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donagall county council takes place this afternoon at the oral leisure center in letter kenny to discuss the findings of the external view of the acquisition of five houses at uncranla in boncran the acquisition has come under scrutiny because some of the houses were subsequently found to have mica it's understood the review which was circulated as staff and members last week finds there was no impropriety in the transaction a woman in her 70s has died after a crash involving a car and a cheap in county sligo it happened near clifony on the donagall to sligo road with more here's andrew louth this crash happened shortly after three o'clock yesterday afternoon on the end 15 at crevy keel the three women and one man removed from the vehicles were brought to sligo hospital later a woman in her 70s was pronounced dead a technical examination of the scene is to be conducted while the road remains closed this morning gar thee are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the crash to contact them while those with dash cam footage are being asked to make it available police were attacked in castle derg in the early hours of yesterday morning as they investigated a number of assaults just after 2 a.m a police patrol encountered a number of males behaving in an aggressive manner while dealing with that situation two officers were assaulted as well as a number of other members of the public in the area at the time three males aged 14 17 and 23 were arrested all have since been released on police bail pending further inquiries shin fain is calling for a full inquiry into the state's handling of covid it's after the business post received new leaked recordings showing overspending by the hsc on ppe the hsc spent 770 million euro only 205 had been sanctioned shin fain's health spokesperson is david colinana what i would say is that obviously covid was very challenging for everybody including the hsc there was a scramble to get ppe equipment and obviously we had to source it from where we could when we could but there is obviously issues around transparency and that's why we have called for a full inquiry a non statutory inquiry that would look back at the state's handling of covid and irish farmers have a very low level of trust in banks according to a new report the irish banking culture boards 2022 roundup shows banks scored a trust rating of minus 77 among farmers that compares to minus 28 among the general population and minus 13 among sms the culture board's chief executive is mary and kelly so we wanted to really look and see where trust levels were at trust levels are extremely low with the farming sector and they don't feel that their needs are being met by the uh by the banks and there are concerns about accessibility for example which would include potentially the impact of the the branch closures but also it sounds that their business model needs to be better understood and served by the banks mist and low cloud clearing this morning leaving a largely dry start of the day with spells of hazy sunshine cloud thickening during the afternoon and evening with some light patchy rain possible later maximum temperatures today 22 to 24 degrees celsius moderate southerly breezes tonight patchy rain will spread from the west with some drizzle and mist another humid night lowest overnight temperatures 14 to 17 again in a moderate southwest breeze that silent radio news we're back with more at 10 o'clock summer black tag sale at curries save 120 euro on the samsung 65 inch smart 4k tv now 729 and get the hp 14 inch laptop with intel core i3 now 519 save 150 euro get in store are online at curries the 9 till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union 9102127 and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 to noon show with greg hughes on highland radio hello and a very good monday morning to you it's the 11th of july 2022 it's four minutes past nine and we're kicking off another week of the nine till noon show how was your weekend summer arrived for most of us set yesterday hopefully you were able and well enough to get out and enjoy the great weather lots of visitors around but as many visitors as we'd expect i wonder i don't know maybe lots of people are away and falling foreign holidays i wasn't all over the place but i thought it was going to be a wee bit busier than it turned out to be as i traveled around a wee bit what do you think 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 big news and we'll get to it during the paper as well big news maybe not surprising news but two tds that represent donnie gall who were exiled from the parties effectively uh joe mcquee and mark mcsharrie mark mcsharrie represents the parts of south donnie gall joe mcquee donnie gall of course both um now reportedly and they've confirmed it voting uh with the government uh in tomorrow evenings shin fame vote of no confidence in the current government uh we made contacts with both parties to see if they wanted to come on and talk about it uh but i don't think we're having any luck in that regard but you can have yours say of course 08 660 25 000 or call 07491 25 000 and that includes those of you um if you think it's the right thing to do at this time you know not everyone thinks we need to change the government not everyone believes that this government is not performing as uh um is is is not performing um so if you believe that joe mcquee mark mcsharrie and anyone else who's voting with the government is doing the right thing at this time get your texts and whatsapp in two to 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 or give caroline or don maria call on 07491 25 000 the emails of course to comments at highland radio dot com and good morning if you're choosing to watch the program today you can go to our website highland radio dot com uh watch there or straight to our socials highland radio island on youtube and uh the facebook pages and give us a like hit the bell to be notified uh or subscribe to the youtube channel in particular it's all very helpful thank you right the dairy people donagore news their front page story today buildings will fall into the street if donagore council does not start to address the problems of derelict buildings councillor jimmy cavena voiced the warning at a strategic policy committee meeting telling members it was time the local authority looked at commencing compulsory purchase proceedings against the owners of uh dilapidated structures he made his comments during a discussion on the scheme aimed at encouraging property owners to regenerate disused buildings is it time to start taxing them uh more maybe uh the dairy news this morning police in dairy have identified a large number of an organized crime gang flooding the city with drugs the local magistrates court has been told the revelations came to light as the local man described as a member of the gang was remanded in custody on a number of charges linked to drug dealing the court was told that the gang were buying kilos of cannabis from europe and london and were paying between five and a half and seven and a half thousand pounds the court was told the man described himself as a bookkeeper but was believed to be involved in securing safehouses as well as collecting money on to the nationals now and uh this is another one of those do as i say perhaps and not as i do uh green party ministers have been traveling on business class flights for international state visits despite the higher carbon footprint associated with premium airline seats now so this is not necessarily about whether they have to fly or not we can't expect them to paddle i suppose but it's the choice of seats they can sit in regular seats uh or premium seats and the premium seats have a large drop larger carbon footprint so if they wanted to do a little bit they could sit in the cheaper seats and save the states and money i presume green party leader aimon ryan and his deputy kathryn martin have both booked business class flights despite research showing such seats are responsible for significantly greater levels of carbon emissions than economy seats miss martin has taken four business class flights to far-flung destinations such as the united arab emirates argentina and the u.s within the last year a spokesperson for mr ryan said he predominantly uses economy flights but has on one occasion used a business class in accordance with civil service guidelines so he was just following orders the revelation comes as the green party prepares to impose new strict carbon emission targets on a range of industries including the transport sector agriculture and business and i think at the very least they could do and this is uh whether they were in government or not the very least they can do if they're going to be imposing more restrictions and more costs and more levies on people is to do the best that they can themselves which would be if they have to fly to fly economy and at the same time they might upset the civil servants but they would be at least being seen to be doing something along the lines of what they're asking us to do all right on to the Irish times now and the government should survive tomorrow's vote on a Sinn Féin motion of no confidence in the dull amid an expectation that despite the loss of its majority the votes will be there to keep the coalition in power so it has a it's lost its majority in terms of raw numbers but it has a working majority in terms of the little relationships it has with their various independence and what have you one former government TD Mark McSharry has publicly confirmed he will oppose the motion so he'll be voting with the government which is a surprise because he left the party didn't he and he was another one of those TDs that said if the government didn't get the micro e-dress right that it would quit he wouldn't vote with the government but anyway something's happened and i do wonder if it's connected to that meeting of finafore backbenchers earlier in the week something has happened whereby now he believes that a election now would be a bad thing as i say we can only speculate because he's not available to speak to us but you do wonder if there are moves to change the leadership of finafore maybe he sees a way back into that party under someone else perhaps even in government so i don't as i say i can only speculate speculate on his motivation he might think the government's doing a fantastic job as well although it's on the record saying otherwise donna goes on joe mcqueen whose uh resignation of the finnegale whip led to the loss of the coalition's majority has said he will be backing the government because you'll remember he said on this program that he would look at votes individually he said he'll vote for an umpire phrasing but pretty accurately i would say he says he would see what's best for his constituents and he would vote along those lines so he believes obviously that this government staying in power is best for his constituents it's a fly in the studio it's annoying me uh so that's the only thing we can conclude can conclude can't we because it's not available i don't think to speak to us today i'm sure we've made inquiries uh but he said yes on the program on thursday that from now on on votes that he will vote uh for what's best for his constituent so we can conclude that he believes that this government staying in power uh and he's perfectly in touch with that opinion and i respected his opinion this is that this government staying in power is better for his constituents uh there's also been engagements with independent tds over the weekend and it is expected that some will support the government i think do on any issue forget this because we probably have more of an interest in this vote general confidence as others in the past though wouldn't you think that and i'm not saying it's happening but if independent politicians get anything favorable for their vote so let's just say look we can we can look at uh we can look at keeping that community hospital in in east wherever it is uh you know if you if you vote with the government the the health minister will take a closer look at that i'm not saying that's what's happening but we know what's happened in the past do you don't think that that should be i think that should be made public shouldn't it i think oppressor should be released saying that we are happy uh the government could release a press release saying we're happy to secure the support of um such and such a person with a commitment that we will follow through on such and such commitment i think that's the type of open uh politics i would like to see to be honest i think if any deals are being done i think the public should know about them uh but anyway um we'll move on reading here while the shin fane move uh exposes the fina for finnegale green party coalition increasingly shaky dull numbers senior government sources believe uh the result will uh of the vote will be comfortable enough and jack chambers he's the fina for party weapon he's he's not a source he said it publicly that he believes that they will comfortably survive that vote they know they've got the numbers right let's go to the irish daily mail they're also talking about the coalition they'll touch on that vote i'm sure as well uh the government is leaking support as the embattled coalition limps to the summer recess tomorrow shin fame motion of no confidence has exposed serious fault lines among the three coalition parties one senior source told the irish daily mail we are turning into a coalition of chaos the finishing line cannot come quickly enough on these about the government's chances of survival has been accentuated by a slump in fina for morale and doubts about the voting intentions of some green td's there's two without the whip they'll come on board don't worry about that uh the t-shock has been in touch with independent deputies to shore up uh support but party members are getting nervous again i would just like to know personally speaking um it's as part of shoring up the support of independence as i say and i think we've a right to know are any uh agreements made is anything promised okay on to uh the irish daily star now if you're a big fan of hawkeye you saw it saturday but not sunday uh former gga president shawnt kelly is our association to withhold any money it owes to the operators of hawkeye following its latest clanger at crook park redface gga officials were forced to ditch the technology for kerry's all island semifinal with doubling yesterday after it chalked off a legitimate point for go away in their last four win over dairy on saturday dairy kind of disappointing in the end uh i feel they'll be disappointed go away very strong in the second half kind of missed yesterday's game but always good to see maybe something of an upset although yesterday i can't help but feel kind of was the final but we'll see how things pan out in a couple of weeks uh mr kelly who served as the president of the gea from 203 to 206 and is now a finnigale mep said the latest mistake has thrown the system in doubt it's i think it's a little bit embarrassing that it doesn't work correctly uh you know we've we've seen how it can work whether you like it or not we've seen how similar technology works in the premiership and also with the tennis that was on for the last couple of weeks for whoever watched watched it you know it's able to get down to millimeters you know literally like a millimeter uh and it's a bit shameful that we have to drop a system yeah because it's not functioning correctly i wonder has it changed in any way shape or form since it was first installed my guess no the irish daily mirror bonfire bonfire builders close to where john steel lost his life or to dedicate a world record big to his memory uh the pyre at craigie hill in lauren can't yantrum is hoped by organizers to reach new heights in the coming hours very sad to hear if anyone dying um at all very sad also and i kind of didn't look at it too much because it disgusts me so much the way that some people on social media can revel in other people's misfortune whether you disagree with them or not also honestly i can't it might be tradition and i genuinely don't want to upset anyone here at all at all but i just don't understand why people pile crates like they do and then set them on fire i just don't understand uh what's going on there but anyway i in terms of maybe the traditional element that's i'm not getting in on that but in this day and age stacking this stuff really close to houses and setting fire to it is is crazy in my view to be setting fires in residential areas now then you start getting on to effigies and all that type of stuff and that's a not a cop i mean that's unbelievably uh bad but just the actual what i'm talking about is just the notion of gathering up pallets piling them up and burning them anyway uh last year it made international news for the huge bonfire uh which ended up being the largest ever built in north and island at 286 pallets high can you imagine in this day and age we're hitting records for burning uh wood but anyway it beat the previous record of 233 this year they're planning to go even bigger with their power as the aim to break the world record by building one that's over 198 feet tall but yesterday after the death of bonfire builder john steel at the uh anteville power in lawn craigie hill builders said they'll dedicate their record bid to the window cleaner in the facebook post they said it is with deepest sympathy the tragedy that happened tonight to a fellow bonfire builder in the anteville uh estate in lawn okay so that's tomorrow is it that all gets uh torched finally in the sun today guardie will fly to france to track down and speak to a new suspect in the sophie tuscan to plantier murder it follows former self-confessed chief suspect ian bailey being abused by two women in cork who called him a murderer the new suspect is a man who is said to have followed french native sophie 38 around skull in west court before uh she was brutally killed near her holiday home anyone who's watched those documentaries or particularly one of them lately will probably know the individual or suspect they know the individual that they're talking about here it's understood he was identified after former skull shopkeeper mary furrow assisted the new guard a cold case review team with a photo fitting up sounds very much like the person that is featured in that documentary the new suspect lives in the paris area and the french police have promised to co-operate okay which is interesting of course because they've already had a trial and conviction in his absence of uh mr bailey right that's a run through today's newspapers 08 660 25 000 tell us uh if you what 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now on at mcginley's furniture in the geoburner link road leberkenny see begin these furniture dot com quick write this number down 91 48 234 flaming doors you know industrial doors garage doors agribores insulated doors milking parlour doors flaming 91 48 234 the government is being accused of lacking ambition when it comes to remote working the irish congress of trade union says a current bill on the right to request remote working doesn't go far enough it comes as a new report by an arctis committee recommended that all being tightened to make it harder for employers to refuse requests indeed even when that was being flagged before it was being introduced a lot of obvious problems well effectively it was it seemed to be loaded towards the employer to have plenty of reason to refuse an employee the right to work from home kathy mckinney is based in donagall town communications manager of grow remote good morning to you thanks for joining us kathy morning what's grow remote what's its role so grow remote is a social enterprise we're not for profit and we are dedicated to making remote working visible and accessible to everyone and this is to drive economic and social development in areas of the country where traditionally people would have had to leave to get great employment opportunities this kind of came a wee bit in a way even that there was a push to allow people to work remotely and then that was I think accelerated through covid a lot of people adopted it there seems to be a pushback now particularly from employers in I mean obviously you've got the high profile ones like national internationally like Elon musk but even locally where you know we all know people where employers are saying listen we prefer you're back in the office now is is is that how you're seeing someone who works sort of well knows much more about it than I do well it's very complex topic Greg I mean I suppose if employers are hesitant to transition to remote what we are seeing is that it's because it is actually a really significant change and transformation project undertake to go from what is hundreds of years of traditional office-based work to a remote first model and so that's the first thing to bear in mind the second thing to bear in mind is that companies do need support if they're going to transition to a remote first model but on the other hand the trend towards remote working was well established before covid it obviously accelerated in ways that we could never have predicted but the governments I suppose support for remote working and its belief in it as a driver of social equality particularly in rural areas have been captured in various important documents to the really important ones are called making remote work and our rural future which is under the department of community and rural development yeah but the current bill is a lot of people might feel like it looks like we're doing something but really we're not in other words there's way more reasons why an employer can refuse an employee to sort of work remotely than it's stacked in the employer's favor do you see it like that? Well not especially because I suppose first of all the success or failure of remote working whether that's in Donegal whether that's in Ireland or whether it's globally does not lie within legislation alone and secondly what we would what we hope the final bill now and as you mentioned the report from the committee that was undertaken pre-legislative scrutiny was just released there a couple of days ago and what we want to see is that the kind of the spirit and the letter of the bill is formulated in such a way that it supports and empowers companies to say yes to remote working because it is good it's good for people it's good for profit it's good for planet we know that employees want us and as I said the trend towards remote working as a driver of you know as a way to deepen your talent pool that's available to you to deepen your productivity and your employee engagement was well in place and growing before Covid. Is there a difference between working remotely from home and working remotely in a hub? I suppose there's as many ways to work remotely as there probably are remote workers is one is one way to think about it and when it comes to hubs definitely they solve for a couple of challenges that's that remote working can present such as isolation and the feeling to be amongst a buzzy atmosphere things like that and if that's what drives your productivity personally my productivity is best served at home and I know that a lot of people feel like that as well but there is a somewhat of a challenge there is a very vibrant co-working scene in Donegal there's 11 or 12 co-working hubs and there's a couple more in the pipeline but there is a challenge in that many of the big employers don't pay for the stipends or the the costs of working from a remote hub so I suppose one of the things that we'd love to see is that the employers who do pay those stipends looking in a remote are really promoted here in Donegal to really support that system. A text here I'm a business owner I'd rather see my staff and know how they're doing it's not a right to work remotely they believe it's not a government issue so in other words rather than government legislating for it employers should be able to you know research it see the benefits of it make a choice if it works for them it does but not to be sort of legislated shamed or forced into doing something they don't want to do it's their business their business model. They don't think anyone is suggesting that any business should be forced into a model of remote working. Well you're not kind of though I mean if if everyone has a right to work remotely and you can go to your employer and say look I want to work remotely here and the employer has to give very good reason to not allow that to happen so that is I mean it is I know you're probably trying to avoid you know this being confrontational with employers but they they I think they're justified and feel they are being forced into this to some extent depending on the industry they're in. We wouldn't like to think that anyone feels that they're being forced into us now obviously depending on your industry depending on the customers that you serve depending on the way that you meet your customers needs remote working has to work for the business and in general you know looking at business as a whole and not just one particular business remote working has to work for the business before it can work for that business's employees so it has to work for both of them. So supporting so building the business case and supporting businesses to see the benefits and to understand for example that you can be you can hire on board and ramp up an employee very very successfully fully remotely. I'm an example of it my husband is an example of it and there's thousands of examples of it all over the country and indeed in Dury Ghal as well. We definitely are very strongly focused on how employers can make this work for themselves and supporting them we have a suite of supports for employers and we know that there are you know there's this you know content llama is a Dury Ghal company that works remotely junkature is a Dury Ghal company that works remotely and it works really well for them and then there's larger companies that employ lots and lots of employees here and we are we are mapping them at the moment and so Grow Remote is running a mapping project just to find out more and just get a line of sight on the people that are working remotely where they're working remotely and who they're working remotely. What's it telling us Kathy? So what it's telling us one of the cool things it's telling us is that Dury Ghal is the fourth most popular county in Ireland for remote employment at the moment and now we are at the early stages of this it was it was launched a couple of months ago and as you can imagine it's a fairly involved project but the fourth most popular county in Ireland for remote employment and some of the big employers the bigger kind of global employers are Shopify, Automatic, Coca-Cola and eBay are represented here as well. It is showing us where there's clusters of remote workers and we're seeing that replicated around the country this other remote workers tend to be in clusters that seems to be connected around connectivity and a lot of employers themselves also like to employ remotely in clusters geographical clusters as well and things like that but it's at the very early stages as I say I can see one very interesting aspect I think just looking at the map in Dury Ghal here is that there's a super cluster in Arranmore and indeed there's a really active remote worker community in Arranmore as well as as well as in Dury Ghal itself as well. And I'm also and you're also conscious of an awful lot of people listening to this program today working perhaps construction and retail in our in restaurants and bars and this is completely irrelevant to them for the majority of them working in it I just wonder if we do sort of see a if we head towards a recession I just wonder if this kind of conversation that me and you are having right now really if it'll sort of dwindle away to some extent or maybe it might be the opposite I don't know what do you think I just think if things I think if we stop coming under pressure as a nation or even beyond that we'll probably say well listen you know we all have to dig in here whatever's best for the businesses you know that sort of way I feel like this this conversation might be feel outdated in the year's time to be having publicly I'm not sure because as I said that the trend towards remote working was well entrenched before COVID so this isn't exactly a brand new thing or like a major reaction in any sense at all and I suppose one of the major advantages of a thriving and robust remote working ecosystem is that people can live and work in a place where cost of living is manageable and they can be more in control of their of their wider costs might become even more attractive then yeah yeah exactly and so and and let's not forget about the sustainability angle office as well you know there there's some numbers to say that remote working can have huge potential benefits towards companies are coming under more scrutiny these days to be more sustainable and to meet sustainable development goals and we see remote working as a really key pillar of that okay so we started off the conversation with the Irish Congress of Trade Union saying the current bill on the right to request remote working doesn't go far enough uh senator Marie Sherlock says the government doesn't seem interested in making it work is your review your view more optimistic than that of the ICTU and the senator I mentioned yeah so making remote work is the government's remote working policy framework and our rural future is um the rural development framework and they both capture their commitment to and support of remote working we certainly see um government support in a very tangible and visible way um for remote working as um as a uh a key part of the of the remote working landscape in Ireland going forward and the remote and the work working landscape more wise more widely thank you so very much indeed it's been a nice speaking to you thank you for joining us thank you all right take care of yourself uh that is uh Kathy McKenna and Kathy is based in Donegal town and communications manager there with that grow remote oh wait 660 25 000 if you've got something to say or call us an 07491 25 000 we'll be back with our next guest in just a couple of minutes the 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost letter 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i never have it the naughty alarm clock here's what you're fighting today okay so uh you are able at the moment to have your say on the provision of uh closed circuit television cctv cameras in the balaba fey and snorler area and where they may be located this after don't go counter-cancel appointed northwest alarm systems to draw up a detailed design of a cctv system for balaba fey and uh snorler as sufficient work on the design has now been completed which will allow the principal applicant that's basic to proceed to public consultation councillor patrick mcgown joins us on the program now patrick good morning to you morning are you pleased to see uh plans progressing for cctv in the twin towns trying to get to the question are you pleased to see work on cctv coverage for the twin towns progressing yeah absolutely i would have been pushing very much for this over the last five six years in particular and that's it has met a number of roadblocks but um to believe now that it's going to go ahead it's actually been at the joint police committee even twice and uh well after the consultation closes on the 14th it will back the joint police committee and hopefully then it will go ahead and what's the guardies view on cctv are they in favor of it do they see it as a useful tool yeah very very much so and and um the the you have to get the support of the local superintendent and that you know to justify it and you just can't stick them up anywhere as it's not just for random surveillance there must be some criteria now the six that are going about the failure at the most on the national primary road they're on the main junctions and these cameras will be monitored from the 24-hour station which is in letter kimmy they're remote and they as they say they can't they will be recording and as well for example if there's an incident happening within the town uh and say the guards are being called and uh the guy dealing there kimmy can actually zoom in and zoom out and they call show uh repeat the cameras to you know just to watch what's going on in the media vicinity and then what's going on in the approach roads as well like so they're very good they had a reason they looked for i think it was about 10 or 12 but we were uh caught down to six then but uh we're happy enough to six at the moment what kind of coverage do they give the the the main street and junctions then i suppose from maybe donnie gall rolled out to as far as mclays corner there yeah well the first one says that the bank of albant he can cover the donnie gall street to come to glenn funn street and the upper main street the next one then is down then at the chinese there which is just directly up to three again lower main street upper main street and the next one then is down at the power that chest and the road enters beside the ga center uh there's also one where he needs we were on the way to funn harps and that would cover the that street and also we're down the free lane and then the next one then is up uh opposite the ambience there in stonardo beside the old fire station and that would be in upper lower main street and that would also cover up and down the town where the old fire station was and the next one then is up at the clays corner which will cover um all four roads and so probably much as covers a lot of traffic around the game is one that but in terms of you know public order and you know traffic that's that that's grand grand maybe of its main street base but in terms of the contacts you would receive from people that voted for you or people that you represent do you believe that this provides the cover where it's needed um you know often it's in green areas or or a little bit out of town that uh we can see flare-ups of public order i'm not saying that's happening in the in the twin towns you'd know much more than i but in terms of the nuisance public order issues do the locations of these cameras match where they are yeah well look at that yeah there has to be certain justifications and there has to be very public areas and busy areas as well there's a big challenge here about civil liberties and about data protection and you know rights to privacy so look the the consultation is open at the moment for a drop on plus on the 14th people can go on in the world in official national air that that these specifically was cctv so look why there's six at the moment it's not to say that can't be more that's why it's so important uh for people to call on give their opinion and maybe get an explanation as to why they're in this these six locations say rather than six other locations but i certainly welcome them uh there's there's no like probes and no it's not too much late night uh revelry going on say in balefee compared to some of other towns like letter kenny with a lot of night probes and that is but nevertheless it's still a very busy town there's not a lot of traffic this is a new town's a bypass balefee it's one of few that's not so look it's important that they're there but they can be it's not set in stone either now or going on to future perhaps we can add more if there's another location that's been overlooked okay so um the proposed camera locations has been outlined by the counselor there um and uh all the details are available at the base enterprise center until thursday the 14th of july so you're gonna have three days uh shone flanagan technician cctv donagor coco will meet members of the public on the 14th of july at the base enterprise center it's an open public consultation to respond to any queries relating to the cctv everyone's welcome on the 14th of july to that consultation this is one of those if you have an interest in it uh you want to be involved in the consultation because uh you know decisions will be made based on that yeah absolutely no it's very important because to say that while some areas are not covered it's not cctv and and probably can put into any matters i guess you know and there will be some people probably will have issues against us now again say that these cameras will not have face recognition and they will not have number plate recognition so they're not recording people's faces or you know activities and that yeah but they can be if the government gets it's uh if the government gets its way uh they can be plugged into that though i mean the the the facial and number plate recognition doesn't come with the cameras you know that comes with the technology that reads them now i'm not trying to uh whip anything up here patrick but down the line if we do go down the route of uh you know uh face recognition what have you i presume this can be plugged into that central system yeah that's the public and the government and the future and you know things are and hopefully they won't get that bad that we're going to have to do it like we see now recently house break and to get all towards the cultish for people with cameras now everywhere you know when it's it's a sad reflection of people seem to think they need these things but certainly in a busy town on the main thoroughfare in the blanket i think these six were sure they weren't in the way yep and i hope the are of equality that you can read number plates on them retrospectively because of course you know people travel to and from crime uh and if they're picked up on these cameras it could be uh it would be useful because we know the importance of that to god so hopefully the qualities is such that uh we don't get these grainy images that we're used to seeing uh from years ago elsewhere all right thank you very much for that uh a quick word from you if you don't mind obviously you follow politics closely as a politician what's your view on this she didn't find motion and no confidence uh tomorrow evening what's your opinion these things happen every now and then uh this is a lot more to do than just we make i still think most of the country doesn't even understand maker from my experience from people talking to counselors and all people that down the country that they just simply haven't got a clue what's going on there's still the attitude down the country that it's all about big houses and putting money into people's pockets it just there's a total lack of understanding they don't understand it down the country obviously mark mitchery and and joe q have a full understanding of it both uh either have or threaten to go against the government on uh mike of others yeah and i mean do you think do you think my mark mitchery left uh seen a fall quite a while ago and it wasn't like us to be with other issues and this this vote tomorrow is about every issue on the song who's managing the economy the best and i'm i'm i'm assuming there's a lot of independence there if they want to have a shim fairbred government then they'll vote against the government and the other way about this is not about micah tomorrow of course it is for us here and only all we all support 100 micah i'd rather that had been a far better scheme and hopefully it will get better so going on with question tomorrow is do you want to be in the government or do you want the coalition if you think brexit micah hospitals um all the cold but then you think the government's made a bad job of that you know but it is a lot more than would it be easy for you to support the government if you had a vote if i wasn't done tomorrow we'd vote what do you vote for the government sorry you just you you dropped out there if you had a vote in Dublin tomorrow what would you vote i would have voted for the government tomorrow i would have voted against them last week some of that and to me it's back away it's very clear issues we're no confusion about it what do you think uh obviously last week there was 30 backbenchers and senators got together to meet what do you think that meeting was about what do you think is afoot um you know maybe on the ground within finafall do you have any insight into that yeah well look the polls the polls certainly looking at the polls you know i mean if i've set me up i was a td you know i i see local council work differently i think people have over the years have looked at councillors and and living a different life than our tds and if i will set me a td and definitely a senator i would be very concerned we'll push around 20 percent obviously the general public think there's something wrong there finafore it's not clear or feel that we're dragged in those by the greens these are the issues these are the very same issues that people had from finafall within the coalition and we're not getting a stamp there maybe how much of the frame do you uh lay at the door of michael martin well you know at the end of the day um he's the boss so like in all managers um you know oh my god or philharps or anything else eventually it's going to come back down how strange his has written as is very very high i think when we meet a bit more consultation i think the back benchers should be listened to more and we'll say that by the vote for all parties by the way you know i think more of a bottom up never will go that's what fun finafall we're based on was grassroots commons people have been listened to you look at the end of the day somebody has to make a decision the optimization of parliamentary party but i think it would be finafall uh much good to kind of open up a bit more amenable to the local grassroots and to the country first country we we feel the same we don't get this doesn't matter does michael martin as the the manager have your full confidence at this stage patrick um i would like to see him doing better and doing more um after you maybe can though do you know what i mean obviously you i think he's been in position for a long time uh he's been he's got his uh shot now as t shock he's stated that he wants to lead finafall into his next in the next election some say leopards don't change their spots with all that in mind and also too you're going to be contested against the next election against a finnegale that as the of radcar as its leader as t shock and they will be in power if you know what i mean finafalls uh time in that chair will have passed all that being considered do you have uh full faith in me hill martin as leader of finafall i wonder i think there's an opportunity later this year when finafall hands over the the reins from uh the t-shirt to leo i think me hill martin for the sake of the party should go to the parliamentary party and put his position up for a vote i think that would be a good democratic thing to do we criticize shun fame we think damaging for the party though wouldn't it if no no no coalition party was seen to sort of vote against uh its leader that would i don't think we're going to be a good healthy democratic thing to do and that would be the proper time to do it i think me hill martin has gone quite well as people are not happy with some of the policies but i think it should do it in an orderly way it should not be left to mark mcshare the fact benches i think it should do it if there is enough confidence to help to pull it out there and accept the wall of the parliamentary and there is a big concern why me hill martin has been tisha is made very little um let's say mistakes that's like leo can't say the same though there will be some concerns from time well the supplier goes to his head and that that's not the point the the condition here or what we're talking about here's finnafall and as a finnafall person i would say a very healthy debate now start in october and i don't wish to to run too far ahead but just out of interest do you see an obvious replacement for me hill martin if he were to take that decision like do you see is there one or two names that you think right okay i could see the party being led by them uh well i do you a number yeah there are clearly uh michael mcgran there's a few there's actually two or three others a few next thing to me recently which was a surprise someone next thing to me yesterday named charry mcconnell and i know charry might be that popular at the moment for the constituency but someone said they were very very steady hand very steady and and um agriculture very good reader of the situation but obviously he's in trouble himself and his constituency because uh the whole maker thing uh there's a lot of us felt they shouldn't do more but we understand when you're a monastery or a master do you understand that you say you understand that um and this is the last uh last question do you actually understand that though i mean you know there comes a point where you have to make a decision and you know you don't have to make a decision whether you stand you stand for the people that elected you and and you know charlie knows as much as anyone the real hardship you know you've seen it yourself uh patrick you know what's there and then there is your political career your political legacy you know from a from a national perspective and and your affiliation with the party i mean it would be a very very difficult decision to make yeah do you think you made do you think you made the right decision well i i look at it and i watch that and i get very closely over the years and and would give 100% because we all have family and relations and friends that has it and we own colleagues in the council engineers in the council everybody all people seem not a president at the moment they have it in the brothers and sisters but i do understand where where charlie's coming from that's with the question do you think i fully i fully believe charlie's doing his best now whether that's good enough and whether he's on the pressure from his cabinet's colleagues you know if he votes against the government then he has to get out and that leaves the whole west of iran who was no minister this whole idea of having a minister in a minister in the west of iran and my my years experience things have changed now very very important greg you're completely wrong on this one now not to have a minister in your constituency what's not an opinion it's only a question yeah that's very important that's very important to have a minister in your constituency regardless of your opinion or your question right oh well sure listen put it in an email take care i watch your face but all right good man uh good man but it's totally know yourself we'll see if there is a change in government things will appear very differently than i presume but listen thanks very much for your time this morning all right take care of yourself always and i thank you and all right now william farrelly is a lecturer at atu letter kenny he joins us on the program now william thanks for taking the call today no problem all right william what is your situation as it relates to a passport renewal okay i applied for a passport renewal on the 10th may i did it through the post office service because i couldn't get the system the passport system to accept a photograph on the online so i gave up on the process and i went to the the post office in dairy and i posted the post of my application and it went on the 10th of may it was received officially by the passport office on the 10th of may and it still hasn't appeared mm-hmm and um you would have been given a predicted uh uh issue date we've passed that i presume we've passed that date the date was the first of july and was this just a regular renewal william it's just a regular renewal yeah but the thing is now that i'm left in limbo because i i cannot do the online uh thing because uh my passport is in the passport office in dublin and i have no access to it and i've tried to get a one day turnaround service but the the date that that was available for was the 13th of july i have a hospital appointment on that date and i cannot change that hospital appointment and uh also i tried the four-day service and the four-day service wouldn't accept payment from an irish bank wow okay william obviously there's also yeah go ahead william go ahead no no no there's also an issue with um with security around this i'm a lecturer in security and uh and computer security and there's also an issue around security uh so people can hackers can set up a hijack session uh which sort of hijacks the the web session between the client you uh if you're you're making a payment you you would be the client so it's between the client and their server but uh hackers can hijack that and get your details you know and the more the frequency that that's used the higher the probability becomes that that attack is going to take place all right that's that's quite an important point do you think that's something they need to review need to look at i think they need to review that whole process of online applications and the way they do the the uh passport applications in dublin have you made any contact with a local public representative to see if they can inquire on your behalf yet william yes i have yes okay well hopefully that comes to it i haven't had yeah hopefully that comes through and i haven't had a response really from them i've also contacted the minister simon kovni and uh i've had you know just the standard response from mr kovni right and you're due to travel out at the end of july so obviously anxiety started to build now william yes of course it is uh so i'm this is like i i've as as you know as lecturers we have all been working through the covid crisis we've had to change the way that we do things we've had to go online ourselves and you know covid is no longer an excuse we cannot use that as an excuse we need to move on from that and start okay well i'd follow up with uh if you haven't got an answer back from whichever td you contacted i'd certainly follow them up william because i think that might be your your best port to call it at this stage i wish you luck and maybe we could tease out those security concerns you have uh you know you know an over a longer format maybe down the line if you're free at some point absolutely all right thank you very much william i hope that comes through for you that's william uh farrelly there okay it is the nine till noon show here on highland radio thank you so much for uh listening to the program today i call it says the no confidence vote and mica are unrelated inevitably though all big issues at a time are going to sort of get squashed together and be related right i just want to let you know coming up later on of course it's monday so brendan devaney will be in studio looking back at the uh the weekend sporting action a great win for the donagore ladies on saturday by the way i was listening to uh ashin and the crew um a fantastic result for them get one over on the dobs and then of course the doblin men losing yesterday uh carry winning that game and of course then the uh galway um the galway dairy game but then there's a whole club scene and everything so brendan will be on uh joining us to talk all things gea after 11 but also our monday focus is employment rights richard grogan very popular man of course he's joining us after 11 if you have any questions as it relates to your rights your employment rights what's going on work uh anything at all you know all the usual questions maybe some unusual ones get them into us now text or whatsapp 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 or call 07 491 25 000 and i'll get a clear answer for you from richard grogan so just to recap any questions about work and your place in work and your relationships with people and management in work anything to do with your employment rights what your entitlements are what your entitlements may not be richard grogan will join us after 11 o'clock to answer your questions as i say text or whatsapp them now to 08 660 25 000 uh or give us a call on 07 491 25 000 again it'll be busy when he's on so if you get them in now i'm guaranteed they'll be top of the pile uh and i'll get answers for you on that 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desk as the doll prepares to debate a shin fane motion of no confidence in the government this week to northwest to these who no longer sit on the government benches have indicated they will not be supporting shin fane's motion donnie gall today joe mcqueen and south donnie gall td mark mack sherry resigned the finna guile and finna follow whips respectively but they have indicated they will not be supporting shin fane on this occasion independent w thomas pringle will be supporting the motion a special meeting of donnie gall candy council takes place this afternoon to discuss the findings of an external review of the acquisition of five houses at ankranila in bunkrana it's understood the review commissioned by the council was circulated to staff and members last week it finds the council acted properly and there was no impropriety in the transaction the acquisition has come under scrutiny because some of the houses were subsequently found to have mica a woman in her seven he says died following a crash involving a car and a jeep in county sligo it happened near clifony on the donnie gall to sligo road with more here's andrew love this crash happened shortly after three o'clock yesterday afternoon on the n15 at crevy keel the three women and one man removed from the vehicles were brought to sligo hospital later a woman in her 70s was pronounced dead a technical examination of the scene is to be conducted while the road remains closed this morning gar thee are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the crash to contact them while those with dash cam footage are being asked to make it available the consultation into the provision of cctv cameras in the twintowns ends this week with a final consultation event on thursday at the base enterprise center in strunaller it's proposed to locate six cameras at strategic locations in balaba fe and strunaller castler patrick mcgallon says those locations are not written in stone and the people's views are very important the consultation is open at the moment for a drop on close on the 14th people can go on and the world beneficial air that that deals specifically with cctv while there's six at the moment it's not to say that can't be more that's why it's so important for people to call on give their opinion and maybe get an explanation as to why they're in this these six locations say rather than six other locations but i certainly welcome them police were attacking castle derg in the early hours of yesterday morning as they investigated a number of assaults just after two a.m a police patrol encountered a number of males behaving in what they described as an aggressive manner while they were dealing with that situation two police officers were assaulted as were a number of other members of the public in the area three males aged 14 17 and 23 were arrested all have since been released pending further inquiries shin fain is calling for a full inquiry into the state's handling of kovat 19 it's after the business post received leaked recordings showing overspending by the hsc on ppe it reports the hsc decided to spend 770 million euro on personal protective equipment even though only 250 had been sanctioned shin fain's health spokesperson is david cullinan what i would say is that obviously kovat was very challenging for everybody including the hsc there was a scramble to get ppe equipment and obviously we had to source it from where we could when we could but there is obviously issues around transparency and that's why we have called for a full inquiry a non statutory inquiry that would look back at the state's handling of kovat concerns have been raised after 50 students in letter kenny were told last week their booked accommodation is no longer available it's understood walnut grove returned deposits to students stating that due to upcoming refurbishment works they could no longer house them issues around student accommodation have been raised by the local students union for several years barry brezlin is the dunigol atu students union vice president for welfare and equality the timing of this here hasn't been very convenient and also the fact that we were left in the dark as to this whole development as we just got called in from parent detail not a situation it's been a major disappointment for so many students that some have uh dated back as far as march already booking into this accommodation you know just here's a lack of communication between the parties here and it's just really disappointing and it's going to put a lot of stress on a lot of parents and a lot of students he bit your notices coming up first of all the weather missed and load cloud clearing this morning to leave a largely dry start to the day with spells of hazy sunshine cloud will thicken as today goes on and into the afternoon and evening we'll see some patchy light rain or drizzle in places maximum temperatures hitting 22 to 24 degrees celsius with moderate southerly breezes cloud and patchy rain spreading from the west overnight with some drizzle and mist another humid night with lowest overnight temperatures 14 to 17 again a moderate southwest breeze tomorrow a cloudy start with patchy rain or drizzle that'll gradually clear with brighter conditions following so easily to shower as possible in the afternoon with maximum temperatures on tuesday between 19 and 21 degrees celsius that's highland radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock good morning obituary notices for monday morning july 11th the death has occurred of thomas royle barra's our house craig muff house strictly private police funeral from there tomorrow morning at 10 35 via the red cross colmore road dairy for 11 o'clock recreation mass at fair and hill church colmore dairy cremation afterwards at lakeland crematorium cavern recreation mass can be viewed on colmore parish dot com family flowers only please donations in lieu to the irish heart foundation with links on the don levy funeral directors face big page the death has taken place of helen black knee pritchard bairfield baunaslow county gallway and formerly of rye mulford and woodlawn baunaslow county gallway helen will repose at our sister ann's residence at brairfield baunaslow county gallway tomorrow evening from 6 p.m to 8 p.m removal on wednesday morning at 11 30 to st bernard's church abbey knockmoy for recreation mass at 12 noon fall by burial and abbey knockmoy cemetery general mass will be live streamed on the abbey knockmoy parish face big page house private please on wednesday morning family flowers only please donations if desired to the palliative care team gallway the death has occurred of vincent mcgloughlin the curate the castles isle of doe clon mani his remains are opposing at his late residence funeral from their tomorrow morning at 10 15 going to st mary's church claw mani for recreation mass at 11 o'clock fall by interment in the adjoining cemetery family flowers only please donations 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or text 086 60 25 000 all right you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show here on highland radio a caller says it would be madness for the government to fall to the present time and call an election last time it took months to form a new government considering the position we're in with a recession looming and a hard winter ahead for us we need a stable government says a caller but others might say too that according to the reports that the coalition isn't stable and maybe a stable government's delivered via an election whatever formation that government might take but that's the whole thing about politics isn't it we get to debate and speculate and via whatsapp here what have we done wrong and in a show and we got three hours sunshine yesterday during the recent heat wave three whole hours rain and showers for the rest of the week and a strong possibility while the rest of our small island enjoys lovely weather meanwhile people who have a small amount of turf to save a helpless and farmers trying to win hay have just given up is it that dire in in a show and weather wise we do live in the northwest though and we tend everywhere has to be getting good weather before we get good weather seemingly a caller says I have an electric car and anywhere I go in the north charging is free yet the charging points in our and have a charge can anyone explain why considering it's the same electricity company providing both not quite sure the charge for charges for increasing electricity sorry the charges for charging your car increased last year in the republic of Ireland I wasn't aware that it was free to charge your vehicle in northern Ireland morning Greg a few times now during the day I've noticed the street lights on on the road with the clan on the road from the clanry hotel to the pole star round about yesterday on our best day of the year so far they were on at 1245 and still on at 525 surely there's a running cost associated here and it's entirely unnecessary maybe the checking stuff I don't know maybe they haven't calibrated the solar sensors you know the test when they should be on or not I don't know it's an interesting one morning Greg I was just wondering why is there so much hedge cutting going on in this area at the minute when it's not allowed at this time of year what about the wildlife I've had this in from a couple of people by the way concerned because of course it's only last week we had Angus on talking about from Nature Northwest talking about how important the hedges are and I think there's generally a there's generally a ban on on cutting hedges but that being said in a built-up area and I suspect you might be talking letter Kenny or some other town you do have to consider two people walking on the footpath particularly those maybe who are visually impaired and it might be more difficult for them to avoid any stuff sticking out or overhanging what's your views on that 08 660 25000 read the derelict buildings I also think something should be done for example in Bongkranha we have the old God of Barks the fine building left sitting there when the new HSE building opens will then have the medical center at the clinic left empty I hope they're just not abandoned thank you yep I agree with you and I think especially with public owned buildings things should move an awful lot quicker because a lot of the conversations about privately owned derelict buildings you know what lead by example get those public owned buildings turned around and into a functioning usable space for the community preferably this caller says I was at a function over the weekend I paid 20 euro entry fee and when we went in there there was no seats when we asked for one we were given a table in chairs but we had no sooner sat down than a person came along and moved us we ended up looking at a wall most of the night my question is once you pay an entry fee to a seated event are you entitled to a table where you can at least see 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developed on foot of recommendations from a study commissioned by the council and has been jointly prepared with campers camper van users businesses and local communities the codes available at go visit donagall.com's website and visitors who are planning to come here ask to uh have a look at it i presume uh cancer leon blaney cahirlock of donagall county council cahirlock uh cahirlock of the uh the in a show municipal district leon isn't it say it again uh cahirlock of the uh in a show municipal district well it's cahirlock isn't it council yeah of course sorry i don't i've just had a complete brain freeze sorry about that leon i thought i was here to thank you all yeah i've i've i've i've i've i've i've misread this so anyway uh congratulations if i haven't congratulated you already um right okay so this is one of these documents that has been drawn up with broad consultation uh hasn't it's part of that initiative that was launched in 2021 yes and um look as we have all seen this last couple of years the amount of extra campers and coming to visit the county and the support was done as both um was commissioned in the back of that and as both as well as uh as last few years there's a lot of vacations on the country and donagall's church and county has benefited from that and we see all extra campers coming to the county and last year the council commissioned it and um as you say a lot of consultation took place and the developers could have conduct on the back of that i think it's very important that people have this information coming here but i think what's equally important and i'm not sure if you agree liam is that that the people coming to visit donagall feel welcome that there are rules there there's guidelines we're happy to have you but just if you could have a look at these few things you know what i mean that we have a welcome mat here at the at the at the border of the county yeah well that's not that's a very important to that message it's not welcome to try and and prevent or make them feel not welcome to come to the county they are very welcome to come to the county but i think it's to help the providers to help the users to help the people love them and the county generally that's a try and i'm i'll commit all the feelings together and do what we feel is best for for everybody including the county visitors to the county and make them feel very welcome yeah and and there is this thing out there and and i know it's not true that they bring everything with them they don't spend in the local economy that is not true for the majority of them this is also an opportunity to promote where people can you know spend some of their hard earned money whilst visiting here yeah it's a matter of trying to encourage them when they are here to um to spend some of their money locally be it and restrooms or shops or and as well as that staying with the people that's providing the spaces for them and helping them along as well i think it's important to advertise and work together because i do believe there's there was maybe a wedge kind of been drilled between the people providing the spaces and the camp with themselves and it's difficult as opposed to saying i'm i'll give it everybody until one but um those people saying that uh don't need all doesn't want the camper van or doesn't want campers into the county and i don't think that's true i think maybe this is an important this sort of contact was dropped to show the people that they are welcome and to encourage them to use all the different facilities as i'm looking at when they are here yeah and what is also useful is the flagging facilities like where you can responsively dispose of waste uh be it you know liquid waste uh or uh you know household waste to have that information there too but it's also good for us to know i presume what facilities we have available in this county but also you know say right we're going to have to up our game in such and such an area next year or the year after it allows for for future planning as well as identifying where these services currently are it does and you're very correct in what you said it is very important that they know where these facilities are and i suppose it's important too to know in case one of the things that anyone's left out that it was developed uh what the what the various groups including Fadge Ireland and the Ireland uh the Camping Ireland and the Donegal Camp and Cavern Park Association and the Irish Cavern and Camping Council and as it was important to acknowledge them for their time and effort and making this suppositive and welcoming this initiative as well and that there is a site available uh to um and Google versus Donegal for for the uh for people coming to visit the county to find out all the different uh resources that are available to them yeah and i think it'll be useful uh tool there's a lot of people who uh caravan or camp but they don't want to travel they don't like towing long distances or driving long distances and use it as an opportunity to visit other parts of the county as well because you know there's a lot of people in north in the shown that haven't been to Ardra or from Ardra to you know Raffaul do you know what i mean so i think this will i think people within the county can benefit from this go visit Donegal tool as well the can certainly can and you said a lot of people you know in different parts of the county hasn't visited the other areas of the county and this last couple of years with with uh since Covid kicked in that um i think that's a lot of people has begun to realize the other important areas and beautiful areas there isn't a county but i still believe that that's important to try and get extra people up to north when they go up because we're not seeing them i think once the majority of people come to south of the county and Donegal town and throughout New Year's there that it's very hard to get them to know if they've come to this far as they're beginning i think but now our fanatics are downing us is very far away but it's well worth the trip it's well worth the trip um north of Nishon is absolutely stunning all of Nishon is as well but it really is uh it's worth the trip and it we we have a role all of us you me and and everyone else has a role to get that message out there as well that you know it might be an extra hour or so but it's well worth it definitely i wasn't up and i'm not sure what's there to those lovely two but you know fanatics but in Nishon came here look but look it's monday morning uh my apologies of course here like i've done a gold count to cancel proud fan and fan of man by the sounds of things as well uh cancel Liam Blaney listen thanks for thanks very much thanks very good all right take care of yourself so go to the website go visit Donegal uh i should say it's it's it's primarily a presumed design for those visiting the county from outside the county but i'm going to have a look at it um we got contacted by a local public rep by the way uh who and i'm not mentioning their name because i'm not sure if they want me to or not but they have said that they will do everything that they can to get that lecturer his passport before the end of this month okay so he's come on and hopefully we're going to make some progress on that as i said i just i wasn't sure if the local rep wanted me to mention it or not if they do i certainly they've committed to work on behalf or work with him to try and get him his passport before his trip so that's good news isn't it i call it says is there any wonder shin fame is so popular when you have politicians like patrick mcgowan talking get you know what i thought he's contribution was all right uh i call it says i have a 16 and 13 year old i was getting their passports renewed passports renewed i sent the two off in the same envelope the first came back after eight weeks and it took the second one another eight weeks before it was returned don't forget they went in the same passport there was no issue with any of the information being wrong yet it took eight weeks more for the second to be returned that makes the very little sense doesn't it if you can if you can try and do it where you upload the pictures and do it digitally people are getting them back in really really quick time they can't call it express anymore but people still getting them back very quickly doesn't suit everyone as we heard from our guest earlier on sometimes it's hard to get the picture to be accepted but it is the quickest way if it's a straightforward renewal i've been told that the only vote that can take down a government is a money vote i.e in relation to the budget is this true i'm not quite sure i would take your word on that okay we're asking you on social media by the way if given the choice would you prefer to work from home i don't think it's for everyone you know i'm not sure i would uh would work well for me um but what do 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ceremony and fireworks display with live music from off lee's olivia douglas and remeltons paul mccow from eight o'clock that's monday at the lennon festival remelton okay you're very welcome back to the program now the man who died after an accident while helping to build a bonfire to siting county antrim has been named as john steele he was in his thirties and from the anteville area of lawn it happened at the local bonfire in fairway at about nine thirty on saturday evening at reverend ben pressed and his minister in anteville and craig a hill presbyterian good morning to you thank you so much for joining us unfortunate to be speaking to you under such sad circumstances reverend but thanks for your time absolutely great just a tragedy unfolded i think this whole past weekend as you might imagine it's been quite a blur for for us indeed the whole community i arrived probably half nine a little bit earlier maybe the accident happened uh one of my congregants was going to work and as you might imagine quickly gets on the phone call to me as minister i'm sitting at home with my kids and uh family just watching the tv and well what do you what do you do um how do you prepare for something like this um where i was aware it was something very bad had happened um but uh you grab your bible you grab your pray and grab your jacket and you head out the door we're about maybe five minutes away from the church and the bonfire is just opposite my opposite the presbyterian church there so we arrive and there's lights there's the ambulance there's the fire service i i head over and pray and gather the bonfire builders and put our arms around each other and seek the lord uh red uh sam 23 well known to your listeners uh you know i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i'll fear no evil for your rod and your staff they comfort me head over then to the family i got um can you imagine greg you know there your son uh fighting for his life as the ambulance service and the police service and the the fabricated pen um so we pray with um john's their mom and dad and leave indeed uh the whole evening into the lord's hands a little bit later than um the lord would would call and the ambulance service pronounced it so that just then begins a cascade of events then uh following you know your home at one i am in the morning on saturday i've still got to go to the church then and preach first two ministers well you might well know what we like to preach uh and we were prepared during the week uh these uh services um but i mean what what what were you going to do because i've already got this thing prepared but in the province of god it was exactly the right message that god loves uh god loves us and he chose us uh data salvation is found in jesus christ alone we we we get that out and then we open up our church in sunday afternoon now you might have seen the pictures they are then trying to tumble the spawnfire the community wish to just knock down and you could to look at this thing is to be reminded of john's passing uh and that fall so you know we knock it down and then a little bit later than last night uh half ten or so hundreds of people i'm sure some actually from donnie gall and up the northwest uh i met some from arctic clave um from all over um from all over keying uh to this last night from all of these little communities um wanted to take their time to to arrive down tandyville and be there for the family be there for the community i was quite touched um witnessing such a togetherness and indeed my message really is clear for anyone involved in the bonfires tomorrow for lodges to remember the steel family and hold them in your prayers mark in your own way even tonight and tomorrow uh and remember us here in larn that would be my prayer um and trust uh we can leave it with you all i mean like the bonfires in themselves uh these powers are are divisive but i just wish we could move past um involving people because i tell you where i'm getting to with this reference sorry so unfortunately there's been a reaction on social media almost people uh you know some with a complete lack of sympathy others you know saying really really uh nasty things and and you see that you see that from both sides from all sides don't get me wrong do you think we'll ever get to a point where we can move move past that that we get back to the point whereby we can sort of you know genuinely sympathize with people's lossing loss without all the optics that are around it if that if you understand where i'm coming from well i do appreciate um yourselves at highland radio and i've been on the bbc and the utv and and allowing a minister of the gospel to to speak um and the community have allowed me as well um gives us an opportunity to remember a family agreed and many for many people that often the point of contact with ministers are those wonderful occasions of birth i did marriage and sadly at death as well and i have been there um with many in the community at all of these uh but that allowed me to speak and to allow me to um i kind of offer and call people to tell from the donors gives us that focus i think now now there will be others there will be others in the community who will comment on the rights and wrongs who will perhaps like the fire service and others will want to comment about safety and there's another bonfire you might be aware in this area um the creaky hill it's kind of confusing so we're creaky hill presbyterian um we have a hall in creaky hill in this state and then in auntieville uh there's the andyville bonfire and we have the church and which is literally the other side of the road in andyville and we serve both uh both communities here in in these estates and the creaky hill bonfire is obviously uh quite the um quite the size uh quite quite the size and it's to be dedicated to mr steel now isn't it that that is correct that is correct or i think you'll see um as the story unfolds as we we go through today and you'll see quite a lot of uh tributes and a marquee um at various bonfires a whole community touched by this uh tragedy um and we can uh but leave it then for i suppose in the data head reflection the community will know um and we'll figure out here in in andyville the right way forward uh and the right thing to do about this particular one and then the wider conversation well uh probably above uh my uh my pay grade just to be clear reference i wasn't actually trying to sort of get you to comment on the rights or wrong of the bonfires it was the sort of social media reaction to john's death really was my question sorry it would be completely inappropriate for me to sort of i wasn't going to it wasn't down that i was just thinking that someone a family is grieving a community is grieving and sometimes maybe if we've got opinions we could maybe not say them publicly and allow a family to grieve that was really my point you are you are absolutely i apologize greg out it's been a lot i understand that too even i i i i you are absolutely you're absolutely right um i sometimes you dig your toe in social media and you just kind of look and see and you just uh i'm just out of hate and um senselessness and commentary i write all that but i don't i was talking to some people yesterday in the community about this and i mean i did a we masters in thinking through digital theology and thinking about social media and you know what i mean computer science is my background before i went into ministry but these algorithms these companies they do not care about whether there's a good reaction or a bad reaction in fact often they want a bad reaction because that forces views that encourages engagement in their platforms which then fails adverts and that sometimes is the the cold hard fact around uh this is some of the social media stuff is we're just being used really to promote to promote sales and all the rest yeah well when when something is free you're the product isn't that what they say Reverend that is that is that is unfortunately that is unfortunately the case and we are seeing the weaponization probably a social social media um to to those ends so yeah no we do appeal and you're absolutely right greg we do appeal for uh just uh you know actually do you know what sometimes the best time to tweet or to facebook message is not when you come home from work is not at the end of the week but actually you know maybe in the middle of the day whenever you're a bit calmer or just don't reply immediately and we do appeal for that there because it is very upsetting for people here in the community as we read some of this stuff okay Reverend listen thanks for your time this morning i understand it's it's it's been a a long couple of days for you thanks for your time thanks so much great thank you all right all right that's uh reverend uh ben pressed in there all right let's take a break the Ninetal Noon Show with letter kenny credit union now 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talk about using our mobile phone in the car obviously if we'd have had this conversation 10 years ago brian it would have been about making a receiving phone calls but presumably this is snapchat this is tick tock this is changing songs on your spotify or whatever music you can't any interaction with your smartphone in your hand whilst driving that's what we're talking about here presumably it is absolutely greg and you know you're quite right to point out how the phone has changed and how it has so many different uses and we've had to change our survey it's not just a simple straightforward forward survey saying do you know how do you or how often do you use your phone to make calls and receive calls or to send text messages and receive or read text messages it's now about reading emails it's about writing emails it's about checking phone notifications it's about checking social media responding to social media posts and the one that really really is scary and that is taking photographs and videos and sharing them on your social media while driving and one in 14 drivers admitted in our survey to doing that about one in four said they check their phone notifications while driving and about one in five are reading messages and emails while they're driving so those figures are on the market seems quite conservative to me because if you're you know driving in where the traffic is a little bit slower you know and there's a slow build-up you see a lot of people on their phones yeah it's a good question greg we also now this is kind of an attitudinal questionnaire where we ask people to voluntarily tell us what their behavior is but we also conduct observational studies as well where we have people standing on the side of the road at junctions and we observe now we roughly get about six to eight percent of drivers observed using their phone but of course you know people are people holding their phone down and texting we can't see that we can't capture that as a as as someone using their phone yeah so we knew we know that that the observational study massively underestimates it but I think the the attitudinal survey that we're launching or that we're talking about this morning gives us a better clue as to the real extent of it and you know at the upper end of the scale as I said we're talking about you know nearly one in four drivers regularly using their phone while driving and it's a multitude of reasons yeah for sure Brian and listen we have to accept to it too fast because mobile phones and the apps which they which they store are designed to keep us engaged and to interact with them you know even if we use certain apps you know they will push like I don't understand why say for instance the Lotto or your bank or some local companies don't have a system whereby if your phone if your if the phone is moving and it's very easy to determine that with GPS tracking most people still have that on that notifications aren't sent whilst you're moving do you know what I mean I just think it would be great to see technology sort of work to say you know what we recognize that there is we could do something here yeah and do you know I do some very good comments Greg and a couple of points on that the first one is I think you're right I think we have become very attached to our phones some may even say addicted to our phones and there's even a word for it a nomophobia which is where you cannot be without your phone and you're waiting for a notification or a message to come in on your social media maybe on your on on your WhatsApp or maybe on on text messaging and constantly checking your phone so there is there is definitely I think an issue there and it's hard for people to maybe do you know practice good road safety behavior when they're behind the wheel and that's where we always say that look you know I know it's impractical to tell people to turn their phone off because maybe they're using it for satellite navigation but putting it on silent putting on an airplane mode putting it on car mode especially when you're using it for sat nav purposes or just plain keeping it out of sight or out of reach so it isn't a distraction because look I mean driving requires your full attention and if you are using your mobile phone and driving you know the evidence is there to suggest that it is more of a distraction it is the biggest distraction out there more so than let's say the kids in the car causing a distraction a passenger or even the radio and people are saying you know if you're swapping a cd or tuning the radio that these are all distractions as well they are but it's clear that mobile phones have the potential to cause the severest distraction and I would say someone could do a study into that because I I think as soon as you might start engaging with your phone you're taking into a different mental space you know because you're so used to interacting with elsewhere I just think there's a there's a probably an element of the brain switches off even more so than switching from channel one to channel three in the radio I'd also be very interested Brian to see a study at any point as it relates to particularly in the years ahead the level of technology and screens in cars nowadays because you know one there's it's easy to talk about us interacting with a phone on our hand now but the way these TVs not tv the way these screens now operate in a lot of the modern cars there is so much information and so much interaction to be done with them whilst you're driving if you wish I just wonder at whether at this point or certainly a point at the future if that's going to be become a more of a topic and even maybe at some point overtaking mobile phones yeah very good point and I give two points in response to that Greg the first one going back to what you said earlier you're absolutely 100% right if you're having a conversation on your phone whether hands-free or handheld you suffer from a form of tunnel vision as you say you're mentally in the conversation you're trying to envisage and paint a mental picture the conversation you're having with that person on the phone and what happens is you suffer from a form of tunnel vision and you don't see any hazards on your left or right hand side you know the car pulling out of the cyclist on the on the on the inside so you're absolutely correct it it does cause that extra form of of of impairment in terms of the solution to all of this and Greg there's two things one I believe you're right technology has a role to play the problem here is technology the solution could very well be technology we're certainly very you know very keen to see what's happening at a european level at an international level in terms of technological solutions to help solve the problem of distraction whether it's the mobile phone or all these screens that are coming into the car the second thing as well I think we have to look at the penalties that are in place from mobile phones while driving if you look let's even just across the border in the UK it's six penalty points for using a mobile phone here in this country it's three penalty points for using a mobile phone when it was introduced back in 2006 I think is when mobile phones was introduced to the penalty point of fence the fine was 60 euro it hasn't changed in that time so I think we have to have a conversation around are the penalties that are in place for using a mobile phone still fit for purpose are they enough of a deterrent um you know are people really um uh going to be put off using the phone with those penalties and interesting enough our own research shows that of all the problems and issues out there on our roads mobile phones seems to really grind people's gears the most of all when they see people on the phone it drives them bananas and interestingly and not surprising I suppose it shows the highest level of support for increasing penalties 70 percent of motorists said it yet it's time for us to look at the penalties in place for using a mobile phone while driving and in fact almost 60 percent you know what we should just double the penalty points and define and I think we do need to have a conversation around the penalties that are in place because Greg you know I've been looking at these research now going back a decade and it and it just seems that we are not making any progress in trying to eliminate I know and people involved in road safety and I'm getting that from you they're exacerbated they they and the some of the senior guard he was speak to as well um the message goes out and and it's hard to sort of mix the message up a little bit Brian you know without it sounding repetitive coming into a bank holiday weekend or whenever it might be but the bottom line is is and there's a sense of frustration that the message is not to a certain amount of people is not getting through so what else can they do we can only do so many of these interviews if 86 families are without someone right now we have to come up with a different approach and if the education element of it isn't working as well as possibly it should then maybe that's why the public are starting to move towards supporting greater sanction because you know talking about it's not really doing a fantastic job at the moment despite everyone's best efforts yeah and I think you know the way we have always you know implemented road safety in this country and the strategy on road safety is education and enforcement work hand in glove the education the message is there to tell you if you behave like this these are the consequences the possible cause face and so that people know that what they're doing isn't is inherently dangerous and there's no argument if you're stopped by the guards and you receive penalty points in the fine because you were told that it's you know these are the consequences but I think the concern here is now that it's not the penalties are not enough of the deterrent they're not enough to put a fear factor into people and to deter people from from using their mobile phone while driving because 22 000 penalty points notices were issued last year for holding a mobile phone while driving you know so we've got to be asking ourselves is there enough of a deterrent there to stop people from using phone and we know that using a phone is inherently dangerous and I think most people who use their phone know that they shouldn't be doing it they know it's dangerous but they just don't really think a they're going to get caught and be that there's going to be enough of a sanction and we know that a third of all collisions are probably driver distraction it's worth the risk because we don't we don't use the possibility of losing our lives of many of us sorry some of us losing our lives potentially or being you know having life altering injuries is not enough of a deterrent so clearly the three points in the 60 euro fine isn't either okay well listen brian thanks for your time this morning I appreciate it thank you great all right take care brian farrell communications manager with the road safety authority what do you think would you be in favor of an increase in penalties the problem is it's not like an opinion because the statistics show that you know we are more distracted when using our phones and it is an element in and we use the headline figure of fatal crashes 86 people have died today have died up until today so far this year but you can multiply that and we had the I can't remember what the multiplier is but there is a multiplier of people that are very seriously injured or have life changing in this in injuries as well and would you be in favor of increasing penalties to try and discourage people from using the mobile phones while driving what do you think I'll wait 60 25 000 whatsapp sir text will give us a call 0749125 000 will marion harkin support the shin fane no confidence vote this week the answer is yes will she speak out against the government and then vote in their favor of gain the answer to that is no I don't believe so she is voting uh no confidence in this government donagolas ripped people off they never learned they'll be lucky to see tourists next year um they're killing the golden goose believes that listener uh marion harkin's name was mentioned there and uh she joins me now good morning to you uh marion how are you keeping I'm keeping my good morning to you and your distance right okay you've uh said publicly now you will be voting against the government in this no confidence motion uh what has made up your mind and when did you make it up yes I will be voting against the government because I think to be fair they've had some success at an overarching level you know when it comes to things like holding their nerves on brexit and the post call and covid and our macroeconomic situation is reasonably stable but the real problem I have is that I don't see the benefits of that trickling down to very large sections of the Irish people I mean just actually last week I heard a government TD saying you know there was 200 000 people in Dublin airport and he's right there was but I'll tell you there'd be many hundreds of thousands of Irish people that won't see an airport they won't see it this year next year and they may not see it for many years and I just believe that some of the the overall success that is there and I think you have to be balanced about this when it comes to making an assessment halfway in the lifetime of this government but on the issues that really matter to me issues like terrorist disability balanced regional development and of course the two benchmarks that were set down at the very beginning of this term housing and health the government have not delivered and I thought carefully about it and that's why I've decided not to vote confidence in them next Tuesday would this be the first time you've voted against the government in this dull term? Oh absolutely not I mean I don't I take the votes as they come individually and on many occasions I have voted with the opposition I'm a member of the opposition for example on the mica bill I voted against the government just to give you a recent example on other pieces of legislation I might have voted with so I just take each one as it comes and try and look at it on its merits. Were you contacted by anyone from the government to try and secure your support? Yes I had a telephone call with the T-shirt it was very forthright but very respectful and I told the T-shirt my position and you know we had a good conversation and that's the test because the truth is the government know they're going to win this motion obviously to have a larger cushion or greater numbers would look better but it makes no difference at the end of the day they were never in real danger. And in a phone call like that does he just try and appeal as he would see it to your better judgment or would he suggest that he could look favourably on any of the issues that you are passionate about how does that part of the conversation go? Well look each phone call depends on the circumstances that the T-shirt knew he was fine he did not need my support to save this government he knew he had the numbers and I said that to him in a very respectful way. Well let me ask then do you believe deals are being done with groups of independents to ensure the government survives this vote? I actually don't know but I do know that some independents always on every single vote always vote with the government so I have no idea what the situation is there and people will say it people will claim it whether it's true or not who knows. It's not great isn't it when we don't know that would be I think if that's happening would you not as a public rep and it might be public money that's being used for projects or whatever it might be like do we not need to move to a point where that's actually open out and transparent that if people are maybe projects or initiatives or the concerns are being looked at favourably to support a government that should be official publicly released information. I believe it should yes that people should be aware and then they can make judgments but the truth of it is that you know you do represent your constituency you do represent the views of people there and when I for example two or three weeks ago was was extremely angry and annoyed about the closure of the Catlab service in Sligo that's a regional issue and that matters too as I said no Catlab north of the line from Dublin. So did you say to the T-Shark then did you not say then to the T-Shark Marion if you can do something about this Catlab in Sligo I might be more inclined to vote in your favour. I looked at the broader picture here. But you didn't say that to him in the conversation yes or no? I'm not going through the detail of what I said if you if you respect that I gave you a fair bit of information about the conversation. Do you not have to respect to you Marion do you not think if you did make a proposition like that to me home Martin we elected you we pay your wages we pay his wages we are the ones that go to that hospital and certain services why would not be there are we not fully entitled to know if you save for instance said to him if you look if you can do something about this situation in Sligo I might be more inclined to vote for you. Before that and two minutes ever took place I had written to the T-Shark I had written twice to the Minister for Health I raised it with the T-Shark on the floor of the house I raised it with the Minister for Health and the Minister for Health is meeting us in I think next week so it's on the agenda we're talking about this that's not good enough I understand that it has to be delivered I am trying to deliver for my constituents in the best way that I can and I have to deal with the circumstances in which I find myself find found myself in different circumstances I might deal with this differently but I didn't I find myself in a particular situation and in the overall picture I mean for example how do people in Donegal look at the announcement last week from Emma and Ryan about 9.5 billion for Metro Link or Metro North and then the tarnish the saying worst case scenario it could go up to over 20 billion and they look and see the kind of investment that's coming for their local roads for their regional roads and the same in Sligo and Litrum okay so there are bigger issues here indeed Marion Harkin thanks for taking the call and accepting the invite this morning I appreciate it thank you take care that's independent deputy Marion Harkin Sligo Litrum and South Donegal okay it is 11 o'clock we have Brendan Daveney on the way we're going to be answering your employment questions and so much more besides in the next hour stay right where you are let's get a news update though and say good morning to Emma Ryan thanks Greg good morning thank you here look of Donegal County Council Councillor Liam Blaney says he is hopeful that today's special council meeting into an external review of the acquisition of five houses at Ancranla in Bunkrana will put the matter to rest it has understood the review which was circulated to staff and members last week finds the council acted properly good here look of Donegal County Council Liam Blaney meeting is important and will hopefully allow the council to move forward a person was rescued after their vehicle entered the water at Inch Pier this morning loss fully or an ally were paged at 8 58 a.m. by Malinhead Coast Guard radio to assist the fire service and and guard a shiokana again a vehicle had entered the water at Inch Pier but on arrival at the scene the person had already been successfully removed from the vehicle independent TDs are setting out their stalls ahead of a vote of no confidence in the government this week Donegal Deputy Joe McHugh and South Donegal Deputy Mark McSharry are among those expected to vote in support of the government despite both resigning the Fingale and Finafall whips respectively Donegal Independent Deputy Thomas Pringle will back Shin Fian's motion as will South Donegal Independent Deputy Marianne Hurkin a woman in her 70s has died after a crash involving a car and a Jeep in County Sligo it happened near Cliffany on the Donegal to Sligo Road the consultation into the provision of CCTV cameras in the Twins Townsend this week with a final consultation event on Thursday at the base Enterprise Centre in Sturnauder it's proposed to locate six cameras at six strategic locations in Balbuffet in Sturnauder and finally police were attacked in Castle Derrick in the early hours of yesterday morning as they investigated a number of assaults shortly after 2 a.m a police patrol encountered a number of males behaving in an aggressive manner while at Stelum with the situation two officers were assaulted as well as a number of other members of the public who were in the area at the time three males aged 14 17 and 23 were arrested and all have since been released on police bail ending further further inquiries that's all for now we'll be back with the news again at 12 noon okay Emma thank you very much indeed don't forget now our Monday focus is in unemployment rights Richard Grogan will join us in the next hour if you have any questions as it relates to your rights and 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on the mic though there you are can hear you now right okay so um it was it was huge in crook park yesterday wasn't it I mean it was like it was like maybe it was the final one yeah when they're talking about I suppose a lot of people would have thought that way like they're definitely the two best teams in the country no doubt but listen I think what what golly showed the day before it they'll certainly give him a game listen Kerry I'd be massive favoured to either Kerry or Dublin but um it saved football for me in many ways the Kerry Gawie game the day or the the Derry Gawie game was was dire was tagged ago was everything was Romney modern football and this game then just flipped it on his head two packed houses Greg which is again in crook park isn't always the case these days and so much color I mean it's just beautiful there's a phenomenal buzz and Saturday there you can meet the Derry crowd have brought so much the energy they've brought this season the color but it was funny very quickly that game just went on a complete lull because I think everybody in the crowd realized we'll hold on this right everyone's just going to knock it about and keep ball whereas the the Kerry Dublin game started a frenetic pace and even though times like they dropped under that system they were trying to attack the ball up the pitch they were tackling all over they would squeeze the kick out the wooden there was variation so there was there was a lot of things happening there was pasting it and both teams were trying to outscore the opposition team and I think that's where the game before fell down you know Derry's tactic going up there they've seen many times before it doesn't work at crook park you have to go and outscore teams they went to out defend uh Gawie and it it came up short but I think he's seen that with the game the next day it was a phenomenal game of football. Tactically more fluid then there was more fluidity mid game as you say you saw elements of what you went on to the day before uh but the the the two top teams in the country they're able to adapt and change as the game progresses they react. Yeah and then Greg you can make a case for listen 2019 Derry we're in crow park playing in the league division four final that's that's only three years ago they beat later by four points so as they rise up and I suppose that template is to get a team which is a lower team up to a certain stage now what what we probably would have thought was that Derry knew that that wasn't going to be enough on this day now it was it was enough against Claire because they weren't a good enough side uh and it was enough against us because because we murdered them and they got across the line against us and lost their final but when you get to crow park you have to go and play you have to outscore and I think that's a big disappointment for for Derry now the the start of the game I mean he kept Gawie scores for 22 months which was unbelievable to see I mean bad as a spectator but I mean defensively for them you'll say but Gawie weren't going to stress out on that they they didn't panic they knew their time was coming it was 3-0 then and probably Derry I think they could have been further ahead but by the end of the half even though Hawkeye had a had a sleepy day with one of them but it ended up four each great at halftime and I think even that Hawkeye point at the start of second half give Gawie a bit of a lift got the crowd going a bit which is an important thing when you're when you're dealing with crowds at that level Greg you could see it with with Dublin and McKerry yesterday the energy from the crowd and I think it's a big thing with Derry there was there was energy and Gawie got energy then from that point and you know a few a few frees was kicked on and then of course Comers goal was a massive point in that so yeah it was I mean I was at the Talchum Cup as well wasn't started before not a good day for Ulster Kevin going down in that to West Meath a late West Meath goal really really knocking the stuffing out of out of Kevin was disappointing for them because one in the Talchum Cup not only as a competition as Brian and Greg but it means that you're in all Ireland next year and that's that's it so Kevin go to Ulster next year they'll go back into Talchum whereas if they don't want it they're in the all Ireland where they want to be you know so so that's a disappointing for them but it was a good good spanking I think that's a very important competition the next year seeing the junior final yesterday me Kilkenny and New York two teams that might and be in Cropark do off in their own Paddy McConaughey he's a fan of Larry lives in Kilkenny now he might a get from Kilkenny and Siobhan so they they set up camp down there and he's he's in the management team there so I seen a few snapchats they were on the on the razz last night so fair play to Paddy and the Kilkenny football just finally on the on the semis there what to go away have to can go away adapt to give Kerry a game as you mentioned you know I mean do they how do they avoid how do they avoid sort of not wanting to get absolutely annihilated and going with that attitude to try and you know put up a decent performance even if they don't win versus you know actually saying right we're going to go out and try and win this game but we could end up losing this by a cricket score so what what firstly can go away they can and what do they have to do in your view to make a game with Kerry the big difference with Galway and Derry obviously is a goal we have the ability to to punch enough holes to beat the opposition and when you look at Comer and particularly Shane Walsh but I think a lot of other players you know funnily had been playing well this season Chirney and Kelly and that the other half forwards around in their six they didn't have good games at the weekend at all now you could put that down to Derry and all that defensive shape and that so Kerry will allow there'll be a bit more ability to play in that game and I think defensively Galway looks set up you know Sean Kelly the storming game at the back their centre half John Daly had a brilliant game and some some super kick passing and Galway managed that game very well in the second half showed a bit of maturity so I think they've the right ingredients they certainly but because Kerry were fading against Dublin you know that a game went the extra time Dublin would have beat them and of course Dublin were missing their main man Connell Killen now if you put Connell Killen in the game as tight as that there is absolutely no doubt now it's obviously very hard to say the game changes but let's just say it's coming down to a one point game no doubt in Dublin will actually won that match so Kerry you know whereas we've seen some brilliant passages for them in that first half they were playing with a bit of a breeze and Dublin were playing against it so in the second half there were many ways clinging on to Dublin so I think Galway will take a bit of heart from their journey to this final let me ask and the reason we started with this rather than the the Donegal ladies which will feature a significant new shows this evening because it's more recent that's the only reason do Derry kick on from here now or is this just a blip of success because that's that's going to come down to management and sort of the infrastructure off the pitch to ensure that this is built on isn't it and that this is seen as right that was our first go at it you know under this regime next year we're going to kick on yeah I'm not sure about that Greg people were making comparisons all the time with Donegal and of course Rory was in my gym 2011 we get the semi-final we lose we learn a lot from we come back the next year the difference was no one was counter attacking the tactic we did at that stage it was a newest tactic in terms of going that level now everybody's ready for that tactic Derry's found out Galway's ready well it's just the tactic it needs more yeah it's now as if Donegal came in the following season and everyone kind of fell into the trap a small bit and we won the All-Ireland deservedly so so I think the personnel Derry's like Keir McFarlane arguably the best player left the squad he's out and playing with Donegal bossing to get him back and their forward lines honestly in that second half Derry looks so ordinary and Saturday Greg so listen they probably going to have to unearth a bit of talent and bring on a few footballers and all the young Murray lad come on had a goal it was nice for him first day in Crow Park in it so listen McGuigan up front certainly needs some help because when you've seen the talent of the other top teams forward lines Derry certainly don't have that defensively they're solid they're still building I suppose yeah right okay so Donegal going on to play Meath in a semi-final what are your reflections on the victory on Saturday I think you if I remember correctly last Monday you weren't necessarily saying yeah we're gonna we're gonna win this one but you thought there was enough there potentially to sort of get the result which is exactly what happened to me I think Donegal ladies have been waiting on this for so long now you're great listen to the last quarter finals last quarter finals to Dublin and and championship games and listen Dublin ladies have passed that the ladies championship like the men have passed the men's they've been just an unbelievable side so this was such a big game because Donegal kind of been knocking on the door and you've been waiting for this this big big run at it now they've taken out one of the favorites you know you have a pathway now you mean Meath just got across the line but by a point they obviously come up from other media they won it last year playing again a similar style to what Donegal do you so listen Crow Park and it's a quick turnaround I don't know why it's has to be so quick you know we've quarter final huge match and you have a semi-final next week I'm moaning it almost coming on to talk to us about it I don't know why it has to happen so quick because these are huge matches I might feel it's just maybe a bit of disrespect for the game yeah well I know people say why can't you play week and week but this is not an quarter and semi-finals the biggest games these girls will ever play in surely at least Greg what's what's going on with it we have the whole whole year to fill in this championship why not give them at least a weekend between the recuperate and have a nice build up to the game you think about it Monday now them girls would have recovery session last night and today we'll do a like better training Tuesday and then Thursday and then you're ready to go back on the bus you know like even for them to take in the bread into this factory and maybe relax a wee bit and then build up bask in the glory for two weeks but I mean it's there is a fix be a club or county level fixed string it's we just don't seem to be able to get it right or or at least we seem to avoid logical uh logical solutions or logical approaches all in a quarter-finals for a few weeks back if you had a sit here you're playing next next week in all air and semi you know that likes the carries and and doublings ease when I said oh what's going on there what's what is the need so I don't know what that's about but listen it is it is what it is now but certainly now don't think all are within a serious shot of of all air and honors which would be massive so far plenty all right maxi kernan and the girls okay we'll go through the guests are but of course since it's inception I've always believed that Hawkeye was nothing more than an expensive bluff it's only used when we don't know whether the ball went to the right or left of the goal Hawkeye makes a decision we accept it because we can't prove otherwise saturday's tobacco showed it up for what it is I can't see it ever being accepted as a foolproof method of deciding a score if you can't trust technology like that almost 100% although at the same time you know in the in the premiership the referee can run over to a monitor and so it can be checked in that way but if it can't get the basic thing right the thing that it's designed for and you can see as I said earlier the the millimeter accuracy of of the tennis and and what you're seeing in the premiership where similar technology is employed unless we can rely on that 100% there's no point in having it yeah very very strange moment because you just assume that that's it it's perfect and it's a bit strange really the Hawkeye thing because it only happens at crow park and it seems to come up an awful lot I mean I've think back at championship games down through the years there's a very very rare you might have won or two situations where somebody said Jesus was appointing that game should have been a score now obviously if it's a very tight game it'll only really be remembered but it seems to come up a lot and it's coming up and you think about the hurling as well now somebody did say crow park there that there's a different setting obviously for the for the slitter versus the versus the needles so was it left in another setting or was there something to get through question but but Greg it was it's it's it's crazy to see that there but I just think that in terms of the sport of the game how come this is coming up so much at crow park you know you don't see um um pairs that often trying to think oh we have to go to Hawkeye now it is nice for this the stand everybody likes to see it coming up on the screen yeah is it a point is it or not it does it does add the the wee bit of drama of it but yeah once it's wrong once now because I've heard stories in the past now there's a Eamon Fitz Morris was doing the game here yesterday he was talking with a game from from Kerry played years ago where one of the players worded the ball was over the bar but Hawkeye went against it so listen it's it's maybe that's it you can have people have to swear uh whether or not they think it was the point and I get rid of Hawkeye just get the Bible out into the centre circles I swear it was uh a caller wants to know what what why was Kerry getting so many yellow cars the ref was dishing them out yeah listen that's that's doing the party kneeling I suppose listen that's again you're talking about Hawkeye you know a ref just got that split second to make a judgment on it and and sometimes people feel aggrieved that it's going against you or it's going for you but listen that's that's we got to trust him in the middle for sure and listen it was great to listen to the game on Highland here on Saturday but I think it's a legitimate question why was uh Donagol V Dublin not played out on TV should have gotten more publicity to be honest when it was Dublin that was being played I thought it would have yet indeed it's a straight I I switched the telly on because I was going to watch it and listen to the commentary at the same time presuming it would be on I actually didn't even consider the fact that that game wouldn't be on uh I thought maybe it's to do with rights arrangements or what have you but I was sure uh I mean it is a game that should have been televised it's huge and you're right Greg and again going back to you know we're we're on a bit of fixtures why aren't the two bodies avoiding the clash you know we've had loads of weeks there where there isn't big and they're counting the games on and if they are they might be in another province so they might mean anything to do with us yet you had four massive games in Crow Park and yet all the ladies all Ireland quarterfights were all on in the one day on Saturday as well as two other big matches so yeah listen again why not last week of the fall make or or or and then put the huge focus and put the TV on it because the ladies Liam deserves all that because it's a phenomenal game of football too I mean that game on Saturday would have been much more entertaining than Darian Galway I can guarantee you and then finally Ecolos says the men's games become a bit like rugby league and Aussie football you can see where they're talking about some sort of blend of the two of those right okay so you've mentioned everything uh not everything you've mentioned much of what's coming up so you've got some cracking guests as always lined up for this evening show tell us about them yeah mind all else coming on and say to review that brilliant factory for Tony Gal ladies and look ahead to the semi-final with me for next week Michael McMillan's on from Gillick life um he's a dairy man of course he interviewed Rory Geller after the game so we're going to even in-depth look at Darian Galway and where the games at us we're chatting there Greg um I caught up with Kian Mackie on Saturday uh just after Kevin's defeat and obviously I did the game yesterday with Eamon Fitz Morris um former uh Kerry O'Learnam winner and um manager he was manager 2014 of course which I didn't go on day with him when they beat us but uh Eamon's Eamon's a lovely fellow so we got all their views okay weekend's action so it'll be on the show this evening right and that's the deal debate Monday evenings on Highland Radio just after the 7 p.m news if you want to listen to it on your wireless uh or smart speaker or wherever uh but if you want to listen to it tomorrow or when you're out for a walk or a run or after training or at the gym you can get the podcasts on our webs at highlandradio.com just go into the on-demand section Brendan as always thanks so much for your time today all right back with more shortly the 9 till noon show with letterkenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letterkenny credit union 9102127 gaa news with balls they called it best 10 minutes on the radio one reviewer said then everyone started reading the independent sports section suddenly they're the experts telling me about earning 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this monday just have this mbm news and podcasting on hiremedial.com the dl debate with sister sarah's letterkenny serving food you'll love till 9 p.m. daily in sarah's kitchen and there's free admission entertainment every weekend okay you're very welcome back to the program and on monday focus now is your employment rights and uh delighted to welcome on to the program uh richard grogan of grogan solicitors good morning to you richard how are you keeping i'm sure i'm standing while i'm sitting down and i'm still alive so that's it that's a good start if you choose to you can stand is that what you're saying come here is as things settled down in terms of employment's rights now was there a lot of activity around the pandemic with you know people being off work or out of work or having covid and we're going to get to a couple of covid questions but are we sort of settled into the more routine um questions as it relates to employment law now i wonder no it's a simple answer it's it's it's one of those areas that has just sort of it's like a rocket that is just taken off yeah there's an awful lot of stuff coming up uh some of it is due to the pandemic some of it is just due to the way businesses are now operating so there's an awful lot happening out there we were speaking earlier on uh to a representative from grow work as it remains relates to uh this new bill which is designed to you know open our options for remote working i think that's going to be a hornet's nest well the first thing is i mean i wouldn't be holding my breath on that yet until because it it's we don't even have the full bill as you have we only have the heads so i don't see this coming in earliest 28th november and that's pushing it probably into next year uh huge issues relating to gdpr health and safety um and the suitability of people working from home it will it be possible and that's going to be a lot of that's going to be on health and safety issues so i'll give you a simple example if you if you've got a a three bedroom house and you're going to use one of the bedrooms upstairs uh that's now a workplace so you're going to need fire doors and you might need a second exit and you're going to have to check that you could get out the window if there's a fire and you're going to need uh extinguishers so i mean this is these are issues that they haven't even addressed and then you want to have the issue of the insurance on that house is now going to go up because portion of it has been used for commercial purposes and then you have planning issues and if it's an apartment there are always restrictions on using an apartment so the there's been a lot of grandstanding about the tds not the tds whatever grandstand i mean they're you know would never heard not in their dna they're not in their dna but they're bringing in people like you know ibeck and they the congress of trade unions absolutely right but they're not bringing in the experts on employment law health and safety gdpr planning a property all and insurance all of which by the way if that's bringing in the solicitors and the last people they want we're all here to help them resolve a lot of those problems but unless they deal with them they're going to be massive problems and they have to be dealt with there's a lot of legislation to be amended if this is going to work the way they're talking about working and i don't think the department of enterprise trade and employment and particularly the employment section which is a very bad record on this can see outside the box as to the issues because the government is proposing for their own people not that they're going to be working from home but they're going to be working in hubs which is basically an office somewhere else so instead of an office in cadere street it's going to be in main street livered but it's still going to be an office yeah that's that's i think they're going to be engaging with solicitors one way or other i think they should try and get most of that done before the bill rather than than after it okay let's get some questions then if you don't mind i'm a health care worker and i have long covet i am getting full pay and not using my sick leave but i've heard that this payment is stopping but i haven't got any information for my place of employment just wondering does richard have any information the answer is no this is one that you go to your union about because this is a clear union issue if you're a health and safety worker sorry health and hsc worker this will be covered under collective agreements go to your union lot cheaper than going to a solicitor in relation to this let's try saving people a few quid if we can i was off because i was a high risk case of covid do i keep my holidays from last year or have i lost them if you've been sending in medical certificates on a regular basis then you retain your holiday rights for up to 15 months if you've had an accident at work or you're you're sick or whatever happens to be you retain them for that period of time so if it's fifth you retain up to 15 months and they you get those when you go return to work or if you cease working but it's maxed out in 15 months so it's 25 days i call us as i'm stressed at work i need a better work life balance but my manager continues to contact me outside of work hours we share a small office so i feel like i can't go over her head i feel like i have to leave my job is there any way around this first of all never resign that's my advice if they hang you out of the fourth floor by one leg never ever resign because you resign there are things that have to be done to resign otherwise you don't have a constructive dismissal case so you have to raise a full grievance if you're being contacted outside your your contractual hours then i'd be talking to a solicitor in donningall and bringing the claim under section 17 of the organization a working time act for that breach tends to stop it fairly quickly a day out in the wrc is not something that the manager is going to want to be responsible for and i also think too there's a personality element to this as well because this person is allowing their manager or the person working they're working closely with because it's in a small office they're allowing them to dictate their happiness not only inside work but also outside work they're trying to avoid confrontation and they're worried that if they speak to someone above their head the office might be a little bit awkward maybe or something i mean we have to put ourselves first richard even if it's at odds with our our personality don't we as much as we can well if you put it if there's a claim that goes in under the organization of working time act there are certain protections that automatically flow with any penalization because of doing that so that's the first thing you can raise a grievance equally might be the way of doing it but i would go and talk to a solicitor in donningall they could put in the help you put in the grievance but they can also put in the claim the claim then goes in protect your your position if it's stress that you're talking about what i want to say to you is we get a lot of questions about stress and there's a very simple thing unless you have suffered a recognized psychiatric illness or a wreck or a physical injury because of it then there's no court case it's only a claim to the wrc and it's only a recommendation it's not binding so again if you're suffering from stress go and talk to your doctor and follow your doctor's advice it is and talk to your GP first absolutely imperative that you do that and by the way can i say this don't walk into the doctor and say i'm suffering from workplace stress can i have a certificate you'd be out of there in 10 minutes this has to be assessed is this real stress that you need treatment for or or is it just that you feel that you're stressed and you need to get a sixer there's a difference in relation to it and you know you go to the lawyer the lawyer's going to say have you been referred what treatment are you on what medication you're on and unless it's a serious one there is no claim so this is the one that you need to be very carefully talking to your your your solicitor as well as your doctor but talk to the solicitor after you talk to your doctor okay a young person has just started work in the pay slip shows emergency tax i've been told he has to claim it back himself that companies no longer do this is this right no okay that's a simple answer i'm sorry for laughing but you know on programs like this on programs like this sometimes it takes four minutes to get to an answer so it's very refreshing that the first word of an answer is the answer but go ahead Richard no when they've registered him for tax then it'll automatically the system automatically correct itself if they have a proper payroll system so no it's not a reclaim okay hi Greg was wondering can oh sorry that she oh yes actually this is a question for you can put can cameras be put up in the workplace without consultation or informing workers no as a simple answer to that they have to have a policy they have to explain what they're going to be used for they have to put up signs to tell you where the cameras are they have to be in an appropriate place so you can't have them you know pointing in the certain places you can't have them in like you can't have them in a restroom for example or sorry they'll be changing and they have to know what they're going to be used for you have to be told who's going to see it how long it'll be held for and your right to copies and by the way if they're saying we're doing this to make sure that we're protecting you from you know somebody coming into a shop and assaulting you or stealing then that's all they can use it for they can't use it for anything else so you have to know what they're going to use it for right so in other words they couldn't use it to discipline you for being on your phone in between customers unless they tell you that that's going to be a function of it just to give a random example they can say look we're going to know the the if I put it to this way putting in by the way I'm going to be keeping an eye on you yeah yeah no it has to be a legitimate reason it can't be just I'm going to monitor everything that you do and everything that you say that's not legitimate use of CCTV it would be by the way if you were in a dealing room for example so if you're in a dealing room and you pick up a mobile phone you could have alarms going off but for normal no it can't be done for something like that how does an employee raise that with an employer say how long you know I see these cameras went up two days ago and now I'm aware of my rights or maybe they're planning to go up next week how do you broach that what's your advice to someone as to how they have that conversation well if you haven't got the policies given to you the easiest and best way of protecting yourself is a nice little letter down to the data protection commission that then deal with it they'll deal with it fairly quickly okay that's the way you deal with it because you know you can equally go to you know again it's one that you can go to a solicitor about because the issue on that is that can be a breach a GDPR and that can be claims brought to the circuit court all right my employer changed my salary from an hourly wage uh at short notice to salary sorry they've changed their payment from a salary uh to salary from hourly rate wage with no permission or consultation well if you're going to be worse off then that's the payment wage is claimed to the WRC in the first instance though you would advise them to meet with the company's PR or or manager would you or well I suppose it put it this way if they've done it without consultation and they haven't had any consultation with you and my kind of approach on that is if that's the way the employer is going to deal with it you might as well be straight in and get it in there because you're probably not going to have much of a discussion with the employer so you might as well get in the queue in the WRC there's a long enough waiting list you know I'm sorry but you know a good employer is going to be doing that's going to sit you down and say look you were on 15 euros an hour I'm now going to put you on a salary and on your normal hours of work that means that you're going to end up being 50 cent better an hour off right you're going to have an explanation if you haven't got the explanation I know if you're worse off get the claim in get it in quickly and protect your rights yeah can employers require you require you to put your name on a survey they're doing no unless it's health and safety okay it's health and safety fine because then that's relating to you if it is and I put post about this yesterday if it is you know a happiness survey and how you think everything no you don't have to is that could be a scoping exercise couldn't it of course yeah now if it's health and safety by the way yes they can they can say you have to fill this out so you know you know do you have proper safety boots do you have this have you attended this yeah okay a caller says I have time off my boss keeps saying sure we have your number if we need you um I was actually contacted uh on my own party to sort of work problem at a party they were at so I'm trying to put my foot down any advice on how to get my point across so they're they're engaging with their boss but the boss seems to think they're on call um well if they know what the boss's number is and they're after if after hours just don't answer it yeah simple as okay and if the boss insists upon keeping doing it that's the breach of section 17 of the organization of working time act you can again go to a solicitor about it and the solicitor can send a letter saying that this continues we're off to the wrc and by the way no to find the employer you already have the protection of the act because you've raised an issue under us all right I've been getting my overtime in vouchers uh it is that or be old today which you never get I'd rather money but they're reluctant to give it are these vouchers legal and that's on gondor thing called the truck trucking acts which go back to the 1800s of all things that you have to pay somebody if you've been paying more than the national minimum wage when you take all the hours into account then it can be allowed if it's not uh if you're not getting the national minimum wage no it's not allowed and the other thing is these are anything over 500 euros in a year are taxable so you you can't be doing this is not by the way that the employer can say to you look you're doing a bit of overtime here take two chickens three points of milk a few biscuits and a bag of potatoes that's not payment under what we call the truck acts so sorry I'm being very technical but I'd like to show you know legislation back to the 1800s about when I started working you know a cola works in retail can their employer insist they wear makeup and the answer on that is if you're working on we say a makeup counter uh then that's kind of part and parcel of the job you know that's you know and I mean that in the nicest possible way that's what you're you're selling the makeup other than that no you can't be doing you you can't be doing doing that I'm taking it that this is a female caller so you can't be turning around and saying well we'd like you to put a lot of foundation on and a bit of lipstick and some eyeshadow no okay can my parental leave be postponed by the employer yes for six months okay um I'm working a lot of overtime in the hsc being paid extra but should I be earning extra annual leave no okay that's you might get extra pay because you're if it's a regular rostered overtime then your your holiday pay is calculated on your previous 13 weeks before you go on holidays if it's not regular rostered overtime it's discounted so if it's on the roster yes it's not on the roster no uh our wc wrc awards legally enforceable what happens if the employer doesn't pay up you're down to the district court in lyford um holding your form and saying can I get it enforced then you're sending the sheriff out to enforce it so they are enforceable recommendations are not so if you bring a claim under the industrial relations act they're not enforceable but everything else is our company is going to trial a four day working week and we've been asked to choose our preferred day off they've advised though that only so many can have a friday off if we choose a monday would we lose out on bank holidays or would the bank holiday have to be then honoured on the tuesday we will be working four 10 hour days i only want to participate if the four days are together is there any guidelines about four day working week and right public holidays because they mainly fall on the monday if you work on if you have to work on a public holiday you either get an extra day's pay a day off in the following month or next two days paid holidays that's the that's the way work so you don't lose your you don't you lose your public holidays okay but today say for instance they say right we want you working you know monday tuesday thursday friday that the listener says i don't want to i don't want a four day week if it's split up like that i would for it to be a long weekend for example can they argue that if you've had if your if your employer has a properly draft a contract of employment there's probably a clause in it about working public holidays but generally speaking look if it was a public holiday unless you're going to be servicing people on it the employer can just simply say well right we just closed down that day anyway so it depends but the employer has that choice okay a caller says i work for a local authority an elected rep intervenes directly with us getting us to work to do work that we're not instructed to do by our line manager we understand that the direction of the employees is not his remit or her remit for that matter but they don't take well to us not following through on their actions i mean that's a that's that's a case closed the only people they have to reply to is their line manager surely and if it's not working kick it up the chain talk to the union yeah there's local authority worker they're in the union talk to the union they'll deal with it listen richard it's always a pleasure i really do enjoy having you on because we get to the point really really quickly but take as much time as you like as well but i think it's fun when it's a yes or no answer richard thanks for your time thank you take care of yourself okay that is richard grogan of grogan solicitor is answering your questions there and i'm sure some of you who didn't text in maybe got queries answered for your workplace the night all new show is brought to 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go in excess of the speed for a moment and it'd be interesting if that were banned i wonder what damage that might do right the future of meals on wheels could be in doubt as the delivery service struggles with rising fuel prices the national meals on wheels network says it comes as demand for its services are higher than ever shameless boland is ceo of rural link the national meals on wheels on brella group and he joins us now good morning to you shameless good morning good morning thanks for joining us right so i mean oh this is not necessarily what might happen in the future we're living in this now a bigger demand on services and and obviously you know a bigger cost in supplying those services yeah and i think we're i know let's be clear it's under the archer link umbrella and if we're particularly concerned with the very voluntary services that are delivering meals and indeed other services to scattered population areas and if you look at the dunigal region or the north west which you would probably most be concerned with you can't get more scattered a region than that in other words you could have somebody released from hospital you know maybe needs four weeks of assistance in different ways you know a knee operation or they're living alone they're older and a meal a day would be very helpful and they might need other types of of nursing and other services so it costs a lot of money to drive to that area now if the people are getting paid that's fine but if the volunteers who deliver the meals are simply using their own cars maybe to get some limit from the hse which we very well welcome but by and large it's now costing these individuals who are voluntary anyway to deliver and you can imagine delivering a meal you know up the mountains or across the valley wherever you know it's it could be quite an expensive piece of volunteering and and the volunteers also are not immune they're also facing the increasing cost of living and all of those challenges and and that's not just the price a few I wasn't aware that they did this at their own expense it's inevitable that some are going to come to a point to say well I actually can't do this because I'm struggling myself as much as I would like to help and again just to reiterate not all of them there's some do get a mileage allowance it just should be said but the reality is it's it's now even that where it exists is far too small the reality is you're right they have a living to worry about as well and one of the reasons we have a higher demand for this service is of course people who live in these areas also don't have the finance to drive sometimes in especially if they're not well or an all address so there's a higher demand because of this one way or another and we can't be having we can't have a service based on pre-covid prices because those are going out the window and there has to be a review otherwise the service breaks down yeah but these like I find it unbelievable well it's not unbelievable that the state profits off the back of people doing this important work that is probably saving the hse having to do something or some intervention either immediately or down the line like this is a group of people it's not hard to identify them why would we be charging them VAT and excise on their fuel to carry out this type of work it should be a no-brainer this is something we could a targeted approach not even just in these times but anytime these are people working that are I think they're digging the state out but the state is taxing them for the pleasure of doing so unfortunately you're absolutely right and this is a long bone of contention we've had an earth or link not just on this service but in many other services you could look at youth services you could look at women's services the whole range of other services that are often delivered by what's called the voluntary sector well the voluntary sector is digging out the state in a lot of ways and in this particular area and you know it has been said many times especially after covid that a lot of older people should try to live at home it would be better around better for mental well being better for the state because they save money and anyway they don't have the beds and the pieces to keep everybody and hence the rush to get people out of the hospital out of that setting and there is no step down bed so what are we left with we're left with situations where people need help the best way to do it is let them to help be delivered to their door they recover quickly etc and yes it is back to the way our services are organized and the dependence on the voluntary sector to deliver stuff that in other countries the state delivers and listen it's not even just the food because I presume this is a fantastic network of people that can make sure if someone's okay particularly if they're you know they're isolated or living on their own or don't have regular visitors or it could even be that if time permits that brief so social interaction these those are two incredibly valuable and that security I've known older people and and they need they like to be checked on because it gives them some sense of security god forbid if anything should go wrong or should have a fall or whatever it might be so even if you withdraw the food from it yeah we know many lives over the years have been saved in this way I mean it doesn't take a genius to work it out you could look you go to somebody's house you give him a heart of meal or both of them as sometimes it's couples and of course there's a conversation how are you today what's the what's the issues and you can go wrong and then you might discover this person actually needs a doctor this person needs a little bit more assistance or you know so yes it's a befriending service it's a social mixing service it's a well-being service it's a whole range of things and of course often the the provider of the the meal realizes I better talk to the public nurse about Joe because he really there's problems here that he's trying to sort out himself but he's not able or marry whatever so that's the reality this is much more valuable we call it the meals and wheels to be honest with you we're trying to find another name because it deserves a more comprehensive name than just meals and wheels but that's what it is you know what you have it because this is a rural link you know it is a rural link it this is what links us and our community together and it's it's it's a term but this is what links people to the community listen thanks Seamus I hope something is done I don't think people want this to be cost-neutral but they don't want the hand taken from them either I know I think the great commitment of volunteers needs to be acknowledged who do this sometimes it's temporary sometimes it's ongoing but it is a tremendous commitment and we every day can't but thank them for what they do because it's fantastic all right take care of yourself thanks as always and thank you and welcome to all the involved in the rural link and the work they do Seamus Boland their CEO of rural link okay let's get to some of your comments as we head towards the news at 12 uh Greg what would be the reaction if we in the Republic built bonfires and burned religious symbols pictures of leaders and flags in Northern Ireland and the UK would it be acceptable as we accept it I think not I'd think that's completely completely unacceptable uh the reference says that he represents both sides of the community can he get a Catholic from his community to come on to Highland Radio but I suppose you won't highlight the concerns of the Catholic community well listen you know everything we talk about is kind of the Catholic community to some extent in that that's the majority but secondly and and those two last texts kind of make my point the point I was simply trying to make is is that we know how problematic this is we know we've seen the the effigies we've seen the flags we've seen recently deceased people put on images put on the bonfire it's horrendous okay but at some point what I was talking about is is that when someone dies right it's it's weaponized or or people sort of say well sure look at blah blah blah blah half we lost the point where we go right everything else is we might have an issue with it we can't agree but uh that's sad news for that family in that community that's the point I'm making it wasn't about the wider uh issue no harm to independent td's they're just uh political uh pawns completely shameful says Darren in Bonkranagh thank you Marion Harkin for supporting a vote of no confidence you are listening to the people another caller says what is the problem with dispensaries I timed it and was ringing for 50 minutes no response the hsc needs to be contacted another caller says uh our guards allowed to drive on the phone I've seen guardian patrol cars on the phone driving on duty asked a guard I have a guard on my dashcam footage on the phone and he said they were allowed there's certain rules uh in the line of duty that don't apply to uh guardy seatbelts and things like that as well if you're able to exit the car quickly um right okay but I I think we've pursued that one before and there is a a derogation for guardian phones if I remember that correctly okay listen thanks so much um for taking part in the program today listening watching however you did so we're back with you tomorrow morning at nine uh stay tuned uh John Bresnan's up around