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It's kind of a bit old now. Is it? Have you ever been? No, no. They don't take cash, you know? No, but they do now. Well, they don't. But there was a saying one time, cash or something. I'll tell you, you know what? Tell us. Some people would like... What? Well, you see, they're sorted because all the tickets are bought in advance so it doesn't matter if who turns up or not, right? Clever. Clever. But still, if it's half empty, they'd be begging people for cash. They'd take the hand then, don't they? They'd take the hand. They'd take the eye out of your head and come back to the stuff. How do you pay for your chips then? It depends where you go. Cash. All right, Daddy. Autumn's not too far away. Autumn's here. We're in autumn now. You can see it. It's cold. Is it? But is it officially autumn? I think everyone who has an open fire is lit it now at this stage. I had mine on the summer days. I know. I like it. Can we get off? Do you see any of your Christmas tree up there? No. There was kind of half decorations. Autumn's coming up. You put your... I just pulled it back from behind the couch. Yeah, but you put your Halloween stuff up early, don't you? I did last year. We did. We just decided to celebrate it. Exactly. But if you have all these decorations, you may get the use of it. Halloween, then we were sick of looking at them like... Sick of looking at them. And we did the Christmas thing early as well. Oh, God. Are you going to do it this year, do you think? No. No, just keep it on track. Reasonable. All right, fair enough. All right. It's whatever makes everyone happy, isn't it? Yes, exactly. Have a great day. See you tomorrow morning. Makayla Clark now has the news at a minute past nine. Hi, Makayla. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Donegal County Council is being asked to demand a full review of the delivery of disability services in Donegal with an emphasis on the number of vacancies within the county's four children's disability network teams. Councillor Albert Doherty says the review needs to look at why those 37 vacancies are not being filled, and if there is too much red tape being imposed by Karee, which regulates health and social care professionals. It was claimed last week that bureaucracy is making it extremely difficult to have qualifications from Northern Irish courses recognized here, and that means many people in Donegal who studied in Derry cannot work in the service. Last week, Minister Ann Robert walked out of a meeting regarding a school in Cork because the HSC wasn't doing enough. Councillor Albert Doherty wants a same level of commitment here. I believe that this delivery of services, particularly Donegal, must also merit a review. There's an issue to be investigated here in Donegal. I hope the members will support me and press for a review. That void has to be filled and a review can only assist. Shinfien says serious questions need to be answered following spinal surgical incidents at Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin. Its emerged 19 children suffered significant complications after surgery, with senior hospital management made aware of patient safety concerns in late 2022. The HSC has appointed a UK expert to lead an external review of the clinical care provided by one consultant who is currently not conducting surgeries. Shinfien's health spokesperson, David Cullen, says the facts must be established as quickly as possible. There are obvious questions that the families will have and that wider society will have, which is how long was this consultant carrying out procedures at the hospital? And what time period does his or her work at the hospital cover, but also how was something like this missed for so long? There's much concerning Castle Finn over the proposed direction of a telecommunications mast. A planning application has been submitted for the tar at the top of Hillhead. Cancer Gary Doherty questioned if studies on the impact of such developments may have on public health are taken into consideration when granting planning permission. He's urging people to make their concerns known in terms of the county development plan also, which will set out the council's policies for the coming years. Planning submissions are open for this particular time of September, so I would certainly encourage anyone to make submissions into the planning process, but also to make submissions into the county development plan because again the county development plan is where the planning policies and objectives for the county are written and that dictates what the planning policy will be. Whether I wet and windy today, it will be generally dull with rain and drizzle turning heavy at times which may cause localised flooding, highest temperatures to 17 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Think you know Disney Plus. Think again. Offer end September 20th. Must be 18 plus without an active Disney Plus subscription. After three months, auto-renews are then current monthly premium price of $10.99 until cancelled. The county's number one talk show. The 9 till noon show on Highland Radio. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest. The 9 till noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a very good morning to you for this Tuesday the 19th of September 2023. It's just approaching five minutes past nine. How are you keeping across the Northwest, across the world, wherever you're listening to us? It's great to have you on board. And as you know, we always commit to at the beginning and we always fulfil that commitment. We've got three hours of great entertainment and information for you. So please stay right where you are. Community guard at information in fact coming up after 10. And we're going to be chasing up a few stories we've been covering over the last week while as well. And right across all the very latest breaking stories, not just here, but further afield as well. The lines are open for you to get involved in the conversation. 08 660 25,000 is the WhatsApp and text. And don't forget if you want to send a WhatsApp voice message, feel free to use that number as well. 08 660 25,000. If you want to give us a call, 07491 25,000. And of course, if you're listening in Derry Tarone outside the Republic, 003537491 25,000. We want to hear all your news and your views as well. OK, let's go on to the papers this morning. The Donegal Democrats out today. The staggering revelation that no Central Rivers agencies in charge of Donegal Rivers came up at the September monthly meeting of Donegal Municipal District and emerged after what initially appeared to be a fairly simple request by Councillor Michael McMahan to get a hand to clear the rubble and reeds at the mouth of the Braddock River in Bundoran as the discussion arising from the motion continued. Councillor Michal Nocton added that he had encountered the same problems trying to address river issues pertaining to the Turmin River in Pettigo. It's a big issue in every town and village he told the meeting Acting Area Manager for Road and Transportation Mark Sweeney explained that the whole area of rivers, their management and who was in charge was an ongoing issue as the council effectively had no authority over them. And we've been down this road ourselves on a number of occasions, OPW versus... There's about three or four agencies. And again, just to remind us, going back 50, 60 years ago, there was a lovely little office in Donegal Town and we spoke to a person that used to work in it and it coordinated all of that between landowners, the council, OPW, all of the vested interests to keep our rivers and waterways clear, which has a lot of positives, obviously, in terms of flood mitigation and the health of the river's drainage, all that type of stuff. We've gone backwards, now no one seems to take responsibility. The Irish Independent covers, like many people do, quite a big story today, how unauthorised metal parts came to be implanted in a number of the 19 children with spina bifida who suffered significant complications after spinal surgery at Temple Street Hospital is still unclear, but it has emerged that one child died and 18 others suffered a range of complications with several needing further surgery, including the removal of metal parts which were unauthorised. Parents of the children undergoing complex surgeries were left distraught by the disclosures that emerged yesterday after campaigning for years while the young patients in need of operations deteriorated on waiting lists and those waiting lists still persist. If that's a story that affects you and you want to talk about it, by the way, feel free to get in touch with us on the usual contact details. The Irish Times tells us that the government's planned budgetary package risks keeping inflation higher for longer. The Central Bank of Ireland has warned becoming the latest institution to sound the alarm on state spending plans. Proposed changes to income tax and spending increases above the 5% spending rule flagged by the coalition in the recent summer economic statement were likely to amplify demand in an economy already operating at capacity, the bank said in its latest quarterly bulletin. So what that means effectively is they want us to have less money because if we have less money, we spend less, inflation goes down, if we get breaks, if we have more money in our pockets, we spend more and the economy heats up. It remains important that domestic policy does not work at cross purposes to what monetary policies trying to achieve, it said. In 2021, the government said it would not increase spending by more than 5% each year. However, it has moved to drop that rule amid the cost of living and housing crisis. Spending on infrastructure, I don't think it's as big a deal, but targeted supports I think would be broadly welcome. On to the Irish Daily Mail now and T-Shop Leo Faradkar has criticised several key aspects of his own government's response to the Covid pandemic, including lockdowns, mask wearing in the closure of school and construction sites. Tinnigale leader also said the decision to reopen the country for a meaningful Christmas in December 2020, which was followed by 1,500 Covid-related deaths in January was the wrong call. In an apparent swipe at the now disbanded National Public Health Emergency Team, Mr Faradkar noted that many of those decisions had been driven by public health advice. He confirmed yesterday that the terms of reference for a commission of inquiry into Ireland's pandemic response will be ready before the end of the year. In Fort Wright comments, he criticised many of the key decisions made by the government and the health advice that underpinned them, while Mr Faradkar maintains that the decisions made were the right ones most of the time. He outlined a number of key areas he was unhappy with. Shall we go in and see what he was unhappy with? Where is he? What's he unhappy with? I think schools were closed for too long, particularly special schools. I'm not sure it was necessary to suspend construction and home building for so long, but that was driven by public health advice. So I'd hope everyone will be reflective about their role during their period. And I understand that Nefit had a role there. But I also believe that politicians had an obligation, even if they were afraid of the blowback. They had an obligation to perhaps challenge what Nefit was saying. You couldn't. The media couldn't. Not that the media had access to those Nefit briefings. A few journalists from the nationals did, but local journalists certainly didn't, unless they broke the rules and travelled to Dublin. They were effectively locked out of that. Despite commitments on this programme fight from senior ministers and government leaders that said they would have remote access, but anyway, be that as it may, I do think politicians could have sought alternative advice and said, look, we've been speaking to such and such, or this is happening here in Nefit. Are you sure what you're doing is the right thing to do? And so on and so forth. I don't really feel you can completely just wash your hands and said, well, we made these decisions because Nefit told us. Or maybe you believe that that is the case. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. The Irish daily, sorry, the daily, this Irish suddenly call it, don't they? A crime helpline set up almost three, an almost three-fold increase in revenge porn calls last year. The crime victims helpline available on 116006, launched its annual report yesterday. Some 109 calls about non-consensual sharing of intimate images were made last year compared to just 29 in 2021. Justice Minister Helen McIntyre said, in late 2021, my department launched an awareness campaign to highlight that such action were now a crime under Coco's law, the harassment, harmful communications and related defence act. So 109 people rang up to say that they were threatened with or had their intimate images shared without their consent. On to the start this morning, Russell Brands facing a probe, a police probe after a new woman came forward to report an alleged sexual assault. The Metropolitan Police said it has received an allegation of sexual assault in Soho, London, 2003. The 48-year-old comedian and actor was accused of rape, assault and emotional abuse between 2006 and 2013 over the weekend. Brands has strongly denied the allegations, which also include claims of controlling abuse and predatory behaviour. I mean, he did go out with a 16-year-old. I mean, that in and of itself would make me a little bit cautious of defending him. I mean, a man in his 30s going out with a 16-year-old girl and his mate was as well at the same time. That's the very least questionable is actually sparking a conversation in Britain as to whether or not the age of consent needs to be risen at 16 years of age. Interestingly, yesterday he has a weekly show on various platforms that goes out at 5. Perhaps his fans were waiting for a truth bomb, but it didn't transpire. He didn't broadcast yesterday and it seems that lots of people are coming forward now. With stories and lots of people are coming to defence of Russell Brand, it seems. And finally in the mirror this morning, shoppers have spent an extra 7.4 million euro on biscuits. Another million on cereals and 3 million on cheese and bread as parents stacked up on back-to-school lunches. Figures also show grocery price inflation fell to its lowest level in the year according to the latest analysis. Data firm Kantar revealed yesterday grocery price inflation slowed to 11.5% in the 12 weeks to September the 3rd. Now, they're not misleading us here, but it's slowed down, but prices have still increased by 11.5% year on year. So the prices are still going up and even just going into a shop now and buying two chicken breasts. Now I tend to buy them in the butchers, but I reached for a couple of chicken breasts there the other day. I think it was four euro or something crazy like that there. And all the staples are classed as bread and rice and pasta and stuff like that there, but you need something to put in that often. I wouldn't want to be feeding a family of eight on it anyway. That being said, for not far off that you can get a full chicken and it's really not hard to break it down to get the breasts off yourself and then of course you have the rest of the meat. But anyway, be that as it may, 9.15. We're going to have our first guest on the show coming up for you just after these. The new 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. Give blood.ie. No, we can count on you, our community of blood donors to be there for others in their hour of need. 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Travel Route 32 from Letter Kenny to Dublin when you book online and travel for less. Expressway, bringing you the time, Matt. It's at 9.17. Yesterday we spoke to Mom Emma who was at the Bernard and McGlinchie town park. It's the town park down opposite the hospital there in Letter Kenny for those outside of the town. And it was quite a disturbing story of a toddler. A three-year-old being approached by a man, the toddler said so, and handed sweets. There was also sweets left on top of a slide down there with a note saying, effectively with a note saying four kids from Santa. And this is off the back then of another conversation we had with another lady who was in the park with her children and observed a man seemingly interfering with himself. That was a couple of weeks ago. And since then, other people have said they've had experiences as well. So something's going on. Now, I know this is a topic that has got a lot of conversation going amongst local councillors, which is very useful because this is one of the areas where they can have some influence in providing some security down there. Grania joins us off the back of that story. Grania, good to see you. Good morning to you. Yes, good morning, Greg. You were down the town park yourself and have some observations. Yes, after listening to Emma, who made a very good move the way she treated the incident, I thought she was wonderful. She listened to her toddler, which of course, as you know, when they're that age, they never stop talking. And you're inclined sometimes not to listen and she did listen and she questioned her very sensibly, which was wonderful. I immediately went, well, in the next half hour, went over to the park because I live quite near and I often walk there. And I decided to look at the perimeter from the synchronous side because the playground backs on to that path that leads over to the first tree at synchronous and there's just a short bank up to the car park. Whilst walking along, there is a fence. There's quite a nice wire mesh fence, but there was a gap where there was a sort of a wooden slatted fence, you know, with three slats. And that had been broken and there was a little passage down right into the playground. And that was in two areas there. And now I was kind of shocked that that hadn't been checked immediately because I think this is a very serious issue. Because in my mind, the fact that he left sweets there, whoever it was, I'm not saying to say he or she, left sweets there just to get the children used to getting sweets. And then maybe they would psychologically think, oh, that's, we always get that and we go up the slide and it would take it from anybody. Like they're only the only little ones. And also, so I mean, I'm kind of shocked that that hasn't been fixed immediately. It was something they could have done quite immediately. It's funny, Grannie, you've picked up on the part of the story that concerned me is that there could have been a grooming element there trying to create a level of familiarity or trust so that, and I don't want to alarm anyone, but we cannot ignore this because the reality is, is we know now that there are at least one or two individuals that have unhealthy interactions with children in that area. So we can't ignore this. We have to talk about it. Now, at the same time, we don't want to over amplify it. But as Emma was speaking, Grannie, it did worry me that perhaps there's a grooming element to this so that a child could be lured with less fuss. We can't ignore the fact that just because we live in the Northwest of Ireland, that these people wouldn't exist here. We have to be careful, Grannie. Yeah, I think very much so. And when you look at the playground, it's very difficult if you have more than one child. You may have one child on the swings. The older little fella be up on the slide, and you can't really have your eyes behind the slide for as far as the incident took place. So I think it's very important that immediately that is fixed. And then the second thing is, I think the parent and children groups there's quite a few of them in the town. I'm sure it should be father and baby as well. And that maybe they should be advised to advise people maybe to meet together so that everybody has their eyes out. So if somebody is at the back of the slide, watching a child, there's other people at the front keeping an eye on the front. The perimeter is very important. I think that's one thing. And I think the other thing is that there is volunteer groups who are vetted in the town. We maybe would do a few hours. We could have picked time for children out there. And in the winter, I think we do need a warden in the daylight hours, because even I know some older people are a bit nervous for walking in the park. It is beautiful park and it has lovely secret areas. Now the fact that that person could have got in there, they could have snatched a child, got back out and into their car straight away. I mean, it is just too easy. There's lots of things. There's lots of things that could or should be done that might take time, right? And I get that. But I think what we need is an immediate reassuring response. And a couple of those things I would suggest, and some would say it's not for me to suggest, but listen to other people. A, clean any hedges or trees that interfere with lines of sight. B, ensure that the perimeter is secure. And C, even the local community garden perhaps could do one or two or three patrols around the park per day. So even those three things there are cost-neutral effectively. They won't cross a great deal of money, but they might sort of counteract some of the fear that's there at the moment. And then, of course, we need to talk about wardens and, you know, more long-term stuff growing, but I think we need some... Exactly. And I think I'll talk to advise mothers if they're in there with their children to talk to the other mothers, you know, be part of the community in there, because the old African Senate takes a village to raise a child. We all should have eyes out for these sort of things. And I just think it's very, very important that it's taken very seriously and that fence is fixed immediately. Yeah. Immediately. Look, I'm very surprised that, you know, that it wouldn't be the first thing. Maybe I should have been a detective, but I immediately thought, you know, all perimeter should be examined and see if there's any possibility. And it's because the exit there is so convenient if somebody can get in from the back there. They're in that car park, their car could be there. Now, I don't want to alarm people either, but please be very careful. And try... I think it's a great idea. I know in cities, mothers meet up in groups, you know, they have organized on their WhatsApp. And as you know, there's a very good Facebook group called Letter County Babies, and I'm sure that group maybe could take something and take a part in this and connect mothers who can meet up with their fathers, with the children, but I think it's very important and we all need to keep our eyes out. No, I can't see. But I think basically we live in a safe part of the world. But I just do think we need to do everything we can just to ensure that safety and to discourage anyone with any bad motives, because we've heard... It's not hearsay or someone... We've heard directly from two mothers who witnessed two really quite serious instances and serious enough whereby you would feel, you know, they do affect you. Do you know what I mean? Because they were so... They were so in your face. And also, too, I do think our public spaces should be laid out as such that parents can go there and let the children off the lead a little bit, if you know what I mean, and run around. You know, you should feel secure like that. Two little ones. Yeah. I mean, I know yourself, you couldn't have enough eyes on them. Because, I mean, in seconds they can escape. And I think, now, I'm not sure... Definitely the area that I saw, there was no CCTV. We'd never see anybody going in there. I'm not sure if it is in the park, if you're allowed to have it for children to CCTV in the playground. I'm not sure on that issue, but that could be looked at. I don't know if it's legal to have CCTV in the children. Well, I think it's a public space and I think it's there for security. OK, well, listen, thanks very much for your views. Thank you for highlighting it, and I think that mother was a wonderful mother. Me, too. I agreed. She spoke fantastically. You know, it's so important to listen to your toddlers, even though they chat all the time. Yeah, and she also, too, I thought the language in that she didn't want to lead the child. So she offered a scenario and allowed the child then to... Yeah, I thought she's a great mum for sure, and no doubt about that. Yes. OK. Granny, thank you. Have a lovely day. Take care of yourself, OK? No, we're happy to highlight it. Call us as People Use the Park as a shortcut from White Thorn to High Road that is a path to White Thorn. OK, now I don't know the exact geography of it, unfortunately, so... But that's obviously a person that does. Keep your calls and comments in coming on that. Any experiences? I really think it's important that we highlight those. Call us as I'm with Vodafone Broadband. Lately, we're having issues with Vodafone while watching Netflix. So yesterday, I ran the National Broadband Helpline and was told that Vodafone customers were no longer able to access Netflix. And apparently, in April, Netflix notified customers that this was happening, but I knew nothing until it started happening. Can anyone shed some light on this? Well, of course you can watch Netflix on Vodafone. I wonder, is the person who you spoke to confusing Netflix cracking down on password sharing if you share your password now? And it's being used in another property. One or both of those houses, you'll be asked to log in on your phone and you'll be asked to verify that that is your home. I wonder if that's what's going on here. It'd be interesting to see the message that's coming up, but there is no issue watching Netflix on Vodafone or any broadband provider for that matter. So I don't know what the issue is. I suspect maybe could it be the crackdown on password sharing? Maybe your sister or brother or something is using the password elsewhere. You will get a notification up from Netflix, which will ask you to verify where you are and all that kind of stuff. 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Okay you're very welcome back to the 9 till noon show now as you would have known if you're listening regularly over the last number of weeks we've been speaking well it was off the back of letters sent to parents advising them that really for the most part their children will struggle to get access to CDNT services subsequently then inquiries revealed there are 37 vacancies and then of course we sort of we're trying to say well what can be done to try and fill these vacancies and in that process we've learned that firstly it can be really quite hard to find where these jobs are available the HC strongly pushing and rightly so for administration staff carriers you'll see the ads on social media wherever you go but we're not stumbling across these CDNT vacancies and then further to that we have people who are studying things like OT speech and language they're from Donegal they're studying in Derrier elsewhere they're considering or have considered coming back to Ireland to work but to get is Kauru isn't it to get their to get their qualifications recognised it really is a laborious red tape filled absolute nightmare and we spoke to two that say they would love that option but it's just simply too complicated for them there's a whole myriad of issues here and I'm kind of just catching people up previously on the 9th Loon show as much as is possible but we'll do much much better than that now because we are joined in studio by two guests Ashleen and Joe good morning to both of you thank you very much hi there how are you I'm doing good right okay Ashleen I'll start with you why did you sort of want to establish this Facebook group and what's your understanding of the situation we're in at the moment I started as a post because I'm coming as a parent of a daughter that has autism she was privately diagnosed in 2020 at the beginning it seemed hopeful a few services were available we then the CDNCT was developed and they decided to segregate uh children in different areas and we were put in with Estonia Gaul and from that letter to now there's been nothing okay so since when sorry so I think it was around 2020 yeah so in the last three years and do you mind me asking how old your daughter is now she's six right so you would have hoped for some supports or intervention as she was heading into school presumably and now she's in school you can grab that if you want so now she's in school and there's been nothing nothing right okay and and have you been told any reason why or staff recruitment recruitment okay and you also then got the most recent letter as well so any hope you thought right well maybe this is the year those hopes were dashed 37 vacancies Joe what's your situation so um I am a mom of three children one of them a little girl as well who's nine Rosie Rosie 10s little angels and down there she's known as the queen of drum king um Rosie has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and at the moment uncontrolled epilepsy she has poor head control she has very poor function of her hands um she's a full-time wheelchair user and she's non-verbal um we moved home after campaigning to move home to Donegal for a long time we moved home in 2020 and you know we you know I suppose living here now with the support of our family and I have to say we you know we're not receiving anywhere near enough services for my daughter who has really complex needs um we're really grateful to you Greg for highlighting this issue for us um because we feel like our voices gen our children genuinely have no voice and we mean that like they're not anymore though we're not going to allow that to happen anymore and we really appreciate that and we need that and we you know we need for all of the listeners today like most of the listeners today are you know grandparents their parents their aunts and uncles their cousins their friends are you know captured within the problems that we're going to to speak of um so you know we need everybody I suppose to start as you said before we need loud unified voice and the creation of our facebook page I suppose we only start to set it off on it only went live on Friday um and we have 300 members already and it's a beautiful positive space we have lots of you know um introductions and photos of beautiful kids around Donegal who are struggling genuinely like they've got smiles on their faces but underneath that they're struggling yeah and I mean I don't know how people judge what needs are because in that letter it said there'd be you know people with uh complex needs would be now I'm speaking to lots of parents that are going well if my child doesn't qualify for that I don't know who would I'm not sure your situation actually but certainly Joe it sounds like that we're on the complex your daughter should be being prioritized if that makes sense and I know that's probably an uncomfortable place to talk about but at the same time like I suppose you know we have goals for Rosie one of them being head control I would like I can't believe I'm here with a daughter at nine years of age and we're still working on her trying to hold her own head up you know but that's the reality for a lot of families you know um and I said well you know as you mentioned a few weeks ago it was we don't make enough noise we're too busy we're too strung out we're too tired we're too exhausted we don't get sleep you know we have other fit children in our families that we have to be mummies and daddies too you know so there's only so much of us that can stretch but you were right like we needed to come together so hopefully this facebook page has done that it's important for us to say it's a closed grip um it's for parents of all children regardless of your disability regardless of your age if your child is an adult they're still your child you know regardless of your child has a diagnosis or not regardless like disability is a very varied thing you know and you know as you said you know oh there's you know the kids that maybe need to prioritise and the kids that maybe don't fall into that bracket but at the end of the day we all have something in common yeah and that's that we're not getting enough we're being ignored and parents shouldn't feel like they have to jockey for position we want everyone to be but already what yous have achieved excuse me is a united voice of 300 people yes now that's a big difference to you writing a letter to a td exactly you already yeah you've a group that you're representing 300 and hopefully from conversations like this yeah that will grow that starts to become hard to ignore exactly especially coming into elections and even if we're talking cdnt there are over probably around a thousand one hundred kids get under cdnt and and then they go you know and that's just cdnt you've got primary care kids with difficulties uh kids with challenges you've got adult children that are in adult services so I suppose this is a rally call uh Greg to get people behind us to get people engaged with us our purpose of our page is twofold first purpose is you know so that we can effectively advocate for our children which we haven't been able to do in the past the second purpose is we've all lived experience yeah we can help and support each other you know and that will be invaluable for parents like where do we access xyz how do I get this how do I get that well if someone got the the child gets a diagnosis today I may well do it happens all the time like where do you go who do you speak what happens next what what you know how do I get this or that or you know what I mean and and and it's it's just really important for us to talk to again about how time-sensitive this is um actually in that we we know how quickly people can come on how kids can come on once they get in the right services and all that and we want them to be able to uh dependent on their circumstances to function in the class the same as you know what I mean to hit the milestones when they can hit them and all that type of stuff but every year lost in those formative years do you know it must be and I can only imagine at this point and who's to say what might happen in the future actually that it's incredibly frustrating because all we want is the best for our child uh and it's it must be really really hard it's lonely it's lonely scary yeah um you know they drum on to your early intervention is key for the outcome if you're tired later on in life well we don't have early intervention so what are we meant to do we are told daily there's recruitment issues that's not going to help my child now no so what's the solution think outside the box here so we have a big opportunity greg and that's another thing that we wanted to talk about today there is a meeting taking place on the 16th of october ashling myself and another friend of ours lisa who's listening today and who can't be here because of caring responsibilities uh lisa and and ourselves uh we're aware of a meeting taking place between our elected tds and the hsc management on the 16th of october in letter kenny as far as we're concerned we feel like that meeting is a waste of time unless our kids voices are heard okay so what we're going to be doing is we're going to be surveying parents um those surveys will start going out tomorrow um they're going to go out mainly through a facebook page but if there are parents out there and this is to all the listeners if you know of somebody out there whose child is in cdnt and they are um you know frustrated with the services please ask them to get in touch with us either through facebook or through our gmail um our email which is s n p n dunnie goll at gmail dot com i'll repeat that later um because i'm not needed here at all no you're not i don't think i am do you want to go for coffee we'll leave her we'll come back in a couple of hours let's just push that red button with you do you know what i do you know what i love it yeah i love it because it's so passionate it's yeah but it's so powerful do you know what i mean and it's the ship's being steered and that's and i think it's fantastic let me tell you about this survey and this is a really important point that we want to get across today and you mentioned recruitment a lot this survey is going to have two main focuses the first one is what do you where do you live first of all what's cdnt team do you fall under what do you need and what are you getting that's point one you know we pretty much you know the head just think i feel know that yeah but the second point is even more important we're talking about recruitment but it's not just recruitment gregg staff engagement is it an all-time low in the hsa we'll see it cdnt's people are leaving every day that's the problem you see you know and these like but like you've got an issue of recruitment and inability to attract staff staff engagement you know like poor morale on the teams um and then people leaving those issues are going to take years to resolve we need to then talk to the staff that are currently working and overstretched at the moment because i've tried to clarify in a couple of occasions that you know we know that you need more support we know you're under pressure it's the same in cams you know that's it's not a criticism of the service that's being provided it's who can access it yeah they need 37 colleagues minimum imagine working in those conditions and i suppose what we want to get across in the survey as well is what can be done for you now what can be done so things like if you can't offer me an appointment in dunagol east for physiotherapy offer me an appointment in dublin offer me an appointment in monhan offer me an appointment i'll go to the ends of the earth because i have my daughter offer me something offer me and give us reassurance as parents like myself i they're they're listening today there's you know a group of parents with children with very complex needs children who are very ill the most the sickest children dunagol and their parents are listening today and they're terrified about equipment provision who's going to support their child get a wheelchair that fits them who's going to support their child with postural management tools things like hoists things like seating systems for children like my daughter who can't sit independently who's going to support children with the provision of communication devices to help them communicate because the hsc hasn't told us that and i know of children waiting at the moment who are in wheelchairs that are too small for them and that are in pain right now what's going to happen with that equipment next then is if you can't offer me therapy somewhere else then we all access private therapy yeah provide us with support to access that we all have cost to live in pressures are we talking like the and i can't understand why we haven't done this yet and it's not a solution but we're looking for immediate solutions like a national treatment purchase fund for these types of services i mean that's absolutely cross border we're in a very you know we're on the border and the services in the uk and the northern ireland are much better than what they are five miles over the border you know i appreciate the minister getting up and walking out of meetings but that in and of itself is no good no we know what the problems are in terms of recruitment the red tape the panels the annual panels all this kind of stuff we know what's going on now what we need is someone to say right okay they've woken up to what's going on now we need to do something about it because it's our kids now exactly exactly and that's what we've had steam yeah so at that meeting we want to provide good quality valid quantitative data for that meeting to say these are the needs these are what our parents are saying will help their children now because we need our elected representative to sit up and start listening to us we need them to start listening to us and to be the voice of our children because i'll be frank with you they've been very quiet very quiet they've been very quiet very quiet so we everyone's fighting their individual battles you see and and where do you find the space you know like where do you find the space because the fight's been taken from a lot of people there's people have been at this for a year absolutely yeah Caroline do you have that statement from the minister again on that it's it's it's i'll tell you what it is it's alphabet soup but i just want to reference it right carry on so so now the people are coming in here and i actually get sort of getting a sense of comments that the fire is being lit has to be if you get where i'm coming from where's the link what can we do we need help now yeah you know i'm sort of getting that that's oh my word there's an essay for you to read there yeah um right the minister is aware of the challenges in recruiting for the disability sector however she's encouraged by the efforts currently in community health care haven't done a go literally one hand to bolster teams again though you see we don't see any evidence of that and what we're what we're starting to do now is say right don't say stuff to us we know is not true what we actually really need now is is proper answers because we know what the problem is here we can see with our own faces what recruitment looks like yeah absolutely you know we have we were speaking to a couple of women who are being actively courted by their by the nhs yes through their course they're trained for free in dairy yeah trained for free what are we doing nothing what we're we are we're not even it's not like in other situations where people study here and then leave they're actually just leaving they're just leaving and they can't come back with their qualifications and that's our fear the short term there's nothing happening short term there's nothing happening medium term and there's nothing happening long term and look if you look at the ceo results a few weeks ago greg for physiotherapy you were talking over 550 points those class sizes are tiny so we're not even trying to increase capacity long term here cdnts are trying to attract new graduates into cdnts posed by developing contacts and links with training colleges and supporting clinical education placements well as far as i'm aware there's a couple of students and fair play to them i think it might be speech and language they're studying in the atu just down the road from here they're already associated to another area outside of donagall so again stop feeding us stuff yes do you know what i mean give us solutions yes right okay so the the the let's go through this again because this is really important and a lot of people are very interested in this so the facebook page has now been established and it's cool and it's a closed facebook group for obvious reasons and you know what it's not just part of this i think just that networking that that that support that advice that oh you get me you understand exactly what i'm going through is just in value invaluable so we're going to link it obviously across all of our sources thank you but what's it called it's called the special needs parents network donagall donagall yeah okay um it's a facebook group so you send a request to join and look there are parents out there you know the families out there that don't engage with facebook or social media that's totally fine but we also have an email address you know where you can access our survey we want we really need as many responses as we can to get the best quality data yeah and to get our voices as loud as we possibly can so um yeah so our gmail page is our gmail account is snpn donagall at gmail.com the other thing uh great that we didn't mention um just in terms of solutions and things that possibly the hzc can do for us uh short term is we have a crisis in cdnts in black and white it's still depressing to see it officially in black and white uh we've known for years but now we've got an actual piece of documentation to prove it um why are they not redeploying staff from other areas and incentivizing because we know that when the cdnts was were created and when primary care and cdnts were split they actually incentivized therapists to move out of cdnts out of disability and into primary care so why can't we reverse that and get that talent back it's an immediate crisis actually immediate you know this is and and and and all the time because parents are feeling like that's three years i've lost that's four years i've lost that's five years we've lost yeah and then you're looking i mean one mom was talking to me about just the a a simple verbal interaction that she'd waited for so long to get and that come off the back of three uh three now it's not going to work like that for everyone but three speech and language sessions and then that was it there was nothing there and then the trials regressed there afterwards so that was how quickly in in their case that child uh responded to it so listen if if you're out there and some might say it's easy for me to say but we never know what's in front of us either but if you're out there and you feel tired and jaded because you're going through this just get the energy together to join this yeah absolutely and then go through the post and then see how you feel and then see if you're configured and then if you see right i am not alone we've got a united voice here absolutely there's loads of work to be done there's loads of possibility here like we have a rest by crisis in dunigaw we have parents who you know they're not looking after their own health because they can't they have no one to care for their kids and their adult children who have disabilities we have you know in terms of school support if this is good support there's no support there's nothing and that can you know i know they don't have the staff to offer us one-to-one services but there's other ways of offering services group therapies workshops get out to the skills get out to creches yeah give us the information there is no information whenever my daughter was diagnosed i gave them the report there was nothing i didn't know who to talk to who was my main contact who any email addresses what preschools was there what creches was involved what schools i could send her to and how i've muddled through for so long is chatting to other parents yeah a body system even you know develop a body system for other parents this is a scary time yeah and you see the thing that really troubles me too and and it's been proven this is not anecdotal uh and and and i know there are people struggling would welcome a tax break right but the majority of workers who are middling right who are able to pay the bills they don't really want a five for a week extra they want plans like this put in place they want services they want the hospital services they want the calm services and not throw money out of problem because that that doesn't do it it's it's like find out what the problem is and come up with with a solution that's all we want we don't you know what i mean which we don't we're not now these are costed and they're funded so why someone needs to say and this is it you know i mean like we talk about cost and a fund and like if you look at a physiotherapist the hsc salary grades are free for anyone to look at there's 30s a physiotherapist with the hsc can earn somewhere between 37 and a half thousand to 64 thousand if you look at even done in god least we have no physiotherapist that money is sitting there and it's not being spent you know you know and you have families who are breaking or even redirected into other initiatives in the short term yeah we need like that's another initiative here if you can't offer us one-to-one give us something else absolutely you need to give us something sorry not sorry it's not an answer no anymore rosie's a lucky wee girl to have a mommy like this great speaker very clear in what they want well done to her and hope all goes well for them uh well all's going to go well now because there's a movement there's a movement ongoing yeah uh so we're not not anyone's sitting on their hands because everyone's hands are busy and you talked about respite and every year i i do and it's so important the carers week right yeah you know i understand that but i sit here and i've talked to people about the events that coming up and the amount of people who are carers that can't get to these events because they have no respite exactly it's just and i think there's an irony here we're all like this event let it can be this event in bunk room people can't go because they can't get five minutes yeah and you need that you need that i've been in a quality issue as well yeah like it isn't a quality issue like my daughter like needs all the support that she can get in order to be able to participate in life the same way other children do and it's like those parents you know like as carers we we deserve equality we deserve equal access yeah and we're not getting it i mean there's no spare jobs in the doll i can guarantee you that there's no there's no uh direct 37 parliamentary assistance elections coming up so i'm excited to hear from all of our local representatives i'm very excited to hear from them because they've been so quiet yeah very you know with some exceptions there's one independent politician in johnny gall who has been super you know who i'm not going to mention any names but he has been super he always responds personally yes and he has done stellar work particularly in the area of adult disability where there have been some major scandals in donny gall well let's let's turn a page obviously say you know we're not singling anyone out praising anyone why not who you're on about let's turn a page and say right okay now there's something new happening here yeah and now answer the phone calls now chase up the emails now raise it in the doll yeah okay uh joe ashton thank you very much indeed but before we go one more time and we're going to share it across our socials as they say i know people are tired of people are jaded and people are stressed but this might help to at least get involved and you can see yourself what's going to happen so the facebook group is a closed facebook group you can request to join it it is i wish someone had written it so i didn't have to special needs parents donnie gall special needs parents donnie gall network group and the gmail is s n p n donnie gall at gmail.com well done ashene well done joe i wish you every success 300 members already is yeah let's make it 500 within a week yeah yeah exactly you know and let's get a real sense of what's going on all across the county if you're down in duncanady donnie gall town killy bags uh you know uh dunlow right across the whole county is uh because we're a united county we want 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disability services in dunigol with an emphasis on the number of vacancies within the county's four children's disability network teams castler albert doherty says the review needs to look at why those 37 vacancies are not being filled and if there is too much red tape being imposed by coral which regulates health and social care professionals it was claimed last week that bureaucracy is making it extremely difficult to have qualifications from northern irish courses recognized here and that means many people in dunigol who studied in dairy cannot work in the service last week minister and rabbit walked out of a meeting regarding his school in cork because she said the hsc wasn't doing enough councillor albert doherty wants that same level of commitment to be demonstrated here and i believe that this delivery of services particularly in dunigol must also merit a review there's an issue to be investigated here in dunigol i hope the members will support me and press for a review that void has to be filled and a review can only assist a group of parents in dunigol has taken the matter into their own hands and set up a cdnt support group the special needs parents dunigol network group is for parents or guardians of children with disabilities and additional needs in the county they say the purpose of the group is to bring parents together so they can effectively advocate for their children and also peer to peer support they have established a facebook page which is gathering members on a daily basis they want to see that grow and on today's nine till noon show joe one of the organizers of the group said a potentially important meeting is taking place next month and they want to ensure that the voices of service users is heard we're aware of a meeting to complete between our elected tds and hsc management on the 16 of october in letter kenny we feel like that meeting is a waste of time unless our kids voices are heard so what we're going to be doing is we're going to 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of barry's tea the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio and a very good morning to you're very welcome along to the program good morning to charlie and edinburgh annie kathy katrina tereza kathy again and marie and a whole host of other people watching the program michael good morning to you just to remind you you can watch the show every day on our website highland radio dot com but also on youtube highland radio arland on your smart tv your fire stick and your mobile devices and we're on our facebook pages as well always great to have you on board there i was asked to mention this at this time or is it a little bit early does it have to be exactly that time caroline or should i i'll do some other stuff first okay and it reads as follows hi greg i recently discovered i have a sibling who was adopted in the early 60s out of respect for my parents i don't want to give too much detail away i know the child is a male he was 59 in february of this year and lives in northern arland possibly the antramaria i have what i believe to be his first which was given to him at birth his first name and surname he was given on adoption he is nowhere on social media we know the illegal adoption at the time placed him in northern arland we know it was carried out by the local priest and the local gp both of which are now deceased we know it was illegal because there's no documentation to say it happened i know he came looking for us but due to a miscommunication and gdpr we have no contact details for him i have with the blessing of my parents exhausted every avenue via every agency to locate him but to no avail can anyone give me any suggestions as to how i proceed while respecting my parents identity now i'm sure someone out there has been down this road this is a a sibling adopted in the 60s there were 59 in february this listener has the first name and second name the adopted second name they're not on social media so maybe they didn't uh maybe if they were looking for their uh birth family they gave maybe they adopted the birth name i don't know but anyway he has uh or they he has settled in northern arland possibly antramaria but he could be anywhere of course and this person is looking to get in contact with them um they've tried as much as they can with no success this person did try and seek them out uh unfortunately he wasn't able to locate them because as they've mentioned gdpr issues and they don't have any details of him and they won't be released to them so any advice as to how they might proceed there greg that was a scary instant in letter kenny's tan park and that mother emma was brilliant in how she handled the situation with her little toddler read the texture who said it is used by white thorn white single out white thorn it is a gateway to the hospital and all the businesses in that vicinity for at least seven states and all of the residents in karnamuga gauntly area of letter kenny maybe it's the persons from white thorn and they use it regularly and that's why it was specific to that area i i don't uh i wouldn't for a moment think it was anything other than that good morning greg how about no big hairy kids in the park a park is for kids plenty of spaces for adults to walk good morning greg so these women get raped and go to channel four instead of the cops does that make sense to anyone because it doesn't to me the majority of people because they get doubted and get called out and accused of lying and making things up a majority of people actually don't go to report sexual crimes to the police they're subsequent to that program being aired a number of them have so maybe that satisfies the first point part of your point but they go on to say if these allegations are false these women and people in channel four need to get there some time in jail as he would have spent 30 years at least we can't believe all women we all know that women can be evil to lots of men no that but it's always the man who gets hammered and abused men's lives have been ruined i understand where you're coming from and you know the courts are better place perhaps for these things to be sorted out but you must remember that some of these women have come forward to people in the industry he was very famous they felt he wasn't being believed lots of people came forward for an example and i'm not associating Russell brand with with other people guilty of sex crimes so Russell brand isn't at this point he denies all charges and they did try and report people like Jimmy Saville and others and they were rejected because the person was famous so they weren't going to be believed channel four and the Times newspaper god testimony from four separate people now Russell brand publicly did go out with the 16 year old there's no secret to that as it relates to the other accusation i mean that's not he was accused in that relationship of controlling behaviour sending a car from the BBC to go and pick up this child and and what have you that in and of itself to me is a little bit not just a little bit it's wrong i believe but anyway it's not illegal so there you go and these four people came they don't know each other they came forward separately or they were approached or what have you as i say ideally you'd want this to be done through the courts but the courts have a history really of not pursuing these things very well or the authorities so i don't know we shall see how it unfolds i was expecting him yesterday to do his scheduled show and and drop truth bonds as he likes to and provide the evidence they had he says he has witnesses that know that this isn't the case so he has his own platform 24 million followers he hasn't used it yet hi Greg if the person who was caught doing 217 kilometers per hour in a 100 zone doesn't do jail time our country's going to suffer more and more carnage on our roads and as for putting up lower kilometer road signs that's a total waste of taxpayers money believes a listener there another you know our government is an uncaring one when children in extreme pain are left on operation waiting lists while the government boasts of a financial surplus priorities what priorities they ask another the two big parties in government finafall and finnegale are in my opinion delighted to see a redress parties this will split the vote up they would be best served by throwing the weight behind an opposition party that promises 100 redress and this we've talked about this before and it's not just on that issue there are talks of rural groups forming there's a farmers alliance group there's a rural independence group there is no doubt that there potentially is there to spit the vote but i mean you can people can go you know for a second third and fourth we have proportional representation here and you can go right down the ballot paper so maybe that would address some of those issues but listen i am sure when people have been discussing this they did consider that that is a possibility another caller says this is what the children in mongore close refo have to play alongside as well as the horse getting uh the house is getting flooded when heavy rain comes so where is the tds or where are the tds now that might have been accompanied by a picture which i don't have in front of me really over our car in the covid response there was a 500 increase in care home deaths by the end of january 2021 reported by rte on teletext only if these care home residents had covid they would not have been vaccinated there was no reports of care homes having significant problems with covid at the time of the rollout those care home deaths were added to the covid stats later as late notifications and referred to as the third wave by leo vrackar this is a cover up for vaccine related deaths believes that caller there um i mean combi that timeline i do recall at the time it was very controversial because um if i have my dates correct and we talked about it on this program there was a policy of of um people who were in hospital with covid being moved to nursing homes where we knew uh the more vulnerable in society uh lived and um it's something we and we weren't very popular in doing so talked about extensively on this show um but listen if there is an issue with excess deaths uh it should all be investigated i think the public deserve that i'm not suggesting for a moment it's anything to do with uh vaccinations because i simply don't know and i could not conclude that and i wouldn't state something that i don't know but if something requires some further investigation some study and answers uh well there are enough high pay people to do that and to either confirm or debunk or whatever they might do that's uh that's kind of what their job is isn't it all right uh we are going to get the latest uh information and appeals from on goddess you can't but first let us take this quick break it's time for mcbi bingo on highland 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two five time for community guard information for this tuesday the 19th of september and we welcome back into studio garter claire rafferty with the bill for garter station good morning claire thanks so much for joining us no bother thanks great all right we'll crack straight on with some appeals and your colleagues in boncran are looking for assistance in relation to an assault yeah so they've had two assaults recently we'll start with one in the west end it occurred in the early hours of sunday the 17th of september uh approximately 2 35 a.m so a man is believed to have been assaulted by another man at that location and the injured man ended up having to be taken by ambulance to letter candy university hospital to receive medical treatment for the injuries he sustained so we're asking anyone who may have observed the incident or know anything about it to make contact with garady and boncran their numbers 0749320540 if anyone was in that area around the time and had dashcam footage or anything to offer us we'd be grateful if you'd make it available to us and you mentioned an alleged second assault yeah so this one is a park lane in boncran and it was sunday evening uh the 17th so sunday gone at 7 40 p.m a man is believed to have been assaulted by a group of youths this time in that area he was also taken to letter candy university hospital to receive treatment for non-life-threatening injuries but look any injuries is too much so again we're looking for anyone who may have observed the incident to make contact with the garady and boncran anyone traveled in around that area or who had dashcam footage or anything at all we asked them to make contact with us also yeah we really need to think before we act don't we because you know we've heard very recently of tragic instances it doesn't have to be a sustained attack a single punch and you could find yourself facing very very serious charges is it worth it the answer is no that's it nobody knows the consequences of what they're doing it can lead to so much more so it's it's not good to be getting involved in anything like that all right next up a burglary in the Balabuffet area yeah so guard here investigating this burglary that happened at the water treatment plant lock morn in mean crumbling Balabuffet between 7 p.m friday the 15th of september and 10 a.m saturday morning so entry was gained to this site after the fence was damaged and there were two industrial generators stolen from within it now we are seeking more information in relation to the generators and when we have them we'll post them on our page but as you can imagine two industrial generators we're hoping somebody may have seen something so anyone who was traveling on the Dunnegal town to Balabuffet road between the above times who may have observed anything suspicious in the area of the water treatment plant or if you've seen something similar to that on the road being transported uh so should if we'd ask you to make contact with us and again should anyone come across similar items for sale on a second hand basis um we'd like to hear about it as well so we can check it out so if you've any information please call letter Kenny guard station for this one on 0749167100 and as always the guard of confidential line is there as well 1 800 treble six treble one all right uh now we are going to criminal damage in burn foot yeah so this one was just a few hours ago uh in burn foot it's a criminal damage incident at a premises on the main street in burn foot in the early hours of this morning at about 2 20 a.m or to 2 45 a.m so a window of a premises was smashed an attempt is believed to have been made to actually light a fire there then so we're appealing anyone who traveled through burn foot between 2 a.m and 3 a.m this morning who had dash cam to make contact with us it's a quiet enough area you know with that out of the morning you wouldn't expect to see too many so if anyone was traveling please make contact with us in Bunkrana on 0749320540 yeah and a particular sinister element to that with the attempt to start a fire as well right okay now we are going to criminal damage in remelton yeah so out in milford we're looking at this one it occurred at pound street remelton between 7 p.m on tuesday the 12th of september and 11 15 on wednesday morning so the backwind screen of a car that was parked on pound street was smashed between the above times nothing was stolen from the car but if anyone observed any suspicious activity in that area or if they've any information that might assist with this investigation please contact us in milford on 0749153060 yeah and another worrying one this time in Bunkrana criminal damage yeah this one's in park more of Bunkrana and it occurred on sunday evening the 17th of september shortly after 7 p.m a lorry that had been parked in the business yard at that location had been satellite so the fire service had to come out and deal with this one and extinguish the fire uh so we're appealing to anyone who traveled in that area between 6 30 p.m and 7 30 p.m who may have seen something or anyone who has dashcam footage to please make contact with us we're particularly interested actually in any sightings of a group of youths that were in the area around that time now look we're not saying this group of youths did this but at the very least you can rule them out and maybe they seen something as well you know so it's very important that we get uh talking to them anyway so if you have any information please ring Bunkrana on 0749320540 all right it's that time of the year again for many people some are better organised than others but for many people uh it's time to start lighting the fires and also checking how much oil you have in your oil tank and unfortunately someone in downings is down a significant sum they were targeted uh Claire yeah so um a house in Moslak and downings um reported the threat of a large quantity of home heating oil from their oil tank it's believed to have occurred between the 7th of September and the 13th of September so the this premises had just got a a full of oil and the oil is gone so it's very obvious that this was stolen so should anyone in the area of noticing suspicious activity between the 7th and the 13th of September please give us a ring in Milford on 0749153060 right okay so as I say you know um oil's an expensive commodity you're getting all the more expensive I have no doubt and nothing to prove it that if I were in the business of steaming oil I would want to know where the oil vans are going do you know what I mean now and it's so easy and you can even time how long they're there for crying out loud so and then wait a few days to see if there's any activity and scout the area that's what they do because it's so bloody lucrative so so some general advice then um as people are getting their fills maybe at the moment um because we will hear more cases of this Claire yeah absolutely as you said there there's people doing this so we need to bear things in mind so we think it's very important to check the oil levels frequently try to arrange maybe smaller but more frequent oil deliveries if you can install automatic movement sensor security lighting around the tank you can plant shrubs or erect fencing two screen tanks from the view of the road so people aren't drawn to them you can install and use lockable access gates and erect lockable fencing around your tack including ones over the top you could consider fitting an alarm system which warns if the oil level drops suddenly and always be vigilant following a delivery because that's the the most time you are likely to be targeted also be aware that thieves may return to steal replacement oil following an initial theft as well and always note any suspicious vehicles registration numbers that kind of thing to guard e and as you said delivery lorries you know they may notice people when they're delivering oil keeping an eye on things too so we'd ask them also to be vigilant and bear it in mind now there were uh was preventative measures posted on the guard issue kind of page yesterday if anyone wants to have a read and just educate themselves i'm really pleased to see grania's prickly bushes uh what do you laugh at oh i'll say nothing every year yeah like i know she put this together she's got to think for these prickly bushes but you know what she's right and and measures aren't like they're all fantastic local security companies that can sort you out or whatever but it depends on on what you need uh you can get battery operated cameras i've said it before i'll say it again 50 60 euro full hd night vision they'll alert you to your phone if there's any activity in an or anti royal tank so simple i've got one the battery lasts for three months it will record little clips say for instance you're looking for a clip it will record a little clip uh and i think it was 60 quid and it stuck to a magnet hidden uh in a part of the house and if anyone goes anywhere near the old tank it alerts me and you can set an alarm off on it or you can have it set to trigger an alarm so it's not beyond you know what i mean it's you know we're not looking necessarily you don't have to spend three grand to security either do you know what i mean well the best way to look at it is yeah you may have to put out an initial cost to take some security measures but one theft of oil can cost you a lot more than that so if it saves from that happen then you're already ahead and sometimes they drill the tank and you're not only down the oil but you're down a 1000 litre tank as well okay that's true too okay continuing with the appeals then uh gartie looking for uh assistance in their investigation of a road traffic road traffic collision in milford clare yeah so this one happened at the lag in milford so anyone that uh doesn't know the lag it's the petrol station there as you're coming out of milford towards remelton it was a collision that occurred on the 13th of september at approximately nine ten a.m the collision involved a vehicle and a pedestrian uh the pedestrian was taken to letter kenny university hospital to be treated for injuries thankfully they're not believed to be life-threatening in nature but still um we want to have a look and see if anyone's seen anything in relation to this so we appeal to road users who were in the area around that time um who's seen it or who has dash cam footage to make it available to us uh so you can give us a call there in milford on 0749153060 all right okay now many people will be aware of uh a spate of thefts alleged thefts that occurred around letter kenny on saturday of course gartie right across this sir clare yeah we've been looking into this and uh as everyone is aware this was saturday the 16th of september at business premises in letter kenny town here so two men and a woman are sought in relation to these thefts and we're interested in any sightings of a gray toyota evensus the partial registration number we have here is 12d19 uh so that was believed to be within the areas of listnenin kill toy the port road or within the areas of the retail parks or around letter kenny town in general between the hours uh approximately 10 a.m and 12 midday last saturday so our investigation is ongoing into this and we ask anyone with relevant information or dash cam footage to make it available to the guards in letter kenny yeah and i presume with the poll system or another means uh at the uh the discretion of the guardie you know this is not just a local investigation as well of course user investigating it locally on the ground but this information is shared nationally as well uh where it's appropriate isn't that right absolutely definitely yeah right some people after christmas shopping don't need to believe that i know uh but others are maybe thinking about starting it now and there's no shame in that game because in a cost living crisis we're trying to spread things out as much as is uh possible but you know it is also uh as the advert goes uh shopping time for the criminals as well what's the advice clear yeah so uh what's the christmas shopping season not being far away we urge all retailers to adopt and promote good shoplifting crime prevention measures every business should review their security measures on a regular basis should you wish to discuss these security measures for your business premise then uh sergeant paul wallace as you know as our crime prevention officer here he's based in letter kenny but he covers the the whole county so if anyone wishes to contact him and discuss uh their security measures please do so just give them a one so for you for sure definitely uh right okay let it kind of guard a station it's an open day saturday the third yeah so it's between two or 12 p.m and 4 p.m on saturday the 30th so saturday week and there will also be a sensory hour between 11 a.m and 12 p.m for the open day and letter kenny guard the station and during 11 and 12 uh the lights and sirens won't be used you know there'll be extra measures taken uh to protect everyone and look after everyone so should anyone have any requests or requirements uh in order to be able to safely and comfortably attend the sensory hour please let us know in advance if there's something specific you think we should be aware of let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate all your needs uh we're very happy to have our vip guests uh our honorary garden members from the little blue heroes some of them are really looking forward to seeing everyone there so we hope to have something to suit everyone at the event there's going to be face painting soca garada stand well that's going to attract quite a i'm not going to that anyway i think we should put guard a sergeant paul wallace oh no better man that's my top two line a few up i'll maybe groan you just i tell you go on anyway okay there'll also be some live music arts and crafts and we're hoping to to be joined by the mounted unit the arm support unit the dog unit the water unit and the air support uh there's also going to be a number of outside agencies on uh coming for the day as well so we're hoping for a good turnout and we look forward to seeing everyone there everybody is welcome to come along so please if you're doing nothing on saturday the 30th between 12 and 4 uh come along to litter kenny garage station a great day out particularly for uh the young ones okay and as i say it's great to see in the garden locally a great at making it open and accommodating uh everyone um if they have particular needs thank you very much indeed we really appreciate it thank you no problem that is uh guard a claire rafferty from milford garden station that was community guard information for this tuesday the 19th of september it's back live for you after the 10 o'clock news next tuesday and if you missed anything i'll just want to recap on it it'll be 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ordered a review into spina bifida pediatric care at a hospital where 19 children suffered serious catastrophic complications after surgery and one has since died it's also emerged unauthorized devices have been found inside young patients and there have been concerns of the medical care provided by one consultant the hsc is apologized and ordered an independent review by uk experts to get to the bottom of the latest medical scandal at the children's hospital arland temple street in dublin. Dr. Peter O'Rourke is a retired orthopedic surgeon and joins us on the program now thank you for your time this morning Peter I do appreciate it. You're welcome Greg. How could this situation have arose what's your reading of at your suspicions Peter. Well the first thing is that I think quite few of the reports have been a little bit over the top without finer detail explaining what's going on so I think it's something that certainly needs to be investigated but everything has been grouped together into sort of one part of problems there's a number of issues I think three patients had not 19 but three patients had unauthorized material inserted that of itself we don't know if it caused specific problems those mother other metal implants which were used which are licensed who had falls or became just larger got infected and that's a different issue unfortunately every operation is associated with the risk of infection and there is being one unfortunate and sad death but we don't know if that is related to the treatment or for other reasons so unfortunately until and there's a proper inquiry which does into the specifics I think speculation is going to be very difficult and it's going to be very hard on the families and it's also going to be very hard to maintain the service I think all the spinal surgeons both Crumblin and Temple Street have been in the media over the years looking for more resources which has never happened and that's why scoliosis surgery has always been a major problem and getting the operations done and people are waiting this so it's unfortunate that this has happened it's very sad but the final details I think need to be established before too many judgments are made well obviously the the the press has grouped all together as you've mentioned and they have their who speaks politicians that will pile on in this as well causing great distress and anxiety do you think perhaps maybe reporting on these instances and maybe political commentary people should take a breath really and just think of the consequences of that I mean no one's looking to bury stories but there's a responsibility perhaps in how they're presented I think very much and it's it's unfortunately it's invariably the opposition politicians who take any opportunity to beat up the government and regardless of what the topic is they will find fault rather than and it's getting headlines unfortunately and I think everybody needs to calm down and step back a little bit and let a proper investigation which has apparently been arranged to go ahead before any judgments are made and unfortunately there are no flood of children who are waiting for surgery and this will probably cause further delays in every unit where this type of surgery is carried out which would be to the detriment of a lot more patients than the ones who've already suffered and it needs to be established if any of these patients always actually suffered because of medical misadventure or if they actually suffered just unfortunate consequences I mean for example if you get an infection in a wound it is sometimes incredibly difficult to eradicate the infection when you have a metal implant and in the spine in particular the metal implants are only inserted after the spine has been completely destabilized to allow it to be straightened and in those circumstances if you get an infection you can't really take the metal implants out because if you do then the patient's spine can collapse so you're in between a rock and a hard place trying to eradicate the infection while still doing the best for the patient so you know the idea of someone going back to theatre 10 or 15 times if they have an infection is not unusual and if in the presence of metal implants it's quite a common thing which is terrible for the doctor terrible for the patient and very unpredictable as to the outcome I'm not trying to play it down either but of course you know unauthorized metal objects being inserted it does sound very sinister it is compression springs that were actually used would it be unusual for a consultant to sort of you know acquire such devices if they believed it to be a positive for the patient or is this something also requires you know much further investigation well there's two answers to your question what happened in the past and what happens to in this day and age is very different I mean I worked with a surgeon who was very innovative who used a drill bit a wooden sorry a drill bit that he bought in a home base that was designed to for wood to actually make tracks and bone for a particular procedure he was doing and he used it for the entirety of his career without any problems and without anybody raising an eyebrow and I personally was involved we were doing a study where we used an implant that was designed to be used around the knee and we started using it the ankle and subsequently the company developed a device a similar device for use in the ankle so innovation happens by people sort of thinking out of the box and doing strange things so that's one aspect to your question or one answer to your question the other thing is that if any metal device is inserted in the body it is sterilized cleaned beforehand so it would not be particularly the source of the infection infection comes from external to internal so the mere fact that you're putting in something that was not designed for that actual function does not mean it's going to be a source of infection so again if the metal work failed and metal work failing is not that unusual and especially in spinal abifida and spinal scoliosis surgery the metal rods frequently break because of the strains put on the spine by the you know the growth once you have an adolescent who's still growing we talked about opposition commentary the t-shock Lee over at car said the review of spinal surgeries at temple street appears to relate to potential pull performance by one doctor do you think maybe that commentary is a little bit previous with an investigation yet to happen again i mean everybody's making judgments on what they read in the papers i think rather than the actual report so i have not read the report i'm not coming to anybody's defense i'm just rationalizing until more information is available but i work to the surgeon the uk who used to get suspended every two or three years and not operate for three or four months because of poor outcomes and the reason he had poor outcomes he was he was operating on the most extreme cases and in actual fact he was operating on patients that had adverse outcomes from other surgeons so they looked at the figures saw that he was having poor outcomes and stopped him operating every so often until they assessed the situation discovered that there was a reason for the poor outcomes that he was it was the material the patients whose problems he was working on so i think everything needs to be looked at i mean it may come back that these 19 cases are all adverse or it may come back that one or two of them are and it may be that the particular surgeon is not that big an outlier and the other thing is you can always have a run where you have a few complications in a year and then you don't have any for the next 20 years so it has to be taken in context and as opposed to the one thing we have to make sure or hope and pray for that this doesn't extend waiting lists any further i mean obviously you know we want surgery to be as safe as possible but we also want these children to get the surgery that they need and sometimes these crises end up being some sort of a smoke screener is an excuse to cover other reasons as to why operations aren't happening and we just hope that you know they are they retain committed to getting as many of these young people seen and helped as is possible that's very true and surgeons are strange animals in that we want to do more not less despite waiting lists appearing the way they are surgeons are always fighting to do more work rather than less work despite what you might read in the the media and politicians might say the other thing i think that needs to be pointed out here we had a recent appalling case of lucy let be in the uk with the neonatal deaths and the doctors there were actually uh muzzled and prevented from making a complaint or doing anything about it and our contracts at the moment of the contract i had did not have a gagging clause the government's new contract for consultants has a gagging clause so as i said the spine surgeons have been speaking out over the last number of years saying that the resources were an advocate they're not going to be do it do be able to do that anymore if they sign this new contract which effectively will add the hsc in the government to guide doctors so people like me when they're working will not be allowed to go on radio programs such as yours and tell us how it is wow that's scary uh peter oh it is i mean i'm fine i mean i think we all were shocked by the uh interviews of doctors in the lucy let be case that they were threatened with the medical counseling and various other things because they wanted to actually report the situation to the police force uh fortunately that would not have happened in ireland and hopefully in the future this contract will not prevent doctors speaking out again it wouldn't prevent them approaching the police that would end i mean obviously the media side of things but do we know if it would prevent them blowing the whistle so to speak or well a gagging clause is a gagging clause i mean there's enough people who signed them in legal situations when there's non-disclosure agreements i mean if your contract says that you're not allowed to speak out or you're not allowed to do things uh you'd be nervous about doing it i remember giving a lecture to a crowd of uk and east at us and told them about the various uh run-ins i've had in the media and they were shocked that i was able to do that because if they said they said that if they done one of those things they would be up before the medical council let alone suspend it from their hospitals so i think it is important that um and i'm not sure who spoke out in this case in children's hospital in helpsbury's but i think having the ability for doctors nurses and everybody else to speak out if there's a problem and if not be listened to by management is very important that's a very important uh the statement there i think you've made over the last minute or two peter thank you very much for your time as always my pleasure that's dr peter a rock retired orthopedic surgeon the nightl new 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 the queen of country in irish margo comes back to dunny gall for one night only join margo live and concert on wednesday the fourth of october in the monteregal hotel with special guests diva james and shunny cramsey this is a show not to be missed that's margo live at the monteregal october fourth tickets available from hotel reception or online at eventbrite.ie the effects of personal debt problems often go 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a very severe asthma attack and the ambulance was going to be like 29 minutes away so we decided the best that was put her in the car and meet them halfway so we were driving and we were about to try and find a defibrillator if needed because she was she was quite unwell and uh we pulled on the cairns diner and the staff were really fast at getting us the the cold so the defibrillator was very nice and then two members of the public came to the car and i've since found their names were charlie ward and in awful hurry and they were just they were so good they were really kind very caring but also very calm which was i suppose needed as well absolutely um and the lady you know farish sat in the car she's she's held my daughter's hand she knows she's talking to her tell me you know to hang on the ambulance was coming um you know at this time at this time uh mikaela was in in respiratory distress she was she was a sick week girl she was and she has a history of respiratory arrest so obviously i was very i've had you know first aid training cpr training but it when it's your child looks different you know when it's your child it's totally different um so i think you know she was very calming for me as well she was just she was making eye contact with me to reassure me to resist okay the ambulance is coming and uh then the ambulance that arrived in the two paramedics were brilliant they were very fast because she's quite flexible they were very fast at recognizing that she was working very hard for respiratory um and getting her out of the car and getting her into the ambulance um and getting her on the oxygen and getting her nebulized and then then um dr jerry lane came i believe his name was um from a critical care response or something i think that's correct he came and uh he came into the ambulance just to make sure she could manage her own airway and she she was able to manage her own airway her heart rate was six her heart rate sky high and her oxygen was really low at the time but then it came up and her heart rate started to settle more and she she was just exhausted by then but she he was very reassuring for us and he took the time to talk with us yeah and you know he talked about the underlying disease that she has and you know he was asking how it affected her and he talked to her but he was also you know if i can very reassure and you know he was very calm very you know empathetic yeah and um just in general they were just they were just fantastic and um you know i remember thinking when i was taking her in the you know in the car to meet damn them i remember saying to my dad like when when they said i was 29 minutes they said i was 29 minutes oh my god so scary for you so frightening yeah so frightening then it was just like you know it was kind of like you saw the good people you know you hear a lot recently about you know um anti-social behaviour and and you know all these different things you hear a lot of which is just natural i think you hear a lot of negativity at times but on Sunday night we just experienced the good of the people and that's who we all are i think and from the staff at Curlan's who were able to get the defib code for you to those lovely two strangers who were there just the right people at the right time the obviously excellent staff in in the ambulance but also that other level of experience from Dr Jerry Lane who's obviously a former ed consultant as well uh mckayla just ended up in the right hands at the right time she did and even when i was explaining to him that you know she was just a came-up conversation that she was going to college with the national disability learning networking um later on in the year you know he even just took the time to tell me well don't be worried i'll be up around there you know when he was telling me where it was on the campus matter kind of you know i float around there sometimes so don't be worried she'd be well looked after you know there was a lot of care and compassion given you know that kind of way and it was just like i was a lot of reassurance and at times i got parents need that family members need that and she herself needed it and she like she was saying to me you know he took the time to speak to her and said you know i'm sorry i'm not talking over it just i need to get some information from your mom but she still felt like she was being talked to yeah and the staff at the hospital were just amazing when we got there because they have treated her before and even like the nurses when we got into any one of the nurses who taught me she remember treating mckayla before and being on mckayla's care before she was talking about how her disease had progressed and she was and you know she took the time to say to me outside the door then are you and how are you doing Emma yeah and i said no i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm hanging on there kind of and she said um be sure to look after yourself pet you know and she was she was really you know she was talking to me as well not just as the parent of a patient but she was talking about me but you know looking at i was listening to them parents talking this morning about the cdnt and it was like exactly that that nurse was asking me how are you after this how's mckayla now Emma she's home now she's still slightly culpable positive was what which is what they said they believed was the issue yes and she does have underlying she has a muscular disease and she has quite profound ever stand loss so she has quite a pearly and possibly disabled we got but still very determined you know that when she came around and i'm telling you you know the paramedics and her were laughing and they were discussing their favorite types of m&m's and things like that you know she was keeping them laughing and joking and and you know finally i'm gonna ask the same question that lovely nurse asked how you were because it's an awful shock it's an awful shock because as you say just even be able to have to think you know she's not going to last 29 minutes it's tough on mum and and the rest of the family as well how are you now are you okay um yes i am fine i've we're doing very well i literally have just as you thought home there opened a letter to say that our special adaptive house has finished whoa for her okay so i literally just opened that just before you phone because we were waiting on a special adaptive house for her congratulations and so yeah things are going well um but i just it wasn't for attention or anything i just wanted to thank those people that said you know that stopped and helped we contacted you uh because we thought it was such a lovely message that we wanted to share it and for the people that uh were there to hear it as well emma so we know it's not for attention you were very good to accept our invite and i do really appreciate it and pass on our love and best wishes to mackayla and fair play to all of those people that rallied around you like we do uh when you and mackayla and yada uh needed it uh it's a lovely story and i'm glad things are are improving and great news on that letter yes thank you so much take care bye bye thank you very much indeed that's uh emma uh go over there the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio okay it is 11 o'clock it's time for us to get a news update now and we say good morning to mackayla clark thanks great good morning gardi have confirmed that they are haunting two men and a woman who they believe to be involved in a string of thefts from businesses in letter kenny on saturday they're keen to hear from anyone who witnessed a great iota events with a partial registration of one two d one nine within the areas of list nanon kill toy the port road the times retail parks are in and around letter kenny time between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. on saturday northern ireland secretary of state says he hopes the Irish government and others will support a new troubles a truth recovery body now that the uk government's legacy bill has become law the controversial bill was given royal ascent yesterday guardian boncrona are investigating two weekend assaults two men were hospitalized following the assaults on sunday in the early hours of sunday morning a man was attacked by another man in the west end area of boncrona when on sunday evening in the park leon area a man was assaulted by a group of youths a group of parents have taken the ongoing cdnt crisis in dunigol into their own hands by setting up a support group the special needs parents dunigol network group is for parents or guardians of children with disabilities and additional needs in the county they say the purpose of the group is to bring parents together so that they can effectively advocate for their children and for peer to peer support the t-shirt says he hasn't given up on introducing a new tax ban for middle income earners in advance of the last budget leo randker was calling for a new 30% rate of income tax to ensure people don't hit the highest rate of tax on average salaries there was an attempted arson attack on a business in burnfoot in the early hours of this morning guardian boncrona are investigating the incident that occurred at a premises on main street between 220 and 245 a.m they say a window was smashed and an attempt is believed to have been made to start a fire there's much concerning castle fin over the proposed direction of a telecommunications mast a planning application has been submitted for the tire at the top of hillhead counter gary da hoody questioned if studies on the impact such developments may have on public health are taken into consideration when granting planning permission and guardian best getting a burglary at the lock mornwater treatment plant in main crumblin by buffet between seven o'clock on friday night and ten o'clock on saturday morning last guardian say entry was gained to the site after the fence was damaged and two 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urged to show your lungs some love ahead of world long day which is monday september the 25th we're joined on the program now by dr kathryn finan consultant respiratory physician at sligo university hospital and member of the irish thoracic society council good morning to you doctor thanks for your time morning greg how are you doing i'm doing good so how should we be showing our lungs love doctor so greg there's a couple of very straightforward things that we can be doing to help our lungs and the most important thing and everybody probably knows this is not to smoke and to try and avoid air pollutants if we can and not smoking is difficult and stopping smoking isn't easy but there are a lot of supports out there for people to try and stop smoking they can check out quick dot ie they can free text quits at five zero one zero zero and there's also a free phone number that people can guess how can support from and just on that kathryn obviously you know we know and it's accepted that smoking is very damaging to the lungs but we also know that when people make that decision uh the lungs can recover really quite well and quite quickly so there's a benefit to stopping smoking at any time no matter what age you are whether you're 85 or 45 there will be a positive effect for your lungs the rate of decline because we all lose lung function over time as we age but the rate of decline reduces significantly when you stop smoking and the same goes for vaping we're quite concerned about vaping particularly in our younger teenage population and this population has been exposed to vaping where they wouldn't really have been would have considered starting smoking so we're very concerned that in the longer term there will be um problems for their lungs in the future so again not taking up vaping would be very important for children yeah and the reality you know you're inhaling uh a something that's clearly it's going to have some level of toxicity in it but it's so relatively new we don't really know what the consequences are for a young person's lungs or anyone's lungs five 10 years 15 years down the line we simply don't know because it hasn't been around long enough for us to determine that well that is true Greg we don't know what the effects of the the components of the vape is going to be on the lungs but we do know that the nicotine element of it is still highly addictive so in the same way that the erector addictive the vape will also be addictive and that's not really a scenario that you want your teenagers to get into if you can avoid how is uh how does uh I mean obviously eating a healthy balanced diet has general positives for a person uh are the specific positives for your own your lung health so there's a lot of evidence and some of this research has actually done in the north and queen's university that foods that are high in antioxidants such as the colorful foods like the blueberries red cabbage spinach and beechers these have very high levels of antioxidants and magnesium and these reduce the the the the effects of the toxins within our lungs and they have a very positive effect on our overall lung function and lung health so a healthy diet is really important it's also important to maintain a healthy weight because we know that either being underweight or being overweight increases the amount of work that your lungs need to do to to help you get around and so trying to maintain an optimum weight is important and and in terms of regular exercise how does exercise or what's it doing to our lungs or our lung capacity do you know what I mean because we might feel better we might find that we don't get us out of breath going upstairs or whatever it might be but what's actually happening in the exercise process that's benefit to our lungs so like any muscle that needs to be worked like your biceps or your quads your lungs in the same sort of fashion need to be worked in order to know what to do when they get under stress and what they need to do when they're just resting as well so it's important to try and aim for about 30 minutes of moderate exercise five days a week and that should be a planned activity in addition to your regular day-to-day activities as well many people that I come across an outpatient say oh doctor I'm on the go all the time I don't need to be doing any extra exercise but really being on the go while that's important it's not putting your lungs under that additional amount of learning and training that they need to do so that if you do get into a situation where you're sick and your lungs in your heart have to work harder they already know how to get into that system your lungs know what they need to do in that situation and also obviously yes go ahead sorry I was just going to say that if people are just taking up exercise for the first time or they're trying to get back into exercise it probably is important to talk to a physiotherapist or a doctor or even a respiratory nurse to just get some advice on how to do that gradually you don't we don't generally go from doing nothing to running medicines there are training schedules involved and that's the people just need to be careful about their joints and muscles as well and in terms of breathing clean air I mean obviously get rid of smoke and get rid of vaping that type so how else though can we try our best to clean to breathe clean air which is one of the recommendations also yes and so this is probably more difficult than the others because we don't really see the pollutants in our air very visibly and so we know that pollution can arise from smoke from fuels that are used in heating and cooking as well as the sort of humidity that's created with cooking you can get dampness and mold from that so really what we're trying to ask people to think about is good ventilation within their houses so if they're cooking or showering that the window is open in the room to allow air circulate through and that's to make sure that the room dries again afterwards we would like for people to consider getting their their their gas appliances and service and maintained at this time of the year we should always be ensuring that our chimneys are cleaned not only for our air pollution but also to try and avoid fires and we should always have carbon monoxide alarms in our homes and in areas where radon is high and there are some patchy areas in the northwest of Ireland where radon is high there are mechanisms to get that tested and monitors that can be put into your house to measure radon levels how concerned should we be and I'm not trying to draw you into political commentary it's purely a health commentary but how concerned should we be particularly here in in Donegal when we have many homes affected by defective concrete that have you know I get pictures on a regular basis very very dark black mold the houses are drafty as is so opening windows to dry them out it's not an option and I speak to parents with young children who are apparently getting sick with respiratory illness and older people too who are struggling how concerned should we be as a nation that there are thousands upon thousands of people in Donegal alone living in in these properties with this thick black mold on their walls that can't be removed well I'm Greg I'm not a hundred percent sure about the connection between the mica and the mold I just it's a by pretty sorry that's why I wanted I didn't want to bring you into the mica conversation because no it is it's an established by product of it it's just the dampness in the house the water seeps through the walls and stuff so it isn't it's present in most houses as I say I'm not asking you to comment on the schemes or the micro the controversy more the health side of it of parents listening talking about clean air but living in properties that they have this black mold in in bedrooms and other parts of the house that they can't remove yeah so that's an incredibly difficult situation and I and I don't really know how to advise people in a relation to that other than to try and make sure that the the rooms are as dry as possible there are dehumidifiers that you can get to try and remove humidity from rooms particularly bedrooms and I suppose really they'd be probably need advice from engineers in terms of how to try and dehumidify and and make our home safer okay a lot of people listening and I know there is some some moves happening nationally but all the time we get from parents saying would you please make vapes not available for young people and I know there's efforts being put in place in relation to that people saying would please would you crack down on the use of vapes in in in public areas because I don't want to be breathing that in there is a real a lot of the public and we give them a voice here who really want to see action on these these products and maybe even having them limited although we don't really agree with it in this country as a as a nicotine replacement but we will not talk about that but just the general availability parents want help from the powers that be to get these things out of the young people's hands yeah so I know there was public submissions made to the Department of Health this year in relation to the availability of vapes in public areas and restricting their access that is going through as far as I know I know the ITS put up a submission in relation to to us and several of the respiratory positions around the country also submitted in relation to I don't know where that is but certainly we would support restricted access and also we would also support the limited access of the disposable vapes because not only they are bad for us in our in our breathing situation but they're also incredibly bad for the environment and finally a listener says if you have bad lungs in your late 60s and stop smoking even if you you know went to some some sort of a patch a nicotine replacement or what have you is that bad for you still so you're not going to say nicotine is not bad for someone but presumably doctor if someone even in the late 60s with bad lungs they need to stop smoking and it will help them I mean you know they need to stop smoking yes and the nicotine replacement in the patches doesn't actually get into your lungs so it's not causing any damage there it's just providing you the nicotine for your addiction in a slightly different way the more if you if people are thinking about stopping smoking that means that they're thinking positively about their lungs and positively about the life that's ahead of them and I would support that in any way that they can't get to stop smoking yeah so it is a really good thing to do that and as you said earlier Catherine it's never too soon and well it's it's never too late sorry it's never too late thanks very much for your time anything you want to add just the flu vaccine is going to be coming up soon and between late September early October and it's really important for people who have underlying lung disease be that asthma COPD or any other form of lung disease and that they get vaccinated for a winter time to try and reduce infections and we know that flu vaccine does reduce infections and and not only for the person themselves but also for the people around in their environment so it's really important to get the vaccines thanks so much for your time I really do appreciate it doctor hathrin kathrin finance a consultant respiratory physician at sligo university hospital the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter kenny credit union call us on zero seven four nine one zero two one two six or apply online via our app or in office today in the final clearance sale at what's in menswear a selection of casual jackets shirts polo shirts and suits are half price 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uh the time is 20 minutes past 11 now some of you may not have heard of botulism uh for a long time or perhaps uh not before but you might have been familiar with the story from bundor uh public prosecutor's office has officially opened a preliminary investigation into how 25 people some of whom were irish rugby fans were infected with rare botulism after eating sardines in a restaurant scientific analysis results confirmed the presence of type b botulism in a dish of sardine tapas and in the blood of several victims who had eaten uh at a wine bar in the city dr anna rose prior is a consultant microbiologist at talla university hospital knows with us now good morning to you doctor thank you for your time hi gregg hurry uh i am good now what is but i mean before we we begin botulism is rare uh but it is something we can encounter and what are the circumstances that might lead us to yeah so lots of us are familiar with the term botox which is botulism toxin so this is a toxin which is produced by a bacteria called clostridium botulinum so usually you know in the context of botox as said we're all very familiar with it it's very highly regulated in teeny tiny doses it's quite effective in causing muscle relaxation to help smooth out wrinkles and we also use it in medical situations for people who have problems with muscle spasms and contractions it's used for rehabilitation purposes to to great effect for that purpose as well so thankfully you know in terms of causing disease such as this case of foodborne botulism in France that's incredibly rare thankfully and that's you know the dose there is it's less regulated it's an unregulated dose and it causes severe disease as a result of that muscle relaxation that botulism can cause and what might have led to it what needs to be present for for for this to to form yeah so this bacteria lives around us so it lives in soil this clostridium bacteria and it can produce in the right circumstances can produce toxin so it usually lives in what we call a spore form so it's a little dormant form or like a little seed of it and then in the right situations those spores can germinate and start producing toxin so if they contaminate food generally heating food as we normally do when we cook food it does kill off the bacteria and prevents those toxins causing being produced and causing us disease in the circumstances of foodborne botulism and there's a few ways you can get botulism but foodborne is the most common way um in foodborne botulism so the clostridium bacteria likes to be in environments where there's no air so cans are perfect or a tin food where there's oxygen a lack of oxygen and if it happens to get in contaminate um if those spores contaminated it then can start to produce this toxin within the food um so it likes foods that are low in acid that are you know low in oxygen and if that contamination happens and we consume foods which haven't been heated properly that are contaminated then we can get infected with botulism so thankfully due to commercial food production that's incredibly unlikely to happen because of the rigor around food production in those situations and as tragic as this is uh it's perhaps making the headlines because it's it is as rare as it is yes absolutely in the last case we had in Ireland was in 2014 there was a single case then and before that I think there was an outbreak in 2008 sort of six cases and what that was related to actually was wound botulism related to injection of infected or contaminated drug intravenous drugs so it's very rare to see yeah but that doesn't mean that we can't be careful with how we handle our food and all that type of stuff because it's not necessarily uh foodborne botulism that we might have to worry about but there are other little organisms and what have you that can cause us quite a bit of discomfort yeah so foodborne pathogens I mean particularly well we haven't had a great summer but during you know during the summer in barbecue season so I'm a microbiologist here in Tallah hospital and we see people coming in with diarrhea and during the summer something like compiler bacteria would be very common and that would be from barbecues and people not cooking their chicken properly so there's lots of reasons why food hygiene is really important and preparation around hygiene you know dealing with eggs is risk of salmonella so you know we need to cook our food properly make sure it's heated to the recommended temperature we store it properly we practice good hygiene you know good hand washing our kitchens and there's a lot more people I suppose canning foods at home or fermenting foods and pickling foods and doing all that sort of things so sterilizing our equipment that are you know everything we're using at home is very important just keeping things clean and thankfully as I said this is very very rare because most people do follow good practices so even though this is rare like I said there are other things that can cause us trouble and mainly tummy problems at home so yes following all those recommendations is so important yeah and how you store meat in your fridge and keeping cooked meat away from raw meat and all that kind of stuff absolutely yeah yeah so things like deco like compiler bacteria all those things yeah okay all those nasty things and and sometimes I think we get we upset stomachs and we don't necessarily it's not serious we don't necessarily know what caused it but it could be our food handling practices doctor thank you so much for that I really do appreciate it have a lovely day Dr Anna Rose Pryor consultant microbiologist at Tallah University Hospital so really just to keep an eye out but nothing to be particularly worried about a caller says it's important to check your oil tank after a delivery I know someone who just happened to check straight after the delivery and there wasn't half of the paid delivery put into the tank yeah indeed I would say that's pretty rare but still it's a such a considered purchase why would you not want to see what was there we have you know when we we fill our petrol and diesel we're conditioned to look at the the fuel gauge and then we know right I'll put such and such in and there's the fuel gauge that we don't really have that some people don't have that for the oil tank some people have the the units that you put in that will check whatever happened until innocent until proven guilty brand has more or less been found guilty already especially on social media but people have opinions I don't think he's been found guilty as such by anyone in any authority position but there's as many people that have kind of say that have say he's innocent before haven't even watched the program and then you've got a group of people that believe he was guilty before having even watched the program so it's you know it's very it's very complicated what do you think of Disney Disney Caldwell's comments that the Irish team got to the world cup without any input from Vera power personally I think this was an ill advised comment it puts serious pressure on the team to prove her right the current team appeared to be in disarray and may have peaked in their performance I don't think it was helpful to be honest we thought so we were disrespectful I think she says we we did well despite Vera power to say she's just lassed her lacks maybe respect I think it's alright to feel it but to say it publicly I've I were going in there as a manager then I'd be cautious Hi Greg if a mot Gudis found guilty of excessive speeding the judge should impose a rule that he has a tracker fitted to his vehicle so the insurance company can monitor his driving similar to new drivers trying to get cheaper insurance. We have the technology but there'd be a big push back on that because people would feel it's an infringement so whilst on the face of it might seem a good idea as soon as anyone were to bring forward a motion to that effect there would be instantly a big pushback I think. Okay, Katrina's on the program with us now. Katrina thanks for your time today. How are you keeping? I'm good thank you. Okay, right. Another experience in Lettercanny's town park. What was your experience Katrina? Well nothing really happened but I went on last Monday and I had my three children with me and I'm going on to the play park. I noticed two men sitting on the play park so there was no one else in the park at the time so I walked on them and I just assumed they had a child with them so after about 20 seconds in the park I realized they didn't have a child. One of the men was lying at the bottom with his leg, with his leg swung over the top of it and the other man was just walking around with his arms in his pocket so one was probably in their late 40s one maybe in their late 60s. So that was fine. I quickly started to get a little bit nervous and my little boy was climbing up you know to go down the slide so the man was lying at the bottom of the slide and I said to him sorry would you mind moving? My wee boy wants to come down the slide. He just kept smiling at me and so I turned around so I had a toddler with me as well and I have a baby in the boogie so I turned around and to see where my other little boy was and I noticed that the older man was following him or playing with him on the you know just like a roundabout thing that he stand on and turned around so the man was on that with my other boy and so I quickly was like boys boys let's go I'm getting really nervous and I just felt really uncomfortable Greg to be honest really intimidating yeah so obviously my wee my oldest boy was like well we just got here you know and I was like no we're going we're going and my wee boy came off the roundabout thing and went to turn there's like wheel things that you turn he went to turn them and the older man followed him over and started playing with him so I was like oh my goodness so I was like right let's go so stupidly of me I should have just went to my car I should have just left but I thought we just got here so I was like I'll go down to the you know the adult exercise part yeah so I walked down there there was no one there so I let the boys run in for a minute and was in a minute the two men were with me again and I had ran the garage actually sorry on leaving the play park just to say that I felt really uncomfortable and there was two men on there and they had no reason to be in there you know and before I left actually I forgot this the man kind of took out his phone and started like following me with his phone as if he was videoing me you know so I kind of went to walk towards him and he put the phone into his pocket so as I left the play park I phoned guards and they were really helpful they were like so stand someone straight up and so I went down to the exercise part and the two men followed me down came in same thing took out a phone as if they were following me around started playing on the like coming over towards the boys again and again I was like right boys were going I was really really inappropriate no that's just wrong yeah really uncomfortable to stage like because there was very little people in the park um there was just two ladies walking around uh so I went to leave and I didn't want to go up by the trees because that's how like uncomfortable I was yeah so I walked back up towards the play park I'm going to look behind me they were coming after me again Greg no no right so I was like really starting to get really worried um just because I kept thinking like imagine they grab one of the children or like what am I going to do or you know um so I started kind of walking faster and faster got up to the park and just seen the guards coming towards me so I went to the play park but they went to come after me again not realizing obviously that the guards were there for their you know benefit or whatever um so I kind of give the guard like a nudge to say this is them so the guards took them out and had a word with them but they had no English apparently um but the guard like I you've got a little bit of set them because the guard was like are you all right now it's like I'm fine I just was so uncomfortable I just felt really uncomfortable I think I think what happened was is everything you'd went through release at that moment it sounds to me like Katrina you know exactly like and nothing happened to me you know nothing happened me or the boys um but I just there was no reason for that like everywhere I went you know at the start I thought they were in the play park there's no reason to be here but then everywhere I went they came after me like like I left the park they came to the excise park I left the excise park they came after me again you know um I just think they were trying I don't know whether we were trying to intimidate me or I don't know what's going on but I just thought it was really strange behavior um but I have to say that when I ran the guards they were there within five minutes they were so helpful um they offered like to say what meant I was comfortable enough you know to go back to the car or if they wanted like if they said if you want to have the kids have a play we can stay we can walk around make sure you know and they checked the phones as well didn't they Katrina which I think actually is really quite interesting yeah I had said to the guards that he had his phone out so he actually checked their phones but there was no um photos of us on them thankfully but I don't know if they were trying to intimidate me or what but I just for me I just felt really uncomfortable and I was really annoyed and upset after it and I for one won't be back in that park on my own you know um that's a horrible experience it's a horrible experience that you are there and you're vulnerable because you've got you're well in control don't get me wrong but you've got two arms and two eyes and three kids and you know what I'm not bad it's like trying to her sheet to make sure they're all together so you it's tough so you'd firstly that put you off doing that secondly uh the the smirking at you uh following you around from place to place very very sinister that's horrible that's horrible behavior because you don't know the motivations and the cameras even if they weren't it's intimidating again it's not very nice behavior uh and and and I think what could the guards do check the phone can't prove anything but I don't know if may I don't know listen I might be people might give out to me for saying this okay is there a cultural issue going on here do we need to make sure that everybody understands the correct way to behave maybe it's different in different places I don't know right I'm not this is not presuming because someone might be you says they might not have spoken English okay is there an argument that maybe then we need some sort of lessons on what's culturally approach appropriate I don't know I'm probably get shot for saying it but maybe I don't know maybe that's something we need to look at so that we we can avoid these types of situations yeah like I don't know if they had English or not but when I asked them to you know I kind of wave my hand as if could you move off the slide because I knew they weren't Irish you know um and he just kept smirking at me and smirking at me and when we were like leaving the park he just like had a phone out kept following me kept smirking you know same thing down to the exercise park just kept smirking and I was like really uncomfortable just he wants to go on the swings yeah so um just felt really uncomfortable and I got quite upset after just thinking of what could have happened then you know just that you can't even go out now and have a play in the park with your kids without feeling that way you know it's an awful situation Katrina because you could you like what happened okay you were made feel uncomfortable so you can't you can't sort of say don't go near the park but at the same time what you went through means that you don't feel safe now going on your own with your three children to the park so it has had an impact on you you know it's you know I don't actually feel safe Greg to be honest going anywhere in my own after that like I'm nothing happens to me you know but like going into any park alone now it's just very you know like if there's no one else around if they had done something to me what was I going to do you know it's just a sad word that you can't go out now with your kids in the morning and have a play and let them play without feeling you know scared or like who's hiding in the bushes or you know what are they doing like I don't know what they were doing in there they had no reason to be in there and just when I came in it was like it nearly like right we're going to intimidate her now we're going to shoot three kids so there when I left it's like straight away Greg they were after me it was just horrible like I just felt really uneasy really uncomfortable um and then like I actually rang my mom when I was there and I was like like just come after me again and I was like maybe it's nothing but then when they followed me a story time I was like oh my god you know there's something strange going on here yeah all right I don't know I'm sorry you went through Katrina thanks for sharing the story with us and I mean I can't say you know oh don't feel intimidated or scared but I can't say that because it's you and I'm not the thought police and that's what you're feeling and that's just the way it is I'm sorry it's like that Katrina but thanks and best wishes to you and all of yours thank you thank you so much thank you bye bye um a caller says it's not people accusing brand it's women there are two genders women and men and this is a biological fact stop cancelling words associated with women to pander to a misogynist minority lads that's fine that's fine I say this is people because it's men and women okay it's men and women that are accusing it there are four people who are women and by the way women are people by the way there are four women that have made the accusations and more now but there are men as well who have said they've witnessed certain behaviors and called him out on it it is people that have made accusations against Russell Brand which he denies so I'm not trying to cancel words associated with women women are people they're interchangeable but it's also men and women that have I just don't know what's I fully respect your view and I appreciate you sending in and certain elements I agree with certain elements I might not but you know I mean like people hear what they want to hear there are people making exact accusations both men and women there are only women that have made accusations of any impropriety in in a sexual way which he denies of course but women are people as well that's quite important for women that they're recognized as people as well as being recognized as women but as I say I do appreciate I do appreciate your input watch the 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don't want to do them a disservice anyone's traveling down there local councillor to the area Neve Kennedy joins us on the program Neve thanks for your time today good morning to you nice great good morning good morning everyone as I say it's a familiarity too this isn't it's a difficult it's a difficult working environment we don't want to be losing these these businesses at Neve talk to me about Atlantic treasures treasures and all you say it's a huge loss to the area oh it is it's absolutely devastating to be honest with you and knowing knowing the family very well and knowing Ronan very well as well it's it's very very tough um it was a project that was kind of developed on the town and village renewal from the regeneration group and the community council to kind of put together some ideas as to what the town needed and that was always talked about that you know for a town with killi bags that you'd have a shock it used to be a mobile unit your scope but that was closed down and this was an opportunity so we thought we would get this done off and and fairness to to the family Atlantic sea treasures they decided that they would run with this and created a fabulous fabulous fish shop um Ronan was just the life and soul of the corner you'll see it on all of the social media he's just fantastic had a great background in the industry and knew exactly what he was talking about and had just that it was just a just a real feel good um great support at first obviously like everything um people fish got more expensive obviously you had to have whatever was in season and um there was a great selection they also started bringing in a lot of dunnegal products like the rapeseed oil and all of the local produce as well which was really really good and they tried to kind of keep it and diversify and keep the fish to the core but obviously the lack of supply the fact that a lot of the the boats are now gone the whitefish boats and the the talk that was actually cheaper to get fish now from Africa than it is to get from your own local country it's it's very very worrying and they're absolutely unsustainable and of course they like many other businesses uh need facing the increase in costs as well and do wonder there's letters going out to businesses at the moment as a re-evaluation of rates hopefully for some that will help for others it could be the death now it'll be very interesting to see is those letters come through the door what impacts they might have uh but you know uh it is the more business people you talk to the kind of stay in open depending on the side of the business with a hope that things improve but the writing kind of is on the wall that's the kind when I talk to people that's the that's the the mood I'm getting and we need these little shops and our towns and villages and not let want to say little it's because they're kind of cute they're significant businesses don't get me wrong but you know what I mean absolutely and that that is so true with between the cost of electricity the wages the that increase and all of those things combined is really not it's not sustainable for small independent shops and restaurants throughout throughout the county now the re-evaluation as you just mentioned has come out and it is going to be very worrying some of the larger businesses will be fine in fact some of their re-evaluations will come down but the smaller retail is actually going up which is really worrying because we're talking about developing our town centres with town and village we've got the generation projects and yet and all all the retail looks like it's set to go well up I mean there's one place I know for sure has doubled which is just not sustainable so between that and the water rates and the employer pay or say and everything that is added into it we're going to see unfortunately a lot of closures if something isn't done about it now we do have talked from from government that tells us we've a booming economy a full economy full employment it's really important I think that we don't lose sight of the fact that when that falls back when the multinationals may choose to go elsewhere or when you know the big digital companies decide that they want to base themselves in Paris who is to say it'll still come back to the small and medium firms there are the ones that are always there that that sustain local employment that support local clubs and all that kind of stuff I'm not saying the big boys don't but you know what I mean there's a consistency there with the local owned businesses it would be lovely to ensure that they're looked after that maybe some of this money is there because they are the businesses that if we look after that will be there when the dust settles and we might really need to lean on them in a couple of years absolutely I mean if you can remember back in the day I know I do anyway from from years ago when you know you wouldn't have had much of an income and that you could be 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information call Highland radio today on 074 9125,000 or visit Highland radio dot com now you know Brendan Davenis I'll go to GA guy on the nine to noon show presenter of the DL debate what happens and it's happened a few times now as we chat to him on Monday and then on a Tuesday something really quite significant happens and we have to drag him back in front of his pathetic camera good morning to you Brendan how are you keeping it's always good to talk Greg I'm sorry I'm not crystal clear no you're it's your voice it's your voice that matters okay so make your heart to step down as loud senior football manager set to become the new dairy manager Tarones one of Tarones big rivals did you see this coming definitely not uh great great gets now I was told he was at a club match in dairy recently somebody was saying he was there at a club match I just thought he's been a GA man watching the game there was talk of him taking slot needle there uh they approached him uh the last season the started last season and he was all trying actually to do a double job thing uh but Louth put a stop to it now there's a connection in there with this is coach uh Horst Devlin Gavin Devlin uh in his involvement in slack deal but Rory the big rumor mill Greg at the minute was was was a Rory Geller story was was coming out huge uh from dairy in terms of a possibility of him coming back you know there was this group set up they look into the whole thing because don't forget it was allegations Greg so he had met the dairy team and we were hearing all these rumors and was all connected to dairy and Rory Geller next thing as he said this bombshell this morning of Mickey Hart you know a man that managed Tarone for 18 years through all Ireland's his life was Tarone his life was Tarone's GA I don't mean stepped away I could never see him taking anybody else taking Louth was one thing taking dairy I mean Greg of all there's big rivalries in Ulster and my big rivalries but dairy Tarone is the deepest of them and I don't want to put any bad words in that but it is it is toxic now I'm trying to think of Mickey Hart managing against Tarone and then say it also final next year any game uh it's just it's unfathomable well let's go through it in two stages because there's the dairy fans as well now it hasn't been uh officially announced but the dairy GA the whole new meeting tonight uh where Mickey Hart will be formally proposed for the manager's position before we talk about what the Tarone fans reaction might be next time dairy and Tarone meet what would dairy fans think of this he's been a long time in Tarone he's he's done everything you can do in the game but then again maybe did start to get a little bit stale and I don't I feel bad saying that but towards the end of his tenure at at at Tarone so there's two things there maybe they could they think he's peaked and secondly what would fans reactions be to the the the man leading them that led their arch rivals for almost two decades it's very complex Greg I think that in dairy there's real depth of football but it's more in the club than the county now the county has been revived obviously back to back allsters you know so close to being in all out in the final coming right off from division four so the county's been re-energised so you have this kind of different maybe county club fan that that's out there some of them just want success and don't really care but you're going to have a hardcore of dairy that's going to be like is this for real I mean oh Mulligan has tweeted uh saying he may as well go to Rangers you see so the depth of rivalry between them it's hard to know because hard it hard did really well with with with with lout he backed back promotions he took him to a lester final um you know he he had really stabilized and put lout on on the front foot this is both Greg as much as any in modern management comes down to one thing it comes down to money uh and that's that's that this is a money game here uh Greg now if you look at say Tarone X legends and fellas would have been Tarone through and through saying something to Gareth McCurry God rest him will he ever manage dairy no uh would Alex Amon Coleman the the farmer dairy would he have a nice drone not a chance but this is back in a time where managers weren't really paid if you look at from from years ago in the way the GA is evolving I mean no one managed a different club really because you know there wasn't that factor in it unless it's some kind of tie-on or really really love coaching that much money started to push all this Greg and now you have a stage where county managers are starting to move about because there's so much uh money at stake so that must be the deciding factor in this Greg there also is an obligation I think for the next manager in dairy to continue uh to continue the growth to continue the bounce back you know and a lot of that as you say is driven by uh you know by what's happening in the in the club game and I'm sure someone will ask it can can Mickey Hart continue this this progression but what will the reaction be or what impact actually might this have on his legacy as a Tarone manager with Tarone fans does bitterness run that deep that it could tarnish it definitely a hundred percent Greg oh I mean you look at the depth of where people go and I'm not really that type of person but there's so many people out there that that have that one track way of this is our team and this is where you're from and that's it so the fact of heart you know it's three all islands is 18 years has his monster's amount of impact and throne football if dairy let's just say let's say hypothetically they were to meet in the big championship game and dairy beat their own I mean you're wiping out all that with a lot of people in one in one game I would say and that is the way it goes again you look at the movement of people around you know they're never that of carts high profile going to arrival I mean Paddy Tally is down there and carry you know legs of Keir and Donnie coming up the Armagh you know you're going to completely different places hard going in the louth and they're different province all those things are acceptable to people you know we of course they're in the road managing us this year you know people are like looking saying can he come into your job for us there's there isn't that kind of angst there but with heart with heart and with the dairy throne rivalry I mean this is unbelievable this has happened I agree but you're right in terms of heart's time there I mean it definitely did get stale at the end of course throne won all Ireland the year after he leaves was was a bit of a shock to everybody and really maybe made you question that they've been up and down about sense but yeah listen I don't see how hard can come out of this on skiers it's fascinating I mean is there going to be a pushback at the county committee meeting this evening I mean do the selection committee have they misread the room or is this a done deal at this point in processes like this yeah Greg do you know what's hard you know what's in the mind of the club delegates that are going to come up and you know ratify this the big picture in the background this Greg is where we get our situation as well and I'm wondering now with heart coming in that is that that's kind of put the bed in terms of this this pathway backwards we were here and I think that was shut down late last week wasn't it Brent I'm not sure if you missed that but I think they did come out and say that he'll never return as manager yeah well there was I don't think anybody actually had the right to say that yeah you see it because and again not going into that the Pacific civil great but you know there's due process here and and have you the right to kind of say that there was a committee was set up they look into you know now everyone's a talk to due process for sure it was hanging it was hanging about Greg and it was so many rumors coming out about this and they say about Rory and and his interaction with the team often though now so the fact that this news is broken today it was the last thing I thought it was going to hear someone shocks you that's not much that shocks you but I think I think this has done it Joe Brawley's reaction what in the name of F was his his five-lettered response he went on then to say this is the worst thing happened to Terry since the plantation but anyway listen Brent thanks very much indeed for for helping us cover that I do appreciate have a lovely day take care Brandon to many their presenter of the deal debate last night show available for you to podcast right now on our website thanks so much for being with us all day it's been great having you on the program having you with us as we present the program we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at nine uh stay tuned John Bresen's coming up around the north way