 Priya's Paul McGinley for his vision to make the Kite a golfing destination. The second Irish legend's golf tour presented by the McGinley Foundation gets underway today at the Rossapena Hotel in Dining and will see thousands flock to the area. The festival of golf is taking place this weekend also to coincide with the event. At a civic reception held yesterday to award the golfer the freedom of donning goal, he talked about how the Kite being recognized as a golfing destination would positively impact job prospects and the economic development of donning goal. John McLaughlin says Mr McGinley's vision aligns perfectly with the council's goals. A Bunkrana football club says the threat of danger posed by wanton vandalism is not acceptable. On Sunday morning, ahead of an under-11s final, coaches at Bunkrana Hearts FC discovered broken glass bottles and beer cans strewn across the pitch in Castle Park. Mark McLaughlin's secretary of Bunkrana Hearts FC says the consequences are unthinkable. There are deep issues with onboard planala which the government must address according to Green Party TD. It's after a report examining alleged conflicts of interest by the then deputy chair Paul Hyde was handed over to the director of public prosecutions. Minister Dara O'Brien confirmed last night that the report has now been handed to Garde, the Standards and Public Office Commission and the DPP on the advice of the Attorney General. They now decide whether to publish that report and Green TD Nessa Horrigan says even a redacted publication must be made in a timely manner. For weather night, dry but rather cloudy this morning with well-scattered light shards and limited at sunny spells, highest temperatures of 15 or 16 degrees. That's all from Hynan Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. 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We've had plenty coming up on the show to keep you informed, entertained, stick with us, community guard information with the latest appeals and information from ungodly Shia Khanna coming up just after the 10 o'clock news with another chance for you to enter our great spec savers, hearing competition, and so much more besides. Keep us busy on the phone lines as you did yesterday, please. 08-660-25000, WhatsApps and texts to have your say as the morning progresses or to raise your issue. Tell us a story. You can call us to an 07-491-25000. We are literally waiting for your calls. Your emails coming to us at comments at hylandradio.com. And if you want to watch the show, just as if it were a TV show, you can go on to our YouTube channel, Hyland Radio Island, on our Facebook pages on Twitter, or you can watch in your browser on our website hylandradio.com. Say hello and stay in touch with us there. Let's run through the newspapers. This morning we'll start with the Derry Journal. And the grateful family of a young Derry boy who was saved after getting into difficulty at Caldough Beach, have highlighted the dangers of rip current. Six-year-old David Moore and his friends were in the shallow part of the water up to their knees on Wednesday afternoon when the bowl they were playing with floated out. Young David went after it and the water was just up to his waist when he got caught in the rip current, sometimes called a riptide, and was pulled under water. His terrified mother, Sarah, had been sprinting down to her son to tell him not to venture out any further when she saw him disappear. And thankfully he was rescued and is pictured on the front of the paper. You can read more of that story there today. The Donegal People's Press, when a couple found themselves expecting their first child, little could they have imagined the difficult road that lay ahead and the difference a helping hand would make. Now two years later, the efforts to give something back have been met with phenomenal support from the people of Donegal. Maria Ward and Keith McGee are proud parents of Fian. To date, they're a fundraiser for the National Maternity Hospital and for Hughes House, an organisation that supports families of critically ill children, has raised more than 21,000 euro, and there's still more money coming in. On to the nationals now in the Irish Times. Their report on former Ball Plenale, a deputy chair, sent to DPP. And this is a story that a lot of people that would have had issues with or concerns over on Ball Plenale over the years, they may feel that this story is of indicating them to some extent, though that being said, it's important to point out that at this point, only accusations are out there at the moment. Nothing has been proven. But anyway, the operations of on Ball Plenale are set to be overhauled after a Barrister's report on the planning bodies former Deputy Chair Paul Hyde was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Guardian. In an attempt to boost public confidence in the planning board, it'll be required to submit monthly reports on corporate governance to Minister for Housing Dara O'Brien. Mr Hyde resigned in July after denying claims he was conflicted in some planning cases and of impropriety in his legal declarations to the planning board. He declined to comment last night. As the Minister referred the report to Senior Counsel Remy Farrell to prosecutors, he said a separate planning board review will examine further allegations of wrongdoing, but did not elaborate any further. And it's going to be human that any persons out there who believed there was question marks over a decision by on Ball Plenale, one that had a probably a life changing impact on their lives, they're going to question. There's going to be questions now, more questions than may have been there before. Well, Mr O'Brien, that's the Minister said he wants to publish the Farrell report, but must first hear from DPP Catherine Pierce. As long as it's a report that is published, they're not too quick to publish planning reports, are they? I've asked the DPP for reviews on whether there are any parts of the report which should not be published at this time, while the possibility of a criminal prosecution is under consideration, the Minister said. Sounds very familiar, that type of commentary on a report. I think you'll understand what I'm referencing. Also, The Irish Times has some figures on road traffic collisions involving scooters. I don't think they're, I don't think they like scooters to be honest with you, because normally any reports that are published, it's annual reports, isn't it? You compare one year to the next. So you say, well, this was the situation in 2019, 2021 and 2022. And you sort of see where there is a trend. What they've decided to do is group all e-scooter involved collisions over two and a half years into one big bowl, which is not really the long thing. But anyway, there have been, Guardi have recorded at least 1,373 traffic incidents involving e-scooters, including 440 collisions in the past two and a half years. Some 269 e-scooters have been seized by Guardi in the same period. The figures come as work continues in government and legislation to regulate e-scooter use. Between the start of this year and the end of July, there were 453 e-scooter traffic instances, which compared to 640 for all of 2021 and 280 for all of 2020. More than two thirds of the e-scooter traffic instances, 67% were recorded in the Dublin region. Do we see many e-scooters around? Donegal, are they a concern? 08, 660, 25,000. I presume, I don't live in the town. I presume towns might be more of an issue. I don't see them too much on my travels, to be honest. But what do you think of e-scooters? 08, 660, 25,000. Let me see. They'll read both of the stories there. I did. Aren't the Irish independent now? And surging price rises are hitting the spending power of older people like a tsunami and are set to force many of them to go without essentials like food, heating, transport and medical costs. Advocacy group age action has warned. It said someone on the full-rate contributory state pension of 250 euro, 30 cent a week, will face a cumulative 589 euro loss of spending power this year, with the greatest impact on spending likely to occur in the second half of this year. It's calling for a 23 euro rise in the state pension in budget 2023. Age action said many who rely on the state pension as their core income have the least capacity to make up for the lost income because they have a fixed income. It's probably just enough and as everything rises, you know, you can't take blood from a stone. Are you affected by this? I know it's when we talk of our finances, it's a personal issue and I wouldn't want to ask anyone to do something they don't want to do. But if you are perhaps an older person on the pension, have you noticed already the difference in the cost of living? How has it affected you? If you want to help give us an insight and maybe in some way or other that might feed into a government decision who is to say. But if you are living on the pension and you're an older person, have you already noticed the difference? Have you been able to make some changes to absorb inflationary increases? How concerned are you for the winter ahead? Get in touch with us. If you want to call Caroline 07491 25,000 or if you WhatsApp or text it's 08660 25,000 help to give the general population maybe an insight into the reality. Let's see what's in the Irish Daily Mail. It's covered in all of the papers today. It's the very sad story of the death of Miriam Burns and she's pictured in the paper. It looks like a very happy nice lady. A murder investigation is to be launched after an elderly woman as she's described. I'm not comfortable with that phrase, but after a woman was found dead at her home, the town of Calarney, County Kerry has been left in total disbelief after a well-known Miriam Burns who's 77 was found with fatal injuries at her property in Ard Shanay Vulley yesterday. Neighbours in the normally quiet housing estate made the discovery at around 1.15 p.m. and noticed a substantial amount of blood coming from the woman's head. They also saw bruising on Ms. Burns' arms. A security source told the Irish Daily Mail that a person of interest is currently being pursued by a guard. It's understood the male in his forties is known to the victim and the guard. I know on the wider scale of things it's not important, but twice in the start of that article it referred to that lady as elderly and as a pensioner and she was a sprightly 77-year-old who may have lived for many years, but her life was very tragically and brutally by the sounds of it taken away from her. On to the Irish Sun now and I know because I'm contacted by people and I know people who know people that long COVID is affecting a lot of people out there. How many? I'm not quite sure of course. There are some figures in the papers today which I'm going to reference, but there are people who got COVID a year ago, 18 months ago whatever and their life is still like getting out of bed. They might be cleared to go to work or they might be back looking after their role, never stop looking after their children or whatever it might be or they might have work manual labor and they are struggling to get out of bed. That's the impact you can have. I mean if you've got a long COVID story that you wish to share with us again, 07491-25000, it is kind of I think and it reminds me a little bit about like Lyme's disease. There's quite a number of people affected by it, but it's quite hidden. So if you want to explain to us your story please get in contact with us and of course we'll deal with it with great sensitivity. But we read today that long COVID could cripple the health service with up to 336,000 people suffering from the condition across the country, a TD is claimed, and independent Dennis Nockden called on the government to treat the surgeon patient still suffering from the virus more than 12 weeks on with the same urgency as the initial infections. This comes as the country began its roll out of second boosters from pregnant women and people over 60 yesterday and it's interesting to note, we will be speaking to that TD later by the way, but it's interesting to note that in Britain they've approved a new vaccine which has been adapted to deal with new strains and they're going to start rolling that out to their population soon yet we still hear are offering people the very first vaccine. And I remember questioning Dr Dennis McCauley and others about four, six weeks ago, wondering is it too soon to be going with this vaccine when if we wait as we head into the winter, there might be an adapted one for those who wanted, but they have progressed as they've progressed, but anyway, they're doing it different in Britain it seems. The Irish Daily Mirror, the three year backlog to examine digital devices which contain child abuse imagery is a critical weakness for Guardi reporters found. This to me is unacceptable because I fear that it stops or slows down people being found guilty and punished severely for this awful, awful crime, one of the worst crimes there is, if not the worst and also maybe stopping children being abused. The policing authority warned of its enduring concern at the continuing backlog to electronic devices following the seizure of items. It said this has an impact on the timelines of inquiries, the potential identification of victims and the journey of victims through the criminal justice system. The body warned the backlog has the potential to have considerable impact on investigations and individual victims and suspects. It added the increasing number of devices seized is a challenge to the Guardi shiokana as it is to police services worldwide despite reported increases in productivity in terms of triage and analyzing of devices. The backlog remains. Now I know this might sound populist but yesterday Guardi started putting on their new uniforms for the first time and an awful lot of money was spent on that and arguably rightly so. I hope I'm not conflating the issues but spend that money on employing more people or more expectees to go through these phones to protect children and to get people who should be imprisoned in prison as quickly as possible. Finally the Irish Daily Star today just one in five football I think this is a British server you know I think we might be a little bit different over here but I'm open to correction 08 660 25,000 see what you think just one in five football fans admit they ditched their team if their partner issued them with it's them or me uh ultimatum this is focusing on premiership teams so in other words fellas and women uh if their partner said look you're gonna have to stop watching Manchester United although it's hard to watch Manchester United of course but they might say you have to watch it's either me you either it's all me stop watching Manchester United you can't have both one in five would ditch their partner and stick with the team. A poll of 2,000 fans found that 19% would abandon their favourite Premier League team if their partner threatened to turn off love. The study found that Southampton fans were the most likely to ditch their beloved Saints if their partner demanded it 32% of their fans said they would bow down to the other half among the most famous Saints fans are musicians Craig David and politician Rishi Sunak as well as model Lucy Pinder so percentage of fans who would ditch their team for their partner a third for Southampton 28% Aston Villa 27 for Wolves more popular teams man United 17% would ditch their team for their partner and so on Liverpool 15% Liverpool having a bad start to the season as well aren't they right okay that's it 08 60 25 000 the WhatsApp line for anyone who's interested in commenting uh shall we give you an early run through of our competition today let's what did you did I do like yesterday I think it was okay now we have a lovely competition for you running this week it's free for you to enter of course it's uh tickets to christy more live in Donegal this September and a 400 euro voucher uh for the great northern hotel in bundor and so it's spec saver hearing they're aware of course of all the fun people missed out on over the last couple of years so this week spec savers hearing is helping to bring back some of the sounds you missed most like concerts if the 60s and 70 songs about memories of your heyday uh then we've got some more to make you or take you down memory lane this week thanks to spec savers hearing so we're offering you the chance to win those tickets to christy more in the hotel voucher spec savers hearing have expert audiologists available in your local spec savers store if you're concerned about your hearing you can book a free hearing test using your prsi entitlements and spec savers hearing will arrange a hearing aid uniquely tailored to you right so today we're going to play you a snippet from a hit from the 60s or 70s along with a piece of uh a movie a piece of news and we're inviting you to let us know the year which all three came from so let's have a listen okay so in there we have uh a bit of tom jones there the first ever hot transplant taking place okay do you know the year text the year plus your name and where you're from what's up with either to 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 what's up with text to that now of course maybe you uh don't text we will accept your calls as well of course 07 491 25 000 if that suits you better uh it's free to enter of course and uh a goodie bag will be given to the daily winner the daily winner goes into uh the draw drum finula's draw drum is busy so we'll use a hat um the daily winners go into the hat and one of you on friday will win um christy more tickets for donna go on september and a 400 euro hotel voucher let's have a listen to this again i want to say one word to you just one word yes sir the world's first heart transplant has been performed medical history has been made in south africa the old hometown looks the same the film in there is pretty interesting i wonder if any of you can pick out the lyrics from that just for a bit of fun what film was that from that's uh separate to that but anyway you can write it on your text if you know because i think it would be interesting if you could pick it out all right let's take a break as we line up our first uh guest for you the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letter kenny the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account in this week's ortee guide it's all coming up roses as we talk to dahio shea on his return to truly and meet the 2022 hopefuls will house of the dragon be the next game of thrones we find out plus grab your coat as we check out the hottest trends this autumn all in our fashion and beauty special everything and more ortee guide on sale now it's the right price tiles and wood flooring 70 off sale get up to 70 off on all your purchases up to 70 of all tiles all 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right up to senior level and often it's a small group of people as well that have to work really really hard just wanton destruction there and also boncraner hearts fc have found themselves having to post a public message on social media because of an instant on their grounds mark mcgloughlin is secretary of boncraner hearts football club and he joins us on the program now again mark good to chat to you but it's crazy that we're having to speak about something like this in this day and age isn't it mark people say i'm i'm Greg that um i have to speak to you in spain morning about um wanting destruction of amdlism and very hard to see but they're very sad to hear what happened up in convo as well it's it's so disappointing um on sunday morning we had uh we had number 11 b final and just before we were in the unusual pitch preparation we found three boxes of smashed bottles and shredded glass um vodka bottles boomers bottles smashed all over the playing fields which was so very very sad to see in this day and age yeah and we all know what the consequences of that would be i think we've all dropped a glass in the kitchen or somewhere haven't we mark and you're on your hands and knees trying to get every little last shard up because of course it could cause really really serious injury so i can't imagine the amount of work it took for you guys to to feel that you had the pitch cleared safe enough to let the young ones on it oh it was really it was really really disheartening and we went up but as you you mentioned to yourself if you drop the glass in the kitchen the small small storage charge of glass if every parent knows the dangers of the glass the glass but it's such much more dangerous when it's in and hidden underneath cut short cut glass because it's hidden and and we we spent hours um picking up small small pieces the real hello mark are you there i think we've lost the line to mark there yep we might reconnect if that's okay caroline uh it's an important message and i get mark back on there uh 08 660 25 000 uh if you want to get in touch now towards the end of the program by the way uh those of you that are heading to downings to the rosa penna golf course to watch the championship proams uh you wanted to know what time it started at well it got underway early this morning 7 30 a.m the celebrity proams which will be an interest uh to a lot of people out there that starts at 12 20 if you're going along don't forget uh young ones under 16s are free and it's a 10-year-old donation and all that money goes into palma guinley's uh um his foundation and all that money that's raised in dunagore will be spent in dunagore sorry mark we lost you there uh you were saying about no you were going around having to to gather up all the bits of glass yeah and the small shadow grass through the through the cut grass is impossible to see so you're doing you're literally in your hands and knees picking up the small pieces like sheriff's razors you know so like if that wasn't uh seen or detected the damage could have been terrible you know the young children because under 11s finals or a league decided so the young kids from 10 and 11 playing you know so it was really really um disappointing to see that when i heard it this morning you know maybe i go straight to worst-case scenario in my head but i was thinking of some young person going in for a slide tackle and you know uh getting a cut in the thigh near one of their veins or something i mean the consequences could be really really severe or the severe the consequence of someone went in because it was right at the corner at the sideline where there would tend to be slide tackles and defenders would try and and put the ball out you know so um we just really urge people to stop this drinking and stop smashing the destruction of bottles especially in public public areas like we've spent as you know in the glass year with the development fund gathering money from the community for the children of the community to make this facility better and then to see this uh in the morning of a match is so disheartening and great i know it really isn't it's it is it sounds like something everyone says but it does feel like an attack on the whole club the community you know what i mean it's not just isolated to one it's it affects everybody so what do you think is happening here are the bottles being dumped there or are people gathering there to drink and then uh just smashing bottles mark when the our top pitch has just been redeveloped we spent tens of thousands developing our top pitch it's a perfect surface at the moment but it's just needs six weeks at the moment to uh to be to be correct for the season so it's it's kind of a nice clean area to drink like an area so the children or the kids teenagers seem to be gathered at the corner end of the the football pitch drinking their their carried bottles and then because our pitches are tiered the higher pitches up maybe uh two meters from the lower pitch so they tend to do is they seem to but i think they're doing is throwing the bottles from the top pitch off a wall which divides the bottom pitch and they smash them off the wall and that is bringing it on to the lower playing fields the one that we're using at the minute so that seems to be what they're doing they're gathering there at that corner yeah i mean that's just whatever about gathering smashing the bottles is just completely and utterly pointless i suppose look we don't know we don't know the age of those involved but you know i presume parents and guardians maybe need to double check that their young ones even if they're 18 or 19 aren't involved in this kind of activity because it's probably in their local community maybe i don't know well there have to be if they're if they're drinking and they're coming it's people that know the area so it has to be people it's local but like you know we don't just have anyone having fun but like bonkran as you know greg is one of the most beautiful parts of donnie galliff not ireland and we had such beautiful weather for that full week so like there's so many things that children could do than rather sit at the corner of a football pitch that's been developed and smash bottles onto grass just to just to make it dangerous for children to play really yeah it was just it was the worst type of anti social behavior and so so dangerous if it wasn't detected yeah now this may die out with the weather it may die out with the end of summer but that being said it's been taken very very seriously the club is taking it seriously and on goddess you cannot have been made aware of it too oh yes i spoke down right over in the garter station about it and plans have been put in place um so that there's going to be detection from and goddess you cannot do that area on at the the key drink in times of the weekends um to stop this anti social behavior because it's not it's an area for the community we we spend heartless hours and time and money and the community gives so generously all the time um for us to develop this until one of the key play in people's in the county and for this to happen is so um so disappointing so hopefully this um with with highlighting your shelf break and thanks for taking the call today um we'll highlight the fact and hopefully parents be more aware of what the teenagers are at and you know hopefully we'll put a stop there may be possible that they that people involved do not realize the consequences of their actions in other words maybe they might hear this maybe the radios on in the kitchen have come down for breakfast or whatever it is and they realize the damage that they're doing and they will stop doing it so we don't want people to end up in court or uh or things like that we want it to stop stop it and that's oh yeah we yeah yeah we wanted to stop um and if there's some people as you as you as you said there people might be aware of the consequences but having smashed glass hidden and uh playing fields for young children play and this week in particular we have over 90 children at a bunk house football camp down there so the place is a hive with young children from ages of six to 12 so it's it's frightening to think um the consequences of this if this wasn't to take it now he's moved heaven and earth to make sure there's there's no uh glass still on the pitch people are asking how did you do it i imagine it's hands and knees and just making sure it's not there it was a team of people uh hands and knees covering the area of about uh 10 or 15 square meters um and we've got three or four boxes of small glass paint uh pentons or pink empty pentons boxes of glasses and stuff um small small fragments brushed out and and literally physically down your hands and knees picking it up your fingers all right well well done to do with that for doing that you shouldn't have to and hopefully you'll not have to do it again send the message the message is going out there if people are gathering to drink in this area stop it and certainly whatever you do please stop breaking bottles there's just absolutely no need point or join it all you're doing is attacking a sports facility and as you heard there how important it is 90 young people involved which is an amazing thing that you do mark um is it it must be great to work with so many young people especially in the summer you know to see them uh running their batteries down for their moms and dads as well well that's yeah and they're going home tired and they're great you know like we've been kind of we've done a couple for all you know i mean we've done kids with additional needs um couple for them and and they're going home and everything's going into place so the those kids with even with additional needs are coming in now this week to play um there's 90 kids it's all for the community everything we do is community-based and all we ask people to do is just just let us get on with the good work that we're doing and please just stop this stop this you know it's just crazy i know what you mean mark uh listen uh points well made i hope and i feel that the the the appeal will be listened to because it's been very taken very seriously not only by the club but the guardie as well and as you've heard or as we've been hearing you know this is a facility for a lot of families and a lot of children so well done mark for what you and the rest of the crew uh boncran hearts fc are doing and as i say hopefully now uh people will hear this and the message will have been gotten through and we won't be talking about this again mark so please go on big and thanks thanks for taking the time to um highlight this it's hugely important well done mark that's mark mclaughlin the secretary of boncran hearts football club uh greg when i was 12 and early died after falling over playing soccer on a pitch in london i lifted up my hand and it was cut blood pumping out my older friend had the cop on and saved my life i still have the scar on my left hand so please someone stop this thoughtless vandalism yeah because these shards of glass can go deeper you hit a vein or even if you don't uh you know you're talking a very very serious an emergency i'm sure that anyone that was sitting there having a few drinks whatever night it was did not think that their actions could result in the very serious injury because if they did think that surely they wouldn't have done it or you'd hope they wouldn't have done it but anyway let's hope that's the end of it i'm furious for uh i'm i'm furious how do we actually clean this how will the area actually be cleaned to avoid bits of broken glass and shards posing a threat it literally hands and knees job that's what they did they've pretty much uh been crawling around picking up glass and flare play to them and i'm sure they weren't too happy in doing so but they did it right okay another text here hi greg is it time donig all banned all parking on beaches i saw on social media at the weekend that a number of cars got stranded on different beaches when the tides came in costly to them yes but also what about the environmental impact of the sea it happens if you know any beaches that are popular with uh with cars on them especially high tides is it i suppose a lot of people aren't familiar with the sea and low tides and high tides and they go there and the tide there's some very low tides this week and the tides are well out and very very quickly your cars surrounded we've all seen it we never want to be that person but is that good enough reason for environmental purposes as well to ban all parking on beaches what do you think you know there's a few obvious beaches around our beautiful county where there are designated areas for cars should proper parking be provided and the beaches be completely car-free all to the add to the atmosphere are the handy for families what do you think 08 660 25 000 might be too late 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repair company okay now um we were talking there before the break about you know potentially what could uh injure young people but sadly we're going to be speaking now to a mom whose uh young daughter was injured celeste joins us on the program now celeste thanks for uh taking the call to talk about a very difficult subject for you i'm sure good morning to you celeste thank you so much um can you tell us what happened to your daughter and when so sunday night around about nine uh my daughter was actually having a sleepover with her friend we didn't think anything like this would ever happen to her i mean we come from south africa where you have to watch your back um and i got the call from her she was in tears um telling me that something happened but she kept dropping the call i can understand why she was absolutely terrified we arrived at the scene and my daughter burst out in tears she was sore bruised and you could see the scratches on her and of course being a mom being a mama bear i went into full fight mode i wanted to now find out who this was who did this why did they do this so basically my daughter and her friends went to McDonald's to go get a meal because they were at the fancy a family event and um this was unprovoked words were exchanged between two groups but the fact is that they attacked my daughter they singled her out and attacked her and it wasn't the case that they just left her alone after that when her friends got out of that situation they then continued to follow them to the fund fair to do it again it's only when an adult was present to chase them away that they leave my daughter alone but the damage is already done they then hovered around McDonald's a bit longer until we got there then they ran so it was a sustained uh it was a sustained attack this was not uh you know momentary exchange it wasn't random it wasn't random this is the thing it it was it wasn't provoked it my daughter's not a father she will make friends with anybody and everybody that is her a race my children you love everybody no matter what okay and for my child to go through what she's gone through first of all we've had covid for two years okay she's anxious being out in the open like that she's anxious but now having this happen how how does she go forward she can't really go sleep over with her friends because she's now scared that these girls will come after her again and that's not fair that's not the luck i want for my children yeah can you talk to me move away from that laugh celeste you talked about how she was targeted uh what why would she be targeted above everyone else um did did they think she had said something or uh as there is like what why do you think she was targeted i think because my daughter was initially telling the boys that were in the background you know stopped hopping around you're gonna fall down from the poles and you're gonna crack your head open and somebody or one of the girls got or took a fence to it and saw that emily was laughing at them and emily was calling them idiots but emily was specific and unfortunately my daughter does a lot of hand gestures when she talks and she's pointing to the boys and she said i'm telling them to stop being idiots or one of the girls really offended and said are you calling us idiots and before we know it then she got it but even if she was calling the girls idiots you know it shouldn't have escalated to a full on physical assault you know i mean that's and i'm not saying she was by the way celeste but even if she had been it should you know this is not how problems are resolved and she could have been very very seriously injured can you talk to me about uh how your daughter described the attack what did they do to her one of the girls grabbed her behind the head because she's got very long hair um and i mean she grabbed on it that when they pulled her away from emily she had basically grabbed a clump of hair my daughter's got a couple of old patches on the back of her head um another another girl had grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back another girl had her in a leg lock had her head in between her legs towards the ground now emily trying to get out of the situation she'll pass she'll pass her luck she was passing for her luck she bit the girl in the leg then another girl from what i understand my daughter was telling me was gap trying to gouge her eye out this is where her face and her cheek is bruised bruised and scratched she's got scratches on her arm the bruising is scary because it's on her neck the front of her neck behind her neck her back because i threw her towards the mcdonaldsman and hard my daughter walks like a little old lady because her back is so sore she can't straighten it up and she can't bend and um yeah she's just got a lot of bruises on her legs and on her arms especially where her arm was twisted behind her back and she was held like that i mean my my daughter's tiny for her stature yeah she's smaller than what i am now there's a lot of cctv down that area i mean firstly have the gaurdy did you raise this with the the local gaurdy the local police and if so what have they said and are they going to access the cctv they've already accessed the cctv they've already got names that seems to be known to them as well um but i'm just basically asking for witnesses to come forward because the cctv footage didn't catch what happened before it can't see where where the tables are by mcdonalds it can't see beyond that have you seen the footage i have not and i would actually love to see the footage right okay oh yeah i was going to ask you would you like to see it because it's it would be very difficult to see your your child uh being treated like that are you in any way disappointed that no one intervened uh in that area i think you did talk about uh later on once the girls had uh followed her to the fun fair that an adult chased them off but a lot of people stand by and watch this happening i imagine i am disappointed but i can also understand why because these times it seems to be if anybody tries to intervene or try and help there's a repercussion to those bystanders in trying to help i mean they themselves can get harmed but the thing is that was a 15 year old a defenseless 15 year old that was getting her ass beaten okay what if it was somebody else's child what if it was even worse what what happened if they threw something at them that wasn't a milkshake it was acid or you know a weapon itself you think of all the worst case scenarios and i get that slest um i i mean obviously the the scratches will heal the bruises will fade um but i think the the the real concern here is the emotional impact this will have on your daughter in terms of her confidence in going out uh fearing that this might happen again because even if those who are responsible uh i mean what are they going to be charged with what might the punishment be she will be concerned that this might follow her around which is far too much pressure for a 15 year old to have to bear oh yes oh yes she is scared to go into town on her own mom and dad have to be with her um even though we have said you know she's going to be with her friends but they will always have to be a parent's present and that's not the last sort of 15 year old at all um she is exceptionally worried if she goes back to school that there's a family member of these assailants they she's petrified she doesn't want to go to school because she doesn't know if they're going to come after her now i would say given the publicity uh given the attention and i would hope and as well as that the school will be aware of this that would be unlikely and this will fade out but try telling that to a 15 year old because obviously they might not see that but i would hope that that's the case less do you reference the fact that you reference the fact that you left south africa where you felt you had to watch you back resident in arland believing it's it's the safer space the safer place i brought my children here for a better life because of the way things were going on in south africa i mean we've got the far murders there we've got robberies that happen in broad daylight i didn't want my kids to grow up in that life like i did i wanted them to still be children for as long as i've got them as my children and i thought coming to ireland i can my kids are going to be safe they don't have to worry about this unfortunately we've now got to worry about this again i wonder can you see this as an isolated incident or has it changed your perspective it's changed my perspective because unfortunately there are other attacks that are happening out there but they're not being reported because parents are scared that or they just don't have a faith in the system because nothing is going to be done with these teenagers they are left to do their own bidding they are left to cause chaos and maybe the teenagers know really that's you know we we apply our own maybe moral compass to other people but at the same time maybe they know there's very little can be done and they can get away with it and maybe that's part of the fun for them because yeah you'd have to imagine to do this to a person it's not the first time and they must derive some pleasure from it i mean it's you know this is a sustained attack it wasn't enough to beat her up it wasn't enough to beat her up in mcdonald's but they followed her on then to a second location yeah yeah and and the scary thing is and as a parent you think about it um what if they do this again and they actually kill a child what a then what it's too like the child's gone these assaults can turn fatal very very quickly um a smack of a head on a on a curb or on a bin just in the wrong place we just don't know when what night did this happen it was at nine p.m on saturday evening there's going to be a lot of people around this was on sunday evening okay sunday evening what time yeah uh round about nine ish okay when this incident happened um and i think you want witnesses to back up the cctv footage because maybe that could be seen as being inconclusive and you're fearful that this could pitter out it could fade from people's memories and and those responsible would not be spoken to that's it that's it they need to be held accountable and if they are old enough they should be held accountable but so should the parents because it just seems like the parents don't know where their kids are going what their kids are doing yeah okay it seems to be a theme so far on the on the program this morning listen thank you very much for your time celeste i appreciate it my best wishes to your daughter and the rest of the family because i know this affects everyone uh and hopefully uh hopefully things over the next little while will give her the confidence to know that that's not really reflective and that she is able to go out safe and uh anyway i just hope it to it it's 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shoehorned into old buildings which makes them in some cases unviable to actually restore or bring back into homes because of fire regulations part m which has to do with disabled access and also sustainability in relation to energy use and all of these need to be reviewed and made appropriate for existing buildings so in other words the if we are bringing to try and bring vacant property older property maybe tan center property uh up to current regs we need a different set of regs maybe for that property in other words maybe we have to accept that every single property that's brought back into use is not going to meet uh all of the the standards that's exactly it but unfortunately there's no gray area you know it either does or it doesn't and therefore you you need regulations that are for old buildings like there's 160 000 abandoned properties in this country and there's lots up and done a goal because when you drive around you can see it and yet what we're looking for are towns and villages to be reinvigorated but there is additional cost in doing up these buildings and that should be offset by a tax allowance on the money you spend yeah and how does this manifest itself do we see developers look at properties or commission architects and go up not no can do on to the next or look for a new building well it it isn't actually developers it's it's it's first time buyers are actually looking to own a home in the city center they have the schools there they have sustainability you go out the door you don't need the car and that's what we're all trying to achieve but yes it's easier to buy not anymore that half acre of land and build a new build yeah but what stage is other problems discovered then Hugh is it because it's too expensive or is it because the the property cannot actually be you know meat standards or you know where do the stop when when do people hit the stumbling blocks fairly early because once the engineer in he says oh you have to do this that and the other and then if say on the ground floor you want to change the use of a shop to an office or a medical or or work from home you need planning permission permission means you need a fire cert and a disabled access cert and so all of a sudden a building that is huge potential you just go no I'm not going to do that either I can't get it to meet regulations or if I do I have to compromise the building and then you have if you like the the contradiction or conundrum between between a protected structure and compliance with regulations and sometimes the two don't marry yeah and that you're making it very clear and easy for me to understand also you suggest that renovations materials for renovation should be a vat free what would be the positive impact there well I think you know it's it's quite perverse so in in the se se ai grants if you get a full grant and say it's it recognizes you spent 60 grand they give you a grant of 30 but you actually pay tax of 13 and a half percent on the 60 so the actual amount that the government are giving you is not 30 do you know what I mean the government is actually clawing back money and all the time people talk about gougers you know the developer is gouging out money the government is gouging out money and is actually stopping people being able to buy purchase and renovate buildings and that should be removed 160 000 vacant buildings what you're saying makes a lot of sense and unfortunately we don't employ sense you uh but I wish we I wish we did thank you so much for your time this morning now everyone thank you very much have a lovely day have a lovely day here okay right okay that seems like some common sense proposals from you Hugh there oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand that is the whatsapp or text line give us a call and oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand coming out after 10 we have the community guard information item and we'll also be giving you another listen to our competition where you can win tickets to see christy mooring concert and a 400 euro hotel voucher that's coming up all after the news and the bituary notices stay tuned live on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's 10 o'clock donal kavna at the highland radio news desk a bunkrana football club says the threat of danger posed by wanton vandalism is not acceptable on sunday morning ahead of an under 11's final coaches at bunkrana hearts football club discovered broken glass bottles and beer cans strewn across the pitch in castle park mark mcloachland secretary of the club says the potential consequences are unthinkable the big bottles are easily picked up but you know yourself when the glass shreds and it shatters throughout the small grass it was uh very very dangerous like the small small pieces of fine shredded glasses through the glass so we were like that early picking up small sweet fragments the whole way through the pitch i said childs led to that the the damage would have been untold elsewhere goalposts were destroyed at convoy arsonal fc over the weekend in a statement the club says it's not just destruction of property but an attack on younger club members they say it's very disappointing for everyone involved in a club that works very hard to provide football from under sixes to senior level a mother has spoken out after her daughter was allegedly attacked by a group of girls outside the mcdonald's premises in letter kenny at nine o'clock on sunday night celeste native of south africa says she brought her children here for a better life and did not expect such incidents to happen in letter kenny speaking on today's nine till noon show celeste said her daughter was fearful during the incident and has been badly affected by it she says the incident was partially captured on cctv and she's urging any witnesses to come forward to gar thee they've already accessed the cctv they've already got names but i'm just basically asking for witnesses to come forward because the cctv footage didn't catch what happened before it can't see where the tables are by mcdonald it can't see beyond that a section of the a5 is closed this morning following a serious crash the beltony road outside oma has been closed in both directions between melton road and mount joy avenue police are urging motorists to avoid the area local diversions are in place repairs are being carried out on a burst water main at melton head supplies in kinah lower brie melton head and surrounding areas are affected works should be complete by four this afternoon a traffic management plan is in place in the area the ceo of dunagore county council has praised paul mcginally for his vision in making the county a golfing destination the second irish legends golf tour presented by the mcginally foundation gets underway today at the rosa pennah hotel in darlings thousands of people are expected to flock to the area over the coming days a festival of golf will take place this weekend to coincide with the event at a civic reception held yesterday to award the golfer the freedom of dunagore he talked about how the county being recognized as a golfing destination would positively impact job prospects and the county's economic development which on mclockland says paul mcginally's vision aligns perfectly with that of dunagore county council he wants to do his best for dunagore in terms of seeing this prosper and he talked about jobs and economic development what just about golf what they use in golf is the avenue i think to develop that and it aligns perfectly with the county's goals are for uh as well as attracting more visitors from the the way that they play also aligns with our economic development and have the hubs for people coming and work coming back up and stay away longer the ceo of the hse has confirmed he'll step down in october two months earlier than planned paul read announced in june that he'd be leaving the role in december this morning he tweeted to confirm he'll step down on october third and then take annual leave until the end of the notice period a car has been seized in south dunagore a checkpoint was being carried out by gar thee in the bali shannon area yesterday morning when the observative vehicle turned away from them the vehicle was subsequently stopped it was established the driver didn't have a driving license and the car was neither taxed insured nor tested the motorist is due to appear in court and the housing minister says a report into practices at on board planola should be made public a report by senior council remie farrell has been handed over to gar thee the standards in public office commission and the director of public prosecutions it examined alleged conflicts of interest and relevant disclosures by the then deputy chair of the planning body paul hide who has since resigned minister darrow o brian says the report is of public interest and should be made public it would be a matter for the dpp obviously as to what how she decides to proceed with us but i do believe the report is of uh important public interest uh i do believe the report should be published but i obviously want to make sure the publication of the report won't in any way uh impinge upon the uh the investigation that will go on what the forecast and met here and tell us it'll be mainly dry but rather cloudy this morning some well-scuttered light showers and limited sunny spells the showers will become more isolated as the day goes on with some more sunny spells developing in the evening top temperature is today 15 or 16 degrees celsius moderate to fresh north to northeast winds strong on exposed coasts and that's highland radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock good morning the obituary notice is for this tuesday morning august the 16th the death has taken place of pat woods 40 listen afin park stroban proposing at his daughter hannah woods home 21 bracken hill stroban funeral leaving his daughter's home two more morning at 25 past nine for requiem mass in st mary's church melmite at 10 o'clock interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in leo flowers place to the foil hospice care quickly funeral directors the requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of billy flanigan 12 bell road claddy stroban proposing at his home funeral leaving his home two more morning at 25 past 11 for requiem mass in st clombas church dunny lipp at 12 noon interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in leo flowers place to new horizons care quickly funeral directors the requiem mass can be viewed live via the dunny lipp chapel youtube channel the death has taken place of john joseph collins known as sunny main street convoy remains reposing at his late residence removal from there this evening at quarter to seven going to st mary's church convoy for reception prayers and to repose overnight funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 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the bonkrana garda station sean good morning to you morning greg good to have you with us okay let's start with some appeals criminal damage in bonkrana yeah gary and bonkrana are investigating criminal damage incident which occurred in a site adjacent to the park more housing instead this incident occurred on thursday the 11th between 8 30 p.m. and 9 p.m. so the garrady and the fire services were led to a fire a portable office cabin which resulted in it being completely burned down there's also significant damage caused the three lorries located in the site with one screens and windows and smashed doors damaged along some other internal damage to the vehicles so a number of youth were seen exiting the exit and said around in around the time of the incident and went in the direction of the casserole cockle road so we'd ask if any motors were traveling those roads who may have dashcam footage or any witnesses who have any information please contact bonkrana garda station and 0749320540 that's a really significant incident isn't it it is definitely okay now in letter kenny um criminal damage being investigated yeah this occurred in the early hours of saturday morning the 13th august and the windmill view state in glencare the incident occurred sometime between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. in the state a number of stones were thrown through the front window causing damage to three separate panes of glass and the rear window of a vehicle parked in the straightway of this property was also broken so garrady appealing to any person in the windmill view state who may have witnessed anyone suspicious in the area on friday night saturday morning or who has any information contact letter kenny garady on 0749167100 or the garrady confidential lane on 1800 travel 6 travel 1 all right now a burglary in derry bank yeah garrady and derry bagger investigated in burglary which occurred sometime between friday the 12th 8 a.m. and saturday the 13th around 4 a.m. 4 p.m. sorry i was shed in the resident in the shaskin bag garrady of gedore it was broken into lock and doors forced there were a number of items that machinery stolen couldn't a quad bike generator in the welder so garrady is seeking any information in relation to this incident and ask anybody who may have served anything being removed by a trailer or large van which may have been set in the area between those states to contact mulford garrady on 07491 53060 yeah and this is another reminder i'm not saying it didn't happen in this case um to mark your items because i presume uh the the items of machinery uh as you mentioned the quad bike generator and welder they may end up being uh you know on the market really important for any of us with any items like that as i say this is not saying that that these victims didn't but to mark the items because then it makes it easier to sort of identify them and get them back to their owners absolutely you contact any of your local uh district headquarters they'll take you having those items marked well i mean that's a pretty good service okay something we all should be doing uh because and we had an appeal not so long ago garrady do recover quite a lot of stuff but then it's trying to get it back to who is the rightful owner can be a problem then as well exactly yeah it's helping identify the correct owner all right then um the boncran agar station open day is getting ever closer that's right yeah it's open day to all members of the public in boncran agar station on sunday the 21st of august this is between 2 p.m and 5 p.m so in addition to local garrady there will also be members from the garraday mounted unit the garraday dog unit water unit and arm support unit uh there will be games and activities for the children this in addition to the tour of the station and the cost area the ice cream will also be available for all the kids this promise to be a fun follow day for all the family so there will also be a sensory hour between 1 p.m and 2 p.m this is for any children with special needs or who have difficulties with flashing lights and loud noises so no lights or sayings will be used during the sour everyone is welcome and we look forward to meeting you all right sounds like it's going to be a great day that's how you enjoy it too Addis it's great to meet everyone local there and show them about show different side tears exactly yeah see all the kids it they do really have a lot of fun at it yeah gran you mentioned one time when she was on and it was a really interesting point uh is that sometimes when we try and reprimand the the young children you know five six seven year olds you know would say we'll get the guards to you or don't do that the guards will see you and um we could find ourselves them growing up with this sense of the guardie being the big bad wolf yeah uh and uh you know if that's the case maybe bring them along to an event like this and they'll see that perhaps they're not exactly uh you did what to say we all the 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tourism culinary arts and engineering visit liit.ie forward slash springboard the future is here springboard plus is co-funded by the government of ireland and the european union all right in the first hour of the program we heard from a boncran a football club who spent literally a lot of time on their hands and knees picking up shards of glass because seemingly young people were drinking in the area throwing bottles down onto the pitch and they're hosting 90 odd young players but before they could do that they had to literally get on their hands and knees and make sure all the glass was lifted tony was listening in the first hour and joins us in the second tony your reaction to that story um totally shocked uh totally shocked rig as you all know i'm involved i'm involved in football and i've probably friends and social media with every club in the county and i first i first read about convoy arsenal they're all the small goals the kids goals for underage from under 12 down were destroyed and i think that's not the first time there's been vandalism around um convoy arsenal football club maybe it's in a situation it's in but same at boncran a boncran a boncran a ranna like most people are volunteers everybody's volunteers at tony stop from the beginning and give us an insight into you know the the workings of a club the fact that people are are doing it to help the community and i think you're going to talk about uh one program that this club ran recently just to give those maybe who don't realize what goes on uh what actually does go on well and first of all and every and every every club in the county and i mean i'm i'm talking about uh the football club is one of but should it be ga clubs or athletics or any any sport um everybody's a volunteer in it there's no unless you're on a senior club but and in a local junior school boy every person is a volunteer and without volunteers as you well know you have no clubs these volunteers put in hours and hours on end to try and to try and get people uh look it's not even it's not even about sport it's really i mean i've always i've always known i was involved in a club for a long time and i've always known that you know most people that are involved in sport i know it's a sort of um what would you say it sort of keeps the guards from their doors if you if you understand what i mean when people isn't a sport as they're they're between obedience manners everything uh um don't really know the right words for it but you're saying it perfectly there's discipline there there's a sense of camaraderie there's a sense of identity when you when you meet other people and expand your friends groups you know it's all that stuff that helps grow the person and tony you made a really good point about volunteers because i think we all know someone or multiple people that every minute and they've often got children of their own they're driving ones to train in they're organizing this event that's coming up this club's coming up there's a a wee event in the summer uh for families to get together you know when you when you volunteer for one of these clubs you're all in aren't you tony it takes up an awful lot of time yeah yeah like i mean it's it's it's yeah it's probably it's probably different now to like well years ago like i mean as everybody knows i know it was probably a little bit years ago you could have seven or eight or nine in your car and that's the way it was a long time ago um now with uh chad welter and garter that and everything now it's tougher it's tougher to get people to volunteer now at anything can i grab on to a couple of words you said there because it's true yeah we did all we all did that piled into cars yeah because we didn't know any better i wonder maybe these young people haven't been involved in a club like this and they don't know any better they don't know that these posts aren't climbing frames they don't see the connection to their actions and and impact it has maybe the ones chucking the bottles down onto the pitch didn't make the connection between what they were doing and they uh and and you know the potential consequences of that so today is rather than maybe and you're not doing it you're not just jumping on on the young people maybe they need to to to join a club or on or get an understanding or understand what community is you know maybe they need to learn to know better and that's what we're trying to do maybe tony yeah no i totally agree like um you know at the end of the day it's it's the each club is open to everybody and that's where you meet that's where you meet your friends you know even you know clubs now are starting at five six years of age and other than they're well they're gonna be nice on school they're their primary school now but you know mixing with other schools in your area like i mean there's certain areas could have three or four schools and you're mixing with people from different schools and it it more or less gets friends and and everything compared to um i think everybody should join some sort of a sports club and if they're not under any kind of club should be drama you know any anything at all and it's just as you said earlier but obedience and discipline and different things it's it's um it's going to a stage now where it's really sad that every week now you see something i mean i mean i did talk about convoy and i'll talk about boncran a hearse boncran a hearse ran a program there for 10 to 12 weeks for uh for uh disability kids with disabilities and i mean that was all volunteers from boncran a hearse public club associated with the fei you know and it's really sad that they do things like this for their whole i mean this is for their whole community and then all of a sudden then uh glass of shatter on the pitch it's a kick in the teeth oh i think it's so like i mean i was listening to mark this morning right i made a comment maybe yesterday before and on the boncran page i just i mean it has the club has to be second by it and it's so so sad the amount of work that that club and every other club in the county do well let's hope that this message gets through to the ears that need to hear it tony and the the message has gotten through and i will always give uh young ones the benefit of the doubt that maybe they don't know maybe they're a little bit misguided and maybe this will be the last time it happens maybe i'm naive and there's a lot of maybes in there tony maybe i forgot to pay the bingo numbers which i did i'm going to pay them in a second but listen tony well we always we need hope i know listen i'm not having a great week this week but look thanks for that tony i'm sure the boncran and convoy clubs appreciate your support and your understanding because you understand yeah and i think that's uh that's the key part of it thanks tony have a great day yeah no bother thank you for you right bye bye thanks very much indeed my apologies to you uh the bingo 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from all her friends at nixon's corner i'm sure from all the listeners here at highland radio and by pure coincidence we've also been asked to wish joist green diva from kill mcrennan a very happy birthday 16 today happy birthday joist from all your family and friends okay let's go to our sports editor at highland radio osheen kelly who is live for us at the 2022 irish legends tour at the rosa pennah hotel and golf resort good morning to you osheen good morning uh greg right i am doing fantastic right so what's happening today because there's a couple of things going on people might be confused there's a couple of uh events running sort somewhat simultaneously and things got underway quite early this morning yeah they were up and at it uh this morning so they were greg uh just after eight o'clock uh where we have the championship pro amon as the irish legends event returns it's fantastic to have it back in the downings area it was here of course at rosa pennah the hotel and golf resort in 2021 uh we have glorious weather over the course of the four days last year but due to covid no spectators were allowed in greg so uh the event is back and uh we're allowed spectators in this year thankfully to come in and watch this event because it's uh it's one of the biggest golfing events to come to come to the county and golfing enthusiasts will no doubt be very very interested in those that are that are playing in the competition this week which starts on thursday but this is pro am day down in rosa pennah and there's two events running at the moment there is the championship pro am which started at eight o'clock so there's there are quite a few professionals who have already hit the course and then there's a number of local players uh the likes of dunagall county council fallotia ireland port sallam golf club number of teams from rosa pennah the mcginley foundation uh dunfanny golf club of a team in as well so they're playing in what's called the championship pro am and then we have the celebrity pro am which which comes up later this afternoon greg and uh again there's a host of of professionals there like paul who is hosting this event himself he's going out and and one of the teams actually alongside uh all the dunagall man and packy boner you were down yesterday at rosa pennah where it was a great day for paul we received the huge honor of the freedom of the county but yeah it's interesting mark james is a as a former rider cup captain back in 1999 jan van der veld thomas levay players like that of all one on the european tour and they're all part of the professionals who'll be taking part now we're going to host the celebrities and uh john brazen is going to be floating about here for us around the northwest and he's going to he's going to speak to a few of those so he is where there's the likes of ken dordy snooker player carol family is here we have uh brendel carol with his wife jenny and his son danny is also here so uh there's just some of the celebrities dan let's just forget you're the sports editor here not the celebrity correspondent uh that well today is about celebrities i know that you're saying who's that and other people are saying no that's your boy that's i want to mess with and the funny thing about the celebs thing which i didn't realize and we were chatting to uh uh keith from boyzone yesterday is that's like a really competitive circuit and there's a big final coming up he's already qualified because he won last year and and a lot of the iris sports stars and other celebs they take it really quite seriously because then they qualify for a final and bragging rights and all that and go to maritius so they can it's all right which which that's there's nothing there's nothing wrong with that at all you get through to the celebrity legends final and there's a lot of these celebrities that are taking it very serious uh jim gavin won this last year the dublin manager so uh he's already booked this place has he yeah he already he came up with keith duffy in the car yesterday i'm a friend of celebrities and all this stuff but you didn't know that why are you in the studio then and you're now down here uh because i'm not one of shone's favorites i don't know why we have two celebrities shone conan david james oh would you stop uh they're playing i wonder who they i wonder who they had to pay to get those slots but anyway come here so one o'clock they're playing with your body keith duffy hi of course well i warned keith but anyway so you've got that event this morning and then the the slabs out this afternoon and it's very it's a little bit like the Irish open there's plenty of parking there if you're heading towards uh the Danning's area you'll see the sign post there's different car parks uh i was corrected by paul mcginley yesterday it's not an entry fee it's a donation because all the money collected on the gate goes to the paul mcginley foundation and that's all being spent locally as well uh he really is uh very uh interested in donagall under 16s are free uh and then it's competitive rates uh for for adults as well and you know what if you've ever been to a golf tournament we're coming to the end of the summer holidays people are getting a little bit you know what can you do i think it's a it's a beautiful setting and it'll be good fun i think and it could inspire the next it'll be good fun and listen if you're about donagall you're about the Danning's area drop in it's it's not that expensive to buy a ticket at the gate um there has already been several thousand tickets pre-sales sold for this um Greg which is is fantastic but the return of that coming through the foundation as you said under the county but you never know who you'd meet this afternoon because it's very much relaxed with the celebrities and there'll be there'll be meeting fans and spectators in between the halls and yes they do take it serious but they'll also they'll also meet in great as well so it's it's a fun day to start it off but it's a very important day and it's a for the Irish legends and for for the event as well and then tomorrow Wednesday it's a it's a practice day and then we get down to the serious stuff one on Thursday right so what's happening in Thursday because now we've established what's happening today we have the early starters at 7 30 we've got the slabs going out in the afternoon and then they talk to us a little bit about the event then that kicks off on Thursday well there's three rounds for the for the legends tour which the Irish legends as part of as part of the EU legends tour uh there's they play three rounds of golf um so they've decided to have a Thursday Friday Saturday this year as opposed to Friday Saturday Sunday the last year um and these guys that are playing take it very very seriously as as we told you there's there's several men here who are coming that will see themselves as contenders Philip Price from Wales actually is is here as well he's the top ranked player on the legends tour uh this year uh we've also just scanning through some some of the players as we mentioned Barry Lane Marcus Brear uh Roger Chapman's here uh if you're into golf these will be these will be names that you're familiar with uh also in there as well as Philip Walton and uh they get the serious stuff up and running come Thursday and they'll be hoping like Thomas Bjorn who is a former writer cup captain um he of course won the title last year uh I don't think Thomas is here this year for for the competition which starts in Thursday he's definitely not here for for the proan but uh it was fantastic the way it ended last year the weather they got the grandstand finished with with the playoff and they'll be hoping for a similar finish this year but yeah these guys are taking it very very seriously so they are and uh we'll have to keep a close eye on Philip Price because he's the man he's the top ranked player at the moment in the senior's tour and he's looking to hold that through the through the course of the weekend so I can't forget about Paul as well yeah Paul's looking to put on a a good performance I would say he's got eyes on it he's played there he played that course with his father there was an interesting story from from Paul McGinley that you'd be aware of but I'm not sure all the listeners might be that he was uh you know it was a pretty serious uh GEA footballer and he had inter-county aspirations that's the one regret he has that he didn't get to play inter-county football injured his knee uh at 19 at that point he was a golf player his handicap was nine and to give you an idea of where that sat the likes of Keith Duffy and uh Brian McFadden who were playing there today Brian McFadden with family increase of course they play off around that five five or six years later he was playing on the European tour so he went from being injured and a nine handicapper at 19 five six years later he's playing tour golf and then went on to have uh you know reasonable singles success but an unbelievable uh record in terms of playing with with Pottery Harrington in team golf and of course then his success in the Ryder Cup really quite remarkable he he definitely uh excels in the team environment of it but I think that's an amazing story inspiration to anyone out there playing off eight or nine if they're in the right teams he's a great ambassador for Donegal as well Greg so is um like we he sees himself as a Donegal man he spent his life in Dublin but he spent a lot of his summers here obviously with his mother and father from from Donegal uh Mick and Julia so but he sees himself as a Donegal man and uh he's a great great ambassador for the county and for him to bounce back from that injury tells a lot tells you a lot about his character and you would see that in golf too and particularly in the team sports and the Ryder Cup what have what he achieved and and how he went about it but it's a it's a big week for Paul now it's a big week are you enjoying it what's the atmosphere like you know you're in the office all the time um people this is my office now I've actually been working here from here yeah I know what people time to enjoy it at the moment but you know you come on and do your bulletin so people don't maybe realize the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes between everything it's nice to to walk around and and breathe some fresh air uh and the atmosphere I would say is uh building there John Breslin is broadcasting from that seat uh after 12 I'm going to be in it on Friday so we want to say hello to people can't meet people can't wait to be here on Friday okay I know that doesn't really feel like you meant that uh huh I'd add Greg that's if I turn up on time yeah uh you'll be here you'll be here you'll be here on time listen uh anything else you need to add before we wrap up uh just no I think that's it John show's going to be busy now he's well there's a number of interviews lined up uh I understand Sean's uh was he talking to guys in there McCarthy former Republic of Ireland manager and centre halves have been lined up the carol family's been lined up uh Ken Doherty snooker players been lined up uh we're going to try a guy called Gavin Hastings um who is a former Scottish rugby player if you're on the sport you know him he apparently plays off too which is good so uh there's there'll be lots of people about we're going to try and speak to a few of them and and John will be uh John will be very very busy come around the north west 12 o'clock yeah there must be some transferable skills because a lot of sports people seem to be able to be pretty handy at golf all right Arshene listen it's been great to see you great to chat to you thanks for joining us you'll keep people up to date with the serious side of things as well which is uh the golf scores and all that kind of stuff and the rest of the the sport but for now thanks very much for joining us 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from it would you share similar concerns absolutely and that's the reason that i have over the last 12 months been highlighting this issue in relation to long COVID so what is long COVID first of all conditions associated with people who contracted uh the COVID-19 infection uh and that could be a very mild infection or a very severe infection but subsequent to their infection three months down the road they're still having medical issues in relation to either cardiac in relation to breathing and with things like fatigue and brain fog and that's what we're talking about here and this can be experienced for people for up to two years after their initial infection and based on analysis of research that's been carried out in the Netherlands uh we are looking at over 336 000 people across this country experiencing long COVID now my concern is also i've been contacted by people who have been cleared to return to work but they have still a lot of symptoms that you described there um but as i say you know their GP or their doctor is saying you know you are effect i can't sign you off work any longer because in my view you're fit to go to work they struggle to get up in the morning as you mentioned there there is brain fog there that is my concern that this might be brushed under the carpet and people might be told no you're physically fine this is all in your head absolutely and uh the reality is that the loss of it is in people's heads uh because the research that's coming out at the moment is showing that while people will eventually make a full recovery in terms of the damage to their lungs and the damage to their heart that there are neurological problems and we've had Professor Jack Lambert from the Matter Hospital in Dublin who has talked about the neurological damage that's been done as a result of COVID for people who are experiencing long COVID and it's equivalent to an actual head injury and this isn't being recognized at the moment it isn't being acknowledged by some doctors at the moment and we have yet to establish long COVID clinics that were promised to be established this time last year they're still not in place and the HSE have said that they won't push referral pathways in place for the GPs until they're actually established in the regional centres one of those outreach centres is going to be based in Lefford, Kenny to deal with the some 12 000 uh long COVID patients uh that are in County Donegal alone you're quoted as saying this could cripple the health service how so the reason I believe as we've put them the health services as you know we have uh up to a million people on waiting lists at the moment people that required medical attention before the pandemic who are still on those waiting lists uh we have overcrowding in our hospitals in our accident emergency departments today in the middle of July or the middle of August which is only going to get worse as we move into the winter we're going to have further waves of COVID infection over the coming months and I think there's nothing we can do about that and on top of that now we have this new wave of long COVID patients up to 346 000 of which are now presenting at their GPs with issues like brain fog which could be something like not being able to remember the pen code for your past card and people even far more severe than that with a really debilitating disease and these patients are presenting they're being referred on to the coronary experts on to respiratory experts on to neurological experts adding to the existing ways in this that are there and I believe each additional one part of a million people with this system unless government takes a strategic approach to this deal with it just like we dealt with the COVID pandemic itself and set up a clear task force to put the measures in place to treat these patients and treat them quickly and that has to go from the bottom up as well right from that initial visit to the GP because a we don't want to miss diagnoses but we don't want uh we don't want incorrect diagnosis so something that maybe mirrors long COVID and it's important to catch it early could be missed like we really need to make sure that right across the health system from the hospitals down to the GPs or or wherever that we establish you know some criteria or some framework to ensure that we deal with what's coming correctly yes and look it's about putting a framework in place it's a very hard to put specific criteria in place because there's up to 200 different conditions now associated with post COVID infection with long COVID but what we need to do is to provide GPs with the information provide them with the referral pathways to the expert centers with multidisciplinary medical teams being put in place one of those outreach centers is going to be based in letter Kenny but we've been promised this for 12 months we need those centers to be put in place now and direct engagement with the GPs so that these patients can get the most appropriate treatment possible and can get back to walk and you know being able to fully contribute to society as quickly as possible yeah and there's another element of this the government have to get ahead of this because if they don't what will happen is is a people will be disbelieved but also be there will be a lot of people that will weaponize this and say it's the vaccines that is doing it's not COVID at all so it's very much in their interests in my view to to be very clear in their messaging and in their response for now uh independent absolutely and just one related thing to that and I know that you know the rollout this week of the second booster is taking place the research has shown that where people get subsequent infections with COVID-19 the risk with getting long COVID is the same for each infection so the more times that people get infected the bigger the risk is that they will actually end up with long COVID so it's not just about the initial infection and in a lot of cases the people with long COVID have a very mild initial infection it's only you know two to three months down the road that they still have these ongoing fatigue tiredness brain fog that they realize that something is not right so it is important that people do avail and wear math where appropriate all right independent deputy Dennis Knott and thank you for that Dominique unfortunately your mother is heading towards a year with long COVID I'm sorry to hear that can you talk to us a little bit about how she's feeling now how long COVID is affecting her yeah she got um she got COVID over Christmas of 2020 and I she had to give up work first of all she was belly and she when she was then she was pale as a ghost and now she's waiting she's been on the list for a cardiologist for over a year since May of last year um she's fainted in shopping centers we've had to move her bedroom downstairs because she literally cannot take the stairs um she hasn't been able to work but basically the whole family is in the stress over this and I am currently in the middle of writing emails to three or four TDs trying to get um some help with this so I'm really happy you're putting on this show and but anyone says this is before the vaccines came like so it's a lot of back injury and I know exactly how you're feeling how you might feel uh because you know you see in your mother how this is affecting her you see that she's effectively a prisoner in her own home but then when it comes to seeing a consultant you're being told that well she's well down the pecking order because there's no imminent threat to her health and you'll go and haul on you have you even seen me mother yeah she's been waiting on an echo since May of last year I'm very literally in this exact words told there are people worse than you with your turn yeah and you're seeing this yeah of course and you're seeing your mother she's a shadow of her former self then by the science of things yeah men men hasn't stopped working since I was born I'm 30 years old and now she hasn't been able to to to work in over a year and it's it's tragic like she's stuck in her home and with the instances you described out shopping presumably then that makes her nervous to even leave the house yeah it makes her nervous to leave the house it's it's embarrassing as well she doesn't want to go fainting when she's out shopping um especially she's out shopping as you know not groceries or she's out shopping for clothes shopping for something nice she doesn't want to go fainting um in the middle of a shopping center and she doesn't want people to think she has covid at the moment yeah what about what do you what's your gp saying your gp sees the urgency here hope he does and he said to write a letter and instead nothing happened and you're being told that the she's going to have to wait to see a cardiologist because there are sicker people than her yeah to have patience right okay which is um wearing thin it's ran out at this stage Dominique you want your mother to be seen and to get back to the way she was yeah exactly um it's like my I wasn't listening to your show before my dad literally called me and says will you call her on radio and see if you can get on this show because this is getting ridiculous and like none of us knows what to do she has only been given an inhaler and it affects everyone it's your mom primarily that's the concern but dad you the rest of the family everyone's affected by this we are so worried about her we don't know if this is going to end up as a stroke if she needs an operation we don't know anything about this because the doctors won't give us an echo right okay uh we're making inquiries as to what the delay is Dominique I'm sorry uh passed on our best wishes to your mom that won't help at this stage what you want is for her to see a cardiologist as well as that to make sure that it's not being it wrongly attributed do you want a professional to say have a look at her heart see what the story is and and and see what the plan is going forward to get her back to herself I would give my left arm for that all right Dominique listen that's all that is all I want hopefully things move on for you thank you very much for your time this morning it's very sad to hear okay if you want to add weight to uh the situation uh that Dominique is in maybe you're in a similar situation get in touch with us get us on there let's see we can put some pressure on the powers that be uh to do something here all right it's 11 o'clock time for news update and it's good morning now to mckayla clock thanks great good morning a mother has spoken out after her daughter was allegedly attacked by a group of girls outside the mcdonald's premises in letter kenny at nine o'clock on sunday night celeste a native of south africa says she brought her children here for a better life and did not expect such incidents to happen the boncran a football club says the threat of danger posed by wanton vandalism is not acceptable on sunday morning ahead of an under 11's final coaches at boncran a heart's fc discover broken glass bottles and beer cans strewn across the pitch in castle park police and dairy say they have received a number of reports in relation to material placed on a bonfire in mean and square in the bogside area they say these reports are being treated as hate crimes and potential offenses include the theft and destruction of political material flags at banners and poppy wraiths investigations are also underway following reports of shots being fired in the area shortly before 20 past 11 last night guardian are seeking to identify a number of youths observed in boncran around the time of a fire which completely destroyed a portable cabin office between half past eight and nine o'clock on thursday night last the fire was started on a site adjacent to the park more housing estate significant damage was also caused to three lorries over 7300 incidents of assault against nurses and other health care staff were recorded in the last 18 months the figures provided to shin fian's health spokesperson david cullinan shown nurses were verbally physically or sexually attacked nearly 4500 times from january 2021 to last month guardian are investigating a criminal damage incident in netter kenny in the early art of saturday morning between 2 and 8 am stones were thrown through the front window of a property in the windmill view estate three separate panes of glass were damaged along with the rear window of a vehicle parked in the driveway and a section of the a5 remains closed this morning following a serious crash the belton e road outside oma has been closed in both directions between the melton road and moin joy avenue police are asking motorists to avoid the area those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mikaela thank you very much indeed back with more after the break the nine till noon 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helicopter to the northwest but funding and other considerations including covet kind of gotten away with that and we've been fairly quiet i suppose in for a media point of view over the last four years however we've been active there's two components one we do have the helicopters based in rath cool but we also have ground systems we have five critical care cars on the road and have since 2018 and two other advanced life support cars these are manned by doctors two of them by general practitioners and the other five by emergency medicine critical care folk uh there's one car in donna gall which has been operational since uh june 2018 uh two in mail uh the newest of which is going online next month uh two more in dublin and then there are two other gp so seven cars in total five critical care capacity so what do we do well we are here to give back to the community we're all doctors and critical care and emergency uh doctors who live in the community and who benefit from living in places like donna gall so as part of our giving back to the community we give our our time and our clinical skills to people who are in trouble in support of the national ambulance service we get activated when something occurs in the community the national ambulance service control center uh dispatches the advanced paramedics paramedics emergency medical technicians and then on occasion if they require or request additional support or medical input they will call one of us critical care doctors either by radio or by text um last year just to put it in context in in the south the critical care doctors the ground forces we did 880 missions the helicopter did 510 lifts up here in the northwest last year was a little bit quiet for me because i was uh preparing for other things there were other things going on um i did about 90 uh callouts last year so far this year in common with all the emergency services there's been a massive uplift in activity national ambulance service calls up by 14 to 15 percent uh there is pressure everywhere in the system and the number of times i've been called out so far this year uh been 68 calls uh for 70 patients across a wide range from the eldest to the young uh two children under the age of one which are rather scary um many of them are people who are in the most difficult times of their lives actually either from cardiac arrest or acute critical medical or surgical illness or people who've been involved in the most horrendous traumas which sadly uh on our dunny gall roads are primarily uh road traffic collisions that we've talked about so many times before so what what are community air ambulance well community air ambulance is an irish charity uh delivering emergency department care to the patient at their in their at the roadside or in their house time when they need it support supporting the national ambulance service and acting as a resource to um just add a little bit to the already excellent level of care that the advanced paramedics can offer yeah gary um i mean we're going to be talking about the fundraiser that's the key part of our conversation um and it's in relation to um a car but we heard from jerry there about you know presumed the dream is to have a helicopter based in the northwest is there any aspirational timeline in relation to that or when possibly might that happen well i think a helicopter for rural dunny gall at the moment you know um it's uh it's a bit of a pipe dream at the moment now what we're really trying to concentrate on is upgrading um what what we currently have which thankfully is jerry here in his car so it's the the whole rationale or the objective the main objective is to raise money for this charity and to raise awareness of the volunteer work that he does i mean the greater public aren't aware um that that this happens you know that we have this fantastic facility here so really we want to kind of safeguard the sustainability of this service and kind of ensure that it's there for for the long haul um not really worry about the helicopter just yet to be fair okay no problem but i know some people might be interested once they heard that reference so i just wanted to see you um you can't put a figure on it or perhaps you can too um the likes of of you jerry and and you as well gary the lives that are saved through your interventions like it really is amazing well uh i suppose you know thankfully that there's loads of charities out there and and we're we're overwhelmed with you know the amount of different sort of charities that you can donate to but there's not many charities you can make a donation and have the power to help save your life or or the life of a family member you know um so this is what this will kind of sets this this um charity and this donation that you could potentially make aside from from everything else i mean the the power of obviously of saving a life um that really can't really be underestimated like and you know the the gratitude i suppose is the area certainly but it's a more financial thing you know having walking away having done the best that you could possibly do for for for a patient and knowing that you've maybe saved that person's life you can't put a price on that like and obviously the earlier you can get to a patient the better absolutely i mean you talked about donogall and the real donogall you know the topography and the geography that we have here um yeah it's going to be a stress and a strain getting there um and you can never get there quick enough you can only go as physically as as quick as what the you know your your machine can go but but to have um the likes of mr. lane and a rapid response vehicle um is going to cut down those long journey times and get medical intervention there early yeah um so the the better that we can upgrade that and facilitate that service the better it's going to be for all of us in the waiter community do you know yeah um jerry obviously too you want to i'm not sure of the condition of the current car but you want to make sure that you you you get to the patient that a mechanical failure of one description and all that i mean it's unimaginable that that could actually happen and user obviously flagging this early to make sure that you have a vehicle that is reliable and gets you there when you need to get there that's absolutely true and sadly i have had mechanical failures where i've had to have engine rebuilds uh on on on route to the job that i was going to the fundraising we're doing at the moment is part of a a package to really consolidate the service that we've had here kind of sub rosa for four years now and to make sure that the natural the natural wastage of vehicles and equipment doesn't erode the service because it's not something that is easily maintained unfortunately now we've been in icaa in the community or ambulance we've been very lucky we've received some car funding which is specific small project funding for rural and remote areas recently in june and we received 145 000 euros i believe which is being used to replace three vehicles which are all 10 years old and have 200 000 miles on the clock this gary and his colleagues and the nine folk who are going to undertake this challenge the seven cyclists and the two crewmen they're actually fundraising to actually equip the vehicle vehicle costs we can pretty much cover but to have something like a life pack 15 which is a piece of equipment that i bring to the roadside or to the home to bring that piece of equipment the equipment itself costs a good wedge of what a car costs my current vehicle costs 5 000 euros to buy this life pack on your desk here costs around about 20 000 i mean it you it doesn't if you come in and says it was a special radio you know i wouldn't argue with you but this is kind of a handle in it you know but this is this is brings people back from the bring this is it this is an example of the equipment that we can actually get to the patient's side in a timely manner that can make a really huge difference to that individual patient it does look like a box but it's a box that can defibrillate it can cardiovert it can speed your heart up if it's going to slow with a pacemaker it can monitor you it can check your saturations if you're intubated and ventilated which we do on occasion it can check the adequacy of the anesthesia and ventilation that you're receiving it's a tremendous piece of kit but it costs unfortunately an arm and a leg how many lice is that piece of equipment so this this particular machine has been in operation continuously since 2018 it has been deployed on numerous occasions there are three folk i think that i was involved in the last couple of years who would be dead without the chain of survival and that's i suppose that's something to talk about the chain of survival doesn't start with me or with gary with the ambulance services starts with the bystander it starts with the relatives it starts with the community first responders and then we arrive to support those community first responders and we keep the chain of survival going and these pieces of equipment just assist maintain a chain of survival it's really important i think to in terms of what people can do at home in terms of you know their interventions the people on the phones the 999 phone calls they're very good at describing people and it's a very describing to people what they should do it's a very stressful situation in that moment it's well worth us anyone listening just to maybe try and prepare themselves as what they might do you know under the direction over the telephone until the likes of of you arise because sadly a lot of us will go through that and there comes a point where you just need to try and focus and and get rid of what's going through your head and focus on keeping that person going as best you can until the experts arrive try the floor and push hard and push fast yeah for the people who are listening who have an interest i think a lot of people be fearful actually of causing damage to a person that situation maybe it's worthwhile just talking a little bit about that jerry cp or external cardiac compressions where somebody has got no pulse not breathing and they appear to be dead is unlikely to harm that individual because their intervention they will remain dead what we're trying to do with cardiopulmonary resuscitation is to get that small population of people the very small number of people who go down a cardiac arrhythmia that we can which is an incorrect heartbeat that we can actually get one of these machines to their side and then convert that malignant or bad arrhythmia into a normal rhythm and start profusing and getting blood to their brain and to their hearts that's what cpr is all about and while there may be some risks they are hugely overstated the benefits are potentially huge now it is only a very small proportion of people who will benefit and certainly less than 10 percent in our community but 10 percent is better than no percent for people who are interested the national ambulance service recently put up a website which is become a cfo.ie become a cfo.ie which is become a community first responder.ie and that equips people in the small communities the townlands the villages and towns around the county with the skills and the equipment to respond to somebody who comes to who drops in their community and gives that person vital seconds and vital minutes until Gary in his ambulance or me in the air ambulance car the rapid response car can get to you and assist the chain of survival is only as strong as the weakest link and it's the first piece it's that first chain is the first person unseen who initiates the appropriate actions who actually determines what's happens afterwards we maybe look better or or drive faster or something I don't know but the people who make that difference is the neighbor the spouse the child the friend the compatriot the work mate they're the people who make a difference in that cardiac arrest scenario and I think we've actually all spoken to people I certainly have through this program who've been that person or are still here because of that person and it truly is the gift of life right so Gary you and who are undertaking this cycle and we'll talk a bit about that and how people can donate because I think it's been laid very very clearly the importance of this service and the reliability and the right equipment for this service excellent yes good stuff Greg I myself do you know what this this sort of idea actually came around last year year and a half ago colleague Don Brennan had kind of voiced you know let's do something because it's you know Mr. Lane's been a bit modest there and has unpacked like I mean to have although the album service you know we progress enhancing our skills and capabilities you know as much as we can we're never going to have the skills and knowledge or experience that that you know Mr. Lane has or you know an emergency service consultant like to have that either in a hedge or in your setting room it's like it's unparalleled and it's and you know we're humbled as a service to be able to be fortunate enough to continue to work in collaboration with him you know throughout this so Don kind of voiced the listen let's let's do something here he's going to volunteer he's you know he's there as much as he can let's get him you know we'll do something so pocket of us are sort of you know interested in baking and stuff and you know a different you can't be perfect well that's where the the idea for this originated that's how it originated okay and obviously he had stepped back from any consultancy Christmas last year and that really kind of reinforced right let's go and do this you know so yeah the the the gang that we have we've we've got kind of a couple of sharpshooters there you know Paul Paul Dory good A1 cyclist there and we've got young Barry Mackley in there it's just fresh back from doing a very good half Ironman over in Estonia there be every or two we Greyhound Greyhound guys like you know a couple of guys then you know if you're a man out west and nearly McGee there he be a good decent adventure racer like and you have a couple of guys and Pat very good club cyclist you know Martin Kwon down on the show on leaf there he'd be a lot of club cyclists and stuff and then I suppose you have myself outside you know very indifferent sort of capabilities and abilities on the bike like so we're sort of a much mixed batch like that you know but we've also behind us we've got a two crewmen Don Gallher and safe pair of hands Demian Bradley X fun Harps goalkeeper so we're seven on the bike and and two sort of crewmen looking after us afterwards you know from both a safety point of view and a nutritional point of view so that that's kind of the reason behind it how are you gonna pace this because you've got a few of these guys you know they want to go like the clapper very good and then you've got a few so well how many a second now you know well look at us as all kind of walks of life you know and as a cyclin and today I suppose a grip is stronger than any individual so yes we've got the the kind of sharpshooters and we've got the we'll say the other guys but no it's a grip we're going up the we're up the country as a grip because it's a grip of a service as a group that we're all kind of trying to you know enhance the the service that is provided here and as I say that the sustainability of us into the future so we're going to stay as a group we have a plan we've got a sort of plan to get us up which you know it's not a race it's not a race situation and whatnot so we have a wee plan you can scrub it out there you know we'll bring it is there a financial targets or are you just hoping that people are just as generous as they can be do you know what and actually we kind of had a target and we surpassed our targets we threw another target on it and the you know I don't want to put a cap on it because obviously I don't want the the foot to be taken off any efforts here but moussins and malin paramedic cycle 2022 don't worry we've got lots of you know opportunities to still donate but what we do have we've got a few big things in the pipeline here which will be all advertised through that I donate page we've we've got a sort of a really fine piece of art which is donated by Daniel Wallace Daniel Wallace art which is going to it's going to be lottoed off we've also got you know Johnny Patterson down there in the ranch he's been absolutely fabulous for us and and he's going to he's going to do a burger night I believe he's already substantially donated and he's he's got a bucket there you know if you're down for the one of the best burgers in the country slap a couple of coins into the bucket there but over and above all of that we've got the Queen of Cranford Margaret Schelzer she's she's doing fantastic work torture and harassment all sorts of locations for we're going to be running a draw now this lady has we've got weekend retreats we've got spa resorts we've got top-class prize I'm memberships we've so there is going to be a big major draw okay and it will be all advertised through mason's emerald and parametric cycle 2022 and and that that that's going to have legs beyond the time frame off the cycle and it is going to be a really really great draw and I would urge anybody and everybody to dump onto that and get your claws onto that yeah because this is all going to however high the ceiling ends up being this is all going into life saving equipment and a lot of listeners I'll reference it while you hear a lot of listeners are saying you know you're doing this amazing work why do you have to fundraise for this type of equipment I don't like the saying but it is what it is well so you know you have to have the equipment you can sit and say well why aren't we being funded centrally but all you can go out and fund raise and get the equipment and use to do in the latter really listen you can you can sit back and say it's not my job and stroke shoulders and say look that this is a government thing that that should be funded and that should be funded you know what's going to happen we're going to sit in stroke shoulders and lose lives all around us pick ourselves up and say you know what we can we can do something about this you know right okay so the website that people go to it's the auto night just give us that URL so any amount of money at all goes towards it we don't know as individuals if Jerry's going to come up the driveway or if it's going to be to our dad or a month we don't know we pray it's never going to happen we pray that won't happen but we don't know when it actually will happen and you don't want to see his face come up the driveway and saying well I did have a spare fiver and I didn't spend it I'm not trying to guilt people into it we're very good at reacting sometimes this is a little bit about you know I would say lots of people that have availed of this service we know what happens with people that have been in the hospice or the hospital or whatever they start running fundraisers themselves because they realize the importance of this what we're looking for is people to imagine a situation and maybe fund this slightly yeah that's all I'll slightly flip that on the head and I'll say this is this is the one chance that we have to be proactive about it yeah and I mean how good will you feel um after having donated to to see you know him come up the drive and say well jakers thank god there are a couple of coins in that bucket you know um Jerry I presume you could be sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a pina colada or a mocktail um you know you it's a very intense job that you have done um but rather than step away you're kind of taken on something else what I think you talked about giving back to the community but maybe digging a little bit deeper than that obviously not into anything personal yeah why well you really put your finger on it I live in this community uh I came here 22 years ago with my wife who happens to be local and Donegal and the Northwest have kind of taken me in they've made me feel comfortable and they've made me feel cherished and a member of the larger their family I have a I have a certain skill set and rather than let it rot and waste away it can be used um the need for projecting hospitals hospital care into the community supporting a national ambience service has been visible around the country and it's it's been visible in the UK and the US and Australia for for for many many years so it was a logical next step to actually get into this in round about 2018 uh I would be straight with you it was actually precipitated by uh some personal events with my family members where I actually I've actually experienced the the relief the happiness and the joy of seeing the national ambience service come in the window to me I was in in a fairly difficult situation with somebody and the national ambience service arrived mob handed and they sorted out that problem that happened in 2015 and it's a debt of gratitude I've always owed to the service the individuals and everybody else who actually helps in that particular day there is a good will amongst the people of Donegal and if we're talking about the particular incident I'm referring to there were police involved coast guard involved all kind of people involved and that that outpouring of uh support and aid which was completely unquestioning it was without names it was just for that particular problem at that particular time made me realize it is rather selfish of me to keep my skill set in my back pocket to myself and actually goes to beach and drink the pina coladas when if I'm available and if I'm able to go and I thank my my family for allowing me to go I must confess they they've put up with a lot over the years and more so recently I think rather than just let that skill set atrophy and and waste away it is only the it is the correct the right the honorable the ethical whatever the word you're looking for it is the only thing to do there is no other option yeah and that's there is no other option for the answer and it's it's kind of what I was expecting but not so much but detail but I get it Gary it's not only cyclist is also a lifesaver himself as well Gary do you do you work with the Irish community air ambulance full-time or you're in another position and you're associated with it or what no I'm uh advanced paramedic with with the national ambulance service um whenever I'm at my work I would like to thank them a hundred percent come out of them at my work and whenever I'm not there it's it's a it's a different story you know at family man do me on but bacon and you need it because it's a it's a tough it's a tough job physically yeah hours wise maybe frustrations whatever we're not getting into that but emotionally it's it's it's a tough job I'm not sure can you ever fully become accustomed to what you have to deal with you have to maybe compartmentalize it or find a way of living but it's uh you do you really have to compartmentalize it all right whether or not ideally you'd probably need to ask the way but uh what I like to you know one of my former one of my first um uh sort of maybe she's the one saying are you sure you don't want to cycle today Gary well so from time to time she makes me actually your co-ops are looking at me yeah she would say listen you're stressed get out the door you know she's very good like that thankfully um but no one of my um first kind of superiors uh whenever I was coming onto these other says you know what your ordinary people see in extraordinary things um and he's right and and you know I'm 19 and a half years in the service now and the the further I go on to it the more I realize he's actually right but I think or the key thing is to know you know when to take the lead off and how to take the lead off do you know um for me it's always been either jumping the sea we would have surfed we put it on and we would have bacon whatever but you know we can scale that down for all of us in our lives do you know what I mean we're talking about your intense job and I think we can all scale that down and about getting out getting fresh air getting our mind off things you know I mean it's not exclusive to you but you've a really high-pressured uh a job and you see it all same as you Jerry throughout your career I mean what you haven't seen is probably you know you know it's not worth mentioning well it's it might be worth saying that again Gary is being extraordinarily modest because he's he's at the the apex you know the advanced practitioner world and Donegal is very lucky to have him and his colleagues and you'll recognize them by the yellow tabards they were on their urinar forms we've been gifted in the last 20 years with the national ambulance service up here I mean I know people like to gripe but all you have to do is go to my local place down in the northeast or head to the west coast and experience what health care is like there to actually race back to Donegal because it's not so bad up here at all because of folk like Gary and if people listening in feel that they would like to contribute or they're interested in health care or interested in working with the national ambulance service I hate to put a plug in but the national ambulance service are actually recruiting heavily right now and if somebody is listening in and they have doubts that it might it might be them well it is you it is you we need human beings with human ability human empathy they can receive training and develop skills but what they actually need are people and that's what we're looking for in the national ambulance service at the moment and I think that the the potential impact of staff shortages has been in the news this week so it's quite timely I presume people can go on to their website and find out what's going on right Gary lastly to you what do you want to add as it relates to this cycle in the fundraiser and it's clear at this point is there by the way is there an opening for I've said this before but we've got some amazing car dealerships around here I think if I were involved and maybe I don't understand the practicalities of it what a project to get involved in something like this to have your name on a back of a car that's doing this type of work I know that's where I would be at if you have if somebody is out there and has that interest could they go to the community airambulance.ie website press the contact us button and talk to Ms. Toner or to Micheal Sheridan and discuss that kind of matter I'm afraid it's both my pay grade that's fine but I'm just sure there must be charity tax breaks or something that would minimize absolutely there the cost and it just can you imagine being associated with how many calls out this year so far 68 lives potentially saved right right go with the plug Gary sorry yeah the plug mention that well good morning I hope that you don't know the plug idlenet.ie missing to mown paramedic cycle 2022 all right good luck to all of you yeah thanks very much let us know about the draw I keep your eyes peeled on us folks idlenet.ie missing to mown paramedic cycle 2022 it's on facebook and as I say that's an idlenet page the draw will come the draw will be big get on get involved the best luck by early by often all right guys thank you so very much indeed Gary Doherty advance paramedic who's doing the missing to mown cycle with a group of his colleagues and friends and also former consultant in emergency medicine Mr Jerry Lane thank you very much also for joining us and we'll be back with more after these messages the 90 noon show with letterkenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro 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2021 now it seems the results of the the uh they've now said that 56 percent of that has been on spent now that's one hell of a figure i haven't worked out out what it is but never mind but that funding has been on spent now that should have been claimed by near the near enough every county by the way this is for rural active travel funding uh dublin and the other cities have got their own even bigger amount uh similar to the city funding has also been on spent now that i i i know you're aware of the history of the uh fernings to caligar pathway uh it was first proposed in 2011 and since then various councillors have said that they proposed it i know who did and i won't mention his name uh and nothing has happened since 2011 apart from there was an environmental study done i know it was done because i passed them near enough every weekend as i walked to downings uh i was around about 2016 2017 uh once the environmental study was done nothing happened then for a long time uh at the last council elections various councillors i approached various councillors and asked them what they were going to do about this cycle path foot path they all agreed it was a great idea and all the rest of it but nothing happened um one even one did keep me informed as to what was happening up to a year later and the only information he had at the time was there was no progress and no funding eventually they are round about uh oh yeah in october 2019 a certain councillor promised me that work would start by march 2020 it wasn't the covid that stopped it though uh board canala turned down permission as the environmental study was missing from the application it was an incomplete planning application furnished by the council for this project yeah yeah yes uh i don't know why board canala decided to turn it down why didn't they just thrown up the council and say look this is incomplete whereas the rest of it but uh that's getting near here and there someone dropped the ball along anyway yes uh board canala have since passed the permission but now there's no funding now if there's no funding this active travel funding is an obvious source to go to because it is specifically for travel in rural areas and mostly for foot paths and cycle ways hence the name active travel funding now last update we had a couple of weeks ago carl was that um that this was going to be a go that they were very confident of funding before the end of the year and in fact the the uh route would be um the route would be active for next summer but i suppose looking at the history and until such time as you see the color of the money you might be cynical about that i'm not cynical you might be you know a little bit hesitant for that to be the case extremely cynical because um uh at the moment they're building a foot path from car regard to the national school uh that was started in january this year and here we are in august and still not complete it's not a very long pathway it's near enough complete except for the telegraph hole in the middle of the road where they widen the bridge is that not to slow the traffic down uh it's a good idea yeah i was sorry i'm not being facetious carl i was waiting for you i was waiting for you to mention the poll you see so when you did it that's the only that's why i can't stop laughing but it's a it is a serious it's a serious matter and but it's it's taking it's taking some time i think anyone who's traveled through the area would note yes well there you see the timing of that it just makes me believe that there is not a chance of this foot path being up and running by next summer okay but and you're the first you're the first one actually there's two of me there is a plan to have it up yeah next summer yes that that's and it was optimistic and the fund there was some positive indications in the council budget and if someone is allocated from the council then there's match funding and uh i don't want to to misquote the councillor i'm pretty sure the councillor's name but i'm not a hundred percent sure so i'm not going to mention his name at this point but that was the the positive indications on that so but as it's unless you see because you've seen this work ongoing for years unless you actually see the work beginning i think you'd be right to be cautious about it but we would hope but even that and just to widen it out county wide carl you know that's still an awful lot of money that could have been spent in the county that wasn't now i know it was stated that there was covered there it's difficulties in getting staff and contractors and what have you uh and that the money will eventually be spent but look at you know no county needs it more than us you know good pathways good cycleways because it's good for locals but it's also good for the tourism product it certainly is and i i i i walk quite a lot i i would say i would do 15 between 15 and 20 kilometers a day most days uh i've slackened off a little bit over the last couple of months but i've walked everywhere and the roads the most dangerous road i've seen is the car regard to darlings road but there are other roads that could also benefit from cycleways footpaths and it's great to see so many people out cycling uh i must admit i don't see many people out walking why is that uh i think possibly because they think it's just too dangerous yeah that's what i was thinking about you were saying okay well listen we'll keep an eye on it i imagine i might get uh rang in an update on that just to clarify the timelines and what have you and we'll bring them to you carl just as soon as we get them but we appreciate your time and thanks so much for for speaking to me this morning thank you very much take care thank you carl have a happy walking and safe walking all right comments on the way the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie want unbeatable 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story i'm delighted to hear that and the fundraiser is to make sure uh now that might have been a mr. lane's own time the fundraiser is to make sure that mr. excuse me that mr. lane and his colleagues are in the right place at the right time in the right car with the right equipment uh a caller believes it's a disgrace that these professionals have to fundraise why is central government not paying for the equipment to death by a geography they say another why is the state not paying for the equipment and and of course you heard the the comments from the gentlemen themselves that it is a case of actually someone has to step up and do it and that's the that's what they're doing uh jerry lane saved my life in 2017 i know if it wasn't for him i wouldn't be here today he promised when i went into the ed that he would do everything to help me and he certainly did that and i'm here to tell the tale wow what a wonderful story what a wonderful impact to have on people all right let's see as long as people accept the poor facilities the state provides to donagall the fundraising will continue another great to hear dr jerry lane the man who saved my life in 2008 that comes in from um that comes in from mary and only for jerry lane i would not be here he saved my life last year eternally grateful people messaging in that that man saved their lives i think that's absolutely wonderful right okay i'm sorry to hear about the football pitch in castle park being vandalized it's a pitch well loved by local people i hope that we are to cause a court and punished thank you or educated maybe just to make sure that they know maybe i'm too soft greg of course those louts knew what they were doing when they damaged those football clubs too many people making excuses for this totally unacceptable behavior people know who they are but will protect their precious little babies and you'll be reported this sort uh you'll be reporting this sort of event again okay i understand where you're coming from and you may well be right another caller says are there any council houses available for people with limited abilities in an upstairs apartment and essentially i'm a prisoner in my home i have a doctor's letter to say that the current setting is on fit i'm at my wit's end the stress of bringing on other issues it is bringing on other issues will you message me back to see if you've been in contact with your local public representatives or your local tds on that matter as well um right okay i just got a letter this morning to renew my mother's tv license my mother passed away and i'm sorry to hear that nothing worse than receiving that letter after the fact i can't believe how much the tv license is 160 is way too much and i only work two days a week due to health reasons um do if you are on an unlimited income do you still have to pay the full do you still have to pay the full amount i wonder right okay we have to go um we don't have time for that guest unfortunately caroline because they've only just connected and uh literally gives me two minutes which is just not enough we'll try and return to that tomorrow um a lot of people want to hear elvis today shall i do squeeze a bit elvis him before the end of the program or john i'm sure is going to be playing a bit of elvis um after 12 so we might leave that uh i got a letter during the week from the hospital did i still want the appointment i was waiting on with the cardiologist this is just a way to get people off their books lucky for me i could afford to go private but despite being sorted i replied still waiting just to see how long it would be yeah i i think i understand what you did but the reality is is that um they're tidying up the waiting list you see some people have done exactly what you've done and gone private others sadly may have passed away and the records haven't been updated or maybe they've got better because what happens is people are invited in for appointments they feel better the gp says they're okay perhaps and then they don't notify uh and they don't turn up for the appointment and we see that locally the numbers are printed daily whereby a lot of people aren't turning up so i understand what you did it's your protest uh but i also they have to make sure that the appointment list is up to date and maybe that is checking in with people caller says i've been waiting now five years to get a second opinion on a medical issue i finally got it and the consultation was over the phone it's a spinal issue how can this be an adequate assessment it's not fair at all wow that's interesting okay uh let me see here hi i'm wondering if any of your listeners can help i'm looking to find out where to get the Padre Pio Mitt it's for a sick friend i've tried ringing the friary in ross now but no luck getting through maybe someone out there can help um let me see a friend of mine has been diagnosed with monkeypox he assumed being off work would be similar to being off covid and he'd be paid while he can't work only to discover there is no similar payment he simply has to claim sick benefit he's paying a mortgage on his own and this is going to make things very difficult for him does anyone know what's happening with payment after all monkeypox has been declared a health emergency by the who anyone out there have a any information uh it would be uh very welcome indeed okay listen thanks so much for i say it every uh day i know but it's because it's so important thanks for listening thanks for watching the show thanks for texting in calling in we'll give you the winner of the competition do we have it okay we'll do it now let's have a quick listen to this and see if it the competition lines are closed now but this was the one now that was yesterday this is this week's uh today's competition sorry i just want to say one word to you just one word all right that's uh from this well the name of the film escapes me at the moment but this year the first world uh transfer the first heart transplant took place you hear tom jones green green grass of home uh and the year was 1967 zeta crossen from letterkenny you have won a goodie bag and your names in the hat for the prize on friday two christy more tickets and a 400 euro voucher for the great northern hotel if you didn't have any luck today come back tomorrow we'll give you another chance uh that's why we have to leave it stay tuned john bresnan's coming live from downings after the news at 12 the nine till noon show with letterkenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letterkenny credit union 9102127 the birth information and tracing act is now here people adopted boarded out or the subject of an illegal birth registration can access their birth information where available from october a contact preference register has been established to enable these people and those connected to them to register their preference in 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