of emerging areas. Their aim is to reach a potential life-threatening emergency in the first vital minutes before the ambulance crew arrives and provide the appropriate care including CPR and defibrillation until the more highly skilled ambulance crew arrives on the scene to take over the treatment. No previous experience is required for interested parties and full training will be provided. Roddy Smith, an advanced paramedic with the National Ambulance Service, Newton Cunningham CF4 and Irish Red Cross will be a guest speaker at the public meeting, which is due to take place on Monday, August 21st at 8pm in the Lake of Shandles Hotel, Bunkrana. There's been a record level of philanthropic donations made to causes in Ireland. The Community Foundation Ireland's annual report shows grants of 27.2 million euro were given out to communities here last year. Over 7.5 million euro was used in direct response to the war in Ukraine, while funding was also used for causes working on climate action and combating sexual violence. The Foundation has a network of 5000 voluntary community and charitable partners across the country. Director of Communications Jerry O'Connor says gift-giving by wealthy individuals is growing. This is the continuation of a trend that we've seen really since the pandemic. We are seeing, albeit from a very low base compared to international standards, we are seeing Irish philanthropy growing. And by philanthropy, we mean strategic bigger gift-giving, which really takes that longer term view. Having a look at the weather mostly cloudy this morning, sunny spells will slowly break through in the afternoon and evening, staying mostly dry apart from some isolated showers, highest temperatures of 17 to 19 degrees and a light south or variable breeze. That's all for now. 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And you can communicate with us in any way you choose, because as we always say, whereas we do have a busy show lined up in terms of guests, the bedrock of this programme, what makes this programme, the special programme it is, is your opinions, it's your perspectives, it's your take on the stories of the day, or indeed the issues you believe we should be raising. We will start as always with a look at the papers, a number of the local papers out today, starting with the Donegal Post. Ard Lohanlund spotted in Finner Camp. He's making a TV programme and has been doing some filming in the South Donegal area. And some pictures obviously inside as well from the Ballet Shannon Folk Festival. Another success in Ballet Shannon took place last weekend. Now the main story written by Siobhan McNamara, a sharp increase in COVID-19. COVID-19 is circulating in our communities, leading to increased pressure on the health system that's already stretched beyond capacity as of 8am on yesterday, Tuesday morning. There were 16 patients in Letter King University Hospital with COVID-19 and 23 in Sligo. Nationally the figure was 378 and indeed in the week leading up to the bank holiday weekend, the HSE locally had indeed been warning of busy hospitals and pressure on the hospital system and an increase in COVID figures was one of the reasons given for that particular concern. Front of the Innish Times this morning, Bunkrana to remember Oma bombing victims. Bunkrana will next week mark the 25th anniversary of the Oma bombing. It killed four children and a young woman who had left Inishon on the morning of the atrocity. It took the lives of three children from the town, eight-year-old Oren Doherty and 12-year-olds Sean McLaughlin and James Barker. They were a part of a group of local children accompanying a Spanish exchange group on a day out, Blasco Baselga and Rosia Abad Amos, 12 and 23 respectively, both from Madrid also died in the blast. The Finn Valley voice this morning go fund me campaign for St. Johnson cancer patient. Suley Midlin writes that nearly two thousand euros been raised for a St. Johnson man who is undergoing cancer treatment. Martin Gamble underwent the surgery in the Black Rock Clinic in Dublin on Wednesday last. It removed a portion of his lung and a tumour. His nephew says they're praying and hoping he'll get home soon and as soon as he is able to do so and as always the local community getting behind one of their own and that is the main story there on the front of the Finn Valley voice. Looking at the Irish independent this morning as we move to the nationals and there's one photograph that's appearing on all the national papers this morning. That's the the funeral cortege of Sinead O'Connor as it passes through the streets of Bray ahead of her funeral. Thousands lined the streets yesterday to say their final farewells. The Irish independence main story on the front page increase in child benefit rates now on table in budget talks. The independent really going for it all this week. I think it seems with the budget exclusive they say an increase in the 140 monthly child benefit payment affecting 650,000 families has been put forward in coalition talks on budget 2024. The possibility of increasing the core rate paid in respect of 1.2 million children has been discussed as an option by ministers in preliminary talks ahead of the budget which is due to be unveiled in October and Thysioc Lee of Rancor has pledged to address levels of child poverty in the state. Front of the Irish Times this morning again a picture of Sinead O'Connor passing through the streets of Bray this picture taken on the seafront as thousands said a final goodbye. The private family funeral was attended by the president and the Thysioc and the Sinead's brother Joe O'Connor Joseph O'Connor read his poem Blackbird in Dunleary at the service and that poem is reproduced on the front of the Irish Times this morning as well. Front of the main story then underneath the Sinead O'Connor coverage is Portugal battles wildfires as global heat reaches record levels July confirmed as hottest month on record as flames spread toward the Algarve Iberian Peninsula braced for third summer heatwave with temperatures in the mid 40s so if you are heading to Portugal just bear that in mind in the coming weeks another heatwave on the way there to the Algarve. The Irish Daily Mail farewell to a daughter of Ireland again the Sinead O'Connor funeral cortege the main story on the front page X teacher's death means we'll never see justice dozens of victims of an alleged serial abuser in Tarran your college say they've been denied justice after he died at the weekend following a lengthy garter investigation the Irish Daily Mail can reveal that Dennis Whitty 83 a former late teacher was due to face nine sample charges next month in relation to one person who allegedly suffered at his hands the victim told the mail he wanted to go to court and look Whitty in the eye but will now be unable to do so he likened attending the school in Dublin to walking through the gates of hell the front of the Irish Daily Star this morning again the Sinead O'Connor funeral cortege passing through Bray Sinead's final bow thousands of fans join stars to thank daughter of Ireland and that's the front of the Irish Daily Star front of the mirror this morning farewell a beloved daughter of Ireland again the main story Bob Bono Bob Gildoff and President Higgins lead thousands of mourners at funeral the thousands lined the streets to pay their final respects and the Irish Sun again a unique daughter of Ireland fans farewell to the voice of a generation also exclusive mason's united talks that's I presume on the back pages we'll take a peek at the back page um oh disaster pfa chief backs pep Varan and kdb I presume that's kevin de Bruyne as at a time controversy rocks game the football bosses risk sleepwalking to disaster by forcing matches to run over 100 minutes the pfa chief executive mejeta balongo um and apologies for that pronunciation it's no more melango I think um back to Manchester United defender Raphael Varan who branded the new rules dangerous damaging and senseless Manchester City star Kevin de Bruyne and boss Pep Guardiola also fumed at the time wasting crackdown after the community shield so they are your papers as they are this morning 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part of the world but uh the the joy of your being there was somewhat tempered by the amount of litter that was around the place yes i generally would have a walk in green castle or orden mobile and i was shocked on that particular day that i went down to see the amount of litter that was strewn around a common ground part there in green castle where cars would park and that and people would you know walk around that area and i was just amazed at the amount of litter there was takeaway boxes and there was just rubbish of all kinds lying around scattered around everywhere and i was amazed because there are bins in that area just right beside where you know there was a takeaway box in particular to other things there's bins in that very particular area at least two there's certainly one there may be two but i mean i don't know what kind of people you know like that they just can't take their litter put it into a put it into a bin because there are plenty of there are bins in green castle i mean and i have seen local people out with their pickers picking the place picking up rubbish from time to time and they really shouldn't have to do that and i think that people who are well all people locals and visitors alike should respect the area that they're in and obviously you know it was a bank holiday weekend the weather wasn't great but still mean dunigol got a lot of people visiting from all parts of the island of ireland and you know it's great to see the crowds it's great to see the bring the money and it's great to see the investment in the local economy but it's it's interesting the contrast you make because on the one hand you've got local people who will put on the yellow tidy town's vests and they'll go out with their pickers and they'll pick up litter there are others who will sit in their cars eat their fast food and rather than walk 15 feet to the bin they'll just wind down the window and chuck it out i mean and the difference between those two people is immense it's just it's just difficult to understand and i know we have the same problem in movill on particularly on the green on the top half i have seen rubbish lying there as well people who get a takeaway or whatever they do their drinks or their snacks or their ice cream and they just discard the the container that it was in just wherever there happened to be sitting there are some people are very conscious and i can see that myself you know especially dog walkers and that i have noticed that they are very respectful of the area but in general we're not saying in general there are always people who will disregard the the i don't i don't know what i don't know what kind of people they are just we just throwing everything around them and and the sad thing is i mean unless anyone think we're saying oh green castle is very littered or movill is very littered if you go to any place in northeast west south tonigol southwest tonigol northeast tonigol go anywhere in the county and sadly it will be the same story yeah so but you know because a lot of the the tidy townspeople they do a lot of work you know keeping the places you know tidy and um it's just a pity that others just don't have that same same respect i mean i have seen people in green castle out with their pickers picking up rubbish you know and i thought you really shouldn't have to be doing that yeah and i just appeal and like the festival will be coming up now in green castle shortly as far as i can understand and i would just ask people who are visiting and indeed locals as well to have a bit of respect for the area that they're in and have a better regard for the the tidy towns people and the people who go and pick up after them yeah absolutely absolutely ana thanks indeed for your call um the the point is is well made and look it's it's just a matter of saying to people you know please if you're having a bit if you're having a takeaway just stroll over to the bin put it into the bin and uh you know it doesn't take an awful lot of effort um ana thank you indeed for speaking to us uh you're more than welcome and listen keep keep on enjoying those wonderful work that you yeah and look at you keep on enjoying your work and you keep on enjoying your walks in green castle in moville a wonderful part of the country and a part of love visiting myself now we're going to go to line two and we're going to uh council michael mclaverty who's the coheir of the glinty's municipal district now michael very good morning to you morning to one morning listeners one of the issues michael and we have discussed this before is the provision of recycling facilities in uh the tohani area and there has been question marks over the the lack of facilities and the need for more and you met someone at the weekend who had a bag of stuff to recycle and uh was looking for the recycling facility in which to put the stuff uh the very socially responsible thing to do we couldn't find anything couldn't find anything to want to be fair he obviously walked around the town first of all so we seen it wasn't there was no word to be seen he landed on me then um he just what do we put our recycling slash rubbish well i says i says if we just rubbish he's obviously into the binoculars but i says there is no site and there is no uh a such recycling place for cardboard and waste paper that you're asking about and he's worried he's supposed to chuck it at the one door then i says no of course you don't chuck it at the one door services but if look at us unfortunately we don't have we don't have here what you're looking for us as much in all we are trying to get one and a couple of the towns along here but we don't have what you have it but look at us tell you what if you meet the baggies and i'll deal with it i says thanks very much no for doing that but i says this is the wrong approach i says i know you're probably only saying it and passing but it's the wrong approach even think of chucking it at the one door because unfortunately this thing is here going down right along the the end of the six year now and including our back roads as well as well as that as well there's a lot of rubbish getting thrown out from from takeaways to plastic bags to coke tins to bottles to everything basically everything that you can walk out of your grocery shop but you can drive really anywhere along the end of the six year now and it's thrown out and to be fair matters would be a lot worse to be fair now and i genuinely mean this from the heart and come in both our tiny towns go at it and both uh clever nearly and or funny and on to Greece as well sorry three on to Greece as well and a good good orca very well that they do throw you in work league seeming to people down mobile and all this but look there's no need for this there's no need at all for it as as a counselor i'd be up and down as the same with me five colleagues are we're up and down crisscross every back road in the place at different days and different issues and you're going places and you see takeaways entire takeaways through along the road and you're going up the road where you're going having the houses and you're thinking like you know there's no need for this take the rapid home which wherever you're going but you're all done at home and and the really sad thing is and i have seen this driving late at night i have seen a car in front of me i'm driving along there's a car in front of me and suddenly uh two fast food wrappers and a burger box and whatever just go flying out the window and we know what happens is people buy their food in a in a town or village or wherever they drive along eating the food and then when they're finished to just wind down the window and chuck it out and and it's somebody else's job to pick it up and isn't that what the council is there for and and and the one thing that does need to be said and the one thing that does need to be said michael and disney absolutely to be said is lack of facilities and and you know you you sell it yourself and let's reinforce it lack of facilities is not an excuse to chuck it out the window or just to chuck it on the side of the road that's not a reason to do so no way it's not at all but i was i was totally taken back in shock by the gentleman's attitude now the gentleman was more than nice and everything else and i said he said he didn't pass in common but he said it at the same time with jokwes thing uh i was saying he released himself fine well before i was going to the bag often before he said anything but that's neither here nor there but i did the bag often to do the responsible thing and i disposed of it then for him but the whole point is here the wider point is here on the general public and our investors and all alike much so we welcome them all here just be responsible when you're here and you know it's not hard to be responsible because we go to other towns or towns or villages or other countries indeed either at these days we follow respect the laws here and they should respect the laws here as well as well as their own residents as well we can't know what it's it's it's it works two ways it's yeah there's who's to live in the road and there's plenty of motor car vehicles now at the manor that's down to the mall but i accept the fact as well we are falling down here as well in the glinty area to be fair to all that we don't have our own uh wish uh recycling plant here wish uh recycling facilities as well for your car board and plastic and so on that is a drawback as well we accept that but it's still no excuse either it's still no excuse throwing it up and down the screw and then the one to throw it out either but the really sad thing is as you know as as we heard from Anna one of the really sad things is there are people who will chuck stuff out windows and they'll do so within 10 feet of a bin so it isn't as though all of this is because there are no bins there sadly there are some people you could line up 10 lovely bright empty bins uh 15 feet away and they'll still chuckle because they couldn't be bothered uh opening a door and walking that 12 feet that's a sad reality offer i happened to be in a in a town one day shelf i was actually and a forecourt one day in a kettle court uh going out to a shop and outside there were this care this care but down the window fired those two bottles and a couple of sweet wrappers and drove off like on the forecourt on their view of cameras and everything else i can't i just i can't understand that mentality to be honest but i cannot understand it though absolutely um when people are thinking that way and we're also in the period when the summer period now perhaps it's it's done but uh it's always as i recall if i recall correctly it's during sort of july and august that tidy towns judges are visiting areas and you know you you want the place to look at best and this is this is that well you want the place to look at best all the time it's it's not just a matter of putting on a good show for the tourists in july and august you want your town to look the best at 365 days a year because you know it's it's where we live it's our home i mean you know and and we want our home to look as as best it can but uh you know you'd hate to think that you know the judging for tidy towns is going to be compromised because some idiot can't you know either put something into a bag or put it in a bin or bring it home with them and dispose of it there um a caller's just been in touch to say there's two big bags of rubbish dumped in the middle of the road at Upper Derry Real not not so far away from yourself and sadly that that's that's something we see all too often it is yeah it is exactly yeah it is and even another worrying one another caller saying i was in a town in Donegal on bank holiday monday it was a disgrace the street was covered in smashed glass i had my grandchildren with me i was terrified if they would fall because the place was filled with empty bottles and litters as well i mean you know it was bordering on dangerous the caller says and you know when you do have crowds you know you do have there can always be an accident something can always fall something can always break but you know people especially when it comes to glass posing a danger in public places like that i mean you know if if glass falls and breaks okay it's it's an accident that's grand but that that should be cleared immediately and you know to leave glass lying around in a public place is unconscionable well definitely i think it's very on the glass end of it and jenon all throughout all here not just rome county as we're talking about three our own towns here villages the glass situation is something we need to be addressed i know some some businesses and they just most businesses do try their best but i do think in the situation of letting bottles and glasses make their way out to the street as something that needs to be there needs to be more regulation on that it needs to be pushed more just for for plastic containers except for that type of stuff just portable containers that avoids the situation of a glass or a bottle getting smashed or otherwise or you know it is dangerous when you get glass out the street and big crowds and you say small children about even or even small children animals one thing another and particularly here in the summer time as well i noticed a particular end of planning here where people go through the beach some of them sort of take people in that particular and some of them are like that they tend not to wear shoes and that's so much about the town that just you see them in spain and that and that's what the danger there is because i find myself different days where i wear a notice glass broken wherever outside the shop or outside the square just go immediately to a brush and shovel and so we're up don't leave it for somebody else if you see it go go absorb it absolutely and most most people are like and that was to see it like yeah michael thanks indeed for for for the call it's something we do always need to keep an eye on and look i suppose the real the appeal to people is look just please be socially responsible because i mean this this is this is it's either your home or it's a place you're visiting and if it's not your own home it's somebody else's home so just please somebody else's home yes absolutely just give the respect that everybody deserves that's all anybody's asking for like and just be sociable and be safe and just and just watch what what you think twice before you do what you're what you're going to do councillor mclaugherty the clear look of the atlantis municipal district thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning now we're going to move on the main story of the morning if you've been listening to Donna Marie on the news is the data breach with the psni details of both police officers and civilian staff were mistakenly posted online for a period it came we understand on on the back of compliance with the freedom of information request now stlp mla mark h durkin is that party's policing spokesperson and he joins us and mark good morning to you good morning to you mark you believe that it's incumbent now on the chief constable to make a statement on this as quickly as possible yeah well the scale of this data breach is alarming donal and its consequences could potentially be immense so many fundamental questions arise for the chief constable and others but first and of the greatest importance is the safety of officer staff and their families and their understandably huge concerns around the police service around police staff and around the wider community today so i think the psni the board and the government indeed must provide answers and reassurance as soon as possible and that's the first and primary duty i think of our special board meeting emergency board meeting that's been convened for tomorrow morning but secondly we have to establish how something so damaging could ever happen i mean there has to be accountability by the psni as to how this happened how it could happen what fail safes were in place or weren't in place they avoid something like this happening and what urgent actions are being taken to ensure that there could never be any repeat of something like this the psni's initial statement suggested that this was a matter of human error and the people who were working on this were acting in good faith but an error was made and then when that error was noted and realized this material was taken done immediately but it seems this material was online for up to perhaps three three and a half hours yeah well everyone can make a mistake or anyone can make one and everyone does make mistakes human error is something that can't be eradicated but but that's why systems are in place or should be in place to catch human error and prevent something like this happening so there's been system error as well as human error and that's why we have to establish what the system is how it has failed and what can be done to make sure nothing like this ever happens again in terms of the information that was out there this is the names the ranks and where police staff and police civilian staff are based many people have gone the great lengths to actually keep that information confidentially or confidential there still is a huge risk attached to being a police officer unfortunately we've seen how it's actually impacted upon recruitment here which is something that's extremely worrying and something like this won't do much the and still greater faith in the PSNI either do we know how extensively this was accessed we understand that a relative of a serving police officer made contact with a newspaper the belfast telegraph if i'm correct and that's how this sort of came in into the public domain as it were but do we know how many people accessed this information when it was online and what the potential spread of the information in the public domain was well of outline what the information was it was names of officers their ranks and where they are based you've alluded to the fact that it was out there for a few hours but as of yet i've no clarity or board members haven't received any information as to how many people or who was able to access it over that time i mean it was in the public domain on the public website so god knows how many people could have seen it and god knows who could have seen it if this information fell into the wrong hands it could be extremely dangerous for individual police officers and for for the north as a whole presuming that's the that's the sort of information you and your colleagues on the board will be seeking from senior PSNI officers when you have that meeting tomorrow absolutely and what while the police are saying that this was down the human error we will be drilling down further into that like how many sets of eyes that this has to go past and you know clearly there has been an error in the system here hopefully it's not as costly or as catastrophic as it potentially could have been Mark H Durkin STMP MLA and party policing spokesperson thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning okay don't know thank you mark thank you very much indeed that's Mark Durkin they're speaking to us on that data breach and those investigations are continuing and as you heard there that meeting of the policing board taking place tomorrow and Mr Durkin and others will be seeking information now we are going to be speaking to Pat McCart a former editor of The Dairy Journal and the columnist with the Irish Daily Mirror as well in just a moment going to take a short break back in a bit we'll be speaking to Pat McCart about both the data breach as well and also we'll be speaking about the Count Dairy City Council we thought it was finished in May perhaps not don't go away watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at Highland 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happening in this part of the world you'll have been watching with interest that uh data breached the ps and i breached that uh diesels of which emerged this morning uh donal that's a really serious one because the party was up for several hours i had no idea how i try that it's it's still the sort of an evolving story but uh you know it's northern ernan and i would presume this morning if you're if you're a serving police officer and your name address function and various other bits of information and your data has has been up on a website for several hours i would think you'd be very very nervous and the only thing about it donal is a lot of people who are serving police officers you know don't put on the uniform when they're leaving for work in the morning and take it off before they get home and the neighbors think they're going off to be a civil servant or something and don't realize this so a lot of people could now suddenly say oh jeepers again live next door to me as a cop sort of thing and that's got big implications for everybody i don't believe a the information included home addresses i think the only personal information was surname and first initial so it would have just said as i understand that it would have been cavena d constable yeah marmarit veil station it seems a wee bit confused i think you could be right but the earlier claims were suggesting it was much uh no i'm not certain about this just what i've read on various places at the nolan show on your rival and bbc here i i think leading with it this morning but there was a suggestion that there was other for a certain time i don't listen to be up for as i said earlier it's evolving i know there was some suggestion that there may have been yeah there was a spreadsheet and there may have been a second tab on the spreadsheet now yeah that was there's other you know that you can produce the information from what the information are addresses from the information that was up right um pat we want to talk the main thing we want to talk about this morning obviously is the um discussion on the recount that's taking place in dairy uh we know the alliance party were hoping to make gains and didn't make gains elsewhere but they actually lost out in dairy and uh it transpired that while philip mckinney lost his seat by uh 48 votes there was something in the region of 150 transfers that were actually left to one side and weren't included in that count this is potentially uh going to change the face of dairy city council to an extent you know by the way don't know there's a guy called john card right i don't know if you've ever heard the tell the the term a sephologist he's a whole these guys who uh he's a nice guy apparently goes through election results you know whatever's no rupture but i mean he apparently after the election he was looking through the results and he figured out a minute there's uh this guy's lost a seat by 49 votes but there was 150 odd votes to be counted so what went on there he got in touch with the councilor's concern in the water side area of dairy and they also as far as i know got in touch with now me long the leader of the alliance party and they they they got in touch with both the council and the northern air and electoral office and both of which confirmed there had been a mistake and then they decided they would go for a high court challenge to the results so it's not by the way i don't know it's a fine line they said it's not a recount it's a continuation of the kind what the difference is i don't know but anyway i'll leave you to work out want to i i'm presuming i'm presuming yeah does does continuation of the count then mean that what they're effectively going to do is they're going to take the figures they have they had at the time that martin reilly was deemed elected and philip mckinney was deemed eliminated and they're effectively going to take this 150 uh votes that weren't and they're just going to count them and add them absolutely yeah and by the way they will they will not declare any result this evening they will make it known to the court and the court will decide who has won the election martin reilly uh could have a very nervous few days because it depends on what way the votes go but anyway the the big thing for the alliance party as you pointed out earlier don't know um the alliance party has been seen for many many years as sort of soft unionists and it's basically a belfast base there i know east of the east of the band type party and there was a very important of the last elections that they uh retained their seats derry is the cradle of the civil rights it's a very known as a national city it's always been the sdlp and shinfane and derry and for alliance at the last election rachel furgus and i was actually there party rachel furgus she got elected for alliance apparently she went a long time and this was in what 2018 she went along to a meeting of the alliance party to discuss the election strategy and she ended up the candidate that's how desperate they were for someone and this guy philip mckinney he was very popular and all the rest so i think he's lost by 49 votes and there was 150 so now what the alliance party wants symbolically it was very important for them to be seen to be have candidates right across uh the north and you know at the last election there in may they got seats and new seats in ballet claire fermana and limo valley which they've seen as a breakthrough and to lose to and derry was sort of what would you say it was not uh good for their sort of image they want to be seen as all over the north they want to be seen as not just a belfast belfast centric party so that's why symbolically and they want to be seen if they can get the seat back for philip mckinney it would be considered quite a coup for them do we know whose votes they are do we know where those 150 votes have come from because i mean obviously it will be important uh potentially you know in in maybe discerning if they had come from an stlp candidate for instance would that benefit martin riley if they'd come from a unionist candidate theoretically could that benefit philip mckinney do we know where the votes are from i think as far as i remember they came from a d up candidate to have been elected yeah so they could go anywhere you know now martin riley is uh a very sort of middle of the road well respected uh sdlp man so i wouldn't really doubt any which way what what would it go but as far as i remember it was on the election of a d up candidate that the other 150 votes came about yeah if i recall he was mayor just three four years ago if i recall martin riley wasn't he absolutely yeah yeah he's a very decent and uh and anybody had made a very personable guy so he he's quite capable of picking up which any which way but anyway the count has been reordered by the court tunnel and it starts at 10 o'clock oh i'll start i think at 10 o'clock this morning and the foil arena but it'll probably finish the day seeing it's only uh uh what i call it you know 150 well if it is 100 i mean and presumably every one of those is going to be scrutinized to within the range of its life uh you know and there'll be very our our our personation of well not personation officers but our party officials allowed in to view i presume they have to be allowed in to view the process yeah it's all part of the democratic process don't they'll be you're 100 percent right it's unusual i'm doing it in the sense that very rarely do you come across someone i guess like i've been at elections in north and south for years and i've never come across anything like this no i have to say and places like donny go and phrase a bit less than the republic they're so used to p or elections yeah that they rarely make mistakes but i have seen a couple of uh challenges and elections in the north p or you know it's first past the post and in the north since 1921 and they uh they they they they don't really it's only in recent times that p or elections have been introduced they do seem to make an odd uh error the other thing i suppose in in the republic as well and people talk about legendary machines like the blaney machine i mean you know not not a hair is going to be at a place if the blaney machine and the the old bernard the bernard but lynching machine would seem to fall when when you know when those heavy hitters and and they're still about when they're on you know when they're on the count floor they understand that process probably better than the council organizers themselves and they will make absolutely damn sure nothing's out of place as a young reporter i went to an election i think about 1974 and i remember sitting there and i hadn't a notion not a clue what was going on and i remember this blaney guy told me exactly how many votes everybody had got and see but then the when the official count i think he was about two out or someone got you know ridiculous he had got its spot on those people could hear the grass grow when it came to elections oh absolutely i mean you know so you know it'll be we we presume there will be some form of uh an interim resolution shall we call it today but as you say that goes before the court that will not be presumed be made public in any way shape or form so we won't have any idea unless of course the party people themselves start to leak at which may well happen but certainly no official declaration is going to be made exactly but you should think don't the last time the last election shouldn't faint they just they got one on every three votes they went up from what was the 105 seats 244 they were 22 ahead of the dup the alliance party i think they got up were up from 52 to 67 you know so the alliance party all this is you know they want to be seen to be moving forward all the time that's why it's so important to them the alliance party a couple of years back donald couldn't get elected you know in their own house now they're they're now they're very much at the third leg of the stool and they want to be seen and it's important for them to be seen to be moving forward all the time and the the last european elections too donald as you remember nail me long was very very successful it used to be just it was a bain riche house you voted protestant and unionists or catholic and nationalists the alliance party now see themselves as this as a third option and they are growing and that's why this is important to them even thinking in terms of say the lifetime that i've that i've been working here in this job and i've been covering politics i mean the difference between sort of john alderdice would have been the alliance leader of when i started in the difference even in in in attitude and in their the way they act in instalment between alderdice and nail me long is huge i mean she's a very effective opposition person who will you know if she's when if she's opposing something she'll oppose us with vigor and she certainly doesn't sort of sit in any party line or any religious line and you know there's a big difference and and she's been bringing in those votes and she's maybe you know the future of alliance absolutely donald what's happened is the alliance party that tapped into that sort you know i grew up in an area as you will know when i was in a dairy and you know the first conversation i was somebody who was to work at the catholic nowadays there are so many young people the republic has changed beyond measure as we've seen with the recent passing of sanita o'connor and the north has changed dramatically yeah if you go to belfast now when i went to belfast years ago i remember everything was shut after about five o'clock in the evening belfast is buzzing there's a lot of young people they meet that socially they don't care about their catholic product and they're brought in there yeah if you look at around letter kenny and you look at around day they're polish people they're uh ukrainians they're people of color our society is changing big time and you know the old sectarian head count that's disappearing and so much is changing that i'm not sure the political party's got a total handle on what's happening and i know the the dp i think you know are sort of wee bit high bound and there you find this this change very very difficult and alliance are riding this particular horse and riding it very very well it'll be interesting to see what happens do we have any indication from the course and i suppose really you can't get an indication of the course but we don't know when some form of official declaration can be expected currently don't know if i'm reading it right that's the courts going to make the determination not the politicians and the courts will do something it's own good time if it's if it's decided that you know this guy has got the votes he will be deemed elected and i would presume martin reilly will lose the seat we will watch with interest pat mccart thanks indeed for speaking to us i don't know you too pat take care that's pat mccart there as we said a journalist with the columnist with the irish deli mer and a former editor of the dairy journal let's just take a look at a few of your comments before we go to a break caller says the toilet facilities in bundoran are absolutely appalling it's a very busy area with a lot of tourists if the council can charge for the use of the car park the least they could do is put in flushable functioning toilet facilities for people i drove to mail over the weekend and back didn't see a single guard the checkpoint so much for a road safety message over the weekend caller says the bureaucracy in this country is unreal all the praise and accolades being poured on schnerro connor now that she's left this mortal coil while she was ridiculed and vilified in her lifetime perhaps if people have been as kind and generous to her while she was alive she would still be here today another caller says the next time ishke erin talks about host pipe bands or water conservation asked them why the burst main which is causing a river of water to run through ash lawn in letter kenny hasn't been dent with since it was reported to them at three o'clock yesterday and another caller says people who throw litter in the countryside are cards because they normally throw it where there are no houses that's a comment from a caller it's nine forty nine time for a short break back after these the calendar says it's summer the weather when it's in the mood but the question is is it really summer without a trip to crowpark with the gaa museum and tours you can still get here go backstage with our inspiring stadium tour experience breathtaking views on the kelloch skyline tour and explore our national treasures at the gaa museum book now at crowpark.ie slash tours the gaa museum and tours discover the heart of who we are curtains at voying company letter kenny complete any room with our 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perspective and the as you can imagine in dunny gall some hauliers crossing the border multiple times a day so that 10 uh and it's not 10 it's 10 sterling if i'm correct actually it's 10 pounds sterling yeah sorry um i apologies for that and you know that it's really biting in particularly in in dunny gall so i mean you know if that wasn't bad enough the toll is going up again on the more ways yes indeed and they've just gone up recently and the excuse or the reasoning for the last increase was because of inflation but inflation has come down now so do we get that increase back these toll roads and their concept originally you know to try and get infrastructure into ireland but they really got a very good contract and they are now owned by multinational banks they're doing quite well and that have a contract with a guarantee from the state that should they lose money on the toll road uh the state will pick up the the last third to degree the guaranteed price so they've had a very very good run with us and two increases a sharp period of time unnecessary and not at a time of very high cost with all the upset we've come through with brexit with the covid no with brexit we're trying to keep a competitive age dunny gall is a border county to a degree and um the survive race and try and keep a competitive age and keep a business going is very difficult and though you may see many limited companies of big names up on on trucks and on the sides of trucks and hardest companies who've worked very hard it's a family that's behind them they're family businesses great names of dunny gall from the glintons like pilot from you know like darty they are um the people who've worked very hard to keep this going and we need to keep our competitive bench and keep alive especially on border counties one interesting thing i found last year my wife and i were in norway and we did one or two tours that involved going through long roads which had been tunneled through mountains over the past 20 to 30 years and in both cases uh in particular one around allison's and the other around molda the we were speaking to the drivers and the drivers told us that those roads used to be told but the deal was made between the company that built the road and the norwegian government that they would put a toll up and the company would administer it and they would keep going until the road was paid for and a certain amount of profit had been made and then the tolls would stop and those figures were agreed and in both cases the toll had finished two to three years ahead of schedule because it had made the money and paid for the road it seems to me when you look at things like the m50 and the m1 and other roads around this country they've been paid for four five six and seven times over yes that is very relevant tunnel because the logic you've just spoken about if you come to anybody with a reasonable fair play and reasonable logic to your argument they'll buy into there they'll try and you know work with you until first time as the toll road and they have the infrastructure is paid for but just what you said the easing bridge and the m50 paid for a long long time and we're still paying for it the other aspect of that of course norway in fairness to our north's very wealthy company from island perhaps they can do a little bit better that way but the concept is correct in what you're saying and the print paid for it should be free the other aspect of this we in the hottest sector are parts of supply chain and when we're told and when we're taxed in our earnings when we're taxed very heavily to what we put into the tank in the fuel at the excise and the level of taxation in fuel since the downturn of 2000 days has increased considerably here and we pay massive taxation through our fuel costs and then we're charged yet again for using the road to get the goods to the people that's about triple taxation and the citizens and about double and us so the balance and even though all of this has come up now because of the there's some committee reporting to minister on taxation and the welfare commission on how we do our charging and how we charge for industry or sorry for energy so and within that to say to speak about and the recommendations of this for transfer fees and just transition and a safe basis so we would need both and we would need to see both for those in the supply chain and this very competitive sector that is really really still challenged by brexit and by the cost of brexit and trying to do trade out of northern Ireland or in the UK there's only so much we can take and we are paying at the top rate for a long time. Have you any confidence that the budget will see these toll increases deferred the campaign is on obviously you and a lot of other organisations making pre-budget submissions at the moment are you hopeful you will be successful in getting this at least deferred? I don't know about hopeful and the deferred I think we are hopeful and determined because minister Jack Chambers has sort of come out and said that and we saw something about rail freight from the Taoiseach the other day of which said hang on enough is enough we do this by phased basis and we are preparing a very big pre-budget submitted other issues have to be addressed at the cost of the access to fuel the bio and the HVO which are part of the access are all transferred by the pharmacy and on top of that we can be paying a norther charge or a storage charge we cannot be paying carbon tax and the non fossil fuel or the non mineral we have to look at the balance in the over Eugene Drennan of the Irish Road Horriers Association president of that organisation indeed thank you very much for speaking to us this morning it's a minute and a half to 10 o'clock Donna Marie coming up with the news and obituary notices and we will see you for the second hour after that Ireland get a great 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Shantalo as well as this offense was set alight in Glendale Park and a bus was damaged near Sleevemoor roundabout at around 11 p.m last night a man was hijacked two men opened his car door and assaulted him it's believed his car was set ablaze on the green in Gallia Derry city and Straban area commander chief superintendent Nigel Goddard condemned the acts saying they only cause fear distress and trauma to those impacted he added inquiries are ongoing and those who believe they have information or video footage should get in touch a major data breach has resulted in information about every single ps and i officer and staff member being put into the public domain the information which included surnames initials ranks work locations and departments was temporarily put online in response to a freedom of information request the police service of northern Ireland has apologized for the self-inflicted security breach Liam Kelly from the police federation says it's not good enough the men and women of the ps and i that i represent are appalled by this breach they're shocked and justifiably angry they want the ps and i to be very clear about what support they're going to put on for them and their families so they can limit the damage caused by this data breach and protect their identities plans are in motion to establish a community first responder group in boncran a public meeting is being held next week Michaela Clark has more the establishment of a community first responder group has been proposed to cover the general boncran area as well as fawn illy's drumfries and desert tegney the purpose of the group is to train volunteers to attend certain types of emergency calls in boncran and surrounding areas their aim is to reach a potential life threatening emergency in the first vital minutes before the ambulance crew arrives and provide the appropriate care including cp or and defibrillation until the more highly skilled ambulance crew arrives on the scene to take over the treatment no previous experience is required for interested parties and full training will be provided roddy smith an advanced paramedic with the national ambulance service newton conningham cf or an irish red cross will be a guest speaker at the public meeting which is due to take place on monday august the 21st at in the lake of charles hotel boncran talks to explore ways of restoring the storm and assembly will continue in belfast today the t-shirt leo varadkar is heading north to meet political parties and representatives from business and civil society including the holster ga council and women in business ken murray has more 15 months on from last year's assembly elections the democratic unionist party is still refusing to sit in storm and with shin fain it says the british government has failed to meet its seven demands to address the free movement of goods between gb and n i today leo varadkar heads to belfast he will talk with party leaders michelle o'neill jeffrey donelson doug beatty matthew otul and neo milong with reported division in the d up over calls to resume storm and signs are emerging that the british and irish governments are becoming increasingly impatient leo varadkar will also visit linfield fc a soccer team whose support comes from the loyalist community a visit that was unthinkable 30 years ago now looking to weather mostly cloudy but sunny spells will slowly break through in the afternoon and evening staying mostly dry apart from isolated showers highest temperatures of 17 to 19 degrees in a light south or variable breeze that's all for now the next news update is at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices this wednesday morning august 9th the death has taken place of rosemary toland nidoharty of largan ray her remains will be removed from the eternal light chapel of rest mountaintop letter kenny today at 5 p.m going to the church of st john the baptist karigart to repose overnight funeral mass tomorrow at 11 a.m followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery funeral mass can be viewed live on meaver parish facebook page the death has occurred of seedy gillespie neem a coal bradge kinkasla her remains are opposing at her own home in bradge funeral mass on tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in the star of the c church anagray interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 10 p.m until 10 a.m and on the morning of the funeral rosary tonight at 9 o'clock the death has taken place of column de venny for rose court boncranha remains reposing at mclochland's funeral home boncranha today from 5 p.m until 7 p.m removal from there at 10 20 a.m tomorrow morning going to st mary's church cock hill for 11 o'clock requiem mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of dela bradley gort larry carndonna remains reposing at her late residence removal from there on friday morning at 10 30 a.m going to the church of the sacred heart carndonna for requiem 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messages 07 4 9 1 24 5 000 if you want to call us caroline producing and taking your calls and neve taking your calls this morning as well it's at highland radio on twitter it's highland hub on facebook on the other social media platforms as well comments at highland radio if you prefer to use email now let's look at our competition because heritage week is coming up from this coming saturday and we have a competition that will allow you win one of two special vouchers worth in the region of 90 euro and those vouchers will give you access to several heritage sites right across the country heritage week happening in donal cavern and across ireland from the 12th to the 20th of august you can create your own personalised schedule of events by going to heritage week.ie and clicking on my heritage trail that will allow you to celebrate the traditions skills and practices that have passed down through generations now i'm going to give you three clues and i want you to figure out where in donagall i am talking about it's a building and i want you to tell me where and what that building is clue number one i'm located on the diamond in donagalls capital i'm located on the diamond in donagalls capital clue number two i used to incarcerate people clue number two i used to incarcerate people and clue number three i am now a visitor center but i've kept my old name i am now a visitor center but i have kept my old name those three clues point to a building in donagall please tell me what that building is we'll repeat the clues a little bit later on now donagall county council removed bottle banks from let your mac award that were badly needed they were replaced by a seat on the concrete base that was put there for the battle banks no one ever uses the seat we want our bottle banks back they are missed court is good morning i was up in mauvelle doing the lovely coastal walk to green castle and couldn't help noticing the bins were overflowing so it may not be a bad idea to empty them more often and thanks to martin for that comment uh call it as donal i walked down from work in letter kenny a lot of mornings and i often meet you out walking and yes i would walk quite a bit now i didn't the past couple of weeks walk as much because i had a little bit of a hamstring issue but yeah i would be out walking a fair bit sometimes i might be looking for a bin to put something in but there is not one bin between the optimum roundabout and the main street there may be one at max mace but other than that there is nothing you meet so many people now with cups in their hands all these cups have to be dumped somewhere i actually agree with that because there there is a shortage of just public bins in places and i do i think some bins were taken away during covid and were never replaced if i'm correct in in saying that for instance i would um i would often chew gum while walking in the mornings and one of my habits was i would dispose of my gum halfway through the walk and one of my walks would take me sort of down through town and out the newt blaney road and then i will i would walk sort of past the mandirical heading for bali rain and there used to be a bin there on the corner just by the pole star roundabout and that bin was taken away so the choice was either go in and actually walk into the hotel itself and and put the chewing gum into one of the sort of the large ashtray stroke bins outside the hotel or what i started doing was just keeping a piece of kitchen towel in my pocket and just wrapping the used gum in the kitchen towel and then sort of putting it in the bin when i got home but yep certainly there is a shortage of bins around letter jenny absolutely i would agree with that uh and speaking of walking actually just uh most people with fitness trackers are emmings to 10 000 steps a day but it's been claimed just 4 000 could be enough to cut the risk of dying early a study says walking that number of steps daily can cut the risk of death from any cause it also found the chance of dying from cardiovascular disease decreases significantly with every 500 to 1000 extra steps and indeed yeah i am one of these people that does actually wear a stepometer and i'm just looking at my steps for today and yeah i do have considerably more than 4 000 so far so yeah happy days um so if you're doing your steps you know a little walking and you know it does it doesn't have to be 8 9 10 kilometers a day it doesn't have to be 20 000 steps every day i mean over 4 000 steps a day can have very good benefits uh oxford university scientists now are saying there is no evidence to suggest that using facebook is bad for our well-being despite claims the social media giant is linked to psychological harm in the largest study of its kind researchers say they found the opposite it's after they analyzed data from nearly a million people across 72 countries over 12 years from 2008 now i've said this before my take on facebook is very very simple i treat facebook like the pub on a saturday night it's where i meet people and i talk rubbish about music and i have a bit of crack anything i read on facebook i take as seriously as i would take in general conversation in a pub on a saturday night in which some people may have a bit of drink taken so anything i read on facebook i take with the same level of seriousness and the same level of veracity that i will take what i hear in a pub on a saturday night and conversely i will say nothing on facebook that i would not say in general company in a pub on a saturday night and that's kind of the way i sort of treat facebook it's great crack crack is what it is it is not a um it's not a substitute for life color we were speaking yesterday to uh nol calling him about the dunigol camino and a caller got in touch afterwards to ask if the walks are wheelchair friendly uh now the response we got back from dunigol camino are parts of the route are wheelchair friendly some parts may be difficult and you 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and visit dmg motors klaroad donigold town because your new seat is just waiting to see what's next tonight at the 54th clown money festival it's derrick ryan tomorrow thursday it's nathan carter log on to clown money festival dot com for a full program the the nine till noon show on highland radio eight eight and a half minutes past 10 o'clock now i am going to let you into a little trade secret when you work in a newsroom in the months of july and august it can be difficult you don't necessarily have council meetings you don't have the doll sitting you don't have courts there's a lot of organizations are scaling back people are on holiday you're not getting as much news coming from there so getting news and filling news bulletins can be a little bit difficult at times in august however in donigold we have a secret weapon every august because in donigold in lentys we have the mcgill summer school and the mcgill summer school always ensures that at least for that week and for the week before and the week after you're going to have a good supply of news and a good supply of comments and expert speakers to report on and for that blessing we have to thank dr joemal holland joe good morning good morning joe how are you very well indeed and i am sure joe as someone who's worked in news for decades yourself in your previous life is it where you know all too well the difficulty sometimes in finding news in august i have to say that go back a long way indeed more than you do probably a little bit more but not as much as i would like to think i think is the correct answer anyway look we'd better pass on that subject absolutely the mcgill summer school joe it's become an absolute integral part of the summer in donigold the idea of a summer in donigold without the mcgill summer school is pretty much at this stage unthinkable yeah well i'm glad that that is so and i think it is so but it but it has become the same for quite a lot of people throughout ireland it's amazing the people down as far as cork and and obviously dublin and so on it's amazing how they they don't want to miss the big girl this always amazes me i suppose it's a combination of going to donigold seeing its beauty and and and then having something else to to occupy the mind as well so it's kind of serving the mind and body i suppose one of the things you've managed to do with with the mcgill summer school over the years is created a bond between the school and donigold to the extent that you can't have the one without the other as such because there are many summer schools which are effectively international symposiums international and national discussions where they take place geographically is neither here nor there and they're just discussions that happen to be taking place somewhere whereas with mcgill glentes and donigold are an integral part of the mcgill summer school and you know you you couldn't think about taking mcgill and saying look this year we're going to hold mcgill in castle bar instead of glentes that that just would be unthinkable yeah no the question has arisen from time to time because i mean glentes is a small place you you do have some problems of accommodation and so on and the question has arisen should we change not not outside of donigold but somewhere else in donigold but that i i've always resisted that and because mcgill is associated with patrick mcgill we sometimes forget and he's the author who you know lives down the road from who lived down the road from glentes and and wrote those wonderful books such as children of the dead end and the rap that's it so on so we we've always resisted that but this year in particular of course we face we face particularly particular difficulties of accommodation above all because of all because of i suppose our friends from ukrainia having to you know move in and and and fair dues to them and they're very welcome but it has created a little bit of a little bit of extra effort but we're managing we're managing there's plenty of of people who have you know bed and breakfast they don't do it all the time but they might do it for mcgill that kind of thing as ever a panel of speakers that is formidable i i see mered mcginnis uh brendan boil the u.s congressman pat cox we have the deputy prime minister uh of the government of ukraine we have the ukrainian ambassador the polish ambassador we've a a retired senior colonel from china which which should be fascinating um tonic yeah so very interesting a very interesting guy and doodle uh he he's obviously a true blue uh a true blue if that exists for china a true blue chinese man uh he fought in the war earlier on in this career he's very well he's very well got with the authorities in china but he does these lectures and he has lectured in other parts of the world and this year he will lecture in glennis and and will in fact have to tell us or explain why china has not ruled in with other powers to say that putin is wrong on us committing uh murder and atrocities and so on uh so uh that will be an interesting discussion particularly as it has as well in the same session a former ambassador to china a former irish ambassador deklin kellerer who is well known for the fantastic work he has done on behalf of the state congressman um brendan f boil is is a name we've heard a lot of um and he he's coming over to take is he coming over is is he on zoom he tells me that his wife has to go into hospital for some kind of treatment not not serious i don't think uh but but uh she has to go in so he was unable to come and i suggested online and we we've had him online before in fact so uh it has to be online i'm afraid but he will be he will be um in dialogue with the hall in the highlands hotel in glennis uh because the the um the chair of that session is again a former a former irish diplomat david dunahoe who who uh was in more recent times ambassador to the un uh he will he will be in conversation and and question uh question the the the speaker if you like and brendan boil is an interesting one because traditionally one would associate uh irish american politicians with the democratic party and win with the kennedys and aligning themselves in a particular a particular way brendan boil doesn't uh fit that mold as it were and as such that's been an exciting lot of comment uh predatory in in in the past few months yes oh absolutely but uh but brendan boil is has become quite an eminent in a short space of time in politics uh he he of course the interesting thing here is uh we get sponsorship now from uh not so dame university one of the great universities in the states and uh brendan boil and his brother indeed who is also in the legislature uh in the states uh uh have our students there they got scholarships and uh and of course the the story of brendan is is quite extraordinary that you know it was uh uh france francy boy this father emigrated from blend column kill uh and i think 61 i'm not too sure and worked his way uh uh laboring mainly in the states but obviously he and his wife made sure that the these two boys uh got uh an education and they have reached great heights and maybe will reach even greater heights the theme this year very much as one would expect with the uh sponsorship from notre dame and and the involvement of so many international people the team a very international one yeah well it's been it's been my own mission for some time to try and uh get a kind of a steady relationship like that that could not would mean let us afford to to to to do more things like uh fly somebody from beijing i mean it it would have been on think about 20 years ago or 10 years ago or less uh so uh this is a very under course it's such a reputable uh university no one of course for its for its irishness and the their team is called the fight the the fighting irish but but the interesting thing is there will be a group of not so dame students at the school and uh i'm told they are going to play a game of football with with uh uh the lads and lentus so this is an important this is an important length that we're forging here and at the same time of course you know doing doing what is right by the by the beginning of school and presumably given the nickname of the notre dame sporting teams no quarter shall be asked or given indeed indeed yes absolutely also we will also be looking at events uh on our own island and the ongoing implications of tensions and storm and elsewhere claire hannah mp for the stlp one of those taking part so with with all the international involvement and all the international input you're still going to be looking to our neighbors across the border and uh the situation there and and presumably brexit will still be rearing its head as well well we will i mean we can't forget across the border i'm afraid and uh miguel has always dealt with it uh and has had politicians from both sides consistently and indeed those politicians sometimes met up in glantis on the qt it's not generally known but but you know things went on there that people didn't know about and this was this was sort of during the peace process and so on so we have four eminent people there including of course including our own man charlie uh from from p in the foil and uh it should be a good discussion because uh it is shared by tommy gorman uh who worked incredibly hard as i know in the north for years after having come from working in buses and and that comment you made there about meetings taking place as it were perhaps behind closed doors at miguel is an important one because miguel has been doing more over the years than just reflecting the discussion miguel has been generating creating and prompting the discussion as well i mean miguel has been at the center of some very important discussions on the silent over the past number of years that's true though and uh and uh i mean why wouldn't we we were a border county it was an opportunity to get people together because at the end of the day that's the only thing you can do you can preach all you like but uh you have to persuade and you have to persuade people that that's in our mutual interests to cooperate and that's the only way that any progress will be made even though that uh the people set aside uh cliches and and uh habits of old and do something new so i mean we're happy i i wouldn't exaggerate uh the role we played but well at least we played a role and and unionist politicians came to clandestine and have come without any problem at all and stayed and had a drink in the bar and so on you know so these things these small little things are dope and are important i think a new global order precarious and dangerous is the theme of the uh school this year there's a question mark be after that last uh two words in terms of participation it's an open forum um limited in terms of seat numbers uh joe but how can if people wish to attend if people want to go to sessions how can how can they do so it's it's well first of all though it's extremely cheap it's i think 75 i don't concern myself now with this i have an assistant who does a lot of it but 75 for the whole thing you can go to a set one session if you like something in particular that may turn you on or interest you for 10 euros you can go for a day for 20 or 25 euros uh you know so it's extremely cheap and and good value and when i tell people this on the phone sometimes they call me uh they can't believe it so you know from that point of view it's made accessible it's and that anybody can come in even at the last one minute even if they haven't booked the McGill summer school takes place so it's it's certainly not a it's certainly not a close shop absolutely the same applies for people who make comments during the after the lectures who ask questions etc etc uh that is known of McGill has a record second to none in allowing speech free speech uh following lectures and so on this day we could get underway august 16th to august 19th in the highland school yeah we've shortened the week for the moment we used to run from the sunday to the friday but you know things are uh things are more difficult now and people sometimes haven't the time so we thought we would compress it down and people who who come to McGill sometimes want to spend a few days in Donegal so it facilitates all of that uh but but uh that's we start off on wednesday ukraine occupies a lot of our thoughts at this and i would point out that pat cox former president of the european parliament of course uh who works with me in today tonight many many years ago but but uh he uh he knows ukraine better than most and in fact he was there uh two or three weeks ago and and he was getting an account from him of how it went and uh he he he had to he had to wake up get out of his bed twice during the week of the conference that he was attending and go downstairs to the shelter so you can imagine how people are living there yeah and that's very much the reality on tenterhooks because they they seem to bomb whatever they want to bomb even a blood transfusion plan for god's sake yeah joe in terms of those who maybe would like to participate but can't get to dland east themselves there has traditionally been in recent years an online facility via the website or via donegal county council's website is that there as well yes yeah courtesy of darah mcdonough or donegal county council an excellent fellow uh terrific an artist himself indeed but but uh no that's still available as well and of course the archives exist now in the in the donegal archives and so you can go back 10 years and look at you know maybe look at uh somebody like the late fine lennon uh god be good to him or somebody you know like that so it's a it's a it's a fantastic facility mcgill summer school dot com is the website that's m a c gill summer school dot com is the website uh joel holland uh thank you very much indeed for speaking to us 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but i actually have three guests in studio hello alton how are you i want to introduce you to if you're looking on camera uh in the black on the far right as you're looking this is cody macgyver and in the middle we have kira doherty and then over to my left you're right we have alton pringle all three of you are very very welcome thank you very much thank you very much now you are here because ancwenon theater and its partner venues in the nask regional venue network have teamed up to present a national festival across eight regional theaters that's taking place in june of next year and the interesting thing about this festival is it's going to be curated selected organized and run by you lot yeah yeah so basically what you're saying is it's a lot of people say oh there's too many old fuddy duddies involved in theater and what we need to do is get young people involved so effectively on grailin and the partners in this network uh right from here to trilley to gallway to the leary they've come together and they've effectively said okay let's say to the young people off you go you program it you choose what's shown you get it organized thought i'm going to go to yourself first i mean it's it's a challenge but it's it's an exciting one it is yeah it's definitely very interesting and each of us come from very different backgrounds when it comes to like the arts um so it's very interesting they have different perspectives and it is i'm really looking forward for the project Alton how much freedom are you being given i mean is this a matter of you being given carp lunch and told do what you want or have you been given three and a half pages of conditions and previsals and actually we haven't been given any rules yet i don't know if we can remember something really crazy what we get get a talking to but i don't think so i think the point is trying to encourage young audiences and i suppose they think we might have might have the answer to that so we'll see you from next June have you any ideas already as to what you want to do i think we've talked a lot about reaching out to different communities within dunny gall and trying to represent them as a part of this festival trying to really get a sense of what is dunny gall i don't know if we can answer that question but try and answer that through this festival i think would be really admirable kira from your point of view as someone who's going to be programming this are you looking for original stuff are you looking for stuff that's out there already is this to be is the focus on creation is the focus on performance wow um i think that it's kind of what we're going to discover a little bit is um like i i just i'm really excited to tap under a lot of different like like areas that i i haven't worked with them so um yeah in terms of like theater and music and arts and all that there it's just kind of trying to find what what people are looking to see or provide a platform for people who don't really have one i suppose a little bit i mean and it goes beyond obviously you know people think theater you know you're thinking it can be a play it can be a musical it can be a concert and it's got to have an hour-long first act and a 15 minute interval and an hour-long second act and you know and and there are in people's heads there are rules to what extent and i'll go back to you on this one claude what extent do you get the feeling let's rip up the rule book and start again yeah i definitely think it's an interest between even all the creators that we have met to kind of change the idea of that traditional look of maybe theater and that kind of traditional look on the arts and kind of to like strip it back down and create like kind of make it a bit different to hopefully encourage more people to come to it and get rid of maybe the um i'm trying to think of the right words the nearly the conventions yeah that is put on it already kind of way if that makes sense it does because maybe as i said you know people do have the straight jacketed ideas to a certain extent i mean i'm i'm involved myself in in a local musical society and i i play i play a bit and again you know we and we we have to and where we're constricted to be honest is we're an amateur group who are going to spend in excess of thirty thirty five thousand euro one putting on a show so we have to have a commercial thought in our heads we have to think okay we have no money so if we're going to put on a show that costs thirty five thousand euro we have to make thirty five thousand euro back so immediately we've got to do something commercial we've got to do something that sells now to an extent that pressure has been taken off you you're you're being told go out there and create and curate something and and make it exciting yeah well i think that is the thing don't i mean how do you young people aren't as interested in the arts anymore i blame tech talk i blame the internet digitalization of culture so how do we get those people into a theater into a box that maybe they haven't gone into before how do you bring people in the doors and make them interested in something i don't think it is in those three act plays i don't think it is in samuel becket um i love becket i love brown frill but i think there are actually other ways that we try and engage a younger audience of those questions we're trying to try and answer over the next year kira i want to go up to you on this one as well because it's and it's interesting alton brought up tick tock there because i had a conversation with now i have a son and daughter who i suspect are a little older than than yourselves uh there shall we say far closer to having three at the start of their age than they are closer to having two at the start of their age um and i'll go no more than that or i'll be killed when i get home but i mean and even they say to me look we're now in a in a generation where we're using to tick tock we're looking at you know my daughter said to me recently i would never dream of watching the graham norton show or watching the lake show but i'll go online after and i'll watch the 10 minute clip of the interviews and and that's the way she's consuming tv now she's watching very little live tv but she's watching the 10 minute segments the best off bits to come up on youtube now is that creating a challenge because people are used to getting all their art in 10 minute segments and five minute tick tock slots yeah i feel very seen there because i don't think i've ever watched the graham norton should i just watch the clips on youtube i do love tick tock i can't lie like i am guilty but um i definitely see how it's it's kind of shortening attention spans a lot like even my mum like because they've expanded now to like 10 minute tick tocks my mum shows me a tick tock and goes on longer than two minutes and like mommy but um i don't know i think that it's kind of a weird thing i feel a little bit caught in the mud because you think that that it's kind of ruining i do i do think that i think maybe attention spans are dead and it's making it more difficult to get bombs on seats but i think it means we have to reframe how we think about what theater is to get those people in i think and i do we had discussions about lockdown and things got in the absence of live events and things get and i really really really struggled with that so i know i feel a little caught in the middle where i do love like the traditional like live experience but i am kind of guilty of being in the tick tock generation as well yeah we can't help it we're young koda from from from your own point of view you know we've been speaking about programming obviously you're all going to have your own individual interests as well so the three of you have got to sit down is it going to be a matter of okay you do what you want to do i'll do what i want to do and you do what you want to do or is this going to be a collaboration how do you think this is going to work between the three i think it has potential to be a complete real collaboration um because obviously like olden would be quite theater based and here would be quite musical based um and then i would be more based into like working with different um cultures and diversity type so i think it's going to be quite like easy to try and put something together to kind of collaborate the whole lot of them and i think it'd be quite a nice thing as well to do um because i feel like we'd learn a lot of each other as well from collaborating all into one this this is a week long festival uh so you'll be presumably then trying to put forward a a program of events for a week that will be centered in on gradient theater is it exclusively on gradient or you can can you go out to the community to to other venues there have been no parameters placed on us really bar we know what's that week so like we can go out into different communities we can pull from different communities yeah we can really um this guy is the limit now money's always a problem just like in your amateur musical group so money will be an issue but we're going to see what we can do with that and do our best with it so is it is it that you're being given a set level of funding from on gradient and from the the NASC when your network and told okay there's your budget away you go and do it yeah exactly so it is like just having a theater of your own you're told here's the here's the money see what you can do with this part of money but that that is good because it also means you know there's going to be learning experience then for yourselves as well as i mean cary you know as as they've said you're very involved in music and you know it's great and and and there are times when you can just go out and express yourself musically and do what you want when you want where you want to do it but when you have a budget and a brief you know you're going to have to start maybe thinking well you know can we make this back can you know it's going to be a challenge but it is it is one of the things because since graduating i i i did get like interested in events but it was a really scary thing because like i i appreciate what artists work is worth and i'm always worried that i'm not going to be able to pay them fairly so this is a really big deal to me to be handed a budget or being like taught how to budget is something that i'm really excited to learn just for life and for my future kind of career i suppose and have all of you are your qualifications all in the shall we say the wider realm of theater in the arts yeah i would study event management public relations yeah so i study that in uh at ugale so that would have given me kind of a bit of a background on like the actual putting together of events and kind of the marketing for them and stuff like that um now i'm not specialized in the arts but it would have given me a bit of a general idea so business head music head theater yeah exactly clover's got her head screwed on does that mean then that part of your job and and this is possibly the way this is going to evolve organically if you haven't been given briefs or parameters but part of your job is going to go oh i altered come down from that cloud a bit reality class i've already had it running running a month in and i had that talk already oh by the way i'll tell you read a really good news tank thanks to the wonderful work of kevin uh the camera's been adjusted and you are now visible is it my good side can you say both sides are all good sides don't you worry about their face um it's going to be a genuinely interesting festival because as you do have a blank sheet and you don't have your brief is to to present a festival for a week centered in on gradient theater in in letter kenny but obviously you're going to be going out to the wire dunny god in northwest community will you get the chance to go elsewhere because this is this is happening in letter kenny there's going to be a similar event and a similar team in trilly and dunleary and gollway etc and the and the other participating um i don't know if waterford's involved i would imagine garter lane in waterford is probably involved possibly or possibly i'm searching my brain yeah i yeah it's um it would be a theater i know it's it's quite a good one actually um but would you get the chance then maybe to go elsewhere and bring stuff you've created to go away or to dunleary or to trilly or wherever i think there's a chance the program that we collaborate say with um backstage in longford or with pavilion dunleary to create the work so we share it between the three venues say yeah so it'd be like coming together pulling our resources and collaborating on that i'm not sure about touring the work after it's made next year but the sky's the limit i think claudah can tell me that's not possible it's a bit of it but yeah there is i mean it's also that thing don't like you were saying about reaching out into the community of like if there are young artists listening between the ages of 18 25 who want to talk to us about their work please come to us because we are looking we're trying to represent um it's kind of the age group we've been told that we're what the three of us are from so if you are listening and you want to talk about your work please approach angry none approach us and let's chat and because we need to find those people then the community who are creating the works that we can then kind of work with them to nurture it and take it further would be a really great challenge i think with this program the opportunity to i won't say rip it up and start again but certainly the opportunity to you know disassemble the traditions and perhaps look at the traditions and see what works what doesn't work how can we do this in a way that's different how can we do this in a way that meets the the desires of our market to use that horrible phrase but in the one hand you want to meet what you're you want to meet meet what your market wants you want to give the market what it wants but very often art someone once described art in a lovely way they said art is giving the community what it doesn't know it needs yeah yeah and there's an element there as well it's after that that element of education so you're going to sort of you know obviously people want a good gig or people want a good comedy experience or a good theater experience and you know and you're going to give them that but there is that opportunity to perhaps get people who haven't as you said and this is an interesting one because i would be a regular theater goer i'd be we'd be regular gig goers and all of you by by virtue of the fact that you expressed an interest in this you have an interest in it so there's a lot of people of that age that don't i suspect there's a lot of people aged between 18 and 25 who apart from something they might have had to do in school have never been within the door of angrily or the baller or the abbey in bali shannon or any other theater yeah i think for for me especially because i'm coming from more of a musical side one of the things that i have in my head is is even when i was applying the challenge with the theater is i go to gigs every weekend i know the venues or the bars wherever i'm used to seeing music and just trying to figure out how that would translate into the theater and i think that that yeah it's just it's just an interesting challenge i suppose is trying to think in terms of the theater rather than the venues that i'm used to going and and as a person as a young person that does frequent that what would would bring me into the theater a little bit um in terms of you and actually you're more used to being in the theater i suppose well then i think i have definitely i'm in the minority of people in my age group i love the theater i love beckett i love freel but i think it's about the that challenge of theaters are scary they're big huge boxes concrete boxes that some people feel that they're not making work for them so why would you ever bother spending 25 year on a ticket to go and watch it so it's about trying to think with this program if you build it for the community and build it based somewhere to build it for the people who've done it all will they then come yeah i think they will i do think if you build community-based theater that's inclusive of everyone who wants to sit and watch it rather than just like um a certain demographic i think they will come but we'll see but it's important to that what you're effectively saying to to those young people is you're saying don't come to this thing that's being created by some old furry doddy or that's been created by some traditional practitioner come to it because it's been created by your peers or you for you and to an extent i mean you as a representative group it's created for you and it's created by you to an extent because the idea being obviously you will have an insight into the minds of 18 to 25 year olds that i mean and let's be honest about it for with all the within the world much as i like to think i have really hip and cool musical taste i think i haven't got it i mean i really don't know i can i can talk about the new bands and i can talk about her you know you know i i i will listen to you know bands like the boon club and bands like that and think oh i'm being really cool you know i am being really cool because i'm listening to a really hip band you know and i know young people you look at dad over there yeah yeah and that is the reality of it so you know the fact that this is and i think this is genuinely exciting because and in fairness i i know patricia and i don't know a lot of the people that are great and obviously i think they are great people and i think they are people who genuinely will take a step back now i'm sure there's going to be times when they'll be biting their tongues what are you doing to me and i've no doubt and if that doesn't happen you're not doing your job yes thank you i think that is the case i mean i think if you're not challenging patricia and if you're not challenging nyle and and pete and all the guys and and and you know in the day if you're not challenging them you know you're not doing your job and if they're not challenging you they aren't they aren't doing theirs you know and i think there's it's going to be genuinely exciting to see what comes out of this and look re you've got a year well under a year about 10 months at this stage it's june 24 and this is going to be a week of programming in on graden there's going to be theater there's going to be music hopefully there'll be some comedy and it'll be curated by yourselves and hopefully presented by people of a similar age and i think we could find some really exciting new talent out there there are people out there that have yeah comedic talent and acting talent and musical talent and and they would not think of it they wouldn't think themselves oh i must get involved in this yeah so hopefully you can find them and and and you can put them on those stages and and create something really special um buddha macabre kira darty and alton pringle it's it's been an absolute pleasure and by the i have to say if anyone is looking at alton and thinking oh my wonder the answer is yes obviously the answer is yes i mean god you can't deny it just take a look at it for gods okay and we we we will go further than that it's been an absolute pleasure i really look forward to this and look we look forward to talking to you again over the next while i think there's something really exciting going to happen here thank you very much all the best with it perfect thank you so that is kira and clota and alton it's uh a minute just under two minutes to eleven going to take a short break back after these transform your home with a visit to McGinley's furniture letter kenny located at the port 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available until the 5th of september served after 11 a.m. subject to availability this is the 90 noon show on highland radio it's donal cavern with you for the next 55 minutes or can't believe we're into the final hour of the show already um this goes to show the quality of our guests uh because it just seems to just go bing and you're there and our next guest is no exception we're joined uh in studio by andre mcdade who is the founder of solo mates and solo mates basically is just a means of people getting together forging friendships and uh i tell you what let's let's not have me talk let's have andrea talk andrea good morning good morning donal thank you for having me it's our absolute pleasure andrea the idea of solo mates um in terms of of what it is and where the idea came from just to speak about the background the background of solo mates is initially five years ago um when my son grew up and he became more independent and he didn't need me as much anymore i had lots of free time in my hands um and i was always looking for a group like solo mates um i couldn't find one so i had to create the group myself um and it's basically just for people who have free time um who want to get out and about socially um common outdoors meet new people make connections build friendships um go on adventures and explore um so it's just basically a safe environment for people to come together and the focus is on forging friendships it's not about dating it's not about trying to do something deeper it's about getting together and having the crack it's just about getting together and having the crack there is no agenda no agenda you can come and go as you please um some events might suit you um you might like to try new things whilst um outside your own friendship groups um so it's just basically about getting people together having the crack and enjoying life and i'm sure it's matter too is just sitting around and talking and you know you will find you've got stuff in common with people you'll find shared interests you'll find you know and that's always going to happen i suspect on something like this that you know you will find oh you like terry pratchett i love terry pratchett too or you like such such a program i love that program as well and and that's almost organically going to happen yeah people have um similar interests um and you find like people have even made really good friendships so just solo mates um and i suppose we do a lot of events like we do hiking walks um sunsets sunrise full moon dips um we meet every tuesday morning at half six um we just sit and have a coffee and have a chat we do a five-minute morning meditation and we go for a swim and then everybody goes back to normality i suppose solo mates for everybody is like getting a break from normality and taking some me time and recharge and you know and it's it's breaking the routine as well and sometimes we can get caught and trapped in the routine yeah and that's nice for people as well to get away from their own lives and kind of have different friendships or you know different kind of people in a group that aren't like they're familiar friends and things like so you kind of find that um everybody just comes away from the day having like a great day yeah one of the things you're planning uh in the not too distant future is uh a sunset suare on the water now this sounds like this sounds really good it is um i'm really excited about this event um at at the beginning i was really nervous i didn't know if i could pull it off um it took a lot of organization and i suppose for me i wanted to keep it for the bong krana people and i wanted to keep it local um and the ferry service doesn't offer a sunset cruise um so i was actually watching the sunset one night in las fanon and i rang dominik um the man that owns the bong krana ferry and i told him my idea and he just says how can i help you and i just said well i need your ferry um i just want to like organize like a summer kind of the last blast before everybody goes back to work in fact a reality and routine um so it's just something different it's never happened before in bong krana it's the first time that they have had or they are going to have a sunset cruise so it's going to be take the the ferry out not not necessarily just go straight to that model and pack again i mean would you just be under a bit on the swilly and just um i think we're planning on heading towards dunry oh lovely and i have a band and a dj and we we might anchor up out in the swally for a while or we might go on up towards enchiland string empire and dj marty string empire and dj marty yeah that sounds amazing i mean i've i've never seen dunry from the water i've obviously i've been at dunry several times and the views around dunry are fantastic i've never actually seen dunry from the water looking up yeah i have that sounds interesting that sounds really interesting i have to say well sure you're more than welcome to join us uh what's the date it's the 26th of august and it's from eight to eleven 26th of august i'm in dunleary there's the annual ukulele hooly on it dunleary so i'll actually be down at that well maybe we'll have another one next oh well i'll tell you i will certainly be looking at with interest at the pictures but it really sounds good and it's an interesting one andrew because it the idea is simplicity itself how much work has has gone into actually making solo mates a reality from your own point of view because you're on the one hand you're the organizer you're the founder but on the other hand you just want to go out for a bit of a swirly with your mates so do you have a difficult sort of pat to thread in terms of being the founder but also just wanting to participate um i suppose it all kind of just works out easy enough um every idea starts from a conversation with somebody or people DM me and say andrew i would love to do this i've never been here um so i always say to people if there's one more person in me then let's do it then we just put it out in stories and more people join and that's kind of the way it goes do you find yourself having to worry about things like insurance i mean particularly for something like the summer swirly or is it just a matter of doing something like we can you use the ferry zone insurance or do you have to actually start becoming an event organizer as such and looking at things like insurance and looking at all all that goes with that well one of the reasons why um there is one rule to the grip and that's everybody has to be 18 or over and that's kind of so that everybody's responsible for themselves like i'm just bringing people together socially um you know like we go on hikes and things but everybody has to be responsible for themselves so it isn't like i am part of a club and the club has certain responsibilities towards my welfare in my health and safety this is i'm out for a walk with me mate yeah we're just out for a walk um we're all adults and you just have to follow rules and everything um and just stay safe in terms of the um the actual sunset cruise that we were talking about i mean event bright the people can actually go on to event bright and book on to that i'm sure the numbers are going to be somewhat limited yeah the the numbers are limited obviously because the ferry has um like they have numbers that you're allowed to take on board at the time so um it's on my bio on instagram and it's also on my facebook page the link and of course there'd be no cars on the ferry so there'd be more people on board than usual but as you say you'll have a band you'll have a DJ it'll be a very different way uh in in terms of you know refreshments and so on is it about just people take their own or is it something being organized on the ferry itself people are going to take their own but i have like um i had a chip fan on mind um but this person can't make it because they don't finish their their shift is because until nine o'clock and my event starts at eight so i'm still looking for a chip fan i have a few numbers but if there's anybody out there that's a chip fan on the ferry yeah that'll be interesting well i just thought it would be nice like um for people if they wanted like to get a chip or a burger yeah um and if it doesn't work out we'll we'll sort something out absolutely um yeah it's gonna i i am bowled over the idea of a gig on a boat looking up a dunery i have to say that that really is i'm really really taken with that idea i mean you know please do another one uh because i will go to that well hopefully if everything goes well um like it was a big risk to kind of even think about organizing something like this but i hope the risk pays off um we just need a sunset hopefully hopefully and if the weather would cooperate it would be nice if the weather cooperated with one thing once this year yeah and maybe your one thing will be the one thing the weather decides to cooperate with fingers crossed but we can't predict the weather unfortunately but i do have a feeling that you know if it's if it's not that will still be a great night how would you define solo mates i mean it's not a club per se because it doesn't have membership as such is it a movement is it an initiative uh can solo mates take on a life beyond yourself for instance would you like to see this concept and idea travel on elsewhere when people say well that's a good idea what that girl up in tony gallister am i to that myself yeah um for now i was talking to was it carlain carlain yeah um and we were just talking about people that have moved to different places and you know they're seeking friendships and they don't really know people um and i would love to see solo mates extend all around irland um because i do think there is a need for it um and that's for like all ages it's for everybody um and it's it's nice when somebody has an interest that they can um get people to join them um and do different things it's all just about bond connections and friendships and andrea it's a really really interesting initiative and uh well done for thinking about i mean it's one of those things where people think that's a kind of an obvious thing really isn't it yeah it's a kind of an obvious thing really anyone could have thought of it anyone could have done it but andrea did yeah well done for that because you know it's great to see it take a life of its own and look i i really hope the the initiative on on the swilly goes well and look all all the best with solo mates and you know if if love if lifelong friendships are forged through this all all the better but um most importantly let the crack continue to be had yeah exactly and enjoy life and make the most of absolutely good outdoors andrea thanks very much indeed for coming in and speaking to us this morning and hopefully people can contact a event bright or go on to andrea mcdade's if they search solo mates on will you find solo mates 2022 solo mates 2022 that's how you'll find more details online and as i say event bright you can look at getting your tickets for that sunset cruise it's nine till noon show on highland radio 16 minutes past 11 o'clock the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio 2500 euro every friday that's a chance to win 10 000 cash money your ticket today go to highland radio dot co