 10 projects around the coast under the Brexit adjustment reserve. 15 projects worth over 16 million euro in Dunninggall are to benefit. Works will be carried out at Rathmall and Peer, Burtonport and Mahri, while 8.8 million euro is being invested in the construction of a breakwater at Greencastle. Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charney McCondoke says the funding will help support fishing and coastal communities living in a post-Brexit economy. Up to the standard that is really required, ensuring significant projects which have been waiting and funding for a number of years, finally getting funded. And I look forward now to working with Dunninggall County Council. We've done really strong work in relation to putting these applications together to ensure that these projects can actually follow through over the coming period of time and that we see the significant investment make a real difference to the fishing community and indeed our coastal communities right throughout the county. Rural communities with populations of under 500 people are to be exempt from new laws banning the seal and distribution of turf. After a clash with his government colleagues on the issue, the environment minister has said that the ban due to community force on September 1st will focus on commercial and retail activities. In an interview with the Irish Independent, Eamon Ryan says there has been major misinformation and disinformation that the state would arrest your granny for burning the wrong fuel. Eamon said inspectors will not be sent out to police the seal of turf. The PRO of the Micah Action Group believes Dunninggall County Council need to be stepping up to the mark to get affected homes repaired. In a social media update, Michael Doherty called on Dunninggall County Council to expedite the process and ensure applications are looked at and processed as quick as possible for homeowners. He says there is still much frustration as the bid for redress continues. The deep frustration by everybody out there, we understand that it's no different, you know, in the campaign we have got that frustration. As a family at home watching our house crumble, we understand that too. We just want to get back to normal lives as soon as possible but with homes that we can live in again. Whether I'm mainly dry today with a mix of Clyde and sunny spells, isolated shards will develop in the afternoon with highest temperatures today of 11 to 13 degrees. That's all from Hining Radio. News for now will be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. 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It is a Monday which means we have a number of local papers and we'll begin our paper review this morning with the Monday edition of the Donegal News, the main headline, crippling costs forced closure, Kilibeg's restaurant to close due to dramatic rise in running costs. Linda Boyle and her husband Gary who opened Fusion Bistro in Kilibeg's in 2019 say the crippling increase in the cost of everyday stock and overheads means they will be closing their doors and we will indeed be speaking to Linda shortly. She has been of course a guest on the program before and we'll be speaking to Linda over the course of the program this morning. The main headline on the Derry News, Derry has the North's noisiest neighbor's research shows more men caught prying than women. People in Derry have been exposed in their voyeuristic habits, more than one in three homeowners, have admitted to looking into neighbor's homes from outside and the survey by Shuddercraft who provide made-to-measure window coverings looked into people's curiosity and willingness to overstep boundaries. So are you a nosy neighbor in Derry or do you indeed feel that you are being surveilled as it were by a nosy neighbor in Derry and is it any different in Toronto and Fermanna and Donegal and surrounding areas? Let us know what you think. Turf Wars is the headline on the Irish Independent, Greens back down to allow opt-out for local sales. You'll have heard Michaela cover this on the news as well. We're not going to have people going into colleges and sifting through the great, says Eamon Ryan. Eamon Ryan has given into pressure from his coalition colleagues in the Turf War and if ever there was a headline that was sort of already written, it's that one. In what's being built as an exclusive interview with the Irish Independent, the minister revealed that small rural communities of fewer than 500 people will be exempt from the ban on the selling and gifting of turf. Front of the Irish Times, magnificent news for Europe as Macron wins second term. Emmanuel Macron is promising a more independent France after defeating the right-wing leader, Marine Le Pen. And a lot of people would have been looking at Marine Le Pen's achievements over the past number of weeks with a certain amount of worry and wonders now what Mr Macron will have to do in order to appease the large level of support that Marine Le Pen obviously had. She better her previous score by 7.5% and anti-system parties won two-thirds of the vote in the front round, Laura. In the first round, Laura Marlowe tells us in her story on the front of the Irish Times. Also on the front legal framework of maternity hospital approved, the board of the HSC has approved new proposals aimed at ensuring the independence of the new national maternity hospital. That's been an issue of some discussion over a long time. And Ukrainians to access vacant social homes cross-department task force to oversee long-term response to refugee crisis. Front of the Irish Daily Mail this morning, women's four-year wait for cancer surgery. Women with a cancer-causing gene mutation are being told to expect to wait up to four years for potentially life-saving surgery. Support groups have criticised the wait as scandalous those who test positive for the BRCAI or is it BRCA1 gene mutation have up to a 90% chance of developing breast cancer. And that stands at 85% for those with the BRCA2 mutation. Excuse me. And the waiting time to be tested for the presence of the gene can be 18 months. Bernie Carter, the director of nursing with the Marie Keating Foundation is expressing concern. The Irish Sun this morning. No Dan is an island. Pals rush to desert Kineham. A paranoid thug fears his own mob. There's fury at fall of evil drug empire. Paranoid mob boss Daniel Kineham were told fears one of his associates will turn him into cops to save themselves. An insider told of the gangsters' fury. After the US government slapped a $5 million bounty on his head. A source said everyone has now deserted him. Also peers interview. Trump has suggested that Harry and Meg be stripped of their royal titles. Quite what it has to do with Donald Trump. I'm not sure, but there you go. Irish Daily Star this morning. GSOC probe drown death. GSOC is proving the circumstances of a man's death after he drowned in a river. Following an interaction with Garthee, Craig Giffords body was found three days after he fell into the water. I do beg your pardon. I do have a frog in my throat this morning for some reason. He fell into the water while reportedly trying to hide from Garthee. More details on the inside. Also on the front page, a picture of Ed Sheeran. Sheer Bliss is the headline there and lots of sports news obviously on the front of the red tops this morning as well. Not least of course. News of Donny Gold's victory over Armaa yesterday. That was a much discussed match in the papers and on the program indeed over the past couple of days. We'll be speaking to Brendan if any bit later on in the program. Brendan's here at around 11 o'clock or so and obviously the DL debate will be on tonight as well. On the Irish Daily Mirror this morning Kinehan's drug route exposed. Mob Thugs force South American cocaine through EU ports. Daniel Kinehan is using Moroccan Thugs to force drug shipments through Europe's busiest ports before flooding the continent with cocaine. 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Much is rightly said about the contribution made by Tidy Town's organizations right across Donegal to the general upkeep of the county and to the look of the county and the towns within it. And at the weekend as many as 60 volunteers took part in Antashka's Spring Clean 2022 event in Bunkrana around 80 bags of rubbish were collected along the road and shorefront between Bunkrana and Burnfoot. Now I'm joined on the line by Willie McKinney who is the chair of Bunkrana Tidy Towns. Willie, good morning to you. Willie first and foremost I mean congratulations to yourselves and to others who took part in that event at the weekend. But one of the issues of concern must be the fact that 80 bags of rubbish were picked up along the road and shorefront between Bunkrana and Burnfoot that points to a problem. Yeah it's a great concern though there's a certain amount of flight tipping going on and we can't wait for this new legislation to kick in to tighten things up. This is more CPP coverage and the starting goal is to be the true distance which is supposed to be we need to book up and improve. In terms of of the reason for this I mean has there been an increase in recent years do you believe or has this been steady for a while? Things have improved in Bunkrana big time my involvement now goes about 12 years over time it has improved but I think the charges that are imposed since the privatization I think the government made a bad blunder in the environment section privatizing bunt because people are getting these appetites at the moment and have been for a period of time and well that's personally seen that recipes, collection and water should be a minimum requirement which should be covered by local property tax. Yeah Now the government's argument is going to be that the reason that they privatized waste services was in order to avoid the reintroduction of rates now they did try to bring in water charges and we also what happened there so the government argument is going to be that effectively the service is being paid for because it's a service that's vital it's a service that's necessary and other issues in other areas are being covered by property tax. Yeah Well in the north if you pay your rates which granted can be a whole lot more in accordance to local property tax they cover bins, water and allowance Yeah But of course the difference says that we had rates here up to a if I'm correct it was around about 1977 that local authority rates were abolished here and that was done as a political promise in a general election it is a promise that was delivered and the intention always was that these charges would be made up elsewhere so we're in a situation where certainly there perhaps is an argument that says bring back in rates and then have rates covering water and refuse and then improve the services I'm not quite sure that would fly if that were to be floated by anybody at the moment No it certainly would not and that goes back to Jack Lynch government I think you refer into back in the 70s here but the 31 Is it your belief though that the fact that it is costing money now to put a tag on your bin and put your bin out that that is a contributory factor to the fact that we see an increase in flight tipping because there are many would argue that those who involve themselves in flight tipping show such a lack of civic pride and such a lack of civic response that I mean you know if it were a little cheaper to put a bin out would they bother putting a bin out anyway Yes Well I'm citing an example of what happens around with the bins that are empties and letter warden Brian Doyle the nightclub man who helps baby fans to no end He has told me that 60% of the bin the big barrel is popped from the slamming right out to Sugil various points along our lovely shore shorefront 60% is made up of household refuge and ashy that's a shopping statistic there and we as a group we're not a big group we're only like 15 but we we managed to get a good turnout on Saturday which is a gorgeous day and until you get the numbers you don't you can't gauge how far you can go but we're sure it went the distance up to Regine which is not a healthy spot which could be actually one of the black spots coming into this previous county yeah but we're part of what we did and we're a well-structured group we meet once a month and we decide what we want to do and we get on with and we do get grants from Donegal County Councils of various Donegal funding initiatives community activities formed community enhancement formed and of course public urban review grants previous ministers Minister Michael Rinn he was very good yeah earlier half a month we have a Humphreys we will be coming to Moncana to Swan Park on the 9th of May and I'm sure you'll take the opportunity to speak to to Minister Humphreys about the extra supports and extra work that could be done to ensure that the town is improved in a number of areas when in terms of what could be done I mean if we take it that at this point in time there is not going to be a root and branch review of things like waste charges and the privatisation of bin companies and I think realistically speaking I would not foresee Donegal County Council taking over waste collection in the short to medium term I don't think that's going to happen and equally we can assume that we're not going to get a situation where it becomes a public immunity again from the state and then the state imposes a bin charge I don't think that's going to happen either so what can happen if we take the bin charges to one side and say that that's for better or for worse that's a structure that's going to remain with us for the foreseeable future what else can be done do you believe by government and by council I think they could subsidise the bins to a certain extent because this way for them it is given out of it's not the bin collection fault it's just the weight of some of the the bin I think it's going to be accountable for spending a bit more then we can take them go and collect the mail when it suits them so I think people are in a dire enough state without extra charges on the bin world put up the water and people don't the paper can write it so Woody it's a very interesting conversation and again I want to make sure that you know we acknowledge the fact that people involved in Tully Towns and others are showing that level of civic pride and that level of civic involvement that unfortunately those who aren't you know those who are getting involved in you know fly-tipping of this nature now I'm going to speak to somebody else not from Bancrana but from closer to Letterkenny who I know is also very much involved in Tully Towns and in this work John Wilkie John good morning good morning Donald and good morning Winnie brilliant job by the way on your success of the weekend there fantastic and John I know you've been out on the roads on the outskirts of Letterkenny now for several years and you regularly post on social media some of the things that you find I mean you've been listening to Willie I'm sure you've been nodding in you know approval and nodding in agreement with a lot of what Willie is saying if I could just I would give my clap on the back there for his fantastic work it's just an ongoing scourge Donald all the time I mean I found microwave oven suites of furniture on the dual carriageway I took 300 bags off the dual carriageway itself this last well last year now not so much this year but you know but um it was very very very during the pandemic there wasn't much cleaning going on you know yeah and you you believe that I mean maybe it is time to have a look at things like the household charge and the tax system and maybe it is time for government to maybe consider how it's going to sort of fund public communities and how it's going to charge for them I think I think one is only something there about the local property tax where at a rate as such we are paying our bond charges I mean I see it up around where I live up here it's just people are jumping bags ashes now bottles of wines everything's out the window and that pays you know maybe it's time now for the council to say right you know maybe we'll have an amnesty every year you know get them to dump the rubbish I mean if you're in Northern Ireland everything's free I know you pay your rates yeah you pay for your beds or everything no matter what it is no there's an argument that says there is a very good recycling centre just there off that new business park road they're close to the former pramerica TCS building that CETA area that there is a very good recycling centre there and the charges there are not excessive for people who need to get rid of things like their microwaves and their fridges and so on and so forth yeah well I think to be honest I think it should be free to the community I think it should be free because it's going to well let's try and courage people you know not to dump because I mean look at the much it's cost in the country the towns it's cost in millions for cleaning you know so it has to be some sort of look at that in the council I mean I've been talking to the council in different times you know and do you believe it is possible to make an argument to government that says if you incorporate recycling centres like that into general taxation and make them free for people to bring their recyclables to the money you will then save on cleanup sparing in mind that a lot of the cleanup is being done by volunteers by yourself by the way it has to be said but you believe there is an argument that can be made that said the money you will save elsewhere will actually make it worthwhile to do that I don't think so I don't know because it's costing millions let's face it millions of millions of pounds you know if you encourage people you know to do stuff you know why does the council bring out maybe giving a prize for estates and stuff like that you know the best road or the best I know that the tidy to through the tidy towns there is initiatives where people are encouraged to you know keep the places clean and tidy but the town I mean I mean there's one road in letterkinny the windy haul road I call it the windy haul or the windy haul road I call it that many bottles of wine on us yeah I walk it occasionally and I know exactly what you mean yeah I mean I've seen typewriters I've known that typewriters but you know the colour copiers and fans and everything's just fired out the windows you know I mean there has to be something done we're talking about now for years but nothing seems to be nothing seems to be done maybe something we'll take it on board is it time then we know for instance that recently there was a local government conference in Doney Godd is it time for the environment minister for the councils for the members the officials all to sit down and just say look how can we restructure our charges how can we restructure our system because I mean you know I'd say a lot of people will be very loathed to think about the system too much now given the controversy they've had in the past particularly when they tried to bring in water charges I'd say an awful lot of people are very very loathed to go next or near the actual topic of local government funding at the moment but that's never sensible now look I suppose we know we have to pay for water it has to be cleaned etc but look there has to be some better way forward than dumping rubbish out of a car window or a van or whatever so there has to be some sort of collective meeting or whatever it is of minds and say listen let's get this together and put everything together where your household charge or water funds you know they had an opportunity a way back I think a way back to try and do that but it didn't work out because nobody wants to pay for water no it was through the taxation of the car our way back you know yeah and that's what happened that when when Jaclyn she abolished rates in 77 he said well it was everybody paid 10 pound a year yeah it'll be added on the car tax yeah that probably was the right time in me I don't know I don't know if it'll be right time now they're talking about not cutting turf and all sorts of things just seems to be there's no there's no give back when I was talking to a few people in there Kenny there while back and they're they're wealthy people now and just there's nothing coming back from the council when we get their streaks like assault parades you know yeah there has to be something coming back that'll be my thing give back encourage people and particularly people that are on households now that are given we're given a kite you know people with our children education rates our household charge etc etc yeah and finally you do agree with what Willie said earlier then that Willie's view is that there are some people who are flight tipping because they simply cannot afford to put tags on their bins in your experience do you believe that's part of the contributory issue to the 300 bags you picked up off the dual carriageway well some people maybe it's education I don't know Donald it's just maybe it's just big habits you know but a few go to different countries like Amsterdam these places they're cleaner you know maybe we need to take a look at all that again you know yeah John thanks very much indeed for your contribution Willie I want to give the final word to yourself Willie you've been listening to John again I mean I think the two of you were going to be very much in agreement in what you're saying there yeah well fair play to John and keeping that dual carriageway clean all them bags left him and him and give him a good pat on the back too but you mentioned they're all about flight tipping and I think it costs the council councils up and down the country an exorbitant amount of money and I think they should look at that to see if one out another and I think the death niche could be a a bit more kind of ability for standing for for this coolest county to continue with the tourists because they see the few I think in different countries where we are not a clean country well it's definitely food for thought Willie McKinney thank you very much indeed thanks very much John thank you that's Willie McKinney they're the chair of Tidy Towns in Bunkrana we'll take a short break back after these text 086-60-25000 you can do pretty much anything in just a few taps buy a car book a holiday and now you can even apply for a permanent TSB digital current account in app in minutes it's quick it's mobile it's the start of making your everyday banking easier now that's permanent support application in your sole name for over 18 personal customers in residents of the Republic of Ireland only qualifying criteria terms and conditions apply permanent TSB PLC is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland are you worried about trees on your property? 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my understanding is it's a private system so each company does I know that pay by weight has been brought in and as I understand it what you get is a an allowance over the course of the year now I pay by direct debit on an annual basis it's not done by tags where I live and there is now I live in an urban area and there is choice and you have a choice of a couple of companies so maybe that makes it a bit easier when you actually do have choice and there is competition in the system and that's the ideal as far as the the market force economists are concerned another caller says do people not have enough to pay without paying rates in Northern Ireland they only pay one charge and everything is lifted why is that not the norm but that is rates that that's what that is you know when you pay rates in Northern Ireland you pay a rate to your local authority and part of the money goes to your local council part of the money goes to central government there's a local rate and there's what we'll call for the sake of argument a national rate and that goes part of a ghost installment part of it goes to your local council and that pays for the local services but you know we don't have that we have a household tax here which is a property tax rather than a household charge it's a property tax that you pay on the actual property that you own and that goes directly to central government and then the local authority gets part of its local government funding from that tax so I mean on the one hand do people not have enough to pay without paying rates there is an argument that says if you brought back a rates system then that would take care of funding local government projects now the other problem you have of course as everybody will say is what then happens is after a while people will say oh that that's not enough we need we need more and we need to bring in more charges it's a difficult one and it's a thorny one and it's one that is going to be with us I think for quite some time let's go from in a show on to Westonical and let's head over to the Rosses and specifically to Dunlowe where we're going to speak to Mary Ward from the Mary from Dunlowe Festival Committee Mary good morning good morning Dunlowe Mary an important meeting taking place tonight in in a temple crown in Dunlowe to discuss the future of the festival where are we at the moment with regards to Mary from Dunlowe post pandemic well um we have a program for 2022 festival but we need volunteers to implement the program and that's what the meeting about is about tonight is to try and get volunteers our festival runs for 10 days and it's a 10 day program and it takes a lot of commitment but what we want to assure people is we only want people to commit to one or two events not to the whole 10 days so we would like people to come along tonight and to pledge themselves as volunteers to run certain events which we have already in the program the program practically was set up from 2020 which would be tweaked a bit now for 2022 and we're calling on volunteers to come and help us to implement that program and to continue the Mary from Dunlowe without the pandemic this would have been the 55th Mary from Dunlowe and we think that volunteerism and the contributions the financial contributions from the local traders has been the backbone of the Mary from Dunlowe festival and a number of people least of all the traders of Dunlowe would like to see that continue I think it's happening in a lot of events in a lot of organizations I think what happened over the past two years is momentum was lost and you know something would have happened every year and people were in a cycle and you got ready for something in September and you did it in March or you started getting ready in January and you put it on in July and August as would be the case in yours and the preparations would start long before January I suspect but there would have been a momentum that would have kept going over the years that's now been broken for two years and people are kind of out of sync they're out of habit and you're almost getting to a situation now where you have to try and re-establish all those habits again exactly exactly and we're really looking for is young people we want young people to come on board and be involved in it we feel that sometimes maybe within our festival we fall down on the 15 to you know the late team group and we would like them to come on and bring their thoughts to the festival so that we can go forward you know with everybody it was a very inclusive festival can you tell us something of the events that have been planned what can you tell us about what people can expect as you say this is pretty much the 2020 program that's been retweaked and refashioned as it were for 2022 what can you tell us about the program well indeed we have Country Sunday which has been organised the music has been organised by Connor O'Donnell and that's been sponsored by Cafeteas Macafeteas, Bower and Dunlowe and of course our own Daniel will be making his traditional guest appearance on Country Sunday we have Law Gale Up which will be again organised by Carl Daherty we have our Mary's pageant and we'd have the Crowning Cabbell will be performed about Daniel but as I speak about Daniel I would like to tell you about something that we're really really thrilled about during the week of the festival will be a nice of inspiration music with Daniel O'Donnell in the age of Patrick's Journey and that will be on Friday the 29th of July at St. Connor's Church in Dunlowe and before your switchboard lights up I have all the details of where tickets can be available for that night and it promises to be a really inspirational night and we're really looking forward to it we have our Gala Ball or Crowning Cabbell and the Carnival Parade and we have this year again we're focusing on family-friendly events to have plenty of events midweek for children and there is still an interest in the Mary from Dunlowe festival sometimes people will start saying oh it's a little bit outdated the whole idea of the pageant and so on but there is always something new and the people of Dunlowe do feel a real affinity to this festival and do feel a real affinity with the Mary's Oh indeed they do and we have more Mary's than ever this year in fact we now have a waiting list for next year for Mary's and we've got five Mary's from North America this year we have Glasgow and Edinburgh London and then our Irish Mary's we have Donegal who's already selected India Kennedy from Donegal Town we've built fast Wild Atlantic Way who's Sinead Hart from County Slaigo our belt fastest Caroline Galvin and all in all we expect to have the 18 Mary's and the interest in the Mary end of things is absolutely being phenomenal this year and I'm sure there's a lot of people are really looking forward to getting the boost back into the local economy again because traders will have missed it and the entertainment venues will have missed it and indeed I'm sure the people of Donegal will have missed the buzz on the streets over that a holiday weekend end of July into August I mean there's always a buzz there in Donegal and I'm sure people would have missed that for the past two years absolutely absolutely and they're like I think with the businesses in particular are looking forward to it and as I said they've always been the backbone of the festival like the business people in Donegal contribute the most in financial terms to the festival and I'm sure that will continue and like we hope to put a great program together but we have a great program like it's just implementing that program now that we hope tonight to get enough people to implement the program about how many people are you looking for because I mean I know having been involved in a few festivals and things myself over the years I mean it's almost whatever figure you think it is at the very least you multiply it by two and I'm sure that really holds for Mary from Donegal as well well as I said we probably would be hoping for this year is that individuals would take one event and run that in its entirety and that they would have a team that they would be in positions with a team together that would help them whether it's and after things in the festival are hidden like roads have to be closed off barriers have to be pushed up and then taken away afterwards and it's people to do those type of things and as I said again we're not looking for people to commit for 10 days we're just asking people to commit to one event and anyone who believes they can help with this the meeting is on in another temple chrome in Donegal tonight and in relation to the Daniel concert because I'm sure an awful lot of people will be interested absolutely yeah for further information and tickets sales they can follow on Facebook hodrick's journey for continued treatment in America and critical sales are available vatfisher.kepajahu.com and it's a ticketed event only but tickets will be going on sale on sunday the first of may after mass in kincasa, anagra and on low churches mary warder from the mary from the low festival committee yeah thanks indeed for speaking to us today that meeting is on in another temple chrome tonight at 6 p.m. mary thank you indeed and we wish you and your committee and of course all the the volunteers all the best with regards to that this is the 92 noon show on highland radio color says I attended the Donegal Armagh game yesterday we were on a side terrorists below the commentary boxes there was a group of Armagh supporters and to put it lightly their behavior was a disgrace they were shouting abuse at one particular Donegal player and at the referee as far as I'm concerned mccool park would need to take a look at the stewards and where they're located during matches this particular group should have been asked to leave the grounds so says a caller now we spoke over the course of our newspaper review about the fusion bistro in kili begs and I'm joined on the line by co-owner linda boil linda good morning morning Donegal how are you very well indeed thank you the last time we spoke we were a little more upbeat you were looking forward to getting back into business when restrictions were being eased and we're looking forward to the day when you could get back on track sadly the current climate is very different it is very different it's kind of been a a perfect storm really of between COVID and now just the cost 11 and the cost of trying to run a business has just become unsustainable really and it's kind of a double whammy because on the one hand the costs on yourselves are increasing so you have to try and absorb more costs and I'm sure you want to absorb them without passing on those increases to your customers but it's going to prove impossible after a while to do that on the other level your customers are also feeding the pinch because they're getting increased costs at home they're getting increased costs with their car they're increased costs with their fuel and maybe your customers are less likely to go out as often as they may have done because they can't afford to so from that point of view extra costs on yourself is going to be pushing up the pressure on yourself extra costs on your potential customers mean they're going to be going out less and everyone is losing as a result yeah that's it you know it's come to the stage where we tried to hold off putting up prices but we had to put them up because everything has just rocketed especially since January I know like that you know the end of the day we have a mortgage we have a family we know how hard it is and it's just people don't have the money as much as they want to support you and try their best you know the way things are going especially for someone like us it's just casual down and you're going to have to charge more than what people are really able to pay yeah and people would have traveled to eat in your establishments as well and you know people would have traveled distances great support and you know someone perhaps is not going to be as likely now to make a car journey in the days of cornfield prices and I mean you know they were at one point regularly over two euro per litre you know and that that was going to make people think twice before traveling yeah absolutely you know I think at the minute the day you've gone out for a spin to pass the days you know in the nice weather or whatever it's just not happening you can see it on the roads they're a lot quieter and you know it's just it's just become too hard to try and keep going and you know at the end of the day you can't keep putting yourself on further and further and to death yeah do you think the day will come when perhaps you'll be able to come back and reopen some former premises in Dunlowe or are you even thinking that far ahead at the moment at the moment no it's just trying to get through this week and get over the heartbreak of having to close down and just try and regroup and we'll probably run our good truck for the summer and just see from there yeah at the minute it's just kind of there's no decisions being made either way it's just try to get through the next few days and yeah and is there potentially a question mark over the the food truck as well because I mean you know a lot of people believe that's to be one of the best eating establishments in Dunningall no well ideally you'd like to be able to keep it going hopefully you know you can get a small amount of staff together and run that efficiently as possible you know it's at the minute it's just it's hard to kind of think ahead I suppose it's just we've been evidence feeling that we've been bruised yeah but but but but the shack is going to be there for the summer yes hopefully that'll be entailing again yeah yeah so I suppose it was just really kind of wanted to raise awareness really of how much people are struggling and how hard it is for small businesses at the minute yeah I mean it's a sad thing to hear because I mean I know I mean having spoken to yourself before I know you've spoken to Greg on the program as well over the months and years indeed I mean you know there was an enthusiasm there for the the bistro there was an enthusiasm there for the customer and you wanted to be providing food and people wanted to eat there and unfortunately as you said we now have this perfect storm where costs are hitting everybody and sadly I think we're this is not the first of these kind of stories we're going to be covering and I think we're going to be seeing more and more of this sadly in the coming weeks and months yeah unfortunately it's you know you're just there's so much unknown ahead and you don't know like what what's the summer season going to be like this year or is there going to be the same amount of people around and then you have to hit face September where the batteries goes back up again which is going to be another added cost that you're going to have to put somewhat on your customers and you know it's just it's just all yeah it's a bit of a nightmare at the moment people are just under and every walk of life people are under so much pressure and that's a horrible situation really so the bistro stays open until Saturday next April 30th and at that point then it closes permanently yeah we gave it a week because we do have you know there's people have vouchers and stuff we want to try and let people use them at all possible they'll still be accepted in the food truck anyway but you know just give people a chance to use them and then that's it Saturday evening unfortunately Linda we wish you well and you know all the staff and obviously and I know you're very thoughtful of them at the moment and the fact that people are losing jobs over this and people will not have employment opportunities over the summer as a result of this and you know our thoughts with all involved and look we wish you the best and may things go well with the food truck over the summer and hopefully things will get better as time goes on hopefully please God hopefully thanks for talking to me Linda it's been a pleasure and thank you indeed and hopefully as we say there's a better future ahead but for now Linda Boyle corner of Fusion Beastroom in Kili Biggs thanks for much indeed thanks okay take care this summer holidays are go with just two holidays and Atlantic travel so go discover our amazing destinations with 22 kilograms of baggage included ask the experts at Atlantic travel about your next jet two holiday by calling 074 912 6193 and booked now with just a 60 pounds deposit per person jet two holidays package holidays you can trust subject to availability and conditions air grid are you thinking of making the switch to electric iMotors donnie gall's s-e-a-i-e-v dealer of the year 2022 we will answer any questions and help you make the switch with our award-winning 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services like bends refuse collection recycling water and so on and so forth some people saying they believed that recycling and west collection should be free and provided under public service once again and then the issue raised itself we know it can we bring that back into a public administration without adding some form of charge and some sort of local rate we do have a property tax but we don't have a household charge we don't have water charges and we would have to go really from property tax which is levied on property which is owned to some form of household tax or rates or call it what you will on local homes in order to pay for such services now joined on on the line by Jared Jared good morning good morning Jared you have an interesting take on this you're effectively saying look I wouldn't mind paying a little bit more but and it is a major but you would need to guarantee that services would improve dramatically if that money was paid yes now I looked at the Dutch system there the Dutch they actually paid 35% tax on all their earnings and they get free medical they get funds everything done if they want to get a mortgage they get 125% mortgage that's just unbelievable what they get and they're a lower rate of pay than we here in this country but it's a lower rate of pay but it's a higher rate of tax yes but they're getting more benefits from what they get yeah I mean and there's two mean you're told when you look at sort of political systems and government levels you can have a low tax market economy where effectively you pay very little money to the government and the theory is that you you pay minimum money to the government then you have services provided through the private sector in a spirit of competition and you can choose the service that best meets your need at the most efficient price and the market will regulate all that on the other hand you have what you have in Scandinavia a lot of people will talk about how in Scandinavia you've got fantastic public services and it also tells you that you'll pay 10 euro for a pint because of the high level of excise you have on things like alcohol and the high levels of tax you have and their high social provision but also high tax economies now the question is it seems a lot of people are saying well what we want in Ireland is we want high wage low tax and high public service at the same time and don't we are already on the high wage now you ask all your lusters there how they feel with the wage are they on a high rate or a low rate compared to Europe and they'll all say oh we're filled very bad we're very low we compared to the rest of Europe we are actually the second highest minimum wage within Europe and of course when it gets to the proposals mine they're trying to be big enough to 15 euros per hour that makes us the highest paid country in Europe yep so we need to open our eyes our social welfare and our benefits some of the highest in Europe if you technically we cross the border just over a few feet until the north the social welfare payment the basic the payment is around about 200 euros a week would that be right Donald? I believe it's there now I don't know the figure I have in my head is about 204 but that could be wrong now I can't stand over that over a couple of miles across the water the equivalent is approximately 100 euros we get around about 78 pounds staring a week our neighbours and their Instagram are getting paid for their social welfare payments but are we comparing like we'd like there in terms of the actual payments that are being made? well it's close to the economy a scale that's like we have a lot of people giving out I know it's just really sensitive I'm going away from the subject but you take we're chatting about the price of power the price is going to be everything in Ireland to you now in the month right if I asked you how many companies are supplying electricity to the consumer in Ireland? would you tell me? off the top of my head I would say there's major providers there's four or five I think we have 14 providers in Ireland right now divide that we have a population of 5.02 million Ireland could you divide that the 14 detail and tell me what you get right because I was brought up in the retail sector and we're always taught as a kind of like you can only take so much slice out of a cake right our government's going to be telling Europe and telling every how big a country we are on a on a geographical scale we're two-thirds the size of the UK would you agree with me there? yeah give or take right our population is only one-thirteenth the size of the UK there is 66.7 million people loving the UK right yeah how many power companies are supplying power to the consumer in the UK? well I know a lot of them have went under in the past year or so so I think that's reduced dramatically actually the number have gone under yeah just from 95 down to 37 yeah right divide 66.7 million by 37 that gives you roughly 1.3 million people we need to divide Ireland's 5.02 million by 14 it gives you roughly 370 thousand so therefore across each power company four times as much to do business in Ireland yeah right and if we divide the gain by TDs versus MPs each TD roughly represents 370 thousand people and the UK each MP represents 1.2 million right so you can see where our sparing costs and us contenders come out of I personally would would pay more tax if I'm getting value for my money I have no problems with it I'll go back to the Dutch system as to on their own paying a higher tax don't you wish to go on and buy a house the bank has no problem giving you a loan of 125% and Donald can't pay his mortgage he goes back to the bank I hands back the keys and he starts from scratch right now and when you say there's an extra 5 to 10% in tax in somewhere like Holland where they will pay a base rate of 35% does a proportion of that automatically goes to local authorities or is all that administered on a national basis system work yeah and it's through the system we need to look at it like our system needs to change in Ireland and it doesn't matter we have no good leaders coming through and I know there's a lot of parties like to say the strong people are going to change we have no good leaders coming forward we have what you would have called yes men who will agree with anything to get their vote now I did have an uncle who was involved in local politics in London and he once said the biggest problem you had in Ireland was you had no workable local government system and you had TDs who effectively were working as councillors whereas in the UK he believed you had local councillors who ran the council and your MPs made national policy and passed national laws yes the problem we have there is we can't afford both we're going to have to figure out a system that you take one one constituency in the UK say like Manchester yeah that gobbles Ireland up twice it's certainly an interesting point of view Jared and I'm sure it'll get a lot of people thinking and obviously if people want to make their views known they certainly can time has beaten us but 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o'clock Miho Martin says we have to do more when it comes to providing for Ukrainian refugees the T-Shark was speaking yesterday at the new refugee center in mill street County cork around 100 Ukrainian families are being housed in the center which he says is an example of Ornans innovative approach to the crisis the T-Shark insists the country's humanitarian efforts will continue we're part of a european wide response and first and foremost we're not a military power the thing we can do best is humanitarian as I said it's a shared humanity and we have to do everything we can to protect women and children in the first instance and vulnerable people and that's what we're going to do along with our european colleagues Investigations are continuing after a motorcyclist was seriously injured in a crash in Sainte-Denisville yesterday Guardi attended the scene of the single-vehicle collision in the Troman West area of Lahi at around 2 40 p.m. A motorcyclist Amanan his 50s was taken to Slago University Hospital for treatment to his injuries which are understood to be serious a technical examination of the scene was carried out Achille Begg's restaurant owner has been forced to close their doors due to never-ending cost increases fusion bistro has made the difficult decision to cease training next Saturday co-owner Linda Boyle says overheads and staff shortages have become unsustainable she told today's 9-10 show that their decision to close is a sign of the current climate at the minute the day you're going out for a sputnik to pass the days you know in the nice weather or whatever it's just not happening you can see it on the roads they're a lot quieter and it's just become too hard to try and keep going and you know at the end of the day you can't keep putting yourself on further and further and to death Over 14 million euro is to be spent on rejuvenating marine infrastructure in Donegal Donegal County Council has received the funding under the Brexit adjustment preserve A total of 15 projects worth over 16 million euro in the county are to benefit including works at Rathmall and Peer Burton Port and Mahri Meanwhile 8.8 million euro has been announced to construct a breakwater at Green Castle Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine Charlie McConnlog says the funding will help support fishing and coastal communities living in a post-Brexit economy Overall what we see is 15 projects across the county bringing our peers and harbours up to the standard that is really required ensuring significant projects which have been waiting and funding for a number of years finally getting funded and I look forward now to working with Donegal County Council we've done really strong work in relation to putting these applications together to ensure that these projects actually follow through over the coming period of time and that we see the significant investment make a real difference to the fishing community and indeed our coastal communities right throughout the county It seems Minister Eamon Ryan is rowing back on proposed new laws to ban the seal and distribution of turf In I says it won't apply to rural communities of fewer than 500 people but will instead focus on commercial and retail activities There have been clashes between the coalition parties over the issue but Minister Ryan says it won't be a case of inspectors going into colleges and sifting through the great Cancer Michael McLaughrey who last week claimed he was prepared to go to jail over the ban on turf says this latest stance is a waste of time He says Minister Ryan is completely out of touch with rural Ireland Whether or not I'm mainly dry today with a mix of Clyde and Sunny Spouse Isolated Shard will develop this afternoon highest temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees That's all from Highland Radio News for now We'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock Until then, good morning The obituary notice says for this Monday morning April the 25th The death has taken place of James Maguire 36 Summerhill Court, Sturban Reposing at Quigley's Funeral Home, Sturban tomorrow evening from half past five with removal at half past six to St Mary's Church, Melmite Requiem Mass on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock and termined afterwards in the adjoining cemetery The Requiem Mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam The death has taken place of Pete Connolly, Drama Hay Park, Ardra His remains will repose at Shoklin's Funeral Home, Sandfield this evening from seven until nine o'clock and tomorrow evening from five o'clock followed by removal to the Church of the Holy Family, Ardra arriving at half past seven Funeral Mass on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery The death has taken place of Eddie McGarregal 17 Melmite Garden, Sturban remains are reposing at his home Funeral leaving his home on Tuesday morning at 25 past 11 for Requiem Mass in St Mary's Church, Melmite at 12 o'clock and termined afterwards in the adjoining cemetery Donations and lay of flowers please to muscular dystrophy care of quickly Funeral Directors The Requiem Mass can be viewed live by the parish webcam The death has taken place of Hugh Benedict McGarregal 11 Cargley Road, Sturban and formerly of Seven Butcher Street, Sturban His remains will be reposing at his son Anthony's home 6 Hillmine Grove, Sturban this afternoon from 12 noon Funeral leaving his son's home tomorrow afternoon at 25 past 1 for Requiem Mass in St Mary's Church, Melmite at 2 o'clock and termined afterwards in the Sacred Heart Cemetery Derry Road Donations and lay of flowers please to St Vincent de Paul care of quickly Funeral Directors The Requiem Mass can be viewed live by the parish webcam The death has taken place of Brigine Doherty Ney Farn Grove Cottages Moth Requiem Mass will be celebrated at the Church of the Sacred Heart Moth tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock and termined afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery The death has occurred of Kathleen Rutherford Ney Shields Clough Finn, St Johnston House is strictly private please Funeral leaving her late residence Clough Finn, St Johnston tomorrow morning at half past 10 going to St Bethans Church St Johnston for 11 o'clock Requiem Mass with burial afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery Family flowers only please donations and lay of desire to the Donegal Hospice care of any family member or Kelly's Funeral Directors The death has taken place of Tony Kelly 6 Drummond Court Straban and formerly of Main Street Convoy his remains are reposing at his home Funeral leaving his home tomorrow morning at 25 past 9 for Requiem Mass in St Mary's Church Melmite at 10 o'clock and termed afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery donations and lay of flowers please to the Fall Hospice care of Quigley Funeral Directors House private from 11 p.m. until 11 a.m. The Requiem Mass can be viewed live by the parish webcam The death has occurred of Helen McLaughlin Ney McDead Fairview Bray Road Burnford and formerly of 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channel Just some of your comments before we go to Bingo There was a shocking interview on RTE last week The engineer was caught on a time warp and couldn't see past Micah and Friis Tau Cotter says the discussion has moved on the real problem of iron sulfides but the engineer like the government doesn't seem to want to go there The Cotter says the engineer that was interviewed was no friend to affected home owners and it's not surprising that some of his engineer colleagues are skeptical of his comments He comes across more of a government spokesperson than anything else No need to demolish just plaster up and to keep the rain out Cheap and nasty is the government solution so says our Cotter Cotter says we gather the rubbish along our road on a regular basis It's mostly masks and takeaway tea and coffee cups Cotter says can you mention that today is international parental alienation awareness day and a number of events are happening in Ireland online including a webinar with the founder of the world's first ever domestic abuse refuge and the launch of a video on YouTube called coping positively with parental alienation details can be found on the alienated children first Facebook page Good morning Cotter says anything with a plug is free in all recycling places free back to the retailer you bought it from Now I do know under the we protocol that's the WEEE if you are buying an electrical item to replace something you already have you can bring the old one to the retailer and that will then be accepted over the counter and indeed I did that recently actually I bought a new air fryer and brought an old one down and that's exactly what I did in the place I bought the new air fryer from you can certainly do that I do believe if you bring a piece of electronic equipment to a recycle centre one of the centres in each of the municipal districts in Donegal you will and please feel free to contradict me if I'm wrong but you will pay a charge if you just bring it to the recycle centre but certainly under the WEEE protocol if you're buying something new you can bring an old one and get that taken in free Cotter says every house on my road doesn't use the bin Now the Cotter says in Spain the council picked up all the garbage and all bins marked large electrical components left there now where can we go with empty paint cans I know and I record there was a discussion in council about this I know they are speaking about getting a paint recycling system service going through the recycling centres in Donegal I know it was being discussed and it was councillor Jimmy Kavana if I recall correctly had it up as a motion for discussion at a recent meeting and I know the council is actively working on that and we're hoping to see some form of announcement very soon John Wilkie of Tidy Towns when we spoke to him earlier said he calls the Windy Hall Road the Windy Hall Road because of the number of wine bottles lying on it Cotter says there are wine bottles and 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worked on when can they satisfy themselves that their home is safe and with that in mind the in a show and development partnership is offering resilience training to try and help the families deal with the stresses that are involved joined by project manager Denise McCool Denise good morning good morning Donal how are you very very well indeed thank you Denise now obviously Denise there is a huge argument and discussion and ongoing debate about redress schemes and about money and about the political level of mica we're not going there but we're going to focus specifically on this morning is what can be done to just help people deal with the stress that this is causing themselves personally and in their everyday lives yes absolutely I mean from our point of view the in a show and family action network and in a show and development partnership have come together that's the community sector and the statutory sector as well to look at ways we can support individuals and families that are facing mica and the stress that is bringing on families I think a lot of people the first step is to recognize that there is stress there and then to start to understand how that stress is impacting individually and as a family as well you know I think it's some of these things that we there's so much awareness around the campaign side of things and that's really important but this is just about more on the human level at you know inside closed doors in the evening and how people are feeling we've had schools and other organizations that work with us who are saying that they can see it within young people in the school everybody's trying to protect everybody else it's kind of you know as you know we have the counseling service as well and it's across the county obviously too so we're working with the Children and Young People Services Committee which is a county-wide structure with agencies around the table who are also very aware of the impact of mica on families and individuals so it's really trying to give appropriate responses to what people need and at this time I'm sure too it must be it must be causing tension within families because I mean when you have a group of people under one roof if every one of them is worried if every one of them is stressed that that stress is going to come out and in many cases sadly it's going to come out and be manifest with the people you love the most and with the people with whom you spend most time and they're probably the ones who are going to get the brunt of it Isn't that the nature of all stress in some ways it's the ones you love that get it most I know a while back we did a podcast with Coleman Noctur and it's still available online but within that families talked you know different families at different stages and their own you know life cycle as well talked about how it's affected them personally how it's affected the children and how you know one part you know the parents are thinking they're protecting you know not talking about in front of the children all the times people are talking about and knowing every family is different I suppose that's the first thing but knowing what's the best way for our family to talk about this and when it's good not to talk about it because sometimes it's the space to not have the conversation to be talking about other things and not let let's take over people's lives because it has for many families been all consuming because it's such you know your home is your castle it's your safe space and it's been totally impacted by this whole Micah situation so it's allowing people's spaces and places to come together and have the conversation at a level that they're comfortable at but also to move beyond it and say okay this is a long term situation we're in it's you know from and of course the stress of form pulling and all that is still there it doesn't take that away but it's just about coping mechanisms for families and for individuals so this is very practical hands-on type of approach that we're doing with families and it's been recognised internationally this model and the community resilience model as well so it's been really How important have the big demonstrations in Dublin been because I got the impression certainly speaking to people who were there and watching the coverage and looking at the pictures I got the feeling it was almost like taking the valve off a pressure cooker that those demonstrations allowed a lot of people get a lot of the stress off their system by blowing whistles by waving signs by feeling that they were doing something and I think history may very well show that those two major demonstrations in Dublin in particular played a huge role not only in galvanising the community but also in helping people maybe get rid of some of the excess stress that they were suffering at the time Yes, I think that's really important to say that that's that communal space of people coming together and that is a shared thing because sometimes when you're under stress you feel it's just yourself and you're the only one in this situation and coming out on the streets it kind of gives power back to the people as well because that sense of empowerment that sense of having taken it into the hands of the community to kind of challenge and to look for the redress and look for justice around this is really important so I do think that sense of coming together as a community was really important as much as making a case to government it's also about showing that there are a lot of us in this situation even for people that aren't don't have might that they came out and supported people who do so knowing that we recognise this we see it we want to be part of supporting families through this as well so I think it's that sense of solidarity and community was really important in those marches and the same with something like this training it's about bringing people together in a space that they know they're not doing this alone because sometimes even though you know it's everywhere you can still feel it's just me feel this way about this you know yeah now the training starts on May 5th which is toward the end of next week and how do people go about registering if they wish to take part yeah it's it's you can either ring initial development partnership and book that way but we also have an event right link on our website so it's it's online so it means that anybody across the county can join in on this on zoom so that you just have to click in to register and then say in shone.ie is our website and it's under our watch on section and this is really I suppose it's county-wide it's not just initial it's for anybody across the county who's either working with families that are facing micah but also people who are who have micah you know in a household as well themselves directly so it's for both sides of that because a lot of people you know as I say are supported by local statutory or community agencies as well so those people are invited to be part of it but also for families directly and individuals who are part of the micah now obviously this is separate from the micah campaign itself and that campaign keeps going you know in tandem as it were but you have liaised with the micah action group and with others you have been speaking to the campaigners and you know you you you aren't going in there ignorant of the wider situation you know well what the full situation is and you're well briefed to deal with any questions but obviously you're not necessarily looking to discuss the micah campaign you're looking to discuss the effect of living with micah and the impact it's having on individuals and on families hello Denise oh have I have we just lost Denise there sorry could I lose you? I think we just lost you briefly there Denise sorry yeah sorry this is really a focus on well-being and it's the real hands-on way to look at building your own resilience and and your sense of wellness so that's what the focus is on you know even though it's in the context of micah it's more about looking at wellness and and and teaching yourself good I suppose and skills to to to recognize when your body's under stress but also how to deal with that as well and do it for yourself and do it for your family then well around building your mental health and well-being yeah well Denise you did speak to us over the weekend and we run a story of the weekend on news as well and all the details and the contact numbers and the websites and so on they're all available on the news section of our website highlandradio.com but for the moment Denise McCool thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning thank you and we wish you and obviously we wish all the families that avail of the training all the best as well that's a resilience training for for people affected by micah it's being organized by in a shown development partnership now obviously it's for anyone right across the county it's not it's not only people didn't shown if it's on zoom so if you're anywhere in the county you can avail of that training you can go on to in a shown dot i e slash what's on and there's a link to the event bright ticket page on as we said on our website highlandradio.com now let's take a look at some of your comments color says a census a numerator called to my home yesterday I missed them he left a note in my door asking me to send it back in the post but with no details of who or where to post it to now we know the CSO office is in swords in Dublin I would have thought there'd be probably an address on the sheet itself as well but just take a look toward the back of the sheet it may well that the address may well be on the actual census form itself but the CSO office is in swords in Dublin color speaking about Gerard who spoke to us just before the news at 10 and you know outlined how in Holland they pay a little bit more tax but get far more social services as a result color says Gerard obviously has his homework done and knows what he's talking about now another caller says that guy doesn't understand that the welfare system in Northern Ireland can't be compared with the Irish one in the north if you're eligible for welfare your housing is paid for our system is more about profits for quangos and that's and that's you know and I did sort of suggest that that maybe you're not always comparing like with like now and we spoke earlier to Linda about the impending closure of the cafe in Kili Beggs diffusion bistro there and a caller says and then the government to deny 51 seasonal workers three days of work in Kili Beggs that's a reference to the fact that at the weekend another ship well we're hearing about how ships have been leaving Kili Beggs to go and offload elsewhere because of an ongoing row over the weighing of catches on the pier and there was another incident at the weekend which we'll be looking at I think a little bit later on in the program another caller says power hungry civil servants need to be brought under control 1,100 ton of top quality wild blue whiting enough fish to feed seven million people dumped into fish mailing Kili Beggs converted into animal feed this is criminal dumping wild fish and importing farmed fish from Vietnam to feed our population it's madness on another level and someone must be held accountable for what's happening so says Cora another question about the the Arma Donegal game that took place yesterday in McCool Park I'll put that to one side actually because we'll hopefully have Brendan DeVenny in with us to preview tonight's deal debate and Brendan should be in with us shortly after 11 so we'll just leave that question there and we'll speak to Brendan about that it's 29 minutes past 10 o'clock we want to take 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evolving which is really quite delightful to see what we're finding is more and more people are aware of and aware of the choices and different options available to them so name changing practices are evolving we'll still get a very large percentage of women will take their other half's name whether that be same sex marriages or a man and a woman but we are starting to see a very distinct rise in different ways of doing things and this we were alluding to earlier a lot of women are very keen to maintain or preserve their maiden name in a number of different ways I heard a suggestion at one point that there have been a number of cases where they've gone for a double-barreled name but not only has the woman gone for a double-barreled name but the man has also done it and taken on her surname as well and perhaps that's a very interesting sort of as it were compromise where both in fact take both names yeah so we're seeing that grow massively it's probably almost tripled in the last two years we've always seen women taking double-barrels but the number and the ratio of that is higher but I think what's even more noticeable is that we're actually seeing couples coming in and doing that so sometimes it was just the woman who would double-barrel but now what we're seeing is couples doing that as well as couples doing things differently so we will find men taking their wives name we will find a very few men will take their wives name and as a middle name but we're finding also that some couples are choosing to blend them together it's what's known as meshing so it's where they take a part of one name and a part of the other and create a brand new name which is a little bit out there but that's you know it's a small percentage but definitely on the rise traditionally one would have seen that even in cases where women kept their maiden name after marriage very often the children it would be almost automatically expected would take the surname of the husband stroke father rather than the surname of the mother is that's something you've looked at as well we don't see too much of that because we focus on adult name changes but some anecdotal information so firstly there is no legal requirement for a child to take the father's name it's more a traditional thing so that's really down to the parents choice of what they choose to give us a name we were I was on a show last week with another couple who both decided not to change their names so the lady kept her name the husband kept his name but they actually created a blended name of the two and they gave that to their children so that's you know there are choices out there but I would still say that the probably the vast majority and I'm not really afraid to talk too much about that because as I say we tend to deal more with the the adults changing their names and not so much with the choice to give their children and you're obviously dealing with the deed poll office you know and you're looking at name changes you're you're crunching the figures and you're taking very much a numerical evidence-based approach to this and to your mind the way things are looking we're going to see these meshing trends increase in the coming months and we're going to see more and more women deciding either to go double-barrelled or just to stick with their own name yeah absolutely with the choices out there and people are more aware of their choices and I think we've all had a lot more time on our hands to really contemplate things so the weddings that are coming through now are invariably date number three or four or five for some so they've had an awful lot of time to really think through some of the details and that includes you know the name that they want to feel comfortable with as a team we're also seeing so in terms of stats one in four women will make a maiden name a middle name so that's very common but we're seeing an increase now in women coming to us asking to do what I would describe as the best of both and that is where they will keep their maiden name professionally because they've built up a reputation the average age of people getting married is now in their in the early to mid 30s as as opposed to a few generations before it was a lot younger and it's absolutely possible to do that it requires a little bit of compromise but it's totally legal and totally possible to have two distinct names brands if you like so professionally they maintain that brand and that name that they've always been known by and then personally privately they change their their name to their married chosen name whatever that might be and yeah and we've I've seen that myself with good friends who do exactly that actually in this business in particular obviously in broadcasting it happens I think quite a bit and fully understandably so how important is it in your view that when for instance a text a tweet by Francesca Spector the author and journalist when bonkers last when it went viral last month you know suggesting it's bonkers that women are still changing their names in 2022 and things like a tweet such as that can get traction online get a discussion going online get picked up by the papers and that seems what's happened in this instance that you know one tweet has just started a whole discussion and started a whole online debate and it's inevitable that that debate is going to have long-term impact yeah I think so I mean look we are for me I don't have a firm opinion what my strongest sentiment is that it's all about choice and there isn't a right or wrong it's about understanding what is right for individuals and for couples now that could be a whole array of different things they may wish to stick which is perfectly fine they may wish to twist they may wish to twist with a twist and I don't think personally that we should enforce a practice one way or another I think ultimately we're at the point and thankfully we are where there is choice and it's for each individual to weigh up and understand what those choices are and to weigh up what makes sense for them I've always been fascinated by the Icelandic naming structure where children take their names from their parents but sons take names from fathers and daughters take names from mothers so my name would have been Donald Kevin's son and my sister's name would have been Aideen Maureen daughter and I find I also found that a very interesting one which sort of to a certain extent circumvents this whole problem it does but then that's a completely different culture yeah of course if you look in that space you know they are they're so much more forward thinking than we are when it comes to maternity care and parental leave and all sorts of things like that it is a nation and lots in that part of the world and Denmark as well they are they're inherently more equal than perhaps we are in the UK but obviously you know we're a little bit more open-minded now to the fact that there are choices but yeah every country and every culture has different customs and even within those cultures who live in the UK in some ways some of this generation are actually groundbreaking as well because they're going against potentially what is their cultural or traditional religious approach to things yeah and we're seeing many of those keep their maiden name in some way within their name structure an interesting comment actually saying that I mean in Irish tradition taking your husband name was not the tradition in Irish custom and it came along under British rule and it was after British rule was implemented in Ireland really that sort of taking your husband's surname became the trend and you know women keeping their own names was very evident particularly in Guelphock areas Irish speaking areas right up to more recent times I find that that's very quite an interesting one actually that it's very much a British custom that has been perhaps exported elsewhere yeah well as in so many things you know but sometimes things do go full circle and I don't know it'll be interesting to see whether the pendulum swims all the way back or partly back but again it's down it's down to choice but the one thing we also find is that people tend to get married in batches so you will have lots of like group friends would typically get married over the couple of years of each other and they're very much influencing each other so when we first interviewed men who were our customers five six years ago they were they were quite unique but they have always said and everyone that we've spoken to has always said actually now you know after a little bit of banter for example other people are becoming more open-minded so it would be interesting to see over time how trends will evolve based not so much on on media or perhaps some you know some tweets that actually you know get us to talk which is no bad thing but perhaps more on the practices that their their friends and family are starting to kind of pepper in that makes people think and the other thing then of course says that will pass on then to their children when they eventually grow up they'll have grown up under a slightly different tradition they will not have grown up with the same assumptions the same presumptions and it'll be interesting then to see what happens with the next generation and the generation after that because no doubt things will evolve again and things will keep on evolving yeah I couldn't agree more I think you know this is this is one of so many things that are changing and then we'll find for example there's going to be a plethora of double-barrelled kids out there so what's going to happen when those two double-barrelled kids then start to you know meet what we're seeing at the moment is typically a double one of the doubles will get dropped we've had a few triple barrels but it depends on how long they are and how if it's too long it actually won't enter onto a past four eight and four and so yeah people need to be pragmatic about that as time goes on as well yep yeah and now a caller is putting in Iceland daughters also take their father's name so says a caller and another caller says can you have the new mixed name of both people in a catholic church marriage well that's that's a matter for the church we're we're talking about the depotin and the legal system here really put off us so you're very much dealing with the legal system and I presume can't really comment on the situation within a church I mean I don't think the church is anything you get your marriage certificate from the church but I mean you know I don't think the name you're using comes into the religious part of the survey I wouldn't have thought so but I don't think so I know so what happens when you have a marriage certificate that is issued by whoever is issued that entitles you to take your partner's name or for him or her to take yours or to double barrel them that's what your marriage certificate entitles you to do if you want to do anything beyond that so if you want to create a new name or if you want to make a maiden name a middle name then you need to apply what's known as a deed poll you can get the deed poll from many places actually you can get it through us it's no plug but it's not just the the deed poll office there are at least a dozen deed poll providers out there and it's actually quite an easy quick document you can also self certifying have it registered on the dot gov website which is free but you need to register it and then you know it can be a little bit bizarrely a bit more convoluted actually to do that so once you're once you are wed your choice of name is down to you and ourselves and all of the other depot providers out there follow the the laws and the naming convention so you can effectively call yourself anything however you can't call yourself anything inflammatory so Donald if you wanted to change your name to Adolf Hitler for example that wouldn't be allowed you can't just have one name I know you know I don't know Madonna or Prince or something like that you do need actually to have a first name and a and a surname so as long as it's within the realms of of the law then you can choose whichever name you like I do actually recall there was a case in the UK several years ago now and I strongly suspect before your time where someone who had a dispute with their local bank and I can't remember which bank it was but they wanted to call themselves was it Chief Berger no no I suddenly he wanted to call himself something we just for the sake of argument we'll say Donald Kavanaugh bank are lying question of legitimacy of parenthood and want to change their name by depot of that and they were not allowed but they just wanted that to be their name that the Donald Kavanaugh bank are a bunch of lying with an exclusive at the end well yeah some people will will make a point in quite an interesting way but yeah there was a comedian who changed his name to Hugo Boss there was a long time ago a man who caught himself Mr Cheese first named Cheese and Sir named Berger right I'm not too sure how that went through but yes he became Cheese Berger Mr Cheese Berger yeah for other people I was doing a quiz once and I asked the question what was Elton John's real name and everyone said Reginald Dwight and I told him though his real name is Elton John because he changed it by depot and you can actually go online and you can find the certificate Elton John's depot certificate is online and his name officially according to the depot office is Elton Hercules John yes that's right Hercules yeah Elton Hercules John I just love that and so if if ever anyone asks you it's a great one to start rowing at table quizzes and you can't beat a good row at a table quiz so see it's been a really interesting conversation and thanks very much indeed for speaking to us this morning thank you so much for having me on yeah it's been an absolute pleasure I really enjoy that one that's to see it and we'll be watching with interest to see exactly what happens with the trends that are coming and that the idea of meshed names is an interesting one actually um you know it's done and start playing with all sorts of Fermi test what I'm doing in my own head at the moment I'm sure a lot of people out there are doing that as well just playing permutations with your name or your partner's maiden name or whatever you know and I'm certainly playing that game in my head and I know we're going to be talking about that at the tea table tonight it's going to be quite fun actually let's take a short break it's nine minutes to 11 o'clock this is your guide to smart glasses smart glasses often look like regular glasses and some of them have built-in cameras even if you don't wear smart glasses it's helpful to know what it looks like when someone who is wearing them is taking a photo or video one way someone can activate their camera is by tapping the 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afternoon top temperatures again 2 to 14 a light to moderate easterly breeze now let's go to line 2 we're joined by Dennis Carberry who is the skipper of the Lauren Dennis good morning Dennis we've heard an awful lot in recent weeks about the SFPA and the 5% of people that are being randomly selected to have their catches weighed at the pier that happened you at the weekend tell us what happened yeah we we had our first two SFPA officers arrived on board and they informed me that the entire catch of fish would be weighed on the pier at the beginning of eggs and basically this means that in a way the fish and the water because if we send the fish to the processing factory they have to be sent to the factory with fish and cell water like we we tell the water to minus one and a half degrees centigrade and that's how they're transported to the factory that keeps them in top quality condition yeah now the SFPA are telling us that they are offering skippers such as yourselves an alternative method that would involve weighing the fish in water and the inference of what the SFPA are telling us is that there is a system available which will preserve the fish you are saying effectively that's not the case well this system is okay for landing mackerel and horse mackerel and herring because they are they're more tougher fish and they're hardier but the blue-whiteing is very delicate and this means that they have to be taken out of gill water weighed put back in the gill water then transports the factory then they come back out of the gill water again and be weighed again in the factory yeah so this is a process of being double weighed in the fish and it's a effect on the quality of the fish and like the owners of this vessel spend huge sums of money building the vessel and yeah like we tried to transport their catch the fish and deliver the fish in tough quality conditions so I was left with no option but to send the fish to the the fish meal factory because they have a facility on the pier here for dewatering the fish and obviously what you what the the fish meal factory is paying is going to be considerably less than it's going to be paying for a processor that's preparing that fish for human consumption well the financial head by us the fish meal in the fish and not having them going to the the fish processing factory is over 50 55 000 euros so it's a huge loss to the vessel plus it's a huge loss to the fish factory and the fish factory workers they were all lined up to work on Saturday morning and they had their phone all the day they had no work for the weekend so you know it's it's a crazy situation and this was Lauren's maiden voyage so what should have been a triumphant return to port with your very first catch on the ship's maiden voyage the newest ship in the fleet in the Plagic fleet instead turned into what from your point of view and of course the point of view of the owners of the vessel as well was a disaster yes complete disaster for us because we have a small enough quota as it is like in the we want to maximize our return by landing top quality fish but this is just a ridiculous situation and it's going on for too long now we know some vessels chose to leave Kili Beggs and go on to Derry and offload the fish at foil port that option wasn't available on this occasion no option wasn't available to us because the fish processing factory were told that their processing license would be withdrawn if we landed in Derry and the fish were transported back by road to Kili Beggs who told them that that's the FPA right so it appears and I haven't heard of that one happening before our understanding was previously that fish were landed in Derry and then transported by truck to the factory and then processed under normal circumstances I mean this suggests there's another escalation yes I was only informed of this one Friday night because when the FPA came on board I had to notify the owners and that was what was really to me that if we went to Derry that they were going to take the process and license off R.D. Fish and I think Ward Fish was also called as in so our understanding is from speaking both to Minister Charlie McConnillog and from the releases that we've been getting press releases we've been getting press releases in the statement from the SFPA they haven't spoken to us directly but our understanding from what we're getting from them is that they are negotiating a new control structure with the European Commission and they're hoping to have a new system of control in place by next week are you in any way hopeful that we will see that and we can see this Faris and Kili Beggs come to an end? Well I hope it comes to an end sooner rather than later because just the situation can't go on like we're the most regulated regulated regulated and over-policed industry is totally ridiculous what's going on like we're not allowed to we're not allowed to land fish between midnight and eight a.m. in the morning and weekends we can't land after six p.m. in the evening and that also applies on holidays like fish is a perishable item and needs to be landed straight away once once we get to the pier and they just seem to throw obstacles in a way all the time I've landed fish all over Europe and in Norway and none of these regulations apply anywhere else it's only in Ireland and it seems to be that these faceless civil servants non-elected civil servants who run the revival marine they just seem to have it out for the fishing industry I think they just want to close it down publicly you have suggested that at this point what's necessary is to block a Dublin port yep I can't see any other resolution the government don't realize we're living on an island like all of the other island nations in the northeast the Atlantic and coastal states are thriving fishing industries and they would love to have the resources that we have on our doorstep but our government just seems hell bent on giving everything away they negotiated away 26% of our macro quota was the Brexit negotiations and this 26% they give away that was to allow other EU countries access to British waters it wasn't the benefit of every social man we've we've plenty of fish in our own waters that were capable of catching but we only have 15% of the catch in our own waters so the whole thing is just completely wrong like this has gone on for 50 years now since we joined the EU and it's just an off and off the fishing industry on its knees has withstand at the moment Dennis Carberry Skipper of the Lauren bordered by SFPA officers at the weekend and a 1100 ton catch of blue whiting effectively lost to the processor and sent for fishmail instead this is an ongoing discussion and Dennis thank you indeed for your contribution because it's good to hear from someone who is involved in this as it were on the call face and I'm sure a lot of people are going to be listening with great interest of what you've said and we're getting a lot of comments saying in support of yourself and it will bring those comments to you in the last hour of the program Dennis for the moment thank you indeed for speaking to us okay don't thank you Dennis thank you for having me on and anytime give me a call because the situation has to be stopped absolutely we will absolutely and thank you for the offer it is just gone 11 o'clock with apologies to Miquela Clark it's time for the headlines Miquela good morning thanks Stonel good morning it seems minister Eamon Ryan is roaring back and proposing on the sale and distribution of turf United says it won't apply to rural communities of fewer than 500 people but will instead focus 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show with letter kenny credit union is your bank leaving town letter kenny credit union is now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features with no appointment necessary to open your account it's the third and final hour of the 9 to noon show joined by jurid kelly who's a fisherman also involved in aquaculture in jurid you've been listening to what denis was saying before the break and you believe we need a fundamental change in the way ireland operates in its own waters that's right um morning listeners as well um i've listened to the first of all congratulations to the new company on their new guest will learn and hopefully they will be better lambs ahead than what they had their first one yeah ireland has done a very bad deal years ago there is a new game in town now as a result of Brexit this call zone attachment the EU recognize that countries they actually recognize that the UK had a greater entitlement to fish in its own waters because of zone attachment and ireland is a country that would benefit greatly but that's okay the old allocation key was called relative stability and was based on what did you go to your waters just before we even had a decent fishing plate now it's over attachment um I think that we the right civil servants we could pursue this and I don't think at the moment we have either the right civil servants or even have got the right intentions and that's never has been as well as through to me as for Dennis is at the same there the don't as bad deals over the years we've done us a bad deal at Brexit now that the men are trying to survive with the smaller quotas they are abusing every avenue that the men are still ordered to try to even to add value to the rewinding so it's way past time but um um I'm pretty a small insight I would have been involved in the industry that uh with the second one talking about industry in the country and nearly in what is our industry was valued 40 million there was a turnover now it's less than 10 two weeks ago when I attended the conference to do with the bottom muslim industry I made an offer to speak to anyone who was interested in restoring the industry back to an excess of 40 million there was mostly BIM staff were there not one has contacted me there is a perception that the civil service and those involved in fishery in particular and regulations than they are in supporting the sector also joined on the line by father John Joe Duffy who has always taken a keen interest in the fishing sector of father John Joe good morning good morning Dolan I'm very sad this morning I have to say that 51 workers seasonal workers at the start of the program sorry you talked about the situation indeed we're restaurant and how people are going through hard times while I congratulate the family on their new boat I feel terrible sympathy and sadness for the 51 seasonal workers that were sent home this weekend that could not work in Kelly Beggs because of the harassment the intimidation the heavy handedness of the private police force of somewhat and the higher excellence of the department the SFPA who are clearly harassing and intimidating boats in Kelly Beggs and as we have heard from a previous speaker also clearly intimidating factories with threats and this is absolutely morally wrong we have not seen anything like this ever in the state I think the last time we saw such actions was in a previous two centuries ago probably at the awfully sad what's happening it's terribly sad what's happening in Kelly Beggs at the moment your belief is effectively that fishermen are finding a voice and fishermen are speaking out and those involved in the fishing industry men and women it has to be said are actually standing up for themselves and you believe the state doesn't like that since the fishermen and people in the fishing industry have started to speak out there was a meeting down in Kelly Beggs with the minister we now see that resulting in the heavy handedness of the state it is intimidation by the state's private by the department of the Marines private police force the sea fisheries protection authority and it is clear to be seen we see that in the threats this is totally totally wrong of fish scales that the High Court ruled was that to be used that they will not use and and there's something very significant about this they say that monitors are placed on boats due to a risk-based analysis this was the Lawrence maiden voyage her first trip to sea her first landing into Kelly Beggs how was there a risk-based analysis at this monitoring I believe it is this check was purely intimidation and denying the people the right to work denying families the right to put bread on their table and it has been spearheaded I believe by higher echelons within the department of the Marine and there is no political voice to stop it well indeed there's there's a caller says civil servants have too much power now and we're seeing this in other departments as well and some senior civil servants need to be reeled in I want to go back to you Jared because I mean from what Father John Jo was saying there it's interesting that you know Europe is hardly being mentioned at all that Father John Jo believes this is very much between the state and the fishing sector now the SFPA are telling us no we're doing what we're told by Europe we're working under European legislation is the SFPA and the state hiding behind Europe on this one they are of course because at that meeting in Kelley Viggs I read out how the the Netherlands monitor their palagic fleet they actually do it privately and I think it's time that we had a private industry a private company doing it in Ireland the disadvantage of that is that the SFPA are also involved in providing the health certificates when the fish are processed that could be done by the Food Safety Authority and that would give the factories a much freer voice because they feel blackmailed by the SFPA and what they can say and what they can't say and I'd have to also say that at my father John Jo for the course person to help us to speak out against the civil servants we were all very much in peer contamination by the civil servants and through the SFPA Father John Jo go back to yourself we heard Dennis the skipper of the law and they're before the news suggest that maybe what's necessary is it's time to start a blockade of Dublin port and for the local fishers to actually get down to Dublin and just as we've seen the micro campaigners do just as we've seen farmers do just as we've seen truck drivers do maybe it's time for the fishers to go down and make their presence felt at Dublin port you I suspect would support that move fishermen need to do something drastically before they are totally wiped out before Kelly Beggs ends up being like Burton port and other small ports where fishing has disappeared what is also significant in this is that there was a High Court ruling in June 2021 where the High Court said that the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority were in breach of national and European law in withholding approval for the new scales which would make the away the fish and have them perfectly in good condition a Tim Donovan was head-hunted by the department brought in from the United States an expert in fisheries conservation and just some months ago he was let go or from the department or removed from the department whatever the case would be I asked the minister that and I didn't get an answer the fish is they are able to wave fish in every other European country bar Ireland on the scales that the fishermen invested heavily in and is sitting on the pier in Kelly Beggs which would have been which would have which these fish should have been waved through for the last number of shipments that came into Kelly Beggs but there was a letter signed and sent to Europe in February stating that Ireland was not happy to use this type of scales the only country in Europe that's not happy to use it I believe that Kelly Beggs will be closed down of the fishermen do not take drastic action this is the 21st century Donovan and we understand from the minister Charlie McConaughey we need new faces we need new faces in the department of the marine we need people with business acumen we do not need career civil servants any longer trying to run this department back in 2011 minister Charlie McConaughey then a TD a call for a renewal of the department a call for new management in the department he said the industry could not work with these people going forward or have confidence in them the same people are there the minister McConaughey is now the minister but I believe that there there needs to be a whole government action taken here because we have seen the failures and we have seen the intimidation against fishermen it is time for the whole government to respond because we're not getting the political response that is needed the minister and the and I want to put a final question to both of you the minister and the SFPA are both saying that they anticipate a new control structure will be in place in the coming weeks it should be in place by May and that should address this issue yourself, Father John Joe first do you have any confidence that that will be the case I can tell you it's too late for hundreds of seasonal workers and Kelly Beggs that have lost the right to make a living due to this heavy handedness due to this intimidation there needs to be answers there needs to be something done right away as of now this is an absolute disgrace it's intimidation it's heavy handedness and it's totally, totally wrong and Gerald Kelly I'm going to put the same question to yourself do you have any confidence that we will see a resolution to this and effectively Europe will agree a new control structure that will allow the weighing of catches in factories to resume as the norm yeah I don't think that Europe's a problem I've been in Europe many times and the fishing as the attitude to Irish fishing industry in Europe is much better than it is in Ireland by our own service and I think it's time that we at our own people work and work closely with what Europe wants and just to give you a small thing we only actually have 3% of blue, white and gold in Ireland so for every 3 fish we take other boats are taken 97 that's the type of thing that needs to be changed the weighing of them is quite simple the fishing of 20 kilo curtains it's not hard there's a bit 40 SFPA of fish that Kelly makes available count them onto the curtains so they can actually then be counted properly and have the desk for a few minutes of consumption now as regards the talk about a probe test I'm going to meeting and put my industry in with the 12th of May and BIM officers it's quite likely I won't be allowed into that meeting because the department seemed to only want people who are yes and agree with them I have radical ideas maybe not so radical someone were just to try and reinstate things and have them pass I think I could bring an extra 40 to 15 million under our coastal communities without one extra cent of investment so it would have been interesting if I had to come back to you and tell you whether I was proud of that meeting or that well we look forward to hearing about Father John Jo yeah indeed Can I make a direct appeal to the Taoiseach and the government this morning to immediately intervene in this unworkable situation where we see people being denied the right to work our quotas are small enough Irish vessels are only allowed to fish 15% of fish in Irish waters 85% goes to foreign vessels I was on the pier in Kelly bag some time ago I saw the fish being landed onto French lorries Spanish lorries no check going back to their home countries I saw small wooden boats coming into the pier of Kelly bags and there was nothing but fishery officers there that day no fishery officers there when the foreign vessels were left and I appealed directly to the Taoiseach and to the government as a whole to take immediate action and do something before it is too late for Kelly bags there seem to be pointed discrimination against fishermen here in Donegal and I don't know why that is but somebody needs to go into that department and sort it out right away Father John Jojofi and Jared Kelly thank you both very much indeed for speaking to us this morning this Monday tune in for the DL debate the championship as there is another huge weekend of GA action in the county our Donegal hurlers fish was common in the Nicky record Donegal minor footballers play for mana and open them round of the also championship and of course the Taoiseach shrouded in controversy Donegal VR Mara and also championship at Balba Faye we'll have interviews from all the teams involved at the weekend plus analysis from Ryan Ferry of the Donegal news and also joining me our male legend Oshin McCombo it's a DL debate this Monday just 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together and completely bring Dublin to a close for a week or more completely close every way in or out perhaps then they will listen another caller says oh my lord is it rush you are living in now we should all be out supporting them callers us when you see super trawlers fishing off the west coast of Ireland and our own fishing trawlers are tied up in port there is something wrong with this agreement another caller says where is the minister this morning nothing from him and the department he was on with Greg a few weeks ago saying he'd get this sorted incompetence of the highest order are elected representatives and officials are a disgrace so says Liam now I know the minister is actually on a trade mission in the U.S. at the moment that's my understanding of where minister Charlie mcconnellog is at the moment so he is not with us but who is with us is the Sinn Fein spokesperson on the marine and Dunigal Deputy Podrick McLaughlin Deputy McLaughlin good morning good morning Joel we have discussed this before with yourself on the show and on news of course but you're listening to father John Joe you're listening to Jared and of course you've you've heard what Dennis the skipper of the law and had to say this morning as well and it's a story sadly you've heard all all too often in the past couple of weeks yeah I've just discussed it but this has happened again so soon after the the meeting in Kelly Bailey's with few groups of people read their opinions very clear directly to the minister when they gave the evidence a testimony of what has been going on just for your listeners benefit I was in Kelly Beggs I was in a public meeting in recent weeks but it was there late last year specifically to look at the way in operation and one of the factory operators took me in and I could not believe what I was looking at basically and it was been widened it was been landed in that occasion so you have blue widened been pumped in out of boats on to refrigerated water it has to be kept at that temperature to keep it fresh for human consumption I've then taken a short distance to the factory where it was up over sort of conveyor belt system where it's weighed in real time now the SFPA see for she's protection authority in this particular factory have 10 separate CCTV cameras that are watching the weighing happening all the time they can land into the factory unannounced inspections they can go to the back to check the freezers but they have eyes on this weighing system you don't have to even have to leave their own office in Kelly Beggs they're monitoring the weighing of the fish all the time and how that is not enough to meet the responsibilities to the European Union I just cannot get my head around it I challenge the SFPA and I've done this in the ROCS committees but I challenge them here again today to tell me early industry in Ireland and a workforce in Ireland that would tolerate 24-hour CCTV monitoring you know of private businesses by a state authority and that still isn't good enough and then you end up with this tobacco where they're only given an allowance of 2% you know so whenever the fish are good with the water they allow 2% water it's insanity you know and I've said it at the public and I say again today this is sabotage by Irish people by Irish civil servants of our own industry that's already struggling to survive and then you have voices like John Drouffy and Gerard Kelly who are finding strong voices of fishing communities in Donegal you know the minister heard all of this and I understood there was a solution being worked upon and I'm disposed to hear the experience and you know the 50,000 loss at least income but of course more importantly the workers losing income I mean it's just despicable that this hasn't been confronted well I know two weeks or so ago minister Charlie McConaug was on the show here with Greg I spoke to minister McConaug myself about this issue a few weeks back as well and what we understood from him and what we've also understood from the SFPA is that this is it's all down to a European directive based on the control measures and new control measures were being introduced and as soon as the new control measures had been agreed then they could be implemented and we would see this issue addressed but what I'm hearing from people like John Joe and from Father John Joe from people like Gerard and from people like Dennis as well the skipper of the Lauren is that Europe is is not the problem here the problem appears not to be in Brussels the problem appears to be in Dublin Oh absolutely this is this is once caused by Europe I mean I mean if you go anywhere in Europe on pears and harbours anywhere you will not find this level of harassment and of insanity because you have to keep fish and by the way that's a European directive too you have to you have to keep fish at a particular freshness at a particular temperature by using refrigerated water by using ice these are the means keep fish fresh to get at the market over in Europe or across the world so these are the responsibilities that are upon the fish human and upon the fish producers so you're asking them to go against that to weigh it so why is this because across Europe most factories are actually located at the pier of the harbour in tilly bags normally a short distance away but they have to physically remove them from the pier of the harbour and weigh them and this is caused by Irish civil servants it's it's insanity it's willful sabotage now remember as the as Jared and Barbara John Joe and many others have been saying this is an industry that is struggling to survive you know if you go to Burton Ford Greencastle Kelly Beggs all the other small pears and harbours around Donegal they are you know a shadow of what they used to be getting to go and that's because of just civil servants and political leaders who have no passion for fishing communities who are not willing to stand up but in this case this is being stand up here this is our own sabotage of our own ministry you know I I can't convey how disgustful I am that this is continuing two weeks after the people of Kelly Beggs and surrounding communities made a stand the minister heard what they had to say and I I was convinced that within days we would have a solution it would finally be sorted out there's a weighing system on the pair that's ready to go that should have been deployed you know to solve this problem that's insanity you have raised this in the door in recent weeks I take it she'll be raising it again with the t-shirt and the minister this week oh absolutely I mean absolutely and you know the t-shirt pierced a hardy my colleague raised it very strongly with the t-shirt I raised it in the erotic and in the doll you know we've challenged the SFPA but at some point you know there has to be accountability you know people elect the likes of me Charlie McConn Logan Overs and but in this case Charlie McConn Logan's government and they have to see that those that they elect can hold people to account and this is the willful behavior of senior civil servants in the Department of Marine in the SFPA which I'm saying again I believe is sabotaging our own fishing industry not not this is not demanded by the European Commission by the European Union yes they ask that fish be weighed but for Christ's sake there's 10 cctv cameras in one factory I was in 10 cctv cameras but how much oversight do you need to prove that something's been done properly it's I understand I've never seen in all my times the public representative I've never seen any as as reckless and as stupid as what they are doing to our fishing industry W. Mcloughlin thank you very much indeed that's W. 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house and moved into the house and maintained the house and would have been in many cases self-sufficient that's a skill that was alive and well up to just a two or three generations ago we're told and Harrison Gardner is the author of a book building your own he's also presenting a tv series on the same theme and he's trying to get us to recover and retrieve that skill Harrison joins us on zoom Harrison good morning Hi good morning thanks so much for having me it is our pleasure Harrison I'm going to be honest and upfront I regard myself as a complete and utter klutz when it comes to doing things I couldn't hammer a nail straight I could barely put a picture up on a wall straight never mind even consider any form of DIY do you believe for people like myself there is some hope that we could learn to retrieve some of the skills that we've lost absolutely it's it's you're not alone in those feelings you know and I think the real the real goal here with the book the tv show and everything we're doing with our teaching school is to reignite the conversation of building your own home to kind of take back that conversation out of the architecture offices off the construction sites and back to the dining table because it really is something that affects all of us it's something that we all have a valid opinion in and we should all have a voice in and by learning a few things by learning a few techniques or a bit of information or the language that's used around these around these topics then we can really start joining those conversations and some people are going to go and build their own homes because financially that's their only option and for other people they're going to learn how to talk to their builder a little better and really know what they're asking for and what they're paying for from the point of view of planning and designing a home obviously there's you know you have to bring the architects in because you have to present plans to the planning office that will meet their requirements and they're going to be very very specific in what they want in terms of the application before you get permission to actually construct anything so obviously that's going to have to be done but your your belief is that once that's been done people can be far more proactive in what's happening in our own case about 10 years ago we put an extension in our house now I will be absolutely honest what we did it was we we spoke to a consultant in the architect's office stay effectively took on the role of being our project manager we spoke to them about what we wanted and needed he sat down showed us the designs we said that's lovely and then we moved out we rented another house close by and the builders and the architect's office guy that acted essentially as our clerk of works they got on with it and six months later we moved back into our renovated home and we went and had a look occasionally but I would have to be honest and say whereas we were heavily involved in the design we contributed absolutely zero to the actual building you believe that can change well I think to be honest from my side I think that's a it's a very lucky position to be in that you that you're able to do that I think for a lot of people the reality is they can barely afford their mortgage as it is or are struggling to get the mortgage so the idea of living somewhere else while paying someone else to build their home suddenly they have three huge expenses coming out at once and for a lot of people that's not possible and so building your own home has to be possible it has to be an option for everyone and it is in a lot of other countries and it's just awakening that culture here and bringing it back here because it always was a part of the culture in Ireland you know you even have a word for it here that coming from Australia I don't know the word for Mehl in Australia but there's a word here for this coming together and supporting your community and being supported by your community to make sure that everyone's housed and everyone's fed and everyone's looked after the word Mehl is an interesting one actually I mean obviously we're familiar with the word but a lot a lot would say sadly it's a word that harks back to an olden time but maybe it's an olden time and an olden tradition that you believe can be revived absolutely you know I think we have streamlined in the last two generations and we've all been encouraged to become specialists in one thing and subcontract every other part of our life out to other people and I don't think housing or food should be one of these things that you subcontract out to other people it's integral to what makes us human it's what we need to survive is housing and shelter and food and I think these are things that we should be talking about every day we should be thinking about constantly because houses aren't products they aren't something you buy off the shelf and you can return if something's broken they need to grow and change with us because we're constantly growing and changing ourselves so as we have kids as the family needs to move in as we decide we want to take up a new hobby and we need an art studio or an extension or whatever it is the house needs to keep evolving with us and without learning the skills and the ideas that it takes to design and create a space that can work for you that expense is never going to stop it's going to keep going out and for some people that's a really difficult reality to face so learning to build for themselves learning some of the basic tools and the language coming to something like common knowledge which is our build school that we run down in Clare can introduce you to 30 other people who all finding solutions who all believe that it's possible to take something like this on and everyone is at a different stage in that journey tell us something of your own background because it's clear from listening to you that you're passionate about this I'm not just listening to a professional who is imparting professional knowledge and perspectives I'm listening I believe to someone who is truly passionate and where has that passion come from? I guess I started out in conventional construction in Australia block and timber framing and I did that for several years and then I took those skills over to some developing countries and was working there for several years thinking that I was there to teach and what I realized was that there were styles of building out there that used a lot of the same principles but used very different materials and very different ideas depending on culture depending on climate and depending on finance and so over the years I've started mixing and matching the conventional construction techniques I have with the natural building techniques that I've learned and the recycled building techniques that I've learned over the years and what I've what's common across all of them are the basic principles that apply to all buildings and so I've divided the book into seven chapters that break up each of those principles of gravity foundations how heat moves in and out of a home what materials can be interchanged with other materials and I've tried to make it as digestible and easy to understand as possible because I've seen over the years after teaching over a thousand students now how to build that these ideas are tangible they are just there you just need to sit with them long enough and believe that you can learn them The TV show is accompanying the book and a lot of people will find that very interesting when can we actually see it? The show is coming out in September this year it's going to be a five-part series showing an RT1 and the principles of build your own are going to be explored in a number of areas and I mean you're talking about very practical stuff I mean things like plastering moving earth basic demolition installing insulation building eternal walls cladding things like that which I mean you know to me again I would be inclined to shirk very much from that but you're saying we don't have to shirk that we can actually take this on and perhaps surprise ourselves at how much we can do? Absolutely I would say only 20% of the jobs around a construction site are highly specialized the other 80% laborious tasks that can be learned that can be learned fairly quickly as well so if you're on a budget and if you have someone who's willing to show you how to do it like I did with the families on the TV show you're able to take on these projects and save yourself paying someone else to move things from point A to point B or someone else to install something in a wall that you're going to have to do 2,000 times throughout your house so if you learn it just once if you spend half an hour learning how to do it once you can be the one to repeat it that 2,000 times and save paying someone else to do that task You spoke about your experience going to developing countries where you expected that you would be the teacher imparting the knowledge what perhaps you didn't expect was that you would also be the student who would actually learn and learn techniques that you've managed to take on and presumably some of those techniques are now being built into what you're passing on to your students here Absolutely Yeah, that's been an integral shift in my life realizing that we're all teachers and we're all students simultaneously and there's no hierarchy and that's why we started our social enterprise called Common Knowledge because it's all just shared knowledge what we need to do is to increase this bank of general information and not shy away from having a little bit more understanding about more aspects of our lives because it's great to be specialized in one area it's important it's a great way to form a career but life is more than our job and we need shelter we need food we need community and there is a whole lot of knowledge that was very common just a few generations ago that we're losing today and so something we're doing with Common Knowledge is running a festival a one day festival called Rekindle down in Ennestheim in this May which is a intergenerational festival it's celebrating the knowledge that our elder members of our community have and showcasing them and connecting those members with younger members of the community to encourage knowledge transfer verbally and visually and tactically not just being stored in books in libraries Harrison it's been a pleasure speaking to you this morning and thanks indeed for sharing that with us and Harrison is author of Building Your Own Runs the Common Knowledge endeavor in Ennestheim just outside Ennestheim in County Clare and that Building Your Own TV series on RTE1 from September for now Harrison we look forward to that and thanks for much indeed thanks so much for having me bye it has been our pleasure that's Harrison speaking to us there from Ennestheim just outside Ennestheim in County Clare just some of your comments that have been coming in Collar says and this is in regards to the phishing why is an unelected committee in Brussels making these decisions for Ireland it's frustrating and makes me question if the UK did the right thing in leaving the EU unfortunately the way things have planned out we got into a very lengthy discussion on the Kilbeck situation and we haven't been in a position to speak to Brendan Duvenny so a question that had come in Collar is asking about the disallowed RMR goal on TV last night they said to the pundits said it should have stood two more said no it couldn't stand as it was thrown into the net whilst the ref right on this occasion I've no doubt that that will be addressed in detail on the DL debate which is on tonight so if you want to get the views of Brendan Duvenny it'll be on the DL debate night no doubt this is going to be discussed he'll have feedback and analysis from all the big games including Donegal versus Ross Common in the Nicky Rackard Cup Donegal versus Fermanna in the Minor Football Championship and of course the Donegal Ulster Senior Football Quarter Final guests will include Oshin McConnell and the DL news sports 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bit uppity and the nearest you got to having a title in this country we had a call about the census quarter says any census enumerator in the high vis jacket with census id can supply you with a large brown free post addressed envelope which allows you to confidentially mail your completed census form to census headquarters quarter says I got a text on Saturday to say my AIOB bank card had been compromised just to warn people this is a scam as I don't have an AIB account and I think we've all just become almost bored with receiving scam texts and emails I got a text last night on a Sunday evening from on post telling me that I owe money on a parcel and I'm not expecting any parcels and I have no doubt that that too is a scam and one of the things that they speak about is if you get a warning that you owe on post and this is the clever one they tell you you owe I mean I think about the amount in this text I got was about 179 and the thinking is that if they ask you for a small amount of money you're just going ah and you'll just pay it whereas if they ask you for a large amount of money you'll think about it and the irony is if it's a large amount of money they're asking for that one it's probably genuine however it's just always be very very wary and if you believe that something is a scam never click a link never respond back and if the text or message or whatever purports to be from on post or from a bank or wherever don't click a link ring them directly and they'll put you right Colours has great news for Donegal peers and harbours today 15 million announced fair play to mcconnellogue and Donegal county council so says the caller now indeed over 14 million is to be spent on rejuvenating marine infrastructure in Donegal it's under the brexit adjustment reserve now part of this is ongoing funding for the works which are ongoing at the breakwater in green castle also works being done in Burtonport and Mahary which as we know is underway and a significant project for the peer in Rathmullen and I'm joined on the line by Senator Nile Blaney Senator Blaney good morning good morning Donald the work on the peer in Rathmullen and we're often told that the peer in Rathmullen is to a large extent an underutilized and underused resource and good to see that some money is now being put into it and it's good to see I suppose Rathmullen is one of those after that is being under wait restrictions for quite a many years but moreover Donald I wasn't just ringing by Rathmullen I was ringing in relation to all the announcement this morning because Minister McCann loads out of the county he'd be on to himself and they had to be around he's out of the country actually in government business but the amount of money that has been received for peers in Harvard across the county has been quite significant announcement for only one year there never has been one this large in a given year and moreover the overall announcement with the practically half the money that had been announced and I suppose people wonder you know why did that happen the reason that happened is there's been a little not a lot of planning going into this behind the scenes first of all the Minister McCann look and giving these monies to the the Brexit adjusted the reserve fund moreover then the work that he has done with his colleagues in the council and government colleagues also in the council what's the county manager and Cal Sweeney the engineer over the last year to examine our peers and harbours in the state of them during the last year and to identify what funds were needed to put them right and he has battled hard to get these much needed monies but they're very very hard in terms of the individual projects I mean they are to build up the infrastructure they are to make things easy now you'll be aware obviously there is an ongoing discussion about the situation in Kili Beggs and inevitably we're getting people are making the comment that they're saying look it's all very well to build up infrastructure but we're creating a situation where we're building infrastructure and we're building peers but the way we're treating our fishers and the way we're actually dealing with the fleet and the way we're dealing with the industry it seems people say leave a lot to be desired well I think that's unfair first of all don't because the Kili Beggs issue is a Kili Beggs loan issue from the point of view that they spent the last six months of last year having everything waited to peer with the Monsman Khan Loog's input he's got a situation that 10% will be waited to peer now there are issues there but it's going to take down heads I do know what Monsman Khan Loog is infrastructurely for the country he's very focused but he's also focused on settling issues like this I believe the solutions that can and will be implemented but it's going to take down heads and we met them down there recently but there's a matter of working together before he can get a final solution to this we need to overcome the current hurdle solutions are there and it's going to take everybody around the table to hammer that out and sort it out I believe it's resolvable it just needs the right focus and Minister Monsman Khan Loog is very focused and he's very solution oriented as well and I hope that comes in conclusion sooner or later because it's an efficient meant list to take it to a conclusion sooner or later certainly the scenario that was described to us by Dennis the skipper of the law and was a scenario that seems utterly unsustainable so we'll be watching that one obviously with interest in terms then of the infrastructure talk to us a little about what is planned for Rathmore and because obviously you'll be taking a keen interest in that being from the fanat area yourself I mean you know it does seem that obviously ongoing work on the breakwater at Green Castle there's ongoing work in Burtonport and we've seen an awful lot of being done by Donegal County Council and the local community there Rathmore and a lot of work has been done along the shore and for that to be expanded out onto the pier suggests you know that there's maybe good good things in the future yeah well I suppose at the end of the day if you have any infrastructure you want it to be at its ultimate and Rathmore hasn't been at its ultimate for quite many many years there's been a three and a half tonne restriction on it and for probably well over 10 years at this stage and I think there's there's lots of possibilities for Rathmore and it's actually one of the deepest ports in the country there are 30 deepest ports in the country from the point of safety point of view of the Government of North Atlantic it's a vital piece of infrastructure and more over the later it's starting to take off there as well there's there's many opportunities to be explored from Rathmore and it's vital now that we get these money spent in a speedily fashion up in Mullen and functioning like it should be up here and we know obviously the Rathmore and to Bunkrana ferry service has been a huge success over the years with the support of Donegal County Council and we we we hope to see that when confirmed and back on the water again comments that's come in from the councillor Ian McGarvey Rathmore and should be considered a port for liners its depth of 40 feet would suggest that he could take some of the smaller cruise liners in there and now obviously it would take quite a lot of work to develop facilities at the pier and on the ground for that maybe to be feasible but I mean certainly as you've already acknowledged I mean it does have the depth so you know if you had the facilities you could be looking at some of the smaller cruise ships coming right into Rathmore absolutely you don't I would be open to looking at any ideas Rathmore and Greencastle areas like that absolutely open to cruise liners and it's about as well as creating the mindset and the ideas are you can put floating pontoons like the facilities of the cruiser but at the end if you were going to bring many cruises on you would look for I just I think a little to there much more concrete infrastructure facilities on the ground to accommodate these large cruisers because the very large ones would take about 115 meters of a pier to land at but there are smaller ones as well but you know many ideas they get you know there's not a lot of potential of Rathmore and it is on tap I remember a year to go behind the lynching having the councils down and doing a talk in relation to our marine in there that's a fantastic location fantastic facilities around here and very much open to explore and ideas with with any community or councils around the area in relation to and obviously Greencastle that break what are there we've been told for many many years that Greencastle's potential for further growth has been hampered because of the lack of a proper breakwater and the fact that that will finally be addressed after many years discussions can only be positive Oh absolutely there's massive potential of Greencastle you obviously have your fish in there and then the ferry as well but from the point of view of even expanding as a port or the liners again I believe there's massive opportunities for the liners on the doorstep of Derry City you have the the anthropocross line the Nicole coastline there's so many attractions here and I believe there's many many possibilities for for Greencastle to develop so that's this is a welcome start the force monitor came the fear was that from so many for spent years and years ago on the breakwater that would be lost as thankfully it's been protected with any call any kind so and moreover I want to thank any call any kind so far the efforts they have them because really if they hadn't the house in order we wouldn't be able to and I see monies today so thanks for the help they were in that they worked really hard over the last year and now in a position to work the way to run and create these projects on the ground to ensure they're happening and I have no doubt in many of these cases and particularly infrastructure they were the the allocations of infrastructure that's going to lead those pairs and others in good shape for for quite a a number of decades well we know that Daniel got to speak to Minister Charlie McConnell over the weekend on this issue so we do we do have we have had a word with Minister McConnell and we'll hear people can hear what the Minister had to say if they want to go on to our website HighlandVideo.com and they'll hear the Minister's views there and thank you indeed as well Senator Benney for speaking to us this morning Senator Daniel Benney there and that's pretty much the 9 till noon show for today Greg back on the program in the morning for myself Donald Kavana it's been a pleasure as always thanks indeed to Caroline who produced the show for all of her help thanks to Donna Marie for all of her help as well coming up next we have John Breslin he's going around the northwest and very interesting and packed program from John as always but from myself Donald thank you very much indeed and have a very good day