 See live on 1800 700 700 or contact a participating GP or pharmacy from the HSE for us all and now it's time for the talk of the Northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio and a very good morning to you five minutes past nine on this Thursday the first the first the first of September 2022 it's another month it's another show you're very welcome along to it get involved we want to hear from you this morning 08 660 25000 if you have something you want to get off your chest already this morning a caller says driving from bridge and to letter Kenny this morning at about 8am the fog pretty dense yet no other motorists had their lights on okay someone spotted that already this morning if you've got something to say and you want to give us a call it's 07 491 25000 07 491 25000 emails to comments at highlandradio.com and you can interact with us on our social medias as well because we are streaming live there Highland Radio Ireland on YouTube and across our Facebook pages say hello or if you want to watch in browser go to our website and it is highlandradio.com right it's not the busy show starting off with a busy look at the newspapers because it's Thursday and there's lots of them around let's start with the Chicano Tribune with more Ukrainians due to arrive in Milford shortly the Tribune wishes to confirm that the paper has not been in receipt of any responses to their queries from Donagol County Council on the issues raised with them in the past week the issues relate to the turnkey development of 17 houses where members of local families expected to be housed. Councillor Ian McGarvey said he's been trying to contact the council's housing department for over a week ever since the news that Ukrainians were to be housed in Milford on a turnkey development and nobody is available to call him back however Councillor John O'Donnell said he'd been in receipt of correspondence on Wednesday afternoon stating the council confirms that it remains committed to proceeding with the acquisition of the 17 properties in Milford at this time under the turnkey program for allocation to approved applicants on the social housing waiting list with a preference for Milford however the council now understands that the developer may have alternative plans for the properties. Meanwhile the Kehirlock Liam Blaney said that Roderick O'Gorman the minister for equality and integration had made it clear that refugees coming into Ireland would not impact on social housing plans and we heard the same comments from a minister on this program the reality said Councillor Blaney is that locals waiting to be housed have lost out and that should not have happened okay much more on that story in that paper today bit of investigative journalism there the Dairy People Donegal News businesses in Letrakeny are facing a perfect storm with rising energy costs and the prospect that retail and services may suffer as the cost of living crisis bites households hard this winter electricity prices have more than doubled and heating oil is on the rise again as retailers and restaurant owners struggle to build hold prices conscious that their customers have less money to spend opening hours have been reduced to save on costs while Ibeq the small business representative group is calling for a significant immediate package of emergency energy supports and you know I mean obviously there's been a recent doubling of electricity prices and we'll talk about some increases for residential customers in a moment but that's off the back of a quadrupling of prices prior to that so the prices increased fourfold and then doubled so it's been huge we're going to be speaking I think to business owners a little later on about the rising cost of electricity I mean there has to come a point and many of you out there in business may well have already reached it that you are losing money based on having to pay your ESB bill or whatever provider you're with if you want to help tell that story 086625 thousand and it's quite rightly pointed out as well discretionary spending amongst those even who aren't necessarily struggling to meet everyday bills discretionary spending now is going to reduce and you know that coupled with the rising costs businesses seeing less through the door remains to be seen what this winter holds but if you are a business person and you want to give us a a sense of the impact of the increasing costs on your business and maybe even the future of your business will get in contact with us I think a lot of hotels that would open through winter maybe I don't know what capacity they'd expect 20 30 40 percent if they're lucky capacity keeping an entire building of that size at warm and lit they might be having to rethink that this year of course already some restaurants restaurants I beg your pardon some hotels might close for parts of the winter at least but I just wonder will more particularly those that aren't housing refugees will they have to consider if you're in business and you want to give us an insight and help tell that story so your customers and your clients can understand get in touch with us 07491 25 000 or whatsapp or text 086625 000 the democrat this morning millions of euro that is available to assist coastal communities around donagall could go unclaimed unless action is taken shortly that was the stark message this week from the donagall chair person of the fisheries local action groups initiative steven mccahill the ardra man said at least 3.5 million in funding opportunities existed for local companies groups and individuals but unless the process is put in place to avail of this the money will be lost to the county and that could affect future allocations I'd imagine established in 2013 the flag initiative uniquely focuses on development funding specifically for fisheries and aquaculture areas within 10 kilometers of the sea around the entire coast with you are a local group and you've got local plans for your area you know there is a funding stream there you should really look into it and see if it's something that you could apply for I think those sort of deal with those applications can be very helpful too in ensuring that you are successful if you qualify the dairy needs this morning as dairy and the north west prepared to lay friends a babe and simon and joseph sebastian to rest both just 16 years of age t shock me how martin expresses deepest sympathies to their families friends raven and joseph tragically lost their lives in aina lock on the outskirts of the city on monday evening extending his condolences mr martin said our hearts go out to their families we can all imagine young people going out to enjoy a beautiful summer's afternoon and for it to end in such tragedy people availing of and using a water immunity which we all have done in our different times it's incredibly sad indeed and our thoughts very much with the families the nationals now and i mean the national newspapers today really and i'm not picking stories out to make this point but there are two stories here there's the story stories of you know the elected and the wealthy and then the stories of you know the reality for us just regular people living in this country there is two different worlds going on but anyway let's start with the irish independent um dull deputies will see their salaries rise by more than six and a half thousand euro to an early 108 thousand a year onto the new public sector pay deal negotiated by the government now this is not just government tds let's be clear this is all tds they'll get six and a half grand of an increase bringing their salaries to 108 thousand euro per year it could result in there being paid a lump sum of more than 2275 in november under a provision for a three percent increase in 2022 backdated to february this is the backdated payment that i was talking of yesterday that was being incorrectly reported in the papers yesterday senators said they also get a bump they'll see a similar bullet payment of nearly 1600 euro wouldn't that be lovely can you imagine um being in a job whereby 2275 thousand euro if you're a td or 1600 euro just landed into your um into your bank account i mean you wouldn't have to worry about electricity price increases you would say do you know what that bullet payment will sort that out or you wouldn't have to worry is now the time to buy 500 liters of home heating oil if you can uh or do you wait and see what happens or do you see if the oil company will deliver you 200 liters or 300 liters you wouldn't have to worry about that because that 1600 euro would fill the tank and that's that sorted and it's not coming out of your wages as such it's a bullet payment that you're going to receive that's what tds and senators are in line for government ministers also remain eligible to benefit by more than 10 000 euro under the deal if adopted but they could choose to forego the increases that they've done for years the deal is yet to be ratified after being agreed on tuesday and we'll go to union ballot over the next five weeks the coalition decided two years ago that cabinet members and ministers of state could gift 10 percent of their salaries to the state on an annual basis together with a pay increase due under building momentum the pay deal now proposed to be extended by the way here also pensioners face losing a range of perks after an expert group advised the government to scrap lower usc rates tax rates and parasite exemptions for retirees the commission on taxation and welfare has made it a series of far-reaching recommendations that would help pay for the aging population but if implemented they are likely to result in higher taxes for pensioners in the coming years in order to avoid punitive levies on the working age population now it's the easiest thing in the world but also you know it's impossible to ignore it's the easiest thing in the world to try and sort of maybe sound populist or to make this type of a point but we have those who legislate for us that are just almost accidentally through a pay deal going to get six and a half grand extra this year bullet payments of 2275 for tds 1600 for senators at the same time as the papers are reporting how the rest of us and it is the most of us well not most of us i don't know what the pay structure is but many many many many people i would say the majority of people are are bricking it for the for the winter they've just got through maybe trying to get the young ones back to school they're facing increased costs increased electricity and i'll talk about that in a moment and the people that legislate for them are in line for huge amounts of money you know the pay rise for tds is more than a third almost a half of the minimum wage for an 18 year old who gets seven euro 80 an hour and they do 40 hours work it out so the bonus that they're going to receive effectively is the equivalent to someone grafting at the age of 18 or 19 in a shop or something i mean how that that's not a fantastic society is it the irish times tells us that minister for health steven donnelly he admitted that he failed to register a rental property in dublin for the past three years with the residential tenancy board and only did so late last week after it emerged his party colleague robert shroy had also registered uh a property late mr donnelly is renting out a property to sandiford uh which he declared on the dull register of members interests the irish times revealed yesterday evening that a tenancy registry was not renewed in 2019 as was required under law mr donnelly has blamed an oversight it was registered early last week days after a story emerged that mr shroy had also not registered a property on time so tds who are property owners all of a sudden started saying right wow okay well robert shroy he didn't register his there are all my properties registered can you check if those properties we have a registered there because i know i have them but i'm not sure if i've registered them well obviously they found some of their properties that weren't registered and now they are conversely desperate families are struggling to keep it all together this is the irish daily mail as the cost of living continues to rise with st vincent and paul the charity receiving 30 calls every hour seeking help last month a person is calling st vincent and paul every two minutes seeking help those already struggling with rising energy transport and food costs are being pushed to the brink by the added financial pressure of the back to school season it comes as environment minister amen ryan let's go to page six to see what wisdom he's gone to impose he warned of a dramatic and difficult winter due to energy hikes with 170 000 prepay power customers yesterday becoming the latest to be hit by price hikes which cost them up to 770 extra a year i want to talk about that separately again can maybe they can can people who don't have money worries understand what it's like to have them and to help people we shall see in the budget the irish farmers journal the new scheme opened irish farmers from next year received the green light from the european commission this week setting the direction of farm payments for the next five years the department of agriculture can now begin moving to open the scheme that will run under the 9.78 billion cap strategic plan for applications with only three months left until the plans take effect some 256 million of the approved funds have been allocated to the organic farming scheme and a further 180 million to income supports for young farmers but it's a controversial enough scheme it's not pleasing to everyone let's talk about prepay power because a lot of people many people it's the same for people who might tax their car every three months every six months you pay a premium for doing that the government charges you interest for paying your tax in three month segments now the reason you might do that is because you can't find the 280 or the 670 whichever your car is in one lump sum so you have to break it down into bits as you can afford it but you are charged by the government for doing so they charge you effectively a levy for paying into your tax now not exclusively by the way but a lot of people use prepay power because it's more controlled so if there's a spare 10 or a spare 15 or a spare 20 euro you throw it in to the machine or you input the code and then you tick along until such time and that's the way you try and manage your bills because you know the idea of a bill for 380 450 whatever it might be every two months with fear of being disconnected it's too much of a stress so you try and manage your I don't know I'm preaching to converted here but it's for people who may not get why some of us or I'm not on prepay anymore now I was up until relatively recently but you do it so that you it feels like you're controlling the cost of it it's more manageable so those people now are going to face an extra 30 percent on their bills irish consumers have been dealt a blow as prepay power announced massive hikes to its gas and electricity prices the energy provider says its gas will rise 29 percent from october 1st electricity will rise by 19 percent the increase will add an extra 339 euro to the average electricity bill and 428 28 euro to the average gas bill the firm which has 170 000 electricity customers and 60 000 gas customers yesterday said the rises a result of continued upward price pressures on international energy markets as spokesperson said were it not for our extensive hedging operations these increases would have had to be significantly higher now there are some electricity providers that have announced hikes higher than 19 percent but still it's a huge cost increase heading into winter and the reality is is that maybe we don't see things like Christmas lights around the house as a luxury and sorry to be speaking them about them at the start of the september but there is a reality that people are not going to want to switch them on for four or five weeks over christmas because of the fear of what bill might come in january and february we're not thinking about that now at the moment but it will become an issue closer to christmas you can be sure of that i think anyway a very sad story coming out of catalonia in spain and a 20 month old baby died after being struck on the head by a massive hail storm during a violent storm that caused havoc in catalonia authorities said yesterday fist-sized hailstones up to 10 centimeters that's four inches in diameter rained down on tuesday on an area around the village of labisbol de emporda they caused injuries mostly broken bones and bruising to around 50 other people broadcaster tv3 said people started screaming and hiding said musician psychus carbonell who filmed the storm's destructive aftermath in castel de emporda a nearby hotel where his band were playing a canvas covered terrace when everyone was forced to run for cover but sadly a young person a very young person um died okay and uh i suppose on a much much much lighter note uh to finish it off let's go to the irish daily mirror if you've got a cat or a dog um cuddle it because it's good for you uh cuddling your pet is the best way to beat the stress of modern life stroking a cat or dog topped the list of how to calm yourself over money or family worries set a poll of 2000 people enjoying a cup of tea with a biscuit came a close second followed by reading a book writing a to-do list or taking time out from social media uh binging on netflix going for a run getting into bed with clean sheets or ordering a takeaway also made the list of comforts what's your favorite conference there binging on netflix to me i find is fine for a while but then i really start feeling guilty and wonder what i'm doing with my life i don't think there's much that beats getting into bed with clean sheets uh that is um a great comfort also a takeaway it's nice to have a takeaway now and again because you don't have to do any cleaning up or whatever it's really really handy taking a break from social media i like social media reading a book i don't do that copper tea can't beat it not too big a fan of biscuits and i don't have a cat or a dog so for me uh i think getting into a bed with new sheets tops the list for me what's your greatest comfort 086625 000 086625 000 or give us a call on 07491 25 000 that's 07491 25 000 the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop letter kenny donnie gall local development company is hosting a showcase event called celebrating donnie gall business in the clanry hotel letter kenny on saturday the 10th of september from 12 noon to 4 p.m this event is free to attend and features the very best in local businesses find your perfect tradesman beauty product gift idea outdoor adventure and much more all in the one place come along and support your local businesses on a day that's guaranteed to be fun for all there's lots of spot prizes and face painting for the kids make celebrating donnie gall business your business this september the 10th for more information visit dldc.org new trace lamb feed offer directly supported by the arivo 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live music and plenty of crack that's this sunday live and highland radio from 12 noon or watch the show on our website youtube or facebook and if you're in london come along and say hello all right looking forward to that this sunday at 12 noon if you can tune in do you can either listen or watch okay we're joined on the program now by deputy thomas pringle he's calling on the public to take a stand on the cost of living crises good morning to you thomas can you hear me okay like i have to be completely honest with you i'm going to be speaking to you now about a cost of living crisis that many listeners are are dealing with and struggling with at the same time where if this new pay deal is if this new pay deal is passed your salary and it is on the public record i'm not i don't like talking about people's private business but you know what i mean i can't in all consciousness talk about something before you come on and they're not mention it to you because i would feel bad about that you know we're about to talk about how the people should take to the streets about increased costs of living yet you and and and the rest of the tds six and a half grand will just land into your bank account if this public pay deal bringing salaries to 108 000 euro i don't question your understanding of uh people's difficulties okay but you there there there has to be some level of detachment at uh government political political dull level when you know that increase would be just it would change someone's life you know if they were just a a regular person i mean is it justifiable 108 000 euro per year a six thousand six and a half thousand euro pay rise and then try and make decisions about people who are struggling in their lives yeah Greg i mean i don't think it's just as up to me to say whether it's justifiable or not obviously if somebody is in the position i feel that um i would be worth it but the reality is that and the reason that you see the increases that have been negotiated by the unions and i think it's it's a separate issue but related as well that politicians get that increase as well even though it's negotiated by the unions on behalf of a lot lower paid workers who are a lot more deserving of it as well and i think it's it's an indication of the actual difficulty that people are in that the unions are pushing for as high a pay rise as this can be um it can be it can be got i think it's a it's an unfortunate sidekick of it and something that we should as politicians should be able to stop but the there's no willingness amongst the the political classes to actually stop the increase in benefit and for the likes of us that would be it would be like asking turkeys to vote for christmas i mean you know why would any politician sort of negotiate to decouple themselves from a significant pay rise well i mean i would have no problem with this and uh you know and i think it's something that should be should be done and in reality maybe you know we're deciding on or the political classes deciding whether the pay rise is a given should we be deciding on a pay rise is going to benefit ourselves as well that's another issue but i do think that's a separate issue yeah it is but it's it it's separate but if someone's listening to this it's not separate because you know because it isn't separate because they're struggling and they see those that make decisions for them not struggling so i understand how on paper it's separate but emotionally it is not um and i just wonder you know we're we're going to be talking about a march uh coming up in september you're encouraging people to take part and i would never discourage anyone to take part but you know i just really think when people who are are well off and our decision makers and are in one of their properties and don't have to worry about electricity i want to sometimes if they sneaker at us thinking we'll make a difference by uh walking around dublin when they're not even there well i'll tell you i don't i don't sneaker when i'm thinking about this and i've been meeting meeting people every day in the office that are having severe difficulties in relation to what they are these government's decisions and they're not decisions that are out of the government's hands as they continuously try and say and that's what's important and um you know they can they can actually influence these decisions they can right across europe uh governments have taken decisions that have stopped the increases in the electricity costs that have been experienced everywhere else i think in france they've seen an increase of something like five percent whereas we're seeing increases of thirty six thirty seven thirty eight percent uh here in ireland you know so why is it different everywhere else it's because the government is actually taking decisions on behalf of the people what realistically could the government do to control electricity prices because spain have also i think they've capped the gas input prices and that's how they are trying to deal with it so we buy it and this is what worries me as well the EU are negotiating currently to try and figure out a solution to this and it probably will be in relation to gas prices yet we buy our gas from the from britain the uk which is not in the EU and i don't know what implications that might have for us but what do you think the government can do now because personally speaking i don't see the benefit in them giving electricity companies 300 euro right to try and offset our costs because that's actually just increasing the profits and the the slush fund for the electricity companies do you know what i mean and we're paying for that so they take the money off us that we can't afford and then they give it to electricity companies who already are taking the pee and gouging from us right so they're sitting back on seriously is this their solution they're going to give us more money folks so what do you think the solution is well i think i think the government could introduce a ban on above above cost increases and the massive profits that the companies are making they could they could put windfall taxes on those profits and distribute that money back to the people you know the the government does get an increased tax receipts from the fact that the prices have gone up they could be distributing that money back to the people as well and they could in the long run what needs to be done then in the long run i think is they need to bring energy supply and that back under public control as well you know it's no it's no mistake that um when uh before when the electricity market in ireland was so-called liberalized and opened up to competition we had the cheapest electricity in europe provided by the esp and now we have the second most expensive electricity in europe provided by the free market see i think that's a really important one because we were promised at that time that this would lead to more competition and cheaper electricity that experiment has failed miserably so if any private company makes a decision and the decision is wrong they reverse that decision or change their decision so i mean the government got it wrong whichever government was i'm not sure which made that decision that's a failed experiment we clearly then need to take uh the the uh generation and distribution of power back into state ownership yeah yeah i mean and it's been a fault in gale or the government said i've got that wrong and got that decision wrong and they're the people that we're expecting now to actually sort this out um and you know and the reality is they are wrong and this isn't isn't a european um push or anything like that because other european countries are actually intervening to keep the electricity prices rises down and and that's significant but yet we're here wringing our hands and saying there's nothing we can do either we're members of european union or not or what what is the situation and i think that the government can be doing an awful lot more and can be doing an awful lot more to intervene to actually help citizens and that's the most important i'm like we've seen it over the last number of years as well it's not only the electricity cost but also homelessness uh housing stuff they got there you know this government can intervene and the the actual policy decisions by the government not to intervene that's the reality of the situation and the the problem is is that the government has shown that it can intervene because it showed that it can intervene really quite drastically through covid and also in dealing with uh and assisting refugees so it has the power it has that money tree it can if the will is there because it's been proven you're okay to stay with us for a moment are you thomas are you yeah i know okay because i want to bring in and we'll focus on promoting this this rally by the way as well paddy differ my correction campaigner joins us paddy how are you keeping that's a bad thing that's good to chat to you again um just before we get on to the protests is there any update as it relates to uh the the scheme paddy or are we not our micro home owners not really focusing too much that on the moment because there's there's no faith in it achieving what it was set out to uh what you know we were led to believe it might what is the situation as it relates to the the actual scheme at the moment paddy i am the thing with this upgrade i'm in the back here too there's no there's nothing they're not no talks they're not to know they're not and no talks to get no no plan no rule out plan no structure that's such a such a shambles just the way this government does at the moment they've just been proven to be a shambles all through the board from everything from not looking after the people towards mica to this cost of living crisis the whole thing just they're running really good on the countless chickens they've no direction it's like that's just the way that's just the bottom lane direction is they haven't approved my eyes right so this rally's taking place on the 24th of september paddy and this is a lot of organization and different groups were involved in this one i get the feeling and i don't know what you think paddy that this one has to be very very very very very well attended because if it's you know even if it's similar in size to the micro protest as amazing that was from one county i don't think it's going to make a difference i think this is the type that needs many multiples of tens of thousands attending and that's how the government can't ignore it what do you think no i totally agree i think if there's not over a hundred foot they need to be up to a hundred thousand i'm not sure because i've started at twenty or thirty thousand people won't say looks they're not taken serious they're not up for a fight they're not standing together we'll don't have to do nothing but i feel i'm on record numbers and so all the way to work i i i hope i'm created every county and every man woman child and their dog turned up to us here because as you say everyone just walking through the streets with twenty thousand they don't care they need to see some dramatic song song that just absolutely makes them think hold on a minute plus there's current serious bother here if we don't listen to the people but all the people get up i don't know i just hope they do yeah um and it's something he says well that the media can't ignore um as well because you know certain sections of the media will try and play something like this down um and sometimes when you get to a certain number you just simply can't do that uh that's the question um patty you know we can say we want to we can say we will but on saturday morning will people jump in their cars or on the buses and that remains to be seen you're encouraging as many as possible as many listening to do so though i imagine i i would love it if every country was doing their was getting their own people to go like every teacher every anybody will sell homeless anybody can't get that rent paying the rent and their mortgages and their students smoke you know i mean actually everybody should be i know people turn around and they've got the certain for the protest through the mica i have myself i would i think disruptive there's only way but this is never going to be one so this is the last chance i would say you'll ever get a protest to stand together because if we do not want to sit down and just wax it and say i'm only a number so not must me and you look down the road and there's only 30 000 love that's your crisis that's housing crisis and and cost the loving crisis we'll just get out of control because the government will do that well they'll just realize and people's people's not standing together they're not fighting they're just going to turn around and be there ah that's what it is yeah i i know this this might sound naive and and you know obviously with the mica march party it was very specific on mica i think they should pop they should not have speakers at something like this i really don't think that helps i think that puts some people off um i think i should just say get out onto the streets we don't need a stage we don't need microphones or speakers or egos being massaged or people politicking or maybe even sort of trying to uh no i if it were me i'd have no stage no speakers i'd just get people on the ground and that is it and it could be from any political party or none i don't know what your views on something like that might be no less than a million percent rate one of the biggest regrets i have that second that second protest and double was that stage and i'm not passing too long i i actually really think patty with all due respect i think that was perfect for that issue and i think there was images and photos because it was so specific and it was the people that needed to be there speaking i think that's different and i say that with respect patty and use a brilliant organizing stuff this is just something that we can't have anyone saying this is about you know we've got these people here it puts people off i think if there's if there's no speakers everyone will feel welcome but i i think you did bring it with with your stage to be honest with you uh well listen i i don't know i think the stage is speaking i've been speaking a little too many people it's talked too long but at the same time i totally agree with us next thing here no more stages no more no more speeches go down make your point i just hope but every i just hope like i i my hand goes out like your height goes out to dummy go on so that's far away from Dublin and everybody else and then you've got the clock but at the same time for one day if you think it's going to make a difference that's housing crisis people people should make effort should definitely make effort to go because make no mistake about it this is a this is an upload shambles like see the more you look under this that's housing crisis like you really look under the worst it is that's a mess from hovering from the health service to the oil the housing diesel agriculture immigration multinationals the students can get accommodation the last test goes on and goes on and goes on and i know that there's a there's inflation around the world i fend off but at the same time there's other companies deal with it right they look ahead to the future this company as as an as a mess that's the most this but the second most expensive company in europe the biggest housing crisis um you look over there somebody and somebody says ah but they maxed an expensive country too what's your their their health service is tap notch the students the education is tap notch or is it just a mess all over i'm like i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm sometimes we need to look at ourselves because i can't just be the government that's fault we need to look at us we must be if we keep voting them it's not them it's us like the day the day of us voting one two three four five though don't even do no more three fours and fives that's you can't even let them let them get under even that's there i think they're just they're they're just a disgrace we were talking last night about it one of the boys was saying should look at really none the years he says every time you look at really none the years all they're talking about is a scandal in the government a tribunal needs to be done a tribunal for us yeah what are you a month better and i say he's no bank account you took a look at the other day they're now directly he's back in he's out two years ago now he's back in doing this your man the micro homeowners couldn't be on the scheme for no rtb's your man rob throy he's no rtb and and and there's another boy come out to him today leave no rtb like a scandal after scandal with them swandering for them and not we're just we're not on to them they don't know what it is for a cost of living so there's there's another raise here for people earning over 150 000 are getting another six to ten percent raise and help us like jesus i don't know much all right listen you're encouraging anyone um anyone and everyone to get to Dublin on the 24th of september and of course people with still suffering from mica and facing into a winter i mean like imagine how tough it is heating the house already then imagine heating the house that the wind's blowing through it you know and you can't compartmentalize it i mean it's going to be an absolute nightmare particularly for uh mica affected homeowners thanks patty for your time i appreciate it all right take care right now carol carmel bono joins us carmel sorry for holding you uh because this is the other end of it this is the business side of it um there's two images you have produced uh two electricity bills and uh one is five hundred and five thousand 550 euro the second 10 278 euro how can any business uh absorb that kind of cost increase that's just one thing over one billing period i mean it's it's impossible carmel is it it's an impossible Greg when you look at that that's like at a hundred percent increase in two months i'm listening to thomas they're saying to you down the low down the road in the long run and all the rest of my point is Greg long run and down the road isn't going to help me now and here and now right now because this bill is issued and these guys want this 10 278 euro on the 8th of september now that's a hundred percent increase from our last bill so if thomas would say to me or somebody could explain to me justify that increase explain to me how my bill is five thousand pound dear than it was two months ago if he could tell me because my usage is exactly the same we haven't changed and everything in the shop is still exactly the same if anything Greg with pullback we have like you know i mean we've been mindful we've been mindful of if you like being put out air calm not being used and i mean we don't have a lot of hot days Greg but the days that were hot we had to be mindful about the air calm i was in a shop yesterday and i said i said it's roasting in here and he and he said to me he says well we can't risk putting the air conditioning on it was absolutely roasting in there um well i mean i'm going to come back to you carmel if you're because i want to taste this out a bit more but thomas pringle still on the line with us i suppose he can't speak on behalf of the government oh i don't think it's going to justify it but you know carmel is facing these increased bills thomas from companies that are reporting record profits now this is not just bp and shell but even the electricity suppliers are reporting it is insult to injury it's like them walking into carmel shop and slapping her across the face is there any justification thomas well i'm not going to justify it because i think it's completely wrong Greg and it should it should never have happened and um and it starts like and carmel has outlined it there a hundred percent increase over two months i mean i'm dealing with with businesses and in this end of the county as well here it's facing the exact same problems and you know i was talking to one business owner yesterday who um has a new new premises where they put in all the cost saving thing low energy bulb everything they got there everything that the government has actually advised them businesses to do now to reduce their energy costs and her energy costs have still come through the roof you know so it's crazy and then and then as we see then the company's making massive profits on thought of this as well the government needs to be in right away making sure that they are taxing those profits to the health giving that money back to the consumers and back to the people who've who've paid it that's the very least that the government can do but they could also say to the company that they we're not stand votes anymore and you know have no more increases and set the set the benchmark and intervene in the market and that's what needs to happen Carmel what does this mean in terms of of of a business because you know it's not like you can try and make the savings you're already trying to do that it's not like you can all of a sudden come up with a massive new revenue stream and also you're facing into the fact that maybe your customers are going to be watching their pennies a little bit more closer so when you look over the next six months Carmel what what do you see Greg like it's a small we're a small output here in convoying we've been here 30 years and it's myself and the two daughters and like we just between the three of us yesterday and we're thinking what are we going to do that's 10,000 Greg like I'm getting a lot of messages from people saying don't pay right okay say I say I take that asset right don't pay well I'll get cut off then I'll have to pay the reconnection fee you know I mean so it can't go down that way that's 10,000 will have to be paid so how do I make that back through the business you know how do I get that 10,000 back through the business then pay that then pay the suppliers into your also I'll tell you Greg it's really very worrying so because you're saying it's going up again now on the end of October I think so say I my next bill now is 30% of 13,000 like was up to 13,000 here's the thing let me just pull the shutters down that's that's like we could not sustain this going forward that amount of ASB yeah but what that is a huge impact for you and your family but also for convoy as well your shop your launder shop is that you know it's these are the hearts the beating hearts of these local areas yeah we're 30 years in convoy honestly you know between like it's the three of us like we're a small output Greg there's nine staff like you know and we go on above we do what we can like we are that amount that the ASB bill Greg is not sustainable for us not going forward anyway but here's my point here's what I what do we do what do I do as a small business no I don't know but but even you should be supported because if you close that's nine jobs lost that's nine people that might have to end up on social welfare for example and I hope your staff understand I'm using them as example I'm not talking about their private lives in Carmel and that costs the state and then they probably need to go and try and get some you know what I mean like the what we should be doing is keeping you in business keeping those nine people in jobs because yeah all right it's worrying for you Carmel and you can't look forward to anything because this is going to be hanging over your head like a big dark cloud following you everywhere very department Greg is nobody nobody and I don't care if I say I have ten thousand euros just sitting there to pay a bill nobody none of us like it's like what do I do like how can they justify to me that this bill is ten thousand two hundred and seventy eight euro when we have done nothing any different or usage Greg it's still the same I like I said earlier it's not that yep no you can see in the bill you can see how many units you've used it's not like all of a sudden you're stuck on 50 electric heaters the unit usage is there they've just decided to charge you an extra hundred percent for the for the privilege all right Greg do they just come up with us up at the top of their head and see we don't know because there's no transparency how do we know how are how are oil companies making record profits how are electricity companies making extra profits record profits then why are we planning to give taxpayers money to these directly to the electricity companies to take the pressure off the public which it's money for nothing for them why would they reduce prices why would they have a moral conscience we are we are encouraging and supporting them and paying them with taxpayers money we are literally saying well done here's more money for you and we're supposed to buy that as if that's doing us a favor taking the edge off things Carmel so I don't know they don't have to justify it because they're not held to account yeah I don't know why they're great Thomas all right Carmel thanks for your time Thomas yeah that's a that's a problem all the all the electricity companies are private companies they don't have to be accountable to the state or anything they got but the state can do more and that's the reality of the situation and they have to like you're right there the loss of nine jobs in convoy will be the equivalent of losing 900 jobs americanny or 9 000 jobs in Dublin and there would be an uproar right across the country in relation to it and that's that's the difficulty and the government needs to take action to make sure that this happens and they need to do more than the mealymouth response they have been given up to this because the prices are still increasing people are still having to pay then they've been pinned to the caller and the reality is like the as you said Greg and the the business gets that big increase the customers that they are they're relying on to keep that business going as well they're suffering under increases as well so they don't have the spend and worry though so they're cutting back on their spend the costs are going up and they're being squeezed in the middle and all the while they're increasing interest rates by way of stopping or stemming this right yeah which is increasing people's bills and costs and anxieties and stress and and at record low interest rates inflation was still you know it's not really clear the relationship between interest rates going up and and costs coming and and spending anyway listen deputy homespring oh thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it i was in your there september 24th clive johnson is another business person he owns lucas restaurant in letter kenny clive uh what what's your situation well good morning greg uh our situation is and lucas restaurant alone we have five or six different uh establishments our bill went from about seven eight thousand uh every two months to 22 000 i mean no business can absorb that clive i don't care how successful they are no we went back well with the company we were with and we asked the questions well first of all our our unit price went from we were contracted for 18 cents and when our contract was up we went then to 39 cents so we got the bill for 22 000 we questioned panda power and that uh what you know we first of all you can't get 30 and took days to get any answer anybody to come back to us days maybe seven eight days at this stage panda power then come back and they said they looked at the bill they did take three thousand off it now i think that was they were charging the full price or the full term where the contract sort of changed and between times and that's the people as well so most need to make sure and check what the suppliers there were but after a contract's changing in the middle of the bowl that that's they're only being charged the old rate but it's impossible to get through to the companies yeah so i mean from a business perspective now without not in any way discussing the private matters of your business clive i mean when you look through the winter again we don't know where prices are going i presume it will require more leads and more heat and more light you know what what do you feel when you look look through you know november december january february for example well listen we're just living and hope that the budget this emergency budget or whatever it is that they do something because i don't know where it stops uh we can't go back we we put a price as up suppose about four or five months ago it doesn't bother i think at this stage what price your your your product's going to be because the customer is not going to have the money to spend and they're not going to come on to you have in podcast stabilized at all you know obviously we're talking about the the cost of electricity has there been any stabilization in terms of the raw materials that you see clive no the stuff stuff has been up every day every morning you look at your emails there's the price increases somewhere there's two or three different suppliers somewhere price increases higher they are down there and if you take now across europe there's a drought situation in a lot of places we use a lot of pasta just one example a bag of flour pizza flour that we were using was about 15 80 this time last year that is now 39 euro wow it's almost over yeah and that's just one thing pasta everything that's coming on the door has chicken has more than double that would say and you're just everything and that's that's tough there's a lot of businesses not going to survive yeah and yeah for sure because there's going to be it's like households there's going to be different businesses at different places like some businesses that are ticking along breaking even just turning a small profit with a business plan to turn a larger profit in three or four years they're gonna go you know i suppose the bigger businesses will be sitting waiting it's like they'll be able to hold on and the smaller businesses will go by the wayside and suppose whatever businesses are there then the bigger businesses will pick them up that's going to be a very very very tough one for a lot of people all right clive i wish we had better news but that's the reality esb up to 22 000 euro for 63 days i mean you have to you know sell a lot of stuff and get a lot of people in and out through the door just to get to that amount before you talk about paying everything else and costs and wages and every other bloody thing that's one business my esb for them two months would be over 40 46 000 scary stuff so i don't know i'm not sure if it gets any worse that's just that's not easy well listen keep doing what you're doing and but we what we can 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paterson's kitchens and interiors the hall effort okay heading towards news at 10 greg and team can we actually find out exactly why the increase in electricity cost has happened at such a vast scale attached is the best quote i can find right now could any other business give insights into the best deal they can get right now well it's the the rising cost of of the likes of gas that's driving up the the prices they also say that the wind's not blowing like perhaps it should and there's drought and which is affecting generation through hydro and all that kind of stuff fuel for slack burners went from 250 euro in the spring time to 750 euro now how can you heat your home at that increase i don't know i got home pointing heating oil in there during the week dip the tank and nothing in it really to be honest they might have to tilt it even further towards the top all right it is the nine till noon show here in highland radio loads to come in the next two hours stay where you are but we're going to take a quick break now for the news and obituary notices line on air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's 10 o'clock donal kavana at the highland radio news desk the social democrats say the latest controversies surrounding another minister's rental property rages questions about how seriously the government takes rental regulations steven donnelly is due to address the media this morning to clarify the late registration of a rental property the health minister blamed an oversight for failing to register a property with the rtb since 2019 he says it's been registered since last week there has been a renewed focus on landlord tds following the resignation of robert truy as junior minister last week over controversy around his 11 properties social democrats housing spokesperson keino callahan says tds and ministers need to be able to follow the rules just like everyone else i think this is a huge sack in the face actually for the tens of thousands of landlords to do everything by the book register with the rtb follow all the laws all the regulations and now they know that a government minister hasn't done this and it's not really conceivable that he simply forgot about who would have been getting their rental income from but everything else so it raises the question not just i think minister donnelly is the government taking this seriously at all do they consider regulation of the private rent sector a serious matter adoni gold td is urging people to support the cost of living protest which takes place in dublin on saturday september 24th independent deputy thomas pringle says it's important that a very strong message is sent to the government ahead of the march in rally which is being organized by the cost of living coalition he says it's particularly important that the government's argument that it's powerless to act is firmly challenged he told greg on today's nine till noon show that governments elsewhere can take alternative decisions they're not decisions that are out of the government's hands as they continuously try and say and that's what's important they can actually influence these decisions they can right across europe governments have taken decisions that have stopped the increases in the electricity costs that have been experienced everywhere else i think in france they've seen an increase of something like five percent whereas we're seeing increases of 36 37 38 percent here in ireland you know so why is it different everywhere else it's because the government has actually taken decisions on behalf of the people from today those age 12 to 49 with long-term health conditions and healthcare workers are invited to make appointments for their second to covid-19 booster dose pop-up vaccination clinics are in place at the letter kennie covid vaccination center as well as in st mary's parish center in strunner tomorrow and in the center in letter kennie on friday and saturday these clinics are available by appointment only a full report and all those details available on our website don lowe has been granted an extra 20 000 euro in funding to implement language plans the funding was announced by the government chief whip and junior wealth minister jack chambers who is currently on a visit to donnie gall with more detail here's donna marie daherty government chief whip and minister of state for the gale tucked and sport jack chambers td will launch the language plan for the gale tucked service town of anglohan lea this evening in anod chimple cruney while in donnie gall this week he announced that the annual funding to be made available in future for the specific gale tucked service towns in the gale tucked is being increased from 80 000 euro to 100 000 euro per year an additional fund worth 20 000 euro per year will now be available to help towns implement their language plans this amounts to the total funding of up to 700 000 euro per town over the lifetime of the seven-year language plans for three towns throughout the county including don lowe during his visit to country donnie gall today minister of state chambers is also getting an insight into ulster scott's culture and heritage in the east of the county by visiting the monria heritage centre carragans and the ulster scott agency offices in rafau anthony will be the first storm for the coming winter season met erin along with weather services in the uk and netherlands have released the fullest of storm names this morning which will be in alphabetical order also included are cillian joanna nellie and ruin the head of forecasting at met erin evlyn qsac says they received many suggestions from the public but couldn't use them all we did use some of them i'm not going to highlight them because then other people would feel that but i'll just say you know if your name didn't appear this year well look there's a lots of years ahead and i'm afraid there's probably lots of storms ahead not that everyone wants to be called once their name associated with a violent destructive force of nature with a forecast and met erin tell us any mist or fog will clear this morning leaving a mostly dry and sunny day some patchy cloud will bubble up during the middle of the day and that could bring some isolated showers top temperatures today of 18 to 20 degrees celsius and that's island regular news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team good morning obituary notices for thursday morning september 1st the death has taken place of jimmy cullen devlin ray carragarch removal from the eternal light chapel of rest mountaintop letterkinny this afternoon at 3 30 p.m going to his late residence funeral from there on saturday going to the church of st john the baptist carragart for a recurring mass at 11 a.m fall by interment in the adjoining cemetery the death has occurred of pat mehan 39 ash lawn letterkinny informally kill cloney port nu patch remains were opposed at chuvland's funeral home sandfield ardra from 12 noon today were for moval at 1 30 p.m going to his late residence to arrive at approximately 3 p.m traveling via kill cloney lough fad anglantis funeral mass on saturday morning at 11 a.m in the church of the irish murders letterkinny funeral mass can be viewed live on the irish murders facebook page family time from 11 p.m until 9 a.m and on the morning of the funeral family flowers only donations in lough if desired to the irish community rapid response care of any family member or james mcginnis and son's funeral director the death has occurred in birmingham england of david owing formerly the cura killie gordon recurring mass will be celebrated for david in st patrick's church crossroads killie gordon on saturday at 11 a.m in tearment of ashes afterwards in the family grave in the adjoining church yard the recreation mass will be streamed live on st patrick's church crossroads killie gordon facebook page the death has taken place of robbie bergley town parks convoy funeral from there on saturday at 12 n in for service in centinine's parish church convoy at 12 30 p.m with burial afterwards in the family plot in the adjoining church yard the death has occurred of null o d town parks refoe formally burie county limerick null is reposing at kelly's funeral home today from 11 a.m to 3 p.m and from 5 p.m with rosary at 8 p.m family time on the morning of the funeral please funeral will leave his late residence town parks refoe tomorrow morning at 11 30 a.m going to st unan's church refoe for 12 nun recreation mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery mass can be viewed on mcn media dot tv family flowers only please donations in lieu if desired to there a full conference of st thunson de paul care of any family member or kelly's funeral directors the death has taken place of therese and mcgonagall knee kelly 427 victoria road bali moghoy and formally of a herring reposing at her home funeral leaving her home tomorrow morning at 9 25 a.m for recreation mass in st mary's church clock core at 10 a.m interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in lieu of fliers please to the foil hospice care of quickly funeral directors the death has taken place of edward eddie crofford station road port hall lyford eddie's remains are reposing at his home today from 2 p.m until 10 p.m funeral from there tomorrow morning for recreation mass at 11 a.m in st patrick's church murlough followed by interment in st bathon cemetery st johnson funeral mass can be viewed on plonley parish dot com house is private from 10 p.m until 2 p.m and on the morning of the funeral and the death has taken place of margaret and rita mcgnott rd newtown cunningham rita's remains are reposing at her late residence with family time please from 11 p.m to 10 a.m funeral leaving from there tomorrow afternoon at 1 15 p.m for 2 p.m funeral service in newtown cunningham presbyterian church with burial afterwards in the family plot in the adjoining church yard family fliers only donations in lieu if desired to medical five letter kinny university hospital care of any family member or terrence mclintock funeral director for more details including any family health guidelines for wicks and funerals please go to highland radio dot com okay you're very welcome back to the second hour of the program good morning to you if you are just uh joining us um right a caller says and i really don't understand when people start messages with i don't think you're brave enough to read this out i have no idea what that means we cover everything on this program um and i don't know what in my uh history here it would suggest that i'm not brave enough to read out a text but anyway i don't agree with you and i'll explain the reasons why but if you want to come and discuss it that's fine um what do you think about this if the majority of people stop paying their electricity and rent i believe if a mass movement of people done this it would bring about change we could be one more step closer to waking up this government it would get their attention i can't see anything else having as big an effect some kind of uprising is the only way to be heard already in the uk barris and crew are trying to stop protesting um well what will happen is is i don't know i'll say there's 200 thousand homeowners who uh pay electricity in this country one or two thousand maybe three you know maybe five percent even if it were five percent of people said right we're going to do this they'd be left on their own doing it they'd be sitting there in a house that is uh that is dark you know not heated um face and eviction whilst the majority who won't do this uh regardless of how much you might want them to the majority wouldn't do this um don't do it and sort of say well fair play to you you're making a stand well done to you those people would have to then end up paying reconnection charges their credit rate would go through the floor you know if the majority of people did it which will never happen maybe but it won't be it would just be a five percent that would take that stand and then they'd end up with their lives completely uh banjaxed and the 95 percent going well i would have done it but for this reason or for that reason it's the same about a lot of things as of late um you know when it comes down to it people will conform and and understandably because there's realities about you know raising children feeding people keeping heat on a lot of reasons as to why um people would not stop paying their electricity or rent because eventually uh they probably would end up having to get reconnected that's if they could get a supplier that would deal with them and then they'd have to be pay a reconnection charge you probably have to get to 60 70 percent of people uh who simply wouldn't be able to do because i mean how do you how do you not pay your electricity and then your children not do their homework for example or or not be able to put the oven on or not be able to put your heating on because the pump runs off electricity like i like where you're coming from in terms of some sort of utopia where lots and lots and lots of people did it but they simply won't and i don't think it's a particularly controversial text that one would require great bravery to read out but i appreciate it and let's throw it out to the general population to see what they think i just think that um you know there'd be a couple of thousand people that might think they're taking a stand uh but in the end um they would be far worse off than they are right now a caller says i can't wait until shun feyn and thomas gets into government won't have to put my hand in my pocket for anything see that's the other side of it other countries take to the streets and force the governments to act the irish take to the pubs and then emigrate no accountability of those in power here and never will be same old same old we shall see what kind of crowd turns out on september uh 24th it has to be huge you know it can't be 30 or 40 000 or 45 000 uh it simply would not be the case here's uh another example of what i think maybe uh maria i appreciate your texting but i think you might have got the wrong end of the stick highland radio is a waste of time thank you for your endorsement uh making little of the irish citizens by ruling out speakers now this is me suggesting and paddy divver actually agreed with me um be like the french make a noisy demonstration protest this sweet talk in the government isn't working make a noisy protest bring your banners bring your pots and pans whatever it is shout whistle whatever but i'll tell you right now there is a large proportion of the population right say for instance say for instance this protest on september 24th uh is it ends up with a whole load of shin fane speakers on stage let's just say for example because it's easier to say that our people who are finafall and finnegale supporters but don't like the direction the country are going to go in are all of a sudden going to go to what is uh the fact oh shin fane rally they're not they're going to stay at home and say this is not for me we've seen it before we've seen it before with protests that have been organized outside ladder kenney university hospital because they were being organized by a particular group people who were affected that supported other groups didn't go the turnout was terrible okay people can bring the banners make the noise or whatever but i'm telling you that if if a political party or grouping or some political section take that protest over you can forget about a lot of people turning up the reason you exclude speakers i'm suggesting you exclude speakers it's because we've heard it all before we've heard all the lines before go on facebook people are sitting in their cars uh saying stuff to the camera we've heard it a million times no one's doing anything people are saying the same stuff over and over again but what is being done nothing it's a disgrace we need to do this we need everybody knows all that stuff but it's about doing something so if lots and lots of people if they want to turn out and uh at september 24th something might change but if you start making it a political party or a political ideology if it's being seen to be organized by one particular cohort then it will greatly affect numbers now i'm open to correction i could be wrong but i've seen it firsthand what do you think 08 660 25 000 whatsapp or text uh your calls to 07491 25 000 marie by the way i do appreciate your interacting with the program i mean i don't think we're a waste of time but i respect your point of view and i appreciate you taking the time to type it okay i'm going to take the bingo numbers but it's going to be after this break my apologies i've clicked them in the wrong order so if you're waiting for the bingo numbers they'll be with you in just a minute and 50 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struggled over the last two years um and these businesses have the majority of the 70 exhibitors who are showcasing at the event um on the 10th of september were established over the last two years so i mean that's an incredible feat and we as an organization just want to celebrate them and get them together and give them an opportunity to really profile their businesses show their resilience and celebrate the hard work that that you know that has been achieved over the last two years to be the successes that they are today yeah and of course there'll be plenty of networking opportunities and ideas uh sharing and pothole sharing or pitfall sharing all that kind of stuff at this type of event as well i'm sure for those who are the business people attending yeah absolutely i mean what makes it a bit different i suppose is that you know these type of events would be a bridal event or a baby fair event but this is businesses from of all kinds greg we have everything from bakeries to outdoor we're going to talk to to john i want to bet outdoor adventure companies we have hairdressers beauticians bakers we have a lot of tradesmen exhibiting so businesses of all kinds here so there's something for everybody so there's the chance for them to meet each other you know work together but also an opportunity for the public to come in and and and find i don't know tate talking about christmas so soon but the perfect christ christmas gift or the perfect tradesman so there's huge opportunities to come in and support your local businesses in the area lots of people love talking about christmas already don't be afraid of the noisy minority i know well it's september now it's nearly acceptable at this stage you mentioned john o griffin he's from wild and free adventures john o good morning to you morning how you doing i'm doing fantastic tell us about your company what it offers and where it's located john o yeah i'm a new company just just set up a few months ago we're based in southwest dunagol along the sleeve league peninsula and specializing in taking people on adventures but like things around stand-up paddle adventures surfing a little bit of hiking as well i'm kind of customizing adventures for folks to get out into the amazing coastline that we have in south dunagol that is that is untouched and just a unique place so yeah the stand-up paddling has been really successful really um you know a lot of people enjoy that and for all levels all ages i've had seven year olds and i've had 70 odd year olds out all summer going into caves and gorges along beaches and coastlines we we've had dolphins uh under our boards uh so amazing you get a beautiful perspective of course uh you know at the top of sleeve league looking out but there's a something different about being down at sea level so to speak and seeing it from a completely different perspective it feels like you know there's a uniqueness to that experience even if you're with 50 people whereas there's something more generic about standing above a cliff looking out which is beautiful as well don't get me wrong but i think that's what draws people to that type of activity amongst other things yeah and and you find when you get people um and this is kind of my heart of the business is is more the adventure the experience side of getting people into the outdoors in a safe and fun way people realize they they can have transformative and i know it's a bit bit cheesy but they can have life changing experiences uh out on the water under a cliff we need to start owning what we feel law is afraid to mention christmas and you're afraid to mention the the real spiritual element of the experience you provide i'm just trying to be inclusive i know i know i know but channel you see a business like yours is is uh it's important to you and those that you employ as well but this is also diversifying our tourism product as well be it internal tourism or people coming overseas like you know if you were to go back 20 years or maybe even more sooner that people might go you mean to tell me there isn't a business that will actually able be allow me to in a safe way experience this beautiful uh coastline that you have do you know what i mean and and it as i say diversifies our our product as well as anything else jono oh huge and i'm about 60 to 70 of my business has been local people that doesn't surprise me and a lot of local people are saying jono it's brilliant now that we have something that you know the tourists were coming with their kayaks and they're stand-up paddles and their surfboards and now there's something for us and we've now realized that places like tilin bay and fintra and all that long that coastline is a phenomenal place and they they now can get into it safely and realize what a resource they have um plus then your tourists who kind of come by and are picking up the the flyer the leaf that are hearing about it and are just i had people in caves and we came out of the cave and a dolphin comes in underneath us and they're like i thought we're just going to go around a beach for an hour you know so it's it's actually pushing people out of the comfort zones and realizing they can have an amazing experience that uh and people of all levels and abilities is very inclusive as well i think sometimes we exclude people because of how they look or how maybe what ability they have or don't have where we think but actually things like stand-up paddling and surfing and these sort of things can be done for i've had all walks of life and it's it's really and so that i have to kind of pinch myself as i grab my paddle and put on my shorts to go out for a paddle into a cave you know it's my job but of course but it doesn't happen you feel lucky but these don't happen by luck you have to come up with a business plan you have to i'll presume invest greatly in materials then you have to get the right supports and it's a credit to you that it's uh you're able to enjoy what feels like uh look but it's graft and hard work and the right supports john i'll before i go back to laura in terms of the season um are we widening the season out uh at all or is it still a relatively narrow season and what's the story no you see with with equipment nowadays and the advancement in wetsuits and gear um we can really get people on the water come march march to november you can get people on the water you can go all year but it's a bit tougher in december in january um but the mountains are great in the winter time as well so it is an all year round thing yes the high season will be summer and the high season will be between easter and halloween but but very doable um i also do a little bit of work with schools as well i next week i do a transition year program for some schools in dublin coming up to dunigul uh hoping to connect with local schools so we do like transition year program spiritual treats where we take people surfing so that happens more in the autumn and the spring so um yeah so and we've seen the amazing work that's being done down in the likes of ross now that that connection to the water and and what it can mean for people depending on uh you know where they're at in their lives laura um also i presume this is an opportunity for people to sort of understand the work of the dl dc because you could have someone with the best idea in the world or whatever it might be and they may simply not be aware that dl dc exists or what they do no harm to yourself but you know we can't presume everyone knows yeah absolutely no absolutely and this is an opportunity as well if people have an idea if you're sitting at home listening with that burning thought of of an idea that's been digging in the back of your head for a few years you know come along on the day um and speak to one of our team we're our enterprise team will be there it's a very open friendly organization and there's absolutely no pressure we'll meet you at your level and on your terms and there's no pressure to go forward with the business idea just come in and explore it and in some cases it may be that you know that puts a debate that it's not for you which can be closure on that as well but definitely come in um you know if you're home particularly but covid has made everyone reflect on what they're doing and where they're living and it's kind of opened up more avenues so definitely get in touch with us um if you can't come in on the day drop us an email at info at dl dc.org and it will happily point you in the right direction so 100 percent yeah we're speaking to to jonah of course that's the whole outside adventure and more that he provides what there'll be businesses uh you know trades people people who have developed beauty products people who have developed unique gift ideas you know this is a a quite a diverse mix let's put it like that absolutely and it was great to hear that jonah mentioned so much of his business is local you know because you think joining all people are really good at supporting each other and supporting local businesses you know we realize that i mean each one of these exhibitors that have gone through the start your own business program and now you know some of them are only one person still you know some have two employees and some will have more so they're all going to feed back into the local economy and they're going to use local tax you know tax consultants local solicitors you know the rent enough local landlords so it is so important to kind of you know support our local people um so we do encourage everyone to come along to the cannery on the 10th we're there from 12 until 4 and we also are given vouchers the spot prizes on the day so we'll be given um vouchers to spend with it with the exhibitor of your choice on the day so you can choose who you wish to spend it with so it'll be nice it'll be fun be music there and we'll have guest speakers as well so it'll be a fun day for all and jonah i'm sure with with some of the local people that you've dealt with you know like some of this equipment can be really quite expensive and you know people might not know if they want to invest because they don't want i'd say there's people all around that have loved the experience uh with you and have gone out and bought their own gear and and have become you know really passionate about the sea and still probably come around for that whole sort of you know maybe the collective feel or that guided feel to it as well i mean you are impacting a lot of people on a lot of different levels i would say with what you're doing yeah absolutely um what i what i've noticed is a lot of people especially uh post pandemic and people want to go on an adventure but they maybe don't know how to do it or they don't have equipment or the or the feel safe or they need the instruction so there's a definitely a need there but yeah it's to bring people in safely there's a lot of reports there from the rescue services that you know pulling their hair out chasing paddle boarders out to sea and so there's a there's a real important safety issue to bring people into water sports safely so that they can then go on into the industry so yes directing people to buy the correct equipment and then it's lifelong stuff you buy these boards and equipment and you have it for years and it impacts and people say to me jonah's great now haven't had a few sessions with you i can now go out neatly and know the winds i know the conditions um and just to say too just on the dldc like they that support network has been massive for me i'd probably might have been still twilling them a thumbs getting something together but the encouragement and the support to to thrive relation to that jonah i'm sure everyone's different but i just think sometimes people might feel that it's some sort of a weakness or not a failure i don't know what the right words are but to to engage and deal with uh the don't go local development company was that an issue for you was it not no brain a few do you understand where i'm coming from that people say i can do this on my own i know what i want to do i don't need any help in inverted commas all big time and i think there was even a bit of an element of that for me when i had the idea back in the winter i was like how do i get going i had a few contacts in the industry from previous work but um when i got in touch with dldc they really the foundation was there the encouragement support to say you can do this and actually i i went through quite quickly within a few months we were getting the business up and running whereas i had probably i would have if i'd gone on my own i might have taken a way longer and so just that encouragement to say you can do this and we're behind you and the support so that's been massive for me um and then the little bit of financial support there as well to help you get going so the pressure's off to you know you don't just make make um you know the income doesn't come straight away in the safety net is it is that it just gives you the space to do what you do best and and clearly what you do well because of your success laura remind us then uh this is open to is it business people obviously it's open to everybody yeah but you've got invited businesses there but it's open to the public and maybe people that want more information about the work of the dldc isn't that it absolutely it's open to everybody it's open to businesses that they want to come along it's open to uh the public it's free entry um all the exhibitors there have gone through our start your own business program so businesses of all kinds um so if you're interested in going to to shop for the day but equally as you mentioned Greg if you're interested in start your own business we will have our tables there so come along and speak to us we'll also have other representatives from other parts of dldc as well so if it's not our particular program we'll point you in the right direction we'll find the support that you need so come along on the day if you have that burning idea at home just come along and talk to us yep and the v's and d's vouchers and discounts as well uh vouchers and discounts yeah absolutely that's uh more of as equal an additional incentive Laura thanks for your time this morning anything else you want thank you Greg for having us on do you want to say anything no no it's absolutely not all right Laura lovely to have you on the program Laura Mannion there Jono continued success it's great to see uh it's lovely to see someone come up with an idea it turn into a business and they can love their business uh it makes me feel warm inside so well done Jono thanks very much for your time thank you thank you bye bye and continued success that's Jono Griffin there he's from Wild and Free Adventures they offer surfs up and hiking adventures on the sleeve league peninsula and you also heard there from Laura Mannion who's the communications manager with dldc take my hand is a picture this and take my hand Mary McLaughlin from Drumavalli Baloneerna in Limavalli wishing you a happy 70th birthday from Mary Ann Dennis good luck to the Glenfin minor goals in the county final please and thank you hope you do well I'm sure you will Mickey Callahan's in remelton today 85 85th birthday happy birthday coming into you Mickey from uh mags right okay we're going to be talking about place names by the way with historian Dr Joe Kelly um so if you have any and it's not it hasn't come from the conversation we had about road signs and stuff uh people were defacing road signs scribbling out the English but then we started talking about really that a lot of these English names mean nothing and that the Irish is here and nobody knows what's happening with them it's all being kept very quiet does anybody know uh Paul McLaughlin also is coming up from the garden centre as well by the way if you've any gardening questions I want to know when the grass is going to stop growing so I don't have to cut it anymore when is this march being planned for it needs plenty of time for people to arrange to go when it is um when is it it's the 24th uh Marie uh was back on say a pronounced her name wrong it's Marie not it's Marie not Marie uh however I've never mentioned parties like Sinn Fein or Banners I'm talking about all the people and their leaders as speakers union workers union speakers etc it's uh that's the way people think about speakers it's no wonder the government do what they want but those aren't the speakers I'm talking about either you see you've presumed the speakers I was talking about and then uh put it into your point of view and then you're presuming I'm talking about another group of speakers and then uh counter arguing it yourself with your own point of view I am talking about the fact that if you have speakers that disenfranchise any group of people then your attendance will fall it's not it's not I'm not organizing it okay people there will be speakers because there'll be people that will think right you know what I've got such and such a thousand people here I'm gonna have a good old chat now and you know will it be for their benefit or the people's benefit I don't know which unions you're talking of will it be the teachers unions they're just out of negotiations with the government maybe they won't be motivated to be there I don't know um but you I'm not organizing it the organizers will organize and it will see how many people turn up we'll see who the speakers are and then we'll have a post mortem and see what the story is politicians rubbing their hands when they mention pay rises they just get richer 108,000 euro base pay that is can you imagine 108,000 euro you would just never have to worry about things and that's your base pay then you get expenses and stuff as well uh families are struggling say this uh caller with children going back to school it's expense after expense a pound of butter is now four euro it's time to take to the streets and fight for ourselves I'm keeping my lights off now while I can before the dark evenings are here Greg our ESB bill has gone up by 25 euro which isn't too bad for a family four to be honest with all the chat about inflation I was bracing myself for much worse I I use submitting meter readings on that bill when was the last time your bill was checked because you know someone's talking about it can be at sometimes at this time and just be carefully the advice that you see on social media sometimes it might be actually better for you to be on to be on predicted meetings what do they call that you know where they don't actually read your meter estimated bills sometimes it's a benefit to be an estimated bill so keep an eye on that um and Maria on Facebook talked to a friend she lives in Spain a pint is around two to three euro a coffee and a tapa 150 petrol less than 130 in Germany prices have gone up but not as 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feature match we'll also have reporters at the other key ties highlands championship coverage is with highland motors letter Kenny main reno dealer in dunningall the much anticipated new 100 electric multi-award winning reno megan e-tech is nearly here with a range of up to 495 kilometers a test drive is a must book yours today the renowned galon hotel group valet buffet featuring the villa rose and jackson's hotels are hosting their autumn wedding showcase on sunday september the 11th from one till four p.m. take the opportunity to view both venues fully dressed and meet with the wedding teams find out more on gallongroup.com all right good morning dr joe kelly let's go back in history how are you keeping why do you know the game Greg was a lot past just good morning to yourself and to your listeners and highland radio it's great to have you on right before we talk about irish place names and their meanings where did what when did english versions of these names begin to appear yeah well obviously see place names in ireland are very unique maybe this is where we need to start because it just doesn't english and ireland is very very unique and many other countries in the world actually have come to see how we have we have a place names commission that was set up i think it was de valer that set it up when he got into government back in the 30s or the 40s and there's about 70 000 ire's place names roughly and those place names aren't just names like victoria street victoria drive they're far richer than just a name and they show a history if you if you look at the name of a place in irish it will tell you maybe the area belong to for example dune or less or kashel that'll be pre-christian or you might have something like fjord well that would be telling you that the normans and came in and using the vikings came in their their language or you might have for example kella or dona or religious names would tell us that was christian period but most of the irish place names about 90 percent of them would be topographical they would explain something to do with the nature of the mountains the plants the animals something that was to do with the geography in the area so successive generations and centuries of of formation of our place names have happened so the anglicization of them happened in about 1836 uh john o'donovan was a professor of irish at queens in belfast and he was set sent out to go through the whole of ireland to gather and translate the place names for the maps so when the anglis were mapping ireland they had to give them a name and so he was sent out and he tried to explain then the names from the irish into the english but in some cases those names didn't translate correctly and so therefore that's where the difficulty is and i have to be very careful i'm going to be talking about place names and particularly maybe donnie gall today there's a lot of um not sure exactly the meaning of every place name there is what they say now is now jevny had not confirmed well if anyone wants to fight y'all back you up all right so we'll start off with that you're gonna have to take two of us on so talk to me someone somewhere well let's start with lahi because there's a list here lahi lhhy or y depending on the signpost you look at is that your hometown it is indeed i i was going to say it was uh it's the place of the cantankerous bearded broadcast that's for future generations what is it well historically what's it not lahi traditionally would mean a muddy place somewhere that that's it's muddy so that's lahi in irish yeah a little muddy place um obviously there must have been some flones there or a damp place so that would be coming across as lahi yeah that would be that now there's obviously an interpretation but lahi that's the one i've heard before you've you have confirmed it so can we give an example uh can we give an example before we go through it i mean if you want a message in where you're from by the way we'll try and uh well as best as we can we'll try and sort of establish what uh the place names mean so can we talk about one that was bastardized then effectively do you know what i mean what is an obvious one in donnie gall uh that uh the english version that's there now there's no relevance or no obvious relevance to to the original or the irish version of the name well that happens throughout the whole of of ireland um and just a simple one for example nationally would be phoenix park yeah uh it makes no sense at all it's park and uh fear ishke the the true water but that sounded to the english as uh phoenix so they wrote it down as phoenix park which is not the case now in donnie gall there's numerous examples where the actual english name doesn't is not in the irish if that makes sense so for example it's a low an example yeah donno's an example st johnson's name i'll start me with st johnson then moved to donno yeah st johnson for example was named after uh the man that inherited named it after the um mapper the ordinance mapper and during the plantation about the 1650s and it was sir um i think it was all over st johnson so that was the name st johnson but if you put that into irish it's bala and thugan no connection at all and bala and thugan means that the town of the ropes thugana ropes that were used to tie down the catch there's a place in and on your castle in thugan the turning of the thugan it's a pub there so that's the thugan so again meltford is another example it doesn't translate into irish meltford there are a number of meltfords in ireland but meltford if it was to be translated into irish directly would be um um mullen uh fjord mullen or mullen fjord but in irish it's bala and the gala the town and gall is a foreigner as in donny gall gall and ugly were um the army the iris used to call themselves the ugly the irish army called themselves ugly in the here ugly and these were young warriors mercies that were taken from scotland to fight with the old needles and old donalds so old donalds so the meaning of meltford and irish is bala and that gall oggy the town of the young foreigners the young foreigner mercenaries so it's a totally different so but it's so meaningful it it it talks to the history of that area yeah well that's an example then you mentioned on lo you see if i were to say to your listeners what's the irish for doubling and everyone would say bala clear well that's actually incorrect the irish for doubling is duflin du meaning black lin lin snav a pul duflin means black pul so bala clear the the town of the fjord of clear that's a different place but it's it's given to the county bala clear but the actual duflin means doubling it means black pul and another example is donno so if you spray out donno because it's english well you're actually doing glow we're not a hundred percent sure of what the glow means but it means contention or noise so or it could be clay which is stone the fort of stone the fort of contention but and which is the irish version of donno means that uh this the gray stones this gray stepping stones which is like gray stones in in in in wet glow so again the english and the irish totally different but the roots are in the irish language so there's a lot of uh examples of that throughout the county someone uh messaged me downings they want to know downings uh what yeah well the irish for downings is dunuf a dun is the same as dunangal forts so nadunuf um possibly there must have been a number of forts and you have the kind of the inlet there so maybe there was a number of forts and then in downings as well you have ross gel so ross and this comes back to me we were talking about dun lo the rosses and it's a bit of headland that jumps out usually a high piece of land so ross gel we're not sure what the gull is believe it could be a person's name so the headland of gull that peninsula is of of a person perhaps malin um yeah malin from my understanding means a ridge uh a brow or a ridge off the hill you know if you're going along the and you have other places like in keeldrum keeldrum the narrow ridge so again that's what malin would would come from yeah dairy dara well dara is uh a complicated one and that is exactly why i said to you dairy dara means dara means forest oak forest yeah and would it be known as dara column killer uh column killers oak forest but before that it was known as dara calga c i l g i c h or i c h in the old airy spelling and it means calga was a famous warrior yeah so that's what it really comes from the the oak forest of column killer or the oak forest of calga so that'll be an old name for for dairy and again we've talked before about you know people might have problems with london dairy but if you look at lou dune which is london lou means the god of light which is august lou and gives you the month lunasa in irish august and dune is fort isn't done equal so lou dune means the fort of lou and and that's the same lou that gives you france leon or the leedon is another town there le y edn le dune lou dune and if you twist that back to front you get dune lou which is dun louie and dun egall right so the Celts were being pushed by the romans out up through europe up through england and then out eventually onto the periphery of ireland so these names face names you know that there we there may be politically divisive today but if we go back far enough le mavadi le mavadi le mavadi where the the dog jumped but there's history and culture and them and these places aren't they give us a sense of identity and a place and an understanding of our history and our culture and it's terribly terribly important okay a people are texting in and and because of the time of the year we don't necessarily have as much of your time as we would like um what does the name mount charles mean in irish translation of the name now this is the controversy if you call mount charles mount charles the english you mispronounce the english it's pretty controversial but anyway mount charles it's actually one of the i have there's a few place names i love i love the iris version of mount charles and i love the iris version of church hell but uh mount charles obviously again this is where you're asking me between the anglicization of names come it obviously tells you that it's a planters town um that it was called after charles the man that inherited from the plantation of allster so therefore he renamed it after himself charles conningham um mount charles it's the town of charles conningham but if you go into the irish it's uh town that and talon beautiful and town is an old irish word for field and salin is salt and granite sal is a pinch of salt salt so the field of salt um so without having a rich area i wonder because salt obviously was uh was a high value commodity it was a currency effectively at one time uh is that in any way connected i'm not sure again there are people maybe like helen mehan would have more knowledge so what would what would the irish name be above the soundpost to mount charles then well it would be town and talon okay excellent brilliant okay but you you can't also say it's not mount charles you see you have to honor or history see when we got independence in 1921 you know we didn't go around destroying all the anglish buildings that were in our country i mean ours in hoochteran which was a former building interest in these is um built initially by lord leitrim's great great grand uncle or whatever but they were british colonial buildings and it showed british symbols so in turn so i don't want to drag you into the signpost controversy because that's not the nature of it so are you saying really if someone scores out an english name of a place it's been selective about history that actually the the english names on the signs are part of the our history and in some cases actually have really quite an important meaning to that area and you can't necessarily like it's not air brushing that out it's not necessarily a protest against england and the english uh it has far it has far more meaning than so and in many cases that is the case um and and even yeah that that is true no that's not all cases um and it creates a little bit of difficulty that we're maybe them selecting what history we we're a culture of of peoples that have invaded us for generations if we look at the old manuscripts again the book of invasion lower gaula in the here and that there was six invasions until the kerbs came we're a people that are constantly chained and our place names tell us that okay part of our history was that we were colonized and therefore place names and we're not going to just get in some parts of eastern europe now they're they're pulling down uh you know russian monuments and what have you so it does happen uh not conflating but uh what does mean like mean like in mean more mean bad mean alike yeah um uh mean means a plane like a flat plane mean um and and you'd say mean more like um the the the big yeah and more more means big like so there's for example another one is is is in don louis at the bottom of errigal there's uh money big and money bug and money more it's not that the people there are multimillionaires but moonia means um moonia means a shrubbery so the big area of shrubbery in the small area of shrubbery so if you're going gold digging in don louis it's not what moonia more and mean your bug means charlie charlie on facebook says uh bun bag it doesn't mean the wee bottom no again that that's the the beauty of of of place names it's in the door right and gree door gree means um uh an an outlet to the sea and door is an old Irish word for river so that was gree door so then they're so descriptive it's beautiful yeah so it talks off the river it talks of the river inch in the estuary yeah and that gives you then if you go for example um the bun bug this is just a small bun means river bun bug the small river bug means small and bun means river another old Irish word but charlie get your mind out of the gutter it's not wee bum uh come here people are fascinated by these place names and we're so short in time uh new tan conningham manor conningham uh we believe it was two brothers uh who named our villages i'm not sure as to the historical uh background to it but obviously there are planter town name both the new town conningham and manor conningham and again what we've done in the Irish sense of it as we've Irish put Irish on the ang English name ah so the original name is the English name and we've actually so the Irish name on a sign to those two places actually post dates the English name yes some of these towns were as I said planters town um and and therefore you know but that's not in all cases there would be places there in Newton conningham and manor conningham that would have place names as well in Irish but obviously the plantation town and like Raphos in another example Raphos a beautiful beautiful place name Rach meaning um in a sardises as well Rach means um a fort Rach usually tells you it's a pre-Christian usually wooden anything with castle would be stone so Rach and whoa bohing is the Irish word for a little hut so the the the wooden little hut there would be and it's the same word as boh as in probably in Hebrew the word Bethlehem the house of bread Beth boh Beth so I mean across his languages as well so Raphos is a beautiful um and in 30 seconds I heard a townland was defined by how many cows it could graze any knowledge to that yes well the divisions were done in different ways cahoo like cahoo cannon cahoo means a quarter land shisha means a sixth land so the shisha lake there out important to blah you have places like um um bala bala on the ball so a much grass a cow would need usually about three to four acres depending on the our ability of the land some land northwest when he got was worse so the cows that was measurement and if you go back to the ancient law as well um you know things were divided up into cowlands cow was the currency of communication oh stop saying interesting stuff just before we have to leave you have to go to class and I have to go to the news well one before we go I think it's a beautiful one is convoy um because and and and it's um con border gone the cons and other Irish word for dog like madu or koo and maya means plane so the plane of the dogs lovely that's convoy and again if you look at the canary islands they were taken over by the Romans canary comes from the Latin canine means dog so canine teeth canas is the Latin for dog so canary islands actually are called the dog islands the bird came subsequent to the naming of the island so dog islands so you have the dog planes and convoy and you have the dog islands if you're ever going on holidays to the canaries again we need to revisit this or do a specific podcast on it or something listen thanks very much as always for your time I really appreciate it take care that is uh Dr Joe Joe Kelly we'd love more time but unfortunately he's at work and everything as well so that's where we're at okay it's 11 o'clock already can you believe can you believe it's 11 o'clock Emma no no morning's go okay right it is 11 o'clock another hour in the show we're going to be in the garden so much more besides but let's catch up what's happening in the world of news and we do say good morning now to Ms Zamarine thanks Greg good morning 16 people were learned today if they'll be prosecuted over the Greenfield hotel tragedy in county Turoin three teenagers were killed in a crush as they who to get into a disco at the Cookstown venue in 2019 five police officers were interviewed over their response to the tragedy while 11 others were also investigated the Norse public prosecution service will reveal this afternoon whether anyone will be charged the health information and quality authority has published three inspection reports on designated centers for people with disabilities in Donegal one non-compliance was found at abbey village grip homes in Kilmachrenan and another in sleeve glass Karen Amoga letter Kenny the reports explained that management at the inspected centers have already begun working to rectify any issues which were discovered full links to the full reports are available on our website at highlandradio.com Stephen Donley says he's not considering his position as health minister amid controversy over one of his rental properties he blamed an oversight for feeling to register a property with the RTB since 2019 he says it's now registered since last week it comes to a new after a renewed focus on landlord TDs following the resignation of Robert Troy as junior minister last week over controversy around his 11 properties minister Donley says it shouldn't have happened and it's his fault a johnny goll TD is urging people to support the cost of living protests which has taken place under in Dublin on saturday september 24th independent deputy thomas pringles says it's important that a very strong message is sent to the government ahead of the budget particularly in terms of the rising energy costs and electricity prices on today's nine tenantio deputy pringles said other european governments are passing laws to limit price rises and the irish government mantra that its powerless to act must be firmly challenged and finally a cork TD is arguing that a standalone university in dairy would promote and better facilitate a larger program of north south student exchanges fingeal TD columburx says expanding university provision in dairy will provide additional opportunities and more choices for students that's all for now we'll be back with a news update again at 12 o'clock but until then good morning um thank you very much indeed okay we're going to be talking about school bosses and school bus places and people missing out in school bus paces it's complicated there's enough going on at the moment with people having to 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and how do you seat last year or is he starting this school this year no he had a seat last year and the application we were told back at the beginning of july that we would receive an email uh by the end of july to say this you know you know to inform us about that it's about his ticket to confirm it you would assume that he was sorry go ahead ethan i was going to say no you would presume because they got the ticket in first year last year that this is just automatic it's continue to roll then would you it is that's what it says on the system it said that any children's students that received a ticket last year that it just carried on they renewed the ticket for them once the old one uh ran out was your son's a concessionary ticket uh it wasn't no right okay he was yep right so isn't it then you at what point did it did it sort of dawn on you that uh he didn't have a seat was it when they said a seat wasn't there and when were you told that well the portal was closed because they closed it because of the you know i suppose uh so i assumed the ticket sometime like last year the ticket was fairly late like it was the last week before he went back that he got a ticket yeah i knew that we were told i suppose there was going to be extra tickets sent out so we allowed for that i suppose uh they closed the portal because there were unundated i suppose with applications and i just assumed because of what they said that it would go through automatically and he would get his ticket um but we never received an email and when we sent an email um to stern order at microsoft sent a message saying that they weren't receiving emails at the minute wow so it doesn't even get them they're not switched off right so then you rang them up this week yes talk to me about that conversation i rang stern order but they give you a number to ring in Dublin so i rang Dublin and after almost an hour i eventually got through and it's just a helpline um which is of no help to be honest like they she couldn't be a she was a lovely lady on the phone there's nothing she could do to help me um she couldn't change anything she said unfortunately that's just you know they're not they're probably will change their name no um and all she could do was pass on my information and you have lost out your son has lost out in this seat really uh because we believe do we that they're given on a lottery system in other words that the child next door if there were one they could have got the seat and your son didn't just buy pure luck all that situation could have been reversed if it is a lot a lottery system okay that line's dropped out but it will come back ethnic can you hear me see everybody's now don't get me wrong i think it's great that you know they're giving all the children free transport to school that's i don't have a problem with that at all um they're all entitled to get to school um but i think that it the all the new applications were sorted first and then they kind of left the other ones to last maybe and did you have you been told if they're trying to provide another boss how many other children on this boss route have missed out i mean if you've been giving any information at all or are you being told that right that's it sorry you've missed out you know i mean you can't go through a year like this because my understanding is ethna this is even worse for you because you don't drive no i don't drive i can't even as it's still like you know i suppose if i could drive in the school maybe you know you could sort something but i i don't drive now i'm actually doing my theory test in september what's your entitled your son's entitled to a boss place so don't stop don't put any pressure on yourself no no i haven't paid for it anyway but exactly he's implied he's entitled to a boss place how far is it to school ethna from where you are we don't need three miles right so it's a significant distance in the summer alone in a cold dark winter so what is this what position has this left you in now ethna well i don't know what to do he's back at school tomorrow morning i was hoping i suppose there's always that we hope maybe the ticket will come through the door and i keep checking the portal to see if it's changed i've even checked it before i spoke to you to that this morning just to make sure but nothing's changed and as i said the lady on the helpline can't do anything she couldn't give me no information you know it's to laura really i suppose i need to talk to yeah but they've already directed you to dublin yeah yeah if we direct me to dublin to someone who doesn't all right that phone line's gone again on us ethna yeah it's back with us ethna so what does it say on the portal just so we're clear it says when you open up the portal i haven't done it yet but what does it say in the portal as it relates to your son's boss ticket um it gives his name it says ticket a below ticket says ticket a shoot and it says no um an application has been some submitted and the next one under category then it says sorry there are currently no seats available wow that's what it says um and like i said sure i who did i talk to like the helpline that lady can't help me um what am i supposed to do tomorrow morning you know i don't know i don't know i haven't decided yet what to do it's an awful worry do you know if any other uh how many other children are affected by this of any idea ethna well to be honest now i mean i don't put many posts on facebook but i did actually the last day to see if any other parents in the area um had and not one person no one answered me and anybody like it i'm from the town i know a lot of people and keegan has friends and stuff he doesn't mind me saying his name by the way do you want to mention the time it helps though uh do you want to mention the time no one else isn't which if you don't mind mentioning where you're from then and where the school no i don't want to say that then and we'll see if anyone else is in the same boat and convoy and convoy okay all right okay so anyone else in convoy who had a ticket last year particularly i think uh who didn't get a ticket this year get in touch with us do we get an idea of the extent of this problem because i'll tell you what's but worse about this situation ethna it's a stress and a worry for you but it's actually not knowing what's going on are the is that it case closed are they looking to put on more buses are they waiting on funding is it lots of different people are affected is it just you you know you've enough to be dealing with i am sure without all those unanswered questions and i think you deserve uh you deserve answers to those questions we will try and i i can't get yeah we're gonna try and see what the story is this we delay in this line ethna sorry annett's dropping so but you've we've got the message loud and clear uh keep listening or we'll let you know what we hear from other listeners in the convoy area um and i just yeah young boy like it's stressful enough going back to school even if you've been there a year before i mean if he says to your mom how are we getting school tomorrow like or and you can maybe you can pull a favor or something but then what about what about uh what about monday what about all next week what about in the dark days of november do you know what i mean like you need this is no way to treat yeah it's not even about going it's getting in and then getting back out again and like it's public bus air and it's public transport yeah yeah okay everybody's entitled to public transport no matter what like all right okay he has no ticket he can't get on ethna leave it with us to see see if anything comes from the conversation thanks for your time and i hope something happens positively for you and your family all right ethna take care of yourself thank you very much indeed more of your comments two of our children went to school yesterday but couldn't get on the bus because their ticket hadn't come yet despite being granted one they just hadn't arrived in the post the inspector told them not to travel again without the ticket all my children have had to travel this way i've no other way of getting them to school this free school bus system has left so many people in disarray if you've been okayed for a ticket and you haven't received it yet surely and i don't know maybe this inspector is sticking to the rules i don't know but surely you should be able to demonstrate proof by way of confirmation email web page whatever it might be so that young people aren't left on the side of the road and to made feel like egets maybe in some cases because they know they've got a bus place but they can't get on because they've got a ticket is this is really where where we've come to now in our society that two children are not allowed on the bus even though they have a seat because they don't physically have the ticket and people who operate buses or drive buses might say that if they allow children on with buses on buses without tickets and they're stopped or an inspector comes on maybe there's i'm not blaming i don't know at what point the problem is but there's a problem there somewhere is there is there not a caller says if it was me i'd ring the school then tell them the child can't go to school until they can get it sorted i understand exactly where you're coming from and that's a little bit like switch don't pay your electricity bill as a protest the problem is is who's damaged in that whole situation it's the child the child sitting at home how long do you stick it out for if they don't sort it if they play hardball do you leave your child sitting at home for three weeks and then you have to send that child back in uh in three weeks they've lost three weeks of school their mates have met other friends like i know what you're saying and it seems like it puts the ball in someone else's court but that doesn't really recognize what you would have to deal with in telling a child look you're not going to school like all of your friends because i'm making a protest against boss air and it do you know like it on paper it looks like a good idea but sometimes with some of these suggestions we have to think about the lived reality of what that would mean hi greg tell that lady you have to look for a ticket every year i know as uh it's years since my crew started on school buses and you always have to go online to book a seat and there's a closing date i think it's june i think i got the impression from ethno that she did check the portal before the date closed i did have tickets issued but had such bother getting them tell the lady to ring and we have a number here it's an awfully school bus transport number these ladies helped me out so much and they'll lodge the query for you this is what's happened to me and within one hour they had me sorted uh in strunaller is chaos so we have that number here which is that being passed on to ethno uh just it's a number they're suggesting ethno should ring right let's get to clan mani now because there seems to be a big issue in clan mani i want to read out some comments from listeners in that area i am a parent in clan mani the school bus didn't leave till nine a.m because there was overcrowding by nine a.m the kids should be starting class there was an extra four kids on the bus this morning two families didn't send their kids because they knew of the overcrowding despite having a ticket there are about 10 kids without seats one child got off because he was just so overwhelmed knowing is helping us no one is helping us we can't get anywhere with bus airing another my two kids ended up half an hour late for school this morning because the bus couldn't leave we had to wait for another bus one is in first year and is stressed out enough without this an inspector was on the bus yesterday and it appears 40 tickets were issued but the bus only holds 32 it makes no sense what is going on hi delighted here highland radio is making the public aware of the school bus chaos i have no tickets for my children both are status eligible one in primary one in secondary the primary school bus route was only established last year and i invested time and energy to help getting enough pupils together to run a bus this year all seats are taken my child's left behind bus airing did not help i am in contact with politicians trying to find carpools babysitters new after-school care not a hope and ready and ready to give up a permanent job they helped get the critical mass together to justify a bus run their child's not on the bus back to clan mani once again my son's been left behind with no way to school because i'm at work eventually a second bus arrived but he was late for school and left in very distressed what is going on and more and more highlighting the issue in clan mani um hopefully is that one maybe if they can provide a second bus the service has been over subscribed that 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this sunday live in highland radio from 12 noon or watch the show on our website youtube or facebook and if you're in london come along and say hello yeah indeed we've got loads of great guests already lined up for you and by the way out and about today not so far flung is john brezen he's broadcasting live from outside michael murphy sport in letter kenny so that's going to be a really interesting show the usual mix of conversation music of course but if you are in and around letter kenny why don't you go along and say hello to the team right we're going to go into the garden now with paul mcgloughlin who's a gardener at balak durr garden center thank you for joining us paul how are you keeping today yeah indeed that's microphone which one's that let me see one two hello no no good let me try that one that one no none of them okay um what are we going to do switch this microphone it's not ideal but we'll do what about now hello god we are professionals yes right we'll swing that one out of the way right um so when's the grass going to stop growing on border cutting it uh grass going to stop cutting probably was pretty much around the first frost around that sort of thing so you could be a little slow down from now on even that very warm well there i'll knock some of the stuff in out of it so well but pretty much up until October almost the first frost i'm in halloween mode now i'm pretty much over i'm starting to wind out yeah kids back at school not interested in cutting grass anymore i fully it's even people's flares you see them sort of teal enough now that they're actually just sort of the season season summer's passing they're back to reality again yeah no i'm being i'm not quite at that point yet right okay so um questions coming in all the time of course so eight six six two twenty five thousand but a lot about gardening is about planning right so whilst this season there's still some time to run in it we can be looking perhaps ahead uh so what in terms of cuttings a lot of people ask when the right time to take cuttings is we're in the in the money zone now are we yeah pretty much now is a perfect time to be taking cuttings especially softwood cuttings at the minute because you've actually um you're coming on September now where it won't be as warm particularly and there's still plenty of growth there so they still should take root so if you're sort of shrubs hedging anything like that there it's worth trying to take a few cuttings yeah okay and this is you know what will happen is this in spring people go oh i need to do something here whatever this is the opportunity now for you to sort of make sure you've got plenty of growth for full spring absolutely color or whatever it might be there's a great sense of achievement of bringing on a plant from a cutting you've taken yourself so you've seen it the whole way through from start to finish basically and it's also a good way to save the money in the sense that a lot of plants are very easily propagated you could get some cuttings to your friend from something or which is the easiest then uh like a hydrangea it'd be where a lot of people would start so would be likes that there um generally any of the hedging plants as well if people want to start with them uh like the grislinia laurel hedging all come very easily from cuttings and stuff like lavender right okay talk to me then about taking a hedge cutting is that what you were talking about was it yeah or a plant cutting pretty much any sort of woody shrub right so we're looking at the shrub where do we cut cut generally about six inches down from the tip uh-huh sort of the plant should have a lot of tips so any of them particular preferably not one that has a flower right and then in terms of planting and spacing for example yeah um the key to taking cuttings that sort of thing will be put in loads because they're cautioning nothing basically so if you put in if you put in 20 and you get 10 you're on a one or already basically so put in loads and they don't have to be that well spaced or anything right okay and in terms of how to prepare the ground how deep do you bury them for example pretty much is good idea to put them into sort of compost into a pot we can sort of pop them first pretty much pot them first generally good all right and you can put like like say put like a dozen 20 into a pot and stick them in and like say if most of them come you're doing well does it need to be deep or could you sort of maybe repurpose your you know your your likes your window pots for the winter pretty much that's perfect i yeah you can get a nice little compost perfect so it's only really a matter of keeping the moisture around around the cotton as opposed to nutrients and where would i store that store generally you can make up your only sort of greenhouse put the plastic bag over the top of the pot and there's just some sheltered spot like in behind the garage where it's going to get some somebody like but not particularly direct sunshine and do we talk then when to sort of take them out of the pots and plant them would do we talk about that later on or pretty much what you would do is you put them in and like say you can put your plastic bag over them that sort of creates its own microclimate with that the moisture goes up and sort of comes down again so you check them every every three four weeks and remove any that obviously aren't doing yeah and then you could actually gently after but probably it's just the start of the spring gently try if you out to see if it's rooted or not you'll see then so it look generally looks after itself right spring bulbs talk to me about that spring bulbs now we're getting very close to spring bulb type generally it runs from sort of mid-september onto december so um perfect time in the garden so they get a huge amount of people coming in around marriage time whenever they see the daffodils coming up yeah actually looking to get them whereas now is the time you should be sort of thinking about your spring bulbs you'll see the shops and garden centers will be full of them from now on I'm planting them now yeah plant them now like saying between now and december is perfect and can we plant them um like your daffodils tulips that sort of stuff even aliums have become very fashionable at the minute so they'll be very good yeah um so you've got september to worry about that then really ideally do you? pretty much ideal time to be planting them would be sort of mid-october because if you plant them too early sometimes they tend to come up too early like as opposed to coming up the end of march could be coming up the end of february and then the weather is more severe on them okay so now's the time really to see what deals are available in your local garden center pretty much in the next few weeks I or even just be thinking around the garden in terms of where could you put a wee bit of stuff right okay hedging we get loads of questions about hedging now it's often about what type of hedging is good for this type of area but in terms of planting trees maybe if someone wants to plant a tree what what talk to me about some good hedging and trees and and now is the time to plant them isn't it yeah so what's a good tree that's not too invasive its roots won't go anywhere yeah it comes up pretty quick and you get a nice bit of color pretty much a good tree our most popular tree down there the flower and cherry by a mile so it would very good tree they tend to get to about 12 15 feet around that so they don't get huge so they're perfect for a garden and you get flowered some stages of the year generally around the start of May or someone and what size is that when you plant it generally you'd be buying them in the reason of maybe eight feet and then how quickly do they sort of take and start looking established yeah pretty much within two years yeah that's too long for me that's why I don't plant trees we can tell you I already grown one as well but what the size can up the money because hugely as well I know I just have notions but yes and when people plant the likes of that in the middle of their lawn or where would you where do you find people might plant a tree like that pretty much generally it's supposed to be in the garden pretty much but a lot of people are going sort of for an avenue effect up the side of the driveway if you know and lately the last few years people are actually sort of trying to naturalize trees either gardens a bit more in the sense of just like three or four over here and three or four over there make it look quite natural you know okay that sounds like actually something that's something to make mowing a little bit more difficult right so trees and hedges also now is a good time to get the hedging yes now it's perfect if anybody's establishing a new garden that's generally the first thing we would advise people do is sort of get your hedges established and that generally sort of defines your garden and sort of creates a windbreak then for anything that's coming along so good species if you're looking for evergreen likes that grislinia would be our most popular hedge or laurel there or even coming out to the buried season from december other people going for more natural sort of informal hedges now likes the thorn just with an open colored shirt that type of stuff absolutely yeah just chilling out around the garden so they are but um likes the thorn hedges and sort of more like the flowering current that sort of thing be more probably better for biodiversity and stuff right now i kind of written off somewhere but i'm kind of joking in doing so lots of uh you know there's still people with lots of color there and lots of flowers so you can extend how long you can enjoy that and even maybe more flowering to come so is this back to making sure they're well watered deadheaded it's still in other words it ain't over even though i kind of pretend it is you can still there's still plenty of time perhaps well not plenty but some more time to enjoy your summer flowers yeah no absolutely if the weather's good no up to halloween you should easily have your flower summer flowers right up to halloween um ideas people do get a bit like just have people do tend to get a bit wary of the whole watering ritual and that sort of thing so it's easy to tail off so if you just keep that up and keep deadhead and it will keep fresher flowers coming on yeah because you know today is the last really nice day and i don't want to sound miserable but you know i think our attitudes change while quickly and i'm sure you see the patterns in the garden center when people come in and and go out just it's going to get a wee bit more windy a bit more rainy the low pressure is going to hang around for the next week or so we just don't know what what absolutely not like if you're in the habit of watering your flowers in the evening time of that that's if it's raining one day outside it's it's hard to motivate yourself to go out and do it but enjoy your garden while you can because it's very good for you absolutely okay um feeding uh now is a good time we talked about i suppose planting trees and hedges but maybe ones that are established or were planted last year at the year before they need a wee boost for the winter now do they yes now is a perfect time to give them a good feed because there's still a bit of growth left before before the winter hits basically so a general purpose feed i prefer to be organic if you can such as around fashion chicken poultry in the areas yeah okay we do the thing or see we'd be coming more popular yeah you get a gradual farm now as well which would be very good for feeding is that kind of slow release stuff as well is it generally any of the organic stuff releases over about three months yeah that's what you want isn't it pretty much put on now and then do the bits and patrick stay again yeah it's nice because it can chill then um can i still plant some peas sugar snap peas and runner beans indoors for outside growing is it too late for the season do you think um plant peas and beans that sort of stuff at this time of year attend i would tend to not actually start them inside i would actually pretty much now into october you can start them from seed outside just plant in the peas now because they are frost hardy so if you the problem is if you start them indoors they might get sort of spoiled and put them outdoors they might sort of go backwards whereas if you start them outdoors next month from seed you'll actually be grand you have a nice harvest early next spring all right any chance my lavender would recover if i cut it to the base i forgot to trim it last year now if a lot of woody stems help yes pretty much cut it back a bit if there are a lot of woody stems if you cut them back to like almost pure timber they're you're that's going to struggle to recover so what it would do is sort of the fresher stems this year i would cut them back by about half and it should rejuvenate itself and if you did that over the course of a couple of years all right any questions for paul get them into us right now we're going to take a quick break it'll give you a chance to get the phone out or pick the phone up uh 08 660 25 000 whatsapp sir text so give us a call an 07491 25 000 or if you're watching on social media drop your question into the comments box and we'll try and get to it before we wrap up you're all living your best lives now aren't you that's right andrea got a new car with heated everything greg's finally having his horse themed wedding i'm getting the bathroom read on it's a waterfall rain shower this might be your life but with the loan from on first money you can live your best life with arlands lowest rate and loans over 20k apply now at on first dot com slash loans on first money your money for your world lending criteria fees and fees apply new applications 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go down and say hello right okay um may have you got your headphones there um if you bang them on for us yeah good stuff because mary has a question for you mary a very good morning to you hello hi your question for paul mary ah my question is i'd love to plant some snowdrops and i wonder when's the right time or what i think now's the right time paul go ahead one second that's working sorry sorry problems with this microphone is that working now paul no you're fine no you're fine nope switch back over again sorry it's my fault uh hi mary tell you what i'm pretty much now anytime between now and december you can plant away the snowdrops um yeah you'll get them in most shops there now but if the snowdrops can be problematic growing from from sort of new bulbs if you know what i mean so if you actually if you had somebody that had a wee patch that was already established and we're kind enough to donate it to you generally have more if you take if you take the whole bit of clay what you as well as the bulbs they tend to work a bit better you know but so what's gonna need to start out with the bulbs anyway and would you get them like enough you know in the first shop like would they not have them started out you know the bulbs no sometimes you get them some sometimes all right i better be quite rare to have snowdrops and i've started on the shop if you know me at luxers if the snowdrops is right for me it's hard to complicate it well hold on yeah no no let's start again we're gonna have to get mary some snowdrops so yeah what stop see a roby dandrum boss yes uh how would you go about that now because i love them but i like i love locking up them but i can't uh funny that that you'll get established in the garden center no bother so you can yeah generally you get yeah 10 12 different types in any garden center there that you have different sort of sizes months will grow to different sizes full range of course this is a good time of the year for anything as a perfect time to be planting on your rody dandurn because that'll flare up now sort of kind of like say like a mall business but like very good you've got great notion you've great notions marriage just i know but come here let's not give up on the snow drops yet so what should mary do with the straw drop let's say she can't get them off a friend who's got them established so how does mary have snow drops for the spring uh pretty much just follow the directions in the packet but what you do is generally a snow drop bulb is quite a small bulb yes so you're just going to set them just kind of below the surface so you are uh planting a snow drop bulb it's a good idea to actually shake a bit of cayenne pepper over the top of it or someone like that they're just on top of the surface because mice are clean mad about them so they'll go dig in for them in the garden you see so if you actually put the pepper over the top of them it'll sort of deter them from the nearest basically but the problem with a lot of snow drops is it's very hard to get the native Irish one so it is that would be sort of naturally in people's gardens a lot of ones coming in now coming in from Spain and they're just they can be very hard to establish just yeah they're not as hard as the Irish one absolutely i hopefully it'll work out and you can get the bush established so that's that you've got that done and try the bulbs and see how you get on i am fascinated and i'd see what happens with your snow drops mary so don't forget about us let me know i'll let you know but i'm dying to have them i'll just see you're running across the garden snow drop bulbs in one hand tub of cayenne pepper in the other and pull in your mind all right you'd be like a landing strip okay how often should i feed my tomato plants now they're bearing fruit and they also have flowers i use a liquid seaweed feed like the one sold in a certain garden center yes um liquid seaweed generally chatting 10 to 14 days around that's perfect for feeding them any more you tend to run into the injury given the two by your boost and the tomatoes can actually split on you because they grow too fast almost so 10 to 14 days is perfect um why is my grass going yellowish at this time of year grass going yellow at this time of year it's possibly actually the heat that's doing it so what does you see actually seeing the news there and sort of southern England there a lot of the grass you just burnt up if you know what i mean so um pretty much just by by chat of the weather forecast there's plenty of rain coming so it should repair itself and i suppose you know like nature is nature we will talk to each other about it's very warm at the moment and we kind of have to adjust our lives and our clothing i'm not equating us to grass but it is nature is developed in such a way that it expects certain things at certain times so it's going to react isn't it absolutely in the record with climate change that we're just going to have to get used to sort of yellow grass pretty much a warmer weather and plants is going to take a long time to lick ourselves plant will take a long time to adapt all right um can i set wild flowers now for next year yes if you get autumn sown while while flowers now it's a perfect time to be setting them all right autumn sown so it's specific yeah you do you get spring sown autumn sown generally people get more success with the autumn sown so now it's a perfect time to be getting established for it all right when should i deadhead hydrangeers deadhead hydrangeas there's sort of two schools of thought on it generally there'll be flower now and the flowers should last up until late november so um if it was my garden i'd be sort of clipping them off then because they're kind of the deadheads look kind of untidy so i'd be trimming them up whereas my mother there would swear believe in them on because it actually keeps the frost out of the crown of the plant tempted to go with your mother on this one yes so close enough rows amongst sisters and families and absolutely no my mother was leading to the springtime sort of february march and cut them off so you know a matter of opinion but generally you won't do any harm be taken down fairly but a lot of people would recommend leaving it on into the spring um how do i plant a monkey tree we're very open and near the sea monkey puzzle trees are very very impressive plants so they are take generally about a hundred years to get to matured air so so they would be generally you can buy them in the garden center but cherry blossom was going to be a problem for two years all right no monkey puzzle trees like snudin's college in there have one thing was planted in 1906 and it's it's not even at maturity yet whenever the school was established if you know what i mean but um lovely plants never do get going um the only thing i would be worried about it in terms of the coastal thing of if you have a sheltered spot in the garden it'll probably be grand but it's the fact that you could be looking at this thing for 20 years and get a sudden winter storm of with salt water off the sea and you would be what it got you could lose it but now definitely i think if you had a sheltered spot that'd be worth a try okay um hydrangea it hasn't flowered wasn't cut back last year when can i cut it back now please uh once again like you're you're dead heading of it there um cutting it back now he's not going to do any harm but you're going to lose any chance of getting flowers on it this year which i don't think you will if they haven't just sort of shown themselves yet but you could give it a cut back now or an early spring all right listen uh the time has caught up on us paul thanks as always yeah no bother thank you paul mcgloughlin gardener balik durg garden center thanks for your time and thanks for answering all the questions we look forward to seeing you soon okay we'll be back with more on the program after a quick break build a better 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in letter kenny or malin or visit i motors dot i e hello greg hughes here inviting you to join us for a special two hour show this sunday as we broadcast live from the london irish vintage clubs 10th annual vintage day on the grounds of chocomal gales we've loads of special guests live music and plenty of crack that's this sunday live in highland radio from 12 noon or watch the show on our website youtube or facebook and if you're in london come along and say hello and that's exactly what we're about to talk about now after a two-year absence due to the covid pandemic the london irish vintage club is celebrating its delay 10th anniversary charity day this coming sunday it's at the on the impressive setting of the chocomal gales grounds at berkeley avenue in greenford in london the organizer of it is donnie goleman brendan vochan who joins us now brendan tiny vochan good morning brendan good morning are you on site for having me on no it's our pleasure are you on site as we speak i weren't sick yet i'm just looking at two brand new jcb forklifts that uh flammery's plantire and wembley have kindly supplied us for the next few days you know and i'm sitting i'm sitting and paul would always pick up who's giving the land of that we're just setting up the stages first and then we're we'll walk around them you know and uh it's lovely weather for the moment but there's a couple of spots of rain maybe on the way at the weekend but we're not going to worry too much about that the values are in and on you go exactly i think between most of the afternoon it looks like it's going to be dry in that area but as you say like drizzle it's never it's not going to put anyone off so talk to us about this event uh because it's it's unique it is a a vintage irish vintage club day but it draws in people from all different communities around the area it really is quite unique in london well not necessarily unique but rare anyway at the very least it is rare i mean i came up with idea 12 years ago my old fellow paddy von uh we used to get another tractor maybe footing about it not a good interest but a good interest in tractors and uh that really started that system itself she's a lot of boys in london got tractors like satony mcgovern and tommy james was people from trenter you know different paul o'donnell pod track and martin mcarran john mcgade people like that you know i've left out a few that i that i can't there's too many donny gall lads that have vintage vatals i mean martin mcarran is a model t4 do you want to see the condition of it you've probably seen it the last time yeah and you know there's a lot of interest here and a lot of support and you can we cannot it's like anything it's like a donny gall hospice calendar or anything you cannot do anything without the the generous support of uh of the people of donny gall and the general the wider irish community here in london as well because this is not just a donny gall day this is a big irish day and we get uh i was just on the radio there to midwest talking about it as well and uh this is a big community day here in london and we're going to try and raise as much money for example one of the charities is a horse riding school down the back of the scrubs prison where um the is for disabled children and the pace hospice is another one and we're going to try and raise as much money as we possibly can and also we're going to make a donation to the family of tom o aller who was who was brutally murdered down the road of greenford there uh a week ago and i used to see tom down there on the mobility scooter and the poor fella just raising a few pounds for the ukrainians and he gets stabbed and they would take the money off at 87 years of age it was just the most it was just the most horrendous story and he was held in in such high regard um even though he'd been from uh he had left arland so long ago uh his irishness shone uh loud and clear and as i say it not only what he did in terms of i think he played the squeezy box a bit and was well known for that would know to sing a song raising money for for other people when he could have been at home watching uh tv or something you know and also apparently a great you know if someone was walking down the street and wanted to chat he was there to chat to them he really was a really important part of that community i wasn't aware it happened so close to where this event is being held but it's lovely that um a donation is being made to his family most of his family is still living in arland yeah we'll make a donation out that we have an auction on the day and um you know we've lots of good prizes and whatever we we have a good donation towards uh whatever the fuel expense or whatever there's a lot of people um traveling over um from arland as well does that always happen or is that particular this year we have one of your very own going over anyway uh david james and then we've got we've got unan jim mcfadden with uh councillor nyle brainy and we you know brian mccracken there at the shopping centre gary martin and we have the the famous man himself uh packey bonner he's coming over me and packey used to play in county vocational school team together along with anthony milloy and a lot of other characters but we have all them coming as well and uh nathan carter did you mention him he's up on stage as well all all he's up on the stage mary rose is going to be performing live there's a a second stage uh which he's going to highlight the the trad musicians irish dancers that's right uh martin moary from tipper area he's looking maybe i'm wrong i'm saying that to say that kill that's a good holding county and he was jim jimmy and he's looking after that anyway and uh we have halloween's looking after dancing and collect keveney is bringing on tradition music players as well we have two stages here and it's uh we've it's been two year absence and we're god really knows how many people will come because it's two years since we had it and uh a lot of people are coming to support us i mean for example now flannery's plantire i sent you a wee thing about it there and what's that that's worth a half a million that uh simulator you can go in and pretend you're going to drive a digger and you're there to drive a digger and they're taking a state-of-the-art uh john dea tractor one of the original uh jcb's at the paddy flannery from county mail but um 50 years ago that's fully reconditioned the vunties track their money diggers you know a great supporters the flannery's up in wembley right beside tim kelly's office at wembley and they're and they've come down here now with it's unbelievable two brand new teleporter forklifts and it's not just about the machinery as well because the there's displays uh traditional fair uh thrashing displays that kind of stuff there's there's there's an awful lot going on isn't there around the uh side there is we have the fun fair and we've got a tractor on a vintage car on and a vintage lorry run and that's coming from tony mcgovern who's from county litham a great supporter down the years of of the vintage club and we're doing that from a place called wexham so uh we've a lot on high and with a lot of volunteers and without the volunteers help we wouldn't be able to do this and the sponsors we've had great support i mean we've nearly 70 000 paltine and sponsorship just for a vintage day program that's an incredible amount of money that we have and we had still more phone calls coming in can we go into the program uh you can't we just we just couldn't we have we have a cutoff point for the program and that's that unfortunately we had to go with it you know right but uh an incredible response here and what do you call it um thanks to tifty for sponsoring highland radio as well tifty mcginley he's tifty starvin up in front of me you might take a wee run up there after the after the vintage day you give me access to your car i will oh i'll give you a lift up i'm a teetotler anyway and i can i just mentioned one thing hi to the dunny gollis association uh they're doing a what do you call it a golf day for fun harps up in hendon golf club on sunday or not sunday friday friday and shei gibbons a guest guest of honor that's been run by tony mcfadden damien gillespie and mark monigal and joe mcconnell and the money goes to the fun harps uh stadium or attorney facilities or whatever you know there's a lot of effort goes into that as well i'm going to take two hours off and go up and take a few photographs and they might be in the democrat next week but uh it's a busy weekend here in london okay and um that's the way i'd like it to be anyway brilliant okay and hopefully um the one thing too about if any light rain that falls it will be nice and warm i know that i've been contacted by many people who are living in london that are going over to it which is not unusual and it's not just donny gollis you say it's all over all and i think you're on with paul claffey there uh not so long ago as well so and we look forward to broadcasting we've got loads of great guests and some dodgy ones too uh from 12 on sunday to 2 p.m we're looking forward to that people can listen on the radio they're also going to be able to watch it on our social media as well and you never know who might be walking past in the background i'm sure we'll have tinie on we'll have to tilt the camera up a bit for him and loads of other uh foam will have some live music and we're looking forward to it and you know what the reason why i'm keen on things like that brendan and you're the you're constantly tapping people up for stuff you know to support different causes and charities and we all talk about what people can do for donny goll and island but you know sometimes it's nice to go to where our diaspora is and chat to them there and and see how they're getting on how their life is faring out and celebrate their successes there right rather than necessarily always saying well when are you going to come back to donny goll so that's why i'm i'm glad to be involved and i look forward to that element of it and we'll see you soon god willing brendan and thank you to highland radio and to tifty for sponsoring uh highland radio but thank you for coming over and just showing what irish people in and london does for their home and what we do support here and what we do that's that's an unbelievable achievement this is 10th the 10th anniversary even though we started 12 years ago and two and two years of lockdown but thanks to highland and i thank everybody else for helping us out as well all right brendan take care yourself that's brendan tiny of an organizer of the london average vintage club charity dates on sunday the 14th of september if you're heading over there or you have any family over there tell them to get along to it and come and say hello to us but we want to sort of give you the experience as well as to say you'll be able 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