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1:00It is astounding. And I think firstly, everybody will want to know where the static cameras are. So listen up now. If you're in cancels, Kilkenny and Carlow this morning. Listen carefully. So one of them is on the N25 at Glenmore in County Kilkenny and is the other is on the N80 and County Carlo. And it's quite astounding because these two speed cameras account for about 70% of all detections and fines issued across the country. And that do you know how much those fines have come to almost 12 million apparently, which is an astounding amount to them. I mean, these that there should be an award given out at a national level to the hard work that these speed cameras are doing for the extracur. And they're just sitting there static. Absolutely. But like an obviously local politicians have picked up on this. I think it came, it came from one politician and protected. Absolutely. So it came from George Lawler, a Labour to D for Wexford. And he submitted this parliamentary question, which brought back all this really quite quite amazing information. So if you want the figures, basically these two cameras result they they find

2:04they manage to bring about these fines for almost 75,000 fines, almost 75,000 fines. And that's in just over a year. And one of them I was reading is a particularly sneaky one. So it's catching you as you're coming from 100 into an 80. So you're slowing down and you might have got quite a way you should have been. But it's catching you every time. So they're saying that it's very close to the area where the speed limit changes. So a lot of people apparently are being fined and getting penalty points for going say like 87 K when it's in an 80 K zone. So it goes from 100 K down to 80 K. And the speed camera is very close to that transition zone. And also apparently locals are saying that there are very inadequate signage to warn people about that they need to slow down. You know, so they're saying it's not fair. Fish and a barrel is what it is. They need to probably address that. I would have thought is that after all we've gone through the idea of sending scans abroad to be reviewed or tests going abroad to be reviewed

3:06that we were facing it out and we were going to get rid of it. And the paper this morning tells us that not the case and it's causing more concern. It is absolutely. I think unfortunately a lot of people will will remember that we had big problems but that are in the cervical cancer scandal. And now again we're seeing this is a report from the Irish Times. It's actually very interesting. And they have found that a radiologist who was contracted to work in this kind of like third party company which the HSE would outsource the reading of some scans to that he had actually been been struck off his medical license had been revoked in both Norway and Sweden. But he still had a license in the UK. So he was working through this company, this radiologist who was reading scans for this company which the HSE was outsourcing some work to. So the reason why his license was revoked also was because he misread a number of scans. So that's obviously extremely concerning. And I think the situation is being looked at at the moment but it's scary

4:07that this stuff is still kind of slipping through. Yes, we would have thought that we'd gotten rid of a lot of that. Pierce Morgan, you wouldn't have a huge amount of sympathy for Pierce Morgan as a rule. He's well able to mind his corner. And we were talking about Eros Spencer's book yesterday with Jenny Bond. But there's a bit of a clanger in it and he is going to have to fix it, isn't he? He is and he actually already has, I think, he's already issued a some kind of a statement apologizing, I suppose, for getting it wrong. So basically what he said was, you know there was all this controversy about him saying that the king had basically said that nobody would remember Diana essentially after horrifying death. But then he also said that Pierce Morgan, who, as you said, is no shrinking violet at all, that he was a big newspaper editor in the UK. And there were these photos that were taken by hidden cameras of Princess Diana in a leopard print leotard in the gym and were published in, I think it was the daily mirror at the time. And Eros Spencer said that Pierce Morgan was responsible for this. But Pierce Morgan subsequently came out and said, hey, I wasn't even the editor.

5:10Yeah, he was the editor of the time. I was the son. So basically he's proving essentially by that that he was not responsible for those photos. So I think Eros Spencer has come out and said that he apologized for that inaccuracy. But yeah, it's another, another scandal. But I suppose the more we talk about these books, the more they're going to post. Yeah, 100%. He's going to change the second, the second printer on May have a mild correction. But that's about it. Now I'm putting a large flashing globe going here. If you are listening to this and you haven't seen the final episode of the Tracers and you are worried about any spoilers, spoiler alert. We will now be talking about the final season of the Tracers. And I was entertaining. Don't get me wrong. I watched it. Didn't see last night. Now just watched a little bit of it this morning. Kind of physical. There was no big kind of murder in the dance floor and slaying castle. Wasn't it? Well, I absolutely disagree. I'm actually a friend of Diego's. Oh, there you go. Okay. And I think it was absolutely brilliant. I've never been so glued to a TV series ever.

6:11I was amazed by him for a play. And also, I thought when he turned on poro go at the end, that that was really quite a standing. Like he was saying the whole time that he was, you know, absolutely on his side. And he was going to go with him to the very end. And then in that final, you know, by the fire push, when he said, actually, I think you're a traitor. I thought that was quite a moment and quite a standing. And I really enjoyed it. And you know what? At the press conference, sorry for most was Karla having survived. She was amazing. The entire run of the program and got to the very end of it. And then was kind of thrown out to the kind of a droulats and she lost. I know. I did feel sorry for her as well. I mean, she did remarkably well. And even she said to herself that she was astounded how well she did and how she managed to stay in. And I thought she was going to bring that money home. I mean, look, as a form at a clearly workshiv, I'm actually absolutely brilliant. The numbers were good, which is all that R.T. will care about. The people stayed with it and they did watch it.

7:12It was the difficult second album though, wasn't it? I mean, it was very hard to build on what went before. And I already did look in the series three. So R.T. here, 40 commission to this. Absolutely. I think it still has good ratings, doesn't it? And like I think people are still loving it. Obviously, I'm a bit biased. Because I know. Did he tell you? Did he tell you? No, but I was actually out with him and Dennis, the Saturday night before it started. But Dennis got a fetch out of her to the season. By the way, I just guess you had to say that. And they were saying, oh, I can't wait to watch the traitors. And it was like, okay, I'll watch it. I guess if you're that into it, they're like, you have to watch it. So I tuned into it on Sunday. And I was like, that's why they wanted me to watch it. They're in it. Yeah, I wish it was the price button at the end. It was really 45k, I think. Wasn't it something like that? Yeah, more than 40. 20, 22 and a half each. Of course, the big question, of course, is our tea going to do what the BBC have done very successfully and have a celebrity traitors? And more importantly, who are we going to put into the celebrity traitors? I vote for you, Jonathan. No, I want to Ivan Yates there.

8:13I do. Because nobody will cause more disruption in chaos than Ivan Yates would. That's actually a great part. In that scenario, I think we should definitely put him in there. Let us know who you want to see in the celebrity traitors. Oh, it's 7,400. One of six this morning. I don't think I qualify for celebrity, but okay. You do. I take the regular one. But anyway, congratulations to your friend Diego. At least thank you so much for coming into talk. So is this morning on NewsTalk Breakfast. NewsTalk Breakfast with Anton Savage. In association with air. Weekday mornings at 7. NewsTalk. Conversation that counts.