 Yeah, going to be nice weekend to into early next week potentially settled lovely just perfect Kids out of the house decent bit of weather happy days Mom and dad can relax there's me taking off big glasses leaving glasses three these boys granddaughter Holly Gardner in remelton 11 today and also her first day back at school and I load her sisters Connie and Avian and Her mom Claire and dad Johnny and grand and granddad in Glasgow wishing her well today another couple Greg Hey, just don't mind a twins Cara and Coen Coden hopefully got that right McGinty and do is all it's nothing's worse. He gets somebody's name wrong Yeah, it really is terrible. Do you read those texts in advance? No, I do I asked Austin could he help me out with how would you pronounce it? Then C A O D H A N Kean. Oh C A O D H A N Kean, maybe maybe do you know Donna Marie? Do you know here? I would win Kean as well Kean. Yeah, I see Sounds like Irish for Kean. Oh, right. So came McGinty. Thanks for that Donna Marie. Good on you and do his best of luck Starting to do school today and her big sister Kiva going to today as well. So best luck to everybody. All right, Jared All right, Michael. Good luck to you. Have a good show I don't got people's names around you don't get to I never do that. Get it. I know Thanks. Have an eye. Come here. Good. Listen. Have a goody Gucci. All right, then It is the 9 to noon show after we get a news update from Donna Marie Daherty. Thanks Greg Good morning, Donnie Gull is one of seven constituencies to remain totally unchanged under the constituency review report 2023 others include Clare Cork Southwest Dublin Central Kerry Limerick County and Waterford The number of members of doll Aaron is set to be 174 that's an increase of 14 There's fears plans are in motion to develop an oyster farm on Locke's willy Councilor Paul canning says he is aware that consultants have been carrying out surveys and Investigation work around the key shore He has proposed a public meeting to be held to discuss the manner in which he will has been liaising an Irish Marine Ecologist on with Councilor canning has warned that it's too late to object that it is too late to object to the erection of trestles Once the foreshore license has been granted By the time that the Objector has all of their their docks in a row you're on out of time because you have to do an appropriate assessment or an NIS so my opinion would be that we get ahead of the foreshore license and are ready for any information that's needed and That's where I want to set up a working group and maybe get a what to call a course watch training event So that we gather information And do we better research within the last wallet that will help us on our journey a former Donnie gall guard a sergeant says there is a desperation among Authorities as it comes that people aged 45 or 50 could soon become guarder recruits The current upper age limit of 35 for anyone applying to join the force looks set to be increased Significantly Irish independent reports It's part of a radical fresh proposals to boost the numbers of uniformed Guardi and attract serving police officers from other jurisdictions But former guard a sergeant Christy Galligan says it appears they're trying to exert all options to improve recruitment and retention problems Yes We need for the recruitment and retention in the garbage given all the difficulties and issues We have at the present moment to retain members or even to recruit members But there is an inherent difficulty when you start putting it in the upper age limits And it's not tying about the ageism or anything else But seems to be a kind of a desperation on behalf of the authorities at this present moment of time Ahogald drum Keen and St. Johnston are the latest areas to benefit from leakage reduction works in Donnie gall Ishka Aaron has carried out upgrade works with over four kilometers of old and leaking water pipes recently replaced The utility says the works are critical in conserving water resources and reducing high levels of leakage Which have been a significant source of disruption and outages for customers in the area The first of this year's CAO offers will be made later this afternoon They'll be available from two o'clock with the deadline for students to accept their college offers set at three o'clock West Wednesday great inflation in the leaving cert is expected to impact the process again this year a Look to weather dry spells today with a mix of cloud and sunny spells turning hazier in the afternoon There will be isolated showers with light northwest winds highest temperatures of 15 to 17 degrees That's all for now the next news updates at 10 o'clock until then. 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Good morning four minutes past nine Wednesday the 30th of August 2023 How are you all keeping and we hope you very well indeed you welcome along good to have you on board for another three hours of The 9 till noon show here on Highland radio, and it's a busy one We've got a lot to break down not least the electoral commission announcing that Donagall is gonna stay as a five-seater With a little bit of the bottom of the county, but not insignificant remaining part of Sligo leecher I think that's come as a bit of a surprise to many John McAteer is going to be joining us shortly as you go through it We're going to talk about perhaps maybe to the potential runners and riders in the next general election. What impact Will this have on Sinn Féin's aspirations can Fina fall and Fina girl retain their representation? what difference might The emergence of a 100% regest political party have on the whole state of affairs We want you involved in the conversation as well because you out there are as much experts as anyone else Oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand is the whatsapp and text number or give us a call on Oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand as someone who just happens to be in Sligo leecher Literally on the borderline personally, it's quite an annoyance for me because Arguably there isn't enough of a population that could be organized in such a way to elect someone from that part of the world That you would feel, you know that you are Genuinely represented in the doll. That's no disrespect to those TDs elected in Sligo leecher and what have you but they are a long distanced removed and They themselves as at least one or two of them has said the logic would be to return don't go to a single Constituency, but anyway be that as it may they say they couldn't do it because to do so would Cock up the figures or something to that effect, but anyway, we'll get to that We'll run through what's on the front of and inside some of the newspapers Today we'll start with the locals and a woman has been charged with the murder of a man whose body was found in the water off Sleeve League Nikita Burns Was hauled before a special sitting of letter Kenny district court on Tuesday morning after being charged with the murder of Robert Wilkin burns a 21-year-old with in dress at West End bandora and appeared for a short hearing before Judge Kieran Liddy Burns was arrested on Monday morning in letter Kenny and detained at letter Kenny guard a station under section 4 of the criminal Justice Act 1984 after questioning detectives charged Burns with murder Detective Sergeant Matty Murphy gave evidence of the arrest charge and caution of Burns Detective Sergeant Murphy told the court that he charged Burns at 10 21 on Monday August 28th after being cautioned Burns told detectives. I didn't do it On to the fill in Valley voice a Strenawler student who received an impressive eight H ones in this year's leaving cert exams plans to study Theoretical physics Kiva Burke has our students to work hard and do your best if they want to succeed The Innish Times this morning Businesses in Bunkrana could withhold rates if the town's 30 minutes off Free on-street parking is withdrawn. It's been warned Donagall County Council's exploring abolishing the free on-street parking Which was voted in by councillors in 2006 under a review of the parking regime in the town The council believes the move would increase income from the charge the proceeds of which can be spent locally such as on improvements to the town's streetscapes and footpaths the council says the on-street parking Operating is operating at a loss, but traders in the town have reacted angrily to the suggestion They say many businesses rely on the free parking and the loss of it would have a severe impact and see some traders force to close on to the nationals now and it isn't almost impossible to comprehend another multi fatality road traffic collision in County Tipperary and it happened late Yesterday, which means that a lot of papers have to go to print to get copies to this part of the world And it's not featured as prominently as it would otherwise be but again It's just there are no words three people including a young child were killed last night in the latest horror Collision on our roads the crash which involved one vehicle happened near the townland off wrath Count outside casual County Tipperary last night a man woman and a young child Were confirmed dead at the scene two other adult passengers in the car were also injured one was in a critical condition last night while another was said to have suffered less severe injuries and It's it's emerged since the papers went to publish that The young person just three I believe Was it a backseat passenger in the car the two people that died? Were the child's grandparents both aged in their 40s and the child's parents aged in their 20s were the front seat Passengers it's understood members of two separate families heard the crash and went out to it before raising the alarm last night To fire brigade and an ambulance were quickly on the scene within minutes local finnigale Councillor Declan Burge has said this is another horrible and tragic crash just outside the town of Casual so soon after the awful loss of Luke and Grace McSweeney Nicole Murphy and Zoe coffee They died in a crash on Friday in the same County not too far away from this latest instant again It is just too sad four words In the Irish times this morning we learn how we kind of know this ourselves But anyway the cost of a liter of petrol and diesel could soon cross the two euro barrier again as rises in Exotic size duty a spike in demand and a reduction in the global supply of oil creates a perfect storm Aarland has said and you know the real impact of this is obviously the day-to-day costs But there's lots of you listening out there either yourselves or family members that have to travel quite a bit to work myself included and You know you be afraid to add up how much it costs in petrol and diesel don't you because it can be 60 70 80 I know some people paying 100 110 euro to fill a tank and they're having to do it at least you know once or twice Every fortnight and then next thing you know you're up on a level of five or six hundred euro a month just to get to and from work And that's just in fuel costs. I mean it's an awful burden for some this was Your income is static right so whatever money you have left. This is eating into it Well, the average cost of motor fuel stands at around 170 a liter at present There will be a price jump after Friday when the excise duty on a liter of petrol and diesel will climb Seven and five cents respectively as a measure introduced last year to help Consumers during the cost of living crisis nears to an end Minister for nine finance Michael McGraw yesterday said this increase was locked in but that a final planned increase in the tax Which would bring it back to its original level from the end of October would be kept on to review as the government prepares The budget package now what I would be very curious as because it's clearly there's a number The government has a number that they think we can afford for a price illegal elite for a price of the leader of Petrol or diesel now I'd be very curious as to what it is. You know when they're sitting around the table. Do they say well? They can afford 190 or they can afford to I'd say two is the magical barrier that they think right people will pay 195 but 202 is just a bridge too far. I don't know but I wish there was just a bit more transparency like what is They're keeping under review, but what do they see as the Opera limit that they think right. We need to do something now. I suspect it's two euro I wish they would tell us so we know rather than treating us like children a little bit Governments tend to not this particular government, but governments generally tend to treat us like children Let us know what what what what is the the limit that you go right? We as a Government need to do something What do you think about raising the opera age limit of? On guard a she a car now entry into it. I don't see I think the problem here was setting at 35 I don't see the logic of it. I mean you could have someone who's 45 In excellent shape who would be? Perhaps more physically Able to do the job than a 22 year old Do you know what I mean? Like I don't I think we're discussing whether or not or should it go from 35 to 40 or 50 But why was it just set at 35 to begin with I don't that's what I see is the problem I can't see any issue at all with fit 40 50 plus is Becoming guardie. All right, they might not serve that long 20 or 10 years or even five But we need guardie. I think we need guardie with experience and I say you know what if there's 14 50 year olds That want to be in the guards and they're fit and healthy bring it on. I don't know what you guys think out there I think was it Christy Galligan was on the news saying a smacked of desperation. I don't I don't agree with that at all I think it was a silly. I think it was a silly line to draw at 35 personally Especially when you see people so fit later in life And then you see others who are less fit much earlier in their lives Well, the current age limit of 35 for joining on guardie Akana will significantly increase under radical fresh proposals the new age ceiling is thought likely to land between 45 and 50 years as all efforts are made to boost the uniformed ranks the force needs additional personnel across a variety of specialist positions in addition to requiring regular officers to patrol and stage and for station purposes and I do believe And this is no disrespect to the new intake I do believe that they do need a bit of experience in there and for that reason alone as There's an exodus from the guardie with older guards. I think it'd be worthwhile for that. I think there's a reassurance sometimes When someone has a Looks a little bit older. That sounds terrible. It sounds a just but you know what it's what people are talking about out there What people feel the Irish Daily Mail tells us that a clampdown on classroom influences is on the way with teachers warned about their responsibilities by the education minister Early this year it emerged that a number of teachers with large social media followings had accepted payments to promote brands and Filmed content in school buildings now the teaching council the standards body for the profession has agreed to write to all registered teachers At the behest of Minister Norma Foley in a letter obtained by the Irish Daily Mail Miss Foley urged the council to remind teachers of their obligation to avoid conflict between their professional work and private interests Which could reasonably deemed to impact negatively on the profession is it? Let's guess. What is it on? Pupils and students. Okay, I don't know. There's that many big in number. I'm not sure that's worth a front page, but anyway The son tells us we know this already but again Ireland's childcare crisis is pushing mums out of their jobs Forcing them to modify plans to return to work in favour of staying home with their children I'm sure this affects some dads as well. Is this been your lived experience like And you can send us a comment anonymously, of course, but it'd be good to speak to you Have you found that you can't do your work or you can't pursue your career as you'd want to because of The cost of childcare let us know await six sixty twenty five thousand Well a recent study found women are five times more likely than men to leave paid work due to such caring Responsibilities now top medic professor a thief L Kufash has called for the government to boost pay paternity leave currently just two weeks for dads to help spread the To spread the load, but I think I mean that would be helpful I think what we need though is affordable childcare so people can go out to work Finally, I don't know whether to read this one or not But it's kind of one of those stories if you don't like worms over them inside people's bodies put your fingers in your For 30 seconds. It's a horrible story a worm three inches long was found wriggling in a woman's brain during surgery to the horror of Medics in what is believed to be a world first the parasitic round worm Usually found in carpet pythons was spotted during a biopsy performed through a hole in the skull Surgeon Harry Pryor bandy said I just thought what is this? What is that? It doesn't make any sense, but it's alive and it's moving We all felt a bit sick the 64-year-old patient then admitted to Canberra Hospital in the Australian capital after experiencing Forgetfulness and depression a year earlier She had been admitted to her local hospital in New South Wales with symptoms including Abdominal pain a dry cough and night sweats and it seems this little worm lived in her head I'm not sure if it did for so long It's the first of its kind, but it's the first that's been discovered It doesn't mean it's the first ever suppose right. Okay. Let us discuss these Electro boundary changes. 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Anyway back to the Electoral Commission With regard to the Delegal constituency It was not possible to recommend the removal of the existing breach in its county boundary by the Sligo Roscommon constituency To have done so would have resulted in a variance of more than 12 percent, which the commission considered too high John McAteer editor of the Trikotl Tribune Look, there's a lot to digest breakdown here But first and foremost, uh, it is still I find it extremely annoying It's a balls as we might say if we weren't on the radio that a slither of Donegal South Donegal is Not going to be part of the the rest of the county Unfortunately, and the reality here is that we were just that At of the population about just over 167,000 to have two three cities You would have to be much closer to that 175 176 We weren't going to get there, but there's a bigger problem than that in that there's body team divisions a In North Roscommon In the Sligo-Litrum constituency to make up the number so Sligo-Litrum would be losing that Donegal vote entirely Because we were to make up those six seats We would need to get those areas north of Ballantrave, Ballishan and Bondone back that If we were having this conversation yesterday, we might have been calling it exactly as it is today Anybody I talked to in the last week and there's a big big interest in it Mainly because people are very opposed to the idea of extra seats But most people didn't see any real change. They saw changes predominantly around Dublin But like for Donegal the five-seater is one that we're going to have to live with for the foreseeable future We've had it now in 2016 2020 and now Probably next year or the year after it and it will work Like the ratio per per per TD is going to be 31,500 people. It was slightly over 32,000 So there's some minor variations in the south of the county going towards Sligo-Litrum Yeah, we have this one TD for every 30,000 in Britain. It's one for every 90,000 So obviously they were going to stick to their guns on that that wasn't up for negotiation, I presume It wasn't up for negotiation because it can't be under the current 1937 constitutional decision of Eamon de Valera to enshrine it in the constitution Back in the day of when there was no communication whatsoever. There was hardly any travel to Dublin The fact that it's enshrined in the constitution is between 20 and 30,000 with a minor variation either side of that It's something that should have been changed long ago. There should have been a referendum on that Willie O'Dee was talking about that rather belatedly last night Michael McGrath is disagreeing with that So we're going to have another 14 TDs come the next time that would be utterly ridiculous The numbers in the UK with their increased population. There's 119,000 people per mp And there's a plan there of course upset a bit by Brexit. There's a plan there to reduce that by 50 Because with modern communications and all of that kind of thing, 174 TDs It leaves at 29,573 or 593 per TD Probably probably the lowest in the EU But we have to live with what we have there and I think the parties the main parties will all be breathing a slight Sly of relief here that the county is not split up again because the split would leave some some some rare breaches because the the population basis is Is very much towards letter Kenny and towards any shown and away from the southwest you could see areas up and determined Kilmer Crane and almost across the Yacob bridge into into Rothgill Probably in up to Cranford along Mulroy Bay You could see areas around Fintown coming down into Glen swilly and church hill But we happen to worry about that this morning all we have to worry about is that we're just in this situation where we As we as we were previously and as I say the main parties from from from the way I look at it Sheen Fane will be happy about it a Because it leaves them on track was their plan to get three seats here It's much more difficult to get two seats and a three-seater than it is to get three seats and a five-seater if you know what I mean Morning Brendan. Good morning John Brendan Burns also with us We'll come to you in a second. I'll tell you what we're going to talk about what the makeup of of our constituency might be post election there was national speculation that donagall could become Could be reunited so to speak and North and south to three to constituent three seed constituencies I didn't get that sense on on the ground Brendan Burn, did you are you surprised that the status quo has been maintained? No, not one bit maths always indicated if you were We're here waiting salt and doing analysis of the figures in the population of donagall And particularly when the commission made it no one as they did that they weren't going to go to the upper extent of number of seats They made it clear that they were not going to go to 181 and once it went below 178 Seats donagall hadn't a hope of being reunited because we were well short on maths And the only way we could be reunited into two three-seaters Would be by taking in possibly up to a quarter or half the population elitrum and no commission would count into that All right. Okay. So john macatier. What will be the makeup? Well, we'll go through party by party, I suppose um And and of course we have the the 100 redress party which certainly throws a spanner in the work for some potentially So shin fame got it wrong in the past. Uh, they they went for for three seats It wasn't successful and they barely scraped two things have changed significantly since then Can they return? three TDs in donagall and if so, how The the incumbents we'd imagine they return, but where does the third candidate come from? Who is it? It could easily be gary dawdy again in the fin valley a up in your area Brendan it could be no jordan. It'll be in and in and around those two candidates. I would imagine a Given that they have a block of 45 percent of the vote there 34 Does gary dawdy have the profile for it john and and and Gary's a fine gentleman as is no lasses as everyone that's uh, that's uh in this county pretty much but Strategically that that's what failed the last time. Uh, it would take would does he have the enough co-support there as a starting point? I mean he seems a wee bit north in the county for in my opinion. Yeah, well, he's in the fan valley Uh, stern all area It would be well enough based. I think the last time you're on was was was just a bit premature shin fame had never voted for two or three uh prior to that and It was a it was a learning experience for them to convince their voters that there's a second and the third vote there And it probably backfire. Well, it didn't it didn't probably it actually did backfire on them Times have moved on quite a bit for them since then. They didn't have 45 percent at that point Fianna fall and finna gear were both much much stronger There is a there is a there's a sentiment running in all the opinion polls as brendan points out there On the day that you weren't done low There's a sentiment running in the opinion polls In favour of shin fame and it's ongoing and it's increasing Probably the reason for that there is that the three party coalition has not seemed to be serving the people to any great extent It's just sort of a steady as she goes. We have loads of money It's not evident on the ground. It's not evident in childcare. It's not evident in the health system It's not evident The price of fuel is going up five six or seven cent again per liter this weekend Uh We have a different dynamic politically in in donningall and it probably is going to transcend itself nationally as well because Nobody would be watching these results more closely than the the shinners this morning They they've been worried about about north carry there Pad daily would be hoping to bring in a second seat A I don't think he's going to unseat danie healy re but there were of high hopes of a second seat there Just just across those doubling constituencies. There would be high hopes there of extra seats Yeah, for sure There's a few interesting elements in that that we'd get to but in terms of a shin fame third candidate If if she can be persuaded and I don't know what the situation is at the moment I mean the logic that for me if I were we're saying to them you need to get core coffee on that ticket And that's no disrespect to null or gary But there's an awful lot of boxes been ticking there ticked there and and a great speaker a very strong I would say a very very strong candidate that I would see if they wanted to be successful that the person that they probably need to get in there What do you think brendan burn? Well, there's a few factors that are going to Ultimately decide for shin fame one They're going to have to do some polling to see how strong the mica candidate is impacting on them and Once they've weathered that storm they'll decide strategically where they're putting the candidate and I would have to agree A three candidate strategy with kora harvey is the new addition to that would be by far the strongest shin fame ticket because of her location. There's also the gender balance It's very difficult for any party in a five-seater now to run three male or three female candidates for that matter So there has to be gender balance there But in terms of kora harvey and I served with her on the council. She's a formidable candidate She's very well located Near the twin towns And the other thing is in a five-seater the influence of the fin val valley area And once you have the right candidate is going to be significant because there's population growth there And of course, no jordan wouldn't have the benefit of anything south of of la hi balantara effectively as well to he's from man charles, which you know the natural the natural His natural hinter would be perhaps more southerly than than westerly or or north westerly john What what do you think of a park pierce? kora and and and listen if park were to struggle in the show and Yeah, it would be the ideal ticket now kora harvey has remained very much as you know, brinton outside of politics at at at every Turn of the road ever since she stood down where she goes now what her career prospects are These are all issues that you'll have to consider her family We're we're we're assuming here that if you're going to run three candidates One of them at least will have to be a female on the gender balance thing and you can't avoid that If it's not going to be kora harvey probably it would have to be well I don't know how the How they would try to get around the the regulations by running three of the one gender Uh, I would see a female candidate. All right for for shun fain I don't think marry to raise I'm not I'm not sure I'm not sure if she would be I mean she'd be very good. I'm not sure she'd be interested I don't know. I don't know marry to raise personally with that But um, just probably probably probably been seen been been based and unload leaving much too close to to pierce Darn it would have to be up in that stern all area Our south of the gap More up towards dunnigall town more into your area brendan. All right brendan fina for what do they do? Because they are in a dilemma Um in in terms of I suppose really how to get charlotte mcconnell look back in really rather than any Aspirations beyond that uh tactically. How do they go about doing so? Well, as you know, I I can no longer speak for finafall, but I would imagine Now you're even you can speak even more freely now I would imagine finafall are considering this morning what exactly are they going to do but Obviously now it's quite clear that they they're going to have to run two candidates One in the old southwest and charlie in the northeast So the question you're really asking me is who is the candidate that's going to come out of the southwest? And uh, I think The candidates that would be looking at that position are of course, uh, michael nocton who's very much south in the constituency You have antony mulloy who's our drag glenty's based And you cannot rule out pat the cope galler who who's probably the most busy of all Yes, but the person if if it were me that would be most uh Least in favor of pat the cope running would be if I were he charlie mcconnell look Yes, well, I would have to say charlie would probably be the best man to answer that But the reality is and I thought myself when I was director of elections in 2011 If you get the strategy wrong and that was when mary cotland lost her seat the strategy itself does more damage to you Than they change in the swing within the electorate. So finafall are critical crossroads here where they need to Do some hard thinking about what strategy they're going to put in place Charlie alone as a single candidate won't work charlie plus a weaker candidate will not work Too strong candidates charlie plus another may well not work either So it's I believe You're going to have Depending on what fingale do depend on what shin fain are going to do You're going to have to put too strong candidates in that have good name recognition good geographical location The minister mcconnell oak is taking his granted as being a candidate So the choice is in the south. Do you put pat the cope galler her? Do you put antonym alloy or michael noctis? But you put in you put in pat the cope galler if you want your best chance to to win a seat is seen by Many still as a td even though he's not elected if you track to people They'll say he's the he's the busiest td in in in the county but But that would perhaps put him as the the number one candidate ahead of charlie mcconnell oak with everything that's going on No, in terms of popularity potentially would he outpole charlie mcconnell oak? Well popularity in itself won't win a seat for you It helps to win a seat definitely But if you look at the last general election much to everyone's surprise The whole west of dunning all voted in a greater ratio for pierce starry and rather than splitting the vote evenly between pat and pierce And that's what left pat the cope out if that were to happen again Then you would have a repeat of what occurred in 2020 So even though pat is a very strong candidate and he's flat out working and the entire constituency knows and appreciates that There's risks Either way, but I suppose if you're asking me a direct question and you always do eventually is five We're a p.m. That who's the stronger candidate courses pat the cope gather her Of course it is because like a seven and a half thousand votes sitting there Where else where else would you get it feign of all could count themselves very lucky to have a candidate? Is it going to be an age issue here? Or is he is he going to come up against that? Why should he? Like if you're sitting on seven and a half thousand votes and they're not going to be utilised You like and you will know that a big percentage of that seven and a half thousand votes are very personal votes for pat the cope Probably about four thousand of them. Are you going to jettison that? Right, you're not going to jettison that in in favour of of running michael norton or antony moly. They're both councillors But they're probably not as well positioned or as well known as pat the cope antony moly definitely from football michael norton Those of us in the media know michael pretty well. He's a good communicator and he's all of that But has he that has he has he that strength to get up anywhere close to five six thousand? I don't think so. I don't think any other councillors Again, it's like a game You know, he is very south tonig all and and maybe if the county Was had been reunited his his chances might have been more favourable So john how do like what is the strategy here? Is the strategy if you're feign of fall to get charlie mcconnellog back in or to get a feign of fall person back in And in both of those scenarios, how do you do it? There is strategy First of all is to hold that seat If they lose the dunnig all They'll be in the worst position in the war in 2011. That's just going to be as simple as that They can't afford to lose dunnig all Let it be mcconnellog or pat the cope They just simply have to get one seat because they are running at a very low ebb across the poles Nothing exciting is happening to them. That's going to going to increase that anytime soon But at the end of the day mcconnellog should be a strong contender. I mean that They're in a position of of of having a seat It's very very hard to to unseat a sit in td, especially a minister And let's look at it like this here charlie mcconnellog has been firing money around every pier in harbour and slipway in dunnig all I see it down at port sal and they're going flat out to spend on a half a million and a half euro there And up around greencastle. There's massive amounts of money being spent on the marine And now whether he's in favour of what the farmers are not it doesn't look good from that Farmer's opinion for a couple of weeks ago. He might fare better with dunnig all but that's going to be offset by the by the mc Controversy He's been seen as being far too ineffective on mc and that's not a personal attack on or anything like that It's just a reality talk to anybody that has a mc issue They're just and they're not going to vote mcconnellog So the question is who are they going to vote for is there going to be a make a candidate in there? There's going to make any inroads right well be a farmers candidate We're going to talk about that because I do have to take a break and hopefully both of you can stay with me So does mcconnellog is is charlie mcconnellog re-elected john? no Brendon Is is char unless something drastically changes does charlie mcconnellog re-elected? I would have to say in charlie's defence. He's a formidable campaigner Now, I know he's at his lowest ebb because he had the mica debacle and it's the farmers issues But he's a formidable campaigner who would have predicted in 2011 that he would have taken a seat against the tide when well No one did actually no one was no one predicting a seat at all for fina fall So I certainly wouldn't write charlie mcconnellog off off And I think he needs to certainly focus on the constituency I need I think he needs to focus on what he does well He's a very good people's person. So he needs to get on the doorstep and he needs to get out there Like, you know, brandon has a senior minister. You're aware of the constituencies so much a Europe is calling national politics is calling the cabinet is calling Uh, every other constituent in the country that has a farming vote is calling So it's not that easy. Joe mcqueen learned that the last time he just barely scripted McLaughlin almost lost that too because Well, he might not like this and up with those the sense that he he he was, you know To sort of focused on what was happening in Dublin or elsewhere. So you have to be really careful with that stuff That was 2016 when he lost a seat He was more switched in the last time as I say, it's been a big learning curve for sinfane and it's going to be a learning curve for for for everybody again because Yeah Fiennify and finnegale will have to hold those seats. Thomas Pringham will be a fairly certain John, I have to take a break. 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What do finna gale do? um Because you know they arguably got it wrong in the last election, uh, joe uh, macu I think he's is Even with the defective concrete issue. I think he is remains You know relatively popular, but he's not he's not for for running again. So brennan. What do what do finna gale do? Take a hard reality check and sit down with joe macu I think if they have any fighting chance of retaining the seat in donny gall It's with joe macu the transformation in joe macu from and john macatier mentioned it from the time he was minister to present Is phenomenal and he's connecting extremely well with the electorate So finna gale need to take a reality check there and sit down with joe and um have that conversation with him because I still believe joe macu is their only hope of retaining the seat in a five-seater donny gall I It's very hard to see any other pathway back that doesn't include joe macu john macatier It's impossible But then again joe macu has kept stating and restating that he's gone from politics. He's outside the parliamentary party. He uh It's easily been popular when you're on everybody's side If you're in if he's inside the parliamentary party he's got to organize meetings finna gale isn't this array across donny gall from what i'm learning from talking to To their grassroots finna fall is probably not much better except there's a this is the difference here finna fall of 12 strong councillors who hold and bind the organization together. That's not happening in finna gale finna gale needs a new beginning They need new candidates If it was joe macu Can you could be could be certain of holding that seat? Remember that as a senior minister the last time he struggled, you know a way down there on half a quarter And uh, that probably hasn't changed The macu vote is probably not going to go to macu because he was there during the period of of macu and he was there back in the government until last year so like It's very easy been popular as a safe brand and when when you're safe foot bluish and fancy free you haven't got a parliamentary party meetings You haven't to go to constituency meetings. In fact, you're outside of constituency meetings And I mean as a consequence of joel macu's uh decision to remain out of the party The probability here is that finna gale has also lost ground and it has definitely lost votes. And I mean But if you were in the party, we have seen it in the past and in this county Where you can successfully ride two horses, you know where you can be within the party and and be You know, we popular locally and then you sort of a kind of a different person on on on the national You can write when you're heading into an election say it's a year away or whatever it's going to be You have to be very active and very proactive on the ground and that can only come to Your your top representatives getting out and meeting the grassroots. That's not happening in finna gale It probably isn't happening in finna gale to any great extent because the grassroots don't matter anymore You know, we've been chucking it in there as to what impact The 100 percent redress party might have ali faran is p. Eero of the 100 percent redress party Are you going to allow me ali to speculate about the general election? So you're going to say to me that we'll see how the council elections go first Well, we're going to as I said to you one other time. We're going to walk first So we're concentrating on getting a party set up primarily at the moment and We we are we're far from there But we're we're working on being ready for the county council elections next So That's a lot to do yet. Yeah Of course And I'll ask you about your targets in that regard in a moment But when when you would you have preferred to have seen two three seaters that might have been better In terms of of returning a candidate in a general election or Can you see it also doable in a in this five-seater setup? I think it might be more doable for us than a five-seater But you know numbers it can change very very fast. We hope to be very very strong in coming out of any shown and letter kenny For the general election if we run a candidate And like there's most of north dunny gall is affected mulford and also affected badly by defective concrete blocks. So Look, we should be able to chance It's a democratic country and where we should be entitled to run Or run, you know have a party that can Speak for the people of that's affected by that So do you see any sitting cancer switching to your party or any conversations going in that regard? Not as of yet. Okay, but it's not being ruled out. We're not going to speculate on names, but We'll have to wait and see look It's there's so much to do Um and so much to build on first and when we're when we're ready to go then we can talk And let's be fair. Nobody's going to jump ship at this stage until we have Like we have a form in Dublin and like we know things don't get happened too fast in Dublin So a samples rubber stamp in Dublin is taken nearly two months Yeah, and let me ask you is there a target for council seats? And I know it's really early days and I don't sort of want to And if the answers no the answers no But I mean do you look at sort of milford letter kenny in the show and say well could could we do one one each two Which I don't know do is is there a Yeah, yes, we we're talking about running people in each of them areas, but Getting the right candidate that's suitable for Us that is you know is what we That ties into our way of thinking Um and our party's ethos Will be our you know, there's lots of good strong people out there that probably haven't even thought about running yet There's a candidate as a candidate and we want to be speaking to them in the near future But we're we're not just right ready yet. And that's the only problem. We're not ready yet No, and that is perfectly fine And that is why I do appreciate you you you're coming on with us Ali and to talk about it As you say it's very early doors and waiting for that stamp But I think these will be players in the next election. Thanks Ali for your time So how big a role and and of course I understand Ali's focus being on the the locals But let's jump forward to the general election John McAteer How big of a role do you think a 100% regress party candidate will have in in in this election? Difficult to know that one there because like It's the most adversarial constituent in the whole of Ireland, you know, uh every Every party and everybody within that party. They're fighting separate campaigns Doesn't matter. What else is going on in every other constituency? Done it all and be very heartily contested Sinn Féin shouldn't be bitten for three seats Fina fall will be thinking of holding on to one and hope on the outside to get a second one Thomas springer will be a favorite with me. He has a solid base of five six thousand votes there popular man There since 2011 to through 2016 and to 2020. So he has a lot of credibility built up there Fina gale probably isn't Isn't a more difficult position than than any of the other party. So that's going to add a lot of intensity They have just one councillor in any show on isn't it in johnny johnny mcginnis. Yeah Jim Mccaven is letter Kenny martin martin harley is in stern horror And and beyond that they don't have an awful lot going for them. So as we talked earlier on there They don't have a figurehead leading them in the constituency since joe mcqueen doesn't have the party equipment He doesn't have to go to party meetings and he doesn't have to get out organizing. So who's going to do it? I know that I know that they'll have an area organizer based up on Probably outside the county. I don't know to what extent that's playing into improving their lot I'm just not seeing finna gale Getting out of that. Okay, I can't believe this hour is going in so quick brendan brendan burn. What role do you think a 100% redress party candidate might have and and Will their message resonate? The further they move sort of, you know, I'm sort of, you know south and west of letter Kenny No, it won't once you go through the gap Unless they can mount a considerable campaign and you can't underestimate that the would because it is a very motive issue But if you're talking about a micah candidate, you must look at where the impact of a micah candidate is going to be And that's of course going to be on charlie mcconnell oak It's going to be on paulry mcgloughlin. So therefore the whole Third seat for shin fame possibly is in jeopardy because of micah the only finna falsi maybe in jeopardy because of micah So that kind of addresses the issue that we should be looking at And we talked about it earlier the strategies of all the parties and the strategic decision That take where they put the candidates. It's the party that makes the mistake That's going to lose the seat And this is going to be a highly strategized election So the party that's best organized on the ground will by default or other get the bonus And of course then to john micah tear. There's going to be other strong candidates. Mary t sweeney Has aimed to backing her. She's going to be running in the elections. I am sure And her message will resonate Yeah But there's probably going to be a farmers candidate from what we're gathering as well up on any shown We talked there about You can look at this and sectionalize it to come out of any shown larrikenny and mulford You're going to need the guts of seven thousand votes because they The micah campaign is going to dissipate the south of the gap and and and long before that But it's it's not beyond the bounds of reality that that can be achieved But it's going to be achieved at a big cost. They're both fish and fain and to and to fain of all I'm not too sure exactly To what extent the the the the micah campaigners have have Put a strategy in place because you wouldn't have to organize in every single area if you're going to get votes That is a big ask But they are The most impressive in terms of I think I think that that's going to be very important for them is social media And their reach on that and how they can organize in that way and how they strategize it because you know what It could be a protest vote for some as well. It could but you know like at the same time Micah is a huge follower to the huge campaign because that's an independent free spirited organization It doesn't have a political base But once you politicize an issue then you could see you could see you could see splits developing there Because not everybody that has the micah in the home is going to be a micah candidate. Or tonight is going to be a micah voter Jack canster jack moria. That's a big big issue canster jack moria of shin fain your reaction to uh the electoral commission um Do you think it makes sense to retain uh donnie gall as a five-seater? No, I think it's very uh disappointing and decision. I think uh donnie gall since since partition I think it's been a forgotten kind of in favor of The eastern seaboard and particularly Dublin and the the population of the doll is weighted on its favor I think we could have done with an extra voice and in the doll for donnie gall. I think we should have taken back in the likes of dolly shan bondorn Completed the county boundaries divided into two three-seaters and I think they brought that extra voice for for the country when it's when it's needed more than ever You're talking about the defect of uh block crisis like if we had that extra voice in favor of donnie gall um Fighting in Dublin. I think I'd make that that struggle a bit easier. So I think it's a an opportunity missed today Particularly for those wasn't only on the northwest. All right. I wish I had more time jack, but unfortunately don't thanks very much for that Comment and both of you finally and briefly Thomas Bringle you'd be confident of of him retaining his seat Yeah Quite confident. I would say from this distance out I would say it as shin fain battling for three a almost Pringle Pretty well, it's hard to say that anybody's a safe bet because I know it's this thing Thomas bring Pringle would be in there as always He's the most transfer friendly candidate in there. So three shin fain one independent. Where is the last seat go? I would have to toss a coin on that one. Well, no, you know, don't have a coin. You've got your head job talk, uh I would call that profane of all actually Pat the cope Gallagher or trolling mcconnellog If Pat the cope's running I'd call that for the cope. Okay, uh, Brendan. Would you see three shin fain? Yeah And uh, three candidates then for the remaining two seats And if you look at 2016 and 2020 and you can't go and ignore the facts of that Thomas Pringle survived on both of those elections with a sizable transfer from shin fain If shin fain run three candidates, which they are going to Where does that transfer that he has lived on in 2016? It elected him 2020 It got him over the line again. If shin fain tightened their vote, they'll take the three seats And the other two seats will be between Thomas Pringle if in gill candidate and if in a fall candidate with possibly if in a fall organize themselves They could by by default possibly have two in the run. Brendan Byrne. Thank you very much indeed I just kicked him out then off the back of that John McAtee. Thank you Thank you. Bye. Bye. 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It's 10 o'clock donal kavana at the news desk Dunny gall is one of seven constituencies which will remain totally unchanged under the constituency review report of 2023 Others include claire cork southwest dublin central kerry limberick county and waterford The number of doll members will increase to 174 with more here's shawnda foe One of the biggest splits is in dublin fengal, which becomes two new constituencies fengal east and west with the east based around Swords port marnick and malahide It's one of four new seats in dublin overall The biggest redrawing is of wicklow and wexford, which become three constituencies where there was two a wicklow constituency running from bray To wicklow town and baltenglass in the west wexford, which comprises most of the county south of enos korthy And a wicklow wexford area which starts above enos korthy and finishes below wicklow town taking in arclow Cork gets two extra seats in the north central and south central constituencies Tipper area split into two three-seaters as our leash and awfully till their north gets an extra seat as does gallway east Mayo and mead east which takes back territory from louth In total 14 new seats in the next doll Well, there's no speculation as to what strategies the parties will adopt indoni gall in terms of candidate selection ahead of the next general election It's most likely to happen in autumn of next year. It has to happen by february 2025 One imponderable indoni gall is will there be a defective bloc's candidate? Well, ellie farron is pro of the recently formed 100% redress party speaking to a cues on the line till noon show He wouldn't get into speculation about what happens at the next general election He says they want to walk before they run We're working on being ready for the county council elections next June. That's a lot to do yet Get councillors in place first We hope to be very very strong coming out of any shown and letter kenny for the General election if we run a candidate most of north's dummy gall is affected mulford and all affected badly by Defective concrete blocks. So we should be able to chance And there was a lengthy discussion on the electoral commission report on the night till noon show today You can listen back to that Of course on our youtube channel and later on it'll be podcast on our website And you can listen back to on our social media pages as the day goes on A south indian councillor says he believes plans may be in motion to develop an oyster farm unlocks swilly And now is the time he says for the community to respond councillor paul canning says he's aware that consultants have been carrying out surveys and investigation work in and around the keyshore He's proposed a public meeting be held to discuss the matter and has already had discussions with a marine ecologist from coast watch Ireland councillor canning says it's too late to object to the erection of trestle's Once a foreshore license has been granted and by the time that the Objector has all of their their docks in a row. You're on out of time because you have to do an appropriate assessment or an NIS So my opinion would be that we get ahead of the foreshore license and are ready for Any information that's needed And that's where I want to set up a working group and maybe get a what to call a coast watch training event So that we gather information And do we better research within the last wallet that will help us on our journey Iskair and says oh a gold drum canaanson johnson are the latest areas of donnie galt to benefit from leakage reduction Works iskair and has carried out upgrade works with over four kilometers of old and leaking water pipes replaced The utility says the works are critical in terms of conserving water resources and reducing what were high levels of leakage Killebeck's coast guard was tasked yesterday afternoon to a report of a broken down yacht in donnie galt bay The team took the yacht under tow and safety returned it to killebeck's harbor the operation started just before four o'clock and A former donnie galt garther sergeant says there's desperation among authorities After reports emerged today that people aged up to 45 or even 50 could soon become garther recruits The current upper age limit of 35 for anyone applying to join the force looks set to be significantly increased The Irish independent reports it's part of radical fresh proposals to boost the numbers of uniformed garther And attract serving police officers from other jurisdictions Former sergeant christie galligan says however this approach is not without its problems. Yes We need for the recruitment and retention in the garther chicana given all the difficulties and issues We have at the present moment to retain members or even to recruit members But there is an inherent difficulty when you start putting it in the upper age limit And it's not saying about ageism or anything else, but seems to be a kind of a desperation on behalf of the authorities at this present moment of time Well the forecast good dry spells with a mix of cloud and sunny spells turning hazier in the afternoon Isolated showers with light northwest winds top temperatures today 15 to 17 degrees celsius And that's island radio news. We're back with news headlines at 11 o'clock until then from the news team. Good morning The obituary notices this wednesday morning august 30th The death has occurred of john mullen kerks town letter kenny Reposing at his later residence from 12 noon today with rosary at 9 p.m Wake with family and friends welcome Family time, please on the morning of the funeral Funeral from there tomorrow going to st. Unan's cathedral for 11 a.m Raquia mass Which can be viewed live on church services dot tv Followed by burial in the family plot in conwall cemetery Family flowers only please donations if wished the dunagall hospice care of pascalblake funeral director The death has taken place of victor gibson 27 knock numona park letter kenny His remains will repose at his late residence from 11 a.m to 9 30 p.m today And from 11 a.m to 9 30 p.m tomorrow funeral leaving from there on friday afternoon at 1 30 p.m For 2 p.m funeral service in conwall parish church letter kenny Followed by burial in ballet more graveyard dunfana he House private please close family friends and neighbours welcome Family flowers only Donations in lieu of desire to the irish heart foundation care of terence mclintock funeral director The death has taken place of charlie dorian tonduff clohen Charlie's remains are opposing at the family home with rosary each night at 8 p.m Removal tomorrow morning at 10 30 a.m For 11 o'clock requiem mass at our lady of perpetual sucker chapel glen fin Burial afterwards and kill were a cemetery Family flowers only please donations to st. joseph's hospital comfort fund care of any family member or marley funeral directors Family time from 11 p.m to 11 a.m And on the morning of the funeral funeral mass can be viewed on mcn media dot tv The death has taken place of elizabeth law hurry in the farrell 197 lower main streets to ban proposing at her home Requiem mass and st. mary's church melmont is currently ongoing Interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery Donations in lieu of flowers pleased to melmont manner residents comfort fund care of quigley funeral directors The requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam For more details including any family health guidelines for wakes and funerals, please go to highland radio dot com Barry's tea every detail matters Every leaf sourced from the world's finest tea gardens every careful selection from our master blender Every measure and every stir Every detail is considered to ensure that every cup delivers the much loved taste of barry's tea The county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on highland radio And we like to talk about the number one county. Uh, that is of course, uh, donnie gall Not only 10 minutes past 10 wednesday the 30th of august, uh, welcome back to the nine till noon show Good morning if you're just after joining us. Thanks to ali jack brendan and john for the last hour as we dissect the Potential runners and riders as we know now that donnie gall is going to retain The same status one big constituency of five seats with a little bit of the south of the county in slygo And also in litrum and thank you so much to so many of you getting involved in the conversation as well They're talking about charlie mcconnellogue. What about the fisherman? Yeah, well, I think when John was referencing peers and things like that there that may be that Great conversation greg with your guests public service broadcasting at its best female voices missing but not your fault It is something by the way that we is a constant endeavor to make sure that as many different voices are represented on the program. I'm not being defensive But we do go out of our way to make sure that We strike a balance as much as we can. It's not always possible though There was a full house last night in the monteregal hotel Ain't you had a meeting for parents teachers grandparents against this explicit sex education starting in schools? I'm not sure it's Uh, it's it's explicit in this the issue. I think it's more the content of it rather than Uh explicit nature of it especially in national school. It's just the same silly drawings that I uh that I Saw in national school, uh, maybe you're on about secondary school And maybe you're on about some of the other things that they're discussing Uh, I hope finna get actually how many weren't that meeting last night if you were added I hope finna go get a hammering in the local and general elections can nothing because nothing But hardship for people looking after the big boys as usual still Finna fall no better they believe Finna fall finnegale are finished in the general election over miker miker pyrite plus unemployment No consultation on young ukranians being pushed into every village in arland and given more benefits than the irish they say Um also to a lot of you know, a lot of families will have seen their young people having to leave That's going to be a factor and it's all as well. I'm sure might come a crafty to rejoin finnegale and stand as a td Is that something he'd want to a wonder? 100 redress and farmers should join up. Well, you see that is always the danger in that Um, you could uh, you could spit a vote I mean even say for instance, you know shin fane have made very strong promises as it relates to defective concrete Now whether they follow through on them that remains to be seen Um, and it potentially you can end up damaging in running a candidate on that issue alone You could end up damaging the party most likely maybe to be favourable as I say if they follow through on their commitments But then again, if you have a farmers candidate defective concrete Uh, and and others it does what it does dilute the vote that's available because you'll always get a core of people I think that will vote for finna fall finnegale, uh shin fane and independent where their seconds and thirds go but People should never underestimate the fact that Both of those parties do retain a core support and it is not unimaginable And I've said it long before we said elsewhere as far as I've heard that it's not impossible that the current government could be returned What about your favorite party? Good friend. Ain't twos mary t sweeney. Could she be the dark horse in the race for a seat and Was only cis woman candidates in 2022. I don't know what's this I know what the word means. I don't know what is relevant in uh, mary t sweeney's conversation and mary t sweeney's a woman I don't think she needs any uh further clarification. Uh beyond that. Um Mary t sweeney, I don't know if he'd been uh, ironic in calling mary t sweeney. Good friend mary t sweeney's a regular guest on the show What about kora harvey says listener. Yeah, I I think they'll need her What about mary t sweeney's for shin fane? She would be their ideal candidate and peers could bring her with him on his vote alone But that is also uh a possibility, of course There's a few choice phrases for this slot. Uh, we're we not on the radio. Sure. Why change a winning formula, greg Could the reason be for no boundary change for donna gold that two three seaters would result in four shin fane Tds in the next general election finna fall and finna gale coalition couldn't have it. I mean that is Why if uh shin fane members might feel Uh a bit aggrieved because I think really they would have done very well. I would love to see the submissions Uh, I'm gonna find out to see if the public are not just to find out who thought what and where I have to say what a sham's of a government We have running our home country if the family budget was spent in the exact same manner as our elected personnel Whom give us assurances at every opportunity within the media and at our front doors that they could take care of all our personal needs We definitely need our heads looked at More than greg more jobs for the boys and gals in political circles under the guise of a need for more Representation in the doll if the uk adopted the same population td ratio was here There would be well over 2000 mps in west minster as opposed to 650 Uh, just another bill for hard pressed taxpayers again. I don't know why we didn't look at the one td for every 30 000. I mean it seems otd I call it says there have been campaigns for years to reduce the number of representatives we have yet. Here we are with more These boys really are looking after themselves. This country is a shocking disgrace another What happened to the number of mps decisions being made? What a waste of resources revisiting this instead of doing it all at once There were recommendations on the mps made as well If i'm not mistaken, I think it's as you were There's an extra seat going. They don't know where it's going to go yet Maybe that's the thing that they have to revisit that you're referencing some of my apologies If I missed that Uh, good morning, Greg so much for changes in rte whoever is responsible for commissioning a show by Keith Duffy on teeth Need sacking ace up. What a waste of taxpayers money Well, I saw that yesterday and I thought well, you know what they must just think we are suckers um Keith Duffy going to turkey to get his teeth done and it's going to be like a numerous park tv show Like why don't they go and make a program with I don't know who it is. What about that? Dave duke on on i radio or Someone like that there someone who's young and from the west the The canty or i'm sure midwest or There's david james here or whomever it might be, you know make programs try it with different people outside of dublin talented young Uh people that are popular in their their local areas, you know, why aren't they investing in them and giving people like that a chance? I don't know they won't risk it But they should and anytime they do anything it has to be really edgy comedy or something, you know But there's some fantastic people Working and operating on on the west coast and back them give them a chance to make a show Well, what have you anyway enough of that? 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How are you getting on good morning? I'm getting on good and it would be co-founder Okay, no problem because there was there was a few of us at the beginning So it wasn't my odd I was amongst them and we're talking about the launch of a new blood bike But I think uh, it's just an opportunity if you don't mind to talk about the work of blood bikes northwest because it's one of those Organizations and I think with a few different things You know, there's more awareness of what you guys do But I don't think there's enough because it's the type of service that You only really sort of start appreciating an understanding when you have to avail of it. Absolutely. Yes. So talk to us about Why you co-founded uh blood bikes northwest. How long ago and what work do you do? Well, this is our 10th anniversary Okay, uh, so how it started was uh, a guy called berna mcdyer who's also co-founder Asked a couple of people together to an open night. Okay, and they introduced a video of blood bikes in england And at that meeting we formed a committee And we've we've been running since basically so what we are is we're an out of our an emergency out of our service for the hsc We run from seven seven p.m. Of the evening to seven a.m. Of the morning so, um We have 15 Volunteer riders. Okay all rospa trained which is advanced training So and we're quite active Oh, so yeah, what kind of work do you do? Is it all blood or? Yeah, we do a variety of things. We do blood samples. We can do x-rays. We can do letters One of our big ones as was we worked all through covet as well would be breast milk we get breast milk from the Center in annus skillen, which is the only center in ireland that Provides breast milk We can also collect breast milk from one home bring it to another or bring it to a hospital So we have a variety of purposes Yeah, and the advantage in terms of of time and what the door-to-door How important is that? Absolutely. Can you give us a maybe a typical example of a scenario where you guys kick in and the impact it has? Absolutely. Well just before before I forget we also have done in the past. We've collected chemo medication and delivered it to people in their homes um So what you know, we get a call say maybe at about five o'clock in the evening Okay for a rider to go about seven o'clock to collect from the hospital So what they would do then is they would go to the lab in the hospital collect whatever is needed to be collected We link up with two other bloodbikes blood bike east and Dublin and blood bike west and also kuhalan down in the midlands So if we were to get a call to Dublin, we would go as far as octocloi Meet up with blood bike east or west there hand over whatever and they take it the rest of the way If we were going to Galway, we would go as far as Tubercury And meet up with another most likely kuhalan there hand over whatever it is And then they take it the rest of the way So it's brilliant, isn't it? It's remarkable the work that that that is done and talk to us about the type of people that volunteer and work With blood bikes north-west who are they? Yeah, they're just they're bikers ordinary bikers And the thing about you here on a bike Is that your bike I could see in the on the monitor? That's my bike out there I don't ride the blood bike though because I have short legs So that my legs to be dangling. No, but I am a biker I do some runs like a kick in if nobody else can do it But we have also have a van so with two bikes We are unveiling our news bike on Sunday, so we have a ride out on Sunday and that's celebrating our 10th anniversary We're meeting at Snugborough, okay? Heading off at about 11 30 and coming back for about three or four So we're leaving at Snugborough and coming back we've named the bike Noah because we were a beneficiary of the Noah bed push and Noah will be there for the unveiling of the bike on Sunday morning And people know Noah is our good friend Lee Gooch is beautiful And that was a remarkable event Noah's bed push. Absolutely. Absolutely. Now we have other sponsors So when you start mentioning one it can be difficult, okay? Optum would be an ongoing sponsor. We had bluebird care at the beginning So we we depend totally on volunteers. Our bikers are just ordinary guys. Most of them are working Um, so to say it's an evening service and a weekend service. So We're giving something back. I suppose that's we're giving something back to them, you know And so the the new bike Because you were one of the beneficiaries of Noah's bed push will be called Noah And you mentioned to Noah is also going to be an honorary member of blood bikes And Noah and Lee Are going to be at the the morning on there on the morning Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, indeed. So yeah, thank you for reminding me about that because I nearly forgot that Yes, we're making Noah an honorary member of blood bikes northwest So how what is your relationship with the hsc because I mean You nothing like this existed before you existed. Okay, so the hsc then is a big government funded organization Um, how did that? Relationship be established because there's lots of checks and balances and things that have to be adhered to and followed And because obviously then they're in a way culpable themselves because they're engaging this service So it's not just like, oh, yeah, there it is hopping in the bike in a way you go like use of lots of of uh Hoops to have jumped through and all that kind of stuff. Absolutely. Absolutely. I was slow It was a very very slow process. So it was building up trust building up the idea and to introduce some meetings Can't at the beginning a lot of meetings. Um, just to build up the idea of what we're about So now we have quite a good Uh relationship with the the hsc Yeah, took I would say maybe the first two years even three for them to fully Get what we were about But we we insisted on being there, you know, sort of, um I used to cut through a lot of red tape too. I imagine and yeah Say what this is how it would you know? It seems crazy that you'd have to sort of argue us to the benefits of it and how it can be done And logistics but use was so determined. We were determined, you know, we could see the benefits of the service So we ask actually save the hsc money Oh, for sure. Um, no, we don't get any funding from anybody in particular all of our monies as donations from some of the businesses uh from people we had um a football match in Milford, I think it was there last week and they they donated to us some of the bike runs You know the the devil's disciples of them. They donate to us. So we're the devil's I know it's bike. They're a great bunch And here we have a check from the devil's disciples And it's a cool name as well, uh, yeah, and fair play to to the businesses too, uh, that you can sort of rely on for It's a fantastic thing for a business to be involved in sponsoring. I think, you know, okay And of course from our own perspective here, we're, uh, delighted, uh, that, um Obviously lia Noah are going to be there in the morning. The bike's going to be named Noah And he's also now going to be an honorary member of, uh, blood bikes. But as you say, uh, this is, um This is, um, a a lovely thing Yeah for the gooch family, but it doesn't take away from all, uh, that everybody else's contribution Absolutely, no one would see it that way in any way, of course Right. So the 15 volunteers, sorry, I did ask you and then I got waylaid. It wasn't your fault. So they're just like bike enthusiasts. They're just bike enthusiasts, um, signed up. Okay, give their off their time There's quite a number of us that have been there from day one. Yes. Um, so yeah, that that's That's it, you know, uh, we've new bikers have come on in the last couple of years. Um, then they're inclined to stay Okay. Now we did lose a co-founder there last week. Um, he had actually left blood bikes But he'd been with us for quite a number of years and he passed away. So we miss him Even though, you know, even though what he will be to the forefront of all your minds Through this event and through the whole 10th anniversary year, of course, that's an awful loss for you But what a contribution and legacy to leave Yeah, okay. People hang in, you know, they're they're good to give off their time And it is about giving back and there's something in that when you're giving back like that There's a very good feel good factor, you know, and the guys say they give up I mean they they work and they come in in the evening and they may end up going down to tubercury or may end up Going to ottencloy. There's they never complain. Yeah, never ever complain You know, all right brilliant stuff. Um, so the new, uh, the launch of the new blood bike Will take place on sunday the 3rd of september and the weather's looking good for it as well Always helped, doesn't it? It's uh, how you come along? The snug borough restaurant letter candy to celebrate. There's a ride out So anyone who loves machinery is going to love that as well Registration will take place from 10 a.m. Until 10 30 a.m. Leaving snug borough restaurant at 11 30 a.m This is also the 10th year anniversary, of course of blood bikes northwest And of course blood bikes northwest were one of the benefiters of Noah's bed push With that money and other supporters that have been able to buy a brand new bike and the bike's going to be named after our great friend Noah and uh, Noah's also going to become an honorary member of blood bikes and Noah and Lee Gooch will be don't give Lee Gooch a microphone whatever Like just let him stand around and wonder it. Absolutely. Just yeah be a spectator So Noah and Lee will be there for the launch and um Fair play. I think he's doing amazing. I think he's doing amazing stuff. Oh, thank you And I think it's great that he's People know who he's gonna be always did but you know what I mean? Not just those that are directly affected Okay, Kathy anything else that you wish to add? No, I think that's us, you know, um Come along and have fun and see all the brilliant bikes. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah And as I say now it's 15 pound bikers are great, you know when it comes to charity because you know, it's a charity run It's 15 pound for to go in the run. Yeah, okay, and they are good and snug burrow putting on food at the end Okay, just uh, sandwich is enough for when the bikers when they they come back Uh, so just yeah, just wish us well and safe safe riding. Yes, of course And it's going to be early enough on Sunday too. So you can go along and enjoy and then get on with your rest of your day as well Absolutely. It's been an absolute pleasure. Kathy having you in thank you very much And a big thanks to everyone involved in the co-founders Uh, and the 15 voluntary riders that do amazing life-saving Work for the people. So thanks so much. Thank you. Real pleasure. Okay, kathie o'connor their founder and secretary of blood bikes northwest Watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com The night till noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low rate holiday loans with Test approval. Apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today dunnigol suffix sheep raiders show and sale of euro star and sis approved rams will take place this friday first of september At refo mart the show is at 6 p.m. With the sale at 7 online bidding available via mart bids app That's this friday at refo mart. What's your dream job? Lawyer software developer engineer or criminologist. Do you want to develop renewable energies? 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Can you if it's in the interests of the road safety? Sign sign of lights line of sights and all that kind of stuff I don't know the ins and outs of it, but I would I I saw quite a bit of hedges being quite a few hedges being caught not going to lie to you but anyway Right, okay. We learned yesterday evening The shocking news that another Tragedy has visited the beautiful County of Tipperary on goddess you can't confirmed that they in emergency services had to attend the scene of a fatal road traffic collision That occurred outside casual County Tipperary It was a single vehicle collision which occurred shortly before 9 p.m When a car hit a wall in the windmill Knock below area of casual County Tipperary Cancer Declan Burgess is Kerhealock of the casual Cajar Tipperary municipal district and and and I mean this in the most earnest way possible Declan We are all thinking on you from across the northwest as you would know We've had tragedy visit us on far too many occasions across the northwest and in Donegal and we can Really empathize and understand what you're going through but another tragedy like this so soon after the most recent one It's almost too much for For us to bear isn't it Declan? It is too much and the community of casual is no pure no at the moment This is heartbreaking news Especially following the awful tragedy in Camel Where four young people You know passed away there due to Road a road accident as well It's an awful blow and to be struck again in just a couple of days is is is It's so upsetting You know Camel and cash are very close only about 25 minutes away from each other um So that tragedy was our tragedy and this tragedy is now their tragedy and it's it's upsetting and it's a very difficult situation especially when a child was involved and Our community feels this at the moment and just on behalf of the town of casual and its people I want to express my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family involved in this in this road accident um But I also want to thank you know our first responders. They were brilliant And our entire emergency services team for their work. It wasn't a simple task. It wasn't an easy task Um, you know, so they have to be remembered but also I'm thinking of the residents in the windmill not below garea just outside of the town of casual Um, you know who are forced out of their homes Um, who dealt with the situation in the aftermath of this tragedy Um, and you know their assistance is is very much appreciated I tried to comprehend it is and we're trying to navigate through us Of course and and so many people so personally affected just as you outlined there Um, Dr. Did you did you know, uh, do you know the family and and and those who very sadly lost their lives? They're they're a local family well known to the community well established in the community Which makes it all all the worst. It's it's so it's so disheartening And heartbreaking news and you know casual will respond and be there for the community and you know Three people have lost their lives, you know as a result of this collision It's you know, it's it's it's a situation. We didn't expect to be in so soon after clown matters incident Yeah, okay. Well, I won't delay you any further. Uh, Declan, but just again to reiterate that we are all thinking of you and these awful tragedies have felt far beyond The borders of your uh, uh, county and we wish you all the The strength needed over the next while to deal with yet another, uh, awful situation Yeah Thank you for those parts. Okay. Chancellor Declan Burgess there who's herelock of casual kaha tipperary municipal district and You know when the email arrived in my inbox yesterday, it read, um, it read so similar to, um The the email we received, um Just before we learned of the awful passing of those 14 years and I was reading down The email and I saw tipperary and I thought the I thought the guard of I've accidentally reissued Uh the same email again. I thought there's no way possible Is there surely that we could have another awful incident like this in the same county so soon afterwards with with with multiple deaths a number of deaths as it was described at the time in a road traffic collision and and um, then the worst fears became a reality because then you could see that It was different town lands and just absolutely awful. Um, a beautiful young toddler and their grandparents both in their 40s and the parents um of the toddler the the Family of the the grandparents in the back mother and father of the toddler in the front one seriously injured the other less seriously injured but They have so much to deal with as well. Um, it's just really really difficult, isn't it? So Right, okay, um Greg, who would you vote for when the time comes? I don't know how to answer that question honestly because How do I answer that? I don't want to discourage anyone for voting, but I didn't the last time of the time before Uh, if the truth be told what about john old donnell? He's your man. Um I'm not sure if uh, he's running or not or how he might run or not. He's made no announcement at this point Why don't they go and make a documentary on the consequences of how many having tommy talks in turkey and the risks involved? Why are these programs created for vanity? It's an interesting. It's an interesting angle that actually Uh, it really is How funny, uh, sorry funny how the war is to blame for high energy prices, but look who's paying the latest. Um Who's paying the least it's ukraine. They're paying the least Um In the the the wall was responsible because obviously gas and and what have you was taken from From russia ukraine had pays the lowest just in case that caller thinks i've brushed over that But The the wholesale prices are much lower now and we're still paying. 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Families are grieving and the inquest hanging over them is taking too long I have an inquest coming up from a family relative So I have attended one or two to know what to expect sometimes there are four or seven held On one day. How is that fair? I suppose it's only an issue when you have one personally I strongly feel more questioning of the delays needs to happen Then when they are held no explanation for the delay is given given now, of course We're very lucky in that we can invite dr Dennis McCauley onto the program and he might accept to and he does accept sorry to address this directly because obviously No one wants to to see any family going through any extra difficulty in in their grief. So dr. Dennis McCauley gpenstrannolar Um I mean, do you recognize Sort of the the comments from a listener there. I'm sure those those views are are expressed from time to time I do. I think that The coroner is I'm the kind of coroner and We're not here to talk about specific cases But just to just to explain about the whole the whole process A coroner is just to give a background to your listeners The coroner is an independent judicial officer who investigates sudden deaths And particularly those that are violent and unnatural and I think that The vast majority of times the coroner is contacted when there's a sudden death and that they're they the gp or the And garish icon will be present when a sudden death occurs And we're first of all the first screening process we would go through is is this is there anything unnatural here? And that will always perform part of the investigation anyway But more importantly the only legal duty that coroner has after he's investigated the death is to be able to Ensure that a death cert is issued so that a person can be buried But between that there's a lot of investigation that that actually takes place So in the vast majority of cases There's a sudden death We will contact the the guard will be present and we'll contact the The gp to see if they're aware of as to the cause of death and if that is the case a death is issued Occasionally the gp will say I actually don't know why this person died So we have to do a a a post mortem And once again the vast majority of those cases the post mortem comes comes back and we then Are i'm issued i'm allowed to give a coroner's cert which will allow a death cert to be issued In certain special circumstances Um an inquest is necessary by law And an an inquest is a it is when people come to an end to an inquest We try and make it as respectful and as Pitch as you know family focused as as we can but it's a very daunting thing It generally takes place in the courthouse Um, there are guard members present. Um, you you take an oath when you give evidence and stuff So it is it's very daunting people who are very Sensible practical people they've come out of an inquest and said this is that was very harrowing and um, so That is the context that all that now along that journey There are delays and the biggest delay unfortunately that most people will encounter is the the time it takes from When we do a post mortem to get the actual full result back and that can take up as as long as six months now That's an extraordinary time And the reason for that is in all deaths We will do a toxicology analysis to see what medicines the patient may or or drugs the patient may or may not have taken And the the major delay is that the toxicology being sent to the state lab can take four to six months to come back And that is too long It's something that we've advocated since since since I started as as a coroner the state lab Meet us regularly and say this isn't workload wise. This is this is the quickest that we can Turn it around. So that's the first rule block that that comes for a patient And now patients then you'll ask do we have to do a toxicology in every case? Yes, we do because at an inquest it's quite Um, annoying for families. They'll say well, my relative was taking medicines Was he actually taking them or was he not without toxicology? We can't say that and then as well did he take too much of his medicines? You know, they're not that contributes to his death without toxicology We would never know that so it's a uniquely important part of the investigation. So that delays things then When we have that back we then asked members from goddess Yukona who who work with me They are my agents as it were and then it's sometimes it can take quite a while for a An inquest file to be To be actually to be generated and that involves meeting people taking statements Getting that getting prepared. So yes, there is a delay and that is those are the major things now The third factor was kovat During kovat. There was a recommendation that none is that that in that inquest didn't take place So there was there is a delay in that now. We're working through that and I must admit that I'm as up to date As I can be and I have very few cases that are sitting on my desk that have to have to be done But there will always be situations where we have to adjourn because of a some issue or that so those are the Those are the major that's the major journey that when a sudden death occurs What can happen and there can be no corner cut? because Given the process and the sensitive sensitivity of it and the expectations of all the parties involved The process has to be followed and the right people have to be available at the right time And have the the certain amount of work done. There's a lot of moving parts There are and occasionally we can circumvent it in in situations where there is not much Con tension and we can have what's known as a documentary in in quest where with the with the approval of the family A member of guard is your corner the pathologist and myself will meet in in the court There'll be nobody else there and we can expedite something if there is a if there is a rush but An inquest is a really unique thing. It is held in the courthouse, but it's completely there is no parties There's nobody making any accusations all we come all we come together so that we can hear all the information about a death We can hear we could hear Greg that you Put an axe through Dennis Macaulay's chest and I died as a result of the bleeding from that But I could never say that you that you killed me You know, it is a situation where we just Every bit of information we have about a death. We will we will um, we will talk about that in in an inquest And what's the importance of doing that in in in public? Dennis because obviously anyone including the press can can turn I'll put these in question at times. You do see reports on an inquest Um, I'm not sure that would be terribly welcomed by the by the families I don't know the ins and outs of that but like it's obviously a requirement that it has to be held in public and that means People can attend Anybody can attend any in in in quest. No, there's there's natural caveats to that in that that I think the families Who are grieving or coming to her very personal information about about their loved one's death? They are naturally That like really anybody in donningall could come into that in quest They can't nobody can be barred from actually coming in. No, naturally It's the press that that causes the biggest con tension once again They are entitled to be there. It is then up to their editor to decide is that Is there enough public interest to actually discuss this and I can stop press coming in now the one caveat I will say that is we have an understanding when there is a case that there's it is a probable suicide That that's not reported now if it was a very contentious suicide if it was somebody that Went above a certain level I would say that in those cases There could be a situation where it would be reported I can think of two or three that they were reported because of their uniqueness But generally we will have days where we will not have we will have cases which could end up to being probable Suicides that we inform the press that they really shouldn't be there that day And they and they're very reasonable in those in those regards, but I think it's the presence of the press That is the most contentious issue. Yeah. Well, that's what we're getting the message out of my hands Yeah, that's what we're getting messages on here a number of them Um I'll just read one example Can you ask for the press not to report on cases in the coroner's court? We had a personal family case and it was all over the local and national news Do we as family have a right to ask for no press? Well, I presume anyone has a right to ask for no press and you can appeal to editors not to but you can't Prevent them from doing so you can only sort of really appeal to their better judgment But they can't be compelled not to report on something presumably They can be I think what you can do is you can't bar them from the court But you can there have been situations where family have approached the press and I I think it is it's a very difficult It's a balance that the editor the news editors have to have to actually have and it's something that It's really out of the coroner's gambit in that anybody's entitled to come into this to the case There are press members there families are naturally Uniquely upset that they're that the the situation can Can come into the press some some families because the nature of the of the deaths are actually quite happy with that Because they want people to learn from that particular event But no it is something that is out of my control And it's it is a situation that it is very much the news editor who decides What is of public interest or or rather than what is interesting to the public and I think that is a that's a A journalism but there's a responsibility also on how it's reported as well because You are giving every element of of information and to pick a piece out of that Sometimes you see that in reports and you think well, you know that that's sensationalizing an element of of what is quite a thorough process Another caller says we had to wait five and a half years for an inquest after my brother's road traffic death It was really hard waiting on the inquest for so long Is that that's not typical or is it how I mean how long might someone like what would lead to a situation? I would I would be but I would be I think that remember that There are times too parallel processes taking place if there is if there's a death and there is there's There's a corners investigation, but from that if there there's also a parallel criminal investigation If there's a criminal investigation, I cannot take any I cannot I can't get involved until after that because the worry would be that if A coroner's a coroner's case took place and some information was disclosed that could affect a criminal investigation So in cases where there is quite a lengthy A delay I as I say each individual case. I wouldn't discuss It is because there are criminal investigations taking place, you know, there are a number of famous ones which are Are are still pending because criminal investigations are actually taking place and we are We are just it is just very good coronial practice not to get involved in those cases until the criminal Matter has come to a conclusion a person is is waiting on personal belongings Back from a coroner Wait in a couple of years. Is that unusual? What's the situation there? Again, it's not an individual case. I'm sure And the thing is that once again, we try very hard once again, if there's a criminal matter Generally will retain and I think that personal items. I think that The saddest thing generally is Notes left by someone before they died and I think that that is that as an evidential matter It used to be the situation that one didn't see things until the day of the end the end quest I think that has changed all coroners will Try and meet families regularly and then keep them informed as to what is there, but generally things like You know a car or something or a piece of machinery They sometimes are part of the investigation and really just in case A person said well, I disagree with this. I would rather have that car checked myself If the car has gone or the piece of machinery has gone now when it comes to personal items And we generally will review each item individually and say well really this this is no benefit This is no bearing on the end the end quest and we try and release those that those pieces of information pieces of Clothing and things such as that before the end the end quest takes place And I think this is an example of what you were talking about a callers family member died Um Some in 2022 and awaiting an in question to the death She's been advised that she needs to hear back from the guardi first before it can take place But it's not happened. Is this the case or what's the normal procedure and how long does it normally take? I don't think there's a normal here But obviously you are unable to progress what you have to do in in these such cases not this individual case until the guardi Are satisfied from their perspective and and this caller needs to just Is it's normal procedure you've already outlined that yes, it is how long does it normally take that? I presume there's no way one could put a figure on that because we've got Investigations that can take days or weeks and others that can take months and and in two years Dennis They are yes, and I think I think it's to liaise with the guards even with with our office We we try and keep people informed because it is very frustrating and I think I think the biggest frustration is The first frustration for the vast majority of people is the postmortem because thankfully only a small proportion of postmortems will eventually go to An inquest and I think that is the part that we I think there was a you know, there There is always, you know the coroner's delays and I think yeah, there are that's a fact I think just the explanation of them aren't isn't always as clear and one of the issues is Is the is the toxicology issue which is so necessary? But it is it is frustrating that it takes so long But the I don't think it's any laxity at the at the at the lab I think it's just an actual resource element They would say that they are inundated like acute crime issues probably take precedence over a coroner's sample I can understand that I think the families, you know Each each family though is just uniquely grieving and they wish to get as much information as quickly as they can And I can understand their frustration look obviously this conversation was off the back of one query from a listener But I think it's been really informative In the process and and especially to the role of An inquest and and the coroner and an investigation and the guardie and the relationship between them and and how it can One can not delay, but one has to follow the other and so on and so forth So Dennis as always listen It's brilliant to be able to get that level of access to the counter coroner and to get those matters cleared up Obviously, it's not going to be to the satisfaction of everyone, but greatly appreciated. Nonetheless, dr Dennis McCauley, who is the gp instrument or and of course county corner as well A caller says I had a very sorry. I beg your pardon. I'll start this again I had a personal case of my husband and I contacted all the press directly And they were very understanding and did not report it because I didn't want my kids to see it On social media all were true to the word and did not report it. So that's a fair play to those Greg it's the same with cases of murder or rape. It can take years for them to come to court We are only a small country. There should be held a lot quicker, especially for families in britain Many of these cases are held within months families need closure more quickly The 90 noon show is brought to you by letter. Kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions Visit letter. Kenny. 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Good morning Donnie gall is one of seven constituencies to remain totally unchanged under the constituency review report 2023 There's no speculation as to what strategies the parties will adopt in terms of candidate selection ahead of the next general election Which is most likely to happen in autumn of next year Meanwhile, a champagne councillor says he doesn't agree with the decision that has been made A south finish on councillor says he believes plans may be in motion to develop an oyster farm on lox willy And now is the time for the community to respond Councillor paul canning says he is aware that consultants have been carrying out surveys and investigation work around the key shore He says it is too late to object to the erection of the trestles once a four short license has been granted A former donnie gall garter sergeant says there's a desperation among authorities after reports emerged today that people aged Up to 45 or even 50 could soon become garter recruits The current upper age limit of 35 for anyone applying to join the force looks set to be significantly increased Kelly begs coast guard were tasked yesterday afternoon to a report of a broken down yacht in donnie gall bay Shortly before 4 p.m The team took the yacht under tow and safely returned to kelly begs harbour They shared images and social media and took the opportunity to thank the harbour master and the staff of kelly begs harbour for their assistance and cooperation And finally a ha gald drum keen and st Johnston are the latest areas to benefit from leakage reduction works in donnie gall Ishka erin has carried out upgrade works with over four kilometers of old and leaking water pipes recently replaced The utility says the works are critical in conserving water resources and reducing high levels of leakage Which have been a significant source of disruption and outages for customers in the area Those are the latest headlines the next news updates at 12 o'clock until then. Good morning. Donna Marie. Thank you very much indeed What can you bag at max hall? Well, there's fuel, of course Rosa coffee crisps bars brecchi rolls chicken feet rolls bread cornflakes rice crispies oats milk apples Oranges bananas ham cheese kids lunches pasta rice top tomatoes spaghetti hoops beans tuna pizza rasher sausages mayonnaise ben and jerry's goodies Firelogs cozy night in teabags orange juice cookies biscuits toothpaste toilet roll bin bags cake card mom's birthday chewing gum jam soup shampoo still water sparkling water see You'll find bags more at max hall Oh and dog food Oh cures on holiday season caroline. Okay, so do you want me to mention that? Okay, no problem Uh business matters kieran is on holidays. Um for this week's business matters though We delve into his box and we go back to an interview in january When kieran spoke to the co-owner of donagall bees in glen column killed thomas ellis a former carpenter Thomas set up the company in 2013 and in 2020 anya karen became a cone owner Donagall bees has the only wax processing facility in arland and a product range of almost 900 Donagall bees won the green award at the 2022 donagall enterprise awards hosted by the donagall local enterprise office So if you want to hear that conversation Revisit that conversation between kieran and thomas ellis go on to our website. It's live for you right now uh highland radio dot com or indeed Uh, you can download it and listen to it at your leisure as they say in the united states A caller says we also had a coroner court and the driver of the vehicle did not show up and the coroner said he couldn't compel them to appear How is that fair? We feel the coroner's court should have more strength if this person caused the incident They should be made sit and listen to the consequences of their actions, which is a very interesting point. All right Charlie mcconnellogue has let fisheries farmers and mica homeowners dan. We want martin mcdormit to run for td He represents all homeowners have been shown. Well, could he be persuaded to switch ranks to uh 100 the 100 percent redress party. I don't know Uh, right uh chairperson. So this is just a readout from frank. Is it caroline? It's caroline, uh, neve Is this just a readout as it relates to franco donnell? No, I'll come back to that caroline's This just I read this out from franco donnell. Yeah, or is okay So franco donnell chairperson The michael collins dr. McGinney branch of finnegale in donnell. Goal called to say joe mcquee is no longer in the party And no longer attends meetings meetings, but we have councillor jimmy cavernor who's very active Representative on the ground and we're very proactive in the letter. Kenny milford area. I'd like this acknowledged. Yes indeed and The councillor jimmy cavernor Is of course as you mentioned, but we could only really speculate because we know joe mcquee's situation and what he has said in terms of Whether or not the likes of a councillor jimmy cavernor and in fact if he wants to launch his general election campaign right now I would be more than happy to speak to him. Um We can't really speculate as to speculate as to to what You know, certain people might want to do or not do but councillor jimmy cavernor if he's uh Going at it. Let us know and I'd love to have a chat with him Which we talked to jimmy regularly on the show Greg well done. Kathy and brendan Know both of them for years. What a great initiative and congrats on your 10 years of giving back great service indeed Wonderful idea about naming the new bike after we know it etc Wishing all continued success that comes in from mary A caller says if you run jog walk the roads, you'll see how dangerous overgrown hedges are. Yes, indeed There's no doubt about that But if you're referring to what I was saying, I just noticed that some hedges have been quite extensively caught In my opinion constituency refissions are usually drawn to suit certain political parties Let's not be so naive perhaps a form of gerrymandering. I'm sure there are those that woke up to that news This morning, uh, who may be of that mind Another I'd love to see pierce thomas and kira elected in south donagall and porygmerity and the anti-mica candidate in the north of the constituency I'd love to see finna gale finna full get their due rewards at the next election The sooner these tori parties go the better. They would say that that's not who they are what they stand for Bunkrannatown council are wasting money Hand over fist with their antics. How does car and donna keep their town? So well and no parking charges Bunkrannatown council should be ashamed for asking for the half-hour free parking to be abolished What good is a town with no shops or customers? Can nicholas cross and explain this to us on your show? Well, there's no such thing as bunkrannatown council anymore I think what you meant was bunkrannatown councilor. I think nicholas cross and was saying we need to discuss All the options and all the ramifications. I'm not sure who's straight up Advocating for it to be scrapped Um, but anyway, listen keep those calls and comments coming in Well with summer holidays drawing to an end and having already drawn to an end for some Many children might feel anxious about going back to school So on wellness Wednesday this week we talked to mental health expert Noel McDermott on how to spot signs of the back to school blues and ways to help prepare your child in advance for starting A new school year. Noel McDermott. Thank you very much for joining us Thanks for having me on it's good to be back actually. Yeah, it's great to have you back so I suppose I mean we have to understand our children talk to our children so we can understand what is nerves what's Acting up a little bit to try and avoid going and what is genuinely, you know a state that they're in Well kids are difficult to diagnose from a clinical perspective because they will downplay those things that mean you'll stop them having fun And play up those things that they dislike So there's always that factor into but in general, you know your kids well And if their behavior is out of sorts, you will spot it and the the warning signs are sort of interruptions things like sleep patterns or appetite patterns or general outlook on life Which may happen during any transition And if we think about the move from summer holidays to school, it's just a big transition that you've got to go through And any one of us going through a big transition may be upset by it And we need to sort of generalize it in that context. So it's not about going back to school It's about there's a big change Taking place and big changes that take place Generally upset us as human animals because we like things steady and stable as you go along How important is it that we strap on our big boy pants and and uh, we're we're we don't allow ourselves to sort of be over Triggered by someone who's a bit peed off having to go back to school. You know, they're a bit grumpy But you know about trying to do broader lessons for your kids, right? So Uh, it's a known issue and so we don't need to panic is what I'm saying Um, and it's understandable if your kids have some psychological distress and emotional distress about these big changes Um, it's really important not to say or reinforce this notion It's about going back to school because actually there might be some good things about going back to school Like um, they don't have to put up with you So it's like there's some advantages for your kids And they're going to be seeing their mates. Um, and probably doing some activities that they really enjoy as well Um at school with their friends and arranging other social activities. So it's not all bad news So that's all I'm saying about that thing really is so what should we be doing? How should we be talking about it? Um, and I suppose it's all age dependent Some are going into baby infants or or first class some are going into secondary some are going to college Yeah, absolutely But as human animals, we all pretty much need the same things to help us through times like this And so what I would suggest is and you can do this both pre and post the actual change If you look at things like routine and structure So get that routine and structure in as soon as you can or maintain it After they've gone back to school. So going to bed at a reasonable time getting up at a reasonable time those early morning Bruteins, you know, even if you're still off school at the moment Um, there's no harm in getting your kids up making them do all the teeth brushing showering put their Their clothes on and then they can watch tv You know, you can do it that way and then it's not so much of a shock when they're actually putting the school uniform on Next week or the week after or whenever it is Um, so you start those routines Um, think about because it is upsetting it genuinely is these life transitions Like think about if you move house or if you get a new job or something like that It might be a good thing, but you're still going to be, you know, discombobulated by it So think about with your kids and with yourselves having some extra treats on So things that you know, you're like doing whether that's popcorn and netflix at home or whatever is and then also think about things That can help that we know help in general health and well-being like using the local park more going out for events um doing group events doing group activities any sort of group activities because all these produce sort of Uh, hormonal responses in us that are positive hormonal responses that will counteract the stress hormones That we're getting from the transition. So it's that type of stuff that combination of normalizing through understanding it through putting in Routines and that support and structures and through sort of if you like medication through nice stuff and good group activities And you know, when you talk of psychological education It's a fancy name for just talking things through really and and and Helping them to understand that what they're feeling is is normal. Um, you know what I mean? Like it's it's basic stuff But sometimes it's the basic things we as as parents and guardians to think especially in a busy world We kind of forgo sometimes Yeah, it's also I mean, I think there's psychology old psychology Has some blame here because it tends to what we do what we call pathologize turn everything into a problem and it's not So the example I like to give is you know, I just I'm getting over jet lag at the moment And I took my son off to american we're back. Um, and I felt rough But I'm supposed to feel rough because I've got jet lag That's the way it is. I know That I'm going to feel rough and I was able to talk to him about it and say, yeah, you can't sleep because of jet lag And you feel rubbish because you can't sleep, etc, etc You'll get over it. So with that knowledge You can then go well, this is expected and it's not necessarily problem Where it becomes a problem is when you know, it's an expected response But it goes on a bit too long and this is the warning I'd give to parents like with your kids You should expect them to maybe have a little bit of upset about this major transition But once you've done the amelioration stuff the stuff that helps reduce it Reframing by telling them it's not all bad, etc Like you went out you won't have me in your face all the time. So that's a good thing, isn't it, johnny Do you know what I mean? Once you've done all that sort of stuff if then for two or three days After all of that, they're still Having disturbed sleep problems with appetite General outlook on life has changed. They're either more anxious or more depressed Then that's a good sign that maybe there is something going on that you want to take some extra action on And so you use those types of that knowledge And those time scales as a way of understanding when it is actually a problem So you eliminate the possibilities and then you left with the problems I suppose And another thing a bit of advice from you, which I think is really useful is And as I say, you know I I don't know for a new generation. It doesn't feel like I thought I always thought my parents were really calm and You know, uh, children relaxed and I think my uh, my children think that I'm mad Do you know what I mean? I'm probably correct, right? I suspect they are very insightful young adults Exactly, but What I'm getting to is is how we talk to our child because I would come out, you know, it's everything. Okay Is it what happened at school? Was it okay? You're right, and I'm up to high. Tell me something. I'm working on me You know, I'm trying to step out of myself and all this kind of stuff, right? But you know, I suppose it's really important how we Because they're sponges. They're they're mirrors. You can amplify it You don't I mean you really can amplify it by your own anxiety. What you want to do is you want to roll model Um, you want to model the type of behavior and response that you'd like to see in your kids So think of very basic stuff about non-verbal communication. So think very basic like Are my muscles tense or relaxed Is my vocal tone high pitched and panicked or low pitched and relaxed. So am I going don't worry. It's all right And actually what you're saying there is it's not all right, aren't you and the physical Non-verbal stuff that you're doing is communicating. So relax yourself go I think it's going to be all right, but let's talk it through. Let's find out what's going on and and then you go into that soothing voice relax body tone And your kid will copy you. That's the way it is. A call that says Yeah, for sure. A call that says hi, Greg. My teenage son developed nausea in the mornings about a year ago And would throw up before school. He'd be fine once he was in school He cannot explain it and doesn't understand why he's anxious because he's got no issues at school and gets on well Both academically and with friends. He cannot eat breakfast before school because he throws up He's no issues at weekends or holidays. He just threw up this morning He goes back to school tomorrow. What can I do to help? Well, this sounds like You know the anticipation of something is worse. It's really simple And I used to my stomach used to get In a knot and I know exactly how this this young person feels the only difference Between me and this person is mine didn't stop once I went to school. Mine continued through school as well So what was your advice be to this parent? Well, first thing to understand what's going on. It's it's a stressful man called cortisol And its job is it's called fight flight mechanism and cortisol's job is to literally make you throw up so that you can fight better Because you can't you can't win a battle if your stomach's full of you sunday lunch So it makes you throw up. So that's what's going on is your son's body is preparing himself a battle Now once you understand that And understand how that bit of the brain operates that bit of the brain operates not through language, but by physical things So, you know, he's going to feel nauseous in the morning. You know why he's going to feel nauseous in the morning So you look at things like relaxation techniques principally and breathing techniques And techniques that are going to help him manage because he will also feel at the same time And if you talk to me, I'm telling you this I'm guarantee He'll also feel the surge of adrenaline in his body. So his heartbeat will have gone up I know this because they come together adrenaline and cortisol come together And then you can teach your son So he'll have the narrowing of vision the sharpening of his hearing You'll have sweaty palms dry makes nausea all those Signs that his body's gone into alert So you do the opposite of alert you learn relaxation techno techniques Muscle relaxation. So there's a great relaxation technique where you go Okay, one two three breathe in and hold everything And now breathe out and let all your muscles go and say the word relax And so you associate the word relax with that feeling of relaxation And you do that There's other things if he has more general sense of anxiety and this activation of his Hormones a great way of dealing with cortisol in particular because it gets injected into your muscles not your bloodstream Is take up things like kickboxing and boxing So actually do the fight flight activities And wash that out of your system. So a bit of boxing in the gym a bit of running, etc During the daytime will take all that away Is it possible to that if your advice that you've related if the mom or dad there has that conversation with the son So they don't see it as a weakness and they they understand the the biology of what's actually happening That that because of the awareness of it. It might actually help to to to stem it Generally 90 percent of times it'll get rid of the problem Well, so that's it. You know what's going on. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and it's not a weakness Especially what you need to do. I beg your pardon Not especially the way you phrase it like, you know, this is instinctive This is your fighting and you're preparing like it comes across more as a strength thing than a weakness And I think, you know, that would really help may be Uh, dissipating it. It's it's not a problem. It's only a problem when it's inappropriate So if there was actually a sabre-tooth tiger And a bag to eat you and just you threw up ready to fight it off Great, but there isn't a sabre-tooth tiger in school and all you have to do is reframe it That's the great thing about being a conscious social animal is our thoughts can affect What we experience. Yeah So when we understand that and if your son can then understand that and go, oh, it's fine It's just there isn't a threat And you can talk yourself down so that you don't have it But also I think particularly cortisol It is worth noting that it goes into your muscles. You have to do something with it Right. And so a bit of exercise is a good idea particularly for young people Because it just sits in your muscles and you need to use it up really Now what about say for instance in in sixth class in in in um In national school, you know, it's as often smaller classes or they can be quite big classes But a shy child has found their space in there They've got a small group of friends and you know, they're shy in nature But they're still getting on with it And now they're heading into big school for the first time bigger classes people from all different schools from all different areas You know and and they're really I don't want to go in here because they you know But they're they're shyness or insecurity or whatever it might be So it's not necessarily connected to anxiety and other things that we talk about but just by nature This seems a very intimidating scary experience in space and I am Sure, there are people listening to the show this morning in that situ So what how do you how do you help your child through that and uh into the the big school? Well, we talk about skills acquisition here. So that self knowledge about Like I'm an introverted or shy person more generally. There's nothing wrong with that But also I need the skills being able to be in groups. I mean, that's the truth of life Um, and you can learn those skills about being in groups. So one of the skills is managing your own Unhelpful reactions like they spike in these poor moans that are about Suggesting there's a threat So you manage all that stuff and then you learn a new set of skills, you know, you learn skills around Projecting your voice so that you convey confidence for example So I often say to parents, you know, if you thought about drama classes for your kids who are a bit shy Because they will learn all sorts of great techniques in those drama classes about how to perform take on a role Learn a script project a character Get into role all of that sort of stuff which are really really practical skills Shakespeare was right all the world is a stage and you can learn a lot of really good skills or singing any of the creative Sort of outlets are really helpful for kids who are more sort of internal or more shy or more reserved Um Communication classes, you know, if you think about some of those public speaking classes that exist, they're brilliant as well But also learning things like assertiveness skills How do you communicate in an assertive way so that you can get your point across? um and Without embarrassing yourself or without threatening other people But there's a whole bunch of really practical skills. So What I suggest is that you you teach your kids these emotional management skills And then there's practical real-world life skills that they need as well And it's not about saying that there's something wrong with their personality It's just saying well, here's a few things that will help you You can still be who you are, but here's a few useful skills in social situations Yeah, I wonder is this stuff spoken like we're speaking about it now in sixth class or at certain times in students lives Where all 30 of them or 12 or how many there has sat down And it's explained to them what's chemically be happening when they feel something. Do you know what I mean? Some schools are doing it like schools are doing this work But a lot aren't you know, and I think one of the great things about this approach and this is particularly with young people They love this neuroscience Because it tells them there's nothing wrong with them But you know that guy that gets nauseous in the morning if that had conversation would happen at some sort of point at school Like they probably go out into this the schoolyard after it and go well That's I feel like that every day and another one Yeah, me too actually. I thought it was such I thought it was me eating too late going to Do you know what I mean? It would just be great to empower them with the simple stuff just to help You know on just because we talk about the words like Anxiety and and all the big words right and self harm and all this and I'm not conflating right But do we actually talk about really the basics that can can affect people on a every day day to day basis And it would affect it affects all of us at one point or other I don't care what your outward facade is Without a doubt. I agree and it's it's it comes from cognitive behavioral therapy for on to be honest what I'm talking about is And the the basic assumption in cbt Is that we are intelligent human beings and if you give people the appropriate knowledge They'll do the right thing for themselves, right? So literally teaching people what anxiety feels like as a physical response and how you manage it Is often all that needs to happen exactly the same way with depression You know the avoidance stuff that we do the lack of motivation They need to put things in our diary and not do them because of we feel like doing them Understanding that exercise will ameliorate or reduce the effects of depression and isolation and loneliness, etc So you do it without an expectation that's going to make you feel great But you know it's going to stop you feeling worse, etc So when you teach people this basic stuff They will do the right thing and kids in particular love this stuff I think one of the issues I have and I'm going to have to be careful and not getting on my soapbox is that A lot of people come on shows and they talk about this stuff and they really don't know what they're talking about And so they give a little bit of really unhelpful knowledge Which doesn't really help people manage what's going on There's no point in knowing that anxiety and depression exists If you don't know what those things actually are for you in the visual and what you can do about them And and it's it's a real problem that we have this sort of general throwaway Terms that I use with that hips sit and go. Well, what does that actually mean? But I hope I'm not misframing some of the things that you're saying, but I just I've of a mind whereas I like to Describe certain things that happen like anxiety the nausea and stuff as as you know It's our our brains our friend, right? It's trying to protect us But sometimes it doesn't get it right. Sometimes it's it's sort of rooted In an overly cautious mode. So we have to sort of train it or talk to it or Overpower it say right. I appreciate that you think I'm going to make a fool of myself walking into school today But listen brain. I've got this, you know, trust me No, that's a kind of simplistic way important to it But I think it's far more positive than sort of talking about this this dark black negative emotional feeling that's That's sweeping through you It is an attempt to look after you and that's what's really important to understand It's also quite often an inappropriate intervention The way I think about is like this is it really you should think about these things as suggestions from your brain And then you have to think is that a useful suggestion or not Okay, so all it's going is Is this a dangerous situation when you feel anxious your brain is going I think this might be a dangerous situation What do you think and you've got then a decision to make is it a dangerous situation or not? Often it's not and you can then work on that and say Thanks for that, but it isn't dangerous your brain. Trust me. I've got this Hi, exactly right. And the way you do that you're getting powered with appropriate knowledge about what's actually happening for you Okay What happens is your brain makes this suggestion and you just go oh my god. There's something wrong And there isn't it's just asking you a question Right, and then you use your critical faculties to figure out whether or not the answer is yes or no Yeah, and there's a but there's a video. Do you see the videos of of babies that did an experiment whereby It's a one sheet of glass over a solid area and then there's a drop And early on in their in their infancy They'll crawl straight across the solid area and out over the top of the drop effectively but there comes a point Whereby they'll pull back because there's a there's a there's a danger there that's been I have no idea if that's got anything to do with it, but the kind of funny cool videos But there comes a point where the brain obviously says right danger You know and that's where it's protecting you is sort of triggers and responses. Okay That's that's what happens is we train our brain into an automated response And the that's genuinely quite useful if you're boiling an egg Because you don't want to be thinking too hard about how to boil an egg You just want to boil it right or driving a car But if it's situations in which the automated response is inappropriate, you have to retrain yourself I was I was going to wrap up But if you don't mind just address this one question because it's probably time sensitive and maybe Something might be able to be said that might help a listener says my son's 15 Simply won't go to school at all. He sleeps all day and refuses to go. What can I do? Um, I think you need professional help in that situation It's not something I can sort out in the radio. Can I throw a curveball here and also examine There was a point right I don't want to over share but I left school at that age I couldn't go to school. I didn't want to go to school. I wasn't naughty. I wasn't bold Yeah, I was nervous and anxious, but that wasn't it. I couldn't I didn't fit in I couldn't fit myself into that. There's the social element of it the learning element of it I just simply could not have been cancelled into going Yeah, I'm not suggesting no, but sometimes I'm not saying you are sorry. No, I'm just offering that as an alt sometimes Sometimes some people just can't Fit themselves into that That's absolutely right But what I'm suggesting is that in a situation which is quite extreme like the one you've just suggested You need somebody to come in and do an assessment to tell you Is it just the personality? Don't worry about it. Try and find some other educational provision or is there a problem? Brilliant. Perfect advice. Yeah So everything is there to say that you need External professional advice to determine what's going on and then take your next step from there That's it. It's beyond your parenting capacity is what I'm saying. 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My wife has a disability and we had A double yellow box but I said the gates for access for a wheelchair and to get to the car And that was her first pretend with 15 years ago And um, well like all the subordinates the condition progresses two years ago the council tired the roads here And covered the box obviously with the tire and said it would be replaced And it's our time again So I've been in contact with them My wife has sent emails them. I have phoned them and every time she sent an email It was reply was message when we dealt with the due course I've gone on the Council office which assumes the department is looking after this and Talk to details the past one somebody get back to you Never go back. I phoned there about two weeks ago and got through to something in the office told them story The possession we run now my wife is confined to wheelchair. She's a power wheelchair And um self-propelled wheelchair, you know, that's the manual one that somebody pushed her on And this was all got the causal condition has deteriorated over time So I say between that Send an email nobody go back to us. So Before she could get the power chair The occupations therapist had a look around with me and she said we have a problem here before we can get her the power chair There was a high care by the side the front path So she said that's a danger for a wheelchair user who need to be you know, I drop care my low care, but I Have a fairness now She contacted the I'm saying honestly. I'm not you're sure what the right department is And I'm fairness to them. They're right within a couple of weeks Boy come knock the door and he said he was out to look with this job care Showed him and I said, I'm not there's the yellow box to go back there and it never went back since He said well, I'm only here to look at this and I'll report no to my boss whatever And um, I'll say here. We are now two years later at least three years later And we kind of get answers. I don't know why Okay. So to recap there was a yellow box placed there The car the road was tarred a couple of years ago There was promises of the yellow box being restored that never happened Then there was a suggestion that we can put double yellow lines there. You said no because they'll be ignored We need the the box that was already there Returned and now we have this stalemate. You're two or three years waiting on this and and nothing has been done So what does this mean now you like all of us, but particularly perhaps in your case You need access, but you may also need emergency Access or to be able to exit our cars blocking in front of your entrance or parking in front of it Like what's your experience been over the last while? Right as I say, I'm not on the fan anybody But if anybody takes a fence from up there the people who's causing the problem. So we'll get that out of the way to start off My wife as I say as a power chair now Our condition that's the part of the condition deteriorate over the years So the yellow box is not there now as I said there the drop the cab great job I can take my car around now if I have to or when you get the wheelchair out Be the power chair if you want to go in the summer snow for a good evening for a stroll And we have to get the chair was the power chair or the self-propelled chair out through the gates It's up the cab a great job But unfortunately some of the motor scientists a great job for them because they're parking up tight on the footpath up against the gates So I couldn't even walk out Now I'll give you an example there One night I'm a few months back My wife took a high temperature and wasn't feeling well And I put the call on you know, so doctor and the media doctor phone back later on the evening told him the story told him what was going on He said carry on doing what you're doing And if everything's okay No more enough not between then I take her to any That particular night There was two chairs blocking the the wheel gets I caught and the double gets on the footpath And if I had it I wouldn't have got out and if emergency service come they wouldn't have done You know Yeah, me You know what I'm saying great. I'm not saying the other box is going to deter them all but it might sort of say Has a bit more authority than Has a bit more authority than double the other lines. Okay now for those I think it was for those That are watching the show on youtube We've thrown an image up of it here of the wee gate as you describe it and there is a silver car There is a silver car that I think even on foot you would struggle to get out past. There's zero deterrent You're not looking for Yellow box to stop a lorry parking there But I think a small yellow box there and at the big gate it has a level of authority in that it's observed I'm not saying uniquely, but it is it is it is observed more than a sign asking politely or double yellow lines Yes, exactly. That's what I think because I think if you've been doing double yellow lines The carousel park and then say double yellow lines, you know what I mean? Yeah No one on the footpath That's what I think as I say There has to be a certain play of common sense kicking on here with the general public as well You know, we're at the situation now I've no way said to me now. There's an extra one here now so far on this Well, thank god. I'll do that again for a day, you know, you know to get out of the house She has to tame it to take medication to allow her to be able to get under the chair They or the Self-repelled chair. I was not taking the power chair in the car to do that journey I have to say hold on a minute They look right the one that they see is our car blocking the gates And if there's a car blocking the gates That's just can we kind of go no further? You know people don't understand. Someone doesn't believe the effort they plan to get that far Yeah, and it's not and then somebody it's not like really you're looking for a parking space to be given over here Because you're really looking for four or five feet, you know cars may park on either side of it That might not be ideal, but you don't want a massive yellow box How big was the yellow box previously? Was it the size of a car? Well And I'm fair and there's a double set of gates, you know, what's double set of gates? 10 foot, you know, and then the we get as I call the we get beside it because you see if the we get Substructed, you kind of get out with the self-prepared the manual wheelchair here. Yeah, I have we were out We were out one evening. They're not off and be out. We'll come back down And I struggled to get the chair And they're good, you know the car was blocking the week as I keep talking with the we get partially, you know That's not rocking science. I mean to say And the general original blocking entrance Yeah, but you can't rely on the goodwill of you can't rely on the common sense of people because no I don't think anyone goes. Oh, there's a gate because it's an urban area. You know, there's a gate I'm gonna block it stuff. Whoever lives there. No, it's just It's just there's no there's nothing to guide people, you know, there's nothing to guide people. All right, Jerry People are doing a great. It's just a sandiness. Yeah, well, we've got the end of road We've got more of your details and we're going to get onto the council and see what the story is We might get an update too on that curb Um that we were talking about out in balaba fave. That would be all right, caroline If we could tie those two up because I want to know what's going on there as well But for now best wishes to you and uh your wife Um and hopefully something comes of this conversation Jerry Well, can I just say for a go great? I told the council I thought I didn't get a response, you know within a few weeks. I was going on the shoulder to highlight it So they didn't seem to be too bothered about it. Obviously But that's where we're at and as I say all them Everything's been through all the medication all the everything else the wheelchairs or teas all everybody done the power to try and keep our mobility give a better independence By that box not being there That's taking that away again. You're looking for something to be returned that was already there. You're not looking for anything new It's already there. I don't I don't No, and I don't understand why it was there Why wasn't put back that's there for a reason Well, that box to put there Greg was me clear to me and I had never done it That is not for me. That is to keep the entrance clear. I park at the back of the house Thank god, I'm able body to be able to walk and down to take care of the front but That's the gates is blocked That's the end of our journey. We can't ignore it I think you've been really fair and you've explained it really well. What electoral area in jerry. Are you in? Is it? What part of the county you in? Bunkrana Okay, right. Okay, listen. I'm sure there's people there listening something will be done. It has to be done All right. Thank you very much jerry as they say best wishes to you And the family there watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com The night till noon show is brought to you by letter. Kenny credit union digital loans now available Apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account There's always a feeling of anticipation when you sit into a new car That excitement you admire its smooth lines. It's class leading technology. 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Why well, let's ask elaine don chair of the federation of early childhood providers Good morning to elaine. Why why the hosting of this? emergency meeting now So the reasons we're going around the whole country actually holding these meetings because we're losing a lot of services They're closing down and children are losing places and they've been displaced right across the country And we're watching an awful lot of the rural sessions being forced out of business This all boils down to funding If you don't have enough funding to keep your business open or keep it viable Then you're in serious trouble and we're seeing this right across the country We can't get staff the funding from government is not enough And you can just when you hold these meetings the tension and anxiety in the rooms of what the future holds For this sector is just unbelievable and we've had parents in at these meetings as well And they're saying like where are government going with this because they're getting it so wrong And why would anyone stay in a business that's loss making or breaking even? Uh, no no one would I mean these are services, but it's a business at the end of the day as well No, no absolutely We are businesses and that's why a lot of people are saying they're staying in it for this year And may only last about six months because they're just trying to get the money together to pay redundancies to staff And you know that that's the only reason there's a lot of the services staying in and this is happening This is what's been said at all of the meetings You know if you don't have enough money to pay the staff redundancies then you're in in trouble You know when you close your doors So, um, we're just seeing an awful lot of struggles on the ground for the providers They are really struggling at the moment to keep viable and parents aren't aware of these issues So we've decided to host all of these meetings around county by county To ask parents to attend the meetings with the providers to listen to what's going on To understand that the funding that the government are giving us is just not enough If a government is going to fund the sector Surely they would have to do their due diligence on each service type And that has not happened and they've no idea of the actual costings to run a business I mean at the end of the day, you're in business to make a profit I mean profit shouldn't be a dirty word and if we are being being portrayed as greedy And Alayna, I presume there has to be government involvement just so we're clear But sometimes these things aren't said because uh, if it were to operate solely as a standalone business in most cases It simply would be unaffordable So you would have people sitting at home unable to go to work And you'd have businesses with no clients as such because of the costs required to provide those services Well, you can actually go out and you know run your business without signing up to the core funding at the core funding Fundamentally seems to be the big issue. Well, can I ask a question in relation to them? And they get the NCF. Okay. Why are some choosing to exit the core funding but Continuing to stay in business because that is also happening as well as shutdowns. What is what is what would be so disadvantageous to be receiving core funding that you're better off Just dealing directly with with parents and funding it that way Okay, because a lot of us of the small and medium services were tied in the fee freeze dating back to 2016 or 2017 And the Department of Children have not given us the right to bring our fees up to 2021's rate So we're unviable If we stay at 2017, like if you can tell me one thing that's the same price in 2017 as it is today I'd love to know what it is because there isn't anything but childcare Yeah, okay And is it too late to impress on the government to look at this as we approach the announcement of the budget 2024? Or is there still a hope that common sense will prevail? Well, we are hoping common sense will prevail But the only way that's going to happen is if parents come with us and come out and stand beside us and You know come at the government come at the local councils the tds and let them know What's going on in their services, you know for the provider link in with your provider in your local area They will tell you how bad the funding is. I mean, we're not making this up. We're not traveling around the country You know to you know cause problems. We're doing this to save our businesses You know if government don't do something this time, you're going to see a mass exodus of more and more services I mean, we lost in the last kind of three weeks for large services in cork closed down And these children there's no places so there's 254 children being displaced and there's nowhere for them to go And you know that is happening in county by county At the moment, you know what I mean and and that's going to get why that's going to spread wide Yeah, and Elaine obviously you want what we're hearing I beg your pardon Elaine Obviously you want parents to come with you guardians to come with you But do you think businesses and particularly all businesses actually it's going to say particularly but all businesses struggling To to recruit need to sort of maybe get behind this as well because I I know from from speaking to people around here That the child care is almost and I think I've said this to you before Is almost as big a barrier to recruitment us as the housing crisis Oh, no, absolutely You know if we have so is may have come out and put out a statement there in the last week and a half To say that they have a lot of different sectors within their membership And they are now saying the government need to support us because they can't get the staff to stay in the workforce if we close our doors You know, so any business I would welcome anybody at this meeting next week because we really everybody needs to stand together And the more sectors come together The quicker the government are going to listen to all of our voices Okay, well that meeting open to all with an interest which effectively is everyone and funny. There are reports out today On the issue and that people are can't go out. They have to say at home and look after children They can't go out to work Because there's no child care available to them affordable Federation of early childhood providers are holding this meeting It's in the Mount Aragle hotel on the 5th of september from 7 p.m And hopefully well attended and not just by child care Providers lane. Thanks for your time Thank you so much take care. Okay. Thank you very much for that The 9 till noon show with letter. Kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro With no hidden fees or transaction charges letter. 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We're coming to the end of Wednesday's 9 till noon show and we're gonna run through some of your calls and contacts and we're going to run through some of your calls and comments which have been coming in over the course of this morning. All greatly appreciated as you know yourself. Greg, Greg, we went to the big school many moons ago and there were no mobiles so mommy can call we Johnny to see if he's okay. We were throwing in at the dependent school wasn't always a nice place back then. It's no wonder our young people are so sensitive and easily upset you ask a football coach and he'll tell you that you can't say anything to a teenager these days need a bit of tough love and prepare them for the real world which is not very nice sometimes it is not very nice but I'm telling you obviously there are greater challenges now for some you know with with with bullying and cyberbullying and all that kind of stuff and image consciousness but I think a lot of people listening they had the same experience but in different ways because if you are of that nature it can be the way people look at you it can be people talk behind your back it can be something said to you in the school grand do you know I don't think I I've I've said myself that I think maybe we money cuttle or wrap our children up in cotton wool too much I want to say we I mean I do right but I don't think we've created a problem that didn't exist before either I saw potholes being filled up by hard-working men by spade on the way to grind your fault I avoided knocking the tar out of the pothole on the way back from this fantastic a ancient site a question does this method work is it not antiquated and how long does the tar stay useful is it not time DCC invested in getting a mechanized effective pot hauling machine we must be a laughing stock to tourists never mind the taxpayer who see this useless band-aid solution practiced on our pothold roads everywhere there were calls to have one of these really fancy machines bought by the council which will be useful you're avoiding the tar I probably drive over those potholes because I think they leave a little a little hump their frost drivers to pack it in so I feel like I'm kind of working for the council I drive over these potholes flatten them down should I avoid them I don't know I thought I was doing them a favor safe taking out the wacker plate or whatever it is they use I don't know do you should you avoid newly filled bottles or you know I almost put a billion at least Alan Kelly's jumping up and down on foot of the electoral line fiasco I'm not familiar with his comments or what he's talking about in my opinion it wouldn't help and solve the Mike redress issue if they ran candidates local in general I'd say the government parties finafore finigale and greens would welcome such a move and keep them safe for another term well it depends on a vote to split or not single candidate issues and I'm sure it will be not just that because there are so many issues single candidate issues can be really really effective and have the balance of power and can get changes made we don't even know and I think we should do you remember when there was a couple of tight votes that the government only squeezed by on and they were able to enjoy the support of rural independence there was a wish list you know things were delivered to those people now as I say because it's probably our money and we've talked about bartering accounts does the government have a barter account to win the support of independent TDs we should have been privy to what each TD got if they got anything for their constituents obviously not personally to back the government so you know we have seen in the past even in this former deputy Thomas Gilday and others get success on single issues I would say the 100% redress might not just be a single issue but be that as it may yes there is power as I say it'd be nice to know what is given for this support good morning I hate complaining but there's a dog in national never stops barking day night you can't even get a night's sleep thank you yeah I think people don't realise how annoying barking dogs can be if you're within earshot of them okie dokie listen that's where we have to leave it on the show today I still have a pile of comments which I didn't get through we will get through them tomorrow of course thank you to all of you who listen to the show those of you who choose to watch it whichever way it's great to have you on board wherever you're listening watching we'll be back tomorrow morning from 9am so for me Greg Hughes and the production team of Caroline or who researched and produced and leave shields looking after the social media et cetera have a wonderful Wednesday don't go anywhere though because the one on only John Breslin's coming up around the north