Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome to this 1111 portal video of 2023. My name is Ona Christie, visionary artist and mystic and I'm going to be sharing a few things about this particular time that we're in the 1111 that will hopefully shed some light on this for you and help us to all move together in a more harmonious way through this time. All right, so first of all, I'm going to be sharing what the 1111 is, the meaning of that, the energies of this year's 1111, what makes the 1111-23 different from previous 1111s. I'm going to share some channeled art and a message from Spirit Owl here and I'll be doing a reading with my Spirit Animal Awareness deck to support us through this portal and finally stand to the end because I'm going to invite you to a really special 1111 event. All right, so let's start with the meaning of 1111. Why is it such a big important date? Well, first of all, it's a date that falls really close to Sabane or Halloween or all Hallows Day, right? This is an ancient, ancient holiday that represents a cross-quarter point of the year, so it's like right between the equinox and the solstice and it's in the sign of Scorpio that we're in right now, which is a sign that really has to do a lot with spirituality and death and rebirth and all sorts of really, really deep things going deep into the other world, okay? And so the 1111 usually comes a little bit after that, but it's still in that window with that incredibly powerful cross-quarter date and it has, it resonates with the energy of the number 11. 11 is a master number, so it's an extremely powerful number in numerology and it's associated with spiritual awakening, right? Or spiritual enlightenment. So the 1111 is a time, a portal of time here where the energies coming into the earth are really ones that catalyze our spiritual awakening and also to help to work with the awakening process of the earth herself and humanity. I've been doing these videos for a few years since 2020 and this year I'm seeing a really significant shift in energy around the 1111, okay? So the last few 1111s have felt to me, I felt very strong influxes of very electric energy coming into the earth and these were energies meant to kind of wake up the spiritual body of the earth and of people. In fact, one of them, I can't remember which year, but it almost felt like this, you know, when they jolt somebody who's had a heart attack to get that heart moving again, okay? That's what these energies have felt like. They've been very, very intense and but this year it feels really, really different, okay? I went in and asked my intuitive guidance, my higher guidance, my kashic guides to help to clarify this and here's the message that they have. I'm going to just read it to you. They said, trust the source. Trust the source, okay? This is an internal shift. It's a more subtle energetic expression of this date than in the previous three years. Do not be deceived by the subtlety. This is an energetic interning. It holds the template for larger numbers of people than ever before to begin to turn inwards for answers that cannot be found in external reality, okay? So one thing I want to point out is that what I've noticed is when these energies come in for the landscape or the 1111 or whatever it is, they come in and you can feel them really intensely during that portal but really what they're doing is that there are activations on the earth and that the effect of those activations rolls out over time, okay? So several years in a row we've been receiving these really magnetic energies. This has stirred up a lot of stuff, okay? And it's a lot of the stuff that we're starting to see now out in the world, on the news, a lot of the chaos that's starting to happen. To me it's like the 1111 energies are purifying energies a lot of times, at least those really electric ones and what that does is it shakes loose anything that's kind of like energies that are holding back the ascension, any other dark energies, shaking them loose so that they can come up to the surface, okay? And we need to really remember if you've been through a dark night of the soul of your own or maybe you're in one right now, it's really uncomfortable, it can be extremely painful and but what it does is it pulls up, it draws up all the shadow stuff, okay? That has been repressed, all the stuff that's been running the dark programming, that's been keeping us in a place of unawareness and a place of keeping the energy down, okay? A lot of stuff is being shaken up because it needs to come to the surface so that we can see it, acknowledge it and then begin to heal it, okay? So that is what we are experiencing as a collective and this may be a very long process, it could be hundreds even thousands of years, right? So we're seeing this all kind of really coming to a big head right now, though this could be a very interesting few years ahead of us. It goes on the energetic level, it goes beyond politics and so forth and just be aware of all the divisions that we're seeing on the earth is part of all that dark infrastructure, okay? So the more we can start seeing heart to heart and recognizing other human beings as human beings, right? Despite whatever divisions of sex, gender, religion, anything else that you can think of that is being used to divide us, we need to really as light workers work from the heart and recognize that. That said, spiritual protection is huge right now, huge, huge, huge, all kinds of protection, not just spiritual but whatever you feel guided to do to protect yourself, to protect your home, to protect your family, follow those little voices, all right? So I'm going to move more into the practical things that we can do and for that I'm going to be working with this beautiful spirit guide, the spirit owl that came forward in a painting not too long ago because owl, I'll show you this painting here, whoops, I can do that, okay? Owl came in with a message right? And owl is a beautiful animal of the night and a lot of people are afraid of owl because it is historically associated with death and so forth, right? But we have to remember that every archetype including especially the spirit animals have their polarity, they've got the negative and the positive and even within that, you know, if you look at death as one of the attributes of owl, there's very positive things, you have to have a death before you have a rebirth, that's what we're looking at right now, all right? So here is the message from owl and this is snowy owl in particular, sink into the silence, north is the direction of magnetism in the deep stillness of absolute zero, you will hear the whispers of the world beyond, some are like the wind wailing in the night but the whispers you want to hear are less heard than felt, to hear them you must settle into stillness, even when the wind blows you can hear without ears, even in motion you can be as still as stone, listen not to the words of the wind but feel for its directions, all right? So there's a lot to unpack here, owl speaks very poetically but I just want to point out just a few things, I will actually paste his words here in the description box below if you want to meditate on them, first of all owl is mentioning the direction of north and I feel like that's a direction that we're kind of collectively moving into, of course north is usually associated with winter which of course we're moving into the winter season so that's very appropriate but it's also there's a couple of elements connected with north, okay? And in the western spiritual traditions usually north is associated with earth, the element of earth, okay? So this is, I'm seeing this as an encouragement for grounding, it's going to be super super super important, okay? Because a lot of the stuff that's going to be happening in the world or is already starting to happen, is it chaotic and it can create a lot of trauma, okay? What trauma does is it causes us to dissociate, right? It causes a dissociation to where the spirit wants to separate from the body and so we're in the state of not being fully in our bodies, okay? And so the encouragement is to really really work with grounding techniques, if you can work barefoot, there's breathing techniques you can use to ground and really connect with earth, when we connect with earth remember that earth two is in an ascension process, earth has a 3D self and a 5D self which is what we're moving into embodying but we can connect with that 5D earth so when you ground really imagine that you're connecting with the the crystal heart of earth or with the ascending earth with the higher self of earth however you want to see that with the healed earth, okay? Connect with that side of earth because that will help to anchor in that energy of the 5D earth into the present moment, all right? So really really important to ground. North in I think much for most than the Americas is associated with the element of air, okay? Which of course relates right back to the spirit owl here but air is the element of mind, okay? So really important to work with the mind and work with our understanding. So if you've followed me for a while you know how enthusiastic I am about the spiritual laws and learning those. I'm going to be offering some courses in 2024 both on spiritual laws and working with spirit animals also and also I'm feeling one on spiritual protection so watch for those if you haven't yet subscribed subscribe to my channel and I'll also leave the link below to subscribe to my email list if you're interested in learning more about those courses when they become available, all right? So really really important to be working also with our minds and to master the mind, okay? The mind is that through which we understand and that we can start to work with our emotional bodies and our physical bodies.   So all right, so we also owl is talking about the deep stillness of absolute zero coming into stillness. He's really harping on that and really listening and feeling, okay, for the answers. North is a direction often associated with the warrior, okay? So it is actually going into the shadow and being coming aware of you know the shadow elements, the wounded elements, the elements that want to bring us down anything like that. Owl talks about some of the whispers that you may hear when you tune in are like the wind wailing in the night. I think he's referring to the 40 realm or the like the astral world where not everything in there is of a higher light, okay? And sometimes it pretends to be. So we want to really be aware often when things are really screaming at us, then be aware that sometimes that can be just sort of a decoy, okay? He says the whispers you want here are less heard than felt. So really coming into stillness, really listening to those inner sensations tuning into the body that will help us to realize when we are attuned and aligned with spirits, okay? To hear those really deep whispers, you have to settle into stillness and encouragement to practice meditation or whatever it is that can still the mind so that we can open to the higher guidance coming in, okay? Which we all have, we all have a direct connection with higher self, okay? But he says even when the wind blows, even when things are completely chaotic, right? And all sorts of things wanting to pull us out of our bodies, out of our minds, right? We're going to see a lot in the years ahead of people going out of their minds in one way or another, okay? And that can mean madness and possession. And it can also mean being out of your mind, it can mean being overly wrapped up in the emotional, right? In what's physically or emotionally happening to you and forgetting to use your reason as well, okay? But even when that wind blows, if we tune in and come into stillness, we can hear without ears, okay? Again, coming into that really deep state of meditative connection, right? Even in motion, you can be still with stone. So we're all going to be called into action in these next few years, right? There's maybe a lot of upheaval and even when you're in very an active mode, he's saying you can have that stillness, that inner peace inside, right? Listen not to the words of the wind, feel for its directions, okay? So I feel like this is encouraging us to really tune into that receptive state, which is a divine feminine state, okay? There is a lot of profane feminine energy out there right now. Somebody I was listening to online recently stated, and I think she was correct, that we're really not in a patriarch anymore. We're in a matriarchy. Emotions right now are ruling the world. And so I feel like this, what Al was saying, Al has a deep connection with the deep feminine, is to connect with the sacred feminine, which is, first of all, really connected with that deep stillness and the deep intuitive, right? Because unsettled emotions can pull you out of that. And then when we are really connected with that deep intuitive, the absolute zero, then we can intend with intention, start tuning into the positive emotional aspects of the feminine, which can include compassion and motherly love, okay? Okay, so we're going to move on here.  Not going to do prints, because it's going to be hard with the feathers, but I think somebody may enjoy this little guy in your home or your place of business, just to bring in that deep stillness, a sense of feminine expression and the wisdom of the owl to see through the dark and to hear also for the true voice of spirit, okay? So let's see, moving on. Again, the energies of 1111 this year, 2023 is going to be more interning. And what all this is going to do, all the stuff that's happening in the world is going to help people, more people than ever before, are going to be turning inwards and learning to tune into their own guidance, right? And to come within and find that place of stillness. And often it may be through the trial and, you know, trial, but I think it's really important to keep that in mind that this is ultimately supporting the ascension of the earth, okay? All right, so let's let's do a reading. I'm going to choose two cards here to support us through this 1111 2023 portal. And remember also, I stay tuned because I have an invitation for you and once the reading is done, but I'm going to choose first a card to talk about the shadow side and what might be challenging us. Wolf, okay. So wolf is an incredible animal of awareness, right? Again, it's one that has this piercing gaze. Let's look at the shadow side of wolf, okay, which is cruelty. And if you think of all the wolves in the storybooks, right, that are just conniving and, you know, wanting to just take you down kind of predator, predator energy. All right, so this is something that we all need to be aware of. Now there's really positive aspects of wolf as well. And maybe we'll just stick with wolf for both challenger and support, okay? So challenging part is predator. And I just have been doing a lot of delving into metaphysics and the occult and look at the history of the occult. And I'm more and more, the more I read from different sources and reading between the lines, I'm seeing that there is a certain, there's like secret societies have been running the world for a long, long time. And not all of them are evil, right? There are some that are really meaning, you know, have very benevolent intentions and others that have very predatory intentions, okay? So I think it's really, really important that we become aware of this. And this is one reason why I'm such an advocate of learning, you know, at least the basic laws of the universe, so that you can start to see, you know, when things go down out there, start to see some of the causes and effects and start to notice when things don't seem natural, okay? And so this is really going to be an important, it's important right now, and it's going to be even more important over the next year or two or whatever, but it's something we can do is to connect with this wolf energy and really start learning a wolf as a teacher and teach us through the generations. We can learn the spiritual laws, we can start becoming aware of the energies around us and start feeling into just like the owl also feeling into is this really what it seems to be or is this a veil that's being put over in order to connive and prey upon, you know, the people. So wolf in its positive aspect is a real warrior. Again, I think that fits really well with the direction of north, which is often associated with the warrior also with the elder. Wolf is also a beautiful animal symbolizing the elder and kind of keeping law and order, right? And so I feel like the next probably several hundreds of years are going to be a shift from external law and an order into more internal law and order. So being attuned with universal law with divine law, but that's something that each and every individual has to learn to attune to and understand and deeply understand in a body. And that is what's going to bring about the new society that is right now in its very infancy. We're sowing the seeds for it right now, but has a lot to do with awareness and with internalizing the discipline and the laws, which means connecting with your higher self, with your own and liberating your own voice. So wolf teaches us to stand in our own truth, to track down our own truth, and to come into strengthen that throat chakra. This is the seat of will, right? The divine will. When we align with divine will, when we can become a channel for and a vessel for divine will and start to live our truth, live our purpose and do the work of spirit here on earth, the work of divine spirit. Okay, so wolf is a beautiful animal for us to connect with right now. All right, so before I let you go, I do have a an event coming up on the 11 11 at 11 a.m. Eastern time. It is a meditation event that it's part of my ministry, which is called spoken of earth ministries. It's a group or a private membership group for star seeds and light workers. And it is free to join. You just have to sign a little agreement to keep it all in the private. And it's twice monthly events are free. And this month we have a healing circle event later in the month, but also in the 11 11. We're going to gather together. We're going to work with the crystal beings with the crystal kingdom. And it's a living crystal grid event. So we're going to set intention for higher love and for peace, right, and for, you know, whatever else you want to set personally. And we're going to come into a gathering together, work with the crystal beings and have a beautiful meditation and create kind of a living crystal grid across the miles. So you are very much invited to that. I'll put the link to that in the description box below. And until then, thank you so much for joining me. All my love goes out to you. And remember, you were born to be free.


rs where everybody's got used ourselves as consumers but also the banks to a low interest rate environment as the pressure has turned up with higher interest rates then a few things have started to go pop and um the big question that's kind of spooking the markets is whether this is just the system blowing off steam or whether the whole thing is about to go kaboom um and i think really the both of the cases that that triggered um these issues um silicon valley bank in the us and credit swiss um the the big swiss multinational bank did have some unique circumstances behind them and i think it is important to remember that but the thing that's making everybody nervous is um those interest rates being so high it is definitely putting the whole financial system under pressure i mean banks was a basket case uh you know losing billions every single year this was people keep saying now this was inevitable but it was inevitable why was something not done before now if it was so obvious uh that there was a bit of sort of you know recklessness at that bank you know it's sort of maybe the lack of oversight and regulation of banks that did cause uh to await is this just the one we're hearing about now and more to follow yeah i mean banks are the reason we end up talking about banks all the time is because banks banks are weird um effectively their business model is is really fragile um you know they don't hold as much deposits as they loan out that's the way banking works they they put more out in loans than they actually hold in deposits if everybody goes and get tries to get their money out of the bank you can't get your money you know we this isn't new this this was in mary poppins it was in it's a wonderful life bank runs you know aren't aren't a new thing and credit swiss had the least confidence because as you say greg there'd been a series of scandals and what's really happened is the combination of the higher interest rate environment which already had markets spooked um was coupled with um the Saudi national bank who's the biggest backer of credit swiss um actually said it wasn't increasing its stake in credit swiss and that was enough with the backdrop of of the history of scandals and also the worries in the market um to trigger a price collapse in um credit swiss so they've been snapped up by by ubs for for only three three billion and that's a bank that holds over a trillion in in assets which is a sign of the nervousness that's out there right now but as i say credit swiss really there was a series of scandals and i think that makes it quite unique and i think that's why it's perhaps different um than than than other banks all right now part of this is additional tier one debt right there's 17 18 billion euro of that people are being burnt in that regard right and there's others banks that trade in that now i don't know the ins and outs of it but that seems to be to me the thing that might be rumbling on the water under the water that might make investors nervous uh you know what i mean because whilst the news is is yes the the bank's been taken over and we're sure there are people being burnt here big time yeah so on both sides of the equation right so if you take the the case of credit swiss the bondholders um have been burnt and and that's caused a lot of nervousness in the market um from bondholders who hold bonds in other banks and they're asking themselves the question over the weekend whether that's going to happen to me if you take the silicon valley bank scenario that was depositors who who got nervous and the situation there was um silicon valley bank were kind of having to call on their cash to fund tech companies that um were were calling down on cash because they couldn't get funding because of higher interest rates again um and that um meant that they had to sell their bonds and that meant that there was a big write down and then depositors went hang on why why did they take such a big right down so there must be a reason so in both scenarios what spooking people effectively is that that maybe they're going to lose their money because something nasty is going to happen but i would say in both scenarios silicon valley bank um the um the us regulations were repealed uh only i think it was three or four years ago under the trump government for what they call small banks so small banks are under 250 billion dollars us so they're big in an irish context but these are the regional banks um and to be honest in in my view if that if that regulation hadn't been repealed and that regulation exists in our banks for example we we are subject to stress stress testing and a lot of other things the situation in silicon valley bank wouldn't have happened so that was a trump deregulation that created this unique scenario in silicon valley bank in credit swiss we've already talked about that how that was a unique case and you've talked to about the impact of rising interest rates the in europe we've plowed ahead again with a further increase and i think they did uh similarly uh in the us not so long ago every action has a reaction there are those who are saying that to to fight the inflation that raising interest rates is not the way forward so we're being told the reason as to why interest rates are going up we are seeing at the moment still inflation increasing okay yet we are seeing then the negative impact these high interest rates are having not only in the banking sector but other areas of industry so then why are the officials in the united states and ours in europe here continuing with this policy of raising interest rates when it's not seemingly yet having the result of lowering inflation but it is creating this this uncertainty and and threat to banks for example yeah it's a great question greg and to be honest it's it's because it's the only leader that they've got i mean really um over the history of controlling inflation which has been generally successful since inflation was tamed back in the 80s um then central banks have used this lever very successfully if if you flip the question and say well if interest rates aren't going to control inflation then we really um would be entering unknown territory and i think that's why central banks are persisting so they're basically saying it's not happened yet but if we get to the right level of interest rates we will tame inflation and that is let's let's be clear that is really fundamental for a successful economy so it's a really important prize and i think the calculation that central banks are making they know they're going to blow up some things in the banking system by by by hiking interest rates so far and so fast but they're hoping that they can go around stick sticking plasters on those things as they as they blow and and and and limit the the the damage and then still keep raising interest rates so they can bring inflation yeah but that being said i think the the the the scenario we are in surely then in terms of the global financial situation is is that we have the pressure pot and there's pressure in it and we're releasing bits of that pressure but we still don't know we can't say with absolute certainty that the lid ain't going to blow off because it seems no one has actual control over this and there's an awful lot of people perhaps with vested interests in countries and nations and influences that that would have a great interest in the lid blowing off yeah we the truth is Greg nobody can say the the the lid won't blow off um what we can say with a great deal of certainty is that there is so there is a lot more regulation a lot more the amount of capital that the banks hold has changed um significantly and plus i think it is important to say to your listeners you know the bank guarantee scheme is in place you know these are things that weren't in place back in 2008 so regulation um capital um guarantees um bank guarantees all these things have been put into place but it's all not enough to convince the markets though that's the thing you see yeah i i agree with that and that's what's the we read flag for me because money people are very motivated to look after the money and they're not getting clearly the assurances that they need yeah there's a huge amount of fear and i'll go back to that a comment i made earlier on banking is a fragile business model we do need it otherwise you know for liquidity and for the whole economy to work but fundamentally um banks loan up loan out more than they have in the deposits in any other area of the economy um that wouldn't be a valid business plan which is the irony of it being a bank um but that is the reality of the banking system so it does it does spook people when when we near to the limits and that's where we are uh quick word on mortgage interest rates and what have you you know i feel so sorry for some people who's are with companies their loans were sold from under them effectively and and and there's no fixed rate options for them they could be in uh defective concrete affected homes and some people are messaging us paying eight nine percent interest uh and i just want to acknowledge that some people are in very specific sets of circumstances but more generally speaking are we in a period of shall we shan't we fix rates if the options are there or what where are we at in terms of all of that mark because we haven't spoken for a while yeah so it's still i would really encourage people um so basically if inflation stays high then interest rates are going to stay high for a long time so i think the latest developments um really make um those people are maybe on the edge of thinking about fixing hoping that things might come back down i think it makes it unlikely that interest rates are going to come down these latest developments that we've just been talking about and i guess that the the chink of light is the fixed rates still are quite competitive i do not think that's going to last for what's out there mark yeah so you can fix around 3.2 3.3 and you know the average tracker now is at 4.65 so um you know and the average verbal rate is is is we've already seen verbal rates start to rise AIB last week increase their verbal rates to the first of the banks to increase their verbal rates so really if you can fix i would encourage you to fix i would make one comment Greg about what we call kind of mortgage prisoners or or or vulture funds funds they're 85 000 people with with um close funds or or vulture funds um we have been doing some work with them at moneyshoper and there are actually more people who can fix perhaps than they think some people think that there are no options there are a couple of options for those people who are out of arrears so um even if you are in that situation are they in and around the 3.2 mark though uh mark yes so mark and it all depends on the bank's affordability test unfortunately um can you imagine that with this you talk about the the the the the the strangeness of the banking system surely it would be in a bank's interest to give a person who maybe has cash flow issues the best possible deal for them to meet the repayments rather than leave them at the uh whim of the markets and end up having a mortgage that they can't afford to pay and then the bank has to go through the process of repossession where is the logic there yeah i think it's different it's different for different cases and i i think there are three broad groups um that there are within the um the the vulture funds so there are the people who are currently in in in arrears and yeah there isn't really any options for them because no other lenders will take them there are the people at the top of the scale who actually because they've heard vulture funds and mortgage prisoners we are finding there's quite a lot of people who actually can switch to what we call an open market lender and think they can't and i i am trying to get the message out and a number of us are the actually do check out whether you have an option and then there's a group of people in the middle who currently won't pass the affordability test so they're not in arrears but let's say maybe their income has been reduced they may have got divorced circumstances have changed and they can't pass the affordability tests and i do think there is a case for um lenders and government to lock a back group um to see to your exactly to your point Greg to see if things can be done because because it doesn't seem to make any sense no because you cap rents people into arrears yeah you cap rents right for for all the reasons we're outlined to keep them under a roof you know why not for for mortgage holders why should they be disadvantaged just two very final ones if you don't mind the tracker mortgages i was always of the impression that the tracker mortgage was that you paid the you paid the interest rates that's uh the ecb rate uh correct me if i'm wrong in that and then a few people text in that they were on tracker mortgages but their their rate was set like 1.8 or something like that above the base rates right and then they were having difficulties fixing because they were into this tracker so there are different trackers are the trackers with a premium let me put it like that there and can anyone on the tracker you know if they're not in arrears or whatever fix their mortgage with the i'm not on a sort of the main lenders if you know what i mean because the couple of contacts i had with people with from main irish banks let me not that there's many left but you know what i mean great question so um trackers actually track they all have a margin so they're all higher than the ecb rate so the best trackers the the lowest margin trackers are 0.5 so um but they do go up to 2.5 actually um i think i have come across the odd one that's plus three so then you basically take the three and a half and you add let's say 0.5 and then you're paying four so that's somebody on a 0.5 percent tracker the average tracker in irelander actually is a plus 1.15 so the average person on a tracker is actually paying 4.65 so how things have changed yeah yeah and it's now 4.65 to your second question greg everyone if they pass the affordability tests every tracker customers should be able to fix right okay and that should be they should be dependent on the bank they might be able to avail of a fixed lower than their current tracker rate then yeah so there's there's there's there's two things that i say to um track and mortgage customers right now number one ask for your mortgage offer letter from your bank that'll tell you what rates you can fix on um and then number two talk to a mortgage broker to see if you'd be better off switching and actually fixing with another lender because on average um it's it's 10650 euros cheaper over your mortgage term if you switch and fix you typically find the big banks have the least attractive rates and there are some newer banks and lenders who are offering better fixed rates so um yeah so get your offer letter check out what you can get and then talk to a broker that would be my advice all right and you can go on to the internet and type in money sherpa.com and uh mark and his team there might be able to help you thanks mark thanks greg all right appreciate your time as always take care of yourself 08 660 25 000 whatsapps and texts to that number or give us a call on 07491 25 000 the county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on highland radio the 9 till noon show with letterkenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letterkenny credit union call us on<PHONE_NUMBER> or apply online via our app or in office today attention all pet lovers and owners gary's pet world letterkenny is open seven days per week offering the very best value on all pet foods accessories grooming and care products call in and let our staff help you spoil your pet today you will be amazed by the range 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stark headlines today uh talking of potato shortages and job losses in the sector is it all down to input costs and what's the problem donald yes so for instance about some put costs and basically what the whole thing is the three main factors and the whole thing is the cost of electricity fertilizer and diesel so the cost of rolling cold stores etc for the electricity the cost of diesel for rolling machinery to plant the potato and the fertilizer as as you've likely heard through from last year to now like fertilizer has more less double the flock travel now retailers sometimes see the potatoes as a lost leader you know they're they're not you know we don't see a great increase to the consumer i don't think generally speaking so that must mean that it is the likes of yourself and others in the production train or chain that are having to absorb these increases there's no extra cash there for you to make it worthwhile yes that's correct uh like you have every other line of food that basically through inflation has reduced between 16 and maybe 18 and sometimes maybe as high as 20 and you have the the the potato itself has only really has taken a rise of between 1 to 1.4 percent so i don't really think that's overly fair um because like if you know if we don't get a fair reflection on like price return you know there's going to be a mass exodus of farmers out of the industry you know as i say uh great so who needs to intervene here i mean it's probably late in the day for the retailers to all of a sudden grow a conscience and say all right okay well we need to give you guys more they probably have other options from uh other suppliers or importation or what have you i mean is this something that requires an intervention or commentary at least from from minister charlie mcconnellogue for example what can happen in the short window that we have to ensure the likes of yourself and others stay in the potato growing industry yeah like no the department of agriculture charlie mcconnellogue himself like needs to speed up the the the process of getting the food on linzman and the possession so he can look at this and really intervene and say like enough's enough like the potato grower needs a fair a fair price for his product like you know like ireland is renowned for growing the potatoes and like especially doneigaw like with some maybe some of the best potato growers in the country and doneigaw so we do um and like and do we really want to be important a food source that can be so easily grown on this country so like it's a bigger belief that that the potato man can't or a woman can't get a fair return for all their hard work you know yeah and we're already seeing some of the big players in the potato growing market exiting this year is setting their intent in that regard potentially with more to follow unless things improve drastically quickly yeah no potato growers like could be they've been forced out of business no so they are and and if something isn't done very quickly like you're going to have a really exodus like what happened on the vegetable end as last block of years where uh supermarkets and prepackers and all that there uh hasn't hasn't given a fair return for a fair return of margin for the hard work that goes on the storage costs like storage costs is the really big one uh and like do we want a really mass exodus and also to the amount of labor that is tied up you know all that there a lot of them people to be out of jobs and you know looking elsewhere like or if there is anything out there so we have in relation to you know rising input costs and uh scarcities right we have seen staples like butter milk flour pasta you know those types of food stuff particularly the latter two that I mentioned there uh going up in price and presumably that was so producers uh were compensated for their increased costs why has the increase been so small for potatoes what's going on that the potato farmer their plight's not being recognized then do you have any insight into that for us donald I I can't really answer that uh no I don't know what really goes on behind the door three packers and on the retailers there's no point in me saying well I don't have any insight into that um it just seems to be they just think they're just going to stay there and just keep growing and just keep getting battered from color to post you know like I don't know what what could be done that's the case where I say as I was literally looking to sit down and have uh uh a meeting with the bank retailers to see if there can be a fair share of the price go back plus uh the only problem is is the I I I yeah I get you but the only problem is is I think a lot of the retailers see the the humble potato as that last leader as that product that gets people in through the door and then they can make their money back elsewhere you know on different products which doesn't bode well for uh the grower but look at we'll track this story 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organization you're involved in and the organization i'm involved in is um it promotes the awareness of the situation in palestine and um the aware the need to boycott is really good swear possible has that really ever caught traction do you know something something talking about this for a very long time it can be from a digger to a you know a whatever product but i just don't really i've never really engaged with someone who's sort of bought into that so and now that just be my my that could just be my small circle we don't talk much about it but is it something that happens on mass that people make those purchasing decisions i think it's things that it it's it happens um for a period of time and then it's stopped it happens at pivotal times i think the around 2014 when the last well prior to may that was prior to may 21 that was the largest incursion in gas and there was 260 people killed i think that um brought people out and wanted to do something and there was like a 46 percent uh reduction in the um in the the financial finances that went to israel around that time so that was really good but it's keeping up that momentum is the important and life goes on for everybody and people forget it's not always highlighted what's going on in palestine all the time the media isn't particularly good um and people have their own issues going on so it's it's that's why i'm regularly and a group of us are regularly in bunkrana to raise awareness about what's going on well i think people do people kind of tend to do you know we'll think how they're told like say for instance you know what's happening uh in in what israel is responsible for right you could equate that to maybe what uh is happening in eastern europe at the moment uh and we are throwing all the resources of the west to ensure that bad people are held to account all right and yet we've got this ongoing situation uh in in uh israel and what they are doing but israel seems to be a friend of the west and then it must be okay israel good russia bad for example and people just go along with that narrative seemingly yes and there's a certain amount of truth in that and i supposed you know we we believe what we're told um and also because of the kind of things that happened happened in by israel against palestine in the people it's in such an insidious way that you kind of think and it's incredulous so you kind of really don't believe it because it's a democratic because i quit democratic country so how can this be happening um and also unfortunately the palestinian people only have a few olive trees they there is no great fuel or or oil or anything there so to be cynical about it you know there isn't much skin in the game for the west but israel has an awful it just is talks to it's the hypocrisy of the west though is it not really that we are so vexed about an awful thing awful thing uh that's happening in eastern europe yet something uh that that might sort of impact us if we took a different stance on uh we kind of turn a blind eye to it what's happening what israel are responsible for like it's hypocrisy isn't it well and the media don't call it out either let's let's you know they don't call it out they don't yes no it is it is it is hypocrisy but the world is full of hypocrisy in every at every level and we just have to keep uh banging the table about it i think that's the reason why i and others are you know after may 21 which was the last kind of um incursion and we all came out there was 20 there's 200 and you know there was a certain amount of 29 people killed at that stage um in the incursion gas that we came out we had the banners we did all that and then at that point i thought this is ridiculous because we'd be putting the banners away again until the next time and people forget they get on with their own lives and there's so many things happening for people um all of the time that we are kind of we're kept very busy in our head around other issues you know so um we now keep up um a regular stance so that we keep that up and we do get back support for that i'm certainly not trying to discourage you it's just again i just want to talk of the irony of the situation in that we had the very dangerous move i i think over the last couple of days where uh putin was charged with war crimes um because of his his abuse of children uh not well it's it was an abuse of children sorry it was his uh the claims that he abducted uh ukrainian children bring them to russia there's terrible crimes inflicted against palestinian children by israeli forces and arms of the israeli state and you know it reads and i'm reading something it reads like what's terrible that's going on isn't it you know what i mean and it is but yet we as the west if i can say that i don't know if that's even the right phrase theology we'll just get on with it then we'll just look at it and go that's terrible isn't it yet at the same time everyone's reacting to this move to to uh to to try flatter me or putin for similar crimes really yeah yeah you know and i don't want to give up i don't want to discourage you and i don't want to give up in the world no it's a it's epoxy in a full world to live in when you see what's acceptable because they're your friends versus what's acceptable because they're deemed as your enemy exactly and i think we need to make the comparisons and it's also gives us an opportunity to make that comparison and say what has been done you know because it's we can't we cannot give up on it so we can say right so at the moment people are encouraged we're encouraging people to get on to me hell martin and you know to bring to the international as our foreign minister for foreign affairs to bring to the international community to look at the the the uh the laws that are being broken on a consistent base also we don't have that independence you see because we have to tell the european party line well we do we will we tend to anyway we don't seem to have that independence well as part of the eu one of the things that happened in 2018 was that there was a law brought in to um boycott the goods from the israeli settlements which are illegal okay and it got through to the point and then they said no we can't do this because we can't stand unilaterally again we're in the eu so then there was a citizens initiative which is just just finished it has just been put in into europe where a million people sign signatures to say right the eu now as there as a block um you must stop you know we are asking you to sanction the the importation of goods from the illegal settlements so we just have to keep finding ways around this you know because we can't let these people down either um and that is the problem that it's going on for 50 years and they know they're very aware that nobody cares um but they are always delighted to see people especially irish people because they they feel that we have a deeper understanding in palestine in november yes what did you say what was it like what is life like in palestine well um i came into jerusalem uh first of all both both jerusalem and and then i was in hebron and i was in different parts of of the west bank after that and i mean hebron and um jerusalem are both conservative um cities they're not like tell of eve which is much more secular so you're immediately in jerusalem hit by um you know the aesthetic jewish community as everybody is in you know the black suits the children even the babies they're all in wrinklets all that kind of thing it's a very regulated um kind of of the city and and the enormity of the military presence is the other thing very young men and women doing their military service and if they weren't doing there they would have been you know it's something they have to do or else they're they're imprisoned they're no joys about that these same young people are sent then into the west bank so then i went down to hebron and again it's another conservative area so there's no alcohol there's i was told to you know dress very conservatively etc but there's a much more relaxed kind of vibe when you when you cross the border it reminded me of like 30 40 years ago here you only put on your safety belt when you're going across into the north so when you're taking a taxi because it's all kind of large taxis um from when you're going back out in out of hebron there's a large clunk click when you get to the border you know out of the outskirts of the of the town so it's a much more relaxed place it's very very busy people are very friendly etc but there is the there's an an enclave all around there of settlement of illegal settlements so people there cannot walk into difference into particular streets in hebron um if they unless they have an international passport um like i did so the some of the people i with couldn't actually walk down some of the streets because they would be seen as a risk to the to the people who lived in the illegal settlements there's a huge amount of um army control and there's problems with permits for people trying to get from there there's a lot of the people live in hebron or in betel hem that work in jerusalem because the money is better um but there's 101 different types of permits you need to cross that border and one morning i was on the bus from betel hem going into jerusalem and um i noted there was you know it was eight o'clock in the morning bus and there was an older woman got onto the bus and then a few stops later her friend or it seemed to be her friend got on and they were chatting and i remember thinking god that's very typical of two women and there was another group of people there was a nun and several other people and then there was people here at the back beside me there was a young woman behind me and we came into the checkpoint then and everybody just got off the bus and we were pulled over to the side and the woman behind me said don't get off the bus just get your passport ready and i watched the and i said god how long will we be here and she said well we could be here all day we could be here in an hour it just depends on on the guys in the army but it looks as if we're lucky today because they're coming over so they came over they passed the queue of people outside they got on the bus they took the passports or they took the documents off the people at the front and they looked two or three times at the older woman so i thought she was an older woman and then they came and took mine but they put her off the bus so um i that mine was fine of course and i said well where's that one we're in the middle of nowhere as far as i could see so i said where's that woman going to go and she said well she'd probably have to go and try and get into at another at another you know at another checkpoint but you might get in so that's a daily recurrence the people outside were checked they all got back into the bus and life and dawn is normal no one passed anywhere about the fact that that one was put off the bus in the middle of nowhere because her permit was now you only get four permits a year now so if you want to bring your children to the zoo you they're not going because there might be someone in hospital that you have to see first so it's a freedom of movement which is completely denied do you think sometimes it's hard to those that might be inclined to be most um likely to campaign maybe for people being wronged for the likes of people in Palestine have difficulty with it sometimes in terms of their questionable human rights record their treatment of women what women are allowed or not allowed to do attitudes towards the LGBT community do you think that sort of gives people a crisis of conscience and that if maybe the Palestinians wanted to garner more support maybe they could treat people better themselves or give people more respect more rights in 2023 i think the Palestinians are well aware of that situation and it's not again it's not all Palestinians i under various by region i understand yeah i mean hama you know if you're in Gaza i would certainly wouldn't like to be a woman right in Gaza but and they're very concerned they are concerned but they know that they're on under your Jordanian laws and that has to change so those things are there and and those things are happening all the time and there's plenty of even though we don't see women out um publicly um when we see the television there are plenty of very strong women's groups in Palestine again i'm not saying that to try and to it's not a gotcha or anything it's just i actually genuinely wonder uh if that's part of the reason as to why no i don't think so because you can't um you know i think the thing that's holding people back in here in dunny gall i mean because i'm i'm we are standing in in on the street in in bunkrana since may 21 and normally we would in you normally get a group of people who would join a group like like ours the new usual suspects people who are aware of things of that um in in show particularly because of mica those same people are involved in that struggle because that's devastating families in and you know in in dunny gall and they can't see outside the four walls so it is it's different thing different things prohibit people from joining up but they don't necessarily have to join a group to be powerful they can look into their basket and say right is there anything here from the dead sea because that is occupied territory yeah they can see if there's anything from if look at those test go avocados they don't have to join a group like ours they can do that or they can um get onto the site from the irish president solidarity campaign and make that sign their name off that email to me hall martin to do something in europe um or alternative and certainly and that that that is a that is a morally okay protest is it because i presume there are farmers and people people like you and me who are producing things in israel for example we might not agree with the government okay uh we probably disagree with them but we're trying to feed our families we're trying to pay our mortgages and we're trying to get through this very tough thing called life uh and we are having people boycotting our product which is impacting us and our families who we have to feed and care for the israeli government they're interested us where their their economy is supported not by avocados right we're not really just damaging the normal people who might not agree with the regime in this protest or these types of protests when really they're more interested in arms and technology and microchips and other things really stuff that we can't have any impact on all we're doing is hitting the poor unfortunate that have to live under that regime because they might not have any other options okay so first of all the um the boycott is is it is it is mainly focused and the you know and the act that's trying to go through that we're trying to push through europe now at the moment on the illegal this the the produce that's coming out from the illegal settlements okay from the occupied territories so it is not initially it is not you endorse the israeli why you don't buy anything from israel no yeah that's what i'm saying you know what alternatives you know when it comes down to what alternatives do you have um you you know you can't take on and i'm not um advocating any kind of violence because that hasn't got unfortunate no i understand exactly we can't take on the biggest army in the world it's not a good strategy this is you know the boycotting is a strategy of you know it's a tactic in a load of other strategies a lot of things have to happen had to happen inside that you see the thing what i don't understand is is why people have to take these actions because you pressure your leaders you would hope that these issues are raised in your the the houses of power be it the doll or in france or in germany or wherever it might be and you have politicians that might speak out of the eu commission and some do but not very many do well that's not happening do you know what i mean it's it's it's it's sad really that it has to come to this because there seems to be just within the the system that there is between the media and the politics and all of that and how intertwined that is and they all eat from the same table political we can have no faith that politically unless it becomes fashionable to do so that politically really anything already moves on to try and and pressure is real will actually happen in a big meaningful way well i think there's a couple of things happening at the moment i think to go back to what we were saying about ukraine because of the sanctions that are trying to impose to crane and because of a massive international response to that we can then use that as a power base to say look we take the high moral ground here what is happening with palestine okay and the other thing that has just slipped out of my head completely now and that i was going to say is yes is the there's really there's new israeli government which is deeply fascist at the moment and are nearly creating their own their own problems because israeli people themselves are out marching now they do not want the new policies that they're bringing in maybe the timing might be right for more progress if that's your will if that's what you want okay so apartheid week runs from the 21st of march until the 28th of march so it's upcoming what in the final minute that we have what do you want to tell people about um i want to ask people first look in their their baskets contact the their tds in relation to the international approach and also on the 30th of march in the dunigal intercultural platform there is a film and a q&a where we're trying to set up a northwest irish palestine solidarity campaign group and i would urge everybody to come along to see that it'll be very interesting night it's at seven 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conversation then uh but let me get to some now i was at the game this is the donnelly wall mail game yesterday and the supporters had to stand an hour and a half waiting on the gates to open the game itself was terrible the rain didn't help in the end i was just waiting on the pain of the game to be over uh unfortunately says it called a brendon deveney is 100 correct another i personally think they picked the wrong manager and his argument in the back room isn't helping uh it's wild sorry the argument in the back room it's nothing to do with the manager it's wild that jim and them did not get a chance to help uh in the back room team another brendon is right i'll even go as far as saying donnelly won't win another ulster for the next three years uh under the current setup another no mention of the only applicant for the senior job shone paul barrett who has won ulster championships at every underage level why was he not considered the county board need to explain themselves it's disgraceful what's happening believes another caller another i expect whoever texts your show that the donnelly players aren't good enough played senior into county football and he's not just an armchair supporter i get what you're saying and no one's this is not a pylon or a massive criticism but if you like if you travel for an hour and a half to go and see that game as you do from some parts you pay 18 euro uh you know you can't pay in cash either and then you have to drive home maybe get something to eat it's a full day out you know i think people have a right to have a point of view okay we're not involved as i say in or going to be involved in a you know major criticisms of individuals and stuff but people have to be able to vent a little bit don't they i mean they're doing it amongst themselves it'd be silly if we didn't give them the opportunity to to do so on this show your show their show right that's the show over show uh we have to leave it now uh we'll be back tomorrow morning at nine don't forget we'll catch up on all those comments as well so your time wasn't wasted we'll continue the convo tomorrow stay tuned john breson's around the northwest but for me gregg hughes caroline oar who researched and produced an onion who works on the show with us as well on your swingy have a lovely day and as i say chat to you tomorrow morning at nine