 All right Lee, have a fantastic Tuesday. It is the 9th to the noon show here in Highland ready at 9 o'clock. We say good morning now with the news update to Michaela Clark. Thanks Greg, good morning. The foreign affairs minister says the British government is talking to themselves after legislation to rip up part of the Northern Ireland protocol was passed in the House of Commons last night. It will now face further scrutiny in the parliament next month before it goes to the House of Lords. Some of those who voted against the bill are former British Prime Minister Theresa May as well as Julian Smith who is an ex-Northern Ireland secretary. Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Covenay says it will take months to pass through all stages and has urged the UK to return to honest negotiations. This is effectively the British government talking to themselves again on Brexit ignoring friends and neighbours who are appealing to them not to take this course of action. Basically every capital across the EU is saying to the British government don't act unilaterally on this don't break international law you're going to force the EU into responding in a way that we don't want to have to respond. Work is progressing to strengthen and enhance communication and governance links between letter Kenny University Hospital and the SILTA University Healthcare Group. A number of onsite workshops have taken place facilitated by EY dealing with the future vision, mission and values for the hospital and SILTA as well as future governance and communications and engagement. Donna Marie Doherty has more. They heard from staff who discussed current challenges and who worked together to develop a draft strategy to establish core principles and priorities that aim to strengthen the communication model for the future. Tony Canavan CEO of SILTA University Healthcare Group says the strategy sets out how they will engage and communicate with staff, patients and other stakeholders ensuring staff in the community are aware of wider changes and plans developed to drive sustainable change. Sean Murphy, hospital manager at Letter Kenny University Hospital meanwhile confirmed that a working group is developing a plan for a detailed road map to help develop structures, processes and culture to better support staff. A Donegal County cancer believes the Northwest deserves priority to be given to the NTA5 project. Cancer Albert Doherty is calling for clarity after the TII claimed the 1.1 billion-year funding for the development is insufficient to allow it to proceed. Cancer Doherty says there can be no further delays. Whether there's 4.4 billion in the period 2630, will NTA5 be put in the long finger? To me that shouldn't happen. We have Brexit. We have our northwest city region with a mass similar to the fourth in the country and we deserve priority with this project. Whether or not Irene will clear this morning with sunny spals and widespread heavy shards following for the rest of the day, highest temperatures of 15 to 17 degrees. That's all from Highland Radio News for now. We'll be back with news again at 10 o'clock. Until then, good morning. Hello and a very good morning to you. You're very welcome along to this Tuesday, the 28th of June's edition of the 9 till noon show here on Highland Radio. The lines are open for you right now. I'm planning to keep you entertained and informed hopefully over the next three hours but we want your views and your stories as well. 08 660 25,000 WhatsApps and texts to that number or give us a call on 07 491 25,000. As we do each morning, invite you to watch the program. If it suits you, if it's your thing, you can do so by going to our website, HighlandRadio.com, watching your browser there. You'll see the links or you can go straight to our YouTube channel, Highland Radio Ireland, or we're across our Facebook channels as well. Say hello, tell us where you're watching or listening from. Okay, let's look at the newspapers this morning, see what's making the news headlines. The Donegal Democrat this morning tells us that Farad County Councillor Liam Blaney is the new Cahirlach of Donegal County Council. The Finafall Councillor was nominated by his party to replace Sinn Fein Councillor Jack Moray. South Donegal Finafall Councillor Meehol Nocton is the new Las Cahirlach. Councillor Blaney was co-opted onto the council in 2003 as an independent Finafall Councillor to replace his brother Nile Blaney, the senator and then Donegal North East TD, who was forced to give up his seat on the council due to the abolition of the dual mandate. Councillor Blaney became a member of Finafall as part of the merger with independent Finafall in 2006 and the Rosnickill-based man comes from a rich political heritage with his grandfather Neil Blaney, his uncle Neil T Blaney and his father Harry Blaney, all having served as TDs, councillors. Councillor Blaney said it was a great honour to become a Cahirlach. On to the Derry Journal now and gratitude and saving lives for over 30 years is the headline under which we read that an Ineshawn volunteer who turned from rescued to rescuer with locks willy R and Li has spoken of how rewarding his involvement with the organisation is as he collected a 30-year long service medal. Seamus McDade from Bunkranna was honoured at an event at an R and Li event in Dublin at the weekend alongside other volunteers who've dedicated decades to saving lives with the charity. Seamus' story of how he joined the R and Li is one of fate and gratitude as he saw at first hand how important the locks willy R and Li is to Ineshawn. On to the Nationals now and the Irish Independent as well as all other papers today features images of a Russian missile strike. It's on a Ukrainian shopping mall. We're told over a thousand people were inside. It is obviously destroyed and we'll read about that little later on in the papers. But the story underneath that picture that I wanted to reference is that criminal penalties for domestic abusers will double onto the government's new 360 million euro plan to tackle violence against women. The five-year strategy will also see a doubling of the number of refuge spaces nationally from 141 to at least 218. Of course here we know there are an awful lot of strains on refuge spaces here in Donagolse. We'll keep a close eye on delivery there. This will though even when it's increased to 280 still be far short of the 500 spaces required by international agreements given Ireland's population. Justice Minister Helen Macinty will bring the third national strategy on domestic sexual and gender-based violence to cabinet today and it vows to have zero tolerance for violence against women and domestic abuse under the plan. The government will reform criminal law to increase sentences for common offenses committed by domestic abusers and sexual predators. On to the Irish Times now and they tell us that assaults involving young men increased by almost 80% compared with the same period in 2021 when COVID restrictions were in effect. The start of this year also saw fraud offences continue to rise sharply, a pattern which began during the pandemic. In its latest crime statistics release the Central Statistics Office said there had been a 40% increase in assaults and related offenses in the quarter one of this year compared with quarter one of 2021. Male victims aged 18 to 19 accounted for the largest increase in this category rising from 516 to 919. Assaults involving male victims aged 45 to 59 increased by 52% and those involving women aged 60 and over rose by 50%. Fraud offenses they went up 11% in the first quarter but if the entire 12 month period to March 2022 is taken into account it rose by 88% compared to the previous set 12 months and that would talk to a lot of the calls and texts and emails that we are getting from fraudsters and it doesn't take an awful lot of us to you know for file of them for those figures to go up. While Paul Reed's on his way out it's covered in all the papers as well we'll take it from the Irish Daily Mail today. The CEO of the HSC Paul Reed shocked the government yesterday by handing in his resignation after three years in office and two years left on his 411,000 euro a year contract. His decision to quit came amid intense controversy surrounding a proposed reconfiguration of emergency services at our ladies hospital Navin County. Now Mr. Reed was on national media on Sunday morning talking of the future, talking of reform, talking of plans for the HSC and then on Monday he decided that he was going to announce that he was stepping away from the role. Now it is widely reported that the Rao O for the Navin hospital didn't play into his decision but it was just an interesting interview to give on a Sunday talking of the future the day before you're about to announce your retirement, your resignation but anyway it's not connected we're told. He's 57 and was appointed to the role in 2019 after a lengthy search effort to replace his predecessor Tony O'Brien tendering his resignation in the early morning. What I thought was interesting is part of the reason that he was employed was because he had reformed other sectors and areas that he'd worked in and yet part of the reason he gave for not continuing in his role I think and I'm paraphrasing his statement was that the HSC was going through a period of transition and he thought someone else might be best suited to take the reins in that regard but I thought that's why he was employed in the first place but anyway referencing that attack in Ukraine in the Irish Daily Star president Volodymyr Zelensky has blasted a barbaric Russian missile attack on a shopping centre in Ukraine which left scores of civilians dead and wounded. At least 13 people were killed 50 others injured in the crime against humanity as described by Zelensky. It's in Kremlin Chuk it's in central eastern Ukraine Mr Zelensky declared it is impossible to even imagine the number of victims it's useless to hope for decency in humanity from Russia. Ukraine's leader said the complex had been no threat to the Russian army and had no strategic family value. He accused Russia's Vladimir Putin of sabotaging people's attempts to live a normal life which make the occupiers so angry. Dmitry Lunin head of the Poltava regional administration which covers the city of Kremlin Chuk called the destruction a crime against humanity and all of this and the attacks on Kiev which happened for the first time yesterday in quite some time. It can't be a coincidence this is happening as the G7 leaders were meeting and it's clear that Putin for whatever motivation is trying to send a clear message to them. The sun tells us today that almost half of all Irish adults have a mental health disorder and one in ten have attempted suicide. I mean to half of the people you know would they express this? Do you feel that they are? It's a huge figure that half of us have a mental health disorder and of course it's a broad spectrum it can go from you know maybe mild anxiety to something much more serious but the stark figures were revealed in a new study by academics from three top universities. The research by Manuth University National College of Ireland and Trinity College Dublin is based on a national representative sample of 1,100 adults and it's the first of its kind here. It found 11% of people reported having attempted suicide at least at some point in their life while 42% of adults met diagnostic requirements for at least one mental health disorder. I mean the figures there are just absolutely unbelievable. It's not to say I don't believe them by the way I mean they're absolutely shocking. Finally the Irish Daily Mirror this morning. A major health warning has been issued about an illegal tanning product that users inhale or inject risking a life-threatening anaphylactic shock. Now I'm not sure if you've ever come across this but I wanted to read it just in case you had and we're considering taking it because of course we're being encouraged away from exposure to the sun and sunbeds and people might say well here's an option. It's a controversial self-tan. It's not authorized in Ireland but the Health Products Regulatory Authority has said that many people here have suffered serious side effects. These include moles, vision loss, stroke, muscle tremors and anaphylactic which can lead to anaphylactic shock if untreated by a doctor. Melanotin-2 has been dubbed the Barbie drug as it's supposed to give users the same skin tone as the toy doll. Whoever might want that I don't know. The HPRA's director of compliance Grania Parr warned Melanotola-2 is a real risk to health. We urge people to consider the fact that there is no supporting safety data available for the substance since they inject it into their body or inhale it into their lungs. If you come across that 08 660 25000 that's the WhatsApp or text line or give us a call on 07 491 25000. All right we're going to take a short break. Our first guest joins us in just a moment. Stay right where you are. The newspapers are courtesy of Kelly Sentra. Mountaintop, letter Kenny. Michael Murphy Sports and Leisure has everything you need for getting fit in 2022. From training gear to resistance bands, skipping ropes, weights and foam rollers we have all the essentials to see you through every step of your fitness journey from training to recovery. Shop our range of gym wear, equipment and accessories at MichaelMurphySports.ie. Sheridan security now introducing zero wire smart alarm systems. Zero wire, zero mess and a real peace of mind. 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We also offer servicing on all other branded vehicles. On to the programme now. We welcome David. David, thanks for joining us. Good morning. Good morning to you. Right. Tell us, it's kind of a different story this. Maybe our listeners can help. I think that's why you're speaking to us in the first instance. So tell us about your relationship with Frankie and take it from there. I had a small cottage in Dunray and I leased it out to Frankie and then Frankie fell in love with it. They wanted to purchase the property. I didn't want to sell it but they kept at me and at me and eventually sold it to him. Unfortunately, Frankie died with cancer and the property has now lying gone derelict. It has been like that for about 15 years. I've been trying to contact any family of Frankie's to see if they're interested in doing it up or what they want to do with it. But from now I still haven't contacted him. I've got on the Patrick McLaughlin, the TD. He told me to go to the derelict property. People in the council tried them and they said they didn't have a derelict property place. And just every time I drive past the place I see it going down the hill, going down the hill, going down the hill. And I would like to see if his family wants it or whether they want to do it or if they know anything about it. Right. His name is Frankie Leonard. The house is at Syrup on Cranagh in the place called Mahirban. Small house with a garden, as you say, it's falling into Racken Rune now. He worked at McDuff's hardware shop in the Strand Road in Derry. He did indeed, yeah. He also had a business of his own then after that. He went out and I think he was selling cards, you know, for business cards. He had a business of his own. But I just want to call the property. He went on sale once and then we discovered that it was the people in Mauval was selling it and then they discovered that the man who was trying to sell it hadn't got the deeds of it. The deeds are currently still in Frankie Leonard's name. Yeah. So there's been no right of passage for this property down to a family member obviously at this point. No. No. Like a family member is interested in it. I would like to see him getting it and trying to do something with it, you know. Yeah. How bad is it? It's condition at the moment, David? I would say at the minute it would need to be tossed down maybe and rebuilt again or it would cost a lot of money. You actually can't see the property from the road now with trees growing up the lanes and up the gardens. But like if the family wasn't interested, I would purchase the property back again and do something with it, you know. Because like I've been driving to Burmkhana here at the minute and I've counted about 28 houses lying there like I think it's a shame to see it. And you're trying to find out if someone has a right to it, if they don't want to do it, I think you're happy to buy it off them. Have you spoken to them? Have you spoken to the council? The council says they can do nothing about it. I was on to the council yesterday and they can do nothing about it. They actually told me they hadn't got a derelict property department, but they were going to employ somebody within the next couple of months to go around these derelict properties and sort them out. Yeah, well at least maybe make a note of where they are. And obviously time is passing, this is going to come to nothing, this property if something isn't done. Yes, I thought I called like you just have my telephone number if anybody wants to ring me. I'll take them to the property and show them to them and if they want to go down the road of claiming it, then so be it. Right, okay. Well, David, the information's out there. If anyone's related to Frankie Leonard and they want to have a conversation with you, we have your details and we'll connect you and hopefully something positive comes from this conversation. Thank you very much. All right, take care of yourself. Thank you indeed. 08 660 25,000. WhatsApp's and text that number will give us a call in 07 491 25,000. The caller says, what can you do about a shop selling disposable vapes to known children under, you know, known underage children 14 or 15 years of age? I'm not really quite sure as I don't think there's any regulation in that area at the moment. It's something that probably needs to be done. We talked about this not so long ago. But if you know of a shop that's selling disposable vapes to children of 14 or 15 years of age, can anything been done about it? 08 660 25,000. We were talking about the increased costs to business yesterday. And obviously they're being passed on in some cases to, in many cases, to the consumer. And I was highlighting the fact that one of the biggest cost increases the businesses are facing and the bills are dropping on the doors around about now and have been is the cost of electricity. This business owner contact contacted us to say, I'm a small business owner and I was paying 950 euro for a two month electricity period. My last bills were 2100 for two months. And today I got a bill 2400 euro for two months. I'm going to face closure because there's no way I can afford the jumps. This is the added expense in just one area. What about all the other areas? My difficulty is sourcing stock and everything getting blamed on the war of Ukraine. I listened to a podcast from David McWilliams and he reckons 40% of small businesses will be out of action by the end of this year. That wouldn't surprise me. I think a lot of businesses might see out the summer. But facing into a winter where you're going to invariably be using more power, a small business can't go from a electricity bill of 950 per two months to 2400 per two months and it only going up. It's unsustainable. I don't think any of us would expect people to be able to absorb those type of costs. We flew from Belfast to Santa Ponza a few weeks ago. All you need is a COVID search. I think it needs to be at least two weeks since you got it. Your last injection and no more than 270 days. I'm not sure if answers that callers query from yesterday because they had children with them and I'm not sure what their status might have been in terms of vaccination. Aquala says from my experience some people don't even reply to a wedding invitation. It's only good manners to reply very selfish and very self-centered. Yeah, this is off the back of a conversation we had towards the end of yesterday's program by the way just in case you had to go and do other stuff. A lot of people, a third of people are not attending weddings because the cost of attending a wedding averages just short of 700 euro and people simply don't have the money and the conversation or we put a poll up and the majority of people too also could understand why that was the situation that why people were refusing invitations but that caller says at the very least if you're not going please reply. I think that's fair. That's decent isn't it? A caller says as it relates to our last guest if he goes to a solicitor and gets them to do a law search on the property that will mean they will contact all solicitors in the country and they will ask if anyone has any interest in this property. Now I'm not sure how much that would cost. He's a very honest man. Most people would just claim squatter's rights on it and clearly it's not his motivation and I think there's definitely a connection with that property and he doesn't want to see it going to wreck and ruin. Galway were drawn to leave Croke Park pitch first yesterday but weren't allowed to. One of the counties involved have formed an orchestrating a brawl. Simply target an opponent who won't back off at an interval when all subs and mentors compile in without sanction at that match. Right okay that's the last comment really on the weekend's sporting action. Right we're joined in studio now by our next guest and he is Brian McElhinney from Finn Wheeler's Cycling Club. Brian good morning to you. Good morning Greg. Good to have you with us on the program how you keeping? I'm not too bad yourself. Right we were chatting to you earlier in this year this was over concerns as it relates to the safety of actually you know what let's recap what is the problem at McRory's Bray for those who aren't fully aware? Well McRory's Bray as everyone would know is the root between Ballybuffet and Donegal Town and that Bray there's a 750 meters section of the road with no hard shoulder so between Donegal Town and Ballybuffet you can cycle on this hard shoulder at that section you have to pull out into the carriageway. Back last October one of our members was going up that hill and a serious accident occurred he was hit from behind by a vehicle and he sustained very serious injuries and we felt as a club you know there's been too many near misses and once this happened we felt something has to be done something has to be said so we're speaking up we put up signs we launched a campaign in February and we said we're not putting up these signs and it's going away we're going to follow through we've been in touch with counselors we've been in touch with engineers and we're just here today to push it again and welcome the fact that some work has been carried out to a side road parallel to the hill and we welcome that as an interim solution because the long term solution will take time right we'll get on to that because the the bottom line is is if lorries and cars and caravans and tractors continue to use that bray yep which they will of course and if cyclists continue to use it it's inevitable we're going to see fatality over over time such as the layout of it i mean that's not being dramatic or not it's a reality it was a reality it was nearly a reality in october and um thankfully it's it wasn't and we just don't want it to get there we don't want to hear it on the news there's enough accidents there we're just one body we're we're cyclists all road users are at risk and we just say orbit yeah well what talk to me about this interim measure is it's on the left as you're heading out to donagaltown or so as you're traveling in the direction of donagaltown at the bottom of the hill there's a little side road it's not a sign posted um but what the council have done in the interim they have tired and shipped it and it's actually finished fairly well so it's good enough for road bikes the tires that are sensitive to uh puncher so we've started using it as a club but um now we've asked the council put some signage there because there's other people that are not from the area cycling up macrory spray still and they're they're at risk yeah so um we've asked the council please put signs there and but we're still insisting on the hard shoulder both sides so when we're coming from donagaltown to balbuffet there's no hard shoulder again you have to pull out into the carriageway it's on a corner and it's horrible it's it's dangerous you travel it's you know yeah and if you're traveling from sort of mizentamalem or donagaltown to balbuffet yeah you have to cross the road do you to access this track or is it really a one-way up the hill track well it's safest when you're traveling on the donbalbuffet to donagaltown direction you can go the other way but it you're crossing over twice so there is a risk um obviously traveling up the hill you're going to be traveling slower so there's a higher risk people want to overtake you and that's what happened last october um but there's we're here welcoming what's done it's a good interim measure but we're pushing for the bigger bigger project yeah um i'm a wee bit confused uh it's great to see them taking some action to not get me wrong but if you can tar and chip a stretch of road a wee bit away from it right yeah why couldn't you do that right next to it it's it's how the system works like that's the county council it's ti are looking after the main road so um i was speaking to the engineer this week and it's it's been progressed at design stage there's procedures there's steps and um like they're working towards maybe getting funding for 2023 but we've seen these too many times before it takes years yeah like we're we're asking the the politicians and the people that be like we have a minister for transport who cycles so we'd like to think that he will look at this project favorably when it reaches his department right okay so in the first instance too i think obviously it's very important that all cyclists on that route and a lot of them are from outside the area know that there is this climbing lane effectively for bikes so yeah signage there is is hugely important of course yeah and that you should be pushing an open door i don't think the council are trying to hide this uh this path no they should like have spoken to the local representative so we'll ask them again just to just get that um like you mentioned people come mousin to mal and mal and to mousin like they they don't know does that side road's leading to the top of the hill and are there to safer option so um so and i would say a lot of those people too if they were plotting the journey north to south yeah one of the things would be right well i can racks when i get up that break yeah you know yeah people in the know would know it's of course it's a nightmare yeah exactly so um so yeah we'll keep the pressure on and um and hopefully that you know the bigger project will get done uh and sooner rather than later right and um the the this is with the tea i know have you been told what the next step is in terms of make i mean even if it's just to make it safer for lorries and coaches the heavy goods vehicles going up that hill it's clear something needs to be done yeah and whatever it needs to be done it has to accommodate cyclists as well i mean that's a non-brainer well there's very few roads like that where you have a multi-million euro road that goes to the bottom of the hill the hard shoulder stops yeah and at the other end you've got a multi-million euro road with the hard shoulder and it stops at the top of the hill it beggars believe what happened there yeah very little there's very little like that and as far as we understand brian the council has access to or the ti has access to land either side of that road yeah at least on one side well it's there's there's no houses to be demolished there's there's there's i can't see any objects and or you know problems with it but obviously funding ran out i says at the time when that road was being open uh typically i was looking for a negative angle on it not i'm joking not really but i did say well why did it stop there why didn't you keep going up and apparently you know that was the section of road and and i just think they couldn't agree on what way to do it so just did nothing so when in doubt just don't do it yep which isn't great okay so sorry just to recap tell us what where it is as far as you're aware now in terms of who's on whose desk is the actual bray and improving that for all types of vehicles then it's with ti i and they're they haven't they have an office based in donny gall town they're currently designing it getting it ready so that it'll apply for funding to proceed to just to tender stage and uh like that should happen late this year if all the wheels were in correct motion and the right push was on so um yep so um now that's where it's at so and you mentioned mason tamal in there i'd like to say here we go here comes the plug here comes the plug we're actually as a club um we're doing mason tamal in this week very good and so we'll be traveling the opposite direction from so that won't help us but um but yep we we're just going to keep pushing this as a club and tell us is it are you doing the melinda mason just for recreational purposes well the story we are a sort of a leisure group but we're doing it for donny gall hospice um it's a local facility which is vital uh in the county and a lot of our club members have had family neighbors friends using the facilities and we just felt it was a worthy charity and it gives more purpose to our cycle and um and so we're we're running a sort of we have an idonite page up on our fun wheelers facebook page brilliant and i would like to help out there yep so fin wheeler cycling club the idonite page if you want to get involved uh how long does that trip take no well we're doing it over five days um we're we're like we're not super fit we're we're a leisure group but um we're setting off tomorrow morning from mason and we'll be back malonhead hopefully sunday all been well brilliant okay well um safe journeys everyone i call us as well spoken brian magrory's bray is criminal it's a fatality waiting to happen politicians and councils please get your acts together and sort the dangerous spot out i'm a casual cyclist and that bray would be a horror story for me it is bad enough driving a car there i'm i mean i don't think they're exaggerating wouldn't know it's been such a relief to use that side road um you know just you just feel so much safer and you're not taking taking risks and credit where it's due for the council stepping up and that's why we're there by the way so that's why we say it yep yeah exactly i'm a local embella buffet i've went to the council to say that the hard shoulder should continue to the top of the bray especially for frosty weather it's neat as i say can't just be a hard shoulder because i think um if it's just a hard shoulder the first thing a lot of the heavy good vehicles are going to do is or climbing we couldn't call it a hard shoulder but say climbing lane the first thing hgb is going to do we're going to go in on that obviously so there could be a conflict and um so it has to come up we have to come up with a has to be safe for all yeah exactly yep all right and is there any way that the temporary path off the road could become a permanent feature um it's nothing to say it couldn't um like it is it is safe it's it's um it it's an equal challenge you know from a cycling point of view to get to the top so it's just it's the other side of the road now where the danger still exists and um and then it's the people that are unfamiliar with the road yep you know they're going to follow google maps or whatever it is to to continue on the main road so um so it's about awareness or signage etc yep all right then listen thank you very much for that thank you great i really do appreciate your time and well done in achieving what you've done so far okay yeah and keep her lit and hopefully i think for everyone it's for all road reasons this is one that unites us all exactly that is a little stretch of road a particular stretch in old just short of a kilometer that needs addressing isn't yep that's it all right safe journey thank you mason was it mision tomorrow mason we're starting and starting at the bottom and working your way up hill hopefully the ones behind us all right okay uh right brian mcleaney thank you very much indeed thank you more shortly for a great early season lawnmower deal visit gortley sails and hire exclusive stock is of steiga in the northwest moors strimmers and hedge trimmers full trade and service available at gortley sails and hire gortley letter kenny call 9126276 new summer footwear at brian mccormick sports and leisure new balance asex brooks and hoca brooks adrenaline 22 in new colors just arrived hoca clifton eight new summer colors or tri bond i7 for some extra cushioning bounce your way through the summer with the best brands and best fit for your 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department.com i've returned and operated for over 25 years travel department let's see more all right uh caller says what is the point in having cycle lanes if the cyclists won't use them and keep cycling on the hard shoulder well there's different types of cycling lanes and i've questioned cyclists about this in the past on this program i think that there's dusty kind of rough surfaced type ones that aren't suitable for the types of bike that they use and they say they'd prefer to drive on the tarmac but this alternative climbing lane magro is bray there between battle of fey and donning old town it is of a condition that they do use that but i take your point i think some of the cycle lanes are for people casually cycling and maybe aren't suitable for these bikes that are used for the roads with their thinner tires and all that type of stuff i presume there's something to that i call it believes what's happening at the moment is the great reset to get all your meds small businesses out medium small businesses out of the way impoverish the people so they're helpless and need to depend on the handouts of the government then the population are under complete control but how do you find how do government fund the handouts if all the small and medium firms are are taken out of it i don't understand and did they try this at the end of the noughties and it didn't work so they're going back for another bite or was it in the 80s when there was an awful recession interest rates on houses were 15 14 15 percent why is it now the great reset as opposed to other problems we've had in the past i don't know right okay we are joined on the program now by dr columnal riley director of the center for talented youth arland you're very welcome to the program thanks for joining us column thanks for having me on that's good to have you with us right now talk to us about this study on gifted education in arland and its key findings from your perspective yeah we commissioned this study where we wanted to kind of see what students themselves perceived related to their abilities both academically and socially and that we had some very interesting findings particularly in the social sphere academically we found that they most of them don't feel they're very challenged in school they don't feel that they go into enough depth in the material and they don't feel there's enough differentiation related to their ability that wasn't too much of a surprise related to that because that's kind of what we expect to some of them find that they work too easy socially though there was some like differences you know we found that some students were very resilient and well able to cope and deal with stressful situations but about 30 found that they were challenged by these things they felt they had to hide their ability they didn't want people to know they were gifted and it was interesting and a few of them wrote about having a lot of pressure to succeed from their teachers and their parents and that other people got jealous of us and as well people were quite glad when they didn't achieve to the level that they were capable of which they found very demoralizing in relation to that and is it the case possibly too that may be how they behave in school because they're not challenged enough or disinterested or they're trying to conform that it could be flagged as bad behavior yes sometimes in that case that can be happening particularly in boys you know what can happen is is that they get bored and frustrated very easily because they know the stuff and therefore they act out the girls are probably tends to be more quiet and reflective in relation to those things and that can cause difficulties subsequently because then if they do have high ability then it's sometimes harder to identify them in that capacity how is our school as far as you believe how is our school system set up in terms of how we educate our children whether we can identify I think we're pretty good are we identifying those that might need extra assistance are we good at identifying those that have additional ability and or you know and and tooling up to meet their needs and in the first instance I think we're not too badly equipped in terms of identifying these students I think that there's testing that goes on a primary school and a secondary school which easily identifies it's the same testing that we use to identify people on the lower end of the spectrum we're just looking at the results at the different side in that capacity that's okay the problem is we're not having any interventions for them in order for them to achieve their potential in the same way as we would have for people at the lower end of the spectrum where they would have resources and materials to enable them to function within a mainstream system whereas equally you could have students who are two standard deviations away from the middle at the top end therefore what they're learning is not appropriate relative to their ability but there's no interventions really in the school system currently to cater for these students I see a map has been published that identifies is it where gifted children have been identified across the country yes like that map is slightly skewed probably because and there will be a higher proportion of Dublin students within that no population wise obviously looked at a lot of people living in Dublin but again our course is based at Dublin City University so therefore there probably would be more people coming from Dublin attending we do have like courses in Sligo and letter Kenny as well but they're more you know they're smaller centres in relation to that what what we kind of want to do is to have students if they have high ability to have opportunities near to their house to get extra materials or to access courses that they may be interested in but obviously you know it's contingent on the numbers that you get and the courses that you can offer and where you can do them so at what stage do we uh should we be able to spot if one of our children is particularly gifted and how do we do so if we're not or if we can't necessarily rely on it being picked up in school yeah definitely at an early age parents are very good related to would be the best people to identify the students because like if you look if you've a very talented five or six year old they've probably only done a year or two at school so therefore their extended vocabulary or their natural interest in things or their knowledge or curiosity is something that the parents would see much more than the school teacher who's doing curriculum where what the point of it is is to master certain things that these kids we'd know would have mastered already probably before they even start at school so in that context the parents at a young age are very good at identifying should be good at identifying in relation to these are the natural things to look out for extended vocabulary natural curiosity uh real interests or passion for a certain subject or material it doesn't have to be academic it could be like dinosaurs it could be computer games it could be something that they just know a lot about and they're very good at so the parents might see that whereas as they get older particularly at secondary the teachers would probably be better in the context that if you're an English teacher for 20 years you probably have a barometer for what an exceptionally talented English student is and what they are achieving in that context and you can apply that to identify them whereas you know the probably more difficult ages unless the child is really standing out are like nine, ten, eleven and twelve because sometimes again these kids might be really talented in areas that aren't covered in the primary school like somebody who's brilliant at engineering or spatial stuff they're probably not going to be identified because most of what they're doing would be very traditional maths and traditional verbal stuff and can we look I mean obviously you know we through history we hear of people that have done amazing things and they still do to this day don't get me wrong uh but you know people that are now renowned in our history and we look back and at their achievements and they're remarkable did we do this better a hundred years ago if you know what I mean or or are we doing it better now in terms of identifying students supporting them and helping them to maximize their potential yeah I think we're doing it slightly better now because I think that you know it's easy to be retrospective about these things in relation to looking back at imminent individuals and then tracing them backwards that's a kind of a backward analysis related to that you know we'll start when somebody's successful and look back to what made them successful it'll be far better to have interventions to push them on the pathways to success rather than looking at it like oh these have made it how did they do it like sometimes as well I wouldn't be overly fond of that method because like these people normally who you're comparing them to are outliers like Mozart or Einstein you know there's only really going to be one of those per generation in relation to that so using that as a barometer for success it's very difficult for anyone to emulate what we're trying to do is to normalize high ability in the context that if you have kids in the top five percent that's one in 20 so therefore there's a lot of kids out there in regular schools who are achieving whereas your Einstein's and your Mozart's are one in 20 million so therefore there's very few that you can identify in a regular system okay interesting stuff calm thanks for your time this morning I appreciate it uh Dr Colomal Riley is the director of Central the Center for Talented Youth Ireland at 21 from Donegal attending uh okay and looking through a quiz that was published in the uh an independent newspaper I think at the weekend uh how would you do in a quiz for super smart 12 year olds not very well uh if the truth is told I think I picked a long time ago uh one question it's a very uh which which word is the odd one out irrelevant bizarre peculiar or eccentric would you know which one of those those was the odd one out smart 12 year olds do which word is the odd one out here special universal unique exceptional uh which pairs together which pairs I can't even read now I'm under so much pressure which pair goes together in the same way as the first pair raise building that's the first pair then uh sow seed graft plant fell tree open door if you know the answer to those questions and if you're 12 you're gifted or you could just be me okay uh back to uh the conversation about electricity prices we're all feeling it but just focusing a little bit on small and medium businesses a caller says business electricity for my business went mad I went out of contract with electric Ireland in February they never informed us by the way and it jumped 56% over the course of two months without a deal increase from the April rise without a deal increase from the April rise 38.5 cent x vat per unit changed to out a bowler for a better rate of 29.5 x vat but they're leaving the market and will be automatically switched back to electric Ireland when that happens we'll probably go with flow gas who look to be the best at the minute with 31 cent x vat through bonkers dot ie business energy partner I'm attached I'll attach a wee document shortly but yes business costs for electricity are away mad variable is the option we'll choose fixed rates are mad okay thank you very much indeed for that just another insight a technical insight it has to be said for business there uh I'm going to America for a week in July does anyone know if there's anything else I need other than my covid cert to gain access it's just for a holiday I mean you need a you need to pre-clearance for that don't you I don't know I've never been to America a callers but one of our listeners had by the way I'm not I'm not um getting rid of the question like uh a caller says the council can take over property uh they will renovate it and they'll lease it out to social housing you until they recoup the cost of renovation it is a scheme you can sign it over for five ten or 20 years if this is an option for you the problem is is this property itself unless this is a general query this property itself we actually don't know uh well we know the owner has deceased he has deceased and we don't know if he's got any family who will take ownership of it and its former owner is looking to find someone to buy it off them to do it up themselves hi it's Claire here from Claire clothing as you may know I have now opened on the main street in letter Kenny right beside the bank of Ireland our summer sale has started I have loads of discounts of dresses tops trousers all of the summer stock so we'll see you at our summer sale in Claire 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event this Tuesday the 28th of june at 7 p.m in the list room letter Kenny the location will be signposted from f92wd to one topics include multi-species wards reseeding practices and soil structure live machinery will be in operation and all are welcome there has been urgent calls for clarity on a draft unpublished national cardiac review which if approved would have a huge impact on services in the northwest it details plans for numerous centers of excellence and secondary centers in other parts of the country however locally there are currently no plans for any cardiac services to be provided in the whole of the northwest which would result in the cancellation of the angiogram service at letter kenney university hospital shin fane health spokesperson david kudlanan is calling for the urgent publication of the report his party colleague local deputy martin kenney joins us on the program now um it's the absence of sort of information uh can we read from that then that martin that there are no uh plans for future cardiac services in the northwest or if this is a draft perhaps it is yet to be added to it maybe they were waiting to see how the dust settled following the withdrawal of of private cardiac services and what have you well i think that's very unlikely uh first of all it was the background of this is that there's a national review of specialist cardiac services it was established by the minister for health in 2018 professor philip nolem who we've all got to know through covet uh is heading that open as the chair of it and this is a draft of the um the summary of what they're going to come up with and basically they're they're looking at it across the different health areas and of course under slanted care the country is divided into different areas the area of which ourselves and in leech from slago donigal the whole northwest is in the area f which also goes right down to ballway and uh when you look at the actual map that they produce uh golly university hospital is the only hospital they show this region that has any cardiac services and it's an awful journey from slago certainly from from letter kenney uh from whole northwest down to ballway uh and it is is really i think you know a retrograde step if this particular plan became reality as you know in the last week we've had notice and in fact tomorrow i think it's the last day or the next day after it's the last day when the uh the private service which was a mobile service there one or two days a week in slago was available that's been withdrawn totally and as you say in letter kenney you know the the service there the the angiogram service is under threat as well so this is really serious well just on the point of view of provision of health services in the northwest i mean you say the angiogram services in letter kenney uh are under threat do we know they are because i don't want to to start with anyone here because uh obviously we were told that uh not only were the services this private company provided were going to be provided at letter kenney but we were going to use the equipment on site there in a more enhanced way that we may actually even add to those services but you say that they're under threat so what is the basis for you believing that they're under threat now as opposed to this information that we've uh been digesting over the last couple of weeks because i have in my hand the the the summary of the national review especially cardiac services and in that document letter kenney hospital is not mentioned nor is slago and it's as simple as that and would you expect that if it's a draft and it's yeah it's a draft and it's damn confidential and i know that and and you know i i suppose in in theory i'm not supposed to have it it was posted to me anonymously but however i have it and the government has a responsibility to the people of the northwest for provide cardiac services and proper health services for them everywhere we're also in a border region and there's cross border services that can be established to date most of those services have been one way of traffic where people have gone north for to get services but very little has been established in the border counties on the southern side and i think there is an opportunity here for government to step up to the mark to put proper services in place because you know most of the of the cap lab services that we're talking about here are diagnostic services so that you can have you know the various checks and scans done to see exactly what is wrong there's also an opportunity for to establish uh planned interventions for for planned surgery as well such as tints which i know the time i just want to ask you that's what the end of get and that can be established i understand tony can i ask a question tony please yes sorry martin sorry martin i had tony sorry martin just ask a question does this document talk of centralizing services in in uh goal way um like is is letter kenny referenced at all is slug or referenced like does it give a vision uh to centralizing or having people travel from these these these regions to go away or are we omitted all together uh that because obviously that's quite important i think well the only the only the place where they talk about establishing services they talk about establishing uh if you like centers of excellence and so in not before hospitals which with cardiac surgical services and they are caulk gallway the mater in dublin at st james is in dublin then they talk about you know other services in other hospitals that already have them they talk about bowmount they talk about limerick they talk about waterford they talk about st vincenzo in dublin and tala in dublin now they don't mention as you can hear from what i've said any other hospital in the northwest of the midlands now having said that when you look at the the the other parts of the document it does go into the different areas it talks about ch01 and it talks about the the areas there and it does mention all the hospitals but it doesn't mention that any services would be provided in them and in fact the maps that's a tent that's uh attached to it and appendix two propose regional cardiac networks shows a line running from letter kenny hospitals like a hospital mayo hospital uh rescum and hospital port young all going into a center in gallway right so now the reason tony's uh there's no mention that that's that's two-way traffic it's it's very very clear from what i can read here that it's one-way traffic people going to gallway for concerns and the reason tony's name was in my head it was tony canavan because when we were speaking to him as it relates to the future of the um angiogram services in letter kenny he was quite direct in saying that you know in the future or even now people may have to travel distances to get services and they're just going to have to live with that effectively i'm paraphrasing a little bit but that was the tone of his statement yeah maybe this document was in his mind doing things like that perhaps and you know like and i'm not i'm not saying that when people have have special services they need to to to save their lives they should be prepared to travel and i'm prepared to travel you know and that's that's fine when it's when it's really serious issues but for uh for for cardiac services where you're talking about diagnostics where you're talking about more more minor and routine services and operations and interventions they can be done locally should be done locally and the expertise in order to keep our cardiac uh consultants in place which is one of the vital issues here if you remove the services no cardiac consultants will want to work in those hospitals because they don't have the tools to work with so you're you're actually downgrading the entire service by by by doing what it says in this document so i think it's very clear that what we need is the government to publish the full document we need clarity of what this means and we need to ensure that if we have to that the people of the northwest put up a fight but to ensure the cardiac services are here for our loved ones because too many people have died of heart conditions in the past because they haven't got there in time and one of the things that mentions this document is about right care right place right time but the distance from don't go to go away is a very very long way well for sure and it takes a long time and we i'm going to need to recognize is you mentioned cross border services just briefly is there is that reference is there any talk of enhancing that's all no all right okay all right thank you very much for your time this morning that's deputy martin kenny of shin fame obviously we'll be uh staying um right across that story as well it's a huge significance to us here uh in this region 08 660 25 000 is the whatsapp text line or call us an 07 491 25 000 quick one before the news uh the number of british people granted irish citizenship rose by almost 1200 percent since brexit official figures show data from the department of justice reveals the number of britains who've successfully applied to become irish citizens increased by 1115 percent since the uk voted to leave the eu in 2016 some of them don't you know elected politicians as well in 2015 just 54 people from britain were granted irish citizenship the following year 98 british people secured irish citizenship while a fire further 525 received it in 2017 and onwards and upwards all right uh that is the first hour of the 9 till noon show this tuesday in the bag uh coming up after 10 we have community guard information where we'll be uh getting the latest appeals and information from godashiyakona that's on the way after the news start playing ncbi radio bingo today three chances a day five days a week to win daily prizes of 400 euro plus not to mention a weekly jackpot of 5000 euro upwards books available at 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have emailed chief superintendent terry mcginne i have spoken to my colleague councillor jerry mcmonigal who is the chair of the jpc and i intend to possibly have an emergency meeting of the jpc to get clarification on this the t-shock says it's high by time the uk holds talks with the eu on the protocol legislation to scrap parts of the northern arnan protocol was passed in the house of commons last night it will now face further scrutiny in the parliament next month before it goes to the house of lords some of those who voted against the bill are former british prime minister treason may as well as julian smith who is an ex at northern arlands secretary nihil martin says they need to engage with all parties in northern arland unilateralism is not good for the good friday agreement it was never part of the speed accord that led to the good friday agreement and it's high about time now that i think the uk government should really engage with the european union in substantive substantive talks to resolve outstanding issues in relation to the operation of the protocol and also consult widely with all of the interests in northern arland all of the parties in northern and arish government work is progressing to strengthen and enhance communication and governance links between latter kennah university hospital and the silta university health care group a number of onsite workshops have taken place facilitated by e y dealing with the future vision mission and values for the hospital and silta as well as future governance and communications and engagement don't worry don't worry has more they heard from staff who discussed current challenges and who worked together to develop a draft strategy to establish core principles and priorities that aim to strengthen the communication model for the future tony canavan ceo of silta university health care group says the strategy sets out how they will engage and communicate with staff patients and other stakeholders ensuring staff in the community are aware of wider changes and plans developed to drive sustainable change sean murphy hospital manager letter kennah university hospital meanwhile confirmed that a working group is developing a plan for a detailed roadmap to help develop structures processes and culture to better support staff a new zero tolerant strategy will see gill terms of up to 10 years for domestic abusers cabinet is to sign off on the plan to tackle domestic sexual and gender-based violence which will see maximum sentences for assault at causing harm doubly doubled just as minister helen mackentee says the new strategy has been worked out in consultation with groups who support victims of domestic abuse today is a really important day it's a culmination of almost two years work not just across government but working with the agencies and most importantly we have actually co-written us with the sector so we have had a huge amount of consultation right the way throughout the overall objective and the plan is zero tolerance and i know that's ambitious but what it means is a whole of society a whole of government a whole of a whole of society approach and change an east dunigal cycling group has welcomed improvements made on the bally buffet to dunigal town road after they raised safety concerns earlier this year finn wheeler cycling club launched a campaign for a hard shoulder to be added to a 750 meter stretch known as magrory spray a side road has now been added but cyclist bryer meckl hinney told today's nine-ton ninja that he believes more needs to be done what the council have done in the interim they have tired and chipped it and it's actually finished fairly well so it's good enough for road bikes like so we've started using it as a club but um now we've asked the council put some signage there because there's other people that are not from the area cycling up magrory spray still and they're they're at risk yeah so um we've asked the council please put signs there and but we're still insisting on the hard shoulder both sides so when we're coming from dunigal town to bally buffet there's no hard shoulder again you have to pull out into the carriageway whether my reign will clear this morning with sunny spells and widespread heavy shards following for the rest of the day some of the shards may be thundery with highest temperatures today of 15 to 17 degrees that's all from highland radio news for nigh we'll be back with an update again at 11 o'clock until then good morning goes overnight funeral mass on thursday morning at 11 a.m with interment afterwards in maharay cemetery family flowers only donations if desired to the dunigal hospice care of any family member or shawn mcglenn funeral directors the death has taken place of sam greeam perf western australia and formerly of momeen st johnson cremation will take place in perf western australia the death has taken place of the very reverend brian quinn pp church of the irish martyrs parish of ahun and chin bally rain letter kini valer brian's remains will be reposing in the church of the irish martyrs bally rain this morning from 11 a.m until rosary at 9 p.m requiem mass there tomorrow morning at 11 a.m which can be viewed on the parish facebook page interment afterwards to conwall cemetery letter kini family flowers only please donations in lieu of flowers if desired to the intensive care unit letter kini university hospital care of any family member the death has taken place of kathleen lugan urblare malon head remains reposing at her home funeral leaving her home this morning at 11 30 a.m to st mary's church lag malon for requiem mass at 12 noon burial afterwards in malon presbyterian church lag burial ground donations in lieu of flowers if desired to the dunagol hospice the death has occurred of michael kelly 27 black rock drive bally buffet and formerly of capri bally buffet his remains are opposing at his family home funeral leaving his residence at 10 30 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situation is resolved sooner rather than later you need ester to get into the usa it costs twenty one dollars per person uh that's on the back of a call earlier on someone asking what else the need uh i was i i i i presumed they had the ester but make sure you go to the official website by the way because if you go to the first result on a google search you can end up paying much more than the twenty one dollars albeit it will be an ester a caller says i've been attending the eye clinic for a number of years usually get tested every four to six months it was two years since my last check up but i got it yesterday i learned when i was there that all three eyes especially it's no longer work there it's ridiculous i now have to go to slag off of my checkups it's not good enough and we've been talking about that and indeed when speaking to the head of the cell the group i put that to him the question about people getting treatment for the rise in letter kenny and it was off the back of that he said also that they have to make sure that uh it's not just a case of sending someone up there for a satellite service that they are ensuring that it's certain criteria are met and if that means people have to travel to slag go that's just what they're going to have to do again paraphrasing but that was the thrust of what he had to say this caller another medical matter it took me five years to get to see a consultant and when they're when i said i had private health care i was told my next appointment would be in four weeks that's what's wrong with this country they believe a caller asks why is there no social worker in balaba fae and strunaler it's really needed i was not told their simple i was told there simply is not one uh now i don't know under under who's care or in what area uh but if that is the case obviously it is uh worrying all right we'll be back after the break with the latest uh appeals and information from ungodly shiokana uh but first we'll take the bingo 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security systems protecting what you value most call today and get your zero wire alarm system from 299 euro sheridan security 91 26025 okay you're very welcome back to the nine till noon show this tuesday morning it's the 28th of june it's time now for community guard information we welcome into studio today i got a sergeant paul wallace paul good morning to you morning greg thanks for joining us i appreciate it okay we've got some advice coming up for uh the tens of thousands everyone really who seems to have been going away uh on holiday some advice for those who have yet to travel that's on the way but let's run through some um appeals that maybe the public can help in uh solving some crimes okay we'll start with uh an instance of criminal damage in milford tell us about that yeah local local crime in milford um early hours of yesterday morning in the Loch Road in milford um front sitting room window of two houses smashed um one of the incidents reported at 4 45 a.m um and then when the guards went there they discovered the one next door had been damaged also entry doesn't appear to have been gained uh the either property so we would just be appealing to people who are in the Loch Road area of milford early hours yesterday morning milford is the station for that is 0749153060 and that's the 24 over 7 number again the usual appeal around dash cam footage or the confidential lane uh unusual the two windows would be broken in adjacent houses uh and and no entry gained so there's obviously something going on there but it's quite uh upsetting for anybody at that time of the morning to have damage caused like that yeah for sure uh now a criminal damage incident in killie gordon next yeah this is the burning out of a car at barry arle killie gordon yesterday about half past 12 just after midday a black lexus is 250 which is the newer model of the lexus was set on fire at that location and the fire began a fire service that had to go out and put out the fire so anybody who would have seen a black lexus i don't have any details of registration number but it's the is 250 model which is the newer model of people who would know that type of car uh out around that area uh again letter kenny guards are investigating that 0 7 4 9 1 6 7 100 so that's yesterday around lunchtime car burned out for some reason fairly modern car and distinctive too they're just they are distinctive and fairly modern and probably still valuable they've become very valuable before the dunny gall rally making bears valuable now but um there's obviously some aspect some reason the car would would be set on fire like that and then it's the whole thing about damage the environment and all of those things and taking up the results of the fire service yeah okay hopefully that gets resolved criminal damage now at the mountain road in car and dunna yeah well this this was a fire again and when we're talking about the fire services and all that um the that was 11 50 p.m on tuesday the 23rd of june so it'd been last thursday night um uh they got a report uh guards got a report in bunkrana of a fire in progress at mountain road uh fire services went and of course um they attend these things uh urgently um but it was established that tires and other debris had been set light on the road so that was obviously a deliberate attempt you know to set a fire um now um we have a bit of rain today but we know in summer's past and springtime's past what can happen with fires and the damage that causes to the wildlife and even to property so um when the guards incidents like that where it requires the services of the the fire services it is reported because it's seen as very serious um because it's taken a service away that may be urgently required somewhere else yeah it could be a traffic accident it could be a house fire it could be where people would uh it occupiers of a house could be in danger so you know there's valuable response time plus cost and all of that so um someone doing that deliberately for some reason so we would ask anybody who was in that area between 11 and 11 50 p.m that's the mountain road out to bunkrana to contact the guards in bunkrana on 93 20540 and again that's the 24 over seven number or again if you want to use the confidential length the 1800 treble 6 treble 1 now next appeal is a bizarre one um we spoke to a member of a community organization in the convoy area earlier this month um it seems orchestrated it's disruptive and uh doesn't make a great deal of sense either uh but what's the the nature of this appeal in convoy from a guard perspective yeah well it's the theft of of uh five benches no we're sitting down these good quality pvc type ones uh that were taken on the 13th of june um and uh brownie has a note here that a picture of one of the benches on the facebook page so you know but everyone knows what these benches are welcome if you're out for a long walk or that they all look the same they're made from the recycled plastic uh but each each seat on each bench is a different color so they're distinctive from that point of view uh the convoy community and environmental committee have put a lot of hard work into the fundraising here and maintaining activities or amenities around the town so they're very disappointed out there we would like to try and track these benches down and see who is doing it and for what reason so uh again the guards at letter kenny oh seven four nine one six seven one hundred or the confidential line where people may not want to um be identified as such but could pass us on a bit of information it's free phone number 0800 travel six travel one and when you look at that damage you know the theft of five seats you look at the damage on the mountain road to fire uh you know these are all attacks on the community really and it's something that we can't if we tolerate it it won't get any better no for sure and the thing with the benches too is they're on the outskirts of the town um i think an ankle grinder we used in at least one of the cases they took a bit of an effort to get out there it's not like someone's putting them in their own uh guard you would imagine and then you'd wonder what the market is out there it's a it's a peculiar one it's a peculiar one we're speaking to the committee at the time yeah you have a good background to it there and it would be peculiar peculiar from the point of view that the seats are different colors that would be you would think readily identifiable they're not really the type of seat that you would put in your garden either you know and you certainly wouldn't you'd have a big garden if you need five yeah so is there a market out there if people are offered these on what we call the black market or on sites that can pass on or that you can advertise property we would say buy or beware because you have no actual title if if we become aware of where they are a very strange one we really can't see uh something um well it's the summertime and people are tidying up communities and doing all that and you know seats are i always think a nice part if you're going into a town it shows the community working together and all of that yeah i agree i agree right okay so now slow down week it's a it's a long social media campaign that's taking place at the moment look we know already this year um by last count that i saw 83 people had lost their lives on our roads these are deaths that for the most part hopefully we could avoid or you know we can't now but maybe going forward and i suppose that is amongst other things the motivation for these initiatives paul yeah well it's a slow down initiative commenced yesterday and it runs to next sunday and i suppose you've you've spoken there about the fatalities you know 83 people that's 83 families that's a massive community uh impact on a community um you know like 83 people when you think about it it's a coach load of people plus almost a second coach and sometimes when you say the word then figure 83 it doesn't resonate but when you put down think a full coach of people have plus plus almost another one have been have been taken out of out of our society in ireland so far this year and we're only halfway there uh and the the aim of the campaign is just asking or encouraging people to modify their behavior and encourage all age groups to think about road safety um you know on how they can influence behaviors a group of people that's very vulnerable at this time of year's motor cyclists you see a lot of them out there um you know you have to use to be a thing years ago think bike you know you have to when you when a car is coming out of from a junction or something like that there you have to think that they're very vulnerable uh and mostly very responsible in what to do uh we see what the success of the wild atlantic way every day and they live out on it myself you see maybe five and six motor cyclists going out touring and all of that but this is this is a wider emphasis for heavy goods drivers for car drivers all that we're in the middle of the summer you wouldn't think to look at it when you're out there today but people are starting to move around go on their staycations head for airports do whatever they're doing so the volume the traffic volumes are high again you've got the caravans you've got the agricultural caravans you've got yeah there's a lot of stuff going on in the summer yeah you were speaking with the cycle people this morning they're doing their missing to malin wish them well but it you know that's a group of people who are who are very vulnerable on the road so the roads have become busy between as you say agriculture vehicles in the summer or your normal commercial traffic and then your holiday traffic so we're working with communities reaching out again asking people talking about the road safety on social media platforms this year they're having this hashtag please slow down and they're having these slowdown ambassadors from around the country so I think there's a as far as I know there's a I was asked to provide a number of names last week um there's a number of people obviously going to be doing things on social media or in the media as well and um you know it'll pop up on those social media and hopefully get to the people that might ordinarily miss conversations like this or newspapers to reach as many people as possible through all means I presume like we have to think about the 83 people we have to try and reverse the trend or stop the trend or keep it keep it down because we're only six we're only we're at the end of the half year term as such and also too and and it was very obvious to me uh particularly over the rally where there was a lot of car videos being put up and it was young people a lot of the time and older people as well thoroughly enjoying themselves but quite often what you'd see is the camera panned around the car firstly obviously maybe you shouldn't be even the passengers shouldn't be making videos while the car is moving but like three or four people in the back of the car without seatbelts on and you know yourself I'm sure you've attended many road traffic collisions and you can tell very clearly the difference between um a crash where seatbelts were worn and crashes where they weren't especially multiple occupant crashes and I just me personally to my children emphasizing to them and if we all could look you're young once have fun but please put the seatbelt on because even in the back because if that car crashes at high speed it's it's horrendous what happens yeah well the people in the back can do as much harm and you know we all have a tendency to where there's good seatbelt compliance out there now but I would say if there was a survey done on backseat compliance it's not there the first thing you do when you get into an airplane is you grab the seatbelt and you know what use it'll be if something goes wrong but certainly in a motor vehicle a motor car um it you know because the person in the back has depending on their weight has the capacity to do serious damage to the people in the front and your heart really sinks and I remember it's a while now since because of a different role but when I used to be out operational and particularly when I was in Monaghan when you go to an accident scene and you would realize that somebody was fatally injured and they had no belt on and the chances of them surviving if they had the belt on would have been very high uh you know so it should be a standard thing that people would would couldn't click as they used to say you know the focus of this campaign is on speed and I didn't want to dilute that no no no but it's hand in hand I was just looking at some of these videos and I'm thinking you know the whole life's in front of me just make sure it is and the modern car is so designed um you must have paid extra you got the coffee but they give them a hand um they they um no it's not to not to be justin about a serious issue um you know the modern car is designed for the seat belt to be worn the airbags all of those restraint systems and all that all work in conjunction with one another I know it's even in my own car now if you have to brake hard you can find the seat belt starting to retract automatically the airbags and more around you yeah to protect you it's designed to assist you if you've got a seat belt on but the the important component is you wearing the belt yeah that's where it starts yeah so all right okay right keep your eye out on on your social media and all medias of course you'll see the hashtag slow down and I suppose the idea is that we all heed it's as best we can just be careful out there be careful out there yeah okay rain enjoy the summer right we mentioned earlier on um everyone seems to be away on holiday since it's fantastic to see it it really isn't and the airport seems to be operating okay people are getting out and through but this is an opportune time for those who are motivated to know when people are away to target homes what's some advice that you have for us to remind us not to you know uh ruin anyone's fun no no you know we have you don't want to come back having emptied your bank account and see that your house is destroyed yeah yeah and it can happen and then people are contacting the like of me looking for advice and they're fitting alarms when the horse has bolted literally so you know um I suppose people are moving around we would have certain intelligence that there would be certain criminals uh lying low at the moment watching houses in particular particularly in rural areas and I suppose the number one thing I would say is you know uh and you might be going holidays this week but you know think about an alarm it's one of the things that will help to protect your house and think about your good quality door locks we spoke about them often here on on the radio program um the social media aspect the posting of photographs when you're on your holidays telling everybody that you're away uh you don't know how many friends and who's the friends of friends and who's monitored who's sitting in the shadows and you know there's so much crime committed and I want to mention something over social media or over the internet now at the moment it's nearly it's nearly uh surpassing the actual physical break-ins but they're still happening so if you're going away the simple things is mentioned to your neighbor um that you're going away um if you want to notify us we will certainly keep it in mind in the course of our patrols and people do that particularly in the urban areas uh you know and that even goes if there's a wedding or some celebration in a house somewhere a house is going to be vacant maybe wedding presence there never any harm to just say look we have a wedding coming up the house will be vacant saturday and sunday or whatever um if you can leave a car in the driveway it gives an impression somebody's at home milk and and post on that gathering up uh most people we don't have too many milkmen and donny gall doing actual deliveries to houses but we do in some areas but certainly post on the mat the usual things uh then your your garage you know is your wheelie bins is your lathers other tools that could be used to claim and it was at a burglary there lately down in uh down and where was it um just in the town there in the gortley area and uh you know the painters were there and they had left the lather and the house was broken into two nights later and it wasn't the painters fault they just didn't get back for the lather but somebody was obviously walking past saw the lathers said this is how that's how i tune this to keep them back yeah okay uh keeping your garden tidy you know if you're away for a while get someone to cut the grass uh again securing the sheds and bicycles and all of that sort of thing cash and jewellery are the targeted items there they're they're they're easily offloaded um so if you you know if you have cash at home purchase a good quality safe put your jewellery in there put your your important documents and log uh your jewellery as well as often what happens is it might be three yeah four weeks later someone reaches for something that they expected to be there and it's not and that's another thing i'm a long time given out this advice and i always say put in a nice white tablecloth on your table lay out your items of jewellery and watches and things take a few photographs email them back to yourself then you have a record i had that property on that day this is mine this is what it looks like um video doorbells are incredibly popular and they're actually really relatively inexpensive um they also operate as quasi security cameras as well they don't you know they can you can you can have them to pick up movement you say that's something people maybe could look at now as well yeah you know a security package of your home is an upgrading of the locks thinking about an alarm and the video doorbell particularly for people living on their own and that allows them to screen the caller and someone will have a sim card built in and uh it'll take a couple of seconds of a video of somebody even coming to the door even though you know so as you say they're quite inexpensive you see them popping up on some of the big retailers every now and then uh they're they're not they're not hard to get they're you know and when you put it a cost-benefit analysis over a number of a period of years um it's it's a good deterrent for your home because somebody calling to the door will assume there's somebody inside you know and again you talked about earlier on you talked earlier on about someone checking to see if there's any post on the right yeah right how are they going to do that yeah they're going to approach your front door yeah and these uh if you have the the the right doorbell and it's set up in a certain way it will capture the image of that person um so you know that's how though these things are sort of interlinked and how they can work and depending on the on on your ability to use technology you can actually watch that in real time on your phone if you're on holiday no more than looking at cctv if you have it around your house but times and you know Greg I've been saying this people run for cctv it's grand and it has a purpose but the physical security of your house your side gates your door locks your garage because your garage will contain all the house breaking implements that you that anybody will ever have and think back the lather being left for two or three days and the next thing the house is broken into so there are people moving around in communities in the states looking to see for the easy target so we would just say review that let somebody know if it's a thing let the guards know you know and we'll we'll we'll do our best we're not going to post outside your house but at least we can do passing the tension and again um and I mentioned social media you know it's like it's one of those where it's like sounds like you've been spoiled but we know we know there are criminals and have been criminals that will talk you home when they know you're at a funeral yeah oh yeah so we're able to see that and the weddings you know exactly family functions and you know advance warning or advertising of a family function yeah be careful and advance warning I'm going you know we've seen the ones of the photograph we've probably all been tempted to do it we're sitting at Dublin airport with a nice pint of cold beer or whatever yeah it's five o'clock summer so I'll have a go and you know there's that thing all right and and you know you might have worked really really hard at your job to afford to pay for this holidays unfortunately for these criminals it's their job to scare the social media to be the friend of a friend get the easy target that's and it's not always the person that spots this stuff that's the criminal well they are a criminal but they can pass this information on there he's a network it's a network it's it's it's multi-faceted there's not just maybe the the guy that goes in and carries out the burglary there's the person who targets the house who passes the information you make it easier if you're putting it up on social media you know if you're going to post your photos post them when the when you come home all right now I have two other things just I was contacted there this morning we had a post ministers in the county who contacted the garage yesterday and letter Kenny where she had a call from an elderly pensioner who had been had received a telephone call from a man in a foreign country again going through western union wanting her to do a western union and it's not even western union has legitimate but that was the one that was so it might it might get people's ears to tune in basically saying he had deposited a large sum of money in her account and he needed to get it back out and he was actually on the phone talking or through the steps that she needed to do so what we would say to people again these are people vulnerable people living on their own where they're gathering that information as we've kind of said it's a network so if you get a call in relation to anything like that just hang up just hang up don't buy into it yeah I had a call from somebody yesterday evening as well about this scam that's going around it's it's it's sort of under the cover of Eurocop we've noticed that you've been accessing unsavory material on the internet um there's a spoke to granny there she says there's a step by set guide on our facebook page and on the garter website which is www.garter.ie people get very worried about these things so when it's alarm you in the first instance so that you drop your guard I mean that's what they're doing that's what it's all about and I did the the man who rang me he was quite concerned yesterday evening he said I can't go to bed with this on my mind what do I do it's just delete ignore it the third thing is just there was an appeal on crime call there last night about a fairly substantial robbery or burglary that was in britain's in dunny galltown back last October you can watch it back there on the rt player but it basically shows these guys going in and again they had the place well I've been over there with mr britain and given them face they had the place well well um they were well I had well sussed they knew exactly what to do with the door and they go in and break down through the cabinet and he told me at the time ninja party they walk past a lot of valuable watches and stuff to get what they wanted to get and they were literally in and out in three minutes so that appeal was done last night so right okay so thanks I was watching that last night for the first time in a while I watched it this night too for the first time in a while I didn't think ringing of the phones in the background yeah it's very old-fashioned isn't it I think it is and they're sitting with pens and raking and I think you know there's a couple of things about it there's a couple of things going on right with a couple of things going on with the way they set it up a there's not enough guards to answer the phones in studio right which we know that's not the case uh or B people will feel that they're called calls going on answered yeah three or four guards there the phones I understand what they're trying to do it for ambiance and stuff yeah but I think it's a bit old-fashioned but funny that you should say that I watched it last night for the first time in a while and I actually actually when it was just over I just thought that needs a rejig that was my thoughts I just thought the music the whole the way it was presented needs to be moved up a gear you know that's okay listen Paul thank you very much for self-criticism it's only a bit of a 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state and i careers today with the mix of the biggest names in retail top local independent shops and loads of great places to eat it has to be letter kenny there's fantastic choice and value for money throughout the town so for a special summer shopping experience make it a day out in letter kenny see shoplk.ie now the CEO of the hsc paul reid has advised the chairman the board of the hsc and the minister for health that he'll be stepping down from his position later this year he has agreed with the chairman that he will step down in december 2022 to facilitate a period to advance the process of selecting a successor he said today or yesterday that he's got no immediate career plans and made the decision with a heavy heart it was the hardest decision he's ever made and he wants to spend more time with his family pat harvey's a former chief executive of the northwestern health board and he joins us now pat thanks for taking the call okay right i mean anyone listening to the interview pat reid paul reader beg your pardon gave an rte on sunday would not have seen this coming on monday are you surprised by the decision yeah i think we've all been caught on the hop with it we didn't expect it but it is what it is i think paul whom i know is a very very fine health service manager he has a long career and he's proven his worth so i think it's a big loss to the hsc there's no doubt about that and i wish him well he was one of his qualities i think in getting the job in the first place was you know how he can reform departments or areas that you know and and the health service was going through that yet in his statement he suggests that you know as the hsc is growing through a period of change maybe someone else might be better suited to do that obviously the one thing he was trying the hsc was trying to do was to reform how navin hospital operates and it was clear it was at logger heads with the health minister and the rest of the government in that regard are you satisfied pat that you know his relationship with the health minister didn't contribute to this decision well i have no knowledge of that i have no reason to believe that is the case i think it's more coincidence that the debate around navin is taking place now but i'm sure paul didn't rush this decision i'm sure he's been thinking about it for a while i think it's more a reflection of uh paul and the busyness of the job and the challenges of the last few years i think that's what has had all the bearing on his decision i don't think the navin issue would have caused something like this by any means we are seeing an exodus really from the health service the cmo his deputy and other key figures in the health service as well as mr reed departing at this time um is that something we we should be concerned about yeah i think so yeah the i mean you're right i know tony huldahan a very fine chief medical officer he's been around the system for years um ronan glenn on your corner all hugely respected people and when you lose people like that to the system you lose a huge amount of intelligence uh and knowledge of the system that you just don't gain overnight uh they bring a huge amount to bear on all the decisions that sort of background and knowledge and i think that's a huge loss yes so on your corner was chief operating officer uh next to paul reed when you lose two people at the top of the service you just lose a lot of intellectual capital um and i think it is significant why does it happen these are good people they're hotly sought after by others i'm not saying that paul reed is going anywhere in particular but people like that are just going to sort after they bring a lot to any table um and we know that on your corner has moved on to other health areas ronan glenn probably the same uh tony huldahan will not be lost to the system uh so the pressures of the job as they exist the all consuming nature of it the fact that there isn't much breathing space and much time for family life um i think these things all have a bearing and it i'd be conscious too that it's a big challenge yeah of course pat and i'm conscious too that there's probably be nurses and carers listening to us and it's a 24 seven situation for them too and they're not quite as well resourced as rewarded as some of the people you're talking of there of course they all came through uh a once in a century uh pandemic and and that that is ongoing the cyber attack and its fallout and the regrouping after that but would it be would would do we not also maybe need to look at the fact that this is all under the stewardship as well of of steven uh donnelly or can we disregard that being a factor in these people leaving um because if it is a factor it's something we would need to have a look at is it not well i i have no reason to believe that it is a factor i do want to be suggesting that there is something there in the undercurrent i just don't know of it and i'm not suggesting in in that that there may be something so i just have no knowledge of that i think that paul reid is probably moving on for his own personal reasons and you're right the system is full of people who put in all sorts of long hours and stressful times and it's paul reid's job any more stressful than that of somebody who works in an icu with ppe gear on for months on end uh certainly not but it is what it is um i i just i just worry that the the enormity of the of the task for the hse in its present construct uh is almost kind of overwhelming so the plans that we discussed before to somehow or other break it up into more manageable bite sizes uh to have regional organizations to have uh more by way of management and organization at a more local level and not saying go back to the health board days but something more akin to that i think that's a valuable uh direction to go in i think paul would have welcomed more progress on that sooner but to be fair covid did take up all the time and the cyber attack did take up all the time but certainly the the hse as we know it is probably too big an entity to be as manageable as one would like it and i just think that the sooner it moves on to the center making the rules and the policies yeah and that is why that's why pat this navin situation jumps out at me again because obviously you've got the the hse you've got the experts on the ground you've got people working within the health service uh there uh that they believe that they that this uh a change in how uh the hospital services operated and that would have been best for patients and best for those working in the system i mean if mr reid and his people couldn't get that one change uh over the line who who could get the type of reform that you're talking about uh over the line especially when you know you've got politics at play versus you know people with the medical background wanting to do stuff yeah one of the reasons that the hse was established was to try and take some of the local politics out of it and there's evidence there that it's not that far removed yet but in the final analysis i think that the navin change will take place it has to take place the clinical considerations the safety of patients just has to have the uh the call on us here um i think how it's handled is is another matter but i don't know if you can justify maintaining navin as it is with the absence of sufficient cover clinically uh is in the best interest of the local people and you need to kind of bear in mind that navin is no further from say connelly hospital than dunnigall town is from litig any you wouldn't be dreaming of having an a and e department of the navin scale in in dunnigall town so i just think that people have been used to it in navin navin's gone through a lot of changes it's gone into orthopedics and so on but anything you have there's a kind of reluctance to lose it but sometimes it just makes the best a good sense to do that i mean if you go back over the years leaptrum had its own county hospital in our daily hospital in manor hamilton there were just so many changes that had to take place over the years because of clinical need and people settling to a new pattern then i'm i'm not sure if you're familiar with the story a draft on published national cardiac review document has been leaked it's in the hands of of shin fame the theories it'll have a huge impact on services in the northwest apparently there's no reference to cardiac services in in the northwest at all that all roads lead to go away it's due to be published later this year if that were the strategy the direct in that direction of traffic would that would that surprise you given your your obvious experience and background pass yeah no i mean i'm not sure what the detail in that report is i haven't seen it so i'm not sure whether it means that what you haven't let a kenny is lost to let a kenny but i do understand that the greater concentration of acute cardiac care in some major centers is the direction of travel and it makes good sense i mean if i have a heart attack in the morning i want to be in the best of places i want to have it uh rapidly available to me it's no different from the cancer services they went and concentrated cancer in the major centers the country that just made good sense that's not to say that a kenny can't have some element of breast care and so on and some element of cancer services but that's just the nature of it you need that concentration uh and people you only have to look Greg at the number of people who are quite happy to travel to Dublin and Galway for services uh when it comes to their own particular needs and where they're advised that the best care is available only in some of these major centers that's just in the nature of things okay interesting insight pat thanks as always lovely to chat to you again okay thanks Greg thank you pat harvey their former chief executive of the northwestern health board and interesting he picked up on the fact that um them not being mentioned doesn't necessarily mean uh these services that are currently at letter kenny might be scaled back but in the absence of us seeing that document in fall and being able to ask questions on it we have to suppose i know the likes of um donagall fraction uh donagall action for cancer care through betty homes and others are also trying to get some clarification from the health minister in relation to those plans but publish the document this is out there now might as well publish it so we can have a a more informed conversation well said pat harvey a gentleman who ran the hospital alongside a matron and that's how it should go back to local management is the only way uh no one wants tony hulhan as the lead anymore he'll not be missed it's time the chief medical officer and the hsc had a female lead let's see if a female lead can do a better job of the mess she certainly can't be any worse i know people who um have issues with tony hulhan for a number of reasons it could be covered it could be cervical check scandal would be um glad to see him go but i also know there's an awful lot of people out there that hung on his every word um and will miss him as well i'm not sure what the split is but there's certainly uh is different views out there on tony hulhan and his legacy i call it says in relation to the volume of people attending the ed it's the system which is wrong there is no way anyone waiting on an x-ray should have to sit in ed the ed is supposed to be about accidents and emergencies most people there are in the wrong place a quarter should be able to attend x-ray directly another quarter should be seeing their gp the issue could be easily resolved if now doc was moved up beside the ed and able to use the services of the hospital directly now we did speak to uh a gp by the way gp um dr olferry and he uh said that his information reliable information from people who triage in the emergency department was that very few people who are in ed at the moment shouldn't be there very very few that was the information he had um minuscule in the wider scale of things that's just to add to your point not to contradicted this caller wants to know why i cannot get a hold of my gp i've tried to get hold of the doctors all day yesterday and this morning and i'm not getting an answer my partner is sick and it's all just very worrying well i hope you get sorted soon i'm sorry to hear that your partner is sick unfortunately access to gps over the phone can be hit and miss some people claim they've got success in connect communicating with them via email uh i'm not sure if your gp services has that option uh a caller um it's not sad to see tony hula and go um they're not happy with his role and the some allegations which are unfounded um to the point where i can mention them as it relates to uh the cervical check scandal but i i hear you and i've read your comment there in as much as i can from a legal perspective some comments from facebook in the case of houses with mailboxes and this is a good one by the way there is a regular security problem where advertisers stick posters and mail in the door jammer on the step and are telling everyone that the house is empty yeah indeed and even sometimes and this is not on the postal service but even sometimes when you ask for that post not to be delivered uh by third parties it still gets delivered um greg facebook is full of scams they use other people's profile uh letting on they're you it's terrible it is and what i wanted to mention as well and it's doing the round in this part of the world i'm sure everywhere is these messages to your whatsapps claiming to be a family member uh hi mom hi dad hi granny hi granddad um this is uh i've lost my phone i'm using a friend's phone my all my stuff has been robbed obviously the idea being we text back in a panic saying oh whatever the name is uh what's the story what can i do could you send me a 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11 o'clock and say good morning to emma ryan hi emma thanks great good morning feared over the future of muff garada station remain the garada press office yesterday confirmed that there are no plans in place to close the garada station however garady are being redeployed from muff to burn foot which has caused much concern in the area that this was result in the closure of the station the t-shirt says it's hi hi about timely uk holds talks with the eu on the protocol legislation to scrap parts of the northern island protocol was passed in the house of commons last night it will now face further scrutiny in parliament next month before it goes to the house of lords garady have warned people about wasting emergency services time after tires were set on fire close to bonkrana on thursday last at around 11 50 p.m. garady received a report of a fire on the mountain road bonkrana it was established that tires and other debris had been set alight crime prevention officer sergeant paul wallis is incidents like these result in valuable response time being delayed and potentially puts lives at risk garady are investigating two houses after two houses in milford had their front windows smashed during the early hours of monday morning two houses in the area of the lough road milford had their front sitting room windows smashed it is believed that entry was not gained to either property a motorist has been arrested after being caught drink driving in the dunagall town area the dunagall roads police and unit detected a vehicle traveling at 132 kilometers per hour in a 100 kilometers per hour zone last night the driver subsequently failed a preliminary roadside breath test and was arrested police and airy have described incidents in the galley area yesterday as disappointing our road was partially blocked yesterday evening by burning pallets while two northern ireland housing executive vehicles were damaged by a missionary thrown by young people who had gathered in the fair view road area and finally an eastern aga cycling group has welcomed improvements made on the balba faeche dunagall town road after they raised safety concerns earlier this year finn wheeler cycling club launched a campaign for a hard shoulder to be added to a 750 meter stretch known as magroey spray a side road has now been added but cyclist brian michael honey believes more needs to be done that's all for now we'll be back with news again at 12 noon thanks samar and now a modern masterpiece the new italian stack from mcdonald's to 100 irish beef burgers with mozzarella crispy onions lettuce a rich tomato sauce and a cheese sauce all in a tomato and herb style bun and next in the collection the crispy chicken italiano with tomato mozzarella red onion lettuce and a basil pesto style sauce bellissimo holiday from home with the mcdonald's summer menu available until the 26th of july from 11 am subject to availability the independent organization offering free legal advice to those who cannot afford it has said the demand for its services last year at stripped its resources flak said there were more than 13,000 calls to its telephone information line but many more callers obviously could not get through and the organization says there is a crisis around people's ability to access justice particularly in relation to family law and employment matters christopher bols is legal officer with flak he joins us now good morning christopher how are you good morning very well thank you for having me that's good to have you with us okay so what has uh do you think led to this this huge increase in calls 13 000 over the course of a year that's a lot of calls per day yeah and i think it's important to note that this is our highest number of calls we've seen coming into our telephone information line since 2015 and we saw a similar number last year and i think the number of calls that come into our phone line i think really can be indicative of the kind of issues people are facing day to day so numbers haven't been this high um in terms of the phone line in as i said since 2015 of the aftermath of the great recession and now since the onset of covid we've seen a whole different set of issues crop up for people that are affecting them day to day well i was just wondering say for instance obviously there's a lot of people may have been unhappy with you know mask mandates in in the workplace or maybe for their children you know and other issues surrounding covid regulations do you know how much if at all that contributed to this uh this volume of calls actually well covid definitely played a part but actually not in the not with those kind of issues that you raised what we saw was actually much more day to day issues that work did indeed arise from covid so for example in relation to employment you see the kind of contractual issues people might have had i.e whether they're required to go back into work whether they're allowed to work from home so those sort of issues we've also seen this huge turnover in employment lately so people have had a lot of questions about cessation of employment and that whole area and then again covid also on the family law side which you mentioned gave rise to a whole new raft of queries this was primarily now in 2020 before um 2021 which uh today's report was discussing but we on during the covid 19 period we would have seen a lot of questions for example in relation to custody agreements and access to children and how covid restrictions affected those we also saw during covid obviously huge disruptions to people's income and employment and then on the family law side that gave rise to a whole number of questions as to how that for example affected maintenance agreements and the payment of maintenance so covid has been a huge factor and it continued to be a huge factor throughout 2021 and there's other areas too which we'll get into but i just want to drill down a little bit on some of the things you've mentioned there um so in terms of flax roll here uh ordinarily if it was fully resourced like do you give people advice do you sign post them can you represent them like what is the actual role of flax if i ring you uh with say for instance the the the cost of the issues that you gave the example of and we received a lot of calls at that time funny enough as it relates to that issue what what does flack ordinarily do or what can uh it do yeah so all of the above is what we try to do so flack is an independent organization distinct from the state's legal aid board which is which administers the civil legal aid scheme and provides legal representation and we provide legal representation in a very limited number of strategic cases but in terms of these day to day issues um what we do is we work in two ways one we have the telephone information line which we've been discussing which we where we can provide people with basic legal information and we also run flack clinics which since covid have been operation remotely where people can receive once off legal advice in relation to their queries and as you mentioned yes we can sign post people on to other services and we would signal the availability of legal aid in many instances to people but unfortunately there are a number of areas where we have nowhere to refer people on to so as i was saying earlier on employment law issues have been a huge factor over the last year however the state system of civil legal aid doesn't cover employment law claims that come before the w or c the workplace relations commission so we had almost 2000 employment law queries last year and unfortunately the hardest reality is because there's no legal aid for where someone is considering taking a claim to the workplace relations commission either for an employment issue or for a discrimination issue there's in fact nowhere we can send them now in many cases if someone rings the phone and we can arrange for them to have a consultation with an employment lawyer but that's a once off consultation and unfortunately we simply don't have the capacity to represent people in those sort of cases and people do require representation in those cases i presume then well that's the interesting thing uh tribunals like the workplace relations commission are in theory supposed to be accessible for an individual to take a case on their own in an employment law matter however what the experience we see is that where someone has an employment law case takes us to the w or c they come up against their employer who has lured up and oftentimes an individual goes into the w or c sits down across the table from not only their employer but also at least one solicitor and at least one barrister in many cases a junior barrister and senior counsel and is then expected to make their claim on their own and unassisted without any recourse to legal advice or legal representation and in those kind of cases black has repeatedly highlighted that there's a huge inequality of arms so well it might be possible for someone to lodge a claim to the workplace relations commission on their own to actually represent themselves in the face of you know a lawyer job employer or respondent is a hugely difficult access to clearly not work now as well too people might say well if it's issues of housing and i understand there's a lot of contacts as it relates to housing is that not what the residence tenancy board is there for it's the exact same situation in the residential tenancies board again it's supposed to be an accessible tribunal but unfortunately again we see instances where people are going up against lawyer job landlords in the or tv and the absence of legal aid before these tribunals is a huge issues because these kinds of issues these day-to-day issues housing and employment and indeed social welfare discrimination are in fact the kinds of legal issues that kind of a huge impact on people's day-to-day lives and they're right and i suppose it's important to note that when i talk about legal aid and access to justice and these kinds of instances i don't just mean access to representation we also mean access to legal advice and legal information because what we see in many instances is where someone has access to good quality legal advice in the first instance early on it can actually prevent a legal problem from becoming so serious that it actually ends up coming before a court or tribunal so i think when we talk about reforming legal aid and how we vindicate people's right of access to justice we have to open up the conversation beyond just legal representation in serious cases or cases that end up before a court or tribunal but start talking about resourcing citizens to have access to the sort of legal advice and information they need early on yeah and who plugs these gaps then because this requires kind of a bit of an overhaul in a lot of the way we deal with disputes because at the same time too you know we can't we have to triage this in some way you know you have to be able to weed out uh you'd have to be able to weed out you know people that are maybe have the wrong motivations for pursuing things or what have you you know is there a model that we we can look at and say well they do it correctly we could employ something similar to that yeah so i suppose what we're talking about and i think the best way to to deal with these kind of situations i think what's really neat is an overhaul of the civil legal aid system because when we're talking about legal aid the main criteria or barrier for accessing legal aid at the moment is a very strict means test which is you can access legal aid for the areas of law which are covered which is primarily family law if you're if you have less than 18 000 euros per year in disposable income what we're saying is that kind of means test a is far too strict and in the face of a cost of living crisis it's just completely unrealistic but it has been outdated for a number of years now but also we need to move away from this means test model and start looking to a system of civil legal aid which actually examines the merits and the potential importance of a case not just for the individual but some cases as we've seen here can have a much broader impact in terms of setting precedent so we think exactly we need to not just be looking at the the particular circumstances of the person at very strict examination of their means but start looking at a system of civil legal aid that looks at the merits of the issue itself and uses that as the main factor in assessing whether someone can access legal representation okay it's interesting stuff and I think it'll the conversation will resonate with a lot of people listening today at Christopher we'll see if anyone you know who makes these decisions picks up on this because the figures are huge for now though Christopher Bowles thanks very much indeed take care of yourself thank you he is a legal officer with FLAC 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health to get the minister for health portfolio don't call here in that quote disgusted listening to pat harvey worse than a politician mr reid on a huge salary a ceo of a huge company enterprise which was the hsc was his job to manage now they're talking about going back to regional models so the health board and his last assertion that people are happy to travel for expert medical treatment living in donnelly means we often have no option greg pad implies people are happy to travel what planet is he on ask someone getting out of bed at four or five a.m to get a bus to go away at six in letter kenny for cancer treatment scandalous greg that comes in from liam pat harvey what words is he living in that's what's wrong with this country people like him traveling from north donnelly go to go away for treatment it is a disaster this man paul reid has walked from the hsc leaving a complete mess he should have been sacked a long time ago uh him being rewarded is sickening well if you listen to uh and even the opposition haven't really uh come out all guns blazing but certainly the government spokespeople i've heard of so far believe he'd done a sterling job why everyone chatting about the great job paul reid has done really let's call a spade a spade the hsc is in the worst shape uh ever letter kenny hospital car park now that's another matter uh right okay uh and a few more coming in on different subjects uh but we are joined on the program now by the new kahirlock of donnelly goll county council councillor liam blaney good morning to you um and congratulations liam good morning drake thank you very much okay what does this mean personally to you to be elevated to the position of kahirlock that's a great honor for anybody to that's elected donnelly goll county council to get that rule for a year and uh i just related to happen it's what i want to go to that i have that position now and i can make the best use possible uh what do you hope to achieve uh in as much as you can because obviously you know we're facing some of the biggest crises we have in some time and of course not least in donnelly goll because we have the defective concrete blocks issue we've got a general housing issue uh you know we we are seeing an awful lot of roads projects perhaps not going ahead as contractors pull out of them so that's an infrastructural issue uh than the general cost of living and cancel services there's a lot there uh liam there's a lot there and you know you like to say if you'll try and do something with everything that you talked about but um the year doesn't belong going on and it takes a long time a lot longer than a year maybe it started a lot of them things but look you mentioned the defective defective materials and defective blocks in it as far as making and other issues with blocks and um and i was going through through the the the processes and the and the dial on the center of the minute but i would like to see a conclusion to that as soon as possible uh so as opposed to relieve the turmoil and the stress and frustration that the homeowners have and that have been living that they've been living for a long time and it's not going to start it overnight either it's still going to take a long time to start it but we want to see it started and uh hopefully i'll put a bit of pressure on as far as that's concerned but look that's a very complex issue what's what's happening there and the whole the whole issue of the defective blocks and it's not something that i want to have a huge say on but anywhere again as much as i can i will be doing what i can on it yeah uh you also um are talking of a charter of rights for council employees talk to me a little bit about that i haven't had discussions with numerous staff of Tony Gough and the council uh i believe that there should be a charter drawn up to ensure that the the council employees um feel less under stress and um i'm sure that they have respect and dignity in the workplace and that is protected and i think that um if that was the case that we would feel happier and the workplace and we would get more out of them as well as that but i thank you for anybody anybody that doesn't feel official under pressure or doesn't feel safe in the workplace i think that shouldn't be the way okay that has to change yeah okay well listen and there has to be respect i want to bring respect back to the council to the council chambers will uh respect for council colleagues for for staff for everybody involved and respect for the chair how do you do that exactly your head as well yeah of course well there's a real book here in front of us greg uh there's a code of conduct understanding orders and that has to be enforced um and the previous chair has has uh made a good job and and enforced that again because hadn't been enforced for a long time uh and i think that as time that it was enforced again and anybody has a problem with them rules or any of them rule books that there's procedures to go and get them changed and put whatever the majority of council should be going into that into that rule book uh that can be done and should be done but i intend to put the tools i have at present to uh to enforce them as the best of my ability okay there therefore i believe that we'll have a better working working council over there all right well we'll watch on with interest again congratulations and we'll see what the year holds that's councillor leon blaney there the new cahir lock of donagall county council he uh is going to be assisted in his role by the new last cahir lock that is south donagall fenifall councillor me hall nocton he's replacing outgoing chair martin mcdormiton as he heard uh councillor blaney there uh he is replacing outgoing uh cahir lock jack moray right i call us says and this is as it relates to the conversation we're having earlier on the appeal as it relates to benches being stolen uh taking benches how low can these corporates go it's just pure badness nothing else hope they are caught indeed i just can't see a market or use for them it just seems disruptive uh i got a quote this is car insurance i have got a quote for myself for 49 year old female and my 17 year old learner license son since may for 12 50 1,250 euro that's with the aa that seems really really good uh i think you would agree would it it seems low to me especially to have a a learner license learner permit holder on the policy as well as he gets his own wings or his own wheels that's good shopped around they got that with the aa they say that's pretty good uh right now uh what about this a website listing accommodation for this year's irish open is charging how much for the week 40 000 euro now i'd won a lot for 40 000 euro uh the available properties are listed on accommodation for the event a website for golfing tournaments the houses start from 2000 euro with a number of properties listed at 20 000 euro according to the examiner newspaper the tournament gets underway this coming thursday at man juliet in county kill kenny now i presume maybe some of these properties are for players are they or their teams that might have a lot of money i don't know 40 000 euro it's crazy could you play a request please congratulate my brother chris daherty and his three friends cahill wilson patrick morning and robert cabinet they cycled from mason to malin in less than 23 hours on sunday from all the family this is a great achievement well done it is a superb achievement that really is they left mason at 10 50 a.m on saturday and arrived at malin at 9 30 a.m on sunday morning they didn't take many breaks did they that's some going uh margaret kelly zimbabwe buffet happy 88th birthday to you margaret from jeanette paul and grandchildren kelly shannon leon lily and april margaret galler you're in bernford as you know happy birthday to you from leon bridgett and family in grantia in bon crana okay that is uh the cure and it's uh close to me right is your name uh the initials of your name ap are you a female and did you recently get a new revolute card because one's been handed here into the station it was found in and around letter kenny so the initials on it are ap and it seems a new revolute card you haven't signed the back of it yet okay but anyway listen we want to get back to you uh the good thing with revolute of course is that you can go on your app and lock it off so but it's a nuisance trying to order a new car so if you're a female and your initials are ap and you lost your revolute card around letter kenny someone found it and decided to hand it into us here at highland radio at the mountaintop and letter kenny we want to get it back to you uh right okay so if you're an ap we have it for you uh congratulations to leon blaney says this listener a real gentleman who has real irish politics in his vein that comes in from helen and mary another call says the micro issue is allowed to happen on councillor blaney's party's watch and the present housing minister is fina foe there's a separation in local and national politics even amongst td's right okay we were talking yesterday about the access to reth mullin beach and um the access to the wheelchair that's uh designed in such a way that you can take it onto the beach and it was councillor jimmy cavena wasn't it who said he would try and get us the new number and that new number is as follows we'll retain it here for those of you who have a need for it so it's the to get access uh to the uh rath mullin beach wheelchair it's requests at weekends and after five p.m this is by the way 087 231 4332 087 231 4332 so that's good to see that uh resolved and it means that people should be able to get access to it at the weekends and after five because it was in the uh it's there up until the mid mid august in the training centre i think it was pardon migrants i think it was it slipped my mind uh but anyway that's good that's information for you that might 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start with leaked documents that we find out by accident or design um someone making that information available to the public and then we can we become aware of it we try and get more information and then we join the fight to try and retain what we i think most of us feel we have a right to access equal access and fair access to the health system this is our lives this is what we have we all gone to die and the health care service as much as possible is there to try and ensure that we are as healthy for as long as is possible why do we have to fight for that all the time well one of those always in the thick of it is betty home spokesperson for dunnegall action for cancer care betty good morning to you you've already made contact with the minister of the back of this leaked document it doesn't mention cardiac services for the northwest we don't know no no sorry Greek not on the leaked document we we raised it by regarding the whole thing about the angels we wrote our email on the 7th of june we went to wear the leak document at all we raised it in um very good it's written documents and we were following up because of the angiogram service and how it was threatened and we followed up on that and then we discovered that there was a review happening and i'm doing this from memory i think it was started in 2018 and the report was due to be published in february march this year and then was being delayed and i'm doing it from memory again i think it's october november so we had very serious concerns because as well within the terms of reference for that the second point was patients have access to service based on clinical need rather than geographic location so again we were asking what letter kenny hospital and donnie gall patients be excluded again based on geography you know and we asked the minister how do you forgot the dacc map and realistically at if clinical need rather than geography then clinical need should be where the patient needs it and if you're the cardiac patient and you need the service clinical need is in your local area not half we're doing the map of Ireland yeah but the problem is is that though the two things that you mentioned clinical need it seems to be trumped by you know the hsc believing that they need to identify centres where the best treatment is given and are somewhat unapologetic that people may have to travel for that so i think the criteria that you're looking for the health services to be dictated by is not the same criteria that the health services are being run by if that makes sense yes but but great one of the things we have to remember regarding the angiogram service at letter kenny because we were very active on that as well and that's you remember at that time the when we wrote um to the ceo of the fail to grip at that time we were we had actually asked for the name of the three person expert panel that was going to review the surface now they actually came back and gave the green light to letter kenny hospital so we're we're concerned if an expert panel part of the safety group and we've been told that they're qualified to make those decisions um actually gave the green light to the angiogram service at letter kenny hospital are we going to say then at national level and remember the book stops with minister donnelly on this because um in that document the modus operandi is that the chairperson of the review group will present the report off the review to the minister for health and as we said to the minister donnelly stops with him uh great but the thing is if we have an expert panel a three person expert panel who came up to the angiogram service at letter kenny university hospital and gave the green light then as well there's always political politics but there's medical politics some managerial politics and we've all said we're not sure which is the worst so are we going to say that this expert panel could give the green light to letter kenny hospital and now it's not going to be good enough to be part of this review of character services that will be published it's just not acceptable you know it's contradictory as well it's confusing i mean it's a total contradiction you know so and we got no we got no answer back we don't get answered back now nobody you know we just keep the pressure on um now we did we did actually see it uh um to pat nash who's the clinical director of the sale to health service executive but he's also part of the car to get there to the steering group membership and we felt that pat needed to be aware that we were we were uh making sure that the review of letter kenny hospital the angiogram service got the green light um and that shouldn't be lost and we need we always we sent sent this on agreg to the donnelly gall minister and deputies as well so we need them to step up to the mark because it can't happen and if we're talking our key point was again about clinical needs than geographic location you know hold on a minute the clinical need is in the angiogram service at letter kenny hospital not in dublin or gallway so i want i want to make sure i fully understand this and all of our listeners do as well okay so right i think we broadly welcome the news uh because we were afraid that we've got to lose some services because of this private company pulling out of the Irish market so we broadly welcome the news i think that the cardiac catheterization angioplasty services will uh will be uh retained at letter kenny university hospital and we were told at that time that we might even start using this 750 000 euro of public funded equipment used to its uh you know more of its capacity so that was welcome broadly now of course the opposition through i think podrick mclaughlin says everything might not be as it seems i believe thomas pringle said the same as well so so we're clear what is happening or has happened that is in your mind putting that good news under threat if you know what i mean i know you've explained it betty but i want to be sure that we all get it well for us the review that started 2018 at that time there wouldn't have been the in situ angiogram service at letter kenny hospital so how could it be included in a report that was due to be to be published in february march this year because that angiogram service has been a very recent one now we have an expert panel who are part of the sale to university hospital work which letter kenny university hospital falls under came up looked at the angiogram service at letter kenny university hospital very recently gave the green light and said basically this is my word but for purpose so why are we now talking about a report that is going to exclude potentially exclude cardiac services angiogram services at letter kenny university hospital are we saying that at government level at i suppose it is at minister donnelly's door that the expert panel that came up as part of the sale to university hospital group who monitor and are i suppose responsible for services in this area that their opinion is not acceptable now is at national level this report that you talk of now is this the same document that shin fein has it's in its possession that we're talking about yes right so because that's the document the national yes the national review of specialist cardiac services now the thing that confuses them that they're talking about the thing that confuses me about this document which i haven't seen and you haven't seen and i'm not questioning it's validity or shin fein's reading of it right is that the absence of any real reference to these services in donnelly gall no reference to any cross border enhancements right which i think i think this i think this government's pretty committed to sort of an all island approach in certain areas so in the absence of that could we maybe suggest that maybe this document isn't complete because it can't i i i would believe yeah sorry great i believe that the document isn't complete and i believe that because i suppose of the the political and people power in donnelly gall that ensured that the review of the angiogram services letter kenny happened that we are hoping that with the pressure that we're putting on as as our elected representatives and other people that that service now will be included in this document but again if we're talking the document was due to be published initially february march and then it's been put in hold to october november and as i said i'm doing the october november from memory so we're hoping we're hoping that letter kenny university hospital will now be included in that document okay and that's why i just want to it's very important that we shine a very bright spotlight but also what we need is more information to ensure that the concerns that we have so we are going to endeavor to get answers from the hsc along the lines of what you said in other words you know i don't imagine they're going to comment on this draft document i i will say i suggest i i i couldn't know they will say that this is a draft document this is not complete this was not for public consumption it has to include a direct reference to the services that's currently at letter kenny university hospital it has to make some reference to some sort of cross-border cooperation and according to the shin fame deputy we spoke to earlier it doesn't so we need to find out where this document's at what's in it and is there going to be a commitment to services in letter kenny and that can put our minds at ease or it can strengthen the campaign to reverse any negative decisions that's where i feel that's where we're at betty i i think so too but great there's a very very key important point as well uh well the whole thing is very very serious but at letter kenny university hospital angiogram services and target services are not included in this report then we have to ask what does that say at national level that's of the opinion that they have of the three person expert panel that came up to review the services are we saying that when experts actually review services at letter kenny hospital that it's not worth the paper it's wrote on are they've been they are as their opinions and expert opinions and recommendations not acceptable my belief is that those that their opinions and their recommendations will be included in this final report because i i'm hopeful i uh for us in the ecc we're keeping a tight eye on it great as you know we said tightly of course because there was perfect opportunity i think for the hsc to downgrade those services at letter kenny university hospital if they wanted to now they clearly didn't want to or they had to listen to the the public and the campaign i just can't imagine that this final document doesn't reference any cross-border cooperation or would not reference the developments over the last a couple of months but until we see that betty we just have to keep the pressure on that's what you're saying well we'll be sitting very tightly on it great as you know what i said that we sent it on the seventh of june we sent it the next day to the donnie goal a minister and deputy we've been following up on it um but maybe we're not on anybody's christmas card list at the moment great well we don't need christmas cards we just need health services isn't that it betty no i mean i mean that they just don't like answering us yeah well sometimes a lack of and that's what i say to people that say on this program well why do you interview that person sometimes a non-answer is more important than an answer at times but we'll see listen thank you very much for your time as always great thank you for your contribution i appreciate it greatly okay that is uh spokesperson for donnie goal action for cancer care although uh they have a broad remit as you know uh betty homes there but we will endeavor to get the answers and i'll continue to keep asking the asking the questions be a pain right okay uh do you 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may as well get it uh for example we're only going to gain what we were already lost in the way of such the last election the illusion td's the way things changed so i mean there's no any opportunities going forward for any man or woman that wishes to or or them that wishes so we're heading to the ring going forward to new kentucky's uh i believe it should be because i think the way things are at the moment great to be fair as you touched on the air the s and a the doctors and ours everything else i agree with all that great and i would i would hope i think i said to carline yesterday when the conversation i said we get us who throws their hat into the ring as long as their heart is in the right place we're going to go behind them it couldn't possibly do any more harm to have an extra voice and next to donna gall chairs here to open the toilet at the at the table or such do you think what what what i mean like we're talking about a serious amount of cash here uh to to provide another td i mean we can't just throw money at it we can't say well sure if we can have another one why not i mean what what advantage do you think might it be to donna gall to have another td up there it might be an advantage greg in the sense that it's not just for throwing cash it i mean it's a geographically thing the way it's going to turn out we may gain one we may not other counties may gain or so on but according to the census going to turn it out that way possibly in the future that there won't be extra ones regardless what county they're on so the way i would look at it if we can get any extra voices fighting for donna gall all the better because for example like uh unless i've missed it we're in the the age here at the moment now of what i'm in uh in the region of 14 000 ukrainians going here which we we welcome as as such donna gall i believe so yes i think it's the the figure 1600 well sorry 16 i'm sorry apologies 14 14 000 all together in the air and then 1600 donna gall but certain that i say the point i'm getting to is that even though what the 1600 for donna gall we welcome them all uh but for example like there's been no word unless i've missed it i don't believe have there's been no word for expansion of the hospital no extra beds no extra doctors uh and our health service like no extra word of teachers uh s and a's no extra word of extra hours for the teachers of school to to accommodate these people for various needs that they're going to have accordingly so when that's the thing i see about that's what i see about it so if it means only four if like if four tds aren't delivering that one is to say five will well greg it's it's a fair point all right but maybe the first maybe what would be what we needed to change one of the four well that could happen regardless anyway when the time comes who knows uh when the general election comes that may that may be four or five no it's five sorry we currently have five don't we we do the five uh listen yeah but a lot of the problems that you a lot of the problems that you talk of there and and everyone everyone can i think relate to what you're saying we need all of the stuff that you talk of but i just wonder if the the people of this county feel that it it will ever come you know if it's great it needs to come and here what you're saying and understand what you're saying but look we have to keep this bird up i know what the month now with the inflation everything else and all the going on uh everything is deflating there's such part in the fun but that's what actually is happening out in the ground for maybe just the ground you know that yourself you're up in the country yourself i think really you know yourself what's going on you hear it all the time you hear through your job as a radio station obviously like we have to keep on fighting we can't just give up and i think that's going to be the key element here going forward we would need more sort of reform of the door and the shanard and their functions and how they're elected and who they represent and how they represent rather than just saying right the population has increased let's put more of them in there you know i mean i think an argument or a case has to be made as to what that might actually achieve other than creating a few more well-paid jobs uh you know uh a td's performances can be hit and miss i think we've you know we've we've got quite active tds in our county i'm not critic criticising them as such but we rather than sort of saying well we need more because the constitution says so should we not be having a conversation about how the door works how attendance works how voting works how the funding of it works how accountability works you know what's the function of the shanard uh i know that's been sort of determined by a but there's a lot of shanard reform hasn't even been that was promised that hasn't come to pass so instead of you know getting more uh people in there let's try and get what's working in there working or what's in there working that's the problem right to be fair what respect your point was on there the monitor's not working yeah but you have to tell me your view right michael you don't have to tell me sorry and i mean this respectful your view is that if the country needs more tds well let's have more tds but i i expect you to tell me why you feel that's the case do you know what i mean i've seen why i feel as the case we need more new faces in there uh to to bring them out reform to ask the hard questions because what's there at the moment in my eyes and in my own personal opinion the whole thing shouldn't do comfortable and nobody wants to rock the vote another we have the three parties sitting at the moment now who form a government and one's afraid to see anything out of place in cases of noise the other and case the government collapses and as a result then we're all suffering for example eamon ryan talked there but a turf band there so we too and i'll be as all phased away but not not entirely uh not entirely phased away because i i will haven't been contacted but a person's been contacted with me from another company a journalist like yourself and they want me to do an interview with them for their they're actually from from france so it hasn't actually failed away that way so it says to me and the french are taking an interest what's going on in ireland if if we were in french a lot of the stuff that's going on here would reform one thing another clutch inflation so what it will be challenged there and we've seen that turn through the years and i think that was wrong here in ireland the minute we don't stack together or such not not totally together the way we should anyway on many aspects yeah but you see the problem is is we have there's many things that separate us for instance the one of the key ones i think is an urban rural divide uh we live in two completely different countries we have people in cities with access to public transport uh you know uh maybe more modern housing better insulated housing um and then we have us who live out in the country and all the challenges we face i think you know you could ask an awful lot of people maybe around dobblum about life in donnegaul or how we live our life and it would be completely alien to them they probably have more in common with the people of paris than they do if donnegaul they probably have Greg all right and that's a fair enough point usually the city status but also the people in dobblum as well and various other cities may not have been to donnegaul yet to know what it is like to experience down here and that's the thing that annoys me there are rules made in dobblum with the what the the tv's the government the civil servants most of the civil servants i understand makes a lot of the rules and then it's through onto the tv's the tv's throw in the government then the debate it closed the door that's a shut uh and these people don't even realize what's what impact is having on ourselves here in donnegaul various other rural counties along the western seaboard and that's what makes me angry with the whole thing greg uh and especially there as they point out there even ryan for example it won't be because he actually ever been to donnegaul to see what's going on down here it's okay inflicting rules in dobblum talk about rules in dobblum but works in dobblum greg does not work with donnegaul we don't have the loo's down here we don't have we don't have the train to step on either if we want to such we're down blocky in donnegaul we have all the various bus operators we have here in western gul that serve the whole county alongside bus airing and that then and the canyons so on and get these other buses there could you live without a car no well the bus services aren't great then are they i know that your local companies are doing as much as they can don't get me wrong they're great for the people that don't have a car they're great for the people can't i'm lucky i have a car yes yeah they work that way so does everybody else yeah but i'm saying is is we couldn't live without our cars no we couldn't live without our cars but at the same time in the same dobblum greg we couldn't live we couldn't live either without our local bus services the ones that we have they're fantastic yes and actually for a lot of the western gul here where i live and partially up your own corner there as well only for them we wouldn't have education down here because we wouldn't be able to get to the colleges and so on and the various cities only for that and that's that's the thing as well and then you have the green party to get the way they're looking to close down the rural counties that's the reality of it for example now this year alone i'm here now these days where people was buying three four bags of coal a week throwing buying one bag of coal at the moment because that's all they can afford greg god help them when it comes to September now when the temperatures change well ironically have you ever seen as much turf cut as being cut right now i mean i'm seeing bugs with turf stacked on them now that i haven't seen turf on in years ironically you know because well of course of course there are the pressures on the price of oil the price of coal uh as a natural fuel for those who watch the user there'll be a lot of wood and turf burnt in dunnig all this winter oh definitely so unfair play them all cut away i i totally agree with it we are in a real crisis greg we're in a housing crisis we're in a medical crisis we're in a we're in a fuel crisis and again the boys in Dublin are not paying attention because they're paying attention they will do something about it they would have they would have stopped powers to be like these people are suffering you know we need to do something they're doing you're making a strong argument yourself for us not needing more tds do you still think we need more tds we need a td or two and there's a long side of the ones that are arguing to argue the point stronger for dunnig all great that's what we need to do to be fair that's what really what we need to do uh like we have a lot of tds there right but i want to be honest we uh i question are they all fully active for the county what respect to them all and i do question that because i think there are a lot of things going on particularly the housing crisis the fuel crisis as i said touched on there at the beginning certainly a hundred percent of the kenny hospital that whole campus or the kenny hospital the colonels the whole thing around there by for example can the not can somebody not make the decision to the left hand of the road they're going down all some colonels right quite is only not make a decision get all that revamped get it utilized get it into use tell the horse for a long uh get more rooms more beds whatever i mean maybe but maybe the power petrol pump politics has got us where we are maybe we do need sort of to not elect people just to fight for their own particular area that we need to elect people that will will come up with a national vision for this country you know that that balances rural and urban life rather than a series of people battling for their own corners maybe that's what the problem is well it may well be great but it's most of the end of the day all is here the story all y'all is here the usual story all politics are local and it's most of the the track that everybody's following just most in every county and but there's not just talking about national and fighting rural as well fighting local as well there's not just talking doing the two things right there's plenty in there they're 160 or so over there it's 160 i think even at the minute at the minute and they need to do more and fight more right okay but you think there should be more of them to do that well if the opportunity arises where i guess it's i'm not saying that there should be more of the opportunity arises for ourselves i'm speaking our own county here if we get an opportunity to get another one or so elected to help the county okay providing providing great their hardest in the right place i don't want to see anybody going up the road for the sake of grabbing a fat wage away up the road and just i will want to go past life or bridge bye bye don't you go as your political hero that is that a fair question to ask i don't i don't have one to be honest with you i'm i'm i thought to vote for him and you thought yeah no i wasn't to get your political persuasion but do you look around the country and say that's what we need in donny gole the hilly rays yes the hilly rays i can't believe that to drag that i can't believe that to drag that out of you it's exactly what you were talking about we need the xm and donny gole because unless we've the hilly ray approaching donny gole less our tv's gonna start up on black cats black cats sorry we're in trouble that's because you go down carry the sim to get everything the one and why can we not do the same in donny gole my tv's can just not start arguing paint the thoughts for donny gole get our hospital in order to get the medical centers in order to get everything that's promised instead of talking about things and and we all need to be careful this one a statement will come out yeah i need to ask the language and the statement house it worded what way the sentence but the devil's always in the detail yeah we need to get away from this kind of stuff okay listen thanks for your time this morning i appreciate it do you agree with councillor michael mcclafferty get your texts in there we'll read them for you in the morning probably a little late in the show today now 08 660 25 000 your whatsapp some texts 08 660 25 000 or call 0749125 000 grind your hines and facebook believes there's too many tv's already where is the money being where is the money being made from windmills going we're being told there's no oil or coal and the prices are so high yet there are windmills all over donny gole and arland can someone make uh it makes sense please because i do not understand at all we don't really generate like the biggest wind farm in the country at least it was is shut down at the moment um because of uh EU ruling the planning planning application was correct to begin with it's uh sitting there being serviced not operating uh and uh the ASB have shut it down even though it's actually making more money than the european fine is but they've decided shut it down don't know what's going on there right okay uh listen thank you all of you who listen to the program watch the program text in however you engage with us it's very much appreciated