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A pierce rolled letter candy. When the hunger hits, pull into Charlie's. Thank you for your company this morning. I'm going to hand you over to Greg. Greg, paint the picture? Paint the picture. Well, we're sitting in absolute darkness here, Lee. Yeah, there's not a Marie besides us. She's using her phone. I mean, it is pitch black in here at the moment. It is. Because the power's off across letter candy. It's across all over the place, isn't it? Like it's off, so in so many places it's hard to keep track of. He did a good job last night, all updates on the thing. Do you know a lot of praise for you coming out? Oh, right now. Sure look at this. Did you get any sleep? Not much now. I'm not going to lie to you. I didn't get much sleep. But anyway, we're here to keep the people company. Yes. That's what we're going to do over the next wee while. So literally, quite literally, folks, by Lee, thank you very much indeed. Pleasure, Greg. Have a lovely one. You too. Literally by the power of a torch, we now have the news headlines. And it's over to Donna Marie Daherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Around 42,000 firms and businesses are without power this morning in Donegal after storm Asia brought down trees and power lines overnight. The red and orange wind warnings are now over, but yellow alerts remain in place for Counties Donegal, Claire, Lytrum, Galway, Mayo and Sligo. Brian Tappley from the ESB says hundreds of extra engineers have been contracted to help with restoration efforts. Donegal County Council has been urged to carry out urgent repairs on the Toronto Road, which has been beset by flooding, particularly in recent months. Councilors John O'Donnell and Michael McBride both had motions before letter Kenny Milford Municipal District to highlight the issue. Officials told the meeting some works have been carried out on the road already with another application in place for climate adaptation funding in 2024. It's also proposed that a section of this road will be included in the 2024 restoration improvement program. It's been claimed there's a sharp decline in speeding enforcement with figures showing a 33% drop in the number of fines issued on Donegal's roads over the past 10 years that compares to a national drop of 27% into Representative Mary T. Sweeney says figures released to her party leader, Pater Tobin, in the Dull show that in 2014, 4,744 fixed penalty notice were issued in Donegal. Last year the figure was 3,107 days. Ms. Sweeney says this correlates to the drop in numbers of Guardi assigned to roads policing teams across the country. And finally the government intends to safeguard access to cash. Finance Minister Michael McGrath will bring proposals to Cabinet tomorrow to ensure there's reasonable access to cash at ATMs across the country. The national payment strategy will also be revised to provide a right for pay for certain goods and services with cash. The issue had headlines last year when the entity operator announced it would no longer accept cash payments, a decision that was later reversed. That's all for now until 10 o'clock. The county's number one talk show, the 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a very good morning to you. It is three minutes past nine on this Monday, January the 22nd. January the 22nd. I can't believe it's January the 22nd. You're very welcome along to another week of the 9 till noon show. And what a weekend it was. Storm Isha, Storm Isha. I've heard it pronounced in different ways in different places. It really gave us a battering across the Northwest, didn't it? We're sitting up here in the mountain top and quite literally we are in darkness here. Our generator is about to kick in very shortly. We do have backup power, but for those of you watching our live stream, I'm not going to bore you by you forcing you to watch me via candlelight. We will be back up and running as we always are very, very shortly. But just to give you an idea and right across the region, power is out, trees are down, some roads are blocked, but amazing work already underway by ESB crews out there trying to get things up and running. People out and about clearing trees, but please still be very cautious of the fallen wires. If you want to keep us updated with what's happening on, I think a lot of us, and I was amongst them, woke up this morning and you know, didn't sleep fantastic to be honest, but woke up this morning and you just don't know if you're route to school or you're route to work or you're route to go and care for someone is open. So if there's any information out there that you want us to pass on to other people, please get in touch with us right now, 08 660 25000 and we'll get that information across. Now, we are our infrastructure here in terms of our aerials and what have you, means that some of our signals aren't working over the air, but we are still available online and of course, if you're listening to me now, you know that well, but if there's anyone close to you, they can still listen. If they want to stay up to date through our website through the likes of tuning or indeed they can watch the show here on 08, on 08 660 on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland or on Facebook and we should have lights back on here very shortly. So via torchlight, let's have a look at what's making the front of the newspapers today starting with the Dairy People Donegal News. Cleanup operations are underway throughout Donegal today as a result of storm Isha or Isha. A status yellow warning for wind remains in place until midday after extremely strong and destructive gusts tore through Donegal leaving many households as a result. Gales force winds accompanied by heavy rain brought challenging conditions, especially to motorists. Very strong winds resulted in fallen trees and difficult travelling conditions and it just became really clear early on yesterday some people had to try and get home but unnecessary travel really a no go. The Dairy News this morning, a protest highlighted in the number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7th was held on Saturday. The protest took place outside BBC Radio Foil according to Catherine Hotten, chair of the Dairy branch of Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. The protest was also to challenge the BBC on its coverage of genocide in Gaza. On to the Irish Times now this morning and a government appointed expert group has said the state could and should do a lot more to allay fears about the arrival of asylum seekers including avoiding last minute engagement with communities where it's planned new accommodations. So it's hard to imagine isn't it that an expert group has been appointed by the government to tell them really what everyone should have known from the beginning and what we've been talking about and so on and so forth. Well the report by the state's expert advisory group on ending direct provision also argues that all asylum seekers should receive decision on their application within three to six months with medium times for a first decision currently about one year. The report which was submitted to Minister for Integration Roderick O'Gorman last week and is expected to be published this week is understood to warn that local communities need to be engaged much earlier in the process. On to the Irish Daily Mail this morning. Excuse me. I thought you couldn't sneeze live on air. Excuse me, please. I was under the impression that there's this myth going around that you couldn't sneeze. I've never sneezed before in the radio. There you go. On to the Irish Daily Mail isn't it? Yes, the murder or the family of murdered French filmmaker Sophie Tuscon the plantier have admitted they may never know the truth about her brutal murder in the wake of suspect Ian Bailey's death yesterday. Her family made the comments after hearing the news of the sudden death of Bailey the chief suspect in her murder 28 years ago outside her holiday home in Westcourt. Bailey, who's 66, collapsed on the street in the market in Bantry yesterday afternoon where he sold pizza, knickknacks and poetry that he wrote himself. Guardian emergency services rushed to the scene of where the Englishman fell to the ground and paramedics worked for 20 minutes in a bid to revive him. It's understood that he suffered a heart attack but no post-mortem examination is expected. Bailey had been renting a small flat in the town and there's much more on that story in the papers. Let's go to the Irish star. Ian Bailey's notoriety grew later in his life after he became the subject of two documentaries investigating the death of Sophie Tuscon the plantier. Six-time Oscar nominated director Jim Sheridan worked with Mr. Bailey on his smat it sky series murder at the cottage. Although I found both documentaries really didn't add an awful lot to the whole situation and also to sometimes you feel that the actual victim of these crimes Sophie Tuscon the plantier he's forgotten to some extent. Well then Mr. Bailey was subject of a second Netflix documentary, Sophie a Murder in Westcourt which Mr. Bailey did not take part in but it was furious with their depiction of him after it was claimed he washed a black coat in a bucket at his home the day after the French filmmakers murder. Speaking about the documentary, he told the star at the time, I haven't watched it, I don't intend to watch it. Okay, let's go on to the to the Irish independent now and a bit of an embarrassment here for Bossaire and perhaps Bossaire has admitted deficiencies in its electric bus service and I've flown with service curtailed because their batteries ebb in cold weather. Independent TD Michael Fitzgerald or Fitz Morris, I beg your pardon is using the new information to rail against Transport Minister Raymond Ryan and his green agenda. In response to queries from the Irish independent Bossaire and said we are currently in a period of colder weather conditions which will have an impact on electric vehicles similar to passenger cars particularly on batteries and range. Some of the curtailments were unavoidable however we're now assessing how the management and performance of the bosses and schedules can be optimised to minimise these impacts as I say, a little bit embarrassing and pardon my stutterings at all if I happen to because I'm quite literally reading the papers here down to torchlight because the power is off here at mountaintop and we're working to get it back on on this premises in any case. A proposal for a charge of up to 15 euro a month on broadband bills to replace the 160 euro a year TV licence fee requires very serious consideration that Thonister has said. Now this is quite flying here so now is your chance to have your say what do you think about that? They want to get rid of the TV licence because very few people pay it or sorry, much fewer people pay it than they did in the past and there's quite a resistance to it and how it's spent and where it's going so they're going to start lumping it on your broadband bills and the broadband's 35 now that would be 50 but it's 60 now that would be 75 and so on and so forth the digital levy could replace the outdated licence fee with households being charged directly for the use of services that allow people to access media online but a government source told the Irish son the proposal touted over the weekend could throw up a number of problems including how to exempt pensioners and low-income families being no precedents to study so it's the first time it's been done perhaps no coincidence it's the first time that it has been done but you wonder too and I'd say for instance Mr Oliver Callen Callen, I actually really quite like him I like the work he does I think his satire actually sometimes is quite more detailed than some of the news that you watch he has now been appointed to take over from Ryan Topperty which is an excellent slot and this is a congratulations to him and I wish him all the success in that but a 150,000 euro per year how is that salary justified was he offered 60, was he offered 70, was he offered 80 did he say no I need 150 Ryan Topperty is doing three hours a week or three hours a day in England for 90,000 pounds three hours a day so you've got Oliver doing a third of the work in Ireland and getting paid an additional what 40,000 euro a year so where is the change in RTE or the change that RTE committed to there's still as I say was he offered 90 was he offered 100, was he offered 50 you know what I mean it's kind of a nothing's really changing situation and then to ensure that those wages and other high earners are paid you're going to be obliged to pay 15 pounds a month on top of your broadband that's what the proposal is what do you think 086625,000 is what's up in text or call 0749125,000 learning to say no is one of the best bits of advice women could tell themselves if they could go back in time if you boys or girls if you could give yourself one piece of advice let's say if you were 15 what piece of advice would you give yourself 086625,000 what would you tell your teenage self having learned through life share it with us but anyway being yourself becoming more confident and looking after your health are among the valuable life lessons too they also include to stop caring what others think and to prioritize friends over romantic pictures good advice but I think the stages in life isn't there whereby you think that everyone you know really cares what you do what you know you think they really care what you're at or whatever and then I think as you get older you realize they don't but that does take time sorry those in the poll of 2,000 females said they would like their younger selves to have more fun and go to more holidays they also gave a beauty tip to leave their eyebrows alone okay 086625,000 what advice would you give yourself also don't be afraid to please in fact we encourage you to keep us updated with any road closures that's still happening any trees that are down any services that are off today any electrical cable