 All these projects, with a view towards developing a dedicated proposal to seek additional funding for more resources, he says the large traffic volume in the town on a daily basis is a result of many outrage from other parts of the northwest, feeding into lever-kenning. Senator Rubin says action must be taken to cope with the challenges being posed. The traffic volume is huge and I think we need to cut together a dedicated proposal to look for additional funding because the resources we have is not adequate and to deal with the demands that's there. And I'm looking for all heads to come together to see exactly what proposals we can get to try and have a constructive solution to some of the challenges that's there. Very windy or locally stormy today, during the morning, a band of heavy rain will sweep eastwards across the country, bringing spot flooding and possible thunderstorms, highest temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees. That's all for now. We'll be back with a news update again at 10 o'clock, but until then, good morning. Up to 300 euro off your car insurance. That's money for living. That's liberty. Future proof. Subjects to a minimum premium and applied before optional covers. Acceptance criteria, terms and conditions apply. Liberty Segurus, accompanied as Segurus area, Segurus SA, trading as liberty insurance, is authorized by the general directorate of insurance and pensions funds in Spain and is regulated by the central bank of Ireland for conduct of business rules. And a very good morning to you. This is the 9 to noon show on Highland Radio with Donald Kavanaugh with you until 12 noon this morning. A lot to get through, but as we always say, your contribution and your input is absolutely vital to this program. So if there are any issues you want to raise or any comments you want to make on the issues under discussion on the program today, you can text us or WhatsApp us on 086-60-25000. Call us on 07491-25000. You can email us comments at HighlandRadio.com. You can also use social media. We're at Highland Radio on Twitter. We're at Highland Hub on Facebook. And don't forget, of course, you can watch the show unfold on our YouTube Facebook pages and on our website, HighlandRadio.com as well. You can see the Zoom interviews as they take place and you can also interact obviously on the interface there as well. Starting as we do with a look at the papers and this morning is Wednesday, which means we have the Innish Times this morning. Now the headline, I'll be in a nursing home or fawn graveyard, pensioner forced out of burn foot home fears. She'll never return with flood defenses not due for another four years. Now yesterday we did speak to Shane from Donegal County Council's CFRAM's flood relief scheme project and they are having next week, this day, week actually, Wednesday the 9th, they're having a public drop-in facility in burn foot to look at the plans. But as Shane made it clear, it'll be next year before the planning is done and it'll be 2024 at least before a start is made on the work. And realistically speaking, it could be into 2526 before we actually see a project finished. And the person speaking there to a Declan McGee for the Innish Times, very, very concerned at the fact that she is still out of her home. There's two estates there, Luciana Grena and Park and Greenon, both of which in both of featured prominently with people from both estates speaking to Greg on a regular basis on the program here over the years. And that's something obviously that people will be keeping a very close eye on in burn foot. And don't forget, of course, then the following day on the Thursday, a similar event in Castle Finn for the CFRAM's project there and sadly it would appear similar timeframes in order to get work done and complete. The front of the Finn Valley voice this morning, hidden homeless break cover in Donegal. Pat Holland writes that nothing short of an all government response will break the cycle of homelessness in Donegal and other rural areas. That's the start warning from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which has seen the number of adults registered as homeless in Donegal and Litrum rise by ready for this 45% in a single month. Even of more concern, they say is a 77% rise in homeless children across the Northwest, 39 children now in a common emergency accommodation compared to 22 the previous month. And those figures obviously were covered on news last week as well, but they do bear repeating. That is the situation at present. 77 children in emergency accommodation at the end of last month in Donegal and Litrum, which are both counted together for purposes of homelessness. Shocking figures, really, really shocking figures. Front of the Donegal post this morning, a bishops call. Michael McHugh writes there's been a mixture of both joy and sadness following news that Tana Millie and Clara Parrish Priest, Father Niall Kahl, 59, has been elevated by Pope Francis as Bishop-Elect of the Dices of Austria. We had the honour of speaking to Bishop-Elect Niall Kahl on the programme yesterday, a very nice conversation, which you can still listen back to by the way that's available on our website. You can listen back to yesterday's programme if you so choose. He was on just after 11 yesterday morning. A very good conversation and it's a challenge that he is very much relishing and looking forward to. Front of the Irish Independent this morning, sisterly love, siblings who give precious gift of life. That's on the inside of the independent. The main story, safety fears as maternity hospitals can't fill jobs. Nursing Chief says crisis is worse than ever. 100 vacancies in two monster facilities. Also a nice picture of Ardell O'Hanlon and Pauline Midlam TV reunion. Father Ted, pair back together again for new comedy and they both star in a new comedy series. Rosie Malloy gives up everything and they play Rosie's parents. However, of perhaps more interest to what's in this story you'll have heard in the cover on news over the morning. I'm leaving Feenefall over bullying texts. Phillip Ryan writes that Mark McSharry has resigned from Feenefall ending his family's association with the party that stretches back nearly 40 years. Mr McSharry said his decision to quit is due to T-shirt Meehole Martin's handling of an investigation into a bullying complaint made against him by a Feenefall counsellor. It's all down to it seems an exchange on a Feenefall WhatsApp group in which Mr McSharry did not hold back on a lot. On comments he made because of what he perceived as unfairness in a series of messages relating to his campaign to secure additional cardiology services for Sligo University Hospital. Mark McSharry was not slow in giving his opinion in that particular WhatsApp group and a complaint was made by a counsellor as a result of comments that he made. Mr McSharry says he does not believe that he was properly treated and also very unhappy with the way the T-shirt responded to the issue. So that's his response. Now, Irish Times this morning, cabinets be warned about rise in education spending, financial pressure driven by construction inflation and impact of expanding services. Expenditure at the end of September was 314 million euro ahead of where it was expected to be. Now that is potentially concerning because we know there are a lot of extension and school construction projects in Donegal which we are waiting to start. A number of them have been approved for going to construction. A number of them contract documents have been accepted. In some cases contract documents are signed. In other cases contract documents might not necessarily be signed yet but they've gone to tender. If we have a plowing back of money in the Department of Education, the worry is going to be are we going to see some of those long standing school projects in Donegal actually put on the back burner or delayed slightly. Now in most of those cases let's be honest they have been delayed for years and in some cases for decades already so that is the last thing we want to see. We don't want to be getting ahead of ourselves. We don't want to be making any presumptions yet but if there is concern about education spending the worry is going to be that some of the capital projects that are outstanding could be delayed as a result and that is something we don't want to see. Also on the front of the Irish Times this morning, an interesting one because it reflects back on a conversation we had on the programme yesterday after our conversation with Tony Canavan, the CEO of Seltha. One of the issues that was mentioned again and again was the issue of people who are in hospital beds because they are either waiting for tests and scans or their discharge has been delayed. And effectively the number of people we have who are not to put too fine a point on it using hospital beds that they don't need to be using and as a result those hospital beds are not available for others. The headline on the story rise in patients facing delayed discharges. AHSC says additional challenges of COVID-19 pandemic has had impact. Now a number of people have been saying in recent weeks in a number of contexts that we've got to the point where we have to stop blaming COVID for everything. And it does seem at times that every time there's an issue the catch all explanation is it's COVID. It's COVID. We couldn't do it because of COVID. It was delayed because of COVID. Are we getting to the point where we have to maybe just put the COVID excuse to one side and look at other issues and other circumstances? Perhaps it is. But Sean O'Barrows and Paul Cullen write the number of patients whose discharge from hospital was delayed was higher in the first 10 months of this year than during the whole of last year. That's according to AHSC figures. Now that's interesting because I mean one would have thought that COVID would have had far more of an impact last year than it's having this year. Now maybe the other side of the coin is that a lot of people are in hospital this year that weren't in hospital last year because they weren't presenting last year because of COVID. So there's all sorts of permutations to this ongoing debate. But certainly we're at the point where as we say COVID has been an issue. But can we sort of just keep on saying oh it's COVID, it's COVID, it's COVID. That is a question that does need to be asked. The Irish Daily Mail this morning. Dance judges phones to be confiscated. They'll be chaperoned during contests. No good luck messages on social media. No mixing hotels. No school logos on outfits. Strict new rules to clamp down on alleged fixing in Irish dancing competitions. We'll see judges have their phones confiscated before contests. That's the Irish Daily Mail's latest at the Leinster finals later this month. Adjudicators who have had no connection to the scandal, which has been much discussed in recent weeks, also have a chaperone following them at all times. Also, Bishop issues an apology for Kerry Priest's sermon on sex and sin. Now for more on that story, we're going to go to the Irish Daily Star because one of the headlines on the front of that is anti gay alter rant from priests. A ranting priest caused angry prisoners to walk out of a mass after he slammed gay sex as a mortal sin. Father Sean Shee, he caused further outrage when he spoke of the lunatic approach of transgenderism during a sermon on Sunday in St Mary's Church in Listol in County Kerry. Main story in the Irish Daily Star this morning. Back behind bars, no new leash of life for Duddle. Jonathan Duddle, who will give evidence in the trial of Jerry de Moncuch, presented himself at Port Leisha prison and he's been taken into custody at the top security jail. So my understanding is that's protective custody that he's in at the moment and he is effectively going into the witness protection program. But he will be giving evidence in that trial and one of the sort of linchopins of the Jerry de Moncuch trial is going to be that Jonathan Duddle will give evidence that Hutch told him that he was involved in the murder of Declan Byrne in the Regency Hotel. I wish Daily Mur the main story, Church homily furore. Mass walkout after a priest's anti-gay rant. I like the pun actually. Bishop says sorry for deep upset caused by mortal sin comments. Shocked church goers walked out of mass after a priest slammed gay sex as a mortal sin. That's pretty much the same story as we had earlier. And what does a former health secretary do when he is no longer a minister? Does he go back to the back benches and work for his constituents as he is paid quite handsomely to do? Or does he go off to the jungle and take part in Ima's celebrity get me out of here? This is just one of the jungle king Matt Hancock tells the Irish son he hasn't lost his marbles after being suspended by the Tories for joining Ima's celebrity get me out of here. The 44 year old ex British health secretary's decision sparked up rare roar in the UK Parliament. He will skip dozens of votes while claiming his 97,852 year old salary during three weeks of filming in Australia. But to find Mr Hancock said something rather and if he wants to know what that was you can read it on page 5 of the Irish son. 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The comments you made and it's the headline rightly in the paper as well. I'll be in a nursing home or phone graveyard before I get a chance to go home. That is a terrible indictment of the way this whole situation has been handled. Yeah, and I love it now. I'm a pensioner now. This is great. I'm delighted to be a pensioner. I have three brothers, I'll never be pensioners. But the point about this is we were in pensioners five and a half years ago or five years ago. And, you know, it's the frustration of the way the council treated us with that flood. That's what's getting to me. That's what's the other part of the, you know, the Lois and the Greenland part. Those people are all living in their houses. You know, there's people that are living in houses that are falling down with Micah. The council put us out of those houses the day after that flood when we were all in shock. Told us they would do up our house and we would be back in by Christmas. We'll never be back in those houses. We know that, like, they're not saying that, but we know that. Is it at the point with those houses now where the only thing they can do is knock them down and rebuild? Not at all. If they knock down those eight houses that we are out of, they'll have to knock down the houses in the next few. They'll have to knock down the pub and burn thought. They'll have to knock down the businesses and burn thought. Everybody that was affected. Why, you know, we aren't, if we were in our houses, the people that are still living in their houses haven't been thought of since, you know, in the private estate next door. And that's what I'm getting at because what I'm trying to get my head around is there must be, I've always assumed there must be some sort of reason, be it structural or be it risk or be it level of damage or whatever. There must be some sort of reason that means you cannot go back to Park and Greenland because it seems Park and Greenland is unique in this. It's the only estate that I'm aware of in Donegal and even further afield where people still haven't been able to go back after serious flooding. And at this stage that flooding is just over five years ago. Now I've always assumed that the reason you can't go back is there must be something seriously wrong there. Are you effectively saying there isn't? I'm telling you what's seriously wrong. What's seriously wrong is that the day after, or the two days after the flooding, when everybody was in shock, everybody was in shock. The constant came in, they cleared out the bottom of our houses. Contaminated toilet bowls, the downstairs toilet, the radiators up the walls, the doors, the very curtain poles. Now the flood was high, it did not reach the curtain poles over the windows. They cleared out everything. They made those houses that we couldn't get. As I said, the promised us Christmas week. I had a friend at the time, a businessman in Cairngona, rang me and he said, we'll come and power wash your house. We couldn't because we didn't own the houses. We were renting the houses but like our contract, nothing made any difference. The council just came in, took over, destroyed everything. That's why we're not in our houses. So the council put you in alternative accommodation but your argument obviously is going to be, look, we were the community in there and you effectively took a community and spread us to the four winds. Yes, yes. That's exactly right. I mean, kids that were kids five years ago are far from kids now. Like, and, you know, everything, everything was just destroyed on us, you know. And like, I mean, we were, then we got the council met with us, wouldn't answer the phone to us, met with us on different occasions to tell us what we had to do to put up barriers around the house. Then for the truck away, I have a big, big gripe with the fact, in October last year they made us empty out the houses for, they were so afraid of social, you know, that something had to break into the houses past these barriers. We had a chestnut tree in our garden that my daughter set when she was a child. It was a big, big tree. We looked in over the fence one day and we'd seen the gardens had been cleared out. Now that chestnut tree was taken away. I was raging about that because my daughter set it from a chestnut. But if we had that chestnut tree now, the price if you want, it would keep us warm this winter. Where did it go, you know? And have the council has any point given you an explanation as to why you can't go back, why they can't do a repaired job now in Park and Graden? Or is it the case that Park and Graden has been refluttered again and again and again and will continually be refluttered every time we get some serious rain? No, no. The gardens fluttered, but my point being that the houses next door are just in the same danger. That's, you know, the danger, that flood, as you well remember. Like, I mean, take a walk around Swan Park and Bunkrana. It's beautiful now, it's beautiful. But they did it up. They took a chance. They did it up and it could flood again. You know, but there's no chance taken for us to listen. And they haven't done anything for us and they have no intention of doing anything for us. Even at the time, there was points made, like, without naming names and people put in, like, I mean, from people that were renting houses next door, that the child was such an age. And then, like, our estate was just people from the council of states. It was, no, it's like being a tensioner, that some kind of, you know, a different attitude or something towards it, you know? I mean, it isn't as though there is a surfeit and a surplus of council houses that the council has, you know, the council can just decide, no, that's grunge. We'll just move you into one of the spare houses that we have. The council does not have spare houses. And if anything, the council is scrambling to try and find accommodation for those who need it. So what we have is on the face of it, it seems, from what you're telling us, it seems we have an estate which is perfectly livable in. We have people who want to live in that estate, but that estate is sitting there. If anything, being slowly stripped away while you are living in alternative accommodation that you don't necessarily want to be in, and other people are frantically searching the housing lists every day looking for homes. Yeah. And those houses are structurally sound. Now there was a suggestion, there was Micah in the houses, there is not Micah in those houses. Like I mean, I'm not an expert in Micah or anything else, but I can, you can walk around and see. Like I mean, you could pick out, you know what I mean? Yeah. There's nothing, only that the council made those houses that we could not go back to them. That's the problem, not the plodding, not the plodding. And has anyone given you, has anyone at any point, either public representative, and I know in fairness the public representatives have raised this at council meetings and I'm sure they're raising it regularly in private conversations with officials as well. Has any either public representative or official been able to give you any kind of time frame as to what's happening or is it just a wall of silence still? It's all that whitewash about this is going to happen. We have to check for wildlife or we have to check for, you know, in the river. We have to check the river for this. They can clean the other river coming down from bridge end. They can't do anything. The Swords are running into those rivers, that river in Bournemouth since I came here 40 years ago. Like there's no, you know, it's all excuses. It's all excuses and whitewash as far as I'm concerned. And all I have left now is the frustration of it because as I said, you know, they'll talk about this now and they'll throw this and it'll be grand and everybody will explain everything away. But nothing. It was supposed to be 2025. It moved the year for no reason. It moved 2026, you know. And do you have any indication or guarantee that we'll say 2026, we'll assume it's going to be 2026 before that flood relief scheme is fully operational and in place in Bournemouth. So let's jump into the future. It's 2026. Flood relief scheme is in place. The risk of flooding has been abated. I mean, what happens then? Have you been given any form of guarantee that once that happens, you can go back to Park and Green or is it too late to restructure that community? Is it too late to get back to where you were in 20, I would say a lot of the children will have grown substantially. So they've they've lost out on the childhood there. That is a given. But I mean, has there been any indication from council that says, yes, as soon as that CFRAM's flood relief scheme is in place, then within four months or six months or whatever, you can go back to your homes. Has there been any indication of a timeline? The only thing was last year when they told us to take anything we wanted out of those houses because we no longer have access to them. They said that I didn't, you know, I had a contract that I had that house and they said, no, I wouldn't lose my contract. But what's good in having a contract that you have a council house if you can't get access to it? But no, I have no, I have no guarantees that, you know, it will change again anyway. You know, there'll be something said and there'll be something else said. So there's not I can't see any future for I can't see any future. Now the people as to say the people that live in the private houses, they're anxious to get these flood defences and everything else up and running for the like people have bought, you know, those houses, as I said, like we were trying to buy out that house when that flooding took place. The man that came, you know, whoever the think round to value it at the time, my husband, you know, pointed out that the river was out the backyard and that and said, you know, would it have any effect on the value of the house? I couldn't even mention that. You know, the I know that houses have changed hands in the next few years. People weren't weren't even aware there was a flood. Never mind that there weren't danger of losing their house to problem again. You know, yeah. I mean, I know it's been discussed in the past and there is sadly there's there's nothing I can say except we will obviously be on beyond to the council and see if we can get any sort of clarification. I mean, I might have lost to understand the situation to be honest. You know, I don't know what what it is that makes makes parking green and uninhabitable when so many other estates people could go back within a matter of weeks or even less once clear up work was done. I as you say, and lush the green as well. People have gone back there. So and that was the other state that was cleared out. The took the very chains off the floor. We came back to all of the bottom floor. We came to the top of the chains off the floor. You know, that's how far, you know, the strip the house that it was talking. You know, the talk, you know, the prices that are the high prices in the kitchen. Everything was taken away. That's why we can't live there. That's why and they're not going to do all those houses. Are they going to do them up after 2026? We have no idea. Kathleen, thanks for speaking to us this morning and all we can do is wish you well. Thanks for listening. Yeah, you take care of yourself and all the best to you and yours. That's speaking to us there. You'll see Kathleen story on the Enish Times this morning. I honestly don't know what the situation is there. It's, you know, you have a situation where this estate is there. People have not been able to go back. And it does seem, you know, at a time when homes, particularly in and shown are at a premium, you have people who want to go back to those homes, people who are saying, you know, we are a community want to get back there. And those homes are sitting there blocked up and fenced away. I don't know. It's a question that needs to be answered. Text 086 60 25,000. Imagine a better way to manage your energy with a smart plan from Bored Gosh Energy. 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Just want to let you know there are cows on the main Letterkenny Derry Road between Callahan's Motorway Stores in Burt and Newton Conningham. So cattle on the road, the Letterkenny Derry Road, and that's between Callahan's Motorway Stores in Burt and Newton Conningham. So if you're on that road, do please keep an eye out. Now, I can see out a window and I'm looking out at trees that are in the adjoining field and they are really starting to move. And I can barely see them actually because of the rain that's lashing against the window at the same time. Joined on the line by Alan O'Reilly of Carlow Weather, a regular guest with Greg, obviously every Friday when Alan gives his assessment of the weekend to come. But interesting today, Alan, we're in a situation where we have a status yellow, wind and rain warning until nine tonight right across the country and the situation we're told could worsen. Yes, indeed, on a pretty rough day of weather, really. And like it is yellow status, but the combination of wind, rain, thunderstorms is kind of making it not the usual yellow level, maybe that people are used to. It's certainly picking up in parts of the west and while the northwest hasn't seen the worst of this one, it will continue true today. And while I know the alert clears at nine p.m. tonight, there's actually kind of a second bout of really strong winds that are going to come true and they're going to hit the northwest tonight. So, you know, it's going to say a windage for the day, but probably around six, seven o'clock, even at eight o'clock tonight in the northwest, it's actually going to be quite windy and the winds will pick up another little bit. It goes probably up to Malinhead, up to 90 or 100 kilometers an hour possible, especially near the coast, but even inland, you're looking at very strong winds. So, the rain will kind of come and go. The heaviest will be the next couple of hours, but there will be rain, pulse and on and off, and there is a risk of some thunderstorms as well. So, yeah, it's a really nasty day of the combination of factors, really. And particularly if people are driving home at what would be the traditional sort of rush hour between, say, half four and six, because obviously after the talks went back at the weekend, it's now getting a lot darker in the evenings, and we're going to have that mix of heavy rain, very strong winds, and people perhaps driving in conditions that are far darker than they're used to. So, at the very least, it's really important that we take a lot of care on the roads today because it could get fairly hazardous out there. Absolutely, and especially all that leaves coming off the trees, you're looking at drains being blocked, some spot flooding as possible as well. It's been very wet the last couple of weeks, so water levels are well back up. And as you say, pedestrians and cyclists, especially, you know, with the clocks going back, anybody out, it's going to really be challenging conditions. It's going to be quite a bit cooler as well. It's going to feel quite cool, especially in the north, with that wind chill as well. So, it's a bit of a change in terms of the weather, and certainly, as you say, the conditions with the commuters take great care on the roads. I was driving locally here on Halloween night and the wind and the rain. It was so torrential, it was very hard to see anything. Yeah, as you say, it's not good conditions for commuting in, and it's a combination really that makes it that much harder to kind of challenging conditions. It might be just the yellow warning, but that's kind of what a lot of my followers are messaging me this morning going, I was this yellow, but it's yellow because each of the individual factors don't reach the orange criteria that may air news, but the combination does make it worse than normal. And as you say, we could be getting even more wind in the northwest tonight. Does that suggest this could run overnight and perhaps into tomorrow as well, or is this one of those sort of 12 to 15, 16 hour sort of pushes that comes over and then leaves us again, or is this going to be around for a while? No, it will clear through, and the winds will drop off quite quickly, you know, around 11 or 12 o'clock tonight, and we will get a bit of respite tomorrow as well, some sunny spells. Go be cooler now, it will be go be cooler, but thankfully the winds will be slack and just be a very odd shower. So, thankfully once we get today, and I think anybody that has kids there on midterm will be delighted to know that it will be good weather for going outside tomorrow if they're all cooped up today. And Friday's not looking too bad either, so we have a bit of respite before more rain then comes in Friday night, Saturday. But yeah, now once you get through today, we have a bit of respite and a bit of a better end to the week. Alan Lorelli of Carly Weather, thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning, and we'll make sure we wrap up and take care out there. But in the meantime, Alan, thank you, and we'll talk to you obviously, well, Greg will talk to you on the show on Friday. Thanks to you. Thanks Alan, you take care. That's Alan Lorelli there from Carly Weather. Now we're going to change tack, we're going to go to Zoom. Comments come in, and we had a lot of discussion on the programme yesterday about turf and the fact that the regulations came into effect from the weekend. Caller asks what the difference in the smoke that the farmer produces from burning turf, and me, if I buy the turf, it's discrimination. And the suggestion is that there may be there may actually be jail terms for people who illegally burn turf and were joined on Zoom by Councillor Michal Colomigalás who is himself a turf-cutter and a turf user. Michal, imagine you are. Well, not so much. Michal, you are a turf-cutter yourself as is traditionally with many people in your part of the world in West Danygoal. You've been looking at this whole turf debate over right since it began when Eamon Ryan first made his proposals. As far as you're concerned, this is crazy stuff. Well, I suppose in a later note, I was listening to the weather person there. Unfortunately, I still haven't got all my turf home yet. So tomorrow was the day, and Friday I was to try to take all of it, if not most of it home. So it's a good story that the weather is going to be allowing that. Look, yeah, I've been watching this as most of people in West Danygoal and other parts of the county have been watching it very, very closely. There was an attempt by the FeelintheFileLed party to move to ban cut and turf all together. And I think the difficulty is that it's not just that it's a tradition for us that we cut turf and that we spend a good amount of our summers in the bogs trying to save that. It's a necessity for us. We depend. We have one of the most lowest wage basis within the whole free state. Possibly right around the whole county, especially the Northwest, high unemployment and mass immigration. So we depend heavily on the turf to warmer homes. A lot of houses don't have other alternatives and their houses, a lot of houses don't even have oil. They have turf. And the government, led by FeelintheFileLed and the Gail, Greens and others, are now trying to ban it. And I do and I fully appreciate the very fact that we have to play our part in terms of climate change. And I know there's not a lot of people who would say, but your look, we're only a small percentage. But small percentages can lead to great revolution. I believe that. But what the difficulty is and I have been having trying to discuss this with others in the past, especially those that had sat around the cabinet table, is that there was nothing put in place. The idea that they would ban us cutting turf overnight and then leave us without the former homes was drawn. The reality is what the government is saying is you are under no threat whatsoever. There is no ban on people cutting their own turf, bringing their own turf home and using it for their own consumption. Nor is there any ban we're told on people giving some turf to their neighbors, which again would be a huge tradition in West Donegal. And we have a situation it seems to me where, and there's talk of prison sentences for people burning turf. People being imposed on someone, a householder in West Donegal for burning turf in their fireplace. That's never going to happen. And I think we all know that. But the government are trying to sort of cover off industrial use of this and this being used on an industrial scale. And the reality is in your community turf is not being used on an industrial scale. Turf is being used by households and the government is effectively saying that's not what we are targeting here. Well a number of things there don't well would have jailed five men down in Mayo to protect their community against a multinational company coming in, trying to make profit and rape the bottom of the sea of its oil and gas. But they did and put all of us in jail. So I've found the legislation that there'd be no doubt about it on a yearly basis to warm down homes and gift it. Gifting turf is nonsense. Right. The only reason that this was stopped because of the response and that the backbenchers felt that they were going to lose their seats over it not that they cared, but it was all about their own self-interest. That is 98% of politicians that have self-interest and ego and status. So let there be no doubt about that. The idea that we can't that we would gift turf there are families in my community that put food on the table by selling turf, by putting children through college, by selling turf and by paying a high mortgage a mortgage, a policy and a system brought in by the neoliberal policy way of economically surviving in our communities. But no, this government led by Fianna Gale and Fianna or the Green Party had done a U-turn solely on their reaction from rural Ireland. So this is just another step towards banning us outright and again there is no alternative they have put nothing else in place for us to work towards this day and if they had I and others would have been more than happy to work with them. But they expect us to stop cutting turf absolutely to save the planet and the the carbon that is that the bogs use up the idea that this has a massive impact on the planet I get that right but the problem is they say stop cutting turf which is roughly about 12 to 30 inches the top end of the bog and I welcome anybody to come to the bog with us and see how we actually do cut it as laid back again, it's not burnt but yet we're expected then it's okay to extract millions of orals of oil from the middle of the planet that will and does have a massive impact ship it right across the world and then use that to warmer homes but we can't walk that 10 yards to the back of our own homes and cut turf and take it home and keep ourselves warm. It's ridiculous and the idea that people out there now feel scared that they can't bring Johnny or Biddy down the road and say listen, will you drop off another two tractor loads that are for me? I've saved enough money now to buy them two loads it's scandalous they've never worked to give us an alternative but the government is there to lead and what they've done was that they cut a line and says this is it see Damara, you can't cut turf anymore you can't sell turf anymore which means you can't warm your homes which means today families cannot put food on the table by selling turf You're a member of Donegal County Council as a member of Donegal County Council the council it seems according to the law is being tasked with ensuring that those burning turf to heat their homes in West Donegal aren't creating a significant level of air pollution and causing a nuisance to neighbours so effectively you're a member of the body that's going to be policing this law on behalf of the government what can you do to mitigate how that's policed in Donegal as a member of the council? Look, the reality is Donegal County Council is under start as it is we can't even have proper housing officers to throw an eye on the Airbnb which has contributed massive to the homelessness within our communities we have a system there at the moment where people can apply for a possible grant to do up old houses that might relieve the housing crisis that out there we haven't even employed somebody there because the government threw it on us overnight and expected us to jump a housing section of Donegal County Council that is just absolutely inundated with work as it is and people might dismiss that but that is the reality of it they work extremely hard and they're undervalued and they're overworked as a lot of council staff are and people can dismiss that but I know because I work with council staff every single day but look, in terms of what you're saying it will be interesting to see if they implement it I don't believe that there's a will by all our fellow councillors to push this or even see this happening but again, what I would welcome is because we're very quick and I can understand why we would point the finger at Eamon Rhine but the reality is that the Green Party and I'm not defending the Green Party on any ship of form there are part of their policies that I do support but not all of it but the reality is that Fianna Fwell is the lead party in government here Fianna Fwell has rubber stamped us at the cabinet table Fianna Fwell, along with Funagale has rubber stamped it and agreed it and now are quite cleverly shifting it to a smaller party in their own self interest so I believe that blame belongs to every single one around that greedy cabinet table and not just one party because it's easy and it's populist to blame one small party as much as they are very much to blame but their blame has to be spread equally and the idea that they stop us cutting turf where we just try to hate our homes and a community that is socially and economically deprived by the neoliberal capitalist policy of the government and bear in mind those and any goal because it's not because few tours for long enough have always said ah it's down and down and it's not us up here in the needle it is us up here in the needle because it's those that support the very parties and those that sit around the trough at the cabinet table that are equally to blame here. Colin asking do you use gas oil in your own home? I use wood pellets in terms of when we built our own home back 15 years ago we built the house I suppose environmentally is what we believe to be at the time we built a timber framed house we use lathe's environmentally friendly materials I warm or we warm our home with wood pellets which is an extortionist price as well we thought we were doing environmentally the right thing that's the system that we installed in our home in terms of the land and a very small bit of land that we have we planted trees last year I think I planted something near not completely 300 trees I planted between 150 most year native trees I think we spoke about this before though one might think about that's a lot of land when you can continue that it's not we have a huge influx of deer in the area so you need to keep planting land because they keep eating but I'm quite content to share land because look we all live in the one piece of ground I know myself and a very close friend of mine had tried to have discussions with Eamon Ryan I spoke directly with him in relation to thousands of acreage that Tascui owns in our area to look at lands that are lying idle and not used to look to try to plant to do a forestry of it that we could work towards alternatives and future ahead we need a plan for the future ahead I understand that in 10, 20 years time we won't be caught in turf but what we could be doing is planting and we can sure that there are trees and there are alternatives and them alternatives can be accessed and the message and finally the message that you're giving to the government parties all three of them is look if you want to talk about alternatives we're here to talk about them but you know you can't just impose this unilaterally I think we just may have lost you there Mihal so what we'll do at this stage I think we had reached the end of the discussion oh no you're back Mihal I'm just going to say I could hear I could actually hear the buzzing coming through on the call yeah I can't get your text I think Mihal we'll let you go at this point and thanks for much indeed for speaking to us this morning no thanks for that thank you and I keep talking you look after yourself Mihal slow that's the councillor Mihal Colombe, Miguel Aspig there speaking to us from West Anigol a couple of your comments that have been coming in Collar says the government only wants to stop turf cutting because they're getting no tax on it there is no difference in cutting turf here or the government bringing turf in from other countries turf cutting will die out as our children won't do it the government did a lot worse people involved in government have done a lot worse and never went to jail Collar says well said Mihal the possibility of two years in jail might be slim but the fine of 1300 euro could be very real it's unfair to dismiss the consequences of continuing to burn turf I think now known as dismissing the consequences I certainly did say yesterday that I don't believe in any way that people will be jailed for burning turf in their own fireplace in a domestic home in Donigol but absolutely the point is well made that there are sanctions which may be imposed and no one wants to see those sanctions imposed on anybody now a few more comments to come before we go any further there was a lot of discussion in recent days about Naudoc and the fact that the Naudoc service in Donigol has been extremely busy and we were in contact with Naudoc Carlin was on to them yesterday just to see if we could get a spokesperson to join us on the show and to talk about the situation now we have got a message from Naudoc and the message basically says unfortunately there are no spokespeople available for interview however please see our response below and basically it just says the HSE wishes to advise the increasing calls over the past weekend was down to winter illness and the complexity of calls the figures for the past two weekends are as follows on the weekend from the 21st to the 24th of October 928 calls to Naudoc from the 28th of October to the 1st of November 1424 now obviously bear in mind there was a bank holiday monday and there as well so there is one extra day in the second of the weekends and that does have to be factored so we went from 928 calls the previous weekend to 1424 calls the weekend which has just gone by now we are going to go back to line 1 Connell is on the line Connell good morning Connell you are saying that we do need to put forward proposals and to take a global view on this particular question about fossil fuel burning yeah well the COP26 World Environmental Conference is starting in Egypt next Sunday it's going on for two weeks but on the issue like the scientific evidence is there that those people in Africa and Central Africa that haven't got rain for two years and that their animals are all dying and they're starving they caused at least damage to the world of climate change and they're suffering the most and we have agencies working out there like Concern, Gold, Throckara that are doing tremendous work out there but I think the government need proposals that the fossil industry the fossil fuel industry worldwide and the so-called developed world we are part of need to make a contribution to the suffering of these people and it would be a small price to pay because you see this last three months the big fossil fuel companies around the world have made about 100 billion of profits and if you only take 0.1% of that I mean it would do tremendous work and these emergencies and I think we owe it to them it's not a question of you know should we do this because we caused the problem and the argument is that the energy companies are making profits on the back of the burning of fossil fuels that's causing climate change, that's causing global warming that's having an impact on these communities and South Africa and fossil fuels just last 70 years and that's how we were educated and brought up it changed the whole world for us and it changed everything we have to reflect now in the people that we never thought that that would cause damage but we now know in the last 20 years the damage it does cause and I think we owe it to these people through what the funding is through United Nations or whatever that there's decent funding available to deal with these emergencies caused by climate change Connell Point well made and thanks very much indeed for making it Thank you it's a very good point there being made by Connell and certainly something that needs to be kept in mind Connell, thank you very much indeed this is the National News Show on Highland Video we're approaching 3.5 minutes to 10 we're going to take a break after the break we'll have the news and a bitries with Emma If you're about to use an electrical appliance like your hairdryer which uses a lot of energy just ask the question is this a good time? 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Bonfort Park Angren and Inburn Fort was flooded in August 2017 a number of homeowners in the area have been unable to return home since the flooding they have been told it could be four years before they can return Speaking on today's national news show Kathy Malloy says she is frustrated of how she is being treated and fears she will never get to go home These pipes are cast iron pipes so she is over 80 years old they are built up with residue over the years that there is rust and other debris so in my opinion although I wish water said that the water coming out of these pipes fit EU directive for drinking water I would contested that and I wrote to Irish Water at the end of August this year I got a response in the middle of September to say that the drinking water was under the EU directive I am saying it's not and these pipes need to be replaced Sligo Litrum TD Mark McShie has launched a stinging criticism of the Taoiseach as he confirms he is leaving Finafall in a statement the deputy says Michael Martin failed to allow proper claim of bullying made against him by a local councillor the now independent TD alleges the Taoiseach used the complaint for political gain at national level to delay and prevent his re-admission to Finafall which had been expected in recent weeks Deputy McShie originally resigned the party whip over the Catherine Zavone controversy last year Johnny Gall is lagging miles behind in terms of delivering social housing in rural areas that's according to Councillor Martin McDermott who is calling for a review of the building social housing in the county in particular Councillor McDermott says there doesn't appear to be a will from Johnny Gall County Council to develop social housing in rural parts he says people are being driven into larger towns due to the lack of accommodation and as a result local schools and community centres are suffering Councillor McDermott says the council needs to review policies to ensure the delivery of dwellings back into rural areas the numbers are falling the numbers are falling in our community centres and we as a council even as a department of housing haven't been interested in rural areas for the last number of years and I think that the whole emphasis within the council needs to change and we need to start looking at how we can deliver on rural housing and rural parts of Johnny Gall because as I said that hasn't been happening the entire country has been placed on a status yellow wind and rain warning in place until 9 o'clock tonight Matt Aaron has warned of possible damaging gusts with the potential for localised waves overtopping the Atlantic coast heavy rain is also forecast which could lead to flooding in some areas the status yellow wind and rain warning may escalate to an orange level warning in County Johnny Gall Aaron O'Reilly of Carlow Weather is warning that some of the gusts could be damaging the gusts are really picking up early this morning across the country with some strong and possibly damaging gusts moving right across the country but worst areas hit will be the west coast and also the south coast with some very strong gusts around coastlines and coastlines really should be avoided for the duration of today To whether or not very windy thunderstorm today during the morning a band of heavy rain will sweep east towards the country bringing spot flooding and possible thunderstorms sunny spells and heavy or thundery showers of rain or hail will follow later highest temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees that's all for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock but until then good morning The death has occurred of Daniel Gallagher Agnes Mean Bannard Kinkashla and formerly of Oi Island his remains are posing at his late residence funeral from there on Friday at 9.15 a.m. going to St Mary's oratory Bunkranna for 10 o'clock recurring mass with burial afterwards in Cock Hill Cemetery house private from 11 p.m. until 10 a.m. family fires only please 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McMoy St. Orler remains reposing at her late residence funeral leaving her late residence tomorrow morning at 10.30 a.m. for recurring mass going to St. Orler at 11 a.m. interment afterwards in Drum Bull Cemetery the recurring mass will be streamed live by the parish webcam donations in lieu of fires if desired to the Dunlough hospital care of any family member the house is strictly private to family close friends and neighbours only please the death has occurred of James Joseph White Nain Glendore Park Kili Klaheroma Fawn County Dunlough funeral from his late home this afternoon at 12.30 p.m. for service of Thanksgiving at 2 p.m. in St. Murris Church of Ireland Fawn interment afterwards in the adjoining churchyard at the request of the deceased the house is private to family close friends and neighbours donations in lieu of fires please to the Dunlough hospital care of Charles Lynch funeral director or any family member and the death has occurred of Jim McDade Wellingborough, North 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than actually getting the gas at the moment is one of the big question marks and the actual guaranteeing consistency of supply could become even more of an issue into the future the government is really concerned if, as they say about air pollution why don't they tackle air pollution from cities generated from traffic, implement a congestion charge, electric buses ban older high emission vehicles similar to cities like London where large improvements have been made over the years Caller says the dry arts roundabout in latter Kenny is flooding again, ridiculous drivers beware Matt Hamcock is using the I must never get me out of here to work for the public good because he is raising awareness for dyslexia so it is a caller the minister is going to he says he is using it as a platform to highlight dyslexia good on him and that really makes sense a former minister in the government party of a national parliament can do more to highlight dyslexia by going to Australia living in a jungle and eating parts of animals that one would not normally eat rather than actually going into the parliament of which he is a member and passing laws to improve supports for people with dyslexia forgive me if I come across as being a little bit cynical because I am a lot more than a little bit cynical on this one I don't normally allow my feelings to show but this one to be honest makes my blood boil water running from the entrances and gateways to farms etc no one is bothering as long as it gets onto the road shame something needs to be done and people need to take responsibility and look after their own patch with regards to a father Sean G the priest in Kerry who preached that sermon at the weekend caller says I just saw that Kerry priest had supported a convicted sex offender and was seen hugging him another caller says as a gay person who tries to go to mass it feels like one step forward and three steps back now it does have to be said that there is also support for the priest caller says I don't understand why the bishop issued an apology to feel like we can't say what we think anymore another caller says why should that priest be shamed because of his beliefs he also talked about abortion all of which is wrong at the end of the day he is doing his job another caller says that priest in Kerry is supposed to be politically correct at all times but our Catholic teaching teaches it's okay to be gay but not okay to be a practicing gay so says a caller now another caller says good to hear Kathleen on air often wondered how they fared out sad to hear they're still not back in their homes part of the Crana River part of the Crana River where I live in Bancrana is still blocked up from that time disgraceful treatment now I know there has been a long and drawn out debate about the draining of rivers and the cleaning of rivers in the nation and there appears to be some kind of what I can only describe as a turf war if you pardon the pun given other topics of discussion but there does seem to be some sort of turf war between Donegal County Council and the OPW in terms of who has the right to clean the rivers because we know several councillors Martin McDermott in particular but others as well have been pushing to try and get rivers cleared in a shown by Donegal County Council and what they're being told is no we can't get that done because that's the responsibility of the OPW and there's talk about getting the OPW and the council together to have discussions to try and get this sorted but as of now that's it seems not been resolved and so you have this crazy situation where we still have issues with rivers which are in need of being cleaned and they're not being cleaned because we have two or three different agencies and departments neither of which is doing it and we're left in that limbo and all the while there are many people across Donegal I'm sure looking out their windows today it's fairly heavy out there it's fairly blustery the rain is fairly 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now when I say those three words you very possibly are thinking of people gluing their heads to paintings or throwing tomato soup paintings or smashing cakes into the face of Prince Charles in a workwork museum now you may be saying to yourself what is the point of doing all that it serves no purpose whatsoever the argument is when I said just stop oil you knew exactly what I was talking about and that perhaps is the purpose so who are the sort of people that get involved in just stop oil well Amy Rose O'Donnell from Remelton is one of them and Amy Rose joins us on zoom this morning Amy Rose a very good morning to you hello thank you so much for having me on it's great to be on local radio it's our pleasure Amy Rose just stop oil up to a couple of weeks ago I will be honest I hadn't heard of it and now I have heard of it I have and I will be honest and up front I was one of those who looked at the TV screen of you know the screens in front of Van Gogh and other paintings being either vandalised and I thought to myself what's the point what's the point this is disgrace this serves no purpose this is going to be counterproductive and I said the same thing that all middle aged adults say but the argument is I now know exactly what just stop oil is is that the real purpose behind the sort of campaigns you're involved in well at the moment yes 100% like what you just said there has like resonated with a lot of people a lot of people didn't even know what just stop oil was and from my experience like I have been in just stop oil for months and like I have done so much actions that have involved stopping the flow of oil targeting oil infrastructure really direct action that has an immediate effect but unfortunately that was not getting us the price that we needed to put out the message that we need to seriously halt all new oil and gas projects in the UK and this is the best way to get the message I've done everything and this seems to be the only thing that is getting we're on Twitter every day we're on every news like piece you can see us everybody knows about us which is insane that we have to throw stupid of painting for that to happen but unfortunately that's just the way that the media works and we have to go with that you've been arrested at times you've blocked roads on several locations you've changed yourself to oil tankers you've been arrested along with colleagues and the point you're making is and it does seem somewhat ironic that eight arrests and countless actions can all be completely ignored one kind of tomato soup has catapulted you into the public consciousness right across Europe I completely get that it was a bit like I've put my civil liberty at risk so many times on actions that I've thought are so amazing like smashing up four courts or as you said I've climbed on top of oil tankers that has stopped the oil flow going into the UK for weeks on end I did it with about 400 people and those are the kind of actions that people keep talking about that we should be doing and people don't realise that we have been doing that and we've been doing more than just roadblocks and more than just throwing food like paintings but unfortunately this is the only way to get the message out to people all across the world what is the core message of Just Stop Oil because I mean the phrase itself, the argument is the phrase itself is self-explanatory but cards on the table you know the geography of Donegal as well as anyone I drove to work today in a car it's a hybrid but it's still powered by petrol I have an oil fired boiler in my home that made sure I was in some way warm when I woke up this morning I'm thinking I have so much in my house and so much in my home and in my life that is intrinsically linked with oil and its byproducts if it's just stopped I mean you know I'm going back 150 years in terms of my quality of life That's so fair and people don't realise what our demands actually are so first of all as you said it's quite clear we want to stop licensing for all new oil and gas in the UK so what you say there is if you know if we went off it straight away it would be chaos it obviously would be we can't just stop oil but the thing is we have enough oil to do with eight years we can wean off oil so easily and we can make a just transition for everybody and not only that Liz trust when she was on power she recently gave way to a hundred new fossil fuel licensing and lifted the mandate in fracking we're not asking for a huge amount but you have to see the issue here when the leader stood up at COP26 and said how the UK we're going to be the leaders of the climate movement and then fracking and license a hundred new fossil fuel projects compared to the 30 that just stopped oil we're originally fighting and as I said we have eight years left of oil and with that oil we're in such a privileged place right now that the government could so easily implement ways for just transition where workers would be able to go off at no bother but right now this is just driving us like bigger into the crisis that we're seeing and it's just going to get worse. Let's talk about the practicality of that because okay eight years now I work just over two miles from home I have colleagues here that are working 20 miles from home as I said before you're from Donegal you know the geography of Donegal you know what the public transport or better phrase the lack of it isn't when they got at this point in time we're wedded to our cars not because we have a fetish about cars not because we love our cars but because we have no choice but to use cars to get around I mean within eight years how are we going to power those cars and if the answer is electric I mean how is the electricity going to be generated how is that network going to be organized and is it your belief that realistically a new pattern of energy can actually be introduced over the course of eight years that maintains the level of connectivity that we have at the moment and maintains industry maintains employment maintains the economy yes 100% like the kind of thing that I like to use to explain why I think that it actually would be quite easy for us to do that is like Covid for example literally in the matter of days we changed the way that we live because we saw an immediate threat of an unseen virus and right now I don't think people are actually understanding the threat we're facing I read an article from the Dairy Journal saying that that Donegal and Dairy will be underwater by 2040 like I don't think you understand my family is in Donegal and they will not have a place to live we are looking at 50% of potato crops gone this year and one third of wheat crops gone in Donegal it's so hard for me to kind of express why we should reign off when it's so clear in my head that if we want a livable future unfortunately we're going to have to make some sacrifices and the government have the money they have the ways we have better energy storage they do have the ways we have the technology and we can definitely develop ways to use oil differently or just complete you in office to have a livable future the difference between using Covid as an example though and the situation we're in at the moment is that when the initial Covid restrictions came into place they were there initially for four weeks then they were there for two months that there was a feeling with Covid okay we'd all stay in our homes we won't go out, we won't socialise we won't meet people but there was always that knowledge in the back of our heads that this is temporary this is a blip, this is something we just have to do until this virus is taking care of or until we have a vaccine and then we can get back to normal the difference between the Covid situation and this is you're saying there is no getting back to normal when it comes to oil and gas and fossil fuels we're talking about constructing a new normal and constructing that new normal from scratch but that has to be done that literally we just have to make that we don't have the privilege right now to talk about whether we prefer to stay on oil or prefer like we are talking about millions of climate refugees one third of Pakistan is under water right now if one third of Ireland was under water right now we would be on the streets and you would be paced off as much as I am I find it so hard to kind of talk about the things that we enjoy so much from oil because they are such privileged that we've had and it will be really hard to wean off them but we can't really speak about that when people are dying every day due to the effects of climate change you just can't compare them we have such a luxury right now and we do have the money as I said we have the technology, we have the money we have so much right now that could bring us into a better future without oil and gas so what heats our homes was a massive movement in the UK and that brought the word insulation into the UK we have better insulation, we have so many better energy efficiency, better energy storage there are ways to do it and as I said this isn't up to the people the government are there to implement these things and to make it cheaper and better for us insulating homes would be cheaper for us anyways I'm in London right now and I can't even afford to heat my home it's absolutely insane the problem can be and I don't want to harp on about this but the problem can be if you're talking about insulation are you speaking about insulating with fibred last insulating, I mean can you do that naturally because if you're insulating with the sort of foam that would have been made in many cases those foams are either the byproducts of oil or they're made in an industrial process that at its root uses oil there's an argument for instance when it comes to electric cars that the lithium batteries and the extraction process for mining lithium in Africa is a problematic issue on its own so you can't just talk about we use electric cars when you have a situation where the actual process of mining the lithium to power the batteries is creating difficulty for people and if you go from having a small minority of cars electric to all cars electric then the level of lithium mining it's going to take to actually allow that to happen is going to be huge so you might be trading off one environmental catastrophe but in the process of doing so introducing another that it's not just a matter of stop oil it's a matter of look at every process within an integrated economy and as I said we pretty much are starting from scratch because the whole industrial process not just the driving of a car or the heating of a home but the actual manufacture of everything we use on a daily basis is going to have to be reviewed and changed because so much of that is dependent on oil gas and their byproducts and that is such a fair point but that's why these climate conferences make me so angry we've had 26 cops, we've had the Paris agreement, we've had countless conferences for years so the fact that we're talking about this now so as I'm saying we've had the spaces to make these kind of changes it's the politicians in charge that aren't thinking about ways that we could actually change the way that we use oil and gas like you're talking about we've had all these climate conferences and we've had all these political leaders, citizens getting together to talk about ways that we can live differently and unfortunately these places aren't getting used to talk about those things there's been 26 cops, there shouldn't have to be 26 of them, there's 26 of them and still we're talking about that pretty much everything that we use has oil and unfortunately it's right so as you were saying we're going to have to pretty much start from the beginning but we have to start at some point because if we don't start now then we wish that we had like done something before where we have the time and where we have the money What impact are you having on politicians? You're making waves as you say you're getting on the media, you're getting your voices heard part of the problem with that and let's be honest and put the cards on the table the reaction to it is going to a mixture of young people at it again right over to people who are going to be quite against you as a group because they're going to see you as disruptive there's a comment that has come in the comment says the likes of that young girl on your program, blocking fuel blocking harvest, blocking fuel production and increasing cost, this is happening in this country thanks to you and the message being they don't see you as the solution there are people out there who are going to see you as the problem What impact are you having on politics at the moment in terms of getting people who can make a change in political circles and who can get into the point where we're working towards the transition you believe is necessary and inevitable Yeah, so before I joined Just Stop Oil I worked a lot with politicians writing them letters, you know, meeting with MPs all that kind of things, we had meeting and it did pretty much nothing, they shook your hand and they pretended like they care with Just Stop Oil we're using tactics that we have seen have worked with the likes of other civil resistant groups like the Suffragettes and the civil rights movement we're not here to be liked, we're here to cause instruction to raise the alarm when Martin Luther King like said the I had a dream speech one of the most famous speeches of like pretty much all time you know that he was at a 70% disapproval rate unfortunately we don't have time to get everybody on our side, I am not brave I'm just I'm not like trying to annoy anybody but I'm so desperate that when I look at history this is shown to work, I have tried everything else I've marched peacefully I've written as I said to my politicians I've met with politicians, I've went to climate conferences I went to COP, I did what I thought you know could be right and this is the only thing that has worked we see with Ireland that declared a climate emergency not long after the Extinction Rebellion protests and the same in London, civil disobedience and civil resistance works because the government will not listen to you unless you give them no choice as you said climate emergencies have been declared what worth has that been I mean what difference has that made empty words, empty words as always empty promises that did nothing we thought you know this might actually be a start because I think Ireland were like the second country to declare a climate emergency we were quite ahead with that and it really it didn't do much they kind of just I'm guessing they just said it so that we kind of shut up for a bit but unfortunately that didn't work yesterday activists scaled the walls of Downing Street and JustUp Oil then issued a statement and it says basically JustUp Oil is going to pause its disruption from today JustUp Oil will pause its campaign of civil resistance we're giving time to those in the government who are in touch with reality to consider their responsibilities to this country at this time if as we sadly expect we receive no response from ministers to our demand by the end of 4th of November we will escalate our legal disruption against this treasonous government our action will be proportionate to the task of stopping the crime against humanity which is new oil and gas what can we expect to happen next week assuming that Rishi Sunak does not call you into Downing Street and say he's exceeding to your demands which let's face it ain't going to happen you're completely right yeah I was in that video and I'm not going to like speak on what we're going to do or like not going to do for obvious legal reasons but we're going to continue with our legal disruption and unfortunately it is going to be more extreme and more disruptive because we have tried everything and right now the only thing that is getting the attention of media and some politicians and journalists we are still we're gaining more and more support every day and this seems to be working so if we don't get a reply and if Rishi Sunak doesn't want to even just sit down with us and talk to us even though I know that will probably be useless and that we will have to continue with civil resistance because we aren't going to stop this isn't just kind of a thing we'll do until we kind of you know run out of energy this is the fight we can't afford to lose we literally cannot afford to lose because if we do everything I love and everything I've ever loved will be gone and I'm sorry I just can't accept that and if that means that I'm annoying people you know in the roads and I completely understand that but in my eyes that disruption is completely necessary to sound the alarm but this one one of the ironies of protest like that if you know as you've suggested there we'll see more blocking of roads here's the reality over road discomodes and upsets the person trying to get the work the person trying to get home from work the person on their way to their daughter's birthday party the person rushing to the shop to get the milk for the tea and then trying to get home they're the people that that discomodes who it doesn't discomode is going to be Rishi Sunak who is in Downing Street it doesn't necessarily discomode the finance ministers so the problem with protests like that very often can be that the people it hurts are not the people it's directed against and what that's going to do is rather than increase public acceptance and public support for your stance it's actually going to double down on opposition because people think who are these feckers stopping me from going to work and that's always the problem that's always the risk when you embark on a protest like that yeah and that's like I completely agree but we have spread the home office you know as I said we've targeted the places where these MPs and ministers and everything is and that changes nothing compared to when we have done roadblocks we have gotten more response than any you know what I mean we are on the media so much that they 100% see us for example with when we blocked off the oil description of oil there's almost classes of national emergency which means that that form that piece of paper has to go into 10 Downing Street and someone has to read that so depending on the disruption that we make it actually will get to them but also the people that we're causing the disruption of it hurts me so much because it is the normal Joe as you're saying you know what I mean it's my family it's everybody else's family but these people are the people that are going to be hit most by the climate crisis do you think that the government are going to care when this all goes down and people can afford to eat or homes people can afford to do anything the government will not give them a just transition to live they will just be left with nothing I just want to share some of the comments that have been coming in one caller says is that girl saying she's a vandal another caller says well done to that girl we need more people to face and stand up to the coming crisis that we're all facing she makes a lot of good points about oil the rest of us are just sitting at home giving out about it at least she's taking action fair play on the other hand caller says why are you giving the money back to us we've been told this last 50 years that we will die from climate change this is just another scam to tax people from their hard-earned money another caller says why are all these climate activists from privileged middle class backgrounds who are funding them I felt remelted well I mean in fairness there are people in remelting who are from middle class backgrounds as well it's not me you've been arrested at times would it be fair to assume that arrest number nine might not be too far away I don't think it will be too far at all I think keep it on your screens you might see me pretty soon yeah and thanks indeed for speaking to us I mean you know it's it's interesting what you're involved in and you know there's going to be a myriad of reactions to it and there's going to be good reactions and you know it'll be interesting to see how this one plays out but in the meantime Amy Rose thank you very much indeed for speaking to us and we'll be keeping a very close eye to see what's happening in the future thanks for listening thank you it's been our pleasure that's Amy Rose with Donald there as she said from remelting working full-time with the Just Stop Oil campaign and as she said if there hasn't been a commitment from the British Government by close of business on this coming Friday that they will exceed to Just Stop Oil's demands then Just Stop Oil will be increasing its campaign of what they're calling legal disruption and it will be they say proportionate to the task of stopping the rise in oil usage and 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you Karleen, first of all what is a digital first day so co-work plus is the co-working hub of Spree August Sport and we are doing a flagship event as part of Ireland's first ever digital first day so the digital first day is an event that is trying to promote the digital resources that are available and how social enterprises, remote workers and different groups can all come together to drive digitalisation in a way to drive the growth in their communities. Spree August Sport based in Cairn and Northin has shown it's become very involved in all sorts of community activities up in Cairn in the past while important that this be done because obviously the focus now on working from home but also using digital hubs and using all the advantages and all the opportunities provided by IT and by technology. The more we understand I suppose of what's available through our devices and through our systems the more we can use them to our advantage in terms of our working day. Absolutely, I mean digitalisation gives a huge potential for economic and social development in rural areas and Spree August Sport have been for the last 12 years working to tackle the sort of urban-rural divide in services so we have in the last four years brought to Cairn done a co-working space so the first thing that I've shown we can host up to about 17 remote workers at the moment and then a digital creative lab which has in-house and outreach courses in STEM subjects so science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics and in digital fabrication the other thing is is that we have got the green light to go ahead for the just new regeneration project so that's a nine and a half million Euro project which will increase the space for co-working for offices which will improve the resources that we have in digital creative lab and the digitalisation so it's really important that on this digital first day we get people in to find out what it is that they need in the area and what it is that they want to see to help to as you say, capitalising the potential that we have from digitalisation As you say it's taking place on the 16th if my maths are okay it can be dodgy at best that's two weeks today if I'm correct you're looking for volunteers to help what sort of people are you looking to come in as volunteers and what are you hoping they'll be able to do so we'd love to hear from anybody who is remote working we think that there is a whole hidden community of people who are working really really interesting jobs for national companies, multinational companies but are maybe doing it from their house or from their kitchen table we'd like to get them in so they can network with other people who are remote working as well I think we'll be able to on earth a whole community of remote workers who maybe don't know each other exist so if you're a remote worker please come along to the event and then also small businesses and other social enterprises which are such a key part of economic growth in the area we'd like them to come in to tell us their story where they're finding digitalisation is helping maybe they've moved online maybe they're getting to sell more things in a national or an international scale we'd love to hear about that and then there's other services that support smaller businesses they can be designers or video editors or people who have digital skills that can support other social enterprises we'd really love to get a network of people together on the day so this is the call it is for anybody who is working in the digital space and wants to find out who else is doing things interesting and then creative digitally come along to our event on the 16th of November 5pm and where is that event taking place so we are from 5 to 6 in our digital creative lab which is unit 10 of the Super Value Shopping Centre in Cardona and then from 6 to 7 we're going to move up to our co-working hub plus which is Millbray co-working plus hub and we'll invite everybody forward some food and some drinks and some networking so from 5 to 7 in Cardona yeah and now there is a national website digital-arland.ie slash digital-first-day that people can access if they're interested as well they can register their interest there yes they can register their interest there also we have an event right set up so it'll be out on all of our social media handles and then it's also part of a number of events in Donegal so the GTEC the IEI in Bunkrana Alpha Innovation are all hosting online events from the 15th to the 17th of November so anybody interested in digital-first-day who maybe can't make it in person to Cardona there are plenty of events going on in the rest of Donegal so yes look out for that across social media and as you say it's free of sport on social media anyone that goes on those social medias you'll find those links they're going to be readily available in the coming days all I can say is in terms of what you're doing Cardona it's important because I think you're probably absolutely right in saying that there is this whole hidden community now of people who are remote working and you know the more people share you know we're moving into a whole new era and a way of working and that's potentially going to bring a whole new way of sharing and a whole new way of cooperating and it'll be interesting to see what comes from this it'll be an interesting one indeed two weeks today in November 16th initially at 5 in unit 10 at Supervalue and then moving up to the hub at Mill Bray in the meantime Karleen, thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning Thank you very much for your time It's our pleasure, that's Karleen there from Spree Yoga Sport in Carn and Spree Yoga Sport very much involved in that two-snow program and lots of what's happening in Carn at the moment and it's great to see that happening because things like that always starting from the community now a lot of comments coming through and I just want to share some of them with you and a lot of comments about our piece with Amy Rose in terms of her membership of the oil campaign and her activism and her direct activism and Just Stop Oil is the byword at the moment some of what they've been doing has been hitting the headlines because it seems on the face of it to be ludicrous and unnecessary their argument is it's what's getting them on television the direct action against the oil companies hasn't been but throwing tomato soup but a painting has and that's what they believe they have to do Kotter says the problem is most older people think it's not their problem, they'll be dead before it's an issue and she's going to have her work cut out trying to change that attitude Kotter says is nuclear power the answer what are her thoughts everyone needs to do their part and drain their fields if we're worried about flooding in Derry clear the drains and dredge the river foil now the dredging one is interesting because I said there has been a debate in Inishon with regards to dredging of rivers and a lot of councillors saying they want to dredge the rivers now I had a message from a fellow me who's in Inishon he says the Inishon Rivers Trust have been rolling out alternative policies to dredging rivers for years and dredging the river is not always the answer and the suggestion being made that at some point we might speak to the Inishon Rivers Trust to get their take on this and that's a very good suggestion and no doubt we will do that Kotter says with regards to Just Stop While she also mentioned COP26 I suppose she attended it on her bicycle along with all the other important people so says another Kotter there and this is Amy Rose O'Donnell of course from Remelton who's very much involved in that campaign another Kotter says 50% of potato crops in one third of wheat in Donegal gone so that'll save a bit of fuel on the harvest it's all good another Kotter says donnell one Greta Thunberg in this world is enough I've never heard such junk in all my life another Kotter says the problem with global warming is the growing population of the world and the growing demand for product another Kotter asking if Amy Rose another Kotter says how did you get from Remelton to London presumably a reference to the fact that she either flew or sailed another Kotter says once again the price of diesel is over two euro nothing will be done about it as it continues to rise we've just come to accept these increases now we no longer complain and just seem to accept them and another Kotter says does anyone know why the water is off in the Gadidof area of Taumani I do know if you go into water.ie which is Irish Water's website they may be able to throw some light on that subject if you go in and you can check your own area for faults and there may be answers available there that's on water.ie I'm going to hit the half to 11 headlines after these in cold weather why work with a red nose and blue fingers hate your garage or shed with a 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but before we do anything else it's time for the 11 o'clock headlines and we say good morning to Emma Ryan thanks Donald, good morning a pensioner who fears she may never get to return home says she is frustrated with how the council treated flood home owners, flooded home owners in Burnfoot Park and Greenin in Burnfoot was flooded in August 2017 a number of home owners in the area have been unable to return home since the flooding they have been told it could be four years before they can return speaking on today's 9 to 10 show Kathleen Malloy says she is frustrated with how she has been treated and fears she will never get to return concerns have been raised over what appears to be rust in water pipes in parts of Bunkrana in Columbus Avenue, Rockview Terrace and Greenin Park, Cast Iron Pipes are still in place and residents have raised concerns about the quality of their water due to the presence of rust or other debris in the pipes Irish Water said that the water quality in the area is okay however Councillor Nicholas Crossin believes the pipes which have been in place for around 80 years need to be replaced Donegal is lagging miles behind in terms of delivering social housing in rural areas that's according to Councillor Martyn McDermott who is calling for a view of the building of social houses in the county in particular Councillor McDermott says there doesn't appear to be a will from Donegal County Council to develop social housing in rural parts he says people are being driven into larger towns due to the lack of accommodation and as a result local schools and community centres are suffering the entire country has been placed on a status yellow, wind and rain warning which will remain in place until 9 o'clock tonight, Metairn has warned of possible damaging gusts heavy rain is also forecast which could lead to flooding in some areas the status yellow, wind and rain warning may escalate to an orange level warning in County Donegal a Sligo-Literum TD has quit Fianna Fawle alleging that he should use a complaint about him for national political gain Mark McSharry confirmed his resignation in a statement this morning saying Miho Martyn failed to allow due process in a bullying claim made against him by a local councillor he was on the verge of being readmitted to Fianna Fawle a few weeks ago when the bullying claim emerged and finally an asylum seeker found dead in County Monaghan yesterday was originally from Nigeria but the death row's body was found on the grounds of the M Hotel just outside Carrack Macross after sustaining serious head injuries a Porsche Martyn examination is due to take place today which will determine whether he'd been a victim of Fawle play that's all for now we're back with the news update again at 12 o'clock but until then good morning the National Lottery's Christmas scratch cards this year you could scratch and win up to play the National Lottery's range of Christmas scratch cards the National Lottery it could be you gift responsibly this is the third and final hour of the Ninetill noon show Wellness Wednesday time and we're discussing the question is everyone mad the medicalization of everyday life the keynote lecture at the Allingham festival is taking place in the Abbey Art Centre in Bali Shannon on tomorrow evening Thursday at 8 o'clock it's being delivered by Dr Tony Bates he's a clinical psychologist at Mindful Nation Ireland and as I suggested there the theme of the talk is are we all mad the medicalization of everyday life and I'm delighted to say Dr Bates joins us on Zoom Dr Tony Bates good morning good morning great to be here Tony it's great to speak to you now it's fair to say that over the past 10 years there's been a focus on mental health like we've never seen before and there's been public discussion of mental health like we've never seen before but allied with that there is a perception in some quarters I don't know if this is fair to say but you'll hear it suggested in some places now but sure we all have mental health problems and we all have mental health issues and all too many of us are looking at medication as the answer to them and this is the sort of Tony subject you're going to be addressing tomorrow night Yes yes I think that is a great place to begin we all have mental health we hear that mantra and it sounds comforting in a way but it's also confusing because more often than not it seems to refer to troubling feelings, sadness anxiety, worry and while we say this and of course we do there's an implication that you know but we better watch it because maybe if we feel that way it's a sign that there's something wrong with us that we might have generalized anxiety disorder we might have depression we might have borderline personality disorder people are looking to these labels or explanations as to why they feel that way and I think that's a great shame because I think a lot of what we experience are very ordinary understandable reactions to difficulties we have in our lives and we seldom give ourselves credit that when we feel bad there's probably a very good reason we feel that way we're not weird we're not sick, we're not broken we're just human I think we've become very carried away with these labels and I suppose I'm trying to really question that Is there a potentially dangerous level of self diagnosis in that people saying to themselves oh I must be X or I must be Y because this is how I feel I think there is I think that we can get trapped in a very small story about our lives you know there's something wrong with me I have a thing and I don't know when it's going to erupt and I have to watch it because I could get depressed or anxious or I could start eating badly or wrongly or I could break down in some way because I don't really know what's who I am I have something and I've been told it's okay it's just like diabetes or insulin but actually it's not okay because it sets up a certain relationship with myself which is I think very fearful and so I think ironically we're trying to talk about these things so that everybody feels less embarrassed and there's less stigma but actually the more we medicalise ordinary human problems the more we're inclined to make become frightened of each other the research shows us very clearly that stigma increases the more we think of human emotional struggles in terms of psychiatric diagnosis and following on from that then is there a risk that this amateur self-diagnosis actually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy I think exactly because when I read I mean young people particularly very susceptible to this because they're searching for an identity and they find great comfort in a label and I understand that they find something that seems to fit their experience one young 17 year old came to a local school principal the other day and just said I know what's wrong with me I've got borderline personality disorder and then she's 17 so she starts reading up on borderline personality disorder and terribly she kind of unconsciously shapes our behaviour to fit the diagnosis one anorexic 15 year old said I don't mind having a label because it gives me something to live up to it gives me an identity so people begin to shape behaviour to fit what they have discovered are the criteria of a certain type of problem Is the answer more professional help I mean should people be seeking more professional help so they can be guided rather than left in that morass of self diagnosis or is it a matter of just putting down the book and going for a walk or is that oversimplifying things well I think that one of the things we're doing in this world of ours in this society of ours is that we're all asking questions about our inner lives it is a fact we're all more reflective we're curious and we're talking about these things so I think it would be hard to ask people to stop looking at themselves it's just we've evolved to a point now where we are thinking about our inner lives our parents didn't do this so much previous generations had no time to do that we do so we're asking these questions my problem is when you ask a professional these questions you're very likely to be told to have your experience framed in a particularly medical way and so in some ways I'm very concerned at people who genuinely are confused and feeling distressed and they go to professionals and they hear that they that this this part of them that's very vulnerable and very sensitive and very frightened that that actually is something wrong with them you know they have a thing and I guess to me the answer is that people need to really respect psychological pain in a whole new way they need to recognize that what I'm hurting my hurting is a form of intelligence it's pointing me towards something in my life that needs to be addressed something that isn't resolved maybe in the past or maybe in the present it may be a relationship it may be an affordable rent it may be some grief, it may be some terror there are real things that I need perhaps support to address and maybe I need to feel very safe to do that so in that sense seeing professional can give me a safe place where I can begin to face some of these difficulties but not to be told or asked what is wrong with me ask me what's happened to me don't tell me what's wrong with me one of the issues it seems to me is that we compare ourselves to other people and as a result that's always going to be a hiding to nothing because the people we're comparing ourselves to we are looking at an idealized version of them and then we're looking at what's going on in our own head and they seem to be sold together and we seem to be so lost where the reality is they're probably just as lost as we are and that's been magnified in recent times I know this is becoming something of a cliché but we've got so much social media now in terms of Facebook and in terms of things where we can look at friends on Facebook and get the impression that they're living this absolutely wonderful life and they're sailing through life without a care in the world and we look into our own minds and we see all that's going around in our own heads of course it doesn't strike us for a moment that they're doing exactly the same thing and they're possibly looking at us thinking and they're the ones who are lost Yeah, I mean it's a kind of a crazy thing in this sense we're all mad and it is true, the truth is that all of us are suffering in some way and all of us have our own struggles and sometimes those struggles are very private we feel kind of ashamed but we all have them there is nobody who gets out alive when it comes to this world and suffering is everywhere it's just we can't get you, me, all of us the question is how can I stop comparing myself with some ideal of what I think I should be and begin to trust that who I am is enough it is actually an amazing thing this person that I am in this moment, right now not next year when I get my no, no, right now I have survived to this point I have struggled with all kinds of things and I'm still here and you know, I think we need comparison is a form of self-rejection you know, it's like I'm kind of saying to myself I'm not good enough, well you know what you are good enough and right now it's a very good place to start being you know the I always think that James Bond's song the world is not enough and when Don Black wrote it he sent it out because he needed someone to write a second line and he couldn't come up with it and then he came up with the second line Garbage came up with the second line and so the world is not enough is the first line, the second line is but it's a very good place to start and I think that's also not a bad recipe for mental health work and progress I'm not complete I'm not all the way there yet but this is a very good place to start with who I am right now and stop imagining or stop buying into these illusions that the media and social media are selling or trying to sell you and that does feed into another element of this because maybe we have a tendency to look ahead to well it'll all be different when I get the promotion it'll all be different when I get on holiday it'll all be different when I can get out of work for the weekend and we always seem to be looking to something that's going to make it all better that's in the future and maybe as a result of that we're constantly living awaiting something that's coming rather than actually examining where we are at this particular point in time and what that's doing for us in terms of benefits in terms of our own lives we aren't living in the present future and an idealised future well we're all waiting for Godo you know we're all in that trap and you're quite right I think there has to be a moment in everybody's day when they just say maybe this is as good as it gets maybe that what I am right now is enough just today just now and maybe I need to celebrate what I am today rather than what I imagine I might be in a year's time because today is all I have I don't have tomorrow and I think Donegal of all counties is perhaps more acutely aware of the preciousness of life in this present moment and how easily that can be snatched away so those kind of very painful experiences often serve those of us who survive an important purpose they help us to wake up to the reality that what we are right now is a living miracle I mean we are alive and we are unique they broke the mold when they made you and me I mean there's nobody else going to be like you or me there'll be a lot of other better people a lot of more successful people but there's no one will be able to live the story I'm living and tell that story eventually and only me The musician Warren Zevan cancer some years ago was on the David Letterman show and it was a show where he actually effectively publicly stated I have got a matter of months if not weeks to live and it was a very lengthy interview and it finished with Letterman asking Warren Zevan you know from the place he was knowing that his death was imminent what advice did he have for people and Letterman was awaiting some piece of deep insight and Zevan looked up and he said enjoy every sandwich and that actually became the title of Zevan's greatest hits album that was released after his death but what he effectively he said is look I mean you know there isn't any big huge answer if you want my take on life here's the take right now if you're having a sandwich enjoy it because at this moment in your life that sandwich is your life so enjoy it while you have it because you might not have a sandwich tomorrow that's beautiful you know I'm sitting in my kitchen and I'm looking at a poster on the wall that Tick Nat Hand did for me and I asked him you know the great Zen Buddhist I asked him for something that would just kind of encapsulate mindfulness and life and you know all the wisdom that he had accumulated and he could do this beautiful calligraphy for me which is called and all it says is drink your tea drink your tea and I have it up over the coffee machine beside the cooker and that's it what I have to do is what I'm doing now and really believe in that it's really believing in ourselves and trusting what we are is the key to mental health it's not feeling a certain way or feeling good or feeling bad it's believing in what I feel and trusting that this is kind of a form of intelligence for me this is telling me something about my life listen to it and ask what do I need to do you know that we've got to kind of relate in a much more befriending way with our own experience rather than be finding something wrong with it or picking ourselves for being weak or imagining that we're not doing as well as somebody else that's it's all an illusion in our mind the truth is that we are alive and we are managing to be alive and that and we're breathing that's pretty amazing these issues will be all teased out by yourself tomorrow in the Abbey Arts Centre in Bali Shannan it's the Alingham Lecture part of the Alingham Festival the theme are we all mad the medicalization of everyday life if people want to attend that talk what are the details I have no idea to be honest I think it starts a race I think they contact the organisers which is the Alingham Festival if you look up there's a website and I don't know what the state of seating is and so on but I imagine of course they'd be I'd love to see them there they'd be more than welcome and please come the information we have from the festival organisers this is a free event but people are being asked to book in order to avoid disappointment because this is going to attract hopefully a large audience it's an important issue and I finally do want to bring because the second part of the title is the medicalization of everyday life and before I let you go I do want to ask the question are we becoming too dependent on medication are we too quick to go to a clinical psychologist or a psychiatrist and say I need something to get me over this state that I'm in so that can best be achieved by a drug absolutely and there's no question and you know I mean I've been really looking at the research on the rates of prescription of medication in the UK and America particularly I mean it's written by a factor of a thousand percent thousands of percent seventeen thousand percent over the last two decades the diagnosis of ADHD has written by a factor of seventeen thousand percent so that it's getting more and more and in the states four between four children between four and eleven there are seven percent or nearly eight percent are diagnosed as having ADHD and sixty percent of those are taking Ritalin or some stimulant you know so we are and one percent of children one percent of children that these are under 18 are on anti-psychotic medication in the states and so people are prescribing more and more and the evidence is that whereas medication can work and be very helpful in the short term someone it's long term impact is very dubious very controversial and and yet the reason that the number the number of antidepressants the rate of prescribing antidepressants has doubled in America in the last ten years but the reason is that people are being left on for longer and longer so that you know most of the people on her on her for over ten years and at that point the evidence is very very poor that it's making any difference and and so at that point when it doesn't make such a difference the temptation is always to add something more to increase the dose to throw in another pill so people are ending up on not just one drug but four and five drugs there's an article in the Times about a teenager in the New York Times in August who was on ten different ten different medications and she was in her teens and that's becoming a problem and we're seeing it in Kerry and it's going to become I think uncovered it's a sort of a hidden practice that I think will become more and more public in the coming years but we are generally we're very frightened of our own experience of discomfort and distress we think it means there's something wrong what about learning to to relate to our pain as something that is trying to tell us something about what we need to pay attention to in our life something unresolved that's a different relationship with pain it's not seeing pain as the enemy it's seeing pain as a form of intelligence are drugs and pills being used effectively because the system is so clogged up with waiting lists and people awaiting appointments that professionals in many cases don't have time to tease through issues and give each case the time it deserves and a pill or a drug is the easiest way of putting a bandaid on the situation and then that bandaid becomes the long-term solution by default I think that's a very important aspect to the whole problem because on the one hand I always feel psychiatry is set up it's a kind of being set up by society because we send our problem loved ones along to the psychiatrist and we go ourselves and we kind of expect the psychiatrist to sort it out and I think deep down we don't want to hear that the problems our loved ones are trying to do with our family life or the way we live in community or the pressure we put kids under in school we don't want to hear that we would much prefer to hear that there's something wrong with that child something abnormal in their brain some disease that they have that has nothing to do with anybody else it's their problem and there is thankfully a drug that can treat it the psychiatrist is kind of where there is this expectation on them and also they're terrified particularly with young people that if they send them out with no drug and no prescription that that same child could harm himself or herself and they would be held responsible which they probably would so I think we also have to look at her from it's not that they're all these bad psychiatrists who are giving out drugs it's that we have created a story about our mental health difficulties and everybody is trying to play a part in this story but the story is no longer fit for purpose it's not helping us this biomedical story and we need to get real and we need to say that people things happen to people in their lives their circumstances experiences trauma loss and they they affect us and make us feel very upset and distressed and that that is real and that it's we need to really create a society that acknowledges that's happening and looks at the reasons why it's happening and begins to address those rather than fix what we think is a disease inside somebody's head and that's going to be discussed and explored further during the Alingham lecture that you're delivering tomorrow evening at the Abbey Arts Centre in Bali Shannon for the moment Dr Tony Wates thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning it's been a fascinating conversation and thank you for sharing your expertise thank you so much and we wish you well tomorrow night I'm sure it will be a full house no doubt my mind about that that's Dr Tony Wates there and that discussion as we say taking place tomorrow in the Abbey Arts Centre in Bali Shannon for some really good news actually because it was confirmed last Friday that Bunkrana has won the Donegal section of the Tidy Towns Awards joined by the Chair of Bunkrana Tidy Towns William McKinney, William good morning good morning William for many years now letter Kenny has been number one in Donegal, Bunkrana has been knocking on the door Glentis and Malin obviously a great history and heritage in Tidy Towns as well and the time has actually taken the top spot in the county that's a huge vote of confidence in you and your colleagues before time we were knocking on the door for a number of years and this year the judges at last have given us a healthy 50 points to finally beat letter Kenny I could use another word but I'll stick with beat letter Kenny we were four points behind them going into this competition and I were two ahead six points swing they got nine and we got 16 and we covered all eight categories tough categories to get marks that's all finally tuned and we did extremely well so we're chuffed we're over the moon also the All Ireland Pollinator Award because the pollinator program that's been running in Bunkrana has been very important and it's been spearheaded by yourselves you've got the award you've got the regional large town award as well thank you very much is Bunkrana's here as far as the Supervaluatadi town's competition is concerned yeah very much so we've been in the frame regional award one is since the inception of the competition in 2015 we won it out race in 2019 and 21 and we've changed to that effect all around the shores in terms of the future we know some years ago letter Kenny won the regional award this year it was Trim in County Meath I've no doubt you'll be looking at Trim's figures looking at your own figures and thinking yeah we can catch them yeah we're up a plateau and actually won in the county title so we're looking to the next plateau which would be the north west and west regional awards which Keju and County Rust Common there's seven points ahead of us we're lying seventh in the north west and west and behind the national title holders from County Meath we are 357 there are 366 so there are nine points ahead which is doable over the next you know I know well as you've said you've pulled back six points over letter Kenny in the past couple of years so I mean you know that's an indication that you know point swings are possible now we all know that in Tally Towns nine points can be very very hard to secure particularly when you've reached the level that Pankrana is now at but you do have a very fixed goal I'm sure in your mind and you'll have ideas as to where changes can be made to actually meet that goal we do indeed yeah the key to it all is delegation and that's just what we're doing because we don't have a massive group of people with 15 volunteers which is not great the size of Pankrana which is category E up to seven and a half thousand of a population similar to Westport Westport are one of the number years there in our category we seem to get more help from the council and more help from the people in general better community spurt I think so we need the likes of the spring cleanup where we get 70 people out the likes of teachers like Denise Doge and Amanda out of the school where they have Denise and the playmates on the route now on Saturday mornings we delegate routes for them to go and it goes so much towards their Tashka award so and also we have a very strong wildlife initiative called George Carr who are integrate strongly into our submission for the tidy town competition we school Michigan with their bee boxes and anyone else plus who has done a brilliant submission to the judges and that's just great well congratulations William as you say you've overhauled letter Kenny which it will give Pankrana no end of satisfaction I have no doubt the aim is there for further progress congratulations to yourselves and hopefully the council and the community will see what's happening and get behind you even more and just give that push that Pankrana needs and congratulations to letter Kenny which has also done well as have Donnie Gall Refo Moville and Lenties Gola Island getting the endeavour award and Castle Finn and Dunlowe also recognised and three awards which has taken wealth of the words on many occasions in the past so great to see Donnie Gall on top William McKinney thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning thanks very much that's William McKinney who's the chair of the Pankrana tidy towns competition and delighted to note that Pankrana did take the Donnie Gall County award at the presentation there on Friday it's just gone half-leven going to 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Jeremy Daherty no stranger to the airwaves here has been appointed editor of the Donegal Democrat group and succeeds Chris Ashmore another who is very familiar on the airwaves here who has recently retired and Alan Foley is the new deputy editor of the Donegal Democrat group and will remain on and his role as sports editor. And Alan knows what is on the programme just a few weeks ago speaking about the new book congratulations to one of them particular to Lauren to German because I mean they are big jobs they're big papers and there's a lot happening and they're big shoes to fill indeed as well particularly in the Donegal news. I mean Colombe was there so long such such a fixture in the press world in Donegal and you know fair play to Laura. No better person to take that job on. Yeah the first female editor of the paper has gone 120 years and we wish her well and we wish everybody and their new roles the best luck. And German as well of course a longstanding journalist and reporter with the paper and again German a man who knows his way around a local paper and you know has has worked as deputy editor in the past and no doubt German will prosper in that gig as well. A major jobs announcement with EY. Yeah a consultancy firm EY has announced the creation of 900 jobs on the island of Ireland. 540 positions will be for experienced hires while 350 will be filled by new university graduates. The roles are available across EY's seven offices on the island of Ireland and EY is reporting record revenues on the island of Ireland with 536 million euro for the first financial year to June the 30th and that represents a 26% increase from the same period last year. The company said it saw a strong performance across all four of the service lines of assurance consulting tax and law and strategy. It's an interesting one because in some cases now we're going to get to the point where a firm like EY announces new jobs. They don't necessarily have to be in Dublin. We're getting to a point where in many cases, you know, someone in Donegal can apply for the job and do it locally from from their own home in the Northwest. Yeah remote working as we're going to see a lot more of it and they have seven bases throughout the island of Ireland both in Northern Ireland and the Republic. So I'm sure there'll be a number of people from the Northwest that are probably employed there ready and hopefully more and you know, people I mean, keep an eye on that and it's something, you know, we can always bear in mind now that if there is to be a remote working possibility within those, I have several friends and relatives indeed who are working for ostensibly Dublin based companies. Someone very close to me, their office is technically in Dublin. Their office is in fact on a day-to-day basis, the room in our house. But, you know, that's, you know, the technically they're off their offices in Dublin. But, you know, it's great to see and it's just opening up more and more opportunities to people, which is always good to see. Let's talk about the sinchine in the straw and let's talk about the fact that neither you nor I won the car. I was out last night, I was doing emcee and as most congratulations to Andrew and Kerry Doffey who are based in New York, they won the top prize of a high on the Kona car worth 30,000 euro. So the draw was held at the club social center headed up by Ali Harvey and the winning ticket was bought for Angelo and Kerry by Angelo's mother Elizabeth who lives in Ballamacool here in Arakeni. And Angelo's brother Eugene was there. 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Consider the Level 9 MA in Governance and IT in financial services. Take the next step in your career and contact the exec ed coordinator on 9186206 or email exec ed ex e c e d at atu.ie today. This is Business Matters on Highland video joint in studio as always on Wednesday by Kearno Donald, the presenter of the Business Matters podcast. Time to get to the business end here and tell us about this week's podcast guests. Yes, Donald, on this week's Business Matters, I'll be speaking to letter Kenny, a state agent and owner of the quiet momentary rooms, Brendan McGlynn and I'll also be catching up with Donegal County Council's economic development officer, Stephen Perry. Brendan McGlynn has been a state agent in letter Kenny for 30 years. After working in Kelly's mills, he moved to New Ireland Insurance and four years later he set up his own life brokerage. He opened the quiet momentary rooms and upper main street in 1994 and between his two businesses, he now employs 15 people. During our chat, Brendan recalled his move to New Ireland almost 40 years ago. Again, the same thing happened. Kelly's mills, somebody watched me. Kelly's mills working and they come in and they asked me what I'd be interested in taking a job in New Ireland. And like my attitude was what's New Ireland? Who are they? And the business life insurance company. And I done an interview and on a Friday evening, I went to rugby match along with the late Sean McDade. We went the way to Dublin for the weekend and when I come back, my mum said that mum was there for the insurance company, got the job. And I said, do you know what? I think I'll take it. And I took it. And I never looked back after. Then that was the start of me getting into insurance business. And I remember going out to Josie Collins was the first customer and out and she gave me the biggest kiss ever. She was so delighted they see somebody from letter Kenny starting a new job. And I always remember that. And that's 40 years ago now. And that's Brendan Middlin, a fascinating piece, Ciaran. Well worth listening to the whole podcast to get that full story. And now to Stephen Perry. Yeah, the 2022 by Donnie Gall campaign gets on the way and earnest on Friday next November 11th. I spoke to economic development officer with Donnie Gall County Council, Stephen Perry about the six week initiative that is now and it's third year. And a business and Donnie Gall can take part in this but it's particularly suitable to those that might be beyond the tree of Christmas. So that can be offered at that time of year that those tend to do particularly well. But as I said, it's open to all. And we've been very fortunate to have, you know, the larger brands and businesses, the likes of the Michael Hennies, the likes of the football special who have probably have that international and global reach already coming behind this campaign and work and support the smaller organizations, the individual, creative designers, makers. And that's I think what's been one of the keys to the success of by Donnie Gall over the past two years. So Karen, the podcast is available and how can people access it? Yeah, it's at hiddenvideo.com or wherever they get their podcast on. And if people want to get in touch with yourself. Yeah, just drop an email, please, BusinessMatters at hiddenvideo.com. Karen, thank you very much indeed. That's Karen O'Donnell with the BusinessMatters podcast. It's available on our website, HelenVideo.com, and it can also be heard on Sunday evening after the six o'clock news. Karen, as always, thank you very much indeed. Good morning, all. Thank you. OK, let's move on. A couple of your comments before we go to our final item on the program this morning. That girl from Melton, that's Amy Rose O'Donnell, very passionate in what she believes in and what she said that she and her friends are doing, but they're wasting their time and energy. The cops were unsuccessful. So will Cup 27. Did she ever hear of the seven last plagues? It's all in the good book. The earth will not be destroyed by water again, but by fire. And that's from Mary. Another caller says Amy Rose is fantastic. We need more passionate young people like her. Again, this courageous young lady from Melton is totally right. The world has to move away from oil. Good luck to her going forward. Another caller says ask that girl if she had a baby tomorrow. Would she use disposable nappies because I have young ones and they talk the same way. But when asked about disposable nappies, they can't answer. Another caller says, where is that girl getting her news? I came to Donegal in 1981. They told us that the water would meet between Malin and Koudaf in 50 years, but nearly up to no change. She is looking to be heard. What are we going to do? Go back to the horse and the cart asks a caller. Now we are going to go to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission because we're looking at the closure of Ulster Bank and KBC Bank. And we heard disturbing figures today that one in eight people that's 12.5% have not yet opened new accounts joined by the Deputy Director of Communications at the CPCPC. And that is Muriel Dolan, Muriel of the morning. Good morning, Donald. How are you? Very well indeed. Thank you. Muriel, we're hearing research that over 50% of people have had difficulty opening new accounts and 12.5% simply haven't done it. At this point in the process, given all the publicity, given all the ads, given all the warnings, that's concerning. It is. But if you look at it, we did this research back in July as well. And at that time only 33% had opened a new account. Now that has gone up to 52%. So there is progress being made. And I suppose what we want to just tell your listeners this morning is if you get the process started sooner rather than later, it is much better. We're coming into a very busy period for people with shopping. So they don't want to be left where there's a lot of transactions on their accounts and they can't pay for things or they have no access to money. So it is important this morning for people to start the process if they haven't started it. Is the research telling you why people aren't doing this? Because, I mean, save knocking on people's doors and guiding them to a different bank building. It's hard to see what else can be done. I mean, it seems the ads have never been off the radio or out of the papers now for months. Yeah. And I think 60% have said that they have experienced challenges. But probably the main challenge and I think in around 29, 30% was with direct debits. People found it difficult changing direct debits. Now, we do have guidance on our website, ccpc.ie, we have a switching hub with all the information and with the process that you have to do to go through to switch your account and to decide what account suits you. But also if people need extra help or extra assistance they can go to their current bank or current account provider and they will help them through the process and their new provider will help them as well. So there is support there in terms of the information on our website but also from your existing bank and obviously your new provider. So that will be important for people to look at our website and also contact your bank. We also know that we're in a position where if people haven't chosen a new provider as of yet at the moment we are in an extension period that Ulster Bank certainly we're talking about closing accounts by October. Now they then put a stay on that and the accounts are staying open until November, the end of November which is still just a matter of just over three to four weeks away. What happens in the case of someone that has done nothing by then? What happens if effectively Ulster Bank say that's it, we're closing our accounts and there are people who just haven't chosen yet? What actually happens? Yes, and I suppose in fairness to Ulster Bank they have given everyone at least six months notice that they have been trying to contact people who are going to be in that situation but they have said that they are going to start freezing accounts. So even if that does happen to somebody we would encourage them to contact even at a late date contact Ulster Bank and try and work something out with them but they are and they have said that they are going to start freezing accounts and what that means is that you won't be able to use you won't be able to access your account you won't be able to pay for things on your debit card. So it is really important for people to start a process but if they do find themselves in that situation where their account is frozen they should contact Ulster Bank straight away and hopefully something will be able to be done for them and at least if they could start a process and if Ulster Bank has seen that they've started the process they will more than likely unfreeze the account but it will be on a case-by-case basis. And how long should it take to get this organised? Because there was a time when to switch from one bank to the other was reasonably straight forward it seems that's not the case anymore and there's a lot of bureaucracy to be gone through. I think that the process has always been the same the problem is that there's so many people switching at the same time because two banks are leaving but it probably and it does depend on how busy your account and what I mean by that is if you have an awful lot of direct debits on your account you have a lot of payments coming in it probably will take a little bit longer to get everything together but it is important to start the process and if the bank sees that you have started the process you've opened a new account and it's starting to change over all your payments coming in and payments going out of your account then it's unlikely that they'll probably freeze your account but give it probably two months just if your account is very busy. And as I said, your bank will give you support where you need it there is also the central bank switching code and if you use that, if it's suitable for you to use that it does take some of the administrative burden off of you and back onto your existing bank and your new provider so that is also an option for consumers. And we are coming into a time of the year when traditionally spending can be high particularly in terms of the buying of gifts and so on and so forth so from that point of view maybe the last thing you need is to have a bank account frozen going into December and the Christmas shopping period so it's in people's interests really to try and get their accounts and their finances regularized as quickly as possible because the last thing you're going to want is to find yourself with a frozen bank account and no access to cash in the middle of December. Yeah, and that is very true and that's why we're encouraging people to even start by looking at our website today with a switching hold it goes through all the steps that you have to take to switch your account and also if you just need some extra assistance go back to your bank, talk to them today it might take a little while to get an in-person meeting with them but at least if you ring them and put your name on the list they know you're there and they know you're going to try and start the process of switching. ccpc.ie is your website and people can find all the relevant links and directions there and people then as you're saying as well should be contacting their own bank but the most important message today is if you haven't chosen a new provider do so as quickly as possible and start the process now. Muriel Dolan, Deputy Director of Communications at the CCPC thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning. Thank you very much. It's our pleasure. That's Muriel there. Now a final few comments before we take our leave with regards to Matt Hancock, the former minister and MP going to the jungle for I'm a celebrity just common sense is needed to see through he's an ex-UK health minister his party boss threw him out of the party we'll see if he's invited back like Nadine Doris was six months later. Another caller says in relation to the peace with Dr. Bates what are the statistics on our rates of ADHD in children and our country in comparison to the rest of Europe what are the stats in terms of children diagnosed with ADHD in families with unemployed parents? Another caller says TikTok has convinced me I have ADHD it's hard to know what's true or not when women are usually underdiagnosed for neurodivergency. Another caller says I've much loved six months black cocker spaniel is missing from the Kavanaugh call and Kavanaugh area of Lifford answers to the name of diesel please contact 08-623-86882. And finally I just want to mention this because it's a somewhat worrying and distressing children are offered midterm a mother put a message on Facebook last night just saying please make sure that you don't allow your children go out without adult supervision. My daughter and a group of friends were in town today they were approached by a man who followed them around a shop asking to meet up with them the girls are 11 and 12 luckily they had the cop on to go and report this man please keep an eye out and keep all children close by and that is good advice and always good advice to please ensure that our children are safe that is the nine to nine show for today thank you to Donna Marie and to Caroline for taking your calls Caroline produced as well of course and has always held my hand most importantly thank you to our contributors and thank you to you for listening John Breslin up next around the Northwest but for myself Donald Kavanaugh have a very good day. How's the home bridge end?