We're gonna have to wait for the gunfire to stop Fucks sake. Hello everybody. You here welcome back to top five Friday today We are talking about an author that is near and dear to my heart someone I grew up reading Maybe not grew up, but I certainly came of age reading this author I remember going down to Walden books and looking for his stuff Finally enough running out of his stuff because I had read all of his stuff And I still don't think that he is publishing nowadays I know that like bloodshot books and a couple other places are offering reissues Of his stuff, but I don't think he's still writing and I haven't found too much information about him So jumping into it the first book I want to talk about is one of my favorite vampire novels of all time And I hate vampires. I think they're overdone. I don't like any of the classics and like Dracula and that stuff I like 30 days a night. I like let the right one in and I like Stephen King Salem's lot I like those books, but I don't actually have this one. It's one of the ones that was destroyed So fear me is a terrific book by Stephen Laws It's one of those books that I remember very specifically certain scenes I don't want to give any spoilers in this because I want people to go out and find them It has been a pain in the ass trying to find this book in a good condition I've only come across two good two of his books in good condition and those are the old leisure press ones we'll get to that in a second, but tour the sci-fi fantasy Publisher has published a couple of his things also which brings me to number four, which is ghost train This book is so much fun If you are a fan of any kind of supernatural train thing so much dust. Sorry any kind of supernatural train I know there I spoke to somebody who enjoyed that Bentley littles the burning that kind of thing Sorry that title always makes me giggle, but at number four. We got ghost train I I will I will never forget Stephen Laws introduced me to the over-the-top horror that was not silly and that's one of the things I'm gonna touch on as we keep on going All too often even back when I was a teenager I would read horror and I'd be like well That's just Stupid now. It might be fun. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that 80s horror can't be fun or a slasher or any that stuff Can't be fun. It's a lot of fun But as far as goofy or what's normally seen as cheesy over-the-top horror actually being Unsettling or bothersome that's one of the things that laws did right next we have Spectre Which is an amazing book? It's about the people it's the nightclub I believe is called specter in it But it also has a bit of like back to the future going on because people are disappearing from the photograph In fact, you can see kind of in this one I love the cover of this one because it doesn't fit all that well other than you know the what you know The people that are being killed off in the book kind of deal There is one that has like an old I guess it's supposed to be the club up on a hill I think it's the The one that you can buy today Has that cover that one doesn't fit very well at all. I have seen one cover that fit it And I haven't found it anywhere, but I love this book I gave it five stars on Goodreads, and it's one of the it's like a quintessential 80s horror novel it has all the the weird Events that just don't seem to go together whatsoever and then by the end of the book Somehow the author pulls it up all the good ones the author pulls it all together to one instance This is also some of the inspiration for my it's out of print now But my novel dastardly bastard a lot of the stuff in there was that this book inspired a lot of that book All right at number let's see here. That was number three So at number two number one and number two are going to be a tie So let's just call both of these number one because these are books that have stayed with me ever since I first read them and A lot of what I do today in my own work actually comes from inspiration from Stephen Laws So the first one we're going to talk about is the worm which is hard to pick up on the camera But the worm is a fantastic novel about small-town horror. There's it's Unweight your awakening this long-buried evil and it's some of the coolest coolest action in horror you will come across and that's one of the things that laws does right Even more so I would say he's better at it than Bentley little and Bentley little really really that's his that's his niche That's his thing. He he does supernatural almost action adventure stories Where there's a there's a group of people or an individual going up against this massive entity or this this unstoppable Creature and that's what little does very well But I would say that that laws does it even better to the point where I can reread his stuff Nowadays and still enjoy it where I can't I'm not enjoying the layman's. I'm not enjoying the littles I'm not enjoying those things anymore, but here I am. I still enjoy these books I just reread the worm last year is fantastic. All right, and then number one part two is Darkfall this book is about a skyscraper. There's another book by Dean Coons. Please don't get these two confused There's another book by Dean Coons. It came out roughly around the same time called Darkfall Dean Coons' book is amazing. Also that one's on my top I think my top ten five whatever of Dean Dean Coons' books But this one this one is about a skyscraper The I believe the whole skyscraper becomes possessed or becomes an alternate reality kind of deal I don't know if you guys remember the 80s movie my science project. I think it was called that But that's kind of what this reminds me of but with more violence and more gore and whatnot. I remember So so much about I'm gonna read this one pretty soon I reread the worm first to make sure that I would still enjoy his stuff And I read specter for the first time just a couple years ago But this one is Exceptional that I remember being on the edge of my seat not knowing where this was going what was happening? That's another thing that laws, you know, he constantly throws curveballs for his readers He has other books out there frighteners of Ferocity, I think yeah ferocity. He's got this one. I have almost all of his stuff I don't have the frighteners. I'm not even sure if his the frighteners is the same Is that what the Michael J. Fox movie was based on I've never read that one because I've never been able to find it I know bloodshot books did a Re-release a reissue of it, but I haven't gotten around to grabbing that one mainly because and this is gonna sound terrible But mainly because I want it in this version I want the you know mass market paperback and With you know modern-day presses usually it's either six by nine or five by eight and I want one of these old sons of bitches So if anybody out there has a copy this size, you know Just regular mass market paperback of the frighteners, please let me know I'd be willing to buy it off you for a decent price I would say but we'll talk to send me a message, but until next time I have any you've been you This has been on the top five Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye. I was shocked that uh, I Didn't get any messages yesterday about where Thursday theorist is I appreciate that I've just stopped responding to him at this point. It's not a big deal I'm it'll come back when it comes back, but I'm done promising, you know the people that Thursday theorist Hey, it'll be back next week and me still not being able to have you know catch up what I need to catch up on I have other obligations Reading obligations that I have to get done before you know I can continue on with that and one of the books that I'm reading right now is 700 pages the paperback is 700 and I think 60 pages long So I'm currently trying to work through that I could just toss up like a BS episode of for like a let's say What's the storm is storm of the century, but I actually want to reread that one, too They're short enough that I actually want to get through them and actually do a deep dive into these books Like I did with all the rest of them in the middle of the series I I kind of you know just kind of ran through and quickly ended up having to do two episodes for Bag of Bones because I went through it So quickly I had to do some do some fixes and whatnot, and I'm not too happy with that To this day, you know, there there are episodes of Thursday theorists that I want to refilm So nowadays I am just waiting until I have all the information that I could possibly get Before I do the Thursday theorist so for you guys out there that are bearing with me I appreciate it and the people who you know are upset that there's no Thursday theorist probably aren't watching this video Anyways, but I just want to let you guys know the ones that have been patient that I appreciate you. Bye. Bye


Weitbarnadau argoedol nawr o'r cwrs i chi gyd. Ysgol o'r rhan o'r rhain o'r cyfnodau cyrwun gyffredinol ar gyfer y Cyfnodau Cymru. Mae'n gweithio i chi'n gweithio ymgyrch yn ei ddifud o'r cyfnodau cyrwun cyfrannu cyfrannu cysylltiadau i gael ei ddifud o'r cyfnodau cyfrannu cyrwun cyrwun cyrwun cyrwun cyfrannu cyfrannu cyfrannu cyfrannu. a ydy'r lleidio'n cyhoeddfodd ar gyfer y dywedig. Felly, rwy'n gobeithio yn ddiwedig yw am bethau y byddwn ni'n ystod o'r cyflawni bod hynny sy'n roedd y fydd yn Gweithio'r cyflawni yma i'r brifedd sydd wedi'u dod i'r ffyrdd COVID-19. Roeddwn ni'n gweithio ar hyn yn ei gweithio'n gweithio, neu ddim yn mynd i chi'n cael ei wneud yn ymlaen i'r Llywodraeth, a byddwn yn ymddangos i'n gweithio weithiau. Yn ymdeg, mae'r virus yn ddenig i'n rhaid i'n gweithio am ymddangos, ac mae'n rhaid i'r gael, gyda'r hunain, ac i'n holl o'r gwahyddiad bod ymweld yn ymddangosol. Ond yna, oherwydd, y coronavirus nid oedd yn cael ei wneud. Mae'r pandemig yn rhan o'r byw. A mae'r rhan o'r ffordd yn ymddangos, mae'n rhan o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r virus. Yn ymgyrch yn y ddisgwm hwn o'r peifwyr, rhan o'r rhan o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ymddangos o'r cyfnod cyfnodd. I'm now going to provide a summary of the changes we will be making over the next three-week cycle. And we'll do so once again in a phased way over those three weeks. The majority of the headroom we have will be used to relax the restrictions on people meeting each other, to make life easier for family and for friends. So I'll take each week in turn. In week one, the first week of the three-week cycle. From August the third, from Monday, pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes will be able to reopen indoors. Licensed wedding venues will be able to reopen to carry out ceremonies, but indoor reception parties will not be considered until the 15th of August, the start of the third week at the earliest. As from Monday, we will relax the restrictions to provide more flexibility in the way people can meet outdoors. While reminding everyone that physical distancing still needs to be maintained at all times. And we will also update our guidance to make it clear that children under 11 will not now need to maintain a two-metre distance from one another or from adults. The scientific advice shows that the risk of transmission is lower amongst this age group and it will mean that young children can meet their friends to play out of doors or to give their grandparents a hug again. Now from the second week, from week two, if conditions remain favourable, then from the 10th of August onwards, swimming pools, indoor fitness studios, gyms, spars and indoor leisure centres will be able to reopen in Wales, as will children's indoor play areas. That takes us to the third week of the current cycle and we continue to explore whether we can make changes to the rules on meeting people indoors from August 15th. Now we would like to be able to offer more chances for family and friends to meet together indoors but this is one of the most difficult areas from a public health perspective because as people have more contact with one another indoors, the risk of transmission increases. More than half of the cases are contact traces identified in July in north Wales were linked to household contacts. And today we have seen indoor meetings curtailed in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire following a spike in coronavirus cases there too. And all of this is bound to give us pause for thought. Our step-by-step approach in Wales allows us to weigh up the evidence for every change we make and we will go on doing that for indoor meetings over the next two weeks to see what we may be able to do from the 15th of August onwards. So as you can see we are moving into the green phase of our traffic light system and as we do so it becomes even more important that we all follow the new ways of working and behaving. We all need to adapt to the changes whether it's booking an appointment, whether it's giving or contact details to support our test trace protect system or whether that is complying with physical distancing and strict cleaning regimes. I want once again to thank all those businesses who have worked with us and are complying with a guidance to work in a COVID compliant way. You are helping to reduce the spread of the virus and to protect people ensuring we can go on lifting restrictions in the future. But I also want to say that a small minority, whether they are people or businesses are not doing as is required and we will take action to enforce the rules here in Wales. Ignoring the guidance cannot be an option. We have legal powers which allow us and others to take action if some people's behaviour becomes a threat to other people's health. Now we are working with our local authorities, with environmental health officers, with the National Park authorities and with the police to ensure that the measures to keep us all safe are properly complied with. We will change the regulations to enhance local authorities environmental health protection powers. This will be used to ensure that premises are complying with the reopening requirements. And we will act on intelligence reported to the Wales TUC who every week compile information from frontline workers about the way in which the rules are being observed here in Wales. We are doing that because coronavirus has not gone away. We each of us, each one of us, have a responsibility to keep Wales safe. Diolch yn fawr, happy as ever to turn to some questions and the first questions today come from James Williams of BBC Wales. Can I start with the situation in North England and your take on it really and whether you're particularly concerned about the rise in cases there. Can you tell us a little bit about your meeting with the Prime Minister this morning, what was discussed there. And also the Scottish First Minister, Senator Klysterjan, has strongly advised people in Scotland from visiting those areas in England and from the people in those areas in England to visit Scotland. What's your advice? Diolch, James. So I think anybody will be right to be concerned at the evidence we are seeing in other parts of Europe, in other parts of the world and across our border of the way in which coronavirus can begin to circulate and spread again. So of course we keep a careful watch on all of that and we discussed all of that with the Prime Minister this morning. He outlined the additional measures which have been put in place in the north of England which by and large brings the position there into line with the position that we already have here in Wales. And we did the thing which I always find useful, which is to share information about the way in which the virus is circulating in different parts of the United Kingdom and how we are all responding to it. My advice to people who travel across our very permeable border, travelling into England and into Wales, is simply this. That if you come to Wales, please help us to keep Wales safe. We welcome people from other parts of the United Kingdom to Wales and we ask people to take all those actions that we know and you know help to keep yourself safe, your family safe and others too. Maintain a social distance, make sure you wash your hands. If you are using shared facilities, do so carefully and consciously because in that way we can go on keeping Wales safe and open for everybody to enjoy. So, just to clarify, are you advising against those trips or saying that they could happen with them as long as people continue social distance? Our advice is if people make those trips to make sure that they abide by the guidance we have in Wales because that way those trips can continue and people can keep each other and other people properly safe. Okay, and can I just pick up on compliance since you mentioned it in your opening statement. Because you're concerned that businesses are not complying and with regards to sort of people meeting outdoors are you kind of catching up with the public there? Well if my trip in Cardiff Park last night is out a day to go by it seems that a lot of people are already doing those kind of things anyway. Well on compliance we've got a few weeks now of evidence of us reopening the tourism and hospitality industries and just to say that, you know, I am hugely impressed by the efforts that I see individual businesses are making to make sure that their premises are properly safe and secure as far as coronavirus is concerned. And we want to support those businesses that are doing the right thing, they're putting time, energy, money, no doubt into making their premises safe for people to visit. And one of the ways we can support those businesses is to take more decisive action in that small minority of cases where it is clear that those things are not being done. And that's why we will strengthen the enforcement powers of local authorities to be able to take quick and decisive action where we come across instances of people not being prepared to abide by the rules that we have agreed with that sector. These are rules that we have drawn up in consultation with those people who represent those businesses and we expect all businesses to comply with the advice that has been given. And as for outdoors, we've said all along, our chief medical officer has been very clear all along that we should take advantage of the outdoors during this time of the year when it is so much safer to be out of doors and our regulations will allow greater flexibility and I look to people in Wales to go on doing the things that I think people do to think carefully to abide by the regulations and to take advantage of the way in which people can get together safely, particularly in the outdoors. James, do you come out? Cross to Owen. Owen Phillips at ITV Wales. Pramda. First Minister, can I ask in terms of the reviewing of these rules, can you do it regularly, yes, but is there a risk here that people get confused quite frankly as the rules change quite regularly what they can and can't do? Well, we're obliged by the law. Owen, that's what the law requires, is that we review the regulations every three weeks and I think people in Wales have got quite used to that three week rhythm. They know that every three weeks I turn up here on a Friday and explain the latest position and I think people in Wales are used to the fact that we change our regulations in this step-by-step way. I know that it means people have got to keep up with the changing picture, but on the whole I think people are used to doing that and are comfortable with it because they can see that in Wales. We change the regulations when it is safe for us to do so and when it is safe we return freedoms to people that they've had to give up in order to protect one another during the onset of the crisis. And on the north west of England and the links with north Wales are travel restrictions being considered at all there? Well, not directly as travel restrictions in their own right. We continue to be willing, with the facts to justify it, to think about local lockdowns where there are flare-ups with considerable community transmission. And if we were to require local lockdowns in Wales then Stay Local might become part of the message that we would require in a local lockdown set of circumstances. So travel restrictions in that sense are still part of the repertoire that we could draw on, but they would be targeted to where we think they would be necessary and part of a wider package of measures. O edrych. Thank you, First Minister. You have talked about strengthening enforcement rules. You only have to travel on public transport in Wales to realise that people are not following the rules on masks. Can you explain to us exactly what officials will be able to do now to enforce these rules that they weren't able to do before? Well, the sort of powers that we intend to provide to local environmental health officers, for example, would be to be able to issue a prohibition notice or a suspended prohibition notice, which would mean, for example, that you might go to a premises, find that it is not doing the things that are required of them, and say to that premise, you've now got five days in which to make sure that you bring yourselves in line. There's a suspended prohibition notice, and if I come back in five days' time and things haven't been put right, then this premise could be closed. So, these are significant powers, and they will, I think, the fact that they exist and the fact that they may need to be used will send a powerful message to those people who think that the advice is there for others and not for them. It's there for us all. Thank you. If there were to be a general rise in coronavirus across Wales, what restrictions would you look to impose first? Can you ensure parents that you will prioritise children returning to school? And if I may, Wales and England are drawing from broadly the same evidence to make decisions. Given the recent rises in England, do you think that the UK government has been irresponsible in how they have lifted the lockdown? Well, as I said in answer to an earlier question, well, our focus is on dealing with local growths in coronavirus with that to take place. And at the moment, we don't expect the need to reimpose lockdown restrictions on a Wales-wide basis. But in any local restrictions that we may need to put in place, then you're right to say that children and the urgent need for children to be able to return to school will always be amongst the primary considerations that we would bear in mind, particularly as we have learnt more about the way in which this virus doesn't have the same dramatic impact on young children and they don't circulate it to other people in the way that adults do. So to confirm the needs of children, the needs to resume school will always be very high on our agenda. I never use these occasions to criticise others. I simply say that the way that the United Kingdom operates is that we are a voluntary association of four nations and that each nation has the ability to make the rules that best reflect their own needs and circumstances. That's what we try and do for Wales and that's what I'm sure others are trying to do in discharging their own responsibilities. Across to Dan Bevan at LBC. Thank you, First Minister. Good afternoon. Going back to the situation in the north of England, if you don't mind, are you worried about the spike of cases there due to the proximity of the population in north Wales, especially since there's been a spike in cases there as well? Are we heading towards a different set of rules for north Wales and south Wales because of the proximity to that north England population? Well, as I said, every one of us would be concerned at what we have seen not simply in the north of England but what we've seen in Spain, what we've seen in Luxembourg, what we've seen in other parts of the world. This is a virus when you can go from a position as we are in Wales today where the virus is at its lowest, but is still declining. In a very short number of weeks, that position can be transformed so nobody should think that we are immune from some of the difficulties that others are experiencing. Now, it was good to be able to discuss with the Prime Minister this morning the position in the north of England, the precautionary measures that are now being taken there. As I say in many ways, it simply puts the north of England into the position we are in Wales today as a result of the way we have gone about things. I don't anticipate in a blanket way a different regime for the whole of the north of Wales and a different regime for the south of Wales if there are local flare-ups in the south or in the north. We will mobilise our public health effort or test-trace protect system in order to bear down on those local outbreaks as we have shown we can do successfully in Anglesey and in Murthyrtydfil over recent weeks. Thank you. And would you be prepared to lock down any part of Wales that sees a spike in coronavirus cases with just a few hours' notice? And if you wouldn't, what is the right amount of time to give before putting an area into local lockdown? Well, our approach throughout coronavirus has been to plan first and announce second rather than to make an announcement and then scramble to try and work out exactly what that announcement means. Now, in an emergency that is difficult but what we try to do is to use all the surveillance intelligence we have. So every single day we watch things like the number of new cases, the number of hospital admissions, the number of tests we are carrying out which turn out to be positive, the information we get from the Zoe app that is used through King's College, the new waste water surveillance that we are carrying out in Wales. So we use every day the widest range of information we can to get the longest site line we can manage on any local outbreaks. And if we succeed in doing that, then we would be able to give people longer notice than just a few hours. But that may not always be possible and if you genuinely face a sudden and urgent need to act, then we would act in that way here in Wales as well. Thanks very much, Dan. Go to Mark Hatchins at Five Live. Thanks very much. You refer to a small minority of people who aren't abiding by the rules. From what I've seen it's quite a large small minority of people who seem to have given up on social distancing and you can probably expect some large gatherings in the sunshine this evening. Should you not have acted earlier to get tough with those people and given that so many people have given up on social distancing, doesn't it make a stronger case for more compulsory face coverings in wide assessment? Well, I don't think I entirely agree with your assessment of the position. Mark, it is perfectly possible to have quite a large number of people in a large park in Cardiff, for example, still observing social distancing. So I don't think just the fact that there's a large number of people, means that people are not behaving in the right way. But I'm very happy to repeat the message that I've given this morning that despite the fact that coronavirus continues to fall in Wales, none of that is a reason for people not to go on doing all the right things. And the right things are the simple things and it's because people in Wales have shown such a willingness to stick with this difficult journey that we are still today in Wales being able to go on reopening our economy and finding new opportunities for friends and families to meet while those opportunities are being closed down in other parts of the United Kingdom. And I think it's a bit of a paradoxical argument if I could put it that way to say that because people are not abiding, as you would have it with one set of rules, the answer is to provide a different set of rules. If they're not providing by the one, what confidence would you have that they would abide by the next lot? And you refer to transmission in Daws and Nats by the explanation for the delay in having extra households indoors. Of course, people can go outdoors at the moment at the end of the sunshine, but those summer weeks are edging away. Doesn't that be a rather gloomy picture of what lies in store for us in the autumn? Well, thank you that there is a point that does concern us and we debate all the time. You're right. The summer weeks are going through our fingers. We still have the whole of August with a bit of luck, most of September in which people will be able to enjoy the outdoors and part of the reason for relaxing some of those restrictions today is to allow people to make more use of that time while we can. We'll then have to assess in the autumn when we know we are heading into the time of year, the cold, the dark, the damp, all those conditions that coronavirus thrives in and it will then be incumbent on us all when we aren't able to be outside as much to behave inside in a way that mitigates the additional risks that we will all be facing. Thank you. Over to Rob Taylor at rexham.com Good afternoon, First Minister. People are obviously very concerned locally with reference by the CMO and the Minister this week to community transmission in rexham, two outbreak control teams at work and mobile testing also rolled out. You've said there won't be a local lockdown in rexham and today's easements will also will apply for rexham. Can you give your understanding of the depth of the issue in rexham, what trends you're seeing and with the news last night regarding Manchester and East Lancashire where is rexham in context to those places? Thank you very much Rob. So, our assessment of the position in rexham is that the outbreaks are essentially situation specific so we've been dealing for several weeks with our own foods outbreak. We believe that is well under control. We have another setting at the rexham mylar hospital the health minister and I both met with senior staff at that site yesterday to hear about all the measures they are taking to bring that situation back under control. We're doing more community testing to see whether there has been outward transmission into the community from those two sites. At the moment the evidence is I think that things are stable. There are more cases each day but the number of new cases is not going up. Now we will continue to monitor carefully to watch that situation to see the results of the tests as they come back and if that situation changes then of course we will take action in response to it. The positivity rate at rexham would put it in the middle of the table right across England not at the top end of the English table and that's another reason why we feel that we are able to go on offering the wider public of rexham the same freedoms as are going to be available to the rest of Wales but I do want just to give an assurance to all the people who live in that part of Wales that we watch every day with all the expertise that we can muster the position in rexham we think that it is stable and where there have been outbreaks in particular places they are under control if that were to alter then we would take the necessary action. Thank you and we've been asking for local rexham specific data but it's been given out on a health board level that changed on Monday when the U-turn took place and rexham my hospital specific information was given out. We've had local leaks and social media posts by members of the senate at times which have been better sources of information than the official channels. Can you give a clear message to those working in health in Wales that information should be open, timely and transparent and you reference data you're seeing daily regarding rexham. Will you make that public as well quickly? Well the information that we see is made public through the control team. I believe that they will be making a further public statement this afternoon and that they will be providing further rexham specific figures and information in the statement that they will publish and yes I'm happy to repeat that I think that information needs to be provided to people in Wales in a timely way and in a way that people can understand and can be explained so that people draw informed conclusions and that's the way that we will go on responding to the current position in rexham. Thank you very much Rob, I'm going to go to Gareth, Gareth Wyn Williams of the local democracy reporting service. The north Wales MP has today questioned the lack of leisure travel restrictions from outbreak areas in the north west of England arguing that it will directly result in people travelling to holiday homes in Wales as well as more visitors to the area generally placing even more strain on health and public services. With north Wales in particular receiving the bulk of its visitors from these areas could and would travel restrictions be policed on the border and what would your advice be for both visitors and the communities here that serve them? Gareth first of all to say that I do understand the anxieties that lie behind the question that you have posed. Our border is very permeable. People travel in both directions large numbers of people who live in Wales work in England and cross that border in that direction every day just as people come from England to work in Wales. So my focus is not on closing borders it's about making that safe. We have put lots of things in place in Wales to make sure that as people come to visit Wales the information that they get the settings that they visit the experiences that they will have that all those things have been made safe for them and for others. So we look to businesses to make sure that they put in place all the things we have agreed with them and then we say to individuals who come to Wales help us to keep Wales safe and we give them very clear information about how they can do that and I think the evidence to date is that people are very respectful of that and provided people are we look forward to going on working people to Wales. Perhaps more widely the leader of Gwynedd Council has a day called for a mature and open debate on the future of tourism citing the present cost it incurs on public services. The current situation especially in the light of scenes recently in Snowdonia has been described by many as over tourism. Now claiming that more of the same is not acceptable he says that Covid-19 is an opportunity for us to look again at how we manage the tourism industry which has an impact on our country side and leading the push for perhaps a more diverse economy. How would you respond to this? Well I'm very happy to support the call for a mature debate about the future of the industry in Wales. We need a sustainable tourism industry in Wales and we need an industry that is capable of thriving and offering livelihoods to people in those parts of Wales where tourism is such an important part of local economies. So I agree with the leader of Gwynedd that coronavirus provides us with a moment when we should have that debate. I myself in the past have taken debates on the floor of the Senedd about a tourism tax for example, something seen in many many parts of Europe where people who come into an area make a small contribution as part of their stay and that small contribution along with others provides a pot of money that local communities can provide the facilities that make those places go on being attractive to visitors in the future. So a debate about the sort of tourism we want how we make it sustainable how we distribute the costs that are involved in making that industry sustainable seems a very good idea to me and now is a good moment to have it. Thank you very much First Minister Can I turn to the issue of shielding? Unless I missed it in your earlier reminder of dates you're still planning to pause shielding on the 16th of August. One of our English viewers has expressed a sentiment across all four home nations including Wales of what it feels like the impending end of shielding she says I'm terrified I see images of people not wearing masks where they should do I see people not socially distancing and I'm being encouraged to go back to work I'd rather lose my job than my life. Can you first affirm that you still intend to pause shielding on the 16th of August and what other science wouldn't it be wiser to defer the end of shielding for example into September? I'm currently the 16th of August is the date that we intend to pause the shielding scheme that is the advice from our chief medical officer and people's views about it are mixed aren't they? Just as I have had letters from people anxious about the end of shielding I have had messages from people telling me how much they are looking forward to being able to resume parts of life that have been denied to them and focusing on the impact on people's mental health and well-being from being asked to shield continuously I think my message to the person who you quoted is to be clear that in Wales this is advice to people it's not an instruction to people to leave their homes and to do things that they don't feel safe in doing and we have been in good conversations with our local authorities over the last couple of weeks to make sure that if there are people after the 16th of August who still need help with shopping who still need help with collecting medicines and so on that will still be available to them in Wales while not denying to other people who feel more confident and more willing the ability now to resume those parts of their own lives for themselves One of the issues of people shielding I've spoken to quite a number over the course of the past few months and they feel a social pressure I accept that you say it's not an instruction that it's a choice, an individual choice but given that the fear is the risk of bringing Covid-19 into the house that they've fended it off for four months or so so don't you think that although you say your action has to be proportionate and the virus haven't gone away do you not think that there should be some response to this social pressure I'm very disappointed I'm sorry to hear that people feel that there is some sort of social pressure on people to give up the shielding regime that's not how we want it to be in Wales we want to offer people the ability where they feel confident and able to resume parts of their lives to know that the advice in Wales is safe for them to do so because as I said Tom the virus in Wales is at its lowest if we don't allow people to do things now and if we face as Mark Hatchin said to me a difficult autumn then those people may not get that break out of that regime at all but where people don't feel that it's right for them we want to go on supporting them in making more precautionary decisions because that's how they feel their own lives are best led Thanks Tom to Andrew Natol at the leader Thank you minister So we've obviously heard all the new announcements with regards to the restrictions being changed but obviously here in Wrexham we have had the localised issues and the spikes where was Wrexham in your consideration by making these decisions was it a talking point or was it any sort of factor at all in making the decisions? Absolutely we've had long discussions about Wrexham over the last few days both in terms of meeting on the local spikes and the actions that have been taken there and a very specific discussion about weather the additional lifting of the restrictions that we are announcing for the rest of Wales should be denied to people in Wrexham because of the situation there so I can absolutely assure you and your readers that we are focused on Wrexham throughout the whole discussion In the end the data that we are seeing is that the position in Wrexham is stable and in the two up break sites is under control and in those circumstances it didn't seem proportionate to deny to the wider population of Wrexham things that other people in Wales will be able to enjoy but it was a conscious decision not something we just are stumbled into Secondly gyms and exercise facilities have been included in the new restrictions being eased but we've spoken to a few local gyms this morning to get their reaction to the news and some have welcomed the news that they are able to reopen after months behind closed doors but some have said that this has come too late and say that they feel that they've not had the proper support to maintain themselves throughout the virus closures I think some independent gyms that we've spoken to have had to dip into savings and there's other situations where some may potentially for another month or two may not have survived the pandemic what can you say to gyms who have stuck with this I'm immensely sympathetic to all those small businesses in Wales for whom the coronavirus has been such aneconomic difficulty and it's why we've been glad over recent weeks to be able to reopen all sorts of other settings Gyms have had to come towards the end of the list because there are particular risks that have had to be mitigated and we're very grateful for all the discussions we've had with the sector about the protections that they can put in place to reduce risks and make people feel safe to return to them again My general advice to the sector as it has been to all other sectors is that it is better now to focus on the things that you can do rather than things you can't do and to make the best success you can of the new opportunities that are coming your way here in Wales because by doing it in that way we will be able to create further opportunities across the tourism hospitality and leisure sectors in future Thank you Andrew to Liam Randall of the Local Democracy Reporting Service Good afternoon First Minister Here in the north-east of Wales we've heard this week about the sad case of Margaret Leilock a great-grandmother from Conas Key who died just six days ago after she's believed to have contracted the virus while she was staying at Rackson Myla hospital Her daughter Gail says that Margaret was failed by the local health board and also aware of other patients contracting the virus while staying at the hospital Given that Betsi Cadwaladr has been under the highest level of Welsh Government monitoring for five years is there anything that you'd like to say to Mrs Leilock's family and to other families who are very concerned about the well-being of their loved ones who are staying at the Myla? What I say to all those families who have lost loved ones during the pandemic for whatever reason and whatever cause that the Welsh Government has always been focused on the actions we take and doing our very best to protect you and others from this awful disease I met yesterday the senior staff at the Rackson Myla and they gave me a full account of everything they are doing to make sure that people who will arrive at the hospital with coronavirus often not knowing that they have it until they are tested in the hospital that everything is being done for them and everything is being done for them and everything is being done to reduce the risks that people who come to the hospital without the disease don't acquire a twild aid are there individual cases of course have to take up their concerns not with me but with the people who are responsible for providing the care that they have experience and I would certainly encourage them to do that and just following on from that is the situation in Rackson we have currently got mass testing taking place in both the Kayapark and Hightown areas we understand that this is at least partly due to local clusters of cases in these areas despite the results from those tests not yet being fully known from Monday up to 30 people in these locations will theoretically be able to meet outdoors there are pubs, restaurants, cafes an indoor bowling alley and a bingo hall all within a stone's throw of these two areas which will be able to reopen is there not a risk that you are going to make the local situation forward? Well we will publish the results of the tests that have been carried out in those two communities beginning this afternoon with the outbreak control team report and that will give us a proper evidence based insight into the risks rather than a speculative couldn't it be getting worse sort of approach to it if the evidence were there that reopening places in those communities would put people at risk then of course we would take a different course of action but we will rely on the scientific evidence it's why we've carried out the mass testing I think nearly 800 people will have been tested in those two communities that will give us a real insight into whether the virus is in circulation locally and whether offering people additional freedoms would create new and unacceptable risks we don't think from what we have been told so far that that will be the case but we will follow the evidence wherever it takes us and base our actions on what that evidence tells us Sorry just a quick follow up on that so have you not seen that evidence yet? Well I have seen the evidence Liam and you will see it once the outbreak control team make their afternoon statements in the way that they always do at 2 o'clock thank you very much to Nathan Shusmith at the speaker Good afternoon First Minister we've seen multiple changes to overseas trial advice this week how closely is Wales in conversation with the UK about the changes being made and with the very short notice that is being provided of these changes have you got any particular advice for people considering travelling fearing that they might get stuck out there is your advice now to essentially avoid travelling overseas and to have a staycation? Thanks very much Nathan I've always said that essentially I regard this as a UK level responsibility the Welsh Government isn't responsible for border security to carry out direct discussions with foreign governments that is what the UK Government does we have a fallback power if we thought that what the UK Government was proposing was perverse then our chief medical officer would be able to advise us to do something different but in the absence of that advice we follow what the UK Government decides in this area because they have the information they have the responsibilities and we in a sense act as their agent in making those regulations here in Wales. My advice to people in Wales who are thinking of travelling abroad is just to be very careful and conscious in making those decisions look carefully at the location that you are intending to visit to make sure that it as far as you can that it's somewhere where the virus is properly controlled and at the same time just to bear in mind that Wales itself is a wonderful place to go on holiday. Thank you First Minister. This lunchtime a greater police presence has been pledged in England to enforce the wearing of face coverings including in a new list of locations including museums. Can the people of Wales expect greater enforcement of your measures and does the scientific evidence you've seen suggest that wearing face masks in extra locations such as in museums, galleries, places of worship in addition to the social distance in measures already in place could be useful or could be necessary soon in Wales. Well the advice that I have seen has always been clear but if you are visiting somewhere which is corrupted then wearing a face covering is advisable and we positively recommend to people that if they are in a crowded location that that is what they should do when anybody who feels comfortable or more confident in being in any place in Wales wearing a face covering is absolutely free to do so but there is a difference between encouraging people and advising people and mandating it and with the virus at the point that it is in Wales and nowhere that it currently is then our advice has been that it is not proportionate to mandate their use now if the virus began to rise again and was in more virulent circulation in Wales then of course we would revisit that advice and think again but in current circumstances we advise we positively advise people to wear face coverings where they are in crowded locations and we are absolutely of course happy for any individual preferring to use a face covering to do so Can you have Jeff Abbott as well? Oh finally, thank you very much Nathan finally to Jeff Abbott at Cloynt News My question is to do with more protection for vulnerable people in the community if there is a second spike and it looks like there will be is there some kind of early warning system that the Welsh Government could send out to very vulnerable people to let them know that this is going on in their community? Yes, thank you very much Jeff so as I said in an earlier question we have developed a whole range of surveillance information that gives us the earliest possible insight into whether or not the virus is beginning to pick up again in Wales and our aim is to use that surveillance information to be able to give people early warnings of where we see problems beginning to occur if we do see them and that would allow us to be able to communicate with the most vulnerable people in our communities about any further restrictions that may be necessary it won't always be possible sometimes things really do happen in a crisis and in an emergency an action has to be taken with very little notice and we've seen that overnight but the better we are at surveillance and the more information we have the less likely it is that we will have to do things in that sort of way in the better position we will be to be able to provide people with early warnings of what may be able to follow My second question is to do with some sort of to help with the visibility of what is a hidden vulnerability as in the sunflower scheme could the Welsh Government introduce something like that because you've said yourself that the coronavirus won't be will still be with us after Christmas and it would help people with very low immune systems to be recognised in the community could something like be done Thank you Jep, we are considering the number of ideas that have come into us from people wanting to run schemes of that sort and others, we are actively supporting for example the campaign by Baroness Elora Finlay of Landath one of our most senior doctors in Wales who is supporting a campaign inside the health service and beyond for people to wear a badge reminding other people of the importance of maintaining a social distance so there are many ways in which people can use their voluntary effort the expertise they have to be able to help people to stick with the rules that we have to recognise people who may need particular consideration but to do it in a way that doesn't single those people out so that their vulnerabilities become another source of difficulty to them so thank you for pointing to the scheme that you have today and the Welsh Government remains very open to discussing those ideas and where we are able to to help in promoting them Thank you all very much indeed Diolch yn fawr


Welcome to the talk about secret shared shuffle. I am Aksana and this is a joint work with Asha Gosh and Melissa Chase. What is secret shared shuffle? It is a protocol which allows two parties to obtain secret shares of a shuffle database, where the permutation of a shuffle is hidden. More concretely, assume Bob is an owner of a database X. After parties run the protocol, they should hold the shares of X permuted or the shares of X sub pi. For instance, if we denote shares of Bob by B sub pi, Alice should hold B sub pi plus X sub pi pi, where pi is a secret random permutation. In particular, Alice's first element would be B1 plus X sub pi 1, which means that the first shares of Alice and Bob together add up to element of X at position pi of 1. Note that this primitive incorporates two tasks at the same time, the task of permuting and the task of secret sharing. It is inherent to require them both at the same time. For instance, if we just ask the protocol to return the shuffle database to Bob, Bob can easily derive the permutation by linking the elements of his database. Thus, the protocol, besides shuffling, should also hide the output in some way. And in our primitive, this hiding is achieved by secret sharing the output. Note that this primitive can be also defined for the case where the database X was itself secret shared to begin with. In addition, we consider a variant of this protocol, which we call permute and share, where the permutation is an input to one of the parties. As usual, we require that parties do not learn anything beyond the outputs. In particular, Bob shouldn't learn pi and Alice shouldn't learn X. It is easy to construct secret shared shuffle by running this protocol twice, where in the first execution Alice provides her permutation and in the second execution Bob provides his permutation. This way the resulting permutation will be a composition of the two and thus hidden from each party. Whereas secret shared shuffle useful, this work originated as part of a larger project of doing secure machine learning on a private-centered intersection. And secret shared shuffle is one of the building blocks in the full protocol. In fact, it can be used in any secure computation on set intersection, as I'm going to describe next. So what is this problem of two-party computational set intersection? In this problem, there are two parties, each party holds a database, and they would like to securely compute the function on the intersection of the databases without revealing the intersection itself. The standard example of such two-party computation is estimating the efficiency of online advertisement, which requires intersecting the data of the merchant and the ad supplier. Ideally, we would like to run any algorithm for private-centered intersection, obtain the result in encrypted form, and then run your favorite two-party computation on it. The reality, however, is that efficient private-centered intersection protocols do not output an encrypted intersection as we like. Instead, they output an encrypted indicator bit of whether each element belongs to the intersection or not. It is possible to run two-party computation on the whole dataset and just filter out wrong elements within two-party computation, but this will mean a slowdown. Ideally, we would like to filter out wrong elements and only then run secure computation on the intersection only. An actual way to perform such filtering is to randomly shuffle elements and then to reveal the indicator bits in the clear and then discard all elements which have bits 0. Intuitively, no one learns which elements are in the intersection because the permutation is hidden. Again, note that it is very important that elements are re-randomized when they are shuffled, because otherwise, parties can link new and old elements together and learn the intersection. And our primitive secret shared shuffle is designed exactly for that and allows to perform such filtering. Finally, let me know that each element of the database can be relatively long. For example, in our example with machine learning each element can come with a payload such as a feature vector and during shuffle this payload has to be moved around together with the key. Secret shared shuffle is a special case of generic two-party computation and therefore it can be implemented using standard solutions. But in this work we focus on efficient implementations. One simple way to implement it efficiently is to use additively homomorphic encryption where roughly speaking Bob encrypts his database, sends it to Alice and Alice premutes it as needed and adds random shares homomorphically and sends them back. This protocol is very simple and it has linear computation and communication complexity and it only takes two rounds. But the downside is that it uses expensive public key operations and at the end it is much less efficient than asymptotically worse symmetric key-based approach based on shuffling networks. However, this approach has its own downsides logarithmic number of rounds and communication cost which is proportional to N log N times the size of each element in the database. Intuitively this is because shuffling networks consist of N log N swaps and parties have to feed the full element together with its payload into each swap, hence the complexity. We design an even faster algorithm for secret shared shuffle it is also based on symmetric crypto but it is also more communication efficient than network based approach both in number of rounds and in the amount of bits sent. If I were to state the idea in one sentence we find a way to reduce secret shared shuffle to its random or pseudo random variant and then it turns out that pseudo random variant actually admits a communication efficient solution. In particular, our communication is log T times less than in previous approach where T is a special parameter which best value we determine experimentally. At the end we achieve the speedup varying around 3x to 12x and the bigger each element is and the worse the network is the better is the advantage. All the protocols I discuss in this talk will be semi honest. Here is the plan for the rest of the talk. Because that secret shared shuffle can be constructed from two permutant shared protocols which does the same thing except that one party controls the permutation. To build this protocol we will build what we call a shared translation protocol which is exactly that pseudo random variant of permutant share I was talking about before. We will show how to build it from oblivious puncture vector which can in turn be built from puncturable piers. So let's try to build permutant share and just a reminder that we want to secret share Bob's database under Alice's permutation. So what do we do? Let's start with something. At the end Alice will need to hold shares of X. So let's make Bob pick random A's and send shares of X plus A to Alice. Alice who knows the permutation Pi can locally rearrange the shares such that X becomes permuted properly. For this to be secret shared of permuted X Bob needs to hold permuted A's such that for instance the first shares together add up to X3. The problem is that Bob knows A's but doesn't know in which order to rearrange that because he doesn't know the permutation. But even worse, even if Bob could somehow obtain permuted A's he could also link them to unpermuted A's and therefore learn the permutation. Intuitively the problem here stems from the fact that A's are used in two different roles as masks encrypting the database and as final shares. And the solution is to decouple them. We will have random A's which are masks for encrypting X and random B's which are the final shares of Bob. And at least for now these two values will be independent. If Bob's shares are B's then we want Alice's shares to be B plus X of Pi. How can Alice learn these values? For instance as a first share she needs X3 plus B1 but she only knows X3 plus A3. So we need some mechanism for Alice to be able to convert X3 plus A3 into X3 plus B1 or more generically to move from shares under A which is a vector X plus A to shares under permuted B which are X plus inverse of Pi of B. If Alice somehow knew the difference between the two she could easily move from one to the other. We call this difference share translation since it allows to translate between two types of shares and denote it by delta. For instance in our example of X3 plus A3 and X3 plus B1 delta will be the difference which is A3 plus B1. Plus our idea is to device an efficient protocol which allows Alice to learn these deltas. And then Alice can add delta vector to X plus A vector A's will cancel out and Alice will get X plus permuted B which it can then permute to get permuted X plus B. So once we describe how to build the share translation protocol we will be done. A little more formally here is what the share translation functionality looks like. The only input is the permutation Pi which is coming from Alice. The functionality internally samples two sets of random or pseudo random values A and B and then Bob learns both A's and B's in the correct order and Alice learns deltas. Each delta is A plus permuted B. That's what she needed in the previous protocol. Note that we did a small modification here. In the previous protocol Bob chose A's and B's but now they are being chosen by the functionality. This is not a big deal for Bob he can still use them as before but it will help us a lot because they can be generated in some correlated way which can be very efficient. Note that this protocol is essentially a permutant share but for random database. Indeed if we think of A as a random database which is out of Bob's control because it was chosen by functionality then we can view it like this. Alice and Bob obtain B and permuted A plus B which are secret shares of permuted A. So this is essentially a pseudo random variant of the same problem. Let me describe the protocol Let's assume we have a way for Alice and Bob to agree on a matrix with random values such that Bob learns the whole matrix but Alice doesn't learn some elements. Concretely she doesn't learn the elements which are sitting in positions corresponding to her permutation. That is at coordinates i and pi inverse of i. In particular in every row and in every column there will be exactly one element unknown to Alice. Assuming we can do this share translation protocol can be implemented as follows. Bob will set each A i to be the sum of elements in row i. Then it will set each B j to be the sum of elements in column j. If we look at the formula for delta i Alice should set her delta i to be A i, which is sum of row i plus B sub pi inverse of i which is the corresponding column. For instance back to our example delta 3 is A3 but plus B1 which means that Alice should add together the elements which are colored green on the picture. Note that Alice actually cannot learn A3 and also she cannot learn B1 because she is missing exactly one element from each but she still can compute the sum because the missing element in the bottom left corner would participate in the sum twice and cancel out. In some sense the missing elements are exactly in the right position so that they still allow Alice to compute deltas. Note that Alice cannot compute any wrong sum for instance she cannot compute A3 plus B2 which would be the sum of row and second column she is missing two elements for that. Note that this protocol so far has computation complexity proportional to the database size squared because of the matrix. This is too much and we will take care of it later. So now it remains to describe how to generate such a matrix and we will generate a row by row. To generate each row we will need the following protocol which we call oblivious punctured vector and which is very close to n minus 1 out of n ot. Alice inputs some position j and the functionality generates a vector of pseudorandom values and sends the whole vector to Bob but only a partial vector to Alice. In particular Alice doesn't learn what's at position j. We want a natural security requirement that Bob doesn't learn position j and Alice doesn't learn the value at position j. Note that if we don't care about communication and don't care about hiding j then there is a naive solution which is Bob generates the whole vector and sends all but one element to Alice. Instead we are going to present a solution which achieves logarithmic communication complexity based on GGM-PRFs. Our solution was inspired by a construction from Doerner and Schlatt and a very similar construction appears in recent works on optimizing OT and OLA. So let me describe that. Let's first achieve a logarithmic communication without hiding j. Bob should pick random root s and build the GGM-PRF3 out of it. The leaves of this tree will be our vector. Then to transfer all but one value to Alice Bob will send her the green nodes as in the picture. Alice can expand each of the green node into a sub-tree and thus learn all the leaves except for leaf number j. Now let's modify it to hide j. Let's look at the second layer of the tree. Previously Bob sent Alice s1 but now it shouldn't learn which way the black path goes and whether Alice learns s0 or s1. This is easily achievable by letting Bob send oblivious transfer of s0 s1. Now let's look at the next layer. We could let Bob send all four values using oblivious transfer and that would be secure and the last layer Bob has to send all of n information which is not succinct anymore. Here is where the idea from Doerner and Schlatt comes in. At the second layer Bob should send ot of two roots as before but at the next layer Bob will send ot of again two values as follows. The first ot value will be the sum of left children as denoted by red arc. Now that Alice already knows s1 and therefore she knows all values in that subtree including s10. If Alice pulls the first value from ot then she can remove s10 from the sum and therefore learn s00. The second ot value will be the sum of right children. This sum trick allows Bob to send only two values but still allows Alice to recover the root she needs. So the same happens at every layer. The first ot value contains the sum of all left children and the second one contains the sum of all right children. Thus the total communication is log n per vector or n log n for the whole matrix. Let me summarize what our protocol for permutant share does so far. First parties are going to generate the matrix which Alice only partially knows. For this Bob generates n seeds of prfs expands n trees and fills the matrix with n square leaves. It also sends n log n one out of two ot's to help Alice recover all values except for the hidden ones. In parallel with that Bob sends Alice to database x masked with a's and remember that each a is just a sum of the corresponding row. Then parties set the final shares as follows. Bob just sets them to be b's where b's are the sum of columns. Alice computes the shared translation delta by adding up a certain row and a certain column and conveniently the missing element does not participate in the sum so Alice doesn't need it. Then she adds deltas to x plus a's and gets x plus pi inverse of b and then she can permute them to get pi of x plus b. That's the protocol so far. It's pretty simple and it has low communication however the computation complexity is high proportional to n squared. Here is where our second idea comes in. We are going to exploit a special structure of Banach permutation. There is a certain way to count this network into layers such that in each layer the permutation of that layer turns out to be a collection of several disjoint smaller permutation each acting on t elements for some parameter t. So our idea is to run the protocol permutant share which I described it before on each small permutation of size t separately. Final protocol running time depends on t in somewhat convoluted way but the idea is that with the same values of t either too large or too small the protocol is somewhat slow but there is a sweet spot in between where its complexity is optimal. For instance when t is equal to n we essentially run permutant share on the whole database and therefore get n squared complexity which is bad. On the other extreme we have t equal to 2 which means that we use our whole protocol just to implement a single spot which is not good either. For comparison shuffling network-based approaches implement swaps simply using single ot and we are instead using all those trees and matrices and what not clearly this is slower. But as we start increasing t there will be a spot where complexity t squared is still relatively small but where we already get savings from our 16th communication which makes the protocol faster in our experiments best t was something like 128 or 256 and depending on other parameters we got a speedup of 3x to 12x compared to previous approaches. That's pretty much sums our work let me stop here and that was the work about secret shared shuffle thanks for listening.


I'm the scorer now to talk League of Ireland football once again and our guest this week is former Fun Harps captain Keith Cowan joins us on the program once again. Keith, a very good afternoon and welcome along to the show once again. Thanks for having me on. That's a lot to talk about League of Ireland wise. You played in some derbies over the period of your spells at Fun Harps and you never managed to get the one at the brandy well. Were you a wee bit jealous on Monday night were you? Look I was just jumping on the skin when Foley found the back of the net. It's great to see a win against Erie no matter which club it is but I guess it makes it more special when it's a harsh victory. As you mentioned there we got close on a couple occasions on the brandy well. We spoiled the party there one night when they were going to win the league. Way back when I finished a two all draw we got and that was sweet enough going ahead twice in that game but the lads will be buzzing it'll give them a serious left going into the match on Saturday away to vote. Alissa it was a much needed victory because the four games prayer to that they managed just to pick up a point after having such a fantastic run. So the timing of the three points Keith was crucial. Oh yeah because it sort of made that gap now game between Deri got the two ones there after Ray Higgins coming in you know that reassurgence of a new manager coming in and the young players of Deri reacted that there you know getting a win away to Sligo and a win away at Bowles. So a day of bead harps there on Monday night it could have you know it would have brought them right up and behind them but it would have brought the gap back into a point but I know it's a really really important victory for harps. The way we look at harps now we're kind of expecting them to do something every week where that expectancy you know is there you know not getting anything against Shamrock Rovers or Apache haven't played well in both games you know that's kind of where the expectancy level is now so it was great to get back to winning ways you know as we mentioned the goal right at the death foot that man again Adam Foley on a great one of form and three points is massive as always. And in that period as well harps failed to find the net on several games leading under that so and the northwest Darby if a game of such magnitude to get back on to the scoring sheet again was also crucial so it was for all he said. It's massive you know obviously and again it was Foley was solving the two lads that are sort of Foley obviously leading the league in gold with five goals from his first nine games which is a great return much sure anybody really would have expected that maybe maybe only him but and then Carol Sullivan chipping in with two as well might be a worrying sign that maybe that's where the the goals are only coming from obviously it's great to see your striker scoring at your front end scoring but you'd like to see maybe the lads further in the pitch I know Webster got one that got the winner against got the winner against Waterford I think it was at Front Park which picked up another vital three points for them so I think they'll have to start looking around the dressing room now to see where they're going to chip on a few more goals from. Yeah aside from from the goals there was a lot of excellent performances by Fanharps I think overall they fully deserved the one and the three points the likes of Barry McNamee put on a huge shift so he did on Monday night aside from the goalscores what else impressed you Keith. Well I think you know Harps started the game really well you know they you know they moved the ball well they cut Derry open at times and Derry took the lead pretty much against the run of play for my money anyway they played some nice football they didn't really Barry had a great chance early on I think Olabi had a great chance early on and then as I said Derry against the run of play Accentundi's cut inside you know Sudiki maybe would have liked to have done better he's kind of gone to ground maybe a bit too early and he's to be fairness Accentundi he's cornered the ball into the far corner of the net which was as I said against the run of play some standard performances so far this season I think a lot of people are talking about Mark Coyle and you know the work that he's doing in the middle of park you know a lot of the sort of work that goes on notice at times he's getting around he's hastily breaking things up alongside him you'll see more as well who's who's come in as first season I think maybe just because of Mark's work rate in there and the job that he does and then you have Barry in there and the job that he does a bit more expected or seen more you know and maybe his you know setting things up and maybe you know starting attacks and trying to break through the lines that their type of player is what I think maybe harps are missing slightly at the moment because of the style that they play as well sometimes you know as I said they started really well against Derry they attacked really quickly Barry as it was getting into the box that's where you want them on the edge of the box and you know arriving late and there was those gaps then maybe that's how Derry got the goal so they kind of need to lock down that area of the field in the middle um but you know I think as they play more together I think that they'll learn more about each other and you know that will sort of settle down and they'll learn to play that style obviously you know we talked a lot about foley as goals have been excellent you know got harps to where they are you know the goals the style of goals these score as well you know not just six yard box or tapins or headers and they are there you know he's had a lot to do in these moments you know you think about the one back in the dumb dock game where he's you know the more time he's had you know there's obviously a lot more things can go wrong sometimes we say about strikers when they have more time to think about something you know a lot more things can come into play but he's taken his goals accidentally you know he's created a nice partnership there with McNamee you know find him in good areas and what they'll solve in as well you know and the other one that's really impressed me with his work rate with his strength with his pace so all over the park and then you know you look on the back line uh Sebeke who's done really well and a lot of games very commanding there very strong you know grip presence in their webster you know captain's role organizing constantly talking you know Mark McGinley's coming for a bit of criticism uh and and goals for you know the past few weeks maybe making mistakes but that's just the expectancy level that again that what I was talking about earlier Mark McGinley has pulled off numerous saves for hard keeping them in games and set the bar for himself so high that when he does maybe have a lack a drop off in concentration or that might lead to a goal or might lead to a shot and go people are going to criticize him and that's the unfortunate part of being a goalkeeper when you make a mistake it generally leads to a goal so um no I think as a as a massive result for them during the week and know three points in a derby the way they did it conference they'll be six guy high and they'll be looking forward to bowls now again I'm sorry I'll be heading to Dublin obviously to Daily Mount Park interesting when you see the table the three sides that are above harps are the the three teams that they've suffered defeat to this season uh currently set what six points off them uh seventh in the standings um if you were to look at that in the way the results have gone uh you would expect harps to get something out of this game now I know people have been talking about bows are a top four team but that hasn't worked out on the results sheet so this is a game that you would think that harps are fully well capable of possibly getting a full set of points in the road Keith very much so very much so actually I think you know we spoke about at the start of the season uh this is not the bows team of old you know uh with the experience and stuff you know quite a young squad there you know a few a few lads with experience um contrast and styles that they play I watched uh just some of the highlights there against draw you know the goal they scored is as good a goal as you'll see um in the league and in the league of Ireland no matter any other league you know keeping possession you know playing out from the back and tight areas with with men around them you know going back and going out the other side you know and a great ball a great ball from the midfield and you know tucked away very nicely um I think harps you know they've gone there previously picked up three points there at the end of last season they beat them at home don't know all about them they'll be well organized um as we say all he won't let the lad to get carried away and you know even having picked up three points against them and you'll beat them of the last two times that they played him he'll still be keeping them grounded the approach will still be the same be organized you know play the hard strengths and they'll be thinking three points will be fairly achieved all on Saturday night yeah and I suppose what's it going to take both of course of the likes of Georgie Kelly who can stick the ball in the back of the net and we've seen the the threat that that he posed they're a hugely a talented side but the fact that they're back scoring goals again it sort of adds to the whole thing doesn't it Keith? It definitely does and you know like Dillymount's never an easy place to go anytime you know I think as just as I was going to say earlier that the confidence and the momentum seems to be with harps at the moment you know they're ahead of goals and they'll and they'll want to keep that they want to keep those uh I think I think it might be I'm not sure if it's four or six points between them at the moment they'll want to keep that there and you know yes they have threats Georgie Kelly's a huge threat loves scoring goals against front harps has done it over the over the years you know still a young man still you know he's picking up goals here and there but not as prolific as he would want to be and like as I say he loves scoring against harps and he'd be looking to grab a few a few more on Saturday well uh Ollie Horgan will be hoping that he doesn't stick the ball in the net come Saturday evening after the game again suppose there's crucial back-to-back games we've got two the two left sides coming uh Dundalk and draw to so again if you had a good result it certainly will put you in a very not a comfortable position but in good spec as you are heading to the next two games definitely like um you know and again they'll be seeing these games as you know they've they've played on dock you know they've taken points off them or in this season you know going there and winning as a huge result as I say it's all about confidence that will give them massive confidence Dundalk not an agreeable on a form you know interim manager Jim Mcjelton coming coming downstairs from his director of football role and the management you know there's talk of David Haley the current landfill manager coming in there to the Dundalk hot seat which would uh be a huge boost for them with with his experience so you know everything's just not rosy in the garden there it's you know it's strange when you when you look back five six months ago Dundalk were playing in the Europa League group stages against Irish know you had fun harps that were you know fighting relegation against uh against Waterford and the League of Ireland so the fact that we're now talking about harps going and you know picking up three points against Dundalk in a very one able game you know that just shows you where they've come so they'll after this first um round the games they've played everyone they've seen everyone so they won't fear anyone you know there's probably not many if you look at the points you know 14 points from nine games you know a great return but if you look at that those running games there's not there's not many games that we thought we didn't deserve these points there was a snatch and grab maybe maybe the Waterford game but you know you've come from behind you've dug in you've shown that they can do that against Waterford they weren't against there the other night so you know as I say the guys love nothing to fear they'll be they'll be looking for Dundalk to come down and and and put up them and I'm sure they will look we can't go out on top and just say you know that they've totally dropped down but you know they they've they've gone to Longford and struggled to get a point there last weekend so you know it's uh it's it's not the Dundalk of old and you know Ollie will be and Hexie will be reminded that although to respect them but look it's very achievable that we pick them up points against these teams yeah that's to come in a number of weeks time uh Dairy City lost of course that Darby on on Monday night uh the two victories before that Keith um the last time we spoke to you they hadn't picked up a single point what have you met them since well they're saying you know the new manager coming in has given them a lift you know uh Ruth Higgins I thought that was a great appointment there was a couple of names mentioned uh no Paddy McLaughlin the Griffinville manager was mentioned uh I think Paul Higgard he was even mentioned and I was shocked that um two weeks ago would have been his last game and he would have been taking the job but that's hasn't seen the materialized uh Rory's in there you know sort of a Dairy legend you know played there for a number of years has experienced throughout the league played it also for Bowles and Dundalk you know played a season up on Corey and as well in the Airways League so huge wealth of experience still relatively young only at 36 um he's got an experienced man in with him as well and uh Raf Gattaro you know huge experience of the league they'll know the players and I think it's maybe he's got the reaction that he's wanted straight away you know with the young side I think from the side that started against Harps last night you'd uh Lafferty maybe at 31 the rest they're talking you know he's talking Keir Harkin 25 Atkinson 25 the rest of the last 2021 you know not a lot of experience in the in the league so um you're looking at that there straight away you know to try and get that reaction uh from the players and he's done that straight away you know going to going to slide going on winning great result real battling performance um and then um I think it was Bowles as well going way to Bowles getting a win later on you know showing that real written determination that that you want you know that's this was the least thing to be expected from your team so he'd be happy with that there you know and then you know just the young guys you know really buying into what he's doing so far um maybe the fact that he isn't that much older you know just at 36 that he's a bit more relatable maybe as a manager and you know he he sees these young players he knows what they're going through straight away as you know he was only maybe in their possession about 10 years ago himself so um you know I think it's I think it was a great appointment from Derry and having been a Derry man himself you know um like you know he'll understand what it means to the fans and you know everyone right this long yeah and they've got a game against Longford Town obviously on Friday night uh that would be a good game to bounce back from a defeat in the north west Derby they currently set just two points above Longford so one here for Rory Higgins say would put them back on track is that we expect them to be come the end of the season and then bottom four bottom five surroundings of the of the Premier Division Keith um I suppose the way that things have gone you know up until Rory's come in you would have thought maybe definitely until they've made that change it's hard to know now you know uh which way they're gonna go they'll be looking to get three points you know I think it's I think they're going to Longford this weekend so you know that'll be a game that they'll be thinking that we have to go in one here you know expect especially haven't gone um uh too too long for early on the opening night of the season and a defeat there which was a bit unexpected not many seem that common but uh like I just think that this is this summer now where they'll be looking I think to maybe the transfer window in the summer they'll need to get some players that we talked about you know of experience in there to try and make sure that they're creeping up and down you know creeping up places all the time as I said you know have they won and you know you know the width of a post away on on Monday night against Harps you know they had a chance just beforehand I think was Jack Malone had a shot had the post and then just after at the end all you know had a header that's that's at the post as well so you know they're they're they're there about that you know these young guys are you know as as I mentioned buying into what uh Rui Hager wants to do here and sorry Rui Higgins what wants to do here and uh you know he'll be expecting another big reaction you know a huge bounce back uh come the weekend uh one of the games just in the league of Ireland of note this weekend St Patrick's Athletic against Shamrock Robers is going to be a battle of the of the top two sides in the Premier Division and I suppose the way things are panning out already it's fair to say the title probably down between these two with with with Robers Edgin and at the minute Keith do you agree on that? Well the early pace setters you know you look at the squads that they have accumulated you know and we talked about you know maybe lack of experience with certain squads you know this they seem both sides uh Stevia Donald and Bradley seem to have got you know the the great mix of experience and youth you know uh and in abundance with both those squads like you know a lot of the lads that you know left on dock um at the at the start of the season or the end of last season have gone to both those clubs and you know with that you get experience in massive games you get experience on how to win leagues you get game you get a big game experience how to manage these occasions so you know with the early pace setters being those two I think you know Sligo you know maybe faltering slightly at crucial times in the in the last few weeks so I think you know we would be a bit naive to look any further than uh than uh pads and rollers of course for Harps of course we might have to have in the mix to you but no I think it's there's a plan so far the place in Europe for Harps Keith yeah I think Ollie uh question was fired earlier on the last night so I'm thinking what is all these good to kill keys be as far as he's going yeah it doesn't get carried away so it doesn't but this is it's a great time from Harps supporters part of you it's just really a pity that the likes of the Harps fans couldn't get into the Brandiwell on Monday night to to share the experience with what the players because it was the first ever one at the Brandiwell Keith and God knows when they're going to get the another one in there but it's just a pity that the fans can't be there to enjoy what's going on with Harps at the moment yeah you know they've had to endure a couple of rough nights in there over the years um you know I remember a few of them myself so that wasn't too nice like but uh yeah that would have been unreal you know like a last minute winner you know down that end as well that's where all the Harps fans would have been down in that corner I'm sure fully what I heard of them instead of you know heading around the back of the derry goal that a couple of derry fans and managed to peek over the wall like so it would have been great for them you know that's you know these are the games like the big derbies you know once the fixture list comes out you always look towards the derry game and see when that ends so you know that that would have been unbelievable to to share with them but you know hopefully those days are coming back now and like the next time Harps go in there they'll be expecting safe from them from the fans so uh hopefully they will let them down sure they won't thumb right and send could be the last game of the season is that right the way the fixtures there's three runs of of games isn't there yeah so it would be yeah so it'll be a great place uh you know to relegate derry if you're going in there season hard to get european derry to go down that's it away from the Irish league and uh what's our way to the Irish league actually senior cup for you guys glint hornigan's cliftonville on saturday evening um is the cup now maybe the last chance to solve a refuse bush yeah unfortunately you know things didn't go away last night uh corain with uh a last minute equalizer you know uh taking massive points and i suppose any whoever had won that game would have you know moved up a closer to linfield as they seem to be in the drive and say at the moment you know with only with with games running out so um yeah like you know it was great experience obviously won the cup last year you know spoke with you about it before it was fantastic achievement you know we're looking to the same this year uh cliftonville who we beat in the in the semi final last year will have an extra grind there as well and they'll be looking at it as their chance of silverware as well so you know it'll be a big great occasion unfortunately again no fans um you know irish caught always a huge occasion in any round uh and the irish league so uh yeah no we'll be looking to we'll be looking to bring the cup back to the oval again and you know we'll see uh cliftonville just as another as another game and you know hopefully we can get the right side of the result on on saturday night okay well i see the very best luck uh with that game this weekend keith as always thanks for joining us and we'll catch you again good match here thanks ashi


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