 However, it is being delayed as further adjustments are to be carried out. It's after speculation that a cap of 350,000 euro would be included in the scheme, which in turn would have excluded around 40% of Micah-affected householders. Denegold Deputy Thomas Pringle says those affected have waited long enough and he says that the government should stop leaking and sort it once and for all. That's just not good enough and it's not on for the Micah families because this is a very serious issue and the government needs to treat it as such and needs to stop this ongoing delay and actually come out and once and for all, a scheme in place that would deal with 100% redress and the families can actually know what's ahead of them in the years to come. Aman remains in Garda custody this morning after being arrested following an incident at a domestic dwelling near Bali Buffay. Garda were called to the residence yesterday afternoon and the man was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences. He is currently being detained at Letter Kenny Garda station. Hospitality groups will be challenged by their compliance with COVID rules when they meet government officials today. They've been asked to meet the Department of the T-Shock this afternoon following ES or iResearch. It find over a third of customers in restaurants and pubs aren't having their COVID search checked. But the Adrienne Cummins from the Restaurants Association says there's no grounds for closing the sector in the run-up to Christmas. It's vital that we keep the economy open fully and there is no going back as the politicians have said to us already. But we also need to protect public health at all times. We've always said that we would implement the COVID pass but we also need to find out at what percentage of the overall population that the COVID pass will be stood down. Is it at 100% of full vaccination? Is it at 99, 98? And finally, Donegal Bay's nomadic dairy has been sold in a 29 million year deal. Specialist Food Investment Group by Avest has partnered with Development Capital to acquire the company from Donegal Investment Group. Nomadic dairy currently employs 80 people in Kili Gordon supplying multiple products across the UK and Ireland. For weather now, patchy rain or drizzle will clear quickly this morning to leave a day of sunny spells and passing showers. I.S. temperatures off around 11 to 13 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, The Ninth and Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello. Good morning to you. Three minutes past nine on this Tuesday the 9th of November and I hope you're well. You're welcome along to another edition of The Ninth and Noon Show and it's a busy one as always. Three hours to keep you entertained, to keep you engaged, hopefully. How do you stay engaged with us? Will you text or WhatsApp the program? Even if you've never texted into a radio show before, it's just sharing your point of view with the tens of thousands of people listening to the show. 086 6025,000. 086 6025,000. If you want to give us a call, you do so by dialing 07491 25,000, Caroline taking your calls there. And your emails can be sent through to us at comments at HighlandRadio.com. And a very good morning and welcome along to those of you who are joining us on our social media where you can watch the program daily, check out our YouTube channel, Highland Radio Ireland. You can watch, like and subscribe there. And the same goes for our Facebook pages, forward slash Highland Hub or forward slash Highland Radio News and Sport. Chat away there too. Right, the papers this morning starting with all people's press and we'll start and end with a sports story, I suppose. It's a wonderful picture on the front of the paper that just captures emotion, isn't it? It's simple but so effective. The joy in the face of St. Union's captain, Niall O'Donnell, as he is embraced by supporter Brian Kelly, says it all. O'Donnell captured, oh sorry, captain of his team to a famous victory over the favourites, Neve Connell, in an intriguing Donegal Senior Football Championship final at Sean McCool Park in Balabafe on Sunday. It was the letter Kenny's club's first senior championship title since 2014 and it came just a week after the club's hurlers lifted their first senior canty title since 1972. St. Union has also captured the senior B and intermediate ladies' titles. The Derry Journal today, a in a shone-born priest says every family bereaved during the troubles must have access to an effective investigation and to a process of justice regardless of the perpetrator. Captain Michael Canney made his remarks during a 50th anniversary mass for a mother of six killed by the British Army in Derry in November 1971. Kathleen Thompson, just 47, was shot dead by a British soldier as she stood outside her home at Rathland Gardens. Onto the national newspapers now and the Irish Independent continues its coverage as to many of the papers for this shocking, brutal and intriguing story if the truth be told. The campaign of violence and intimidation targeted against Kevin Lonnie will not stop until the pay master behind the conspiracy is enmasked and brought to justice the co-director has warned. After the special criminal court convicted three Dublin men yesterday for the adduction and horrific torture of Mr Lonnie in September 2019, the focus now turns to the ongoing guard investigation to identify the individual who funded the attack, who is behind it all. This person is also suspected of being behind more sinister threats to the safety of directors at Quinn Industrial Holdings over the past year, which Guardi have described as credible. In an exclusive interview, Mr Lonnie's co-director John McCartney told the Irish Independent, the one question that remains to be answered is the identity of the person who paid them to abduct and torture Kevin and obviously no one involved in that is giving up the so-called pay master, are they? The Irish Times tells us that government officials will today warn the hospitality industry they must improve compliance with measures to prevent COVID-19 as cases of the virus across the country remain high. Representatives of pubs, restaurants and the live entertainment industry will be told the government wants maximum compliance with rules such as the requirement for these controversial vaccine passes. The meeting later today comes as the latest figures show that almost a third of pubs and restaurants inspected by the health service executive are still being found not to be fully compliant with COVID-19 regulations. A separate survey from the Economic and Social Research Institute showed the number of people not having their COVID passes checked in pubs has shot up from 21% to 37% for restaurants. 34% of those surveys did not have their COVID passes checked in October. I'm not sure if this accounts for any of the increase but I presume pubs and restaurants in their local community know from previous visits who isn't able to produce the documentation and if it's a regular customer are they asking them every time could that be skewing the statistics? I don't know. They're going to have a meeting later as you heard from major incomings there they want a date for the search to be scrapped all together it's a reasonable question what is the vaccinated threshold before they don't serve a purpose but that's not going to be on the government's gender short to medium term anyway you can be sure of that it won't even be discussed today I would doubt but we'll be discussing it a little bit further later on in the morning keep your or get in your comments on that 08 660 25000 what do you think about this if you got experience of this out and about it is something that comes up from time to time on this program but I just wonder if it's coming to a head hundreds of children's soccer matches have been cancelled next weekend due to a surging level of threats to referees I mean is it happening on a grand scale the scale that would require such action I wonder constant harassment from parents coaches and players has taken its toll on volunteer referees at two of Ireland's biggest underage soccer leagues the North Dublin School Boys League and the Metropolitan Girls League Tony Gaines honorary secretary of the NDSL MGL said in a statement this is a sad day for for all I've just been informed that all referees in the NDSL and MGL are withdrawing their services this weekend because of constant abuse and threatening behaviour from managers players coaches and supporters this weekend a female referee her first of three games was abused so badly from the time she entered the pitch that she decided she was not taking any more abuse she's now decided to give up refereeing entirely so are you maybe a former ref now this is focused in two specific areas but I'm presuming the problems on unique tonight in fact I know they're not because we've discussed it before in this program but are you someone who was a referee and simply packed it in because of the abuse you were getting are you a parent or guardian who goes to these games and you're concerned as to what you see on the sidelines 08 660 25000 get involved in that conversation 08 660 25000 or call Caroline 07 491 25000 and your communication with us is in absolute confidence of course as I hope you would appreciate the Sun today tells us that Justice Minister Helen Macintee well she's told how there have been times when she hasn't felt safe in her role as a politician the finna girl TD made the claims that the Association of God a sergeant and in specter is conference yesterday the AGSIs our voice for your future conference is being held in Kalarney Minister Macintee who was addressing her first AGSI conference vowed to address the issue of safety for Arland's politicians she made the claims after recent protests were held outside the home of Thomas Delioff Radkar and RT star Joe Duffy when asked if she felt safe the Justice Minister said the vast majority of the time yes have I felt certain situations where I haven't been yes but I think we need to be measured in our response that's what she says now on to the Irish there's a lot of people don't feel safe walk in the streets anywhere let alone you know regular citizens they don't feel safe it's not just politicians and that's not because of any certain elements it's because of a society societal issue it's always been the case it's nothing to do with what we're going through at the moment and others feel that you know if they report something it's not followed up as well as it should so to say you know maybe it's for an overhaul right the Irish Daily star or like I mean this is what I'm and Ryan got a second test to go and say you know you've got the COP26 is ongoing in Glasgow right apparently it's all about it's all about saving this planet it's our last roll of the dice but the oil and gas giants are there in their droves they have more people at COP26 and the largest country delegation according to analysis of the UN provisional list of attendees so this is like you know if the risk is the same this is like representatives of the smoking industry attending a HSE conference isn't it and lobbying there that's how it feels if the threat is as real as most of us accept or the stone though that's why I'm choosing my language so I am the research carried out by the corporate accountability corporate European observatory Glasgow calls out polluters and global witness what a name found at least 503 fossil fuel lobbyists have been able to exert their influence at the climate summit that's more than the combined number of delegates from the eight countries worst affected by climate change in the past 20 years Puerto Rico, Myanmar, Haiti, Philippines, Mozambique, Bahamas, Bangladesh and Pakistan and around twice as many as the UN FCC sees official indigenous constituency a total of 27 countries including Canada, Russia and Brazil also registered fossil fuel lobbyists as part of the official delegations are they taking the hand of us I wonder sometimes it feels like that and finally in sports the back page of the mirror today Rio Ferdinand believes Manchester United must axe a leg on a soul shower Ferdinand is the first old Trafford legend and pundit to speak out against his former teammate and warned the baton should be handed to a new manager but who the former England defender talking on the vibe with five YouTube show thinks the time has come for the club to act he pray soul shower for what he has done in his three years in charge but does not believe he can take United forward forward Ferdinand said the biggest thing for me is I don't see a philosophy I don't see an identity when I go and see my team and they get beat that's fine it happens but I want to see what they're about and a lot of the commentary coming from obviously players with Manchester United during the glory years harping back to a very different era I presume but what do you think are you a Manchester United fan or not do you want Ollie at the wheel it's more opposition fans chanting that now it seems 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seventeen delighted to welcome on to the frocum tag caden thanks for joining us tight hi Greg I'm all right I'm all right right now you are studying at Laticanny Institute of Technology how's the course going for you so far studying quantity surveying yeah it's going pretty well thanks about this is my week six or week seven and another six odd weeks before the Christmas break and it's going pretty well so far thanks now you will be glad for the Christmas break because you are clocking up the miles aren't you yeah definitely I'm definitely looking forward to the Christmas break just to get off the road away but because we've been talking before this this academic year started about the difficulty in getting accommodation in letter Kenny hundreds of students have missed out there's a few options if you do there is the not go there is the try and find a different course maybe that suits better which is not ideal at all and your option which is is commuting right so can you describe your your typical day for us tight like what time does the alarm go off at for example typically like ideally I'd get up at five o'clock and get up do my bits around the house and prep all my food for the day and get that packed away into the car and mature have all my assignments and stuff for college in the car actually forgotten us and as long as if you can turn back halfway up the road and just kind of get back and grab a book but and yeah generally then leave the house at about seven o'clock and say these days now this morning now left at seven and thankfully like it only took me an hour and a half to get up the road but say then yes to the morning and got up to same time left the same time and took me about two hours and 15 minutes to get up left at seven and arrived at quarter past nine and one element of this which which you're somewhat lucky and although you're probably driving the the lifting daylights out of your vehicle is your able you have a car and are able to run it I just wonder what would be the situation if you didn't have a vehicle how would you get from Sligo to Lyte on a daily basis I wonder I wouldn't be able to there's there's just no way really and people are mentioning like public transport to me and stuff but like it's just too unreliable and it'll be a lot slower as well like but no like you said like thankfully I'm able to communicate and I know there's other people in colleges that don't have that kind of luxury I suppose yeah and it's a luxury but it's a very expensive luxury and I'm presumed it's draining all of your resources it's it's pretty draining all right but like um to be fair like I actually clearly think I probably just be able to go to college I can all an awful lot of people there in that position and so try and look at it that way yeah perfectly right so um you get to college stand about nine o'clock go through the course of your day and then head back up the road at what time um generally like lectures start in the morning at half nine and I'd be on campus Monday to Thursday and say then my last lecture is to finish at half five in the evening so um half five I try and run out to the care the care part as quick as I can because um getting out later can even be a bit of a struggle like just some days even getting off campus getting out on the poor road can be an absolute nightmare and then you're also sort of in your head figuring well what stage would you be hitting balibuffet from all or two which can take an awful long time to get through balibuffet is an absolute nightmare for me in the evening and uh like just that junction there before uh mclays yeah yeah you can turn left to convoy or right to balibuffet all right no sorry kill Ross yeah you're going further back yeah that's yeah but uh like that in the evenings they're like pushing on the stairs you can see the traffic and uh it's literally a few miles long the queue traffic and you're crawling in first gear for a couple of you 20 minutes half an hour like and then you get into balibuffet and it's just a bottleneck and you're held up there for how long as well yeah exactly and then obviously you know I mean you've got your your your work that you're doing on site but I mean you're talking maybe getting home seven seven thirty something like that maybe eight even depending on what way the traffic is what about studying then and and the stuff that you have to do sort of at home that where do you fit the time in for that it it does be pretty much last minutes kind of for most things and yeah like in the evenings like I should ideally be doing coursework and college work basically but like at home it could be anywhere between half seven to half eight like I think half eight was the latest when we're gotten back and literally it's case getting in the door coronation spree plus one and the block side I wish but uh I want I mean plus one hour by the way um so in in terms of of when you when you signed up for LWIT is the problem a lack of accommodation or is there accommodation but it's very expensive and you'll balance in the box to see what the situation is what has been your experience there I think like it's very difficult to put your finger on one thing like I think there's so many different variables that keep changing kind of constantly either between supply like from land or to the college and then demand from students and then as well like I think like I don't know like any efficient numbers but like I think just what I've heard on campus that like last year from obviously being in lockdown like some students I think put off going to college because they weren't going to be on campus which is then they deferred for a year and so this year just seems to be really really high demand and supply doesn't really matter and then of course like you have the whole micro situation up here as well and like like I said like I don't know especially what I've heard but like some families like I had to move into some of the student accommodation as well so obviously that eats away at some of the supply and were you able to like was there anything available to you and you just thought well I mean it would be cheaper for me to do the commute it is cheaper when you look at it like and as tough as it is the whole drive and like could be like two hours each way like it does work out that bit cheaper like and it's just tough then like say if you were to sign police then for the accommodation like and then who knows we could go back into lockdown we could all be doing it online like and then you're stuck paying rent and you're not even there like so there's that uncertainty there as well and also to no no I get you it's a real life and also you know I think a significant part of this story is is that especially for us in on the west coast or in rural Ireland is public transport is not an option really you know it's not an option so we your burning diesel a petrol up and down the road even if you said you know what I need to do my bit and hop on the public transport here if the truth be told there is not a consistent reliable public transport service that could that would fit your needs like that budget there if you explore it didn't do me any favor either like and I think you get the whole need to decarbonize and use more public transport and stop burning buses but in the west of Ireland like you said like it's completely forgotten about really like it's not as if we're in a big city here there is loads of public transport options like it just doesn't exist what is the situation around Sligo it is there similar problems in Sligo or if they got more accommodation available I wonder just in case you're speaking to friends or your your peer group I've heard that not it is fairly similar issues as well like it's not just Dunny Gull or any like it's a whole lot of I don't know any official numbers but that yeah they're facing fairly similar issues with their students and accommodations yep so every time maybe the car tax goes up or the the price of petrol or diesel goes up it becomes more expensive for you to go to college when is there a tipping point is there a breaking point for you or do you think you'll be able to cope I'm trying not to think about that so much just keep on like just keep doing it like it and it's not forever like and so just keep getting through and just keep plugging away at it like just stay at a time I know the way I take it like you can't be thinking too far ahead into the future because just stress it out no no this in this in this world and anyway all right listen I know you've got lectures at half nine thanks for your insight into it you're important to it you're only just one person I don't think you've got the longest commute by any stretch but it's an awful burden on on on you in the pocket and also you know the amount of time you can dedicate to the important work of study but thank you for your insight today no problem no problem okay what do you think about that a 270 kilometer daily trip to college that is not untypical is that a word or it's not atypical it's not it's not unique anyone doing longer that's a 270 kilometer round trip four days a week because there's simply not affordable accommodation available in letter can I get involved in that chat 08 6 60 25 000 08 6 60 25 000 or call 07 4 9 1 25 000 this texture says maybe this topics have been discussed before my wife and daughter tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday they have to isolate and take all necessary precautions which they are doing they have also been told that if they get tested again within 12 months that it will show positive how can Aiman Ryan be positive one day negative the next how can we as a people be so blind and stupid to keep these people running our country well I'm not disputing what's in your text I'm just putting out what we're being told and off the back of previous interviews in terms of the testing I've been told that the testing can actually tell the difference between old cases and new cases that that's you know that when the swab data and then they validate the tests that they can differentiate between the two secondly Aiman Ryan the story there is that his first test had problems they were concerned that it just wasn't quite as positive as a positive test should be and it were they not he this is what they're saying to us it was they that said we better go at this again now I'm not sure if that's because he's a minister I suspect it might be but that's what they're saying so it was inconclusive or there were red flags to suggest it might not be it might not be positive but it's still like as I said yesterday on on social media I just cannot believe that no one in government and they've got an awful lot of politicians generally but also people that are paid to advise them I can't understand how they didn't know or did not figure out that he should have just take the positive and missed COP 26 because 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the budget workshop a number of weeks ago and I'm very very disappointed to the fact that there's been nothing included for the funding of providing an application for a foreshore license for this project this year and that's an important element of this isn't it because we're not looking at funding for the entire project this is some funding to keep the project active to keep it moving forward yeah that's correct I suppose like I said in your show before and there was fundraising and an allocation for movers in the guilty in the past that was able to make an application the council led that application and it failed due to the lack of correspondence to the department from the council so just I suppose it was very disappointing to the committee when that happened I was optimistic that the council would step up to the mark and come up with the funding to be able to carry out a new application because in fact that there was no calls to the committee that the other one had called between two stills so again as I said there's nothing there's nothing on the budget there's nothing set aside for the type of these projects that needs a small bit of funding to be able to sit and shovel ready for the good to draw down the bank to carry out the works well these are the type of the projects or the not that that were being sold lpt on isn't it that you know that these not no one's ever said this would specifically benefit from the local property tax but this is the the notion that you know this is that money is used to keep these type of keep these type of projects moving forward because it's not just for the people of dining so of course this would be presumably seen as a major you know tourism attraction yeah to be a massive tourist attraction and as well as that I suppose for people disabled bodies as well people that are going down to the beach and stuff like that it's very difficult for them I know we have a beach wheelchair and stuff like that but I think the problem would be a great thing linking the pier up to the entrance of the beach and then also you can continue that right around then so you put all the way around you could link the two beaches over to Tramore as well onto the Trannabout as well and you know it'd be a big boost for tourism it'd be a big boost for the people of Downington as well as that for the people that come from Northern Ireland and Florida are filled to to their holiday homes and their their caravans and stuff there in the summer you know so it's just pointing to think that the council's not listening to the calls that they're not acting on the good hard work that was made by the committee and the hard efforts you know to come in and now trying to finish the job off and and make good what was done wrong in relation to the last application so what kind of money would be required in 2021 to progress this well today 2021 2022 you'll be chatting 2020 you'll be chatting somewhere in the region of about 20 to 25,000 that's what the last estimated cost was so it's a very small chunk of change in the grand scheme of things and as I suppose what I would say to you and to the people of Downington to the whole lot of financial aid that I certainly won't be sitting back on us and I'm not going to be taking no for an answer and I'll be going the day to the council meeting again today to make order calls that the council needs to resurrect these funds from somewhere because it's not fair on the hard work and efforts of the committee and the people of Downington and trying to get this project moving forward and as well just Greg you know like the long and short it is here there's massive amounts of money has been spent on consultants and there's been designs and costs and stone way back prior to my time going on to council and I always said that when I was being asked with this there was other elected members that worked on this in the past you know and with the recession coming and then it got shelved and I think now that you know it's a good time there's there seems to be money coming now that never was available before for these tourism initiatives and projects like this and I think that you know we would be really really really sure that the wheel of we must this opportunity and I certainly wouldn't be letting go it's disappointing to think that it's not included in the budget but again as I said I'll be looking for it to be included for some of the funds come out of today at the council meeting but if you were told look we can't do it this year but we'll certainly give it a very good hearing next year would that satisfy you no it wouldn't be a great the reason it wasn't there's for some reason is look the reason I was optimistic the last time was because we were put you know everything's put in the long finger and no I just I don't believe that it would be addressed next year I think that we need to get the offshore license applied for because this is something that doesn't happen overnight these four relations just take time there's a lot of work to be put into them and I know that the council the last thing said as well that they were they had a extra amount of resources and they were all constant in other projects but they shouldn't have took on the job of applying for the four show relations and availing of the funding that they didn't think they could deliver on it you know would you support this budget if money for Dallings this Dallings project is not in it no to be honest with you Greg that's what I'll be doing today is I'll be speaking to the director of services and because I'm doing a lot of serious pressure as well by my constituents and I can't blame them they're completely disgusted to the fact that this is not going ahead for a four show relations application so if it's a case that there's no commitment for the four show relations application I would find it impossible to support a budget so would you abstain or vote against it no I would vote against it I don't believe in abstaining anything Greg you know me I'm either I'm either what's something or against something that I don't abstain I would rather make my feelings be known I don't think abstaining anything's really shares much purpose I don't know if you agree with me or not but I think you're out here you're out here on the road yeah get off the fence all right listen thanks for that we'll we'll chase it up see what if anything further comes from it today thanks for joining us this morning thanks Greg I take care cancer John O'Donnell there a texture said when games become threatening then it's no longer a game this is on the conversation as it relates to the abuse referees get at some underage amateur sporting events down in Dublin a couple of leagues are not going to go ahead this weekend because of strikes I believe it's Dublin only but this call us as when games become threatening then it's no longer a game there should be a private committee board that investigates referees decisions if there is a complaint this will help sort out trouble peacefully yeah it goes on all the time doesn't it I mean I think we've all seen coaches mums or dads or managers get on the pitch haven't we you know and often a referee doesn't have we certainly doesn't have VAR but doesn't necessarily have all the eyes professionalize on lines and to be up close to the action necessarily to save a call is 100% right a caller says hello I witnessed at my son's under 16s match coaches from a team giving a referee abuse about how long a match is and in front of players and adults the players on the pitch telling the coaches to be quiet to get the game going again the coaches should know better would you please give Christmas toy appeal a mention on your show it's for disadvantaged children here in Donagall it's a very good cause and a great opportunity for people to give new toys only contact unit of any battle buffet I have his number here 087 768 407 3 if you need that getting contact 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eastwards quickly this morning to leave a day of sunny spells and passing showers these mainly in atlantic coastal areas highest temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees in mostly moderate southwest breezes now we've had quite a bit of contact as it relates to booster vaccinations so to get more information on this and to give those people interested that information we're joined on the program now by dr anthony brezen director of public health with hsc west good morning to you anthony thanks very much for taking the call today right so where are we at i suppose the question is who will be getting this third uh or second i suppose we'll just call it the booster who'll be getting this booster vaccine now well obviously um started with uh the people over 80 uh then people with um uh underlying health conditions and then the over 60s so and then obviously from last week as well and um front-end healthcare staff so that that's being offered the booster some already have us um some are getting us with the flu vaccine if they're entitled to that some got the flu vaccine first and the booster next are in the vice versa but um there's no problem getting the um the two vaccines together um and uh even if you got a different vaccine the first time so there's no problem getting the uh the Pfizer vaccine this time will anyone be turning up uh seeking it or is this by appointment only or will they be contacted or if they're in a certain age demographic when they're in getting their flu vaccine how will that work if they're due to get the vaccine from the gp they arrange that with the gp and the gp that mostly are are contacting people to arrange that um and obviously sorting out what what suits uh if it's otherwise uh outside the gp it's by its by appointment so they'd be contacted to uh say um the text or whatever phone call whatever they got us to say your junior your booster vaccine right so this is to do with the database then whenever they got the second text saying you do your second vaccine or your appointment's ready for your first it's going to be in the same thread saying your third one is is due now at least six months after the after the first one right okay uh in terms of you know it might not sue people and in particular time maybe they're away what is the procedure for um sort of saying i couldn't do the exact details well i have it here i actually have it here i'll read it out if that's okay sorry that's a firehead not at all not at all okay if you cannot attend your appointment and you need to reschedule it you can reply to the text message with the word new and then the hsc will issue with another appointment or you can contact hsc live on one 800 700 700 that's to anyone who got called for the booster vaccine but the appointment time doesn't suit them 1800 700 700 or reply the word uh with the word new now what vaccine will people be getting uh mostly the uh the Pfizer uh some uh the Moderna which is the one dose vaccine sort of a uh half a dose of that but that was a one one dose vaccine um but it's shown that the the mrna vaccine the Moderna and the uh the Pfizer uh provides better immunity and uh long-term immunity so that's why it's being given when we talk about immunity what is the vaccine protecting us with or from now because generally i think it's it's broadly accepted particularly with the Delta variants that uh fully vaccinated uh can catch covid and they can pass it on so when the Pfizer okay what the vaccine does is it stops you getting very ill it may allow you to get infected and a mild infection but it does stop you uh getting very very ill and and even if you are vaccinated and do get a mild infection you have the active infection for a much shorter period of time therefore you're you spread less of the virus to other people so if you have john smith and john jones and john jones's vaccine john smith isn't they both get sick on the same day john smith uh who's vaccinated uh will have a shorter course of illness will spread less of the virus john jones who isn't vaccinated will be ill for longer and will spread more of the virus so that's the reason uh it's the booster's been given for two reasons to make sure you don't get ill to make sure if you do get in your ill for a shorter period and that's thirdly uh for the rest of the public that you don't spread as much of the virus around um now obviously i presume you like the rest of us are only reading some reports because maybe there isn't much information out there or maybe i'm wrong how encouraged were you by uh the announcement of this pill that seems to be very effective at reducing hospitalization and death very late i mean that's that's too late i'd rather you don't get sicker to go get the virus in the first place yeah it's like uh having a great operation to fix your broken leg i don't want you to break your leg in the first place and that's that's uh it's good that people who do get very sick at a hospital there might be treatment there lovely but i'd rather you didn't get sick in the first place prevent you about it i'm curious what you're saying it's very much so very much so a lot of conversation um much of it anecdotal um as it relates to injury or or reaction to vaccines we're well it through uh the vaccination program now you're the director of public health with hsc west are you hearing of uh many serious um reactions to to vaccines no no no not at all many people do get minor uh reactions so again my red arm something would be fatigued after us that's fairly common but that can be common after lots of vaccines but nothing substantial okay why are we favoring now the mRNA vaccine say for instance over the likes of astrazeneca which many people they give they give a better immune response for some reason i don't know the full technical dealers but whatever the way they make them up the vaccine it gives a much better response better immunity uh and longer lasting immunity than the other vaccine um we talked about the some sorry there are some studies which suggests mixing the vaccine can offer better immunity should anyone who's had Pfizer one and two and are offered Pfizer three should they in any way feel that they're not getting the same protection is no no no no they they uh the Pfizer if they had the Pfizer before they get these the Pfizer if you're offered us they won't be offered the other vaccines the book's trying to have right let's talk about the epidemiological situation um i mean we aren't top of the table uh like we were for some time ago but we're still uh you know on the top in the top half of the table uh it seems the last um week or so we are seeing cases climb again in in donningall what is the situation where are these cases uh coming from are they in are they in schools are they coming from socializing what do we know okay we're not seeing much in schools thankfully uh we're seeing cases but we're not seeing any big problems we're not we're seeing cases in nursing homes there was the denture facilities community hospitals but nothing we're worried about and can i ask just about that one if that's all right doctor are are are are people staying in or living in in um nursing homes are they getting good protection from from the vaccine like when we talk they are they are because we're not seeing as many cases as last year uh and obviously that is down to the vaccine but also good effective control but where we do see cases they're not spreading and when we do see cases thankfully the vast majority of people are not getting as in as last year as it relates to hospitals we want to say that much lower much lower than than than last year and do we have an idea of the vaccinated vaccination status i mean obviously we can't compromise anyone's private medical situation but between the two hospitals slag or in letter kenny you're probably looking at about 28 infectious cases about three in icu are we seeing any trends as it relates to the level of vaccination in that cohort all i'd say is that we're seeing what mirror what's mirroring the national picture is that the vast unfortunately the majority people in hospital um are on vaccinations as are the majority people in icu we are seeing a couple of people in icu in hospital who are vaccinated but it's much smaller compared to people who are not vaccinated and the unvaccinated group is eight percent of the adult population and the vaccinated is is 92 percent so it's 50 50 the eight percent is is providing a disproportionate amount of hospitalizations is that what you're saying yes it is so where are cases spreading and is it really about where they're spreading or is it more a case that we are a bit more laxidasey in that we're triaging ourselves saying it's just the sniffles it's something else is that the the biggest problem rather than places actually being open we're seeing um uh in the community household cases and there's work and things like that rossing lots of cases associated with social events weddings uh football matches hen parties birthday parties stag dues etc and it would appear that people um are um are and then spreading it around so that's that's why you're hearing the adverts from is it anti me say thank you and not turning up to my party yeah um i'm a bit indifferent on those but i understand the message uh i understand the message they're trying to relate but yeah i see what you're saying uh a call or i say kidney infection is it safe to get the vaccine with this being the case uh it depends on severe that is so you have talk through gp it's mild it's severe but talk to the gp first and see what what the gp says another caller believes there's lots of people with joint pain after getting the vaccine and still suffering six months later i haven't heard that okay um what about people who had the vaccine got the two vaccines and was okay spent two weeks in hospital after getting the third fighting an infection in her organs what's your opinion on that i'm couldn't say nothing about that because i need i need other details about stories about okay uh right all right thanks for the update i appreciate it sorry one second my wife is positive for covid unvaccinated and have no symptoms i've been told to continue to work and oh there are people in my place of work not vaccinated what do i do my wife is positive for covid unvaccinated and have no symptoms but there so the person is vaccinated and has no symptoms symptoms okay um they continue to uh to work as long as they obviously practice the distancing and face covering um because um even if god forbid they are sort of incubating it uh they won't be spreading a lot of virus so the the basis that's what i always said the basics of the distances and the face covering uh stop the spread of the virus um and that's that's what we've seen um uh all the time okay so uh that will protect others i mean dr anthony brezzan thank you very much indeed for joining us back after the 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and on the highland radio app this is highland radio news good morning it's just gone 10 o'clock donal kavana at the highland radio news desk the public expenditure minister says any premises which isn't complying with covid 19 rules does not deserve to stay open research by the esri shows a third of customers in restaurants and pubs aren't having their covid certs checked government officials will meet with hospitality sector representatives this afternoon to reiterate that the rules must be complied with minister michael McGrath says the government will take action if things don't improve we do expect the minority of operators that aren't complying to fully comply with the rules it's in all of our interest that they do and if they don't then there are penalties the government will act and the authorities will act and certainly any premises that is not complying with the rules does not deserve to remain open the government is being urged to stop leaking trial balloons in connection with the mica redress scheme details of a so-called enhanced scheme where to have been published today but it's now been delayed as further adjustments are carried out it's after speculation that a cap of 350 000 euro would be included in the scheme which in turn would have excluded around 40 percent of mica affected householders according to the mica action group donal gald every thomas pringle says those affected have waited long enough and the government should stop leaking and sort the situation out for once and for all and that's just not good enough and it's not it's not on for the maker families because i mean this is a very serious issue and the government needs to treat it as such and needs to stop this ongoing delay and and actually come out and but once and for all a scheme in place that that's what deals with 100 percent redress and the families can actually know what's what's ahead of them in the years to come the man remains in garthic custody this morning after being arrested following an incident at a domestic dwelling near balaba fe garthi were called to the residence yesterday afternoon the man was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences he's currently being detained at letter kenny garther station a student attending letter kenny institute of technology has been forced to undertake a 270 kilometer round trip four days a week because of a lack of student accommodation in letter kenny thai cuddin a quantity surveying student leaves his home in slago each morning at seven and some evenings doesn't return until half past eight he says availing of public transport is not an option as it's too unreliable on today's nine till noon show thai said demand is outweighing accommodation supply in letter kenny it's very difficult to put your finger on one thing i think there's so many different variables that keep changing between supply from land or to the college and then demand from students then as well like i think i don't know like any official numbers but like just what i've heard on campus that like last year from obviously being in lockdown like some students put off going to college because they weren't going to be on campus and so this year just seems to be really really high demand at donningall county council is being urged to include a sum of money in next year's budget to progress plans for a promenade in donnings the issue is to be raised as a letter kenny milford municipal district meeting this afternoon by councillor john o'Donnell who says between 20 and 25 000 euro was needed to progress a four shore license application in the next 12 months he says a local committee made a previous funding application but it failed partly because there wasn't sufficient input from council councillor donnell says a prom would serve the tourism sector but also helped people with disabilities the mass tourist attraction and as well as that for people disabled and down to the beach and stuff that is very difficult for them i know we have a beach wheelchair but i think the promenade would be a great thing linking the pier up to the entrance of the beach and then also you can continue that right around then so you put all the way around you could link the two beaches over to tremor as well onto the trannabout that's disappointing to think that the council's not listening to the calls and i'll be going the day to the council meeting to make further calls the council needs to resurrect these funds from somewhere and dunningall company nomadic dairy has been sold in a 29 million euro deal specialist food investment group b of s has partnered with development capital to acquire the company from the dunningall investment group with more here's mckayla clark nomadic dairy currently employs 80 people in killy gordon supplying multiple products across the uk and arland by a vest will hold a 54 percent stake and development capital of 46 percent share in the company established in 1998 nomadic dairy has grown its revenue 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temperatures tonight three to seven degrees celsius in patches of mist and fog tomorrow wednesday will be mostly dry with mist and fog slowing to clear from some areas a mix of cloud and bright spells with generally light variable breezes maximum temperatures tomorrow 10 to 12 that's island radio news we're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock good morning the obituary notice is for this tuesday morning november the 9th the death has taken place of jama dowry isle of doe clombani and formerly of woodside current donna funeral leaving the eternal light chapel brass mount and top leisure kenny this morning at 11 o'clock going to her late residence in the isle of doe via current donna cremation will take place on thursday afternoon in lecland's at crematorium cavern at three o'clock the death has taken place of david farrent green bank quick lease point his remains will be reposing at his home from four o'clock this afternoon funeral on wednesday in sim patrick's church ischegin at 12 noon while by burial in the adjoining graveyard the death has occurred of martin griffin nine silverwood dunigull road stern roller martin's remains are reposing at his daughter donna's home 36 glib hollow stern roller funeral from there tomorrow morning at half past 10 for recreation mass at 11 o'clock in the church of mary and macklitt stern roller while by internment in drumbo cemetery the mask can be viewed via the parish webcam on church services dot tv the death has taken place in chicago of antony mclochland hamish formerly of dromna ski malinhead funeral will take place tomorrow in chicago the death has taken place of betty graham devlin moore carry guard her remains are reposing at her late residence funeral from there this afternoon after private family service in her home at quarter past 12 going to carry guard presbyterian church for burial service at one o'clock with internment immediately afterwards in the family burial ground the service will be broadcast live on the carry guard presbyterian church facebook page at one o'clock wake and funeral are private to family and friends only place the death has occurred of margaret bar 540 grove conages moth removal this afternoon at one o'clock to the sacred heart church moth for recreation mass at half past one while by internment in the adjoining cemetery margaret's recreation mass can be viewed on mcn media moth wake is strictly private to family and friends only family flowers only donations in lay of desire to bunkrannock community hospital patients comfort fund care of any family member or murphy funeral directors the death has occurred of rosella rosie sheeran nae mcloughlin eight call hill park newton conningham and formerly glingard mallan her remains are reposing at her home recreation mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in all sins church newton conningham while by internment in the adjoining cemetery recreation mass can be viewed on church services dot tv family time please from 11 p.m until 12 noon the death has occurred of jackie brazlin number three glen view our draw and formerly of stravalli funeral mass today at 12 noon in the church of the holy family our draw with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of harry leo dowry bridge and his remains are reposing at his home recreation mass this morning at 11 o'clock in our lady of lurch church inch while by internment in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of humick david 98 rd mcloughlin and formerly from comrick clohen huge remains are opposing at his home recreation mass at 11 o'clock this morning in the church of mary mcloughlin with internment afterwards in drumbo cemetery recreation mass will be streamed live on church services dot tv the death has occurred of noreen begley moth and formerly of letcher mack award her remains are opposing in her sister cathleen west's house in letcher mack award funeral mass today in some bridget church letcher mack award at 12 noon with internment afterwards in the new cemetery and the death has taken place of jewell mc elcher nate crofford ballie last livered and formerly of grotto house at port hall funeral leaving her home this afternoon at 20 past 12 for recreation mass in simpatrick's church murlock lifford at one o'clock internment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery donations and layer of flowers pleased to icu colby university hospital care of quickly funeral directors the recreation mass can be viewed on clonley parish dot com for more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals please go to hindland radio dot com if you're aged 70 or over you will soon be offered a covet 19 vaccine booster dose this is because cases are starting to increase in this age group your booster dose will give you the best possible protection against serious illness from covet 19 you should get it around six months after your last covet 19 vaccine your gp will contact you in its time for your vaccine for more information visit hsc dot ie or call hsc live on 1800 700 700 from the hsc and you're very welcome back to the program onto some of your comments now i'm sorry doctor but my grandson is long covet now and good few of his friends are off with covet as well they are secondary uh school and my friends young children has it too they go to national school so it is in the schools says that listener hi not seeing covet cases in schools as they're not telling or testing students my daughter is a close contact and wasn't contacted by the hsc or school only for the child told her it's a joke no wonder cases are hind spreading but that same child if mom would add a brother or sister in the house had coveted would be classed as a close contact will that case end up being counted as a household case as opposed to a school case uh those who got johnson vaccine can you ask the doctor what booster will they get please it's the uh visor or modern it's the same it doesn't matter what you got uh the covet vaccine passport is not being enforced in restaurants or pubs or hotels say it's a texture some of them i suppose uh more of your comments here um i had my booster on october 29th and flew vaccine the same day awful fever today uh it's the first day i feel a bit better still a bit wobbly uh no bad effects from first two vaccines two different nurses that comes in from mary who's over 70 another caller says unvaccinated to blame again tell greg to ask some of the nurses in icu to see the proper of vaccinated in icu oh that's right we aren't allowed to speak but he can go to your radio station say that he what he likes and no questions i don't know if this person is claiming to be an icu nurse um there's three people in icu at the moment to um four in total across the northwest maybe you if you if you are the given the impression you are an icu nurse um give us more details well we can't really good i take your point but listen the statistics what he was referring to is that 52 percent of people in icu currently um as of last um a couple of days ago were not vaccinated so 48 percent were vaccinated fully vaccinated and the argument they put across is is that um the argument they put across is is that you know it's eight percent of the population is providing for half of the occupancy of icu 92 percent of the population providing the other half and that that's the the figures that they release uh one law for the irish government not the same for me and you i do know people that did say they did not believe in covid 19 and will not get the job the owners of bars know this and are letting them in and tell the owner they got the job without showing the covid 19 job uh greg what is it with some people throughout the pandemic i've noticed religious devotees trying used masks tying used masks to branches of trees adjacent to holy wells um another i tested positive don a test at home 23 days later days later and was negative no symptoms at any time government tested almost two weeks from initial test and it was negative all right thank you for that um hi the government are having a meeting today with hospitality re covid search i'm curious to know what the guidelines are for nightclubs holding teenage discos anything i've read says the same rules apply they must be vaccinated however i know if one nightclub is advertising as kids don't need vaccine i'm not familiar with this and i know my parents will say sure they're all together in school the difference being they're wearing masks and distancing in schools are they routinely the nightclub industry was in contact with government as it relates to underaged discos or nightclubs i don't know what the outcome of that was another call says a min ryan is a great advocate for a vegetarian diet when he can recover from covid in one day you asked about a min ryan's test i think you are correct this has done more damage to confidence in the testing procedures in arland um he should have missed cop again it's one rule for the government elite and another for the ordinary people a total disgrace again he also did look clearly sick it is like it feels a little bit like you know a teenager that will do anything to get to some event or whatever uh that they really really want to go when they don't want to miss out um uh would staying in balaba fail one of the outlying towns be an option if you have a car and you can drive it would cut the commute time okay i actually didn't even think of that to put that question too tight it's an interesting um proposition all right right okay um more of you comes to come just want to let you know that we have our mega car draw running at the moment it's an association with our friends at i motors they're in uh malon and drum keen of course and uh between us we have put together a 28 000 euro plus white petrol kia exceed you can win it for just a tenor um if you want uh to get involved with one ticket you can buy six tickets for 50 or 10 for 80 and um you 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shows that a vaccinated person that this this is a peer reviewed studied don't come at me i'm just relating it to you it's on the it's been widely reported on um that someone who's vaccinated might end up with the same viral load but they have it for less long and that's what they're saying and in general society um they tend to pass it on less that's what they're saying but anyway this quarter says how is that the case when vaccinated people are not tested when they have symptoms and don't have to isolate then went uh when unvaccinated are tested and do have to isolate scientific data and vaccine manufacturers all state that vaccinated people carry the same initial virus load as unvaccinated and as they are therefore just as likely to spread the virus now the person who wrote that report um actually stated that that's not the case that was one person's interpretation of it that was widely spread but they're saying that that is not the case um but then they go on to say that logic suggests that the vaccinated being allowed to roam free while infected pose more risk to the public than unvaccinated who have to isolate okay right 086 60 25 000 that's the text of whatsapp line 086 60 25 000 are called 07491 25 000 it is Tuesday which means it's time for the community garter slot and we're joined in studio today by garter nal maguire good morning to you thank you very much for joining us good morning greg right okay let's start off with appeals for information and burglary at ordinary letter kenny don't have much good news for you this week greg we have quite a lot of burglary's in the dunnigal division unfortunately uh so i just want to make a few appeals for information in relation to these and hopefully some people might be able to give us a hand and solve on these so the first one we're looking at is locally here in letter kenny the guard here investigating a burglary that occurred in ordinary long lane between sunday the 7th of november at 11 p.m and monday morning uh uh the 8th the rear door to a house was forced open an entry was gained the house was gone through and ransacked a number of items were taken namely a sony karaoke machine a michael kors watch a sorted jewellery a black and white a lease jacket a light red raincoat and a black or sorry a blue puma backpack so we are appealing to anybody who may have observed anything suspicious in that area in uh ordinary long lane on the 7th of november between 11 p.m and the following morning the 8th monday the 8th please contact the garage letter kenny on 0 7 4 9 1 6 7 100 or indeed the guard of confidential line at 1 800 travel 6 travel 1 and let it kind of go out to you also investigation a burglary at solomon's manor yeah this one occurred um the previous choose to the 2nd of november at 11 a between 11 a.m and wednesday the 3rd of november at 11 a.m in the area of solomon's manor letter kenny a rear window to the property was forced open and entry was gained the house had obviously been gone through and a large television was stolen from the property it's believed that the exit from the property was via the front door as it was then found unlocked we're hoping that maybe other residents in the solomon's manor area may have there observed something that can assist in our enquiries again the garden that are kenny are looking after that 9 1 6 7 100 and um what we're seeing i'm not saying it's it's new but you know in in previous years going for sort of cash jewelry um bulky items being targeted here as well now in this in these two instances we're talking about so more difficult to transport or presume more likely one would hope that someone saw something you know if people are shifting a tv or or some of the other gear that you're talking about it should stand out more yeah yeah um i'm not sure why this is but yes you're right greg years ago it was strange for sort of big items to be taken as very rare indeed but now we've had several burglaries recently where televisions have been taken so i'm not sure why it was behind that all right um our colleagues down in balai shannon too they're appealing for information relating to burglaries yeah unfortunately the balai shannon has been hit badly this last week uh the first one is in st joseph avenue dunigall town a house was broken into on saturday the 6th of november between 7 p.m and 11 50 p.m the back door of the property was forced open in order to gain entry and a sum of cash and a small amount of jewelry and clothing was stolen from the property and then on thursday the 4th of november a house was burgled between 3 p.m and 9 45 p.m at balai ur lane balai shannon again uh unfortunately a lot of these burglaries greg there's a forced entry it's not just maybe an open window or door it's there a lot of them's been actually physically broken into a window to the rear this property was forced open and a sum of cash and quantity of jewelry was stolen from the property and again i'm supposed the people are out not just the the stuff that's stolen but they now have a broken window to fix uh third one i've already took place at strachhammer view bandorn between the sunday the 31st of october and friday the 5th of november the back window of the house was forced open and the house was rummaged through but thank god nothing was found or taken that we know of then three houses were burgled and it called the sack in the area of glen coe mount charles on the evening of saturday november the 6th we think between 5 p.m and 8 p.m uh doors and windows on each of these houses were forced open in the property to gain entry uh damage was caused to force uh entry and and cash was taken in one of these houses so again you know there's a similar um mo here a similar um pattern that a lot of these houses are being forced you know the windows and doors are being broken open so you know this would obviously create a bit of noise so hopefully somebody may have heard something or seen a card or something or took a number or something they can let us know yeah and and it's it's very much in everyone's interest to keep an eye out here because they're all over the place particularly in the south of the canty as you say similar mo i'm not connecting them uh but you know it's back to and we'll probably talk about the advice you know windows that are hard to tamper with double doors you know with the old style locks um and maybe people need to be thinking on as well as keeping an eye out on each other thinking on in terms of uh alarms that are uh monitoring doors and windows exactly Greg yeah you know it's the serious thing your house been broken into and it's like a lot of things we come across day to day in the guards um people were meeting didn't think it was going to happen to them but unfortunately it does uh if i could just maybe mention another burglary that occurred at a house on finner avenue bundorn uh on thursday the fourth of november again it's all this week Greg uh passed between three p.m and seven p.m and a temp was made to force open the front door of the property but the it wasn't successful uh entry was then gained through an unsecured rear window the property was entered but nothing was stolen so if anybody can help us in relation to anything suspicious so any vehicles they may have seen in the area that were strange or any maybe cctv that may have been used to us please contact the guards in ballie shannon investigate and 10 can be contacted on 0 7 1 985 8530 or indeed again the confidential line on 1800 travel 6 travel 1 now of course the information is going to be posted uh just to remind people of home security advice on the goddess you connect the goddess you can't the long haul facebook page later today but some of the the the key uh advice that you might have for us yeah without sounding like a broken record you know whether at home we're going out turn on some lights uh lock all doors and windows use lights around the exterior of your property record the details of valuables uh photograph them and take note of any serial numbers and don't definitely don't keep large amounts of cash at home just in relation to that um if we do tend to keep cash at home like we think we're being clever and put it in a wee to big box or something in a cupboard as a random example but these people are christmas shopping themselves and they're very experienced and they know uh because humans are you know we're really really quite similar by nature they know what your average person thinks is a safe place to store expensive jewellery and they go well how did they know it was going to be in that empty sugar jar or something but they know that's where they look they don't open the top drawer of your cupboard because the cash is sitting there so you know uh and as well to what we've also found uh nile in the past is it's three weeks four weeks down the line when someone goes why that watch is missing i had left that watch and i went to look forward and it wasn't there and that's as well why it's important to um prepare for the worst case scenario and and keep a a a list of the stuff that you own of value particularly yeah you're correct and all them points Greg you know just because you have it high up in the back of a cupboard and a biscuit jar or something like that you know that's tends to be similar and a lot of houses you know so just because you think it's secure there's only so many hiding places you have you know and also your insurance won't cover you for large amounts of cash it's you know if you look at your insurance home insurance policy it's quite a small amount of cash if any you know and same with um valuable items jewellery and stuff you all have to itemize these things you know we have we all go for the maybe the cheaper insurance quote but you know the tantic over very very little Greg yeah and we you know a lot of people have not been able to leave their house for a long time maybe they're getting away on holiday and what have you and obviously people want to share their wonderful experience with their friends on facebook but a tool of the criminal is to befriend people lots of people perhaps in a certain area and literally get minute by minute updates as to when they're in in the house or not these people yes i mean obviously you know that they're nasty going into people's houses but let's not presume that they they aren't well organized and they aren't intelligent and they will use social media at times to target people's property that's great Greg yeah i'm not saying that's the case none of these no of course not but it's a part of general advice yeah yeah and also to find about house alarms because often people are burglarized then they get the house alarm but there's no point having a house alarm if you're not setting it because it's like having a seatbelt in your car and not putting on that would be an important piece of advice as well i presume yeah we would certainly recommend that the monitored alarms as opposed to the sort of regular audible alarms you know so the audible the monitored alarms are monitored by a security company and if they alarms triggered and they don't get a response they can't try and contact you in the phone and if you're not contacting on the phone well then they're calling the guards and the guards are dispatched immediately to your house yeah and another thing too which a lot of people may not avail of if you are heading away tell the local guardy yeah we get we get that quite a bit and you know we do action upon it Greg so people come in to say listen i'm heading me hodgish awake would you keep an eye on me house and we do you know it's put on our duty detail and we do have patrols specifically for people that are away from their homes for what it's worth but it's definitely worth something Greg and if they're not breaking into your homes potentially they're trying to break into your phone into your email into your life digitally and you know it is information we've given out before but we have to keep at it because people are still being caught now unfortunately Greg your regular listeners are going to turn their hair out me mentioning this again you know they're fed up listening to us going on about these email scams and text message scams from the banks but we have to keep mentioning it because people this week alone have been falling for this you know particularly the text messages from the bank so again never ever give out any of your personal banking details whether by phone call email or text message and you know unless you can see the whites of somebody's eyes you shouldn't be giving out any any of that information people are falling victim to these bank text message scams and clicking on links and providing their details money's taken from their account then we're receiving these reports from people who receives the telephone call and for one reason or another they've agreed to transfer money to an unknown account and this this isn't happening i'm not talking about you know national this is happening in donny goll and letter kenny and bonkran and balie shannon so you know if people are listening to this you know and they're fed up um um hearing this advice well then maybe spread the word to people that uh maybe that you consider vulnerable yourself not getting to you know yeah exactly yeah so uh just to end on a bit of good news Greg i just want to wish the winners from the donny goll garraday youth awards this year the very best of luck as they will travel to port least this coming saturday the 13th to present with their national awards we've been very fortunate position in donny goll the four national winners three of them are from donny goll so we've had three out of four from donny goll we had the community safari award winner which was a transition year uh many company class from garham school mcdeermid in armore island the group award winner was the young social innovators group from rossus community school and on low and the individual award winner was young ben king from creasley who did a project in relation to um road safari so we're delighted to have three national winners from the donny goll division and it was our intention to give a little bit more information uh on it this week but we've been inundated with barglish greg and that took precedent this week so um i just want to wish them all the best on saturday and extend our congratulations to their families and teachers and schools yeah and we'll return to it at some point if not during this item and i'll go on just putting stuff up on exactly it's well worth it facebook page brilliant stuff listen uh thank you very much indeed for joining us i appreciate it okay that was uh god uh the garden on mcguire uh that was the community garden slot for this tuesday the ninth of november that item returns to you uh between 10 and 11 next week we'll be right back winter is coming get your tires 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he got his second vaccine he had no health issues and this is not being talked about he got the vaccine to protect himself and others and yet no one is talking about the cause of his death which we are certain is the result of this vaccine he was a perfectly healthy person until the second vaccine we cannot continue to ignore these deaths and i would imagine lots of people are feeling that because this is not talking to that specific case but people drop dead every day unfortunately i know that myself because i've experienced it and 92 percent of the population are vaccinated now so people are going to be dropping dead after they've had the vaccine and people are going to say well it's because of the vaccine i presumed they're looking into it so we know exactly what the story is is i mean there's an awful lot of say for instance people sharing stories of sports stars collapsing on the pitch which sadly has always happened i was long before i saw one of these threads that was listed and you know you see a list of 10 stories and you go wow what's going on here but i went back pre 2019 for my own research you know because that's what i hope to do and what if people want to believe what they want to believe that's that's up to them and i compiled my own list of in the previous year 12 sports people between volleyball basketball particularly basketball actually badminton and others before there was any vaccine at all of young people healthy people in the 20s who had dropped dead but what people are doing is saying well it has to be because of the vaccine it can't be because of sudden adult death which which unfortunately happens all the time so there's a lot there and people are going to believe what they believe and others are going to think otherwise but as i say you know unfortunately people as i say i know this myself pass away suddenly at all ages and i can understand if now there's a vaccine around and it happened after that vaccine that you might say well it has to be because of that why else would it happen but unfortunately it has always happened and it will always happened and that's for a second by the way saying what that caller is saying is not the case but i hope if that's what the family feel that they there was an autopsy carried out and they find out what happened Pfizer whistleblower all over the internet now telling all it saddens me to hear it advertised for pregnant women it's all on this whistleblowers report will you investigate this i've seen that of course sorry but your last speaker was incorrect research which came out of the UK stated the viral load of someone with COVID is the same in unvaccinated as vaccinated they are not spreading less virus because they are vaccinated also there are some serious illnesses from the vaccine one girl locally was diagnosed with Gilean bar syndrome now if the family of that actual person wants to talk to us about that get in contact with us because often it's someone locally or a friend of a friend and of course if we've always done it if we can speak directly to the family of these people if they want to speak that's fine the report is very important that people read that report as it relates to the viral load okay i'm not going to go through it i'm not going to counter every single text but read it it was as it relates to transmission in a house between people of the one family living in the same house the viral load for a point was equal between the vaccinated unvaccinated the period of that viral load being equal was less in the vaccinated and the transmission was on a close contact within the house environment the author of that said that this does not apply to what happens outside the home as i say it's up to you to read it yourself i'm not going to counter every text saying it but what happens this is whether you're pro vaccine or unvaccinated people take out bits that suit them and ignore the rest are the government and the hsc taking any responsibility for the hassle we're all getting there for our details being released with all the fraud calls and texts since they wouldn't protect our information i don't hear anyone talking about that i think this should be a big deal um is that as it relates to potential vulnerability in the database in northern arland or are you talking about the hsc being responsible for all the scam calls going around i'm not sure precisely what you're referring to there all right it is time that's our musklin to lewd over for another day we are joined on the program night by the french ambassador to ireland vincent gray on good morning to you thank you very much for joining us vincent hello good morning very glad to be on your program this morning and you're very welcome to the most beautiful part of this country you're an ambassador to the northwest tell us the purpose of your visit vincent well it's my first time to visit the denigol i've been posted now to ireland for a year and it was high time to visit also the northwest and denigol i'm here to visit uh various um um leaders like the mayor of letekennie the sea of the term of commerce the missus 24th i meet also the president of the ita letekennie and i was just in uh quidore to see the uh to have in uh quidore by the full-day program and very interesting day to visit this part of the country what was the most interesting element for you because of course you know i mean france has plenty of rural areas as well as well but to be in quidore one of the most westerly parts of the country a very rural beautiful place but to see a business and industry thriving in that area was that interesting for you yes it's very interesting to see the sense of initiative also promoted by uh udara and it's also a good way for us in france to see how we can get inspiration which will also have some rural peripheral areas or mountainous area which are also in a way um have to adapt to a modern economy and take advantage maybe of home office works so and i was very uh interested by this visit and i take with um ideas back to back home now one of the uh one of your engagements is a meeting regarding the peace process scheduled to take place in the courthouse in lyford this afternoon at 4 p.m and one of the biggest threats of late to the peace process is of course brexit and particularly um the the british intention it seems to trigger article 16 and the consequences uh that could fall out from that obviously on a european scale we're talking about trade and what have you on a local scale here we have the only border with britain and northern arland there is fears of a hard border and and just tensions on this island as a result of all that is going on you're fully aware of that i presume vincent as our our european um as off our fellow europeans yes that's obviously something we are pulling very very closely uh here the embassy and in close touch with the with our irish uh friends in in government uh on a daily basis uh as you know uh france and the rest of the opinion have been uh uh fully committed and and shown full solidarity with the island on this issue and will continue to do so it's a huge take here uh and so um as we speak i know we uh our government of our uh there's a final first it's for your peanut first also uh exchanging uh almost on a daily basis with uh mr kovni and and the mist was burned uh it's very serious uh the good thing is that as you've seen uh the EU is uh it's just united uh in this uh uh in this uh issue and we will continue to show full solidarity to island to avoid it certainly any hard border and to maintain peace in this part of the country uh your your um role i suppose in arland would might be easier than the role of anyone having to uh harness harness and improve relations with britain for example um what is your uh an insight into uh that relationship obviously it's centered on on fishing rights and what have you and there's a a local interest as it relates to a vessel that was recently uh impounded as opposed you could say by french authorities how bad is the relationship between britain and france at the moment well we had a better day but we'll continue to work hard to maintain the the best relationship which is the important name and friend and ally obviously uh the uk uh but it's true to say at the same time that uh on on the EU uh UK relation and with many uh uh let's say dimensions including on fishery we've been very disappointed by the way the british government has um uh acted so far by not delivering uh it should have um uh licenses to a fisherman who has had a historical fishing rights in in british waters including around the uh jersey and gun the island so we will continue to make sure uh within the EU framework that are the rights of these fishermen are uh granted and and this is something where we will not um well but we have to uh see the right uh not being nice yeah and on that of course french fishermen enjoy you know generous enough access to french fishing waters they have a a decent share of of of catch there not the same for irish fishermen would you support uh irish fishermen uh and when i say fishermen i mean fishers i men and women having greater access to irish waters would that be something that you as a ambassador to this country would support i mean irish fishermen to to access to british waters irish waters our own waters the own waters uh well this is all discussed uh with the framework of the common fishery policy where uh uh our extensive talks uh see how our best to uh uh to distribute the fish quotas uh also in a stable way so um we are open to a fair share for all and certainly also for irish uh and finally uh you haven't concluded all your engagements vincent what are your takeaways uh from your trip to uh donagall well indeed i just started yesterday evening and i was there we mentioned but um it was important for me to come to donagall because uh also geographically you are so specific uh you have also as you mentioned before you have been so impacted by uh brexit and so i want you to have a first hand uh uh let's say look at how this uh falls also uh with various uh interlocked political uh economical and academic look and so uh i will come back i think to dublin uh also meeting some of your um td and mr mcconnell look soon to to see uh how best also maybe french companies and uh even more present here in this part uh of of ireland and how uh the increased connection between france and ireland can also uh benefit donagall enjoy the rest of your stay thank you very much for speaking to us this morning thank you very much take care that is the french ambassador to ireland vincent grayron who uh is concluding his visit today 08 6 60 25 000 are your tires ready for winter call into ulster tires and letter kenny and balibuffet today brine mcconnick sports and azure main street letter kenny your destination asex advisor looking to go further and faster or maybe some cushioning and support 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noon show here with me uh Greg Hughes a busy hour to come stay work where you are but it's time for a news update now we say good morning once again to Michaela Clark thanks Greg good morning the public expenditure minister says any premises which isn't complying with COVID-19 rules does not deserve to stay open researched by the ESRI shows a third of customers and rations and pubs aren't having their COVID search checked government officials will meet with hospitality sector representatives this afternoon to reiterate that the rules must be complied with the government is being urged to stop leaking trial balloons as it relates to the mica redress scheme details of a so-called enhanced scheme were due to be published today however it is being delayed as further adjustments are to be carried out it's after speculation that a cap of 350 000 euro would be included in the scheme which in turn would have excluded around 40 of mica affected householders a house in letter Kenny has been ransacked during a burglary in recent days sometime between 11 o'clock on Sunday night and one o'clock yesterday afternoon entry was gained to the property in the ordinary area and it was forced entry was forced through the rear door items including a karaoke machine a michael's court michael kors watch jewelry and a number of clothing items were stolen may my guardian are appealing to residents in the solomon's manor area of letter Kenny to come forward if they have any information relating to a break-in last week entry was gained to your house in the area by forcing open a rear window between 11 o'clock on Tuesday morning last and 11 o'clock the following morning guardians say it was evident those responsible had searched the property before making off with a 40 to 50 inch tv tonigal county council is being urged to include a sum of money in next year's budget to progress plans for a promenade in dining's this year's to be raised at a meeting of letter Kenny milford municipal district this afternoon by councillor john o donnell who says between 20 and 25 thousand euro is needed to progress a four-shore license application in the next 12 months there were 44 people awaiting beds at letter Kenny university hospital this morning eight of them on emergency department trolleys it's the joint third highest figure in the state this morning along with cork with only gallway and limrick registering larger numbers antique what has today published a number of inspection reports on designated centers for people with disabilities two centers in dunny gall were inspected during an on-the-nights visit in august of this year no non-compliances were identified in chas sauna or movill residential grip home those are the latest headlines we'll be back with an update again at 12 noon okay mikaela thank you very much it's flu season so if you're 65 or over it's time to get your free annual flu vaccine while anyone can catch the flu you're more at risk of getting seriously ill or needing hospital treatment and the new flu vaccine is the best way to protect yourself from the flu so make an appointment with your gp or pharmacist today visit hse dot ie forward slash flu for more from the hse with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the nine to noon show on the highland radio okay on to the program back on to the program now is carmel good morning carmel good morning greg how are you i'm doing fine take us back to july oh god word reason july 2020 we started with um water lakes and waterburst pipes on the mahar beg road between mahar beg and it will be called the end of the bank it started july 2020 we had about 17 from july 2020 until august 2021 it came what was happening 17 water outages yes 17 yeah it was actually unbelievable what was happening we were having maybe two on the one day um it was only six one because the fixed one the one that was was coming next burst again i was just actually on belief but we got in the morning so you weren't sure if we have water to have a shower and make a cup of tea and we live on an island which is you know with population maybe about 300 or 400 people and there's a lot of old people on we have carers coming in and getting up in the morning but i'm having no water to make a cup of tea or wash it was absolutely unacceptable and we spoke with thank thank god for jack mary he was the go-between for a long time and people emailed him in and i spoke with kevin lake then myself back in august but it was clear enough was enough and um he's decided as a community and i think you spearheaded it to um petition irish water tell us how that started and and what kind of reaction you had do you know what when you want to come to a point that you have two in the one day the following week you have another one you say enough enough what can we do at the end of the day that people people speak so i spoke to my friend cariboy and i asked cariboy to do a petition on facebook and see how it goes it's got it's got it's got good then we say them we'll go one step further we'll put in the local shops you were off on holiday and i spoke to donal donal on the on the on your show we put in the local shops and it's got it's got meant when we wanted it to get and it it worked so back i didn't be hanging with it i did have a petition and the sign petitioned in my house for maybe three weeks and i thought you know what i'm going to hold off until we have another one because a new another one was coming and on the 18th of october i got up and i was actually preparing to take my old man to the hospital and to high wash him i couldn't even wash him with no water and i said enough so i put i'll put them in the hospital with none any i thought they emailed them i sent them all the patients off to them and below and behold i got an email back from them and they say that they passed it on and they gave me a new reference number and then jack mary emailed me yesterday evening to to concern that we have a new piping installed in the early next year yep and this goes to show and in fairness to the people of finish on are leading the charge on this i think between recent many recent events if you get together if you organize change can be affected or at the very least if it's not you can very much shine a light on the problem and embarrass whomever might be responsible into action yeah of course you can when you look at what pie diver has done for the mega campaign and i i said to my car is carless we need to do something as a as a whole not just one person or two people we have to get together as a community to get this sorted the station started off and that's what it goes because the old lines like whack-a-mole fix a problem it pushes it down the line it bursts then the repair bursts this is going to be a 1.2 kilometer water mains replacement yeah of course and you know what if you drive in the mahar beg road which is 1.2 kilometers amount of uh burst pipes you see you see every all the time where they have fixed one then moved on fixed one moved on fixed one and she's become it was absolutely unbelievable if they had done back in 2020 2021 a couple longer pipe and on these these joints because those pipes that they were originally used with asbestos pipes so they have a big pipe and it wouldn't have happened but every time you looked around there was no burst pipe and no burst pipe and it was unacceptable because i said to don't know when i bought my house back in 2020 i had to pay six thousand to give water to my house i didn't pay six thousand to have no water in my house yeah and as well as that you're paying for this through your your general taxation water is not free we're all paying for it it might not be as in your face as a water charge in a meter but we are all paying for this water and 95 percent is the inconvenience calm all to you and and the the community in general but what about all that water that's being treated and it's just running away into the land it's absolutely disgraceful hopefully this puts an end to both issues yes because the end of the day Greg the news tomorrow is wash your hands wash your hands we couldn't wash your hands we could even make ourselves a cup of tea like we were out maybe from 12 o'clock at night until maybe four o'clock the next day with no water that is unacceptable and like and child and it's a it's a large place and nobody had water it was absolutely ridiculous we have a reservoir and then it does the other part of the island but we we come from boncran and obviously and then they can then i'm putting a run out pipe to letter kenny how dare they they need to fix us first when they start anything about letter kenny we need as we need to fix and obviously and thanks to jack marie and kevin lake also in the gondola county council they put the pressure on what's myself and they recall it sort of on the coffee i come we want it because the people have spoken together and it worked because what happens is is and i'm not talking specific to this case is people believe the neighbours reported it or is complaining and irish water sitting there or any big company is sitting there rubbing the hands together because hundreds of people are being affected and they get the odd communication here and they just put it down to others angry caramel again or whoever it might be this can't be ignored because you've got a group of people in an area coming together and doing so in a very public fashion outing really the service as as you know putting a figure on it 17 outages describing how it's affecting people like it did in the last case that you talk of you know before the petition was actually submitted that's how you do it you get together you organise everyone puts in their own sign at their own signature and they can't be ignored if it's skilled definitely i sent through 17 pages of signatures through to each of them on that Sunday evening monday morning and i've worked i've worked and i want to thank the people who took time out to sign the forms i want to thank the local shops for taking the forms and asking people to sign them because the end of the day only for that one email wouldn't have worked two emails wouldn't have worked but when they see the people power together and they've seen what what how many houses and people is affecting in life like we don't live in the third world country like we live in donegal we love it only shown so we're entitled to open the morning and have water every morning and not wondering are we going to have water shower wash have cup of tea nothing and i know you're high and bright and this is not talking of this particular incident and all your high and praise uh for the people you've mentioned but when the community organises like this as well it puts a lot of pressure on politicians be they local reps and i'm not talking about this particular incident or tds or people who make decisions in a local authority everyone starts getting a bit edgy i'm wanting to work on this and as i say i'm not suggesting that's what triggered uh cancelor morris involvement in this that's not what i'm saying i'm talking more generally to communities organising and taking the control and the power themselves yeah of course but i have to say great i have to give jack mary 100% i'm not in any way taking away from that no i understand but he was the only one we could go to yeah i went to jack murray and then jack murray and then we went to kevin lake in the donegal county council and must them two together and then what's the both the people's power we got we got as a whole and we got the signatures we sent it off to irish water they come back with a reply which i was quite shocked at and they forward on to different departments with a new reference number and i've worked and i don't watch jack emailed me last night and told me carmel we got the new pipe it was like wow amazing well done well done well done off not just well done me well done off 100% yeah exactly right carmel well done to you for organising the petition and well done to everyone who signed it uh well done for irish water let's give a bit of credit where it's due well done for them responding and you know we'll see what the crack is in the new year uh this will make a difference to a lot of people well done carmel thanks for the update i appreciate it greatly thanks for your time and your help no problem take care of yourself for it carmel lynch there speaking about that petition the power of the people when they get together and organise it and we're seeing it more often and we you know need to take some of this stuff out of the hands of politicians or the media they can be helpful and what have you but you know the people really can do a job on it can't they right okay uh back with more after these get your tires ready for winter call into ulcer tires and letter kenny and ballet buffet today at life pharmacy we're 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association of arland good morning to you thanks for joining us today carol good morning thank you right so um i mean obviously you know um there is a lot of people not checking these certs what's what's your information i mean your company is your businesses do you feel that user outliers do you think compliance is as high as the sariah saying all i know is what we do is we check everybody coming in we ask first we have a sign on the outside of the door now because of the change in weather so people aren't queuing and getting cold or in the rain so we have an extra sign saying please have your covid cert ready we check everybody on the way in we also have a booking system so we have the contract tracing that's done most a lot of people are booking online now which is a great thing and even if you call that all goes into the system for us but i do hear at the door they're a bit flustered and they don't know where it is they haven't they haven't seen it in months and weeks and they're saying oh we are the first person that's asked us we haven't been asked so i was really surprised because we're doing it correctly and we're diligently doing it but that then then even for those who have vaccinated being they may not like this covid cert system because it does divide society uh could it be damaging your business like in other words your reputation for enforcing these rules is that a benefit or a disadvantage do you think i don't know i you know interesting i got one email the ly it graduations is a very busy time for lefkenny and we everybody does really well i've been in restaurants hotels and bars and hairdressers and everybody and i had one very nasty email sent saying and she said in it i see your restaurant prefers to take cover certs over my money you know and i thought i didn't make the rules and we want to stay open we want to be safe and maybe people don't realize the importance of it and you know that for society and for businesses to stay open and survive we need compliance there's a there's a silent majority as well out there and they contact this show off there um who don't want to go to a restaurant unless they're enforcing the rules because they don't feel safe so they are fully with the public health message now given the rate of vaccination this country they are in in in the majority so you know maybe those businesses that aren't enforcing this are are excluding a lot of clientele that want to be in a place that they feel is compliant and safe yeah yeah great i do people really appreciate it and you know sometimes people get up and close the windows and then you go over and you open it and you just explain i just want to keep the airfield going and you know that you're just you're trying to do it right you know for interesting we see we had three tables outside on saturday night so i just decided now this isn't is you know it's not very compliance survey or anything but i just asked people why they were outside you know it's it's not weather for eating outside now ours is covered it's roofed and we have heaters but it's still freezing and i was saying to them why why are you outside are you not fascinated just wanted to know you know where people were coming from one table were a younger couple they were um he hadn't been vaccinated mostly because he doesn't get around to it and i said what why is that and he said i just never got through it and i said you can go everywhere you know you can go to the pharmacy and it's walk in and and another table chose to be outside because someone in their family wasn't well now they were all vaccinated men but they had a family member who wasn't well and they were protecting that person and i thought it's not really brilliant as well the people doing that and the other person somebody wasn't vaccinated at all and didn't want to be so that was you know i just knew they didn't want to say so i didn't ask anything then you see i i get it and i understand it i don't think anyone's comfortable with this really to be honest with you that we have to be in this situation but it's who's speaking out it's like you know the the people i talk of earlier on that want this so that they feel safe for inside maybe that group of individuals you talk of might be amongst them they're not really speaking out and and even by having this conversation like i know they'll be very pointed and and angry text either at you or at me and they've already come in today by speaking about this even by having this conversation there is a smaller group of people that are much more vocal and and targeted in in the report approach it's a very unfortunate societal situation we find ourselves in right now at the moment yeah well you know i think the thing about it is we didn't make the rules you know and you're trying to have your business and the most important thing to me is be open and have the jobs for all the staff and to do it in a safe manner that we stay open and that we keep people safe that's really what i you know where we're coming from and if that's what it takes you know we're following as you say we're following the recipe you want to make something you do it right you know that's what we're trying to do but i there's two options here isn't there there is mass enforcement of this or scrap it because this sort of half and half system we have it's doing no one any favors it might be disadvantageing businesses that are being compliant it might encourage those less likely to follow public health guidelines into the one place that's not enforcing it i mean we should do one or other shouldn't we this sort of half and half half compliance half non-compliance i don't think it's doing anyone any favors or what's your view carol yeah well you know i still think the the compliance bit is the way to go you know i think you know you take the advice you know if you're unwell you take the advice of your doctor if you were in an unwell country at the moment so we have to take the advice of an effort and that's the way i see it i look to those experts are there they're not there to annoy people they're there for the greater good and that to me is the way the path to follow there are people out there though that believe there's some sort of ulterior motive it's about control and power that there is some global influence over all of this but i mean you can have that conversation with them at the restaurant front door i presume no i don't think so but listen you know we've been lucky in that you know and we've had great weather over the summer and we and lots of us did get to eat outside in very nice places and really learned a new way of being and a new way of kind of socializing in Ireland that we never thought would happen and i suppose you could say look at the good it has come out but we were able to develop a lovely place in a horrible old lane to the side of the restaurant and the compliments it gets is incredible and you know there's a lot of good feeling around you know this this change in in the way of being in the way of socializing and i know we have to go through two probably very cold months for the next for november and december but isn't as they say spring is never too far away and things will be back again all right so i i presume i mean we it's not hard to to guess what will come from this meeting the government will say look if you want to avoid restrictions over christmas these measures have to be fully introduced adrian commons will say that's grand but give us a time when we can get rid of these these certs you know what is the critical mass of those vaccinated that it's no longer required that's what's going to go on at the meeting i expect that yeah exactly can i ask if you had anyone visit your premises to check about enforcement out of interest um we didn't have particularly around that we did have um the one of the local health inspectors did come in a good while ago then but mostly he was checking around what what we you know why the operations at the beginning you know how did your door open do you have the signs did you have you know have we pvc in front of the tell all those type of things and he did you know asked us to make sure that we had contract tracing and you know he looked and he said yeah and he had a little form and he ticked you know he had a little thing to say and i'd say it's satisfactory and i was saying to him satisfactory that sounds like i'm not doing good enough and he said no it's either satisfactory or not and i always think that that's not a good word you wanted a slightly bigger pat on the back all right carol listen thanks for joining us this morning i appreciate it all right take care of yourself uh that is carol mean and their owner of the yellow pepper restaurant letter kenny a member of the restaurant's association of arland uh that meeting's taken place later to say you know you could print out the what's going to come out of it right now and you wouldn't be too far off uh we were talking about that trial that concluded yesterday this caller says read the pay master the dogs in the street have long known their identity however despite bluffing bluster the establishment will refuse to give one of their own up especially when the pay master knows where the political bodies are buried that's how things work in this country um i was called by the doctor for the booster i'm in the age bracket it's not five months since my second vaccine when i went to the doctors nobody asked check date of last vaccine when i pointed out it wasn't five months ago i was told i couldn't get the booster doctor obviously calling people on age not date of last vaccine how many people have got the booster earlier than they should say is that caller there uh hi greg this is a bit random i know but does anyone else notice that the time clock on the sky tv screen is still on summertime i i haven't had any contact from that but uh i know other people out there have been commenting on that it's it's a minor distraction but something of an annoyance is there a fix for it someone's clock uh on their skybox is still on summertime uh hi greg a quick question but i've just seen a post up from a doctor's surgery about having to provide a covid passport or vaccine passport to attend the doctors now for face-to-face appointments this is a bit ridiculous at this stage vaccinated or not we still spread the virus this seems unfair to other people who feel like they don't have a choice anymore they believe it's uh just another tool to uh that's what they probably believe to to coerce uh a word they might use the final uh 7.5 percent of adults that haven't had their vaccine yet but uh it is interesting you know regardless of what anyone's views it is interesting how that study as it relates to uh viral load and transmission in the home has uh now become you know common discourse for talking about vaccinated versus unvaccinated uh and i imagine not an awful lot of people perhaps have have actually uh read that study right it is the 9 till noon show here on highland radio back with more after these get your tires winter ready drop into ulcer tires and letter kenny and body buffet today are you a self-assessed income taxpayer use ross revenues online service to pay and file online by november 17th if you're not yet registered for ross do so today at revenue.ie avoid a surcharge interest penalties and a possible tax audit don't miss the november 17th deadline pay and file on time at leadle this week we've a deliciously authentic taste of italy irresistible deluxe pistachio ice cream just 199 gorgeous deluxe ice tiramisu just 399 and melt in the mouth deluxe amaretto only 199 bellissimo as they say in rome and on the radio when we want to sound italian leadle more for you getting married don't leave it too late book with us today at the groom's room in evolved clothing letter kenny retail park candles lanterns christmas trees decorations and all 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will help us to improve the care our hospitals provide for more information visit your experience dot ie from the hsc the health information and quality authority and the department of health store and go springtown dairy the north of ireland's only temperature control smart access individually sized storage units store and go offers storage for personal storage house moves and renovations business storage for excess stock or finding systems once signed up you can access 24 hours a day through an app on your phone gaining access through four levels of security to your most precious possessions call store and go springtown dairy on 02871 278 900 to discuss your needs and get bespoke advice or get a free quote at store and go dot net all right so did you have an overnight stay at least one night at letter kind of university a hospital and over the age of 16 well you're being invited to engage in a survey on inpatient experiences it's from hick with a health information and quality authority the director of the national care experience program is rachel flinn and she's on the line now rachel how are you good morning reagan i'm good right okay so then between what period of time and who do you want to hear from as part of this program okay so all 40 public acute hospitals are participating in this survey and that includes letter kenny university hospital so there's about 891 patients discharged from letter kenny university hospital during the month of september and each one of those will receive an invitation asking them to participate in the survey and the survey will look at i suppose their care and their experience so there are number of questions on admission to hospital care on the ward some questions around examination diagnosis and their treatment when they're going home and we've added this year for the first time some questions around care during the pandemic relating to COVID-19 so just maybe to give your your viewers and your listeners sorry an example of that and so we have questions on were you told you had COVID-19 at any time during your stay and while you were in hospitals did you feel you were at risk of catching COVID other questions relate to you know communication with staff it's obviously more difficult with PPE and masks so we ask a number of questions around that and did you understand and when you were communicating with with staff and also there are questions around being able to connect your family when you're in hospital because of the restrictions and the lack of the ability to go in as much as pre-COVID so there are a number of questions on that and what will come from this though because you know let's just give an example there will be people that will respond and say i presented with my elderly relative uh who has you know we know what they have uh and they displayed respiratory illness and they were popped through the COVID pathway and sitting with other suspected COVID patients even though they knew we knew and it turned out that the respiratory issue that had was not COVID related we feel they were put in a position of danger okay i imagine that will come up on the form how is that actionable though what do we learn from that uh you know what would be the purpose then of someone submitting that to you what could the outcome be okay so it's listen we this is the first year that we've conducted the survey we've conducted in 2017 2018 2019 um albeit that that was pre-COVID there are a number of questions about being treated with respect and dignity um if you had to ask a question that you you know that you could ask that and you understood the answer so there are items that will come out of this that we will need to improve um regardless whether we have COVID or not um one of the areas in particular that we found from the last number of years in the survey was the patient told us that they felt that the discharge home um was very rush they felt on the last day they were given lots of information they didn't have time to plan going home and as a result the hospital put in place lots of initiatives to improve that okay so it can work are people who are people who um are people who didn't have the perfect experience more likely to have perhaps engage with you do you know if we get out of hospital and everything went well and we're home it's like thank god i don't even want to think about that and but if that is the case uh is that okay too i mean maybe or does it do you need people regardless of their experience to engage oh we want as many people as possible to engage whether they had a good experience or whether that it needs improvement um and the reason for that is that we feed this back to the staff so in the previous years when we've conducted the survey nationally 85% said that they had a good experience and again i think staff you know have huge pride in that and and and you know getting that feedback is hugely beneficial for our healthcare system 15% then said that they had either a fair to poor experience i think that's really important as well it's not you know we need to hear why that experience was poor and what can we do to improve that experience so we want to hear from everybody actually because it's very difficult and different you know when you're a health care professional delivering care in a hospital versus a patient receiving that care and sometimes it's that kind of fresh perspective from the patient and that really hits home with it with the health care professionals they've very much taken the feedback on board over the last number of years and again it's not Hick was saying it it's not the HSE saying it it's the patients from the community saying this about the health services and the majority of health care professionals are there to provide high quality and safe care so they want to hear from this whether that's good or whether that can be improved um so that they can make improvements in the care that they deliver yeah and patients and here as well for the health care professional yeah for sure and patients themselves have an opportunity I suppose to to feel to have a system to feed back into yeah and the the reasons why we we administer the questionnaire send out the questionnaire two weeks after they've been discharged is to allow the patient to think about that admission so it's not given the last day kind of a rush process asking them their experience to be delighted that they're going home and again there might be a true reflection so they it allows two weeks allows people to think about their experience and allows them to to absorb it and to then um participate in the questionnaire so I think it's really important that we hear from as many people as possible and as I said there's about 891 patients discharged from Lashkeny University birth of the hospital during the month of September so we would like to hear from as many people as possible on that. Will all will all of them receive this invite or if they don't get it by a certain time can is do they contact you guys or do you think you'll have everyone covered? We we we should have everybody covered but if anybody wants to contact us they can either email us an info at yourexperience.ie we have a website called www.yourexperience.ie but they should have received the invitation by now there will be reminders sent out as well and just inviting them to participate in in the in the survey but there is criteria as you've said at the introduction of this interview they have to be over 16 they have to have an address in the republic of Ireland and they have to have stayed in the hospital greater than 24 hours and to have been discharged in September I think you mentioned that of course yeah all right thank you for that Rachel appreciate it all right take care Rachel Flynn there director of national care experience program with Hickwer. Hi Greg my sister-in-law got paid sorry she paid 40 euro for an antigen test in a pharmacy which seems very expensive for an antigen test but anyway because she was traveling international she was just uneasy about the way it was done so she decided to book a test in St Connell's the pharmacy antigen test came back negative and yes you've guessed it the St Connell's test came back positive so why are we putting our faith in these antigen tests when they are not flawless the schools of mass infection but yet antigen tests are supposedly the early warning sign for prevention the government at this stage are filling us with total misinformation I'm not going to unpack all of that it's very expensive for an antigen test 40 euro that doesn't seem right to me antigen tests works at certain times if they're done regularly you know the only way they're way they're employed in different countries it's not that you just text text take one and then that's it it's they're you're supposed to take them over a period of a certain amount of days and it'll pick you up at a certain level of infection I don't know the internet speed Greg super fan of sugar babes the most loyal historic fan in the short-lived history of the sugar babes do you ever meet them in the past I bet their concerts were the best thing ever back in the day I'm also a fan I'm not slagging um I'm a super fan of sugar babes I don't know I do I think they're one of the best bands yeah I'm not a big fan of theirs I think there was a couple of good songs of theirs definitely um a lot of mixed messages out there if you want to go to a dance you have to be vaccinated but if you book into a hotel you do not have to be vaccinated you go go to the hotel bar dance dine and do what you want without a vaccine how does the virus know what you're doing it doesn't know what you're doing at all people have fed up there is such a vast amount of mixed messages and changes in the information the anxiety that you're causing over the head of this people who were sitting outside of premises should not be asked if they're vaccinated this is discrimination to the highest I think what you'll find is is uh that was asked uh in a in a very casual conversational and indirect way you know why are you sitting out here do you not feel safe is it uh do you not have the vaccine pass um it was not to interrogate them it was just to get a straw poll and I'm presuming as to say it was done as part of a general sort of casual conversation which I think people are having uh up and down and across the country was that last night in Donegal as I have family down from up the west was in four bars not once was any of us asked for a covid card my family could not believe because up in westport you have to show the covid 19 card and um I'd to prove and to prove it to you as well yeah it depends where you are we're it's different up here in the northwest you know uh attitudes are very different down the country Aiman Ryan tested positive for covid so why is he traveling to scotland I don't believe about him being asked to have a second test why would he be asked if the first test was done correctly they say that the first test was actually inconclusive and that's why morning Greg sick of this government and all these politicians one rule for them and another for us another it's unbelievable what typical of government they can do what they want it'll continue as long as everyone lets it continue threats of election doesn't even bother them at this stage they know that the obedient little people will just do what they're told without question I mean is following the public health guidelines being an obedient little person it's that kind of language uh them and us regardless of who's them and who is us uh it's horrible really where we're at now uh that people think their neighbors who are um following public health guidelines are obedient little people whilst the neighbors might look across and say well they're right wing conspiracy theorists that's the space we're in now and it can happen within families within friends groups within neighborhoods um Greg proof as if we need more the PCR tests can be used to give the result the controller of the strings wants for the puppet he is controlling and therein lies the problem uh with how the government handled that it will uh it'll it leads that point of view very little thought seems to be given in any road layout decision in letter kenny I see a crossing at the bottom of the hill at gaunt lee also in the front of our yit where cars are stuck in traffic in the middle of a junction they can no longer see a red light for the pedestrian crossing well that's not necessarily the layout I think that's uh motorists not following uh the layout maybe going between those traffic lights on orange and find themselves sitting in between them as they turn red um okay uh reinsurance brokers a caller says he's been trying to get a quote for house insurance and there are certain brokers that won't quote against one another and then when he called another broker to ask for a quote wouldn't disclose which broker was insured through they refused to quote him as anyone else experience this our insurance brokers allowed to refuse to quote against one another um I don't know the ins and outs of that I've never come across that before I've never really engaged with a broker and it's it's not for any particular reason I just would price around myself it's just never been part of how I go about getting insurance as I say I'm not in any way saying it's not the right way to do it but I don't know what the story is there um it wouldn't be very competitive would it if that's the case uh stick with the roads just before a break here I'm so glad the pedestrian crossings are being discussed last week my husband parked beside the zebra crossing at super valley in bon crana as I went into the shop he sat there for the 10 minutes that I was in the shop and he said that 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at the weather forecaster for today now patchy reynald drizzle has cleared the region at this point it's leaving a day of sunny spells and passing showers behind temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees in mostly moderate southwest breezes now tonight a few showers overnight but becoming mostly dry clear spells will develop widely and it'll turn quite cold temperatures down to three to seven degrees patches of mist and fog will form as winds fall light now children who have a good relationship with their father are happier they feel less anxious and are more engaged in physical activity new esri research finds most nine-year-olds report getting on well with their father we're joined now to discuss this by professor emir smith who's the lead author of the report good morning to you and thank you very much for taking the call today good morning it's good to have you with us right okay um what was the purpose of this research to begin with like what what question will we try and to get an answer to or maybe it's obvious no it's not obvious at all there's been a lack of research on fathers in Ireland but the growing up in our island study provides very rich information because we interview the fathers of all the children and we followed this group from nine months to nine years of age so really the focus was to look at the kinds of involvement the fathers have in their children's day-to-day lives and to look at the kinds of relationships there are and the implications of those relationships for child outcomes so it's not just if fathers are present or not it's the relationship with the children if they are present with them yes we focus very much on on two parent families so we were able then to to look at fathers who were present for that whole period of the child's life all right pick up for you what were the key findings for us the key finding I think really was the importance the critical nature actually of involvement of fathers in the first year of the child's life because we find that sets the tone for later on so fathers who are more involved when the child was a baby are more likely to be involved than when they get to five and nine years of age it also helps foster a more positive relationship between the child and the father and that has positive benefits for fathers and children so for children it helps enhance their well-being and it means they're more involved in physical activity and for fathers it means they're less stressed in their role as a parent if they have a good relationship with the child do we have any previous information to compare this to like you know are we seeing an improvement in the situation or a dis improvement and we haven't because actually this is the first longitudinal study of children in Ireland we get some hints from other sources like the health of school age children which is a kind of cross sectional that's a snapshot study and they've shown that over time children are more likely to say they have a positive relationship with their father and we'll talk to him about a problem so there just seem tentative evidence there of the improvement but we haven't had an evidence base to look at fathers involvement in kind of previous generations so we know then that a father involved early on it bodes well then for later in in life that's from a child's perspective did this look at the benefit for fathers in well the benefit there is it's really around kind of feeling less stressed in the role as a father we didn't look at other father outcomes but we could do in the future but definitely it made parenting easier if they were more involved in a way and had a better relationship what about father's relationships with girls versus boys we saw kind of two things that seemed kind of quite contradictory we see first of all when they're babies there's no gender difference in father's involvement but as they get older fathers spend a bit more time or more frequently kind of doing things with their sons and they be around play and also about kind of outings but on the other hand then fathers say they get on better with their daughters and daughters say they get on better with their fathers than their their male equivalents do yeah do we know a father's more likely to be good or bad cop we don't know that actually we didn't get into that and actually we try to focus on the kind of more positive involvement because I think just focusing on like discipline or you know it's not that it's it's not the whole story so yeah um but you know there is quite a bit and this is not pitching one sex against the other there's a lot of focus on moms rightly so and because they have to carry the child they go through through the birth and you know if they decide to breastfeed they're ultimately almost responsible for that obviously you know you can bottle it as well but you know where I'm coming from yeah not a necessarily a great deal of feelings sorry focus on how fathers feel you know in terms of new dads particularly you know how their lives changed the pressures on them it could be financial maybe they could be the sole worker though that's obviously not going to be exclusively the case what did we learn about that well we find that that um definitely you know the whole period of uh parenthood at the beginning of parenthood and especially for first time fathers and mothers both are are kind of more stressed than they'd be later on but we do definitely kind of conclude that there's been a lack of discussion about fathers role I mean there's a lot of good information by the Department of Children uh who cooperated with this study and the HSE for parents but maybe we need to name fathers and say well you know reassure fathers that they have a role to play obviously mothers are key and we've spent a lot of time researching their impact but but this kind of fills out the picture a bit yeah and also to um and as I say I'm not sure if it's contained really or examined much in this report you know like I'm thinking of fathers here of nine-year-old childs who couldn't spend time with their as much time as they want now it could be maybe because of a relationship breakdown or it could be because of work commitments that they felt they had to be absent they're listening to this going yeah I can I can hear that but you know life dictated this this was my decision to disengage absolutely and none of this is saying it's it's driven by fathers in fact we strongly emphasise the fact that working hours long working hours in particular are a barrier to involvement especially in the first year of life and this cohort of children were born before fathers were entitled to pay paternity leave but at the same time we have good information on whether fathers took up more flexible or family friendly working arrangements like flexible hours and say working from home a bit and we find that that really pays off in terms of father's involvement so there are there are barriers and constraints and you know the situation has improved in terms of parents leave and uh you know uh being available but sometimes financially it might be difficult to to take that up now the study also says fathers who had a more traditional view of the role emphasised their financial responsibilities a male parent tended to be less involved with the children and have less positive relationships with them I mean we talk maybe to to the type of you know father figure that we might have seen generations ago is that what a like what is a traditional view of yeah we ask fathers kind of like about different aspects and how important they thought they were in their role as a father and and most almost all the fathers emphasised as you would expect love and support and care for the child but there was a group of fathers who placed quite a strong emphasis on themselves as a financial provider and that does seem to influence their kind of nature of their involvement in the role uh as a father their hands whether their hands on actually and and that group ended up feeling a bit more stressed as a parent yeah okay and given other than sort of giving us a view of this a snapshot of it what comes from this do you think uh aimer like where do we go with this information well this was part of a kind of research partnership with the Department of Children um so they will be looking carefully at at the findings I think there is two sets of implications for policy the first is is the need to kind of facilitate fathers uh you know we need government and employers to facilitate fathers could that also extend to the courts for example you know there are dads perhaps listening here that through a court order feel that they're even though it's not on the basis of any you know abuse or or anything like that there that feel they're not permitted to have the level of access that they feel they could have to be more beneficial to their child would extend to that area as well potentially and in the future we did collect information from fathers who weren't living with their children but that hasn't been released yet okay we did ask the children themselves about the relationships with dads who weren't living with them and we do find that the level of contact especially staying over uh fosters a more positive uh relationship and also that where there's a positive relationship maintained with between the mother and the father that that helps you know so they're kind of key things in terms of maybe about around family breakdown people can draw the road conclusions from that but but what our conclusion I think you could can draw and obviously you know it's not easy all the time but if uh both parents can at the very least be civil and and accommodate the child with both parents as much as possible it's putting the child first yeah obviously that might have implications for kind of having funny mediation services and so on available to help that you know but obviously there are cases where you know things are more complex and I think people will be able to sort of insert their own situation into the various categories that we're talking of and okay interesting stuff but I suppose the takeaway uh most nine-year-olds report getting on very well with their dad yeah and I think that's very positive yeah they get on as well with their dad as with their mother okay professor thanks for your time this morning thank you very much enjoy the rest of your day thank you very much indeed okay that's professor emir smith there 08 660 uh 25 thousand uh does anyone know the answer to this one if I leave letter cunny shopping center I'm heading over the pierce road which lane do I take uh on the two lanes that are there they have only one hour each one says left to the other right so if you're going straight which lanes you get into I've only ever used the left but only actually notice the signs this morning if that's if you're s exiting out of the shopping center and I suppose then you're meeting traffic that's coming I don't know the names of roads that would be coming down from here uh mountaintop uh joining that I was in the left lane going straight on I'm not I probably shouldn't admit this I thought I was in the right lane but then someone on the inside lane uh cut straight across me maybe that left lane is for left only uh or straight on if you come in out of the shopping center it's all very confusing anyone know the rules of the road get in touch I'll wait 660 25 000 that's something we're going to have to return to tomorrow that's all