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E aí People being, I mean, one guy was hit by the travelling car and blown right up into the air.
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Don't know what his injuries are like, but it certainly all kicked off there last night. Perhaps you were a witness. Perhaps you were a resident there. I'll talk on that in a few minutes' time, but get involved. Text 0868 104 106.
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I mean, could you imagine if you had two or three children and you wanted to give them all a college education? Not that anybody cares, but I don't automatically think that it is the route for everybody, college, to be quite honest with you. But going now is costing about 16 grand a year. Every single year it goes up and up. And I have to tell you, that's not even the cork figure because they break down the third level bill hike. E em Cork, agora, é sobre R$17,500,000 a year por estudante, por o likes do UCC. Eles falam isso em termos. Accommodação, utilidades, groceries, transport, entertainment, gym costs, tudo isso em Cork.
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Em Cork, é sobre R$17,500,000. Em Dublin, é um pouco mais alto, mas estamos em segundo no listo. E o echo this morning diz que a Cork College cost hike Seis 17,500 euro being needed every single year. Now, I know that you all have the, you know, there's obviously the family contribution, which comes in as, you know, is that about two and a half grand now, the student contribution towards college fees? So you put that into it as well. And of course, the rest of it then is subsidised by the state and by the Irish taxpayers.
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So to the college itself, of course, the . . . . .
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going through your college years and you also need to be able to go to the gym if you want to stay fit so I would include those for sure 17 and a half grand how in the name of God are families supposed to be able to pay that kind of money and you have all sorts of different crises if you like with the independent on the front page this morning saying that there is a bus company in Dublin called Airbus and they have a lot of staff But the staff have nowhere to live or lay their heads or sleep. So that's why the headline says this bus firm is putting beds for the staff in the depot.
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So they have to put in and they've put in 19 modular units and six mobile homes on the depot. . . .
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So these inspectors went into a bungalow in Dublin. It was staff for Chinese restaurants. There's a company that has... Apparently, they've got a lot of different Chinese restaurants around Dublin. They have so much staff that, you know, they hire property for them. So the staff don't pay, incidentally, for their accommodation. But the inspectors went into a four-bedroom house, which was rented by the company. A lot of these trendy Chinese restaurants. And they were absolutely shocked when they found that there was sleeping arrangements in this bungalow for 34 people.
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Check that out. 34 people. A dormer bungalow in South Dublin was used by the company to accommodate staff working in a string of their restaurants. So they had 15 bunk beds, which is 30 beds. 15 bunk beds. I mean, you want to see the videos of this. Absolute chaos. Like everywhere you look, there's bunk beds or there's double beds or there's people's luggage and people's clothes all over the place. Sharing a bathroom, appalling. The living room, the study, double beds everywhere. 34 in total sleeping inside night.
06:07
And that's just the way it is these days and probably destined to get worse. Many of the Red Tops this morning talk about Glenn Hansard being laid to rest yesterday. e o turno at the funeral é só page after page after page of many fans, mas a lot of people from the world of entertainment. Take your pick with regards to what paper you look at this morning for the outpouring of grief yesterday.
06:30
And the Telegraph is having a bit of a go or a bit of a laugh at our expense this morning. And the inside pages of the English Telegraph, they're saying that Ireland now has a government jet that can't fly or land in fog.
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This probably will be the front page of many of the Irish papers this morning, taking the MIC, I suppose. So it's primarily used for the Taoiseach and other ministers to fly them around. It cost us €53 million to buy it. It should be equipped with a particular type of technology that's made by the Israeli Defence Forces, but because we don't do business with Israel, It's not fitted with it. And the English this morning are saying this is an Irish jet that can't land in fog because of anti-Israeli brain rot.
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Now, they're not saying that, but that's what the Israelis are saying as to the reason why our jet can't fly or land in fog. Now, the Air Corps deny all of this, but there's the story nonetheless. Fogged up, Irish PM bitten by his Israeli ban and his jet can't land in fog.
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You couldn't make it up. I say that a lot, don't I? But seriously, a lot of these things, you just couldn't make them up. And then there's other kind of transport stories this morning. And this is slightly old news because it was a couple of weeks ago that were saying that electric vehicles have passed out petrol and diesel. They're now the best sellers. The scrappage scheme really did that last month. You know, that entire fund of 10 million, you got extra scrappage allowances if you trade it in. That actually was gone within 75 minutes.
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And here's what happened. It was lunchtime on February the 18th. She went into Michelle on Patrick Street, asked to try on a ring. The ring was valued at €3,650. So she placed the ring on her finger. This is some evidence and testimony from the Garda in the court yesterday. She tried on the ring, placed it on her finger. She was with another person who was with her at the time. And then she asked about another ring on a different display. So when the staff member was... E aí .
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Anyway, text 0868104106. Pick up the phone on 0818104106 for any of these stories. And again, but without wanting to freak people out or worry people, the English Times this morning is talking about Moonjaro and a woman who was on Moonjaro for four months who died because she raised the dose of her Moonjaro medication and she had it for about four months and it led to her abdomen leaking. which meant that feces, fecal matter, then leaked into her intestines.
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And I believe she ended up getting sepsis and died accordingly. That's very sad. She was weighing in at 128 kilos and she tried and tried so hard to lose weight through diet and exercise, but it wasn't working. So she went for Munjara. But the English Times this morning is saying that a lot of the time the common side effects are diarrhea, bloating, hair loss and dizziness. . . . .
10:53
So that's alarming, isn't it? And this topic of death actually makes the mirror online. So this fellow was arrested because he climbed onto the roof of a hospital in Wales wearing the Grim Reaper costume. I mean, what kind of a nutjob does that to upset people? Staring down at people dressed as the Grim Reaper at a hospital. Climbs onto the roof, long blade and everything, making noises, dressed in the black outfit. He's before the courts. But I mean, it's amazing.
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You can't be doing that kind of thing, but he got a fine of €100, which you would think is kind of almost let off quite lightly for something like that. And in the bizarre world in which we live, of course, getting even more bizarre. Do you see that story? There's a major scandal now in the Tour de France. E nós ouvirmos de performance-enhancing drugs e tudo isso. Mas pensei sobre isso. É uma história de The Sun esta semana, onde as mulheres cyclistas em a Tour de France foram acusados de padrar o braço para ganhar aerodinâmica.
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It's nobody's business but theirs, I would have thought, but what do I know? So by all accounts, they pad their bras to change the airflow around themselves and they'll cycle faster. And with padded bras, or a bigger bust by all accounts, you could shave nearly a second per kilometre.
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And I don't know whether that's deemed to be cheating or not, but there you have it nonetheless. Aerodynamics, apparently, they say. It shifts a bigger breast or a bigger, I suppose, a bigger bust, I should say, or padding it shifts the air left and right of you and you'll psych in faster. I'm passing it on for what it's worth. And in the bizarre world that we live in, there's this farmer then over in the UK called Clive Baxter. Now, he's been growing apples for like 40 years. He seriously knows how to grow apples. He's got 2,000 tonnes of apples every year. The Bramley one.
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They be the cookers, as we used to call them years ago, right? So now he is applying special sun cream to his apples to prevent them from literally cooking on the tree because of the ongoing heat wave I mean, the UK get much better weather than us all of the time and they certainly are this summer. So he's... Would you be doing that? Well, I suppose you would if it's your livelihood and you have upwards of 2,000 tonnes. I don't know how he does it or sprays it. I'm sure he's not going around doing them by hand. He must have some kind of a machine. And then we have the neighbours who don't get on with each other.
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It's another sidebar making the star this morning where this pensioner was so sick to death of his neighbour's water pump He had a pond with fish, particularly coi inside in it. He killed all of his neighbours' fish. I mean, it's absolutely nuts. And he was ordered to pay a fine, something like 600 and 700 euros or something like that, because he used motor oil and put detergent and killed all the fish. Because the pump was too loud. And he just was going insane from it.
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And he claimed that it was driving him insane. And there was no talking to the neighbour. Like, he wouldn't turn it off or get a silent one. So instead he decides to poison all of the fish. And there's another story then. This is silly season, actually. Do you know what I'm saying? Actually, silly season is a nice season because you get lots of happy, fun, kind of daft stories. So there's a woman over in Italy, right? Apparently she had a lottery ticket. I won't spend much time on it. Anyway, it says that a million euro lottery ticket has been recovered from the rubbish in Italy after the frantic winner called the refuse collectors to help her retrieve it.
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It's a miracle that it was still in one piece because they had to comb through a mountain of rubbish in the back of the truck to retrieve her lottery ticket. Nicola Toscano won a million in the lottery apparently on Sunday. Went to the shop after the draw and the machine said non-payable. She threw it away, thinking that it was non-payable because she didn't win or it wasn't damaged. But what it actually meant was it couldn't be paid out in the shop because it was too much money. But she didn't know that. So she throws it away.
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Then, of course, the refuse collectors come to the shop and they take away all of the bins into the back of the truck and the rest is history. I'm assuming that she's going to give the refuse collectors a share of the winnings and some of the loot. We'll have to see what happens there. And then... Finalmente, porque isso realmente é, eu acho, um tema de conversa em todos os homens, em uma regularidade. O que belongs e o que não tem belong em o frio. Talvez nós podemos fazer o próximo tempo só contemplando e falando sobre isso, ou getting um bom ralho sobre o que não tem.
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Aparentemente, segundo os experts, sim, para apples, nuts, crisps em o frio, tortilla chips em o frio, Fresh herbs but not basil. Berries. You'd be confused. I'd be dizzy working those ones out. The things that you shouldn't put in. Watermelon, potatoes, tomatoes, cake and bread. I put all vegetables. All. Full stop. If the fridge is big enough, I'll put them all in there. I put bread in there as well. Much to the annoyance of other members of the family.
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I just do. They're saying you shouldn't put tomatoes in the fridge. Are you off your head? Of course you should. They're saying that you shouldn't put delicious, juicy red apple. Have you ever had one of those really nice ones? The Pink Ladies out of the fridge. Nothing nicer in the whole wide earthly world But they're breaking it down this morning On things that should or should not Well I accept that you shouldn't put bananas in the fridge I don't know why Might have something to do with them going black or whatever. But there's a long list of things that you should or should not and the things that cause fights and chaos in the home.
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It's like last month it was how to load a dishwasher. And this month is what belongs and doesn't belong in fridges. I'll come back to it hopefully throughout the course of the morning. We'll see how things go. Anyway, text 0868-104-106.
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Um, com isso, há três ou quatro homens com balaclavas, que saíram atrás da white van com a baseball bat, iron bars e eles começaram a atacar esse carro.
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Agora, esse carro, então, levou um onto a footpath e entrou em um. Eles levam um de um em um into o ar. Ele, então, landed no bonnet do carro, que tomou com ele em um, e O carro brava, ele cortou o bonnet, e o carro foi fechado. Foi absolutamente louco, Neil, o que foi feito lá no dia.
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E aí, que carro, então, voltou no dia em alto-speed e, finalmente, entrou em plazando em uma walla no rio de Musgrave Park. É isso aí?
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É isso aí, eu acredito, Neil, mas eu estou entendendo que eram dois diferentes caras.
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Ok, ok.
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Você vê, por conta do que eu estou comprando no social media, from different areas of Ballyfuhan is that there was cars from around 4 o'clock yesterday in different areas of the city looking for an individual.
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Okay. So they were looking for some individual all about Cork is suggesting that it may well have been a so-called punishment beating that they wanted to inflict. What are your thoughts on that?
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I honestly don't know. All I can tell you Neil is that there was a house close by to me which was Petrol Bond a number of weeks ago And I think they came back last night. They definitely were at that house last night. They were knocking at the door.
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Okay, okay. So, this guy in his 30s that was assaulted was beaten with a golf club. Was that it?
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Again, that's what I'm led to believe, Neil. I didn't witness that, but... To me, the guy that was hit by the car and thrown up into the air had to have suffered some serious injuries.
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Okay, okay. So he was carted off then, wasn't he? Paramedics arrived, obviously. Gardaí arrived also, incidentally, yeah?
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No, like what happened in the meantime, Neil, is that, look, we were outside. I was looking at my car and neighbours had gathered and this guy came up from Virgin Media Park to head up Upper Kent Road.
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E para dizer que esse cara foi bostado nele é um understatement. Ele foi destruído. E ele foi limpar heavily. Agora, nós não queríamos apoiar ele. Mas eu acredito que, depois disso, ele foi apoiado por os guards, em algum lugar em região de Balifian Park.
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Ok, mas isso parece que ele foi o driver que caiu o carro e foi injurado, sim?
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No, I think it was the guy, I'm almost certain it was the guy that was blown up into the air by the car.
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Gotcha, okay, okay. So there's a lot of different incidents going on then, if you like, right?
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To me, Neil, it looks like that it's a number of rival gangs.
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Is it drug related, do you think?
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Oh, 100%.
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Okay, is it territorial or is it a drug debt or protecting their own patches or things like that or trying to take over somebody else's patch?
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Sim, sim.
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Você disse em seu posto, Mayhem e Peirce Road, house attack, fellas com baseball bats, iron bars, um fella blown up in the air by a car driven by a rival gang. Was your car damaged?
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It was. It was. The car, the car, they were parked outside the house that they were looking for the guy in, right?
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They reversed across Peirce Road to get away and blew into the side of my car.
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Then spun the wheels, took off towards Virgin Media Park. That's when that car then was met by the guys with the baseball bats and iron bars.
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And that's basically what I witnessed.
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And then one of them, you saw one of them being blown up into the air by the car. Yeah. And off it went. That was a stolen car actually that had been stolen in Cove and it falls plates on it.
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They all got away, right?
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And do you know, because it's reported, this is all about Cork again, saying that a guy was assaulted and was beaten with a golf club. When would that have happened? Where would that have happened?
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Neil, I honestly don't. I only heard about that late last night.
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Gotcha. Yeah, okay. Okay. Very frustrating. It's very worrying for people living in that area, isn't it? You say you've lived there for well over 33 years, never seen the like of it.
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Não, não, não. E você sabe, Neil, o que está mais preocupado é que... ...it parece ser uma ocorrência agora em toda a cidade. Olha, eu assisti ao seu programa ontem com a garra de Máhannan e os dois filhos. O que está acontecendo em parte do centro...
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It's scary, and you know, look, I know you've heard this time and time again from politicians and that, but there needs to be zero tolerance with this.
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We need to come down hard on all of these, don't we? Absolutely hard on them, full stop.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Because it's not fair on people.
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You know, the guards called to me last night, you know, for a statement, and they looked at my car and what have you, you know, and I said to the guard, I said, look, again, look, I'm over 30 years there. I said, all I ever do is go to work and pay my taxes.
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I don't want this. My neighbours don't want this. It's a very, very settled area. I couldn't wish to have better neighbours, Neil.
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And for this kind of thing to be carrying on, it's just...
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No, it's appalling. It is sickening. It really is. It is, you know, and it's the few who are wrecking it for the majority, you know, for the law-abiding majority. They have no fear. They don't seem to realise the consequences. They seem to think that they're untouchable. And we need to change that. Come down on them hard every single time. Throw the book at them.
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E do you know what Neil, you're right, you know, when they say they have no fear. Like, what I saw last night, these guys weren't worried about getting hurt or even killed. You know, they just went for it. They were out to kill someone last night. Not to hurt someone, they were actually out to kill someone last night.
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It's unfortunate, you know, I'm not 100% comfortable constantly talking about stories like this because I'm cognizant of the fact that, you know, it worries people, it upsets people. But this is the reality, unfortunately, and these stories need to be talked about. And I appreciate you coming on as an eyewitness. What about your car, John? You're going to have to get that fixed. Was there much damage?
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Look, I don't know.
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I think there is a fair bit of damage, Neil. I can't actually open the driver's door, right? So I'm now going to have to get on to my insurance company this morning to get this sorted. Like, you know, as I said to the guards last night, why should I be out of pocket because of mindless tugs?
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Ok, well, let's hope that Ungardish Econa managed to track them down and due process is followed and they pay for the consequences of their action. John, thanks for taking the call. I appreciate it, my friend. Mind yourself.
25:27
No problem, Neil. Take care. All the best. Thank you.
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E aí E aí E aí E aí Sim, sim.
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Yeah, no, look, I mean, I think that's right, look, I mean, I think clearly these are serious criminals and what we need to see now is we need to see a guard investigation that's successful and puts people behind bars for this kind of behaviour, like it's miraculous really, as I say, that's A série de incidents, as John has outlined, these cars speeding, it seems as if chasing each other and then being chased Por isso, por isso, por isso, por isso, por isso, por isso, por isso.
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ou não tem sido o norma aqui. E isso parece ser drug-relado. E obviamente, olha, há apenas so muito que podemos dizer, given que há um acto de guarda de investigação. Nós esperamos que há convicções. E eu vou ter a oportunidade de encorajar as pessoas. É difícil de começar, mas se você tiver informações, por favor, porque isso vai ser crucial. O lines que elas têm, elas são confidências, elas são carregadas com elas. É tão crucial para garantir que a successful investigação e a successful convicções Which is what we do need to see, because this kind of behaviour, and unfortunately, it's a repeat of similar incidents in the past.
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We do need to see successful convictions and people behind bars for that to happen. People do need to bring forward the information that they have, even if it is difficult.
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Mas, eu, eu, eu, eu, eu, eu, eu, eu, eu, This guy apparently was involved in some kind of an incident earlier on where a guy was, obviously, they were looking for him and they attacked him as part of a punishment beating.
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We hear punishment beatings all of the time, beaten with a golf club. I'm hearing that this may well have started in the Ballyvalan area. There's reports that there was a gun spotted after a fracas in the Ballyvalan Park area and it then possibly spilled across to the south side.
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Texta aqui que diz, I'm a resident in Clarks Road, it's frightening, gangs fighting, armed response, telling us to get our children off the streets. Like, they don't seem to have any worry or consideration for others and no respect. So, to be honest with you, they should be treated with zero respect as well.
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Olha, eu não tenho problema com a lei sendo usada para o máximo de pessoas que estão envolvendo esse tipo de comportamento, não é só. Eu assisti a John, eu conheço John, eu conheço John e ele está dizendo que o que ele faz é que ele trabalha, ele faz as taxas e ele faz o seu próprio negócio. E isso é muito importante, e isso é muito importante.
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Nobody deserves that. So yes, those involved should face the full rigours of the law. For that to happen, as I say, we do need to have successful convictions. So anyone who can help with that, please do. I would say as well, look, I mean, it does seem to be... I think you could potentially be right, Neil, that there could be connections to other incidents across different parts of the city. Again, it's at the early stages of it, so I don't want to speculate too much.
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Would you speculate as to whether this is...
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Drug-related, drug-fuse, drug-debt, trying to muscle in on each other's patch. Do you know if any of that could be the reason behind it?
30:37
Well, look, I suppose in terms of the specific way it relates to it, I couldn't say. But, like, I mean, I think drugs are definitely part of the picture here. And, like, I mean, I would make the point as well as that, like, I mean, sometimes, you know, in this debate, like, You know, people who take drugs and it's commonplace across the city. It's not victimless. Like, I mean, it does feed criminal behaviour and people should be conscious of that. But this is criminal behaviour and it does need to be tackled. But what about the untouchables?
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What about the families that are known to be serious dealers and to be controlling a lot of the city's drug trade? They're almost like as if they're the untouchables a lot of the time. Yeah. That's got to be very frustrating for people who live in a community where they know that the guards know who these people are.
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Yeah, look, I mean, of course it is. Of course it is. And now, like, I mean, I think some of the potential people who are involved here would be not necessarily well known. You know, look, we won't get into speculating just in relation to that. But, like, I mean, I do think...
31:43
whether it is people who are well known and whether they're not. It is frustrating if people are seeing drug dealing happening, if they're seeing criminal activity and they're not seeing it be tackled. I do think the Guardian and the City need more resources. I don't think they have enough personnel. I think that . . .
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outside the city centre, be able to deal with the issues in their areas. So you have units merged in Douglas and Carragalline, you have units merged in Bishopstown and Barrancolig covering all those areas. You have the station in Blackrock Mahan that has 17 guards.
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Yeah, well you had the attack on the two teenage lads in Mahan. That's your patch as well, isn't it? Where those involved in that attack are also known . . .
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I thought that was an absolutely appalling attack and it is disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful and my heart goes out to those boys and to their families to just endure those kind of injuries and the intimidation. It'll take the families a long time and the boys a long time to recover that if they do at all psychologically. It is appalling. So nobody should be out of reach.
33:29
There's a number of things that we need for that to happen. We need the Gardaí to have enough people to put them on the ground. Like I say, the man station has 17 Gardaí in it. There used to be 31 there in 2009. So that's almost like it's a little over half of what it used to be. Now, there's not always going to be a Gardaí to prevent something, but it is... No, I accept that.
33:48
That's alarming if there was that kind of a drop.
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Sim, e sim, não é em cada instância, mas tudo o crime, e tudo o evidência shows que o mais Garrity você tem em out e em out, o mais detores. Mas o que nós também precisamos é que nós temos serious criminal behaviour, porque há alguns que, no matter como Garrity they see out in the street, não vão ser put-off porque eles não estão lutando, não estão lutando, não estão lutando. E em esses instantes, o que nós precisamos é que nós precisamos de convicções. E, olha, eu espero que Garrity tem todo o successo. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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Okay, thanks for taking the call. Donnico Leirish, NTD for Cork South Central. I think everybody would agree with that. If you have any information, you can contact us. Donnico says, the Garda Confidential Line, 1-800-666-111. These people need to be caught. They need to be prosecuted. They need the full rigors of the law. We need action because they're not worried. They don't care. They have no respect. And what really people want, and I started on this and I'll finish with it, is for the system to come down very hard on them. Full stop. No exceptions.
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If you were in the area last night, do get in touch. Text 0868 104 106. Back to the phone lines we go. I see other texts coming in from other people who possibly witnesses or stories coming in attached to that. We'll come back to it in a few minutes' time. But Malcolm, you know, with regards to John's car and the damage to it last night, you've kind of a similar story, do you?
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Yeah, Neil. I had my car parked up by Kansas Barracks going back a few years ago. And I left it there overnight. I was driving a taxi at the time. So I left the car there overnight. And when I came back the following morning, there was 7,500 yards of damage done to the back of the car. And I was the lucky one at the time because there was two cars involved, three cars involved in it. The one that hit up and the two cars that were parked. The car that was parked behind my car was a complete right off.
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And luckily enough, that car, when it was hit, mounted a step and the damage done to mine was only Cosmetic As such But it still cost £7,500 To get it fixed That other car was written off So when the guards were called Whoever done it Had driven off So When I got in contact With my own insurance company I was told Did we get a registration Number of car that caused it Yeah Did all that damage And it was still able To drive off Yeah Oh yeah It rode off It rode off the first car Yeah And done £7,500 to mine So, nobody was ever caught for it.
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So, when I got into my insurance company, they asked me, did I have an insurance or a registration number of the car that hit it?
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Yeah.
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And I said, no. And I said, I don't think the girls got one either.
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So, we tried to go to the MIBI, Motor Insurance Bureau.
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Yeah, the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland, who pay out on a couple of different reasons. One would be, say, for instance, an uninsured driver. Or another part of it is they also pay out for unidentified vehicles.
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Yes, well I was refused.
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I had to pay, I had to go through my own insurance and I paid that back over a couple of years. Lost no claims bonus, lost everything and my insurance went up by a couple of hundred quid for a couple of years.
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So, from what I can gather, that man needs to get a hold of a registration plate for the car that hit his.
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Now, here's the downside of that.
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He could do that, actually, if he's listening. He must do that, because he could do that. What hit him smashed down around CMP into a wall.
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But the downside of this then is, if that chair was stolen, A person's car was stolen. It'll come off their insurance.
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Okay, so that... We're hearing that whoever... That's wrong. Whoever robbed it crashed it, right? And the guy... This is what I'm being told. The guy that robbed the jeep... It was a jeep. Some kind of a jeep SUV kind of a thing. And it was robbed in Cove. Sped up to Ballyfeehan on the wrong side of the road. Um... There are other parts of this story, including the fact that a guy allegedly got hold of the speeding driver and stabbed him numerous times, right? Driver got away, having been stabbed, and crashed near the old CMP.
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Guards surrounded the Jeep, ambulance arrived. That's just some more to the story, okay? So thank you for allowing me to update on that. So he needs to get the reg of that Jeep.
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But then the downside of that is, the person that owns that Jeep. It could quite possibly come after insurance, which is not right either. Why is that person being punished twice?
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I mean, every one of us in this country when you pay an insurance premium, there's a little portion taken out and put into this MIBI fund And then when you need it, you can't access it.
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I think it's bizarre that they didn't pay out your damages on the basis that it was an unidentified vehicle that left the scene. That makes no sense that they would refuse that.
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Yeah. The other girl's car was completely written off.
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Did they pay out for her?
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No. From what I can gather, I spoke to that lady later on and I think she had to go through her own insurance as well.
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I was actually on the air with, you were on the hand at the time, I was on the air with Mick Mulcahy at the time.
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Yeah, that makes no sense to me. That's what that fund is for. So that innocent people with cars and insurance are not left to carry the can.
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That's what I was led to believe.
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I was fuming after it because every year since and previous to that, There was a portion taken out of my insurance policy and put into this fund and I couldn't access it. And you lost your No Clems bonus. Exactly.
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And then a payout like that then puts all of our insurance up because of this. Yes.
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Seven and a half thousand of costs for the car that time. I'll never forget it. I was fuming.
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And there was clearly no CCTV or cameras anywhere at the time, no?
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Nothing. It was up just right across the road from the recently closed on Bellevue Bear. There was . . . . . .
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Well, that's the upside to this conversation. A bit of free parking.
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Yeah. All right.
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There were two cars, a black Hyundai and a Seat Leon or maybe a Seat Ibiza. Maybe the seat was chasing, maybe the Seat was chasing the Hyundai when they raced past my house and then crashed on the Tremor Road. At least that's what I saw, says another witness this morning. You will see there'll be plenty of Garda available for the next round of fuel protests to somebody. Bit of Garda bashing going on this morning. . . . .
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And they're on patrol. I see them regularly. People supposedly running this country have their priorities all wrong and they've ignored people's cries for years. I agree with that.
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per student for every Irish family. R$17,500 in Cork. That's what it costs. With regards to protecting your children, the least mothers and fathers should do to protect their children and give them a confidence boost is to put them in tough sports like rugby, boxing, martial arts and give your child a fighting chance. I suppose you're talking about the assault on two teenagers down in Mahan. And then on the issue of the cost of college, you're talking nonsense. You do not have to go to a gym to keep fit.
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And on that basis, a texter is suggesting that there should not be anything that would allow maybe families to include the cost of the gym as being part of their third level college education. No, you don't. You don't have to go to the gym, but some people like it. And they love the routine of it. And one of the big parts of staying fit and getting fit is one is to be aerobically fit, but also another one is to pump weights and to lift weights. Now, you could have it all at home if you want, or you could join a gym and do it there. Either way, text 0868104106. We'll pick it up after 10.
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Oberstown Children's Detention Campus is for 10 to 17-year-olds. Just send them there. People should be safe to walk in their local areas. A sick attack. Well, the thought down in that area is that, unfortunately, these people a lot of the time are completely and utterly untouchable. As I understand it, Neil, Mahan Garda Station opening hours are Monday to Friday, 2 to 5. Not sure about the weekends. Depends, I mean, it kind of depends where you go and look for information, whether it's on Google and different platforms or different openings, because there's no, I suppose, in the world that we live in now with Irish Garda Stations, there's no set times for all of them.
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That man is right on the air. The parents don't give a damn and wouldn't care less if you find them or took stuff and got the bailiffs to call. They just get more stuff, . . .
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But sure, if she takes a civil action against the two thugs that beat up her sons, wins and gets awarded money, do you think she'd ever get money off them? They should have their dole stopped or at least halved. It's shocking stuff. One way, says Ciarán, to take this... One way is to take their court costs off their child benefit until it's paid in full. Problem solved. A lot of the time, well... All of the time in cases like this, it's free legal aid, so the state pays it directly to the solicitor.
48:28
Sounds like it is a process of an initiation into a criminal gang, just like something out of the movies. I'm so sorry to hear what has happened to these two innocent boys going about their evening together, coming back from Maham Point, and I wish them a speedy recovery, physically and mentally. No, it's nothing to do with initiation into a criminal gang. It's just these characters, these young fellas, who think that they... O que é isso?
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Gangs of youths can be disrupted by the correct use of stop and search. Public order offences can be identified. That possibly came from somebody within the force. The thugs who beat up those two decent, respectable brothers and man are probably in bed all day and out causing trouble all night. They're nothing more than uneducated thugs. The apple, though, never falls far from the tree. Their parents are probably just as bad as them.
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And there's many more like that by text to 0868 104 106. That's not even starting on texts from people in the Balafihan area this morning.
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So back after the break, more on the way.
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um uh was uh had a punishment beating against them he was attacked uh we know that there was um uh baseball bats golf clubs and iron bars used and a man in his 30s was assaulted and beaten and after that then of course he had all of the carnage and the mayhem with regards to um this jeep that was robbed down in cove and everything that happened with one gang facing up against another and that's when then we saw all of the baseball bats and we saw all of the um iron bars and golf clubs So I'll start on text on that in a few minutes time, but I just am cognizant of the amount of people who got in touch yesterday with regards to the incident.
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You just need to be careful with regards to your children and your teenagers, where they are, who they're with and the times they're out and where they go. Seriously, you really do. My heart is broken for those two boys and their family and friends that were just left for dead. If those scumbags want to act like the big hard men, they should be locked up for eight years in a men's prison. They won't belong seeing how big and brave they are then. E só três mais aqui.
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Don't give up my details but I know the kid in the family who did this and I don't want them coming after me. I'm petrified from my child. The younger fella that did the horrendous thing is driving around on e-scooters and scramblers and wrecking Mahan. They're a disgrace to the place of this family. They think they own Mahan. Every person knows who they are. e a right to be afraid because the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I can tell you. It's the school holidays where you want to allow your children or your kids to be out with a little bit of freedom walking to Mahon Point and now all of that will have to stop because of these individuals.
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It's disgusting behaviour. I hope those boys will be okay and I hope the mother doesn't give in and goes all the way with the charges. Joe says, there are a lot of good parents out there. They don't send their kids out to cause trouble. A lot of them are actually scared of their own kids, would you believe? Parents afraid of their children. Would people ever stop blaming the parents? In most cases, parents are afraid of those thugs. You're entitled to your opinion, Joe, but if I could humbly suggest, not that it matters what I say, I think it's the other way around. I don't believe that the majority of parents are afraid of their thugs.
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I think there are some parents who are. . . . .
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You know, you are right. It could be deemed to be intergenerational. That's why we have the term, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Now, there are lots more like that, and also many from this morning's programme with regards to the events in Balofy Han last night, which was absolutely outrageous. So I'll come to all of that. But you've got to look at the pressure on kids in general, right? I was looking this morning where they're talking about, you know, Isso pode ser deemed screen time, use of tablets, use of mobile phones, smartphones, television, YouTube videos, the whole lot.
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There was a lovely article that made The Telegraph this morning saying, can you remember the days when a cardboard box could once become a castle or a racing car?
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Or a spacecraft. Or a patch of wasteland was a jungle. Or the space beneath the dining room table was a secret headquarters. It was about using imagination. And I think that kids are very resilient. If you took a lot of the screens away... They adapt. They come up with other ways of entertaining themselves. And perhaps it might lead to them using their imagination more. And keep kids as kids and to use their imagination for as long as possible. But the opposite is happening.
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And in the online world then, of course... Are you always 100% sure as to what your kids are looking at, who they're interacting with, and the information that they're coming across? I heard a term recently used by a man called Mick Moran. He's the CEO of Hotline.ie. And he used the term called the weaponization of loneliness. The weaponization of loneliness. And I found that absolutely powerful. I want to develop that with him for a few minutes if you don't mind.
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Mick, good morning.
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Bom dia, Neil. Como você está?
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That's becoming less and less central to the upbringing of a child now. But talk to me about what you mean by that.
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Well, I suppose underpinning that statement is the fact that social media is the greatest misnomer that's ever been sold, the greatest pup that has ever been sold to the public, because it is anything but social.
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And actually, I'm talking at a Wellfest in Ashbourne and County Mead this weekend about this whole issue, right?
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The social media, in actual fact, you can talk like all day about why it is not social, but the reality of it is, or why it should be called social, but the reality of it is that kids are locked away at home and we have this paradoxical out there now where we're overprotecting them in the real world and we're underprotecting them online but most of the dangers have moved online now with the people with the kids themselves so when you talk about online predation online predators extremist groups cyber criminals and scammers Platforms and algorithms that drive kids out to the edge and out to the extremes all the time.
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And when you talk about the lousy design of most of these social media platforms. The definition of friends, for example, is a good one. You know, I mean, friends of friends, people you've never met. Never. And here you are sharing the most intimate... How many friends do you have?
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I have 5,000. How many of you? I have 3,500. I want to get to 10,000 friends.
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Exactly, exactly. And the problem with the word friend is that, you know, friend of the family, he's my friend. You know, people don't... To what degree is this person a friend and to what degree do you trust them? And unfortunately, the remove that is in place because of the internet leads kids especially, but also adults, to be fair, into a situation where they overtrust these, inverted commas, friends.
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E os resultados são often catastrófico.
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Ok, então eles podem ir em áreas, ou ir em rabbit holes, jovens e filhos, que leade-los em grooming, ou coerção, ou eles podem ir em networks que você tem identificado como The Calm, ou 764, onde você tem adolescentes que estão envolvendo violent online networks, onde eles estão sextortados. Is that true? Because it sounds quite alarmist.
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No, it's not. It's not alarmist at all. Sexual extortion is a very real thing and is used as a weapon by these comm groups, you know, and bisexual extortion. It's very simple. The kid is groomed into sharing an intimate image. In a girl's case, it can be enough to just share a topless image.
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In a boy's case, it often involves a sex act like masturbation.
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And the result of that, you know, the outcome of that can be three things. It can be financial. So give me 200 quid or I'm going to send this movie or image to all your friends and your school and everything else. The second one is more content. Give me more and better content. You know, in a girl's case, it might be, you know, full nude, involved in sex acts, lascivious kind of display of genitalia, that type of stuff. And the third one then is these comm groups where they are forced to through this blackmail to carry out acts in the real world and to live stream them or video them and share it back into the com group Have you seen those videos where they're doing what they're told to do in a violent way?
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Kids carving names of the offenders into their inner thighs, involved in inserting items into their bodies.
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You know, even as simple as cutting off the beautiful hair that they've been growing all their lives.
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And if you don't do these things and you're pressurised into doing them, that video that you sent, that explicit, will be shared with family, friends and the whole wide world.
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Exactly, exactly. And it's the threat of that that really drives these kids to do it. You know, that threat, it's all about control and I can assure you that kids who find themselves in these positions really and truly lock down into a kind of a They get into a panic inside in their own heads and they will literally do anything to avoid the trap.
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Because that original image or video has become the leverage against them.
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Exactly, exactly.
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And is it other teens that are doing it to them?
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Yes, in the calm group now, with the financial, it's organised crime groups in certain countries that are doing it. Yeah, send me money or else. And in most of those cases, they generally just go away after. Where it's more content, it's generally people with a sexual interest in children who will do that. We had a case there a couple of years ago, two years ago, up in Nooray, in County Down, where a young fella had, they reckon, about 3,000 victims on the go. In fact, I've never seen a case where one of these ne'er-do-wells had any less than 70 or 80 victims on the go at any one time.
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Under his control. His control was sexual extortion.
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E ele tinha basicamente ido... Seu shtick, se você quiser, seu M.O. era que ele era um lesbio teen himself e ele ia estar em grupos onde os kids estavam questionando o seu sexualismo.
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Ok, então só explica, eles manipulam por pretendo ser um teenager themselves.
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Pretendo ser um teenager, ou eles might love-bomb a pessoa. E aí
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E isso pode começar a, assim, Facebook ou TikTok ou playing things like Minecraft, não é?
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It pode começar anywhere. Minecraft, Roblox, Discord, Twitch.
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WhatsApp, Snapchat, you name it, it can start there. Once the child is in communication with another human being, then, you know, and it just, once it starts and once the trap is sprung, it just moves very, very fast and kids can go, and I talked about the self-harming of carving somebody's name with a Stanley knife into your leg or into your chest, across your chest, but it can also go to the complete extreme of self-harm.
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And you know where that goes, you know.
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And has that happened where lives have been taken?
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Oh yeah, well I haven't heard of a case where it has happened in Ireland. But certainly incitement to suicide is the next step up from self-harm. And these calm groups, it's all about the most outrageous, the most bizarre, the most disgusting. que eles podem fazer. E é tudo para amusemento. É tudo para a laugh. Estes são geralmente não organizados criminosos. Estes são jovens, geralmente jovens, que estão preying on outros jovens ou jovens.
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E, você sabe, o segredo do seu artigo sobre o que aconteceu na manhã, ou seja, o segredo do que foi lá noite, o segredo do e o synergy entre esses dois é não lost em mim, porque, trabalhando em esse área para as longas eu tenho, O princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, o princípio, They don't get involved with other young fellas and basically virtual gangs.
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Virtual gangs are corner boys basically hanging out on the virtual street corner and abusing anyone.
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Listen, your child could be the victim. Your child could also be the perpetrator. Correct. And that would be things like random acts of violence, sucker punching somebody, assaulting somebody, harming animals you spoke about.
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Harming animals is another one, yeah, for sure. Film that. All the tyres on the whole street. Slashing the tyres on every car in your neighbour's cars. Or burning a building.
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So the person who has slashed the tyres, as an example, is in the grips of a sextortionist who has an explicit video. Yes, exactly.
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And the slashing of the tyres is just simply... is what is the latest dare that the child has been given. And if they don't do said dare, then the sexual extortion material will be shared with all your friends and all your school and your parents and whoever else they have.
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So what is the advice, Mick, with regards to a teenager who has shared something explicit and they're starting to get these kind of threats? How are they supposed to react?
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If you are somebody who has shared an intimate image, you have to understand that the sharing of that, the creation and sharing of that intimate image is not a crime. The sharing of it, the initial share, the sharing or the threat to share it by somebody else is a crime under Coco's law.
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E então, há bastante de ajuda para a kids. E isso é o que o IRISH Internet Hotline faz. E você disse o nome da hotline.ie, anteriormente. Há muita ajuda disponível lá. E nós podemos ver se a imagem foi colocada em um lugar, nós podemos ver se a imagem foi colocada em um lugar, nós podemos ver se a imagem foi colocada em um lugar.
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And we can move, we can also, we also have methods to ensure that it's never shared again.
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I know, but you see, and that's fantastic work. And I know you do great work. I'm not disputing that for a moment, but I'm wondering how we get past the point where that teenager, male or female, who has shared the video is brave enough and has the courage enough to tell somebody what happened.
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Well, you see, if they don't, this is the point. If they don't, then it is going to escalate and escalate and escalate until it becomes a catastrophe.
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So my advice to the kids, all we can do is encourage their kids. So parents can talk to their kids and say, look, if you ever get into any situation online, this is where the communication comes in. We have to be communicating with our kids.
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Now, I am a proponent of not giving a smartphone to a child under 16 anyway, because I feel that it, you know, and that's another discussion that I wouldn't mind having with you sometime, Neil, if you can make some time for it. You better believe it, we will. Yeah, but it's absolutely...
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Ultra important that if you give a smartphone to your child, you understand that you are giving them a portal into an adult world that they may not understand and cannot comprehend. And you need to communicate with them and they need to understand the dangers that are out there. You wouldn't let them down to the Mahan Shopping Centre to run across the Jewel Courageway or to walk in the tunnel, the Lee Tunnel.
67:12
But that could be one of the threat challenges actually and film it while you're doing it kind of thing. You know what I mean?
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Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And we haven't even touched on incels or the whole area of incels and the area of the manosphere and, you know, men are better, women are slaves.
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Yeah, there would be crossover with this kind of manosphere world. There would be crossover there. But look, it's very important to remember, too, that these perpetrators... ...are generally speaking, are youngfulness who've been online themselves since age of 8 or whatever. Do you know what I mean? They're actually bored. They're bored. That's the thing. They're bored. They've been online. They've done it all. They've seen it all. They're hard men. And now they're just transferring all that kind of badness that they have absorbed onto other innocent parties who tend to be their peers.
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And by peers, I mean just the same age as them, but they could be in America, or they could be in Canada, or they could be in Southeast Asia.
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Do you know what I mean? It doesn't have to be a kid down the road.
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So this morning, parents should be saying to their sons or their daughters later on, listen, I was listening to the radio this morning, there was a man talking to Prendival, his name is Mick Moore, and he's got Hotline.ie, and he was talking about potentially areas that you might get into Where you feel you got trapped or you couldn't get out of. Has that ever happened to you? You know, it doesn't matter. You know, you won't be judged. You need to be careful. Talk to us.
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That kind of thing? And I would say to parents, yes, and I would say to parents that the most important aspect of this is not to panic yourself. There's any amount of help out there. And you know, the funny thing is, once you shine a light on it, it runs away. Because these are only, these are only, like...
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I was going to say rats, and obviously they're not rats as such, but they're cowardly. You called them bousies recently, I think. I did, I called them bousies or ne'er-do-wells or whatever you want to call them, but the point is that once you shine a light at them, they're gone. Okay.
69:23
Actually, interesting about Shining Lights, and this is slightly off topic, it's something that we've been dealing with on the air for the last couple of months in Cork. There's a bit of a scourge going on. And I was reminded of it by a listener there. Martin says, what about that guy Vendy Vlad, the Ukrainian man? He's studying in Cork in the MTU.
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He's an online prankster and he videos people with his AI camera glasses without the consent or knowledge. He seems above the law. Now, this fella, I don't know if you've heard of that, and he does it for hits and for likes, and he's just one of the most annoying individuals for what he's doing to people. He's taking advantage of them. That's perhaps not connected to the topic we're talking about now, but it's all about consent, isn't it?
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Well, I tell you, that's a kind of a privacy issue that people should talk to the commissioner for privacy about that. You know, the privacy commissioner is dpc.ie. They should talk to them.
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But it's an example of what can I do to take advantage of people without their knowledge for likes and clicks and maybe potentially financial gain? I'll use my Google glasses to set them up with a prank and they won't even know I'm filming them.
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Well, here you go now, right? Here's what, where this is linked across, to the manosphere, to these bauses, as I call them, in the com groups. It's the ecosystem that has been created online where bad behaviour is rewarded.
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There you go.
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Yeah, there you go. Right? And that line, the anything-goes attitude online, the kind of, it's not the real world, but yes, O que nós estamos vendo mais e mais é que os dois mundos se mergem. E online ativistas têm real-world consequências. And so, the only way to deal with this is to report it to the relevant people. Report it to the relevant authorities. And if you know who this guy is, and he's using his method glasses or whatever it is to take pictures and prank people without their consent, that is a breach of data protection law.
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And if people know who he is, well then it's easy dealt with. Very easy dealt with.
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And especially if he's in receipt of financial reward for doing it.
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Well, I would have thought that the more clicks you get and where you share things on YouTube or your own platforms, there must be some sort of financial gain in it somewhere along the way.
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Yes, and here's another thing that people should remember.
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Se ele tiveram imagens de você a plataforma, você pode escrever para a plataforma e perguntar para a plataforma. E perguntar para a plataforma. E perguntar para a plataforma. E perguntar para a plataforma. E perguntar para a plataforma.
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And I have given nobody permission to put it up there. And if the company doesn't take it down, well, then you should be reporting it to the Data Protection Commissioner or Comissión Le Mans.
72:17
I'm just curious as to why Meta? Of course, it's always trying to chase the next best thing. And why Meta would think it would be a good idea to have glasses that could record people. They say, ah, there's a little red light on it and you'll see the red. Well, unfortunately, you can turn that off and a lot of the time you can't see any red light and you have no idea. But, of course, it's chasing numbers and it's chasing people. They've sold hundreds of thousands of these glasses and, you know, it's just the latest craze.
72:44
But I wonder why... Back to my original point, Neil. Back to my original point. These companies design products... that are harmful in the real world and there is no consequence.
72:54
But I just want to know why, when they design something like this, do they ever have a sit-down and say, well, what are the potential negatives about this product?
73:02
No, they don't. Okay. And that's the problem. Move fast and break things. That's one of Meta's famous statements, you know. Move fast and break things. Disrupt. And in the meantime, they're getting you onto their platform. They're getting content on their platforms. And they throw their hands up in the air then when there's a safety issue. Okay.
73:21
We will come back again, Mick, in the future and we will talk about your thoughts and beliefs with regards to at what stage children should have smartphones. But for now, appreciate you jumping on the air. Thank you so much. Further details on all of this conversation can be had at hotline.ie, aren't I right?
73:38
That's correct. And webwise.ie for resources and help to understand how to speak to your kids. Okay.
73:44
And have the conversation. Thanks, Mick. Appreciate it.
73:46
No problem. See you, Neil.
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Hotline.ie CEO Mick Moran. Have the conversation. And Hill Street Blue years ago, he used to say, be careful out there. I think it should be adapted now these days to say, be careful in there.
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I just mentioned, just to put you on alert, and I don't want to be frightening the bejesus out of people on a daily basis, but you have all sorts of different challenges then. Independent of what I was talking about with Mick Moran there, there are different challenges. They call them TikTok challenges. And they become very popular for a period of time. They blow up online and then they move on to the next one time after time after time. You've got the Blue Whale Challenge, you know, where like... Teens get involved in, okay, a blue whale would be, you've got to do 50 daily tasks, you know, and those tasks can be all sorts of stuff, like that, go all the way up to self-harm and dangerous activities and what led to tragic deaths around the world, people taking their own lives and everything like that.
74:46
Then you have a thing called, there's a stabbing challenge. Don't want to go into some details here, but there was young girls arrested for attempting to murder a friend as part of a thing called the Slender Man Challenge. Bizarre things like the Tide Pod Challenge. Young people encouraged to bite laundry detergent pods and this was something that kicked off on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook. Goes on and on. . . . .
75:26
Again, another TikTok one became very popular. Teens and young adults set fire to themselves with the intention of quickly using a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. Mad stuff. All of these being shared online. There was a few then that were very alarming as if the others weren't. One was called the choking challenge. Another one was called the pass out challenge. A third one was called the blackout challenge. All of those involve temporary loss of consciousness by restricting your airways. The Benadryl challenge.
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Take excessive doses of over-the-counter medication. and experience hallucinations as a consequence. Of course, salt and ice challenge applies salt and ice to the skin to result in chemical burns. I mean, it's... I don't know. I mean, a lot of this goes back to the...
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It was said earlier on by Mick Moran when he used the term the weaponisation of loneliness. I suppose the story here is just to be very, very alert. These are the kind of TikTok trends that parents need to watch out for. This is the new world. It really is and we all need to be alert to it. Things that you need to be alert to. Do you remember earlier on I mentioned A quite interesting court report of a woman who tried on a 3,500, well, actually, it was 3,600 euro diamond ring in Michelle Jewellers on Patrick Street.
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But when the staff member turned to show her another ring, she replaced the one that was worth 3,500 grand with a fake one and left the shop, ultimately. Now, that resulted in a court case, but just ahead of that, Tim Keane is the owner and MD of Michelle Jewellers, and he was... actually, I think, serving the woman on the day. There ain't no flies on Tim Keane, but what actually happened that resulted in this court case? Tim, good morning.
77:10
Good morning, Neil. I hope you're well. I'm well, and you too, my dear friend. So, what happened? It's just, it's like the, you remember that card trick, follow the lady, the old switcheroo, you know? What happened?
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Well, basically, two girls came in, and she asked to see a ring in the window, so I brought her to her, and then her partner...
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asked to see something in the case nearby so I she's a girl tried it on and her partner asked to see something in the case nearby so I went to get it out and when I turned I noticed that the ring she had on her finger wasn't the same ring and I said that's not the ring you had was it similar no no it was quite obviously different so I said where's the other ring so with that she made a dash through the door and off she went So I went out after her, and by the time I got out, I'm not exactly as speedy as I was when I was young.
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He was gone down past the Savoy, and by the time I got to where Dunn was, I couldn't see her. Luckily, I looked across the street, and I saw a couple of guards outside by the Brown Thomas. So I went over and explained my situation.
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And they came back, and we went through our footage, because we have cameras, obviously, and we found the photograph of her and her partner, who had also slipped.
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And they were able to recognise who she was. She was a well-known fast-hand shoplifter.
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And to give the guards credit, who are absolutely fantastic, they rang me 20 minutes later to say they had her on Patrick's Bridge. Amazing. And they had the ring.
78:48
Amazing. The importance of guard of foot patrols, Tim.
78:52
Oh, Kate, my niece, is on the board of the CBA and they were the ones who really pushed her to get the guards back into town. My God, it made a huge difference. I mean, unbelievable.
79:04
So what happens next then? Do you get the ring back, obviously, because the guards took it off? Okay, I know that, but do the guards then ask you, do you wish to press charges or what?
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No, in this case, because we had gone to them for the help, they charged her.
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We didn't charge her at all. They automatically took a case against her.
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Do you have to attend court for a matter like this?
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No.
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You just heard subsequently that she was jailed.
79:38
I heard that the case was coming up and that she was going to be tried and that she had a lot of previous convictions. She was a well-known shoplifter.
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She had 74 convictions for theft previously, Tim.
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I know, I heard that afterwards. I mean, she was so fast, Neil, you wouldn't... And they had it down to a fine art.
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I mean, she swapped it, thinking they'd get away with that. At the moment she realised the gig was up.
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She made a break for the door. I was inside the counter, and by the time I got out, she was gone. All I was concerned was getting after her.
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And of course, as I said... She was sprinting as if the devil from hell was behind her. I wasn't really a devil, but I was behind her.
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Were you thinking as to what you would do if you managed to catch up with her?
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To be quite honest, Neil, all I wanted to do was catch her and get the ring back. That's all I was thinking of.
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Was it going through your head? I can't touch her. I can't restrain her. I'll be done for a while.
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None of that was going through my head. As I was running, I was looking to see, could I see a guard to wave at him?
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And by the time I realised I couldn't find her, then I saw the guard and I ran over to him and explained my situation. He came back over with me, took a description. He said, the best thing we can do is go back, have a look at the camera and see if we know her.
81:01
And is there training given to retail, particularly in high ticket items like that, that are tiny, rings, bracelets, necklaces, things like that? What staff need to be looking out for?
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Well, I suppose it's very easy to say, do this and do that. The basic thing is you take out a certain amount of pieces. You know how many you've brought out.
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And then if they want to see others, you take them back and change them for others.
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And you're at all stage, watch how many pieces you have.
81:31
Yeah, but it wouldn't work if there wasn't two of them. One to be trying it on and the other to distract the shop assistant.
81:39
Yeah, but then you know when you look at that, if there's four there instead of five, there's one missing.
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You have to be on top of your game though.
81:49
Did you see the bracelet there after falling down? Is it on the ground there near you? Because it's much better from our point of view that they hand it back.
82:01
Has that happened? I mean, I don't know how much you can divulge, but have you caught people trying to shoplift? Yes, yes. E o game é up.
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Você deve se lembrar, eu estou 70 next ano, e eu estou indo para a longa tempo, certo? Eu tenho certeza que há alguns que eu tenho caído sobre o anos.
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Mas há alguns que você tem que irá com isso, Timothy?
82:26
Bom, um, eu chasedo até o bottom do Wise's Hill, muito, muito, muito anos atrás. Ele tinha um, ele tinha um, ele tinha um, eu não sei, 50 quid.
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e de repente realized he was more or less trapped and I had him and he turned and came to me and pulled out a knife and I suddenly realized the change wasn't worth risking my life for so he got away
82:53
That was the right call, incidentally. That was the right call. Because, well, at the same time, you know, you live in, you work in the city, of course, and have met for many decades, and you try and help people as best you can. What about the fact that this woman, Margaret Foley, 39-year-old, lives in the Simon community, has a lot of issues in her life? I won't go into the details of those, but has her challenges.
83:16
I feel sorry of her because I could see that she was troubled even after we caught her. You know, I mean... I don't know, her reasoning, maybe just to sell and get money for drugs or whatever, I don't know. But I mean, you know, one must be human and accept that people have problems But you don't want people stealing from you either, you know?
83:39
No, you don't. No, you have a business to run. I get that. And you do it quite well and have for many years. That's an interesting one I have to say because shoplifting is a major issue in the city.
83:49
I know a particular store not that far from me where they're driven crazy. They have three exits and they catch someone stealing some alcohol and they take the alcohol off them and escort them from the premises. And by the time they go back in, about 10 minutes later, they're back in the door.
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It's a nightmare. It's a headache. It certainly is.
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Having said all of that, I have to say the city... They have got really fantastic help put to us.
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Well, the foot patrols make a huge difference, but I was just going to make the point that the city is looking really well. There's a lot of construction going on, I know that, but the Morrisons Quay area is just glorious with the work they did there. The planter boxes are lovely. I had some friends in town last night and they said the city was absolutely buzzing. They were in for an event in Rossini and it was hammered. Oliver Plunkett Street, all of the people were drinking outdoors. They were using the outside area. It was just wonderful to see. They had friends down from Dublin who said... And as well, the flowers... Excuse me.
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They look terrific.
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The flowers they've done outside Brown Thomas and outside the Savoy and the plans they have for the other ones are absolutely gorgeous.
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They make the city look beautiful. Let's get on with it. Let's get on with it. Mind yourself, Tim. It's good to catch up. Appreciate it. Take care of yourself. All the best. Tim Keane at Michel. He was the man serving during that event that led to the Circuit Criminal Court Conviction of Margaret Foley, a year in jail for theft. Text 0868104106. Can I also please give a big, huge shout out to two very loyal listeners to this here radio programme, Brita and Jim on Gardner's Hill. They've been listening to us for many, many years. And I know that yesterday you had some lovely things to say about the show yesterday.
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I want to thank you for that. And thanks for your continued support. And thanks for your loyal listening. That's what it's all about.
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A big shout out and a good morning and thanks for listening to Brida and Jim up on beautiful Gardner's Hill. Text 0868104106. Pick up the phone on 0818104106 after the break.
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Incident in Pierce Road, Balafihan last night, everyone, including the guards, know who these individuals are, but everyone is afraid of them, says Dee in Blarney. That car was seen driving around Balafihan-Toker about an hour before the eventual crash. It was speeding through areas with pedestrians and small housing estates and kids out playing. . . . .
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P.S. Soft Parenting is for soft kids.
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Well, there you have it. Soft Parenting, soft kids. Or prisons, well, soft parenting, violent kids, aggressive kids, bullying kids, criminality involving kids. Our prisons are full. These people will get lie sentences anyway if they're caught. The only way that things will get any better is to replicate what's happening in the UK, leaving prisoners out early. Now, that is a real big, bizarre bone of contention because Burnham has said that he will continue to allow people who are in jail for murder, manslaughter and killing ...to continue to avail of early release... ...but not rapists and paedophiles... ...which is kind of weird... ...you would think that they would all be told... ...you've got to serve your sentence full stop.
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What happened last night was absolute carnage... ...there's clearly a drug problem in the city... ...and de Gardaí can't manage to get a handle on it... ...as a resident of Clarks Road... ...for me it's very worrying... ...a house firebombed on the road recently... ...which was also drug related... There seems to be absolutely no reassurance for the general public that they'll be safe in their community anymore. We need to see a visible guard of presence, especially around the beautiful Balofihan Park, where there have been incidents of drug dealing and people openly injecting themselves. Now, here's an interesting thought.
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I mean, if it's known to authorities that somebody is living in a house and is engaging in drug dealing, or has been found guilty of drug offences and things like that, they should be evicted from the community. Full stop. They should just get their marching orders.
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Why are we so touchy-feely about that kind of an aspect? And also, can I just say earlier on in conversation, I think it might have been with Donna Galera, I think I said letter bombing when I meant to say petrol bombing. My apologies for that.
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Ah, yes, indeedy. Be part of the conversation in the Neil Prendival Show with Elevate Credit Union. Friendships and missing people, you know, and, you know, things that get people to bond with others. Spoke yesterday with Dr. Richard Hogan on that. Lovely text regarding that. I just love Dr. Richard and his no-nonsense, very down-to-earth advice and approach on life. I also love his podcast with Dr. Keira Kelly. It was great to hear him on your show this morning. That's from yesterday's programme. And friendships, you know, and how we... We need to work at friendships. I'm not going to revisit yesterday's programme.
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If you're listening, you know what I've been talking about. But one aspect of it was that people have a fear of things, right? And one of the fears I mentioned on the air yesterday was going to a school reunion because you feel as if you would be a disappointment. And everybody... I don't know how true this is, that you go to a school reunion and you have schoolmates who are trying to big up and trying to just... They brag, right? And maybe they genuinely have had great success in their life, made huge money, married a supermodel, had a great job, drive a great car, big huge house...
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Loads of holidays. And you're competing to an extent. I'm not so sure if that's going to happen with poor old Eddie from McCroom who says we have our 40th year school reunion coming this October from Balancholic Community School. This will be interesting, says Eddie from McCroom. Well, I would love to hear, Ed, as to how it goes for you after the 40th school reunion. Was there a 30th? Was there a 20th? Was there a 10th? The 40th one. Will you start to see numbers seriously dwindle off at the 40th?
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Maybe not everybody is still above ground.
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It could be below ground or in an urn or two. But interesting to see how that one goes for you. So do come back. Text 0868104106 for all of the business. Seriously, though, on the issues involving the Wild West and the dark web. And I don't mean the dark web itself, like the web now and all different aspects of it. This is a real kind of dark, sinister place. I spoke to Mick Moran about that. My son went through something similar about three years ago. We're talking about a sextortion. When he was 19 years of age, he came to me in tears after sharing an image.
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My advice to him was simple. Just block them on all platforms and start with your Instagram. That's exactly what he did. And that was the end of it. I told him, if they share it, they share it. But by blocking them, they couldn't access his contacts through Instagram anymore.
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And that gave him instant relief. Everything turned out fine in the end. And you know, that could well be a mantra for life. And I hope that it really is the case that everything works out in the end. And what will be, will be. But I have to say a couple of things in that regard. Well done to your son that had the courage and the bravery to come to you and say, what happened? Having shared an image. And in fairness, you didn't overreact. Você não disse, se eles compartilharam, eles compartilharam.
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E aí . . . .
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I hope this gets to you while the segment is still on air and that you get to read it out.
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Well, I have done and I say good luck to you if you have children and good luck to you if you're able to impose that kind of ban up to the age of 16 or 17. And you know what? Things are never as they would appear to be. You know, the sextortion that terrified your friends, you were able to trace back to some individual possibly making decent or very good money. . . .
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Get involved, text 0868104106. And to some extent it can be great because you could rekindle old friendships, people who had gone there merry well. Isn't it amazing the amount of people that we would have known over the years who were still, say for instance, in Cork and never left, but you haven't seen them in decades and decades. Um...
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I mean, you could go further. I mean, not that I would want to be upsetting the apple tart or anything like that, but you could rekindle some old boyfriends and old girlfriends, or they could be looking at you saying, oh my God, he didn't age very well.
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Mind you, you could say the same about them also, I suppose. Anyway, text 0868104106. Sandra, good morning.
95:02
Good morning Neil. Just a comment there about it's coming from the parents.
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Time and time again people say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and the kids are as bad as the parents were before them and that the parents aren't parenting their kids.
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This is a load of rubbish because I have a load of young adults and I wear them on myself. They know right from wrong and they do know when they're doing wrong and they do know when they're doing right and also Se eles fizeram isso, eles vão ter responsabilidade para isso e eles vão ser punidos para isso. E eu vou dizer, é isso uma maneira de fazer isso mais fácil para o juiz e o law?
95:42
Ou vamos colocar tudo para a família? Tem algo que está acontecendo aqui.
95:45
Mas isso é tudo em o rei. Você só tem que ter o rei, certo?
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Olha, não, não de nós não temos que ter kids para fazer o rei ou errado. É as simples como isso. Esse dia e age é um jogo. Eles estão muito fora para eles. Eles estão dirigindo agora de 11, 12 e 13. Eles sabem como ter controle de um carro. Agora, os lugares que a guarda deve estar em são os lugares de build-up, estates, estates, backstreet, These kids are too cute. They're too clever. They know where to go. They know where the guards are. I'm not against guards.
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Yes, I'm very happy to see Patrick Street has been after improving with a few months or a year, whatever. But you can't hammer it. What is needed here is law. Because if I went without my tax, I'm fined.
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I'm in court. I get penalty points if I'm on the phone. Right, we need to come down on that and we need to throw this over to this.
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Porque as pessoas estão lá, literalmente, chegando às 6 horas cada dia para trabalhar, E o dano é um esses pessoas que estão causando esse dano. Vocês têm que ir para o seu insurso? Eu sei, eu sei.
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Eles estão trabalhando e eles estão tentando colocar um roof sobre o seu head, mas eles compartilharam a housing estates com outras pessoas que não vão trabalhar e têm um roof sobre o seu head. E eles têm no respeito, por não ter Deus, nem a lei, nem a lei, nem a lei, nem a lei, nem a lei, nem a lei.
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A lot of the time, a greatly reduced rent. They never want to work, some of them. They're complete scroungers. They don't really give a damn about what the kids are doing or where they are. I'm sorry now, Sandra, but that is a fact. And we need to sit up and acknowledge it, that there are parents out there that don't give a damn and they're rearing kids and they were perhaps rearing themselves by another generation of give me everything I'm entitled to parents who never gave a damn either. I'm sorry now, but it's the truth.
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É verdade, mas isso não vem apenas de homens. Isso pode acontecer de famílias também. Isso pode acontecer de homens onde eles tinham tudo e não eram feliz em sua vida e eles decidiram fazer isso. Você sabe o que eu quero dizer? True. True. No, no, no. It doesn't only come from low background families. I mean, there's a kid out there today that could have had everything in his life, but he was sad. He was happy. Their parents weren't there for him. Yes, true.
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No, you're very right to pick me up on that. You're 100% right in that regard. I shouldn't generalise as much as I do. But it doesn't come back. It doesn't in any way... Sim, sim.
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Ok, hoje há muito opções para eles. Eles sabem que a garrafa não pode tocar eles. Eles sabem que a parentes estão envolvidos com a tuxa, certo? Descansar, drop a juvenil, drop all of that. Você summou-se à court, você vai ser feito. Get a centre, lock them up, get them into something, in a centre, as in, like... Where they train, become something. They're getting slapped on the wrist. It's a competition today. It's a competition with the lads today. I've done better New Year's. Can you do that?
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But time after time, we're talking about two different topics of conversation, both yesterday morning and this morning. The individuals are known to Gardaí. Where they live is known to Gardaí. Their families are known to Gardaí. Their parents are known to Gardaí. They're very much known, deemed to be untouchable, a lot of them. And they just seem to be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want. And it's intergenerational amongst them. So, like, we kind of know that there are issues in society that can be traced back to...
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. . . .
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E eu acho que, no final do dia, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, não, O que é isso?
100:51
Why is that tolerated? Why would there be a drug feud going on where people are going down to a particular house knowing that a drug dealer should be living there? What's he doing in the house in the first place?
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Why isn't he just evicted and given to people on a housing list who would be down on bended knees with gratitude to get a home?
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But where is the guards? Where is the housing after?
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They need to be there as well, full force. You can't have guards in every street corner. You can't. It's a societal issue.
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Yes, but they're needed there. The army's needed there. If they want, they can do this. Sometimes they can overlook it and just pretend it's not happening. And fear is where there's other people being punished for this. It's not fair. They need to put up the socks. They need to get together. They need people that are sick of it. People won't walk out the street anymore. And it's a laugh and a joke. Whereas the day has gone that if you took a bag of sweets, you get time for it.
101:54
Você não sabe o que as pessoas têm que viver hoje.
101:57
Nós precisamos de ser um crime em cada forma, em todos os aspectos, e colocar todos os estrangeiros juntos em uma política de uma política de uma política de uma política de uma política de uma política de uma política de uma política de uma política de uma política de um país.
102:07
Exatamente, e o medo, o medo deve ser puto entre esses pessoas, porque eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo, eles estão rindo.
102:20
Ok, thank you for that, apreciado Sandra, e isso vai ficar pior, porque obviamente nós vivemos em um sociedade onde nós somos multiculturales agora, e há um monte de diferentes ethnicidades, e isso é, em termos, causando problemas com relação ao fevereiro. e inter-race issues, e que vai ser inter-criminal-race aspectos a isso, e vai ser inter-criminal-race aspectos a isso, e feuding e territorial wars. Eu estou dizendo que é o jeito que acontece, e não vai ser diferente aqui. Porque o law ha permitido teenage thugs para ficar away com tudo, eles continuam a pensar que eles são above o law.
102:53
Eu vejo teenagers shoplifting em deals cada dia. É o mesmo jovem, as brazen as podem ser, time e time again. . . . . . . .
103:17
This incident involved the two brothers being attacked sickens me. I have three sons and a daughter and I'll tell you, if this involved my sons, my husband would be out there looking for those responsible. And I can tell you nothing I'd say would ever stop him. These teens need a wake-up call, a serious one, no amount of talking to them or warnings from the Gardaí or juvenile liaison officers or community policing will make a blind bit of difference to them or their so-called parents for that matter. These boys will be traumatised after that attack and my heart is broken for them.
103:49
Don't even know them, but I feel so very angry. This city, this county and this country are no longer safe places. Yeah, well, we could make it safe.
103:59
The city that we love. It was a girl attacked by her boyfriend in a local bar in the city centre on Saturday evening. Her boyfriend beat her to a pulp in the bar. Only for a few men intervening, the girl would be dead. Don't give up my details for obvious reasons. I know no more about that attack. I don't know where. I don't know the bar. I don't know what part of the city or the suburbs that was from. But in broad daylight, some people just gets the rage. The red mist descends. I don't know. You know. I just don't understand it.
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You know, you wonder you hear about stories like that. You wonder whether there were substances involved as well. Could well be. Anyway, text 0868104106.
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104:47
E aí E aí There are entire lists of things that do or do not belong in the fridge.
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And from that then to what does or does not belong on the side of the road or indeed in a disc parking area of our beautiful city, right? Tom!
105:44
Hi Neil, good morning. Okay, and without mentioning anybody by name, I know that there is, you're talking about a tyre company that puts big, massive truck tyres or lorry tyres or wheels or tyres out onto the parking spaces overnight. Is that the vibe, yeah?
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Yeah, so Neil, more later, I had to visit someone in the Massey hospital last week.
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As you know, running around the Mercy Hospital parking is a nightmare.
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So I parked in the car park in Paul Street and I ran to the hospital. Visited a person, blah, blah, blah. And they were staying in overnight. So I had to get a night bag. So I said I'd come back in at 6 o'clock, half of 6. I didn't get back in until about 7 o'clock. And I said, you know, I'll find a spot. But when I got there, the tyre company had six or eight tyres in disc parking. Now even though the disc parking is on the night, They're massive tires.
106:39
How did you even... Did you roll them? You couldn't lift them.
107:04
No, I rolled them out of the way.
107:06
Four of them?
107:07
There was two, four, six, six tires I moved. But the point they're making there, like Neil, is that first of all, it's kind of littering in one sense. They're putting tires out overnight. There's also a car and a trailer there. But I'm more concerned about the disc parking area. So they're holding up four car spaces during the day by these tires that Nova can pull in and park there. And they're trading business out of it then as well. So I moved them that night. Now, the man couldn't move them. The man was in his 70s or 80s.
107:38
I just moved the motor and he tanked me. Now, my hands were filthy, but I didn't care. Do you know what I mean? I didn't care.
107:46
OK, so here's my understanding of what you're describing is that there is disc parking on that street, right? On Henry Street. On Henry Street. And at the close of business, just very near the Mercy Hospital, they roll out and they place tyres, big tyres, truck tyres, on the space of the parking space, one, two, three, four spaces, to keep them safe overnight so that in the morning nobody will have parked there and they'll be able to take the tyres away and use those four spaces for customers wanting puncture repairs or new tyres fitted.
108:22
It is, but it's during the day as well. So if you went to go and visit someone in the hospital today and you want to, you've taxed in your car and you pay insurance and you want to park . . .
108:48
I don't know how Cox City Council are letting them get away. Are they leaving tires out the other night? They had a fire hazard, first of all. Something could have happened to them. I don't know.
108:57
But how else are they supposed to do business? Their business is cars and wheels. Where are the cars supposed to be kept waiting before they can get them into the workshop to put new tires on them? They don't have a parking area. They're trapped.
109:10
I understand that. But when people are going to visit people in the hospital...
109:14
Do you know what I mean? Like, you're looking to park your car to go in and visit someone that's sick, and you can't because you're meant to have tractor tyres out on the road? I don't know, like. How's he getting away with it?
109:28
You can't put a parking fine on a tractor tyre, so you can't.
109:31
I mean, what do you... Who do you find, like? Do you know what I mean? I don't know. I just...
109:40
It's just, look, I suppose last week when I needed to get into the hospital and I saw this, I just saw Ren, I goes, how is he getting away with this? How is this happening here? Like, if you parked your car there and you were 10 minutes over parking and your disc ran out, by God...
109:55
No, I get the heebie-jeebies because there are traffic wardens everywhere.
110:02
They're everywhere, but yes, there's someone turns a blind eye to this down there. I get it, Kenny, during the day. I do. I do get it. But at night when people are struggling to get into the hospital and to park and to get in and visit someone, they shouldn't be there. Like, their business is closed at 6 or 7 o'clock. The tyres should be taken away and people should be parked, left parked there.
110:24
I mean, it's not... OK, because that's not private property. This is a disc zone parking area.
110:30
A disc zone parking area. Well...
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policed by the parking attendants and Cork City Council.
110:38
Did you get on to the Environment Department? Because we will do that. I think Seamus may have already. I don't know.
110:45
What? I got on to City Hall and asked them. They said they'd look into it. Was I on particularly about the spaces in Henry Street? I said, I am. And she goes, well, we had a couple of calls. Well, sorry. He said we had a couple of calls already about that. E ele diz, ok, vamos olhar para isso.
111:02
Bem, eu acho que, para ser honesto e honesto e fair com todos, a lei deveria ser imposto a todos os caros, ou, de fato, caros offensivos. Eles deveriam não ser selectivos sobre isso, para ser honesto.
111:16
Eles deveriam. Eu geto, John, de Deus, não me engano. Eu geto, John, de Deus. Eles são a business, eles são anos, mas eles deveriam tomar os caros de noite. So people can visit sick ones in the hospital.
111:30
And how many spaces... Yeah, good point. But you see, if they don't do it at night and they go to work in the morning, the spaces will be taken up by other people and they won't be able to conduct their tyre business, I suppose.
111:41
Six and one, half a dozen and only, like, you know what I mean? So your disc parking is only there for an hour and a half. So regardless, someone has to move over that spot. In an hour and a half's time, do you know what I mean?
111:52
Well, if you're blocking up spaces during parking hours, paid parking hours, then you should be paying accordingly for it, right?
112:02
Yeah, especially if you're taxing your car, like...
112:05
No, I'm saying, if you're putting tyres there, you shouldn't have a free pass, really.
112:11
Oh, exactly. I get it, yeah.
112:13
How many spaces do you think?
112:15
I reckon it would fit about four or five, definitely four or five cars in the areas that they have locked off.
112:21
And it has been that way for a long time.
112:24
Do you know what, Neil? It's only when you have to visit someone in the hospital and you're struggling to get in and they're looking for a night bag and you're saying, I said I'd be there for seven o'clock. And you're looking around and looking at at least four or five spaces on my left. E a man said to me Jesus I wish I could move him as well and I moved him for him and the two of us went into the Mercedes and we came out with a hammer in an hour.
112:48
Let's see what the City Hall Environment Department say to us because they certainly have said to you that they're aware of it they've had other calls as well but the law is there for everybody not to be selective about who or should not abide by parking restrictions and laws I get what you're saying and thanks for it Tom appreciate it. It's all about it. Thanks. Okay, watch this space and we'll come back to it. At the same time, I mean, I understand that the law is the law and parking is parking and you should pay and you shouldn't be restricting places like that and it's there for everybody. But I got to bear in mind, I got to be cognizant with regards to a business as well.
113:20
So I'm kind of, us the Americans would say, kind of slightly conflicted about it at the same time, as annoyed as notarists would be to see it. You got to look at it maybe through the eyes of a business that's there trying to conduct a business with no spaces and they're kind of trapped there.
113:34
Eu não sei. Eu não tenho uma resposta para isso. Talvez você tenha. Texto 0868-104-106. Pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico-pico.
114:03
Anyway, listen, text 0868104106. Oh, wouldn't you know it, the Minister are talking about things going into what belongs in the fridge and what doesn't belong in the fridge. In come the voice notes in nice little eggy boxes.
114:15
Well, to be fair, I think you should keep eggs at room temperature and you have to take into account that when you're going to your old or little, the general room temperature, it'll be lower than it will be in your home. So I'd say keeping them in the fridge in your home is probably the right thing to do.
114:32
As they say, if you don't buy it from a fridge, don't put it in the fridge, right? So what would you or wouldn't you put into the fridge? There are many, many different lists, which I'll come back to in a few minutes' time. Pick up the phone 0818 104 106. But anyway, I'm just cognizant of people waiting. Pat Murphy, good morning.
114:48
Good morning. OK.
114:50
I make it very brief now, Neil. I was playing... I'm in a band called the Hasband, all right? Hasband.
115:01
It has HAZ Health Action Zone.
115:04
Right? Yeah. So we were playing the old folks home on the 16th of July.
115:14
So I came home and I left me van outside the door because it was unbelievably warm. And I left the door open. I left the door. I'm laughing. I shouldn't be, but I am. I left the door open. And when I came out later on, my guitar was gone.
115:29
Oh, it was left open for a while then, was it?
115:32
Yeah. So look, I won't blame the Keith. I will blame him, but I won't blame him because I left the door open thinking that I was in the neighbourhood and that would be okay, but it wasn't.
115:45
No, you see, normally what you would expect there is somebody would call to your door and say, listen, you left your car door open, I closed it for you. Not to rob your guitar.
115:54
Exactly. Believe it or not, there was a chap A week, just a week beforehand, he came up and said, Pastor Zee, your car door is open. I said, thank you very much, but I said, it's so warm, and it's in the neighbourhood, surely, to be safe. That was the car door I was having to get the loan of. But when I left the van open, thinking that could be okay, and the guitar was taken. Now, all the masconilers put the walls around. The guitar is very important to me.
116:27
Eu não sei, isso é meu livelihood, mas isso é parte disso. E eu já, eu já, eu já had it, eu já had it over 30 anos.
116:33
Oh, is it distinctive in any way? I mean, it could have been moved on and it could be in kind of a second-hand shop or something in the next few weeks or what have you?
116:42
And I'm after moving, I went into town and I'm after saying it to any musician I knew that I'd know. And I just said, listen, if you hear of anyone, and again... I won't press any charges. I won't do anything like that. And I'll actually give a little reward if it's a return to me. Right.
117:00
OK. OK.
117:02
Is it an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar?
117:06
It's a Fender. Fender Strat.
117:08
Oh, my God.
117:09
A Fender Stratocaster. So it's a good one. And I don't want to be broadcasting that either.
117:14
Isn't that what Gallagher played, a Fender Strat?
117:17
Well, again, anyone that wants to play a good guitar...
117:21
I have a very good friend, his name is Derek Burke. And he has a Fender Strat. They're just a special guitar.
117:29
Yeah, yeah. Ah, that's a shame. No, that's a shame. I mean, that's your pride and joy now, Pat.
117:34
It made me pride and joy. I waited years upon years to get a new guitar. And that's going back over 30 years ago. That's heartbreaking, man. I eventually got the money. And I eventually got it.
117:45
And your last gig before it was robbed was a gig for the patients in the orthopaedic, mother of God.
117:50
The old folks up in the orthopaedic. Yep. And I love doing it. I just love music. I love entertaining people.
117:58
Sometimes, man, I just give up on people. You know, they just, I mean, that's just appalling.
118:03
Yeah, you can't do that either, Neil, because you'll have to live and learn. I was caught a load of times over being kind of, let's be sociable. And sometimes it got nasty because I had to show this another side to me as well.
118:18
Yeah. Well, you see the good in people, but sometimes that gets battered out of me doing the job that I do. I see opportunists, somebody walking past there. They don't know the story of the Fender. They don't know you. They don't know how hard you worked to get it and saved up for it. It's a masterpiece that you pride and joy.
118:34
Have you a picture of it?
118:36
I tell you now, I was asked that. I don't even want to give a picture of it. I have it. That's with me. I want to get the world around whoever have it, just to hand it back, please.
118:48
Alright, okay, okay.
118:50
And I don't want to be begging of, but I'm asking because I did wait a long, long time to get something out of it.
118:56
No questions asked, you just want it back, or any information to its recovery, a small reward.
119:01
And I give it a little reward before I come to work.
119:04
Ok, fingers crossed and I hope that that happens, that somebody will have a pang of conscience if they have it. At the same time, check all of the different shops that sell second-hand gear.
119:15
I certainly will, bye. Alright, bye.
119:16
Stay in touch if you hear anything.
119:18
I will. And I'm afraid that my credit run out. The battery got low. So listen, thank you very much.
119:24
Lovely talking to you, Pat. You're one of life's gentlemen. I hope you get your guitar back.
119:27
And take care. And we do plenty of charity work for people who need gigs done for nothing. We do things for nothing, more or less. Just because I love the music so much, you know?
119:38
When was that? When was it, Rob? Are you saying it was around about the 16th of July, was it?
119:44
The 16th of July. Okay. We hang on to date because
119:48
16 de july on fair hill outside his house listen lovely chatting with you i hope the next time we speak pat we'll have good news to report fingers crossed i know i'm more than happy to help you you seem like a really really nice lovely fella nice generous kind-hearted man who gives of his time and gets robbed by somebody who just god damn it can't mind their own business and do the right thing . . . . .
120:35
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121:00
E os Bloody Magnus.
121:08
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121:34
The people supposedly running the country have their priorities all wrong and they've ignored people's cries for years. I agree with that. Bigger prisons, more efficient court systems. Let's face it, law and order is completely broken down. So keep them coming. Text 0868 104 106. Pick up the phone on 0818 104 106. There are still a lot of other texts on different topics. Remember we were talking about vetting yesterday and the delays involving that? A big, big response to that. And I will come back to the text on that. Não, não. Então, como o meta-glasses help você?
122:32
Bom, quando você põe ele, você vê, quando você põe ele, você diz, você diz, o que está em frente? E ele vai te dizer o que está em cima. Ele vai te dizer onde está em cima. Ele vai te dizer onde está em cima. Ele vai te dizer, se você tem uma letra, ele vai te dizer a letra para você.
122:55
Ok, então quando eles come up com tecnologia assim, é revolucionário em muitas maneiras.
123:01
Now, I was wondering this morning, do they ever look at the negative consequences of creating something like that? I don't think they do, but the positives are amazing for somebody like you. You can get it to read a room for you.
123:17
Yeah. Literally.
123:20
You can hook it. There was a lad in Germany a couple of months ago. He ran the Marathon.
123:28
Yeah.
123:30
Is he blind?
123:32
With the glasses on? With the glasses on. He did it in four hours, I'd like, you know, but that's crazy, right?
123:40
So if you're running a marathon like that when you're blind, it tells you how to stay between the ditches, if you like?
123:48
Literally what happens is they say, I ring you and you've got a WhatsApp on your phone. Yeah. So I ring your WhatsApp number. You look at your phone. And whatever I'm looking at, you can see on your phone. So if I'm up in the hospital and I want to get from the front door of the hospital to the dialysis unit,
124:18
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124:43
It's life changing then, isn't it? It's really cool, man. I wouldn't like that. It is really cool.
124:51
I'm delighted it gave you a new lease of life in that regard. That guy you're talking about, the British blind runner, is a fella called Clark Reynolds. He completed the Brighton Marathon using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and he has the Be My Eyes app and he did it in April. He's blind, ran the entire marathon.
125:08
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
125:10
And are you sightless from birth, Gerry?
125:15
No. No, I'm only been about six or seven years.
125:20
Yeah, yeah.
125:22
Slowly, but... I woke up one morning and it was completely black, like, you know.
125:30
What a shock.
125:31
Yeah, yeah, it was.
125:35
Yeah.
125:35
Trying to get around the house, like...
125:39
Jesus, how do you adjust to something like that?
125:43
You just have to.
125:47
Yeah, I remember, I think we chatted about that incidentally some years back, right? I remember the conversation.
125:53
I'm right, aren't I?
125:55
Because you had other complications besides sight, didn't you?
125:59
Yeah, I'm in a wheelchair and stuff, yeah.
126:03
You have kids, haven't you? Or at least a daughter, I think, am I right? Yeah, darling. I remember. Your conversation with me last time was absolutely inspiring that you see the positives in things rather than wallowing in the negativity and what you have.
126:19
Yeah, you can't really do it. I know. If you do, you win as I doubt this, lad.
126:27
I think you're an amazing guy. You inspired an awful lot of people then and you continue to do so now. Because I complain about the simplest and stupidest things. Do you know what I mean? Ridiculous things. They just get on my goat. But yet all of these things can happen to you and you power on as best you can trying to stay as positive as you can. It's a lesson to all of us.
126:48
There's so many people out there, man. You just gotta keep your fingers crossed that you run into them. Like,
126:57
Not quite literally though, Gerry. Not with the glasses. You won't run into it.
127:01
You could go around with the glasses. I'm delighted. There's a girl in CIL showering. You know what I mean? She would be like the head of my career.
127:19
e ela é muito boa, ela é muito boa, ela é muito boa, ela é muito boa, ela é muito boa, ela é muito boa.
127:44
You're joking me. Go get yourself an electric wheelchair. I couldn't push it for what? How many? 26 miles?
127:48
I'd have to do a driving test.
127:56
Whatever you set your mind to, I'm sure you'll achieve it. Stay in touch, Gerry, alright? Take care, my brother. Take care. He's got his meta glasses. Blind man. He can go anywhere he wants. Speaking of going anywhere you want, there's a lot happening on Leaside between the 12th and the 16th of August. I'm just giving you forewarning now, right? Because I'm going to be giving away some really terrific, fabulous giveaways for Cork and a Fork next week. But what Can we expect around our beautiful city? Well, Niamh Murphy is the festival manager of Cork and Forks and she knows all. It's a Cork City Council festival yet again this year and why not?
128:28
Niamh!
128:30
Hi, Neil. How are you? Thanks for having me on.
128:31
I don't even know where to start, actually. Dining experiences, trails, tours, demos, workshops. Take your pick.
128:38
Absolutely. We have over 150 events taking place over the week, which is amazing.
128:44
The entire food community, to be honest, has got behind it this year. You know, it's built year on year. We're going into our fifth year now, Neil, and we've gone from 30 in year one to 150 events this year. And I guess...
128:58
One of the best things is that Cork City Council really wanted to put a focus on free events and family events. So nearly half the programme is free for people to come in and just enjoy the festival without even having to put a penny in their pockets over the weekend.
129:13
So you've got family orientated activity as well, don't you? Lots of hands-on classes and demos and talks and food trail. I mean, what a city for food trails. Don't even start me on that.
129:25
Absolutely. I mean, Cork can own the food story nationally and we can say that proudly. You know, we have the most producers in the entire country. We have the highest percentage per capita of Michelin star chefs. Really innovative producers. . . .
130:02
Absolutely, so corkinoforkfest.ie is the website. It's hosted on the Cork City Council website and you can kind of go in and you can search then per category whether you want to go to a dining event, full disclosure, some of those are already booked out so I'd say get booking straight away on them. You can book trails and tours there or you can see the free program or there's also a family category so you can see all the great things for families. Like what's really exciting this year is over the weekend, we're bringing Bishop Lucy Park to life as the Super Value Family Zone.
130:37
And there's going to be a gorgeous teepee in there where kids can go in and do free cooking demos and talks. E há também free tastings e samplins. E aí nós temos a cooking demo marquee no Grand Parade com cooking demos cada hora. É sendo hostilado por... The McKennas estão fazendo o Sunday event, e o Saturday event estão sendo hostilado por Joe McNamee e Kate Ryan. E aí você pode ir e ver loads de chefes. E aí nós temos também...
131:03
E aí
131:24
That's interesting actually because, okay, we talk a lot about different aspects of food and what have you, but it's broader than that. It's also coffee, it's beer, it's cocktails, it's barbecues, it's cheese and cheese produce. I mean, it's very, very broad. I mean, like you could pick a day really and just set aside a day or two and just go wandering with an event guide.
131:47
Sim, e você vai poder pegar os event guides ao longo da cidade. Mas, Cork é a casa de milho, cheio e honey. Nós falamos isso muito. Então, não é só a comida. Então, você pode ir para a cidade.
132:02
and just wander around. Another great event happening actually next Friday, so we're talking about Friday week obviously, is the Elizabeth Fort Market and we have live fire cooking demos up there with Samuel McKenna, which will be really good and that's all free. People can go up, wander around the market up there and there's play there for kids and you can also watch the live fire cooking demos up there. So yeah, there's loads happening around.
132:26
It kicks off next Wednesday and runs right across the weekend, right?
132:30
Yeah, that's it, right across the weekend. Like some of the headline events, if you want me to tell people about some of those.
132:36
Go for it, just briefly, because I'd be mad keen to talk to you again early next week, just to tear up some more. But go on, just some of the headliners.
132:44
Yeah, no worries at all. Well, the VQ share table on McCartan Street, the 500 people in the middle of McCartan Street is sold out, so that's gone, unfortunately.
132:52
Beating 500 people all at once. I have no idea how they do that, but anyway.
132:57
It's a collaboration between 20 chefs and 40 waitstaff, can you believe?
133:02
Imagine 20 chefs all getting on with each other. That's amazing in itself.
133:07
E eles estão organizados por a VQ área no McCurton Street. Mas se vocês gostam de gostar de gostar de gostar de gostar de gostar de gostar de gostar de gostar de gostar de gostar.
133:28
And then on Sunday, there's the Pembroke Street table on Pembroke Street, where all the restaurants on Pembroke Street are coming together and people can sit out on Pembroke Street there. So that's a gorgeous one as well for 108 people. But yeah, there's loads of events still available, but limited tickets on those kind of headline ones.
133:45
We'll update again Tuesday or Wednesday if that works for you and you have all right.
133:49
Brilliant. Thanks Neil for the support. Talk to you then.
133:51
Take care. Okay. Fingers crossed that everything will work out well. It does every year but it gets bigger and bigger every year so there are more and more challenges to make sure everything goes well. Starts next Wednesday. I'll tell you more about it next week and we'll have some fab absolutely fabulous giveaways for Cork and a Fork next week in general. Have a good day. Keira Evans is here next. Apparently she's got chances for you to win €100 with HP Ice Cream. Keep the money. Give me the ice cream baby. Have a good day. I'll see you tomorrow.
