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Listen You don't know what she life way, right? Yeah, if we get to St. Patrick's Day Which is just around the corner hmm then Easter and then summer what are you saying all that for because then we get nice long days It's gonna be beautiful weather and everyone's gonna be happy. When's the clocks go Forward spring forward fall back. I don't know And a much do you think our age now? We would know the exact date. Why don't they change this doesn't it? I don't know does it so it must be a certain time Lee I don't have enough space in my brain for things that are an a day or two in advance I can only operate today then tomorrow and then tomorrow But you're you take one day at a time, don't you? Yeah, I'm not a great planner. Yeah, you know But listen ahead now for this I'll plan to see you tomorrow morning at nine o'clock fingers crossed I am sorry distracted my headphones are my do you leave my I leave mine No, it's fine. Okay, that's it. All right, so thanks Lee take care of yourself nine o'clock. It's a minute pass Let's get a news update now over to Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you Greg good morning details of the deal which is paving the way for the return to part sharing at Stormont are to be revealed later today Foolish to be whole Martin is there for talks with the northern parties The DUP is hailing the agreement on post breaks at trailing rules while Downing Street insists It won't mean a greater reliance on EU decisions. There's been no functioning government at Stormont now for two years Well, sheen fan leader Mary Lou McDonald believes with her deputy Michelle O'Neill set to become first minister There's major change on the horizon. I think the days of partition are numbered It doesn't work so long as Ireland is partitioned. We will face very very significant economic Challenges and disadvantages here in the north and all along the border will post breaks the controls on food plants and animal Imports into the UK from the EU come into force today meat and dairy fruit veg and cut flowers will require specific health Certificates with the tarnish to and agriculture minister Charlie Mcconnellog Urging Irish exporters to ensure that they are on top of the new requirements the cost to British businesses Meanwhile could be hundreds of millions of pounds a year and that could push up prices Peter Hardwick of the British Meat Processors Association Says more negotiation should now take place. We should sit down with the European Union Negotiate a comprehensive veterinary agreement based on alignment that would wipe away this problem overnight remove all the cost Who would also significantly resolve the issues? In relation to goods moving to Northern Ireland a numbers of Donegal County Council have been briefed on the new deposit risk turn Scheme which comes into effect tomorrow a level of 15 cent will be imposed on cancer bottles containing 500 milliliters or less 25 cent on containers holding above 500 milliliters The charges can be redeemed when the bottler can is recycled in a special return machine Machines are being placed in large shops smaller ones have been granted exemptions The presentation to Donegal County Council was made by the authorities director of water and environment services Michael McGarvey He says while it may take a while to bed in the scheme is an important one I'm sure we will run into some TV problems initially, but I think and that this is something that we welcome and we think will help Support the really good work that our community groups are tidy turn groups etc. The country are doing we have Five and a half to six thousand volunteers out there and the big spring clean up in the coming weeks and months And this will definitely help be a step in the right direction A yellow wind warning is in place until one o'clock this afternoon Matt Aaron says the warning covers Donegal, Galway-Litra, Mayo and Sligo. A power outage in Dunlow has been resolved 41 homes and businesses in Bundoran are still affected They should be back by quarter past four this afternoon Matt Aaron is warning a wave over topping in coastal areas with strong and gusty Southwest winds and rain spreading from the northwest and the forecast tells us to expect a dry start with some bright spells But breezy with fresh to strong and gusty southwest winds turning cloudier as the morning goes on a band of rain will move in from The Northwest for it mid-morning. That's going to bring those stronger winds for a time that should clear by mid-afternoon Top temperatures today and I know 10 degrees Celsius. That's Highland video news more on our website Highlandradio.com more news at 10 You know when you're flying back from some winter sun you take an epic cloud pick But it's got your sunburned reflection in the window up. 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You can also contact us of course and when I say you can we want you to contact us to from outside the Republic 0035 386 60 25,000 and your phone calls into us on 07 491 25,000 emails has getting really busy on the emails, which is great Thank you comments at Highland radio.com with a few increase in two that we've got some answers for people On which will bring you throughout the course of this morning If you wish to watch the show you can do so on your mobile devices wherever you are youtube Highland radio island or on facebook highland hub highland radio news and sport and just a reminder for you if you Work from home or our home and you want to watch this on your big screen tv and see most of the guests that join us Both in studio and remotely Will open up your fire your fire stick and the youtube app highland radio island or the smart tv you have and most Most I think most maybe I don't know Many of you have a smart tv the youtube app's built in there. All right, so let's get a look at what's making some of the papers today And the irish times we go inside the to the third page The government is to start running regular charter flights dedicated to deporting people who've failed in the asylum Applications the first flights which would use private aircraft hired by the department of justice are expected to happen later this year The move comes as the government attempts to present a tougher image on immigration in advance of local and european elections in june other plan measures included Aiding algea sorry adding algeria and baswana to the official list of safe countries That allows the fast-tracking process of immigration claims International protection applicants coming from those countries are to have their applications decided on within a maximum of 90 days Yesterday minister for justice helen mackinty outlined fresh plans to clamp down on those who already have refugee status in another european state They are to be entered into an inadmissibility procedure Which will also be subject to fast processing the measures are to come into effect from today Together these message Measures I beg your pardon would lead to the potential removal of up to 5 000 people from the ip system here Ms mackinty said adding baswana and algeria to the safe countries list brings to 10 the number of countries in that category There were 1462 ip applicants from ijeria last year 343 from baswana and the change of status them being safe countries would be that it would be much faster To effectively unless there was extreme circumstances Refuse them application to stay here On to the arish independent now and green minister's flights will rack up almost 11 tons of carbon emissions on st. Patrick's day trips to brazil the u.s The far east and other locations this year That's the equivalent of a year's worth of emissions for two of your average family cars So the green minister's flights just to go to and from on st. Patrick's day According to the paper equates to two family cars in terms of emissions The environment minister aiman ryan will lead the green exodus as he travels to brazil between march 13th and 17th Where he'll visit the cities of brazilia and sau Paulo a journey that will create 2.37 tons of emissions His spokesperson said last night every individual minister tries to Line up functions and events relating to the responsibilities in this case The brazilian rainforest is an area of interest to him in his portfolio And the problem is is you see when you're explaining you're losing and I do say that quite a bit, but it is quite true The bottom line is is that no matter what he says those who Are being precluded from you know burning turf for an example selling turf Those who are being constrained to the point whereby the paying extra for this that none for the for the um For the climate crisis and i'm not saying we shouldn't be doing that by the way, but It sticks in the throat of people then when they hear of green party ministers flying around the place and are able to justify it because it's a means to an end but They a regular person might say yeah, well, I only have a stove I don't have central heating as such. I don't have an oil burner Me burning turf is a means to an end. You know what I mean? And that's a problem in trying to relate a message when you appear To flaunt that message yourself because your reasons are justified Well, every individual potentially can make a justifiable argument as to their actions as well If you're interested agriculture minister charlie mccunlough. He's going to kenya Ethiopia and south sudan So a triple hop there for the local minister On to the irish daily mail now and a complaint about a controversial tg kaha documentary on the explosion In the canty door canty dongle village of creasel, which killed 10 people has been partially upheld by the media watchdog commission a man said the documentary About the tragedy and which was broadcast on february 8th 2023 had breached the broadcasting act 2009 by causing harm or offense the media regulator said tg kaha had not Sufficiently demonstrated that it took due care in broadcasting material Which could cause distress particularly given it was shown just four months after the tragedy in october 2022 and before regarding investigation Into the explosion was completed and in advance of that Um, it was it was clear and i'd like tg kaha, by the way I just think this was a a serious mistake they made on the behalf. It was clearly too soon It was clearly too soon There was questions that people had about their loved ones that weren't answered the final moments in some cases that they Hadn't really truly learned or understood and they were waiting on an investigation to say well. What took our families from us What took our loved ones from us? What happened in the process that maybe led to their passing or serious injuries? And it was just way too quick and everybody told them And it was clear from correspondence and conversations and this showed that it was too soon for the reasons outlined Pre-investigation people still had answers But still they persisted and they released a statement stating the reasons behind it Um claiming that they were only going to include information that was already in the public domain Which was there was information in it that wasn't and it was clear And it's unfortunate because tg kaha as I say I would hold in high regard and they had good warning that it wasn't wanted They're a geltok station And that tragedy happened in a geltok area and it's just Sad that they made the mistake of doing it when they did it served. No. I saw it at the time Serving no function Now there are those who are more personally affected than I am that might have thought it was the right thing as well And I accept that as I'm just just reacting to the commission and man findings there The merit the star sorry tells us that the young girl seriously injured in a stabbing incident at Dublin's pineal square Is back in in intensive care unit following a setback The five-year-old was injured in an instant outside the school in the north in a city on november 23rd last Now I know some people are saying well Why is it called an innocent an instant and not a stabbing by a named individual because there's a trial pending And that is why it's being phrased like that to what the young children and a female care worker were also injured Yesterday the girl's mother said on a GoFundMe page Uh, just a quick update. We had a bit of a setback and are currently in the ICU once more Bumps in the road particularly this long one are to be expected. However, she said they are still positive And hoping to get back on ward fingers crossed is how that message concluded I'm not sure. I think we have one of the lowest uptakes of of health insurance in Donegal in all counties across the country But some of you, of course, will have health insurance will be keeping an eye on premiums and unfortunately they're going up again If you're a vhi customer because Ireland's largest private health cover provider will hike its premiums for the third time in a year Some families will be worse off by around 300 euro a year after the vhi puts up costs by an average of 796 from march 1st now I would say there's quite a few families out there that You know might have people with long-term conditions or need this the comfort and support if that's how you would describe it of private health insurance And then they're facing this point whereby it's getting to the point that they can't afford it But if they don't pay it What's the alternative? So I imagine this is causes quite a lot of stress to people out there. It's not relevant to me I don't have it I never have but i'm sure there are those out there and they need it and as that price goes up another 300 euro per year It really is Quite a concern Bosses explain that the volume of planes rose by more than 20% last year while inflation made health care more Expensive if you have a comment on that let us know 08 6 60 25 000 and Elon muska hero to so many people it would seem He has always behind putting a Neuro link chip inside a human's head The quadriplegic had the 20 cent sized device inserted by a precision robot on sunday And it's recovering well the tycoon said it sends information on the person's brain activity to a neural link app Where it can be translated into actions and intentions on digital devices Musk hopes the product called telepathy will eventually allow users with chronic disabilities to communicate better Faster than an auctioneer. So presumably it picks up the The aim is that it will pick up the thoughts of someone and transmit them to an app so they can communicate and where it goes from there Who is to say? Thank that's a look at the newspaper. It's just a couple of emails here before we take off first break Hi greg just a career re re home insurance I find it hard to get a quote from companies as seemingly we live within 100 meters From the kind of water let it be a stream river beach or even a shock Even though we're not liable to flooding Can you check if this is true as we can only get one company to quote almost 800 euro? That's up nearly 200 euro since last year. So is that something that you have any experience of now? um 800 euro almost 800 euro depending on the value of your property might not be the worst quote in the world um because my Is pretty average property And it's not a great deal less than what you're paying Um, but that being said it seems to be rising or complicated by the fact that they're within 100 meters of a water source But that water source does not create Um a flooding liability now it depends on how that's explained in the map But anyway, there's someone out there. I'm sure has got far greater an insight into that than I have Please let us know Um, here's an interesting one standing on brie hill overlooking atlantic at 1455 on monday I saw an object fall through the sky The object was long with a wide tail section silver in color satellites can be up to 150 meters long Some are recoverable falling into the sea and picked up what I saw was Came through the clouds visible for two to three seconds when I got home I went on facebook asking if anyone else had seen it. It was definitely not a fireball so, um Mid-afternoon on monday. Someone mentioned to me that they did see this mid-afternoon on monday Did you see an object falling from the sky? Uh, and what was it? Have you been able to determine what it was now? separately to this um, and it was later in the day Talking of elin mosk his company starlink launched uh satellites They went when they launched them they cross over arland on a low orbit and they can be seen as a string of satellites This isn't what this person is talking about. This is something different. So as I say, this was monday around five to three Did you see that? Thing in the sky and if so, do you know what it was? Let us know oh eight six 60 25 thousand The nine till noon show with ohara's of foxford introducing our new 18 hour fermented white bloomer Scoring the bronze at blast neheron Do you have niggling pain tighter sore joints back pain? Or maybe you're just getting ready for the start of the ga season CS injury clinic boncran. I can help you. 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Thanks so much for your time today, right? We're going to talk about actions that schools are taking in relation to Vaping but it is really quite worrying and and actually almost quite remarkable in a really bad way how many young people have become users and addicted to e-cigarettes No, uh, and and that is true. We I suppose a number of years ago We thought we had smoking beaten We thought the number of teenagers that were smoking were reducing and we had evidence of that in schools But now vaping has become an absolute epidemic in schools And it's of huge concern to principles and school communities and I'd imagine it's a huge concern to parents as well and It has become so easy for them. They're flavored. They're easy to get and They don't know what's in the vapes, but it's becoming a huge problem in schools It is and of course there is the nicotine addiction And I've and anyone who has not ever been addicted to nicotine It's not just break times or whatever it draw, you know, I mean it is distracting It's you know, you know, it's a really really really strong addiction, but also There have been some reports of and it's really quite worrying students having Really bad reactions being unresponsive Through vaping how that happens. I'm not fully sure. I don't know if it's a Something else that's being put in instead of the the nicotine liquid or whatever But still that is another concern. We are hearing of instances right across the country of students collapsing after vaping No, we're hearing that up and down the country and a number of schools and quite a number of schools have had to enact their critical incident policy Where students would have reported elevated heart rates panic attack seizures even And the whole and even taken out of the school in an ambulance a number of students have been and you're managing the aftermath The care for that student the link with their their parents and families keeping them informed But then the residual panic that occurs within the school community for their friend and and Then they start to to wonder what is is in it and and we've had recent contact with the drugs and alcohol task force In in relation to to this and as a national issue And we're looking at some sort of intervention to support schools around that But they're reporting that they're getting More and more incidents of THC and cannabis oil being placed into the vapes and students are blissfully unaware of what is in the vape and They take that and have an adverse reaction to it and and it's it's it's it's a huge issue I think to Schools the legislators, you know Public health, whomever it might be need a bit of back up here from from parents and guardians because I Um don't think as we would mention it from time to time here I don't think enough noise is coming from parents I don't think maybe a lot of people realize how extensive this is that their child is actually probably likely at this point to be vaping Now I don't want to insult any parents don't get me wrong But if you look at the statistics from other countries that are comparable to here More young people are vaping than are not there's no real smell off it There's no obvious signs of it. So whilst you might think what's he talking about on the radio again It's very possible that your child is addicted to vaping and you don't know it And I think we need to be backing the schools up And the legislators who are finally catching up with some concerns now on this issue And and that is very very true and it's going to take a whole community response the school the parent other stakeholders health professionals healthcare professionals in in relation to I suppose a whole community response to to to this vaping and I suppose it starts really at school level with A robust policy schools will have a substance use or misuse policy and to get up to date information on vaping and a strong policy that is Written in partnership with the students with the parents with community stakeholders to to have a strong response And I mean schools some schools are using vape alarms in toilets as a deterrent But students go where you can't put obviously you can't put CCTV cameras in the toilets But so students go into the cubicle and they there there's no evidence So it's very hard for for schools while they are banned. It's very hard for schools to catch somebody Students have them in their pockets. You're not going to put your hand in your pocket to get it They're cute enough only to take it out at times when when they're not seen and and such is the nature of the addiction That they will they will do that and they will go to lengths To to protect that but it's a good start that the sale of vapes has been banned for under 18s But that is only the start and I know me how Martin has come out and said that that is only the start But but it's still not illegal for them to use them. Yeah, and also too. They're still available, right? So you still there are people able to purchase them There are people in schools that are 18 for an example now, not starting number I just want to correct something I said a little earlier on when I said We see statistics from other countries that are comparable to here that show More students vape than don't that's not actually quite true. Sorry. I just want to correct myself on that It's 20 percent. It's around 16 17 percent of mid teens 20 percent of older teens and less than 10 percent of younger teens But still that's one in five. That's declared. It could be greater But I just want to correct when I said the majority because that would be a mistruth The the thing about it is if people who have used I've gone into a vape shop for an example Um, I can't we have having the general conversation and we'll get to what schools would do But I think this is important if you might engage Paul But if if if someone stopped smoking they go into a vape shop, you know, there's different grades like 6 12 18 Or whatever it might be in the subconscious decision to all that I just wonder I haven't a clue what nicotine percentage is in a disposable vape You know if it's 12 18 any nicotine at all like you're talking more nicotine than smoking on a developing brain But also that addiction So when they are eventually banned at rides, we're going to have to be dealing with A lot of teenagers really on on calm down or wondering where they're going to get the next nicotine hit The obvious thing then is probably cigarettes. Do you know what I mean? So I think we need to be thinking about now a little bit into the future and then Post banning of these vapes where it's hard for kids to get their nicotine fix And and you're actually hitting on on a really really important point there That the this has been ongoing for I suppose the last two to three years So so it's in in many cases 16 17 year olds would be quite in in in the height of of the nicotine addiction And if they're not able to get vapes the worrying part is that they will go on to the internet and they will get them internationally And there's no regulation there Um with that Um, the the principle of the the the vape initially where it would help Adults wean themselves off smoking rather than going into cold turkey was very positive But now we're going to have a situation where we have a number of teenagers that will need that level of of support That the and and and that is very worrying from the point of view that our healthcare professionals are already stretched So it will be put on families to support Students in in that area. So what they need is relevant up to date support and information so that they can support Their their their teen or young adult as the as they move off because I don't I think An awful lot of teenagers don't want to smoke because of the anti-social nature of it the smell The fact that you have to go outside in the cold all of the time So I I think when when we get to the point and but even before their band, I think we need to start planning that Uh withdrawal and planning that um removal of the nicotine addiction from our teens and supporting them in that It really is coming down the track with at least one in five teenagers You just don't stop using nicotine with no Consequences because anyone who smoked knows exactly what it's like and I think really Schools don't want to be the bad guys in this necessarily You know, I think you mentioned or one of your colleagues mentioned that this needs to be a cross society message coming from moms and dads Granny and grandads and so forth But the local clubs where there's some influence there the sports clubs or you know, it's not just sports other Activity centers so to speak to get the message across because we need to break The cycle here, you know, it's going to be tough for these teens to get off nicotine But we need to sort of break it so there's not a new crop of nine and ten year olds hitting 11 12 13 and 14 vaping And that's what that's what will happen when I suppose when they become unavailable the legislation Hopefully will make them um out of the reach of our new crop of of teenagers But you're right. It is a whole community They need to get the same message in the gaa club the soccer club the rugby club and the dancing the music Whatever it is that that they are doing at home in school and and but we need we need information because I've actually heard people say well, I'd rather than vape than smoke But in many ways vaping is is much more dangerous because of the unknown element in it So we need that information to be able to change our societal attitudes that will Empower everybody to to help our teenagers. Yeah, for sure because even listening to rishi sunak In describing why they were banning them to some extent he was kind of promoting them because he was saying we do know And no, you know, how do you articulate it? He says, yes, we know there are much less damage in the smoking But but you know if you're a teenager you go, right? Well, I heard the first bit Okay, let's just say I just I just think it's a it's a really it's a really big issue Um, okay. Thanks very much for your time and um, we'll chat again. Take care of that is Paul crone director of the national association for principles and deputy principles And I really hope you don't think I'm on a a hobby horse or overstating it here It's just I've kind of seen it for myself and I can see how it can be I can see how it can be concealed and I can also see how it can complicate young people's lives in terms of socializing like if you've got a teenager that Is always slipping off to the room or in and out of the toilet. It's it's it's possible That's because they're they need to vape as I say if you've never been addicted nicotine You won't know as soon as it starts wearing off you have to go again um, so You won't smile it Um, you know, you won't see it in the eyes. You won't see it in the the gate so to speak but uh, there are other ways that you'll be You'll see it. 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We were speaking to um shin fain's housing spokesperson Owen o'brin yesterday And also we were reflecting on comments from the housing minister dara o'bran the day previously where he says the The defective concrete scheme is taking hold that it's beginning to work and it's going to be extended to more counties um now that's not For the most part and the figures back it up the lived experience And there are people this scheme excludes or different disenfranchises in different ways And i've two guests in studio now who are in the same boat Um with different properties. Kathleen bryant. Good morning to you. Thank you so much for joining us Good morning greg and also mary o'regan. Um, thank you, uh, mary. I'll start with you, uh, kathleen If that's all right, take us through the story of your home Well, you know first i'll just say remelton will be saying who is that woman everybody knows me as tina But anyway, i'm not your friend yet You know what it was just like when i came back from canada and i was going on facebook They wouldn't let me back on with tina bryant i had to show id So i had to use the kathleen bryant, which is my real name anyway, but anyway i um bought a new build donnie garl county council house in remelton with my life savings um And it was my life savings because i had to continue living with my mother for another 10 months until i could save up for my bed My kitchen table, but i was thrilled absolutely thrilled To have my own home to have my own door And be mortgage free and you'd worked uh much of your working life was towards this security of this Oh, of course. I mean i've been a carer or working with vulnerable people Um, you know in canada and australia and i came back to ireland to retire because it was a safe place to be And uh, you know my children one by one all came back as well, but To then find Actually, i spoke to you greg on the phone one time about the house in the state becoming dilapidated looking and you mentioned About cracks and you said i think that's one of the estates that people have talked about Micah as we knew at the time And i got this sickening feeling well, okay in my stomach that This is what my house is and people were trying to say no no no the settling cracks are settling cracks Um when i spoke to donnie goll county council, they were having nothing of it. You've bought your house. You're on your own basically And uh, you know, i got the tricomeral Involved this has gone back 2017 then Um before the paddy divas i didn't know paddy or anybody then Um, and i was a relatively young woman. I wasn't six-stake Do you know but here i am i'm going to be 68 this year Um, and i don't know where the motivation has gone You know, you're sitting here with two angry pensioners. We're not Sitting here feeling sorry for ourselves, but we are left out Nobody cares and yet we were here at the beginning Of the push we were doing all the talking the phone and the emails interviews You know, i'm constantly on twitter Uh trying to keep it relevant um And i just feel almost like a double blow in that you know Not through any fault of anyone in the campaign of which you've been a strong part of cathleen But you feel sort of you know left behind push to the side Every now and again the word will come up. Oh and what about the pensioners? What about the pensioners? We don't have the money to rebuild Who's going to give us any money? You know, we've worked most of us have worked all our lives were taxpayers And i was just saying to mary in the green room if you like It's you feel as if this is what you've worked for all your life And but you're leaving nothing we My my children wouldn't care if i had anything to leave for them, but i do i feel as if this is something I did i i think this Like i'm i'm would be um i would be classed in the same um bold as you cathleen in terms of You know, i've never had jobs where i can accumulate wealth if you know what i mean So there's not a nest egg there. There's not anything i can bequeath the children so to speak It's kind of all in the the house now that's providing that's providing I don't need that to provide care in my life, you know It's a little mark on life That that's just that just all there is so and i'm gonna come to you in a moment mary and then we can sort of go between the two So when when you can you have you had your house tested? No, right so in terms of We see even just to simply get onto the scheme. There's a 800 800 year old What's the point of me going on the scheme and and this is they say there's i listen to iano brine's interview Dara of ryan's You know they're saying there's 1800 people That have applied but does believe me there's about 18 000 people that haven't no of course in remelton alone I would say there's about 500 Affected houses and that's just a small little town So you can imagine but there is at least 18 000 that i would say It's a small percentage. That's 1800 people that can possibly afford to rebuild What's the point of me getting my house tested when i can't even go on the scheme because i can't I can't raise the money. So just to paint the paint the picture here Firstly, you'd have to engage a surveyor or whatever there. So that's going to be six seven eight hundred quid Yeah, yeah Then your house has to be fully compliant with all planning regulations and you have to get the site checked if it's not all that stuff And then that's just to be accepted onto the scheme Whereby you can get your house board plus. I'm a semi detached. Yeah, which makes things even harder And you know, i'm going to be 68 this year. I have no idea about becoming a contractor And that's what's going to be expected of us We are going to be expected to get our builder Electricians demolition team I wouldn't know where to start but you still don't even know How it would work with your neighbor your foundations you're in a leaf or anything like that We're back and forth. I want to speak to mary now mary o reagan Um, you bought a house in manor. I did this was your forever home effectively. It was I was the way I put it I was relocating and uh, my two older boys live abroad and my youngest son's in Dublin And my daughter lives in manor with her husband and her three lovely children her three boys And I wanted to I as I say I was relocating and I wanted to to Be near the family that I'd have a semblance of family life yet have my independence So I chose to to move to manor and it was a beautiful home for bedroom detached sunroom beautiful view And um for the it seemed perfect and I suppose we all know there's nothing perfect And it went well for a few years and in 2011 I had the house painted And on one gable end the the paint started to peel in places So I got the painters back and I said to them if you sealed it and then painted it and they said right We'll do that so they did that and then again it started to peel and I couldn't get them back again So then the cracks started and there was some one Neighbor said to me one day, you know, she had heard that these houses weren't weren't very well built And I thought no that can't be right and So in 2016 In the january I was diagnosed with cancer and a couple months later as I put it the house was diagnosed with at then mica and Uh, it was just such an awful time. I dealt with the cancer. There was remediation for that But there was nothing for for for the defective blocks. Um, I Got it when I when I had the cancer I got very anxious living on my own Now as I say, it is quite a big house and my daughter lives in the village as well And I said, would there be any chance that you would take over my house and we build on as I called it an annex but India's probably called it a granny flash and I went got plan permission that cost me two and a half thousand from a reputable firm and The architect knew it was dealing with me knew I had cancer and we said to him about the cracks I said sure everybody's saying the cracks. They've they've mica not at all. He says not at all So we even had a contractor and it was about two weeks before to start I said to my daughter just let's get the surveyor and you have to be sure to be sure surveyor came out and he said are you coming out and I said I'm not And I knew by the way they walked back in there was a problem. So he told me Yes, you have mica and he told me about the mica action group and He told me that down the road There would have to be testing and it was going to be an astronomical price So I just thought right I was working part-time in Dublin I would go to Dublin every Monday I just get up at four o'clock and travel to Dublin work all day and come back that evening And then I would work remotely the other four mornings And then I took on another job to try and get this money I took on a job being escort on the school bus now believe me that was no picnic You know it was early mornings very early mornings and then the school had very little parking So we had to go in and now before the children got out of school like for for the bus to park So all that money What had it started as and this is the truth that had started as a burial fund in the in the credit union And then I just started topping that up and eventually I did get the money together And I got the the testing done. I paid just short to seven thousand and Yes, we got 90 back, but it took quite a while to get the 90 percent Now if I owed the government the amount of time they took to give me my 90 percent back They'd want interest we didn't get interest But I went ahead with it anyway and I got a The surveyor did he came he did it was during lockdown and he did a zoom call with myself my daughter And he said look mary You know there was only two options and one of them was crazy with these pylons would have to be put down He said mary you're far better You know to rebuild the house and my daughter looked at me and says mom. Have you heard what what he just said? and I said yeah, I have and so from there Nothing much happened and then Like as I say had all the results and everything so I decided then I'd look for a builder and Then I got an architect and I I think I have a builder on You know on site if you want to put it, but I do have an architect and he did he said right I was saying I wanted to rebuild the house. So he did plans And they were submitted in june and they were finally passed under 26 july. That was the formal planning permission and The builder gave me a price Not quite sure where it all come from But I started doing something two years ago I started paying into the credit union every week as if I had a loan So I'd build up a rapport with them because nobody no bank's going to give me money Yep, I guess it'll only be a credit union But then how am I going to pay that darn thing back? Is it possible? Is it without Asking any personal questions. Can you give a percentage or a figure as what the shortfall is between? what you would expect to get from the grand and The the quote for a price a like for like replacement The figures I've been given I'm looking at 40,000 and it'll probably be 50,000 Yeah, and And like that, I I'm looking at all the time about I was thinking about the family and what I'm leaving behind As a beautiful house and you know would have been lovely for them or a good house to sell Now I don't know like now. I'm thinking of right Mary. You've got to get yourself sorted You know, you all you do is think about It'll sort of the the family and what you want to leave them. You've got to get yourself sorted You've got to get some kind of a life. I'm 73. I had an extremely bad fall two years ago I did a lot of work in 21 for and I had this very bad fall Bleeding my brain fractured skull and I am left with A permanent brain damage which manifests itself as major fatigue So I'm not the woman I was two years ago and I'm facing into all this Packing up this house a friend said me at the evening on the phone on Mary. How are you going to do what's motivating you Mary because do you know with everything you've been through over the last number of years? I would say I'm not letting the county council do this to me Would they're making us dot our eyes and cross our teeth to a ridiculous extent if they had dotted their eyes and cross their Tease we would not be in this horrendous nightmare now. That is fact county council Showed me with storm Aisha We you know if you look at my house from the front There's not a mark and actually the picture that highland radio users of the side of a house. That's my house filled And I have a chunk now out of the back and cracks all along the side But nobody during storm. I should that was a status 10 That's evacuation. That's take cover People were in people were moving into hotels. My daughter asked me You know mom they have rooms at the silver tassie will we put you in and I'm like my house isn't that bad You know, but let me just say don't go on county council Didn't care about the pensioners then the children. They could have said Open the community center open the community centers That the people take a sleeping bag take cover There was no thought there's no thought for any pensioners And and I hope people remember this when it comes to the elections We have a redress party Okay, but I do have to take a quick break and then that means we can talk up to To ten and we'll pick up exactly where you left off there Just in case you think i'm trying to cut you off Back in just a couple of minutes the nine till noon show with ohara's of foxford It takes 18 hours to perfect our new 18 hour fermented sourdough bread one bite and you'll agree true taste takes time Welcome to boots. How can we help? Is it normal that it stings when I want to support me immune system? 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We will review the book on my show on sunday the 11th of february And as usual if you'd like to take part in any review email me gene kern at highland video dot com Highland radio weather updates brought to you by grant building a new home choose grants a triple plus rated Aeronah air to water heat pump and you flex under floor heating visit grant dot ie Okay, mostly dry at first with some bright spells developing but breezy with fresh to strong and gusty southwest winds Turning cloudier as a band of rain moves in and there could be some heavy showers in that band of rain By the way, we're in the company of mariel reagan and kathleen brian tina brian's who are both I don't know is it discrimination exclusion? I don't know what it might be but whichever word you wish to choose the scheme In its current form is certainly not for them and kathleen you emphasize We were about to emphasize the importance of this being a local stroke european election issue, right? And and we have we already know What fina ford fina gale Are going to do for us. We've had 13 years of it donnie goll county council We know what they're going to do for us, which is zilch But we have a redress party coming along And they are good honest hardworking people They're taken nobody from any party. So there's nobody tainted here and they are going for Everybody nobody is going to be left behind in this redress party But it's not just about defective homes. They are still going to go and and work on the health care inflation our hospitals our education system It's a it is a real party and we should be supporting them and You know the same way as we support paddy diva Paul dunlop Everybody else. We should be supporting this redress party. It's nearly like a resistance. I don't know where the motivation has gone people People don't realize in another 10 years. They'll be sitting in the same place that mary and iak from talking to people it seems to me like the They've been beaten down to a point and also we're at a stalemate And a lot of people are pinning their hopes on other parties fulfilling their commitments be redress be it shin fena whatever mary Your determination To see this through is being do or die, but it's being frustrated though. You have to engage with the system So the system is not matching your urgency and your your your drive. Yeah, I mean I I'm As I say, I'm a vulnerable member of of this awful scheme and Like every time I I think I'm getting somewhere and I'll say to a friend. Oh, yeah Had the builder had the architect here. Yeah, it's going great. And then nothing and then Paddy'll ring me could be six weeks later. Well, mary. How are things going only for paddy diva? I don't know where I'd be. I'm a blow in I don't know many people but um the friends I I don't have a big circle friends I have a small circle but they are salted the earth and only for them. I don't know where I would be Um in my life, I've I've you know, everybody has knocks in their life I was born on Friday the 13th and as I always say it's been a vent for liver sins Um, I had two fires in in two house fires in my married life And the second one I had three children under three and a half and I had a baby of six weeks old And I dealt with those I I know what it's like for the younger people And I know now what it's like for the older people But really, um honestly For only for the like of paddy. Um, there is a counselor. I won't use his name. He's been very good to me Um, Lisa Doherty, uh, you know, uh Only for people like that. Are you frustrated at the the overall apparent lack of momentum in sort of saying hull on you You know, it's not what it was promised to be. We're being left behind Listen to you Do you know how you know what access we have to to the the defective block scheme You can phone in on a Tuesday and a Thursday from 9 to 12 30 And I did that and I got this young girl one and I asked her a question and she said, oh, oh, I'm sorry I don't know. I only started today. So in other words, they're not even putting experienced people on the telephone to us. They're treating us like a lower form of life And I have this stage. I was told, um, uh, at Christmas before Christmas Uh, a counselor made an inquiry for me and he came back and said mary your file is there It's kind of ready to go and uh, you will get the counselor be back to you with whatever redress I'm going to get in january january is gone monday somebody else Uh, inquired for me and they said, uh, oh, yes, we've everything now, you know, and she'll hear next month I got an email yesterday evening Uh, it actually came in a quarter seven that they need more information. It is so destroy it Some people feel it's designed to be unworkable Oh for that for sure. But look at look at the whole thing. It was all started off. You had to do It was computerized. You had to win a certain portal. Um, you know, there was no hub set up for people who aren't it Orientated nothing set up for them or and and even for me. I mean, I've used in in work I would I mean I've used an online bank since it was introduced, but I wouldn't be good on word or any of those Just in the last couple of minutes and I'm going to come back to you kathleen But just mary what's your biggest fear at the moment? But I believe that I will get this house built and I'll have to sell it. I won't be able to afford it Okay, kathleen same thing you want to add. I just want to in the last couple of minutes I want to make sure if there's key points that you wanted to get across today that you do It's lonely. Yes. It's very very lonely because people are sick and tired of listening to you and If you try to motivate and you say something people will say, oh, we don't want the public to turn against us The public believe me from being on social media here all the time. They're tired of listening to us as well They're like, what are you going to do about it? But the problem is is um, I'm saying this as an observer, okay? Yeah, and some people won't like me at saying it, but I can always say what I see Is the conversation nationally is that this is a done deal that everything's there Multi-billion years are all sorted now. And if you say anything now you're moaners. Yes wine is everything you know what I mean so even that interview that The dire of brine had at the start of the week Listening to it if I were not from here, and I didn't know everything's fixed now. Let's move on. Let's expand it to more media You keep it alive, greg. Yeah, you keep it alive, but we're not in the media. It comes at a cost too No, I don't care I'm sure speaking about it speaking about this publicly comes at a cost and it comes at a cost for us Yeah, I don't care about me, but Exactly that's where we've that's where we've arrived at now Yeah, the last prime time that they spoke about micah about two months ago and they showed then like the area where uh Councillors pd or tds and that would say there was nobody there and I said, oh my god. That's just Pointing us. We're we're lost. We're completely lost. You'd hear um Minister for housing speaking about all the houses that have been built and temporary housing for other people There's no temporary housing for us. We that's another thing. We have to go and look for a home And I I did that I went and I literally went down the street and went into a place We have nowhere to go nowhere and we have nobody to trust them We trust paddy diva or lisa daherty You know Paddy diva is just the rushing gala has joy beard. Those are people that you trust that are good people But anybody that's in the media Um and has something to say in the newspapers or that they can have air time like johnny goll county councillors like Fina gale fina foil, you know They're not helping us. They're given us no answers Dara o brian is saying What he wants everybody to believe And if you're not a defective homeowner you are going to believe that but there's 15 counties affected here And they're talking about expanding it, which when they talk about expanding it I don't know about you mary. It scares me even more because I feel I'm even push further down the list now And listen at the end of the day there's a tiny percentage of affected people that have entered into this scheme and and If they have how far have they progressed within it because even with your dogged determination mary and cathleen But just mary with the story you're telling is it's a battle to get a phone call answered to progress it. Okay Um cathleen bryant. Thank you very much for calling out to us. I do appreciate it mary o reagan Thank you as well. Thank you. I I hope Something I don't know what it is going to be I am Inherent skeptic at this place cynic. We've all seen it all before Will Things change. I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. Well, we can't keep doing the same old same old And we can't just keep you know sanity definition, isn't it? Okay, listen both of you. 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Just gone 10 o'clock donal kavna at the highland radio news desk There'll be close scrutiny of the uk government's deal with the d up Details of which are to be published later. The agreement includes new legislation to end post brexit checks on british goods Moving to northern ireland and remaining there the d up pulled the plug on power sharing at stormont And after two years there are still a number of unresolved pay disputes Marie erwin a special needs teacher in belfast says the impact of the storm and shutdown has been enormous People have no belief in our government anymore. People are sad um, and I think Mental health levels have risen hugely in this small country And I do think that that has a direct impact to us not having a government up and running Post brexit controls on food plants and animal imports into the uk from the eu come into force today Meat and dairy fruit veg and cut flowers will require specific health certificates with tarnish to me hall martin and agriculture minister Charlie mcconnellog urging irish exporters to ensure that they're prepared for the new regulations The cost to british businesses could be in the hundreds of millions pushing up prices Peter hartwick from the british meat processors association says more negotiation is needed We should sit down with the european union Negotiate a comprehensive veterinary agreement based on alignment That would wipe away this problem overnight remove all the costs. It would also significantly resolve the issues In relation to goods moving to newton ireland Iskia erwin is warning that repairs to a burst water main may cause supply disruptions to carne road Ture ardmore lore white castle red castle quickly's point and surrounding areas in southern ishown A traffic management plan is in place for the duration of the works Which are set to take place until four o'clock this afternoon Members of dunigold county council have been briefed on the new deposit return scheme which comes into effect tomorrow A levy of 15 cent will be imposed on cans or bottles containing 500 milliliters or less and 25 cent On containers holding above 500 milliliters with the charge being redeemed when the bottle or can is recycled in a special return machine Machines are being placed in larger shops smaller shops and other premises have been granted exemptions The presentation to dunigold county council this week was made by the authority's director of water and environment services michael macgarvey He says while there may be initial issues the scheme is a very important one I'm sure we will run into some heating problems initially, but I think um that this is something that we welcome And we think will help Support the really good work that our community groups are tidy tan groups etc throughout the country are doing We have five and a half to six thousand volunteers out there And the big spring cleanup in the coming weeks and months and this will definitely help be a step in the right direction And then the show and councillor says dunigold county council must take the lead in ensuring government is fully aware of the level of deprivation in the county councillor albert doherty says the public Deprivation index released last november shows dunigold was ranked the most disadvantaged county in the state He told members that areas of in a show on are among the worst affected But still don't qualify for claire funding councillor doherty wants the council to analyze and collate the data so that a case can be made to government For additional resources and social inclusion measures I have at all times been arguing for an increase an extension of the claire program to include areas and any shown once again there are many Significantly disadvantaged areas have not access to claire. We must collate and find out why Dunigold has remained and not changed from being the most socially disadvantaged And that's the effort that we all must put her shoulder behind the wheel Police in strabano repealing information about the theft of a power washer from a property in the town It's believed the red pro 3000 pressure washer was taken from the rear of a property in olympic drive Sometime between the fourth and 19th of january police are urging anyone who knows where it is Or has been offered a power washer for sale in suspicious circumstances to contact them And a status yellow wind warning remains in place in dunigold golly trumeo and slago this morning It's still in effect until one o'clock this afternoon. There's one power outage in the county at the moment. That's in done in bandurham with esp networks saying the 41 homes and businesses affected there should have their power restored By quarter past four this afternoon metair in a's warning of wave over topping in coastal areas With strong and gusty south westerly winds and rain spreading from the northwest And looking at the forecast Turning very windy for a time today mostly dry at first with some bright spells But breezy fresh to strong and gusty south west winds becoming more pronounced through the morning Turning cloudier with a band of rain moving in from the northwest toward mid-morning That's starting to hit around about now in dunigold. That's going to bring stronger winds The rain should clear by mid-afternoon followed by drier clearer and colder conditions with winds decreasing fresh westerly Top temperatures today nine or ten degrees celsius and that's island radio news We're back with news headlines again at 11. Check all of today's news on our website island radio dot com But for now from the news team have a very good morning The obituary notices for this wednesday morning the 31st of january The death has taken place of ashling little name xane shankregan strewnorner formerly of kill car Her remains will repose at her late residence from 12 noon today Funeral from there on friday morning at quarter past 10 For 11 o'clock funeral mass in the church of maria macklitz strewnorner with burial afterwards in drumbo cemetery Family time pleas from 10 p.m to 12 noon and on the morning of the funeral rosary nightly at nine Family flowers only please donations in lew to briskare center northwest care of any family member Or tern smith lintuck funeral director The funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv The death has taken place of mary doherty nae pattern upper drumor letter kenny Mary's remains will repose at her late residence today and tomorrow from 2 p.m until 10 p.m Celebration of mary's life and prayers will take place at the family home at half past 11 on friday morning Followed by interment in conwall cemetery letter kenny Family flowers only please donations in lew if desired to the palliative care team donigol hospice care of any family member The death has occurred of plunkett bar binyon road clon mani His remains will repose at his home with all welcome today from 11 a.m to 7 p.m Funeral from his home tomorrow morning at quarter to 11 going to st. michaels church urus for requiem mass at half past 11 with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery house private pleas before the funeral tomorrow Family flowers only please donations in lew if desired to carndona community hospital patients comfort fund care of any family member or komoski funeral directors The funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv The death has to come place of elizabeth lizzie peoples court milford Reposing at her home funeral service tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock in milford presbyterian church with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery Family time please from 10 p.m to 12 noon Family flowers only please donations in lew if desired to the friends of letter kenny university hospital care of any family member And the death has occurred of kevin donahey Darnie brookless Kevin's body is being denated for medical research the house is private Please a celebration of kevin's life will take place in st. john's church killi begs on friday at 12 noon For family information and more details regarding wakes and funerals, please go to highland radio dot com The 100% electric new nissan area is now on ireish roads Which means you'll discover the game changing silhouette that sets it apart as well as its luxurious interior Inspired through japanese design then you'll discover the smooth acceleration quiet operation and advanced technology that makes every drive a pleasure The new nissan area for 43 500 euro test drive it today and discover outstanding nissan innovation that excites Dealer delivery and related charges apply and now in rose 2023 best local original news program The voice of the northwest the nine till noon show with greg hughes And the voice of the northwest is your voice and thanks to mary and Kathleen two incredibly powerful women on the program there just before ten outlining their experiences of Trying to engage with the defective concrete redress scheme Greg had the government no obligation to fix these houses says a listener. Well The obligation as they see it has been outlined in the scheme, I suppose Another caller says I cannot understand why these homeowners haven't all withheld their mortgage payments collapse the banks Why is it okay for bank managers to collapse our banks and send our country into a bailout but not the public? The only thing this government will listen to is a bank collapse. Well, I mean, there's a couple of things with that And I get where you're coming from and and there's you probably know more than I do. I'm sure you do and many others do Um, firstly, I don't think The it would collapse the banks for a starter Um, because there's probably even though there's an awful lot of people affected It's probably, you know, not a percentage that would be required to do that. Secondly The scheme as it's laid out a lot of people are going to have to seek finance and are seeking finance You refuse to pay your mortgage. You can't do that. You can't go to your credit union. You can't go to your banks You can't get a bridging loan Your property you could lose your property as well, of course You couldn't get a mobile phone. Um, you probably couldn't pay in for your car insurance over 10 months as some people have to Do you know, so there are great consequences for purposely Destroying and defaulting on on a mortgage. Um, so I get where you're coming from But I don't think you could ever be done on a scale organized enough That it would have the impact. I think people would just be left individually Unjaxed financially Listening to these very strong women were certainly not sick of hearing your terrible story. Keep fighting says a listener Another the banks need to work with people. It's impossible to move on to Demolishing and getting the house up to subfloor level to get the first stage payment No builders going to go without money for average of three months indeed and that's for those who have access to credit Um as well, um, you know, there are some people who are older and Even if the banks were to come to the table Would they agree on a term and what happens if that person were to pass away and so on and so forth Are these the realities of the crisis we're facing because there's so many different people Uh, so many different people with different scenarios We haven't even talked about those with you know, the the farming community who have been greatly affected by this problem as well They aren't really included in this scheme at all and and many I've spoken to Don't want to speak out because they feel that with people Worrying about their homes. They don't feel they can speak about their their their businesses if that makes sense Those in social housing as well though. Hopefully they're with the tenders that are going out That is the scheme is being employed in a way that will work for them um Those in community, uh, those within community or office buildings community facilities Where are all they in all of this? Thank you Greg for allowing an outlet for those affected my defective block issue That's why certain public ministers won't come on you show well done again to you and your team Um and the application process says the caller is uh ridiculous and I've just Provisionally exploring it and it is uh a nightmare I noted dcc that I may have a notified donagol kind of council that I may have defective concrete A number of unqualified tradesmen have stated I probably have I've told dcc a number of times The home has not been tested and thankfully cracks are not too bad But widening and no kids in my house, but I would like to know if I have it or not recently dcc contractors filled in cracks and painted over them House looks uh great, but Mike is still there. I would say well. Look there's vertical crack Meet the horizontal crack and the crack over a millimeter that if that's what you have I think that's the basis the basic line and again correct me if I'm wrong That's the basic line really you have to cross that's the threshold Now to get told you have that it's going to cost hundreds and hundreds of euro and then you have to um Start the process of applying for the scheme before you can even get tested so um, but you're in a a council house Why can't the department through county councils employ tradesmen on a full-time basis to complete works on a house A win for everyone bolt buying would mean better buying power and cheaper for the department tradesmen's guaranteed full-time employment Well, that seems to be the Sinn Féin policy and it is the council's policy or the state's policy in terms of council owned houses But not for the individual homeowner. They're expected on a case-by-case individual by individual basis To fully manage the scheme from beginning to end Um, right some more comments here. Um, let me see. I only found out my 16 year old was vaping Because I found it when making his bed. I'm dead against vapes. I know and I bet you thought yours And we've all been down that route or many of us have but you thought yours wasn't and now you find it And there he is or she is Paula says that there should be education in secondary schools regarding addictive behaviors in all areas alcohol vaping drugs, etc Once you become addicted you have to live with it and try and manage it for the rest of your life There should be an education on societal pressures and psychological effects of addiction and again The problem with the vapes isn't and again for anyone listening. It's most likely you've given up smoking It's always there. I think that you did smoke once or that you could relapse and have another You know nicotine. You don't just do it from it and then stop That's what really worries me about the young people because if you can't get a vape you will go and get a cigarette Because your body tells us that you do need nicotine. It's really tough It's really tough and we're gonna have a whole crop of uh, you know Thousands tens of thousands of young people with this real strong addiction nicotine is so hard to come away from And if you have been addicted to it, you really kind of spend a lot of the rest of your life You know avoiding slipping back into it Health insurance in Donegal is a waste of money. You're paying for urgent care centers for people in Dublin says listener Hi, Greg. Does anyone know what the problem is with air wi-fi in the convoy area? Been out since the storm contacted air and they said they'll fix it as soon as they can but it could take weeks So that's the broadband effectively. Um, I mean it's the wi-fi in the house But I presume or sorry just to be clear. Are you on about mobile broadband in the convoy area or your um Your house broadband. Uh, let us know we'll make contact with air as well. See if we can get a more formal answer for you Hi, my son also seen the light in the sky around three is just over at the a7 in letter kenny arena seven I showed him the video of fireballs and the starlink, but he said What he seemed was different. He was so worked up and said it looked like it was going to land as he described Uh close to tower court area Okay, so um that And this person showed fireballs and starlink wasn't that Uh, please tell greg that I saw the silver like object pass through the sky on monday also from anise skillan It was going quite fast just appeared and disappeared within seconds And I thought it might have been a meteorite passing through the atmosphere But maybe it was a satellite brendan gallagher in anise skillan brendan great. Have you listening in anise skillan? By the way, thanks for choosing highland. I'd love to know why uh, if you want to message us back Not that there should be a why but I do really appreciate it um I don't know what it could it be a ufo. Let's just go crazy and say it was a ufo. Have you seen the ufo? Was there aliens in it? Uh, greg re-home insurance my renewal came in at 417 euro called them up and they said the best they could do Was 390 and that's me being a returning customer decided to price around via broker and got the same company For 320 as a new customer. Where's the customer loyalty? Well, please They're not loyal to us. We shouldn't be loyal to them. That applies to mobile phones brawl bands Uh, house insurance car insurance. I've saved a fortune All for the last number of years shopping around Uh, phi putting up the prices due to consultants popping up their prices I asked how much an injection that I was getting was it was twice the price when I claimed it through the phi The consultant told me off the record that prices are higher for patients with insurance. Okay Receipts for work, uh don can't even be uploaded onto the council's website. They won't accept emails This means money isn't being paid out for work done. That's on the mica scheme Cancel downfilling potholes throwing it into water and rolling it with the wheel of a lorry wasted time and money especially No drains or tables opened all it's going to do is sticking to cars passing over it I'm not a uh Expert doesn't seem ideal there And just lastly before we take the bingo numbers, uh, congratulations to steve toy at log logo picks Um, he won the Irish wedding photographer of the year last night in the crown plaza in Dublin That's two years in a row. Well done to you Um, Steven steve. 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Dr. Anthony brezlin is a consultant in public health medicine and is with us on the program now Good morning. Anthony. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Greg. Thank you So talk to us a little bit about measles, you know, what it is who would affect what can happen this one catches it Okay, uh, well measles has uh the important reputation of being one of the most easily transmissible Infection, so it's very very easy to transmit for instance If a child with measles goes into a gp surgery and is there for more than 20 minutes We have to We have to include that Anybody else in that surgery way to them is exposed. We have to take action to follow them up. So that's that's how infectious it is and Thankfully, we don't have in many cases But some of the older listeners might remember when it was a more to the severe disease And most people got us And for most people it was a annoying infection the raw school for a day or two They got an extra comic or a bit of ice cream But what we forget because we're not seeing the numbers thankfully is that it can be a very serious infection It can lead to pneumonias. It can lead to neurological problems deafness Vision problems It can lead to children being admitted to hospital and going to icu and unfortunately it can lead to deaths and back in 2002 There was an outbreak in the eastern part of the country on Dublin And at that stage there were Number two in hospital and there were three deaths unfortunately And so the historical memory is gone. There are grandmothers who might remember us but parents and Young people may not remember it, but it can be a serious infection and it's very very transmissible And that's why we want to stop it Happening is it easy to identify why we are seeing such an increase in cases? particularly across europe and britain Because vaccination has dropped europe-wide 10 years ago we in the north west would have had Of 95 uptake the vaccine and you need that we're now down to 80 uptake of the vaccine And that's mirrored another part of the country and it's also in the same europe and the uk And because it's so transmissible once it gets into community it does get around And the reason we need such high uptake is that um We need to protect people directly if they get the vaccine they shouldn't get the infection Then there's a small group of people who can't get vaccines for medical reasons, whatever And then there's another small group who they get the vaccine, but the vaccine doesn't take So we want to do is get as many people vaccinated so that the buyers might come in But it can't transmit it can't go anywhere And this is not necessarily something brand new I mean, you know we could and we have in the past and I don't want to sound like a scratch record But you know there's a lot of talk about vaccines post covid But if you look at historically where there have been spikes in cases It does tend to follow a viral conversation about vaccines, you know what I mean? So when those uh, oh it does I mean if you I suppose the thing Uh, what's your struggle might be alluded to there is the the wakefield situation in the The early 2000s when there was a Spurious attempt to link the mmr to autism based on a study with eight children, which is an even Phenomaly poor study and the Lancet would printed it retracted it other people who were involved in the study retracted it And dr. Wayfield was struck off the the medical register in the the uk because um, it was fraudulent research Not just bad research. It was fraudulent But as spiking missiles followed that controversy enough people it stuck with Yeah, it did it did indeed and it struck and Uh, if you look at the autism issue, uh, if it was linked to autism Uh, why are autism cases increasing relatively small, but they are increasing But yes measles vaccination was stable or decreasing. So you there there is not a link there at all But uh, we're concerned because at the moment now We have cases in France cases in Austria cases in the uk and people travel a lot more We have the midterm coming up. We have people going uh to europe on holidays and skiing trips and everything else And we have people coming uh to ireland to the northwest and we don't want them getting measles Uh, we don't want them getting sick Whatever about a mild case We don't want that happening, but we don't want people getting very sick Uh and ending up with severe consequences. Okay. So when uh, normally is the m r m m r, um vaccine offered It's given in two doses. Uh, first dose is around 12 13 months and the second dose then is given just preschool The one dose is good two dose is better We wait until 12 months because children Younger children have some maternal antibodies and that stops a good immune response. Ironically, they have some minor protection Um from the maternal antibodies they get during pregnancy, but they don't give a good immune response So for instance, when we have an outbreak Uh, we might give the vaccine to children from six months up But we once the outbreak is over we forget about that dose. I mean they have to guess another dose at 12 months How would a parent or guardian because I've been through this before and it can be quite complicated If you miss the booklet or something like that there, how can you determine? And believe it a lot people do forget a few years later How can you determine if the the child has had one or two or no? You probably remember if they had no but it could have been off sick for the second one and didn't get Oh, yeah. Yeah, things happen. Yeah. Yeah. How do you determine? And the second part of that question is is if it is if it's case that they didn't get either or How do you go about actually then getting it? Okay, first of all, you might have a immunization records And you've no doubt put that in the safe place. You've forgotten where it is, but if you can get it It's it's in that If even you can't get that You can contact your GP and your GP will have records there And if you do need it your GP will Get the vaccine for you And and that's it's one injection but then and don't forget about text against me's and mom's and rubella And the rubella is very important for women for down the line if they're going to have children Okay, so um check with your GP if you don't have that information Yes, okay. Listen. Thank you very much for that Anthony that stock go ahead. Did you want to say one thing else? No, no, thank you for the opportunity and I'm not trying to scare monger But just with the the holidays coming up, etc. We just don't want people to have problems. Okay. Thank you very much indeed symptoms Include high fever cough running nose characteristic red rash any symptoms like that Or you've been in contact with someone in measles with measles Your advice to stay at home and contact your doctor by phone for advice such as its Transmissibility you heard dr. Anthony Bresson there. I'm not telling you what to do I give you the information from the people that Have trained in this area and then you decide The parish of Ernie and castle finna holding a st. Bridget's night and making of crosses. It's in donny loop community centre From 7 p.m. Tonight a fun filled night in store keeping our tradition going everyone. Welcome. Okay. Good if you get along to that Can you please play a request for mary macaliff? 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I'm just gonna have to check into that Uh vhi can greg do a piece on this and if electricity bills less than 150 no government subsidy So a single person out working an older person, etc. No relief who decided that Um, right. 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We're here for you Okay, welcome back to the 9 till noon show So, uh, the british government is set to publish details of its deals with the d up to restore storm and power sharing It's expected to include legislation Which could be fast tracked through parliament on thursday tomorrow the move follows the d up's endorsement Of the agreement on monday subject to laws proposed in the deal being passed d up leader Jeffrey donelson sent the plans provide a basis for storming to return. But obviously there's a lot of Waiting to see that devil in the detail phrase being used in relation to that senator now blaney is a spokesperson on northern island and member of the good friday agreement Committee good morning to you senator. This is of course on the face of it very good news Is it news that you're expecting? You could really see you're expecting it great. Um, you're expecting more knows, uh, if i'm being honest about it, I didn't expect it and was I think we've got the stage where we weren't expected the u.p. To take the final job given i haven't taken it So close a number of times recently um, but i think in the protest changed um The attitude of people in northern island um I think in a better group in my team. They're great. Okay. Uh, hopefully it's not too big a distraction Is it all right? Okay Actually, you're actually telling you what the problem is? Most of the people really milked the lines People were just fed up There were actually some units that didn't vote for shimsy and Moreover people are fed up with the fact that storming hasn't been in place Um, what do you think? I mean obviously on the first instance and that echo should have been relieved now at this stage On the first instance, this is good news. Uh getting power sharing back up and running and all of that Um, and of course then releasing money that the the british government had committed which triggered, uh, you know Which would help obviously offset any future strikes by public workers and what have you but it does mean There's wider work now for for that will benefit not only northern island but us here in the northwest region going forward That hopefully progress can be made on now No, absolutely. Greg. Um, I suppose The 10 t is at the perfect point and the case study is about to go to government now Um, and that's that's important because Once the cabinet decides on on that case study, um We're no longer sitting waiting for the next stage to happen and approval and approval approval What once they they approve the project they realize the the the funding devs that are required to to fund is that project and that that's timely and because the n2a 5 um That that has to be the priority now as well to move that project forward and All of us are starting to come together and not together just at the right time. Um, and it's Particularly good news for us in the northwest But more over for the people in northern islands And we have to ensure that what happened over the last eight years were five of those years There was no assembly. We have to ensure that the likes the dup and shun being can't do that again. Um We can't just throw all throw all the ties out of the plan when things don't go away There needs to be a better way and democracy has to work better for the people of northern and and the borough counties and particularly austin and iguana because we are and so aligned with them with the northern borough and um It's really important for us that democracy does work And we do get to move on and make things happen. Do you believe the the internal issues in the dup could scooper anything here because uh Jeffrey donelson an issue. I think he said this effectively gets rid of the Uh gets rid of the the seaboarder, which has been such an issue The language has changed a little bit today because it uh, it the new deal means no checks on most goods crossing from great britain to northern island Most goods staying in northern island will not need checks or customs declarations that most That that most word is is becoming interesting now And there are a lot of people that want to take him out take him down politically Will this process do you think? survive Will he survive the process and will this process survive? Unionism that the power struggle within it. Do you think? Well, I think the power struggle isn't within unionism It's it's within the dup itself fair enough. Yeah, what's important here is that the dup party might have met the executive They have made it the positive contribution here. They have they have decided as an executive Uh, when maybe not everybody's bored. They have decided that they're going ahead back into into Starmont and the parliament and with that, um They're also approving the setting up of the institutions north south institutions and the north south ministerial council And that's a really really important statement. Um, and what happens from here? Um, I suppose we're in a way. We're second. Yes, and Greg I think we need to run what we have we need to make sure that the Parliament is up and running as soon as possible the next next few days And I think when that happens and the economy starts to get a bounce back and those That that are actually crying out for wage increases get it Um, I think the people will respond to that And I think some of the negativity that has been around it in relation to the dup and what they do next And I think a little a little weird and things will move on in a positive light Um, Mary Lou mcdonald. I can't find the exact quotes now at this point. Um has sort of said that you know, these developments Uh make it inevitable that there'll be an end to to partition on paraphrasing um Touching distance of united island. She says she's pictured with Mary Lou mcdonald And Michelle O'Neill just this after the deal was announced to get storm and back up and running What do you think? Do you have any concern with the timing of those comments as as You know power sharing hasn't been actually restored yet and and um, as I say, you know, that's the commentary Well, number one isn't it's not helpful But it's it's funny the rhetoric in relation to united island from shin fame because if you go back to last storm at election Um for the whole campaign united island wasn't mentioned once and you'll see in any election north or south shin fame won't touch united island. There's no word of it whatsoever And this is just about a rhetoric to to play to our to our own supporters um shin fame are as real a bit um A united island as as as Putin is about pollinating ukraine um You know the only people that can make that happen is People on both sides of the border driving forward in a way that there's a peaceful settlement shin fame can't create a peaceful settlement and the more they talk it up they're actually Pushing it further away And they know that too and they played with the bandwagon mod system But more importantly like they have a strong mandate price strong mandate and they're rightly taking up their position um, she'll mean Be taking up our position as force minister and we wish them well Genuinely wishing them well because we need good strong governments now We need a proper democracy that works. I mean people in the north of ireland as poorly represented as leading and from the point of view of building relationships with um, their their colleagues across the floor and those in government with them And to ensure that we have a lasting democracy decisions have been made And let's use likes the likes of love me Just talk about helpful comments and I asked you the question I I'm completely unaware of your answer but as a spokesperson on northern ireland on behalf of your party and uh a member of the good of friday agreement committee Do you think the language that you used in relation to shin fame making comparisons between uh, Putin um and shin fame. Do you think that's helpful that maybe everyone needs to sort of choose the words a little bit more carefully Well, I wasn't making comparisons between Putin and shin fame I just had the likelihood of him pulling out of ukraine. Well, that was next to none. That's not being a comparison great. Okay. Um But overall you're you're optimistic going forward and absolutely optimistic Absolutely, and we need that we needed autism and I suppose I think probably need to tone down the the political and for a while And it's about being real making key decisions for people issues like the law need that is plagued What was the disease? et cetera A loss that provides about 40 percent of northern ireland is drinking water These are the type of issues that affect everybody's people's everyday lives that need to be tackled now Head on and sorted out. Thank you very much for your time That is senator nile blaney there spokesperson on northern ireland for his party and member of the good friday agreement committee Now, um all this week harland radio is working in conjunction with the hsc delighted to be part of this dementia understands together campaign There are six simple actions we can all take to support someone with dementia. 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That's some of the phraseology you can associate with state-owned enterprise Um and the members are appointed by the minister for health and it's regulated by the health insurance authority So just to clarify that the listener spoke earlier on 100 correct and as I say and never doubt our listeners Donna joins me on the program now. Donna. How are you keeping? Hi, Greg. How's it going? I'm doing okay now um You are talking about the lights at the ballet rain road. This is the set of lights just up from I suppose as you head towards remelton just up from The manterical hotel or screw fix they've been out for quite some time now That's right. This is a no boats a week. Yeah, this is a particular concern For you and and moving about your area. Donna because you are legally blind Yes, I'm legally blind So it's very challenging for to get access notable and to time I'm common and by arena seven and usually you're Be able to walk with ease from arena seven said I talked to high schools because the traffic lights is there But now well, I can't don't know. You know, it's very challenging and even if you're standing there and say like a driver Was gesturing to me to go ahead. I wouldn't actually see them And this is just obviously not just for going into town, but also in terms of getting your son from school as well Yeah, my son's at ballerina in school there. So yeah, I wouldn't feel comfortable going over to collect him now Like, you know, because without the traffic lights, this is very dangerous. Like And what was your most recent experience with the lights being off? Well, like I walk every usually about four times a week with my friend at night time and she's fully excited and like last night We were at walk and we school walk around the turk in the town like and Like last night we're just done that the traffic lights very just no one's stopping and then eventually like a driver did stop But he was driving a lorry and because he was in the inside lane and the vehicle is so large It's very challenging to see the outside lane for my friends even see like and the car just went flying past. It's very dangerous. Like yeah, I mean Regardless of whether one can see or not this is dangerous But it's particularly challenging for you because your independence is is is removed from you as well I mean, you know, you don't want to be relying on other people to be with me Exactly. Exactly. I don't want to be in that position. No, right. Okay. Um, we are going to find out what's going on I noticed they were out, but it's like everything in life. Uh, Donna It didn't inconvenience me. So I kind and I don't exactly if it doesn't affect you Exactly, and I'm just being completely honest here. I was just like, well, maybe they've switched them off For traffic flow was something and I really appreciate you Highlighting the fact that it's not simply like that because these things affect people in different ways And it's had really quite an impact on your independence and collecting your your your child for your walks and stuff Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. And the question is is why whatever's wrong with them? Why is it taking so long for the problem to be addressed? Why is it taking so long to fix it? Like yeah, exactly Okay. All right, Donna. Well, we're gonna find out what's going on unless there's anything else you want to mention Are you happy enough there? No, I'm happy enough. Thank you very much for mentioning that No, we're gonna we're gonna find out what's going on there take care of yourself 08 660 25,000. Yes. So those traffic lights would be I'm not great in roads and sometimes the road names. I presume sometimes others are the same So if you're approaching If you come off the pulse all round about and you're going out towards remelton You know the bantarigals on your left and then you come up to the roundabout And those traffic lights aren't functioning. Donna has lost her independence really in terms of going to collect your son from school Even with a person who's Excited, uh, there was complication across in the road because there was a lorry on the inside lane blocking the outside lane visually Um, and also what's taking so long to fix them? Right, we're going to get on that right away and let's see how quickly we can get that sorted Hi, Greg. I'm certainly not telling people who to vote for in the upcoming election But how can any of your listeners vote for any of the two larger government parties? Considering their complete failure regarding defective homes changing the terms of reference and conditions and the goalposts Uh obfuscation and generally being the bad stakeholder in all of this and don't forget the near 100 years of intrastructural starvation We've suffered out their hands. That's one person's take of it Um in relation to this mysterious object in the sky I also saw that in the sky on monday around 250 the same time in the karakart area had it been dark I would have said it was a shooting star. It was very fast and didn't last that comes in from anmarine Now it could be a shooting star that is so bright Uh the way we perceive the sky Um as being light and blue or whatever is not necessarily precisely how a scientist might view it So maybe it was just a very uh very bright shooting star It was like three times the size of the brightest streetlight. They'll say as a listener, which is big. What was it? Do we want it to be a ufo? Could it get any worse? I don't know Why are people on the show calling it mica? It's not mica. It's the scam These concrete products are defective, but so many more minerals and other things that nobody's talking about. We do all of time But listen, we are just humans. Okay, and the ladies corrected themselves to say not corrected themselves, but clarified it It's called mica. It's like people call Um and the language is changing and I I generally don't use the word mica But it's like lots of people call every single vacuum cleaner a hoover. Do you know what I mean? It's just it's like that It's not in any way to diminish that the problem and I think the two ladies in front of me here Given the problems That they are going through the fact that they just sort of said mica in other words. That's what people know it as I they get a pass from me in any case. I understand what you're saying. I don't use the word mica I use defective concrete Uh and uh other phraseology the science has has moved on since it was called mica But for many people it is their micro home and it's the it's what they're going through and I would not be one to correct them Where are the shops with vending machines to return cans and plastic bottles in donagall? What percentage will be recycled and what percentage will go to the incinerator? Good question or what percent will go on a boat somewhere? I don't know Um, I want to do a bit a dig into the result recycling thing and on what happens to our blue bins a little bit more Because I think we're being sold up up to some extent in in the impact that we're having We are doing our bit But what happens afterwards and this is not as it relates to the refuse collectors I'm not on about them. It's really what happens down the line and how you know Even if there's someone working for a refuge company that can give us an insight into what what is done with this rubbish And how it's dealt with I've seen these vending machines in smaller shops Um, and I've seen them in bigger shops I don't know what the reaction to them is what do to shop owners. They have to invest an awful lot of money Are you a small shop owner? I've read somewhere that shops that Don't have the machine have to advertise the nearest machine So you could get a small company that has to advertise a big company nearby to recycle this stuff. I don't know I don't know what we're going to do the bottle can't be squashed the can can't be squashed It has to be perfect. You have to stand in it like the one other shop that I saw in It's like in the middle of the shop. What do you go with a? Do you go with a plastic bag and stand there like that there? Going into the machine. I don't know it varies from shop to shop It's a suck it and see we'll see but um Don't go in here with bottles or cans from Northern Ireland, by the way I got confirmed for mica three months ago as this person who's affected described it. It cost 5,300 I can't apply to the scheme as I've no cracks or visible damage in the house interesting I wonder why you checked for defective concrete if is it a suspicion that you had or you just wanted to know for peace of mind um That's interesting. I wonder if you tested every house built from say 2000 Would every house have an element of of mica in it? Uh, and I think then it's how bad it is determines Your ability to get on the scheme. I'm not really quite sure Greg if this new agreement is acceptable to the d up should that not mean it's acceptable to the rest of the party Shouldn't the other parties boycott storm it now No, I think all parties agreed that the uh, the Post-Brexit deal needed some adjustment Um, and but a lot of the other parties were saying well, let's get storming back up and running and we can look at that I think there was some agreement. Um, so I don't think that that's would necessarily, um Be the situation there Uh, now Blaney, I wonder are you a Sinn Fein supporter or a d up supporter? It's awful that he compared Northern Ireland to the war in Ukraine. I don't like his language Uh, what does senator Blaney's fina fall think of their party running candidates in the north of Ireland that they talk about so often But that never happened why? And uh, let's us take a break because we're heading towards the news 11 And we've got a great 11 till 12 lined up for you. 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Let's get a news update and it's over to donald covener Thank you, greg. Good morning The details of the deal between the british government and the dup to allow power sharing resume will be published later today The agreement includes new legislation to end post-Brexit checks on british goods that are moving into the north and staying there Meanwhile post-Brexit controls on food plans and animal imports into the uk from the eu Come into force today meat and dairy fruit veg and cut flowers all require specific health certificates Agriculture minister charlie mcconnellog is urging exporters from ireland to ensure that they're prepared for the new legislation Members of donald go county council have been briefed on the new deposit return scheme It comes into effect tomorrow Elevia 15 cent will be imposed on cans or bottles containing 500 milliliters or less 25 cent on containers holding above 500 milliliters The charge will be redeemed when the bottle or can is recycled in a special return machine The machines are being placed in shops across the county smaller shops have been granted exemptions Ischge arian is warning that repairs to a burst water main may cause supply disruptions at carne road Ture are more lower white castle red castle quickly's point and surrounding areas in south in ishone Work scheduled to take place until four this afternoon Meanwhile a burst main is being dealt with in the vicinity of the cottage's church bray in fawn That's set to continue until half past four A midlands northwest mep is calling on the eu to commit to the delivery of humanitarian aid And continue its support of the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees Chris mcmanus has labeled other country's suspension of funding to unra as shameful and unconscionable He says it's important the eu stands up and provides support And status yellow wind warning is still in place along western northwest coast Strong gusts expected in donnie gall leetrim slug omeo and gallway until one this afternoon Met her in also warning of wave overtopping and a similar alert is in place in dairy and antrim until five this evening They're the headlines pack with headlines again at 12 noon donnell. Thank you very much indeed We'll be back with our next guest after a really short break It's important to take care of yourself when you're feeling unwell And if you have symptoms of a virus flu or COVID-19 the best thing to do is to rest up and stay at home Because you won't just be taking care of yourself You'll be helping to protect other people too people close to you like family and friends And people you've never even met who might be at higher risk than you And don't forget to visit hsc.ie for advice on getting better from the hsc Now wellness wednesday we're talking teeth guns mouths All kind of dental health dr. Dyer Reynolds partner at erigledental joins us now good morning to you Dr. Reynolds, how are you keeping? Very well. How's the formula? It's good. It's good and it's good to have you on board Um, and if any of you have any questions as it relates to your dental health your mouth help You'll not get anyone better than dr. Dyer Reynolds to answer your questions So get them in to us now 08 6 60 25 000 08 6 60 25 000 or call 07 491 25 000 I was a dentist recently. It was a great experience Um, but I realize that I neglect to brush the insides of my teeth not anymore Dyer Do are we are we guilty of that a lot of us or am I an outlier? Uh, no, um I like everything. I mean People are mixed bags. So you know, you know, some people that say yeah, we'll tend to brush what's visible Uh, and then some who maybe neglect what's what's less seen, but but yeah, obviously it's a good idea to try and Bring you brush all the surfaces of all the teeth if you can And what what what would I read from the totting of the hygienist? Uh Perhaps Indeed indeed. We try we try not to be judgmental though. Just try to be helpful. Yeah, of course. No, and I say that I say that with the tongue in my cheek Um, what's your opinion of composite bonding say to listen my teeth are fairly good I never had any work done, but getting married this year and looking for that perfect smile Yeah composite bonding is a real sort of buzz phrase or has been over the last couple of years It's it's a sort of a cover all term It means you know different things to different people Composite is just uh, your standard. Uh, it's a resin. It's a plastic filling material It's used percentially all fillings in back teeth now because people will remember the old dark amalgam metal fillings Which are now thankfully largely a thing of the past. They're they're very rarely used anymore But anyway composite now when it tends to be used on the front teeth It's called composite bonding and as I say it's a cover all term to cover when essentially people want to maybe straighten the teeth align the teeth Teeth are a little short make them a bit longer if the teeth are slightly crooked You can add composite selectively to different surfaces to make the teeth appear as if they're straighter Now it has its limitations And and there are pros and cons to it like there are to all sorts of treatments It's if your teeth are very very crooked It it won't give you the effect probably your after you should really be thinking in terms of orthodontics braces to straighten the teeth Also, if the teeth are very discoloured You may end up having to add quite a lot of composite to the teeth to hide that discoloration Which then leaves the teeth looking pretty bulky So It's I mean it's it's thanks to you know, instagram and and tiktok and things like that It's it's become very very very popular And you'll have an awful lot of people coming in Now for once upon a time they would have been asking about braces or asking about veneers or crowns and now it's composite bonding composite bonding And as I say it does have its limitations. It's a really useful treatment modality It really has its uses, but it won't fix every problem. Yeah, and I suppose Do people have to be conscious too of when you put something on your teeth? That you know, we're talking very small distances here and and how your teeth present themselves Like it can quite alter the look of someone's smile or shape of their teeth You know through a number of treatments there do people ever be surprised at that? I'm not sure that you do that work, but you know what I mean Yeah, yeah I just find the most dentists now do composite bonding one type or another but In in certain case it's all about case selection. Greg. I mean in the right case And with the right person it can work wonders. Um, but but people sometimes come in Asking about composite bonding. I sense they get disappointed when they're told look Composite bonding isn't for you. It's not going to achieve the result you want And you should really be looking at a b and c other types of treatments or it's Quite often. It's not one thing or the other either. I mean you can use Some orthodontics along with composite bonding whitening along with composite bonding So as it does play a part and it is a really really useful treatment But but you know everybody I'm amazed over the last 12 to 18 months in particular How many people come in asking about composite bonding because they're seeing tech doc videos and and you know great results can be achieved but You know it has its limitations and Expectations have to be managed But I suppose that's the benefit actually getting in front of a professional because you you know, you get a realistic A realistic A potential outcome or what have you um, we're going to get a couple of questions on this So I'll I'll just get it out of the way right away because it comes in each time people struggling to get registered with a dentist In letter kenny particularly and then there's an issue to some people with a medical card and some people without a medical card Yeah, there there is a nationwide. There's it's not just letter kenny. I mean all over the country. There's a There's quite a shortfall of dentists. Um, now that is being made up gradually to a degree by by A sort of an influx of of foreign dentists coming from both within and outside of the eu it also If like everything sort of sort of eu or outside of your related Dentists from within the you can get registered here reasonably quickly Um over the last year or two. There's been a lot of dentists coming in say for example from ukraine Who are outside the eu and then they're they can register to but the process is a little longer They have to do some equivalency exams Well, primarily they have to establish that their their, you know, their english language skills are good so that they can You know, but obviously communicate with patients effectively because you mean it's one area So like any branch of medicine you have to be able to communicate with patients find out, you know What does they want and what can you help them with? Um as regards the medical card and the things I think it is becoming increasingly difficult again nationwide to get a medical card dentist over Of hearing um over the last many years a lot of dentists, uh unhappy with the Scheme gradually people drifting away from it So therefore the fewer dentists doing us How is this described how it was described to me is that because sometimes I think uh, we in the public can view The dentist is a sort of an arm of the state or a public service or what have you and to some extent there is that but There is a business and you have a certain amount of capacity Um and and if you have to have a successful business, you know You need an income from from the private customer because if you were to do An awful lot of public work and given the rate of pay that is available from The state you wouldn't necessarily not you want to say you're using a giant You know, you don't necessarily have a viable business to cover all the overheads and costs Is that kind of part of the issue here? Yeah, a certain part of the issue. You see dentistry in Ireland has been basically Has been farmed out by the government to the to the private sector. Um, there is a very There are some still some dentists that work in hsc dental clinics, but it's an increasingly small number And my and my information is that that number is is growing smaller every year So essentially what the what the government is doing is Say different medicine if you have a medical card, you go to you know, you go to your doctor or you go to Hospital. Um, there's no there's no pathway similar to that in terms of dentistry. Yes, there are some hsc clinics, but they're primarily Their responsibility is mostly to see children Up to the age of 14, I think So a lot of adults are in a in a catch 22 where they just they can't access public dental care Because most dental surgeries are struggling to to accommodate New patients, you know a lot of dentists sort of have closed their their books to new patients regardless like so, you know Then if they are taking on new patients They will you know, they will look at that and say look, you know, if I'm struggling to see the patients I have I'm not going to take on You know a lot more medical car patients that were you know, where the They will struggle to make a profit, you know and keep their businesses going Exactly Yeah, um, shall I get mercury fillings removed and is it costly? I have them for my teenage years My opinion is no Because through your life Your your your amalgam fillings as they're they're that's what people refer to as mercury fillings will eventually they they wear out Will need to be replaced I think it's a mistake person personally. I have a number of amalgam fillings in my own head They've been there since I was a kid too. They're not costly me a thought Because one of the the slight risks if you like when removing amalgam fillings is that there is a certain amount of mercury vapor released into your system So if you go and do like a lot of them at the one time, that's that you're you're releasing an awful lot more Mercury into your system than you would be by just having them in in your mouth And amalgam is a very durable material. It's very tough. That's why it was used successfully for for a couple of hundreds years You know, it lasts forever Sometimes people will get amalgam fillings as a kid or in their teens They'll still be there, you know, all of patients who will have gotten them and they're still they're in their 70s and 80s And still have the same feelings that they got as children. So The the amount of inadvertent comes mercury coming off into your system is tiny Um and unless they're giving you a hassle I'm inclined to leave me but leaving me Yeah, um, I seem to have a lot of rush in my mouth Anything I can do it's under my dentures on the top Yeah, there is um people who Who have had thrush will be familiar with product chemistry or any sort of it's an anti anti-fungal But you can get a version of that that you could literally coat onto the denture And that would basically keep the anti-fungal treatment in in contact with your gums in your palace principally tends to happen in the palette More than in the lower jaw But what that patient or what that person can also do what I find really helpful Is to actually leave their dentures out overnight leave them soaking and stare a dent As again, it's not the product for cleaning the denture helps to keep the anti but you know bacteria free cleaner So they'll do them some of the huge favor but simply by leaving their dentures out at night The analogy I use is you wouldn't leave your socks and shoes on 24 seven. You're free to get a bit stinky So it's the same for your same for your mouth your mouth needs a break from the dentures And nighttime is the best time just leaving it. All right. I'm 65 I've taken great care of my teeth all of my life But lately they are very yellow. Is this an age thing? I don't want to get them whitened any advice or is whitening the only way to go Yeah, our teeth too, uh gradually darken as we go older unfortunately, um And yeah, that's sort of yellow is standing tends to be uh the most obvious sign of it Now unless it is possibly could be a surface stain So if this person may try going to their dentist or their hygienist getting a really thorough cleaning done And if and if it's a surface stain that'll shift it But if it's inherent within the body of the tooth within the enamel, which is part of the healing process Uh, the only way to improve upon that is teeth whitening now But a lot of the people sometimes say perhaps a man who's in the 60s might be Concerned that or I don't want to have this this again this tick tock grin, you know really white teeth But but a lot of whitening systems are gradual So you can almost get to the level you want to get to you don't go it's nothing going from zero to 60 You know, you you can whiten them gradually when you get to a point. You're happy then stop Exactly. I'm just seven to 65 going on. Um, my daughter's seven and has an enamel deficiency on her teeth Can you recommend the best toothpaste and mouthwash for her to use? Or indeed what kind of toothbrush might she use? Yeah, um, that's a tough problem to deal with as kids of enamel deficiencies It can lead to quite crumbly weak teeth that can develop cavities and decay very easily Um, most toothpaste to be honest are much of a muchness. You're looking for a An age-appropriate toothpaste that has fluoride and a fluoride is one thing that will will help to strengthen the teeth Children's young children's toothpaste actually tends of lower levels of fluoride or will have lower levels of fluoride than an adult Toothpaste If you're confident that your child is is good about brushing and good about say spitting out the toothpaste In other words isn't swallowing half the toothpaste Then you might could think about switching them on to an adult toothpaste earlier Another good thing to do is called no rinse brushing and this is what's taught now and To dentists in dental school and all the way through and it is just as it sounds and then in fact everybody should be doing this It's better for their their health of their teeth. You literally just brush brush brush spit out your toothpaste. That's it Do you remember about three or four years ago? I says to you Is it not crazy that we brush our teeth and then do the mouthwash Swirl it around and spit out all the goodness. Yeah You were dead, right? I'm a visionary So because another under the if you think about the real reason Is that the concentration of fluoride in the toothpaste is higher than in the mouthwash? So as you said, there's no point rinsing away the more effective toothpaste with the less effective mouthwash Even a broken clock is what right once or twice a day. Okay Ever since visiting the hygienist and seeing the harm that not brushing the inside of your teeth the mouth does I will always do plus having a good electric brush is a must. Yes indeed. I Didn't even realize I wasn't doing it if that makes sense and the hygienist was very good to me too and not really tutting Um a couple of callers asking is there a reluctance and you're not speaking on behalf of the industry But maybe there's sort of a sense out there Is there a reluctance from irish dentists to do the follow-up work for teeth their teeth done abroad You know like maybe pick up the pieces if someone's went out for you know implants or veneers or whatever I mean, as I say, I'm not asking you to comment about you personally, but is there a sense in the industry? Yeah, I'd say undoubtedly because you're you're finding people have gone They might have spoken to their own dentists about having perhaps a crown or a couple of crowns or an implant and then they go away and they have 24 crowns done and half a dozen implants and and and so dentists it's it's I think it's like It's like any profession or a plumber an electrician a builder is going to be hesitant by getting involved Trying to rectify the work that somebody else has done particularly when you know deep down and you and you know To your bones that there was way too much treatment on it was done in far too short a period of time um, and and you really because once you Start and you want to help the individual you want to help the patient But once you get involved and it does become your responsibility as far as the healthcare professional you have to you're trying to help people But of course, there's going to be a reluctance to get involved in a case that you know deep down You could be really getting into a whole kind of worms here and and and you know for you know And then when does the blame start then if it really gets complicated does the blame start once you Yeah Yeah, yeah, those the planes start to shift because Like when somebody goes to turkey and they call it the turkey 24 they go off and they get 24 crowns Yeah, and that's all been done in the space of you know a week or 10 days That puts enormous pressure on the and the person's teeth and and and that's why people end up having so much trouble so you know end up having teeth to die ending up needing root canals and You know when you go to turkey the clinic there knows nine times out of 10 They're never going to see you again You know like so they'll do all that work the patch on the head wave you off to the plane again And then knowing that it's not going to be their problem or most patients are unlikely to turn up at their doorstep again So so I would say to anybody who's doing that. I mean I have patients who have been out have had it done I've seen good and I've seen bad, but you know if you are intent on doing is do your research particularly get personal Uh referrals, you know somebody that you know that's been there and and and please do not be tempted by overtreatment I've seen people who maybe needed a crown or a couple of crowns coming back with dozens and dozens Thinking well the more I spend the more I save what it's it's a fool's economy. It does not work out in the long Uh a caller went to the dentist one of their middle back teeth x-ray showed no feeling But they when they bite down There's a a reaction to sugar and a bit of pain when they bite down They mentioned it and it was x-rayed again Still no need for a feeling and nothing looking suspect around the roots. What could it be? I think a crack in the tooth was mentioned. Um, but but what what could that be? Yeah, it's a crack to crack teeth are tricky ones to to deal with because quite and this problem increases with age As we get older it's just wearing tear miles on the clock We we can develop little hairline fractures little hairline cracks in teeth A tooth unlike your bone your crack bone it repairs itself a tooth is no ability to to repair itself bond itself back together and unfortunately a lot of if those cracks A filling isn't going to help because all filling does you're removing tooth tissue you're replacing it with composite resin That doesn't really help the the problem is that the the tooth halves of the cracked tooth When this person bites down they they momentarily or instantly just get wedged apart slightly You get the sudden sharp sudden pain through the tooth and are tend not to last it tends to go away again after a couple of seconds um But the only treatment and it's quite a and it's it's the the reason dentists won't Won't provide it as an opinion straight away It's because you know you're talking about perhaps needing a root canal and a crown Which is a lot of work and it's a lot of expense and unless you're pretty Unless you're damn sure that that's going to work for the patient. You're going to be slow to to advise that Yeah, I I get you Just a couple more. I know you're incredibly busy. I often wake with tension in the jaw and a sore head A few friends have mentioned that I might be grinding my teeth in my sleep. How do I know if that's happening? How do I know what's happening and how do I fix it? Yes, sounds as if that person is crying What I've been recommending people do is to literally go to your local sports shop Get yourself like a sports mouth guard one of the you know quite cheap ones You know you soften at your warm as you mold it to your teeth now Try and wear that every night over over a couple of weeks and if you start seeing signs of wear and tear on that Well, that's diagnostic. That's definitive. You know, you're grinding so therefore then you can go to your dentist Say look, I know I'm grinding and I need a mouth guard A dental like a custom made professional mouth guards They they're really really effective at stopping grinding protecting the teeth But again, they're expensive So that's what I tell my patients to do if we think we suspect that they're grinding Get yourself a sports mouth guard wear that every night for a couple of weeks If you see signs of wear on it with Bob's your uncle You know you're grinding and then we can make you up a night guard My son has a tongue scraper and and and it's disgusting But listen, that's just my own personal feelings But this leads into a question It's just I don't know there's something about it It's like but anyway, is tongue scraping as important as tooth brushing or teeth brushing or do you see it as important to all ask the listener It's important. I've got two teenagers at home who do it religiously Must be on TikTok then I thought it was for taking the lid off a beer It is it's again the influence of snapchat or TikTok or something. I don't know Personally to me. I don't think it's no it's not as important But I mean, I certainly it does no harm It and and certainly there will be a certain amount of bacteria on the tongue like there are on the teeth So, you know, it can't do any harm. It might make you wretch a bit, but if you can get over that Yeah, it's fine. It's certainly not doing any harm. So why not? I wretch picking up my toothbrush like literally that's like pre-empty anyway, uh last one, um How can you overcome a fear of going to the dentist? It is a funny one, isn't it because I'm I a lot of stuff gives me worry and anxiety and stress But to go into the dentist was never kind of one of those things I did go I did go through a stage where I thought they were going to diagnose something in my mouth that wasn't teeth-rated But hopefully I'm overcoming all of that stuff But that's just a fact and the reason I say it is because other people might feel the same But this caller, uh, do you have any go-to tips about First instance is speak to a dentist or ring the dentist explain to them you have an issue This this is Something that I think affects older patients perhaps a lot more than you younger people have you know, haven't So many bad experiences in the bag. So to speak. I think a dentistry not selling it. Dara. You're not really selling this But I think dentistry in in days of your and years gone by Probably was a less pleasant experience. I mean, I think people should you know get get some solace from the fact that You know anesthetics now really really good if you know if you're if I haven't worked on you're too supposed to be numb It will be numb Um, I I think you know some of my patients that bring along Earbuds, you know earphones, whatever listen to music while you're here Um, yeah, yeah, and if it's if it's really if it's if it's something you can't get over It's like a proper phobia Well, obviously people will will can do cognitive behavioral therapy with that But you know, some dentists will provide a dentistry under sedation You can get in what's called inhalation gas or you can get what's more effective is a IV sedation You know a little line into your back your hands. So you're not actually out. You're not actually unconscious You're awake and you're conscious, but you've no memory of the procedure afterwards You just feel a bit you just feel a bit spaced out afterwards So some dentists will do that and it's very effective if somebody has a phobia that they just cannot cope with So you just yeah, and you just get through the door and then you sort it all right. Listen dire Thanks so very much indeed. I really do appreciate it. 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I just want to Run through a few things so just before we get chris in Um, thank you for my listener. I was in the new duns last wednesday this in letter kennie I'd just gotten a new revolut card and phone. I didn't know how to work it to get the money out of revolut I'd 25 euro in my aib account the shopping was 42 euro the lady behind heard and helped me I know nothing about her. I offered her the 25 that I had but she wouldn't take it She was a blonde haired lady with her grown-up son If she sees this or hears this on the radio could she leave her number or name so I can thank her There aren't many people who would offer to pay for your shopping So I just really like to say thank you that comes in from lorraine in letter kennie And we've often found ourselves in this situation, but how lucky is Lorraine to have a wonderful citizen behind her to help I call her says it takes the french to show us or what a real protest is. I don't know what has happened to us We used to be able to Back in the 60s Do it I remember a doblin blocked and you couldn't get out or in that comes in from uh, celia I think the battle often now is for the hearts and minds And I think even people who are conscious of say for instance a protest in doblin or what have you You have to be careful in it because You know unless there's hundreds of thousands of people involved You can have the story turned against you very very quickly, you know, you can be called names You can be accused of disrupting the setting the other you can be accused of targeting business or whatever it might be And I think an awful lot of this now is not necessarily in terms of numbers on the streets And this is only just You know, I'm just riffing here I think it's really almost as much as what the media report or what people post on social media And I wonder if that's part of it. I don't know When I had many measles many years ago a dark room for three days no big deal, of course Thank god that was you but for many it's not quite that simple I'd measles too with no complications But if there are complications for others my personal experience Really is irrelevant Please emphasize the dangers of expectant mothers who come into contact with or contract measles It can cause deafness in the baby in the womb. I remember that messaging from when I was younger actually Hi, Greg. I walk every night from cockill to bon crana, but since the storm it's become a problem There are no street lights and the only dog poop bin on this walk has been removed So you are walking dog on a lead holding a torch and trying to lift dog poop in the dark and then carry it home It's a disaster people are just going to leave the poo not bother lifting it And this causes another problem. Can you find out what's happening here? 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Good morning. Good morning, greg Before we get to the actual content of the the podcast can we catch up on some news and I read that the local enhancement program Has launched for this year. What's it about? Yeah, now this is basically a fund There's money there for small community groups and organizations To apply for assistance to help with building works Or small improvements to premises or to purchase Equipment that is for community youth so very much at a grassroots level It's been administered by the dunagore local community development committee and there's more details On the web their website and the deadline is at the end of february So look at the chance for small groups, you know to get a little bit of funding you put in your application and Hopefully you'll be successful. Yeah, you don't know unless you bid now Many people might wonder when all workers most productive there's an answer for everything chris Yeah, there was a study carried out by An office supplier called codex and they did a some research into Working habits and they found that people are most productive on a a monday and a Tuesday and then they drop off as as the week goes on and They also found a couple of other interesting things that 32 percent of Irish workers say a comfortable office chair enhances remote productivity And 57 percent of workers said they are more productive when working remotely But one in four said that they found that they struggled at times with feelings of isolation So, you know mix back all these things mix back. There's a big push to get people back into the office though There's a big push on now I think that experiment was tried and a lot of the big companies are hiring and the proviso being that you're in the office Um, you're keeping a good eye on uh on any developments or plan developments for us chris Yeah, there's always something going on in the planning front and the apex housing association seeking planning permission From dunagall county council to build 32 two-story homes at convoy town parks So uh more houses on the way harvey's point hotel Uh, there are just small plans Relative to the size of the hotel there. They're looking to extend three new bedrooms a conversion of a store area And a new front of house area for guests plus an overflow car park for 26 vehicles parking convene issue at hotels and I see also, um plan information has been granted for a new leisure center in bunkrana including a 25 meter pool So that's great news for in a show and and uh, hopefully that will proceed very soon Um, right now, uh, the ecb has left interest rates unchanged But still um, the prediction is is that as early as this half of the year we are going to see Interest rates begin to be cut. Yeah So we last year that they were very much on an upward spiral European central bank has left interest rates unchanged at four percent But all the indications are that as the year goes on We will see them coming down So that's good news if uh, you're looking for a mortgage or indeed if you have a variable mortgage And of course that'll filter through to car loans personal loans everything else And sentiment and spend and hopefully business coupled with that further announcement Uh of electricity prices being reduced from a high level. It has to be said and I do I am a little bit conscious of these in that There is very clearly one company in the Irish market who is cheaper than everyone else And often I think some of the other companies they reduce their price, but they're not actually They're not actually going below the lowest in the market. So in terms of competition, I'm not sure But we did see the lowest go lower more recently But anyway, any time we see prices reducing it has to be welcomed. I think Chris absolutely and you know people might Hear about that. There's a new wholesale price index and it's out and it's it's showed Just that you know that trend continuing to cut but there is of course a time lag because these companies they're Spot buying on the market for the the oil or whatever it is Months in advance. So it takes time to filter through but again, it's good news Things are on the way down there. So your your electricity bills are going down and not up And just the results of a recent cso survey on businesses Yeah, this was a survey that was Carried out by the cso just on businesses in Ireland and it was interesting to note That um, it was a a survey of businesses in Ireland now it related to 2021 So it's a little bit out of date, but it was only just issued on this monday, but um Foreign multinational companies play a huge role in Ireland And if I was to ask you to guess Have you any idea how many people would work in foreign multinational companies? Half a million. I don't know. It's 571 000. That's a lot of people only 70 000. Yeah, that was a very good or five A man with his finger on the pulse Right, uh, quirky quirky website time. Yeah, I think you like, uh, quirky websites. So there's a website called great circle map.com And uh, basically you can put in I I was on it there and I I put in the dunnigol airport and I thought dunnigol airport to hong kong and it will show you The distance between airports and it also shows you what's called a circle path, which is known as a Geodesic path. Yeah, this is based on the flawed data that the world is actually not Uh-huh I'm not sure about this christopher the shortest possible route between two points on the surface Can you see the about section The little section says about Yes, now if you click on that and it gives you an example of if you were flying from los angeles, I think it is to jubai Yes, and it shows the quickest ways actually over the north pole So that's When you're looking at things so why don't you I suppose the world's turning the world's turning now, of course Airlines don't go the shortest route because you have corridors in the sky so to speak and then there's political considerations But yeah, something greg that I suspect you might have a little bit of fun looking at Which normally means I don't I miss that what you're about to say. Anyway, okay, that's good Uh, quite interesting, but of course as I say, this is based on the the yet to be proven Theory that the world's in fact round. I wonder who landed on the moon, eh? No one that was filmed in wales I'm joking. Uh, right. Let's uh, see what's coming up on the pod Yeah, this week, uh adam graham Uh runs the recharge recovery room at the aura ledger center here in letter kenny So, um, he only went into business last april. So a new business. It's going very well And uh, if you've got sore limbs or you've been doing intense activity You can go in here and you've everything from compression boots to ice baths. So a hot and cold therapy And uh, you come out feeling all refreshed. So, uh, this is uh A clip from the podcast After school, I got into business instructing And then I progressed on to being a personal trainer in the northwest retail college there in dairy And then I've gone on then into sports nutrition. I've done that online And yeah anatomy and physiology has always been a strong background of mine hence the interest Going in now to recovery as well, so And you spent some time abroad as well I did, um I actually got my first job in the business industry down with bendling gyms in jervis street in dublin Which was fantastic And then worked across northwood and other areas sandyford with bendling gyms And then I moved out to Dubai then with fitness first and I worked as a personal trainer And then back here as well with pt in dairy and in strabam as well And I've worked I've been looking up the works of fitness instructor in pt classes here in door leisure center The raspberry hotel And yeah, I've had a lot of experience and it's You can call it work. It's just it's a lot of fun. It's nice to do what you enjoy All right, um chris ice bath seemed to be all the rage now on on social media Everyone's swimming in in in icy waters or or in a wheelie bin or a now obviously, uh, your guests there um It's not a wheelie bin But have you you've done an ice? I haven't you were asking me just before we cut from the clip I've never done an ice bath. I'm not sure I will short and sweet But uh, you you do feel invigorated afterwards You're going from one extreme to the other and the bonus down there is after the ice bath You go into the the hot tub so I I listen it's the science is proven on it because it releases all these kind of chemicals I just be afraid of the You know what impact you might have on me the shock factor. Okay, listen I'll try anything once uh within reason and within the law of course Right, the full interview is available right now in our podcast in the listen back section of our website That's adam graham of recharge recovery room at the oral leisure center interesting work and an interesting story as to how we got there And you can listen to it on the radio after the six o'clock news on sunday chris And if anyone wants to contact you yes, the email is business matters at highland radio dot com Chris really appreciate you calling in we'll be back with more after this break the nine till noon show with o'hara's of foxford We take 18 hours to craft our new 18 hour fermented sourdough bread Now is the perfect time to enjoy a slice Oreo the robot is not just helping with service at kelly's diner He's also adding a little twist to birthdays there If you're celebrating at kelly's orio can even be persuaded to sing a very special happy birthday It's a great treat for small kids and plenty of big kids too for the chance to see and hear orio The robot in action visit kelly's award-winning diner today at mountaintop letter kenny first communion and confirmation catering also now available Eclipse cinemas in lyford stroban and bondoran was honored with the title of best family entertainment venue at the highland radio customer service awards Here are some of the reasons why the director's lounge is brilliant Homemade popcorn in a class of its own the pizzas are amazing The staff are friendly and helpful. 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So that's reaching us around about now bringing stronger winds for time You're going to be feeding that in the west coast and it's feeding in across letter kenny right now as we speak. Okay, so Um We have HSE national cancer control program A program and its partners are inviting you to a free public webinar on lung and bowel cancer ahead of world cancer day Now almost 2,600 people are diagnosed with lung cancer and over two and a half thousand people are diagnosed with bowel cancer Each year in arland now for a lot of people that won't necessarily Rush them to the doctors or it won't rush them to get a checkup for some people at will but from others and it depends On your state of mind it might make you feel fearful and worried and you might not act on it at all But that's not the function of conversations like this Um, the conversation is about you know, go and get yourself checked out early interventions And and the potential for positive outcomes as well. Dr Breedon Neville is specialist in public health with the hsc's national cancer control program and she joins us now Good morning doctor. Thanks for your time Hi, good morning, greg and the focus is it particularly from our perspective as part of this upcoming day is on lung and bowel cancers Yeah, absolutely. So as you mentioned there greg and lung and bowel cancers are two of the most common cancers That occur in arland at the moment But I suppose there's two really good pieces of good news So the first is that there are lots of things that we can all do to reduce our own risk of cancer And the second is that there are signs and symptoms That you can watch out for that so you'll know when you need to go to your doctor So that you can have your cancer if you have a cancer picked up early In order to give yourself the best chance of having a successful treatment and a successful outcome and And I know many people I don't know many people who have had lung cancer But I know many people a number of people sorry who've had bowel cancer and and thankfully It was caught early and treated and it's tough and there's a process to be gone through But thankfully they've come out the other end But the early the early diagnosis is very helpful Yes, early diagnosis is key really and I suppose in terms of bowel cancer There are a few things that you need to look out for A few signs of symptoms. So first of all if there's any change in your bowel habits, so Any change in your stool so your poo basically so if you're pooing more often than normal And if you're having looser stools, if you're passing any blood from your back passage If you're having any period of time Breeder, you know generally so in terms of the in terms of the bleeding I suppose if you have any bleeding for your back passage You should really go to your doctor to get that checked out in terms of the chain change in bowel habit If your bowel habit is changed over a period of six weeks or more really beyond what's normal for you And then you should head into your GP and just get that checked out And just in relation to blood in your stools, do you differentiate between Blood that you might see on your tissue separate to your stool versus something that appears to be through your stool Well, yes in that Blood often blood and wiping can be something like for example like hemorrhoids But if you see any blue any blood in your stool or any blood on wiping I suppose you you go to your doctor and you speak to them and then they will take your history They might examine you and they'll decide then whether you need to to To look into it further. So if you have any blood at all really you should go to see your doctor And there are many things it could be One of which is bull count bowel cancer and you're not going to the doctor to get a diagnosis You're going to you know to get a diagnosis of cancer per se You're going to the doctor to find out precisely what it is and the correct course of action And if if it is bowel cancer then obviously there is a process then to be followed Yeah, absolutely. So I suppose the important thing is if you do have any of these symptoms So as I was saying any change your bowel habit any blood in your stool Any pain in your tummy or pain in your back passage that that's not normal for you Any loss of appetite unexplained weight loss or if you're just feeling very tired and you know for for Anything really that's not normal for you. You're going to your doctor, but there are many You know very benign very Straightforward things that can explain these symptoms. So you're not going to get a diagnosis of cancer What you're doing is you're going to your doctor just to get checked out Just to be sure if you're your doctor then talk to take your history examine you And then they'll decide whether they think it's likely to potentially be something more serious If they do think that it's possible that you have cancer They'll refer you on for further tests at that point in terms of uh lung cancer and an early diagnosis of that Or you know getting an opinion early, uh, what what should we be looking out for? Again, so absolutely. So I suppose the first thing is if you have a cough that's going on for more than three weeks If you're somebody who has an ongoing cough that you cough all the time If there's any change in what's normal in your cough pattern Again, if you're coughing up any blood If you have any shortness of breath, that's unusual for you Any pain in your chest or again if you have any unexplained weight loss or loss of appetite Or if you're feeling particularly tired or unwell on an ongoing basis, you should pop into your gp Um and just get checked out. But again, and that would include you know yourself There's a there's a bug going around at the moment that people have a dry persistent cough And then sometimes it's a wet cough and then some The worst thing not the worst thing but what we shouldn't be doing is sort of self triage. I'm not diagnosing should we that is You know, you'll know what it is But but don't put it down to something else get that checked out if there's something in the back of your head That's saying something to you. Yes, absolutely I mean if your cough is going on for more than a few weeks So more than three weeks is generally what we would say Just go in and get a checked out and I suppose the bottom line as well as if you're worried just go to the doctor You know, they're not going to be annoyed if you show up just to just to check it out. So if the cough is persisting Yeah, don't you know don't self triage don't make your just pop in and your doctor can um can check it out And there is an awful lot of conversation at the moment about uh, you know, how busy gps are how busy acute hospitals are Only go in the case of an emergency I I think if people are concerned about some of the things we're talking about you disregard that and you go and get checked There's not a gp in this land Or where it's relevant in other areas of hospital that does not want to see someone who is concerned about their health Absolutely what we don't want is people staying at home with these symptoms and worrying that they can't present because the doctor is too busy You know the doctors in the gps doctors in the hospitals all the healthcare staff If you have a symptom that you're worried about They want you to come they want you to get checked out And you know early detection is really important in terms of giving you the best chance of having a good outcome Often these things turn out to be something with a simple explanation and nothing to worry about But the most important thing is this anything that you're worried about pop into your gp and just get them checked out Uh, and of course if you're eligible for bowel screening, um, you know, I mean, I think a lot of your advice regardless of age You know, you know take it on board But there also is the bowel screening program as well, which I'm sure you'd encourage people to engage in Absolutely. So, uh bowel screening is a free program Which is available for anybody who was aged between 59 and 69 learned at the moment. Um, so in order to Um get a letter of invitation. You need to be registered on the bowel screen register So if you want to check whether you're registered just, uh, go to bowelscreen.ie and it'll tell you how to get checked there Um, once you're on the register if you're between the age of 59 and 60, you'll receive a letter Generally, you'll receive your first letter between the ages of 50 and 61 um And if you opt in what happens is you get just a little test in the post where you provide a little sample of your Suleen sample of your poo that gets sent off. It's checked for blood If blood is detected in your stool, um, you'll be contacted then In order to do further screening, which normally takes the form of a colonoscopy So a colonoscopy is, um Is a procedure whereby A small tube is placed into the bowel with a very small camera And just so that the doctor can have a look in your bowel just to see what's going on in there. Um, it's it might sound scary It's nothing to worry about. You're sedated. So you're not aware of what's going on It's a very routine procedure and that people have all the time and then if there are any concerns The doctor can have a look into your bowel and see where you go from there I don't say it's sort of referenced in some of the documentation, but do people with a family history need to be Extra careful not exclusively careful, but extra careful Yeah, so um people with a family history of bowel cancer So when when we say a family history what we generally mean is a close relative So your mother or your father or a brother or sister? Um, so those people may be at increased risk people who have members of close family members who who have had bowel cancer So what you need to do there is you need to discuss your risk with your GP There are some conditions genetic conditions that do make you more at risk of developing Bowel cancer And your GP may refer you to a specialist just to look at your risk and decide whether you need to have more frequent Surveillance so in some cases people have regular colonoscopies But that would be decided on the case by case basis So just if you're worried about family history just discuss it with your GP and you can take it from there Okay, and obviously the advice Don't start smoking or stop smoking Limit your alcohol intake be as active as you can stay as as close to a healthy weight As you possibly can and ensure that you're eating a healthy balanced diet and and and also interestingly I note now to check the radon levels in your home or workplace and to take action to reduce them if necessary It's interesting that has now become part of cancer prevention Advice now Yeah, so I suppose with lung cancer The single most important thing that you can do is not smoking Ideally you don't start smoking in the first place, but if you already smoke it's never too late to quit Quitting smoking at any stage will reduce your risk of lung and in fact bowel and several other cancers And if you need any information on quitting you can go to quit.ie Radon is it's a radioactive gas that occurs naturally in the environment It's it doesn't have a taste doesn't have a color. It doesn't have a smell And if you're exposed to radon high levels of radon over a long period of time, it can increase your risk of lung cancer That's where we have to leave it. I will mention the seminar First thing on the show tomorrow. Thank you very much for your time. I know that so just to say that We'll be going into all of that in a lot more detail We love a panel of experts on our free webinar tomorrow And if anybody would like to register just go to hsc.ie forward slash cancer prevention Perfect, and it runs from 1 p.m. To 2 15 p.m Yes, and you have access for recording to watch at leisure Thank you very much indeed. That's where we have to leave it on the program today Thanks so much for listening. We'll see you tomorrow. Stay tuned. Aiden's up after the break and the news with around the