 up on the road. Does anybody see it on Facebook last night? Yeah, it's the Seat Wall Challenge or something. See, I was waiting to pick a bone with... The slight issue with that... What? Well, there's a couple of issues. First, it's not an issue. Everyone went out in the order I expected. He's serious? Sean went out first? Were you surprised? He wasn't playing straight from the start. He wasn't even leveled. Do you know what this was supposed to be, 90 degrees? There's a strong argument suggests that the winner, who shall remain nameless... David James? He was at 90 degrees. Was he teething? I'm not saying no. I never used the C word. No, we did not. He did seem to be the overall... In all fairness, tell the truth now. I have a bone to pick with Washington Kelly because who did you root for? Who did you want to go... Oh, what? ...to win? I didn't really care. Is that bad? No, no, it's okay. I took an interest in Kevin Fury. I wanted him to win. Okay. I did. That's just because he sat in few in front of him. And then, no, no, no, no, because then, Washington says, oh, and there he was commentary, and he says, Kevin Fury's leg's shaking, and I was looking at his leg, and his leg wasn't shaking. But you know when somebody says, your leg's shaking, but it's not shaking? You said he manipulated him? He did. Yeah, but also, everyone else was sitting at a 90-degree angle except for a certain DJ. Who? David James. He cheated? I'm not saying he cheated. Just say it. Just spit the dummy. He just wasn't sitting at a 90-degree angle. So, he cheated? Yes. Just say yes. I say he cheated. We're on the 9th of the Noon Show. Now, we don't use the word cheat. Do you not? No, you do it. You use the other words. You don't hold back. Come on. Good luck. Anyway, I might review it. I think a Stuart's Inquiry is required. That's all. Right, so he cheated then. Right. No, all right, then. See you later, Lee. Bye. That is, Lee, way to get sued. It is the 9th of the Noon Show, and now, with the news update, it's over to Michaela Clark. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The Tornishja says a timeline can't be put on the prospect of a united Ireland. It comes after the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, criticised the T-shocklier of Radker for saying Ireland would be united in his lifetime. Mr Heaton-Harris described the comments as unhelpful, with the storming executives still collapsed. Tornishja and Foreign Affairs Minister Miho Martin said he was surprised at Lee of Radker's comments. I don't know why, you know, I can't put a timeline on it, because it's very difficult to put a timeline underneath unreconsoliation, because ultimately, unity is about reconciliation between people, and that's, I've learned, is what we have to do every day of every year. Farmers protesting at the lack of action on nitrates' derogations say they plan to picket the finnigill thinking on Friday unless they see results. Members of the IFA remain at the Horse and Jockey Hotel in Tipperary, as they demand action from finniful politicians who are meeting there. They want the proposed nitrates' derogation limits to be scrapped on for the agriculture minister Charlie McConnlog to abandon plans to delay farming payments this year. Despite meeting with the Tornishja yesterday, farmer Alan Jago says the government are not providing solutions, which will keep the industry viable. Our president and some of our committee members have gone in to meet the minister and the need to Tornishja. They have not been very happy with the response that they have received back from the Tornishja and the minister, and we are waiting to see now what we do on Friday to finnigill thinking in Limerick. The outcome of a public consultation on parking charges in Moncrana is due to be delivered on October the 2nd. There was significant backlash to plans to scrap 30 minutes free parking on the main street with businesses starting a petition which garnered hundreds of signatures. Country Jack Murray is confident the proposal to abolish the free parking will be overturned. I think the decision when it was made was a wise one to introduce the half-hour parking charges to businesses, welcome it to businesses, say they rely on it. So I think those ratepayers who fund the county council through their rates have made their voices well-known in this and we should listen to them and I think we should secure that half-hour free parking. I have no doubt now that we will. DePaul supported 7,400 people in 2022 according to the Charities Annual Report. It included 5,808 adults and 1,647 children, making a total of 7,455. The charity also says 202 people's lives were saved by DePaul's staff using naloxin, a medicine that reverses the effects of a heroin overdose. 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It depends on which way it was loaded for you, right? Okay, let's look at the front of the newspapers today. The Donegal Democrat reports that an inquest into the death of Kili Gordon, mother of two, Jasmine Monaghal has been formally closed. Donegal Coroner, Dr. Dennis McCawley, reopened the inquest briefly on Friday morning at Donegal Town Courthouse, the family of the 28-year-old hairdresser who was found dead at her home at Forest Park, Kili Gordon in the early hours of January 4th, 2019, opted not to proceed with the formal inquest. In May, Richard Burke, Ms. Monaghal's on-off partner was jailed for 14 years for her killing. In March, a jury at the Central Criminal Court returned a verdict of not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and inquest into Ms. Monaghal's death was previously reopened in February of this year, but was adjourned under Section 25-2 of the Coroner's Act as criminal proceedings were still ongoing. And the matter has now been brought to a close. On to the nationals now and an interesting commentary from Miehl-Martin. I'm very interested to see what you think, by the way, out there, regardless of your political involvement or not. He's launched a fresh attack on Sinn Fein, who very much likely will be his coalition partners in the next government. Not, it's likely. I would say it's not necessarily a front-runner, but it's certainly not to be ruled out. But anyway, Tonnes to Miehl-Martin opened the Finafall Parliamentary Party's thinking in Cantitippurari yesterday with a stinging attack on Sinn Fein, describing the party's anti-enterprise, anti-Europe, and two-faced on climate action. As Finafall TD Senators and MEPs gathered in the Horses and Jockey Hotel, a large group of farmers protested outside, though they were somewhat mollified after meeting Mr. Martin and Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConnel, the meeting the first of a series of thinkings to be held by all the parties in advance of the next week's return of the doll, discussed budget priorities, education, transport and climate, and also preparation for local and European elections, which take place next year. But he also had to go at the press saying that he believed that much of the mainstream media were cheerleaders for Sinn Fein. I don't know what you think about that. Maybe you do believe that is the case. 08, 6, 60, 25,000, as I say. He says they're not challenged or they get a handy ride and people are the media are cheerleaders for Sinn Fein. On to the Irish Independent now. And if you're on a track and mortgage or variable rate still, there is now the threat of another European interest rate rise. It's stalking you as the European Central Bank meets again this week. You have been hoped that the nine hikes in lending rates, the ECB, would not impose another rise when it meets. But now the crunch decision on whether it raises interest rates again this Thursday or pauses appears to be on a knife edge and it's complicated for them to justify it one way or other because there are economies in different flux across Europe. So you have inflation falling down in some big economies and going up in other big economies, smaller economies going down in others, it's going up. So in other words, there's not a silver-budget EU-wide decision that can be taken that would suit all of those scenarios. There's a lot of internal factors in countries. Well, of nine rate hikes since last July, I have pounded track and mortgage holders seen mortgage prisoners paying rates as high as 9% and made borrowing far more expensive for first-time buyers. Some 70,000 homeowners coming off fixed rates by the end of this year are also paying huge hikes in repayments. Money markets think the governing council at the Frankfurt-based Central Bank will hold off on another rate rise when it meets this Thursday due to fears of a recession in Europe. But that's kind of what they want, you see. That's what they're trying to do because that flattens inflation. But a number of economists are adamant that rates will rise again this week as inflation is proving persistent. But as I say, there are nuances and there are people on track and mortgages paying double what they once were, which is a huge expense to try and absorb with everything else that's going on. The Irish Daily Mail. Gardy have concluded their vote of confidence in Commissioner Drew Harris, which is expected to end in a landslide result against the forces' top officer. Huge anger about the roster issue and Garda declines. Gardy's declining morale is expected to bring about an overwhelming vote against the commissioner. As Saul said, if you get 7,000 or 8,000 of your staff saying they do not think you're doing a good job, that will be very uncomfortable for the commissioner. But he's got the backing of the government. Leo Veracar recently stated that he has to be able to do his job and even if those who work under him don't believe he's doing that well, so be it. One, Garda said, a source. Gardy are honestly just fed up. There's the roster issue, which is just making them pull their hair out and the commissioners and the commissioners. Every single, pulling the commissioners' hair out. Gardy are honestly just fed up. There's the roster issue, which is just making them pull their hair out and the commissioner. Okay, I know every time I read the newspapers in the morning, there's errors in here, but anyway. But it's not just the roster and on it goes. So effectively, now the AGSI was mentioned in a text on this show last week, the start of last week, that the AGSI were voting on this issue as well. They aren't, they're not voting on it at all at all. It's just the GRA and it's expected that the rank and file Gardy will overwhelmingly vote no confidence in the Garda commissioner. The Irish Daily Star now, RT employees in receipt of car allowances, wait for it, do not need to have a driver's license. New documents from the national broadcaster have confirmed. It did not confirm however, how many of the 61 people working for the national broadcaster in receipt of allowances worth nearly 657,000 euro can legally drive. Email shared by the national broadcaster also show that Noel Kelly contacted RT four times about a 75,000 euro payment for Ryan Toberty. The national broadcaster claims it had come under pressure from the agent to pay the now infamous side deal agreement. Patrick Kilty's also interviewed, he's got a tough old job, I suppose, in that he's launching his. And a lot of people are very excited about his late, late show, which starts on Friday, but still this air of controversy around RT persists, it's not ideal. But I'll just read a couple of quotes from him. Patrick Kilty said he can understand the anger behind people refusing to pay for TV licenses amid the RT payment scandal. However, he says he's had no second thoughts about taking on the late, late show gig and feels that the show's return will remind people of the importance of public broadcasting. And I suppose there's the 250,000 dollars euro per year, which would also soften the cough somehow. The Education Minister seems to be a little bit of lag between public opinion and conversation and general discourse and her views. She's been speaking about mobile phone use in primary schools. Parents of primary school children will be asked not to buy their kids phones. Education Minister Norma Foley revealed plans for the new national campaign earlier this year. Moms and dads in Grey Stones, Cante Wicklow, came together to agree none would buy youngsters phones. The voluntary agreement came about as parents worried about increased anxiety in kids due to too much screen time, inspired by the Grey Stones deal. Minister Foley has now asked for officials to draw up policies to help other schools introduce the same ban on smartphones. So would you agree in a national campaign? A, there's two stories in there, banning phones in national schools, primary schools and B, encouraging parents. It wouldn't be cheap either, encouraging parents not to buy very young children. You know, your six, seven, eight, nine, 10s, 11s, 12s, perhaps a mobile phone. Would you be on for that? 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Ireland should follow the lead of an Australian city and ban the sale of shots after 2 a.m., a councillor has claimed, this is the Irish Daily Mirror. The measure was imposed by authorities in Adelaide last month in a bid to crack down on a rising problem of boozy late night violence. Now, Dublin independent councillor, Manics Flynn, say similar measures should be introduced here. His comments come ahead of plan new laws, allowing pubs to stay open until 12, 30 a.m. every day. Late bars, they'll be able to run to 230. Nightclubs will be able to run to 6 a.m. The move has been welcomed by nightlife bodies, of course, but other groups such as Alcohol Action Ireland have warned they may lead to greater addiction issues and more social disorder. I think that's a given, isn't it? Well, councillor Finn said the shots ban could be a way of avoiding people getting as heavily inebriated. What do you think about that? He's suggesting, follow the Australian lead, the Adelaide lead, ban shots in pubs and nightclubs after 2 a.m. Do you think that goes far enough? Do you think that's part of the problem? What's going on? Oh, wait, 60, 25,000, let us know what you think, please. And you can also call us on 07491-25,000. All right, we've loads to come, including, by the way, Community Guard Information. That's coming up just after 10, where you hear first the latest news and appeals from ungodly Chicana. That and so much besides, on the way. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra Mountaintop Letter Kenny, the Seastore National Large Forecourt of the Year for 2022. The Ninth All-New Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union, offering low-rate car loans with fast approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today. 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Now we're gonna talk again and continue our conversation about, I suppose people's access to services but then the lack of medical staff to provide these services and a lot of it is as we've been trying to highlight down to recruitment practices and issues that we'll tease out right now with Jenny Bears. Good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining us, Jenny. Good morning, Greg. Great to have you on the program. Okay, so you are a qualified medical professional going through the qualification process at the moment? I am a qualified optometrist, so I qualified in Korean in 2012. And... Yeah, go ahead, continue with the story, Jenny. Sorry, I beg your pardon. Sorry, so I qualified in Korean in 2012 and then went to England to complete my pre-reg which is like a placement year. So I qualified that in 2013 and I've been working in England ever since. But in December of last year, we decided to move home to Donegal. And from when I began to tell people that we were moving home, a lot of people I know started saying, oh, have you gone through the KORU process yet? You know, you need to get that started. It's a really difficult process. So I started that in March with the application and I'm still yet to be, to have my qualification recognised in the Republic of Ireland. And sorry, when did you actually start the process of March of which year? March of 23. 23. And still now, you're still going through this, you're still going through this KORU process which effectively is this state recognising qualifications which were obtained outside of the state. Yes, so KORU is in charge of dieticians, occupational therapists, optometrists, physios, social workers and speech and language therapists and a few others as well. So any of those qualifications that have been obtained outside of the Republic of Ireland. What does the process involve, Jenny? So in order for me to, it's an online form, first of all, I had to fill out. And I needed copies of my passport, my March certificate, my birth certificate, proof of my degree, proof of my membership of the General Optical Council, proof of my college membership, also needed transcripts from the university, certificate of my degree and a copy of this course syllabus from 2009 with each page had to be stamped and certified by the university. Wow. So by the time I got all of those things through, my application went in on April. And ever since then, I've been ringing regularly and the system I feel isn't really working because every time I ring them, they haven't received emails or they haven't looked for them. And I keep emailing and I get nothing back. And this is a very lengthy process. And I'm still probably about four months out from actually getting recognition through. It's so complicated. I think many would be discouraged from even going through that process. I know several people, either dieticians or optometrists that have given up and just either stay in the UK or Northern Ireland because they just can't, it just takes so long to get through. Do you think it's just too much red tape or do you think there's a shortage of staff? But sure, we don't know because you can't really, it doesn't sound like they're very communicative with you. No. So I think it probably is just too much red tape. The process for getting your degree recognised is the same regardless of where your university was, whether it's Northern Ireland or America, Australia, India, it's the exact same process for everyone to get the qualifications recognised. And every single applicant has to go through the same process. So instead of certifying perhaps like optometry and chlorine, everyone who's done it there, we agree that that's up to our standard. Each person has to go through the same process. So that's what really holds things up. And then any time I've emailed them, I get kind of a stock email sent back, copy and pasted, your documents are in a queue, you know, they'll be reviewed shortly by a team member, but weeks could go by and I still hear nothing. And then it seems like when I ring them, when I'm actually on the phone, they then say, oh yeah, we've just found this email that came through last month, we'll just add that to your file now. So it's almost like nobody's actively working on the cases unless you're actually on the phone to them. It's almost like all the information you've provided to them is scattered about the place and no one's actually working to bring it together. Exactly, yeah. And there's been several of my former employers that have had to send emails to them, maybe up to four times. So then I'm having to go round and ask, you know, the university people, the admin staff from the university and the GOC, can you send that again? Sorry, they haven't received it. And it's just taken a long, long time and it just seems so inefficient. Yeah, and it's not just the time and the fact that we need you working as an optometrist here. I mean, how many people can give up an income at the level they're able to sort of achieve for a year, months on end? I mean, you know, you just move back here, you know, there are vacancies, you want to get back to work, you want to start paying bills. I mean, how many people just say, well, we can't do this any longer because we have to pay the bills. Yeah, so I'm lucky because I can still work in Northern Ireland and obviously, we live quite close to the border. But if I had moved to Galway or Cork, you know, I would just be out of work until it's come through. Yeah, and as you say too, obviously you're an optometrist, but we're also talking about physiotherapists, social workers, speech and language therapists, radiographers and radiation therapists, occupation therapists, medical sciences, medical science and on it goes and on it goes. And this is, we're going to be speaking to other people later on in the morning. They aren't entering to this process because it's so convoluted and because they don't want to be nagging universities and all this type of stuff. I mean, why is it not streamlined? Yeah, there should be some sort of fast track. There's 16 universities in the UK that do optometry and there's only one in the whole of the Republic of Ireland as far as I'm aware. So for your optometrist, I can only speak from my experience, lots of people in Ireland are going to have to go abroad to get, you know, or go to Northern Ireland or go to the UK to get this degree. Yes. So you're going to have a lot of people trying to come back, having to go through this process. You're not going to be able to fulfill all the optometry jobs in Ireland with just one university doing the course. There should be some sort of... Say you wish to work sort of in the private sector or in the public sector. Do the same rules apply, Jenny? Yeah, we still have to have the same registration. Right, OK. And it's going to be at least October before you... I beg your pardon, Jenny. It's going to be at least October before you... And I would suspect you have little faith that it will be delivered in October before your excellent qualifications are actually recognised so you can work and you can work in the Republic of Ireland. So Karu and I, I believe meet once every four months. Oh, wow. OK. So once you actually have all your paperwork in order, which is the stage that I'm stuck on at the moment because nobody seems to be actively, you know, collating my paperwork into the one place, but once I get past this stage, it could still be four months from then before I'll get recognition. You have to pay as well. I think it's at £7.50? I... Yes, you have to pay. And then you also have to pay because some of the documents from like the College of Optometrics, you have to pay them, little fees to get these things sent out to you. A lot of my documents had to be certified by a solicitor. So you have to pay a solicitor to do these. So little things are not as well here as well. And if you had, and pardon my ignorance because I'm learning as we go here, Jenny, if you had completed all of your studies in Northern Ireland and received your qualification there and say continue to work in Northern Ireland, you still would have to go through this process? Absolutely, yeah. OK. That's remarkable. OK, Jenny, listen, thanks for your time. Thanks for helping us understand where the problems are. OK, appreciate it. And I hope things come through quicker than you might anticipate. Thanks, Jenny. Amy Sweeney's with us as well. Amy's training to be an occupational therapist. Amy, good morning to you. How are you keeping? Morning, I'm good. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. OK, so what made you want to become an OT? I have seen, like, OT, my brother has intellectual disability and I've seen him go through that process from when we were very young. And just like the, just like seeing him and stuff, it just always like stuck out to me. So I always knew I wanted to do something in health care and then OT just kind of came to me then when I was kind of like doing my leave and certain all and I got in then. So that's what made me want to do it. And had you a preference? Did you fancy doing your study in Britain, Northern Ireland, or did you want to do it in the Republic of Ireland? Talk to us about when you started digging a little bit deeper what your experience was. So yeah, I wanted to kind of do it as close to home as possible, but then when you were looking down the country and stuff to do it, like the first thing for me was the NHS will cover your fees completely when you study in dairy. And it's just kind of like an incentive to stay, I'd say with them, like, you know, to stay in the north and continue work. Just to recap, just to recap that because this is really critical. The NHS covers college fees for the three years, but if you were to go to Galway now, unless you were able to qualify for the Susie Grant, you have to pay for that yourself. Yeah, that's correct. McGee University, they will pay for, they pay, they cover the fees of every sort of healthcare course, like the likes of dietitian, nursing, physiopatriety, they cover all the fees for them courses as an incentive. And as well, they only will allow applicants from the north of Ireland as well as the south of Ireland. And I think that's an initiative as well to get people to stay because there was probably people qualifying and then just leaving to go back to, say, the likes of England or Wales, wherever they were from. So I think that it just seems a lot more appealing to me, like they were kind of giving you incentives to do the course. Is there any obligation on you to work as an OT in the north after your qualification, as they're covering your college fees? No, there's none. Like there's some courses in England will do that. Like physio, I think if you say they'll cover your fees, but you have to work for three years and with them to kind of, as you say, like as an obligation, but now there's none at all. Like if you wanted to, you could just move and leave and mark in Australia as soon as you qualify. So... And just in terms of then the NHS and the HSE, like, do the NHS then try and entice you? Or like, I don't know how far into your studies you are, but like, do you find that the HSE are trying to reach out to you or the NHS are trying to reach out to you? Say, look, this is what we have to offer you if you're qualified or maybe it's a little bit early in your course. I don't know, Amy. Yeah, like, even just I work as a healthcare assistant and when I'm up in the hospital, I tell people I'm selling to be no tea and they're like, oh, like, you'll no bother getting a job here. And then I say I'm selling in the North and then, of course, then it's the nurses being like, oh, that coronary process, like, there's no point in doing it, you know what I mean? But like, it just seems like the job opportunities even in the North just seem so much more better, like, considering placement-wise and stuff, you get to see so much more. And I'm not saying the waiting list for occupational therapy and all in the NHS are shorter. But, yeah, like, it all seems to be, like, if you look online, the difference in, like, jobs, like even the benefits and stuff for a job in the NHS versus the HSE-like, and the pay-in stuff. Yeah, so the whole experience of how you were treated as a student, what they would offer you as, you know, as you qualify and go out working as an OT, you would have to make, well, firstly, let's, now, before we talk about, let's talk about this Kauru process. Like, when did you become familiar with that? This long-drawn out, terribly misorganised, it seems, or unorganised process to have your UK inverted commas qualifications recognised in the Republic? Like, did you know that for the get-go or have just people been talking to you about this as you've been going through your education, Amy? Yeah, it was kind of more like when I was working because I worked for an agency, so, like, healthcare, so I could be in, like, different locations, and it was everyone there. Like, I never really knew how long it took. Like, I just, like, I've heard people say to me before, it's expensive, but it's, you know, sometimes if it's worth it, if you want to move back home. But, like, it was nurses and OTs and physios. I was chatting in the hospital that I got chatting to. They were saying, like, oh, it's not worth it. It could take you weeks. It could take you months. It could take you years. You're just far better off. And I suppose we're lucky because we're so close. Like, I could still live in Letter Kent and work in the North. And do you know what I mean? But, like, as I said previously, if you were to study in Derry and you were from Dublin and you really wanted to move back home for reasons, like, you'd just be, like, I don't know what you would do. You'd be so out of pocket for so long. And I don't mean this bad, because it's a fantastic view, but that's no good to us, Amy. We need you working here. It's great that you can live in Donegal and work in the North. But, like, just to put context on this, we've been covering this for the last while now, parents with children under the disability network team across the county have received letters explaining they may lose out and, in some cases, will lose out due to recruitment and vacancy issues. There are a number of vacancies in occupational therapy. Now, if Donegal girl Amy goes right, do you know what? I might apply for one of those jobs. Amy would be expected to pay into the thousands of euro and to go through a Kauru regulation process on the same island as she got her qualifications before she could even apply for that job. And it would be at least nine months, maybe a year or more, before the Northern Irish on the same island qualifications were recognised so that Amy could go in working with the team in Donegal. I mean, it's a broken system, Amy, isn't it? Now, you may choose to work in the North anyway, and that's up to you, and that's fantastic. And you're helping fellow county people in different counties. But why would you put yourself through what you'd have to put yourself through to work in Donegal for worse conditions? Yeah, exactly. Like, as I say, I would have experience with the disability sector. I've seen it with my mum, I've seen it with my brother and stuff. And like, to me, I think it's definitely not the likes of the Occupational Therapist, the Asian Language Therapist. It's more like the system, like they're getting worked on and that's not in their scope, or like they feel bad. Like, as soon as my brother turned 18, he was completely signed off with Occupational Therapist. Like, he was discharged from OT in Kizio, and mum was never able to get respite for him. But the time, like, as soon as he turned 18, it was offered to him. I don't know if that was because of staffing and age and stuff, but I'm getting on like there is... I would love to work in the disability sector, but as you say, it just seems so much more appealing in the north and just through that whole process. Like, it just seems so much more better. And we do recognise Amy, and it's been said a couple of times that it's the same in the calm services, the people that are working in the child and young adult mental health services, as well as those that remain in the Children's Disability Network teams. I imagine it's really tough, huge workloads. They would love to be able to do more, but they can't. They need more colleagues to share the workload, maybe that they're working in their lane rather than having to sort of... You know, it must be a really, really tough area to be working in, so it's really important that they hear that we're backing them as well, Amy. This isn't a criticism of the staff working within it. It's recognising the fact that we need to recruit more and make it easier to recruit more to help them and help children and, therefore, help families. Yeah, 100 per cent. Like, as I say, I was chatting with O.T. who... She works in pediatrics, but she would be pulled into the likes of, like... And, like, adults and stuff. And she says, like, she just lost the enjoyment of her job because it just wasn't in her scope. Like, it wasn't what she basically signed up for. And so she wasn't trained on. She was getting sort of made to do. And she just kind of lost her love for it because they are so understaffed. She was just getting pulled here, there and everywhere. And it's definitely not the problem of the staff. And even working in the hospital, you can see it's just... Work it and find it on top of people because of these recruitment and... Or because of these shortages. So, I don't know, I think just something needs to be done in terms of, like, incentives for people or even students and stuff, I don't know. What... Yeah, but, I mean, if anyone listened to Jenny there talking about what she's going through with the Kauru process, the CORU... E-C-O-R-U process, it would discourage you. That's not her intention. But she's calling them and they're going, oh, yeah, we found that email now. She sent it a month ago, thinking, right, work's happening now to progress this that it can go into employment that matches my qualifications. And no one's actually even chasing this stuff up. Yeah, we have international recruitment campaigns. I wonder how that works. Like, something needs to be done here, Amy, because we're losing fantastic talent like you and it will always be your choice where you work. But if we could make it a little bit easier, you might decide to do five years in Northern Ireland and then, you know, move back and work in Donegal. But how... Why would you put yourself through that Kauru process? Yeah, definitely. Like, that's what I mean. Like, if they are trying to get people and they are continuing to talk about the shortages of stuff, I just don't know why they're making it easier. Like, I would love to work in Donegal and stuff, but as I said, it's just so off-putting. Like, there's just no appeal at all to work for the HSE for many reasons. Like, I don't know, just something needs to be sorted soon because they're just going to have no staff at all. Like, everyone, I'm in my early 20s and every day you go on Facebook or someone else moving to Australia with their degree or Canada, London, England, like, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, I don't know. And even, and I'll let you go now, but even if you wanted to, we'd like, we heard from Jenny about solicitors fees and every page happened to be stamped and all that stuff. A recognition aptitude chest, 500 euro, registration recognition, 250. That's an appeal process. But anyway, at least a minimum 500 euro that you would have to pay for the right to go through this year-long process to apply for a job and work in an understaffed sector. It doesn't take, it's not hard to work out where the problems lay, Amy. Yeah, definitely. Like, it just seems like no one is going to want to train for the HSE anymore. And like, I don't know, like, as you say, I just don't know what they're doing, to be honest. OK, Amy, we'll listen best of luck with your career. I hope the powers that be look at this so that when you choose that you want to, that you can come and work in the Republic without having to jump through these numerous hoops. But it's giving us a real interesting insight, Amy, and that's why I'm so keen to speak to you as to why we're having these recruitment issues. Best of luck with everything into your future, Amy. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks so much, Amy Sweeney there. I do have to take a very quick break, and then we're dealing, we're going to be speaking to another mom who is trying to or is dealing with the childhood disability network team and the challenges faced within. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook, and at HighlandRadio.com. The Ninetal Noon Show is brought to you by Letter Kenny Credit Union, with monster loans available up to 60,000 euro for all occasions. Visit letterkennycu.ie. How about you? Are you team breakfast Pink Lady? Or feeling peckish Pink Lady? Bedtime Pink Lady? 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OK, so you will know now many parents received a letter from the Children's Disability Network team from different teams across Donegal explaining they may lose out in services due to recruitment and vacancy issues. The letter outlined children with the most complex needs in speech, in terms of speech therapy, occupational therapy and psychology services will be prioritized. We spoke to one mom yesterday whose child received, I think it was three speech therapy or four speech therapy sessions and she could see the improvement in her little baby. But then was told that unfortunately that's it now, that's the end of it because we have to prioritize these services. So this is not just going forward. There are people who are trying to engage with such services that have ongoing issues. This is not something that began yesterday. Kirstie Robs with us now. Kirstie, sorry for holding you, but thank you very much for joining us and good morning to you. Yeah, thanks. I'm doing OK, Kirstie. What's your situation? You've been engaging with the network since 2019, I think. I've been with them since 2019. When I first we buy, I have two we buys. There are four and five. And they're both, I had to go private. Then they end up to get them diagnosed, to get them into school because an problem was happening with the team. But so just to be clear, they were coming to the school going age and up until then, you hadn't even received a diagnosis so they could attend school. So at that point, you had to go private for that diagnosis. Aha, yeah. Right, OK. Now, since then... It's a lot there, both up on Little Angels. I belong to Little Angels. My youngest boy and I, or my oldest boy, he's in senior infants. And then my youngest we buy, he's in the set. He should have been starting during your infants, but he'd done the two years of the preschool. So he's under the second year of the preschool. Now, you need your diagnosis to get under the way he art of them preschool. So that's why I went private then, to get that done, to get them under, get them a better health because I wasn't getting that anywhere else. Now, both of them need support, OT, psychology, speech therapy. So there are now four and five, I think you said. Yeah. How many sessions of any of those disciplines have they had so far in their young lives? My oldest we boy has got, I would say he's got about five speech therapy, and he's seen the physio once, and that's it. And then my youngest we boy's got not on yet. Nothing. And I went through assessments and needs for him. And I remember getting the dates for the dates that the therapies would start. And I remember crying and saying, these are so far away, how can we wait this long? And now we're a year past them as well. Do you know, and I still haven't got them. And we're a year past the assessment and need dates that we were promised. And you've just got the letter. And we got the letter then. The no-fold letter. OT and speech and language therapist is down to one, so it's the most severe cases. And like both my boys is completely non-verbal and don't understand anything we're saying to them. Or like if I say to them, all we're going to care or do you want sweet, they don't have a clue what I'm saying to them. Do you know? And they're four and five. And it's just, what's more severe than that whenever it comes to speech and language, do you know? Yeah. And it's also very, very difficult as parents because you know that if they had access to some of these supports, you wouldn't, they could communicate better with you. They may start speaking. They may start edging towards milestones. And that would be, I presume as a mom curse, that'd be everything to you. Oh, definitely. Like I said, to see the occupational side, like I don't have a clue. I'm like, I didn't know autism until it came to my door. Do you know? And I'm just learning through my boys. And like their sensory needs are so bad, especially the youngest we've all had sensory needs are huge. And I don't know. I'm just trying things and looking up things. And like there's no support there to even tell me what to do or like, oh, this is what you can do to help them and stuff. There's nothing like there's like, as I say, he has a lot of sensory issues. He doesn't want to wear clothes. He doesn't want to wear nappies. He doesn't want to wear pants. He doesn't want to, and it's just toilet and all over the house. And it's just constant, you know, and there's no health. That's an awful lot of pressure on you. I've emailed a rang of, I got a meeting then with a team because I kept emailing them and emailing them. And I got a meeting in May, 22. I'm sure we never got any further from the meeting like at all. And Kirsty, when you hear about what was it they said that children with the most complex needs in terms of speech therapy, OT and psychology services will prioritise, you've got four and five year olds there. You've outlined, you know, some of the behaviour. You've outlined that, you know, they're non-verbal at four and five. You must ask yourself, well, if I'm not a severe case and if my boys aren't getting these services, you know, who is, not that you would begrudge anyone, but you know what I'm on about, like, he must be wondering, well, how bad must it be out there? I know, I know, that's, I don't understand it at all. Like, and there I got, my voice is both diagnosed with the severe intellectual disability as well. Do you know? But I mean, obviously you've done what we all do. My bad, they didn't need to be. Yeah, you would go, you'd do what we all do. You would say, right, well, public's, let's not stand, let's price private. I think the private route is far beyond most people's, most people needs, what needs, means, sorry, what kind of prices are we talking? Well, whenever I started pricing, I was a gone-eyed deaf and I can't afford this. The further it seems, it's really expensive, I was getting prices of over a thousand, but then I did find a lady in Donegal Town and she was HSE recognised and that was 350 per block per each for the autism diagnosis. Well, that was just the diagnosis. But in terms of... That was just the diagnosis and then I went, I was pricing there for the occupational therapist because we really struggled with that now at the minute and I went on and priced and that's 450 euro for one day. Oh my God, yeah. And Christy? 250, sorry, it's 250. No, no, that's fine. So they would take 50, you know, up to 400 for both and I was like, for one day, it's a lot of money left. And the thing is too, like, this is not just, this feels like last time as well because you're looking and saying, well, if we had these services, how would my boys be when they're six and seven or 11 and 12? But four years, one has had no support at all, limited support for the other. It must be very difficult for you not seeing them progress like they possibly could if they had access to these services or they likely would. I mean, that cuts to the core of us as parents. I remember whenever I first went up, like they were praising me and how good I was and how getting it so early and coming for the help so early and how important that is and how much it's gonna help my boys getting that early intervention. And at that age is the most important age for them to soak into the rebrand and sure, I've got nothing. Do you know that was four years ago and they were telling me that I was so good for getting them the help back then and how much it would help them and they haven't got any help, do you know? And as we've heard from many other parents, that's when the fight starts, apparently. That's when the battle starts. I don't wanna say anything that's triggering or anything but how do you cope, Kirsty, with, you know, we've all had days when, you know, children play up, rip the nappy off and all that kind of stuff, but this is an ongoing situation for you and trying to juggle so many balls in the air, it sounds like, Kirsty, I mean, how do you look after yourself? Oh, honestly, I don't know. I ask myself all the time, I don't know how, I get like, it's hard, it's every single day, it's hard, like, I don't know, I just have to keep going, like, I don't know. Okay, well, listen, this is, it's people like you, Kirsty, while we're talking about it, this is why it's so important and we just can't, we can't continue to have people like you in their hundreds if not thousands across the county, certainly the region, battling these daily battles, often must feel like it's very much a lonely space as well, Kirsty, thanks so much for helping us, giving us an understanding. All right, thank you. All right, Kirsty, all right, okay, thank you. We have to take a quick break, then we're gonna speak to Doreen Freel from iCare, who of course will have a very clear insight into all of what we're talking about. The Nine Till Noons show with Letter Kenny Credit Union. Simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from Letter Kenny Credit Union. Call us on 074-910-2126 or apply online via our app or in office today. At Screw Fix, you can click and collect over 10,000 trade products in as little as one minute. 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And I heard you ask in Kirstie earlier, how does she cope? Kirstie has no choice but to get up every day and cope, Greg. And that's the shocking part about this, these parents, they require support. It's not just the children that need support. The families need support. The parents need support. And the parents have been brilliant this past few days trying to highlight these issues and explain to you what they're living with. Many of these parents, Greg, are not sleeping at night on top of everything that they're living with through the day. So sadly, this is all too familiar to us here in Eye Care. And I mean, Eye Care itself, and I've been recovering this for years, I presume it hasn't changed. In terms of what supports it can provide to the relevant families, every single year it's the annual battle to get funding just to keep going. I simply don't know how you guys do either. Well, you know how we do it, Greg. We are completely supported by our community here and I want to acknowledge that and I want to thank every single person in our community. Eye Care is actually 23 years old this month and we have been supported throughout those 23 years by our community. They have sustained us and supported us. They continue to do that and everything that is needed. So a huge thank you to every member of the community who organizes a fundraiser, who comes down to a coffee morning. It all makes a difference to us and to the children and adults and the families that we're trying to support. I think over the last while, Doreen, I think we've highlighted or we've sort of got to the bottom of what all of the problems are here in terms of recruitment, retention and all that type of stuff, how jobs are advertised, how you'd have to be a detective to find them unless you're the member of some Facebook page or something. How the UK treats those qualifying in some of these areas so much different to here. There's a lot to work on, but I just don't get the feeling there's anyone working on it, Doreen, and that's why we have to keep at it. Absolutely, and like we could talk for hours on end about what the different families are going through and I reached out to the families last night and it's across the board. Speech therapy, OT, physio, psychology, everything, access to cams. You know, we could talk forever, but as you say, what can we do about this? Who is raising this at the top levels? Over the years, Greg, we've always realised that health and education don't seem to communicate very well together and it is the families and the children who fall between stools. You know, I would appeal to every single parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt, family member, sister, brother, friend. We all need to challenge our public representatives. This has to be on the agenda of every single meeting that takes place regardless of where it's taking place or what it's about. They're currently down wherever they are in Ireland having their thinkings. Finafoil from Gale will do their shortly. This needs to be on their agenda and I would appeal to all political representatives to put this on the front burner. This is shocking. This party, this Sinn Fein having to go on at Finafoil about this and Finafoil having to go at Sinn Fein about that, it's not reading the room. We need people, whomever they are, I don't care what party I'm on there with. We need people to sort of say, actually, these are the issues that we need to tackle, that we need to be working on because it's just completely unacceptable. This is an absolute crisis. And the problem is, as you see, it affects thousands of people, but it doesn't affect enough to turn an election. And therefore, forget about it. Exactly, but as their friends and families and everybody make this a boring issue, Greg, it could affect the outcome of an election. And you're exactly right. We don't care who anybody votes for, whether it's Sinn Fein, whether it's Finafoil, Sun Gale, Green Party. We just want the people who are in these positions where they can make change to make the changes that are required. Very often when you're working with a child with additional needs, Greg, it can be the smallest adjustment that can make a huge difference. And very often at the highest levels, it could be the smallest of adjustments that would make the biggest difference to being able to employ people and attract them into a position. And I would also appease the parents, Greg. ICARE began with a small group of seven parents who needed support, isolated the community, came together, they needed support, and that was how ICARE started. Parent power is huge. Yeah, well, that's a tough road, too. It's a tough road, too. It's a very tough road. It's been involved in ICARE since September. And we've all been there from day one. Yeah, and it is a tough road, but it's also, it's very empowering, Greg, also. And we will set up, we have a parent support group. It was an offer this summer, and we were closed last week for staff training. Our support group will begin again next week. And I would appeal to any parent who can attend it to attend it, parents learn from each other. So what we might do, Doreen, because I have to go to the news at 10. And perhaps maybe the day before that's re-established, you might come back on and we can talk about that in a little bit more detail. Did I mention one thing before? Yeah, just to mention, there's always hope, and we're always trying to make sure that we can provide a good service for our members. We have been very successful with the AIB community fund, and we have an award of 28,000 euro, and we're going to be bringing PECS training to the community, Greg. So that will give some hope to some of the families out there. So just to make people aware that that will happen on the 11th and 12th of April, it would be brilliant if families could attend that, get your babysitters booked now well in advance, because that will be so helpful. But we will keep working away here in ICARE and keep trying. We'll meet with our parents, and we will come back to you, Greg, before we set up our parents' support group. Please do, one of the proper training. And thank you very much for having us. No problem, Doreen. Doreen Freel, Vice-Chair of ICARE. Back with more after the news at 10, which will be a minute late. 42 wash was 22 euro, now 11 euro, and money off vouchers every week on the app, too. So pop in for great savings in store or online, this autumn at Supervalue. Sail, sail, sail. With over 150,000 euro of reductions across all used stock. This is not to be missed. Test drive, any card, iMotors, and enter a draw to win 1,000 euro cash. Yes, 1,000 euro cash to take a test drive. End September 16th. 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Every Tuesday morning after 10 here on the Nine Till Noon Show. Let me go to some of your comments. Hi, just to add to the topic you were discussing before, 10 of Kauru. I'm a recently graduated dietitian from a course in the UK. The HSE have made an incentive for us that they will take us on as a dietetic assistant until the registration is granted. Just thought I'd say this as it's new to the system. Perhaps same could be done for OTs at ETC into the future. Yeah, indeed. That makes a lot of sense. Dreadful to listen to these ladies. Why would any organization seek curriculum from 2009? We are all aware that's been updated. Surely references from working life should take precedence. Ireland and legislation policy is the renation of all systems, of course. There must be some, there must be some, but the extent of such an Ireland in all sectors is appalling. Hi, Greg. I think the introduction of Kauru has a lot to do with the issues around professionals not being able to be recruited here. I'm a social worker and I was registered with Kauru. However, as a part-time social worker, I was required to complete each year a continual professional development portfolio. This required a lot of extra written work over and above our daily work. I had no problem doing courses to keep my practice up to date. However, the extra work to stay registered just became too much. I've now taken time out due to personal reasons and deregistered. Recently, I was offered a job in social work but declined as now to re-register with Kauru as the amount of retraining I would need to do is completely ridiculous. Kauru is simply a joke and their expectations on top of heavy workloads is just unrealistic. I think a lot of us are learning about Kauru for the first time. Exact same situation with the National Teaching Council of Ireland. Another, it's the same issue with Chagaske and DAFM for qualifications for agriculture. It's very frustrating. Another, Northern Ireland courses and qualifications should be recognised in all of Ireland, of course, and you would imagine. Is there not some provision within the Good Friday Agreement or something whereby a mechanism would have to be put in place to recognise Northern Irish qualifications by default? OK, let's have an argument about Leeds, Liverpool, London, whatever, all the else. But certainly on the island of Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement not given provision for these courses to be just recognised. Did Highland Radio ring the Minister of Health yet? Otherwise, it's pointless preaching to the converted on radio. The Minister's office, of course, has been contacted and we're not preaching to the converted, actually, what we're trying to do and I respect maybe your point is coming from a position of frustration. Who's been talking about this? You know, this is a situation that we are trying to highlight. I don't think there was a general knowledge across the whole county that families were struggling as they were. Of course, the families know themselves. Of course, those close to them. But across the general population, did we know about Carew? How could I even question the Minister for Health on Carew if we hadn't had the conversations that we were having and spoke to people, great young professionals, who will work in the UK because they're frustrated by an unworkable, it seems, or very difficult to work with system here? I get your point, but we have a platform here and we're talking about things that I don't think really have been talked about extensively for over a prolonged period of time before. Just before the break here, this might have been discussed before. If you're leaving Letterkenny Shopping Centre and heading over the Pierce Road at the roundabout, what's the correct lane to be in? 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This happened in Donegal Town on the evening of Wednesday, the 6th of September, and around 7.50pm, a car struck an outdoor seated area at a licensed premises there on Chirconnell Street. So one lady aged in her 60s was taken to Lederkenny University Hospital to be treated for serious injuries. A man and a woman also in their 60s were taken to Lederkenny University Hospital. They were treated for injuries believed to be non-life-threatening. So our investigations are ongoing. Guardi are appealing to anybody who may have witnessed this incident to come forward to speak to them. Anybody who is travelling in that area off Chirconnell Street, Donegal Town, between 7.30pm and 8.30pm, and if they have dash cam footage, they're asked to make that available to Guardi. Anybody with any relevant information has asked to contact Valley Shannon Guardi in 0719858530. The Guardi confidential line on 1800 666111 or any Guardi station. Yeah, and I mean, because it's such a local incident, we know there is people that have mobile phones at and all that type of stuff. So it's to make sure that anyone who has any footage at all, because it'll have to be a full and thorough investigation by Guardi that make that available. Of course, and Guardi has spoken to a vast number of people already and have taken statements from a number of people, but just if there is anybody out there who has even footage on their phone and they feel like there's no point in submitting this, the Guards probably have it already. Don't presume that. Just come in and offer the footage forward. You know, it could be a great benefit. Okay, the next appeal is in relation to an assault on the Donegal Road. Yeah, this happened on the Donegal Road, Bally Buffay on Saturday, the 9th of September. This happened quite late at night, between 11.25pm and half 11. So a man is believed to have been assaulted by two other males at that location, and these males left the area and fought they took off in the direction of the main street, Bally Buffay. The injured man was then taken by ambulance to Letter Kenney Hospital to receive treatment for injuries, none of which are believed to be life-threatening in nature. So we are appealing to anybody who may have travelled on that stretch of the road, the Donegal Road out of Bally Buffay, who had a dash cam between 11.20pm and 11.45pm to make contact with Gardie. If anybody witnessed this incident or if they've any relevant information, we ask them to contact us in Letter Kenney on 9167-100 and the area in which this incident happens actually across the road there from Mulrain's factory. This is quite a large area of the Donegal Road, so just an hour with down a bit. Dan, further, Dan a bit from Anthony Collins. Yeah, just a long area. Okay, get you. Right, okay, so that narrows it down a little bit, very useful. Okay, your colleagues in Bally Shannon are investigating an incident criminal damage. Yeah, this incident happened at Bachelors Walk, Bally Shannon, in the early hours of Monday, Monday, September 11th, sorry. Shortly after midnight, a rock was thrown at the window of a house in that area and the window was smashed. So we're appealing to anybody who may have been in that area who had a dash cam again, who are always appealing for the dash cam footage, it's invaluable to us. If they could make this footage available to Gardie, and again, if anybody observed any suspicious activity in that area, we would ask them to contact the Gardie in Bally Shannon on 071958530 or the Garda Confidential Line is always 1800-666-111. Okay, I'm not sure it's completely unusual, but we don't hear about this type of theft in Bonkranagh all too often. No, it's quite an unusual one. It's usually thefts of cars that we appeal in relation to. So this one is a theft of a caravan. This caravan was stolen from the rear of a property in the Bally-McCarrie lower area of Bonkranagh between 0730 p.m., sorry, on Thursday, the 7th of September and 0830 p.m. on Friday, the 8th of September. This caravan, it's an Idria Adora 532 model and it's white in color and has some sort of blue wave patterns along the sides. So we're appealing to anybody who believes that they may have seen this caravan on transit. Now, again, it's not unusual at this time of year to see caravans on transit. We appreciate that. But if anybody do believes that they may have seen this one in that area being transported, contact Garda, should anybody have any information in relation to the current location of this caravan or if anybody's offered one that sounds similar for sale in a secondhand basis also, we would ask them to contact the Garda in Bonkranagh. You know, it could be totally legitimate, but just let the Garda know anyway and they can check it out. Yeah, and in the case like that, it's very important the buyer beware because ignorance of something is not a defense and they could end up losing the property that they've paid for it to be returned to its rightful owner. Potentially what I'm saying is, so it's very much in the purchaser's interest to ensure they are satisfied it's not stolen. For sure, and it's quite an expensive item also you don't want to be out of pocket without a amount of money. So just if you have any suspicions at all, you see one for sale or if you're offered one for sale, sounds similar. Just alert us and let us know and we can check it out. OK, motorbike two also stolen. Yeah, this Yamaha motorcycle, now we've only a partial registration so far for this 98DL. This was stolen from the rear of our property in the Bonhamayian area of Bridgend. So this happened between September 5th and September 11th. Now this homeowner had been away and upon their return, unfortunately, they discovered that their motorcycle had been stolen. So we're going to ascertain further details of this motorcycle and posted to our Facebook page when we obtain that. So we're just asking anybody, if anybody's seen any sort of suspicious activity in that area, Bonhamayian Bridgend, between those dates. So this between September 5th and September 11th, just alert Guardi. And if anybody has any relevant information or any knowledge as to where this motorbike may be stored or kept at the moment, we ask them to contact Guardi and Broncranna on 9320540. And I suppose a reminder for us all that just because something's pulled around the back of the house in both those instance, it doesn't mean they're secured just because of the location either. So we have to make sure we can extend our security right around our property. Yeah, well, this bike was actually, and again, I'm not, we often say this, we're not proportionate in any way whatsoever to the owner of this bike, but it was left in an unlocked shed while the person was away from home. So again, just a quick reminder too, in relation to locking up, we're always talking about locking up your house and sure doors when those are secured, but do the same with your shed. I mean, people have such valuable items in their shed. It really is. Exactly, yeah. Yeah, it's astonishing, really we do. And how many of us have a lock in our sheds? Definitely worth a bit of a security review, especially as we head into the shorter nights, not want to depress anyone with the, you're talking about the weather, but you know what I mean? It is the cover of darkness. It's got that name for a reason, isn't it? And those involved in criminality will use that darkness cover. Of course, and then usually going into this time of year also, you know, unfortunately, the rates of burglaries often start to increase. And then you have, you know, you have implements in your shed, ladders, crowbars, implements of people. Who could use to break into your property also. So please just always ensure that your shed is locked. Yeah, good advice. Okay, now a theft incident on the Grand Churrode. Yeah, again, Gardian Boncranar investigating this one. This happened in the area of Riverview on the Grand Churrode, Boncranar, in the early hours of Friday, the 8th of September. So we've pinpointed it down. CCTV has been viewed. This happened between 1.40 a.m. and 1.50 a.m. So Amel entered the rear of a property and he entered actually, he went in and out a number of times. He stole six vintage milk churns. He was accompanied by another person also. And we're just appealing to anybody who may have traveled in that area who had a dash cam. Again, make that footage available to us. We can go through that and have a look. We also appeal to anybody who is in that area who may have observed any vehicles or people on the move. You know, at that time in the morning, you wouldn't imagine that there would be too much, too many vehicles pulled in or people on foot in the area. So if anybody's seen anything like that, let us know. A vehicle would have been required really to transport these items. They would have been quite heavy. So just contact Ardee in Bunkran on 9320540 should you come across these items and they are, they're quite distinctive items. You know, should you come across these for sale, alert Ardee immediately? No, I'm not particularly special but out and about over the summer, I don't think I've visited a beach once, a boardwalk once or gone for a country road walk once without a dog that's not in control either running up towards me or Hudson or whatever it might be. Nothing happened, no barking, no biting, no nothing like that there but the young lad does not like dogs and it's really actually a pain. It is a pain, which is kind of coincidental then that you're talking about the control of dogs. Grania says there was no malice, no mal intent, no damages done as such but the boy doesn't like dogs. He doesn't like strangers dogs and it's just a pain and it means that we can't go down. Not at this point, but it could mean you can't go down certain roads. Yeah, and it's unfortunate then that you're restricted to these areas. Yeah, and that's what happens. You sort of passively avoid certain places. Yeah, I know, I understand that myself. I have a little boy who's absolutely petrified of dogs and you do you find yourself maybe avoiding certain areas that you would have often went to before because of dogs that aren't kept on the system. It doesn't matter the size to me, it doesn't matter if it's a toy dog or a dogman, the reaction's the same anyway but go ahead Grania. So this is actually a guard. One of the guards in Moville contacted me in relation to this. They've received a couple of reports in recent, very recent times in relation to this. So they received a very recent report from a lady. She'd been out for a walk in the Moville area. I think it's the shore walk, shore walk area I think that we're talking about here. Now she came across a dog. The dog wasn't on a leash. The dog jumped on her, caused her to, knocked her to the ground really. She was scratched by the dog and then she had to receive a tetanus shot. So just this is a second similar type of incident that was reported to local guardian Moville within the last few weeks. So we just want to issue a reminder. Just remind the public that under the 1986 Control of Dogs Act, all dog owners are obliged to have their dogs under effectual control. So it doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be kept on a leash. They don't have to be kept on a leash but just keep them under your effectual control. Dog owners must be able to control their dogs at all times. So some dogs must obviously, they have to be kept on a leash by law and wear a muzzle also when out in public. And some of these dogs include a bullmasti for Doberman Pinscher, English Bolteria and a German Shepherd, amongst others. So if you have a dog and you are able to control it then that's well and good. But look, some dogs are very excitable and they approach people or other animals. And as we discussed there in relation to young children sometimes may have a fear of dogs. It can cause considerable upset or fear. And even if you feel that dog's doing no harm, it is doing harm. If it's causing somebody else fear, it's causing harm. So it's certainly preferable to have your dog in a leash when you're out in public. And we just want to say also, should anybody wish to report a concern, any type of concern in relation to a dog, they may do so by contacting the dog warden. They can be contacted on 074-9125-159 or contact RDA either and we can contact the dog warden then in turn. And there are a set of separate set of rules that apply obviously to blue flag beaches and stuff in terms of dog and dog control that the people will know about at this point. We actually, again by coincidence, Grania had a couple of calls from people in that have had near misses with people out walking. Maybe they got caught short and didn't realize the nights were drawing in as much and they didn't have high vis on them. That's maybe taking the optimistic side of things. But the nights are drawing in whether we like it or not. That's the mornings as well. It's really important we're seeing when we're out and about. Yeah, I see. It was about eight o'clock. The night has started getting dark. It's depressing. And if it's cloudy, it can feel darker earlier as well. It's not literally sunset, Grania, is it? It can, of course. And then people are so used to supposed luck with the brighter evenings. They're not in the habit again of putting on their high vis gear. You know, they're not in the habit of throwing on the vest. But we would advise everybody, the nights are starting to fall. Remember, when you're out walking, cycling or running, even though you can see the traffic, the drivers might not always see you. You know, the time has come. Dig out your armbands, your high vis vests, get them on you if you're going out on or near a public road. Ensure that you're highly visible at all times. And if you're using a bike, make sure that your bike lights are working before going out for your cycle. And motorists, there's a responsibility of motorists also. Please ensure that the lights in your car, motorcycle, tractor, van, that they're all in good work and order. For those who have trailers, please ensure that the lights and reflectors are all in place and that they're in good working condition. And regardless of whether you're on foot or on wheels, just make sure that you're highly visible at all times to stay safe. The RSA, I think we mentioned this before, the RSA website there, www.rsa.ie. Anybody, members of the public can log on there, open an account, and they have a section there for high visibility gear that you can order your high vis vest or armband. So we would advise them to do that. I'm aware, now, Bunkranagard, they got a load of high visibility gear. They had an event recently, actually, where they were distributing the gear from the front of the station. So they have some in there. So anybody within that area, feel free to call in to get some. Now, I am aware and that our Kenny at present were quite low on stocks of high visibility gear and we're trying our best to get our hands on a few box loads of that. But if we do that, I'll let you know here and post it to our Facebook page when that stock's available and that our Kenny also. And we'll share that. And I mean, someone asked earlier in the week, and I don't want to put you on the spot. I mean, is it illegal to walk on the road without high vis on? It's not illegal. But there are sections of... Not to wear high vis, but I mean, you know, you can. There are sections there where you can be seen to be in danger and traffic. Yeah, exactly, right, OK. But to wear... Not to wear high vis visibility gear in itself isn't against the law, you know, but it's highly advisable. Listen, it's just shared space. There's been an awful lot of tragedy in our roads. A lot of it in cars, but also pedestrians, motorcyclists, push bikes. You know what I mean? It's a shared space. And we all... No one wants to either lose their life or be tied up in a fatal instant or even a serious injury instant, Granny. We all have to share it, like. Yeah, and we don't want anyone getting caught out now. With the evenings, with the sharp fall in the evenings, now in the darkness there, anybody out in dark clothes, then, you know, they're taking their life in their hands, really, going out in the roads in dark clothes and now. All right, thanks so much for that, Granny. I really appreciate it. That's got a granny a daherty there. That was Community Guardia Information for this Tuesday, the 12th of September, 23. It will be available for you to watch back on our Facebook page and on Gaudi Shia Khan on Facebook page a little later on. Back live with you on the radio after the 10 o'clock news next Tuesday. The Community Guardia Information Slot is brought to you by Sheridan Security Systems, protecting what you value most. Call today and get your zero-wire alarm system from 299 euro, Sheridan Security, 9126025. Watch the show live now on YouTube, Facebook and at highlandradio.com. The 9 till noon show with Letterkenny Credit Union. 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Thank you for having me on. What about the volume? So, yeah. No need for an amplifier for you, Conor? No, no need for an amplifier for me. Bagpipes is supposed to have gone back a long time in Ireland. The first written record of bagpipes was back in the 1200s. So, they were known as the Pweeb War and they were used as Irish warpipes and then obviously throughout the centuries, then the island pipes then came along later. So, in the early incarnations, were they a musical instrument or just a way of producing sound? Primarily used for, I suppose, to gather troops for a battle. So, that's basically... Someone was probably saying, I can make a lot of noise here and eventually says, well, I can make a tune here. Probably something in terms of its evolution. There is a myth that the bagpipes originated in Egypt long before, I suppose we were talking before BC, I suppose. And I think the Romans came in from invaded Britain and this is where the actual bagpipes themselves originated, apparently. And do we have an idea of what a 13th century set of bagpipes would have looked like or how they were made? I seem to recall reading when I was a child that they used stomachs of animals. Is that true? Sheepskin would be... They still use sheepskin as part of the bagpipes. The island pipes sometimes they might use the likes of goat skin. But, as I say, that would have been maybe sheep. The actual bodies of sheep would have been used back a thousand years ago or maybe a hundred years ago. And how did you get an interest in playing the pipes? Well, it was, I suppose, from where I'm from and from Mayo. And there was a strong culture based around St Patrick's Day. And then I moved to Donegal and I got involved in the Letter of Kennean District pipe band. So, we are basically a voluntary cross-community organisation that promotes and encourages the art of bagpipes and drumming within the Letter of Kennean and the surrounding areas. Is there a crossover instruments? Like, in other words, if you can play the bagpipes, can you, is it easy for you, I presume, a whistle or something like that there, because with the way you move your fingers or maybe not? Like, you know, is there... Do you find like there are instruments, bagpipe players can generally play also? We can play the likes of the low whistle. There would be similar kind of spacings between the holes on the low whistle. But I suppose, for the likes of Trilogen starting off, if they were to start off learning the 10 whistle, it would be probably the next progression then just to commence learning what's called the chanter. And that's the initial stages of learning the bagpipe and to knowing the actual holes that are on the chanter and knowing the correct notes for the chanter. So, when you're playing the bagpipes, you're blowing into a... I was going to say to you, but there's a name for it, clearly. It's just called a blow stick. The blow stick, right? And you're filling a bag effectively with air and then you're pressing that bag with your elbow and that's what's driving the air through the instrument. Yeah, that's right. The bag itself would be like a third lung. So, when you have to take a breath, that's where you squeeze the bag then. But you're constantly... It's a constant motion of you, obviously, other than taking a breath. It's a constant motion of you blowing. Yeah, to be, I suppose, a technique that you build up over time. Of course, yeah. Circuit of breathing or something along those lines. I'm not really quite sure what it might be. Now, I mean, we're going to talk about giving young people the option to be part of Leicicane District Pipe Band. But it's already successful in a spread of ages, isn't it? Tell us a bit about that. Yeah, we commenced our youth programme last year and that has been highly successful. We've three young children under the age of 12 being able to play bagpipes. Wow. And we've four or five that are able to play drums now. We've included them in the likes of the St Patrick's Day Parade, the Remelton and Rathmullen festivals. So, you'd see them in different venues or different locations, even within Leicicane, some charity events. And so, it's great to see the likes of kids getting involved in this. I mean, a lot of children now are, maybe would be kind of focusing on phones and iPads and computers and this is kind of another avenue, maybe to get them away. But you're also competing with Rock Pop. That's right, yeah. You know, Chad as well. So, it's a small group of people. So, to be honest, you'd have the interest that you have already. I think it's fantastic. And then, of course, you turn up at events and people will, if they don't know, they will have seen you at one of them, even if they didn't necessarily see the logo and what have you. There's a whole spectacle, I suppose, of seeing a pipe band at the Lexus and Patrick State Parades. There's not parades without the pipe band at all. Yeah, and I mean, especially when you see the likes of younger kids involved, it adds even more to it. And when, you know, the spectators will kind of say, look at all those young kids. And this hopefully will be an encouragement to get more kids involved when they see other kids in it. Now, we're commencing our youth program in October this year. So, we would encourage any kids that may have an interest, even just to give it a go, but always kind of say, give it a go. If it's not for you, well, then so be it. But give it a go and see if you like it or not. It's a great way of making new friends, great opportunities. I mean, the band, we've competed over in Scotland. Well, that's what I was going to say to you. I mean, as well as the performances at various venues, there's a competition element of it. And you did really, really well, too, considering this was a global competition. That's right. Yeah, we compete nationally and internationally. And for the first time since 2013, the band qualified for the World Qualification Final. Now, the World Pipeman Championships is basically the pinnacle of the Pipeman community. It's the prestige surrounding the worlds. There are almost roughly about 60,000 people present in Glasgow Green on the day of the World Championships. There's about 250 pipe bands from all across the globe. And we successfully came third in our category against another 39 pipe bands. And does the judging criteria go beyond the music? Is it to do with... Yeah, there are aspects that we do with dress and drill, drill and dress, there are two other aspects of it. That makes sense. I was thinking about, all right, OK. Because it also requires a nice bit of discipline as well for younger people, as well as in a fun way. Yes, absolutely. It's part of a team. But it's always nice to have those elements of it. Now, you are going to play, and not yet, because we have more to talk about, you're going to play the bagpipes for us. Yes, that's right. Right, so is there a school of bagpipes? And then what's the bagpipes relationships to the allen pipes, for an example? OK, so the bagpipes themselves, there will be only nine notes on the bagpipes. So there will be an octave and one note. The allen pipes would have two octaves, so you'd go a lot higher. So sometimes if you hear a pipe or a pipe band playing a tune, and suddenly it goes down to a lower note, it's just making up for the higher note because we cannot go any higher on the bagpipes. For the allen pipes, as I say, we have two octaves on that. The allen pipes then, as the allen is in Irish, it's used by a bellows. So that's basically how the allen pipes work. So that's the difference between the highland bagpipes and the allen. Now, you have three pipes coming from your bagpipes, right? They have to be tuned. Are they in different octaves? The three of those are in different octaves? They are three drones. So you've got a bass and two tenors, and they are tuned then to low A of the chanter. Brilliant. And then the musical variants, the note pitching and shifting, that all comes from your fingers. And it throws out the three sands out of the pipes, complement each other. Yes, that's right. Sometimes, as well, you'd hear pipe bands tuning up, and people wonder what are they doing. It changes so much. So if the sun comes out, the bagpipes change, you have to be re-tuned. If the sun goes back in and under a cloud, it changes again. So temperature can have a huge effect on the allen. Assuming then that's the density of the air, or what have you in the bag itself? Yeah, the moisture as well. If there's too much rain, like the reeds within the bagpipes needs a certain amount of moisture. And if there's too much rain, then you're going to have problems. If there's not enough rain, then you could have problems. Or not enough moisture, should they say? And now you're busy outside of your interests with the Latter-Kinney and District pipe band. But do you do any stuff on your own, Connor? Yeah, sometimes I would. Yeah, I've played at weddings and the likes of that. OK, but you enjoy that as well. Yeah, of course. You often see, through an open social media, anyone know that does this, or anyone knows that a lot of it is down to the bike. Because there's something so striking about it, obviously. Of course, yeah. Like, I mean, even the spectacle of a piper, or even, as I say, the spectacle of a pipe band itself, but the cost that's involved with a pipe band is probably a lot of people don't even realize it. Like, to rig out one piper costs in the region of 2,500 euro. So that's including your kilts and so on and so forth. The less I've said of bagpipes would cost, I mean, around maybe between 1,250. I mean, they are a work of art, aren't they, really? Yeah, so it all boils down to the wood that's made. Are there variances in tradition, sort of, from Mayo to the Northwest, for example? I mean, obviously, we've got very strong Scottish connections here in the Northwest. I'm not saying it isn't the same in Mayo, but are there variances around the country as to a relationship or any aspect of the pipes? No, there's, I mean, like, there's quite, I suppose, similarity with the bagpipes and with the pipe bands all around the country. And the same in Scotland, then, obviously? Yeah, that's right. Like, I mean, a lot of, like, a lot of, like, you've got an Ulster Scots tradition with it within Donegal, as well as a lot of people from Donegal may have gone over to Scotland working as tatty hookers. That was the same in Mayo, and that would have been brought back from Scotland as well. And I mean, you're trying to keep it that way and many others as well, the strong tradition of, you know, the pipe band, the bagpipes outside of Scotland and Ireland. Are there any other parts of the world where they are very much part of a country's tradition? Yeah, like, I mean, you look at North France, there, Brittany, there'd be quite a strong culture there with the Galician culture as well in Spain. Again, but there are different type of bagpipe again. And one, I think it was Spanish bagpipes, I think of only one drone. So there are quite a lot of bagpipes even in Eastern Europe as well. So, for example, as well, the pipe bands that bet us over in Scotland, they came first. The band that came first was from Australia in our category. And then the band that came second were from Oman. And then we came through. Truly global, isn't it? I mean, that's the three, almost the three. But it was certainly a great achievement for us to come third in the world. And we bet all the Irish and Scottish bands in the category. And I think it's a fantastic way to promote letter Kenny, promote Donegal, you know, if there's any businesses out there that are looking to come on board as we are, looking for sponsorship. And this is a great, great way of getting their name out there. I see you at these events. It's huge. So what are the musical opportunities then for young people or the families of young people who can play this interview back to them or let them watch it or whatever. So what, so we obviously, the bags, the drums, you mentioned those. Drums, yes. So what else, what are the disciplines are there that? Well, they'd be the main two things. So obviously we have the bagpipes, we have the side drums, and then you've got a midsection, which would be the tenor section. That also is also very important, I suppose, part of the band that creates that ensemble. And that sometimes people might see them swinging sticks and things like that. That is part of the flourishing aspect of the tenors. All right, so if people want more information about the Latter-Canadian District Pipe Band, so that could be A, as you mentioned, sponsorship, which is really critical to keep these things going. And we're lucky, or the people of Latter-Canadian are lucky, because there are other parts of this county and country that between the jigs and the reels, the tradition dropped out, or people fell out, and I know there are areas that they're mad to get the bands re-established, and it's difficult to get it back once you've lost it. So Latter-Canadian is lucky, and then it has a strong, with high membership, and young membership band, so that shouldn't be taken for granted. But if anyone wants to come on from a sponsorship perspective, well, particularly if young people want to go, right, okay, I'll go along and see what's what, how do they get more information? They can get us on our Facebook page at Latter-Canadian District Pipe Band, or they can contact 0832096411, that's 0832096411. And what are you gonna play for us, because as soon as you start, the conversation's over. Yeah, probably. Right, so you're gonna play a combination of two. Yeah, so I'm gonna play a folk song that was written back in the 1800s by a guy in America called Stephen Foster. It was numerous Irish artists have sang the song, Mary Black, Tommy Fleming, and the song is Hard Times, Come Again, No More. So that is that one, because I'm gonna be interested to hear that, and then in two? And the second one is called It's a Hornpipe, which was written by a renowned Irish bagpiper, Terry Tully. Now, Terry Tully was pivotal in, I suppose, transforming the Irish traditional music into the Scottish music arrangements of certain Irish tunes and things like that. Most of the, as I said earlier in the interview, most of the Irish tunes are an octave and a half, or maybe more, so he had to arrange, he's arranged a lot of the Irish contemporary Irish music to suit the bagpipes. Brilliant, Connor, do you wanna take position? And as I say, if you're quick and you wanna watch Connor play the bagpipes, then you can hop onto our YouTube channel, Highland Radio Ireland, or across our Facebook pages. This is Connor Malloy, the pipe major, electric Kenny, and district pipe band. Whenever you're ready. Brilliant stuff. Connor, how long can you keep going at that before you need to? Well, I suppose, just constantly. A set would probably be about four minutes in contest, but the higher grades would go up, we were talking maybe seven minutes. Your GP must be delighted with your lungs. Connor, listen, thanks very much, indeed, for that. That was lovely. I'm actually almost converted into a bagpipe fan. Bagpipe fan, that was lovely, really musical as well. Thanks so much, Connor. Thank you for having me here. It's our pleasure, something different for you out there. That's Connor Malloy, pipe band, letter Kenny, sorry, pipe major, letter Kenny, and district pipe band. And if you want more information either in terms of sponsorship, or if you have a young person, or you are a young person, particularly because this is a drive for younger people, though no one's excluded, of course. The details, one more time, how people can get in contact, Connor. Yeah, so you can contact us on letter Kenny and district pipe band Facebook page, or contact 0832096411. And it's cross community and all inclusive. Cross community, all inclusive. So we're commencing our youth program and on the 16th of October. So get in touch with us before then. So basically from third class for kids, from third class upwards. Great stuff. All right, we'll be back with more shortly. 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They're not gonna send you a link through a text message like that. So spread the word and ignore them. Thanks, Claire. With all the stories that matter across the Northwest, it's Greg Hughes on The 9 to Noon Show on Highland Radio. So at 11 o'clock this Tuesday morning, we cross over to McKayla Clark for a news update. Good morning, McKayla. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. Gardi have issued a fresh appeal for information after a woman was seriously injured when a car struck an outdoor seating area in Donegal Town on Wednesday last. The incident occurred at a licensed premises on Chercomel Street at around 10 to 8. The woman in her 60s was taken to Letter County University Hospital for treatment to serious injuries. The government won't be pouring petrol on the economy according to the tonnage. Mihael Martin has defended plans to breach the 5% spending rule in the budget again, saying it's warranted in order to combat high inflation. Finafall has been discussing its priorities for the budget, including a potential cut to the universal social charge. Minister Charlie McConnook has sought a meeting of Donegal County Council's Defective Concrete Block Redress Committee as homeowners remain in limbo awaiting approval for remediation works under the revised grant scheme. Minister McConnook has admitted that the approval process for transitioning homeowners onto the new scheme has been too slow. The Garda Representative Association is counting votes today after a ballot of no confidence in Commissioner Drew Harris. Members are frustrated over a number of issues, including rosters, recruitment and retention. GERA President Donegal-based Garda Brandon O'Connor says the process of getting over time is also frustrating. Investigations are underway after a man was attacked by two other men in the Donegal Road area of Bali Buffay. 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Pearson Port Road would be the left lane on the roundabout from the shopping centre says the letter... Listener as well. OK. All right, OK. We're going to talk about World Sepsis Day which is taking place tomorrow. And we have a number of guests in studio with us. And I think, with the exception of me, I think we'd all like to be somewhere else, wouldn't we, ladies? Is that it? But we're here for an important issue and we do really appreciate you calling in. Maninia Bradley. Good morning, Maninia. I forgot the pronunciation, correct? You do, Maninia. Maninia, OK. Good morning, Greg. Good to have you with us. Alla Noonan is Maninia's sister, who's also a nurse. Good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. It's great to have you on the programme. And last and certainly not least, Siobhan Kelly, Sepsis Lead at Letter Kenney University Hospital. Shall I start with you? Because obviously Maninia is going to tell us her story and all his role in it. But just to give us an understanding of Sepsis because people here, there's A, B, you know, and we have campaigns going at the moment where there's Lady and Dairy that wants all pregnant women to be tested for because of complications with her child. And then we've had the whole story the last year about, you know, younger children. I'm talking about something completely different. I'm talking about... But anyway, do you know what, in some way that demonstrates why we need to talk about Sepsis. It's quite a severe blood infection. Is that correct? It's an infection. Sepsis is, you know, with the body's response, the body would normally have an infection itself. It may be, as in Maninia's case, she started off with a sore throat. But as the body progressed, it actually happens, the body starts to fight, the whole body starts to fight the infection. And then in the process, it damages its own tissues and organs. Yeah, okay. So it's a really serious response to an infection. And are there telltale signs because it is a life-threatening condition? It is a very life-threatening condition. And in a lot of cases, there is telltale signs, then being, first of all, people may have an underlying. They may think they have a kidney infection. They may think they have a chest infection. They're, you know, partying along no more than what Maninia was. Maninia was out at work that day, came back in again, but wasn't feeling well. So some of the symptoms we'd see people with, they might have slurred speech. They might have agitation. You know, they start to shake their shiver and within themselves, they don't feel right. Some people may be a wee bit confused and it's not so much the person that's suffering from the sepsis themselves that realizes they're confused, but as they're next to kin, whoever's beside them will realize it. They will have aches and pains. They might be running high temperature. Their hands will be cold. They'll be pallor-looking. Their colour around their lips may be a bit blue-tinged. Their finger beds may be a bit blue-tinged. One of the questions I suppose we don't ask because we're Irish and we don't like asking these questions is have you gone to the toilet a lot today? You know, have you passed the same volume of urine as you would normally pass in the day? That's one of the first things because our kidneys and everything else, everything is going to the central system, to our heart and to our lungs to try and preserve our oxygen that go into the brain and go into our heart and lungs. People also, their breathing will get a bit faster as well. You know, to try to get the oxygen into the vital organs. Yeah, okay. I don't mind if I can conflate and there's a certain element to the strep that when it gets more severe can cause sepsis. Isn't that correct? So that's a different area but that's where I was sort of getting a little bit confused there. So, Manin, can you tell us your situation or you were sick for some time or had an infection some time before you got sepsis? Yes, Greg. I had a sore throat as you do have coming into the winter. I went to the doctor and they prescribed antibiotics and a steroid which I took for about two weeks. I then developed, I felt it wasn't getting completely better again. So I revisited the GP and they prescribed a, I had trush, which I thought was trush on my tongue. So they prescribed the medication for the trush. A week later I still wasn't feeling 100%. I was cautious of a, kind of a wee ball or something on my neck, my throat, which I had visited Orla and we didn't think it was that serious. Went to the doctor, was going to go to the doctor the next morning. Now I was with Orla at half six the evening before talking. I drove up to her. She said, right, make an appointment with the doctor in the morning, which I was about to do, but I took very ill at nine o'clock at night. I was in the house on my own. I started severe vomiting and diarrhea all through the night. Orla came off night duty on the morning. Now I'm very conscious when Orla says night duty, I don't torture because it's busy. And she passed my house and I rang her in the morning and I said, did she go home yet? And she said she did. I told her what was wrong. Do you want me to come down? And I said, do you feel you want to come down? Are you tired? And she said, no, no, I'll come down. And Orla knows the story from then. I really, after that, I got very agitated. I was taken by ambulance. I really don't remember much after that. We're going to talk about Orla's illness in a moment, but I suppose, I mean, I might, what I might do is I'm under the care of the GP and the antibiotics, everything. And then when the course is finished, and it'll be grand, I think this is a reminder too, to sort of trust what's going on as well yourself a little bit, isn't it? I never thought it was anything more serious. Like, it's winter. I was coming in to winter. Everybody gets colds and flows, but you get on with your daily life and you might feel a wee bit tired, but you know, you keep going and that's, and then this all happened, which was, just happened so suddenly with overnight lag. And I didn't, wouldn't, and I think if it didn't ring I didn't have anybody coming in to the house, because then someone had gone back to work in Dublin. It's scary. So, I would have been on my own if it hadn't been for my sister. And you were almost a wee bit too brave for your own good too, because you didn't want to disturb your sister. I never do, and I'm very conscious of that, but with her working, you know, it's busy, but I'm very happy I did. So, Orla, with a couple of little signs that you were looking out and sort of monitoring, or was it when the, when the symptoms began to worsen that you thought, right, enough is enough here, or did you suspect it could have been sepsis at this point? Absolutely not the night before. Yeah. Greg, as she told herself, she had the chest, or the antibiotics. She said the lumps in her throat, I really did think it was thrush, she was on something, the right medication for her. She came up that night, she was upset in the kitchen that night at a half six. She said, I'm really worried about this lump. And I said, it's your gland. I'm sure it's a sweat. You're, because you're not feeling well, it's probably sinusitis, and sometimes that antibiotic isn't the proper antibiotic. So we'll get the specific one from the GP tomorrow. And that's how I left it. On route to Lettucecanny, she phoned me again. She said, no, I have augmentin. Here should I start? And I said, no, because you don't want to throw something else into the mix. We don't know what we're dealing with. And tomorrow we'll get the right drug from the GP. And when she phoned me in the morning, it wasn't even the phone call. I knew she didn't sound good, but it was when I went in to see her, I thought, am I overreacting here? I've had no sleep. She is sick, because I actually think she is. Monina was moving house, too. We just don't matter to tell you that. So there was scanty stuff in the house. I went back up the road again, and I brought down a stethoscope and a spake. I brought down a thermometer, and I brought down sheets and jammies, because all her stuff was in Mammy's house. So that was fine. I couldn't record the blood pressure. I thought, again, am I tired? She was so agitated, and her was her collar, the purple in this, you know, office here, and I'm Greg. She was mottledy looking. Wow. So that's when I rang Marie to come across, because Marie was with her. She's her friend, and Marie was there the night before, and Marie came. I said, Marie, am I, because maybe it's the nurse within you or it's the way we were brought up, the culture. You didn't disturb doctors unnecessarily, and you didn't bring for ambulances unnecessarily, and that was part of our culture. And I thought, am I overreacting here? Yeah. And then I rang the GP, and I spoke to the receptionist, explained, when Nina's symptoms, she said he would get back, but it would be maybe 12 o'clock, and I'm still thinking of, poor me, I need to put a bed at some stage here. So that was fine. I thought, well, do you know what? I'll try my end. You do your best, your end. I rang into the ED, and I spoke with one of the girls, Sarah, told her, and she said, look, Orla, if you're concerned, I'm concerned, and just go get the ambulance. So we did that. We got the ambulance and we picked it up from there, but what was happening at that time, and I know you sort of ran through it at the beginning, what was happening over the course of those weeks in Maninja's body? Well, I suppose, over the course of those hours, her body was responding, her body wasn't going through an inflammatory process. It was fighting an infection, a basic infection, but then, normally when we have a sore throat on our glands and our throat will fight the infection in that Pacific area, but what happens in sepsis, the whole body starts to respond. It's a massive response in your body. Orla talked about her color there, her color being like the color, like a purpley color. There wasn't enough oxygen to get into her tissues, to her vital, to her skin. Her hands was closed. Her body was in a shock reaction. She was shaken. She was agitated. There wasn't enough oxygen to get into her blood. That's why she was agitated and not feeling herself. And that's the response the body was going through. The body was actually turning on itself. And in any circumstance, there's always some circumstances, but ordinarily, does the body find a way through that? Or is that... When you have sepsis, it's very severe and you need help very seldom when you come out of sepsis. Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death in the world. And that's why there's a World Sepsis Day every year to create that awareness. And that's the reason why sepsis and why we want to get the recognition out there for people to know the signs and symptoms and know to act quickly because as many of us had seen it before, it was our work the day before. That night she got sicker as the night went on and in the morning time at half-night she was extremely ill. Well, you could easily talk yourself into thinking there's nothing going on here that I'll go to bed and I'll be grand in a couple of hours, couldn't you? That's the thing. And the fact that she rang Orla and got her sister or got somebody even to get somebody in to look at you because you doubt yourself and you over-doubt yourself. You ring somebody, it doesn't have to be medical. Just have somebody with you. Everybody knows their own body. When something changes in it, they know and if it's something severe, you know, just make a decision that you go for help or you ring your GP. They're there, that's what they're there for. Take more care of yourself. And Orla, your journey wasn't... Sorry, Maneen, your journey wasn't over once you got from home to the hospital because with the best treatment that could be provided, your condition continued to worse. Well, deteriorated. I got very agitated. I was just... I really don't remember a lot from... I don't remember being taken from Ladder County. I don't remember going... So you woke up next in Galway, effective? Yeah, and two weeks later or whatever. And they said, do you know where you were? Obviously, no question to me. And I said, yeah, I'm in Ladder County. And they said, no, you're in Galway. And I didn't know. But I woke up. So who best describes the treatment? Were you involved in the treatment, Siobhan? No, I suppose... Orla? So what was happening then? So you took Malinia to hospital. Right. And they start at that point as it... No, the ambulance crew. The ambulance came out. And I have to say, the ambulance came in, made a quick assessment. She went into the ambulance. And I had given them the vital signs that I had recorded. They went ahead and did their own assessment. And her blood pressure was extremely low. Oh, sorry, it was low. Blood pressure was in her boots. And her heart rate was fast. And her temperature was high. Right. So the three vital signs were elevated. And they automatically, you know, recognised the sepsis. So they started her on the treatment then. They started her on IV fluids and tobiotics. And paracetamolene to bring down the temperature. And like that, Malinia was extremely agitated still. She went on to hospital. And Marie went with her to lie, get a few hours sleep as I'm going back in the next night again. And to be honest with you, Greg, as Malinia went out the drive, I thought she's gone to hospital for five days. That's it. So I go to bed at about two o'clock, half two for a few hours, get up again. And Malinia has responded to the medications in Letter Kenney University Hospital, where she was. But at a half past six that night, I was again coming back in again for night shift. She went downhill. Got very ill. And then she went into resus. And they attempted to, you know, get her all stabilised and drugs and drug resuscitation or fluid resuscitation. And she ended up going to intensive care that night. And as Malinia said, she was complaining of this sore neck as well, because her throat then it had become and I'm probably skipping on because we never got a full diagnosis as to why Malinia developed this. But they feel it was from a strep throat, a strep A throat, right? So that infected her gland. So that's where the pain was coming from. And then Malinia was in constant pain overnight and she was an ICU and then Ethanist again and I were looking at her at one stage and she came a little bit more mottled here, more purple here. So when they did the scans, they noted that there was an infection here somewhere. They weren't quite sure and she just was deteriorating so much. They decided, which was seen by Mr. Suguru in the morning, he said straight to Galway. So he linked him with the guys in Galway and she, after the results of the CT, so she got accepted in Galway. Initially to cardiac thoracics, but then they felt it was more vascular. So she went down under Mr. Hussey's team. But as the night progressed to, and we were following down later on that night in the car, she became so unwell, she was intubated and ventilated then in intensive care. And you know, we're all sitting here and we're all thankful Malinia, but this is very, this is traumatic, isn't it? And it takes a wee while to get over it and it's like, it's kind of beyond going, well, all's well that ends well, because this was a huge thing for you and the family. And I'm sure there's times you reflect and go, you know, get a gunk even just... Just even now, like, just thinking back when I came round and Galway, I swore and she's just, I want it home, you know. So the care that was given in Galway, Siobhan, that was complications arising from sepsis or sepsis itself to learn that point? It was a combination of both, Greg, okay? The initiation of the antibiotics and the fluid therapy and the supports for the heart and all that would have been started initially in Lederkenny. But because, as I said earlier, the sepsis is, you know, the body's own response to the infection and it starts to fight its whole body and its damage to its own tissues and injuries, and it damaged her tissues up and around her shoulder area and all that, and the tissues was dying and it was also a source of infection as well. And that's why the surgeries then were carried out down in Galway. Yeah, and as you say, it's a very serious condition. One in five people who develop it die from it. But I presume, counter within that one in five of those that don't get any medical treatment at all? Not necessarily. Okay. Some people get medical treatment and do not survive sepsis. Other people have come out with life-changing injuries. You know, they maybe have left with body deficits or defects in their body. And that has a massive psychological impact on people as well and trauma post, like, you know, the talk of a PSD from people who survive sepsis as well. So it's, you know, no matter how you look at it, it's a life-changing event, even if you survive it. So what... What... See, you talked... You talked all about, you know, a generational thing, maybe about we don't want to bother a doctor or we don't want to do that in the other. Like, I'm really concerned when we do talk about stuff and we don't want to discourage anyone from getting help when they need it, because you could be of the view that there's no GP will answer a phone call and there's no point going to the hospital because you'd never be seen. So we have to counteract that and counterbalance that, right? Yeah. So at what point do... And either you or... Or Siobhan, then at what point do you say, right, there's a couple of markers here. I need to go and make sure that this isn't... Because in your case, Monique, you had got antibiotics. You were under the care of a doctor. So what's the key from there? Well, we went through it at the start. What's the key from there to say, right, okay, I'm going to get this double checked? Yeah, okay. I suppose I'll go maybe first. Please, yes, go ahead, Siobhan. I suppose Monique, I had gone to that GP, had got her antibiotics. Still wasn't improving correctly. He didn't respond completely to them. And I suppose what I will stress is when you're given a course of antibiotics, it's very important to take the full course of antibiotics. You went back to the GP again for a review. He reviewed you. He treated what he thought was trash giving treatment for that there. And the person themselves know that they're not right. They're just not coming back to themselves. They're not responding as well as they normally would be if they had, you know, ignored the sore trots in the past or a kidney infection in the past. One of the things I will say is suppose we have to watch our own bodies. You've said it yourself. Nobody knows their body as well as you know it yourself. And if you have that concern that I'm not right, go with your own intuition. Go with your own intuition. You're better safe than sorry. And especially if you've already had an infection. And it doesn't have to be a throat infection. It doesn't have to be a cough, a chest infection. You might have stuck with a thorn in your finger a week ago. You know, we cut down the side of your leg that you've passed no marks of. And then all of a sudden you might look up and say, that doesn't look too, you know, or it may be something entirely inside your organs that you're unaware of that's causing a source of infection. So what should we look out for then? I remember back in the day, my mother would check to see if a vein went red or something. I don't know if that was to do with this or whatever. But, you know, that's back in the day. So other than, you know, not responding to medicine, things aren't going as you would expect. What else? You mentioned at the beginning, I just want to recap as we move towards the end of this. So what else might be happening with your body? You might feel cold. Your hands might be cold. You probably won't notice the colour of your lips, but somebody else might notice the colour of your lips. They're not. Your breathing pattern will change. You might be breathing more rapidly because you're trying to get more oxygen in. The other thing is you're not passing the same volume of urine as you would normally take. You feel tired and sluggish of yourself. Your concentration's not there. You know, you just... Some people vomit as you did, you vomit. So there's a lot of... But you're just not yourself. And as Siobhan says, when Nina mentioned about you know your own body, but who knows you better than the family? Your family are a fabulous resource because they can say to you, well, mommy does not look, I know her. They do know that person. They know when they're not well. Much better than any nurse or doctor seeing that person, they don't know them. So listen to... And it can affect anybody. It can affect anybody. Listen to your family. You know, people... Yeah, I suppose people who are well and fit, you know, yes, they can get sepsis. But I suppose people too with other underlying health conditions, young children especially, you know, all those things have to be watched out for. And they do encourage, you know, all together vaccinations for the meningitis, for the pneumococcal pneumonia, for the flu and those vaccines while they may not prevent sepsis, they will help along the route. Yeah, it's really, really important that we, particularly I think as parents that don't get caught up or conflict conversations about vaccines which we're not going to get into now and then have a broader disinterest in them or be discouraged because there are some that are long, long time tried and tested and genuinely can be the difference maker. That being said, it's up to each individual to make their own decisions. We will be... We are coming back into the winter again, Siobhan, and we are going to start hearing about Strep again and we went through this with our own boy there on Christmas Day. They got very sick really, really quite quickly and thankfully we were able to get to now dark and got antibiotics and everything was fine, but in my word, it's not pleasant. So particularly for young people because we talked about how we feel. So Maninya, she actually felt she didn't want to upset anyone with it, but she... So what about younger people? What should we ask where they can communicate a cause as we head into the winter season? Because it can affect younger people, so I imagine it's rarer. It might be rarer, but I suppose, you know, babies will go quiet. They'll not be feeding like under one year's of age. They'll not be feeding. They'll be very pallar. They will be, what we call this, sleeping just no life in them at all and the same with young children, maybe under the age of eight, they'll be the same. Their energy levels will go down. They'll have no interest in food. They'll be crying. They don't want you near them. Those are sort of the telltale signs and you don't have to be a mother's instinct. Hello? Over here, please. I'm a dad as well. Daddy, you mean? So, you know, those kind of things, you just know they're not right and they're off their food and they're not my level. And children, I suppose, what I will say... Wet nappies as well. Yeah, and wet nappies, not going to the toilet as much as they used to not pass as much urine. And children can get very, very quick. They can be jumping on the sofa when they smell it. Smell it. Smell it. They can be a slower and lifeless soul. Exactly. And don't think they're temperate people as well. I think we just need to make sure that we get help when we need it. Yeah. You talked about your interaction there, order with the blood pressure monitor. I think everyone has a thermometer in the house. Yeah. Should we all have blood pressure monitors in the house, I wonder, because, you know, not even just for this, but more generally speaking. I don't know, because what type of device do you have? It's not got to. Yeah. But I suppose it's a little bit about your ability to interpret the results as well and what you're looking for. I obviously, because my background is cardiology and I'd worked for years in the cardiac, I would have a spike and I would know a blood pressure and I know it's normal. You can tie it in whatever else is happening. Yeah. And I would know what was normal for Menina and I would know for, so you don't want to scare among people to go out and buy in a blood pressure monitor. Literally, by me putting my hand on Menina's head was enough of a tell-tale-tale-tale to say that she is unwell. She was, you know, warm to touch. She was agitated. She was perspiring. There was a lot of other tell-tales. I put my hand on her wrist to do her pulse and I knew it was fast and it was so like that. The blood pressure wasn't, it wasn't even, you know. You didn't need that. To be quite honest, even though I said that I didn't believe how accurate was myself. Okay. So like that. How are you now, Menina? I'm sure you're grateful. I'm sure you're... Yeah. I, you know, I have good days probably and most days I get frustrated when I can't do anything. I can't do what I want to do. So do you still have a hangover from that condition, like in terms of energy levels? No. I had my tips in my fingers amputated on my left hand. As a result of this? Yes. Okay. So things aren't as easy. Yeah. One handed more or less and but other than that, they know I'm keeping good. I'm in good hands and still living with Orla. I sold my house somewhere. I looked after. Two wells. Was anybody looking for a loiter out there? Maybe. You're getting the picture. No, health-wise. Yeah. I've got, you know, maybe get a wee bit more tired or than I would have before but no, I'm getting there. Good. I could sit down in the line now and I'm delighted to be here. Yeah. And listen, it's about, with all things, I think it's not about being fearful. It's about being careful and knowledge is power. 13,000 patients received treatment for sepsis in Irish hospitals in 2021. The last set of figures we have. So it's not uncommon but I think we've enough information disseminated right now that people kind of can be, I think sometimes we need to be entrusted, we're empowered to make the call. I think it's easier maybe to do it for a baby or a toddler than it is for yourself. And I suppose also, Greg, if you look at the site of the national ambulances, our ambulances are on the road every day and they actually have the warning signs for patients to pledge out for sepsis. It's on the side of the national ambulances as well. So like, you know, it's just to know yourself and know how to get help. And don't hesitate. We, you know, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Listen, tomorrow's World Sepsis Day. We have Siobhan Gele here, Sepsis Lead at Latter-Kinney University Hospital, Orla Noonan, who is the sister of Maninia Bradley, who contracted sepsis and thanks to the intervention of her sister and others and the great teams at Latter-Kinney and Galway, Maninia is able to sit here and tell her story. And the whole idea of it is to try and prevent someone else as best as possible to go through this situation because it's... Awareness. It's preventable to. Yeah. And the earlier the better. The earlier the intervention you get when you're sepsis about it. Absolutely. And that's, as a family, we wanted to contribute and to the awareness. Yeah. We... So that's it. It wasn't that bad, was it? In the end, like this interview was alright? No. Siobhan's never coming back again. Right. I'll be seeing you next year, Siobhan. I'll sit, I'll sit. Listen, thank you so very much. Great. No, Mark. Siobhan, you're glad to hear that things are going okay for you. Yeah. Anna, it's clear the regard you hold is to all and the importance she has in your life. My life. Which is beautiful as well. Yeah. So finally then, a very good bye and thank you to Ola Noonan, her sister Maninia Bradley and Siobhan Kelly, who's sepsis lead at Latter-Kinney University Hospital. And we'll post this separately as an item on our socials as well. If you want to share it with friends a little later on, because as I say, it's just good to have the information and we kind of feel a wee bit empowered, don't we, when we think we know what to look out for and to trust ourselves and how we feel. Back with more shortly. Ola County's number one talk show, The Nine Till Noon Show, on Highland Radio. The Nine Till Noon Show with Letter-Kinney Credit Union. Simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from Letter-Kinney Credit Union. 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Travel Route 32 from Leta Kennedy Dublin when you book online and travel for less. Expressway, bringing you the time, Matt. It's 11 33. We're joined on the program now by Monsignor Anthony Figueredo. Good morning to you, Monsignor. Thank you so much for joining us. Good morning. Bonjour now from a CC in Italy. It's beautiful to speak to you. The relic of the Blessed Carlo Acutis is visiting St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry and there is a program of events which we will go to. But perhaps maybe you might be able to tell us about the Blessed Carlo Acutis because he is special in a number of ways, not least because he's been deemed blessed blessed, but also because of his of his age. Absolutely. So as you well know, when the church declares someone blessed, that's the first step on the road to becoming a saint. And the extraordinary thing about Carlo Acutis, who died at the young age of 15 in 2006. So he's the first person in the world to be declared a blessed in this new millennial. And being so young, he's attracting young people, young families. It's an extraordinary phenomenon wherever we go, thousands and thousands come wanting to know about this young man and be in the presence of his rally. I mean, he had a big interest in gaming technology, of course, all the stuff younger people now are still interested in that stuff are growing. But what was it about Carlo that he was designated blessed by the church? Well, he was certainly a very normal kid. I mean, he came from a very wealthy family. In fact, I know his parents are still alive. And his parents never went to church. Incidentally, Carlo brought them to church. What really made Carlo different amidst a very normal life? He loved sports. As you said, he was an internet genius. He loved video games. He loved hiking, swimming, had lots of friends. He was a good looking young kid. What made him different was his passion for holiness. And so he had a consistent spiritual life, which led him to Jesus and made his life even fuller. And because of his background, Monsignor, would one have got the impression that this was someone bestowed on him? It wasn't raised into him, but I presume people that have met him and spoke of him and championed the cause for his canonization. There must have been something particular about how he held himself or presented himself other and will get to it, other than how he healed a young Brazilian boy. There must have been something as well about him that must have felt bestowed from a higher point. Absolutely. And certainly the church has approved that miracle through touching of the relic. That relic is coming exactly to your part of the world on Thursday. What is really amazing about Carlo is that we didn't know he was a saint until his funeral, because thousands came to his funeral. His parents said, we don't know any of these people. And it turned out that Carlo had befriended particularly the weakest members of society, immigrants, beggars, children who were bullied at school that is disabled. And so he had touched the lives literally of hundreds, even thousands of people, and had brought them to know the love of God and the love of Jesus, which ultimately is what we are all called to. And that's what gives real joy to life. And we want to spread that message in Ireland. I mean, Ireland has such a great history of charity, of sending missionaries to the whole world. And now you've gone through difficulties in the last year, some have come from outside the church, some which have come many from within the church. We want to bring Carlo to say, here's a young man like Patrick who heard the voice of the Irish people in a dream, remember, who said to him, we beg your holy boy to come and walk again among us. That's why we're bringing Carlo to Ireland. That's why we're bringing the relic to touch people's lives, especially young people. Imagine if young people today can bring their parents to church. I think that's going to be happening. What can you tell us about the miracle which was approved by Pope Francis in 2020? Well, again, extraordinary. As you know, the church has great precision in approving miracles. Well, you have to, don't you? Because you can't, you know, for obvious reasons, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So this particular miracle, the parish priest came from Brazil, was visiting Assisi, where I am now. He left an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the home of Carlo and the parents gave him a small piece of the cloth that covered Carlo when he was exhumed from the grave in Assisi, beginning his process of canonization. The priest took the relic back to his parish. That's exactly what we're going to be doing coming to Ireland on Thursday. And in a service, the priest had many parishioners come and said, with faith, touch this relic and you can be healed. A little boy called Matias, he was not even five years old, I believe, but he was unable to keep any food down. So he was wasting away completely, no cure whatsoever. His granddad brought him to the church that day. He touched the relic and on his way home, he asked his mother, I want steak and chips just like my two brothers. And when he arrived home, he ate the whole meal, able to keep all the food within him, and he's now a normal kid. Doctors have said that's an absolute miracle. By the way, we also have a second miracle, we believe, in Florence now. We don't give the details of that, it's still going through the process of being examined very carefully. But blessed Carlo of Assisi, and I want your listeners to know this, is a young boy who we believe is alive in heaven. And by bringing the relic to you, come, pray with him, come, touch his relic and you too can receive a grace, a miracle, perhaps in your body, even more importantly, in your spirit. I just think so many people suffering today are from loneliness, from addictions, perhaps suicidal thoughts, whatever the situation is, we can be touched in our spirit and again know that God is powerful and God works miracles. This is a first class, as it's described, relic. That means it's actually part of blessed Carlo of Assisi's body. Absolutely. And it's a particularly important relic. It's what we would say is a major relic, because it's actually a piece of the pericardium. That is the membrane that surrounds the heart. So this piece of the pericardium of blessed Carlo Acutus will be in St Eugene's Cathedral, Derry, on Thursday. It's a very important relic. In fact, it's just been throughout the United States of America in many diocese. It went to World Youth Day in August, where literally thousands of young people venerated the relic. And now with the Archbishop of Assisi, we are traveling to Ireland tomorrow evening, in fact, to bring the relic to Derry, but also to Sligo, to Nock, and to Nury. We're very excited and we really want everyone who is listening to come and pray before this relic. And finally, Monsignor, almost finally, have you traveled with the relic previously? Absolutely, I have traveled with the relic. What's our beg your pardon? Sorry to interrupt you, Monsignor. The question, the following question would be, I mean, you witnessed people in their numbers, but did you see any, I don't know if the right word is transformations or some of that connection with it that you talked of, either physically or spiritually? I can say with absolute certainty that I witnessed miracles and I've heard of people really being healed in their body since our visit to our mark, where perhaps 7,000 people came in the space of a day and a half, then West Belfast. Even more importantly, and I would stress this, I have heard of people who have been given courage and fortitude to go forward in their lives, especially young people, young couples, anyone who is sick, anyone who is disabled, anyone who is lonely, they know they have a young saint in heaven praying and interceding for them, who's walked amongst us. This is the great thing of Blessed Thaloacusa. He died in 2006, so he knows our challenges, he knows our difficulties, he knows our sufferings, because he's lived through them with us. He's a modern-day saint and he will intercede for you in heaven. Yes, I've seen miracles and we will see them again in these days. I can assure you of that. Okay, thank you very much for your time. Afterwards, I shall go through how people, what's going to be happening, but thank you for now, Monsignor. I appreciate your time. God bless you, every blessing to your great radio station. Thank you very much indeed, Monsignor. Anthony Figueredo, so the relic, and it is a special relic, top-class relic, a first-class relic that is. The relic of Blessed Carlo Acutus is visiting St. Eugene Cathedral in Derry. The programme is as follows, 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, the 14th of September, the arrival of the relic to St. Eugene's Cathedral, 10.00 a.m. mass with Bishop McKeown, Archbishop Serrentino and Monsignor Figueredo, which you've just heard of, 12.00 noon, Rosary in the Cathedral, 3.00 p.m., Divine Mercy, 4.00 p.m., benediction followed by closing ceremony and farewell. We're told this will be an opportunity to be blessed with the relic also. There'll be an exhibition of Blessed Carlo's life on display in this cathedral hall. 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They've got Irish made furniture, suites, beds, mattresses, dining, flooring, slide robes and occasional furniture. Great prices and large selection now available at Breedon's Home Furnishers Cooley Maville. Okay, we're joined on the programme night by Tim Cullinan, President of the IFA, a very busy man, of course. Tim, thank you very much for your time today. Last of all, any time. Right, so what went on yesterday? Well, you offered a meeting, a one-on-one meeting with Agriculture Minister Charlie McConnell. Did you turn that down in favour of protesting outside the finafore thinking? And if so, why? Yeah, I thought it was okay and this reverts about just quickly back to last Thursday and I suppose even prior to that. And the reason we are protesting currently is, I suppose, obviously there's two key issues out there. And number one is that the day in the payments farmers have to wait in excess of a month longer this year for their payments, you know, which they're entitled to is any other factor in society. If they had to wait a month for their salary, I think they would be uproar. And the other one obviously is this whole nitrous derogation of what has happened there. I suppose what happened was there was negotiations going on to hold this at 250 kilos organic end per hectare and our proposal to reduce it to 220. And obviously we want to maintain it at the 250. So there was a technical water quality group set up by the Minister. There was negotiations going on there. I was speaking over and back to the Minister and he was going to have this same meeting with the commissioner to deal with this in the EU. And as we all know, this transpired that it was only a video call, you know, it wasn't actually an important meeting. What's your concern with that? Are you concerned that the other party's not going to take it too seriously here? I mean, it can't be that big a deal if the last contact before it's announced is over a video call. Is that what you're concerned? Do you believe the Minister should have flown out and no, no, no, no, no, no. I just want to lead up to that look. And that's just part of it. But the key and substantial part of this is the way this was dealt with. So on that meeting, the commissioner told our Minister that he was not going to continue with the 250. And so and the Minister himself decided then that he was not going to make any changes or improvements in the days or the times of the farm payments, farmers getting their money. So what he did was he actually issued and he had committed he would come back to myself on this. But what he did was he issued a press release on board and then put out a notice after the press release going out into the public domain issued a notice for a meeting. Now, there's not much point in having a meeting when you've your decision made. This is what I'm doing. There was no point in having a meeting to discuss this. So that's why we were outside Kildare Street, our agriculture house last Thursday. And following on, then you're right. The Minister requested a meeting again with myself yesterday. And I was very clear. There was no point in having a meeting in the current circumstances. And our members were very, very clear. They were clear to me that they didn't want a meeting with the Minister. So with that in mind and then securing a meeting with effectively Minister McConnell's boss in Mehal Martin and thrashing out with him. Does that mean you've lost faith in the Minister to deal with him directly that you want his superior in on the conversation as well? Because that's what it sounds like. Well, look, my concern here is number one. And look, it's not personally with Charlie McConnell. Look, the man has a job to the more than I've a job to myself post the position. And all I want is that the Minister, you know, he was elected and to represent the people. And in this instance, he was elected Minister for Agriculture that he would represent farmers and look, I'd be straight and honest with the people there. So I believe that is not happening in this in this case, where farmers have to wait an extended period of time for money that is due to them. It's the part of their salary. And obviously, the nitrates, the irrigation and the potential damage. This will do what this means in factual terms, a farmer with 48 dairy cows would have to reduce to 42. Like this is a farmer with 100 cows. It would mean if that farmer reduces 15%, in just sales coming into the farm, it would cost that farmer anything between 30 to 40,000 per year. This is the relevance of this. This is very serious. And then there's other consequences it has in terms of land value and acquisition and all that. And even a smaller farmers who might be borrowing against, you know, their prospective incomes, it's going to affect an awful lot of people in different ways. But just to be clear, this reduction in these in the drop in nitrogen per hectare is off the back of water quality. I presume we accept the findings of that. Are we satisfied that it is actually the farmers that are contributing to this poor water quality because it's certainly only the farmers that are being punished. So are we able to ascertain when we have polluted water that it is actually the agricultural community that's doing it and not a quarry or not a sewage or not the Irish water not investing in a particular area. Are we satisfied that it is actually farmers that are causing this pollution in our waters? Yeah. And what is happening here is, and in IFA, we have contracted in the services of a hydrologist a water quality expert to look at all of this. And I don't know, we have a lot of expert people within our staff ourselves. And if you look at it, 43% of the utrophification or the pollution in the base is coming from water treatment plants, which is not agricultural. And we accept, does another 40% come from agriculture. But if you look at the map of Ireland and look at the size of farmland, right, but our point to deal with our 40%, we have adopted, sorry, 30 measures since 2018. We've reduced the use of chemical fertilizer by 15% last year. And currently for this year, we're down with a reduction of another 15% as well. And what's so frustrating for me is we've done all of this work and we've put a very credible proposal to this minister to take to the EU Commission basically in layman terms. But the proposal is that if a farmer wants to continue at his 250 or her 250 kilos organic end per hectare, that it would reduce the volume of inorganic or chemical fertilizer that farmer is using, which will alleviate, you know, any loss of nitrogen in the water sources as well. Yeah, but the Charlamacan logon, yeah, but Charlamacan logon is press statement to say clearly that that this is not a decision that the EU and those responsible for it are going to change, that this cannot be fought. It's a fate to complete. The only fight now is to retain our derogation at 220. I will retain it at all for that matter. That's that's the Minister for Agriculture's firm position because I read it in his statement on the website. Yeah, and that's why we are still outside the Harsh and Jockey Hotel here in Limerick today. And that's why we will be at the Fina Gale think tank in Limerick on Friday. But the final point I want to make on this is there's a lot of talk currently in media circles that you know there's only one or two countries have this special arrangement of a derogation. But if we look at currently what's happening in the Eastern European bloc and numbers of the countries like, a large country like Poland, Romania, and any of the countries that are adjacent or joining the Ukraine have a special deal on grain that they do not have to purchase the grain coming out of the Ukraine, even though we're all in the single market. So I would have to beg the question the people that we are sending out now to negotiate on behalf of us here in Ireland, are they are putting enough pressure on the people in Brussels to maintain what we believe we need to protect 170,000 jobs up and down country of Ireland. If there's other countries get different derogations on different things as well. So that's points been well made on this program at the very least, Tim, whatever about anywhere else. Finally, I'll just ask you straight up here, you know the Minister's position you went above his head and wanted to speak to Tarnisheda Miho Martin. There's a line, you've got some time frames that relates to payments. I'm not sure if you're satisfied with them or not, but I don't have time to ask you. I'll ask the question once again, as it stands at this point, do you have faith in the Agriculture Minister? Look, that's the decision for the Sino-Fall parties. That's not my decision number one. And anyway, all I'm saying is absolutely I want to work with this Minister, but he needs to deliver for farmers. All I say is we're not seeing that delivery we require currently and there's a few things the Minister needs to do here. He can do them. He needs to go back and put pressure on in Europe and ensure we can maintain this derogation. And he needs to press the button, press send, you have ANC, which will impact seriously and a lot of your listeners up in County Donegal and he could do that today. There was no change in this. I don't accept his what he's saying around the new IT system has to be built and all the rest of it. There was absolutely no change in the ANC payments. And I'm asking the Minister to state that he press the button and get that money out this week out to farmers. Tim, thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Tim Cullinan, President of the IFA. Have a lovely Tuesday. Back with you tomorrow morning at 9. John Breslin is next.