 Oh, very good. What do you think of someone in the south of France listening to your breakfast show to improve their English? Well, that's second. And, well, my English would be the best English. No, my English is awful as well. This is listening to your programme because your English would be good. This email came in during your programme. I don't use fancy words. So there's someone in the south of France learning English. Natalie, good morning to you. Natalie, I love you. Will you tune in tomorrow and you can send a voice note and send us everything and we'll do our best. It's Natalie Mannes and she's going to... Oh, he's going to be, I'm not sure of the gender, over in the south of France speaking like you. And do you know what? Because David Getter, right, celebrating his 56th birthday today and I says, I wonder how you say happy birthday in French, right? Oh, yeah. And then there was a guy, Joe, Iris Joe, because he's an Iris guy out in the French Alps and he sent a voice note. So that's two people in France listening. That's it. Cool. Anyway, Natalie, thank you very much for being on board. How do you say good morning in French? Bonjour and all good morning. Bonjour, good morning. Donal, come on in, might as well. He's chomping at the bit. He's chomping at the bit. Go on ahead. Don't Google it. Technically, a good morning is bon matin. No, technically. And a happy birthday is bon anniversaire. OK. Oh, he's showing off tonight. What else have you got for us? So if it's this morning and it's your birthday, you're fine, he's fluent in French. Anything else he's in bother? Anyway, merci beaucoup. Merci beaucoup. Tata. Bye-bye. Slain. Slain, good luck. Right. It's two minutes past nine, Lee. You are a bold, bold boy. Two minutes past nine, the 19-inch show on the way, but let's cross over now for a news update, and it is over to Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. The HSE has responded to public concerns about respite care at St Joseph's Hospital in Stranor. In a statement, they acknowledge it's necessary to send some respite patients to private nursing homes, but they say the situation is being kept under review. With more, here's Ellen Butler. People in the Finn Valley say family members who traditionally received respite care at the facility are now being sent to private nursing homes in Letterkenny, while patients being discharged from Letterkenny University Hospital are being sent to St Joseph's for step-down care. In a statement, the HSE says all efforts are being made by the older person's service to support older people availing of respite in Donegal, but at the same time, the service must also offer post-acute hospital care to those older people who need a continued level of support. The service says in order to facilitate the demand for both respite and post-acute care, some respite services are now provided in private nursing homes within the area, all of which are registered facilities with HIKWA, and have the ability to provide the required care level. This will be kept under review on an ongoing basis. Jason Corbett's children are due to give victim impact statements in court in the US today. The Limmick man was beaten to death in his home in North Carolina in 2015 with his wife Molly and her father Tom Martin's pleading guilty to manslaughter. Mr Corbett's son and daughter, whom he shared with his first late wife, Mags, are due to give their statements later with the sentence hearing due to finish either tomorrow or Thursday. The Irish independence southern correspondent, Ralph Regal, who's in North Carolina, says one line the prosecution is pursuing is a pattern of lies from Molly Martin's. Just to give you an example, like her college roommate was told that she had a baby sister who died of cancer. She went so far to have a picture of a child in a frame, and of course she never had a sister. The prosecution's case clearly is that if she can't be believed in these type of details, how on earth can she be believed? Women in the west and northwest of Ireland have the highest life expectancy in the country. Figures from Euro stats show women in the region have a life expectancy of 84.9 on average, while men have a life expectancy of 80.4. That's marginally below the eastern and midlands region. The life expectancy for women across the whole of the EU was 82.9 and men 77.2. The Ombudsman for Children says it's important that we listen to children when they speak about issues that affect their lives. His office will hold the sixth staging of the Child Talks Conference this morning with over 1,000 school children heading to the helix in Dublin. Six young speakers will discuss topics including vaping, growing up LGBTQ in Ireland and managing youth mental health. The children's Ombudsman, Dr. Niall Muldoon says politicians can learn a lot from what they have to say. Children were talking about and fighting for the environment over the last 10 years before politicians took it up. Children are leading the way in regards to vaping and the dangers of it. So it really is crucial and I think it'll be very, very important for policymakers and people in the public service and government to listen to some of these stories that have been spoken about today. Well, the forecast makes them sunny spells and scattered showers. This morning, the showers becoming less frequent in the afternoon, leaving a mostly dry day. Top temperatures nine to 11 degrees Celsius in a light to moderate, westerly wind. Keep up to date with today's stories on our website, highlandvideo.com. Our next news bulletin is at 10 o'clock. Good morning. 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Right, let's start with a look at the papers this morning. The Irish Times, the death toll in Gaza was reported by the Hamas-run health ministry to have risen to more than 10,000 yesterday with no ceasefire in sight as a further escalation of fighting on the Israel-Lebanon border, increased concerns that the conflict could develop into a much wider regional configuration. After completing the siege of Gaza City, Israeli forces advanced into the city from the north and south, accompanied by intense airstrikes, temporary crashing the internet and cellular phone networks. Israeli troops were reportedly moving in the direction of the city's biggest hospital, Al-Shifa, beneath which Israel claims Hamas has a major control and command centre. More than 40,000 residents are camped out on the hospital compound, believing the area is relatively safe compared with the rest of Gaza. And again, just listening to the coverage, it's actually really quite interesting because a BBC correspondent in Gaza has written to his bosses concerned with the coverage that it's not telling the whole truth. But also too, listening this morning to the radio, as you do, switching around the place to see how things are being covered and not wishing to labour the point, but it is quite interesting. Again, this morning to note that the awful events that happened one month to this day, the massacre of 1400 Israelis, and it was a massacre, is described as such, whereas the deaths of the civilian population in Gaza is not described in the same manner at all. It's just over 10,000 killed with no context, no breakdown, no use of the word massacre. I just thought it an interesting observation. The Irish Independent this morning, we talked about this yesterday, so I thought I'd give you an update on the Education Minister Norma Foley's comments. Primary schools will survey parents for their views before proposing a ban on smartphones under new guidelines to be discussed by cabinet. So just to let you know, you will be notified by your school to have your say. Schools will be encouraged to liaise with their parent associations to gather views on asking all parents not to buy their children's smartphones. If a majority of parents are in favour of collectively agreeing to not give their children smartphones, the schools will write to all parents, asking them to sign up to the initiative. Education Minister Norma Foley will bring a memo to cabinet this morning, setting out the guidelines for primary schools seeking to introduce the smartphone ban. Again, not really easy to get a sense of what the majority of you out there think. Would you be in favour of it? Now, it would not be, well, they can be banned from school, but it would be encouraging parents not to give phones to children under 13 as I say, I don't know how that will go with parents. Would the majority be in favour of that or not? Because we don't really have a big enough sample to be able to determine that with any certainty. Onto the Irish Daily Mail this morning, almost 700,000 people in this country are living below the poverty line a new study has shown. So almost, well, it's almost a million, it's 7 tenths of a million, 700,000 people are below the poverty line, not on it, but below it. This equates to one in every eight people in Ireland, but for children, the figure is higher, at one in seven or 190,000 under 18s, according to a report from Social Justice Ireland. The poverty line is defined as 60% or less of the nation's average income. This would mean a minimum disposable income of just under 320 euro a week for a single person would be required to avoid poverty. The poverty focus report released yesterday said child poverty is a reality for one in every seven children in Ireland, about 190,000 children, a stark statistic that raises major questions for fairness and progress, and as well too, it has to be put in the context of us being told that we are a rich country, that we have a strong economy, that we have full employment. If that is what we are being told, then the question also has to be asked about, if that is the case, how can it be that one in seven children live below the poverty line? Something about the system is not working correctly, is it? Donald Trump featured in many of the papers, we'll go to the Sun to see what they have to say. A judge threatened to cut Donald Trump's testimony short in his civil business fraud trial. It comes as Trump and Judge Arthur Engaran clashed repeatedly. Judge Engaran told the former US president that he might remove him from the witness stand if he did not answer questions directly. Judge Engaran asked Mr. Trump's lawyer, Christopher Keyes, or Keyes. Mr. Keyes, or Keyes, can you control your client? This is not a political rally. This is a courtroom, and I think what was quite interesting too, is that there wasn't a massive presence of either pro or anti-Trump people outside the courtroom, some reporting that there were more media present than regular folk backing or opposing Mr. Trump. T. Shockley of Rad Carspin asked that old question as we head towards an election, would you coalesce with Sinn Fein? He's ruled out forming a Finnegale coalition government with Sinn Fein, which doesn't surprise me. I mean, Finnegale went out that far away, I think, from the last, in fact, I seem to recall, Leo of Rad Carspin threw up the option that maybe, Finnegale, it would be good to have a term out of office, particularly, I suppose, to re-establish its identity as a standalone party. That was ahead of the last election, but anyway, he's not gonna go into government with Sinn Fein, if it means getting into power again. He was asked yesterday if he would work with Sinn Fein leader, Mary Lou MacDonald, after the next general election. The T. Shock replied, happy to work with Deputy MacDonald on certain issues, but forming a government's very simply out of the question, very strong language that you wouldn't hear from Michael Martin, for an example. Mr. Rad Car has previously described Sinn Fein as an ultra-nationalist, radical left, populist, Euro-critical party. He said its policies are anti-business and would be a disaster for Ireland. So it would be very hard for him, and anything can happen in politics, of course, but it would be very hard for the party to backtrack from that. And all of the papers full of pictures of the Northern Lights. Stargazers were treated to the site of a breathtaking natural phenomenon as the Northern Lights, or Aura Borrelis, were visible across the country on Sunday night. Now, I've seen, is this controversial, right? I've seen loads of fantastic pictures. Look, wonderful. But I don't know if it really counts as beautiful as they are, and this is not to upset any photographers out there, but if you're using time-lapse and you're not really capturing what the eye can see, is it really that spectacular? I mean, some of it is amazing, but I've seen some of the videos and what people actually see with their naked eye. I couldn't see anything, and I didn't really get it, but people are using their phones and time-lapsing, I think. I don't know how it works. And we've seen, met with these most beautiful images, but, like if a tourist was looking at it, could they see that? Honestly, anyone out there let me know, can you see this as it is portrayed in the pictures with the naked eye? 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Let's bring families together this Christmas. Highland Radio, time checks with Expressway. Travel Route 32 from Leta, Kennedy, Dublin when you book online and travel for less. Expressway, bringing you the time, us? The time is 18 minutes past nine. We're joined on the programme now by Father Jim McGonagall, retired parish priest in the Dairy Dices. Father, thank you for joining us this morning, and I wish we were speaking about anything else other than what we are going to speak about. And that's the awful loss of Thomas and Alana in a road traffic collision in the early hours of yesterday morning. It is incredibly difficult to comprehend, Father. It's very difficult. I must say it was one of the most dramatic experiences in my 60 years as a priest when it was called out in the middle of the night. Especially to two people that I knew, and families that I knew. But it was traumatic. But again, it's not about us. It's about the two families who have suffered such a terrible loss. And you knew Alana particularly from a very young age, Father? Well, because she was prematurely born in Altmigelman Hospital, and I was there. And we thought at the beginning she wouldn't lose, but she won her fight. And it turned out to be one of the most wonderful young people that I had known in my lifetime. And also, Thomas Lefing-Sert, a priest at Movil Community College. Yeah, he was in Movil Community College because his family had more connections even though they were living in St. Park in Glenile. They had more connections with the Movil Greencastle parties. And that's where his funeral would be because both his father and mother are from there. And their connections were more in that direction. But I would have known him when he was at the National School. The three of them, Patrick McKinney who has survived, Patrick McKinney, and both Alana and Thomas, they all attended together the National School in Glenile. So during that time, of course, I was involved there during the first concessions, communions, and visited the school regularly. I knew them all as kids, but the problem too is that, not a problem, but the fact is that Alana was at the Cardinal Community School and Thomas was at the Movil Community College meant that all those young people from all those schools are involved, so it's, and their families. So it's, the burden will be shared, I know, but at the same time, it's very, very difficult for the whole community. And you mentioned Patrick who was also involved in the collision, hopefully. He is a speedy and full recovery. And also, I think he is making a good recovery. I was talking to some of his family yesterday. Right, well, that's encouraging. It's still incredibly difficult or gone to be very difficult for him. And there was also a fourth young person that was in the vehicle, but dropped off a little early. We have to think on them as well. Yeah, especially Patrick and Malarkey, for a first thing, my memory is not so good, it's something Annabelle or something like that. So they will need a lot of love and care and prayers as well, because, you know, having survived that, it's going to impact on them quite, quite seriously, you know, so they have to be very much remembered at this time, too. And Father, what words can you have for families and friends in such a difficult time? Or do you just, do you just be with them? Words mean very, very little. I think you just have to be there. You have to be there as much as you can and encourage others to be there as well and to listen. And of course, you offer words of support as well, but you just know that what they need now is a lot of love, a lot of care, a lot of prayers. And they're knowing that everybody is concerned and everybody is with them. And please God, God will help them and the whole community will help them. It's not going to be easy, but they will come through. They're very resilient in this community. I know them well over the years, but I'm still involved in ministry, even when I'm retired in both, in Caldath and Meville and these times. And there's absolutely no doubt in how both Alana and Thomas have been described that in their short life had such an impact on people. They seem to be two absolutely wonderful young people, Father. Absolutely. And they were all great friends. They were all, again, working in the Simpsons together, built up a great camaraderie between them. And they were all on their way home after working on Sunday night. And this Saturday had to happen. And these are going to be four very difficult days, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Funerals are not the Friday. And as you may know, Thomas' Alana's funeral is in St. Mary's in Bakken at 11 o'clock on Friday. And Thomas' funeral is in Body Brack in Mary's Body Brack in Meville at 2 o'clock on Friday. So it enables all those who know them, both who love them, to be at both places. So it's going to be a very difficult, tough for days for everyone, especially for the families themselves. And I suppose we have to keep a close eye, too, on their peer group, Father, because this will be, for many, the first major loss of their lives. Exactly. Exactly. We have to think about them and be there for them as well. How are you, Father? You've been through an incredible... I know your thoughts are with the family and the friends and the victims, but you've been through an incredibly traumatic couple of days yourself as well, Father. How are you keeping you? OK, I'm speaking to anybody. I have plenty of friends. Good. That's good to hear. Loads of friends. Phone has been ringing quite a bit, yeah. Very good, Father. I still have my own family around as well, and they've been... That's good. OK. Well, you have to look after yourself as well. I'm a Karen man myself, so I'm not too far away. OK. Father, thanks for helping us to come to terms with this in speaking about Thomas and Alana and also remembering Patrick and the fourth occupant of the vehicle that was dropped off a little earlier. And we just join with you and hope that family and friends just can gather whatever strength they can to get through these next few days and weeks and months and years in reality, Father. Exactly. Exactly. OK. OK. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. That's Father Jim McGonagall there, retired parish priest in the dairy dices. To tell you about Two Grand Tuesday, our one-off used car sale event. This Tuesday, November 7th, all used cars at Divers will have 2,000 euro off the listed prices online. Yes, that's Two Grand Off every car for one day only. No gimmicks, no games, no joke. That's Two Grand Tuesday. This coming Tuesday at Divers High on Day, Canal Road, Lederkenny. We're open 8am to 8pm on the day. For details, see DiversGarage.ie. 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And you're very welcome back to the programme and I don't want to come across as if I'm trying to take some high moral ground or something but it's very unpleasant for me to see pictures in the papers today of the vehicle in which Thomas and Alana very sadly lost their lives. Someone's went to an awful lot of bother it seemed to scramble to get that picture but I just don't see what purpose it serves at all and it's reproduced in a number of papers today. But anyway, unfortunately, it does seem to be the way things are. OK, John Boyle is the General Secretary of the INTO and we welcome him back onto the programme. John, good to see you again. Thanks very much Greg, good morning to you all. Thank you very much for talking to us. OK, so the INTO survey has highlighted an acute teacher shortage which is impacting vulnerable children and the vital school supports and we'll talk about how the shortage of teachers is leading to that. But the headline figure, 1,202 long-term vacancies, is there a geographical difference in the situation? Are these problems more acute in more urban areas or is the problem spread across the country, John? Actually, Greg, the figures are even worse because there's two different sets of figures. There's a current shortfall of 809 permanent fixed-term and long-term substitute teachers and it's anticipated having an additional 1,202 long-term vacancies within the next three months, which would tally up to over 2,000. Thanks for that, John. No bother, Greg, but you see, the reason I drew attention to that matter is because that is a serious crisis, no matter what way we look upon it. I think that education had the audacity yesterday to come out and try and play the whole thing down, saying that I should look at the majority of posts or fields. Like, I have been teaching, involved in teaching for over 35 years and in all of my life, I've never come across a situation that 2,000 groups of children in the primary schools and the special schools of Ireland had no guarantee of a teacher for a long part of the year, in many cases for the whole year. So, I think that's a big issue and I think that's why I think that there are very many, very few children in the primary schools who have determined jobs being unfilled. So, it's a serious issue and that's why we did the throw up because we were told this time last year that 99.5% of these jobs were filled and the government were acknowledging at that time that it was a big issue around substitution, which I know is certainly a feature you know, not having cover for your classes and a teacher job sick or whatever. But the phenomenon of having real jobs, you know, long-term work on field is very, very new. Very much geographic, as you suggested. It's probably in the rent pressure areas, to be fair. They would include louddown as far as Wicklow, all a Dublin meet and kill there. That's where the vast majority of these long-term vacancies are. But it's not exclusive now to that part of the world. You know, there's up to 20 per cent of the positions that are unfilled are outside of that area as well. And again, I want to emphasise the survey was primarily focused on long-term work. Now, we also know that on top of that, we're going to be getting stats very soon from the department showing the number of teacher absences, whether that's going to doctor's appointment or whether it might be teacher getting married or whatever the case may be, that those positions are not filled either. And that's nationwide. And that's despite the fact that we had success, that government put in a supply panel system to cover teacher absences. But that's hit or miss. I mean, there's running something like three teachers covering the whole of the Greater Latter Kenya area on that scheme, which means that it's first come for certain. There's many today that there's teachers absences not covered. And on top of that, the government pulled out the cover for certain absences back in 2013. So if the teacher now has a very, very sick relative, but they have to bring an emergency to a hospital, they don't get some cover for that anymore, whereas they used to back in the day. So this is all a symptom of the downgrading of the profession, as well as the geographical issues around rare potential areas. But that's what I was going to say, John. I mean, particularly when you look at where the problems are more acute, and as you've quite rightly pointed out, it's not exclusive to those areas. It's the general societal issues that are problematic here, aren't they, in terms of access to accommodation, the cost of it, how much you're left over with at the end of the week. So how do you, how would the government address that successfully? Do you think? Well, I suppose from our perspective, that's not the only issue. And I will answer the question about how they can address that, because as a trade union movement on the Daesh Kong trade unions and on the Executive Council, we'll be going to a meeting now shortly. We've been running a race or roof campaign around drawing attention to the deficiencies in relation to housing policy for some time now. And I've often suggested that perhaps it's time that we look at what's happening in some other jurisdictions, that frontline workers, I'm not just talking about teachers here, I'm talking about the people who have to go to their workplace every day. And they would be guards, teachers, nurses, retail workers in the shops and so on. People who have to go to work every day, that maybe government needs to look at within their housing policy of defined housing or incentives for people like that in terms of not only the rent, but particularly maybe being able to have affordable housing to be able to get onto the housing list. And I know that there's just a lot of discussions happening in the political world around all of that. But that would be a longer term solution. We believe that the solution to this crisis in Ireland, be it in rural Ireland where you can't get the substitute teachers or in the urban areas where you can't even get parliament teachers, grade schools where they can't get enough staff, special schools, the solution is make the profession more attractive. It used to be attractive up until 2009. And with no coincidence, in my view, that the things that happened between 2009-2013 are really coming home to Roots now. Now, they would be namely, the cuts to the new entry pay at that time drove thousands of young teachers, including many from my area, Counties Only God, to Australia and to Dubai and to various other shores. And we are trying to get those people back. And why would they come back into a system that's first of all underfunded? I mean, the ministers out there talking this morning again about mobile phones and primary schools. Mobile phones are not a problem in primary schools. The problem in primary schools is we don't have enough funding to run the place. We don't have any promotional system for teachers to support the principal teachers and to give them a rung up on the ladder because that was all stripped out in 2009. With the biggest class sizes in Europe, we have difficulties as well with specific areas, be they island schools, geltak schools, geltskull and other special schools. If you improved yourself in such a way that you did specialist training to work in a special school, you used to get a diploma for special education. It was €2,000. That was stripped out in 2012. Is there any wonder that we don't have people specialising and prepared to work in special education, which is very, very challenging when they don't have that little education incentive is no longer there. So we're asking government to have another look at the damage that they did back in those years, the teachers that they drove out of Ireland, at least give them an amnesty to come back here. And what I mean by an amnesty is for that cohort of people who left these shores in 2011, 12, 13 or away, 10, 12, 12 years, give them 12 years credit for the time they were abroad. When you come back here, you're not going to have to give up your position in a promotion post in Dubai or in Australia, that when you come back here, you have a career path and that you'll get some credit for the experience that you built up abroad. So they need to put money on the table here, not into teachers pockets. That's not what I'm saying. But it's an interesting point you make, particularly I think about the fact that some might feel the conversation about mobile phones and rushing that through cabinet is a bit of a distraction. But also too, if you have moved away and you wish to come home, do you want to start from square one? And the obvious answer to that would be no. So that would make an awful lot of logical sense. And of course, the thing too, which is really quite unsettling is there are then children who are losing their SNA as they are redeployed within the school, students, and people perhaps not properly qualified to teach children taking up the head of some of these classes. That's all something parents should be concerned about. Yeah, well, just for absolute clarity now, it's not necessarily the SNA now that would be redeployed. But there's another worker in the school called a set teacher. That is a special education teacher. Every school has one of those nowadays. You are correct. And again, thank you for correcting me there. Greg, this is all sort of education lingual. So don't expect you to be up to speed and all of this. But you're certainly very interested in education because you've had us on so many times. But in terms of our survey, what it bore out in the first 25 days of school year in the first 25 days of the school year, 1100 schools now is all that answered the survey. That's a target the schools. So this could be a way worse than actually the survey is pointing out. But based on what we heard and what we learned from the survey, on over 5000 occasions in 25 days in Ireland, a special education teacher had to be plugged out, pulled out of their position to cover for a class teacher. And then in a number of cases, the special education teacher was doing it for the whole month of September. Because basically, if children come into primary schools, we'd be different than the secondary. The main thing the parents want to know at the start of the years, who's going to be teaching my child for the year in the class? Because the children all spend most of the day in the class, five and a half hours. Who's going to be teaching the class that if the principal has a lack of teachers in the school to teach the mainstream classes, the principal is going to pull teachers out of special education and adjust school, the extra teachers for helping children with disabilities, they're all going to be called the teachers to helping the Ukrainian children with the EAL supports for language. They'll all be pulled out of those positions into the mainstream classes. And who's suffering here? The most vulnerable children, the children who need to help the most. And that was one of the most stark, starkest findings in our survey that in the first 25 school days of the school year, on over 5000 occasions in these surveyed schools, that was happening. If you take that for the whole year, that would be 50-something thousand occasions for the whole year. But I think too, it is, as well as for the students that's a special education teacher would assist, those absences would have a much greater impact on that student potentially than a student that doesn't require an SET as well. So we don't really know the full extent of the impact of such measures really. It's quite worrying. Very worrying. Now, I suppose what we can surmise is that we know that the remote learning that works so well for the children with the special education that needs during Covid, and we know that there was a deficit to begin with, and there was an intention to try to make up those gaps. And one way to give that, make that up, was to have individual attention from these teachers that are allocated by the department to be fair to them. And there's nearly 20,000 such teachers in the system, primarily in secondary, to help vulnerable children. But I suppose the government needs to start acknowledging that because of their poor planning, and because that the profession is no longer as attractive as it used to be, and because so many of our young teachers were driven out of this country and are attracted to places where they're actually valued, because with these underlying difficulties on top of the housing crisis, they're going to have to start tackling this. And to date, one of the things that they've done, to be fair, is they have allocated 610 extra places in the colleges, you know, a demand of ours was to get 1600 extra places in the colleges. But we all know that a teacher, it takes four years to train a teacher. So in the short term, the only way I see this being resolved is apparently the work that they're trying to do to get more housing and more affordable housing. They're going to have to look at the national pay talks coming up now at how are they going to make teaching more attractive, by giving people a career path, by incentivising people to work in these areas. And one of the ways to get your staff in a special school is reinstating diploma allowance. One of the ways to get staff in disadvantaged schools would be to do what they promise to do back in the 90s, and give the teachers there an opportunity to upscale. And whilst they're upscaling, then when they achieve that qualification, that they get a small allowance for, these are the type of money on the table, basically, to try to, because they did it from Russia last year, Greg. When they couldn't find nurses to go into the hospital last December, what did they do? They got the Department of Finance to agree that a trainee nurse could get a hunting 35 euro per night, four nights a week to work, to live close to a hospital. But when it comes to teachers, they don't seem to have that as a priority. Okay, I just want to put one thing to you, because I know you have another meeting, and I won't hold you very longer. But I want to read this to you rather than when you're off air. Could you ask John how in 1989, one teacher could manage a class of 28. Now in 2023, you have a teacher and SNA, a teaching assistant, a resource teacher helping in one class. It's got to crush a number. Teachers get dinners brought in, get a clothing allowance. It's worrying how much money do they need. The only sector job that never stops moaning. Yeah, well, first of all, teachers don't get dinners brought in. There's a new, the Department of Social Protection has a policy now of bringing in hot dinners, which is happening in lots of other parts of the world for children. And I would argue that maybe it's not as needed for all children. These measures cross the board, free books for every single family in Ireland, certainly at cost of living crisis. It does help families. But at the expense of being able to employ teachers, I mean, it's the same budget coming from the government. They seem to put more priority into the vote catching measures, like the free, the free dinners. As for the class sizes, we have the largest class sizes in Europe. That reader, that listeners talking about 28 in the class, 28 was an outrageous size of a class at a time when a revised curriculum was written specifically for 20 children. That happened in 1999, 24 years ago. We now have another curriculum ever since then. The classrooms of Ireland are totally different nowadays. We have children with special educational needs no longer going to special schools during the mainstream class, which is good. Children from foreign countries who arrived here and were very welcome here who had no English as a first language have to get extra supports. We have no mental health support of any nature out there in society, because those parts of the public service have been stripped of resources as well. The parents of Ireland and the Irish society expect schools to be able to do so much nowadays. Teachers are absolutely pinned to their collar to be able to look after the classes that they have. I think parents want it was proven this week in a survey done not by us, but by the medical council that the most trusted profession in Ireland is the teaching profession, even more than doctors. We were delighted to hear that, but there's not much point in being trusted if you don't actually have a teacher in the first place. Our campaign here is for the benefit of children to get them teachers, and we have to call it out. Government is failing these children and the most vulnerable children are losing out. I wouldn't be doing my job, only for I would be drawing attention to the fact that up to 5,000 vulnerable sets of children didn't have a special ed teacher in September. There's something seriously wrong with a Government that's out this morning talking about the use of mobile phones. They don't even use them in primary schools to begin with and putting priority into those issues rather than dealing with the real issues. I guess these things don't capture votes, but I think parents are going to be onto the GDs about this and parents are not going to suffer much longer. The fact that the children are their rights to an education are being infringed by the fact that the government won't even provide the child with a teacher. Nice, strong words indeed. Listen, thank you very much, John. I appreciate all of your time this morning. John Boyle, INTO General Secretary there. Any views? 086625,000 WhatsApps and texts. Everything's reduced in store. 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Terry, thanks for taking the time to speak to us today. You're very welcome, Greg. And it's with a mixture of sadness and disgust that I joined you this morning. My brother, John, was a detective constable in our UC station, Noma, and in a visit home to our widowed mother, he was ambushed and murdered on the 20th of October, 1973. Now, the 20th of October, 2023, was the top date anniversary of John's murder. And the memorial service that was held in the Cemetery in Casablan was highlighted very much on radio and television. And the large crowd that came there to be with the Doherty family was indicative of the respect and the steam that John was held in. We had the Revan Cannon, Charles McCartney, chaplain to the RUG George Cross Association, Noma, and Father Coloma Doherty, parish brief Clonley Lifford, both who officiated in the dedication and the service of remembrance and the laying of a puppy wreath. Now, sometime during the darkest hours of the fourth, Saturday the fourth of November, individuals invaded the sacred space of John's grave to steal, yes, to steal a memorial stone and a puppy wreath. I don't know who or what they represent, as opposed evil would be an appropriate word. But if they think that by removing the memorial stone and the puppy wreath will bring an end to John being remembered and honoured, they're badly mistaken. Go ahead, Terry, I want to interrupt. I was going to say, what do you believe motivated the personal persons responsible to do this? Just because John was a member of the RUC in Highland City was and what he represented. And it's just because John was a member of the RUC. And shortly after John's death, a memorial plaque was erected inside the door of the old RUC station in Oma, a held pride of place. And it actually survived and became on stage with the bombing of the station. And when the new station opened, the stone went in, transferred and mounted on a wall, especially selected in the new station. And John is there, along with all his colleagues who are named on the wall, who also made the ultimate sacrifice. And they are remembered and honoured every year. And I thank the committee in Oma who are responsible for organising the memorial service every year in Oma. And this year will be no different. They are honoured and remembered, and always will. And as long as the Doherty name exists, John will be honoured and remembered. And like the phoenix rising out of the ashes, the Doherty family will rise above us, and we won't lower ourselves to the level that those individuals that invaded the space of a graveyard where everyone thinks graveyards and graves are a sacred place. Just so we're clear, the grave was marked previously and there was never an issue. Is that correct? Well, yeah, there was never an issue before. But we're a bit apprehensive once the memorial stone was placed on the grave. And in fairness to Ross Hosse, chairman of our UC George Cross Association Oma branch, he contacted me and wished to replace the stone. And I thanked Ross for his intentions, a good intention. I thanked him from the bottom of my heart. And he said, Ross, no, we won't give these individuals another chance to steal a memorial stone from the grave. I may meet some of these people on the streets. I don't know. I haven't heard from the Gardie. I haven't had a word from the Gardie on the situation. Does that bother you? Well, I think it'd be nice if we had some member of the family being contacted by the Gardie. Because you would see this obviously as a crime. Yeah, there's a crime. Yeah, it does a crime of theft. But John will always be remembered. They never put the Doherty family down or John's name, regardless of who or what they represent. And I'm sure those individuals, there are monuments erected all over the place. And I'm sure those wouldn't like those monuments to be banned. Are you interested in the recovery of the memorial plaque? Because it was taken, it's probably somewhere. No, the recovery now has no hope on the recovery of it. Those people are hell bent on removing the memorial stone and the puppy wreath. You know, it was easy targets. Like, you have to be a very brave man. Imagine being a very brave man, like the threat offered by a memorial stone and a puppy wreath. And I'm sure you get the sarcasm in my voice. For those individuals to steal the stone and the puppy wreath, oh, they had to be brave men. Oh, my, my, they had to be brave men. No one was ever held responsible for the death of John. Yeah, there was a trial in the central common court in Dublin, but they weren't convicted. Okay. Right, Terry, strong, passionate words, obviously, as people might understand. Thanks for your time today. Thank you very much, Greg, for having me on. Thank you. Okay, Terry Doherty there. 08, 660, 25,000. A caller says, Oh, my God, that poor priest you had on earlier. My heart goes out to him. He sounds so upset. May God help everyone involved. And indeed, you can, you can, you can hear it in the voice. Good morning, Greg. Imagine 700,000 people are below the poverty line when 4 billion of our tax money is sent to Ukraine. This is our money, the taxpayers, not the governments, that 4 billion has gone to pay people's wages and to give small business loans. Our money should be spent on us, the people of Arden, not Ukrainians. You see, again, and I'm sorry to labor the point, the money has not been taken from 700,000 people below the poverty line and transferred to Ukrainians. I mean, that's easy because you're angry at Ukrainians almost. In other words, why are they getting our money? But the bottom line is, is there's a ton of money, billions of money, Euro that's been put away that could be used to help the 700,000. It's not either or we can't help other people. And we can also help the 700,000 people. The money has not been taken from your pocket and given to somebody else. So it hasn't been taken out of your pocket and given to someone else. What happens is is that someone's standing in front of you with 100 Euro, and they've given 50 to the other person and put the other 50 in their pocket. The money never has them. It's not that the resources have been taken from looking after the 700,000 people that just aren't what some would say policies in place to ensure that we lift those almost 200,000 children. Many of them could well be Ukrainians as well, by the way, that there is no they're not distinguished by their background or race or nationality. If the money was spent correctly, people would feel that those people could be lifted out. I mean, I presume the food banks in this county is still under great pressure. If anyone working with some of the food banks are listening, let me know what the situation is there. We talked about it in great detail a couple of months back. I presume everything isn't rosy in the garden now, but it's very important that we if you are angry, direct it in the right place. It's not your Ukrainian neighbor that's taken your money. It's that maybe money has been spent in that direction, but it doesn't mean there isn't money that could be spent to lift the 700,000 people below the poverty line above that poverty line. Thank you, Greg, on honestly, on honesty, I've exposed in the reality of time lapse photography, re aurora. No, the naked eyes do not see painted skies of green and pink and the real aurora as seen by the naked eye are flowing dancing wisps of collared gases. It should be presented as what it is, right? If that's not what you can see with the naked eye, I think we'd be better off absolutely stating how the image was captured. That's all because I could be down in court thinking I'm going to the goal to see this amazing and then you go up there and it's it's not quite as quite as advertised perhaps. But anyway, no one's doing it for nefarious or bad reasons. It's just how the images are captured. I'm sure. All right, listen, we're going to take a break for the news and obituary notes is we'll be right back there after with community guard information. We've got a Sergeant Union Walsh that's coming up after the news and obituaries that and so much more besides sources say stay right where you are. 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Joseph's hospital in strenord in a statement they acknowledge it's necessary to send some respite patients to private nursing homes but they say the situation is being kept under continual review with more here's ellen butler people in the fin valley say family members who traditionally received respite care at the facility are now being sent to private nursing homes in letterkenny while patients being discharged from letterkenny university hospital are being sent to st. joseph's for step down care in a statement the HSE says all efforts are being made by the older person's service to support older people availing of respite in dunigol but at the same time the service must also offer post acute hospital care to those older people who need a continued level of support the service says in order to facilitate the demand for both respite and post acute care some respite services are now provided in private nursing homes within the area all of which are registered facilities with hikwa and have the ability to provide the required care level this will be kept under review on an ongoing basis women in the west and northwest of harland have the highest life expectancy in the country figures from euro stats show women in the region have a life expectancy on average of 84.9 while men have an average life expectancy of 80.4 that's marginally below the eastern and midlands region the life expectancy for women across the whole of the european union was 82.9 and men 77.2 the agriculture minister says nitrates derogation will be to the four of discussions with the EU environment commissioner when he arrives here later this month charlie mcconnellog says he's accepted an invitation by him and the t-shirt and will visit Ireland on november 23rd it follows major rouse between farming groups and the government over changes to the current limits which will take effect in january minister mcconnellog says the government will be seeking to retain the 220 kilogram limit both myself and the t-shirt invited the commissioner to come to Ireland we're currently finalizing a visit from the commissioner for the 23rd in november so i look forward to him coming to ireland and to being able to see firsthand the work that farmers are carrying out and also first then to through that visit start making sure that we are carrying out the work that's going to be necessary to retain the derogation when the current one expires at the end of 2025 because it's really really important to the farming sector jason corbett's children are due to give victim impact statements in court in the u.s. today the limick man was beaten to death in his home in north carolina in 2015 with his wife molly and her father tom martins now pleading guilty to manslaughter mr corbett's son and daughter who he shared with his first wife mags who has now died are due to give their statements later with the sentence hearing due to finish tomorrow or thursday the arish independence southern correspondent ralph regal who's in north carolina says one line the prosecution is pursuing is a pattern of lies from molly martins just to give you an example like her college roommate was told that she had a baby sister who died of cancer she went so far to have a picture of a child in a frame and of course she never had a sister the prosecution's case clearly is that if she can't be believed in these type of detail how on earth can she be believed with a forecast and let Aaron tell us to expect to mix up sonny spells and scattered showers this morning the showers becoming less frequent as the day goes on leaving a mostly dry afternoon top temperatures 9 to 11 degrees celsius in a light to moderate westerly wind tonight wet and breezy with rain and drizzle extending right across the area accompanied by fresh to strong and gusty southerly winds dry and clear conditions with westerly winds following from the west lowest overnight temperatures three to seven degrees celsius rain clearing early tomorrow morning and for the rest of wednesday expect sonny spells and scattered blustery showers in top temperatures of seven to ten degrees celsius in a moderate to fresh and gusty west to southwest wind and that's howland radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock keep up to date with all the news of the day on our website howlandradio.com but from the news team for the moment have a very good morning the obituary notices for this tuesday morning the seventh of november the death has taken place of alana harkin file more linearly alana's remains will leave eternal light chapel of rest mountaintop letter kenny this afternoon at one o'clock going to her home via carndall and lenealy village funeral mass on friday morning at 11 instant marys church bocken kuldaw followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard family fires only please donations if desired to the neonatal unit letter kenny university hospital care of any family member the funeral mass can be viewed live on kuldaw parish dot com the death has occurred of samuel sami sheen to west brook bonkrana dunigol formerly of 16 rathoan park dairy sami's remains are opposing at his home funeral from there on thursday morning at 10 o'clock going to st mary's church cock hill bonkrana with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the funeral can be viewed on church services dot tv the death has occurred of annie boil dr. matlowski present clenties formerly of cool boy do hurry reposing at shovelyn's funeral home sandfield ardra this evening from five o'clock with removal at half past six to st connell's church clenties for seven o'clock to repose overnight funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11 with burial afterwards in fintown cemetery the death has occurred of kiron gilchrist hawthorne heights letter kenny reposing at eternal light chapel of rest mountaintop letter kenny from three o'clock until seven o'clock this evening the house is private please private cremation tomorrow in lakeland's crematorium cavern no flowers please donations in lou to dunigol search and rescue care of pascal blake funeral director and the death has occurred of shon oh hey 11 tarah court letter kenny removal this morning to the church of the arish martyrs valley rain for 11 o'clock rickway amass which can be viewed live on the parish youtube channel burial afterwards in connell wall cemetery family time please before the funeral family flowers only please donations if desired to the dunigol hospice care of pascal blake funeral director for family information and more details regarding wakes and funerals please go to highland radio dot com tom is on shin kankaulat martian take quick my child punk hi lakorla oil oh i'm enough to the service is launching the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio and you're very welcome back to the program at nine minutes past ten just to remind you that garter sergeant union walsh will be joining us very shortly with the latest appeals and information from on garter shia kana which you can hear first every tuesday of course on highland radio some comments just as we head towards the break understandable that dunigol have households without a tv license we have the worst cv signal in all of the 32 counties on a par with east antrim for signal black spots my area has no seer view service but has a 2 rn rte mast built with license fee but it's leased entirely to commercial mobile phone companies with no seer view transmitter installed hi gregg can you ask a chancellor or someone from the hsc why the day center for older people the dental clinic it had been in the st joseph's for over 50 years and sharpity clinic these three services have not come back since covid i will certainly make an inquiry on your behalf occasionally i have a coffee with my food in mcdonald's i've to use six tiny packs of milk to cool the coffee there's approximately a teaspoon of milk in each container i don't understand why mcdonald's use such tiny packs if there were three times the amount of milk in the plastic wrappers it would reduce the plastic waste considerably the current status is environmentally damaging a random one we get those two someone's noticed that they're in mcdonald's the wonder why the sachet so small okay um back to st joseph the situation in st joseph's that there was always six beds available for respite bot respite or step down the hsc have ordered st joseph's that two are being kept for respite and four for step down from letter kenny hospital for the foreseeable future i disagree that this is fair or a good use of beds thank you for that the civil amenities site in letter kenny for recycling is only open on a thursday only electronics are free in stroban you can take in a large van and everything is free they are also open six days a week in letter kenny i have to pay 20 euro to dispose of things it's completely free in the north the amount of rubbish on the roads is crazy if the council find them at least 1000 euro we could get rid of the problem i have a washing machine here and i'm waiting to get rid of it that's free though isn't it on thursdays there are various recycling centers they're open at different stages i mean you can your car boards free isn't it paper stuff is free clothes are free clothing materials i thought but the caller says that general waste obviously there's going to be a charge it is a different structure in the north because you do play rates which do contribute to things such as the access to the dump on tuesday um right okay i can read this one i just want to double check that um on tuesday night i was coming home via garten and three young fellas were firing fireworks at cars they went in front of my car in a quad and stopped so i had to stop they threw the firework under the car when it exploded it scared the life out of me now when i think if the damage uh they could have caused i shoulder wow that's very troubling very worrying if you've any more 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christmas apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account okay you're very welcome back to the 9 till noon show and now it's time for community guard information and we welcome into studio garter sergeant unan walsh attached to the letter kenny guard station of course union thanks for your time today thank you great how's things today uh things are okay thanks very much union uh we'll start with uh an appeal in relation to the awful tragedy in in a show in which we were talking about a little earlier on today union yes Greg uh garry from mcranagh and the emergency services attended a fatal road traffic collision uh on sunday night more than the morning there the 6th of november uh at approximately 12 30 on the or 238 at toro e glennany uh sadly two occupants was a one vehicle collision rig and sadly two occupants of the vehicle uh were pronounced deceased at the scene and had been named as anna harkin and thomas scholar both 18 years of age and are taught some prayers are with the families of the two young people and their friends and their loved ones the third occupant of the car a male in his late teens was taken to letter kenny university hospital to be treated for injuries which are non-life threatening so garry and mcranagh are paying for anyone who may have witnessed the collision to contact them again any road users who are traveling on the r238 in the early hours of monday morning between midnight and 1 a.m and who have dash cam footage we're asking to make it available to the garry and mcranagh and again anybody who have information in relation to collision has asked to contact guard station of mcranagh 0749320540 that's 0749320540 or again the confidential line 1800 6111 or indeed any guard station greg yeah and of course as we've mentioned before um the guardie will look after downloading and finding the relevant parts of that camera footage that the public just have to make it available to them uh now your colleagues in balashan investigating a road traffic collision um this is a collision which occurred uh last friday night sat in the morning the fourth of november shortly after 1 a.m on the n3 at tampa new balashannon so that's the balashannon baleek road the collision involved two pedestrians and a and a vehicle again the vehicle was traveling from the balashannon in direction of baleek at the time of the collision as were the pedestrians both pedestrians were taken to hospital to receive treatment for the injury sustained and the driver of the vehicle was not injured so garry and balashannon are appealing to anybody who may have traveled along this stretch of road between 12 30 a.m on 115 a.m this last saturday morning the fourth of november and again anybody who has dashcam to make it available to us and again if anybody is really relevant information to the collision they should contact balashannon guard station 07198 excuse me 58530 or again the confidential line 1800 travel six travel one okay now um a burglary on the pierce roads being investigated yes this is a burglary which occurred in the early hours of this morning greg uh happened on the business premises on the pierce road Tuesday the 7th of november so the alarm was activated and garry alerted to the fact that a burglary was in progress shortly before 6 20 a.m so that's about four hours ago garry attended the scene but nobody present the glass and the front door of the premises have been smashed to gain entry and some damage has been caused within again this investigation is an early stage and we are in the process of establishing whether or not anything was stolen during the course of the burglary so this stage for appealing to anybody who was in the area at the time the pierce road area this morning around 5 45 a.m to 6 45 a.m and it was dashcam footage to make it available and again the premises in question is situated greg on the pierce road near to the entrance of the oliver plunkett road and again anybody traveling in that area this morning and you noticed any suspicious activity or saw anybody in the area at the time to make contact with us at le recennie 0749167 what hundred or again the confidential line the next appeals in relation to a worrying incident in donningall town yes this is a criminal damage by fire incident greg which happened in the mill town area of donningall town last tuesday so a week ago today at approximately 8 45 p.m on the 31st gregi were alerted to the fact that the derelict factory was in fire at location and the fire services attended the scene and extinguished fire but there was extensive damage caused to the interior of the building and again it we believe the fire may have started between 8 p.m and 8 45 p.m and at this stage it we believe it was started maliciously so again anybody who was in the area at the time and who was dashcam to make it available to gregi at ballish annan or anybody who was information to contact ballish annan greg station 0719858530 all right two instances of criminal damage either end of the canty will start in bundorn at church road yes this is damaged with car in the in the middle of the day actually in bundorn on church road last tuesday the 31st between 9 a.m and midday so a female person had parked her car in the car park at the area and returned that the rear passenger window had been smashed fortunately nothing had been taken from the car and again anybody who may have dashcam or anybody who have any information to contact ballish annan greg station 0719858530 and in car and tunnel yes this is an incident that happened last tuesday night the 31st halloween night the people involved may have seen as some sort of a prank but that's not how it's been looked at by the injured parties and by the garrady so two males entered the rear garden at the an address at chapel street carndonna and they caused significant damage while there they took a number of flower pots and two bins with them when they were leaving one of the bins was recovered at church dance quarters carndonna but none of the other property has been recovered again so that's last tuesday night in carndonna chapel street appealing for anybody who traveled in the areas of chapel street or church land quarters and again who was dashcam to make it available and to contact anybody who may have information to contact garrady in mcranagh 0749320540 interesting events taking place for all talks at secondary school i think this is really proactive particularly in relation to money laundering because it's often students when they head off to college that can find themselves getting involved in this really serious activity so sort of starting earlier suppose you and yes we have a detective garrady jerry mccready he's he's our fraud expert and he's in the process of giving a number of fraud prevention talks at secondary schools he's already called to do a number of these recently and they're going down very well as you say greg the topics he's discovering are money mulling and the money laundering which are very relevant relevant at the minute money mulling is again quite prevalent in the area previously it was third level students we would found who were being targeted but now that has changed into second level students so maybe somebody heading off to college or studying to have some money to save for college whatever or save for the summertime the temptation is there so anybody who wants to talk from detective garrady mccready if you contact the station at litterkenny 07491 67100 and leave a message from there because on the face of it it seems like easy money and you know you if you're not familiar with the money mulling money laundering you might not be aware of the consequences but has been said before ignorance isn't a defense in these matters it's treated very very seriously so you know whether they're it's taught in school a good idea for parents grandparents just to mention this to the young people yes well you see you could receive this money honestly thinking that you're just holding it for somebody for a temporary period and again if it sounds too good to be true it is too good to be true you know even if the money is not even if the money mules are not involved in the crimes which generate the money they are always acting illegally belonging the proceeds of crime helping criminal syndicates move funds easily around the world are running anonymous all right okay now great news from the garrady youth award winners from a donagore perspective for you know yes we had two winners at national level four categories overall award was presented and the winners from the four categories were then put forward to represented on the gold division we're delighted to hear that two of the category winners from the legal division also won at national level the travel report leashed last saturday there i saw the lovely photographs and the presented with their national awards the students from mulroy college a millford won a national award in special recognition category for all the work that they've done in helping the people's victims of the creature tragedy and adam lock won a national award in the individual category i think adam has set up a coaching academy in his school in glentes so um they're winning everything in football so i hope this isn't the start of well i'll tell you we were chatting him to him yesterday and he's got anything to do with it uh we'll have a few people from our area lining up for island in the not too distant well done to all due to winners and again it's fantastic it really is we hope they had an enjoyable day yeah and we always do really well and rightly so too remarkable uh an individual and a group of individuals very worthy of the recognition there on a national stage which is great um can you ask uh sergeant walsh do the cycling lanes this isn't letter kenny from clan re to poll star is it the law to use them as i've noticed a lot of cyclists are not using them causing some cars to be held back and i've spoken to members of cycling clubs before uh and i've put the question to them about safe for instance the cycle lanes available um just close to where we are now uh but they prefer to use the road because the bikes uh they believe that aren't well suited to the cycle lanes so is there any obligation on cyclists whether they're casual cyclists or dressed up like they're in the tour de france is there any obligation on them to use cycle lanes well that's it depends on the circumstances Greg i think in general a cycle in a track is part of the road of footway which is provided primarily for the use of pedal cyclists and pedal cyclists are advised to use these tracks whenever they are provided so there are two um circumstances where they must use the cycle track or lane one is in a you'll see them in urban areas cycle tracks in pedestrian areas like like busy streets pedestrian streets where they must use and again you see contraflow lanes where cyclists are cycling against pedestrians or traffic those are the two circumstances where cyclists are obliged by law to use the cycle lanes and the normal run of the cycle lanes it's it's we advise them to use it but it's not obligatory right okay uh but i mean if it's safe to do so use them i would suggest well i think the new four lanes it's newly freshly tracked so i can see i couldn't be safe you know well we shall say can you ask the guard guard guard sergeant union waltz if construction companies can close road lanes whenever they like last friday at one p.m i was driving on a road um and it was closed not noticed not many vehicles moving on with green lights on passing the pole star the road was cone to one lane the dual carriageway was also cone to one lane uh each way for tree cutting this on a bank holiday friday it seemed religious to me thanks daniel and i presume they talked about the ongoing work to build the great wall of the great wall of letter kenny there along the along the sides of the four lanes good you're good and of course the the um they work cutting trees on the central medium i think it is gold is it on the dual carriageway but are they not given a general pass to facilitate works to close no i don't i don't think general passes the words i would be using but i'm supposed to start with a simple thing the official road closures for events like the rally coming to my head the christmas tree lights patty's day they all have been done officially through under road traffic acts okay so they apply to the donningall county council for the road closure it's advertised in the paper people are in good time for people to object or give their views it comes to us as well for our views that's where the plan you know where you can plan for events and i think for maybe what we're talking about here is maybe urgent road works that are needed where you wouldn't have the time on the day legislation to get the ads in the paper so the person who it proposes to close the world must contact the engineers in donningall county council they submit a traffic management plan to the council and they either allow it happen or don't and and generally they would contact us so well to say that you know that the dual carriage is going to be closed between seven p.m. and seven a.m. on whatever night of the week just for our views and observations to let us know that it's happening so generally you can't just come along and put up a traffic light and close it out without permission from donningall county council and in this case we can only presume that they did do it well yes well i was aware of the of the road closure on the dual carriage i did see an email on that and i also see receiving numerous emails on on temporary road closures on the four lane you know okay and it's all meant to be at non-peak times where it won't have as much impact on traffic that if you're closing the road at nine o'clock or half-eat or i get things like that all right listen brilliant stuff thanks very much for that Garda Sergeant Union Walsh a pleasure to have you in as always so we look forward to seeing you again thank you that was Community Guard information it'll be available for you to listen back on our podcast watch back on our social media and on Garda Ciocana social media a little later on and back live with you after the 10 o'clock news next Tuesday. 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it's a great stop-off any day of the week take back your monday's the kelly's diner mountaintop letterkenny mara take a hsa ponkai now i'm kicking myself a little bit because a question that was on the tip of my tongue when we were talking to john from the into was our teachers who are available newly qualified are they able to get you know full long-term contracts in these positions or is that part of the the issue maybe diane can give me an insight into this good morning diane thanks for your time good morning greg how are you i'm good so what's your it's your daughter's situation that will sort of help us with this i think isn't it yeah she's qualified for the past three years and to get employment that's nearly impossible like all i hear they're talking on the radio there's loads of jobs for teachers there's loads of jobs every time i hear it i go mad there is no loads of jobs for we are as you go to Dublin you'll get a job no bother but the cost overcomes the problem like to stay in Dublin one of her friends headed off because she couldn't get a job around here but she's making nothing she's not even covering her rent yeah she's working to stand still travel down she's working for nothing you'd be as well stuck in that room getting on employment mama you'll be better off so your daughter has looked into it herself and for her friends and and taking up some of these jobs that are available in Dublin for example would be completely pointless you she would be going down there effectively to work for nothing exactly what you're saying yeah yeah so there's been no money on it tried to save to build a house like turning 24 25 that's the time where you want the job but all the talk before it was there's loads of jobs for teachers there's loads there's nothing where we are yeah they might get a maternity leave they might get but sure there's no holiday paying nothing you have to sign on them the summer holidays Christmas holidays that they are there's nothing and of course as well if you were looking to save to build a house or to have some sort of a you know you can't you can't display that as your employment for a mortgage for an example or even for a loan which you can't get a mortgage yeah because you haven't got a job so but she is yeah she is working but it's ad hoc she's working but there's nothing secure about it like if the person comes back tomorrow you know she's out on the street like it's just you know she's falling on for somebody that's off for a while we heard of this earlier say teaching is a cushy number now compared to the way it used to be is that what you hear is that your experience in yours oh my god definitely not she is teaching 30 children 15 senior 15 junior and son and a classroom with no health 30 children between four and six years of age and what's like tell me that's a country job no what's keeping her here um day and because you know they'd move heaven and earth to get her to England or to Australia or to to Dubai or or another country out in that part of the world like does she talk to you about saying stuff i'm gonna have to do something like that well she keeps saying i'll have to move if i don't get a permanent job there's no future here there's no how could you say i'll have to go for so many years but at the end of the day she's a home bird yeah i get you i get you yeah indeed you know yeah you don't want to hear that yourself either it's your daughter you know no what's your that if you qualify you spend four years in Dublin four top years college away from home not easy no only because everything to go on to do college level yes to cost you a fortune you know and then to turn around and there's no job guaranteed out of us all right listen i wish it were different day and thanks for helping us understand have a lovely day and best wishes to your daughter and the rest of the family thank you very much indeed right we are joined on the program now by uh dairy filmmaker margo harkin good morning margo good morning great how are you it's great to have you on the program i'm good thank you um right now um you have seen the release of an insightful and heartfelt documentary called stolen it released received a cinematic release there on uh friday tell us a little bit about the film margo and how you got involved in the project well the project it's not something that i got involved in as the project that i advised um in 2017 after kathryn sapone um stated in the doile that significant amount of human remains have been found in the site of the former mother and baby home in chiam which is now a playground and they've done a preliminary examination because kathryn coreless the local historian believed that children had been buried there she discovered that 796 babies died at the home but could find no evidence of their burial records which is a legal requirement and so that's really how mostly the public knows about this story but in fact we went on a journey um which involved a lot of research and um and i said when i say me i'm talking about our co-producers um uh wildfire films and Dublin and my own company buzz and productions and die and we discovered that um not only chiam but other homes throughout the country had many many children who disappeared or not who disappeared who died and there were no burial records and we still don't know where the remains are so that was the start of it really you know a lot of people obviously are familiar with the mother and baby home's story but do you think maybe many of us aren't really uh or don't have a real grasp of how these the system operated the the actual full role of the catholic church uh played in or or or at least uh facilitated this stuff happening is it important do you think that people watch this to get an understanding of the whole situation well i would never force people to watch anything no i never said you would mark always said do you think it would be useful yes well the thing is um i think most people they know the basics of the story they know all the you know the gory headlines like 790 797 babies found in a septic tank in chiam they weren't actually in a septic tank they were in a surge works underground but you know septic tank we imagine slurry and babies swelling around it but that's not exactly what happened but yeah i think we all have followed the story to an extent uh and read some of the newspaper stories about it but this is like a direct feed to the witnesses the people who experienced in different ways the effects have been placed on other baby homes over decades you know from 1923 onwards up to 1998 this was happening and there were homes all over the country in the south and in the north in the north that wasn't just catholic or the church organizations there were state homes and proviscent homes of different denominations within the proviscent churches and um it it affected practically everybody i've spoken to you know since i started making this tells me that they know somebody or other you had an experience in some way they were connected in some way to somebody went through this experience but you don't actually know it till you hear the witnesses speak you can't you can't beat that you know hearing people talk about their experiences so that's why i think yes it's it's it's worth saying and and it's it's been getting the most stunning reviews i've never had reviews like of my life which is good because you know most people don't want to look at this story but actually the reviews are saying this is highly watchable and you know it's something that everyone really should watch if they can yeah indeed and also to you know what i mean yes it started in 1922 circa but this is part of our recent history as well relatively recent history as well yeah well the thing is a lot of the survivors are still here they're elderly now many of them and this was like for me an opportunity to catch them catch their voices catch the revelance before they passed on we're all getting older and most people a lot of them around their late 60s or 70s many of them have died already so yeah i know it is very recent but people are still with us so that this is why we made it to let us hear what they have to say and how important is that is it that that story is heard that their voices are heard well i think it gives us an insight into how we were you know as i say at the start of the film i love this country i can't explain how much i love it i love Ireland i love its people i love everything about it i love our arts and our literature but these things were going on and it's hard to imagine that they were going on under our noses and we didn't know the extent of it so yeah i think it is useful for people to to get the full story i mean the film only scratches the surface because there were thousands of people affected like a social representative sample but it's enough to let you know what actually went on and it's important to know about what you let happen in your own name and to try and make sure it never happens again you know yeah for sure and but then you see other things happening right now and you just wonder and not necessarily maybe uh to the same extent but you see things happening right now and you wonder if in you know decades once they have lapsed if you look back and we're living in scandals that we should be doing more about right now if that makes sense a bit confident yeah i mean you're talking about jazza and i think what's happening at the moment is an outrage but we're not here specifically to talk about that just now but i take your point that yeah do we ever learn and i would agree you know unless you actually get to get it into your mind what we've actually done and the effects on people that's the important thing is the effects on people and how it affected them down generations and blighted their lives there's more chance if you understand that to make sure it doesn't happen again if you try to blind die well you know you're not really playing your part as the citizen as far as i'm concerned you know margo how can people see the documentary well it was released in selected cinemas last friday the third of november so it's on and various multiplexes around the country it's on and manner point and cork it's on and strand road multiplex omniplex and dairy it's on and um the omniplex and salt hill and goalway it's on and the omniplex no it's on and the multiplex ritz multiplex and cook's time um it's on on the palas in goalway it's on in the irish film institute and dublin and the omniplex and rath mines and i think it's going to be extended into one of the cinemas in west port as well this week and there may be there may be a couple of extensions and obviously margo it's very important that it gets it's released in cinema and people have an opportunity to view it in that environment but but going forward as as often happens with things that are once in the cinema has it been picked up yet or is that the work on going by any of the streaming platforms or any of the terrestrial broadcasters well part of the conditions of our funding was that we had a broadcaster on board and we do have rt on board but that'll be down the line no problem yeah much later next year and eventually it will be on streaming platforms yeah but there's a whole kind of schedule with with independent funds you start with cinema if you can get it and then you move on to tv and streaming okay margo thank you very thank you very much for joining us and congratulations on a really important piece of work thank you for your time and have a have a lovely day you too take care that's director of that documentary stolen margo harkin 08 660 25 000 perhaps you've had an opportunity to see that let us know what you think um traffic lights at the pole star jammed at the dry arch around about at five to ten it's a disaster people are saying give it time it's going to work i'm sitting here at the dry arch around about since ten to nine and i'm late for a meeting how well i'm sorry to hear that we were told that within a week it would be as bad as it was as bad as it was before for those of you watching actually whilst we're we're talking i'll play a little video that someone sent in of the traffic there quality is not fantastic they're not going to win an oscar for this but just looking at the video there is an awful lot of traffic backed up on the four lanes this morning waiting to get into letter kenny um and on it goes and on it goes has it a situation improved i don't want to bore listeners generally speaking you know those of you who don't go to letter kenny aren't from letter kenny i can understand that some of these conversations can be frustrating if you go on too long but the bottom line is is there's traffic this morning right out around the round about at the clan re there loads of traffic trying to get in on that round about uh down from uh lurgie brack and on it goes okay not great at all um what has the traffic been like has it improved we were told it should be as bad as it was uh before the lights went in if not a little bit better i'm still watching this traffic it's backed up all the way uh all the way up lurgie brack as well my word okay not good if you're sitting in it someone's sitting on the back of a bus set that into us we do appreciate it um if you've any commentary on the traffic please let us know i feel very sorry for the poor man that lost the memorial of the grave just because it was an r u c man people bend so low to steal stuff from graves i would hate to see something lifted from graves here in remelton uh re ukraine the ukrainian people are in a dire situation we're a lot look you're here in this country we need to be nicer to them we don't realize how much we have i think for the most part there is a very warm welcome from what i see anyway and i'm open to correction on that of course uh teachers and doctors teachers are all anyone talks about doctors and nurses work far harder years ago they had bigger classes they get so many holidays these days but doctors and nurses work far harder but why would we pitch doctors and nurses against teachers i don't see any benefits or what what that might achieve they are groups of individuals that do important work and presumably most people think they should all be appropriately rewarded for the reference uh what's john's view on the vile sexual education being taught and shown to mere children well just double check what's being shown have you seen the documentation because i have yes of course caroline no problem i'm trying to speak and you're speaking in my ear um yes of course i will uh have you actually gone through the documentation i have um i don't see any uh i don't see any vile sexual education being taught and shown to me children what i see and i'm open to correction and i'm open to correction again and i'm sorry to repeat that phrase what i see is information that i think would help prevent a child being abused uh which is something that unfortunately too many children in this country have uh experienced and continue to experience um i don't i i've as i say i went through it all and i didn't see i went through the different ages i didn't see anything that i'd be concerned with my children seeing i think it uh is quite well put together but again that's just a view an honest view from me uh talked to me a little bit about the vile sexual education that is being shown to children uh get back in touch with us so wait six sixty twenty five thousand the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today looks like brim for a cold spell perfect weather to chill out in a steaming seaweed bath on sligo shores talk of scattered showers too perfect weather for sea swimming off the coast of waterford sure you're 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leaving a mostly dry day highest temperatures of 9 to 11 degrees and a light to moderate uh westerly wind i'm joined in studio by patricia lee good morning patricia hi gregg thank you so much for calling up and patricia of course is a research officer and team lead with the local development partnership and leave britain community food and nutrition officer with in a shown development partnership good morning to you too hello gregg how are you thanks for having us here today it's great it's great to have you sir in studio today right and we're talking about a you a new and unique zero food waste initiative which aims to eliminate household food waste for numerous families in in a shown um neif do you want to start with explaining how this might work yeah yeah of course um so my job as community food nutrition worker this is a new role um that is funded by the slantcare healthy communities by the hsc um and my role as a community food nutrition worker is to look at the issues of food insecurity and food waste in the in a shown area so food waste is a global issue um and it's it has effects on the environment um social and economic consequences um so i started looking into food waste and what is the issue going on um in in a shown particularly um and food waste is a global issue in one quarter of the food that's being produced globally is being wasted which is such a high number especially when we're looking at the whole issue of food insecurity and people not being able to afford food and people skipping meals and using food banks and and things like that so um there has been research done by the Environmental Protection Agency um and they have been researching um the the situation with food waste within Ireland and the research has shown that around 750 000 tons of food waste is being produced in Ireland yearly which is a massive amount of food waste and most of this food waste is coming from households with 29 percent coming from um of the food being wasted in household which is the highest number um and this is cost on households even looking delve in deeper into the research this is cost on households um around 700 euro per year yeah it's really significant because and and also too there's very few things that we can do that have an impact right but also impact also i think the majority of people most people listen to this program today you know we don't have money to burn right so why would we why would we waste food and we'll talk a little bit about some of the measures that we can uh we can adopt that would limit food waste for a myriad of reasons uh Patricia what's the role of the local development partnership in this so in Innochon um IDP is a local development company and um the HSE has approached us to host the sloncher care healthy communities in Innochon so two areas have been picked in County Donegal Northwest Geltacht which is is is being looked after by DLDC and Innochon and and so we offer a number of programs under sloncher care so the focus is very much early intervention and prevention so there's smoking cessation there's healthy food made easy there's parenting supports and then there's also social prescribing and Neve's role is very unique that we have two community food nutrition officers in County Donegal so one is employed by DLDC and one in Innochon and and they work very collaboratively and also with with with Cavern and I suppose the focus is very much around food poverty and food insecurity so so many households don't have a secure supply of food coming into their homes on a weekly basis and so they're unsure of of of what they have available to them to cook healthy and nutritious meals for their families and and we feel that part of that equation is what's being wasted as well and I come from a family of leftover queens my mother was was my late mother and leftovers are a real nutritious option for families and so under the healthy food made easy and now this food waste zero food waste kitchen approach it's about supporting families and offering them training programs so that they can they can look at the options and and stretch the food that bit further but also take into consideration the whole climate conversation and what we are wasting and what can be reused and and and repurpose do you want to focus on the work of the zero food waste kitchen Neve yeah yeah so the program is designed it's supposed to be a fun and interactive program and it has a cookery element as well to the program but I suppose it's over four weeks and week one of the program is on how to manage food waste at home so we're looking at different tips of like looking at food labels how food should be stored correctly also I wonder if we polled listeners and they put their hand on the heart would they be in an instant able to clearly differentiate between best before and used by yeah exactly and that seems to be a big issue and I get asked that question all the time um and people are also confused about you know whenever they have leftover food like um can they eat it again how should be reheated this is really very this is you're speaking to me here yeah yeah cook to ham beautiful sliced it had some of it put it on a plate put it in the fridge but how long can it be in the fridge for I'm not asking to necessarily answer that specifically but then after two days or a day or something I started becoming a little bit nervous about it was cooked and it was in the fridge and it was on a plate and it was there was no raw food above it or whatever but I started to get a bit nervous as to how will I know if that if there's anything growing on that exactly and that's the whole idea around the program is to kind of educate people on how long food can be stored after it is heated um and how to quickly when it cool it down to put it in the fridge or freezer whatever method that they're using to um store the food afterwards but also just use an own judgment to be able to smell look at foods see um there's certain foods you know like vegetables and things like that that you don't know they don't have um used by dates on them certain foods so it's been able to make their own judgment on when that food is is starting to go off um just by color and texture and things like that so it has a has a lot of different elements to the program there's also an element of um look at a budget in and meal planning so like look at what you already have in your cupboards um and not just going to the supermarket all the time I'm sure most of us can say that we'd open up our freezer and there'll be plenty of food in there that we can make meals from and I think people may be a bit nervous about um being creative around food now and and not like everyone wants to follow recipes or go for meals that they're used to cooking but the part of the program has a as a ready steady cook um element where the individual the participants are given unknown foods so foods that they don't know and they have to create a meal around us just to educate them and to give them confidence and be able to to make meals up for them if you're if you involve the children in that process where it's safe to do so as well you know it becomes really interesting um and and we see measures like some supermarkets removing best before dates on milk so in other words you sniff it out of it if it's okay you drink it and if it's not you don't I mean obviously within reason yeah um uh within reason yeah I think the use by date we do follow but yeah but I think I think and it's estimated that it would it would save millions of liters of milk I don't think it's Tesco did it I don't know um so as you say uh or as Neve said Patricia it's about sort of getting people involved and then getting people sort of to understand these things maybe to have a bit of confidence around their their food completely and I mean I think that's why we are hosting cilantro care healthy communities and in a show because we are a local development company and we're already engaging with with a myriad of people and individuals and groups and social enterprises and we collaborate and partner with them all so so we it's it's we make it much more accessible and that it's available across the peninsula so when when healthy food made easier the food waste is being offered it's being offered out in smaller communities so that they have the same choices and the same opportunities whether it's in caramena which the the the kitchen is being is the next one is going to be running and you know our mobile our out in Malinhead it means then that you're you have the same opportunities as anybody who wants to walk down the street in letter candy for example or or you can talk to me about the food cloud so the food cloud or a partner a collaborative partner and we partner with DLDC on the Donegal food response and there's now a partnership with the food cloud and and that's about taking food like vegetables and yeah they're doing a 12-week pilot project at the minute they have a food hub in letter candy and where they're distributing food second-class vegetables is what they would say so first-class vegetables would be vegetables that are go to supermarkets whereas the second-class vegetables are could be wasted by farmers a lot of the time or could be fed to animals so they might not be aesthetically pleasing but they're yeah of course yeah they might just be a different shape or size to what the supermarkets what their criteria are but this vegetables are used and given out to food banks or food pantries and all of Donegal and the project is working really really well the food banks are delighted to have this produce coming through the door because it's fresh vegetables and there are foods that that that people would be able to use and cook and and coming from my aspect of nutrition like these are really nutritious foods instead of processed foods coming through the food bank so it's a really good project that's happening must listen there's an awful lot in there um so how can people get more information because we've just sort of you know talked a little bit about the headlines of it so how can people get more information maybe sign up for the zero waste program yeah um they can contact me and then show development partnership um so they can call the office or they can get me on neve at nshown.ie we've a program starting in caramena next monday and it's starting from 11 to 1 pm and we also have a program in Moff community centre that is run at the minute but we hope to have more programs rolled out from january of next year brilliant it's fantastic and it's great for people to get involved because um it helps them save money or in the food cloud it helps provide food for people that can't afford it both of you thank you very much thank you very much great thank you for having us okay we'll be back after this break with the news it'll be two minutes late but sure look at the nine till 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apply a county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio okay it is approaching three minutes past 11 uh we go over to the newsroom now and it's good morning once again to donald cavena thank you great good morning a retired parish priest in ortony shone says the tragic collision that took the lives of 218-year-olds in the early hours of yesterday morning has had reverberations right across the peninsula alana harkin and thomas gallerher bolts from lennily died in a single car collision at terrawee on the or 238 shortly after a half past midnight yesterday father jim mcgonigal who was called to the scene called it one of the most traumatic experiences of his 50 plus years in the priesthood. garthier investigating a break in at a business premises this morning on the pierce road in litter kenny close to the junction with oliver plunkett road the alarm was activated and garthier were alerted to the fact that a burglary was in progress just before 20 past six this morning the investigation is at an early stage and garthier said they're in the process of establishing whether or not anything was taken. garthier and bali shannon are investigating an incident on the n3 baleek road at temple new bali shannon in the early hours of saturday last two pedestrians were hit by a vehicle traveling from bali shannon in the direction of baleek as were the pedestrians both were taken to hospital to receive treatment for injuries the driver wasn't injured bali shannon garther station investigating the agriculture minister says nitrates derogation will be to the four of discussions with the eu environment commissioner who was due to visit ardent later this month charlie mcconilogue says the commissioner has accepted an invitation from himself in the t-shirt he'll come here on november 23rd it follows major razz between farming groups and the government over changes to the current limits which will take effect in january and the israeli ambassador to ireland insists the country does not want to remain in gaza that's despite israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu hinting that his government plans to control the enclave after its war against khamas ends more than 10 000 palestinians have been killed in israeli strikes on the territory since the october 7th attacks ambassador dana elrich said israel does not intend to stay in gaza in the long term and there are the headlines back with headlines again at 12 noon okay donal thank you very much indeed whether it's golfing gardening or going for a new personal best at neurofen we know sometimes body pain can stop you in your tracks time for the power of new neurofen long lasting for body pain relief that lasts up to 12 hours day or night so you keep doing what you're doing and we'll do the long lasting body pain relief up to 12 hours pain relief refers to a 2 by 300 milligram capsule dose neurofen long lasting 300 milligram prolonged release hard capsules contain iron proven for backache and muscular pain and period pain always read the label okay you're very welcome back to the program just a couple of requests actually one that's a little late my apologies hi can you play a request around 10 o'clock for the four members of the locks willy junior angling club fishing for the next three days as part of the irish team at the world championships being held in cork from all at the club there are james and patrick donahue two brothers from letter kenny orla mclean from letter kenny and connoisseur from toron all the best and tight lines one an achievement representing your country on the world stage we're all very proud of you at locks willy junior angling club my apologies for that being a little late but they can listen back maybe on the playback we people can let them know that we wish them all the best happy sixth birthday to erin from mom dad elah adda or aida ronan and the two dogs bruno and bubbles uh can you please wish my auntie godmother fion of its patrick in dairy a very happy birthday today hope she has a wonderful day lots of love from god daughter shirshah in ballet buffet more than happy to do so um a caller says i'm 75 years old i'm wondering if i have to pay my tv license i have an old age pension and the living alone pension i also receive the household benefits package i know other people like me will be wondering if they have to pay well you don't have to pay but what you have to do is there is a tv license box uh in applying for the household benefit package which gives you a free tv license so you don't have to pay for a tv license but you do have to have one and as i say that can be selected as part of the household benefits package some people under 70 can also qualify that as well but you must select the tv license option on the form when you apply for the household benefits package and if you qualify you become eligible for a fee free license from the next renewal date of your existing license so um the next time you are applying for the household's benefits package and it's possible you already already did make sure you select uh the tv free tv license as part of that i hope that's clear um i'm not familiar with the application process for the household benefits package but within it there is a box or a section that you uh tick for a free tv license so you must have a tv license but it is free if you're over 70 as part of the household's benefits package and some of you under 70 with the household benefits package may also be able to avail of a free tv license so as i say hopefully i've been as clear as possible in relation to that Caroline i want to thank both you and Greg for still highlighting the tragic topic of the mother and baby home so glad to hear about the documentary stolen as you may remember i live in new york and i may not have been aware of it only i listened into greg every morning my daughter louise and i will be forever grateful to highland radio ester i remember speaking to you and your daughter and i really appreciate the correspondence and i hope you're well by the way i only met you remotely but uh you seemed a wonderful lady a call wants to know if anyone has had to deal with the difficulty with difficult tenants as he is tenants who have destroyed the house and have stopped paying rent he will seek the advice of a minister but would also like to hear of people's similar experiences and how they managed it i've spoken to some people off the air who've had difficult tenants and a very difficult process um they had to go through to get that situation resolved but if anyone out there has experienced with difficult tenants they've destroyed the house they're not paying the rent he is going to or she is going to engage with a solicitor but wants to hear of other people's experiences and how they managed it tell the last person that texted there'd be no doctors and nurses without teachers again i'd i'd i don't see the purpose in in pitching one in group of workers against another it's not something necessarily want to facilitate obviously we facilitate people's points of views but where would we benefit from nurses doctors and teachers arguing with each other or being pitched against each other i can't see any benefit to that at all hi great can you ask the engineers what's the contingency plan should the port bridge have to close i.e a pile up large fire on a steel framed bridge caller from downing says it's ridiculous that we're paying people to teach us how to cook and store food whatever happened to common sense common sense is not common that's the thing and you know like i'm delighted that you feel that you're confident in that but there are things i've had to learn through life and still i'm learning and i think you know food waste sometimes the solutions to it are obvious but aren't obvious to everyone speaking of downings when is the footpath stroke cycle lane between carrot art and downings going to be finished or finalised or even started we've been talking about this program on this program for absolutely yonks are they heading towards another summer without it it's a critical piece of infrastructure people running and walking and cycling on that road it is dangerous it's an accident waiting to happen and as i say it wouldn't be an accident really because the road conditions might contribute to it it would be a a collision but i just wonder where the process or the progress is in relation to that piece of infrastructure a caller says the cycle lane on the four lanes needs swept it's covered in loose chips does the council have a suitable sweeper for this job oh interesting hi greg the great wall as you called it along with the bus stops the best additions to the four lanes a wall like that should have been built decades ago as it also prevents the seat and tidal flooding yes indeed it should be very effectual the great wall of letter kenny there and i someone was complaining that it wasn't great for cyclists or people pushing a buggy but the pitch of it seems gentle enough that i think people should be able to people should be able to uh avail my family member worked in dubai moved back here she said here in island teachers are better treated by unions etc she gets uh 25 percent off hair treatments are extremely well known hair salon and well known department stores she's bought her second home and is a landlord also that's my opinion on teaching profession she doesn't smoke drink or vape either so she saved her disposable income very sensibly working 22 plus years uh teaching um how much of what she's been able to achieve in terms of becoming a landlord and having a second property was uh no caroline how much of it was acquired uh in jubilee because the problem with teachers here is they can't amass uh the deposit for house many would argue but great to hear that things are going well for your family there that lady on your show highlighting her daughter's plight will resonate with many parents generations rent generations homeless generation exploited and if more of you out there and it can be kind of difficult i supposed to speak publicly but if more of you want to sort of you know paint a better picture for us of the experience of young newly qualified teachers please feel free to do so greg when will the council do public transport uh and park and rides no sign of bosses it's all cars into towns and there simply isn't the road space for them thanks for highlighting it daniel thanks for the text in there are some other parts of the country are doing it really well i'm sure some of you have been through or off from those areas let us know uh because there's very little around here greg i empathize and sympathize with all the victims of mother and baby homes history but have we learned nothing from this history today uh any mother who aborts her baby by abortion pills and on they go um i i take your point this is but it's about the debate as to when you believe life starts or are women entitled to um to make decisions or as someone have it um you know it's medical care it's it's legal and it's here now and i understand and i i get your emotive i get your emotive language um but some people might not view that as a baby at that point and it's a very difficult and complicated and emotive subject i understand that i think the poll star roundabout lights are good they just need tweaked uh well they've spent the last 10 days tweaking them uh what's really needed is a new road bypassing the roundabout why does traffic going out the remelton road from dairy balabafay need to go to the poll star they've been talking for years about a road down by tinny's oil and across letter kenny gales also amazed at how many drivers don't know how to go around a roundabout keeping in their lane they're the ones creating chaos some reeducation needed i think what would be helpful and it's a bit silly and probably childish for me to even suggest but when they were lining out the lanes if they use different colours you know like blue green yellow or something along those lines to direct traffic because it's just a maze of lines and from my experience going around that roundabout and i'm not perfect a lot of people don't seem to understand quite where this should be and how it works but anyway uh a call of say is last before the break i believed on the gold can to cancel plan to have a nighttime closure of the l1551 strayed clan mani from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. on the 20th of november until the 15th of december with diversions up the pinch road then onto memo gap how will people access these roads if there's bad weather it's ridiculous they say so if you've any insight into that please let us know really busy on the phone lines thank you so very much the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio the nine till noon show is brought to you by letter candy credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today 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However, the Irish Examiner reports the age limit will now be introduced after interventions by the Justice Minister, the Guardi, and the Road Safety Authority. Well, Shane Ross is an author and former Transport Minister. It seems like you, perhaps, Shane, good morning to you, by the way. Good morning, Greg. Good to talk to you. Good to have you on the show, yeah. It seems like you and Eamon Ryan might be on the same page, but the Guardi, the RSA and the Justice Minister, what do you think? Do you think under 16 should be banned from using scooters? Yes, I do. Sorry, I'm not on the same page. Oh, you're OK. I beg your pardon. I misread my intro, OK. Why do you think that's important, Shane? I think that we're in a very, very dangerous situation with road deaths generally now at the moment. And as you can see, the figures every day and overnight, we're getting these terrible tragedies happening. And I think it's, you know, as far as timing is concerned, it is a very, very difficult time to introduce new vehicles and very vulnerable vehicles to the roads. So I think it's very important that we take the absolute, I mean, we're not going to stop them. They're here, they're in there, and the legislation is through. So we're not going to stop them, and nobody's going to stop them at this stage. I wouldn't be a paper stop them, but it is important that we introduce the strictest possible regulations to preserve the lives of people who are taking the roads on a new type of vehicle, which is vulnerable. I do think it's important. I think it's very wise of the minister to have taken the advice. But with respect, Shane, I mean, let's just say, for instance, in an area where, you know, there isn't public transport or here to form maybe a young person might have been cycling to and from school where they have the right lights on, the right helmet, you know, hopefully cycle paths, would it not be better to say, right, you can use an e-scooter between a certain age under 16 if it's of a certain, you know, performance and educate rather than ban? I think it's important to, you've got to have an age limit on them, I think at some stage, and they are more vulnerable than bicycles. But I think it's really important that we make people conscious of the fact that these are vulnerable vehicles and that we try and save lives. I'm in the business and was when I was in government up to three years ago, I was in the business of saving lives. And I understand fully, you know, the difficulties of people not having transport and particularly rural areas. But you've got to balance that against the fact that the people, you know, there have been accidents. I think there are four deaths. There have been four deaths on these scooters already, even though they are at the moment banned. In other words, with small numbers of them on the roads, there's some in Dublin, you can see them here quite regularly, even though they're not actually legal. And so when we do bring them in, we're going to have to make sure they're as safe as possible and we don't bring them in prematurely. It's a difficult decision, but, you know, it is absolutely likely that the more we get on the roads and the more dangerous the roads will become and we must take precaution. But the public might not be confident that whatever laws are introduced will be enforced because at the moment it's the same, particularly in the built-up areas of the northwest, you'll see the scooters going up and down, footpaths out on roads, not actual carriageways, but I've seen them on, you know, significant roads. I don't know what age these people are. I mean, who's going to enforce the rules here, the laws here? Because even now, as they are illegal in certain circumstances or at least not necessarily governed by a law at the moment, it seems to be a bit of a free-for-all. You're right. There's a real problem you can see because enforcement is a matter for the Guardi, but enforcement is not effective at the moment in terms of road deaths. You can see that the numbers are going up. One of the reasons, not the cell reason, and I don't want to blame the Guardi, but one of the reasons is that the rules are there, but they're not being enforced. And if you're going to introduce a new type of vehicle with new types of rules, which are going to be very strict, rigid, the Department of Justice is going to have to step up to the plate as other Guardi to enforce these rules. I think that's absolutely correct. And that's got to be done. They're going to have to patrol. They're going to have to be vigilant. They're going to have to have new methods of detection, which absolutely ensure that these bicycles are safe. Now, there are companies, there's both, and there's Lyme, which are both out there. And they have means, I think, now, and they're in favour, by the way, of banning people up under the age of 16. But they have means, in fact, of stopping, of taking off the road. Those who break the regulations and enforcing them in other ways under the shared schemes. And I think that's very, very important. So there's going to be a bit of self-regulation there, which will take a bit of the other sort of Guardi. But it is something which is, if you introduce a new type of vehicle and with new regulations, enforcement is a problem in which the Guard is going to have to do something. Yeah, and some would say there is generally a problem with enforcement, not just as in this area, but just taking road safety more generally. You'd be acutely aware of issues of ban drivers still driving lots and lots of people driving on provisional licenses, being able to get them renewed, even if they don't sit, they can apply for a test, but don't actually sit it. You know, all of the loopholes that exist now, the amount of people driving without insurance on Irish roads. And now we have the government introducing or looking to introduce a whole new raft of things, lowering speed limits and all that type of stuff. Again, we're not really, we don't have the laws we have now correct and enforced, and yet we're talking now about creating even more laws and what have you. Do we need to throw out, throw out what we have and start a new with tight, clear to understand enforceable regulations? I think a campaign is going to be launched now, particularly on e-scooters, but on regulations generally as well, because I mean, you're absolutely right. A lot of them aren't being enforced and you highlighted there a couple of things. I mean, with people driving on provisional license, not turning out for their tests and nothing being done about it, it's just totally and utterly unacceptable, but you know, there is a lack of political will. And when I was introducing measures on speeding and on drink driving, there was a huge reluctance amongst the back benches in both Pinafore and PinaGale and elsewhere to introduce these strict new regulations. So it's quite difficult, or the new laws in particular, it's very difficult in fact for a minister and I think Jack Chambers, who's the minister in charge, is doing a pretty good job now, but I think you'll find behind the scenes, there's an awful lot of back benches and which is what I found and I had real difficulty getting the drink driving laws through and I was stymied on speeding in some areas by back benches from the main political parties, particularly PinaGale at the time when the government was looking at the legislation and saying, no, we don't like that type of legislation. We don't want to penalize people for driving when they shouldn't be because there's a kind of culture here that people are doing it for so long. That is a real problem and it's one which quite honestly, the road safety advocates have not confronted and they've been frightened to confront and it's all very well being in favor of road safety, but if you've got politicians on the back benches who resist road safety measures, you're not going to get them through and that's been a problem certainly for the last 20 years and it's still there. OK, listen, thank you so much for your time, Shane. I appreciate it. That's Shane Ross there, author and former minister for transport. Thank you very much again. A caller says, I used to buy my bin tags in the local shop. They've now set up a new system for buying the bin tags. You can't get them in shops. I'm now an early 80. I've been to the bank to try to pay. They're making it very difficult for people like me to pay. In my opinion, there shouldn't be a bin charge. It should be included in the household charge. This is the only way we can stop illegal dumping. And I know what you're talking about there and I think really it's to try and well, obviously it's presumably cheaper for the companies as well, but too it keeps track of the weight of your rubbish as well and to make sure you don't exceed any limits or if you do that you charge for them. What is the alternative for someone whether it's that lady or gentleman who's 80 or someone else who doesn't use online or smart apps? What are the alternatives for them? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. In regards to the TV license, I know from my father that when it's approved, they send you a form to say it's approved and you don't have to pay. Now it's possible that that box was ticked and the person didn't spot it, but anyway, hopefully that person who texted us already will get back in touch with us and if we can help them any further, we will. All right, Marie's with us. Hi, Marie. And good morning, Greg. You're on about the East Gooders Day this morning. Yeah, what's your view? And my view is that they are the most dangerous thing out there. I'll tell you my experience, I was in the complex TK Max a few weeks ago and one just came shitting across in front of all the parked cars and the car was trying to reverse out. They didn't see that East Gooder because the speed, it's just like, would you be able to stop if they were kicking the ball in front of you? No, I mean... That's what the East Gooders are like. They go that fast like bicycles and motorbikes. They're not going as fast as what those East Gooders are going. And small complexes like that there and they're not obeying the rules of the road either. I was coming out the road one day at the Remelton Road at Ballerina School there and you know how the traffic lights there. Yeah. Yeah, and the cars were moving along and just this East Gooder just shitted across the road and the man in front, he didn't know where he was sitting. It was that shock that the scooter was going to pass so quickly. And is these one-off experiences that you've had or are you seeing it more and more now? I'm seeing it more and more and I'll tell you what there are two like in the footpath and it really annoys me because I have a disability and I'd be on steady in my feet and hear these East Gooders you're trying to stay out of their way. It's impossible. You're scared of them. And you're scared to make that quick movement in case you fall. You have to be in that situation to know what your balance is. Mm-hmm. So would you like to see them banned from anywhere that's pedestrian... not pedestrianised but you know, like footpaths or... I think they shouldn't be allowed in car parks and things like that there or they should be parked up just the same as a car instead of like... it's like plen... they're East Gooders like, you know, and they're going fast across these cars parked like, you know, there are no rules to them. And can you hear them? No, you can't hear them. There's no noise. There's no noise off them. That's the worst thing. There's no noise off them. I even stopped one of the lads that day afterwards. I was the car behind that man and whatever you call it, it was coming out the Remelton Road and I got in front of him and I stopped him and I had earplugs on and I said, excuse me. I said, when you were down there at the Ballerina School, I said, you did not abide to the traffic lights. Yeah. And you should. But he apologized and said he was very sorry. OK, well, at least there's that. I just wonder if we're going to see more and more because the they're so handy, Greg, but the speed of them now, like, you know, is just the thing I can't get over. Like, you know, I mean, they're all over the place in Brussels. I was over in Brussels there doing a program a few months back, Marie, and it was just it was a mess. There were scooters because they can rent them there. You see, hop on, hop off. It was a mess. They were lying everywhere, literally like rubbish. You'd think they were rubbish. These scooters lying absolutely everywhere and crossing the road was hectic. You know, cars were bad enough, but then scooters were flying in and out of cars and up and down them. And I think in Paris, they've actually banned them from the city there. I'll have to double check that. But I think they made some changes in Paris as it relates to the use of these scooters. Yeah. Because they are so, so, so dangerous, like, you know, the speed of them, like going on a car park, like, you know, and you're trying to reverse out, like, and this thing just goes, shouldn't pass you. You look great. You look left. You look great. But, like, they go that quick that you can't see them. Maybe places like that you talk of need to put a sign up then at the entrance saying, please, dismant from your e-scooter. Do you know, I mean, like, to give people a chance. I think... You know, like... Yes. Because people are going, well, there's no rules, so I don't know. They don't need any help. But maybe it should say, please, dismant from your push-biker e-scooter before entering this facility or this car park. Yeah. That's the way that it should be. You see bicycles parked up that they're not... They're not shooting about, like, you know, people parked them up to do the shopping. But these e-scooters, like, they don't do that. I think Santi's going to be busy with them this year. It's going to be interesting, Marie. I would say so. I would say so. Because they're, like, they're handy, they're convenient. They get people from A to B. But, like, they're not designed for... car parks and things like that there and abiding by the rules. And let's just be very clear, Marie. You're speaking from two instances. You're speaking from instances that you've seen firsthand. Yeah. This is not... You're not, you know, sitting in the chair at home. You've actually been out there and experienced it. No. And you're speaking from your experience, which I think is important just to point out, because this is a lived experience, Marie. And I'm sure others might join the conversation now. Thanks for your time, Marie. Right, thank you very much. All right, hopefully you're doing well. Thank you. It's great to have you on the program. Bye-bye. Caller says those electric scooters are a hazard. They're illegal in the U.K., unless rented, which provides insurance. But if you're caught driving one in a daft manner here, you can actually get points on your license, can you? I'm not sure. Not yet, anyway. We'll see. Greg, I have an electric bike, which is limited to 15 miles per hour. I think the scooters are also limited to that, too. But that's very fast for a scooter with very little means of controlling it compared to a bike around Leicester. Kenny, they're often on footpaths and can come up behind. You can't hear them. And if you took a step left or right, they would be right on you. But the thing is, in towns like Leicester and others, there is no public transport to get around town if you live around town. And the scooters are a really good option for people heading to college or heading to some of the amazing employers that we have here. Handy. Do you know what I mean? You can commute in and from work. So there is a great value to them. And I'd love to hear people who are on e-scooters and how it's changed your life or how important it is to you. But there has to be a way where we can all share the roads, the footpaths, respectfully. Because I don't think the scooters are coming in. That's just the way it is. They're going to be legal. They're there anyway. But talk to me, then, about the benefits of the e-scooter if you're in and around Leicester, or some other urban area. And what do you think of this conversation? Do you feel that you're being tarnished with bosses? Is this going to be the new dog owners? You know, 95% of dog owners are very responsible. 5% aren't. Yet a lot of dog owners all get tired with the same brush. Are we going to see that with e-scooters now? That people who respectfully ride them in a safe way are going to be grouped in with people that are spinning around car parks on them, nearly knocking people over. I see they're advertising e-scooters as Christmas presents now. If Santa can bring them, well, there'll be many more in the road after Christmas. Indeed, I think you may be right there. The under-16s using the scooters aren't the problem. My boy is 10 and his brother is 8, and they love their e-scooters and use them very safely to just go short distances to their friends' houses. I think it's so unfair to target the young-grade group who aren't the ones who are flying through busy towns and streets on them. I kind of tried to touch on that with Shane Ross, as well, in that, you know, it's not like we're hearing of loads of young people under-16 tearing the place up on these things, you know. Is it fair that they should be banned to all under-16s, especially when maybe some are just using it for the reasons that parent outlined? Ban is correct. Peripheral vision isn't fully occurred until the age of 13. Very important to ban these for safety. Great point, perhaps, if that's the case. So maybe under-16 wouldn't have the same vision sites that someone older. No bicycle obeying the rules of the roads at the traffic lights. Is there much of a difference with these scooters? Should be some sort of an identity number visible on all bikes. I personally don't see a great deal of difference between them. You can buy D&W spin labels in any shops. There's a listener that's on a separate issue, but there are some that they've done away with labels now. There are some companies. I think Panda might be one. Actually, I have to be very careful unless I absolutely know for a fact which companies. But some companies are switching from the physical label because I saw some letters being sent out to the physical label that you can buy in a shop. So according to this quality and waste, you can still get bin labels, but that waste provider might not be our listener's waste provider. Well, they talk about people not turning up for their test funny. You never see boys like Shane saying, what about people getting their test cancels on the day of the test because there's not enough testers in Donegal? That's a fair point, of course. But what we're talking about is a particular set of statistics that show there are a group, quite a lot of them, I think 60, 70 odd thousand people that have a provisional license for a very long time. And the only way you can renew it is to book a test. But clearly they're not going because either that or they're all failing. Do you know what I mean? So I get your point, but there are a group of individuals that retain a provisional license or a learner permit by booking tests so they can renew but not turning up for the test at all, which is robbing someone of a place, by the way, to do their test legitimately as well. A caller says, if someone doesn't switch off the Polestar traffic lights, I'm afraid letter candy shops will be missing out because of all the delays, even in the supposed quiet time of the day. And that's everywhere in town. I haven't heard much from the business community. Maybe things are working well for them. Greg, where are we actually in terms of the new road and bridge at Bonnegie? Are there plans actually drawn up at this stage? The only movement so far was when Martin's shop closed, and that's a fair while ago. Everyone always says the new road would be a great job, but no one has a clue if and when it will happen or what stage it's at. It can't be too far along yet, or some politicians would be on your show bombing about it. I will go back. We had the roads engineer on. They are actively trying to progress it. I don't want to misquote the guest, but in a bit, you know, it was like that soon. I think the 2025 was mentioned. Plans are afoot. It might happen, but how long have we talked about it? The work is progressing. You know what I mean? I'm laughing because I'm trying to explain it, but I'm using all the words I would use to a child who'd wanted something and I didn't want to give it to them. Greg, I'm getting a scooter and we'll be parking my car at Manor Randabad and coming to work in the morning. Yeah, we see that's practical. That makes sense. That's a car off the roads. All right, really busy on the e-scooters. Keep them coming. Let's take a break back with more. 2999 and catch the magic glimmer of Christmas with our LED pine tree garland only 1999. Wishing you a magical Christmas with Lidl. 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So it's Monday the 20th of November to the 15th of December. It's a nighttime closure from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. The route being closed, as I mentioned, is the L1551 from its junction with the L6114, approximately 650 meters. Traffic will be diverted via the L1611 to its junction with the L1531. More gap as it's more commonly known on the L, on to the L1541 at... I can't read that. Where is it? Oris Mina, back on to the L1551. So nighttime, nighttime closure is there. Persons wishing to object to the closure should submit an objection in writing. Well, there's no point in me reading that out because the period for which you could object has passed. These scooters are so dangerous. People in England have been knocked down badly injured and few have died. Nobody can hear them coming till it's too late. It's the lanes which are confusing at the Polestar junction in which... It's which lane do you get into, which is putting people off. You come in on two lanes from the Clannery, then suddenly at the front there is three lanes. Yeah, it is a bit complicated. So do you spread out into the middle lane, coming in that road from the left lane or the right lane, or both? Probably the left lane. If you're in the left lane, you go left on the roundabout. If you're in the middle lane, you go... I'm going to get into it. You go straight on. And if you're in the right lane, you go out the Remelton Road. But what's happening is people are going into the right lane and they're going on the inside of the roundabout and stopping there. And it means traffic then can't go round the roundabout and out the four lanes again. I think if the lines were colour-coded, maybe it might be easier for people to track which lane they should be in. Kevin joins us on the roads. Good morning, Kevin. Good morning, Greg. Forget about colour-coding. You don't like my idea? No, look, Greg, I come in from... I know I'm sorry about that. It's not a good idea, but not for the situation, as far as I'm concerned. Coming in from Timmies through the roundabout, Bonnegie Dairy Road and heading out the Remelton Road. Yes. Come in, get a red light. You get a green light. You go ten yards, you get a red light. Then you get a green light and you have to cross over to your left. And then you get an old red light. Yes. On a Mickey Mouse roundabout. Like, for the size of it. I've been serious when I say Mickey Mouse because it's so small. For that, it's a laugh. It's a joke. And the people that are tweaking lights now should tweak them the way they should have been set up, which is if you get a green light on the lane that you're in, you should get in. You should get out without an old red light. So if I'm going out the Remelton Road, if I get a red light, I get a green light and I'm on that side of the lane. I should be able to go all the way around that way around the boat. And out the Remelton Road. It's kind of difficult up there. It's quite difficult, I think, with that route you're talking of, Kevin. It's quite difficult to merge, it's quite difficult to merge to the left, if you know what I mean, as you're supposed to, because then you're fearful and you feel like a natural manoeuvre to, as I say, to veer off into the left lane there, as you're supposed to, at the second set of traffic lights on the roundabout. And as you said, the confusion that happened to me, if there was somebody on my left-hand side, what I was merging over and only for the... I've seen them in the Mount Wing Mirror. I was going to club them. So the two of us were kind of side-by-side but the thing about it is just take it... I've been on before and said take away the roundabout all together now and you've got to cross-road. And when you get a green light, you go and you get away your road. And tweaker... you can tweak the lights all the way they want now. But it's not going to work until they do that, but each road has its exit and you get a green light and you get your exit. Am I totally stupid or in cuckoo land a very simple thing like that could actually work? Yeah. I've drove all over England all over France everywhere and I cannot see the sense in that. To me, that was totally stupid. There's no other word for it. I can tweak and take the Christmas lights or flash them with them. That's not going to work unless you do it that way. I could be wrong. I could be getting in C9 on the old age, but... I think you're all right. Kevin... I've spoken to especially people in bigger vehicles I've spoken to a couple of them who find themselves blocking the lanes because they're stopped on the roundabout. If there's one car in front of them and they progress from the first set of traffic lights that you talk of, then they're stopped at the third. They're back sides blocking the route off the roundabout in another way. 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I think the best thing for me to do with what you've been through is just to start you off and let you explain the situation from the beginning. Yes, that would be great. Go ahead. Okay, so it was like two years ago we were renting, we're living in Letter Kenny for the last 10 years obviously renting and paying over our own pocket. It was about two years ago we were renting out in Port Hall and the house ended up getting taken back by the banks as the landlord wasn't paying the mortgage or whatever. And a long story short we ended up homeless. So the council were giving us the vouchers for the hotels and things like that but the hotels obviously ran out they just ran taking them the government was buying them and they were being let out obviously for other circumstances. And I have a part here now just on the nail team Blaney Road facing the tourist information office and we could be here now about a month or two. Now I've emailed the council office, I've been on to T-Days I've been on to local councillors around the Letter Kenny area looking there to fight on my behalf I've been to the traveller project as my partner is a traveller and I'm not. Now we've no run and war I'm sitting here now in the caravan at the moment looking out it's raw traffic here traffic lights obviously as you know all the new lights now and everyone that's just driving by is just looking in just there and there and if I look out they actually turned their head with a sudden reflex because they can see me catching them so I have to wake up every morning with no run and war I have to go to the local garage or use the toilet there and I have to go to the wash house at the arena 7 every week to wash and close I was diagnosed with arthritis here about two months ago, three months ago from the doctor so this is acting up now on my knee as well with the coldness the weather now for the last few days obviously is after being salted outside and I've seen the salt truck obviously going around on the roads now so there's obviously ice coming there's mice all around us and the councilman, sorry there's that three or four times a week asking for run and water a generator because the generator that we have is air and with the plug so I can't use the microwave I can't use the power I can't use the toaster and again no run and water to wash anything or wash myself and of course you're watching the weather forecast and it's going to get sub zero at night towards the end of this week and that's only the start of it before we talk about getting services to the caravan what is the situation you've been on the housing waiting list for six or seven years now do you know where you are in that process or is there any no is there any progress or if you've been given any information about maybe a house becoming available for you and your partner well so about a year and a half ago he sent me an email to say that there was a local council property coming up in the local area and that myself would be put down for one of them sure I never heard that then when I got back to him about that then he said no you're all given out there's no kids involved and things like that me personally I think that shouldn't be used against a couple that we each other for 15 years I think that should be at least a problem and the bottom line too is Sinead I mean you've had a choice but to get this caravan because you're homeless really effectively the caravan is your home you are homeless because besides that are the streets really effectively oh yeah like there was times there when we were sleeping in the car before we even before we like for a week we were going to sleep in the car waking up with spots cold sores everything just real neglected down yourself you know I think we're actually losing so much weight it's the mental health in this alone is bad enough never mind the progress of over the last two years of being promised the moon and stars and still no one has came out where we are do you know what I mean would it be difficult in your view would it be difficult for the council to provide a water supply for you oh no not at all as where we are there's there'd be no problem for him for him to come out here and help us out with a generator and running water that'd be no problem then do you know like if you could cement it or put a bit of tar mark down so there's no miter coming like running around do you know what I mean it's not something that you're used to getting up in the morning go outside it could be minus degrees outside so get up at nine ten o'clock or whatever go out and get me partner to start the generator come back in wait then for ten or fifteen minutes for it to warm up and you still can't have a breakfast at this time or go to the toilet so then I have to go to a shop to wash our teeth then we have to go to the gym then probably twice a week to wash ourselves so that's another fifteen or twenty it's all money cost and he knows to fit it and what it's doing and you're just putting me to the bottom the whole of a local authority I don't think there's any individual but anyway listen Sinead you're engaging with the local authority and Sinead just in terms of the authority or the location sorry of the caravan would there not be a more suitable place that might be you know less risk of of rodents or easier to connect to services and a pod maker and so it's not a loaded question it's a genuine question Sinead oh of course there is as I'm sure there's loads of council property around the place as I've seen this bit to feel that all around Larkinny that the council is walking on now at the moment and if they came out to me and said Sinead you can go there I'll give you the supply of a water shower wash machine things like that I will happily live there for as long as I have to live there with the right suppliers do you understand where right now it's do you know what I mean it's like crying out for help and no one listening no it's very difficult and as you say this is having a toll on your mental health and of course too the cold's gone to exacerbate your arthritical problems your arthritis problems oh a hundred but like to me and then we're driving down as well so you can't drive a lot and then we went down here to the day actually at nine o'clock in the morning I was here and I was sitting here and I looked there was two women walking in towards me and she said to me oh is this your horse around the side of the bridge then I had to go out then they come down and they said oh is this your horse I said no the dead horse I said I never did deal with those horses that never in my life and now I have people now driving by and that this was our horse staring and it's just a horrible feeling you're being profiled a little bit there I don't think it's acceptable I think it's really it's just the vast the best we can we'll make contact with the local authority and see what they have to say on the situation hopefully they'll probably say we can't comment on individual cases but they might give us a more general reply and we'll see where we can go from there best wishes to you and your partner and I do hope things will improve for the both of you soon and we'll make our inquiries and see what comes from that me too, thanks a million alright bye bye that's why we have to leave it on the programme back tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock but for me Greg Hughes and Caroline Orr who researched and produced the show and Shannon working away with us as well have a great