and dead in Goa, India on March 13th, 2017. Vikat Bagat has been in custody since 2017. He was subsequently charged with her murder. His trial has been ongoing now for over four years. Earlier this week, he was denied bail following the death of his father, but the High Court has now granted bail on humanitarian grounds, allowing him to attend and to perform the last rites of his father on next Friday and Saturday, November 25th and 26th. There's a security alert in Strabam. This morning police are in attendance in the Mount Carmel Heights area of the town. The road is currently closed. Motorists are advised to avoid the area. Police say at the moment no homes have been evacuated. Politicians, officials and business representatives from Donegal, Derry and Strabam are in Boston today for the Golden Bridges Conference, the first in-person event there since 2019. The event has become one of the most important networking events for the Northwest region. With more detail, here's Emma Ryan. The Golden Bridges Transatlantic Conference provides a platform to showcase the very best of the Northwest to an influential Irish-American business audience. Six cross-border companies are this year participating in the 2022 trade mission representing technology, biotech, food and drink, creative industries and sportswear manufacturing. They are part of a delegation led by Donegal County Council and Derry City and Strabam District Council and a wide range of partners. The companies are Alchemy, Sea Trick, Wild Atlantic Distillery, Macdeod, FitPink and O'Reilly's. The event will also feature a range of speakers and delegates from the US, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland who will discuss themes of investment, innovation, tourism, culture and education. Keherlock of Donegal County Council, Councillor Liam Blaney, believes the Golden Bridges event will allow for renewed linkages between the Northwest of Ireland and Boston. A West Donegal Counciler fears there will be a serious accident in Lohanur, unless safety measures are put in place to slow down traffic. Councillor Meeho of Colemical Aspog says there need to be traffic calming measures on the main street as traffic travels through the village at high speeds. He says local residents are justifiably concerned. The community there would talk to me on a very regular basis about the concerns and terms of the speed going through Lohanur. Unfortunately, but fortunately in the sense that we have a new road there and a good cover on the road and that increases the speed through the village. But we need to get measures into the village to slow traffic right down. It is unfair on the people of Lohanur to have to be scared as there are wits every time that they're out walking or their kids are walking to anywhere in the village and fear of an thing happening. A junior minister says a public awareness campaign on spiking would raise awareness of the offence and also the punishment that's carried with it. Spiking someone's drink or by needle can result in a three-year prison term of the 147 reported incidents of spiking nationally since January 2021. 60 were needle-related, 66 were drink-related. Junior Minister Joseph Amadegun says it's vital people keep an eye out for spiking as people celebrate over Christmas and New Year. It's really important that we have an information campaign that could encourage vigilance among people working in the nightlife industry in regards to Shikone and the general public of the dangers and the signs of spiking. So some of the signs will be somebody might be unusually drunk, their vision might be blurred or they feel dizzy or nauseous. They might have difficulty speaking or keeping their balance. With the broadcast mostly bright and dry with good sunny spells, today, top temperatures seven to nine degrees Celsius moderate to fresh west to northwest breezes. And that's how in radio news, back with news again at 10 o'clock. Hello, this is Liz O'Donnell, chairperson of the Road Safety Authority. I want to share with you some serious road safety figures. Last month, there were 12,546 drivers detected for speeding and 727 drivers arrested for driving under the influence. But what I'm most concerned about are the 12 people who died and the 79 people seriously injured on our roads in October. That's 12 people who are no longer with their friends or family and 79 people whose lives may be changed forever. Help us stop such needless loss of life and injury. I'm asking drivers to slow down and never ever drink or drug drive. Visit orisa.ie. The Ninetown Noon Show with letter Kenny Credit Union, now offering myCU current account and debit mastercard, bringing full banking features delivered with the same local trustworthy service of your Credit Union. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the Ninetown Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. It is five minutes past nine. It's the Ninetown Noon Show for this Friday, the 18th of November. And I hope you're very well indeed. Coming up after 10 o'clock just to let you know early on, Seamus Gunn will be in studio with us or on the program with us at least, answering your legal questions if you want to get involved in that conversation. Or indeed, the conversation over the next hour with our Friday panel. Then the numbers for you. To WhatsApp or text 08 660 25000 or give us a call if you prefer on 07491 25000. And then you can watch all of today's shows you can every single day on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland, across our Facebook pages or on our website. Just click Watch Live. Right, good morning, Suzanne Rogers, Journalism course director at Northwest Regional College. Good to have you with us. How are you getting on Suzanne? Good morning, very well, very well on this cold and foggy morning. It is indeed. The nasty morning and I don't know what it goes like, but not not long for going out today. I'm afraid I like the honesty and the freshness of cold, frosty weather. You know, there's no surprises with it. You just have to be careful on the roads. But other than that, you know what you're getting.  The temperature now takes on a whole different meaning. You know, you start wondering, well, how long will I have to keep my heating on for today, especially in older, drafty houses? Absolutely right. And I mean, it's been a major talking point for domestically for people, but also for businesses here in the Northwest as well. And I've just noticed it was pointed out to me. And then I started noticing it going into shops and looking that every other light is turned off.  And of course, that's affecting us all at the till as well. So it's going to be a tough few months for people. We were just getting word through yesterday about some support totaling about 600 pounds for all households in the North that is going to come through to help with those sort of heating costs. So hopefully that'll help those people, particularly who are not working or who are maybe on low wages and they're struggling. Yeah. And what's there for businesses? Because they are the lifeblood of the community as well. Mary Hart, good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us as always. Broadcaster and journalist, of course. Good to have you on the program. Good morning. How are you? Fantastic. Thank you. Very beautiful morning. I'm looking out at this lovely clear sky in Donegal. Exactly. I can wrap up warm and head out. So the cold doesn't bother me. Well, I'm a cold cretter, so I try and avoid the outdoors.  Good morning to you, Senator. Thanks for joining us. How are you keeping? Morning, Greg. Keeping very well. Good stuff. Good to have you with us. Right, lots to get through this morning. I suppose there's a major conference in Donegal this week. A huge sort of international flavour to it as well. People coming from the Nordic countries, Canada, from the United States to discuss defective concrete materials. Did you get an opportunity now to engage with much of it? So I wonder if your views changed in any regard as a result of it? No, I haven't been here at all, Greg. I spent a fair bit this week in London. I'm across quite a delegation in relation to legacy issues and the protocol. I haven't been here, but the one thing I will say, and I've said it when we are having our day of hearings and their actors as well, that anybody that has information in relation to the effect of concrete blocks or indeed foundations, we would again ask them to forward that on to the review that's taking place. In relation to all these things that's been carried out on the NSAI, it's really important that academics, if they have information that's not already in the hands of those that are investigating this, it's really important they do get it. Do you think that traffic should be going in the other direction, though, that people that are having to make a decision would actually seek out worldwide experts on certain issues to ensure that their decisions are fully informed? Absolutely. As I know, they're doing that, but there have been claims made at hearings and otherwise in relation to foundations by academics that haven't been backed up. There were requests were made by those individuals at the day of the hearing. And that information passed on and shared and that hasn't happened unfortunately. Mary Hards, another thing that came out of that conference, so it was more the program before the conference, was that the government is not at this time, I think we're all aware that there are many people who are their houses, whilst maybe not about to collapse on top of them, though we don't know that, they're very cold, there's an awful lot of black mold, people are finding their health being affected and of course this has an impact on their mental health, but they need to get out of these houses. And one of the things that's been suggested in this county for a long time is modular homes, but the government's ruled that out, they're saying that they're not looking at that as an option to address the housing crisis in Donegal exacerbated by the micro problem. Are you surprised that disappointed at that announcement, that sort of stance from government? Well, I have a duplicity on this one because I sort of feel like if you have a modular home you could be left for the next 20 years and I can just say the prefabs of secondary schools and my day, a school almost became a whole complex of port of cabins. So there is the risk that if you go down that road that you could end up with a family living there for a long time. Okay, but just on that point, Mary, just on that Mary, just because it's important for clarity, it's not to contradict or interrupt you, the alternative offered was a mobile home on site, okay, which is not as good as a modular home. So in other words, that's what Mr. O'Connor suggested, no modular homes, but hey, you can get a caravan perhaps. Well, I mean, both, well, I don't know what the difference is between the two of them, perhaps a certain standard, but a cost is probably the driving factor in that. I mean, this is an issue that is so serious. I know several families close to me here in Raffaul who have their homes have been seriously affected and you do see the house, it's full of damp, the windows are all fogged up at this time of the year, it's probably almost impossible to heat a home that has defective brickwork in it. And, you know, we've just seen the horrific issue of the death of a young toddler in London of moles, just from breathing it in. You know, who's to say that this isn't also going to be a very serious health hazard. It's just a very serious disaster on this course, on Egor being probably the most affected county as the one place that we really needed to look very seriously at it. I can't really answer the issue on the modular homes because I really don't think that, I think the issue is that there should be houses built and people put into them, but, you know, that we're going down a road that that's idealistic and stuff. Well, we have to go with something because we've got houses that are currently becoming unlivable. We have no houses available in the community. We've got people who need to leave these houses because of their pro-health and there is no alternative. So in that scenario, you look up and you look to your government for alternatives and one which seems to have a consensus amongst those that are affected is that modular homes which people can move into and then someone else can move into them when they can move back into their own homes, that that's a solution. It's a solution we're employing elsewhere in the country obviously to fulfill our commitments, the rightful commitments to luck after a refugee. So why can't we do similar here? That's what people are feeling. Yeah, if it's a better alternative of the two or of nothing, yes, I would absolutely agree that it should happen. But you mentioned going to the government. Yes, the government. But, you know, Donegal County Council has a huge part and role to play in this. They're in charge of housing in the county.  And I don't know if this morning, if I discovered that there was a Micah in my home, where would I go? Who would it turn to? Who do I get the advice from? And I think Donegal County Council are shirking in the responsibility for this very seriously because at the end of the day, if they'd been doing their job properly and had inspected all of the different quantities of bricks and blocks that were made, then this would never have happened. So I know this is going to be a big, serious legal issue coming forward now. But I mean, that's something that certainly that Donegal County Council should be pushed to do something immediately. Yeah, Suzanne, it's a problem in Donegal. It's a problem in 13 other counties. And we know now it's really beginning just to become a problem in dairy from a public awareness perspective. That's right. Just the first case was confirmed there. You know, let's be realistic here. Why have the government been dragging their heels on this? And it's simply as far as I can see because it's a much bigger problem than even has emerged so far. And the fear is, I believe, that if they give 100% address to those owners in Donegal, then that's when I have to continue elsewhere. They can't make another case. We know that it's in Sligo. We know it's in Mayo. The likelihood is that it's throughout the country. And I think that's why they've been dragging their heels. I mean, the first blocks, the first defective blocks were found in 2011. That's 11 years ago. It took six years for an expert panel to be convened to look at this. And five years on from that, you're still seeing people sitting with their homes crumbling around them. They're in fear for themselves and for their families. As Mary rightly says, we have that shock and incident in Rochdale where a two-year-old child in a flat was found to have mold in their lungs because of condensation and because of the conditions they were living in. I too do not think that modular homes are the answer to this because I'm old enough to remember and to have reported on and Donegal many years ago on the old demountable dwellings, which were supposed to be the answer to everything. There were a blight on the landscape. People were put into them and they were simply forgotten. And it looks to me like the powers that we are just casting around for any kind of solution to this, to make it almost go away when what they need to be doing is biting the bullet and offering that 100% for address that people are looking for. Because if you look on the council website, the maximum amount that they're paying is 247 and a half thousand euro, but that's 90%, that's maximum. And householders are going to have to find 27 and a half thousand euro themselves on top of the five to 6,000 euro that they have to pay in order to get their homes tested. I mean, they might know, they might be able to visually tell that the house has lot make-up, but they have to have that. And I don't know very many people, particularly we started off talking about the cost of living, particularly these days who've got an excessive 30,000 pounds sitting there. Of course. They've already paid for. And that's the 90s, 10 scheme we quoted there. There is an enhanced scheme with higher limits, hopefully coming in early next year. And also there's big groups of people like older people, for instance, who have no access to credit. Now, Blaney, what's your views on the calls for a response along the lines of a modular homes to try and address this housing emergency we have here? Yeah, well, the housing emergency is a difficult one, Greg. I tell you, I'm not pushed on the modular homes. I would rather see more money made available for external garages and walls that are not part of the new 100% scheme, which hopefully will be announced before that cheers out. I suppose the other thing we have to remember is this is gonna probably roll out of our 10 year period. So I'm not gonna have a massive amount of people looking for housing at all the one time, but there is an issue. And you would hope that families maybe will help out as not one I thought through my head. So what do you mean when you hope families will help out? You're saying that relatives of those in these houses might allow the people that live in those houses to live with them. Do you think that's a solution? Well, I know in the case of my family, that's the thoughts at the moment. And some others that I'm aware of, some are renting, when the new scheme is announced, there's 15,000 year available and being made available towards the cost of rent. And I suppose like this scheme has evolved, Greg, we'll maybe have to see in the ground how it's working. And if there are cases and probably no doubt there will be cases of whereby something has to be done, then we may have to revisit it. At this stage, there are no plans and that's been honest about it. But moreover, the more important thing is to get the scheme announced before the year is out. Yeah, OK. Right, OK, thank you for that, Nile. That's Senator Nile Blaney there. You also heard the views of Mary Hart, Suzanne Rogers, also 08, 660, 25,000. Your thoughts via text and WhatsApp will have more from our guests after we take a short break. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union. Seasonal loans now available for Christmas. Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account. At Cherrymore Kitchens and Bedrooms, we are now operating out of one new state-of-the-art showroom in Dunnigaltown. 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Senator Nal Blaney, were you on the list? I got a call last night, Greg, from the Department of Foreign Affairs to inform me that I was on. I had a right to chuckle at it, to say the least. What did you do to upset the Russians, Nal? Not very much. I stood alongside the Ukrainian ambassador that spoke up on it back earlier this year. So that was the, that's what I wanted to do. But moreover, in relation to the ambassador, I suppose the easiest thing to do is, is react to this and get rid of them. But some of the reaction to my social media post last night, more in particular from some of us still living in Russia, thanking me that I was taking the stance that it's too easy to get rid of the Russian ambassador and they then in turn get rid of our ambassador in Russia. And for the sake of those Irish citizens that are still in Russia, I think it's important to keep the automatic doors open, albeit straight in the air, Greg, but you have some hope when you have your door open and be able to talk to them. When you, I suppose, push the button and show them the exit door, you don't have any form of return. I mean, some of your government colleagues have called for that Neil Richmond amongst them. Not well thought out, is it considering? There are many Russian citizens in Ireland as well, as well as vice versa. I mean, maybe politicians sometimes need to take a moment to think before proclaiming. Yeah, in this case, you know, it's too serious to jump to conclusions and be populist about it. It's the time for steady heads and be smart. Mary Hart, what's your views on it? I mean, obviously, I mean, in real terms, what does it matter? But in terms of the Irish government's response, do you think the decision to sort of not ask the Russian ambassador to leave is the right one? No, I don't. I think the Russian ambassador should have been shown the door, should have been called in and told that we were actually expelling the Russian ambassador and to 70 staff, well, in the name of God, they need 70 staff and Ireland is beyond me. I don't, as the rest of the world, don't trust Russia one tiny bit. And I haven't, a diplomatic service in Ireland is going to absolutely add nothing. And as far as we are led to believe, and I have no reason to doubt it, that it's an ideal position for monitoring, for watching, for as we know now have a list. So they've obviously been watching closely and that's what they're doing. So the Russians are no strangers to the spy game. And let's put it another way. If we were living in the Nazi era and Hitler when invaded Poland, would we be keeping the German ambassador in Ireland when we would know what was going on? In other words, attacking hospitals, schools, civilians, torture, as we've known this week? I don't know the answer. And I do not, for the life of me, see why there should be an ambassador to Russia, setting an Ireland, to do what? To do what? Yeah, I think that's kind of in the Godwin's law territory there, but just staying in this moment. I mean, we are supposedly neutral. We have Russian citizens here. We have Irish citizens in Russia. What is our advantage in expelling the Russian diplomat? Well, it is showing that we are not happy at all, at all with how Russia has been handling the situation and invading, elbowing out another country that they have absolutely no right to do. Being neutral is not what Ireland is. There's no point in saying we are, because we're right smack in the middle of allowing ourselves with every other country in the world who's not neutral. And as I heard Simon Coveney say this morning, Ireland is not neutral. They have taken a stand. They are pro-Ukrainian and they are anti-Russian. So we're not neutral. So that doesn't satisfy anyone. That we're not in NATO is another whole ballgame. And let's look very, very cynically at what happened when the Russian vessels were setting off the coast of Ireland and people were given out about it and paying little attention to thinking it's not too serious. And the fishermen coming in and being brought into the embassy and a piece saying, oh, don't worry, your fish won't be affected by this. And they came out saying, oh, we're quite happy. Now we know that the chances are that what they were doing were setting themselves up to look at how they could actually attack Europe. This is just prior before they actually invaded the other side of Europe, Ukraine. So they can't be trusted. And I, like Nia Glaney, might now end up on their list. So if I do, then I know they're listening to Ireland radio and anybody else that's going to be criticizing them. And I hope I don't care if I'm on the list. I'd actually, but wouldn't I be on the list? Yeah, I mean, it seems some politicians are wearing this a badge of honour. There's no need to tell the public you are, but people have decided to do so. And maybe they're playing with it too. And that is the level of importance they hold in. It's up to every individual to do what they want. I'm not criticizing anyone. Before it brings Suzanne in, though, your view is very different to that of Nia Glaney's. Nia, as Mary Hart's argument, changed your view at all? Not hasn't. Like I understand and know how they can't be trusted. But the point for me, and I understand people that have failed the way Mary does, the point for me is that once you decide to do that, there's no way back when you get a phone call from a loved one to say that my, from a constituent to say, my loved one is trapped in Russia. What do you do? Your hands are tied by your back at that stage. You don't have any inroads. You might say, well, sure, you have no chance of getting them back anyway, but if the lines of communication are open, there's some chance you start. I don't think the Russians pay one blind bit of attention to anything Ireland would say or anybody. They're paying enough attention to sanctioned 52 people, Mary. They're paying enough attention, yeah. I mean, they have kept, as we know, businessman in Russia and held up in a hotel. So having an embassy here and dealing with them diplomatically, that doesn't... Could I put another way, Mary? Could a party like this, I think it would actually suit Russia to have the embassies in Russia out of there because they're not trusting us either. And I think this is to make us move and expel the ambassador. I don't think he's that comfortable here at this stage. I would give them the opportunity to expel ours as well and similarly with other countries. And I don't think we should afford them that opportunity. So they're looking for Ireland to make the first move, then, is what you're saying. Suzanne, you've heard, Mary, and Niall's views there. What's your views? I would tend towards Niall's point of view. And I was just going to say that, you know, I think, look, there's nobody in the Kremlin that's too worried about what's going on in Ireland. We are militarily neutral. We're not politically neutral. And I think that's the point that has been made. Just in relation to that point before you go on to the wider point, though, is that not something you really would need to poll the general public on?  Is that not something that we really need to sort of know what the view of the public is? I mean, a lot of people would say, well, really, can I have a say in this? Do I have an opinion? Not to say that all of a sudden we've become anti-Ukrainian pro-Russia. I don't mean that. But what I'm saying is that, you know, I mean, I'm not sure anyone voted in the last election to give a government a mandate to make that statement as bold as it's been made. Well, I don't know. I mean, I'm quoting Neal Martin who's saying that. And Ireland's neutrality is something that we have guarded, albeit I don't know how seriously aligned to it we are insofar as we are politically not neutral. And I certainly haven't heard any dissenting voices in the support for Ukraine. So I suppose if you're taking a straw poll like that, it's reasonable to assume that the vast majority of people are happy enough with that situation. I don't think it's going to be an issue that's burning in people's minds and hearts at the minute. It just to go on to the wider point, you know, I think Neal is right. I think this is provocation to see whether we will throw out the ambassador here to allow Russia then to do exactly the same thing. And there's two things there. Of course, there are the Irish citizens who may be living in Russia and who need some degree of protection from the Irish government. And also we know that Russia is very news-hungry, information-hungry at all times. So to have those channels open there so that the temperature in Ireland can be taken, the political temperature can be taken and really back to Moscow, I think it's quite important as well. At the end of the day, I don't think it matters to Moscow what Ireland thinks particularly as we're not a member of NATO. So I would rather be in there. I think we should be in there. Seeing what's going on, having eyes and ears in Moscow, sorry, not in the ground, having eyes and ears in Moscow, acting on behalf of Irish people and also relaying back what Irish people think and what the temperature is. And we don't forget too, we've taken a huge number of Ukrainian refugees into Ireland. And so for that reason, I think we may have appeared on the radar. And yes, congratulations now for being on that list. It is being regarded as a badge of honour. We have so many Ukrainian refugees who are here and who need to know what the thinking is in Moscow as well. And we need to know what the thinking is. So I would not be in favour at this point. I think the impact of doing it would be negative to Ireland and would have absolutely no impact on the Kremlin whatsoever. Yeah, well, being negative to Ireland has nothing to do with anything because Ireland actually is as we all know has been accused of kind of sitting in the middle ground by the Ukrainian presidents and not actually doing a lot. We do a lot. We have Ukrainian refugees and a sizable number for the size of our country. However, do you not think that surely the embassy are watching every single Ukrainian refugees coming into Ireland following and finding out who they are so that whenever their families are in Russia or whenever they are in Ukraine, that they know exactly who has managed to get into Ireland and who they are. I mean, you'd be very, very naive to think they're not doing that. The staff are sitting there just reading the newspapers every day and being nice to each other and being nice to the Irish.  And for that reason, I don't see any reason why we should be allowing an embassy in Ireland to monitor us and watch us. Of course they're monitoring. Of course they're monitoring and of course they're doing it. And we can't stop that. And no matter where those refugees went, that would be happening. We can't stop that. But Ireland is punching above its weight in terms of taking people in and making provision for those refugees. I'm very proud of that. We are politically neutral, not military neutral. So there's not much else we can to accept open our doors and make people welcome. We know that they're going to be mine. We're militarily neutral only if not threatened or under attack. And also when it suits us, we did, of course, allow a corridor across South Donegal during the Second World War to make it easier for bombers and what happened. So I mean, we are kind of alacart in terms of our neutrality. Nile, obviously, I think that the strategy as well in selecting the politicians was to sort of not really go after the opposition as such, but go more towards the government parties with a hope, presumably, that in some way would sow some sort of a debate whereby the opposition could be seen as pro-Russian and the government parties as anti-Russian. I mean, there is an element of that. There is a strategy to do that as well. But it seems that no one's taken the bait on that one. Yeah, I suppose it's to have the most impact on the government. I think that's what it was designed to do because the government would be taking the decision at the end of the day. And yeah, it hasn't worked and it shouldn't work. As I said earlier, I think it's time for camheads and to be smart about it. And I get what Mary is saying. You know, you might be able to do very much if somebody is trapped over there. But, you know, when you're sitting on this island, your loved one's over there, at least having some form of communication is a major comfort and you can't underestimate what it means to people to have that, even though we're talking about a very small number of Irish citizens, it's still very comforting. OK, the voice there of Senator Nile Blaney. You're also hearing from Mary Hart, Broadcaster and journalist Ann Suzanne Rogers, a journalism course director at Northwest Regional College. The Ninetyl Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. Fury as Irish beef prices lag behind South America. In this week's Irish Farmers Journal, factories come under pressure to lift beef prices ahead of World Cup demand. Farmers banned from burning bushes in 2023. 50,000 euro grant to refurbish derelict houses opens. 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Just curious, Suzanne, as a journalism course director at Northwest Regional College, what are you telling your students now about the future of journalism and the public are making their own choices as to where to source their information? Well, there's no doubt at all. There's been a huge change in journalism over the past, even 10, 15 years in certain, since I started all those years ago when the Derrigal people hadn't gone on news. I tell my students, I used to, for my sins, cover Lederkenning Urban District Council for many years. That council meeting would have been on a Monday night and the first people would have known about it really of what had happened would have been on Thursday. When the Derrigal people hadn't gone on news came out. Now it's instantaneous. I mean, Highland Radio itself, because I worked in Highland, was a huge part of that as well, because reporters would have been going to the meeting on the Monday night and it would have been the headlines on the Tuesday morning. So that was part of that sea change. It's been huge. Can I just add something there, though, you see? And this is why certain types of journalism, I think like regional journalism, local journalism, because I can tell you for a fact right now, if you hadn't gone to that, even if it was last Monday, if you hadn't gone to the Urban District Council meeting or whatever it was called, I can't remember off the time. No one would have been tweeting about it. No. Do you know what I mean? Even now, like, do you know what I'm saying? So... Yeah, I mean, there has been a huge change and the significant shift in journalism has been towards, I suppose, journalists finding their own stories, creating their own stories, doing their own investigation. So I think to that extent, it's been good because there's no new news. Anything that happens now is almost instantly on Twitter, whether it's true or not. And that's another issue. But I think the change that has been in journalism is that journalists are being tasked now to think about what the issues are to go and investigate those issues and to highlight those as well because it's a different story. It's a new story. It's not something that everybody has. And that's been a good thing. I mean, there have been positive things as well. We've seen the rise of the citizen journalism. And for a while, that was where it was actually... You didn't need reporters anymore. You didn't need journalists because we were all telling each other everything that was going on anyway. Of course, that's been hugely discredited because of false stories being out there and people are starting to be sued for things that they've said and done. So I'm seeing that there's going to be a return to that. Interestingly as well, we're seeing a return to long-form journalism as well. Those newspapers, and everybody's concerned about the future of newspapers, but those newspapers that are concentrating on long-form ways to call features, in other words, taking an issue and really shaking it out and talking to people about it and doing some analysis, those are doing much better than the ones that are trying to compete by doing the short, short stories. I think too, anyone who wants to know how to run a newspaper successful newspaper needs to look at the Irish Farmers Journal. Pick your subject, be accurate, be detailed, have a lot of information, and you have 380,000 readers a week. The audience is there if the product is right. Mary, obviously you've been involved in journalism for a long time. I think one of the concerns I have is, and I see it more and more now, is mainstream journalists who are supposed to be the reliable sources competing with Twitter to try and be first. A perfect example was the rockets landing in Poland today. Journalists, national journalists, very quickly saying, uh-oh, Russian missiles into Poland. This is going to be very interesting now. You know what I mean? It was very easy to check that information, and very early on it was very clear that something had gone awry here with either defence systems or in fact Ukrainian missiles. Sometimes I think journalism can be its own worst enemy, the mainstream journalism. I think it's the instantaneous situation that has caused obviously things to stop being cross-checked and verified. I mean, I go back, like Suzanne, I go back to when there was no local radio in Ireland, only pirate radio stations and the only legitimate local radio stations in Ireland was in Derry and Radio 4 where I went to work. In the mid-80s, the only other was RT. So there was absolutely no competition, let's say, for instance, in Ireland in terms of, you know, who got to the news first. The pirate stations were obviously eventually all legitimised and we saw then Ireland Radio come on air, which has been an excellent... We don't have to say that, but we have to make sure people are aware that there has been an excellent source of news locally and nationally. I am one who will argue as hard as I can for strong journalism and for cross-checking facts. I don't do Twitter. I never have. I don't like it. I don't get it. I know that I will be proven right, that it has been a complete... Too many people got involved in it. It's not reliable whatsoever, as you say. You know, I argued as well working within BBC that organisations like the BBC who were funded by licence fees and nothing else that they should not have got into the game of getting numbers rather than doing it properly, checking the news and being correct and being truthful and balanced. And that's what's gone out with all of these social media platforms.  They've been told you'd be working, you know, almost 24-7. And if you don't like it, get out. And I think most of them are getting out but they won't get out, obviously, without having a big argument with Twitter and I think Google and Facebook were all going to be the ones down the same road. We just see a sea change. I think now is the time for people like Suzanne who are in a position that they can guide journalists properly into the workforce and into the environment. You know, I think the traditional platforms such as print media and proper radio stations like Highland will come out into their own and eventually people will say, well, look, you know what, that's where we go to get our news. I think that is what's happening. But do you think, do you think that people generally do go to the news? Sorry, Mary, there's a slight delay in the line before Brigham Island though. Do you think that though in the race to compete with the likes of social media, we do have a, we have a, to some extent a bias media in Ireland now. I mean, you can tell the leaning of particular paper dependent on which paper you pick up. You know, one minute you look at a byline under a newspaper headline, a national newspaper headline particularly. And the next time you hear the name, they're working for, you know, Fina Gale or Fina Fall. That's always been the case. Nothing new in that, it's totally the case. You know, I work with the Irish press who was in a fall newspaper and my grandparents would have turned in their grave if they hadn't known that I was working with the Irish press and devil air and newspaper, which was wouldn't have been allowed to a Fina Gale house. So they, and they're dependent and always seen as the, you know, the Fina Gale newspaper. The Irish Times was the proper newspaper, like, but you know, it's always going to be like that.  Sorry, go ahead, Suzanne. Sorry, no, I'm just going to say, just as an aside, years ago in Zonic all there were two journalists who worked for two rival papers, but they actually lodged in the same place and they only worked half a week each. Now this is the story because they gave each other a copy of whatever event they were out covering, knowing full well that the people who read one paper weren't going to read the other paper so they were never caught out. So that was always the story. But I think it's important to say, look, the genius out of the bag, there is no way that we're getting rid of Twitter or anything else at this point. And what we have to do is manage that and the journalists have to make what use they can of it because it is a good source of stories and it can be a good way.  I think that's too good to say that. That's not all they're doing. That's exactly what happens. With all the biggest story in Britain this year has been Liz Trost's mini-budget and has been the whole confusion over politics over there. I watched, because I watched a lot of news, they were standing there reading Twitter off their phone. I'm just saying if I were educating students, right, I would try and be moving them away from that. But anyway, but anyway, maybe it's a sweeping statement. You can't ignore it. It's there. It's a tool to be used. It's another tool in the armory to be used. And it's a good way of saying what is of concern to people, what people are interested in and what they're worried about. And as journalists, that's what we've always wanted to know. Well, we don't know what the future of Twitter is because they've locked all of their staff out of all of their premises across the world at the moment. So they're operating a service to 250 million people with no staff on site. So it should be an interesting couple of days. Now, Blaine, yours is... I don't think it's going to be around for much longer. That's my view of Twitter. Something else is going to come in to take over in that whole role. Yeah, I don't know. I just... TikTok is what you're looking for. TikTok is where it's at. TikTok is where the influence is happening. It's on TikTok. And it's a... But it's also showing me that. TikTok is firm. TikTok is terribly addictive. Now, Blaine, I'm not sure how big your TikTok following is or your social media following that matter. Do you like to keep it safe on Facebook, do you? Yeah, well, I try to keep it relevant as much as I can. Greg and Thorne and Adelaide, peace here and there along the way. I suppose I notice your efforts in TikTok has been a young person's platform. You threw yourself on there, but I won't comment on that. Oh, yeah. No problems. I've been right into their demographic. I do have an alien relation to Twitter, actually. I think Twitter has gone quite toxic. And I would agree. It probably could be very easy taken over by a similar new platform. And I wouldn't be surprised if that happens because the direction at the moment at the top in relation to the ownership of Twitter is all over the place. And you would fear that it's gonna end on a bad platform. But moreover, I think that the one thing that we have to do for the next generations is ensure that journalism is protected to the very last to ensure that we do have independent journalists across the board that can go out there and write articles with fear or favor. That's a fundamental principle of our democracy. And I'll make that continue. There are times that you do talk to the odd journalist that does have a fear of writing certain articles. And I think that's sad. And maybe we need to do more to protect people that are in that position and feel that way. But moreover, social media has buttoned news to a whole different level because nowadays, there's a feed for every minute of the day. And you wonder what the evolving of time will that stand to test the time? Because nowadays, everything is an awful rush. Suddenly, with our news stories. But even within social media, you might have, say, for instance, used to the Donald Trump example, he just created his own social media when he didn't like what was going on on another social media. And that's fine. He's got his money and resources to do it. But really what it is is that people want to operate in a space now where they are just patted on the back, elevated, people who agree with them. There's no debate or discourse on social media. You have your view, I have mine. We'll back and forth for two or three minutes. You'll call me a name. I'll call you a name. And then I'll block you and we'll never see each other again. And then I'll just end up surrounded by people who nod and agree with everything I say. I try and avoid that, but that's what social media is. You end up surrounded by like-minded individuals. There's no room for growth or debate there. But what you said there, you've just hit the nail on the head in relation to Donald Trump. Somebody can come along with money and dictate the news of tomorrow. And that's not good for democracy. And I don't know how we change that, but it's something that I'd like to see changed in the future and evolve, you know. All right, call us. Simon Cove, Neil Mary Hart on your panel. Doesn't speak for me or my children. Our neutrality is in the constitution. Well, it's not really actually, to be honest with you. They've no right to say otherwise.  Putin must have a right giggle every time they speak. The smart politicians in Europe are only using Ireland. I wish Leo Simon and the likes would stop talking about Russia now. It's embarrassing, but I mean, but as I say, just we aren't constitutionally neutral. If it was America invading Ukraine, it would be a different story on media. America and the Great and so on, but because it's Russia, it's all one-sided. We're talking about journalism there and in relation to that, Cezanne. You know, like we are all obviously very motivated and involved in choosing the right side of history with Ukraine, but we all do and media in particular do ignore what's happening in other parts of the world, just because it's bad Russia and the worlds against them were behind that, but what's happening in other parts of this world to other people that are backed by the likes of the United States and others. And we turn a blind eye to that. I mean, if journalism was going to be truly of the people fair and honest, they would give equal platform, would they not to equal situations? But that doesn't simply happen. And that point has been made and it's been made repeatedly, you know, that if you're white and from Europe, then you're going to get a lot more column inches and a lot more air time than if you're in a sub-Saharan country where climate change is... Is it really about the victim or is it about the perpetrator? I mean, look what Israel does. And yet, you know, that's fine. Supplied in weapons, buy their stuff. That's fine, you know, but if it's Russia that's doing it, well, then that's bad. Well, you know, it comes back to, I suppose, ownership as well. And we know too that a lot of the big media outlets are in the hands of a small group of people. And I suppose it brings me right back to the social media thing again, as far as that there is a role for that in highlighting those things. And just exactly what you've said there, some of the atrocities in Palestine would never have seen the light of day if it hadn't been for things like social media and people reporting on those. And the likes of Storyful, who do a fantastic job in highlighting some of those issues. But media doesn't exist in a bubble. We are, journalism is not something ethereal and out there and somehow above society. We are part of society. And we are subject to the same influences, biases and controls that the rest of society has as well. What we can do as individual journalists is to try and fight against that and try and shine that light. And yes, you're right, it is about the perpetrators, but think about who are the major owners of the big companies, the big media companies, the broadcast outlets, the journalism outlets, that can be an issue there. And okay, you can talk about the likes of the BBC and I do have to just interject as well and say, don't forget Rady and the Gail took that at a time when there wasn't anything else there and it was Radio Foyle and it was RT, but Rady and the Gail took that, they were doing a sterling job at the same time. So you can't think of media and journalism as being separate from society. It's subjected to the same biases, prejudices, influences and controls as the rest of society. And I suppose for... You're making a really good argument for social media there. That's what I'm hearing, I'll be honest with you because if you want to avoid what you're talking of, you go to social media and you'll get that. That's for all of its flaws. I think you need both because social media and I agree with you, it's an echo chamber. I have to be honest because of my work, I hate it. I think Twitter is absolutely toxic and I am a little bit of a TikTok addict, I have to say. But I think it's about checks and balances. It's about issues being raised that need to be raised. And also, I think it's no bad thing in so far as newspapers, broadcasters and all the rest of it are afraid of not being relevant anymore. So they have to at times take on issues that have been raised through social media and then run with them and just looking at something this morning and not get into it because it's legally fraught. But the activities of a particular person which have been highlighted totally on social media and I just see today that it's broken in the Daily Mail, it's highlighting as well. I know that sounds very cryptic. No, I don't know the story but I'm interested in it. Just 30 seconds, Marie-Feuille, so I just want to use a bit of hypocrisy in terms of what the media can be outraged by. Yeah, I mean, bear in mind social media, it's in the word social, it should always have been for social purposes and not for any other reason but it has developed into becoming a news platform, not for any good reasons but for bad reasons because people, I mean, what I say to people is you just think that a lot of the gossip and the conversations and the toxic comments are what you would hear from people that you would never mix with but you do actually hear it because they're on social media because you wouldn't give them the time of day and their arguments at the time of day but like you look at Brexit and you look at Donald Trump getting elected and that has been the work of Facebook and social media platforms being manipulated as they have always been propaganda tools, they are propaganda tools for those who use them. Mary Hart, thank you so much for your time as always. I really appreciate it. Take care of yourself. Suzanne Rogers, it's been a pleasure. Thank you for your time. Hopefully we'll have you back on the program in the not too distant future. And last but not least, Senator Nal Blaney, thanks for your time as well today. Please look after yourself. All right, we'll be back with more after the news and obituary notices. The 9 till noon show with letter Kenny Credit Union. Do you need to switch your Ulster Bank loan or overdraft? We are now offering competitive low-rate switcher loans and myCU current account with overdraft. True comfort food. What is that? Food you can enjoy a bit more because you know you can trust it. Like pork and bacon with the board beer quality mark. It's reassuring to know someone's always out there inspecting how it's produced and where it comes from. So you can enjoy a tasty rasher sandwich, a carbonara or delicious roast pork. Always choose pork and bacon with the board beer quality mark for the highest standards verified at every stage. And for recipes, visit boardbeer.ie forward slash pork and bacon. 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The man on trial accused of the murder of Bunkrana woman, Danielle McLaughlin, in Goa in March 2017 has been granted bail. Vikat Bagat has been in custody since 2017 and was subsequently charged with Danielle's murder. His trial has been ongoing now for four years. Earlier this week, he was denied bail following the death of his father, but the High Court has now granted bail on humanitarian grounds, allowing him to attend and to perform the last rites of his father on next Friday and Saturday, November 25th and 26th. There's a security alert in Straban this morning. Police say they're in attendance in the Mount Carmel Heights area. The road is closed, motorists are advised to avoid the area if possible. As of now, no homes have been evacuated. A Domegol senator says he doesn't believe expelling the Russian ambassador would be the right thing to do after over 50 Irish politicians were banned from entering Russia this week. Senator Neil Blaney told Greg Hughes on today's Nine Till Noon Show that a retaliatory expulsion of the Irish ambassador in Moscow would leave Irish citizens there without representation. He also confirmed that he is one of those on the ban list. I got a call last night, Greg, from the Department of Foreign Affairs to inform me that I was on. I had a right to chuckle at it, to say the least. What did he do to upset the Russians now? Not very much. I stood alongside the Ukrainian ambassador and I spoke up on it back earlier this year. This was about a two. A West Domegol councillor says if safety measures are not put in place to slow down traffic in Lahonyur, there could be a tragedy. Councillor Mihoch, Colin McAllister, is urging Domegol County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland to ensure traffic calming measures are implemented on the main street. He says recent road improvements have led to increased speed. And Councillor Mihoch Asbuk says local residents are justifiably concerned. The community there would talk to me on a very regular basis about the concerns in terms of the speed going through Lahonyur. Unfortunately, but fortunately in the sense that we have a new road there and a good cover on the road, and that increases the speed through the village, but we need to get measures into the village to slow traffic right down. It is unfair on the people of Lahonyur to have to be scared as there are wits every time that they're out walking, or the kids are walking to anywhere in the village and fear of an engulfment. National Broadband Ireland says over 3,000 premises in the wider letterkenny area can now order or pre-order broadband on the National Broadband Ireland network. The company says the NBI network is now live in Letterkenny with 3,036 premises eligible. With more, here's Donymarie Doherty. Over 33,000 premises are included in the state's intervention area, which will see National Broadband Ireland deliver minimum speeds of 500 megabits per second to homes, businesses, farms, and schools. In total, Donegal is set to receive 128 million euro of government investment under the National Broadband Plan. National Broadband Ireland does not sell fibre broadband directly to end users, but makes its service available to all broadband providers. Chrysler will be the next area to be connected with summer of next year the anticipated completion date. Most areas of Donegal will not be connected until 2026. More details on our website, highlandradio.com. A public campaign on the dangers of spiking would both raise awareness of the offence and also awareness of the punishment that's carried with it. That's according to junior minister, Jussie from Madigan. Spiking someone's drinks or by needle can result in a three-year prison term of the 147 reported incidents of spiking nationally since January of last year. 60 were needle related while 66 were drink related. Junior minister Madigan says it's vital that people keep an eye out for spiking, particularly as people celebrate over Christmas and New Year. It's really important that we have an information campaign that could encourage vigilance among people working in the nightlife industry in regards to Shikone and the general public of the dangers and the signs of spiking. So some of the signs would be somebody might be unusually drunk, their vision might be blurred, or they feel dizzy or nauseous, they might have difficulty speaking or keeping their balance. Mostly dry and bright today, according to Math Air, and some good sunny spells, particularly in the afternoon with top temperatures of seven to nine degrees Celsius, moderate to fresh west to northwest breezes. And that's how the radio news were back with news headlines again at 12 noon until then from the news team have a very good morning. The Abitri notices for this Friday morning, the 18th of November. The death has taken place of John Moore Sr., the Gleeb Clooney Portnou. His remains will repose at Shovelland's Funeral Home Sandfield this evening from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., followed by private removal to his residence. Funeral from there on tomorrow, Saturday afternoon at quarter past one, traveling via Castle Golden Beach to St. Connell's Church Kilcluney for two o'clock Requiem Mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. House private to family and friends, please. The death has taken place of Willie Dixon, Balina Hone Fawn. Willie's remains are reposing at Liam and Theresa Dixon's home, Balina Hone Fawn. Funeral from there tomorrow afternoon at half past one for two o'clock funeral service in St. Murris Parish Church Fawn in term and afterwards in the adjoining church yard. The death has taken place of Desmond McGioghan, Chirna League current owner. Removal from Liam Cullen's funeral premises, Cull Daff this afternoon at one o'clock, going to his cousin Patrick Cullen's home at Letcher Cull Daff. Funeral from there tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for funeral mass in Sacred Heart Church current owner at 11, traveling via Chirna League with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Donations in Louis Flores to the Donegal Hospice care of any family member. Desmond's funeral mass can be viewed live on cardonaparish.com. The death has taken place of Mary Frances Brennan, Bayonne, New Jersey and Mina Cross Dunlow. Funeral mass will take place in St. Mary Star of the Seachurch, Bayonne, New Jersey at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time today. The death has occurred of John the Moss Carr, Dormore Fanad. John's remains are reposing at his nephew Pat's home at Dormore. Removal from there at half past two tomorrow afternoon, arriving at St. Mary's Church, Fanavolte for three o'clock requiem mass followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard. The requiem mass can be viewed live via the St. Mary's Fanavolte and St. Columbus Mass Mount Facebook page. The death has taken place of Philomena McLoone, Birdstown Ballantrate, Lifford. Philomena's remains will repose at her late residence from 12 noon until 10 p.m. today. Family, close friends and neighbors, welcome with House Private Pleas on the morning of the funeral. Funeral from there tomorrow morning at 22.11 going to St. Patrick's Church, Murlach for 11 o'clock requiem mass which can be viewed on clonalaparish.com. Family fires only please. Private cremation will take place later. The death has taken place of Hugh Donahue, Kleena Bally-McGann. Funeral from McLoone's funeral home this morning at quarter past 10 going to St. Mary's Church, Cockhill for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. The death has occurred of Brian O'Donnell Jr., late of five Riverside, Ardnagrenia, Stronauler, and Admiral. Funeral from Ardnagrenia this morning at half past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in the Church of Mary Macalote, Stronauler with cremation afterwards at Lakeland's crematorium Cavern at three o'clock. Requiem mass will be streamed live via the parish webcam. Family fires only please. The death has taken place of Fidel McGonagher, Railway Road, Stronauler. Fidelma's remains will repose at the family home on Main Street today from 12 midday to 10 p.m. with family, friends, and neighbors welcome. Family time please at all other times and before the funeral. Massive the resurrection in the Church of Mary Macalote, Stronauler at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning with interment afterwards in Drumbo Cemetery. Donations in lieu of flowers if desired to a charity of your choice, care of any family member or Martin McGowan, McGowan's funeral home. Requiem mass will be streamed live on the parish webcam. For more details, including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals, please go to highlandradio.com. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook, and at highlandradio.com. All right, Seamus Gones going to be joining us shortly, answering your legal questions. And later on, Michael and Finula will be in with us for that entertainment after 11 and also between 11 and 12. We've got a really exciting announcement as it relates to Highland Radio's mega-car draw. So stay tuned for that. You won't want to miss it. Thank you so much for all of you texting in. I had a little bit of a chuckle to myself today because loads of people have booked their tickets to Qatar and they're going to watch the World Cup and English fans and other types of fans and what have you. And they were supposed to be allowed to drink booze within a certain radius of the football stadiums. Qatar today have banned all drinking at the World Cup. So really quite clever. They've got everyone to book their tickets, make their plans. Many people would have gone thinking, right, well, we can have a drink when we're over there. But they have banned boozing around the football grounds. Really interesting that. It'll be the first time a lot of people from a lot of countries will have watched a game so bro would say. A caller says, can the Irish people expel some of our politicians out of our own country? It'd be great, okay. Time to think about polling affiliation to Ukraine when their president is still out trying to spin the lie that it was a Russian missile. When it was clearly a Ukrainian missile, he can't be trusted. I don't think whether or not you can trust someone or not pivots on this. He says he's sticking with what his generals had to say. I think it was a Russian made missile. However it ended up landing in Poland. I don't know, but I don't think one instant really is, would be the catalyst for changing whole policy. Would it? I don't know. I think no matter what Russia does, we should keep the diplomatic channels open, says this caller and their officials here. Unless of course they're videoed singing, ooh, ah, up the rah. Then definitely they have to go. Another, ignore Putin, he's evil. He purposely stirs things up to use Ireland as a launching pad. Another, perhaps you could inform your guests through the comment on the Nazis and German ambassador during World War II. Not only were the German diplomats permitted to continue to operate, but de Valera donned his top hat and tails and marched off to the German embassy to office his condolences on the death of Hitler, the only world leader to do so. RTDs have forgotten Ireland is a neutral country and if we are hit by Russia, then any damage or deaths will be on their heads. What about the wars in the countries that have been going on for years? No media coverage. It's all Russia, Russia, Russia.  It's not a particularly nice country. There never really has been. And I don't really think they're very welcoming of people at the moment, even if they claim to be supporters of theirs. That being said, to our proximity to Britain is our greatest danger. I can't imagine Russia taking any interest in targeting us directly. Another caller says we're not neutral anymore because we've weak men leading our country. Lab dogs, we are to Europe, these weak men want more power and to bring our young people to war. Shame on them. Hi, Greg, they're talking about trusting Russia. What about the missile in Poland? You tried to brain Russia without checking it, came from Ukraine. That happened on social media primarily. I never saw much traditional media coverage of it being a Russian attack on Ukraine, sorry, on Poland. That is, that's where I saw it being spun like that on Twitter, but that being said, it also was journalists from mainstream media in inverted commas that were actually spreading that. And as I said, I tweeted very soon afterwards, pretty much exactly what it turned out to be. There's a rush to be first.  A caller says, now Blaney's right about keeping the doors open regarding Russia was supposed to be a neutral country and the only way we can help is to try to be in a position to facilitate peace talks. You don't fight fire with fire. I worry about our young people who might be forced to face a sure death in a futile war. I don't agree with Mary, she thinks full steam ahead regardless of who you squashed in the process. It's okay. That's probably not what Mary meant, but that's what you took from her comments. Another caller says, it would be no bad thing if the Russians lifted most of the politicians here and took them all off for a few years. Maybe it would waken them up a bit. Another Nile is on the list because he jumped on the populace siding with Ukraine. He picked a so-called democratic country yet asked his where the opposition leaders, they are in prison, real democratic. There are some people really, I don't know if they always had, but certainly appear to have a really a purer view of Ukraine, which we're seeing more of now. Wake up, Mary Hart, during what? I've read that one already. Thank you. Hi, Greg. Nile Blaney mentioned about standing side by side the Ukrainian ambassador, but his brother, Liam, is totally against housing these poor Ukrainian women and children fleeing their country and homes in fear of their lives. It's big to come on your show, Greg, and say he's standing side by side with people, and it's just totally not true. Great show, thank you. First thing, this is one thing I'm really passionate about. You're not your brother's keeper, okay? So whatever, just because you happen to be related to someone, it doesn't mean you have to defend them or justify their comments or whatever. Also, I think you've probably gone a little bit too far in your assertion of Liam Blaney's opinions. He says that we're kind of full here. We don't have the services. It needs to be reviewed. We need to make sure that these people are living in appropriate accommodation. But I understand what you've taken from his comments, but I've interviewed him a couple of times. That's the point he's trying to get across. But again, I just have to say, just because you're related to someone, it doesn't mean everyone's an individual in my view anyway. Ukraine just bombed Poland and the Ukraine president knew it, yet pushed the NATO action and is still pretending it's a Russian missile. Surely he should be punished for bombing at the bombing of a NATO country. I think the general consensus is that he didn't bomb a NATO country, but their air defense is strayed into Poland. I think we should keep quiet and hope things will settle down. They have to settle down or they will escalate. I mean, there's only one way, there's two ways this can go. The likelihood is they will use the winter, the slowdown in winter, because of course the conditions are absolutely brutal over there. They'll use that as an opportunity to try and come up with some diplomatic solution to this all the other way. It blows up into something that none of us will be saved from. A caller says there's a huge amount of state-owned property-lined derelict that could be done up as accommodation for people in need. Can you ask Nile why the sudden interest in proving the cause of deleterious materials when let's face it, IS-465 was put into place by government via a desktop study and refusal of plea legislative study. Surely it's worst case scenario where houses should be granted option one until proof otherwise is established by government. Good morning, Greg. He's talking about Nazi Germany. The neo-Nazis are fighting for Ukraine. What is this woman on about? They have a neo-Nazi army wing. She leads with her feelings, not facts. Right, okay. Everyone has facts, don't they? And the truth lies somewhere in between. Last November, Senator Blaney praised the new scheme in the Shannad Slam. Those who criticize it now, he hopes more money is made available. Another, just before we take the bingo numbers, Greg, the difference between a modular home and a mobile home, the cost of a modular home is 50 grand. A decent mobile home would cost 15 grand. A modular home is permanent. A mobile home is semi-permanent. Modular homes are stronger built homes last a lifetime. Thanks, Greg, Marianne. Look, anyone who has sheds, modular home is like precast. It's got a floor, it's got four walls, right? Maybe it has internal walls, insulation, sink, beds, chair, electricity, roof, heating. Mobile homes offer kind of the same, right? But I mean, it's a very different, it's a very different type of accommodation. I lived in a mobile home for a long time, back in the day in building the house, you know, the way people used to do that. I know what it's like, it's not pleasant at times. Maybe the more modern homes are warmer, I don't know. But a mobile home in winter would not be as an attractive proposition to me as a modular home, which can be taken down and moved elsewhere. But this seemed to, across the panel, not across the panel, but certainly, well, maybe it was across the panel, seemed to think that they weren't a good idea. I wobbled a bit at the beginning about that as a solution, but to be honest with you, speaking to people that it would benefit, they changed my mind. They made me think, right, okay, I don't know enough to have that opinion. My opinion has been changed. 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Now, what has happened, I'm not quite sure we're getting cheaper insurance premiums, is we are seeing the profits of motor insurers rise to a record 176 million euro in 2021. So, Joffy, what's going on there? Yeah, I think this is one that's going to be commented on by many in the coming weeks, and it deserves to be, because for a number of years now, since the introduction of the Personal Injury Assessment Board, and that act came in in 2003, and it was then implemented the following year, the Personal Injury System has been regulated by that. It has been updated by way of books of quantum to give guidelines on the awards that should be made for victims that are involved in accidents and are entitled to compensation. And for a long time, we have been hearing from insurance companies in particular, the insurance federation and the representatives that it is the cost of claims that was linked to the premiums that we were all having to pay, and year on year, they were increasing and that's well enough documented. Not as well highlighted is the fact that year on year, the profits of insurance companies have also been increasing. So the two just don't really marry. And this is quite interesting, and this report only came out as that you've mentioned there during the week, but the backdrop is that about a week or 10 days earlier was the minister, the response of minister Calary, came out with a great announcement that PIAB, that the new Personal Injury Guidelines were being implemented to such an extent that awards were dropping quite drastically up to 44%. The actual payouts, that was what was coming from PIAB as a result of the introduction of the new judicial guidelines, which came in on April 2021. So we always ourselves and lawyers and people who have been sort of observing this and dealing in the industry have wondered as to why the profits cannot be passed on and the savings to the actual consumer, you and me. Now, to further assist this, there's a new piece of legislation in the pipeline called the Person Injuries Resolution Bill to give further powers to PIAB. So it seems that the unfortunate person who's being penalized here is the victim, the person who's entitled to compensation through no fault of their own and to reason with compensation for the injuries or damages they have sustained as a result of somebody else's negligence. But on the other side of that, at some stage, somebody's going to have to step up the plate and inquire from the insurance company, how come that the average premium last year was 23% higher from compared to 2009? So premiums are going up all the time. Claims have actually come very far down from 2009 and yet premiums continue to escalate. Yeah, but what's happening is then is... What is passed on last year just finally in 2021, there's been across the board a decrease, it has said, of 2% on the cost of a premium and that's as much as the consumer is getting and you'll remember also just as a passing comment during COVID, if we look at the road traffic situation, thankfully there was an awful lot less accidents. So there was bumper profits to be made there because there was nobody on the roads and there was thankfully again very few accidents or casualties arising out of that. But it doesn't seem to be addressed in the same manner that for so long they were addressing the type of awards that were being handed out and they were saying that this was the result of the premiums and I just believe that does not ring true. Yeah, and it's almost as if we're being expected to pat government ministers on the back for further lining the pockets of insurance companies. Like they're actually looking for credit for just boosting their profits off the back of victims, as you mentioned, and as you say, there's very little benefit to the person renewing their policy. Well, there isn't any... Greg, if you just... Any of us look at our policies over the last few years, I can't remember ever seeing a decrease in it, certainly in relation to occupiers, public liability, et cetera, they've gone through the roof over the past number of years. There's that, I mean, it's there to be seen. Everyone nearly has experience of it, anyone in particular in business who was nearly out of business because of the crippling costs of having to get public liability insurance on their premises. But yet you read these headlines and they speak for themselves, operating profits for 2021, time to 176 million, up five years in the previous year, which were up on the previous year and the previous year. And yet the premiums, they're making these profits, they're not being handed back. They've been given every assistance by government to cap awards. They weren't satisfied with the first book of quantum. They got another book of quantum and then they got the judicial guidelines in last April and now there's a new resolution bill to give further powers to pay up, to hold on to cases for longer to be able to check, to be able to assess psychological type impact on victims, which they used to have to, to immediately issue an authorization on and to retain a citizen of a case or a claim for beyond the nine months period for which they're statutorily obliged to assess it. So they're getting all these assists as it were, but it's the person, the consumer who's been, first of all, had been hit by heavier premiums and the victims whose damages are being reduced. Yeah, can I just, I like to put things into context for myself in my own head. And it helps me understand precisely or not precisely what's going on here. Now it's probably not even, maybe it's conflation. I don't know because I'm comparing one thing that's very different to another really, but let's just put it like this. We have a very, very small country, the size of a city in Britain, for an example. It's a small population and we have insurance companies making 176 million in 2021 just as a comparison. Little in the entirety of Britain and Northern Ireland last year made profits of 41 million. Now fair play to them. They quadrupled them from about 9 million, 9.7 million the year before, but you have, it could have been Aldi, I always mix them up, my apologies. But my point being is, is you've got a major retailer like that there, very happy to make 41 million euro over a year over a population in England alone, I think of 65 million. And yet we have companies here off our backs, a very small population, and when you weed out children and older people and those not in business, the amount of people that are making this money off the back of, it's absolutely scandalous. Yeah, yeah, well, I think for a change where we're on the same page and this one, Greg, it is a novelty, I'm sure it won't continue. But the size, yeah, the population is a reasonable point. The comparison is reasonable. The greater Manchester area is about the same population of the Republic of Ireland. That's just what we're talking about here. So if it's just entirely disproportionate, you'd also question the competition in the market. The difficulty for if you're in business getting quotes from alternative operators, if you're looking for public liability or if you have a history of unfortunately of having a claim and the loading that goes on you, how you're penalized, how you have to try to come to terms with that, to keep a business going, to keep staff employed, it's penal. And then to think at the back of it all then, if you are unfortunate enough to be a victim and entitled to reasonable compensation, that you're now going to be capped on that as well and still paying through the roof for your premium. And during the COVID, I think that did you receive a 25 or 30-year-old back for- A 30-year-old dunce, super values, 30-year-old super value voucher. Yes, yes, yes, that's right, yeah. Would you get more in any of the big supermarkets if you shop at them for a couple of days?  There's a 56% loading on motor insurance for anyone under 25. Just, there's no wiggle room on that, it's a 56% loading on anyone under 25, just simply to get on the road. And this is from same companies that are making 176 million euro per annum. Across the board, but that is not receiving the same attention nor being addressed in the same manner that they unfortunate people that are on the side of requiring compensation being entitled to it as a result of somebody else's negligence. The finger's been pointed elsewhere there and I would like to see a little more scrutiny on that rather than the sound bites that the minister comes out with saying awards are down 44%, et cetera. But where is that money going to? Is it coming back to the consumer? There's a lot of them have their doubts. Well, we know it's not because we know premiums are level or going up albeit marginally or down very slightly and the profits are going up. So I'm not very good with maths but I think I can work that one out. 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Let's start with a question about wills because of course Seamus, as you know, we get a lot of inquiries in that regard. If you're named in a will but aren't the executor, what are your entitlements regarding viewing the complete will? You're muted there, Seamus, sorry, if you don't mind just popping that off, good man. Yeah, yeah, this is a very common question actually in ways and sometimes it can give rise to some disharmony among beneficiaries who believe that because they're named in a will, they're entitled to see it all and see it nearly immediately after the passing of the individual who has put the arrangements in place. The point that you have to, I think that's very important to bear in mind, the executor, executors, whether single or plural, they're the person charged with the responsibility of dealing with the affairs of the deceased and that's an onerous enough responsibility but it's up to them to deal with the estate, to gather in the assets and to distribute the estate in accordance with the arrangements that are made. Now, those arrangements, the caller obviously is included in the arrangements. The party at the discretion of the executor, now I'm putting a little emphasis at the discretion but if the discretion does not favor disclosing the entire of the will, that's quite an order. It'll be my view that a beneficiary is entitled to see the part of the will that is relevant to them and relevant to them alone. It may be a family situation where the other approach may suit very well and it can often do for the sake of good relations within the family but if the executor or executor see fit, they are quite entitled to not disclose the remainder of the will but to inform the beneficiary of the quest left to them and in the terms in which it has been left to them and that is as much as they're obliged to do. They're then obliged to gather in the estate and to distribute it among those entitled and then to take in and obtain proper receipts to discharge them from their obligations and pay any debts but I think the aspect that's relevant to the beneficiary is what we're entitled to get. Just on Will Sheamus, I mean, how we deal with them changed over generations? Like, is there a better way? Because I mean, I think by their nature, there's always gonna be maybe upset or, not always, sorry, there's always the potential for upset or division or questions or what. Like, is there a better way? Are we stuck doing something an old fashioned traditional way? Because a lot of the language very much feels like that or is it the best? Is it like democracy or democracy? Is it the best of a bad bunch? It's a very interesting point to put out there in this context, you are putting that forward as a proposition from one living and maybe someday it'll be in a situation where it will affect you in some way, maybe a beneficiary, maybe appointed as an executive. What we can overlook as human nature is this, that it is the person who's passed away, it's their actual privilege to put whatever arrangements they see fit in place. And then the obligation falls on the party left there after, such as the executive to fulfill those obligations. And that's where it can get difficult because people naturally, human nature, what it is, may have expectations, may have had expectations of the deceased, may have been hopeful that the deceased may have remembered them in their will, et cetera. And that's where the disharmony can come in and that is unfortunate. But you have to divorce yourself from that and as it were, park that and consider what you're about here. You're not about trying to ameliorate some party's disappointment because they haven't inherited something from an estate. That's not your duty or anything, but your duty is to protect the wishes of the deceased and to discharge their estate as they wanted to do and to respect that throughout. And that's the difficulty. Is there a better system? If there is, and I don't know of it, I have thought about it, but I don't. But if you're asking about an improvement straight off the top of my head, I would have this suggestion. I've had it for some time, but it's fallen on many deaf ears. There should be a form of a central register nationally for wills, whereby if I make a will and we do make plenty of arrangements for people, that then I can key in and register that discretely as being that person has made arrangements and it's held by the firm of X, Y or Z. So that, like looking up something like RIP, the family can make an inquiry, go to a central national register to see that, oh, yes, there was a will made and even maybe the last date, nothing more than that, but there was and they can access that information so they can.  But that could be put in place, but the reason being this, it's very simple with the mobility of people nowadays, the world becoming so much smaller that even in this country, if somebody's living in Donegal and they're posted then to Dublin or whatever, may have made arrangements here and then they permanently live in Dublin, move on to car during their lifetime. It's very difficult to trace where they could have been with regard to a law firm who might have acted for them. Some people may have several law firms acted for them. And the name could have changed two or three times in the process too, depending on... All of that applies. And therefore, I think that it's folly and fooled hardly as to why this wouldn't be looked at as being a sensible approach because it would rule out the possibility of someone having arrangements made up in Donegal and further arrangements made somewhere else and then no one not knowing which is the last, which is the actual last will and test. And that situation has arisen too. And it would also relieve an awful lot of grief and anxiety for those ones that are bereaved. So to be able to know, to be able to be a bit of certainty and it's hard to beat that whenever you're dealing with these type of situations. That is the only point I can think of. But as far as making your arrangements, I think that there are paramount and to be respected and to be carried true and it's the deceased's wishes, not the wishes of the beneficiaries or the family or the next of kin that you have to observe. Understood. Could you ask Seamus, what's the situation regarding a divorce I had granted a couple of years ago and ownership of a family home? I have not received paper from the family law as regards to change of ownership to me. I've phoned family law regards Seamus and have no return call. Please can you advise me? And PS, I'm a senior citizen. Yeah. Communication is key in these situations, Greg. It's key in most and maybe nearly all professions and it's very helpful and it can eliminate an awful lot of problems. The individuals should obviously go back. They've said, they mentioned that it's the family law center. So if the case was adjudicated upon and they've said that it was and that a divorce was granted two years ago, there will have been an order drawn up by the court and they're entitled to get access to that order to see the terms of it and then to follow up on the terms and conditions of it. If one of them was a property adjustment order where one was to have the property transferred over that may have been incorporated in a direction to adjust the property registration, authority registration and will be lodged with them to change the ownership. That should be possible to be checked out. They have to really return now to the parties representing them in the actual action. The point about calls, et cetera. I'm not going to comment on that. It's a matter of them getting access to the order and then following through the terms and conditions of it, especially in a situation like this where it has already been adjudicated by the courts. Now, just in relation to that, because we're talking mentioning on the divorce situation on the family law, this week, it was great to see Minister McIntyre making an announcement that there's going to be a new family law court system to be introduced in the country, which probably is long overdue in that it will separate the family law division to some degree from the other workings of the court, such as criminal matters, civil matters, et cetera. It will probably set aside a particular day and a particular court room for dealing with that only. And it should be a little bit more user-friendly and to deal with more non-contentious family law matters. That's a very positive step. It will have its own presidents, such as the president of district court, circuit court, high court, et cetera. And the judges will be trained in the disciplines needed in order to deal with the sensitivities that arise in such family law matters. And probably what's key of most will be that the welfare and the interests of the child will be taken as completely paramount, which it should be and generally is, but that will be a big emphasis on that and it should be more user-friendly and have a specific court room of its own. And in the likes of Leonard County, where there's first-class facilities available, it'll be great to see that coming in. Yeah, for sure. If a separated lady has been on her own, living in the family home for over 30 years, but the ex-husband will not put house in her name, has she rights of ownership? Interesting, but what she says is contrary to what the last caller phoned in about in that she has already gone through the process and she hasn't actually finalized it yet. Well, she's got a divorce some two years ago, she's saying, and yet the property matter hasn't been followed true on. Here we have a situation where it seems that the parties have been estranged and living apart, one of them in the family home for upwards of 30 years, but it also, from what I gather, she hasn't taken any action to regularize this position at all. So has she got rights of ownership? She may very well have. I can't comment on that. I'm not sure what way the property is registered. Is it joint name, sole name, what equity is in it? But she's certainly there. She's there 30 years solely herself. She has definitely entitlements and probably a lot of equity. But what she will need to do is she will have to, if she's getting no cooperation on the she states she's not, she will now have to instruct her listeners to pursue the matter through the family law court to obtain, if she wants, judicial separation and divorce and then get what the last person was ringing in about, a property adjustment order to direct that property to be dealt with in the separation. And if there's an issue or if the other party is claiming an equity in it, well, they can put that before the court and it can then be decided. But that's the only way she's gonna actually get it into her own name as matters stand in relation as there is a family law background to it but she would want to start taking some action. So what is the suggestion then? As soon as a separation has happened and it's clear that that is going to be the long-term future, is it too uncomfortable as it might be for some and maybe not for others to sort of sort stuff out as soon as is possible, shame is, rather than trying to kick the can down the road. I mean, obviously, you'd always wanna leave maybe space for a reconciliation if that's relevant but if that is not going to be the case, you need to get all this stuff sorted as soon as possible, presumably? Yeah, yeah, and especially where there's family involved as well, you know, you do require final orders but you're hitting at something that is quite frustrating in that once the order is made it has to be followed through and implemented and the terms and conditions followed through to bring finality and certainty to where the parties are moving forward for their own sake and for the sake of any children that are in the family. So that's very important that it just doesn't stop at the door of the court when the order is made but that the orders are followed through and where there has been awful complications in recent years is where there are mortgages on properties which are held in joint names and the property is then to go into the name of one of the parties and then you have the involvement of financial institutions and that can give rise to having to go back to court for further directions. So it can become quite complex and they're better getting some advice on it from their representatives but the key to it is to follow through on the order. I just want to read this one while you're on the call before you go. It looks like higher claim payouts would provide more profits for the legal profession so maybe it's as broad as it's long. Yeah, that's a comment that we have heard before too and it has been trotted out as sort of ad nausea as well. I have a good idea of what prompts it and where it comes from but keep this in mind Greg that that point that's been made if fees and legal fees are being paid by insurance companies. It's the insurance companies are taking responsibility. There's no point in paying the piper and then complaining about the tune. It's they who are paying it and if they pay it they can defend these type of cases and put money into them. That's also their prerogative to do so but whenever the pay fees to people that are correctly entitled to them they can't come back afterwards and say they have a problem with that and that's what seems to be happening. All right, that's Seamus Gunn of McLaughlin Gunn and co-letter Kennean Remelton where the physical offices are also available to get in contact online. Seamus, how do people do that? Yes, yes Greg. Dunygoltslisters.ie or keep it simple gun.ie we're here to help. All right, look forward to chat to you again really soon, Seamus. It feels like a while since we spoke but maybe I was off for something. We just missed a couple of complications with a couple of Fridays there we both had I think. All right, okay, good stuff. I won't be very long. Definitely before Christmas. We'll not leave it as long. Thanks very much, Seamus. Seamus Gunn there, okay. Stay where you are. The Nine Till Noon Show with letter Kenne credit union. 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When we heard of the reopening, we contacted the local bus operator and were shocked to hear that they were now reverting back to all pickup points from this morning. They informed us that they were directed to do so by Boss Aaron and had no choice in the matter. I dropped off my children this morning. The area where the children are being collected is directly opposite where the explosion happened just six weeks ago to the day. Although there is a hoarding around the scene, part of the building is still clearly visible. There is an area near the bus where flowers have been left to commemorate the victims of the explosion. Certainly at least one of the children used in the bus was seriously injured on October 7th. And no doubt others have been traumatized considering the fact that two of their schoolmates were killed. Surely Boss Aaron could have found an alternative bus stop. Surely they should have considered the mental health of the school children. The schools have put every possible provision in place to help the children affected. Is this now going to be undone by a company with no empathy for children of the area? Hugh, thank you for that. Yes, of course the children, but it could be the bus driver. It could be the parents dropping off outside that site. So what I'm going to do is make some inquiries. We're gonna actually also touch base with the community representatives to see what they think as well, but also to contact Boss Aaron. This is the type of decision that should have been made in consultation with the local community. Was it or was it not? I don't know. It sounds to me perhaps like it wasn't. And I think Hugh, you make some very strong and valid points there.  It seems, as I say, unless it were, I fully, I take my guidance from the community and its leaders. If they believe that this is the right thing to do, well, then who am I to say otherwise? 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A Donegal senator says he doesn't believe expelling the Russian ambassador would be the right thing to do after over 50 Irish politicians were banned from entering Russia this week. Senator Nile Blaney told Greg on today's Nine Til Noon Show that a retaliatory expulsion of the Irish ambassador in Moscow would leave Irish citizens there without representation. He also confirmed he is one of the politicians on the banned list. National Broadband Ireland says over 3,000 premises in the wider letter Kenny area can now order or pre-order a broadband on the National Broadband Ireland Network. The company says the NBI network is now live in Letter Kenny with 3,036 premises eligible. In total, over 33,000 premises across Donegal will be hooked up by National Broadband Ireland. However, it'll be potentially December 2026 before all of that has been achieved. A West Donegal councillor says if safety measures are not put in place to slow down traffic in Lohanjur, there could be a tragedy. Councillor Miho Kolem Gala-Asberg is urging Donegal County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland to implement traffic calming measures on the main street, saying recent road improvements there have led to increased speed. And the junior European Affairs Minister says Irish-UK relations have much improved ahead of Brexit talks in Brussels, and the meeting of EU officials is expected to signal to the UK government that long-running issues surrounding the protocol need to be resolved with urgency. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he's open to cooperating with the EU on the matter. And we're back with news headlines again at 12 noon. Okay, Donegal, thank you very much indeed. Stay with us. As I say, we have a band member from UB4 to come up on the show a little later on. We also have Sean in the studio giving us some exciting news as it relates to Highland Radio's mega-car draw. And at first, and foremost, you could say, we have Michael and Finuna joining us. 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Both of you, good morning. Good morning. Getting you both loud and clear. Okay, good. Right. We have to start with Finula, Michael. I'm sorry because Finula got up early this morning to watch a film. You know what I mean? For real? To be honest, I actually stayed up. I stayed up last night hoping that it would be on so I could watch it when I went to bed. So you had about half an hour of sleep. Well, no, I didn't stay up that late.  This is the new, and you know I'm obsessed and I may have taken it too far because I may have found the one thing that Ryan Reynolds is not good at. Acting. Sing. Oh, too harsh and you will be punished. No, but his singing leaves a lot to be desired. I woke up early this morning because it didn't drop last night at 12 o'clock. I thought it said it was gonna drop today, the 18th. I checked it at five past 12. I checked it at quarter past 12. Not bad. No, not there. So then when I got up this morning, I was like, oh my God, it's there. And now, there's a lot wrong with it. You and Michael will probably never watch this movie. It is a full blown musical. Not just a movie that has musical numbers. It's, I'd say, 70, 80%. So is it that they talk and they want to speak like that? Like that? Not quite as far as Les Mises in that everywhere in his song. But there's quite a bit of it that is sung. What is the Ryan Reynolds Will Farrell dynamic leg? Oh, I loved it. I think they definitely chip off each other well because he still plays that kind of, you know, when you think of Will Farrell, you kind of take of that slight naivety or innocence that he kind of brings to characters. And then Ryan Reynolds is obviously the complete opposite as in when he plays anybody, it's always very, you know, degrees of cynical. And that's really what's in it. And this is basically what they've done is they have taken the Christmas carl and they've sort of turned it on its head. Now it was a very brave thing to actually do because you could think the Christmas carl is such a classic and such a big thing for people and people love it so much. They put a real modern twist to it and, you know, kind of brought it up into the real world while still keeping the sort of old-worldy charm of it. I, not surprisingly, absolutely loved it. I can't wait to get home from work so I can watch it again. Bad. I feel, I feel this is my Christmas sorted. Oh. I'm worried I peaked too soon. Is it because you're feeling Christmasy? How much of this is actually your, what appears and had to be absolute devotion to Ryan Reynolds? Like if he wasn't in it. No, he's actually not great in it. As in I actually was watching it kind of going. Is it a Christmas movie? It is a Christmas movie. Okay. Sorry about that. No, no, it's based on the, it's, as I said, it's got the Christmas carl kind of as the base of the story and then they've sort of just flipped it around and they've changed things up and that kind of thing and they've made it into a musical. Now the three main singers in it would be obviously Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, and then Octavia Spencer is in it as well. She's quite a good role in it. And she's all singing and dancing as well. To be honest, none of them are going to be releasing an album in the near future. But there's just, by the time it finishes, it's exactly what you want from a Christmas movie. Like there's a lot of things that's wrong. That you could pick it apart and sort of say, you know, the singing's not great. This is not great. The way it's sort of done. But then you're missing the whole point, aren't you? Exactly. It's not really a, I wouldn't be sitting down watching this with your six, seven-year-olds thinking it's a Christmas carl musical. They'll love it. It's sort of pitched a little bit higher than that. I'd be thinking kind of tweens upwards, that kind of thing. And there's sort of like a, just a couple of tones through it that would make you think, oh, maybe not for the smaller children. But, and they won't get the jokes and stuff like that, because there's some of them are adultated.  And that is what you want from a Christmas movie, that you have that kind of warmth from it. Has it made you want to put up your Christmas tree? Yeah, I'm very concerned that I have peaked too soon. I have already made it. I still have six weeks. I was gonna say I've already made a decision when clearly it's not my decision. It's going up probably in a week. I know. But so why not, you know? Well, Christmas lights are going up in, in letter candy next Friday. So, I know.  I have a load of hats. I have to wear them off. But you know what? You know, for lots of us, Christmas is difficult because it's a time often where you want to be around people and sometimes those people aren't with you and what have you. But you know what? There's an awful lot going on, has been going on and you know, I'm just gonna roll with it. Oh yeah. Well, I totally am now. I have to say it was... Just enjoy and let all that. I think it was a time in my life where if someone said they were putting their Christmas decorations up in the first November, I'd have been like, Who cares if it, if that's what they want to do. Brilliant. Yeah, if it brings you joy. Yeah, I just... If you want to get up in the morning and watch Spirited, right? Ha, ha, ha, ha. I'm... So it did set my mood for the day. I am all for it. It's brilliant. It'll be very hard to upset me now today. So is this actually... I'll give it a go. This is a different question. I'll give it a go. Is this your favourite Christmas movie ever then? Or that's too much, isn't it? Step too far there. Step too far. And I've only seen it once. Yeah. So I need to see it a couple more times.  I mean, it's extremely... What do you think of the chopping of Elf through the Tesco ad? Have you seen the Tesco ad with Elf? No? No. The Tesco's big ad is him going to work at the Tesco shop, but it's all chopped in with scenes from Elf. I recall you... When we talk about Christmas movies to you, you go like crazy and start talking about Sasha movies and stuff like that there. Yes. What we might consider a normal Christmas movie that is your favourite? Yeah. Elf is a big one, because I watched it again a couple of years ago. I watched a lovely TV movie that Olivia Newton-John did a couple of years ago where she was a store mannequin that comes to life because a little girl wishes she had her mom back for Christmas and stuff like that. I love it. And it was so cheesy, but I loved it. I just... And it was like having this perfect Christmas and then of course there was the thing of, Will she have to turn back to a mannequin when Christmas is over? Who knows? There's a way that she could stay with this family because the dad falls in love with it. Sounds nice. It was lovely. So yeah, I like traditional ones as well, but I'm looking forward to this one, Violet Night, which has the guy from Stran