أشبال page 336 أبنى عبدالبر says أبنى عبدالبر أبنى عبدالبر says رحمه الله أمام أبنى عبدالبر my beloved brothers and sisters is he is called حافظ المغرب at his time there were two noble حفاظ there were two noble حافظ one was the حافظ المغرب and the other one was حافظ of مشرق حافظ of مغرب وسوء أبنى عبدالبر and the half of مشرق وسوء خطيب البغداني so they were both contemporaries أبنى عبدالبر رحمه الله said أهل البدع the people of innovation أجمع all of them أضرب عن السنة وتأول الكتاب على غير ما بيانت السنة فضلوا وأضلوا أبنى عبدالبر said that the innovators all of them they turned away from the sunnah and they commented on the Quran based on على غير ما بيانت السنة they commented and they explained the Quran opposite to that which the sunnah mentioned فضلوا they became misguided and وضلوا they misguided others so they became misguided and they also misguided others أبنى عبدالبر goes on to saying ونعوذ بالله we seek refuge in Allah من الخذلاني we seek refuge from Allah from humiliation ونسأله التوفيق and we ask Allah to give us والعسمة برحمته and that Allah protects us from shortcomings with His mercy so أبنى عبدالبر he tells us that it's a unanimously wherever you go you will always find they want to result to the sunnah when it comes to the commentary of the Quran rather they comment on the Quran in opposition towards the sunnah أبنى عبدالبر after he brought that or he said that statement after he said that he said وقدروه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم he said it was transmitted from the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم التحذير عن ذلك في غير ما أثر منها التحذير عن ذلك في غير ما أثر he said that he has been narrated from the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم about this matter which is to oppose the sunnah and to explain the Quran in opposition to the sunnah narrations have come from the prophet so regarding this more than one في غير ما أثر منها from them is and so أبنى عبدالبر from his chain of narration to the companion عقبة بن عامل الجهني he brought his chain of narration to عقبة بن عامل الجهني he said that عقبة said I heard the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم I heard the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم say the prophet said that the destruction of my Ummah is in fill the Kitabi in the Quran واللبنى and the milk the Ummah's destruction is inside what the Kitabi in the Quran and the Laban the milk فقيل it was then said to the messenger يا رسول الله ملكتابه واللبن what is the book and what is the milk then the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said يتعلمون القرآن they learn the Quran ويتأولونه and they interpret they explain the Quran على غيري ما انزله الله عز وجل they comment on the Quran in a way which Allah has not sent it down for or they go with a meaning in which Allah did not want for it or Allah did not sent it down on that meaning ويحبونه and they love they love the milk فيدعون الجماعات so they leave the congregations والجماع and they leave the Friday sermon ويبدونه and so they go to what so they go to the livestock يبدونه they become Bedouins they leave where the masajids and everything are and they go to places outside the city where there is no masjids and they only go there to drink milk this hadith it's Sanad is Hassan إمام أحمد narrated it أبو يعلاء أنا طبراني and it's Sanad is Hassan so what do we benefit from these brothers that the Quran if it's explained in other than that which Allah meant by it then the destruction of the ummah is in it can you not see those who are making the Quran a source to kill others قال الله تعالى and they are a kathir and so he kills you so the Quran الله تبارك وتعالى he say something and he means something and they are two different things if somebody comes up to you today and says to you did Allah سبحانه وتعالى say oh those of you who believe in Allah don't get close to the prayer and I stop there if I ask you did Allah say that what would you say yes and you can't say no so Allah did say oh those of you who believe don't come close to the prayer Allah said it but is that what Allah meant is that what Allah meant no that is not what Allah meant so the destruction here brothers is that you are taking the meaning in a position to what الله سبحانه وتعالى meant and the sunnah is the one who knows what Allah meant سبحانه وتعالى as Allah said in the Quran وأنزلنا إليك الذكراء لتبينا للناس ما نزل إليهم ومحمد we send the Quran on you Allah said we send the Quran on you why did we send the Quran on you لتبينا لك so you can clarify to the people of the Quran you are the one that was meant to clarify for them صلى الله عليه وسلم and then Ibn Abdul Bar after that he brings another hadith from the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم this hadith is also authentic إمام أحمد narrated بزار ابن بطة in his Ibanah that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم I said أخوف ما أخفوا على أمتي the one that I fear the most for my umma is منافق a hypocrite علي ملسان who is eloquent silver tongue who can sell a sand to an Arab he came to deal with the Quran and he argues with the Quran his argument is the Quran the prophet is saying I fear my umma for a hypocrite eloquent and if he argues and he puts a matter forward he will use the statement of Allah but why brothers he won't bring you back to the sunnah he won't bring you back to the sunnah Ibn Abdul Bar he brought the statement of عمر من الخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه that عمر رضي الله تعالى عنه he said all of this is in his book جامع بيان العلم وفضلي which I'm reading it from that عمر رضي الله تعالى عنه he said إنما أخافوا عليكم رجلين I fear for you guys two men two types of people is what I fear for you عمر is saying this I fear for you two types of people first one is رجل an individual تأول القرآن a person who explains the Quran على غير تأويله a person who explains the Quran but not in its correct explanation the first one عمر يقول I fear this for you the second one is ورجل an individual who's running after leadership على أخيه on his brother he's competing with his brother over leadership and if it leads to bloodshed he will spill blood so the statement of عمر رضي الله تعالى عنه here which is the first part is an individual who comments on the Quran and he's commenting on the Quran is what it is not the correct explanation of it the next إنشاء الله تعالى and I'm going to bring you all is a statement said by a statement said by ابن عبد الهدي the author of the book الصاري ملمونكي في الردع على السبكي الصاري ملمونكي في الردع على السبكي ابن عبد الهدي in this book of his who's abd الهدي first ابن عبد الهدي is the individual who's abd الهجاجاج الميزي صاحب التهديب الكمال the author of the book تهديب الكمال ابن حجاج الميزي who you should know الحجاج الميزي ابن الحجاج الميزي ابن عبد الهدي never entered on to me he never came to me إلا وستفت منه except for benefit from him ابن حجاج الميزي he was a contemporary of imam شيخ الإسلام الإبن تيميا and ابن عبد الهدي ابن عبد الهدي was a contemporary was a friend of ابنه كثير رحمه الله ابن عبد الهدي and ابنه كثير both used to go to ابن الحجاج الميزي and take knowledge from him so he's a noble scholar he died at the age of 38 and if he lived he would have come out with a lot of amazement 38 years of age ابن عبد الهدي he said in his book الصاري ملمونكي a powerful statement he said ابن عبد الهدي he said it is not permissible to introduce an explanation of the Qur'an to introduce a commentary of the Qur'an في آياته or in the prophet it is not permissible that which لم يكن على عهد السالف that which was not at the time of the pious predecessors this explanation was not at the time of that if you go to surah 2 surah 2 العص and you go to you'll see the commentary and explanation he puts on it no one from the salaf of this Ummah have ever said this ولا يجوز it is not permissible for you to introduce an explanation on a verse or a sunnah لم يكن it was not known على أهد السالف it was not known at the time of the salaf ولا عرفوه and the salaf didn't even know it ولا بيانوه and they never explained it to mean that meaning for the Ummah because look at this statement because if you do come with a different explanation if you come with it and you put it to the table and you introduce it what does that mean فإن هذا يتضمن أنهم جهلوا الحق that the salaf were ignorant about this حق that you are guided to وضلوا عنه and they were misguided from it وهتدى إليه and who became guided to it هذا المعتريضو this individual who is now commenting on it he is the one who has been introduced to it المستاخر فكيفا that's brothers that's somebody who is what who is introducing something that they never said imagine فكيفا عبدالهدي is saying فكيفا then what would the issue be إذا كان التقويل يخالفوا التقويل لهم if your تقويل your explanation of the ayah is actually in opposition towards their explanation you see but what's I'm going to finally conclude with أبو جعفر إبنو جرير الطبري إبنو جرير الطبري who is he إمام المفصرين إبنو جريرهزو إمام المفصرين إبنو جرير الطبري when it came to the ayah صورة الأعراف the ayah صورة الأعراف تلك القرى نقص عليك من أنبائها ولقد جاءتهم رسولهم بالبينات فما كانوا ليؤمنوا بما كذبوا من قبل الله says كذلك يطبعوا الله على قلوب الكافرين that ayah إبنو جرير الطبري commented on it and this is what he said if the ayah صورة الأعراف ayah 101 إبنو جرير الطبري said ولو قيل تقويله if it was said that the commentary or the explanation of this ayah means this if I was to say فما كان هؤلاء الذين they those who are mentioned in the ayah الذين are worth فما كان هؤلاء I mean Muhammad the prophet الله has talked to the prophet or Muhammad these ones هؤلاء الذين are worth the earth who inherited this earth يا محمد or Muhammad من مشريكي قومكة from the pagans of your people من بعد اهلها after its people الذين كالوا بها after those people who are on it such as من عادل وثمود like the people of عادل ثمود ليؤمنوا they want those who believe بما كذب به الذين ورثوا عنهم they are not to believe that which was disbelieved by those who they inherited it from من توحيد الله from the oneness of Allah ووعده and the promise of Allah ووعيده and the warnings of Allah يبنجر طبري after he put that comment guess what he said he said that explanation I gave would have a face it would be valid and it would be a madham if I said that but I'm not غير أني لا أعلم قائلاً قاله except I don't know anyone who said this before me من من يعتمد على علمه I don't know anyone who said this from the علماء of تفسير whose statement can be held on to from the علماء of تفسير I haven't seen anyone who said this من من يعتمد على علمه بتأويل القرآن those whose commentary and explanation of the Quran who it can be held on to I haven't seen anybody who I haven't seen anybody who said this الله أكبر when he himself if he says it he will take it from him because it's from the علماء to Salaf but it shows you what within the Salaf themselves they looked at those who came before them to be the ones that they take from and so it is not permissible brothers to comment on the Quran with ignorance and lack of knowledge of the Sunnah of the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم I will conclude it سبحانك الله من بحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك أتوب إلي


Welcome to sedimentology and stratigraphy, the social distancing version. I'm Dawn Sumner and I taught this class more than a dozen times. That's one of my favorite to teach because sedimentology and stratigraphy is so useful. I use it for my own work. I am very interested in the early evolution of life on Earth and that is recorded in the sedimentary record. In particular, I'm interested in how the oxygen production process in photosynthesis evolved in bacteria and how those chemical signatures and the interaction of bacteria and their environment are recorded in the rock record. I also help run the Curiosity Rover on Mars, which is investigating a sedimentary sequence in Gale Crater that records the early history of Mars. So we're learning a huge amount about sedimentology on another planet through that mission. I'll be pulling in some of those aspects of sedimentology and stratigraphy into the class this quarter. So my goal for you as students in this class is to learn sedimentology and stratigraphy techniques and understand how those can be used in a variety of other earth sciences and how there are tools for understanding things like earth history, environmental geology, how to find and use resources. For example, water and aquifers or hydrocarbon resources or even some metal and mineral deposits are found in sedimentary rocks. So for example, a lot of the gold extracted from the Sierra Nevada during Gold Rush days was detrital gold in river deposits and we'll talk about why the gold gets concentrated in certain places in those deposits. So I am hoping that you will enjoy this class, even though we don't get to see each other face-to-face in person at this point. But the tools are really useful and these videos will be available online for a long time. So this is the first introductory video and I'll set up a whole suite of them that cover the key aspects of sedimentology and stratigraphy for you to use to help you learn. So thanks for watching.