 Summer will start when? January 3rd or 4th D after Christmas. I Live a one day at a time. You know, I'm trying to stay stuff up. Yeah Well, keep it lit. Why not? I'm all for it. All right. They see you tomorrow morning Anyone else got their Halloween decorations up? I don't know Lee. I think you could be an outlier there But anyway, it's all good as you say as long as everyone's happy sure isn't it? Well, it's all about Just approaching a minute past nine. Let's get news update. Michaela Clark joins us. Hi, Michaela Thanks, great. Good morning A denigal man has appeared in court in Northern Ireland facing six charges relating to allegations of a historic sexual abuse against two former pupils 79-year-old Patrick Jared Sharkey who now lives in France with an address at Root to do a derlin arts has pleaded Not guilty to all charges against him at Antrim Crime Court. The charges relate to alleged incidents between 1992 and 1998 he's been released on bail with the trial set to get underway on February the 13th 2023 Education Minister is due before an erotic committee today over issues facing the new free school transport scheme Minister Norma Foley will take questions from TDs and senators as many parents report not being able to access bus places for their children The scheme was introduced in an effort to help families cope with the rising costs of living But the number of places available has been outstripped by demand Many children in Donegal have been left stranded on a number of occasions as a result of the capacity issues Labour Party education spokesperson Aiden O'Reardon says although the scheme is welcome. It was poorly implemented Concerns have been raised about the potential presence of a fatal fungus in trees on the business park road in Lettuce, Kenney Canterdonal Coal raised concerns about the presence of the ash die back in ash trees along the road After observing visible signs of the fungus on the trees. The council has confirmed they will carry out an inspection Concerns Coal says if the fungus is present the trees will have to be uprooted But the first priority is to confirm that is the case So the issue now is that we have quite a number of people who have always gotten tickets for their children who are not in Possession those tickets this year a huge number of people obviously applied to the scheme who wouldn't have done so otherwise I've heard of cases of families who just applied for the scheme because it was free Don't intend to use the ticket might just use it in an emergency situation. And so it hasn't worked And that was Labour Party education spokesperson Aiden O'Reardon talking about the boss capacity issue Finally police and Derry say they are growing increasingly concerned for missing man 72 year old Cornelius O'Connor was last seen by family in the city on Monday He's described as having short gray hair and is believed to have been wearing green trousers and a beige coat Anyone who has any information which could assist police in locating Cornelius is asked to contact them at Strand Road For whether or not I rather Clydey with Rhianne and Drizzle developing this afternoon highest temperatures are 15 or 16 degrees That's all from Highland Radio news for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then. Good morning. Oh Amy my little one I ask myself a million questions every day. When will you give me your first smile? How much sleep do you need? How can I help you and your big brother to get along at the HSEs my child IE and in the free my child books you'll find the answers you need from doctors midwives public health nurses dietitians and lots of other experts my child IE Expert advice for every step of pregnancy baby and toddler health from the HSE the 9 till noon show with St Unans GA Club development draw 40,000 year-old prizes first prize a high and a corner car plus nine other grit prizes Tickets now available online at St Unans GA draw comm or any club member and Now it's time for the talk of the Northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland radio Hello, and a very good morning. It's four minutes past nine You're very welcome along to the 9 till noon show on this Wednesday the 21st of September 2022 I do hope you're well, and I hope you'll stick with us a lot to get through between now and 12 We want you involved in the conversation as always though What's apps and texts to 08 660 25,000 and get your phone out and text us if you've never texted a radio show before And get your views heard why not all views are equal 07 491 25,000 That is the telephone line Caroline back taking your calls with Donna Marie today And also you can email comments at Highland radio comm and if you want to Watch the show if that suits you where if you're listening to us today hop on to our website Highland radio comm you'll see a watch now tab It's there live for you right now or on YouTube Highland radio Ireland or across our Facebook pages and feel free to stay alone chat to us there as well Right, let's get to the newspapers this Wednesday. Let's start with the Donnie Gold post And when we think of the difficulty in finding student accommodation our thoughts usually turn to Dublin or Galway Where this has been a long-standing problem? But even students planning on studying in donnie gall and sleigh or finding impossible Defined accommodation those who have secured places in atu donnie gall campuses in kilbex and letterkenny May not be able to take places as a result more inside the donnie gall post on that story today The initial tells us that guard you've begun an investigation into Donnie gall county council's purchase of five houses in boncran, which was the subject of an independent review earlier this year A senior officer from outside the county the donnie gall division That is has visited in a shown in recent days as part of the probe confirming the investigation to the inage times A goddess spokesperson said guard you're conducting an investigation into an alleged incident of fraud in the donnie gall area No further details are available at this time Investigations are ongoing the statement concluded there The fin valley voice this morning. Uh, he's a football manager, but visually He could pass as an avant-garde film director He's a mathematics teacher, but he can just as easily turn his hands to litz and mozart on the grand piano Who could we be talking about? It's ollie hogan He's the manager who has kept fin hops in the premier division for the best part of a decade And ollie hogan is the winner of the 2021 asti achievement award in recognition of his contribution to his school community And to sport in ireland or sporting ireland. Sorry. That's the front of the fin valley voice worth a read there as well Onto the nationals now, let's go to the Irish independent and workers will save at least 500 euro a year on average On the budget plans to expand income bans for the highest rate of tax And unfortunately there's a story later on in the newspapers which pretty much wipes that out On one essential spend that we have and also the caveat here is that 500 euro saving Is based on you earning around about 50 000. How many of us are on that type of money? Well finance minister pascal donahue is set to increase the 40 percent income tax band by two and a half grand Meaning workers will not have to pay the higher rate on any earnings below 39 300 The move will lead to significant savings for taxpayers with a single person earning 50 grand a year taking home at least an extra 500 a year under the plan agreed by the coalition parties The two and a half thousand increase in the income tax band would be the highest in more than a decade And go some way to achieving finnegales pledge to make the entry point for the higher rate of tax 50 000 Changes to tax credits are also expected to put more money in workers pockets on top of the tax band changes And it's it's interesting That um newspapers now print uh the positive news from the government without challenging it or pointing out any reality here about how you know How many of us really are earning 50 grand a year or how many you know what I mean? It's literally printed as if finnegale had written it I'm not saying the Irish independence a masterpiece for the government or anything like that don't get me wrong But it's just strange that it's just published as is you know Here's the good news finnegale have achieved what they want to achieve And so on and so forth it'll be interesting to see what the approach will be in newspapers with a change of government As well to see if the the way stories are written changes Uh meanwhile negotiations relating to the introduction of a new tax credit for renters As well as talks on a reduction in tax paid by landlords on rented income are on going were told all right on to uh the irish times now and uh t shark me hall martin has accused shin feign of deliberately Not telling the truth in relation to the government's new pension proposals It comes after shin feign leader mary lou mcdonald described the plans as a scam And that it was a trojan horse designed by fina fallen finnegale to move the pension age to 70 by stealth Mr martin said in the doll people get very anxious and very worried when politicians tell bare faced lies and that politicians should not Do so he said the pension age would remain at 66 and accused Miss mcdonald of not telling the truth in her presentation of the government's latest plans Now i said yesterday and i'm not privy to watch shin feign think or what the government think or anyone thinks But if you incentivize working to 70 right and you know you in the next budget make it You know even more attractive to work to 70 it makes it much easier down the line to sort of you know 66 is kind optional 67 really but the retirement age is 70 and that's what i sort of was trying to Explain yesterday, but it seems to align with some of the conversation that's happening at a political level But as i say i was not privy to that in advance Earlier minister for social protection ahead the humphreys said voters gave their verdict on increasing the patient pension age in the last election Which must be respected announcing a range of Pension reforms which will see a sliding scale introduced with those working up to the age of 70 enjoying height year pension payments Miss humphreys said a clear message had been sent by voters when raising the pension age Became a major election debate, but as i say, you know really i think 70 is going to be the target and it's kind of Be optional if you like but you're going to be less well off And people probably will think well, you know what i'm going to have to crack onto 70 because i can't afford it At 66 or 67 but anyway, we shall see The Irish Daily Mail this morning a teacher who received three special needs assistance in her school out of just over 2000 Has been remanded on bail pending sentence Dublin district court heard that kim moran had um Spiralled out of control leading to a 40 000 euro gambling debt moran 30 of bali mcgown letter kenny pleaded guilty to deception to gain sums totaling 132 euro as well as theft charges judge bryan smith commissioned the probation service to draft a restoration or restorative justice report three charges relating to Deceiving snas who transferred money Electronity via the revolute service for goods never received It happened at a national school where moran worked with them in north Dublin in september and october last year She also admitted stealing 15 euro worth of fuel from a service station in Dublin around the same time job smith Noted she had repaid the victims and obviously This is no disrespect to the victims but obviously was facing her own challenges and hopefully that second Draw a line onto that and move forward right the Irish Daily star this morning Um most vulnerable won't be cut off This is for those of you who may be genuinely concerned as to how you might pay your electricity bill And i think it'll be quite a few people Householders Households who are struggling with rising electricity and gas prices will not be cut off this winter the utilities commission has confirmed A moratorium has been put in place between december and february with further time given for those most vulnerable The commission for regulation of utilities confirmed the news to the eructus commission on environment and climate action yesterday They also said that anyone who's connected to a medical device can never be disconnected if a bill is not paid While those who are vulnerable due to age or health cannot be disconnected between october and march this year So if you're old and vulnerable, you can be disconnected after march. Is that what they're saying as well? Well, cru chairperson ifa Mako will acknowledge that many are already struggling to pay the rising cost So just to be really clear If you can prove that you are vulnerable You won't be cut off this winter and you certainly will not be cut off if you have medical equipment Which I presume would extend to the likes of hoists and stuff like that which relies on electricity So for someone out there may be listening that might make their Morning a little bit more tolerable So we were talking about how you know, you might be at least 500 euro better off If you're lucky enough to earn 50 grand a year But in one false swoop that is wiped out by the rising cost of groceries in the Irish daily mirror Families will pay an early 800 euro extra for their groceries this year because of the soaring cost of living official figures have revealed Food inflation is running at 11 percent the highest it's ever been since Cantor started tracking grocery prices in 2008 The research firm's consultants predict the average cost of a trolley of groceries over the year will go from 6,985 euro to 7,753 that's an increase of 768 euro The food inflation has been driven by the rising cost of staples such as bread cheese cereals and milk A basket of these and some other cupboard essentials selected by the researchers have gone up by 19.5 percent Bread's up 20 percent ham's up 12 percent while milk's up 26 percent And which is kind of interesting because we produce all of that milk here um, of course there's rising input costs, but You would imagine that milk is one of the things we'd have some level of control on but I think that's linked is it not to European prices or something along those lines But you know, is there any excuse for milk and yogurts going up when we produce the raw materials here? It doesn't make a great deal of sense to me Of course, who's to say unfortunately, and I wish I could bring better news and we have positive stuff coming up over the next three hours as well, but you know, obviously what with President Putin's announcement overnight, which we'll talk about a little later on or this morning Sorry, should I say Maybe things are going to get worse before they get better here's hoping that's not the case right A coffee shop owner isn't taking casual dressing lying down and has implemented a strict ban on pajamas Kira Burke introduced the dress code policy at sage and stone in duly canty meath After two women came for brekkie and jammies Uh in jammies and slippers now. Have you ever or would you ever go into a shop or calf in your Pajamas and slippers a lot of stuff is casual where now it's not really like, you know, the traditional pajamas, but uh She didn't like two women coming in in their slippers and pajamas. She told the son There's a time and a place for everything and wearing pajamas out for breakfast is not one of them Outspoken Kira's had a divided reaction online for her firm's stance on the eatery and gift shop But we live in a world now where people express themselves in so many different ways Should a business really be concerning itself with what it perceives to be bedwear I mean someone might say look I wear pajamas as daywear. I don't know It feels like a story that is about five or ten years old here But anyway, what do you guys think do you back this woman? Was she right to ban people from wearing pajamas in her cafeteria? Now There's not a massive amount of people and I would say if her her calf was absolutely wedged with people in pajamas She might not make a complaint But the fact that two women turned up in their slippers and pajamas. Well, that was an off She's banned them outright. She's put a sign up saying no pajamas allowed It's her business. 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down to the plowing festival is that still the case what's the attendance like and are there plenty of donningall people about yeah it's still the case i've definitely spotted a few a few of those um oh yesterday and the season this morning as well Greg was good really good turnout from donningall here and of course for the plowing people would travel from all over the country so numbers are very high i think there's over 90 000 people here yesterday and the weather was very good thankfully the weather is good today so i think every day like like we've seen with many of our local shows over the course of the summer the great attendance of those people are delighted to be getting that's getting back to what is a more normal type of life again after two or three years that where things weren't happening and that sense is very much here at the plowing yesterday today as well and again that'll be continuing tomorrow it's an opportunity for you i suppose i'm not saying you don't take opportunities in other settings but to speak to members of the farming community i suppose there's good and bad too that you get to hear what they've got to say what they would like to see you addressing but at the same time of course you know there's going to be some who are unhappy with the way things are at the moment you know it's a really important opportunity and you get to speak to people from you know from all walks of agriculture and indeed you know real life as well and to hear about you know where things are going well and where there's challenges so that's pretty invaluable um there hasn't been the same opportunities over the last couple of years to for big events like this to actually have that very significant heavy engagement and definitely yesterday was very good i found it's very enjoyable but also very useful and actually to speak to people in relation to you know how policy is working out for them and their views and and how it needs to evolve and particularly as well with the budget next week people's priorities too it's a really good opportunity i think no matter what walk of life you are in in the following is good from that point of view whether you're in a business or a community organization everybody gets that same opportunity actually to assess and engage with people that have different perspectives from themselves and and that makes it a you know very good and very worthwhile okay also off the back of a series of meetings on monday as it relates to housing we'll talk about social housing at the moment as it relates to the defective block scheme and the crisis that's facing many many people in this country what progress if any was made at this meeting on monday to get this scheme moving uh and to get it accessible uh for people yeah i spent all day in monday actually meeting with the county management in in lyford and led a meeting along with senator nail blaney and our team of uh seen of all countries from across the county uh specifically on the issue of mic and social housing uh to work to ensure that we make real progress and both um in relation to to mic in particular the the the challenges we all know is the number of applications that are there that need to be uh clarity needs to be brought on um we've had about 13 homes across the county that have now been fixed um there's about 50 which are underway or getting underway but there's about 400 applications which are awaiting an answer and clarity in relation to the type of remediation option that will be approved for them and uh the key objective of the meeting uh between myself and senator blaney and the team of council or councilor team was to ensure that we can bring the heads of all of those in the council together with the department of housing to make sure that there's answers in that quickly and i know there's been engagement over the last uh a few weeks between both um the department of housing have sought some additional information from the council in the last few days and the council are now going to provide that to the department um hopefully next week uh to crystallize that my hope coming out of that that we then have as much clarity as possible so that we can proceed and that the council will be in position to proceed in relation to to giving decisions on as many applications as they can obviously there's the standing issue in relation to uh the issue of pyrite and other deuterious materials other than mic and pyrite which is involved over the last year or so as testing has happened and which there's further scientific advice awaited on um but i i certainly strongly believe that there's a number of applications which there can be decisions made on in the in the very short term if the council and the without that without that information you just just talked of how i mean why would anyone with the defective concrete block house want to proceed in this scheme without all of the scientific data as it might relate to i don't know internal walls or or foundations for example who in the right mind would want to progress through this scheme until we have all the scientific facts and as a state spending taxpayers money as we were reminded of why would the state or the government or the council want to progress uh any any of of these um remediations until such time as we knew all the scientific facts it wouldn't make much sense would it no no i i think it has the science the engineering advice has to be what makes the decision here and in terms of the remediation option that is made for houses it has to be one that lasts the lifetime so the the remediation option uh this it's granted has to be right and there isn't it's you're correct Greg in relation to the the scientific advice around engineering advice around pyrite which the national standards authority of Ireland have been commissioned earlier this year with uh providing that and have indicated it'll be early next year before they have it until that's there it won't be possible to make a decision on on a good number of those applications but in relation to the principle of doing the worst first and in relation to those there will be demolition we need to get answers on those so that as many of those that are in the system actually can get approvals and move on and as many of those that can actually get an answer but you were very clear minister on this program on a number of occasions even when it kind of seemed somewhat at odds with what was happening nationally you were very clear that if the science shows that foundations need to be included then foundations will be included yes and certainly all of the engineering advice so far and this is something we discussed in detail with the council that are meeting on monday as well is that there isn't an issue with foundations that's obviously something that's going to be monitored as each application proceeds as well and in terms of the actual work being carried out that being assessed but so so just to be clear on that just to be clear on that and sorry to talk across to you charlie to be clear on that so we have been boring we've been boring foundations of houses sending those bores off for analysis determining what the makeup of that concrete is and determining that we don't have a we don't have an issue with foundations when was that work being undertaken well in terms of all of the testing that's taken place and the the committee hearing in the in the iraq this would have discussed this as well with the engineers involved there and also in terms of any testing taken place and in terms of available evidence the engineering advice has been that there isn't an issue with foundations but this is something again that that our meeting would have discussed in detail in monday in relation to the importance of actually as applications or as work is done assessing that as it moves along in terms of each individual application but i think in terms of the applications which are in hand now greg i believe there's a number of them there which which decisions haven't been made on which the discussion is whether they should be full demolition or not we need agreement between the council now and the department in relation to making decisions and those those in that category are the worst of the homes in the county as well which therefore the most the ones which are most urgent and pose the most danger as well we need to unlock that and get answers and that's those people can get the approvals and actually what about the houses that are currently in really really really bad condition but people aren't actually getting on to the scheme so we can't really determine which are the worst ones first well the new regulations are to be in place over the course of this autumn that will then enable new applications to be actually submitted as well i think the those that there were very significantly damaged a lot of those are in the system at this stage the key priority is now in relation to those that are in the system getting those moving and getting those approvals to homeowner in relation to the recent scsi um valuation figures that show what we all know the the huge increase in the cost of of building that doesn't apply to micro affected properties so how are we how does that work why is the scsi there's gonna have to be an that's a matter obviously for the scsi to advise on and for the it says the government to engage with them on in terms of continuing to monitor that the legislation which was approved in july provides that uh every every year the uh costs and the updates and that will happen every year going forward as well the capacity of that so it's going to be important that the scheme evolves and the scheme continues the proper costs of actually of actual rebuild um are accounted for um and therefore that is on the micro rebuild is going to be important and ongoing so you said that you would as best as possible deliver a 100 percent micro redress scheme we'll just call it that because that's what we're most familiar with uh you know it's stalled at the moment nothing is really happening if everything that you want to see happen happens how close to 100 percent redress scheme do you think this is for the majority of people well there's obviously things not covered and there's things which i would have thought on behalf of owners to try and get covered uh outside of the actual rebuild of the home and that that aren't part of the scheme um but what the scheme provides for is houses to be to be rebuilt um or or remedies um if it's a rebuild based on the 2007 regulation and for that to be done and rebuilds and a grant to be provided in the basis of updated costings year and year in terms of the cost of actually doing that um and listen we we all fought hard uh to get the best scheme we possibly could i think the scheme that is in place now is a very strong one yes it doesn't agree it doesn't include everything that we don't want it but i think it was a very very strong outcome um and uh so just one question i'll keep you i'll keep you well the previous one yeah is it that different but anyway i'll keep just two minutes i know you have to i know you have to go at 9 30 but just two minutes speaking to a lady this week 66 years of age widowed in her house crying herself to sleep at night has been told that if she's to remedy her house under this new scheme she is to find 150 000 euro uh you know she may well have voted for you i don't know she's uh certainly uh from from the inichon peninsula ellen is her name by the way cries herself to sleep at night every night 150 000 euro she's been told that she would have to come up with herself and this is just for an outer leaf how can you tell someone like ellen that this is a good scheme she's never going to be able to to repair her house she has to live in it whilst it falls down around her well in terms of i mean first of all i need to see the specific detail of that particular case um and i mean there's been lots of lots of calculations done over the last while where people are calculating based on on on what they're hearing i think it's important to get people actually approved in the scheme that we actually get full quotes for people and i think when you look at the calculations that are there now and this this is work that was done by the Charter Surveyors of Ireland in relation to the costing was announced in march of this year it was welcomed by broadly welcomed by homeowner representatives at the time as as costing which which did reflect the market and that'll be updated every year thereafter so i think the key thing here now greg is actually driving on getting homes fixed we've had 12 13 fixed already 50 50 underway but those others need to get answers now so that that's work can continue it's going to it's going to be something that's going to take a number of years but it has to happen in the quickest fashion possible and key to that now is actually getting answers and as many of the applications that are in the system over the next while and that was the key objective of my meeting along with Senator Blaine in the Fianna Fáil County very very finally last question progress in that now over the next week or two in relation to agreement between the council and housing on proceeding just quick word on this from a listen my house is ready to fall down i can't find a place for me and my children to live i'm stuck on phase two it needs to be demolished what am i going to do is there a panning a plan in place like a hotel for us to live in because in about two months there won't be a house well there's first of all in cases like that it's about actually getting an answer so the work can get underway and get rebuilt there are challenges there in terms of a common wider accommodation at the moment in terms of in terms of rental supply what the scheme does provide for his payments for up to a year of accommodation for families while their work is ongoing and obviously i know it's something the council are assessing working with councillors as well in relation to the housing situation in terms of what support and what housing supply and options might be there to support families but i think overall Greg it's about actually getting homes fixed because the more we get them fixed the more we're actually addressing the housing challenge in the county and the more we're actually believing the trauma that all of our so many of our families in the county have been experiencing right thanks for your time this morning i know you've got other engagements to get to i appreciate it that was the minister for agriculture food and the marine at charlotte mcconnellogue the nine tonneau show with sydunas ga club development draw 40 000 euro and prizes first prize a hyunday kona kyaar plus nine other grit prizes tickets now available online at sydunans ga draw dot com or any club 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for taking the time out this morning michael good morning great good to have you on uh just off the back of a call with minister charlie mcconnellogue um and i took nothing from it that that gives me any sense that i could relate to listeners that this anything is actually moving forward and the more i hear about it the more it feels to me uh and we heard from minister mcconnellogue there and he can have his position the more it means to me is that we're we're really no further on from the first scheme in terms of a scheme that people can get their houses fixed without having to come up with money and in other words those with no money end up still just sitting in houses that are falling down around their lugs now i know if is there anything that i've said that's wrong that you can give people a bit of hope with well first of all i'm just out of a meeting so i hadn't heard uh minister mcconnellogue on there but i've heard him um enough of times in the past to probably get a sense of what was said and not said but um you know the the only thing i would say is uh we had a 90 10 scheme that was 60 40 so there's no point in talking about a scheme that you know you took 90 percent and been happy with because that was never on the table it was 60 40 scheme which has cost an average homeowner for an average sized house over 100 k and that was back before we got inflation now there are a few things that people will definitely benefit from this time round the fact that there is 172 and a half thousand increase on the cap so for the bigger houses they will avail of that money that they wouldn't have got before there's 15 k for accommodation that they wouldn't have before five k for storage they wouldn't have before there is the uh very firm position of principal private residences only in the old scheme that is now being opened up a bit at least in that um somebody with one rental home can get that over the line as well subject to rtb which is ironic in the fact that we had government ministers without rtb registered properties themselves but anyway uh well i'm sure we'd get passed all that so there are advantages that the disadvantage greg is that the opportunity was missed to give everyone a pathway forward so to your point which is 100 right um there is nobody that's not going to get away without having to go to a bank here to try to find money and that's just not on the table for pensioners and many other people out there and we had a pathway forward they talked about the likes of the penalty free downsizing they talked about the likes of transfer of eligibility that let people even though they should never have been in this position in the first place but there was a pathway if they were prepared to take that and it'll never it'll never sit with me why they weren't prepared to at least do things that was costing the exchequer nothing extra we had a minister but you could argue right with a minister at the table great with a minister at the table that should have absolutely not left that table until he had agreement the things that cost the state nothing extra he had in his pocket walking out that door but the thing about that is is if they had have conceded that this would be a scheme that many many more people could access the likes of ellen who we've spoken to this week could access sorry uh and therefore it would have cost whatever it would have cost the way it is now by resisting that it's exclude excludes an awful lot of people it excludes an awful lot of people and keeps the costs down so in other words in other words it's almost purposely a bad scheme but you've unveiled the scheme that you can make quite a coherent argument for some people at the very least that it's very close to 100 but the reality is is ellen and hundreds like her it's no different in fact even maybe sometimes a little bit worse than the old scheme and maybe that was the motivation yeah and you know that's such a shame great to be living in a country where we have to have a conversation that that questions the intent of the people that are meant to be looking after us and that is the real shame on this that uh i i can't disagree with what you're saying and that that's it's just terrible to think that that's we're bringing up our kids and and a society like that and that's in that's one case we don't get an opportunity later i think that's why the 24th that saturday we need to be in Dublin and we need to let this world not just the government that the world see what it is that we're putting up with on so many different levels we've got it on mica there's so many should it be education should it be health should it be marine should be agriculture the list is endless and that ill intent is how i would describe it that you just just you know described as potentially what it is in it for them because there are no other logical explanation all right well that's just terrible a lot of people they'll may not attend and i'm not discouraged in them because they may have have given up on on on this current coalition for right or wrong on delivering or changing they might be saying right well let's wait after the next next election we had Sinn Fein this week reaffirmed their commitment to reviewing this scheme to making it a fully funded 100 percent redress scheme and you've been dealing with politicians for a long time now do you believe that a change in government a shin fen laid go shin fein led government will deliver everything they've promised in relation to mica redress the honest answer the only only honest answer anybody can give to that question greg is that we don't know all i do know is that we have thrashed to death any possibility of getting the scheme that we need with the current coalition which means you have to give someone else a go you know the talk about the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over they expect a different result i think we've been there too many times with this coalition to think that we're going to get anything more that said you know the it's easy to shout from the sidelines i remember clearly been in lester house with charlie mcconnellog with darrow brain with mehill martin at the time whenever leo varadkar and on morphe were in the high seats of power that time as housing minister and and t-shirt and them telling us what they're going to do for us when they would get in and we've seen what they've delivered so i have no confidence in anyone at this point in time to be honest because of the system that they're up against be a department officials or otherwise but at the end of the day they have to call the department to heal they have to say we are the elected representatives and this is how it's going to be guys i'm not saying we should look to britain i'm not saying we should look to britain to to to look for example but lis trust went in and and and she was trust went in one of the first things she did don was change uh people at the head of the civil service and when we talk about civil service i'm not talking about the people that on the ground around here that work for the civil service i'm talking about the the the heads of departments the decision makers she went in and she changed them all and there was big pushback big resistance but presumably she has a plan and the only way she can actually make that plan happen whether it's a good one or not i don't know enough about it to know is to get rid of people that might stand in her way but we would never see that in this country i don't think no and you know it's the secretary generals it's the principal officers it's not what we have at a local level okay there'll be opportunity there and there's no doubt about that as well but you know the key decision makers and the people that can hold the stuff up and the people that can hold the politicians to ransom are not at local authority level they're at the secretary general level and they're at the principal officer level that's what we've been dealing with that's where we found the resistance coming from and we also had an attorney general that done us no favors either so you know these are the people that you know we need a strong enough government to come in and as i say pull these people to heal and say no the tail's not wagging the dog from here on and this is the way it's going to be i honestly honestly hope that that's what the alternative government does in two years time if that's how long it takes but there's no guarantees and we've been let down too many times by people shouting from the sidelines so we have to watch the space but we have to believe as well we have to give people hope and you know that's the next show in town when these people do come in here this alternative government and we have to hold down to account where were the micro action where will the micro action group be at that stage though uh michael i think there was a peak um there was a peak ahead of the amazing rally and and history will never forget what happened uh that day it was it was really truly remarkable and was the catalyst for change although um there was a bit of cloak and dagger i think went on in terms of what change was delivered all that being said at that time the campaign was so strong that even those that maybe were trying to undermine it or or suggest a different path it was all a bouncing off it because it was so strong that being said you know you keep chipping away at the strongest of rock eventually it will give way the likes of yourself have left the micro action group there is a little bit of i think acceptance that's for the next two years what can be done even with an incredibly well organized campaign so where because i think i think i think a micro action group has to be incredibly strong at the time of a change of government really for those changes to be followed through don but between now and then where is the campaign where is the movement is it splintered is it scattered has it has it run out of steam from all the effort that has been put in no i think um it's probably a very good question a lot of people want to know um uh you know what our position is on that i would just remind people that 11 years ago my action group started around the kitchen table we have always had strong characters okay they just change you know no one should ever take away from what an owns an island already did for this campaign you know when no when when mica was not a sexy word okay it was a horrible word that people were in denial they even had it in their own homes and you know they managed pulled together and i was in the the tail end of that but they were in the the thick of it the whole way through was to pull together that 90 10 scheme so something that had nothing came through to being the biggest redress scheme in the land and that was down to them two ladies and others that work chris got an image action and others that worked along with it all the way through so they made that happen their time had come then where the 90 10 scheme was delivered and they stepped aside okay and they didn't completely step aside because they were still involved and you know and then um myself image action we had uh an input of energy from the likes of uh lisa hone who's staying on thankfully and i think will be a massive asset to the new mic action group and the likes of sarah keyskill that got involved in there and they just lifted it to a new level who knows where the next levels are you know people come people go it's not about individuals it's about the campaign and it's about the cause the cause hasn't gone away and we know where the gaps are now so i think this is evolving and i think this has to now go into a phase between now and a change of government that's about ensuring there's no further ground lost to the regulations and i know the likes of lisa hone in there will make sure and she'll be all over that that she worked extremely closely with us the whole way through though the job for now is ensuring no further grounds lost i've no doubt is making sure the regulations don't detract from what we've got i've no doubt of the new faces enthusiasm and commitment to this that being said though um if maybe homeowners don't get behind them like they have in the past you know those resources can be depleted quite quickly how important do you think is it is now uh that the the campaign unites behind this new group of individuals i think that's critically important and a couple of things that i want to thank the three for being brave enough to stay on because it would have been easy for everyone to walk i needed to walk at this point just for family reasons and to be honest you know um the experiences of it just left you that um you needed to time out even for your own mental health you know to get yourself back in the game again from a family perspective you know uh it's it was all encompassing it shouldn't have been all encompassing i think if the load was shared more it would be more sustainable for people but it is a burnout situation because there's not enough of people taking it on and i think the other part as well that i would say to people out there they need to protect the campaigners better than what they've done right now this is not me uh looking for something at this stage i know i had taken a few shots patty diver's taken a few shots you know a lot of shots each of us to be honest by naysayers it really didn't have anything else to offer uh as an alternative strategy but you know a lot of stuff that was unfair a lot of stuff that questioned integrity uh what it was you were about uh questioned your motives you know looking for something in there that was undermining the possibility that you're just in it for the right reasons to do the right things and um you know a lot of people let that happen you know for me to engage or for patty diver to engage and lock horns with these people that takes away from our credibility within the campaign but what you would expect is that the thousands of people that should know better out there would weigh in behind and say hang on this is just out of order completely there was bits of that but there wasn't enough of that and that allowed um oxygen for these people that had nothing better to do other than keyboard warriors and you know we all have families none of us in here get one penny out of this if anything you're out money and you're out a hell of a lot of family time and the one thing that i would say not about looking backwards but learning from the experience of it is looking forward to the new campaign and the new campaigners that's going to be within mic action group they need better protection by the public they need to be protected because they are out in the limb they don't need to do it and you know it's not that we were i get you but we don't live only 10 exactly the only thing is is and i know that would be nice but we live in a we sort of live in a world now on all issues where we don't have sort of that that blind faith um and i'm not saying it's blind faith but we are conditioned to question everything and you know we've and we believe a lot of stuff you know whether we should or not but i think your message you've related there is clear and the people that want to hear it will hear it and those that won't won't you know the way it is it's that's just the way we live nowadays yeah michael there was talk of of elections running for running in elections ahead of i think really the final decision and i think that was mentioned at the right time because it might elicit fire under some people to maybe get something extra across the line um do you think that's still a realistic option as we had towards the next election or do you throw all the faith into the current opposition no we don't know the outcome of the next election and if there could be a coalition form to keep out what seems to be the obvious next government anything is possible but do you think there is any point now at this stage or do you think it's likely that candidates will be run at the next election singlish you candidates i think this is one for the new committee what we wanted to do with the agm greg was to leave pathways forward in terms of uh you know draft roadmaps and really stop the new committee then to decide which one they want to take we left things open for example the um a central committee whereby the 13 counties that we know all have defective concrete blocks at this point in time that there'd be one rep from each of them would come into a central committee that central committee would then deal with government deal with the officials deal with media and in the meantime each county would have its own action group action group and you know they'd be feed forward and feed back to the people through that and you know that's one aspect of it the in terms of the political aspirations around that i think we had to throw that out there we had to make that a real possibility it's still out there is a possibility um you know you've got local elections as well that i think we could certainly do with uh make a councillors around the table there to keep people on point okay i i i honestly see the meetings that take place at county council level and they're not business like they don't work for me and you know we're we're on the outside looking in you could you could certainly influence that greater from within than outside you look at then at a national level and you know could we do with our own couple of independents that'll be down there and we've seen the bargaining power that independents can bring to the table i don't think any of that should be ruled out okay um right like lots of people thanking you for your service over the last while i i think really you don't fully step out of anything like this uh when you're you've been so involved in it but if there is other people now to do some of the work that you and others have been doing and we look forward to speaking to them too over the course of the next while unless there's anything you want to add michael we'll wrap it up there yeah yeah well just a couple of things and it's probably more um you know we talked about where to going forward and one of the things that should have mentioned is the likes of paul donlop and the whole science thing he's got and he's got you know between 15th and 17th now you're up in the university in letter kenny we've got international effective concrete block experts coming to take place and hopefully influence what we have in nsa that's a big step forward with the likes of joe morgan working very very hard and he's had aileen ann aemon jackson and others in there as well on the whole european aspect of things so all of that's going on the same time it may not be directly sitting under mag but this is all work all in the right direction the 100 redress page we should never forget what paddy never brought to the party and we we shouldn't ever do that we have also got um ladies in particular that were working behind the 100 redress page but massive effort into that and i don't want to start naming them out individually but we've been all the release in there that we've been a big played a big part but what i would say is that that's all part of the campaign going forward and please people do not drop your heads we some of us needed a bit of time out we haven't gone away we'll be there sounding boards we'll be there for advice where that advice is asked for so that's not going away and lastly just to thank a few people obviously the mic action group that were there for years both past and present for those going forward to watch them all the best um my own family uh who put up with enough a lot of stuff has had the families of the other mic action group members the paddy divers in the 100 percent redress gang you know families pay a big price here on this stuff you know the likes of highland radio i have to say yourself greg i have always found you fair i've always found you you'll test us but that's fair enough we should know our stuff and if you know your stuff you'll have no problem with greg who's our highland radio come to that matter and you have given us a platform both in letter kenny and in dublin that will always be grateful for and just you know as both finally just to say please again the 24th of september don't miss our opportunity to get down there and make our voices heard try and avoid the excuses do not leave it to others let's stand up step forward and be kind to michael daherty uh form a piro of the mic action group thanks for your time this morning have a good day chat to you again all right take care okay back with more after these would you like to win a Hyundai kona car well that's the first prize in the st unans ga club development draw who are sponsors of this week's nine till noon show there's nine 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stressed the immediate priority is to deliver a strong message to government at the weekend's cost of living demonstration in dublum however michael doherty made it clear that whatever happens in the future he has no confidence in the current administration we have thrashed to death any possibility of getting the scheme that we need with the current coalition which means you have to give someone else a go that said it's easy to shout from the sidelines i remember clearly been in lanster house with charlie mcconnellog daryl brane michael martin at the time whenever leo virat gore and on morphe were in the high seats of power and them telling us what they're going to do for us when they would get in and we've seen what they've delivered a denigol man has appeared in court in northern irland facing six charges rating two allegations of historic sexual abuse against two former pupils of his 79-year-old patrick jurid sharky who now lives in france has denied the allegations with more here's mckellot lock patrick jurid sharky with an address at root door durling arts france has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him at untram crown court he faces two counts of indecent assault against one complainant on dates between august the 31st 1992 and july the first 1994 he faces four similar charges against a second person alleged to have been committed between may the first 1995 and december the 31st 1998 both are former pupils of the accused mr. sharky was arrested in coventry last june he's been released on bail with the trial set to get underway on february the 13th 2023 a new report has examined the readiness of kellybeck's harbour for the development of offshore renewable energy the report by wind energy irland finds the port has the potential to service potential offshore wind sites with its skilled workforce the close proximity of shipbuilding and repair companies and access to the n 56 however it said the port would struggle to serve as a manufacturing or staging port concerns have been raised over the potential presence of a fatal fungus in trees on the business park road in letter kenny councillor donal coil raised concerns about the presence of ash dieback in ash trees along the route after observing visible signs of the fungus on the trees the council has confirmed it will carry out an inspection councillor coil says it's potentially a very serious situation i was talking to one particular gentleman and we're looking at at the trees there every one of the trees seem to have visible signs of this ash dieback which is a fungus that attacks the trees it's an awful body because there's about 40 trees growing up along the business park road and i've asked the council to carry out an examination and conjunction with jagas to determine of this ash dieback and it looks like it and the health minister says every private bed in the country will need to be used to cope with a very difficult winter ahead for the health service the irish nurses and midwives organization is calling for the state to deals with private hospitals now so public hospitals don't become overrun in the coming months there are concerns over how healthcare will be impacted by an expected twindermake of covid-19 and flu minister steven donnelly says he instructed the hsc last night to use all private capacity available we need to be using every private bed every private mri dexa scanner x-ray nursing home bed community bed this winter requires the mobilization of the entire health care system the public and the private system looking at the weather forecast ann mettern are telling us it'll be rather cloudy in the west with rain and drizzle this afternoon that'll turn persistent in the evening and extend to all areas highest temperatures today 15 or 16 degrees celsius with southerly winds increasing moderate to fresh tonight will become breezy with widespread rain heavy and persistent at times with a chance of local spot flooding overnight temperatures 12 to 13 degrees celsius moderate to fresh south or southwest winds after a wet start dry and sunny weather will extend right through the region tomorrow by early afternoon top temperatures on thursday 14 to 16 degrees celsius fresh southwest winds and that's how the radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock until then from the news team good morning the obituary notices for this wednesday morning september the 21st the death has taken place of patrick mcdermott artfoil movill removal from leon colm's funeral premises cul d'aff this afternoon at three o'clock going to his home funeral from there on saturday morning at 10 o'clock for 11 o'clock recreation mass in st mary's church at bogan cul d'aff while by burial in the adjoining graveyard family time please from 11 p.m to 11 a.m family flowers only donations if desired to the dunigol hospice care of any family member patrick's funeral mass can be viewed live on cul d'aff parish.com the death has taken place of humiglain 35 beechwood road letter kenny county dunigol rosary both nights at nine o'clock huge remains will repose at his late residence from six o'clock this evening funeral from there on friday morning for mass since in juneans cathedral letter kenny at 11 o'clock for by interment in the family plot in lex cemetery funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family time from 10 p.m to 10 a.m and on the morning of the funeral family flowers only donations to diabetes arland care of any family member the death has taken place of jackie cairns 239 melmine road victoria bridge reposing at his son martin's home green hill house to carry gullin road stroban this afternoon from two o'clock funeral leaving his son's home on friday morning at quarter past nine for recreation mass in sin trees is church siamills at 10 o'clock and termined afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations and leo flowers please to knock more large residents comfort fund care of quickly funeral directors family time please from 10 p.m to 11 a.m the recreation mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of and oil bend off cardona her remains are opposing at her home removal from there to more morning at half past 10 going to the church of the sacred heart cardona for recreation mass at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery lies private police from 10 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow the death has taken place of pats now nae forntini great james the street dairy patch remains are opposing at the home of her sister sentina langan 12 malina shallow gardens kinks fort park a dairy from there to more morning at 11 o'clock for 12 noon funeral mass in sin joseph's oratory through green castle county dunningall fall by private cremation in leglands crematorium cabin family flowers only family time please from 11 p.m to 11 a.m the death of vivaan scott cloncher clamani has taken place in new yorker daughter of mijella and the late andy scott funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in boken church kildaf family flowers only please donations in leo flowers to the irish heart foundation the death has taken place of john mcgonagall donnie guard malin head and formerly balihini malin head reposing at his home in donnie guard removal from there to more morning at quarter past 10 going to st mary's church like malin for recreation mass at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery and the death has taken place of patrick mcfadden party only of mean and iller dary bag originally from mean it off bomb bag funeral mass in st mary's church dary bag this morning at 11 o'clock with interment afterwards in maharik gallon cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on kearn roger funeral directors facebook page for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to hindland radio dot com declin yeah did you know there's already been more than 20 big euro millions winners this year what 20 yeah and that's just an urnate whoa wait how big is big at least half a million euro whoa oh is that another dream yeah snorkeling and fiji hey declin yeah don't forget your ticket the national lottery it could be you play responsibly play for fun euro millions and euro millions plus wins between january and september 2022 okay you're welcome back to the second hour of the nine till noon show let's get to some of your comments coming in this morning and keep them coming into us by the way oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand or oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand if you wish to give us a call greg well done to michael in all his work for the mica action group committee uh another unfortunately for the people across donning all minister mcconnellogue like his predecessors in the finigale led government to just kick in the can down the road leaving it until after the next general election for the new government to deal with they appear to have no appetite to remedy mica that's uh coming in from mary t sweeney uh who's a rep for aint to of course if it's the civil servants that run the country what's the point in having elections if this government can't get children a seat on a school bus then it's time for the people to fight for change think long and hard before voting again we can change things for the better believes a caller good morning greg of course that woman down the country is right it's the height of laziness to go out in your pajamas plus you're sleeping in them all night let's be hygienic here after all good point too and i've thought of the hygiene greg there are just too many ukrainians arriving here we're not equipped to handle them all there is far too much money being handed out to shelter these poor people how can our own students or tourists possibly hope to secure a room i can see this killing our tourism trade for years to come these very lucrative contracts need to be looked at indeed well who's going to scrutinize them um that being said of course i think much of that funding is part of effectively what is the european war effort uh rather than coming out of the national coffers greg is it fair for 17 whole social houses to go to refugees in milford 47 state-of-the-art apartments in balaba fae as well as none for irish citizens i'm not sure about the apartments in balaba fae but i know there is some concern in that regard and there is certainly uh some concern as it relates to these social houses in milford and all the caller says hi greg what about those social houses uh in milford not being given to locals where are our local counselors and tds for that area this is a disgrace now we we will be talking about that of course but my understanding is and we've seen it before that this is not a council owned property that this is this is private property and um we've seen it in letter kenny and other towns and villages and we've seen it with people who own hotels it's up to them what they do with them and if if someone wants to build houses and then make them available like this then um whether people like it or not it is up to them i'm not sure what local counselors and the council can actually do i don't think the council has a contract signed for these houses and that was ripped up and they were now i'm hoping to correction on all of this and then they were used for another reason i don't know the ins and outs of it but you can't compel a private individual as to what they do with their private property none of us would like that if it's anything different to that i know there was some tentative agreement perhaps as to what might be some of this property might be used for with the council but i'm not sure was anything siled and signed and sealed uh that's a question i don't have an answer to i think in terms of say for instance if you wish to um i i think really what the what the the government need to clarify what we need to get some clarification on is is that because we were told by ministers on this program that there are two different lanes going here there is a housing for all policy that deals with homelessness in this country and and providing housing for people and then there is this emergency response now if the system is set up that one can skip from one to the other because one is more lucrative in the than the other well that's the system that needs to look at they need to ensure that housing long-term housing to service the housing waiting list cannot be changed or recommissioned to be used for the more lucrative short-term to medium-term measures you know i mean it is the system that's allowing that wherever it's happening you know if it's a case even of long-term renter has been put out of a house so people can fill it with um bunk beds you know if that is allowed to happen well how is it allowed to happen under what guidelines is allowed to happen i think that's a an area that requires a quite a bit of scrutiny uh Greg 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gov.ie forward slash a np or call 0818 6070 80 a government of ireland initiative okay we were talking about perhaps uh it's probably the most significant road development ongoing at the moment that's the four lanes into letter kenny and into the west and north of the county and uh we were speaking to councillor donal kelly the mayor of letter kenny milford millford municipal district last week because the issue was also then going to be raised on monday that's last monday's meeting to get some clarity on it and it appears that work will not be fully completed now until at least the end of quarter one 2023 councillor donal kelly joins us now donal thanks for taking the call again i appreciate your time thank you greg right okay so uh why is it taking so long to finish this road uh greg listen as you're aware and and you said there um i had a question went forward for uh actually yesterday's meeting tuesday um regarding the four lane and and that's expressing my own concerns that it was a thought it was running way behind and and uh listen what i was thinking turned out to be right um they're telling us now that they're just going to run on to um the end of quarter one of 2020 which is a very despite news uh to be here and and not the feedback that i that i was hoping for right donal just to be clear right i know you're not responsible for this there's a contractor on site the councillor overseeing that but of course you donal are you know you're elected there as the you know you're the mayor and you're the sort of in between between people on the ground of the council so i'm not being tough right but what what excuse is being given now as to the delays to this project well greg i suppose to begin with they have told us well they told us yesterday at the meeting that the works on the road and the footway elements has significantly progressed and that's up to 80 percent complete which is positive but the hold up here seems to be about what we talked about the last time we're talking to you is where the is where you go out on this it meets the the rubber swally along the road there where the the ball archers out to keep the traffic and i suppose out of that bend what the problem seems to be there now is is the design of the structure and that has to go in place there they seem to have problem have a problem getting the right design for the structure yeah but a design a design is it not the case though donal that a design that this had been designed but the contractor didn't want to go ahead with that design well that that seemed to be the case uh greg why is that that's the kind of question we need the answer to why when this had been designed because i want the public to know exactly what's going on here donal as you do too right a design had been put in place for that crossing it was uh there was a bit of pushback on it and then looking towards a new design so in other words this is a work that's already been done but we're going back to the drawing board board do we know why that is oh but that's that that's answers that we need to get um greg and at the meeting yesterday um not only michelle but uh fellow country as well country broken as well there we express our concerns as well and along with other members and as well and and we asked that we have a meeting so we've sought now for a meeting what's the contractors and what's going on county council going forward so that is to be arranged now um i'm hoping to get feedback in that before the end this week and have a meeting hopefully early next week or the middle of next week okay what other excuses were uh what other yeah what other excuses were given us to the delays uh there were no real other excuses given they were quite honest Greg apart from um the delay in this uh this boardwalk structure and i talked at the time when i was last talking to you about about a bridge you know and this is a small less the same equivalent you know a boardwalk structure going over the the rubber and there's flood mitigation plans for there as well and this seems to be what's holding the whole thing up um apart from that the contractors seem happy enough that the works are progressing with the footpaths on the road and now i beg the duffer on that michelle let me put it just a just a wee question because the the contract was signed to be finished by october isn't that correct that's correct and that was that was based on nighttime work only right then the council conceded that daytime work could happen as well and yet we're still looking at a march completion date i mean that was quite a big concession from the council that daytime work would be allowed to happen so we've got nighttime work and daytime work now right and i don't know if you drive past how many people are actually working on that road uh the whole thing's being held up because there isn't a plan to cross the swilly there i mean that's a bit yeah you know you know i mean there's there's other jobs bigger jobs that have been started and finished in between so like it it how is it acceptable that the main route into letter kenny the west and the north of the county is being held up due to the design of a boardwalk to cross the swilly it's a little bit embarrassing Greg you're a hundred percent correct and i agree with you a hundred percent that is embarrassing and it's frustrating not not only for ourselves as local representatives but for the general public itself that's coming on that road and not only for the people using the road Greg for the businesses along there and i mean you go out there any day the amount of businesses that's out along there and even down down the bonagy uh road there i mean there's numerous businesses down there and they're they're suffering and they're feeling the effects of us uh big time well can i ask a question they were told at the time to be finished in october and now there's they've been told now they're just going to run on until quarter twenty twenty three and i mean it's not just another question right as it relates to those businesses okay you say it's eighty percent completed up until where the cycle cycle path and the footpath hits the embankment of the of the swilly right from there from that point all the way up to the the roundabout at the clanry where the majority of the businesses and and and uh why is that not completed like why are you know if it's eighty percent it's some eighty percent why from from the point where it reaches that embankment why is the road from that point then back to the clanry not completed so as those businesses can operate as normal was any reason given for that like why is bits and pieces of all of that road sort of eighty finished and it not all finished so at least those businesses could operate and get some bang for their buck for the uh commercial rates and other rates that they pay the council there Greg there was no reason given that and that's great answers that i thought i'm not happy with and that's why we've called now for a meeting to have a meeting with the contractors along with the legal county council to express our concerns and not only express your concerns great but also to apply extra pressure on this and to have this road completed sooner rather than later because as you say Greg october was was supposed to be the deadline then we were told november and now we're we're been told that that's on now to the first part of their front of the nc i mean that's a shocking news that nobody wants to hear and certainly not ourselves local representatives because they receive calls and day in and day out regarding this and it's not from the general public from road users from pedestrians it's businesses you know and everybody's feeling the effect and my fear is coming on the cross that's great i mean that's not only that's the businesses or the people using this road's going to feel the effects the whole of latin is going to feel that but you were also told you were also told that the some of the hold up is due to global supply issues yeah we weren't told that uh great that inflation the rising inflation and from international events that's been told here and after but what but what what for that road what internationally do they need to finish the road i mean this quarries are here the quarries here in ireland so it's not that uh it's general quarry fill right so that's not a problem um they're laying enough tarmac between bali shannon and bundor and to do that road uh there so it's not tarmac so what are the global supply and inflation issues that's holding up this main route into letter candy the west and north why are other projects proceeding as i say we've got the major resurfacing work uh that's being done we've got roads that have been completed in in the south uh in the in the west and south of the county we've got roads same contractors that tendered for this that are finishing roads in in in dairy so what what's like what global supply and inflation issues are holding up this road that aren't affecting other roads like why is that not being explained to the people in the particularly the businesses right the greg that's that's the first thing about this year are they on about barriers because barriers the last thing to one road well greg unfortunately the sad reality of this i was hoping to be on here the day uh able to answer every question that you're you're going to me but unfortunately the answer that we were given yesterday as representers it's something not good enough and and it's the sad reality of the thing now is today greg i can't give you the answers that you need and i wish i wish i could and listen i must first say that there's anybody about this and and the reason being that we have stopped us meeting now with the contractors and only got county councilors a matter of urgency to get on top of this i want to be back on on hiding radio along with your with your shelf greg and all your listeners and giving us the fault to us every answer or every to every question that's asked of me i mean like i'm on here today and i suppose the feedback i'm giving me it's it's not the feedback that the people want but unfortunately it's the feedback that i've been given which i can't express enough but i haven't asked any like i haven't asked any unfair questions have i i mean it's oh yeah and i'm not a roads engineer but just just basic stuff like why why all the work on on the the footpaths uh and why not finish why not finish the actual pavement you know why not finish the pavement so businesses can operate full like why where's the work that that the council gave them permission to work during the day where's that work happening what what what is happening what happened when that happened what international inflation and global issues what element of the road structure is that holding up at what stage is the design of the this new bridge or or pontoon to cross the where's that at do you know what i mean these are these are fundamental stuff very good yeah and very very valid questions very valid questions that that that i shared and i wish that i could give the answer to and i wish i hadn't got the got the answers to these but these are these are the questions that i'm going to be asking myself to seek the answers for i mean i'm a great believer in myself Greg when you start something you keep at it you finish it and and i think in this case they should have kept that that one side and i've finished it and before moving to the other side of the road but listen that that hasn't been the case and the feedback we're getting now is that there's a problem with the design for the the structure of the boardwalk adjacent to rubber swally and well let me have to be careful with the language is there a problem with the design or did we not like the original design because that was designed sealed and that was designed we're redesigning it as far as i understand now it'd be interesting you get some clarification on that but there was already a design and plan put in place for that because i said this to you last week uh what's what what was wrong with that design was it too expensive was it did it not potentially you know do what it was supposed to do like can we have this whole thing held up because we can't figure out how to cross a small section of the swilly yeah Greg that's again unfortunately something that we need to get answers to better um the the best thing going forward now is can i just respectfully say uh can i respectfully say to like people will feel and i have to say donal people will feel that you know maybe are you guys the local reps being toughen off on this great that's that's understandable and you're probably right and and quite honest the people is every right to feel like that but believe me we feel the same Greg you know i mean we're we're we are applying pressure at any stage we can here and i mean we're not getting the answers that we want which is very frustrating but you know you know we're applying pressure at every point point an opportunity that we can and um listen we're going to go into a meeting i hope next week along with these the contractors i'm going to go kind of council the two bodies sitting down along with us the public representatives and uh we need to get this air and out watching for all and see what's going on as i said the last time Greg have it means putting more men on the ground well let's get it done i mean they're working their day and night how long it's not about that because they were given 24 hours a day to work on this road when previously the only had nighttime uh it's supposed to be global supply and inflation issues yet you know we've got local quarries they're laying tar all over the country including in donagall um you know so which is it it's not my it can't be manpower because that manpower hasn't been given us an excuse once uh and yet now we're facing into a Christmas of people probably deciding to head somewhere else because it's too difficult to get into a through letter kenny and if i were a business owner i'd be raging yeah you're Greg and listen Greg buzzerphone or something i've talked to a number of them on the air rage and rightly so um listen it's simply it's not good enough the the answer i've given here it's simply not good enough i mean give us to any local representative it's just simply not good enough to come from the contact point of view and uh i mean i'm frustrated i'm frustrated i'm i'm annoyed i'm annoyed at the answer i'm annoyed at the progress that's been made and um we need to get to the bottom of it yeah well listen we'll keep asking questions because the days and this is not directed at you but the days where we as the public just sit around and have to have everything that happens just wash over us and we have to accept it and we say nothing and it is what it is and you can't make harm looks without breaking eggs you know what this is millions and millions of euro and we were given a commitment and contracts were signed which should have that road finished right now and yet there's more uh questions than there are answers uh i appreciate you coming on even though from that meeting on monday you clearly weren't given much information i think a lot of these i don't know if these questions were posed these obvious questions were posed at the meeting on monday and there was no answers to come back from but anyway we'll watch with interest this this meeting that's upcoming and and hopefully it's public uh and people get to see uh see what's going on because they say you know this could be uh you know this could be wherever in you know this could be a holiday park in west donningall or a caravan park in creasla uh although there's only one of those and i'm i just picked that out on me head i think there's only one but you know they're affected by this as well because the traffic is struggling to get through it's not just letter kenny the county is bigger than letter kenny and lots of people have an interest in the completion of this project but for now councillor kelly i appreciate you coming on even though we went all further on really from our conversation last week we hope maybe after the next meeting we'll have more information and i'm not trying to be a uh a troublemaker to ask tough questions purposely but listen there's thousands and thousands and thousands of people driving through that road every day and businesses that are already under massive pressure that are being hindered uh because of the delays and i just feel i have to speak out on their behalf uh donal so sorry to be doing it in your ear now last and great just to finish open that great you mean you've you've every read the question open down and i mean that's the questions that the people out there want answers to and i mean it's for student that i can't get the answers um that's for for student for michelle from for student uh for for you all there i'm hiding radio and for the general public as well but listen i hope well listen i'm going to make sure we'll put it in the guide break and we'll have this meeting now with the contactors and then we go to county council that we're going to get the answers to these questions and when i'm back on the radio what's the after this meeting yeah that's please god every every question that you throw at me that i'll have an answer for because that's what's needed well the only thing i can think of if just in that meeting the only thing i can think of that uh that that has an international flavour to it is barriers uh right so if that is the case surely everything else can be done barriers often from the roads i drive through the last thing to go on right so you know where's the where's the the decent road between uh the two bridges or sorry the bridge in the roundabout that would allow businesses to work and operate as they should be able to where's the center the center the center margin where's all the road and all the footpaths from where it runs into that embankment to the clanry where's all that why is that all not finished because i i just think if it's just barriers i don't think that really cuts it but anyway i'll leave it to you you're the elected rep i'm just a mouthpiece on the radio councillor donal kelly thanks for your time this morning he's the mayor of the lector county and uh means the bill milford district of lector county and milford municipal district would you like to win a Hyundai corner car well that's the first prize in the st unans ga club development draw who are sponsors of this week's nine to noon show there's nine other great prizes and tickets are now available online at st unions ga draw dot com or any club member we all know everyone's bills are going up so maybe it's time to say goodbye to those other supermarkets at leadle we always help to make your full shop cost less so hopefully it's one less 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losing my head listening uh not a single answer does he have he doesn't know he says he hasn't been given the information there should have been a penalty clause in that contract where the contract would have to pay for delays the way they do in the uk you can bet the problem would be solved then uh these are questions that should have been asked on monday greg they built the new motorway to belfast quicker uh not one counselor now this morning to talk about the road between the pole star and clanry but when it comes to cutting the ribbon to open the road all the counselors will be there for the photo shoot well in fairness uh the mayor accepted our invite to come on and answer the questions uh a caller says the mayor is not being tough enough on them he's not going into these meetings with a comprehensive list of tough questions greg suggesting loads of questions and challenges it sounds like these simple questions aren't being posed they're all too cushy friendly together are afraid to ruffle feathers it's not good enough this is public money and time just getting chucked down the drain it's a disgrace uh the council should be doing better and should be ashamed of themselves hi greg stopped going to letter kenny six months ago it's a disaster to get around uh they can't do anything right uh there needs to be some shake ups in this country the road is a disgrace the footpaths are a disgrace over one year for two footpaths that's as a runner are a disgrace they are really hard to run on with so many hidden ups and downs and hidden dips totally disgraceful uh why is that road not finished i bet uh i've been in town a few times a week and i don't see much being done there's so much could be done on that road between the swilly and the clownery it could be finished if it's 80 percent oh john john i thank you pardon are you there still john yes i am so sorry john i i uh i put the piece of paper with your name to one side and i really apologize to you john sorry can you give me your point of view john no i just listened to the thing about the road but they're chatting about no one to letter kenny but that road's the main road to get towns far beyond and people's common to other places now and they're changing their times to try and mass traffic jams and stuff but the thing about the road is never the roads funnest i think the roads going to be disaster because they have footpath they have bicycle path okay but where's the room for two roads traffic it's not there a few two lorries or a lorry in the bus or a lorry on tractors or something no no way the space is not it's actually going to be a dangerous road and i think the only thing the road's going to achieve that's what letter kenny needed years ago it's going to push them that they have to do one thing and they're going to see they have to do it they're going to have to get a bridge that's the only thing that road's going to achieve because i think it's going to be a pure disaster never does funnest because i never seen it worse do you use it regularly never seen it all regularly do you think it do you think it's 80 finished john no i don't think so no no definitely not they're far from it but oh i think as you said 50 percent you might be near definitely not 80 percent the center the road has to be dug up they had to be careful and god knows what but i says maybe as i was funnest i was chatting to a few people i says where's the room for the traffic that's that's the problem that's going to achieve one thing it's going to push that there's definitely going to have to be a bridge which should have been there and if i spent all that money on the bridge because actually for two rounds of traffic inside that he destroyed the road it's going to be dangerous very dangerous i think maybe the game is to slow the traffic down we've seen it before you know uh you you keep it narrow i mean it's quite it there's not much space between two cars now between the cones and i presume the center barrier is going to be wider than what's there at the moment well definitely so but probably it's going to slow definitely it'll slow but even if you're slowed and you've no space it's a space that's where the danger is great you know right no i think they're destroyed a perfectly good road they absolutely destroyed it and i don't think they know where they're going and that but what you're on about the but the swallow and stuff they don't know how they're going to keep my swallow back i mean your footpath and the bicycle path and it just comes to a dead end and the starts on the other side i mean what are you going to take your swimming gear away to get across a little bit maybe a ramp and you could sort of i'm sorry i know and that's it that's it it's just uh but they started they started a long time ago and just it beggars believe to me that a solution hasn't been a solution hasn't been found had to cross a bit of the swilly that the footpath like there comes a point can you imagine there comes a point when you're laying the concrete there and you come to the bank and you go right we'll stop there now do you know what i mean like it's no that that should have been figured out before even that that should have been on the plan before they started you know and the swallow was always there didn't he just appear and they started to do the footpath you know but but there's a town just outside of the canyon so people changing their road and their times and their times of movement to try to see if they can have a quiet time in that road yeah that's what i was trying to say you see it's not just letter kenny tan center if we're going to i'll keep thinking in a show but the the middle peninsula say up towards you know dannings car guard fawn all that area you have to go up those through letter kenny if you're heading to the airport if you're heading to kinkashla burton port you know it's not realistic to go south and through glentes and there's work going on on that road as well these are the four these are the four lanes or two lanes into the west and the northwest of the county no way you stay asking coming from elton said you could be in kud back nearly to the tassay and i think it's uh you're definitely going to see grid lots new a lot worse no we take bank hall the weekends and stuff it was absolutely serious but i think the way they left it now there's going to be no there's no space for traffic traffic it seems to the agenda for it wasn't for traffic never that's funny it's the fact that i'm concerned less it surprises me i'm interested to see now if they put a crossing um if they put a crossing um up close as was originally planned i'm not sure if it's still in the plans but between the hotel and the businesses and the far side i mean it's needed i suppose but i wonder is it still a is it going to be an over an over uh over the road bridge or if it's going to be traffic lights there because that that's going to probably what i don't know we'll have to wait and see it's 80 percent done anyway john i don't know i'll be surprised if it doesn't success as far as i can see at the moment i think it's going to just it's going to push something that leather kenny needs and leather kenny should have had it the monarchy thing yeah all right john listen thanks for holding that was a genuine mistake i apologize your time's precious thanks for waiting take care tony go on uh you're talking to about roads yeah i love when the ball of a area here on the dunnegal road you pray for my year yeah i don't know i don't know if you come through the main the main street every day or do the scenic route sometimes i take the old unofficial bypass i ain't gonna lie to you i'm not gonna lie to you tony by the time you by the time you you're stopped at kill ross junction by the time you're stopped at uh mcclay's corner and then by the time you have to cross 25 zebra crossings uh you know yourself i know the scenic routes down you know the roadhouse by that one you probably yeah from time to time yeah depending on the time of the day yeah not a great road either but talk about leather kenny there everybody i know people that work from and ballot appear come from leather kenny in the morning and they say it's it's just shocking now the monarchy is last way to get through you know the at the time of text and so on but i hear the as i said donnie ball of a here there's um the bypass they were talking about the bypass would you believe it greg is almost 60 years ago i worked in an architect's office i was only a young fella at the time i was only um 16 or it wouldn't be 60 years it was 55 it was it was a light on the map then and there was more planned applications turned down and more questions asked about you know all kinds of things about this bypass you can't do this you can't do that and they're still talking about it and they've switched to you know they've switched to the other side now exactly it's just a line and there's a light on the map then to the to the the north east of the town or the sorry the east of the town and now it's a line and a map now to the to the the northwest you would say is both but that's all there is and there's there's no talk about it but i haven't heard it mentioned now for a couple of years at least but there's there's roads about ball of a fee here as well without navany street they're past fun park and the state of that road is unbelievable it's just coming it's just coming a lot of traffic use that now as you know the bypass coming around yeah past fun valley centre and past the new school and coming on there is super value it's going right into okra donnie gall road the state of that road there too we have two counselors in the area here and they don't seem to be able to i don't know what what it is if you ask them anything that one of them has a lot to say and the other one doesn't say very much we're not i don't know who who who but anyway either way that back that area you talked about sort of you know from sesha kneel down past super valley down towards finn park turn right yeah that roads and bits it's an awful awful condition i mean it's affecting businesses here in the one town and then you've a wee village down the road here from us killie garden cats killie garden crossroads killie garden i don't know if you're familiar with it well every they've got new foot passed down there new road surfaces uh all kinds of things going on new footbridge over the the river going a number of years ago they're building a new bridge now both the creamery and you know they're seeing to get everything done because i personally think i'm not personally but people are saying well there's got a counselor not too far from there they seem to get you know don't get me into trouble stop talking about counselors i'm only joking i know what you're saying but tony historically though people in the the twin towns if i can call them that have field felt on the hind teat of letter kenny in other areas considering i think some of the business roads in the county uh are are in the finn valley uh it would be yeah that's yeah but uh the other thing great just before we go there the filter bridge down and down and over the down to your carry gathered planet way back a number of years ago bridge one of the one of the best bridges probably in the country it is and apparently so many were saying the the mightn't be 20 or 30 cars you know that's that's i think that's opened up a big part of that world it's a massive bridge for it relatively but that has changed how people move and travel around there though i don't have but but at the time it was a political stroke it was it was well i wouldn't say to get independent field of all on board and that at work i mean you you should do that bridge not yeah but why should that bridge not be there are you saying that bridge should be well are you saying that should be the bonagy link or it should you know like no i well all parts of the county deserve deserve investment uh tony this should be one of letter kenny's similar you know it should it should have been there years ago you know first before that one was done in fannet you know you want to you want to be sense about this about the thing all right okay you know that's there's uh things that are happening that shouldn't happen you know and uh it's just not good enough yeah but you're in the dunagal road the dunagal road's all been done up now it's been done yeah right through the gap on three to balochana nice surface good job yeah um you should be asking the questions greg uh from these to these contractors and the county councillors that's something they're aware of you you really you really put that a big good point but listen i will i will raise the issue of the roads i know though the local reps that you talk of um have because i attend the council meetings or i certainly used to the the way the roads money was divvied out in the past tony i'm not sure if it's still the case and the local councillors don't really have much say on this was by kilometer of road so you'd have areas of electoral areas that would be getting a bigger chunk of the money because they had more roads but i i remember and some of the council that you talk of expressing their frustration it should be about traffic because you have one of the biggest busiest border crossings in the county in in in your area and some of the greatest amount of traffic but the money used to be divvied out based on how much roads not the condition of the roads per se necessarily or how many cars traveled on them now i'm not sure if that's changed but you know as a local rep there's not much you can do about that and far be it for me to sit here defending councillors but if that was this that was the system tony well i see there as well greg is fairly common and places where you see roads been resurfaced and you're wondering well why did the need to resurface i will agree with you on that one i've i've seen that you see that a lot you know there's one stretch of road i know and it seems to be resurfaced every two or three years and and it's perfectly fine they tear it up strip it up lay it again strip play it it's not it's not a main road insurance it's not not one of the you know i'm talking about even we back roads i know what you're saying i do know what you're saying anyway okay tony uh i don't think me or you are going to see the the the bypass of balabha face no or hope i'm wrong but it just seems like the bonnigie link it just seems like one of those roads that will never come to pass but we shall see yeah i need a break thanks for having a lovely day tony good man lovely to chat to you and thanks for listening i really appreciate it okay uh let's take a piece of music shall we well we'll take a piece of music if i press the button here's patty casey the nine till noon show with sydunans g a club development draw 40 000 euro and prizes 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ash trees along the road after observing visible signs of the fungus on the trees the council has confirmed that they will carry out an inspection a new report has examined the readiness of killi begs harbour for the development of offshore renewable energy the report by wind energy arland find the port has the potential to service potential offshore wind sites with its skilled workforce with a close proximity of shipbuilding and repair companies and access to the n-56 however it says killi begs would struggle to serve as a manufacturing staging port and the health minister says it's no longer tenable to site covid-19 as a reason not to reopen daycare services for the elderly the issue was raised in the doll by slice dunigal deputy marion harkin who said a number of centres still haven't opened in a statement you highland radio news this morning the hsc says older person services continue to restore daycare services throughout the region to date 81 percent of day service facilities have reopened within the area those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay um thanks for all your comments so far this morning let's get to some more of them hi greg a work shift work and pass that road around 12 45 a.m there's a maximum of six people working on that road at night time why not get more staff to work through the night when the roads quiet how much extra has this delay cost i'm not sure if it's fixed price contract if it's cost the taxpayer anymore i don't believe it has i'm not sure there's an uplift with things like this i don't know i was trying to get a water mains for 22 years in my house and i went to every councillor in this county and not one could do it eventually went to councillor donal kelly and he was the only one who got irish water to solve the problem okay now just to be very clear and it doesn't just to apply to councillor kelly but a program's like this where we try and sort of get some answers it's not a criticism or a slight necessarily on the person you speak to donal kelly didn't have to answer the phone today but he shares seemingly shares the frustration and um is seeking answers and sometimes you know he's not the contractor or the head of roads or whatever he's the person trying to get answers and he wasn't given many answers seemingly on monday so it's not a criticism on him or necessarily a reflection on him or any of the councillors or elected reps sometimes that we speak to uh caller says an ambulance was coming down the road in letter kenya couldn't get through because of the road works and there was no way for the cars to go it's a disgrace that there are no arrangements in place for emergency vehicles well i'm sure there must be because as far as i'm aware uh how you do with emergency vehicles there has to be a plan in place for that i would have thought um i'm not sure then what happens if there's no one actually working on the road uh actually that's something that i'm going to pursue a little bit further because um that's another question i wouldn't mind an answer to not me personally by the way um os the ineptitude showed my by dcc to completing a piece of road works is breathtaking and bear in mind this is the same dcc that is in charge of the micro redress scheme uh caller says to keep calling it the four-lane project it has always four lanes there was nothing wrong with it in the first place there was four lanes and a footpath all it needed was resurfacing now the balls stood up again and wasted millions of taxpayers money for nothing not to mention the delays so far it's a lot of money for two footpaths keep the pressure on greg um another why is there no accountability in arland when these contracts go out to tender is there not a clause built in where if the contractor delays delivering projects on time they'd be subject to penalties this ensures projects come in completed on time and on budget this is crazy as there have been no lessons learned since the children's hospital free for all build coming up to christmas this is not good enough for the businesses in letter kenny not to mention the people that have to travel in and out for work every day has the delays from the past year not been enough i can't understand this country i'm at a total loss and i really feel for although maybe i'm overstating the impact this is having on businesses across those four lanes but i know myself i've had to make choices based on uh access to two businesses uh so that's why i feel that that it must be an issue i'm only one person greg's right it's absolutely more to find the channel tunnel was finished quicker what are we even getting wider footpaths for a road that's rarely used by pedestrians we're laughing stuck people coming from other countries to visit donogolki asking me why is it taking so long and we're not even getting an extra lane a complete joke i i think footpaths cycle paths are really important part personally of any modern new road infrastructure because there is a big population that live out that road you know maybe not see all the houses and they're perfectly entitled to have safe access to the town either on foot on bicycles so i think lanes cycle and footpaths on both sides are important uh a call of believes that work from the poll star roundabout is a joke read the roads how is the work ever going to get done when all the workers seem to be standing around doing nothing i'm sure they are doing something um that that's just a a flash that you see as you drive past at any other general construction you have a weekly report a monthly report it should all be on paper in black and white of the comings and goings for the progress on a road but we're told it's 80 finished coffee morning in st mary's hall kinkastler this coming thursday that is tomorrow already it's from 11 a.m until 3 p.m in aid of the donogol hospice wouldn't a nice cup of tea hot tea half a sugar very little milk and a scone with maybe a bit of 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now so the pretty clever it's a URL that kind of looks legit but it's clearly not legit if you click on that they might say that you have to contribute 50 cent or something to those line along those lines and as soon as you input your details they can access your bank account if you put in your bank details but also maybe they might ask you to download something onto your phone which could be some sort of spyware that could allow them access to your stuff anyway so just keep your ears and eyes out for that one it's a text message that comes in purported to be from the hsc talking of a covid variant and looking for your details good morning greg did milford get the planning permission for public housing and if so why wasn't it given out to the public don't know what the situation is with public housing or what specific development you're talking of Cecil says we have solar panels that were installed 12 years ago they terminal panels the terminal panels meaning they are hot water only panels we cannot find anyone to service them we've tried plumbers and other solar panel companies they only work with their own right okay so has anyone out there had the hot water solar panels and who services them who services them now maybe your company out there will service another contractor's panels the issue here is is that presumably whomever fitted these panels for Cecil is not available any longer to service them so we're looking for someone who services solar panels the hot water panels but not the company that installed them if that makes sense just to make sure we get Cecil an answer there if there's one out 08 660 25000 right okay uh kira burk is owner of the sage and stone cafe in duly good morning to kira good morning great how are you i am doing fantastic just sitting here in my lounge where on my house coat on my slippers delighted but nobody can see you though of course uh we uh put this up on our social media to see what the public think and it seems the vast majority of people agree with you that you were right to put the sign up so why did you decide to do it well i didn't want to sign up i put a post up um i arrived in from dropping the kids to school the other day right down to work around half nine and there was two ladies probably my age in their fifties sitting in their pajamas dressing gowns and slippers and the handbags having their breakfast now uh the one of the the waitress who served them said that they were on the air on the way to the airport to get a flight to new york right so i was thinking oh right i said and they came in their pajamas i said this is ridiculous it's this country it's this country going to a new level now of um you know so i just said right that's it i'm not i'm not going to have it anymore i'm just going to put up a post on my facebook page no pajamas allowed and it went viral yeah and the reaction has just been incredible to the tune that i didn't actually engage in the in the um in the post but the people were starting to get really nasty to each other so i just took it down last night because i just didn't think it was fair on some people that were being picked on whatever so i just took it down but my policy is remains in place i'm not having people in their pajamas coming into my cafe but pajamas are just different types of clothes you could have work gear you could have overalls you could have someone in the three-piece suite and a top hat when you're working for you're working if you're up and cleaned and dressed but if you're in a pajamas it just has connotations of you know what i'm lazy it couldn't be bothered i'm not i'm just going to get out put my slippers and just walk into the shop or the restaurant or wherever but i've never had it before so i just would was going to nip it in the bud and say right well there's one experience but i'm not doing it again well do you think i see them all the time going into the local shop when their pajamas their slippers whatever dropping the kids to school walking the kids in their bogeys to school in pajamas and i just think it's dreadful but it does do you think it would offend other people eating in the cafe or is it you that's taken offense by their pajamas i think it would offend and look i know people who like look at people going into into do their shopping and are offended but they wouldn't say anything so i'm just saying it i'm just saying it i might be saying something that people are all thinking i've already got phone calls all morning from people all over the country congratulate me for making a stance and saying like we need to just up our game in this country and have standards get yourself up washed dress and out the door leave your pajamas in bed can we afford to be turning away any customers in this day and age will you you know i don't know if you've got your most recent electricity bill but you know the stories out there can we really i wonder be afford can we afford to be turning people away in these times kiera uh great i just think we need to have standards in this country i just think that we have like it's not about that it's about people taking pride in themselves taking pride in their appearance and taking pride in the country and just you know we live in the most one of the luckiest countries in the world like we have pretty much free healthcare we've free education like people have no idea like if you go into eastern europe or into some states in america like they have to pay for everything like we have a pension scheme we have like we are so lucky compared to so many and like people just need to cup onto themselves and get up go to work and get dressed now come here just outside of that then so and and the majority of people seem to agree with you and i also think by the way kiera fair play to you for taking that post down by the way because um i i find i do that sometimes when people start turning on each other and that's not the spirit of it it's not about a witch hunt yeah okay you've made your decision and you've you've you've lost a lot of sort of traction in doing so so fair play to you in doing that but you talk about spotting a lot of people out walking around in their PJs now i don't see that too much is it really something that you would see on a regular basis i don't believe you haven't seen it i really genuinely haven't seen anyone outdoors in their pajamas now maybe it's the time i'm out and about or maybe it's where i am so just set the scene for me kiera well actually tesco have a have a no pajamas policy now why would they have a no pajamas policy on their front door can i say kiera i'm not doubting it i'm flabbergasted by it i believe you but i just want to know how widespread it is and also uh temple street and the children's hospital and to some other hospitals have no pajamas policy in their cafes because they don't want obviously patients coming down into the cafe you know they're obviously get their own food in their in their beds but they don't want people coming in with pajamas and you know it like it's widespread i'm not the only one yeah not one of the only one and i just think that we have to i don't think that we have to like it's not and it's not about a poverty thing either it's not about anyone you know judging like you can go in and get an outfit in a charity shop of which there are thousands for under a fiber and if you are in financial difficulty you would get it for free so that is not the case like so don't say that it well i can't afford nice clothes whatever that's rubbish because my children they dress themselves in charity shops yes uh so it's not it's not about the money it's about slovenliness it's about laziness and that's what it's about right kiera listen thanks for your time this morning i'm sure you've had plenty of course all right take care thanks bye bye kiera birk owner of that cafe in dudik sage and stone now is to say on social on our socials most people seem to be 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monday september 19th tfi local link root 953 movill to letter kenny will be extended to green castle and will now service locations including kuldaf glenealy green castle and bridge end operating up to three times per day seven days a week the enhanced route will now provide a new peak time service for students and commuters into letter kenny arriving for both 8 a.m and 9 a.m and returning at 5 p.m as well as improve connectivity to regional bus services for onward travel for timetables fairs and all route information see local link dsl.ie or call our office on 074 9741 644 tfi local link part of the transport for ireland network now we're delighted to welcome in to studio back into the studio in fact brendan rowan it's part of our wellness wednesday and we're talking about facing a terminal illness brendan thank you so much for rejoining us it's great to have you back on the program thank you yeah it's great to be here and the last time we spoke to you it was in relation to your work with red hue and we might touch on that before we finish up if that's all right yes because there is a connection between what you essentially want to talk about and what we spoke well i'll tell you can you can intertwine it as you see fit thank you very much you are the man right okay so the last time it was almost an aside in our last conversation in that we were focusing on red hue and then it was mentioned in passing and i didn't want to sort of divert from what you came in to talk to us about the fact that you are terminally ill not quite terminally ill what i was given was a diagnosis of inoperable cancer okay so that's my misuse of language well several people have used that term but i mean it could amount to the same thing of course we could all argue we're all terminally ill as well yes indeed okay and how long has it since you received that news well on the 7th of september 18 i was diagnosed with inoperable cancer it was just too late it had already attached to other organs so the surgeon said it wasn't safe to operate and the only thing to try and stem the spread of the cancer was immediate and intense radiation treatment so i was within a half an hour i was downstairs and with the radiation oncologist now that was quite a wonderful experience because he he he was a very kind man who looked me directly in the eyes and scientifically discounted all the complementary or alternative treatments that i wanted to consider so he left me at the end that i was happy then to go with his area of expertise and in that conversation do you ask a question or is the question or answer offered well how long or is that an answerable question in that scenario well uh immediately then no but later on when looking at the reports um a doctor i'm afraid he's a little bit embarrassed about this but he is an incredibly good he's one of the best doctors i've ever met in my life but he's a little bit embarrassed that he told me at the time that ah look with modern medications and treatments you have a 70 chance of five years so i quickly calculated at best that's three and a half years wonderful what an opportunity to get my shit together before the inevitable and um now that kind of response is very much individual as i said to your researcher earlier i spent 20 years in the army teaching people how to respond when they come under fire nobody knows how they'll respond will they freeze go to ground fire back run away no one knows until they're in that scenario and likewise until you're presented with a diagnosis that i was presented with or if you like somebody says terminal and no one knows how they're going to respond many of us spend much of our time considering how we might respond had you ever thought about if you were ever given that type of news or if you were ever told you were very sick what you might do no i was far too busy but um idle minds do the devil's work so that's my that's my problem i think well to be honest um after being denied the sarcoments in 1984 which pertain for 25 years and for the following 10 i just gave up and going to seven different priests who to see if they would relent but they didn't i began in 1986 studying practical philosophy so i went to the school of practical philosophy and emphasis on the practical and there i learned some very valuable stuff not just about looking at the depths and the truth and the beauty within every religion and every faith including the one that i was born into um but also to look at who we are essentially and about living in the present moment because and i always attribute this to michael carlands that thinking is what causes all the bother but actually it's something i say myself but i thought by attributed it to someone like him people might listen because if you think about something you've immediately left the present moment and you've gone to the past of the future and there's nothing going on there how can we control that well what i learned through the school was to be out of your mind no not with drugs or alcohol but the cheap way by focusing on this physical senses so if you can connect with any of the physical senses you're back in your body you're out of your mind yeah and you know i think it's generally accepted too i mean the the the turn of phrase i think is the anticipation of death is worse than death itself but the anticipation of lots of things are often worse than so we spend so much time occupying ourselves with what might be the case or how would i cope or whatever and then we are faced with things we feared so much and something kicks in we adapt we actually maybe surprise ourselves sometimes sometimes people might go the other way but all of that wasted thought i have wasted so much time in my life thinking yes thinking of nonsense circular thoughts round and round and round about things that may or may not ever ever happen but so much of my mental capacity has been wasted and it has been wasted and i'm fully aware of that because nothing positive ever really came from it it was only it's only ever been and continues to be negative and it's linked with anxiety and stuff as well it's all in that space it is and it's a waste that's what the real torture is in the thinking and that's why i say anytime you're thinking you you're losing this valuable present moment which actually goes on forever and what's more important about it is this is where all the action is in this present moment you talked about your treatment um you but you you still are also pursuing uh and have alternative treatments yeah actual physical or is this the mental side of well no the the hormone treatment and and the radiation treatment that went on over a period of 18 months yes and by pure chance at the end of that i was introduced to a natural healer and he put me on a very strict regime of fasting and dieting and avoiding certain foods and is the idea that not to feed the cancer is that yeah the logic that that's exactly it and but he's also a very very spiritual guy and so he he insisted that i should get well water and bless it that i should grow my own wheat grass and bless it through all the stages and i think something like that also has a psychological effect and and it's bringing you into the present moment and focusing on allowing your body to do the curing um so that that went on for another 18 months so now i've used up three of my three and a half years and i decided enough of all that being there done that uh i'm going to live the dream and when people say to me how you do and i always say actually i'm living the dream thanks for asking so is that does that mean say at this point now i mean obviously you look after yourself that's clear is that to say that you are not be traditional or alternative medicine you're not engaging anything at the moment or when you look after your diet and stuff i presume well to some degree i'm afraid i'm still eating sugaring things i love cakes and that i remember somebody actually about six months ago sent me a copy of a lady's obituary that she wrote two weeks before her death and all i remember from it was she said eat more dessert especially before dinner so brendan without getting too you know deep on it are you ready then oh yeah you're ready oh yeah i mean as soon as i started planning and applying for to donagall county council and failed so far to get permission for my tomb i had planned my wake i i went to the geese in donagall town i had myself measured for a beautiful three piece tailor made tweed suit for color for my wake so it's basically a green but with lots of flecks of different colors in it i know what i i know it's yeah a bit of herringbone in it no not herringbone i think can't wait a salt and pepper effect i believe it's called yes it's beautiful okay but um i'm beginning to use that now for other purposes because um it seems i didn't expire on the 7th of march as planned but i think part of the reason for that is because i've been so busy with projects like this red hue a donald one you know i really i don't have time for that at this point did they get it a wee bit wrong in their diagnosis are you defying medical medicine at this point no i i was i was told that her years and years ago because i suffered a back injury that medicines not an exact science yeah and i think we ourselves can exercise so much control over our own health i mean my doctor was so impressed that i reduced my my blood pressure tablets by half by a quarter and then to none and then decided to bring it up to quarter again and in other words i was testing my own body and doing regular blood pressure tests and everything and he said i wish more of my patients would take such an interest in their own health like that so in terms of then and not to dwell because it's clearly not your attitude do you no longer go for scans or tests or anything oh no i no i i have a psa test every six months and because of my age i also have the regular mot so i'm very well monitored and taken care of within the medical system i'm very grateful for that i think it's fabulous in this country and fair play to all the people who are involved and devoted to that so how have how did you i'm trying to figure out and i think i kind of have how much of you is now you know as a result of that conversation uh and how much of you brought you brought into that conversation you know about the when you were given your diagnoses i think your time in the army and your general attitude the foundations of who you are now was there anyway and you were tooled up really to deal with this as well as you have been dealing with it yes i i think i would credit more of that to my early years as a as a practicing roman catholic and which has happened again it's amazing what has happened actually in the last year or so in that respect but i would attribute a lot of it to practicing the lessons that were given out to us in the school of philosophy that school of practice those practical lessons actually they really bring to light and helped us to answer the question who are we why are we here what's our role in life so the way i look at it now is this is play i mean it looks real it's very convincing but actually anything that you can observe that is changing philosophically is not real what's real is the observer of the change so if i can observe my body my mind my nature my emotional ground changing then i cannot be those things so i don't die it's my body that will die and the way i put it is when the director of this play decides it's time my role's finished then i go back to the audience and i join my ancestors and all those other people's groups like i mean we may care or not greatly about ourselves there will be a relatively compared to the global population a small amount of people that might care but might get over things quite quickly and to 99 to infinity 0.9 percent of the world population were really quite insignificant yeah i i i think i've been exceptionally lucky um but um maybe it's in believing that or feeling that may i ask if you don't mind yes sure if you you and i know listeners will be interested about this you talked about sort of returning to your roman catholic faith a year ago yes is there an event something that happened that drew you back well it was it was accidental in a way i was walking the dog in ards first in the darkness of winter it was the 25th of november 18 and um i heard the car doors closing and happy banter and people are going to mass and i remembered how nice that was but has nothing to do with me anymore and as i put the dog in the car i realized oh maybe i should go in and pray for scouting Ireland which was in so much trouble at the time well still is but um um and when i went in i was just really taken aback by this celebrant who came out onto the altar and he had a i remember a black beard and a long white beard he was younger i think than most of the other guys there but turned out he was the boss he was the gargant and when i heard him read the gospel and and then explain that afterwards i thought wow this guy is he's not only committed to this he actually lived this stuff i was really impressed and then as he passed blessing people's sacred object and i couldn't find the little woven cross in my pocket so the only thing i had was this bracelet which is hindu and has a Sanskrit inscription on it but after he had passed by blessing all these things i realized that on my cap badge i had the scouting Ireland badge so i decided to go into him in in the sacristy aftermath and i said excuse me father i'm not your father he said brother i said okay brother and uh he he was such an impressive man and i said do you know anything about scouting no uh i i said do you realize there's a lot of controversy and the organization's a bit of trouble yes i've read that i said look this is the scouting Ireland cap badge would you bless it for me and he looked at it and he said ah the flair de lee the lily among the thorns and he blessed that through our ladies intercession would bring the purity back to scouting Ireland and i felt ah i have a role your religious relationship with odds continues oh yeah um i haven't missed mass since then um and i do the readings at odds every second sunday and i really love it it's like being back again to childhood pursuits i get a feeling you give it respectful welly yeah well i i really i really listen and i also listen to the words that i'm saying and by forcing myself to the altar to do the readings i have to really hear what it is that i'm listening so i'm deriving huge benefit from it and being allowed to receive the host again of course is for me phenomenal yeah lovely um on the 30th of october there'll be a 420th birthday celebration in lyford for a rua you're going to be there the 50th actually it's the 450th anniversary of his birth so eddie crawford who's one of our committee for the 420th celebration he's now putting together a whole program for that and i think it'll be well worth attending and i will hope that people in the area will i think they will have as a result of the publicity we got around what we did invalid the lid which really was phenomenal we did it on a shoestring uh the amount of commitments that event happened that reconstruction has that happened yet not they're not reconstruction yeah no we were talking about how uh as that passed now that happened it happened uh the weekend before last yes and i sent in i don't know if you got these four no i didn't yeah so i i can show them to you now in a second did you attended oh of course yes and uh i was allowed a bit of free rain with designing the playlet which would be the the the reenactment of his death in samankas castle so here we were in exactly the place where he died on exactly the day of the 420th anniversary of his passing so what i did was set up a table um but i had borrowed three sets of captioning fryer's robes from our friary and i had three people dressed as franciscans because we do know who was around his deathbed at the time that he signed his will which was a midget immediately before he passed away so here he was um well the the guy who's laid out who's a retired guard living in spain uh in the robes um and the lawyer who was actually a local judge addressed for the part in in period clothing leaning over him with this parchment with the big seal and a ribbon on it and and a feather pen and of course as red hue signs his name of course he only got to sign od and then he passed away but it was still a valid will and then at that point then um the doctor checks and finds that there's no pulse and he indicates to the priest and then the this this guy dressed as a cappuccino uh recites the prayers for the dead in latin as it would have been at the time and then in the background you begin to hear the very faintly odonal abu did you feel it perfect i beg your pardon did you feel it perfect you know yes but you've dedicated a lot of your time it did you feel it was perfect what you it wasn't as i had planned it but it was perfect nonetheless because of the commitment of everybody that was involved in it and the receptiveness of the people who were there lovely it it really went very well and then of course the the month that was the saturday the monday then was the actual unveiling of the plaque which was a great honor to be there and it was a particular honor for the people there they said that our minister for defense responded positively to my request to send a designated officer so we had an Irish army commandant in full uniform with his medals present for the unveiling of the plaque and there is a letter from Simon Coveney which we're going to reproduce on the website for thank you yes yes and we'll talk uh i'm sure uh as the 30th of october approaches we'll mention this again in the last minute we have is there anything you want to add brendan i would just say to anybody please try to focus on your physical senses anytime you're in any trouble learn meditation and you could do that particularly in the school of philosophy but there are other ways of learning it as well and if you live in the present moment you will enjoy life to the full and that's really why we're here inspirational brendan listen um thanks so much for joining us again it's been lovely having you in and um delighted that you continue to to do well and uh long may that continue all right that's brendan roan thank you we'll be back with more in fact uh kiran will be joining us after the break the nine tenon show with sydunans g a club development draw 40 000 euro and prizes first prize ahayunde kuna kyaar plus nine other grit prizes tickets now available online at sydunansgadraw.com or any club member want unbeatable value from sky here's the deal get sky broadband for just 29 euro a month plus sky cue for only 10 euro a month super fast super reliable broadband and sky 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some uh news the tip o'neill irish diaspora awards are coming up very shortly aren't they they are indeed and pedigal native maya dehore is one of the awardees for the tip o'neill irish diaspora awards that you mentioned there greg and they are taking place this friday september the 23rd in the nishone gateway hotel in boncranah and those awards are part of the dunnie gall connect festival series so founding director of tarot productions and co-founder of river dance with her husband john mccolligan maya dehore was also dunnie gall person of the year and in 2015 all right brilliant well-deserved recognition didn't make the pedigal connection before and it's good to see those awards really have become an annual event now huge hugely successful right okay some cash going into the council coffers from parking charges yeah pay parkings paying off for the council of greg dunnie gall county council generated almost 400 000 euro through pay parking in the first six months of this year with letter kenny bringing in the most income so these figures were obtained by the dunnie gall news and they showed that 398 000 was generated through pay parking across six areas of the county up until the end of june of this year and letter kenny was the council's top earner taking in 118 000 in addition to the 188 000 that collected for the 12 months of 2021 right so as most breakdown there would be interesting between the app and people putting the money in the machines yeah and the whole thing is supposed you can see there you know the kovat i think there was a wee bit of latency there so much more has come on in the first six months of this year even compared to last year okay that's proportionate it's called that's up good stuff um acorns program if you're interested times of the essence yeah we had risa finney on the program a few weeks ago reg talking about this program so it's the last call for the program the deadline for applications is for the state funded initiative that encourages female entrepreneurs in rural irland to develop their business ideas is friday september 23rd acorns yet will run from october 2022 to april 2023 and for more information log on to acorns website simply acorns dot ie all right the latest around of clough funding recipients have been announced to kieran yeah and four dunnie gall projects are to receive a combined total of 190 000 year under that funding they are rossers park community walk on the low ardra ge club mobile green car park and public escara resource center in focara and the range of projects are being developed will benefit people of all ages yeah now we mentioned um you know a lot of the giveaways in the budget are going to be chewed up by inflation uh one of our um you know much of it even just in one area groceries grocery inflation what's the figures that are telling us yeah as most of we've heard so much Greg about price increases the cost of living and i suppose we see it down in black and white it gives a 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moved back in in 2000 2004 from the states purchasing roses bar and it was my intention i suppose i had this vision that roses bar was going to be able to sustain me around creasley and whatnot unfortunately through circumstances that that wasn't the case and i continued with my consultancy work but i suppose really as i say the bar what i took a bit of a hit during the downturn and whatnot but i was just looking at different opportunities what could be done to kind of support the bar and make it a button more sustainable so it was really i suppose it was really that that triggered the the wild atlantic camp i was originally considering like stag parties hen parties coming here and whatnot they would fall up onto the bar at night time but i suppose it's really that was the intention at the outset and uh we're very much so much so a family-oriented site now and it's uh i would say 90 percent of our custom as as as family-oriented and as opposed to the hens and stags and stuff so no and i must say it has supported the bar quite quite well i mean i've supported the bar quite well myself i stayed there a few times with my late sister um in you know down at the the atlantic camp and um obviously spending some time in creaselow some really really great memories that will stay with me but it's great to see uh it and it expanding in the season broadening out as well uh cairn um it seems and the glamping and all that type of stuff uh it's good to see it's good to see a business growing particularly in in our smaller towns no disrespect to greaselow yeah and i suppose the one thing larkin did note as well um he obviously he spoke uh at length about his own business but it also took time to talk about the other businesses that have popped up on creaselow and i suppose creaselow has only gone a bit of a resurgence again having i suppose not gone through the best of periods but the way where creaselow is located um you know it's it's very close by to the likes of glen vee arge dole castle but it's competing with downings yeah it's there but yeah it has to find itself very much i suppose what larkin said has has a nice orientation when he came back from america was to be a a publican and for that to sustain himself that wasn't going to be the case um the family had had 15 acres of land which uh initially accommodated a pitch and pot course and the red roof restaurant and it was then he decided to develop um that property uh at the height of the tour season greg he employs 30 people and when a snot sees only it's all year round he his businesses managed to sustain 10 full-time jobs uh and creaselow which is great so um creaselow is going well um i have a vest that doesn't creaselow because my mother's from down there so uh i have good memories of recently like yourself have you ever seen one of those glamping pods i would like to i've never done that but i think that's one of the things they're it's not i wouldn't go as far as say bucket list well so why not stick it on i'm not sure parachute jumpers or something but not so and larkin has plans to uh further develop the facilities down there as well and it's uh that's a really great great facility so if you're good luck we only play a short clip there you've a good long yeah about 40 minutes so you can get into the ins and outs so we get to hear the whole yeah you know he's a busy man to himself and his wife have uh four young children so it's it's a busy house yeah and they're all tightened off in age yep 410 one's bad enough hearing oh fair play uh they're doing brilliant work and it's great to see it and it's just one of a number of as you say emerging and growing businesses in the creaselow area okay uh so the podcast info that good long chat there is available now on our website it's in the um on-demand section there of the website highlandradio.com it'll also be in the featured section a little after 12 uh kiran if people want to contact you how did they do so yeah just drop me an email please greg business matters at highlandradio.com and if people want to hear it scheduled on the radio it's still on after the six yeah after six short news on some evening all right then thanks kiran appreciate it before i go all i have it thanks me to make sure to mention the draw and endurance uh i know there were all with it yesterday but he says make sure you mention the draw so over half the ticket's gone now yes if you sell if you have the two big headers on here yesterday ollie and john wasn't even a wee bit intimidating uh i'll tell you that too uh john's on his slight weave fella isn't he big man john hey he'll keep you in check i'd say he can still put in a tackle to a tight tackle all right listen thanks very much for that kiran lovely great thanks all right um we're going to leave you now back with you tomorrow morning at nine we're going to play obviously with another plug for the st unan's gea club draw uh stay tuned jump lessons coming up around the northwest 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