national crisis the national crisis and nobody's been held accountable nobody was held accountable for Meika and nobody's held to Brampton report it just seems you can now we'll do a report and move on now. Yeah but of course we heard Breed mention Paul Reed's salary a senior civil servant Robert Watt he's confirmed he's in receipt of the full 294,920 euro salary for his job as secretary general at the Department of Health the confirmation comes amid increasing focus on whether or not he was still waving now he wasn't waving he was deferring an 81,000 euro pay increase he got when he was appointed to the role in April 2021 that was deferred not waived waived means you've given it up deferred means that you can draw it down presumably at a later date you know Ayman I'm not trying to whip anything up here but when we hear that Mr Watt is now on this huge salary we've heard people Paul Reed's huge salary and him and the minister Mr Watt and the minister for health out in Dubai may be doing important work you know you can understand why people the public all of us I think are so sort of disgusted by what's going on. It baffles me to see Paul Reed on that type of money and what what the HSE is about and what what like this is one of many failings within the HSE and when you know go back to the go back to the case and carry and you know we talk about that organization it seems to be there is a recruitment it's hard to get doctors in hard to get psychiatrists and and it's because when you talk to nurses you know there's a it's more attractive to go over to Australia it's more attractive to go elsewhere and this is because the HSE is just go back to that word culturally toxic and when you have your head man that type of money and he's running an organization like that I just it just baffles me to see that we find that acceptable and then when Greg touched on the accountability word when you take accountability and he runs from it you know runs a mile from the word then if you get that money the big money has to come with the certain certain stipulation and has to come with key performance indicators anyone working in the private sector will know that anyone in a job that if you don't hit certain targets or if you don't achieve certain things uh in your working process amen you you can be sanctioned or sacked that such a thing doesn't appear to to be the case in in the HSE I would like to see how you know if the HSE was a private organization and how long Paul Reed would be about in terms of what what has come before it and you know what what's been coming and and how how he would fare on in terms of them KPIs and and would he what would he be hitting uh breed I mean you know the word toxic was used by aiming there many would agree and I would agree with but but you know uh Robert Watt taking a pay cut is not going to fix the problems so you know are we looking at a root and branch review of that organization or absolutely and I'm going back to to to the tonnage to a statement yesterday basically saying that you know compensation is going to have to be paid it's not the answer the answer here is governance and oversight funding for psychiatric services to include psychologists psychiatrists mental health professionals nurses nursing staff we need people on the ground we need to fund and bring and and the issue then of course is well a lot this is what Leo Bracker would have us believe that a lot of these professionals don't want to work in the likes of Dunny Gold or Kerry that they want to be in Dublin they want to be in go where they want to be in the bigger we we need root and branch and aiming is quite right it's a toxic the the first time I was ever on your show Greg we were talking last May about the Department of Health issues with regards to autism whatever happened about that that went off the radar we see probably is we're just not holding we're not holding our politicians to account in relation to this we need we need to impress upon them that this was not anything other than governance and oversight overworking underpaid staff boots on the on the ground we need more doctors we need more nurses we need more mental health staff yeah and and finally on this before we move on to our next topic Leonard you know like I I'm angry a lot of people listen to this are angry and frustrated but for someone like yourself for the for for the case that you've outlined it must feel very personal like you must be counting to ten a hundred times a day to not get really really angry you know I'm sure you're angry but you get where I'm coming from like when with what you're going through at the moment this must feel really really personal and infuriating we were we were actually at a meeting yesterday like and my wife said before we left she says we need less talking and more action like and that's that's really what needs to happen like you know so it's all right now we're talking about this today like but a couple of weeks to a note it was something else I like you know Reid was on about autism problems there and that's still going on well children with autism aren't getting the service they need you can't get speed therapy you can't get OT that's all been put down to COVID and that's that's another disgrace all these things were stopped because of COVID like you know these things could have carried on in a safe environment and you know and this this was the excuse that just like move on like you know we're sorry you know and all these people have had to wait a year and a half for services and the whole system now is jammed like because you have the new the new kids with new adults come in for the first time and then you've got the historical ones and as you say but the whole thing needs to shake up they need to get staff they need to get boots on the ground like and they need to sort this out like because it's families and children that are suffering like I don't I mean maybe the word disingenuous is too strong but to say that we're going to review have a report I mean and the scope and exercise and all that kind of stuff you know they have to know what the problems are we all know what the problems are. Greg I'm going to tell you now my wife was actually told by somebody in the HSE if things is that bad present your childhood casualty so we're going and sitting casually for seven hours and she like she actually said as this is where the health service got the you take a seven year old child with autism and present them in casualty and you make it seem quicker than that. I think it's an absolute disgrace like. All right okay listen thanks for that Leonard. Right the long awaited details of a new law that will give Irish workers the right to request remote working were revealed by the Taunista earlier this weekly over I called published details of the new legislation which will be introduced in order to make better terms and conditions for workers a legacy of the pandemic the right to request remote working bill 2021 will provide a legal framework for the first time on working from home requests and refusals. Amy and McGee start with you on this one like I don't want to be like I'm criticizing everything here but when I was reading this it sounded more like it was set up to permit employers to legally refuse people the right to work from home it felt that that's that's just not you Greg I think that's the majority people that read that says they're it's going to be very hard to work at home with the with all these kind of stuff stops in place and I think you know the talk was during the pandemic that we're we're going to enter a new world in terms of the hybrid model and work at home and you know work in the office I think we have to follow through that I think there's a bit of hesitancy on parts of the with the government and a few companies and I think we just have to embrace it this is the future be it work at home full-time be it the hybrid model if people want to I'm personally three kids under five I'm work at the office I'm just not going to get away with working at home and you know whatever whatever helps that work life balance in terms of we we've got to embrace it and I think that's one of the learnings that came out of the the pandemic was that it doesn't have to be work work work all all the time you know we can have that model where it's you know we work hard and we have that that family balance and if the productivity is there and there are ways to measure that well no one loses then exactly go back to the kpi thing if everybody's sitting there kpi's be you sitting in the house or you know in the office or in a hybrid model then there should be no there should be no arguments and just let's let's embrace the future here yeah but breed I mean for any businesses that don't want their staff working from home for whatever reason I mean there are a ton of reasons 13 of them in fact that pretty much cover absolutely everything yeah absolutely I mean I've looked at the legislation as well it seems to be very impractical very pro employer there's a huge latitude wide latitude to refuse a request to work it seems to me that it's it's almost a populist ploy by leo wrecker and the government to you know lead us into this false sense of security that they're actually listening to us I don't believe they are look at there are sectors where physical attendance is necessary you know you're not going to ask a plumber to sit at home and try and fix a plumbing issue and that you're not going to ask a bricklayer to you know build a wall for you from his his home office the practical emphasis is that businesses need to make money and sometimes some of their employees have to be on site to make money for businesses who will then employ them I have to say I actually dislike the whole idea of bringing work home for me home is where I relax where I enjoy myself where I have a life whereas work is where I go where I get stressed and where I have to sit at a desk and you know be there physically when people need to see me or where I have to go to court and for me personally maybe I'm just a dinosaur when it comes to this or maybe it's just the type of work that I do but for me I think and for a lot of people like me it's actually respite maybe it's respite for him and with three kids to actually leave the house and go to work I know I have a secretary with four kids and she says that coming to work is absolutely fantastic and she was gutted when she felt that she had to work from home because she wasn't going to be able to for me I think I would feel like I think I would struggle to sort of work out if I was living at work or working from home do you know that sort of way I think I would but where do you have the switch off button there absolutely yeah yeah for me switching off is getting into the car and going home all right but and then again Leonard you know you're a significant employer in in letter Kenny I mean if people were cut it's not I don't think this is an unfair question because I don't think I'm putting you in a position here but you know it would be very difficult for you to accommodate the likes of your staff in the industry you work in in the area you work in to work from home presumably yeah I think we're probably in the bricklayer the farmer's kind of section like it's just you know we have this that personal you know personal touch is kind of that your face to face for your customer but you know what I actually think there's there's probably an opportunity to that blend it as as Amon's on about like you're looking at bringing maybe people back to your real areas to live like I know a lot of people aren't out at Kenny we're back living at Kenny but they're working for companies in Dublin um but also the other side I would agree with the other two that some people need to go into the workplace you know you've got maybe people are living on their own and this isn't really like they're social you know they're going to meet other people it's just conversation that's just you know it's actually physically seeing people like and then the other side that's kind of a separation between your workplace and your home life and that's good but we were hoping I think a lot of people were hoping though that then we were going to introduce something that strikes the balance that is fair for employers and employees this seems a little bit skewed in favour of the employer that's really you know I mean it's about choice it's about what is good for the employer employee I think if it works good for both then that's fine if it doesn't well you know I mean there's a lot of people listening in who work in retail in in the most you know most of the people in Donegal this was is irrelevant to because we work in you know service industries retail absolutely you know I wonder Greg do we need legislation at all in relation to it I mean the employer employee relationship should be such that if I want to work from home two days a week I approach my employer and I say look this is good for you this is good for me I mean that's employer employee relations do we need a bill it feels like it feels like a spanner in the works absolutely it to me it seems like populism it seems like leveracker is saying well there's a call for this let's show people that we're actually listening to them and dealing with it whereas in effect a good employer employee relations already provide for this we don't need legislation and we certainly don't need legislation that's skewed towards one side more than the other do you agree Eamon that we don't need legislation because I think you work in sort of an area that you know that you'd see more of this perhaps I think I get Bridges point but I don't necessarily think that that relationship is there and you know it can be where there's a lot of onus on the employer you know to be in and I think that maybe should be taken away but you know that's where we strive towards us we strive towards to create that relationship but I don't think it's always there you know I know a friend of mine Louise who does the work to you know drop the kids drives an hour to work does there does there's drives an hour back you know do we need do we need that in the life and you know if she was to sit down with her employer and explain that situation you know most employers are going to say yeah fire away the work at home model is far better for you and but it's the opportunity to talk to them isn't isn't always there you know yeah I'm not sure in the likes of letter Kenny Leonard Leonard if we'd see a net increase in traffic you know people that would probably be working in Dublin working remotely from in and around letter Kenny or could we see less people milling around for lunches and coffees in letter Kenny if this was widely adopted have you spoken to any of your colleagues that would are they concerned that it could sort of change the the the face of a town like letter Kenny if more people were working from home and not milling around say at lunchtime letter Kenny's probably you know there's still a lot of people who loves us then the general area of letter Kenny who's still come and do the shopping I think so I don't think it's a big you know a big big issue for letter Kenny you know yes your your coffee shops your restaurants or ourselves as retailers with all you all have to see footfall but at the end of the day if these people are having a good work-life balance you know it's still it's raising kind of that feel good factor too like but you know I'll just go back to what Amon said too at the end of the day for an employer if productivity is then the way it should be there should be no you look at some of the FTAs in the town they've done you know there's been no drop in productivity for anything like so it has because we're forced into it it's shown it works and a lot of them will keep that on that baby this blended where they come in two days and they're off you know they're not they work one three days and if it works look at the money they're saving action electricity and you know and building space and all that there so there is a there's a balance to be stopped there I don't actually think we need legislation for it like but breed finally you know on this issue it widens the gap though doesn't it it widens the gap for a lot of people perhaps on the lower incomes this is irrelevant to they probably struggle to get you know their their proper time off you know proper shifts and all this type of stuff so even if this problem were fixed and you know it satisfies those it's relevant to it actually just widens the gap more between you know the conditions of some workers in this country so really should we be tinkering around the edges she would not really be should the government not have looked at everything and seeing how we can improve people's lives absolutely and this is what I'm saying parking back to again it's too populist this idea of bringing in something the enforcement procedures set out in the bill are toothless it's just too impractical and again it's it's just giving the employer an edge on the employee I don't think this bill is going to work I think it's just going to be another another point on Lee of Radker's agenda to you're not a big you're not a big fan of anybody who just you know tries to paper over the cracks I'm I just want somebody to do something I don't want to talk about it I just want it done all right it's okay that was that was the voice there of brie carless lister you're also hearing from businessman and letter Kenny chamber member Leonard Watson and Amy McGee of course a footballer of and a columnist and all that back after these the 90 noon show was brought to you by letter Kenny credit union download our new app today to apply and draw down your loan wherever you are Ireland's biggest ever tribute weekend is coming back to Donegal true bash 2022 is taking place at the clanry hotel letter Kenny on the 11th and 12th of February the nation's leading tribute acts 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you know anyone that gets it anyone who pays electricity will get it regardless of of their wealth so that they will can't give it back as such i'll just a quick one on this and i'll start with you breed you know do i know the likes of the the children's allowance is very different to the 100 euro for the electricity bill i know they're very different and they are in different spaces and all that type of stuff but should should the likes of those payments or refunds be be more targeted so that those that particularly with how expensive things of god that those who need it most um get it most absolutely yeah and again it's it's the logistics of it i think that's what frightened the department of finance or whoever is in charge of um this particular initiative it almost seems like the um donald trump checks that he was sending out before the election it smells a little bit like that to me you know and hopefully that in two or three years time whenever the next election is due that people will will remember that uh me hall and leo gave them all 100 euro each it just seems a little bit like that and of course logistically i would imagine it is in my nightmare if somebody wants to refuse to take it it's exactly like the children's allowance i mean i know uh there are some families who are lucky enough who don't use their children's allowance who put it into a savings account for their children's education that's absolutely fine and i know other families who rely on the children's allowance to actually put food on the table every week and that's the world we live in unfortunately um i just again it just to me just smacks of populism this idea that will give everybody 100 euro of um when for a lot of people old age pensioners those who are on disability that 100 euro actually means that they might be able to actually make ends meet this month whereas for others it's just yeah and and we got we got a text in from someone yesterday who wanted to thank the letter kenny food bank because they were able to avail of their services and they said simply that means that we'll be able to light um extra fires to keep the house warm this week that's that's the practical reality of it for so many people you know inflation unfortunately is causing havoc with people who live from week to week who have a fixed income either from social welfare or from low paid work and um unfortunately inflation is uh is the killer for a lot of those people the increases that they would have received in the budget at the beginning of january have been wiped out for an awful lot of them because oh and then some increases yeah and then some amen mickey do you think the likes of the the the electricity rebate or even payments like children's allowance if you don't if it's not unfair to sort of jump lump them in i'm not doing so but it's just for the purpose of the question that they should be more targeted the means tested whatever it might be opt out whatever i know you can opt out of the children's allowance but you know that that we make sure that those that breed has been referencing there uh aren't in as bad a situation as they are and then those who don't need the money aren't given it no i i i get you i get you but i also hear you know a big complaint probably from from that middle class is that there's nothing tailored towards them in terms of you know there's nearly three brackets the people in the in the top bracket who probably don't need it and then i'll put them up or down there's people in that middle class who find themselves really really that's that middle income bracket you're talking about yeah sorry i don't like using the word class sorry middle middle income and um you know they find themselves squeezed and they don't you know a big complaint is that they don't get a lot of help so i think if you go down that route you might exclude them but and the middle income earners are the ones that are probably as much as they can put in the children's allowance away to try and fund sending a young one to college exactly exactly and you know personally i'd love to be in a situation where we go to the root cause of it and tackle you know we're chatting about retrofitting houses we're chatting about you know the green initiative and all this and if we try and move away from this you know this fuel dependence or this energy dependence but unfortunately amen the problem with the retrofitting is you have to front load to avail of it and that excludes the lower income people and much of the squeezed middle and it's those that are it's those that are more wealthy are available are able to avail of the drawing down these funds to retrofit their houses i mean that's when systems set up yeah i want to be as green as anybody else they can you know i would be a big you know shouting about you know we need to be proactive on how we deal with this climate climate change but a lot of the initiatives i'm just simply priced out of it you know the electric car you know retrofitting the house and and i think that that's where we need to be looking at putting whatever whatever money and you're being taxed out of your car but you don't have the option to jump on to a boss so that's another debate for another day but it but not exactly you know you're we are but if you're in Dublin you can say right could it be the Lewis could it be the could it be the i don't know but here it's we just have to take the hit and we have to drive older cars which are even harder uh to to tax and run uh Leonard do you think supports i think you know there's been a couple of strong arguments from both breed and amen there could these supports be better targeted or perhaps you know you're all going to effectively uh hit the squeeze middle again as amen has been mentioning you're just there on a point even about retrofitting like it was an idea there was played out maybe about a year and a half ago two years ago around the election that people on lower incomes that if you went in and they can do these surveys on the house and they can tell them what they will save a retrofitting house and the payback would be the money that they're saving on the electricity bill like let them pay it out back over eight to ten years like you know there is ways around it but there's just no no thinking on it the you as as even said like we all would love to have a green house you know you'd love to have your solar panels that what's the sheer cost but if they'd come up with a scheme you know that you can pay it back but it's not it's not leaving you out of pocket like you kind of just get the impression you could have big developers or international you know investors and property that might say that that's leaving it on a on an uneven playing field or something like that you always just feel as there's someone pulling the strings or lobbying in the background that would block a move like that ain't uh Leonard yeah but that's what I'm saying there is there are ways around these things they're on about just getting our emissions down like you know and helping lower income families like that would that'd be a start and help lower income families like they're just excluded from all these grants and that there because they don't have the money to back it up there okay and another thing too um even when you are taxing your car if you have to tax it every three months because a maybe you don't know if it'll be running in six months or a year or or b because you can't afford to the government actually charges you a premium for paying it in installments the actual government it's not uh liberty insurance anything it's the government charges you a premium for paying your uh tax every three months it's crazy breed isn't it when you think about some of the stuff that goes on it costs more to be poor in this country yeah okay uh right we're gonna be talking about ukraine russia uh the our diplomatic fishermen um and what have you after this 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the buffer zone will be flexible and will keep 60 to 80 kilometers between russian and irish vessels now i can't really quite get my head around this because i'm not sure if fishermen have agreed to stay 60 to 80 kilometers away from the russians or they've moved their fleet 60 to 80 kilometers away from the fishing grounds but u.s president joe biden further to this story is warned there is a distinct possibility russia might invade ukraine next month russia meanwhile says it sees very little ground for optimism in resolving the crisis after the u.s rejected russia's mains demand the buildup of tens of thousands of russian troops on ukraine's border in recent weeks has stoked fear of an invasion russia denies though it is planning attack it's done that before i mean you know there's two here i think i think the whole situation with the russian actions the potential invasion of ukraine will have serious ramifications for all of us and of course there in there is this sort of side story of these war games off the southwest coast i'll start with you breed coran i mean as it relates to uh the fishermen the fishermen seem to know more about what the russians intend to do than the irish government currently well they're from cork and carry those lads know everything and donnie gold brandon bern from kill car yes brandon bern yes very very effective it reminded me when i was watching them on the television last night at that line from the film jaws we're going to need some bigger boats um but all joking aside look at i'm in my 50s i remember in the abbey vocational school in the 80s when i was doing my junior cert and leaving cert talking about um reagan and uh churnichenko and two tribes going to war and i was kind of hoping that maybe something might happen i might get off a maths test or something then hoping something wouldn't happen because i might miss a school tour or something this is cold war politics all over again it's like two lads you know calling each other out for a fight behind the bicycle shed biden and and and uh and putin there's a certain amount of having lived with the cold war in the 80s that there's a bit of hysteria about naval exercises off the southwest coast and then there's part of me that's thinking well actually putin is mad enough to to actually invade and call biden out on this he's calling biden out in a very very strange time in both european and american politics biden is probably seen as being an effective putin's probably chance in his arm and flexing his muscles and seeing just how ineffective biden will be were with barris in number 10 completely ineffective change of leadership in germany it's all it's all a bit scary sometimes but then there's another part of me that thinks that this is just hysteria remember nato came within 32 kilometers of malin head last year there was no fuss about that the russians are coming within 240 kilometers from the southwest coast and you know it's making the front page of every major news was there anything about the coverage yesterday of of irish fishermen going in and and and you know having a you know a bit of crack with with the russian ambassador and was there anything i'd say i'd say putin's sitting in the kremlin wondering who these guys are but did it given the fact i would say there's an awful lot of ukrainians that think this is incredibly serious and incredibly worrying yeah was there anything a little bit icky about how yesterday went down i don't know does that make any sense yeah no i i i get what you're coming from yes i mean there was a very funny letter in the irish independent this morning about this saying that you know putin's you know faced down biden and nato and now he's going to have to deal with um you know uh the osha's the heli rays much more challenging much more challenging and god forbid roi keen you know i mean if roi keen got involved i'd say ruthan would be he's all talk is he come here amen is it something that you're worried about because you know we're concerned about prices and inflation and what have you now but you know if the russians did go into ukraine i don't think there's anyone feels that it could escalate into you know that third world war uh the the threat which hung over uh people in the 80s as as uh breed was referencing there uh but it would have an impact on everyone and the chinese would start saying well we need to flex our muscles uh you know and they could start making moves around them like it could have quite serious ramifications amen ah yeah it could surely greg and in terms of you know i i think putin is just looking he's switching on sky news and he's looking across the water and he's he's looking you know across the atlantic and and he sees this what's going on they say he sees weakness and in terms of stupidity and some of it too um so i'd imagine he's he's he's testing the water but you know it's it's something at all because i had awful anxiety i remember reading about the cuban muscle crisis as a young kid like i just tortured myself and uh awful anxiety when when i see you know the likes of america or um russia you know you were one of those too i found out that it's not just me a lot of a lot of people torture themselves out there and um you know i get nervous when i see them snapping because i know the if something did go wrong or like because if you read up as we've come so close to nuclear war on silly silly things um and when when we are you know button heads when russia and america are button heads it just makes me a wee bit uncomfortable um but i but i also come back that that they're they're two capitalist extreme capitalist governments so there's no money to be made from nuclear war that's the only saving grace business will fix this won't it business will fix it that's that's what will end up being uh the resolution here it's a sad indictment but it's a reassuring thing to know that the great great will keep us all safe that's really confusing in the mind isn't it that it's sad as you know it's it's comforting but it's also absolutely ridiculous uh laddard is it something that that you're worried about or keeping an eye on or do you just like everybody i kind of take an interest but jordan i think it's just posturing too great you sometimes wonder what's going on actually in the russian economy or that is it it's just like a deflection of maybe bad things happen at home that he he can say that he's you know he's getting a handle on this you know it takes people's focus off well if that's the motivation i'm surprised uh uh barris johnson hasn't put the entire british navy along the coast of france i would take one of these boys maybe to open something will happen like i don't know but um no i think it's like everybody else i think it's a lot of posturing and it'll sort it out and it'll go away for another couple of years and a little bit well let's let's hope so listen lennard um excitement obviously in your town as it relates to the st patrick's day parades back again yes great joe i don't probably a lot of towns out there with the lifting of restrictions and you know we're starting to see a bit of a dawn of a new era hopefully uh we had meetings there in the last week or so and we're going ahead with their st patrick's day parade so we're just putting the call out now to uh any town bands and you know any community groups um we're even chatting about you have the new irish now that are about could maybe they'd like to come part of the parade and show off their cultures sports groups volunteers floats but just to make it a that's been a couple of years now since we had a st patrick's day parade so it's just maybe put a bit of bit of life back in the community like we'll get people out and get them smiling and kids especially kids like you know there's some kids that never seen this in patrick's day parade and you know and people laugh about tractors like we're down the street but we're trying to entertain children so sometimes you know kids in a tractor is a great thing too so we just asked anybody who would like to get involved get involved and even in every other town like anybody's having a parade get involved in your local community like and let's try and get life back to a better normality like all right i agree uh we'll be chatting to you in more detail on that in the future amen mickey thank you very much indeed for joining us have you as always don't leave it so long next time hopefully uh the same to you breed uh always a pleasure um not for leo for our car but for the rest of us we appreciate that greatly earlier earlier i know it's give the man a break uh and also uh lennard last but not least have a great one thanks lennard thanks so much and the best luck with everything lennard as well of course you know uh a lot of the stories we were talking about or the one particular story it's very personal and we hope that gets resolved as soon as is possible for you thank 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half price fireside accessories are gone they're definitely gone order online before 2 p.m. for next day delivery or drop by your local home store and more home store and more a happy home live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news it's 10 o'clock good morning i'm kathryn gaffney the hsc chief executive says child and adolescent mental health services are providing a good level of care for those who need it a review published this week found 46 children were significantly harmed after being prescribed inappropriate medication by a junior doctor in the cam service in south kerry the government's indicated those involved will be compensated however it's expected to also lead to a series of medical negligence cases but hsc ceo paul reid says while what happened is wrong it doesn't mean the public can't have faith in cams i don't undermine at all what happened in this case it was wrong by any assessment but i do want to show the public what is in place our whole suite of supports not just in cams which is for a really smaller percentage of people who are suffering with mental illness but a whole range of supports in the community are there and we want to make their make sure they're strong and continue to grow well it's been claimed that families in donnie gall are finding it incredibly difficult to get an appointment with cams local businessman lennard watson who has a child with complex needs has been sharing his personal experience with the service on today's nine till noon show it's understood that it took cams seven months to contact the watson family to say they're on a waiting list for an appointment they've been waiting for over a year now mr watson says it's a huge problem in donnie gall and has branded the current system as disgraceful this is a seven-year-old child here who's got complex needs in that and you know they tell you here's not an emergency you're waiting over a year like you know they just it's just it's just graceful like it's just the whole system needs a full review like you know but it's not just us this is hundreds of families around donnie gall like this is a wider a wider problem in donnie gall and i'm sure other countries too are having some are different problems like you know they'll tell you there is no psychiatrist or the staff that there but you know sometimes you just feel that you're back in your head for brick walley some patients have been waiting over four years for a hospital procedure according to the leading hsc official the target is for our patient lists be down to 18 months by december and a year for inpatient procedures just under 700 000 people are waiting for one of these consultations at the moment tony canavan the chief executive of the sale to hospital group which covers donnie gall says the targets will be difficult to achieve there are patients that are waiting lists that are waiting in excess of four years currently and the numbers of those patients has increased to this age during the covid period the majority of patients are waiting lists are within a two-year time frame the vast majority but there are patients that are waiting for three and even four years for for appointments and treatments there's calls for the hsc to prioritize the restoration of day services at carrandona community hospital the service was withdrawn almost two years ago and it was confirmed in november last year that the hsc property management team were tasked with finding a suitable alternative facility in carrandona consular albert doherty who is a member of the regional health forum west is now in response to a lack of progress by the hsc appealing for assistance from the community to enable the sourcing of a suitable and appropriate facility on tuesday of this week the hsc property management team again said that finding a suitable alternative facility in the carrandona area was proving daunting so i'm making an appeal today again that if there's somebody out there that believes their facility is a suitable facility that will allow and enable us to come back sooner rather than later then please get in contact with myself or which with hsc and a mass to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest days of the troubles is taking place in dairy this evening 13 people were shot dead by british soldiers at a civil rights march on the 30th of january 1972 london sunday took place in the bogside area of dairy and no one's ever been convicted kate nash's brother william was one of those killed and she's still hoping to get justice we've been led a merry dance all the way they've thrown up hurdles told glades dropped the investigation of one point the ps and i but we've had to go through all of that you know so we're still working very hard on them i'm 72 now you know and i hope i can go and i hope the good lord gives me 20 more years to fight this because i'm determined to get justice for my brother weather now a cloudy start with patchy rain and drizzle which will linger into the afternoon and evening might go with temperatures of 9 to 11 degrees we're back with the headlines at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for friday morning the 28th of january the death has taken place of donnie mcbride broad road killing your convoy his remains will repose at his late residents from six o'clock this evening funeral leaving from there on sunday afternoon at quarter pass one four two o'clock funeral mass in st mary's church convoy followed by interment in the new cemetery the house is private to family and close friends only please family flowers only donations and lou if desired to the oncology hematology and icu units letter kenny university hospital care of any family member or terrence mclintock funeral director the death has occurred of mary o'Donnell knee darty three glenner park letter kenny and formerly of minaniri carrick reposing at her late residents family and friends welcome funeral from there tomorrow going to st unit's cathedral for 11 o'clock requiem mass which can be viewed online on church services dot tv interment afterwards and conwell cemetery family time please on the morning of the funeral family flowers only please donations if wished to the donnie gall hospice care of pascal blake funeral director the death has occurred of william mcloughlin davie quill carron donna his remains are reposing at his late residents funeral from there tomorrow morning at 20 past 10 going to st patrick's church o'clock mullin for requiem mass at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. family friends and neighbors welcome the death has taken place of mary mcloskey knee maloy aard kyrthon kill toy letter kenny and formerly of derry baggy door mary's remains are reposing at her home the house is private please funeral from there this morning at half past 11 going to the church of the irish martyrs letter kenny for 12 noon requiem mass which can be viewed live on the parish facebook page interment afterwards in st columbus church cemetery drama hall family flowers only please donations in lieu of flowers if desired to the society of st vincenta paul care of any family member and the death has occurred of joe gallin nine garbablyne road castle dirg joe's remains are reposing at his late home funeral from his late home tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in st patrick's church ahayarn interment afterwards in the adjoining church yard the mass can be viewed via the ahayarn parish webcam for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com porridge or apple apple or porridge get the porridge hello kelly harrington are you in my head i'm just saying if i were you i'd go for the porridge it's a great source of fiber and energy plus it'll keep you fuller for longer how did you get this trust me it's a better choice okay yeah you're right go to woman yourself be like kelly discover better choices under the tree at spa well i have you should i text my ex happy birthday absolutely not and you're very welcome back to the ninth noon show here on highland radio okay time to look at some of your comments before we head to the bingo numbers uh people having difficulty contacting calms good stay well away from them uh are we lemmings here or what that comes in from des who's obviously uh doesn't think it's a great service uh greg russia is taken over from uh covid in what regard i don't understand what you mean by that in terms of the conversation i think when you've got one of the world's biggest superpowers uh sticking a load of its soldiers and equipment on the border of another country is worthy of conversation as usual the people in dublin have got their say with government regarding trying to get people back to the city and deprive them from working from home the custom from people on the street and greedy landlords would be greatly reduced and to hell with people that wanted to see their children grow up they're not happy with the new regulations that have been published if it's beneficial to the employer they will let you work from home if it reduces your effectiveness as an employee or increases their cost base they will not very simple you work for them and a few coming in along those lines as well saying that you know uh the employer needs some uh insulation greg paul reed will get 100 euro office electric bill yep that's that's right there's no opt out paul reed there's no idea what's going on in donningall says this caller cash on a core is only open two days yet the pubs are fully open it's an absolute disgrace and of course too it's not only that it's day services it's people's access to uh nursing homes it's people access to the hospital feeling you have to run the gauntlet just to go in and see a loved one um you know that those rules have not yet been changed a caller says it costs the average household 25 euro per week to heat a house with this new heating system now the council built houses in malin and the average electricity bill every two months now is 400 euro per month this is how expensive this is another those who don't need the 100 euro should return it to the government coffers to be used for society's uh most pressing need that is uh um they're saying gender and neutral uh tran toilets and schools which i i'm not i'm not sure if that's genuinely what you mean i don't think you would feel do you that is uh the pressing need i was offered 70 euro off my bill uh i let the esp put in a digital meter smart meter they call it there's quite a bit of resistance those smart meters actually uh be careful what you wish for by wanting to work from home because if big companies reorganize themselves for their staff to work remotely then it's only a short step from them to outsource it even further to the likes of india and china in order to make further savings on salaries and likes well that is already happening you know uh thinking on the likes of you know customer supports and what have you a lot of that stuff is already um outsourced outside the country another caller says this is going on for as long as the hsc and the northwestern health board all swept under the carpet no help then not now either for me i'm working with people with mental health disabilities now for over 65 years that's the point i was trying to broaden the conversation uh away from the very important obviously situation uh in south kerry but you know we can't pretend for a moment that this is just something that's been uncovered because of a whistleblower in south kerry i think we know that the problems are more widespread and run deeper a caller says it's about time that people stop voting for the same parties who have for many years failed the basic needs of the people in terms of housing health and many other services for god's sake give another party a chance whoever they may be they can't do any worse and we need to change and we didn't need it now this is just the tip of the iceberg um many a more scandal to come they believe um right this caller says um what lennard said is exactly right i was told by my gp to take my child to the emergency department to get on to cams it's an absolute disgrace our health system it just doesn't seem uh the way it needs to be does it um nick on facebook said lennard watson's 100 right all mental health appointments are done by phone covid is just an excuse now someone crying down the phone could just hang up and um take their lives these uh talks need to be face-to-face and personal uh person experience i've seen a mental health appointment uh right okay listen thank you for that it's amazing how the government hoodwinks the opposition into doing its bidding leo fradkar himself suggested to work from home model a year or more ago but now he is everyone demanding it and still they cannot see it yeah i i did spot that as well uh but i think you know um all parties and most parties agree that there is a better way of doing things hello guys listening to you this morning i'm attending a respiratory consultant for the past six years i've only saw her once since covid started it is a joke this is when i need uh the most during covid uh where have they disappeared to another caller says why do they not means test the tv license and all people who get their tv license paid for yet others such as widows get nothing uh right uh could you ask the council when are they going to finish the footpath in bonkranakom in the cock hill road the traffic held up christmas week uh then and now it's just laying there not finished anyone with an update on that let us know and finally just before we take a break hi greg is there any possibility of discussing revolute my grandchildren keep telling me to get up to date and start using it when i asked the bank about it they advised against it but then the grandchildren said of course they wouldn't recommend it because it's taking money from them is it safe for someone older like me to use and how do you get about setting up it is perfectly safe uh for and of course uh the banks are concerned the banks are actually moving into revolute space there are others how do you set it up uh either you or uh one of your grandchildren you go on the revolute website and order the card and then i mean what are the advantages to it uh i think if you travel or if you have younger people they probably want you to be able to transmit transfer money into their revolute cards because that's what a lot of adults do with the younger ones you know rather than giving them cash give them the card you can put money into it the advantage i see if you can put money into it and use the card as you would your regular card but if you lose it you don't lose all of your money there's some insulation there there are other advantages as well uh not massive huge 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millennium forum saturday the 26th of february highland radio time checks brought to you by letter kenny shopping center the center of shopping in dunny all free parking and shopping all under one roof let your kenny shopping center bringing you the time at 10 21 and we welcome katharine to the program good morning katharine morning greg how are you i'm good i'm good right you used to work on site but now you work from home um was that because of the pandemic yeah and how has it changed your life oh i i love working from home i think it's fantastic um it gives me an hour drive in the morning and the evening less driving less wear and tear on my car less will the cost of fuel let's get rocketed so it's cheaper for me to actually stay at home with the minute you were getting an awful lot more bang for your book weren't you because you know that that two hours saved in terms of the the commute but also obviously less out goings you know so you were your salary was worth much more to you plus did you find it affected your productivity one way or other katharine my productivity actually increased greg um i got an awful lot more done because i wasn't um distracted by people coming and going in the office um i find my productivity i just go in sit in the office i have a room set up in the office so i just go in and sit in there you know for the day keep the door closed you know go out when i need lunch breaks or whatever if i need to help out doing anything and um my my productivity has has gone up would the company accept that or has that kind of your your that's just what you believe oh i would imagine i would imagine why i did talk to my supervisor about this and he he did say that he would recommend um should they bring it forcing you back into the office but he would um he would recommend that i i would be allowed to work from home because my productivity my quality everything is perfect so he doesn't see the reason why i wouldn't be allowed but you do fear especially now that we've got a face return to the workplace do you think you'll be called back to the office i do i do fear that i know before whenever we thought we had to go back in um they had told me that if i wanted to get a letter from the doctor you know excusing me from going back to the office for now the numbers were still quite high at that stage i do have health problems as well um that i could i could produce the letter and i would be allowed to stay home but my doctor was only given letters for immune diseases cancers and stuff like that plus that would only probably defer the inevitable anyway absolutely yeah yeah um so how does it make you feel the the i mean obviously there's the financial element of it there's a lifestyle element of it um like are you anxious about going back to the workplace what's your emotions i would be quite anxious about going back to the workplace um i i just know i'm the one more productive at home it fits me better um save on the driving i use i use the travel time now and i actually work overtime because we're very busy at the moment so i use the time that i would have spent traveling and i work overtime i wouldn't be able to do that whenever you know whenever i go back to the office obviously you'd be getting home later and you know your family like dinners all that stuff so that wouldn't be feasible for me to do this you know if i was back in the office so what are you going to do um do you think i don't know if you look through the the legislation it hasn't been passed yet but it's been published i mean there's 13 reasons why your employer can effectively say you know we want you back in the office do you think that you could make a strong argument uh with with what we've seen to work from home well i i do believe that i could personally i could make a strong argument but you know it depends you know the company would say you know whenever you're in the office you know the collaboration is better the team bonding is better you come up with more ideas you know this makes the company look more attractive for you know more business and stuff like that which i understand as well but you know from my perspective you know it just would be you know so much easier for me to work from home yeah but there's a huge labour shortage at the moment and i'm not going to ask you unless you want to offer what you do for a living but have you said have you looked at other opportunities you know is that a practical practical situation for you that you know as i say there's lots of companies looking for good people and they don't mind them working remotely but i'm happy at what i'm doing yeah i'm good at what i'm doing so you know i'm comfortable at what i'm doing um you know maybe it maybe it will it will you know be i will have to look for something else but you know at the at the moment i do i do love my job yeah but you don't know yet um i mean you suspect in fear and of course that's going to play on your mind you don't know for sure yet if a the company will demand you back into office or be um you know whether or not they might accept an or request for you to stay working from home yeah i'm i'm actually nervous about it i was that was the first thing i thought of whenever the all the restrictions was left at last Friday that was the first thing was oh my god i'm going to have to go back to the office yeah and i'd say there's a lot of people in the same boat yeah you know and you know i can be as productive at home you know so i don't see why i would be like forced back to the office but there could be possibly though there could be two or three other people doing similar work to you and not just quite as productive as you are and can they legally sort of say right it's okay for you catherine but uh john and jane we need you back in the office but i think it's going to have to be on a case by case basis if you're meeting your target you know and your productivity your quality is all good you know and you're you know you're willing to go that extra mile like i do you know the overtime and they're late at night if i need to do a call or an outreach later um i do that so you know i'm flexible with them but they're also flexible with me yeah you know so i think i think it probably would be on a case by case basis you know i don't know what the person well that'd be the fair way to do it down the street is working you know they could be you know going and lying down in the bed for half an hour you know and just in terms of just finally catherine in terms of sort of you know the the old you know working for a home or living at work do you find it easy because you have that individual office space to close the door and say right i'm finished work now and now i can chill and do whatever i want to do in my free time or have you had to compromise a little bit on that i wonder no no i i can you know go out close the door you know you know pretty easy well i find whenever i was actually working from home you know or working from the office there would be a lot of times you would have to come home and make a right an outreach later so you would have to come home and take a computer out of your bag set up your computers set up all your work stuff make your call document all your stuff break down your computer entertain that chatty one in the office yeah to me it's so much easier for me but i'm not saying that to everybody you know there's a lot of people you know like the company like you know meeting people in the office a lot of people have it as a social aspect yeah okay interesting kathryn i hope it works out for you because you know it's going well for you now your life has improved uh and it could go back the other way and it's it's it's anxious all times for you and i hope everything works out for the way you want it to thank you all right kathryn thanks for sharing that with us i appreciate it a call us as i work from home from march until june in 2020 blasting all my deadlines and working extremely efficiently but i was the only employee in my office with children and was brought back to complete admin work in the office four days per week while paying for childcare stressed over being close contacts etc while everyone else stayed at home to complete work including my manager hi greg in my opinion the big businesses will not stay in letter kenny and pay big overheads for an empty building or one that isn't being used to full capacity it doesn't make sense they will move their company to online services in other countries which have cheaper wages and less hassle it also affects jobs in other areas of those buildings when people start working from home catering cleaners security not sure it'll be the best move which all very very good points hi greg i thought that all offices were open trying the tax office and they are only open two days a week thank you well they are uh you know offices of the state uh so unfortunately that is it tuesdays and thursdays i think if someone gives you a job get up and go to work it's a privilege and not a right to have a job it's like people feel the world owes them something earn your way do the job you're employed to do when you're asked to do it but of course the point being it's not that people are looking for a handy life it's possible that they can work from home and it's better for the company there is that element of it too all right here's pulp okay that is uh pulp and uh we're saying happy birthday for mom grandmom mrs kathryn roland's of letcher mack award who's 82 years old today all i love to her from ruby fletcher hannah jonathan pierce gail florence kevin and donna and that comes in from donna have a really happy birthday mrs kathryn roland so i'm sure you'll be uh treated really really well um okay we'll be back with more on the program after the break the night all new show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval 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sunday evening after the six o'clock news the business matters podcast is also available to download at heilvideo dot com business matters in association with letterkenny it's faculty of business applications are now open for the highly regarded masters in leadership and innovation in the public sector also a masters in governance compliance and data protection in financial services and a certificate in online dispute management visit la it dot ie for more information now events will take place across donnell and the country this weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday a vigil in letterkenny will take place and others an event in boncran it as well on january the 30th 1972 thousands of people took part in a civil rights march in dairy to protest against the policy of interment without trial soldiers from the british armies parachute regiment opened fire on the peaceful protests killing 13 people a 14th died later from his wounds many others were injured and eyewitnesses including clergy and journalists said the british soldiers fired indiscriminately and without provocation and that none of those kills killed had been armed amongst those that died was kevin macklehinney he was shot dead his sister is gene hegrity and she joins us now gene thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us today good morning um it's hard to believe it's 50 years it's 50 years of lost 50 years of grieving and 50 years continuing in the search for for actual justice here yes and justice while we have a degree of truth we still have not justice yet no soldier has faced a court and it would seem given the policies of Boris Johnson and his government the the possibility of that seems further away than ever it seems further away but we'll continue to struggle and continue to fight it till we can fight no more what are your memories of that day uh gene well uh i'm not sure if you're familiar with it but i actually didn't live in dairy i immigrated to canada in 1968 so my memories of that day are a cold winter's afternoon uh ice skating with my three-year-old daughter and coming home and hearing news that uh there was i think at the the first announcement was there was six dead in dairy gunmen and bombers and you're like horrified that dairy is getting mentioned on the news in toronto and you're really horrified and then um i suppose it's not it's hard to explain this and it's not going to sound good but it's gunmen and bombers and i don't know many gunmen and bombers so you're concerned and you're not concerned um however that news made me pay attention to the news you know that that making sure that i would see the news that was on a few hours later and i get you you you got the sense of you got the sense of something horrific had happened but at that point it wasn't a personal loss yeah i understand exactly so then how did more news begin to emerge for you gene well the news uh the news didn't change for me i mean the number changed later that the news that evening the number had increased and again there's this horror that this is on dairy streets but then you reckon you know there's a thing again because at this point i didn't know and i wasn't made aware of my brother's death till the following morning yeah and and so far removed as well i mean it was incredibly difficult for everyone but when you're on the other side of the world and all you want to be at that time i presume is is is at home yes and and you must remember we're talking 1972 back then we didn't have a telephone at home i only spoke to my mother once or twice a year and when i did that i would have to call a neighbor's house and say i'll call back in an hour can you get my mommy dying so um it was very very difficult however i was able to travel home from my brother's funeral yeah uh you later returned to live in dairy and that's when you became involved in the Bloody Sunday Justice campaign and it's been such a long time just listening back to uh the conversation amongst the soldiers on that day uh and just the brutal instruction to to shoot dead and then the defense of it and the full accusations uh labeled against those that died and others that took part in this this this this peaceful rally and then having to wait almost four decades for the british government to uh you know to and to officially recognize that those that were killed were innocents i mean this is lifetimes we're talking here just for the most basic level of of recognition of the truth definitely the most basic because while the sabal report gave us the truth and declared our loved ones innocent it did it was very very long on innocence but very very short on guilt so nothing has happened regarding guilt and of course uh with this amnesty uh that the british government is pushing uh as i said earlier on in this interview that the getting people help people being held responsible uh is going to be difficult what needs to be done now from your perspective well from the bloody sunday families perspective we'll continue to fight and we'll continue to do what they can to oppose uh the sameness devil that he intends to put through i don't know what we'll do but we'll we'll fight on yeah but you know like again this is this is it's so many people are affected by this so many people uh you know whose sons uh whose family were murdered uh who who died while this process was going on others involved in the fight for justice you know uh getting getting older uh and this has dominated their lives for so long i mean something needs to be done for for these people doesn't it jean you amongst them of course you i mean you know you are directly affected by this oh indeed it does but i mean uh we can continue to fight but with the stroke of a pen the british government could amend that do you think the irish government could do anymore uh and i hope me hill martin has sort of said you know uh he is he's he's uh been kind of critical of the amnesty bill but could the irish government be doing any more do you think well they could continue you know they could continue their opposition to it um i mean i suppose well and the other thing is that this european thing i am not by any means up on this subject but the european court of human rights and that they could be pushing that side and even though as i understand it while britain might have left the common market this the european court acted by that common market thing so they can continue to represent our cause in that arena yeah and what what does sunday mean to you how would you market gene oh well i'll uh be taking part in all of the activities that are planned for the city and it's kind of like god i can't believe it's 50 years um and reminiscences and oh a whole range of emotions you know i mean there's a certain degree of comfort that we have got so much from the british government but it is only so much and they can do so much more and they still can hide uh and protect the soldiers yeah and i say just listening back to the audio and coverage at that time it was clear what was going on wasn't it well it was clear to everybody that was here um and it was um but it was i guess it's typical of british army actions yeah all right listen thanks for for joining us this morning i appreciate it and i hope you get everything that that that you want and thanks for joining us keep hoping thanks okay take care of yourself uh that is uh gene hegerty there her brother 17 year old kevin macklehinney was shot dead on bloody sunday and as gene said there it's hard to believe it's 50 years later and some progress has been made but the search for justice and the campaign for justice goes on um and uh a lot of people are using the 50th anniversary to try and you know bring it to the fore in terms of conversation and try and get some progress in that regard okay you are tuned to the 9 till noon 9 till noon show here on highland radio we'll be back with more actually do you know what we'll do i'll take comments before i go to the break because they're very important to us as i always say um is there a finished plan is is there a finished plan if the port road greg thanks daniel i'm not sure what you mean daniel is there a finished plan uh just send us another text back in there and i'll try and get an answer for you hi greg making dinner yesterday the glass on my cooker broke into a million pieces with a mighty bang did this happen to anyone else ask your listeners thank you wow that would be scary uh the glass in the oven just smashed reminds me of what the stories we hear about those uh velux windows um i don't know has that happened to anyone else before a terrible shock hi greg do you or any of your listeners know can people in the age bracket of four to 39 years old get a covid recovery cert to use for international travel thank you um i presume you would have to contact your uh gp i can't imagine why they couldn't but are you saying if maybe you weren't tested um but i think they accepted the i don't know i've switched off a little bit from that and i don't mean that in any way badly i'll try and get an answer for you uh anyone out there who got from four to 39 who got a recovery cert um how did you do it uh it's for international travel good morning i was wondering if you can help me what are the regulations about traveling to scotland from arland on the 10th of february if you're not vaccinated i've read several articles online but each one is different so i was just hoping for some definitive answer thanks in advance keep up the good work anyone out there know what the situation is the february 10th is some time away um i know from february first uh though that the rules are changing in that if you are vaccinated you can travel pretty much freely if you're traveling from scotland into northern arland i'm not sure you'll need anything but if it's into dublin i'm not quite sure uh probably a negative uh a negative pcr uh thank you better for people to work away from home for their mental health for sure uh for some though it's greatly improved their mental health but i appreciate it uh what happened in uh south kerry with these children is horrendous unthinkable but no uh nothing new we only know about it because it was found out almost 20 years ago my sister was left in a wheelchair after an operation where a man removed a disc from her back it was covered up and was made settle her case outside the high court a call us as a huge failure of a health service top heavy and inefficient has been for years and we let them run with the biggest scam of all time covid rolling excuse for all failings for uh ever and a day calms mental health to slay have no guidelines on parental alienation that results in suicide as well the northern arland health minister has even admitted it does the not fit for service children's parents and society are suffering uh if there weren't as if there wasn't as much money um i'll come back to that uh it's about who you know or how long you've been a yes man culture in the hsc and too so that has led to all these scandals and crises we just skip from one until the next boss comes along and splashes us and we get caught in it last week's violence against women men forgotten week previous hickory report on snorler have we ever had a government civil service hsc too so ever fit for purpose i don't feel for a second that uh because we were talking about um a specific concern that women have women have it okay uh about violence towards them and 48 000 people um 48 000 uh times the guard yet to in one year alone uh had to answer domestic violence uh calls the majority of women but of course yes men aren't forgotten men were involved that as well uh but you know i i don't mention and feel threatened or forgotten because we talk about trying to make women feel safer and making sure they're safe i don't understand why they should uh can't understand uh there is a health crisis with children and the government says it will be discussed next week in the doll why can it not be discussed here and now uh this is a disgrace well the health ministers uh off outside the country and uh the leading civil servant in the hsc is away with them as well so that's uh probably part of the reason the nine till 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 at your local centra we have great offers like meridian crunchy and smooth peanut butter one kilo half price now 494 each centra fresh arse sirloin steak 454 gram only five euro and until sunday heineken 20 bottle box only 23 euro centra live every day enjoy call sensibly as you start rediscovering northern ireland again we want you to explore with confidence that's why we've introduced the we're good to go industry standard for tourism and hospitality businesses so 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ambassador was it surreal in any way or did it just feel really quite normal well it certainly was different and it was far from normal it's something you don't do every day i would imagine look at it was an initiative of the ambassador to invite representatives of the fishing industry to meet with him to find out the concerns that we genuinely had in relation to this proposed drill by the russians which is to take place off the southwest coast so in that regard it was a welcome initiative because there was such a lack of information and any clarity about what was going to happen down there at the beginning of february and both patrick murphy and i uh clearly outlined the concerns of the fishing industry the potential impact it has on the ecosystem in that uh the sensitive area and the impact it potentially has with sonar activity on whales and mammals and indeed fish stocks versus a valuable breeding ground in that general area and what assurances were you given as much as you can divulge well look it uh we we articulated our concerns in in the sense that we didn't know the scale of the activity we were relieved to hear that it's much lesser scale than what's been reported in some media outlets uh i think if you look at the marine tracking systems today i think there's three vessels of the russian navy heading for that general area they're off scotland at the minute so firstly it's it's three vessels apparently and secondly uh because it's a vast area that they've indicated that the drill will take place from 1700 square miles so the inflexibility and where they'll be within there so we highlighted the more north they go the more difficult it is on us in the porcupine bank and in the porcupine sea bite so if you could avoid that they said they would take that on board and report that to mosco to see would they get the flexibility necessary to avoid any scenario where there could be potential overlap between the irish fishing vessels in terms of the concerns you had about sonar or you know death charges or explosions uh were you given any reassurance in that regard and we were given clarity that in actual fact it's all uh airborne uh ordinates that will be discharged and we certainly were led to believe that the the number of them won't be as large as what's reported and of course that's operational matters and indeed it's subject to the approval of what mosco does or says in the coming days so the purpose of the exercise was to really say to the russian authorities that this is a valuable fishing ground and you need to be aware of that and sensitive to the delicate nature of the ground this is a supporting argument the government should have been having but that's what i was going to say to you because you know this should have been something i'd imagine you go to the minister for the marine or something or the department of defense or whomever might be responsible simon coveny whoever uh and and they were they would relate to you the reassurances they received to sort of have a fishing organization and association uh liaised directly with uh another country to the point whereby you know it was a bit of an education for the government there's something missing there in diplomacy one must conclude i think you've put your finger on it there greg completely and the anomaly is that i'm actually a matter for the department of transport and matter for the department of foreign affairs marine has no say in it which is bizarre so the ministers accountable here are ministers ryan and coveny and the entire industry and i'm speaking for the entire industry apart from notification they received at nine thirty on the evening before we met the ambassadors that was the only correspondence we had got from them so there is serious questions to be asked there in terms of this is this is the ocean and there's fishermen earning a little livelihood from it they're daily bread and uh no one saw fit to consult them and finally is it a little bit ironic that it seems the russians are perhaps more understanding or more likely to listen to irish fishermen than the EU might be yes i can't argue with that the track record at the minute in in terms of engagement and getting traction at europe is poor now we have engagement with russian that remains to see have we got the traction that we hope or that we felt that we had got yesterday this is the the arena of diplomacy and a lot can happen between now and then i'm not being pessimistic and being realistic there uh but i can safely say we put the argument of the industry and we did it on our own initiative in the absence of the relevant ministers taking any responsive action on on our behalf but finally very quickly you know the images of the meeting uh were were posted on on on russian websites you know and obviously you come out and uh you know spoke very constructively and and quite positively of the russian diplomat and his team do you feel that maybe you've been uh used a little bit uh as a pr stunt look it there's a danger in that there's an actual danger in that when you meet a minister or government even in her own country are you who's using who here so uh yes you could be news we could have been upon for the day to positively portray russia but my motivation and patrick murphy's motivation was to represent the sector that advise us and that's the fishermen no apologies for that we had no well i apologize if i if i in any way uh went into the political arena but we were desperate to find information in terms of the safety and well-being of the fishermen at sea we're desperate to find how we can avoid any scenario that should have been avoided with the sharing of information and the only door that was open to us was the russians we took their invitation and i certainly hope there was no political permutation to that and obviously you know there's a there would be people in the ukraine who are very fearful of what might happen to them perhaps someone might say arguably you know under greater threat life at risk and what have you did you feel that you had to be sensitive you know to to those concerns that it looked like maybe you were you know paddling your own canoe a little bit when there's a much bigger picture here there is always a bigger picture regardless of what you do in life but we have real stark reality facing us we had this scenario where these war games are going to take place adjacent to valuable fishing grounds that anytime there could be 60 vessels there and in the absence of any information we had to take action to protect the livelihoods and the life of those that will be fishing in that general area and had we alternatives there was potential alternatives that we got some information from our own government we didn't and this was the only initiative open to us okay brendan listen i mean it's a it's a story to tell at the very very very least we appreciate you sharing it with us thanks very much thank you all right take care former councillor brendan burn there and also currently the CEO of the irish fish processors and exporters association right it's 11 o'clock michael and fenula will be joining us in the not too distant future but it's time now for a news update and we cross over once again and say good morning to kathryn gaffney thanks greg good morning the doll has been told that work is underway in almost 6000 premises in donnie gall under the national broadband plan the figure was provided in the doll in response to donnie gall south donnie gall deputy marian harkin it has led to fears though that it could be 2026 before many homes in the northwest have access to broadband the hse chief executive says child and adolescent mental health services are providing a good level of care for those who need it a review published this week found 46 children were significantly harmed after being prescribed inappropriate medication by a junior doctor in the cam service in south meanwhile it's been claimed that families in donnie gall are finding it incredibly difficult to get an appointment with cams local businessman lennard watson who has a child with complex needs has been sharing his experience with the service on today's nine till noon show it's understood that it took cam seven months to contact the watson family to say that they're on a waiting list for an appointment they've been waiting for over a year now some patients have been waiting for four years for hospital procedures according to a leading hse official the target is for outpatient lists to be down to 18 months by december and a year for inpatient procedures there's calls for the hse to prioritize the restoration of day services at carrandona community hospital the service was withdrawn almost two years ago there were 46 people awaiting admission to letter kenny university hospital this morning according to the latest trolley watch report seven people were on trolleys in its emergency department while a further 39 were waiting on wards and i'm asked to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest days of the troubles is taking place in dairy this evening 13 people were shot dead by british soldiers at a civil rights march on the 30th of january 1972 that's it for an hour back with another update for you at 12 noon okay kathryn thank you very much and we'll be back with more after the break the nine till 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 backstage bar and grill is open for breakfast lunch and dinner seven days a week if you are looking for a healthy option this january we have a great selection of delicious salads sandwiches and more we also have a tasty vegan menu call century complex and<PHONE_NUMBER> to book your table beat the cost of brexit and no customs charges do you need a uk address for your limited company or personal use space hub and dairy can 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or anything else when you're sick stay at home and get a test to protect yourself and others from covid 19 from the hsc for us all okay you're very welcome back to the program it's time to welcome onto it now our regular guests at this time every friday finula rabbits and michael leddie good morning to both of you good morning it's good to have you with us oh yeah i didn't do the mic thing did uh how are you hello can you hear what i can't hear you now right you can just sit there looking start as you mean to continue i do have you i do have you now all right okay i don't see bell fast on any of these sheets the film chatting about it this morning i used to get to see it i'm leaving that to finula no i'm sorry now but um i have a massive date with my seven-year-old nephew he rang me there last week to say tell me that he felt that i'd really enjoy sing to and that it would be really good if we went he's getting very persuasive that young man so we're going to sing too with eight of my nephews and nieces has a future as a telemarketer is there any other adults going uh well my uh my other nieces supposed to be okay that's a lot of because it's a lot of young people no it's it's fine they're in the cinema okay don't leave uh make them pee beforehand that's the key exactly and um no so i'm interested in what the listeners think of bell fast because yeah it is uh it's been broadly um praised and welcomed um mackayla loved it uh in studio here mackayla loved it she's watched it multiple times i believe oh caroline didn't so much enjoy it and catherine was somewhere in between okay oh eight six six six twenty five thousand did you watch bell fast tell us what you thought yeah david liked it as well when he went see but i'd love to hear from people who actually uh kind of grew up during the similar type of times you don't mean that kenneth brandon was there in because it's kind of semi-autobike yeah it's my friends of mine enjoyed it as well i got a thumb it got a thumbs up from from people i know who saw it so that does make me want to see it sooner rather than later but yeah okay you hear the performances are excellent but i just wonder whether is it the story that some people find you know sometimes they can do things with the story for different audiences that well listen none of our guests here can review it so if you can review it oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand are called mackayla though mike and sony if they call mackayla and they are critical of it she might not actually pull it through if she likes it that much she might start tearing it down she says that's what she'll do if you're critical of it i can't hit you on that sorry i cut them off before we get on to your list none of you've started the next season of ozark no on no i'm ready to start season three i'm a bit behind i finish season two on monday uh one of the lads i shared the house with has watched it and was like he was going about the house going so good now it's so good now i presume greg you've seen it you were going to watch it last weekend i started watching it yeah and maybe seven episodes eight but it's half it's half a season half a season i think you're at a great advantage because i found that even with the catch ups it took me a while to figure out what had happened yes because stuff happened in season one it's two years hasn't it happened in season three yeah but there's a thing in it right and i'm not sure you can tell me because you're watching it currently uh they do it now in boxing an awful lot particularly dizone and a couple of others right it's where they shoot something and the subject matters it could be a box of walk and string but in this case it's the character and it's the the focus is locked on them right and everything in in the background is blurred out is that the same i don't know if they've just started doing that in season i have not noticed that in season two right well in season four sorry they have definitely started doing it and i hate it okay you know because i even when ring walks or whatever i like to see you know what the audience do what what's happening in the background that kind of stuff on a tv screen particularly on a larger tv screen you want to look around and see what's in the background but they force you to look at the character and then there's another character completely out of focus and they switch that and it it drives me up the wall do you know on a zoom call where people blur out the background yeah it's it's it's it's it's it's very very yeah no i've seen it on a few other dramas where they've started introducing i don't in a drama i don't understand it really puts me off like for the boxing in that you can kind of see well maybe they're worried the people who's walking past will suddenly do a gesture i want to be there i want to but in the arena well i suppose that's true you want to get the atmosphere is this the new drone footage now where every show is going to do it you know worse than the drone footage yeah yeah i don't know why they're doing it i i don't know anybody that says oh wow that's a really helps the story longer does it's like one of those things once you see you can't unsee it i hope i've not ruined it for others but i just like to see this sir i mean how many films do you talk about particularly you finula but you too michael where you say the scenery is beautiful or you know yeah yeah yeah absolutely and this is forcing you to look at characters when you might want to look at other stuff well actually one of the things we might chat about today off my list i will i will say how much i like looking at the streets behind them so yeah yeah just go straight into it man oh it's a it's a french language sitcom it's coming back for his third season on netflix called the hookup plan i've mentioned it before it's a wonderful light frothy silly comedy that i've loved for years this is the third and final season uh last year or two years ago because of the lockdown they didn't do a full season they did a double length episode about the characters in lockdown i watched that on sunday night as a primer for season three it's a really interesting episode because most of the episodes are just misunderstandings and convoluted things this was actually quite a semi-serious episode still funny but it was very different and i thought well that's amazing that the show is dubbed i watch it with the subtitles on but with netflix you can just you can go to the do the original subs or is it the netflix subs because you know obviously you know some of the netflix translation can be you know really quite literal right with it being a comedy yeah how's that working i've not noticed anything i've not noticed a second i've not noticed any great yeah okay there's a couple of good french comedies on netflix because they have the one the agent which i'm sure you've seen as well i'm aware no but i haven't seen it no i just assumed you might so i might check it yeah i yeah you're you know what you're interacting and stuff yes but yeah it's about the it's the exact same kind of a thing it's just french and subtitles but it's about like it's sort of an i'd say she's a d actress rather than an a okay it's trying to like get get on and part of the appeal and that coming back to what we said is i like the fact that they're filming in the suburbs and the side streets of paris and we get to see parts of this city that an american or english production going to paris might necessarily film but it's a very silly upbeat like it's all about misunderstandings with a group of young people and and it's it's good it's very good show and this is the last season and i do recommend it if you want a silly light laugh what would you what would it be the similar to it reminds me of because of the misunderstandings you know those episodes of frazier where there would be misunderstandings and they might all go and stay in some uh winter chalet but you know frazier might like the girl who likes niles and niles might want to get with dafney it's a bit like that because in the show two girlfriends set up their third friend they hire an escort to date her basically to get her out of a slump but she falls in love with the guy and then the friends have to keep paying him to see her and then one of the friends starts lying about who she's seeing and it just gets more and more complicated it's very silly but sometimes you just want something that's not set in the real world it's just that yeah yeah i'd love to tell you for that reason i don't want to watch and the three ladies it's the core of it and they're adorable i just they feel like real friends i can't believe sometimes that they're i'm like ah they must really be three best mates because they're just so great together all right the first review of belfast is in myself and two kids went to see belfast on tuesday the children are aged 16 and 13 no ties to any of its and you know a reference in your comment but it was a lovely message um across put across that regardless of religion we are all the same there were sad parts funny parts but very heartwarming good review maybe caroline's just cynical i just a cynic we've ground her down to the point where she can see no joy in a film i feel you i feel you feel brave because she's not here oh 100 percent and i know she's not this thing hope nobody texts her and says check what greg said at level 14 right okay um what do you want to talk about first on your list fenula sorry what are you giving yours out of 10 oh i'll give it a seven and you know for a light frothy comedy for what it is for what it is and i do really love this show and i was so happy to see they were coming back for a third season lovely so that was the hawkup plan available for those of you have netflix okay fenula so when i started watching and i know some people who don't have sky are going to find this hard but i'm hoping that it's going to show up on rte shortly which i think that it will is this new show on sky atlantic it's on thursdays at nine o'clock and it's called the gilded age and it is written and uh produced by the same people that did down to nabby and basically if you love down to nabby i think you're going to love this too it's they've sort of moved down to nabby to america so it's set in the type of era which i still haven't kind of worked out the exact year of it but it's kind of like the vanderbelts you know the asters that kind of a thing so i would imagine you're sort of talking back in the 20s and 30s i think it's before the great depression based on it they haven't really referenced a year in it but it's railways coming in all this kind of thing it could it maybe it's even further back than i think but it's in that sort of uh a near at that time that it's set and people have ginormous wealth like in the beginning with this woman walks into her new house and the architect is like i didn't want to make it too big and ostentatious and it's like eight stories high you're just like you know this kind of like ridiculous money so it's very much in that same kind of vein that you have all these people what are they really doing with their lives what is the point to them but it went amazingly because it's set in america you would assume that there would be less of a class system but there's actually more so i think this could really build into more layers now it's been on sky it's coming down week by week so um you kind of have to wait the first episode was an hour and a half long you got to meet the people upstairs which is all you have the old money in new york then you have all this like new railway money trying to get in trying to you know become acceptable the old money rejecting them then we have a couple of um people downstairs in the old houses and in the new houses so you're talking seeing the lives of the servants and that that are working for them and but what they've also done then is they've added another layer which i suppose i don't know enough about it today but it may not have been as much of an issue in uh in the era of downton and that which was uh which is race and obviously race in america so you do have another family where this young girl is after coming in and she's a secretary to one of the very wealthy people and she's a lady of color so i just think it's going to have a lot of layers and there's some really really good um actors that you'll have seen not necessarily in major role but you've seen them in loads of stuff and you kind of recognize them all along the way is the lady from the good wife who has a bit of good fighting with christine bern yeah christine bernski yes she's in a two days she's the the most uh recognizable character that i've seen in it you know the classic actress the critic's awesome the critics love it eight out of ten audience not so much 67 out of a hundred can you understand that i do because to be honest i was a bit ify about the first one but i would stick with it i think it's first of all the cast is vast because you've got these two you've got it took enough light on itself in the first hour and a half in order to be able to introduce you and to make you actually care about any of these people and also i think it's going to be one of those shows where even the people that you feel that you should like you're going to have difficulty liking programs like this and down to naby i just never got around to watching it nor will i um because i know it's not my thing yeah just anything happening in them or is it just like the waltons or something like i mean well i suppose there's a similarity to it but it's a bit like down this is this feels like it's going to be a little bit more cut throat right then downtown was very much all these people living in these beautiful lives and they're dealing with more serious issues isn't it well it was just in downtown they were dealing with serious issues you had like the war you had lost you had different things like that you had uh class uh issues of uh upstairs downstairs in class upstairs those are just what i was about to mention they touched on um gay rights they touched on uh you know women's rights different things so different things do come up on it but to be honest that's not really what you're there for it's really like just a family drama so you're not really there for any of the big issues they're fighting it happened i mean you could say the same thing about things like brothers and sisters you could say the same thing about a lot of those kind of family drama they're not hugely plot driven it's not like achieving something it's about the emotions the character and the journey that the characters are on this is looks like it's going to be full of very strong characters you have like and and they all have their ups and down christine bransky plays a person who's you know she had to marry money when she was younger and now she's kind of the old guard then you have uh this new this younger woman who's trying to get get in on it and her husband is way wealthier than all of these other people but because she's new money they're all looking down their nose and like she holds an event expecting 200 people to come and eight show up so it's very much party party party so it's and yet at the end of it she's lying in bed all upset and you're like she needs some tips from boris johnson how to throw good party he can he can get them to turn up to get them to turn up no matter what but but even in the end of it as she's lying they're all upset you're kind of like yeah i'm not sure whether i feel sorry for you so she's a bit up you kind of think she's that maybe she is being a bit up but he i have a feeling that uh you know uh as the series progresses if it's a low if it's a low audience rating obviously they add reviews as it goes on and that can bring the audience right now by say by the end of the run it might be closer to the eight plus as a series goes on you get more invested in these characters you know episode one episode two you're like by episode 10 you're like i like her i want things to work out for her and you're more invested and i think too with with people like yourself and this is not in any way a criticism or a joke but do you know how you say it's from the people of danton abbey and maybe if you like danton abbey you might like this i think initially people go in expecting these exactly yes yeah and there's an inherent disappointment that then obviously if it's a good show it bounces back from yeah this is well and in this it's more to be honest the best way of describing the first episode was like a series of teasers because you kind of learned a tiny little thing about maybe 30 characters oh and you know the way it's a lot of people yeah because you were introduced you don't mean to the servants you were introduced to all these different people in it their children you know that's sort of an extended how far in are you so it's all it's only coming down one at a time with the ones you can't watch also just watch the first one and i would definitely give it a strong eight and and and we'd come back to it again because there's a lot of characters that you'd like to know a bit more about and if they and very good as i said some great actors in it that i think is really good to mean the you know the quality and standard of performance in it is going to be very good is that something you're likely to watch i would be tempted i read about it because of christ because of the casting it would tempt me the subject matter wouldn't the casting would so i don't know why it's going to go in the long run now either of you seen boiling point i think it's available on apple i don't know if it's part of the package or you you can watch it but it's very highly rated um yeah it's um on rotten tomatoes both the critics and the audience love it a listener does as well it's 98 percent from 66 reviews for critics and 50 plus ratings from the audience have given it 82 percent okay the caller says have the review seen boiling point we've answered that question no i'd love to hear what they thought of it but it looks like it's very well looks like it's very well yeah um what do you think of young sheldon i think it's great either of you i'm a huge fan of big bang theory finishing off the last episodes at the moment wasn't tempted to at all by young sheldon and yet the episode i watched this week of big bang had a grown-up version of a character from young sheldon and then i started reading about young sheldon and i thought maybe it's better than i'm assuming i've read actually some good reviews this week it's good i mean it's definitely one you could sit down and watch it with the family and that kind of thing you see it on rt it's like about seven o'clock it's in the fourth series i think is out is just is out now it still hasn't come over to this side of the pond as they say waiting for it to land usually it hits um channel four first it's it's been very it's very much in the kind of vein of the big bang theory it's that kind of laughs and that sort of a thing in it you know you have this young kid growing up in texas he's a genius that if you like he doesn't he doesn't whatever it's him going through high school now and then in the third series he started college now in the fourth series and this is what i'm interested to see how they manage it and still keep it funny they're really bringing in a lot of family relationship they kind of touched on it um is the uh in the last series there was a whole thing about uh the father was kind of uh getting friendly with one of the neighbors and the sheldon's father has always been brought up in kind of i'd say 60 derogatory 40 nice terms on the on the you know during the big bang theory and this is kind of where all that is stemming from so i'm not too sure how they're going to manage it together but uh but the brothers and sisters which if you watch the big bang theory you know sheldon has a twin and he has an older brother who's uh a tire whisperer and georgey and missy what is a tire whisperer he can just look at a tire and he can sense oh it is as ridiculous as it sounds yeah he can look at a tire and he can sense and feel where the uh puncture is he's very good on big bang and the episode of big bang he owns a load of tire shop had the best friend from young sheldon who he had who sheldon had rejected and blanked for like all these years so i i felt like an episode where they were like we need to deal with this because he has a best friend as in one show who he's never mentioned in 11 seasons of our show we better sort it out so yeah you're going to be disappointed yeah okay okay great horror series marble hornets i've just discovered this little jam about the male critic beside you in a studio will know this one it sounds like his type of program it does baby but i don't know what it is no i'll write that down because people have been listening to you for some time know my life and all the type of stuff that you might like okay a great film a great comedy is the film of fools and horses called the jolly boys outing carol so yeah feature length version of yeah there was one of them that was one of the yeah yeah yeah that's yeah they were good good laughs maral I did my excellent i mean never has a man fallen over been so funny as it is and only fools and horses yeah i think it was rated the the funniest moment yeah it's just so funny we really miss the likes of the x-factor britain's got talent and the voice i could live without britain's talent um i don't i don't like that format of that program and the x-factor i used to love the x-factor um but particularly when they started doing the canned audience applause is and you know the the crowd coming in and out and all this kind of stuff and you could see in the background the crowd was sitting on their hands you know i that's that was enough to put me off that program just when they started artificially generating the audience reaction reaction and the voice i've not really watched that mass singer is on now so i suppose that's what they're kind of people can watch for four minutes someone i don't understand it i've never seen someone singing in a costume you can't see their mouth or nothing so it's the mystery isn't i see people on social media are there songs or something or so i have watched three or four minutes of them dressed up as a dragon or something yeah but that's but it is their voice apparently and then you're supposed to be trying to guess who the person is so i'm assuming maybe that's the thrill the song only is i see it on social media i don't watch it either but i really like it i love it i've never even watched it now it love it because i'm not a big as i said say yes to the dress i'm disappointed to hear great i was hoping greg was going to incorporate canned applause and canned laughter into our slot but apparently from what you just said greg it's not happening i just don't know when it'd be appropriate to use all laughing i'll just go it's hard it's hard to find where that might actually fit right right right young sheldon makes you laugh say it's a listener it's a happy program to us yeah do you know what what a simple review great review though do you know what i mean yeah i love it i watch it because i enjoy it yep well i that's that's why i'm always searching for what's gonna feel i still haven't found it that might be well you watch my half hour comedy i love to have a good half hour comedy and you watch superstore i've watched superstore finished it but i wasn't happy the finish was a bit i haven't seen the finish yet so um but yeah i love that show brooklyn99 is finishing up now entirely which i did like but so far it's not all right um we're going to be talking about 40 years of rocky after we take this break the night till new show is brought to 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only just got lotto machines installed sure when i was five i was in america so i could have totally seen it over there probably yeah it might have been your first time in the cinema i totally i do know it's one of those movies that you kind of think all you saw when it was first out but it might have been two or you know a couple years later it might have been so too they might have done a 10th anniversary re-showing up but you know they do that now it's possible something along those lines and you may not have seen it up until then sometimes those movies that are kind of part of your zeitgeist or part of your thinking and you just assume i think mine was the best gregg i said yeah you weren't born for lula i think that was better than yours just but no one's falling for that that's why i'm not having a go because she yeah she loves her birthday so much she celebrates them twice in the one year twice yeah i do have her birthday very good but already you're showing this on sunday evening in 10 to 6 and it's sylvester stalone and what's interesting about this one is it's got home movies and stuff from around that time because as anyone knows i'm sure you know this was very much his project his script he had a hard time getting it off the ground so you get to see behind the scenes 40 years later and you get to see home movies and obviously stuff where they were doing prep if you're a fan of those movies and i checked this morning most of them are on amazon so a couple of years ago gregg you remember i watched all the rambo movies from the beginning to the end i think it's time to do the rockies so i'm gonna start at one and work me well go up to creed i'll go right up yeah i will you i'll go the whole way through so i would say he i don't know how is he viewed you know i think because of the the roles he takes on and what have you that maybe he um for them a lot of people doesn't get doesn't get the credit he deserves in that as an actor huge and yeah he wrote it and he wrote subsequent films and he's written other films um