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And if emailing is your thing, well it's comments at highlandradio.com and you can also interact with us of course on our social media. We'd be more than happy for you to do so. All right, as I said, lots coming up on the program. So let's crack on with a look at what's making the front of the newspapers today starting with the Dairy People Donagol News. The continuing devastation in Ukraine has prompted a galvanization of humanitarian efforts in Donagol. It comes following a turbulent week of unrelenting fighting across Ukraine as the Russian invasion intensifies up to nine, up to one million people, should I say, have already fled Ukraine to border counties or countries seeking safety. And a Polish woman living in Dunlop left so distraught by what has unfolded said she felt compelled to help. And we're going to be speaking to other members of the Ukrainian community in Donagol of the Donagol Ukrainian community in the first hour of this program on to the nationals this morning. The Irish independent and it has a higher figure of those fleeing Ukraine efforts to evacuate 200,000 people from the besieged city of Maripole failed for second day yesterday as you're faced its worst refugee crisis since World War two as more than 1.5 million people fled across the borders of Ukraine in search of shelter. Civilian casualties continued to mount as Russian shells pounded major cities. Russian forces broke ceasefire agreements designed to secure humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from several besieged cities yesterday. Families fleeing their homes with suitcases and pets were bombarded with shells as they attempted to leave the city of Erpin near Kiev. And anyone witnessing that rolling coverage on the news will see how shocking it truly truly is. Okay. The Irish Times again. It's Lee story is going to be on that crisis. Moscow has warned it will view any bid by the West to guard Ukraine's airspace as an active hostility. As the United said it was seeking ways to help Poland provide warplanes to its neighbors and Kiev pleaded for NATO help against Russian bombardment. And we all know the problems here that if the West is seen to interfere too closely then that is seen as engagement directly with Russia and they are promising to react. Well Russia's grand forces faced fierce resistance from Ukraine's troops 11 days after invading. But Moscow's air power is inflicting a heavy toll on Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure such as schools and hospitals as well as on military sites. Ukrainian officials said plans to evacuate 200,000 civilians from the port of Maripole failed for a second day yesterday because of Russian shelling. Elsewhere in the front of the paper and it's not related more landlords than ever exiting the market and putting their properties up for sale evicting tenants and driving a rise in family homelessness. New figures suggest and this doesn't come as any surprise to me because often when we talk about you know the situation as it relates to housing you will have landlords contacting the likes of this program saying look it's it's too much hassle it's not worth it. I'm an accident landlord I'm just going to sell up and it seems to be that is what's continuing to happen. There was a sharp increase throughout last year in the number of notices to quit issued to tenants according to the RTB rising from 352 in the first quarter of the year to 958 in the final quarter. More than half of such notices were given because the landlord decided to sell their property and I'm sure though there are those who have received those types of orders that maybe wonder if that's exactly what's happening and it's a very complicated a very complicated area. If you view on that of course by the way 08 660 25,000 the Irish Daily Mail this morning Irish motorists could face even higher petrol prices after the United States pushed for a total ban on Russian oil imports last night experts have warned and already we're seeing you know two euro plus at some four courts for petrol and diesel. Interestingly to see diesel and petrol being offered at the same price and of course you speak to people who maybe buy these products in bulk and they're saying that there are issues in terms of supply I wonder is that going to be a problem for the general population. I know in certainly in some parts be it north or south in this country people are trying to order you know maybe large amounts of fuel be diesel or home heating or and they're being restricted or told it's not available now I don't know if that's a isolated instance or if that's something that we're going to see more of again if you've got any insight into that or comment on it 08 660 25,000. Well Washington is in active talks with European allies about targeting Russia's energy industry in the next round of sanctions US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced. Now on to the Daily Star today and we're going to be speaking to the Agriculture Minister Charlie McConnelogue a little later on in the programme so interesting to get your views on this story the price of food could rock it in the coming months and there could be some shortages due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine where much of Europe's grain is grown it's understood that huge swathes of wheat and maize growing areas of that war-torn country have been abandoned there's also likely to be an acute shortage of fertilizer in this country as much of it is produced in Russia yesterday it was revealed that Agriculture Minister Charlie McConnelogue will meet with farming bodies tomorrow to discuss food and animal feed security in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine the minister has set up an emergency team in his department to monitor the supply chain situation he confirmed that getting farmers to plant some grain crops this year is on the agenda and as I say we'll be speaking to that minister minister Charlie McConnelogue a little later on. Okay chaotic rush for passports is one of the stories in today's Sunday the Department of Foreign Affairs is being urged to issue accurate information about passport waiting times as delays are causing chaos for families technical issues with the system in recent weeks have compounded the problem of trying to get passports back to first-time applicants most usually infants and children social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy said I can't recall anything like the volume of passport inquiries that I'm getting and I'm presuming that it's the same with every TD so at this stage there is a degree of chaos that people are feeling I think the department has to come out and be very honest with people about the length of time they're going to be waiting and of course as I say you know there are lots of people will understand exactly where they're coming from there and as I mentioned that the in the mirror today they're talking about farmers told to plant more food fears but below that there is a story about MEPs and MEP claiming NATO will share blame for invasion and it's not just this one MEP it's seemingly a lot of people with the same sort of ideology and MEP yes they claim NATO golded Vladimir Putin before he invaded Ukraine Claire Daley also stated Russia had genuine and legitimate security concerns in the lead up to the invasion she also claimed Ukraine should not be supplied with arms the Dublin MEP told RTs this week the narrative that somehow the war is happening because we're dealing with some crazed maniac in the form of Putin is a distortion of the reality that one of the contributing factors had been constant destabilization of that region by NATO that being said if you are bombing civilians and you are agreeing to create corridors to allow civilians safe passage and you bomb those well that kind of sounds a little bit like to me the act of a crazed maniac but Claire Daley jumping to his defense and stating that you know the West NATO has a role to play has a responsibility in this do you agree with her perhaps 08 660 25,000 08 660 25,000 or give us a call on 07 491 25,000 now I think I'm joined on the program now by Swiss Lana Perch who is from Ukraine but living in Donegal can you hear me okay sweet Lana okay well I'm just not getting you there for a moment what I'll do is I'll take a short break and then we'll be back with sweet Lana get your views and comments into us 08 660 25,000 08 660 25,000 or call us an 07 491 25,000 the 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union mortgages now available with a personalized service from your local and friendly credit union email mortgage at letter Kenny see you.ie study at the College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise this September Caffrey is Northern Ireland specialist agri-food and land-based college with campuses at Greenmount Antrim Loughry Cookstown and Ennis Gillan discover courses in agriculture food horticulture equine forestry veterinary nursing land-based engineering and business join our virtual open week each evening on discover Caffrey Facebook from Monday 7th of March for event information visit CAFRE.ac.uk attention all tractor and forklift owners Donnie Gall Tires and Donnie Gall Town is a leading supplier of agricultural and solid forklift tires in the Northwest with a huge range available at competitive prices Donnie Gall Tires can help you choose the correct tire for your application and we will come to you so no downtime check out Donnie Gall Tires.com or call 07 497 21482 that's Donnie Gall Tires Donnie Gall Town where you'll get a great deal see Andre Ryu with Highland Radio at the Three Arena Dublin on the rescheduled date of Saturday the 14th of May 2022 the package includes luxury transfers accommodation on a bed and breakfast basis at the City North Hotel and your ticket to the show all for 275 euro per person sharing a 60 euro single supplement applies a 100 euro non-refundable deposit required to secure your place Andre Ryu at the Three Arena Dublin May 2022 call Highland Radio on 07 491 25,000 to secure your place the perfect Mother's Day gift. Breedon's furniture Cooley Maville with over 40 years of experience in furniture and floor coverings they've got Irish made furniture suites beds mattresses dining flooring slide robes and occasional furniture great prices and large selection now available at Breedon's home furnitures Cooley Maville Milford Tiles wood flooring and bathware Milford Retail Park now open large range of wall and floor tiles on display and in stock over 70 different laminate floors to suit every pocket Tyler's and wood footers available new bathware showroom now open Milford Tiles wood flooring and bathware 083 091 0707 welcome back to the program and I hope I can hear sweet Lana now good morning sweet Lana. How are you? No, I think you might be muted. Sorry. Yeah, sweet Lana. If you could just unmute for us. Okay, I tell you while sweet Lana does that I think I can also welcome on to the program Natasha Baburoa. Good morning to you Natasha. How are you keeping? Good morning, keeping well. Yeah, it's difficult, isn't it? Yes, it's very, very difficult. Okay, tell us how long is it since you moved from Ukraine to Donegal? I've been to Ireland for 12 years. And have you still got family and friends? I wonder back in Ukraine and are you able to stay in contact with them? What are they saying to you? Thanks God I can contact them and even video. I have all relative parents, sister nephews, aunts, uncles, everybody there. And what part of Ukraine are they in? It's like central or southern western part of Ukraine. You know, it was yesterday I said it is quiet there, but maybe in 30 minutes they bombed airport near and are your family able to to flee to safety or the hold up awaiting what's next? What what is the situation? They're waiting because my parents are old enough to move anywhere. And my father said I will die here and my nature and I won't move anywhere. So they're hoping staying. It must be incredibly difficult for you. Yes, it's very difficult. Very difficult for me. My husband and my friends here in Montana will support me. Did you ever think this could happen? I mean you left Ukraine, I think shortly after Crimea was annexed. So we were all aware of what Putin was capable of. But did you ever think that he would go for a full scale invasion of your country? Never, never. Because we hope that the man has a bit of mind, a bit of brain in his head, but we're wrong. It's his devil, just simple devil. Stay with me, because as I mentioned, I want to bring also into the program a SWAT-LANA purchase. SWAT-LANA, sorry about the issue there. I suppose you're probably in a very similar situation. I mean, does it seem almost unreal when you see what's happening and when you hear from Ukraine what's happening? For me it's unreal. I still cannot believe that in 21st of century we had the third war in Ukraine. Before I read about the war in the books, but now I'm watching the news, I'm chatting with my parents, with my family and there is real war in Ukraine. It's unbelievable. And it seems that the intent is to destroy Ukraine physically and to completely break the will of the people. That seems to be the motivation. It's really hard to say, but a big city in Ukraine all destroyed. The people lost their lives, the kids. For yesterday I think it was 78 kids that lost their lives in the war. The people fled, the people ran away from the east part of Ukraine and they found the shelter in the west part in Poland, in other country that wants to help them. They support them. This is a difficult question for me to ask because obviously there's a great deal of pride and passion, but there seems to never to the ability to this. You know, the West are not going to get involved like the Ukrainian president might like them to. Russia, Putin, sorry, is incredibly determined it seems and has all the tools in his arsenal to wipe Ukraine out. And every day lives are being lost, you know, innocent lives are being lost. Is it time that maybe if an inevitable was accepted and we try to negotiate some sort of an agreement that that would save lives, I just wonder how many lives will be lost before we get to what seems to be the inevitable outcome. Does that make sense? It's a difficult question to ask, but it's a difficult question because nobody knows what can happen tomorrow. Maybe he he will occupy western part of Ukraine. Maybe he's the Russian soldiers been moved to after Q they can move to Lviv or other big cities of Ukraine. Nobody knows how many like how many lives. And also we don't know what his intentions might be when he reaches the western border. I mean, Poland probably after Ukraine, he can occupy Poland and after Poland, he can move forward. Are you still able to stay in contact with your family? Yes, I am keeping in contact with my family on the phone and online for now. For now they are safe because my family lives in the western part of Ukraine, but they are living in fair. They are preparing, they are building shelter in the basement. They have all documents in a case in any bomb attack, they can move out, but for now they they don't want to leave Ukraine. They want to stay at home at their home. Natasha, I mean, what would you what do you see as not a solution to this or what would you like to see to try and, you know, stop this awful bloodshed that we're seeing? Okay, that's Natasha on the on the phone line there. But yeah, Natasha, what would you like? Yes, go ahead. Sorry. You see, we don't ask any Ukrainians don't ask NATO or Western countries to decide to go and fight. We ask to protect us to protect the sky because you see Russian army, it doesn't have any dignity because they breaches all the rules and laws of the war. So we just ask to defend us. We will fight with them on our own, but just protect the sky because they use missiles and aircraft to bomb civilians. We don't need like American hands to come to our land and fight for us. We just ask to protect us. Yes, but of course, the Vladimir Putin has said that he would see that as, you know, direct West versus Russia engagement that would drag the West into the war. And, you know, NATO are arguing that we'd be seeing a European or global war and war. And those are the reasons why that can't be done. But I mean, I know, speaking to some Ukrainians say we're already in a third world war. Oh, my God, you see, to solve this problem, we need more voices from all over the world. I mean, the politicians and deputies from Western countries. All right, listen, I want to bring Swetlana back in on that same question. You know, obviously, the people of Bunkrana, Donegal, Ireland and elsewhere, they're doing everything they can to raise money to send what might be needed. Of course, that is to be appreciated, Swetlana. But does it feel that the West is not doing enough? They have, I think they have to close the sky. And everyone from Ukraine, everyone is praying that the sky will be closed. But what about the argument again? I'll put the same question to you, because the argument is that that leads to an inevitable, you know, world war. Yeah, I understand. I understand. I don't know. What can I say? No. Yeah, how did we end up in this situation? Everyone is helping. Everyone is supporting. But I don't think it's enough to stop Putin. Okay, and I suppose, as I said, the argument is, is does he stop here? But it's just awful to say, I mean, it must be, I'm not trying to be emotional here, but it must feel awful knowing that you can never return to Ukraine, even if you, you know, the war ended and you left tomorrow, the Ukraine that you left behind you, Swetlana, is not there anymore. The buildings have been razed to the ground. Everything destroyed, but the Ukrainian people is, the Ukrainian people are so tough. And I think if the, the, the, the war will stop, they started to rebuild their building. They started to rebuild their cities. Everything, hopefully, I hope I 100% sure that everything will back to normal. All right, thank you very much for joining us. I really do appreciate it. And I'll put the same question to you. I mean, do you, what is your feelings, Natasha, when you think of, you know, the Ukraine that you know, at least in terms of the buildings and infrastructure, it's never to be returned to it's being destroyed with every passing day. You see, we Ukrainians like love Ukraine as a mother. And we will rebuild everything. And we will keep our mother Ukraine to back again. And everything will come as it was before. Nothing will remind us about this war. Okay, listen, thank you very much for joining us and giving your insight into that. That was two members of the Donegal Ukrainian community, Switlana Perch and Natasha Baberoa. And we appreciate their time this morning. Now to some of your comments and keep them coming into a 08 660 25,000. That's the WhatsApp number. That's the text number. Or give us a call on 07491 25,000. This caller says, now just let me get down to that. Greg, good morning. And the Highland team. Donegal County Council is rated the worst council in Ireland for granting planning permission for housing. A good friend and his wife have been turned down planning permission for house on two different sites 20 miles apart from each other. And now Ireland being in a housing crisis and Donegal, especially bad with Micah, why is Donegal County Council so harsh to their own people? I'm putting planning permission in on my own land and soon and already know I'm facing a battle like thousands of Donegal people before me. I think the council is wrong in this and the government needs to step in and review the councils working here in Donegal. This feeds into the decline in population as people leave Donegal. Is this the policy of the council? Another caller says, Clare Daily saying what the hub of the issue is. I feel sorry for the Ukrainian people, but joining NATO was never an option. Pewter did warn them. The first casualty of war is always the truth. That's one of you. Is Minister Charlie McConnelogue suggesting farmers go back to skies? Farmers were mixed back in the 40s and farmers knew how to grow grains and vegetables. Machinery was nonexistent by thrashing machines and six times as many people were employed on farms. Mixed farming is more sustainable, but farmers cannot switch overnight. Come April, we won't be able to get diesel and petrol or home heating oil. Has Charlie McConnelogue considered the weather at the moment? Farmers can't even walk in their fields. For me, I'm trying to get machinery into them and I just presume, as I presume, that that's going to depend on what part of the country you live in, the type of land that you have. Another caller says, one thing I don't agree with is people from Russia living in this country being targeted and hassled because of the war. Is that happening? You do hear reports of it, but there are Russians and we heard from one of our guests on the Friday panel on Friday. There are Russians who live here and proudly support what Putin is doing. They would perhaps be along the same mindset of as Clare Daly and others. We can't presume that all Russians are completely aghast as what is going on. I don't know what the breakdown of those that might support Putin versus those that would not is. Greg, America has no room to talk. They've done the same thing in Vietnam. People have a short memory, but thank you for reminding us. Okay, 086, 6025,000. 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We've never seen, we've never been in any situation like this, but when we got up to Medica we ended up going into like a primary school that's probably about 80 or 800 meters from the Ukrainian border and they take people to this school to process them and they're only brought in there for between five and 24 hours and then they're sent on the way to wherever they're going. And you know, reading accounts of people that two weeks ago they had, say for instance, just taken the keys of a new apartment or had started a new job or had just started a family and then, you know, I think, well I think it's pretty much generally accepted completely out of the blue. Here we are less than two weeks later and for these people everything has changed and it's fantastic that many of them are being accommodated with other families but I can only begin to imagine the impact this is having on these people, on their on their physical, but of course their mental well-being. Yeah, of course it is. So last night when we were driving back to work we're based in one of the larger towns just outside the border and the reason we've baked ourselves here is that most of the big stores like camping shops and various different things and truth, they're all here so we what we do is we go to the digger every day and these guys give us a list of what they need, the most urgent, kind of so from we head back and then we approach it. And last night as we were coming back there was a filling station on the motorway and it's just full of cars, full of people that just cross the border and they're actually norm, they're actually completely norm to what's happening. And it's not norm, they're in shock and yeah we're seeing this, yeah. It must seem as I said earlier, it must seem like unbelievable for these people. And what kind of, I mean obviously you're incredibly busy, are you having an opportunity to speak what are they telling you of what they've left behind? Well they're not, we're not trying to approach them because you know we're not, you can visibly see that they're devastated. So what we've, what we've been doing is just giving away the standalone just to let them know that you know that we're people are supporting them and they're all over the world but it's not your source that are here, there's people here from like Sweden, Switzerland, Norway you know huge amounts of humanitarian quarries that have been in these situations many times. And yeah the support behind these people is amazing, absolutely amazing but it's still devastating to see what's going on. So we're not seeing anything in terms of we don't see anything to do with any of the war you know very little kind of militant presence where we are all we're seeing is the human side of the people that have just got over the border, the lucky people that got over the border. And of course I think it's widely known at this stage that you know 18 to 60 year old men I understand there's a directive that they have to stay in Ukraine so is it the overwhelming majority of those crossing the border is it women women and children? Yeah women and children. And you know of course a lot of the people we've already we've been speaking to on this program never thought this would happen in Ukraine I wonder have you had an opportunity to speak to people living in Poland and is there a sense that you know is Putin going to stop at the border there or what's his greater plan is their concern or fear or is everyone at the moment just focused on helping their Ukrainian neighbors? Yeah that's it the Polish people are just focusing on helping people but I have to say that from the Polish side they couldn't do any more for these people they're totally accommodating even to us to make sure that we can keep going and keep moving and buying materials and whatever it is we have to do but the support here is incredible and going to let you talk to a very good friend of mine and this this old sparked off to us from the phone calls he made to me last Sunday about making a donation to this cause and from that conversation we said look let's get in the van let's get out there let's fly out there and let's do something and let's help so this is this is Peter and he's from Poland but he lived and on lived and on for many many years and it was Peter that kind of woke me up to what was going on so can I put you on to him please yes please thanks hello Peter good morning to you good morning to you how are you um well obviously my name is uh Peter Segola I'm like I was born in Poland and uh I'm living about 16 years and end of it um one question you said uh before about um about what people are feeling okay we've met a Ukrainian guy yesterday that he went for his business trip to Abu Dhabi right and um his flight was cancelled because obviously the war started he only like he only married yesterday and what he said was that um look I could be actually dead by this day if I flew if the the the flight wasn't cancelled you know and I just kind of a um like it you know it's hard to talk about it and stuff you know and now with Polish people here on the border you know they they still like feeling very very stressed about the whole situation you know and they'll be worrying about the um atomic bomb you know coming and and stuff like it is just hard you know for everybody here especially at the border side because I don't think people realize what's happening here um like yesterday we went to Pshenesh one of the um one of the cities uh nearby Medica you know that the Polish Ukrainian crossing um like what we've seen over there it was probably nothing but it was just devastating your head the border this way which topped there was a lot of fans there was a lot of people kids you know uh police medics and stuff you know like everybody trying to bring these people in and and just help them out um which was very hard to look at uh like I mean breaking the heart you know yes so I mean obviously you were so moved to to make the calls that you did to try and get over there to help and I'll put the same question to you that I that I put to Alan nothing perhaps could have prepared prepared you for what it actually is like when you're there and you can witness it with your own eyes the only the only thing like we're really here to to to aware of people and and and just say it from an Irish side of point of view you know what way does it look over here you know we're posting this stuff and and and and and everything else like we're trying to help like we've spent a lot of money and we've donated a lot of money as well you know just to go buy the materials and and and just get it over across the border you know like two days ago um we've we've met a guy from Switzerland you know uh his name was Philip Weinberg and um Philip basically was doing the human Italian transport for the last 25 years and um the stuff that we stand which was about 30 000 lotto so seven that's roughly saying seven and a half thousand euros yes all the stuff that we bought went straight away to his truck and an hour later were they left to leave and just to to get the stuff over you know and the generators like I've seen your man crying and he said guys that's gonna like the generator is going to save a lot of lives thank you very much for giving me that because we couldn't get it at all you know something amazing like I mean seeing a man in his whatever age he was for I think over 50 anyway crying like baby you know just to see the situation that he is going to help only because somebody's giving a generator you know he said it's going to save a lot of lives you know so it's very emotional as well yeah and speaking to Alan there you know and I've heard other reports that um that really the needs the support is being tailored to the needs of the people so with that in mind are people you know obviously they want to gather up things like sleeping bags or coats or whatever they might be but it's money really is it money that is is required to support these people do you think Alan because then of course you know their individual needs can be more catered for yeah so it is money is the forefront of what they need at the moment so they there's huge donations of and as you you're driving up the motorways you know you got all these these points where people are being taken out of Ukraine and they have these like clothing banks and they've got food banks so there's plenty of food here there's plenty of clothes here but the essential stuff that needs to get across the border we need the purchase here that's not being donated because people don't know what they're you know exactly what's needed so today today it's about generators baby food and yeah kind of team team good so every every time we arrive back on the border the stuff that we have in there it goes they they take a look we open the vine they take a look and they go that and the minute they see something that's essential it's taken from the vine and it's put into another man that's driven straight to the border so but we so when we were talking to the boys in the Red Cross so what they what they've told us is that what we're going to see coming across the border in the next four to five days is going through the actual the casualties the battle casualties of war the people that have been shot whatever so they're coming across but there's an essential need for sanitizing at the moment so you know you can imagine that people are bunkered down for the last two weeks or it'll be about two weeks and when they come over there's the Red Cross have told us that it's going to be about keeping people sanitized and keeping stuff so we own a company in Arnhem called Sanitization Arnhem and we we we set our company up to deal with Covid so we have developed a number of different ways of sterilizing costumes so we worked directly for the film industry and why we developed these eight kind of tonneau so we've we've developed these sanitizing tonneau and that they they were developed because all the costumes that were on the films they you couldn't watch this equipment so it had to be it had to be sanitizing sterilized so we we came up with a decontamination tunnel where we put all the costumes into these tonneau then we pump it full of chemicals and we pressurize it and that those chemicals get impregnated into the clothes and that keeps it clean so we just realized that it's essential that we get that equipment from Arnhem to here so we have guys loading the equipment in Arnhem today we're going to bring it up to the border where we are on the border in a couple of days that's going to turn into a medical field what's it called it's going to be a field hospital set up on the border crossing where on yes as soon as that stuff is coming in there's no time to wash this stuff or whatever else so we will push everything we yeah we'll push everything we'll push everything through that tunnel and keep handling everything back that sterilize back to the the medics and and the people that are doing okay so it'll be you know sheets bedding anything like that tell and without washing it we can actually sterilize it and know that when we hand that back to them there's no cross-contamination okay listen Alan thank you very much for giving us that update from the the Polish Ukrainian border thanks very much to Peter as well we appreciate your time this morning and the work that you're doing thank you okay 08 660 25000 that's the whatsapp or text number 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Right okay everyone will know now we're seeing the fuel prices increase I think you know prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that the notion was is that we would have you know we'd see them come back a little bit as as inflation fell that's clearly not the case we are looking at medium at least medium term anyway I mean how high can can these prices go? I mean only a fool will try and speculate on oil prices and or somebody who has inside information and I don't. Look the reality is yes you're right we were at high prices already a large part of that though was kind of related to Ukraine or Russian pressure on Ukraine and concerns around the security of supply of Russian oil and gas but since the invasion has happened that has really ratcheted up the inflationary pressure on fuel prices so it's it is a very difficult situation we think there is only one way out of it though which is you know a year ago government was taking 23 cent per litre in VAT on diesel today they're taking 37.5 cent it's slightly less the change is slightly less on petrol but the government is collecting an extra 36 million euro per month from Irish motorists in VAT on the back of these increased fuel prices we think they need to address that quickly and the best way to do that is for them to reduce exercise duty that's something they can do well yeah they have to do something though but before we talk more about the prices we have to also talk about the supply because I mean it was only a deal Shell did in the last couple of days in buying oil from Russia discounted oil from Russia that is giving some certainty about supplies for the coming weeks so you know are we going to be you know maybe arguing the toss over the cost of this this product and really find ourselves struggling to even acquire it well right now we have adequate stock in Ireland and the supply chain is looking like we will continue to have adequate supply so we're not terribly concerned on that level so long as purchasing habits don't change dramatically and we have to be straight and say that you know as prices have increased very quickly people have very reasonably said well listen I've had a stock up because it might be more expensive tomorrow or next week whatever so you see people stocking up on home heating oil and even the fuel for their own cars perhaps more significantly high volume uses hauliers, farmers whatever have been stocking up and that has created a little bit of a problem just in terms of meeting all of that extra surge in demand right now but we're on top of it and we're confident that we will remain so yeah because I mean I'm hearing of people trying to order order home heating oil being told there's no stocks available also those that might you know maybe in the tax industry or boss industry that would buy it in bulk so they can fill at the yard having difficulties in obtaining supply I don't think it's fair to say that they're being told there is not what maybe what people are being told is perhaps that they have to wait an extra couple of days for delivery because we do have that surge in demand or people are being limited the volumes that they can buy so I know that there are a number of of home heating oil suppliers including in Donegal who are limiting deliveries to 500 litres because you know what's happening is people are saying I don't normally buy in March but because the prices are going high I want to get them in quickly and if everybody does that we could have a challenge to meet demand so what we're saying is 500 litres you all know 500 litres will last you quite a while in a home heating oil system unless you have a huge house then we think that's a reasonable limit at the moment okay so that is actually is that a dictate is that an industry-wide then generally speaking oh no no no no no no but it's just it's an explanation for what we're seeing okay I get you I get you sorry I just want to be really clear if that's okay so realistically what do you think the government will do and this is not something that really can be delayed I'd imagine if it's going to happen it needs to it needs to happen soon for all the reasons that's been outlined so realistically you know what do you think the government can do and I suppose what do you think the government might do what they can do should do and I hope will do is reduce excise duty governments say that they can't change the VAT rates without going to Europe that some people have a different view but we don't have time for the debate we know categorically that they can reduce the excise duty at the stroke of a pen it's ministerial order and they need to do that quickly and they need to do that you know this talk you've seen government have been floating over the weekend that they may do something in two weeks it's too late you know your listeners our consumers are paying over the odds right now and the only winner in that is government as I say 36 million per month extra unexpected revenue so we're not by reducing the excise duty we're not saying government should take less from from fuel suppliers and from fuel customers they should take what they were planning to take in the first place that's all okay listen thanks very much for your insight I really appreciated Kevin we'll see what comes of that 08 660 25000 a quick chat to caller John good morning John yes Greg how you doing? I'm free weaning down Largie Brack here do you see a petrol it needs an all right oh my god it's getting crazy but if we have supplies if we have supplies in the country why is this so expensive I mean the government could take the tax down a bit or the the duties the only thing about it is John a couple of weeks ago the cost of the fuel would be at where we would be at if the government caught the tax and we were already complaining about how it was if that makes sense yeah but it's a year old now the government's getting a year old out of that later there whatever we're paying a two to two-thirty probably down to a week but I mean it's going to be so expensive now to live people's buses taxis it's just not going to cut me a grass as I was saying there I'm just saying it's just um I don't know what's it all about you'd think twice on it well I mean I'll you're going to let the grass go now for a little bit of the wilderness here this year okay hopefully it's not that bad but I do know we're already sort of you know like everyone I think I would say is looking at their home heating consumption and and and their you know their fuel I mean it's reality this is not something coming down the line this is what we're doing now we're being cautious about what we're spending we have to be exactly I mean you go to the shops everything's up price of food the price of bread the price of bulk everything's through the roof not a season right John like the one okay then nobody seems to be doing all the 90 noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkennycu.ie letterkenny show society export show and sale of 55 pedigree bowls will take place this Tuesday evening the 8th of March at rafomart judging at 3 p.m. with the sale at 6 30 p.m. there will be 200 euro for the buyers of the two top price charlie and limousine bowls online bidding available via marbids.ie all online customers and northern 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corridors in several cities including the capital of kiv people fleeing residential areas of nearby earpene were killed during russian shelling yesterday meanwhile people are continuing to move across neighbouring borders with the number fleeing to poland since the start of the invasion now reaching over a million and netflix and tiktok are the latest firms to suspend most of their services in russia while accontency firms pwcm kpmg are withdrawing operations too the latest assessment from the uk's ministry of defence today suggests mosco's forces are probably targeting ukrain's communication infrastructure ukrain's president vladimir zelanskiy says russia's caused long lasting pain and destruction following its invasion we will not forgive the destroyed houses we will not forgive the missile that our air defense shot down and more than 500 other such missiles that hit our land all over ukraine hit our people and children oil prices have hit a new 14 year high it hit $139 a barrel at one stage but has now fallen back a little those prices haven't been seen since the financial crash of 2008 the u.s and europe are now also considering an outright ban of the import of russian oil meanwhile the prices at the petrol pumps here continue to rise over the weekend however kevin mcpartlin of fuels for arland says panic buying is making the problem worse fuel is very expensive to store and it's a very expensive product to sit on so we don't have thousands of tons of it hanging around waiting it's always just in time so if people start buying more than their normal buying patterns then then we could i'm certainly not suggesting we have a problem but we you know down the line we could have a problem so we're saying to people just keep it calm buy what you need buy your normal patterns and we grant there are calls for the haps game to be extended so more mica families can access it hap is a form of social housing support provided by donnie goll candy council where it makes a monthly payment to a landlord however it's means tested resulting in a lot of families not being able to qualify for the scheme this is despite many paying for a mortgage on a crumbling home and having to rent somewhere else counselor martin McDermott says the council could play a big role in building a case for those affected the council can play a massive role here and as the chief executive and the and the director of housing you know what their meetings with the department the senior department officials with the ministers that they can push that case very very hard for the people here in donnie golland and to be fair the chief executive gives that commitment that he would do that wind energy was ireland's number one source of electricity last month a report by wind energy ireland shows wind provided 53 percent of ireland's electricity in february a record high this comes after energy prices soared and recent months worsened by russia's invasion of ukraine no knif ceo of wind energy ireland says the best days are yet to come for renewables we're really just at the start of something very special realizing the potential for ireland in terms of the amount of renewables that we can create here in ireland and ensuring that more and more of our energy comes from it seeing a figure like 53 percent of all of our electricity coming from wind energy in february that will become the norm as we try to move forward and the goal for 2030 is to try and hit 80 percent of all of our electricity coming from renewable energy like wind and there's further calls in donnie golland council to to promote greening of alia moore there's said to be a lack of signage and information at the tourist attraction located in burt and south in ashoan it's been five years since the opw agreed to a conservation management plan for the site but little progress has been made to date kahir love donnie golland council councillor jack murray wants a renewed focus on the project he believes a little would go a long way greening's already punching well in between that we've over 100,000 visitors every year and that's without really selling as much as it can be so you can only imagine the potential once greening is truly promoted bringing people into ashoan across donnie golland and the wider north west it's something we can really really utilize and really tap into weather now a dry start this morning with a mix of cloud and bright spells temperatures of 68 degrees we're back with the headlines for you at 11 o'clock until then good morning the obituary notices for monday morning the 6th of march the death as a card of michael duddy matta villager michael ward his remains will be reposing at his home from four o'clock today funeral mass on wednesday at 1 o'clock in zane bridget's church litter mackle ward with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of vincent mcgloughlin drummerville lechamy vincent's remains will repose at his home in drummerville from four o'clock today house private to family and close friends please vincent's funeral mass will take place on wednesday morning at 11 o'clock in san mary's church bockon cull daff followed by burial in the adjoining graveyard the funeral mass can be viewed live on cull daff parish dot com the death has taken place of isabel murr knee beaty 14 aard column kill letter kenny removal from the eternal light chapel of rest mountain top letter kenny today at quarter past four going to relate residents house private to family close friends and neighbours please funeral service in the family home on wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock followed by interment in gortley cemetery letter kenny family flowers only please donations and lua flowers if desired to conwall parish church care of any family member the death has taken place of willie daugherty ballet bow convoy county dunny gall and formally of glenn mcquinn willie's remains will be reposing at his son liam's residence at ballet bow convoy from six o'clock this evening funeral from there on wednesday morning at half past 10 going to san mary's church convoy for 11 o'clock recreation mass and term it afterwards in the new cemetery in convoy family flowers only please donations and lua flowers if desired to the dunny gall alcimer association care of any family member the death has occurred of breed bradley knee McGee 25 glib hollows from orler and formally of mean lara gortha hork her remains are opposing at her late residence funeral leaving her late residence tomorrow at two o'clock for requiem mass at half past two in st patrick's church crossroads kiley gordon and term it afterwards in the adjoining church yard the requiem mass will be streamed live on st patrick's church crossroads kiley gordon facebook page the house is private to family and close friends only please the death has taken place of rachel brennan knee lafferty 15 dublin road stirban and formally of ballon drait reposing at her home today from two o'clock this afternoon funeral leaving her home tomorrow evening at half past six going to st patrick's church murlock lyford requiem mass on wednesday morning at 10 o'clock in term and afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the house is private to family and friends only please the requiem mass can be viewed live via the parish webcam the death has taken place of mary magnum e drumini letter canny mary's remains are opposing at her niece cathleen and joe crawford's residence at carrigna manna kiley gordon the house is private to family only please funeral from their tomorrow morning at half past nine traveling via mary's home at drumini letter canny at approximately quarter past 10 going to st unan's cathedral letter canny for 11 o'clock requiem mass which can be viewed live on church services dot tv in term and afterwards in conwall cemetery letter canny family flowers only please donations and lua flowers if desired to the donnie gall alzheimer association care of any family member the death has taken place of joseph cambell drumini glennie lee his remains are opposing at his sister mary macarren's residence at drumini glennie lee funeral leaving there tomorrow morning at quarter past 10 for requiem mass in st mary's church bockon kildaf at 11 o'clock in term and afterwards in the adjoining cemetery the death has taken place of andivani our crone key road dunlow her remains are opposing at her late residence funeral mass tomorrow at 12 noon in st crona's church dunlow within term and afterwards in maharie cemetery house private to family close friends and neighbours only family flowers only donations and lua to the donnie gall hospice care of any family member or shaw mcglenn funeral director the death has occurred in glasgow of charlie mcgeever formally of balibose vulcara his remains are opposing at his late residence in glasgow removal from there going to the church of christ the king carmonic road tomorrow at half past seven to repose overnight funeral mass on wednesday morning at 10 o'clock burial afterwards in lynn cemetery the funeral mass can be viewed live on ctkg.org the death has occurred of dimtna woodforth knee kelly miltine convoy her remains are opposing at the home of her brother unan kelly in miltine and convoy funeral leaving from there tomorrow morning at 20 to 11 for requiem mass at 11 o'clock in st mary's church convoy in term and afterwards in the old cemetery the death has taken place of bertha gamble baliboe kill mcglennan conty donnie gall bertha's remains are opposing at her late residence family home private two family and close friends please funeral from there today at half past one going to later presbyterian church later kill mcglennan for funeral service at two o'clock which can be viewed live on craig's media facebook page in term and afterwards in the adjoining churchyard family flowers only please donations and lieu of flowers if desired to the donnie gall hospice or to wild arlyn muff conty donnie gall care of any family member family time on the morning of the funeral please the death has occurred of jim boil brocky vintra road kelly begs conty donnie gall and formerly of crocna gapilar dry his remains are opposing at his late residence for family close friends and neighbours removal from his home this morning at half past ten going to st mary of the visitation church kelly begs for 11 o'clock funeral mass burial afterwards in the local cemetery the mass will be streamed live on mcn media dot tv the death has taken place of unna mcgloughlin church bray green castle unna's remains are opposing at her home funeral in st mary's church balibrak green castle this morning at 11 o'clock followed by burial in the adjoining burial ground family time before the funeral this morning please donations and lieu of flowers if so desired to the donnie gall hospice care of any family member on the death has occurred of sassel brown grange inch island his remains are opposing at his late residence funeral service in his home tomorrow at 2 o'clock followed by removal to inch presbyterian graveyard for burial in the family plot family time from 12 midnight to 12 noon family flowers only please donations and lieu if desired to the orna lie care of any family member or murphy funeral directors for more details including any family health guidelines for wicks and funerals please go to highlandradio.com compuby has upgraded select is the new name for your local apple expert a next level experience from the same great crew offering the full apple range with training repairs tech support and more buy any iphone ipad or mac and get a three-year extended warranty seven-day tech support and a training course worth up to 339 euro on us only at select see what our knowledge can do for you visit us in store or online at selectonline.com terms and conditions apply okay you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show here on highland radio um some of your comments coming into us and thanks for keeping us so busy by the way just a reminder for you 08 660 25 000 whatsapp some text or call 07491 25 000 or if you're watching us on our social media feel free to leave your comments there as well uh caller says claire daley is 100 correct she's telling the facts greg that does not mean she supports putin on what he does it's a view hardly ever heard on western media if people think this is all putin's fault they really need to question things more are people really going to take the usa and uk word on everything do people really think these big powers care about ukraine or its people when the thousands of people in the donbas region were being bombed and murdered where was the condemnation then did those people lives not matter as they say in a war there are worthy and unworthy victims that was that's what it looks like here putin does not want war with ukraine he's been saying that all along but the us uk nato would not listen it's not a case of we aren't the good guys and he's the bad guy please balance your reporting more well if you listen to the program on friday uh you would have heard the precise conversation you're having being had and of course then there is all the you could say western hypocrisy uh in that you know we are um sanctioning russia for what they're doing yet no sanctions or or uh you know distancing from the likes of israel and yet then we have the the head of israel being lauded for his intervention uh trying to get um some sort of a negotiated settlement between russia and ukraine i do get where you're coming from and if you listen to the program in its round uh you will get that point of view as well and although what's the point of the un and nato etc when a superpower can murder and pillage a small country whilst risking the world's environment and future it's time to show that this form of colonialism can no longer be done on innocent human beings but of course as other callers have been pointing out there is a history uh there is a history here um now uh could you give the coffee morning in milford a plug of course i can it's on today in milford and district resource center it runs from uh now until one p.m it's in aid of the red cross ukraine appeal so if you feel a little bit helpless and you want to help these people well then you can get along and support that initiative there and just on an unrelated matter i tried on friday to get through 40 times on the phone uh to my gp no one would answer they say the patient went to the emergency department and was given out for not contacting the gp first but told them the problem can gps not start answering the phones again since they no longer have the pandemic to blame is uh are the gps open is it on a sunday you ring the gp is it now doc i'm not sure certainly saturday i believe it's now doc uh but yep we've highlighted that a number of times on this program as well right okay keep the calls and comments coming through all of them by the way and there is a mix and i'm reading that mix we've lots coming up in the program um after 11 o'clock we hope to be joined by minister charlie mcconnellogue he's going to be chatting with us um he's going to be chatting with us about those calls well firstly about how this crisis has gone to impact farmers and everyone really effectively but also the suggestion that farmers could be growing more grain our monday focus today it's a tough subject but it's an important subject and we're going to be talking about supports for grieving parents lots of parents are predeceased or have gone through loss and there are supports out there we're going to be speaking to two guests on that issue an important issue that's part of our monday focus as well and the census forms will be heading out soon if you haven't received yours already so we're going to be finding out what's happening there and what our uh ask of us is or our obligation all that's going to be teased out but stay tuned we will be back 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play so far this year so who are you backing underdog or favorite visit betway.com or download the app 18 plus t's and c's apply done louis dot net bet the responsible way with all the stories that matter across the northwest it's greg hughes on the nine to noon show on the highland radio okay and you are very welcome back to the program welcome on to it raymond good morning to you raymond good morning greg how's the form it's okay all things considered what's the story with you well i i i just heard on rt radio news this morning that apparently finna gale and finna foil want to create 15 new tgpd or you know tock Doyle positions down in dublin there and you know i i just stopped you know i mean you know this this is pantomime if you will to corruption you know and and it's like finna gale finna foil in the latest i think red sea poles are both pulling somewhere about 20 25 percent and it looks like they're expecting in the next election whenever that comes to maybe lose 20 seats so you know basically let's see if we can protect 15 if you will of the boys and girls in our party here and keep them in if you will the lifestyles they have become accustomed to and like you know this this is not democracy and yeah well i i'm slightly disadvantaged raymond i didn't hear um that this morning and i've not been able to see any reference to it anywhere at all so i'm kind of a wee bit hamstrung and and going on a wing and a prayer with you on this one uh so i can't even make a counterpoint to you but you can't see any logic even with an increased population for an increase in representation of the people in in the doll you think now is certainly not the time if ever i mean i you know like like ireland has a national debt somewhere in excess of 250 billion euros i believe as a result of the pandemic and previous to that we had the Celtic tiger crash and and like i mean i i'm sure you i'm sure you remember back during the latter days of Celtic tiger the the tvs and Dublin were all taking credit for a look at the phenomenal job we've done with the economy and we certainly deserve much more money here and and it seems to be sort of a repeat in the opposite direction here because i i just i can't see anything other than you know they're looking to pad their back pockets in here and they're looking to protect you know tvs that are going to you know perhaps lose out to another major political party in the next election here and and this is not allowed from my understand the only thing is i don't get the logic there i mean unless they were placed in strategic constituencies and you knew how people were going to vote i mean you could find yourself uh you could find yourself disadvantaged by a further 15 td's in in in power you know what i mean that Sinn Fein tds for example or independents or whatever it might be uh have you a view on um i mean i i get the sense Raymond that you might already be you know not in favour of these st patrick's day trips but we've had quite a few texts in and i'm just curious if you have a view on it do you think given uh that the rising fuel costs what's going on uh particularly in europe at the moment do you think it would be a good idea for tds to defer these trips or do you think now more than ever we need to be you know forging new links maybe opening up new deals that that might need to be done what's your views on the st patrick's day trips at this point i think there is the people going overseas if it's genuine and and they're not if you will sort of junkets in here so yes there there's substantial merit for getting in front of people saying this is the case for ireland or this is the case for dunny gall and i mean yes there is now i mean obviously there's whole issues you know on the terrible terrible situation situation ukraine at the moment and i mean it's just horrible you know um you know but it's it would be good if the people in dublin and the department of foreign affairs decided that ireland should take a leadership position in peacekeeping in ukraine in here and i mean they got a seat on the security council and you know it it's you know i read they were getting that seat they gave out something like 4 000 euros in socks to you know members you know in united nations to get them the photo among others like sort of goodie bags that they handed out in here but yes i think there's merit in them going overseas um but i mean i wish you know they would be peacekeepers in here and and not sort of you know we've opted a stance not we those that represented us representatives have clearly adopted a stance listen rate thanks sir reman thanks for joining us appreciate it thank you bye bye okay carmel daherty is chairperson of the barrick hill town park steering committee in beautiful car and dunna and she joins us on the program now carmel thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us this morning you're very welcome greg it's good to have you with us right now you are raising awareness of an application for a significant project you give me the background to it you're you're the person in the know yeah well um i'm glad you said beautiful car and dunna because we absolutely think that up here and the project is to create a wildlife pond and a wetland area and most importantly for the community a five kilometer walking trail walking and cycling trail and um this project will increase our biodiversity because we will have wetland biodiversity and the shape of flowers trees rubs etc but i suppose most importantly for our community is it will link the whole community the housing the estates to the shops the schools the church and it will enable families to have a safe place to walk and to for their children to cycle their bikes and and along with that then it will be it will also help to mitigate flooding and that's an ongoing issue isn't it particularly around the mill brayer area understand absolutely mill bray is perennially i flooded and part of the flooding comes from the the area from the valley willy brook is the the river that we want to have the walking trail beside and um it floods and it floods the mill bray on its way into the dunna river um so this pond would collect the water and the native trees flourish rubs would have very deep roots and they'll also soak the water into the soil so it has multiple benefits yeah where are we at in terms of this i mean has a is it this is are we right at the beginning of this right at the sort of seedling stage of it or has a root been identified like if we got landowners on board you know what stage of the process are we out here carmel we are we are ready to go right if we get the funding we are shovel ready is as good as i can say it because we have the land is council land the stony gall kind of council land we have the senior roads engineer jemez hapkins jimmy mcglathlin the the other engineer patty mcglathlin on board we have you know widespread support from every community organization the schools i dp so we have a huge amount of work done but we cannot apply for the big funding until we have 6000 euro in our account now we're a new organization we set up in the 24th of march 2021 and we have no funding okay so what i mean can the council not provide this funding because i mean that's what we're being told we're paying our local property tax for you know projects such as these you know people might feel in the car and on area they're getting a bit of bang for their buck if they thought the local authority might assist as you say it's just the front load that the it's a lot of money but in the wider scale of things it's not a lot of money it's not a lot of money the council have been more than supportive of us to be quite honest with the barricale town park they've provided us with money to buy native plants native flowers etc and to do you know to upgrade the park so this i mean we are a community organization and we work with the council so it this fund this application is going to leader and that is a requirement of the leader application and i do i do understand that so how are you going to go about raising this thousand six thousand euro and how can people help yeah we set up a go fund me page and some we've a great committee here and we have a number of young mothers young parents on the committee and they're very tech savvy not like an old granny like me well we're doing okay this morning and so they set up the go fund me page and we have at the moment we have three thousand and twenty two hundred and fifty euro but we have that we're over halfway and you know what we're looking for is the community to get behind us and you know by getting behind us and reading what we have on the go fund me page it is educational as well and can i suggest to carmel for for those in this area this sounds like it's going to happen from from my brief reading on it in conversation with you a lot of money was issued in donagol for these type of projects if they're shovel ready you know you'd be in a really really good position for the next round of funding i think from whichever organization you you seek it from this sounds to me like if people have a spare couple of euro that this is a real investment in their in their own future and their children and children's future absolutely and i mean what we're looking for is small donations now we have one person did has already one business has already donated two thousand euro wow which is phenomenal do you know the name of the business it's a call center in town okay no no no reason because it's worth worth mentioning such a generous no i mean we were both way but what we're looking for is the small donations yes it's a few euros it's a five euro it's a 10 euro by people at home and abroad and i think that too would also indicate a which would be nice for those that have been working hard on this in the background it would also indicate as well as being important a broad community buy into this that they get the vision of it that they've read what you want to do and can see the merits in it you know so obviously there's a there'd be a lovely financial boost but i think there'd be a sort of a community emotional boost in there as well calm dare i be so bold as to suggest yeah absolutely the social mental physical well-being of you know results of this project would be phenomenal and it would be a it is a great community initiative and you know we feel you know apart from all the other benefits it would be an eco tourist attraction as well and we have big visions we would like to set up a biodiversity center in karendon now where all the local schools could come and do their school projects there as well yeah so it has massive beneficial multiple beneficial impacts for our community if we just can get to this final 6000 radio how do people if they want to get involved get involved and as you say this allows people maybe who haven't originally from karendon or maybe even people down the country or from across the water who'd like to visit karendon they can have they can have their involvement in this too so how do people do so yeah it's on the gofundme page it's on our facebook page barric hilltown park and community gardens facebook page and so you can donate through that and again any amount of money is we will be delighted with it all right it sounds to me like you're gonna get there but the sooner the better well done thank you so much for that caramel very interesting all right take care of yourself thank you okay oh eight six sixty twenty five thousand keep us busy on the lines this monday morning this caller says it's a rich man's war claire dale is for peace and wants no nuclear weapons she's a member of independence for change need i explain more what propaganda are you reading greg i don't understand what what do you think in any way was i disagreeing with claire dale the only thing and this is a personal view which i don't mind explaining regardless of any explanations and what you think is that the us is it russia is it north korea whatever personally for me anyone who bombs civilians okay and that could be in any direction could not is as far as i'm concerned um a crazed maniac because uh claire daley said um the war is happening uh the narrative that somehow the war is happening because we're dealing with some crazed maniac in the form of putin it's a distortion of reality yes i believe anyone regardless of where they're from if you're bombing innocent uh children uh and their parents well then um you know that to me is the actions of someone who's crazed uh totally admire the polish people in helping the families having to flee when asked why someone replied because no one done it for us when we needed it uh great do you think there is some price gouging going on for us it was brexit's fault then it was covid now it's the rusher invasion i mean price gouging i don't know i mean clearly and i highlighted this before we've i haven't we all know about this you can still save 10 12 13 cent per litre dependent on where in donogol you are okay is that price gouging i don't think it costs less money to sell a litre of petrol in i don't want to i say a time because i'm not talking about specific garages but it doesn't cost any less i don't think to sell petrol in milford as it might say for example in ballish annan i don't believe so if it's 13 for 12 13 cents more expensive in one place than the other is that gouging i'll let you decide what you think uh right uh re-rapid rise of petrol prices to do hope our politicians are not in convenience too much and are immediately recompensed by an increase in their travel expense allowance uh greg in light uh in light of price rises and fuel and food it's inconceivable that our politicians still intend to proceed with their st patrick's day junkets while families are struggling to get by scrap these trips now but as i say and i said it to rome until later on the argument could be well now is the time is it to go out and forge new relationships forge new we could maybe forge some bilateral deal with a country that has grain i don't know i'm being a bit naive maybe in that remark but maybe that's an argument as i say just trying to play both sides here um i don't i didn't know about feeling for politicians going to uh the ukraine if that happened this is what this text says what sense was there in two feeling for politicians going to ukraine uh did they deliver any much needed supplies there and managed to bring out any refugees was this just a political pr stunt i wonder another we need to open up our bogs again and power stations makes no sense bogs and board the mono closed and also important fuel well we've extended the uh life cycle the planned closure of some of our um some of our electricity generating plants for other reasons i just really think that this whole situation with what's going on globally kind of sets back the whole climate change argument a decade it feels to me another caller says what's the role of our catholic bishop he's getting paid to carry out confirmations and meet our young people but he's not present at any of them the pandemic is over no more excuses it's a disgrace well this has come in a couple of times over the last few weeks maybe caroline might get in contact with the bishop's office and to find out as to why things aren't uh now as they were another caller says there's no point in politicians from donagol going abroad to promote tourism as there won't be anywhere for tourists to stay as the government intends to house ukrainians in regional hotels i haven't heard that being uh suggested i'm not you know i suspect one td may have floated that as an idea um but i don't i don't see that being a runner um it's terrible about the war in ukraine but i think uh arland is only a small country and should not be drawing attention to itself by all the protesting i think it's a disgrace how the russian ambassador was treated in dublin well you would have heard i presumed the russian ambassador's comments on uh his national tv stations where he effectively said that we were almost like ringleaders uh in the uh the uh propagandas he would have it against ukraine how come diesel prices are now level with petrol prices you've just hit on the question that i wanted to ask our guest earlier when he was on and i forgot to ask as i say maybe caroline might call and and see if he has an explanation for that there's always a bit funny the diesel prices in in in britain are more expensive than petrol in some of the stations i've seen but here there's always been that gap hasn't there where diesel's been around about what nine eight nine ten cents cheaper uh than petrol no more the case certainly in some petrol stations diesel and petrol are the same price anyone got an explanation for that get it to us oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand right let's take a bit of 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here on the nine-ton noon show right now eileen murphy is head of census administration at the c o c s o and joins us on the program now hi eileen good morning to you morning greg right so the next census it's really crept us up on us the general population i'm sure you've been working very hard on this for quite some time and it will be held on sunday the third of april i suppose just for those who want to know what a census is what it's for tell us the purpose of it so the census is a detailed count of the population at a particular point in time and as you mentioned this year it'll be on sunday the third of april so whoever you spend the night of sunday the third of april you should make sure that your information is recorded on a census form and the census is used as the basis of planning for for so many different things around the country you know obviously at a national level for planning things like public services such as health and education housing transport but at a local level you know to to decide regional policies again such as where utilities are needed and transport and but not only government use that you know businesses use it to decide where where they want to set up and where they're going to have the right catchment for their businesses and each and every one of us the census information is available publicly on our website for free after each census and you know so if you want to petition in your area for a children's playground or for sports facilities you can base that you know based on the number of children under 12 in our local area etc you know so huge huge numbers of decisions of on all sorts of things from large to small are based on census data yeah for sure and regular listeners to this show would know that we're working on uh we're awaiting the outcome of the latest census to census a big apartment to decide on a couple of projects one being but maybe the provision of a community hospital from the hsc that's the type of stuff we can't be talking about um in terms of choosing a date you know because if i happen to be away on april the third i'm not counted uh as being in my home for example you know how do we decide on what date and and how can we be sure that it doesn't skew the reality um well we nearly always go for a date in april and so uh it's a good time of the year because we have to get um the enumerators out in the field delivering the forms so that's uh we launched last thursday because that was the first day enumerators were going out in the field to deliver the forms and obviously if you go too early in the year it's winter time dark evenings it's difficult um equally if you do it in the summer every month away on the summer holidays you know so april is generally a good time and then we always try to pick the census date so it's not during the easter holidays so that you know the majority of people are in their home so um obviously if you are away on the third of april and you're elsewhere in ireland you will fill in the form wherever you are in ireland on that night so if you're in a hotel or if you're in your uh relations house somewhere else in the country you will fill in the form where you are on that night um and we do have a question on the form that says is this where you usually live and if it isn't you can record where you do usually live um but equally if people are going to be outside the country um we will the enumerator when they're delivering the form and we and we would ask that everyone does um open the door to the enumerator to collect the form they won't be coming into the house but they just need to get a little bit of information from you on the doorstep and hand over the form just in relation to that information just about where you will be on the census night if you're not going to be in your house yeah just in relation to that i i have seen those that maybe uh were angry at uh the government or i don't know bill gates or whatever it might have been through the pandemic are pivoting a little bit to sort of encourage people not to engage with this process i presume your view would be and i'm not sure that's going to get any attraction but if it were that would be counterintuitive wasn't especially if you were looking to attract you know investment or services or an increased police presence or whatever it might be into your own area to not engage would be counterintuitive as i said yeah absolutely you know the the the more information we have the better decisions we can make so so if you you know want your local area to to um to avail of some of these facilities or funding from government etc etc the more detail we have about the numbers there the better and the thing is the census does not share information with anybody with any other government agency agency or anyone outside the statistics office so your your data is safe and it's never used at an individual level it's only ever collated together and to give anonymized grouped figures so um it's never going to so there's there's no risk with with giving any data to the so an obligation to engage in the process there is actually it is a legal obligation it is mandatory and it is a legal requirement um to complete your census form talk to me about the time capsule section well what is that and how will it work okay so this is something we have new for for for this census and we we think it's a world first um and i've just said um the questions on the census form are mandatory but this is a voluntary question uh at the end well it's not a question it's at the end of the census form and basically it's a blank space for you to record whatever you want so if you want to um write a message to your descendants or they want to share a secret family recipe if you want to tell them what your life has been like in Ireland in in 2022 with everything that's been going on uh it's a free box for you to put whatever comes to mind it will um we won't be examining the contents of it it will be securely stored um as all census forms are for a hundred years when they will be released to the public in a hundred years time for the same way that we're now looking at we've seen the 1901 and 1911 census forms and we're still awaiting the next release will be the 1926 census forms in 2026 uh you know that when they those are released uh in a hundred years time as well as the information that we've seen about you know in in those forms just names and ages and occupations there will also be this message uh to to whoever's reading the form at that time okay and finally i wonder how the questions are formed because say for example um you know a census like this i'm not involving you in any current issues or politics by the way but say for instance the extent of the mica pyrite defective blocks issues across the west coast or beyond you know this would be an ideal opportunity perhaps to have a question about defects in people's homes or you know where we could gather up information on such a scale that would almost be impossible to do through any other platform is there any precedent for it's obviously too late now but is there any pre precedent to something like that or even any merit to the suggestion in that you know on on very important issues like particularly this particular one that affects so many people it could give us a real sense of of what the situation is right across the whole western seaboard and maybe further east yeah so the questions on the census form are decided some of them are legal requirements under European regulations but are the other questions are decided ourselves we have a public consultation uh in between most census to ask what questions people want on the forms um and anyone can submit a suggestion for a question and in 2017 we did that and we had over 400 submissions for new questions on the census forms and we convened the census advisory group which whittled that down and then tested a few different questions in a pilot in in 2018 before we decided on the final questions on the form so if if you have suggestions for questions for the next census there will probably be a public consultation either later this probably later this year okay just a quick word on on the security element of this because i mean obviously there's an ongoing issue with bogus callers and these people will will know what's going on they always do so it for from a security perspective there's going to be strangers calling to people's homes uh what will be the procedure what id will they will they try and make gain entry to the house or these conversations had on the door what id what proof will they have with them yeah so first of all to say um a census and your measure will never come into your house so you will you do not need to let them into your home and then you will be able to recognize the census enumeration because they'll be wearing a high visibility vest with census on the front and census enumerator on the back they will also have a a census satchel uh with holding the forms and they will have an id card from the central statistics office um so if you ask to see the right card it should probably be in a little um clear pocket on their high visibility vest but um make sure that you do if you have any questions on it just to ask to see that id okay listen thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it okay thanks Greg appreciate it you're having a fun day no problem take care bye bye oh eight six 60 25 000 whatsapps and texts call 07491 25 000 that was eileen murphy there a caller says it was leil viralkar who said about using regional hotels for ukraine refugees on friday well i probably could have guessed that even though i hadn't heard it i just wanted to say fair play to greg for calling at all people who bomb innocent civilians has crazed maniacs they talk away about russia and how they subject to propaganda every day of the week and we're not cup on folks we're swallowing the same nonsense every day but we seem to think we're not america is the biggest warm monger on the face of the planet the barn on that comes in from actually listen it is um i have dipped into all media as i said in the show on on friday i would get information from from tiktok not tiktok sorry telegram or twitter um and also like there are so the likes of rt news and our own news and listen there is a slant you know there is a slant in in all media on all sides and it's up to us to take responsibility to ensure as best we can that we get as much information as we can and then form our rounded opinions not just get information from people who would like us to think like them because those there's a lot of people off mainstream media in alternative media and there's no balance there either okay so you know do you go out multiple sources never shut off a source multiple sources make up your own minds all right we're on the way to news at 11 the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union 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gaffney thanks greg good morning around 1800 ukrainian refugees have arrived into ireland with that number set to increase rapidly over the coming days and weeks he shock me hill martin has said everything will be done to make sure people fleeing the war get proper accommodation healthcare education and other services it's expected in the region of 100 000 people could arrive into ireland from ukraine some suppliers in donnie gall are limiting the volume of home heating oil people can buy it's due to a surge in demand and a trend of panic buying emerging due to the rise in fuel prices some deliveries are being capped at 500 litres and a bid to cater to everyone well as fuel prices rise taxi drivers are looking for a one euro emergency surcharge on fares they say they're dealing with a more than 50 percent increase in costs there are calls for the hap scheme to be extended so more mica families can access it hap is a form of social housing support provided by donnie gall candy council 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been asked to attend meetings but there's been no meetings um um ternan was diagnosed with autism learned of the bouldies and with the teacher going down the route we discovered that ternan doesn't have learned of the bouldies at his speech that pulls him back he is very very intelligent but it's just his speech and we're quiet i'm so angry and heart like other parents in the same situation with himself that we can't get the help of speech and language to help to bring him on and you know as you say it's not just you there are many many parents in the same situation who are angry and frustrated individually so tell us i mean is this i mean there's always been problems in this area in terms of getting the services but were they sort of somewhat suspended because of covid and are yet to return are you being given any explanation brenda's the long winded away rand of asking that question i suppose well we lost our own speech and language because they're still sorting out teams at the moment um they've gone into different teams and different areas but i don't think there's anybody in the area fact yet um but honestly i don't know what's going on because we just can't get no word from them we just don't know what's going on and of course as you say uh this is really important to to your son you're afraid uh and and i and probably know that if he doesn't get the support it's going to hold him back especially as he goes into secondary school definitely so because taren has uh a speech apartment that they need extra speech so he does now the school are doing brilliant teachers fantastic she's trying to actually take the roll over and learn them teach them that because we don't have service you know what that's terrible it's difficult for it's difficult for you and you're advocating on behalf of your son but often that i mean what we're actually talking about is how this is affecting him it's tough enough as it is and without these supports it's even it's even tougher so i mean obviously we want him to get the support so that you know it takes a bit of pressure on you but we can't forget it's really about him isn't it and how this is affecting him or how it will affect him definitely so because when he does get frustrated the words do come out the words come flying out you know i mean and but trying to get the words out of him for you to understand i can understand them most of the time but if you don't understand them he really gets upset and annoyed and without with him now going to secondary school i don't know how he's going to manage or how the teachers want to manage to understand them because the knowledge is all there you know i mean how's everything there he's can be he's got newspapers in front of him and you can hear him trying to write but he's trying to make the words out or kind of mumbled but he can use newspapers he can make books he can do computers ipads he's so intelligent but when i'm having no speech around it it's going to hold him back and i'm really really afraid for him you know i mean if i'm going to secondary school and he's getting that much older and more aware obviously as he gets older he's more aware of everything around him and yeah i think most people will hopefully understand that so who are you engaged with so it's not the school is it is it like what arm of the state do you contact to say look what's going on here we need these supports autism services has we didn't have it for a while but there's a girl now on board and she would be our main star helping us with things but at the minute she's only new because she's only on board okay and what am i telling you because we're going to make inquiries and find out what reason they're going to give and i would invite by the way parents or guardians or caregivers in a similar situation to get in contact with us so that we can get a greater sense of the scale of this and you do so by calling caroline and 07491 25 000 and we're going to work on this and push it right as much as we can even if it's case of trying to embarrass uh the the service into doing something whatever it might take maybe it might make a difference um but what are you being told the official reason is uh brandy nothing as such is just that uh there's new team leaders and they haven't i can arranged or sorted up areas but i know myself there's there tells me that there's a shortage of speech and language therapists but i know myself there's ones out there that just feature these just not employing them because i know if you are a yeah if you're a speech and language therapist as brandy is and i'll let you explain how you know brandy go in contact get in contact with us as well uh because that can form part of our inquiries if you're there and you're saying look i can help but you're not engaging with me so brandy brandy sorry you were saying you're speaking to someone they said what they were doing a course she wanted to do speech and language um they simply were left holder um there's really no point because there's there you could just try to integrate our speech and language but they're not employing them yeah and advice them or less not to do it okay and for you time is literally of the essence so the sooner this is sorted the better we're going to make inquiries as i mentioned brandy hopefully other parents and maybe those who are available but aren't being engaged by the services they'll contact us too and we'll get as much information together and and make representations but for now thank you very much and best wishes to the whole family all right no problem and just to recap there 08 660 25 000 the whatsapp and text okay thanks very much Brenda for coming on there uh right over 20 street lights still out of order for over a fortnight here at barnhill golf course on the main letter kenny remelton road one of the most dangerous and busiest roads in the county a disgrace in these times i presume someone's reported that because of course these polls have identifying markers on them don't they but we can presume they have been that's been reported we'll try and see if anyone else has any information on that 20 street lights out at barnhill golf course it's obviously an infrastructural problem 20 bulbs didn't blow you wouldn't think why don't the census why does the census not capture the number of residents normally resident in that house what about the thousands of people who might be abroad on holidays or business trips how does a hotel fill your form when you see that's all factored into it and average it out and i mean you have to get it to snapshot it's a snapshot and i believe it's been determined that that's the best way of finding out the information uh what year was the last sentence census i beg your pardon i can't remember off the top of my head was it deferred because of covid or not if not it was probably uh 2018 um i mean if i'm in tim book two which i presume you won't be i'll not be filling out the form and if somebody happens to be in my house on that night i will not be filling their name in for the for me that what happens well that's just represented as a i don't know if it goes down as a vacant property or or how that works another quality says census is census is used for future planning or so they say is that why don't go to the bottom of the pile regarding services and infrastructure perhaps they may envisage that don't go will be a wasteland in the future okay listen we're joined on the program now by minister for agriculture don't go minister charlie mcconnell o thanks for talking to us this morning minister good morning to you good morning great right okay so before we talk about what we might need to do talk to us about what the impact of this war in ukraine is having now and and what the accepted consequences that might be at least in the short to medium term but it's something we're looking at across government in relation to the potential impacts of it but i i do think it's something that's going to impact in all of our daily lives in some way over the next number of weeks and months and obviously it's an abominable act by president buton to invade the and and and invade the territory integrity of a sovereign country such as between we now have for the first time in many decades a war on european soil and that's a totally unnecessary and we're all seeing the massively distressing scenes every night and it's something we all already condemn and we're working in a part in the international community both within the european union and also in the united nations to try and make that message absolutely clear and to try and bring about a reverse of a coach and a withdrawal by president buton but in terms of the implications of it obviously we have seen challenges over the last number of weeks and months in terms of fuel and inflationary which impacts in advance of the war in ukraine but coming out of that obviously there is likely to be additional and we've seen that in recent and a couple of weeks since the invasion and then from an agriculture and food point of view it's both ukraine and russia are important producers particularly of grain and of fertilizer so if you look at it from a worldwide point of view in terms of the grain that is exported and traded internationally both ukraine and the Russia between them make up about 30 percent of minister is that seasonal in that you know it's not that we can necessarily go to the other 70 to make up the 30 shortfall because do we acquire this produce from different places different times of the year well yeah so south america obviously would be in a different a different situation from north in europe but so but but internationally 30 percent of it in total that's traded over the course of the year obviously it's a crop and a product that can that lasts up to 12 months and can be stored but it does make up about 30 percent of what is traded internationally so there's likely to be an impact from that and then also in terms of fertilizer the 20 percent of the fertilizer we would we would use nationally here in ireland would be would originate in russia so again particular challenge there so that's something that we're very much aware of and we're looking to take steps to to mitigate i'm meeting with the farm organizations tomorrow evening and i've assembled a rapid response team within my own department to get a full assessment of what the challenge is and to see how we the steps that we can take to try and address that we would import greg about roughly about two-thirds of our total grain requirement um we're a tremendous net food exporter and food producer we produce enough food for about 40 million people even though we're only a country of five million ourselves so we play a really important role in the international food shape but important to that is the grain supply that particularly that we use for livestock feed so that's something we do realistically in this country to increase our output so to make us less reliant on grain imports yeah well that's something i'd be talking to the farm organizations about tomorrow afternoon and evening because obviously if there's likely to be supply chain disruption we take the steps we can to produce more grain domestically and there is a real capacity to do that we're at the start of the spring growing season so there's a number of weeks ahead of us where it's possible to take steps to plant more and that's something that i've been engaging with the farm organizations in terms of how we can respond to that and to produce a national effort that could be achieved there in terms of farmers that would want to go down that route or how quickly that would be turned around i think it will be very doable obviously it's going to take a lot of work but but there's no one better than farmers to respond to a challenge like this and obviously each farm across the country will know that come next autumn winter there will be a great requirement for feeding our livestock and so farmers themselves will want to ensure we're taking steps to ensure that there's a consistent supply and sufficient supply next autumn winter but we are coming out of coming out of the winter season where grain demand would be would be higher when animals are housed so we're thankfully in the next few weeks coming into the grass growing season which is which is a plus also from an energy point of view obviously it's a plus as well that this is march and not october and that demand will be reducing over the next number of months but we do what i mean obviously for you to if a farmer were to go down this road and and to grow this produce okay that's going to require you know a bit of leniency as it relates is it not to how they manage the land how they they feed this crop and so on and so forth how would that be worked on yeah we'll talk i'll talk about all of that tomorrow afternoon and engage closely with the farm organizations in relation to their perspective on it because it's something we're all going to work together obviously we know the challenge we don't know how obviously war in ukraine will evolve in the next number of weeks and months but we do know that the farmers our fellow european farmers in ukraine who had in the weeks ahead of now and the next few weeks we've been planning to plant their their crops and to be in their fields instead fighting a war and our soldiers so and that's going to have an impact and we then have to respond looking ahead to next autumn and winter in particular as to how we can look at what potential supplies this is really brought into focus hasn't it to you and your government the importance of you know what our farmers actually produce and supporting them and encouraging them rather than our over reliance on on imports yeah i mean we produce less grain now than we would have in the past if you go back i remember even growing up when i was growing up in the farm all myself we've always had produced enough grain to you know for our own use but over over the years farms have become more specialized and tend to do one thing or the other now but there is that there is farmers there is that knowledge and and expertise there in relation to growing crops and that's just something we're all going to look at because farmers of course more than anyone will want to make sure that we have a consistent supply of grain next to next to autumn winter and we do have it within our own hands to really respond to that but it's going to take a national effort all of us working together um to ensure that we prepare for that and that's why i'm meeting with the farm organizations and tomorrow evening to step out okay lastly i mean one of the big input costs of course is going to be fuel but that affects all of us you know at the moment uh the government's take on petrol and diesel is is you know half of what we're paying at the pumps what conversations are being had around the cabinet table metaphorically speaking to address that and how quickly are we going to see some movement from the government in that regard yeah we're very conscious of that and obviously we're conscious of things that changed in the last week to two weeks with the the russian and putin's invasion of Ukraine we're meeting with the cabinet meeting now again tomorrow now we're a lot of work that's been going on over the last week in terms of assessing the challenges that are there and how we respond to those appropriately um so the government is very conscious that greg we're conscious of the the increase that we've seen at the pumps and what are you going to do minister well that's something the government will now discuss um what do you think what is what's on the table well listen i won't speculate other than to say that we we do want your ministry you can't be speculating you're one of the decision makers yeah and then until the decision is made i would be speculating greg so um with the cabinet meeting tomorrow what would you like to see done well i i think we have to have an understanding of the the pressure that the increased prices well are having at the moment on on families and uh that's something that's central to the government's thoughts and considerations so and that's something we'd like to move to address so um that's something we will be considering further in our cabinet tomorrow thanks for your time this morning minister charlin mcconnellogh i really appreciate it uh peter lynch is chair of the grain group for the ifa and vice chair of the ifa in dunig all peter uh good morning chief thanks for joining us listening to what the agriculture minister had to say there i mean a farmer's ready willing and able to do this yeah good morning greg thanks for the opportunity to come on here um i suppose we know farmers have always wanted to raise the challenge but bad weather or covid or not even possible feet shortages that's coming down the line there's there's a lot of options there and a lot of things that has to be teased through um there there are opportunities out there but with every action there's a reaction i think we have to be very careful that we don't take land at a grass production and end up with water shortages next one Thursday you know so there's a lot of things to talk about there in terms of the practicalities of it so i mean is it can can grain be grown right across the country if a you know if a farmer has the expertise and they're unavailable um i suppose if the land's suitable and the weather's suitable there's no reason why we couldn't go back to a lot of farmers grown but there's also a lot of land there and not suitable for tillage um so what i don't think um a blanket proposal for every farmer to grow tillage is feasible but i think there's definitely room to improve or cereal acreage or cereal acreage has dropped significantly this last 10 years and i suppose the past kept me the new one just in this direction and unfortunately i've ended up in reduced food security for the country and hopefully we're about to work and i'm going to be a wee bit of push on now from the government from charlie as well that we might be hopeful it's running that tidy wee but and maybe for a wee bit more emphasis on food security and the fact that we can grow what we need to grow in the country to feed the cattle and feed the people you know why why aren't we doing that already is it you know i mean why is we're going right okay so we only produce a third of this product ourselves panic stations you know what what is uh is it the fact that farmers are choosing different methods of farming i will as i've said it's sort of the past cap there pushes down this way and charlie i'll do it myself like farmers are a bit more specialized um we have things like the three crop rule come on at the last cap and with vernictus directive and stuff and the farmers have just tended to focus more on one enterprise and try and do as well as they possibly can you know and and that's there's lost the tillage acreage on the contrary which has left us a wee bit more susceptible when you have a major development like this in the order stage yeah okay it's just kind of interesting with conversations i've had you know with the likes of yourself and other representatives over the year where farmers are trying to argue their importance uh and feeling those uh arguments are falling on deaf ears and now we're having a situation where the government's calling meetings with farmers groups to see what they can do to try and get us out of this mess hi well that's that's unfortunate we've ended up on the situation run on the green committee we have been looking at increasing the acreage this past few years and trying to stop the the decline in the acreage but because of as i say the past cap and things just the tillage acreage has fallen us under but hopefully we can get it back again and and we will farmers are up to the challenge like and we will be able to help them and do as much as we can do what what is the situation currently as it relates to you know uh costs are you seeing costs increase rapidly you know in terms of you know what the fertilizer i don't know obviously fuel costs generally speaking i mean is it's every day it's becoming more expensive well i suppose since the war i started this last fortnight or 10 days there things have gone astronomically bad but up to that fertilizer was rising the nearly unreported levels from before like some of the fertilizer three times the price it was last year um excuse me this the college price is looking good for the harvest but unless the prices of all our commodities stay up who's going to be able to afford to buy the stuff so you know off us college farmers that's that's the major concern as well but costs are rising all the time fuels a major issue coming forward there now and i suppose the concern may be as well we have fuel the harvest or crops when it comes if that's going to be one of another concerns in the lane all right peter thanks very much peter lynch chair of the grain group for the ifa and vice chair of the ifa in donningall you know just when you'd be even just trying to get your head around uh sentences starting you know casually um with you know in a global pandemic you just feels like you know you're past that and then just sentences starting like since the war started on europe in europe effectively um very strange times from one strange time to another it really is okay we still got um lots to come on the show please stay right where you are keep involved i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand i'll get to your comments that were coming in there during our conversations with charlie and peter and we also have a monday focus as well that's all coming up the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union mortgage is now available with a personalized service from your local and friendly 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on imports thanks to our european rules and regulations it's not solely but in majority but thank you for that hi greg for minister charlie mcconnellough please implore our irish farmers who have the wherewithal to do so to start growing grain right away there's a day coming shortly when there won't be a loaf of bread or a box of corn flakes or wieterbecks on the supermarket or shop shelves another everyone should start up small kitchen gardens in the front and back lawns and grow as much as they can supplement their food years ago on a confed itself don't think it could today it would do no harm for families to start the basics again and show our children how to survive without shops if disaster strikes well let's hope it that won't happen but i do understand where you're coming from and we heard from aim ryan about anyone with south facing window boxes to get growing ask charlie mcconnellough he wants farmers to grow grain how does he propose to keep the deer and geese from eating it tell him we are fed up jumping how high to stupid schemes another here yesterday i read where charlie mcconnellough is asking all farmers to consider setting part of their farm in grain due to the world shortage and the effects this is going to have on food supply my point is last week i read the same paper where the same minister was saying that 200 000 acres were going to be rewetted and are ban on plowing in some areas these regulations are nonsense and are putting farmers out of business not the price farmers knew there was going to be shortage of food before the war with russia and ukraine glad you having the minister on i hope he will see his mistakes areland farmers should have always been encouraged to grow their own grain and other crops as well another time to open our bogs and turf turf burning stations were too reliant on and petrol and diesel another wouldn't it be nice to see our fertile fields all crops again coming in from james and last one for now charlie speaks of 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daily in sarah's kitchen okay you are welcome back to the program and now we are talking about support for brief parents as part of our monday focus and hopefully it's a difficult subject this one but it's one that you can't shy away of and hopefully it will be of interest and it's one of those situations you never want to be the one to have to avail of it such services but there is a reality of life as well we have three guests to welcome on to the program now firstly i will say good morning to margaret and frank oh hair good morning both of you thank you so much for joining us morning it's great to have you with us and also we're going to be talking to sharon vaard founder and service manager of anam kaira good morning to you sharon morning great good to have you with us before we bring margaret and frank into the situation tell us about the services you provide anam kaira is an all island organization craig that was founded back in 2008 by brief parents for brief parents so anam kaira donnie gall has been up and running for the last five years and we meet monthly and obviously covert and put a little bit of a temporary halt to that so what we provide craig is information resources and i suppose that's safe come to a place where brief parents and that wouldn't be all brief parents we don't identify by the age of our child or the circumstance of our death to come and meet with other parents yeah and um there would obviously have then been a gap there um before anam kaira was established sharon there was back my own daughter died back in 2004 and back then there wasn't even a dl leaflet that you could take that was you know relevant to brief parents but you know thankfully over the years as i said we started in 2008 and solely over the years we've developed a information pack uh we've obviously running the groups now online and face to face we run brief and information evenings and we've other resources craig like videos and we've just actually recently launched a suite of podcasts which are parents you know talking about their journey and how they have survived and come through while still kind of remembering their child and being connected to their child that has died okay margaret and frank oh hair very sadly you lost your lovely son ronan as much as you're comfortable with with saying talk to us about ronan and when this happened to you okay ronan was a 20 year old um he was a second year student and studying accountancy in the university um his 21st birthday would have been two weeks after his death and we were all living forward to a big party um ronan and like our 20 year old was lost playstation and in particular he loved cars um he was a hard worker and using money he had saved up from his two part-time jobs he had just recently bought his first car um he enjoyed the freedom and the independence as a watergown um i think one of us he didn't he didn't like the fact that i i didn't like cars as much um even though i offered to take him informer and won me each city before i go with his friends i think we can all relate to that but go ahead so um on the 31st of october 2016 which is halloween um ronan and park his car and had joined the rest family in bell pass city centre that's myself margaret and our two daughters we um we were going to get a as he said a free lunch courtesy of the bank of mum and dad before going to his lectures in the afternoon as we walked towards the the cafe he suffered a sudden cardiac incident and we were unable to revive him then despite extensive effort using cpr and the refrigerator um as you can imagine the death of our son um came with no warning um and we find the shock and disbelief to be overwhelming um the intensity of our grief was just suffocating and i think frank you know there's there is no words that i could ever muster or anyone could ever muster uh to offer enough sympathy for for what you's went through not just the loss but that whole experience of it it's just unimaginable it really is so so i'm so sorry it's really what i'm trying to i don't know it's horrible for you thank you greg i mean it was it was horrific it was a horrible um to happen in the middle of bell pass city centre and it was surrounded by loads of people and it was just something that you just one thing after one thing on top of another margaret there's nothing to prepare us to be predeceased by our our children is there i mean i think as we sort of maybe our parents grow older with us we there's an inevitability about it isn't it and maybe subconsciously we we try and prepare ourselves but nothing i don't think uh you can prepare you for to be predeceased to to to bury your child no i think i think that's true greg and i think that i often use the phrase that life made no sense for a long time after roman died and i still think now it's almost five and a half five and a half years later we still very much see our lives as life before roman died and life after roman died and it is a different it is a different life but slowly through time we have learned that you can live again and i don't think you ever accept the death of your child you don't ever accept that it's happened but through time and i would say particularly with the support of annam kara we have slowly managed to work our way along this pathway yeah and we have found the support particularly the support of other parents the other parents the shared experience of the different the different the different ways they have coped i think that in particular has been a huge success and a huge support for us along our way because of course people are great aren't they and in a tragedy like that there people rally around and you know the house is busy and but then you know very quickly thereafter that massive you're back you know people have to go back on with their own lives and they still try and support you another but that big gap it's just it's it's there it's evidence and you have to try and deal with that and move forward as best as you can and that's i presume when you're you know getting the right support really kicks in yeah yeah we were overwhelmed and we were carried along by very by very very many good friends and neighbors and they still to this day still people try to help but it was about 10 months after lonan died that we first attended our first information meeting and that was in our ma and it was it was going to the group that no parent wants to be a member of but when we arrived in our ma that evening we were welcomed by another bereaved dad and over he he made us feel very welcome and it was while it was overwhelming to go into a room of people that were full of parents who had lost their children by the same token there was you immediately felt that there were people there who had that deeper understanding and and that was the beginning probably a very significant step for us on the beginning of learning how to to move forward again frank was it difficult to attend that meeting to sort of say we're all different but sort of say that you know we need to speak to other people we need to speak to people that were in the same situation maybe we can't process this on our own the way we need to was it difficult to make the decision to go off for you guys was it easier if you know what i mean it was probably more difficult for me i was i was it's a bit of a meal yeah you know i was confused i was sort of trying to keep my life as as as structured as normal as it could be where marbury was really more open like so she wanted to go um and i went to support her but very soon realized that it was it was a i needed as much as marbury did i mean the big thing about the group is it gives you hope um you see other parents you're much further down what we would call the grief journey of how they're coping and you listen to their stories and you learn from their experiences um so you know i i i very quickly realized that it was necessary for for the all of us yeah and it is interesting i i directed the question at you because i was kind of trying to put myself in that same position and and it can be a bigger leap for some than than for others and that helps presumably i'm not talking about your relationship of course margaret and frank but i i'm just couples you know everyone goes at different paces we see even with miscarriages and all different types of of loss that people handle things in very different ways as opposed to if there's third parties there maybe it helps everyone sort of understand each other more and catch up a bit or slow down a bit or whatever it might be margaret yeah yeah i think that's true i think that you've touched on it there greg about the individuality of grief and i think that's one of the core values of annum cara that we we really learned so much from one another while we talk at meetings you do a huge amount of listening and i think that even from frank and i go together to the meeting i probably learned a lot i listened to him more in that open forum than at times i may have because you would feel like why aren't you feeling like me uh you're why is this what why is this affecting me not you is it do you not care as much and of course that's not the case but this is all part of the human emotions isn't it's life is so tough as it is like without margaret would go to the grave much more than i would go margaret would cry more openly than i would do um we will but we've shared things as well we have photographs all over the house and we walk an awful lot together now we spend more time together now and we've done you know we've done parts of the communal um you know so it's it's been it's been a hell of a way to all right so okay and and um sharon you know this is exactly what this is all about isn't it it's about that space for people to operate to to progress however they need to or at what pace they need to absolutely and and annum cara it's like the face-to-face groups craig they're dropping groups parents come when they want to come but you know when you go there are in that room everybody who gets it who understands they're all at different stages of their own journey and they've all had different experiences and and as frank and margaret said like grief is as unique as your fingerprint and even within a family every family member including surviving brothers and sisters will all grieve differently because everyone's relationship was different with the with the you know the brother sister died or your son or daughter died so i think that's the uniqueness of annum cara is that you know we we welcome everyone it's an inclusive there's a lot of respect in the room for people's beliefs be religious spiritual you know um yeah it's a very safe and comfortable place and can i i mean i'm guessing here about an imagine that people might engage with your services for the first time it could be 10 or 15 years after a loss that it's just their time yes and and you know even now like even though we would we see ourselves as a national organization an all island organization and you know still people haven't heard about us you know we're still not kind of a household name but you know again would anybody want to know about annum cara because we're living every parent's worst nightmare you know the death of our son or daughter and but yeah but people will come at different stages and and again i think what we have i suppose developed over the years craig is that information pack which is like eight leaflets written by parents connected to annum cara so that's a good resource for parents in the early days and then they can you know gently come into us you know whenever they feel up to it yet and and margaret and frank there must come a point i don't know if it's immediately or or some way down the line where you've become the support for other people as well maybe it's at the first meeting i don't know when they think well if frank can do this or if margaret can do this i can in terms of you know chatting and and engaging or whatever does there come a point and does it come quickly where you're helping people at the same time as well if that makes sense yeah i think that there's a huge amount of peer support within annum cara greg i know that you learn i think there's a lot of milestones that you have to face particularly in the early years and i think people will tell you how they've coped with the first the birthday that happens after your child has died how they've coped with christmas or easter or or even holidays or just all those there's something every month or two two times a month that you that you start realizing don't you yeah every event that is that is supposed to be a happy family time that for you after your child has died so i think there's a huge amount of peer support that happens sometimes you'd say something and then a parent instead yeah a couple of months later you know you said that a couple of meetings back and i tried that out so it is very much it's not about telling people what they should do but it's about learning from the experiences of other parents and i think that you can be doing that you can do that without actually realizing you're doing it as well but i know that i learned so much from others about how they coped with all those different things yeah and Sharon i presume that while every one situation is individual there are you know basic or complex but you know ways of of dealing with it that allows everybody to deal with it individually you know but there are you know we are all very the same at the same time if that makes sense yeah no and and people will deal with different milestones and events in different ways and there is no i suppose craig but we would always what we recognize in annum cara like there is no there is no roadmap there's no there's no right way or wrong way there's only your own way and what way you're comfortable with and i think that's important and you know and and i often think as well as a bereaved parent you know if you you know we choose to survive this we can survive that but it's survival but there are times particularly and i'm just conscious of any of your listeners who have been very recently bereaved you know it's so devastating and it's such a nightmare in those early months you know even the early years that you know when like margaret and frank said when you meet someone a little bit further on and they are upright and standing it just gives you the hope that you can make that milestone as a future because i presume it can feel very much like well what is the future yeah yeah and in terms of margaret and frank we talked about you talked about sorry people are at different stages or deal with things differently i presume the meetings are held as such that if you go to you can go to for them you don't really have to say anything you can be in listening mode it depends on on no one's obliged to do anything that they don't want to do it's about having that space to let people do it their way and in their time yeah yeah it is it's a very safe comfortable space i would say that probably for the first five or six meetings i went to i couldn't speak because i couldn't stop i couldn't stop crying enough to speak so it is just it is very safe very comfortable and the thing about it is that no matter what whatever is discussed in the room is very much just kept within within that forum and it's not discussed outside so people are i think it's nice to at times in a meeting there will just be a pause for people sometimes to reflect on what others have said and that actually can be very comforting as well so there's no no obligation to do anything that you don't feel able to do at the time and also if if somebody's upset everybody's very comfortable with that as well because it's the most natural i think another thing that annum car did for me made me a lot more comfortable with my grief because you you understood when you saw other people who were so sad as well you realised it was actually okay to feel as sad as you did but then through time we also learned that it was okay to start to maybe to feel happy at times again do you feel guilty if you can you feel guilty if you're happy and enjoying yourself or maybe guilty is too strong a word i don't know but i think at the early stages you can and i always remember shortly after Ronan died Arlan played in New Zealand and I watched it and i remember Arlan beating for the very first time Margaret came into the room and i was in floods of tears and she says are you are you so happy because Arlan had been in New Zealand but no i feel so guilty that i actually enjoyed that match you know so but over time you're earning that you're calving happy and people said to us that you will look back with kindness with your children and remember the warmer times you know well it's clear it's clearly that you're two lovely people anyway i mean that's anyone listening or watching we'll see that very very clearly and i wish it's all the strength and whatever is required use no better than i do into the future and it's it's been lovely speaking to you it's been actually really lovely to hear about your son as well thank you for sharing that thank you really appreciate it thank you so much um that's Margaret and Franco here there um finally Sharon you know there's been two or three interviews over as many days on this program where it's kind of been talking about dealing with your grief but not your grief sorry dealing with your emotions or dealing with the realities that we have that's it seems is that a is that a a thread is that important that we this it seems that our our ability to deal with or cope or move forward only happens when we actually start dealing with what's going on in our lives be it a terminal diagnosis being at a situation like we've just been talking is it important that we address what's going on and not ignore it i suppose i suppose Craig you mean i'm not a professional i mean my only expertise is in my own grief but i think people will how people have coped in the past with with stressful situations or difficult situations will probably have an impact on how they will deal with the death of their child and i think it's really important that people mind themselves in it and and and i think it's it's important they know they're not alone yes um but yes you know you know typically and thank god we don't see a lot of it now in Adam Carr but typically and i just went back to my own loss and my husband like my husband had to go back to work he had to you know pay the mortgage he had to pay the bills so he he tended to go back and just get on with things and probably parked up his emotions where i was a little bit like Margaret like i spoke and i cried and i talked and i told my story again and again and we all travel through our grief in different at different speeds but it is important that we do travel i think it's when we become stuck and and start going around in the round that's when the problem starts okay sure yeah how do people get more details please just as we wrap up well yes if they want to come to our to our website which is annamcara.ie so that's a n a m c a r a dot i e we also have a meeting taking place in letter kenny correct this thursday the 10th of march so anyone any of your listeners or anyone who's listening who knows someone maybe they will let them know about that okay and we also have an online meeting taking place on the 21st so if again if they come to our website they'll be able to contact us through the website and maybe anyone who hasn't got contact to with broadband they can give us a call on 085 to trebullate trebullate okay and you're amazing to helping other people through your own uh devastating loss as well thanks so much you sir in inspiration i really appreciate it okay thanks so much thank you very okay we'll be back here to say goodbye 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