 relax and let the Spad Orchids transport you to another world see hollywoodhotel.com Don't miss the BAFTA award-winning comedian Michael McIntyre's brand new show, magnificent at the SSC Arena Belfast on Friday the 31st of May 2024. As always, Highland Radio make it easy for you as we look after all your needs. We will provide luxury transfers, overnight stay at the Clinton Hotel Belfast on a B&B basis, your ticket to the show, shopping time in Belfast City Centre. For more information, go to the outlet at highlandradio.com or give us a call on 07491 25000. Michael McIntyre in Belfast. Look at that for a time, Gregory Hughes. Nine o'clock on the button, boy. You're impressed with me. I think we better stop. I can tell, you know, you're a man of praise. It is, it's good. You know what, even the broken clocks write twice a day. Yeah, see that. I knew you'd get a compliment from me. Can we always listen to you yesterday, right? Yes, sir. And you said you're taking a bit of time off next week. Yeah. Maybe Monday? Caroline, was that okay? Yeah, Monday Tuesday Wednesday. Why, why Monday? It's not Friday on Monday. Is it? What is your Monday? Oh, well that's for you to know and me to find out. Or the other way around. Shall we know, don't we? No. You're 42. 46, 47 in that area. No, I thought even more. 086, 60, 25,000, what age is Greg? Oh, well, we'll get a few texts. Might change my name, actually, to see that Robert's book from Carraghards or Glen area, given out by the name Greg. Oh, I've seen that. I've seen that post. No, it's your boy Eric Roberts. Eric Roberts, yeah. Yeah, that's him. You got that name completely wrong, didn't you? What? You didn't call him his right name. Did I not? No, you got it all back to front. Yeah, yeah. So come here, big birthday then, Monday. How long are you a second now? How long, your horse? What are you saying? I'm doing team Greg or team Eric here. What? I'm teaming myself. OK, that's fine. What age am I? I don't know, actually. I'm going to have to check the passport. So you're taking a few days off. So we have big celebrations and must be... No, no, no. It just lets you have some time off. That's nice, sir. The weather's good. I've taken four days off this yearly and, you know, almost the middle of the year. That's all there is to it. That's good enough. I'm not going away. I'm not doing nothing. All right, OK. Can we have a good show? But if you seem at it about, don't be afraid you can buy me a drink. Oh, you're all right. Not you. You're too tight. I am. Bottle of milk or something. All right, then. Take care of yourself. Good luck. Thanks very much, Lee. It is a minute past nine. Let's get a news update and it's over to Donna Marie Daugherty. Thanks, Greg. Good morning. The North's Education Minister has promised to give an update to Western MLA Militium Q on the need for more capacity at Knockville Special Education School in Straban. Minister Paul Given gave Mr. McHugh an update on education projects in Western Rome, including confirmation that works at Gale School Udorkade in Straban will be complete in June of this year, while work is progressing on the Struel Education Campus in Oma, the biggest education project currently underway in Northern Ireland. Mr. Given also outlined progress on a number of other school projects in the area. St. Catherine's Primary School, Straban, has an approved business case. And Dean McGurk College in Carrickmore, it was paused in 2023 and it remained so. Drom Ra, Integrated College, Oma, is currently in design stage. St. Mary's Primary School, Clarker and Straban Primary School are progressing in design and business case stages respectfully under the school enhancement programs. In terms of the specific school that the member raises around capacity, I'm more than happy to follow up on writing to give the member a detailed response to that question. 60 PhD scholarships have been announced by Atlantic Technological University under the TU RISE scheme. The scheme aims to build research capacity between academia and regional enterprises in the West and Northwest. The scholarships cover a broad range of disciplines such as advanced manufacturing and engineering, agri-food and agri-tech, life sciences, medtech and medical devices, and marine and blue economy. Applications are now open. More information can be found on our website, highlandradio.com. Donegal Mountain Rescue Team were tasked by Angara Shea-Conatou, a sister walker who sustained a lower leg injury on lock salt over the weekend. The alarm was raised at around 20 past one on Saturday afternoon, and the team made their way to the casual day using location technology and with the assistance of other walkers in the group. Tara Duggan, Hasmore. After stabilizing the injured leg, the remainder of the walking group were sent down the mountain as the weather deteriorated. As a second rescue team made their way to assist with the casualties evacuation, they'd gotten caught in a heavy hailed shower. After securing the injured person in the stretcher, both teams proceeded to descend the hill. As the weather continued to worsen, they were forced off the path as it was unsuitable for transporting the stretcher, resulting in several detours. Collet coordinators at the base of the mountain had requested an ambulance. The casualty was successfully transported off the hill and taken to hospital for further treatment. The team was stood down at 17.50pm. Restaurants say the model they're being forced to work with by government is making their businesses fail. A new report shows an average of two restaurants have shut their doors for good each day this year, with 71 food-led hospitality businesses closures in February alone. The Restaurant Association of Ireland says that's coming at a cost because the economic value of Ireland's small, independent restaurants and cafes is being overlooked. Looking out to weather today will be cool and breezy, with scattered showers and some sunny spells, highest temperatures of 9 to 11 degrees, and moderate to fresh north-western breezes. That's all for now. We'll be back again at 10pm. Menopause can be a challenging time of life. I'm Lorraine Keane, and I choose Irish Supplement Clean Marine Menemen because it's Ireland's number one clinically proven Perry and Menopause Supplement for daily nutritional support. Trusted by thousands of Irish women for over 10 years, Menemen contains Amiga 3DHA to support brain health and Vitamin B6, which contributes to the regulation of hormonal activity and all in just two capsules a day. Ask for Menemen at health stores and pharmacies, and learn more at cleanmarine.ie. And now, it's time for the talk of the north-west, The 9th & Noon Show, with Greg Hughes on Highland Radio. Hello, and a very good morning to you. It's five minutes past nine on this Tuesday, the 16th of April, 2024. And you're very welcome along to The 9th & Noon Show here on Highland Radio. And it's another busy show, where you ride across all the main news and features affecting us here across the north-west. We've community guarder information coming up for you after 10 of course, where you hear the latest appeals and information from on Guarder Chiakana. First, that and so much more besides. Your input into the conversation as well. More than welcome on 086625,000. That's 086625,000. You can give us a call to on 07491-25,000. 07491-25,000. Or email comments at highlandradio.com. Okay. Also, if you want to watch the show, you can hop onto our YouTube channel and watch us on your smart screen TV or your Fire Stick. And we are on YouTube there, Highland Radio Ireland. We're cross-faced because well, Highland Hub, Highland News & Sports and on the X platform. All right, so much to get through as I say. Over the next wee while and we start as we always do with a look at the newspapers and you know, one of the companies in terms of sort of customer care that we've had the greatest amount of complaints and frustration from service users is air. And often, you know, you think it's down to, you know, maybe poor management or poor customer care training or lack of customer care staff. And you know, I think that's almost often what we presume it might be and people give out. But little did we know that there are some companies air is certainly one that's named today that actually had a handbook to frustrate the process of making a complaint, which is really hard to swallow, isn't it? I'll read the story here from the Irish Times. A judge has labelled air a disgrace after a court heard evidence that the telecom provider warned staff they could be disciplined for adhering to statutory regulation, government, customer complaints. So the staff who were charged with customer care were facing, losing their jobs potentially if they actually adhered to the regulations in dealing with customer complaints. In a Dublin District court case taken by Comreg Air and its parent company AirCom pleaded guilty to multiple breaches of the law over its failure to acknowledge customer complaints and provide responses within turn working days among other issues. At the hearing, Comreg produced an air training manual which the watchdog said warned employees they would face disciplinary proceedings if following laws covering customer complaints. The same manual also outlined trigger words that would allow people calling air with complaints have them dealt with expeditiously, quickly, effectively. If those words were not used, concerns frequently went nowhere. The court heard that updates made by Air to its code of practice for complaints handling in January 2022 resulted in restrictions to its customer's ability to log formal complaints. Barrister Shelley Horan for Comreg outlined a sample of customers whose complaints were not dealt with by air in accordance with regulatory code of practice. If you used words like there were trigger words, so if you used words like I want to log a formal official complaint and I want a case reference number, those using phrases such as I want a supervisor or I want to complain, found complaints were often not dealt with. So if you actually sort of said I want to escalate this within the customer complaints process, you were actually disadvantaged. In the statement after the court case, Air said it fully complies with Comreg complaints procedures, although it acknowledged that the language previously used in training material could have been clearer in this regard. So as I say, if you've had that experience, according to the findings of that court case, it wasn't by accident. It was actually by design remarkably. Into the Irish independent now and driving test waiting times will average 10 weeks by the middle of the year. We're told we were told that last year as well. Safety Chiefs have told the Taoiseach. NCT test waiting times will also be cut down to 12 days by the summer. The two promises were made at a meeting with Taoiseach Simon Harris, Ministers Helen McIntee, Aiman Ryan and Jack Chambers and Road Safety Authority Chief, Liz O'Donnell and her co-chief, Sam Wade. And God of Sheer Connor will also be asked to provide ongoing enforcement activity plans as part of efforts to tackle spiralling deaths on Irish roads this year. The RSA will spend an extra 3 million euro this year on road safety campaigns and education initiatives from their own reserves. It'll be interesting to see what the RSA actually believes that is. Will it be one ad, you know, half a million to make and then spend two and a half million on advertising? Or will they actually sort of say, well, how can we reach the demographics here properly and in a way they understand that we'll actually prevent or try and prevent road traffic collisions? That would be very, very interesting. And I'm sure a lot of us would actually like to have an input into that and go to a group of younger people, for an example. And I'm not saying they cause all the collisions, but they are overrepresented, you might say. And talk to them about, you know, what would work in how we message to you. Also, how do you get the messages along to push-bike riders, pedestrians, motorcyclists who are also very sadly losing their lives? How can you educate them or get through to them to ensure that they are as safe as possible out on our roads? I'll watch with interest. Unfortunately, naturally, it relates to the Road Safety Authority in this regard, pessimistic, but we shall wait and see. The authority will also be tasked with finding out what extra funds they need this year, which will come from the Department of Transport. Collision data will also be shared and law changes will be made if necessary following proposals from the RSA-led data enabler group in the Data Protection Commission. But let's crowd think here. You know, and, you know, without necessarily being about having a go at other road users that may be annoying or what have you, what do you really genuinely think we could be doing or should be doing to reduce the deaths and serious injuries on our roads? What do you think might work? You know, let's hive-mind it. 0866025000, 0866025000. What do you believe the authority or the government that's within their power to do? What do you think they should be doing and reduce the amount of people dying on our roads? Staying on the roads, fears are growing of the possibility of petrol and diesel prices breaking the two-euro-a-litre mark in the coming months. Crude oil is now expected to pass $100 a barrel, and the last time that happened in 2022, prices at the pumps went over the two-euro threshold. The price of crude had already jumped 20% since the start of the year, and unrest in the Middle East is expected to send prices spiralling. That being said, things can change really, really quite quickly, and if things can calm down between Israel and around particularly, those prices will start falling again really quite rapidly, so fingers crossed on many levels for that. But the paper says that this is bad news for Irish motorists with excise duty, which was cut in the wake of the energy crisis after the invasion of Ukraine expected to be fully restored by the start of August. Fuels for Ireland chief Kevin McPartland said, so there are a couple of things here. When we were at two-euro and above a litre, it was just price of crude. Crude is bought in dollars, so you need to look at exchange rates also. But at the time, we were talking about the immediate aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine and the energy prices increasing as a result, and on it goes. I think we all kind of know what the situation is there, but we appreciate his commentary and staying on the roads and the slowdown in a demand for electric cars, and it's not just here in Ireland, by the way, it's globally has led to Tesla axing 10% of its staff. I don't think anyone in Ireland has affected 14,000 workers at Tesla are losing their jobs. It's being framed as a restructuring of the company as it kicks on forward, but there's absolutely no doubt that a slowing down in demand for its vehicles. An extra competition from China is resulting in them having to reduce their workforce. Electric vehicles company Tesla is to lay off more than 10% of its global workforce. According to reports, it said to be shedding about 14,000 jobs, but it's not yet known where they will be lost across the business. Tesla, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has just recorded its first drop in vehicle deliveries for four years. Mr. Musk told employers in an email the company needed to be lean, innovative and hungry. He added, there is nothing I hate more, but it must be done. I'd like to thank everyone that's departing Tesla. That's departing Tesla for their work. He claims that the sort of rapid increase in staff meant there's quite a bit of an overlap in roles, and he only wants people working there that have a defined role and what have you. But it's obviously also connected to greater competition, but also a drop-off in the demand for electric vehicles. Interesting comments from T-Shock Simon Harris yesterday. I wonder what you think of these. Maybe you've seen them already. They're not widely reported, but the reason they're not widely reported is because I suspect that the media is based in Dublin and they're probably going, you know what? What you're saying is correct there, Simon. I don't see a story in this. The journal did cover it, however, and we're going to cover it a little bit later on. So the T-Shock said he's of a generation more familiar with Berlin and Paris than Belfast or Derry. Harris said we've yet to see the full benefits of the peace process. T-Shock Simon Harris has said people of his generation are more familiar with Berlin and Paris than they are with Belfast or Derry in the north. Harris made the comments as he addressed the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly. It was the first time he has spoken as T-Shock in a meeting of Irish and UK parliamentarians. Harris told the audience that there's a whole generation of people who are yearning to be involved in a conversation about the future. It's a conversation about how we work together. He called for this conversation to be about practical areas. He said also, if I'm being very honest, I'm of a generation where people are more familiar now with London and Berlin and Paris than they might be with Belfast or Derry. Now, there's two ways of looking at this. Firstly, obviously to some extent he may well be correct. So there are people in Dublin, Cork, Cary, who perhaps haven't travelled into the north for a long time. If ever, they don't really feel a connection to it. They're close to local airports and maybe they do fly into Europe and maybe they are familiar with Berlin and Paris and elsewhere. But that being said, what comments like this the reason why it upsets people, I believe, is because it ignores a whole swathe of people in the north of the country that is clearly not the case that people, Derry and Belfast are as much a part of our lives, if not more of a part of our lives than say, for instance, you know, Sligo, when for some people, even Donagol Town, right? If you're in north in a shone. So what Simon Harris is saying is perhaps partly true in that certainly there are people in this country that have more of an affinity or more of a knowledge of European cities than Derry and Belfast. But his comments ignore and he is a T-Shop for all of Ireland. Again, it kind of ignores it feels like, and I'm open to correction and we've asked him on to the show, it feels like it ignores the lived reality of many, many people on this island. He speaks of a generation, he's not really aware of how many people in this generation, it's completely not the case at all at all. And very sadly, unfortunately there's a new generation of people that may well be less familiar with Belfast and Derry and more familiar with Sydney and Dubai and Canada and New York, which I think is something that deserves more of a conversation about. But anyway, what do you think about that? What do you think about his comments? What do you think it demonstrates? If anything, and maybe you fully agree with him and that's perfectly fine too. Of course, 08, 6, 60, 25,000. As I say, I'm not taking them out of context. I understand that for quite a lot of people in this country, maybe he's talking to them of their generation. But the problem is, is like an awful lot of decisions and commentary that comes out of the capital it ignores the lived reality of so many people here. All people from down the country who've got family in the north that are up and down visiting them every other weekend. You know, it goes, who are you speaking for here? So maybe he misspoke. Maybe he just didn't fully get it. I don't know. I'm not here to defend him or I'm not here to lambast him either just to open it up to all of you guys out there. 08, 6, 60, 25,000. That is the WhatsApp and the text number. Right. 19,000 off waiting lists apparently. This is in the Irish Daily Star and early 19,000 patients have been removed from hospital waiting lists that seen a doctor since the beginning of this year. Some 2,762 patients who had been waiting for procedures at Galway University Hospital were cut from the list along with 1,626 who had been scheduled to receive treatment at Tallah University Hospital. A total of over 18 or almost 19,000 individuals were removed during the first three months of 2024 as part of a validation process aimed at reducing waiting lists in hospitals throughout the country. Each of the patients was sent a letter by the health service asking them to confirm whether they will require the procedures for which they were waiting. When no response was received a reminder was issued after two weeks and another two weeks they were removed from the waiting list. I'm just slightly concerned there might not be an issue. A lot of people from this part of the world may be all waiting in procedures in Galway University Hospital. And then another letter out and then two weeks after that 2,762 of them were taking off waiting lists for procedures at Galway University Hospital. I just hope those letters were recorded and those letters went to the right addresses and that we don't have people listening to this show today that are known to themselves have been taken off the hospital waiting list. Irish Daily Mirror A man has appeared in court after being charged stealing almost 2,000 euro from a church while a funeral was taking place. Renus Matraas appeared at Lettercanny District Court charged that on April 14th at St Eugen's Cathedral he did steal property to wit 1,754 euro and 55 cent and 613 sterling the property of parish priest Monsignor Kevin Glespie. It follows an incident during Mass at the cathedral yesterday during which a large sum of cash was stolen from the sacristy of the church. It happened just moments after Mass while a funeral was taking place. The accused, 43 of Fortwell Lettercanny was arrested a short time later and taken to Lettercanny Guarder Station for questioning. He appeared before Judge Attain Cunningham Guarder Sergeant Morris Doyle set evidence of arrest, charge and caution of the accused had been given by way of schedule. The court was told that directions had been forwarded from the DPP who was decided to deal with the case by way of summary disposal in the district court. Defenseless to Mr Patsy Gallagher said the accused is a foreign national from Poland and that will be a plea to in the case. However while he said he had instructions he added he would like an interpreter and was requesting an adjournment. He also said he was seeking a probation report adding that his client has no previous convictions. Oh wait, 60, 25,000 that's all WhatsApp and text number. Daily Newspapers our courtesy of Kelly Centra and Diner, Mountaintop Lettercanny winner of Best Family Dining at the Highland Radio Hospitality Awards. The Ninetown News Show is brought to you by Lettercanny Credit Union. 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A few of my concerns as well as most for statistics wise is 1.9 bottles 1.9 billion bottles in cans that are sold in Ireland every year. The first month of February the only figures I have to date are only 2 million bottles in cans were recycled. OK then the first 10 days of March there's 3.2 million that would be a big raise but it's still 3.2 million if you multiply that over a year. It only works out 116 or 117 million which is way short of the 1.9 million that is sold. But my big concern is that we're talking different people as the small retailers that sell that they have to put the exit 15 and 25 cents on to the bottles in cans is that they can't afford machine machines cost around 40 to 50 thousand and that people will take the plastic bottles back to the multinationals and do their shopping there. Yeah because for people who want to wear it you don't get handed cash do you get printed out and you can take that to the till and you can exchange it to your shopping so you could have someone who is buying all of their soft drinks in the local shop that doesn't have a return machine and takes them all for their weekly shop and deposits that deposit effectively into the multinationals pockets rather than into the local retailer. But has the local retailer not already benefited though or not already out of pocket because they've sold the product you know the deposits on it they're not really at a loss are they? Well a lot of them are at a loss because a lot of them may not have put up their product a lot of them may have taken the help themselves they may not have put on the 25 cents and 15 cents on to the product and that's my worry as well because at the same time it's a very competitive market out there so everybody's trying to hold on to the customers that they have so that's my worry as well so I just feel that I think there needs to be more publicity on this and I feel as well that possibly that you should be able to wherever you deposit an item you should be able to use that receipt wherever you want to use it I mean maybe there should be more like the recycling centres maybe there should be more places like that where you can go on and you get an awful round voucher that you can use whatever store you want to use it on so I just feel that should be more I think there needs to be more You're asking the big business then to take it a hit they'll never sign up for this now maybe I'm different to the vast majority of the population but if I wanted a can of coke sorry or a bottle of coke right I'm not going to go into little to get it for an example because obviously you'd have to walk through the door you know what I mean it's not quick I'll go to a local shop and I'll and I'll grab a can of coke there or a bottle of coke there now I may well then when I'm doing my weekly shop let's just presume that's where I shop that's when I might try and get my deposit back so really what you're asking the big business to do here is to subsidise the smaller businesses they're never going to sign up for that it's not even that as well really what I found was well most I talked to somebody there last week was that they went to a multinational store and done the recycling they did not want anything at that particular moment from the shop but they went to another shop belonging to the same multinational and they went to the desk and they produced the receipt and they said no sorry you didn't recycle that here so I think that's wrong it was the same multinational so plus as well that I feel that I feel that it's not you know I'm not asking the multinationalist to sign up to this I'm asking that the recycle reuse that we make it more accessible for the small businesses and we give them a chance as well because this is important because we're going to end up losing jobs as well not just so that's important we have to look at all the things do you think the system then as a whole is working and the small businesses then are the victim of success because what I'm hearing is a lot of people store in these bottles you see people like I've seen it with myself recently where someone lands at one of these machines with two massive plastic bags full of the stuff they flew around at the machine and then end up walking off with the two bags because the machine is out of order or it's not playing ball with their bottles yeah well small search you have to feed the machines slowly Greg I found it because I tried to use it myself just so I get a better understanding of myself so you have to feed the machines slowly the product you're putting in you have to put the base of the product in first not the top of it and if you try to feed the machine too quickly it will jam and it will say out of order but when I do find the furnace to some other places now it was that they would have somebody on hand pretty quickly to sort the issue out but that may not happen in all the places do you know what's being done with all the money collected obviously there's only a fraction of these bottles actually being recycled at this point do we know what's happening to the money that's being taken off the consumer no well that's that was another point that I raised as well was that as the case now that the multinationalists are going to make an extra money out of it as well because and I know myself from being in business over 30 years is that when I would have started in business over 30 years ago the amount of bottles that went back to the supplier was about 85 to 90% of the bottles were back now at this particular moment the only products that go back the only products that go back to the supplier now are Bollmer's products right and every other thing has gone on to waste so I don't say that to me it's the multinationalists are not taking they should be taking more responsibility that's quite boring okay I mean lots of people can pick holes in this I mean is it not possible though that maybe some of these small businesses could actually take these bottles themselves is there no way I thought there was a system whereby they could store them and then they could give them back in plastic bags is that not an option yeah I would have signed up that myself but to date we have not we've had no feedback on it so you have a lot of plastic bottles just knocking around the place another point is as well Greg I just felt that something that I thought of myself and I don't know whether it worked or not that towns that have chamber of commerce that they could have a recycling place and you could go in there and do your recycling and the receipt that you get back you could use it whenever store you wanted to use them I think that's a critical point that you're making that you should be able to do with the money what you wish because it is your money isn't it yes because you spent the money on the product no matter where you paid for it but you should be able to spend it where you want to spend it you shouldn't be just pushed into the big multinationals alright okay well we'll see what the public think as well thank you for your time today I do appreciate it Councillor Martin Harley there can you hear a lot of Donegal County Council some of your comments coming in on that already Greg where will all the unclaimed deposits for this go new recycling scheme be going to there'll be millions involved over time I would say we're not far off that already this has just turned out to be another tax it may have seemed like a good idea to someone somewhere but it is too awkward for people with not enough machines and people won't bother you can do a return bottles and cans and take the cash most shops do allow this okay I've not heard of this can you is that your experience I'm not doubting the listener for a second but they say you can return the bottles and cans and take cash can you leave a bag with someone behind the tilt to deposit the bottles if the shop doesn't have a machine the shop can give you the money back themselves that's a question I put to Martin he's signed up for it but I think he's waiting on someone to come around and collect them high littering from your car is a 500 euro fine in the UK this money is being given to local councils to encourage them to act now some are encouraging people to upload their videos from dash cams showing people littering another one about people who have to buy bottled water for drinking because of the lack of water supply or water quality in their area indeed I can see why that would great another one about the recycling Fiat Payne restaurants who's getting the money back there if it's on bottles one can only presume and maybe foolishly is going they get it back but I see your point there actually you're not getting it back it's going to the restaurant of course it is sorry just worked it out I was reading it okay we'll be back with more shortly online via our app or in office today Foy and Company Valley Buffet and Letter Kenny are the largest docus of interior and exterior paint in the northwest if you're planning a painting project and need help picking the right colour and brand of paint for your home or commercial premises call in and ask our qualified paint colour consultants interior designers and interior stylists the team at Foy and Company Valley Buffet and Letter Kenny will be delighted to help are your small appliances due in upgrade Irwin Expert 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caller says Greg do you know how much of a parachute a county councillor receives um off the top of my head I don't but it is considerable I'll get those figures for you I have figures in my head okay but I want to make sure I read the right figures so bear with me I'll find that out for you in the next wee while a caller says it's a pity that we don't have an energy regulator that can hold the government accountable for plotting a price hike on our electricity bills they claim that this is fraud I got a letter from a consultant two days ago asking if I still wanted my appointment I have a heart condition called DFIB I'm supposed to be seen every six months I haven't received a letter in a year I have a lifelong condition and they were going to cancel my appointment that's something that just people have to be careful of to make sure they're not taken off the list by accident I was looking at the news Minister Humphries and Harris introduced the Hot Meals programs to school and that's great but I'm a school cleaner and my hours have been cut did anyone else's school cleaning hours get cut we don't get enough hours for all the work that we do I was getting 11 hours and now I'm down to 9 which is quite a significant reduction in your hours is this one school and one cleaner or has school cleaning hours been cut across the board please let us know 08 660 25000 okay time to unmute in Bond Crown because we're saying good morning now to transition your students at Skolmora Bond Crown at Eva Graham hi Eva you have to unmute for me please one of you thank you so very much Eva Graham good morning to you how are you getting on we're getting on good and also Ruby and Ruby Gillespie good morning to you Ruby hello how are you I'm doing good I know it's all pleasure and you are the YSI or part of the YSI team spirit project in Skolmora Bond Crown Eva do you want to start off and tell us a little bit about this project or Ruby go ahead we're taking part in the young social innovators program and our group is called team spirits and we're focusing on raising awareness around alcohol as on the 31st of March this year there has been 58 deaths in Irish roads that's 16 more than this time last year speeding and intoxication were key factors earlier this year the Road Safety Authority and Christina MacLennie the Donegal office for alcohol and drugs visited us and enlightened us in the dangers and that encouraged us to try and make a difference yeah and how are you going about doing that sorry which put your hand off Eva which one okay so I know which is which okay Eva tell us how you should go on about doing this please so one way we've decided to try to tackle this issue is that we created our own beer mats so one of our students Ethan designed a QR code and this QR code links to local taxi services so we've done here as we've made beer mats and we're planning to distribute them to all the pubs and hotels in Bunkrana so what we did to start off this project is we rang off taxis and asked if we could put their number in the beer mats and we said yes so when we put these in the pubs people will be able to scan a left home with their phone just by scanning the QR code and it'll help them ring a taxi for a left home we're hoping that it'll prevent drinking and driving or people trying to attempt to walk home in unsafe conditions yeah and Eva Eva is when they scan it is it just telephone numbers or is there any advice about it so it's just simply the numbers which is great okay fantastic just click the button and it'll ring the taxi for you and did you just come up with this idea yourselves we did yeah right okay it's fantastic so all the beer mats around the pubs in in Bunkrana have the QR code you easily take a picture or scan it and instantly you've got a whole list of numbers we're actually hosting a launch party today where we've invited all the pub owners and hotel owners in and we're planning to distribute them so they should be in all the pubs and hotels soon and Ruby it also maybe reminds people or starts that conversation about maybe getting into a car with someone who's had a drink too many people in a vehicle or as your colleague Eva said there risking the walk home in dark conditions and maybe going out clothes that could leave you vulnerable to other road users yeah so that's like our main issue we just really want to reduce we really just want people to be safe and get home safe tonight so and also Ruby there's also leaflets going out as well can you talk to me a little bit about that yeah so we designed a brochure to send to all the schools in Donegal there are three sections on a brochure the effects and consequences some did you know facts such as in Ireland more people have died from alcohol than all other legal drugs combined and that really shocked us and she was just how dangerous alcohol really is and when you binge drink your brain struggle to send messages to the heart and lungs which can be fatal we have narrowed it down to five red flags do you, your friends or family members show these red flags or alcohol you should talk to someone and get some advice do you get injured often the next day do you often lose belongings do you fall out with friends and family members do you spend more money than others when I doubt because you just can't stop drinking to anyone listening today if you recognise one of these red flags please don't be afraid to reach out and seek some help on a brochure we also have a QR code with alcohol help lines for example allotine is a helpful resource for teenagers who are struggling with alcohol abuse we want young people to think before they drink it's been helpful having this conversation not amongst yourselves because this is something you're interested in but generally amongst younger people I think these conversations are easier or maybe they're listened to more if it appears talking to you and it's not older people speaking down to you so use a taken control of this conversation which I think is the right way to do it definitely because we're actually planning to go into different classes in the school and talk about this so we've organised lesson plans which we're going to do right before summer because during the summer young people might be tempted to you know go out and drink so we have presentations and we're going to go around like the wellbeing classes in our school and hand out our brochures and just warn them on the dangers yeah and Eva this is not necessarily I mean there's a reality here right some young people are going to drink many many many many young people don't drink by the way and that's often not talked about but they are going to drink and the message simply is here is if you're drinking so much that it's raising these red flags there's an issue there you know what I mean and also to if you are out socialising whether you're drinking that matter you know you want to get home safe and it's not just it's not just safety in terms of you know the drinking element of it it's good that people get home safe get a taxi in case something else might happen to them so you know it's not like it's not like telling people you know well you can't do that and you can't do this and you can't do the other but it's saying if you're going to do it do it responsibly and make sure you're safe yeah so we're definitely not trying to tell people not to drink but we're just trying to warn them make them aware so they can make an informed choice about it all right good stuff so today 12.15 you're having an event to launch the QR code beer mats and the leaflets I think the QR code and the beer mats is a really really fantastic idea genuinely and also then brochures being sent out to all schools which I think is very worthwhile and then you mentioned the talks too so we've covered it all listen the YSI teen spirit project fair play to you and fair play to all the teachers and Maria boys there supporting you in TY it's a good one yeah we'd also like to thank our local county councillor Rina Donahue who funded our project and helped us reach a wider audience all right good stuff well done to you go ahead sorry Ruby thank you for having us on and we're grateful we reached a wider audience thanks to Highland Radio now you read that I hope you bloody believe it and it's not just something you were told to say deep down okay listen thanks very much guys well done brilliant I love it great ideas that's the excellent Eva Graham and Ruby Gillespie and I think teacher Marie Boyce was in and around the background there giving the girls a bit of support not that they needed it they were fantastic weren't they the 90 noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account have you got denture problems Donegal Denture Clinic can help situated beside Rossum College at Bully Rain Letter Kenny 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good morning to you Balumi good morning Greg how are you thanks so much for joining us and you really are out endorsing and backing the comments of the Forza trade union leader this on a greater need for diversity in the public sector talk to me about where you believe we need to be I suppose we need equal representation of all groups in Donegal across Ireland our belief is that Ireland is diverse and that should be represented in all sort of facets of social life so even within employment circles as well that there should be a reflection of that because we run the risk of creating a social underclass of people that are not represented in areas where in decision making sort of platforms and some might say the best world in the world now I'm in this job for all but really I suppose unless you are part of our community or that community really you know you want to be advocating on behalf of your community rather than asking members of another community necessarily to do that well I assuming that there are certain groups that are not part of the community so is that the assumption you're making sorry I didn't get that sorry I didn't make it very clear I mean like you could have my point being is that the only way I think if I were a member of a minority community the only way I would truly feel represented is if I saw people similar to me in these positions true that's very true I suppose people tend to sort of feel comfortable and have faith in systems where they know that there are people that look like them that also sort of have got the same feelings as they have so the absence of people that look like you in an institution also reduces the faith that you have in that institution so by employing groups particularly from the BME community including Travellers in Rome you're actually cultivating this idea of diversity and the fact that everybody can be treated equally I presume and I would hope that when jobs are advertised or if there's elected roles that are available that you know everyone can apply regardless of what community you are part of do you think that's happening in other words do you think members of the BME community Travellers need to also be putting themselves forward for these posts or do you think they need to be sought out I think you obviously have to create proactive you need proactive approaches to this because I suppose there's not one person to blame if we're to blame the community itself for not applying then we'll be saying well it's your fault that's the reason why this is happening but you need to create systems that actually encourage people to apply so we've seen recently with The Guardian where in the last couple of rounds of recruitment they actively targeted different communities that's what you're talking about so it should be a scientific approach you know a really active approach to encourage certain groups of people to actually apply and also understanding why they've not been applying if that's the case or why they've not been recruited because in this case we don't know whether it's a question of them not applying or is them not being recruited as such so you need to create a system where there's no reason why or even people could perceive there's no point in applying so they don't have a chance of assumption but it has to be challenged so we get to where we are there's a quote here if people can't see minority faces people like themselves in these institutions they will not have faith they will not feel included talk to me a little bit more about that I suppose there's a lot of truth in saying that people feel strongly represented where they find faces of them look like them so what we find in Donegal or particularly in public institutions or public entities that's where the biggest problem is and not all of them anyway because remember with the health sector you find that there are more than 117 people from different nationalities you know 117 and also what you find in those particular institutions is diversity you find that there's an overload of creativity that's exactly where we need to go and learn how they're doing it and how it's functioning and in fact use that as an example of how systems can be better if they've got diverse groups of people and a lot of work is happening in that regard through NGOs in the communities and what have you but really it's taking a look now at the public sector public recruitment and saying this is what's happening on a voluntary basis or in communities you need to be doing something more formally here Yes, I find that with Donegal intercultural platform we are part of the BME strategy to inclusion and one of the things that we're driving is that this should not be a task that should be done by NGOs because we have done quite a lot of advocating for groups minority groups and that cuts across all 10 groups across 10 grounds of discrimination we're not just saying that there should be BME groups we're saying that everybody minority groups that have not been included whether it's the disabled or the LGBTQI any groups that feel that they're on the periphery of being included but they're not being included so public entities should represent all those groups who have not been a part of employment so far Alright, as I say it was Forza that was speaking out on this a new BME as part of the Donegal intercultural platform backing what they're saying Right, okay we shall see anything else you want to mention before we wrap up Nothing much but the fact that you've got about 11,477 people who were born outside the state of Donegal and that says a lot in terms of what work needs to be done and the kind of representation that needs to be there within public entities there's still a lot of work to be done and that's not work that should be done by NGOs only but it should cut across in your society Okay, thank you very much for that thanks for calling up, that's Balumi Dooby there who is a think equality and 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That's Cash Returns at the Struel Arts Centre Oma on Saturday 20th of April and at the Baller Arts Theatre Ballet Buffet on Saturday 4th of May. Live on air online and on the Highland Radio app, this is Highland Radio News. Good morning, it's Donna Marie Doherty with the news at 10 o'clock. The Heirlock of Donegal County Council is concerned that the deposit return scheme is harming small businesses. The money-backed scheme was introduced for plastic drink bottles and cans on February 1st. Councillor Martin Harley says the installation of reverse vending machines is costly and some small retailers are absorbing the levy cost and a bid to retain customers. I just feel that it may be affecting small businesses that can't afford to burn the machines. As for the small retailers that sell, that they have to put the exit 15 and 25 cents onto the bottles and cans, they can't afford machine machines, costs around 40 to 50,000. And that people will take the plastic bottles back to the multinationals and do their shopping there. The North's Education Minister has promised to give an update to Western MLA Malisha McHugh on the need for more capacity at Knockiful Special Education School in Strabane. Minister Paul Given updated at Mr McHugh on education projects in West Rhone, including confirmation that works at Gale School at Goherty in Strabane, will be complete in June of this year, while work is progressing on the Strud Education campus in Oma, the biggest education project currently underway in Northern Ireland. Minister Given also outlined progress on another number of school projects in the area. St Catherine's Primary School, Strabane, has an approved business case and Dean McGurk College in Carrickmore. It was paused in 2023 and it remains so. Drum Rha Integrated College, Oma, is currently in design stage. St Mary's Primary School, Clockburn Strabane Primary School are progressing in design and business case stages, respectfully, under the school enhancement programmes. In terms of the specific school that the member raises around capacity, I'm more than happy to follow up on writing to give the member a detailed response to that question. 40% of police station inquiry offices in Northern Ireland are to close, including the Waterside Branch in Derry. The police service says it's facing unprecedented financial pressure and the cuts are necessary. It says over 90% of households will still be within 15 miles of a front desk. The Donegal Mountain Rescue Team were tasked by Angarda Shea-Kana to assist a walker who sustained a lower leg injury and lock salt over the weekend. The alarm was raised at around 20 past 1 on Saturday afternoon and the team made their way to the casualty using location technology and with the assistance of other walkers in the grip. Tower Duggan reports. 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Funding is a key part. It's not the only part, but it is a key part of what we would term as fixing the sector currently. But also I think recognition of those who work in the sector, the caring, committed professionals need to be recognised for the professionalism and the commitment they bring to the sector and reward it. So again, it's back to the funding issue. 60 PhD scholarships have been announced by Atlantic Technological University under the TU RISE scheme. It aims to build research capacity between academia and regional enterprises in the West and Northwest. The scholarships cover a broad range of disciplines such as advanced manufacturing and engineering, agri-food and agri-tech and medtech and medical devices. Applications are now open. More information can be found on our website highlandradio.com. Today will be cool and breezy with scattered showers and some sunny spells, highest temperatures of 9 to 11 degrees in a moderate fresh to north westerly breeze. That's all for now from Highland Radio News back again with headlines at 11 o'clock. The obituary notices this Tuesday morning, April 16th. The death has taken place of Catherine Veronica Vaughny-Laden, knee-boner Ahi Galt Dromkeen. Her remains are reposing at her late residence. House private pleas to family and close friends at the request of the deceased. Funeral leaving from there on Thursday at half past 10 for 11 a.m. rakeway and mass in St Patrick's Church Dromkeen, followed by interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu to the Donegal Hospice, care of any family member or Terence McClintock, funeral director. The death has taken place of Susan Blaney, knee-brown, cheer-hummin Milford, reposing at the residence of her grandson Declan and Cosh Alcorn, cheer-hummin Milford. Funeral service tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Fannett Presbyterian Church Cary-Kill, burial afterwards in Milford Presbyterian Cemetery. Funeral service can be viewed on Patrick Sweeney Funeral Director's Facebook page, Family Time from 10 p.m. to Night and Before the Funeral Tomorrow. The death has occurred of Brydie McBrady, 149 Church Road Kelly Beggs, reposing at her residence today from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Removal tomorrow morning at half-past 10 to St Mary of the Visitation Church Kelly Beggs for 11 a.m. funeral mass burial afterwards in the local cemetery. Mass will be streamed live at mcn.live. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu if desired to Kelly Beggs Community Hospital, care of any family member or McBrady funeral directors. The death has taken place of John Joseph Sean McKeever, late of 8 Muldonner Road, Cloddy County Dairy, reposing at his late home, Family Time from 10 p.m. to Night. Funeral from his late home tomorrow morning at 10 past 10 for 11 a.m. rakeway and mass in St Patrick's Church Cloddy in term and immediately afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations if wished in lieu to Mary Curie, care of McLaughlin Funeral Director's Dungiven. The death has occurred of Patrick Gallagher to Mill Street Newton Stuart, reposing at the family home. Funeral from there this morning at quarter past 10 for rakeway and mass at 11 a.m. in St Eugene's Church Glenoct and term and afterwards in Glenoct Cemetery. The death has taken place of Derek Wilkinson, Chrysler and Bray County Wicklow, no wake house private please. His service of Thanksgiving will be held at St John's Church Ballymore today at half past two with burial in the adjoining graveyard. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu if desired to the Lake House Nursing Home Comfort Fund care of James Harkin Funeral Director. The death has occurred of John Joe Breslin of Obermannargen-Ardra, removal from the home of his sister Breige Diver Obermannargen-Ardra today for 12 p.m. rakeway and mass in the Church of the Holy Family-Ardra followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery. Funeral mass can be viewed on mcn.live. For family information and more details regarding wakes and funerals please go to highlandradio.com. Ready to feast your ears on this sizzle of success? Ireland's most awarded specially selected stake range from Aldi. 100% Irish board be a quality assured. Strip loin for two for just $9.99. Or how about dry aged Black Angus ribeye? The best ribeye in Ireland. Two for just $13.99. Sounds good. Tastes even better. Go all Aldi, while stocks last. And now, in rose 2023 best local original news programme The Voice of the Northwest The Nine Till Noon Show with Greg Hughes. Okay coming up very shortly stay with us we've got the very latest appeals and information from Ungardashi Akana also to as part of the item this week. There's been conversations over the last couple of weeks about modified cars and insurance and what have you. We have a member of Ungardashi Akana who is an expert in this regard as well so we'll be answering any questions and about modified cars, legality like illegality and all of that kind of stuff. If you have any questions on modded cars by the way please get them into a 08 660 25000. I'll try and get some answers for you. I'm sure I will. Some clarity for you where required. Dolores on Facebook. Good morning to Dolores. Always great to have you on board by the way. I do note the regulars. Oh my god Greg I've just joined our broadband but trying to get through to a member of staff and add my phone number. It's an OGO. It's a wait of 20 minutes and more so annoying if there's so many staff working and I just get cut off again and again sitting in limbo. I tried to add my phone number myself and blocked myself so it's just hard to crack on my part. Now my first payment is ready to be taken and I was told of this yesterday. Thank you for taking this up on your show. Maybe Air would see this comment from myself. Well fingers crossed Dolores probably not likely but ironically maybe with this attention that has been focused on Air as a result of this court case maybe they might improve things. So good morning to Dolores, Beth, Cathy, Anthony, Grania amongst the hundreds watching the show as well. Very good to have you on board. If you're watching at home or if you're at home you can watch us on your big screen TV, your smart TV or your fire stick if you have one of those. We are on YouTube, Highland Radio Ireland. We're also across the X platform broadcasting across the world. Good to have you on board there as well and on Facebook, Highland Hub, Highland News and Sport and indeed there's a watch live button on the website, our own website which I don't mention enough perhaps. My husband was called for an appointment in early March of this year for a heart issue and letter Kenny University Hospital says one of our listeners. He looked for that appointment 80 years ago in March 2016. Had he have had that appointment in 2016 he may not have had the damage he has now. Eight years, wow. We were talking about the return scheme. I used the machine the first time last week was pleased with it and it gave me a voucher which I was able to take off my groceries price indeed and I suppose whilst we and it's like everything in life as well while we highlight where things need improvement or there are deficiencies is it it is accepted that for some it works really well or that there is positivity as well by the way I think that's clear to to most people. It should be anyway. McFadden's in Remelton gives you money back okay. I bought water in Lidl with the deposit on it took them to the recycling in Duns and the machine wouldn't accept them ended up putting them in the bin rather than taking them home again. This recycling schemes the scam believes the listener everyone pays the extra charge the government gets the money and then the hiccups and the rejections end in frustration and no money back. There's as much being dumped along the road and in forests now than ever. Maybe it will take a time to bed in I don't know. A much simpler scheme system should have offered a receipt or cash offer in return. A caller says in relation to Simon Harris I hope he horries up and goes to Paris etc as nobody wants him here Simon Harris will not be missed that comes in from Mary. Simon Harris has a great deal of support Mary but I take your point not amongst you. Hi Greg asked what can be done to reduce road deaths. When the guard up were in charge of road speeding checks there was a lot less speeding and dangerous driving. Speed detection vans are easily seen and predictable as to where they are or where they'll be sighted and when stopped by Garty for speeding other offences can be detected it really is a no-brainer. Of course I think the majority of us know where the vans are if you wanted to speed between the vans you know it wouldn't be very hard to do. I'm not endorse nor condoning that I'm just saying that's a reality. Gregory roads I think the main problem on the roads are persons not paying attention to their driving. Mobile phones changing the radio etc plus the fact of us being driven on the roads that we are used to is one thing but for the persons that are driving on roads they wouldn't be familiar with that's another issue. I couldn't imagine going to a country where I never drove in before and got behind the wheel of a vehicle. I'd need to be very familiar with my surroundings that's for sure. Well I drove in Spain once and this is not contradicting you it's just to to have the convo like we might if we were sitting in your kitchen. Like when I drove in Spain I was extra care because we were on the wrong side of the road in inverted commas. I was extra careful extra careful of my lane discipline. I was extra careful of t-junctions and roundabouts because that's where the challenge was. So I actually found myself sometimes I think when you drive you can sort of as much as you would try to stay focused. I mean have you ever drove somewhere and then you're there and you've been thinking and you wonder well I want to quick. Whereas if you I think if you're driving in if I'm driving in unfamiliar surroundings I find that I'm more switched on. Greg of course Simon Harris is 100% correct in what he said. He was being honest in saying that he was of a generation that are more familiar with Berlin or London than Belfast or Derry. He's trying to open up a discussion on this and make people of his generation more aware of Belfast and Derry and I recognize that and I get that. But it doesn't talk to the people that Derry and Belfast are just as much part of our lives as I say more part of our lives than Dublin and Cork. You know my point is if you're a leader for all you should choose your language more carefully and you should say I'm of a generation in some parts of this country and language matters. People are you being fussy but language does matter. You layer it on top of one thing after another. The messaging is vital. They have, the government have mostly former journalists who sold out for the money. They have hundreds of journalists working for them who should have the knowledge to say by the way do you know when you're speaking or you're choosing your language. We just have to be conscious that there are people further north in the country that are very familiar with Derry and Belfast and in using the words that you're using like you are you know you could be disenfranchising them. So say what you're going to say because the point you're making is pretty good right but just let's change the language a little bit and say in some parts of this country. That's it. Messaging. Simple. Then it feels like a leader for all in inverted commas. And anyway there's so much going on in this world. It's not something I'm too bothered by. I just get frustrated at the simple things too sometimes. Good morning Greg. Limiters and all cars is the only way to go. They also say speed kills. Well that let's take away the speed. We don't need speed if people don't like it. Let them take public travel. They'll soon come around. More visible garter on the roads. More checkpoints. Haven't seen one since COVID. Drove to Dublin a few times from Gore to Hawke last week. You see no one crazy driving on the roads. That comes in from Cal. I drove down to Dublin for that Donegal person of the year awards and excuse me while I didn't see a single guard a guard car and I was looking out for them and also to which I thought was quite interesting the rally. Where was the rally on two weeks ago? Was it Monaghan? I think it might have been on in Monaghan. Was it Monaghan two weeks ago? Drove through Monaghan and there were thousands of cars lining the street and vroom vroom vroom and all that kind of stuff. Not no one misbehaving. Didn't see one single guard a vehicle going up and down through Monaghan and this was on the Saturday and the Sunday and it was wedged with cars. So in all of that journey and going through an actual rally, I didn't see a car. Have a guard a car in terms of road safety. The roads must be safe. I saw one go safe van as well in terms of road safety. 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It's time for community guarder information and we've got two guests in studio with us today. We have our usual guest guarder, Sean Sweeney from the Bunkranna Guarder station. Sean, good morning to you. You'll be going through the usual appeals and information. And we're also joined by Sergeant Michael Kilcoin from the Balabuffet Guarder station to discuss car modifications. That's coming a little bit later on. Michael, what will you want to be talking about when we get to you? It'll be just in relation to modified vehicles or modifications to vehicles. So the likes of your tend to windows changes to suspensions, but not just alone modified modifications such as that, but say an individual is doing up a vehicle and they make modifications to the original specifications from the manufacturer. Brilliant. Okay, so as I say, along those general lines, if you want to get involved in the conversation, please feel free to text us now on 086025,000 and Sergeant Kilcoin will of course endeavor to answer all questions. Okay, but we'll start with our appeals. And firstly, Sean, a burglary in letter Kenny Gaudy seeking the public's assistance in this regard. Yeah, Greg. This occurred at Oakland's Park, Kenny between 3.30pm and 5.30pm on Monday, the 8th of April. The rear window of the vacant property smashed into his gaint. There's attempt to steal the couple's thunder, but this is abandoned outside the property. But there was water damage caused inside of the house to appeal to anybody who may have served suspicious activity on that day to contact letter Kenny on 0749167100 or alternatively the confidential line on 1800 Tribal 6, Tribal 1. Now there is a theft and a recovery of a car in letter Kenny, the subject of the next. Yeah, we're looking for assistance. It's theft of a black Mercedes E Series, the parcel registration of 161D166. It was taken from Karnamuga Close in letter Kenny on Wednesday, the 10th of April, shortly after 11pm. It was then located on the Pierce Road on Friday, the 12th of April at 4.45am. So appeal to anybody who observed the car being driven at any stage between those states to contact Guardian letter Kenny or if you believe you may have captured in dashcam footage again in those states contact letter Kenny on 0749167100 or the confidential line. And we did speak to the owner of that car on the show last week. I think it was Friday actually it's still available on the podcast and it just gives an insight into the mechanism that was employed for the taking of that car. Had originally been advertised on Facebook marketplace again separate to the guard or appeal, but that might be interesting for those who want to avoid being caught themselves. Right now your colleagues in Bunkrana investigating a theft? Yeah it's occurred at the caravan park in the London area between 10pm on Monday the 8th of April and 7am on Tuesday the 9th of April. Two doors were stolen from the caravan in the park between those times. There's no entry gain and not much stolen from within. So appeal to anybody who observed any specific activity in the area between Monday night and Tuesday morning contact Gardier McRana on 9320540. Alright Matt now we're focusing on a theft in the Culley and Road area. Yeah Gardier contact by resident there it's in relation to theft at approximately 2am on Sunday the 14th of April at their home. The caller observed a male at the rear of the property at the time and he realized he'd been seen he took off and foot. The caller later realized that a bank card had been stolen from the car which had been unlocked. So appeal to other residents in the area to make contact with us and let the county on 67100 if they observed male and foot in the area and there he is on Sunday morning approximately 2am. Or if anybody travels in that area around that time with last camp footage we ask them please make it available to us. Yeah of course and unfortunately this does serve as a reminder that even though our vehicles might be closed to our houses or what we deem to be in a safe place they have to be secured. Exactly Greg yeah look please ensure it's locked at all times and if it's left unattended even as parked at home or a public place please make sure there's no cash or valuables in it and just in relation to keys keep medicine away from you windows at home. Yeah indeed right now your colleagues in Movil focusing on a criminal damage incident. Yeah the appealing for witnesses this criminal damage unit at the Marcus Square in Movil has happened approximately 9.15pm on Sunday the 14th of April. Two men who are believed to be toxicated are reported to cause damage to the flower beds in the area in that time. So if anybody observed the incident we'd like to speak to them again anybody who may have dashcam footage that was driven through the Marcus Square in Movil on Sunday between the hours of 8.30pm and 9.30pm we'd appreciate their assistance so you could call Benclana on 9.320540. And maybe those responsible are feeling a little bit fresher and regret their actions and they could help without a thinking coming forward you would hope so indeed. Right okay criminal damage now in Carandana. Yeah this was an attempt after the premises on the church road Carandana on Sunday the 14th of April shortly before midday so CCDV is being collected and viewed but we also wish to appeal for dashcam footage found that area on the day between the hours of 11.30am and 12.30pm. We're particularly interested in sightings of dashcam footage of a silver base scored activity there was an area of time so we'd ask if anybody could assist us with this call Benclana on 9.320540 or the confidential and again 18006611. All right next one you're not going to get it on the Dublin community guard a lot I don't think but look if we can help we can help. Exactly Greg yeah we're contacted by land order and the Fannamore Falkara area in relation to its sheep that have been in the land for the past few days and he doesn't know who owns them. He's asked around locally but he can't locate the owner we're hoping that the owner might hear appeal today and contact Guardian Milford on 9.153060. Yeah and we've had it in the past not too distant past in fact whereby someone can suspect their animals have been stolen and the turnip on land close by this is Fannamore Falkara eight sheep so if you're missing eight sheep and it's that time of year where I think everyone's counting their sheep at this stage and their lambs get in touch with the guard and he can put you or they can put you in contact with that landowner. All right some questions that have come in over the last wee while and maybe you can help Sean do tow companies have to report a crash because we were talking also this might be unrelated but we were also talking about how people there was one listener whose fence keeps getting damaged right and by the time they come on the damage the car's gone so presumably this triggered this kind of a conversation if the car's being towed by an official tow company could be a tractor it could be anything but do tow companies have an obligation or a role in reporting a crash? The short answer is no the obligation is not on the tow company it's on the drivers involves report the collision so if you're involved in a collision you have to stay at the scene you have to remain there for a reasonable amount of time they provide information to guard if they're present the scene such as your name address the address where the car is kept the name address of the car owner the registration and the motor insurance details but if they're not present this information can be provided in regards to the injured person or someone who's been hurt or again maybe the owner of the fence there you're obliged to give the information to them or a person asking on the behalf again the owner of the property and if none of these are present it's an independent person but if there's no independent person call the guard station your place report to the garrie so bring it to station just say you've been involved in this and give your details if you knock offence over and you leave you are officially leaving the scene of an accident that's correct yeah and your consequences of that yeah okay um i call a wanted no can you cross a white line to overtake a bike well we're foregoing down by the rules of the road as they're written uh if there's a single or double continuous white lane along the centre road all traffic must keep to the left of the lane except in the emergency look we'll just say it's best that's gonna be a long long drive from car regard to yes exactly yeah it's depending on the location look it's best to wait till the safe to overtake uh there's road markings there for a reason we just ask never upon any cyclist or other road user address and just be aware that there are penalty points for crossing the continuous white lane but again the circumstances of that will come into play yeah okay right thanks very much for that really do appreciate it uh that's guard uh um Sean Sweeney from the Bunkranna guard station we're joined also in studio as i mentioned by sergeant Michael kill coin from the ballet buffet uh ballet buffet guard station to discuss car modifications and do you come with this uh michael as a car lover yourself yeah i've been involved with carisans i was a very young myself i have a couple of vehicles in the shed that i've had over the last couple of years of vintage cars so it's something that i've keen interest in yeah and and so also you'd be be with me in agreeing that we're talking about car modifications it's not necessarily the same as those that drive dangerously on the roads or those that might be deemed girl or boy racers you know we recognize there is a community out there that their love is their car oh totally there's a community out there that um they'll build a vehicle from from the ground up and look involved restoration as it's as it's known and these vehicles are the pride and joy uh they're like it's a small minority that is on the roads that are causing um issues we're not saying that a modified vehicle is somebody that's out there that is causing uh trouble on the roads so like when we look at it like a modification of a vehicle is um if you make a change the manufacturer's original design uh such as changing the engine the suspension uh brakes are sort of the three main factors there but any modification you do make must be carried out to an appropriate safety standard and by a professional garage so say for instance you drop the car uh lower the car um and maybe change the wheels uh that's not how i would have sent the car out or whatever car it might be how can you do that to comply with the law so to comply with the say for for the point of insurance aspects so um essentially any modification that is breaking the law so say will cause your insurance to be uh can cause insurance to be invalidated so that is changes the suspension uh tend to windows that restrict more than 65 percent of sunlight uh sound modifiers and illegal changes to wheels is one of the ones covered by the insurance companies so if you lower your vehicle um and put on will say larger uh wheels from what came as a manufacturer uh that can affect the steering it could cause that the vehicle is rubbing along the inner arches which when you're driving on it and will say a back road or a road that is of an uneven gradient that the vehicle is um be your turning circle is reduced or you come across a hazard you're not able to react as well at the time and that car would have gone through safety testing and what having you can see it stamped in different parts of the vehicle what have you about how many passengers how it deals with passengers the weight weight distribution and how that the relationship between that and the brakes and all that kind of stuff is there any way that you can do that that that is legal like you know say you know to say you know say you were able to get the car insured does it have to be fit to pass the nct as it's driven around 365 days of the year yeah so any vehicle that has has a modification if it passes the nct it is at an appropriate standard right but if you do make modifications there is individuals out there they are in engineers or a not multi engineer assessor who can go and certify your vehicle once i've certified you can give that to your insurance company that the vehicle is up to a standard to be on the road and do a lot of people do that do you think um some people from the aspect of the the kerosene in relation to your vintage vehicles and that a lot of people would if they're making modifications to changes of engines or it's an individual who has bought a passenger jeep who changes it to a commercial jeep yep they'd be the more more in line with what you see would be going to these automotive engineer assessors to get that what about sort of sort of bringing a rare Japanese car where the you know the the template might not be as clear yeah so any any vehicle that come in is uh there's a certificate of conformability from the manufacturer so the likes of would say Japanese vehicles um once they come into the country they're obviously vrt they go through their process of uh been imported and they'll have to go through an nct like any other vehicle so once they pass their nct they're uh they're allowed to be on the on the road now again it's the modifications that we're talking about are modifications that affect the safety standard of the vehicle so if you have a vehicle on the road where we say it's supposed to be tinted windows so some people don't see this as as an issue but it's like for example we say we're in sunglasses at night at least the sunglasses can be taken off but with the tinted windows they're permanently on the vehicle in relation to that i call this as hi greg what's the law with regard to windscreen tinting some cars driving around with tints on all windows impossible identify the driver is there any level of tinting that's permitted on the the front passenger and windscreen yes so uh on the front on the front uh three windows on the driver passenger side in front windscreen they has to allow 65 percent of light through the windscreen or side windows so saying that if you look on your uh windscreen there's a little ccc number and there is a percentage of tint already in the glass okay so um once if you add an additional tint you will be bringing the majority of them do bring up the low what is the leading requirement but in your experience say someone who's just right on the limit how does that appear sort of outwardly looking at the windscreen is it it's obviously tinted is yeah there's one there that um that there is tint on the vehicle and it is so light it is nearly impossible to say that the windscreen is understood right um like what we have to take into account is if you permanently tint your glass to an excessive level while you might improve your ability to drive in bright sunlight it will restrict your view in dark conditions and this may prevent you from seeing other motorists or pedestrians especially in around the town area um and i've been at um an accident recently enough where as a result of the windscreen being so excessively tinted he wasn't able to see a pedestrian in crossing the road so like it is it is a i don't think anyone knowingly wants to put themselves in that position no there is i don't think anyone is doing this to cause an issue for themselves or anyone else but i think it's just more that it's the aesthetics of the vehicle they think it looks better but they have to look at the the health and safety side of the result in relation to the privacy glass rear window rear passenger windows they're they can be tinted as dark as you want um same as if you have your commercial vehicle the three back could be a steal so those three back windows are so just in relation to to modifications here and sort of the role in the guardi right so say uh and i call this as my son's um changed the exhaust in his car does that cant as modified right so it does because you've mentioned that right but so say he lowers the car and puts on an exhaust doesn't notify the insurance company and in the event of a claim it certainly could uh it could certainly avoid elements of his insurance but what's the role in the guardi is the in between in relation to that right so if i put up to a checkpoint and it's clear i've no insurance it's very clear what your role is okay yes but you might not be aware that i haven't informed the insurance company of these modifications they've accepted them or is there a role in guarding on the side of the road in that regard so in relation to we've had a lot of advances with our mobility apps and that we can see a vehicle is insured but if we come across an issue with the vehicle we say that we believe that there is an element where a disclosure has been made to an insurance company so when you take out your insurance um you the insurance company ask you is there any modifications to the vehicle so you say yes or no so if we find a vehicle that is heavily modified and we believe that it's a health and safety issue or we believe that the individual hasn't disclosed this we can make inquiries with the insurance company but a lot of the time is on the side the road if we stop a driver who has excessively tinted windows we can give them the option to remove it there and then which a lot of drivers will take that that opportunity to remove the tint in relation to the exhaust again if it doesn't pass the nct it won't pass but a lot of people switch out springs and exhausts yes yes it's something that um is in the last number of years it has started to increase again we are out on the roads we are engaging with these drivers and a lot of it is trying to engage with these drivers and provide they provide them with the knowledge of what is what is right and what is wrong it's a toffee isn't it because you do know the majority of these people just really love the cars that's where they spend all the money we kind of started the conversation with that and it's their pride and joy in their baby and they do nothing to sort of damage it right but the way is in this country a lot of times they are having to drive illegally yes a lot a lot of people out there make these modifications don't realize they have to notify their insurance and like if you are involved in a road traffic collision an insurance company can see that as an agile risk that they weren't notified of and so if you your pride enjoy you are unfortunately involved in an accident and nobody else is involved it's just yourself the insurance companies can reduce the amount of the payout they give you they could decide that because you didn't know notify them of the modifications that they'll only give you 50 of the value of the vehicle as as part of the risk element that was incorporated into them not being notified so there is there is those elements there as well in relation to you making the modifications but not notifying the insurance I call us this every other car in Donegal has a non-standard number plate is that a modification or not oh I like this I might change my number plate it's wobbling Caroline get me the number plate men so in relation to the number plates the number plate has to be within the regulations of of the city that is your blue IRL with the standard standard font which is that we can read you see number plates out there that are tinted you see number plates out there that are the writing on them is hard to decipher so they are number plates where we will stop the driver we will engage with the driver and provide them with the correct information that they need same with the tint you're not looking to do people on the spot there you're not but they do tend to number plates as well where we actually physically can't read yeah the number plate so those number plates if we can't read it it's it's an illegal number plate so we will engage and provide but is there some flexibility on the font then as long as it's with there is I don't have it on me but there is an exact size of font that is illegal now if we can read the font that's on it and it's not excessively small or excessively away from that then we it's fine we can we can see it but if you have the likes of ones where the tinted are that they're obscured in any way then there's an issue yeah I think particularly too there's a line between what might look better and what is done to sort of try and circumvent cameras or yes like look if it's the changes to the for the aesthetics as in they're making the font realignment or whatever it is that that's fine it's not going to as long as it can be read but it's the case of where it's adjusted to the fact that it can't be read or it's turned out to hide it all right call it says how do you modify cars how do modified cars pass an nct and if it's not an issue there how is it an issue for the garden we've kind of touched on that a little bit because go ahead yeah so a lot of the vehicles we would see on the road would be would have an nct but a lot of the modifications would be made after the fact so you you would see an individual who has their car lowered putting in the correct suspension or the correct springs back in to bring it back up to the standard right height before it goes through the nct they'll take off their they'll change their exhaust put back in their their cat they'll put back in the the proper muffler in it to reduce the sound and the tents come off and then and they can do that in a day you can do that in a couple hours so you know what you know does happen yeah so they may have a valid nct but it was the vehicle presented to the nct center um in in the same way um this is just a by the by but it might be quite serious to some people uh pretty much around rally time but all year round you can see extremely rude and sexist stickers on cars which can cause a public offense are they ever asked to remove them or yes so especially the main time we seem to come across this is around don't even go around because it gets viral people take pictures or tiktoks and yeah you know it goes around yeah so like under section six public order at the threatening joy if it's offensive to people it can be a public order aspect if you have that on your vehicle all right is there anything else that you think we should talk about because i've sort of gone through some listeners questions and some of the obvious things but i mean there's a someone just who's you know well up on this area is there anything else that you think we should mention it's just like in relation to the modifications we've spoken about what we classify as the boy racers or or girl racers but like there is other modifications that are done to vehicles you have people out there who may have bought a passenger vehicle who have converted it to um a commercial or vice versa a commercial vehicle to a passenger just for these people to be aware that these modifications need to be notified they have to notify their insurance company and they have to make sure that they're going through the appropriate um assessor for for that work um i think the individuals that are out on the road as we said they're not all out there causing trouble a lot of people that are looking after their cars and they are at a pride and joy it's just that if we can um educate them and make them more aware of what is the correct way to have it i think really what's come through and it's not really surprising is that listen maybe the demographic we're talking of here less likely it's into a program like this it's moms and dads that that seem to be more concerned that their their young ones have changed their cars and they're afraid now that they're driving around with insurance not much we can do with that other than sort of furnish people with the facts they're going to have to sort that internally in their household themselves a couple of questions on tires bigger tires you know bigger wheels bigger tires you did touch on that but tires specifically yeah so in relation to tires so safer um in relation to changing tires if it increases the safety of the vehicle so putting on winter tires uh snow tires they're not a modification that's going to affect insurance or the vehicle um because they're there for for safety aspect if we are if you are increasing the size of the alloy so vehicle will say the likes of we'll go with an odd a6 that comes in you can get with a 19 inch wheel a 20 inch wheel or an 18 inch wheel so that's just one vehicle so the car comes from the manufacturer a standard with three choices of weight yeah three options so that's uh not going to affect the the standard of the vehicle so you you do have a bit of leeway and in that aspect so just to make sure that if you are uh changing wheels that if obviously going from a 15 inch wheel to a 19 inch wheel is going to uh cause uh issues obviously with this the steering it's going to be make sure that it's not catching the wings and potentially the speedo as well yes so as you increase it will actually your speedo will not be reading the correct speed yeah because the speedo is calibrated to the wheel that's on the vehicle yeah all right interesting stuff as always will you ever uh you don't seem to strike me Sean as a I can't imagine you in a Ford Escort no I can imagine me in another I'd say you're uh let me see I'd say you're a cash guy guy uh it's just good uh uh Fabio oh Fabio yeah look I'll drive anything what's your pride and joy Michael uh well I've uh I've a Toyota MR2 is my lovely vehicle I have brilliant for the last uh 10 or 12 years and just it doesn't just eat a lighter day too often unfortunately no I'm not a mad guy I kept modified kind of car person either Sean just in case you think I was uh having a go one other one that's actually quite important was to have you led lights now there's a the few things with led lights some of them com factory fitted right a lot of car very high up yes the lights are blinding you can't do anything about that other cars the adaptive I don't know I mean if they come out of the factory there's there's not much we can say about but is there anything in the area of led that we need to talk about do you think so in relation to the lights in the front of the vehicle they have to be predominantly white or yellow and they have to be set to the standard so we do see vehicles out there that the plane these big led bars along the front so that led bar needs to be connected to the dip lights that is not when um that they're not blinding oncoming users uh and that they only work off your full headlight to obviously again it's um that's not blinding on common people uh we do also see people upgrade their lights so they do put in what they call the hid lights again as long as they are uh set to the correct height and standard there's there's which will be picked up in the nct yes drivers out there especially with your your big yokes most cars if not all of them have a little dial that you can dial down your leds a little bit please you know what I mean because I think when people push that up and the lights come up they think yeah I can see the road but you know you can drop it down a bit still see everything and just have a bit of courtesy for fellow drivers so those that are actually in relation to uh you see those with one two or three so that's if you're towing a vehicle but that is also down to set number one is in relation to the vehicle of one person the driver and this is new information to me now yeah so set one will be in relation to having a driver and one passenger uh set in two will be if you had three passengers and set in three is if the vehicle is full right so you can see then how that works yeah that's actually really interesting because obviously if you had we'll say three people in the back of your of your car that'll reduce uh that'll lower the suspension of the back and increase the front so that's where you just but don't lean back and say right folks I'm going to three you don't offend anyone that's actually really quite as that's almost as interesting when I learned that the uh the numbers on your toaster was minutes I always thought it was one two three four five to do without Brian once actually minutes but anyway I digress uh Michael thanks for calling it's been really interesting actually and to get some clarity on some of that stuff and some quite a bit in there that was there's that was surprised me in in different ways actually uh that's Sergeant Michael Kilcoin from the Battle of a Faye garter station talking about car modifications and of course our thanks to garter Sean Swinney a regular from Bonkranagh garter station with the appeals and information thanks Sean really appreciate it we'll be back with community garter information on the show after the time the clock to use next Tuesday but now we take a 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our website and nominate now nominations closed tuesday the 23rd of april the awards will take place on the second of june highland radio weather updates with michael hinney's support local at michael hinney's with 53 years experience in fashion beauty and home we're here for you plus enjoy mcard rewards when you shop in store at michael hinney's ballet buffet today we'll be cool and breezy with scattered showers and some sunny spells highest temperatures of 9 to 11 degrees in a moderate to fresh north westerly breeze kasha kuzhaya youth information officer with the donnelly youth services back in studio with us good morning to you good morning everyone every time i see you i'm another year older and that is quite true because we do this quite annually 12th to the 19th of april is european youth week so talk to us about some of the efforts that donnelly youth service will be making over this week yes so first of all we're not getting all there it's just another year we're still young you know it's just a number it's just a number okay cool i feel better now another year you know it's just still the same people and the same amazing european opportunities for young people in donnelly and not only do you know what must be exciting for you sorry before you go in is that every year you see another batch of new faces and it's a lovely turnover in the job isn't it it is it isn't especially after pandemic we see the new faces that are reaching the age of our interest again so they're like 15 16 17 and we have brand new people to work with so this year european youth week as you mentioned already is happening right here right now across the whole european union and the big thing about the very special thing about this year's european youth week is that it's all about upcoming european elections and the elections are happening in june yes i was testing myself in june and what we're trying to do with young people this year is to make sure that they know how to register to vote how to go to the whole process to not be scared of voting to realize that how meaningful and important is to vote and decide about their future because it's all about the future of the young people yeah and i thought we were chatting to a lady last week as well uh who is from poland and how her life changed when poland became part of the european union in terms of the freedom to travel and the opportunities and she'd been in france she'd been in germany she'd been in spain and then now settled in ireland i suppose is that element those benefits of sort of the freedom of movement too that young people sort of need to educate themselves on and understand that it's not always about common fishery policies and and farm initiatives and all that type of stuff kasha well to be brutally honest we want to sell the idea of you know the importance of voting in the upcoming elections as what benefits us ana or lucas can have out of this and we're organizing an amazing amazing event for ty students um that will be happening on the 22nd of april so it's like next monday which is my birthday oh happy birthday then it's just a number remember a very small number a very small number yes but don't forget to register to vote by the way but anyway so we're organizing this amazing event that will be we're trying to we're trying to create airport for young people here in letter can you big stuff you know that will be happening in the radisson hotel and whenever young people will be there they will have a chance to go through all of the stages of going somewhere abroad so we're creating like a real check-in where people will be registering for voting then we'll have the explanation of shengen area and eurozone and the history of duty free all of the stuff and then people will have gates where they can choose what where they want to go in the future so we'll be talking about them european elections and importance of the elections we'll be talking about the european opportunities for young people like volunteering studying and working abroad and then we will have amazing european quiz with the very nice very nice prices available so i think it'll be great okay and that is uh when is that event that's on next monday next monday on the 22nd of april in a radisson hotel the thing is that right now we don't have any more available spaces because they feel so quickly but as this is the european youth week people are more than welcome to visit donagall youth service if they're interested in elections if they want to know something more how to vote i mean not like what is the best which candidate it's actually the process it's just the process of voting so i just wonder if the next generation becoming not just in arland but across the EU becoming sort of maybe a little bit detached or disenfranchised with national politics if they actually might engage more with european politics i don't know that's uh on tested on proven at this point but who's to say uh just remind us where the offices is if anyone wants to call them so donagall youth service we're located on on the portrait um in the building of the old cinemain letter kenne if anyone knows where it is and we're located on the second floor the lift is available so it's whoever it really was fully accessible a fully accessible brilliant it's always a pleasure kasha having you in thank you so very much indeed good luck with the week thank you very much that's kasha kuzia youth information officer with the donagall youth service as enthusiastic as ever we are in the middle of european youth week 12 to the 19th uh there's a big event next monday unfortunately it's at full capacity but you can call into the offices to get more information about registering to vote maybe the opportunities within europe for you um what age groups are we talking we're talking about 16 up to 25 years old so there's lots of stuff going on thanks kasha thank you very much for having me today we'll be back with the news 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councillor martin hurley says the installation of the reverse vending machines is costly and some small retailers are absorbing the levy costs in a bid to retain customers a rear window of a vacant property in oaklands park letter kenny was smashed in a bid to steal a copper cylinder it happened on monday the 8th of april between half past three and half past five entry was gained but the attempt was ultimately abandoned the property was water damaged on the inside as a result 40 percent of police station inquiry offices in northern ireland are to close including the waterside branch and dairy the police service says it's facing unprecedented financial pressures and the cuts are necessary it says over 90 percent of households will still be within 15 miles of a front desk a property developer says the t-shocks target of 250 000 homes over the next five years is much more realistic than previous targets simon harris pledged to hit the number in his r-dash speech a figure not currently part of the coalition's targets the summit in dublin today will bring house builders and policy makers together to discuss how to accelerate the delivery of new homes and finally gar d are appealing to the public for assistance in relation to the theft of a black mercedes e-series with a partial registration number of 161 d 166 in letter kenny it was taken from carnival to close on wednesday last wednesday night last at around 11 p.m the stolen carrot was then located on the pierce road in letter kenny at 5 45 a.m the following friday morning gar d are asking anyone who may have observed the car being driven at any stage between those dates or those with dash cam footage to make contact with them that's all for now we'll be back again at 12 o'clock thank you very much indeed donna marie and you're very welcome back to the 90 noon show here on highland radio we're heading to the last hour shortly we're going to be joined by pat mccart he's going to be responding to comments from t-shock simon harris who said people of his generation are more familiar with berlin and paris than they are with belfast or dairy in the north uh does he agree does he disagree we'll tease that with pat very shortly uh interested in your views out there as well good morning greg i wonder if you can help me out with a matter i've booked a holiday for this year i'm also awaiting an operation and it should be done before the holiday i cannot get travel insurance as the operation is still to happen do you know of any companies that would quote for travel insurance that comes in from jay such a specific inquiry jay but i'm sure you're not alone uh so if anyone out there has a holiday booked or has had a holiday booked in the past but in the meantime and it's a year between now and then in the meantime they're unable they're due to have an operation unable to get insurance now it's important to get insurance as soon as you book a holiday a lot of us do it the last minute but the insurance covers more than just god forbid you were to get ill it covers cancellations and all manner of stuff as well so it's important as soon as you book a holiday to get your insurance so we can understand we can understand why this person is keen please could you highlight the cost the rising cost of running a small business in donagol out of premises the electricity bill rates and can't get staff it's harder to get money in off local people because the cost of living the government gives no incentive to work most businesses are going to the wall to businesses two restaurants for an example two restaurants are closing per day since the start of this year effectively shocking anyone in the industry that wants to talk about that please let us know right okay so uh t-shock saman harris uh made a statement a general statement saying that people of his generation are more familiar with berlin or paris than they are with belfast or dairy he says those comments have been taken completely out of context pat mccart author columnist former editor of the dairy journal joins us on the pro podcaster joins us on the program now good morning pat i think great good to have you on the show right okay so listen i get the point saman harris was trying to make i just thought that the language he used excluded people all over the country that have got family and dairy and belfast people living along the border or slightly north of a certain line who are more more familiar and in touch with belfast and dairy than there might be doblin and and cork i thought his language excluded those people as i say i recognize the point he was trying to make but what say you know i agree i actually agree with you but i do think in the the wider context what harris actually said saman harris actually said is pretty accurate you know you you base everything on sort of empirical experience i'm right myself and me dear mrs went down i'd say about 20 years ago i think it was long for greg i'm not a hundred percent certain we stopped off in a town we just booked on a wee hotel sit overnight i'm now to the barb say about eight o'clock nine o'clock and i had a couple of pints i was chatting with four or five people and greg not a single one of them had ever been to done they go not a single one had ever been to dairy and not a single one had ever been to belfast and greg if you go to places like glish and away down there long for most people there have never been north of the border that's a fact now saman harris said he was of a generation in fact he couldn't even vote in the good freddy agreement he was too for the good he was too young and he was saying basically the only way we get to know each other is we we have to interact and get to know each other in a personal level and so on and he says that will probably ease up you know any future discussions what i think he was referring to was irish unity but the whole thing about this greg i heard you earlier on this morning without question we a lot of young irish people and their parents have far more experience of uh sydney melbourne uh and and other points off this island than they have with certain points on this island and just to finish the point as well greg i remember one day uh the legendary gay brun was on and i don't remember exactly who he was talking to but i think it was an american guy and the guy says to him when i come out of dublin airport he says i always turn left in other words he was going south rather than turning right which meant he was going north and gay said to him uh why do you do that and he said well for starters you know this is during the troubles is i don't have to go through two british army checkpoints to get to donnie gall now as you remember greg uh gay burn was one of the biggest supporters of donnie gall during the troubles he had a house in the donnellore and all the rest but no greg i think i get the point harris was actually making yeah if you live next to shannon airport you probably are more familiar with with uh with the the the cities that he's mentioned it's just the the thing that frustrates me a little bit pat in this day and age especially when there are so many ways that we can communicate and engage with with each other is language uh and and you would just hope with with someone in his position who represents the entire country whether people like that or not who's got a team of advisors more uh way more than working it perhaps the the the newsroom of this building and another newspaper for an example that they can't sort of use language that's inclusive at the same time yeah that people felt their backs rop say have you you know i was in dairy three times this week yet i'm a member i'm part you know i live in the republic and that's it just talks to maybe a political class that are out of touch and it wasn't really picked up in the media till uh some of us started giving ads because i don't think people who write the stories in dublin would have seen anything wrong with what he's said and that just kind of talks to a two-part arland or three-part four-part arland well greg i think if you brought up the thing about you know the archaeology thing dunny gall is the only county that didn't get any uh uh funding i have a long and in fact i get bored even repeating it myself i regard dunny gall is the forgotten county the sundary alla county where i are neither of the north nor of the south and i've said that a million times but the other the other thing is well greg let me uh throw this at you about uh what's Easter monday bank holiday monday myself and my wife and my second son we went off to carnaugh one of the glens of anton and we drove up you drive up past corain up valley castle on to carnaugh one of the most beautiful villages you'll ever be in your life anywhere in the world absolutely beautiful place anyway on the way back we decided to see if we could count how many cars with a southern registration greg we counted i think two and that was a very busy bank holiday monday you know people from the south just don't even still don't go north there's all that sort of residual thing from the troubles fear and all the rest and greg we like i worked in dubbing a way back in the 1980s and going through the north way back then was actually quite scary a lot of people just didn't want to go through there there were stones thrown at cars with southern registrations there were you know when you parked your car somewhere in certain towns there was a danger you'd get you know whatever and that's all part of the thing greg so let's get back to the point you're making you're dead right maybe sam and harris could have used more inclusive language but there's a certain truth and what he said that maybe needs saying that yeah but i've never been i've never been to cork or carry i'm embarrassed to say but i've never been to cork or carry that's just a reality i mean he's talking obviously maybe then about sort of cultural differences i don't know and traveling to the north too as well like i have no problem with the north at all at all my dad's from toron and much of my family is but i do remember a few years ago uh going to a caravan site just across the border in the south and the local town it was just like union jacks everywhere and people marching up in the street and i suppose you know that did feel a little bit intimidating maybe i was a bit more on my nerves at that stage uh perhaps would be more uh i'd be not as bothered now i wasn't bothered by it but it does feel very different like if you if someone from further south who didn't know what was going on experienced that yeah i go well what's going on here you know you know so yeah there's certainly like if you go through outside of cork and you go through places like bush mullison there's two or three other evillages you go through them and you'll find union jacks everywhere there's a roundabout outside lamavadi that's painted red white and blue which is not very welcome i gotta admit and so on and you see i i think what harris is basically he's getting at and there's a certain moment you know and i'm barely i'm repeating the language could have been better i'm not disputing for a second what you're saying but the other side of the story is what he's basically saying i think this whole open till 2016 greg there was very very little mention of irish unity it was not a hot button topic and all the rest but since brexit has become an everyday conversation the demographics in the north have changed big times the catholics or the naslas community are now in the majority shin fiends the biggest party shin and michel o'neill as a force minister uh but uh unionists are now in disarray and and there is talk that we'll have a poll for irish unity by 2030 and i think what harris is sort of saying to all those young people who think that uh rom and london and paris are closer than belfast and dais look we need to get engaged in a conversation about how we bring about unity and personal relationships are need to be embedded in a way so we all understand each other i think really what this talks to and it's a shame it's kind of attracted from what is actually quite a useful conversation that he's trying to spark here is that and and the bbc saw this a number of years ago in that they knew they were becoming too london centric uh and they they started farming out some of their news teams and uh uh production commissioning or program commissioning and production to manchester and other parts of of of britain we have a problem here it's there is a double and bubble and unfortunately it seems even politicians a lot of politicians from the west and more rural parts of the country when they go into doubling they actually they actually come under this bubble that you know the journalists and the politicians all talk to each other slightly hived mind unfortunately they really if they don't talk about decentralization but it would really help i think if if they moved some of the some of what they do in dublin beat journalism or politics out of dublin to try and get a better understanding that you don't put your foot in it like they did with that type of language for us hope here in the northwest convoluted as begara but i hope it made some sense yeah now greg i agree with you toby greg one third of the population of irland loves around that greater dublin area and it's our whole politics our whole journalism our everything that you can think of has become dublin centric if you went to our tea in the night you won't wonder how you do it took off like a bullet uh all those years ago because simply we had been ignored for so many years if they're doing a program about school meals it'll be a school somewhere near looking as they're doing a program about uh in our city you know poverty it'll be somewhere out of batalla or something they would never think of coming to donningall and talking about rural poverty or whatever you know i think most of the things this last while dublin has become so it's a wonder by the way this place doesn't go like a seesaw because dublin there's so much dublin's so so heavy these days and that other place is so light when i worked at it's when i worked at northwest radio the uh i said this is not a bad thing to say but i i'm not going to sort of not give an example i have one when i worked in northwest radio it was based in sligo and there was a satellite station in donningall uh and there was quite a good bit of program as well but you'd try and pitch stories for inclusion on the news you know what i mean and and and you you would notice that sort of the stories would be further down the bulletin than unless a story about sligo which would be further up but it would be quite frustrating i would say there probably is quite a lot of frustration amongst correspondents that feed into the national stations in actually pitching stories and getting them on the programming because there are brilliant correspondence right across the country but ultimately the editorial decision is still made in dublin and i think until such time as that changed we're going to continue to see the path of least resistance the handy stories the dublin centric stuff and greek i was a sub editor in our team many many years ago and i was actually on the desk one morning and there had been a shooting in the north somebody had been shot dead and there was a bus strike in dublin and i was the only sub editor on the desk that morning and i wrote the headlines for i think the half six news and the guy y'all jump flanning it was a lovely man by the way came in and changed it he said he put the dublin bus strike ahead of the shooting dead of somebody on earth and i said no i'm not arguing you're the boss but why did you switch it around he said pat a third of the people on irdan live in dublin the bus strike will affect them more than the shooting in belfast or yeah you can't remember where it was in fairness you know and that that was the reality and that that was that that was the the thinking behind switching my the headline i thought the shooting dead of a human being would be far more important on the bus strike but i was wrong apparently well what a way to leave it okay pat and yet was still here to this day and as i say and i think you perhaps a little more than i both accept that what the t-shirt was trying to say is important it certainly resonates with certain people of his generation to some extent is right and it's a good conversation to have unfortunately slightly overshadowed by this non-inclusive language that just makes a big yeah absolutely it could have told these words better that's for sure pat it is always a pleasure thank you so very much and you appreciate it take care of yourself pat mccart there author columnist podcaster former editor of the dairy journal the county's number one talk show the nine till noon show on 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just in case people don't get the date i want to remind people it's now the 16th of april an phoned the gp for the second time and was told that the appointment's book i.e an in-person meeting with the gp is closed until the 7th of may next month yes what else were you told um so uh unfortunate for me um i i have to see the specific gp because it's um this person that i have been seeing for nearly the last year uh and i am under a consultant in dublin rang the consultant in dublin this morning to be told that i can't be seen any sooner until the gp sends a letter with updated symptoms i have severe nerve compression in my neck and the symptoms are progressing and so um try to ring on friday and no uh this couldn't send me so i thought right you know i'll try and fold and hold out but unfortunately that's not going to work so i rang this morning uh between nine and ten its emergency appointments couldn't get through even though technically it's not an emergency uh so i got through after ten and to be told that the books are still closed till after the seventh of may and um this is right well i need to speak to somebody i need i need to be seen because i can't i'm stuck between the rock and a hard place and basically was kind of bob dawson the attitude to me was tough so i well if i rang tomorrow between nine and ten um will i be able to request my gp no you'll just get whatever doctor you get and i suppose that's not good enough so unfortunately for me i can't see my gp till after the seventh of may and even then there's no guarantee that i won't be waiting another month so everybody's going to be ringing at the same time looking for an appointment so you didn't actually so so you didn't actually get an appointment for the eighth of may oh no no no we have to run back after the seventh of may and i mean i suppose to let's talk let's talk about one on an emergency is uh your bulging disc causing the nerve pain this condition is getting worse you haven't had a day free of pain for over a year and also the lack of access yeah the lack of access to a gp is actually also delaying your engagement with your consultant so i mean if i was at an emergency to go you'd go to the ed right so what's class as a gp emergency i'm sorry i'm not a doctor but this sounds like a personal emergency to you an you need this you need to be seen yes i do and but that's that's where i'm caught you know and i can present an accident emergency letter again as i've done numerous times in the last year but unfortunately there's nothing they can do for me so i end up having to go back to my gp who has prescribed different medications x y and z and i was told i was going to be in dublin in january that i was going to get a nerve the cp guided nerve block in six to eight weeks i rang on friday to find out that that is not even possible the cp room in the hospital in dublin is closed since october and they have a backlog of almost a year so so i can't get the operation i get the injection okay so just to be absolutely clear the nerve block injection you can't get that till you you see your gp you can't get the surgery uh to until you get the nerve block and in the meantime your symptoms continue to worsen uh it sounds to me like an terrible ordeal to be living in constant pain for almost a year i mean what the problem is is what can you do this is also too by the way where this has an impact beyond the actual condition someone has because this is going to get you it's going to wear you down and no one is strong enough that they could put up with this it's going to wear you down and affect though yourself and those around you i'm sure yes as much as we're trying not to at this stage i'm sure everybody around me is sick of listening to me and not only that i will ask him i was in casualty i actually turn around and i told the doctor you know what i'm about ready to jump off a bridge at this stage and he kind of looked at me and i said i'm not actually going to jump off a bridge but i says i can honestly see how some people over medicate and accidentally overdose or how some people cannot take the pain anymore and unfortunately we wonder why suicide rates are going up that's another reason because people are in pain and they're not been helped not been seen and there's only so much you can take before you can take no more also to i mean obviously you know what we're just talking to you using your first name i think you've also spoke on on social media this is a gamble too because you would hope it doesn't but could this make it more difficult for you to get an appointment after the 7th of May could i haven't mentioned any names and anybody that knows me will have an idea who i who i attend but i'm it's not just my tp it's gps and then i shown and i know that's what i'm having talked to different people that go to different practices so it seems to be right but i just i don't understand it's the first time in my life where i've ever heard of a doctor having books and being closed when has this become a thing that they have books that they close and then there's no appointments until they open their books again when did this become a thing yeah a doctor somebody that you should be able to access as you need i know there are people that run and maybe don't need to be seen as often as they are and i know there's people like me that need to be seen and can't be seen and it's just so frustrating because um you ring looking for appointments and you met with people that maybe don't understand how much pain you're in and then uh can't see anybody and you know what do you what do i do do i take extra medication do i hope that my gp won't tell me right you know you shouldn't have spoke out so bye bye you know is there any cross border any cross border options and given your location um i'm not a hundred percent sure yeah you have dream with specific yes yeah yeah and i i'm i'm wonder um like i have been seen by um i come on a lot the actual consultant but has registered doctors and doubling twice but they it's almost like gaslighting because they're telling you just keep taking the medication and see how you feel or we can't do the operation till we see how the nerve block works but then there's no sign of a nerve block happening um i i ask them can they not just do the operation and be done with it because is it just going to work or it's not and if it doesn't at least i know this is something i'm going to have to cope with for the rest of my life you're just not going to unfortunately then i'm not going to bend those rules in that regard and and listen i mean obviously our gp practices in certain areas are dealing with a massive increase in population and an obligation also too to take on extra numbers in some cases as well yeah there was talk of this big fund to pump into certain areas as it turns out it's never going to transpire to sort of maybe increase you know gps nurses in certain areas where population has increased dramatically but that's not going to happen anytime soon if at all it's certainly not going to happen for you but you asked a really good question when did this become a situation this is like you know uh when did it become a situation where appointment box close at your local gp for the best part of three weeks when did that become a normal situation um and also a caller says here by the way i was in the same position recently and was told to go to the gp door in the morning the next morning and i already died when i saw the q doing the same thing when the doors opened it was like a sale everyone rushed for the reception desk it's no wonder there's no appointments when people call um yeah but that's another cohort of people who can't get an appointment so they're turning up as like it's a fire sale for health um i don't know what to say to you an um we you know that we get a lot of calls and i think i can i sort of identify which area is and a lot of them are similar unfortunately an but i do also recognize there's an awful lot of pressure on gps but you need this i understand that i do but also you're being disadvantaged so you wonder why like i mean this you are entitled to see your gp you're entitled to get a letter you're entitled to get your nerve block job you're entitled to get your operation you're entitled for the best chance of a pain free life i don't blame you in any way shape or form um but something has to be done here because this is crazy and people yes it's absolutely crazy because you know there's people that's waiting to see gp with something very simple which turns into something more serious because they're waiting weeks and weeks and weeks and then and turn that's making a casualty more that's making the consultants more busy you know it's just like i think there's a lot happening that people don't realize because somebody that could have a test infection could turn into pneumonia which is a hospital state you know it's silly little things like that the people that that we don't realize and it's just then we can't see gp okay all right it's very frustrating it's very frustrating i know and i can sense that um and i really a genuinely by the way i'm not just saying i really hope you get a resolution soon and you at least get on the pathway uh to give yourself a chance to get in pain free because you don't really have any guarantees that you're going to go through all of this and it will work but i pray it works and i hope uh things yeah well that's all right and thanks for yeah and i'm okay if there's something else you want to add if you want to is there anything else you want to add no i was just going to say that like i've come on here and i hope that if there's anybody that's listening today that's thanks they need to see the gp now it's the time to ring because you're going to be waiting weeks okay and all right thanks thank you very much indeed right let's take a quick break watch the show live now on 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we're welcoming on to the program uh leone rogers who is sister of patrice mccrossen of st johnson uh leone thank you so much for joining us i do appreciate it um we're also uh in studio with kevin shields from st johnson as well a family friend of patrice thanks so much for calling up kevin very much appreciated good morning greg um leone analysis not easy but maybe you might as much as you're comfortable with uh talk to us about patrice's condition and its uh discovery and progression uh well patrice was on well since about christmas time and she just couldn't get better so come the end of january she was like right i'm probably gonna have to go to the doctor so she decided on the friday morning to ring the doctors couldn't take her uh she was just really fatigued you know they end up she couldn't get up the stairs so she was like i must have a chest infection she's only 32 years of age yeah so this is very unusual for a 32 year old she had a baby seven months beforehand and she had an easy pregnancy or delivery and also she thought it's just athlete things but um so she went she got the nurse when the doctor couldn't take her and she went in and the nurse had says there she didn't like the color of her so she would rather go to the emergency department and we think it's a blessing she got the nurse that day because by the time she got to the hospital her hemoglobin was down to four so they put her in the major emergency and this was half four and they had her a bed by two that night patrice didn't settle stalls she there was abnormal abnormalities in her blood so they came in the next morning diagnosed her with leukemia hematology came in and that was her they were like we're getting a bed ready for you and doubling or in galway they were sending her they said you're going to be going for four months we've been in contact with them and she couldn't leave till she got her blood she had to get three units of blood before she left later can i so it was the sunday by the time then she went down to galway and that was her now this is just earth shattering news i mean how could any individual or a family prepare for that yeah like you're sort of going on it doesn't hurt you you're running on adrenaline and all like just for even the weeks after like for the first and and presumably part of the transfer to galway is to to examine more the condition yeah how severe it is what exactly it might be how might be treated so that's test after test after test how was that for patrice the first week really really difficult all the tests and the bone marrow biopsies and all like to see what kind of leukemia she had so this is then it was aml and that's the acute myeloid leukemia so it's on the blood and bone marrow but with myeloid it's really aggressive and it gets the cells when they're underdeveloped and it just attacks it takes over her whole body so then it was to see what kind of treatment they were going to go on with us like she went down there and she was 90 cells covering her body so they had to go on aggressive treatment so without an intervention at this point she probably wouldn't be with us now is is that i think if she didn't go to any on the friday whether hemoglobin at four all her abs was so low that she might have been there till the morning so it really it really from from when she how rapidly did it progress to the you know from where she felt you know there's something not right here to actually go into the ed how long a period of time was that well this was before christmas she felt unwell but i think then when the leukemia whenever the cells had changed or whatever that she was um this is it was a few weeks like she didn't see the symptoms but now that she knows about it she did have symptoms that she didn't see because it's not really what how we associate cancer is it really it's just it's just normally really really weak really really quickly yeah and as you say between a recent pregnancy and stresses and tribulations you put it down to other things yeah like she had a bad dose but she couldn't fight it off because her cells was she had no fighting cells like she's new to your clinic all the time with her condition so what is the the treatment pathway now what treatment she in what what treatment she is in her second cycle now at the minute her first cycle they went on give her an intense chemotherapy for like the first three days she would get three rounds chemo and then she go 20 days with two rounds a day it's really intense and then it's all the infections that come with it you know so by the end of that cycle they do her biopsies her bone marrow biopsies twice to see how it's going and they want to be able to get the cells onto remission but at the end of the first cycle after the aggressive treatment they didn't get her cells onto remission so that determined then that she needs the bone marrow now the bone marrow transplant it is like other things that we know medicine you require a match don't you yeah and those around her the likes of yourself aren't a match we're not about to go through that process as well genetic test that was done with just the blood drawn but um none of us was a match we were hopeful that maybe it's out of four of us like the one of us would be so it's fine near a match now but we have to see she's probably on now at the minute getting another biopsy the bone marrow to see how the second cycle has went how the cells is going but like it's the infections and all the come with it like you know she's been lying she's not too bad there at the weekend but the weekend before like they were treating her under ICU guide so in palliative care and okay you know it's it's a really tough road for her yeah and they hope now in the next eight to ten weeks that they would get a donor finder donor so she's a battler but she has a battle on her hands but there's no doubt she's a strong woman she's very strong um in terms of seeking out a a suitable donor I don't know how that works unfortunately sorry um is there like a panel or people have been in contact that they want to get on the register you can't go on the register until you're a blood donor so the way that they want people to check online to see if they're eligible to be a blood donor and when they go to the clinic the clinic sorts them to get on the register is there any indicators that someone might be a match for her nothing geographical relation or nothing like that there it's just like it just so happens that another person would go on the register and you go on to a worldwide database okay so they will see from there just they go through that like you're sitting there waiting that hoping just the right person here's something like this the right person is a blood donor it becomes one the right person registers as a as a yeah to try and find a match yeah okay because this is the only thing like the last time when they see the sales couldn't go into remission as she's been told like she could go through these treatments but it's going to come back they can't save her so this is her chance to save her life yeah and Leonie how how is her young family and and all coping I mean her children are obviously they're under the care of the family and Gary and what have you but they're so they're so young and her being apart from the children probably is almost as difficult as everything else she's going through not easy at all not easy for any of them um like Gary like to be two places at once so just trying to balance it all with all of us um the winds are like a three year old says one day the hairdresser was uncutting their hair and he's like do you want to stay and look after me because my mum is away they just he doesn't really understand but the bigger ones he knows his mum is going but the bigger ones then like her seven year old I took her down at the weekend for we better one do one and she lies up with Patrice when she's hooked up and she's like you know mommy why does this have to happen to your family and Patrice is like there's no answers he can't how do you answer them that you can't you can't it's absolutely impossible because you don't you don't you you want the time with them but then you have to yeah Kevin also friends answer Leona you by the way you've done amazing it's very very difficult for you too and you've done absolutely fantastic in just helping us understand Kevin I mean who couldn't be moved by this story I think particularly as horrible what Patrice is going through but then when you think about the children I think that gets everyone on a different level as well on top of what we're already feeling this is obviously it's the family that's affected it's the friends and the community too this is just a big shock for everybody yeah it was a big shock now when I came out at the starting all and being the family of Patrice and Gary is and the Duddy family and Rogers family everybody was pulling together so I was down in Galway at a rally and I met Wally Rogers Patrice's brother and had a talk with him down there about Patrice so when I come back to Dunny Gawlyn and the Monday after the rally I had to think about it and I spoke to my wife Vanilla about it and then on Tuesday I called Declan Boyle of Sonny McSweeney's McCafferty Group and said to Declan what I was thinking maybe running a fundraiser to help the family because I knew there was going to be a tough road for him and expensive road accommodations and stuff and all so Declan told me yeah definitely go ahead and whatever back in our need he would be there and so he set up a meeting with Phillip the manager and Mark Emma and Shannon so we agreed with Wally it was okay with a family to help this fundraiser so I started off to do something I thought was going to be small and the first person I phoned was Donna Kelly about it and Donna right away took whole play tickets valued at a thousand euros and I'll give you four spud at a thousand euros full VIP and so it started the ball rolling like and since then everybody has been fantastic towards the fundraiser like and you know I went outside then like to talk to different people outside myself and Sonny's desk so I spoke to David Fisher from Oakfield and Niall McGonigal from Iain Motorsports about a bit of advice on it and they all give me great advice so I've been working very closely with Declan and his team and to say we have got serious serious donations and this auction is taking place on Friday the 19th at 7 p.m in Sonny McSwine's in Lederkan Eats in aid of Patrice Macrossen and I suppose Kevin you know you can you feel as a community your friends or whatever you can feel helpless in this situation you know we wish we we you wish you could take it all away but you can't but what can you do is you can try and eliminate other worries like the pressures in life so that Patrice and Gary and the family can focus on getting her better and that's what this is all about isn't it really is to support them yes definitely support for the family because as you said Greg it's very hard in the family what they're going through so they don't need that extra pressure of you know funding to keep them down and go away and up and doubling and all so what to support not just to fund them but knowing that the support of the people has behind them is just unreal what we're getting like and listen some of the lots are hitting on stuff that's hugely popular up here of course you mentioned the VIP Coldplay tickets worth over a grand rally seats from the top 10 rally cars in Ireland huge our own Jason Quigley world title contender a framed boxing gloves of his that would be a great thing to have that and so much more besides I think you've been really pleased with the generosity of of those that you've approached that you haven't you haven't left you wanting everybody I've approached has been unreal like you know as I said that the first S was done a Kelly Denver full boxing club gloves they're off the wall give it to me in the frame Callum divine a phone Callum no bothers sir that was his answer whatever you need let me know so they have all given seats even when I was in bed last night I got a message from Matt Edwards who's from Wales who's given a seat out as well and you know it's unreal like you know but not alone just a rally and dealer sports like soccer Gaelic from Brian McCormick and Michael Murphy like and there's too much to mention but there is a massive list of brilliant prizes brilliant lots for this auction and it is in McSwain McSwine's letter Kenny in aid of Patrice McCross and and I suppose you know the only one we're going through difficult times we look at little things to sort of help us get us through the reaction from the the local community but even more wider than that backing Patrice and her battle and the family as a whole as well we can't believe it like we just can't believe the generosity and the support from everyone like they told Patrice and there that she says I'm leaving you some my hands to get me back up the road and they said you need loads of prayers too and everybody's been rallying about praying and all like Patrice didn't want to accept anything she was like no some other creditor needs it and now is the roads getting tougher we see like we don't know what's going to be six months or a year from now like we just yeah okay this is a reminder to the importance of donations in terms of blood donations which of course Patrice has had to rely on get yourself on the register too for donating organs or in this case bone marrow bone marrow get on how do you find out more information about that on their website and at the blood donation clinics we have one on download tonight and there's two in Balboffay the next two nights as well for people that do want to go to make an appointment or anything but at this stage her her whatever makes up her bone marrow has been tested against an international database at this point is it everybody that goes on the register it's not just Ireland it goes on a worldwide one so you could save somebody in Spain or whatever in the situation listen um go ahead please Kevin yeah just one more thing Greg um Sonny McSwine's and McCaffrey's has set up a GoFundMe page for people who can't attend the fundraising event on Friday night and anybody that donates on the GoFundMe page they've been with a chance of one on one of five prizes as well okay just to help people who can't make it on the night brilliant stuff okay listen fair play yes go ahead Leonie do you want to say something okay well done you did brilliant Leonie Rogers sister of Patrice McCrossen of St. Johnston Kevin Shields also from St. Johnston and a family friend of Patrice McCrossen if you can get along to that event on Friday night and where can people find that website do you find it on Sonny McSwine's social brilliant okay right we'll link that of course in our socials 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then to actually you know why not do our own adaptation of the the novel okay and has this it's been done before you had uh did you have a script to work off or was it adapted or what's the story pod migrants no we uh we adapted the novel uh ourselves for the stage yes so there's there are a few small changes towards the end but they don't actually uh infringe on the and the story itself talks also a little bit about the story of the outsiders okay so it's set in 1960s Tulsa Oklahoma it's about a group of uh young men like these men standing here and ranging from 14 years of age up to 20 and they're called the greasers they're a close knit bunch again like these guys here and they have rivals called the socials and they're the rivals in social class so the greasers come from the less well off area and the socials come from kind of the better area and so yeah it's about their adventures together yeah and um great group of people to work with presumably oh absolutely fantastic yeah but there's a lot of work a lot of work involved in getting this right yeah oh yeah definitely a commitment absolutely a lot of commitment and uh Rachel uh Rachel McShane and Dianne Elis and Fiona McDade have been absolutely fantastic Rachel directs us along with Dianne Elis and Fiona does a lot of the the staging and the props yeah and um was there recent awards one yes they took place uh that the Ballard Theatre uh drama competition took place down in valuable february and uh we were fortunate enough uh to win four awards there including um Matthew uh as best actor there so yeah all right brilliant stuff and was that a performance of this or something else it was a 15 minute uh section of it yeah brilliant so and so you managed to win over the judges in 15 minutes people are going to get a real treat then with the full show uh in a brilliant setting on the 24th and 25th of april and on green on tickets obviously there's going to be huge demand from from parents and schools uh others within the school but tickets available currently are they are tickets available now they are they are flying out the door quite quickly now so they always are yeah i know so so yeah so we all go well yeah we are last minute dot com in this canteen region so if you want to get along to this on the 24th and 25th of april and on green and i suggest you contact the box office immediately right so what are we going to hear now um tommy you're going to hear the opening uh two or three minutes uh of the first act first scene where uh pony boy has just come out of the cinema he's just watched uh paul newman film and he's about to have his first encounter with the the saucers done done done right okay lads whenever he's already take it away and move this over here slightly there do you want to move scooch in that way a bit all right go ahead right curtain on i've always liked paul newman he looks so tough you need to be tough what i'm from even walking down around the east side our territory you really can't loan it greasers can't walk alone too much or they get jumped or someone drive by and shout greaser but i just don't like going to movies of anyone some people talk too much and i kind of want to get into the movie and live the actors it makes me i don't know kind of uncomfortable having people there like someone looking with my shoulder when i'm reading the book well that would not happen in my house anyways soda my second older brother would not crack a book if his life depend on it and darryl who ever calls darry well he just works too hard to be into them or me for that matter greaser i i really used to be walking alone darryl would get mad real mad if he knew i'm supposed to be a smart one he says making good grades and having a high IQ well i guess he's just trying to be the grown-up in the house ever since mama dad died in a car crash her gang the greasers well we steal things and drive old slipped up cars and even have a gang fighting on again hey grease well you do not hear all alone grease ball leave me alone why grease we just want to talk shoot the breeze with you and maybe just maybe give you a nice haircut what are you crazy hey grease how'd you like that haircut to start just below the chin darry soda i'll shut him up for Pete's sake darryl darryl shut it grease hold it someone's coming see you're on grease ball that haircut's gonna have to wait you okay pony i'm good typical socius i'll talk damn socius this this this is our territory come on to a bit are you sure you're okay pony boy i'm good johnny really just got scared as all you all right pony boy okay darry honest quit shaking me sorry they don't hurt you too bad did they you got caught a bit pony boy you're bleeding like a stuck pig they pull a blade on you yeah nah they give us a slip but dirty yeah the kids okay he suffered than he looks i thought you were still in jail darryl nah good luck for good behavior nice bruise you got there pony thanks why are you out here on your lunchtime anyway kid i just didn't think shit ain't brilliant lads well done give yourselves a round of applause unfortunately there's no one else here to clap okay that is just a sample and for those of you listening already there's many different voices in there as well so we've got one two three four five six seven of those taken to the stage on the 24th and 25th of April in non-green on theater and it is their production of the outsiders tickets are available now but are going out the door quick so if you want to go and watch that you need to get on to the box office thank you everyone really appreciate it well done teachers great to have you in that was something different something very enjoyable all right so we'll be back with you on the ninth loon show again tomorrow morning from nine