 be cooking again with Lee tomorrow morning just after 9 o'clock. But it is time for a news update. Let's say hello, Michaela Clark. Thanks Greg, good morning. The need for a minor injuries clinic in the North West is one of the issues set to be discussed at an upcoming public meeting. The closest facility is currently located in Monahin. The latter Kenny Hospital Campion Group believes the Donegal-based clinic would alleviate the pressure on the hospital's emergency department and GP services in the county. The group is hosting a meeting on Thursday February the 16th at half past seven at Dillon's Hotel in latter Kenny. Mary T. Sweeney, chair of the latter Kenny Hospital Campion Group, says the meeting aims to identify the specific needs of people right across Donegal. Together hopefully we'll have a cross representative from across the county to identify what particular needs are met because there's a possibility that we need to identify specifically for current donors or for Kelly bags or for Donegal-O, but additional services could be put in place in the winter whether it's a respiratory clinic or what the people need. Aman remains in a serious condition in hospital following a crash in Bali Buffay yesterday morning. He was injured in a two vehicle collision at around half past 11 in the Navni area. The Navni-Trinan road remains closed. Guard of Friends at Claysian Investigator are to conduct an examination of the scene this morning. Diversions are in place and motorists are advised to avoid the area and seek an alternative route. A vigil has been held in Derry to show solidarity with those affected by an earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Nearly 6,000 buildings have been destroyed and 8,000 people killed. International rescue teams are in place and say they are still hopeful of finding survivors in the rubble. Those from the Turkish, Syrian and Kurdish community gathered in Derry last night to offer their condolences. Zara says her family have survived but are now dealing with horrific conditions. I'm half Kurdish so where the earthquake was that affected our family very badly they're all okay but like they're having to sleep outside and like the weather is really really bad it's so cold and it's snowing. An Adon Fanehe farmer has become the new chair of the Country Donegol Executive of the Irish Farmers Association. Joe Sweeney is also a farm family support officer with the Inshaunet Development Partnership. He succeeds Brandon McLaughlin who held the position for four years. Mr Sweeney told Highland radio's Chris Ashmore that he looks forward to his new role. It means a lot to me because farming is probably in my blood I'm farming all my life so I'm working with farmers all my life actually I'm working on my own and it's all to do with farming so it's just another Adon. Weather now largely dry but cloudy this morning with just a few patches of light rain or drizzle highest temperatures of eight or nine degrees. That's all from Highland radio news for now we'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock until then. COVID-19 and flu viruses are circulating in the community. Keeping up to date with your recommended vaccines will make sure you have the best possible protection from serious illness. And everyone aged 18 to 49 can now get a second COVID-19 booster vaccine from the HSC Vaccination Centre or a participating GP or pharmacy. See what vaccines are recommended for you on HSC.ie or call our team in HSC live on 1800 700 700 from the HSC. The county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Highland radio and now it's time for the talk of the Northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Highland radio. Hello good morning to you it's five minutes past nine on this Wednesday the 8th of February 2023 and we're all aboard for another 9 till noon show. Later on we're going to be talking history. I know you all enjoy that and there's so much more besides so stay with us and get involved in the conversation as you always do keeping us really busy on the phones having your say passing on your information. Let us know if there's anything we can help you with. WhatsApps and texts let me give you that number 08 660 25 000 08 660 25 000 or call us on 07 491 25 000 a gentle reminder that if you want to you can watch the show in its entirety and most of our guests on YouTube that's on your firestick smart TV your phone tablet whatever it might be just search Highland Radio Ireland the same on Facebook or Facebook watch and you can also watch directly in browser on our website highlandradio.com so with Monday being a public holiday still very confusing we're already at the middle of the week okay let's look at the front of the Enish Times and they cover this strange story from yesterday. A guardie have launched an investigation after damage was caused to the green in Malantan in a joy riding instant that followed the theft of six tractors and a forklift truck. The vehicles were stolen from a commercial facility at lag near the village between 4 30 a.m. 5 30 a.m. on montain it really is bizarre because it seems it would require seven people to be involved they had to four start six tractors and a forklift right then head off to wherever they were going on to the green and to make that mess and this is a shared space in a beautiful malantan and it's dug up and it's it's ridiculous really that it should happen we're going to be speaking a bit more about that a little later on repairs to the green we're taking place on Tuesday morning and in mcmonagall chair of the malan development association said the vandalism which is the second instant in recent months has caused anger in the village as you can imagine because as well too you know we're not to to attribute responsibility to to any particular people of course because we don't know who might be responsible that guarded investigation is ongoing but did they come up from court to do it probably not you know so uh having to pick up the pieces and the people responsible for it you know could be from the general area i don't know by the way i'm not saying that in a bad way but i think it just might make it more painful for uh the those in the area the fin valley voice this morning the riverine community park project a joint project developed by donagall counter cancel and dairy city and striband district council to develop a 30 acre dedicated cross border and cross community shared space has been delayed and you can read more about it in the paper and we're going to be talking about that too a little later on in the program a sobering headline in the donagall post one in three donagall homes going without food or heat more than one in three households in donagall have gone without food or heat as a result of the current cost of living crisis the donagall post can reveal and some have turned to charities food banks and family members for support in total around seven out of eight households in the county have experienced the negative effects of the crisis to some degree only one in eight said they had there had been no change to their lifestyle the start reality of the impact of the crisis came to light through a poll which the paper conducted on the news website donagallive.ie the journalist who conducted the poll said we're all aware in a broader sense of how people are struggling at the moment the aim of the poll was to get a clear picture of how households in donagall have been affected by this crisis which is putting many people under relentless financial and emotional stress so according to their poll one in three donagall homes going without food or heat on to the Irish independent now and the HSC has been taken to court by 44 families whose relatives died after contracting COVID-19 in hospital or nursing home new figure show briefed families have taken cases through the state claims agency which manages personal injury claims on the behalf of state bodies including the HSC a claim means the SCA has received notification of intention to seek compensation where it is alleged the state was negligent a spokesperson for the SCA said each case will be considered on its own particular set of facts the SCA as a matter of respect for plaintiffs and their families does not comment on individual cases or groups of cases he said but I imagine some of those will be perhaps people and right from the very beginning of it it was a concern we expressed on this a chance to speak on behalf of other people a concern I expressed certainly on this program of people who were sick in hospital being transferred with COVID transferred into places of care where vulnerable people were and it was a problem right from the very very beginning and I'm sure well I'm not sure but I would be expecting that some of those cases might center around what went on there politicians should face fines for disclosure failures according to a report which will do sit on a desk or shelf do nothing I'm sure this is the Irish time as politicians and top officials should face fines for failure to comply with disclosure obligations while also being forced to submit more detailed accounts of their assets and debts the landmark reviews found the new report on Ireland's statutory framework for ethics in public office carried out by officials in the department of public expenditure and reform recommended that a range of appropriate sanctions be developed with fixed fines for breaches of disclosure obligations the recommendations for new powers comes after two junior ministers Robert Troy and Damien English had to resign in the past year following controversy surrounding their disclosures and regulatory and planning obligations respectively minister for public expenditure and reform Pascal Donahue later recused himself from the reform of ethics legislation which falls to his department including the publication of this review after failing to properly disclose posturing paid for by a businessman friend into general elections on to the Irish daily mail now and we read that families face paying almost 100 euro extra a month on shopping bills as supermarket inflation soars to a new record high of more than 16 percent the shrink inflation where pack sizes and portions reduced but price prices remain the same means shoppers are returning to the supermarket more often as what they're buying simply doesn't last as long and if you notice that I have noticed that with a few things that what you're purchasing in the package or in the in the container there's not as much stuff in it which I don't think it's very honest to be honest with you I mean maybe we should lift it up and look at the weight and then remember what it the weight was before and then be able to compare that weight and then compare it to the price and all that kind of stuff but in reality you know how many of us can actually do that I know price is going up at least it's there in your face but this notion of reducing the weight of something or how much of a product is in a package I don't like that at all I don't think it's very fair well in the last four weeks or in the four weeks to January the 23rd the average price per pack rows 14.6 percent while the volume of shopping per trip was down 13 percent showing the challenges shoppers face according to the latest data from retail analysts Kantar and in the 12 weeks to January 23rd shoppers spent an extra 90 euro per household on year to year the inflation rate of 16.3 percent is the highest since Kantar started tracking grocery sales back in 1948 this at the same time that nearly a third of parents skipped meals or reduced portion sizes in the past year so their children would have enough to eat a study conducted by coin research on behalf of Bernardo's and Aldi also found that the number of parents using food banks and relying on food donations has doubled now I don't understand how inflationary increases means that these businesses see their profits increase okay someone an accountant might understand that better than us but if their profits are increasing but prices are increasing as well it's us that's paying for it and it's not that they're sort of treading water or staying still they're actually making more money a lot of these companies they're even they're making extra money so why because we're so loyal to them aren't we let's face it why have they not absorbed more of the inflationary increases you know I mean at least they steady lads do you know what I mean you don't have to make more profit out of us when we have parents not eating so the children can eat I would hate to be involved in that I genuinely I'm not trying to make out that I've got a halo or anything but if I was in that part of that decision making I would struggle to sleep at night I really would knowing that I was making more money while other people were less well off I don't know how they can sleep comfortably at night to be truthful on to the Irish Daily Mirror and this is an unfortunate story but one that needs to be discussed of course the family of two people killed in the Creasley Expulsion has requested a documentary on the tragedy not be aired tonight ten people were killed in the blast at the Applegreen service station on October 7 last year these included Anya Flanagan's partner Robert Garwe 50 and their five-year-old daughter Shawna. Ms Flanagan's brother Killian Flanagan told RTE he has contacted Tiji Cahar and the Guardian to request it does not air during the inquiry he said the idea of it airing is now beyond comprehension and asked why it cannot be shown in six months time in stead now there's a number of people I've kind of tried to I mean if people want to speak on this more than happy to let them speak on it but I just was not really comfortable making sure that we didn't compound any upset that's out there okay but we we would know through the show through me through Caroline we would know that there's a number of people that contributed to this who maybe expected it to be broadcast at the later days that didn't expect it to be broadcast so soon whilst an investigation is ongoing families still don't know what happened to their loved ones I don't believe anyone no only took part in this with the view to it going out so quickly but I can understand and I get it that if I had lost a loved one or someone was injured or I was affected by it it might feel that this is too soon that at the very least the very least wait until the inquiry is official it's too soon it feels too soon but as I say my understanding is is that people partook in this in the on the on the on the understanding that it would be broadcast at a later date well tg cars seem to be plowing on with plans to broadcast it I don't know why I don't think it's in in the public interest I think you have to listen to the people affected by this especially as it is so recent but they say the program does not report anything about the victims other than what's already been reported publicly in the direct aftermath of the tragedy that being said yes that's fine but the media need to move away from a position whereby they need to ensure that there's no value I don't think anyone down the country let's put it like that would want to watch that watch that knowing knowing that it upset families right I don't think anyone as a viewer would want to partake in that right so we need to move away from the click baity stuff I'm not saying that's what that is but you know people will choose alternative medias if the media continues to not read the room correctly let me put it like that right on to the Irish Daily Star now and a report by the way if you want to speak on that or if you have anything to say on whether or not that should be broadcast well I don't think there's any argument for it to be broadcast to be honest with you because for me the families have spoken I think some of the participants have spoken as well so I don't think there's a counter argument to it as well I think it should not be broadcast now because it's their life it's their story it's their words they don't want it broadcast so I'm not sure there's a counterpoint to say yeah broadcast it but if you have a view on it 08 6 60 25 000 08 6 60 25 000 we'll give us a call in 07 49 125 000 the Irish Daily Star this morning a report by the Attorney General into nursing home charges has found that the legal strategy employed by the government was sound accurate and appropriate probably not surprising is the Attorney General not appointed by government or at least works for government or both the report was compiled by Ross Fanning after a week of controversy over legal strategies used by successive governments to settle cases where people had to pay private nursing home fees so the AG I said they did the right thing legally I'm not sure whether he could look at something ethically because I think ethics really is a is a factor there finally in the sun this morning using dating apps may make finding love even harder for wannabe romantics according to psychologists this might not surprise you excessive swiping on possible matches on services like tinder can cause a partner choice overload something that serial data liardo caprio was probably familiar with it may even create a fear of rejection if love hunters spend too long comparing themselves to others it's not a great way is it to do it where you judge someone purely based on their appearance in one single snapshot I mean what does that tell you about someone maybe it's okay if you're in the hookup sort of situation but if you're looking for someone to spend your life with or to spend a prolonged period of time with you gotta get to know them don't you and it's not always just unlocked psychology phd student marina thomas quizzed 464 users aged from 16 to 25 about their app habits potential love birds pick a partner by swiping right on their picture if they like them and left if they don't if both go right it's a match and they can arrange to meet up but I think really what happens is they just match each other they feel better about it and never contact each other right okay if you've a view on that 08 660 uh 25 000 08 660 25 000 or call 07491 uh 25 000 the newspapers are courtesy of kelly centra mountaintop leder kenny the c store national large four court of 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awful lot of women out there speaking on various issues and often uh and i hope this isn't sexist and me saying so often you know they're the most balanced and most coherent arguments uh it's translating maybe sort of those people with those views uh who maybe feel frustrated that nothing is changing to change them from you know regular people like the rest of us into uh elected reps we know the passions out there we know the peoples out there it's just um joining the dots is it yeah it is i mean if you're if you're looking for women in politics you're not finding them sitting over in lyford or in the doll but where you do find them is flat out in their communities and that's what part of the work that see her elected does is you know to to continually uh put value or draw attention to the work the women are doing in their communities uh and pointing out that that makes them excellently placed to be county councillors because what they're doing through the volunteering work uh etc is that they're filling in gaps in services that exist so they they know exactly what needs to be done because they're at the cold face so what we and see her elected are doing we want to help women in rural ireland into those county councils to see her elected into county councils and the seminar that's happening it's on friday the 24th of february in my hometown of dunagall town that in the central hotel there and it's organized by 50 north west who are a group of women kind of sleigh go leach and dunagall who've been working now for some time to draw attention to the the low numbers of women in councils in the region and along with ourselves we're putting on this seminar because i think women you know due to the work of the likes of yourself drawing attention to how few women there are i think it's begin people are beginning to to recognize that it's pretty bad that out of the 37 county councillors in dunagall there's only four women and that there's only ever been 11 in total since the formation of the state there's only been 11 women there must be north of 200 men elected to dunagall county council over the same time can i ask why because people might say and quite understandably they might say uh there's been quite a few women candidates they weren't simply elected or not enough women have put themselves forward or it's up to the people they've decided on who was put in front of them but but before we get it sort of that kind of stuff why is it important from your perspective that there is more of a balance on a council why would what would how would society benefit better from half the councillors being women i'm sure many of the male councillors they've got mothers and wives and yeah daughters and aunts and so why is it important that it's actually women that are on a council yeah none of this is about women being better than men or men being better at women it's about getting the balance right in the room i mean our we we live in a democracy and you know i suppose we some of us might struggle to define what democracy is but we would all instinctively know it's something worth fighting for as we see happening on our own continent and one of the things that underpins democracy is that when we elect a body of people to represent us they should look like they should look like us so the population is fifty percent male fifty percent women so our councils and bodies we elect to represent us should look like that and within that a diversity of people you know there's people from different all kinds of different backgrounds and abilities living here and what those people would bring into decision making in the county council is their experience their experience of living in Donegal as a man or a woman with a disability or having moved here from somewhere else and having to to to to learn how to be here and the experience that you would have from that and women in in the in the county and and to bring that knowledge so it's not knowledge that you learn in a book or from a degree it's the knowledge that you have from living your life in Donegal and to bring that knowledge into the council decision making could only benefit the quality of the decision making that's been made you know you have a great panel of guests including former tarnished to mary coughlin senator eileen flinn but if you were to drill down into their experience as politicians in terms of the abuse that they might receive i think particularly more latterly eileen flinn because during mary coughlin's time i i think really what during higher time as an elected politician maybe people weren't as active on on social medias there might be now also in terms of trying to balance a political career and family life i'm not going to presume as to what they speak of but you know i i think if they and i'm sure they will give awards and all uh um reality of of life for a woman in politics will it be encouraging or discouraging do you know what i mean like yeah and i i trust the speakers to i trust the speakers to to to uh greatly because they're they're very very powerful people but do you know what i mean i think if they laid it all there if i was sitting in the audience i'd go right okay is this for me yeah i mean you can't talk us about women in politics any level of politics without referencing you know recent news reports around the the level of abuse that's levied at them and at our male politicians as well but when it's when it's levied at women it tends to be sexual in nature and more toxic i think yeah and all the more frightening for that um uh the the higher profile politicians in our national government i suppose because that they have the higher profile attract more of it um that's not to say that it isn't a concern for county councils and we were actually talking about this in a workshop we we were running last night online and the consensus that we all reached those 17 women online last night was that the people who are doing this are the people who think that women have no place in politics and if women don't put themselves forward for election nothing is ever going to change uh so there's almost a moral imperative on women to keep going and not let those people who are sitting there behind their keyboards or wherever they are who don't who think women have no place sitting at the table when decisions are being made we can't let them stop us because if we let them stop us nothing will ever change and that's what we're trying to you know to draw attention to um by having the seminar in in Donegal Town although it's not necessarily reflected in the local local authority in many of them we i think the direction has been a positive one in terms of maybe trying to see women better represented in business and in in politics and what have you but i just wonder and i've seen little things pop up and it's not just actually you know it's academics it's people in big business that they're starting to spin this thing out now right and i'm not sure this is just part of where i think where we might be going that you know the the population of the earth is shrinking and and we're not having enough babies uh because and they're saying this women have the audacity to have careers you know and i'm just starting to see this coming out more and more i've heard it from sort from Elon Musk i've seen it from a couple of high-level academics you know not necessarily from the areas you might expect to see it and i just feel that there's almost like a pushback it's it's it's subtle at the moment but i just wonder i can imagine in year two or three years time that this this might gather a bit of strength there's something like that trouble you or do you think it's just um it certainly would trouble me um i i'm not familiar with it and Elon Musk isn't exactly the type of person i would listen to but he has incredible influence you say yeah he does but you know he's got 127 million pairs of ears um you know it is just something that's being choked out now more and more i'm hearing it more and more yeah uh well then it's up to us and and people in the media like yourself to to counter that to say that you know women have something to say uh and they have a rightful place at the decision-making tables and their opinion matters and their experience matters and everyone will benefit if there is a greater diversity of voices and experience and people together when decisions are being made that affect all of us yeah what do you think will actually uh make change in in i think there's a couple of things have to happen i mean obviously you know we need more women to put themselves forward the reality is is because of party politics we need pop uh parties to to select more women but also we maybe need the electorate to sort of say well what kind of a makeup of a council do i want maybe not necessarily vote uh by way of politics or what have you all because you always did it a certain way there's a few things would have to align presumably uh Michelle yeah there is i mean the the voters are critical to all of this and perhaps there's a role for for see her elected in talking to the voters too for men and women alike to understand that everyone would benefit from having different perspectives in the council not just the same type of people talking to themselves year after year and for some of us uh we don't get a chance to vote for a woman for example in Lyford-Sternorder there wasn't a single woman on the ballot paper in 2019 and so you sort of think well what's that about why why is that happening and I suppose what we tried to do about that was to start at the beginning because women didn't know where to start and you know myself quite naively at one stage thought that if you wanted to run for election you could just waltz into the local library and pick up a book off the shelf that said this is how you run for election but you can't it didn't exist so we actually wrote it and we put um workshops together that go through the guidebook um chapter by chapter so it's little things like that I think that will really really start to make a difference you know that there's actually a clear pathway with the likes of see her elected that this is where you start if you're not from a political family if you've never been in a political party but you're as mad as hell you actually want to see your voice reflected in in in the council you know this is where you start and uh it's to try and bring women from across the northwest together in Donegal town at the end of the month to uh to have that conversation you know what can I do it's it's pretty bad the the low numbers of women across the whole northwest so so what can I do so what we would love to see coming into Donegal town um on the 24th of February is woman woman who might already have it in their head that they're going to run uh and they want to hear from women like themselves um from Mary Coughlin from Senator Eileen Flynn uh from the county councillors who will be there Finola Armstrong McGuire from Leacham and Mary Trays Galler who I know has been on the show um and Steve Kennedy likewise to councillors from Donegal just to hear how did they go about it and what can we learn from them but also those women who think god I never thought of running for election I wonder where do you start because we'll be there to say well we have a very practical and simple pathway in place and just walk with us um and we'll show you but the other group of women I would love to come along to this is the woman who know well that they're never ever going to run for election but at the same time they would like to get behind a woman to help her get elected because we've a very experienced director of electors in Edel McSharry from Sligo who's going to come along and talk to those women in particular who who know they're not going to run for election but would would go out of their way to try and help another woman get elected so you know this isn't going to be a lecture you know there'll be plenty of opportunities for questions and conversations on the day I think people might attend and be inspired as well Michelle um in in business for instance I think in in this county we have a couple of really you know very impressive business networks and I know that that's what see her is uh to a great extent but it would be great I presume to see you know in local areas the same sort of networking of of of women in in politics specifically until such time as there's some sort of equality in numbers yeah as we in business communities there's amazing meetings that take place um in in different areas around that really really well attended lots of women support each other in business well how can I help you and what's mutually beneficial here uh and I know as I say I'm not saying this is I know see hers doing a lot of this but it can't be everywhere all of the time it would be great to see those things spring up sort of organically wouldn't it so you have 50 women in a room in initial and say well how can we get three women elected in the initial municipal district yeah and and I'm glad you brought that up because it was kind of part of the inspiration for this because we were finding we had um you know like that a woman who might be thinking about it in the millford area um and somebody else who might be quite near her who knew that they didn't want to run but might get behind a woman so it was to try and get all of those people together and just ask them a simple question what what can you do to see her elected and this might be the start of that network and as you said you know for dunagall woman and business network fantastic chaired there by joe daly from from dunagall town um fantastic and wouldn't it be great if out of this uh came that kind of a network for for women in politics in the county and see her elected would be you know very happy to support that if that's what the women in the in the room who come together would like would like to see yeah because i just have this in my head of a woman hearing this and being inspired but in a party politics situation although i understand tarnished americochlin former tarnished americochlin has a role in the candidate selection for fina fall in the next election unless i'm mistaken but sometimes there's a woman who won't have to go into a room full of men that have been yeah you know what i mean and right okay so um the seminar entitled what can you do to see her elected for local elections 2024 runs from 10 30 a.m to 1 30 p.m in the central hotel dunagall town on friday february the 24th it's free to attend but obviously they want to know the numbers so you're asked to register in advance by emailing info at seeherelected.ie uh other guests include uh counselors finola armstrong maguire marita reis gallerese you heard neve kennedy uh two dunagall reps obviously almost inevitably um some people are saying dunagall town very south of the county it's um it's aimed at the northwest so it's sligo leacham and dunagall so uh we picked dunagall town as accessible uh for for all of those three counties that's understandable very finally we've talked in the past and i've tried not to go over some of the same ground again myself uh you always come with something new of course uh talked about how it can be difficult uh for men or women right let's just whoever it is because of the makeup of of politics the way meetings are held and all that kind of stuff i think there's a great opportunity during lockdown where meetings were done in different ways a mixture of you know remotely uh in person at different times shorter meetings at times you know there was a lot of changes at that point and i would just thought maybe that would have been a really good opportunity to have a look at how uh councils are run and operated to see if things need to be done so that a teacher for example might uh also choose to enter local politics now i know some do but you need a very accommodating uh principle and what have you do you think that was an opportunity missed maybe to to to uh see if we can do politics in a way that's more accessible for people yeah yeah i do gregg i would agree with you on that um and woman councillors actually across the whole region are to the front in calling for hybrid meetings to remain um in place for county council and municipal district meetings to not revert back to completely in-person meetings and uh the county councillors from dunigol female councillors from dunigol are part of a larger group of a network of female county councillors called the woman's regional caucus and you know one of the things that they they are looking for is they're trying to do when in their network they're trying to do politics a little bit differently so they can bring that learning back into their county councils like you know voting in polls that remain open for an expended period of time but yeah the COVID did bring in some very positive new ways of doing council business and it would be a shame if we we lost that all right uh thank you very much for your time i really appreciate it as always i'll remind people when we finish this item how they can register and what have you see you soon thanks very much indeed okay that is Dr Michelle Mahar there see her elected program manager uh Merity Merity Sweeney uh stood in the last uh local elections um her party aimed to are putting forward quite a number of uh female reps or candidates should I say for 2024 what's the challenge uh Merity particularly as a woman or is there a particular challenge in your view as a woman in getting elected and good morning to you good morning uh good morning ministers good morning Greg listen either of one of those there's a huge traction to into women naturally are coming forward and wanting to stand and wanting to speak out and thankfully like we had that discussed this with our other RDSH about having a quota and we were saying that we would have a quota off a percentage of women we didn't need it we don't naturally need it and thankfully the women are coming forward so I would would also be delighted to see women coming forward I'm actually looking for a few extra men you know what I mean because I think it's important to have a natural balance of whoever is best at it for the job because it is difficult and I'm not elected but I'm working on the grounds of the community activists for years and they you know you do there's certainly an intrusion even at my level in your lifestyle and having to attend things and go to things to keep your ear to the ground of what's happening but um it's a great opportunity and I'm delighted to hear but the conference and all the efforts on the 24th and you know you were incredibly strong candidate at the last elections there were others as well um that I think you know there's quite a few women candidate that I think would have made a big difference on the on the local authority what is I haven't heard anything about it what I'm saying in the last election do you know what I mean I think you know you were a strong candidate uh there was all the strong candidates were very close I think uh you and others would have made a really interesting uh contribution to the council what what I was getting to Mary T is uh is there is there an issue with the electorate in sort of taking a chance or back in a woman or maybe you don't want them to do it on that level maybe you want it to be on on what the person is is the arguments that being made you know what would you like to see from the electorate in 2024 I would like the electorate I think and they're they're well capable of getting shows that yours are undoubtedly very very important for a certain percentage of the the done it go constituencies to hear and to to get a feeling that you know somebody who's going to stand and that can never transfer and print the way it does when you listen and you hear the honesty of somebody's voice and on the radio and debate or in a live debate when you don't have time to rehearse the beautiful thing about the end because I don't have to rehearse scripts and it's common sense all the way for me and like I speak about what I have experience about or what I've known about or people have come to me about and I think that when you're trying to make and I really do encourage women to stand up and go forward of course but I do think that you can't put people into positions that they're not comfortable with you know and and we have got to look for natural leaders we've got to look for people that are prepared to stand out and go forward and sometimes fall and pick yourself up again but it's also important about having a good team around you and the team is going to what's going to support the person for anybody to go into politics to have an ego on one person to think you can do it on your own you can't do it on your own you need the team around you that are backing you that are supporting your views and you may not agree on everything but the core of the message you're getting out there is important and I think that's where it's going to go forward on sorry Marity I think that's what's kind of interesting from Michelle because she is calling on women who maybe themselves don't see themselves standing for election but would like to row in behind someone to to form part of a team because you do need you do need a big team really to compete with often sometimes parties for example that have great resources in terms of feet on the ground well the reality what I have found is you need people men and women to say okay I'm going to have to get x take the children to football tonight because Mary team needs me to come to anything here but this that or the other or I need somebody to come down and read my press release to see if it have any mistakes have I made today in it you know what I mean it's all of that that you need networking together and I haven't I mean perhaps there's an email going to come to me but I would have thought that the best thing to do is to reach out to all of us women who stood in the last local elections and the general I was the only woman that stood in the general election and I honestly didn't see there was great support from the media to say oh since on it all has only one woman let's get behind this woman let's support her see the thing is there's a possibility I've I've I've sat opposite women running for election um and I was actually corrected for bringing gender into it do you know what I mean like in the past are you serious Greg only for you I wouldn't have an audience and done it go no thank you no my point is is that sometimes if you like as I say I've sat opposite a couple of women here that were contesting elections uh and and sort of put it to them about them being women or women voting through them and I was corrected and says no I'm standing as a person and I'm a you know what I mean so in terms of sort of high lances people talk I know in terms of highlighting singling you out as a as a the only woman standing from someone like me who wants doesn't want to put my foot in it it's not that I I wouldn't be on it it's just I'd be afraid that you might say to me well Greg it doesn't matter if I'm a woman I'm standing on my platform do you get me Mary T so it's hard to read the room exactly and I I do I sympathize and I emphasize just what you're saying but you see this political correctness Greg when you see nonsense I'm sorry I have to call nonsense nonsense and and that's not the way I work if I see somebody I think even in society if I saw a young person that I thought would do the course a career direction a job opportunity that I've heard about then you you identify the person and the job or the opportunity you don't start to look at their gender you know if you think somebody's going to be a good nurse or good paramedic a good shop assistant somebody always looking for somebody legal or Tesco's or dump stores you know all of those shops I've seen people getting opportunities in there that hadn't the confidence to move forward and that's what some people need to need sometimes somebody to speak out and just give you the confidence and the theme for elections and for politics and as I say and into I'm also looking for candidates in the other areas of Donego so please contact me if you share my views in my politics do you intend to contest the local elections Mary T or are you going to wait for the generals God's sparing me I'll be contesting my health and God's sparing me I will be contesting yes unless we find somebody offers to come forward that's a better candidate than me and I won't respectfully back down if somebody else comes forward who's a bigger profile it would feel that they would like to take this mantle up I'll have to go forward at an AGM which is online next week on the two weeks time on the 24th in Dylan's hotel for Aintu so everybody's welcome to that it'll be going into the papers and on to Highland and if somebody comes forward and has a bigger team to support them I have to it's a democratic policy whoever gets the vote gets going forward from the commons you know it's and I have no ego about it I still work behind the scenes do the jobs that I have to do right okay well we look forward to having you on if you do end up being selected I'm sure I'll speak to you between now and then do you want to quickly mention a meet is there a meeting coming up as it relates to the hospital just while you're on has that been scheduled yeah just while you're here follow back on what you what we spoke about in relation to the hospital campaign the action campaign it's fantastic news that there's a facility opening up now for x-rays additional x-ray facility across from the hospital there a great step forward but not going far enough we're still feeling that the feedback from me from the medical personnel that that a minor injury unit would really really alleviate the pressure in the county and being honest there's a consideration that there's something that needs to happen up in the north we've extremities and done a goal because of the geography of the location and the rural locations so we really need to look so we're asking people from all the extremities the current donors the families the horn head that right around to lowland kelly begs and glen column kill you know come into the meeting on thursday the 16th and Dylan's hotel at 7 30 and either put yourself forward to get elected on to the committee and or bring your views in of what you need in your community is it something care for the aged is it something for your age and that's what what can we do to alleviate people having to travel into a and e in letter kenny is there anything you've identified in your community that you want us to represent on your behalf there's two strands for the meeting on thursday 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mortgage interest relief that used to exist up until 2021 it's got rid of completely at that time and i think it needs to be introduced at a targeted tailored and time-bound fashion to assist families in terms of the cost of living crisis that they're currently experiencing the need for a minor injuries clinic in the northwest is one of the issues said to be discussed at an upcoming public meeting the closest facility is currently located in monaghan the letter kenny hospital campaign group believes the dunningall based clinic would alleviate the pressure on the hospital's emergency department and gp services in the county the group is hosting a meeting on thursday february the 16th at half past seven at dylan's hotel letter kenny mary t sweeney chair of the letter kenny hospital campaign group says the meeting aims to identify the specific needs of people right across dunningall together hopefully we'll have a cross representative from across the county to identify what particular needs are met because there's a possibility that we need to identify specifically for car and donna or for kelly bags or for don low but additional services could be put in place in the winter months whether it's a respiratory clinic or what the people need a man remains in a serious condition in hospital following a crash in bali buffet yesterday he was injured in a two vehicle collision at around half past 11 in the navney area the navney drinan road remains closed guard of forensic collision investigators are to conduct an examination of the scene this morning diversions are in place and motorists are advised to avoid the area and seek an alternative route arenas on a trajectory to require 250 tds by the middle of the century according to the irish times under the irish constitution for between 20 to 30 000 of the population there must be one td census 2022's preliminary results revealed arenas population has exceeded 5 million the first time since 1851 it now means nationally there are 32 000 and 22 people per td in comparison the british parliament has one mp per 92 000 people while the seminar to promote the need for more women in politics in the north west is being held later this month just four out of 37 cancers in dunigol are female a number of guest speakers at the sea her elected and 50 50 northwest seminar on february the 24th in dunigol time include former tannish jamae cocklin senator eileen flinn and cancers marie tres galloher and neve kennedy dr michelle maher program manager for sea her elected told today's nine till ninja that unless more women get involved in politics there will be no significant change she believes a greater gender balance creates a greater democracy none of this is about women being better than men or men being better at women it's about getting the balance right in the room we we live in a democracy and you know i suppose we some of us might struggle to define what democracy is but we would all instinctively know it's something worth fighting for um as we see happening on our own continent and one of the things that underpins democracy is that when we elect a body of people to represent us they should look like us and a john fauna hey farmer has become the new chair of the county dunigol executive of the irish farmers association joe sweeney is also a farm family support officer with the in a shown development partnership he succeeds brandon mcgloughlin who held the position for four years mr sweeney told highland radios chris ashmore that he looks forward to his new role it means a lot to me because farming is probably in my blood i'm farming all my life so i'm working with farmers all all my life actually i'm working on my own and it's all to do with farming so it's just another add-on whether i largely dry but cloudy this morning with just a few patches of light rain or drizzle highest temperatures of eight or nine degrees that's all from highland radio news for now we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices this wednesday morning february the eighth the death has taken place of jared jerry mcmonagall st paul's park green castle removal this afternoon from liam collins funeral premises called daff at 2 p.m going to his daughter bridget mcgonagall's home at caro trazna green castle funeral from there on friday morning at 10 15 a.m for 11 a.m rakeway and mass in st mary's church ballet brachmaville followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard family time please from 10 p.m to 11 a.m family flowers only donations if desired to the donnie gall hospice care of any family member the death has occurred of kyle mooney seven rosable heights killy begs county donnie gall remains are opposing at his residence from 7 p.m till 9 p.m today and tomorrow from 12 p.m until 2 p.m and 6 p.m until 9 p.m removal from his home on friday morning at 10 30 for funeral mass at 11 a.m in st mary of the visitation church killy begs burial afterwards in the local cemetery mass will be streamed live on mcnmedia.tv the death has occurred of dita mcdade ballet money burt county donnie gall dita will be reposing at her late residence from 11 a.m this morning and all day tomorrow funeral leaving her late residence ballet money burt on friday morning at 10 20 a.m going to st angus church burt for 11 o'clock rakeway mass with burial afterwards in burt cemetery house private pleas on the morning of the funeral the death has taken place of mary donahue knee hegerty fork war milford remains are opposing at her home today from 12 noon until 10 p.m funeral mass tomorrow at 12 noon in st peter's church milford with burial afterwards in milford cemetery funeral mass can be viewed live on church services dot tv family time on the morning of the funeral family flowers only donations if desired to cancer research care of patrick sweeney funeral directors the death has taken place of jane mcglinty knee mcglaren 19 onolan parkstriban and formerly of parkhead glasgo reposing at her home funeral leaving her home tomorrow morning at 9 20 a.m for rakeway mass in st mary's church melmont at 10 a.m and term it afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time pleas from 11 p.m to 11 a.m the rakeway mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of ellen dobson knee tease dromore l mcglennan ellen's remains are opposing at her late residents funeral service will take place in trenta presbyterian church tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m followed by interment at the adjoining cemetery funeral service can be viewed on trenta presbyterian church facebook page family time please from 11 p.m to 11 a.m family flowers only please donations to the alzheimer society care of any family member or charlie mcglafferty funeral director the death has occurred of margaret peggie dordy knee callan one plunked oboiled terrace letter kenny we're posing at her late residents today from 12 noon till 9 p.m with rosary at 9 p.m family time please on the morning of the funeral funeral from their tomorrow morning going to st unance cathedral for 11 a.m mass which can be viewed live at church services dot tv followed by burial in the adjoining family plot in comwell cemetery family flowers only please donations if wished to dunigol hospice in the daffodil centre letter kenny university hospital care of pascal blake funeral director the death has taken place of frances to venny knee mcgarregal tober balandrate formally of straban reposing at her home funeral from their tomorrow afternoon at 12 20 p.m for rakeway and mass in simpatricks church murlock leford at 1 p.m followed by interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations in lieu of flowers please to the dunigol hospice care of quickly funeral directors family time please from 11 p.m to 11 a.m the rakeway and mass can be viewed live at clonley parish dot com the sudden death has occurred of shinny's skill mendoran clon mani her remains are opposing at her grandparents denison cathleen mcdade's home in mendoran clon mani wake private to family close friends and neighbors only please funeral from their tomorrow morning at 10 30 a.m going to saint mary's church clon mani for rakeway and mass at 11 a.m with interment immediately afterwards in the new cemetery family time please from 10 p.m tonight and before the funeral tomorrow morning family flowers only donations if desired to our davey nalsamers unit caron dunna care of any family member or mcfeeley funeral directors the death has taken place of joe tish galleher upper dunmore vulcara his remains are opposing at his late residents funeral mass at 11 a.m in sinfinan's church vulcara with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery funeral mass can be viewed live on mcnmedia.tv the death has taken place of pat bullen knock a stroller bun beg originally from swinford county mayo reposing overnight at saint mary's church dairy beg funeral mass there this morning at 11 a.m with interment 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woman's policies i personally didn't vote for mary t because of her pro-life campaign on abortion i'm a woman that's not putting a woman's rights first yeah indeed and i understand on an issue like that maybe mary t might be more divisive than another one and i think mary t you'll understand that i don't mean that with any disrespect but it is a core issue that you will not sort of put to one side i think to vote a certain way regardless of what side of the debate you fall on uh women vote for men because asks a listener another could you announce the registration details for that woman's conference again please and thank you i will um it's under another pile of papers but bear with me i will uh corner says sure we had a very active competent lady running in the last council and general elections here in donagol in the person of mary t sweeney and i didn't hear any women's groups offering much of any support for her loyalty to traditional parties seems to be more important to many 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have heard on this program yesterday during community garden information there was a strange event in six tractors and a forklift was stolen from a yard now that in itself is very inconvenient for the plant owner but then they were brought on a so-called joy riot and also people don't use that phrase because it kind of sets a wrong tone but anyway they were taken then to the green area the shared area and made a mess of the green then they were abandoned and the culprits fled andrew mcgonagall is chair of the mall and development association good morning andrew good morning greg like it is a strange one isn't it and it's really regrettable yeah it's disappointed to say the least like our village green is one of our features in our town and we we spent a lot of effort in maintaining it keeping grass cut trees pruned and all that and it's just disappointed to see that sort of antisocial behavior of course it was how hard has it gone to be to restore the green to its former glory i know it's the time of year where it you know everything doesn't look as best as it can anyway as we just start and see growth return but is it going to be difficult to get it back up to ship shape no not too bad there's quite a bit of tax done on it but it could have been more so could be far worse so we're happy enough with that part of it but we will work we have had one guy working on the recue mcgonagall has already done some work on it which and we will fertilize it and uh put sand and all on it to keep getting back to its original state do you think those responsible sort of did it on purpose was it just a bit of horseplay maybe they don't realize what they're doing they think in in in their minds that this is fun they don't realize the consequences they don't realize that the community feels attacked yeah the community don't feel attacked and this it's antisocial behavior i think they they don't realize they don't seem interested in what what they're doing or why they're doing it they don't seem to know what they're like i can't understand their their psyche of what they would try and do something like that because it's it's anti antisocial as i say um it's well organized because it must have been at least five or six of them so that obviously just cost us or worked on it if that's that's what makes it really quite weird um and and why track us in the forklift i mean i don't know is it for are these videos gonna appear on tiktok or something or i'm not saying it's young people that are doing it but i mean as you say there's a plan here what what what are they hoping to achieve it's not like these are high powered vehicles there's not much fun in taking a forklift for a spin no it's the danger of it on the road at the middle of the night tractors five tractors i mean anything could happen any sort of accident could have happened and then but you're into criminal activity then so yeah the whole thing is disappointing and i don't understand if why you would want to do something like that it would happen sometimes occasionally a halloween night we would sort of put up with that but this is just not halloween night and this is a long thing to do basically are you calling on those responsible to come forward or if it is younger people uh you know maybe parents or guardians might sort of say well you know what were you doing at 4 30 uh in the morning you know i think this is going to kind of be a community response you i don't think anyone wants anyone hung drawn and quartered well people need to realize that this is not proper behavior exactly yeah yeah but they would i don't understand why they would do it at 12 as you're saying yeah like we're disappointed as a committee we're very disappointed because we spent a lot of time and effort and to keep in our community maintaining our community and our environment you know and i don't understand why young people would want to do that i can accept it sort of halloween it's just a challenge but this is about concerted effort to just get on the town green and try and do damage it's not the first instance uh unfortunately in recent times what else has happened on friday night as well we had an issue with a dumper truck stolen moved from his council area where they were doing new footpaths for us and a sort of low loader was taken on said we never friday night and then the same thing happened on sunday night so yeah whether it's the same people or not we don't know any information to the guards Andrew i think these people need to be talking to talk talked to and explain the consequences of their actions that they're putting pretend like i don't i i'm not saying it's locals uh and true but i can't imagine there's not a crew from donagall town coming up to to to uh to take tractors and a forklift on a run either so like as i say i don't want to cast you know cast a cloud over any group of people or any particular area but look at maybe maybe it is people from the vicinity and maybe they don't realize that it's their own family potentially that they're putting that here exactly yeah like they're obviously new for the tractors were based so they are they have to be locals to an extent they might be ten miles and certainly not no more than five or six miles away from here but uh no they don't seem to realize what they're doing is wrong but that's the way it is all right it was a favourite what do you do Andrew keep up the great work up in my lens beautiful uh and i'm sure you'll have the green back in ship shape in no time at all um hopefully not have to speak to you in this context again and we'll chat in the future again and more positive things Andrew thank you very much indeed Greg take care best of luck to you and and all the crew up there um yeah as i say it's just it's it's pointless it's not even fun come on you can't you can't tell me it was fun to those videos pop up on social media anywhere i wonder i'm sure someone had the phone out another great organization that are kenny tidied towns they're having their AGM on wednesday the 8th of February that is tonight at 8 p.m it's in the station house hotel letter kenny everyone's welcome uh if you're interested in getting involved with the 2023 project it would be great to see you there coming from the organizers that's the letter kenny tidied towns always glad to see new faces i'm sure tonight 8 p.m in the station household hotel letter kenny all are welcome uh listener said greg i needed now dock over the weekend with the sick baby i called at 4 p.m and was called back an hour later at six o'clock i was in the car park and was told to sit in the car because the waiting area inside was full once i got inside i had to wait another three hours in that three hour time space five people in front of me left on scene these are already clearly people who were deemed in need of care by a triage nurse this is a service that they're looking at changing and could face cuts it's not cuts it needs it's uh an increase another morning greg can i highlight the streetlight out this last month on lyford main street it's poll number 12 of contacted esb and was told it uh subcontractors uh will be contacted to contact them it's been reported but it's not been fixed we can't as residents even see to get the key into the front door we're concerned for our safety of our elderly residents and our cars with the streets so dark at night well look at we're gonna make inquiries in that aren't we caroline yes we are because we promised at the start of the show if you give us a call we'll try and sort things out for you so we'll uh we'll see what we can do that's a light on lyford main street and your concerns are for obvious reasons leave it with us we'll see if we can move that along for you uh greg waking up it's called badness of course these young ones know they're doing wrong it's going on far too much they should be made to make good the wrong i understand and i'm sorry i do sometimes maybe come across as a little bit too forgiving i just think that maybe sometimes young people don't know that's all um and if they realized they might not do it but again maybe i'm being naive and i apologize for that uh right uh from callum it shows with power women in politics that a great job the politicians michelle o'neill for shin fame uh and trying to get arland uh together another here there's a bigger elephant in the room in relation to women in politics which is political parties which are mostly self-serving it's the same all over the world it's all about power they say finnafall and finnegell spent years on civil war politics yet when it meant that they might lose power they suddenly threw away any values and took power there's always a compromise when it comes to gaining power the modern day shin fame politicians also stood uh on no on abortion because they were a pro-life party but then turned to yes because it meant votes okay that's uh that listener's opinion 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on the streets i'm sure there's plenty of guardly currently that would be fit to do it uh drew harris says this listener is in a unique position to investigate and resolve the gravest mass murder in the history of the state the Dublin and monahan bombings if he's not interested in this mass murder as they describe it here then he's hardly going to be bothered about garter resources in donna gall giving his background in the dirty war in the six counties and following recent senior appointments in the garty then citizens of this state are oblivious to the policy direction of unguarded shiokana this is from a person with family members in the force they say greg just a wee shout out about my two-year-old slipped and split the inside of his lip and needed stitches on saturday i want to say a massive thank you to all the stuff in casualty they were fantastic i can't thank them enough i got another thank you from a listener that i was supposed to read out someone helped them i'll try and find that um sometimes the messaging uh that my inbox be wedged and i try and remember to mention something and then i forget uh hello greg my husband got a letter from revenue last i don't know what happened there my husband got a letter from revenue last week about tax he's in an old age pension for years he doesn't pay tax it wasn't his pure side number we'll be very careful of that because there are still people that will try and scam you uh by way of postage as well uh if it wasn't his pure side number i would disregard it because that's the identifier for him though there's probably someone with the same name waiting on that letter that might not receive it greg what about a discussion on the news that donnie gall's dog wardens issued only 10 fines in as many years uh to irresponsible dog owners did not does not exactly fill you with confidence if you've young kids out and about well listen uh unfortunately that's just been a trend um for as long as whenever we're having the conversation it's about enforcement isn't it it's not just that it's dog fouling and and uh dogs misbehaving or being off leads there's zero enforcement really um if the truth be told hi greg um let me see you now hi greg i would call them real thugs that wrecked lovely malin green of course they knew what they were doing they see not to do it in the middle of the day when people would see them pure thugs doing it when people are in their beds just hopefully they are cameras to catch them would just love that to happen okay i get you i understand i'm reading the room um and maybe i'm being a little bit too generous in my comments hi greg since the new year i know of 10 people that have taken their own lives really something needs to be done about the mental health of our people that comes in from shawn shawn it's something we've tried to discuss on this program a couple of times um because these are personal tragedies and you can't speak or you don't wish to speak about them in the wake of these tragedies but i understand where you're coming from and i think we all know that there are an awful lot of people taking their lives of all different backgrounds and ages and gender and um we need to find an approach to reach these people to give them an alternative is that the right way of phrasing it we can't just sit idly by but we have to find a way to do so in that it doesn't exacerbate an issue or trigger it either but there are people that we need to reach to speak to to give them information to give them help and i'm open to any suggestions in how we can use this program to do it because in any other area of life and we did speak to Dr Dennis McCauley last week and we have spoken about this issue in the past and we've tried to get the numbers out there and we've tried to let people know how important and special they are and to reach out but we need to come up we need to find something else another way i think don't we because there's too many families just devastated ripped apart and i know some of you are listening to this and i know you feel that pain every single day and i don't know if we could just come together to try and come up with something that we'll try and reduce that that number that the listener talked of there uh call us as read the pro-abortion v pro-life text you just read out it's a sad day for humanity if one has to be pro-abortion to be successful it's time the pro-life people of donagore stood up for the right to life the right not to be killed in your mother's womb but of course of course there are competing rights and the well-being and health of the woman and her right to look after herself these are competing rights i'm not and also there is then also people of different views as to when you know life starts that's just the reality and those arguments were well rehearsed during election times and and referendums it's just not quite as simple i know when you for certain point of view regardless of what it is you can see that so clearly you can see that point so clearly you can't understand why people don't agree with your point of view i'm not speaking directly to you listener i'm speaking about us generally um but uh unfortunately um we all have different views on different topics and um this you can't just make some big shout and as if all of a sudden we'll all agree or put our our strongly held views to one side carol anyway i'll ask him to try again there hopefully in the next general election the sooner better we will have a great female t-shock um i think you can guess what party they're affiliated with hi greg it's an old cctv in malin also these vandals are off their head uh it's rife everywhere right okay um i'm not sure as it relates to cctv i presume the guard investigation is ongoing in in that regard and um they'll probably find those responsible let's uh put it like that hi greg i've been thinking about your segment on alcohol that you did last week i just felt i needed to put some balance on it the once was uh multiple of the number of pubs operating now than 20 years ago locally from moth to claw red castle there was 10 pubs there are now five successive governments have brought in policies that have driven people from the relatively safe drinking environment of a pub to the no-limit drinking at home the smoking ban drink driving a huge difference in price between home and bar drinking now i'm not saying that some of these measures should not have been taken but better preparation and planning should have gone into mitigating against the negative impacts of them price seems to be our government's weapon of choice when it comes to following the t-totaler agenda can i can i just say at this point um doctors and nurses and what have you and we've seen it in canada as well uh accept and it's generally accepted that alcohol is a carcinogenic that it causes cancer um that even relatively low levels of alcohol consumption can um trigger cancers this is well researched uh so you're not going to have anyone in health effectively saying boozing is okay that's just a reality but i'll read on here and that's why they increased the price uh five euro now the norm for a pint but the sad reality is is that our young are finding other less expensive ways to entertain themselves on a night out this i fully agree with drugs drugs are at epidemic proportions in our communities yet i rarely hear it mentioned a young person can easily buy a bag of pot or weed much cheaper than a night's drinking and they are everywhere typically 20 euro for a night they'll buy one drink at the bar go for their fix and be in a drunk-like state all night i heard yesterday that there's now heroin in a shone a drug that devastated communities in the 80s everyone knows who the dealers are and where to get any drugs of choice alcohol is not the only problem and listen i um understand exactly where you're coming from as it relates to you need a dual approach you know if you 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this afternoon tracking south eastwards turning colder with winds veering north-westly and moderating as the rain eases right our historian in residence dr. joe kelly good morning to you joe great to have you on the show as always imagine why i got gregg is a luck they checked out good morning to yourself and to your listeners and highland radio right we are going to be talking about marconi and the irish and donagall connection right where should we start then at the beginning so has he an irish background yeah well you know if you were to go by the FIFA regulations for soccer internationals he would have qualified for irland he could have played football for the republic of irland but look marconi is a very interesting man like we talked maybe today about steve jobs or we talk about the likes of thomas eddison you know the bulb and different things at steve jobs the iphone and computers and the mouse and things like that well what marconi did for technology in the sense of wireless technology would be equivalent to that and he's often called you know the father of of technology of modern technology in that sense and and wireless technology so that's maybe a little bit of the background to the man and he was born in italy in balonia in 1874 and this is where the irish heritage comes in his mother was annie jemison now she was a granddaughter of john jemison you know the whiskey famous john jemison whiskey well she was a granddaughter of john jemisons and uh she married this italian man that would have been marconi's father and uh she lived in italy so uh but he did come to irland from time to time um and particularly in wexford where his mother's grandparents his maternal grandparents that's where he would have come to stay and live for a for a wealth for holidays and things like that so we have always had that connection with irland and one must remember that stage irland was still under the control of england so it would have been seen as connected with england as well and and they would have been more aristocratic in the sense that they were wealthy and his mum and dad were wealthy in italy and you know we talked before about the value of education and homework he was self-educated he had numerous languages but he didn't have any formal education like schooling education but his mother encouraged him kept encouraging him and he then got in touch with a physicist in the university of balonia august o rihi and he told him that he was interested in waves and how sound traveled in waves and he told him about the different scholars that had done research now oftentimes marconi is accused of having uh stolen other people's work but what he actually did was he read and learned about what others had done and brought it all together into a simplified forum so he wasn't reinventing the wheel but he was making the field wheel work more um easier and far more dynamically and that's what he did with wireless technology and he had read people like maxill and lodge and and hertz i mean we all know the name hertz with with uh with frequencies and whatnot and he'd realized in 1888 that hertz had discovered and produced the first wave the first radio wave and he was wondering how this could be done wirelessly and this was what his big ambition was and he looked at things as so in other words the the the waves that he would have drawn the inspiration from would have been running on a cable effective yes yeah and for the communication of the time everything needed a cable and he said well can this be done without a cable which is truly the biggest leap isn't it because it's like you know initially getting to the moon you couldn't get to the moon initially because how could you build a ladder long enough to reach the moon uh as ridiculous as that may sound so you know to you know it's great to be able to send sands over a wire but for it to have broad uh broad adoption you need to to sort of break that link yeah there's an imagination that allowed him to do that and in 1895 he made that breakthrough again his mother had really encouraged him to explore his interest in the waves and and the movement of electronics and magnetics fields and things like that and he had in his own laboratory in his own house up on his attic and it was a room about 30 meters long and he managed or 30 feet wrong sorry and he managed to set the signal wirelessly from one end of the room to the other and he went downstairs and got his mother come up and look at what i have done and then the father went looking for wires he was going where's the wires and the father couldn't get over that he had done this and he emptied his wallet and said look there you go you know that's that's amazing but before we talk more about that you know anytime there is new technology and this is not a slight against anyone but you know i remember it with say for instance 3g with with uh deflector systems more recently 5g people concerned people have this nervousness about what really is it all about what's behind it what can it do for us and what really kind of happens is history repeats itself you know i i was watching a clip last night about some americans who uh were were objecting to not being allowed to drink and drive and and they were using the language we use now what's next you know we're not going to be able to do this that and the other it's communist country we're going to be living you know what i mean so back then what something that seemed magical right almost like transportation but audio transportation tele you know teleportation almost did he have people that thought he was some sort of a wizard or that this would be used or there was some sort of you know ghosts involved or something brilliant question and at the point in 1895 when he was able to put this across his laboratory in his own in his own house he then wrote to the italian government the the communications department and told them about his invention and they didn't reply back to him and later they found a note saying that this must be somebody in an asylum that is thinking that we can do something wirelessly it he wasn't understood and in fact later on we see when he went to look for funding he actually was backed by seven corn merchants here in ireland and the the the men in ireland at that time as i said were part of the British empire would have had money you know these corn merchants and when he was in Dublin for a while he met this man man left good body everything that's the good bodies that we talk about in business terms brokers and he got him to come to his house in clarence county awfully and he had prospective inspectors or investors with them as well and he said look at this is the young man i want you to meet and look at his invention he's looking for funding and uh so they all arrived now this is the time of carts and horses and so forth and so he did arrive the the people arrived and the next thing and one of the we did his experiment he said i'll go to another room and i'll ring the bell in here in this room from another room and as you can't do that he says of course i can and he said somebody come with me how many times do you want the bell to ring and he he kept them all in anticipation of what he could do and they were dumbfounded but one of the people there asked immediately for their courage and horse and the good body mr good what he says what have i offended you and he says no i'll have nothing to do with this saucer saucer he's seen it as a work of the devil and of evil that you know that you could communicate over the airwaves so you're quite correct a lot of people at the time probably thought what he was doing was mad and at the time there was cables running from america to ireland from ireland to england this was an unbelievable concept that you could send something wirelessly and what about the curvature of the earth and how would this be done and he was very and it was very very simple what he did it was so so simple and before long 1895 he did it in his own house for the 30 feet and then he went outside and he got it to the other side of the hell he said his house and they had a shotgun and they would fire the shotgun to let them know that the signal had got to the other side of the hell and over time this it went further and further so he got his mother realized that he was getting no satisfaction in italy took him to england and the post and telegraphs there were very very interested in what they what he was doing well let me ask you before you talk about that yeah at that time what did they believe that this could be used for did they believe it could replace those wires that you talk of was it for you know military reasons did they imagine that you could have a news bulletin that someone could read the paper out on on the air or something you know like in the early days what what did they believe this concept could be used for i wonder yeah well it's it's maybe like an invention you start off and you have a tv and it's black and white and then somebody says well maybe you could do this some color and then you could do flat screen and then you could do a remote control you wouldn't have to change buttons and it escalated very very fast so what happened in that little room that he had his experiment and would eventually move into radio would into tv would into safety at the sea it was just unbelievable and he he died before tv really got started but has one invention led to another to another to another the idea that you could communicate wirelessly opened up and a massive and today you know we take for granted 5g we take for granted our phones we take for granted so much but the ingenuity and the mind that had to you know behind what you have in your hands or what you watch is amazing so you were talking about then he moved from italy he was frustrated there was he and went to england did you say yeah and it's again how important mothers are in our lives she believed in him from day one and she says that i'm taking you to england we're going to try to get some money for you to develop this and the post and telegraphs name were very general post office were really really interested that william pierce was his name but they eventually took his experiment and stole some of his ideas and tried to do it independently of him and because of that then he patented his own his wireless box he painted it that in 1896 in fact he took out 800 different patents for his inventions what he was doing and eventually formed the marconi wireless telegraph company and that's why he came to ireland to look for funding when he'd seen what the posting telegraphs in england had done you know trying to take his invention and not have him involved with it and they couldn't work it to the extent that he was extent you know using it and in 1898 the don leary regatta would be known as king's town there at that time again we were still laundering these rule he was invited onto a boat they'd hired a boat they did a dublin newspaper the dublin daily express and he was out in the boat able to send back signals to the port about where different boats were in the race and that was the first time ever live reports could be sent back and the newspaper was able to publish the results before the boats came back if that makes sense yeah and so that was ireland again it would have seemed like time travel at the time in that you know what's happening before the boats even return yeah and then and at that time then what he did was he realized he'd get a certain distance so he went then to rattle and he's rattle in ireland and bali castler but pretty close and antrum so he could send a signal across there and manage it and later on that contraption that he used and station that he used in bali castler and rattle was moved to malin and we maybe talk about that so can we then also say is he accredited accredited with this he then clearly is the first wireless sports reporter well technically yeah technically on that and he then went to the on the Irish one had been so successful they went and did that then in america some big yacht race in america followed but he realized more than that he realized what this potentially could do and it was about first of all trying to extend his signal further and further and he eventually got across the English Channel to France in 1899 and you know he realized the value value of that there and he kept on trying to move it out further and further and eventually then he got it to the 2000 miles he was able to send a morris code the s the signal s the letter s across 2000 miles from cornwell to newfound land so once he really could send one signal in morris code eventually that would follow with voice signal you know that the voice could be carried so he he he got the distance and then he started elaborating it further and further how he could harness that technology to transmit the voice which is fascinating to consider that for thousands and thousands of years human beings couldn't communicate at that distance it must have been mind-blowing all the world the world is shrinking you know the further he could transmit that the smaller the world would become now this is great right it's almost doing tricks at this point but of course he's displaying his wares then in terms of people sort of going right well you've broadcast what's happening at boats at sea you know was that where people started to talk at that point you know what can we how can we use this for safety reasons for example like i don't know how big the transmitter at that point might have been it wasn't terribly terribly big it was a little box small black box um and what he realized to try to get the signal with the wireless he had little bits of metal little particles of metal and when the wireless signal would come it would send electric field through the the little magnetic dust particles and then they would become they would make the connection between the two metal pieces if you understand the stable metal pieces it was very very simple what he did and was a little small black box but yes it was realized very quickly that this could be used for life saving purposes on on sea and that happened in one case the east goodwin light ship was it's in the english channel beside you know along by france and england there and they had they had a light ship there to keep people off the rocks and the light ship happened to have a marconi box and they signaled that there was a boat in distress that had gone through the fog and into into a dangerous precarious position and they rescued the the people and just because of marconi's box and then later on in 1909 there was an Italian ship that went on the rocks again it had the marconi system it was um about a thousand seven hundred people were saved so they realized very very quickly this was very very important and again it was the marconi box that was used for the titanic in april 1912 the signal that was sent out and fortunately um phillips the signal man the marconi signal man he actually drowned in the in the he stayed with the the marconi machine sent out the signal and there was those signals that saved the people that did survive and i presume at the time maybe maybe i'm wrong to presume that when you were they were promoting the safety of something they'd go we've got live boats we've got perfectly trained staff we've got a marconi box i wondered did that form part of the safety message to try and entice people on really quite a long journey across the sea i wonder was it adapted like that all absolutely and people did realize it wasn't even that he was able to send news to the boats the big boats and they would print newspapers and then give it to the to the wealthy people on board so they could get the updated world news this it worked in reverse as well he wasn't short of figuring out how he could use this to make financial gain and so some boats had actually printed newspapers or reports and were able to give it so the people had an update of what was happening and both at that time maybe six weeks at sea going from sea ireland to to america or going to australia so this allowed for communication to continue uh even at sea and things progressed very quickly then in terms of the initial like how long are we talking between sending that signal in his house to the wonderment of his family to some of the you know i mean obviously we know that the titanic was what almost two decades later but how soon after that did we start seeing it being employed well you mentioned the regard to there actually what year was that uh so it was really 1895 that was very very so it moved really quite quickly didn't it and then by by 1920 that had moved into radio land and pylon radio you know marconi again and some of the staff still work here and come here um none of them would have beards be any challenge but you know it's like i i remember and i think i mentioned it through one of these items before i i got i was a really early adapter with the mobile phone and i remember sitting with no one to text no one to call uh i i was the only person i knew that had this phone i regretted it because i paid through the teeth for it but at what time did for the masses did receivers become generally available i wonder yeah again it was a big thing in the 20s and the 30s for young boys and possibly girls but boys seemed to have shown a bigger interest in to make their little their own little radios and they would buy the little magnet and the little wires and the little receiver and try to make so they could listen to radio um so in the 1920s it really took off and in fact there was bbc that took his marconi idea and the research center there and he he used to broadcast uh or um concerts just free to air and then bbc adopts and look we'll we'll work on this and eventually then actually marconi's company applied to the irish newly formed free state government in the 1920s to get a license to start up an irish radio uh two or n and uh i think that that was about 1926 that was established the first irish radio station and that was marconi and only for a few hours every day i think it was two hours every day and it didn't work very well outside doubling so what they did then is they started up a cork radio it was six ck six cork ck and then later on the athlone radio was set up in 1933 and that was to boost the signal as well or to rebroadcast some of the programs so and he also was involved in setting up batik in radio that still goes in 1931 so but obviously with this invention and will you be able to hold off for a minute after the news a couple of minutes but just in 30 seconds well maybe we should wait till after the news but it's like every invention and presumably the military elites then are looking going right how can we utilize this um but we'll get to that i'll tell you what we might do we we will take the news and we'll get back to that in a moment okay it is the nine till noon show here on highland radio we are approaching 11 o'clock stay with us dr joe kelly is going to be talking more about marconi and we're going to get to those donagol connections of course but it is uh 11 o'clock now let's take a news update and say good morning donna marie darty thanks greg good morning a uk supreme court challenge to the northern ireland protocol post brexit trading agreements has been unanimously dismissed judges have rejected the legal challenge and found the arrangements within with the north are within the law the court had been considering whether the rules designed to keep the border free flowing were in breach of different legislation shin fain shin fain is to bring a motion before the dial today proposing a mortgage interest relief for home owners dunagol deputy pier star day the party's finance spokesperson is calling on the minister of finance to accept the temporary relief to support borrowers struggling with rising interest rates he says with another interest rate hiked expected in the coming weeks government intervention is vital as people continue to grapple with the cost of living crisis the need for a minor injuries clinic in the northwest is one of the issues set to be discussed at an upcoming public meeting the closest facility is currently located in monaghan the letter kenny hospital campaign group believes the dunagol based clinic would alleviate the pressure on the hospital's emergency department and gp services in the county the group is hosting a meeting on thursday february 16th at 7 30 p.m at the dylan's hotel in letter kenny a man remains in serious condition in hospital following a crash in balba fae yesterday morning he was injured in a two-vehicle collision at around 11 30 a.m in the navney area the navney dream and road remains closed garda forensic collision investigators are to conduct an examination of the scene this morning diversions are in place and motorists are advised to avoid the area and seek an alternative route the chair of the malin development association says the local community feels attacked after significant damage was caused to the green area in the town in the early hours of monday morning six tractors and a forklift were stolen from a yard in the area and taken on a joy ride and finally a seminar to promote the need for women in politics in the northwest is being held later this month just four out of 37 counselors in dunagol are female a number of guest speakers at the sea her elected and 50 50 northwest seminar on february 24th in dunagol town include former tarnish de mary cocklin senator eileen flinn and counselors mary trezgal her and neve kennedy dr michelle maher program manager for see her elected till today's 19 and showed that unless more women get involved in panatec politics there will be no significant change that's all for now back again with more news at 12 o'clock all right well done thanks very much don and mary we're still in the company of dr joe kelly historian who i i hope you've got five minutes joe so obviously the military would have been looking on at this with great interest would they have or did they have their own means of communication ah yeah obviously they realized the potential of this the value of this i mean to consider for example that an armistice day the treaty of in 1919 the um that was signed and yet people still died a day later they were still fighting in the trenches at the front because the communication hadn't got to the front even though the piece had been signed behind it so i mean and we had one case in dunagol joe mckew from doohuri fighting in world war one the war was over parents had were relieved only to find out that he was killed the day after the war was over because the fighting continued so military right away realized the value of this and in fact the mausoleum he had enlisted him into world war one well there was before mausoleum the Italians had enlisted him into world war one to see what they could do with his technology and how they could use it and then later on mausoleum he after 1922 enlisted him into his fascist party and there's sometimes there's questions over mausoleum he's involved with fascism but it would be more historians would say look it was more a matter of business and finance than ideology and that he wasn't necessarily you know supporting the fascist ideology and and what went with it so there was always kind of a little bit of a controversy or a question there but and certainly yeah they did realize the use of his and obviously over time they would advance that in different ways as we know right okay so let's go to malin then because there was a communication tower there long before marconi that's right so what what was what was there initially and how how because i have this was told this story like they used to you know they would daisy chain messages around the coast right we've talked about that before obviously how that was on with lights wires what remind us well what it was it was called semaphones sem is the greek word for a sign and phone is a carrier a flag carrier you know they would use flags to make signals to boats and and see at the time that was that'll been Lloyd's Lloyd's of london 1805 and Lloyd's were underwriters for insurance for boats companies for boats so at all times they had to develop a system whereby they would know roughly where all the boats on in the world's oceans were at any given time by these signal stations so there was a signal station in malin about 1805 an old signal station there boats would come close to malin to bambooz crown where it where it is and they would be able to then relay that back to Dublin and then from Dublin to long and to Lloyd's where the what ship it was what time they'd be expecting to arrive at how many passengers all those details were able to pass on and and what marconi realized then was there was a value in being able to know digitally using his wireless connection to boats not necessarily having to be um you know see physically the boat that they could actually signal the boats without actually seeing them and could guess what time they would be there at and how far they were advanced we talked about the titanic and safety so he realized fairly quickly that Ireland was geographically a gateway to the Atlantic and America and Canada and a lot of you know ocean liners and traveling so he set up various signal stations once he made the connection with Nova Scotia and Newfoundland he then decided okay I need to use Ireland and he built a number of stations transatlantic links there was one in Cork in 1901 one in Rosslair Wexford 1901 and then Malin Head was 1902 he'd won in Kerry then in Valencia and then he had a massive one in Clifton in about 1907 250 people working in it but the Malin the Malin one as I said to you was it was 1902 and he took the contraption and utensil that he'd used in Ratlin and Valley Castle too Malin and they took over what was the old Lloyds signal station and built a new station there and he put up 120 foot uh aerial there and the first commercial message was sent to a ship the SS Lake Ontario in January 1902 and that continued up to about 1909 and then the post office took over the the Marconi station whatever kind of financial agreement or understanding was there so that really was the Marconi had no longer any part to play with that but um he had a connection with all in that sense and he realized the the importance of Banba's crown or the top of of um and where did Banba's crown that's quite it's it's it's a lovely name it kind of rolls off the tongue a little bit where where what's the origins of it well the people of Malin can be can claim this um it's a wonderful thing to claim Banba was one of the three sisters Aira, Banba and Fodla there were three old names for Ireland there were three sisters of supposedly in mythology the two of the Dana and they were very beautiful girls so when the Malaysians the Celts arrived the three girls they look at name Ireland after me and they decided to name it after Aira but poetically people would use Fodla or Banba so Banba is another old Irish name for Ireland so Banba's crown the crown of Ireland and sure isn't that Donegal and I'm sure the people of Malin have a right claim to that you know from a tourism point of view it says a lot that we are the crown of Ireland and oftentimes we maybe not feel that but we need to keep believing it maybe the people of Malin will will remind us more often all right and very finally I mean obviously the father of radio when did he die and was his death marked particularly I suppose on his invention very very interestingly like he died in in 1930-70 was 63 when he died and it's the only time seemingly in radio history that the actual signals went silent when his mass or his ceremony his burial ceremony was being broadcast for two minutes all the signals of radio land went quiet to be out of respect for Marconi and I don't think that has ever been repeated since so look we've a lot to be grateful for Greg they wouldn't be listening to you in your show every morning only for what Marconi had invented so it's his fault it's something to blame now but and his day Marconi day is celebrated on the 25th of April the Saturday nearest to the 25th of April and so look we can be proud in one sense that there's a Donegal connection and there's an Irish connection and more importantly the the importance of a mother in a child's education and her persistence and her belief in her child you know helped to create someone who you could say is the man who connected networked the whole world so there's Marconi there's Donegal and there's a bit of jemisin and there's Dr Joe Kelly historian Joe thanks so much for your time this morning I really appreciate it so that's it Marconi and his Irish and Donegal 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going on the documentary included now and it is very frustrating with what we're not getting a chance to cope with you know to manage what we're going through there's a lot of distractions and this is one we could be doing without at the moment what is it about Hugh I don't want to put words in your mouth but I mean obviously it's before we we know before we know the outcomes of the investigation it's it's really quite soon I mean obviously people's what people did in helping is to be celebrated but I mean this is still very right now for for the likes of you your family and others I presume Hugh is are those your concerns there's multiple concerns Greg we we we wholeheartedly agree that the people that were there that day the first responders the medical crew anybody was there that day this is a program that we understand is for them to document what they did as opposed to inform the public exactly what happened to what they did not what happened on the explosion but what they were doing that part on the day the problem for us that one that's too early we're still in the process of grieving that's just there's so many things that I could say but at the moment it's just too early and the second point is Greg that nobody has contacted us and as far as I know I can't speak for the rest of families but I can speak for us as a family nobody has contacted us to ask us as this suitable nobody has contacted us to say that this is what's going to be said this is what's going to be shown and from what I understand this is a nine part documentary and I question why nine parts is this a documentary but really and truly is this a documentary about what the first responders did in Chrysler or is this about the nine the nine families is such if you want to put it that way I'm not sure if you know I haven't heard of being a nine Potter wonders a nine Potter on different subjects of what Hugh but it's certainly something that we need to get to the bottom of because you see well at the end of the day again Greg that's you sorry again this is just this is just what I've been told on what I've been hearing from from people that are telling us you know what's happened I've sent an email to tg4 begging them and asking them to make contact with all the families to make contact with the superintendent there Kenny who is who whoever is leading the investigation on this and you know talk to people let me know what's happened before there goes to air so at least people can be they can be ready and they can either you know they can have their say to us you know we don't feel that's appropriate or we agree that's fine you know the silence is definite from from the likes of tg4 it's unbelievable you know we feel so so left out it's like banana a bus journey and you're in the back of the bus and you have absolutely no say on where you're going you're just along for the ride and what's the most one of the most regrettable things to think about this year was because of the lack of seemingly the lack of communication is is that there are then those that took part in this that thought it was something else according to them or that it was going to be broadcast at a later date and they themselves even though they're some of them are heroes in this story you know might have conflicts themselves feeling that they're in some way adding to your pain which is the very last thing that they would want to do I think with all that considered you know I think it would be nice if this was deferred because as I say I it's horrible to think that everyone who's on the same page might feel that being in a little way pitched against each other by accident clearly by accident but from what we know now do you understand where I'm coming from I know what you're saying Greg um we have no issue with the we have no issue with the guys that were there that day we know a couple of the people that were interviewed and they've given us an idea of what was said but the issue that we have is what we don't know we don't know what video footage for example they've got we don't know um who the other people are that they're spoken to we have absolutely no idea to the content we've got to remember that there's other families here with children they're going to be watching this other people that were affected by this including ourselves including all two children that's too early and we need to be informed of what the content does you know and it's starting to be even clearer for me now Hugh because you don't know if images of of you or your your partner at the scene are going to be shown we don't know if footage that would have been shot that didn't make news bulletins at that time because maybe in inverted commas it was too soon are we going to to see that other pictures of those pictures of uh the the the moments after the explosion are going to be shown I understand that that's really really important that people directly affected by this and still absolutely locked in their grief would really need to know in advance listen we didn't get our little loaner back until the very end it was 24 hours but hours previous to that and minutes after the explosion there was no guarding in the scene there was no medical personnel just the the the first responders and I'm sure and I'm not I'm not saying that they have but I'm sure people have taken photographs I'm sure people have taken a video but that's what that video contains um I'm not ready to see it and I'm sure that the families members that have lost people they're trying to very very early on on on that day in Chrysler I'm sure that they're not ready to see it and I think what people I'm sure Hugh if you can work with me to sort of try and make people understand this right because we've we've spoken in the past in your everyday life right and I hope I'm not speaking out of turn here in your everyday life you might see something it could be a wall that a car has hit um and it's collapsed that you as as a victim of this and having lost your beautiful daughter it's even something like that can trigger very serious emotions just so so the general public understand when you talk about things that you might see and how it might affect you and others have I given a an okay example there Hugh if you don't mind so people understand that the images can come you have given a very good example and I'll give another example Greg and the something that I haven't looked at too much God rest those people in Turkey that that earthquake them images albeit that it's it's far more extent in a far bigger situation in Turkey that's when I see that when I see an almost a blue flashing lights when my wife hears the buzzer on the car for the seatbelt not been on there's just so much that we have to deal with them on the time we're trying to get through it as best we can but there's so many distractions that we're not able to agree properly um this is just something that we we would ask Tina G or TG for to I've written an email to them last night uh because I only really found out exactly what this documentary was about I honestly thought it was about the concert and there were leisure center um and I've asked them to make contact with every individual family member and I've asked them to make contact with the investigating team to see if they can you know highlight some information and correspond with everybody to let everybody know what's going on because it is very early but I'm more concerned about what's going to be aired and possibly I'm only thinking about possibly thinking out loud what damages could do to any investigation that's going on was Chrysler any outcome with any investigation I am concerned about that Greg and I'm not going to hide behind any lies and say I'm not Hugh can I ask you seeing as you mentioned it uh and I don't want to put you on the spot because it might not be easy to explain because some people did message and and do you know obviously the concert happened recently and and there was that fantastic fundraiser last weekend yeah yeah fantastic is that is that different because it wasn't talking about the event itself it was an opportunity for people to come together or to to fundraise is it is is that is obviously those two events for example are very different to a tv program being made about the this this awful tragedy in its aftermath is that how you see it Hugh Greg you sorry could you repeat that question because I'm telling you before we're breaking up there no no what I'm trying to say is like the concert and the great fundraiser last weekend are different to this aren't they because there are fundraisers uh they're an opportunity for people to come together whereas this is this is sort of is it easy to explain why it's different they're two completely different situations Greg um as opposed all in all the the contract and the token run there's something that we were involved in when you what was going to happen we were told it was going to happen you know we're we're invited to it we had input to it uh to a certain extent um when you go to the concert you're not you know or the truck and you're you're not going to be looking nobody's going to be sharing photographs on the screen putting videos up on the stage you know it's it's it's just completely different as a chance for us as families to meet whoever came and chance us as families to meet the first responders to thank them personally to have to have a night with them and to uh as opposed in a way to celebrate the ones we've lost yeah I guess you know they were they were they were they were they were there was just as much as as anybody else well you know Hugh as I said earlier on in the program this is it's all of our loss and all of our tragedy but it's yours it's you're the person bereaved uh and it's your voice I think that really needs to be listened to in this type of situation as I say I've I don't know who's behind the program I don't think anyone's having uh is any making any comments about individuals or anything it's just that this show a lot of people seemingly some who were involved and someone who are affected by this tragedy feel that certainly before the outcome and the investigation or at least now just is not the right time and at the very least the likes of yourself should have been informed as to what exactly is in it in case you find yourself having to watch it but find yourself further traumatized by it well I can assure you I won't be watching Greg I will not be sitting down for the a cup of tea in the basket to watch that show um I'm I'm quite upset that myself and Donna and our two boys haven't been considered and the production of this you know and the making of it um we have talked to two of the people that have contributed they are not the issue that's not a problem for us we support them fully but as as as they are known for us as they are known of what what we walk into a shop after the documentary has been aired we have no idea because we're not going to watch it but we bump into a friend or a person that we know when they say god you know that was a terrible thing to put on tv or you know I didn't know that happened or there's nobody ready for that yet Greg okay right Hugh um thanks um for for joining us to get your thoughts and views out on that and I think thank you very much and thank you the Highlander but very supportive for the whole thing thank you very much yeah you know we'll stand with you Hugh whenever okay take care of you so a few hopper there um it's a it's a toughy because as I say I'm not rounding on T. 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took part in tonight's documentary he says in a communication with us i support the family's call on this i did take part in it and i thought families had an involvement in it i only told my story on the events of what happened to me on the day the families have a right to even view it before it airs i can only assume it's done with the thoughts of the families in mind and i don't want to think on power as well too by the way because he and a couple of others probably are finding themselves in the middle of this even though we heard from hues gotten there's no issues with anyone taking part in it i think it's just a communications issue and on a disaster of this scale not just locally but nationally i think that the lack of communication has really led us to where we are today and unfortunately it's not pitching people against each other it's not that's not what's happening but i just be thinking on on people like park and others who might feel they're stuck in the middle of it a little bit even though they're not and it's certainly not their intention and you know park is an amazing person and we all know that right nathalie joins us on the program now how are you getting on that nathalie how are you keeping not too bad i'm a bit emotional but well considering yeah you're from scotland you're married to sahan from mardin in turkey and we're we're speaking in the context of this awful tragedy that's hit that part of the world yeah i'm finding it really emotional we can't watch the news too much because just seeing children being brought out of the rubble some of them alive some of them dead some of them with their dead parents flying beside them it's just it's awful yeah and there's a cycle in the media and i'll be honestly it kind of makes me sick a little bit i'm sorry to criticise the media where they do the initial reporting and then in subsequent days it's the one-off stories of people's survival which is great but it sort of paints a picture in the general population's mind which is not really real you know we still have thousands upon thousands of people missing and and i think these stories are designed obviously to sell papers but almost to make people feel better but we're not in that space this is a terrible unfolding tragedy and i think sometimes i presume for yourself and your partner it's even difficult when you're far removed from it because you're watching on you're helpless you're waiting for information it must be particularly tough is it and there's nothing you can do and the mainstream media are only showing you cities and towns where they can access they're not showing you the villages and like the people in syria aren't even getting that much help at the minute i mean there's people in villages that are hearing voices from underneath the rubble and they can't access them because there's no one there to help the government are going into these places so we're raising money for to try and get money directly to these like there's the Kurdish red crescent and that we want to donate to and they'll help they'll try and help the people that are in these areas yeah because there's lots of connections between this part of the world every part of the world really and turkey particularly into a lesser extent syria and then you've got you've got syrian families that are seeking asylum and and our refugees because their countries weren't war torn and like these people are you couldn't get any more bottom than what these people are going through right right now i mean their homes were bombed and now they're they're they're suffering earthquakes and stuff and because of the civil war the rescue operation obviously is is hindered um how are you raising funds how can people support you nathalie well what we're doing is we're collecting money and the the barbershop and shahans donating all of these tips and we're just we're money's the easiest thing to to collect because if it gets there quicker we can do direct transfers and to set to post stuff over is a bit more difficult it takes it takes time do you want to make sure it can take days sometimes weeks to get there and there's a lot of stuff being sent over but if they could get money to these charities it would help the white helmet charity as for the people in study i think they need to take it sometimes um because they're the only people in there doing anything at the minute um studio 47 is the barbershop in letter kenny isn't it where is it located for people who don't know but might want to drop off a donation we're uh kelly last thing kelly clogs and we're just at the telenoar complex there and this is a a drive up until february 17th isn't that correct initially yeah or about it's three months turkey i've declared a three uh three month disaster um so it can go on for as long as it's necessary but we're going to try we're aiming to send a sub store what we can on friday okay so people can call in there and if they want to track updates um donagall intercultural platform are posting updates on this as well aren't they yes yep okay right we'll we'll update our page as well and we'll let you know where the money's going and um all right listen uh nathalie um thank you and pass on our good wishes to uh sahan of course who's watching from afar and it we can't we i don't think we have to imagine we can understand how difficult it is uh for him uh thank you thanks very much thank you okay thank you um kathryn meg devitt uh is with us on the program now kathryn i won't delay you uh long listeners will know that you very sadly lost your sister martina uh in the explosion and are you on to sort of support huan his comments hi i'm greg and thank you very much for for erin this um we're all very hurt we very much echo what what he harper has said we share his same concern we also shared the family waiting and was him in the hospital um out of all the victims i suppose we've had time with you and his wife donna we were there first at the scene with donna as well while we waited as ambulances came out waiting on our loved ones to come out that they never did um we were so hurt we were angry we're annoyed we knew nothing of this documentary till we received the text message last night at 6 30 um and it's just it sent us into we're just final and again we were being brought right back to that night uh my mother's 82 years of age you know she never thought that her daughter would go before her never mind now that she might have to see actually what happened and again you know when this happened a martini's general was we streamed live on air uh we were in front cover of every newspaper as we grieved for our sister we have tried so hard to private degree for our sister but we've been given no opportunity we've been given no time uh we're all in constant we're trying to navigate this new life we're trying to trying to come to terms with what happened and just this week we're transported right back to uh just so far back in our recovery it's almost leave yourself standing again at the scene numb numb with coldness we stood there throughout the night we are the family that the digger man is talking about we stood all night as the cadaver dogs went to look for the body as we seen rubble by rubble piece by piece getting taken away we were not consulted we knew nothing after we don't know how much in a day yeah we don't know why this accident happened there's so many rumors there's so many unanswered questions we're not ready to see it we did see it we still see it every day we see it every night in the dream we see it when we wake up in the morning and for for this to come out and be broadcast to the nation and for us to have to go out again and face the public and god that was awful you know we're only just getting over sympathizers who yes they mean so well I mean for months we were doing our sharpening time to avoid people it's all been so public yeah I know and I've spoken to people who were having something to eat and or getting their hair cut or something and someone paying for it and whilst it's well intended again it kind of brings people back a little bit in the process it's it this only happened in October it's just now it's too soon for an entertainment program on it even if it's well intended yeah have you contacted tg kaha kathryn we did uh we sent them we sent them an email last night we haven't had a response so I contacted them myself by phone this morning and the lady I spoke to said there was nobody available to talk to me at this time and I said I'm the team's sister okay kathryn listen I won't hold you any further because I don't want to add to anything but I wanted you to have an opportunity to let maybe those who need to hear it to hear it because it's your loss we can't it's you decide not us not the media not tg kaha no one it's used kathryn best wishes to you um and thank you Greg the process for you as best can continue we're thinking on these all the time you know that okay and thank you so much for airing us for the families this morning okay it's nice to know that we have such great support no no we're back behind you's a hundred percent kathryn as is the wider community kathryn I hope you know everyone texting agreed bar one message who who says maybe people can tune on on or not we've had dozens and dozens of messages of people who back is as if that's important I just want you to know that yeah thank you all right take care bye bye right okay I live in creasler I don't want to aired we're still very raw god help the grieving family says a listener another I think the people who've done like all need to boycott this program and don't even watch this and also the sponsors of tg uh tina g uh tg kaha need to tell them uh not to show this program pull the sponsorship I just I just think if the right people here they'll make the right decision it doesn't have to quite does it another I think it's very insensitive to air a program about the tragedy so soon after the event what does it achieve hi Greg tg kaha cannot air the creasler show tonight it's too soon as Hugh said it's only been four months since the tragedy the family should have been and now need to be consulted do the right thing tg for hey Greg um can you share a phone number we can call to try and stop this program get now tonight if lots of people bombard the station surely they'll reconsider showing this documentary I think really all it would take is one email from Catherine or one email or telephone call from Hugh I understand where you're coming from I'm not sure what it would achieve us bombarding them I don't have a number for them by the way but listen come here these are the these are the people that are going through it now it's their voice that needs to be amplified and uh heard and I hope they do hear it and do the right thing PDO thread lifts the ultimate non-surgical lift for the skin improving facial contours lifting and 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wednesday means the latest business matters podcast from highland radio is out and live for you right now on our website its presenter is kieran old donnell and he's right in studio with us because we get to have a look forward through uh as to what's coming up in the podcast but also get a bit of business use from you how are you kieran good great how are you great and it's great to have you back in with us right okay i love when newspapers confirm what we already know yes the gaurdian newspaper has named rath moan as being one of erin's top 10 most charming villages and and the uh very complimentary right up at said the village is the gateway to the beautiful east coast of the fan of peninsula one of the most northerly points on erin and home to some of its finest beaches along balai mistakur bay and the rigid mountains offering spell-bending views across valleys lakes and coast so that's a very good uh thumbs up from a very reputable paper across the water and these things all make a difference so it's always good to get some good good for rath moan to be on the map okay um right we're expecting to see more job hunt opportunities in the county yes the number of job opportunities in donnell goll will grow by five percent in the coming year and that is according to a new forecast from frs recruitment that is one of the country's leading recruitment agencies so this follows on from the four percent decrease experience in donnell goll in 2022 and just looking at the national picture greg the largest decreases came in carry 10 percent litreum down nine percent and louth down seven percent so we'll see they buck on the trend there thankfully yeah hopefully hopefully so um that we we get through the worst of this now and people can start see uh the the woods for the trees a bit of light at the end of the tunnel great news from fun through um they have a base in our county too yeah uh financial services company fun true is to create 300 new jobs in dairy and the new roles will see uh fun through northwest operation double in size uh the financial times had named fun to establish 10 years ago as one of europe's fastest growing companies for two years in succession and last july of course the company announced the establishment of a european delivery center and the creation of 300 jobs over the next five years yeah so hopefully now uh they keep the pedal to the metal and they all come to fruition but that they're certainly expanded their their operation um in the northwest uh considerably over over the last while and it's obviously that their their their companies will be here for the future all right what's this northwest in the city event all about yeah i missed a few weeks ago greg it's just as part of donnell goll county council's focus on attracting talent back to donnell goll and the northwest so its economic development unit is partnering with national agency's local authorities and stakeholders for the northwest in the city event and that is taking place in the west bray hotel in dublin tomorrow uh thursday more than 20 global multinational and leading Irish companies are expected to attend the event and those will include up them tcs and fun true who are all based in the northwest all right good stuff right uh we've had five of fridays before in the past this is a free friday what's going on yeah just a wee note uh for the month of february greg there's an option for people to work at craving centers co-work plus hub for free on fridays so to book a desk at the terminus facility visit connect hubs dot ie and uh we had mary dawdy on the program last year uh out in the craving center so it's uh a good facility and obviously if people are in the area the next to be from there the base of themselves here in the northwest that's an option for to go and get a desk and work for free for a friday where is the time going because it is free for february but it seems like we're almost halfway through february is it an age thing i know it's not a business matters thing but seeing as you you know well i can't comment because i'm much younger than you but i'll take your word for it it's all ahead of you young man it's all ahead of you but time just does seem to be marching on doesn't it like it's lovely to see these stretches in the evenings you know you're seeing light after five no even bright bright bright area this morning too which is good you know had who tell you that somebody saw my four minutes on my picture on facebook did you right okay let's get down to business uh this week's podcast here yeah my guest this week greg is the head of regions property and enterprise development with the eda Dennis Kern established in 1949 the eda is the state agency responsible for promoting ireland for foreign direct investment eda currently employs 330 people throughout as 22 overseas offices and 10 regional offices a native of larry kenney Dennis has been with the eda for 24 years so greg and this clip Dennis explains that the northwest region has been experiencing a high level of investment in recent years when we're positioning ireland in the geography of ireland to potential investors we position it on a regional basis we don't necessarily position it on a county basis so we market dunny gall as part of the north um the northwest region and the northwest region encompasses dunny gall slaggo and um and litrum and um and you know we've had a you know a very good run of investment in dunny gall and in the northwest over the last two years so today um karen we have 21 companies fdi companies eda client companies located in dunny gall and combined they employ directly just over 3600 people and i was just looking at you know some of the numbers you know compared to maybe eight nine years ago the number of people employed now in dunny gall and foreign direct investment has increased by 52 percent over the last eight or nine years it's interesting headline figures we look forward to listening to you dig into that a bit more with uh Dennis what's the range of the conversation there karen yeah i suppose look the one thing i took from the conversation greg was the i suppose the the specific role that the eda has i suppose its main function is to sort of one for ireland first of all and then it's to one for the region and i suppose uh things that uh potential investors or global companies uh take into consideration uh when they decide to move to a certain country a certain location would be uh common jurisdiction EU membership political stability and political predictability and talent and talent for the future so there are a lot of things that are considered and it takes a lot of time as well for negotiations from the time that they open until they conclude but when uh the the idea are successful for securing the location and a setting up of a new business they knock on effect economically and socially for a region or for the area for the town are hugely positive yeah and they have to make sure now too don't they and i think we're getting better at it that we don't have businesses that come in see what benefits there are and then exits yeah the one thing Dennis would have noted he said look when a company those come here it's not for for a 12 month uh period it's for 10 years or multiple 10 year periods okay uh the full interview with Dennis Corrin a big hitter uh has to be said is available to download now at highlandradio.com or wherever you get your podcast now you stream it on the website if you wish as well uh and business matters goes out on air kieran yeah athlete six o'clock news Greg on Sunday evening and anyone looking to get in touch with you uh to uh give some feedback or suggestions for the show yeah just drop me an email please business matters at highlandradio.com all right kieran listen looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday already thank you so much cheers Greg good morning as always all right kieran old donnell there brendan old donnell is senior engineer with capital delivery unit community development and planning directorate so we're talking about the riverine project which will not be completed within the time frame which was laid down uh and it's unlikely to be resolved before the peaceful program ends brendan this seems on the face with just a disappointment is that your assessment of it no absolutely Greg a huge disappointment for ourselves and the project team but as well for the wider community it would have benefited from so it is hugely disappointing and we've been we've been we've been set as opposed with challenges on the project for some time but not not unusual for large projects and but just look it's got to the stage we're up against a hard deadline with the the piece forward funding the EU funding end of 23 and that just cannot be moved so that that's really what the difficulty lies so what happened here brendan in layman's terms yeah and layman's terms as opposed to the statutory approvals Greg were quite uh i would just say uh owners were difficult and that's given that we're crossing our profile it's an EU protected habitat if you like and and also a floodplain there we have open w links there and uh and because it's a cross border project the statutory approvals on both sides of the border to complete them and uh they're quite owners as i said just because we're dealing with a european site and uh and i suppose that they we also as well know the issues with board planala and and uh as opposed with staffing issues there and governance the board itself would be particularly some staffing and getting people appointed to that and pardon my naivety and we don't want to circumvent anything or do anything that we shouldn't be doing is there any possibility that uh the powers that be could intervene in some way to to make this happen in the time frame uh that would be required now yeah at the stage where we're on the time we have been uh liaising with board planala at an official level if you like and and furnished to the staff there on the board they've been doing their best to so it definitely arises isn't the decision making before they're in an independent body as you know and so so they can't really have that interference from outside telling them what to be doing and so it's really it's around i guess board planala having the the resources or the setup in place that they can make the decisions yeah i don't think we're even there yet and the project promised a park of regional significance located along the banks of the river foil on both sides comprising of a number of elements including outdoor event space managed parkland enhanced river access environmental area an adventure play area community building um and all the infrastructure that you would expect from it every actual game changer project because they're not an awful lot of them are but this would have been a game changer project so what does this mean then it's long term uh future we're not going to get these issues resolved before the peaceful program ends is there again pardon my ignorance is there a piece five program is there other funding streams that can be tapped into what does this mean to the long-term medium to long-term future of this project brendan yeah i suppose look greg we intend to finish off the statute of procedures to get that so we will stay with it till we get the board planala decision we have a number of of we have a four-store lights as well needed for the bridge connecting the two two sides of the river parks um we have a marine license in northern Ireland that we need to get as well and and planning version from Derry city strip and those i think the northern island applications statute rivers they're they're in hand we'll call them off they'll be delivered so so we get the statutory approvals in place that'll bring the project to a shovel ready status if you like it'll become a very different thing much more certain than for deliverability so the peace plus is the is the next iteration if you like or the next incarnation of the funding program for the peace so peace plus is an option for funding there are probably other options as well we might look towards something perhaps a shared island fund but what what we intend to do the commitment remains uh doing both councils and indeed sepb have reiterated their commitment as well to the project obviously they don't final say on on these things but i think that there's there's a lot of good well there's a lot of commitment for the project so um we look to move the project on to whatever funding mechanism we can we can identify as you say once you get that shovel ready status we can maybe start to see those options listen thanks for your time brendan this morning i appreciate it disappointing for you and the team in the community of course but hopefully this will come to pass all right that's brendan old donnell there and that's where we have to leave it on the show today thank you so much to all of you who listen to the show got involved in the conversation it's challenging at times isn't it with some of the stuff we have to talk about but it's important that we do we appreciate your involvement anything you got in touch with us we'll continue to try and chase up and deliver for you as we try to do here on the program uh but for now for me gregg hughes caroline or the researcher and the producer we're back with you tomorrow morning at nine enjoy the rest of your wednesday but