 You might as well get the song wrong. And what's your talking over it now? But, sir, John Bresn will play it later. It's over. I've played over the jingle now. It's gone. After you were a music station. What time do you come on air? I don't know. Half six. Do you... What do you call the bead on the end of your toothpaste? I heard you... The wee blob on the end of the toothpaste? And a girdle. Anywhere. Let me ask you a question. Do you leave a tap running when you're brushing your teeth? That's a bad idea, so which do you want to? Do you, though? Tell the truth. Do I do? No, I don't want to switch it on and off because I'm tight. Come on, you don't. No, I do. Do you leave it on? No. No, you don't. It's a horrendous waste of water if you do. But do you know what I used to do, right? When you'd left... I used to leave on the hot water tap, right? But now you're right. You can just put your teeth into the dishwasher. No, you're all right. Just yet I have my own. Thanks. But do you know the... When I was shaving, right, I used to run... When I was using the razor blade, right, I used to run the hot water constantly, you know, with the blade. But now I'm conserving the hot water. Good one. I use a cup. Yes. I put the hot water in a cup and let the blade soak in there. Very good. And just use that wee cupful of water So, you're all over this already. Gretta Thornburg would be very proud of you. Oh, yes. Thank you very much, Lee. Great. Have a good day. See you in the morning. Good luck, mate. All right, that's Lee Gooch away. Back with you, as I say, 6.30 in the morning, Tuesday. Right, let's get a news update. And at 9 o'clock, it's over to Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. Police were attacked in Derry last night as they conducted a search close to the Kalei border with more detail. Here's Tara Duggan. The PSNI, say officers, came under attack when bottles and stones were thrown at them in the McGowan Park area of Derry last night. They were conducting a search operation in the vicinity of Brayhead Road in relation to recent violent dissident Republican terrorism. Shortly before 7 p.m., they came under sporadic attack from a group of approximately 30 young people who'd gathered in the area. Some vehicles were damaged, but no injuries were reported. Police say they liaised with local community representatives who persuaded the crowd to disperse. The operation ended at 7.30, and police then left the area. Tax breaks for renters and landlords are being described as too little, too late. They're among the measures being introduced by government to address the fallout from the lifting of the eviction. Banistations Sherry Fitzgerald say 21,000 landlords have left the market in the past 12 months alone. Managing director Marion Finnegan says emergency measures are needed to stop the exodus of landlords right now and not in the weeks and months ahead. So what we need is a measure that will actually tell the landlords that over a period of time, not just this year, but let's say over a three to five-year period that their tax position will improve significantly. That may stop half of them or a proportion of them leaving the marketplace. And surely retaining what we have in terms of available accommodations is probably the first thing that we need to do. And 8 in 10 Irish workers' belief of four-day working week would become a reality within the next 10 years. However, a new Hayes-Arland survey shows just 3.5% of workplaces have brought it in or trialled it. It found 95% of professionals here think it would be a good idea. Hayes-Arland operations director Maureen Lynch believes more employers would consider it if workers were coming into the office. I says what was interesting when you delve further into the research, when it came to, as you know, we're now working for the most part to a possible hybrid working week, but that's 17% moved to 36% where from an employer's perspective they would consider it if employees would forfeit hybrid and come into the office four days a week. A yellow-weather warning for snow and ice has been issued for a number of counties, including Donegal, Metair and Saywintree showers will lead to icy conditions in some areas tonight and tomorrow morning with a chance of hazardous road conditions and slippery paths. The warning comes into effect tonight at eight. It lasts until 12 noon tomorrow, a similar warning has also been issued for Derry and Tyrone. And today Metair and Tellus will see widespread showers or longer spells of rain, heavy in places with a chance of some spot flooding after a mild start. After noon temperatures will fall back to between four and eight degrees Celsius, some showers becoming wintry in strong and gusty south-west winds veering northerly during the course of today. And that's how in radio news, we're back with news again at 10 o'clock. There's a grand stretch in the evening, Tom says to everyone he meets this time of year, including the fire service who this evening responded to an electrical fire at Tom's house caused by the charger he forgot to unplug after having a grand stretch in his online yoga class this afternoon. Not so grand. Thankfully Tom has a phone watch alarm which responds to break-ins and smoke in just 15 seconds for only 49 euro. Life is unpredictable. Don't be alarmed, be phone watched. Offer ends March 19th, visit phonewatch.ie, monitoring fees apply. The county's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you Four minutes past nine, Monday the 13th of March. If you're nine to five or five days a week, it's a four-day week for the most of you, so it's gonna feel like 10 days. It's always the case, isn't it? But anyway, we'll worry about that as the week where it's on. I hope you had a nice, relaxing weekend. We had a sick toddler in the house, so it feels like a break getting to work. It's good to be here. 08-660-25000. WhatsApps and texts through that number. 08-660-25000. Now give us a call on 07-491-25000. Comments via email to comments at highlandradio.com. You can watch the program, of course. I like to remind you every morning on our Facebook and YouTube channels or on our website, highlandradio.com. And feel free to say hello, have your comments there. Good morning to Michael and Marie already joining us to watch the show. Right, okay. Plenty to come up. A pair between now and 12. So stay right where you are. Lines have closed. Now our voting lines have closed now for our Irish Music Month. Search for a local talent star and loads and loads of you took part and it was really, really tied to yesterday afternoon. I don't know what happened since. But anyway, our external panel of judges will be considering the four finalists over the next day or two and then the winner will be announced on this program on Wednesday and whoever goes forward to represent us, we are in with a shout as they go on to a national competition where loads of independent local stations, effectively not licensed funded stations have come together for this competition and the winner gets played on all the stations as well which is great reaching I think 3.4 million listeners every morning, every day, which is great. Okay, anyway, that's said to come later in the week. Now let's have a look at what's making the pages of the newspapers today. Let's start with Donningall News. And Donningall is among several counties being targeted in a crackdown on illegal TV streaming networks. The clampdown on so-called dodgy boxes is taking place across the country to fight copyright infringement. Counties mail, Limerick Mead, Offley, Dublin, Wexford, Cork, Gildare, Tipperary and Kilkenny also being targeted. A number of legal warnings have been sent to individuals involved in providing illegal access, providing illegal access to premium TV content including the likes of Sky and the Premier League. The main targets are a number of online portals and services which streams access to premium TV and sports content often selling ads around that content. So you'll see the ads on Facebook for IPTV or your fire stick, your loaded fire stick or whatever it might be called. They seem to be targeting here the resellers in this country because an awful lot of the streamers are based outside of Ireland and the UK and elsewhere. What you'll happen is someone locally will buy, I don't know, a thousand lines off them for 40 or 50 quid and then sell them for 80 or 90 and that's how they make their money. So far easier to target the resellers, I think that it might be the sources of these streams. They remain incredibly active but I think if anyone's been advertising their services on Facebook, they're the type of people that are going to be getting a virtual knock on the door. The dairy news this morning, a long-standing Seagate employee and campaigner for trade union rights revealed Unite the union was on the verge of recognition at the company's Springtown plant and elsewhere. Sad news, deep sadness in Derry and the Northwest as news emerged of the death of Mr Patrick Hume, the former head and governor or of governors at St Cecilia's College in the city. Fondly known as Paddy, Mr Hume was the brother of the late John Hume, an MP and noble laureate and former leader of the Social Democrat and Labour Party. Paddy passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning. Mr Hume, formerly of Iona Park in Derry, was pre-deceased by his wife Bridget in February 2022 in Dara. Sympathies to Paul, Brenda, Fiona, Ursula Una and Shauna, his father-in-law of Maria, Tommy, John, David, Ray and Brendan and he's described as a devoted grandfather and also brother of Jim and the late John, Annie, Harry, Sally and Agnes and may he rest in peace. Onto the nationals now this morning and the Irish Independent tells us that the number of learner drivers failing to show up for a book driving test is dropped by over 80% which is good news I think because hopefully then there's more options for people that actually need them. There was a thing whereby people because you could really drive in perpetuity on your provisional license. And I know people that were at this crack as well, close to me if the truth be told and not that close but close enough where they just kept the learner permit going. It's only really in the last couple of years that it was a big, big no-no. So that was cracked down on. So I say that's helped. Revised online tests, booking arrangements have been the number, I've seen the number of no shows at driving test centres nationwide decreased by 83% in less than four years. New statistics which have been released by the Road Safety Authority to former Social Democrats leader Catherine Murphy revealed that while 24,500 learners permit holders failed to show up for a book driving test in 2019, that number fell to just 4,131. Last year RSA officials attributed the vast reduction to revised and enhanced online booking arrangements. But I should suggest or I would suggest that it's nothing to do with that really or maybe it has. I think it's the fact that driving on your learner permit became so frowned upon and guarded, started to actually find people, give them points and put them off the road. But anyway, it could be wrong. The Irish Times this morning tells us that primary schools have been left in the dark about the implementation of a free book scheme to be rolled out in September. And there is a significant risk. Students will be without books at the start of the next academic year. It's been claimed, though. I'm sure they'll come up with a solution. The Minister for Education, Norma Foley announced funding of 47 million in last September's budget to provide free school books and related classroom resources to all 540,000 pupils attending primary schools. Guidelines for the scheme are being finalised. However, concern is mounting that publishing deadlines are being missed as a result of confusion about how the scheme will operate. But as I said, there's people being well paid to sort that out. The Irish Daily Mail tells us that families are turning to their GPs over eviction stress. And there's lots of stories in the papers today about people living in their cars, you know, real stories of homelessness and how it affects people. And the Irish Daily Mail's take on it reads, it follows parents and desperately seeking medication from their doctors to deal with the fear and trauma of being forced out of their homes as the end of the eviction ban looms. The state agents revealed that they have talents begging them to help them find anywhere to live. Minister for Integration, Roderick O'Gorman, admitted that the numbers living in tents this weekend climbed to 82 in bitterly cold temperatures, despite a pledge that tents would not be used to gain. Wayne Stanley, if the homelessness charity, Simon Community said, I'm hearing stories of mothers and families going to the doctor and being prescribed medication to try and deal with the stress. It's devastating. A tsunami of evictions is expected to cross the country in the coming weeks once the eviction ban expires, he said. And the government has said that's gonna happen. And they don't believe that banning people being evicted from their homes would in any way be useful at this time, which I can't understand how that's the case, but that's why I'm not a politician, I suppose. On to the Irish Daily Star today and all the talk at the weekend for people, not only in Britain, but an awful lot of people weighing in with their opinions here was Gary Linnaker. He was polled from presenting match of the day on Saturday night. He's kind of got woke views, people might describe it as, and he's being censored and some would argue that it's normally the other way round, but anyway. And then lots of his colleagues withdrew their services to the DUP, the BBC in solidarity, but apparently they're on the verge of coming up with a solution that will see the situation resolved. The funny thing is, is though, that all the talk has been about what Gary Linnaker said, and that will be resolved and that story will go away. But what he was commenting on, and that is the new immigration rules, which many people see as cruel, they're actually just going to come in and life will continue in that regard. And he will have had to say all the coverage would have been had, but at the end of the day, on the actual issue of the UK's crackdown on immigration in the way they are choosing to do it, that is still going to come in to effect. Gary Linnaker was finally lost for words last night as the BBC was hit by two days of disrupted sports coverage. The match of the day host broke cover for the first time to walk his dog after the show aired without him, but the outspoken star simply said, I can't say anything to questions from reporters when he left his home in South West London. His appearance came as BBC boss Tim Davy reportedly jetted back from the US for crisis talks to defuse the row, which has hit the corporation sport coverage this weekend. Match of the day aired for only 20 minutes without accompanying commentary or analysis from pundits following a boycott in solidarity with Linnaker. Now, ironically, it had an extra 500,000. Now, I hate the waffle before and after a game. I don't watch it like the rugby yesterday. I just switched on as the game started, switched over for halftime. This is the rugby and restarted the second half and watched it that way. The same with GEA and the same with soccer. I'm people waffling in studio. It does nothing for me, so I wouldn't miss it. I wonder are a lot of people like me and maybe that's why an extra half a million were able to just switch the TV on and watch the goals. But anyway, match of the day aired for only 20 minutes are mentioned. Match of the day two and planned coverage of the women's Super League match between Chelsea and Manchester United yesterday ran with reduced formats. The chaos engulfed the Beebe or engulfing the Beebe came after Linnaker slammed the UK government stopped the boats policy and compared language used around immigration to Nazi Germany in the 1930s, which is what he said. And that's all he said. But the way the world has gone now, there are those who are pro-immigration that instantly because they are attack Gary Linnaker and it happens in reverse as well. And what he said, people have gone far beyond that. He is, I saw an article where someone said it's an absolute disgrace Gary Linnaker comparing a government minister with Hitler, which he actually demonstrably did not do at all. He just says a lot of the rhetoric, a lot of the language is similar to language in Germany in the 1930s, which if you see a comparison is basically true. But anyone, it seems, whether you're on the left or the right now, firstly, if you say anything the other side don't like, you're shut down and demonised for it. And then on top of that, you're misquoted. People just say, oh, he said that even when he didn't. And as I say, it's not just in this direction, it seems in all directions, the world's gone absolutely crazy. Well, anyway, he was forced to step back from presenting duties by the broadcaster after refusing to apologise for his comments made on Twitter, but the decision backfired. And half the problem is as well that the boss man, Tim Davy, he helped get Boris Johnson an 800,000 euro loan before he was appointed to that job, Stinks to High Heavens, doesn't it? That's been investigated. Then you've got other personalities, Andrew Neil, amongst them on the BBC's payroll, who is very outspoken politically. Alan Sugar's the same. And there's a few others. So there's a serious... What it looks like is the BBC gave into pressure from government. And all of that was being had in... The conversations we had in the context of that, the BBC is impartial. Now, come on, seriously. No harm to BBC or RTE for that matter, but they're not impartial. I mean, it would be ridiculous to say so. I mean, we know over the last while that that's simply a game demonstrable. You can demonstrate that that is not the case. So the whole basis of the argument was a bit silly to me because they were talking about upholding the BBC's impartiality, but it's not an impartial organisation. Anyway, on to the Irish Sun this morning, children's minister, Roderick O'Gorman says he endures abuse every day online because he is gay. The Green TD revealed his team is forced to remove comments, falsely alleging he is a pedophile and child groomer off his social media accounts on a daily basis. Minister O'Gorman yesterday told RTE such behaviour needed to be called out as it was happening more and more frequently. He said the level of abuse is at a whole new level to when he began his political career in 2004. He said every politician has to be ready for robust criticism. Absolutely. But there is a definite change in dialogue in some parts of the public on these issues. I'm able to take it, but for young people who are online and having to face similar attacks, it's really difficult. And I think it's important we call it out. And there are, you know, people can't disagree as much anymore without going to personal insults. And the next generation is watching that. They're watching mom and dad saying that, you know, if you feel passionately enough about anything, whatever it might be, then you can say whatever you like about the person that you disagree with. That's the way it seems to be now. And again, I'm not pointing fingers in any particular direction, but the young people are watching on, going, well, if the adults are at this crack, I'm going to be at it too. And it's another generation that will be coming through with that mindset. 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For, of course, such a small business, it doesn't have, you know, it hasn't got the big intake of the lexical Michael Haneys and then big stores. Yeah, the margins are much narrower and it's you creating your own revenue. In terms of your electricity usage as well, I mean, what kind of machinery do you use for your repairs and what have you? I do have three machines, but they're not really sore on electric. But I do have the iron, which is on all the time, but it's probably one of the ones that use most taken and the oil burner. That was the only two things that were pretty sore on the electric. Because I used to work from home and my electric was never on the higher because I had a machine online again. Yeah. So I don't really know how you were using to over 700 pound in two months. And then you have to figure out your Sundays and the days that you're not working. You know, so it's not really a full two months. And I mean, there comes a point too, Bernie. I'm not saying you're at that point, but when you get your rates billed, your electricity bill like this here, and you have to put in the average in the line of work that you do. I know my mom and father were involved in the similar trade really effectively. So I know how hard work it is. There comes what we say, well, is it worth it? Well, I'm being rated and particularly the powered, charged out of doing this. Yeah, well, last night, before I come on, I did sit down last night now and I know I'm nearly open eight years and I didn't actually sit down and weigh everything out because I just wanted to go to work. I didn't want to sit in the house and claim anything, you know, just to sit in the house. So I have 11 bills before you earn any wages at all. You know, you're rent, you're insurance, you're rich, you're diesel, you're electric, water, then you're stock, then the property tax, oh, it is the counts man, and then I'm advertising, and then of course you need the phone. So all them needs paid, which doesn't really leave you with all that sort of money altogether. So I would need to earn over 110 a day to make any profit then after that, which is like trousers, hams would be a tenner with me. And that would kind of be the quickest job that you can do. But that still would take 11 pairs a day, they would take nearly five hours' work. So you only have two hours, two and a half hours' work of anything coming in, you know, and then you have, you do have customers come in and they'd like to have a wee chat and you don't be rude, you stand, like I like to chat as well. Yeah, of course, yeah, I get it. So we stand and have the wee conversation. So that builds it into your time as well. So you're lost in there again. Now I don't mind chatting one bit because I'm the biggest chatter, right? But I don't regret it. And also your type of business is such as well, and there's a few other similar businesses, whereby you can't slap a five-run. Do you know what I mean? No. If turning up a pair of trousers is a tenner, you can't then say all of a sudden it's 15 because you could find yourself sitting there with nothing to do. You're kind of a wee bit hamstrung there, I think, if I'm right, Bernie. Yeah, you've had the knee on the head there. I haven't raised my price once in that couple of years ago. It was at your own, I put it up to two years. I don't want to be adding on. I haven't raised the price as way than inflation has last well, and I don't want to do that. Because you know, myself, people are fighting it hard and they don't want to be paying big money to get something repaired. You know, but it does make you sit back and think, is it really worth it? But then I don't like to sit at home, Greg. I like to go to my work. Yeah, but that's what I do. But the thing is, is, Bernie, we can't have a system set up that that's exploited, right, because you have a small business, as you say yourself. It's your earning money, right? Your earning money, you're not reliant on the state and you're paying into the state through all the rates and the taxes and the water and everything else, right? But it's almost impossible for you to run a successful business where you're, you know, even putting a few quid away at the scale because the system is set up in such a way that it takes so much of what you earn that one person, even with all the work in the world, couldn't work to make a very successful business. It sounds like it's very confusing way of describing it, but what I'm trying to say is, the system is set up not to support people like you. You're all far better off sitting at home doing nothing. Now, not for yourself, but financially. That's crazy, that's a bad system. Yeah, financially I would be better off sitting at home 100%. That is why it's so hard to get staff because they are better sitting at home than they are getting paid to go to work. Yeah, but then again, you say you hire someone. If you hire someone and they're paid, let me just say off the top of my head, say they would be getting 50 quid a day. I'll just say that for an easy figure. You know, that's five alterations and then only after that, only after that are you making money, you know, with someone else working with you? I mean, that again, on a small scale business, it makes it very, very difficult for you to sort of, you know, employ that again, that's wrong. That doesn't, because the person that is not going to work for you may well be at home being paid not to work. How does that work? Yeah, that's right. When we're on the edge of the end of the road, by the way, through the third month, and these are always the toughest months in every business. So these months, I'd be lucky if I would get three weeks wages, like four weeks wages. I would be lucky if I get that. Other than the husband's working, I probably would have no money of any kind, if you know what I mean. I'm not going on here to cry. No, listen, I think you're being really honest and speaking for a lot of businesses, Bernie. No one's going to think that you're, that that is, that's the case at all. Now, I mean, obviously the big kick in the teeth is the cost of the electricity. And what makes it even worse is that over the weekend, oil companies reported hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of billions of euro in profits. Wholesale costs are lower now than they were before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And yet here we have a business like yours getting bills through the door, which probably, what are they, three times what they were before? Something like that may be even more. Yeah, oh, definitely so. You know. Yeah, that appears to be only, just for 200 euro for the two months. Well, it's four times it then. Yeah. So the people, you're paying electricity. Yeah, go ahead, sorry, Bernie. No, I know everybody's in the same boat, but it is frustrating. And you're saying, you know, why would anyone move back here? Why would anyone choose to live here? Because, I mean. I don't get that. Yeah. I don't get why they want to come over here and go to work and you just work to, you're just working to pay your bills. That's it. Right, okay. I don't get it. All right, Bernie. So tell us about some of the services you provide to the public. Okay, well, I saw absolutely anything. Up to wendresses, do we Christmander going? All types of alterations, men, the women's children. I do believe, Greg, you're in the shop at one stage yourself. I can't remember what I came in with as well. Are you still in the same? You've probably come to do that. It was Navany Carpark, isn't it? Is it? No, it's up Donegal Road now, just. All right, okay. So you're in the Donegal Road. I went in there. Yeah, you were very good value. And brilliant work. And I think in this day and age, it's so easy maybe to go and buy stuff cheap that you're far better off doing alterations. I was reading last week the amount of really good clothes that are sent out of Ireland and end up in dumps in Africa. You know, we should be using people like yourself to maintain clothes. Let the leg, we used to let trousers down. Does anyone let trousers down anymore? Do you do much of that? Yeah. Okay, that's good. All right, good, good, good. We're not chucking them out, right? So tell us where you're located. So if anyone needs any work done, because there's lots of people out there with alterations and they can support your business, Bernie. So tell us where they can find you. You can find me in the Donegal Road between the Bank of Ireland and Lidl and just up the Donegal Road. That's it. It's a half way there. Excellent. You couldn't must it. That's a purple and orange bolden painted. Well, I know where it is. I just wanted you to, I wanted you to push it. I wanted you to push it for us, Bernie. All right, okay, listen. And I hope people support you and other businesses like yours because we don't want to lose them. And I hope the government gets a bit of sense and realises that it's businesses like yours and others that need to be supported. And it's very frustrating. And it's a kick in the teeth. And then on a Friday, you're heading into the weekend and you wonder, why the hell do I bother my bum? But hopefully it's a new week and you feel a bit better on it, Bernie. And maybe you can get your accounts person to see if you can apply for any of that money refund, the electricity refund, maybe. I don't think I'll get that because my landlord's name is actually on the letter. I guess you're okay, right? I guess you're okay. Well, anyway, what we can do is support businesses like yours. So on the Donegal Road, it's a big purple building. It stands out like her thumb just after she's stuck a needle into it. That's it. All right. That's great. Thanks very much. Keep your thimbles close. All right, take care. Bye-bye. Okay, that's Bernie, Stitchit Bernie there. Her bill has quadrupled and she's located there on the Donegal Road just between that corner we were talking about, Member with the Crossing and the little just up the road. If you want to support that business, local businesses keep things ticking over, don't they? That lady just needs to put the price up 20%. The general public are very aware of the situation and they won't mind paying an extra few euros. She shouldn't be frightened to raise the prices. Yeah, I understand exactly what you're saying, but I just think, and as I say, not that much, but my parents used to do some of that. If you're getting an alteration done, you might be doing it because you say, well, I can alter this rather than buy something new. There does come a point and maybe 20% is not that point whereby people might go, which it's hardly worth it, you know. Michael McCaffrey, the councillor says, Greg, we're all on a slippery slope with ESB. Once everything goes electric, cars heating, et cetera, no chimneys on new houses. It's only going the one way, a slosh fund of electric suppliers down the road, as well as immediately for many. Interesting over the weekend, and you might not hear much about it. The EU has effectively scrapped plans for the banning of the internal combustion engine by 2035. It had been the plan that all petrol and diesel cars across the EU would be gone by 2035 in terms of new cars produced. There are a couple of major car manufacturing countries amongst them, Germany, who have a Vita. When the Germans at the end of last week said, no, can do, we're not doing it. So it looks like the internal combustion engine will be around for quite some time to come. Now, obviously, Ireland possibly could vary it and continue with their plans. We don't really take the lead on too much in this country, do we, either? All right, okay. We're gonna be talking about littering the ongoing problem. Our beautiful county. It is the most stunning county in the world in Ireland. All right, let's not get carried away, but certainly in Ireland. And unfortunately, there are people that don't care that other people have to come and pick it up. They don't care that they're ruining the look of our beautiful place because they're too tight or too lazy and just throw stuff out the window. We're gonna be speaking to a counsellor about that after these. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at HighlandRadio.com. This week's Nine Till Noon show was brought to you by Sid Mary's GA Convoy Club Development Draw. Win 50,000 for 50 euro. Draw takes place 17th of March. Get your ticket now at SidMary'sgadraw.ie. It's Cheltenham Week in the Star. First up, get our free bumper preview magazine to get you in the winning mood. 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Well, basically in bottom line is that we're sick, sore and tired of looking at rubbish on the roadside so that people are thrown out from their cars and their trucks as they're passing by. We have so many brilliant people and so many great volunteers in the county that are out cleaning up after other people who just don't bother. Their own cars and vans and buses are all clean but they don't care when they throw it out the window what the countryside looks like. We've got a brilliant reputation for being a lovely county to visit and yet and all, when we pass each road and we all see it every day, the amount of rubbish that's thrown out of a car windows is just really is disgusting now. I think people are really, really fed up with it and what's going to happen is volunteers are going to get so fed up, they're just going to say, you know what, why are we bothering? Because this is just endless. It's so desperately unfair. And people are trying so hard. This happens all year round. So the truth is, is that our fantastic volunteers that are out the crack of dawn, often we don't see them picking up the rubbish that's discarded, it's probably their neighbours or at least members of their community that they're picking up after. I mean, does the person responsible not care or not think that that's wrong? I mean, how do we get through to people, Nieve? Because as I say, you know, this is a conversation we had last year, the year before this year. We'll have it next year again and the year after that, it's just, how do we get through to people? Yeah, I genuinely, I think the more we can dismiss it and the more we speak up and say, you know what, clean up after yourself and don't be just a dirty person and throwing stuff out the window. You know, the more we, I suppose, give out about it, maybe the better because enough is enough. I mean, like you say, we have people, we have takeaways from, obviously, from at night time, people are throwing it out the window, they're probably not thinking of the mess that they've left behind. You know, there's always spots, there's always target areas. You could nearly tell when somebody's coming from a certain spot in Donegal Town to take away to a certain spot in Funtra. Oh, 100%. They're taking away now. You can see where it is. I can see it on the road so much. Right, but from people I speak to on this program over the years, people who litter, people that might park in a driving bay reserved for the disabled, right? Often, other members of the public will pull them up on it and they're told to eff off. So in other words, what I can conclude from that, I think, is that the people that are doing this, we're not gonna get through to them because if they come on the line now, they'd probably say, need mind your own effing business, Greg, eff off, I'll do whatever I like. You know what I mean? So us condemning it and appealing to people's better judgment is not working because as I say, the experience of listeners is, is that if they challenge someone, someone challenged someone who's chucking nappies out of the car, and they were literally told to eff off. Like, I'm not using a motive language just for the crack. So it's, those people that might only listen, if you're inclined to do that and you don't care and you tell someone to clear off if they challenge you, then they're only gonna understand punishment, being penalized. So how do we do that then effectively? Is it number plates stamped on packaging? Is it more patrols and people being pulled over and fined? Like, what do we do? Well, well, this is it. What do we do? I do know of, you know, areas where a guardie have spotted people and have seen them, have picked up rubbish themselves and was able to trace it back to an individual and they've been fined. And then the fine goes back into the tidy town groups, whatever it is, which is a benefit, but there's maybe not enough of that. There are some local guardie who are very, very conscientious and very good like that. And they'll pull someone up on it and say, here you, you know, there's a cleanup next week, you better go there because I've caught you throwing something out your window. You know, stuff like that, but maybe it's not big enough yet. Maybe it's not strong enough. But certainly, you know, if we are trying to create a nice impression of a nice, pleasant place to live and to work and to visit, then we really, really are going to have to open our eyes and wade in the scope of what it is that we can do. But as I said before, I would like to, I said it when we talked about this the last time and I'll say again, I would love the council to look at this at a different approach. Let's start putting signs of big signs that are very visible in the places that you know you can identify, right? We can move them around. It doesn't matter where we ask people, please don't dump here. Do you know what I mean? So that someone has to think twice before they do it. You know, more innovative radio and newspaper, paper campaigns, whatever it might be. Let's do a month of that and see if it has any impact. I can think of two places instantly where I'd put a sign up. You know, it's a small enough area so that the people that are doing this live up this road. Okay, put a sign up saying, please don't dump your rubbish here because it's the same rubbish it seems every weekend. At least let's try that as well and see, you know, at least we can say we exhausted all of the carrot before we start whipping out the stick again properly. Stick, yeah, yeah. Well, again, certainly we could try it. Although I think people most of the time ignore signs as well. I mean, they ignore disabled signs. They ignore no parking. They ignore double yellow lines. Well, we can't give up though. I know what you're saying. I know I know. But even if it just made people think, because there is the argument that I'm sure people will have when they're listening will be, well, look at people maybe can't afford to pay for the disposable of rubbish. You know, and I understand that. But after this stuff is chucked out of a car so the people can afford a car, you know, there's... They can afford the takeaway. They can afford the takeaway. Do you know what I mean? Like I can understand that maybe occasionally and there's no excuse for it that someone has rubbish building up in the house. They cannot afford to dispose of it and they might take full bags of rubbish somewhere and dump them. It's completely wrong, should never happen. But we're talking about incidental littering where people could take it home and put it in the bin but they just don't care because they've clearly got the resources for the car, the takeaway and to be out at night maybe and it's just that they don't care about their canteen. Yeah, absolutely. Maybe more promotion around times of maybe the rally weekend around times of, you know, where there's a festival or an event coming up that there would be a presence of people there. There would be, you know, make sure you clean up your rubbish. You know, when you go to festivals now and events and stuff like that too, there's always a great emphasis on, you know, bring your litter home or, you know, have bags there or bins there in places that people can actually put their rubbish into. And a lot of young people are really conscientious. Don't get me wrong. And there are a lot of really good people out there and the volunteers are unbelievable. And there's nothing as old as trying as going out on a road as a volunteer and cleaning up an area and looking at them. That's a great job. And just come back a couple of hours later to see them. And then you're going, where are we bothering them? This is just so, so destroying. Yeah, well, here's a group of people that seems like they're a post and their souls destroyed. We had to clean up last weekend in the Kriesler area and we picked up a lot of rubbish heading in the term and direction. We picked up everything. And they say, and fair play to them and we applaud them and they do amazing work. They say, though, could bins along the road help? You see, the problem is, is bins actually attract rubbish. And I know that sounds like a silly thing to say, but it's like bottle banks. You think they are great, don't get me wrong. But next thing you know, you've got all types of rubbish and bottles dumped there when they're full. Now you could say, well, we'll clean them out more often. But bins along the road, the council's not got, maintenance is always the blocker, I think, for our developments in this county. Do you think that would make any difference? The bins, no, definitely not. I've noticed it's actually in slag. Well, they've taken all of the bins away from Molochmore and that. There's not a bin to be found anywhere near the beach or in that village anywhere. And it works and there's nothing. It's perfect. And the council would say that themselves. They would not put bin, say, up at Sleeve League or places like that because, no, it just attracts more rubbish. So we, the community, the tidy towns locally would have lifted all the bins from the shorefront and said, no, because it was household rubbish and camper van rubbish and all sorts being thrown into them. And the seagulls would come along and pulling it out onto the footpaths, which was an absolute mess altogether. So, you know, there's an awful lot of issues there around that and sometimes bins are not the issue unless they're sealed and enclosed. And again, they're very, very expensive. And then they put the small holes in so people don't put in their household waste and then they get jammed and then the rubbish just gets left behind them. I know tourist towns in the middle of the town where the bin is full and there's just everyday rubbish around it, you know? So I don't know. I just think with what we've seen over the winter the problem is still bad and with the tourism season upon us, I just think we need to do something else in terms of signage or awareness or let's make 2023 the year where we try something else because I don't think we have the resources for patrols. The mobile CCTV cameras, I've talked about, I'm not sure if they ever existed and if they did what they achieved. We just need to come at this from a different angle, I think, Neve, or else it's just, you know, making the same mistake over and over again and then we know what that's the definition of. We do. I think next month is the big Donegal cleanup month as well, so that'll be another big campaign from the local authority in relation to that and there'll be a lot of groups out there cleaning up and a lot of people are on the roadside that are cleaning up and like, let me tell you, when you're out there and there's cars flying past you or trucks flying past you, it's not the most pleasant place to be. And you know, you literally are taking a risk by being out there and a lot of people are doing that because they've been very, very conscientious of their environment and about the landscape and how they want things to be and how they see it should be. So, you know, we have to be conscious of those people and children, they're not children, it's children rubbish out on the roadside. They all learn well and good. Exactly, it's learned behavior and they're seeing their parents do it. I just wonder maybe are we still putting as much focus on the green flags and all this kind of stuff in schools? I remember going back, what, 10 years ago, you know, the raising of the flag and all this kind of stuff, are we still focusing on littering in our schools? And not just our primary schools either, but our secondary schools. It'd be interesting, anyone out there that's all involved in the school could let us know. Maybe you know, Neve, but you know, like whatever about the current generations, the next generation, I think we need to double down and get the message across to them. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, the schools are being quite proactive, so they're still out at them and the national schools and indeed the TY students in the secondary schools seem to be really, really proactive there as well. They've got good guidance on that and there is that there. But I think it's that older cohort that's just a little bit, maybe scatty, maybe just not thinking of the environment, maybe they're just not thinking of anything really at the moment, they're just having a good time and not thinking of the consequences. If someone's killed on the roadside by cleaning up someone's litter, it'd be an awful thing to have in your conscience. All right, thanks very much, Councillor Neve Kennedy. Have you seen any solutions out there to the problems? And they are, it's an ongoing problem, 08, 660, 25,000 and a big shout out to the people who are out doing the cleanups in every part of our beautiful region. They're out very early in the morning often or at the weekends out picking stuff up. The council supports them with bags and pickers, I think, and they collect the rubbish and stuff, but you know, we need to come up with some sort of a solution to stop the littering of our county and our region. 08, 660, 25,000, what's the solution? Mary's been on to us and she's raised the other issue which comes up regularly and rightly so. Councillor Kennedy's so right, it's disgusting and I find also that dog-fowling is a menace. It's just pure laziness and pure raring, I believe Mary. Get real great, people who don't rubbish of no regard for signs, the only language that understands they have defined with their name published in the local press, the council is guilty of being very lethargic in this regard. Look at the roundabout in Lifford. It's littered with an authorised sign with council staff passed by every working day. Nothing appears to be done about it. I understand why you're bringing that in. I suppose it's a... We've talked about that as well on this programme quite regularly. All takeaways should stamp their takeaways back and when you get one stamp, with the time you got it, thus catching them on takeaway CCTV. Now, that sounds like a GDPR minefield, but it might change attitudes, you see. It's not necessarily that everyone that dumped would get caught, but it's the fear of getting caught, because at the moment you can do it and you know you're not going to get caught. What's the protocol if someone is mowing the lawn and they dump their clippings over the hedge or over the road, is that allowed? Anyone out there know? Is that treated the same as, you know, plastic waste? Or can they be dumped on the side of the road or over the hedge? That's lawn clippings. Let us know. Wait, 60, 25,000. Good morning, Greg. So it was okay when it was all on the right. Nothing was said, but now the woke lefty Gary Linnaker gets what he deserves. I know I can understand exactly where you're coming from with that, but the reality is that these pylons and censoring of people, it absolutely achieves very, very little. You can probably think of what's the quickest example, Matt LaTissier, perhaps? When he was let go from his position, there was not the big overall then. But as I say, I'm not interested in personally myself getting involved in stone throwing from the left or the right, let's just say, but, you know, people need to be able to have a polite conversation. If Gary Linnaker's comments were in favour of the government proposal on immigration, would the BBC have censured him? No, of course they wouldn't have. They want to say that, like RTE, the national broadcaster is ruled by the politicians. Let me see. There is another caller about to join us, but we have to take this quick break. Until these changes take effect in the coming weeks, claims can continue to be made under the current scheme. If your business has been impacted by significant gas or electricity price increases and you haven't already registered with Revenue.ie, now is the time to do so. Brought to you by the Government of Ireland. If you need advice on what's best for coughs or colds, or what's best for sore throats or flu, just ask at your local Brennan's Pharmacy. 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We're going to head and don't be listening to the fear pouring on the weather. The forecasts are pretty good for the end of the week. So get out and support the months and months and months of preparation that's gone in for an awful lot of these community events, St Patrick's Day parades and what have you. OK. Councillor Michael McBride says that Letter Kenny Milford Municipal District should hold a workshop to identify a site for the proposed transport hub in Letter Kenny as a matter of urgency. It's remarkable, isn't it really Michael that still now, especially with what appears to be plenty of space around the town for a transport hub, that people are all having to gather in one kind of congested spot with little shelter and little facilities. It doesn't make a great deal of sense in 2023, Michael. Good morning, Greg. No, I agree with you 100%. I think, you know, if we look at the transport situation there in Letter Kenny at the moment, we have our bus year in station and then we have another area, you know, where private buses are pulling them, then we have our taxi ranks around the town. Now, going back to the last you know, the last county council elections, I had been lobbying, you know, for a transport hub and we've discussed it, you know, manage time and council making sense of that and all the local councillors strongly agree, you know, that a hub would be a great benefit to Letter Kenny and I think the site must be convenient to the town centre, you know, and ideally accommodating, you know, the public buses, bus year and local links and taxes and I would like to see it tie in with a new bus service for the town, you know, where we would have three buses travel into different areas in the town on a regular schedule timetable and I think this would help people, you know, to get into the town centre for appointments, for shopping even if they've gone out to visit somebody in another area town that could go into the transport hub and take another bus then to get back out to another side of town. So I think there's a lot of positives and a lot of pluses on that but I just believe at the time has come now that we need to identify a site and we've been talking about it for a while but you know, I think it's very important that we get this right because it will be a great benefit and I know I've spoken to Councillor Kieran Brogan about this before and I'm sure others that just don't come to mind at the moment use of the guys that were elected use of calling for it what's the holdup, why are these plans not being moved forward are they being sort of tied into let's wait and see what we're going to do with this big 2040 plan for Leicester Kenny and it has to be in the right spot for how the town's going to develop in future years, I suspect that's kind of a problem because the decision has not been made yet as to how Leicester Kenny is going to develop and if you don't know how that's going to be done, how do you know where to put the transport hub? Well I think we've been discussing the town bus the new town bus service for quite a while we'd be probably at a reasonably advanced stage on that and I think that's all going to tie into the overall plan that I'm talking about so I don't think you could hold us back Greg to be honest with you I think you know we need a plan for the future and I think you know all these towns around Ireland where they have decent transport hubs and around close to the centre of the town they seem to work really really well and I know this one will be a transport hub with massive benefit to the whole town Let's talk about this transport that you're talking of are we talking which would make sense to me if we were talking about a bus that's going to be a bus that's going to be going right hop on hop off service that would be regular because it would have to be regular you'd have to say you'd have to feel that right a bus is going to be coming along in under 10 minutes for example is that what you envisage and how do you prevent three buses not being stuck on the main street I'm not being negative but I'm not saying we should go outside because the traffic is stuck in the town Well Greg as a bus what we target to do with this is to reduce traffic coming into town and look at the legislation for a traffic jam that may happen from time to time I'm sure there are the same problems and doubling and you know different places where they're trying to provide traffic there it would come to mind as well you know there are buses on and out But, you know, we have to make an effort to try and reduce the number of yards coming into the middle of the town to try and alleviate the traffic, and I think this is the smart way. Okay. This is the sensible way to go about it. Greg, I believe. All right. Good to speak to you, Annie. Advances in terms of transport is going to be welcomed, aren't they? Right. Back after the news and a bit of renaissance. This week's Nine Till Noon Show was brought to you by Sid Mary's GA Convoy Club Development Draw. Win 50,000 for 50 Euro. Draw takes place 17th of March. Get your ticket now at SidMary's GA Draw.ie. The Clanry Hotel Letter Kenny present call. Ireland's newest folk band with a passion for a vibe and traditional music live on Saturday the 18th of March. Tickets priced at 25 Euro are available from reception or pay at the door, and from Friday the 24th to Sunday the 26th of March, Clanry goes country with the Clanry Country Weekend. Overnight packages available call the Clanry Hotel on 9-1-2-4-369. Keep your car or van running smoothly with the service at Hegarty's Ford in Letter Kenny. 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So I would need to earn over 110 euro a day to make any profit then after that. Trouser's Hems would be a tenner with me, and that would be the quickest job that you can do. But that still would take 11 pairs a day, that would take nearly five hours work. So you only have two hours of anything coming on. Police were attacked in Derry last night while they conducted a search close to the Calais border. Tara Duggan has more. The PSNI say officers came under attack when bottles and stones were thrown at them in the McGowan Park area of Derry last night. They were conducting a search operation in the vicinity of Brayhead Road in relation to recent violent dissident republican terrorism. Shortly before 7pm they came under sporadic attack from a group of approximately 30 young people who had gathered in the area. Some vehicles were damaged but no injuries were reported. Police say they liaised with local community representatives who persuaded the crowd to disperse. The operation ended at 7.30pm and police then left the area. Tax breaks for renters and landlords are being described as too little, too late. They are among the measures being introduced by the government to address the fallout from the lifting of the eviction ban. Estate agent Sherry Fitzgerald says 21,000 landlords have left the market in the last 12 months alone. Managing director Marie Finnegan says emergency services are needed to stop the exodus of landlords right now, not in the weeks and months ahead. So what we need is a measure that will actually tell the landlords that over a period of time not just this year but let's say over a three to five year period so that their tax position will improve significantly, that may stop half of them or a proportion of them leaving the marketplace and surely retaining what we have in terms of available accommodations is probably the first thing that we need to do. Dog owners are being urged to ensure their animals are under control after another sheep kill at the weekend, this time in Guidore. Guardi confirmed at the weekend that two lambs in Yoh were killed in Derrybeg. Councillor Michael McClafferty says the attacks like these impact badly on farmers. I think a certain society, people don't actually appreciate either the amount of work and time, the farmers and effort to put into this all year round, building up to this time of year till the spring time to get the sheep lambing. The sheep and the lamb are very important, the more than the cow and the calf. The price of stuff at the minute, the price of the feed and the cost of general running farms, nobody can handle at the end when something like this comes along and the construction of your product has put no pressure on the buses and certainly put no pressure on the ladies. Eight in ten Irish workers think a four-day working week will become reality within the next ten years. However, a new Hayes Ireland survey shows just 3.5% of workplaces have brought it and are trialled it. It's found 95% of professionals think here it would be a good idea. Hayes Ireland operations director Maureen Lynch says more employers would consider it if workers come into the office. I says what was interesting when you delve further into the research, when it came to, as you know, we're now working for the most part where possible, a hybrid working week, but that's 17% moved to 36% where from an employer's perspective, they would consider it if employees would forfeit hybrid and come into the office four days a week. A yellow weather warning for snow and ice has been issued for a number of counties, including Donnie Gall, Matt Aaron say wintery showers will lead to icy conditions in some areas tonight and tomorrow morning with a chance of hazardous road conditions and slippery paths. The warning comes into effect at eight o'clock tonight and lasts until 12 noon tomorrow. A similar warning has also been issued for Derry and Roan. And now to weather, widespread showers or longer spells of rain today, heavy in places with a chance of some spot flooding. After a mild start, afternoon temperatures falling back between four and eight degrees, with some heavy showers becoming wintery. Strong and gusty southwest winds veering northerly during the course of the day. That's it for now. We'll be back again with the news headlines at 11 o'clock. The opportunity for this Monday morning, the 13th of March. The death has taken place of Patrick Paddy Hume, six Iona Park, Derry. Paddy's wake will commence at his home this afternoon at one o'clock funeral from there on Wednesday morning at half past nine for 10 o'clock. Requiem Mass in St. Columbus Church, Longtower, followed by interment in the city cemetery. Family time, please, from 9 p.m. to 11 a.m. The mass can be viewed live via the church webcam. Family fires only pleased in nations in lieu of desired to deeds care of the old library trust, Craig and the death has taken place of Eamon McLaughlin, two foster terrorists, Moville. His remains are opposing at his home funeral mass on Wednesday morning at 11 in St Piles, the 10th Church, Moville, followed by cremation in Lakeland's crematorium cavern at quarter past five. Eamon's funeral mass can be viewed live on Moville Parish dot com. Family time, please, from 9 p.m. to 11 a.m. and on the morning of the funeral. Family fires only pleased to nations if desired to the Donegal Hospice care of any family member. The death has occurred of Edward Eddie Galleher, Balibon Castle Finn, reposing at Lynch's funeral home from one o'clock this afternoon with removal at quarter past four to St. Mary's Church Castle Finn via Balibon to repose overnight, arriving at approximately five o'clock. Requiem Mass will be celebrated tomorrow morning at 11 in term and afterwards in St. Mary's Cemetery, Castle Finn. The death has occurred of Eric Byrne Roxborough Kilcar. Funeral arrangements will be confirmed later. The death has occurred of Kathleen Banigan, Naby O'Cannon, 39 Woodlawn Strunaller. Kathleen is reposing at her late residence. Funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past 10 for Requiem Mass in the Church of Mary Immaculate Strunaller at 11 o'clock in term and afterwards in Drumbo Cemetery. Requiem Mass will be streamed live via the parish webcam. Donations in Louis-Flores of Desire to Mary's Meals care of any family member. Family time please from 11 o'clock tonight and before the funeral tomorrow. The death has taken place of Ida Sweeney, Green Hill letter Kenny. Her remains are opposing at her home. Funeral Mass tomorrow morning at 11 in the Church of the Irish martyrs letter Kenny with burial afterwards in New Lek Cemetery. Funeral Mass can be viewed on the Church of the Irish martyrs YouTube channel. The death has taken place of Charles Joseph Mungan, 47 College Park letter Kenny, Requiem Mass in St. Union's Cathedral letter Kenny this morning at 11 followed by burial in New Lek Cemetery. Funeral Mass can be viewed on ChurchServices.tv The death has occurred of Column Columba McDwyer, Cara Court Cara Conchanan, formerly of Kilrain, Dlenties, Donegal. Column will repose this evening from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock at the Heritage Centre Chapel of Rest Church Lane Cara Conchanan. Removal to St. Mary's Church tomorrow morning for Funeral Mass at 12 noon followed by burial in St. Mary's Cemetery. The Funeral Mass will be streamed live on ChurchTV.ie The death has occurred of Mary Assum to Gallagher, Arnand's Burton Porte. Funeral Mass tomorrow morning at 11 in St. Columbus Church Acres with interment afterwards in Belchurch Cemetery. Family Fires Only Pleased, Nations in Louis of Desire to Cancer Care West, Care of Annie Family Member or Sean Midlin, Funeral Director. The death has taken place of Patrick Paddy Ward, 32 Lisbonny Road, Donna Manna. Remains reposing at his home. Funeral from there today at 20 past 10 for Requiem Mass in St. Mary's Church, a Hebrac at 11 o'clock, interment afterwards in the Adjoining Cemetery. Family Time Pleased, from 10 p.m. to 11 a.m. Requiem Mass can be viewed live via the parish YouTube channel. And the death has occurred of Paddy McGill, Meena Halla, Glentys. Removal from his residence this morning at 22.11, going to St. Connell's Church Glentys for Requiem Mass at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the local cemetery. Family Fires Only Pleased, for more details including Annie Family Health guidelines for wakes and funerals, please go to highlandradio.com. A very good one. There you are at your local shop. 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By the way, you can WhatsApp or text or wait 60, 60, 25,000 and we can pick them up in the morning. The same with emails, comments at HighlandRadio.com. We have it's great to have our sponsors on board this week. They are St Mary's G a convoy. They're having a development draw and it's 50 K for 50 euro. The draws taking place on Friday. We have two tickets for that to give away. So stay tuned for that. I'll tell you how in a moment. I just want to get through some of your comments here. Athlone has 11 new electric buses count them 11 with just 1000 more in the population. It's ridiculous letter Kenny is no public bus service whatsoever. So I go also has quite a good bus town service. It would make it so much more convenient if I were a business, I'd be screaming it from the rafters at the thought of being able to jump on a central location, jump off, get back on another bus, get back to where you're starting. You know, I think it would revolutionize the town if it was done correctly. My only concern would be the movement of the buses. If not enough people switch over, you know what I mean? That you could find the buses stuck in traffic again. I don't want to be negative, but those are problems that need to be addressed beforehand. The people who discard their empty energy drink cans and sandwich wrappers are in the ungraged bracket in my opinion. They can't blame lack of education and awareness regarding the issue of littering. It suggested that older folk are more likely to litter. I don't subscribe to that. I don't subscribe to targeting any particular group of individuals in that regard, to be honest with you. Speaking of which, maybe you've been tracking the Gary Linnaker story. He says that he and the BBC have reached an agreement that will see him return to match of the day on Saturday, so I'm sure there'll be plenty of coverage of that on UK TV channels, British channels. But anyway, that situation, it seems, has been resolved. Back to your comments, though. On the topic of dogs, owners do not tie their dogs up. They're left to roam. There's nothing done about it. Another good morning. Greg, I live 15 miles from letter Kenny and all I see is takeaway boxes from within the town. It's a disgrace. It is a disgrace. Greg on Friday happened to be parked in Creasler and noticed a few students get off the school bus walking past where the explosion was. The footpath is extremely narrow. This is a main route with a lot of heavy vehicles passing. Could a better footpath space not be made there? It looked to me like an accident waiting to happen. Any other parents in that area concerned about that? Let's get back to the cost of running a business. I agree with Bernie. In most jobs these days, you'd be better off at home. It's the sad reality. Business owners and working parents alike. It's an awful attitude to take, but why would we encourage our children to go to college to end up working to pay bills and barely make enough to make ends meet? As a working parent, you lose out on so much like back to school allowance, school transport, medical card. During holiday times, children of parents who don't work get free holiday camps. Working parents who need childcare have to pay. It's a ridiculous system, they think. It's not about working versus nonworking. Massive respect to all I'm highlighting our very broken system. I think you've been fair in your comments there and didn't come across as anti anything. I know it's disappointing for the volunteers to see more rubbish the next day, but I suppose the only solution is for each area community to draw up a rotor for a regular cleanup. Sure, the government have no money for that. Why don't the Greens focus on this kind of pollution control? But sure, then there might not be enough profit for favoured groups, companies. Well, they will say to you, look, we're bringing in there. We are getting rid of one off plastic. We are bringing in a deposit scheme for plastic bottles. This is what we're doing, you know, but the truth is we on the ground know that it's us that ends up having to clean up the mess. The government policies have little or no impact. Littering says this caller is a bit like the full lane project. Soon as there are a few prosecution's highlighted, everyone's behaviour changes. That's what we need in littering. A few more fines and there would be less of an issue. You know what? You make a point that cannot be argued with. The speed limit for the full lanes seemed to be 70 or 80. That's what drivers were driving at. There was one weekend where tickets were handed out, and now all of a sudden it's 50, 60. So, you know, I can see because I use that road regularly, what you're saying is true. The prosecutions are not prosecutions as such, but the fines have completely changed the behaviour of traffic on that project. You'd be interested to see if any of the workers have noticed that. And we have very few prosecutions for littering. And you know, this name and shame crack of people appearing because they're in court appearing in places. I'm not a fan of that anyway, to be honest with you. We're living a small community. People make mistakes. You know, obviously there are some crimes that can't be ignored, but embarrassing people who have been done for speeding or littering. I'm not a fan of that. I'm just not going to lie to you, because it will come to all of our doors eventually, down that route, okay? But I think certainly big fines are the job. The name and shame side of things, it's not for me, I'm afraid. How many prosecutions have the litter wardens in Donegal had that were figures recently? It wasn't fantastic. It might have been a little more than I was expecting. But anyway, I'll try and check those stats for you. Maybe one of the local authority members are listening. Maybe there's a councillor listening that would do us a favour, so that I make sure I'm quoting proper figures and let us know what the rate of prosecution has been for littering in Donegal as of late. If any of you are listening, I'd really appreciate it rather than me trying it. When I do try and dig it up, it could be out of date figures. What about bringing the Donegal International rally on board in a campaign to keep the county clean? I'm sure they wouldn't be found wanting if they were approached for some sort of an innovative campaign or scheme, which is what I think we need to do. A caller says, Fanad must rank as the most scenic area of Donegal, but sadly, probably the most littered. It seems people there view their car windows as personal rubbish disposal units. Furthermore, there's not one council bin between Kerrykeal and Fanad Head. Time local elected officials got their acts together. We had a super spring cleaning rythmal and on all the approach roads, beaches, streets and peer area on Saturday, well done to all of you. A huge thank you to all who assisted, and unfortunately, it's sad to note, we had a full trailer load of rubbish picked up. We can totally agree with the sentiments of Councillor Knew of Kennedy in relation to bins near the seafront and around the car park area, abused very much on a daily basis by mindless littering and birds causing havoc early in the mornings. Hopefully, the levy on takeaway cups etc will have an impact in months to come. Dogfiling is a huge issue on a daily basis. While we love our furry friends, just take your poo bags home. Please, that comes in from Hazel. Thanks, Hazel. Well done to everyone around Mathemol and beautiful area. I think I might know the Hazel in question, who's a tireless worker for that area. We appreciate all that all of you do for the wider community. Last one, just before we take the bingo numbers. Hi Greg, in relation to rubbish, they need to make bins compulsory in our area. When the bin lorry calls, there are very few houses with bins. If those people who are throwing at rubbish had a bin at home, I think they would put their stuff in the bin when they come home. Yeah, I think most people that don't have a bin are burning it. I said it quickly, so it didn't sound controversial. I'm not sure the people without bins are dumping, and I think it's being burnt. You know, that would be my suspicion. So I mean, that's not allowed either, is it? So that's not a good thing, but I don't necessarily think that the dumping that we're talking of is coming from people not having a bin. I think their rubbish is probably being incinerated. Right, let's take... I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you a reminder of this competition we've got running on the show this week. It's in association with our sponsors. 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Get your ticket now at SidMerry's ga draw.ie. Okay you're welcome back to the 9-Till Noon Show. Scrap on Davies on our Facebook saying I take anything metal for free Greg trying to keep the count to tidy. Good man Davy. Do you take old exercise bikes and do you take asking for a friend? Do you take old treadmills Davy? Message me. Okay thanks very much. We're joined in studio now by Davy Bell, youth worker with the Donegal Youth Service. Good morning. Morning Greg. Good to have you with us. Thank you. And the Donegal Youth Service is it's not just sitting there idly doing nothing. You just have an awful lot of engagement with our young people don't you? We're doing great. We're getting very busy there. I'm a youth worker on the Elevate 55 project so the listeners will probably be wondering what is Elevate 55. So Elevate 55 is the project that was formerly known as the loft which I'm sure a lot of listeners out there would be aware of based on the Port Road. So Elevate 55 as a project now we are going to be focusing our efforts on the north central region of Donegal which is from letter Kenny as far up as Fannethead taking in the area that the schools in Milford would be covering. And for your dropping events you have huge turnouts. We do Greg. We're getting very busy. They're just on Friday night past. I was working on dropping and we had 89 young people dropping into the building there between the hours of five and nine. A lot of them staying for the fall duration making access to the pool and the table tennis and our games consoles and they just sit around mixing really. Yeah. They come in. They've got access to the free tea and coffee. We've got our music room space there which we'll touch on a wee bit later on about our event this Friday. So I mean every town should have that because you know like I know I don't want to mention any specific towns. But if you don't booze there's nothing to do. You know if there's not a bowling alley letter Kenny's got a lot of stuff right but there's a lot of towns don't have anything to do from when you're eight the playground till 18 the pub. Now we're going to talk about drinking. Not everyone wants to drink either. In fact most young people don't drink. Not a lot of people realize that. But there's like a 10 years there where there's nothing for there's nothing for young people do. You know and then we talk about the the the big projects like skateboarding parks and all that kind of stuff. But just a space where young ones can call in its dry and have the crack. Do we need more of these maybe there are more of Elevate 55's than I'm aware of around the county are there. I mean is there one in Killy bags is the one in Donagall town is the one in Dunlow is the one in ballot. I'm not asking you to answer the question. But you know what I mean like it's a fantastic facility sounds like it. There should be one for everyone. I totally agree Greg. I mean myself. I came through I live in rural Donagall and I would have had my local youth club on a Friday night which again like the young people that are coming into us now but somewhere for me to go socialize with my friends on a weekly basis and I think it's something very important that we get more off. We get greater funding and greater support to to have this open or drabons open two nights a week. It could be open longer for sure because you know the young people get an awful lot of abuse not on this program because we like to be constructive and proactive and we speak to young people you know we don't speak about them we bring them in and we talk about what they're doing and what projects they're on and what they want to see and what they think can be done better. You know this country needs to speak to young people more than at them but they get criticism because they're hanging around here or we even had situations where noises were being put out to stop them accumulate and you know people saying oh there's a group of lads walking down the street and it felt intimidated. There's nothing to do in most of the county these young people have nothing to do except either sit in the house or if they go outside so I think the likes of l of 855 is fantastic and as I say there should be access a number of nights a week or evenings a week all over the place because you're seeing the success of 89 is a brilliant turn out and they're all having crack you know playing FIFA or playing pool or whatever they're doing playing which their favourite song they've heard lately or whatever introducing them to the new act. Yeah it's a great facility we would have a lot of young people from the the IPA standard in town coming in and making use of it and I think them themselves would say it's been a great asset for them to to integrate into Lerner County and to get to know more more young people and more people in the area. Yeah and even you know young people you work with them they're great aren't they we've got amazing young people and the majority of them don't do drugs the majority of them don't drink some do we need to offer help and services and alternatives for them but the majority are they're good young people the future is bright like you see that I'm sure it is yeah it is great young people that are our future and as as a society we need to focus on our young people and give them the best opportunities possible to become the best people that they can be. Right what's happening next St Patrick's Day then this Friday? So we're we're open this St Patrick's Day for our non-alcoholic event that's something that the organizations run for numerous years and it's been a great success so we're open 2d6 in our centre on the 1618 Port Road Lerner County and the the big thing is we've got a live gig with bands from that have come through the centre so we've got a band that's merry gold and we've got our newest band Air Bears who are a group of young three young boys who didn't know each other this time last year they came in they were dropping they got to know each other they attended our rock school event and realized that they had a keen interest in the same types of music and have formed the band How exciting for them to to be able to gig on St Patrick's Day? Yeah they're not just that they're both bands they're both bands are in they're in this evening they're going to be on Wednesday night making use of our practice space the music room there in the centre and they're really excited they're really looking forward to it and we're really looking forward to seeing what they put on. No booze no drugs obviously that's the whole premise of that. That's the whole premise ourselves is like everybody else are well aware of the stigma around St Patrick's Day and the the stigma around alcohol so we're offering this event to young people countywide not just Lerner Kenny it's open to anybody to come in and if it's anything like our previous years I'm sure we'll be up there in numbers again. So just so I'm clear is the loft now called Elevate 55 or is Elevate 55 an initiative within the loft just because I'll be referencing weeks to come when you're not here. So Elevate 55 is now the project name that's the project that covers the whole North Sandal region. Understood. The loft is still our drop-in space in Lerner Kenny we were very very keen to keep the name of the loft. So the loft is the loft Elevate 55 is the umbrella name for the stuff that you do the young people. So as you can see in my jacket Greg our logo is Elevate 55 and underneath it we've got powered by the loft. I needed that I needed it. All right. Okay, brilliant. So say for instance there's there's parents guardians listening and you know they're saying listen I was listening on the 9 till noon show this morning and Parker was on talking about Elevate 55 in the loft right. How do you encourage them to get along or how could you just turn up not just for this event but generally speaking to like so can I I'm a young person you know I want to make new friends I want to be in a different environment don't want to be around drink or alcohol alcohol or drugs do I just turn up to have to register to have to speak to you first how does it all work so our centre Monday to Monday to Thursday we're open 12 to 6 on Friday we're open tonight o'clock and on Saturday we're open 2 to 6. Any young person can just come in off the street between the ages of 12 and 18 make themselves aware to any staff member it doesn't even have to be an Elevate 55 staff member and they can make use of the drop-on centre we do have our closed groups which they can get a consent for and fallen for and they can attend for info when you're there yeah okay brilliant anything else you want to mention pork no hopefully it's a good day on on Friday with a roof it doesn't matter yeah and we've we've a prime viewing spot from or the third floor of the building for the parade as well sounds like it's going to be a fantastic event it's an alcohol free st patrick's day celebration it's in letter kenny but it's for all of the young people from right around the county if you want one to come in it's organised by it's it's the Elevate 55 event it's in the loft drop-in centre it starts at 2 runs to 6 two live bands as well that kind of were formed as a result of the young ones landing into the loft yeah all right okay look forward to it and so yeah we're looking forward and hopefully it's another great event for everybody that attends and inclusivity too is an important yes is an important part of and do you have a very diverse group of young people that come to the loft we do we have we've we've young people from all around the world attending boys girls how do they get on with each other they get on relatively well teenagers themselves can have their their their followers but they get on really well i mean they don't fall out over them being different no yeah no and the reason i ask you that is everyone's debating at the moment about you know what we should or shouldn't do the young people are just getting on with it they're living their lives they're you know they're not judging each other based on their pronouns or their colour of their skin or their sexual orientation they just all meet up in the loft and play pool listen to music yeah the the loft if you want to be treated equal in the world the loft is the prime the prime place to come every young person is treated to see him no matter and treats each other yeah not from the young people i'm around it's not the stuff that's been debated at the moment they're living it they don't they don't care they just want to be around people their own age and for them to be nice to them and and them to be nice to them if that makes sense to each other all right listen uh park looking forward to it i'm sure many are out there i'm not because i'm too old just but it is the alcohol free st patrick's day celebration 17th of march 2023 of course it's at the loft it runs from 2 to 6 p.m loads of entertainment of course with the two bands and then all the usual stuff and facilities that are always in the loft and if you want any more information about maybe pointing a young person in your life in the direction of the loft maybe it's good for them to expand their friends group or meet different friends or or what have you um who can they contact just have a quick chat about they can uh give us a ring call the office on 0749129 630 and they'll be directed to a man brother they'll fit 55 team all right fair play to park thanks for calling up thanks very much have a lovely day st patrick's day back with more soon watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com laptop check spanner check screwdriver check a career built around me check bring your best self to work every day with exciting heavy vehicle mechanic apprenticeship opportunities with bus airing and Dublin bus we are leading the way in sustainable public transport moving from fossil fuel to zero emissions join our team and help keep Ireland on the road to greener journeys enjoy a career that's built around you to apply visit careers dot bus airing dot ie today keep out the cold cold cold and ring flaming for their full range of garage doors agri doors insulated doors milking parlor doors flaming 91 48 234 a public interest 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of spot flooding after a mild start colder air will move in during the late morning and afternoon and some of the showers will turn wintry later in the day temperatures are four to eight degrees but you could wait up to some frost and ice tomorrow right now um we know that there's been a lot of conversation uh recently about um transgenderism being taught in primary schools and it's solicited quite a lot of different views uh we're joined by two guests to discuss this a little bit further uh deputy padder tobeen uh aint two leader padder thanks for your time this morning great to see you again thank you very much great if we see it and very pleased to welcome on to the program hailey fox roberts who's a community development worker and board member of nxf the national lgbt federation good morning hailey good morning good to see you and it's good to see you and good to have you on and thanks both of you for facilitating this as we try and you know we can all learn uh and listeners can learn and i can learn uh we never stop learning do we all right deputy padder tobeen what do you have issue with in terms of this current conversation the the potential outcome of it okay so firstly i do believe that we need an education system of compassion and gender dysphoria is real and it's not easy at all for anyone and no matter you know what situation a student is in we need to make sure that a student is treated with respect and compassion at all times you know we everybody is equally valued in this republic and that's really important but the government i suppose they're fina fallen fina gale are embarking on a quite a radical change in the primary education system and there's little or no debate in it in relation to it at all and so what they're looking to do is they're looking to teach eight nine-year-old children and what it means to be transgender etc and you know all the research on this has shown that most parents are opposed to children that young having to deal with concepts you know of you know all right padder seems to have frozen out there we'll just wait for a second for him to come in right okay the idea that they would padder sorry i just sorry you just cut out there and i just want to ask you a question when you say all evidence suggests that parents are against this like what research are we talking about and what question was put to them do you know what i mean because we don't know precisely what's going to be taught in schools if it is just to say that transgender people exist and to understand them that parents might have a different response if it if we were going to get into the nitty gritty of it then parents might say oh no not from my eight or nine year old so just so we're clear what do you know the research and what question was actually put to parents seeing as you're quoting it yeah so a number of polling companies and recent times red sea and you know arnan thinks for the suddenly independent i put questions such as and you know and the question that was put in arnan thinks was children's minister has said that primary school children should be educated about what it means to be transgender do you agree or disagree and to that question the majority of parents said that they disagree and and also the the departments of education in the ncca and took in a submissions from parents and over 4 000 parents made submissions and we understand that the majority of those parents have made submissions went to the bother of getting involved in a consultation process with the ncca and put in submissions which opposed teaching children okay and one more question one more question before hailey comes in because i'm obviously give it equal time here what are your concerns you know i mean we can reference we can reference uh uh like i was just speaking to a representative from a youth project here in letter kenny okay um and it's open to all teenagers there's uh there's there's teenagers that would uh identify as transgender they're people of different color uh different sexual orientation they all get on they all respect each other they're all happy no issue young people in my life they've got friends who prefer that they them pronouns i'm not saying it's the exact same thing but it's in the same space they've got no issue with it right it's just their it's the life it's the people that are around them so it's already happening and the young ones seem to be getting on with it what are you concerned about as someone who's the school years along behind them well the concern i have is that the government's approach so far in terms of of this issue it hasn't been based on uh evidence or based on science or based on factors heavily based on ideology so for example we had professor donal oshay who came before the oratus committee and and he was talking about the government who were also seeking to allow 16 to 18 year olds uh transition without parental consent he was saying yeah but patr if you don't if you don't mind what is your concern with eight and nine year olds being talked about this i'm asking about what your concern is personally what do you think might happen what no you're quoting other people what might what do you think is going to happen if this happens but great i'm quoting them the the medics on this i'm quoting the scientists and in this now so the government's approach to this in ireland has been based on an idea of gender affirmation and you know that is the key element of uh the government's approach so gender affirmation is can be quite dangerous because what it does is if a child's affirms or seeks to seeks to change gender the government's approach is just to affirm that and not to see are there other co-morbidities okay well we'll come we'll come back to that actually because i want both of you to say it's actually great going fair just just for a second okay i'm trying to focus specifically on that area but go ahead yeah yeah no no but it's just this is what i'm saying to you is the science and the medics and most european countries are actually going against that the irish government's uh direction on this okay they're saying that the government's policy in this is ideologically based and it's not based on avid and if we're going to treat teach children we need to teach them on the basis of avid all right hailey now sorry uh thank you so much for your patience i just wanted to make it so i knew exactly where uh deputy tolbeam was coming from now hailey what do you agree or disagree with padder there on well i'd like to bring a couple of points up there i mean one thing is uh deputy you're talking about uh evidence-based research you're talking about some very specific commercial polls that were done particularly one by the sunday independent which actually has carried so much anti transgender information and coverage over the past months that one could assume it was you know had an opinion of its own but more importantly you're saying all medical research says that uh this is purely ideological if you were to look at research conducted by belong to lgbt youth services by the transgender equality network island by lgbt island i think you would see a very different picture um the the phrase used was transgenderism being taught in schools and that is absolutely dissembling what we are talking about here is effective sex education sexual and relationship education which is a great importance to young people whether they be whether they grow up to be straight or gay or bisexual or trans or whatever learning about relationships learning about consent learning about respect for one's own body is tremendously important so yes you say that gender dysphoria is indeed a very difficult and challenging issue for young people but while your while the approach of well we won't mention that in school that doesn't allow for the fact that young people of eight nine years old are exploring both their gender in the sense of who am i in the world what does this mean that i am being called boy or girl and they may well not feel that they fit into either of those now that's not to say that they will transition as they get older they may find that their gender expression is different that's to say we might find that someone you know who is a little girl actually likes to dress like a boy likes to do boy type things as we're told they are so really i think a lot of this conflict is about the role of gender in our society anyway and that does kind of reflect reflect in a way to the forthcoming referendum referenda about constitutional changes to the role of women in the home but what is most important at this stage is that what is being offered is comprehensive and compassionate sex and relationship a lot of parents i would speak in a lot of go ahead yes sorry i didn't mean to cut across to that and the way this is being portrayed in particular evidence of the media is to say that children are being taught to be transgender and that is not true and it would serve people well to see the facts evidence indeed before the transgender isn't being taught i did some kind of way maybe talk about transgender issues might be a better way of of me describing it but speaking to parents outside of what direction a paper or any organization might be in what parents are contacting or saying they're concerned about is that you know you can be in flux at that age there's an awful lot going on as is and that's you know what might be normal experimental way of going on or the the rise and fall in eastern or testosterone or whatever it might be that we could be confusing children that rather than going through a stage and and things settling down that to make sure that the smaller group of young people are looked after that we could be doing greater damage to a wider cohort planting seeds of confusion or doubt in their mind when they're already traversing a very difficult time of their lives i think young people are very capable and yes there is so much happening in their lives at that age i don't think adding to their information adding to their bank of knowledge and education i don't think that's confusing i think what's confusing is the society that says some of those children are wrong or that what some of those children grow up into is not right you know if we look at the absolute rise in transphobia then what would by not mentioning this in schools what we are doing is reaffirming that trans children are not accepted in our society yep padder um i think leo for adcar sort of put it like this that you know transgender people exist and you've you you you accept that and school is about educating young people about life and and what exists so would that not make sense then to to educate so they have that understanding i think we really need to kind of accept that science is moving away from the the policy of gender affirmation the norwegian medical watchdog just in the last number of weeks called on the governments to change gender affirmation care guidelines because of the danger that it was causing to children the nhs in britain is now saying the gender affirmation care model is not the model to use for children and you know we have we have a situation at the moment where so many children are actually detransitioning and so many adults are detransitioning yesterday was detransition awareness day internationally these are children who basically had gender dysphoria in their lives where you know maybe we're not sure or confused about what gender they were but the state agencies took them on a pathway of gender change in in some cases they went you know through significant surgery that was irreversible in some situations that went through puberty blockers which are chemicals which rendered them infertile and these are in the individuals who have who are now radically suffering just because of an ideology that's not science space all right and you know hailey mentioned three campaign groups there as you know organizations that we should listen to these are activists based organizations just some really some really powerful comments there that were sticking people's heads so i want hailey if she feels that they need to be sort of tempered to come in at this point if that's okay pattern thank you yeah thank you um i think i think you will find that the uh that the numbers of people detransitioning have been wildly inflated by gender critical activist groups in the uk and that that is being further conflated by the media you talk about the medical formations in uk the taffy stock center was it's terms of practice was queried not what it was doing it's terms of practice it's operations and that's a similar thing to happens in many hospitals in ireland so although those issues were addressed and they have now been sorted there is not a change to the medical practice it was a change to how the practices delivered okay hailey yeah go ahead one last thing can i come in there quick of course just let hailey finish this last thing please yeah yeah you talk about these three organizations as being activists and campaigning organizations as if that somehow makes them less warrantable i think you will find that all the research conducted by those organizations which organizations that support the lgbti plus communities of ireland that their research is university accredited it is scientifically done as any of the scientific you research you read and i would suggest part of that you read that rather than dismissing those organizations as being i take it to be mere activists go ahead pattern so so like there's a big change happening in our education system at the moment and most of it's you know is happening without debate i spoke to a it's a teacher recently who had attended an in-service day and at that in-service day they were told not to use the word mother and father in classroom anymore because the use of mother and father wasn't inclusive and if you look at the mcca the curriculum association that designs for our children they have a website which and which provides links to say one thing about the mother and father thing if you don't mind because um my children lost their mother when they were very young right now i'm not saying mother and father should never have been should never be used okay but i can on or if you've got single parent families is there not an argument pattern though for that language that we look at that language to recognize that everybody in the audience so to speak that that come from a different background and that that certain words could be i'm not suggesting i don't want anyone texting and saying oh so you don't want mother to be used in the classroom because of your i don't mean it like that there but is this not sort of in the same space where we consider that we aren't excluding or upsetting any children in our language presuming that everybody is straight with the mum and dad okay but just let me just finish a point first and and i'll get to that element so the ncca website provides a source which says to to teachers don't use the words boys and girls in class because that's not inclusive we had a government just in the last year that tried to get rid of the word woman out of the legislation around maternity services in this country the hsc provided a leaflets around cervical check that said people with the cervix rather than woman with the cervix we have we have unfortunately at the moment a an effort by some people to nearly re-engineer the language of people are allowed even use in this space and all we're saying is yes there are trans people and trans people need to be protected supported and helped but what we also need to do is recognize that an eight-year-old who you know might say to me i want to stay awake till 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock at night or i want three ice creams who's not you know doesn't have the sense of the other logic to be able to make decisions as simple as what time to go to bed that we should not be introducing i imagine though it's not something that happens in one given night when they don't want to go but i presume you would see a pattern and you would understand over the course of a of a lifetime pattern but i understand where you're coming from hailey sorry you wanted to come in there um just around the language you know you say that people are not allowed to use certain words i think rather more is people are being educated to be more sensitive in their language so you mentioned the cervical check leaflets and you see i rate that it no longer that it can't just say woman so am i assuming that you would like trans men to not have cervical checks because that's what i think you could i think i answered a question there now that hailey's put a question to me great yeah so so cervical check is a cervical cancer is extremely dangerous it kills many women on an annual basis if the hsc put out documentation in relation to cervical check the first responsibility is to save lives and not put out confusing messages now if the message if you're trying if you're okay padder i think that point's well made because we're we don't have a ton of time so i want hailey to come back straight at that i think people know exactly what you're saying there padder go ahead hailey i'm i am asking padder absolutely cervical cancer is a killer and in his talking about phrasing in the leaflets is he saying the trans men's lives don't matter but you can phrase it could you not have phrased it not encourage trans men's participate but but hailey i mean obviously padder you and i i think we all have a very genuine interest in the welfare of children that's we all do don't we we're all combined in that so with that in mind hailey is it not incredibly important that we make sure that what we're doing now because it is new is done with the child first and more debate more conversation not in a adversarial manner like on twitter or you know yourself that we all find a space where everyone can have their views and it's respected and we ensure that whatever we come forward with we we have something of a consensus that that's best for all children all children i mean and i just don't know why we don't do more of that in this country absolutely and i would absolutely say that's having knowledge about relationships sexual health and gender is a great importance to all our children i work with us community development worker i work with all kinds of different people and that includes parents who trans children and those children are in many cases experiencing great challenges at school because their identity is not recognized so i there was great education people don't transition overnight padded they don't decide to change their gender overnight it is a formative process so it's very unlike wanting to stay of place and i think it's really important that our children be given the space to explore their own identities and to be supported in their areas but on that hailey do we not have a role though in guiding uh children i just have a i have a slight concern that we're leaving we're leading our just leaving children to their own devices and we have some of the highest rates of mental health issues in children and self harm they we do i needed some guidance not necessarily on my on my sexuality hailey but we can't just say well what do you want and accommodate that that's not good either is it i'm not suggesting that i'm suggesting that there be cohesive education that teaches all children all children the importance of personal autonomy consent sexual health personal identity so that is for all children that's not just about children who may or may not be found yeah powder yeah just the question the point you made there is very good Greg you know it needs to be about children first so whatever my ideology or hailey's ideology we need to part out and say what's best for the child and the best way to do that is to carry out research to see what impact this would have on the child now you know i asked the t-shirt in the doll what research has a department of education or the t-shirt carried out in relation to the impact of teaching children in this regard and he had said there was no research done whatsoever and that's dangerous i and most parents want you know our education system to be based in fact research and science and unfortunately the decision that the fina fall fina gale government look like they're going to take is not based on any of those all right well finally hailey i think with more conversation more education and more involvement with parents you know i would say a lot of people that parents that have answered surveys for instance are doing it from a position of ignorance and i mean that with respect you know a non-parent may not fully agree with that but if we had more of a non-confrontational conversation you know we'd find the we would find the consensus in there somewhere absolutely absolutely and i think you know being able to have conversations is challenging in the world we're living in where where there is you know really high transphobia and where there is that vicious attitude that on the likes of twitter and social media and stuff does make it hard to have a conversation absolutely if people can talk at least their understanding i do think a lot of people answer and as i say with the greatest respect from a point of as you say rather from a fact i don't i don't think parents are ignorant about their children to be honest yeah so rude had to interrupt me right but but when i say ignorant i didn't i didn't like i'm on i'm a parent i'm on about me having a full understanding like i said on the show last week parents are worried about what might be taught in schools do they really know what's being taught in school currently that's the ignorance that i'm talking of that yeah we we we're we're all right like i might listen to you and i go yes pat or saying what i want to hear or i might go yes hailey she's saying what i want to hear or but it doesn't necessarily you know i wasn't being critical parents i think there's a key question here i think you hit the nail in the head great i actually think that parents know their children the best they know what stage they're at and i actually think that parents do need to have these conversations with their children okay you know parents need to educate their children in relation to their sexuality in relation to orientation in relation to all these things but the parent is the best placed individual on the planet to have that conversation with and you know it yes they need to deal with these issues at some stage in the education system but i would rather the children were beyond eight and nine years okay right and before they were given this type of information fair enough thank you very much indeed pat or hailey thanks for for your time as well i appreciate it i really do raising the conversation i'll take care and it's a complicated one and one that needs really much more time hailey because i think we're all scared of everything in this world now and i think it forms our opinions fear and lack of information but anyway i appreciate your input today i really do take care of yourself and have a wonderful day okay that was hailey fox roberts there and deputy uh sorry deputy pat or to be in the leader of the ain't two party the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio all right it is 11 o'clock it's time for a news update and it's over to donald cavena thank you great good morning a former garter inspector says it's sad that members of the force feel the need to protest today a hundred members of the agsi will march to guard the headquarters this morning over an ongoing rostering dispute they claim a promise to return to pre-pandemic work patterns has not been honored by commissioner drew harris instead they say he's trying to impose a new roster a small business in balaba fe has received an electricity bill for over a thousand euro bernie maguire owner of stitch at bernie says she's lucky if she gets three full week weeks wages per month on the nine to an inch of this morning she told greg she needs to make 110 euro a day just to cover her expenses before making a profit dog owners are being urged to ensure their animals are under control after another sheep killed at the weekend this time in guidore gar thee confirmed that the weekend the two lambs in yo were killed in deri beg council micah mcleverty says attacks like these badly impact on farmers police officers in deri came under attack near the border last night bottles and stones were thrown at them in the park area they were conducting a search operation in the vicinity of bray head road when the incident happened some vehicles were damaged but no injuries were reported voting begins later in the contest to succeed nicolas sturgeon to 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ireland and get next day delivery with notification so you know when your post arrives download the on post app now and send love like never before with digital stamps on post for your world restriction the price you tease them sees it on post.com all right in studio now with brendan daveni the presenter of the deal debate which is broadcast this evening live on the radio after seven and then for you to listen at your leisure on demand on heilandradio.com good morning to you brendan how are you keeping all the very best good or the g-man does your friends call you g-man no they don't call me that all right but we couldn't say on air what the do call me it begins with uh well i won't say the word come here um what's on the show tonight plenty of of course reaction to the weekend's action what jumps out for you yeah well i was at donald park yesterday unfortunately our hurlush lost to uh wicklow 224 to 11 we bit of a pacing a few players missing uh greg very physically strong uh good wicklow side listen they were a league above to a few seasons ago and they probably expected to go back up but they stayed in the vision 2b so listen at a chat they make it me can't after the game that every time i move the mic you move sorry sorry do you want to i want you to go back to wait no go back i'm not used to you're a professional who's to the right go on movie scenes to the right this way yeah that's crazy so you're a broadcast now you're full of you're full of no you're not you're a broadcast now you're full after you i'm using your seat now you see that's what i'm saying sorry go ahead yeah yeah so just um listen it was a tough day for hurlush yesterday but listen they're stable in division 2b which was the first couple of seasons up with it they were in relegation fight so i was just saying to mickey that even in the league without looking to go up there's growth in there you know tonic i've been stable the last couple of seasons which is which is important it's a good level and it's the right level to be at so listen it's not the worst defeat they're they're playing through on next week at home as well but certainly it's all eyes on the on the nicky racket that's what they're building towards and of course our atu team barnie currents ladies were down in the geac centre in connacht and they won the lynch cup um beaten dcu in the first game in the semifinal and then beaten ucc in the final in the tight game 111 7 so a great weekend for them and great to see the girls coming home with a cup who are your guests this evening so yeah um as i say i'll be speaking with their manager barnie current i'll be i've got an interview with mickey mccann and then emin mcgee's coming up as well um one of our heroes of 2012 greg and the main topic of discussion is the fallout from the academy right okay now that's uh there was an article published uh over the weekend i actually saved the article but didn't get ready to read it yet is that an easy easy story easier storage covering right from outside they can't see them from within it yeah well listen car don't do diligence on it as he does you know car is a contributor to the detailed debate uh i rang him up after because you know he didn't speak no one's from the county board has been speaking on this figure and there's reasons for that and uh so the article was very much written from one side now in the interest of fairness greg listen i was on news talk the other week the last week there was there was massive feedback from it i tried to just weigh up the situation because there was a big demonizing of the county board when this fell apart but i don't think it was completely like that so i just tried to give the balance on it well aim and mickey uh is of the view i think in a tweet and let's see if i have it here um hopefully this puts to bed a lot of the stories no harm the county board putting their hands up and acknowledging the mess they've created that's how we start to go about fixing this now you're going to have a two-way debate here with or two-way conversation with daemon you have a opposing view to him well i it's not greg that i'm i'm taking either side of this but there's balance in here you know it's not completely like that and there's things in the background there and we're going to talk about it tonight that i think shed light on there was there was issues on both sides and this is the and this and aim and started texting me when that article broken friday now it's a huge article i mean i've said the car how much time he says he basically spent the week at it but as i said the car and i know him well enough he said this car the fact that the county board didn't speak to you still means that there's another bit of balance in there in the story the county board had the they were invited they were invited to but there's reasons for that too you see greg and we we'll talk that out tonight but aemon was texting me i see them and i appreciate the article and i see the points on it but there is counterargument to this well i'll tell you no better man than you and aemon to talk about that this evening now seriously because these are both you both know what you're talking about yeah well this name is coaching at under 20s as well and and to get this point of view on it it'll be interesting and i think that i go all people in particular and so many of have come up to me since that news talk article or that news talk interview greg and i've said you know there's there was a bit of balance in there because um i think as the when the stories first broke and a lot of the reports back we're all we're all kind of one-sided so that's what i'm trying to do greg get get to the truth and and um and uh you know find out about where this lies because we have a lot of people in the county board greg their job is to promote or give their all g a man so this this thing if i'm looking to somehow sabotage our underage structure there's no sense to that so that's what i that's what we need to discuss and talk about and i'm sure we'll uh we'll find a common ground maybe or maybe i just don't know how you're gonna fit everything else in but anyway uh you've everything covered there uh so that's this evening and i think anyone with an interest in donagol gea we should listen to that podcast this evening because you've got uh brendan deveney who's i wouldn't say battling for the county board but says look there's two sides to every story we need to there is though i'm disappointed maybe they had an opportunity and didn't take that opportunity to contribute to that article and then we've got uh amin mcgee's opinion that this is an opportunity for the county board to put their hands up and acknowledge they made a mess and as i say in that conversation somewhere within uh we'll find some sort of a middle ground but it needs to be resolved we need to move forward from this we're not in a position where we have the luxury of being able to have you know internal arouse and pollin and swinging and he said she said and vice versa it needs to be put to bed asap doesn't it brendan i felt uncomfortable unused talk last week because i'm a dilly go man and this is you you talk about the story but there's no point in not talking about it and see once i'm funny see once i'm financed with it tonight i contact the uh fergus mcgee the new chairman now this is kind of landed on his lap it's tough on him now to be coming in with all the all the issues but i said the mergers wants this is we have a new man or people in place then i want you on to talk about the future where this is going what your plan is for it because i don't tonight finishes it so whatever we talk whatever we agree on or disagree on tonight i want to put that behind us now but i still think it's too important subject for us not to discuss it and and and for people to hear maybe the views that we have from from from both sides of it yeah because there's camps in every element of sport you know there are people that are loyal to certain people or what have you that's something we've lived with and will continue to live with it's the facts of life uh but that means we still as i say have to have conversations and get to the bottom of things alright so that's all coming up in the podcast after 7 p.m after the news this evening you can watch it on our social medias as well i suggest you don't miss that by the way because i think that's going to be a really interesting conversation plus as brendan mentioned uh they have uh ryan farion uh aron kirnan from our mars on as well that was a previous one sorry i made i made a banged you over the wrong information that's my apology a lot to learn sunshine i was a seven seven attached but i was actually doing a work this morning i was sitting attached so it's not going to be you and aimin round for an hour no me and aimin and barney curran's coming on the atv imagine my apologies going to give us my fault and of course i spoke we make him a can there you say that so that podcast is still available though is it the one that i'm just talking about okay so you can if you're interested in the podcast i was actually mentioning uh you can um you can go back and listen to previous episodes thanks great my son was part of the donagwall academy team the young lads are all really enjoyed and were highly encouraged by carl the big losers here are the young people i totally agree listen great this is the thing i mean carol ac an absolute you know we talk about legends he's above that in donagall terms one of the best players i've already played you like to remind donagall about the whole of ireland so this thing of us losing him to this that this is that that's the worst scenario on all this so you know but i gotta park that there around a lot of stuff that's coming out but listen in terms of him being in there we couldn't have a better man i mean he's only second to michael murphy as our best player ever and uh there's no shame in that but listen that's what i'm saying my fear now would be that someone else he goes to another county which would be terrible for us but listen that's going to be up to him but it's i'm not sure if this is relevant and will this be teased out in any organization one person can't be bigger than the organization there seem to be an issue with the umbrella and where the academy were and that they weren't completely underneath this umbrella and then it's autonomy there people rubbed up the wrong way greg and as if you know i was i was joking like sometimes it can start small and then say someone doesn't reply to an email or doesn't come to a meeting or someone requests on and then it just started to bulge again there seem to be a couple of personalities class but how it got to the stage where it couldn't be repaired greg is amen mcgee who's a regular contributor to this show as well and brendan devaney will debate it out on the deal debate this evening at 7 p.m brendan and greg yeah could just mention very sad news come through um we bernard flunne texted me last night just Liam cairns the the awfully manager died suddenly um really tragic news he was putting on savage work there for for awfully and oh and this is for his family i mean greg listen a man just absolutely invested in in g a and for the team and for everybody there uh that they know him and loved him uh a sad day may he rest in peace and sympathies primarily with uh his family and and his friends and then the wider g a community as well brendan before let you go if you don't mind uh you're an ambassador with plan right uh you'll head into africa soon are you that's uh the plan now what are you on doing yeah well listen i've been helping out plan greg this this last i don't know maybe six six years i'll just help and sponsor kids um it's 22 year old month he sponsored chinese he changed her life here make sure that they they're um and you do do that and you've been doing it consistently for years well i sponsored three myself and then from the charity night that we held last year that you came they thanks very much we uh yeah it was a great night we sponsored 23 kids on that night as well so what i was doing was i was just looking for ways to kind of save the money with doing me things like you know washing the car with the kids or cutting back on something small fasting for a bit too fast and yeah fasting was the thing i fasted a sponsor child so now i've got three so it's three days but i don't mind that uh greg listen it's really healthy in that too now obviously it's not for everybody i intimate fasting is the thing it's uh a lot of people especially when you get to my age yeah so so i've been just trying to help out and as i say the uh the charity night there's another one going to come up at the end of summer so that kind of keeps the whole the the 23 kids running and we're going to help a bit out with the hospice and with ebil ebbs here in it because that's how my my sister passed so i just want to create a bit of awareness with that now in talking to plan like i would do different me things for i'm go down the events and just as i say help out where i can but um there was there was a drop off greg with people who had sponsored kids and then the director of it would stop on that and i just felt there's a bit of a disconnect maybe between where's the money go on the sponsor person well no it's more the sponsor person because like 96 percent of it no i'm on about yeah but tangibly you know what i'm on about it's the sense that right there's a director a bit where you know what i mean you can lose track of it for six months yes yes so um there seemed to be i couldn't understand that because when you join up the plan you get out of e-pack yeah and you see the wee child that you're sponsoring so what does it say greg that make sure that they have education they go on and help in the community they protect particularly young girls from from child marriage and and all the horrors that go with some of them develop in countries so they protect the kids they make sure they have an education which means they have a chance greg and the bigger issue with that is that you know we look at all the migration that's happening here now unless we go and invest in these countries and protect these people they're going to keep coming out and if you imagine a village or a small town now if a load of people leave it kills the town you know so money should be spent investing so that people can live where they want to live which is so instead of us but these barriers up and doing all this stuff to stop it we need to go and help yeah that's one thing the plan do so i couldn't understand that if you have the speed picture and you write them so i would send the you send a letter and they write back um and they they convert it depending on the language like you made of like a french ex-french colony or whatever so they would send back so you just send small things greg maybe a christmas a coloring book and pens and that which we see is not hunt but it's it's huge to them out there so then i was thinking if you know that wee person no we would listen with the wee boys we would include them at times in prayer and and saying yo this is the wee girl in togo or this is the wee boy in mallie so so as i said the fact that it was drop-offs and that greg i was thinking why don't we go out and and meet the kids that i'm sponsoring you know and we we've planned it said a few times that they do do field trips they have people on the ground out there so i spoke to bradice adonald bradice at those of adu in it so i said listen do you want would you come out and we'll document it and just um and go out and see the work the planner doing and just to promote bridge that information gap that's clear to charity yeah maybe there okay so me and bradice been having a crack in case we get kidnapped will be called the togo too and uh you might you might see a few videos going up so we're having a bit of a crack about about that but listen carol wickham that works for plans he's putting everything together she's going to come with us as well greg so we're looking at it maybe the start of summer maybe may time we're just looking at dates there i think it's not close to the time because we chat to you most mondays and you're going for the charity night round two are you that's penciled in yeah yeah terrible round two there's a trilogy so uh it's a trilogy so this is the second one well it'll be bigger and better this time good stuff excellent all right okay look forward to all of that brendon listen thanks very much indeed for calling in just to remind you again brendon of any on the deal debate tonight looking back at the weekend's action of course but he also is aiming McGee in and the two of them have some slight difference in views perhaps on the fallout from the academy controversy and they're going to play it out tonight and uh i'm going to be tuned in it's going to be on the telly anyway i'm going to have the fire stick on youtube and i'm going to watch it that's why it's called the deal debate greg we have to debate things at all right hopefully you don't need a ref all right uh who would win i'm amon's got you amon would have you in his sleep yeah yeah it was me it was me there's a hushy now i hushy i should i should i should i should win all right bren take care this week's nine till noon show was brought to you by st mary's g a convoy club development draw win 50 000 for 50 euro draw takes place 17th of march get your ticket now at st mary's g a draw dot ie sleek smooth safe modern oh you want to hear more do you want to drive the most modern car in johnny gall there's a reason why it's our county's favorite car the brand new diesel kia sportage the multi award-winning suv is available at i motors now our team will take care of all of your needs visit i motors dot ie or call into us 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it's ten thousand plus five thousand in cash yeah okay uh right okay but that's not what we're talking about just now you can get more information by the way on our website uh we're going to talk now about the launch of the highland radio customer service business awards now this is a brand new initiative sure is that correct it is Greg yeah and it's very exciting to be here this morning to launch these because um in the background uh we've been working on this for a number of months and uh we've done a bit of recce and looking on how would it look what's the reason for doing it and uh yes today it's uh i'm delighted to be here phenil has just joined us to to launch the customer service awards in association with pgm and uh and what we'd like to do now just to give you an insight into what it what does it look like and why don't we do this all right why are we doing this fenula uh shawnt didn't have enough to do really with this day and i thought maybe we should find something to fill it for i know we're doing it because we really wanted to reach out on two big two fronts one is to our listeners as we always do we try and engage with them as much as possible whenever we can and then number two to engage with the businesses right across the county so what we've done with this is is we have a uh list of awards and the initial stages of it is is that it's up to the listeners to nominate so if you go on to the website now hollandradio.com you can click on the um holland radio customer service awards and you can go in there and then nominate businesses across a range of service and non-service industries that we have and really what we're looking for is uh who what the best butchers best you know i mean they're the type of awards that we're doing and we just feel that it's a good way for businesses to engage with their clients that they can have it up in their shops and ask people to vote for them and to nominate them and then it's also a good way for um customers to give credit to the businesses that are you know putting it out there and doing a good job on that point just i think it was last week or the week before we just casually mentioned you know if you've had a nice experience in in retail or whatever it's by coincidence because i didn't really know this was coming up and we got in some amazing stories of a person that was in a particular business all different types of business by the way because i think often we might think it's always going to be retail or hospitality right it's clearly not i mean people have great experiences everywhere but it's that business that goes above and beyond i was in can i mention i kind of mentioned where i was in yesterday i was in uh biddies i haven't been in there for absolutely years yesterday we called in just for soup and sandwich or something and the staff were absolutely awesome brilliant the whole place is it looks lovely there's nothing in it for me by the way i paid and all that don't get me wrong but we as we believe it no but as we drove home right we talked about biddies how lovely the staff were in there all of the three of them were at the table one point and they were lovely now we spoke to ourselves it didn't achieve anything really did it yeah here's an opportunity for experiences like that yeah that you it can matter to a business is so sorry for the convoluted introduction we can do something and say you know what you deserve a credit thank you for being a great butcher that's exactly what people you know look at everybody has their ups and their downs and things like that but the thing about it is and you know in this current time when we talk about how everyone's getting expensive and the car like for businesses that has really become a huge thing for them and it costs a lot of money now to be able to you know maintain a business particularly if you have staff you know if you have a lot of staff and and and you're giving any kind of a service be it like you know in a shop that you're selling feed in a hairdresser's be it a beautician's be it a restaurant anything like that businesses are putting in a lot of sweat and tears in order to be able to do it and if they are doing it well this is your opportunity to say yeah well done you you are doing it well let us not forget these are the businesses that employ our young people who employ our brothers and sisters they are the ones that will sponsor your local GA Club they will give a prize to a fundraiser no harm to the big boys but often you know they're doing their own thing on a national level and this is the grassroots of our community right so talk to me a little bit more about how this will work some of the categories are we voting on all of them at the same time are you dropping somewhat at a particular time Sean talk to me a little bit more about the mechanism there okay so we've got six categories and they are health and beauty you have lifestyle house and home service and finance motor and fashion and retail so from that we've actually got 50 awards and they and they vary I don't really think we've left anybody else you know down to your hairdresser hairdresser your butcher your local crush they're all in there and it's I suppose everybody deserves the opportunity to be recognized for the customer service levels that they have so if I want to vote for a particular business how do I find the category on the website so you go on to Highland radio it's well navigated it's on the front page and you just click on the customer service awards and in there there's actually six different categories so if it's a hairdresser that you want to vote for or nominate then you're going to you click on the button there so if I want to vote for a nail bar but nail bar is not actually listed oh no we'll show that's under health and beauty and then our system picks that up yeah well this is we've got no you go into what you do is you click on the health and beauty and then it gives you the opportunity then to put in your business and then you there's a scroll down where you can say this is where you want that to go so there's another move into it so we went to health and beauty it shows you these are the categories each of the category under each of the categories we have um anywhere between eight to ten awards so like just as an example with the health and beauty we have hair salin of the ear beauty salin of the ear barbers of the ear hair stylist award for an individual beauty therapist of the year individual as well nail salon as you mentioned they're health spa health and well-being which could be any kind of a business that might be in health and well-being might be your reflexologist it might be some you know it could be somebody nutritionist that you go to anybody like that that comes in under that so if you wanted to vote for somebody in that you go to it click on the awards then you click on the category that you know that it will fall into and then once you're in there then it gives you the opportunity under exactly which one perfect that you can put it into so you'll name your company that you want to nominate and then you'll pick from the drop-down which is a hair salon yeah from there so it's we've made it as simple as possible um the best fit for your absolutely and you can there's a box which is optional where you can put the reasons why but you as again the keyword is optional you don't have to go into too much details um and because what happens the next part of the process is independent judges that will make the decision on who will be shortlisted and come to our big awards night okay brilliant so what we've done now is the nominations are open today and people have from today until the 7th of April to vote you can vote in all of the categories if you feel that you have a car dealer that you like a hair salon that you like every single guy that's right this is way easier than you were describing it i know it's i was wondering what you were doing there it's very simple it's yeah all right so will you describe it easier no no i i'm guilty it sounds a bit clicky when you're saying it but i like it how's it now i mean you've got home furnishing kitchen suppliers full-time retailers window blinds brilliant so you go all right okay well i want to nominate such and such a kitchen supplier you click nominate the business and then you put in the business name then you put where they are you select the category which you're already in there effectively your own name and then you message and submit and that's yeah and that's all you have to do to support your that's it and i said the message is optional like i think it's really just lovely what we want to do is give people as easy an opportunity look it does when you start talking about click here and click here it can make it sound a lot people should go go on check it out and see they'll realize how easy it is there's 50 awards what we're planning to do is they're open today they're closing on the 7th of April so you have a short shot yeah so you have until the 7th of April in order to cut well the way it works is that until the 7th of April that everybody gets their nominations in we will then come up with a short list which will go towards our judges and which are independent external judges that we have very thankfully came on board in order to do this with us and then what we will be doing then is we will be announcing then within two weeks after that then who is on the list and then we have a gala night planned brilliant we'll talk more about that in a moment in terms of from the night so we were the consumer so we know what we're doing right that's easy what do you suggest businesses do now sean because you know uh you i would have no problem if i owned a shop i'd say look i want to i i you know we're putting a good service here we get the great customer feedback let's get an award for it so if a business is it's up to them how to promote it presumably what would you suggest they do sean well it's i suppose in the common weeks is to is to make sure their customer service is at the highest level because people obviously will be using their services or buying their products and have an opportunity if they've got that fantastic service the forefront of their mind is i must nominate for this business so it's a it's a great opportunity for a business to refocus on what they do best and how they can entice customers back on a regular basis and customer service is at the forefront of that if you've got if you get that bit right and it's a good uh a good experience for the consumer they will come back and most businesses out there they're very good at that and they spend a lot of time to get that bit right and they understand that some people saying if you don't have a smartphone or a computer you can't vote unfortunately there there's certain things in life that we are in a different era now um and a lot all pretty much every business that someone will be voting for has their own social media presence has their own websites that's how they're engaging with people if we could come up with a mechanism every single time that everything could be included in pen and paper usually i would say to you oh just give us a ring and we'll help you but in this obviously we can't have staff doing 50 nominations uh from individuals i'm afraid yes this is an internet-based uh system and we and i think everyone knows how inclusive i would like to be on everything but we're talking about multiple businesses across multiple categories and yes it's only because of technology that we can actually do yeah i think but i respect that this is point of view but i also understand that this is a a complex thing that requires the computers well what we're going to hopefully what we're going to do is when we come down to the final end of it we're going to look at the categories see what feedback we've gotten from people and we may be making some of the final categories listener based as well at that stage then there will be an opportunity it'll be easier for us and you know less wieldy that we might be able to be able to have phone for at least a day or something you know what i mean a particular period of time so um keep going back to the hairdressers right so the hairdressers has a nail bar right and the listeners asking i'm not just trying to be awkward can you vote for them in both categories of course you can of course and that will all be collated and so on so that answers that question from that listener okay thank you yeah you can vote for anybody that you feel look at and if you feel that the businesses should be under a particular category and yet it may not necessarily be you know what i mean like if it's called kathy's get together and you're saying oh well that's actually a beautician there is a common box there so if you feel that you're voting for something that maybe the name doesn't really lean towards whatever but do you know as a consumer that that's what this business does so say someone hires kayaks and they do a fantastic job in the local community it's not listed there i put that under lifestyle that's it and then you can just put a little couple of words into it and you feel this is why we did that that's why it kind of gives you the opportunity to add in if you sort of think well wouldn't normally put them in under that but here's why so before we move on what i think we should point out is this is far more simple yeah we've struggled here to make it but it is clicky clicky click sounds it's like the longer when they when they first put in the roundabouts and you have to take the first roundabout take the second round out so let's get back to the core of this this is about supporting and recognizing good customer service in our amazing businesses across this region and it's about consumers having a chance and to congratulate and thank their local businesses for the effort that they put in in order to maintain fantastic customer service i think it gives kudos to your local business you can be nominating yourself your own business if you feel that you're deserving of it other people will come on board and it's really just to get an interaction and a conversation going you know we've had a couple of years where you know a lot of businesses had a i'm sure a couple of nights when they were wondering whether or not they were going to stay going things are finally back and happy and going out there really busy like everywhere you go there's people there for me as i said on the show before as it sports events like all the football games seem to be really well supported now a lot of that's down to the customer service of fin harks or the local ga clubs whatever restaurants the carpark seem to be now maybe i'm not getting a full read of it but that's towns there's there's foreign regs cars and you know german cars uh british cars whatever in towns and then caps already like you know what i mean it feels like there's a there's a there's a lift yeah that there's a buzzer on the place that you know we're coming into somewhere and eventually we've all the pokes i'm never in seem busy i don't know why i'm judging by their pictures but i think the the market that there was you know we were a bit worried about how we would February look but it's i think the the feedback from retailers is it's been good it's been better than anticipated operate environment was a bit easier yeah that there's more profit for them in all this business that's the only sick in her book that's on dark controls yeah but that that'll come though if they can keep the the consistency of the consumer coming in through the door then that will come back because it will fix itself eventually all right no because i think the other thing that it does with businesses as well is if you can get that sort of feeling like you're saying people are out and about people are doing so it just creates a buzz there is a bull once you have that buzz going across the county it gives everybody that lift not just a business but it also gives people i think even a personal lift and they feel that you know oh they're more inclined to go and do stuff they're more inclined to go out and avail of the services that are there that are you know available across the county so really that's what we're trying to do is create a bit of a buzz create a bit of a chat who is your best what are the reasons why why should we be okay so let's reset here before we continue again and and talk about the gala night this is the highland radio customer service business awards it's an online vote you go to our website you'll see the big banner you click into it why don't you spend five minutes of time and click your favorite shop your favorite hairdressers your favorite butcher your favorite car salesperson or shop and it's very simple you're passing it forward you're passing on the goodwill it's better than a google review almost at this point because it's for local and it's for local customers right and then we and eventually we come down with a whole host of winners across many many categories but everyone that you vote for is recognized you know what i mean they don't necessarily everyone doesn't have to win but it's just the fact that they've been recognized for what they do so it's it really is as simple as as that passing it forward saying you know fair player you did a good job you know what i mean and saying we appreciate it and i'm going to vote for you on the highland radio website shawn yeah absolutely and and you know it's it's nothing better than to be recognized by your customer and i suppose what we want to do then is we want to celebrate and and shortlist the businesses and then all come together on the 28th of may to have a galley evening and we've booked the Mount Arigal we think the tickets will be the biggest thing in town i think it will be very hard to get a ticket than the monday night sessions key ring oh well nearly nearly close to it now can't can't emulate that one um but yeah it's it's and again it's a it's a progress of where we've come from and where we are now that to be able to do that and bring so many entrepreneurs that's gonna be a fun fast-paced night that big time i just took the words up my mouth because that's exactly what it is 50 awards we won't be there for four hours doing awards it will be very high you'll be bringing your dessert up to collect your reward yeah and you'll be dancing all the way back down again to get a photograph brilliant stuff okay and then that's fantastic for your own social media then that's up to the businesses but that's how this world works now you get your reward and you can you can use that as a as a marketing tool as well because it's a proper recognition you use the photos and that's what it's about because i think all of us have to sometimes recognize that we have to be our best our own promoters sometimes absolutely and if anybody wants to contact a station we have some branding done for the awards if they want to contact us it's just that we can send it out send stuff out to them that they can use on their own social media you know if they want to send out to their own clients behind the counter aware of it is no vote for us in the have you voted yeah yeah absolutely i think that's what is and we're look at we're so grateful and delighted as well the pgm have come on board with us our fantastic organization here you know again local people hiring local people it's fantastic and it's just great that they've come with us on this inaugural journey because to be honest i know that's probably why we sounded a little bit vague because we're kind of making it up as we go along to meet ourselves well i'm fine these are the notes that i was getting it's pretty yeah you're doing well great someone has an awful lot more faith in me than i just want to reiterate that the the partnership with pgm as well because i i made a call and to ashleen and the outset and it was a it was a very easy call and they engage with us straight away and and what they love about it is they're able to recognize the on song heroes within the community and that's what pgm is all about and their their growth plans over the next 12 months so hopefully they'll we can help them in that journey and it's a great to have an association with them and to support us as we as we move forward as the finula says we're going to make it as we go yeah two rounds we are making it up a little bit as we go along but it will be awesome there is there is but it's going to be a big gala night the end of may 50 award winners make sure your favorite business you make favorite service provider someone who powerhouses your driveway i'm trying to think of examples to make sure that you understand that this is for everyone that's a service provider in front-facing if i give you the community and professional services we've got a crest Montessori we also have community center so you know there's a lot of local and things that have started up in different small towns and villages across the way they can be nominated and not for profit organization that might be in your area towns local towns absolutely accountants dentists insurance broker solicitors i've turned trades person builders plumbers electrician anyway you know just even that guy that a solo trader that goes out working as an electrician or a builder or plumber and things like that that can be done local photographer so we've tried to cover almost everything which is why davie who's going to collect my uh who's going to collect my exercise there you go we're negotiating it on phase but you're both from an advance you'll definitely turn up there you go i'm only joking but yeah yeah exactly all right i'll say you know we we uh we're hopefully we're we're we're holding where we are now things seem quite good from a business perspective hopefully the trading environment improves and we can we can come through this relatively unscathed um you know we know that this business is struggling but this is we're going to get through that hopefully and this is also about recognising the extra special effort they have to go through when maybe things are a bit tight and all that in in what they do all right fenula uh our presidente thank you so much shawn kwan thank you just one last thing is just to say that this is open throughout the whole of dunigol so it doesn't matter where you're in dunigol you can nominate your second sunshine uh what you think you are going to leave lahi dunigol town not at all bali shannon and we couldn't do that to you greg how do you go mount charles duncan ealy kelly begs the list goes on exactly and there'll be so many decent businesses there this was all if i see votes coming in south of the gap and thousands of people down there listening to us i know for a fact i'd be incredibly disappointed i know i'm very disappointed so it is all does it include in the show absolutely i'm gonna get you i'm going to dairy if there's anybody there that wants to get involved on and for all of our listeners i think we've got so many great listeners across the way it's up to them to say who is it that deserves these awards that we're not we're not going to be doing where they come from we want them to come from this can grow with uh with the contributors and of course it's all county uh by the way because we are one big beautiful county in region as well so don't yeah i think the takeaway is actually because and i sometimes you know with all different types of interviews when you try and give examples you don't want to exclude so you know it's everybody who provides a service for you out there and let the listener and the people you know they'll they'll they'll advise us that's absolutely no one is excluded this is for us to engage with the listeners and the listeners give us their thoughts and feelings on the businesses out there that's what we want right okay where would you put the favorite radio show category in there is that on the services kind of a given there we're thinking about maybe doing individual shows just to see where that went james uh yeah we'll that'll be our next awards okay yeah uh or you can have special categories on the night okay anyway listen come here thanks both of you for calling in you can get our best presenter on the night we'll give you one of the awards to best presenter 9 to 12 okay come here highland radio customer service 11 to 12 highland radio customer service business awards get on to the website this is a brilliant thing it's about supporting our local businesses community recognizing the great efforts they're putting in if you're a business listening contact us we've got some uh uh some graphics that you can uh incorporate okay get the get the post drop in your business and say vote for us in the highland 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inspectors says it's seriously concerned about the health and welfare of its members and as accused commissioner drew harris of trying to impose a roster with a agreement he says that today's protest is unnecessary and it's unhelpful sergeant paul wallace is vice president of the association of garter sergeants and inspectors unnecessary and unhelpful paul according to your boss yeah that's what he's saying but um we had we had we had looked for 100 but we ended up with a bit 200 and tested there so when you take that we have 2,200 members in the agsi what's a sizable proportion when you take people who are in the shift pattern and knights and courts and all that and we have good representation there from dunigal selectively from capemana which is my region so he's not taking cognance of probably the feelings on the ground what are the concerns that uh you know the members have we've helped to save the concerns and we've concerned during morale morale is on the floor we had a special delicate conference last week in atlone and there was a unanimous vote to say that morale was at such where the commissioner thinks to be in the strain and mostly people haven't got a uh a shift predictability in their shift pattern um we're still working what they call the covid roster which was brought on overnight to please the pandemic and we were told we would return to the six on four off uh roster that we had and that hasn't happened there's going to be a bit of distrust here because you say uh i presume allowances were made because of the uh public health emergency and now uh that system has been extended 15 times so you know we're getting close to it probably being seen by bosses as the norm now i presume that's what you're trying to resist well he's saying that it's not the norm that he's saying he wants to go back and impose his roster and we have a mechanism you know of negotiation just pre-tresolation that everyone signed up to only prior to covid so um we're saying that there's plenty room for negotiation that we're still open for negotiation we only had one meeting and then commissioner elevated it into a speech into the workplace relations committee commission which is the mechanism state mechanism for disputes in the workplace right okay listen thanks very much for that paul all right take care of yourself safe journey home paul wallace there garden sergeant paul wallace he's the vice president of the association of garden sergeants and inspectors now we have dozens and dozens and dozens of comments that have come in this morning okay so uh that is going to form the part of the conversation tomorrow if you took your phone out and went to that bother believe me it's not being ignored not being censored or edited it's just it's been an incredibly busy program and we didn't get to them uh but we will start on them tomorrow the two tickets for that amazing draw go to bernard moss tolly car ahia and well done bernard you have won two tickets you could be winning 50k on paddy's day as they are promoting it so well done we've another two tickets for you tomorrow uh potentially to be one uh my eight-year-old doesn't know what he wants for breakfast never mind what gender he wants to be i think that if my child gets curious about gender mixed families religion etc i address them in the home as my parents did with me primary school is a place for learning a bc's and one two three's not learning about sex and gender but sex has already been taught in school in your school is it not at some point uh already or are we aware of that now that padder is supporting evidence-based teaching in schools does he have a timetable for removing all religion from schools which is an interesting comment comment there eight to ten year olds don't need to talk about sex we're talking about uh it's it's not sex by the way there is a difference between someone's gender and sex uh or their sexual orientation by the way uh sex having sex and gender are not the same thing uh one might uh dictate the other maybe not necessarily but they're not talking about proposing they're almost talking to propose about sex as far as i'm aware but look i'm not here i'm in the jury's out with me either i don't know i just want what's best for the children and i'm working my way through this trying to figure that out as well so i don't come down on any particular side as such i just want respect and and and uh and care for each other that's my starting point but anyway listen that's where we have to leave it it's been a busy monday hasn't it thanks for all of you