Spicy Pottles. Yeah, have fun. It's what it's all about boy. Pepper Pig loves pepper pottles. Yeah, I'm not Pepper Pig person. Sideway face does my head in. Hudson made Lake Pepper Pig. Oh well, I've purposely shielded him from Pepper Pig. Did you? He's alright okay. Baby bum or whatever it's called is the latest thing. Alright Gucci, you have a great weekend. We look forward to chatting you Monday already. Our Friday panel is going to be joining us very shortly. It's an interesting one and we've got a lot of interesting topics to talk about. But let's get across what's happening in the world of news and say good morning now to Donald Kavana. Good morning Donald. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. At Donegal today says homeowners affected by defective blocks must be included on the implementation steering group which is to be established to work through issues as they arrive in the new redress scheme. In a submission to an Eroctor's Housing Committee at which the defective blocks issue was discussed, W. Jomy Q welcomed the establishment of the group but stressed the need for the voice of homeowners to be included. He said the committee based on his ministerial experience runs the risk of regarding the issue as having been addressed and then moving on to something else and that W. Jomy Q says is something that can't be allowed happen. My fear and my brief knowledge of being in different departments is once a box is ticked, once the scheme is introduced you're so busy in your world and you have so much going on and you have so many housing issues and all that. That bit's done. Let's move on. Let's move on. We can't allow that to happen on the scheme because the scheme is not the scheme. It's too complex. It's too big. It's too wide. It's too varied. It's too challenging. I'm asking for the voice of the homeowner to be represented on that implementation committee. A nationwide garther alert has reportedly been issued for a crime gang which ramrated several shops across the country. The Irish Independent reports this morning the group has stolen thousands of euro worth of goods and carried out significant criminal damage in its crime spree. It's believed the group has carried out eight organized robberies in Dublin, West Meath, Wexford, Kildare, Meath, Galway and Ross Common. The paper reports at least six people are involved in the gang and a regional coordinated investigation is underway. Ireland's emissions fell by only just under two percent last year, according to the latest assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency. The decrease is less than half the reduction required under targets. The agency is warning meeting targets in the future will be extremely challenging. Ireland has signed up to national and international obligations to fight climate change with key targets of cutting emissions by half by 2030. Dr Cara Augustenberg is professor of environmental policy at UCD. She says transport almost derailed the success in all other sectors last year. They had a six percent increase on 2021. Now it's still a little bit down from pre-COVID levels but obviously it's rising as we get back to business as usual. It's still on the rise and it really shows that we have to get out of this mindset that it's all about electric vehicles. Electric vehicles are not going to be the solution to our transport issues. And just to remind you that warning from Metair in today motors should be wary of difficult driving conditions and flooding this afternoon and evening. A status yellow weather warning is in place in the whole country until seven this evening except for Donegal. In Donegal a standalone rain warning will be valid from midday until midnight and the forecast bands of rain moving up from the south during the morning with heavy falls at times risk of localized flooding the rain continuing into this evening with fresh and gusty easterly winds highs of 13 to 16 degrees celsius rain continuing tonight easing off later overnight temperatures 11 to 13. That silent radio news we're back with news again at 10 o'clock. Hello and a very good morning. It is four minutes past nine on this Friday the 14th of July 2023. You're very welcome along to another edition of The Ninth of Noon Show and it's a busy one as always on a Friday very shortly and introduced to you our Friday panel but I want you involved in the conversation we all do in fact 086625,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number 086625,000 or give us a call on 07491 25,000 email comments at highlandradio.com we want you involved as well if you're listening outside the 26 cantees 00353 drop the oh and away you go put the number in your phone it's going to be a long one uh still but anyway all right let's say hello and good morning to our guests and we welcome on to the program now father john joe duffy good morning to your father thank you so much for joining us morning to the listeners it's great to have you with us any grants the former president of the students union at the atu letter kenny hi eddie great thanks for having me good to have you on board dr joe kelly historian and teacher joe how are you my good morning to you is is a plightness b to make sure we're all connected can hear each other and it's another morning where we've got off to a successful successful stuff there's actually really quite a lot to get through this morning um yesterday we were talking about the new leaving cert sex education curriculum which will normalize lesbian gay bisexual transgender and other lgbtq plus identities relationships and families rather than marginalizing them in standalone lessons the government's curriculum advisors say the approach to be taken with students will be inclusive underpinned by the principles of equality human rights and responsibilities now in fairness that element is just one part of the leaving cert curriculum which deals with issues such as healthy and unhealthy relationships matters of consent whether it's given or or perceived and domestic sexual and gender-based violence so there's a lot in there but the papers did pick out the some of the stuff as it relates to the normalizing of lgbtq plus identities relationships and families mixed bag coming back from our audience during the week um but a brief one on this one from you dr joe kelly what's your take on it is this worthwhile is it useful it is still out for consultation so parents and guardians are at this point can't have their stay still well firstly what's it saying about our sex ed for the last 20 years that's the first thing so we've been totally acting as ignoramuses for the last 20 years and all of a sudden with the new wokism of transgenderism and everything else you know we stick that in now and tell us that we were we were behind the curve for the last 20 years it's no longer good enough and for parents now to think that when they drop off their kids at school and pick them up that that's the only engagement they have to have with their children's education parents need to become aware of what's been taught and the issue i have is the content of what's been taught and more importantly who's doing the teaching what agenda are they're pushing i have no problems talking about transgenderism lgbt whatever it is you need to talk about but is there an agenda being pushed with that and i'll give you an example if you look at any time greg you ever hear your listeners ever hear a politician ever again say you know it's going by international best practices a red flag who decides what's international best practices so when it comes to sex ed international best practices they refer often to the world health organization sex edged program which in a small booklet mentions abortion 68 times now that's not an agenda i have no problems with children being told about abortion and what happens but it's just the level and the agenda that the top heavy infiltration of content and ideologies into that and this is where the problem is and i just ask a question but you talk about ideologies there right um we had a referendum on abortion here the public decided now obviously subsequent to that that that might be changed and and further widened and that's another debate for another day there are also people who identify as trans and different identities non-binary and what have you including discussing them having a conversation with people in their late teens how is that uh wokeness or how is that an ideology or how is that an agenda these people exist we're not being trying they're not trying to convince young people that they should become they're simply saying that out in the world these people exist and here's an understanding of of of you mean you presume you don't deny the exist absolutely not i mean the fundamental for me is a question is you know every human being has made an image of likeness of god no matter what we treat everybody with respect full stop and that's across everything so i mean that's that's a given but my point is this greg and maybe this is an unusual station to be having this conversation but you're a woman a very brave simple woman on your radio show a few days ago talking about sex ed and the concern she had and she was just a mother expressing her belief her her ideology as a parent and i'm sure she was speaking for a lot of parents she wasn't shut up and she wasn't shut down you give her an opportunity to say what she needed to say and she reflected of what many parents would be thinking but the that woman wouldn't be given that platform on national broadcasting she wouldn't be allowed to air her views her christian views that's wrong that's wrong i mean obviously this is this is the issue it's the agenda that's behind it as i said i have no problems with content and with delivery providing it is it is balanced and i just question the balance of that that that's maybe the point i write the balances and i'll put the same point to her as i did to you the balances is joe that you can walk around arland you can walk around holding hands with your partner you can walk into any business any shop you will never face any uh you will never face any grief no one will ever question you about your color no one will ever question you about your gender you know you will just be able to operate all the laws of the land are laid out as complicated as it can be to be perfectly simple for you you aren't oppressed you aren't marginalized you have as a white straight male a pretty decent run of things this is about recognizing that there are other people that don't have those experiences in these country in this country i disagree with you i don't think i'm treated equally as a parent the challenges i face as a parent in every society i would argue in many cases anti-family i'm i have children i have to pay electricity i have to pay for x y and z i don't see the society being positive towards family and towards children if we're going to have this conversation let's have a fair and balanced conversation about everything and as regards males and sexuality who are the most people in jail men who are the most people that commit suicide men who are the most people homeless men you know let's have the conversation and i have no problems i don't want anybody uh discriminate against and i would stand up for those people be it in any sense any human being deserves dignity full stop and nobody has a right to infringe upon that dignity but that dignity is not just for a few it is for everybody all right well the problem greg is it's only been talked about the few it must be talked about everyone everybody must be part of this conversation everybody must be treated equally yeah i mean it's interesting i mean most crimes committed by men absolutely that that is true um and again maybe if you look at educational attainment most men are on the lower rungs of education most men are in the most rungs of of society i mean look at the balance do you really believe that joe everything in this every controversy almost in this country for the last god knows how long it's it's women that are impacted by it oh absolutely women suffer from diversity violence women suffer from when there's a separation financially they go into poverty right away there's no doubt about all those things but the point is women try and get some control like say for instance in the in the interest of now i hope listeners understand when i use language i'm using it as counterpoints like abortion being healthcare for an example right as soon as there's any inroads made in that all of a sudden it's like oh you know you can't do that you know it's and that you can't do it for this reason or for that reason but anyway i'll come back to you um that's not the point of view i'm putting here i having a conversation uh edward grand if you uh account of you or similar view to uh dr kelly he thinks i mean he's he's sitting there in his bedroom oh sorry he's sitting there in his front room scared stiff uh as a a slight straight man i feel sorry for me you're all right joe do we need to send someone round you're so oppressed come here go on edward go on edward i have to say this is often like the rest of the union team take us there's a very positive step forward um when we come into the third level environment which is what we're trying to prepare students for and the second level these students entering they're leaving they're doing so to be prepared for entering into the big bad war the cohort will move forward the third level we have mandatory consent training we have mandatory training to try and bring people up to speed and i think you can see last year some of the events that happened during my dynamic presidency there was gender-based violence happening there was students being attacked because of the perceived gender because of the company they choose to keep and it's important that we arm our young people with the proper knowledge to be able to tackle that there whenever they get into the big bad world whenever they start that process of entering is it proportionate though you talk of cases of people and their experiences is it proportionate response to have these types of conversations and this type of information given to an entire population of 14 15 16 17 year olds yeah as far as the proposed changes are coming into the final two years so it's going to be targeting the middle of the 16 18 year olds and from my understanding there still is an option for parents to pull out the same with any class but then the puller turned out if they don't feel that that there's going to be more appropriate for them and so there still is that option there i think for me coming especially so close from my own experience through second level education my only fear would be because it is a non-exam class it might be taken too lightly and these are very serious subject matters that we're talking about i think there needs to be some kind of learner-based assessment there just to ensure that the information being given has been taken correctly and make sure that the teaching and learning side of that there is up to standard because i would hate to see it just divulge into more colloquial or more of a DOS class i think it's a kind of yeah because there are serious issues in terms of which also is a significant part of this change to the curriculum healthy and unhunger healthy relationships what's the difference consent domestic sexual and gender-based violence we heard from the Dublin rape crisis centre that violence now is becoming increasingly more a factor in in in in sexual sex crimes and the the head of that is convinced that this is because people are getting their education from pornography so there has to be some level of education around this here somewhere because the problems start to particularly manifest themselves but not exclusively in third level it's it's something we try and target in third level definitely we've been running through the Zen UIG came out with the training first was active consent now we're starting the roll out i'm active bystander training the issue with it is because third level's core education structure is a little bit more self-centered on learning and it's not as structured as you would have in second level it's very hard to target the exact audience that needs to be targeted for these kind of mandatory classes because they're not pushed and not put into the mainstream so i would take this as a very positive change father john joe duffy good morning to you again and what's your view on this good morning greg um i have to say that facts are very important the fact-based education is is very important uh as long as it is not ideologically driven are agenda driven by some uh that it's very much a fact-based education i had a very excellent fact-based sex education in the russians community school in donnellow when i went to school and we also learned the facts around abortion at a time when abortion was uh very far from being introduced in this country uh respect is important what i see is that there is a huge need uh to put necessary resources in place uh to to help young people who are struggling and uh that that is the big element in the room that there is not enough resource and not enough help uh put in place for young people who are struggling particularly young people who are struggling with gender identity at this time and and and with the sexual identity and and so on that help and resource needs to be put in place and we must realize too that the frontal lobe to the brain i'm not too much up on the brain but i believe uh haven't gone through trauma training recently that that is not developed until we are 26 years of age and young people's minds will will change much uh up until they are 26 years of age and we do not have the full capacity for making very serious decisions about our lives until we are 26 is what i was told recently in training but that's open for discussion but the net respect is necessary necessary right across the board and anything that will take away violence against anyone anything like that is to be very much welcomed as well because everyone should be treated uh with care and and and reach out to help and again it is a choice for parents parents are the primary educators uh until uh someone is 18 years of age and uh i think that uh there should be opt-outs for parents who do not wish to have their children uh involved in the press of education but that there should be a system of uh sex education put in place for for all children be that uh the parents doing it be that done in the schools or whatever the case may be did you want to come back on that uh edward eddy sorry just before i i ask for the question of father john joe yeah um it's something that i heard uh both of my co-partners there on the radio that i mentioned is the idea that there's not to be an agenda behind it and i think i'd like more information about what an agenda they don't want because every action has an agenda and as far as i'm concerned the agenda behind this is to protect our young people yeah but can i suggest and i'll i'll respond to that but in a further question to father john joe the thing that's slightly different about this than most other things that i can kind of think of off the top of my head is is that we have a we have an approach that's been decided for educating young people but yet in society we really haven't settled it all if you know what to mean so there are very very different views out out in the world now i'm not talking about the very extreme views i'm on about people that just haven't got their head around what is possible what isn't possible what they might do if it if a situation arose in their family yet we seem to have a very decided and specific approach within the schools and and father john joe i think that's wearing an awful lot of the problems arise because parents and guardians haven't got their head around certain issues like multiple genders and and and and someone being born one gender and then living their lives as another yet is being taught as a matter of sort of fact in the schools and i think this is where we have a difficulty and i can't really think of another example of this it's like if you believed the world was flat and you believed it with all your soul but your children were being taught it was round it's kind of that's that's the closest i can come to some sort of an example which i think is throwing up all of this debate and confusion to some extent yeah great great you have the nail very very much on the head there and um i um i agree i agree with you and we're at very early stages in all of this area and i think um we need to take things very slowly and very carefully and uh the it's very important and again going back going back i i think that respect is is so vitally important and to nurture young people and to help them through these difficult situations that they are being faced with and um you looked at programs on different types of programs and programs are changing where you have ideologies very much part of programs as it has always been as Edward mentioned and and it's a very confusing world i believe for for adults and and for young people at the moment and change does lead change full stop is very confusing for people and this area is particularly confusing for a lot of people and i'm not i'm not as qualified to speak on it as as as i'm not sure but Edward i don't know Edward as well but i know uh Shaws of Joe Kelly is a parent and is a teacher and you're a parent Greg and i think you have a lot more experience i don't know i don't know i don't know i think you probably have i've had better conversations that perhaps would be more enlightening than might have if someone is seeking counsel or something but if someone comes to me seeking counseling around this area i'm always aware that i i have two ears i had one mouth and you know the ratio lesson and to put people in the right to get to help help signpost people and that's i believe very much part of what they do okay i'm going to go back to Joe Kelly but i'm conscious that Edward didn't um i took him in but we didn't get quite as much time Edward and i mean this with respect and i can kind of say this because you know i'm probably in the target group i'm about to reference here is there a generational issue here do you think if we had like a load of 15 16 and 17 year olds uh listening now and pulled them they'd say these guys don't know what they're on about here is you know my friend is this and i'm that and uh we don't judge each other we all hang around together this is the way life is and let's face it it's their world you know uh we won't be here uh for very much longer in the wider scale of things uh do we fully understand i mean it's like the three of us sitting here four of us here talking about tiktok if we've never opened the app yeah i do think the definite loads of generational debate and i think that's true with any situation really um in my experience young people tend to be as confused as adults when it comes to these sort of situations although they tend to be a little bit more open and understand the facts maybe they don't have the full picture they're not completely understanding of the world i think it's important to remember there because i know the comments made there but the science being unsure in that there but the first gender realignment surgery was done in 1931 it was done just after world war two it was a person born in the 1800s so it's the concepts have been there for an awful long time and it's just now we're trying to push them more into the mainstream and i think it's important that the children receive this education so that they can make their own minds up about the subjects when it's there turn the takeover yeah but at the same time too there is that feeling Edward that they're not making their minds up they are going through that period of their life where you're seeking something you're seeking an identity you're seeking your place in the world you know that and then you know you're placed with this menu of options and you could go right well you know that's that that's maybe that's who i am like the current like we need more time we need more analysis do we 10 15 years down the road to see people who are 15 and 16 now how are they have we done the right thing are we making sure that we are guiding them correctly the best decision we made there as you said these are people that are seeking out ideologies the people that are trying to decide about their places in the world and who they're going to be when they get there and i think for them to make that decision it's most important for them to be informed with the options they have and where they will lead for us to sit there and decide well i don't think it's appropriate for us to give this knowledge to a child who will eventually receive it whether or not we as adults or users parents decide that it is appropriate for them it's going to be a decision they make and it's knowledge that they're going to gain regardless and i think it'd be better for it to be given in a setting where it's controlled in a setting where the information is coming directly from experts who have more knowledge in them than any of us sitting here all right edward if you could move closer to your router it would be absolutely superb because i what you've got important views and i want to hear what they have to say if that's doable if not we can work our way through it but dr kelly finally before we take a break and move on like we you know it's been referenced about parents and and our responsibilities and and i actually think it's a whole all of society i think father john joe's role in all of this is as important as ours because you know uh but we we it's our responsibility to to make sure we're doing the right thing right now that that's my point and we're not settled on if this is the right thing and i think this is why conversations like this are are useful but we are presuming that this is the right thing to do but it may well be but how can parents be assured that it's not that we're not going that creating the issues as we try and make sure that we're looking after everybody at the same time if that makes sense as convoluted as that ramble was no no i get the point look i have i have children i'm a parent and i want to make their bodies physically as best i can so i feed them properly i exercise them properly i invest in them to make them physically the best human beings that's a duty i have as a parent likewise i need to put into their mind what's healthy and i am concerned that if i put into my child's into their mind in the same way i would put bad food into their body what effect does that have on them and this goes back to the science the science in a lot of this uh new generational um ethos is very unproven and if you look at for example the whole basis of transgenderism goes back to john money in 1955 who i argues is a very sinister and amoral man uh two children committed suicide because of his experimentation and this is considered international best practice and i advise parents go on and google john money and you'll understand what's behind this agenda i mean and so i have to be careful that i protect my child's inner being what goes into their head i have a duty as a parent in the same way i care for their food and it's not about this agenda thing that you keep mentioning though like like language is so important what do you mean by agenda do you think there's a group of people actively trying to uh to to uh to turn uh people who are born as male into women or vice a versa i mean what what might the agenda be there do you know what i mean these are people who from an a very early age just did they don't connect with their physical body now some might go down the route of of very few but some might go down the the route of gender realignment some might some might take some hormones but many many don't many just identify and walk around you know not with their birth assigned they're not being driven to that's their feeling that's the one so as soon as then you start talking about agendas joe you honestly i kind of get lost a little bit because i'm like well who are you talking about where's you know what are we talking about here well the point i'm trying to make maybe and is this that i and i think we all agree eddy and father john joe myself look it's respect is terrible part for every human being full stop but the problem is it's not about respect it's only it's been loaded in certain elements that there are certain views that are getting priority over other views and there's no balance an example i go back to that woman was on your radio station that would not happen on national media she would not she'd be made shut up and she would have been made closed down but in fact you give her an opportunity that's what i'm on about agenda where there is a balance where people okay to air their concerns i guess i i do understand now i i do you actually i do understand exactly what you mean but edward do you believe or eddy do you believe there's an agenda to shut down debates that in other words if you push back a little bit you're described as this that or the other i mean we do have to have open debates and i don't think in anything in this world we know all the answers and we'll only get to what is genuinely right for young people is through respectful conversation i think that the the idea that there isn't open debate comes from two sectors and that's in my personal experience one is either when somebody expects a person who identifies as transgender or identifies as gay to have explanations as to why and it's not up to that person to have to debate their own existence the other side of it is it's important to remember that whenever we come in the conversations like this there is a standard that's already set and to be fair to everyone the panelists today it's been a day or two it's the idea of call and respect mutual human understanding and i think sometimes a debate can teter on the age of does this person actually exist where we can see they do yeah of course and and i and i don't believe that's there was any utterance in that regard here but we also have to make sure that that person are we in in supporting them without questioning or any alternative got are we actually making sure that we're doing the right thing in do you get what i'm saying but i honestly mean and i think i'm just going to go back to something that joe said that second ago the idea that he's putting things into his children's mouth to try and make them healthy he's giving them food he's giving them water where you got the idea of what's healthy and what's bad came from the experts came from the scientific community came from years of research and study and it's the same scientific community the tattoo which food is good and which food is bad i'm not sure though the community 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grief and what local supports are available to adults doors open at one with a speaker at 130 visit hgg.ie for more details hug hope and healing after suicide call us as joe makes a good point on cherry picking the oppressed for instance when joe brought up abortion greg said the majority decided in the referendum but the unborn child didn't get a vote joe's speaking for them listen i mean this comes up now and again but we had a referendum in a democracy and the majority voted in a certain way simply referencing that is not taking one side of the argument or not and clearly obviously on both children are never going to have an opportunity to vote in such and i presume those who were pro-life were advocating um on on their behalf uh good morning greg most people in arland in prison are men you said that's because men do most crimes yet most crimes in america committed by uh people of color yet you're you're call that racism can you see how wrong you are the doctor is right agendas are being pushed men can't be women advice of arsenal can children be animals which they are identifying as now and teachers are reinforcing this delusion they're doing nothing but harm um there's an open conversation actually from within the black community in the united states as to um why um black men disproportionately represent the population there it's an open uh conversation that's had uh in that country uh right okay thank you very much for your comments um let me see here greg i think the problem is that if you oppose someone's views or beliefs then you're automatically dismiss them you don't look at the data or information they put forward which may be 100 accurate starting jokingly that someone's terrified sitting out in a room being a single male if that were reversed it'd be up raw but again uh there is there is a certain level of protection and entitlement i i have but you know that that that would permit me i think uh and also knowing joe to say something like that right we've a few to get through so we'll keep it right oh am i right or wrong i don't know anyway we'll win absolutely yeah exactly the beauty again is you have to have a conversation and you know something you have the right to express your mind and at times that will offend people but that's okay because by thinking you're getting your thoughts out and people then can come back you know i think the freedom to speak and even offend someone with your with what you say gives them the opportunity to come back and say no bag into your box whatever else so if we don't express our thoughts and what's inside our human nature we never actually get to anywhere that's where we talk about respect and understanding and that can only be achieved by communicating and so Greg and sometimes there's a little bit of an irony and i love everyone texting in but a lot of the texts i read on this show we don't screen them they people are texting in saying this that and on those texts would never be read uh on on on on other places because it would be something i disagree with if i were a different presenter and then i would not read it out and then so anyway green representatives called for the 12th to be made a public holiday in the republic the 12th of july also known as the 12th which i reference marks the victory of Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic King James II in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 an act that secured a Protestant line of succession for the British crown in Ireland Green Party TD Patrick Costello stated that if the Irish state truly aspires to unite all the peoples of this island then all of those people need to feel represented and clue included now we spoke to the head of the orange order in Donegal he's kind of cool on this for the simple reason is is the the impact it might have on business rather than you know the the benefit it might have in terms of representing people and improving relationships father John Joe any appetite for another public holiday we all have i suppose but do you think this would be a worthwhile exercise a step in the right direction or maybe deputy Costello hasn't read the room uh honestly i haven't given this any thought to be honest so i i i think i think there are more important issues at hand than the more important issues at hand are to i think that there is a need for upholding the peace process that was started and nurturing the peace process and i think that that has fallen by the wayside over the last number of years and for me the most important thing is is dialogue and dialogue between all sides and we saw the rise of violence recently not too very far from us when a policeman was was was shot and that is totally unacceptable totally wrong and uh we we we've seen uh violence at other points and i think father John Joe and that we have to work towards is to to to to to nurture that peace process and to make sure that violence doesn't come back and i i believe that the the situation in Northern Ireland uh Northern Ireland isn't a very difficult situation at this stage and i wrote a letter to somebody recently and i noted that um we need to be very careful because i think at the moment the the the unionists felt abandoned those from the unionist tradition those from the nationalist tradition felt very much abandoned uh from from Dublin over the last number of years and i i felt it was like an oil lamp in a shed full of hay and if somebody tosses it over it will be very serious so what i think we need more importantly is not the calls for something that might be populist or or otherwise but to for for the politicians on all sides to be involved in real dialogue and get the assembly up and running and get things back on track in in Northern Ireland and i think politicians would could spend their time far better working on that yeah there's a probably even a bit of naivety in this call in that you mentioned that reference that case in in in OMA and yet we're still seeing this crack of burning flags and effigies of people we don't we want to make sure our politicians aren't asleep at the wheel here and and sort of just looking at the the top of it and what you can do is you say to potentially you know it seems like a nice we really need our politicians to say what's going on in the ground what are relationships like in various communities how can we ensure that this is not just intergenerational that we can start looking towards you know a shared future in real terms on a housing estate up a road in a city yeah absolutely and the big fear is that communities in various areas have been very much left behind and haven't benefited from the peace what should have been the benefit of the peace dividend and now they we see the troubles around brexit and there's there there is far more complication in the situation now and then there was a pre-brexit and and we need to get real and i was delighted to see both the t-shock and and the tonnage to making very serious efforts to get very real with the peace process in recent times and i wish them well and then please god that they will keep it very much to the top off their agenda and and and please god that they will get the assembly up and running in northern Ireland because it's vitally important people are looked at yeah it's critical because when you have people who are being marginalized being ignored because of the lack of the institutions it's very serious and as you say you know it's okay calling for this or calling for that but but let's get real and let's deal with the real issues the poverty issues that many people in northern Ireland are facing and the troubles even within the health service and so on yeah and and any to you before bringing dr joe and i'm not talking about you here i'm talking about people maybe even younger than you this is a flip of our last conversation because it's the older generation here that really have the knowledge to know that we really don't want to be going back to where we were once before because we all lived through it remember the stories and it wasn't just in far-flung places it was within our own communities and and what have you but yes listen i don't want to i don't want to pile on deputy costlow it you know it's probably well intended but we really need to be talking about getting you know political representation probably up and running in the north and ensuring we don't work we don't find ourselves going back to the dark days um yeah i think thankfully i'm of a generation that really hasn't had much need for education in this aspect um learned about it superficially but i haven't really experienced any of the hardships that i think i hear a lot of um older generations speak of um as far as what deputy cost was said 100 on board with the next three day off work i mean i don't think this is a single person that's going to be and they but you just need to make sure that it isn't just a tokenistic gesture and that there is a support being put in place to ensure that we have proper multicultural society going forward and that there isn't any discrimination or um non-inclusion some will find it insulting doctor kind of this proposal that maybe even suggests that there's not a full understanding of the history and how such a proposal whilst it might seem all inclusive it might be just be a step too far for some look i'll not give you the history lesson today if it's and in fact the cat that the bishop or the pope in Rome innocent the leaven said mass in celebration for the victory of william of orange so just to put it in a historical context but i think what father john joe hit on there about the economics look the reality is since the good friday agreement the belfast agreement the irish economy has expanded by 78 percent while in northern ireland the economy has only expanded by 38 percent so economically in ireland is going to happen the economics will make it happen if you look at the census the under 25 age group in the six counties is far more in the nationalist favour massively than in the unionist favour so look these are realities and we have time and what we need to do is make space and if the orange twelfth day is about triumphalism and superiority and product in the sentencing all that we're not having that but it's up to the protestant orange unionist community to give them we have to give them the space to tell us what do they want what what do they want to celebrate and i i think we need to give them space and if they need to march and have their celebration and us partake in celebrating whatever beliefs they have that are respectful at all times and i think genuinely if you're the orange order the head man on i think he's very genuine he's wanting to celebrate his tradition he wants to celebrate something that's very personal to them it's a matter of faith it's a matter of community it's a matter of music celebration and if they need a space for that then by all means and we we're duty bound to create that space and it's only that kind of attitude that's going to allow for an ireland a proper ireland to emerge and and again i've said this to you before john john so um greg when we are here in um in dunagall we've the largest protestant population on the island of ireland and once there used to be a td who was of the unionist woolly sheldon and he was later appointed by shan the mass as a senator and you know we have alien flinn from our own county as a senator for the traveling community i think we've been missing opportunities for decades not having someone from the unionist community appointed to help create that space and articulate their concerns this is about including is that though it might be seen as as as someone really to have their input as to what uh that community might want in the united ireland you know what i mean but that would have to come from a point of accepting that that that is that's where we're moving father john do you want to come in on that i know i agree with joe the senate will be a great opportunity to appoint people from the unionist tradition to uh to get a better understanding of what what what their what their desires are and and uh the late uh albert reynolds appointed gordon wilson as a senator uh who came from the unionist tradition and uh who is a man of reconciliation and he was a great asset to to have in the senate and and joe i agree fully with joe and that and to give the unionist tradition the space to celebrate do you want to wrap up on this in a minute for dr kelly and then i'll go to a quick break and we'll come back with our last topic again it's wonderful that we can have this conversation openly on a on a station like ours in the sense that it's done it all straddles six miles of us touch the free state the rest of it touches the border the six counties and this is the kind of conversations we we need because it's healthgiving it's it's it's important and if we are going to move 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electricity compute is few is through the roof but no one's going to go after the data centers to try and really reduce our electricity where you're going to go after cows that are doing bang bangs as we say in our house um edwards um i mean obviously i think we all recognize that we have to bring down our emissions but in terms of transport there's never been more electric cars uh we're plugging them into the electricity and yet some of the biggest increases in terms of electricity generation it's a it's a tough old square to circle this one eddie so when it comes to transport i think in dunagall we're in quite a unique situation as you know over the last number of years we've been trying to campaign along with the local regional groups about trying to get train transport into dunagall i think some of the decisions that have been made over the last number of years as regards to transport in ireland just really further push people into half in the own car half in the travel make those journeys i think the most sustainable transport option we have available to us is train and train up the structure something i don't think is really seeing much improvement around ireland in the last number of years i still think it's absolutely ludicrous that the travel from slaggo to gallway by train you have to go through Dublin actually they didn't realize that yeah yourself or if you want to travel to dunagall to dublin by train you have to go through belfast that's if you can get as far as as as dary but i mean you know like i as i say i think we just really need to figure out all of us and have an open nationwide conversation about how we can achieve what what we feel or some feel needs to be achieved eddie i mean you would i mean we all try and do our bit you've pointed out the fact that it can be difficult because we're at the options but what i don't understand is we're 39 percent of electricity is is wind generated yet we do have these data centers consuming you know six 15 16 17 percent of our electricity and then of course the cars on that network goes well putting on pressures you know i think our solutions will create more problems than solutions not as individuals but in terms of policy yeah i think one of the biggest changes that are coming down the line to know when i was involved with working um it worked a little bit with symbols company through the asp there was a lot of big battery centers being built and i think that ability to feed power back to the grid is something that definitely needs to be improved on now again not 100 well read in this topic and it isn't something that i'd be considered consider myself well experienced in but as far as data centers as stuff goes we move towards a more data minded time i think it is something that is needed so it's not something we can shy away with and i think not building them in our and have them pushed to some other places that maybe don't have infrastructure is just going to push the problem out of say but i think in a way you probably hit the nail on the head where policy is trying to bring us away from the sea away from the land and to uh you know digital and that's our place maybe in in the EU father john joe um as i say there's a lot of information in this report but they're not some bolts of it is we're making tiny process 1.9 percent uh lower emissions year on year yeah i was listening to minister rye and yesterday evening on the radio uh as i was driving the car uh my big fear about all of this is that we're going to reduce uh cattle uh we're going to put one mills at sea in very valuable fishing grounds i am all for one mills at sea i'm all for one mills in the right places but not where it takes away from others and we're going to be importing fish uh as we have started uh that uh fish that's caught off our shores by others we're going to be importing cattle uh our beef rather from from other countries we're reducing our own uh as uh heard and we'll end up uh importing beef can mill we'll end up importing fish we'll end up importing milk uh it needs there needs to be sensible solutions and and uh some of this is non some of it lacks a common sense i believe and uh i'm i'm all for renewable energy but renewable energy in the right places one mills built in the right places uh one mills at sea built in the right places so not to take away uh from fishing and and uh we have the best beef i argue and uh yes there there needs to be room for improvement of course there is and i'm all for protecting creation uh protecting the environment long before it became a trendy thing and um and and and that that's important but not in a in a sense where you know it doesn't make sense to reduce our own heritage and then import from brazil where is that safe on the planet joe kelly um again this goes back to what we were talking about earlier it's taken and you cannot uh you're not allowed to speak against the green agenda you're not allowed to challenge it and there are a lot of scientists thousands of scientists that do not agree with this green agenda and what they won't tell us is for example the talk about if carbon hits four zero point four percent per particles per million in your air you know we're going to have terrible global warming but what they won't tell you if it falls below point zero two which is half of that then everything in the world dies that there's a very fine balance we have just had the the hottest seven days uh in the world's history one after the other though i accept that and maybe go back to Galileo the world orbits the sun and that is not perfect every year or every century it does wobble a little bit this is the science that scientists will put towards that having said that there is no doubt that human activity has affected the the um the environment there's no doubt about that and i'm all for environment i think it's it's it's it's sell us uh sell us a solution here tell us exactly what you're what your plans is right you know here's the elephant in the room or you know we're busy catching mice and that the elephant's true if you turned every car in the morning electric it will only reduce fossil fuels consumption by 10% and all the emphasis seems to be going on the 10% rather than people starting back said what's going on with the 90% okay but no they'll fly into their conferences with their big five course meals on their big private jets set agendas for us little mice at the bottom to live by and they'll fly out with their big carbon footprint airplane to wherever they go this is what's going on bill gates and others setting agendas what we need in ireland is extensive farming not intensive farming extensive farming and i live in a rural community we have winds we have rhododendrons we need animals both cattle and sheep raising our lands it is the best environmental balance and biodiversity you can and instead what are they trying to do take the animals off they don't the government don't but doesn't believe in the land doesn't believe in the farmer and for me this is a retro spec spec step for us as a country dr joe kelly historian and teacher thanks so much for your time uh lovely to have you on the show as always father john joe great to see you great to hear you great to have you on the program thank you so much have a lovely weekend with you and last but not least eddie grant former president of the students union at atu letter kenny have a great weekend eddie thanks for your time enjoy all right take care of yourself all right we'll be back with more on the program including your comments after the news and obituary notices the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account it's the 50 off mega summer sale at right price tiles and wood flooring up to 50 off all tiles wood flooring outdoor porcelain tiles cladding and 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housing committee at which the defective blocks issue was discussed debbie joe mccue welcomed the establishment of the group but stressed the need for homeowners to be included debbie mccue told the iraq this committee that based on his ministerial experience the biggest risk is that officials now regard the issue as having been addressed and move on to something else that he says cannot be loud happen my fear and my brief knowledge of being in different departments is once a box is ticked once the scheme is introduced you're so busy and you're worried and you have so much going on and you have so many housing issues and all that that bit's done let's move on let's move on we can't allow that to happen on the scheme because the scheme is not the scheme it's too complex it's too big it's too wide it's too varied it's too challenging i'm asking for the voice of the homeowner to be represented on that implementation committee a nationwide guard the alert has reportedly been issued for a crime gang which ramrated several shops across the country the irish independent reports this morning the group has stolen thousands of euro worth of goods and carried out significant criminal damage in its crime spree it's believed the group has carried out eight organized robberies in dublin west mead wexford kildare mead golway and ross common the paper reports at least six people are involved in the gang with a regional coordinated investigation now underway more than 240 000 households were behind with their energy bills in may new figures by the energy regulators cru show a further 165 206 gas customers in arrears the total number of electricity disconnections last year was 2498 that compares to 912 the previous year but the cru says that 2022 disconnection figures are still lower than the figures pre-covid ireland's greenhouse gas emissions fell by only 2% last year according to the latest assessment by the environmental protection agency the decrease is less than half the reduction required with the agency warning meeting future targets will be extremely challenging ireland has signed up to national and international obligations with targets to have emissions by 2030 dr caro augustenberg the professor of economic policy at ucd says last year transport almost derailed the success in other areas they had a six percent increase on 2021 now it's still a little bit down from pre-covid levels but obviously it's rising as we get back to business as usual it's still on the rise and it really shows that we have to get out of this mindset that it's all about electric vehicles electric vehicles are not going to be the solution to our transport issues adoni gold priest says a fact-based education system is vitally important and must have respect at its core however speaking on today's 9 to noon show father john joe duffy said parents should be given the right to opt out from the program being taught in schools the friday panel we're discussing the new leaving cert sex education curriculum which it's suggested will normalize lesbian gay bisexual transgender and other lgbtq plus identities relationships and families rather than marginalizing them in stand-alone lessons it's also believed the new system should be mandatory the government's curriculum advisors say the approach to be taken will be inclusive underpinned by equality human rights and responsibilities but father john joe duffy says parents are the primary educators and that must be respected parents are the primary educators until someone is 18 years of age and i think that there should be opt-outs for parents who do not wish to have their children involved in the press education but that there should be a system of sex education put in place for for all children be that the parents doing it be that it done in the schools or whatever the case may be some news just in in relation to the alleged assault and sleeve league on the 24th and 25th of june this year a man in his 30s arrested 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again thanks to father john joe uh dr joe kelly any grant former president of the students union at a to u letter kenny you can always watch back that item on our youtube channel highland radio arland or you can podcast it on our website highland radio dot com all right let's get to some of your comments great panel on today it's great to see a balanced conversation good morning brilliant insightful and balanced debate and highland radio this morning the friday panel is must listen to radio would highland facilitate a conversation in the future about the potential united arland the pros and cons maybe with the northern and southern nationalist and northern and southern unionist add into the conversation keep up the great work i would be very open to that but i tell you what i'm even even more interested in as well is a conversation about the the practicals of it okay um and i've said this before and i'm apologizing saying that but what how does the postal system work how does employment work how how does it affect the irish economy how does it affect the northern irish economy uh what does it mean for a health service uh what would that mean to you know people's health in donningall in terms of cancer treatments would we would we have out in the gulf and as the center of excellence or do you know um what about road spending what about rail uh supporting the rail network up in the north and what could we if that was the way we were to go you know those are the types of questions that really when it comes down to it i think a lot of people might actually be voting on in a referendum rather than the green or the orange if you know what i mean and i know that i don't even like using that phrase but it's just to try and sort of uh make my point uh call it says king william of orange brought in the penal laws against the catholics and also the presbyterians the presbyterians unbelievably choose to celebrate this it's madness that catholics would agree to celebrate 150 years of abuse as that text of frames it so we have a bank holiday to placate people who burn the irish flag and burn images of our democratically elected people really asks a listener another most catholic residents in northern ireland have no desire to have a united island um i mean we do have surveys that suggest that's um not the case um to be honest with you but there are different groupings in in northern ireland now there are um you know maybe people who don't support either of the main nationalist unionist parties alliance is one of the fastest growing parties there are people that will make a decision based on how it might affect their business not necessarily which uh church or chapel they do well supposed to go into but perhaps even don't uh greg what do your panel listeners think of minister norma foley saying that children who do not participate in classes of the new curriculum they could require uh evaluation another hope teachers get proper in service and upskilling to deliver this complex program huge differences between a specialized rsc teacher having a class discussion and say reading material from a textbook in a woodwork room science lab i hope schools are given proper resources to deliver this course allowing all pupils to get an equal insight uh as there's a million with an irish background living in scotland and st patrick stay is not a public holiday there another did you not see the tick tocks of the carry on at orange marches on the 12th no way do we want that sectarianism celebrated the speakers never explained orange bigotry another caller says it is true donagall has the largest population of uh orange men on this island not hard to know where they live just look at the largest uh acreage is what they're saying okay hi greg 25 years of the good friday agreement yet the peace walls still in place in belfast does that not say at all both communities need to be integrated so that they become familiar and break down notions about each other's traditions from liam yes liam and again i i i don't understand and they don't really i i do understand but i don't believe i have a rich enough understanding of the nuances to to sort of insert myself in that so my simple approaches is that and it's notional perhaps and unrealistic that we need to sort of start making sure now that we are laying the foundations for this generation the next generation the generation after them to be able to live respectfully of each other uh respect each other's traditions um you know not necessarily wave them in each other's faces that could be you know in the 17th march or it could be on the 12th of july i don't know you know what i mean um but recognize everyone's culture and history but not hate each other respect and morals have been lost in this country says listener and across the world if respect was alive and well we would have less domestic violence in the home less rape and child abuse not mean by both sex it's not just one side or the other with regard to the topic about gender and sex education how did humans exist on this planet for millions of years and not have all this information and it is uh disabled people not part of this gender equality they are denied the right to live with what we call a normal life and there's no group to talk or give them their rights i mean this i i take your point i won't even comment on it but for millions of years on this planet there were um and even right now there are cultures that um it's perfectly normal um some of the stuff that we're talking is perfectly acceptable within those cultures and for you know centuries there is referenced this type of stuff so it's not brand new uh personal moral and religious values are supposed to be protected in our constitution but these values don't seem to get much respect from many media sources and other parents must stop and take more time to be involved in their children's education and know what and how subjects are treated joe's well informed and i never had much time for certain psychological experiments um okay so like i agree that we need to and to some extent we try and do it on this program uh we do try and um emphasize the importance of us not necessarily say what i would say what someone might say but to inform ourselves because it's our children don't be naive greg there are weirdos out there who do have an agenda to corrupt and exploit children to what end though what is the like we have at the moment in this country like we're fearing what could happen we're fearing what could happen but look at our history look at look at our history of our how we cared for our children look at what's going on at the moment look at the statistics in terms of children who are abused still children who are neglected uh when they need mental health supports uh children uh with with um needs additional needs the supports aren't there for that look at how we now are right live now and historically treating our our children it's it's not really very very good you look at the statistics we're not we're letting we're letting them down at some point so i would love to see us focus on making sure that children right now are cared for as best as they can be cared for that they're protected from from horrible individuals that would rub them off their of their innocence that we make sure whatever it takes that we fully resource services to make sure our children have the best supports to have the most productive and happy lives rather than worrying and i'm not saying it's not happening but we're worrying about this big bad wolf and what they're trying to do my word look at what's happening now live and no one's what i mean i said no one wants to talk about that's not not the case at all but you know we're in the here and now as well i would love to see attention there and and the anger there and the fury there you know i get it go into libraries and take books out and scream about what about the children yeah but let's also let's also get on the streets and say where are the where's the money to support our children now where is the resources to ensure that uh too they can support children and he's actually doing it right and productive for the children and their families where is the uh supports to make sure that children aren't being exploited or abused um and that they're safe in their beds at night i'd love to see people also focus on that as well the agenda is population control says a listener heterosexual relationships interfere with population control same sex relationships and abortion control limited population it's that simple i really don't understand how we can't have a referendum on mass immigration poland and danmark has announced plans to hold a referendum on the EU migrant deal if you look at uh if you look at some of the policies what we are looking at at the moment in terms of you know paying fines to not take migrants in this country there's another pan-european agreement that i think we haven't quite signed up to yet uh there is um it doesn't get any coverage though uh but there is some moves that might limit those numbers i believe into the future please ask mr kelly if he's ever listened to joe duffy uh on our national broadcaster of course people can talk about anything without being shut down right okay i'm not really i'm not going to get into a a tetate but um i think so but that's kind of at odds to what i've heard and i don't mind i enjoy him rowing with listeners um to be honest with you wouldn't be my thing uh but if you think there's a few subjects there now that i'll just don't think uh would tally with what i've heard with my ears but anyway look at be that as it may we've got plenty to come up on the program today i don't know riley if carlo whether um is a regular contributor to this program not always bringing good news of late if you're into hot and sunny and dry weather but he's actually in donnie gall holidaying at the moment so rather than getting him on the phone we're going to get him into studio he's going to join us between 11 and 12 the the band is back together michael and fenula return as a double act for the first time in what seems like uh weeks because that's precisely how long it is and of course tony forest is going to be joining me very shortly too to talk about the chamber awards and how you can enroll in them and what role you might have in choosing the winners and looking forward to what's going to be a big night later in the year there's that and so much more besides so stay right where you are we will be right back the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio it's time for mcbi bingo on highland radio it's friday july 14th you're playing on the yellow colored sheet the reference number is s20 it's game number 28 the numbers are 83 51 63 41 90 the number six 13 24 31 and the number nine phone your claim to 91 0 48 double three before 8 p.m. 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9 1 0 2 1 2 7 right now just got a lovely um a lovely i'm a little bit late with this i got a lovely uh card in that reads as follows dear friends i would like to thank you all my family and friends and good people especially my goddaughter kira mary maggie and all who helped on my 60th party on the 12th of june to my special friends who sent cards and gifts and to danielo donnell for the special message to all my friends i work with thanks for a great night thank you mom and dad that comes in from joanne darty please play danielo donnell well i'm not sure i'll get to him but uh if john doesn't uh i'm sure she's tried to bribe me with a teabag look but it's almost would make me do it well we'll see how things go uh right okay we are joined in studio now by tony forester who is ceo of letter kenny chamber hi uh tony thanks for joining us it's great to have you in studio with us right okay so the letter kenny chamber business awards 2023 is uh up and running now and it's all about uh celebrating the best of business in uh all of donnell gall it certainly is um we've been running them for 10 years maybe nine 10 years now and um but this is really they're growing every year and it's really about excellence in business people doing great things you know around everything really investing in their people sustainability marketing um and a whole range with about 16 awards yeah and it's amazing when you talk about the 10 years tony because obviously there are some mainstays that say the same but there's been some amount of change too hasn't there and the awards over that decade have have adapted to recognize that but it's been really rapid change let's say we have our core traditional sort of businesses but you know it's the expansion and the the uh diversity is massive now it really is and and people are cleverer really how they do things but this i mean particularly in the last this last year where we added investing in people and workplace of the year now why they're important is that retention is really important to businesses these days you know yeah they hiring is difficult and then they hire but they want to keep them so people are investing they're looking at their people and saying what can I do to make you stay to make you know make you want to be part of our business and so the investment people want is all about career progression it's all about training so and businesses are doing fabulous stuff for that and we actually I was just visiting business yesterday and that's one of their key strategies um and workplace of the year then is really somebody who's at this great culture you know and to see the value in staff in employees because there is a culture whereby you keep your staff down and then they don't come looking for this and they'll come looking for that but that's why you end up with the huge turnover of staff you look after them and obviously you reward them with within the means of course of of your company but that's the success to a company too isn't it it's the customers it's the staff if you go into some places and you can just feel that they're all in together everybody's working together and everybody kind of knows what the view the mission of the company is and that's really important that they're the two that we really wanted to add and they're they're exciting and they're good you know but and some businesses might think oh no sure I'm small I can't that's not really our thing yeah but actually when they start delving down into their business why have they kept their staff for I was talking to business the other day you know some of them have been there for 24 years the whole length of business and they love it so there's something in that that that that we want to capture for sure before we run through you know the process a little bit a word to to the sponsors you know you've got some brilliant sponsors on board again which a testament which is a testimony I think to the the place that these awards are held in because you know it's not easy to get all these big names and some medium-sized names involved so they have to buy into this as well and what you're trying to do Tony yeah so we kept about I'd say 90 percent maybe more than that um of our sponsors from last year to this year and even through COVID a few stayed with us which was interesting but yeah we've got every you know we've got a big range of them and they most of them have been there from the beginning but last year interestingly enough then we got approaches by a few people oh I'd like to be part of that great you know and that's part of what we do is I was looking forward amazing an air grid have stayed with us and they came last year and they're staying with us this year and probably next year as well yeah as our overall sponsor but you know we have air with banks who love this kind of thing um co-labs in there as well which is about innovating support and creating been linear electric cannons good too because that's about the future but it's also a nod to our traditions and our past the airport of course vital in terms of people bringing people in and out highland radio the council city of Derry airport as well I'm going to mention them all now you know what I mean I feel like well uh uh bank of violence you mentioned FM services Optum again uh two great companies the Donagall ETB that's the educational side of it as well AIB you mentioned Dylan's hotel um Donagall airport as I mentioned permanent TSB PGMP PGM PGM and they're new yeah air grid uh which are um a significant sponsor as well and the council supporting and Donagall local enterprise Donagall local enterprise as well Leo the local Leo office right so um then you're trying to hit on uh covering all the important elements of business the work within the business what they do uh that you've got the whole fame which is always uh a huge honor for anyone to receive that I'm sure and then the business person of the year too um all covered I think they're for me they're they you know there there are that we've always done those awards and they're the exciting awards now they those two aren't competitive they are competitive we get nominations for those and the judges pick between whoever we get um um nobody but mostly nobody knows except a few people yeah so on the night it's lovely um they get honored they they know they're getting up but they don't tell their families and it's one of the highlights of the night we always get a stale innovation for everybody and it's funny you know even businesses that maybe aren't as well known as others um it's it's lovely and Hall of Fame is one of my favorites yeah and as I say and I and the future best new business and young business person of the year as well because you know you need a conveyor belt of innovation and yeah and they were new um the young person in particular and we I think we've done that slightly before but we want to tweak it a little bit yeah so that's for people under 35 and interestingly we're getting applications in for that so we're delighted yeah um business I would pick out marketing that's funny um marketing this is everybody does it and um I mean I think sometimes people underplay it yeah so we'd love to see people sort of look at their you know what do they do with their marketing and and put some applications in for that and um I mentioned the other two um health and well-being is we've changed so anybody who maybe has been in for that before she could look at that one again yes because that could be anything could be a somebody running a gym it could be a dance fitness thing somebody who's working with community yeah to improve their health uh recognizing an outstanding small business um doing business through irish that one specific to electric any if i'm not mistaken but outside of that it's not the retailer of the year sustainable superstar investing in people which you've referenced best health and well-being best health and well-being initiative as you mentioned there excellence and customer service business excellence excellence in innovation so in terms of nominations as you say they're coming through um it you want businesses to say you know this really we're talking about marketing here's a marketing opportunity for you uh you sometimes you have to uh you have to shout for yourself yes you know what I mean well we always talk about um marketing is you know our business is telling your story and that's what these awards are about you know tell us why you should win and we've made it we've simplified it all this year have to be honest okay and that was was pushed to do that so there's two questions that are very specific to the award and then there's two like what who are you and why should you win so it's simple enough to do but yeah I think people are a bit reticent sometimes to talk about themselves it's like self-trust I think and but they might think I'm being bigheaded no no you are working in a difficult environment you're doing brilliant celebrate it you know be proud of what you're doing because we're proud of you yeah we all go into businesses and go oh wow look what you've done over the years so all we're asking people to do is say I've actually done that and I'm great and people love awards for their websites they loved having even we even find even people who didn't win they like having that kind of little stamp on their website and that's really important when you go for tenders and all of that kind of you know putting in quotes for things people go um what have you done well we won an award yeah and that's and our awards have fairly good stats you're nice so um that's great yeah it's really just talking about yourself you look at the list right and it's a relatively short list and I've got my business on going right well I run kayaking tours where do I go in there uh but you know I mean usual figure that I don't mean I would stick that in probably in best health and well-being in a survive or tourism or tourism sorry that's exactly the one I was thinking of it was actually or it could be excellence in marketing if you've come up with a quirky way to get your message in other world the point I'm trying to make is is that your business fits in here just have a look through and go right you know and I suppose that you were well used to thinking outside the box in terms of business but if it's not initially obvious there's a slot there's definitely a slot there for everything and if somebody's a bit confused or wants to be a bit of information just give us a rank now so we're I don't know if can I bring this up now we are extending the closing date um so today was supposed to be our closing date and we've decided we've got a huge response but we want to get more yeah and with the summer holidays so we're opening for another two weeks you know the way it is we always have to extend it on everything because last minute I'll do that next week yes and you just you need to give people that extra and I will be I'll put my hands up and say I had to apply for awards earlier in the year yeah and I left it for the last minute right okay yeah that's fine so I think everyone probably knew we were these things extended don't they so we try and we it's great to be here to to be able to say that so people have two more weeks but I would just say do them if you're thinking we're doing today I do today right I want to make sure the message is incredibly clear then Tony I'm not because of you but because of me so what we're doing at the moment we're talking about the letter Kenny Chamber of Businesses Awards 2023 which are hugely prestigious and even being involved shortlisted you don't have to win it's a fantastic marketing for you again for for lots of businesses out there work it's a call to businesses to go on to the website which is letterkennychamber.com forward slash business awards and you look at the categories and you click in you say right my business goes in here you have to you're encouraged you must market yourself by saying this is why I'm good this is why I should win don't be worried about that exactly and submit your application now people have how long is it until the 20th of July 28th of July right so it is a much more uh simpler process I don't know that's what Tony's saying so it'll not take too much of your time but go in there and say you know what this is why I should win it's about time we more of us start doing that and somewhere great at it but level the playing field everyone have a go on it okay so that's that and then what happens next so so then what happens is we will have a judging panel probably towards the end of August and they will then shortlist and so they'll take three for each category yep then those three will um sorry those three will then be showcased over our social media platforms over the month for September right through to the awards night which is in November yeah and then on the night so we also then open it to vote at some stage we just to get a better reaction from the general public and then we we do a final sort of recce on it all and then the winners are announced on our event on the 10th of November brilliant which is in the clan re hotel this year a superb venue that's the 10th of November and a ticket available now oh yeah in what way so people can secure their tickets um and it's 75 euro per head which involves a full night out as well as something else a beautiful feud food and uh and some dancing afterwards brilliant so uh get on to the chamber website which is one more time letter can you chamber dot com forward slash business all right okay and uh you know if you've got five minutes over the weekend make sure that you put your business forward for that all right tony thank you so very much thank you so much back with more shortly watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the night till noon show is 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going to be talking about what is perceived as or is an increase in what seems to be really quite serious antisocial behavior at times in letter kenny now this is not to say that letter kenny is unsafe to go to or that we don't want to do any damage to businesses that's not what this is about but also what we have to recognize is is that we are seeing more of really quite extreme violence in some videos that are circulating they're all around there people are discussing at this kid at their kitchen tables and forwarding them on to each other so i want to sort of invite councillor draig monoglan to the show he's the chair of the joint policing committee but also a local councillor just to get a sense of of what he believes is ongoing on because jerry if we don't talk about it the perception can develop anyway which can be really quite damaging whether it's a reality or not so we have to talk about these things don't we yeah we do great and good morning and good morning to all listeners and it is a topic out there and people are very worried they're getting annoyed with what they're saying there is an awful lot of bad videos going about and you know a lot of discussion has been going on behind the scenes with guard e retailers councillor but i think you know it's out there and we need the i think as a community collectively address this issue it's getting very violent we need to drill down to see what is the cause of it and there's there's i believe multiple causes and it's not just a law and order issue it's as i say there's i think there's a job of work there to do for many of our agencies and indeed our local communities and also from a parent point of view as well so there's there's people need to come together as a collective the agencies the guard e the council we need to sit down and talk and local community and we try and formulate a plan of action to address this because generally litter candy is a safe place it's a great place to live in work and it offers so much in regards shopping and leisure etc etc but we have this small core of people who are regularly regularly involved in crime and it's becoming more vicious and it's starting to really worry people and we need to sit down now and take stock of this and where we can we need to put the supports and the resources and to try to address the issue yeah because it's it's broad daylight it's in between around cars it's in shopping uh congregate places where people congregate there's call out for deals that are really quite brazen you know as i say relatively isolated but it's there it's not up some side street at night and i think that's what sort of people view that and we'll see that as letter candy as a whole which i've pointed out and you've pointed out that is simply uh not the case but you have to tackle perception too and we don't want to find ourselves in a situation where someone is incredibly serious injured because people are getting kicked on the ground kicked in the head stabbed and and this type of stuff so i get where you're talking about we also have to talk about or address what societally needs to be done to support people or families so that people don't go down certain pathways and find themselves in certain lifestyles but in terms of suppose the more immediate thing jerry would be say for instance a policing presence because that instantly offers some level of security and then it's an instant deterrent as well so in terms of that have we had any words from the guards in terms do they have the resources do they have the will what's the situation yeah well first of all uh i would like to commend the guards for their their protection because and to the the answers that we're probably talking about the people involved in that have been brought to court and are now facing criminal charges and that's to be very much welcome uh but it's it's a reaction to uh an incident or incidents that are happening and what we want and from discussions we've been having with the guard in the chamber is a bigger presence uh more foot patrols uh guardian more accessible being seen on the streets so the people feel safe but also they prevent these type of incidents happen as you say in broad daylight or indeed in the evening times so look i i know from talking to gary uh they are under pressure uh and we have to say that there's no other way to describe it uh they they don't have the current manpower that they would need uh uh they don't have enough gary they don't have enough vehicles and it's a battle every day for the gary to put that out on the street and they ensure that there's adequate policing and but i have to say what the resources that they have that they're doing the best that they possibly can but we've made it clear and we um we had the commissioner up here and we pointed out uh the difficulties uh that were having done ago and have been for a long time the need for more resources and all the different aspects of that being closed uh 93 percent of our border with the north with the geltag with ports with airport as a very geographic wide spread area and and and the the next part of the new operating model it's not going to work uh and it doesn't go on needs to be a standalone division and we're making that case very forcefully with the commissioner indeed yesterday was raised with the police authority uh the meeting that i was at with ppm members in uh carrigan channel so it is primarily a resources problem but there's many many other aspects it's not just a lot alone we'll get to that but i think it's worth pointing out uh jerry you would know and i would know that all of the challenges that we face here uh in terms of our border in terms of our ports and what have you these are arguments that senior garrity in donningall do make to doblin there you know i've heard uh the head former head of the force say this i in an interview so they they get it locally they're making that same argument that the issue is here and maybe it comes from a political pressure or i don't know is that's the the the guards go right okay or the the the head of the guards go all right we have to resource them because what we do see if this is if there is uh if it goes on the news that there's a certain type of crime in a certain area of doblin all of a sudden resources get sent there if there seems to be a particular issue in a border county and the press is all over it all of a sudden extra resources are sent there you know we don't want a force that its resources are used reactionarily as to what's making the headlines we need decisions made on the need on the ground even as i say if it's not featuring an rg's one o'clock news we need to be sure that that's how the police force is being run i feel uh jerry yeah and look when you talk about doblin like within if it doesn't happen in in tarenure within 15 20 minutes they get 50 guardi there because they're all around tarenure they're in the city center in north side south side east west doblin we have a situation here we're in dunny gall if it's an instant car and donna we have to probably send somebody from letter kenny are done lower ballet shannon you know i mean the arm response unit is based on south side of the county and they have to travel an hour to get there you know so look we we have i don't think they're looking at it in the round and and treating everybody the same is not right the needy look at dunny gall as a special case just like kerry kerry is a standalone division and they've cited tourism as a reason there i mean it's it's not since that i'm glad that kerry is a standalone division but we in dunny gall needy because of all the points i've pointed out our geographic makeup our closeness to the border our ports the gale tuck islands and our airport and we cannot get extra resources and i can't feel like me what wonder why that is a case right yeah because it's not seen as a a big enough problem to to resource i think okay uh we'll track track hopefully this is a a a period of time where we've had some quite high profile stuff and things will calm and settle down and and you know we'll address that too but as i say this is not about discouraging anyone but it's about recognizing what people are talking about counselor jay mcmonagall chair of the joint police and committee thank you very much for joining us counselor michael mclafferty online one good morning to you good morning great morning sir one jerry right jerry's just left us but anyway uh you are encouraging people not to share uh videos on social media i believe greg values of this nature is not helping it's not helping matters to be quite honest we have leaving so much to us as possibly actually feuding the fire such for example if somebody's your video of height or a crime or whatever my opinion on it would be any my personal opinion would be as your first protocol as your local yard station and let them take it from there uh because i just feel that the more it's been shared the more it's been viewed as only causing problems going forward also as well i would have a fear as well i do wonder i have one of these cases now over the last while not uh it's not isolated of the kennie now but just these types of cases in general that have no well some have happened with the kennie that happened all over the place and ended up with social media but i do wonder as i was saying to carlin there what happens when the day comes if and when these people end up in court then is there going to be an argument then that that they're right for value of them because they were valuable and so on without the consent there's a fall between two screws on the data protection i know something that may need to be trashed out yet but that's my fear about it and i think definitely in in a i mean maybe in a jury trial uh you might have a point there and i'm not in any way saying or encouraging people to share this information because i don't view it anyway but maybe in a jury in a very high profile case maybe a defense solicitor could make that argument yeah well that's the thing i see about it greg and i just feel i don't see what is the point she ends in social media to all and somebody to see like it's not it's not helping anybody anything obviously there's people fighting there's people doing whatever uh that situation needs to be addressed and i do wonder when people take these videos and put them in social media as their own choice by the way but i wonder does it does the people actually go to the local garden station and say look folks i have this year would you be interested in taking a copy of it you know i wonder does that actually happen or just let go in social media and then left to the garden here but then obviously it's been reported to them likes of the series once the last intro one and then the garrity of the start down trying to trace our soul through social media then the science find out then who is responsible for for launching it first of all if that can be established or not i'm not quite sure i mean but that being said uh it's a regular occurrence where gardi will appeal for video footage they'll say you know if you have any one video this or if they've got dash cam footage or succesive tv footage send it in to us i mean it's the main stay now if any appeal uh right across the country so maybe i thought i'd appreciate your point there but again it backs up the point as well that i'm saying when the garrity are appealing for it and they're rightly so to appeal for it but clearly people are not volunteering to them either when they're appealing for it yeah okay you know what now i understand we have to yeah it's measured it's measured it the the the the right thing lies somewhere in between where we're at and and maybe you know an extreme alternative all right thank you very much councillor councillor michael mcclaffer he's also a member of the joint police and committee of 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in this country are crying out for children yet the rate of abortion is high there's too much judging in this country and it needs to stop no one's in a position to take high moral ground on anyone else indeed but i mean obviously yeah okay i'd welcome a referendum on mass immigration the public concern on the issue is too great to ignore the government must consult the people by way of a referendum well that's been ruled out but i take your point you're not the first to make it trying to teach us normal something that the experts cannot agree on is utter madness they say follow the science but the science will tell you there are only two genders how's that not confusing to an immature child why are schools pandering to minority and confusing our children surely it's a parents place to educate their children on gender issues another a lot of the content in this so-called revised sex education program can cause emotional confusion for young people who've already a lot to deal with growing up in today's world but does that not come down to and not an opinion but a conversation does that not come down to how it is taught so rather than it being an option uh you're taught and you're taught that people who identify at certain genders exist and that's uh and uh we're to respect um each other but that does not would that kind of a conversation had in that way make someone go all right well maybe that's me it's also about how this information is related isn't it and we don't know that so we're again this is not a point of view this is for a conversation point we don't necessarily know that so we're fearing are we the worst when maybe if we were to see it and understand it and how it's related we go right okay actually you know that's something might help my child going into college that if they're sitting beside someone or friends with someone that they have an understanding of why they feel the way they feel or why they are who they are rather than not telling them anything and then them sort of reacting in a different way and again too then there's a lot of parents want this to happen because they don't feel qualified or equipped to have these conversations themselves with their children it's complex and i'm trying to highlight the complexity in it rather than counter what a listener might say if you get where i'm coming from just listening in as someone who is part of the lgbtq plus community and who grew up in letter kenny and went to the convent we don't have any agendas i was taught about sex by nuns i was in my late teenage years when i finally had access to the internet and found information that was relevant to me there's a lot of unsafe information on the internet and everyone should be taught about safe consensual sexual practices regardless of sexual orientation and i don't think there's a great deal of i don't think there's a great deal of dispute in relation to that okay now tina higgins is with me on the program now tina how are you keeping hello greg how are you i'm good thank you stress not to hide i want you tina our lesson first of all greg i want to thank everyone in the town has been just absolutely amazing the people of letter kenny and i'd say that are kenny are brilliant and thank you yourself now we have a lot of eyes and ears here many of them are in letter kenny of course but much wider than that and the search is on for ronnie ronnie's a rescue dog so probably through its experience can be really quite nervous scared of strangers very shy so when did ronnie go missing and when was the last sighting ronnie we were over in barcelona visiting our daughter and hold these and ronnie went missing from the old town um last friday around seven o'clock and there was sightings often going out the poster and the new alde and then from that day there's been sightings every day of him by the esb plant um and then up the mountaintop area and the last time he was seen was last night coming down the mountaintop so he seems to be coming out at night time between nine and ten o'clock okay and what does he look like he is a black and white mix between a springer and a cocker spaniel and he he's just black and white but he will run from you because he's really scared um anyone that comes to our house will know that he's a very very timid dog and anything else that's i mean that's a clear description but anything else distinguishing like do we know if he had a collar on or is he lean is he big is he tall is he small i just want to make sure he's he is very lean and there's not any really distinctive detail about him just that he's black and white um and that but if you do call his name that he will run and we've been told the best way to approach him is not to call his name and that if you see him just call us on our numbers and just to maybe follow behind him and just keep an eye where he's going because when somebody calls his name he just starts and goes and that's why by the time we get to where they are he's gone yeah and because it's he's being seen at night and you get in the calls at night i'm sure you're missing out and sleeping all that type of stuff as well so in an organised way tonight from 9 p.m you're inviting people in the foxhills uh you run through the areas actually it's best because i don't want to miss any out um the places that he's been seen are foxhills uh cannon view um glen tea and and sorenbury up around the mount and corollas which is up there is a connect you can do a full circle around there through speeds and one to haul he's been seen one to haul a lot so he's that circle so and even um up the glen car area even by the grange and chest not growth those are the areas so he seems to be doing a circle around that whole area trying to get out yeah yeah okay but he's been seen regularly so hopefully now he's safe and well it's just a case of you getting to where he's spotted before he moved somewhere else because he's obviously quite transient around uh these areas listen he has to go somewhere during the day as well so it's very possible someone listening to us today will will know where runny is uh just describe him one more time for us tina he's a black and white sprocker so it's a mix between a springer and a cocker spaniel so he's just a bit bigger than a cocker spaniel um and he is just very timid but thank you so much Greg thank you no tina listen we hope you're reunited really quickly with uh runny and you're just asking people tonight in those areas is mentioned have a walk around have a look around and if you spot him um we have numbers here um if i read them out i'm not sure people are going to be able to write them down any other way i will read uh is there your facebook page or something that we can direct people to tina yes my facebook page is just tina higgins and there's a lot up on that and i'll also go on i'm going to go on to your page and i'll share the one with the contact information on so people if uh they spot him this evening we'll have access to number through my personal page as well and hopefully you get this sorted this evening and you get runny home for the weekend thank you so much and to everybody you've been amazing we really really appreciate it thanks a million all right it's been one of those things hasn't it where all of a sudden everyone's taking an interest in supporting us and uh i know it's a reminder of how great we are as a community yeah okay well listen hopefully now what we need the only thing we need now we know the community is great we know you love runny very much we know everyone's gonna now all we need is getting back home that's that's that ends the story then all right tina uh best wishes to you and yours and uh listen fingers crossed all right thanks so much thank you take care of yourself bye bye we'll be back with more after these the night until noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all 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nominate your local community charity group or organization in store today and they could win a share of a 10 000 euro euros bar community donation fund 10 prizes of 1000 euro to be won euros bar you're super easy supermarket t's and c's apply and it's just after 11 o'clock and we've had a busy week there's been an awful lot of discussion about the various issues of the day the week whatever it might be but now it's time just at the end of the week to take a break to pause for breath and to talk about other things that interest interest interest us in this life and for some it's the stage for others it's the cinema others it's tv it's all of it and we're in the company now of uh finula rabbit so welcome back finula long time no have you on i know i know feelings i would like to tell you i missed you when i was sending myself in portugal but i'll check your temperature if you did sadly no no i don't think it was lovely uh michael leddie who actually enjoys coming it's only been a week since i've been here but greg i have missed you it's been emotional it's been a terrible week indeed listen it's great to have you on board right okay or great to have you in uh what are we going to talk about i use this week really what i've been doing when i had a chance and and the chances were through few few and far between is catching up on the mission impossible films which are really quiet i started i said yet last i started at four right so four five i think i'm just starting sixth seven is in the cinema yes now have you seen it you did excellent okay right so finula go ahead no well i went back and i watched six myself at the weekend in anticipation of how she is and i have to say uh as i was watching it i was like he's very hard to dislike him once you've seen him in you know in in life i wouldn't necessarily be a big tom cruise fan sometimes you see him in stuff and you're like seriously what is wrong with this uh picture but uh you see him in the mission impossible and it's really his niche he's just so awesome and six is an amazing movie we went to see this last night courtesy of um the century cinema they were premiering their new uh cinema with the reclining seats and the whole the whole lot it was absolutely fabulous couldn't get a more comfortable place to be sitting in uh lovey you can just lie back and watch the movie like if you were at home on your couch uh that is the one thing but in fairness with this movie like mission impossible it's there's no way you're going to fall asleep in it because if even if you started doze off to do do do do do do not just be finula in b9 making that sound as she's coming down the steps as she did yeah oh because you're falling head over heels that was the old thing with the with the um with the east enders theme it's like someone falling down the stairs was in the dark carrying the popcorn and there they go so we saw the movie last night it is a very long movie so what they've done with it now is they have these two this is not the end of the franchise which everybody seemed to think that it was originally that because this is dead reckoning part one so obviously there's going to be part two people thought that this might be the end of end of the series i mean cruise must be in the 60s now we were just trying to figure it out last night just turn in 60 i think yeah and in fairness like some of the stunts that he does uh you've questioned the physics as to how they've actually managed to mind his own physical stamina at this hour you know i think in a way they're i think that's what gives them the authenticity to it though he doesn't look his age but to be able to do it because the audience knows and the talk is you know we did that himself and i think you know it's not like all cgi i mean obviously there's elements of that but i think that's why he's an authentic sort of good guy because you're feeling real life he's doing some of it nothing and i think as well i think you're right that's the way the the idea of it is is that you you also feel the tension of it yeah because you know that he did do it himself and you're like you know there's bits of them hanging upside down rolling around in cars as there is in all the other movies you know i don't want to be giving out in specific a way in this um but like in all the movies you see him and he's rolling around he's hanging off mountains he's hanging off the side of buildings he's doing all kinds of stuff like that and it does kind of heighten the tension of it when you know that he's done it himself i don't know if it was because this movie is part one of two this would not be in my top five favorite ones right okay that's actually quite interesting comment it was into i i didn't i wouldn't say i didn't enjoy it and in fairness the two and a half hours went quite quickly yeah considering that but it's very um kind of feels like as if it's a bit dragged out right they're going to cut 45 minutes out of it which would purely have been explanations or swap that 45 minutes out for a few more kind of like explosions and you know jumping off crap and that's kind of what you're looking for from these movies this movie in particular is all the threat this time is ai so that's the kind of idea of it so it's sort of bringing it up with a bigger modern twist they spend a lot of time explaining to us what the ai means and what that thing is and you're like you know i got it you know we've seen this is not the first movie to ever or first tv program to use ai as any kind of a threat and it's on the news every day as well so it's you know it's that kind of a thing so i in that instance this was a little bit disappointing now when it got down to the nitty gritty of what the mission impossible are good for it was awesome yeah and you're just like oh seriously i mean the amount of money that they must spend on stuff that they just wreck alone i'd say is probably about 80 million of the 110 million that the movie cost to make because they're constantly 110 million on one it will return seems like not much i i know i can't believe i'm finding myself saying 110 million i know for a mo to make a movie then like when you think about all the things you could be doing with it but yeah i considering what they do with stuff in this movie i wouldn't have thought it was i mean a fairness you would assume although cruise probably gets it all on the and the sales you don't mean the ticket sales and that kind of thing that's probably where he gets his money out because he could probably get 100 million for the movie alone um so is there is there an often this you know when you talked about it being part one of two like is there enough in this that you don't just leave thinking right well halfway through the story when's the next big coming out like is there enough in this mic is probably better when to ask about that to me because to be honest i've watched them all so i couldn't imagine myself even if it was terrible yeah i'd have to go back to