Atwith Donegal County Council and Housing Department officials last week and it was confirmed that regulations to release the funding will be approved by mid-February and will then be made available to the council. Stage 1 approved homeowners can also now apply for funding for emergency works. The PRO of the Micah Action Group Michael Doherty says while significant progress has been made on a number of issues, there's still much concern that the enhanced redress scheme will not be fully rolled out until September. Again, just the one thing that I would say is the biggest issue is that September timeline and what we can do about getting that pulled back, but the rest of it looks like it's starting to come into some sort of shape for us here that favours the homeowner. Farmers on Lidl will meet tomorrow to try and resolve a rye over cut price meet. The Irish Farmers Association is unhappy at the supermarket selling cheap chickens, which it says is putting farmers under financial pressure. Protests over the below-cost selling of meat products took place outside Lidl stores in Cavern and Monaghan last week. IFA President Tim Cullan says the supermarket needs to act. The commencement of long-awaited works to install ramps in Manor Cunningham has been welcomed. There's been numerous calls for such traffic coming measures to be installed to curb the speed at which motorists travel through the village. Cunter Donald Coy says the ramps will ensure safety for all residents. The people in Manor have been waiting a long time for these ramps and finally now they're getting the ramps and I hope now that the safety measures that have been installed today will mean the safety for all the residents in Manor. Police say they are concerned about the wear bites of a man missing from Derry. William Carlin was last seen between three and four o'clock on Thursday afternoon last in the Spencer Road area of the waterside. He's described as five-foot in height of a medium build with bolding grey hair and a beard. It's believed he normally wears glasses and walks with a stick. Police are appealing to anyone who has any information on William's wear bites to contact them. And for weather, I largely dry this morning with a few bright spells and the odd passing shower. Becoming generally cloudy with some patchy drizzle developing through the day with highest temperatures of 8 to 10 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio. News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. At Irish Life, we've been helping people make smart investments with their nest egg for over 80 years. For actual, trusted advice, search irishlife.ie or contact your financial broker or advisor. We know Irish Life. We are Irish Life. 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Now your WhatsApps and your texts, they come in to us via<PHONE_NUMBER>,<PHONE_NUMBER> For emails, it's comments at highlandradio.com. If you wish to watch the program, watch it. Watch it. You can go on our website right now, highlandradio.com and you'll see the link there. You can watch it in your browser if you prefer, hop on our YouTube page, Highland Radio Ireland or on Facebook, Highland Radio News and Sport or Highland Radio. And you can leave your comments and interact with us there. Tell us where you're watching, et cetera, like, right. Let's look at this morning's papers. The Monday edition of the Dairy People, Donegal News, their headline is Bloody Sunday Remembered. People gathered in towns across Donegal yesterday to mark 50 years since the Bloody Sunday Massacre. Vigil's were held in several locations, including Letterkenny, Guidoor, Bonkrona, Donegal Town and in Lifford, coinciding with similar events, held a length and breadth of the island at a memorial ceremony in Dairy, where 13 people were murdered when soldiers opened fire on a civil's rights march on January 30th, 1972. T. Shockmehill Martin laid a wreath in a private gathering. He also met the relatives of those killed and praised their dignified persistence and courageous campaign for justice, accountability and truth. And there's a picture on the front of the Dairy News. And that is the T. Shockmehill Martin laying a wreath during a memorial service held yesterday to mark the 50th, 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The event was one of a number held over the weekend, as I mentioned, to remember those murdered in the 1972 massacre. And this paper, as well as the Dairy Donegal News, has lots of coverage on the front of and inside those papers today. The Irish Independent tells us that an exams only leaving cert is emerging as the most likely option for the Class of 2022. This, of course, has been very controversial. We know lots of young people, lots of those due to sit this exam have been very vocal, two thirds of them want some sort of a hybrid model, as do the much of the opposition. But it seems exams only is the way the government is going to proceed. Though a final decision has not been taken, but as word, a word, sorry, work continued over the weekend on various options, a hybrid model was looking less likely of a possibility. A hybrid model would involve giving students the option of accredited grades based on teacher's estimated marks, which has been sought by students and some other education stakeholders. There is strong opposition to the use of accredited grades for a variety of reasons, including the way they've increased great inflation. Education Minister Norma Foley is expected to take a decision on the format of leaving cert 2022 this week, and it could be today or tomorrow. Exams only would come with a commitment to greater choice on papers than has already been announced, along with marking schemes that would ensure that the overall grade profile was on a par with last year. We'll see once those details are released if it is enough. On to the Irish Times this morning, and thousands of people hoping to travel outside of Ireland in the weeks and months ahead could see their plans derailed at the boarding gates if they have not received a COVID-19 vaccine booster jab. A significant EU wide rule change to come into force tomorrow means that the digital COVID search that have been used to facilitate much international travel since the middle of July last year now come with an expiry limit of nine months. That means anyone who received their second dose of the primary vaccine before the beginning of last May, which is going to be a lot of people, will require a booster jab if they are planning to travel using the digital COVID search, while about 95% of Irish adults have completed their primary vaccine courses as described. The number of eligible adults who have received a booster jab is closer to 80%. The percentage of people who have been boosted for significantly among younger age groups with between 40 and 70% of people aged between 18 and 19 boosted. Now I'm not sure what the rules might be as it relates to be able to get a test to travel. You certainly can travel if recovered, but it is going to be complicated for those who aren't boosted to travel. It seems that European wide and Ryan air commenting this morning saying that they don't anticipate it to see to damage how many people that are traveling in terms of numbers. And there's their spokesperson said they're expecting a bumper spring and summer, even with that caveat in there. On the Irish Daily Mirror today, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not cut ties with Spotify despite the rise over the spread of COVID COVID misinformation on the platform. As some would see it, Harry, who's 37 and Megan 40 said they expressed concern to the streaming giant about the all too real consequences of COVID-19 misinformation on its platform. But the couple said they were committed to continuing their reported 21.6 million euro deal with the tech giant to ensure changes to its platform are made to help address this public health crisis. The pair faced pressure to walk away from their deal with Spotify this afternoon, musicians Joni Mitchell and Neil Young demanded their songs be removed from the platform. But why? Well, they were angered by the alleged spread of COVID vaccine misinformation. The Joe Rogan experienced podcast on Spotify broadcasts and said false claims of the jabs risk putting lives at risk their high profile criticism prompted speculation that all the big names could follow their example and Bruce Springsteen guitarist Niles Lofgren announced his own music was also being reviewed. But Netflix said, look, they're not going to censor people's speech. They've committed to putting links on podcasts or pre rolls to suggest that, you know, other information is available elsewhere. And as I say, put links to other podcasts from inverted commas mainstream media. But what do you think Joe Rogan hugely popular amongst certain groups at least certain groups of I don't mean in terms of opinions, I mean, in terms of sort of age groups or what you might be interested in. But at the end of the day, too, it's a podcast people can choose to listen to it if they wish, don't they? If there's advisories in advance of it, people go into it with the minds open and should they not be entitled to consume whatever information they want. 08 660 25 thousand. What do you think about that or call 07 491 25 thousand? In the start today, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney, he's refused to say if he deleted texts about the champagne bash at Ivy House in breach of public health guidelines, I was under the impression that he his phone memory was full whatever type of phone he was using. But in reply to a freedom of information request, his department insisted that a comprehensive search of Mr. Coveney's phone have found no messages about the party since it came to the public attention at the end of last year. However, it is known that a text relating specifically to the gathering was received by Mr. Coveney on December 29 2021. This would have fallen under the scope of the FOI request if it had been found during the search. His spokesperson refused to answer whether the minister had deleted texts about the party at which 20 officials celebrated Ireland's election to the UN Security Council as the country was under a strict national lockdown. Sorry, I'm confusing this story with the other party gate story, but be that as it may. No text on his phone as it relates to that most recent party. I was confusing that for a moment with the Catherine's a poem controversy. My apologies. The Irish Daily Mirror hundreds, hundreds of pints and shots were served in Lentzter House last year, despite the enforced closure of much of the hospitality sector. According to newly released records, the dolls two bars both shot at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, with the visitors bar only opening up again at the start of September last year. The members bar, a private facility used by TD senators and former members of the rockers reopened for over two months from early July 2020 before calling last orders for mid September that year and staying closed for almost a year. The bar opened again on the first day of September last year with new figures showing that business was brisk as thirsty TDs and senators made up for last time. A total of 21,405 euro was splashed on drinks across both bars during this period, which included 4,339 euros spent on Guinness at 480 a pint. So it was closed, but for some of the time, seemingly it was opened. And last but not least, Daniel O'Donnell has issued a warning to fans to be vigilant this after scammers hijacked his Facebook pages. This is in the sun today. He has made a video pleading with fans not to engage with the hoaxers. Daniel revealed that the con artists are pretending to be him or his staff and messaging fans. The singer 60 is now told his fans in no uncertain terms that he will never try to contact them privately through his Facebook messenger and look, obviously Daniel is hugely popular. And that's on a big scale, but it's so easy. All they do is the copy your profile picture, the copy your wallpaper, the bigger picture at the back, the copy your name and just send out friends requests. It's not uncommon. It happens to all of us. But Daniel O'Donnell is not immune, it seems from having that. I think it's more of a cloning than a hacking. All right, that was a look at the newspapers. We'll be back speaking to our first guest in a moment. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra, mountaintop Letter Kenny. Store and go Springtown Derry, the north of Ireland's only temperature controlled smart access individually sized storage units. Store and go offers storage for personal storage, house moves and renovations, business storage for excess stock or finding systems. 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This following a search of a refrigerated unit by a customs dog named James. Okay, now there have been calls for drugs, dogs to be available elsewhere around the country. And Brendan O'Connor, Vice President of the G.R.A. is joining those calls. I'm presuming we've been making them some time too, Brendan. Good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. Right, so in terms of our fight against illegal drugs, how many drugs, dogs do we know? How many drugs, dogs are operational in the country? I wouldn't have that information specifically, because as you say, there's some in the revenue and there's some in the Guard, but there's certainly, there's none available to bust in Donegal or there's a very laborious process to go through if you were to seek one. And I'm not aware of that being utilised in recent times. And as you say, the anecdote, leavens, the criminal intelligence you receive is that there is, and we've heard a former stateslister, and we'll kind of talk about the amount of cocaine that's in circulation. And Donegal is not the one to say that, you know, it would certainly make the guys more effective if we had more dogs and perhaps a better deterrent. It's very difficult to carry out searches in, you know, if drugs are small quantities, high value. So I mean, it's very easy, it's very quite easy for people involved in this to conceal. And I suppose the public see maybe someone that is quite known or suspected to be involved with drugs, maybe a couple of times and nothing being found. So maybe more dogs will make us more effective, that's what we've always said. And as you say, it's not necessarily about discovering drugs, it's the deterrent. I mean, obviously, drugs are widely available here in the northwest and they have to come into the northwest, probably primarily via road. I mean, if people, you know, they can be very well concealed in a vehicle. If there was this fear that a dog might be at a checkpoint randomly, they'd probably find another way, but at least it would show some action is at least attempted to be taken. Yes, it's very much a deterrent and very effective. And if there are people who are suspected, and of course, I mean, we have to be aware of people's rights and you can't just put a dog through everyone's car.  So it's much more effective and we're always thought about so that we have to use the resources more effectively and be more efficient. I think like a guard is what I don't know, I wouldn't need to put a number on it, but numerous, numerous, numerous guards like are more effective.  So it's just, we'd like to see and there's those things to be, nothing seems to be changing, there's a big delay and I'm coming on stream, we were told that there would be a dog for the northwest, but there seems to be no development.  So, presumably, that was to send the message that a smaller airport is not a backdoor into Ireland. I don't think it's because they anticipated there's a great deal of drugs coming through regional airports, if you know what I'm saying, but strategically I would guess someone's made a decision, well that will send a strong message, anyone thinking that they might get away with it at Ireland West, for example.  It's just, it seems to be at variance with the message that, you know, the authorities and the government are taking that we're taking this series and it's our priority, but if it's the priority, surely that should be reflected in the allocation of resources like dogs, but I mean, unfortunately and done it all with the same position, we have a drugs unit in Milford that actually does not have a patrol car and the car that they were borrowing is off the road, so I was actually speaking a couple of minutes that are completely grounded, can't even lead the station. Well, what are the implications of that?  Well, they can't be out patrolling, they can't go out and do sort of, well, they can do, so they can't go out and visit areas where the drug trade is taking place, they can't pull over people and check cars, they just can't be effective, you know, they're also, I mean, the drugs unit in Kilmachran and are involved in an investigation of a three million euro seizure in Kilmachran and so those jobs we done on that, those inquiries we followed up on, so they just can't be effective, so very, very demoralising for morale, I was in the station yesterday in the last shift, I was like, how can they do their jobs and can't even get out of the station? Right, okay, we're going to put a question in as it relates to that, because that is just to see if there's an explanation for it. In terms, we've spoken over the years between the lack of 4B4s, vehicles, I mean, otherwise off the top of your head, I mean, how are we equipment-wise in this county now compared to where we would have been through our previous conversations, Brendan? Well, actually, the 4B4 situation has improved, we were allocated, I think there was at least six maybe last year, so, but I mean, the ironic thing is, the people, like we've been shouting for for years, but the reason we've got them was because of Frank to the party, some initiatives that, you know, so that someone from outside the country look at our capability and say, yeah, you need to have this capability, so, you know, the voices from within were ignored, but certainly the transport situation is very poor, particularly at the moment in the Milford district, again, go back to it, but there's a lack of detective cars to, I think, in Liffords, and the problem in, Falkara hasn't had a car now since September or October, and so, actually, my car in Delfanahe, that I was using, the lads have it, so there's no car there, so we're three stations, three stations in Delfanahe, and Falkara are sharing one vehicle, and Milford are down maybe to one car and a van, I think.  Yeah, it was a nice emergency, and it was seeing the cars needed to have mobility. I know we agree on this, but I think the way drugs are being used in our community, that is a national emergency. Yeah, absolutely, and look, regular day-to-day police, and you'll hear, you know, there's someone there who comes to you, but there's cars sitting around, they can't go to cars, and cars that need assistance, we sort of, the focus on what happened in Glentys, the instance won't come, the situation now in Glentys is they lost their car, so Infernity were given one of the four by four vehicles, but because the drivers aren't qualified, they're not allowed to turn on the blue lights, and any of the vehicles are not fit for high-speed driving, but they can't respond at any sort of high-speed capacity to any emergency situation in Glentys, and the Febrile is a town that showed how serious the situation can evolve within seconds, it's Glentys, and again, it was a district headquarters, it was downgraded, so before it, when it was district headquarters we would have detectives there, we would have fire arms there, we would have a couple of cars, and it's down to nothing, but again, the public can be told, oh, the guard is modernizing, you're getting a better service, I would say people should be very, very, I wouldn't say people should ask questions about the service they're getting, and this modernization because certainly the members on the ground would tell you that the system is, it's just, things are not improving, we're not having better technology about mobility, the same old problems are arising. But not necessarily on this issue, but Senior Guardy in the county have said publicly, they've said it is, you know, it's hard to make an argument for resources up to this, you know, to get them out of Dublin. If they're talking about providing more Guardy, they'll say to the border, but it's not the border in Donegal, it's going to be the border, you know, further south and east, but the border is just used as a catch all statement, and if you were in Dublin you would think, well, that must obviously include Donegal when it often doesn't, you know, so it's, I mean, can we presume that locally at senior level they're making these arguments, but these arguments are falling on deaf ears in Dublin? Yes, I've seen, look, the car, the car spawns and stuff, I think it was towards later end of summer, early autumn, last year, flagging, there was this huge problem on the horizon, there was a lot of cars in Donegal coming towards the end of life and would need to be replaced and the standard reply just came back, well, there'll be no cars till the new year, at the end of January now, it'll be February, tomorrow, and we haven't seen any, the cars haven't come on stream and a very small number coming on streams. So, and again, it's, it's very frustrating because I'm sure the government allocating massive budgets, the figures don't lie, but it's the management of these resources, how is it that they cannot get the basics right to provide a car for a guard who won't do their job, it's just because people are sick listening to me saying this, but I just, I find it hard to comprehend. And also too, we can't be naive, if we know this, the criminals know this and they, you know, some of them are very, very organized and they know what's what. Yes, and that's the that's the quandary that I'm in and that's often thrown back at me that, you know, that if you speak out that you're helping criminals and highlight where the weaknesses are and that, you know, it has the potential to undermine public confidence in the guards. But I believe that the public have a right to know what level of the service they can expect to believe and I don't think the authority should get to hide behind that. Any other sentence service, whether it's on cost, the water service and they have to maintain their fleet and if they see that there's a vehicle going out of service, it's the higher one in. So, you know, I think the figure should be where the vehicle should be and if it's not available it's sourced somewhere else. But this thing is just leaving stations and units with no vehicles and saying, sure, to see what happens. Maybe they will come on stream in a few months, but it's very frustrating for the public and the price maybe for our members. Yeah, and presumably we put miles up on vehicles much quicker in this county than you might in an urban area as well. Yes, and also the most offices and that maybe, you know. The general wear and tear. Yeah, if you're high speed driving around Donegal and you're going to do a bit of damage to the undercarriage and suspension of cars like sort of going to require maintenance or maybe that's a factor too. All right. Listen, thanks for that on all of those issues. It's important to get that information out there, I think. And I appreciate it, Brendan. Thank you. That's got a Brendan O'Connor there. He's vice president of the G.R.A. As you heard there, obviously they're looking for more drugs, dogs to be made available. But also, as you heard, serious deficits in equipment in Donegal still in this day and age, hard to believe. Do you remember we were talking to, wasn't it Pierce and Martin last week as it relates to the state of the footpath in a particular part of Ballet Buffet? Well, we got in contact with the council and we even sent in the pictures of the footpath and curbs outside Ballet Buffet's shopping centre. We passed that on to the... Well, maybe we didn't pass those on to the council, but we certainly passed on the concerns from our listeners. And we got a remark back saying that our roads department have advised that there are measures in place for repair of the footpaths and curbs there, right? So if you live in that area, maybe Martin or Pierce, but certainly whomever might be in that area and nothing is being done, please get in contact with us because I don't want to just leave it there. I don't doubt for a second that if the council says that's what they're going to do, that's what they're going to do. But we want to stay on top of it and see how long it takes because how long is it going to take before another person, mostly elderly people, it seems so far, falls over and ends up in physio or with two broken wrists or a smacked face, you know? So we need to stay on top of that. So you can be our eyes there, I pass there, I'll keep a look at and we'll see how long it takes for something to be done to avoid any further injury.  COVID-19 usually causes mild to moderate illness in this age group, but it can cause more severe illness. All vaccines used in Ireland are tested before they're approved by the European Medicines Agency. To find out more or to register, go to hsc.ie or call hsc live on 1800 700 700 from the hsc. 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Okay, we welcome on to the programme now Councillor Mee-Hul Nockton. He has a motion down at today's Council meeting calling on the local authority to engage with the Education Minister Norma Foley to support a hybrid leaving surf for this year's leaving surf students now. We should know one way or other this week but it seems their favouring exams you know sitting exams only. Councillor Nockton thanks for joining us. Good morning Greg and good morning to your listeners. You mean obviously this is is moving quite quickly. You'd have put this motion in some time ago but it seems we'll know one way or other this week. Why are you calling for the Minister even at the 11th hour to consider the hybrid model? Well Greg basically this is something I've been loving and also I've spoken to our own local minister Charlie McConnor about in relation to this. The reason I'm calling on this basically is you know we have to be fair to the class of 2022 and that and basically the students union took a recent survey where 70% of the students are looking for a hybrid model. Now basically leaving surf is a stressful time for antibody and we all know what leaving surf brings but basically we're in the middle of a pandemic now which have come to the end of it but the leaving surf cycle is a two-year cycle and that and these students would have missed a huge amount of time and I think in fairness to the students and you know we talk about listening to our young people and that there are a future and they're asking for this and I have spoken to a lot of these people in person I've also spoken to their parents and they also spoke to teachers so in the our favor of the hybrid model. But in relation to the department though you know a quarter of students didn't sit a junior surf so what would they be basing in so it's fair and equal to previous year students what would they be basing the assessment on you know I mean I suppose that's the that is the dilemma that the Department of Education is facing. Yes Greg and at the point of being met and they're talking about great inflation and about teachers assessment I appreciate there's no junior surf and for the class of 2022 but we at the end of the year basically you know these have gone to school for the last five years there would have been in Christmas exams there's marks exams I mean and you know I find it very disrespectful to teachers are we saying that teachers are are not capable of giving realistic assessments to the only pupils and that you know it's not that it's not the students here that's grading themselves it's the teachers teachers that has worked with these students over five years and we're saying now basically we feed them that haven't got the knowledge our capable of giving ways into the things you know Greg and I know if you work people work with you you know basically the strong points and the weak points and I think basically you know we have to be fair because you know that missed so much of their education like okay they were back this year but I mean they're still you know COVID out there they're still at possibility these students should could get sick the teachers out and I mean you know they missed a lot of time also basically they would have missed enough a lot of time in 2020 2020 because I mean they would have been in fifth year and that's part of I believe certified global so definitely I mean I know what they're saying but basically then they we've got to be fair here to the class and it was only for the class of 2022 we'll talk about that but in terms of fairness though you see and you know there's there's different sides to this we've seen grade inflation and you know for some for some sort of courses or some you know ability levels there's been a thousand percent increase in in the achievement of certain levels of marks I mean is grade inflation actually good for students you know there's a lot of people missed out last year who thought a certain amount of points would would have got them into a course but it didn't they missed out because everyone's grades were inflated people who had got inflated grades the year before had deferred and for a lot of students there was just there was just no way in do we not have to draw a line under that at some point and that might have to be 2022 yes great but I mean you know we're bringing in something now that basically what it was there for students you know I've been in the day basically last year's class got that I mean what is the difference between the class of 2022 because yes they would miss so much yes I totally agree with which is the grade inflation there's not a talk around that but I mean you know why don't we come up with a common framework to then that basically that that across all schools and all teachers have to fill it out let's draw up up a curriculum and basically you know that takes each question as I said nearly of each student and every school matter where you went to but I mean at the end of the day I mean these class I mean these students have spoken themselves and I mean you know 70% like you know we have to listen to that that's a huge you know violin we're not talking here about far to or 50% we're talking about 70% of course that but I mean some like as we transition out of this you know someone's going to have to take the hit and I know that sounds like a really horrible way of saying it and I've had someone going through the leaving sort through this so I understand I'm not being in any way heartless but you know if then we have inflated grades against gain this year 2022 it's going to be the class of 2023 that's going to take the hit because they're going to be arguably maybe if people defer again competing for places even though they sat a traditional leaving sort that they will never be able to get enough points for yes and I take your point as a valid point Greg but the reality situation is if we were telling the class of 2023 now it's happening but basically we're only five months out from a leaving sort and basically we have students sitting here and they don't know what's happening now we know we've got to be despair and we've got to be good and we have to come out with clarity to these students they need to know at this stage it is I mean and yours is a very valid point as well because you know I've spoken to many these students as I'm sure you have the uncertainty even just because they don't know that in and itself makes it hard to motivate yourself to study let alone the fact that you know there's so many teachers are still out with COVID close contacts they're still not really many of them learning you know as we head into February so I do take your point if there was some uncertainty given to them if it had been possible last September or October maybe it would be tolerable but this is it's an awful lot to pressurise for young minds to take on exactly right and that's the point of this year I mean you know we've got to look at this time frame here where I can know these students basically for Christmas they were in out I mean those teachers missing you couldn't get some teachers I mean they were left also supervised because unfortunately the principals didn't have teachers to cover the classes and now basically you know as I say we're five months out I'm leaving sir and these students still don't know what happened and I know you're saying about next year but basically whatever's put in place now is carried too so the students that are one for leaving sir next year know exactly what's happening at this stage but I think to prepare for the class of 2020 too the needs clarity on this and I think basically the best option for this year is a hybrid system for them because we have to be fair so when 70% of the students are looking for this might we'll see separately as it relates to the hospitality industry obviously you're heavily involved in that if you don't mind me asking you to switch caps what has have you noticed since restrictions were lifted how is the year looking you getting any sense of of what the future holds great to be honest I think 2022 will be a super year for the hospitality believe it or believe it not the phones haven't stopped ringing I mean I mean you know the Saturday night gone by we're totally booked out which was a last week pick up which was unbelievable and that the biggest fear for the industry and that mean Greg would be staffing and that would would be my big fear I mean you know trying to get staff back up to the level because you know your dean was smaller numbers over the last two years I mean you also get in the way something something from the government which you were allowed to continue and are those staff do you think moved on maybe they've got older I know it's a mixed-age demographic and and or of the re-skilled or in all the work like do you know where the staff that you not literally you but the industry would have employed pre-pandemic where they've gone post-pandemic well I mean basically you know what a lot of the chefs I mean basically they're going into the nine to five jobs let it be in coffee docks let it be in hospitals or let it be in in case case in that site I mean basically you see a lot of people realize you know you do weekends off you and more time with your family a lot of these people were working all their life that didn't realize that basically you know the social side of things and you know the time time off they've discovered a life outside the kitchen you're going to have to dig deeper you're going to have to dig deeper Michael buy them back in you know something you know we as an industry we have to look as well basically you know in which it was staff and it's something I've been talking here to both staff I mean and I see a lot a lot of companies going that basically they work a four-day a week because you know you come into an industry you know you work four long days I mean you have treated that I did it I've did it I've worked in that industry I know all about it split shifts and everybody I think exactly well I mean that the split shifts are nearly gone and that's a good thing there's very few people who work on split split shifts anymore but I think basically you know we have to look at we probably also have to look you know at the way we sell our industry because unfortunately you know the hospitality it's looked at basically it's the place you go when you can get nothing else and basically you know everything about social hours but I mean if you look at the nurses you look at the guards I mean you look even at your own staff at the high level everybody works weekends we also do the on social hours but I mean when it comes to hospitality everything's highlighted but we're not I get you I know what you're on about and that the people look down the nose at those jobs no one no one you don't see a a government minister coming up to welcoming the opening of a new hotel in the employment of 70 staff but it's 15 people in a digital hub you'll have the minister and the local TDs there as well I get that but finally just what was the demographic if you don't mind me asking sold out in Saturday night is it people from down the country maybe people from within the county and going for a night out or northern trade or what's did we able to determine I mean well Greg well aware down to two of the years I mean you know the northern market is huge doesn't it all and that what that will never change hopefully because you know that there are a great customers and to come back yes it was a busy you know and a good busy you know done it all and and I felt that you know down on the old limberick you know what would cabin people were man and people so maybe it was a good demographic mix of people but I mean but I would have to say probably more and ordinarily in the market than in the market that's good to say listen thank you very much indeed for that for talking to me on both issues I appreciate it canceling me whole nocton talking firstly about that motion years down for the council but obviously of course they're being involved in the hospitality industry able to give us an insight there now some of your comments here I work with young people which some are doing their exams this year the main issue they have said is the unknown yeah as you are aware there is so much stress already involved with these exams and the added unknown is making it worse we can talk all day about how unfair exams are and so on but for now we need to tell these students this is how it is and let's prepare for it you know that's a really strong point there and that I believe and I know you have to take time to make a decision but a definitive decision could have been made long before now my son is doing his leaving sir and time and time again his teachers are away with football teams just so much when I questioned it I was told they need to get on with it themselves as when they go to third level it's all about self teaching and discipline it's ridiculous says that parent right okay good morning great just wondering when we go to a social dance do we have to wear a face mask thank you I would know I wouldn't have thought so no you're a guest in that scenario so you wouldn't there's a big changes to the to workplace rules today I'll run through them if anyone's unsure about them maybe a little later on a call that says at least the BBC showed the Bloody Sunday Commemoration live yesterday our channel of a national broadcaster showed junior Bakehoff from England also why wasn't Michael D Higgins there I can't answer either of those questions I'm afraid hi Greg I feel we are all working from home anyway banking online revenue online agri-farm quality online etc anyone remember the day when this was done by the employer and not the customer doing the work for them I just spent hours trying to do my tax returns without success we are not all technically savvy and service 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glentes cardiac first response or PRO you put your hand up at that meeting for this Colleen I did yeah good morning Greg it's good to have you with us come here I mean this is well at an advanced stage you have enjoyed fantastic support haven't you from the local businesses particularly but the community more widely it's about getting the tickets sold and getting the money in now is that a fair enough assessment definitely we've had such a good response from the community especially locally there has been a huge donation of prizes locally and we'd just like to thank everybody that has donated something to us we have an amazing selection of prizes anybody can go over to our Facebook page to check them out but we have over 20 hampers including a local produce hand hamper which I think is actually a lovely idea there's jams there's honeys different things from from the locality we also have about 50 plus single prizes as well including jewellery and makeup vouchers even a painting as well from the locality yep there's almost one for everyone in the audience people in with a great chance of winning if they support this and it's important they do and we'll get back to the draw but let's talk a little bit about the work that the glentes cardiac first responders do I think particularly you know when you are a little distance away from ambulance bases as well it's all the more important isn't it particularly when time is of the essence that you have the likes of your group to be able to respond when needed definitely we have 23 active members at the minute now seven of those are PPE trained during covid so we've literally just opened up there in the last two weeks and it's really an emphasis on you know we are local people we are near potentially the call we do operate in an eight kilometer radius so really the furthest call we would need to go to is eight kilometers away which we could get in you know 10 15 minutes depending and but really it's all about the local people helping you know any local person in need just bridging that gap before before national ambulance service arrives all right and the money will be spent on new defibrillators and I think we learned last year I think it was early last year this random situation where defib boxes were being broken into an in-date pads were being replaced by out-of-date pads that was the first time I realized in a bizarre way to learn that some of this stuff can go out of date so there is a continuous spend yeah so our main expenses would be out-of-date pads so pads that haven't been used and going out of date so they need to be renewed also pads that have been used and calls they also need to be replaced as well we have an on-call phone as well as a bill pay so that needs to be funded every month and we try as best as possible to get defibrillators into the community so at the moment when we started out in 19 we had two defibrillators we now have 13 defibrillators in Glentys and we also have one Roman DFIV which comes with us on calls so it's really good to have to have the defibrillators available and we try and strive to have at least one near every national school and between one to two kilometers away from us in a state but as close as possible and you know the phrase life and death it's a matter of life and death is often used but these machines and you guys who operate them can be the difference between life and death keeping someone alive until such time as the the ambulance service gets on site definitely all of our members are CFR level trained with FEC PHECC council so basically they are trained in CPR and Choken and cardiac chest pain or cardiac or heart attack sorry calls so it's really important for our members to keep up this upskilling so that's also where money comes into into place as well but definitely helping person in need is the way we're going you know all right so let's talk about the draw it takes place in around Valentine's Day does it? Yeah so we have it operating on the 11th of February and we're going to go live on Facebook going through the prizes so we might be there for a little while on Facebook because there is quite a few I think there's a few for our limit you know definitely but yeah if anybody wants to tune in yeah they're more than welcome to they'll probably hear my voice and in terms of buying tickets though because as I say you know everyone likes to buy a ticket anyway for the chance to win but this is something even if you're not from the Glenty's area area directly you know you can still get involved and still support a great initiative God knows if you're not from there when you might be visiting and I'm sure you would never want to avail of the service but you'd like to know that it's there so how do people what's the easiest way for people to look at prizes and buy lines? So the easiest way at the moment is our Facebook page we also have an Instagram page as well and any person that wants to pop on and online message us we can we can give them more information but we are using Revolute we're also using PayPal and you know every member of our CFR group as well has lines to sell so if anybody wants to get in contact with them as well the easiest way for someone maybe online to do it is to contact us on Facebook and just give us your what people search on Facebook so Glenty's cardiac first responders and they should get us all right best to look with it it's huge it's going to be huge it's going to be along February 11th might go into February 12th I don't know potentially potentially depending on if we if we keep getting prizes but there's already been three more prizes added this morning so yeah we'd just like to say it's like an excitement isn't it oh yeah definitely big huge thank you to everybody you know the local businesses even though it has been hard times during COVID and they have given out and you know donated and whatever they could and it's it's really amazing all right well done clean and team really appreciate it thanks very much indeed and the best to look with that if you want to buy a line and support that great initiative you can see already they do amazing work they just want to be able to do even more check out Glenty's cardiac first responders on Facebook or on Instagram or there's 23 of them involved you can buy lines off them directly as well more of your comments coming up after these the 9 till noon show brought to you by Bluebird Care providing nurse-led home care services and Donik all called Bluebird Care 9 1 2 9 5 6 2 and bring care home the January sale at Foyant Company has everything you need to create a beautiful home get the new year off to the right start by giving your home a new lease of life there is discounts of up to 20% to cross a range of departments including homewares and furniture with up to 50% off special offers you won't want to miss shop in store at Foyant Company in letter Kenny in ballet buffet or online with nationwide delivery at Foyes.ie Are you at that stage of choosing a primary school for your child next September? 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Maybe you've had one installed Let us know if it's advantageous or not I don't really know much about them Thanks and well done to the fisherman who quickly sorted out the Russian situation they accomplished more in one meeting than our highly paid politicians could have could have sorted in a lifetime they say Not in the lifetimes Yeah they do say in the lifetime Caller says the driving test should be marked by the driving instructors the same as exams Okay Right I see where you're coming from Yeah Maybe those that mark them are former driver instructors I'm not sure it's a criteria for the job but I don't know who's to say hybrid grades could result in students being allocated places in third level institutions that they won't actually be able for Well listen I mean that's possibly already happened if we're honest Good morning Greg could you give us a wee shout out for the Wariski's Christmas lights of course I can we were out at them and they were lovely it was lovely lovely welcome and it was lovely to see them restrictions were still pretty tight at that time but it was a a lovely experience well they're absolutely over the moon because they are able to handle two bombulants at the weekend how much would you say people visiting Wariski's Christmas lights raised over Christmas 18,110 euro isn't that amazing and 17 cents 18,110 euro raised for bombulants and that was handed two bombulants at the weekend which does amazing work a lot of people know I think the likes of Lee Gooch has done an awful lot too to educate us even more well Mary and crew say we'd like to thank you all for your generous donations and kind support only 42 weeks until we turn on the display again and they take them down and put them back up every year I barely managed to motivate myself to do that for one Christmas tree but fair play morning Greg my husband and myself both had our boosters in letter Kenny on the 19th of December I applied for our cert several weeks ago and never received them I tried phoning this morning and over one and a half hour wait so I tried their chat line which is a joke all you get is I don't understand can you refresh I can't make it any clearer than to say I've applied for the digital cert and never received it okay other than ringing the telephone number it's hard to know what way to advise you anyone out there who was struggling to get it tried to call never received it I mean I know you did but if you if you contacted them and would expect it to receive it by email please check your spam folder and I'm sure you have and I'm sorry if that sounds patronising but some of those spam filters can be quite can be quite loose and will pick out things like that good morning Greg I'm traveling to Portugal tomorrow I missed what you said about new guidelines repeat your testing can you repeat it please it's new guidelines it's that you're traveling on the old guidelines that were to be announced I was reading an article that said that shortly not yet that you would have to be boosted to be classed as fully vaccinated interesting point there Greg one car between three stations before only one shift being covered in three stations at a time shocking that's as it relates to the guard of vehicle situation all right loads of your comments coming in keep them going please they're very much appreciated and we get round to reading them all for the most part I think we've another busy two hours for you on the way stay tuned though because it's time now to take a break for the news and the obituary notices with Michaela then I until noon show with bluebird care providing home care services for all ages and done it all visit bluebirdcare.ie and bring care home live on air online and on the Highland radio app this is Highland radio news good morning I'm Michaela Clark with the news at 10 o'clock it's anticipated that mica homeowners will be reimbursed for costs incurred by testing for the presence of mica in the coming weeks the mica action group met with dunigold county council and housing department officials last week and it was confirmed that regulations to release the funding will be approved by mid-february and will then be made available to the council stage one approved home owners can also now apply for funding for emergency works the PR of the mica action group Michael Doherty says while significant progress has been made on a number of issues there's still much concern that the enhanced redress scheme will not be fully rolled out until september again just the one thing that I would say is the biggest issue is that september timeline and what we can do about getting that pulled back but the rest of it looks like it's starting to come into some sort of shape for us here that favours the home owner there's further calls for a hybrid leaving cert to be rolled out for students this year cancer me hall nocturn is taking a motion to council today requesting that the local authority engage with minister Norma Foley in support for a hybrid leaving cert for the class of 2022 he believes a hybrid option needs to be put in place to ensure fairness as the pandemic continues to impact students through having to isolate or teach your absences due to covid cancer nocturn says there is a clear appetite for an alternative leaving cert the leaving cert cycle is a two-year cycle and these students would have missed a huge amount of time and I think in fairness to the students and you know we talk about listening to our young people and there are future and if you're asking for this and I have spoken to a lot of these people in person I've also spoken to their parents and they also spoken to teachers so in the early favour of the hybrid model Employers mean mildly expecting staff back in the workplace are being urged to keep up infection control practices a covid response plan and supports for nervous staff the government's issued new advice for bosses and their workers following the easing of public health measures it says wearing face masks is good practice especially for those sharing work vehicles the guidance also says employers should start developing long-term plans for hybrid and remote work Caroline Reddy H.E. H.R. Expert with the H.R. Suite says workers will leave if their employers don't facilitate blended working you know people have got used to for example dropping the kids going to the gym going for the walk in the morning whatever that might be and ultimately if that now creates an issue around child care work-life balance etc I think they will leave to get a comparable job elsewhere that will offer them that balance that they need the commencement of long-awaited works to install speed ramps in Manor Conningham has been welcomed there's been numerous calls for such traffic calming measures to be installed to curb the speed at which motorists travel through the village answer Donald Cohen says the ramps will ensure safety for all residents the people in Manor have been waiting a long time for these ramps and finally now they're getting the ramps and I hope now that the safety measures that have been installed today will mean the safety for all the residents in Manor police say they are concerned about the wear bites of a man missing from Derry William Carlin was last seen between three and four o'clock on Thursday afternoon last in the Spencer Road area of the water side he's described as five foot in height of a medium build with balding gray hair and a beard it's believed to normally wears glasses and walks with a stick police are appealing to anyone who has any information on William's wear bites to contact them there have been calls to extend the castle fin to Carrigan's a greenway in order to connect it with Derry City the castle fin Carrigan's greenway was granted funding for construction in 2020 and Councillor Paul Canning believes some of that funding should be used to extend the greenway to the border into Northern Ireland just outside Carrigan's Councillor Canning says linking the greenway to an existing walkway at the border makes sense there is an existing walkway at the Carrigan site two kilometers will link the village of Carrigan's directly to the city of Derry and that is 500 people that will be able to leave their house get on a bicycle with their family and head into Derry and that then also another two kilometers link sheet is in Johnson another 500 people will be able to do the exact same and that's what we need to do there is no point enough doing a greenway starting in the middle of nowhere and punishing in the middle of nowhere weather and I becoming generally cloudy with some party drizzle developing throughout the day with highest temperatures to day of 8 to 10 degrees that's all from Highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning The obituary notices for this Monday morning January 31st The death has taken place of Mrs Charlotte Mackie Watson and a Ralston Demons Refaux service at Refaux Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with burial afterwards in St Nenian's Church graveyard convoy at approximately quarter past three family friends and neighbours welcome house private on the morning of the funeral family flowers only donations if desired to Refaux Cathedral Restoration Fund and the Dunke Sanctuary Refaux care of any family member or Gibson Funeral Directors The death has occurred of Rita Gallhert Lord KG her remains are opposing at her late residence house private to family friends and neighbours rose rate tonight at 9 o'clock funeral mass to more morning at 11 o'clock in St Mary's Church Kincashla with interment afterwards in Bell Crutch Cemetery house strictly private on the morning of the funeral The death has taken place of Sister Mary Theresa formerly Bridget McGillaway Lahobrihi Mallon Head wake in the convent of Mercy Nury County Down to today from three until five o'clock for family and nuns only break room mass at 10 o'clock to more morning in Nury burial to take place and lie graveyard Mallon to more afternoon at approximately half two until three o'clock The death has occurred in Birmingham, England of Nula Gallhert Nate Campbell and formerly Burton Port funeral mass in the Holy Cross Church Dunn-Fanahy to more morning at 11 o'clock but by burial in the adjoining graveyard funeral can be viewed on MCM media The death has taken place of Celine McLaughlin Naio Doherty formerly of Grovemount House Dailies Bray Waterside Dairy Viewing from her daughter's home at 31 Rosswater Limavadi Road this morning at half past 11 for 12 o'clock break room mass in St. Mary's Church Ardmore and termined afterwards in the adjoining cemetery House restricted to family and close friends only please Family flowers only please donations and Naio flowers have wished to age concerned Dairy The death has occurred of Jim T's 26th Wolf Tone Place Glencar Letter remains reposing at his home Funeral service will take place at his late residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon with interment afterwards in the family plot in Gortley graveyard Wake service and interment are private to family only Family flowers only please donations and Naio flowers wish to art view large residence comfort fund Kerv Pascal Blake funeral director And the death has taken place of Charles John Call sheep haven view Brihe Portniblat Dunn-Fanahy his remains are reposing at St. Michael's Church Creaselaw funeral mass there this morning at 11 o'clock full by burial and dose cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on mcnmedia.tv Family flowers only donations if desired to the orthopedic ward letter Kenney University Hospital Kerv any family member or James Harkin funeral director for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highlandradio.com at Iris life we've been helping people make smart investments with their nest egg for over 80 years for actual trusted advice search irishlife.ie or contact your financial broker or advisor we know irish life we are irish life irish life financial services is tied to irish life assurance for life and pension problems irish life assurance plc is regulated by the central bank of ireland irish life financial services limit is regulated by the central bank of ireland with all the stories that matter across the north west it's greg hughes on the 9 to noon show on highland radio and you're very welcome back to the program coming up later on brendan devaney will be back in studio with us previewing his podcast which returns of course lost a talk about any reflections on the weekend's gea action or any questions for brendan we can put them to him 08 660 25000 what do you think of if you watch yesterday's performance of donnie gall's chances for the year ahead it'll be interested as to say but i've heard brendan on with osheen commentating on the game yesterday in the post batch analysis but just interesting to see how he sees our chances at fairing have we changed tactically how we're playing or was something tried out for the meal game in terms of how we handle the ball when we were in possession i don't know what do you think 08 660 25000 what's apps and texts are called 07 491 25000 more of your messages here greg i wonder what the coverage of bloody sunday was like at the time and how immediate it was as you know there wasn't as much media in 1972 if this happened today the world's media would descend on dairy it would be wall to wall coverage 24 hours a day and hopefully more questions would be asked because every instance nowadays has a preff conference probably every day i just wonder actually it's an interesting point you make what did have happened because those i don't want to get too deep into it but they probably wouldn't have got away with it and that decision may not have been made i just don't think it may be well i don't think it would have happened i think eventually there'll be work from home law where you're encouraged to work from home says this listener this would add to government commitment to cutting down on pollution less cars and roads as the years go on there will be a massive pushed cut pollution this is a no brainer but of course you know much of the pop i don't know what the break up is in terms of how many people can actually go could do their work from home i think the majority of work certainly in this county you couldn't so even if there was a 100 percent adoption of work from home for those that could there would still be more people i think out on the roads of course it would have an impact on it would have an impact on pollution but not at the level perhaps they they require a caller says you can apply for a COVID recovery cert you have to wait 11 days to apply from the day you tested positive of course the earlier caller has been vaccinated much longer than that and still no sign of their cert but thank you so much for the message what is fished in the area where the Russians want to carry out real war games i don't know but they're not they're not playing they're playing the games they're not doing the training exercise there they're not doing the training exercise there any longer anyway so it doesn't matter they've moved outside the waters that we have any interest in any chance the fisherman could take over the country for a play to them taking on Russia okay a caller says do you still have to book a seat on a boss now that restrictions are lifted i wouldn't have thought so we'll double check that because it's quite important and i don't want to mislead anyone but uh there there can be no justification towards the end of last week by the way there was a change in visiting to letter kenny university hospital for those of you who may not be online or who didn't hear the coverage on friday i just want to run through you here what the situation is the hsc says that visiting by appointment has been reintroduced at letter kenny university hospital and patients may have one visit per day lasting up to 30 minutes to make an appointment to visit a patient in a ward family members visitors are asked to contact the ward or unit in advance before three p.m appointments will be staggered across all ward areas each day at six thirty p.m seven fifteen p.m and eight p.m visitors will be asked to arrive at their visiting time to the main hospital entrance where their names will be checked on the approved list of visitors and they'll be asked to complete a covid-19 risk assessment form in line with current national guidance in relation to visiting hospitals visitors will be asked to produce their e.u. covid digital covid cert or hsc 19 hsc covid-19 vaccination record or any proof of immunity at the entrance visitors may be asked to show some photo id to prove the proof of immunity is theirs there are exemptions from the requirement for the e.u. digital covid cert or hsc covid-19 vaccination vaccination record or all the proof of immunity on compassionate grounds so children by the way should not visit the hospital at this time they say unless agreed and advanced on compassionate grounds with the ward manager so that is a change to the visiting rules there at let 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brought to you by letter kenny shopping center the center of shopping in dunny all free parking and shopping all under one roof letter kenny shopping center bringing you the time at you will come back 17 minutes past 10 now as we know there's a bit of controversy as it relates to spotify people who are on spotify or use it are almost being asked to make some sort of a moral decision this is based on the content of the joe rogan experience podcast on spotify they pay quite a lot of money to have exclusive rights to that it is hugely popular but because he does platform people with alternative views on covid and vaccines some people are pulling their music pressure being put on the likes of taylor swift and others to follow suit adrian weckler is technology a technology editor with the irish and sunday independence he joins us now good morning adrian thanks for joining us good morning it's a tough one this really because it's like a moral question isn't it or where you stand on you know freedom of speech your alternative views or whether or not you like joe rogan more or more so than you know a purely technical issue if that makes sense yeah no absolutely it is so the genesis of the issue here is that joe rogan is the biggest podcast in the world he has about 11 million regular listeners which is more than the vast vast vast majority of radio shows alone podcast and spotify because he's so popular spotify paid him a hundred million dollars so that he would be exclusively on spotify and it's worked pretty well for them they've overtaken apple in terms of podcast engines but joe rogan has always been a very kind of free spirited kind of a podcast host and he some of the people he brings on it's about views that pretty much everybody would regard as ridiculous he used to have a guy on called alex jones who was and still is a sort of first class conspiracy theorist and that's not me saying it but the courts have found him that he's effectively gone bankrupt because of claims he made it's thin for war's guy that's right that's right yeah so joe rogan has always he's never shied away from having people like that on his podcast now with regard to COVID it has caused controversy because he has had a couple of doctors on who have not just that they've said controversial things it's that they've arguably gone over the line in influencing people as to the view so one one of the guys dr robert malone who is a doctor and he's a virologist but he has claimed that vaccines don't work and he's been suspended from twitter because of that so that view would be considered to be a a dangerous view at this time because it is generally considered to be misinformation now i know some listeners may take an alternate view of that and this is where the nub of the issue is should somebody like that in the middle of a COVID pandemic does freedom of speech include somebody like that being allowed to say something like that or are there wider societal issues involved that being said he does bring on people that would follow the the narrative inverted commas you know when he lets them have their their say as well is it a case of you know presenting the information that's out there and trusting like if he only carried that like you know you might see uh you know one side of the media will only carry one sort of version the other might another if he carries both and then allows his audience to make up his mind is that not i mean that is a view that depends on whether you consider the other side of the argument to be legitimate yeah and respectful so we in Ireland we've we had this debate last year with 5g and the year before with 5g so there were people who and i've been on the show before talking about this there are people who are who who bought conspiracy theories still a small handful who do that 5g causes health issues that it causes cancer that it's a plot that bill gates is involved with george sorris is etc etc there are still a handful of people who kind of are open to that idea now the issue then becomes does both sides of that discussion include sort of equally or on the one hand 5g isn't dangerous on the one the other hand it is and let's let them just argue that so i think that's the issue with cove and at least with 5g it's other than engineers who are being hassled at sites it's kind of the the casualties aren't immediate and apparent from it with cove it if if you have a doctor on who who tries to say that a vaccine doesn't work and you could act that could kill people i mean you could you could end up in a very dangerous yeah but but adrian this this is is nothing new controversial shock i mean how would stern was doing this decades ago this kind of stuff you know where you know controversy creates cash oh no absolutely and that's one of the accusations that levied against spotify that it is essentially cashing on this it is giving joe ogan a hundred million dollars it who has opened up a huge new marketing segment for my podcast and that it is applying is not applying the standards and rules that it would ordinarily apply to other podcast like spotify says it has taken 20 000 podcast episodes off the air for contravening and its rules so it's it's not like spotify is just an open platform you can go on and you know be a nazi if you want or or that you can you can put pornography on it won't allow absolutely anything and that's the same with most social media platforms but they they want free speech but they won't allow anything on there but it is making it is stretching its own limits a little bit for joe rogan because he is such a big man so what does this mean for spotify because since joe rogan now these two things aren't connected since joe rogan signed up with net with spotify they've lost i think about 48 percent of their worth now that's not including the fact that you know the likes of facebook youtube twitter of all their shares have tanked recently this this predates that right obviously the likes of you know the the singers withdrawing their music it's not a financial hit for spotify but there's a reputational damage if someone can maybe could be seen as more contemporary makes that decision as well you know that is it's going to start on on settling them and they're going to have to make some some some big decisions that's outside the debate about the content of joe rogan's podcast like it puts them in a position yeah now just to put that in context so we know that meal young has pulled his music from spotify joni mitchell is also doing so that's about it like one of the problems for people who argue that um you know spotify is a disgrace since outrageous is most of the world's top and almost none of the world's top artists have pulled their catalog if somebody like taylor swift or beyond say or del or ed sheeran pulled their music from spotify because this then spotify would have a problem not being semantic but unfortunately for taylor swift she only owns her new music so that's all she could pull her back catalog will still be okay that's another issue and so music labels half the music labels own a chunk of spotify the other half don't care they just want the bottom line but nevertheless the point is um you do have to wonder how much bands and musicians actually care about this because none of them are pill-pulling their music and and also there isn't really any huge evidence of a subscriber boycott either so that's the other side of the but you see you're so tied into it because your playlists are there your light songs are there you know it's how you get your music it's and and people of a certain age too will kind of remember when uh the it's some within the industry and some and mostly outside it tried to cancel rap music in the i think it was the late 80s or certainly in the 90s you know because they didn't like the content or they didn't like the tone of it that didn't succeed i suspect this isn't going to succeed either yeah it's a slightly different issue there with rap music but you could you could absolutely valid well it's art isn't it you know it's it and it's the content of it and i know the wider point you talk about rap music might might be considered art even where it's crude even where it's it's violent it some people might argue that it's out and that's fair enough it's hard to argue that somebody coming on and arguing that you shouldn't take a covid back that's not really art but you couldn't but two packs occur going on and saying to to shoot up biggie smalls crew i i'm not gonna get tied up on that adrian but you know what i'm on about you we're in the kind of the same space you know and also make the argument like garrick litter for example yeah you know on spot i mean there are all sorts of like moral arguments you can make yeah to this debate and i think it's just hit a nerve though on the covid thing because people die from it because and also there's a separate huge culture war going on around you know especially in america this idea that you know over my dead body will i take the vaccine and i'm willing to die all that kind of stuff and so it's hidden this particular one has hit a nerve i think but also does it as well as that to people that just don't like joe rogan too are going to get involved in this conversation as well that's unfortunately it's very hard to have a debate on a single point now because everyone piles in with their general views and opinions and and we'll try and have their say it would and to be fair i'd say joe rogan and to some extent spot effect are probably loving this because there is a strident effect going on there are people who've never heard of joe rogan who will actually now listen to his podcast to see what it's about and to be fair to joe rogan i'm not sure if you've ever listened to his podcasts and pieces he's a very skilled podcaster he's it's a very natural flow to his podcast of two three hours long he sometimes has really interesting guests on like ilan muskin people and like that and as you said he has scientists and doctors and experts on to go through issues that are not controversial at all so joe rogan is not going to mind this at one bit it's just the wider issue that you raised at the very beginning here over you know is something like it's a platform or a publisher to should Spotify be uh responsible or to what degree how conscientious does it need to be for the content it puts out or and you know should we just have a slightly more uh kind of free for all all right brilliant stuff uh adrian listen thanks as always thank you very much thanks all right take care of yourself that's adrian wekler there he's technology editor with the irish and sunday independent newspapers 08 660 25 000 if you uh want to have a say on that okay we're going to be coming out of the ad break with a piece of music stay right where you are loads to come in the next hour and a half what is it about brennan's bagels that people just 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the correct answer listen well done the caller says Spotify only pay eight cent per play sorry is it zero point zero eight cent per play of a song on its site so some of the songwriters get nothing uh no musician should put their music on Spotify and others say is gary glitter and r kelly's music is still on Spotify no one bats an eyelid about that but they haven't moved on to that yet you see um you know at the end of the day i i mean within reason if think if you try and ban what lots of people uh what lots of people can hear because they might think a certain thing i don't know it's a it's a difficult space i wouldn't like to be making uh calls on uh morning with all paperwork now needed to get into letter candy university hospital to see a sick family member it's now getting to be a complete joke what next armed personnel at doors management still a big problem needs to be addressed asaps as a caller they don't have uh much latitude locally and this is not in defense of them this is a hospital hsc hospitals decision but uh i can fully understand the frustration if you go to the government and put in your pps number you get your vaccine cert it's easy done right but okay it can't be as easy as that surely uh i hope it is if you've never received your vaccine cert would that be the case right uh reramps in manner it's great to get them in but they put in the ramps at the moment but there's no sign to say they're there don't get me wrong they need to be there but traffic and i will not see them they did the same thing with zebra crossing in manner it was there for almost a year before the signs went up nowhere else does this happen well let's hope that the signs are going up as part of the process very very soon um i also got my boost in december never received my cert say as a caller another i took a family to dare yesterday and told them uh when we went for a bite that for the hundredth they are to meet up i don't know i can't make um i'll have to read that offer to to make full sense of it happy 91st birthday to granddad john connehan and garden from kevin cathleen carlin darry happy birthday to you john have a goody also happy ninth birthday to louise mcgloughlin uh canny for mommy daddy john therese and uh e mer we wish everyone celebrating a birthday a great day today and how it became such an international story that i think in furnace uh influenced the russian decision and it's remarkable if you look at the actual written russian decision it acknowledges very specifically the contribution of the fission in industry and then the arguments that we made what has been the tone of sort of international interviews brendan it's been very positive i suppose if you just do they see it as a bit of light hearted or has it been taken very seriously on the international stage of wonder it's 50 50 to be fair there's those that will um make a sketch of it but primarily if you look at the image of patrick murphy and myself going through the gates of the russian embassy we were like two little orphan children really to be fair here we were going into against the might of the rush russian state making a case on behalf of 50 vessels that would be traditionally efficient in that area so it was very poignant uh scenes and then we had been tense two to three days afterwards whereby we were agreeing and disagreeing what we actually agreed and then out of the blue was the welcome decision based on a sensible reality by the russian state that they would withdraw themselves from the area you said and you have to commend the russians for that you know look at many many other states from great britain united states and norway and other states would have conducted military exercises in our waters over the last 30 years this is the first state that said okay they have made a bona fide argument it is a traditional efficient ground and we're bigger we pull back yeah well i thought fan was interesting from a bigger picture perspective brendan was that god is this what it takes for you know nationally people take to take an interest in this industry you know i mean you'd be plugging away as ceo of your association the kfo and others and and fishermen themselves outside of associations or organizations trying to discuss their plight the difficulties they have being regulated out of the industry and often i kind of i think outside of of local media can somewhat fall on deaf ears it's it's interesting that it took something like this that has a a bit of sex appeal if you don't i mean calling it that uh that they're now you talking about the fishing industry i think that's the most powerful question i've been asked in all the interviews that i've done and you're a hundred percent right we have a narrow-time nation we're an island nation we have a fishing industry that should be four times the size that it is but through successive failures over 20 years and the need to reform the department and how we handle fishing at a european level we've never got the traction that we now have we've never got the center stage appeal that we now have and it's remarkable how a sequence of events and a combination of things in time can bring you center stage but this is that this is exactly what has happened and i would hope from this that we will build on it and we will get the political influence that's badly needed that brings the reform and restructure and a reassessment of the real opportunity that's there around our coastal communities we have an industry that's worth a billion if you look at other coastal states be it iceland or norway or even the dutch we should be three and a half times the size we are but we haven't had over the last 20 years policies that reflected that and instead of success we have a failure i'm hoping and patrick murphy would be likewise that we can build on this and make the industry much better and i think what's kind of interesting is you know the role in fact the complete lack of role the department of the marine might have it in an issue like this it's not it's not of uh it's not they have no influence well i asked uh deputy mcconnellog about this last week any reference what simon cofney was doing about it secondly the fact that there isn't a standalone department of the marine uh that in and of itself would be a strong indication as to a the current importance of it but b you know the future importance of it that's not a slight by the way against the local minister here but but i think it's a fair enough point it's a very fair point didn't look at it i make comments in relation to marine and some people interpret them as being anti the local ministers far from it we've a reality since 1996 when that was the last time we'd a mainstream department of the marine and since then we have a continual decline because one it's not a department on its own it's one third of a larger department and from that then there's a consequence of that since 1996 it has been decreasing in influence there has been a lack of political drive to reform it to rebuild it it's become a much smaller department everything that has gone wrong is traceable back to how we as a member state or we as a nation have uh invested in or how we have driven politically the the entire marine sector and i have very clear views on that we are at a juncture now after the brexit the tca agreement that unless we take radical steps uh and looking at everything and i'm calling this week in the marine papers that a special um committee of the rock that the eructus be set up to look at marine and fishery matters but as the cast not been dying pardon my ignorance as someone outside the intro industry but was was fishing not really the sacrificial lamb of the brexit process well there is that argument yes and the answer to that question is yes but that does not mean that it dies uh we were very harshly treated with in in brexit and uh we lost more than any other coastal state disproportionately more but commissioner syncovicius who's there has an open door policy towards our land but what we need to do before we go to his door is get our own house in order and that means a whole lot of internal discussion restructuring of the department and an agreed strategy of how we're going forward and even maybe let uh let our fishermen land or fishers land their fish outside office harrow something as crazy as that wouldn't that be nice absolutely well someone asked earlier on what fish in these waters what fish were fishing for it's a combination of things there's two waters that straddle on another north of there you have the porcupine bank and porcupine sea bright valuable areas for net props prawns the most valuable net props grounds in all of europe south where the actual drilling was taking place is the cradle bed for all mackerel spawning in western waters and that covers from ireland right up to norway so really they were letting the bombs off or fall back into the the cradle for the mackerel spawning grounds and mackerel uh is the most valuable catch that we have so we wouldn't necessarily be fishing mackerel there but that's where the the the source comes from and that's what needed to protect it how do we prevent this happening again into the future because you know these kind of exercises happen all over the shop by all different nations or collections or individuals so how do we do we need to put something in place so that that there's we're not fighting individual battles each time correct and i think the russians have said a precedent now that if we're wise and this is something that's simon coveney can get very actively involved in that we need to bring in a 10-year moratorium to stop all military excess exercises in the rgz said we can't bring in an outright ban because the 1982 international law the seas would prevent that because there's an anomaly in some gray area there but we have the right as the adjacent state and it's rgz said to bring in the moratorium based on the eco sensitivity of the area based on the biological importance of it to see fishery which is mackerel in this case or net drops and the entire environmental argument not withstand the force the displacement efficient but what it would do we we can't we can't we don't have a a significant navy we're not going to read your commission loads of new vehicles new new boats or whatever it might be but it does show that we actually standing up a little bit for ourselves flexing out not flexing our muscles i don't know how you describe it but to show that you know we are a sovereign nation and and this is what we want will you respect it absolutely and i think the government should waste no time now in bringing in this moratorium and it's going to be difficult and complex to bring in but the fact that one of the key players in the world russia has opted to volunteer to leave our waters then who in the right mind would be the next nation to attempt to come in here so we need to seize this window opportunity that's now opened by the russian decision and as a state push for a 10-year moratorium we can renew it after 10 years of course and protect the seas around Ireland protect the fishing rights and allow the eco-sensitive waters that surround this island to be protected for once and for all okay during that meeting very finely did he mention at all the situation in ukraine did he have any off the cuff commentary as to the international reaction as to what they're doing or was it all on the one topic he did mention ukraine and we said that will be sympathetic towards the ukrainian question to which he said it's a much more difficult question than you and i would interpret it okay right well we'll not take diplomatic answer i guess we'll see we'll stick to the fish brendan thank you very much i'm not opening up that can of tuna all right listen thanks very much indeed take care of yourself thank you very much bye bye nice 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will be previewing that podcast with us after the 11 o'clock news now lboy it has announced a sponsorship package with island's most popular study website study clicks with an x to provide free access to the platform for all sixth year students uh in 26 dunagall post primary schools we're going to be speaking to a the principal of one of those schools in a moment but first we welcome on to the program luke saunders founder of study clicks good morning to you luke good morning thanks for having me out great to have you with us in my first zoom interview where the person uh subject was standing so that's uh it's a it's a first uh come here tell us about study clicks congratulations by the way on the success of this uh but tell us about the the website the company thanks yeah so my background greg is that i i'm a secondary teacher a science and math teacher and when i started to teach and i realized that the resources that students had to learn and i had as a teacher to teach hadn't really changed a whole lot since i've done my leave and serve myself and study clicks we myself and a college friend of mine keith started up about 10 years ago so what it does basically is it takes each of the junior cert and leaving cert subjects and breaks them down into topics so for example in your biology it might break it down into genetics or in maths into trigonometry and then what we do is we give students uh tools and resources to help them learn that topic so things like exam questions sample answers marking schemes and so on yeah there's a balance to be struck isn't there because you you probably could reinvent reinvent the wheel like the whole exam system if you wanted to but you had to introduce something that would be broadly welcomed by school principals and teachers and what have you absolutely and and it's you know it's really important to remember that like study clicks works in parallel or alongside the work that teachers are doing in the classrooms and teachers use study clicks as well like more than 90 percent of teachers in ireland use study clicks they use it to generate a lot of assessments and i suppose the key thing and this would be advice that give to students in the lead up to their mock exams or you know just as they continue in school what students do a lot is they're very good at like making their own notes revising teachers notes for vision books but what students often forget to do is to assess their learning like test themselves and find where the knowledge gaps are and that's really what study clicks is all about it's figuring out what you're not good at and then go learn that but you know in a way it's not just all about the end result either presumably it helps with the learning process that you're you're you're on top of it you know what i mean rather than like where am i at come judgment day absolutely yeah no it's really important for students to to be measuring the performance and i guess study clicks does that it allows them to see how they're how they're tracking across all the various topics and indeed it helps their teachers also figure out how each student is doing along the various topics and you know when you're equipped to that kind of kind of data it helps students to figure out where to prioritize their study because at the end of the day time is short and there is so much to be done so you know it's important that you really concentrate on on looking after the weak areas now this that makes this service this time with LBIT available to a whole raft of people all at one time is this is this a model you've adopted around the country or is this a first it's you know to have so many people to have such access all at the one time effectively Tom that's not Tom I think Tom's my next guest Luke yeah no it is it's unprecedented that the level of support that letter Kenny IT have given like they have sponsored 26 schools so every school in Donegal they've sponsored study clicks access to every six-year student so that's unprecedented nationwide it's a really good initiative and i suppose from from my perspective as the founder of study clicks it's really important to to me that I see study clicks as kind of breaking down the barriers and making it equal so that you know a student who's in Dublin 4 has just as much opportunity as a student in West Mayo or West Donegal to access the best learning resources so you know I'm really happy that we can support this initiative and of course letter Kenny IT as well and you know it's school like schools like Tom's school in in St Columbus that that will get the benefit and the students will get the benefit from it yeah well let's chat to Tom Rowan now the principle of St Columbus College Stroll or good morning to you Tom thanks for joining us good morning Greg Tom what does this deal mean for you obviously it means that this service this facility is available to to everyone obviously in the qualifying classes of course yeah well we're delighted for we have 157 students doing the leave insert this year so we're delighted that every one of the 57 has access to study clicks um and I suppose the what a way a way it here to do here is I suppose to ensure equality of access for all students which is very very important um so that's why we so see it's so important that everyone gets access to this this additional support for students yeah and obviously I'm assuming you've seen the benefits of it so it might be hard to to might be hard to sort of gather that information but obviously you've seen enough about it to welcome this move Tom yeah some of our students have already been using it you know those could afford it and so on so um because it's been worked out to all our students I think it's it's vitally important that everyone has an equal chance all right brilliant stuff a view of you on on what way the leaving shirt shirt should be one I run this week we're going to be finding that from the minister we'll be finding that out from the minister at the minute but I'd say we're working at the minister Greg we're working towards exams in the summertime that's that's what we that's what we know at the minute anyway and that's what all our students are working towards do you have a view on that Luke what what what should be done for this year yeah and like I think the fairest thing always is to run an anonymous exam and like the big problem this year as as I'm sure everyone knows is that there's a there's a large percentage of this year six years who won't have sat a junior cert those who would have skipped transition here and the problem therefore is that we don't have junior cert results for those students which makes it very difficult to apply the you know the standardization process to the accredited grades and unfortunately if you do want the accredited grades that means you must have school profiling which as you know as most people are very uncomfortable with that and I think really what it is is they want to know at this point and then we can deal with whatever it is listen Luke congratulations on the success of of study clicks and this tie in it sounds like it's a great resource and we appreciate your time this morning thank you thanks Greg and Tom listen thanks for your time as well I'm sure it's very busy at your school as always and we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed thank you Greg all right take care of yourself right back after the news or sorry back after the break with the news water pressure too weak boiler finally gone kapos the good news is there's a local hero for that boilers plumbing electrics locks and drainage take the hassle out of home repairs with localheroes.ie our online service connects you with trusted trades people in your area and all work comes with a 12 month guarantee backed by board gosh energy get a quote in minutes at localheroes.ie terms and conditions apply at electric Ireland electric vehicle drivers can enjoy up to seven and a 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the weekend that russia is moving its drills outside of ireland's exclusive economic so on the vice president of the gra says the use of drugs dogs in donnie gall would greatly assist in cracking down on the circulation of drugs the benefits of using a drug dog drug dog was highlighted after 3.1 million euro worth of cocaine was uncovered at Dublin port over the weekend there are currently no drugs dogs available to guardie in donnie gall it's anticipated that mika homeowners will be reimbursed for cost incurred by testing for the presence of mika in the coming weeks mika action group met with donnie gall county council and housing department officials last week and it was confirmed that regulations to release the funding will be approved by mid february and will then be made available to the council meanwhile the minister for housing local government and heritage is urging people in donnie gall to share their experiences of defects relating to fire safety structural safety and water ingress and purpose-built apartment and duplex buildings constructed in the county between 1991 and 2013 it forms part of the work of the independent working group to examine defects in housing which was established by minister dara brian in february 2021 agriculture minister says legislation to appoint a food regulator will be introduced before the end of march farmers have been calling for government to move quickly on the appointment with many unhappy at high costs some profits are shared along the food supply chain there's further calls for a hybrid leaving sir to be ruled out for students this year consormy hall nocton is taking a motion to council today requesting that the local authority engage with education minister norma fully in support for a hybrid leaving sir for the class of 2022 and police say they are concerned about the whereby of a man missing from dairy william carlin was last seen between three and four o'clock on thursday afternoon last in the spencer road area of the water side he's described as five foot in height of a medium build with balding grey hair and a beard it's believed he normally wears glasses and walks with a stick those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon all right mcala thank you very much indeed everyone can make little changes to waste less and at mcdonald's we're no different which is why we're using our old coconut oil to make biodiesel that helps you on my truck and making small changes to our packaging like replacing plastic straws mcflurry lids and salad boxes has saved 68 tons of plastic every year it's the start of a plan to recycle and reuse even more because we know when you change a little you change a loss okay you're very welcome back to the program and in the famous words of m&m guess who's back how are you getting on that's that's some people who don't even know who slumsher he is no i think he's kind of been cancelled yeah pull that down a wee bit brendan come here you were down with our sheen in slug mckel park's getting done up isn't that's right you were down in slug oh yesterday with our sheen kelly watched donnie gall take on my old donnie gall in control for a lot of the game but things went somewhat right what's your reflections did you see enough yesterday to make a judgment call on if donnie gall i think it was i think it was oh i can't remember his name it was one of them accused anyway i can't remember which one stated that this could be no it wasn't that this could be there could be nine or ten teams this could be one of the most open championships ever this year if that is the case do you agree and secondly is uh is is uh donnie gall in the mix i don't know i think defensively we would say because we haven't brought through top players to replace the likes of neil mcgee's patty mcgrath's karen this is emin mcgee's these players that were there for so long about the kind of the bedrock every team is built on defense first if you look at our neighbors here across rory galler's come on there and always here before it's all about defense first it's about having proper defensive structure and basically players can go man to man we don't really have that and donnie gall so we're we're relying on protecting our team and pulling back in numbers and that was funny small wee things greg you know down to mark if it's funny we have three county grounds here you know balleys sand there are kinny and balba fae they've they've only the one which which is strange i always think of football how would that happen to me oh is there not then again they're very well supported if you looked at it just there even it was a technically a way game for both was huge mail support there now maybe they wanted to make it very evident that they were back in their team as it was a home game they needed the points but in the first they were very stale at the stargrey they haven't had as much work done as us and the first three attacks they did the three files and score above positions they must warn them so the issue i think with with us is just uh these defenders haven't come through so we have to really protect them if they're not there they're not there we've got to work without them now that said there was some great football from donnie gall in patches in it but there's two huge spells in the game or we didn't score do we have a problem do we have a problem and apologies to listeners in derrian turn with the way to do does donnie gall have a problem when michael murphy's not on the pitch yeah funny at that time he was off was saying there's two periods where we played really poorly one of them he wasn't on the park i think he probably tired towards the end of it because he'd a really bad injury at the end of the club season last season well we can't keep going back to that well eternally that was a young man yeah what what what goes wrong when he's off the pitch is that is the team not balanced enough that if such a pivotal key part is taken out of it that there is no not no plan B but where's the struggle there well i i don't think we have to really uncount uncounted that until he's not there you know and i really hate looking forward to that time because the man is such a colossus any kind of ball in the ear him yesterday he has this unbelievable ability just to position himself right he's so strong i mean the penalty they won for some reason that he didn't kick that's never happened before what was that i mean did he miss the penalty last season against tarones it's hardly that is it he hit the post yeah but he's never been on a pitch where he hasn't taken the penalty for nothing at all he's always taken the penalty it was very strange one because i doubt would have been the game over for me may or wouldn't have come back from that but it's a bit like that suppose you think of certain star players i often thought about like like i was rugby whenever Brian O'Dusk goes playing every time we needed something a dress code i thought how would be ever be how we ever cope without him but we did yeah but there could be for obviously you'd hope not for injury or it could be suspension yeah knows what a yellow card is you know so you say you don't want to plan ahead in terms of his retirement or unavailability but there are going to be pivotal games this year that he might not be available can we don't want to read too much into one game but do can we adapt without him enough in a big match well there's no doubt i don't think that he's it's a handicap regardless if he's not there he brings so many different things around probably his leadership is is free taken his power you see one thing we're lacking we but it's that physical power you know may or have it in speeds so michael's well able to mix that and stand up to that in certain games he got and he's the man can often set the tempo for donny go and you've seen my name down side yesterday any ball went down there and he won it so well let me ask you then as a as a team player is it a case that is it a case that if he's off the pitch now i don't want to amplify but just it's an interesting talk point when he's off the pitch right is it a a tactical problem in other words we need to shift up the tactics or do other players look at him as such a key part that it alters their performance until he gets back on the pitch like so is it a tactical or is it as a mental issue you see if he played in one position like you would say it would be we have to find a way of coping that but because he plays that role in role and listen there's sometimes we'll make a it'll be a game for periods but when he steps on it he tends to make something happen so that whole thing of a moving round the pitch you can find them anywhere i mean we also don't have to have a ball to influence a game necessarily either do you know you would see that more as an expert than maybe lay people might see he was back in our half back then as that game wound down yesterday and and i think that's anywhere donny goll probably lost the game i mean five points up 56 minutes on the board and a fairly low score in green but we should have had enough to hold that out but we didn't score again they scored five points on the bounce but where we messed up greg and where i'd be very disappointed is that may one of our main tactic is aggressive tackling up the pitch they're one of the best teams at it don't give you a second on the ball surely i mean you look at the semi-final last year with with doubling the comeback like they come in this wave and as we dallyed on the ball and give lateral passes they were coming clamping we needed to move very fast or move it long but that's that that's particularly obvious is it possible that maybe the manager was saying that we know this is what may ill bring this is not the most important game in the world let's say can the player step up if we you know cross it you know cross it you know go left to right or or front to back because it's such a glaring you know it is you know you've forgotten more this morning about the sport than i know but you know may ill don't give you a second on the ball so you shift it and you shift it forward preferably right and let's move one man up as well Greg which which makes you think how can we get into position people to at least move a ball they couldn't get this now that's what i mean they are very good at this and this is great just pre all Ireland a lot of people are tipping may ill to be the best team in Ireland this year and i know that may ill throw and beat them and beat them well in the final but you know don't we all weren't at that level last year so you're going to but technically as a way game it is the first game but certainly i suppose if you look at issues like you need to find them in the league and air them out just like we're talking now i'm sure donny goes having that debate and their management team they say right what do we do well and what can we do better and it's a first game so conditions were tough away match and that we have a point that point could be important come the end because we just want to stay in the league you know i think we'll learn more after the next game i think the next game after that you know i mean on sunday so listen for this balba failure gregg they may clear a brilliant throw but with Kerry everybody thought they don't might be going back down glenn ryan former legend of kildares and there's we should probably put something into them guys but a belief so a corner says should donny goll have a designated penalty taker since they've not been very good lately i don't know if that's a fair assessment of all perhaps this but does that really apply because i mean like it could be your stand you could have a tinge in the muscle in your standing leg and that take a penalty couldn't you unless it training the two lads was was messing about the only thing i think about patrick's penalty was that if you look at gilly penalties versus soccer keep patrick does a good soccer prayer now but you're trying to place the ball the ball's a lot heavier my thing would be in a gilly penalty don't get better i must a few greggs oh don't worry uh say i had a perfect record had the ball hard i would have thought in a wet day because if you had that hard and low you i think is a better chance patrick went to place it and it was an easy save for henley in the end but even at that point the ball is not designed really for finesse is it yeah you want to hammer it out but listen a very strange thing none of us could believe it over over watching the game that michael didn't step up what about the amount of ball in hand time the goal he had does that worry you yeah again but sometimes when you sit in the lead we see this all the time if you look to manage a lead and sit on it and invite particularly a team like mayo you are dicing with with trouble now the mindset is that if we're five up we go to four we go to three we'll get one goes back to four they might go to two we go to three that is what the mindset is but because we didn't score in them last 18 or whatever they're chipping away and mayo had a couple of goal chances in that himself in the end it was also was hanging on so this and patterns really good at that he can come out with a ball there obviously was that unfortunate pass at the end that he got caught on the ball in that but at that point greg i'm thinking lump it get it up the pitch at least you reset and you've got your numbers back in the balls there because mayo were coming they can smell blood and this is not any judgment on any particular players but you know there's a certain maybe physical presence or skill set that's required for that not everyone can do that yeah yeah that's true but listen he's one of the best about very good but it was more that i would have thought this would have been talked about that mayo's going to come come at us in waves and we got to move the ball really quick and move it long because we were taking the ball into a tackle and as i say we're not the most powerful team so we cannot play down their hands but but listen but it's a draw with the all island finalist as well it is it is so we can't nice to beat bonus on it too much it was just a