 One of their key actions have been approved. Michael Dordy from the Micah Action Group says the lack of flexibility from the government is extremely disappointing. I think the disappointing part is that there's things in there that costs the Exchequer not one cent extra, but provides a homeowner with a way forward. For example, penalty free downsizing. Say you need a 200,000 and the grant is 160,000, you're 40,000 short. What we said was at least give us the money you are going to give us 160,000 and let us build a smaller house. That's not been facilitated either. So there's been a complete transgence on the part of the government. The government has been warned that the rent reduction bill would have a huge impact on people in Donegal. In support of a bill calling for a rent reduction and a national rent authority, Donegal deputy Thomas Pringle told the Dow that people are struggling to get by and keep up with the continuous spiraling class. He believes rents should be income-based and called for the voices of renters to be prioritised over developers. We cannot go on allowing for rent to take up most of a person's income. It isn't acceptable and it certainly isn't sustainable. Government TDs need to remind themselves who they are here to represent. Citizens, not vulture funds. They need to start listening to their constituents who are crying out for help and at the same for their voices to be prioritised. Companies in Donegal are being encouraged to avail of a new 85 million euro scheme aimed at increasing the use of digital technology to improve online business. As part of the National Grow Digital campaign, the 85 million euro digital transition fund is now in place to help companies use digital technologies like AAL, cloud computing and big data to improve their company. Minister of State for Trade, Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation Robert Troy is in Slego today. He is encouraging businesses in Donegal and the Northwest to get involved in the project. Part of the workshops will be a panel of businesses who have already embraced technology and digitalisation and will be able to tell of their increased efficiency, increased productivity and how they have become a more resilient business. Businesses who fail to make this transition are going to be left behind and we don't want to see that happen. As well today I will be announcing funding under the regional enterprise plan and initial development partnership have been successful with two of their applications. To weather now, sunny spells and isolated showers this morning become in cloudier this afternoon, highest temperatures of 16 to 18 degrees. That's all for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. This summer, Disney Plus brings you unbelievable entertainment for an unbelievable price. 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Starting with the papers this morning and the cheer Connell Tribune and a very positive story at the top of the cheer Connell Tribune this morning, L.U.H. Cathlab operational. The permanent cardiac cathlab at Letter Keny University Hospital has been operational since Monday, July 4th. And it's reported to be a huge benefit for patients and onsite diagnosis. And we had a conversation about this whole issue on the program yesterday after Mark McSharry was given certain guarantees with regards to services in Sligo in return for his vote in this week's confidence motion. So we're told by John and the team at the cheer Connell Tribune that the cathlab in Letter Keny is now operational. And that's very good news indeed. Main story on the Tribune this morning, 55 seconds of chaos at council meeting. And you'll have heard the stories over our own coverage, obviously on Monday and also the comprehensive coverage on social media in the intervening days and on other local media outlets as well. That Councillor Barry Doherty had his mobile telephone taken from him forcibly. He claims at a meeting of Donegal County Council to discuss the purchase of five houses at Uncranla in Uncranla. And the cheer Connell Tribune says the special meeting of Donegal County Council on Monday was adjourned as proceedings descended into chaos, disbelief, a disappearing phone and calls to ring the gar thee in his first full meeting of the council as Coheric, the in Blaney said, I am determined this council is not going to turn into a circus. And that's the cheer Connell Tribune's coverage of that particular story. Donegal News this morning, the main story to friends in horror crash. The women were on their way to see Westlife in the Aviva Stadium when the collision happened. A Conno Sharkey writes what was to have been a fun day at a gig in Dublin almost ended in tragedy. The crash happened on the A5 between Seine Mills and Newton Stuart, a silver car collided with the Ford Cougar that the two Donegal women were traveling in the silver car had been hit from behind by a third vehicle, which pushed it directly into the path of Siobhan Gibbons, who was driving along with Kira Vaillan, and they were on their way to the gig in Dublin. Thankfully, both are okay, but that could have been a very different story. Indeed, front of the Donegal Democrat this morning, exclusive Ukrainian refugees speak about living in Ireland's most remote location. The headline Tory Island is our new home to families who fled from war-torn Ukraine have started a new life on the most remotely inhabited island off the Irish coast. 14 are living in the former hotel overlooking the Wild Atlantic on Tory Island. They're the guests of George and Nick Swiftman, and that full story is on the Democrat. And the other stories on the front page, Amara saves man's life at training. Norosa's GA club has expressed gratitude to local Dr. Amara Boner and those who assisted her in saving the life of a club man on Tuesday evening. More than 50 COVID cases at LUH and four young Irish students who tragically lost their lives on Mulladurg Beach 50 years ago were remembered during a commemorative ceremony this week in that story on the inside of the Donegal Democrat this morning. Fin Valley Voice is out, of course, as well. Have your say on Twin Town's CCTV cameras. And this is a story we have run on news. And indeed, Greg had Councillor Patrick McGowan on the program earlier this week as well, a public consultation. It's coming to an end and this evening at the base Enterprise Centre in Stronowner from four to six p.m. You have an opportunity to speak to officials of Donegal County Council, get a viewing of the plans and make your view known. There are six preferred as it were locations, but they are there at this point in time as suggestions and you can give your views on those locations or alternative locations you perhaps believe should be there in their stead. Also on the front page of the Fin Valley Voice Council meeting adjourned four times and a picture of Hannah Mulcahy from Castle Finn who represented Donegal in the Miss Ireland competition. And indeed, you'll see a comprehensive profile of Hannah on our own social media pages as well. That went up during the week. Moving to the nationals and the Irish independence, an important high court ruling. Farmers cannot be forced to sell land in debt cases. A landmark high court ruling against Vulture Fund offers landowners a lifeline against insolvency. Shane Fielin writes that farmers will be able to avoid the forced sale of land to clear debts following this ruling. The landmark decision will increase pressure on banks and Vulture Funds to cut restructuring deals with indebted farmers. The court found a farmer with debts of 1.1 million could be considered insolvent and therefore eligible to avail of a personal insolvency arrangement. Also a very frightening photograph on the front of the Irish Independent. A homeowner gestures towards the forest fire about to engulf his home in a northern Portuguese town. Albegaria Avela is the town in question. Huge wildfires as parts of the country hit temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius and a man standing there pointing at this blaze in a forest knowing that his house is about to be engulfed. And sadly it seems there is nothing he can do about it. All we can say is at least he is safe. Another story and it's an interesting one. Field of Fall Ministers went economy class as Greens flew business. Philip Ryan writes that Field of Fall Ministers flew economy while a Green Party Deputy Leader Catherine Martin travelled in business class to attend the same conference in Dubai it's emerged. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Charlie McConnog travelled to the Dubai Expo in economy class earlier this year. Ms. Martin and three staff ran up a 21,033 euro bill on long haul flights to the same Expo. The Green Party Leader Mr. Aiman Ryan said ministers should not be climate shamed for taking business class flights. Now I know if you're talking about the actual the flight whether you're in business class or whether in economy is not going to make a difference as to the actual carbon footprint that's involved in the flight but it does raise questions about the spending of money and one suspects if the Greens were in opposition Catherine Martin would not be wholeheartedly supporting ministers travelling business class. I cannot say that for certain but I certainly suspect it. Irish Times this morning support for coalition slumps as cost of living pressures amount and as we've seen in so many polls in recent times the trend is Sinn Féin up the government parties down Sinn Féin at 36% up three. Fina Gual at 18% down four Fina Fáil at 20% down three. That's the lowest figure I've seen for Fina Gual in quite some time actually and you know Fina Fáil now in the 20s and it's a while since Fina Fáil was in ahead of Fina Gual. Fina Gual spent many years since 2008 ahead of Fina Fáil. So Fina Fáil now slightly ahead of Fina Gual. Fina Gual down four. Fina Fáil down three. Sinn Féin up three. Merrile MacDonald an approval rating of 43% that's up one. Lee of Radker 36% that's down 12. Míol Martin 40% down 11. Eamon Ryan 15% and he is down four. No surprises perhaps but it does point to a very clear trend that's been emerging where now it's Sinn Féin hitting figures in the mid 30s and Fina Fáil Fina Gual combined hitting figures in the mid to late 30s. Fina Fáil Fina Gual combined 2% ahead of Sinn Féin in this poll but there's obviously a plus or minus 3% error margin and we have seen a few polls where Sinn Féin have just been marginally ahead of Fina Fáil and Fina Gual. Independence and others by the way 20% and that's up five. Interesting poll indeed. Also emergency fuel plan prioritizes essential staff. Jennifer Bray writes that more than 40 categories of emergency and essential workers will be given access to a network of 130 service stations across the country in the event of a severe shortage requiring fuel rationing under the latest government plan. The plan's considered to be the worst case scenario and would come into effect in the event of severe oil supply disruption. Now when you ask the government about this what they will say to you is we do not envisage this plan ever being implemented but we have to plan for the worst case scenario and that is the case. So they're not saying that's what's going to happen. They're saying if everything goes pear shaped and the whole thing goes down the swanee this is the plan that the government have in reserve. Irish Daily Mail this morning. No more room for Ukraine refugees plan for tent cities as arrivals sleep rough. Ukrainian refugees were last night sleeping on chairs in Dublin Airport as the state ran out of accommodation. The government confirmed last night that the city west facility in West Dublin is now at full capacity and arrivals overnight will remain in Dublin Airport as they do not have an alternative source of accommodation. Now we've also had a commitment from the education the higher education minister Simon Harris this week that any refugees who are aim government sponsored and public third level college accommodations will be moved out of those accommodations and rehoused in order for those accommodations to be made available for students. So obviously that's going to factor into this whole thing as well. So a very a very tense few weeks ahead it would seem for those whose responsibility it is to oversee the housing of incoming Ukrainian refugees. An interesting story. John Moore writes inside we eat at Clarkson's all beef restaurant. This is a I haven't read the article but I presume this is linked with the Diddley Squat Farm that Jeremy Clarkson runs and has done TV programs about. He was talking about putting a restaurant there. So yeah, that's on the inside of the mail if that's what you're both and crushes threaten flash strikes. Is the other story there? Let's look at the Red Tops Irish Daily Mirror Comic Al I'm back and I want to make people laugh again. Al Porter tells of his plans. There's more on this in another papers. We'll get to that in a moment. Main story on your bike. Kira feeling writes the Russian ambassador could be left without his chauffeur driven official BMW due to sanctions over Ukraine. A dealership here has told the Embassy it needs clarification before it will lease new vehicles for Yuri Filatov. Russian officials insist the swanky motor is exempt from sanctions as it is for diplomatic use. But Frank Keane BMW say they're seeking advice and they're in a position where they need to be compliant. Irish Sun this morning. The main story. Comic Al my two years in sex pest help comic Al Porter has broken his silence over sexual assault allegations against him as he vowed to return to the limelight. The Dublin star told how he spent two years in limbo before all charges against him were dropped in 2019. The 29 year old has vowed to get his comedy career back on track. In a statement he said I wouldn't wish those two years on anyone. I just want to make people laugh again. And also dad's grief for son 13. The dad of a 13 year old boy who died in a swimming pool accident and losing him is a parents worst nightmare. Bradley Lillendo got into trouble off Borough Beach in Dublin on Monday. His heartbroken dad said Bradley was a brilliant son. Irish Daily Star this morning charged with Lisa's murder. 37 year old Brian McHugh has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of Lisa Thompson who was found dead in Dublin in May. Also dad of swim tragedy boy 14 says I miss him so much. And finally it's a Thursday which means it's the day for the Irish Farmers Journal. Farmer revolt sweeps across EU. Amy Ford writes thousands of farmers across Europe are taking to the streets in protest against soaring input costs and climate measures being imposed by government. Dutch farmers are into their second week of protest with thousands of farmers expected to participate in a national strike this Friday. Anger is spreading in Germany, Italy and Poland where farmers have also been staging demonstrations and indeed there are pictures of farmers taking part in a motorway blockade near Eindhoven in the Netherlands to protest against government plans. That's the front of the Irish Farmers Journal and don't forget by the way as it is a Thursday farming news and views with Chris Ashmore will be on air this evening. That's directly after the main evening news in or around about 20 past five or there abouts. We're going to take a short break back in a moment with our first guest. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Centra, Mountaintop Lettercanny. Driving a Fiat 500E is choosing an all new all electric car with an impressive range and not 80% fast charging in 30 minutes. 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Lettercanny Credit Union is now offering myCU current account and debit MasterCard bringing full banking features with no appointment necessary to open your account. Accommodation obviously a major story right across the news at the moment the Ukrainian story front and centre obviously this morning but also a student accommodation. Now I did make the point earlier in the week that every year there are stories about student accommodation and every year parents and students go through that difficult time of trying to secure accommodation in a different town and I was there myself and I have no wish to go back to those days. Joined on the line by David who is in that situation at the moment. David good morning. How are you Donald? David you're a student in Lettercanny and you have had accommodation but as we've been hearing on news and elsewhere in the past number of days there have been some issues and you are one of those affected. Tell us your story. Yeah so this has actually happened this is the second time this actually happened to me now. So I started in LIIT when it was LIIT in 2019 and I lived in Ryder Square on the Port Road and two weeks before we started the following year we got an email saying that they couldn't provide accommodation first that it was sold to a third party and we found out then a couple of weeks later that Ryder Square had actually been set up as a direct provision centre that was accommodating 60 families. Then the alternative that we were given was Walnut Grove it was one of two alternatives and now the same thing has happened with Walnut Grove there during the week we got an email saying that they couldn't provide accommodation first anymore. And people in Lettercanny will know Walnut Grove it's a sort of a two-story series of apartments and flats almost directly opposite Aldi close to what was the old field roundabout there. Yeah, that's Walnut Grove that's where it is. Yeah, so there's like a series like you said there's a series of houses and apartments then there's another house called Belvedere House which is just at the back of the college which house to further 10 students they also got the same email as we did. Now obviously we know that Minister Simon Harris has given commitments to students who are booked into state run and publicly owned accommodations in this instance these accommodations aren't state run they're privately owned and that means that they're not included under any guarantee from Simon Harris. No, so the we were given two alternative options in the email that we received one of them was a place called Grand Central Appartments which is fully booked and the other was Bali Rain Campus which is the only student accommodation now but of course they have a massive waiting list people have been asked to give it to positive 300 euro for accommodation that they're you know they're not even guaranteed. It is a struggle because there's 4,000 students when we were LIIT but now because we're you know you were a university it's hard to explain why a problem that's been going on for so long hasn't been sorted when there's been so much hard work going in to you know making it a university and additional programs but like you can't expect to house all of these students when there is nowhere to put them you know. And traditionally there would have been an expectation that quite a lot of privately run accommodation would be available in nearby housing estates Ashlan comes to mind that would have had a tradition of housing students but other areas as well but the amount of actual accommodation available through the private sector this year we're told is severely constricted is that the experience you and your colleagues are having when you're now looking for accommodation. Yeah so there's quite a few of us and you know like we're all trying to help each other out but like options are next to zero you know you'd go on websites like daft.ie where there's maybe four options of you know one two bedroom apartments that are you know quite out of the price range of students you know and it's not just me as a student going into fourth year it's first year students right through you know people who don't have part-time jobs people who can't really afford these type of places which doesn't help when the options are so limited as well. And we know and you've alluded to this already yourself that with the designation of the Atlantic Technology University the Donegal campus of ATU both in Latter-Kinney and in Killebeck's both have expansion plans both are looking at a potential significant increase in student numbers in the coming years and if that is to be the case it doesn't necessarily auger well when student accommodation is becoming such a serious issue as it is at the moment. Yeah so of course like it's been alluded to by you know platforms like Donegal daily and even the student union themselves in the college that this is a problem that's been going on for several years like it's not something that has just came out of the blue. So it is it is very stressful. A lot of anxiety has been caused for a lot of people. Of course like you said the college is continuing to grow there's a lot of hard work going into adding additional programs like the plans are there to expand make it bigger make it better but then I think the people who are in position to you know sort out the accommodation situation they're just Right well sadly we appear to be having an issue with our telephone line I think we have lost David there but sorry David you're back thank you we just lost you briefly. To say this is a problem that we're going to sort out but the people who can make a difference still haven't done that so you know. Obviously you're speaking to the students union we've spoken to the students union ourselves over the course of the past number of days they're doing what they can but what more can be done and what role can be played by the college authorities by the council by the local politicians to try and get something done now obviously if you're going to look at developing accommodation it's not going to be done in time for the coming academic year but even in terms of the discussion about the future development we do need to be looking towards 2023 2024 2025 and beyond. Yeah so of course like I said I'm going into my final year so it's a problem I'll only have for now but for other students coming in and existing students it'll be an ongoing problem and of course the student union they're very passionate about their jobs they want to see a change but of course like I said it's been a problem that's been going on for several years I did mention places like Writers Square there's places like Walnut Grove now that are not offering the student accommodation anymore and you know there is people like local councillors and stuff like that that are fully aware of things like this are happening it's been reported on like I said platforms like Donegal Daily and different platforms like that the councillors and you know they are aware of this situation they are aware of the lack of accommodation so I think it's just leaving students like myself and the people that I'm communicating with it's just leaving us very disappointed and it is a little bit embarrassing for the college of course because like I said there is some people putting in really hard work to develop it and make it better but it's very hard to do that when the external people aren't on board to accommodate it Well the one thing we can be sure of David is that conversation has now started and thank you for your role in making sure that conversation is going to be front and centre and we'd obviously be speaking to councillors to politicians and to others as well to keep an eye on what's happening in the meantime David we wish you well personally in your own search for accommodation and we wish you well in your final year of studies here in letter Kenny Thanks very much Donald David thank you it's been a pleasure speaking to you this morning that's David there just one of a number of people who have been left looking for accommodation after Walnut Grove was no longer available to them and as David said it's becoming more and more difficult to secure accommodation himself a fourth year student but lots of first year students presumably are at the moment trying to find accommodation as I say I well remember back a couple of years ago when we were in that boat looking for accommodation in Dublin and you know it's not necessarily the easiest thing to get sorted out now we have made contact with Walnut Grove and we are hoping to get a response from them as soon as we get a response from them obviously we'll bring that response to you just want to bring you some of your comments before we go for a break Caller says I fully agree with Donald it's the taxpayers money it's disrespectful and grandstanding by the Green Party yeah it's an issue and it does have to be discussed Caller asks will there be anyone on to counter argue the upcoming right to housing referendum the key thing your guest left out was the right to private property will be erased from our constitution as the ex-MEP Cathy Senate once warned every time they put a referendum to you you expect to lose more rights now that is I suspect a reference to comments that were made by Sinead Gibney who is the commissioner for human rights we discussed their annual report on the program yesterday she said there does need to be a referendum on the right to housing I don't think a referendum on the right to housing will necessarily mean that it will give any end to the right to property that is a I suspect a discussion with regards to Cpo's and compulsory purchase orders I may be wrong on that but I can absolutely assure you Caller that in the event that there is a right to housing referendum and at the moment there isn't an upcoming referendum there there have been suggestions that there should be but it certainly has not as I've yet been called to the best of my knowledge if in the event that there is a referendum Highland Radio I can assure you both in terms of news and the National News Show will strive and ensure to speak to all of the parties involved Caller says the silence about the ugly naked sectarianism displayed at Loire's Bonfires is sickening even Doug Beattie of the Unionist Party has denounced it but Meehole Martin and Leo Radker and Eamon Ryan have nothing to say about an effigy of Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill hanging from a bonfire prior to it being burned this is what's called culture north of the border so says the Caller we're going to take a short break back in a moment with more news The Ninetal Noon Show with Letter Kenny Credit Union now offering mortgages from 40,000 to 600,000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges Letter Kenny Credit Union 9102127 In 2018 Toyota cut through the confusion completely ceasing production of diesel passenger cars lowering harmful emissions and providing certainty for Irish drivers everywhere In Kelly's Toyota proud to be part of that hybrid electric journey Visit Kelly's Toyota Letter Kenny or Mount Charles today to see what makes Toyota Ireland's best selling car brand in 2021 and 2022 you'll never take a wrong 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It's the first point of contact for customers when entering your premises at CNN embroidery in Letter Kenny they have a huge range of clothing covering all areas of the workplace It's widely known the customers warm to and trust employees that present themselves well Have your company name and broiderage are printed on all your work uniforms Contact CNN embroidery on 07491 28097 and get your staff looking their best If you're thinking of changing some furniture a huge sale is now on at McGinley's furniture in Letter Kenny it's a chance to save hundreds of euros on floor model suites beds and mattresses dining and occasional furniture with reductions in all departments It's a great opportunity to grab a real bargain in the big sale now on at McGinley's furniture on the Joe Bonerlink Road Letter Kenny see McGinley's furniture.com I said before the break that we'll be back with more news that that's really kind of you know muscle memory kicking in we will be back with more news obviously but most importantly back with more of your views your perspectives and coverage of the issues that you want to hear discussed you can text us as we said 086 60 25000 that number good for WhatsApp as well and you can call us 07491 25000 Now the HSE's National Ambulance Service has launched a new nationwide campaign for additional volunteer community first responders to support the work of the emergency services in local communities become a a c f or dot i e is a website that's just been launched I'm joined on the line by Gerald D from the National Ambulance Service Jer, good morning Good morning Jer Right, I don't have Jer right at this point in times just bear with us we will get Jer he is in the system but our system is creating little mazes on us at the moment and people are just getting temporarily lost so we will bring Jer back to you in just a few moments time just a few other things I want to talk to you a parent has called us actually very upset their son is involved in a local soccer club but is becoming quite frustrated with his coach they asked a question on a WhatsApp group and was then the subject of terrible what they have called abuse by the coach in the same group they've contacted the club but they're not getting satisfaction there it then transpires that the coach is involved in the management of the club and the original complainant has the child so upset they're thinking of leaving what can they do to get someone to listen to them they ask it's a difficult issue and something we'll come back to let's go back to the lines and hopefully we can now say good morning, Gerald D Good morning, Donna Jer, thank you for your perseverance our system is playing little games with us at the moment and it's being a little impish in its behaviour Jer, does this drive for volunteers interested in saving people's lives? I mean, we've all heard the stories about a delay in an ambulance and someone was saved because they got CPR on the ground because someone put them into recovery position because someone was able to use a defibrillator and what happened was people on the ground at the time were able to pave the way to keep the patient alive to give you and your colleagues time to get there Yes, Donna I suppose it's very, very important that when someone suffers a sudden cardiac arrest which you shouldn't be confused with somebody having a heart attack the cardiac arrest is when your heart has completely stopped pumping blood around your body so the only thing that's going to keep that going really in the initial stages is somebody to get their hands on the chest and do CPR and then for someone else maybe to bring a defibrillator to the scene and if it's needed give the patient the shock Now, as you rightly said you know, sometimes there is a delay in an ambulance getting to scene and often it's to do more with the geography of the country that we can't get to everybody in the quickest time that we would like and it really is the effort that is done in those initial stages by bystanders is so important now we compliment that by having a network of community first responder volunteers all around the country who are trained to deal with a cardiac arrest chest pain and stroke as well as choking they carry defibrillators they're very experienced well trained and the idea of it is that when someone does suffer a cardiac arrest and the caller gives the address and exactly what is wrong the emergency operation center computer will automatically dispatch the nearest community first responder so it's completely automated and know what it means is that ahead of an ambulance or alongside an ambulance you have a response coming with trained people who know exactly what to do I'm going to bring Felix onto the line Felix, good morning Good morning, Don Good morning Felix, Ger Felix has a story to tell it's a story I'm sure you've heard replicated up and down the country and this is a story that will point to the importance of what's happening here Felix, tell us what happened Yeah, well on Tuesday night passed our local J-Club Narossa in an electrical ward having a training session and my brother, Trevor was involved in it and the party in part in the training session and Declan Boner, the club chairman the currently senior team manager happened to be taken in charge of the session so coming to the end of the session myself and Jamie Keewer at our dugouts talking and my brother arrived over to me and he said to us, you know he was feeling a bit sick but at the time we didn't pass much remarks on it you know, we didn't next thing he sat down beside me for a while and he was talking and next thing he got up to I think I'm going to go down home and he said he was feeling a bit sick and I made it with shower so that was okay he left and he headed for his car and we were still at the pitch looking out of the training session and Trevor off, we didn't see him he got into his car but we didn't see him but next thing we heard a bang he actually revered into tower lights it was there so obviously when we heard the bang we knew that something was wrong so immediately myself and Jamie Keewer headed towards the car and Jerry opened the door and when we seemed there we knew that there was something seriously wrong so I started calling Declan because I know he was two doctors were doctors to get them and get help so he came running for the car and obviously we went down and the gang lads were kind of getting round them and I rang the ambulance now I must say by the time the time I give the address to the ambulance service Declan had the doctor Amara back was back with him and she was unseen very very quickly within three to four minutes I would say you know it was very very quick now and then at that stage it was just a case of Amara said he's having a heart attack and you know the attendant who went to the car he was in serious trouble like he was gone at that stage now I'm saying now the gang of five of the lads they all ran came around the car very quickly and I have to say what doctor Amara had put her on you know getting the lads through the compressions then keeping the lungs going was just amazing to watch you know and it kept going and kept going you know and the changing the turkey compressions and it was unbelievable to watch you know these guys you know coming from a training session and it's a very traumatic experience and you know even the lads stand around like you see the horror and everything and everybody wanted to do something but what could anybody do and you know it actually there's a very like a few of the guys took the lads all in they were not in that time that they only did they said they said they had decorated the rosary which was a very pointy thing to do at that time because at that time things were looking very very you know with the really important to do what they had about them they were doing, the boys kept doing the CPR yeah I was just saying the really important thing is that there was someone there who knew what they were doing there was someone there who had the information that was able to say you do this you do that you do the other and it was and as it happens it was Dr. Amara Bonar but it could have been a community first responder as well and from that point of view oh come in yes you know that someone knows what they're doing and someone is able to take control of the situation is literally the difference between life and death oh listen that was just unbelievable like from even to retire Dr. Bonar Landon Wright and seen after an agent the ambulance just like I have to say I think around 15 minutes I think they might have been there there was the ambulance just there just by pure coincidence the air ambulance was doing the training exercise in Slego so everything actually worked in February's favour like just everything was there there was nothing there was actually nothing at the waist you know time to time was really really important but you know that's where the work that I've done from by everybody and the services and just amazing and the importance like of every club and every community having people being there doing this is just unbelievable it's vitally vitally important because I would never ever have thought that you'd ever ever want to do that never you know never in a million years but just to everybody that was involved the family can never ever you never ever thanked them you know like Trevor had a massive heart attack and the good news the good news we can report and the good news we can report is that ultimately Trevor was airlifted onto Alton McGovern he received a stent and is recovering well now yeah it was Trevor's recovering well and leather Kenny's hospital this morning he had a good night this night thank God thank God absolutely amazing and indeed I think we alluded to that in our paper review because that story is carried in the Donegal News today as well and to be honest it was only as you were telling the story I realized it was the story from the Donegal News that we had referenced in our paper review earlier Gerard, I'm going to go back to you because we've heard Felix's story and Gerard you know this as we said this really really points to the fact that if someone is on scene who knows what they're doing it means very often somebody survives yeah Don, exactly I mean we would prefer that people would know what to do already so they're prepared in that they have a CPR course done however when someone rings 9-9 and it's identified that somebody in the cardiac arrest or ambulance call takers will actually talk you through exactly what to do and while they're on the line truly doing that there's somebody on the other side of the room who is dispatching resources so the community first responders will receive an automatic text we generally send possibly two ambulances or an ambulance in a rapid response and as Felix said it could be a deer ambulance as well so it's all about speed but we can send all of that to a patient with all of the most advanced life-saving skills and training and equipment but unless somebody is doing CPR when we get there and hopefully has a defib we're really on the back foot from the outset because we just can't possibly get everybody in the time that we would like to so thankfully in this case it's certainly you know people who did CPR and the response was quick to do the doctor unseen and that's what it's all about and what we're seeing an awful lot lately up and down the country is that this quick response means that people are going home to their families and we released a video yesterday and a website has become a CFR.ie and the video is embedded into that website and it shows exactly what community first responders do and it also tells a little story at the very end it's only a two-minute clip of Emma who was a survivor of cardiac arrest from Dumboin in Cungty Mead where she collapsed while feeding her baby and her husband who had absolutely no training did do CPR and then the response has started coming to the house and thankfully Emma was here to tell the story yesterday at the official launch of the video and you know I suppose if I was to put it all into one big perspective there is nothing more gratifying for us as an ambulance service or for community volunteers than shaking the hand of somebody who you've saved there is no like there is no other feeling you know that can match that you know and that's why we are reaching out now to the public and we're hoping that people will come across and visit become a CFR.ie and look at either joining a community first responder group in their area if there is one there or setting up a new one because it really is at the heart of the community is where lives are being saved ahead of the ambulance getting there and obviously aligned with this as well we have the ongoing campaign to increase the number of defibrillators in community settings and in businesses across the country and more and more we're seeing community defibs available right across the country you'd like to see that increased even more. Absolutely Donald so we're currently working on a national AED register now that again will bring a website where people will be able to go on and register defibs it's in the advanced stages of development now we hope to have it up and running by the end of the year but from information we've received over the last couple of years there's approximately 15,000 defibrillators after being sold in Ireland let's say in the last five years now some of those are privately owned and owned by clubs and everything we don't know where they are and we only have about two and a half thousand registered on our system so we are aiming now to really get people to look at their defibrillators don't just wait until something happens if there's a defibrillator in your community you should be looking at it there is no problem with opening the box if there's not a code on it and I'm sure that there's generally a phone number and just look at it know where it is because when something like this happens that is the difference in life and death of CPR and the defibrillator and again you know there are many people now going home to their families and to quote Emma yesterday she said that you know CPR and the defibrillator no means that her two young boys have a mum her husband has a wife and her family have a daughter and a sister and that her husband is her hero because he is the one that was untrained was talked through what to do over the phone and he kept Emma's heart beating by doing CPR and by doing that it meant that there was blood being pumped around the body because of vital organs and it just meant that Emma when she recovered came out of hospital you know unaffected by any issue with blood to the organs so it just meant that she is fully you know 100% going home to her family and that's all we can ask for is that people will you know attempt CPR it's better to do it for someone who doesn't need it I can tell you we won't be long telling it to get off their chest if you start doing CPR then it is to not do it for someone who does need it and if we can get just those messages out there you know that anybody can do it anybody can use the defibrillator because the defibrillator once you turn it on it will tell you what to do and you have the backup plan of the ambulance service over the phone as well telling you what to do and Ireland is getting better we have an 84% raise now of people bystanders be it family, friends or complete strangers who do CPR in the event of a cardiac arrest and that's phenomenal but where we do have it just a slight chart falling is that the defibrillator we need to get more defibrillators on chest nice and quick and just finally to say that 70% of cardiac arrests will happen in the home so it will be somebody that you know loved one, friends or you know it could be somebody just that you know so it's so important that people are just a little prepared and look for CPR classes and know where the local defibrillator is at Gerald D from the National Ambulance Service thank you very much indeed Felix I want to go back to you give you the final word on this Ger just said most cases are people you know in this case it was your brother and your actions German Q's actions, Declan Bonner's actions and Mara Bonner's actions so many people came together and the upshot of what happened in the roster earlier this week is that your brother Trevor is alive and recovering this morning at LUH yes exactly exactly that's something just as what Gerald said there it's really really important that message goes out through the whole country you know because he is right there because you know it's vitally important it's not just until you see what actually happened and it's really really important you know that everybody takes on board that this invasion gets them behind it I totally agree with that Don and you know and we leave it there Felix thank you very much indeed for telling us your story and obviously our thoughts are with Trevor as well we wish him a quick recovery and again fair play to all involved in what happened at Narossa on Tuesday night Felix thank you very much indeed this is the Mindsill News Show on Highland Radio that's a good heartwarming story to share with you this morning it's nine minutes eight minutes actually at this stage 10 o'clock I'm gonna take a short break back in a few moments beat that cost of Brexit with no customs charges do you need a UK address for your limited company or personal use? 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trying to get more people involved in the community but you came across a slight issue yeah well we have five of the leaders here in Mallon Head and we did a lot of training as well my friend as an instructor with myself Martina and we did a lot of training just long before the COVID but that's a long time ago and I mean one thing forgets about it unless you're training all the time now months ago or so I put out in the bulletins and papers and Facebook that I would go house to house and train people rather than come out of their own house now in a safe environment of course we need to be careful with that I know but I didn't get any response at all from that now and I just feel it's imperative that everybody knows what to do in a situation I'm not asking them to train up or anything like that that'll be hard to do but I would like them to at least know what to do and an urgency did you offer the alternative of perhaps everyone coming together in the community hall or a public place and doing it in that way we did already do all of that while I'm telling you it was before the COVID we didn't do it recently no but I've offered this now that I would go house to house but I would just feel I would like people to be happy and know if something happened at least they'd have an idea absolutely now it it's somewhat coincidental because that you're speaking to me because I've just been handed a query that that has come in it says can you provide information for initial and residents to get training in cp or cardiac arrest for it etc I thought I heard there's training in Mallon head now I'm presuming that that caller is indirectly referring to yourself yeah possibly possibly you know um yeah we're just we but now our committee we don't have many in our committee now people do have other things in their life and in their mind and I can understand that but our committee is a wee bit shaky at the moment you know well is there a facebook page or a way yeah is there a way people can make contact with you or a facebook page or whatever and perhaps get involved and perhaps help shore this up because it's a hugely important community resource yeah that would be great actually yeah I would be in whatsapp and messenger and stuff like that so and I had my telephone number given out so uh yeah they could get in contact with me no problem so do you want to give us a number that people can get you out or give us a facebook page that where people can find you I will I I just do what's up normally I do have a facebook as well but I prepare just uh what's up and messenger at the moment um I can give you the number yeah right um yeah if you want to to to read out the number and and people can take a note of it and if anyone wants to make contact then hopefully um they can do so all right okay um oh wait six eight four seven yeah six eight yeah four five that's lovely um Jesus of people people can make contact with you if they wish and speak about getting training in the meeting of course we were speaking earlier to gero d from the national ambulance service and the other option that's there is for people to go on to become a cf4.ie that's become a cf4.ie and uh you can set them get some training through the national ambulance service and and register with them as well so yeah there there are I just would be so I don't offer it uh passing over there um I um would just be do the training now I wouldn't be issuing certificates or anything like that absolutely not but that's I know I know what you were saying yeah yeah okay thank you very much but just in case people have that uh thought on their head yeah now just a but I mean as you what you're offering to do we show people how to use differentiators and give people some important advice and it's really important that that that advice is offered um Teresa thank you very much indeed for speaking to us you're welcome and thank you for having me on it's our pleasure trees we're going to take a short 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square had actually been set up as a direct provision center that was accommodating 60 families um then the alternative that we were given was one of grove it was one of two alternatives and now the same thing has happened with one of grove there meanwhile the state has ran out of beds to house incoming refugees the accommodation center in city west in dublin has reached full capacity with 1 000 people currently living there it means some of the new arrivals could be stranded at dublin airport in the coming days with no alternative plan in place government ministers will meet today to find solutions to the problems with gormans town army camp in county me likely to be used to house those fleeing the war the average spokesperson rebecca monahan says each department must work together to find beds not all government departments are really pulling the right out when it comes to this i think the opw has a huge role to play the amount of land and buildings that they own and i think the department of justice will not a lot of like closed down garden stations for example around the country also need to play their part in doing this campaigners say the lack of time being given to their actors to consider defective block defective building block legislation is a total first it comes as the government's bill goes to the final stage in the shana today and is expected to be passed ahead of the summer recess affected homeowners have tabled area amendments but some say none but say none of their key actions have been approved michael dordy from the mica action group says a lack of flexibility from the government is extremely disappointing i think the disappointing part is that there's things in there that cost the exchequer not one cent extra but provides a homeowner with a way forward for example penalty free downsizing say you needed two hundred thousand and the grant is a hundred and sixty thousand you're forty thousand short so what we said was at least give us the money you are going to give us a hundred and sixty thousand and let us build a smaller house that's not been facilitated either so there's been a complete intransigence on the part of the government companies in donningall are being encouraged to avail of a new 85 million euro scheme aimed at increasing the use of digital technology in their business as part of the national grow digital campaign the 85 million euro digital transition fund is now in place to help companies who use new digital technologies to improve their products processes supply chains and services minister of state for trade promotion digital and company regulation Robert Troy is in sligo today for a grow digital workshop he has announced the two and he's shown developing partnerships projects have been successful in being rewarding funding part of the workshops will be a panel of businesses who have already embraced technology and digitalization and will be able to tell of their increased efficiency increased productivity and how they've become a more resilient business businesses who failed to make this transition are going to be left behind and we don't want to see that happen as well today and I will be announcing funding under the regional enterprise plan and in its own development partnership have been successful with two of their applications weller forecasters to the latest charts this morning still show temperatures potentially exceeding 30 degrees from sunday met errands issued a high temperature advisory and says it could trigger a high temperature warning over the weekend and in the early days of next week night time is expected to be uncomfortably warm caho no one from Ireland's weller's channel has been looking at the most up-to-date charts so the latest chart of the moment i suppose showed this particular i suppose weather phenomena weather events developing over the course of the weekend in the early days of next week we do draw in a blue particularly hot air from the continents as we go through sunday sunday and then it's monday and tuesday in particular probably the highest temperatures are likely to come between sunday and tuesday and at that stage we could see temperatures exceeding the 30 degree barrier to today's weller now sunny spares and isolated choirs this morning becoming cloudier this afternoon highest temperatures of 16 to 18 degrees that's all the news for now we'll be back again at 11 o'clock until then good morning obituary notices for thursday morning july 14th the death has taken place of serah seedy mcloughan knee mccolley 25 shantallow avenue formerly of lennon moor muff county dunagall funeral leaving her home tomorrow morning at 10 20 a.m to simpatricks church pennyburn for recreation mass at 11 a.m entierment afterwards in the city cemetery family time from 10 30 p.m to 10 a.m the death has taken place of annie boyce owen tolla carry gert remains are opposing at her late residence funeral from there tomorrow morning going to the church of st 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second hour of the 90 noon show this morning and we have had a note in to say the civil defense will be running free certified cpr and defibrillator training in carndonna starting in early september on a date to be confirmed details will be issued on the dunigol civil defense facebook page in the next coming weeks so if you're interested in availing all first aid training in the northern ishone area then there will be free training from the civil defense in cpr and defibrillator use in early september um corner says i'm having tsp issues this morning with transactions anyone else experiencing this uh another corner says um i am now that we've had that one um a caller was asking a question we were speaking yesterday about vaccinations and travel and a caller says do you need to have all your vaccinations to board a cruise ship and the answer is absolutely yes um i was on a ship last month by by coincidence and yes we had to present certificates of vaccination as part of the booking process but also uh you had to present a negative test taken no more than two days before boarding so we were boarding on monday we were in amsterdam we were boarding on monday and on saturday morning we actually went to a test center in amsterdam and both of us did um antigen tests in amsterdam that were supervised and we got a certificate with a bar code that we had to present in order to get on board the ship and that test could be taken no more than two days before boarding so you had to get tested before you could board as well as presenting your your vaccinations now in the case of people who may have uh medical exemptions in the case of people who may have certificates of recovery and in the case of people who may have unvaccinated children um their advice to contact the cruise lines or contact their travel company or travel agent and there can be a discussion but uh certainly the norm is yes you do have to be vaccinated and yes you do have to have a test done before you could board call it as i'm thinking of availing of the solar grant and installing solar panels i'm just wondering have any other listeners got them installed and are they working out to be good value i'm concerned that they might produce just a nominal amount of electricity especially in donnie gall now if you recall we spoke yesterday to me hola haney of others and they are planning a significant solar development in west donnie gall beside the business park in guidore now what michael said was the technology has changed totally so that whereas in the past yes it required direct sunlight to make the panels work now uh it's using the sun's rays even as they penetrate through cloud so you know a cloudy day you can still get significant benefit from the solar panels so the technology now exists where it doesn't require direct sunlight anymore it can extract the ultraviolet even if it's coming through cloud so that is making a difference um also just want to mention uh a tractor and vintage car 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the team has been recognized for its achievements by the mayor of letterkenny donal mandy kelly the teams won two out of three championships this year and they train in limavadi and they're hoping perhaps to get some training facilities closer to home delighted to be joined in studio by deepak swain who's the team captain and rossick riaz who is the vice captain deepak and rossick you're both very welcome indeed thank you i want to go to you first deepak as the the captain of the team talk to me about getting the team together and what was involved in getting the letterkenny quicker club started yeah thanks for giving us this opportunity to speak uh yeah we started this club uh there was a intention behind uh to promote cricket uh in letterkenny so we started this club in 2006 uh so we we started with the tennis ball i mean the softball cricket and we are utilizing uh sand union's uh school ground like for uh for for the tournament then we started uh thinking of how we can promote it right uh to the next level then we thought of having the little cricket then we formally build the team uh there the the it uh it started around 2016 then by 2018 we formed our own team then we started playing the local games then uh it it took a bit of challenge right for us to gather the players like leather ball it's a like a difficult game like for a few of the people yeah but we managed to get uh so the committee i mean the chairman the committee members they put up a really hard effort right to get the team build and we got some support from uh sand junction uh cricket club that we use their uh cricket ground and the nets for for for the practice and all and rossick um you're now in a situation where you're traveling to limivari for training and you know it it can't be easy you know to be making that it's a journey and our either way so you know obviously you'd be hoping to find something closer yeah exactly so first of all thank you for inviting us uh regarding that point uh i would say yeah uh we have to travel almost more than an hour to get our home games so that's uh quite a problem uh secondly regarding this it's a problem like we identify good players in schools we visited their summer camps for this sports week and we've spotted those those players so uh asking those players to travel that's kind of a problem like if we have something nearby we can always ask them that you are a good player you can play and you should come and play with us so that's a problem uh every time our home game we have to travel we have to take food gather all the stuff and travel so that is a problem so we are looking for some facility so that we can enjoy our cricket and uh i think that would involve so currently we are having a group of like 35 40 players i think that group can quite swell if we see uh more players and a local facility at the moment uh Deepak the vast majority of players are from the subcontinent from india from Bangladesh from from pakistan countries like that uh when it comes to the younger children that you're training you're getting a much wider variety and hopefully some of those will break through to the first team oh exactly that's what our intention is so now we are visiting all the school and trying to promote cricket and we can get some some kind of local guys right who can come come and join that team and they can play real good cricket and who knows like somebody from the local team can play for the national team hopefully and but part of the problem and we've been speaking about going to Lvivadi and yes it is difficult to travel it's difficult logistically to organize but it also means people in letter kenny and people in dunigal are not seeing cricket being played people aren't seeing the team because even your home games are taking place in Lvivadi so there is no way for people to see it and in many cases until people can see it they won't fully identify with it exactly the so what what we're doing is uh so for for the kids like what we are doing is uh we are having a smash it a program for all the kids which is supported by cricket of Ireland and northwest cricket and as we don't as we spoke right we don't have facilities so we are using the litigant town park to to promote this and have the trainings over there but hopefully we are working hard to get a get something around letter kenny so that people across dunigal letter kenny can see come and see like the matches right and we can promote it in a better way in terms of the team's performance you are winning matches you you have won a number of championships when you do have a number of titles yeah so last year we participated in three competitions and we won two of them so we had two trophies last year and our aim is to play in the most superior league and this year we have won five games out of eight so we are currently spot at number three if we have like five games left if we go and win and we come in top two and we are very working hard for that so if we come in top two we'll achieve our goal this year if not we hope that we'll go on and do it next year so our aim is by next year we would be playing the highest league cricket in Ireland and just coming to the point of the youngsters I think two of the players one is playing for under 15 Ireland and one is playing in northwest so the young support is very good and we have currently two teams and we would like to add under 15 team and the women's team in coming future so we really want the stuff to go our ways so that we can have four full teams currently we have two teams it's a hugely ambitious plan and it just I think what it points to is that you are taking this very seriously it's a hobby obviously you're doing it because you love cricket but it's more than a hobby in a sense that you have a very very definite plan you have a very very definite and achievable ambitions yeah of course it's a hobby as you rightly said and we are also trying to help the community right so we can get more young kids engaged with different type of sports like not just like subcontinents are more inclined towards cricket but we are trying to promote as much as we can like to all the community that's what our goal is how important was it to you that that's been recognized now by the town by the municipal district that the mayor has brought you to the public services center given you the civic reception and honored the club for what it's achieved yeah it's a huge achievement for us like the way we started three four years back considering that we don't have the facilities still we don't have the facilities we are still utilizing other facilities but if you see from where we started and now where we are at now it's a big achievement for the team and for the for the club are there any have you identified any potential sites in letter candy or its environs any particular areas that perhaps you may be able to avail of and are there any plans as such or is it still you know and a goal rather than a plan oh yeah of course I mean I our chairman and the club founder at Ramohan and the chairman Rajesh they have been constantly following up with the local parties right to get a land nearby letter candy and they are also trying to get in touch with the county council and the members right who can help us to get a field or a ground nearby yeah Rasek I mean if you were to look at at the potential for that to happen in your own mind and you know it's perhaps an unfair question but what do you believe is the time frame that you would be able to actually get a facility within Donegal close letter candy what's what's a realistic time frame so considering all the factors and all the planning I would say probably next year we are closed by like a northwest cricket is helping us and the local community and it was really a big honor that we got acknowledged by the mayor and we delivered our message to them we put our message across and we hope that next year we'll find a place and we'll get the right funding to do it and hopefully what happened this week with with the reception with with the the awarding and with this with other media coverage that that's going to get hopefully it'll it'll put it out there more and people will realize first and foremost that you exist and working from that they realize that perhaps I mean you know some people have funny views of cricket I mean and I know some people will say it's the only game in the world where you can play for three days and then draw but I mean there there are other there's there's 2020 and there's hundred and there's I mean and I'm sure you know you aren't playing you aren't playing test cricket you're playing the sort of limited sort of overs and so on yeah yeah we're playing our t20 and we are playing 30 overs match and 40 overs match and sometimes we are playing t10 overs this is very exciting right yeah you just go and hit it you don't have to spend the whole day on the ground you just come and play enjoy and go on t10 overs is basically 60 balls each 60 balls you have to score as much as you can yeah so there is a lot more to it than test cricket and and so on and so forth gentlemen it's been an absolute pleasure and thank you indeed for coming into us this morning and hopefully we will see this develop and I look forward to following the the cricket's team progress on the the sports news here on Haaland radio um now another caller just just asked to me you know someone said there are facilities closer to Donegal there are facilities in closer to Donegal than the Mavari there's Dona Mana there's Straban there's Derry I mean why I really looked into those they have their own home teams they have their own teams and we are like outsiders like we play with them when it's their home game we go to that ground and play but when so there is one home game and there is one away game so when they have to play away and we have to play home they have to come to Limavari yeah so essentially Limavari there is there isn't a team using that pitch apart for yourselves so it's become your home pitch yes so Limavari team they are not playing since sometime so now they have formed a team and they are now participating in Q3 we are playing in like Q1 Q1 games right and we do have a Q3 team right so that gives us some kind of breath right to utilize their facilities because they don't have two teams Q1 and Q3 so we are leveraging but it is potentially potentially could the day come when Limavari have a Q1 team and then that's going to put you in in this situation yeah that's what we are looking for like Q1 facilities nearby that does make sense T-Pak and Rastik apologies for butchering your names and thank you very much indeed both of you for coming to join us and as I say we look forward to hearing of more success thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much for inviting the birth information and tracing act is now here people adopted, boarded out or the subject of an 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public as a good thing here is a copy and paste from their proposed wording the state accordingly shall delimit the right to private property where it is necessary to ensure the common good and to vindicate the said right to housing for all residents of Ireland and that's a reply I had said earlier that I mean I wasn't aware that there was a referendum called I am aware that there is a campaign to have a referendum and your points well made caller in terms of that is indeed being suggested by people before profit what I would say is there will be a long process between a motion being brought to the doll by people before profit and a referendum being presented by government and the chances of the referendum being presented by government being the exact wording proposed by people before profit I suggest would be unlikely and there will be a lengthy debate about wording and I would be very surprised if the people before profit wording were to become the wording in a referendum to be held shortly that I may be wrong on that and if I am wrong I will hold my hand up and say so but I think there's a lot of discussion to be done on this before it becomes a referendum and certainly that discussion will be reflected by Greg on the 921 Highland video of that you can be quite sure and this issue will be fully discussed now Patrick is on the line and we were speaking a lot in recent times about tourism and visitors and the visitors available to visitors and Patrick do you want to speak to us about public bathrooms in the showroom? we just tell you this I can't get over it I did see the wife we were doing and the 12th and Bunkrana which we love I mean I'm 84 years of age and she's come up 32 we love going to Bunkrana we love taking our children there when we were young and as a wife would always say get your breeze get your breeze she always thought that was the healthiest thing but we were down on the 12th there the place was Bunkrana was packed the visitors were there must have been old Derry was down there but on the beaches we were sitting there and we were sitting looking across a rough moan and all when I just said well I think I'll do nothing I'll go to the toilet first before we go back home being 84 years of age he's mature so I was going to the men's toilets in Bunkrana school boy was coming right with his dad and he says that's gross I don't know what it means so I went down to the men's toilets in Bunkrana I lived in cubicle the first cubicle in cubicle was on the the water was nearly coming right it was full it was blocked I went to the next toilet couldn't recall litter on the seats and I thought what the hell's going on here I says there's tourists coming on here there's brothers they have everything there it's perfect they even have the grass grown to the environment over on the other side there which I think is a great idea for long grass for the butterflies and the bees and all that's great for that yeah you know it really does so to me Bunkrana was away back when the locks really really run to that end no so it's not this I'm just not a fly tonight come on but I thought and the visitors come to this toilet here and just be in the good will you know come on we say there's signs running up this anybody dropping what's in dog litter is a hundred and fifty euro fine okay there you are that's making sure the dog people look after their dogs but that means toilets I could not believe I'll first of all when I walked in it was a distant it was not a disinfectant smell it was a smell most places you go to I think you're done mobile some great condition there toilets which sometimes you go down there because that's the beauty by dairy you want to leave there you can they're all on the the beautiful coast at seaside places are all there for you to go and see wherever you want to go but Bunkrana from time began has always been the shortest one to dairy you could turn the road and the friendly people and the lovely place so why would they not have somebody cleaning those toilets why I thought how simple they could put a corner and say they could get a hose they could hose down the mountain's toilet and say what disinfectant doing it wouldn't take long even if it even if it's done four times a day it means that you're watching it you know that's why I could not believe that this was they had done that because they've done them much good Bunkrana Council are there they've done that much good for Bunkrana beautiful it's so majestic and they've all the playgrounds for kids and anybody going down there it's going to be impressed why spoil it by not keeping the toilets up they scratch can I ask you Patrick you've said you're a regular visitor to Bunkrana so presumably you use those toilets on a regular basis and you know those toilets were they particularly bad on on the 12th was this a one-off or has there been a pattern of problems see the young kid coming out and saying that's gross I don't mouse the babes yeah you know I couldn't believe what I saw all the times when you're on today I just want to use in the 12th I just think at my age I'll just go and use a cubicle have it well no they were not busy busy holidays that we have now in Bunkrana are really as a busy place yeah and obviously as you said the 12th is always going to be a busy day yeah the 12th is always going to be a busy day because the 12th the dairy people would be heading down towards Bunkrana or heading somewhere else you know and the car park was full so the most I mean I'm not a lot of people on the beach was full it was I don't know if I just sat on them lovely summer seats that they have so when you get to our age that's what you do you sit on and we lift the cross wait for which is that once we cross the border from Derry and let me say another country because that's Balmy you're in another world yeah that peace and tranquility hits you and you feel a good factor so why for the sake of a toilet getting kept well then I go out and why not get a grant from the European body to build new toilets we titled you know really a class job because it's tourism we're talking about here and surely as far as rampage or senators could say I'll get you and only from Europe knock this one down the water and build another one yeah to go to go to a blend and along with the rest of well Patrick we would I would never we will we will put that questions Donegal County Council and it's a point well made and thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning you know thank you okay no Patrick you look after yourself that's the second time Donald because your kitty helped us the last time to go and see Andrew really good I'm delighted you are so friendly and I'm delighted you had a good time Patrick thank you very much indeed and we wish you and and your wife all the best and may you have many many more years of enjoying the Majesty and the music of Bunkrana Patrick it's the shortest distance between two points it 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morning and that was a reference of course to the Brehen law tradition of this country and it's the Brehen law the old Irish law is the subject this morning Joe Kelly good morning I imagine why you could don't like it's the luck they shit a good morning to yourself and to your listeners there in Highland Radio Land indeed Irish ways and Irish laws the Moving Hearts song I'm sure you know it well Joe and as many people will but it's reflective of the fact that long before there was shall we say a codified system of English law imposed on this country there was an Irish law a Brehen law that was very very different in its format and very very different in its application yeah I mean one of the things about Irish culture and the word Colteri from the Latin to grow when we were colonised what was brought to our country was seen to be superior and what we had was considered inferior so not only were we deprived of our lands we reduced to savagery on that land and the customs and traditions and societal developments that we had we'd have very very highly sophisticated society and that there'd be no doubt about that and and Pearson Plunkett encasement and people like that with the Celtic twilight Douglas de Hige our first president understood that that colonialism had almost destroyed the soul of Ireland and we live today in Ireland for its common law where it's mostly British law we adopted the British law after independence but if we ever would scratch the surface of our history a little amount we would be surprised how sophisticated and how advanced a cultural system we had in Ireland before say the fight of the heirs the old Gaelic order it was comparative to any other European country of its time it was far far superior there is no doubt about that and so how do we find out about every every society is through the manuscripts that have survived and for example through the legal system that reflects how society worked functioned how people taught about you know regulations and movements within the society so look that's that's basically a very important thing to say so when we're talking about Irish Irish law it's a pity that our students aren't taught about these things in school to make us realize we had a very sophisticated society before the arrival of our colonial neighbours one of the few things I remember about and I would have learned a bit about Brehyn Law when I was in and I presume when we're talking Irish law we're talking what we would have been taught as Brehyn Law when we were in school that's that is it more subtle than that or is that the overarching term we can use? Well Brehyn comes from the from the Irish a Brehyn law was more or less early Irish law you're talking from St Patrick's time right into the 8th century now these laws predate the arrival of Christianity which is terribly interesting and if you look comparatively with Alfred the Great in England which is about the 9th century the Brehyn law was at its peak at that time while he was only grabbing scraps of law from from society in the time it hadn't even been codified we were that far advanced in the development of our society by the 9th century and so there are about 50 manuscripts that survive now these manuscripts come from from the 15th, 16th century but there are copies of copies of copies that go back to the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th century and so for example one of the great manuscripts that we have of the Irish Irish law is called the Shana Hasmore and it's a codified written down codified system of law that had developed through Pagan times and it was composed by supposedly the annals of the Four Masters makes reference to it and as does other manuscripts by nine men St Patrick and two other saints three kings and three wise learned men and they codified this law and this law was basically adopted throughout the whole two is there was about 150 two is in Ireland the two is were little kingdoms and they consisted of about about 3000 people so our society was regulated by these Brehyn laws and these laws were adopted in every two and every so often there would have been Aenys or gatherings in which these laws would have been discussed and maybe altered and then people would go from the Aenys the gatherings and go back to their two is with the laws being amended and knowing then this was the new regulations It does make sense because we know that in those times post-Patrick that people like our own Cullum Kill you know in you know 1400 years ago there are thereabouts they were going abroad they were forming monasteries in Europe in in the UK and we know they were bringing scripts like the book of Cells we know they were bringing manuscripts of a religious nature it would stand to reason that if they were going abroad if they were founding monasteries founding churches founding colleges and places of learning the saints and the scholars presumably we can assume that as well as bringing religious manuscripts they were bringing laws they were bringing societal documents as well ah yeah that would have been very evident all right and like when the with the fall of the Roman Empire you're talking about 326, 324 around you know those two years 2426 the Barbarian so to speak moved in from down through Germany into what was a Roman Empire and it collapsed and we know then with the Dark Ages it's like somebody put out the switches and the Pax Romannum the piece of Rome collapsed but the Irish then go back into Europe bringing order structure regulations and a lot of that would have been drawn from the experience of the the early Irish law and it's important to say that they were pagan laws yeah and then they were Christianized to some degree but not absolutely and again what's terribly important in the Bremen laws was they covered almost every aspect of society that we can talk about today domestic violence treatment of animals environment contract law relationships children it covered almost every aspect and and relative to its time it was so advanced in fact some of the laws would be in keeping and maybe more advanced than where we are where we are at in recent times and what I mean in the last century we're used to be told about the historic patriarchy where laws were very much framed in the interests of white men and that women would not have had rights and that immigrants would not have had rights and that those who were not white males would not necessarily have rights was that the case or do these laws suggest perhaps a a more progressive view of society than we would have seen in later years yeah well one has to be understanding we're talking about laws that go back 1500 years okay so you've got to understand that was very much a papyarchy society it would have still been patriarchal yeah but within that there was a great understanding of of the the value of women and of children and so forth but the way the law works the system works which was very insightful everybody had what they call lorrig nigh face value they had scenarios were an honor price and depending on the kind of person you were where you had status in society your honor price was was set so for example if you were a king and somebody just for example assaulted you then the honor price for you would be much much higher say than somebody that was just a simple apprentice working somewhere so depending on where you were in society your honor price corresponded so women's honor price went with their nearest person so for example if it was a husband or if it was their father or if it was their son their honor price was associated to the nearest male related to them or connected to them so if something was done say for example rape or domestic violence or things like that there then the honor price she would get would be equivalent to half her brother or half her husband or half that's the way it worked and the honor price was across all individuals in within society however which is very very interesting and I would say this is the influence of Christianity a child between baptism and seven had the same honor price as a king so anything that was done to a child any wrong I think this is very insightful that it was the child was considered equal to the king in value their honor price or a guy and to think what's mean you know our recent history in Ireland and whatnot you know how insightful that was and as regards ladies and women there was different levels of marriage and oftentimes the reference in every Irish law is to women within marriage and there was nine different types of contracts of marriage marriages wasn't man and a woman it was the concept that if a woman married a man and it brought property and status then she'd equal honor price in the marriages he had or it was for example of a woman against the will of her family married a man then the marriage was of a lesser value in honor price there was different values put to that but some of it now you would be a wee bit uncomfortable with that the husband was allowed to slap his wife to correct her but if he left a blemish honor then she could divorce him and it was very strict so it was only for correction but not to hurt her and then the other thing was if a man became too large or too heavy and wasn't able to satisfy his wife then she had the right to divorce him so there was lots of different intricate laws I understand them in daytime radio so very well thought of it they had thought of everything so look they're just some of the laws in relation to women which we thought were very very interesting I have a final question if I may and it's how was this monitored and regulated did we have a system of comparable to say barristers and solicitors and judges did we have the equivalent of Blackhorror Kings Inns in terms of training people who would be experts in law and would be act as mediators or would act as judges and indeed would we have had what we would now understand as a police force well look at it the way we know that the moment in Ireland or judges are of a very high standard unblemished and you know they stay aloof to a certain degree of society and they bring an honour and integrity to their role as judges and rightly so and they carry that we've been very lucky in Ireland that we have had that whole tradition within our country where judges are unquestioned and untarnished and likewise in this time in the Irish law the judges were seen as very important people obviously they were men and that they were schooled they were schooled law schools to do this and in pagan times we would be in the fill of the pod but then the pod would become then obviously the bray of the judge true learning but it's terribly important to say as well that you know in relation to Donnie Gall first and foremost you had Colin Killis book on copyright you know when he copied the book and the king then made the judgment therement to every cow it's calved to every book it's copy you know this is back into the Irish law this was the first case of copyright in the world again back to Brechen law St Dune in our own Neva Ounin introduced a law Lex Innocentium the law of the innocent and it basically Neva Ounin or Adam in the old Irish he held a conference in Burr in 697 and he had 91 of the leaders kings and ecclesiastical leaders of Ireland dilrated the part of Scotland and picked them further over towards maybe Aberdeen that direction 91 of them agreeing to the laws of combat that women and children and religious were not to be interfered with in any way with the war now we only caught up with that in the Geneva Convention of 1949 after World War II again this shows how advanced our law system was in Ireland that it took almost a thousand about 500 years later that there was figuriness out here in Europe with the Geneva Convention as I said there were 300 too as there were 300 small kingdoms what was the power of the judge recognised as being above those and would the law have been recognised as being above those was the law accepted across the country or did each of the two have its own individual system as it were and its own individual judge no the king was so to speak the judge as such he made the judge but his judgements were based on the advice of his breif so every king would have a breif within his outreach and they would advise him on everything from you know property verbal contract there was one very very interesting manuscript and it's in Trinity College Dublin they actually had a laws it's about 14 these 14 pages defining it's called Behe Bracha Bee Laws that the Irish society at that time had laws about bees and about bee stings and about how people would have to regulate their their hives and neighbors and so every third year the local neighbors the man that would have a beehive would have to give honey to his foreclosest neighbors because his bees were trespassing onto their lands for to harvest the nectar and so forth highly highly sophisticated laws imagine back then that they had laws about the keeping of bees as I said to you I mean it's like trying to put maybe a liter into a pint glass glass condensing this here today of course but what is terribly important to impress upon people is we had a very highly sophisticated society in the old Gaelic order and we should never forget that and we should draw from that and understand that we were a very educated noble learned people who were brought to our knees by colonialism we should never forget that and it's maybe or on us to make sure that we always try to draw from that well and understand that you know we had something that was absolutely fabulous in this country and we can be very very proud of our Aries roots Aries history Aries culture in that regard and so look at that's that's an overview of of of the Aries law there's so much there'll be laws about the likes of yourself Bill Bill I have no doubt Bill I have no doubt you've come into the to Donnie Gall so when you've moved in from a tour you're an outsider Bill I came from the Asia Bill Yeah Bill Yeah so you're you're a jar jarid you're you're a you're a a wanderer that's come in so your honor price would only be related to your wife if she was from Donnie Gall for example or whoever it would you'd be next to your honor price would be half of theirs and it took you three years then to one over rights in your own self to have it within the tour and the other thing was there was also then people that came from abroad so for example St. Patrick when he arrived he would have been known as a coup glass coups a hound gray a gray hound because he was totally outside the tour Bill Yeah and they would never get into having a very high honor price within the within the within the law so there was lots of stuff on that and one other thing maybe what I found was very interesting was people that were had mental and capacities and there was three different types of categories on that there they were when brought to court or judged they were mitigating circumstances if they were deranged or if they weren't in the mental capacity they were not in any way found guilty I thought that was fascinating that they understood the mental challenges and the the struggles that maybe people would have and that that was understood within within the law a very very insightful again shown how advanced it was for it for its time you know so look there's there's lots of other laws you could talk about you know about killing and self-defense about drunkenness about liability about the management of horses terrible lot about farming and how to farm and about lost property about loans one big thing was verbal contract verical contract was considered very important because in those times writing wasn't a common thing and if a man didn't keep his word it was considered it's considered a very very serious crime now the nature of crime by the way there was no prisons so you paid there was a payment made your honor price demanded a certain payment and you were paid by with cows or with grain or with so there was a set price paid and you had to pay that and if you didn't pay it and the person that you own that to came to your house and fasted trosk it and you yet within that time of you make handing over what was due to them and if you yet within that time then your fine was doubled so people would go and fast outside their the house of the person that was owing them money or owing them what was due not money but property or cows due to their honor price so again a very very complicated sophisticated law system very very advanced for its time Dr Joe Kelly as always it's been an absolute pleasure and as always time has caught up with us and beaten us thank you very much indeed for that insight and we look forward to doing it again Joe thank you very much indeed got on my eaggert fortune or thank you slow Joe Kelly there historian always a fascinating discussion this is the lines of new show on Highland radio it's a it's four minutes past 11 so with apologies to Emma we're going to go over and take the headlines with Emma Ryan thanks Donal good morning a student who's had his accommodation cancelled twice during his time studying in Natterkinny says there's a major a major accommodation problem which has been gone on for far too long David a final year student in Natterkinny had secured private accommodation for the upcoming college year but it has been cancelled and alternative options are already booked or have long waiting lists that it might get effective building blocks legislation goes to the final 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apply online at letterkennycu.ie or in office today into the third hour of the 90 noon show this morning 08 6 60 25 thousand for your text or whatsapp messages 07 4 9 1 25 thousand if you want to call carline and donmarie standing by and taking your calls a new era is being promised for the defense forces with a new action plan announced he shook me hall martin says the development of the defense forces is essential but he cautioned the plans will take time to complete me hall martin was speaking as the action plan was announced based on the report of the commission of the defense forces the launch took place yesterday at mckay barracks in dublin so let's say i'm joined on the line by the minister for defense and also the minister for foreign affairs minister sriman kovni minister good morning hi don thanks for having me on it's our pleasure minister you'll obviously have been deeply involved in the discussions leading up to this action plan and as part of that process you visited thinner camps some weeks ago yeah absolutely and part of the process here was to try to visit all of the barracks around the country to speak face to face with with defense force personnel of all ranks and to have an honest conversation around their experiences within the defense forces what their ambitions were their frustrations you know it won't be any secrets to hear that we've had challenges in terms of recruitment and retention in the defense forces our numbers are below where they should be and what we announced yesterday as a government is the largest ever investment and commitment to the defense forces of any government over the last hundred years I mean we're effectively committing nine billion euros to defense expenditure over the next six years that's a very significant increase and we're hoping in that time working with the defense forces to be able to take on close to 6,000 people into the defense forces that's 3,000 into the permanent defense forces and 3,000 into the reserve and of course that means that all of our defense infrastructure including thinner camp but also many of the other barracks around the country in some cases we'll need to be upgraded we'll need to make investment in more accommodation and obviously all of the other facilities that our barracks needs but we also need to invest in in other equipment for our army it's you know it'll be about new equipment that will be allowed that would allow them to be part of perhaps more complex peacekeeping missions in different parts of the world we're going to develop a new cyber command to add an extra hundred people to the defense forces specialists in cyber security from a naval service point of view there will be effectively new naval infrastructure both on the west coast and east coast to complement what we have in cork in terms of the headquarters and we're talking about adding about seven hundred people to the naval service to ensure that the people who commit to a life in the naval service don't have to go to sea for quite as many weeks in the year but we can keep our ships out because we'll be able to double crew them with more crews so this is a this is a plan for expansion investment and also to to to improve the pain conditions as well of the defense forces over that period of time one of the inevitable questions really been one of the inevitable questions is going to be that in terms of the expansion that you speak of will part of that expansion involve to any extent eroding Irish neutrality and specifically looking more toward the prospect of joining NATO no it's the straight answer to that and you know I think people constantly mix up funding and resourcing defense capacity with Irish neutrality and whether or not we should be a part of formal defense packs like NATO and so on we're not part of NATO we're not planning to join NATO anytime soon we are a non-aligned country but that also means that we have to have the capacity to defend ourselves at least at a basic level and if we're going to be a serious international contributor to peacekeeping missions and to peace enforcement and conflict prevention in different parts of the world which I believe we should be and many people join the defense forces because they want to be part of that well then we have to have the capacity to be able to do it we have to have the numbers to be able to do it and of course there are there are real challenges in terms of our own security at home here as well you know at the moment we don't know what's in our airspace or in the international airspace that we're responsible for because we don't have the primary radar capacity to be able to give us that information this is the government decisions yesterday would allow us to move ahead straight away with up to 200 million euros of investment in that kind of infrastructure some of which would probably be on the coastline in Donegal and Mayo so this is about two things really first of all the work of the commission on the defense forces who have given us a very strong evidence base to show that look there are latent capacity problems with our defense forces and we need to make investments to fix that and then secondly what's happening in Ukraine at the moment the aggression that's coming from Russia the war that we're experiencing on our continent that has driven seven million people in the space of four months into the EU 40,000 of them have come to Ireland the global security environment has changed every country in the European Union is increasing their investment and their focus on defense and security and we can't be any different I mean just because we're neutral doesn't mean we're separate to all of those challenges and risks and we saw that during the COVID pandemic when a cyber attack effectively forced our hospitals to operate on a paper-based system for quite a number of weeks it costs us over 100 million euros to solve that problem and it put an awful lot of patients' lives at risk so Ireland of course it's not threatened in the same way that countries that are bordering the eastern borders of the EU are threatened by Russia but we certainly do have threats and we need to contribute to collective efforts within the European Union to make sure that common security and defence issues are taken seriously and in order to do that Ireland needs to spend more money on defence we need more personnel within our defence forces I think to be credible and to ensure that what we ask of our defence forces they have the capacity to do in terms of resourcing and in terms of recruiting in terms of recruiting those personnel as you've said there have been issues with pretension many of those issues linked obviously to pay and conditions is there going to be a commensurate rise in pay a commensurate improvement in the conditions being offered to present and new recruits to try and get more recruitment and more importantly to try and up the retention figures Yes it's a straight answer to that and I think it was interesting that you know the commission interviewed over a thousand members of the defence forces to actually hear what they had to say around recruitment and retention issues and their experience of the defence forces and yes pay and conditions were part of the discussion but only part of the discussion we've also got to treat people differently in the defence forces we've got to make sure that the culture changes we've got to attract more women into the defence forces currently we only have seven percent of our defence forces are women we've had issues in relation to bullying and sexual harassment that has to stop and it's going to stop and so this is about structural and cultural change to make the defence forces a more attractive career option a safer place to work an exciting place to work much more transparency around promotion opportunities if there are complaints that we have complaints procedures that respond appropriately and that's one of the reasons why but by the way we're starting now immediately the recruitment process to bring in a civilian head of transformation who would be reporting directly into the chief staff and also a civilian head of HR in the defence forces who would be reporting directly into the chief of staff to try and bring about that cultural change in terms of how we manage people in the defence forces on pain conditions the two representative bodies in the defence forces both PDFORA and RACCO have asked me to allow for associate membership of ICTU for those two bodies for the purposes of the public sector pay talks that are currently underway and I've given them data as I should say so we're responding to that and even in the decision we made yesterday in terms of allowances there are many who joined the defence forces who don't get their full military service allowance up until three years after they've joined the defence forces that's now going to change and they're going to get those allowances from day one because an awful lot of people who leave the defence forces leave in the first three years so we are moving to improve the pay and allowances issues for our defence forces and of course we're looking at quite dramatic structural change across the defence forces and to improve the quality of life if you like the work-life balance that's needed even for soldiers in the defence forces while of course ensuring that we have a very efficient defence forces as well so this is about the start of probably the most radical process of change and investment and growth and expansion in the defence forces that we've seen since independence and you know the Taoiseach and myself launched that yesterday in Miki Barracks well we will look with interest on how that progresses up to 2028 it's anticipated it will take for the full programme to be implemented Micheal Martin saying it is going to take some time Minister Simon Coveney thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this 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letterkennycu.ie just some of your comments and questions caller asks how much is it to cross the Dublin toll bridges the m50 at the moment I think is in the region of 270 280 if you're to pay your toll you'll cross it a picture will be taken of your car registering your your number and then you have to pay that toll within by eight o'clock I think the following evening and you can do that online or you can do that at various shops the toll on the M1 just outside Dundalk is now two euro straight for a car I can't say what it is for other vehicles but I know it's two euro straight for a car which to be honest which is something of a relief because when you were trying to struggle to get a euro a 50 and two 20s it's a lot easier just to throw one two euro coin into the basket a friend was referred to letterkenny university hospital at 20 past seven yesterday for a bite she'd received on a walk she is still sitting in the emergency department and has only been in for blood pressure it's a long time to wait what's the hold up for something that's going likely to be treated in a few minutes my understanding is the way things work in the ED is as soon as you arrive you will be triaged and then prioritized based on the severity of your injury and the severity of the emergency but we will certainly look into that now let's go to zoom because we're joined by counselor donal mandy kelly who is the mayor of the letterkenny invisible district donal good morning good morning donal we were speaking earlier this week about cctv cameras in the twin towns area and there's a public consultation on where they should be placed six more cameras now to be based in the wider letterkenny area and again the public are going to have their right to a say yep donal that public consultation was launched yesterday for six few cameras within the letterkenny area the public consultation is can be viewed in the courtyard job and center in letterkenny or feedback can be emailed to cctvleditkenny at gmail.com this was something I suppose was brought up by gardy c corner something that they recommended donal and an application has been smitten by the chamber of commerce for these x the cameras you know and listen as I suppose the cameras we have in place there we have a camera one camera on the station roundabout and we have two at the courthouse junction we have about one on high road and one on my good square and one on a lower main street and you know these cameras have worked in a very positive manner assets have been put in place it has deterred I'm told by a gardy deterred shoplifters from as opposed to carrying out as opposed to be like their trade you know with on the town and you know they've worked wonders and I think you know there's public consultation now for six more cameras two to be placed in the polestar roundabout two at the hospital roundabout one on dolbert plunkett road there at the budu and one on the island at larkins lane I think it'll be a great asset myself now to the town to have these x the cameras put in place and you know it's very important as well now for the public to have their say and that's the reason for a public consultation and all the details that are on the courtyard shaman center show I would urge the public to go and and visit the courtyard shaman center and have a look at the maps of where these cameras are to be designated you know and have their say because there's a say don't it's very important you know the public have their say on this as well obviously cctv plays an important role in as you said their deterrence and also in investigating crimes that have happened and there have been certainly occasions where footage taken from cctv and processed by gar thee has had a crucial role to play in in the outcome of court cases another area in which cctv can help is in the area of traffic management now we know there was a pilot program in letter kenny some time ago whereby some of the cameras were actually switched on live and people could look on webcams and and in fact see what traffic conditions were like around letter kenny in places like the station roundabout places like the poll star and a lot of people say you know can can we not do that again is that something that can form part of this discussion yeah definitely definitely I was wrong and I mean again I want to express again that's that's all part of the public consultation and people come out to and and express their views and their opinions and they'll all be taken on board and and you're you're 100% correct the cameras that have that are in place and have been in place for a number of years you know that they have captured several incidents and they've been a big part of of solving I suppose various crimes if you like as well and different issues are going on within within the town and what you're after skating to but with the traffic control and things like you know these cameras I mean they can be used in different ways in different avenues and that you know as I say I can't express enough for the public to come out now and as the courtyard and have their say on it you know there's no point in down the line maybe even these cameras is on and and coming out then and and expressing your views and opinions when it's too late now's the time to do it in regards to the public to come out because it does very important not only for in the Irish economy the Chamber's commerce for us as councillors as well and for Donningham County Council I want to go very briefly to a call online too and I know you've taken a keen interest in traffic around letter Kenny yourself and in particular on the effective road works in the between the poll star and the dry arch on the fore lane there there's a call to run line two who has a story to tell good morning good morning Donal good morning I think or as I was I don't know that guy's name but he's quite he's Donal too you have two Donals just to confuse us right lovely put traffic lights on the poll star around of it for God's sake that's the only words that I can come up with because it's terrible how people have to every evening for about 45 to 50-55 minutes on traffic waiting to get home whereas if you had traffic lights everybody would get a turn everybody would get home quicker that's it's a fair question and Donal I will put that too you know it goes perhaps slightly beyond the CCTV thing but certainly and I know that the roadworks have had an impact and certainly at the moment this week because of the 12th of July and a high influx of visitors from Northern Ireland we're going to have very heavy traffic on that road too but from the point of view of the poll star and and traffic management there is it time to start considering lights yeah Donal I'll welcome your your callers' opinions there and the number the number called our name there but um I'll welcome your opinions on the vision of everybody um out there all all the constituents out there um that we want to take on board um I can tell you Donal that we recently had had a meeting with with the contractors of the foreing were sales along with the Chamber of Commerce and that's something that that we did bring up as councillors as well um was traffic lights at the poll star so um just for that caller that's something that we have expressed and uh we'll continue expressing a look on to you and um try to get them implemented because um I do believe Michelle I would make a lot of sense there and um as I say we'll keep pushing for this Right well that that's some some positive news uh thanks thanks very much indeed for your call Connor um Donal one final question before I let you go um and and its funding even as particularly in things like the traffic management use of the cameras the reason there was a pilot project is there was funding for a pilot project and then that money was withdrawn if there is to be more use of the cameras for things like that it's going to take more money it's going to take more funding how advanced are you and the JPC and the chamber and others in terms of increasing the funding so the cameras can be utilized to their fullest Yeah Donal that's something we'll have to look down to listen there's a I'm not on the the JPC to my time itself now but there's a there's a number of concerts on out there as well and that'll be expressing the reviews on that and they'll be working hard to have the have the following um made to that's full potential full use as well I'm no doubt about that along with the chamber of cameras so um going forward Donal um I think I think this will be a great asset to let the Kenny um and you know that's what we're up on that down the line here is to help improve the town and and uh listen traffic congestion with what I know as well as that's a big problem with another Kenny and we're pushing harder as county councillors and to address them you know and every opportunity we get and uh number one as well don't allow for these cameras in place as safely the safety of our of our constituents and the people within there the Kenny whether it's Gabon whether it's cycling the roads walking the roads whether it's going out of night you know that's all that's always number one and uh something that um I think these cameras will play a big part in finally and we all know that I mean a lot of people are listening to this at the moment and they're all saying the same thing what about the Bonneckee bridge what about the second link over the Swilly and I mean ultimately if we're going to solve all these traffic congestion problems that we're having particularly around the Polestar particularly on the four lane it's going to take the Bonneckee link it's going to take that second bridge isn't it no you have been lost nearly every day come on me but it and indeed I've just been handed Donnery's just giving me a piece of paper just says traffic lights on the Polestar round about are the only sensible solution to the traffic congestion pertaining to that location I hope it won't take as long as the bridge over the Swilly and another caller just saying thank you councillor Donal for getting my grandchild's passport so that's an unrelated thing but a caller expressing thanks and we're happy to pass that on and as yeah obviously the Bonneckee I need a bit of help on the mic though well you have to you have to though and I mean I mean and obviously the the Bonneckee link it's a thing we haven't necessarily talked an awful lot about it in the past while but the Bonneckee link remains the as it were the Holy Grail for letter Kenny the the campaign for that Bonneckee link remains and just because we're not talking about it it doesn't mean that the campaign to get it and to get it built isn't continuing in the background definitely not done I mean as you don't have had me this several times on that I'm rightly so and you know I understand the frustration of the people out there coming onto the town like actually went through the town yesterday even myself and out the Polestar but there's diabolical time to get around it but last the Bonneckee link and the bridges in my view it's a that's a major a major priority that that should be implemented sooner or later and listen that's not to say that the bus isn't the long-finger don't necessarily something that that we're pushing hard for you know as well at every opportunity we get as local reps you know and that we will continue the to push hard in this because I do believe that it does the way forward that a bridge over the swally and to take that traffic traffic congestion away for the four four and I do believe that a big game changer for Leithic in a town and from getting on like that to definitely so well listen as I say it's you might inherit been raised all the time on social media or the likes the likes of the radio here don't but be assured this is something that we are pushing hard on in the background and we'll continue to push hard on councillor Donald Mandy Kelly thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning before we read up there can I just wish a fellow a 92nd happiest birthday of the day it wouldn't be Ian McGarvey perchance would it Ian McGarvey the oldest certain councillor and and and the whole of the country has turned 92 the day and I can honestly say I suppose just in the last two years I really got to know Ian very well and an absolute gentleman and a fellow that wears his hardened sleeve and you know I see him in the chamber there every day that runs I mean it works hard for constituents on these as dedication and passion to the job you know it's it's a breathtaking you know it's a breath of fresh air and that I just I want to watch him a happy 92nd birthday of the day and all the best for the future as well and he's a man who is still well able to talk on behalf of the issues he's representing in the people I know he is oh he can he can talk forever and he 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costs and climate targets this week's Irish farmers journal more than ever you cannot afford to miss it The 9 till noon show with Letter Kenny Credit Union is your bank leaving town Letter Kenny Credit Union is now offering myCU current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features with no appointment necessary to open your account A lot of people contacting us with regards to public toilets in Bunkrana and elsewhere as well we heard from Patrick earlier about the public toilets in Bunkrana he was less than happy with the state he found those toilets in on Tuesday of this week when he was visiting Bunkrana joined on the line by Dara who many many years ago had a summer job doing just what Patrick was demanding cleaning those toilets Dara good morning how are you doing Donnie? well very well indeed thank you great great to have you on on on the show you're going right back Dara to at a time when you were a student and your job was those toilets he used to be a there was a town clerk in Bunkrana called Paul Doyle at the time remember him well he was the next door neighbor he was my mommy's next door neighbor so he got me a part summer job in there and my job was to clean those toilets three or four times a day for the whole summer and to be honest all it was a brilliant job because you got to hang around the beach the whole summer and all you had to do was keep doing a bit of cleaning during the day you know so it wouldn't take much to get back to that the problem seems to be that when they get out of hand those toilets the big job to clean them then but if you're there keeping an eye on them and all that there it's not a big job you know so really you know I think this is the second or third time somebody's been on Highland about those toilets in Bunkrana and you know I'm really amazed to hear that the problem hasn't been solved yet and I suppose on the people of on behalf of the people of Bunkrana would like to apologize to Patrick and people like that who have to come and endure something like that you know I think it's it's a bigger problem it's not just Bunkrana it seems to be everywhere but and certainly Bunkrana is not the only area we're getting complaints about we'll have to acknowledge that absolutely um you you made an interesting point there you referenced Paul Doyle I well remember covering meetings of the old Bunkrana Urban District Council and Paul as town clerk back back in the day and you know the point you made was that Paul Doyle the town clerk asked you to do a job and you did the job and it was all done through Bunkrana Urban District Council now we don't have an Urban District Council we have a municipal district which is based in Carindona covers the whole of Ineshaun but it has to report back to the wider council structure in Lyford in order to validate any decisions and maybe the fact that we don't have that local management is part of the issue here definitely I think the attention to detail has gone you know for something to be mentioned on a station as popular as Highland and for the problem still not to be solved you know it's not a big job for somebody to get on the phone and phone Nicholas Crossen or Reena Donahue or Jack Murray and say you know get me two students that can split that work seven days a week I'm going to have it solved in a week you know they go down and pay them a couple hundred or three hundred euro every week for doing it and they'll have the money and then the problem is solved you know but that things like that don't seem to happen because the urban has gone you know it's I don't know maybe it's the attention to detail is not there yeah right well I want to go to line two because on line two is someone you I'm sure will know Dara Gerard Porter is the vice chair of the Bunkrana Tidy Towns committee Gerard good morning hello don't know yeah I'm on now I'm just to support that now after two hello Dara how's it going I raised this issue with Greg last month so a little bit these public toilets and Bunkrana Tidy Towns has been raising this issue about the public toilets for years you know this isn't just an issue this year we raised this issue last year as well the council the council has even mentioned it in one of their meetings last April 2021 and we were just being let down the Bunkrana has been let down by this because people be aware of them they might the work that Bunkrana Tidy Towns is doing our local gardening team with a lovely pollinator areas and all that there and just to get that the people know that we were out on Saturday morning cleaning we were out in Sunday morning cleaning we were out in Monday night cleaning all the laundry works and we can't even get the smallest things the toilets cleaned you're being let down here by the council we are being let down by our local councillors they're well aware of this issue get it out there and get the council to get somebody down there and get them toilets cleaned or close the toilets one or the other but don't be letting the people of Bunkrana have to go through this and visitors and all that we you probably can tell from their voice we are so angry in Bunkrana Tidy Towns with this issue there's no point in asking out and keeping everyone else clean and then people go into the toilets that's twice now last month somebody had to come on a visitor and give out on a highland radio about the toilets in Bunkrana now this month again when is it going to stop and in fairness to Patrick Patrick was very complimentary about the state of everything else he actually specifically referenced the pollinator program because the way he described it was the way they're leaving the area for the bees and he was very complimentary about the way the town was run and you know he described Bunkrana and the way it looked as majestic but the outlier the fly in the ointment the elephant in the room is those toilets yes we've elected members here in Bunkrana and I'm going to target them now they are getting paid taxpayers money they're getting voted on get and do your job get the toilets cleaned he's know who the man is responsible for them toilets we in Tidy Towns have contacted them numerous times I'm not going to mention his name on there but he knows who he is and he's not taking his responsibility of these toilets seriously so he's not Dara you want to come back in there I was just going to say Donald at Fompton you see the Tidy Towns people don't want to really command them as well because they watch them day and night out round clean streets and they do do a great job in town but going back to toilets at Fompton that I feel that strongly about and somebody gave me a chance all those years ago I would be well and be co-sponsored part of the wages for somebody for the summer if they wanted to do something like that you know they put it up to the council and see if they would do it and I have to say it's a sad state of affairs if the people of Bunkrana have to come and pay the wages of somebody to clean the toilets that belong to the council but I would be well and to do it because that's how strongly I feel about the tourism in this town and attracting people to the town so if you could put that out there maybe and put it up to the council and see what they're going to do and see if that would help right well Dara and Jared thank you both very much indeed for your contributions there I mean it's a clear challenge and Jared in fairness you haven't pulled punches you've put a clear challenge out there and we'll see if you get a response and Donald can I just say thank you thank you there to Dara for making that offer now and the council is up to you now to get this sorted okay look Dara and Jared thank you very much indeed and thank you to Patrick who spoke to us earlier hopefully that's got a conversation going and hopefully we'll see some progress as a result summer sale now on at florid letter kenny up to 30% of selected lines of engineered and 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another caller says as i'm aware the bonnicky link is in the tea the 10 t plan to link up with the new road counselors never mentioned this i'm not sure there is a wider plan that will include the bonnicky link i'm not sure that the bonnicky link is part of the 10 t let me look at the plans again when i get a chance i don't think the link is part of the specific 10 t plan but it's part of a wider plan under the at the ireland 2040 program but i don't believe i may be wrong and if i'm wrong as i say i'll hold my hand up but i don't believe the bonnicky link is part of the 10 t specifically caller says don't put traffic lights on the roundabout it causes more congestion the problem with the poll star is the roundabout on remelton road as it causes back up the traffic management in letterkenny is a disgrace it's the worst town in ireland so says a caller in carregart now at last a sensible person looking at lights at the poll star give everyone a chance to move please the world uses them but not the ireish so two very competing views there on that not a caller saying can traffic lights be placed at the roundabout at the old dunes it's so incredibly dangerous and i have to say that's one of the more difficult junctions in town at the moment actually particularly in the evening rush hour and part of the problem is that people sometimes people just don't seem to know there's a roundabout there for a start and it's still very and we have had conversations actually about that specific roundabout and also i think about the roundabout up at the the other junction close to the tin tie and what would have been fpd and there's been discussions about that one too but i mean that roundabout at old dunes absolutely i actually do agree it's actually a lot of people don't realize it's a roundabout and quite know how to handle it um again yes the dunes one another caller saying the bonnigie link is something that won't be up and running until the 2030s the widening of the lec road would solve letterkenny's travel problems literally overnight it possibly would but there are homes on the lec road there are businesses on the lec road and i think if you were to look at widening the lec road and there are elements of that in the tin tee that would be a huge huge program and it would not be easily done because you there are certainly houses and residents on both sides of that road not to mention the fact that you have the graveyard and everything else and the people traveling to the graveyard so the lec road would present its own issues and would open up a whole new debate perhaps it's the debate we need to have but it would open up a whole new debate with with regards to yeah with regards to the m50 caller says i was on it two weeks ago and prepaid for two trips before i left it's now 320 for the m50 and so 320 now for the m50 and as i said i do know it's two euro in cash for the m1 so it's 320 for the m50 now as i've said before i actually have one of those video accounts with e-flow so my car my wife's car my daughter's car are all linked into this one account so the money just gets taken out of our bank account and it's a few euro but not a few euro it's a few cent less because we we pay automatically on this sort of e-flow account now let's go to line one a lot of talk and about people relocating back to donnie gall and that increased over the course of covid and the increased prevalence given to working from home frs recruitment is calling on people in the county to share their home truths and this is for a new campaign aimed at the irish abroad who may be considering moving back home and from frs recruitment good morning colon donnery how you doing greg this this is donal colon greg's taking a well-deserved rest colon the sort of information you're looking for on this campaign i mean people always talk about the big things the scenery the schlieff leagues the donnie gall airports maybe what you're looking for is the small things where do you get a good cup of coffee where do you get a really good value meal where is there a really good bookshop yeah so look we've been attracting trying to attract people home from abroad so irish people home from abroad for for many years but since 2019 we've had a partnership with ga go the streaming service for ga it's partnership with them and rte and we have the advertising the sort of rights in the middle of it so pushing out messages to try and get people home so i suppose you just mentioned before there about covid so what happened is our campaign started 2019 with a lot of people coming back pre-covid covid stopped that happening really i think you just couldn't move it out obviously and then as the restrictions have lifted we're getting an awful lot of inquiries from people looking to come back to Ireland and they're asking us i suppose the usual look we can give them lots of information around sort of the jobs the salaries etc and to a certain degree accommodation we can do a bit of research but they're really trying to tap into local communities and as you mentioned like a lot of people normally what used to happen i suppose the first protocol would have been Dublin even if you were from Dunnegal or or Leetrum or Slido you would you would look at you know Dublin first because there's more jobs there but with the advent of of remote work and we're seeing people really tap into more local you know and and and looking to move into particular region areas and commuting to it to a job job maybe one day week two days a week you know that's that's not too far away so really in terms of the sort of home truths you're looking for you're trying to build up a profile that you can present and and people can say well i was half thinking of moving we'll say for the sake of argument to kill mcrennan but uh are there facilities nearby is there child care available is there somewhere my child can go to a place stuff like that so it's it's it's really they're not small things because you know when you need access to a playground or access to a crush that's not a small thing that's a very big thing but but there's things that will be important on a day-to-day basis we all know about the scenery we all know about the the big things but it's these day-to-day facilities and day-to-day amenities that we really want to gather together yeah so it's like positive and negatives right so you know you mentioned the small things there like it look one of the big the biggest things if you're bringing a family back which what happens it's only the key things that happen when people move to the Middle East or Australia America they you know get into a relationship and maybe have a couple of kids or one child and they're looking going so they bring them up as Australian or you know should they bring them back to Ireland and it's really critical for them you know the sort of school situation one and then you say amenities is there swimming pool close by you know how close are we to the sea beach you know things like playgrounds and what's just the social area and the social fabric like so you know there's only really locals can give you that sort of that sort of insight and that's where we're asking them to go to frshometruths.com the website and put in there and then we're going to gather the information for each area and then send it back to people you know so right well I mean for instance I know I'm going to get in contact and I know what I'm going to say I'm going to point out that there's two really good music a really great musical society and a great drama society in letter Kenny so if people are interested in things like amateur dramatics you know stuff like that which is what I would be interested in to let them know yeah there are absolutely opportunities available in several areas around the county to get involved and things like that and you know that that could be the sort of thing that proves to be a deal breaker in terms of people making their decision oh totally and I think look we all know the stuff about you know accommodation it's expensive it's hard to get you know and what people tend to do we can we help them move this into the frsh with that sort of stuff in terms of research but really good points you know sort of hobbies and that type of thing you know what can they get into okay if they've been in Australia and been sort of and obviously it's only got to become one of the sort of capitals of Europe nearly at this stage you know up and you know around Bondoran and and those sort of areas you know are really are attractive you know so it's like people's work-life balance has just come so important to people now you know and what you're going to do outside of work is as important as the job itself now Colm it's been great speaking to you and it's a very important initiative and if people want to make contact with you how can they get their home truths to you yeah so as they go to the website www.frshometruths.com or our own website frshrecruitment.com they can see they can see vacancies there up and done you go on and they can go in and do the home truth things like that Colm thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning thanks a million that's Colm from frshrecruitment and frshometruths.com is the website if you have any advice that you wish to offer if someone is looking to move to your area where can they get a good cup of coffee what amenities are there in the area what might you know make your area attractive to someone with a family very interesting questions a few comments before we go tell the minister we spoke to Simon Coveney the minister earlier about the new action plan for the defense forces tell the minister we will never join NATO it would be the light end of the wedge they don't want a civil war on Ireland don't try to put up a case for it in fairness the minister didn't when I asked him was this a precursor to potentially joining NATO he said the answer to that is no a number of more toilet I rang the tourist council about the state of toilets in Dunfanahe there's a rusted dryer that doesn't work the one at the beach in Fannett had a portal that was totally blocked with no flushing facility I thought it was a local number it turned out to be a central number I was directed to call the local council surely the tourism authorities would want these facilities to be up to scratch another caller on the issue of portals which are in some areas those portals are awful I got locked in one last week couldn't get the door open had to break out through the roof with a crutch someone had left behind in the toilet I'm going to say that again I had to break through the roof with a crutch somebody had left in the toilet right another caller says and an important thing to say here good morning Donald a mention of congratulations pleased to Connor Rogers of convoy who last night was chosen as the new lord of the dance Connor is only the third lord of the dance chosen since Michael Flatley first took that show out 25 years ago and that's congratulations to Connor from all his family and friends and on that positive note let's leave it for today back tomorrow and really looking forward to it because it means I get to do the Friday panel and it means even more interestingly I get to do the entertainment slot with Michael and Fnuller looking forward to that and looking forward to your company thanks to all our contributors today thanks to you our listeners today thanks to Donna Marie thanks to Carlin who produced and I wish you all a very good day Raymond Sweeney here from Ben Sweeney Iranix to let you know about the Blomberg integrated dishwasher which can save you time and money when you're pressed for time you can choose