 to you. It is nine o'clock. It's time for a news update and it's over to Donald Kavanaugh. Thank you, Greg. Good morning. The Foreign Affairs Minister says international sanctions against Russia will be clear and firm. It follows the Kremlin's formal recognition of two separatist regions in Ukraine as independent. Vladimir Putin last night announced he was sending troops to the two breakaway regions, describing them as peacekeepers. The EU, UK and US are working together to adopt a range of sanctions. Denis Golcanty, the council is to look at establishing a helpline for people whose homes are affected by mica, as well as advice centres in three of the county's five municipal districts. An emergency motion signed by a representative of cross-party group of 12 members was moved at last evening's reconvened council meeting by Councillor Gary Doherty. He says the damage caused by storm Franklin at the weekend shows the perilous condition in which many people are living. He says the council must respond. The government is facing fresh calls to scrap its planned carbon tax hikes in the dull later. The cost of home heating fuels is to rise from May, while transport fuels will go up in price from October. The government says the increases are needed to deal with climate change. However, finance spokesperson Pierce Doherty says the money would be better in people's pockets. For every euro that this saves a household, it's a euro in their pocket, not in the government's pocket. And that is really, really important. By proceeding with this, it means that every time you fill your oil tank with home heating oil, it's going to be another 19 euro that you're going to have to pay in the same for gas. And that's not acceptable at a time when we've got record high prices. New laws allowing excavations, exhumations and re-interment of remains at former mother and baby homes will go before cabinet this morning. Once passed, the draft institutional burials bill will be presented to survivors and relatives before being published. It's five years since a large number of human remains were found in a test excavation at a site in Tune. Spokesperson for the Tune Mother and Baby Survivor Group, Brita Murphy, says it's vital that this bill is progressed quickly. I refer to the remains in Tune particularly as the on buried dead. And I think recovery at this late stage is an absolute must because our members, who are family members of the disappeared and our survivors of the home too, they are elderly. And so for matching with their loved ones, it is absolutely crucial that this is done. After a wet and windy start, we'll see rain quickly clear eastwards with scattered chars and sunny spells the order of the day. A chance of sleet on some higher ground in the northwest this afternoon, drier, brighter conditions will follow in the evening with those blustery westerly winds gradually easing. It'll be chilly today with afternoon temperatures hitting 8 to 10 degrees celsius, staying mostly dry with long clear spells early on tonight with lowest temperatures one to four degrees celsius. That's Highland Radio News, we're back with news again at 10 o'clock. Well, Davey, brilliant that you weren't in work today. We had some crack. It was Patter's last shift, so we all went out for lunch. Thanks for staying away. The lads are delighted. Chat you soon. Mind yourself. No one will thank you for turning up to work or anything else when you're sick. Stay at home and get a test to protect yourself and others from COVID-19. From the HSE, for us all. Hello, good morning. Three minutes past nine on this Tuesday, the 22nd of February. How are you? I do hope you are well and hopefully you'll stick with us for the next three hours with a busy show lined up for you, including of course the latest appeals and information from Ngare Shia Khanna. We'll be speaking to a farmer who's seeking your help in tracking a large amount of livestock. His last, we'll hear more stories of those affected by mica and affected by the storms at the weekend. And there's that and so much more besides. We'll be previewing a conference on cancer being held in Letherkenny at the weekend. And your calls and comments get them into us. You kept us really busy on the phones yesterday. Let's go again today, your WhatsApps, your texts to 086625,000. That's to comment on what we're talking about, but to raise your own issues, to have your own conversations as well on anything, by the way. Don't say, oh, he wouldn't be interested in that because they only talk about this. It's your program, 086625,000. If you want to give us a call to 07491 25,000 and get involved if you're listening to us on your smart speaker or online around the world, have your say in your backyard, 003537491 25,000. That is how you call us and chat to Caroline and get involved. You don't have to be living in the Northwest to be talking to the Northwest. And if you want to watch the program as well, hop onto our website right now, HighlandRadio.com. You'll see the links there for watch the program. You can click in there and watch live. If you want to cast it up to your big screen, you can do that too. Or straight onto our socials, YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland. Give us a like and a subscribe there. It's really useful. The same applies for Facebook, Highland Radio News & Sport and Highland Radio. So no excuses. Watch, listen, get involved. Okay, the Donegal People's Press this morning, they focus on the storms at the weekend. Many homes and businesses in Donegal remained without power. Yesterday evening, hours after the county felt the full force of storm Franklin through Sunday night and into yesterday morning at one stage yesterday, over 11,000 ESB customers across the county had no power. And as you heard from Donalyn News there as well, some people in the county won't have their power returned to, was it this evening he said? Or tomorrow evening this evening? Anyway, I'm sure he'll let me know which one it is. Needless to say, it's going to take a while to get everyone back on the grid. The Dory Journal this morning, a micro affected homeowner, one of many left anxious and in fear due to the impact of the recent storms has stressed how people should not be living like this in Ireland in 2022. The ferocious storms of recent days and in particular storm Franklin on Sunday night and Monday have once again placed the focus on the dangers of homes affected by defective blocks. Claire McDade told The Journal how she was in contact with many worried and stressed families over the weekend who feared parts of the homes would collapse in the strong winds. And as we learned yesterday, in fact, some of them did, thankfully, you know, not structurally supporting parts of houses, but the storm did rip some render and other elements of the build from the homes. And as we said we would yesterday, we took some of our interview with Sharon, who spoke to us on the program and others as well, tagged in the politicians who make these decisions into it. We're in no excuses territory here. God forbid if anything were to happen. History will remember the delays, how quickly we were able to move on other things and seemingly not so quickly on others. The Irish Times talks of the, look, it's the increased risk of something happening in the Ukraine, the impact it will have on us, maybe in terms of the cost of living and what have you. Are we facing a third world war? Certainly not. But we are seeing, did you see that press conference the Vlad, what was it? I don't know what it was that Vladimir Putin conducted yesterday with all his staff, asking them if they should recognize the two breakaway states to the east of Ukraine. None of them were prepared to say no clearly for fear of God knows what might happen to them. And as it so happens, whilst it was a decision that was made moments later, hours later, the leaders of both of those breakaway regions were actually present to sign the decree, Russia recognizing them. But anyway, Moscow has recognized two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine as independent states and is sending troops there as peacekeepers, but clearly they're not peacekeepers. You don't send peacekeepers in an attack helicopters and in tanks. But his moves have drawn condemnation from Western leaders and fueling fears of a major invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces massed near its borders. And the language is interesting. He says, look, Ukraine was never an independent sovereign country. That's effectively what he said. He's placing his forces inside Ukraine, albeit in these breakaway regions. What's to stop him then going in and taking the rest? He doesn't like the fact that Ukraine is becoming more Western or the ties with the West are increasing. But Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the sovereignty of the so-called People's Republic of Donetsk and Luhansk after a long and rambling televised televised address in which he questioned the state of the few crane and said it's deepening integration with the West posed a major threat to Russia's security. And of course, Russian news outlets carrying favorable footage and new stories. Some of them come clearly untrue to try and influence the Russian people that he's doing the right thing. Because most young Russian people do not want him invading Ukraine, whose blood will be sacrificed on the soil of Ukraine. It won't be his. The Irish Independent now former EU Minister, Phil Hogan has taken aim at the T-shock and tarnished her while claiming he has been treated like a criminal. Since the Gulfgate controversy erupted, Mr. Hogan is demanding Mikhail Martin and Leo Verakar address the outcome of a court case linked to the dinner after a judge said a lot of very good people lost very good jobs and dismissed the charges he clearly sees himself as one of those. Clearly putting himself in the category, the paper mentioned, the ex-fina-girl minister told the Irish Independent attendees at the Oktas Gulf Society event had been humiliated and treated as criminals almost 18 months to the day since he was forced to quit his prestigious post as EU Trade Commissioner. But was he wronged? I mean, we all would hope that we get fair treatment in the courts and in our work and in society, wouldn't we? I mean, obviously, there is going to be amongst many out there just an anger with that whole Gulfgate thing with the government in general, potentially, and there's a great deal of support by the way out there as well for them. But he was sacked, but he was somewhat vindicated in court. Was he treated unfairly? Legally. Now, whether anyone should have attended that event in the first place, that's a different question. Should he be compensated? He can't be returned to his post, can he? 0860-25000. The mail tells us that the three government leaders agreed last night to accept the advice of health chiefs on removing the legal requirement to wear face coverings. It's expected mandatory mask wearing will end from next Monday, but will remain advisory on public transport. Masks will still be required in healthcare settings. Look, masks are still being worn in many settings by the majority, whether you don't need to be worn. Now, I'm not sure if that's because people are cautious, or if maybe there's not a full understanding of where you are actually legally obliged to wear a mask. But anyway, face covering and social distancing in schools will also come to an end on the face of it, just thinking from the children's perspective that it's really good news. I understand there'll be people listening that think it's too soon, that it's problematic, that it's going to be unfortunate for maybe vulnerable students or the families of the vulnerable who may find themselves being one of one or two wearing a mask. I understand that, I really do, but I understand too that broadly speaking, children aren't happy having to wear the masks, especially when everyone else is out doing their thing. Reading on here, while it's understood that the government will also accept Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Hulund's advice to wind Neff it down, sources told the mail that proposals on how to restructure the team will take several weeks to work out the CMO and his team will continue to monitor the COVID situation. Social Protection Minister Heather Humphrey says yesterday that she understands why people may feel nervous about the removal of the mask mandate, but added that is a good day when we're in a position to talk about removing COVID-19 restrictions. And I think it's about respecting each other too, not jeering or finger pointing at those who feel comfortable still wearing a mask and giving them space at the till or wherever. I don't think in any circumstances anyone needs someone standing up their backside waiting in a queue. But anyway, this on today tells us that soldiers are demanding to be allowed to join the Irish Congress of Trade Unions before new public talks get underway. This is on pay. The recently published commission on the future of defence forces has recommended PD4R and RACO be allowed to join these army groups and are demanding that Defence Minister Simon Coveney gives them the green light to join ICTO before all public bodies enter pay talks expected to start in May. Not given the history there, seemingly an unreasonable request. And last but not least in the, actually it's not last, it's second last, penultimate. Dentists, this is in the Irish Daily Mirror, dentists have blasted a scheme that allows unlimited extractions for medical card patients, but only two fillings. Now this is perhaps something we need to talk about again because it's nonsensical. You can go in and get all your teeth ripped out for free at the dentist, okay? But if you want to maintain the teeth in your head, okay? If you want to maintain your teeth in your head, you're only allowed two fillings. Is there any logic to that? They want us to all walk around just with no teeth perhaps. The Irish Dental Association yesterday called for urgent reform to the practices and fee structure. They want medical cards for the scheme replaced by a new voucher system that would see patients receive credits of between 100 and 500 euro for a wider range of dental work. The IDA made the call amid claims, dentists are threatening to quit the HSE's dental treatment service scheme because they fear the medical card scheme is on the brink of total collapse. But as I say, wouldn't it be more, make more sense to direct funds to protect and maintain teeth rather than making it free to have them pulled out? Because people are, I've, that tooth that I'm missing, I got it pulled because I couldn't afford to fix it. I'm sure lots of people out there have. But wouldn't it be better if you were to make the decision to get a filling because it was free rather than an extraction because it was free if you get where I'm coming from? Very sad news from the world of sport. As many of you, particularly rally fans would be aware, tributes were yesterday paid to tragic rally driver, he's not tragic, what happened to him was tragic. He was far from tragic. Tributes were yesterday paid to rally driver Owen McCarthy, who was fatally injured during what he loved. The 22 year old's car went off the road and crashed at the Kalarney Forest Rally in Canterbury on Sunday. Owen from Dumman Way in Canterbury was airlifted to Cork University Hospital after the one car smashed on the day's fourth stage at Mount Eagle in Castle Island. However, the promising driver who participated in his first Cork 20 rally last year succumbed to his injuries. Incredibly sad, really, really sad for his family. And it seems that he had a bright future in front of him and perhaps would have been that he's not already no stranger to Donny Gaul and our great tradition of rallying in this part of the world. May he rest in peace and may his family and friends get all the comfort that can be given to them at this very, very difficult time. Okay, we'll be back with our first guest on the program after we take this break. The 9 till noon show with Letter Kenny Credit Union now offering mortgages from 40,000 to 600,000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges. Letter Kenny Credit Union 9102127 The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra, mountaintop Letter Kenny. Do you currently have vacancies that need urgently filled? Have you tried various ways to find new staff but didn't succeed? Let Highland Radio help you source and fill your current vacancies in the most cost-effective way. Simply sign up to our new job spot and we will tell our listeners about your vacancies both on air and online. 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Chagosk will hold a tillage seminar this Wednesday night, the 23rd of February at 8pm in Ungraynan Hotel Burt. Speakers Arshae Fielen, Chagosk Crop Specialist Steven Robb, Irish Farmers Journal and Gareth Deveney, Agricare Crop Specialist. Topics include winter and spring crop management, outlook for tillage and multi and barley options for Donegal growers. All welcome. Highland Radio time checks brought to you by Letter Kenny Shopping Centre, the centre of shopping in Donegal, free parking and shopping all under one roof. Letter Kenny Shopping Centre, bringing you the time at... The time 17, just turning 18 minutes past 9. Now on the programme, yesterday, thanks to you listening out there, we were able to reunite, I think it was three cows and a calf with their owner. Let's see if we can do the same again for Jimmy, because he's lost stock on a large scale. Jimmy, how are you getting on? Good morning to you. Good, good, good. Right, now this is going back to the 9th of February. You lost 25 views in Mulville. Did they wander off or were they taken, Jimmy? That, we don't know, but they just appeared, no, they were there on Tuesday night and they were gone on Wednesday evening in control, other than that too, I don't know. And this is back to the 9th of February, it's a couple of weeks ago now. They're missing now a fortnight, now on Wednesday. Right. OK, so the movement of 25 views, if they were taken, I mean, it's not an insignificant operation. Would you expect to have seen people maybe out and about to have seen it happening? Well, honestly, I don't know, it's on a hull and they could be taken down from either side of it. And as possible, I work all the time you see during the day, and I wouldn't be seeing them to dark night again. So not one of them has been seen since, so I think we can, I mean, it's probably safe to presume they've been taken. That being said, if anyone has seen their flock grow by 25 in and around the Mulville area, please let us know. They have a green mark on them. Anything, I mean, that's pretty much the only way we can separate them out from others, isn't it, Jimmy? Well, they're all tight, but ties can be cut out very simply, but that is the main, they're a fair, fair good decision, green mark when they're sent there, they're back through there. And there's 18 of them are breeding used, the rest are U-Lams. There's quite a lot of investment you've put in there. This is quite a big hit to you financially too, Jimmy. Yeah, it will be, yes, it is. So, I mean, where do you think they've ended up? I honestly don't know, but they're into the public for a couple of days, so other than that, I honestly don't know. Yeah, okay. So, it's 25 years taken Mulville since the Wednesday, the 9th of February. Maybe you've seen them being loaded. Maybe you've seen them being carted away. Maybe you've spotted them around the place. People will know where you're most likely to spot them. They have a green mark on their back. They're all black face horn used. There's 18 of them are breeding used, the rest are U-Lams. You're very keen to get them back, of course. Yes, definitely. And our award for anybody's only information of the return of the sheep. Okay. Now, we have heard stories in the past that animals like this can end up in different counties, different border counties, for example. Is that your fear that maybe if they were taken that they're outside of Donegal now, or would you expect them to still be within the county? I honestly don't know, but I've feared that they've been shifted on a fair dozens to be quite honest, yeah. If the tags are... We help. Sorry, go ahead, Jimmy. No, we have travelled a fair way, but the countryside round, looking on and off now, but there's a lot of neighbours helping through, but we come up with nothing to be quite honest. If the tags can be cut out, pardon my ignorance on this, can new tags be put in and then presented in a mark, for example, or would it be easy to spot that the tags have been cut out? No, you could replace the tags very, very simply just cut out one and put the new tag back into the same hole again. You'll be able to know any difference that way now. All right. Well, listen, maybe they did turn up somewhere. I know a lot of guys now, I want to say guys, men and women, watch a lot of these marks online. Maybe they spotted them over the course of the last couple of weeks. You know, maybe that's our only hope, Jimmy, unless someone knows who took them and where they are right now. That's right. Only a bit of help is very much appreciated, but as you say, people could be watching them online, they could go in through March, but I honestly don't think that's why I think it's behind the scenes operation to be quite honest. What does that mean? What would they be used for? Well, they could be taken away and dumped or they could be taken away and sold in the black market type thing. Yeah, under the radar, more or less. Yeah, because it's doable, but it's an operation, a professional operation presumably, to remove tags, put them back in, have the neck then to land to a mark with them. You know what I mean? There's an extra level of organization there. Yes. Well, definitely, somebody knows what they're doing, that type of thing. Okay, Jimmy, when it's out there now, hopefully maybe someone knows something, someone spots something, they can get in contact with us. We'll put them in contact with you, but clearly you're very anxious to get these back. This is part of your livelihood and you've invested an awful lot of money and time, I'm sure, Jimmy, time after work as well in getting these lambs and yos to where they're at now. Listen, thank you for that. If we get anything, we'll get it on to you. That's a perfectly, thanks very much. Good man, Jimmy, I hope you're successful in this. Right, so around the mobile area, the 9th of February, 25 yos, 18 of them breeding yos and the rest of your lambs and they could be worth over 100 euro each, depending on what the story is. Maybe you're watching Mark's online. I know even if you're not interested in buying or selling, you may well watch them. It's become a bit of a pastime now. If you can help, Jimmy, in any way, getting contact with us, we'll pass it on to you, 086025000 is the text line. Hi, Greg, farmers all know the usual suspects, well known for stealing sheep, why don't farmers stand up to these thugs? Hi, Greg, refill Hogan, he seems to have forgotten the issue, wasn't him attending the golf, he flew into the country, didn't isolate for 14 days and travelled freely while we were all in lockdown. Good point, well made, thank you. Anyone know why, sorry, anyone know why when the power goes off the mobile network also goes down, Vodafone network done funny are very inconvenient, says Maria. Maria, it depends where you are. If the transmitter happens to be on the same electricity network that you are, the power is cut from it. Now I don't think the mobile phone operators have backup power at all of these sites, but if it's a widespread outage, the power to your local antennae will be cut as well and you'll find yourself just picking up E from another one further down the road. So that's why that happens, the power is cut and I don't think they have backup power to all of these mass sites, I would imagine in more urban built-up areas they do, but certainly not all of them. So that's the reason, because I know I've been, I wouldn't say victim, hardly victim, I've had that happen myself. Okay, Shane Grachen joins us on the programme now. Shane, thanks for taking the call this morning. No, no problem, Greg. We were talking yesterday and trying to get the message across both locally and nationally, the state of people's homes and the impact a storm like Storm Franklin can have on them. You know firsthand what the situation is. What happened with you? Unfortunately, Greg, my wife and I were going to work yesterday morning. She was first to leave the house in Malinhead, drove around the side of the house and the corner is gone. Obviously, like a lot of fast-majority people in Anishone and the Western Seaboard were all affected with mica or houses deemed to have mica. We've had it tested. We were part of the original redress scheme and it was deemed to be demolished. We felt that it was still loveable. On Sunday night, it was like something out of Amdival in terms of the wind and the elements whistling through the house. Then on a daily and weekly basis, trying to heat the house, it's just a bit of a living nightmare and a bit of a joke where you're basically throwing the money in the fire. Yeah, it's like you're heating outside air and the outside air is blowing the heat out. It's just a constant struggle. I can't find words. I know people saying I'm going horror and torture, but it's more than that, Greg, like we have two children. We moved back to Donegal. We moved back from I'm born of Greta in Malinhead. I came back in 2008, 2009. We built our house to move our children back to Razum. We stayed in the locality. We stayed in Donegal, paid our taxes, paid our mortgage and now a corner of the house is gone. It is. I got in contact with the structural engineer who helped us with the application of the redress scheme and he's saying it looks very dangerous. It needs to be supported and he's saying that the inner lease of the house could follow it at any moment. Now, fall inwards, fall outwards. We've moved our bedroom, our bedroom and our daughter's bedroom, who is also doing the lead insert presently or doing the mocks out and now we're based between the living room and the kitchen, our bedrooms. So in the 21st century, two people, aimfully employed, are having to do this. I'm laughing, but you just feel like crying. It's when you say it out loud. When you say it out loud, it sounds even more, you know, you know what, you live it, you don't need reminding of it, but saying it out loud publicly that effectively you're living and sleeping in two rooms of your house that I'm sure the memories, the happy memories of moving in and maybe young ones being memories of them in there, it's all those memories there as well. But saying it out loud, it just sounds ridiculous that this was once your pride and joy, your forever home, your castle. Yeah, well, you try and make a home, Greg, like a basic human need. And I know we talk about property and the Irish people's demand for property, but that's our home. We, as I say, I'm born in Malinhead. I wanted to raise our children in Malinhead. And thankfully, we have. And they've had a great upbringing, great schooling, but to be under the threat constantly. And they're off now in midterm. We're thankfully out of the house, but they're in the house and obviously the safe side of the property. Well, what you believe to be safe? Well, exactly. Yeah, I mean, you know, that's the Even last night, the ones in the rain. Yeah, picked up again. And the Sunday night, and I'm not that's a separate subject, Greg, I'm sure you could devote a program to that with regards to the weather warning that was issued. I have lived in Malinhead and we're well used to wind and rain. And we had the red warning on Friday. On Sunday night was overworldly. And I've lived, been through various storms in Malinhead. But just to see that in the morning, the impact that that has had structurally on the house. And it's like we talk about when the bricks being made, being made was very little cement in them. It's a house of sand. And when you build a sand castle, that's it there. For once you put water on it, it's disintegrated. And our house is disintegrated. I would welcome Greg, I would welcome if there's anybody from the housing department who are supposedly putting blockages and casting dispersions on the people in Donegal on the Western Seaboard and the Mike Action Group, and the Martin McDermott to this work. They are casting the spell. Oh, these guys are living in these castles in Donegal. I welcome them. I will give them the Donegal welcome. Come and spend 24 hours in my house. Okay. And I get you. And I think just the comments you made there, that was particularly attributable to, I think it was Leo Frager, not Chancellor Martin McDermott. But I take your point. I understand that, by the way, and where you're coming from. Also too, this is the thing, there has to be a tipping point, Shane. You talked about the sand castle. There comes a point where it falls. You know, I mean, there has to be helms that we're talking about now. And this is not to amplify any anxiety or fear. I couldn't do that because I know people are all were already worried, Shane. But there has to come a point at your house where the blocks are dust, and it can't take the weight of the roof. And in some cases, a concrete bison floor. There is a tipping point. It's just how far away from you are that who can live in that environment? Well, just to correct you there, Greg, about Martin McDermott. Martin McDermott has been one of the core supports that we have had. I'm sorry you misinterpreted me. Martin McDermott has been the voice, along with the Make Action Group, with regards to supporting, defending and bringing us to the table with regards to Make in any show. So I'll just correct you. I may have misheard you. Sorry, sorry, Shane. And then as regards to the support and what's going to happen next, there's a storm supposedly coming again this week, Thursday, Friday. Greg, I said to my wife on Monday morning, I think we'd be better getting a tent, outside at least. We know we're in a tent, we're getting shelter. We're not concerned about a roof or a wall falling on top of us or our children. That's where we're at. Now, in relation to your access to the old scheme, at this point, an engineer is recommending remedial worker a full demolition. Full demolition. Okay. And you are just in no man's land at the moment. You're one of the first, I think, to maybe be engaging with the first scheme. We don't know what's going to happen with the second scheme. You're just in this perpetual nightmare at the moment, except the thing that's changing is the house is getting worse. By the day, Greg, by the day, as I said, I know people talk about what are we going to do next, go to Dublin, bring it to a Canadian type of halt. I will be there along with all my family who went the last time round. And certainly, we want to bring this to the table. When you see people within the government, government parties, kickback messages and videos about all these guys exaggerating Micah. I do want to emphasize, Greg, whether it's these, whether it's Mr. McCullough, Joe McHugh, any of the government ministers, Darryl Bryant, if they want to come and see the impact, I would welcome them into my home. I would let them come for 20 hours and see it, really love it, walk in my shoes, walk in my shoes. All right, and there's also that too, there's a big push on from government at the moment, promoting remote working. At least some of the week, your home is also your office. So I'm sure in terms of, and I'm not trying to, this is not to get you in any bother, of course, it wouldn't change. But in terms of health and safety, if any business tried to run an office that's falling around because of a storm, they would be done for. Do you know what I mean? So how can you be expected to live and work in this house that's literally crumbling? Yeah, well, I suppose, Greg, having a bit of a health and safety background myself, you try and risk assess, and that's what we've done. We tried to locate ourselves in the safest part of the property, especially given the experience we've had on Sunday night, Monday morning. We are going to have to have support structures put in place. I had a builder out last night to have a look at it. But again, like a lot of builders, they're very busy at this moment in time. And there at least they can get to the when the Thursday evening. So it needs supporting. But again, the overcorner of the gable is ready to go as well. Just finally, I mean, I mean, people will come and go, the house is safe to live in. And you know, you obviously know your way around around the place as well. I mean, for how long, honestly, do you think it is safe to live in? How long do you think you have? I mean, that you know that it's not possible that there could be a creek, and then it could just just go. And as I say, I'm not trying to be a motive or scare everyone. Okay, I'm just trying to ask real questions. How long do you think you have in this house before you go right? I've with your partner and your wife, sorry, you have to say, we actually can't stay here anymore, because it is not safe. How far down the road is that? We've had the discussion, Greg. We are there now. Now, the issue is, where is their property? Where is their rent? Where is their support from the council, from government? We are there now, because like, what is going to happen next? God forbid, that supporting ball, that corner had fallen on anyone. Hopefully, you've seen the pictures. This isn't just the render, this is the bricks. And it's sand. We talk about limited amounts of cement in the bricks. It's sand. And also, the internals are further exposed to the weather now. For whatever protection that the corner was given, that's gone. So, nature is chipping into that property to wipe it away again. And now it has better access. Obviously, you'll try and do, I presume, some remedial work. But listen, Shane, I'm sorry for everything you're going through. I appreciate you. I appreciate you coming on and letting people realize what the reality is. And you know, people might not think they have it, they might not know they have it. This could affect any of us at any time in this county. That's just the bottom line, particularly if your house was built or you had an extension between, you know, a certain times, not that long ago. Shane, listen, thanks for joining us. And the best wishes to you and your family. All right, take care of yourself. Shane Glacken there, another reality of living in a mic affected home in Donegal. 086625,000, that's the WhatsApp line. 086625,000, text to that number two or call us an 0749125,000. A caller says, if mortgage companies aren't helping with mica, why doesn't the government write off the people's mortgages then? When the government scheme starts, the people could pay back the government instead of the greedy banks. I don't think the government can cancel debt between the lender and the borrower. Or are you saying the government should pay that mortgage? But why should we again bail out the banks? The bank should be shouldering a significant level of this responsibility. We are going to bail them out again. And you know what, if that's what it takes, because that's what it takes, we've done it before to get these people into safe homes. 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Remember there's no show like a Joe show. We're joined on the program now by Dr Robert O'Connor, Head of Research for the Irish Cancer Society. Good morning to you doctor, thanks for joining us. Good morning. It's great to have you with us. Right now the Relay for Life Cancer Conference takes place this Saturday the 26th of February. It's in the Mount Ergal Hotel in letter Kenny. The theme this year is you are not alone. Tell us about the conference, Robert. Well I suppose firstly to remember that we've been through a very difficult pandemic and this is a great celebration of the resilience of people affected by cancer and the Donegal Relay for Life Committee have gotten an excellent conference to talk about all of the matters that affect cancer in the Northwest this Saturday coming and I suppose I'm one of the speakers at it but I want to encourage as many from the community affected by cancer to come along to register for the event and look forward to seeing you there on the day. Yeah I suppose you know people might feel they are alone and they might feel really put out by the pandemic due to delayed diagnoses, operations not going ahead, difficulties in accessing services. That is making people feel even more lonely at this time I would imagine doctor. I think as we go through any period of unsettlement any sort of change in arrangements there's always going to be unsettlement. We know that cancer has been going on in the background and a lot of the focus has been on COVID and rightly so as we seek to protect our community but that hasn't stopped cancer cases and that hasn't stopped the impact of cancer and we've had a lot of complexity in our health system between difficulties accessing doctors very long wait times for follow-on appointments and challenges for those in hospital in particular isolation and most of us have someone in our life maybe a partner a parent a sibling that's important to us that we might bring along to these kinds of situations and people have been very alone through all of this and so there's really a lot of challenges and it's a it's a complex time I think for most of us. Before we talk about the conference itself do we have to learn from whatever mistakes were made in terms of you know obviously there has to be a response to a pandemic but also it can't be beyond us surely to find a way to ensure that we're not leaving loads of people down the line with potentially worse outcomes because we weren't able to manage a few things at the same time. I think what was very evident is most of us in the cancer space would have recognized that we were struggling before the pandemic came along there were issues and challenges with access unfilled hospital posts consults and posts all of which was leading to delays then when you add in the complexity of a pandemic with people falling very ill with shortages in staff etc it is really aggravated and amplified that and I think we need to take a long reflection now as to what's most important for us in our society and we need to invest in our health and invest isn't necessarily about money and we need to identify what new resources what new staff etc we need to make sure that we get the kind of service that we all hope and we might expect if we if we fall ill with a series of lists. Yeah for sure there's a lot going on on Saturday at the Relay for Life cancer conference it's taking place on Saturday the 26th as I mentioned it'll also be the launch of the new support program for schools and an update on the the excellent work the leading work letter county university hospital is doing in terms of research and that's correct through the support of Relay for Life and the fantastic fundraising that the group have been undertaking out for 10 years for a whole decade we've been able to support some really excellent projects and the audience will hear from those today from Mary Grace Kelly and Janice Richmond to really leading nurses piloting a number of new interventions in cancer care and outcome one of those being how best to use some new medicines in the outpatient type setting so in other words how we can reduce the number of times that some people may need to go into hospital and how that can be done safely and that so that project has kicked off and some of your listeners will remember the previous project which is still ongoing and which is looking at support and intervention for people after they finish cancer treatment which can be and you spoke about it early earlier people being known and the in-depth that can be a really difficult time when you get off the sort of the treadmill as it were of cancer treatment and all of a sudden you're left on your own sometimes without great supports and they've been leading the way in identifying how best to employ supports and the feedback from everybody involved has been hugely positive yeah there'll also be a video address from the CEO of the Irish Cancer Society Avril Powell a panel discussion and a yoga session so there's a lot going on really something for everybody i'm going to talk a bit about what has happened and the improvements in cancer care and outcome over the last decade it's been a transformative decade but really there's something for everybody at a meeting like this and it's also our first get together i've felt bad not been able to go up to Donegal i would regularly go up for this meeting it's kind of a highlight of my own calendar for the year and really it's been difficult and i know in particular the Relay for Life committee have been jumping at the beach to try and get back and try and do things and try and you know get that community spirit going again and i think this is a real opportunity it's our first venture out as it were in the post pandemic world and really we're looking for support from the community to just bring everybody together try and find out everybody is rekindle those old friendships etc that we all have that have built up over the years of this this event for sure and some will still remain extremely cautious particularly those with or recovering or having recovered from cancer is this a blended conference can people access in person and online some of the aspects of it will be recorded will be available on the Relay for Life Facebook page i understand and folks can register on that if they're you know if they want to come along or they can also okay i have those details but primarily it's an in-person conference but highlights will be made available later for those who are a little bit nervous the event is free of course registration for the conference though is essential as you can understand and anyone wishing to secure a place you can email the organizers at relayforlife.gmail.com we've got a couple of numbers here for you as well Ena and Robert's numbers a different Robert but we have their numbers here if you want to call them as well there's no point me reading them out just at this time because you might now have a pen and paper ready it's important isn't it that this event now as I say there's an in-person aspect to it because as you say you know that sense of togetherness community understanding people understanding other people in similar situations it's a huge part of this for a lot of people I think it is you really touched on what can be the crux of a big challenge for those affected by cancer it is lonely it is isolating and then when you add a pandemic on top of that it just exacerbates that the uncertainty the isolation etc and we're hoping with this meeting really to bring everybody back together and start building that community spirit and start identifying new opportunities for improving though the outcome for those affected by cancer in the northwest yeah and another thing that kind of happened was a conversation about you know say for instance cancer patients where they just became the vulnerable and then a debate was raging on and still does as to you know just carry on with life that's what we have to do now the vulnerable can you know take their own precautions or suffering we would you know that not division as such but separating us out when we're talking about people listening that but it could be their mother or their sister or their daughter or their brother that we're talking about you know what I mean we we can't lose our empathy or our support for each other can we doctor no we can't and like this is this is not a small number this is tens of thousands of people who for reasons completely beyond their own control their immune system doesn't react particularly well and doesn't make good use of vaccination and hence they aren't afforded the protection that the rest of us are and it could be any of us at any time unfortunately you or I could get a diagnosis tomorrow and you know our blood cells not work properly or we could need treatment that knocks our immune system out it could be a loved one etc and there's a lot that we can do is still even as things open up to to protect people and one of the things I think that we also forget about is that a lot more people have ongoing medical needs so in other words they need to go into a hospital need to go into a GP and anybody who's going into hospital at the minute still requires pre-covid testing and screening so if you fail that your appointment may be rescheduled for much longer in the future and that can be a big challenge as well so it can affect all of us and I really challenge anybody to think about their own family or their wider community and not identify somebody important to them who might not be weak and vulnerable. Yes and I hope doctor I haven't been guilty and focusing on the negative because that's not what this is about either I mean obviously we're all acutely aware and we've all felt that the negative impact but this is you know about some progress not in its entirety but about the yoga about the progress that's being made in terms of research our own Donald Kavanaugh and Paul McLoone of course well known as well talking of their survival survivors experience you know some advice on how people you know on coping and counseling you know there's a lot of positive in here as they say I don't want to sort of amplify the negative elements of this because there's a lot going on here isn't there Robert? I think I think there'll be a bit of a release that's my expectation but you know we'll all be a little bit uncomfortable in that but as you say there's a lot of positivity to focus on as well there's a lot of support a lot of resources and if we can take people away from that isolation and recognize that they are a community that we all exist in that space and that we are all impacted and we are all trying to get through things as best we can and just talk about these challenges and identify solutions because there are a lot of supports out there and our support line as well is always available to anyone affected by cancer that's 1-800-200-700 or if you go on to the Cancer Delay website so there's always support there and the first step is identifying what people need and just you know talking and coming together as a community. Donegal is fantastic in that way you could define community almost by Donegal it's how we react in Donegal it's how we all come together it's how we solve problems and this is a great start for a new season I think for Donegal Relay for Life. Indeed and an opportunity at the very least to make those reconnect with your friends and sure make new ones too. Absolutely. Okay listen thank you very much for joining us Doctor I greatly appreciate it that's Doctor Robert O'Connor head of research for the Irish Cancer Society there's another Robert O'Connor of course whose chair of Relay for Life Donegal so it gets underway at 9.15 with registration there's activities and conversations and yoga and panel discussions and talks and advice and updates on progress as it relates to cancer research throughout the course of the morning it culminates at 1 pm with the close of the conference if you want to go along registration is required but the conference of course is free if you want to email the organizers it's Relay for Life Donegal at gmail.com you can call INA on 087 996 096 which is a very easy to remember number or Robert on 087 271 6344 we have that email address and those numbers here by the way I wouldn't expect you to be able to remember all that information I certainly couldn't anyway but hopefully at this point because I keep rattling on about it 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desk the foreign affairs minister says international sanctions against russia will be clear and firm it follows the kremlin's formal recognition of two separatist regions in ukraine as independent theromir putin announced last night he was sending troops to the two breakaway regions describing them as peacekeepers uk's assessment is that a russian invasion of ukraine has effectively begun with prime minister barris johnson cheering an emergency meeting this morning here minister simon coveney says that while diplomacy needs to continue russia is clearly in breach of international law and the west must act you don't send peacekeepers in in tanks and attack helicopters you know this is this is essentially uh setting the scene as a stepping stone for um uh a military takeover of parts of ukraine uh and i think we need to call it out for what it is and the e you uh needs to respond to that donagore county council is to look at establishing a helpline for people whose homes were affected by mica as well as advice centers in three of the county's five municipal districts an emergency motion signed by a representative cross party group of 12 members was moved at yesterday's reconvened council meeting by councillor gary doherty he says the damage caused by storm franklin at the weekend shows the powerless condition in which many people are living and that he says demands a response there's a distinct lack of communication between mica homeowners and donagore county council and indeed the department of housing who are who are facilitating the redress scheme we need to see a system in place where homeowners can get all the questions that they have answered part of that could be and a dedicated established mica helpline where mica homeowners can call a direct line to the council and have their questions answered there and then and secondly mica clinics to be established in the three mds which are most badly affected by mica in his own letter kenny and lupertsden order the esp is seeking to restore power to several hundred homes and businesses in all parts of donagore with 17 outages across the county still to be tackled in some instances they say it could be tomorrow night before power is restored it follows strong winds from storm franklin on sunday night just days after storm studley and unis last week more details available on our website highland radio dot com including a link to the esp's own up-to-date power outage website new laws allowing excavations exhumations and reinterment of remains at former mother and baby home sites go before cabinet this morning once passed the draft institutional burials bill will be presented to survivors and relatives before it's published it's five years since a large number of human remains were found in a test excavation site in chum spokesperson for the chum mother and baby survivor group breeder murphy says it's vital that this bill progresses quickly i refer to the remains in chum particularly as the unburied dead and i think recovery at this late stage is an absolute must because our members who are family members of the disappeared and our survivors of the home too they are elderly and so for matching with their loved ones it is absolutely crucial that this is done and the quality of drinking water in private supplies across the country is not as good as it should be with ecola i found in one in 20 private water supplies across ireland no supplies in dunny gall were affected meanwhile trihalomethane failures were identified in 22 supplies across the country one of them town of willy in dunny gall the report also shows over a quarter of small private supplies serving food businesses nursing homes creches and bnbs were not monitored in 2020 noel bernes program manager of the epa's office of environmental enforcement water quality in private water supplies is not as good as needs needs to be what we've seen is that one in 20 private supplies were contaminated with ecola in 2020 and it's similar 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here hi i'm at my wits end and writing to you as a last resort a neighbour has a dog in his front garden with no shelter complete swamp and small it's a housing estate it's a collie dog first made complaint to animal cruelty on the 20th december since that and including today i've rang seven times each time they tell me they will pass it on to a local inspector today i got so annoyed i asked did the inspector have a supervisor if their complaints are being investigated then the inspector is clearly not up to the job the storm uh that was in and the dog was still out i've today contacted the garden they said their hands are tied and will try and contact the local inspector i want to air this to prompt awareness on these inspectors doing their job this call coming in from the east of the county now which if you are listening let us know which organization did you contact please and um we can chase that up for you uh on another completely unrelated topic there are speed ramps and a zebra crossing in manor village but they are too far apart once you get over the ramp cars are speeding up again at the crossing i've already witnessed a number of children almost knocked down but the council refusing to do anything about it i've been on to local counselors and still nothing has changed so is it like a bit of a rat race between the ramps don't tell me that the ramps are a big distance either side of the crossing please because if that's the case you actually could have accelerating cars rather than cars that are slowing down uh this caller in the manor village says that's exactly what's happening are you affected by this have you a view on it what's going on is it the right job but done wrong or do you believe it's effective maybe you think it's the best thing since slice bread either way we want to hear your voice uh via text or call uh re-families with mica this caller says it is time for action every household should take up residence in the local hotels and send the 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for the latest episode of the card guard community information slot we're joined in studio again this morning by garter grind your daughter you touch the letter kenny garter station good morning to you grind you how are you getting on good morning greg don't drop your pen anyway that would be a disaster all right uh there's lots to get through today so we'll start with appeals and i gardy keen to speak to anyone with information as it relates to an assault at lower main street in letter kenny yeah gardy and letter kenny they're investigating an assault this happened at lower main street on sunday the early hours of sunday morning the 20th of february and around 2 18 a.m so a man is believed to have been assaulted just on the lower main street the left hand side of the road as you traveled down the street so this man was hospitalized to receive treatment for injury sustained but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening we're investigating all the circumstances cctv has been viewed from a number of premises in the town we're appealing to anybody who may have observed this assault to contact us in letter kenny and also particularly to anybody who had a dash cam who was in that area a lot of taxi drivers would park you know late at night in that area and we would appeal to them or anybody who had a dash cam who may have you know picked up this incident on their footage to make the footage available to gardy and letter kenny um we can be contacted on nine one six seven one hundred or the garter confidential lane either one eight hundred six six six one one one we're also interested in any sightings of a dark saloon style car that was believed to have been at that location at the time of the incident again if anybody seen this car or believes they may have captured it in footage to make the footage available to us okay gardy also investigating a burglary um earlier this week yeah this is a very recent incident actually i believe the scene is being preserved at present so this happened between 8 p.m yesterday evening monday february 21st and the early hours of this morning 2 a.m so this happened at a garage just on the middle road there at ballet rain letter kenny the steel doors to the garage were forced open an entry was gained now a number of vehicles were stolen three vehicles actually a silver Volkswagen Passat the registration number of that vehicle is 151 dl 4501 a red Toyota aris registration number 10 dl 16255 and a blue Ford fiesta range number 10 dl 16254 the fiesta the blue fiesta has since been recovered across the border it was crashed so a number of sets of car keys were also stolen from the property during the course of this burglary so we're appealing to anybody who was in that area may have observed any suspicious activity to contact us anybody who may have observed any of these three vehicles on the road you know between those hours any motorists who are in that area and just within the general letter kenny area who had a dash cam you know if they could make the footage available to gardy and letter kenny and we can go through the footage ourselves then yeah so i mean we're talking obviously at least three perpetrators as well yeah yeah three at least three of course those three vehicles were taken uh is this is it maybe can you reveal is it a commercial premises or a private property commercial premises yeah no it's a garage a garage okay yeah garage premises yes letter kenny garady can be reached on that issue 0749167100 the garter confidential line also 1800 6661 just as it relates to dash cam footage and people hear it as it relates to every appeal but more and more people have dash cams in the car and you know a picture paints a thousand words and it's not just the event happening itself it can be after the math or leading up to it what happens uh when you make that appeal they presumably the dash cam stores the footage on the unit itself you ask people to make that unit available and then you guys take over and do the forensics on it in terms of the video forensics yeah because possibly a lot of people have a dash cam in their car and you know they're not really aware of how to work at how to operate or retrieve footage from it and there's no issue there whatsoever you know if they drop the unit itself into the station we can go through the footage and have it returned to them then and possibly some of these dash cams that you know that we appeal for them nearly now every incident as you say we're looking for dash cam footage and a lot of the cctv maybe that we would gather from commercial premises or houses you know we may get a view off the car the offending car but the dash cam footage can be very beneficial to us you know um if you're facing a car an oncoming car you may possibly pick up you know faces identities of people within the car on your dash cam footage exactly and you get maybe potentially different stages of what's happening as well and the quicker you do it the better because I imagine at least with some of them they have a certain amount of memory and that memory can purge you know they can record back over again so the sooner the better okay I just because people hear that and I think it's more those that don't have dash cams go well why do they always say dash cams but there's lots and lots of people doing they would perhaps better understand how useful it can be to an investigation it can also indicate to us you know the direction of travel off the car you know what location it was picked up on the dash cam footage okay uh right the theft from sesha park castle fin now which took place earlier this month yeah this relates to the theft of a 10-foot Hudson's builders trailer this was parked up at a house in sesha park castle fin so the theft of this trailer happened on thursday the 17th of february this happened during daytime hours you know between approximately 105 p.m to 115 p.m so the cctv off the theft and there's quite clear cctv there you know would show a gray people carrier perhaps a Volkswagen charan it's partial registration over uig this vehicle reversed into the drive way of the house two men with their hoods up eggs at the vehicle and they attached the trailer up to the car the driver didn't exit the vehicle at all they then leave the property with the stolen trailer so our appeal is to anybody who was in the castle fin or surrounding areas in that date they may have seen this vehicle with or without the trailer attached or believe they may have captured it again on dashcam footage we asked them to contact us in letter kenny on 0749167100 now your colleagues in letter kenny investigating a theft from carragans yeah so this happened at main street carragans between monday the 14th of february at 4 30 p.m and wednesday the 16th of february at 9 a.m so 12 green security fencing panels were stolen from a temporary site there on the main street between the i believe it's a council site it's just a temporary setup so they were stolen between those times so again if anybody you know observed the removal of these items you would imagine they would have to you know have a trailer or some sort of wagon to load them on to if anybody observed the removal of them or if of any information in relation to their current whereabouts we asked them to contact us in letter kenny on 0749167100 okay we'll travel out to the south of the county and appeal um in bali shannon yeah this is criminal damage incident bali shannon garrity you're seeking information in relation to it it happened at acero falls there in bali shannon on the 19th of february that was a saturday so between the hours of 7 p.m and 8 p.m a car was parked up at an apartment substantial damage was caused to this car it was keyed quite uh deeply into the paintwork now down one side of the car so a male was observed running from the area between those times so really were appealing to anybody who may have seen the incident you know witnessed uh what happened if anybody seen a male and fought on the area can offer a description of him to garrity and again anybody who had a dash cam in the area they may have captured uh this male and were quite eager to speak to him um garrity in bali shannon maybe reached on 0719858530 all right back to letter kenny now and um an incident on convent road yeah um most people are familiar with this building site would imagine greg is at a primary school there in the convent road and there's quite substantial work going on there at present so on the 19th of february we were alerted to the fact that um a criminal damage incident had occurred on the site so a new holland tractor at the site had been smashed the front window if the tractor was smashed in damage was also caused to the doors of two of the port of cabins on the site and it's believed that this damage may have been caused between friday the 18th of february at 5 p.m and saturday the 19th of february at 10 30 a.m so again were appealing to anybody who traveled on the convent road who may have observed any suspicious activity between those times in or around that school uh to contact garrity in letter kenny on 0749167100 all right and a little further south to drum keen now an incident there a couple of days ago or yesterday in fact wasn't it was yeah just yesterday yeah so a lady parked her car at stralingford drum keen this was a quite secluded forest area um it was parked there yesterday morning between 8 30 a.m and 9 a.m and the car was left unlocked a handbag was stolen from the car with a small sum of cash and a number of documents in the bag so we're appealing to anybody who may have parked in that area i believe it's quite a popular area for people to park up to go for their walk you know anybody who observed any any sort of activity that seemed a bit untoward in that area yesterday morning if they would notify garrity in letter kenny and we can be contacted on 9167100 and just if we could use this opportunity and i know sound like a broken record at this stage about cars and about security around cars but just you know wherever you're locking your car or leaving your car sorry parked up if you're leaving it in your own driveway going for a walk wherever you're leaving your car please ensure it is always locked when unattended don't leave anything of any value in your car jewelry cash electronics don't leave any items such as laptop bags handbags with an view in the car on the seats you know even you may be aware that that's just a case there's no laptop in it you know this people who approach your car hoping to steal from your car they're not aware that the window smashed you know and it's just we urge people to be cautious and also if anybody ever sees any activity in or around park cars or any sort of suspicious activity in their neighborhood or area we would ask them to contact us without delay and you know you do sound like a scratch record but there's no harm in that because you know i think maybe we've let our guard down a little bit maybe because you know we haven't been out and about as much and now we're sort of back doing what we used to do and unfortunately people are doing what they used to do as well so it's a it's a it's a good reminder what's the situation as it relates to reports of home heating or theft so you've seen any peek in that i mean i know i've been contacted by numerous people who've been the victims of that and it seems to be in one area at a time and then another area and then i speak to them and they don't report it to guardie because we'll sure what's the point or we know who's doing it and then people aren't sure because you know they think we'll make the end they spend money get to check if there's a leak because they don't think it could happen to them but we're i'm certainly hearing more and more of people being targeted their home heating hall being stolen i was chatting to actually someone who delivers it and they also were being having to return to houses because heat and all is gone it's it's very it's very valuable at the moment yeah yeah certainly and actually i actually i checked through all incidents you know before each week show we certainly haven't seen any increase in the reports of the theft of home heating oil and it's quite surprising really as you say what the price of the oil at present you know but i think as you say too a lot of people maybe they start to doubt themselves they notice that there's been a decrease in their oil and maybe they start doubting themselves but anybody who has any sort of suspicions that their oil has been taken we would urge them to contact us yet generally speaking that it'll be tampered with but i think too you know the tap of an oil tank there's normally a little reserve at the bottom and if they've cifed out it's gone from it you know what i mean below the tap you know i mean all tanks are different i understand that but you have to sort of look for little telltale signs that would make you trust yourself because if this is not reported say you're not getting reports of it you can't maybe increase patrols in certain areas or whatever way you would respond operationally so it is important that people report these incidents to the guard yeah and back a number of weeks ago maybe a couple of months ago now i remember we had an incident on it was in the melford district as far as i recall and an elderly couple had realized that there was actually a drum lying in their garden in the morning and they hadn't noticed any real decrease in their oil levels but it was the thought maybe that maybe these you know the oil thefts are taking place in smaller quantities you know in a drum at a time you know so that the person in the house the householder may not notice that the oil's been taken and um and there are a number of security measures people don't mention you pretty cool don't mention you pretty much again please because you'll just laugh at me but you know but just have good lighting around your house build a fence around or keep you know i know a lot of people have their oil tank in a secure shed you can build fencing around the tank you can't get locks for oil tanks also and also the the uh there's there's two folds thing there is an item you can get and listen this is always going to require an initial layout a couple hundred euro um but it's you can monitor how much oil is in your tank which is useful because you don't want it to run out and airlock your boiler but also if it drops rapidly you get an alarm sent to your phone now providing you you know the most oil tanks would be within wi-fi range or what have you some of them have sim cards it's it's a lot of people it's like house alarms a lot of people spend that money once they've been robbed or once their stuff has been taken and i can try and find a bit more detail about those uh those security items i've been talking about but i think it's a worth a worthwhile investment because they will also identify you if there's a rapid decrease in your oil levels as well which is good for identifying leaks if nothing else it is yeah and just just when you said at the start there just struck me you know you said you had been contacted by a number of people who have you know this they've told you that they believe that their oil has been stolen and then they don't report it to us and funny i was talking to a friend of mine during the weekend and she was telling me you know did you hear such and such as oil tank was emptied and just when it was going through the instance in and there was no mention of this theft on on our system so the matter hadn't been reported to us so you know we would urge people to come forward and report these matters to us yeah okay um because i think there were i think there were a particular number of instances in and around the way it was someone mentioned it to me around the remelton area uh recently as well okay if you're affected by that by the way and you want to talk about it too obviously contact the guards because they're the people that find people responsible for this stuff but you can contact us to an 08 660 25000 right sorry i've delayed getting to the recruitment campaign conversation now we're going to be talking about this in more detail next jues day i believe yeah so you know give us the highlights yeah well i know sergeant walis mentioned this last week as well so um i'll just leave it brief enough because next week we'll be speaking about this in further detail in studio live in studio life yeah next Tuesday next tuesday i had somebody lined up actually to join me here today um he's a he's a lovely lad he's from poland and he's based within the bonk rana district at the moment so i was hoping to have him on today to talk about his experience you know in relation to the recruitment campaign and the training process but um he was just unavailable today so he will be here next tuesday morning so yeah the the recruitment campaigns up and running um this competition it's open until three p.m on wednesday march 16th and they're seeking to attract candidates from across society and with a wide variety of skills to join up so the slogan this year the campaign slogan is the difference is you and you know in ireland's changing it's more diverse multicultural than ever before so this drive is focused on encouraging those who may not previously have considered training to become a garada to now maybe consider doing so garady have been out and about and we have added that to our facebook page posts you know they have been out they've had information stands and some of the shopping centers and a walk around bonk rana i've had two in the past few days garady from the community policing unit here in net or kenny we're in the ly at yesterday and i've had a few queries via the facebook page also people want and to know you know when's this happening in our area so i would advise them keep away on our page because i will post to the page a couple of days in advance of when the next stand is going to where it's going to be and what times you know it's going to take place between and we would ask people if there are any queries in relation to the recruitment campaign don't be afraid to call to your local garada station either we'll assist anyway we can you know and people may apply for and for the recruitment campaign you may apply via publicjobs.ie at www.garada.ie actually there's a frequently asked questions section and a lot of information in relation to this campaign so we'd advise people to check out there also if there's any additional questions all right okay when's the new uniform being delivered it's coming out i believe within the next few weeks you're excited you're in your old school aren't you i have to say i like my shirt and tie now but we'll give it a go we'll give it a go i think it's going to be a lot more practical maybe you know for the members on the ground yeah for sure certainly we'll give it a go okay listen thank you as always uh granja really appreciated that was garada granja daherty there attached to the letter candy garada station and that was the community garada information slot on this tuesday the 22nd of february that item returns for you uh a little later on uh no returns for your next tuesday after the 10 o'clock news and if you missed anything you're able to watch it back on our facebook page a little later on and also on the donagall garda facebook page as well back after the break the community garda information is brought to you in association with north west alarm systems incorporating third eye fire and safety is now your one stop shop for security fire alarm systems and fire training visit our website for more or call 07497 21687 the 90 noon show with letter kennie credit union now offering mycu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features delivered with the same local 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hospital charity send cade mela hogs send joy send love on post for your world all right you're very welcome back to the program right some of your comments here gardy wait too long in most cases to ask for dash cam footage most dash cams would have small sd cards and footage would be overwritten it a few days to last forever indeed of course but if the incident is serious it's carried as a news item at any stage during the week obviously every incident could not be highlighted as a you know it's an individual story but obviously in the case of the incident they were appealing guess some of the incidents they were appealing for in dash cam footage today i take your point and i made that point myself as well so i mean you were on the same page gregg i locked my card to go for a walk in the diamond and raffle last wednesday between 11 and 12 to come back to a lovely wee dent on my car door is there anything worse i think all of us at some point or other have had that happen to us haven't we i don't know what goes through people's minds that they just it's hard to imagine they don't know what's happened but to leave other people with that mess to deal with it's a pain how come you never have anyone on from the esp to explain why they're not fit to take care of the grid every time we have a storm we have power cuts in this day and age they seem to be living in the dark ages pardon the pond well i mean i think actually really we don't do too bad in in donningall compared to i mean the last storm franklin was i don't think you could for an overgrown network there's not an awful lot else you could do especially with old trees coming down the esp aren't responsible for their trees and i don't think they have the mandate to go and cut other people's trees down so a lot of what's happening a lot of the problems being reported are caused by falling trees that are on landowners property that come down and take down the wires so i think we'd need to talk about that conversation more broadly than presuming the esp are putting up dodgy poles that are falling down that's not what's happening here it's other things outside of the esp's control that's taking down the power lines in a lot of cases why do why does the northwest not have some cancer services that the rest of the country has well that's something that's been debated and discussed on this program for a long long time lots of campaign groups uh betty homes and all those others tirelessly fighting for equality for people of the northwest a lot of progress has been made through them those campaigns but still a lot of work that has to be done all right let's take a piece of music now from green day all right that's green day there we're joined on the telephone line now by minister of state for trade promotion digital and company regulation deputy robert trey good morning to you thank you for joining us good morning gregg thanks for having me on not it's nice to have you on now we have as i presume most radio stations have discussed uh to a great extent the cost of insurance so what is the progress on government bills to address this issue well look at government have been making steady progress in relation to the whole area of insurance reform if you look back over the last 12 months we have introduced the personal personal injury guidelines which are now being implemented across the litigation system and indeed through pyab we have introduced perjury on the statute books which make it an offense the lion court we have introduced and opened the office for competition to bring just in relation to that what are you doing though to actually get these cases in court because you know a lot of the problems that that are there are that insurance companies aren't pursuing claims they just pay out and sometimes the person who ends up paying for that isn't told until after the fact so we would have heard from iraq does committee meetings in the past that insurance companies aren't contesting some of these claims can you or is there anything within this bill that encourages them to do so well this is in relation to the reform of the personal personal injuries assessment board uh pyab was established back in 2004 and it's am at that stage was to deal with legitimate insurance claims in a timely and a cost effective manner and it did make a real progress and a real impact during the initial years of it in operation unfortunately over the last number of years and less and less cases were going through pyab and we wanted to and there was a realization then that pyab needed to be enhanced and its powers strengthened and that's what this bill is about and if you look at some of the reasons why claims weren't progressed through pyab and they're going to be addressed in this bill any claim wholly of a psychological nature what previously could be dealt with through pyab when this bill is enacted there will be able to be dealt through pyab claims where the injury had yet to settle again couldn't be dealt with through pyab when this bill is enacted there will be able to be dealt with through pyab we're introducing mediation for the first time the mediation will be mirrored on i suppose well established practice like the mediation system through the wrc or the mediation system through the ptrb which will give the two sides of the argument so to speak an opportunity to come in in a not adversarial manner and to discuss a potential insurance claim okay so what do you believe the positive impact of this will be well what we want to see is we want to see more legitimate claims being dealt with through pyab than what are being dealt with currently in the last two years the central bank has published two reports and both of those reports have claimed or have proven quite clearly that the costs associated with dealing with having a case dealt with through pyab in comparison with having a case going through the litigation system are stark the legal costs of going through litigation 15 times the legal costs of going through the personal injuries assessment board and the crucial part here is the compensation is largely the same so what people are having to endure is having their claims uh been taken longer to be dealt with and ultimately more costly from a legal perspective under compensation at the end of the day would have been largely the same and the compensation since the new injured person and injury guidelines have been introduced going forward compensation payouts there will be a consistency in terms of the compensation that has been paid out whether you go down through the legal route or whether you go through pyab so what we are going to be doing is encouraging more people to have their legitimate claims dealt with through pyab because by doing so you're going to have your claims dealt with faster so you talk about the claims will still be the same so we read the stories of you know very sadly um someone a child's on a piece of play equipment and they fall off and they scrape their knee and they're they're they're you know psychologically affected by it and they get a payout for 68 000 euro you're saying this neat new bill means that that will continue no well what i've said quite clearly is the personal personal injury guidelines have been updated they were published last April and they came into effect last May and those personal injury guidelines have seen in some cases claims awards reducing by 64 percent and some other claims of a more serious serious nature decreasing by 36 percent so the claims the awards that are being paid out have been reduced thanks to the personal injury guidelines what i'm saying is now that we have those personal injury guidelines in place there is a clear guideline in terms of what the judges can pay out but that guideline will also apply to the personal injuries that's the board the big difference the big difference is in terms of the legal fees associated with going through litigation in comparison to the legal fees going through the person and the time of course as you mentioned and the time i mean obviously you know there's many businesses in this part of the world and i'm sure it's the same everywhere else that you know difficulties in getting insurance as as a damaged business or shut them down many have just simply exited certain businesses because they can't get insurance either because it's too expensive or there's no one in the market in Ireland available to provide that probably because it's such a small pool and the payouts are so high if i if i'm not conflating issues do you what what impact might it have on the future of insurance delivery in this country of any well what we want to see happening is if if more claims are dealt with through pay up as i said that legal fees associated with same are 15 times less than what they are going through litigation less legal fees means less of a burden on the insurance companies meaning they can afford to drop their premiums we have already established a new office for competition within the department of finance to bring in greater competition in the market insurance companies have all have always been saying the reasons why they're charging high insurance in Ireland is one because of the high compensation payouts two because of the high legal fees and three because of the lack of competition but the high awards have been addressed through the personal injury guidelines as i said which came into effect last may the high legal fees are going to be addressed through um this new enhanced personal injuries assessment board and we have open opened an office to establish and to attract in greater competition into the market there now is an onus and a responsibility on these insurance companies to drop their premiums and we have seen some small progress in this area last year according to the cso figures uh insurance premiums for motor insurance fell between seven and eight percent similarly the year before we want to see greater um we want to see greater reductions and that's what we're working towards minister Fleming and minister state and the department of finance and minister pascal donahoe has been meeting with the CEOs of the insurance companies and making them aware of the expectation government has on them government has honored our commitment in relation to introducing the necessary reforms the insurance companies now have to follow suit and the one point you made an out which i wish to touch on is in the whole area of fraud and we want to see insurance companies tackling their potential fraudulent claims we know a number of years ago CEOs of insurance companies appeared before in the rafters committee and get a very lukewarm answer in relation to how to tackle fraud when pressed at that committee they indicated that they had only challenged somewhere in the region of seven or eight cases it certainly wasn't single digit figures we now have established a dedicated office within anguardashia connet to tackle insurance fraud and it's now a responsibility and the government are sorry on the insurance companies to engage with the policy holder and where there is any suspicion or suspect that fraud is to be carried out there's a responsibility on them to challenge it before they go you are a member of government so interested in your views phil hogan has said he might seek compensation from the eu commission over his golf gate resignation the former european commissioner um also revealed that he uh took refuge in portugal for six months after the controversy affected him such have you sympathy for phil hogan that's totally an exclusive to be a matter for phil hogan no it's not it's not a matter for phil hogan it's it's you know do you ask do you have sympathy for him that's within your gift to have sympathy for him or not but you you you ask me in relation to whether he was going to potentially no i asked you do you have sympathy for him i have sympathy for all the people who were at um that um that event in clifton a number of and then flying in for it and traveling across the country for you've sympathy for him and that too what i said is i've sympathized with the consequences that a number of people had to deal with as a fallout of that event um a number of people my own colleague deputy keleary lost his position at the cabinet table and he resigned because he felt there was inappropriate for him to be in attendance despite the fact that is now known that from a legal perspective it wasn't but he felt from a moral perspective so many other people had made so many sacrifices that it gave the wrong signal for him to be there he has said that on a number of occasions and personally i would love to see my colleague deputy keleary resume his position at the cabinet table at some stage into into the future whether phil hogan decides to challenge the commission and the commission is an independent body totally exclusive from the irish government remove from the irish government whether phil hogan intends to seek compensation from the commission ultimately that's his decision and that's the point i was making thank you very much for that that's robert trey minister of state for trade promotion digital and company regulation talking on about insurance reform and his sympathy for phil hogan and others oh eight six six two twenty five thousand what's absent text to that number or oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand if you want to give carolina calls she's a friendly soul she'd be glad to speak to you the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union mortgage is now available with a personalized service from your local and friendly credit union email mortgage at letterkennycu.ie all ready for next year why not make sure of it with seat trade up to a two two one seat suv and you'll be offered pcp finance from 1.9 percent and a three-year service plan for just $9.99 a month with the bold new arona the stylish 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clearing quickly east towards scattered charisans suddenly spells to follow with a chance of sleet on high ground drier and brighter conditions will follow in the evening with blustery blustery westerly winds gradually easing a chilly day temperatures eight to ten degrees but i suspect it's going to feel colder than that we're joined in studio now by uh donan harvey who is from the cathedral quarter project of morning to you thanks for joining us thanks very much craig right now the launch of the letter kenny 2040 document will take place in dylan's hotel this coming thursday the 24th your interest in particular i'm sure is in all of letter kenny but you're going to have a particular focus no doubt on the cathedral quarter in letter kenny a lot of progress has already been made over the years yeah the the um i suppose under the urdf uh grant that the council were successful and a part of that application was the enhancement of the cathedral quarter area or a greater cathedral quarter area such as about stretching from the market square going over as far as spears lane and our committee sat down last year i suppose on zoom like everybody else and we kept things going and and we decided you know what uh how we wanted to have a vision of what the area could become and uh i suppose the document that we're launching and it was with the support of uh steven barth who was formerly with the ldc and he's now with at the national fund of ireland so he helped us to put together this uh this glossy document uh is it is it trying to get the balance right between you know in encouraging you know modern vibrancy but at the same time harnessing and keeping the links to you know the tradition yeah it's very much so that uh well we we see that uh the the heritage and it's an asset and as opposed to the overall name of the project was to create like a sort of an old uh an old quarter in the in the heart of letter kenny and and and this is this is very much that you know this is how we how we see it developing anyway and and thankfully that the the local authority has been very much behind our plans and we've had great connections with um uh uninquin and uh she she needed uh she needed mccally as well like so it's been it's it's been a very it's been very very we got great support from the council in that respect you know and and there's a brilliant retail offering in letter kenny and other offerings okay and it's fantastic and visitors avail of that but there's a lot of visitors if not all say for instance in terms of tourism and people from here who travel elsewhere will know they want to get a sense of the history and that's how connections that's how people return because they it's it's the history of it not shops brilliant shops that you can see absolutely everywhere it's about what's unique to a certain area yeah yeah and and i suppose like what one of the the spurs to action from the project from the very beginning was that um like uh we got letter kenny got a bad review from the lonely planet saying that the town was a town without a soul which was very harsh at the time and and we wanted to prove them wrong and and and is what you said it's it's fine stuff that is very unique to letter kenny and and that's what we've been promoting in a way and and and anybody who comes wants like tourists is again like i always say that whenever we go abroad we always try and seek out the old part of the town places that are a wee bit quieter but you know they're that relaxed atmosphere and i think that we have it here right so what do you want from from the public is the cathedral cathedral quarter letter kenny is it sort of like a consultation of it itself or is it how it can grow and how it sits within the town what do you want from the public well i suppose we're hoping that they can come along on thursday night and and see the document and and you know it's i suppose it's very aspirational and and what we've set out but seeing of how we think that there's something within the document for everyone you know being in the artistic community or you know like our program events or being at something so that's a bit more long term like the idea of the this kind of artisan hub you know so there there'll be something in the document for everyone and and it's the idea that if they come along on the night then you know maybe they'll want to get involved with the project so and whatever spirit that they can and it's a detailed document isn't it sets out a series of objectives you know visions not only just visions but options yeah yeah kind of been outlining already yeah yeah it is a very detailed you know one and again look there's there's things in it that we necessarily look at there's greater or greater powers that would have the final say on that there but you know like we think that it's it's very worthwhile and and that that they would that they'll you know that we the influence that we could have over over the decision making that you know that they're getting community buying and so and like already that i said like by by working together with the local authority you know we have has produced good results yeah it's on the map now you know it's not just the the the aspirations of a small few it's accepted to be something that is positive that money's being spent on there's a future in which is very encouraging yeah yeah very much so that that you know and again we always think that this model could be used elsewhere and and and hope that uh you know can inspire all their communities this briefing document is it broadly available i have a copy of it my hand now or is it really getting there on thursday get on there explain to get on there on thursday and uh we'll hope then and then as i said once once the document itself is launched then we we can have a uh i suppose a greater dialogue on the issue anyway all right good it's all progress in the right direction thank you very much thank you very much great all right anything else you want to add before we wrap up are you happy enough i'll recap where it is and how people yeah just that hopefully as i said people can come along on the on the on the day and uh um well hopefully that we can keep on keep up the progress anyway and keep on doing and just one thing that isn't in my sheet here is the time it's in uh the the launch of the letter kenny 2040 document taking place in dylan's hotel thursday night at what time 8 p.m 8 p.m listen brilliant stuff thanks very much good to see you good to have you back in studio as well okay that's uh done on harvey there from the cathedral quarter project okay you are tuned to the nine till noon show on your number one local radio station this is highland radio a busy hour on the way stay right where you are in the meantime here's the latest news from donal kavner good morning donal thank you great good morning the foreign affairs minister says russia is guilty of a blatant breach of international law that amir putin has sent troops into two breakaway regions in eastern ukraine after recognizing them as independent states the eu us and uk are preparing to impose sanctions on russia later today the health minister says the length of hospital waiting lists is unacceptable a 350 million euro plan to tackle waiting lists this year is to be published later this week currently almost 18 000 people have been waiting for in patient procedures for more than 12 months 155 000 have been on outpatient waiting lists for more than 18 months minister steve and donnelly says the 2022 plan is ambitious gar thee letter kenny is investigating a serious assault in the lower main street area in the early hours of sunday morning a man was hospitalized for injuries received in the attack at around 18 minutes past two in the morning his injuries are not life threatening gar thee said they're particularly anxious to trace the movements of a dark colored saloon car which was in the area at the time three cars have been stolen from a commercial garage in bali rain letter kenny during an overnight break in a gar the investigation is now underway the area has been preserved one of the three cars of blue fort fiesta was later found crashed across the border more details available on our website highland radio dot com donnelly gold county council is to look at establishing a helpline for people whose homes are affected by mica as well as advice centers in three of the county's five municipal districts an emergency motion signed by a representative cross party group of 12 counselors was moved at yesterday's reconvened council meeting by councillor gary daugherty he says the damage caused by storm franklin at the weekend shows the perilous condition in which many people are living he also said there is a communications deficit in the mica situation between people and the council and he says that must be addressed the esp is seeking to restore power to several hundred homes and businesses across donnie gall 17 outages still to be tackled in some instances the esp says it could be tomorrow night before power is fully restored and northern ireland could soon see the introduction of a ban on cheap alcohol a new public consultation on the subject has been launched today by health minister robin swan minimum unit pricing came into effect in the republic last month minister swan says the aim is to reduce alcohol consumption in northern ireland by 5.7 percent and we're back with news headlines again at 12 noon all right sir thank you very much in d donnell back with our next guest after the break the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost letter kenny credit union 9102 127 shared in security now introducing zero wire smart alarm systems zero wire zero mess and a real peace of mind with a simple press the button your alarm can be set or on set or download the free app and control it from your 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joint agency task force a cross-border operation which took place yesterday focused on cavern monaghan lath slago leitrim but also there's some activity in donnie gall the district drugs drugs units supported by customs recovered a quantity of suspected to be cocaine and cannabis this following a search of a property in the bonkrana district garty letter kenny focused on street dealing in the town with a number of detections made in respect of possession of illegal drugs for personal use so there's activity in the bonkrana district with drugs and cannabis and cocaine see suspected and as it relates to street dealing in letter kenny there was an operation i don't know if you saw what was going on or what have you but they say a number of detections were made in respect of possession of illegal drugs for personal use and also speaking to someone uh speaking to someone um involved in i don't know i won't say for fear of identifying with the identifying them with them but people someone with access to public late at night not a guard concerned at a particular problem of a certain drugs use in letter kenny one that can be created uh using stuff that you can buy uh regularly i don't want to be putting any ideas in anyone head in anyone head but it's been used quite extensively uh in letter kenny that was there of you i'm not saying only letter kenny so if you're from letter kenny please don't think that i'm trying to uh blacken the town's name or anything like that there but if anyone out there wants to talk about there if there's a particular concern if it's outside the across the whole region uh get in touch i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand we're joined by freddy now how are you freddy good morning to you good morning greg how are you i'm doing all right how are you freddy i thought i was a wee bit offended yesterday whenever i went to buy shall we say just for sure talking about uh i got a sulphur beam now what happened well normally uh i would pick uh buy a bag of the sulphur beam maybe once every four months or maybe two every week there for after a bottle of wine the next day but but it was offensive yesterday while i went into the the actual term list i'd asked for a bag of the sulphur beam uh the young gearing sir from the counter the first thing she asked me was uh what does it need this sulphur beam for what was my condition why does it need them okay and um but they'll offend us right and why is it because she was asking about your private medical business or maybe other people could hear the question and perhaps your response what what offended you freddy there was other people at the counter no i bought these things before and i do realize that they have uh they have to actually inform me that they can be addictive you know but i don't take offense to that because all they're going to say to you is do you realize if you take these any more than four days or five days that they can actually end up being addictive no problem with that but it was a it was they been groaned about what was it going to take the medication for now i would take um sulphur beam because you can buy them over the counter i know that they're trying to inform people about it but in my opinion if they're um addictive they shouldn't be selling them anywhere right okay but what if this person who maybe was looking out for you freddy had taken to what to one side where it was a bit more private uh and and asked you the question there for fear that maybe let's just say uh you you know he didn't have family around you and you had developed an addiction to sulphur beam and maybe they were just doing a check on you that maybe you might say well i'm taking them because i have to take them if that person was sort of took you to one side so wasn't couldn't hear and the question was for your care and just to make sure everything's all right would that still have offended you yes because the way the question was put right um i was basically i do understand that if i was asking a question i wouldn't first of all ask it in front of anyone if i was addicted to them i would take very higher fast and maybe it wouldn't bother me but i was that annoyed about it that it kept them and i i drove home and last night i thought to myself you know why did they actually ask these questions why did they do it in front of people and now in the way back to letter kennedy actually can't keep their tablets you're going to go look for a refund oh yes because you know what i mean i don't know if somebody just said to me uh you know that these you can end up being addicted you can get addicted to them no problem everybody would be told the same thing that was a fact for the first time in my life and i'm a pensioner nobody said old pensioner but you know quite a young pensioner but uh to be told wasn't them actually informed to be told that uh you know do you realize you are supposed to be taking these yeah i get you yes boy don't take is it a case and i don't want to send patronizing though but you to go back and get the money back is it possible that there may be there were a new person they hadn't been trained they thought they were doing the right thing is it worth now that you've got it off your chest freddy to the the tens of thousands listening is it worth going back and looking looking for a refund or is this something that you feel very passionate about well i feel passionate about it because it was the same cameras that just happened to be twice in right okay and one was by the active cameras himself okay but he asked me up and down until i actually did get offended i'm told him to keep them education now i decided to i i actually rang the manager and i said you really need to get the people trained to do this just inform them that uh they must say you're the meeting they can be addictive yes i guess you don't have an issue with that it's just in my opinion if something can be addictive they shouldn't be selling this it should be only very productive description right okay so make up your mind if it if it shouldn't be sold if it's addictive it comes with verbal warnings don't sell it over the counter exactly they shouldn't be selling like that over the current day i won't be honest with you i i was given um salt to dull by my doctor you have to get it by prescription because i'd have a very bad back they only took two of those tablets and i suited the purpose they have a full box of them sitting in the house they actually had placed me to take sleep on tablets and i said no i wouldn't touch them right now it's clear freddy it's clear freddy that you are very much in control of the situation here right that you uh you know what you need sulfur dean for you know when to take them and you know not to take them regularly again is it possible freddy that another person who's not just quite as on on top of everything as you are that maybe had a niggling pain right and rather than go to the gp they were going in and chewing sulfidine tablets not addressing what could be the underlying health problem and and maybe even then finding themselves addicted to a tablet is it not better to ask people and maybe risk offending the likes of yourself if it could help someone who maybe is on their own maybe is an older person that just does not quite have as much control of you know their medication taking as you do i'm not i hope you don't think i'm trying to oh absolutely i hope you don't think i'm trying to sort of disagree with you freddy i'm just wondering i'm just kind of feeling that maybe they've asked people and it's led to a series of events that's got someone the medical help that they need they have actually gone and got that i would sit at home with a pain for six months rather than go to a doctor for it i'm just wondering i'm the type of person they're trying to to help no again i have no reason to be offended or somebody actually informally what they can do because they're still going to send them to me anyway you understand they are still going to send if i ever said to them well i am addicted to them uh now remember if they actually send me that medication which i don't know what it was against the law not after me admitting it's more to do with the way that the approach to people rather than the actual tablets themselves they can see i've been told maybe two years ago uh now i'm picking up two of them tablets they may be after a bottle of wine or two and i don't know on the sap of the knife that's what cures that but uh not to make a joke of it no i don't understand that the way that it was approached directly asking me for my medical history and for other people Freddie you know uh you know you can get addicted to these things yes no problem i already know that now uh i'm not going to admit to you if i'm a drug addict and all fairness if i'm going to get them i'm going to say no or i i understand that no where you go yeah i get you i know what you're saying so in other words what what does that question actually really achieve because if you were uh you're not going to have so it's not going to be sort of an intervention in front of a load of strangers at a receptionist cancer i counter i do get your point this caller says Freddie i suffer from severe headaches and also take sulfidine you feel like a drug addict when you ask for them why don't they put them on prescription then if they're so dangerous so that person's actually does have a medical condition yeah that's exactly my point now they're actually saying like that if i was uh say i addicted to them i could go from that chemist to the next chemist to the next chemist that i whatever i want it you know what i mean it's not just that chemist they're all going to give them to you because as far as they're concerned there's another general drug you're going to pocket they don't care about your condition enough but it's the way that i was offended by the way it was approached yesterday okay but it's not the first time you've been offended by by the questions on it by your own uh evidence another caller says and being a slightly more sympathetic to the chemist maybe they were asking you to see if they could recommend some alternative other than sulfidine that if you didn't have a standard yeah i understand that too but that would be a way of actually if you really do that um because i know i'm tense at the funding but they could take it to the one side rather than a big screen and they're more or less having to raise their voice now if i was going to tell them my condition i would have went to be doctor i wouldn't have went to a chemist for a few sulfidine and yeah there's a lot of people also if they go in to see uh the the the pharmacy lead or if they see a gp they don't want to divulge their information to a receptionist or someone at the counter uh i we get that a lot this caller says just listening to freddy there i feel the receptionists at the doctors as well ask what's wrong with you before they give you appointment it's so annoying that they need to know your private personal medical business while another says this is normal procedure in all chemists but you're uh you're into chemists you've been in quite a bit it's not them informing you you would prefer if they didn't inform you that the tablets are addictive it's them asking you what you're taking them for particularly in front of other people that you took uh take particular ombrage with freddy that's exactly what it is now if they had said to me just look uh they can share it right from the top of the borson there's a matter of fact i wouldn't mind it if they said these this medication you can get addicted if you take it you know you don't take it for any more than four days which i understand i can relate to that but as far as i'm concerned no chemist should be allowed to sell uh an addictive drug without a doctor's prescription that's basically what this is all about maybe they have uh the chemists have to do their part they were told to do this by the government but that's exactly the point they shouldn't have to tell the people not to take this drug because it's addictive it's addictive get a doctor's prescription yeah make up your mind one way or other yeah okay because i would see what you were talking about here just uh about the guarantee and i think you can go buy a prescriptions or uh over the counter stuff cough medicine sulfidine the likes of that stuff that's being it's being concocted then into something uh that creates a buzzer or high you know exactly well at least you got them covers you give me a buzzer nothing to do is actually get me sure head away but that's grand because it's me one thought you're self inflicted freddie you're your own worst enemy you are exactly one bottle away in a week and i get a headache i'll try something else try and put the Guinness or something what are you doing the only the only thing i look at is the distance from the bottle okay well i wouldn't want to be i'd say you're you could be a wee bit feisty the day after the night before maybe until the table's kicking listen freddie i mean i know where you're i i i i i know exactly where you're coming from but i also know life is short and i wonder is it worth your efforts going in and getting your blood pressure up and and and looking for a refund but it's your choice and it's your decision and it's what you want to do i'm not getting it sorry greg i'm not getting the blood pressure no not literally not literally you know what i mean you know what i know exactly what you mean i would like to talk to the manager and if they're gonna train their staff train them to deal with people like me now if a young one was in there looking for tablets i don't get them there they're gonna go to the next chemist and they're gonna meet somebody who's not gonna even mention it yeah but it's just they're gonna be trained they should be trained properly they should be said this is how you deal with the public okay you have to stay in there you ring up the doctor's surgery and they're asking you why do you want to see the doctor because i'm sick the end of story other than that i wouldn't be looking to see the doctor but for them to get your medical history and then live the next door to you perhaps yeah i get you and i understand and it's just not that quite a lot of people don't feel there's that uh and we don't think anyone is passing on medical information but you bump into them in the street if you bump into your doctor you don't mind but if you bump into their receptionist it can feel a little bit different i get that and i understand yeah exactly all right listen freddy thanks for joining us hopefully you get sorted all right all right freddy take care of yourself nice to chat to you good man all right another caller says the assistants are breaking the law if they don't ask those questions but what questions and at least maybe if there's a level of consistency there i think which is what freddy's talking about that uh are they when you say by law they have to ask the question is an assistant by law have to ask you what you're taking your medicine for i wonder if it's uh over the counter uh you know if you ordered eyedrops or whatever it might be is it particularly sulfur dine another caller said i had a similar experience in a pharmacy i asked for a strong strength of an over-the-counter medicine they actually called out the pharmacist to put me off buying it i explained i wasn't taking them i wanted them in the first aid kit as a precaution backup i just dug my heels in and said you are selling me them or not and they did okay so why stock it why stock it if um the pharmacy is going to be called over to discourage you from purchasing it greg that man is so right it's like buying cocaine at the counter if you ask for sulfur dine it's a disgrace the way the staff ask you in a chemist about sulfur dine that 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um a very good morning to you thanks for joining us up t so well yeah indeed right okay we're talking now and putting a call out to farmers who have buildings affected by mica uh to come forward um before we get into the the nitty gritty of that um from what do you know as to the impacts of of mica on on farmers and their buildings how extensive is the problem what kind of problems have we seen because i think uh they've kind of kept their heads down whilst the conversation was on sort of the principal private residence and i get that but maybe the time now the time now is to talk about it so even tell us about what what you're hearing from people and how they're affected yeah the time is definitely now um you know farmers understand that their homes are covered within the the scheme so you know everything that we're doing on the home front is is covered michael daherty's putting in sterling work there and certainly at the end of this the statue has to go up and cooled off to that man because it's uh it's he's he's he's done sterling work for the cause and um the department of housing will look after principal private residences rental homes and uh and um holiday homes but when it comes to other things reg we're looking at the agri buildings businesses who have uh whose buildings are affected by mica and also public buildings and there's nothing within the department of housing and the scheme that will cover that because the scheme itself only covers housing so what government were were more or less expecting us to do were to go to each of those relevant departments those are the department of agriculture department of trade and enterprise department of the environment and start to start to cause from scratch and literally go to them educate their civil servants and what mica is all about and how it's affecting farmers and how it's affecting businesses and and public buildings and and ultimately that that wasn't acceptable to us and and that's where we looked upon europe as the answer to all of this because the only place that our government can be answerable to is the european union and we have got to work within the european union at different levels to try and get the government to to be answered to this so you know can i can ask where um well let's just focus on farm buildings for now and of course it also includes other things that the other things that you mentioned damon where does this fit though in the 100 percent mica redress scheme the campaign right this enhanced scheme uh hopefully we're going to see significant progress on that shortly that scheme will be put in place can that is that scheme accepted without say for instance farm buildings being included or now are we uh extending the goalpost to say it's always been in there don't get me wrong emin but i hope you understand the question are we saying no actually really we need the farm builders being included before we accept this enhanced scheme or are they running parallel at the same time or are they all one and the same because the scheme is coming from the department of housing only housing is involved in the scheme and something has got to be done for the other three aspects that i mentioned and that's where we're working in the background to try and and get solutions for farmers and business owners and you know public buildings and that's that's where that's where the european will go the european union will come into a greek you know i mean we've been successful on three different levels here within the european union firstly um we've succeeded in getting funding and approval for an international symposium on defective blocks and that symposium will be bringing geologists cement experts from all over the world as well as MEPs to the northwest in june of this year and it'll also bring the world's media along with it and you know anything that puts the government under a little bit of heat we're very accepting to the second thing as you may have got my updates from brussels where the the penny committee that we had uh joe and an had presented to and we were successful in moving our petitions forward to the technical committee and the product committee which doesn't happen as often as people might think that was quite a hurdle to jump and you know to to get through to two committees was quite surprising to us at the time the product committee was the main one we were looking for but to get through to the technical committee was quite surprising but unfortunately the technical committee at this stage has said that it's a product issue another technical issue so all our eggs are in the one basket with that one and we are we are still in a good position and luke ming and the left in europe are helping us put a program together that will give us the most success at the product committee and once we get hopefully we'll get forwarded from that to the european commission all right well presumably there's e eu money in some of these buildings there's e you know peace funding or whatever it might be in in in uh other buildings that are now uh falling to bits are you saying are we looking at potential revenue streams from europe to fix these types of buildings or is it the pressure from europe on the irish government and the irish taxpayer that will will burden that cost what what or all options on the table at this point amen it is all options on the table that i would say it's a mixture of both great because the european union will push the irish government under a little bit of pressure to include these other buildings while the european union itself who also give a lot of cap and a lot of grants out to farmers and to businesses and we will be looking for grants to be included within that mica scheme so that these businesses can get back on their feet again but i mean you know the last thing to mention about the european union greg um is our work with the nps and ultimately the irish nps are responsible for the spending of e eu phones within ireland and as as you know you've been on this journey with us mag was formed in january 2014 and we had our first meeting with government in april 2014 so at that point they were officially informed of an issue with the effect of blocks in the county and they should have done their due diligence but they didn't and you know we're even still sitting here today wondering whether blocks are fit for purpose and whether the new blocks going into new homes will be fit for purpose i find it remarkable that that guarantee can't be given by the housing minister no nobody has sent in to get everyone available for that is available for inspections to go in be it a raid or agreed to go in and take out products get them all tested right across the country wherever it might be so that we have some confidence that if you're rebuilding a micro affected homes that you're building it with blocks that aren't going to end up in the same situation in a number of years that is a non-brain i can't understand why there hasn't been a big push in that regard is i know greg i mean they're uh they're tightening the screws and tightening the poor strings when it comes to giving money out to mica home owners but yet they haven't stopped the floodgates at the far end you know are mica homes still being made right now greg yeah well we don't know we don't know and and that's this i think that is a question that can i put that question and i've said this a couple of times because the person ultimately responsible here is the housing minister and i asked him if he could say with certainty that we aren't still using defective blocks to repair already broken homes and the answer was no i find that remarkable i'm not sure i could stand over a department where that would be my answer in donagol where people are being put through the mill is it a hundred percent redress or say the farm and business community are they saying you know a significant assistance in terms of redress is there a stance the stance should be similar within europe greg the stance should be also 100% um but we're only starting off now within europe and trying to get answers in europe but my feeling on it is that as i mentioned due diligence should have been carried out and due diligence wasn't carried out at the time which means that both MEPs and EU auditors will have questions of the irish government and those questions will have to be answered this year greg and i think it's answers that we've all been looking for for years that the irish government just won't answer and they will have to be answerable to europe yeah well i mean they can be sanctioned by whether they're answerable or not i think they're ultimately answerable answerable to the people uh let us not forget that we are paying on one project alone to the EU commission 15 000 euro in daily fines because of you know breaches controversies it's costing millions in fines and that's just one project so the EU can can can give us a slap on the wrist can even punish us in the pocket but it's the taxpayer again that ends up picking up the bill for the government not heeding the EU warnings and i'm not in any way trying to dilute your point aim and i hope you understand that but you know where there's there's millions that could be fixing an awful lot of homes being paid in penalties to the EU by us right now as we speak and that's on one ruling alone okay so the next uh the next step of this european project then is a project campaign uh is june is that correct to hear you correctly we have the symposium in june correct but before that prior to that we're actually meeting up in march you were supposed to be meeting in brussels in march but because of restrictions in the european union we are doing it over zoom and so you're you're welcome to join us from highland on the day and it will have those people there ready to put together a plan for the symposium that will be happening in june so what kind of things are we looking into what kind of solutions are we looking for and what kind of recommendations do we feel will be coming for government on the back of the uh the findings is it time for farmers and business owners to start coming forward now start being vocal do not fear that in some way this could someone could diddle with your grants or whatever supports you might get from your is it now time for uh those voices to be heard more loudly and in great numbers yes definitely greg because you know the people are around the streets now when when the scheme comes through that people are happy with well then people won't won't be on the streets anymore and farmers will be left out by themselves while people around the streets right now is the time to start shouting and getting your voice heard and ultimately that's what i'm looking for i'm looking for a couple of examples of farmers with um with agricultural buildings that are collapsing businesses that are suffering with mica in their warehouses and if that if those buildings were paid for by EU funding i want to hear hear from them and you know these are the examples all we need is two or three and i know they've been politely standing back and that's okay because homeowners have always been the priority but now's the time to stand up and we are working for you in the background and we we feel that we can get something done right now because MEPs are alike to this issue all right let's name and thanks very much indeed i appreciate it aim and jackson their chair of the mica action group he wants farmers to come forward uh in relation to their properties having mica with a view to going to europe as many of them were built of course with EU grants and the weather the storm brought the the the private homes back into the conversation as well and we were scheduled to check chat aim and on that as well um so there's been a lot on mica this week it's only Tuesday on the program uh why should the taxpayer have to pay for the mica problem should it not be the product supplier and as for farmers i think they get enough handouts regards an angry taxpayer um open my back door three times hearing a dog bog thinking it was outside only to discover the barking is on the radio don't oh yes okay i thought that was some sort of a slight at me or aim and i was i was listening to the dog bark in the background as well and was wondering where that was coming from all right i call it says the only uh quoting aim in there the only place the government is answerable to is the european union no no no no says the assistant the government is answerable to the people hi greg i'm uh almost afraid to ring my doctors now the reception staff interrogate why i'm ringing saying is it urgent how do you define urgent they've no understanding what the patient could be going through and from my experience there are no way sympathetic and very abrupt and that's in that one person's experience another caller says though i'm a doctor's secretary and we never ask anyone that calls what's wrong with them and any secretary that does is being nosy that's between the doctor and the patients but look carolina is the case isn't it that patients have been triaged by by people that the secretary's hospital so that secretary clearly um no no secretaries have been nosy they're being asked by whom the person who employs them to try and put people in order uh so the urgent cases are seen the less urgent cases are seen later so i don't think anyone is taking it on themselves a solo run to to be nosy what's wrong with you uh so it depends from surgery to surgery okay and we understand that um maybe you don't mind do you mind or do you understand because i think obviously understandably those that are most offended might be most inclined to get the phone out and text us and we really appreciate it and it's important and so many issues are highlighted and resolved through your texts and calls but maybe you're out there and 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noon show here on highland radio greg they should have asked to take him aside and talk privately that's the situation in that chemist some pharmacy assistants seem to be deaf says another as they have to announce ask everything at the top of the voices no discretion exercised okay if over the counter medicine is so addictive and dangerous surely there should be some method of keeping track as to who is buying what and how often it's being bought if i have a prescription the pharmacist will have a full list of whatever i got from them and if it can't be monitored then it seems to stop being an over the counter medicine if it's as dangerous as it obviously is being treated then maybe just make it prescription you heard that from freddy yourself now professor of politics at doublin university is professor donahoe bachoyne he joins us on the program now thank you very much for joining us you're welcome it's very good to have you with us right now you lecture on post-soviet politics unrecognized states irish studies and foreign policy so you're right across this professor now we heard a russian president vladimir putin last night ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern ukraine after recognizing them as independent accelerating a crisis the west fears could unleash a major war professor he called these you know peacekeepers clearly you don't send peacekeepers into attack helicopters and in tanks has the invasion of ukraine then at least on paper already begun well uh yes it has but it's it's really important to emphasize that this is eight years into an invasion and occupation we've been here before in 2014 when when uh vladimir putin right up until the end said that he wasn't going to an ex-crimea and he wasn't going to do anything in donetsk gulahansk and he moved his troops there so in a way we're not in a completely new place this is the the latest chapter in an ongoing saga which goes back as vladimir putin's speech yesterday illustrated goes back decades indeed centuries i mean what we learned from vladimir putin last night is that he has a vision of where russia should be in the world and his borders are ambiguous because his ideal state in the past is essentially the russian empire in terms of borders and the russian empire of course included much of present-day ukraine but also poland and finland and latvia and estonia and so many other countries and this is this is the problem with vladimir putin at the moment is that we don't know what his end game is he keeps us guessing um of course nobody was really looking at donetsk gulahansk everybody was focusing on nato enlargement that was the big thing that he was emphasizing and even now we're not sure what his next step is is that by accidental design do you think oh i think that's that strategic ambiguity is definitely by design i mean like so for example if you take the current situation he says he recognizes the people's republics of donetsk gulahansk but he hasn't defined the territories of those those territories themselves or rather the the people the proxies who are in charge they define it as as the entire region now at the moment they've only got control of about a third of each of those regions of donetsk gulahansk so is he recognizing what they currently hold or is he recognizing what they actually claim if he's recognizing what they claim then we're in for a big war yeah and we got a better indication of his mood hearing directly from uh him yesterday yes he mentioned the two two areas you already mentioned but also really uh you know saying ukraine is is not really a legitimate state so was he flagging his intentions then to to reclaim what he obviously believes is rightfully rushes oh absolutely i mean if you don't recognize a ukrainian people how can a ukrainian people exercise a right to self-determination either politically or geopolitically and that's been at the heart of this you know it's it's ironic that he accuses very tongue-in-cheek ukrainians of genocide against the peoples living in donetsk gulahansk when he himself doesn't even recognize there's a separate ukrainian people he hasn't killed them off in all senses of the word so it's it's no it's it's a pattern of aggression which has been ongoing not of course exclusively at ukraine and as i said it's it's deliberately designed to create a a state of permanent duress on ukraine as a people um ukraine is now the front line really i mean we we i'm certainly old enough to remember the cold war remember the iron curtain uh we remember when the hungarians and the checks and the polls rose up against the kremlin in their time and there was nothing the west could effectively do to help them because they were behind the iron curtain putin is sending a message now saying that ukraine is part of its sphere of influence and and that if the west wants to to take on russia on this issue it's at its pearl because russia really cares about ukraine it's not quite as clear that the west has a similar preoccupation with the future of that country but you know depending on where you read it there seems to be not much of an appetite at least between younger generations amongst younger generations in russia for for this type of of activity of course there is going to be very severe sanctions against russia you know where does this go where does this end then i mean because obviously vladimir putin has to sell this to the russian people as well well he doesn't really he's a dictator so he doesn't okay right okay true yes i understand you know and and and that's that's why he's been so effective against the eu and and nato for example the eu for for all its faults is hyper democratic hyper decentralized it's 27 different nation states who are trying to negotiate common positions and that's why you always get the lowest common denominator whereas the kremlin as a hyper centralized dictatorship can act you know very decisively very quickly and then diplomacy has to scramble to catch up and that's what you're seeing today you're seeing diplomacy now going as we go forward trying to catch up i wouldn't be too optimistic about sanctions because putin has made it clear that he has absorbed the sanctions that are already there since 2014 he has made provision for any sanctions that are intended he's been cozying up as you know to china recently uh and now trying to to sell them gas as an alternative to europe in the in the medium term so he he has thought this through um it is a game like chess indeed and you might be familiar with the work of gary kasparov a grand chess master in his day soviet chess master and he he was often asked about the the similarities between putin and and playing chess and he said well it's it's somewhat different because in chess the rules are predictable but the outcome is uncertain but it's the opposite with putin's russia you know the rules are unpredictable but the outcome is always certain and that's that he will always be in power for as long as he wants to be in russia and that's that that's the i mean you think of it when putin came to power bill clinton was president that's how long ago we're talking about berthier hern was thyshuk in his first term this man has now defined uh his nation uh this generation he's very much looking to cement his legacy as the man who reestablished russia who reestablished russia's place in the world however i think it's really important to contextualize this he russia today is not the soviet union uh russia's economy it's gnp is smaller than that of italy's it's smaller than that of france its population is substantially smaller than nigeria where he gets his strength and we see it very much uh in in in here and now is his willingness to use force um and and to commit troops to areas where as i said the west doesn't consider to be part of their strategic priorities right okay um now a lot of people will get into the ins and outs of it but an awful lot of people too will be and maybe the people you talk of you know of a certain age that remember the cold war remember when we were on the brink because you'll see lots of people post on social media you know uh we're on the brink of a third world war here so people that aren't sort of focusing on the ins and outs of it but just worry about what consequence it might have i mean how could this escalate could it escalate into a bigger war situation even a world war what would be the what do you think are we far more likely maybe then to feel the implications in our pockets in terms of you know the cost of energy and what have you so for your average joe out there and josephine what are the implications or what potentially could be the implications how serious could this get well for irish people if that's what you mean i mean we're talking about yeah probably higher energy bills if this goes into the energy sector which it might do we're not looking at a third world war for the simple reason that uh western powers western powers at least with military resources that have in the past committed those military resources have made it clear they will not send troops to ukraine ukraine is very much on its own here what the ukrainians have tried to do is that they've tried to say that they're much better prepared now than they were in 2014 and that's true they have better weaponry they are better trained and that's why it's unlikely though not it's never impossible you never know what vladimir butin but it's unlikely that putin is envisaging a military takeover of of ukraine because ukraine is more than 40 million people this would be going against every precedent in in in putin's playbook when it comes to war his previous wars chechnya georgia crimea they've always been short winnable and popular at home a full-scale invasion of ukraine would be none of those things it would be costly it would be expensive it would lead to lots of of lives being lost and it would be domestically unpopular even in a dictatorship sometimes you have to please the people in some respects and it would it would be you know it could lead to the end of the regime you know in the in the way that sometimes wars bring down dictatorships as we saw with argentina in 1982 when they tried to retake the falcon so he has a history of not biting off more than he can chew that's why this particular move is is consolidating what he has and there might be modest expansions but i wouldn't expect as i said a full takeover and therefore a full-scale world war just by the way on a point on the world war aspect ukraine used to have nuclear weapons it inherited a huge nuclear stockpile the third largest in the world in the early 1990s and they gave them up in return for security guarantees from russia and the united states the united kingdom so in a way had they kept those nuclear weapons we would be back to that kind of situation where they wouldn't be at war they wouldn't be in a conflict because they wouldn't be attacked and that comes back to that i guess the primacy of of that old cold war maxim that you know if you have nuclear weapons you're very unlikely to be attacked and that's why of course russia is not under the threat as well russia has made a an entire narrative out of being insecure because of nato expansion but no no country and certainly not ukraine is ever going to attack russia well that's an end game if if something like that would happen well that's probably slightly more dramatic but you'll get where i'm coming from i really appreciate your expertise and your time this morning thank you very much not at all great take care bye-bye that's professor donica obakhoin there who is a professor of politics at dublin city university hospital university hospital i'm obsessed at this point hopefully as i said interest in speaking to find out what's going on too but also to get the what i find interested from people who know is like what is the likely outcome so i think what he's saying is that vladimir will consolidate his position in those two eastern sections of ukraine and and that'll that'll be it that he won't go any further than that because you also have to remember there's an information war going on here and this is not sort of conspiracy theory still for what have you but you know no less than russia is feeding its people a narrative and it is it's saying shells are being fired into russia from ukraine and to win over the minds of people to to do the action he isn't have the sport and doing so you can be sure that the same thing is happening here you know what i mean we're getting news with a certain angle and listen maybe it's an absolute coincidence maybe this is a complete not a coincidence but yesterday on social media as it relates to the mica situation there was a massive a massive outpouring of sympathy for mica families because of storm frankling and then randomly just couple of couple of articles appeared in the national papers quoting the government completely separate as far as i could see in a month correction completely separate from the conversation that was happening about how the the turmoil of these families but randomly i come across two articles published yesterday in national papers that were just talking about how great the scheme was and how it was built on really strong foundations and i was thinking well that is a real coincidental bit of time bit of timing there anyway approach everything with caution with an open not with an open mind but just be aware of what we're being what the information we're being given and why the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 right price tiles and wood flooring up to 70 off sale is now on everything's reduced all tiles all bathware all wood flooring right price tiles and wood flooring 70 percent off sale is leaving 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afternoon temperatures of eight to ten degrees and that's thankfully a lot of us albeit as we've been talking about some of them crumbling a lot of us do have the sanctuary for home many of us don't homelessness is still a significant issue in this country one person working very hard to help those is done mcginnesi joins us now hi adan how's it going good morning i am doing good thank you now we don't have an awful lot of time so i might return to this with you where we can talk a bit more but you are making an appeal and specifically for for sleeping bags at the moment tell us the need font here with the grip and don't want to call feed our homeless the registered charity and they work with uh they've outreached others and and they work we know for all sleepers at night and this is the first time in the four year history of the charity that they've actually ran into sleeping bags they have no sleeping bags at all and is this because of the amount of rough sleepers or shortage of bags or a combination of both done i think it's a combination of both sleeping bags are very hard to get at the moment because whether it's because of the transport costs or what but they just don't seem to be coming on but they can still be purchased you know in shops and i am heading down on saturday morning hopefully with about 50 sleeping bags it's not an awful lot but i'll alleviate the problem and uh if people would like to uh help me out they can either buy a sleeping bag and drop it off to me at my address 19 krona view von krana or give me a ring and 0851518221 or another way they can do they can actually buy a sleeping bag online and post it directly to get it you know delivered directly to the charity now don a lot of people might listening maybe they went to a summer festival had sleeping bags never used them since do they have to be of a certain grade or any sleeping bags would be welcomed on we're accepted in you people you know have bags sleeping bags line that haven't been camping for a couple of years yeah they're acceptable you know they use sleeping bags are quite good okay you know i really accept any sleeping bags at all okay don and i'll mention it a few more times before or before saturday on this program and on the social media as well so that you head down on saturday with a good load of bags from us here in in donnie goll thank you very much i'm sorry i wish i had more time done but i'd love to speak to you again in the future over a longer period if that's okay that's no problem at all because i just a week quick word i will also be taking stop down uh just before Easter so maybe i can make it on the on with the chat about that guaranteed a hundred percent will be a big push on that one is that all right don that's better good man take care of yourself if you've sleeping bags get in touch with us we'll pass on those details don gave back tomorrow morning at nine stay tuned