 that. Maybe if Shannon made me one of those coffees there, you're well treated, I'll tell you. Well, I make the coffee in the afternoon during the morning. That's the way it works. Okay. Okay. I wonder does she make the coffee for late? Is she to Philly? She makes. It's worse for late ginger tea or something like that. I don't want to make it myself. And so. All right. Listen, take care of yourself. Chat to you again tomorrow morning. All right. It is nine o'clock. Let's get a news update and it's over tomorrow morning. All right. Thank you. We do have a sense of some sort of deadline and that we're coming to the end of the calendar year. And also we know in early January, the executive formation legislation expires. So that in itself is some form of watershed where if we don't have restoration by then the government will have to add our renewed after do do something else. So hopefully that will be focusing minds. Higher Education Minister Simon Harris has announced a project to boost apprenticeships. 17 million Euro in funding is being allocated to the higher education sector in order to meet demand with the highest allocation going to the Atlantic Technological University. A number of places are being opened up at the A to U letter school and in the county campus in metal fabrication, refrigeration and electrical engineering. Dunningall County council is to explore the possibility of developing a marine safety initiative similar to the road safety road show which has been attended by thousands of transition year students in the county. The suggestion was made by councillor Martin McDermott who says he was struck by the fact that a recent rescue in Locke-Foyle was triggered by the fact that one of the people on a sinking boat was wearing a life jacket with a built-in sensor and it sparked an alarm at the Malon Head was then started with the signal pinpointing the sinking boats location. Council McDermott says it could have been very different and this is a story that needs to be told. Malinhead Coast Guard was able to send the rescue services to that exact position and I think that's something that we should be pushing here. We have a lot of visitors that come here and go out on boats on a Saturday or a Sunday in the good weather and we should be pushing the fact that no one should be going on to the water without having a life jacket that's registered and that can send a signal and if something happens because we would never push anybody to get in the car and not put on a seat belt. It should be the same thing when it comes to the water. A local business owner in Lytrim says the roof of his premises was shredded by a mini tornado yesterday. A cleanup continues this morning in the village after a freak weather incident swept him during storm Fergus. A number of buildings and cars were severely damaged. Minor injuries were reported. Seamus Gibbons is the owner of electric bike trails. This mini tornado literally swept across from east to west and through the village and just took everything inside. Across the road from here took the middle of a house. The roof clean off seemed to sweep up along the back of the local pub and came across my place and it just literally shredded the roof and it's a big roof like it had to be made safe last night. Mainly dry with sunny spells this morning rain developing in the west in the late afternoon that will spread eastwards across the region turning having in places. It'll clear early tonight in highest temperatures of seven or eight degrees celsius with freshening south to southeast winds. That's Hyland Radio news. You can check all the news on our website hylandradio.com. We're back with news again at 10 o'clock. This Christmas it's the perfect time to let loved ones know how much they mean to you and nothing shows love at Christmas quite like post. And don't forget the last day for posting parcels to Europe is Thursday 14th of December. Send from the heart on post for your world. Teas and seas apply. The county's number one talk show the 9 till noon show on Hyland Radio and now it's time for the talk of the northwest the 9 to noon show with Greg Hughes on Hyland Radio. Hello and a very good morning to you. It's the start of another week here on the 9 till noon show. It is just approaching four minutes past nine on this Monday the 11th of December 2023 two weeks today. The big man arrives if you've all been very good so that means we don't have much long left of the year does it? Okay we have plenty coming up on this show today some really interesting important items we have to discuss and we want you involved by listening of course in the first instance but getting involved with your texts your calls your comments whatsapps and texts to 08 660 25000 08 660 25000 or give us a call an 07 491 25000 and emails coming to us at comments at hylandradio.com so if there's anything you want to talk about anything that came you came across at the weekend let us know and we'll share it with the northwest and of course beyond online okay the front of the papers and inside some of them today the Dairy People Donegal news one year on from private Sean Rooney's death family friends and comrades lined his graveside for a wreath laying ceremony at the church of all saints Newtown Cunningham yesterday. Private Rooney was killed in Lebanon in December last year the 34 year old from Newtown Cunningham was killed as he drove an armored jeep away from a crowd of attackers in the south of the country at the ceremony members of the Irish United Nations Veterans Association formed as the chair Jim O'Hagan welcomed Sean's family to the commemoration the dairy news this morning I tend to just avoid the town that's the quote from a wheelchair user a dairy man who uses a wheelchair said he's forced to avoid the city due to the lack of access for disabled people Tommy Cairns has been a wheelchair user his whole life he has cerebral palsy which affects his mobility he also works with a major disability group in the city Tommy says he has real difficulty walking especially any kind of distance he gets fatigued easily saying it takes somebody with cerebral palsy five times more energy than somebody without to complete a task and he's complaining that there is not enough accessibility for a wheelchair user the Irish Times this morning and there was a lot of speculation about cutting benefits for newly arrived Ukrainians and it seems the cabinet is going to agree on that this week ministers are set to approve large reductions in benefits for refugees coming from Ukraine in future as accommodation pressures for other nationalities claiming asylum here worsens the cabinet committee on Ukraine is scheduled to meet today where the proposal from minister for integration Rodericka Gorman including cutting welfare benefits for future Ukrainian arrivals and providing accommodation for only 90 days are expected to be discussed by ministers before going to the full cabinet tomorrow but campaigners for refugees warned against the move last night with the Irish refugee council saying it was putting short-term deterrence over long-term planning adding that people would find it difficult if not impossible to find accommodation once the 90 days had run out and I suppose now it's very to be very clear this is for new arrivals so it doesn't mean that if someone currently is in accommodation here from Ukraine that they will have their payments cut they'll retain their payments and it doesn't mean that they have 90 days as far as I'm aware to get out of the recommendation this is for new arrivals and the government have been pretty frank about it they've said that we have a situation whereby you have refugees arriving in some parts of Europe and then going right well things are different in Ireland will go there so secondary sort of arrivals well sources and all three government parties said yesterday that they expected the plans to be agreed this week though it was stressed that they would not apply to the 100,000 existing Ukrainian refugees in Ireland only to further arrivals and it's costing in the region of 1.8 million 1.9 million a day to to to host and look after Ukrainian refugees so they want to limit that as much as possible seemingly on to the Irish independent now and children's anxiety about tests increases as they progress through primary school according to a major new study the sixth report in the children's school live series a groundbreaking study into the lived experiences of school children has found that by fourth class children had started to report higher levels of test anxiety a third of children interviewed between second class in 2019 and sixth class in 2023 said they typically felt anxious before and after standardized tests over their performance anxiety was often connected to a sense of failure or element of surprise but I mean made obviously view when you're at school or in anywhere in life you know if you're studying or if you're working there are points where you get judged on what you're doing and you're going to feel an emotion and that emotion obviously is going to be anxious you're going to be anxious as to whether you do well you're going to be anxious as if you if you don't do well I think that does that not help form who we are I'm not sure if there's sort of suggesting that we need to limit this but the latest report in the immersive and uh longitudinal what's that word longitudinal longitudinal research project focused on the experience is of primary school children had with curriculum and assessments from 2019 to 2023 the study which covered an early 200 schools in Ireland also heard the views of teachers parents grandparents and principals I look forward to reading that in a little bit more detail because I don't think we can insulate ourselves be it as adults or children completely from you know stress and anxiety it's how we manage it I think it's quite critical the Irish Daily Mail has quite an important warning and it's a tough one to hear and it kind of is tough I think for anyone who's got a new baby particularly in that you know you want to especially at this time of year RSVs on the spread you want to limit the possibility of them catching it but of course if you do have a new baby and congratulations out there if you do it's kind of a difficult one isn't it because people call around and you know maybe they want to give the baby a kiss or they want to hold the baby and you know goochie goochie go into its face and it can be quite awkward for people because they find it difficult to sort of say can you know if you don't mind how do you have that conversation is that something that you've come across something you've experienced a difficulty for you or you maybe have a good way of sort of saying to people that you want the baby to have a bit of space or maybe you think every bit some people will say you know babies need to get germs rather than newborn babies you have to be really careful but any experience or insight into this 086625000 but doctors then have worn grandparents not to visit newborns this Christmas as the spread of the RSV has resulted in up to 100 babies being admitted to intensive care in the past week six weeks now I genuinely I'm going to read on and dig in about this but I really find it hard to believe that doctors are warning grandparents not to visit newborns this Christmas but anyway that's what the article says the potential fatal lung disease can have serious consequences for people aged 65 and over Dr. Martina Healy an intensive care consultant to Cromland Children's Hospital said if babies are less than four months old grandparents are better off parking it for a few weeks and waiting to see their grandchildren the calls were echoed by the Irish Medical Council which advised that relatives should avoid kissing or cuddling babies under six months I don't see any problem with that but not visited them at all the warning comes as doctors are struggling to find enough intensive care beds Dr. Healy also warned parents if you have a small baby don't have visitors in your house the elderly can also get RSV it's not just kids people over 65 and 70 also get RSV and can be really sick with it but if you have a small baby we should be saying to parents you should be limiting the amount of visitors and practicing common sense the pneumonia type disease can prove fatal in the worst cases among very young children and RSV is the most common case of broncholitis in children aged under two typically case numbers peak in January I think again often though what we talk about is parents trust in their gods and grandparents too but what do you think about that 08 660 25 000 the Irish Daily Star tells us today that the mother of the five-year-old girl stabbed in Dublin says she's still fighting as the chief suspect is set to be arrested within days the girl was left critically injured by a man with a knife and attack that also saw two other children and a crush worker stabbed on November 23 outside Gelsgull Kalashjamura on Parnell Square east in Dublin's city centre and now in a fresh update to a GoFundMe fundraiser the girl's mother revealed she hopes she will be moved out of ICU and onto a ward by the end of the year which is good news isn't it our little girl is a warrior if she says she is still fighting she remains in the PICU with hopes of moving to the ward before the end of the year because you might remember that some people often grifting trying to make out that that poor wee child was deceased and was part of some sort of a government cover-up but according to her own mother hopefully she will be out of intensive care before the end of the year amazing and shocking scenes from county leatrum over the weekend as a tornado tore through leatrum as Storm Fergus barrelled in yesterday roads were roofs were blown off houses and 20 to 30 cars as well as boats in the marina were damaged as the freak weather event hit leatrum village around lunchtime yesterday terrifying video captured debris flying through the air as the area was engulfed in a strong wind trees near the canal can be seen being whipped back and forth in the gusts and a video of the aftermath shows wood from trees and outdoor furniture that had smashed into a car windscreen out of the car's rear window was smashed and covered in thick layers of mud that had been whipped up by the tornado a mini tornado but thankfully no one was injured but it's a horrendous scenes there and if we're talking about that later and I might try and get some of that footage so those watching the show can see the extent of it and lastly the Irish Daily Mirror support for the abolition of one and two cent coins is growing in Ireland apparently seven out of ten of you now in favour of doing away with the smaller value euro currency a survey for the European Commission said two-thirds of citizens in the area support withdrawing the coins and applying mandatory rounding of pricing I thought we already had mandatory rounding up and down the result shows 70% of Irish people are in favour of getting rid of the euros two smaller denominations up five percentage points since a similar survey in 2022 the bottom line is so I don't really see 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harry how are you getting on i know too bad great thank you so much for joining us harry and we were speaking on this program last week and the week before to some extent about the scourge of drugs effectively and the pressure it places on on families as well because it was mentioned at a recent meeting that you know younger people or other members of the family regardless of the rage are are finding themselves deep in drugs debts the threats start and next thing you know they're having to go to the credit union to borrow money some people having to remortgage houses i mean uh you are a former drug addict so i mean you would have thought yep i can see how that can happen is that sort of how you are feeling listening to it or definitely great gear i could relate to what was being said you know as a former drug addict uh it's the family that my family suffered more with me more so my mother my father because of the trauma you bring to the family in the crisis with stealing i was an intravenous heroin addict started taking drugs at 15 and i didn't wait let's start there and we'll move through so like at age of 15 how did you come across drugs or well i would have been a runner and i was uh i knocked about on the estate with a gang in london and cannabis came along and i said i must try that i was very easily led and that's how i that was the gateway drug to my becoming addicted to drugs and i like the effect of it and then were you escaping something about oh god i yeah i would have been traumatized very badly as a child i don't want to go into it here i've had professional help for it but definitely yeah basically what i was doing was suppressing the pain and the hurt and the anger and all the feelings that were hurtful and when i started to take drugs it did work for a certain period of time it numbed it all but then there's a song by the verb the older people remember the drugs don't work but eventually they stopped working but a lot of people suffered as consequence of my drug addiction predominantly my mother because she would have backed me up you know but everything things went missing you know when you need money for class a drugs i'm money speaking about myself things would go missing and i'd be dishonest totally against the way i was read i come out of good people like but once i got into the heroine that was good night Vienna and i've spoken to parents before that you know that the child that they know disappears almost and replaced by someone else it seems in the space of a month or two once they get into an addiction that's something you can recognize as well i presume and it's clear you know you're very conscious of the impact of all of this on your mother it was you you think that's what she experienced that her harry went to be replaced by another harry so to speak definitely i was as time went on i was changing and couldn't be trusted she wouldn't believe a word i said like you know because it was all lies and and just for the need i would tell lies i need money for this i need money for that and then i'll get in trouble with the police i started getting bothered with the police and she thinks my mother's never been near a police station or had the police to the house then the police would start calling looking for me and you know the things my mother had to put up with were you know caused me a great deal of hurt and shame myself but i kept driving on because the need for drugs was that great that it didn't matter i just took and took and took and whoever i could take it off i would take it off you know yeah but at the beginning harry is a young 14 15 year old i mean you were a victim because they would have seen you know that you could be exploited that you know what i mean that you would if they started peddling you drugs that you would become a regular customer and it was to say however however however however else they could exploit you i mean 14 or 15 years of age and they would have seen in you yeah presumably which is sad well that that would have been with the cannabis smoking but i remember when i i was when i was 15 i saw this guy in he was a second hand car dealer about 27 and he was injecting a drug called dyke and all i don't think it's on the market anymore and uh i looked at the state he was in and i and this is how insane it is i looked at him i said jeez i'd like to be that out of my head and i said go and give us a go at that and he was injecting it he says no i couldn't give you a whole one i said well give me a half of one and he gave me a half of one but i was on cloud nine but i didn't have any worries for that that was you're always chasing that initial buzz no effect of drug ever was like that one but you chase it i chased it i chased it i chased it and just before we move on you know as you say you started with cannabis so very quickly obviously you were exposed to really strong drugs and opiates and what have you um would would and it's a personal opinion and it's not to whip up any sort of debate or controversy though we're open to that like do you think the likes of cannabis is a gateway drug generally speaking or do you think because of sort of the masking that you were doing that it was always going to be a gateway drug for you just i believe it for me it was a gateway drug but there's people that can take a few paths and leave it same as booze the same as booze yeah there's the social drug takers but for me i was addict man from day one but the the thing about this is the only disease i believe is a disease it's the only disease that tells you you don't have it um i know now about the disease concept of addiction because i studied it and i've worked in this field for over 20 years but i didn't know i didn't know back then you know i just weren't sure of i just was taking it to keep me away from the hurt and the pain so fast forward to 18 then at this point you know you're you're heading into a four-year heroin addiction yeah an expensive drug is it i was spending back then that was 1980 it was cost me 70 sterling a day yeah like how are you funding it i'm mainly stealing stealing and yeah basic theft and robberies and all kinds of stuff and in your head at that time are you out of it or do you justify because you say it's it's against how you were raised by your mom right so do you even think about you know well i'm going to commit this crime be impacting someone else but i have to do it because i have to feed this drug addiction or is it all just a blur or what what bees going through one's mind when they feel that they have to steal to feed this drug addiction what's the fear of withdrawals when i was coming down off it you know the withdrawals are terrible from it you know it's like the flu times 20 yeah so once i started to get ill i that's when the consequences happened because the sicker i got the more i needed the money and the more things i would do to get the money so really it's basically the sickness that drove me on because i mean i had that period of drug use and then when i come to island in in the 90s i was using heroin again for about a year not even a year but i was going to balamina a rough area they were they were politically motivated different religion to me but i used to go into the house and i would sit in that house maybe for two hours the lights were out there were bars up on the door there were bulletproof windows but i was that desperate because i was sick so i sat and nothing really mattered to be honest with you greg i sat for two hours because i needed to get me me hit light if you know what i mean yeah and so then how do you because it's like one addiction follows another for you it's been a tough old going for you harry but like so at age 22 did you move away uh how did you break the the the first sort of grip heroin had on you i moved i moved from london to ireland you see but you see there were no drugs back then there weren't so many drugs years ago i'm going back a long time but drink became my next drug you know alcohol so i became alcoholic you know it was drink i switched i moved the gold post from drug taking to to drinking alcohol so it was your replacement one with definitely yeah yeah i'm doing tune addicted and how long did uh how long i mean you're always addicted to alcohol of course but you know that's you're sort of in your 20s now you're in the north at this point i'm in the north i'm in my 20s uh the troubles were going on too so you had to be careful but you see when you're on that excuse me when you're on that drug you don't care i didn't care if i got shot because i didn't value life that much really i was just amazing sometimes that you're still here oh god most of the boys i know from london or here even in ireland in dairy most of them died from od in and so i do believe that i'm here for a reason i've no doubt about that because i should be gone long ago some of the handlings i got into i couldn't talk about them on radio but yes you know i'm i've no doubt about it so i'm not a religious person but i do believe somebody my mother prayed for me and my aunts prayed for me all the time and i believe in the the power of prayer and i believe that that's what was happening that's what kept me alive i believe that so you had the heroin addiction then you switched to alcohol then there was a relapse of sorts then with the heroin then yeah because i stopped drinking in 97 and i haven't had a drink a day at a time since 97 and i stopped i took drugs in for about a year and i stopped me drugging on the 19th of december 1999 and i remember the millennium because i spent it in granture hospital in dairy i was drying out from cold turkey they didn't give you nothing back then so it was cold turkey and i remember the millennium like it was yesterday i never forget it you know it was it was a hard time but i knew but i knew then that the party was over i've had enough i was done see the thing about drugs and alcohol for me is i don't stop them they stop me that was my experience and i'd had enough of it i really had had enough of it so what was the what was the actual tipping point to say right i've had enough of heroin i've had enough of of enough of booze you know i just knew there was a better life see i had been to a a meetings and i'd heard that in the rooms you know that there's there's a better way there's a solution you know so i knew really deep down i knew that this is a terrible way i live in and i would be dead anyway if i'd have kept on basically yeah um so you got sober in 2001 uh but in advance of that 2000 to say beg your pardon 2000 you did spend a year in a psychiatric unit what was that experience like no no i didn't spend a year no i was in i was in the psychiatric times in and out of it drying out having detoxes yeah that's what because i would be afraid to stop and i'd always end up going to the doctor maybe and and he'd refer me to the psychiatrist it's different now you don't get into the psychiatric unit as handy as you used to do you have a different sort of understanding harry of uh particularly young people let's talk about young people because i think that's when your most impressionable your impressionable you know like say you know 15 to 25 you might be familiar with their names because they're involved in a scene you know when they appear in newspapers because they're in the courts or what have you and all uh do you have a different view do you think to the general population of them you'll see comments on social media scumbags lock them up blah blah blah and i'm not saying that's right or wrong that's what people are feeling right but do you think that means do you think that then is a situation whereby we as a society don't necessarily understand that it is a disease that once you're addicted to drugs you're around criminality you're around criminals you know we've heard of people i'm to leave the country because the the deed is trying to drag them back into addiction like do you think we need to look at these look at this in a different way than what we are now well i do because people have called me a junkiest comeback and i see things differently i felt that way anyway so i didn't need people to call me it but i see things differently now that you know if it's not everyone anyone that's getting involved with thieving and addiction there's a genuine reason why they're doing it i never woke up one morning said i must stick some heroin into me or whatever there was reasons behind it but i know society's going to have the views on it and a lot of it's a lot of people don't understand the causes and conditions of this disease but i remember a woman lord of mercy on her name Margaret McGonigal she's passed away she was a counsellor and she taught me so much she was a trauma counsellor she's a donny godwoman she taught me so much i'll be forever grateful to that lady and by her teaching me i was in the same field of the helping industry and i would have been able to put people on to her that got help got recovery some of my friends in recovery now you wouldn't believe what they're up to all good positive stuff i believe it's in the giving you receive you know i'm not the person i used to be you know i paid a heavy price and so did a lot of other people i'm not feeling sorry for harry i hurt a lot of people i wounded a lot of people and uh i would be sorry for that and in my recovery there's a program where you go in our program you go back and make amends to ones you've harmed if it's safe for you and for them so i'm lucky that i found the 12-step program of recovery and for me that program is a program of change and i'm not the person i was and i mean you have since 2000 um you know find your path as well you mean obviously you're you're you have to look after yourself and make sure that you don't relapse and what have you but you also uh moved to donny gollum your mother originally from donny gollum you talk of people that have influenced your life from here as well and you talked to or we spoke beforehand about your time in white oaks becoming a counsellor yeah uh that was around 2005 that i presume that helps you uh but then again through that you can help other people i don't know what the balance is or the scale there but you you get something from it and then obviously the people you work with uh get something from it as well oh yeah definitely i'd be grateful to help people you know because there's a lot of people are suffering out there and uh i was fortunate enough that i have a vast knowledge about drugs and the effects and the usage of drugs mainly due to uh me being a user of drugs but also i studied a hell of a lot i'm always studying about addiction the diseases the causes you know so i have a better understanding of it i would nearly say i'm i'm i'm very well versed on addiction now because i've been at it 20 odd years studying and learning and i i remember when i was at school i was in the bottom class all the way through the junior school and i used to get away with a lot because i was a very good footballer and i was a runner i nearly ran at international level so the the teachers used to teach running and more avya but i i was looking out the window most of the time because i was full of stress and anxiety from from stuff and i always heard this before if there was a blackboard at the window i'd have been top of the class because i never spent all my time looking out the window when you saw like going back to to to your uh period of of of heroin addiction you mentioned some other drugs as well yeah um it's very different now though in terms of what drugs are there the availability how you can get your hands on them how organized it is the business of selling drugs the weights network the weights moved around the country the weights available in every corner of every corner of every corner right it's how do you how do you compare the sort of drug scene from your late teens and twenties to the drug scene now it's different types of people all different types of people taking drugs yeah back in the day it was a certain type of person more so but nowadays it's more socially acceptable now too you know that people accept cocaine takings become fairly normal but i mean i i have two dogs and i walk where i live i walk me dogs and with uh every and i'm in a rural area every day i see empty 50 bags of coke like every day nearly yeah and and that's so it's people accepting it much more but the quality see when drugs i find when i was taking them when they reached this far the standard and the quality would go down because the get the drugs get cut as they move along do you know that kind of way but i i think society definitely has a different view on cocaine use but heroin it's a bit casual isn't it cocaine it seems to be like uh well sure it's only yeah you know what i mean yeah it's party drug it's socially the people take it to socialize see the when i was taking heroin i didn't socialize i went into myself you turned in on me but i think i don't think we can really ever uh talk seriously about drugs uh about sorry cannabis and cocaine and its addiction and its gateway nurse and all that kind of stuff unless you also throw drink into it but we never want to in this country talk about alcohol right so if you're an addictive personality and you're chasing that buzz right it might it could be alcohol as much as it could be cannabis yeah which could lead you on to cocaine or heroin as you know what i mean yes i do yeah but we have this sort of uh an a la carte attitude that booze is great let's open the pubs to five in the morning everything's fine right but don't go near these other drugs because you could end up involved with criminality it's a it's a strange sort of two track society we live in isn't it yeah and you don't say anything bad about booze but the other drugs are terrible see booze is legal and is socially acceptable but the i sometimes i wonder if what it'd be like if they legalized drugs in some in some ways at times i would be wondering wonder what it'd be like if they legalize it well it cuts out the criminality but then i don't know i'm not sure i kind of keep an open mind on that you know nothing a lot of people do right so anything you want to part with uh harry just in terms of i don't know let's just say this kind of was triggered by the conversation of a lot of people taking drugs and the impact on the individuals and their their families i mean you've lived that you've experienced you know all about that but i think you are of the view if i'm correct in that you know just locking people up and this you know turnstile no uh the prison gates is not working no it's not the answer i mean i worked in a prison for a few years as a counsellor and uh there it's it's just it's tick the box ticking ticking exercises you know and it's more when i was there i didn't get working with the individual offender i was doing predominantly writing how tell me how johnny's not going to reoffend how do i know how johnny's not going to reoffend i didn't get working with the person it wasn't person-centered but um nah but don't get me wrong prisons are making an effort they are trying to work with people that are addicted they definitely are but it just needs a lot of over in my opinion needs overhauled a lot all right harry how are you now i'm great yeah well i'm not great i lost my mother obviously i'm not great and my mum died on the 2nd of november and which is very recent she's my best friend you know yeah okay well listen um you're making a very proud i would say speaking out um and we understand that's really difficult for you but thank you so much harry um for telling us your story and hopefully people out there can get something uh from it and again condolences on on the very sad loss of your mother who clearly was very important to you but for now 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in letter carry see shop lk dot ie or like us on facebook okay let's have a look at that weather forecast now for the rest of today and i can tell you that uh it'll be mainly dry with sunny spells this morning cloud will increase from the west this afternoon though red will spread rain will spread north eastwards through the late afternoon and evening turning turning heavy at times temperatures of seven to nine degrees right we're joined on the program now by the owner of the leetriming and blueway lodge adaline good morning to you thank you so much for joining us thank you good morning how are you all keeping tell us about how this this mini tornado visited the village well it was fast and furious and for something that lasted under 30 seconds it did and there was a lot of damage and people customers that were in the leetriming and blueway lodge just didn't know what was happening literally the building shock and dust and smoke and debris started filling in through the doors and people just didn't know what was going on um and when they came outside obviously it was worse um so yeah it was an absolutely unreal event and what did you think was happening i wonder well we knew it was weather related you know um some of the younger staff thought it was an explosion you know they didn't know um you know but just it was just everybody was just shocked we didn't know exactly what it was um you know but we did come to the inclusion fairly quickly with some type of a tornado and it become it's very it's very localized isn't it so whatever was in its pathway took a real hit um yes it took a definite pathway and just everything in this pathway just it was very very powerful i mean the block walls knocked down roofs taken off um windows blown out and you know there was people in cars that it's absolutely marital stuff they weren't killed one car at the front had a beam gone through with windscreen and there was two people in that another car at the back in car park there was a an older lady in it and her car at the back was completely flattened so she escaped and too very very very lucky it's an incredible shock for everyone everyone is okay as you say a miracle no one was injured the cleanup starts now of course some people are out of their homes uh businesses unable to operate uh i i'm sure leach from county councillor are on the ground assessing things and and hope to to get things as back to normal as soon as possible county council we have engineers we have assessors the birdie um so just basically assessing it and see where we're at um there's an awful lot of businesses uh that's going to be affected now and homes with people a lot of homes um destroyed as well so yeah it's it's you just won't know till later today exactly how bad it is yeah it's an awful shock for everyone and and the the the strength the the destructive power that's what's really you know we see this stuff on the tv and what have you uh but to actually see it in action locally it is incredibly the level of destruction is astonishing isn't it it's crazy and it's just sad and it's you know the time of year that's in us you know people can't afford to have the businesses closed this is you know should be one of the busiest times of year um you know we've staffed out that are wondering when they're going to be back at work and we can't give them any answers would you be hoping or maybe it's already been committed that the government will put in some sort of a support similar as we see during the times of flooding yes i would really hope that we would get some help um you know as i said this is a very very unreal event um you know and i would expect the government to help us out to get our businesses back up on and as quickly as possible and get people back to work and back into their homes for Christmas yeah um now there is which for a second year of record is on his way to the village at the moment um so hopefully that's a good indication that they're is coming with something hopefully because for a lot of businesses as well this is the sort of couple of weeks trading that gets you through the the the the quiet january February as well yeah exactly all right listen thank you so much for for joining us at this difficult time we hope everything gets back to the normal as soon as is possible thanks for giving us an insight i really appreciate appreciated thanks very much all right take care bye bye she's owner of the leach room in and uh blueway lodge they're in studio with me now joe corkery spokesperson for the special needs parent donagall network group and we're really lucky uh to have you come in and give us updates on on the various meetings and the progress that's being made in this campaign so you had another meeting with the hsc on friday okay uh no sorry it's i'm so familiar with you now i've i've done away with all courtesy and politeness you're just part of the family now joe i'm conscious we have about five minutes so i want to get at that as much as is possible right okay so um your initial uh just an update on your feelings as to how series the hsc are taking all of this now um because use of put in and you know the collective term for all the families come together use of put a lot of effort into so to say right this is the pathway these are the problems what are you going to do now so it's over to you you feel the working with you progress being made there's huge work happening i suppose in terms of recruitment so there um it really is um you know a fantastic effort from the hsc management the hr team at um you know ch01 health team so yeah on recruitment there's a huge amount of work happening for sure uh minister rabbit was in with you three weeks ago and she spoke about you know removing the panel system for johnny gall that will also be happening in gallway and waterford and i would imagine it will also be extended out nationwide because as we've mentioned a number of times this is a nationwide issue so at the current as it currently stands there are 50 vacant roles in johnny gall for children's disability um it was communicated to us that 12 of those are at you know a latter stage of the recruitment process and that best best case now still leaves us with 38 open roles um it was discussed and they were very transparent and open with us on friday that the expressions of interest are unfortunately very low and they remain in roles um so that does leave us very concerned about the future particularly the short to medium term and just to be clear there is a recruitment for freeze this doesn't cover this area at the moment so that's not a factor in the recruitment process as it stands that should actually help us in terms of you know the the disability teams have a derogation so uh yeah we can still continue to to hire uh for disability for children's disability roles which is very much a positive um but expressions for interest are quite low which does concern us about the short to medium term and is that with the knowledge of the panels being scrapped or or or all right so in other words that hasn't been the silver bullet and in fairness the minister the minister suggested as such relocation packages yes is that a thing because that is something that they have something we haven't seen much before yeah down on the head of the the HSE team um and CHO one spoke to us that they are offering relocate relocation packages um you know there is a huge amount of work happening to to try and encourage um applications to the genital roles so that's you know very very encouraging although i suppose in terms of short to medium term uh what will happen for our kids right now or what's going to happen in the next six months we're still quite concerned about that to be honest yeah and in terms of the short term measures because we kind of been discussing short medium long right yeah so um the minister again talked about you know using a private capacity and and things like that there any progress in that regard so let me just go through our four measures so the first measure was on equipment needs and supporting the families and the children who have urgent equipment needs that is happening very very reassuring to see that um you know therapists are um reaching out to families you know on their wheelchair needs on you know orthotic needs and things like that so there is provision and maintenance equipment happening for those urgent cases which is very very reassuring and that was something we were very very keen to ensure happen as soon as possible in terms of redeployment of resources from other areas was emergency measure number two very noncommittal on that um and i suppose what we're saying is that's what the actual existing staff are telling us needs to happen you know because we need experience i mean dunningall east as as a location has 70% vacancy rate you know the best case scenarios we're going to be recruiting in nine new therapists eight new therapists into that team and you know they need experience they need support they need training and all that type of things we still see that as a work in progress and maybe we still have to make a convincing case with regards to that reimbursement for private therapy was something we were very firm on because families are paying a huge amount of money those that can't afford to are paying a huge amount of money and obviously those that can't afford to are having to go without the children have lesser outcomes which is an unacceptable situation in our perspective mr rabbit referenced a scheme to us and provide no details whatsoever on that so we want to follow up with her on that the actions have to follow the words exactly exactly now just to reference your point yes there is some really efforts ongoing to contract in private services into the hsc and that is happening on very small scale at the minute we do feel there's a huge opportunity to expand that and we'll be frank it will be probably tele therapy that we're speaking about because you know private services private therapies are hard to hard to access as well as public services so you know but there are organizations around the country who have you know expressed an interest in helping support you know children on the cdn tk store in dunningall so we are really pushing that with with the team with the hsc team here in dunningall so do you feel there's a huge scope to extend that it won't be ideal it won't be what you know what we really need to see but it will be something in the short to medium term do you know what kind of interest in all of this is joe's if you hadn't got together as you've had where we'd be at none of this would be happening like the panels would still be there the do you know it just goes to show that yeah isn't it scary that it's really important before yeah some of this stuff and there's a group of parent representatives that are working really hard on this as well alongside the hsc and you know it's about people and i will say this like we're all doing this on a voluntary basis you know we have families we have work commitments and we are you know but we see the power you know i suppose behind our voices and we see the value of these roles the value of the therapy there's everyone that works within the cdn teams teams in dunningall that we've come in contact with are fantastic yeah they're highly skilled they're fantastic they're brilliant at their jobs we need more of those you know and that's what we're saying loud and clear we need more of those but i suppose as part of our just before i finish up i wanted to mention just about special needs parents network dunningall so we have almost 700 members on our facebook page i want to say that that's a closed facebook page that's just for and we are going to be working a little bit more on our social media to get because it's an election next year we need to get it out there we also are working on and have recently launched a website so special needs or it's www.snpandunningall.com so that's going to have information about our organization about local initiatives about signposts and parents towards you know fantastic work that's happening about where they can get support brilliant because we can only do the headlines here yeah but all the info's on the facebook page and we'll be on the website all right keep us in the loop we will Joe thank you very much for thank you very much for calling in that's joe corcri spokesperson for special needs parents dunningall network group we'll be back after the news and a bit of rain notices the news will be a little bit late but we just wanted to get that update from joe speak to you soon gift sets by celebrity by budget or from the classic collection at magies camus main street ladder canny for the perfect present every time visit magies.ie sponsors of today's nine till noon show stay warm for less this winter with homeland five pack wood logs by three for 13 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events planned on the run up to christmas the east center will really put the heart in your christmas air online and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning two minutes past ten donal kavner at the highland radio news desk higher education minister simon harris has announced a project to boost apprenticeships 17 million euro in funding is being allocated to the higher education sector in order to meet demand with the largest allocation going to the atlantic technological university a number of places are being opened up at the atu letter kenny campus in metal fabrication refrigeration and electrical engineering minister charlie mcconnellog says it is a significant announcement well apprenticeships there's something that has fallen away over over the last decade or two and that the government is really now pushing to drive on you know atu letter kenny on to the leadership of paul hannigan and all of his team there have been really prioritizing this to put in a great application to seek to expand apprenticeship places and as a result of that now we've been able to deliver 4.7 million euro of the national total of 17 million which is by far the highest allocation to back atu and to back the letter kenny campus and to back the team there and all of the staff in relation to providing these apprenticeship courses there are calls for meaningful dialogue as storm and parties prepare to meet with the secretary of state talks will focus on the north's finances public services and the possibility of re-establishing the executive however talks between the utk government and the d up still haven't reached an end point alliance mp steven farry wants to see that momentum pick up we do have a sense of a some sort of deadline and that we're coming to the end of the calendar year and also we know in early january the executive formation legislation expires so that in itself is some form of watershed where if we don't have restoration by then the government will have to either renew that or do do something else so hopefully that will be focusing minds a local business owner in leitrim says the roof of his premises was shredded by yesterday's mini tornado a cleanup operation continues this morning in leitrim village after a freak weather incident swept in during storm fergus a number of buildings and cars were severely damaged minor injuries were reported as a result shameless gibbons is the owner of electric bike trails this mini tornado literally swept across from east to west and through the village and just talk everything inside the across the road from here took the middle of a house the roof clean off seemed to sweep up along the back of the local pub and came across my place and it just literally shredded the the roof and it's a big roof like it's like it had to be made safe last night the first sod has been turned this afternoon on 42 new social housing units at gort nagrenia in bandoren the turning of the sod at dromocrine takes place at half past two this afternoon to mark the beginning of construction it would cost nearly 55 000 euro to employ someone to carry out the work of a stay at home parent a study by roil london arland also found 90 of people underestimated the worth of a stay at home parent by around 24 000 euro the insurance and investment company found women were far more likely to accurately estimate what it would cost and a small change legislation on coercive control would have an immediate and significant impact for at-risk adults a report by sage advocacy the national advocacy service for older people found shortcomings in access to justice that justice is uneven and that many barriers need to be addressed for at-risk adults the CEO of sage advocacy mervyn taylor says protection is needed for people with diminished responsibility who are victims of crime some terrible crimes can be committed against people with diminished capacity and because they cannot give strong witness statements they're ignored in some cases and in other cases they go through a process which is half-hearted of course of control as seen as a crime only in the context of intimate relationships by simply changing that legislation so that coercive control can apply to non-intimate relationships we could immediately change the discussion around adult safeguarding and then we go to the council is exploring the possibility of developing a marine safety initiative similar to the road safety roll show which has been attended by thousands of transition year students the suggestion was made by councillor mark mcdermott who said he was struck by the fact that a recent rescue and lock foil was triggered by the fact that one person on a sinking boat was wearing a life jacket with a built-in centre that sparked an alarm at mallon head a search was started and the signal pinpointed the sinking boats he said that life that life jacket saved four lives and the story councillor mcdermott says could have been very very different mallon head coast guard was able to send the rescue services to that exact position and i think that's something that we should be pushing here we have a lot of visitors to come here and go out and boat on a saturday or sunday in the good weather and we should be pushing the fact that no one should be going on to the water without having a life jacket that's registered and that can send a signal and if something happens because we would never push anybody to get like iron up and on a seatbelt it should be the same thing when it comes to the water with a forecast mainly drying with sunny spells this morning rain developing in the west in the late afternoon it'll spread eastwards turning heavier times clearing early tonight top temperatures today seven or eight degrees celsius in freshening south to southeast winds that's highland radio news we're back with news again at 11 check on all of today's stories of course on our website highlandradio.com but from now from the news team have a very good morning the between notices for this monday morning the 11th of december the death has taken place of hannah mclochland karik sparr glennily hannah's remains will repose at her late home from 11 o'clock this morning funeral from there on wednesday morning at half past 10 going to st mary's church bocken kuldaaf for 11 o'clock requiem mass interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery family time please from 11 a.m to 11 p.m on monday and tuesday the funeral mass can be viewed on kuldaaf parish dot com the death has taken place of neil devlin temple moille kuldaaf neil's remains will leave liam collins funeral home station road carndonna this afternoon at two o'clock going to his late brother philip devlin's home at shore road bali lyfan family time please from 10 p.m to 11 a.m funeral mass on wednesday morning at 11 in st patrick's church a hutlay malon followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard the death has occurred of patrick packy carabin dramark dygo town remains will repose at gallehr's funeral home station road mount charles tomorrow from 5 p.m to 8 p.m removal from there on wednesday morning to st mary's church kilimard for 11 o'clock funeral mass followed by cremation no flowers please the house is private the death has occurred of joe gallehr seven the cottages burned foot joe's remains will repose at his home from 11 o'clock this morning removal on wednesday morning at quarter past 10 to st mary's church fawn for requiem mass at 11 o'clock followed by interment in the adjoining graveyard requiem mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family time please from 10 p.m to 11 a.m family flowers only please donations in lieu of desire to the oncology unit letter kenny university hospital care of any family member or murphy funeral directors the death has taken place of daniel canning caradone rath mullen remains reposing at his sister mary locaries residence at glenn cross rath mullen from 11 a.m to 10 p.m funeral mass tomorrow at 11 in st joseph's church rath mullen with burial afterwards in rath mullen cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed on mc in media dot tv family time please before the funeral tomorrow the death has taken place of johnny kennedy 26 church street stroban his remains are opposing at his home funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past nine for requiem mass in the church of the immaculate conception stroban at 10 o'clock followed by interment in stroban cemetery donations in lieu of flowers please to the asheimer society care of quickly funeral directors family time please from 9 p.m to 11 a.m the requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has occurred of marcellus gillespie driminin barnes moore remains reposing at his home from two o'clock this afternoon until rosary at nine this evening removal from his home tomorrow morning at half past 10 going to st agathus church klar for 11 o'clock mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery house private please on the morning of the funeral family flowers only the death has taken place at beach hill manner nursing home in fawn of patricia mcgagan formerly st louis ballinally lane mobile funeral mass this morning at 11 in st mary's church belly bracket mobile followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard the death has occurred of danie midlin caramone balaba fey funeral from his late residents this morning at quarter past 10 for 11 o'clock requiem mass in the church of mary immaculate strunner interment afterwards in drumbo cemetery the requiem mass will be streamed on church services dot tv family time please from 10 p.m to 11 a.m and on the morning of the funeral the death has taken place of mafio hanlon swilly park remelton son of corny hanlon and jacqueline graham funeral mass this morning at 11 in st mary's church remelton with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family flowers only please donations if desired to p eight a 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and binoculars for christmas mcgee's the photographic experts were the best cost less right uh the doll recently heard how a donagall's man said donagall man's life was destroyed by failings by toos left of being falsely accused of abusing his son and daughter donagall deputy pierce dot hearty or might remember raise the case and claims to so seemingly fabricated the allegations including the recording of a false confession which was only brought to the attention of mr porter through a freedom of information request and mr porter is said to have developed significant health problems due to the stress caused by the false accusations dating back to uh 2010 to slah has since apologized to uh william uh and mr porter william is now living uh with both his children so i'm reading from a script and i'm calling you mr porter but i have you in front of me and it's a william porter of course william how are you how are you keeping how are you now i'm not so bad greg um one day at a time yeah as they say you know um the reason that um first of all before we start and get under this story um there's a few words i need to say first of all i want to thank pierce dot hearty without pierce dot hearty i wouldn't be here today um i can honestly say he saved my life and the guy used to work from the time nile nile galler her has become a friend of mine and nile gave me great assistance too when it was in the real dark days back in 2016 and before and um i've come here the day i'm not here for william porter the day i'm here in the public interest um because i have a duty to everybody on this island of ireland i'm not just chatting with the 26 counties i'm chatting with the 32 counties because what has went on here is nothing short of a pawn it's disgraceful vile as a word it would use what has happened over the course of the years what you know what have what has happened to my family and myself and you know it's just i'm here and then just to the people because i've come into contact with people over the last number of years have been affected also by these organizations and i've a duty to the people to come and tell the story today and it's almost unmanageable what you've been through and also for for many loving parents perspective it's possibly one of the worst things could happen to you well we're we're all set out in a course in life Greg and we have hurdles to negotiate and um you know it's very hard as i get through this story you know it's it's it was a one day at a time thing but it's the thing on ravelled and a scene that was opening up before me i actually started to question me on saturday time that this could be happening yeah i did there was times you know because i could only times where i did not sleep but what went on and we get under the thing you know the whole thing started really back in 2010 my marriage broke down my daughter was taken away from home and it didn't really save for the first year at all i only saw her for an hour a week in a in a cafe in castle derrick and i had no real contact with her whatsoever so this was no good um rich it was only we were over two years of age at the time and um you know i ended up i had to go through court to get to get proper contact set up and um that was very difficult because i contacted a legal firm on tarone at the time and they were looking for 600 pounds for one day in court and in my naivety i said to the guy well that sort everything out and he says i wouldn't think so you know so i couldn't afford to hire legal representation so i ended up working as self-ledigant myself i mean that in itself before you can get into it that in itself that you are the ability to secure the right to see your children can come down to how much money you have i mean that's in it you know i mean that's the start of it yeah but that in itself is yeah you know yeah i did i did receive help from a man and he's not with us anymore unfortunately man called pat kelly he went for a group call forever fallers and he got me school to go into court the first time i'd done the oma courthouse because my daughter had been taken to northern ireland and i had to go through the northern ireland system so i did and he gave me great help so he did pat and i'm just i think about him every day to tell you the truth but unfortunately he died in 2014 so he did but anyway i started and um the first time i applied to get contact with my daughter i remember it was either the first or second time i was up in the court and i went upstairs was handing papers up to the court clerk and i remember the court children's officer at the time reached me this bundle of papers and i started i sat down and started to flick through them and i started to read stuff on these on these papers which i couldn't believe i was reading about myself and i remember looking across and there was three ps and a officer sitting across from me we were in the upper upstairs part in the court and i said if you guys were seeing what i was reading he's been taking me away sort of thing you know so anyway um contact i got a wee bit of contact set up i saw my daughter for two hours and i tuesday after school and we went and done homework and i got a wee bite to eat and then i dropped her home for five thirty um it progressed into weekend contact um in 2011 going into 2012 and the first weekend that she was back down at home and done i got she woke up at six thirty in the morning and her room is just adjacent to me and Greg and she came over and under me it was her first time back in nearly two years in the family home you know and she woke up at a half six and she came over and jumped on beside me you know and she just woke up she wasn't you know and me and her chatter from when we went back off to sleep but the next day i went under court the court children's officer aid me immediately and she just pointed at me to get under her room and the courthouse in oma and she took me into this room and she says i believe your daughter has been in your bedroom and at first i was in shock i says yes she was she woke up it was her first night down now i know this lady's name but i can't say it of course and she warned me that she must never enter my bedroom geez what was okay and i says what are you trying to imply this is you see it's even this puts you in a position that even starting to have this conversation with this person now it's bringing your mind into places that it would never be or all questions of your relationship with your daughter that you would never have it's it's it's horrendous isn't it well you know i understand that these people have a difficult job and especially a court children's officer because she's taken information from social workers and she's having to do their work and pass it on to the judge and i did develop a relationship with this lady during court times she actually assisted me but i'll never forget that day because it really now it really knocked my back and i assured her i says okay i won't let her near my bedroom again and i and i adhered to that so that was okay greg um that happened then and i'm just coming forward here then my contact was continuously broken there was no consistent contact and there was nobody was doing nothing about it now miss so so just so we understand the language here and we're only talking about your situation not other parties as such uh you were being frustrated like were you being told your daughter's not available or i would have went to pick her up and she wouldn't even okay perfect okay just so we understand what was going on yeah and we were i was relaying this back but it was getting nowhere yeah so my son was so frustrated at the time too because he wasn't getting to see his wee sister he was living with me and he stayed with me of course when the marriage broke down and he he was so frustrated he says daddy you're getting nowhere at all i'm going to go and speak to these people they're going to have to listen to me so on during the 20th 2013 andrew spoke to us i'm going to call our social worker a dairy and he went on and relayed his fears about his wee sister and about him not getting to see you and stuff like that there this social worker he went on on his own and she showed him no compassion whatsoever she actually wrung me that evening and threatened me on the phone and said that that's a terrible thing you've put in your son's through there today i says i haven't put him through anything he's not getting seen as wee sister this is terrible it's going on you people need to do something here so that was okay um we got nowhere and it was very upset so he was and um that was okay but what age was that what way was andrew at this time 16 years right up there you know and um moving forward this was in dairy where he had this meeting with social worker a yeah so this is when it really starts to get going greg in july 16th of july 2013 we got a meeting with a social worker social worker b and county and i think it's county buildings up in oma and we went up there and i have to say this was one of most rough this was the most horrific days that i've ever put in in my life i've never witnessed anything i think i've witnessed this day i witnessed my son telling this lady things shocking things and she didn't listen to one word that he said she didn't listen to one word what he said she turned everything back on him um can you give us an idea without going into it and that was difficult but it's really personal stuff that happened within his life and i want to try to protect that as much as possible now now i understand so he was yeah he was reliant his very serious things about absolutely really serious stuff get you and um he'd become upset during the meeting now something beside social worker b was social worker c and she had her head down she didn't even engage with us because she i don't think she could believe it was happening herself and i can't remember exactly the i could see andrew's getting really upset and i remember putting my hand in the air says you're okay son i'm going to take you out of here yeah and i looked at social worker b and i says just give me one minute i'm taking my son out of the city and i talk him outside and i said i'm down in something like a seat to get there in the hall and i says give me two minutes and i went back in to social worker b and here's what i asked her i says are you your mother yourself and she screeched at me how dare you ask me that question i says i'm going to ask you again from a humanitarian point of view are you your mother yourself and it was the same response she just squeezed me how dare you ask me such a question and um i said there i says i just do not know how you can treat my son the way you did um and i got up and i left the meeting so i didn't we had at home and there was deeply upset so he was the next day i was working in the shed i was fireman at the time at home and i got a call from her um on the 17th of july 2013 and she threatened me that it wasn't going to see my daughter again if i can see it if i proceeded in the way that it was carrying on and she she then compiled a false report like what happened down the line with tozla she compiled a compiled a false report for the court children's officer excuse me how he's getting better i take a drink take a drink of that yeah i'm surprised it's it's so difficult to talk about having to go through it all again but anyway she compiled a report she compiled a report i'm not going to give this stuff that was on the report which was read out to a judge in the upstairs part of the court and oh my a few days later was really led to the judge by the court children's officer and i says this is absolute nonsense what has been said here um i just couldn't believe it what was she trying to get in that report again without without without compromising your son's privacy or any information you don't want to share but just so what was she trying what story was she trying to paint as much as you you want to say she was working of information that had been passed to her from women's aid right and she had made out that i had co-hearced my son to go forward that's what he was like a victim of yours is the way it was yes yes but yet he was still living with me which was crazy in itself you know what i mean so that's what happened there so that was okay moving forward um that was that she's phoned me in the so what was the impact of that by the way of her presenting that in the court as was what was the consequence or what was that being used for did that interfere your access to your daughter or is it just something that was placed on the record that would work against you down the line it was just placed on the record and i found it very difficult although i have to say and i can say that judge shared seemed a very fair man getting to him at the time judge shared he was that day and i explained him that none of this was true and he did he did seem to listen to me you know he did seem to listen but moving forward had left things very very difficult for me moving forward you know um and that was really 2013 up on that was july now here's greg now i'm not expecting to be shared at home but just work this one night that was in july the 17th in august the following month i got a call from tussle to tell me that they're coming to invest to get me for abusing me son and i asked the guy in the phone i says like what's this all about i've never i had never had no touch with any social works on sunday and whatsoever so he arrives at me door and i ask him i says you're telling me that you're here now three years after i was meant to have done this he says i'm only here to tie up loose ends and i said let me tell you something my good man my son's life is no loose end and i says you're an absolute disgrace that you've taken that long to get here three years after that they that's you know three years after that something that that was reported to happen and that's how long it took him to get to me door and i said you better come in because me and you need to have a good chat yeah you spent a couple of hours with me and he went away and he came back and spoke to me son on another occasion i think it was a bit a week or 10 days later and when he was leaving i said to him i said are you happy now that my son's you know safe with me he always says i'm surely no problem right so that was the two meetings we had firstly with tussle you know so i knew instantly i did say to him i said look you've been sent here by northern ireland because of the stuff that happened previously in northern ireland and they totally denied it he totally denied it he says no no i'm just here to tie us loose ends he said the same thing over again you know you know it didn't take if you put two into the time it was two you know it was just like you know that was my take on it that that's what i believe to be true you know and um so do you think if you are correct in that it was the northern ireland people that triggered this talk talk tussle activity yeah do you think that any part of it was about child protection or was this now about having to go with you well as we get forward i'll show you so i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm what's going to unfold here you know it's not that this is down and there's a reported back of us up you wouldn't believe this i would get me sectioned that's what you would do yeah what you're going to hear you know what do you mind if i take a two and a half minute break surely give you a chance to to wet the whistle so to speak and then we'll be back with more is that all right okay we're in the conversation with william porter and his astonishing experience with tussle and it's equivalent in northern ireland we're going to pick up the story with william after we take the short break watch the show live now on youtube 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for more information do you need help to make a health care complaint contact the patient advocacy service we are free independent and confidential we can support you through the complaints process for public acute hospitals and nursing homes across arland call us on 0818 293 003 or visit patient advocacy service dot ie we're still in the company of william porter who was falsely accused of abusing his children by two slur and we're going through the timeline of it and it took a break william because it is uh i mean every time you have to go back through this it just hammers it back home again what you went through we're in 2013 and we've had the first two meetings from two slur uh you believe off the back of uh what happened in northern arland uh i represented from two slur met with you then met with your son and as we were going to the break there he told you that it was just uh tying off loose ends and at that point he was satisfied that your son was safe uh with you that's correct take it from there that's correct about a month or so later i've got a call from another tussler worker to come to investigate the same allegation and at this point you know i was i was getting angry because this was crazy what was going on and that's what prompted me to go to freedom of information to find to see what had been recorded about me and so i did do that and that report become available to me in 2014 greg so it did and i'll never forget the day that i got the report i opened it up i went into my mother's sitting room and i started to read this and i couldn't believe what i was reading the report read that mr reporter had his acknowledge and showed remorse for the reported incidents and had um you know saying that i'd confessed like pierce very clearly relayed in the dial last week saying that it confessed to all us and i remember i sat down my mum so focused my legs went weak i couldn't believe it and i read her over twice again and i actually called her was we hatching the room and she come and says mom come on and you see this and she started to read and she just could not believe she just could not believe this what extent did they go to fabricate uh your admittance of these allegations just that i had um i had nothing to do and i'd learned from the mistakes and i had showed remorse for this which like i remember at that point again you'll start and say am i in some sort of an alternative reality here absolutely and at that time i went to my doctor to tell him what was happening i said i need help here i needed to go to speak to somebody and he referred me to psychologist and st. connell's down here who i met with seven times during two thousand and four you were afraid that going through that process could be weaponized against you as well no i needed i needed to speak i had a couple of close friends i could speak to but i was chatting them up this was four front me mind all the time i wasn't sleeping yeah and um i was just i needed to go to speak to somebody professional to sit down speaking i met with with that lady down st. connell's during 2014 all the records are there to back this up what i'm saying you know so that was okay and that was taking us under the start of 2014 and my contact was still broken now what i'm going to tell you now i didn't see my daughter for 38 days over a period of time and i get a call from my ex-wife on a thursday to say that i can pick up rachel on this on the friday to bring her home for the weekend and i find that now there's contempt obviously because there's there's broken contact there's a contempt someone's has been issued so i speak to me closest friend he says well then there's something going on here don't do it wait to get into court and address the contempt someone's a wrong a legal firm and they're high and they said oh go and pick up your daughter because it'll be frowned upon in the court if you don't pick her up so i took the legal advice much now you're right i went and picked up my daughter and me and mum and and castle derrick and i brought her down to the farm and she stayed with us for over the weekend we'd agree it was a beautiful spring weekend i'll never forget it i got a fella to give me a hand to do me work and i just spent all the time in rachel's i hadn't seen her in so long and i remember mum was so delighted to see her when we were leaving castle derrick she was just chatting so long you know and we came down the road and we had a great weekend went on the dairy on the saturday we got rachel we dressed some next for church on sunday and we left her home on the sunday evening she went skipping up the lane on her new dress as happy as go larry that was okay on the monday i get a call from the garden to tell me that there's been a serious allegation made by my daughter over the weekend that i've punched her four times in the stomach and i know then by this stage that this is this is you know totally crazy crazy stuff that everything's starting to make sense to the offer to your friends warning to why you shouldn't have taken and i actually remember a wrong more in this as you were right more i am so wrong i should i should listen to you more in the future he says i warned you so it was clear what they had done um the guard said to me we you can come in the usher we can come and get you and i said look i'll be in 15 minutes so i went down and i'll never get it i walked into the door to the the garden and she says i was expecting to see a big monster from the hand coming through the door and she smiled it sort of broke the ice with me but you know but you know in hindsight it wasn't a great thing i know what you're saying yeah so that was okay greg i had been waiting to get in the court and i kept ringing up cooks town to see when this court thing to do with the contempt and around this morning forget the morning i think it was a tuesday morning and she says you're in court this morning mr porter and i rushed up a road in the track so there wasn't change or nothing because i hadn't got a letter she was in the court and i remember going up and they were all waiting for me they were waiting for me and i remember i went in and a solicitor who was working for a legal firm in oman at the time i remember him standing up in the court and describing this terrible incident that had happened over the weekend concerning my daughter and what had happened and i stood up and made it i says your honor this is a setup this is an absolute joke i haven't i hadn't seen my daughter there was a contempt someone's issued and this is a clear setup here and i remember the court started up says mr porter you need legal representation and um what what happened that day was the guardian investigation was initiated and to um the fabricated punch and allegation and that went on for 11 months and i had to have supervised contact during that time greg over the 11 months that started in april and the the investigation lasted 11 months until march 2015 but what happened during the time when i was on the supervised contact this is massive stuff here now and i'm going to reveal when i was in castle derek with my mom i noticed police were in the area psn i and we used to sit in the red pepper restaurant and they were standing outside the door and i thought maybe there was a band prayer on or something and there was something coming on the evening but the first week had happened i thought now the second week i got suspicious and i remember asking the police officer i said why are you saying about so much but it very quickly become apparent that um they were keeping an eye on me and now my mom was with me at this time and what really verified it one day was when my son was with us we went down and and my daughter returned to her mother who was working on a shop down the street my son heard the psn officer say to his mom is it safe for us to leave now so they were monitoring me while i was in castle derek and my mom was there my mom seemed us to like did you find yourself even though your mom would want to be there bringing your mom so that there was another person there in other words so that you twigged at this point that your part your that your you know the target of absolutely absolutely yeah so and i had a third person i knew i i would never would have at that point i was so cautious and at that point i'd got the stage even when rachel was running about i remember she used to do everything in the garden she used to come running across the garden i mean i would jump and throw her up in the air to get i was even scared to do that at that point yeah because i didn't know what was going to come back you know i was scared at that point i was really really scared paranoid as well and yeah you know and to that level of scrutiny so had the police situation i was in castle derek on one of the tuesdays and i bumped on the lady who would know the family very well she's a professional lady and she says how you get known william and i says not good not good and i started to tell her what was happening and she knew the family very well and she says i can't believe this and she had knew certain stuff she says i'm going to go forward and tell these people a salute of nonsense well i says if you want to do that you can and she did go forward and she relayed what she knew about stuff within the family to social worker c yeah but that information was totally covered up so it was there was nobody active and this is a professional lady went forward so they did it was buried or it was totally buried and the scariest thing about it greg was the lady's husband was verbally attacked by my ex-wife and castley the social services actually told her this lady had went forward i mean like with everything that you're going through it's horrendous okay but i'm thinking of uh the toosla visit um your son happened to interact with these people in northern annondale choosing to and then presumably your daughter being investigated uh in a questioned to uh to to as it relates to these false allegations were made against you so you're being victimized here as well but the impact this is having massive and i can't i can't even get under that i wouldn't even say because it wouldn't be fair to them to say the impact that this had on them i know what you're saying yeah though they could say it themselves when it's right for them to say but you as a dad no i was watching this and it's not right yeah yeah um during the investigation after she had to be my daughter had been interviewed by the guardia yeah she would know and i'll never forget was a friday night the sergeant and lufford rung me and he says well i you've nothing to fear the only thing that sweet girl would say to the people here today was that people are making me say things about my daddy which are not true and i want to go and live with my daddy and um that was okay he says we've we've nothing more to do with us he says i'm heading away now the weekend and give your head piece he says this is over still it's in 11 months yeah that was in the time frame of 11 months incredibly three days later i'm contacted to say they're going to conduct another interview and the social worker who's involved in this at the time who i would call social worker d now okay i went to her and i begged her i says you must stop this interview this is child abuse and she done nothing about stopping the interview my daughter was interviewed second and thirdly by the guard a which was clear child abuse and in fairness to the sergeant when they come home he rung me says i'm appalled that these other interviews took place this never should have happened well i am really sorry and at that point we were at a state um rachel was so upset um i shouldn't even have said that but i'm just i'm just visualizing things now at that time that were happening and my mom and i made it our business at that point to go to the p.s and how to tell him what was happening 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just important that william gets the space to timeline this uh correctly i need to get the ads out as well william so it kind of works for both of us but come here so where do you want to pick up now in the last stage of uh when we finished up there i finished up by saying my mom and i took the decision to go to ps9 in 2015 but yeah and it's great that you give me a chance because there's a couple of every points i need to put it in happening in 2014 as well my mom and i went to social worker d with letters to her about what was happening and the effects that this was happening and what was going on and she's still done nothing now she had been told by both children what was happening and everything and she threatened us that she was going to have rachel putting putting in the care she threatened me and my mom um during that time also we had we had a meeting with social worker c and she had this is she wanted to this is she told me and my son at a meeting that she wanted to disassociate herself from what happened at the meeting back in 2013 the social worker we said she wanted nothing to do with it and she was having washing her hands that's the one that was very upsetting for your son yes okay yeah so moving then that's the two big points that i want to put on there and then moving down to 2015 we went to the psna and we sat with a guy and there i remember his name his name was actually an angel and um we sat with him we told him everything that had happened and he was he just sat shaking his head and disbelief at everything so he did and he says leave this with me and um i will do something about this for you because this is absolutely disgraceful what's going on and at that point i had gotten touched with the the inspector the police too because i was keeping them up to date but was going on here all the time you know um a man but that i'll finish up the story when we get to that but anyway that was okay he done his work he went and contacted social services and they brought another social worker this is after of course the guards had come back no investigation there was no no prosecution the guestmate was all alone now since the thing was totally fabricated a bit of punching and that was done that was dead for them so their attack on me didn't work it back fired on them actually so it did so what i what i believe happened then greg they sent in social worker e this is the fifth the social worker who was involved in working with the children and she rung me and she said she wanted to meet with me and i only agreed to meet with her if i asked the questions and she gave me direct straight answers in relations to the work of the previous four social workers and she agreed to do that and i have to say fair fair play there she held her hands up on every question i'd asked and she says there have been massive mistakes made um i want to speak to your son and i says social worker e not a chance would i let any people near my son after what you've done to him already and she said i would ask you to consider that because um go away and consider it she says william and come back to me and i went and spoke to my son and god bless him he says i will speak to her if it's going to help me we sister it's a terrible situation she's in and a meeting was set up with my son and social worker e on the 10th of april 2015 gregg and it was i'll never forget that day as long as i live she came to the farm and she met my son and they spoke in the conservator i was over in the shed working working at spuds excuse me and it was meant to no longer in an hour she said but i came over after an hour but they were still in talks and i went away and they were they met with each other for up in two hours and when i came back i could see andrew was upset so we could and he went down the hall in the house and i'll never forget him walking down the hall in the house and he went into his room and i looked at her and i asked her a question i says i'll call her social worker e but i got to know this lady very well i met her on 12 occasions i says what have you done to my family and here's where her words we have conducted a witch hunt against you and we have tried to set you up and i do not know how you've endured to get to where you're at but at the same time as difficult as that is to hear it validated you and everything that you knew every argument you were made you know what you knew yeah someone within the system was recognizing it was there any relief in that at all or was it just just just anger that right now you know what i'm going through how do i say it greg there was a relief because andrew said to me with tears in his eyes he says daddy this lady's going to help us at last and she did to a degree of course she did because she started to compile her report she met with the children in numerous times and she done up a report that fully supported rachel coming in the mic here so it did and that was you know that was a massive day and when she was leaving she says apply for a residency order i says how can i apply for a residency order when i'm classed as a child abuser in southern ireland and i'm a master and in front of judge shared to be funds all allegations about me and she at that point she says do it do it and like i was left bewildered that so i did approach a legal team we did apply for residency order and at that point i did tell her i says now my daughter should be about straight back into my care because this was totally fabricated this allegation you know it was crazy at that point i felt that she should have been about under me caring and fair player she did admit to me down the line that that should have happened there and then and my daughter shouldn't have been left where she was for the next year and a bit you know sort of thing so um yeah go go ahead yeah if you want to go into that other um that other things don't um so at that point um we were running out of court a lot of times and um the legal firm we were working i had applied a legal firm as i was instructed one and when i stood up and i didn't fend myself when the punching thinkers put out in the court i had a legal team working for me they weren't doing us i was instructing and i i could rather than i told them you can't say and what needs to be said in the court here what has went on with all the stuff that went on and i could rather than Greg and um i'm just really focusing here again but do you know what you're going to do you're going to take two minutes for the news to refocus because we're slightly and then we're going to keep you about four or five minutes after the news is that all right that's okay great um we're getting there we're getting there it's really important okay yeah right okay so it is 11 o'clock we're going to wrap up with William and his very important story after we get the news headlines and it's a quick one over to Donald Kavanaugh thank you Greg good morning Hickwell has published a report on current on a community hospital following an unannounced inspection at the end of august the report notes feedback from residents and families was highly positive but there were three non-compliances noted in the areas of governance and management premises and fire precautions in their response management say a program of works was initiated after the inspection which has been substantially completed you can read the report on our website highlandreview.com higher education minister samin harris has announced a project to boost apprenticeships 17 million euro when funding is being allocated to the higher education sector in order to meet demand with the largest allocation going to the atu in letter kenny a number of places are being omitted up in the areas of metal fabrication refrigeration and electrical engineering stormans five largest parties were at house where castle they're meeting today with northern island secretary of stett chris heaton harris they're discussing plans for the british government to set up a budget for the next financial year if power sharing isn't restored talks continue between the uk government and the dup grocery inflation has been measured at 8.6 percent over the past three months figures from canter show the level of price increases in supermarkets is still above the rest of the economy and dunigold county council is to explore the possibility of developing a marine safety initiative similar to the road safety road show which has been attended by thousands of transition year students in the county i know the headlines back with headlines again at 12 noon okay uh donal thank you very much indeed for that and uh our competitions are coming up soon get your phone have it close to you because i'm going to be ringing someone very very soon but i just don't want to rush uh my chat with uh william paul to hear uh because it's really important and i think and as i was saying to you just before we came back here it may be not on the scale that you've experienced but this story will resonate with a lot of people uh out there and i think there's you had a a lot of opportunities to give in to stop to sort of say i can't do this anymore or the system is so against me i can't beat them uh i can't listen to any more advice because every time i do it almost makes things worse uh i think you showed incredible love of your children and strength through your friendship and it sounds like your mom uh was your rock there as well to stick to stick through this so in the last few minutes then william we're we're we could do three or four hours on this i think and it's such an important story it would be justified but you you've applied for custody of your children now at this point your daughter sorry your son is with you yeah uh you were advised to do so at that point there is someone within the system admitting that you were the victim of a witch hunt effectively by the system yeah do you know what i mean that's what it was north and south north and south so what what on moving forward in the 23rd of June 2016 um i'm in court and judge law firms are judicating that day and she brings rachel under my care after me having a lengthy battle with my ex wife berson so she brings her under my care and i'll never forget her words she says this is a great day for rachel you know and i remember my legs went sort of weak and um but for the right reasons this time yeah and i remember i came outside the court and i sat down the steps of the court and i walked my week yard down she was down to bottom of the hill and i just was totally overcome and i just give thanks to the lord that because i had prayed in 2009 that would get her back and it took me seven years and that's a number of completion and she was back after seven years you know we got her home and really then you know it was it was it was just wonderful that she could be reunited and spend her time back in the farm and be with her granny and grandda and she loved her granny her love she loved her grandda so much they were so close you know and he had mustered desperately you know when she was away because they were so close and it was just and him probably bottling it up i don't know if he was a very or is he or was he a very expressive person but the granddas tend to sort of they they bottled it up but he broke a few times they feel it but they don't show it necessarily no in a real level so we got her back yeah and um really then Greg i run on the health stuff that is myself um i developed um i took a frozen shoulder my left side it moved to other side during 2016 and 7 16 and 17 my arms i couldn't get my arms up above my shoulder height at all and i went my friend took me for scans and nothing was showing up in the scans and it ended up it was just pure pressure and the body was just starting to shut down other things too i found a cyst so i did i thought i thought the worst thank the lord it wasn't and um you know those things are all going on and during this time 2016 i went to pierce about the sovereign situation because i was getting no joy from tozo they wouldn't eradicate the records and pierce got involved and god bless pierce i just cannot thank him and much for what he done you know he started to work for me in the southern side on that end so the records cleared in in in the totally clear records cleared and even apology from tozla an apology from tozla and we got a review set up into the case in 2017 and i met with a guy from tozla down there on nine occasions also seven with the the clinical psychologist nine with this guy and he recommended a full apology so he did you know there was and and he stated he says the two cases are unextricably linked the two are unextricably linked so that you know that was a recommendation and you know then moving forward on 20 you know 2016 i got the residency order pierce become involved started to work in the southern thing for me which i would never wouldn't be here today and i can't reiterate enough how much pierce helped me and the reviewer's card under the case full apology recommended not apology come in July 2018 and that was a massive lift my father i remember when my mom read it to him he was it was unconsolable in the room and it took such a weight that's maybe when the the pressure it was really for him that was his that was his point you know what i mean you've had the different but that was the time where he you know the next like the old steam quicker do you know i you know it was such a vindication vindication you know what it certainly was was a massive because allegations like this cut through your parents hearts like a knife because they're they're worried about their grandchildren but they're worried about their son your your your son's your son it doesn't matter if yeah if it's eight or if he's 48 he's still well well this is where i have to say my mom never doubted me for one second she never doubted she was a woman of great faith um and you know i had i had i had a week earlier come to me one time she says william they're saying well things about you down in the local village she heard them saying the shop and she confronted them you know and she had the courage to come forward to me i didn't even think about that side of it there was so much of that there was but that's all nonsense Greg you know i know but i didn't in all of this i kind of in my head was thinking this is all private behind closed doors but of course it's not you know these you know the word gets out oh yeah which is painful and that's painful for the wider family as well yeah so what's the situation then sorry go ahead so there's two other things i need to tell you happen in 2017 man along with so what i done my fear was that there's other people out there i knew if one man had taken his life who pat had told me about pat left double and one night he said well i'm leaving a man here very somebody yourself i'm going to call me for a cup of tea in the way back and pat he didn't show up and he rang me at 11 o'clock to tell me that the man had taken his life you know this is this is this is how sufi this is why i'm here today or Greg because i want to stop this happening to another family in northern ireland or southern ireland something has to be put in place and these people in northern ireland haven't been dealt with in any way whatsoever i don't know we're waiting for word to come back from the minister what does live done regarding the south but it's northern ireland is my massive concern at this point that these people are still in their place of work which is like it's shocking it's absolutely shocking but there was two meetings in in 2017 that i had i finally got a meeting with the ceo of the western trust me and my mom in the 28th of september 2017 and i asked her 12 questions the first question i asked her was are you responsible for these five social workers and she says i am 100 and to proceed i asked her another 11 questions she answered no comment to every single one of the questions 11 questions based on the welfare of the children she answered no comment every time i did say everyone was leaving i said you're an absolute disgrace to your position and i just i said i remember looking out out in the galvan hospital seeing people walking about i said those people i will never stop until i get this sorted out for what has happened here then a few weeks later i went to social worker e um on the 10th of november so it had um 2017 i think yes and i went to her and i says social worker e i know her name's so well but i know i can't say it here i says i want you to initiate a review into the case what has happened and she said i won't be doing that william you've got what you wanted you're looking for a stage for yourself i says you told me one day that you hadn't got to the bottom of me yet and i says i'm not here for a stage i'm saying i'm just trying to prevent this happens in other family and she wouldn't budge and i did i when i was leaving i says you know you have a chance here the day they put this right but if you don't you will only fuel me and you know me me now you have come this far you will only fuel me to get to the end that doesn't get something done and her words to me were and i have to say i i had a regard for but here's what when i lost my regard for she says the trust have dealt with a lot of bigger people than you and their time so there's sort of an institutionalized yeah we dictate what goes on and uh right so so that that brings us on then to 2018 crossword or great sorry across the mail speaking in the afternoon a few important crises in your life so that's i've been called worse go ahead william um the apology called man on 2018 and just had to go back and say those two meetings and 2017 you know and um one final meeting that i have to tell you about which was massive i had been telling the chief inspector over all the police and oh my yeah a man who got to know pretty well and i had a meeting with him in september 2018 and i went to the meeting he wasn't aware that i had the apology this time but i'd been keeping him in the picture what was happening regarding um everything that was going on and i went down to him at a two-hour meeting with him my friend was with me and i led the whole thing down and took it from start to finish and i says my good man we have the final piece of the jig saw here the day and you have a job to do and i threw down the apology in front of him and he said to me um this is terribly serious these people need to remove them or place of work well i says you have the authority to do it it needs to be done he says i will see that there's something done this is we have to go through the criminal the criminal he felt it was criminal what had went on and i feel it was criminal too um he says we have to go through the criminal investigation unit and enter him but i had that meeting with him in 2018 and i never heard a word from him after that not one word i went to the ombudsman and they came back with nothing to investigate and are you pursuing that in the north like is it important you want your record expunged cleared up there too i mean or could you not say or does any part of you say you know what i've been at this now since effectively 2010 2011 well man i'm gonna let it slide like what motivates you to keep at it what motivates me to keep at this Greg is these people are still in a place of work it's for other people not to be not this not to happen to somebody else something has to be done within the system to stop this happening northern Ireland again you know that and this is years on down the line i even tried this summer to meet with the court children's officer with all this stuff and make her aware of proceedings that concluded in southern Ireland last December in the high court but she wasn't prepared to meet with me so it's a clear cover up totally in northern Ireland by the PSN what is the root cause of this is any part of this or was any part of this about concerns for children's welfare or at some point did you run run people up the wrong way no and then you were gonna do you get where i'm coming from i went into every meeting gracious i i never raised my voice but i'm trying to what was the motivation to do you get where i'm coming from i think it's not the child welfare that it must be you or something what was i'll tell you what i think happened i think there was a light hold at the very beginning and social workers didn't act those five social workers didn't act on the benefit of the children and instead of dealing with a problem that was very early the whole thing got a snowball effect and and and it was a snowball they couldn't handle at the end and i i kept hanging in there and there's a snowball they couldn't handle at the end you know um you know so that's where we're at today all right well let us under the court last week um you know i've told us you know there's a couple of these things that i've must hear in there i know there's things flashing in my head there's so much i know but i think to be honest with you what you have told us is is is uh it's shocking it can't happen again but unfortunately it is happening uh and i hope and you in you speaking out with the backing that you have that that but i think we can't expect change from say for instance what's happening in northern island unless it's recognized there was a problem you see you can't move forward and sort of make sure this doesn't happen to other people until they say right you know we completely got this wrong and what we did was wrong well greg this is this is an opportunity now for our minister here and their public of ireland to approach northern ireland and get this opened up and get this addressed and get it sorted out and i would hope that they would be able to come forward and apologize in the north as well this is happening in the south because it's clear to see as social worker he admitted to me as the tuzzle representative who carried out the the um investigation into the case said i sat in a meeting with the CEO um off um tuzzle and he admitted to myself and a member from now my friend that this was clearly come from northern ireland they orchestrated this this was a witch hunt and i have to compliment them all i gotta give them 10 out of 10 they give it a damn good try well they nearly destroyed you yeah only for your own resilience and the people around you and uh deputies interference they may have succeeded they may they probably would okay you know i just want to finish be saying yes well i know i'm probably on here far longer and i should be well it's wednesday now not many jokes it's important william go and finish up with what you want to say um you know people would come and say to me how did you do that or how did you get through that yeah and what i would say to people is that um i read sam 51 every morning i'm a son of myself and my son is before me greg i'm not a perfect person i'm not a perfect parent and i want to say to forgive all these people who have done what they've done to me family if they were here now i would say to them i forgive you and the only reason i got through this was um there's two verses that stand out for me so much as my mom used to always say this to me i can do all three gives me strength and no weapon farmed against me shall prosper and the only reason that i'm here today is because of my belief full belief in the lord jesus christ or i would not be here today and i would never have got this far pierce helped me i had close friends around me but that's the reason i'm sitting here today to tell this story and i would pray that something could be done that this would not happen to another family that's what i would ask jesus near my pray on that note listen thank you for all your time this morning i appreciate it's a very difficult story to have to relive because it in time lining it and picking up particular meetings and instances you happen to go through that again in that emotion that you felt on those days um but i think as you say it's important and we need to change the system that you know it needs to be held to account um but william for now listen thanks so much thank you great for having me and best wishes to you and all of your family thank you chanel flower bomb long con georgio mani paco robin where else but at mickey's chemist lettery kenny this christmas sponsors of today's nine till noon show send christmas smiles from alcorn's festive flower selection lovingly remember those we miss with the tribute from our christmas selection all our orders are handmade in store so please order early wishing you your best christmas from all at alcorn's i've been looking after mom for a good few years now it's been hard at times it's been difficult to find time for myself i've even had to stop work you've worked 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um what is causing thousands of homes across donnelly gall in the country uh to fall to bits effectively and we're learning all the time and there's been quite a significant breakthrough uh hasn't there been in terms of understanding defective concrete and and the extent to which it damages the property both above and below ground i suppose you could say yeah that's right i mean i mean you're well well aware that we were commissioned by geological survey of ireland they run a large research project a half a million euro research project that was funded by the department of housing local heritage and local government heritage uh so this is a fact of the government funded research and we were commissioned to look at defective concrete block homes in donnelly gall and we've looked at the outer leaf inner leaf rising blocks and also for the first time the foundation concrete destroyer foundation which hasn't been looked at before and we have found direct evidence that the primary mechanism of failure is a process known as internal sulphate attack which is caused by piratite it's happening on the inner walls outer walls rising blocks and there's also the beginning phase of that with sulfur being released in the strip foundation so that's the first time we now know that basically all concrete units in the house are at risk of failure and failing quite badly particularly in the other leaf so just in relation to that it won't happen will it at the same pace necessarily as the outer leaf and then the inner leaf but it would seemingly then make no sense to rebuild a house on top of these foundations because over time and that's yet to be determined they are likely to fail yeah well it's clear that the problem is sulfur that's being released with piratite which turns into sulfuric acid and starts chemical reactions in the concrete and then the foundations that we've looked at on this research project we have found clear evidence that piratite is at the early stage of oxidizing which is releasing the sulfur and once you've got the sulfur released into the cement and the concrete then you've got the potential there for internal sulfur attack to progress it'll it's going to progress at a slower rate for different reasons and I have to leave it 11-25 so I'm going to pass on the andres and andres can take you across on the technical leaf yes but there are different conditions that will dictate whether it happens at a faster or slower rate and I know you have another appointment and this is completely our fault paul and we will return to it but so is you have time I'll say goodbye to you now and I know andres is I think he's got the qualifications to carry this forward hasn't he'll be all right okay listen paul professor paul donlock thank you very much indeed I appreciate it so andres what does this mean then in terms of the the current scheme and its current workings we can't have sort of the scheme and the science and then this science sort of running side by side and not intertwining can we it would make no sense of course the results of the research they have to directly fall into the decision-making and you know right now we know that the the rising wall and the foundations are affected as well and if you have this internal sulfur attack you have different phases you have a first phase that is linked to the formation of ettringite that causes expansion and the second phase linked to the formation of tomaside that causes strand loss now if you look at the different components of a home the outer leaf strongest affected is at the beginning of this strand loss phase of the three affected houses that we have now looked in and the rising wall is in full swing it's expanding and we are at the very early stage in the foundation this causes well has different implications now imagine you have a your home is standing on the rising wall that let's say expands one percent if your rising wall is two meters high this will uplift your entire home for two centimeters and this of course it's in homogenous and it will cause cracking so this is terrible so i mean what does this i'm sorry to ask the basic question because an awful lot of people listening to us particularly those affected by it will really the science is important but we'll want to know what it means for their homes and really for the scheme so you know the scheme there are buildings still working through there's options you know different options outer leaf inner leaf demolition there's still no decision seemingly on on on the foundation so some people might go well i don't want to progress if i'm going to end up having to toss this house again in ten or fifteen years so i know it's the government's job to sort of work with the science that you're providing but what do you think this means to the current scheme and how we're resolving the problem of defective concretes conclusions is clear everything has to be removed uh outer in inner leaf clearly the rising wall and then i mean it's a question what is a home built for is it a one generation home or should it be a family home for for uh more generations if you look at a longer time scale then it's clear the foundation has to be replaced because these homes that we have studied are 20 years old and yes we have the start of internal sulfate attack and we will have expansion at one point and uh if you think okay your home is for 20 25 years then you're okay but if you think in longer time scales i would clearly recommend the foundations to be replaced is this with all the science that has been done is this very specific to a specific area where quarrying takes place and the quarry in practices or are you finding out anything that expands your concern beyond where it seems the majority of this concrete came from well it is the source of the aggregate is clear where it is and all the concrete that was produced with this type of aggregate has the potential to be to be deteriorating cracking and so on of course we know of other quarries that contain iron sulfates as well for example we know the myocases with the fromboidal pyrite that is a problem as well but the pyrite here in the oracle that's all coming from the same rock formations all right i mean this is incredibly valuable information not just for us here in dunagore but this is this is this uh work that you've been doing has national ram sorry global ramifications if you know what i mean i know it's going to be unveiled in quebec but you know this is really important information i think for every country going forward i think so and it clearly shows that the standard for aggregates the european standard the clear specifies the upper limit of solver present in your aggregates if you have pyrite that is more or less correct because the homes that we have investigated now the the the solver continent is far above this limit value and if there would have been any action to make markets or regions in in ireland at the point or from the point where this stand was published 202 then the entire disaster would have been preventable all right it is fascinating stuff i'd love to return to this with you and the professor when when it's just been one of those days here um uh andreas but thank you so much for your time it's great to have access to someone who's uh leading this research because it's so critical thank you so much have a lovely day that's uh andreas leman there who is a group lead uh with the concrete technology we heard to from professor paul donlop school of geography and environmental science ulster university it is the nine till noon show coming up very shortly we are go i've just a note in here from councillor frank webberty we are the first to expose the foundations by testing them and we are the first have petrol lab do the sulfate attack analysis proving mic is not the cause of the structural defects in this scandal it's fantastic the more of us especially uh intelligent uh people such as the 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ie or like us on facebook okay this morning we'll be mainly dry with sunny spells rain will develop in the west in the late afternoon and we'll spread eastwards turning heavy at times it'll clear early tonight highest temperature 708 degrees in freshening south to southeast winds now our monday focus uh is focused on road safety as christmas approaches we remind you to stay safe on the roads and remember to buckle up a base speed limits and never ever drink or drug drive and to try and drive home that message we have in studio with us inspector sheamus mcgonagall head of the roads policing unit here in cantedonical good morning to you thank you so much for joining us sheamus morning great we also have in studio with us john joe mcgon chief ambulance officer with the hsc ambulance service based in the west thank you so much for joining us as well uh john joe and and what we're engaged in here is actually really incredibly simple is that we have a thing in this country that wreaks death and devastation on individuals and families and to a great extent it is completely avoidable now i mean not not completely but this is in our gift not to ruin this period or make it a nightmare for families going forward as it ends up being an anniversary or whatever and and sheamus mcgonagall inspector sheamus mcgonagall that's what this is all about isn't it you're trying to urge people to do all the right things and best limit the chances of of losing their lives or having life changing injuries on our road correct greg um as i've said here before we don't really have road traffic accidents under we've road traffic collisions and as you rightly point out these collisions are avoidable in the vast majority of cases and again we speak of these lifesavers um um oh fancies um drugs and drink driving speeding not wearing your seat belts and using mobile phones or other um devices when you're actually driving if people adhere to the rules these collisions would not take place these these people that are deceased on the road you see the figures increased again nationally this this year these people would be here for christmas this year rather than deceased and the baying speed limits that are below the 100 kilometers um you know the 60s the 50s the 30s i know we say and we say in the past that these aren't targets you know what i mean uh these are the upper limits uh but the difference in the outcomes of a collision dependent on speed there's some interesting information here i don't know if you want to go through it if you want me to read it uh shameless but you know the speed is a huge factor in the outcomes of these collisions i think greg it's all about an appropriate speed we have speed limits but they're the maximum safe speed you can drive it in perfect conditions but often because of weather or other um variables um the actual we might be say 50 on the sign but driving a 50 kilometers an hour in a particular um set of circumstances is completely and wholly in appropriate so it's all about driving at an appropriate speed for for the circumstances at any given time and as you correctly point out i'm sure john joe from the ambulance service is all too aware of it um the faster you're driving and the more likelihood is there'll be serious or fatal consequences if you if you collide with another vehicle or pedestrian yeah because we all have to share share the road so this data really applies uh to to pedestrians involved in in collisions and it really is quite shocking the difference potential outcomes at 60 kilometers per hour versus 30 john joe yeah greg it's huge the consequences that that speed um and as she must says drink and drugs affect uh road users and affect the consequences of accidents and i suppose christmas is such a special time really um and then every time of the year is it's a devastation to have uh the word come to some people's door of a fatality in a road traffic accident everyone's worse night but at christmas i suppose it really hones in on it we like to think on it um your heads like an egg and the yolk is your brain and you see how fragile that is there's not really much difference between that and your head and creating head injuries even at very low speeds um like if you take it now for the likes of christmas and presents and e scooters um quad bikes all that that goes with it um and it's so simple to come off them have a serious head injury um and be left devastated with devastation consequences through a whole family and it's not always speed either it's how you fall yeah very simply for like we've even seen consequences of people slipping and falling in ice and having devastating injuries but as you said at the very start there is um simple things that we can do to try and avoid this even and i've noticed it myself over the last number of weeks people walking on roads without hyvers jackets um it's it's lethal to be honest um and and them small things all the small things really make a huge difference uh we break it down at christmas i suppose christmas is the perfect time because it's everything it's a risk manager's worst nightmare because there's everything going on there but we break it down into the young and then the older groups and for the young it's um the likes of the christmas present myself and seamus was high tailed to uh meeting with um for santa and his elf and safety committee a couple of weeks ago um and he they have promised that if the likes of the scooters and that are delivered on christmas morning that there will be helmets and all that delivered with it and we know look it's not cool to be wearing the helmet and the hyvers and the knee pads and all that there but it's things that got them to us lives and also to seamus um you know you know some people will will take risks all the time but i think particularly at christmas or festive periods or a bank holiday that there's a decision that's made a split decision it's like right is there not a taxi i'm going to walk home in my dark clothes um i can't get a lift home but there's a car there with five people sure i'll hop on their laps in the back or you know what i mean sometimes these awful scenarios come from that split second decision that we make how do we and often maybe can be under the influence okay or any of us here you know um so it's trying to get people not to make that decision that that leads to a chain of events i think there's an onus on us all and i say us all you know um to make that sensible decision not to give in at the last minute and of course all our inhibitions are reduced slightly with me val colombord again which the vast majority was all do especially so over the christmas period but it's incumbent on us all to make this sensible responsible decision and don't take that chance because you're not just taking a chance with your own well being you're taking a chance with it for other road users and other citizens your other friends and families and people around you so you just stop and think before you make that foolish decision stop and think and don't do it do you think we as parents or whomever is a parent uh need to sort of say as the and this is not just about young people but focus on them for a moment you know you're i don't know 16 i don't judge 16 to 28 euros maybe they don't have a car or whatever it might be to say to them by the way i don't care if it's three or four or five o'clock in the morning if you're stuck call me that that's such an important yeah anyone wants to get that cold don't they rather than i know with the car coming off you know i speak to my daughter i say do not get into the car but somebody's intoxicator you believe it may have been drinking earlier now in the evening yeah you know is that you have to stop and think it's no point saying asher i'm not driving myself i'll take a chance i'm stuck for a lift whatever there is no reason to get into the car but somebody's intoxicated and yes absolutely as a parent and come again upon us all as parents they tell our children yes we'll go and collect you if we have to no matter what yeah we'll get you home one way or another may affect our own socializing at home even though it is but if that is the case you have to be aware i know at times there are an awful lot of taxis out there but there can be a shortage of taxis so we have to leave ourselves as parents to be in a position that could collect our youngsters if necessary and bring them home safely yeah and um john joe often we talk about and it came some of this we say this over and over again but you know what i don't apologize for it we'll keep doing it until we we you know you know get to the post because we don't know who we get through we do get through to people right so hopefully we're making a difference but obviously it's fatalities which is the figure that's often talked about it doesn't talk to the serious injury the life-changing injury the court cases the everything else that can flow on from that you see that the majority of course you respond to aren't probably fatal but you would see some awful situations where you know that person is going to have to live with the injuries sustained for the rest of their lives potentially and that's what we need to focus on as well i think those individuals and agreg like we hear the fatalities and the radios and the statistics in relation to fatalities but for every one of them fatalities there could be at least two or three serious road traffic accidents with patients left with head injuries or disabilities um in relation to that um after the accident me and seamus just talked about this before we come in here um and and that's a bigger number and it goes on scene somewhat um and just adding to seamus's point earlier in relation to the piece of um ringing home and that there pre-plan and really takes the spur of the moment decisions out of it and nearly takes that so even if it is a little bit awkward i know some of it going christmas nights out but have it pre-planned your route home and somebody's going to pick you up or something like that there but yeah indeed there the devastation that can be left behind by um where there's not a fatality is and and that goes on for people the rest of people's lives living with disabilities and that there and it's it leaves serious consequences behind it drinking drugs um i i think i mean particularly drugs but certainly drink that we have to understand how it affects us you can't really drink and drive at all anymore you know people will remember the old don't slip into fifth and that stuff bottom line is is you don't want any drink on you at all if you are driving and and people will be tempted to drive the next day and there are check points out there you know there's a lot of conversations been had about them in the past but you just have to stumble across the one and that's that but that's getting called it's not about getting called really is such it should be about am i fit to drive should i be driving and and i think there's not a lot of understanding out there about how drugs work on the system um and how long they stay in the system shameless well i don't want to get into the minute of the drug driving but but there there has been an increase in people in software drug driving in daytime hours you know that's that's very very obvious over the last few years um so even whether it's apart from drugs even drink can stay in your system for a considerable amount of time and i'm well aware of cases where people who have been drinking the night before and there's no interaction with drugs other than alcohol ended up being over the limit the next morning so it's again just appealing to people to think about it don't take it for granted you're going to be sober and fit to drive in the morning time factor that into your planning as well for the night before and road conditions are our responsibility as well too uh i mean obviously we can talk about surface water and potholes and what have you but that being said we know the roads for the most part and it kind of is our responsibility to make sure that we're drove driving at an appropriate speed no one wants an anti-state so it is our it's our call it goes back to appropriate speed at all times now the it's such a such an important issue that people think other speed limits a hundred kilometers an hour 80 kilometers an hour whatever but especially this time here it's never mind the weather even when it's dark we should be driving so when it's dark and that's done in daylight you know roads are affected by by water and by ice this time here we just have to take cognizance at all times so i mean the message is kind of clear if you're a pedestrian don't walk on the road in dark clothes on the wrong side of the road you know have a light have high viz on don't get into a car drunk or on drugs or with someone drunk or on drugs don't get into a car that you suspect someone driving has drink or drugs on them don't overload vehicles they're not built to carry multiples of people it's it's just to reset ourselves to think about the common sense of john joe yeah like we've been at many accidents throughout the years me self and she was both and i would say what you've talked about there there wasn't one accident that some element of that um them instances come into it unfortunately and probably ended up them being the root cause of a fatality or a serious um injury at them accidents so yeah that's the main really the main message in all of this and we i know we're like a broken record repeating it but but it is what's happening out there so that's why hence why we were gonna talk about a road safety uh thing i can't remember exactly what it was but we didn't want to talk about it when had been a serious collision because it would be insensitive to the families and it got to the point where we had to defer it three or four times because things you know serious instances were happening um but anyway we did discuss it it's very important to note 172 people have lost their lives so far this year which doesn't actually talk to the absolute devastation far beyond that shameless um in terms of fatalities and roads and donnie gall in particular this year and sadly we've had nine people have lost their lives in donnie gall this year now so often i've been here and throwing out statistics on fatalities and serious injuries and whatever but if it may take a moment just to remember each of those people who lost their lives this year in donnie gall that's eileen kennedy rebecca brown connor mcginley david mclaughlin mary burland ronan milson arnold white alana harkin and thomas gulliver now god be good to all those people they all lost their lives on the roads and donnie gall this year nine families who will be devastated this christmas and it happens this christmas and every christmas beforehand and i don't want to tie in directly anything to do with the message we're given here today but again these people the names are all in the public domain and it's only right today that we should remember them and i think name them again we don't want any more fatalities and roads we don't want any more serious injuries on the road and again it goes back to the message that i keep rewriting do not be taking drunk drink and drugs and getting into your car and driving slow down to an appropriate speed wear your seatbelt and don't be using any devices which will distract you when driving i'm going to leave it at that actually because it's such a powerful point we'll leave it there um inspectors shameless men are shameless we're going to go ahead of the roads policing unit in donnie gall thank you john joe mcgowan chief ambulance officer with the hsc ambulance service based in the west thank you both very much for calling in and just we hope and pray that the message gets through and um we just hope it does okay back with a goodbye after 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