 Files an utterly reckless attack on the protocol and an attack on every person living on the island of Ireland as well as an attack on the Good Friday Agreement. The campaign group says recent data shows that the protocol has positively improved the economy with the 61% increase in trade between North and South. They are calling on the EU and the United States in the event Article 16 is invoked to take a firm and salt stance against the British government. A Western Eagle canther believes cameras are needed to tackle illegal dumping in the area. In recent days, household items including a hoover have been dumped between Falkara and Dunfanahe. Canter Michael McLaughley has appealed once again to those responsible to properly dispose of waste. He says there's no other option but to install cameras in illegal dumping hotspots. Cameras is going to have to be a thing, hidden cameras are going to have to be a thing that all county councils are going to have to push for in all areas. There's great cameras that they'll be wherever and just tie and catch these people and that can bring them to the task because unless that happens we're just going to have numerous more days like this myself, other ministers, other people in the public raising this talking about it and it's just the whole thing's going to get out of hand once again. Deputy Michael Healy Ray says the delay in rolling out broadband is extremely worrying to rural Ireland. Fewer than 3,000 homes and businesses have been connected to high-speed broadband under the National Broadband Plan. The target is to reach 115,000 premises by the end of January next year but by then the figure is only expected to be 60,000. In Dunningall some homes will not be connected to high-speed broadband until at least 2026 while it's projected that just 21% of the remaining 32,000 properties in the county without access to fibre broadband will be connected by March 2023. And finally for whether a wet start in many parts this morning with outbreaks of rain, patchy rain or drizzle will be mixed with some drier intervals later this morning and afternoon with highest temperatures of 13 or 14 degrees. That's all from Highland video news for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Easter dose will give you the best possible protection against serious illness from COVID-19. You should get it around six months after your last COVID-19 vaccine. Your GP will contact you when it's time for your vaccine. For more information visit hsc.ie or call hsc live on 1800 700 700 from the HSE. Are your tires ready for winter? Call into Ulster Tires in Lettercanny and Bali Buffet today. And now it's time for the talk of the Northwest, the 9th and Noon Show with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. And a very good morning to you. It's just turning four minutes past nine. You're very welcome along to the 9th and Noon Show here in Highland Radio. On this, what is November the 8th? It's a Monday of course and we've a busy show lined up for you. Lots coming up on the program. We want your views, what you've got to say and what we've got arranged but also for you to raise your issues too. Get involved with us 086 60 25,000. That's your text. That's your WhatsApp number. Give us a call and 07491 25,000 07491 25,000. Caroline taking your calls today, of course. Now emails come into us via comments at highlandradio.com. And a very good morning and welcome. If you are joining us to watch the program across our social media, feel free to say hello and comment there as well. Tell us where you're watching from on Facebook. It's forward slash Highland Hub or Highland Radio News and Sport. And on YouTube, it's Highland Radio Ireland. And give us a like or a subscribe and hit the bell and you can be notified when we go live across Highland Radio here. Right, OK, on to the newspapers this morning. Let's start with the Donagall People's Press. And it's a great picture on the front of that paper. Niall O'Donnell with a beaming smile as he lifts the cup. St. Union's Captain Niall O'Donnell celebrates after leading his side to victory in the County Senior Club Football Championship against Neve Connell at McCool Park in Balabuffet yesterday. St. Union's overcome the arrivals with relative ease, running out 111 to four-point winners. The match was preceded by a minute's silence in memory of the late Martin Griffin. And it wasn't much of a spectacle anyway. As a neutral, I don't hope I'm not offending anyone. It was a tough and awful watch, quite pedestrian at times, very passionate, very technical, but not the best spectacle I've ever seen in my life. But still, it was a good game to watch. And St. Union's won a couple of weeks. They've had four titles lifted now between the women, the hurlers, and the footballers. It really is quite a remarkable story, that, isn't it? We'll be touching on that, of course, as you can imagine later on in the program. Half your views on it, 08, 6, 60, 25,000. Finn Harps have contacted eBay about poppy badges being sold bearing the clubs crest. The pins which show the Finn Harps logo alongside a poppy and accompanied by the world's, let's say, the words, lest we forget, were listed at 11.99. According to the seller, a percentage of the money raised goes to the poppy appeal, but the British Legion, which organizes the annual fundraising drive, is confirmed to the Donegal News that the items are in no way linked to them. All right, the dairy news this morning. A dairy cancer sufferer who was recently diagnosed with bowel cancer has said he is nothing but praise for his treatment from the NHS. Anthony Murray was urged by loved ones to get checked and the results confirmed the devastating news. The 56-year-old who has resided in dairy for 29 years has been diagnosed with stage III bowel cancer and wants to thank the NH staff for all their support so far and urges the public to get symptoms seen too. Onto the nationals now and the Irish Times tells us that the contract of hundreds of contact tracers who track COVID-19 infections are being extended to next April in assigning the increasing unpredictable ability of the coronavirus pandemic's trajectory. The resurgence of COVID-19 with cases rising above 3,000 new infections a day in a fourth wave has forced the HSE to reverse direction just six weeks after the National Public Health Emergency Team was considering proposals to wind down routine contact tracing from the end of October. Private recruitment business, CPL, which the Health Service Executive uses to employ contact tracers, told the COVID-19 tracing teams they will be required for another six months after an extremely busy six-week period of significant and sustained increases in case numbers. Onto the Irish Independent now and what do you think about this story of Aiman Ryan? Now, let's say it was one of us, okay? You are a close contact or for whatever reason, you're asked to go and get a test, right? And you do and it comes back positive. That's it, isn't it? Have you ever been contacted by the HSE to say, hold on a second now, we wouldn't mind running another PCR test on you here, we're not happy with the result of that one or do you end up restricting your movements for a long period of time? I think the answer is the second one, isn't it? But apparently the HSE spotted something they thought, hold on a minute, we need to get you back in here because of course you had the COP26 to attend. They run another test and it was negative and that's lo and behold, away he goes, which is, now that's one side of it. Now the second side of it is he is a minister. One of the COP26 is a huge event which it's taking place in Glasgow. He is the minister for the environment so it's fitting that he should be there. So perhaps it's good that he gets special treatment, is it that the HSE say, hold on and we'll run this again, see what the story is, maybe it's negative. But what do you think? Is it one rule for them and one for another or do you think it's right that because it's such an important event if there were any question marks at all, we'll run it again. What do you think? Anyway, we'll read what the Irish Independent has written on this story. Aiman Ryan's going to the COP26 climate change. Summit in Glasgow today, after all a second COVID-19 test showed negative, apparently undoing the result of a previous positive test which had initially prompted him to cancel his trip. A spokesperson for the environment minister and Green Party leader has defended the handling of the case and insisted Mr. Ryan acted at all times on the basis of the professional advice he was given after the initial tests. Mr. Ryan also followed all HSE protocols for people who test positive for COVID-19 including self-isolation and informing all his close contacts. Mr. Ryan's first test taken last Friday was done at the behest of the COP26 organisers and had a positive result. But the National Ambulance Service which does tests for government ministers and officials in cases where they are required for official business administered a second test which yesterday was revealed to be negative. The HSE said, second tests are sometimes administered where a result is deemed ambiguous. It's understood the case for carrying out a second test was added to by Mr. Ryan showing no symptoms. So have you ever, anyone out there at all, had to get a test asymptomatic and it was positive. And then the HSE or negative and the HSE come back to you and say, Halania, sorry if I keep saying Halania, I don't know why I keep saying that. But they've come back to you and said the result was ambiguous. We need to do you again. Has that happened to any regular person out there? Let us know if it has, perhaps it has. Oh wait, 60, 25,000. Or is this saying it's perfectly valid? Maybe it's because of his important role in the important event, maybe it's right that he gets special attention. All right, on to the Irish Daily Mail today. The government's banking on vaccine boosters and antigen tests to turn the COVID tide and save Christmas pressures. Now growing on NIAC, the National Immunization Advisory Committee to move forward swiftly when it comes to the rollout of booster jobs. Although they can only go so quick because I mean, you have to be six months on from your last job. So no matter how quick they go, you can only go as quick as the rules, can't you? The political mood was captured by influential Fina Foreign Minister Noel Collins who told the Irish Daily Mail, we need to act decisively and simply roll out the booster, the infrastructure and the personnel are there. But if you're working, if you're a frontline member of staff, right, or working in a pharmacy or a GP or wherever you might be and they're administering this booster vaccine in these mass vaccination centres, is that not hard to get to? Do you have to take time off work to go and get a jab to ensure that you don't take time off work? Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there but it doesn't seem the best way of doing it, expecting staff to travel to this central location. The Irish Daily Star tells us that a British man based in Ireland appeared before a special sitting of court charged over an alleged threat to kill a female labour MP in the UK. Daniel Weavers with an address in Douglas on the south side of Cork City appeared yesterday before Court District Court, Cork District Court. Mr Weavers was charged with sending a message by phone to the MP that was menacing. It allegedly came from his home address in Douglas in Cork on October 18th last year. Right, so the law, the hand of the law in the UK can reach quite far, can't it? Staying with people saying things that could get them into bother, the Sun tells us that the North's health minister is suing Van Morrison. After the singer branded him very dangerous over his handling of COVID-19 restrictions, the action focuses on an incident at Belfast's Europa Hotel in the summer. Van, a vocal critic of lockdown, took to the stage during an event and criticised Robert Swann. The defamation proceedings also cite two subsequent instances when the singer elaborated on his views on Swann. The first relates to comments concerning Swann made by Morrison to a reporter the day after the incident at the Europa. The second relates to content the songwriter uploaded on YouTube in which he addressed the Europa Hotel controversy. Now, that's gonna be a problem for Van Morrison, I'd imagine, because it's the same courts dealing with, is it not, that case involving Stephen Nolan? And they found quite heavily against the person against which he took the case. And I just wonder if Van might have to end up digging deep into his pockets there. The Irish Daily Mirror, finally. Britain could be on the verge of triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, which might lead to a hard border on this island. Simon Coveney warned yesterday. The foreign minister said if the UK takes this drastic measure, it might result in a trade war with Ireland and the EU. Mr. Coveney said Ireland needs to prepare contingency plans and will not be surprised now if this happens after the COP26 summit finishes at the end of this week. So we're gonna try and bring you information on that. You know, what does it actually mean? What could it mean? Because of course we know the headlines, don't we, trade war, potential for a hard border? You'd imagine though they'd go through every hoop in the book to avoid the hard border element of things. But what we're gonna try and do is get some experts on a little later on in the programme to discuss that reality of what could happen in the event. Well, it seems inevitable now that Britain triggers that article. Get your tyres winter ready. Drop in to Ulster Tires in Letterkenny and Balibuffet today. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra, Mountaintop, Letterkenny. Buy a ticket in Highland Radio's mega draw to win a car. Get your ticket by November 30th and automatically enter an extra draw before the big draw. 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Thank you for joining us, and thanks for working with us and helping us to keep the mic at issue on the agenda in all of its forms. Now, how long has it been clear to you that your house is infected with these blocks? Well, you kind of knew from after the big freeze in 2010, 2011, the house started deteriorating rapidly, like we cracked spider cracks going everywhere. But we were like everybody else. We were oblivious to what the real problem was. And as it progressed, and houses started to deteriorate, people started talking about mica, and then it became a reality that we had mica. And only for the mica scheme, the people that got that up and going and fought to where they fought to, that wouldn't have been highlighted at all. And once we got the test done, then last June we got our test done and it came back positive. We mica and site and out, and then our foundations too. So they were giving us the option. They were trying. They make us do an outer brick. And I wasn't happy with it at all. My wife wasn't happy. And as it progressed, and as you thought about it, you started noticing the cracks on the site. And they started getting worse and worse. And then they've actually got that bad, that they're actually falling, they're coming off the wall. Falling off the wall. Can I ask you about the foundations? Because you got, did you actually get the foundations tested? And how on you didn't know? We didn't get, the reason I'm saying to you about the foundation is my house is proportional in tiles in the kitchen floor. And 2010, 2011, I was telling me and my wife were down having breakfast during one of the big freezes. And I noticed, I started hearing this kind of popping noise. And I says, God, this was about eight o'clock in the morning. And I says, what the hell is that? So I got up and the tiles in the floor, where they're flat like that, started coming up like this. Coming up so you can, my tiles are all hollow now, right? So I ended up, we didn't know about the Micah at this time. We didn't know it was Micah. So I got the insurance company and Greg and they came down and they looked at it. All my tiles, they're still down, the tiles are still down, they're all hollow when you walk in them, they're all loose. And he came on and I looked at it and he turned around and he says, no, it's just faulty, faulty workmanship. So they didn't cover that, anyway. And it was only over the years then where my skirting boards were almost a tile like this. The houses started to move again, out towards the west, coming away. So it's actually your foundations moving, that's shrinking, and the baldens actually moving to the west. So you're not even, you're looking at a full demolition, but also obviously, those fans have to be rooted out too. Yeah, they were, for definite. Anybody that's got Micah, they go the whole way. I know it's going to be tough. I don't have the money, Greg, I'm like everybody else, but you're not simply having a noise like that. Like I have Bison Slab two upstairs and I've three young children too, and it's tough. Do you still use upstairs in that situation or do you prefer upstairs? Or because, like, every time I have a conversation, Ray, about the Spice and Slab with people, especially in a situation like yours where the internal leaf is showing signs of deterioration, this weight. I mean, if you're talking about your house moving to the west, like, do you know, if you make, say for instance, you make a house of cards, you know, when you put that card on top of the two cards and it moves to one side and then there comes a point where surely the weight accelerates that. Do you know what I mean now? I am a warrior, but I'd be, I don't think I could sleep in that house. I do, I'd be like that, but my wife, my wife, my wife, she would, a very good look on it, she would turn around, like I would stress and worry about it, or she would turn around and say, it's not the end of the world, like we've all got our health and we're all keeping well. And she's right, she's right, but it's not easy to keep that mentality all the time, Ray. Oh. Yeah. Right, so listen, that's kind of the background, but the reason really why we're talking today, Ray, though it's good to have the more broader conversation, it's about insurance and insurance on properties and what's the situation there with your family? Right, Greg, I've been thinking this for a long time, I've been lying in bed at night and I was thinking it and I was asking the question, but nobody could really tell you the answer to it. So I took it upon myself to contact insurance company back in October, the start of October, and I got on to them and I asked them, my house has been diagnosed with mica, it has to be demolished. What way do I stand with my house policy? So the weekend couldn't really answer the question. She says, look, I'm going to have to go upstairs with us. I'm going to have to go to hire people and kind of come back to you. And I says, that's no problem, but if you could try and do a kind of emergency because I want to know if I'm paying a policy and the policy is no good to me. How many people out there, Greg, with mica, are insurance companies actually taking the money from them and they are known that these people probably do have mica and that's all, it's like a con. So in a way, the weekend went away and she came back to me a couple of days later with an email saying that my house wasn't covered for mica and he might be able to cover me for the goods inside the house. So I went back there again then and I said, so my house doesn't cover now for the outer, for the balden if it went and fire got to her but and she says, no. And I said, so when can you tell me if you'll be covering me for the good cycle, isn't it? That's right, and she came back to me a couple of days later and Frady asked me, Frady, they came back to me on Thursday and they say as, they don't know if they'll be able to cover me for the contents of the house neither. And I said, so what, what are you telling me? She says, I don't think they're going to cover you but I'll come back to you again with an email and I'll send you a letter I haven't got the letter yet but she just basically says you're not going to be covered and that my policy was no good. So I said to her there and I said, right, I was diagnosed with make-up back in 2020. Rebate. Yeah. And I says, is there going to be a remittance for me paying that policy? She couldn't answer that, Peter. So in the event, God forbid, of a washing machine leaking and flooding the house or God forbid, particularly a fire and you had went to make a claim. Is it the sense that you're getting that they would have said, well, your insurance is invalid? Yeah. Great. This is one of the key points and this is where people with make-up are going to have to listen to this because this is very, very dangerous for anybody loving them because they've got it on the policy and the first thing, God forbid, if your house did go on fire or anything really bad that happened, they're going to come out and they're going to ask, do you have make-up? They're going to ask for the test. If you put your house tested, you're going to be done then right away. What's your premium around 300 or something like that, is it? It would be about, I think about 450 or so. 450, let's just work this out potentially, 450 euro by 6000 seems to be the figure that's going around. We're talking about insurance companies then taking in annually from micro-affected home owners, 2,700,000 euro. We've everyone, say we put a 6,000 figure property on it and everyone's playing around about 450, 2.7 million that until we get clarification, we can't be sure that that's actually money that will afford anyone to make a claim. And this is not about claiming for Mike, anything that happens to the house, the flooding, the fire, anything like that that might happen. Yeah, 100%. That's more significant isn't it? Yeah, another thing great too is we've been moved to demolition, right? I only find us, again, the weekend, that we have to now appoint an architect to demolish our house. We have to pay for the re-planning of your building. This is even if you're building the same house. If they apply for the re-planning of a house, you've put on your advertisement, plan an application under the paper and there's another catch here, but to me everywhere you turn, Greg, and this whole make a scheme that's just costing you money and it's money people don't have. And I know talking to people that have got nothing and their hearts are just sunk. And it's like we're not even being helped at all. Yeah, you see, this is the thing I've not ever, if you've got, if you have money, you don't realise what it's like to live. And I know all about this for a long time that say, say something major happens, say your washing machine goes, say the gearbox goes in the car. You know that three or four hundred Euro type bill? Yeah. The money's not there for it, right? And it, you know, and then you've got the back to school, the huge cost of that. You've got Christmas and all of those type of things and they're coming, they're coming every month it feels like, right? So like where would someone get the money to go through the planning process again or to engage an architect again? They're sitting there going, I can't even get, you know, it's painted as if this is all about people with mansions on the hill, you know, you've heard that whole saying, it's just a complete misunderstanding of what the reality is to live squeezed, squeezed, you know, with no extra money enough, maybe most people hopefully have enough to tick along, but not enough to take on you know, costs of five or six hundred Euro, let alone 10, 20 or 30, people love week to week, month to month. There's no, there's nobody out there now that's got this money that's thrown around and hasn't been able to do that. We turned around, Greg, and we bought our house and two, we had a beautiful house and we sold it, right? And in 2008, we bought the house we bought then was this house we've got now was our dream home and we thought we were in a pig's back leg and we put a lot of money into the house and we done it up, me and my wife done it ourselves and like, now then you go you look at your children and you think, my God. Stop. Right. Okay. It is, it is Ray and I think hopefully it's a little bit better now that we're all talking about it and there's a lot of people pulling in the one direction and we still have to hopefully things like the fees that you're talking about, hopefully they'll be covered in this announcement that the government's going to make at some point in the not too distant and don't know it at all and you're kind of left in a lumbo. 100%. Yeah. Greg, I've been banging on to TDs, right? I've been sending emails regularly and out of the TDs I've sent, I'm not going to name them, right? But the TDs that I've sent the emails to one TD came back to me out of it all and one TD invited down to my house to come and see the destruction and the damage that one TD came down and I can name him if it's all right you name him. Yeah, sure. Go ahead. He's the only one to talk it up and looked after it and came down and it was Patrick McLaughlin and Pierre started the two of them came back to me and he came down without a second thought and all their TDs didn't even bother acknowledging my emails or anything and I think the way I look at it Greg is we run our own business here and move on, right? We employ people or taxes are paying their wages them people and they think they can turn around and ignore you and not help you out or they take ridiculous wages and then they can't even speak to you when you go to try and get it. Yeah, it feels like insult injury I'd imagine. Right, what business is it, Ray? Moval Clothing Company. Right, where can people get more information if they want to support your business? What's the website or Facebook? On www.movalclothing.com We make in the factory like in great takes all over the world. Good stuff. Continue to success with that. That's not what you come on for but it's might as well get the plug in while we're here. It's tough on the business too. You're paying a lot of money. You're paying a lot of money to these people. I don't want to sort of straight you even further but obviously you know you're paying your rates and your water rates and they're going to the council and well I don't think I need to I don't think I need to fill the gaps in for you there. Listen, Ray when you get further contact back from the insurance company you'll stay in touch with us, let us know. Good problem. I actually sent they sent me here with the faulty workmanship so they've got it all down here and what they don't cover and it's a very very small rate. Yeah. Beyond the lane now at this age I would say. Alright listen thanks Ray I appreciate your time this morning that is Ray Doherty there. He is concerned now that he's been paying insurance for a long time but is the house covered? They're suggesting even the contents wouldn't be covered. Now if you made a claim would they sort of have invoked the small print in that as I say you know I don't think I'm exaggerating until such time as we get clarity say 6,000 houses paying around about 450 euro each maybe less but maybe more that's 2.7 million going to insurance companies. Do we have insurance cover for that 2.7 million have you had difficulties in making a claim that is not a claim that a problem has actually been blocked but you know something else with the property was there any issues there did you have to declare to them that you had Micah etc. Oh wait 60, 25,000 WhatsApps and text thanks again to Ray there by the way great speaker of course and give us a call Caroline taking your calls 07491 25,000 Are your tires ready for winter call into Ulster Tires and Letter Kenny and Bali Buffet today. 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What is your thinking behind it? Like what not problem are we trying to resolve? But why do you think we need it? I think we need it to produce a more rounded individual going into the workplace, going into an apprenticeship or going into academia. And I think no matter which way they go, this will help. It's a very simple idea. And often the simpler the idea, the more likely you can implement it and work it. And basically it would give five, it would give a total of 15%, 5% for social activity. That would be things like charity work, visiting institutions, visiting elderly. And at the moment with the way things are now, it could also include the environmental work. And now then 5% for cultural activity. And this would be the school music and school plays, murals and walls outside, a whole myriad of things. And 5% sporting, athletic participation in games and all. But across each of them, the really important point would be participation. The emphasis would be on participation rather than excellence, because we're not talking here of a potential Olympians or talking of people who appreciate these things. And if a person goes in then, say they go to let her attend the IG after doing this, they'll bring to let her attend the IT. From the social, they'll bring empathy, concern for others, awareness of others. From the cultural, they'll bring intellectual curiosity and breadth of intellect and range. And from the sporting, they'll bring teamwork, camaraderie, discipline. And all of those will actually improve that academic performance. Do you see though a gap in those qualities in our young people that you're trying to encourage or incentivize with these proposals? Like, is this about how you perceive our youth generally, socially, in the country? And you're using this initiative, this proposal as a way to address that? No, it's not so much that I have identified a specific deficit in our young people, but I see it in a different, I see it in the Congress way in a positive way that this will enhance our young people. In fact, I'm very impressed by our young people now personally. And I have three sons myself. But I'm also impressed by the young people I meet. So it's not so much that I've identified a deficit quite truthfully. It's that I think this is a positive. This will complement, this will add to, this will make for bigger and better people. And people with a greater aroundedness. And they'll bring much more to where they go in terms of their contribution and they'll benefit much more from where they go. Because I think even if they go to read books, if you read a book with life experience like that, experience of sport, of culture, of social, you bring more to the reading of the book, you take more from the book. So I see this as right across the board, which will help people, it'll make them civic minded. There's a whole way. And it's 15% of the marks. And bear in mind that the other 85% from my perspective would remain with the academia. Now there are debates going on as you know at the moment about open book exams, et cetera, et cetera. We could go down those areas, but I'm specifically proposing this. And if we have time, I'd explain to you how it would work in practice in any situation. Go ahead Joe, now, yeah. Yeah, yeah, well if I do, I would see four or five senior teachers in a school, post-holders who would be, by the way, bear in mind that a small cohort of the school is doing the leaving start every year. So they would issue the marks in these three spheres. Now, teachers are very professional. After a while, it would settle down with the initial sort of teething pens and maybe suggestions, as you always do, of favoritism, but it would become the norm after a while, that wouldn't exist. Teachers are professional and you always have an aberration everywhere, but in every profession, yours and mine and all of them. But that doesn't mean the bulk of people are not absent what they do. So the teachers would do it well and you could have quality control and you'd have to have a level of quality control and that would be the department inspector doing a random sample. Would it not be, and I know that your proposals are well thought out, but would it not be more practical to do this work, say, for instance, during transition year, where that is a year already about growth and experience and development? Absolutely, it's a very good point you make. And that, yes, is what that year is about and that focus should be big there, but I would say this is a continuity. It might build on the transition year and it would quantify the entire experience since junior. Now, I mean, obviously, there could be the argument made, then, that this would skew points, you know what I mean? And, you know, like maybe you could have people that are incredibly, incredibly academic, okay? That might not score very well in the areas that you talk of. They may not want to be involved in social activity. They may not want to be involved in sport or saving the planet, but they could be our next, you know, top surgeons or, dare even say, politicians. You know, so is it, like what I'm saying is, is that does that, would that not automatically, not automatically, could that not disadvantage certain groups of our young people by 15 points? And that's not a really great start to their lives, is it either? No, it wouldn't disadvantage them. In fact, it will enhance if you think of somebody who's going to be our top surgeon. Wouldn't it be wonderful if our top surgeon had an awareness of their environment, thought about the world around them if they had an intellectual curiosity outside of their role as a surgeon, and if they had a teamwork capacity and all of that. So I would see it, the emphasis will be on participation. So it wouldn't be that the top surgeon who's a potential top surgeon, who's a nerdy, who's academic, who's kind of maybe a brilliant chess player or whatever, and orientated in that way, and there's nothing wrong with that. It wouldn't be that that person would be, in any way changed, it would be that that person would dip their toe in the water of social activity, would dip their toe in the water of culture and artistic and of athletic, and would become a more fulfilled and holistically satisfied person and developed. And in actual fact, this would contribute to their personal happiness also. Do you know, in life later, they'll bring more to life, they'll take more from life. I mean, pardon my interruptions, Senator. You see, I mean, what you're saying is, what you're saying is it makes a lot of sense, but what we have conversations on this program, and what others are sure as well, is like, why are we not teaching our young people to drive, you know, not to actually drive, but, you know, actually in a uniform way, their theory test could be part of their schooling, whatever it might take, just so they have an understanding of our roads. Basic, someone's suggesting here, basic first aid, you know, CPR. Now, I'm not trying to sort of layer things on top of your suggestions, but are we sort of not getting to a point whereby we need to a root and branch review, so we produce far more rounded individuals right across, you know, a whole range of areas, because there's a strong argument for all of these things, I think. Yes, well, my colleague, Minister Simon Harris in the Higher Education Department has recently, if you like, kick-started or suggested such a debate, but I would personally see things like learning to drive, and I can acutely understand, I have a very big connection to Dury Gal, which we won't go into now, I genuinely need to spend a lot of time in Dury Gal, and I'm aware of the difficulty with roads and with accidents, and I know why people would say that. But I think the drive one should be within the transition year. Certainly the emphasis there on the theory test, maybe if you could have simulated driving tracks, I don't have enough knowledge here to... But what you're saying is, and you're well capable of saying it yourself, that this, there's other times in the school process that that can be accommodated. Do you think this is so important that this requires a specific focus in the fifth and sixth class? Yes, absolutely so. And specifically in the transition year, the transition year is a golden year and offers huge potential, and it is a free year outside of mainstream academia without exam, examinations, and that's your year for the first aid, that's your year for the driving theory, that's your year for responsibility. But of course not everyone does transition year, but I take your point, that's something we could... Now, what kind of reaction have you gotten to this? Because people tuning in might think it's about to happen, it's not, it's a proposal, it's a suggestion, it's a talking point. Have you raised it with the Education Minister, anyone else in government? And what kind of feedback are you getting? Yes, well, I'll tell you, I've written the other day to the Minister for Higher Education, the Minister for Education, I've written to the presidents of all the teachers unions, out of the relevant teachers unions, I've written to the students unions for reaction and explaining the proposal in detail to them, and I'm waiting those responses. Now, one criticism, and Fabio, from you, you do your job very brilliantly, and you've made very constructive criticism, but one point that was put to me on another radio station, that I wouldn't say to you if you like, I'd like to cover because somebody might text it in when I'm gone, is that in some way this might discriminate in favor of the private schools who have all the fancy sports, et cetera. In fact, the converse is the case. I didn't think of this when I was on that station, but when I reflect on it, the converse is the case, because this would leave every student of the country the potential to, if you like, level up in an area, and it would take, in fact, those schools that the private schools have a big, big plus in academia as it is, and this would be a levelling up rather than... I appreciate you saying that, and maybe I'm not quite as cynical as the last person interviewed you. I would hope that something like this would make sure that that wasn't the case rather than creating an issue, but I appreciate your time this morning, and thank you very much. We'll see what our listeners think. I appreciate your time, Senator. Thank you. Lovely to be on Donnie Garl Radio. It's great to have you with us. Thank you. Senator Joe O'Reilly of Finnegale there is Lasker Healer of the Shannad as well. I'll wait 60, 25,000. What's apps and texts to that number? Give us a call in 07491-25,000, and if you want to email us, commentsathighlandradio.com. I don't think we'll get quite a few emails, but I think people prefer texting or message us on our socials. We are good to have you with us, sir, and Annie McGinley watching on Facebook. Good morning to you, Annie, and the rest of you watching across our Facebook pages and YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland. Good to have you with us. A caller says, thank God I'm living in a house free of Micah. It's the only thing that's lifted me today away from Amy and Ryan's PCR fix. My head really bleeds for all the Micah families. Greg, just a good example of a two-tier system. They have been treated totally different from Dublin when something similar happened to them, and we're not there yet. Let's just, well, I mean, I'm not taken away from your point. You make an excellent point, and I think you're referencing there the Pyrite scheme. I'm just trying to keep my fingers crossed as to whatever announcement they might make whenever they decide to actually make it, that maybe it goes far enough down the road to be acceptable. Greg, don't you need the letter of indemnity from your insurance company so you're not in breach of your mortgage? Yes, that is life insurance, though. Isn't it in particular? I'm not sure I probably should know. House insurance, you're obliged to have house insurance to have your mortgage, or is it life insurance? I can't remember. Greg, on Friday, our place of work sent around an email asking, who was attending the Christmas party? It's the usual dinner and drinks, and then you go on or home, if you like. Is it fair that these parties should be going ahead? I would have thought so, yes. I mean, we're living currently under these guidelines. They're allowed. Will they be allowed by the time they roll around? I would suggest so, yes. There's a big meeting between government and representatives of the hospitality on Tuesday. Apparently, the compliance in terms of asking for these controversial certs is not where they need it to be, and I think Michael Martin's effectively going to tell them either, you know, you very strictly enforce these rules or your sector might have to be pulled back a bit. We'll see what comes from that. I'm eating tomorrow. Why is Eamon Ryan cycling around on a bicycle and not wearing a helmet? If a car hits him, he could go up in the air and come down on his head. It's the law to wear a helmet and a bicycle. Now, Greg, don't make any excuses on this one. Well, you're not going to like this excuse I'm going to make. It's not actually the law to wear a helmet. Sorry, it's not an excuse. It's no excuse that he shouldn't. Sometimes, sorry, you're not going to be happy with me, but unless I'm very much mistaking, it's not. 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So, what do you think has led us to this situation whereby it seems maybe the weight left a cop 26, but that Britain will trigger Article 16? Could you tell us maybe what Article 16 is and what's the process of its triggering? Well, under the agreement negotiated between the European Union and the United Kingdom government, if it is felt that the protocol was not working properly, then there's a process by which it could be suspended and new negotiations, new conversations take place. One of the grounds on which the Article 16 could be triggered is if there was a significant disruption to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a disruption in traditional flows. And what David Frost, the UK negotiator has said is that the reduction in trade flows between GB and Northern Ireland and the increase in trade flows between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are evidence of exactly that and therefore Article 16 can be triggered. And what do you think the British motivation actually is though for triggering Article 16 if it does as expected? I suppose the single word dishonesty would perhaps be a bit too flippant, but I mean, essentially it's an unhappiness by the British government to, with the negotiations that they themselves fulfilled. It's difficult to quite understand why they agreed to something which they're not willing to implement, but that's essentially where we are. It was, I think really a political maneuver by Boris Johnson to get an agreement over the line, to get a general election done, to enable him to say he got Brexit done. It was an agreement that he wasn't, I think, genuinely committed to because I don't think the changes in trade flows are anything other than what would have been expected. And it's also important to say that the disruption in trade flows should not be regarded as simply the result of the obligations under the protocol. To a large extent, it is decisions taken by British traders that they don't want the hassle of sending things over to Northern Ireland. And that is not simply about new obligations in terms of fulfilling customs declarations. It's also the fact that the British government is requiring statistical returns from traders. And so it's increased the burden of bureaucracy, but that's not entirely down to the protocol. Some of that is down to decisions taken by the British government. Yeah, and also, too, there are, I mean, businesses is quite good in Northern Ireland as well. I mean, these calls aren't universally coming from Northern Ireland, are they? Saying, look, we're in a terrible situation. Boris, help us out and invoke this article. Absolutely not. I mean, this is not about the economic realities of the protocol, which is actually very good news for Northern Ireland businesses because give them open access both into the GB market and into the European Union single market. So it's actually very good news. And actually, we've had an opinion poll. There's been two opinion polls in the last few days which show that the protocol is broadly popular with the Northern Ireland public. There is a small section of the Northern Ireland public that is unhappy with that, which is hardline unionism. But that's actually, you know, that's a long way from the majority of the population of Northern Ireland, broadly a significant chunk of unionism that's involved with business, plus non-aligned people, plus Nationalists and Republicans are broadly quite happy with the protocol. And it's also untrue. I heard Jeffrey Donaldson earlier today talk about the number of British traders that are no longer willing to send goods to Northern Ireland. But actually that is not altogether new. I mean, it's long been the case that a lot of British traders would not be willing to send goods to Northern Ireland. You watched any ad break for years on any of the British channels and they would say, you know, delivery to mainland Britain only excludes Northern Ireland. I mean, people have saw that for donkeys years. Also, back to the question, who would do a deal with Britain? You know, if you get a deal like this that's been agreed, that has been sold as an oven-ready good deal, an election was won off its back and now we're seeing this type of activity. I mean, it wouldn't be me anyway. If I were a country, I wouldn't want to get into bed with Boris Johnson because I simply couldn't trust him. Absolutely. I mean, you're completely right, Greg. I mean, it devalues the currency of diplomacy for Great Britain. I mean, this is really quite bad news. I mean, yes, it has done deals with New Zealand, but, you know, this is quite small fry and actually it's also bad news for farmers both in Northern Ireland and in the Republic because the deals that it's negotiated with New Zealand are essentially about bringing in lower-cost food items from other countries around the world. And that means that the agri-food sector, which is particularly important in Northern Ireland, is going to have more difficulty in the future. So, yes, there are some trade deals, but not the big ones it wants and is at serious risk of now losing the existing trade agreement it's got with the European Union. And let's be absolutely clear, trade for Great Britain, the economy in Great Britain has suffered as a result of Brexit already and if it loses an open free trade agreement with the European Union off the back of it's reneging on the protocol, then actually that is very bad news for the British economy. There would be a month, wouldn't there, if this word triggered for discussion, is this, you know, a tactic by Boris Johnson? And if it is, how firm will Europe be with him? You know, I mean, how united and how much resolve does the EU have, I wonder, to stand up to this? Well, everything really with Boris Johnson is about tactics without necessarily a long-term strategy or achievable objective behind it, I think. So, yes, it is a tactic, it's a political maneuver and he's got obviously got lots of difficulties at home. It may also involve COP26 not being the type of outcome that he actually wanted or can boast about. So, yeah, he's got political difficulties at home and that's part of what's going on. I mean, the European Union will be really unhappy about this and not only because you have the British government that they all perceive as reneging on an agreement and actually trying to get a better outcome than it agreed to, but actually it has its own domestic problems. I mean, you've already heard Simon Coveney getting very angry about the UK potentially walking away from its commitments, but worse than this, the European Union has its own internal difficulties with in particular Poland and Hungary. And Poland is trying to get an opt-out for the European Court of Justice. And part of what the UK is trying to do is to say that Northern Ireland should not be subject to the European Court of Justice even though it's within the single market. Now, if the EU were to agree to that and I don't think they're intending to, then actually that creates an awful lot of difficulty with Poland, which is trying to get itself an opt-out from the European Court of Justice and you can imagine that Hungary and possibly the Czech Republic might wish to do so as well. And in a sense, I mean, I think there'll be a feeling within the European Union that the objective of the UK is to break the single market. Yeah, it seems like that. It doesn't want the European Union to be a successful economic zone and there'll be a lot of cynicism, I think, about what Johnson wants out of this process. All right, Paul, listen, thanks for your insight, as always, I really appreciate it. Okay, great. All right, Paul Gosling there, political commentator and author, you are tuned to the Ninetal Noon Show here in Highland Radio. There's much more to come on the programme, but we are going to take a break now for the news and the obituary notices. Stay right where you are. Live on air online and on the Highland Radio app, this is Highland Radio News. Good morning, it's 10 o'clock. Donald Kavanaugh at the Highland Radio News Desk. The Foreign Affairs Minister says there will be a significant threat to the British Irish relationship if Article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol is triggered. Simon Coveney says it's not a fair complaint that this will happen, but there is a lot of evidence that it will. He says triggering it would lead to serious consequences. I think we need to clearly be preparing for that. I'm thinking about the repercussions of that because I think they would be very serious should that happen. And that's why I and others are out now talking openly about what I think is a very significant threat to the British Irish relationship and also the UK-EU relationship. The HSE has confirmed that respite services are to return to Mont-Charles and Dunlowe. Rehab Group are to provide respite services at Seaview House five days a week, while the HSE has made a funding submission to extend that service to seven days a week. Meanwhile, respite care is set to resume at Dunlowe Community Hospital upon completion of the current refurbishment next month. Donegal, Deputy Thomas Pringle says not only is it important that existing services are restored, but the overall service, he says, should be expanded. We should be looking to develop services right across the board because it's vitally important and families need respite and they need to be doing sure that they can get some break so that they can continue on and providing what they're doing, the state's work and providing services on behalf of the state and if they can be able to do that as fully as possible. I think the least they can expect is to have a decent respite service. Deputy Michael Healy Ray says the delay in rolling out broadband is extremely worrying to rural Ireland from Kerry to Donegal. Fewer than 3,000 homes and businesses have been connected to high-speed broadband under the National Broadband Plan. The target is to reach 115,000 premises by the end of January next year, but by then it's not thought the figure achieved will be any more than 60,000 in Donegal. Some homes won't be connected until at least 2026 while it's projected that just 21% of the remaining 32,000 properties in the county without access to fibre broadband will be connected by March of 2023. Deputy Michael Healy Ray says the government made commitments that must be honoured. If we were able to electrify rural Ireland back in the 50s and 50s and carry ESB into every home and place in the countryside, surely, meeting on with the poles that they're already and with a lot of the infrastructure is already actually in place, that we should be able to do this and keep to the commitment which was given at the very beginning. Garthier and Donegal are urging motorists to make road safety a priority and help save lives. It comes after the Bunkrana Roads policing unit detected a number of motorists speeding yesterday. Two drivers were issued fixed penalty charge notices after being caught travelling in excess in an 80-kilometre per hour zone in Burnfoot. A further three motorists were detected speeding in 100-kilometre per hour zone on the N13. They also received fixed charge penalty notices. They are appealing to people to ensure they're travelling within the speed limit at all times. The French ambassador to Ireland will visit Cante Donegal tomorrow. Vincent Cléran will visit the others. They go to the offices in Guidore to be for a number of meetings in Latter-Kennie. He will also go to the courthouse in Lifford tomorrow afternoon where a special meeting is taking place regarding the peace process. And the West Donegal councillor says cameras are needed to tackle legal dumping in the area. In recent days household items, including a hoover, have been dumped between Falkara and Dunfana Heap. Councillor Michael McClaverty has once again appealed to those responsible to properly dispose of waste and has reiterated his belief that there is no other option but to install cameras in illegal dumping hotspots. Cameras is going to have to be a thing. Hidden cameras are going to have to be a thing that Donegal County councils are going to have to push for in all areas. Discrete cameras that they may wherever and just tie and catch these people and that can bring them to the task because unless that happens we're just going to have numerous more days like this myself, other councillors, other people of the public raising this, talking about it and it's just the whole thing's going to get out of hand once again. Looking at the weather forecast after a very wet start in most areas this morning, outbreaks of rain will push eastwards right across the region. Patch rain or drizzle will be mixed with some drier intervals later in the morning and during the afternoon. It will remain mostly cloudy today though. Highest temperature is 13 or 14 degrees Celsius in moderate to fresh southwesterly winds and that's how in review news. We're back with news headlines again at 11 o'clock until then. Good morning. The obituary notice says for this Monday morning, November the 8th the death has taken place in Chicago of Anthony McLaughlin, Himmish, formerly of Dromnesky, Mallon Head. Funer will take place on Wednesday in Chicago. The death has taken place of Betty Graham, Devlin Moore, Cary Gart. Her remains are reposing at her late residence. Funer from there to more afternoon after a private family service in her home at quarter past 12, going to Cary Gart Presbyterian Church for burial service at one o'clock with interment immediately afterwards in the family burial ground. Wake and Funeral are private to family and friends only place. The death has occurred of Margaret Barr, 540 Grove Cottages Moth, removal tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock to Sacred Heart Church Moth for requiem mass at half past one followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. Margaret's requiem mass can be viewed on MCN media moth. Wake is strictly private to family and friends only. Family time from 11 p.m. until 10 a.m. Family flowers only, donations and lay of desire to Bonkronik Community Hospital Patients Comfort Fund care of any family member or Murphy funeral directors. The death has occurred of Rosella, Rosie Sheeran named McLaughlin, 8 Coal Hill Park, Newton Cunningham and formerly Glingard Mallon. Her remains will be reposing at her home this evening from eight o'clock. Requiem mass on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock in all sins Church, Newton Cunningham followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. Requiem mass can be viewed on ChurchServices.tv forward slash Newton Cunningham. Family time please from 11 p.m. until 12 noon. The death has occurred of Jackie Breslin, number three, Glenview Ardra and formerly Stravali. His remains will repose at McCabe's funeral premises Ardra today from half past three until half past six, followed by removal to the Church of the Holy Family Ardra for seven o'clock to repose overnight. Funer mass tomorrow at 12 noon with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. The death has taken place of Harry Leo Doherty Bridgend. His remains are reposing at his home. Requiem mass tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in our Lady of Lourdes Church, inch followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. The death has taken place of Hugh McDevitt, 98 Ard McCool-Stranoler, and formerly from Cymruick Clawen. His remains are reposing at his home. Requiem mass at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning in the Church of Merriam-Macklitz-Stranoler with interment afterwards in Drumbo Cemetery. Requiem mass will be streamed live via the parish webcam at churchservices.tv forward slash Stranoler. The death has occurred of Noreen Begley, Moff and formerly of Letcher-Macka Ward. Her remains are reposing in her sister, Kathleen West, house in Letcher-Macka Ward. Funer mass tomorrow in Cymbridge's Church, Letcher-Macka Ward at 12 noon with interment afterwards in the new cemetery. The death has taken place of Joan McElcher, Nate Crawford, Ballie Last, Lifford, and formerly of Grotto House, Port Hall. Funer leaving her home tomorrow afternoon at 20 past 12 for Requiem mass in St. Patrick's Church, Murdoch-Lifford at 1 o'clock and interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Donations and lay of flyers placed at ICU, Galway University Hospital, Kev Quigley Funal Directors. The Requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam clonleyparish.com forward slash webcam. The death has occurred of Meav Dahordy, Naye Grant, Bohor Crow Old Road, Tipperary Town, Tipperary, and late of Drum Barnet, Manor Cunningham County, Donegal. Mass for Meav will take place in St. Michael's Church at Tipperary this afternoon at 2 o'clock, burial afterwards in St. Michael's Cemetery, Tipperary. Mass may be viewed on St. Michael's parish at tipperary.ie. The death has occurred of Patrick Joseph Nickel, 543 Carnhill. Funal leaving his home this morning at 20 past 10, going to Bridget Church at Carnhill for Requiem Mass at 11 o'clock and interment afterwards in the city cemetery. The death has taken place of Bernadette Aitton, 1 Oak Park convoy and formerly of Tops Ruffaux. Funal leaving her sister Angela Rogers home Tops Ruffaux to more morning at 20 past 11 for Requiem Mass in St. John's Church Ruffaux at 12 noon. The Requiem Mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam, parishoverfaux.com. The death has taken place of Annie Brennan, Nate Gallagher, 26, Nocovo Crescent Strabane. Funal leaving her home to more morning at 20 past 9 for Requiem Mass in St. Mary's Church, Melmine at 10 o'clock and interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. The Requiem Mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam, melmineparsh.com forwardslashwebtv.html. And the death has taken place of Patrick Sharkey, Shrohen Falkara, who remains reposing at his niece Rosemary Kern's residence in Shrohen. Funal mass in Christ the King Church, Gorta Hork this morning at 11 o'clock with burial afterwards in the adjacent cemetery. The Funal Mass can be viewed on MCN Media, Gorta Hork and on the Kearnroody Funal Director, Facebook page. For more details, including any family health guidelines for wigs and funerals, you can go to highlandradio.com. You're very welcome. Back to the 9 till noon show here on Highland Radio. Some of your comments coming in on the program and thank you very much for them. Cannot believe that a dead deer has been lying on the side of the road between Cranford and Milford just beside the Glen Road. It's been there for the last two and a half weeks. Workers and officials are up and down that road several times every day. Surely if it's not their job to move it, they could contact the right people to do so. Sorry, Greg, for torturing you again. It's not a torture, by the way. It's great to get all communications in. But they say, I'm really sick to the core today with Aiman Ryan, one rule for him and definitely another for Joe Soap. Not fair at all with the country on its knees. I do think everyone should protest against this in Dublin. No doubt it's because who it was and COP26 is involved. Another morning, Greg, it's good you brought up Aiman Ryan's COVID case. I have had a lot of family members and also know a lot of people who've unfortunately tested positive for COVID and not one of them was called for a retest. Sounds strange to me, but not really surprised. I don't think some rule applies to everyone. Well, you see what happens in a situation like this and I'm not sure if the government are aware of it or not and it's not government bashing. These are the people charged with running the country. It does at the very least, okay, what will be happening today is people will be feeling fine, asymptomatic, feeling fine and they will get back a positive COVID result, okay? And instantly, what would be the human emotion when that would happen? You'd go, well, it must be a negative. I need to get tested again. Aiman Ryan got tested twice. The second one was negative. I feel good. Maybe you've had the vaccine. There's nothing wrong with me. I'm not sitting in the house for a week or however long it is. I feel great. What's happened here is the same thing that's happened to Aiman Ryan. I need another test or others will not, they'll be asymptomatic, feeling great. They'll be asked to go for a test and they won't. They'll say, I'm not going for a test because it's probably gonna be a negative, sorry, it's probably gonna be a false positive and I ain't, I can't take time off work. I can't keep the children out of school and this is what happens, right? So I'm not saying what I don't understand is that they don't understand the consequences of this type of a news story. It's not about him getting special treatment. It's how people look on and they go, well, you know, that's happening at the highest level of government. Well, what about me? What about my situation? Very human, very understandable approach. And that is not having a go at Aiman Ryan. He was called back for the HSC. I don't want people to think I'm bashing him, but I know how this will play out in our minds. Hi, Greg. In relation to Aiman Ryan getting a second test, this is just typical of the government doing something until they get the answer they want. Keep putting out a referendum until they get the answer they want. Keep PCR testing until they get the answer they want. I know he's a government official, but surely a positive test is a positive test. Does this not raise questions over the validity of all tests? Then I was so angry when I heard he got a second test and I didn't see that message. I don't get to see them before they came in. By coincidence, there's a person really pretty much confirming the scenario I was describing just before I read it. Greg just totally disgusted with our government to gain this time it being Aiman Ryan. How in the name of God did he managed to get another PCR test when he first tested positive? If it were me or you, this would not happen. It's totally disgusting. And all the people that have tested positive over 3,000 a day should demand another test. Again, another text making my point. Maybe best of three, huh? Aiman Ryan got a clear COVID test this evening after a negative test yesterday. So he's heading to Scotland in the morning on his bicycle to the summit. He's not going on his bike, but I take your point. I don't believe he is anyway. We were chatting to Ray in the first hour of the show. My heart's broken listening to him. He donated Lettuce Canyon University Hospital with scrubs when the pandemic hit the hospital. Why do bad things happen to good kind people? 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And it's like it's such a fantastic facility for the town. You know, it's a beautiful pool and the gym facilities are great and staff are wonderful. So I was going up there every day, actually, just trying to give it an exercise in, you know. And I walked up there from the main street out to the leisure center on Tuesday. And I walked up on Wednesday. And I walked up on Thursday and Friday. And I went up on Saturday. So I was having a very healthy week last week. But I had to ring in and get in touch because each day when I went up to the leisure center, I walked up from the town as I crossed the road at the zebra crossing. You know, you're walking in from the town, the footpath from one side of the road. And when you get to the leisure center, you have to cross over at the zebra crossing to get over to the leisure center. And each day when I went to make that crossing, the cars would drive through me. And I mean, like, at one point, I was in the middle of the road. I was halfway across it. And the guy kept coming at speed and he just drove straight through me, you know. And it happened, so it wasn't just a one-off fluke. You know, it wasn't like one careless driver. It happened each day. So that is not viewed, then, by motorists in your experience and extensive experience at this stage. It is not approached as or treated as a zebra crossing. In other words, the pedestrian has the right of way there. Yeah, that doesn't seem to be happening. Because it happened all five days, I thought, you know what, there's a serious problem here, I think, with the driver's letter, Kenny. And I started thinking, God, there's some terrible driver's letter, Kenny. But then I thought about it a bit more. And I realized in fairness to the driver's letter, Kenny, it's actually a terrible place to put a zebra crossing. You know, zebra crossings are normally in urban areas or suburban areas where the traffic's moving slower and there's a lot of really good street lighting. Because the zebra crossing is based on the idea that the driver can anticipate, oh, there's someone walking along. They're planning to cross the road. They're stepping out and I better get ready to stop. But that zebra crossing we have in letter, Kenny, is on the main road. And there's not actually a lot of visibility coming from the town direction. And it's the main road. Some people are going pretty fast along there. And I think the drivers of letter, Kenny, just said, you know what, it's actually very dangerous for us to try to stop at short notice for pedestrians here on this main road. And because the guy behind me might go into the back of me. So I'm not going to even try. And actually, I see in the evening, I was coming to the winter. One of the days that I went out there, I think it was the Wednesday, I was coming home, it was about half six. So it was pitch black, dark already. And there isn't actually enough light on that zebra crossing for the motorists to see the pedestrians. I think the guy that went through me that night, I doubt that he actually saw me on the crossing. Another thing too, and I think particularly for our younger people, Sean, is the zebra crossing might even be worse than having nothing there at all because it gives the pedestrian a full sense security of security. Well, that's really why I rang in. Like I have four children. And the thing about a zebra crossing, it's very distinctive. You know, it's in storybooks and stuff. Children kind of know about it. And they go, well, that's a zebra crossing. I don't need to necessarily be as careful as they am crossing the road elsewhere. The cars have to stop for me, which is exactly what I did as an adult until I realized that's not how it worked here. And so my children someday might be walking from the town up to that leisure center, and they go across the road there. And they assume the cars will stop for them, but they aren't stopping. And as long as that's the case, I think, as you say, it'd be much safer not to have it there at all. Sean, how did you find the footpath from the leisure center into town? Well, as I'm sure all your listeners know, that's far too narrow, but that's another story. But I mean, at least there is a footpath. But I think what might work there is a traffic light crossing, a green man. You press the button, you wait for the green man. The traffic has to come to a stop. There's a red traffic light. The cars stop. You get the beep, the green man, you cross. And then children know to wait for the green man. And then it's a little bit safer. I think people would stop for a red traffic light if that was there. But until they get around to installing something like that, I think the thing that's there now needs to be removed. You could put up some signs, you know, slow down pedestrians, all that. But as long as that zebra cross is there, and children, visitors to the town, tourists, the elderly, what about people with intellectual disabilities? You know, like you could have someone, I have relatives, they are on the autistic spectrum. You know, they see a zebra crossing and they think, this means I can walk across the road and a car has to stop. What is that? Like, I don't know what level of training, what would this mean to say someone with a guide dog, for example, visually impaired, are these dogs trained to see that as a zebra crossing? I'm not trying to look for extreme examples, but this is reality. And, you know, it's not only you, Sean, that's raising this, local councillors have raised it, other road users, both motorists and pedestrians, have raised it. We don't want to find ourselves in a situation whereby something terrible happens here. And no one will have any excuse. There'll be no, well, we didn't anticipate this or no one said this to us. You know, people are well aware that there are problems here. Yeah, is it someone was not, God forbid, someone was knocked down there in the next while. I think as soon as they were knocked down, the thing would be changed overnight, you know, immediately. And that person shouldn't have to be knocked down and killed in order for that to be changed. It's not rocket science. It'd be very easy to go down there this week and remove it, you know, because it's not safe that the motorists start stopping at us. And then hopefully we get something safer put in place, speed ramp, better signage, better lighting, maybe even a green man crossing, like I suggested, but until that's all done, the thing that's there just needs to be taken away because there will be people coming, there will be children, there'll be people who, you know, I had to jump out of the way of cars this week in Leonard County, and that's not right. And I thought, you know, if you were disabled, you had any injury, if you were in a wheelchair, you wouldn't have that option. And I would, you know, I would have been killed in that situation. All right, so thanks for that, Sean. It's an important issue and thanks for highlighting it with us. You've been the latest person to express concerns. Roads users, genuine people who aren't roads engineers necessarily, but the road users and they say this ain't safe. And your experience of last week certainly underlines that. Thanks, Sean. Thanks for having me on, thanks. Take care. 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And listen, thanks for your contribution, but it just goes to show you know it's not clear. It should be clear. Right, more comments on that, please, to 0860 25000. It's time for us at 10.30 to take a break for a piece of music. OK, there you have it. That was UB 40. 0860 25000, your WhatsApps and texts to that number. Give Caroline a call in 07491 25000. Now you might remember last week someone text into the show because they had someone calling at their house claiming to be from the CSO and they weren't sure if it were genuine in the CSO, arriving at the property or someone purporting to be, you know, with a view maybe to canvassing their property and having ulterior motives. So we reached out to the CSO and they are, in fact, canvassing people, if that's the right word, across the county at least. And we're joined now by Brydie O'Donnell, who is CSO coordinator in the Northwest. Brydie, thank you so much for joining us and thanks for clarifying the situation. As you can imagine, Brydie, people are very much on edge at the moment because there are a lot of people calling at homes and we are eternally warning them about this. In recent weeks, we had someone calling claiming to be from local businesses, selling pots and pans. So obviously it's great to have this opportunity to chat to you and clarify the situation. But I hope you and the CSO understand how people might be a bit cautious. Very much so, Greg. And thank you for having me. I really appreciate the opportunity you've given me. Yes, we're very conscious of security and no matter what it is now with the technology with our phones or our emails or people calling to our house, we have to be extremely careful. And our interviewers that are out on the road are very conscious of that. All right, tell us about what you're doing as part of this survey or even the work of the CSO more generally. People hear it all the time. People consume the stats, but maybe not know how we all arrive at that point. Okay, perfect, that's great. Well, just to let you know, we have three permanent interviewers working in Donegal. I'm sure that'll be of interest to your listeners. And we have one temporary interviewer. We also have an interviewer based in Sligo who covers parts of Donegal as well. You have a vast county which warrants all these interviewers. So what we do basically, we conduct surveys and we collect data. Our interviewers are out on the road every week all year round. And they're collecting data from households doing their surveys. You hear on news bulletins regularly where according to the latest figures from Central Statistics Office, well, that's the last step in our work. The work they process commences with the interviewer conducting, they start asking the survey questions, the householder responds and then the data is processed and the results are published. So when that publication takes place, we're actually very confident that it's accurate results because the householder has given us the information. So that's basically it in a nutshell, what we do. So what kind of inquiries are your interviewers making at the moment? You know, or is it a whole series of different areas whilst you're at that front door? Right. How we conduct our surveys we work in areas, yeah. We obviously have a mix of urban and rural. We would know them. You would probably identify with them as areas and households. We identified them as blocks and LDU numbers. And the householders are the households are randomly selected. The beginning of the process is that the householder will receive a letter asking them to participate in the survey. Notifying them that the interviewer will call to them. It also contains that block number and LDU number. And it also will have the interviewer's name and telephone number on that. At that point, the householder can make contact with the interviewer. And if they so wish to do the interview then or at a future time, the interviewers are very, very good and they're very accommodating and they will do the survey over the phone with the household at their convenience. Now, so just to be clear, because obviously, you know, Brydie, I know the CSO do great work and we carry much of what you do. But I also, you know, my primary interest is in people who maybe particularly feel worried or vulnerable. So there are going to be opportunistic people calling it door potentially hearing this saying, well, they sent a letter out. I'm here now. Can we so as a homeowner or as a householder, the person that opens the door, how can they best ensure that this is an interviewer from the CSO carrying out this important work? Well, they will already have had the letter so that the interviewer's name is on that letter. When the interviewer calls to the household, they will have their official ID with them as well. And that ID will match the name on the letter. And we're very, we're very, very conscious of security and making sure that, you know, people know exactly who we are. And they and if a householder does not see the ID and they really must ask for it. And like I say, interviewers take upon themselves to take every caution and let everybody know exactly where they are to the point where I think most, if not all, of my interviewer certainly would have identified themselves and introduced themselves in guard the stations because obviously if the public has a worry about who's coming to the door and they can call the guard the station. And if they're in a position to validate that this genuinely is somebody working for Central Statistics Office. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, it makes it makes good sense. Now, do people have if they get this letter, can they opt out of this? Do you know what I mean? So in other words, say they get the letter and they don't either want to engage over the phone or wait for the person that can ring up and say, look, I'm not interested. Yes, they can talk to the interviewer and let them know if they're not interested. Generally speaking, we wouldn't have that amount of people that that would not be interested in conducting the survey. Actually, we're always rather amazed at the response from the public. So and the other thing, Greg, while we're just on that, just to let your listeners know as well that they're they're the information they give is confidential and that's guaranteed under law under the Statistics Act of I think 1993. And their data is safe also because the tablets and the phones that our interviewer use, they're encrypted to a very high standard. All right, so what then in terms of what happens to this information? What is it used for? Do you know what I mean? Like, is it about collating? Is it about collating where we're at or is it to find out where we need to you know, where we're at and where we need to be? Is this information used for policymaking or the use of resources or what? Have you explained a bit to us about that? Yeah, yeah, it's a bit of both, right? And we do many, we do many surveys. But I suppose the biggest survey that we conduct is the labor force survey. That's done on a quarterly basis, done all year round. And it gives a measurement of employment, unemployment, and it can give a very accurate picture of situation, both regionally and nationally. And of course, the results of that labor force survey are very important because they are used for planning. They're used by individuals, businesses, local government, national government for planning, planning such as job creation, education and other areas that affect all of us. All right, excellent. Interesting. That's one that the other we did that we also do what we call a silk survey. It's a survey on income and living conditions. Now, this survey does exactly as it says, it's a survey on income and living conditions, and it measures households, incomes and expenditure. OK, so when we talk about figures relating to our level of disposable income, for example, unfortunately, we're always bottom of that list. But but but that is how that information is gotten together. Absolutely, that's how that comes about, because we may be on terrific wages, but we may have very little disposable income. OK, listen, Brydie, go ahead, finally, Brydie. Yeah, Brydie, there's there's also included in that survey and the silk survey. There's also a suite of questions on deprivation, and that's important as well, because it can it can show us if there are cohorts in society that are maybe more at risk of poverty and others. And then finally, the last the other surveys we do, they're called GHS, but it's an umbrella name for many surveys. And we do crime, health, well-being, computer usage. And at the moment, there is currently a national transport survey in the field. So as you can see, Greg, our interviewers are very, very busy on the ground. And and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the public because I worked as an interviewer myself for many, many years, and I had a very positive experience and to thank them for their cooperation and their participation. What percentage of the time we offered a cup of tea or coffee? More than I can remember. OK, Brydie. It's actually it's actually very encouraging now because that the interviewers are back doing what they do best. They're telling me the same stories. They said you wouldn't believe it, but we're still being invited into households. OK. Thank you for for that. And I appreciate your time and it's good to get that information out. And it's good for the public and it's good for the CSO. There's no losers in this, you know, because if there's any those types of conversations happening out there, it's good that they're put out through here. And then we can have these types of conversations. Thanks, Brydie. I'm very grateful to you, Greg, for again, affording me the opportunity to give you an insight into the work we do and how important it is and to certainly reassure the public that we are genuine. Of course. And it's the fair and proper thing to do. Thanks, Brydie, for doing so. Well, take care. Thank you, Greg. Bye-bye. OK, that was that was indeed Brydie O'Donnell, who's CSO coordinator for the Northwest. So hopefully that information has helped you there. 086625000, I think I said, didn't I? That was the that is the WhatsApp number. Give us a call on 07491 25000. Right, so we'll be back with more after these messages. Winter is coming. Get your tires winter ready. Call in to Ulster Tires and Letter Kenny and Bali Buffet today. 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I wrote to the council some years ago. I can't even remember how long it was. The problem is from day one, I know you say the crossing is under the Aurora Leisure Centre, but I mean, that's basically where it's going. The from day one, they've had the strips or the markings on the footpath for blind people to tell them that there's a crossing. Now, from day one, there was no lights whatsoever there. So I don't know how a blind person was going to cross that road. The problem is that there's also the traffic because it's a busy road, as you know, and coming out of the town, you're sort of, there is markings on the road that says crossing the head, but it's very hard to see for drivers even. And even with the lights, it's hard to see because you can see the drivers will now see the lights. They're just around globes on top of the poles. But on the left, when they come around the left, they have a left hand band when they come around the left hand band. It's very hard to see people standing on the left. So even if they see the crossing, they cannot see if there's people standing there or not. Right. So what we need then is to get rid of the ambiguity it needs a set of traffic lights, green, amber, red. It needs a crossing lights like we have at done stores or they have a Tesco or they have at the new shopping precinct in on Pierce Road. Because well, first of all, I don't know why they put stuff there for blind people because, I mean, unless you want to kill them. Well, we know that's not their intention, but I take your point. Yeah, yeah, no, I get you, but you've tested this. Why put them there at all? Why put those things there at all? But you've tested this, haven't you? You took I took I walked the dog. So one day I decided, look, I walked to the crossing and stand with the dog is me and the dog and I'll stand there and I'll see how long it takes for somebody to stop. Now, I counted at least maybe 12, 15, 16 cars before one of them stopped. But I said, I don't blame the traffic at the same time because there's no indication of what it says crossing. But I think a lot of people don't actually, a lot of people are probably expecting lights and they don't see any lights. And by the time they've got, by the time they realise the crossing is there, they've already gone through it. Given the location of the crossing, Sean, say, for instance, OK, the word lights and three cars are red and it goes back a little bit. Is the danger then, though, if the traffic's backed up there, someone could drive into the back of that traffic? In other words, the location of this crossing, would it be saved to pot the same type of lights that you see elsewhere in the town? Well, the thing about that, Greg, is, I mean, well, it's safe on the side coming into town because there's a long view back. Yes. People coming into the town. Coming out from the town, Kelly's Corner is there, which does, there's, it's always been, Kelly's Corner is always a bit of danger because there's always a blind side there. But the thing about it is, even if the cars stop now, you have people cross, it's got the same danger, anyway. You know what I mean? If cars were to stop and a line of cars coming out now without the lights, even if somebody was crossing and the car stopped, you've still got the same problem. Right, so what is the solution? Do we need traffic calming measures then and then the lights you talk of? Yeah, I think we do need some kind of traffic calming measures, but we do need the crossing lights because, I mean, drivers are obviously, it's obvious from the crossing lights, it's obvious you've got the colours, so you know you've got to stop on what you've got to do. And maybe the attitude needs to be that the town boundary is out beyond that. In other words, that you're not still flying in in inverted commas and then you hit the town and you slow down and you switch your attitude because you're in an urban area. Maybe we need to, and I presume it's the subject of planning down the line, but push out the town boundary so that by the time you've come to the Aurelèsha Centre, you are in a town mentality slowing down. It is in the town boundary. Right, I don't know then, so I don't know what the solution is because it's a rat race, what some people have described it to me as, that people are just bombing in and it's not until they see the bright lights close up that they actually start slowing down and changing attitudes. Well, I do say for some kind of traffic calming measures, I mean, like, I suppose, they do, I do the park, they do have, do you know the island in the middle of the road? I mean, if they had that here, it's possible people would slow down because obviously they're old narrows. Would that road accommodate two articulated vehicles on an island and a footpath or a scenario as it is, I wonder? Well, at the moment, where the crossing is, the crossing is just before the turning off lane to the Aura, so they actually have three lanes there already, including the turning off lane. You know, I mean, it's possible, but I think the first thing they need to do, they did put up this and they did put up the lights, the orange lights on top of the poles. Now, why they did that? I don't know because the sensible thing to do at that stage, if they're going to put lights at all, it was just to put up the crossing lane. Hmm, OK. Sean, listen, thanks for your local input, your local knowledge. I appreciate it. No problem. Thank you, Frank. All right, take care. That's Sean McGlynn there. 08, 6, 60, 25,000 degree, disagree. Are your tyres ready for winter? Call into Ulster Tires in Lederkenny and Ballybuffet today. 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Patches of rain and drizzle then will be mixed with some drier intervals during the afternoon, but mainly cloudy. Temperatures of 13 or 14 degrees, which seems quite mild, is it, for this time of year? And the winds moderate to fresh, south-westerly in direction. Some of your comments here, all that needs is a ramp 30 feet in front of the crossing and the cars will have to slow down. Getting those types of measures in place, especially if it's a TII road though, requires a lot of efforts and surveys and all this type of stuff. But listen, I mean, these are road users saying they don't feel safe on it. Every time I pass the Leisure Pool in Bonkranat, I think of how much our young school children are missing out on lessons, is there no way this venue could have been kept open the way it was such a waste? And I'm like most local people will feel it may never reopen. Enjoying the show, thank you. Let's say anyone out there have an update on what the situation is. I mean, that's a story we've covered extensively. It can be controversial at times, but let us know, well, we can find out what the update is because I think there were some, last time I was discussing it now, was maybe even pre-COVID, there were some positive indications of progress. Why is there only ones ever crossing at New Line Road and none at schools or other places in the town? It really is a danger for our children. Why do people ignore these temporary speed warnings? If I'm heading out the road up Lurgibrak, there is a 60 kilometer per hour speed limit there. The light comes on to indicate that's the case. And you slow down to 60 and every car passes you. Every car, vans, lorries, every car passes you going up there. What is the function of them? Is there any enforcement at all? And I'm sure it's not exclusive to there because the same happens at Lahey as I'm getting closer to home. You slow down to 60, people right up behind you, a couple of flash their lights, and all you're trying to do is to do the right thing. And I'm not saying I'm an angel, by the way, but when it comes to children, and still people also doing U-turns at the top of Lurgibrak too, I wouldn't risk that or take my life from my hands like that. Their U-turn across that road, unbelievable stuff sometimes is what you see. All right, we have to take one more quick break to catch up on them. We're back with the news and a very interesting last hour in the show. We're gonna be reflecting on a fantastic day for St. Union, it's a fantastic couple of weeks, in fact. And we're also gonna be discussing eating disorders as part of our Monday focus. Two very different topics, but that much more besides coming up in the last hour. Beat the cost of Brexit and no customs charges. Do you need a UK address? 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As we were talking about earlier on the programme, the British seems set to trigger Article 16 of the Government of Ireland. Welcome back. As we were talking about earlier on the programme the British seems set to trigger Article 16 of the Government of Ireland. We'll be back with an update on the Government of Ireland. Welcome back. As we were talking about earlier on the programme the British seems set to trigger Article 16. There are some concerns as to what that would mean. Some talk of the potential once again for a hard border on the island of Ireland. I think everybody wants to avoid that, don't they? And also of course a trade war. What could that mean? John, you're concerned, presumably concerned with all of it, but particularly the, I suppose, the Good Friday Agreement and what it stands for. Well, I think that's the trigger that we're going to go back to a situation that was back in the 70s and 80s, but also there's a very important thing that people seems to have forgotten about. When the Good Friday Agreement was being negotiated and signed off on the Sinantho National Treaty set in the U.M. We give up our Article 3, was it our constitution? We had a referendum that gave up our claim to the Sixth Counties. I mean the whole thing's going to be up in the air. So what they're doing is they're actually fostering a climate for it to go back 20, 30, 40 years and nobody in this country wants us. We're only a wee small island. We get us down and there's a group of people in the north I'll write a lot of people in the north have issues for that and of course the issues are on my view are self-centered. They don't seem to take in the whole consideration of this country. But we are, it does and I think we don't even want to consider going back to the times that you talk of but when you hear of comments being made political comments being made and then that triggering the burning out of a boss you know and then you hear of other little things that are going on it does seem to be that we could be on the brink of something that we certainly don't want to see and this could be the catalyst for that John. Well I mean yes it could be, it will be I mean it will be the catalyst for that nobody wants that I mean the United States will have to step in there and the UN will have to step in there that's an international treaty that's signed off and it's in on the statue books in the United Nations it's not just a piece of paper Boris Johnson he has his own problems in England and we can see what's going on there when he tore up the runes to he said he had one of his own cronies I mean that's the kind of people the caliber of people that were dealing with he has no interest in Ireland he has no interest in what's going on in this country and he's no interest in the U.B. in this time of day they woke up to that they have already quite publicly a couple of times there's just no doubt about that but do you know what you're talking about and advocating for peace and advocating for the Good Friday Agreement and I tried to make this point to Paddy Hart last week is that happening politically now maybe I'm missing it right but we're talking about trade deals and we're talking very basic terms about a border on the island of Ireland but do you get a sense there is anyone politically fighting for it like the figures that we had in the past that delivered the peace that we have it doesn't seem to be as high on the political agenda that element of it to me is perhaps it should be but as I say I'm very open to the fact John that I'm missing it listen the people of this country are fighting for peace they want peace we want peace we want it as the politicians that at a higher level seems to be self-interested in their own survival or their own views they're not interested in the ordinary people that's trying to make a living trying to get on with life trying to educate their children trying to find jobs for them life is difficult enough isn't it life is difficult for God's sake I think that they need to sub down and they need to realise in a small country 350 or 360 miles long but 160 miles wide with a population the size of Manchester very small country we want to get on and do our own thing and have peace but in relation to that John and in terms of that geographical and population reality also of course your comments as it relates to the Good Friday Agreement often it feels like reference to the Good Friday Agreement is an afterthought that really what this is about is we are the sharp edge of the wedge for Europe in other words the European Union that tiny border that we have with Britain is the only land border with Britain and Northern Ireland and that is really why it becomes so sensitive for reasons other than you know the Good Friday Agreement if you get where I'm coming from I can tell you that Greg if you go to Yorkshire go down to Somerset and places like that you over in all of them places they don't give a damn about a border here in Northern Ireland they're not interested in Northern Ireland they're not all they want is to make sure that their life is going to be good I mean we had a situation after the war where Germany was split in two that border come down and the Berlin Wall come down and they get on with it I mean my God, Boris Johnson trying to drive a wedge through the Good Friday Agreement and I hear the commentator is on about it but I don't hear many on mention in the fact that the Good Friday Agreement is going to be Jeopardized here no one seems to be picking up on that OK, thanks for your focus on it John I appreciate it, we'll talk again I'm sure John there talking about his concerns for the Good Friday Agreement as is seemingly likely and triggers Article 16 more of your comments here if an employee reports on fit to work because of a positive Covid test can the employer now demand a second test before accepting the validity of the first test well could they make an argument for it yes can they know but obviously when our leaders seem to do operate under a a different set of rules as us then these are the questions that are going to come up seems that the Irish have introduced a new phrase into the English language, Covid corruption means a person who alternates between positive and negative results depending on their political standing and to see the point you're making I don't think it's going to catch on though as it relates to the roads where the crossings I think the crossing at Kerlins at the Tinte area are more dangerous especially at Twilight another we have a crossing in manner the markings are on the road but there are no signs to say it's there so how is traffic supposed to know it's there in fairness, motorists have to be given a fair crack don't they a few weeks ago a woman almost knocked down because she was trying to cross and the car just drove on right now Councillor Mandy Kelly joins us Councillor good morning to you thanks for taking the call Donald Mandy Kelly beg your pardon thanks for joining us right now you're listening I'm not sure if you're interested in trust other councillors I'm sure as it relates to this crossing I mean a lot of this conversation is happening in the chamber in fairness what is the situation as you see it Donald I can't remember the name and it's 100% correct that's a very big crossing but it's an accident and I have raised this before at the national bus ticket level basically as our last meeting last month Councillor Jerry McGill raised this as well there's definitely something needs to be done there so what is the problem do you think is it traffic coming into the town or exiting the town I don't know what the speed limit is because I don't really use that road very often but do they sort of believe they're not really in a built up area on the way in or as soon as they get out of the main town they put the foot down believing they're out of the town what's the problem do you think well Greg I'll be completely honest with you and I travel that road as you know numerous times every day and my own personal opinion is that the pedestrian crossing it's in the wrong place because listen I'm guilty Michelle Greg I've left the clinic and out the road and there's no point in any difference and you come around that corner and the pedestrian crossing is a little bit toppy before you know it and listen there's different times I have seen where there's people standing there and as I say I'm guilty of it and because you just don't realise it's there Greg for me it's in the wrong place I heard the opinion there about traffic lights I don't think that's going to resolve the problem because it's only going to back traffic up on both sides and then if traffic backs up from the other side of the clinic I mean that's on two-way danger fence well that's what I was saying and I was asking earlier caller because you know as a motorist too you have to make a judgement call is it safe for me to stop in between the distance that you know that I can see is there a car behind me would they be taken by surprise if I were to break could they go up behind me like it seems that this where it is motorists yeah that's exactly what would happen Greg I mean I do believe you would see more actions there but Greg would I actually pushing for at the moment and I think it's the best solution for this is for a footpath to be taken on the opposite side of the road from the bottom of the south of the Kinney main street out there's fires at Arnold Park to connect them with the joining footpath the Kelly's mall side of the road there you know I think that should be a footpath taken on that side of the road out and I think it's the best solution is that road wide enough to accommodate that Donald or would it mean sort of you know acquiring land and extending it with some of the landowners there along that road and anyone that I have been talking to is more than glad to give their bit of land to implement the footpath along that side of the road and I think that's something going forward that the council, they need to be engaging with the people along that side of the road that owns in the gardens because from the talks I have had with the residents they're more than willing to work with the council to extend the footpath on that side of the road and the conversation hasn't really come up today but the last couple of times we've talked about this stretch it was people, wheelchair users or those with buggies saying that the current footpath is very narrow that articulated lorries, bigger vehicles even cars seem to be very very close that they feel that that's very dangerous so it's not just crossing it a lot of people feel it's unsafe literally walking up and down it at the moment and you know you talked about an accident and with an accident there's a few factors that we can determine what causes things you know there's the driver behaviour but there's also the condition of the road and you know with all of these warnings if something happens this is an accident you know because if the road is contributing to the danger well then it's not an accident it's down to the environment and I know I'm nitpicking Donald but you know we can't be having this conversation after someone is tragically killed or seriously injured in this road we have to be out in front of this now I think you're off on the road from Leicester County a very busy road and there's no reason why especially when the residents are willing to give up their batch of land there that I have been engaging with there's no reason that that road can't be widened that them two corners should be taken away completely at our leisure leaving the road completely open for both pedestrian and people driving we need to couple from any long-term plans do you know what I mean do you think this is so important that this needs to be focused on in a short to medium term rather than talking about you know well we're going to be doing this before 2040 and that before 2040 and this will happen and that will happen I mean it sounds to me like this is not something we can really wait on that this is something that needs to be prioritised Donald again tomorrow and we're planning again there is and I think the best solution going forward is to put a footpath on the opposite side of the road and connect it out to the footpath and perform a graveyard and I think what you mentioned Councillor Jerry and others rating this issue deserve if it hasn't come already and I apologise if it has and I tell you what the public also need is an explanation from the council as to why we have the layout that we currently have and why we can't rather quickly progress safety measures and then you guys happen to go in there every month and bang the same drum you know the council need to explain to you and I suppose then by default to us precisely what is why this this layout was introduced and why we can't go for something more safer and then maybe if we have those answers we can move forward to try and come up with better solutions that's a whole bunch of incorrect and I will be asking for answers on this here tomorrow I think meeting and when answers I do receive Greg I will I will put it out to the public and let the public know because it needs to be resolved for some other virginity. Donal thanks for that I appreciate it Councillor Donal Mandy Kelly not the only one raising that issue but the councillors are in there in fairness to them you know because it could be out there you might think well no one cares I'm going to go in there I've interviewed many councillors Mandy and Jerry Montagle and others as well on this issue I don't think there's any there's certainly no plot but this is not about politics there's no split there I think they're all in agreement hi Greg at this time if you're drivers of no chance with people walking roads without reflective clothes the road into Milford is especially dangerous not fair on drivers thanks yeah indeed I know the stretch I believe I know the stretch you're talking about there I'm reading outside Lurgy Brecht school and I'm not making excuses for it but I think the problem is it's a climbing lane and if you're stuck behind a slow vehicle and don't get past it that you will have very little opportunity further up the road I agree with you okay and I also believe that the sign for if we're used to driving that road and other roads but I think you can come on to that sign quite late in other words you could be overtaking a slower vehicle going up that hill and then you come on the light and you kind of stuck there aren't you you either hit the brakes and go in behind that heavy vehicle or you plow on and even find yourself accelerating more to try and get ahead of that vehicle and then once you hit the 60 slow back down again it's complicated decisions have to be made in the spur of the moment trying to cross at the new courthouse in letter Kenny you'll be waiting it's not safe at all says another and it's not just about letter Kenny by the way if you have concerns a lot majority of people listening from outside letter Kenny so like that other caller in the Milford area if you've got concerns similar to this keep them coming into us as well right we are going to be talking about a cracking we can the 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the 9 till noon show right let's reflect on a big weekend of sport for St. Union's Brendan Davani the presenter of the DL Debate the DL Debate's been out now Don and Dosted Monday it's in the can as I'm getting I'm getting with the radio lingo now Greg I don't have the lingo but anyway come here let's talk we'll talk more broadly about what's been a season for St. Union's GAA club as a whole which is the game yesterday it wasn't a fantastic spectacle early on where St. Union's spoiling a little bit trying to restrict Neve Connell and obviously then the goal was a game changer you know am I reading it right Brendan help me out here it's a deep question that Greg I've been on the case about it many times it's where club football isn't done at all listen it comes back to 2005 and I started with Neve Connell that tactic still is the one that they use and if you're playing against it either you need to be brilliant and completely open them up or you have to play a bit like it what happened in 2012 and don't go one all Ireland all those county players went back to their clubs and said this is the way to play this is a modern way and unfortunately we're stuck in a bit of a rut now outside of what's what this this young Union's team won in this game if they're champions now and I think this is the big part that now take the game and open up the game and don't go because that first half is absolutely a dire football you know see when they go out and TV I was doing about with our T yesterday I felt that we've been embarrassed about what was being played there right now I'm not blaming anybody for this because I don't want to do that now but I think with the future now it's obviously Union's as champions have done it all but not not necessarily this season because they're going to be on the also need to protect yourself but next season because of the game because they're a phenomenal team I think they need to do one this championship and I can forgive me for doing that in 2005 because they haven't won a championship but once you become champions going you have to play and I was very disappointed in the last couple of seasons you know what they've called wanted and even get over one at the following season just straight back under that regent the family there were there were I mean obviously you know there's burst of speed there were times it was literally pedestrian that there wasn't any running that it was almost like a a game of chess and I like tactics you know I love boxing for example I don't mind you know if people are defensive and what have you but there has to be a better way of getting to where you want to be and we'll move on to the positives by the way but it would be remissable so not to discuss what they're probably going to be talking nationally about yeah yeah listening that's the truth and and and we got this team to to change it now and maybe set standards now listen you're right Greg listen I have a bit of a lockdown belly I've had me hopped on since I stopped playing football I could have played in a lot of periods in that game yesterday it was so slow you know and that's not the way the G is what you're going to get is a mix of defence and attack what's happening going to go football has become so rigidly defensive and so negative that packing defences which isn't really sport for me you know if you want to be that's crowding so you know just to be a thing years ago you're one-on-one that corner back had to have a skill or that half back had to have a skill to tackle so I think what you're going to do is get the balance we've gone way too far and because the game's not open and because it's not being played at a high pace it it's very quick defenders can very quickly get on a player and you see an awful lot of that crowding that you're talking about there then it's passed back and you find a little space to receive the ball and then the same thing happens over and over again what I'm saying I don't want to be hypocritical Unions is my team I'm so proud of what they did yesterday if you haven't won a championship and don't forget some of these lads haven't played in the county final 2014 was the last title I can understand teams that haven't won in a while play in a certain way and I'm not even obviously need calm and play like I didn't win so does start to open up and play and I think that's the thing that even the door when they won all through the following year straight back in the French defense I was thinking right use use of both unbelievably talented teams so by time you just went at teams and open the book let me ask you about that then because I just wonder and maybe did we see it yesterday that is grand if it works but if you find yourself four or five points behind or the game going hard to invoke a plan B because you're so conditioned to grind out a low scoring win you know where are you going to find those scores from so in other words do you beat that type of play by being open and quick and expansive and getting those points on the scores and forcing your opposition to a plan B that they might not have. Yeah again that comes back to how good you are as a team we used to do that when I played the Unions back in the game and we had a lot of good players and we had won a few championships and it was different for us we were able to open open up that blanket defense a lot of time but what's happened is as teams have come through everyone has fallen in to that way of playing and if you can't open them up that's what's always said if you give the types of need call a lead you're in trouble then because they just sit and counter attack so the opposition is so afraid of that and we're hoping it can change the county teams have changed great because they're still packing their defense but they're really up their game in terms of scoring. But if you're also looking to and someone's pointed out here if you're looking really to a success story you know what has in what is it two out of five victories for they've kind of playing that way it's not a fantastic return then. Yeah it could be one out of five if you can't come through with a lead and it hasn't gone away yet. That's in history no that's consigned to history. Leave that out. It's not it's not it's not. No I know I know but listen anyway Greg listen I think what was need calling when they lost the first two finals I thought they were going to change as the team I thought is this finally going to stop they actually come back and just got better what they did and in fairness to them they were brilliant in the quarter in the semi and whether you like the tactics or not they're really from them the units played well and fair played them hats off. I'm sure the inquest is going on and glad these are fun to today as to what happened their team units came and played their part and did it brilliantly but we were going in as very hot favorites didn't didn't play anything like the team we had seen in the previous games. Yeah well I want to ask you more on that though and let's focus on the positive here now John Haren is chairman what what a couple of weeks it's been between the hurlers and the footballers the the women's team as well what is it early 70s John before sorry since St Unions were able to do the hurling football double with the the senior men's I mean that's how historic the achievement of the last couple of weeks has been. That's right Greg that's absolutely brilliant that's 49 years ago 1972 since we last did the double and I suppose the 1972 hurling team I think was mostly made up of maybe guards and customs men and bankers and people from down the country I think there was very few Derrick Kenny natives on that team but this time around with our hurlers it was backbone by our own young players that have come through the hurling academy this last 20 years and all the brilliant work that was put in by all the great hurling people throughout through the years so the hurlers one of last week Greg was one of the players yesterday I think the hurlers last week were totally outsiders against the Tata and no one gave them a hope and once they showed that grit and determination and on unbelievable heart and commitment that it just gave everyone the club a left and fair played the hurlers it was just brilliant and our lady footballer was one of the intermediate championship a couple of weeks before that too so you know in the cycle of a club Greg you can go from St. John's last couple of weeks we've just gone from you know having one nothing for a few years to everything coming at the one time which is absolutely brilliant but that doesn't happen Greg overnight and you know I just like to commend all their underage coaches and volunteers and ladies and it's a hurling and at the underage academy in the Sunday morning the Donald Park is just brilliant and it's a great reward for all them volunteers Greg because that's what the GAs about and our senior team yesterday in Balbathay in front of them but to get them young players there for that day the amount of warmth that goes on behind the scenes from under fours and under five the whole way up to they make it to a senior player for St. John's is absolutely brilliant and all the people that played a part in that their journey for them young lads yesterday you know they can take immense satisfaction from seeing them players graduate to senior team into one of county championship and the style that they did yesterday was just brilliant for everyone Greg has given a lot of confidence in that and I think you played with Brendan he thinks he could have played much of that game yesterday much of that game yesterday I'm not thoroughly convinced but you've seen him in action when he was fully fit there's no doubt about but could he have played in yesterday's game that's the question 14 points in a county final in 1999 so Brendan was one of our best John you still have the most iconic score to go on to go off your top and score a little bit right at this and then he couldn't get the dirty back on he could suck on his gloves he was streaking round at all Parkour Brilliant days John, success breeds success doesn't it you know you talked about the great hurling achievement you know and you know in the women's game at different levels in the men's game and how you know how you're fed into it's exciting times for your club and the future too looks exciting as well it's about building on this isn't it it does you know and when you won something big yesterday and the hardest week before it gives everyone a left turn gives you know the season we had on the 9th so it's easy to go tonight because we've won and now the manager is Ben's brother and Eugene Sullivan and a few other lads helping us there and they're one of them you know but the show must go on so one or lose we are training tonight and Kier Macaway and Damien Daly are training on their 7th and on their 8th so the show goes on but when you get that success it makes it so much easier and it gives all them young players something to look up to you know it's not that long ago when young Connor O'Donnell Jr. was our mascot in 2007 when his father Kier was our trainer and like there he is all of a sudden and the other player yesterday you know what I mean pick up his medal and play him well when he came on so you know the whole thing goes just in a blink of an eye you know passes but for them young players now in our underage academy and under 9s and 10s and whatever it is but heroes now they look up to the Nail O'Donnells and the Keelan Ward and the Sean Pattons and whoever else then brilliant players so no that's brilliant Greg and you know as I say as a top Greg it's our responsibility to promote glee games her and football and the town is the big town and we have a lot of competition with all their sports so it's our job and the committee and the older people involved in the club is to keep promoting the club keep providing the brilliant facilities we have out in O'Donnell Park keep training our coaches that when the children come that they're getting the best experience and they want to come back and they want to play for students and hopefully they want to play for Jenny Goll and it keeps them off the streets and it's great for them to build friendships and to you know to support Greg it is but and that's what we're about and that's what we want to keep providing for the young people that are Kenny you know so we have a responsibility too but it's great when you get over the line and you get the big prize and it just makes it all worthwhile to sacrifice it to all the players but and all the committee they go I don't want to single out people like but you know we've lost some great people since we last won the championship Paddy McIntyre, Noel McDermott Raymond Blake, Joel Dodle McGrath and the Herland team, men that give you know their lives for St. John's and whatever was asked both on and off the field you know we have great volunteers there like Olly Harvey and Demi McCauley and Cahill Harvey who put up all the flags around the town you know you don't know Donald Paddy with Hurd, I could go on it just goes to show how many people are involved either in training on the pitch behind the scenes to actually make something like this a success it's great for the community it's great that people have that will give up of their time and give up of their expertise to train young players and just do it for the love of their problem and they get something back you know so it's great. Yeah all right Brendan that game sorry to folks in the past we'll talk about the future in a second Brendan that game in 1999 how many points did you score 14 was it? 14 and who's one of the match? John's right I did take it with Google there but yeah yeah. John who couldn't get his shirt back on you say man of the match yeah well done John. Seven in the first half Greg seven in the second half seven from three seven from play it was all sevens on the day you know. Yeah pretty stuff. So what next Brendan it's obviously on to the pardon my ignorance on this the Ulster Club championship is on isn't it it is? Yeah Glen Barra I worked yesterday yeah first time and so that's the encounter now it's at home as well we're at home in that competition so this and Donegal teams have done great in Ulster the last few years have really played the flag Greg and you're just chatting with tactics the defensive tactics probably helps teams get into Ulster in terms of keeping them in the game and stabilising something that Donegal teams didn't do for a long time that's I could say that the defensive thing that it does help teams get in the Ulster so I don't expect units to change tactics this year and it's St John's just on the line but I think now this side you know I think club football has to start to change a bit in Donegal because we've got the mix wrong between the fence and attack and John listen can we we're not you couldn't take away from what's an amazing day yesterday an amazing couple of weeks but you take on both what Brendan's saying about maybe it's up to this young units team if not in the in you know in Ulster and beyond hopefully but maybe next year in their defence that we maybe see a return to a more open style of play absolutely me and Brendan will be singing up the same ham sheet there you know but it's easy for me and Brendan to do it it's Rory and David and the boys that put in the back putting all the work behind the scenes and they're setting up their team to want to it's a results based industry isn't unfortunately they're setting up their team to want a championship not to please me and you and Brendan which is unfortunate but I know where Brendan's coming from and me and Brendan have discussed this many at a time but I would be the same opinion of Brendan I think you know club football Donegal has to be more entertaining teams have to come out and play more attack more and get away from the you know the negative of everyone behind the ball because it doesn't make for a good spectacle and you know when people are watching it live on TV you know I get plenty of comments on Twitter last night you know people giving out about the game and you know turning it off and the hurling was all before there was far better and you know all these kind of comments you don't get to see that there but it's part and parcel of Greg and you know as you say it's a results business but I think there's definitely you know that there is room there for to play a better brand of football and the years to come you know and give the spectators something you know something that they can come and watch well next season starts with a lot of title defences which is a great position to be in congratulations John to you ahead of it all and everyone in the club as you mentioned it takes everyone to to bring so much success John thanks for joining us take care of yourself right Brendan the podcast went out live yesterday I'll debate though for those who like it on the one they're still up there who's on it yes we had the Gary McDade from Glen Spolley giving us some analysis after game jungle they kind of stayed back I was wondering you know how many Prennacle Coimbra there Brendan was helping with Washington of course and the commentary was from quite a few of the Union's players it was interesting I'd say that young Tobin came up along with McVeigh you know McVeigh had won the Hurlin last week Tobin's first year so it was lovely to interview them after and Tom got a few interviews with Rory and with Keenum Warden players like that so that'll be all on the podcast it's nice when it's all successful and it's close to home as well quick word on your DV bowl you know it's sold out now isn't it it's on on Friday you and the young fella very smartly dressed in the face of some of your boasts I have to say yeah, nicely evolved yeah no problem right here listen funny a lot of times in every video well that's because it was a talent on show and I'm not talking about you either no exactly I don't want to say it you were again just like in 1999 you were the best up yeah yeah Matthew stole the show I had no problem that was interesting because I didn't even get it I just stuck it up and it's got about 20,000 views between social media so that's the fair play to Matthew I might get handy hosted on the night I'll just sit there and watch what he thinks listen I don't know he'll have a role to play anyway I'm sure well listen the Dr. McGuire is going to the throne manager Fergal Logan and Brian Dewar is coming some of the throne players and ex-players so they're going to bring the sands so it's great now we'll have the Dr. McGuire listen the reserves the ladies if any of them are there if you want to send their piece be nice they have their cup at their table Greg and that'd be a nice part of the night see you then Brendan if not before take care of yourself all the best Greg Chris thank you very much indeed that's Brendan Daveney there presenter of the DL debate it's available for you on our website now John Haran there as well chair of the State 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couldn't hear you there for a minute you're on there now that's okay right now tell us as much as you're comfortable in doing because there was a fundraiser that had to be set up for you and it shouldn't have had to have been set up to get help for you can you give us a say only as much as you're comfortable with giving us the background to that Lisa look I suppose it's been going on for so long now it's been like 12 years really maybe a bit longer and it's just progressed to a point that I fear if I don't receive a very intensive intervention that things won't end well so my family and friends obviously were quite concerned and we'd been talking about a GoFundMe for a while but I just didn't have the courage to do it I thought it would be a lot of exposure and you never know really how it's going to go you don't know how people are going to react but thankfully the response has been amazing and I have a great group of people around me to get me through it and you needed those because you weren't getting the help from the public health system were you to the point and to the point that this fundraiser had to happen to try and get you help privately how was your experience engaging with the public health system I suppose you know it's it's kind of a double-edged sword because I've met some amazing people that are working in that system and they've committed to me we wish we could do more but the resources just aren't there and they're really passionate dedicated people and they want to help I've had some pretty I suppose upsetting experiences as well given I remember one time because I have a background in psychology that's what my degree is in I remember one consultant she was saying the waiting list is so long can you try to give yourself therapy in psychology while you're on the waiting list and just things like that I was a bit shocked to be honest it kind of feels like that's in the same space as pull yourself together yeah I remember one time I went to A&E for fear that I was about to self harm and a friend came up with me and when I was being triaged and I understand the nurses and stuff in there they're under an awful lot of pressure they don't have a lot of resources they're just trying to get people through as quickly as possible but there doesn't really seem to be any kind of crisis management or sensitivity training so I remember one time again they asked me what my background was in did I go to college and whatever and I was doing psychology at the time and I said yeah I'm doing a PhD in psychology and the nurse kind of said psychology like what are you doing here then like why are you some sort of immunity might come with studying it I mean I read a quote from you and I hope it's accurate I've attempted suicide several times and I suppose this year has been the first year that I really thought if I don't actually die by my own hands then this illness will physically end it I mean that is it'd be hard to feel any lower with that realisation Lisa yeah it was and it was very much a realisation you know I got away with an awful lot for so long even though I was you know putting my body through an awful lot of abuse because I was just so young and you know I suppose like our bodies are tough like you know they're made to withstand an awful lot of pressure but this year I like there were just so many times where I just physically wasn't able to do things I started feeling pain in you know areas that I just it just felt very different and there was a point at which I was with a few friends and I just totally stopped functioning I couldn't get up I couldn't move I couldn't speak and that wasn't a mental thing it was very physical I felt my body was just shutting down completely and I suppose you know with the amount of danger things that I put it through I just don't think it can withstand much more really is the truth of it and are you hopeful of the future now though this go for me was was successful it's not like I presume Lisa and correct me wrong it's not like yay everything's fantastic now you know I mean you're still you still have a way to go everything hasn't sort of changed overnight you know it'd be easy maybe if it's not affected directly by it to feel it's not going to be the case but do you see a pathway now Lisa I do you know it's it's hard because like you know the level of support and kindness and everything over the past week when they go for me was you know kind of taking off was amazing and like of course you know I felt really uplifted and it was incredible at the same time I was still things are very deeply rooted and a series of events is not going to elevate things and you know I think you know people might think you know that's great now should the 12 weeks in there should be sorted and that's like recovery is a long road and I think you know the people in the treatment centre that I'll be going into have said you know on average like you're really looking at about at least two and a half years of really a really tough slug and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't absolutely terrified like genuinely and I doubt I'm kind of going can I can I do the you know there's all that going on as well I suppose at the same time I just I'm just trying to hang on to the level of support that I received kind of just pulling me through that and you have that and that's a positive you know obviously yours is a your situation a lot of people with eating disorders even locally here at Sligo University Hospital I think they've seen a doubling in the amount of people presenting there and that's a lot's been exacerbated by lockdown for various reasons and we've talked about it in the past it's quite complex as to why it can trigger and stuff and we can't really get into that now but we are useless in this country and helping people with this problem yeah I think you know the thing with eating disorders is I actually think on another radio station the consultant physician I think from Sligo hospital was on talking about eating disorders after I had spoke about it the thing with them is that you know 99% of the time community care is the answer you know it's only really the extreme cases that would go into a residential centre and being different from you know sometimes people with very severe anorexia would have to be admitted to be force fed and things but in terms of intervention and treatment very few eating disorder cases actually go in anywhere but the problem is is that the community resources are not there so even though it's well known in you know medical fields that most eating disorders can be treated effectively in the community where people stay in their homes they stay with their friends and family and they get kind of very intense support while going about their daily lives but that's the problem in Ireland is that support isn't there in the community again this is another classic example particularly with health whereas we can spend less money early on and help people and help people in their homes or the communities rather than either not helping people spending much more for much longer period of time later down the road it's not something that should require you know five weeks of live line and Stephen Donnelly having to this is basic stuff this is stuff that if we spend the money in the right places now we've better outcomes for people and less expense with the state for the state yeah absolutely and it really it doesn't make sense and even you know if you look over the past five years the money that was allocated to eating disorders particularly was a lot of it was unspent and diverted to other services and I really can't understand why especially like other countries are getting it right and I don't understand why we can't model that here to prevent to prevent number one them getting as severe as mine or other cases and to prevent people having to crowd funded to prevent people from having to go in anywhere at all because you know inpatient for me I feel it's the only option left but it's also very difficult in that you also have to transition back out you know there are risks within patient as well that you know so it's a last resort but we're pushing people towards it and that last resort really is not there yeah that's exactly Lisa listen it's it's a it's a you've you've outlined yourself you've a I know it's often used that word journey but it's hard to find another word our best wishes and good wishes are with you when you need them or when you don't need them and we wish you absolutely everything that you want and thank you well done to you for I hope this doesn't sound patronizing getting this on the agenda again let this conversation again and it's also that you're having to sort of bear your experience to do it but it's really positive and we read it's positive what you're doing for other people as well hopefully and we are very grateful for you coming on and sharing with us as much as you have thanks so much for your time I really appreciate it the best of luck with everything thank you okay that is Dr Lisa Murphy there who is still in a tough place and has a long road ahead of course but we wish her every success and we just need to get ahead of that and get a handle on it don't we listen thank you very much